MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION A
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, July 20, 1934.
$26,000 SEWAGE
PLANT PROJECT
UNDER WAY HERE
First of Three Jobs Under $42,-
000 Federal PWA Loan
Launched
WILL AID EMPLOYMENT
Work started this week on the en
larged and improved sewago disposal
plant for Southern Pines. The Elliott
Building Company of Hickory, which
was awarded the contract on bids
opened some time ago, has a ti>rce of
men at the plant on the double road.
The project involves the expdnditure
of approximately $26,000 of the
fund of $42,000 recently borrowed by
the Town of Southern Pines from the
Public Works Administration.
City Clerk Howard Burns stated
yesterday that he expected the con
tractors to w'hom the jobs of erect
ing the new water storage tank on
the James Boyd property in Wey
mouth Heights, and the extension of
v’8 er mains and hydrants in the
Weymouth Heights and Morgnnton
Road sections of Southern Pines to
start work within the next 'wo or
three weeks. Authorization for pro
ceeding with these projects, for which
the balance of the large federal loan
is to be utilized, was received from
the PWA last week.
The several jobs mean the em
ployment of much local labor and
increased payrolls for the commun
ity during the “off season ”
Man In Hospital After
Fall From New Bridge
George Wood Injured.—Span to
Be Completed in Next
Two Weeks
Leonard Tufts Heartily Endorses
Farmer Aid Plan of Mrs. Blue
Sees Development of Market for
Crops and Labor on Good
Times and Bkid
The first accident to occur on the
construction work at the new bridge
over the Seaboard tracks at the
southern end of Southern Pines sent
George Wood, of Florida, a steel work-
er, to the Moore County Hospital on
Wednesday afternoon. Moore fell off
the scaffolding erected under the arch
over the tracks, and landed heavily
on the tracks. Fellow employes rushed
him in a car to the office of Dr.
Bowen in Southern Pines, and Dr.
Bowen carried the man to the hos
pital. His injuries were reported as
serious but not critical.
The work on the new bridge is
progressing rapidly, the span having
been completed this week and the fin
ishing details now being in progress.
It is expected that possibly two weeks
more will see the new span open for
traffic over U. S. Highway No. 1.
Pedestrian traffic will be protected
on this new bridge, which was not
the case on the former structure, the
main reason why the local Chamber
of Commerce waged a campaign for
the project. Children going to and
from school were formerly in con-
stant danger of accidents.
ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE IS
KIW.\NIS CLUB SPEAKER
W. Russell Clegg of Carthage,
Democratic candidate for the State
Legislature from Moore coupty, talk
ed on conditions throughout the
country at the weekly meeting of
the Kiwanis Club held Wednesday in
Pinehurst. It is Mr. Clegg’s belief
that things are getting better, that
L^bor is becoming better educated
and, given greater rights, will in the
future be less inclined to strikes; that
Capjtal is coming under greater con
trol, that the day of. great wealth
concentrated in the few is over. He
sees a Square Deal for all, incluaing
the farmer, under the New Deal .
40 HOSPITAL HEADS OF
KASTERN CAROLINA HERE
A group meeting of hospital exe
cutives and managers of the eastern
district of North Carolina, extending
from Greensboro to the coast, was
held in Pinehurst on Wednesday night.
Much valuable information on hospi
tal management and experiences was
exchanged by those in charge of the
institutions in this section of the
state. Some 40 attended the session
and while here visited the Moore
County Hospital.
Impressed with the suggestions
made by Mrs. Z. V. Blue of Eureka in
a recent issue of The Pilot, Leonard
Tufts writes a strong endorsement
from his summer home in New Hamp
shire. Mr. Tufts says:
"One of the most interesting arti
cles I have read for some time is
Mrs. Z. V. Blue's on the use of crops
for money. Her idea might be almost
indefinitely extended and the coopera
tive mViI at Carthage perhaps could
act as the exchange. A receipt from
them of a bushel of corn could be
used for the payment of taxes or a
can of paint.
“The great value to my way of
thinking, is that it puts as definite a
cash value on oats, corn, hay, etc., as
on cotton and tobacco. At present cot
ton and tobacco are the only two
crops that a farmer can always sell
without any trouble. There are also
such things as pulp wood, tar, cross
ties, cord *wood, etc., much of which
can be sold in the county,
“The various school.s and coimty in-
•stitutions could use wood for heating
just as easily as Judge Way uses it in
his greenhouses. They could give
credit for wood hauled to the various
places on a man's taxes, perhaps pay
ing one-half in cash and one-half in
tax credits.
“Many of the roads in the county
need resurfacing with sand clay or
gravel. For years now the s*a*» nas
dug the sand out of ditches and eith
er spread it over the surface which
results in a “wash board” road or
left ii on the edge so that the sand
throws the car out of control and
heads it for the ditch. Sand clay roads
in sandy country seldom need ditches
(We have none in Pinehurst) but
they should be frequently re.surfaced
and thus built up.
“I feel sure the state could and
would give farmers a credit of so
much a yard for clay delivered on
the road just as we used to when we
first built the hundred of miles of
roads jn the county. Airangements
could be made with tha state to c'ay
or grat^ei certain section.^ in variou.’i
parts of 'he county and these state
credits could be used in paying taxes
or in buying paint.
“LeVs not let Mrs. Bl-.u's idea die,
let’s call it the Z V B. It will take a
little lime and thought to develop it
but it will be worth to tt’i courty
and its citizens. Since it should help
both the county snd the P. W. A.,
I'd suggest th;>t it be done by the
sheriff with clerical aid, if need be,
furnished by the P. W. A. It shtiuld be
done on a permanent basis so that
the farmer (;an depend on a market
for his croD3 cr hi.s labor in gooJ
tiiMes and bad.”
Loss Mourned Here
ALBERT VinUM, 77,
DIES AT HIS HOME
IN mm, MASS.!
Esteemed Winter Resident of;
Southern Pines Was Former
Newspaper Publisher
FIVE CENTS
Public Wel^^^^guments
Pro and Core^oposal to
Borrow $232,000.00
SERVED IN LEGISF-ATIIRE
•\LBERT VITTL'M
TO AID FARMERS
TO FENCE FIELDS
FOR BEEF CAHLE
County Relief Director Explains
Details of Pasture Contracts
and Fencing Loans
3 OPTIONS OFFERED
4-H Club Camp This
Summer in Pinebluff
Mr. and Mrs. Suttenfield Donate
Land for Recreation of
County’s Young People
An announcement that will be of in
terest to the 450 4-H Club girls in
Moore county and to their friends is
that Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Suttenfield
of Pinebluff have given land for a
girls’ 4-H Club camp there, and that
the camp will be ready for occupancy
in August. Miss McDonald, home
agent, has beon desirous for some
time of providing a place for rec
reation for the young people of the
county, and it seems that her dream
is becoming a reality. Tents will be
used in the camp until funds can be
secured for a building.
There are ten 4-H clubs in the
county, in which home projects which
include a plan, record and activity in
the home situation are carried on. Af
ter completion of the project, a re
ward of merit is given.
BURGESS BUYS OLD CHAPEL
ON SriE FOB NEW RESIDENCE
Harris Lewis has sold to T. S. Bur
gess the old structure on Maine ave
nue, Southern Pines, formerly used as
the Christian Science Chapel, and the
new owner plans to rebuild as a
modem dw^elllng.
The director of relief in Moore coun
ty calls attention to the fact that it
is not yet too late for those
to do so to submit land to the State
office for pasturing beef cattle which
are being shipped into the state. Even
small tracts that will graze as few
as fifteen head of cattle will be ac
cepted where there are several ra the
same section. Pasture data sheets may
be obtained from the office of Miss
Elizabeth Head, in Carthage
There are four options in the pas
ture contract for cattle.
Under Option A the North Caro
lina Relief Administration agrees to
furnish all necessary fencing mater
ials and labor to make necessary
fencing improvements for cattle graz
ing on the pasture land for the use
of the pasture for three years, the
fence to become the permanent prop
erty of the land owner.
Under Option B the relief adminis
tration will furnish all necessary
tencing materials and the fence will
be constructed at the expense of the
lessor and this contract will cover a
period of two years.
Option C states that the.lessee (the
relief administration) agrees to pay
r.nnaal taxes (may be taxes in ar-
i^ars) on the said pasture land al
ready fenced, not exceeding a total
annual consideration of an amount to
be specified.
Under Option D the lessee agrees
to pay a cash annual rental at so
much per head per montk according
to the weight of the cattle. Where
rental is on a cash bsisis and the re
lief administration pays for fencing
materials, labor, or both, the cost of
same will be charged against the pas
ture rent agreed upon.
Lowland and grassy areas are the
kind desired for pasture and any
person in the county having land of
this type whether fenced or imfenced
should get in touch with the relief of
fice in Carthage and necessary ar
rangements for having the land in
spected will be made.
KIU.\NIS GOLF TOURNEY
NETS $20 FOR HOSPIT.4L
The Kiw'anis Club golf tournament
last week, held for the benefit of the
club’s fund for support of its bed in
the childr^en's ward of the Moore
County Hospital, ended in a tie for
first place betv:’»en Herbert Vail, the
club’s secretary, and Ollie Adcox of
Pinehurst. It was a kickers’ handi
cap, with 72 as the lucky number.
Twenty dollars was netted for the
fund, the contestants paying one dol
lar entrance fee.
Albert Vittum, long an esteemed
winter resident of Southern Pines,
died in his home at 23 Columbus
avenue, Beverly, Mass., Saturday
morning, July 14th. Funeral services
were held in his late home at 2:30
o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
Born in Peabody, Mass., in 1857,
Mr. Vittum became one of the best
knowTi publishers of suburban news
papers in New England, being for 25
years editor and publisher of the
Beverly Evening Times, and of many
other papers.
Serving for two terms, 1906-1907, in
the Massachusetts Legislature as
house chairman of the railroad com
mittee. Mr. V'itturr. was also a mem
ber of the Republican Club, Odd Fel
lows, Red Men, Elks. Wenham Golf
Club and Boston City Club and of the
Duane Street Congregational Church.
As a guest of Highland Lodge,
Southern Pines in 1907 he became in
terested in the growing town, and in
that hotel, and later became a seas
onal visitor at the Hollywood, after
his retirement from business in 1919
coming quite early in the winter and
remaining until late spring. Long a
director in the Southern Pines Coun
try Club and donor of the Vittum
Cup, greatly interested in the
Southern Pines Library and In the
Church of Wide Fellowship ,to which
he was a liberal contributor, he num
bered a wide circle of friends and ac
quaintances all deeply concerned with
the evidences of failing health so
plainly perceptible during the past
winter.
Married Over 50 Years
Mr. Vittum married Nellie A. Besse
in Peabody, Mass., April 30th, 1883,
and while on a visit with Mrs. Vittum
to an adopted daughter, Mrs. Wake
field Shock in Glendale, Cal., last
year they celebrated their golden
wedding.
Mr. Vittum’s genial greeting will
be sadly missed on Broad street, and
many expressions of regret, as well
as of sympathy for Mrs. Vittum,
have been voiced. It is understood by
the many friends of Mrs. Vittum that
she will return to the winter home on
Connecticut avenue late this autumn.
Charles Sadler, Sr. Dies
of Pneumonia Attack
Big- Strike Here!
Peach Pickers, Not To Be
Outdone by Longshore
men, Walk Out
Strikes know' no condition of
servitude, no locality. The long
shoremen and San Francisco can’t
lay claim to all the excitement this
week.
A strike in several peach or
chards in the vicinity of Hamlet on
Monday effectively halted picking
of the crop in a number of or
chards. The pickers were being
paid seven and one-half cents an
lour. They struck for higher wages.
Set Lure of Federal Loan
Against Problems of Taxation
in Deciding on V'ate
ELECTION ON Al'GLST 25
ABERDEEN ROUTS
TO TUNE OF 21-1
Hard Hitting and Numerous Er
rors Put Winners Back in
Tie for League Lead
VASS WINS A COUPLE
S.ANDHILLS LEAGUE ST.\NDING
Through Gamen of Wed., July 18.
Club Won Lost Pet.
West End 7 3 .700
Aberdeen 7 3 .700
Vass 4 5 ,444
So. Pines 1 8 .111
Schedule for Coming Week
Again West End and Aberdeen are
tied for the league leadership as they
meet this afternoon, Friday. The
game will take place on the West End
diamond. Southern Pines makes
another attempt to win a game on
Saturday as they go to Vass for a
contest. Vass will tackle the Aber
deen team on the Aberdeen field in
the only game scheduled for next
Wednesday afternoon.
Built and Operated Present Park
View Hotel for Many
Years Here
Charles J. J. Sadler died in the
Moore County Hospital early Tuesday
morning, falling (health leading to
a fatal attack of pneumonia. Born in
Milwaukee, Wis., June 3, 1848, Mr.
Sadler came to the old Piney Woods
Inn from Milford, Pa., In 1898 as an
employee of the proprietors, St. John
and Sons, and In 1908 began the erec
tion of the Juneau, now the Park
View Hotel which establishment he
ran until its sale in 1925 to the
Flachslaenders. Once closely Identi
fied with the hotel business of the
Sandhills failing health of late years
had kept the deceased more or less
closely confined to his home on Ridge
street.
Funeral services were held In St.
Anthony’s CHiurch, of which congre
gation Mr. Sadler was a member, the
Rev. Father Dillon officiating, at 10
o’clock Wednesday morning. The body
was sent north on the evening train
for Interment at Milford, Pa. Survlv-
ing are a son Charles, and a daught
er Mrs. Frank Shea, both of South
ern Pines. Charles Sadler and Mrs.
Shea accompanied the body north.
SHEPARD WINS TE.4M MATCH
Dr. R. P. Shepard of Southern
Pines won first place in the annual
team match of the Yadkin (Jolf Club
with a nftt of 64 over the Pinehurst
No. 1 course, which Is In perfect con
dition.
O. C. Adcox of Pinebluff and Gor
don Keith of Aberdeen tied for sec
ond place wlih a net of 65.
The Aberdeen ball team enjoyed to
the full a field day on Wednesday af
ternoon as they literally swamped
the Southern Pines outfit under a bar
rage of base hits to walk off with a
21 to 1 victory before a crowd of
about 600.
The winners started in the first
frame as five hits, a walk and five
errors by the Southern Pines field
ers gave them nine runs. They coast
ed along on this lead until the fifth,
when they tallied twice more.
Then in the sixth the hitters broke
loose again to count seven times on
five hits, as the losers obligingly
contributed several more errors. Mer
edith Park had pitched for the home
team until this frame, but was re
placed on the mound by Millar in
the middle of the hostilities. The fin
al three runs came in the eighth.
Pleasants started on the mound for
Aberdeen, but George Martin took
over the pitching duties in the fifth,
George was greeted by the rally tMat
gave Southern Pines its one and only
tally.
Bill Maurer and Max Folley with
three hits each led the big parade
of hitters. Freeman was the only
Aberdeen player who failed to se
cure at least one hit, and he was
credited with only two trips to the
platter. Purv Ferree personally es
corted four runs across the plate and
featured In the field with several nice
plays.
Southern Pines was held to seven
hits by the two pitchers, Pleasants
allowing only one, and the losers
kicked in with nine errors to help
things along.
Vass Increased Its victory total by
two during the past week by down
ing West End on Saturday by 12 to
6. The game was featured by the
hefty slugging of the Vass outfit
and the numerous arguments'through
out. Vass also downed Southern Pines
Friday by an 8 to 7 score. Both games
were played on the Southern Pines
field.
Hiram Mclnnis rapped out f<^ur
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The public is weighing pro and con
the proposal to borrow $232,000 from
j the federal government for a school
expansion program In Moore county,
a proposition which will be submitted
to the electorate of the county on
Saturday, August 25th. The questions
Involved are these;
1. Shall Moore county expand its
bonded debt for the purpose of pro
viding new buildings, additions and
impiovements to old buildings, in the
face of the already heavy load which,
the taxpayers are now carrying?
2. Shall the present debt of the
various school districts of the coun
ty be equally apportioned over the
whole county, making the load 45
cents per $100 of assessed valuation
for each district, regardless of who
incurred the debts?
Arguments in favor of the first
question hinge around the fact that
it is now possible to borrow from the
Public Works Administration at a
low rate of interest, and receive a cer
tain portion of it as a federal grant.
Opponents argue that the taxpayers
of Moore county cannot afford, at
this time, to further bond the county,
and point to the sales of land for
taxes In the county during the past
few years as evidence of the inability
of large numbers of property owners
to meet the present assessments
against them.
Arguments in favor of Question No.
2 center on the point raised that It
is the county’s duty to operate the
school system, that therefore the
county should distribute the debt load
equally among its component parts.
Shifting of Debts
Opponents maintain that It is un
fair and possibly illegal to load debts
of one township or school district on
another, and cite, among other items
of unfairness that Carthage, under
the terms of the proposal on which
the people will vote, will reduce its
present school carrying charge of 87
cents to 45 cents whereas Elagle
Springs, for instance, with a present
i school debt load of 22 cents, will be
; jumped up to 45 cents. Why, they
' ask, should the property owners of
Eagle Springs be made to pay for
j past debts incurred by Carthage ?
Under the proposal here, according
I to County Superintendent of Schools
I H. Lee Thomas, is how the various
j units of the county’s school system
would be affected;
Vass-Lakevlew present rate, 67
cents. Would be reduced 22 cents,
j Aberdeen, now 72 cents. Reduction,
j 27 cents.
I Cameron, now 82 cents. Reduction,
! 37 cents-.
j Southern Pines, now 29 cents. In-
; crease of 16 cents.
I Pinehurst, now 36 cents. Increase
9 cents.
Eagle Springs, now 22 cents. In-
I crease 23 cents.
I Eureka and Halliaon, now 17 cents.
Increase, 28 cents.
Carthage, now 87 cents.
Decrease 42 cents.
Hemp, now 57 cents. Decrease 12
cents.
West Elnd, now 74 cents. Decrease
29 cents.
Says Superintendent Thomas of the
rest of the county:
“The upper end of Sheffield, Rit
ters, outside the old Hallison district,
all of Deep River, Bensalem, outside
of Eagle Springs district, and small
parts of Carthage, Greenwood aad
Sandhills Townships, are now pay
ing only 7 cents on the hundred for
county schoolhouse debts. This would
be raised to 45 cents, according to
the plan. The portion of Mineral
Springs Township In the neighborhood
of Jack-son Springs Is now paying 7
cents county and 17 cents Mineral
Springs Bonds, or 24 cents on debts,
which Is 21 cents less than the equal
ized tax would be.”
BACK ON THE JOB
John Willcox has resumed his dut
ies as clerk of the court after severer
al days’ illness.