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Friday, December 6, 1935. THE PHX>T. SoiiLhern Pines and Aberdeen, North CaroIinA Page Seven 0. C. Britton, Cameron, Dies of Heart Attack New Comer to Community Had Wide Acquaintance Throujyh- out State O. C. Britten, a promient citizen of'Cameron R. F. D., died suddenly of a heart attack at his home Sun day morning at 11:30 o’clock. He had just returned from the Baptist church where he taught his Sunday School class of young men. Mr. Brit ton was a native of Alabama and came to Cameron about a year ago, built a nice home with all modern conveniences, and Cameron rejoiced at the coming of this splendid family. Mr. Britton was a farmer, but main ly for recreation. His chief business was books. He represented the Char les E. Merrill Book Co., of Chicago, and was very successful in his work, which brought him in close touch with the teachers and educators of this and adjoining states, all of whom admired him for hio fine personal ity and splendid character. With his family, he Identified himself with I the Baptist church in Cameron, and I entered heartily into the work of | the church. | Surviving are his wife, who was Miss Sam Marie Patterson of Cisco, Texas; two sons O. C. Britton, Jr., of Charlotte and Jack Briton; one daughter, Miss Martha Beryl Brit ton. Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon from the Cameron Baptist Church, his pastor, the Rev. Frank Hare of Jonesboro, officiat ing, assisted by the Rev. M. D. Mc Neill of the Presbyterian church. Ac tive pallbearers were Milton Thom as, Ira Thomas, Flint Loving, Carl Loving, Jimmy Rogers, Fr°d Smith, L. B. McKeithen and J. Dillard. Hon orary bearers were Fred Terroll, Herbert Chandler, Paul A. O’Neal, Henry R. McLeod, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, Clyde A. Erwin and E. N. Peeler, all of Rnleigh; W. L. Greenslit, Lincoln, Nebraska; Fred K. Ray, Ned A, Wa gers, B. C. Fiske, A. L. Mishell, Rich mond, Va,; C. D. Rigsbee, B. W. Breeze, J. Highsmith of Durham; County Superintendent H. Lee Thom as and Prof. O. B. Welch of Carth age; Prof. R. F. Lowry, J. A. Phil lips, C. L. Dutton, J. R. Loving. J. D. McLean, Make McLean and H. P. McPherson. Others here from distant points for the funeral were Mrs. White of Winston-Salem, Mrs. J. Highsmith, Mr.s. B. W. Breeze of Durham and Miss Elizabeth Little of N. C. C. W., roommate of Miss Martha Brit- The Heavens in December liy Kassie E. Wicker The distances involved in the study per second would travel in 365 days | of astronomy are ko great that it is (five trillion eight hundred and six-' of little use to state them in arti- ty-five billion, six hundred and nine-; cles such as these. Indeed, even the ty-six million miles). Even with this smaller measurements of our own tremEndous reduction, the distance to solar system are so vast that they | some of the nebulae is incomprehen- are beyond comprehension, and thus become abstract quantities, u.setul, but nevertheless incomprehensible in their immensity. For instance the Nautical Almanac says the moon is distanct 238,857 while the sun is mere than ninety-two million miles. For my part, I am appalled at such figures, and about all I can get out of it is ths fact that the sun is somewhat more than 386 times as far away as is the moon. Doubt of the correctness of as tronomical distances are common, even among highly intelligent people. This may result from the abtruse and complicated methods used in ar riving at these results, although it must be said that shorn of their com- I plicated refinements, the principles I used are relatively simple. After I I confess with humility, that most of I these methods are far beyond my grasp, I want to assure those who doubt that the methods used are in accord with everyday principles of measurements, and should be accept ed as approximately correct. Bearing ' this in mind, let u^construct a small solar system, dwarfed so that we may grasp its size. Suppose the sun to be reduced to a ball nine feet in diameter. Then the earth would be represented by a small golf ball placed about a thous and feet away. The moon would be- sible. With the approach of the Christ mas season, it may be well to refer briefly to “new stars” or novae which occasionally flare up in the sky. It has been suggested that it was a nova which led the Wise Men to the little Judean town of Beth- Manly Ntgro Is Held on Charg-e of Murder Hen l^hillips Accused of Heat ing Mother-in-Law to Death with l*ine Knot Ben Phillips, colored man of Man ly, is being held in the Mo,re coun ty jail without privilege of bond on a charge of beating to death his mother-in-law, Laura Holman, annind 45 years of age, at the Phil lips home M nday morning. Damag ing testimony was given by the man's small children, aged two and one half and five years, who told that their daddy hit their grand- CAMERON lehem on Christmas, nineteen hundred j iT^other with a broomstick, years ago. Celestial phenomena was j The wife of Phillips is employed in then (and to some extent is yet) be-' Southern Pines and she left home lieved to be of piophetic significance, j about eight o’clock Monday morning. In Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” j some five minutes after the husband Caesar's wife warns him of impend- j had started to the Vass section to ing doom when she calls his atten- visit his daughter who resides on the tion to the sky, and say.si jfarm cf CJeorge Blue. A nephew of “When beggars die, there are no dead woman visited the place comet.s seen. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” Only recently a certain star, which had been leading a sedate and nor mal life with a brightness of about the ninth magnitude, suddenly flared up within a few hours to a first mag nitude star, only to slowly wane, un til now it is very dim. This star is in the constellation "Hercules, and is km-'wu n3 “Nova Hercules, It is still being studied with great inter est, but it is so far away that it is mere speculation as to the cause. Perhaps such stars explode, and burn within themselves; perhaps there is a collision between them and a wan dering celestial body. No one knows, but they are some of the most inter- ! come the size of a small pea about two and a half feet from the earth, Mars would be 500 yards. Jupiter I twenty-eight mmutes of two 1700, Saturn mere than a mile and | ^ night of the 22nd, this a half, and so on to Neptune, whoi®**^ earth will have completed another would be neaily five and a half miles i jf'i>*'ney arountl the sun, and that j around noon and found the body. Of ficers weie called and an examina tion revealed that the woman had been brutally beaten on the back of, the head with a pine knot, splinters bearing evidence of the weapon used. j When the officers reached the I daughter'.^ home, they found that I Phillips had left there and they fol-j lowed, overtaking him between Vassj and Manly. He denied that he had' killed the mother-in-law, who resided! in his home. However, the testimony I of the children, who are safd to have' stated that the father returned to | the home after leaving in the early | morning, and the fact that he and his wife had been having trouble were regarded by the officers as ' weighty cvidencc. i NIAGARA fr'^ni the sun. Now, hold your breath -at this (Same minute scale, the source of all life will have reached I Mr. and Mrs. 'I'. M. Veazey and its farthest point south, after which ] Miss Marie Driscoll of St al Harbor, nearest star to us would be over for- i J* again his not'lhern : Maine are reccnt arrivals and have ty thousand miles away. Also, if you | hour will mark mid- leased a c: ttage here for ths win- can grasp it, remember that we have I the antarctic, and midnight ter months. reduced the actual size nearly five | the arctic six-mcnth day. Accord-, Miss Virginia Piei'ce of Camden hundred million times. j to the almanac, winter will be-! .spent the week-end with Mr. and To enable us not to conceive of although paradoxically the sun, Mis. ('. L. Dutton, these immense distances, but to make!'® much nearer us now than in June,! Haithcock ^nd two relative comparisons easy, astrono-; The planets this monlh are not in , daughter', Misses Cara and Blanche mers have adopted a unit of distance best position for observation, but Ve- j of Ch?th ’.m county visitsd friends called a “light” year," which is the nus was seen the other morning at, 'jcie on Saturday. distance light, moving 186,000 miles ten o’clock, and again between twelve and one (with naked eye). It may be Eric I.aithcock of West Durham So cndeth the j-ear of our L' rd, nine'toen thirty-live. , . , ^ . . visited friends in town Saturday, ton. Interment was in Cameron cem-; just before sunrii^e, just above g ^ Morgan and etery. The many beautiful floral of-, the horizon, and by keeping tab on, ^ Snipes and ferings attested to the high esteem ‘t. may be followed well up into the i g j^eroy motored to Dundarrock felt f r Mr. Britton. ' m Sunday. i Moon is in first quarter on the _ ! 3rd, full on the 9th. last quarter on J»hn.son. new local i the 17th and new cn the 25th. ' .7"^'Fayetteville, filled I ^h: p ilpit at the Village Church Sun day morning and delivered a splen- J did sermon. HK'n.VUn.SOX ELFU'fEO j Mrs. Bornie Garner and B. iV L. ! children .spent Thursday in Aberdeen. — * ; Mrs. J. W. Frank and Mrs. John Byron U. Richardson, cashier of : Fran’:. Jr., motored to Raleigh and , the Bank of Pinshurst, has boon elect- ! returned cn Wednesday, ed secretary and treasurer of the The Niagara railroad station has Pinohi:r.t Buildi:!," and Loan Asso-j boon treated with a new coat of' ciati.n. to succeed Heibert D, Vail, paint. who resif-^ncd to accept a position | Miss H. L. Gay, Miss Ida Low’e with Yanlley and Company of Lon- j and L. F. Martin left Tuesday for ‘ don and New York. Florida. My wife likes the smartness ^!3{l roominess of the Ford WHAT rJHIS Y-8 E OPENED MY EYES Engineers have known for years the undisputed ad vantages of the V-type engine : . . simplicity, econot^y, com* paaness, ruggedness. But until Ford announced the first Ford V-8 in 1932, no one had found a way to bring these advantages to the low-priced field. Since its introduction this en gine has been constantly refined and improved —but the baste features of Ford design have re mained through the production of over two million V-8 engines. This is the engine that powers the beautiful 1936 Ford V-8 ... and, because it is V-type and compact, gives “ail that extra room’* that many [a] woman has wondered about in the Ford V-8 body. This is the engine which proved sparkling performance and eight cylinder smoothness are economical if you have a V-type engine with a dual-down draft carburetor that takes the “gas” used by a four and splits it into eight equal charges. This is the engine you need for quick, sure, cold-weather start ing this winter—the engine that’s “opened the eyes” of over tivo mtllion enthusiastic Ford owners; You’ll find such an engine in no other car at anywhere near the price of the Ford V-8 for 1936—So why not arrange to drive one today? YOUR FORD DEALER 1?rl936 Mrs. R. F. Lowry and Mrs. Loula i Mus3 entertained the Merry Mnker-s I on Friday evening. The home w.is beautifully decoiated with yellow and rei-i chrysanthemums and ferns. Mrs. Gcorgie Mi'I'"adyen won first prize in a sewing contest, with Mrs. H. 1>. Tally second. F’mphasizing the Thanksgiving seas n, a "Turk:y Tale" contcst was h’Id in which Mes-1 dames J. D. McLean, H. D. Tally and I Miss Minnie Muse proved their knowledge of this noble bird, and in the draw, the prize fell to Mrs. H. D. Tally. A.ssisted by Miss Jacksie Mus: and Mrs. Jewell Hemphill ,the host ess served refreshments. Mrs. Guth- lie of Brookneal, V'a., was a guest ol the club. The Vass Woman’s Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church held an ail-day meeting at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Lawrence last Wednesday. An opening devotional, in which all took part, was conducted, with s^eo-1 ial prayer for both Home and Foreign ! missions. The main feature of the day was a series of lessons on the Holy Spir it, given by the I'resuyienai xvxuu- treat delegate, Mrs. Loula Muse. At the noon hour a luncheon was serveu and in the afternoon the lessons were concluded, and several readings on "Answered Prayer ’ were given. Prof. R. F. Lowry was genial host to a party of gentlemen triends at the home of L. B. McKeilhtn last Friday evening. Bridge, at three ta bles, featured the evening’s enter tainment. Those playing were H. D. ; i'ally, J. D. McLsan, O. C. Britton, J M Guthrie, J E. Snow, L. U. Mc- K..ithen, W. H. Abernathy, Koi^ert: McFadyen, Olin Nivin, Lindon Hart- sell. Bill Muse and R. F. Lowry. Mrs. Martin McFadyen and chil- ' dren of Fayetteville were diimei : guests Wednesday of Mrs. J. E. Sn..,w ' and on Thursday Mrs. Snow again' had dinner gussis, Mrs. N. N. McLcan 01 Vass, and Mrs J. D. McLean. The B. Y. P. U. of the Baptist church had its regular monthly so cial on Wednesday evening at the hospitable home of Mr and Mrs. J. K. Loving on Route 1. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Britten, Mes- dames J. D. McLean, H. D. Tally and J. E. Snow weie in Greensboro on Tuesday afternoon. The party called on Misses Martha Britton and Mar garet McLean, students at N C. C. W. Prof. R. F. Lowry and Ollin Nivins attended the Educo Club meeting at Carthage Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Abernathy mov ed from their apartmen>. at the Mc Pherson Calc tJ the forma' Metho dist Paisonage last weeic. G. S. Holloway, Kathtirie and Jos eph Holloway and Mr. and Mrs. Pi'iiice of Durham spent Sunday with Mr. and Mi-.;. Ralph '1 homasson. Mrs. Laura Rogers is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Lee Mclver in San- lOlu. Mrs. Carey Aici^eou of Eureka spent last Tuesday with her sister. Mrs. G. AI. McDermctt. Mr. and Mrs. W. G Parker and daughters. Misses Helen and Marie Parker, left Wednesday for Washing ton, D C., to spend Thanksgiving with their son and brother, William Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Parker. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. McDermott, George, John Mid Miss Margaret Me-' Dermott w'ere dinner guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs. David McCallum of i Southern Pines. Honoring the Rev. and Mrs. Wil liam Curry cf Belmont, Mrs. John L. Curry and daughter. Miss Mary Curry, entertained at dinner last Fri day evening at their home in Carth age. Among the forty guests present were Mrs. L. B. 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