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MOORE CObKiV’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY VOL. 13, NO. 1 ^^ARTHAOe'^V V. A - Co,, niv^r'^n aACL.e SPRINGS lakeview MANU6Y JACKSOtl SPRiMoe SOUTHHRN PIM6S iiING VOl'k TOBACCO TO THE*AH..:{I)EE> MARKET A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding A'berdeen and Southern^ Vi^. North Carolina, Friday December 2, 1932 of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina FIVE CENTS McBRAYER SEES ALL TO GAIN AND NOTHINGTOLOSE Says We Can Have Another Road Wllhoul One Cent of Expense to T\»vti or State SEES NO HURT TO U. S. 1. S{>eaker Flays Economy League in Talk Before Kiwanis Club Here Carolinas District Officers at Meeting Addressed by \V. H. ^ Hamilton of Charlotte Speaks Today COUNTY ALLOTTED $2,175 MORE OF I, S. RELIEF FUND In a statement to The Pilot this week on the subject of the proposed new highway between Abeitleen and Southern X’inas, Dr. L. B. McBray er says; According to last '.veek’s Pilot and sonic of the arKunicnts advanced by a few Aberdwn friends, one niifiht be expected to believe that no car could get onto the Coastal Highway unless the double road from here to Aber deen is constructed. Such is not the case by any manner of means. The following *re fa(Jts: . 1. The roal Coastal Route U. S. No. 13 leaves U. S. No. 1 at Wilming ton, Del., continues down the eastern shore of Maryland to Norfolk and to Elizabeth City, U. S. No. 17 to New Bern, Wilmington, Lumberton and on to Charleston^ Savarrah and Jack sonville. 2. The next leaves U. S. No. I «t Fredericksburg- to Yorktown and Nor folk and then follo%vs U. S. No. 17 as in paragrapir. 1. 3. Leaves U. S. No. 1 at PtAjers- burg to Norfolk and them follow U. S. No. 17 as per paragraph 1. 4. Leaves U. S. No. 1 at Peters burg on 17-1 to Rocky Mount, Wilson, •Goldsboro, Wilmington and thei. Ko. 17 as in T>aragraph 3; or contiiuiea from Wilson by Smithfield, Dunn, Fay etteville, I.umberton or <m by Raoford, Laurinburg, to BennettKville and So ciety Hill, thence on No. 17 as pei paragraii^ 1. 5. Leave U. S. Ncx. 1 at rikleipfh. Follow StJlte Route No.. 21 to Payette- ville and then to Luroberton then on N«. 17 a."- per paragrHi)h 1; ot' from FayettevDle by Raeford, Laurkiburg, Society Hill and on 17 as per.par agraph tL f). The next route leaving U. S. No. No. 311 leaving Aberdeen on Route JNo. 70 arwss railroad, up the lull and turn right on the new road to Laur inburg, .Society Hill atid U. S. 5vo. 17 and the Coastal to Jacl?sonville. l>ivcrsion of Traffic Due tL. the efficient cooperation of Raleigh large part of the .traffic that got*i> over the Coastal Ravite or II. S. Nt>. 17 conies through Raleigh and is diverted their over ^t»te Route Nh. 21, now a new U. S. lioute No. 401. We suppo.se tfeitl Raleiph ar gues that she gets all the traffic that goes over U. S. No. 1 anyway and whatever amount of tmffic she can get returned from the Coastal via Fayetteville will be just so mudh to the good. Ix.is our underH.anding iJiat during the winter season of 1930-31 evei*y storigo garage, erery filling station, every policeman and nearly all the hotels were turning: every car thej" could Via Fayetteville and Coas tal Highw’ajv .and but for the work of r. S. No 1 Highway Ajjsociatiott, Inc., this would have continued last season and this. Did any of this trav el see or i)ass through Southern Pines, Pinehurst or Aberdeen? It did not. Did any of the traffic going over any of the five preceding routes of travel see Southern Pines, Pinehurst or Aberdeen? It <did not. Now pray tell me, why does it hurt U. S. No. 1 belovr here any more to leave U. S. No. 1 for Lauringburg, etc., at Southern Pines than it does at Aberdeen? What, if anything, will hinder people who desire to go south via Lauringburg and the Coastal from continuing to leave U. S. No. 1 at Aberdeen after the proposed double road is completed? As a matter of fact when the proposed new road is built between Southern Pines and Aberdeen traffic will go through Aberdeen, no matter which road they use Thinks Road Will Help There is another thing of great im portance, that seems not to have oc curred to the alert and brilliant own er • and editor of The Pilot and a few other of my distinguished friends in Aberdeen, to wit: Might it not be pos sible, in fact is it jiot highly prob able that most, if not all the traffic The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen had as their guests on Wednesday at the Aberdeen Community House their newly elected governor of the Car olinas District, William H. Montgom ery of W'ilmington; their retiring gov ernor, Herbei’t Hennig of Darlington, S. C., and the nine newly elccted lieutenant governors of the district whirh covers both North and South Carolina. The club also heard a stir ring talk in favor of immediate pay ment of the bonus to W'orld VV’ar vet- erons and a bitter condemnation of the Economy League, the speaker be ing A. W'. Hamilton of the Veteran of Foreign Wars, Charlotte post. Di.-^tiict Governor Hennig inti*oduc- ed his successor and the new lieuten ant governors to the members of the local club, and ‘‘Bill” Montgomery made a brief talk on thi- aims and plans for 1!>33. He spoke of the pleasure it gave him to be hack in the Sandhills, where he resiti'd, in Southern Pines, for several years some time ago. The lieutenant govern- WIII He .Vpportioned to Towns I for Winter Campaign To Aid Unemployed TOTAL FOR MOORE $5,375 FRANK PAGE Mr. Pa(?e, vice president «>f the Wachovia Bank & Trust Company at Raleigh, will a<'(!|i’e.'S a 'mass meeting of citizens of the county at 2 o’clock this afternoon, Friday, in the courthouse at Carthage on the orsi introduced were Wash Crompton subject of economies in governmental of Lumberton, repre.'ie'rtiing this di- affairs. The meeting is spon.'-ored by vision; Clyde Campbell of Newton, the Moore County Tax|)ayers’ Lea- Hugh Akcn of Greenville, S. C., F. gue, and the league's chairman, Bion W. Cappelman of Columbia, S. C., H. Butler, will preside. The public Claude S. Chamberlin of Kinston, G. is invited to hear Mr. I’age on a Tracy Cunningham of Greensboro, subject of which he has made a thor- f{alph C. Baker of Durham, Dr. J. R, . ough study. jSevier of HendersonVille and Noah! Garrett of Ahoskie. Mr. Hamilton was introduced by D. M. Blankenship, icommandcr of ;the Charlotte post, Veteran of For- jCign Wars, and nTnde a plea for the i soldier on the grcmid that enough ; money was made out of the war by ' profiteers to pay Ihe demands of the ! veterans ^?everal trnws over. Hf* bas ed his attack on the National Econ- I omy League on the fact that its spon sors include many^ of the so-called “profiteers” who didn’t think much about government economy until prtisperity began to turn its back on $8,825 CUT IN SCHOOL COSTS IN COUNTY SINCE :29 .•Mlotihc'nt of $230,750 to the State’s 100 coui^ties for relief aid was an- nouiu-ed at Raleigh this week. The dis- | tributicMi was the final one from the $HL‘),0(iO .secured by the State from tht‘ lie < nstruction P’inance Corpora tion sdine weeks ago. Three previous allotnunts of ^ISSj-'jOO each had been made. Mooii. (.'ounty is allotted $2,17i> in this final allotment from the present loan. T^t> two previous allotments heie Wire $1,C)00 each, and were al located to the various towns of the county for use in their unemployment relief campaigns. Southern Pines has receive ! s.'iOO, Pinehurst and Aberdeen i?K)0 eacli, other towns in proportion. Larger allotments will be made now from the larger amoun*^ given the county by the State. .*'uch good M’ork has already been done with funds handed over to the towns. Aberdeen gave employment to more than 100 negroes, cleaning up village streets and the grounds of the public schools. Southern Pines had a for.e of men grubbing ritii cleaning up the parkways along U. S. High way No. 1 leading south from the city limit, and the improvement is so ureat that it is to be hoped this progi-am may be continued on to .ABtr- deen by the joint relief agencies of the I two towns. Pinel4urst employed a j force of men iniprovi^ig tTie sides of ' the road leading out to the Moore County Hospital and for other civic projcrts. A Tribute Maine Never 8en( South a Fin er Example of American, Says Editorial (From Charlotte Obwrver Mr. Creamer's custom came al- iiiost entirely from the Noith and New England, but he made of him self a Southerner, taking an active hand in all community welfare works, with especial attention to the boys and girls of the section, organizing them into social bands and freiiuertly appeai’inj;- before them in lecture capacity. Whenever any local project needed help, An drew Creamer was the first man a. jicale.l to ami he was always re.s|ionsible. in every way, he made of himself Southern Pines’ most commanding a.'^set. lie was a lover of birds and the beautiful in natiii'e, and the bird refuge he maintained arountl the Inn was the lielight of all visitors. One secret of the popularity of the man whose death has cast a shadow ovt r the Sandhills section was located in the simple fact that he loved his fellowmen. Who ever heard Andrew Creamer say aught iuit good of anybody? In whatever company he might move, be beam ed geniality and the smile and the word of encouragement was nevei- I'c.und lacking. The State of Maine nevei' s<'nt South a finer example )f the .\iiiei''^■an in citizenship than the people dov, i this way found in .'dr. Creamer. A.L Ijony- Illness Fatal To Prominent Citizen Served Com munity for .‘52 Years Current Expense Item Alone Rd- duved $42,585 in the Past Three Years ■Moore county has reduced the '’ur- rent expense item of its school ex penditures In the past three them.” They are iht- men who woght y<.ars, or from $2(!3,372 for the school 1 to T'ay these men who fought while they wert reaping in thel’- rich«s. If they fight against the bonus payment we will cRuntercha’’ge with a demand that they return their war pr'ofits,” he said. fJeoi'ffe R. Straka, War Veteran, Dies Resided in Southern Pines 12 Years and Elnected Straka Buildinff on Rroad St. George R. 'Straka, a veteran of the Spanish-Ameri;-an War and of Phil- lipj.ines camtwigns during which he received wounds from which be never fully recovered, died in the Waller Reed Hospital, Waslmigton, Tuesday. Mr. Straka, bom in Austria, Marcii 3, 177K, came to Southern Pines about twelve yeai's ago. Whik; here he be came interested in the drsvelopment of the town and erected the Straka block and then the Straku building on E. Broad street. He operated billiard and bowling parlors under the name of “The Recreation Room,” where Trrany of the citizens were wont to gather for exerci.se and companion year iy28-l!»2!) to .«1220,C87 budgeted for the year li)31-32, according to fig ures compiled in fbe office of the State Superintendent of Public In struction. Total cost of operation of school? in this county has been rt^duced from ^:5S8,374 in i;>28-2!» to ?2!>0,522 in 1931-32, a 1‘ediK'tion of This totsil cost is divided into curi'ent cx- pcn-ses, tlie reduction in which is shown above; capital outlay, which is the i-rectitni of ntw buililingi. a.ad per manent improvements, reducoci from $r,!»..507 for 1928-2y to .$17,271 for 1931-C^2, and (k*bt service, payment $5,000 Deep Therapy Apparatus for Hospital Generous Gift b\ Pinehnrst Res ident Majies P(^ssible Treat ment of Inf*perable Cancers Through the generosity of a resi- <ient of 1‘inehurst, the latest model General Electric Therapy ai>paratus has been ordered for the Mooi'e Coun ty, to arid to the fine X-ray equipment I'reviously donated to the institution. TJiis is a $."5,000 apparatus and makes jKJSsible the treatment of inoperable cancers and similar cases here which up to now have of necessity been ferred to institutions equipped with the deep therapy apparatus. The apT'aratus tm order for the in stitution at Pinehur.st is the very latest and will be,, it is Irelii-ved the of interest and retiring I'onds, which was 'in 192S-20, a> com- pare<l with $(n,.">62 for 19':'. 1-32. For the state as a, whole the lotal exi>enses reached the peak ff $.50,) ■)■'),- (Please turn to page 8) Christmas Seal Sale ■ On Throuji^hout County Three-Quarters of Proceeds To Be Used for Tubercuk»>is FiRht in Sandhills ed in about two weeks. H().spital au- t'jorities withheld the name of the gen erous don('r in announcinjj this ac quisition to the hosj)ital’s eijuiptrient. County Officers To He Sworn In on Monday fnstitute of Government To Be I.aunched at Same Time Oath is Administered On next 'Monday evening, Decem ber for the first time in the his- sory of the state the oath of office will be administered to the incoming The Christmas St^al Sale is on, and county officers before the body of the ship. A little over a year ago he or- county are busy in an people. The plan calls for exercises in ganized Southern Pines Camp No. 24, to raise more money than ws- the 100 counties of the state, a feature United Spanish War Veterans, of year for the fight against;of which will be a radio address by which organization he was Comman-1Moore county. Three- Dr. Albert Coates of the University der. IVIr. Straka leaves a widow and Q^a^te^^^ of the money laised here i^^f Ntyrth Carolina o nthe ^Institute son George R. Jr, from the sale of the seals is retained 'of Government.” .fustice W. J. Adams hy the Moore County Health & Wei- jof the North Carolina Supreme Court fare Association for its splendid work will be pnvsent to administer the oath the balance going to the State Tut>€r. {to the Moore County officers. The prog-ram, which will begin at THAO PAGE BREAKS THE ICE roll SENATOR REYNOLDS ,^,„3i3 Associatron. Please turn to page 5) I Mrs. Chester Williams of New 17:4.'), in the court house in Carthage, Thad S. Page of Aberdeen, secre- York is heading the Pinehur.st sale i will he presided over by U. L. Spence, tary of Senator Josiah W. Bailey at and has her aides stationed in the j and every citizen of the county is in- Washington, had the honor on Tues- bank, the postoffice, the Country Club. | vited to attend. Espcially important is I day of escorting the new North Car- hotels and other vantage points in (it for high school classes in civics to I olina Senator, Robert R. ResTiolds, of town. In Southern Pines Mrs. James ■ attend as they will be able to gain : Asheville, to the Senate chamber for Millican is already receiving contribu- j much valuable information as to the I his introduction to Senate officers and tions and organizing her forces to ^ workings of their county government. , assignment to a seat.. Senator Rey- cover the town. The seals will be sold , Several short speeches will be made ! nolds was given the seat held by Sen- ; in each town of the Sandhills. j and the Moore county unit of the I ator Morrison during the last session i On another page of taday’s Pilot I State Institute of Government will be ^of Congres*. He has been asigned to is an artkle by iftnithers Burt calling organized at this time It is hoped I Room 233 in the Senate Office build- on all citizens to help drive tubercu- i ing, the Suite formerly occupied by ' losis out of Moore county through the (Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mex- ^ medium of fhe annual sale of the COMMERCE BODY VOTESFAVORABLY CM. R. CHANGSS Siiuthern Pines Chamber Would Correct Evils in Rejjulatory Ctmtrol of Carriers .^fter hearing an interesting report on the subject by M. G. Nichols, its national couniillor, the Board of Di rectors of the Southern Pines Cham- ter of Commerce voted on Tuesday to favor the report of the special comniitteo on railroads of the Cham ber of Commerce of the United State.<i which recommends correction of many existent evils in the coun try’s transportation system and its regulatory law:;. Mr. Nichols outlined the various recommendations, mak ing them clear to those jiresent, af ter whi.h the board appioved eaeh of the 12 subjects covered by the report. •Vmotiu' the more important of these calls fur a “reasonable average re turn that will permit in time of gen eral business activity v»asonab1e re duction of indebtedness and accumu lation of adequate reserves;” the re pealing of the e.<i.'tinK recapture class in the Interstate Commerce act; ‘‘regulation of railioads reduced to ihe point wheie it will he confined to assurance of fair rates and of pub- 11 safety and will avoid interference with functions belongine: to manage ment;” the opening up of water and highway transportation to the rail- rc'ads to ai:l them in meeting compe- tion; the establishment of new rates quickly instead of being forced to give long advanced notiec thereof; haul clause; the accomodating of rates amendment of the long and short to current economic conditions; .short ening of ptriods within which repara tion claims may he filed airainst car riers for excessive rates, and by rail roads against shippers for under charges. The Chamber of Commerce boai-d also heard a talk by E. A. Dunlap of Sweetheart Lake favoring a r>ew highway through that section con necting with the Lillington highway. •little Christ as seals. that many citizens will be present for the installation ceremony and to take part in the organization of the Moore county unH. ^ DAVIDSON COLLEGE GLEE CLUB HERE ON TUESDAY I The Davidson College Glee Club will give a concert in the Aberdeen High ' School Auditorium next Tuesday night, December 6th, at 8 o’clock and a large crowd from throughout the Sandhills is expected to avail itself of this musical treat. An Aberdeen young man, Leland McKeithen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McKeithen, is business manager of the club. Forty I per cent of the receipts from the icujn pf ‘■o t^e local s''hool. CAME HERE IN 1!»00 -Andrew 1. Creanici', for the past 32 .W'ars manager of hotels in the Sand hills, the last 20 ijf which were spent in partnership with M. II. Turner in the management of the Highland l ines In n on Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines, passed away in Dani- ariscotta, Maine, a small town near the scene of his birthplace, shortly after 8 o'clock on Monday night of thi.s week. He was .59 years of age. News of Mr. Creamer’s death reach ed here late Monday night and cast a l>ali of gloom over the community which he has ;4HVed t'ailhfully a well for a third of a century. Always in the front rank of those laboring for thu upbuilding of the .section, Mr. Cream' * loss will be keenly felt. -NOt only did he and Mr. Turner make of the Highland Pines Inn one of the best known and most popular hostel- ries in the south but he was among the founders of other institutions here which ha ve played a leading part ill the life and devolopment of the com munity. He was a tharter member of the famous Tin Whistles I'olfing or ganization at Pinehurst, has for years been an active and enthusiastic mem ber of the directorate of the South ern Pines Chamber of Commerce, has given of his time and energy in aiding all organizations which had for their aim civir betternter't. Came Here in lf*00 Andrew I. Creamer was 59 years old, a hotel man from boyhood and by instinct. He was identified with the hotels of the Sandhills during most of his mature life. He came to this section from 1 aim Beach, Flor ida, where he had spent a portion of his younger days in the minor occu* pations about the big institutions, ihere. He came to Pinehurst in 1900 where he advanced to such prominence that when the Highland Pines Inn was built m Southern Pines his ability was recognized, anJ he \\ith M. H. Turner assumed control of that inf- stitutiim which has been in their hands ever since. As a young man Mr. ('reamer was for .-•everal ycai's with the Poinciana in Palm Beach, where he had a fine opi.oriunity to make the acquaint ances that (luring his hotel career ecr.nu’ of the widest range. In the Holly Inn at Pino .urst for 11 years he exiended his touch with the people, so that when he came to Southern Pinos in liM2 he had a following that stayed by him anu steadily increas ed. 11 is boyhood was spent in Damari- scoita, Maine. Ho mai’ried Lillian Wil son. No children survi\e. ('reamer and Turner were an insepaiable pair, fit ting in with each other, each build- ; ing up a popularity lor himself as well as for the firm and their hotel. For twenty-one years they served the (ommunity as one of the most suc cessful hotel organizations in this country. They were prominent in all jiro'^ressive movements, lacking any. thing that promised to broaden the business and social horizon, and their local investments were wide. For two or three years Mr. Cream- er’.s health has been failing, but un til last spring he hel i to this work. Then he was obliged to go to the hos- liital at Fayetteville, and from that time until his death he never made sufficient recovery to give hope of ' , regaining his health. During the sum- , nier months after the season had fin ished at Southern Pines, Mr, Cream- I er went to Charlevoix, Michigan i where he carried on a large summer I hotel, with the same large following that he enjoyed in the Sandhills. Many I of his force from the Highland Pines I went North with him, coming back in the fall year after year. In earlier days he was also connected with a hotel in New’ Hampshire. The funeral will be held this af ternoon, Friday at Damariscotta, a short distance from Waldboro, the place of his birth. His mother and a brother, Alton, with Mrs. Creamer, •\-i> i-ho connection. I
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