MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 34.
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PILOT
FIRST IN N'EW’S,
CIUCLLATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, July 19, 1935.
OVER $300,000 IN
PROJECTS OFFERED
PLANNING BOARD
Quarter Million Dollar Schools
Program Submitted at
First Meeting
AIRPORT AID ASKED
Projects totaling in coat well over
$300,000 were submitted to the Moore
County Planning Board at its first
meeting held on Monday in Carthage.
Principal among the items was a
program for school buildings, addi
tions and improvements throughout
the county.
County Superintendent of Schools
submitted a request for sums for va
rious school projects as follows;
Eureka, $14,500; Pinehurst, $22,.
450; Carthage, $42,200; Cameron $8-
875; West End $30,000; Aberdeen,
$16,600; Vass, $5,200; Hemp, $65.-
000; Southern Pines, $52,000, a total
of 256,825. In a number of instances,
more than one project is involved in
the amount given, no single project
being for more than $25,000. This
would make the projects eligible for
funds from the new Works Progress
Administration, and Secretary Ho-
waid Burns of the board was instruct
ed to take the matter up with both
the WPA and the Public Works Ad
ministration for information on the
possibilities.
An expenditure of some $45,000 for
building 3,000 sanitary privies in the
county was asked by Dr. J. Syming
ton, county health officer. The board
referred this back to the health de
partment with the suggestion that
property owners be urged to build
their own privies.
Enlarse Flying Field
Lloyd Yost of the Knollwood Air
port submitted a project for the en
largement and improvement of the
local flying field, making it available
for transport planes. He cited instan
ces of such planes desiring to land
here and finding the field too small,
one case involving Senator William G.
McAdoo, former Secretary of the
Treasury. A committee comprising
Richard Tufts. D. G. Stutz and
Howard Burns wag* named to con
sider the proposition.
Rebuilding of the old Ridge Road
from Juniper Lake to Pinehurst was
another project submitted to the
board. The applicants were referred
to the C. C. C. E. H. Garrison, Jr.,
county agent, asked for funds for
building a fence at the County Home
and was referred to relief headquar-
ters at Sanford for the necessary la
bor.
The plan to make a recreation park
and fishing center of Thagards Pond
was discussed. Members of the board
seemed favorable to the proposition
provided the land surrounding the
lake could be purchased at a reason
able figure. The proposal was tabled
temporarily, that owners of the land
might be interviewed.
The only project which was recom
mended to the Board of County Com
missioners was the investigation of
relief rolls In the county, as suggest
ed editorially in The Pilot of last
week.
The Planning Board plans another
meeting within the next two weeks.
Summary of New State Laws
as They Affect Moore County
“New Deal” Crops Pay
Farmers Better Here
Moore Cotton and Tobacco Grow
ers Received Half Million
More in ’34 Than ’32
The income of Moore county far
mers from their cotton and tobacco
crops was $518,017 larger in 1934
than in 1932, according to E. H. Gar
rison, Jr., county agent.
In 1932 they sold 1,465 bales at
6.4 cents a pound for a total of $43,-
490, and 1,708,895 pounds of leaf at
12.2 cents a pound for a total of
$208,485—or $251,017 for both crops.
Last year, under the AAA prog,
rooms, they sold 1,872 bales at $60
each for a total of $88,320, and re.
ceived benefit payments of $14,341.
This brought the total cotton income
to $102,661.
They also sold 2,172,800 pounds of
tobacco at an average of 27 cents a
pound to make a total of $586,656,
and received benefit payments of $80,-
Institute of Government Pre
pares Digest of Acts of Late
General Assembly
Following a practice inaugurated
in 1933, the Institute of Government
at Chapel Hill has issued a summary
of new’ local laws passed by the late
General Assembly as they affect
Moore county. The summary was pre
pared by Henry Brandis, Dillard S.
Gardner and T. N. Grice, and released
for publication this week.
The public generally is acquainted
with the law passed which exempts
McNeills and Mineral Springs town
ships from the Turlington Act on pe
tition of a majority of the qualified
voters of these townships. Other laws
with which readers of The Pilot may
not be familiar are listed from the
reports, as follows: *
House Bill 1455, effective June 1,
1935, provides that the salary of the
Sheriff of Moore shall not be less
than $300 per month, and his expense
allowance shall be not less than $1,-
000 per year, In addition to the fees
allowed by law for services in civil
and criminal cases.
Cliapter 296, Public Laws, appoint
ed John W. Graham, F. H. Under
wood, F. W. Von Cannon, W. P. Saun
ders and W. B. Graham to membor-
shlp on the Coimty Board of Educa
tion, each to'serve for 2 years.
Chapter 295, Public Laws, appoint
ed the following Justices of the
Peace for Moore, each to serve for 6
years; Carthage Township — A. G.
Martin; McNeill’s Township—N. H.
Arnette; Sheffield's Township—W. H.
Scott, S. L. Brown and W. J. Bald
win; Sand Hill Township—A. D. Mc
Lean, (4) These appointments were
supplemented by House Bill 1456,
%vhich appointed A. S. Newcomb to
act as a Justice in Mineral Springs
Town.«hlp for 2 years.
Senate Bill 642 requires that all
maps, plats, blue prints filed for rec
ord in the office of the Register of
Deeds shall be recorded by photostat
ic copy thereof, the cost and filing
fee not to exceed $3.
Other Local
Chapter 118, Public Laws, requires
that a calendar for each January,
May and August term of Superior
Court in Moore be prepared by the
Clerk under the supervision of the
Solicitor. The calendar is to be print
ed, and 25c is to be taxed as cost in
each case to pay^ the expense. Wit
nesses and defendants at liberty on
bail are required to attend court only
on the day for which their cases are
calendared. The Chapter further pro
vides that, except In felony cases,
where the defendant has been held to
bail for 3 successive terms (exclusive
of the term to which bail was return
able) and has not asked for a contin
uance of hia case, the case must be
nol pressed without leave.
Chapter 77, Public Laws, makes
Moore subject to the provisions of sec
tion 1864 of the Consolidated Statutes,
which provides that the owned of do
mestic fowls is guilty of a misdemean
or if, after notice, he allows such
fowls to run at large over the lands of
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THIEF GETS CASH IN
ABERDEEN RESIDENCE
Going Great Guns
Johnny Allen, Former Aber-
deenian Pitching Fine IJall
For New York Yankees
I Johnny Allen, who used to clerk in
I the Aberdeen Hotel, is going great
guns for the New
York Yankees, and
is one reason why
they are out In
front in the AmerU
can League. The for
mer Thoma.svllle Or
phanage youngster
last week held the
Chicago White Sox
to two hits, the only
two men to reach
first for the White
JOHNNY ALLEN Sox In the game. He
struck out nine and has a good chance
to annex the league's strikeout
championship.
BIDDLE APPOINTED
BY ROOSEVELT TO
DIPLOMATIC POST
Brother of L. L. Uiddle. II of
Pinehurst Named Minister
to Norway
OCCASIONAL VISITOR HERE
The residence of T. M. Sharpe in
Aberdeen was entered last Sunday
night while the occupants of the
house were fesleep and several dollars
in change taken from the rooms of
Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe and Mrs. John
son, who rooms there. Entrance was
made by breaking the lock on a
porch screen door.
The prints of bare feet, apparently
those of a young man, were found
about the house. The pocketbooks
were found on a table, with all their
conteAts except money. \
JOHN NEV^TOX LILLIE, 59,
DIES IN ALTON BAY, N. H.
John Newton Lillie, aged 59 years,
a resident of Southern Pines for the
past 17 years, died in Alton Bay, N.
H., on July 10th. Funeral services
were held there on the 12th. Mr. Lil
lie, born in Putnam, N. Y., on Feb
ruary 27th, 1876, teame to Southern
Pines in 1917, engaging in the groc
ery business in the Welch Block. He
had a home at 7 North Page street.
He is survived by his widow.
The nomination of Anthony J. Drex-
el Biddle, Jr., of Newport, R. I., for
merly cf Philadelphia, as Minister to
Norway was sent to the United
States Senate on Monday by Presi
dent Roosevelt, and was confirmed on
Wednesday.
Mr. Biddle is a brother of Living
ston L. Biddle, II, of Pinehurst and
iias been an occasional guest here,
and Mr. and Mrs. Livingston Biddle
spent some time in the Biddle New
port residence last summer. The first
wife of "Tony” Biddle, as he is fa
miliarly known, was a member of the
Duke family of this state. ^
The vacancy in Norway came about
through the promotion of Hoffman
Philip, U. S. Alinister there, to the
ambassadorship at Chile. Mr. Biddle
is a prominent Philadelphian of one
of that city’s leading families. He
was educated in Philadelphia schools
and at St. Paul's School, Concord, N.
H. He served in the American Army
in France and also as a liaison officer
with the Navy during the World War,
and now holds a commi.gslon as lieu
tenant colonel in the U. S. Marine
Corps Reserves. Before his nomina
tion as Minister to Norway he was
mentioned for everal other diplomat-
ic posts, including Minister to the
Irish Free State.
Only Case of Infantile
in County Proves Fatal
Eight-Year Old Son of Mrs. Da
vid Baker of Clay Road
Farm Succumbs
Infantile paralysis claimed its first
victim In Moore county last week
when the eight-year-old son of Mrs.
David Baker, who resides on the Clay
Road farm some four or five miles
west of Vass, succumbed. The child
became ill on Sunday and passed
away Wednesday morning. His throat
was paralyzed. So far as is known the
child had not been in contact with
a case of the disease. No other case
has been reported in Moore county.
Mr. Baker passed away about a
year ago, but the mother and several
other children survive.
Only 95 cases of infantile in the
state remain in the contagious stage.
State Board of Health officials said
Wednesday. The Incidence of the di
sease has been declining for the past
ten days as compared with the cor
responding period in June.
TWIN DAUGHTERS BORN TO
MR. AND MRS. CURRIE DAVIS
SYMINGTON TELLS
KIWANIS MEMBERS
OF POLMYELITIS
hat Infantile Paralysis is and
What To Do About it
Subject of Talk
ALSO WARNS OF RABIES
Mr. and Mrs. Currie Davis an
nounce the birth of twin daughters on
July 13th at the Moore County Hos
pital.
What Infantile paralysis is, how to
tell if you have It, and what to do
about It was the subject of a talk
made Wednesday by Moore county’s
health officer. Dr. J. Symington, be
fore the Klwanis Club at Its weekly
meeting held In the Aberdeen Com
munity House.
The symptoms are these, he said:
Feeling ill, followed by pains In arms,
legs or other muscles, followed by
fevei-, possibly diarrhoea, indigestion
or vomiting.
There is no special treatment, but
avoid quack medicines. See your fam
ily doctor at once. Much harm is done
by neglect. Rest; stay in bed. Par
ticularly rest the limb affected. Keep
well fed. Injections from serums tak
en from convalescent patients have
been found beneficial.
Infantile paralysis, or poliomyelitis,
is not a new disease. Dr. Symington
told the club, but one on which papers
were written as far back as 1840.
It Is worldwide, but the north suf
fers more than the tropics. It Is a
hot. dry weather disease. The worst
epidemic was In 1916 around New
York. North Carolinia has had had
few cases before now. Statistics show
that 90 percent of the cases have
been of children under 10 years of
age, a majority under three, and that
it attacks boys more than girls, the
ratio being about three to two. There
seems to be a higher percentage of
cases in the country than In cities.
Few Fully Kero\er
About 15 percent of infantile pa
tients die. Of the balance. 15 percent
fully recover, 85 percent suffer per
manent impairments. The best diag
nosis Is made by a test of the spinal
fluid of a suspected case.
It is safest for children to avoid
crowds, he stated. Asked about
churches, Sunday Schools and other
schools, he advised that where pos
sible services or classes be held out
of dcors, but that in any event, rooms
should be well ventilated where
crowds are to foregather.
Dr. Symington also talked about
the dangers of rabies in the state and
county, citing a number of cases
where mad dogs have attacked res
idents of this section. There are a
great many mad dogs around. "We
should muzzle every loose dog in the
county for six months. That would
give us a clear field as far as rabies
was concerned. Then we should have
a quarantine on imported dogs, as
have England, Sweden and Denmark,
and keep these newcomers muzzled
or locked up for their first six months
in the county.” He said he had him
self treated some 18 people in the
county with secum, that other physi
cians had undoubtedly treated many
more.
September 17 Set For
Tobacco Opening Here
Crop Increase of 160,000,000 Lbs.
Over Last Year Predicted
by Association Head
The Middle North Carolina tobac
co belt, In which Aberdeen and Car
thage warehouses are located, will
open the 1935-36 season on Septem
ber 17th. Other opening dates an
nounced are August 1st for Georgia,
August 8th for South Carolina, Au
gust 26th for the Eastern North Car
olina markets, and October 1st for
the Old Belt markets.
W. T. Clark of Wilson, president
of the United States Tobacco Asso
ciation, predicts a flue-cured tobacco
crop of 715,000,000 pounds this year,
an increase of 160.000,000 over last
year. He explained the increase as an
attempt to save the export trade, to
which high prices struck a hard blow
last season. Clark,blames high prices
for the dropping off in exports to
China, France, Germany and the Neth
erlands, which forced European mani
ufacturers to use substitute tobaccos
from China, India, Dhodesia and Can
ada.
Health an
Increases
FIVE CEIfn
Your Tax Dollar
Annual Budget Estimate Re
veals Items FJxplainin^:
Three Cent Increa.se
Here’s where your seventy-three
cent county tax will go this year.
according to the annual budget es
timate for the period ending June
30, 1936:
1936
1935
General Expense and
Courts
.20
.20
Poor
.05
.05
Health
.07
.05’,
Debt Service
.10.',
.11
Contingent Fund
.02
.02
Debt Service, Roads
.17.\
.18
Current Expenses,
Schools
.02
.01.^
Capital Outlay,
Schools .. .
,02,-.
t
Debt Seivice,
Schools
. .061.
.06 J
TOTAL
.73
.70
PETITION OUT FOR
LIQUOR CONTROL IN
MINERAL SPRINGS
Sentiment Apparent for Doinjj
Away With .Moonshintr and
Boot lei; Sales
McNElLLS “OVER THE TOP”
With McNeills township “over the
top" on Its petition for controlled li
quor sales, havmg acquired the sig
natures of more than 50 percent of
the qualified voters of the township.
Mineral Springs township began cir
culating petitions this week and re
ports a ready response. There appears
to be a widespread feeling, those cir
culating the petitions report, that
some form of legal control of liquor
in this section would be a vast im
provement on the present method of
buying stealthily from bootleggers
and moonshiners, particularly with
Pinehurst, largest village in the town
ship. catering to so many thousands
each winter who come from places
where liquor is legally dispensed and
resent the necessitj’ of Illegal pur
chase.
The feeling Is also general that
law enforcement will be much easier
once the sale of liquor is placed in
legally controlled hands. Those fav
oring the legalizing of sales point out
that there will be no bars or drinking
places incident to the proposed stores,
the law expressly prohibiting the con
sumption of liquor on the grounds
where sold.
McNeills township officials plan to
present their slgned-up petitions to
the Pasquotank County Control Board
In the near future, it is reported.
File Reasons for Contest
in Davidson Will Case
cation Only
unty Budget
Three-Cent Raise in Rate Ex
plained by Hospital, Tubercu
losis and School Needs
REVENUE TOTALS $145,381
Analysis of the annual budget es
timate for the county for the fiscal
year ending next June 30th, published
in this issue of The Pilot, reveals the
allocation of the funds and the need
for the three cent tax increa.se an-
, nounced in last week’s issue. The
t rate based on the estimate jumps
from 70 cents to 73 cents for this
j year.
The pr.nclpal changes appear In the
I Items for health and schools, these
being the only Increases over last
I year. The estimate of tax rate on
$100 valuation jumps the health item
! from five and one-half cents to seven
cents, explained by an Increase of $3,-
667. for support of charity cases in
the Moore County Hospital and of
$'!00 for the County Home tubercu
losis fund. The increase from one-half
a cent to two and one-half cents in
the Item of capital outlay for schools
Is due to the ordering by the county
of eight new steel busses for trans
portation of pupils to and from
schools, and for the county’s share of
I the salaries for sevei'al new special
j teacher in a number of the schools.
■ Current expenses for the schools calls
I for only half a cent Increase in rci.te.
i There Is one-half cent decrease in
the budget in the item of the coun-
ty'.s debt service, and one-half cent
in the debt service for r.ads, the only
decreases in the estimate. The coun
ty's general expense fund, including
courts, remfims the same as in the
1935 budget, 20 rents. Five cents for
needs for the poor is the same as last
year, as is the county's contingent
fund of two cents. Schools debt ser
vice I’emalns the same at six and one.
half cents.
The figures, ba.«ed on a property
valuation of $20,000,000. will produce
$145,381 net. the budget shows. The
income available from sources other
, than ta.x levies is estimated at $38,-
957.
Peach Auction Sales
Fail to Materialize
Those Behind Move Not Expect
ed To Revive Plan Before
N'ext Se:\son
Statler Family Contestants
Claim Elva Davidson Was
Unduly Influenced
That the late Elva Statler Davidson
was unduly influenced in making a
will leaving her entire fortune of
some half million dollars to her hus
band, H. Bradley Davidson, by her
husband and W. Barton Leach, Wes
ton, Mass., attorney, is the basis of
the claim of members of the Statler
family who are seeking to have the
document set aside. The will was made
six weeks after the couple’s mar.
riage. The will contestants filed their
reasons for the contest in the court
house at Carthage last week. The case
Is not expected to be heard before
September term of court here.
ABERDEEN DEFEATS GIRLS
Plans for daily auction sales of
peaches throughout the Sandhills
peach belt have not, it was reported
I this week, worked out as expected.
Whether or not those who were be
hind the move to introduce the auc
tion method, as used in the sale of
the tobacco crop and tried out suc
cessfully the past two years in mar
keting dewberries, will revive their
efforts this season is a question. Those
interviewed by The Pilot during the
week were of the opinion that the
plan was dead so far as this season
is concerned, but might be revived
next year.
Packing houses have been busy dur
ing the past week, the heavy rains
moving the picking forward and nec
essitating earlier shipping than was
expected. Georgie Belles have been
on the move all this week and the
big Elberta crop is about ready for
shipment. Prices are fair. Early fruit
has been only medium, but the EH-
bertas look good.
Aberdeen defeated the New York
Bloomer Girls 9-3 Wednesday after,
noon before a large crowd. This af
ternoon, Friday, Aberdeen meets
Hemp at Aberdeen. Aberdeen defeat
ed Carthage 4-3 last Friday, and
Tuesday Carthage defeated Aberdeen
6.4. Next Wednesday Aberdeen again
plays Carthage at Aberdeen.
Nassau-Bound
Pinehurst Ayrshires Lea.ve for
Trip to Bahamas and
New Home
Pinehurst cows are about to in
vade Nassau in the Bahamas.
Last week Miss Agnes M. Moore,
owner of the Les Palmas Dairy
Farm in Nassau, visited Pinehurst
and in addition to falling in love
with the place, purchased six Ayr
shire cows, three two-year old heif
ers and one bull from the Pine
hurst Dairy. Though she had
bought Pinehurst Ayrshires be.
fore, this was her first visit here.
The cattle is already on its way,
going by rail to Miami, Florida,
thence by boat, an overnight trip,
to Nassau.
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