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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory o^** orth Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdee.i, Nirlh Carolina, Friday, January 10, 1936.
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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.
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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.