IMOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 14, NO. 4.
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of the Sandhill Territory of Noi ''arolina
Southern Pines and AberdeenT^orth Carolina, Friday, December 22, 1933.
FIVE CENTS
PLAN TO BORROW
U. S. FUNDS FOR
SCHOOLSDROPPED
$10,000 PAID
OUT IN COUNTY
TO CWA WORKERS
Mid-Pines Club to Open for Season on Tuesday
Board of County Commissioners I tjuota To Be Placed by Relief
Abandons Program Involv- * Office Filled, with 339
inff $200,000 Loan Now Employed
NO NEW BUILDINGS NOW i JOBS GOOD UNTIL FEB. 15
The matter of trying to secure a
Federal loan for carrying on an ex
tensive school building program in
Mooi-e county, a pi-oposal which has
held the interest of the citizens of
the county for the past several weeks,
has finally been dropped, the commis
sioners, after much argument for and
against the proposal, having reached
the decision that it might be best
not to borrow money »t this time.
Delegations opposing the project and
■others favoring it met with the com
missioners and the matter was dis
cussed from every possible angle.
Some favored the proposed loan of
$200,000, others a smaller amount,
while still others w'ere loath to see;
the county assume any additional
debt. The commissioners welcomed I
the opinions of all and weighed them
■carefully, in an effort to arrive at j
the wisest decision. According to the
report they finally decided to defer |
the whole matter. |
The program, sent up to the county |
•commissioners by the County Board :
•of Education, called for several new |
buildings in various parts of the
•county, and repairs to existent struc
tures.
Legion Looks for CWA
OK on New Clubhouse
Will Be Built in Piney Woods if
Raleigh Office Approves
Project
The Sandhill Post Legion clubhouse
plans await only the approval of the
OWA office in Raleigh in order to be
come a reality At the regular meeting
of the post Wednesday evening at the
Aberdeen Community House Club
house committee composed of Wooley,
Hemmer and Stevenson reported that
the application for funds (or build
ing had been approved at Carthage
and Washington and ^as now in the
hands of the Raleigh office where it
is expected to |)e approved.
A building of that character must
be located on municipal land in ac
cordance with CWA regulations and
a tentative site has been chosen in the
bird sanctuary in Piney 'Woods, a
site requiring only a formal ratifi
cation by the Town Commissioners.
The Clubhouse committee has become
the Building committee and the fol
lowing Legionnaires added: Wilson,
O’Callaghan and Kennedy. It is esti-
/nated that twenty more men will be
employed on that project when and
if approved. Tentative plans have been
submitted by an architect, which pro
vides for a log house of attractive de
sign to seat 150 people, containing in
addition, cloak i-ooms, ladies’ dress
ing room, kitchen and a suite contain
ing a sitting room bedroom and bath
for a caretaker. The plan may be rad
ically changed as the sketch was sub
mitted simply as a basis for discus
sion by the post.
Plans are on foot to hold a dance
during Christmas week and a com
mittee composed of the following Le
gionnaires was appointed by Com
mander Rowe: Wooley, Cameron,
O’Callaghan, Everest, C. Fields,
Dwight, Stevenson and Kennedy. The
Sandhills Daily News will announce
the date.
The week ending Thursday, Decem
ber 1-lth the Civil Works Administra
tion of Moore county had paid $6,-
555.66 to men on Civil Works pro
jects in the county. The pay roll on
December 14 was ?3,478.17. These
amounts are paid in drafts on the
United States Treasury and through
the cooperation of banks in the coun
ty have been cashed without charge
by the banks.
The quota of men and women to be
placed by the Moore County Relief
Office was filled last week. A total of
339 men and women have been taken
from the relief rolls and put to work
over the county. All those placed af
ter the relief quota was filled must
come from the Reemployment Office
upon requisitions of the Civil Works
.\cnilnistiator. The quota from the
Reemployment Office, the same num
ber as jilaced from relief rolls, had
been requisitioned on Monday, Decem
ber 11, though all these men have
not been assigned to projects by the
Reemployment Office.
Women working on Civil Works
projects are included in the quota but
are paid from Federal Emergency Re
lief Funds rather than from Civil
Works Funds. 'W'hen a requisition is
sent the Reemployment Office asking
for certain type of labor or for fore
men of projects when no one on the
relief rolls is eligible for these posi
tions the naming of the workers is
by the Reemployment Office. No
worker may be requisitioned by name.
The 339 men and women from re
lief rolls who are now at work will
be provided continual work on pro
jects in the county. When a man is
placed on a Civil Works project he
can only be dismissed for inefficien
cy or insorbordination. Projects have
been approved in the county to keep
the quota at work until February 15th
when the appropriation for the Civil
Works program will be exhausted un
less a new appropriation is made b,’
Congress prior to that time.
OLD SANTA CLAUS
IS COMING WITH
HIS SLEIGH FULL
All Evidences Point to Merry
Christmas For All Classes
In Sandhills
FINE HOLIDAY TRADF
Mid - Pines Club to Open for
Winter Season Next Tuesday
John J. Fitzgerald Announces
Many Reservations. — Golf
Course in Fine Condition
ROBERT F. POTTLE CHAIRMAN
OF BROWN UNIV. COUNCIL
Robert F. Pottle, son of Frank
Pottle, proprietor of the Hollywood
Hotel in Southern Pine.s, has been
elected chairman of the Brown Uni
versity Undergraduate Athletic Coun
cil. Young Pottle was manager of
the University football team this fall.
The undergraduate body headed by
Pottle and the Graduate Athletic
Council govern athletic policie.i at the
Providence, R. I. institution and the
' chairmanship of the undergraduate
council is one of the highest honors
at Brown.
Mrs. Calderwood Dies
Here at Age of 80
Winter Resident of Southern
Pines For Past 30 Years Vic
tim of Pneumonia
Mrs. Ella A. Calderwood, aged 80
years, widow of George G. Calder
wood, di^d in her winter home on Mas
sachusetts avenue. Southern Pines, on
Monday afternoon following a short
illness. W'ith her daughter Eva, Mrs.
Calderwood motored from their sum
mer home in Biddeford, Me., arriving
on the 7th to remain for the season.
Ill with a cold which developed pneu
monia Mrs. Calderwood at her ad
vanced age was unable to fight off the
fatal termination of the disease.
Born in Portland, Me., September
21st, 1854, the daughter of George
and Martha Larraber Barr Mrs. Cal-
and Martha Larrabee Barr, Mrs. Cal-
came season residents of Southern
Pines over thirty years ago and num
bered a large circle of friends among
the older residents of the town. The
body went northward Tuesday accom
panied hy Miss Eva M. Calderwood
for interment in the family plot in
Portland. Besides her daughter, a son,
Harry Calderwood, of Biddeford sur
vives.
GUEST IN PINEHURST
Elvin N. Edwards, district attorney
of Nassau County, New York, arriv
ed yesterday morning at the Caro
lina Hotel on one of his frequent vis
its to Pinehurst. He was accompan
ied by Mrs. Edwards.
Mr. Edwards immediately went to
play golf. He is a member of the Tin
Whistles, and vdll play in their tour
nament today.
Mr. Edv.'ards is one of the most
famous prosecutors in the country,
having handled such noted cases as
the Collins murder mystery, the "Two-
Gun” Crowley trial, and many oth
ers.
The Mid-Pines Club in the Knoll-
wood section on the outskirts of
Southern Pines, will open for the sea-!
son on Tuesday as a club-hotel. John
J- Fitzgerald, who has managed the!
club for many years and who success
fully operates the Oyster Harbors
Country Club at Osterville, Cape Cod,
Mass., in summer, will be in charge.
The IH-hole golf course is already
open and, according to Mr. Fitzgerald, j
is in excellent condition. He states'
that the rates for golfers coiming
in from the outside to play the course
will be two dollars a day, with no |
weekly rate. To guests living in the
club the rate will be one dollar. Spec
ial rates are available for holders
of stock certificates, to cover golf
fees, tennis and locker charge for en
tire families. Seasonal rates are
available for cottage people residing
in Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Knoll-
wood and immediate vicinity.
The clubhouse has accommodations
for 250 guests and many reservations
for the holidays and for longer stays
have already been made. A number
of large parties are to be given at the
club in the near future among them
the annual invitation New Year’s
Kve dance sponsored by a group of
winter residents of Pinehurst and
Southern Pines. Because New Year’s
Eve falls on Sunday this year this
event will be held Saturday night, De
cember 30th. Karl Selden’s orches
tra from Charlotte will provide the
music.
Postoffice Hours
Open Till 10 O’Clock Saturday
Night, Then Closed on Sun
day and Monday
Postmaster Frank Buchan of
Southern Pines announces that all
work in the postoffice will be sus
pended from tomorrow, Saturday
night until Tuesday morning, ex
cept perishable mail and special de
liveries. He will keep the parcel
post and general delivery windows
open tomorrow night until 10
o’clock. The order which comes
from Washington, is to permit pos
tal employes to spend Christmas
with their families.
SALES TAX WILL
AFFORD RELIEF TO
TAXPAYERS HERE
Collections for First Quarter In
dicate $30,000 Revenue in
Moore County
r^AVING APPLIES LOCALLY
PAGE TRUST CO.
ABERDEEN OFFICE
aO.SES JAN. 1ST
Notices Sent to Depositors to
Withdraw Funds Deposited
Since March
Tourist Association
Party Big Success
Fine Program Presented at Get-
Together Affair in Civ
ic Club
The Southerr. Pines Tourist Asso
ciation held its first meeting and en
tertainment of the season at the Civ
ic Club on Monday evening and every
one pronounced it a big success.
Mrs. D. H. Turner, president of the
body, opened the meeting with a short
talk regarding the Assoc’aotion and
the lines it proposes to follow through
the winter season.
Albert Adams had the entertain
ment in charge. This consisted of
old time melodies with special vocal
and instrumental music as added at
tractions.
Special music was provided by the
Mann brothers, the Causey brothers,
and the High School Quartet, com
posed of Tom Atkinson, Raymond
York, Bob Gifford -and J. J. Stroud.
Miss Maidie Lee Wade presided at
the piano throughout the evening.
Refreshments were served at 9:30
and following this everyone took part
in an old-time Virginia Reel.
Mrs. Turner announced that the
next meeting would b« held at the
same place on Friday evening, .Jan
uary 19, and an even larger attend
ance is expected for this event.
Word has been received from the
State Commissioner of Banks that
the Aberdeen office of the Page Ti'ust
Company would fc^e closed aftef Jan
uary 1st. The Aberdeen office was for
years the main office of the bank
but during the past year the company s
affaii's have been directed largely from
the office in Raleigh.
Notices have been sent to deposi
tors who have maint^'ined accounts
with the bank sincc March 3, 1933,
since which time Page Trust has op
erated under restrictions, to withdraw
these special accounts before January
1st, and to those having safe deposit
boxes in the Aberdeen office to re
move the contents therefrom before
that time. Articles held by the bank
for safekeeping should also be taken
out before the first.
W'hether the closing of the Aber
deen office means the Mquidation of
the Page Trust Company as a whole
is not known here as yet. Foi some
time it was planned to merge the
bank with others into a State bank,
but these arrangements fell through
and the futuie of the institution is
for the State Banking Department to
determine^
FINE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
The Christmas Pageant and oarol
singing at th.> High School auditor
ium night before last was the usual
enjoyable affair aiid a great success.
Mrs. Edgar T. Chapman had the pro
gram in charge this year. A large
crowd turned out.
ACTIVE WEEK IN REAL
ESTATE IN SOUTHERN PINES
The real estate market in Southern
Pines during the past week has been
very encouraging, several rentals be
ing reported by agents.
The Stevens office has leased the
Bair house on Connecticut avenue to
Gordon Mendelssohn of Millbrook,
N. Y., who will take possession on
January 1st.
The Ruggle? office reports the ren
tal of Ivy Lodge on May street to
Captain and Mrs. A. P. McDaniels,
of the Panama Canal Zone; the
Brady house on Highland Road to Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. McMillan of New
York City, and the Mclianiels house
on Ridge street to Mr. and Mrs. John
Ervin, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Mrs. Sweezy has leased the Pettes
house on Ashe street to Mr. and Mrs.
W. Brown, of Gettysburg, Pa.
Tax relief in North Carolina to the
extent of approximately .$.^5,000,000 a
year is indicated in tables prepared
at the instigation of Governor Ehring-
hous by the Department of Revenue
as a result of tax legislation of the
1933 General Assembly in removing
the 15-cent ad Valorem and the cur
rent expense items in district, county-
wide and special charter school dis
tricts.
The total relief afforded to prop
erty under those laws amounts to $11,-
476,540, while the sales tax, if
amounting to $8,000,000, as hoped for,
would give $3,500,000 in relief, and if
amounting to $7,000,000, as expected,
would afford relief to the extent of
$4,500,000. On the basis of sales taxes
collected for the first three months,
as an index, the saving would amount
to $6,423,548, but officials hope and
expect considerably more in sales tax
than the $5,152,992.96, which is four
times the $1,288,248.24 collected in
the first three months of the sales
taic collections, July, August and Sep
tember.
Tables indicate that on the basis
of expectancy from the sales tax,
every county in the state will pay
considei'ahly less in taxes than was
previously paid. This is true of the
larger counties of Mecklenburg, For
syth, Guilford, Durham and Wake,
as well as in the others, Governo* Eh-
ringhaus points out, .stressing that it
is true even in Mecklenburg, in which
is located the main offices of several
large chain stores, and which county
is credited with the sales tax paid
from the Charlotte offices, although
collections all over the state.
In some counties, it is stated, lo
cal conditions will not permit a pass
ing on of all of the relief given by
the General Assembly, but the relief
was given just the .same by the State.
Moore county levies for school pur
poses previously amounted to $158,-
455.00, of which $46,884.00 was dis
trict levies and $69,467.00 was in spec
ial charter district levies for current
expenses, and $39,680.00 was from
the lo-cent ad valorem tax. Sales tax
collections the first three months in
this county amount to $6,704.67, or
$1,910.83 in July, $2,059.92 in Au
gust and $2,733.92 in September. Four
times the quarterly collections would
give $26,818.68 for the year, to which
probably 25 per cent should be ad
ded to give the epvxedtce
ded to give the expected collections
for the fiscal year.
WALLACE IRWIN TALKS
BEFORE KIW'ANIS CLUB
Santa Claus is coming to the Sand-
hill.s with a full sleigh and all the
bells jingling.
Evidences point to the Merriest
Christmas in several years. From all
parts of the country come reports of
a greatly increased holiday trade, a
condition which has been true locally
as well as elsewhere. More people of
all classes have had money to spend
for the past two years^ There is a dif
ferent spirit in the air, a .seeming de
sire to forget the pa.^t and have faith
in the future.
The New Deal has helped. Thous
ands of persons long unemployed have
been earning money for the past few
months, and have been putting it back
into circulation. Trade in almost all
lines has improved, providing more
funds for holiday buying by employer
and employe. The wealthy have relin
quished their fear of a future frought
with financial danger, and have been
spending more freely than for several
seasons.
Christmas will be celebrated in the
Sandhills in the usual quiet and sim
ple way. Special services are an
nounced for almost all of the chur
ches on Sunday, with Christmas car
ols and appropriate music featuring
the programs. And on Monday morn
ing when Santa Claus has deposited
his bundle beneath the traditional tree
the spirit of joy and thanksgiving
will perviTde the houMjholds of rich
and poor, black and white. Charitable
organizations have been active in pre-
{aring for the needy, that they might
join in happy celebration of the oc
casion with their more fortunate
brethern.
Merry Christmas to all.
NO DECISION REACHED BY
REV- MURDOCH McLEOD
No decision has been reached by
the Rev. Murdoch McLeod, pastor of
the Pinehurst Community Church, as
to whether or not he will accept the
call to the Moore Memorial Church
in Nashville, Tenn. recently tendered
him. Much pressure is being brought
to bear upon Mr. McLeod to remain
in the Sandhills where he has been
eminently successful in building up
the Community Church in Pinehurst,
in the important part he has played
in civic and charitable affairs and
where he has developed a widespread
friendship among all classes of peo
ple.
Mr. McLeod told The Pilot yester
day that it would be several days be
fore he would V>e able to announce his
decision.
ABERDEEN AUTO OWNERS
MUST BUY LOCAL PLATES
Aberdeen citizens who own auto
mobiles are going to have to display
an Aberdeen plate in additioii to the
State license plate after January 1st.
Evelyn H. Pleasants, Town Clerk and
Treasurer, announced yesterday that
Section 6, of Ordinance No- 80 would
be enforced next year. This reads:
“That each owner of any truck,
automobile, private or for hire, for
which license is issued, shall display
on same a license plate to be furn
ished by the Town.”
The plates will be nn sale at the
City Hall from now until the first
of the year at the prict of o;>e dollar.
HUGH McCALLUM, LIFELONG
RESIDENT OF COUNTY, DIES
W'allace Irwin, noted writer and
humorist, author of those Japanese
schoolboy stories most of you have
read talked to the Kiwanis Club at
its weekly meeting in the Civic Club,
Southern Pines, Wednesday after
noon. His recounting of a trip to
the Fiji Islands, with his experiences
there, had the club members in an
uproar throughout the session. Mr.
Irwin has taktn a house here for the
winter.
Hugh McCallum died suddenly last
week in the house in which he was
born over 70 years ago, in the Car
thage section. His health had been
failing for some months. He was an
elder in the Presbyterian Church and
a man highly e.steemed throughout the
county. Mr. McCallum was a graduate
of Union Home School.
Funeral services were conducted by
his pastor, the Rev. W. S. Golden, in
the Carthage Presbytciian Church on
Sunday.