MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 14, NO. 3.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, December 15, 1933.
FIVE CENTS
70 MEN AT WORK
ONCWAPROJECTS
INSOUTHERNPINES
Road to Dickie Sanatorium and
Double Road to Pinehurst Pro
vide Most of Labor
PENN. AVE. JOB IN DOUBT
The CWA has 70 men at work on
projects in and about Southern Pines
at the present time, and more pro
jects in the making- to keep these and
other men busy for some time to
come.
The widening and resurfacing of
the road from U. S. Highway No. 1
to Pine Crest Manor, Dr. J. W. Dickie’s
sanatorium, being done in coopera
tion with the State Highway Depart
ment, has 29 men employed.
Thirteen men are at work on the
double road between Southern Pines
and Pinehurst. All banks are beinj?
smoothed down to keep them from
eroding, and honeysuckle is being
planted along the route.
General beautification of U. S.
Highway No. 1 leading into town is
giving work to 11 men. They are
smoothing the banks, cleaning up un
sightly growth and rubbish and do
ing some planting.
Nine men are still at work on the
new Southern Pines School tennis
courts near the schoolhouse. This
project will be completed this week.
A number of attractive rustic benches
have been constructed top lace about
the courts and through the woods
which border the courts.
New Gymnasium Sought
Among contemplated projects is
the building of a gymnasium for the
school pupils. Approval for this has
not as yet been obtained but is prob
able, Chairman E. W. Reinecke of the
local CWA committee stated yester
day. Approval has been granted for
the new shuffleboard courts for the
town, but their location ha.^ not been
determined. They will be located
somewhere near the center of town,
it is said, where they will be avail
able to all.
The painting of both the white and
colored schools has been submitted
for approval. Two completed projects
involved drainage and sewerage at
both these schools. ^
Fred Undei-wood, representative in
thi.s district of the State Highway
Commission was in Southern Pines
this week discussing the advisability
cf going ahead with the proposed
Pennsylvania avenue extension to
ward Pinehurst. Though there is
much local sentiment for this devel
opment Mr. Underv'ood stated that
the Highway Commission is not
looking with favor upon projects
which will involve maintenance after
their completion. Too many such pro
jects would involve too great an an
nual expenditure by the State long
after such funds as federal CWA and
PWA have been discontinued. It is
possible that the road may be cut
through over the proposed route but
not improved at this time, leaving to
the future the more permanent de
velopment of that section.
26 Men Employed in Aberdeen
Twenty-six men are at work in
Aberdeen on Civil Works Adminis
tration projects, and the number will
be increased to 40 next week, it was
t<aid yesterday. The present force, un
der A. A. McKeithen as foreman, is
draining out the swamplands near
the heart of town and off in the di
rection of Pinebluff. The additional
men will start next week on beauti
fying the school grounds, some of the
sitreets and roads, repairing side
walks, etc.
NO ACTION TAKEN ON
U, S. LOAN FOR SCHOOLS
Youthful Organist, First To Make
International Broadcast, Here
Miss Irene Harding Will Give Re
citals Weekly Throughout
Season in Pinehurst
The Board of County Commission
ers met Monday, further discussed
the advisibility of a loan from the
government for new schools and im
provements in Moore county, and ad
journed without taking action. It had
previously been announced that the
board would decide the matter on Mon
day. The end of the year is believed
to be the latest a request for a fed
eral loan will be considered, so that
if action is to be taken it will have
to come soon.
Irene Harding is spending the win
ter in Pinehurst.
This news paragraph in itself does
not mean much to the large majority
of readers of The Pilot. It means a
great deal to those who have seen
and heard Miss Harding, and it will
mean much to many more before the
season is far along.
Irene Harding was born in Wash
ington, Pennsylvania not so very many
years ago. She was graduated from
the Washington Seminary there. Ear
ly in her youth she revealed exception
al musical talent and began ner s.tud-
ies under Harvey P. Gaul in Pitts
burgh. Then she went to Paris and
specialized in the organ, receiving
artist and teacher diplomas from the
Conservatoire Americaine, in Fon
tainebleau. She made extensive con
cert tours through France and the
British Isles.
Returniny: home she began broad
casting from Station KDKA in Pitts
burgh, and was on the National Broad
casting f'ompany chain for three
years. Miss Harding made the first
international broadcast ever given.
She has also had seven years of
teaching experience, at Washington
Seminary in Washington, Pa., in the
Pittsburgh Conservatory in Pitts
burgh and in the National Park Sem
inary in Washington, D. C. She has
been a church organist for 14 years.
Weekly Recital Here
Miss Harding is organist this win
ter at the Village Chapel in Pine
hurst, having been induced to spend
the season here by the Rev. Thad-
deus A. Cheatham, rector of the
church, who knew her in Pittsburgh.
The opportunity presented residents
of the Sandhills to hear one of
America’s leading organists is excep
tional. Mr. Cheatham ha.s prevailed
upon Miss Harding to give a weekly
recital in the Pinehurst chapel, and the
public is cordially invited to hear her
each Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock.
She also plavs for 15 minutes, at
10:45 o’clock, before church service on
Sunday mornings.
Both Irene and her sister Mathilde
are well known in metropolitan cen
ters for their art. They have appeared
in organ and piano duets frequently
in the past, and became exceedingly
popular on the NBC network in their
dual renditions, among their programs
being “Twenty Fingers of Hannony,”
“Drifting and Dreaming,” and the
“DuPont Cellophane” program. They
have pleased large audiences in recit
als at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York. Mathilde won three schol
arships while at the Julliard School
of Music in New York, and her New
York debut brought concert engage
ments all over the country after which
she joined her sister in radio work.
The Thursday afternoon recitals are
expected to become one of the most
popular affairs in the Sandhills
throughout the winter season, for to
hear Miss Irene is to win her aud
iences to her. Aiid more are learning
of the artistry of this attractive young
woman each week.
In Pinehurst
CCCATWORKIN jExtPA'ion of Broad Street
FIGHT ON FOREST i
FIRES IN COUNTY
To c '<^^oute 1 Via Bridge
F'edicral Employes' Laying Out
Fire Lanes To Break Force
of Conflagrations
Ovei
board Probable
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WIDE TERRITORY COVERED
MISS IRENE HARDING
TOBACCO PRICE
HERE 6c AHEAD
OF LAST YEAR
/\^berdeen Warehouses Sold Near
ly Three Million Pounds
' Up to December 1st
80'. OF STATE CROP SOLD
CWA WORKER HERE HURT
IN CAVE-IN AT SAND PIT
John Gillis colored, a CWA em
ploye, w’as seriously hurt in the
Southern Pines sand pit early yes
terday morning when a bank of clay
some 12 feet high caved in and bue-
ied him. When extricated he was
found to have suffered a broken bone
in his thigh and a fractured knee cap.
He was rushed to the Moore County
Hospital. Gillis was engaged in haul
ing clay from the pit to the new ten
nis courts at the High School build
ing.
$100 MARK PASSED IN
ANNUAL SEAL SALE HERE
The $100 mark was passed several
days ago in the 1933 Tuberculasis
Seal Sale in Southern Pines, and the
campaign is still on in full force. Oth
er communities report good sales and
it is hoped that the Moore county
quota will soon be surpassed.
The Aberdeen tobacco market,
which closej tomorrow for the Christy
mas holidays, reopening January 2nd,
had sold 2,773,632 pounds of tobacco
this season up to November 1st, fig
ures of the Federal-State Crop Re
porting Service reveal. The average
price has been $16.23 a hundred as
against $10.24 a year ago. Of the
total amount, 1,511,430 pounds were
sold during the month of November.
Aberdeen has two warehouses.
The Aberdeen price is slightly be
low the average for the Old Bright
Belt, due to a large quantity of in
ferior tobacco offered on the local
floors early in the season. The price,
however, is ahead of Carthage, which
has averaged $15.66 to date. Car
thage sales have totalled 2,227,812
pounds. The Old Bright Belt average
up to December 1st was $18.90, with
Durham leading with an average of
.$21.43.
The 415 million pounds of tobac
co sold by all North Carolina ware
houses to December 1st is approxi
mately 80 per cent of the estimated
crop produced in the state this year
and is 70 per cent more than was sold
to this date last season. The season’s
price to December 1st averaged $16.35
or $3.05 per hundred more than the
average to this date last year.
The producers’ sales during Novem
ber totalled 145,869,318 pounds, or
139 percent more than was offered
during November, 1932, and the
month’s average price of $19.57 per
hundred was $6.89 per hundred more
than for last November.
Jail To Move
Former Bank Building, Built
in 1902, Expected To Be
Demolished Soon
A project to remove the jail from
Bennett street. Southern Pines to
a new location has been approved
by the local Relief Committee, of
which E. W. Reinecke is chairman,
and is now in the office of Miss
Head, Chairman of Employment
and Relief for Moore County for
approval.
This project is expected to have
favorable consideration both in
Carthage and in Raleigh, and as
soon as approved the old Geyer
Bank Building, erected in 1902, and
used by the town of Southern Pines
as a jail since 1915 will me torn
down. It will be rebuilt on town
property at Saylor street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
It used to be said forty years ago
of Duncan Shaw, Sandy Monroe, John
Buchan and some of the other old-
timers that if you gave them a few
shovels, pine branches and access to
some of these McNeill township sand
ridges they would put out hell fire
if they ever happened to riui afoul of
that big heat.
Grass fires in the Sandhills have
been spectacular from the days when
old John Maultsby two hundred and
two years ago took out the first
patent known to have been given to
a Scot on the Cape Fear pine lands
and started the annual winter burn
ing. Fires have been a scare through
this section, although the old fellows
had the terror pretty well under con
trol. Then the newcomer with his
lack of experience had some jars in
his practices until a year or so ago
the Moore County Fire Protective As
sociation projected a scheme of fire
lanes and burning certain plots of
land at prorpitious times under the
guardian of an employe of the as
sociation and of the state. That fixed
things li»Gi >vinter. Then the senti
ment grew and out of it came the
employment of the Civilian Conserva
tion Corps workers in an intelligent
ly engineered plan of fire lanes in
the county and adjoining counties un
til it looks now as if everything from
The Federal governments to the in
dividual has joined in a workable plan
to prevent the fire scares we have
been accustomed to of late years.
I.arge Crew at Work
The State took up with the plan
of burning the grass in selected areas
in favorable times, and that led to
fire lanes with the idea of controll
ing certain limits by burning with a
big enough force to control the fires.
That led to the present movement
which is making definite fire lanes
throughout the grass country of the
counties in the vicinity. But the fea
ture of local concern is the one that
was emphasized when the C C C camp
was opened at Jackson Springs and
men in government employ put to
w'ork to open safety aVenues on
which fire fighting could establish a
safety base. That work has been push
ing forward, and now a large crew is
engaged on the boundary line of Fort
Bragg opening a road fifty feet wide
along the Moore county line from the
Aberdeen and Raeford road to the
James Creek boundary of the camp,
and that road will be the base line
for a series of others that will cov
er the lower townships of Moore
county.
The State, district, county and town
ships under Charles H. Claridge, of
the State, W. A. Peterson of the dis
trict, L. L. Biddle, II, Verner Z.
Reed, Jackson H. Boyd, Alex Fields,
M. C. McDonald and other represen
tative members of the fire organiza
tion of the counties of this section,
have worked this thing up to where
the general government in looking for
a place to employ men found just
what it could fit into, and now the
C C C has laid out a scheme that
takes the Fort Bragg line for a base.
In a short time the forces will be di
vided so that while that line is work
ed out into a broad and permanent
fire defense cross lines will also be
cut out and cleared to provide simi
lar protective ways.
Along Ft. Bragg Boundary
The Moore County Protective As
sociation has suggested the lines that
they have been experimenting with,
and it is expected that roads will be
cleared out about as follows. The tel
ephone pole line from Southern Pines
to Pinehurst over the hill by the
Southern Pinos cemetery will be one
of the main lines of protection, mak
ing a line there to cut off fires from
the southwest winds. From south of
Southern Jines a line will go out past
the golf courses and over the ridge
and down by the Marks and Callery
places to join the Fort Bragg boun-
Christmas Pageant
Annual Carol Singing and Tab
leaux Program at School
Auditorium Tuesday
The Southern Pines Music Socie
ty will present its annual Christ
mas Pageant and Concert at the
school auditorium next Tuesday,
December 19th at 8 p. m. As in
the past there will be a number of
tableaux portraying the Christmas
story, accompanied by old familiar
carols sung by the Choral club and
the High School Glee Club.
Those who have jenjoyed this
annual Christmas event in past
years will recall with pleasure the
remarkably beautiful tableaux ar
ranged under the direction of Mrs.
James Boyd, and last year by Mrs.
Walter Gilkyson. That the artistic
standards established for this com
munity holiday event will be fully
maintained this year is assured by
the fact that Mrs. Edgar T. Chap
man, assisted by Vern * Swan, well
known anhitect of Utica, N. Y.,
will direct the tableaux and that
the singing will be under the di
rection of Frederick Stanley Smith.
A string quartet will assist the
voices. .Admission is free to all and
no collection will be taken.
Favorable Action Expected on
Plan To Divert Traffic into
Business Section
JEFFRESS INSPECTS SITE
Two Sites in View for
Pinehurst Postoffice
Either Oaks Club Property or
Hemmer Residence Site Ex
pected To Be Selected
There is a decided probability that
U. S. Highway No. 1 will be tied into
West Broad street, ‘he main business
street of Southern Pines, by means
of a bridge over the tracks of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway near the
Lovejoy log cabin at the northern end
of town.
There is a decided probability that
the highway bridge over the Seaboard
tracks at the southern end of South
ern Pines will be replaced by a more
modern and adequate structure, or
be rebuilt to provide for pedestrian
traffic apart from automobile traf
fic.
These projects are having the ser
ious consideration of officials of the
State Highway Department and of
the Seaboard company at the pres
ent time, and The Pilot has reason
to believe that both will be. approv
ed for construction in the very near
future.
The Chamber of Commerce and
dow'ntown business interests have long
advocated some method of diverting
U. S. No. 1 traffic through, the bus
iness section of town. State officials
were asked some time ago to go over
the ground with authorities here.
Chairman E. B. Jeffress of the State
Highway Commission was in Southern
Pines recently. Engineers of both the
highway department and of the Sea
board have been here. Funds are be
lieved to be available.
The plan is to provide an optional
U. S. No. 1 route branching off the
main route near Manly and crossing
the Seaboard tracks by an overhead
It is expected that either the Oaks
(.'lub property adjoining the Village
Court Building, or the site of the . , ^
present John Hemmer residence, near bndg. commg mto'West Broad street
the Pinehurst Department Store and ^
opposite the Carolina Theatre, ,vill t>on on U. S. No^ 1 a sign would give
be selected by the government for the' motoring publjc the option of ^
site of the new postoffice soon to be
erected in Pinehurst. . , , . u
An official of the U. S. Postoffice ^he business section. There would
ing through Southern Pines via the
residential section (May .street) or
Department spent several days in
Pinehurst this week going over the
available sites and reviewing bids
be no direct right turn from May
street involved for southbound traf
fic as at present, and many more
submitted, and left for Washington something
without expressing himself as be-, ‘^e business section of town with
tween the two plots believed most I ^creased hkelihood of their pa-
available of those offered. 1 t^nizing local shops and possibly
1 stopping over at night,
Picquet Again Head i, Seaboard
' tracks at the southern end of town
has long been a bugbear to parents
of schoolchildren locally. No provis
ion is made for pedestrian traffic,
and the youngsters have to cross the
bridge twice each day with the ever
of Theatre Owners
Members of Association of Car-
olinas Optimistic, He Finds
at Annual Meeting
■ present danger of being struck by
Charles W. Picquet, movie mogul passing automobiles. The Pilot has
of the Sandhills, was again re-elected advocated the removal of this danger
president of the Theatre Owners As- for some months and that there is
sociation of North and South Caro- a probability of action in the mat-
lina at the annual meeting held ter will be a source of gratification
Monday in Charlotte. Upon his re- to the community,
turn Mr. Picquet said it was the
biggest meeting in the 21 years his- Tourist Ass’n. Partv
tory of the organization, with 400 _
theatre owners present and 600 peo- JNeXt Monclay Night
pie at the annual banquet. “They are
all optimistic and believe we have General Get-Together of Resi-
turned the corner,” Mr. Picquet said. dents and Winter Visitors
To Launch Season
MRS. WHITAKER. HURT IN '
AUTO ACCIDENT, IMPROVED
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Next Monday night, December 18th,
will be the big night at the Southern
Mi-s. Charles R. Whitaker, presi- Pines Civic Club when the Southern
dent of the North Carolina Tubercu- Pines Tourist Association will be
losis Association, who was injured a host to the residents of Southern
week ago when struck by an automo- Pines and all visitors in the town,
bile in the business section of Lenoir, It will be the first “get together”
is still confined to the hospital there night of the season and it will be
but reported as on the road to re- “open house” for the entire com-
covery. Mrs. Whitaker suffered the munity. Anyone who has ever attend-
fracture of several ribs and other ed one of these “get together” meet-
injuries. She was visited this week ing will surely be at the Civic Club
by her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. next Monday night. The festivities be-
and.Mr.Es K'n at 8:00 o’clock and the doors will
and Mrs. E. V. Perkinson of South- be open at 7:30 for those who like
ern Pines, and by Dr. L. B. McBray- to come early. There will be music
er, managing director of the tuber- and stunts and old time songs and a
culosis association. genuinely social time.
J. B. Gifford and A. L. Adams are
PLACE OF RECITAL CHANGED in charge of the program and that
The piano recital of Mrs. Hafer’s is a guarantee that it will be good,
pupils, will be given next Wednesday There will be no admission charge
' afternoon at, 4:30 o’clock at Mrs. and everybody is invited. Remember
George Moore’s residence and not as tho date and make it a point to be
previously announced. there.