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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 17, NO. 6.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. January 8, 1937
FIVE CENTS
*^Sandhilleers^’ To Build
“A If For One, One For
Ally” Denny Proposes
SEAL SALE DRIVE
COLLECTS $400 IN
Kiwanis Club the Organization
To Launch Cooperative Plan j
Here, Says Attorney
Banquet Tuesday
H. H. Johnson of Cleveland
and James Boyd on Program
of Chamber of Commerce
What the Sandhills needs is the
slogan of the "Three Musketeers,"—
“one for all. all for one,” Attorney
Robert E. Denny of Pinehurst told chairman Charles W. Picquet of
the Kiwanis club of Aberdeen yester- committee in charge reported to
day at its weekly meeting held in the Southern Pines
Pinehurst Country church. Mr. Den- chamber of Commerce at their meet-
ny believes the Kiwanis club the Tuesday noon in the Highland
proper organization to launch "The ^odge that everything was in readi-
Sandhilleers” under a similar banner, banquet of that
and work for the development of the organization, to be held next Tues-
community as one. He said:
day night, January 12th at the Pine
"The inauguration of the president jsjeedigg j^n, Homer H. Johnson,
of this club is the institution of the
administration for the new year of
the one organization in the Sandhills
section of Moore coimty through
which, in my opinion, must come'
prominent attorney of Cleveland,
Ohio, one of President Wilson’s ad
visers on his trip to Rurope in the
interest of founding the League of
Nations, will be the principal speak'
whatever development this section of ^ pj. occasion, with James Boyd,
the author, acting as toastmaster.
Mr. Picquet reported tickets for
the dinner selling rapidly. He ex
pects more than 200 persons, and
said yesterday that those who want
table reservations for their own par
ties .should notify Earl Merrill, vice-
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, at the Sandhill Drug Com
pany, before noon on Tuesday next.
He also announced that the banquet
would start at 7:30 o’clock, not at
7 ;00 as previously announced and as
shown on the tickets.
There will be a musical program in
addition to the speaker of the occa
sion. and the Club Chalfonte Orches
tra has volunteered to play during the
banquet. The tickets for the dinner
are one dollar, available at local
drug stores or from directors of the
Chamber.
Garden Displays to
Feature 1937 Festival
School Children Raise $50.00 of
Sum; County Total Expected
To Be High
MISS BAIR THANKS ALL
Though the returns from ail sec-
tion.s of the county are not in. South
ern Pines this week reported that
$400 had been collected here during
the Christmas Seal Sale for the fight
against tuberculo.nis. This is the
largest amount raised in Southern
Pines in many years, and it is be
lieved that the full county returns
will show proportionate increased re
turns.
“This amount," Miss Bii'dilia Bair,
local chairman, said yesterday,” was
realized through the cooperation both
of the diligent workers and generous I
contributors. Thirty dollars of the
NEW ADDITION TO
COUNTY HOSPITAL
NEAR COMPLETION
Three-Story $77,000 Addition to
Institution Completed Ex
cept for Painting.
FUNDS STILL WELCOME
Air S-^^'*nce For Sandhills
Fror(i\^\;incipal Cities of
Countf'^ '^xpected Soon
Inaugurated
“Shuttle” Plane to Connect with
Eastern Air Lines at Raleigh
is Probability.
Edwin T. McKeithen, business
manager of the Moore County hospi
tal, announced yesterday that the
hospital’s new three story .$77,000
wing would be completed and ready
for occupancy sometime early in Feb
ruary. I
“Most of the equipment has been '
received and is now in storage await- ,
ing the workmen’s evacuation of the |
premises,” Mr, McKeithen said. “And |
<as soon as they finish painting and ,
installing the fixtures, we will follow ,
them with the equipment and the ;
furnishings and the additional space |
should be ready for use soon after j
Chamber of Commerce to Offer
Prizes for Most Attractive
Pre.sentations.
the State of North Carolina attains.
A graffic line illustrating the rise
and fall of the influence and activity
of this club in the past years would,'
I believe, show the progressive rise
and fall of the development of the
vicinity in w'hich most of this assem
bly lives and in which we are now
preparing to spend the new year of
1937. j
“The membership of this club,
drawn as it is, largely, from the four
communities of Aberdeen, Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and Carthage find
these four place.s the focal points of
the development of the entire Sandhill
section of the county, the principle
industry of which is the resort busi
ness. Carthage, as the county seat,
located on the northern or northwes
tern edge of the sand belt, being an
integral and necessary part of the
Sandhills, makes it most fitting that
the section be per.sonified as the prin
cipal characters of Dumas’ "The
Three Musketeers,” and for it to take
as its motto that of the three who
became four, “All for one, one for all.”
And these concepts. Gentlemen, came
many months ago, out of the years
of public spirited co-operation, dili
gence in business, the artistry of a
musical soul and the philosophy of
the genialness of the citizens, gen
tleman and friend, your new presi.
dent, Charles W. Picquet.
"It is hoped that many of you re
member the address delivered to this
club last year in which it was at
tempted to bring to your attention
this vehicle by which Charlie is de
termined to develop the resort section
as a imit. In "The Three Musketeers” ^
•we find three Guardsmen in the ser
vice of King Louis the XIII of France.
First there was Aramis,-Aberdeen in
our triangle. As in this character so
in this town we find the native cul
tural background of its sturdy an.
cestry. The church and its idealistic
leadings found first place in the aims
of Aramis. and the town of Aberdeen
would place the church in its coat of
arms. The traditions of this land are
in the blood of its families and this
Aberdeen which gives your cluh its
name, halls in ita name the spirit of
that tribal blood that can make the
virtues of Aramis contribute largely
to a co-ordinated Sandhill solidarity
since with its railroad and highway
terminals it must become the basic
trading and industrial town of the
triangle.
"Southern Pines is Porthos, for this
rnn.-iketeer, the largest man of the
three, combined in his life the rurals
and shopkeepers with the city dwell- ‘
ers and people of the social court, and ELIVTEB ROBERT DAVIS
in Southern Pines there has already ^ TO WED ISABEL TURNER
at least begun such a fusing of na- ^
tives with northern winter residents Mr. and Mrs. C. Brice Turner of
it is becoming difficult to say whether Fort Lawn, S. C., announced the en-
the natives are turning Yankee or gagement of their daughter, Isabel,
the Yankees have gone native. This to Elmer Robert Davis, son of Mr.
robustness that we find both in Por- * &^d Mrs. Elmer E. Davis of Southern
thos and Southern Pines, when ac- Pines. The wedding will take place
tually accomplished In the spirit of ^ the early spring,
our lives and always held before our Both Miss Turner and Mr. Davis
total was contributed by the Southern the first of next month.”
Pines School under the chairmanship ’ ArchitectiU'aily. the new wing fol-
of Miss Pauline Miller, and >'520.00 | low.s the style of the main building, I
by the West Southern Pines School but several interior improvements '
MANY “AIR” INQUIRIES
imder the chairmanship of its prin
cipal.
have been incorporated in the form
of a Johnson heat control system that
“A vote of thanks is due everyone , insures temperature control of each
taking part in this campaign, espec- [ individual room to suit the occupant, !
ially the following section leaders: “Acoustitex” ceilings in the main
Mrs. Hugh Betteiley, Mrs. Wade Ste-1 pas.sages that will isolate all corridor
vick, Mrs. Roscoe Potts, Mrs. David , noises from the patient’s rooms and
McCuiium and the Misses Nora A. many other modern building improve-
Hafey, Margaret Kiely, Mary Rich
ardson and Ida Robinson.”
Kiwanis to Sponsor
ments.
Besides those technical advance
ments, Mrs. Edwin Scofield, of Pine
hurst, is applying her decorative .skill
■Q. J -p |i to the finishing and furnishing of the
Ijirinuay Kan ^ private rooms and the wards, and it
is her aim, insofar as is possible, to
A Birthday Ball for the President | pijf^inate any suggestion of hospital
will be given in the Sandhills on Fri
day night, January 29th, it was de
cided yesterday. It will be one of
the thousand-odd birthday balls In
honor; of Mr. Roosevelt and benefit-
I ting his favored charity—the Warm
I Springs Foundation—to be given
' throughout the country that night.
WIDE FELLOW.SHIP
TO HOLD PRE-EASTER SALE
Garden displays of spring blossoms,
landscape effects, attractive yards
and home settings will be the theme
this year of the annual Spring Blos
som Festival in Southern Pines, it
was decided Tuesday at a meeting
of directors of the Chamber of Com
merce. Prizes are to be offered for the
mo^t beautiful and attractive displays,
with various classifications to be
worked out in detail later.
In addition, the annual Spring
Blossom Festival will preserve the
featu?’e for which it has best become
known. Old Slave Day, with its en
tertainment of survivors of Civil War
times and the opportunity the occa
sion presents for residents and visi
tors to hear tales of childhood days in
slavery from the older colored folks
of the community. A suitable prog
ram will be arranged, with singing
of negro spirituals, dances and lun
cheons in the Municipal Park.
Another feature which has delight
ed visitors in the past, the Music
Festival, will also be presented this
spring under the direction of Fred
erick Stanley Smith and Charles W.
Picquet. The Spring Blossom Festi
val will be held in April, timed as
I near as possible to the blooming of
the dogwood and other spring blos
soms. No sports program is planned
in connection with the festival.
The Woman’s Society of the Church
of Wide Fellowship announces that
Wednesday, March 10, has been se
lected as the date of the annual Pre-
Easter Sale.
The meeting of Group III of the
environment and to create a home
atmosphere for the benefit of the fu
ture occupants of the rooms.
An individual color scheme has
been adopted for each room and the
walls, bed spreads, draperies and
furniture upholstery will all blend in
one harmonizing ensemble.
"At the present time,” Mr. Mc
Keithen said, “the hospital’^ facili
ties are taxed to the utmost and the
additional space will be most wel
come.”
On the top floor there will be nine
private rooms and on the first floor
provision has been made for three 4-
bed wards and three private rooms
in addition to the two private rooms
CLYDE R. HOEV
Who Took the Oath of Office as Gov-
ei-nor of North Carolina at the Cap
itol in Raleigh Yesterday.
SAL AND NORFOLK
SOUTHERN REPORT
BUSINESS BETTER
Riiilroads Serving Sandhills
Seek Termination of Operat
ing Receiverships
IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
The general railroad recovery
throughout the country is having a
favorable effect upon roads serving
tha Sandhills. Associated Press news
of the week carried optimistic re
ports of both the Seaboard Air Line
Railway and the Norfolk Southern,
both of which are taking action to
terminate the receiverships under
which they have been operating for
several years.
In addition, the Seaboard has
asked the Interstante Commerce
Commission for authority to issue
Woman’s Society, previously schedul- , the isolation ward
ed for next Monday, will be held in-1 contagious diseases.
Air service to Knollwood airport
serving Pinehurst and Southern
Pines is a probability for the near
future. It may be inaugurated at
any time now, peitnitting servica
from all principal cities of the north
and midwest via Eastern Air Lines
to Raleigh and Air Lines Chartered
Service from Raleigh here.
The Air Lines Chartered Service,
of Bo.ston, Mass., has submitted a
proposition to Pinehurst and South
ern Pines authorities which would
provide daily service from Raleigh,
Planes of this company would meet
Eastern Air Florida.bound planes,
pick up passengers for the Sand
hills, bring them to the Knollwood
field. Eastern Air would sell thru
tickets to Pinehurst or Southern
Pines from all Its principal cities,
Chicago. Pittsburgh, Boston, Detroit,
Cleveland, New York. Washington,
etc.
Negotiations have been pending
for some time between Pinehurst,
Incorporated and the Town oi South
ern Pinos, and the Boston concern,
and a contract is expected to be sign
ed in the near future. In addition
to providing passenger ser\’ice, the
“shuttle” plane from Raleigh will
mean the arrival here of New York
morning papers some time between
10:00 and 11:00 each morning In
stead of by night train.
Many inquiries have been received
by Sandhills hotels this season as to
air service to this section. During
the past few weeks a number of par-
i ties have arrived here by air, either
I completing their trip by train from
, Raleigh or by chartering a plane at
Raleigh for the 70-mile trip here.
I The improvements to the Knoll
wood Airport are nearing comple
tion, it w’as announced yesterday. The
, long runway which now extends 3,-
' .500 feet with a width of 500 feet
most of the distance, has been com
pleted, and next month is expected
, to wind up the project which has
’ cost from $40,000 to $50,000 during
The
field Is now adapted to receive the
largest transport planes.
stead on Tuesday, January 12. at 3:00
o’clock, at the home of Mrs. Wilbur
J. Sanborn, 27 Connecticutt avenue.
On Wednesday, January 13, at
3:30, the regular meeting of the Wo
man’s Society will be held in the
Church Parlor. The program for the
afternoon will be presented by Group
IV, with Dr. Isabel Graves as chair
man. Everyone come, and bring your
friends: new members are partic
ularly welcome.
$2,500,000 in 3 1-2 per cent interest
bearing bonds to raise funds to im-1 the summer and fall months,
prove its lines and buy new equip
ment.
The money to be raised through an
agreement with the Guaranty Trust
Company of New York, as trustee,
will be spent buying five locomotives.
Aside from the additional space
available for patients, the new wing
provides the quarters and physical
facilities for the rendering of services ^ ,
] 100 box cars, six passenger cars, and
four passenger and baggage cars.
The issue between officials of the
railroad and the trust company will
date from February 1, 1937. The
Mrs. Viall, One of Early
Settlers Here, Passes
Came To Southern Pines in Days
of John T. Patrick.—Ac
tive Church W’orker
From the diminishing ranks of the
Abnormal Rainfall During 1936
Shown in Yearns Weather Report
Precipation Over 16 Inches
Above Expectancy.—Mercury
Ranged From 4 to 103
eyes in all our plans, is not only es
sential to our progress but will be
have made their home in Charlotte
' for some time. Elmer Davis attended
come the spirit by which this entire Southern Pines High School and was
resort section may become 'All for graduated from the University of
one, one for all.’ | North Carolina in 1930 with a B. S.
"Athos, the third Musketeer, was in electrical engineering. H« has been
rof the nobility and to me it appears' with the Duke Power Company in
(Ptease turn to page 5) Charlotte for the past five years.
By Charles Maraiiley
The year 1936, while warmer than
the preceeding year, was still slight
ly below the long time normal aver
age, and much moister. The local
precipitation figures of 66.22 inches
reveal an abnormal rainfall of 16.56
inches above the yearly expectation
of 49.65 inches. Four inches of snow
in January, and the same in Febru
ary is not included.
Temperature averages for the year
record a mean of 59.6 inches, the
normal figures being 61.8, and 1935,
59.9. Our hottest day, June 30th, reg
istered 103; the coldest, February
1st, four above zero. The heaviest
rainfall, 3.82 inches, came on the 11th
of September. October with 7.73 in
ches to its credit was the high month.
December, the freakish month of
1935, kept its reputation in 3 936, sleet
on the 1st, nearly four inches more
than normal rains, a low of 25, and a
high of 70 with an average tempera
ture 1-2 degrees above normal.
Christmas day and week were fair,
and treatment of patients far in ex
cess of anything of which the hospi
tal has been capable heretofore.
A complete new Hydro-therapy de
partment, with the very latest in
equipment, has been added on the ! "mature serially i'l 20 semu | early settlers of Southern Pines
1 annual installments of $215,000 each ; death claimed one of the oldest and
turn to page 5) | beginning August 1, 1937. | most respected residents on New
I A Norfolk, Va. despatch says steady ' Year’s day when Mrs. Carrie M. Viall,
improvement in operating revenues ^S^d 85 years, passed to her last
: pointed today toward a possible early' long-time home on Ben-
i termination of the receivership of the street.
i Norfolk Southern railroad, which Born in North Oxford, Mass., Octo-
serves Pinehurst. i 4th, 1854, the daughter of Phil-
1 ander Pond and Abagail Stone Pond,
The line has been In receivership , •wedded to Nathaniel S. Viall In
since July 28, 1932, when Windholtz; i8g4 the family came to Southern
and George R. Loyall, former presi- i pjnes in 1901. Here her father was
dent of the company, took charge the active local agent for John T.
under an order of Judge Way, enter- j Patrick. Living a retired life for sev-
ed at the request of the Fruit Grow- ! ^^al years, Mrs. Viall was early an
ers Express company. Hawkins la- ^ active member of the Church of Wide
ter succeeded Loyall as co-receiver, i Fellowship, and numbered among her
j n^j^ny friends all those of the aarller
! congregation of that church.
but in all the month there were only
nine all-clear days. The first day of
winter, the 22nd, was clear with a
high temperature of 56 and a low of
25. For the month the minimum tem
perature was 35.02, maximum 57, av
erage 46, an increase of 10 degrees
over December, 1935, just as that
month was 11 degrees colder than
normal. Here are the figures:
Long time Max. Min
average 54.9 p!4.6
1935 43.25 24.02
1936 57 35.02
The following table shows
Aver
44.8
33.6
46
the
rainfall during 1936, the
first fig-
ures being rainfall In Inches, and the
second the
excess, or deficiency, In
inches for
each month of
the year:
January
3.42
-1-3.23
February
4.03
+ 1.41
March
3.86
-f-2.29
April
3.44
4-2.24
May
4.17
—3.79
June
5.07
—0.79
July
7.85
—0.24
August
6.03
—0.17
September
3.58
-f3.52
October
2.91
-f-4.82
November
2.34
+ 0.78
December
3.45
+ 3.66
ANNUAL LIBRARY MEETING
TO BE HELD NEXT MONDAY
The annual meeting of 'the South
ern Pines Library will be held in the
library rooms next Monday, January
11, at 5:00 o’clock. All holders of
memberships, of whatever kind, are
voting members of the Library As
sociation, and as such are not only
cortiially Invited but iirged to be*
present. It Is the purpose of the li
brary to furnish the best service,
and the widest selection of books, pos
sible with the funds available; tind
in no way can this be so effectively
done as by the free expression of
opinion from those who are interest
ed In its success. The trustees will
welcome comment, criticism-and sug
gestions.
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. Dr. C. Rexford Raymond were
held in the church at 3:00 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, with burial in
Mount Hope Cemetery.
Surviving Mrs. Viall are three sons,
Wesley ,a resident of Pinehurst;
Frank and Harry of Southern Pines,
and a daughter, Mrs. Ella Chatfield,
also of Southern Pines.
THIEV'ES GET SLOT MACHINES
Thieves broke into the Clark Ser
vice station on West Broad street,
Southern Pines, and in the Blue Bird
Filling station at the junction of the
Raeford and Laurinburg roads in
Aberdeen on Monday night and es
caped with two slot machines from
each. One arrest was made.