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MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, NVirth Carolina, Friday, April 19,
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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FIVE CENT!
PINEHURST PLANS
NORTH CAROLINA
DAY ON APRIL 27
Invites Citizens of State to Be
come Better Acquainted With
Their Resort
BUSY SPORTS PROGRAM
North Carolina Day, a new event on
Pinehurat’s busy Spring schedule and
one which it is planned to make an
annual affair, will be inaugurated on
Saturday, April 27th, to run through
Sunday. Merchants, hotels and resi
dents of Pinehurst are cooperating to
make the occasion an outstanding
event and an enjoyable occasion for
the hundreds expected from all parts
of the state for the extensive pro
gram.
The purpose of North Carolina Day
is to better acquaint the people of the
state with one of the state’s leading
resort towns, thereby fostering a
friendly spirit between Pinehurst and
its neighboring cities and towns. In
vitations are being sent out to prom
inent people in all parts of the state
to visit the Sandhills those two days.
An extensive sports program is be
ing arranged, including golf matches,
horse racing, gymkhana events, ten
nis tournaments and a skeet and trap-
shooting tournament. The largest at
traction of the program, however,
will be the reduced golf fee of $1 a
day for the two days.
A style show is being planned with
all the gown shops in Pinehurst co
operating. It is intended to make the
event something that everyone will
enjoy.
The committee in charge of the
program includes L. L. Biddle, 2d,
chairman, Charles Picquet, Ernest
Gamache, A. T. Robertson, Jr., and
L. L. Seeman.
Program of Easter
Music in Pinehurst
Special Service of Worship Ar-
ran$:ed for Sunday Evening
in Community Church
A worship service of Easter music
will be offered at the Pinehurst Com
munity Church on Easter Sunday
evening at 8 o’clock with the presen
tation of "The Thorn-Crowned King,”
an Easter cantata by Fred B. Holton,
text by H. Von Berge. The entire
worship will be in music. The service
will begin with an organ and violin
prelude. The invocation will be by the
singing of an Easter anthem of med
itation and prayer, ‘In Joseph’s Love
ly Garden,” by a mixed quartette un
accompanied. The cantata will fol
low and the worship will conclude
with the singing of the benediction
with the seven-fold amen by the quar
tette. The choir at the evening service
will be composed of the following:
Tenors: A. V. Gibson, W. M. Hern
don, Willard Dunlop.
Sopranos; Mesdames Colin McKen
zie, Tom McKenzie, A. V. Gibson, G.
M. Cameron and True Cheney.
Contraltos: Misses Katherine Blue,
Eunice Gibson and Mrs. A. J. McKel-
way.
Basses: D. Currie, W. P. Morton,
Rassie Wicker and A. J. McKelway.
The quartette parts will be sung by
Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Gibson and Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. McKelway.
Mrs. Roy Kelly will be at the piano
during the cantata. A violin obligato
will be played by Mr. H. H. Ponish
of Maxton. Mrs.E.B.Keith will be at
the organ.
The service will begin at 8 o’clock
and will continue for about one hour.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend.
JAMES BOYD SPE.\KER
James Boyd of Southern Pines ad
dressed the Walter Hines Page Book
Club of Aberdeen at the Aberdeen
Community House on Monday even
ing, telling the members something
about “authoring” and reading pas
sages from his forthcoming novel,
"Roll, River,” to be published this
month by Scribner’s.
LEGION MEETING TONIGHT
There will be an important meeting
of Sandhills Post No. 134 and its aux
iliary tonight, Friday, at 8 o’clock in
the Pinehurst Community House. All
members are urged to attend.
$47,943 Here
Moore Farmers Received
Large Rental and Benefit
Payment in February
North Carolina farmers were
paid $541,725.46 in rental and bene
fit payments by the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration in Feb
ruary, bringing the total AAA
funds paid in this state to $14,-
348,126.28. figures compiled by
Dean I. O. Schaub, of State Col
lege, show.
'rhe February checks were a
continuation of the rentals and
benefits paid to growers who co
operated with the 1934 crop ad
justment program. Payments re
ceived through February 28, Dean
Schaub reports, are as follows; cot
ton growers, $8,044,776.14; tobac
co growers, $5,738,355.70; corn-
hog producers, $482,556.37, and
wheat growers, $80,438.07.
Moore county received $47,843.71
in these payments.
FIRES FANNED BY
HIGH WINDS HERE
THREATEN HOMES
Two Break Out Near Southern
Pines; One Covers 1,000
Fort Bragg Acres
Festival Offers Two
Own, Dogwood and O
Latter Ties Occasion Up With
History and Tradition and is
Week’s Outstanding Event
By Struthers Burt
This is an age of competition, but
then all ages have been. It is better
to .say, this is an age of extraordi.
narily high competition. Everything
The Southern Pines Fire Depart-j is crowded; everything that it is pos-
ment and numerous volunteers fought, sible to do, is done repeatedly all over
two threatening grass and woods | the world. The only thing nowadays
that attracts attention is an original
2,000 FIGHT FLAMES
fires on the outskirts of town on
' Monday afternoon. The first broke
I out in the vicinity of Firleigh Farms,
I residence of Mrs. Reid Healy, and the
second on Weymouth Heights near
1 the home of Mrs. J. H. Andrews. The
local department answered calls to
I both places and with the aid of vol-
■ unteer fighters prevented the spread
of flames and any damage to build
ings, despite the high winds.
I About the .same time fire broke out
:on the Fort
idea, or an old idea .so originally car
ried out that it stands above the rank
and file of just good enough. So 1
agree with Mr. Robertson’s comment
on the Dogwood Festival.
Nor is this any criticism of the
Dogwood Festival nor of those back
of it. The Festival was a success this
year and there cannot be too high
commendation for the hard work that
made it a success, but to me the
Bragg Reservation, not outstanding day was Old Slave Day.
I far distant from Southern Pines, and
SPRING BLOSSOM
FESTIVAL VOTED
GREAT SUCCESS
Tennis, Baseball and Collegiate
Ball Wind Up Gala Week
Program Here
because Old Slave Day was some
thing by itself. An original idea. An
idea that tied the festival up with'
history and tradition; that gave it a
distinctly local and sectional atmos
phere. It seems to me that we have
two things in the Sandhills that are
our own; this Old Slave Day and the
dogwood, and that therefore we should
DUKE ATHLETES VICTORS
spread over an area of some 1,000
acres. About 1,500 officers and men
from the post and about 500 CCC
men fought through Monday after
noon and night to get the fire under
control.
At 3:30 in the afternoon, fire was
reported breaking out in several
places about, two miles from Me-; and more emphasize both.
Kellar's Pond. In .spite of three pre-'
ceding days of rain, the timber was
dry from the dust-laden air which
blew through the woods all day. The
pines which stood in the red path of
the wind went up in sparkling flames
like enormous fire-crackers and the
underbrush, white with dogwood,
caught like tinder.
The flames jumped the firebreak
Four Survive Men’s
Singles in Tournament
Wilmer Allison, U. S. No. 1 Man,
Leading Contender for North-
South Tennis Title
The second annual Sprirg Blossom
Festival wound up in a blaze of glory
with the Collegiate Ball at the South
ern Pines Country Club last Saturday
night. Despite coollsh weather
throughout the week all events on
the program attracted large crowds,
and it seems the unanimous opinion
of the people of the community that
the affair was a brilliant success
from beginning to end.
Duke defeated Davidson in the
baseball game last Saturday after
noon before a sizeable crowd which
would have been much larger had it
not been for the inclement weather.
The game was interrupted in the sec
ond inning by rain but was soon con
tinued to wind up at 6 to 3 in favor
of the Blue Devils. It was Duke’s
day here. Her tennis team defeated
State Colloge on the municipal courts
in the morning, taking all singles and
doubles matches.
Friday night witnessed the crown
ing of the 1935 Festival Queen. Miss
Ruby Hodges was the successful
candidate for the crown this year,
with Miss Mary Welch second in the
standing and Miss Katherine Wiley
third. The coronation ceremonies in
Municipal Park were witnessed by a
large assemblage, after which the
Queen’s Military Ball was the at
traction at the Country Club.
Busy Military Day
Friday was Military Day and peo
ple came from all parts of the state
for the big parade and for conven
tions of the American Legion, the Le
gion Auxiliary and the Daughters of
the American Revolution. The speak
er of the day was Col. E. R. W. Mc
Cabe, Fort Bragg, commanding offi
cer of the 17th Field Artillery which
h« led during the World War. After
the parade retreat ceremony was
held in the park, followed by a bar- ^ Chandler, secretary of the
becue dinner for the legionnaires,
served m the park. j^mgs S. Milliken were reap-
A brilliant feature of the week was pointed to the board at the meeting
the Spring Blossom Festival Chorus, Board of Commissioners of
led by Charles W. Picquet, in the southern Pines on Wednesday night.
High School Auditorium on Thurs
day night. The large chorus made
such a distinct impression upon an
audience which should have been
much larger that numerous requests
have been made for a repetition of the
singing of “The Holy City” at some
nearby future date.
Due to cold weather a nuiftber of
events which were expected to net
sufficient revenue to defray Festival
expenses were not sm well attended as
they would have been otherwise, caus
ing the Festival Committee to report
this week a slight deficit. Plans to
raise the necessary funds to balance
the budget were made at the meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce on
Tuesday.
Queens, parades, btis<*ball games,
and so on, are all very well, and are
needed to fill in time and tie the oc
casion together, but all over the coun
try exactly the same performances
are taking place, and to make such
performances noteworthy, a great
deal of money and organization are
Donates Theatre
PICQUET
CH.XKLES
NEXT WEDNESDAY
NIGHT BIG ONE IN
SOUTHERN PINES
Double - Barreled Program at
Carolina Theatre For Fes
tival Benefit
Legion’s 10th Annual
Ball Easter Monday
Sandhills Post to Entertain at
Southern Pines Country Club
For Relief Fimd
The Sandhills Post of the Ameri
can Legion Is to give its tenth annual
ball on Easter Monday night, April
necessary. More money and organi-^ 22d. at the Southern Pines Country
, zation, perhaps, than the Sandhills ciub. The dance committee has been
r.nd headed toward the ordnance mag- j ^re as yet capable of producing; but ^ fortunate enough to secure Gerry
rest of the country hasn’t dog- Bryant’s orchestra of New York for
shifted toward Pope Field and came ^ood such as we have, and the rest the occasion.
landmg of the country hasn’t as yet thought | The dance committee consists of
leld and the CMTC camp area.
STAR ACT PLUS MOVIE
Next Wednesday night, April 22d,
is going to be a big night at the Car
olina Theatre in Southern Pines. If
there are any vacant seats in the
house we will be surprised, for a dou
ble-barreled, high-powered program
awaits the populace and not even a
slight raise in the price of seats is
going to keep the folks away.
Here’s the story. Five musical ar
tists and they are artists—are going
to be in town next Wednesday. Hear
ing about it, the Chamber of Com
merce got in touch with them this
week and prevailed upon them to put
on an act for the benefit of the Spring
Blossom Festival's deficit, which isn’t
much of a deficit but enough to re
quire a benefit. The boys allowed as
how they would be glad to comply,
and then came the question of where
to stage the affair.
Well, Charlie Picquet was at the
meeting of Chamber directors on
Tuesday at Jack’s Grill and Charlie
spoke up and said he’d donate his
theatre Wednesday night for the
show, and besides he’d throw in the
picture scheduled for that night, and
let all the proceeds go.to the Festi
val. Of course that called for a vote
of thanks to Charlie and the appoint
ment of a committee of arrangements
by President Hugh J. Betterley of the
Chamber and all that. Dr. G. G. Herr,
Frank Buchan, Harry Buckley and
Mr. Picquet comprise the committee.
Musical Treat
So the double-barreled bill is on.
I These five musical artists are some-
I thing. They were here not long ago
I and put on their act privately for a
of an Old Slave Day. Furthermore, 1 Shields Cameron, chairman, Paul
wish that this could be a Sandhills- Dana, R. E. Denny. Livingston Bid-, ^
wide celebration. There were traces die and L. M. Tate of Pinehurst |
Frank Shamburger and J. Vance j berries. They play every known
Rowe of Aberdeen; J. Halbert Blue instrument, from the big cello
and Edgar Ewing of Knollwood; John |
Beasley and Charles McDonald of
of that this year, and every year
there should be more traces. The
whole section should get together and
pool its resources and its energy and
its imagination. If that is done, the
interest will not be largely local, it Ritter of West End; F. M. Dwight |
I kind of music from classical to the
Carthage; J. F. Sinclair and D. C. | They are a band, an orches-
tra, an ensemble, all rolled into one.
Wilmer Allison, No. 1 in national
tennis ranking, Hal Surface of Kan
sas City, mid-west top-notcher; Ar
chibald Henderson of the Universtiy
of North Carolina, and J. Gilbert
Hall of Orange, N. J., were the sur
viving stars yesterday in the annual
North & South tennis tournament
which has been running off smooth
ly all week on the courts of the Pine
hurst Country Club. Allison was play
ing Surface and Henderson pitted
against Hall in the semi-finals when
The Pilot went to press.
Survivors in the women’s singles
yesterday were Mrs. Penelope Ander
son McBride of Richmond; Miss Eu
nice Dean of San Antonio, Texas;
Miss Jane Sharpe of Pasadena, Cal
ifornia and Miss Florence Le Boutil-
lier of Westbury, L. I.
The finals in men’s singles will be
played tomorrow, Saturday moining,
and the finals in men’s doubles in the
afternoon. Women’s singles and dou
bles are expected to be completed to
day, Friday.
CHANDLER, MRS. MILLIKEN
REN.\MED TO SCHOOL BO.\RD
will be national. Unless I am vastly of Lakeview and H J Betterlev C : . ^ ^ .
, . , , ' ^^Keview ana n. j. oeiieney, gj nobody’s business.
mi.QraUATl nAnniP will trnvAl Inno* Hta_ t \r \ ^ o ^
mistaken people will travel long dis
tances to see what I saw on Old
Slave Day. It was moving and me
morable.
227 Dogs Judged in
Pinehurst’s Big Show I dent. Many other prominent
P. Everest, Struthers Burt, L. V.
O’Callaghan, H. B. Warner, Nelson
C. Hyde and R. L. Hart of Southern
Pines.
The dance will be sponsored by the
Post Auxiliary of which Mrs. L. U.
Buckingham of Pinehurst is presi-
women
of the Mid-South Community will as-
English Setter Owned by Miss sist in ticket sales.
St. George of Tuxedo Park
Wins Best Dog Award
Hepler’s J. F., a beautiful English
setter owned by Miss Priscilla St.
6eorge of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., was
judged the best dog in the third an
nual show of the Pinehurst Kennel
Club which was held on the estate
of Verner Z. Reed, Jr., last Monday.
Two hundred and twenty-seven
dogs of 31 different breeds were en
tered in 236 different classes, and re
quired 10 hours of judging by Lewis
Worden of New York before Miss St.
George’s English setter was declared
the victor.
Probably few people realize what
an important part of the Sandhills
Post of the American Legion takes in
relief work. Because this post is lo
cated on one of the principal Feder
al highways it is constantly being
called on for help from veterans who
are traveling in search of employ
ment. The post always is prepared to
investigate these cases and to ren
der aid where it is needed and deserv
ed. When the economy act of 1933
was passed there were a number of
veterans in the Sandhills who found
themselves cut off from all income.
Such of these as could not help
themselves were subsisted by the lo
cal post until they became rehabili-
I CITY ASKS P. W. A. FUNDS
I FOB RESURFACING M.\Y ST.
The last two hours of the show
were judged under the neadlights of tated. One such veteran, after being
automobiles, which were driven up given up by the government hospi-
next to the show ring to continue the tals as incurable, was operat#d upon
work in face of a too-fast disappear- j jn Fayetteville at the expense of th'j
ing sun. j Sandhills Post and was completely
The show was the largest out-door cured and restored to a self-support-
show in the South this year and re- j^g status.
The Board of Commissioners of
Southern Pines voted on Wednesday
night to make immediate application
to the Public Works Administration | charge of the Spring Blossom Festi-
for the resurfacing of May street, or ; val desire to express their thanks and
fleets great credit upon Col. G. P.
Hawes, Mr. Reed and others who ar
ranged and managed the event.
RICHARDSON AND AIDES
E.KPBESS APPRECIATION
General Chairman S. B. Richard-!
son and his various committees in '
U. S. Highway No. 1, within the city
limits of Southern Pines.
STEEPLECHASE »IEETING
Members of the Sandhills Steeple
chase S. Racing Association are hold
ing a meeting this morning, Friday,
at 10:30 o’clock in the Village Court
Grill, Pinehurst, to discuss plans for
improving the steeplechase course.
appreciation to all who generously
aided in funds and labor in making
the second annual Spring Blossom
Festival last week the success it prov
ed. “We enjoyed splendid cooperation
from the people of Southern Pines
and tlie Sandhills,” Mr. Richardson
said yesterday, “and it was through i the Citizens Bank & Trust Company
the coinbiucd efforts of all that we in Southern Pines will be closed all
had such an enjoyable week.” j day on Easter Monday. April 22.
The animal dances of the post are
the principal source of income for the
fund that takes care of this relief
work. It is the aim of the committee
in charge to make the dance
Monday night the most enjoyable
party the post has yet given.
SCHOOLS CLOSE MAY 7
County schools, wi^h one exception,
will close on May 7th. The Cameron
school, which was closed on account
of th,' influenza epidemic, will com
plete its work one w'eek later. May
14th.
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BANKS CLOSED MONDAY
The Bank of Pinehurst at Pine
hurst, Carthage and Aberdeen, and
We have the w^ord of some of the
leading music lovers of the Sandhills
for all this or we wouldn’t be so sup
erlative.
Then, in addition to this treat, comes
a film highly recommended by Movie
Magnate Picquet. It’s called ‘‘$10.00
Raise,” which seems appropriate
enough for a benefit performance,
only this benefit is out to raise a lit
tle more than ten smackers. It’s a
comedy and a romance and a drama
and Charlie says is worth the price
of admission all by itself.
For the pleasure of witnessing the
twin bill of fare at the Southern
Pines Theatre next Wednesday, plus
the joy of helping defray the unde
frayed expenses of the recent Festi
val, tickets are now on sale at Broad
Street Pharmacy, Thrower’s Phar
macy and the Sandhills Drug Com
pany at the ridiculously low price of
50 cents per each, $1.00 for box seats.
Only the seating capacity of the thea
tre will be sold, and it behooves one
and all to get busy and buy their
pasteboards early. They’ll likely be
all gone by curtain time Wednesday
night, and -^on’t say we didn’t warn
von I
BISHOP PENICK SPEAKER
AT GOOD FRID.4Y SERVICK
The Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick, D.
D., Bishop of North Carolina, will
make the addresses on “The Seven
Words from the Cross ’ at the three-
hour .service at Emmanuel Church
today. Good Friday. The service will
be read by the rector, the Rev. F.
Craighill Brown.
The service, which begins prompt
ly at 12:00 noon and ends exactly at
3:00 o’clock, is divided into seven
parts each of which is begun with a
hymn, and consists of an address and
meditations. Those who are unable to
remain throughout the entire service
of three hours are requested to enter
and leave the church only during the
singing of the hymns.
The public is most cordially invited
to participate in this service of medi
tation on the Passion of our Lord.