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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 15, NO. 32. LAKEView SPRIhOS pinBS NCBLUPr PILOT flRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION A ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory< th Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolma, Friday, July 6, 1934. FIVE CENTS WORK STARTED ON PERMANENT RING FOR HORSE EVENTS Unemployed Busy Near Ball Field Laying Out Course for Gymkhanas BIG HORSE YEAR AHEAD Glorious Fourth Is Fittingly Celebrated in the Sandhills Some 25 men on relief rolls have been busily engaged this week pre paring the horse show and gymkhana ring for next winter's equestrian events in Southern Pines. So success, ful was the informal show and the stunt program staged in April as one of the features of the Spring Blossom Festival it was decided at that time to have a number of such affairs during the coming winter sea son, and to procure a more permanent setting for the events. The Chamber of Commerce ap pointed a committee, headed by the Rev. J. Fred Stimson and Herbert Cameron, to work out the plans. They secured permission from the Southern Pines School Board for the use of land adjoining the baseball field, cn the west, and it is there that the un employed have been engaged this week in leveling out a course. The ring is to be 150 feet by 300 feet, all fenced in and with parking spaces tor automobiles all the way around. A. Montesanti donated posts for the fencing. The other lumber is available I from the fence used last year when a i temporary ring was put up on the ' Coimtry Club grounds for the Festi val Weew show. The entire surface of the enclosure is to be planted in Bermuda grass. Il«il Horse Show Talked It is planned to have these informal horse shows and gymkhana events at regular intervals throught the winter for the amusement and competition of horse owners and riders in the Sand hills and the entertainment of the visitors and residents. There is also some talk of a real horae show late in the fall or early in the winter when owners and riders from other sec tions would be invited here to com pete. That the horse is to play an even greater part than ever in the sec tion next winter is evident in many di rections. More reservations for sta bling at the Pinehurst race track have been made than in many years past, including some well known trotting ! stables. In Southern Pines Noel Laing i is expected to have more steeplecha.se I horses in training than in the past. , Through his success in winning such | well known events as the Maryland Hunt Cup, the Aleadowbrcok Cup, the Billy Barton Steeplechase and the Carolina Cup Southern Pines has de veloped an enviable reputation as a training center for horses of that type and it is probable that in addi tion to young Laing other trainers will be heading in this direction before long. Steeplechase meetings here, on the order of those held each winter in Camden, S. C., are not an improba bility for the near future. Largest Crowd on Record Sees Fireworks Display at the Ball Park at Night j The Fourth was a great day in Southern Pines. From the time spor adic bursts of cannon crackers usher- ered in the day in the early morning hours until the choosing of the “Queen of the Peach Harvest” cli maxed the ball at the Country Club a constantly increasing crowd attend ed every event on the day's schedule. The morning was overcast and with a cool breeze, but showers which threatened did not materialize. Shortly before 11 o'clock the vis iting firemen from Pinebluff and Carthage met in competition with the local boys before a crowd of interest ed spectators. Southern Pines win ning in both events. The firemen later partook of a barbecue lunch at the firehoupp and at noon the All States Association served beans and coffee in the city park, the Kiwanians also holding their weekly meeting while enjoying the beans. The festivjties at the park were brought to a close with an address by the Hon. Don Phillips, Democratic candidate for Judge of the Superior Court. From this time on .something was doing until mid night. Fireworks Draws Crowd The ball games attracted a crowd of more than 1,200 people, and the fireworks about 5,000 enthusiastic spectators drawn from far and near to the finest display ever seen in Southern Pines. The ball at the Coun try Club attracted several hundred while a great number went down to Manly Springs for the American Le gion barbecue. Miss Lida Duke Blue of Aberdeen won the unanimous decision of the judges for “Queen of the Peach Har vest.” Only one accident marred the day. A youngster, Charles Hackney, fell from the top of the grandstand dur ing the excitement of the fireworks display and suffered some broken StandingH of Clubs in SandhiUs League Through GameH of W«Mlne<Mlay, July 4th Club Won Lost Pet. West End 6 1 .857 Aberdeen 6 2 .750 So. Pines 1 5 .167 Vass 0 5 .000 Schedule of Uame« Saturday, July 7, Vass at W’est End; Wednesday, July 11, West End at Aberdeen; Wednesday, July 11; Vass at Southern Pines (post poned from June 23). USE OF CROPS FOR MONEY IS BEHER THAN BORROWING !Mrs. Z. V. Blue Suggests Gov ernment Aid Plan To Keep Up Farmer Morale HELP HIM HELP HIMSELF ' bones and cuts but is not considered j in serious condition. j Great credit is due the Festival committee and all others for their I work in preparing and carrying out I the first celebration the town has ' had since the great days Of the "peach i barons” way back in 1921. I « I Abt'rdeen Wins .-Xgain * Timely hitting and classy pitching gave the Aberdeen baseball outfit a victory in the second game of the ' July Fourth doubleheader, as they i again downed Southern Pines, this ^ time by a 6-2 count. Aberdeen openea the ^scoring with a marker in the third and added two in the fourth, another pair in the fifth and their final run came in the eighth. It was their fourth straight win of the season over the locals. Pleasants went the route for Aberdeen, giving up but five hits and I no earned runs. Southern Pines- again showed a sad lack of batting pow er, and were powerless with men on bi?,ses. Aberdeen made seven hits and four i earned runs off three local hurlers. Loving started on the mound and was ' charged with the defeat. Myrick re- ■ placed him in the fourth and he in ] turn gave way to Meredith Park in the sixth. Park was the only really effective pitcher of the trio, as he ^ {Please tani to page 4) Contract Let For First Air Conditioned House in Sandhills Truckmen Org*anize to Handle Peach Harvest Local Owners to Have Head quarters and Wage Compaign For Business A group of local truckmen have organized during the past week for the purpose of getting their fair share of the peach and melon ship ping business during the present sea son. In the past many of. the own ers of trucks here have sat idle much of the time while outsider'} have come in and taken the cream of the trucking business. The local men feel that with the establishment of head quarters where growers and shippers may go and be assured of trucks for their shipments on a moment’s notice they will be able to offset the competition of the transients who blow in here just for the season. Among those who have signed up for the local association, which is to have its headquarters at the Sin clair Service Station at the south end of Southern Pines, are Bryan Poe, Lloyd Clark, Dan Smith, Red Allred, Ed Michaels and Ed Adams. Others are expected t' join the group this week. The business prospect in the Sand hills looks better today than it has for many months, for mid-summer sees a recovery initiated that is ot the substantial character that speaks of volume as well as of character. Leaving out the relief jobs, which are all right as far as jobs go, a number of real jobs, which mean the invest ment of individual money backed by individual confidence in the future, are now in the making, with more on schedule for early undertaking. Reinecke & Co. announces the con tracts for the reconstruction of the house at Pinehurst sold by Mrs. Mer rill to Francis Robertson, of Pelham Manor. N. Y., and the rebuilding ot the Razook store, which the owners are to convert into one of the most attractive business places of the South. The Merrill house is opposite the Carolina. Its new owner is a real estate man of New York, who comes to Pinehurst to make a permanent home after a couple of years trying out the neighborhood to his pertect satisfaction. He comes to introduce some new features on home creation, which will be features in the rebuild ing of the house he has bought, and two of which are presented for the first time in this section. The $8,000 job now starting will include an air conditioning plant by the General Electric Company, after the pattern cf those that are installed in some of the big modern buildings in the North, whereby the air in the entire structure will be at all time under control as to temperature, freshness, moisture, arid in every other way, dis pensing with all the cld-fashioned schemes ^r making the home liva ble. To help in carrying out this fea ture the Johns-Manville Home Insu lation method will be introduced, this aLso the first step of its kind any where in this section. The walls, ceil ings, roof and all the outside por tions of the house, will be packed with an Insulating preparation that will make the whole building resembel mechanically the inside of a large re frigerator, which when brought to a desired temperature can be maintam- ed there summer or winter rcgard.'ess of the weather conditions OLilside. These two features in the remodeled house will be a revolution in home making, and it looks like a complete change in architectural practice in all that has to do with ventilation and heating and cooling homes from now on. The top will be climaxed with a new Dutch roof, which will give added distinction to the building and to the community. An equally important job is the re building of the Razook store at Pine hurst. This is to be a complete re construction inside and out. The ex terior will entail an expenditure of about S15.000, while the interior will I have $5,000 worth of new creation under the touch of Miss Lameres. of I New York, one of the most skillful I interior decorators and architects of I jthis county. The outside will be rebuilt I of old Virginia handmade brick, to re semble an English shop oi the older days, the pl£ins by Holleyman, of Greensboro, who has made a reputa tion in this section with high class ! work. ! It is the aim of the architect and the owner to make of the new store one of the most unique creations ot ■ the South, which it is easy to under- j stand will be possible with the amount of money appropriated for re- I modeling a building that has the orig- , inal foundations and size from which to recreate the structure that is cap- ! able of beihg produced with the ma- i terial at hand and the money avail able. The location is admirable, the surroundings in harmony with the ; plan the architect has dra'.vn, and ‘ when fini.shed this new achievement will add to that quarter of Pinehurst , such charm and impressiveness as to make that immediate neighborhood a, section to talk about. Later when the new postoffice comes another in stitution will be added. Mrs. Z. V. Blue of the Eureka com. munity, whose recent housing survey of Moore county was so complete and constructive as to elicit special com mendation from federal officials in Washington, makes some recommen dations for farm aid in an interviey with The Pilot this week. Mrs. Blue says: “Our Housing Survey in Moore county revealed that so many, many homes are inadequate as to size, structure, repair, and improvements or conveniences. Similar conditions were found, all over the state and all ever the country. We know that such homes cannot produce the best type of citizenship. "The government has appreciated i a vast sum of money for housing. It will aid banks, building and loan as sociations, other agencies and indl- viduals who will lend money on reas onable terms for home improvements or home building. This would help I many, but it would prove a burden i to many others. I “It is fine that the government is doing this for its people, but I think 1 that it would be better for the far- I mer to help him help himself, and pay, ' with farm produce, for his home im provements as they are made, or pay for the materials needed in advance. These improvements could not all be made in one year (under this plan), but the farmer would not be weighted down by the millstone of debt. Pay I day will come. I ‘‘This was my recent experience. We needed some ceiling, and I asked a I lumber dealer if he would be willing to let us have it, and take farm pro duce in payment. He readily agreed to accept vegetables, chickens and eggs in return for his commodity. ‘‘Then I asked him if he would be willing to take farm produce from a number of farmers for building sup plies. He said that he would be glad to take as much as he could use, and j he thought that the other dealers I would do the same. He pointed out j that the products must be of good I quality, and that a good many peo ple do not have credit. He suggested that the farm produce might be de liver before the building supplies are secured. ‘•For the past few years, the for mer has had very little incentive to grow a real surplus of his commodi ties. If his spare time, especially in winter, could be said to increase his income (by barter or otherwise i this i would be a decided step toward attain ing his goal in making home improve ments. Let L*. S. Take Supplies “Why can-; the government back the dealers in building supplies ? Why can’t these dealers take any reason able quantity of non-perishable farm products and if they cannot use them OT- market them without a loss, why can’t the government stand back of them just as it will do in the case of banks, etc., for lending money for home improvements ? The government could use these products in its army ! camps, its navy, its hospitals, in its other institutions, and for direct re lief. “A great many things tend to break down the morale of a people. Among these are a low standard of living conditichs, too much help, or gifts, and butting against an unsurmount- able barrier, as debt that cannot be paid. If a farmer is loaned money and cannot repay it even in 20 or 25 years, he will either be hopelessly discour- aged, or feel that the government should make this debt a gift to him as it has given relief to so many. Something had to be done, and I do not condemn direct relief or criticize the administration but receiving with out giving anything in return has low- |ered the morale of countless recipients, “The plan suggested would require the expenditure of some money by the government, as will the plan to secure baaks, etc., in lending money. As 1 see it this plan would call for a (Please turn to page B) PWA Appro Loan of $221,500.00«(:o County Despite Objections Fil^ Plans Birthday Gift ‘Funds Available When Needed, VVfishinKton Reports, But Commission Fails to Act DEBT PLAN PROTESTED THE KEV. W. C. BALL The Page Memorial Church in Abeideen was dedicated on July 5th, twenty years ago. A committee has been appointed to make an all-mem ber canvass of present an i past mem bers of the church in the hope of get ting a contribution, however large or small, from each and every one, for an upkeep fund for the church build ing, a sort of a 20th birthday present to the edifice. The Rev. W. C. Ball, pastor of the church, is father of the thought. KIW.\MS TO ST.\GE TOl KNEV TO .\ID COl'NTV HOSPITAL Next Wednesday, July 11, the Ki- wanis Club is staging a golf tourna ment at the Pinehurst Country Club for the Benefit of the hospital bed fund. It will be a full handicap af fair, vi’ith prizes for the winners. The entrance fee is SI.00. Invitations have been sent to neigh boring Kiwanis and Country Club and all golfers and others interested in the bed fund are urged to either bring or send their entrance fees. OVEU S’25,000 I’.MD .’VIOOKE TOB.VCCO. COTTON F.VIOIEUS Moore county farmers who coop erated in the crop production ad justment program have received *in federal rentals and benefit payments a total of .$22,881.88, according to reports received during the past week. Of this sum $19,688,88 went to •-obacco growers and $3,193.00 to cotton farmers. In the state as a whole $7,019,861 has been paid the farmers by Uncle Sam. a little over $4,000,000 to the tobacco men and a little le.ss than $3,000,000 to cotton growers. LENOX. MASS. ( LEUr.VM.VN TO rUEAC'H HEUE SI NOAY The Rev. Huburt S. Stafford, for mer pastor of the Congregational church of Lenox, Mass., will conduct the services in the Church of W’ide Fellowship at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. While here Mr. Stafford will be a guest of Mr. and Mrs. George \V. Case. PEACH .MEN VOTE DOWN PLAN FOK AOVEKTISlN(i The crop of early peaches is small er than usual in the Sandhills, the later varieties plentiful so that thus far comparatively few shipments have been made. Growers report a fine looking lot of fruit on the trees. The plan for an advertising cam paign through a cent-a-bushel tax on growers in this section fell through at the final meeting op the peach men held in Hamlet. BOOKS WANTED FOK SCHOOL LIBRAUV Despite objections raised in South ern Pines and Pinehurst and filed with the board in Washington ,the Public Works Administration jnoti- fied Moore county authorities this week that the loan for a school build ing program here had been approved. The County Board of Commissioners was asked to pass a bond order on Monday, July 2d and publish it for 30 days, but no action was taken by the board on Monday. The news that the money, a total of $221,500 of which $65,500 is a fed eral grant, the balance a loan to the county, would be available at the proper time came close upon the heels of information that the application had been sidetracked because of pro tests from this section of the coun ty. The protests, sent to Washington some time ago, were on the proposi tion to equalize the school district debts throughout the county, not on the federal loan or the new build ing program, according to local au thorities. Taxpayers of Southern Pines, Pinehurst and other towns would take over obligations of school districts in all parts of the county, some of which are unreasonably high, under the proposed plan of the County Board of Education, and the proper civic authorities in these towns do not propose to see this dont with out a finish fight. The Pilot is in formed. The matter may go to the courts for adjudication. Unfortunate ly. the redistribution of the school debts has been tied up with the fed eral loan and whether the two can be divorced and the loan made with out the change in debt plans ia a question. School Board Program A special meeting of the Board of Education was held on Monday, and upon motion of Mr. McCiimmon and second of M^. VonCanon, the fol lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted: ■'Whereas, the Constitution of the P^ate of North Cai’olina. Article 9, Section 3. makes it mandatory upon the Board of Education and County Commissioners of each and eveiy county to provide ample school house facilities in administering equal edu cational advantages to all the school children of every county, and where as, there is great need for the erec tion of seven new school buildings and the construction of additions to seven old school buildings in various sections of Moore County at this time in order to meet the aforesaid constitutional requirements. and whereas, there are ample funds avail able through the PWA and Sta..e Lit erary Funds to complete all these projects as originally planned on Jan uary 15, 1931; Now Therefore Be It Resolved: 1. That the County Board of Edu cation of Moore County hereby re spectfully requests that the Board of County Commissioners of Moojre County proceed at once to pass upon the bond order and do the necessary advertising in connection with the sale of bonds at the earliest possible date. 2. That it be understood between iPleast turn to page 5) .\LLOW.\NCE OF $12,900 IS .ALLOTTED MBS. TRACY Anyone wishing to donate books to the Southern Pines School Library will please leave them with Mrs. Robert Leathain at the Southern Pines School Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 to 12. According to papers filed in the court house in Carthage, Mrs. Eloise H. Tracy, widow of E. A. Tracy late of Southern Pines, has been allotted a year's allowance of $12,900. The commissioners appointed to make the allotment reported that they found the total income of the deceased for three years prior to his death to be $77,575.06 and his average income for three years $25,843.76. The Wachovia Bank and Trust Company is executor of the will and Mrs. Tracy is represented by W. Dun can Matthews. The commissioners are J. M. Windham, D. G. Stutz and R. L. Chandler.
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