FIRST IN' NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING nPTJTT? JL fXJC/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 16, NO. 7. PARTHAQE KAOCE SPRINCS tHO ) #*>KEVI6W JACKSOH ^ MANI.BV *outhbrk PtMtS PIKIEBLUFP ai U/v. PILOT MOORE COUNTY’S LEA DING NEWS-WEEKLY of the Sandhill Territory o^** orth Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdee.i, Nirlh Carolina, Friday, January 10, 1936. v-%. PINEBLUFF INN REPORTED SOLD FOR SANATORIUM Virginia Trust Co. Believed To Have Closed Deal With Balti more Physicians FOR NERVOUS DISEASES Report of the sale by the Virginia Trust Company of the Pinebluff Inn in Pinebluff was current in the Sand hills this week and though unconfirm ed at the time The Pilot went to press is believed to be true. Two Baltimore physicians, special ists in nervous diseases, are reported to be the purchasers. They arrived at the inn early in the week, left trunks and equipment, ordered lights turned on and some repairs made, and departed, presumably for Baltimore. Much secrecy shrouds the sale of the property, possibly due to apprehen sion on the part of the purchasers that Pinebluff residents may not ap prove of turning the inn into a sana torium for sufferers of nervous di seases, the reported purpose to which it is to be put. The Pinebluff Inn, one of the most attractive hotel buildings in the sec tion, has been in many hands since it WEia built. Efforts made in recent j'ears to operate as an inn have proven unsuccessful, and the Vir ginia Trust Company acquired the property through mortgage fore closure some time ago. On high ground and well isolated from both the village of Pinebluff and U. S. Highway No. 1, it should prove an ideal location for a sanatorium. Pinebluff Inn to Become a Sanatorium, Is Report Moore arid Hoke Democrats Dine Southern Pines Country Club is Scene of Annual Jackson Day Dinner Democrats of Moore and Hoke counties assembled at Southern Pines Country Club Wednesday night to hear H. Lee Thomas, superintendent of the county schools, speak on the early life of Andrew Jackson ana his ad ministration as President of the Un ited States, at a dinner in celebration of his birthday. Thomas was followed on the speaking program by Dr. L. B. McBrayer, who paid a tribute to the late President Woodrow Wilson, and characterized President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a man possessing many of the traits of Old Hickory. Solicitor M. G. Boyette, county •chairman of the Democratic party of Moore county, paid tribute to the women voters. Others on the piogram were Rep resentative W. R. Clegg of Carthage, Robert Denny, Pinehurst attorney, and Mrs. Gilliam Brown of Carthage. Frank Buchan, Southern Pines postmaster, opened the program with his version of a typical old negro sermon followed by singing cf spiri tuals. James Pleasants, chairman of the Young Men’s Democratic Club,« act ed as toastmaster and was assisted by Shields Cameron, newly appoint ed Register of Deeds cf Moore coun- ly. At ten o’clock a radio was tuned in on the President’s address from Washington. E.ARLY FAVOK.ABLE ACTION ON BONUS BILL EXPECTED Favorable actio non the bonus bill is expected almost any day in Con gress. Labeled as an "essential part of the recovery program,’ ’the bill was reported out to the House of Rep resentatives on Wednesday by the Ways and Means committee. Immediately, it was mounted at the top of the legislative work sheet and programmed for a vote late this week. Democratic leaders predicted passage by a decisive margin. In the Senate, to which the meaS' ure will go after House action, obsta cles were disappearing. The bill, backed by major veterans’ organizations, including the Sandhill Post of the American Legion, would redeem bonus certificates immediate ly, but would se£ a premium in the form of interest on those not convert- -ed into cash before January 1, 1945. ^ Old Sketch of the Pinebluff Inn from The Pilot Files BUREAU OF AIR COMMERCE 0. K.’S KNOLLWOOD JOB Wallace Irwin Tells Kiwanis of I SKIING ON PINE His Great Washington Oration\ Nf|gJ)Lp;iS gg NEW SPORT HERE Airport Project One of Four in Carolinas Approved for WPA Funds COUNTY PAYS ITS $6,000 The Bureau of Air Commerce in Washington on Monday gave its ap proval to four airport projects in the Carolinas proposed for development with Works Prgrass funds, among them being the $30,000 Knollwood project. With this action nothing now stands in the way of federal recogni tion of the local field for transport planes upon completion of the en largement and improvement of the airport now under'way. A check for $6,000, Moore county’s appropriation toward the necessary local funds to supplement WPA funds, was turned over to Howard Burns, treasurer of the Airpoit com mittee, during the past week, and a special account opened. Other local funds available are appropriations made recently by the Town of South ern Pines and Pinehurst, Incorporat ed, each for $1,500. The PWA has earmarked $20,000 for the work, and State Administrator George W. Coan, Jr., when here about a week ago, stated that more might be made available if funds in might prove insufficient to fully complete and equip the Knollwood field. Annual Meeting: of Library on Monday Officers for 1936 W'iJI Be Elect ed and Committee Reports for 1935 Heard The Southern Pines Library Asso ciation will hold its annual meeting in the library on Monday afternoon, January 13, at 5:00 o’clock. At this meeting reports of the various com mittees will be submitted, the work of the library for the past year will be discussed and officers and trus tees for the year 1936 elected. All members of the Msociation, those holding Patron, Sustaining and An nual membershlpcs, are urged to at tend, discuss and vote. All thOise not members o fthe Library Association but who are interested in it, are cor dially invited to be present and join in the discussion. Eugene C. Stevens is the present president of the association. BRIDGE PARTY TO BENEFIT LIBRARY AT ABERDEEN How President Taft Upset His Tran((uility but the Toast master Saved the Day Wallace Irwin, author of these Japanese Schoolboy stories you used to laugh over and of much fiction in m.re recent years, kept members of the Kiwanis Club in an uproar at' their meeting in Pinehurst’s Berk shire Hotel Wednesday with tales of his experiences in after-dinner speak- I ing. Mr. Irwin is spending some time i in Southern Pines. One of his anecdotes was of the i time he was highly honored by being asked to address the annual banquet cf the American Newspaper Publish ers’ Association at Washington, a dinner at which President Taft was the guest of honor. Mr, Irwin wrote and rewrote his speech, learned it by heart over a period of weeks, tran scribed it on small slipn of paper lest he forget something in the middle of it. He had the slips of paper on the table before him at the banquet. President Taft was late in arriving, coming for the speaking but not fcr dinner. A seat near Irwin was reserv ed for him, and when he entered, a gust of wind from the opening door blew the Irwinian notes off the table. A number cf the slips lighted in the Taftian .chair, and the expansive President plunked himself down on them. There was no retrieving them. Speech followed speech. Cabinet members. Senators and finally the Mexican ambassador, then dean of the diplomatic corps, who was expect ed to tender the respects of the corps in a few brief remarks. Irwin writhed in his chair during all this, the Taft avoirdupois asquat on his .“rpeech worrying him to the point of forgetting most of it. The Mexican ambassador talked on—and on. He consumed an hour and one-half, most ly in foreign languages unintelligible to those present. Irwin was next on the program. The ambas'<ador sat down. The toastmaster arose. "Because of the late hour, there will be no more speeches,” he said. Watch Your Step! Five Residents of County Have Lost Rifjht to Drive Automobile Of the 792 automobile drivers’ licenses revoked in the state with in the past six weeks, five were in Mcore county as follows: Aberdeen—Elmore Smith and Claudo Mitchell. Carthage—Jim Muse. Pinehurst—Jack Black and Ed ward Palmer. The Highway Safety Division of the Department of Revenue states that driving under the influence of liquor was responsible for 95 per cent of he revocations. Drive carefully, soberly. Development of Course Project ed at Meeting of Chamber of Commerce HOTEL MANAGERS GUESTS FIVE CENTS Supi Court Invalidates Aid To Agriculture Benefit and Rental Payments in Moore County Totalled $74,- 754 Last Year SEN. BAILEY OmMlSTIC A benefit bridge for the Library of Aberdeen will be given this after noon, Friday, at 2:30 o’clock in the home of Dr. and rMs. P. J. Chester. Each player will be charged 35 cents. Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. E. M. Medlin at Aberdeen 104. Mrs. H. E. Bowman is chairman of the committee in charge. Page Trust Secured Creditors Paid Off Ranking Commissioner Hood Explains Settlement of John G. Nichols Gurney P, Hood, State Commission er of Banks, announced this week that since the Page Trust Company of Aberdeen was placed in liquidation at the close of the banking holiday It has paid its preferred and secured creditors in full. Only 20 percent has been paid depositors. "We have paid out enormous sums on claims in the bank,” Mr, Hood said, "and we have not yet complet ed the liquidation. Commenting on the settlement for $5,536 of the $184,505 indebtedness (Please turn to page 8) ASKS STATE TO BUILD TWO NEW MARKET ROADS County Commission Recom mends Highway Construction Near Vass and Hemp The possibility of developing in the Sandhills a course for skiing on pine needles, a sport which has passed the experimental stage and is regarded eas a practicality, was discussed at j the luncheon which directors of the I Southern Pines Chamber of Com- I merce tendered to the town’s new ; hotel managers on Tuesday. The meet- j ing, a most enthusiastic one, was j held at the Mid-Pines Club, and re- j suited in a general discussion cf ways I and means the Chamber of Commerce may better serve the hotels and the community. The subject of pine needle skiing was introduced by the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, whose attention to the in fant spcrt has been called by recent magazine articles. Experiments have been successfully carried out both in this country and abroad and skiing over the needles reported as much fun as over snow. As stated by Mr, Stimson at the .neeting, there is no place in the south better suited for The Board of County Commission- developing a course for the sport than rrs, at their regular meeting on Mon- , here, where we have both hills and day, voted to recommend to the i the pine needles in plenty. President State Highway and Public Works | Hugh J. Betterley of th Chamber ap- Commission the construction of two i pointed Mr. Stimson and H. I. Tread- market roads in the county, one in j way as a committee to look into the the Union Church section to begin possibilities, near the Doc Hinsley place owned by ’ Hotel Managers Guests L. B, McKeithen and to continue | John J. Fitzgerald, manager of the along the rcute of an old road by way Mid-Pines Club, welcomed the guests of the farms of W. H. Hendricks, J. ' of honor at Tuesday’s gathering, D. Richardson and George Morgan Emmett E. Boone, manager of the and into the Union road at Morgan's ' Pine Needles Inn, and H, I. Treadway, mail bcx. i nsanager of the Highland Pines Inn. The second proposed road would Both responded with words of appre- begin near the residence of Henry ^ ciation for the cordial reception they Stutts near Hemp and continue along ^ had had from the people and business the route of an cld road through the ' interests of Southern Pines, Among farms of J. W. Powers, E. C. Ray, j other guests Tuesday were the heads J, M, Brown, Blanche Brown, L. A. 1 of Southern Pines’two private schools Chase. Rodie Garner, O. A Williams,! for ycung ladies, Mrs. Millicent A. E M, Ritter, Lucien Ritter, Ira R. i Hayes and Miss Valerie Deucher, both Williams, H, B. Stutts, _J, L. Burns,' of whom made gracious responses H. M. Davis, R, P. Williams and G. K. j when called upon for a few words. Garner to Highway 27 near the res-1 Other guests in-,luded George W. idrnce of R. L. Williams ,a distance Hadwen. mpnage r of the Johnson of cne and one-half miles. (Please turn to page 5) On account of error in listing the - — valuation of a dwelling and lot listed; JURORS DK.-WVN FOR TERM in the name of L, F. Muse was re- OF CIVIL COURT IN FEBRUARY duced to $2,000 for the years 1929, to 1935, inclusive, and the county ac-1 Jurors for the February term of countant was directed to compute j civil court were draw’n at the County taxes on said basis for these years. | Commissioners’ meeting on Mcnday Other reductions made on account as follows: of errors were as fellows: Dr, Shields, McDonald and Mclvers a pro rata re duction for 1935 on 111 acres of cot- W. W. Gurney, H. C. Maness, D, E. Brown, C. C, Melton, H. C. Bulling- ton, E, E. Moore, T. E. Short, J, G, ton land improperly listed as 416 Freeman, W, A. Lewis, W, H. Eaten, acres, the reduction to apply to 1934 | J. R. Mclnnis, J. S. Kanoy, Lonnie and 1933 if said tax or any portion thereof for said years is unpaid at this time; B. B. Moffitt cf Sheffield township a reduction of $1,100 on personal property for 1931. Blue, Walter Caviness, C. A, McCal- lum, W. C. Hannon, M, A. McNeill, A. L. Wilson, Pete Dowd, W. G. Wicker, W, M. Black, J. B. Kennedy, D Wade Stevick and C. J. Simonds. In a six to three decision handed down on Monday the Supreme Court of the United States nullified the AAA, President Roosevelt’s farm-aid prrgram, declaring it unconstitution al a.s an invasion of state's rights. The court’s decision is expected to mean also invalidation of the Bank- head Cotton Act, the Kerr-Smith To bacco Act and the Potato Control law when these meet the test of con stitutionality at the hands of the highest tribunal. The decision immediately halted all processing tax collections, and Treas ury Department officials said on Monday that “for the present no checks will be issued for benefit or rental payments, or refunds, or for administrative purposes.” Mooie county farmers received $74,754.14 in AAA rental and benefit payments distributed to growers co operating in the crop adjustment pro grams during the fiscal year ending June 30th last. These payments were only a part of the Increase In farm In come, The rise in prices paid tO' grow ers for their commodities has in many instances increased their incomes more than the amount of their rental and benefit payments. The effect, threfore, of the Supreme Court’s d- cisi.n was not a pleasing one upon lo cal farmers. Benefits in State In the state as a whole, total pay ments for the fiscal year were $14,- 733,147.51, of which $8,015,380.81 went to tobacco growers, $719,383.20 to corn-hog producers and $51,599.67 to wheat growers. Expenses of ad- ministering the programs for the year were $1,147,290.71, about seven per cent of the amount distributed in the state. Meat of this went to county and community committeemen named from local farmers to aid county agents. Comment upon the decision was varied here. There were many who "lambaster” the Supreme Court tor its action, putting ihe exigencies of the situation as it immediately affects the farmer above the question of con stitutionality, while others were more temperate in their reaction, holding that the Congress will undoubtedly find some other way to solve the farm problem. Senator Bailey’s Conmient In a statement given the press at Washington North Carcllna’s senior Senator, Mr. Bailey, said; ‘‘The present administration has made as its goal for the farmers of the country parity prices. Parity is nothing more nor less than justice. The farmers have a right to it as a matter of course. I think the Pres ident and the Congress will work in the light of experience with a view to passing all laws necessary to bring ing parity prices to our farmers and we wi.l continue to work until they have been brought about. The real goal is parity prices for normal crops. This Is not the time for discussing details or mechanics. It is the time to keep in mind that the government of the United States Is just and is committed to parity prices for the farmers. This prospect ought not to be construed so as to encourage the planting and producing of large crops and surpluses. It should be construct ed, howeved, as an emphatic state ment that the administration has es- tablished parity prices for ^armers as cne of its great goals and it may be trusted to proceed at once to devise legislation to achieve this goal.” Congressman Walter Lambeth of this district said: "I hope the administration can find means to carry forward the pro gram which has brought about such beneficial results,” Ruth Burr Sanborn, Southern Pines, has a story in the current Saturday Evening Post.

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