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VOL. 15A, NO. 32.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, July 5, 1935.
INFANTILE NEED
NOTCAUSE GREAT
ALARM^AYSU.S.
Dr. Gilliam of U. S. Public Health
Service Cites Figures To
Quiet Fears
COUNSELS CALM CAUTION
Despite the fact that more than 200
cases of poliomyelitis^ more common
ly known as infantile paralysis, have
been reported in tne state, it is of a
doubtful epidemic stage, it was sta-
ed by Dr. A. G. Gilliam, of the
United States Public Health Service,
who is making Greensboro his head
quarters for the present in studying
the situation throughout the state.
Dr. Gilliam cited figures showing
that in the city of New York during
1916 at one time there were three
cases of infantile paralysis per 1.000
inhabitants, or a ratio 48 times great
er than that which prevails in North
Carolina at present, which is one case
per 16,000 inhabitants .
C'ompurison of Hatios
Taking the statement of Dr. J.
P. Lreake, senior surgeon of the Unit
ed States Public Health Service, a
city of 100,000 inhabitants may ex
pect a normal record of one case from
December to June and nine cases
from June through the autumn
months, or 10 cases per year.
Applying this ratio to North Car
olina as a whole with an estimated
population of approximately 3,300,000
a normal record would be about 330
cases per year, or 297 cases during
the summer months, which is con
siderably greater than the number
of cases reported so far.
Each year many more children
die of dlphctheria, a disease against
which an effective vaccine has been
developed, than there are cases of
infantile paralysis now. The infan
tile mortality rate from pneumonia
is also greater than the number of in
fantile cases at present. Other di
seases also have a greater ratio as
far as the number of cases is con
cerned.
If* Serlou-s Disease
Dr. Gilliam impressed the fact,
however, that infantile paralysis is
a serious disease and one for which
all proper precautions should be taken,
but he urged a calm attitude toward
the situation without undue alarm.
In North Carolina, according to
the chart shown by Dr. Gilliam, the
disease is centered in that section
made up of Wake, Johnston and Har
nett counties, with cases scattered
sporadically over the eastern coun
ties.
"The trend of the outbreak shows
that it follows the avenue of great
est public exposure and contact with
the greatest number of cases in thick
ly populated areas, but the infection
is not limited to such areas by any
means,” it is pointed out. “A person
going into large crowds or publicly
used places naturally increac” his
chances of taking the disease; yet on
the other hand such a person may not
take the disease while a rural child
with few contacts may be afflicted.
It’s something one cannot run away
from, but reasonable precaution is to
be urged."
New P. O. Open
Postmaster Dudgeon and
Staff Move Into New
Building in Pinehurst
Pinehurst’s new brick postoffice is
open for business. The move from the
old leased quarters on Market Square
was completed last week, and Post
master Frank Dudgeon and his effi
cient staff of wo'kers are now en-
scounced in the modern building oppo
site the Carolina Theatre. All the lat
est equipment for the proper handling
of mail, stamps and money orders is
to be found in the building, which is
light and airy as well as architec
turally attractive.
“And there is no increase in the
price of stamps,” Mr. Dudgeon said
when congratulated on the appear,
ance of his new office.
JACK DUCKWORTH
DIED IN EFFORT TO
SAVE BOY FRIEND
Body of Youthful Grandson of
Mrs. Silver Recovered Day
After Drowning
FOUND 5 MILES AWAY
Site for CCC Camp
Tentatively Chosen
Government Officials To Look
Over C. F. Barnes Property
In Carthage
A tract of land, the property of C.
F. Barnes, living back of the Snipe.‘<
Service Station, near Carthage has
been tentatively selected as the site
for a proposed COC camp to be lo
cated in that section. Government
officials here a few days ago went
over this land and expressed them
selves as highly pleased with the fa
cilities it offers for the camp in pros
pect.
Army engineers from Atlanta, Ga.,
it is reported, will come to Carthage
at an early date to look over the
site picked for the camp, and if It
meets their approval, the government
will immediately take the necessary
steps to procure it for the purpose.
Moore cou:aty has one CCC camp at
Jackson Springs, Its members being
engaged in forestry work and anoth
er in process of construction near
Southern Pines.
The body of Jack Duckworth, 17-
year old son of Mrs. D. J. Mynihan
and grandson of Mrs. Elizabeth J.
Silver of Southern Pines, was recov
ered from the waters of St. Johns
River at Jacksonville, Florida, last
Thursday morning, a day after he
was drowned when the boat in which
he and another boy were sailing cap
sized. It was located five miles from
the point at which the steel sailboat
sank.
That Jack died in a hero role was
revealed when more details of the
tragedy were learned this week upon
the return to Southern Pines of Mrs.
Mynihan and Mrs. Silver. Jack’s
youthful companion, 14 years old,
was held above the water despite a
choppy sea and strong tide by young
Duckworth until a fisherman, par
alyzed in one arm, arrived on the
scene and hauled the lad aboard his
boat. By the time he had succeeded
in saving the younger boy. Jack had
disappeared beneath the river’s sur
face and was never seen alive again.
It is apparent that he had used up his
last ounce of strength in saving the
life of his friend.
Mrs. Mynihan, mother of young
Jack by a former marriage, is mak
ing her home temporarily with Mrs.
Silver in Southern Pines. Jack was an
alumnus of Farm Life School at Eu
reka, which he attended for two years
some time ago.
Funeral services were held at the
grave in Evergreen Cemetery in
Jacksonville at 10 o’clock last Friday
morning.
Hailie Freeman Bride
in Home Ceremony
Aberdeen Girl, U. N. C. Alumna,
W’eds Francis Eli Wishart
of Lumberton
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
ON SEPT. 5 WITH
FACULTY OF 17
Superintendent Webster An
nounces Personnel for Fall
Term in Southern Pines
New Advisory Planning Board
Names Richard Tufts Chairman
North Carolina
FIVE CENW
Projects Chairman
LIQUOR STORE
PROPOSED HERE
BEFORE THE FALL
12 AT SUMMER SCHOOLS
With one exception, the faculty of
Southern Pines schools has been com
pleted for the fall term, which opens
on Thursday. September 5th. The
schools will have two more teacher
than last term, and in a number of
instances, grades will have different
teachers through reassignments.
Superintendent Frank W. Webster
announces the list, with the one ex
ception of a 5th and 6th grade teach
er, as follows:
1st Grade. Jessie Dwight. South,
ern Pines; 2d. Marjorie Skinner, Eliz-
aber City; 1st and 2d, Emilie May
Wil.son, Southern Pines; 3d, Sai'ah
Goggins. Cross Hill, S. C.; 3d and
4th. Je.ssie Fitzgerald, Monroe; 4th,
Ellen W. Brown, Southern Pines; 5th,
Selma Stegall, Marshville; 6th, Ann
P. Huntington, Southern Pines; 5th
and 6th, to be announced next week.
High School—Sara Falkener, Golds
boro (Geography, English and Dra
matics ); Ruth W. Warner, Southern
Pines (Commercial); Pauline Miller,
Statesville (English); Janie H. Sim-
merman, Fayetteville (Mathematics
and Latin); Marvin N. Hunter, Hun
tersville (Mathematics and Science);
Belmont Freeman, Ellerbe (Social
Science and French); Philip Weaver,
Winston-Salem (Social Science and
Physical Education); Frank W. Web
ster, Charlotte (Mathematics).
The 7th grade will be included with
the High School this coming year,
with departmental work done from
grades seven through 11.
Many at Summer School.s
A large number of the local faculty
are attending summer schools. Mrs.
Jessie Dwight is at Appalachian
State Teachers’ College at Boone:
Pauline Miller, Marvin Hunter and
Belmont Freeman at the University at
Group to Consider Projects For
Use of Federal Funds in
Moore County
The Moore County Advisory Plan,
ning Board, appointed recently by the
Board of County Commissioners,
held its organization meeting in joint
session with the county board on Mon.
day and elected Richard S. Tufts of
Pinehurst chairman. Howard F. ported to have signed up for a le-
Burns, city clerk of Southern Pines, | gaily controlled liquor store in South,
secretary. | pines, with well over 50 percent
Tlie purpose of the new board is | of the qualified voters on the list, it
to consider worthy projects submit-1 stated by authorities here this
ted to it by citizens or organizations , week that it is not planned to make
of the county, and to foi’ward to the application to the Pasquotank
County Commission those which it County Control Board for a license
approves. All projects submitted will befoie the fall.
be studied and considered in the light -we wanted a store pi'imarily for
Petitioners Plan to Await Decis
ion of Supreme Court on
Legality
AND WINTER SEASON
Although McNeills township is re-
KICH.VRD S. TUFTS
SEAWELL SCORES
APPOINTMENTS TO
PROJECTS BOARD
County Commission Not Carry
ing Out President Roose
velt’s Pronouncement
of public interest and in means of
financing. A number of projects were
discussed at the organization meeting
on Monday and one. the proposed
new wing for the over-crowded Moore
County Hospital, forwarded to the
County Commission with the new
board's approval. Another informal
ly discussed was the making over of
Thagards Lake into a county recrea
tion center, but no action was taken
on this.
The Advisory Planning Board, the
members of which are S. H. Miller,
those northerners who winter here
who come from states where liquor
is dispensed legally and who object
to being told they can’t have it
here,” one official said this week.
“There* is nothing to be gained by
applying now for our store, and
much might be lost. The Supreme
Court might decide the Pasquotank
Act unconstitutional and null and
void, and ’.ve would have been to the
needless expense of opening a store.”
He also stated that qualified voters
in the township were still signing pe-
Carthage; E. C. Matheson, Bensalem; j titions, adding "the more the better.
W. P. Saunders, Sheffields; Frank ■w’e want to go to the Control Board
CALLS BOARD PARTISAN
The Moore county Board of Com
missioners is not carrying out Pres
ident Roosevelt’s dictate to “keep the
matter of Federal expenditures out
of politics,” Herbert F. Seawell, Jr.,
Carthage attorney and Republican
leader charges in a statement given
The Pilot this week. He condemns the
Commission for failure to name a
Cha7erHin7Mlrlo7ie7krnreVrt W^^ Independent or Republican” on
liam and Mary in Williamsburg, Vir-
^ Seaw'ell say:
ginia; Emilie May Wilson at the Wo
men’s College, U. N. C. at Greens
boro; Sara Falkener in Columbia Un
iversity, New York; Ruth Warner at
Bowling Green College in Kentucky;
Ellen Brown in Keene Normal School
at Keene, N. H.; Jessie Fitzgerald at
Harvard University; Philip Weaver
at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory
and Mr. Webster at Columbia in New
York.
Frederick Stanley Smith will again
have charge of music in the schools.
Phillip Weaver of Winston-Salem is
the new member of the faculty in
Mr. Webster’s announcement, and the
second new member will be a teacher
for the 5th and 6th grades in addi
tion to Miss Stegall and Miss Hunt
ington. Mr. Weaver will act as phy.
sical culture director in addition to
his teaching duties.
“Last week’s issue of The Pilot
carried a front page article showing
that the County Commisioner had ap
pointed a board of several men to
make recommendation with respect to
Federal projects in Moore county.
President Roosevelt has made it
known that he intends to keep the
matter of Federal expenditures out
of politics. Sixty per cent of taxes
paid in the Town of Carthage are
paid by Independents and Republicans.
The some ratio holds good throughout
the county with Mie exception of cor.
poration taxes. It is indeed signifi
cant to note that not a single In
dependent or Republican was appoint
ed to the committee by the Commis
sioners.
“Taxation without representation
is tyranny and always will be. The
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Brady, Ritters; O. U. Alexander. Deep
River; Leighton McKeithen, Green,
wood; D. G. Stutz, McNeills: C. G.
Seymour, Sandhills, and Richard S.
Tufts, Mineral Springs, will hold a
meeting at the courthouse in Carth.
age on Monday afternoon, July 15th
ft 3:00 o’clock to consider such pro.
jects as arc submitted to it at that
time or sent in to the chairman, Mr.
Tufts, before that date.
No action was taken by the Coun
ty Commission on Monday on a let
ter received from H. F. Seawell, Jr.,
copy of which appears in another
column of The Pilot this week.
County Orders Eight
Steel School Buses
Government Helps Relieve
Crowded Situation in Trans
porting Children
In order to relieve the crowded sit.
uation in the transporting of child,
ren to the Moore county schools, the
county and the federal government
will purchase eight new steeUbodied
fireproof buses at a cost of $1,000
each, the county meeting fifty-five
per cent of the cost and the federal
government the remaining forty-five
per cent.
These buses will be distributed as
follows: Hemp, two; Aberdeen, Pine
hurst, W'est End, Carthage, Cameron
and Vass, one each.
Last year the county operated fif.
ty-seven buses, transporting a total of
2,800 pupils. A number of the buSes
were pompelled to make two trips
daily. The addition of eight new buses
will not eliminate entirely the neces-
sity of two trips by some of the
buses, but it will help in this way
and will do much to relieve the
crowded conditions which exist due
with a large percentage of public
opinion in the community on our
side. There has been little question
about the feeling of the voters in
other counties that have passed on
the subject, and there appears to be
a definite trend here toward some
method of legal control of the li
quor question.”
Mineral Springs township, also
permitted under the Paisquotank Act
to submit a petition signed by more
than 50 percent of the qualified vot
ers of the township, has not as 'yet
circulated petitions, it is understood,
but is developing sentiment for a
store in Pinehurst and will in all
probability circulate its referendum in
the early fall.
Six counties have already voted
favorably on controlled liquor stores,
all by substantial majorities. These
were Beaufort, Vance, New Hanov(»i,
Craven, Edgecombe and Wilson.
Nine more will vote tomorrow, Sat
urday. The first legal liquor store in
the state in 26 years opened in Wil
son on Tuesday. In all, 18 counties
and the two Moore county townships
are permitted to vote under acts of
the last General Assembly.
Hawes Tells Kiwanis
of Harbor Defences
Club Votes To Send Delegates to
See Governor on Wine Law
Enforcement
Characterized by beauty and charm
ing Mimplicity was the wedding of
Mis^ Hailie Elizabeth Freeman of
Aberdeen and Francis ’ill W'ishart of
Lumberton, which was solemnized
last Saturday morning, at the home
of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Emerson Freeman, on the
Southern Pines Road. Dr. C. H. Dur
ham of Lumberton officiated, using
the impressive ring ceremony.
Prior to the ceremony Mrs. Arah
Gatlin Stuart, aunt of the bride, ren
dered a program of nuptial music.
The bridal chorus from “Lohengrin”
wus played as the couple entered the
living-room, where the vows were
spoken.
There were no attendants, the bride
being met at the flower decked stair
way by the bridegroom, who entered
from the den. The bride was lovely In
a modish coat costume of dusty pink
crepe, with brown accessories. Her
flowers were an arm bouquet of pink
rose buds and lilies of the valley.
Mrs. Wishart is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Emerson Free-
man of Aberdeen. She Is a graduate
of W. C. U. N. C., and during the
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Simon Newcomb Second on List of
Hall of Fame Recommendations
A list of famous Americans, which, Gee of Southern Pines. In a brief
the committee on nominations of the | sketch published in connection with
Hall of Fame electors voted “most nomination for the Hall of Fame,
worthy of consideration by the entire
College of Electors for the eighth
quinquennial election this year to the
shrine on the campus of New York
University, contains three names of
interest to this community, Simon
Newcomb, Frederick Law Olmstead
and Elisha Kent Kane.
From the list of 76 placed in nomi
nation, six have received a majority
vote of the committee, Qrover Cleve
land, Simon Newcomb, William Penn,
Henry George, Cyrus H. McCormick
and Henry D. Thoreau. The final bal
lots will be cast between October 1st
and October 15th and the results
made known in November. Of the
full list of 76 candidates, 53 were pro
posed this year and 23 held over from
the 1930 election by reason of having
received 20 or more votes then.
Simon Newcomb, who in the vote of
the committee on nominations ranked
Simon Flexner, director of the Rocke
feller Institute of Medical Research,
says of Mr. Newcomb:
International Fame
“The preeminent position of Simon
"Our Harbor Defences” was the
subject of a talk by Col. (3«orpe P.
Hawes, U. S. Army retired, before
the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen in the
Church of Wide Fellowship, Southern
Pines, Wednesday noon. He told In
terestingly of submarine m^ines and
how they are laid, of land batteries,
mortars artillery, and of anti-air-
; guns
The club voted to send two dele-
PROSPECTS FOR HOSriT.-XL j gates to a conference with Govern-
WING LOOK FAVOR.VBLE , or Ehringhaus on Monday afternoon
at 3:30 o'clock to discuss enforce-
Plans are rapidly taking shape
looking to early construction of the
proposed new wing for the Moore
County Hospital. Application is ex
pected to be made to the Public
Works Administration within
Newcomb, mathematician sind astron- ^ext two weeks for a 45 percent grant
omer, in American science, Is recog-1 toward the addition. Other funds are
nized internationally. As is so often believed to be In sight from private
true of astronomers and mathemati-1 contributions and from the county,
cians, he was precocious. At the age ’ Plans are now being prepared by a
of 23 he assisted in the preparation of
the American Nautical Almanac, of
which he subsequently became direc
tor. He filled chairs of mathematics
at the U. S. Naval Observatorj' in
Washington, and of mathematics and
astronomy at the Johns Hopkins Un
iversity in Baltimore. But It Is his
papers embodying original research
and his instructive books on astron
omical subjects which preserve his
fame.
"Simon Newcomb received the high-
Greensboro architect. The proposed
wing will care for numerous addltlon-
n' private patients as well as ward
patients.
ment of laws pertaining to the impor
tation of wine in North Carolina. A
large delegation from the Sandhills
i.’? to meet with the Governor in the
interest of the Garrett Company,
the I which plans to again operate its
plant in Aberdeen if it can be assur
ed protection from wines now alleged
to be illegally sent into the state.
John N. Howarth of the Carolina
Power & Light Company was wel
comed Into the Kiwanis Club at Wed-
nesday’s meeting as a new member,
the Rev. J. Fred Stimson making the
address.
second only to Grover Cleveland, was j honors from foreign universities
the father of Dr. Anita Newcomb Me- (Please turn to page 5)
PEACH CROP NEEDS RAIN
Rain Is greatly needed throughout
the peach belt to put the finishing
touches on what has looked all
spring like a splendid crop. The grow
ers are somewhat worried about the
proper maturing of the fruit if the
dry spell continues. A slight fall of
rain in some parts of the county ear-
K- in the week helped some, but more
NEW OFFICE BUILDING IN
SOUTHERN PINES OPENS
Reinecke & Company, contractors,
and W. Duncan Matthews, attorney,
moved into their new building on
East Penn.sylvania avenue this week.
The building, newest in downtowTi
Southern Pines, was completed last
week and Is a graceful addition to
the business district.