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Friday, February 7, 1936. THE PILOT, Southern Pine^ and Aberdeen. North Carolhm Page Tbr«t Don*t Get Up Your Hopes for A Pestless Summer, Says Leiby State Entymologist Says Cold Not as Fatal to Bugs as You’d Think Just because the weather has been freezing people’s cars and running coal bills into nightmares is no rea son for gardeners to believe that a spring and summer free from pests lies ahead, Dr. R. W. Leiby, who ought to know tells the Raleigh News and Observer. The State entomologist has been studying bugs so long that he thinks nothing of ladies callin'? him up in the most confidential manner to ask him hew to get rid of fleas and other Insects that sometimes embarrass the neatest of housekeepers, and he won’t offer any false hope to tnose who’d like to believe that freezing is poison to pests. “The vast majority of insects are protected from low' temperatures in their winter quarters by snow, that is, they hibernate under leaves and trash, or under the soil surface. A layer of snow on the ground keeps extreme cold from the soil and from the insects on or within it,” he said. "It is sudden and extreme tem perature changes that raise the death rate in hibernating insects, rather than the prolonged low winter tem peratures.” Insects like San Jose scale show a winter death rate of 50 to 75 per cent an average winter. In a winter like this, however, the mortality rate will usually run as high as 80 or 85 percent, because of a tendency to hi bernate in exposed places. "The higher mortality rate of the scale is offset to some extent, how ever," he explained, ‘‘by the higher winter killing of the wasp-like para sites of the scale which are fewer in number in spring. These parasites would normally destroy or reduce re lationship of parasites and host in sects applies to other kinds of insects which one might think would be wip ed out by a spell of very low winter temperatures. We must remember that what hurts the insect pests also hurt their parasites, and the latter exert a powerful natural control over insect pests. "Insects like the strawberry %eevil, the tobacco flea-beetle and the cotton boll weevil, all of which hibernate un der trash in the woods, are apt to suf fer a very high winter death rate in low temperatures when they are not protected by snow. Hence, we can ex pect a higher mortality than usual of these and simil.ir insects as the result of the winter’s severe cold spells. We must remember, however, that an in.sert can ‘freeze up’ fcr the winter and withstand severe low tem peratures as long as it stays frozen, for at thattime its body is inactive, its heart action is slowed down, so to speak. But let that same insect come to life a bit late in winter as the result of a warm spell and then be exposed to a suddou drop in tempera ture, and it is apt to be frozen to death. One has only to think cf the | many kinds of insects that survive in ' the rigorous North to understand i that zero weather is not as fatal as | some think.” t County Finances Report of Treasurer Shows Cash in Bank of Over $80,000.00 The financial condition ot Moore county, as revealed by a statement cf the Bank of Pine- hurst, county treasurer, is as fol lows: Amount of Cash in Bank $80,964.11 Cash in Sinking Fund 32,944.84 Sinking Fund Invest ments 31,420.00 (Included in Above) Funds Secured By United States uovern- ment Bonds $20,000.00 North Carolina Bonds . .. 26,000.00 Moore County Bonds .... 14,000.00 Total $60,000.00 Board Orders Clean-Up of County Courthouse Commissioners Follow Up Rec ommendations cf Grand Jury —Other Business CARTHAGE Thomas Successor To H. A. Pajfe at Duke New York Retired Merchant Elected to Board of Directors at University James A. Thomas of White Plains, N. Y., retired merchant who was a pioneer in introducing American goods and methods in the Orient, has been elected a member of the board of trustees of Duke university. He succeeds the late Henry A. Page of Aberdeen. Mr. Thomas, a native of North Car olina, for many years has been a patron of Duke university, and has be;n particularly interested in the de velopment of the vm:versity library's collection on the Far East. Among the hundreds of volumes he has given to the library on the economics, his tory, art, and literature of the Far Kast are many of rare print. He has also given the university many pieces of oriental art objects and rugs. As chairman of the Duke Memor ial, Inc., Mr. Thomas was instrumen tal in the gathering of more than 8,000 individual donations toward the erection of the beautiful memorial chapel in the Duke university chapel, where the bodies of James B. Duke, Benjamin N. Duke and Washington Duke, the university’s chief benefac tors, now lie in beautifully carved saicophagi. He was a business asso ciate of James B. Duke. BEAL ESTATE TB.ANSFERS Thomas Pondysh and wife to Cecil Robinson and wife, property in Mc Neill township. J. E. Summey to J. E. Phillips, property in Greenwood township. The repcrt of the Grand Jury as submitted last week to Judge F. Don ald Phillips was heard by the Board of County Commissioners as it met in regular srssion on Monday, and steps were taken to follow up the recommendations made in regard to proper heating and care cf the court house and county home. The board decided that special ve niremen summoned for jury duty and not accepted shall receive $1.00 per day and five cents per mile mil eage on proving their attendance with the clerk of court. This order is to apply to the special venire summoned during the January term as well as to future courts. The auditor was ordered to pay the account of Howell L. Smith Company for binding 23 books in the office of the clerkof the court in the amoimt ot $345. It was ordered that an old road running north from Hartsell’s Garage in Cameron to Highway 1 be placed on the county highway system as be ing necessary for public farm mar ket use and that the State Highway Commission bs requested to put this road in usable condition. The board also voted to recom mend that the highway department reconstruct and place on the map for maintenance a farm to market road from Cool Springs crossing to the other Cool Springs crossing near Jim ’field’s, passing by the homes of G. H. Davis and L. D. Phillips. T. Frank Cameron and L. R. Rey nolds were appointed as a joint com mittee to investigate and recommend to the board regarding crop report ing and other matters pertaining to agriculture. The sum of $500 was ordered trans ferred from the school capital outlay to current expenese.s. Bond of D. D. Shields Cameron as Register of Deeds from the American Surety Company for $5,000 was ap proved and accepted and ordered re- C rded and filed. The welfare officer was authorised to make the following disbursements: For the support of blind Ed McKffith- en and family at Vass, $2.50 per week until the family can get to work; for Lack McDonald, a cripple at Cam eron, as much as $10 per month un til further order; for temporary sup port of Mrs. Hin Maness until she can get work, $5 per month. It was ordered that the county pay one-half the costs of artificial legs for Caaey Jones and Mary Johnson, and that King Hughes, aged man of Car thage, be allowed $5 for the month ot February. .lUKOKS DRAWN FOB MARC H TEBM OF KLPEBIOR COURT Miss Esther Seawell spent the week-end at her home in Moncure. The Rev. W. S. Golden is spending the week in Richmond attending a se ries of lectures at Union Theological Seminary. The Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Durham spent Friday in Moncure with Mrs. Durham’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ru fus Womble. Mrs. Glennie Muse has • returned h me after a month’s visit with her ; brother, Mr. Vernon Pleasants of Rowland. Miss Mary Worthy Spence return ed to Salem College Monday after spending the week-end at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. L. • Spence. | Miss Helen Rose Underwood of' I Flora Macdonald College .spent the j week-end at home. | I Miss Rose Underwood, Miss Jean i Morris and U. L. Spence, Jr., spent Monday in Winston-Salem. | Miss Mildred Cross spent the week-' end at her home in Sanford. I I ' Mrs. B. C. Wallace is recuperating i at the Moore County Hospital after a fall on the snow Sunday. | Miss Frances Hunter spent the I week-end in Charlotte. i Miss Rozelle Williamson has enter- j ed the University of North Carolina, : where she will take a special course. I Mrs. H. J. Hall was hostess to the I members of her bridge club on Fri-! day. High score prize was presented | to Mrs. Myrton Stewart and second I high to Mrs. Earl McDonald. A spec- j iai guest to the club was Mrs. Fred Flinchum. j Mrs. A. N. McN. Blue entertained 1 for Mrs. Evelyn Blue at a birthday ] dinner on Tuesday. The table was covered with a linen cloth centered i with crystal candelabra with red ta- i I pers on a reflector. A beautiful bir- i thday cake was placed in front of I the honoree. Valentine colors were I observed in the decorations. Covers were laid for’ eight of Mrs. Blue’s rel- ' atives. Mrs. R. L. Tyson was hostess to the Carthage Music Club on Thurs day afternoon. Mrs. W. G. Brown presided over the business meeting. The study for the afternoon was about Brahms. Miss Johnsie Redding gave a reading. A piano duet was rendered by Mrs. R. L. Burns and Mrs. J. G. Downing. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. M. G. Dalrymple in serving refreshments. At the County Commissioners’ meeting on Monday, the following were drawn for jury service in the March term of Superior court fcr the trial of civil cases: First week: O. C, Capps, John G. Ferguson, Bethel Dunlap, W. E. Wil liams, C. O. Combs, Adam Garner, Ira L. Maness, A. K. Pennington, Rassie E. Wicker, E. J. Woodard, B. F. Garner, E. P. Hinson, M. L. Cox, Ted L. Frye, John Ferguson, Julius Williamson, W. C. Lassiter, J. D. Brewer, W. B. Causey, Lonnie Cali cut, E. A. Morgan, B. P. Gulledge, T. L. Blue and J. R. Boggs. Second week: C. B. Blue, W. T. Matthews, Jesse Martindale, A. D. McDonald, David Yeater, H. R. Ut ley, E. G. Kennedy, Carlton H. Se ward, E. J. Richardson, Duncan Mc- Innis, S. J. Davis, J. R. Dunlap, Frank Davis, W. V. Kennedy, J .R, Line- berry, Oscar Monroe, Rufus Freeman, E. T. Dennis, J. G. Davis, R. W. Cav. inessj J. M. Brewer, Joe Cameron, G. W. Wilcox and E. S. Hooker. MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license has been issued from the office of the Register of Deeds of Mocre county to Clarence K. Britt of Hemp and Mary Wicker of Carthage Route 3. ‘BORROWING” CAB GETS O.ABDNER BOSE IN COUBT 1 Gardner Rose, colored of Pinehurst, on Monday in Recorder’s Cour^ was bound to the Superior Court under 1 bond of $500 on a charge of larceny of an automobile, a sport model Ford coupe, which he is alleged t > have "borrowed” from Prentice Burch and failed to return. The car was valued at $350. Julius Simpson, colored of Camer on. who escaped from the State pris on camp in this county in 1931 and was caught only recently, was given a 30-day term to begin at the expira tion of the former term. A case in which Sylvester Hampton, colored of Eagle Springs, was charg ed with breaking and entering the postoffice at Eagle Springs was dis missed from the Recorder’s Court, this being a federal offense and the defendant having already been deliv ered to federal authorties Ervin Morrison, white of Southern Pines, pleaded guilty to driving an automobile while intoxicated. His two months’ road sentence was to be sus pended upon payment of a fine of $50 and the costs and upon condition that he repair damage done to prop erty of the Piedmont Telephone Com pany and W. T. Huntley. He is not to drive a car for three months. on ^2^3Week WOOD'S MUSTARD SPINACH Nice Friendly Valentines for peo ple you like at Hayes.’ DB. CLYDE EBWIN TO TALK TO TEACHEBS THIS .\FTEBNOON Dr. Clyde A. Ei win of Raleigh will be the principal speaker at a teach ers’ meeting to be held in the high school auditorium in Carthage at 3 o’clock this afternoon, Friday. All teachers and Parent-Teacher Associa tion officials of the county are urged to attend. Sold by these Dealers SOUTHERN PINES McNeill & Co. ABERDEEN Burney Hardware Co. Aberdsen Hdwe. Co. PINEHURST Pinehurst Dept. Store Pinihurst Warehouses, Inc. Smith & Ritter v.\ss C. & p. store A. W. McNeill FREl: ! TheSoi'' ■ ' avorite SLED CATALOG. Mail a post card to T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va. 11 mill BENEFiT BRIDGE NETS $90 FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH One of the most successful benefit bridge and bsano parties of the sea son was held in the Southland Hotel on Tuesday, January 28th. More than 125 attended. High score in auction was held by Mrs. D. G. Stutz, in con tract by Mrs. Harrington, and in Whist by Miss Pauline Fawm. The door prize was won by Mrs. O’Brien of Pinehurst and a large ten-pound cake was won by Miss Katherine Wiley. While the scores were being tabu lated prior to the awarding of prizes the hostesses, Mrs. Joheph Buckley and Miss Elizabeth Jacobs served sandwiches, cake and coffee. Although full returns are not yet available more than $90.00 was real ized for the benefit of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church. DIES IN AUTOMOBILE Coroner D. Carl Fry was notified Tuesday of the death of Cliff Jones, of Greensboro, which occurred in an automobile in the upper edge of Moore county near Steeds, a town across the Montgomery line. Details of the inquest and the names of Jones’ com{ianions are not available as this is written, but the coroner was informed that death was prob ably due to alcoholic poisoning. NEW STOBE OPENS Southern Pines has a new store, the Home Variety Store, which open ed this week in the Burgess build ing on East Broad street. F. B. Thom- asson is In charge. JJier usual low down payment advt'o*'. 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