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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen and Southern Pin s, Norlh Carolina, Friday, Sep ember L5, 1933.
FIVE CENTS
TOBACCO MARKET
AT ABERDEEN NOT
TO OPEN TUESDAY
Annual Home Comiing' at Old Bethesda Next Sunday
Put Off Until October 3d Un
less U. S. Acts Favorably on
Local Petition
FARMERS FEAR BIG LOSS
The Aberdeen and Carthage tobacco
markets will not opfln next Tuesday,
the date set for the openinR of all
markets in the Middle Bright Belt.
Just when they will open depends
upon the action taken by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture on a peti
tion now being signed by tobacco
growers of this section.
At a meeting of a committee of the
United States Tobacco Association
held at Durham Wednesday and at
tended by Banks Saunders and other
local warehousemen it was voted to
postpone the opening of the Middle
Belt by the number of days that the
South Carolina and Eastern Carolina
markets are closed. Under this ar
rangement the local belt markets
■would not open until October 3d. Th^t
petition in circulation now through
out this section asks for simultaneous
opening with the South Carolina and
Eastern Carolina markets, and cites
these reasons for the demand:
1. The crop in this section has ma
tured early, is ready for market now.
2. Tobacco has already been graded
by the farmers; much of it is liable
to damage if held.
3. Delay will cause lo(Jal grow
ers to sell on glutted markets, neces
sitating many days delay in making
sales with consequent additional ex
pense and injuiy to tobacco.
4. Section is in economic distress
and neea for funds at this time for
home necessities and for preparing
children for schools is dire.
5. Obligations incurred in expecta
tion of early opening cannot be met
when due.
The petition says “the undersigned
grower’s cannot express too strongly
our sense of being wronged if the
opening of the Middle Belt is postpon
ed as planned. We demand in justice
to ourselves and our section of the
tobacco belt that the Middle Belt be
allo\fed to open with South Carolina
and Eastern Carolina markets.”
Crop Keduction Sign-uJ>
What action the government will
take in the premises no one knows,
but in any event the local markets
will not be able to open next Tuesday,
the 19th, as planned.
Meanwhile the tobacco acreage re
duction program for the 1934 crop is
under way throughout the entire to
bacco growirtg section of the two Car
olina?. A intiss meeting was held Mon
day afternoon at Carthage, with the
court room crowded. A large percent
age of the farmers present signed up.
N. A. Sheffield of State College ex
plained the contracts and strongly
urged the farmers to sign up. County
Agent E. H. Garrison, Jr., presided.
Garrison is in charge of the sign-up
for Moore county and has appointed
committees to canvass all sections.
Blanks are available on request at Gar
rison’s office in Carthage.
New To-Night to
Launch Campaign
Speaker Tonight
O * <;nt Miller of Sanford Mer-
ants Ass-ociation and U. L.
Spence Principal Speakers
TO TELL OF N. R. A. AIMS
I.. SPENCE
Home Coming at Old Bethesda, i
Aberdeen, is always a great event. 1
This ytar it will be the greatest
event of her one hundred and fnrty- j
three years of history. On September
the 17th, the third Sunday, all
Bethesda’s Sons, Daughters, Grand- ■
sons and Grand Daughters, uncles
and aunts, nephews and neices, in-,
laws, kith and kin, will gather in a
great spiritual, historical and social
event at the old church.
Invitations are issued on the basis
of the family, elan and tribe. A large
book of remembrance will be open all
day to be signed with the address of
all the comers. All the Scotch will be
there. All the “Gentiles” will be there
to see the Scotch. Dinner will be
spread on the grounds at noon.
Every one is urged to bring an
abundantly filled basket that all may
be fed.
The Rev. Angus R. McQueen, a be
loved and honored son of the church
will preach the Home Coming sermon
at 11:00 o’clock in the moi-ning. Bion
H. Butler, “Sage of the Sandhills,”
and author of “Old Bethesda,” a his
tory of the church and this section
of the state, comprising some three
hundred pages, now in the press, will
deliver the historical address at 3:00
o’clock, in the afternoon. An invita
tion is extended to you, your family
and your friends.
182 TEACHERS FOR
MOORE COUNTY IS,
STATE ALLOTMENT
A. S. GILMAN, PRESIDENT OF
TIN WHISTLE CLUB, DIES
Arthur S. Gilman, president of the
Tin Whistle Club of Pinehurst, a wide
ly known manufacturing printer of
Cleveland, Ohio, where he had lived
and carried on business since 1882,
died at his Cleveland home last week.
He was a native of Concord, N. H.,
where he was born 72 years ago. His
■wife survives, with a daughter, Mrs.
Frederick C. Merrick of Cleveland,
and four grandchildren. Mr Gilman
was an ardent golfer, and had many
friends in the Sandhills.
MORE FIRMS SIGN CODE
Aciditional N. R. A. sigrners in
Southern Pines this week include Wil
liam Leslie, painting contractor; D.
D. S. Cameron, insurance and real
estate; Britto’s Standard Oil Filling
Station, the Sandhill Citizen, The
Pilot, Inc,, and Inman’s Service Sta
tion.
Do no fail to attend the N. R. A.
Rally in the Southern Pines High
School Auditorium tonight, Friday,
at 7:30 o’clock.
Twenty-Nine Given Southern
Pines District, 13 for White
Schools, 16 for Colored
STATE TOTAL IS 22,758
Teacher allotments for Moore
county and for the Southern Pines
administrative unit were announced
early this week at Raleigh. The county
gets 121 white teachers, 29 high
school and 92 elementary, and 61 col
ored teachers, 8 high school and 53
elementary, or a total of 182 teachers,
37 high school and 145 elementary in
all schools.
Southern Pines is allotted 13 white
teachers, four for the high school and
nine for the elemtary grades, and 16
colored teachers, four high school and
12 elementary, a total of 29.
Teachers allotted for the public
schools of North Carolina for the
coming year, as of September 1,
number 22,7’8 as compared with 22,-
801 allotted for the full term last
year it was announced by LeRoy Mar
tin, secretary of the State School
Commission. Although 43 less than the
number allowed last year, it is re
called that 175 additional teachers
were allotted last year after the
schools began and Mr. Martin expects
about as many to be added this year.
The compilation shows that there
will be 16,263 white teachers next
Fire Keeps Secret
Burned Up Furnishings I
Smith Resident But Nev
er Told a Soul
There was a fire in Southern
Pines this summer that the Fire
Department didn't know about. In
fact no one knew about it until the
other day, and no one knows when
it was even now.
F. Stanley Smith, head of the
Department of Music in the South
ern Pines schools, returned to his
home, the Sweeting residence on
May street, the other day after
his summer vacation. On entering
one of the rooms he discovered
much of the furniture destroyed by
fire. Inquiry revealed that no one
knew anything about it. No one had
jeen in the house. Investigation dis
closed that lightning had strtick
somewhere, ignited the furnishings.
A smouldering fire had followed
which burned itself out without
further ado.
The Smiths while away visited
the Century of Progress Exposition
at Chicago. “Go by all means. You
can’t afford to miss it,” is Prof.
Smith’s advice.
422 ENROLL AS
SCHOOLS OPEN IN
SOUTHERN PINES
CONTRACT LET FOR
PAVING U. S. NO. 1
BELOW ABERDEEN
Work Expected To Start Next
Week and End Before Heavy
Winter Traffic
TO I’SE LOCAL LABOR
Slight Increase Over Last Year
Shown First Two I>ays, with
Many More Expected
EXTRA PERIOD IS ADDED
NOW IS TIME TO PLANT.
PAINT AND CLEAN UP
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GEORGE MOORE LOSES
AUTOS IN HURRICANE
Mr. and Mrs. George Moore and
their family, who returned this week
from Willoughby Beach, Virginia,
had a close shave during the recent
Atlantic coast hurricane. When they
escaped from their home water was
over waist deep around their house.
Two of Mr. Moore’s automobiles, one
a LaSalle but five weeks old, were
completely buried in sand and water
and totally destroyed.
TO CANVASS ABEhUtiEN
The following Aberdeen w^men
have betn r.amed a committee to
canvass consumer signers to the
President’s recovery program in Aber
deen: Mrs. Forest Lockey, Mrs. Le
roy Harington, Mrs. Jack Smith, Miss
Ruth McLean, Mrs. J. W. Bowman,
Mrs. Neill McKeithen and Mrs. Gor
don Keith.
It is Clean-Up, Plant-Pp, Paint-Up
time in the Sandhills.
Both in Southern Pines and Pine
hurst property owners are busy pre
paring for the season ahead. Lawns
are being .spaded and prepared for
new seed. Local stores are well stock
ed with high grade Italian rye, Ber
muda and Pinehurst Special seed, all
of which are especially adapted to the
sandy soil and provide fine lawns
during the winter months. Land
scape men and nurserymen are busy
beautifying premises. Painters are at
it here and there.
Fall in line.
BANK OF PINEHURST OPENS
CARTHAGE BRANCH OFFICE
Southern Pines schools opened on
Tuesday. The total enrollment to date
j is 422 pupils, an increase over the
first two days of school last year. The
, the elementary school and 118 in the
high school. Of course these figures
are by no means final, for an increase
will be shown each week until well in
to October as old pupils return from
the north and new ones come here to
, live.
: Ore change in the faculty as an-
^ nounced in The Pilot two weeks ago
I has been made. Miss Marjorie Skin
ner of Elizabeth City has replaced
Miss Charlotte Miles as teacher of
the second grade.
Supt. Webster wishes to announce
to anyone wishing to consult with
him that he will be in his office from
nine to ten each morning. After ten
he will be occupied with classes until
; the end of school. He will, however, be
glad to make appointments for any
afternoon after 3 o’clock.
A number of changes have been
made this year. Six periods are now
I being taught as compared to five last
year. A general study period has been
in.serted and the pupils are required
I to use this period for study.
MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD
FOR MRS. RALPH CALDWELL
The Bank of Pinehurst is opening
r branch in Carthage this week, in the
bank building which will be vacated
oy iiio r»^c iruoi, Lompa*\v. It is
understood that the latter institution
will move its branch, which has been
operating under restrictioris since the
banking holiday, to Sanford. Opening
of the new bank will enable the local
lubacco market to pay off farmers
with checks instead of cash, as was
originally planned wheri it seemed
probable that no bank would be open
in Carthage during the selling aep.ton
Memorial services for Mrs. Ralph
M. Caldwell were held in her Sun
day School class room on last Sun
day morning. The chair she usually
occupied was draped with white rib
bons, and a silent prayer was offer
ed by the class in memory of its de
parted member. A poem, “A Friend,”
was read by the class president, Mrs.
Nat Weaver, with “A Tribute from a
Friend” given by Mrs. W. A. Blue.
Mrs. E. L. Barber read Woodsworth’s
beautiful poem, “She Was a Phan
tom of Delight.” The services closed
with a prayer by the teacher, Mrs. J.
H. Suttenfield.
FEDERAL JURY FOREMAN
Richard Tufts of Pinehurst was
foreman of the Federal Grand Jury
, which sat at Rockingham on Monday
, of this week, disposing of a large
i docket
The contract for the paving of U.
S. Highway No. 1 from Aberdeen to
a point in Richmond county one mile
south of Drowning Creek has been
let and the work is expected to get
undir way next week. The awarding
of the contract to Joseph Blythe is
j highly pleasing to this section. It was
j Mr. Blythe who built the Aberdeen-
, Laurinburg road in record-breaking
time, and it is hoped that with any
kind of weather the present project
can be finished before the rush of
seasonal southern traffic over No. 1.
The State Highway and Public
Works Commission has not as yet
definitely approved the paving of No.
1 from Rockingham to meet the
Aberdeen-Drowning Creek stretch,
I but will settle the matter at an early
i meeting according to advices from
I Chairman E. B. JefTress. In a letter
' to the Richmond County Journal at
Rockingham, Mr. Jeffress states:
I “We have recently let a contract
j from Aberdeen beyond Drowning
I Creek to a point about one mile in
Richmond and this work will get
: underway shortly. The question of the
I balance of the distance has been pre-
j sented to this commission, together
with continuing from Drowning
Creek toward Rockingham, or start
ing at Rockingham toward Drowning
Creek. This question will be definitely
decided shortly so that if another ad
ditional contract is possible it can be
gotten underway as early as prac
ticable.”
To Use Ijocal I^bor
Contract has also been let for oil
treating Route No. 75 above Carthage
toward Hemp for about two and one
half miles. In both these jobs local
labor will be utilized as much as pos
sible, Contractor Bythe having al
ready applied at county employment
hep Iquarters at Carthage for an ap
proved list unemployed available.
The possibility of arranging with
the government for the services of
Civilian Conservation Corps men for
beautifying highways in this section
was discussed at Wednesday’s meet
ing of the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen,
and is being looked into by the club's
Committee on Roads, of which Gordon
Cameron is chairman It is believed
that during the winter months there
will be more C. C. C. men av.%ilable
in the south than projects on which
to keep them busy, and that a high
way beautification program can be
worked out which would both provide
emplojTnent and be of lasting bene
fit to the state.
EDITOR HERE ON VISIT
A. T. Robertson, Jr., editor of the
Blowing Rocket at Blowing Rock and
publicity manager of Pinnacle Inn at
Banners F!k, was a Southern Pines
visicor yesterday. Mr. Robertson for
merly edited the Pinehurst Outlook.
K. Miller, president of the Mer
chant’s Association of Sanford, and
U. L. Spence, former representative
of Moore county in the Slate’s General
As.senibly, will be the principal speak
ers at a “New Deal Rally” to be held
this evening, Friday, at 7:30 o’clock
ill the Southern Pines High School
Auditorium. Dr. Ge(|rge G. Herr,
j)resident of the Chamber of Com
merce, will preside. The Rev. F.
Craighill Brown is in charge of the
program.
The purpose of the big N. R. A.
gathering is to stimulate interest in
Presiiient Roosevelt’s recovery pro
gram, and to impress upon the con
sumer the importance of supporting
members of the N. R. A. in order to
make the program work.
In addition to the principal speak
ers, each of whom has a real message
for those not thoroughly familiar with
the recovery program, there will be
reports from chairmen of sub-com-
mittees of the President’s Emergency
Reemployment Campaign Committee
of Southern Pines. It is exjiected that
nearly 100 percent sic -^-^P of local
business concerns will be Revealed
when these reports are made.
The campaign committee is now per
manently organized, and is made up
as follows:
Chairman, Mayor D. G. Stutz; Vice-
Chairman, Dr. Herr; Secretary, D. D.
S. Cameron; Madame Lieut. General,
Mrs. E. A. Tracy.
Recovery Sales Army Division—
Colonel, Dr. Herr; Major 1st Divis
ion, L. V. O'Callaghan; Major 2d Di
vision, R. L. Chandler; Major bd Di
vision, Mrs. J. S. Milliken. Serving
under Mr. O’Callaghan in his division
I are R. L. Hart, L. L. Wooley, R. P.
' Shepard, J. M. Windham, George W.
Case, E. B. Woodard and W. Blue.
Under Mr. Chandler in Division 2 are
L. T. Clark, C. L. Hayes, Dr. W. G.
McLeod, f’rank Wilson, G. II. But-
trey, V. L. Clark, F. F. Travis and R.
F. Potts.
I Women “On the Job”
Adding Mrs. Milliken in the 3rd, or
^Women’s Division, are the following:
Mrs. Lee Clark, Mrs. W. N. Hutt,
' Mrs. E. V. Perkinson, Mrs. Shielas
' Cameron, Mrs. John Barron, Mrs. D.
G. Stutz, Mrs. E. L. Prizer, Mrs. C,
I P. Everest, Mrs. Frank Welch, Mrs,
Nelson C. Hyde, Mrs. Janies Swett,
Mrs. Inez Bredbeck, Mrs. Park Fish
er, Mrs. R. L. Hart, Miss Birdelia
I Bair, Mrs. R. F. Pottp, Mrs. L. L.
V\ ooley, Mrs. R. S. Montgomery and
Mrs. A. McN. Blair.
Dr. W. C. Mudgett is chairman of
the Publicity Division, with Howard
Burns as adjutant. News and publicity
are entrusted to N. C. Hyde, Charles
i Macauley, Bion H. Butletjfand Prof.
I C. L. Newman; posters and music to
I Miss Catherine Pierson, Mrs. Carl
Thompson and Charles W. Picquet.
i The Rev. J. Fred Stimson is colon-
I el of the Educational Bui'eau, with
I the Rev. F. Craighill Brown as adju-
I tant. In the speakers’ bureau are S.
B. Richardson, Miss Ruth Sergeant
and the Rev. W. J. Dillon; informa
tion is entrusted to W. D. Matthews,
and Dr. E. L. Prizer is captain of the
appointment division.
Charles S. Patch is chairman of the
1 important Code Survey and Hearing
I Committee, with the following mem-
I bers: Dr. A. McN. Blair, P. Frank
] Buchan, Howard Burns, Shields Cam-
i eion. Mayor Stutz, Dr. Herr and E.
I W. Reinecke.
i All are invited to the ibig mass meet
ing tonight “to help Southern Pines
make the most of returning prosper
ity.”
HOME COMING AT SANDY GROVE
CHURCH TO ATTRACT MANY
Tne annual Home Coming at the
Sandy Grove Presbyterian Church, or
ganized in 185.5, will be held this
Sunday, September 17th ard many
from this section will attend. There
will be a sermon at 11 o’clock and on*
at 2:80, with dinner served at. o"#.