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VOL. 17, NO. 5. Southern Pines and Aberdeenr North CarcHlna' ' Friday, January i, 1937.
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FIVE CENTS
DRASTIC CUTS IN
TELEPHONE TOLL
RATES ANNOUNCED
New Schedule Filed by Ameri
can Tel. & Tel. To Mean Mil
lion a Month Saving
Cupid Busy
The Misses Dixon, Sisters,
Are Brides in Two Ceremon
ies.—Elizabeth Ferree Weds
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 15
Weddings featured the week in
Aberdeen, with sisters as the brides
in two of the three ceremonies.
Miss Inez Manning Dixon and El
lis Jackson Harrington were married
•riie Federal Communications Com- following the regular service in the
mission announced yesterday that tar- | Baptist Church last Sunday morn-
iffs covering drastic reductions in in-1 ^y the Rev. Mr. Harris, with
terstate long-distance telephone rates .
V. 1 , 1. I the bruie s small sisters, Jacksie and
totalling $12,000,000 on an annual bas-'
is have been filed with it by the ^s attenaants.
American Telephone and Telegraph! The bride is the attractive daughter
Company. These reductions will take i and Mrs. J. A. Dixon of
effect on January 15, 1937, over that Laurinburg Road, Aberdeen, while
company’s entire “Long Lines’’ sys- ^ the groom travels for the Lance
tem, in compliance with its recently ^ Packing Co., with headquarters at
announced agreement to reduce its Macon, Ga., ,where they will make
rates by that amount without the ^ their home.
necessity of formal rate hearings by Mrs. Hariington’s sister. Miss Lin-
the Commission. The public utility’s da May Dixon and Kenneth R. Keith,
late reductions are thus brought to both of Aberdeen, were united in
a total of $22,000,000 since the com-' marriage on Tuesday night at 8:00
mencement of the Commis.sion’s Spe- o'clock in the Baptist parsonage, the
cial Telephone Investigation in July, Rev. E. M. Harris officiating. Mr.
1935. ; Keith is a son of Mrs. Keith and the
The present reduction, which will late Hugh A. Keith. The young cou-
save the public $1,000,000 a month ple are on a motor trip to Florida.
In long-distance telephone bills, ts Miss Mary Elizabeth Ferree, dau-
expected to go far toward stimulat- , ghter of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Ferree,
ing long-distance calling for an in-1 and J. B. Edwards, manager of the
terstate character. It comes as the I Aberdeen Theatre, were married at
result of conferences with company the Presbyterian Church in Dillon,
officials undertaken by the Federal S. C., last Sunday afternoon. They
Communications Commission under ' will make their home here,
its toll rate investigation order of
September ft, 1936. Rapid improve-1
ment in general business conditions,
and the consequent increase in long ■
distance telephone operations were
particularly stressed by the Commis- ! AKempted to Rob I'illinjj; Sta-
sion’s representatives. The result of ' tion in Southern Pines., Ford
these efforts is that thetelephone us- Garafie in Aberdeen
ing public is to be given the advan
tage of this large reduction at once,
without having to await the conclu-
rhree Caug'ht After
Attempted Burglaries
Due to the alertness of As.'^istant
Chief of Police C. E. Newton of
■sion of long-drawn-out and costly Southern Pines vvho early Tuesday
hearings and possible litigation, such two men and a woman leave the
as have* frequently been witnessed in vicinity of the Sinclair Oil Compr.ny s
station, ,two men, both said to be
notorious criminals and their Vv-oman
former telephone rate cases. j
The new toll rate schedules were
developed by the compan’s rate of- ^
ficials, with the assistance and col
laboration of the Commission’s tar-
companion are now locked up await,
ing charges of attempting to force
an entry into the filling station here
and later breaking into the Ford Mo-
iff rates. Charges for basic day sta
. , ,, , I tor Company's place in Aberdeen,
tion-to-station calls will be reduced f j’ i
The men. I. C. Coltrain, 33, of
Greensboro and W. W. Barber, 29, of
at all distances, commencing with a
five cent cut at forty-two miles,
.... . , *1. Durham were captured by Chief of
where this company takes over the ^ .. .
Polie J. A. Gargis, ,Assistant Chief
Newton and George Colton on the
railroad tracks near Manley Tues-
business, and including progressively
larger cuts, increasing with distance
and amounting to as much as $1.00
„ , , , day *norning at 7 o’clock. The wo
per message on calls between eastern •' .. .. ..
seaports and the Pacific Coast. Simi
lar reductions will be made in day
person-to-person calls, and large cuts
w'ill also result in night and Sunday
rates, both station-to-station and
person-to-person. Many of the un
even rate steps which have existed in
former tariffs are to be wiped out,
and the new schedules represent an
important advance in telephone rate
making.
Officials of the Central Carolina
Telephone Company here are rear
ranging their schedule of tolls to give
effect to the new reductions.
man, Nettie Jackson, 33, ,of Green.s-
boro was captured by Officer A. F.
Dees in Aberdeen after he had sur
prised the party in their attempt to
leave the Ford plant. The woman was
-serted by her companions.
THISTLE CLITB TE.4 DANCE
A FEATUKE OF HOLIDAYS
One of the loveliest parties of the
holidays season was the tea dance
given by the Thistle Club for its
associate members and their friends
in the Southern Pines Country Club
on Wednesday. About 150 guests at
tended. The ball room was beauti
fully decorated with evergreens, long
leaf pine and poinsettas. The tea ta-
Mrs. Frank A. Wyrough, 42, of i jjjg presided over by Mesdames
MRS. FRANK A. WYROUGH, 42,
DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
1330 Good street. Johnstown, Penna.
died in the Moore county hospital
at Pinehurst, at 8:30 a. m. Monday.
J. S. Milliken, P. P. Pelton, Coburn
Musser and E. L. Prizer. Music was
furnished by the increasingly popular
She had undergone an emer-jc. j. Simons. Mrs. Walter Spaeth,
gency operation on Christmas after-1 president of the Thistle Club, was
noon from which she failed to rall.y, general chairman of the dance.
*^rs. Wyrough, and her husband, •—
who is the district manager of the |
Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation
CHAMBER BANQUET Townes Flee Spain at Outbreak DEVELOP AS ONE
JAN. 12 TO HEAR
HOMER H JOHNSON
Prominent Cleveland, Ohio At
torney To Address Gathering
at Pine Needles Inn
TICKETS IN RIG DEMAND
Of Hostilities; Car Confiscated '[[JRgg
Southern Pines Residents Find
Air Raid on Majttrca “Too
Hot for Comfort.”
Their automobile confiscated and a
114-hour session with the anti-Fascist
i committee in cliarge of a small
I Spanish towns just across the border
j from France are the outstanding rec-
Final arrangements for the annual ‘^**®^’t'ons that Mrs. .Jane H. Towne
banquet of the Southern Pines Cham- I
, . ganton Road Southern Pines, who
''"""tly returned to their home
here, liave of their “holiday."
meeting of officers and directors to
be held next Tuesday noon at High
land Lodge. In the meanwhile, tick-
est are reported as selling rapidly for
this affair, always one of the high
lights of the W’inter season locally.
C. W. Picquet, in charge of ar
rangements for the gathering, ,has
the program well along, he said yes
terday. Homer H. .Johnson, prominent
attorney and business man of Cleve
land, Ohio, ,is to be the principal
speaker. Janies Bi>yd, the author,
will act as toastmaster. The orches
tra from the Club Chalfonte has
been secured to play during the
evening, and in addition Mr. Picquet
is arranging several vocal numbers
and. it is rumored, a stunt or two.
The banquet will be held in the
I After travelling thiough Spain and
Portugal on a motor ti'ip, they had
left the car,, along with most of their
I luggage in Barcelona and gone to
Palma on the Island of Majorca, just
off the coa.st, to await the return to
Barcelona of their friend Megan
Laird, the authoress whose article
on the Spanish situation appeared in
a recent issue of the Atlanta Month-
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1 The Saturday after tneir arrival on
1 Majorca trouble broke out on the
mainland at Barcelona and the next
day, Sunday, July 19th the Fascists
and the anti-Fascists took up the
Along- the Seaboard
Railroad Issues Attractive
New Folder of Winter Va
cation SuKjfestions
“To Help You I^an a h’lcas-
ant Winter Vacation” is the title
of an attractive new folder just
issued by the Seaboaid Air Line
Railway. Its numerous Illustra
tions include several of the Sand
hills, among them the Carolina
Hotel, the Country Club and a
gymkhana pig race in Pinehurs ,
a hunt scene, an archery conte. t
at the Country Club and a Stee
plechase race in Southern Pines
All resorts reached by the Sea
board are described and illustrated
New K'’wanis President Calls for
C(M)|H*rative Relations Be
tween Three Sandhills Towns
CM Ii THANKS STIMSON
The reins of the Kiwanis Club w’ere
turned over Wednesday to Charles W.
Piquet, newly elected president for
1937, by the retiring executive, the
Rev. J, Fred Stimson of Southern
Pines. The club held its final meet
ing of the year at the Highland Pinea
Inn. at which Mr. Stimson transfer
red the president’s button to the
new leader with appropriate well
wishes.
Mr. Picquet responded with a stir
ring plea for cooperation on the part
I of all members in making the new
' year one of accomplithment and de
velopment for the club. He stressed
' the importance of continuing to de
velop friendly and cooperative rela
tions between the three principal
towns of the Sandhills, Aberdeen,
Pinehurst and Southern Pines. "We
■ cudgels against each other on the Reduction Announced For Resi- -should progress as one community,
island. j dentiaK Farm and Commer- three,” he said.
Pine Neelies Inn, an<l more than 200 ^ sudder.ness with which the | Customers of C. P. & L.^ . ^
persons are expected. The date is' was amazing." Mr. nsing vote of appreciation of h.s ser-
Towne .said. “We had encountered no An important rate reduction has a year which saw
indication of any trouble in all of been announced by the Utilities Com- importance,
om trips on the mainland. There | missions, which affects the cost of accomplishment and enthusiasm.
ELECTRICITY RATE
CUT EFFECTS BIG
SAVINGS TO USERS
Tue.sday evening, January 12th, at
7:00 o’clock. Directors of the Cham
ber of Commerce will be elected at
the banquet, which is also the annual
meeting of the organization. Offi
cers arc clected later by the now
board of directors. Shields Cameron
is the present president, vice presi-
ilent and Hugh J. Betterley secretary
and treasurer. Tickets for the ban
quet are only one dollar, and are on
, , , , .. at the hotel where they were stay-
sale by members of the organization •’
ing. The hotel is located in the Eng*
I missions.
was a general strike or two, but electrical .service to residential, Louis Scheipers, chairman of the
they are common enough in Spain farm and commercial customers committee which arranged the recent
and were no inflication of what was throughout the territory served by ' charity ball at the Pine Needles club
to follow.’’ I the Carolina Power & Light Com- house, reported a net return of ap-
From Sunday until the following pany. The new top rate is now down proximately $200 for the club’s char-
Wednesday there was general dis- to 5c. An estimated saving of more *ty fund. This fund supports a bed
order on Majorca, Mr. Towne said, than $700,000 will result for com- the children’s ward of the Moore
and at local drug stores.
Pinehurst Alumni Hear
McLeod, Morton, Tufts
School’s Alumni Ranquet At
tracts Record Number.—Of
ficers for 1937 Elected.
lish quarter of Palma, hard by ♦he
British Embassy, and the warring
factors were and are now terrified of
the thought of English reprisals in
the e\ ent of any display of hostili
ties toward their nationals. Conse-
qui-ntly they gave the English sec
tion a wide berth.
On Wednesday anti-Fascist planes
The largest number ever to attend ’ f'"'" the mainland flew over Fascist
the annual Alumni banquet of the ’ and dropped a few warning
Pinehurst High School in the Crys- b«mt)s and floods of pamphlets giv-
tal Room at the Carolina hotel Tues-' the F;iscists four hours to evac-
day night ■ ^‘^te the city. The townspeople heed-
’ _ , 1 -,1 • 1 * ed the warning and fled to the moun-
Mrs. Frank McCaskill, president, ”
presided at the meeting. The Rev. quarter they
W. Murdoch McLeod of Nashville, | no apprehension
Tenn., former pastor of the Pine-
but there was no particular danger pany patrons during the next twelve county hospital.
months. Edwin McKeithen of Aberdeen, a
Under the new rate schedule all : member and a past president
j'esidential, farm and commercial Kiwanis, and W illard Dunlop of
customers are granted definite bene
fits without exception and regard
less of the amount of electricity used
in the past or consumed in the fu
ture.
I The new rate replaces and is lo'v-
' er than the inducement rates al
ready enjoyed in the past.
The action of the utility in reduc
ing rates at this time comes as a
' surprise to the majority of patrons
as the draj^tic reductions in 1935
and 1936 were thought to represent
the climax of a series of rate cuts
I made over a long period of years.
Pinehurst, another past president,
were reelected to active membership
at the meeting. The club expects to
start the year with 50 active mem
bers, a substantial gain ov^r a year
ago.
J. I). “Uncle John”
Richardson Passes
Native of ('hatham County Had
Spent Most of Life as Far
mer Here
John D. Richardson, 73, passed
“The whole affair, for the first away at his home three miles from
week had all the characteristics of made cheap electricity a real- Monday afternoon. He had
... 1,^'a mvisical comedy war,’’ Mr. Towne niany .supposed that the declining health for several
toastmaster, a capacity m which he militiamen strutted about '""'est P«-'^sible level in cost had been .y^^^s, but was critically ill for only
hurst Community Church, acted as
toastmaster, a capacity in which h(
serves quite as well as in the pul
CHURCH NOTES
The union service In Southern
with offices in Johnstown, had come j Pines will be held this Sunday even-
to Southern Pines the Saturday be-' ing at 8 ;00 '^’clock at jthe F^rst
fore Christmas to spend the holidays Baptist Church,, with the Rev. Dr.
with Mrs. Wyrough’s mother, Mrs.' C. Rexford Raymond of the Church
A. R. Wolf, a regular winter resident' of Wide Fellowship preaching on
here. She was suddenly taken ill' “Making Good Permanent Invest-
the Tuesday before Christmas j ments,” a New Year’s sermon.
Mass was offered for the de-' Dr. Raymond will preach at his
ceased at Saint Anthony’s Catholic ’ owti church in the morning on “The
church in Southern Pines at 10 a. m. j Real Presence of Christ.” The Sac-
yesterday and Mr. Wyrough and | rament of the Holy Communion will
Mrs. Wolf accompanied the body | be observed following the service,
to Altoona, Pa., where funeral ser-1 The Rev. Mr. Stimson will preach
vices will be held at the home of the at the Baptist Church Sunday morn-
deceased’s sister, Mrs. Ralph Welsh ing on "Wants or Needs.”
of 1710-12th street on Thursday I At the Christian Science Church
morning. Interment will be at Cal- j the subject of Sunday’s lesson-ser-
vary cemetery in Altoona. * mon will be "God.”
pit, if in a slightly different man
ner.
with their rifles, posed for photo
graphs and took occasional pot shots
[ at nothing in particular, in an at-
I tempt to impress the onlookers.”
“Too Hot for Comfort”
On the Friday following the
reached. ^jays.
New Schedule funeral service was conducted
Effective on all bills rendered on 2:00 o’clock Tuesday
or after January 26, all domestic afternoon by the Rev. C. I. Calcote,
users will be billed as per the fol- pa.stor of the Vass Presbyterian
lowing schedule: | Church, and interment followed in
A short talk on the future of the *
school, its immediate and future I
i
needs and problems, the need for in-'
creased school facilities and a Ion-' anU-Fas- ^c per KWH for first 50 KWH used. Johnson’s Grove cemetery. Pall bear-
ger term was made by W. P. Mor-, 3c per KWH for next 50 KWH used. , g,., Tliurlow Evans, Herman
ton, superintendent. I. C. Sledge and ^ barracks. That was 2c per KWH for next 150 KWH used. , Thomas. Tom Bailey, Henry Borst,
Frank McCaskill also made short, . ^ _
talks on the same subject.. Mr. Me-1
Leod presented the principal speaker'
of the evening, Richard S. Tufts, who
spoke on “Resorts as a Business.” |
Officers for the coming year were [
elected as follows: President, Mrs.
Hubert McCaskill: vice president,!
when it began to be too hot for com- ^WH for all adv.Monal KWH Purvis Thomas and Henry Park-
fort pnd the next day they got off on
a French liner enroute from Morro-
CO to Marseilles. '
When they finally arrived in Par
is and attempted to regain posses-
I sion of their car and luggage, Mr.
Towne found that, while the lug-
used.
The monthly minimum charge will
Mr. Richardson was a native of
be $1,00 which includes the use of Chatham county, but spent the great
er part of hie life in Moore county,
where he became a substantial far
mer. In young manhood he wa^ unit-
ed in marriage to Miss Arabella Mc-
Miss Verdun Shaw, secretary-treas- present no difficulty (a exactly one-third of the top rate Donald, and the home which they
urer, Hubeit McCaskill. British battleship took it from Bar- 1915 and only one half that of Qjjg where hospital-
A delightful and much enjoyed •• ■ • ’ • ^ ^ ^
feature of the entertainment was
the quartet numbers by the Rev. and
20 KWH
The new rate schedule reveals that
the top price of electricity to domes
tic customers is only a nickel which
celona to Marsailles, from where it the top rate charged only a few reigned and where friends de
was forwarded to Paris) the prob- y®ais ago.
lighted to gather. Mr. Richardson,
lem of the automobile was some
fact that the rate drops as, “Uncle John” to all who knew him
Mis. a. j. McKelway and the j gjgg again. A general shortage ^ per KWH enables many ^as a kind neighbor and was
onrl AjT*»o A T niHortn 'nanmncr >n ' ® ® ° ^ j. t i.* ’
and Mrs. A. J. Gibson. Dancing in
the ball room followed the banquet.
EDWARD A. WESTCOTT DIES,
FORMEU PINEHURST RESIDENT
Edward A. Westcott, for seven
years associated vith the Pinehurst
Department Store, died at :he home
of his daughter, Mrs. E. J. Baker In
Asbury Park, N. J. on Monday, j
Death was due to a heart attack.'
Mr. Westcott made many friends dur
ing his residence in Pinehurst, and'
news of his passing came as a great ^
shock here. j
He is sui-vived by his widow,, Flor
ence L. Westcott: two daughterp, I
of automobiles had resulted in the to purchase a large portion of; gyej. ready to befriend one in need
confiscation of every car in Barce- their current at a figure consider- ^ ^jjo came to him.
Ionia and the Towne's car was among ®-bly lower than in many sections of ^ Surviving are two sons and two
them. Finally, however, the Ameri- the country. The top rate of only 5c | daughters, John L. Richardson of
can Embassy there recovered it and KWH with sharp reductions in Hamlet, Will D. Richardson, Mrs. W’.
had it forwarded to Port Bou, a the schedule down to the 1 l-2c per p Alexander and Mrs. George Mor-
small town in Spain, just across the
KWH minimum is evidence that;
French border and. at the time in «=heap electricity is a reality in this
anti-Fascist hands. i territory.
Mr. Towne managed to make his ^t is understood
rate
reduction
that the latest
has been brought
way across the border from France
with the aid of a friendly train con- ^^"ut by the ready reception which
ductor who locked him in his state
room and said nothing of his pres
ence there.
When he finally arrived in Port ^
Bou, he again encountered all kinds
of trouble with the committee In
the public has given cheap electric
ity.
BRIDGE-TEA SATURD.W
The Thistle Club will have its
weekly bridge tea in the Southern
^^rs. Baker and JTrs. F. D. AVebb of a. I Pine^ Coiintrv Club foTYinrmwr
_ . . I charge of the town. They didn t want i^ouniry ciud tomorrow, bai
Boston, Mass., and three sons, Ash- . , I urdav with Mr<5 T .<? MiiliUpn no
1 XI J J to give up the car and since Mr. ^ as
ley P and Russell B. of Chicago and, ® ^ card hostess and Mrs. B. C. Eddy as
Harold E. Westcott of Asbury Park. (Please turn to Page 6) J tea hostess.
gan, all of the same community in
which their father resided; also sev
eral grandchildren and great-grand
children. Mrs. Richardson passed
away about two years ago and a
daughter, Mrs. Patsy Richardson
Gaddy, died several years ago.
The annual meeting of the Church
of Wide Fellowship will be held on
Thursday, January 8, beginning with
a covered dish supper at 6:30 p. m.
All interested are invited to attend
and hear the annual reports and
share in the fellowship of the occa
sion.