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Aberdeen and Southern'Pines, NortlT Carolina, Friday June 2. 1933.
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
SOUTHERN PINES
SENIORS TO HEAR
CHARLOHE EDITOR
Julian S. Miller, of The Observ-{
er, to Address Graduating j
Class on Wednesday Night I
To Address Southern Pines Graduates
16 TO WIN DIPLOMAS
Sixteen Seniors of Southern Pines
High School will be awarded their di.
plomas next Wednesday night when
the graduating exercises of the Class
of 1933 take place in the school aud
itorium. Julian S. Miller, associate
editor of the Charlotte Observei', will
deliver the address.
There are six girls and ten boys
in this year’s class, in contrast with
the Class of 1932 when the girls pre
dominated, ten to five. Those to be
presented diplomas on Wednesday
night are:
The Misses Eleanor Lola Adams, I
Patricia Colliugwood Hyde, Margaret i
Dean McCall, Ruth Sinclair Travis,;
Mary Judson Welch and Margaret j
Evelyn Moore, and John Quincy i
Adams, Jasper Daniel Arey, Jr., Char-,
I^‘s Herbert Beck, Robert Fairley j
Cameron, Robert Finch Dorn, Wilson |
Hunt Fisher, Frederick Carlisle Page, J
Harold Lamar Tate, Allan Charles
Thurman, Jr. and Thomas Edward |
Walker.
The exercises will be opened by the
singing of America and the invoca
tion by the Rev. J. Fred Stiinson. The
Boys’ and Girls’ Glee Clubs will sing
“The Hunter's Horn.” Nelson C. Hyde
will introduce Mr. Miller, who will ad.
dress the graduates. Miss Sarah Stew
art will render a piano solo, “Hun
garian Dance,” which will be follow
ed by the presentation of th».JJu-jL JLj
medal for excellence in American His
tory. Dr. George G. Herr, chairman of
the School Board, will then present the
diplomas. After the singing of the
school’s alma mater by the glee clubs,
Mr. Stimson will pronounce the bene
diction.
Baccalaureate Sermon
The Rev. Murdoch McLeod of the
Pinehurst Community Church will
PAGE DEPOSITORS
MEET TONIGHT TO
ACT ON NEW PLAN
Will Hear Report of Committee
Named To Investigate Hood’s
Legislation Program
MANY FAVORS PROPOSED
Two Alumni
FIVE CENTS
Of
Aberdeenians Attend Reunion
at Colleges They Entered
Over Half Century Ago
Two Aberdeenians attended their
college reunions this week. Others
did too, but this story is about
these two in particular. For each
of them was in college more than
half a century ago.
Mrs. Charles E. Pleasants, Sr.,
went back to her alma mater at
Raleigh, Peace Institute, which she
entered in 1875, fifty-<*ight years
ago.
Thomas B. Wilder spent Wednes
day at Wake Forest, where he was
a freshman in 1879, fifty-four
years ago.
. :iAMBER GOES TO
WORK ON SCHOOL
TERM, POSTOFFICE
I Depositors of the Aberdeen branch
I of the Page Trust Company will meet
.tonight, Friday, at 8 o’clock in the
I Community House to hear a report
from their committee and pass upon
the plan for liquidation and organiza
tion of a new bank to take over Page
Trust, the North Carolina Bank &
Trust Company and the Independence
Trust Company of Charlotte. All de
positors are urged to be present.
Keiuesentatives of local depositors ^VIVTT^TOIVFQ RI7l?ni?l7
have attended sessions in Raleigh I'e-! 1 l*li 1 VflTlO DiJi v/Flf^
cently and studied the various phases TTIDt'Dr'ITI I\T TPCTC
of the plan for reorganization. They | 1 UDllnLlJLli)! 1 M 1 »J
will report on their findings at to-
Southern Pines Body To Study
Future Educational Policy,
Seek New Federal Building
SCHOOLTERM BIG QUESTION
DO NOT WAIT FOR
Healthy Looking Individuals
Frequently Found To Be In
fected. Dr. McCain Savs
JULIAN S, MILLER
Associate F/litor, The Charlotte Observer
i night’s gathering. The general incli-
j ration lonally seemes to be to fav-
I or the plan as now approved by Com-1
( missioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood,
1 a plan calling for a new bank with | Tuberculosis infection caught in
I Reconstruction I- mance Corporation time can readily be cured. Qo not await
I support, the assessment of stockhold- ,y,„pto,„s to determine whether vou
,crs of the old banks mvolved in the Infection is
1 proposed merger, and the orderly ii- frequently found in the healthiest
|qui.iat,on of the old banks j^^^ing individuals. X-ray examina-
rhe new plan provided for a board story. They are quick-
|of directors of seven to serve during inexpensive. Have
, liquidation of the Page Trust Com- ^
I pany, four of whom shall represent de-' tested
I positors, two the stockholders and
I one the Reconstruction Finance. The
So Kiwanians were told at their
, . , , . , , , meeting Wednesday. Dr. P. P. McCain,
plan IS to have the 14 branches of the ^ead of the State Sanatorium, presi-
Page Trust name five depositors each. of the North Carolina Med-
these rO men to meet at Raleigh and' gocicty, wu, thp ^po.Uo., niu,-
DENVER, COL. TO JURY UNABLE TO
ORGANIZE BRANCH REACH VERDICT IN
OF THE SENTINELS BANK ROBBERYiS“rYn'fE?^^
, Abeideen depo^ituis committee as at ^ most interesting talk. The
I pj.esent made up comprises Dr. A. H. Kiwanis motto is “We Build.” Dr.
Mrs. Verner Z. Reed. Jr. Returns .Joseph Ewing Goes Back To Jail McLeod, Frank Shamburger, A. L. McCain’s topic was based on this
From West After Enthusiastic To Await Re-trial for I Burney, Dr. L. B. McBrayer and L. j Health,” he said-more impor-
Reception of Plan Page Trust Hold-up : T. Avery, but other nominations may building.
, . I. c made oiiectly to Mr. Hood at Ral- Through State agencies moi'e than
The Sentinels an experimental or- Jo.seph P. Ewing, member of a prom-, eigh. 1,0,000 school children of North Car-
ganization with the 8th Congressional inent Fayetteville family, went back Page depositors’ meeting have been ^een examined within the
district of North Carolina selected by to jail Saturday to await another , held during the past week in various Eighteen per cent were
its sponsor, Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, Jr., trial in August after the jury con-, towns in which the trust company has' ... . infpntinn
preach the baccalaureate sermon to ^ the experimental ground, is now to sidering bank robbery charges against branches, some favorable to the new^rpj^ prompt and nrooer
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the Seniors at the Church of Widej^e tested in one of the great metro- him failed to agree on a verdict. Eight
Fellowship this Sunday evening, the polises of America Denver, Colorado, were for conviction and four for ac-
service opening at 8 o’clock. Miss I organized primarily by women and quittal. Judge HalrcJJing declared a
Ruth Sergeant will give the invoca-. f^j. women desiring to lend their mistrial and placed Ewing under $4,-
plan, others opposW. Some opposition; treatment, could oe restored to nor-
has developed in Raleigh. Depositors reasonable per-
in New Bern refuse to either agree ^wo percent were found
+ ■ tv. R I v Prnio-iitn Rvnwn will I v • • j /if i i j u■’l u u j ' j u ' plan, claiming to have tuberculosis. The timely dis-
tion, the Rev. Liaighill Brown win I strength in opposition to organized COO-bond, which he had not posted the | the law provides how closed banks cQvery of the 18 percent of infected
read the Scripture, the Rev. Mr, Stim. 'niinoi.ities—lobbies— in Washington, middle of the week. A new trial was; shall be liquidated and that any other fUp nof onK-
son will offer prayer. Miss Katherine; the movement has found fertile soil ordered. j plan is illegal and unconstitutional.' .v . n,anv from the dread ravages
Buchan will lead the High School | here, and Mrs. Reed returns from a Ewing is charged with robbing the Sanford depositors are believed to fav-1 the disease but the sav.ng of
Glee Club in singing the anthem, “111,-ip west reporting much enthusiasm Page Trust Company bank in Aber-|or the plan, and the sentiment here' ’ others who "might.
Sought the Lord,” and Miss Alice gyg,. the plan which she discussed with deen last February of more than $2,-1 seems to be favorable.
Abel will sing a solo, “I Heard , prominent women in Denver. COO. Tiie other alleged bandit has not'
Voice of Jesus Say.” j Mrs. Reed upon her return to Pine- been apprehended.
Class Day exercises will be held in ^ hurst last week announced that she A special venire of fifty men was
the school auditorium at 8:30 o’clock had addressed a group of represen- drawn to serve on the jury in the case
Tuesday evening when the graduating tative women in Denver on the sub- against Tom Douglas and Turner
class will present the three act play-1 jgpt of The Sentinels and their plans. Cameron, charged with the murder of Aberdeen Community House As-
let, “Seniors at the Bar.” The first ^''-phe idea of forming a branch of Leonard Cameron, a case which has | sociation To Operate Luke
act is laid in a class meeting when | xhe Sentinels in Denver was received attracted wide interest in this sec-j as a Recreational Center
the Seniors discuss going to court to ^ enthusiasm,” said Mrs. Reed.” tion because of tis extreme brutality.
force the faculty to give them their secretary has been selected and a Young Cameron was twice shot and The Community House Association
diplomas, threatened to be upheld be- ^ cruelly beaten on the fourth of last of Aberdeen will take over and op-
Popular Subscriptions
To Build New Dam
through them, become infected. The
interesting of teachers and jjarents
in this work is, therefore, of the
greatest importance.
After Dr. McCain’s talk Dr. L. B.
McBrayer, secretary of the North
Carolina Medical Society added a few
words about the tremendous cost to
the public of the fight against tuber
culosis and the treatment of suffer
ers therefrom, a sum in excess of
Militant action on two fronts was
declared by directors of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce at their
meeting in Highland Lodge on Tues
day, and committees were named to
“go to it.”
The first broadside was fired
against any possibility of curtailment
of the educational facilities of the
Southern Pines schools, brought about
by the notion of the State’s General
Assembly in providing funds for an
eight month term next year, the cost
of the ninth month, if desired by
school districts, to be voted in spec
ial election by the citizens of that dis
trict and wholly paid bysthem.
Ralph Chandler, Walter Gilkygon,
A. Montesanti, the Rev. J. Fred Stim
son and Hiram Westbrook were nam
ed to the committee to go deeply into
the subject for the town’s future edu_
cational program and report back to
the board, with recommendations, at
its next gathering. The talk along the
streets of Southern Pines ever since
the action of the General Assembly
has been principally on the subject of
.'schools, with “much to be said on
both sides.” There are those who be
lieve an eight months term will suf
fice, that the taxpayer should not
be called upon for additional taxation
for the ninth month. There are as
manv nr moro who believe that South
ern Pines should .ruu smm
month term at all cost, that the fu
ture growth of the city, its ability to
attract a permanent population, de
pends upon complete educational fa
cilities for the young. The whole prob
lem will be threshed out by the com
mittee before it makes its report.
New Postottice Sought
The new postoffice for Southern
Pines was the subject of Broadside
No. 2, the Chamber directors deciding
it was time to go to work on the
pow’ers that be in Washington look
ing toward the construction of the
federal building for which money has
already been authorized by Congress.
It is believi'd that the bui’ding can be
included in ihe next federal building
program, now gettin,? under way as
a part of the govemnent’s reconstruc
tion policy, and a committee was
named to endeavor, th^’ough Senators
Bailey and Reynolds and Represen
tative Lambeth, to have Southern
Pines among the first to be favored
with funds. It is held that property
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Dewberries Brings Up
To $3.55 at Openingr
cause the class has figured on ath-1
letics as furnishing some of the nec-
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essary “counts” for graduation. Act, ^|(gg HELEN THOMPSON BRIDE i than alive. He managed to make a new dam
2 is a courtroom scene with the Sen
iors pilled against counsel for the
_ . , either our roads or our schools, he
July andHeft in the dense woods a, erate Aberdeen Lake as a recreational 0^.^^ 800 Crates Sold at VaSB
mile and a half from his home more center and oversee the building of discovery of infection in' First Dav But Tuesday HoH-
* ’ " " day Hurts Monday Sales
faculty who endeavors to prove why
the earlv stages.
OF WILLIAMSON W. FULLER his way home after two or three days j This was dccided upon at a meeting Kiwanis Club heard a letter
I "amed Douglas and Turner Cam-1 of directors of the association held on jj^spital
In a pretty ceremony with only; eron as his assailants. Cameron died | Tuesday night at which time the com-^
they should not be graduated. Act 3 members of the immediate families, several months later and the charge; mittee appointed last Friday evening toward the support of a
is the final class meeting, when the Louise Thompson, against the two men was changed^ at a town meeting reported recom-.j^^^ children’s ward this year.
attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | from assault with a deadly weapon, mending the action taken. Money for I contributed, through the
Carl Thompson of Southern Pines and "ith intent to kill, to murder. rebuilding the dam, an amount some-; . . .. . .. . Z. tickets and
Forty-one of the fifty men chosen where around $600, is to be raised by, ^re^T^f ^2^^
as jurors answered when the case was popular subscription, and m another | months and is now
called on Thursday, but they were ex.| column of The Pilot this week will' ^
cused at the end of the day and the be found a Subscription Blank for the> sufficient to support the bed
case continued for the term. use of those desiring to support the entire year at a dollar a
John W. Frank, Jr., and Thelma, project. A goodly sum has already
been subscrit>ed by generous persons
class prophecy and the last will and
testament are read.
Officers ol the Class
Officers of the Senior Class are the
following: Ruth Travis, president;
Jasper Daniel, vice pre.sident; Allan
Thurman, secretary and treasurer;
Ruth Travis, valedictorian and Jas-
Canandaigua, N. Y., and Williamson
Whitehead Fuller, 2d, of Biiarcliff
Manor, New York were married yes
terday in the home of the bride on
West Broad street.
Miss Thompson is one of the most
per Arey, salutatorian. Honor students • talented pianists in this section and a | Frank, white, charged wtih slander
of the class are Miss Travis, daught- member of the younger social set in j operating a disorderly house,
the Sandhills. Mr. Fuller, son of i were found guilty. Frank was sent to
er of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Travis; Jas
per Arey, son of Mt. and Mrs. J. D.
Arey; Eleanor Adams, daughter of
Albert F. Adams and Wilson Fisher,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Park W, Fisher.
Marshals for the Commencement ex
ercises, selected from the Junior class,
will be Thomas Carlisle, chief; Ralph
Chandler, Susan Swett, Katie Lee
Ward and George Moore.
The scholastic year ended with ex
aminations yesterday. The year, the
first under the superintendency of
Frank T. Webster, has been a high
ly successful one and pupils and par
ents alike are pleased to learn that
Mr. Webster has been asked to return
next year.
Thomas Staples Fuller, prominent at
torney in New York, has 'been a fre
quent visitor in Pinehurst where hia
sister, Mrs. Nat S. Hurd, resides. He
is also a brother of Miss Margaret
Fuller of Pinehurst and New York.
He attended W'oodbury Academy, The
the roads for six months and the wo
man is to serve 90 days in the coun
ty jail.
Joseph McCarthy, white, charged
with breaking and entering the Stand
ard Store in Aberdeen and with lar
ceny of an automo*bile, was found
day.
of the community, much of it com
ing from outside Aberdeen, and it is
hoped and expected that the remand-i
er will be readily subscribed by local!
citizens.
FIRST OF 193.1 PEACHES
SHIPPED FROM SANDHILLS
Hun School and the University oflg^'lty and sentenced to serve three
Virginia. years ih State’s Prison
Miss Thompwon is a graduate of Two Years for Wife Murder
the Rochester School for Girls at Willie Cole, colored, charged with
Rochester, N. Y.
The Rev. F. Craighill Brown, rec
tor of the Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, Southern Pines performed the
ceremony. The bride and groom left
immediately after on a motor trip.
First peaches of the 1933 crop were
shipped out of Sandhills, this past
Work on the new dam is expected week. Several crates were sent to
to start at once. The beach is already | northern markets by local orchards,
in shape and will provide the best' and others are expecting to ship sev-
of bathing facilities for young and eral bushels before another week is
old, not alone for Aberdeen residents ] past.
but for the entire community. 1 Market quotations on the first fruit
The committee recommending the ^ was indefinite, but first peaches on
operation of the beach by the Com- northern markets always command a
the murder of his wife, tendered * munity House Association comprised J.; fancy price.
plea of guilty of manslaughter, which! Vance Rowe, chairman; H. W. Dotfb; A peach crop of about 60 per cent
seems to be disappearing. It is hard and Henry McC. Blue. John Sloan is is expected from the Sandhills or-
to conceive how anyone in times like, treasurer of the funds now being rais-jchards this year. Forecasts predict a
ed, and subscriptions should be sent: good crop of fine fruit and produc-
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' to him at Aberdeen.
tion* of from 2,000 to 2,500 carloads.
Due to the lower temperature that
has prevailed during the past few
days, dew'berries have not ripened as
rapidly as had been expected, but
prices for the most part have been
satisfactory. Eight hundred and thirty
crates were sold on the Vass market
on Saturday at prices ranging from
$2.30 to $3.55, and a flourishing bus
iness was done at Cameron,
j The Cameron market reports ship
ments of do.® .* to 1,500 crates last
; week, at an average price of $3.04.
I More than 1,300 crates were shipped
from Vass during the week.
I Monday’s berries were of a poor
! quality and with Tuesday a holiday,
I buyers were not inclined to offef very
high prices. Monday’s sales totaled
351 crates.
I Recent rains w-ill improve the qual
ity of the berries and better prices
; and larger offerings are expected by
the latter part of the week.
The Chadbourne Marketing Com
pany which is operating the market
‘ has made a fine impression on the
people by its courteous and efficient
^ service, and a successful MMon Is
j hoped for, though no one is optimis-
itic enough to expect such pricic aa
I prevailed a few years ago.