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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 16, NO. 33.
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SPRINGS
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MANUSY
JACK SOW
SPRINOS
SOUTMBRN
Pines
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HKIQHTS
PILOT
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
'outhern f*'nes and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, July 10, 1936
of the Sandhill Te ^ North Carolina
FIVE CENTS
DURANT LEAVES
TO ASSUME NEW
TELEPHONE POST
General Manager of Central
Carolina Co., Made Vice Presi
dent for Eight States
Jack Ruggles, 4, Creates a Stir $36,404 SCHOOLS
«» Raletghy Municipal Pool Rypggj APPROVED
BY COUNTY BOARD
Married in 1878
Mr. and Mrs. W'. B. Eastman
Celebrate .58th Wedding
Anniversary on Fourth
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Eastman of
Southern Pines celebrated their
58th wedding anniversary on July
4th. They were married in Sutton,
Vermont in 1878. As far as is
know'n by The Pilot, they have
been married longer than any
“young couple” In Southern Pines,
if not in the Sandhills section.
Mr. and Mrs. Esistman came here
45 years ago from Sutton, and
have made their home here since.
They have two children, Mrs. Ruth
Ledden, widow of the late Roy
Ledden of Sanford, and Harold W.
Eastman of Wallingford, Vermont,
and seven grandchildren.
OFFICE IN NEWTON, IOWA
R. S. duRant, general manager of
the Central Carolina Telephone Com
pany for the past two years and pres
ident this year of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce, left yesterday
to assume his new duties as vice-
president in charge of operations of
the telephone properties of the Tele
phone Invertors’ Company in eight
states. Mr. duRant’s promotion came
to him several weeks ago but at his
request has been withheld from pub
lication.
Mr. duRant’s headquarters will be
In Newton, Iowa, from which point
he will guide the operations of the
properties of his parent company in
North Carolina, South Carolina. New
Jersey, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska,
Wyoming and Arkansas. The po'^tion
will involve considerable traveling,
and is expected to bring him back to j
Southern Pines occasionally. He will j
return here next month at which time j
his family will join him for the per
manent move to low’a.
Built Up Service
Coming here from Siler City two
years ago, Mr, duRant has almost
completely rebuilt the Sandhills prop
erties of the Central Carolina com
pany, the installation of new switch- | Charles Clem Page, for 10 years
boards and dial instruments being the ! Rajeigh Commissioner of Public
principal features of the improved | works and for 33 years a locomotive
service. It wa.s through Mr. duRant j engineer, died at his home in Ral-
that the Carolina headquarters of the gjg'h early Wedne.sday morning. He
company were moved to Southern I 04
Pines from Siler City. He spent six | services for Mr. Page, who
years in Siler City, before which time 1 ^
he had been connected with the Bell i ambassador to Eng-
System since 1916. | Frank Page .State Highway
At the first meeting this year of : ^
the newly elected Board of Directors u a n
. mer congressman, Henry A. Page and
of the Southern Pines Chamber of , „ „ 1, * a v, j n u
, :J. R. Page, all of Aberdeen, will be
Commerce Mr. duRant was unani-i, ,, , »
: held at the Edentc»i Street Methcdist
, .\ge No Excuse for Bathing
Without Top, Authorities Rule, !
1 and Send Him Home I
Speculation Rife on Eve of
Opening Bids For Site For
Southern Pines Postoffice
I Item Increased $8,000 Over Last!
Year’s Figure to Care For
Repairs, Additions |
HOPE FOR WPA ASSISTANCE
CHARLES C. PAGE
DIES AT HIS HOME
IN RALEIGH AT 64
! Cousin of Late Ambassador Be
gan Long Railroad Career on
I Aberdeen-Asheboro Line
! On RALEIGH CITY BOARD
As far as Jack Ruggles Is concern
ed, clothcs don’t make the man -es-
j pecially in the summertime. So, Jack
I jusL d esn’t wear any. That is, he
doesn’t vear any to speak of, just a
I pail of trunks about the size of his The county commi.ssioners had a
I daddy's handkerchief, the Raleigh busy day on Monday when they met
I News & Observer of Wednesday tells in regular session to transact the
, us. Jack is the son of John S. Rug- county’s business.
I gles of F.aloigh, formerly of Southern ^936.37
.Pines, and grandson cf Adolph S. s„bmitted by Supt. H. Lee Thomas
Ruggles of Bennett street here. tentatively approved providing
Of course, the Raleigh paper con- for appropriations for school purposes
tinues, Jack is only four years old including operation, maintenance, cap-
and he can get away with this nud- jtai outlay expenditure and debt ser-
ism stuff—but not in the Pullen Park vice totaling $36,404.
' swimmin,^ pool. He went out there
I the other day and they made him
leave because he didn’t have on
{enough clothes.
I Mr. Ruggles Jchn S. Ruggles, of extra rooms for some of the
2141 Everett Avenue—was with Jack
. at the time and, for a moment, he
Last year’s budget was approxi-
tnately $28,000, but It was necessary
to increase this year’s to take care
f needed repair work and the build-
thought about Thaking a test case out
of Jack’s nakedness. He was going to
let ’em take Jack to jail and decide
the question in the courts. But, re- petent drivers.
.colored schools. The Board of Educa
tion has been given an appropriation
that will make it possible to Increase
I the pay cf bus drivers where It Is
1 necessary In order to procure com-
' membering that the Supreme Court
doesn’t sit until next fall, he thought
; better of it.
It seems that Jack has been
A request was heard from a delega
tion from Eagle Springs that the Ne
gro school building there be enlarged.
Acting upon resolutions presented
Official Returns
McDonald, Horton, Eure and
Poole Lead in 2d Pri
mary in Moore
Official rturns of the second pri
mary in Moore county were as fol
lows:
For Governor
McDonald ... 1911
Hoey 1695
216
For Lieutenant Governor
Horton 1905
Grady 1401
For Seoretarj- of State
Eure .
Wade
Poole
Clegg
For Representative
504
1788
1515
273
1806
nsi
25
Many Locations to Be Offered
Government at Public Meet
ing Monday Morning
HOTEL SITE IN FAVOR
brrught up practically without benefit , by members of the Board of Educa-
of clothes. Upon the advice of his ncn the county board W'ent on rec-
doctor. he has been kept out in the ^ ord as favoring the use of any new
sun as much as possible since he
was three weeks old. Until he was a
year and a half old, he never needed
a drop of medicine and. until thii|
day, he has never kept his papa up
walking the floor at night.
So, Jack and his father b~th are
great believers in sunshine for grow
ing boys. That’s why they don’t like
the Pullen Park rule that everybody
from babies to grandfathers must
wear .shirts in the pool.
Commi.ssioner of Public Works S. J.
Ferguson, whcse department has
charge of the pool, thinks that nud-
WPA funds available for Moore coun
ty in the construction of neces.sary
school building projects.
Road Projects
Several roads were up for consid-
aXion, and the Board voted to request
the State Highway Commission to
widen, gravel and maintain the school
bus route from Garner’s Store to
Steeds, a distance of about five miles.
It was moved and carried that a
cut-off road .79 miles in length known
Offers of sites for the new Southern
Pines Postoffice will be opened on
Monday at the present office in the
Welch Building ,and the town is rife
with speculation as ta the location
to be selected by the government for
Its new federal building.
The center of population in South
ern Pines is close to the location of
West Broad street and Pennsylvania
avenue, and this fact is usually tak
en into consideration by the govern
ment in its selection. A number of
places of available property near this
corner will be offered, it is under-
I stood, among them the land immed
iately west of the present postoffice,
I the unoccupied acreage immediately
i opposite the present t.uilding, and the
j site of the old Southern Pines Hotel,
1 burned to the ground >*everal years
I ago. There is also a rumor that the
I property which houses the office of
I Dr. E. W. Bush and runs along East
j Broad street toward the Carolina
I Theatre and which would include the
I land on which The Pilot building is lo-
I cated may be tendered the govem-
i ment.
.Arguments Pro and Con
Arguments for this piece of land
and that have been flying thick and
fast around town during the past
week, many of them colored, of
course, by some financial interest
held or anticipated by the arguers.
! Disinterested parties to whom The
i Pilot has talked seem inclined to
POOLE 25 AHEAD OF CLEGG‘^e old hotel,
1 from the standpoint of town beau-
Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby won the | tification, the improvement of a site
HOEY WINS OVER
DR. MCDONALD IN
I SECOND PRIMARY
Leads By More Than .'>0,000;
Horton Defeats Grady; Eure
Named for Secretary of State
as Cummings street extending from r Democratic nomination for Governor which has stood fairly unkempt since
mously elected president of the or- ^ ^
ganizatlon, a distinct honor for one |
who had made his home here leas than
two years. He has also been a mem
Lucien Ritters’ on N, C. 705 across
to the old Fayetteville road near Coy
McNeill’s place in the Hemp section
be approved for placement on the
State Highway system for completion ,
and maintenance.
ism is "more a notion than a neces-
! Church this, Friday, afternoon at 5:00 sity.” The rule requiring shirts on
bathing suits was made uniform to
I Mr. Page had been in declining avoid controversy, he said, and few
ber oVthe Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen ' health for a number of years. He was complaints have been received. Bath-
and active in its affairs as well as all Ia serious brain trouble ers who ccme unprepared to meet
other civic affairs. He will be sorely still City Commissioner, and his the requirements are furnished free HoiitaV w“as ‘ apnroved‘“for
missed in the community. i sickness was aggravated by a fall on suits.
With Mr. duRant’s departure about four years ago. He as- "If they me>T all the requirements,”
Shields Cameron, vice president, au- ! the city office in 1923 and was said Commissioner Ferguson, “they
tomatically becomes president of the ! succeeded in 1933 by Ed. M. Barton, have none too much on. I don’t think
Chamber of Commerce for the bal- Mr. Page began his railroad career ought to agree to let them take
ance of the year. on the Aberdeen ar.d Asheboro Une, j
— — — — J for which he was engineer for seven ■ Jack wants to paddle around
years. He was then employed by the without his shirt, he’ll have to travel
f North Carolina by more than 50,-
000 votes over Dr, Ralph McDonald
of Winston-Salem in the second pri
mary held throughout the state last
.Saturday. Wilkins P. Horton of Chat-
: the big fire which reduced the hotel
to ashes. These cltizen.s argue that
I eventually the Town of Southern
' Pines will have a municipal building
I cn its property directly opposite—the
ham was nominated for Lieutenant site of the present town office—and
A cut-off road between Midland Governor over Paul P. Grady of John-
Highway number 2 to the Moore
placement on the State Highway Sys
tem fcr repair and maintenance.
The report of Mrs. Leslie Brown on
welfare work for the past month was
head. The board voted to buy artifi-
fial feet for Murd L. Stutts of Glen-
Garrett to Operate
Processing Plant
Wine Makers To Reopen Aber
deen Building in September,
President Announces
across town to the Hayes Barton
pool, where you don’t have to wear an
upper on your suit until you are 12
years old.
Garrett & Company, wine manufac
turers, plan to reopen their Aberdeen | board
plant this summer, according to w^ rd
received this week by H. W. Doub of
Aberdeen. In a letter to Mr. Doub.
Paul Garrett, president, stated the
company would move Its processing
plant here to be operated In connec
tion with Its fermenting plant in the
Seoboard Air Line for 26 years, and
during his years of connection with
railroad work, was never involved in
an accident or given a mark against
his record. For six years he v/as lo- - -
cal chairman of the Brotherhood of Church School Day
locomotive Engineers and for 10 ; Suttday itt Aberdeen
'don by supplementing the State’s ap- 3 majoiity of 231 vots iver Hoey.
propriation for that purp-^se. ; Counties adjacent to Moore also ap-
The county auditor was authorized j to favor the loser, Lee giving
to certify vouchers in payment of ' ^'fcDonald a majority of 345 and Scot-
I current expense of the fiscal year' 215. though Hoke went for
, 1936-37 pending the adoption of the 1
years was chairman of its legislative
Born at Cary hi 1872
He was born at Cary on February
13. 1872, the son of John R. and Mar
garet Raboteau Page. He was the ne
phew of the late A. F. Page, owner
of the Aberdeen and Asheboro Rail-
I Young People to Stage Pageant
in Evening at Page Me
morial Church
Church School Day will be observ
ed in Aberdeen’s Page Memorial
[ Church this coming Sunday. The cen
tral theme for all the servicc.‘< on that
road. He received his education at mcnic on un i
targe building which the company re- j | Educallon.
^ I ¥ t Academy. Sunday evening at 7:00 o’clock a
The processing plant can operate j g^rvived by his widow ,the „esper service will be held. At this
on y w en as Miss Alline Hall Bundy, origi- time a pageant which sets forth the
per day, Mr. Garrett stated, but will . - »
for the present use a hand crusher
when receipts are less than this
amount. The white scuppernong grape
will be used mostly by the Garrett
company.
The plant will begin operations
about September 15th.
official budget for the said fiscal
year.
All of the county employees were
reelected for 1936-37 with the e.Kcep-
tion of the janitor. He was replaced
by John Harris.
Applications for “On premises beer
licenses" submitted by the following
were approved: Nick Rapatas, South
ern Pines; D. I. Allred, Aberdeen, L.
T. Campbell, Carthage.
that the location of the two build
ings would make for an attractive
civic center between New York and
Pennsylvania avenues on Broad
street.
Contra arguments are advanced
that the postoffice should not be on
the main street, due to the large col
ored population Which frequents the
building: that it would be ill-advised
in a resort town to bring the West
Southern Pines residents farther into
town for their mail.
It is also understood that sites
away from the present location are
One surprising thing about the sec- ! northeast
ond primary was that in 30 counties
ston and Thad A. Eure of Hertford
won over Stacey W, Wade, present in- ,
cumbent, for Secretary of State.
In the only Moore county contest, 1
J. Hawley Pocle of West P^nd led W.
R. Clegg of Carthage by 25 votes for ,
the State Legislature, |
Moore county gave Dr. McDonald
of the state the vote was heavier
than in the June primary, despite the
fact that last week’s voting fell on
the Fourth of July.
Gilliam Grissom, former U. S. Col
lector of Internal Revenue for North
Carolina, will be the Republican op
ponent of Mr. Hoey for Governor in
November.
Schmeling-Louis Fight
Pictures Here Saturday
C’.ANDOR PE.ACH GROWERS
AS80CIATI01V INC’ORPOR.\TED
nally of Hamlet, whom he married on j principles of Christian education will Will Be Shown Matinee and
February 25, 1903; and by seven chil- presented by the young people of Night at Carolina Theatre,
'dren, Mrs. S. B. Winslow, Mrs. B.'D. jjhe church, entitled, “The King’s Southern Pines
Holloway. Mrs. P. M. Bernstein and Highway.’’ The cast of characters is - — - ^
.Il'LY FOl’RTH .\CCIDENT
Clete Pilson of Harnet county was
given a suspended sentence of 12
months in court in Lillington for fir
ing a gun at a car occupied by T. K.
Gunter, Jr. of Lakevlew, Preston
Matthews of Vass and Winfred Lor
raine of Canada on July 4 th. Lorraine
was hit by the shot and suffered a
scalp wound.
The Fourth of July baseball game
scheduled for Southern Pines was
postponed on account of rain.
Among new concerns filing cejtifl-
I cates of incorporation at Raleigh this
'week was the following;
Candor Peach Growers Association.
Miss Nell Page, all of Raleigh; Mrs of follows: The Carolina Theatre, Southern Candor, to carry on the gen-
J. R. Johnston of Washington. N. C.; Seeker. Miss Rebecca Doub; Life., Pines announces the showing of the ^ marketmg and deal-
LeGrand Page of Raleigh and Junius j^j^g Ferree; Christian Education, special pictures of the Schmeling-
Page of Atlanta, Ga.; and three sis- ^jgg Alice Wilder; Church School, Louis fight, tomcrrow, Saturday, mat
ters, Mrs. Nell Page Atwater of Ral- Margaret Miller; Reverence, inee and night, in connection with Its
eigh. Mrs. B. T. Morris of Gastonia \ngg Carol Bowman; Prayer. Miss regular feature program. This spec-
and Mrs, Ernest Pleasants of Aber- j^edrith Burns; Praise. Miss Mary ial is in five reels, with many of the
I Margaret Bumey; S ngs. Miss Clara blows shown in slow motion, which
The Rev. E. C. Few, pastor of the gii,e; Service, Mi.ss Dorothy Doub; gives the audience a ring-side seat.
Edenton Street Methodist Church, obedience, Miss Veta Epps. It will be shown after the rejitilar
will conduct the funeral services. In-, jn addition to those who are taking feature to insure the late comers the
terment will follow In Oakwood Cem-' the leading roles representatives from whole fight story,
etery. Pallbearers wdll be Dr. R -H. livery department of the Church
Hampshire avenue, and the northeast
corner of East Broad and Connecti
cut avenue. Undoubtedly there are
many others. That the excitement is
tense as the hcur of opening the bids
approaches is amply evidenced by the
looks on the faces of real estate
agents, owners of available land, pros
pective neighbors of the new building,
and such.
How much the government will
consider other factors than cost In
making its selection is not known. It
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JURY LIST DRAWN FOR
AFOITST TERM OF COURT
The following jury list for the Au
gust term of court has been drawn:
J. L. Thomas, W, R, Ritter, Allen
Fishel, J, A, Cole. Eklgar Mashbume,
W. A Smith. Daniel Vick, R J, Gul-
ledge, James W. Tufts, R, H. Matsin-
ger, W W, Dalrymple, H. J. Lancas
ter, R. C Zimmerman. Roy Shields,
H C. Carter, Lacy Currie, O. Leon
Seymour. J. F. Evans, B, H, Thomas-
WilliamQ nf 1
sen, Lacy Currie, O Leon Seymour,
J. F. Evans. B, T Thomasson, J L.
On acc'unt of the very heavy ex-]®" interesting talk on the Boy Scout | ^ Hardy, C. E. Kirk,
ing in fresh peaches. Authorized cap
ital stock. $5,000; subscribed, $5,000.
by Frank C. Spadaro and Horace Ro- :
buck of Philadelphia, Pa„ and V, W.
Burkhead and J. C. Munn of Candor.':
!
AlM)KE.S.SP>i KIWANIS
The Rev. Thomas A.
Freeman, Dr. Harold Glascock, John gchool will take part in the program, pense of this special, it will be nec-1 niovement here at the weekly meet- Kelly, G. W. Thomas, Arthur
Thiem, Karl Glenn, C. D, Beachman young people’s choir will lead the essary to increase the Saturday night of the Kiwanis Club held W'ednes- Hartsell, H. F. Bost, John Stone,
anri w r> rini-aoff | muslc fcr the service, and will sing adult admission price to 35c and the j day in Jack’s Grill. p, Reynolds, John R Black, Curtis
in the j the selections u.sed in connection with children’s price to 20c, j - - ‘ Cavinesa, D. P. Campbell, D. P. Mc-
the ser-jthe pageant. The public is cordially. There will be no advance in prices. Twelve -page Rotogravure Farm j Donald. N. A. Morgan, C R. Russell,
and W. R. Dorsett.
A number of relatives
Sandhills plan to attend
vices today in Raleigh.
invited to attend.
for the matinee.
Section with this issue of The Pilot. I J. D. Mclnnls and L, O. Lucas