MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 14, NO. 3. PARTHAOe &ACUE SPRINCS /uAKEView w&sr E.NO MANUKY JACK SOM SPRIMOS SOOTHBRN pmes A5HUSV HKKSHTS PINEBLUPP PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING 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 tvinter. 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 (Continued on Page 7) 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.