A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15, NO. 12.
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CIRCULATION &
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen,'North Carolina, Friday, February 16, 1934.
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
COMMERCE BODY
ELECTS OFFICERS
FOR YEAR 1934
Symphony Group Here Tuesday
Nelson C. Hyde Chosen Presi
dent, Rev. J. F. Stimson Vice
President, by Directors
HEARS II. S. NO. 1 REPORT
Nelson C. Hyde, publisher of The
Pilot and the Sandhills Daily News,
was elected president of the South
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce at
the first meeting of the new board
of directors held Tuesday noon at
Jack’s Grill. The Rev. J, Fred Stim-
som was elected vice president, D. U.
Shields Cameron secretary and Dr.
L. M. McBrayer national counse/or.
Final reports of the work done dur
ing 1933 were read and approved,
and the annual banquet committee
made its final report.
New directors present at the meet
ing were George W. Case and W.
H. McNeill. The third new director,
H. J. Betterley, was not present. Di
rectors were chosen at the annual
meeting held in conjunction with the
banquet last Friday night.
C. R. Lano of Sanford, represen
tative of the U. S. Highway No. 1
Association, was present at the meet-
mg and reported on a recent trip
north in the Interest of tourist trav-
<>2 • ver this highway. Mr. Lano plac
ed some 10,000 route cards for the
No. 1 highway on this trip. He went
as far as New York city by one
route and through Harrisburg, Pa.,
to Rochester, N. Y.. by another. Mr.
Lano reported an 80 percent increase
in travel over the highway since the
distribution of these cards. He now
proposes a trip to Florida with new
maps showing feeder routes from
points in Florida to U. S. No. 1 to
carry the Florida traffic back north
via this route.
New officers of the Chamber of
Commerce will be inducted into office
at the next meeting of directors to
be held Tuesday, February 27th. Mr.
Hyde succeeds Dr. George G. Herr
as president, Mr. Stimson, Hiram
Westbrook as vice president and Dr.
McBrayer, M. G. Nichols as national
counselor. Shields Cameron was re
elected to his post.
BEHER BUSINESS
REPORTED BY INNS
AND MERCHANTS
Hrisk Upturn I.,ocany in Sales in
Shops and in Hotel
Reservations
FIVE CENTS
BETTER THAN YEAR AGO
LAMAR STRINGFIELD
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Mrs. George M. Howard
Dies at Her Home Here
Wife of President of United
Corporation of New York 111
Several Years
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Mc
Millan Howard, wife of George H.
Howard, president of the United Cor
poration of New York, who died at
her winter home here last Friday
night was held at 10 o’clock Tuesday
morning ir. the Chapel of St. Thom
as’ Church in New York City.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard had spent the
past three winters in the John Nichols
house on the Country Club estates
here. Mrs. Howard had been in ill
health for several years but had im
proved in the climate of the Sand
hills until a 'short time ago.
Mrs..Howard was bom in New
York, a daughter of the late Samuel
and Elizabeth Short McMillan, and
was a graduate of Smith College.,She
was a member of the River Club and
the Smith College Club. Surviving,
besides Mr. Howard, are a son,
George H. Howard, Jr.; a daughter,
Miss Elizabeth C. Howard; a broth
er, Samuel McMillan, of Chappaqua,
N. Y., and four sisters, Mrs. William
Crawford, of 580 Park Avenue; Mrs.
Francis X. Dixon, of 215 East Sixty,
first Street; Miss Marie J. McMillan,
of Southern Pines, and Mrs. Howard
J. Martin, of 340 East Fifty-seventh
street.
Hospital Auxiliary to Present N.
C. Orchestra Ensemble at the
Pinehurst Country Club
Next Tuesday evening the Pine
hurst Chapter of the Moore County
Hospital Auxiliary will present at
the Pinehurst Country Club, a con
cert by the Symphony Ensemble of
the North Carolina Symphony Socie
ty. The program, which will last
about fifty-five minutes, will be fol
lowed by an informal sotial hour.
It is expected that there will be a
very large response to the announce
ments that have gone out through
the mails to residents of t^menurst.
Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Carthage,
and other Moore county towns, which
will make the concert an outstand
ing musical and social event of this
.season.
Though many residents of the Sand
hills took an active part in the or
ganization of the North Carolina
Symphony Society there are prob
ably many who are not aware that
it is the only institution of its kind
in America. It is the only symphony
organization that draws on the en
tire musical resources of a state in
recruiting its orchestras. Why this
is done and why the society's orches-
tra.s have attained such a high de
gree of excellence was explained by
the business manager, Edgar Ewing,
who lives in Southern Pines.
“For the past ten'years,” said Mr.
Ewing, “many of the high schools of
North Carolina have included in their
curricula the teaching of instrument
al music. The result has been that
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Benefit Bridge Parties
Aid Pinebluff Library
Forty-One New Books Ordered
With Proceeds of Success
ful Entertainments
NO WORD FROM SFENC’E
No word has come from U. L.
Spence, former representative m the
State Assembly from this county, as
to his intentions with regard to the
State Legislature or the Superior
Court judgeship vacancy this spring.
Pressure Is being brought to bear
on Mr. Spence to announce his crtn-
didacy for one or the other of these
posts.
The directors of the Pinebluff Li
brary Association are very much en
couraged by the support which is be
ing given the library this season by
townspeople and visitors. Two benefit
card parties have recently been given
which were most generously support
ed by friends from neighboring towns
as welf as those from Pinebluff.
The first party was held in the Li
brary building with Mrs. Walter
McNeille as hostess. At five o’clock
the card players were joined by oth
ers in for tea, making a very pleas
ant social hour. The second party was
held on Thursday of last week at
the home of Mrs. John Warren Ac-
horn, with Mrs. Harold Paget as joint
hostess. The hospitable atmosphere
of the home added greatly to the en
joyment of the afternoon.
The proceeds from these two af
ternoons have enabled the library di
rectors to send out an order for for
ty-one new books, which will be plac
ed upon the shelves at an early date.
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
Several churches of Southern Pines
are uniting in a meeting at the
Church of Wide Fellowship this
morning, Friday at 10 o’clock. Mrs.
William E. McLeod of the Episcopal
church will preside, the women of the
3 WELL KNOWN
PEOPLE CLAIMED
BY DEATH HERE
Glenn Ford McKinney Passes
On 65th Birthday.—Miss
Zue Wheeler Dies
KELLY EVEREIT WAS 93
Glenn Ford McKinney of Titus
ville, Pa., a winter resident of South
ern Pines for a number of j,ears,
died at the home of his father, John
L. McKinney, on Weymouth Heights
at 3 o’clock yesterday morning. He
had been ill but a short time. He was
65 years of age, and died on his bith-
day.
Mr. McKinney, a native of Titus
ville, came here a number of years
ago and became interested in a large
tract of land in the vicinity of Hoff
man. This he has been developing
into a shooting preserve, and the
overseeing of the work has made
him a frequent visitor in Southern
Pines where his father spends many
months each winter. John L. Mc
Kinney was associaOed with John
D. Rockefeller in the founding of the
Standard Oil Company.
Funeral services were held at the
McKinney home at 5 o’clock yester
day afternoon, the Rev. J. Fred
Stimson officiating. The body will be
taken north today for burial at Ti
tusville. Mr. McKinney’s son, John,
was with him here at the time of
his death.
Miss Zue Wheeler, secretary to D.
D. Shields Cameron of Southern
Pines, died after a brief illness at
4 o’clock yesterday morning at the
Moore County Hospital where she
was taken on Wednesday. In her ten
years residence here Miss Wheeler
endeared to herself a large number
of friends who were shocked yester
day at the news of her death.
Miss Wheeler came here from her
home in Closter, N. J., where she was
born in 1877, and has been residing
with Mrs. J. W. Wenger in the Clos
ter Cottage. She has been associat
ed with Mr. Cameron in his real es
tate office and as secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce for some
years, and was also a public steno
grapher with many clients in South
ern Pines. A sister, Mrs. M. Wheeler,
of Utica, N. Y., survives. Funeral ar
rangements had not been made when
The Pilot went to press.
Kelly Everett, one of the oldest
settlers in the Sandhills, died at h*T
home at Chandler’s Pond at 11 o’clock
Wednesday morning at thp age of
93. Mr. Everett has seen the section
grow from scrub oak into the present
thriving community, living meanwhile
a busy life a.<i a farmer and endearing
untofhimself a wide circle of friends.
Two sons sui-vive, their mother
having passed on some years ago.
The funeral services were held at 11
o’clock yesterday morning at Culdee
Church, with the Rev. R. G. Mathew-
son of Jackson Springs officiating.
He was laid to final rest in the Cul
dee churchyard.
The Sandhills business barometer
looked better this week than at any
time since the start of the New Deal.
Merchants reported a noticeable up
turn in business, the hotels a big
ljump in registrations and reservations
i for the near future, the Seaboard a
j sizeable traffic increase.
D. G. Stutz, Seaboard agent in
Southern Pines, said yesterday that
the trains from the north were run
ning much heavier than at any time
since the pre-Christmas rush. The
Carolina and other hotels at Pine
hurst and the Highland Pines Inn
and other Southern Pines hostelries
reported a brisk upturn in clientele.
Claude Hayes of the Sandhills
Bookshop said the demand for his
wares this week had been the heav
iest this season. “People who were
wont to come in and browse, leaving
with only a newspaper, are starting to
buy books again," he said, “and the
folks who asked for five cent valen
tines last February are getting up
in *he twenty-five cent class again.
There is also evidence of more peo
ple in town through the demand for
northern and state papers. We have
had to increase our orders for papers
I steadily of late,” Mr. Hayes stated.
I Charles S. Patch of the Tog Shop
; told The Pilot that business in his
store and that of the Patch Depart
ment Store was “well up” this week.
The Pinehurst Department Store and
the various women’s wear and spec
ialty shops in Pinehurst also report
ed a real upturn in sales.
“Business is not only better than
it has been so far this year but con
siderably better than last year,” one
merchant said yesterday. And we
do not unusally feel the real season
al demand before the end of Febru
ary. Things look good and as if the
New Deal was working down here
as well as up north.”
Tried To Help Dai*^ "LOADER CONCEPT
rive-Yrar Old Colored Boy is *,jlVIC PROBLEMS
GOVERNOR’S PLEA
Jumping out of bed to help his
Daddy build a fire last Friday
morning, five-year old William
Harrington, colored, son of Toy
Harrington of the Cameron sec
tion, swept his nightgown too near
the flames. Screaming he rushed to
his mother who with bare hands
attempted to extinguish the fire
enveloping her boy. It was too late.
Little William died a few hours
later at the Moore County Hospi
tal.
Toy has been unable to work for
some weeks owing to injury in an
automobile accident. Now his wife,
whose hands were severely burn
ed, cannot work. And the baby is
gone.
.\sks ('ivic Organizations to
Think in Terms of State
and Nation
ADDRESSES BANQl ET HERE
MANY SANDHILLS
EVENTS AT CAMDEN
Hunter Trials and Steeplechase
Races Next Week Attest
Local Interest
EVENTS HERE MARCH 12
Shrine Club Elects
Officers, Plan Ball
John J. Fitzgerald President and
Donald Ross Chairman of
Dance Committee
Officers were elected and plans
made for the annual Shrine Ball at a
meeting of the Sandhill Shrine Club
last Wednesday evening at the Mid-
Pines Club. The following officers
were chosen:
John J. Fitzgerald, president; D.
G. Stutz, first vice president; H. B.
Emery, J. C. Leigh, C. M. Gunn, J.
B. Thomas and A. M. Cameron, sec-
I ond vice presidents, and as directors.
I Donald J. Ross, W. J. McNab, Thom-
I as Craig and John Fiddner. Plans
i were made for the Annual Shrine
I Ball which will be given at the Pine-
i hurst Country Club on Friday, March
j 16th. The proceeds of these dances
I for the past six years has made it
, possible for the treatment and cure
j of 359 cases through the expenditure
i of more than $5,000.00.
I The committee on arrangments for
! the ball is Donald J. Ross, chairman;
: John J. Fitzgerald, vice chairman;
I Eric Nelson, secretary; Charles W.
I Picquet, floor director; G. A. Char-
I les, secretary-treasurer and Clar-
I ence Lyman.
■ I'KAt'H M.\RKETING CODE
ADOPTED AT WF>iT END
j A southern peach marketing agree-
I ment, already submitted in Georgia
I and South Carolina, was endorsed m
I principle last Thursday by 75 North
Carolina peach growers at a meeting
I in West E!nd, the center of the state’s
j peach production area.
• The agreement was read to the
I growers by W. C. Bemley, of the
! Georgia Peach Exchange who attend-
; ed a meeting of South Carolina grow-
I ers at Spartanburg the day before,
j The 75 growers present today rep-
' resented about 60 per cent of North
: Carolina peach production, or about
1,250 carloads.
The Sandhills will be well repre
sented in the hunter trials and horse
racing events at Camden, S. C., next
Wednesday and Thursday, February
21st and 22d. The hunter trials are
to be held on Wednesday afternoon
and the races, which include both
steeplechase and flat events, the fol
lowing day.
Among those taking horses from
here are Mrs. Vemer Z. Reed, Jr.,
of Pinehurst, whose race horse, sta
bled this winter at the Laing Sta
bles in Southern Pines and trained
under the watchful eye of Noel Laing,
j well known steeplechase rider, will
I probably be ridden by Mr. Laing.
Young Laing is also racing some of
Mrs. T. H. Somerville’s horses at
I Camden, possibly the famous Trouble
j Maker, winner two years ago of the
I Maryland Hunt Cup and a contest
ant in last spring's Grand National
at Aintree, England. B. A. Tompkins
of New York is also racing a horse
on the flat at Camden.
I Ernest I. White, whose horses are
I at The Paddock this winter, is show
ing a hunt team of three, and will
also enter some of his mounts in the
class for lightweight hunters. Mr.
White’s Double Time won the light
weight class at Camden the last two
years, and his Allure was second in
this event last winter. William M.
Evarts of New York, who is spending
some time at The Paddock, is also
taking a horse to Camden to show in
the class for middleweights.
Among those from here who will
ride in the Camden events next Wed
nesday and Thursday are Mr. White,
Noel Laing, Almet Jenks, Miss Pa
tricia Hyde, John Vlosopolis, Miss
Margaret Kiely, Mr. Evarts and Nel
son C. Hyde. A large number from
this section plan to witness the trials
and races.
The committee in charge of the
hunter trials to be held in Southern
Pines on Monday, March 12th has
been busy this past week laying out
a suitable course for the events, and
a definite announcement of time,
place and classes is expected to be
made in next week’s paper,
j The committee in charge of the
Pinehurst Horse Show met last Fri
day and arranged the classes for
this annual event. The Premium List
will be announced within the next few
days by Secretary Charles W. Pic
quet.
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.\NNIT.\L MEETING FRIDAY
The annual stockholders meeting
of the Southern Pines Building &
Loan Association will be held at the
Southern Pines Club on Friday night,
February 23rd at 8:00 p. m. All
stockholders are urged to be pres
ent at this meeting as officers for
the ensuing year will be elected., R.
L. Chandler, secretary, announces.
Governor J, C. B. Ehringhaus wa^
given a warm reception by more than
200 residents and winter guests of
Southern Pines on the occasion of
the annual banquet of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce at the
Highland Pines Inn last Friday night.
The Governor came here from Ral
eigh to make the principal address at
the gathering, and his plea to civic
organizations to think in terms of
state and nation and not from purely
local angles was enthusiastically re
ceived by his audience.
The Governor gave his idea of the
functions, the ideals and the actuat
ing motives of the Chamber of Com
merce of tomorrow. “Think not only
of the way things affect your own
community, but how they affect the
whole state,” he said in introducing
his review of the recovery staged by
the State of North Carolina during
the past year. Speaking of the crisis
which faced the state a year ago
when revenues were reducing at the
rate of $250,000 a month, 40 coun
ties and 106 cities were in default,
the educational system threatened,
the treasury facing a $14,000,000 de
fault, he told of the program which
had been successfully carried out to
bring order out of choas.
“Our first problem was to restore
the State’s credit, the second to save
our educational system, the third to
save our homes which were being
rapidly foreclosed.
In a defense of the sales tax,
“much discussed and cussed.” as he
expressed it, he outlined the steps
in the restoration of credit.
“The bankers are now glad to take
North Carolina paper,” he said. “All
bonds of the state are now quoted
at par or above. We are being asked
for more paper because of the splen
did condition of our finances. And
because, unlike some states, what we
promi.se, we pay, and pay in cash.”
Of the educational problem, the
Governor quoted an editorial from a
Washington paper which stated that
throughout the country one million
school children had found the doors
of their schools closed against them
during the depression. “Thank GrOd,”
he .said, "not one of these children
lived in North Carolina.” He compli
mented Southern Pines on its vote of
a supplementary school tax for the
.support of education here, though he
regrette'd the conditions which had
made supplementary taxes necessary.
Mr. Ehringhaus quoted figures to
show the saving to taxpayers of
Moore county under the 3 per cent
sales tax as against the former ad
valorem tax. Moore county's ad va-.
lorem tax for support of schools was
$158,455. Based on the estimates for
the year from receipts to date, thu»
county’s share of the sales tax will
be $44,430, a saving under the ne?r
system of $114,025. Substract from
this, he said, the additional tax you
have imposed upon yourselves to sup
plement the State’s allotment for
schools here, and the net saving is
still $102,969.
The permies which we havf! b'»en so
strenuously objecting to adding oo
our purchases have helped preserve
the State’s credit, i*si schools, ita
homes, its farms, the Governor said,
to say nothing of the net saving to
Moore county taxpayers of more
than $100,000.
In introducing his remarks Govern
or Ehringhaus paid high compliment
to the culture of Southern Pines, to
the "fine spirit of fellowship” always
evident here, of the cosmopolitanism,
of its citizenry, and he spoke in high
praise of the High School Glee Club
which performed last night and which
had previously entertained him in the
“halls of the Legislature at Raleigh
where I am used to hearing only
sounds of discord.”
The banquet was one of the be«t
in a long line of brilliant annual
gatherings of the Chamber of Com
merce. James Boyd, in his capacity
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