Moore county’s
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuildin°:
VOL. 13, NO. 3.
CARTHAOE
LAK EVIEW
HANUEY
SPRifiOS
Pines
PILOT
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCILATION
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Ah'r;]'’^n ard Southern iMnes. North Carolina, Friday Dec.mber Ifi, 1932.
FIVE CENTS
GOOD FELLOWS OF
ABERDEEN PLAN
WORK OF RELIFF
Elect H. W. Doub President and
Adopt Constructive Program
To Aid Needy
“Ccm‘3 Out of the Kitchen’
CONTRIBUTIONS SOUGHT
The Good Fellows Club of Aber
deen elected new officers and formu
lated its plans of operation for the
year at an enthusiastic annual meet
ing held in Aberdeen Monday night of
this week. H. W. Doub was elected
president, A. L. Burney vice-presi
dent and Dan I. McKeithen secretary
and lieasurer. The officers and O.
Leon Seymour and Mayor Henry McC.
Blue will serve as the executive com
mittee.
A drive will be made immediately
for funds and other contributions. A
receivinjr depot is to be opened next
week in the same store in the Aber
deen Hotel building the committee
utilized last year. Contributions of
funds, food and clothing are to be so
licited, the funds being nece.ssary to
supplement those allotted to Aberdeen
from the State’s share of Federal
relief money, which is supposed to be
matched locally.
Last year the Good Fellows sent
baskets of staple food and clothing to
145 needy families. Indications are
that the need this year is greater
than ever. Some have been under the
impression that money wcis spent last
year for non-essentials, such as candy
and toys, but this is denied by the of
ficers of the club, who state that not
one penny was spent for anything ex
cept staple foods, clothing and a lit
tle fruit; that no money will b< spent
this year for other purposes. While
cash will be most acceptable, the of
ficers say, an da certain amount nec
essary, it is expected that contribu
tions this year will come more largely
in old clothing, canned goods, pota
toes and other food products, all of
which will Iielo the club make up its
baskets for the scores of needy fam
ilies in the section.
IMan of Operation
The club’s Plan of Operation for
the winter calls for four projects, as
follows:
(1) Charity Committee — Make
survey within the next week of com
munity and .sumbit reports on all
needy cases, to be approved by Exe
cutive Committee, and submitted to
Purchasing and Distributing Commit
tee (Work in conjunction with Distri
buting committee at Christmas.)
(2) Finance Committee — Make
canvass for funds and other contribu
tions of any nature. Arrange Receiv
ing Depot, in conjunction with pur
chasing and Distributing Committee.
(3) Purchasing and Distributing
Committee Inventory needs reported.
Inventory Contributif'ns agains nteds,
and purchase additional needed. Pre
pare baskets and distribute in con
junction with Charity Committee.
(4) Employment Commi—Canvass
community for emplmoyent
community for employment in homes
and on premises, public work on
streets, sidewalks, etc. Refer appli
cants for aid to same where possible.
Work in conjunction with Town offi
cials on pubic work.
The various committees appointed
to serve for the year 1932 are as fol
lows:
W. E. F'reeman, Chairman; 0. C.
Charles, Vice Chairman; Rev. W. C.
Ball, Rev. E. L. Barber, Mrs. J. R.
Page, Leon Seymour, J. A. Bryant,
Mrs. Bertie Rivers and Mrs. H. A.
Gunter.
Financ.f Committee—Mrs. W’. A.
Blue, Chairman; Mrs. II. A. Page, Jr.,
Vice-Chairman; A. L. Bumey, F, D.
Shamburger, \V. N. Norris, R. C. Zim
merman, Grady Burney and Mrs. W.
T. Huntley.
Employment Committee: R. C. Zim
merman, Chairman; K. G. Deaton, H.
W. Doub and Henry Blue.
Purchasing and Distribution Com
mittee: W. H. McNeill, Chairman;
Mrs. Garland FaiTell, H. A. Gunter
and Mrs. E. J. Macon,
200 WOMEN HEAR Mass Meet A/ on Monday to
SENTINELS PLANS Plan Con^^. ued Fight on
AT MEETING HERE: Proposed w Highway
■'dress'rR^preseSv/Groip Aberdeen^ Hoffman, I’ineblui?, Rockingham and
and Defines Orj^anizaiion Southern Pines To Org'anize in
Opposition to a Highway
TEA AT COl’NTRY CLUB
Cast of Play to be Presentee! To-morrow Night, Saturday, by the
Sandhills Little Theatre Guild in the Hiih S/nool Auditoiium at Southern
Pines. From left to right, back row—Richard Wilson, William Coursey, Mrs.
Katharine Chapman, Douglas Gieg<jry and the itev. F. (’raighill Bi-own;
center ro»\—Frank Wilder, Miss Helen Dortch, Katharine Xewlin Burt, Ray
mond Kennedy; in front—Tom Humble, directoi'.
Reports Ivom back-stage are to the effect that all is in readiness foi'
this fiist of a series of plays to be presented by the recently organized Guild.
Tickets are practically all sold, anu people are commg from Cha. el Hill,
Sanford and other noarby towns as v.ell as from all over ^loore county. .\r-
langements have bc'en ma^e with Lovejoy’s Orchestra to play before the
(urtain rises at 8 o’clock an > betwe^.-n the acts. W'uat few tickets are still
available are on sale at the Broad Stieet Pharmacy. (Photo by Eddy).
RICHARDSON KOI TOBACCO MARKET
TO BE CONF!l?^IED CLOSES HERE AFTER
AS POSTMASTER BUT FAIR SEASON
Appointment to Southern Pines Sales Proportionately Higher
Po^t Reported, hut Senate 'Vith Return of Saunders,
Not Expected To Act ^ Below State Average
DE.MOCRAT TO GET JOB ONLY HALF OF 1931
Reiiort of the appointment of Sam
uel B. Richardson as postmaster of
Southern Pines was received 'here
this week. It has been known for
some time that the Republican ('ounty
(’()inmittee favored Mr. Richardson’s
a' pointment to the post vacated by
the death durini; the year of .lohn N.
Powell, and had sent his name to
Washington with the committee’s rec
ommendation. The appointment by the
President has therefore been expected.
But ces})ite the fact that Mr. Rich
ardson’s incumbency of the office of
postmaster would please all citizens
of Southern Pines, it is not expected
that he will be permitted to serve in
that capacity, at least for the next
four years. The recent election spell-
! S(1 doom fo)' many political aspira
tions, and the more recent caucus of
the Democratic menibei’s of the Unit-
td States Senate further sealed that
doom.
The Democratic caucus decided to
oppose confirmation of all Presiden
tial nominees and, in view of this
action, it is not believed that confir
mation of any nomination submitted
to the Senate by the President is
likely to occur. Of course, there may
be expectional cases and in the event
of any deviation from the policy de
termined by the caucus the particular
nomination must be taken up with the
caucus and, unless approve d by it the
oi'iginal declaration of the caucus, to
oppose all nominations submitted by
the President, will be carried out.
In view of these facts it is not be
lieved that there is very much prob
ability for the confirmation of any
nominees for postmasterships during
the present session of Congress.
Which mean that after March 4th a
Democrat of Southern Pines ’.vil be
' lecommended by the Democratic
County Comni'ttee with the probabil
ity that he will be appointed by Pres
ident Roosevelt and confirmed by the
Senate.
LEASE HOUSE IN NIAGARA
^Irs. E. W. Marble and 'Mrs. M. A.
FLORA MACDf \LD CHORAL
CLUB GIV;:» CONCERT HERE
Aftei- a season which came in like
a lion and went out like a lamb, the
Aber een tobacco market closed yes
terday. Its experience was no differ
ent fiom thar of all other markets in
the Nfirih Carolina belts. With a ciop
< nly a littb- more than half as guat
as that of last year, the state’s lo-
' acco growers rushed their j ro'lu.t
to the market this year with the re
sult that the State-Federal Report
ing service estimates that ‘.*0 per cent
(d' the crop had b?en sold by Decem
ber 1st.
With the return of B. B. Saunders
to Aberdeen this year the local mar
ket jumped its sales in proportion to
a year ago, many of Saunders’ oil
fiiend< among the pi-oducers coming
hack to Aberdeen with their leaf when
he le-established himself here after
a season in Fuquay Springs. .After
trailing Carthage and .Sanfoi-d, its
nearest rivals, for a few seasons
.A.berileen passed them in total sales
this fall. The figures, up to Decem
ber 1st, show:
•Abeideen, 1,072,441 lbs.; Carthage,
1.445,3;?2 lbs.; Sanford, 1,467,0.')2.
Much low fjuality tobacco, however,
■ ame into the local market, with the
result that the price average here up
to the fir.st of the month was under
the state average. Aberdeen’s average
price paid growers was $10.24 a hun-
dre ' as against .$12.30 fo- the state.
In both instances, howevt , the price
paid is more than 25 per cent above
that of a year ago. Carthage and San
ford both outdid Aberdeen on a\erage
price, Carthage paying .?r2.r>.l a hun-
, dred and Sanford 913.73.
Two warehouses were open here,
Saunders and Hardwick’s.
In the state, November producers’
sales totalled t>l.440,00.5 pounds for
which an average of ?12.fi8 was receiv
ed. In November of 1931, producers
marketed 110,419,691 pounds for an
average of .$8.81.
Season sales by producers fo De
cember 1 of this year totalled 244,-
.'■>77,77(1 pounds. For the same period
last year total sales were 358,209,502
pounds.
More than two hundred women of j
Moore county and this Congressional '
district attended the first meeting of
The Sentinels hekl last Saturday af
ternoon in the Carolina Theatre, ;
Pinehurst and heard the plans for the
new organization outlined by Mrs. 1
Veinei- Z. ReeJ, .Jr. Sponsoring this ;
meeting were Mrs. Leonai'd Tufts,,
•Mrs. Robert N. Page, Mrs. (Jeoiv'e H.
A;aii; ice, Mrs. Hei'bert F. Seawell and ;
■iis-: Alice May Holmes. |
Mrs. Hee<l, of Pinehurst, opened the
in^eting by' ex. laining the purpose
if The Sentinels and the inotives ,
wMeh prompte<l its in.eption. Her i
alk ■.'.as followed by a special show-1
inp of the inovingr picture,” Washing- i
ton .Mei'ry-Go-Round,” using this to,
help illusti'ate the for.es which in-
tluence the decision of the nation’s
law makers. The meeting then ad-
jo- rned to the Country Club, where
'ea was served and an opportunity
'.iven to discuss the various aspects
1 the ))ror-osed program.
In her talk. Mis, Reed said that
ihe purpose of The Sentinels is to
' ive to their lepi-esentatives in Con-
U'ess, in the State legislatures, and
in the County and City governments,
united intelligent support, in order
that these representatives nuiy be
free to resist the pressure of selfish
'■ -oups which have been mainly re
sponsible for the extremely high
taxes with which we have been so
avily burdened. To accomplish thi-^
purpose, they will meet about five
times a year, and at each meeting
will review the official acts of their
representatives since their last meet
ing. She explained that The Sentinels
p: opose to emi)loy secretaries in the
va.ious ■'olitical distri.ts who will
comnivnicate with their representa
tives in order to obtain authoi’itative
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VOTED DO V, N IN SOUTHERN PINES
A mass meetinj; of citizens of Aberdeen, Hoffman, Pinebluff, Rockingham
an(i So' them Pines and open to anyone interested, regardless of their place
of residence, will be held next Monday night at 8 o’clock in the Aberdeen
High Scho(d .Auditorium foi' the purpose of effecting an organization
fight the proposed highway between .Aberdeen and Southern Pines and to
o mulaU' plans for further developmtnt and improvement along U. S. High-
v.ay No. 1.
Representatives from each of the above named towns will speak, in
cluding -Alayor Pittman of Rockingham, Henry A. Page, Sr., of .A.beideen
an I M. (i. Nichols of Southern Pines. G. C. Seymour, former Mayor of
A' erdeen and foi iner County Commissioner, will preside.
~~~ * After listening to numerous speech
es for and against the proposed new
Not His Folly
McNair Says I’redeccssors
Authorized Road from Aber
deen to Laurinburji
highway' from Southern Pines to .Ab
erdeen throusih the property of the
Southern Pines Countiy Club a large
number of citizens of the two towns
voted unanimously against building
of the road at a mass meeting held
last Fi'i'iay night in the Southern
Pines High School building. The meet
ing was called by the Chambers of
Commerce of the two villages. Dr.
George G. Hen-, piesident of the
Southern Pines body, presided.
M. G. Nichols of the Board of Di
rt i'tors of the Country Club, told of
I' nes in releience to a proposed road the damage to the club’s championship
rom Aberdeen to Southern Pines. course which would result if the
“Some of you seem to have gotten load was built as planne,. by the
he opinion that 1 am trying to force State Highway Commission, stating
a load on your community that does that the club was in no condition fi-
not want it. 1 assure you that this is nancially to change its layout nor to
not true. All I have ever done in con-
In a letter sent this week to Henry
R. Page, Sr.. of .Aberdeen, .James L.
•McNair, of L-.iuriivurg, of the State
Highway Commission, writes of the
proposed road between Aberdeen and
Southern Pines as follows:
“I hav<> just rea ! an account of the
'iiteting that was held in Southern
Tne Choral Club of Flora MacDon
ald College at Red Springs gave a
HERE FOR HOLIDAYS
Mrs. Edward A. Campbell of South-
Gould and daughter of Farmington, | pleasing concert on Wednesday night ern Pines will have as her guest over
Mass., have leased a house here for at the Church of WMde Fellowship in the holidays, her daughter, Mrs. Lewis
the season. Southern Pines. i H. Van Tassel of Newark, New York.
PINEBLUFF A BIRD
SANCTUARY IF NEW
CH ARTER PASSED
V'illatters Override Mayor’s Veto
in V'ote which Honors .^lemory
of Dr. Achorn
I If the State Legislature at its forth
coming session api>rovus the new cnar-
ter adopted this week by the village
of Pinebluff. this town will be a.-; far
as is known here, the only incorporat-
' e ' municipality in the United .States
makng the entire area withiii its cor
porate limits a bird sanctuary.
Pinebluff, by a two-thirds vote over
the veto of its mayor, adopted its new
charter o nMonday niuht. The villag
ers had 1 assed it the week before
when the town eommissioners met,
' but Mayor J. G. Wallace vetoed it.
: This Monday they overrode the may
or, and the new charter goes now’ to
the State Legislature for approval.
The charter is drawn under Chap-
I ter 50 of the Consolidated Statutes of
North Carolina, following the phrase
ology of ths.t document with these
exceptions;
f’irst, the Pinebluff charter .sets
the method of fiiguring water rates,
“the object being to sell the water as
cheaply as possible but maintaining a
surplus equal to the cost of operation
for not less than three years nor
more than four years.’’
Secondly, it establishes the entire
village as a bird .sanctuary.
This community is noted for the
number and variety of birds, a fact
establi.shed by investigations of the
federal government and well knowTi
to those who have read the splendid
book on the subject written by the
late Dr. J. W. .Achorn, who spent much
of his life in Pinebluff. The action of
his fellow townsmen in establishing
the village as a sanctuary for the
birds he knew and loved so well is in
the nature of a memorial to Dr.
■Achorn’s memory.
nr.tion with it was to ask the Engi-
; neering Department in 'Raleigh to
make some survey to see if it were
not possible to connect Highway No.
70 and No. 241 with Highway No. 1
and eliminate th"' dangerous and un-
ati'fa'.'tory railroad crossing in Aber
deen. 1 have never even seen the re
volt on this survey and I have no in-
tci'c St in it whatever exceiit as repre-
■Tntinij the State Highway Commis-
ion I woub! like to see langerous and
' ' nsatisfactory railroad crossings
I li’iiinated. if possible. If there is any
mnhod of getting rid of this cross-
' nu’ that is practical. 1 as well as all
'he othc'!' Commissionesr woul'i like
to see it done but 1 certainly am not
advocating a road being built that is
not wanted. We have entirely too
I many calls all over the Slate tor what
availa' le money the Federal Govern
ment has apin'oi)riated to spend any
l b' o its ^ourse while construction was
in progress. He spiked one of the main
a/-uments of the proponents of the
rua.l, that of unemployment relief,
by stating that the club was the
large.=t employer of labor in South-
cin Pines and that the (losing of
:he golf course during the winter sea-
on would throw some two hundred
persons out of employment.
Dr. L. B. McBrayer spoke in favor
of the road, basing his argument on
the fact that the Fedei'al government
has allotted a certain sum of money to
North Carolina for highway construc-
l.in. that this money is going to be
n; nt somewhere, that it will cost
Moore County nothing, that the road
hould therefore be built or Moore
county W(m’t get any of the fund. He
v'as answered by Henry Page, Sr.,
of .Aberdeen, who cited figures of
the tremen lous Federal and State
deficits to be taken care of, told of
; of it on a road in a community where the folly of the promise that the road
they object to it.
“1 have also noted what you have
to .-ay in regard to erecting a mon
ument on the road from Aberdeen to
I aurinburg labeling it “Commission
er McNair’s Folly.” If you want to
put a monument on this road dedi
cat in.; it to those responsible for it,
1 suggest that you dedicate it to .Mr.
W. C. Wilkinson and Mr. .1. Elwood
Cox. both (b'ceased. 1 had nothing
wouldn’t cost us anything, state.! that
emergency funds are not going to
continue for Img with the U. S.
treasury in tlie state it is in and that
what fund' are .available should fce
'I>ent jucli.iously and wisely.
“Cortinuance of I’oad expenditures
in this state mean only continued
bai'dships for a long time to come,”
I'.e said in telling of the huge bonded
, , , , in .ebtedness for highways already
whatever to do with the builomg of ,, ti * i i i i, i.
, . built. He termed the road built a^out
this road. At the time this road was , »i , i
a year ago from .Aberdeen to Laivr-
inburg a waste of S200,000 and sug
gested the erection of a monument
along the highway reading; “Commis-
I sioner McNair’s Folly.”
Dr. .A. H. .McLeod of .Aberdeen
spoke in favor of the road, staging
that now when it is offered to the
community on a silver platter is the
j time to accept it, that we will never
have another opportunity to get some-
I thing for nothing. F'rank Shamburger
of .Aberdeen and Frank Buchan of
Southern Pines both spoke against
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All-Expense Trips To
Southern Pines Beffin
Northerners Can Spend Week
Here for S90, Incindins R. R.
Fare, Hotel and Golf Costs
All expeifse trips f;om New York
at a cost of arounr* $90.00 for a stay
of eight days ir Southern Pines, the , , , , , , .
' , . , , , . . ■, , the proposed road from the standpoint
amount to inc'ude round trip railroad .... „ , '
'"JUi'y to Southern Pines’ great
est asset, the Country Club, and on
the grounds of needles expenditure
fare, hotel expenses and golf club j
i grc«gfc Zees, go into effect this week,;
; HoiH^il Burns, city clerk of Southern . . ,,
j Pin^^, was informed by Seaboard of- | ^
‘ ficials early in the week. Similar all j ^'iHed for a rising vote
S expense trips from Boston, Philadel-1 those in favor of the road. No
' phia, Washington, Baltimore and he called for the
Pittsburgh will also be available to
the public.
The railroad, hotel man and Coun
try Club officials agreed some time
ago on a rate equitable to all and
opponents to rise the unanimity of
the sentiment against the proposition
was revealed. Those who had spoken
in favor of the road did not vote. A
report of the action of the meeting
considered sufficiently attractive to, ^ forwarded to the Highway
stimulate winter business. Pinehurst i Commission at Raleigh.
has similar arrangements with the
Seaboard and many northerners are | Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Boyd left
taking advantage of vacations here as ] last night for Harrisburg, Pa., to be
a result. | gone until Saturday.