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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
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PILOT
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWSWEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory ^h Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, April 1936.
FIVE CENTS
MRS. GREGORY DIES
IN HOSPITAL AFTER
EXTENDED ILLNESS
Prominent in Civic, Charitable
and Religious Affairs in South
ern Pines for 30 Years
HELPED FORM CIVIC CLUB
Mrs. Elizabeth Alma Gregory, a
resident of Southern Pines for 33
years, died in the Moore County Hos
pital, where she had been a patient
for the past two months, at 3:00
o’clock yesterday morning.
Born in New York City, May 28,
1881, the daughter of Maximilian
Backer, she married Joseph Douglas
Gregory, of Liberty, Tex., in Jersey
City, N. J., in 1901. They came to
Southern Pines in 1903 building their
home, now the residence of Dr. J. S.
Milliken, in 1905. Mr. Gregory, noted
as the inventor of the ignition sys
tem of the modern oil stove, died here
on January J3, 1906.
In the following years Mrs. Greg
ory became widely known for her
many charitable acts which included
the donation of an x-ray machine to
the McConnell Hospital, and for her
interest in civic affairs. She was a
charter member of the Civic Club
upon its formation in 1907, a member
and treasurer for a number of years
of the Congregational church, now
the Church of Wide Fellowship, and
a heavy stockholder in the Southern
Pines Country Club.
Funeral services will be held in
the Church of Wide Fellowship at
3:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon, the
Rev. Dr. C. Rexford Raymond officiat
ing. Interment will follow in Mount
Hope Cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Gregory is a son,
J. Douglas Gregory, a grandson, J.
Douglas Gregory, III, and a brother.
Max Backer, all of Southern Pines;
two sisters Mrs. A. F. Schneider of
Elizabeth. N. J., and Mrs. C. Kupfrain
of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.
4 Survive in Men’s
Singles in Tournament
Many of Country’s Leading Ten
nis Players Competing This
Vt’eek at Pinehurst
Bulletin
In the semi-finals in men’s singles
yesterday afternoon, Don Budge de
feated W'ilmer Hines 6-3. 6-1. 6-2;
Hal Surface defeated Gilbert Hall
7-5, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.
Budge and Surface will meet in the
finals for the North and South
championship.
PinehursVs No. 3 Course to Have
Grass Greens, Watered Fairways
Improvement Along Line of
Present Championship Layout
To Start at Once
Asks Co-operation
SANDHILLS MAYBE
SELECTED AS SITE
FOR BOYS’ SCHOOL
By A/ Linde Fowler
Give ear, folks, to the best piece of
news of the waning season. It has
been decided, definitely, that the No.
3 course of the Pinehurst Country
Club will have grass greens next sea
son, likewise that the fairways of
that course, as well as greens, will
be watered.
No sooner was the decision made
than orders were issued for the water
pipes. Donald Ross had his estimates
all prepared as to what would be re- i
quired. He also had his designs all!
worked out for the new greens and |
work on the project will be started |
immediately, so that when the new!
season gets under way next fall ev-1
erything will be completed. |
It is not so simple as it sounds, |
this changing over iiom sand tO;
grass greens. Some of the putting |
areas will have to be relocated, for'
reasons of drainage or sunlight.'
Grass needs the sun’s rays. The pres- j
ent second green, in the shadow of:
the pines and evergreens, will have I
to be relocated, and the same holds
Dr. Osborn Outlines Plans For
College Preparatory Institu
tion for North Carolina
GREAT NEED IN STATE
I’IRK C HIEF L. ()’C.\LL.\GH.\N
Interference With
Firemen is Illegal
The possibility of the Sandhills ac
quiring an institution planned to fill
a long felt want and need in North
Carolina was broached to members of
the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen at
their meeting Wednesday in the Pine-
huist Community Church by Dr.
Francis M. Osborn of Greensboro,
prominent educator of the state.
After outlining the need in the
state of an outstanding boys’ prepar-
! atory school, Dr. Osborn told the club
I
' members that the trustees of the in-
I stitution, now in the process of or-
I ganization, was considering the Sand-
I hills section as a location, and inti-
i mated that many were favorably in-
I dined toward this section. The trus-
I tees will meet at The Carolina in
Pinehurst tomorrow night, he said.
Dr. Osborn has been making a tour
I of the state interesting prominent
Festival Program
FRID.W, APRIL 17
Masical Day
.2:30 P. M.—Concert of Glee Clubs
from Aberdeen, Car-
thage, Pinehurst
Southern Pines and
West End, in Munici
pal Park. (In event
of inclement weather,
in the High School
Auditorium).
4:00 P. M.—Fashion Show, Civic
Club,
M.—Baseball, Southern
Pines High School vs.
Laurinburg High
School. Baseball Park.
"Amateur Hour” Pro
gram by local talent
for cash prizes, High
school Auditorium.
SATl'RDAV, .\PRIL 18
Sports Day
10:30 A. M. Equestrian Gymk
hana, Horse Show Ring.
3.00 P, M. Baseball, Wake For
est College vs. Elon
College, Baseball
Park.
M.—Bi:ck Dance, East
Broad Street in front
of Municipal Building.
4:00 P.
8:15 P. M.-
8:00 P.
OLD SL^t^ES ENJOY
OPENING DAY OF
SPRING FESTIVAL
for one or iwo others. But the No. 3{|>y|,|j^ Asked to Cooperate That citizens in starting such an institu-
Department May Render
Efficient Service
course, aside from minor changes,
will remain as it is now, and I think
that most of you will agree with me |
that grass greens will make it doubly | Due to the firemen and fire equip-
popular, for none will gainsay that ^ ^lent having been hampered in get
ting to recent fires, the Southern
Pines Fire Department calls atten-
scenically it is exceedingly attractive. |
A few players w'ill regret the
change from sand to grass greens,
but I feel safe in saying that they
will be in the great minority, and
those few will still have their sand
putting surfaces on the No. 1 and No.
4 courses. Furthermore, the grass
greens on the No. 3 will be of much
more simple design than those of the
championship No. 2. They will be
comparatively flat, or so I am given
to understand, so that those golfers
who think they can putt better on the
level sand surfaces will not notice
much difference in the putting, while
they will find it easier to approach
greens where it will not be obligatory
to land short of the putting areas in
order to be up close enough lo get |
dow’n with one swing of the putting
blade.
One factor which makes the No. 3
tion to the following ordinance with
a request for public cooperation in
order that it may render efficient ser
vice. The firemen do not wish to ap
pear unreasonable in their requests,
says Fire Chief L. V. O’Callaghan,
but as long as the men volunteer
their services, the public is asked to
help by giving the Fire Department
the right-of-way over the town
streets.
Section 137. That in the event of
an alarm of fire, the apparatus of the
Fire Department and firemen have
I the right-of-way in and upon the
streets, alleys, squares and railroad
crossing in going to any fire, or of
being upon such streets, alleys,
!?quares or railroad crossings. Any
-so p pular with the great rank and | shall obstruct or neglect
tion “to offer to North Carolina’s
y .ung men the same educational fa
cilities for which they are now forc
ed to go to other states. North Car
olina,” ‘he said, “sends out more than
500 boys annually to neighboring
states for college preparatory work
simply because there is no school
here offering the necessary facilities.’’
To Rai»i« $600,000
The school is to be founded on a
non-profit, undenominational basis,
and will not be local in character but
based on the need of the entire state
for such an institution. The organi
zation committee comprised alumni
of various colleges. Meetings have
aheady been held in a number of
sections of the state, trustees have
j been elected from the 11 Congression
al districts, and county committees
organized in many of the counties.
The plan calls for the raising of
.■5600,000 at this time for the first
unit of the school.
The needs for a successful institu
tion of the type, he said, w’ere, 1st, a
string faculty; 2d, a good plant; 3d,
proper location and 4th the right
Scores Gather in Municipal Park
For Feature Event on Three-
Day Program Here
MUSIC TODAY’S FEATURE
Scores of old slaves from all sec
tions of the county gathered yesterday
morning in Municipal Park, Southern
Pines and launched the Spring Blos
som Festival which they have featur
ed for the past three years. They en
joy^ themselves, enjoyed recounting
the old days before the Civil War as
best they could recall them; enjoyed
the luncheon served them, and the
entertainment which followed and in
which they joined. The singing of ne-
I gro spirituals played a prominent
' part in the program.
When time approached for the
baseball game between two colored
teams, those from West Southern
Pines and Cheraw, S. C, in the af
ternoon the old timers either left for
I their homes or for the game, happy
! in the recollection of another day in
j which they played the leading part.
I Crowds gathered for both the re-
I union of the old slaves and for the
I afternoon ball game.
! A crowd of about three hundred
fans of both sexes watched the ball
I game between the Cheraw Reds and
AT' ^ AT ! VVest Southern Pines yesterday after-
llvFkjl 1 1 iiLi neon. The game was called at the end
- ^ of the sixth inning, the High School
Popular Resident of County Un-j nine having the grounds at 5:15
conscious Since Auto Accident j o’clock. The score was ll to 3 in fav-
JAMES PLEASANTS
REPORTED GAINING
Last Thursday
1 DEAD, 3 OTHERS HURT
James Pleasants of Pinehurst, ser
iously injured in an automobile acci
dent near Connecticut Camp on U.
S. Highway No. 1 a few miles south
of Pinebluff last Thursday afternoon,
is reported improving at the Moore
County Hospital. Pleasants has been
unconscious practically the entire time j
since the accident but attending phy- i
or of the home team.
Today, Friday, is Music Day on the
Festival’s program, and will be fea
tured by the singing in the Munici
pal Park this afternoon of glee clubs
from high schools in Aberdeen, Car
thage, Pinehurst, Southern Pines and
West End, starting at 2:30 o’clock.
At 4:00 o’clock two events are
scheduled, one for lovers of baseball,
the other for those interested in a
preview of new summer attire for
women. The fashion show is to be
sicians do not regard his injuries as ] ^ivic Club, with gowns
likely to lead to serious consequences,
The accident resulted in the death J society girls of Southern Pines. This
of Charles Lang.ston of Mcck.sville event is open to all.
file of players is that its distances | apparatus!
give the shorter hitters more of a .subject to a pen
chance to get their pars and birdies I $50 00
Section 139. That it shall be un-
Don Budge, No. 2 ranking tennis
player in the United States; Wilmer
Hines, No. 9 and former University
of North Carolina star; Gilbert Hall,
another high ranking player, and Hal
Surface, of Kansas City, who ranks
12th in the country, were survivors
yesterday in the men’s singles in the
annual North and South tennis tour
nament being player on the courts
of the Pinehurst Country Club this
week.
Competing in the men's doubles are,
among others, two of America’s
Davis Cup teams, Wilmer Allison and
John VanRyn and Budge and Gene
Mako. Many of the country’s leading
women players are also competing
here. The final rounds will be played
tomorrow, Saturday.
THREE BRUSH FIRES KEEP
S. P. DEP.4RTMENT BUSY
Th^ Southem Pines Fire Company
answered three still alarms for
threatening brush fires during Wed
nesday night and early morning hours
yesterday. The first call at 7:00
o’clock from the vicinity of The Ark,
the fire being extinguished without
difficulty, as was the second near
the former S. B. Richardson resi
dence at 10:15 o’clock. Answering the
third call at 3:00 a. m. Thursday
morning the men found a fierce blaze
raging in the pines between the Pel-
ton residence and the Midland road,
on W'cst Broad street, a fire that was
quelled cnly by hard labor.
than on the No. 2. even when theyi
play the championship layout from
the forward tees. The No. 2 from the
forward markers is 6,246 yards,
whereas the No. 3 from the middle
of the tecs is only 6,168. It may' be
that with grass greens, the No. 3
will be a little more tightly trapped
around the putting areas, for few
want their golf without some prob
lems to be solved.
Watered fairways on No. 3 will be
both a boon and a measureable hand
icap. They will cut down the dis
tance on drives, through curtailing
the amount of roll, but on the other
hand they will provide excellent lies
for brassies, spoons and No. 4 woods.
That doesn’t mean so much to the
long hitting experts, who are rarely
using anything but irons or lofted
clubs from the fairways, but it means
plenty to the shorter hitters, who
find it difficult to get the ball up
from those close, clinging lies on the
fairways of the No. 3 as they have
been this season. There is a tremen-
dous satisfaction for a lot of us in
getting away a good wooden shot
from the fairway and the lie makes
all the difference in the world.
Here’s to the No. 3, with its water
ed fairways and grass greens, and
lawful for any automobile, truck, bi
cycle or vehicle of any kind, unless
tianspcrting firemen to a fire, to
move in the direction that the fire
apparatus is going, when responding
to a fire alarm, closer to said ap
paratus than the distance of one city
block, or for such vehicles to seep to
pass, stop or park within the block
in which the fire occurs during the
duration of the five or to seek to pass,
stop, or park in the space between
the location of the fire and the two
nearest fire plugs in opposite direc
tions from the fire. Any violation of
this section shall subject the offend
er to a penalty of $50.00.
j is favored for the site, near enough
to Chapel Hill and Durham for fac
ulty and students to be able to avail
themselves of the advantages of
pi’oximity to the Univereity and
Duke.
Regarding a name. Dr. Osborne
j said, there is a possibility that the
late Walter Hines Page, of Aberden,
ambassador to Great Britain during
the World W'ar. may be memorializ
ed. especially if the Sandhills section
sh6uld be selected for the school’s
location.
F.\THER OF MRS. TOIVIPKINS
DIES HERE, AGED 77 VE.A,RS
Daniel Janies Creem, father of Mrs.
Millard F. Tompkins of Knollwood,
died Wednesday afternoon at the Pine
Needles Inn. Mr. Creem was born Au
gust 22, 1859 in Gaining, N. Y., a son
of Cornelius Creem. He is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Eleanore J. Creem,
and two daughters in addition to Mrs.
Tompkinp.
A brief service was held in the
here’s to the Pinehurst officials for | Powell funeral parlors here at 5:00
another progressive step in the inter-! o’clock yesterday afternoon, the Rev.
eSts of the local resort.' I Father Williams officiating, after
1 which the body w'as shipped to Corn-
School Music Clubs
Sing Here Sunday Night
To Give Concert at Church of
Wide Fellowship Preparatory
to Entering State Contest
LOUISBURO COLLEGE HE.4D
TO PRE.\t’H HERE SUND.W
ing for burial.
aiRS. McLE.AN IMPROVED
Dr. A. D. Wilcox, president of i
Louisburg College will preach at the' Mrs. T. D. McLean of Aberdeen,
Methodist Church in Aberdeen this! who has been seriously ill for some
Sunday evening «t 8:00 o’clock. All j time, was reported improved yester-
high school pupils contemplating en-1 day. She is in the Pittman Hospital
tering college next fall will do wellin Fayetteville where she was taken
to hear Dr. Wilcox, and a large at- j last Sunday following a slight
tendance is x;equested. I stroke.
At the Church of Wide Fellowship
this Sunday, evening at 7:45 o’clock
the Southern Pines High School Mus
ic Clubs, under the direction of Fred
erick Stanley Smith, public school
music director, assisted by Miss Sel
ma Stegall, accompanist, will give the
following program. This is a union
service of the Church of Wide Fel
lowship and the First Baptist Church
with the entire community invited
to cooperate in giving these young
people a hearing at home just before
they go to the State contest at
Greensboro. The combined glee clubs
of mixed voices earned their right to
compete at the State contest because
they have won first place for the
past two years. The Girls’ Glee Club
and the Girls’ Trio won their right to
compete by winning first place in the
district contest held recently at Dur
ham.
There is no admission fee. Aside
from the choruses, there will be an
organ recital by the director, Mr.
Smith.
and injuries to Ralph Christian of
Athens, Georgia, and Mr. and M.-s.
W. B. Gentry fo Providence, R. 1.
Pleasants, Christian and Langston
were engaged on the WPA resettle
ment project at Hoffman, to which I
they were I’eturning from Carthage
when their car crashed head-on into
that of the Gentrys. All five were un
conscious when taken from the
wreckage of the two cars, and were
rushed to the Moore County Hospital
at Pinehurst. Langston died early the
next morning. Christian suffered fi’ac-
tures of both knees, Pleasants, who
is field manager of the Hoffman pro
ject, a severe concussion of the brain,
and both Mr. and Mrs. Gentry cuts
and bruises. Mr. Gentry, who is some
High School Ball (nime
The baseball game is between the
teams of Southern Pines and Laurin
burg High Schools on the local dia
mond. The teams are said to be even
ly matched, and a good contest is
. expected.
j Local talent from Southern Pines
land surrounding territory will appear
j tonight in the “Amateur Hour’’ spon-
] sored by the Festival committee,
I headed by Dr. George G. Herr, in the
High School Auditorium. Some dozen
“acts" were accepted after the audi
tion held earlier in the week, and will
compete for cash prizes, Mrs. Charles
W^ Picquet and Mrs. Henry A. Page,
Jr., are two of the judges, with a
thii'd, of the opposite sex. yet be
70 years of age, is reported respond
ing slowly to treatment because of | f’e'^^ed. Applause will play the ma
his age.
Beoenily Married
jor part in the decisions.
An equestrian gymkhana, with
Young Langston. 24 years old. had
been married but a few months before
his death.
tion taking part in the jumping and
stunting events, will open Sports Day
tomorrow, Saturday, at 10:30 o'clock
Mr. and Mrs. Gentry reside at 211 ^he Horse Show grounds. In the
Hanover street in Providence where ' afternoon Wake Forest and Elon col-
he is a member of several Masonic or-
ganizations and Mrs. Gentry of the
Order of the Eastern Star. She is a
former Worthy Matron of Naomi
chapter.
“Jim” Pleasants is one of the most
widely known and popular residents
of Moore county through his interests
mond in a regularly scheduled inter
collegiate game, and the biggest
crowd of the Festival is expected to
be cn hand when the umpire calls
“Play Ball” at 3:00 o’clock.
The Festival closes with a block
dance on East Broad street, in front
in affairs of the Democratic party, of the Municipal Building, tomorrow
and other civic affiliations. He lived
in Carthage until his marriage a lit
tle more than a year ago to Miss
Jean Mclver of Sanford, when he
brought his bride to Southern Pines.
They moved a few weeks ago to
Pinehurst.
night.
-ALL IX RE.VDINESS FOR
START OF HOSPIT.4L WING
Work is expected to get under way
at almost any time now on the new'
Another employe of the W PA en- wing for the Moore County Hospital,
gaged on the Hoffman project died All necessary papers and contracts
on Tuesday of injuries received in an between the hospital management,
automobile accident, William Wall contractors and the federal govern-
Ellerbe. of Rtxkingham. former star ment have been signed, it was an-
tackle on Wake Forest and State nounced this week, and the laying of
College football teams. He was in- the cornerstone is believed to be only
jured when his car was wrecked near a question of the arrival of the
Rockingham last Sunday. ; building materials on the grounds.
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