Mr 7 ‘35 FIRST IN* NEWSj, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING T*¥T17 JL HL Ed A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 16, NO. 15. Jr ^^arthaoe &AGi.e SPRINGS LAKCVICW MAHUfiV JACXSOH SPRIHOS SOUTHCPN PlMfiS A^NtSy MftiCHTS AeCR.OUH ^ PI N CBLUPP N. c. fiOOAf PILOT MOORE COl NTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY of the Sandhill Territory of Nortn \^rolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, P"riday, iVIarch (>, 19.36. FIVE CENTS PRESBYTERY VOTE ITS APPROVAL OF NEW CHURCH HERE Grants Renuest of Civic ('lub ^ Mission For Orjjani/ation in Southern Pines j COMPLETE PLANS MAR. 1.5 The Presbytery of Fayetteville, in a called scssi- n at Raeforci on Tues day last, granted the request of the Mission at the Civic Club for the or ganization of a Piesbyterian church in Southern Pines, and congratulated the Sandhills city iipon the fine work being accomplished. The Kev. Marcus A. Brownscn. D. D., a member cf the histoiic Presby tery of Philadelphia, of which Fay etteville Prestayt£ry was once a part, was introduced and invited to sit as ' a visiting member. Dr. Brownson Hopes to Be Here HOX. J. B. KIllllN(iH.VI S Govei noi- Ehringhaus, in a telephone , conversation yesterday with an offi- j cial cf the Sandhills Steeplechase & spoke of the need and the place of Association, said: a Presbyterian church in Southern i ..j ^jj^rt Pines, and noted the fine spirit i ^^t.nd the races on the 14th, but among the people of the proposed ' j ^,„^^le to make a definite prom- new church. He paid high tribute to ^ owing to pressure of business at the pastor, the Rev. E. L. Barber, j offjpg Both Mrs. Ehringhaus and saying he had sat undei his minis- | j have the most pleasant recollec- try for six years and was constantly i year’s races and you amazed at his earne.st, masterful pre- | assured we will be present sentation of the gospel cf salvation , jg humanly possible.” and the Christian way of life. j Governor presented the Sand- Mr. Barber spoke of the progress of the w'ork, reminding the Presby tery that the mission was not yet a year old, and the Sunday School not yet six months old, and that the pe- I tition contained seventy signatures up to that time, with others yet to slf.n, and the Sunday School has an attendance of ninety with more than a hundred on the roll. He also stated that back of the whole movement and in it all, was the good life of Dr. Brownson, who has been a con stant inspiration and benediction to the paster in the work, and to all the people w’ho have come under Dr. Brownson’s ministry. , Others introduced to Presbytery Iwere R. S. DuRant, W. E. Blue, W. H. Goldsmith, Mr. Lloyd of Ontario, and a large delegation of Southern Pines Hadies. These all spoke enthusiastical- dy in behalf of the work. Presbytery appointed a commis- poin of the following: Rev. A. R. Mc Queen, D. D., of Dunn: Rev. A. W. Dick, of Fayetteville; Rev. H. G. Bed- inger, D. D., cf Flora Macdonald Col lege; Rev. E. L. Barber, of Aber deen; McKay McKinnon of Maxton, J. Talbot Johnston of Aberdeen, John R. McQueen of Lakeview. These will be presented on Sunday afternoon, March 15th at 3:00 o’cloKic at the Civ ic Club to effect the organization. hills Cup to the winner of the feature event here last Spring and if able to come will again award the trophy. HUNTLEY RENAMED AS MOORE COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR SYMINGTON FINED FOR VIOLATION OF NARCOTIC LAWS Moore (’ounty Health Officer Guilty of No .Moral WronK', Savs State Official Group to Inspect Sandhills Project I*rominent Citizens, Newspaper Editors to Look Over Hoff, man Development Tuesday Arrangements for a meeting next Tuesday In Hoffman and an inspec tion tour of the development under taken by the Resettlement Adminis tration on 60,000 acres of Sandhills land were announced at the regional office of the administration in Ral eigh this week. Several hundred newspaper editors and prominent citizens have been in vited to the meeting. Dr. L. C. Gray of Washington, assistant administra tor of the Resettlement Administra tion, will speak. F. W. Eatman, project manager, is being assisted in arranging the af fair by the following committee of newspaper editors in towns near the project; Nelson C. Hyde, of The Pi lot, Southern Pines; Isaac S. London, Post-Dispatch, Rockingham; O. L. Moore, Exchange, Laurinburg; Nell Cadieu, News Messenger, Hamlet, and Clifton Blue, Sandhills Citizen, Vass. Homer H. B. Mask regional director of the Resettlement Administration, also is co-operating in the arrange ments. A barbecue luncheon will be served at the project headquarters. State and Qfounty officials and leading citizens have been Invited to join in the meet ing and inspection tour. Miss Jenkins Appointed Tax List Supervisor, and List Takers Are Approved COMMISSIONERS MEET At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held on Mon day, W. T. Huntley was unanimously elected to succeed himself as tax col lector for Moore county upon prop er qualification and filing ^f bond. John C. Muse, County Aiiditor, S. R. Hoyle, County Attorney, and Chairman W. H. Currie of the Board of Commissioners were named as an audit committee to make settlement with Mr. Huntley for taxes <tollected for 1934. The B:ard appointed Miss Maida Jenkins as county tax li.st supervisor for 1936, and the following list tak ers were approved for the townships named: George Willcox, Deep River; Alice Ritter, Ritters; J. W. Baldwin, Sheffield; B, Deaton, Bensalem; Alex Stewart, Mineral Springs; J T. Har rington, Sandhills; J. Alton Shaw, Greenw'ood; F. W. Van Camp, Mc Neills; R. W. Pleasants, Carthage, i Petitions concerning several roads were heard by the commissioners and it was ord'ired that the Board recom mend that the State take over and maintain as a highway the fire lane running from the county highway leaving No. 74 to Pinehurst at the J. D. Henson place and with the fire lane a distance of two and one half miles, connecting with the Troy and Carthage road near Archie Brown’s and John Richardson’s; also a road beginning on Route 705 at John Lol- hein’s, continuing to the Montgomery line to the George Davis place and on to No. 70 at Steeds, a distance of five miles, this being used as a mail and school bus route;*also the tak ing over and rebuilding a new neigh borhood and market road beginning at the John Seawell plaqte on highway No. 74 (27) and extending by way of the farms of Tracy Parks, Federal Land Bank (Buie place) and J. H. Caldwell to Parkwood, a distance of about two and one-half miles; also that a sand clay road be construct ed from a point at the John R. Black place to a point in the new farm to market road now under construction from Cleveland Cagle’s home to the Raleigh road at a point near the J. M. Freeman place, a distance of about three miles; also one other road, a full description c* which is not available. CHARGE A TECHNICAL ONE Lcniency in the issuance of pre scriptions for narcotics and failure to keep proper records which consti tuted a technical violation of the Ketleral narcotic law resulted in a plea of guilty by M ore county’s health officer. Dr. John Symington, in Kedeial Court in Rockingham on Tuesday. He was fined S.'iOO and plac ed on probation for three years. Judge Johnston J. Hayes, presiding, said he hail no desire to send Dr. Symington to prison or prevent his continuing the practice of medicine. In allowing him to continue practic ing, Judge Hayes made the provision that Dr. Symington shall not admin ister cr prescribe narcotics in any form to any person not a bona fide resident of Moore county. Judge Hayes also held that Dr. Symington must keep a detailed rec ord of all narcotic^ administered by him. The charge against Dr. Syming ton grew out of his failure to keep i-ecords of narcotic administrations coupled with a liability in adminis tering drugs to addicts who were said to have been flocking to him from all parts of the state. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds of Raleigh, State Health Officer testified as to the good character and high standing of Dr. Symington as a man and a physician and more than 100 Moore county men and women were in court to back the physician. With his attorneys describing him as "a big-hearted Scotsman,” preach ers, dOc?tors anl laymen from this sec tion took the stand to express confi dence in Dr. Symington. Ignorant of Law "Dr. Symington was guilty of a technical violation of the narcotic act,” Dr. Reynolds said. “He was guilty of no moral wrong, however, and I can see no reason why he should be removed as health offi cer. He was ignorant of the provis ions of the law. admittedly, but had been unable to obtain from United States Public Health Service officials correct information as to its pro visions. “He had requested the State Board of Health on a number of occasions to secure commitments to the State Hospital for addicts he was furnish ing with morphine, but the space for them was not available. A* early as three years ago, he had asked the sheriff of his county to keep the ad dicts away from him. “There was no evidence, nor was it charged, that Dr. Symington had made one cent out of the sale of nar cotics. The charge was merely that he had failed to keep proper records, which he admitted. In view of Judge Hayes’ decision to allow him to con tinue the practice of medicine, I see no reason why he should not continue as health officer.” America’s Leaders to Meet Here Races on 14th Attract Pick of Steeplechasers Indigo. One of Leading Timber Horse.'' in U. S., Enters For Sandhills Cup IH RSES TOTAL Carroll K. Bassett of Camden, S. C., left, leading amateur steeplechase rider in the country for the past several seasons, and Noel Laing, Southern Pines, a close second to Bassett in wins during 193,5, will meet in several of the races on the dard of the Sandhills Steeplechase & Racing Association over the Midland Road course on Saturday, March 14 th. Whose Sedan? It’s Going to Someone’s for a UoHur, With the Hospital the Benefleiarj' Donald Stewart Asks $10,000 for Injuries Pinehurst Youth, Struck by Auto in February, 1929, Sues Nina M. Monroe Suit to recover damages in the sum of $10,000 has been started against Nina M. Monroe by Donald McN. Stewart through his next friend, Mrs. Mary Stewart, of Pinehurst, said damages being claimed on ac count of injuries alleged to have been sustained by young Stewart when struck by an automobile as he was walking off the highway between Southern Pines and Pinehurst in Feb ruary 1929. The complaint charges that the car was being operated carelessly and recklessly. The youth received injuries to his ankle which, though painful, were not known at the time to be perma nent, but he has continued to suffer from said injuries and has lost time from his studies and other activities as a result, the complaint sets forth. By .A. Linde Fowler Someone is going to buy a Ply mouth sedan for one dollar. It may be you or it may be me, but it can’t be either of us if we don’t purchase one of those pasteboards, for one solitary "iron man,” which eventu ally will represent the ownership of that car. The proceeds of the pur chase, as you all know who have been reading these columns, go to ward the upkeep of the Moore County Hospital, and we never any of us know when we may be thtire as pat- tients, wanting the best of every thing that a hospital can supply in ministering to our needs or desires. The drive for funds to help the hospital along has been progressing satisfactorily in the main, but that is in great measure due to the gen. erous way in which a few individ uals have come across. But the real success in such a yearly drive, after all, is in the manner in w'hich the rank and file put their shoulders to the wheel and that is where YOU should feel a responsibility and do your share to help the cause along. As for the Plymouth car, it was on exhibit yesterday in front of The Carolina, with a member of the firm of Wallace-Williams cf Carthage, the concern which sold it to the hospital women’s auxiliary at cost, in charge. Anybody would have been proud to have stepped into it and driven it off, as the new owner. It will be on exhibit in Aberdeen this morning, probably this afternoon at the Pine hurst Country Club, and Saturday morning at Southern Pines. Mrs. J. H. Walker and members of the Wo men’s Hospital Auxiliary, who have given unsparingly of their time and thought to this worthy project, will be on hand to help in the sale of tickets. Loosen up on that bank roll. DR. EDDY TO TELL OF CONDITIONS IN ROME Indigo. ' ne of .-Vmerica's most fa mous timber horses, has b-:en enter ed in the race for the Sandhills Cup. feature event of the second an nual race meeting of the Sandhills Steeplechase and Racing Association here on March 14. and will be pitted against Charioteer, owned by Ander son F wler of Camden, S. C., the fast jumptr that won the inaugural event on the Midland Road dourse last March. John Schiff of Aiken, S. C., owner of the Northwood Stables, .‘ient in Indigo’s entry this week. With a number of other promising horses in this three-mile event, it bids fair to prove one of the sensational races over timber of the 1936 racing season. There will be five event on the card for the meeting, the first race being a novelty here, one and one-half miles over hurdles. The secDnd event MRFTINP Tl A Y i ^ two-mlle sweepstakes over Hi’W 1 IJ JLkJl/ix 1 I five-foot brush jumps, to be followed i by the Sandhills Cup event, thre« To Gather at Carthage to Select miles over timber. The' fourth race is REPUBLICANS OF COUNTY TO HOLD Eleven Delegates to State Convention SEAWELL ISSUES CALL A call has been issued by H. F. Siawell, Jr., chairman of the Moore County Republican Executive Com mittee, for a convention of Republi cans to be held at Carthage on Tues day afternoon, March 10th, at 2:00 o’clock. The meeting will be held in the courthouse and it is expected that a large number of Republicans will attend to show their activity in party affairs, especially this year of a na tional election. The Republicans will be entitled to another two-mile brush event and the final event will be seven furlongs on the new flat track. Purses of nearly $1,500 await the winners in the various events, and trophies in addition to the money prizes will be presented the winners cf the timber race and the second brush race. Parking spaces in the clubhouse en closure went on sale this week and have been in great demand. They are available at The Carolina hotel, the office of L. L. Biddle, II and the office of Col. George P. Hawes in Pinehurst, and at The Pilot office in Southern Pines. There is to be no general admission have a delegate and one alternate to I charge for the race meeting, and the the State convention from Moore i general parking, outside the club- county for every two hundred Repub lican votes or fraction thereof cast in the county for the Republican nomi nee for Governor in the last general election. They will therefore be en titled to 11 delegates as there were house enclosure, will be sold at the gate at one dollar per car. More than 10,000 persons are expected here from all parts of the two Caro- linas. Indigo, during the 1935 season, won something over two thousand Repub-; a number of the most important races lican votes cast in the county for the! run, including the Virginia Gold Cup, Dr. D. Brewer Eddy of Boston, Mass., will speak at the Church of Wide Fellowship next Thursday night, March 12, at 8:00 p. m. on "Things Exactly As They Are in Russia.” His address will be illustrated wtih mo tion pictures professionally taken in Russia on his trip there last year. There will be no admission fee but a free will offering will be taken Dr. Eddy has just returned from a world tour through Europe, the near East and the Orient at a time when dramatic history is in the mak ing, and brings a vivid and timely picture cf civilization in transition as seen through the keen eyes of a Chris tian internationalist. The following facts about his tour will indicate how fortunate Southern Pines and this area is in having Dr. Eddy here. Republican nominee. Mr. Seawell stated this week, "If the Republican party does nothing more than act as a brake or as a governor to the conduct of the Dem ocrats in North Carolina, it will have rendered great service to the state, j When one political party stays in power over a long period of time, abuses naturally arises and the great est abuse in North Carolina is the en gendering of politics into every phase of the administration of the affairs of the state. The Democratic party has been in power in North Carolina so long that the politicians feel free to impose upon the people of the state anything that fits political ex pediency.” The State debt, the sales tax, and the liquor law were pointed out by Mr. Seawell as some of the evils which have arisen under Democratic administration. He also made m-ention of the payment of large salaries to politicians while school teachers were forced to wait for their meager sal aries. BIDS OPENED FOR RECTORY FOR EPlSCOP-\L CHURCH At a meeting of the vestry cf the Emmanu-l Episcopal Church in Southern Pines this*week sealed bids were opened for the construction of a rectory on the church’s property on Ridge street between Massachusetts and Indiana avenues. A committee comprising E. C. Ste vens, John Howarth, John C. Barron, Elmer Davis and the Rev. Craighill Brown was appointed to work out certain details in connection with the plans and bids before the final letting the Meadowbrook Cup and the Jer sey Hunt Cup. The horse accounted for six victories for the Northwood Stables, during the year. One of the most sensational win ners on the flat during the 1935 hunt race meetings was also among entries received yesterday by Noel Laing, secretary of the local association, by name. Sable Muff, owned by Mrs. Marion duPont Somerville, and to be ridden here by Carrcll K, Baissett, leading amateur jockey in the coun. try last year. Sable Muff won 11 races during the season. Another Somerville entry is Night Retreat, which won eight races over brush last season, mainly on the big tracks up north. Entries received to date assure a highly successful meeting here a week from Saturday, Laing said yes terday. Officials for the race meeting were announced this week by officers of the association. Named as stewards are Algernon S. Craven of Aiken, S. C.. a member cf the hunts committee of the Na tional Steeplechase and Hunt Asso ciation; Harry D. Kirkover, promin ent Camden, S. C., sportsman well known here; and S. A. Warner Bal. tazzi of Westbury, L. I., and Rufus C. Finch of Rumson, N. J., both of whom served as officials here last year. The judges will be Jackson H. Boyd, Sprigg D. Camden, Brigadier General Manus McCloskey of Fort Bragg and C. W. Middleton. Lee Evans of Virginia will act as starter. The following have been asked to serve as paddock judges: Nat S. (Please turn to page 8)

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