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AS H V}27 \ room MoOUE COUNTY’S LEA DING NEWS-WEEKLY T*H1B A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding . VOL. 17, NO. 5. Southern Pines and Aberdeenr North CarcHlna' ' Friday, January i, 1937. CARTHAOe ^pRiNca W&3T JAO<SOH SPRinos aLAKEV/IEW mamlkv AeERDU>) PINEetUFF PILOT M MAHLBV Ml SOOTMBBN PIMES tJBul FIRST LV NEW3, CIRCULATION & ^VEin ISING • /7% - of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina c 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- ! ly- 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.