MOORE COUNTY^ LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding ^SxARTHAOe V ^SPHIHGS ALAKCVieW EHO hanlky SOUTHCRN OACXSOH SPRIH09 PIHS9 ASHUSy MftlQHTS PiNEBUiPP PILOT FIRST ir^ NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING 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 | '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.