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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday January 11, 1935.
FIVE CENT*
ABERDEEN ASKS
CHANGES IN STATE
SCHOOL
Mass Meeting Adopts Pesolu-
tions Calling for Drastic
Revisions
OPPOSE CENTRALIZATION
Resolutions calling ffer a revanip-
Ing of the school system of North
Carolina in a number of particulars,
recently adopted by a mass meeting
of citizens of Aberdeen, have been
sent to (County Superintendent of
Schools H. Lee Thomas; to W. R.
Clegg, representative in the State
Legislature, to State Senator U. L.
Spence and to the State Superintend,
ent of Education, Clyde Irwin. The
points brought out by the Aberdeen
citizenry are:
In view of the emergency in our
educational situation in North Caro
lina, and being deeply interested in
the problem of public instruction, and
especially concerned for our local
schools, we the citizens of Aberdeen,
in a mass meeting held in the High
School Auditorium on Friday even
ing, December 14th, do earnestly re
solve;
1 That the eight months State
wide, State-supported school term
should be continued as a basis on
which to build an adequate school
system.
2 That school districts should be
given the right to supplement, inde
pendent of the rest of the county.
3 That teachers’ salaries should
be increased to the level of 1929-30.
4 That the teaching load should
not lie increased under any circum
stances.
5 That we favor the restoration
of power to county and district school
boards. We go on record as opposed
to any further centralization of pow
er in Raleigh.
6 That schools should have the
right to add such courses as Home
Economics, Agriculture, Commerce,
Music, Art Appreciation, etc., to their
curriculum.
7 That teachers’ salaries should
be based upon Years of College Train
ing plus Years of Experience up to
four years.
8 That we are in favor of the
Administration of State School af
fairs by the State Superintendent of
Education, together with a small, se
lect committee of seven to nine men,
instead of the present top-heavy and
expensive system.
9 We feel strongly that the fu
ture welfare of the children of North
Carolina will be seriously impaired
if the legislature does not make prop
er provision for them.
The Aberdeen meeting was called
by the Committee on the Emergency
in Education in North Carolina, of
which the Rev. E. L. Barber Is chair
man and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson sec
retary.
Henry A. Page, 3d., of Aberdeen
Wins Coveted, Rhodes Scholarship
Liquidation of Bank
of Vass Completed
Depositors Get 22.5 Percent Div
idend After Sale of Assets
for $61,525
Liquidation of the Bank of Vass,
which closed its doors In the fall of
1931, was completed last week when
depositors and other common credi
tors of the institution received checks
aggregating $26,004.05, representing
a dividend of 22.5 per cent. This, with
a five per cent dividend paid several
months ago, brought the amount re
ceived by depositors to $32,184.97 in
addition to $19,706 In offsets. Prefer
red claims of $2,267 were paid in
full, according to reports of the State
Commissioner of Banks. The bank
realized $61,525 on its listed assets
of $184,849. The net cost of liquidat
ing the bank was given as $5,751.16.
S. P. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL MEETING MONDAY
The annual meeting of the South
ern Pines Library Association will be
held next Monday afternoon at 5
o’clock in the library, at which time
officers and trustees for 1935 will be
elected £uid reports of the year’s work
of the association read. All members
and friends of the library are invited
to the meeting. E. C. Stevens is presi
dent of the board.
Only Successful Candidate from
North Carolina, He Will Pur
sue Studies in England
One of the four Rhodes Scholai-
shlps to be awarded this year to the
South Atlantic states came this week
to Henry Allison Page, 3d of Aber
deen, the only succes.sful candidate
from North Carolina.
The honor, looked upon as the high
est attainable by college under-grad
uates In the United States, provides
a two-year scholarship at Oxford
University in England. If the rec
ords of the fortunate ones are satis
factory after these two years they are
given the option of studying a third ;
year at the English university. j
Young Pago Is at present a student
at Princeton University. He began i
hi:' education In the schools of Aber-;
deen where at an early age he dis
played marked scholarship ability.
He will be graduated from Prince
ton this June and in the early fall j
leave for Oxford to pursue his stud-'
ies, specializing in English litera
ture.
Twelve candidates took the exami
nation, held in Atlanta, Ga., for the
four Rhodes scholarships to be award
ed In the third district. In addition
to young Page the successful ones
were Duncan Lee of Chatham, Va., a
student at Yale University; William
S. Mundy, Jr., of Lynchburg, Va., a
student at the University of Virgin
ia. and Willard D. Lewis of Atlanta,
Ga., student at Harvard.
Thirty-two Rhodes Scholarships
are assigned annually to the United
States, after competitive examina
tions held In each state. The country
Is grouped in eight districts, and
successful candidates In the state ex
aminations then meet in district com
petition, with four selected from
each district. Selections are made on
the basis of the candidate’s record In
school and college, supplemented by
references of persons who know him
and by a personal interview with the
Committee of Selection. There is no
written examination. Judges of the
candidates were: Dr. M. Ashby Jones,
of Atlanta, chairman; Prof. R. P.
Brooks of the University of Georgia,
secretary: Prof. R. K. Gooch of the
University of Virginia; Prof. J. A.
Rice, of Black Mountain College, N.
C., and Prof. J. E. Norwood of the
University of the South, Sewanee,
Tenn.
The scholarships were founded
some years ago by the late Cecil A.
Rhodes and have a value of $2,000
a year.
Church Reports Year
of Gratifying Activity
Officers Elected at Annual
Meeting of Wide Fellowship
Congregation
The annual meeting of the Church
of Wide Fellowship, on January 3rd
showed gratifying activity and fi
nancial improvement in all the work
of the Church and its allied organi
zations. Gift benevolences exceeded
the apy'ortionment.
The electious were as follows:
Trustees for three years, Charles L.
Austin, Mrs. Clarence Durgln and
Mrs. Ernest Poate; Decon for three
years, George W. Case; Clerk, Char
les P. Everest: Treasurer, Charles L.
Austin; Assistant Treasurer, C. Max
well Grey; Treasurer of the Building
Fund, David S. Packard; S. S. Sup
erintendent, Charles L. Austin; As
sistant Superintendent, p?aul Blue;
Ushers, E. C. Eddy, Clarence Edson,
Charles P. Everest, J. Douglas Greg
ory and C. Maxwell Grey; Music
Committee, Miss Birdilia Bair, Mrs.
Lillian B. Mllea and Mrs. V. R.
Sweezy.
It was voted to approve an expand
ed program for Sunday night services,
featuring religion as interpreted in
art, drama, music and literature.
Dr. C. Rexford Raymond, pastor,
will interpret the poem, "King Rob
ert of Sicily” at the evening service
this Sunday, January 13. He will show
how Longfellow’s famous poem illus
trates the power of poetry to teach
religion. This poem is the story of a
sin, its punishment, with forgiveness
following repentance. It is a miracle
story in the atmosphere of the Middle
Ages with distinct lessons for our
own times.
Rhodes Scholar
WARNS OF DANGER
TO YOUNG LIVES |
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Huntley Turned Down for
Reappointment to Office
of County Tax Collector
Corre.spondent Asks Action in
Building Sidewalk For
School Children
HENRY A. PAGE, 3d
TO START WORiT
ON STEEPLECHASE
COURSE AT ONCE
Hunt Race Meeting on New Site
Is Planned For This
Spring
Work is expected to get under way
within the next week on the new
steeplechase course to be construct
ed midway between Southern Pines
and Pinehurst on the Midland Road,
and it is hoped to have the course
in shape for a hunt race meeting the
first Saturday in April.
Phillip S. P. Randolph, Jr., racing
secretary of the Sandhills Steeple
chase & Racing Association, leaves
for New York this week to take up
with the national association the
awarding of the Saturday following
the Carolina Cup meeting at Cam
den, S. C., to the local course. He,
with Noel Laing, prominent steeple
chase rider and trainer, went over
the proposed site this week, staking
out a tentative course. Three tracks
will be provided, one for timber races,
one for brush events and an inside
track for flat racing.
Another sizeable crowd witnessed
last Saturday’s flat races on the
Pinehurst track, and a large crowd
is expected tomorrow for the third
meeting of the season. Horses are re
ported to be fit for tomorrow’s card
of five events, with several new ones
to face the barrier.
In response to a demand on the
part of a large number of people
who are unable to attend races on
Saturday afternoons the Steeplechase
association this week decided to hold
meetings on Tuesday afternoons as
well, and the first of these mid- week
events will be next Tuesday, January
15th at 2:00 p. m.
The admission price to the meet
ing has been changed by the asso
ciation from 50 cents to $1.00, but
the $1.00 includes grandstand seats
and free parking of cars. Previously
grandstand seats were $1.00 in addi
tion to the 50 cent admission charge.
Plan Boys’ Club
Movement Launched for Or
ganization to Keep Alive
Scout Movement
The Southern Pines Boy Scout
house will be thrown open to boys
of the city over ten and under 16
years of age on next Friday even
ing, January 18th, at 7:30 o’clock.
Refreshments will be served wnth-
out charge and an Interesting
speaker will be on the program.
Plans are to be discussed for the
formation of a boys’ club to con
tinue until such time as It may be
feasible to resume scouting activ
ities. It is believed that the need
exists for such an organization and
it is hoped by the directors that
parents will cooperate and maJce
the club a great success here.
Heads Bank
ALONG MAIN THOROFARE
“Some child is likely to be killed
any day between the Southern Pines
School and the overhead bridge at the
south end of town. Can't the Town or
some relief organization do something
about a walk along May street so
the children going to and from school
may proceed without danger of losing
life or limb from passing automo
biles ?”
This communication, receivved this
week by The Pilot from a prominent
resident of Southern Pines, again
brings to the forefront one of the
town’s crying needs. The matter has
been discu.ssed at various times by
the Chamber of Commerce and by
the School Board, and several articles
have appeared in The Pilot, but still
nothing is done about the matter.
There is no sidewalk on this main
thorofare through the residential sec
tion. May street is also U. S. No. 11
highway. There is more traffic on
this street than on any in town. I
Automobiles travel at a high rate of |
speed much of the time. It Is also
the main route children from the
Pinedene section and the southern
limits of Southern Pines traverse In
attending school. If there is any
street in town which needs a side
walk, it is May street.
If projects for the unemployed are
still being considered here, this
should be the first one approved. The
work should be started at once, how
ever, whether or Dot a relief project;
should be completed before the pre
diction Issued In our correspondent’s
communication comes true.
All highways are dangerous these
di&ys. Every possible step should be
.taken by the authorities to lessen the
danger, especially to children, and In
this particular case there w’ould seem
to be no reason why immediate steps
should not be taken In the cause of
safety.
Reckless Driving“ Arrest
Starts Curbstone Critics
Windham Defends Action of
Mayor’s Court in Holding
Colored Man For Trial
Donny Marsh, colored, driving a
station wagon In which were a num
ber of children bound from the Knoll-
wood section to schools in Southern
Pines, was arrested Tuesday morn
ing by Officer Gargls on Pennsyl
vania avenue on a charge of reckless
driving. After a hearing In Mayor’s
Court he was ordered held under $100.
bond for appearance In Recorder's
Court in Carthage next Monday.
In connection with the arrest of
Marsh, The Pilot is in receipt of a
statement signed by J. M. Windham,
which says:
“I understand that some one has
criticised the Mayor's Court, the po
lice and the witnesses for their ac
tion In the arrest of a negro for care
less driving through the business sec
tion of Southern Pines Tuesday morn
ing, saying among other things that
the police arrested the wrong party.
“I do not know how the critics ar
rived at their conclusion In the mat
ter a.s the witnesses In the case tes
tified that they saw the car as it
was driven through West Broad
street at a high late of speed, and
these witnesses waited on the cor
ner of West Broad street and Penn
sylvania until the car returned, again
at a high rate of speed, when it was
stopped and the driver arrested.
“Two valuable lives have been lost
in Southern Pines recently in automo
bile accidents. The witnesses In this
case are interested only in the safety
of the people of Southern Pines, par
ticularly the children. Fifteen min
utes earlier scores of children on their
way to school were crossing Broad
street at this point. I shudder to
think what would have happened had
this man passed this point w’hen these
children were crossing. It Is time
reckless and' fast driving were stop
ped in Southern Pines, and only by
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DORSEY G. STUTZ
IS NEW PRESIDENT
OF CITIZENS BANK
Mayor of Southern Pines Elect
ed Tuesday; Albany N. Y.
Man is Named Cashier
At an adjourned meeting of the
stockholders of the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company here Wednesday
afternoon Dorsey G. Stutz, mayor
of the town was elected president of
the bank; Geo. C. Abraham was
elected to the office of vice-presi
dent, and M. L. Hodgkins of Albany,
N. Y., was Installed as the new
cashier of the Institution which has
served the section for more than
twenty-five years. Miss Ethel Jones,
who has been acting as cashier since
the death of H. O. Rlggan more than
a year ago, will act as assistant
cashier.
The new president reports that the
bank has total resources of more
than half a million dollars, and de
posits have increased one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars dur.
ing the past twelve months. It was
the only bank in the section to open
unrestricted immediately following
the holiday declared by President
Roosevelt.
Mr. Hodgkins, the newly elected
cashier, will become a new member
of the bank’s staff and a new citizen
of Southern Pines. A nephew of Mr.
Abraham, he comes highly recom
mended for the position he will occu
py in the institution.
Family of Nine Lose All
As Fire Destroys Home
Residence of Charles Phillips on
Cameron Route 1 is Totally
Destroyed
The residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Phillips on Cameron Route 1
was completely destroyed by fire last
Friday afternoon, rendering a fam
ily of nine persons homeless. Not only
were the house furnishings and cloth
ing lost, but the family savings of
$150 and some 400 cans of fruit and
vegetables.
Mr. Phillips and a number of his
sons were at work on the farm some
distance from the house, but Mrs. Phil
lips and her daughters were In the
kitchen when the flames were first
noticed. ’Two young children In
another part of the house were res
cued. The origin of the fire is un
known. No Insurance was carried.
Friends and neighbors in the Cam
eron section have healtlly respond
ed to the call of Mrs. J. M. Guthrie
of Cameron for aid for the family.
DR. DANIEL.S MOVIES INTO
NEW PENN. AYE. BUILDING
Board of Commissioners Gives
l*csition to One of Its Own
Members, L. R. Reynolds
ACTION GREAT SURPRISE
At a meeting of the Board of
Commissioners on Monday, L. R. Rey
nolds of Highfalls, who recently be
gan his second term as county com
missioner, was elected tax collector
for the county for the term of office
beginning February 1st. Mr. Reynolds
succeeds W. T. Huntley, who has held
the office for the past three years,
and in view of the splendid record
made by Mr. Huntley and his wide
spread popularity as a collector, the
election of a succes.sor has come as
the greatest surprise of anything that
has occurred in county officialdom
in several years.
There were nine applicants for the
position: Mr. Huntley, Mr. Reynolds,
Miss Annie McKeithen, J. R. Mclnnis,
E. B. Keith, Ben Wood, H. H. Fry and
N. C. McLeod and A. B. Cameron.
The election of Mr. Reynolds has
created a vacancy on the Board of
Commissioners, which it will be the
duty of the clerk of the court to ap
point someone to full.
The board turned thumbs down
with a frank rejection and refusal
the written demand of the Carthage
School District that the Board of
County Commissioners of Moore
county assume the payment of the
bonded Indebtedness of said district
and to levy a countywlde tax to pay
same, on the ground that the build
ings erected by said Indebtedness are
necessary to maintain the six months’
term as required of the county under
the law.
It wa.s ordered that the Montesanti
Spaghetti Camp be granted a permit
for license to sell legal beer; that
the National Reemployment office in
the court house be allowed an amount
not exceeding $10 per month for in
cidental expenses; that Rob Davis,
colored, of Ritters township be al
lowed $5 per month for support, and
that John Murchison, colored, of
Sandhills township be admitted to the
county home.
Dr. L. M. Daniels moved this week
from his former location on East
New Hampshire avenue to his new
building on Elast Pennsylvania ave
nue, Southern Pines.
Commerce Directors
Plan Annual Meeting
Committee Is Named to Secure
Speaker and Make Plans
for Annual Banquet
Directors of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce voted Tues
day at a meeting held at Montesan-
ti’s to hold their annual meeting and
banquet the last of this month, and
the following committee was appoint
ed to plan the affair; Dr, George G.
Herr, chairman; Robert L. Hart, E.
W. Relnecke, Hiram W'estbrook,
Ralph Chandler, and Frank Buchan.
This banquet Is one of the events
of the winter season in the Sandhills.
Prominent speakers have come here
to address the members and their
friends for many years, and there is
always an amusing program of stunta
and merry-making. Last year Gov
ernor Ehringhaus was the guest of
honor; the year before Ambassador
to Mexico Josephus Daniels and for
mer Ambassador to Turkey Henry
Morgenthau, father of the present
Secretary of the Treasury, were the
speakers.
Directors for the new year are also
elected at this meeting, and the
following nomination committee was
named yesterday to prepare a slate:
Frank Pottle, chairman; Dr. L. B.
McBrayer, Frank Buchan, C. J. Si
mons. and E. W. Baker. Officers are
elected by the incoming directors.
JURY LIST DRAWN FOR
FEBRUARY SUPERIOR COURT
The following have been named for
jury duty for the February term of
Superior court for the trial of civil
cases: W. N. Sneed, Isaac Brewer,
Grover Mashbum, John Ferguson, E.
T. Hardy, M. C. Muse, W. G. Sineath,
J. B. Gifford, Peter Dowd, M. W.
Hussey, G. H. Purvis, W. G. Havener,
Carlton A. Thomas, A. L. Bumey, J.
D. Thompson, Leon Thomas, J. G.
Shields, B, C. Wallace, W. M. McLeod,
C. H. Evans, J. P. Swett, A. D. Mc
Lean, A. Cleve Dunn and J. C. Nall;