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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 16, NO. 20.
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PILOT
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, April 10, 1936.
STEP NEARER NEW
POSTOFFICE SEEN
IN SHORT LEASE
Government Signs Up For Pres
ent Quarters For Only
Two-Year Term
3 CITIES SEEK BUILDING
Encouragement over the prospect
of a new Postoffice building in
Southern Pines was felt here this
week following the announcement
that the Government had signed a
lease for two, three and five-year
terms, and it is the feeling among lo
cal citizens that the signing of the
shortest term lease is an indication
that the federal building, authorized
by Congress some time ago, may
really be ‘ in the offing." The new
lease expires December 31, 1937.
The report is that one new federal
building is to come into this Con
gressional district within the next
year. In addition to Southern Pines,
both Hamlet and Laurinburg have ap
plications in. With all three of these
cities in Congressman Lambeth's dis
trict, he is naturally maintainnig a
“hands off” policy. The postal busi
ness done in Southern Pines is the
equal of or greater than that done in
either of the other cities mentioned,
and the need here for a new building
is as great, so that there is a gen
eral feeling that Southern Pines has
at least an equal chance to acquire
a building as have the others.
It is probable that a delegation
from here will journey to Washing
ton in the near future to present the
needs and desires of Southern Pines
before the proper authorities in the
Postoffice and Treasury departments.
No further action by Congress is
needed, it is understood, other than
a general federal building appropria
tion to make possible the carrying out
of construction already authorized.
Hiffh School Glee Club
Wins District Contest
Ciirls’ Trio From Liouthern Pines
Also Victorious in State Trials
Held at Durham
The girls’ glee club and girls’ trio
cf the Southern Pines High School
were awarded first place in the dis
trict contest held in Durham last Fri
day, receiving the two highest grades
for choral work. The glee club sang
the Breton folk-song, “The Angelus,”
arranged for six parts. The trio, com
posed oL Bertha Fowler, 1st soprano;
Mary Elizabeth Cameron, 2nd soprano
and Eleanor Harloe, alto, sang
Grieg’s “Jesu, Friend of Sinners.” Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick Stanley Smith
and Miss Stegall accompanied the
girls to Durham.
These two groups together with the
boys’ glee club will go to Greensboro
April 23rd to compete in the State
contest. The test piece for the mixed
chorus is “In Joseph’s Lovely Gar
den,” a Spanish folk-tune.
Champions For Third Successive Year
COUNTY GETS 5%
OF LIQUOR PROFITS
TO ENFORCE LAWS
Money To Be Spent in Mineral
Springs and McNeills Town
ships Where Stores Located
I HI NTLEY' REPORT O’K’ed
FIVE CENTS
Spring Blossom, ^stival
Opens on Thursu^ y With
Old Slave Day as Feature
Re-elected
Three-Day Program to Offer
Two Baseball Games, Glee
Clubs, Concert, Gymkhana
Southern Pines High School Dramatic Club, Ijeft to right, Lawrence
Williams, Miss Winifred Kelly, l\liss Ruth Richardson and Thomas Hardwick:
For the third successive year the Pine Maskers of the Southern Pines
High School were the winners of the State Dramatic contest held at Chapei
Hill on Friday, April 3.
The schools competing against Southern Pines were Concord, Greens
boro, Reeky Mount, and Asheville. The Southern Pines High School Dramatic
Club presented “Highness,” a Russian tragedy with a cast of four charac
ters: Ruth Richardson, Winifred Kelly, Lawrence W'illiams, and Tom Hard
wick. Miss Sara Faulkner, the director, has had charge of the club for the
past three years and should be commended on her splendid work.
No Effort Made to Enforce Laws
Regulating Dogs in Moore County
George C. Moore Asks Action By
Chamber of Commerce to
Curb Danger
Miss Bess McCaskill
Resig’ns County Post
■ I
Candidate for Register of Deeds
Steps Out as Assistant to Riv
al For Office
Miss Bess McCaskill, who is expect
ed to be in the race for the office of
Register of Deeds of Moore county,
has resigned her position as deputy
register, a position which she has held
for the past twelve years, and Miss
Myrtle Fry of Carthage is now serv
ing as assistant to Shields Cameron
the incumbent and a candidate to
succeed himself.
Miss McCaskill served one year dur
ing the term of office of E. C. Math-
ewson, during the entire tenure of
office of the late W. J. Harrington
and with Mr. Cameron since his ap
pointment to the position following
the death of Mr. Harrington. She is
expected to toss her “Dobbs” into
the ring when the “Stetsons” begin to
fly, and the contest will likely be an
interesting one.
Cloudy, rain Friday in south and
■west portions. .
An Appeal
Lack of enforcement of laws re
quiring the licensing and vaccinating
of dogs in Moore county was brought
to the attention of directors of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce on Tuesday by George C. Moore
and after much discussion resulted in
the creation of a Law and Enforce
ment Committee of the Chamber with
the sole duty of cooperating with the
proper authorities in remedying a
.serious situation.
Mr. Moore told the directors at
their meeting in Jack’s Grill that ap
parently no effort is made, at least
in Southern Pines, to enforce the law
which requires all dogs to have lic
enses and to be regularly vaccinated.
He called attention to the fact that
citizens owning dogs are required to
pay a license fee, but stated no li
cense tags are sent to owners to place
on their dogs, so that police author
ities do not know which dogs are li
censed and which are not. He stress
ed the danger of a mad dog infect
ing numerous others in the neighbor
hood, possibly biting children or
grown-ups and causing serious con
sequences.
“The time to act is before some
thing happens,” he said, urging that
the laxity in enforcement be called
to the attention of the proper author
ities, “No one likes to complain
against his neighbor, but if we as a
Chamber of Commerce could act in
the matter in the interest of the com
munity, some effort would undoubt
edly be made to remedy the evil.”
The Chamber voted to add to its
list of committees one on Law and
Order to handle this and other mat
ters involving laxity in enforcement
of existing laws, whether State,
county or local ordinances. Other
laws mentioned as disobeyed regular
ly wrtre the erection of billboards
without taxes being paid and with
out legard to State law regulating
their distance from highways and
crossings, and the indiscriminate
dumping of garbage in violation of
sanitary laws.
Red Cross Asks Additional Aid
From Moore County For
Tornado Relief
To the County Commissioners of
Moore county, as they met on Mon
day in their busiest session of recent
months, wa.s presented a resolution
adopted by the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board of W'ilscn county
which provides for the payment to
the county commissioners of five per
cent of the net profits from the li
quor stores in Southern Pines and
Pinehurst to be used for law enforce
ment in McNeill and Mineral Springs
townships, the townships in which
the stores are located. Resolutions
accepting the same were adopted by
the Moore county commissioners.
The first payment is to include five
per cent of the net profits derived
from the two stores from the dates
of their establishment until the first
of April, 1936, and in the future the
paymerl^s are to be made quarterly
as the profits are determined.
W. T. Huntley's settlement for
1934 taxes was approved and the 1935
tax books were turned over to him.
Petitions in regard to several roads
were heard and action was taken.
The board voted to place upon the
county highway system for repair
and maintenance a road which runs
from the old Raleigh road through
the farm of W. A Sewell.
Church School Rooms
in Pinebluff Dedicated
Impressive Service Led by Pas
tor.—Bishop Brown to Preach
Easter Sunday
MRS. MULCAHY HURT
Mrs. J. P. Mulcahy of Pinehurst
was seriously injured Wednesday
night and is in the Moore County Hos
pital with several fractured ribs and
serious scalp lacerations. Sh« was
driving her car into the highway near
The Carolina when a taxicab driven
by a colored man crashed into her.
By Nelson C. Hyde
W’ithin one week the South has suf
fered losses estimated at more than
$30,000,000 in tornadoes which have
claimed upwards of 400 lives in six
states and tendered thousands home
less.
City officials at Gainesville set the
damage there roughly at $15,000,000,
while Governor Hugh White of Miss
issippi said Tupelo’s loss would be at
least 8,000,000. It was expected the
destruction toll in a dozen other less
seriously affected communities would
push the total well ever $25,000,000.
This appalling blow comes less than
a week after storms which centered
in Cordele, Ga., and Greensboro, this
state, doing $1,500,000 at the former
and at least that much at the latter.
From the standpoint of the Amer
ican Red Cross, it comes less than a
month after the stunning blow to
states of the northeast where floods
claimed a toll of more than 200 lives
and left some 200,000 persons home
less.
The Red Cross is taxed to its ut
most limitations to meet the relief
situation in the two sections of the
country. It must rely upon the bene
volence of the American people. Its
call for funds following the floods in
Pennsylvania and nearby states and
through New England was met with
a ready response. In Moore county
alone, where the quota was set by
national Red Cross headquarters at
$550, more than $2,000 was gener
ously donated.
Now comes a situation, nearer at
home, more severe in its death toll
and possibly as great in its proper
ty destruction, as the floods of the
north. And to meet this new emer
gency, the American Red Cross yes
terday sent a telegram to Robert E.
Denny, chairman of the Moore Coun
ty Chapter, asking further contribu
tions to meet the further needs.
Moore county has been generous
But suffering people and suffc.ing
communities are calling for succor
To those who can still afford to give,
a fresh appeal is made. Checks may
be sent either to Paul Dana, Pine
hurst, or Nelson C. Hyde, Southern
The church school rooms of the
Methodist church in Pinebluff were
dedicated with an impressive service
led by the pastor, the Rev. C. O.
Newell, last Sunday morning. Four
class rooms, a kitchen and large as
sembly room which is also used for
a dining room have just been com
pleted. The children and young people
will now have attractive rooms in
which to meet. The church is indebt
ed to most of the families of Pine
bluff and some outside of town for
j their help in making these improve
ments pcssible. Many who could not
give money gave of their time and la
bor. There now are separate meeting
places for eight classes and a fair
ly well equipped kitchen.
Mr. Newell is in his fifth year as
pastor of this church. During this
time the church membership ha.s al
most doubled. Bishop Wallace E.
Brown, resident bishop of the Chat
tanooga area, will preach next Sun
day evening at 8:00 o’clock. He will
also christen Sylvia Jane, the four-
months old daughter of the Rev. and
Mrs. Newell. The public is cordially
invited to this service.
VERNER Z. REED, JR.,
President of Moore County Hospital
for Another Year.
HONORARY POST
Pines.
“AMATEUR HOUR” FRIDAY
The annual Spring Blossom Festi
val opens in Southern Pines next
Thursday morning with the feature
event of former festival weeks. Old
Slave Day. Colored citizens of the
county who lived in the days before
freedom are to gather in Municipal
Park that morning, be greeted by
their white brethern, be entertained
at lunch and w'ith an early afternoon
program of singing, dancing and a
! short talk.
Thursday afternoon the Festival
: committee is introducing a new at-
j traction this year, a colored base-
i ball game between the W’est Southern
Pines team and a team of All-Stars
from neighboring villages. To any-
! one who has ever been a colored base-
I ball game, there is no necessity for
I going into superlatives. The excite-
j ment furnished by the contesting
j players and their side-line supporters
I must be observed to be appreciated.
HOSPITAL CREATES iL'nTme"'"
I Old fiddlers from all parts of the
I county and other neatby sections are
Cl ri nil A ni^*®:h school Audltor-
rllK S K I.H/il ium Thursday night at 8:00 o’clock
I Ull O. U. \ 11/11 convention.” An old fiddlers'
.. I (Convention means a contest, and there
First r*resident of Moore County it, great rivalry among the old timers
Institution Unanimously Elect- for the prizes. Then, too. that night’s
ed Honorary President j program provides an old fashioned
I square dancing exhibition which will
The office of honorary president^be worth watching. All and sundry
was created by the Board of Direc- are invited to the school building
tors of the Moore County Hospital at | Thursday night for this festival fea-
its annual meeting and election of of- ‘ ture.
ficers last Thursday night, and Sim- j Musical Program
eon B. Chapin of New York was un-1 Friday has been designated as Mus-
animously elected its first incum-^jcai Day. The program starts at 3:30
bent. Mr. Chapin was the institution’s o’clock in the afternoon with a coa-
first president and played a major,cert by glee clubs from Aberdeen,
part in its organization and the erec-' Carthage, Pinehurst, Southern Pines
tion of the new buildi.ng on the out-j and West End. They will sing as in
skirts of Pinehurst. | dividual units and in concert. More
The board re-elected Verner 2.1^111 be found about this affair, to be
Reed. Jr., of Newport. R. I., and Pine-(held in the Municipal Park, in anoth-
hurst, as president, elected three vice.gr c.:lumn of to-day’s Pilot,
presidents, George W. Maurice of “Amateur Hour,” that term applied
Eagle Springs M. G. Nichols of South- to old time vaudeville aqts since the
ern Pines and M. C. McDonald of radio reign of Major Bow’es, is sche-
West End, and re-elected Paul Dana duled for Friday night, also in the
secretary and treasurer and Col., school Auditorium. Talent from all
George P. Hawes assistant treasurer. | over the section will be on the pro-
Two new directors were elected, J- gram. The try-outs are to be held
H. Walker of Amesbury, Mass., to Monday night at 7:30 o’clock in the
the vacancy caused by the resigna-1 school building and Dr. George G.
tion of John B. Lloyd, and L. L. Bid- Herr, in charge of this feature, urges
die, II. to Mr. Chapin’s place on the | ail who have acts to put on to be
board. Directors re-elected were H. H. i there at that time. Only the best of
Beckwith. James Boyd, Struthers j the acts will be picked from the au-
Burt, M. F. Butner, Henry McC. Blue, i jitions for the big show on Friday
Edgar T. Chapman, Paul Dana, W., night. Cash prizes will go to the win-
H. Currie. George P. Hawes, Nelson ners,
C.\NTAT.\ GOOD FRID.W’S
WIDE FELLOWSHIP PROGR.\M
C. Hyde, George H. Maurice, M. C.
McDonald, D. McCrimmon, J. L. Mc-
Graw, H. P. McPherson, A. S. New
comb, M. G. Nichols, Verner Z. Reed,
(Please tu>n to page 4)
A cantata, the Crucifixion, by Stein
er, will be presented at the Church
of Wide Fellowship tonight. Good
Friday, under the direction of
Charles W. Picquet. Mrs. C. M.
Grey will officiate at the organ, and
the soloists will include Mrs. Picquet,
Dr. Robert P. Shepard, Willard S.
Dunlop, the Rev. A. J. McKelway and
Stuart Cameron, with a chorus of 40
voices. The public is cordially invited
to enjoy this occasion.
STYLE SHOW FRIDAY
AT THE CIVIC CLUB
After its regular business meeting
at 2:30 o’clock next Friday afternoon,
the Civic CliSb will sponsor a Style
Show to be staged by Mrs. Hayes’
Shop in Southern Pines as an added
attraction for Spring Blossom Festi
val visitors. The public is cordially in
vited to witness the modeling of the
newest spring clothes.
The Pilot’s new' Rotogravure sec
tion with this issile.
Presbyterians Here
Call Rev. E. L. Barber
Bethesda Pastor To Divide His
Time Between Aberdeen and
Southern Pines
Arrangements have been completed
by the newly organized Southern
*”ines Presbyterian Church to call the
Rev. E. L. Barber of Aberdeen as its
half-time pastor. The church will
share Mr. Barber with the Bethesda
Presbyterian Church of Aberdeen, of
which he is now the paster.
Mr. Barber will preach in Southern
Pines—at the Civic Club for the pres
ent—on the second and fourth Sun
day mornings each month, and on the
first and third Sunday evenings. He
will preach in Aberc’een the first and
third Sunday mornings, the second
and fourth Sunday evenings. He will
alternate fifth Sundays between the
two congregations. Mr. Barber was
in charge of the afternoon mission
Sports on Saturday
Saturday is Sports Day, starting
off in the morning with an equestrian
gymkhana at the horse show grounds.
Great preparations are being made
for thrilling jumping and other events
on this program, and special prizes
are to be awarded the winners. The
season’s prizes, for horses and rid
ers who have won most events in
various classes during the winter se
ries of gymkhanas, will also be pre
sented that morning.
On Saturday afternoon Wake For
est and Elon colleges will compete in
a regularly scheduled intercollegiate
baseball game on the Southern Pines
diamond. They are said to be evenly
matched, with excellent talent on
both teams. The game is scheduled
for 3:00 o’clock.
There is talk of a dance on Satur
day night in honor of the visiting
baseball players, but nothing definite
has been announced.
TENNIS ST.4RS PLAY IN
PINEHURST NEXT WEEK
A large field which includes four
of America’s first ten players will
start competition in the annual North
and South tennis tournament at Plne-
here up to the time the .church was j hurst next Monday, play to continue
organized a few’ weeks ago. His first j through the week. Allison, Grant,
Sunday morning service will be this j Hall and Hines are the leading rank-
Sunday, Blaster Day. 1 ing players ccming.