MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13, N,0. 34.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory Carolina
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday July 21, 1933.
FIVE CENTS
CITIZEN WINDS UP
30-YEAR CAREER
AS LOCAL PAPER
Member of Original Staff, Bion
Butler Describes its Modest
Beginning in Southern Pines
M. B.X:LARKE FOUNDER
By Bion H. Butler
Sixty years ago R. 0. Moorhead, edi
tor of the Register at Brockwayville,
Pennsylvania, caught me as I was
passing his office, and said he un
derstood that I was a printer. I con
fessed that I had hung around a
printing office considerably, setting
type, feeding the job press, sweeping
out, selling papers, which qualified
me. That conversation started me
with a monthly salary of $15 on a
newspaper career that is still rather
virulent in its form. Two years la
ter I was publishing the paper. Then
followed a period of drift as a tramp
printer all over this country and
nearly twenty years later I was back
in the old village again and publish
ing the paper once more.
One morning a young chap drifted
up to the shop and asked for a job.
I put him at work. He was M. B.
Clarke, another tourist printer. He was
a good worker, and ten years later
he wrote me from Southern Pines,
N. C., that he projected a paper in
his village and w^anted me to join a
little in financing it. Which I did. I
had bought some ground in the vi
cinity and planted an orchard and
vineyard, and was preparing to move
South. When he found that I was
coming down here Clarke insisted that
I should join him in his paper ven
ture. But as I had my hands full
looking after my own development
I told him 1 could not entertain his
The Pilot Takes Over Local Newspaper Field
Acquires Plant and Equipment of the Sandhill Citizen, Publish
ed Here For Close to 30 Years, and Will Maintain
Offices Both in Southern Pines and Aberdeen
Through purchase from George R. Ross, The Pilot this
week takes over the local field formerly covered by the Sand
hill Citizen. The Citizen will continue to be published to serve
a specialized field, as outlined in other columns of this issue,
but the news field of this immediate tenicory v/i!l be covered
exclusively by The Pilot. Offices will be maintained in both
Aberdeen and Southern Pines.
It has been a self-evident fact for some time that the two weekly
newspapers were serving locally where one would suffice, and negotia
tions have long been pending for the merger of The Citizen and The Pilot.
When Mr. Ross, long a resident of Jackson Springs, recently purchased
The Citizen terms were agreed upon whereby he retains the name and
prestige of The Sandhill Citizen for the paper to be developed over a
wider field under the able editorship of Prof. C. L. Newman, and The Pi
lot takes over the plant, equipment and local news field formerly served
by The Citizen. The Citizen will be printed by The Pilot, Inc.
The Sandhill Citizen has served the people of Southem Pines faith
fully and well for almost thirty years. Its history, recorded in other
columns today, is a proud one. Its passing from the field as a local news
paper will be a cause of deep disappointment to scores of subscribers to
whom it has been a weekly messenger for more than a quarter of a
century. But its name will live on, and in its chosen field The Citizen will
undoubtedly develope into one of the outstanding periodicals of the two
Carolinas.
The Pilot henceiorth wi,l be sent to all former subscribers of The
Citizen, the two subscription lists being thrown into one.
LAMBETH PUTS UP
BAHLEFORNEW
POSTOFFICE HERE
Calls on President to Oppose
Abandonment of Authorized
Public Works Program
SAYS MONEY PROMISED
Three Hundred Dollars Needed iov
Completion of New Aberdeen Dam
Clean, Supervised Bathing Facil
ities for Sandhills Dependent
Upon Raising of Fund
All material for the new Aberdeen
dam is on the ground and there is only
one thing in the way of filling the
lake and providing bathing facilities
for the people of the community by
August 15th. Three hundred addition
al dollars are needed for the comple-
scheme, but that I would help him j tion of the work
as much as I could. j More than half the necessary fund
Clarke had formed a stock com-1 has been raised, but further rontribu
pany, which embraced nearly every- tions are essential to the success of
body in the little village, and his ■ one of the most important undertak-
directors made a dicker with me to | jngs in the Sandhills in ronie time, G.
pay me six dollars a week to help a. Charles, chairman of the commit-
the paper to function. Clarke had tee, said yesterday. The lake will be
gathered up a second hand press, a available to all residents of the sec-
limited amount of type, and in a room j tion, whether from Aberdeen or not,
in the second story of a building on j and contributions from towns in the
the alley back of Patch’s store as at, neighborhood are invited. Southem
present located, we on. We pines has generously responded, and
were an interesting force. j'Substantial sums have come from
Clarke was a live newspaper man i Pinehurst. The major part of the work
and a good printer. L. P. Stradley, a | at the lake has been completed, the, . i. • j
fine old Philadelphia printer, one of j cleaning out of stumps and debris | postmaster of that city, and
the most skillful and reliable I ever j f^om the bathing beach section, the | been^ bi^sy receiving
knew, was a compositor on the job. smoothing down of the sandy beach.
New Postmaster
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p. Frank Buchan
Word was received in Southern
Pines last Friday morning of the ap
pointment of P. Frank Buchan as
He was down here for his health,
and worked a few hours a day for a
small sum, but he knew how tv set
a clean proof and do it right. A. S.
Ruggles was the pressman, and he
knew how to make the old press do
good work, I think Ruggles was
the elimination of objectionable feat
ures along the shore, the preliminary
work on the new dam itself. To aban
don the work now would be a fatal
step, for much of what has been com
pleted would of necessity have to be
done over again. Mr. Charles and
tional center and “swimmin’ hole” for
young and old under proper super
vision.
Checks may be sent to G. A. Charles
or to The Pilot at Aberdeen or cash
handed to any of the committee,
among them Mrs. W. A. Blue, Mrs. J.
Talbot Johnson and H. W. Doub. Boys
desiring to contribute time instead of
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PINEHURST SILK MILLS
GRANTED 90-DAY STAY
about the only fulltime, able seaman: others interested urgently appeals to
in the craft, for Clarke was more orj residents of the entire Sandhills
less of an invalid. Ruggles was a, ggctjon for donations to “set it
good hand and dependable. Clarke | through,” providing a clean recrea-
was a good news hustler, but we had
two others who were geniuses. One
was an invalid by the name of White
head, if I am right in my recollection.
He could devote only a limited time
to his work, but he could recognize a
bit of local news and he could write
it. But he could not stand much physi-
ical exertion, although he covered the
local field for tiie weekly in excel
lent manner. We had also a young
woman who could put in a certain
amount of time, and she had the
knack of doing the right thing with
social affairs.
Newspaper Enterprise
One illustration will show the
methods we pursued. When Charlie
St. John had his Piney Woods Inn in
working order a banquet was given
at which Gov. Aycock was the guest
of honor. Place cards were laid at the
tables for the big group of guests
and Clarke secured the diagram of
the tables with the name of each
guest. As the dinner progressed the
paper was brought into the dining
room and laid before the guests with
the diagram and name showing the
location of every one present, every
guest receiving a copy as a souvenir
of that evening.
The paper was backed by a com
pany of the local people and inter
ests, W. M. Blue, A. S. Newcomb, H,
The Pinehurst Silk Mills at Hemp
have been granted a 90-day extension
of their present three-shift operation
program, thereby delaying the lay
ing off of some 200 employes as
threatened by the adoption of the new
textile code. The Kiwanis Club of
Aberdeen and others appealed to Sen
ators Bailey and Reynolds and Rep
resentative Walter Lambeth for such
an extension on the grounds that the
unemployment situation in Moore
county wag such at present as to
threaten serious results if more peo
ple were suddenly thrown out of
work.
MEETING POSTPONED
There will be no regular monthly
P. Bilyeu, S. S. Thomas, J. N. Pow- ™!«ting of the Men of the Church
this month. The program will be com-
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iJbined wtih the August meeting.
the congratulations of friends and
neighbors since then. The appointment
has met with general approbation
throughout the community. The new
postmaster succeeds Mrs. Mary Pow
ell Black, who has been acting post-
mintress since the death of her father.
Postmaster John N. Powell, last year.
Mr, Buchan assumed office early this
week and has been busy “learning
the ropes.”
At its meeting Tuesday the South
ern Pines Cha.uber of Commerce, of
which Mr. Buchan is an enthusiastic
member and a former president, pass
ed a resolution of congratulation and
best wishes to the new postmaster.
Fear that President Roosevelt’s
pronunciamento against new federal
buildings will militate against post-
office buildings approved for South
ern Pines, Sanford, Rockingham and
North Wilkesboro sent Congressman
Waiter Lambeth scurrying to the
White House this week to register
strenuous ofiposition. What the re
sult will be it is to early to predict.
Nine hundred postoffice buildings
already authorized by the 72d Con
gress are at stake. Preliminary work
has already begun on these projects,
the four mentioned above being in Mr.
Lambeth’s district.
Ninety million dollars had been ap
propriated and among those provid
ed were 15 postoffices in North Car
olina. The public buildings appropria
tion was diverted to use this 90 mil
lion for the first money for the for
est army, such to be replaced later
by the general public works legisla
tion.
Accompanying Mr. Lambeth to the
White House were pepresentativ'es
Pou of Norch Carolina and McMillan
of South Carolina.
Mr. Lambeth left a brief for the
President in which he contends that
Congress was promised explicitly by
Democratic majority leaaers last
March that the diversion of funds
would be temporary and that the pub
lic works act had earmarked a suffi
cient sum to carry out the building
program.
Mr. Lambeth said that he under
stood that Budget Director Douglas
favored deferring construction of the
buildings on the alleged grounds that
such would be too heavy a strain on
the budget. Mr. Lambeth will remain
in Washington to confer with the
President as soon as the chief exe
cutive has recovered from his pres
ent slight indisposition.
His brie:’ submitted this week dis
closes statements of leaders taken
from the Congressional Record that
the diversion of funds was only tem
porary, also data to establish that of
the various appropriations made for
relief and re-employment, little con
sideration is given mechanics, such
as carpenters, bricklayers, and other
high class artisans.
The Archers Company
to Move Plant North
No Absentee Votes
Attorney General Brummitt
So Rules in Case of Spec
ial School Elections
Absentee voting is not permis-
iable in special school elections, At-
;orney General Dennis G. Brummitt
ruled this week. This will affect a
large number of property ow’ners
of the Southern Pines School Dis
trict in the forthcoming election
there. Many have registered who
w'ill not be here in August, leaving
their ballots to be recorded for or
igainst the nine months school. Ac-
;ording to Mr. Brummitt, these bal
lots can not be recognized.
$2.84 SAVING IN
TAXES IF 9 M0S.
SCHOOL ADOPTED
Frank Buchan Gives Salient
Facts in Support of Contin
uation of Full Term
LAUDS BUSINESS COURSE
DRY FORCES CALL
MASS MEETING TO
ORGANIZE FIGHT
Gathering is Announced for To-
Night, Friday, in Courthouse
at Carthage
Mrs. C. E. Pleasants
Town Clerk of Aberdeen
Appointment Follows Resigna
tion of W. W. Maurer, Due
to Absence from City
Following close upon the announce
ment of the resignation of Henry A.
Page, Sr., as mayor of Aberdeen be
cause of his enforced absence from the
city much of the time comes that
this week of W. W. Maurer as town
clerk, for the same reason. Mr. Maur
er, who succeeded W. J. Huntley upon
his appointment as county tax collec
tor, is making his headquarters in
Sanford an>! has found it almost im
possible to attend to the clerical dut
ies of the local office.
The appointment of Mrs. Charles
E. Pleasants a» town clerk here fol
lowed close upon the acceptance of
Mr. Maurer’s resignation, a move
which meets with unalloyed approv
al of the residents of Aberdeen. Mrs.
Pleasants was for many years con
nected with the Carolina Discount
Corporation here and is a woman of
ability and energy and well equipped
for the task assigned to her.
The United Dry Forces of Moore;
County w'ill be organized at a spec-!
ial mass meeting of citizens of the
county called for this evening, Friday,
i at 7:30 o’clock in the courthouse
j at Carthage.
I Announcement of the meeting was
I made this week by Herbert F. Seaw-
; ell, Jr., of Carthage and C. C. Jones
of Cameron, members o£ the State
Central Committee. “All persons in
Moore county interested in V w en
forcement are urged to be p'i sent at
the meeting,” sai dthe announcement
sent to The Pilot.
Mr. Seawell stated on Monday that
this first gathe’ing will be for oi-
ganization purposes only, that no
speakers of statewide prominence
would be here at that time, but that
later on several distinguished citizens
of the state would be invited to ad
dress gatherings to be arranged for
various parts of the county.
State Drys plan to conduct an ac
tive campaign against repeal of the
18th Amendment from now until the
referendum in the fall, and Seawell
and Jones, to whom has been intrust
ed the building of sentiment in Moore
county, expect to carry the fight into
everj' township.
Jeffress Said To Favor
Broad St Extension
Local Industry Transferred to
Bristol Conn., from Attractive
Knollwood Building
The Sandhills section is about to
lose one of its few industries in the
removal of The Archers Company of
Knollwood to Bristol, Conn., where it
will be housed with the Horton Man-
ufacturing Company. Strenuous ef
forts have been made by Carl Thomp
son, head of the company here, to
have the plant maintained here, but
for purposes of economy the Horton
company is concentrating its varied
interests at Bristol and has “called in”
the plant here in which it has exten
sive holdings.
The Archers Company plant has
been one of the show places of the
Project Would Provide Ready
Access to Business District,
Prove Unemployment Aid
That State Highway Commissioner
E. B. Jeffress and other members of
the commission look with apparent
favor upon the extension of Broad
street, Souchem Pines „o a junction
with U. S. Highway No. 1 south of
Manly, with an underpass to elimi
nate crossing the Seai>oard tracks at
grade, was reported to members of
the Board of Directors of the South
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce at
their meeting in Jack’s Grill Tuesday.
Dr. G. G. Herr made the report for
Frank Buchan, chairman of the spec
ial committee on roads. Dr. Herr and
Mr. Buchan called on Mr. Jeffress in
Raleigh last week.
Mr. Jeffress stated that he would
have engineers here soon to look the
project over. This is one of the pro
jects being sponsored by the Cham
section, with its attractive stone
building on Midland Road between i ber of Commerce at this time to aid
Southem Pines and Pinehurst. The (unemployment here, and is greatly
future of the local plant la unknown, I favo’.’ed by the business interests of
but efforts will be made to house
some industry or shop therein. The Ar
chers Company will continue its indus
try in the game of archery locally, ac
cording to Mr. Thompson, probably
maintaining headquarters for the de
velopment of the sport in the country
clubs at Pinehurst and Southern
the town inasmuch as the new road
would divert traffic through the bus
iness section. Southbound tourists
would be given optional routes at the
junction point, permitting their pass
ing through town either via the resi
dential section along May street or
the business section through West
Pines. Archery has become very pop-1 Broad street. Northbound tourists
ular locally and tournaments will con-
now have optional routes at the junc-
tinue through the winter months, it-Kion of South Broad and U. S. 1 at
is said. Mr. Thompson tejqpects to the city line.
spend much of his time here. Another project which would pro-
• vide much employment for unskilled
President Roosevelt this week nam- labor is the extension of curbs and
ed Frank R. McNinch, former mayor gutters in Southem Pines, a matter
of Charlotte, chairman of the Federal which will have the attention of th«
Power Commission over the objections Board of Commissioners at their next
of Senators Bailey and Reynolds. meeting.
“The voters of the Southem Pines
district I think should be acquainted
with the following ^’acts regarding the
proposed sup 'lement wh'ch we are
going to be called to vote on soon,”
said P. Frank Buchan, postmaster of
Southern Pines in an interview with
The Pilot yesterday.
“The school board has been request
ed to subn it a budgi;*, for the com-
it g year but as the State has not
definitely committed itself as to how
much it will pay, it is impossible for
the school hoard to say just how
much it will require from local funds
to give us a good nl^e months schooi;
how’ever, it is their intention to give
us as good a school as they '.’an, keep
ing ill mind all the time the fact that
they must hold the expenses down
just as far as possible.
“There is still a debt on our
school property which must be paid
by the taxpayers in the local dis
trict whether we have an eight months
school or nine months school, or ? o
school at all.
“This debt service, the school board
figures, will amount to 22c a hundred
and we cannot get rid of this, under
any condition.
“The schooT board is asking for the
authority to levy 30c instead of 33c
as last year, and this is based on a
> 20 per cent reduction in valuation.
They assure me that it is not their
I intention to use the entire 30c but
I they cannot tell just what part of it
ie nocesscry u‘»e ur.til th<^y
■ find out definitely from the State
what they will get from it. Some of
j the teachers under the State ruling
. will not receive over $62.00 or $63.00
per month. The school board feels that
this is not sufficier.t salary for a com-
; petent teacher. I believe it is their
1 intention for the salaries to range
from $75.00 to approximately $100.00
per month for the teachers and when
you consider the fact that after the
teacher pays his board, his traveling
expenses to and from Southern Pines,
buys clothing and spends time at
summer school, there isn’t much left.
Important Adjunct
The State allows nothing whatever
for the Commercial course. The com
mercial course at Southern Pines has
meant a great deal to the' boys and
girls who for financial reasons have
not been able to get to college. And
even if they do go to college, it is
worth a lot to them, but I think we
should consider most how it would
affect the ones who are unable to en
ter college that they may get some
knowledge of business, shorthand, type
writing, etc. in this school. You will
find a considerable number of these
graduates holding positions of re
sponsibility in the community, a ben
efit to themselves and family.
The state allows nothing whatever
for music in the school. I do not be
lieve there is a person in the South
em Pines school district who will
not agree that the music in the school
last year was one of the best things
for the school children. Last year it
was made possible by the contribu
tions from some of the local people;
this year it will be impossible under
the present financial conditions to ex
pect these people to lepeat this. If
we have this music it will have to be
paid for out of the the local funds
or a part of it. In other words, sum
ming the whole thing up, it looks to
me that if we vote for the eight
months school and against the nine
months school we will be voting to do
away entirely with our commercial
course, to do away entirely with our
music. We will be voting to have our
children stay in a half heated building
during the cold winter months, as I
am assured by the board that the
State’s allotment for fuel will not keep
this building heat^.
Tax Mving
“The State allows nine dollars per
month for truck drivers while the
school board having the interest of
the patrons at heart has paid a living
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