MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Cr^rolina, Friday, June 28, 1935
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCrLATION &
ADVERTISING
th Carolina
FIVE CENW
TWO JUDGES HOLD
NEW LIQUOR LAW
OF STATE ILLEGAL
Director Tells Aims of Institute
of Government at Chapel Hill
Wilson and Edgecomb Plan To
Open Stores Despite
Court Opinions
Albert Coates Outlines Program j
of Education in Talk Be- !
fore Kiwanis i
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COORDINATION OF EFFORT |
McNEILLS VOTERS SIGN
Just as McNeills township was re
ported as about to go "over the top”
this week in its petition for a liquor
store two judges held unconstitution-
inadequate, out of date textbooks
on Civics plus the Depression brought
about the Institute of Government at ;
Chapel Hill. How little the textbooks j
taught of present day government was :
first appreciated by Albert Coates, i
now director of the Institute, when j
al the recently enacted law under! he was instructing classes in Civics |
at the University. How little the tax
payer of the state knew about his
government was first realized by Mr.
Taxpayer himself when the Depres
sion sent him into a study of where
j his tax dollar was going.
From this combination was born,
in 1932, the organization which has
grown to a place of importance in
the state and of renown in the coun
try. How it came about, what has
been accomplished to date, and what
its future plans and aims are were
General A. A. F. Seawell said that in i interestingly ^old by Mr. Coates to
liis opinion the ruling of Judge Paul ] members of the Kiwanis Club of
Frizelle of Greene county, first to ' Aberdeen at their weekly meeting
hold the law unconstitutional, would ; held Wednesday noon in the Aber-
not affect the Wilson and Edgecombe ' deen Community House,
situation, though all three counties,
and 15 others, as well as McNeills
and Mineral Springs townships in' Institute has numerous aims,
which 18 counties and two townships
of North Carolina were permitted to
decidc for themselves on the sale of
liquor. These decisions affected
Green and Franklin counties. Other
judicial decisions are pending in oth
er counties.
Despite these decisions, authorities
of Wilson county announced that
stores would be open and doing busi
ness there by Saturday, and Edge
combe county hopes to open next
week. In this connection Attorney
Hole in One
Herbie Vail of Pinehurst
Scores an Ace on No. 5 of
No. 1 Course
Herbert Vail of Pinehurst made
a perfect shot Sunday afternoon
for a hole-in-one with a No. five
iron on the eleventh hole on the
No. 1 course in Pinehurst, which is
i par 3 and a distance of 178 yards.
Mr. Vail was playing with N. S.
Hurd.
I. C, Sledge and A. P. Thomp
son of Pinehurst won the Yadkin
Club tournament, best ball of pair,
in a play-off after being tied for
first place with A. H. Eastmai' of
Boston and Frank McCaskill of
Pinehurst. Sledge and Thompson
had a net score of 57, "being 12
strokes under par. Eastman and
McCaskill had a net of 58.
BOARD APPOINTED
TO PLAN PROJECTS
IN MOORE county!
i
Will Canvas Needp For Work
Under Available Federal
Appropriations
Coast Guard and Airplanes
Seek Body of Grandson of
Mrs. Silver, Southern Pines
EACH TOWN REPRESENTED
Aims of the Institute
I \ Planning Board has been appoint-1
! ed by the Board of County Commis- j
j sloners to consider the matter of fed-1
I eral projects in Moore county, and;
i i
I will hold its first session at the
i Courthouse in Carthage on Monday, j
i July 1st. ;
j Named on the board are one from
I each township, as follows:
' 3. H. Miller, Carthage; E. C. Math-
iCson. Bensalem; W'. P. Saunders, Shef-
I fields; Frank Brady, Ritters; O. IT.
I Alexander, Deep River; Leighton Mc-
i Keithen, Greenwood; D. G. Stutz,
j McNeills; C. G. Seymour, Sandhills,
I and Richard S. Tufts, Mineral
Springs.
For some time the County Commis
sion has felt that possibly the citi
zens of the county were somewhat
lax in making demands vpon the gov
ernment for government projects, and
that an advisory or planning board
was needed. With the federal govern-
Moore county, were included in the
same bill. Prominent members of the
bar expressed themselves as of the
opinion that nothing could be done to
stop the sale of liquor in Wilson and
Edgecombe counties, and others
where restraining orders are not is
sued, until the Supreme Court settles
the question in the fall. Wilson and
Edgecombe voters had balloted on
the question before the judicial opin
ions were handed down, the wets
carrying the vote by 10 to 1.
Illegally Passed
The basis of the rulings of Judge
Frizelle and Judge Clawson L. Wil
liams was that the law was pa.ssed
without three votes on three succes-
principal among them being the co
ordination of the work federal, state,
county and municipal officials; edu
cation of such officials; the educa-
tion of the public in what their offi
cers and government are doing; the
stimulation of interest in government
on the part of the youth of the coun
try.
LENA L. CAMERON
PASSES AWAY IN
BALTIMORE, MD.|
j ment making millions available for
Untiiiiely Death Follows Brain I community needs and employment.
Operation at Johns Hopkins some organized effort is essential here
Advanced Flier
“Hill’’ Fisher of Southern
Pines Get« Pilot’s License
at Kelly Field
William Fisher, son of Mrs.
Park W. Fisher, librarian of the
Southern Pines Library, w’a.s grad
uated last Saturday from the gov
ernment s auvaiicf.-d flying field at
Kelly Field, Texa.s, receiving his
pilot's license as an observer, He
has been transferred *to Mitchell
Field, at Hempstead, Long Island,
N. Y., and is now on his way to
report there.
Three other North Carolina boys
were graduated at Kelly Field at
the same time, among them Ed
ward J. Hale of Fayetteville.
Jack Duckworth, 17, Missir Af
ter Sailboat Capsizes i' tv-
er at Jacksonville, lu.
HIS FATHER KILLED HERE
TWO ADDITIONAL
TEACHERS GIVEN
SOUTHERN PINES
Hospital
TELEPHONE CO. CASHIER
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. C. Rexford Raymond, the Rev.
J. Fred Stimson, the Rev. E. L. Bar-
‘When an official has just about iber of Aberdeen, and the Rev. M. D.
McNeill of Cameron, were held at 5
learned his job, he is succeeded by one
entirely unfamiliar with the work the
electorate has assigned him and has
to start not wheie the other fellow
left off, but all over again. Bridging
the gap between outgoing and incom
ing officials is our important work.
Do you know that on May 6th, 1932
aive days in the Assembly, as required j federal, state, county and municipal
of bills which involve the expenditure | officials w'ere brought together in
of public funds. Those counties | the interest of coordinated effort for
which are planning to open stores des-1 the first time in the history of the
o’clock Sunday afternoon in the
Church of Wide Fellowship, Southern
Pines for Miss Lena L. Cameron, who
died in John Hopkins Hospital, Bal
timore, Md„ at 10:30 o’clock Friday
night follow’ing an operation for
brain tumor.
Born in the old homestead five
miles east of Southern Pines on June
9th, 1899, youngest daughter of the
late David H. Cameron and Mary
if Moore county is to avail itself of its
share of such funds. The newiy ap
pointed board is the result.
An organization will be effected at i
the meeting July 1st and the needs ;
of the county along lines in accord- j
ance with federal relief requirements j
will be canvassed. It will be the aim
of the board to see that money is
wisely spent here on worthwhile pro
jects only.
But County School System is
Alloted Same Number as
Last Year, 186
A United States Coast Guard cut
ter, two airplanes and a diver have
been searching the w-aters of St.
John’s River, at Jacksonville, Flor
ida, for the past two days in an ef
fort to locate the body of Jack Duck-
w’orth, 17-year old grandson of Mrs.
Elizabeth J. Silver of Southern Pines,
who disappeared when the boat in
which he and another boy were sailing
upset on Wednesday morning. T' "*
second boy was rescued by fisherme»'
Meagre details have reached here
of the tragic accident. A telegram
received by Charles S. Patch was the
first news of the boy’s disappearance,
and yesterday came word that the
Coa.st Guard, aviators and a diver had
sought in vain for the young man.
Jack is a son of the late John Duck-
w'orth, who was killed on the Scott
farm here some 15 years ago when
I kicked by a horse, and of Mrs. Sil
ver’s daughter. Both Mrs. Silver and
her son Henry Silver were in Jackson
ville at the time of the tragedy.
I The 'ooys went out in a 20-foot sail-
Local Firemen Win
Cups at Fayetteville
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
Bring Back Silver From
Sandhills Convention
pite the rulings are not using public United States? This was at Chapel | Camercn. Lena attended the
Hill, and marked the start of the in-' southern Pines school, and was later
stitute of Government’ program. The ■ graduated from Elise Academy at
work of these men had been overlap-1 g^e became telephone
ping for 150 years without effort be-! operator for the old Leavitt system,
ing made to coordinate it,” Mr. Coates! remaining in the consolidation of that
I system with the Central Carolina Tel-
Studying All Branche* j ephone Company as chief operator
The Institute is making a study of ®“d cashier. Courteous, diligent and
funds, they state.
If the Alcohol Control Boards in
these counties are not spending pub
lic money, about the only thing left
for the contesting dry to do is to seek
to have the authorities indicted for
violating the Turlington Act. If the
grand juries refuse to indict, which
is considered probable, or the author
ities are not convicted in court, the
State cannot appeal. If on the other
hand the authorities are indicted and
convicted of making a mistake as
to which of two laws to obey, it is
quite within the realm of possibility
that they might be allowed to pro
ceed, under a bond, until the Supreme
Court finally decided on the law.
The so-called Pasquotank Act, un
der which McNeills and Mineral
Springs townships are permitted to
act on the liquor question, did not re
quire elections as were required of
whole counties, but petitions for the
operation of stores signed by more
than fifty percent of the qualified
voters of each township for several
weeks, and are said to have been
signed by more than half the quali
fied voters. No petitions have been
circulated as yet in Mineral Springs
township, so far as The Pilot has
learned.
all branches of government, criminal,
the courts, tax departments, adminis
tration of justice, accounting, etc. Its
members follow each subject through
local, county, state and federal chan
nels. Out of all this will come guide
books of the powers and duties of
each and every official; programs for
citizens’ groups and civic organiza
tion; supplemental texts for high
school students; a governmental dem
onstration laboratory where one and
all may see the various systems of
the various branches of their govern
ment; courses in colleges and schools
for teachers and students in the
attentive to the patronage of the bus
iness Miss Cameron was one of the
I most widely known and popular of
the young business women of the
Sandhills, and to this great number
of friends and acquaintances the
news of her removal to the Baltimore
hospital last Wednesday night came
as a distinct shock.
Accompanying her to Baltimore
were her sisters, Mrs. Esther Wicker
and Miss Gussie Cameron and Dr. W.
C. Mudgett. The operation for the
removal of the tumor was performed
Friday morning.
A vast concourse of sympathizers
workings of government, and finally the church Sunday afternoon.
A quartet comprising Mr. and Mrs.
in
DR. McCAIN ON NATIONAL
TUBERCULOSIS ASS’N. BOARD
Dr. James J. Waring, Denver, Col.,
was elected president of the National
Tuberculosis Association at Its an
nual convention In Saranac Lake, N.
Y„ this week.
Dr. James A. Price, Memphis,
Tenn., and Dr. Fred H. Heise, Sara
nac Lake, were chosen vice presi
dents; Dr. Charles J. Hatfield, Phil
adelphia, was named secretary, and
Dr.' Colloer Platt, New York City,
treasurer.
The association’s new executive
committee includes Dr. P. P. McCain
of the N. C. State Sanatorium.
NO INFANTILE HERE
Though a number of new cases of
infantile paralysis have been reported
in the state during the week, no case
is recorded io Moo^ county.
making the Magazine of Govern-
{Please turn to page 8)
Double Header Here
on Afternoon of Fourth
West End to Play Aberdeen and
Pinehurst to Battle South
ern Pines
A baseball double-header will be
played on the Southern Pines diamond
on the afternoon of the Fourth of
July, Charles W. Plcquet of the
Chamber of Commerce baseball com-
Charles W. Picquet, Thomas Kelly
and Miss Dorothy Richardson ren
dered “How Firm a Foundation,”
"Peace, Perfect Peace,” and "God in
His Many Ways.”
Many followed the funeral corsage
to the family plot in Mount Hope
Cemetery. Surviving members of the
family are her mother Mrs. D. H.
Cameron; three brothers, D. D. Cam-1
eron, of Aberdeen, ‘ Clifton and Thom
as of Southern Pines, and four sis
ters, Mrs. Esther Wicker of Ham
let, and the Misses Mary, Rebecca
and Gussie of Southern Pines.
Pinehurst and Southern Pines fire
men returned from the couvi*ntion of
the Sandhills Firemen’s Association,
held at Fayetteville on Wednesday,
with silver loving cups. The Pine
hurst team was second in the water
event, Soufhe»u Pines second in the
chemical. Sanford won both the water
anS chemical events.
On the teams were: Pinehurst—El
lis Fields, captain; Travis W'icker,
Albert Veno, Norman Carcutt (?),
Leonard Barrett, Bob Barrett, Curtis
Mackenzie, Harold Kelly and Charles
Fry. Southern Pines—L. S. Powell,
captain; Tom Vann, Harold McNeill,
Alden Bowers, Johnnie Cameron,
Barrett Harris, Oscar Michaels, Har
old Maples and J. H. Cashion.
Fire Chief L. V. O’Callaghan, re
tiring president of the association,
presided at the convention and was
among the speakers. Officers elected
for the new year were Sam W. Til-
linghast. chief of the Fayetteville de
partment, president; Chief G. G. Dor-
sett of Sanford, vice president, and
Fred W. Deal of Fayetteville, secre
tary. The Southern Pines firemen ex
pect to go to Wilmington in August
to compete at the State convention.
The next Sandhills association con
vention will be held at Lumberton.
MRS. GRAEFER, RESIDENT
HERE 15 YEARS, PASSES
K'a WORD ON GYMNASIUM Wednesday morning, tak-
ing their bicycles in the boat with
In the tentative allotments of them with the plan in view to sail
teachers made this week by the State ^ certain point from which they
School Commission, Moore county is "’'ere to take a ride. While out in the
given 186 teachers, the same as the river the boat suddenly capsized and
past school year, but Southern Pines’s sank. Men fishing nearby rescued
allotment is increased from 29 teach- young Duckworth’s companion, but
ers to 31. Superintendent Webster ex- J®^ck failed to come up. It is believ-
pects to have his faculty list com- probable that he became entan-
pleted by next w'eek, with a number in his bicycle on the river’s
of changes to be announced then. bottom. A diver was sent down near
Tentative allotments of 23,042 the scene of the accident but could
teachers for the 1935-36 term of the find no trace of the body.
State-supported school system w’ere Young Duckworth has visited his
announced Wednesday by the com- grandmother in Southern Pines on
mission. 'occasion. He was a likeable and
The number of teachers exceeded promising youth, and those who know
by about 100 the tentative allotments him here were grief-stricken at the
made last summer but was 280 short news.
of the 23,322 finally employed last
year. The basis of the allotments Lewis, Former U.
was the same both years. CJ • * T\*
Both the county and city may be O. LOmitllSSlOner, DieS
alloted additional teachers when re-
adjustments are made. No teachers Illness of Several Months Fatal
were alloted high schools of less than To Prominent Resident of
60 pupils, according to the State law, Aberdeen
but may be alloted if geopraphic con.
ditions demands. Schaals which do ^ Lewis, of Aberdeen, former
not have classrooms sufficient to ac- United States Commissioner in this
commodate the number of teachers Prominent Mason and long
to which they are entitled may add engaged in the automobile business
those rooms and receive additional here, died in the Moore County Hospi-
teachers. For these and other reasons, ^al last Sunday afternoon of cirrhosis
the commission expects employment the liver, following an illness of
of teachers to exceed the 1934-35 fig- several months. He leaves a wide clr-
cle of friends throughout Moore
No word has been heard here as yet <^ounty.
from the application of the Southeru Besides his wife, who was Miss
Pines School Board to the Public Margaret Brewer, he leaves survlv-
Works Administration for a loan and *ng him. six brothers. J. A. Lewis,
grant for the erection of a school gym- Slocomb, Ala.; B. F. Lewis, of Ashe-
nasium and auditorium. Secretary boro; E. M. and J. D. Lewis, of Pine-
Ralph Chandler of the board said this hurst; L. M. Lewis, of Eagle Springs;
mittee announced yesterday. At 2:00 DEDICATE NEW EUREKA
o'clock West End will meet Aberdeen
and at 4:00 o’clock Pinehurst will
tackle Southern Pines. These are the
American Legion Junior League
teams, now competing In a fast and
furious summer league race, and are
regularly scheduled games that will
count In the standing.
The youngsters have been putting
up a good brand of ball of late and
deserve the patronage of the fans.
Mrs. Betty M. Graefer, a resident of
Southern Pines for the past 15 years,
died in her home at 45 North Ashe
street early Tuesday morning. Fun
eral services were held in her late res
idence at 8:00 o’clock Wednesday eve
ning, the Rev. C. Rexford Raymond
of the Church of Wide Fellowship of
ficiating. Mrs. Graefer is survived by
The new brick Eureka Presbyterian two sisters, the Misses Johanna C.
Church building will be fittingly ded- j and Gesine Dosher of Southern Pines.
The body was taken north for In
terment in the family plot in Green
wood cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.
CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY
week.
and C. S. Lewis of Hemp; and four
sisters; Mrs. Vina McKenzie of Wa-
_ ._ ^ &ram; Mrs. N. A. Morrisonn, of Clin-
Carthage May Get C/CL ton; Mrs. James Bailey, of Eagle
Soil Erosion Camp springs; and Mrs. E. C. Bailey of
Fayetteville.
Funeral services were held at Ben
salem Church at 3 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon, under the auspices of the
Moore County Burial Association,
Officials Look Favorably on Site
Near County Seat Offered
bv C. F. Barnes
Icated on Sunday. There will be a
preaching service at 11 o’clock when
the Rev. J. K. Roberts, of Joint Pleas
ant, West Virginia, a son of the foun
der of the church, the late Rev. J. K.
Roberts, will be in the pulpit. Anoth
er son, the Rev. Phillip A. Roberts
As there are no other plans for the! of Staunton, Virginia, will speak at
Fourth In Southern Pines It Is expect- the afternoon service. The Rev. W. S.
ed that a large crowd will be on hand Golden of Carthage Is the present pas-
for the double bill. I tor of the Eureka church.
JUNIOR ORDER PICNIC
Members of the Junior Order, Unit
ed American Mechanics, and their
wives and families enjoyed a picnic
at Aberdeen Lake Wednesday even
ing.
Mr. Lee from the High Point office with the Rev. E. L. Barber offlclat-
was In Carthage Saturday to look ing.
6ver a location for a proposed CCC
soil erosion Vamp, and expressed REV. WILLIAM P. MERRILL, <TR.
himself as being well pleased with a DIES IN NEW YORK AT 25
site near Carthage offered by C. F.' —
Barnes. However, nothing definite is The Rev. William Pierson Merrill,
knowTi as yet, but Moore county offi- Jr., son of the pastor of the Brick
I clals who are watching developments Presbyterian Church In New York
I are hopeful of the camp’s being es- City and a nephew of Miss Mary Mer-
j tablished. rill of Southern Pines, died in New
Moore county has been allotted one York Hospital on June 17th. Though
more camp, it is said, but the loca- but 25 years of age, he had already
tlon will have to be decided upon by shown marked promise in his chos-
army officers and recommendations en profession and bid fair to follow
sent to Atlanta for final action. In the footsteps of an illustrious fath-
The site offered by Mr. Bames is er, minister to one of the leading con-
near the Carthage water line and gregatlons of the metropolis,
electric line and contains plenty of Surviving, besides his father and
land for the proposed camp, which mother, Is a brother, Ernest Merrill,
will employ around two hundred men. and his aunt here.