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NEWS-WEEKLY
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of the Sandhill TerritorV*^ North Carolina
VOL. 16, NO. 19.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday. April 3. 1936.
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FIVE CENTS
MANY CANDIDATES The Pilot introduces Rotogravure LAWRENCE SMITHS
FOR REGISTER OF
DEEDS IN FIELD
“June” Harrington Announces
Support of Miiis McCaskill for
His Late Father’s Post
\VM. JOSEPH IN FIELD
Politics in the county is seething
insofar as one office is concerned,
Section With Next Week^s Issue
Easter, Curb Marketing, Soil
Conservation, Pictures Fea
ture First Issue
Easter’s the theme of women’s fea
tures in our April all-roto-gidvure
STATE FARMER SECTION which
comes to you next week as a part of
The Pilot. But with the flowers, Eas
ter bonnets and the general holiday
though there appear at the moment j trend of things, you’ll find plenty of
to be few contests in sight for most | good common sense farm facts and
of the jobs. Something will probably j figures.
be done about this as the Democratic , ejjitorial privilege of getting I
primary in June grows nearer, but
an advance look at The Pilot’s "pic-
the boys haven’t any too much time
to come out with their announce- j tuie paper” convinces us that every
ments and get to work on the elec- member of the farm family will just
torate. I about revel in our April issue. “Curb
The one exception just now is the i Marketing Has Become Big Business”
office of the Register of Deeds, held | is the title of one profusely illustrat-
at present by D. D. Shields Cameron ed feature. It tells how North Caro-
of Southern Pines who was named to ~
fill the vacancy created a few months
ago by the death of Will J. Harring
ton, long incumbent and for years
the Democratic party's leading vote
lina farm women have increased their
incomes and raised home living stand
ards by a gigantic cooperative mar
keting system. A summary of recent
re.‘iearoh studies made by the South
getter in the county. Mr. Cameron is Carolina experiment station for more
a candidate to succeed himself. ; economic production of cotton is es-
1 Di pecially timely at this season of the
In another column of to-days Pi- . u,
. * .. T, • I „ year. Best varieties of vegetables for
let “June” Harrington, son of the f
. • t this section of the country are de
late Will, announces he is not a can-; ,
J,, ^ „„ i scribed in another practical article,
didate for his father s job but an ar
dent supporter of the young woman ^ « you’ve been pondering over the
who has served in the Register’s of- j new Soil Conservation and Domestic
fice many years under both Mr. H ir- Allotment Act. you 11 be keenly in-
rington and Mr. Cameron, Mis- xJess teiested in a clear-cut analysis of the
McCaskill. Miss McCaskill is said to ' measure and what it will mean to
* farmers in Moore county.
Wins Recog'nition
Painting by Ruth Doris Swett
To Be Exhibited by Art
Students’ League in N. Y.
A painting by Ruth Doris Swett
of Southern Pines, North Carolina,
was chosen by a jury of prominent
New York artists to be exhibited
in the semi-annual members’ show
of the Art Students’ League of
New York. The exhibit will be open
from March 25 to April 4 in the
grand gallery of the Art Students’
League at 215 West 57th street in
New York City. The semi-annual
members’ shew is an important ex
hibition at the Art Students’ Lea
gue and is participated in by the
League’s large membership from
all parts of the world.
ACQUIRE FORMER
HERRING HOUSE
' Winter Residents l*urchase Res
idence of Mrs. E. W. Paven-
stedt on Morganton Road
: AND ADDITIONAL ACREAGE
rotogravure farm magazine. We think Kissimmee. Florida:
have wide support for the place.
But there is a Harrington in the
field. The Pilot is this week in re
ceipt cf the following communication;
“Please announce my candidacy for
the office of Register of Deeds of | they’re mighty interesting and at-
Moore county, subject to the vote of tractive. Watch for them!
the people in the approaching pri- -
mary. Please state that my father’s ' For Willff
name is Dan Tom Harrington, Route j „ \ a i
2, Carthage; also my father and the lOF nOSpitm Awa,ruCQ
late W. J. Harrington, Register of
The largest real estate deal con
summated this season in Southern
Pines was announced yesterday by E.
C. Stevens, agent in the transaction.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Smith
of Millbrook, New York, have pur-
chas:d from Mrs. Edmund W. Paven-
stedt of Washington their residence
on Morganton Road, formerly the
Donald Herring house, and in addi
tion, some three-quarters of an acre
of adjoining land from Dr. Ernest W.
Bush. Ml-, and Mrs. Smith have been
occupying the Pavenstedt house since
March 1st.
The Smiths have been winter resi
dents of Southern Pines for a number
of years, until this season occupying
the house of Miss Birdilia Bair on
Connecticut avenue. Mr. Smith is an
authority on shooting, the author of
s.veral books on the subject, and
Mr.s. Smith one of the country's best
known horse women. She was for
, ! some time master of hounds of the
Baltimore Orioles and Philadel- i Minbrcok Hunt. With Mrs. Landon
phia N itionais Want Spring ^ k Thorne of New York, she owns the
1 tilining Farther North j Thorndale stables of Millbrook, whose
^ j horses winter at The Paddock, a num-
C. OF C. 10 DISCUSS PLAN ber of them winning in hunting and
^ ~ : jumping classes at the Pinehurst
Does Southern Pines again want to , ghow this week. Mrs. Smith is
SOUTHERN PINES
CONSIDERED FOR
BASEBALL CAMP
Nearly $1,500
Local Towns Have Raised
Over SI,400 for Red Cross
Flood Relief
Paul H. Dana, treasurer of the
Moore County Red Cross chapter,
reports slightly over $1,400 receiv
ed from Aberdeen, Pinebluff, Pine
hurst and Southern Pines for the
Flood Relief fund of the American
Red Cross. Little Pinebluff alone
turned in over $150. The goal is
$1,500? which is expected to be
I'ealized by the end of the week.
Those who have not given who
may still desire to may send their
contributions either to Mr. Dana at
Pinehurst or Nelson C. Hyde,
Southern Pines.
Next week yo'i'll see The Pilot set-; become a baseball training camp
*,ing a record in the number of pic- : The following Associated Press !
a daughter of Oakleigh Thorne.
Mr. and Mrs. Pavenstedt have not
tures we’ll be bringing you in our | dispatch was received this week from to S.uthern Pines since Mr.
Deeds, are first cousins. My grand
father, Joe Harrington, named me af
ter cousin W. J. because he always
seemed to like him better than any of
his other nephews, in other words, W.
J. was his favorite.
“I am merely going into detail be
cause I wish it understood I am not
W. J. Harrington. Jr., of the Horse
shoe section of Moore county. The
late Register of Deeds has a son with
the same initials as mine, his name
being William June Harrington, Jr. I
have always signed my name W. J.
Harrington. Jr. (Was told by cousin
W. J. to do so to avoid our mail be
coming mixed*.—Signed: W’illiam Jo
seph Harrington.”
Nor are Miss McCaskill and Me.ssrs.
Cameron and William Joseph Har
rington to be the only ones in the
field, according to reports. Others are
expected to announce next week, and
the fat is on the fire. There hasn't
been a good, hot political battle
W. L. Jewell of Sanford Gets
General Construction Job at
Price of $46,700
Contracts for the new wing of the
Moore County Hospital have been let
by the Board of County Commission
ers, subject to the approval of Dr. H.
G. Beatty, State Administrator of
the PWA, and of the legal depart-,
ment, at a total of $66,909. |
Those to whom contracts were,
awarded are as follows: W. L. Jewell ;
Baseball training camps in
North and South Carolina will be
considered for use next spring by
the Baltimore Orioles, club offi
cials ?aid tonight.
Baltimore’s old-time Federal
league entry worked at Southern
Pines, N. C., and found conditions
there satisfactory. It was recalled
by John B. Ogden, general man
ager of the present International
league team.
Sudden change for Florida cli
mate to eastern points during
mid-April when the league opens
was cited as undesirable, espec
ially for pitchers.
The question of the desirability of
inviting the Baltimore International
I Pavenstedt entered the profession of
I law in Washington. Mrs. Pavenstedt
I is the well known writer, Maude Par-
i ker, and the former wife of the late
j Richard Washburn Child, one time
; ambassador to Italy,
j Mr. and Mrs. Smith plan to improve
j both the house and grounds of their
j new possession, consolidating the
Bush acreage with the present prop-
i erty through extensive landscaping
and gaidening. They plan to stay late
into the season.
Local American Legion
Post Buys Clubhouse
To Remodel Former Stanley
Storehouse on Maine Avenue,
Southern Pines for Quarters
League team here next Spring will be
of Sanford, general construction, at |
a cost of $46,700, Cl utchfield and Sul ; directors of the Chamber of Com- i More than 20 members of Sandhills
merce next Tuesday. Southern Pines Post No. 134, American Legion at-
in the past has been not only the ^ tended a meeting of the post in the
winter training camp cf the old Bal-;Jr. O. U. A. M. hall on New Hanip-
timore Federal league team, but the , shire avenue. Southern Pines, Mon-
year before the Federal leaguers ■ day night fov the purpose of confirm-
were here the Philadelphia National | ing the report cf the building com-
league team trained here. That was mittee bringing to a successful con-
livan, of Greensboro; heating,
339; plumbing, $7,045; Thompson
Electric Company, Raleigh, $2,885.
Trustees of the Duke Endowment,
meeting yesterday in Charlotte, ap
propriated $962,499.22 to 103 hospitals
and 47 orphanages in the two Caro-
30 years ago. Yesterday morning’s pa-
Moore County Hospital in Pine-1
hurst was allotted $6,010, which is ^i^jering a training camp farther
elusion its efforts to obtain quarters
for the post.
With Commander John Hemmer in
around here in some time but there’s one dollar per day per charity pa-1 ^orth than Florida “to prepare the i the chair the committee reported fav-
tient for the past year. Of the nearly j ^g^m better to return to uncertain | orably on the purchase of the former
one now in the making.
Busy Week Here For
Golfers and Horsemen
Two Tournaments On and An
nual Pinehurst Horse Show.—
More Golf and Dog Show Next
million dollar total. $522,475 went to
hospitals in North Carolina and $62,-
662.92 to orphan homes in this state,
the balance to hospitals and orphan
ages in South Carolina.
The appropriations brought to $10,-
586,387 the sum allotted to hospitals
and orphan homes in the Carolinas
by the Duke Endowment since its es-
This has been one of the busiest tablishment in 1924.
weeks of the season in Pinehurst and
Southern Pines. Pinehurst has had its DR. GEORGE L.UTHER CADY
annual North and South Amateur golf PREACHES HERE SUNDAY
tournament on, with nearly 200 en
tries, and its 19th annual Horse Show
ran through Tuesday and Wednesday
l)efore a large crowd. Southern Pines
has its annual Women’s Mid-South
Championship golf tournament on,
with sixty playing on Wednesday and
again today, Friday. Yesterday the
matches were rained out.
George T. Dunlap, Jr., of Pinehurst
is favored to win the North and
South, and Miss Deborah Verry of
Wcrcester, Mass., is in the lead in
the Mid-South. Horses from all parts' BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR
A distinguished visitor from New
York City will preach next Sunday
morning, April 5, at The Church of
Wide Fellowship. He is the Rev. Dr.
George Luther Cady,' national secre
tary of the American Missionary As
sociation. He is well known as an em
inent preacher, and has held impor
tant pastorates in Dubuque, la., and
Boston, Mass. His sermon here will be
appropriate to Palm Sunday.
of the state and some from South
Carolina and Virginia competed in
the various events at the Horse SSow,
with local stables faring well.
The Women’s North and South golf
is scheduled for next week in Pine
hurst, as is the annual dog show, to
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COUNTY IS APPOINTED
The Moore County Board of Elec
tions, to supervise this year’s elec
tions in the county, was named this
W’eek at Raleigh, as follows: L. V.
O’Callaghan, Southern Pines; John A.
Fry and B. C. Wallace. Carthage.
spring temperatures in the north.” j Stanley storehouse, a commodious two
Improvement of the local baseball; story structure, 30 by 50 feet, locat-
grounds, including fencing, would be j ed on a plot 100 by 150 feet, on the
necessary if one cf the big profession- j south side of Maine avenue, between
al league teams were to come here. | East Broad and Ashe streets. L. V.
And the question of an entirely new | O’Callaghan, J. H. Stephenson, J.
field might come up, for the pres- j Vance Rowe, L. L. Wooley and R. E.
ent field is the property of the South- Denny were elected trustees for the
ern Pines School and might not be ' property, and all members of the post
available for the big fellows. ! as a committee of the whole to se
cure funds necessary for altering the
MENT.\L TELEPATHIST AT
MID-FINES CLUB SUNDAY
Dr. Franz Polgar, mental telepath
ist who entertained and baffled a
large crowd at The Carolina in Pine-
in Pinehurst Tuesday afternoon
at a gathering sponsored by Charles
Reutter, Jr., will demonstrate his
powers of thought transition at the
Mid-Pines Club at 8:30 o’clock on
Sunday night. Dr. Polgar attended
the luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis
Club of Aberdeen in the Aberdeen
Community House Wednesday and
astounded the members by his dem
onstrations.
building for Legion purposes.
Among the members of the post all
handicrafts are represented, and much
of the labor of rehabilitating the
foimer storehouse will be contributed
by these members. The building, pur
chased from the Stanley estate, is
well timbered and framed, and when
refinished will not only make a com-
mcdious home but one that will be a
credit to Sandhills Post.
CHILDREN TO PL.\V
Piano pupils of Mrs. Claude Hafer
will give a recital tonight, Friday, at
the home of Mrs. George C. Moore
on Massachusetts avenue, to which j is invited to this community service
friends cf the children are invited. | Palm Sunday night.
DU. CHEATH.AM CO»tMUNITY
HOUR PRE.ACHER SUND.\Y
The Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheatham of
Pinehurst will preach at the Commun
ity Hour service at The Church of
Wide Fellovi'ship at 7:45 p. m. Sun
day, April 5. There '">'1 be special
mu.sic by the choi> and Mrs. Charles
W. Picquet will sing a sclo. Everyone
STATE T.4X YIELD
FOUR MILLIONS
OVER YEAR AGO
Revenues Show Ten Percent
Gain for PMrst Three-(iuarters
of Fiscal Year
SALES TAX RESPONSIBLE
Revenues of the State of North Car
olina for the first three quarters of
the current fiscal year were $4,189,-
136 or 10.25 per cent greater than re
ceipts for the same period in 1934-35,
the Slate Department of Revenue re
ported this week.
General fund revenues for the nine-
months period increased 17.72 per
cent from $20,290,153.48 last year to
$23,885,563.95 this year. Motor vehi
cle taxes and fees increased 2.88 per
cent from $20,589,328.72 to $21,183,-
054.60 despite lower-priced license
tags.
Collections from all sources were
$45,068,618.55. as compared with $40,-
879,482.20 up to March 31 a year ago.
Over half of the increase of $3,-
595.410.47 in general fund revenues
was attributed to a rise of $1,854,176
in sales tax returns. The sales lax
has been applied to all foodstuffs
•Since the beginning of the fiscal year
and to all meals since June 1, 1935.
The amount cf sales tax far
collected is only $25,000 short of the
yield of $7,657,000 for the full 12
months of the last fiscal year. Com
missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell
yesterday was confident that the
.sales levy, with exemptions removed
from foodstuffs. wi uld yield the $10,-
000.000 which its advocates predicted.
Even if the returns for the last quar
ter of the year do not exceed the
yield for the last three months of
1934-35, the estimate of $10,000,000
will be reached.
Next to the sales tax, income, li
cense and beer taxes showed the
most notable increases in yields tor
the first three quarters. Income taxes,
falling due March 15, increased from
$6,494,015.71 last year to $7,036,-
269.92 this year, a gain of over a
half million dollars. The total for the
fiscal year should reach the predicted,
$7,700,000 easily, said Commissioner
Maxwell.
All sources of revenue for the Mo
tor Vehicle Division, except automo
bile license taxes, showed increases
for the three quarters, though the
gains were much smaller than those
by toe general fund levies.
An incrtase of $1,140,000 in gaso
line tax receipts was offset to some
extent by a drop in automobile li
cense taxes from $6,566,592.33 to $5,-
927,499.96, leaving a net gain of only
$593,725.88 in motor vehicle revenues.
Gasoline taxes soared from $13,1'20.-
159 for the three quarters last year
to $14,261,733.41 this year.
C.\RD PARTY TONIGHT FOR
BENEFIT OF FLOOD VICTI»LS
Plans for the card party to be giv
en this evening. Friday, at the
Southern Pines Country Club to raise
additional funds for Flood Relief
work have been completed and a ca
pacity crowd is looked for. Mrs.
P. Everest is still receiving table res
ervations. however. The charge is one
dollar per person, which includes re
freshments and prizes, and there will
also be a door prize. Other games
than bridg# may be played.
fip »:VAL PLANS
AMATEUR HOUR
AND GLEE CLUBS
Seven Clubs to Give Open Air
Concert in Afternoon; Sand
hills Talent on P. M. Program
OLD SLAVE DAY A FEATURE
Thursday. April 16th, the opening
day of the Southern Pines Spring
Blossom Festival, will be featured by
two events new to this annual cele
bration and offering promise of a
distinct treat for resident and visi-
tots. The program, which covers both
afternoon and evening, was announc
ed yesterday by the committee in
charge, A. B. Yeomans, Prof. Fred
erick Stanley Smith, P. Frank Buch
an and Dr. George G. Herr.
Seven glee clubs from here and
neighboring communities, including
Aberdeen, Carthage and other near
by towns, will present a mammoth
open air concert in the Municipal
Park in the afternoon, starting at
3:30 o’clock. Besides each club sing
ing individually, all the clubs will
rcmbine in several numbers. After
this program the members of the
clubs will be entertained at tea at
the Civic Club.
The largest Amateur Hour prog
ram ever staged in the Sandhills is
scheduled for Thursday night in the
High School Auditorium, with all the
talent in the section invited to enter
the trials from which 15 numbers
are to be selected for the* event. The
trials, or auditions, are to be held
Monday evening, April 13th at the
schoolhouse. Those selected to appear
Thursday night will compete before
%vhat is expected to be a packed
house for cash prizes, with several
prominent local residents acting as
judges.
Old Slave Day
One feature of the Spring Blossom
Festival that will be kept this year
is “Old Slave Day,” not only on ac
count of the public demand for its
retention, but for the former slaves
themselves. These old people look
forward all year to the time when
they can all be together and can meet
the public who take so much interest
in talking with them; al.so many of
them have friends and relatives in
this part of the county, who come to
see them that day.
The committee expects that be
tween a hundred and a hundred and
twenty-five former slaves will be
present on ‘‘Old Slave Day,” which
is scheduled to be held on Thursday,
April 16th, next. They will be
brought here from all parts of Moore
ccimty by people who volunteer for
the service, but the committej will
have to pay out about a dollar each
for those present to properly feed
and take care of them while they are
here, and in addition there will be
the cost of prizes and a small sum of
mcney given to each one.
The committee would appreciate
aid from persons interested in these
old people and in maintaining this
day, and contributions made to Frank
Buchan, postmaster and chairman of
the committee, at The Pilot office,
or to any director of the Chamber of
Commerce, will be used for this pur
pose.
Fire Damagres Former
S. B. Richardson Home
Mr. Richardson Loses Furniture
Not Yet Removed from Late
Residence on Bennett Street
Fire gutted the former S. B. Rich
ardson residence located on the cor
ner of Bennett street and Maine ave
nue in Southern Pines at an early
hour Sunday morning. Untenanted for
several weeks, a light observed in one
of the upstairs rooms and reported to
Officer Newton at 11:00 o’clock Sat
urday night by George Munroe sent
the officer to the house where he ob
served nothing suspicious.
At 3:00 o’clock Sunday moming
Joe Buckley, residing on the opposite
corner, aroused bj' the crackle of fire,
awoke to see flames shooting out of
the cellar entrance and enveloping’
the rear of the house. A telephoned
alarm brought out the fire company
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