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MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
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PILOT
FIRST IN N»EWS,
CIRCLLATION &
ADVERTISING
Misn Marjr Thornton
of the Sandhill umv«r.ity of n. c. j. Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, September 6, 1935.
FIVE CENTS
START PROJECT TO
ERADICATE PEACH
ORCHARDS
Rude Awakening*
W. p. A. Puts 25 Relief Workers
on Job of Removing Dy
ing and Diseased Trees
ABERDEEN MAIN OFFICE
Eradication of diseased and dying
peach orchards in Moore County be.
gan this week with the employment
of 25 relief workers, it was announc.
ed by Dr. R. W. Leiby, State en
tomologist, following a conference
of county supervisors in Aberdeen
Tuesday.
A total of $50,427 of a W P A
funds has been secured by the State
Department of Agriculture through
the Federal Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine. The project
is a federal one.
Headquarters for the orchard re.
moval work which will be done in
Moore, Anson, Montgomery and
Richmond counties will be maintain,
ed in Aberdeen. The work in the
state will be supervised by Charles
H. Hearn of Teackeys, who was in
charge of Blister Rust Control of
white pine trees in Caldwell coun.
ty-
John 551oan of Aberdeen has been
designriied supervisor of the work in
Moore county.
To Condemn Orchards
“We have worked to pull up the
diseased and dying orchards for
some time,” said Dr. Leiby follow,
ing the conference with county sup.
ervisors and federal workers in Aber.
deen, "but had no funds for the nec_
^ essary work that was demanded by
those growers who cared for their
orchards. With this federal allott.
ment, we will be able to pull up all
uncared-for trees. Those not recent,
ly cultivated will "fie condemned and
removed by law.”
This federal W. P. A. project is
one of the finest to get under w’ay
in Moore county. As many as 50 re.
lief workers may be employed in the
county. Peach trees not growing in
orchards but along fence rows and
abandoned homesteads will also be
removed since these likewise breed
insects and diseases which are a
menace to the prayed and cultivated
orchards.
Growers having orchards they de
sire removed should write the State
Department of Agriculture at Ral.
eigh or contact C. H. Hearn or John
Sloan at Aberdeen.
SENATOR “BOB” REYNOLDS
North Carolina’s junior United
States Senator, Robert R. Reynolds,
ran afoul of the New York City po.
lice on his "land yacht” tour the
other day, and was ordered to "Move
on.” Senator “Bob," with two com
panions, is making a tour of the
country to last 30 days and to cost
$100, he says. The second night out
of Washington he parked his car
and trailer.home on Riverside Drive
in New York and the trio W’ent to
sleep. They were aroused in the
middle of the night and told to move
along, nobody could park on the
Drive, not even a United States Sen
ator. “Boh” moved.
The Senator is trying to prove that
anyone can tour the country, visit
every state in the union in 30 days
at a total expense of one hundred
simoleons. He expects to cover 9,000
miles.
Mrs. T. H. Somerville
on Reno Dude Ranch
Divorce Plans Seen in Nevada
Residence of Noted Race
Horse Owner
Miss Doris Eddy to
Wed in December
Engagement to Attorney W'al-
ter H. Gentsch of Jaffray,
N. H. Announced
News of interest to her multitude
of friends here comes in a letter to
The Pilot announcing the engage,
ment of Miss Doris Eddy, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Eddy of South,
ern Pines, to Walter H. Gentsch,
prominent attorney of Jaffrey, N. H.
The announcement was made by the
prospective bride’s parents at their
cottage on Lake Minnipesaukee, N.
H.,/ on August I7th.
The young couple plan to be mar
ried early in December of this year.
Nevada residence, presumably for
divorce, has been established on a
dude ranch several miles from Reno,
Nevada, by Mrs. Thomas H. Somer.
ville of Montpelier, Virginia, accord,
ing to an Associated Press despatch
from Reno this week. Local interest
attaches to the announcement due
to the fact that Mrs. Somerville, who
is one of the leading owners of
steeplechase race horses in the coun.
try, winters many of her string in
Southern Pines under the care of
Noel Laing. Young Laing rides for
her in leading races throughout the
country, winning the Maryland Hunt
Cup on Mrs. Somerville’s famed
Trouble Maker a few years ago.
Mrs. Somerville is said to have
been in Nevada for two weeks. She
is the daughter of William DuPont
of Wilmington, Delaware, and ovraer
of the James Madison home at
Montpelier, Va.
NEW A, B. C. STORE HAS
GOOD W'EEK’S BUSINESS
Southern Pines’ new Alcohol Bev
erage Control Store, which opened
last Friday In the Maze Building on
West New Hampshire avenue, has
prospered during its first week of |
business. Its peak day was lat Sat_ i
urday when approximately $500
worth of business was handled.
The store in Pinehurst, which will,
like Southern Pines, operate under
the Wilson County Control Board, is
expected to open in the near fu
ture, though the location has not
been announced. It is understood that
Mayor D. G. Stutz and Dr. W. C.
Mudgett of Southern Pines and James
W. Tufts of Pinehurst will act as
the local control board for the two
stores in this county.
Hot and Cold
August Temperatures Ran
the Gamut From High of
103 to Low of 55
Very hot during the early part
of the month, cool in its last
weeks, temperatures for the first
17 days of August ranged from 90
to 103, this high figure being
reached on the 6th, and on the
8th. Then the mercury fell to a
low of 55 on the 25th, making
the general average for the month
closely approximate the long time
normal of 78.6.
The first light rain of the 8th
broke 21 days of drought, this
being followed by showers of more
or less precipitation ending in the
heavy rains during the nights of
the 28th, 29th and 30th, which
brought the total fall for the
month to 6.63 inches, slightly over
normal though leaving a deficien-
cy for the first eight months of
the year to 6.75 inches. No thun.
der storms occured during the
month.
Long time Max Min. Aver,
average 89.3 67.7 78.5
1934 88.1 68.5 78.3
1935 91.1 66.1 78.6
URGES UNSELFISH
COOPERATION OF
SANDHILLS TOWNS
Attorney Denny Would Make
Slogan of Three Musketeers
Applicable Here
ALL FOR ONE, ON^ FOR ALL
In an inspiring talk before the
Kivvanis Club of Aberdeen on Wed.
nesday noon in the Pinehurst Com
munity Church. Attorney Robert E.
Denny of Pinehurst made a plea for
“unselfish cooperation” between the
villages of Aberdeen, Carthage,
Pinehurst and Southern Pines for
the greater development of the sec.
tion, taking for his text "All for
One, One for All,” Mr. Denny said:
"The summer of 1935 is fast com.
ing to its close. This means for this
county and especially for its south,
eastern section, from which comes
the majority of your club member
ship, the time of preparation for a
new season, the beginning of your
business year.
“Throughout this summer, yes,
since the first of this year we have
watched through the newspapers
and heard by radio the so recently
adjourned Congress, planning for
and making the rules whereby the
Government of the United States
might nearer approach the designa.
tion U. S. to mean ‘Utopia Soon’.
“One of the most interesting norms
of the genus homo is its universal
instinct to deny most vehemently
the possibility of the achievement of
one of the things for which it never
ceases to strive. Every man will
deny his belief in the accomplish,
ment of Utopia, yet every man who
works intelligently and with erudit.
ion ceaselessly strives toward
Utopia. And for fear of confusion let
us define Utopia as does Rudyard
Kipling when he says that Utopia is
where each, ‘shall draw the thing as
he sees it’.
“During the recent attempt in
V.'ashington to bring about this
‘Utopia Soon,’ there have been three
groups at work, readily recognized
in the President, the two houses of
Congress and with the fourth in the
personalities* of the nine elderly
gentlemen of the Supreme Court
who hold for us-the frame in which
the President and the Congress must
do its drawing.
Cooperative Unselfishness
“This winter’s answer, and even
the answer of future historians to
the question of how well these four
elements of our Government have
done their work, will be made up
on the basis of how little of selfish
ness, and how much of co.operation
entered into the program that has
been provided for, with of course the
minor consideration, which might
become a major one, namely, with
what honesty and devotion to co
operative unselfishness was the pro
gram executed.
"Now let us turn back nine gene
rations, if a generation may be con
ceded to be the third of a century,
and we find the citizenship of Europe
during the first third of the seven
teenth century confronted with con.
fusion in national life very similar
to that which has obtained thus far
in the present century.
"Petty personal jealousies of the
monarchs of England and France and
the intrigues of the so-called great
people on either side of the English
Channel had produced such cross
sections and diversity of interests
that a student of our own times
feels quite at home as he reads of,
what was going on in Europe nine
generations ago.
"A little more than three hundred
years ago Louis the XIII was King
of France, the sublime Cardinal
Richelieu was his chief adviser,
confessor and political and religious
dictator. The Queen of France
was Anne of Austria and the Cardi.
nal was as much despised by the
Queen as he was followed by the
King. Both King and Queen feared
him. While the political machines
of modern politics are held together
by secret alliances made certain by
patronage positions in control of the
balance of power over the ballots, in
Louis XIII’s day similar secret ai.
llances and patronage positions were
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SOUTHERN PINES
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
0NNEXTTUESD.4Y
County Commission Votes
Approval of Budget and
Three-Cent Tax Increase
Several Additions to Faculty
and New Text Rook Sys
tem This Term
ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED
The Southern Pines School will
open on Tuesday morning, Septem
ber 10. Both the elementary and
high school pupils will begin work
on this date. School books that are
on the rental list have been ordered
from Raleigh and it is hoped that
they will be on hand by this time.
Most of the elementary book list will
be available for rental but a large
number of the high school books
which are not on the rental list will
be purchased as usual at the Hayes
Book Store. This will also include
all workbooks on the Elementary
list. All children are urged to se.
cure as many second.hand books as
possible at the rental rate of one.
third of the cost. This will mean
that the books in the community
will not be discarded. It will give
the child an opportunity to own a
second hand book at the same cost
of a year’s rental.
The faculty for this year is as fol
lows: First grade, Jessie Dwight;
Second grade, Marjorie Skinner,
First and Second, Emilie Mae Wil.
son; Third grade, Sarah Goggins;
Fourth, Lonie Gordon; Third and
Fourth, Jessie Fitzgerald; Fifth,
Selma Stegall; Sixth. Annie Hunt,
ington; Fifth and Sixth, Lorrie Wal,
ker.
For the Junior and Senior High
School; Sara Falkener, Ruth W’arner,
Pauline Miller, R. B. Freeman, M.
N. Hunter. Philip J. Weaver, Ray
mond D. Kennedy, and Frank W.
Webster. F. S. Smith will have
charge of the music of the entire
school.
West End Probable
Jr. League Winner
Team Needs But One Game of
Four to Clinch 1935
Championship
Since Monday, August 26th, all
the teams, but particularly South,
ern Pines, have been busy trying to
get caught up with the schedule.
During the indicated period, includ
ing Monday, September 2nd, the fol.
lowing games were played, with the
results noted:
Monday, August 26th—Southern
Pines 3, Aberdeen 1.
Wednesday, August 28th—South,
ern Pines defeated West End. West
End defeated Southern Pines. (The
scores were not reported to the Lea.
gue Secretary).
Thursday, August 29th—Pine
hurst was scheduled to play Aber.
deen at the latter place but the
game was rained out.
Saturday, August 31st—Southern
Pines 3, Aberdeen 1. West End 3,
Pinehurst 1.
Monday, Sept. 2nd—Aberdeen 5,
Southern Pines 5. Aberdeen 3, South,
ern Pines 1. West End 8, Pinehurst 2.
Immediately after the game be
tween Pinehurst and West End last
Monday the Pinehurst team dis.
banded for the season, so that the
one remaining game between Pine,
hurst and Aberdeen is forfeited to
Aberdeen.
The correct standing as of Mon
day, September 2nd, is as follows:
Won Lost Aver.
West End ,14 6 .700
Southern Pines 14 10 .592
Aberdeen 8 12 .400
Pinehurst 8 16 .333
Southern Pines and Pinehurst have
finished the schedule. West End and
Aberdeen have four games remain,
ing to be played between them.
West End has to win but one of
these to become champion of the
League. Should Aberdeen win all
four of the games, then West End
and Southern Pines would be tied for
the leadership.
NEW ROAD FOR MOORE
The State has received bids on sur.
facing 12,15 miles of Highway 705
from Hemp to Seagrove, with C. G.
Fuller of Barnwell low with $38,_
316.50.
A joint meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners, County
Board of Education and tSe Plan
ning Board for fedeial projects
was held on Monday, and Wilbur
H. Currie W'as elected chairman.
R. E. Wicker, H. Lee Thomas
and E. A. Ewing were appointed
as a committee to work out plans,
applications and specifications to
WPA as projects to build fifty,
seven school rooms, eight audi.
toriums, gymnasiums and plans
for landscape work around school
buildings. The chairman of the
Board of Commissioners was au
thorized to sign all papers neces
sary for getting the project be.
fore the WPA.
Approves Deep Creek Commun
ity House Project and Coun
ty Farm ImaroveTients
URGES HOSPITAL WING
W. p. A. Projects
Wicker, Thomas and Ewing
To Work l^p Plans
For Countv Schools
The tentative county budget .as
printed in The Pilot a few weeks
ago was formally adopted by the
Board of County Commissioners In
regular session on Monday of this
week. The tax rate for t’»e year is
75 cents, three cents higher than last
year’s rate.
Several federal projects were ap.
proved by the board, one known as
the Deep Creek community house pro
ject which provides for a commun
ity house to be erected in the Jack-^
son Springs community. The board
agreed to accept a deed for one acre
or more of land conveying the title
to this real estate to the county for
public use, and to make application
to the WPA for a loan to finance this
project. It was agreed to execute a
lease to a board of trustees to have
charge of the proposed community
house, which is to be for the use of
Deep Creek community and the gen
eral public.
A project to further improve the
farm of the county home was ap.
proved, as was one for a market road
from a point near Cleveland’s Ca.
gle’s farm on the Carthage highway,
Railroad Men Enjoy Perfect Raleigh road near
S. A. L GOLFERS
VOTE TO RETURN
HERE NEXT YFAR
Days For Annua] Outing
in Southern Pines
MANY WIN TROPHIES
Claud Fry’s place, amd it was further
ordered that all market road pro
jects presented for approval be ap
proved by the board.
Wilbur H. Currit was authorized
Favored of the weather gods the send a telegram to Harry L. Hop-
Seaboard Air Line golfers were ^>ns, WPA Administrator, urging
granted three perfect days of appi'cve the Moore County
vaunted Sandhill sunshine, flawless Hospital project,
skies and cool breezes for their 9th Board also voted to petition
annual tournament, beginning on Congressman J. Walter Lambeth to
Saturday morning, August 31st, and lo^^^te a soil erosion camp in Moore
finishing with the distribution of county,
prizes and election of officers on the ^ The board decided to recommend
afternoon of September 2nd, Labor State Highway Commis
sion take over and maintain about
one mile of road from the store
building of Terrell Cavines^ by J.
W. Craven’s place to thPt of G, H.
Purvis on the Highfalls road. This
is used as an R, F. D. and school
bus route
. J account of physical disability,
the hotly contested rounds. Nearly ^ ^ ^
all of the principal officers of the J-,
Seaboard Air Line were present in.
eluding T. W. Parsons, assistant
Day.
Gathering about 250 strong, this
number including nearly 100 guests
representing many railroad, trans.
portation and industrial comi^rnies.
Golfers of varying degrees of skill
to the number of 176 played through
,^^ip was relieved of further payment
ot poll tax. An additional 55 was aJ-
, 1., ^ lowed Mollie Elerby of Cendc r R. F.
general manager; C. R. Capps, chief _ , . /.
“ support of her mother, und
traffic officer; C. E. Bell, supenn- ’
tendent of dining cars; G. R. Carl.
ton, assistant general manager, and
G. Z. Phillips, passenger traffic
manager. Among the guests were
it was voted to admi: Jim Greene,
colored of Jackson Springs to the
county home.
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representatives of 12 important rail. 1* lOriCia fetOrm Jh BllS
roads, including a delegation from
the P.R.R. and President Norman
Call and five others from the R. F.
and P. R. R.
The Powell cup, won last year by
C‘ E. Gatlin, went to J. C. Bennett
of Hamlet, a former holder of this
cup.
To Visit Sandhills
Storm Warnings Issued Here
but Only Heavy Rains
1 Materialize
The big Florida storm which sent
the Morgan Line steamship Dixie to
The Capps cup, for guests, won her doom on a reef off the Florida
last year by A, W, Carey, went to peninsula on Tuesday has been ex-
Mr. Hamrick of Charleston, S, C. pected in this section since Wednes-
The Bagwell cup, won last year (jay due to storm warnings issued
by W. D. Simpson, went to J. W. by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Heavy
Smith of Savannah, Ga. rains have fallen the last two days
The Southern Pines Coui\try Club but no sign of a storm of hurricane
cup, won last year by F. M Brown, proportions had put in an appearance
ing, went to A. D. Williamson of at the time The Pilot went to press.
Bradenton, Fla, The Florida hurricant cost the lives
These four principal cups were in- of from 200 to 500 persons, accord-
c?uded in a total of 80 prizes among ing to unofficial reports. Much dam-
T-^hich were several other handsome age was done to crops. Most of those
cups awarded, among others, to C, aboard the Dixie were saved by ships
E, Gatlin, C, W, Small, E, C. Speed, coming speedily to her rescue, but
R. A. Goldschmidt and W. Whitsett. scores on land and in smaller craft
Officers elected for the year were on the ocean were lost.
C. E. Miller, president; W. D. Simp.^,.
son, 1st vice president; C. H. Gattis, R.4IN SLOWS ACTIVITY
2nd vice president and J. C. Brady,
secretary and treasurer.
Members and guests were housed
ON TOB.4CCO M.^RKETS
Rain slowed up activity on most
in the Belvedere, Park View and the eastern North Carolina tobacco mar.
Highland Pines Inn, the latter open, kets Tuesday, but Kinston reported
ed for the purpose and staffed by another million-pound day.
the steward’s department of the{ Offerings there were largely shod.
Seaboard Air Line and Old Bay Line dy and weather.damaged, however,
S. S. Co., of Baltimore. M. H. Turner ^ and prices were estimated to average
of the Inn came down from his | only around $18.
summer home to play host. Before j A slightly brighter price picture
adjournment it was voted to hold was painted at Robersonville, where
the tournament for next Labor Day j 158,898 pounds brought an official
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