MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15, NO. 32.
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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
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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
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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
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.\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.