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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina
Friday, June 14, 1935.
THE PILOTi
Published each Friday by
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Southern IMnes, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE, Editor
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MOORE COUNTY AND
GRADE CROSSINGS
What is Moore county going
to do about grade crossing elim
ination ?
North Carolina is to receive
$4,823,954 of the federal fund to
be expended on making high
ways safe for the motorist by
removing the hazards.
Moore county has a number
of serious danger points. The
worst of these are in municipali
ties, Aberdeen and Southern
Pines, where the elimination
presents serious structural, arch
itectural, arti.stic and financial
pi'oblems. And yet something
should be done about these haz
ards. The; have cost a number
of lives, have crippled many,
and are a constant danger in
two of the largest incorporated
villages of the county.
The problem is particularly
acute in Aberdeen. There main
arteries of motor traffic. Routes
70 and 311, cross eight tracks
on South street. These tracks not
only carry through Seaboard
trains at high rates of speed
through the heart of town but
are in almost constant use for
switching purposes in making
the necessary transfers of cars
from Aberdeen’s three raili>oads,
the Seaboard, Norfolk-Southern
and Aberdeen & Rockfish. The
warning bells at the crossings
ring a large percentage of the
time. Aberdeen has two much
used streets which cross the
tracks in addition to the main
highway crossing.
Southern Pines is somew’hat
more fortunate in that U. S,
Highway No. 1 does not cross
the Seaboard at grade here, but
otherwise presents a like prob
lem. It has more crossings at
grade than Aberdeen, and the
motoring public which desires to
leave U. S. No. 1 for Pinehui’st
must cross the tracks at one of
these. A large part of the resi
dent population must cross
tracks to reach main business
streets, the postoffice and
churches.
Southern Pines has no switch
ing problem, but the elimination
of crossings at grade here pre
sents a distinct problem in beau
tification. There is no town on
the Seaboard which has done so
much to beautify that section
through which the trains come
and go. Southern Pines’ track-
side planting is noted. It has
made of what in most towns is
a sore spot a parkway of beauty.
There appears to be no way,
short of a subway, of retaining
the beauty and eliminating the
grade crossings. Certainly the
Seaboard Railway, in its present
financial condition, cannot move
the tracks to a section where
overhead crossings would be less
of an eye-sore.
The crossing at Manly should
be eliminated by an overhead
bridge. This presents no .serious
problem. The little railroad that
runs to Carthage cros.ses U. S.
No. 1 highway near Cameron.
There have been fatal accidents
there, despite the fact that
trains over the route are few and
far between. This crossing can
be easily eliminated. The Nor
folk-Southern crossings at grade
in this county affect only sec
ondary or feeder roads, and are
not blind crossings. This is also
true of the Aberdeen & Rock-
fish.
With nearly $5,000,000 dollars
to be spent in the state in grade
crossing elimination, Moore
county, and particularly Aber
deen and Southern Pines, should
give serious thought to their re
quirements. Lives here are as
precious as those anywhere—
more precious to those of us who
live here.
Today we are facing what
looks like a permanent carry
over of 9,000,000 bales of Ameri-
I can cotton, with the consump
tion figures for American and
I foreign cotton practically re-
‘ versed. During Ihe current cot
ton year world consumption of
cotton of all kinds will be around
25.000.000 bales, more or less,
but w'orld consumption of Amer
ican cotton will not be more than
j 11,500,000 bales. This means
that world consumption of for
eign cotton will be more than
13.000.000 bales, or more than
the average annual production
of American cotton during the
fifteen years ending with 1928.
Is this to be the permanent con
dition of things?
The Texas Weekly has been a
steadfast opponent of the pol
icy of lifting cotton prices by
acreage reduction. Its figures,
taken as a whole, look like an im
pressive justification of its cam
paign. One need not be an expert
economist to realize that the
late advances of cotton prices
have been a contributory cause
of the reduced exportations of
American raw cotton.
But the fact of major impor
tance in the Texas paper’s ex
hibit is the increased foreign
production which, as it esti
mates, will meet considerably
more than one half the world’s
demand for the current year.
The marked expansion of cot
ton culture abroad is a develop
ment which cannot be wholly
explained by the recent changes
in the conditions of American
production. For example, Brazil’s
advent as a formidable factor in
cotton production is, in fact, an
evidence of her progressive utili
zation of vast and variety na
tional resources. The American
cotton problem is therefore to a
large extent a problem arising
from foreign causes beypnd the
control of Congress.
Civic Loyalty Pays Big Dividends
Sponsored by
ED’S CAFE
Try Ycuir Home Town First
GRAINS OF' SAND
Do whippoorwills sing in their
sleep, or don’t they ever sleep?
At the entrance to a road leading
off the highway between Pinehurst
and West End is a sign reading:
"Private Road—By Order of Moore
County Highway Commission.”
Can any little boy in the class tell
us what the Moore County Highway
Commission is, or where, or who’s on
it?
M. G. Nichols is the only N in the
Southern Pines telephone book.
CAMERON
An appraisal filed in New York
this week reveals that Benjamin N.
Duke, w'ho died in January, 1929, left
a net estate of $7,496,447. Many
North Carolina charitable and reli
gious institutions benefitted, among
them the Methodist Orphanage at
Raleigh, the Oxford Orphanage, the
BHpti.st Orphanage at Thomasville and
the Presbyterian Orphans’ Home at
Barium Springs.
DARK CLOUDS ON
THE COTTON HORIZON
An able journal in our leading
cotton state, the Texas Weekly,
draws the following picture of
cotton conditions in the South:
! Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Loving, Misses
Lucille Loving and Evelyn Stutts at-
! tended the funeral of Will Wood,
; nephew of Mr. Loving, at Troy, Va.,
I lost week. Mr. Wood has a son, Con
way W’ood, who is a member of the
Secret Service in the bodyguard of
President Roosevelt. The floral of-
■ ferings were many and beautiful,
■among them designs from President
and Mrs. Roosevelt, the Attorney Gen
eral, Secretary of State and members
of the Secret Service.
Edwin Gilchrist and Joe Irwin, re
turning from New York with an emp
ty truck, met with an accident near
Apex last .Saturday. The truck was
, almost demolished and the young men
slightly injured.
Mrs. Loula Muse returned Friday
, night from a three weeks’ visit with |
friends and relatives in Kings Park, L.
11., New York City and Buffalo. While
I in Buffalo she was the guest of Mr.
; and Mrs. J. B. Tally, and she accom-
I panied them to Niagara Falls to On- j
I tario, Canada, viewing Lake Erie and j
Lake Ontario from the most inspiring |
: angles. Mrs. Muse also saw the new I
.French Liner “Normandie,” as she lay ;
I in her pier in the Hudson River the
night before she sailed for France.
I Mrs. J. D. McLean, Mrs. H. D. Tal
ly and Mrs. Sallie Smith spent Mon
day at Flora Macdonald College and
• were accompanied home by Miss Alar-
gret McLean and James McDonald,
who were students for a week at the
. Young People's Conference.
Ml', and Mr?. Zeb Hartsell of Mor-
ven were guests last week of the Rev.
and Mrs. J. W'. Hartsell.
I J. R. Cunningham of Apex was in
: town Monday, calling on Mrs. H. D.
Tally and other friends. Mr. Cunning-
I ham was telegraph operator here in
' 1893-94.
I
I Mrs. Gabe Holmes of Goldsboro
spent several days last week with
I her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. M, D.
: McNeill.
j Mrs. Stewart and daughter. Miss
I Ruth 9nd Miss Nannie Gilchrist of
Troy were Sunday guests of their sis
ter, Miss Rachael Gilchrist of Route
1.
The Rev. and Mrs. M. D. McNeill
and Mrs. M. McL. McKeithen were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Guthrie on Thursday of last week.
Frost Snow, Mr, £md Mrs. J. E.
Snow and daughter, Miss EJvelyn Ann,
j spent the week-end at Lenoir with
Frost Snow’s daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Mr. Frost Snow
and Evelyn Ann remained for a
week’s visit.
Mrs. D. B. Teague of Sanford spent
Friday night with her parents, the
Rev. and Mrs. M. D. McNeill.
Mrs. Jewell Hemphill spent Thurs
day with Mrs. Alfred Graham of
Route 1.
For the first time in history a wo
man was the Commencement Day
speaker at the University of North
Carolina this week, Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Shut-ins in local homes, in the
Moore County Hospital and in the
sanatoria here received floral gifts
from Mrs. Chandler’s Greenhousese on
Monday of this week, which was Shut-
in Day.
While the cardinal is classed among
the birds of the brush and woodlands,
a Mr. and Mrs. Red Bird have moved
into their new home in a large
shrub just outside the auditor’s office
in the court house in Carthage, and
their home life is being closely cbscvv-
ed. They seem to be an extremely
happy couple. Mrs. Red isn’t getting
out much; her duties keep her at
home, but her mate sees that she is
well provided for and frequently
comes around to relate the news,
which he always chirps in song, vary
ing the tune from time to time to
add interest, and she, as all good
wives should, listens eagerly to his
friendly gossip, seemingly understand
ing everything he says.
They have an interesting secret
which they will probably divulge
through The Pilot columns soon if
snakes, cats or naughty boys do not
break up their home.
FISHING SEASON NOW OPEN
IN FKESH WATER AREA
Angling for warm water fish in
fresh waters of North Carolina, which
i has been restricted to certain days
since the beginning of the closed sea
son May 1, will be opened without
' seasonal closed days on Thursday.
Bag limits for one day’s catch in
the state are as follows; large-mouth
black ba.ss, 8; small-mouth bass, 8;
brook or speckle trout. 20; rainbow
trout, 15; blue bream, 25; red bream,
25; robin, 25; rock, 8; crappie or
chinquapin perch, 25; goggle-eye, 25;
redfin, 25; and white perch, 25.
The minimum length of fish that
may be legally taken is as follows;
large-mouth bass, 12 inches; small-
^ mouth bass, 10 inches; brook or spec-
I kle trout, 6 inches; rainbow trout, 8
I inches: blue bream. 6 inches; red
bream. 6 inches; robin, 5 inches; lock,
12 inches; crappie or chinquapin
perch. 6 inches; goggle eye. 6 inches:
redfin. 8 inches; and white perch, 6
inches.
FROM THE STATE PRESS
“THE D.\NCE OF DEATH”
The accident statistics for 1934 have
been re-written by the National Saf
ety Council into this language:
If all the accidents in the
United States spread through the
year 1934 were recorded as of
one day, it would be as if all the
people of the State of Pennsyl
vania were suddenly laid low by
accident, one-half of the people
of Pittsburgh crippled for the
rest of their lives and every per
son in Allentown killed.
They may be brought into more
immediately clear language by writ
ing them in terms of Charlotte’s pop
ulation, whereupon it would be seen
at once that the fatal accidents out
numbered our most sanguine popula
tion boast of 15,000 to 20,000 that
year for that authority’s figures show
that 101,000 persons in this country
were fatally injured in 1934.
One out of every 100 people were in
jured in motor vehicle mishaps and at
the rate we are now allowing these
fatalities to occur, it will be one out
of every 20 in another five years.
When you begin to follow this thing
through on the basis of arithmetical
progression, you come to the point
100 years from now when they will be
a fatal accident for every inhabitant
—that is, if nothing is done about it
in the meantime.
Verily, our highways have become
the emporiums in which the great Na
tional “dance of death” is in contin
uous swell. —Charlotte Observer.
RE.\L ESTATE TRANSFERS
Martin Franklin Nall and wife to
Z. M. Burns, property in Moore coun
ty enclosing the Moody Hill Gold mine
north of Folly Branch, containing
150 acres,
Joe M. Furr and Marvie Furr to
Carrie J. Medlin, property in Moore
county.
Eugene C. Stevens and wife to J.
Talbot Johnson and Frank W. Mc-
Cluer, Jr., property in Sandhills town
ship.
AT DENTAL MEETING
Dr. L. M. Daniels will be out of
tow’n the first part of next week at
tending a meeting at Blowing Rock
of the N. C. Dental Society. He will
represent the 3rd district as clini
cian.
AT CHAPEL HILL
Howard Burns, city clerk, and Dr.
L. M. Daniels, commissioner, of
Southern Pines attended sessions of
the Institute of Government at Chape!
Hill on Tuesday.
CHAS. J. SADLER. Mer.
Park View
Hotel
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