MOORE COUNTY'S
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 36.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday August 2, 1935
of the Sandhill Terrio ->f North Carolina
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STATE CONSIDERS
SCHOOL OPENING
POSTPONEMENT
Dr. J. C. Knox, N. C. Epidemio
logist' Advises Against Start
in September
FHA Chairman
JOHN II. McQUEEN
OPPOSES CIRCUSES, FAIRS
Postponement of public school open
ings scheduled for September waa ad
vised this week by Dr. J. C. Knox,
State epidemiologist, who said the ex
pected seasonal decline of infantile
paralysis may be slow as to make it
advisable for the institutions not to
begin their fall terms until October
1.
Dr. Knox also advised that circuses
and fairs scheduled for the state in
August and September rearrange Mr. McQueen is chairman for
their itineraries in order to lessen the Moore County of the Federal Hous
ing Administration. A representative
of the FHA -pent Wednesday in
Aberdeen enlightening those interest
ed on how government loans of 80
ics, starts a slow decline in August i percent of the cost of a new home
or September. Since it is impossible may be procured, how existing homes
to tell now when or how the decline may be purcha.sed and how existing
will start Dr. Knox said, it is wise j mortgages may be financed. The easy
to take every feasible precaution to ! terms offered by the government are
protect children in North Carolina. i expected to stimulate considerable
Dr. Knox sounded his advice as the new building and rebuilding in the
State Board of Health listed nine new Sandhills,
cases of infantile paralysis, bringing
the total this year to 473, divided as
follows: July 216 to date; June, 198;
May 44, and 15 prior to May.
Already split seasons schools slated
to start in late July and August, with Those Interested Invited to En
danger of spreading the disease.
Poliomyelitis, he explained, makes
a rapid rise in the hot months, and,
based on experience in other epidem-
Farm Tour of County
Scheduled for Aug. 8
a fall holiday to allow children in the
rural areas to aid with harvesting,
have deferred their openings. Around
50,000 children in the southern and
piedmont section of the state attend
these summer sessions.
Many requests regarding the feasi.
bility of opening schools in Septem-
joy Crop Inspection Trip
Next Week
By E. H. Garrison,
County Agent
What I hope will be one of the best
little farm tours ever held in the
county is scheduled for August 6th.
ber were received. The question as to j I have tried to make this on just as
advisability is being referred to the few miles as possible, and for that
State Board of Health by the State i reason we shall not be able to hit
School Commission because of the | the upper end of the county this
paralysis situation. j time, but we shall be able to see
Dr. Knox emphasized he was not i quite a bit of the work farmers are
proposing an official ban on school | carrying on. The dry weather, of
openings and shows in August and | course, has held things back some
September, but merely was giving an I this year but even at that I am sure
advisory opinion on the matter. j that anyone who is interested in
Although a number of new cases ! farming would be interested in seeing
were reported during the past week, i the things that some of the other far-
the trend appears to be downward in
North Carolina and upward in Vir
ginia. Probably less than 90 of cases
remaining in this state now are con-
tageous, health officers say.
Pinehurst’s Chamber
of Commerce Elects
FIVE CENII
VASS BANK CASES, Henry A. Page, Aberdeen’s First V.
SEVERAL MURDERS
ON NEW CALENDAR;
Citizen, Former Mayor, Dies
Heavy Criminal Docket for
Judges Shaw and McElroy
Next Two Weeks
FIRST TEST FOR NEW LAW
Superior Court for the trial of
criminal cases will convene in Car
thage on Monday, August 5, with
Emergency Judge Thomas J. Shaw
presiding during the first week and
Judge P. A. McElroy during the sec
ond.
For the first time a criminal court
calendar has been drawn up by the
Moore County Bar under the new
law pas.sed during the legislature in
1935. Under this law a lot of unnec
essary court attendance will be done
away with as parties and witnesses
will not have to attend court until
the day their case in calendared. This
TITLE PASSES TO
?mim GROUP
George T. Dunlap and Associates
Acquire Hotel and Golf
Course in Knollwood
PROPERTY IN FINE SHAPE
The Pine Needles Inn was purchas-
Sunday afternoon at 6:30 o’clock. In | gj jjy >phe Patuxent Development
, ill health for two months, Mr. Page ^ qq.. Inc., at the bankruptcy sale held
suffered an attack of angina pectoris | on Monday of this week at the court.
^ on Thursday night. He was 73 years , house in Carthage. The Patuxent Cor.
Served Three Terms in State
Legislature and as F(K)d Ad- i
j ministrator in World War '
j Henry Allison Page, Aberdeen’s
first citizen, former mayor, former
member of the State Legislature and,
; during the World War, food adminis.
, trator for North Carolina, passed
' away at his home on Page Hill on
of age.
A man of marked intelligence, Mr.
Page came to Aberdeen from Cary
when a young man, and wa.s active
poration was recently organized by
George T. Dunlap of New York and
Pinehurst, prominent book publisher,
and several associates. They plan to
HENUV A. PAGE
every progressive enterprise in the
A. R. McQueen Heads
will automatically lessen the cost to i FlorR IMacdoUald Board steward in the
the county as witnesses will not be ' | Memorial Church and leader of
allowed to collect pay for attendance Tn SihtppH I afp Gnvtrn-'*^^® Men’s Bible cla.ss there. He was
on days prior to that on which their | McLean at Red Springs I" rr'; n
case is scheduled for trial. Should I Institution i 1915 and 1917. Until his health failed,
the case fail to come up on the day j i he was superintendent of the Cape
set, they of course will attend until | At a called meeting of the board i Railways, with his office at
it is reached. , ^ trustees of Flora Macdonald Col-!
The calendar for the two weeks is He leaves surviving him his widow'
as follows: Monday, August 5th—I ^^^Queen of ^jjo was Miss Eva Pleasants of
(Only the name of the defendant is i chosen to succeed former Louisburg, two daughters, Mrs. Fred
given as the State is plaintiff in all ' governor A. W. McLean as chairman Bynum of Rockingham and Mrs. Bev-
criminal cases.) Nathan Turner, vio-1 of the board. Dr. McQueen is a for-' Royster, of Oxford; four sons,
lating prohibition law; D. A. Me-! p^gtor of Old Union Church in '
Lauchlin, violating banking law (3 . . ... « , ^ Aberdeen, Fred C. Page of Ashe-
^ Moore county and a brother of John t a
cases); J. H. Gardner, violating ^ boro, and Lee A. Page of Southern
banking law; A. D. McLauchlin, vie- R- McQueen of Lakeview. Pines; three sisters, Mrs. T. B. Wild-
lating banking law; P. L. Gardner,! Governor McLean had served asjerand Mi.ss Mary Page of Aberdeen,
,in the railroad and lumber business j have the inn which graces the
for several years, being president of | heights of Knollwood in operation for
I the Aberdeen & Asheboro Railroad, | the coming winter season.
I now the Norfolk-Southern. After-1 Much work has been done on the
wai ds he was associated with the Needles property this summer.
Page Trust Company, and active in ^nd the hotel, grounds and golf
course are in excellent condition, A
violating banking law; Edgar Garner ' chairman for 24 years. During this
and Ervie Sheffield, murder; Felix | t-ime the college developed from an
Addor, assault with d»adly weapon j academy to a senior A grade college,
with intent to kill; Astor Brown and ■ Governor McLean was closely asso-
Pennie Brown, assault with deadly | ciated with Dr. Charles G. Vardell,
weapon; Astor Brown, drunk and dis-] now president-emeritus of the col-
orderly; Lee Thornton Lassiter, car. | lege, in the development of the in-
nal knowledge of child; Irvin Mor-i stitution.
gan, malicious injury to real prop
erty; Joe Lassiter, violating the
prohibition law.
Tuesday, August 6., Abraham Luff,'
Dr. McQueen has been a member
of the b^ard for 20 years and very ac.
tive in the support of the college. For
several years he has been vice.chair-
mers are doing. A schedule of the
tour and the places to be visited is
shown below.
If it is impossible for you to make
the whole tour I shall be glad for
you to make as much of\this as you
possibly can. We shall assemble at
the Standard Filling Station at Car
thage around 7:45 a. m. and start out
from there, going straight to Walter
McCaskill’s farm near the Airport.
! Those living near any of these places
j are invited to join us there instead
of coming all the way to Carthage
At the organization meeting of the | to start out.
new Pinehurst Chamber of Com- j The morning tour will wind up at
merce, held Monday night in the | Carthage in time for dinner. Dinner
Community Church, Arthur S. New-1 may either be had here or you may | embezzlement (3 cases); J. A. Phil-
embezzlement; Abraham Luff, false | man of the board and a member of
pretense; W. C. Browp, public drunk- the executive committee,
enness; Arnie Carlyle, Ed Gaddy and' J. Harvey White was elected vice-
Robert Comer, larceny from person; j chairman-of the board and a member
Mary Bell Smith, assault with dead. 1 of the executive committee, which
ly weapon; Dewitt Short, assault j consists of the following members: J.
with deadly weapon; John Willie'l Harvey White, Graham; Dr. Mc-
Thompson, murder; Ernie Moore,' Queen, Dunn; A. R. McEachern, St.
auto intox., Ernie Moore, public i Pauls; Di’. P. P. McCain, Sanatorium;
drunk; Roy Perry, assault with dead-1 Rev. S. M. Rankin, Greensboro; Ern-
ly weapon, careless and reckless driv-1 est Graham, F. B. Johnson, Clinton,
and Miss Emma C. Page of Greens,
boro, and one brother, J. R. Page of | hills.
Aberdeen. He was a brother of the
late Walter Hines Page, American’s
representative of The Pilot inspect,
ed the inn this week and found it
looking as new and clean as the day
it was opened in 1928, though it has
been closed the past few seasons.
It gives one the Impression that it
could be opened for business on about
two days’ notice.
The grounds about the hotel have
been cleared of wild growth, many
scrub oaks removed from the vicinity,
and nine of the 18 holes put in ex
cellent condition preparatory to the
coming season. Work on the other
nine holes will continue as rapidly
as possible. The Pine Needles course,
designed by Donald J. Ross, has al
ways been regarded as one of the fin
est and most picturesque in the Sand-
581 Acres in Tract
The sale this week included the 531
Ambassador to Great Britain during ^cres of land surrounding the nin,
the World War, the late Robert N. ^he hotel furniture and fixtures,
Page, for many years member of
Congress from this district, and the , ^is courts, power plant, in fact all
real and personal property of Pine
Needles, Inc. Attorney Henry Seawell
of Carthage was the trustee in bank
ruptcy. The Inn itself was built in
1927 at a cost of approximately
$750,000. It is of steel and brick con
struction, fireproof, five stories high,
completely furnished. It opened in
1928 and enjoyed two good winter sea-
New Organization Names Ar
thur S. Newcomb President;
Has 35 Members
ing and hit and run.
Try Two for Murder
Wednesday, August 7, Oba Godwin,
murder; John Col^, murder; Howard
Harrington, larceny; Francis (Penn)
Ritter, carnal knowledge of child:
Frank Stutts, drunk and disorderly;
and Rev. A. V. Gibson, Sanford.
The board heard a financial report
from Ernest Graham, business mana
ger, showing a decided improvement
over the previous year.
President Bedinger reported a large
enrollment of students for the com-
Make Gaines, breaking and entering j year, the dormitories being aU
and larceny: Thomas I. Hayes, tres-1 most filled to capacity seven w^eeks
pass and larceny. ^
Thursday, Aug. 8th, J. D. McLean,
before the opening. Everything points
to a very successful year.
comb was elected president, Willard j bring some with you. Please bring
Li. Dunlop 1st vice president, Howard I someone along with you if possible.
G. Phillips 2d vice president, B. U.
Richardson treasurer and Herbert D.
Vail secretary.
Tiie following were elected to the
board of directors: The officers and
Ernest I. Gamache, John G. Hem-
mer. Dr. L. J. Pegram, R. E. Gouger,
Frank L. Dupont, Robert E. Denny,
Gordon Cameron and F. T. Keating.
Two vacancies on the board will be
tilled later.
The organization starts its career
with a nuclues of 35 members, and
expects to greatly swell the role as
the fall brings many business and
professional m«n away for the sum
mer back to Pinehurst. A committee
to draft by-laws for the organization
was named Monday night, and a call
issued for another meeting on Mon.
day, August 12th at which time a
number of matters of Importance to
Pinehurst will be discused.
FIREMEN DRILLING FOR
STATE MEET AUGUST 26
A picked crew of the Southern
Pines Fire Company has started drill
ing for the competition during the
meet of the State Firemen at Wil
mington on August 26th-29th. Cap
tained by L. S. Rowell the crew will
be T. Vann, H. McNeill, A. Bowers,
J. Cameron, Barrett Harris, O. Mi-
chacls, H. Maples and J. H. Caahion.
and try to join us on as much of the
tour as possible.
The schedule and program is as fol
lows:
8:00—Walter McCaskill—Crop Ro
tation.
8:30—Pinehurst Dairj' Farm, Al
falfa and Cows.
9:10 -John M. Black, near East
wood, Crop Rotation and Pasture.
9:30—W. L. Moore, Pasture.
10:00—T. L. Blue, near Eastwood,
Tobacco.
10:12—T. G. Ragsdale, (old McLean
Farm), Pasture.
11:00—County Home, Lespedeza,
Bean varieties. Potato House, Pas
ture.
11:30—M. F. Connell, Crop Rota
tion.
12:00—Dinner at Carthage.
1:00—Presley Farm, Lespedeza.
2:00—Sam Riddle, Com and Lespe-
deza.
lips, embezzlement (2 cases); Liss i HOSPIT.AL .APPROVES DEED
Barrett, assault with deadly weapon.
Friday, August 9th, Buck Leak,
public drunkenness and disorderly
and indecent exposure; Clarence Nel
son, Bishop McLean and John Willis,
receiving stolen property; Tom Hun
ter, assault with deadly weapon.
Monday, August 12th—The follow
ing will appear and show compliance
with former orders of the court: Ben
nie Peele, larceny; Emma Jane.Mc
Neill, secret assault; Quincey Hussey,
non support.
Trial docket for Monday, August
12th—Theodore Morrison, larceny of
car; Ted Rosser, drunk and disorder
ly; Carnie Hussey, assault with dead
ly weapon; Dewey Brower, assault
with deadly weapon; Carlton Smith
and Coy Smith, assault with deadly
weapon; Lee Lassiter, violating pro
hibition law; DeWitt Caviness, lar
ceny; Henry Gamer and Bill Garner,
larceny.
For bills, warrant docket, Monday,
OF LAND FOR NEW WING
2:45—C. L. Ragsdale, Home mix- August 12th—Lorenzo Williams, as-
ture for Tobacco.
3:30—J. M. Davfs, Guernsey Cattle,
Pastures, Lespedeza, Trench Silo.
4:30—W. G. Caldwell, Cotton, Soil
Improvement Crops.
5:10—G. S. Cole, Cora, Cotton, Les-
pedeza. Tobacco.
The Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst Is
enjoyinjr a new coat of paint and oth
er i jiprovements.
sault; Will H. Morrison, larceny:
Willie Bethea, breaking and enter
ing; Bettie Hampton and Bob Flint,
alias John Henry Martin, breaking
and entering: McKinley ^oggan, as
sault with deadly weapon with intent
to kill; Hume Smith, larceny.
Tuesday, August 13th—Fred Clary,
murder; John Cameron, violating pro
hibition law; B. B. Rogers, man-
{Pltaat! turn to page 8)
At a meeting of directors of the
Moore County Hospital held on Tues
day the board voted approval of a
deed to the County of Moore of ap
proximately an acre of land on which
it is planned to build a new wing
to provide for new wards and new
private rooms for patients. The
County Board of Commissioners is
proceeding at once to make applica
tion to the Public W'orks Adnunistra-
tlon for a grant of funds toward
construction of the addition, and the
hospital’s Finance committee is busy
endeavoring to solicit Individual gifts
to provide the necessary balance. The
hospital must provide 55 percent of
the total fund to avail itself of the
PWA’s 45 percent. The new wing is
to cost in the vicinity of $60,000.
PLANNING BOARD TO MEET
TO CONSIDER PROJECTS
The Moore County Planning Board
is meeting on Monday to consider
projects for the county to increase
employment under PWA and WPA
regulations. A number of matters
held over from the last meeting
will be acted upon, among those to
be considered being the possibility of
making a country recreation park,
playgi'ound and fishing center of
Thagards Lake. ''
late Frank Page of Raleigh, father of
North Carolina’s highway system.
Governor .Attends
Governor Ehringhaus was among
the throng which attended the fun
eral services held Monday afternoon
at 5:00 o’clock at the Page Memorial
Church, followed by last rites at Old
Bethesda Cemetery. Governor Ehring
haus had a sentimental interest in' sons before the Depression convinc-
Mr. Page, having served under him ^ ed the then owners that it would be
when food administrator during the; wise to remain closed until such
war and having managed the cam-1 time as conditions warranted reopen,
paign of his brother, Robert N., for i ing. Meanwhile Pine Needles, Inc.,
governor in 1920. In the governor’s i met with financial vicissitudes which
party here were Secretary of State brought on the bankruptcy resulting
Stacy Wade, State Auditor Baxter j in Monday’s sale to the Dunlap group,
Durham. Attorney General A. A. F. i operating under the name Patuxent
Seawell and M. R. Dunnagan, Raleigh
newspaperman.
Development Co., Inc., a name sug
gested to Mr. Dunlap by Bion H.
Others prominent throughout the ^ Butler a short time before his death
state were here for the funeral, | this winter. Patuxent means “rolling
among them, in addition to large hills."
numbers of the Page family from j The negotiations which led to the
various sections, State Commissioner' sale of the property were handled by
of Agriculture W. A. Graham, Dr. j O. Harrion Stutts. manager of the
Watson S. Rankin of the Duke En- 1 Pinehurst Warehouses, and Mr. Stutts
dowment, John Paul Lukas, vice pres
ident of the Duke Power Company,
Ben Dixon McNeill, and Tom Bost.
has been active during the summer
in restoring the inn and its surround
ings to the excellent condition they
From Duke University, formerly are now in. Tom Naille of Pinehurst
Trinity College of which Mr. Page j is superintendent of the work.
was a trustee, can;\e Dr. R. L. Flow. | —
ers. Prof. W. H. Wannamaker and CR.AZED NEGKO LYNCHED BY
Henry R. Dwlre. From the Univer
sity of North Carolina there were
Charles V. Dollen, Prof. A. C. McIn
tosh and Oscar Coffin. John G. Nich
ols, former Aberdeenian, came down
from Washington and Ralph W. Page,
nephew of the deceased, from Phila
delphia.
The services were conducted by the
Rev. W. C. Ball, former pastor of
the Page Memorial Church; the Rev.
L. M. Hall, the present pastor, and
the Rev. E. L. Barber, pastor of the
Bethesda Presbyterian Church. A
choir of women sang “The Old Rug
ged Cross” and “Rock of Ages.”
Honorary pallbearers were Dr. A.
H. McLeod, Dr. H. E. Bowman, R. M.
Jordan, J. T. Johnson, John D. Mc
Lean, C. W. Seymour, H. C. Buchan,
John W. McQueen, U. L. Spence,
Leonard Tufts, L. E. Pender, Jack
Coursey, W. Tom Bost, Oscar J. Cof
fin, G. C. Seymour, W. A. Blue, T.
D. McLean, H. W. Doub, Max H. Fol-
ley and T. M. Sharpe.
The active bearers were June Page,
Frtnk M. Page, Frank Wilder, R. N.
Page, Jr., Frank Shamburger, Reid
Page, Richard Page and Henry Wild
er.
FRANKLIN COUNTY MOB
Governor Ehringhaus has ordered
full investigation of the lynching of a
negro in Franklin county early this
week. The negro was taken from a
sheriff’s posse near Louisburg and
strnng to a tree until lifeless. Appar
ently gone crazy, he had slain a high-
ly respected farmer, Charles G.
Stokes, of the Epsom section, decap
itating him. He was captured and
was being carried to jail when a
crowd of unmasked men took him
forcibly from the officers.
The lyiyhing was the second in the
state during Governor Ehringhaus’
administration, amd was the 98th in
the history of the state, or since 1882,
the earliest record.
LOCAL LEGIONNAIRES TO
SEE ARTILLERY BARRAGE
A large number of members of
Sandhills Post No. 134, American Le
gion, plan to attend the Legion con.
vention at Fayetteville next week
and to take in the big events schedul
ed to show the former soldiers how
to lay down a barrage and a few oth
er field artillery tricks.