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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 13, NO. 3L AHTHAOE LAKEView SPRIMOS PItiSS ASHt-Sy MtlCKTS PI L OT '''•'■o' — - r . t rr\ • , . • FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territor> ' h Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, Norfh Carolina, Friday June 30, 1933. FIVE CENTS SEYMOUR TO AID IN ORGANIZATION OF NEW BANK Elected One of Four Represen tatives of Depositors of Page Trust Company TO LAUNCH PROJECT TODAY G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen was j «lected as one of the four represen-1 tatives of depositors of the Page | Trust Company who, with repi’esen-1 tatives of the stockholders and of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion will meet today, Friday, with sim ilar representatives of the Nox-th Car olina Bank & Trust Company and the Independence Trust Company of Char lotte to organize a new State bank. Other representatives of Page Trust depositors, chosen at a meeting held in Raleigh on Wednesday, are Alex "Webb, Raleigh; Troy Smith, Liberty ^.nd R. Lambeth, Thomasville. Rep resentatives of North Carolina Bank and Ijidependence ^IJrust depositors were selected the same day, and yes- Unrestricted Bank of Pinehurst Opened Doors Monday With Cash on Hand of $170,000 The Bank of Pinehurst, closed since the national banking holiday early in March, reopened on an un restricted basis on Monday of this week. The bank opens with a sur plus and undivided profit account of $161,000, deposits of $357,000, and with cash on hand on Monday of $170,000. The depositors agreed to let 35 per cent of their deposits be used for the purchase of second preferr ed stock, the balance of 65 percent becoming available for withdrawal at any time. F. W. VonCanon is president of the Bank of Pine hurst. BABY SNATCHED FROM PATH OF TRAIN AT VASS Boys at Quaker School Want Some Cows With Their $10,000 Bequest Mr. and Mrs. Price Doing Noble' Work at Institution Remem- | bered in H. H. Rackham Will j School Board Head Ernest Clayton, 13-Year Old Un cle, Saves Evans Child by Six Inches TODDLED ONTO TRACKS DESIGN FOR NEW BANK OUTLINED BY RALPH PAGE BY JOHN A. LELAND The Quaker School, or the Quak er Home for Children, or just “The Bible School” as some folks call it, j which has just been left $10,000 in Only by a hair’s breadth did Alice the will of the late Horace H. Rack- Carolyn Evans, 17-nionths-old daught- '^^'" Pinehurst and Detroit, is lo- er of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Evans of r, county m the Highfalls section. It Vass miss a horrible death on Sun- . , *.1. • v i , is more, however, than just a school day evening when, unnoticed by ^ g^id a home. It is a haven, a place of members of the family, she toddled refuge, a sanctuary for children born out to the railroad tracks and seated 0*^^ of wedlopk, unw’ahted and unlov- herself in the path of through pas senger train Number 3. The heroic work of her thirteen-year-old uncle, Einest Clayton, saved her. The baby, with her parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B, Clayton lives in the section house on the railroad right-of-way, so it took; homelessness, are taken in. only a minute or two for her to reach Mrs. J. A. Price, Quak ed. There they are taken in, fed, clothed, taught and loved. While the majority of the children in the home began life so unfortu nately, the school by no means limits itself to just such cases. Homeless children, whatever the reason for their BOOKS OPEN TO PUBLIC By RALPH W. PAGE There will have been no irain from' such suddenness that some!"®*’® to the Price flock. Their There will have been no gam from , even at that it ran quite a distance, “ ^^eir little baby sis , Bankers, Depositors and Borrow terday stockholders were expected toj WHl Be Partners in “Lo- select their representatives, two from' (Clearing Houses” «ach of the three banks involved in! the plan for the new bank. | The various representatives are i scheduled to meet in the Capitol at^ 10 o’clock this morning, Friday, to or-1 ganize the new bank, electing a board! of directors to serve until the first; ‘he trials and sufferings we have annual meeting, select a name for the j experienced by reason of our mistakes new institution, and decide upon its j and arrogance, if our new bank is home office. The State Bank has ; like the old bank. There would be no been suggested as a name, and the purpose in a New Deal, if it is to be main office is sought by Greensboro, j the same old deal. The banks wti^ Charlotte and Raleigh. j broke, as the country was broke, be- At Wednesday’s meeting, attended | cause they transgressed the immutable by a committee of three from Aber-1 laws. Not the banking laws the laws deen. Dr. A. H. McLeod, F. D. Sham- j of God that govern the nature and the burger and Dr. L. B. McBrayer, Gur- hearts of men, and their relations to | ney P. Hood, State Superintendent of . each other. | Banks, said that while the much dis- We propose with the good will and j yiijg Figure Expected to Be Re cussed 20 percent dividend to dfeposi- {help of the people of Carolina, to ex-1 duced with Opening of tors was not guaranteed, prospects amine the banking practices we have, Bank' of Pinehurst for its early payment were promising all been accustomed to with an humble in view of the fact that the R. F. C., and an open mind; to discover where- which is contributing $600,000 to the in we have all been at fault, and to The State School Commission last week approved the application of the Southern Pines School District for continuation as a special administra tive unit, thereby permitting the call ing of a special election in the district to determine whether or not Souhern Pines shall continue to offer a nine months educational course. The lar ger cities of the state and a few smal ler cities, such as Chapel Hill and Southern Pines where unusual condi- I tion.s exist, were set up as separate I units by the commission. Representa tives of the Southern Pines School Commission, the Chamber of Com- merec and the Board of Commisslon- the'tracks. Ernest, who was at the ^’’^- to Moore county in 1918-! ers appeared before the State body in barnvaid attending to the evening then becoming pastor of!P'"®\School Boatd i support of the application, chores, heard the approaching train i**'® Friends Church at Highfalls. In! Proponent of, Nine-Months Term.^ An election is expected to be called and saw the baby in its path. He dash- Randall Emmons, sister of SOUTHERN PINES GRANTED SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT State School Commission Acts Favorably on Application, and Election Will Follow TO VOTE ON 9-MONTH TERM ed to the baby’s side and snatched l rnTTOlV AfRFAflF her away just as the train thundered children. Mr. and Mrs. Price under- 1 1 Uil by. A member of the crew sai^ that took to take them into theii home and , the train missed the heads of both ''^^le later two home-1 children by only about six inches. friendless little girls, the ^ The train was brought to a stand-' °ne being nine years of age, ■ REDUCTION PLAN STARTED HERE venture, would forego dividends on its pieferred stock until it was paid. The three banks will utilize their best assets to buy 60,000 shares of $10 common stock at $15 a share, the ad ditional $300,000 being set as surplus. The $600,000 preferred stock of the R. F. C. will carry full voting pow er, but the depositors were told that the banking department had the as surance that it would be used only in veto power in case its officials deem ed that necessary. Miss Dorace Wheeler Bride of Philip Allen start anfw if need be with an entire ly different set of principles, ideals and procedures. It is in this spirit that we venture the belief that a search ing criticism of our customary bank ing business will prove constructive. It is not confined to bankers. Wrong ter resulted in that addition. And so j the Qirker Home for Children! started. i Today there are 24 children, rang-1 ing in age from 18 years dow'n to a j few months. They are taught in a { large farm house. Happily cared for, and happily caring for each other, they are being raised in the atmos phere of affection and care and wise counsel that all children have a right to. Boys Make Furniture Besides the arts of the three R’s, Moore county still o%ves the State they are taught the science of nion- past where the baby was seated, so she undoubtedly owes her life to her youthful uncle. Both Ernest and Car olyn were extremely nervous follow ing the hari'owind experience, but otherwise they were unhurt. County Owes $18,956 of ’32-33 Ad Valorem for the near future to determine the will of the electorate of the (iistrii-t, regardinij the continuance of the nine months term. Supplemental funds, by local taxation, will be required to keep the Southern Pines schools up to their present level. The alternative is to accept the State-supported eight months school, turning all schobl property of the district over to the county and operating under a much curtailed budget with the loss of some teachers and with the abandonment of extra-curricular activities. Those in favor of continuing as at present The campaign for reduction of the .argue that Southern Pines, as a win- fcegin with the first meeting to be 1 tional advantages to those northerners held at Cameron next Monday night, who make their winter homes here, or Meetings w’ill be held during the w’eek lose many families and the business at nights, and field work will be which they mean to the community, done during the day. , These people, they say, will not be Indications are that a great many, satisfied with a school term which people will sign' these options with- does not meet college requirements in out any hesitancy while others may the north, hold off for a while, says E. H. Gar- First Meeting at Cameron on Monday Night, With Others To Follow U. S. PLAN OUTLINED of*NoVth CaVoU^^^ ey-making ci°afts, and the results of 'rison, County Agent. From the of- J. VanCe RoWe ElCCted 871 due from the 15-cent ad valorem their handiwork help defray the ex-! f*^*’ now being madt, it would seem to MsVOr Of Absrdeen school levy for 1932-33, figures given penses of the school. The boys are i to the advantage of e\ery cotton ♦ out last week by State Treasurer furnished w'ith tools for the making g>'ower to let all his acreage that ^ Paire Sr Resigns Due . •- 1 1 : nossiblv can e-o out of nroduc- to Enforced Absence on Charles M. Johnson showed. This is of furniture, and two large looms are j possibly can go out of produc- expected to be greatly reduced, how- used by the girls for making cloth j ticn. If this plan fails,^ the price o. ever, now that the Bank of Pinehurst, and woolen coverlets. Hooked rugs ^'°tton county depository, is again open. The and quilts are also made. Of the 167 Railroad Business might be even lower than it ■j at the presert time. Also if we motives, wrong efforts, wrong think-1 share of the state-wide ad acres of land owned by the school, i wet weather during July ing on the part of bankers, the cus-, valorem was $40,781, and $21,825 has around 70 are under cultivation in;”'' August the farmers might take . ^ Henry'A. tomers of the banks, and of the Legis- kpgn paid in. There is also a balance corn, wheat and truck, and the boys «'’en less for \vhat they t''an. interests - ... 1 the now beu.'g offered them. All this ... .... Aberdeen has a new mayor. Due to enforced absence from town lators of North Carolina produced the | $8,885 due the state from the are given plenty of work to do in inevitable result. They are all equally to blame. Perhaps blame is the wrong word. Ignorant or misguided however we all certainly were. Contrary to popular belief, the bankers did not fail for lack of tech- nical information or lack of supervis- igyy. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. ■ ion or soft-headed philanthropy in | W’heeler, Southern Pines, Weds ; making loans. Thejr^ failed because Naval Lieutenant j they were all small meu of little faith . who believed in mathematics instead Miss Dorace Elizabeth Wheeler, of in men, who believed a bank was a daught3r of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. | private business operated for the prof- Wheeler of Southern Pines and Philip, it of the operators, and because how- Allen, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip! ever well they ran it, they ran it in county’s 1931-32 levy. . cultivation and ^harvesting of -this : acreage which is taken out of pro- North Carolina’s hundred counties crop. In the home, the three older ‘I'^^tion may be put into some other have remitted onJy $2,345,094 of the girls do all the cooking, w'hile the $4,461,691 due on the school levy, Mr. younger ones do the sweeping, bed- Stedman’s report revealed. Large sums making, etc. Mrs. Price sews for the also still due from the 1931-32 (Please turn to Page 8) Home Demonstration Clubs’ Council Pays Tribute to Work of Mrs. Ryals Allen of Providence, R. I., were unit ed in marriage at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon in the Chapel at Pinehurst, the Rev. Thaddeus A. Cheatham, rec tor, performing the ceremony. Miss Wheeler is a graduate of Southern Pines High School and of Radcliffe College at Cambridge, Mass. She also studied for some time at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. For the past two or three years she has been a member of the faculty of Al bany Academy, a private school for boys at Albany, N. Y. Mr. Allen is a graduate of Yale University and has also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. He is a lieutenant in the Unit secret and without the confidence of their publics. They thought—and it was not their fault, because everyone thought, that they owne<I the banks. Now we have learned that a bank er is nothing in the world but a pub lic Trustee. He is not a man in bus iness for profit at all. He handles the funds of the people of North Car olina exactly as the Treasurer of the State handles them. His customers are in reality his partners. On the oth- The Home Demonstration Clubs of Moore county, in a statement issued this week, openly thank Mrs. W. L. Ryals for the splendid work she has done as Demonstration Agent for the county. The tribute reads: “We wish to say that if our meals are not better planned for health ••'.nd appearance, our canning done more wisely, our clothing and hats made more attractive and inexpensively, it is because we have not taken advaiA- tage of the opportunities Mrs. Ryals has given us. If we have not learned er hand, he went through a nightmare: to make our heads sav» our heels in on the assumption that he was a guar-1 house work and if we have not learn- antor. He believed his hard-boiled ^ ed to arrange our house furniture so system of credit files and charts and j ^s to make our homes more livable, quotations and appraisals made him impervious to the losses tthd misfor- ed States Naval Reserves, Divi.sioT of tunes that overcome all men and com- Aeronautics They will make their munities actuated 'by greed and selfish- home in the north. I ness. He led the public to pin their I faith on the infallibility of his rules again it is because we have failed to put into practice the things we have learned. “If we do not help carry out the club plan to help those in misfortune we fail in the welfare help which was so continuously taught and faithful ly practiced by Mrs. Ryals. “If w'e have not developed an in- COMMUNION AT PRESBYTERIAN; and his rule—and, perhaps justly— CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNING j they are putting him in jail for it. If these things be true, henceforth At 11:15 o’clock Sunday morning,! a banker can and should be no differ- terest in the cultural phases of home the Sacrament of Our Lord’s Supper j ent from any capable public servant. | making by encouraging the use of will be observed at the Presbyterian! He should be expected and required to | good music, good literature and art, “We further wish to mention that her work at all times has met with high approval of the State College; that in no way has she failed to carry out their plans and requests. “It is with regret that w'e submit to the powers of County Commission ers to make a change in demonstra tion agent at this time of economic struggle when an urtdisturbed system means so much. “We also deeply regret that the County Commissioners did not have forethought to notify Mrs. Ryals two weeks earlier than they did so that she could have secured one of the thirty places filled by demonstrators for emergency work in canning. They have written her that they would have gladly placed her had they knovm earlier. It is grief to use to see her go jobless. “However we pledge ourselves to I of Aberdeen would be served by his : resigning from the office of chief ' executive. Increased business of the Cape Fear Railroad, with which Mr. ; Page is connected, has necessitated his spending much of his time in Fay- ; etteville since his recent election. The Board of Town Commissioners acted '."'vorable on the resignation when submitted, and elected Attor ney J. Vance Rowe te serve out Mr. Page's unexpired term as maj'or. Mr. Page was elected a commissioner to take Mr. Rowe’s place on the board. TO SING HERE SUNDAY NIGHT Those who are not covered by these meetings are requested to call by the office and get one of the blanks. Any other information on the subject will be gladly given to any one desiring,” says Mr. Garrison. North Carolina’s share in the min imum of 10 million acres to be retir- South this season is 363,000 acres, Dean I. 0. Schaub of State College, was notified from Washington. Befor“ any farmer may share in the ^entaU ORPHANAGE and option benefits offered, he aiust retire as much as 25 percent of his individual acreage and not over 40! xhe first of the Sunday night un percent. The plan of payment for the | jojj services for Aberdeen planned for p.creage retired will be put into oper-j July and August will be held at the ation when the Secretary of Agricul- j Methodist Church Sunday night at ture has received sufficient con-|g;oo o’clock. tracts to justify his declaring the j A.t the eight o’clock hour instead of plan operation, Mr. Schaub said. ' a sermon there will be a sacred con- Abandon 363,0ft0 Acres | Q^rt given by the Singing Class of the This means that North Carolina’s Methodist Orphanage of Raleigh. This 90,000 cotton farmers must agree to class is composed of eight children and plow up or otherwise completely re tire from production at least 363,000 acres of the cotton now under culti vation. Before ar.ty one farmer can share in the cash rental payments and take advantage of an option on government cotton for the amount re tired, he must sign a contract to re move from cultivation at least 25 they will bring a most delightful pro gram. There are no admission charges Church of Aberdeen. All the members and friends of Be- thesda are reminded of their privi lege to be present and share in this worship. handle his funds in a careful and con structive manner with no urge or ex pectation that he will make any more (Please turn to page 4) also for wholesome recreation inbome and in our community, it is not be cause we have not had well planned help along these lines from Mrs Ryals. LOOK FOR PAVING OF NO. I FROM ABERDEEN SOUTHWARD Representatives from Rockingham, Aberdeen, Southern Pines and Sanford attended a meeting in Southern Pines Monday night to plan concerted ac tion for the paving of U. S. Highway percent of his own growfng crop, sincerely artd faithfully support the ^ retiring more new agent, Miss Flora McDonald, and 4Q percent. This is a new rul- help her in every way possible to pick previous advices had said that | No. 1 south of Aberdeen as far as up all the threads of this difficult jq percent must be retired and a D*‘owning Creek. Committees were ap- twelve-fold job and make a success of could plow up and be paid for pointed to wait on various highway the well started demonstration work' desired. j commissioners and ask for the letting Mr. Schaub also called attention to [of thw contract with the next jobs the fact that a cotton farmer might. placed, now that federal funds are take either one of two plans. If he available for immediate construction. lit is thought that “this time,” the in Moore county The statement is signed by Mrs. W. McC. Blue, secretary of the Council of Woman’s Home Demonstration Clubs in Moore county. (Please turn to page 8) I roads will actually be paved.
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