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MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17, NO. 12.
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CIRCULATION &
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Bouthem Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, February 16, 1937.
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TOWN AND COUNTY
TO GET REVENUE
FROM ABC STORE
Southern Pines To Receive 25
Percent, County 75 and Entire
Profits of Pinehurst Store
ENDS WILSON CO. REGIME
When the amended liquor bill, pas
sed by the Senate Tuesday Is ap-
1 ?d by the House of Representa-
8, the liquor store situation in
'oehurst and Southern Pines, will,
all its outward appearances, re
in the same as it has been in the
t
he stores have been operated by
teal sub-board consisting of May-
>. G. Stutz of Southern Pines, Dr.
1. C. Mudgett of Southern Pines
I James W. Tuft* of Pinehurst,
), in turn, have reported to the
oholic Beverage Control Board of
x»n county, under whose super-
n the stores have been run.
der the provisions of the new
• bill there will be no necessity
1 referendum in Moore county,
two liquor stores will operate
'T a Moore County A. B. C. board i
'/'oe made up, in all probability, of
^r. Tufts and either Mayor Stutz
’or Dr. Mudgett and a third member
to be appointed by the county.
Under the previous set-up neither
Southern Pines nor Pinehurst derived
any revenue from the A. B. C. stores
except the rental of the buildings
they occupied and Moore county re
ceived only five per cent of the gross
profits, which sum was appropriat
ed for law enforcement.
The new bill provides,, that the
Town of Southern Pines IS to receive
25 per cent of the gross profit from
Us store and the remaining 75 per
cent Is to go to the county. Pine
hurst, Inasmuch as it is not an in.
corporated village will derive no j
revenue from the store there. The
entire profits there will go to the
county.
The new set-up will be put Into
effect as soon as possible after the
approval by the House of the amend*
ed bill.
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Overcrowded Condition of
School in Southern Pines
Demands Prompt Action
Inspect Course
Mrs. Randolph Scott and Car
roll K. Bassett Visit Stee
plechase Grounds
Need Urgent For New BuildinsT
For Grammar Grades and Ex
tra-Curricular Activities
$35,000 ESTIMATED COST
CONVICTS KIDNAP
KEEPERS, RELEASE
THEM NEAR VASS
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Glee Club and Little Symphony
To Appear at Church of
Wide Fellowship
Seven Prisoners Escape From
Caledonia Prison Camp,
Pass Through Here
3 MURDERERS IN GROUP
New Dunes Club on
Midland Road Opens
Will Feature Lobster Dinners
and Dancing in Former Ar
chery Company Building
with Walter E. N. Arnold, stew,
ard of the famous Bank Cafe of
Providence, R. I., in charge of the
cuisine, and Paul Dreyfuss and his
orchestra furnishing the music, the
new Dunes Club, in the remodeled
Archery building on the Midland
Road between Pinehurst and South
ern Pines will open this evening,
Friday, under the management of
J. S. Warman of Boston.
The former plant of the Archers
Company, that attractive stone build
ing on the double road, has been com
pletely renovatefd during the past
week and transformed into an attrac
tive night club which is to feature
lobster dinners during the balance of
the season. Mr. Arnold is maltre
d’hotel of the Bank Cafe in Provi
dence, which has been noted for its
food for the past 150 years, during
which time it has had but four man
agements. Mr. Arnold is importing
his lobsters from Providence, still In
the crawling stage.
With a ncv,' cancpicd entrance, ap
proached through an aisle of shrub
bery, new furniture, new rugs and
new eqlupment of all kinds, the
Dunes Club plans to cater to an ex.
elusive clientele during the balance
of the winter season, and become a
fixture in the Sandhills in the fu
ture. It will feature its dinners, its
music, its dance floor, its atmosphere
of warmth and informality, and bids
fair to become one of the popular
evening rendezvous of the section.
Vass was the scene of excitement
aplenty last Monday night when the
seven escaped convicts from Caledon
ia Prison Farm dumped their three
hostages off there after whisking
them In various stolen automobiles
through several jhundred miles of
eastern North Carolina. The men
escaped from the prinson camp and
took with them Captain I. D. Hin
ton, Steward fW. L. Roberts and
Walter H Willard, 19-year old Ral
eigh youth
Says an Associated Press dis
patch under a Vass date line:
The chase, one of the State’s most
unusual, started at Caledonia, some
200 miles northeast of here, about
9 o’clock this morning when Robert
Smith, a convicted murderer, pulled
a gun on Captain Hinton In the Cal
edonia cell block.
The prisoners with Hinton and
Roberts, headed toward Virginia,
then doubled back westward toward
Louisburg. Enroute they took two
cars, one being driven by Willard,
and forced Willard to accompany
them.
From Louisburg the prisoners
headed southeast toward Nashville
and Bailey and there the trail was
lost.
Airplanes, scores of county offi
cers and 75 highway patrolmen and
joined in the search.
A few minutes after 7 o’clock
Tuesday night Hinton, Roberts and
Willard arrived in Vass, having been
picked up by a motorist some two
and a half miles from town.
Officers throughout this entire
section and in South Carolina were
notified to be on the lookout for
the “dangerous men”, three of them
serving murder terms.
Up to the time The Pilot went
to press no report of the apprehen
sion of the convicts had been receiv
ed.
The Davidson College Glee Club
and Little Symphony Orchestra,
now achieving rank as leading con
cert organizations of the South will
appear in the Church of Wide Fel
lowship, Southern Pines, Sunday,
February 21, at 8:00 p. m. The Glee
Club will be under the direction of
Thane' McDonald. James ) Christian
Pfohl, director of music at Davidson,
will conduct the orchestra.
The fame of these organizations
has not only traversed the state of
North Carolina, but has also reach
ed every state in the union through
their weekly broadcasts from WBT,
Charlotte. This program will be giv
en Sunday night.
Glee Club: O Holy Father; Ave
Marla; Bless The Lord, O My Soul;
Lo A Voice From Heaven.
Cello Solos: Warren Perry Babcock.
Glee Club; Climb Up Ye Chillun;
Who Did?
Little Symphony Orchestra; Medi
tation; Invitation To The Dance; In
termezzo.
Quartette-; Dear Land of Home
from Finlandia; The Prayer Perfect.
Glee Club: Volga Boat Song; Fire
flies; Come To Me In My Dreams.
Glee Club and Orchestra: In A
Monastery Garden.
In addition to a great variety of
numbers by the glee club and orches-
tre, Warren Perry Babcock, instruc
tor of Instrumental Music at Dav
idson, will present a group of cello
numbers. The Varsity Quartet, com
posed of Paul Hudson, first tenor;
J. D. Allen, second tenor; C. M.
Ramseur, baritone; W. R. Laws, bass;
will present a group of numbers.
KIWANIS CLUB THE
“FATHER OF MOORE
COUNTY HOSPITM.”
Edwin T. McKeithen, Business
Manager of Institution, Lauds
Club for Initiative
WAS EARLY OBJECTIVE
By BEN BOWT>EN
Mrs. Randolph Scott of Montpel- \ For a number of years j^ast thers
ier, Va., and Camden, S. C., prom- {iias been in Southern Pines an un-
Inent owner of steeplechase horses, j dercurrent of agitation in favor of
and Carroll K. Bassett, noted ama- ^ increased public school facilities,
teur rider and trainer, were In; But until the present time, howev-
Southem Pines yesterday afternoon gr, the matter has never been car-
inspecting the Barber Estate course ried any further than the point of
on the Midland Road over which the casual discussion and in view of the
BROWNSON CHURCH MEMBERS
TO HAVE MEETING TUESDAY
Spring style Show
On at Civic Club
BA/ntS CLOSED MONDAY
The Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany of Southern Pines and the Bank
of Pinehurst, with branches in
Aberdeen and Carthage, will be clos
ed all day on Monday, Washington’s
Birthday.
Latest Fashions To Be Shown
This Afternoon by Society
Maids, Matrons, Children
Tlie Civic Club of Southern Pines
Is putting oo its Spring Style Show
this afternoon, Friday, at 3:00
o’clock in the clubhouse. Costumes
from Mrs. Hayes’ Shop and from
Tots Toggery will feature the occa
sion, modeled by society maids and
matrons, boys and girls. The latest
styles will be displayed for the en
lightenment and entertainment of
the l^rge crowd which is expected,
evening gowns, street clothes, sports
wear and children’s raiment.
Tonight, Friday, at the cl;ibhouse
the Civic Club is sponsoring anoth
er In its series of Informal dances
for the younger set of Southern
Pines.
There will be a meeting of the
Board of Directors of the club at
the clubhouse next Tuesday morn
ing at 10:30 o’clock, wltli much bus
iness of importance to be transact
ed.
A get-to-gether of the members
of the congregation and friends of
the Brownson Memorial Presbyter
ian Church will be held in the Civ
ic Club Tuesday evening. February
23 at 8:00 o’clock for an hour of
worship and fellowship. At this meet
ing the building committee wil’ make
a report of the work accomplished so
far, and plans for the immediate fu
ture discussed.
Backs Into Store
Car Pays Expensive Visit to
Grocery When Driver Mis
takes Accelerator for Brake
Edwin T. McKeithen, business
manager of the Moore County Hos
pital, told members of the Kiwanis
Club of Aberdeen at its meeting Wed
nesday noon in the Aijerdeen Com
munity House that they could right
fully call their club the "Father of
the Moore County Hospital.”
Delving back into the history of
the local Kiwanis Club, which is an
organization (embracing the towns
of the entire community, Mr. Mc
Keithen stated that one of the orig
inal objectives of the organization
at the time of its founding back in
the early J.920’s was the establish
ment of a county hospital, and that
with that initiative, followed up by
the aid of the Duke Endowment and
the efforts of Simeon B.Chapin of
Pinehurst, the hospital had become
a reality.
We are not yet a well-rounded
Institution physically,” he said. “With
our new wing we have ample provis
ion for white patients for several
years to come, but we are right j
where we were before so far as j
colored patients are concerned. A
need still exists for additional facil
ities for colored patients. And we
still need a nurses’ home, something
we hope we may be able to provide
within the next year or so. We are
at present renting two houses in
Pinehurst for nurses, which is ex
pensive and Inconvenient.”
Mr. McKeithen told the Klwanlans
that more than 1,300 patients were
admitted to the hospital last year,
some 15,000 since it opened: that
the medical record of the institution
ranked with the leading hospitals
of the country; that there was a
sattefylng eisprlt de corps in the
Institution; that the operating defi
cit was on the wane; that charity
patients, at one time 65 per cent of
the total, were now down to around
50 per cent; that the hospital aux-
lliary was the best of any hospital
third annual races of the Sandhills
Steeplechase & Racing Association
will be run on Saturday, March 23rd.
Mrs. Scott and Mr. Bassett plan to
enter a number of horses in the tim
ber and brush events.
Richard Wallach, racing secretary
of the local association, spent sev
eral days in Aiken and Camden this
week and reports that many of the
leading owners of hunt race horses
plan to send in entries for the Sand
hills meeting.
Col. G. P. Hawes of Pinehurst, sec
retary of the association here, had
a force of men busy all week putting
the finishing touches on the course.
New brush is being placed in all
the brush jumps, and a new timber
fence has been ordered, to be plac
ed near the finish line which will
make the feature race, the Sandhills
Cup event, stiffer than last year.
CAMDEN TO OPEN
1937 HUNT RACING
Many From Sandhills Plan To
Witness Washington’s Birth
day Steeplechases
JACKSON BOYD A JUDGE
overcrowded condition of Southern
Pines schools today it seems high
time that the subject be brought
out in the open and the facts rela
tive to the proposition be made pub
lic.
Three years' ago, v/hen first the
need of additional space became ap
parent, a new building' wm con
structed on the school property which
was intended to be used exclusively
in the interest of Home Economics,
but such was the crowded condition
of the then existent facilities that
the Home Economics Building was
commandeered for regular school
purposes. It is still being used for
that purpose to the complete ex
clusion of the work for which it was
originally intended.
Last year, again increased enroll
ment made necessary the acquisition
of additional space and the Southern
Pines School Committee purchased
the old Baptist Church property at
Connecticutt avenue and Page
street and installed the first and
second Grammar School grades
there.
Aside from purely curitcular ac
tivities, an urgent need exists for
improvement in the Physical Educa-
the present time the only space a-
vailable for indoor athletic events at
Southern Pines High School is the
regular school auditorium and this
has to be transformed from the nu-
! ditorium to gymnasium and back to
The 1937 hunt racing season in | auditorium again as it ’is needed.
America will open on Washington’s
Birthday in Camden, S. C., with the
running cf the Washington’s Birth
day Plate and six other races, and
many from Pinehurst and Southern
Pines plan to be present. Jackson H.
Boyd of Southern Pines will act as
A few minutes past midnight
Sunday, Thomas Neal and two
companions backed their Ford Se
dan out of the parking space
north of the Seaboard depot in
Southern Pines, but in, their hurry
to return to their home port, CCC
Camp Number 5, Neal stepped on
the accelerator instead of the
brake. The car jumped the high
curbing of West Broad street and
careened into the windows of the
Southern Pines Grocery Company,
demolishing large sections of cas
ings of the store front. Neal and
his companions in their misfortune
made a quick getaway, finally
hiding the car in the woods Af
ter considerable time spent in
tracing the car through Aberdeen
to Pinehurst, and east of South
ern Pines, Chief Gargis located it,
and communicating with the Li
cense Bureau In Raleigh found It
1 iglstered In Neal’s name. A visit
to the camp located the owner
who has promised to settle for all
the damages caused by his error
of judgment.
Physical education courses and ath
letics are recognized as important
and necessary adjuncts to our high
schools and grammar schools every,
where throughout the country and
it can hardly be disputed that ade
quate facilities for such pursuits
one of the judges. Many horses which ! should be made available here,
will race in the Sandhills meeting , Enrollment on Increase
March 13 will run Monday. i „ .
, Such IS the overcrowded condition
The Washmgtons Birthday Plate i tj,at exists in Southern Pines schools
was won last year by Mrs. G. H. ;
Bostwick’s Fugitive, with Randolph ^ i
„ „ . enrollment has been mcreasing
u ey up m 5 Mrs. W. Austin i continues to increase substan-
Wadsworth’s Hotspur 2nd came in | y^^^.
with S. S. Janney, Jr. up, repeating
the 1934 result. Hotspur 2nd won it Southern Pines, is in the
in 1933 but that time with Raymond j “^lysis, a resort community
G. Woolfe riding him. The race is !
final
and
about two and one half miles over
timber, four year olds to carry 150
pounds, five year olds to carry 155,
he knew of, and that, thanks to the j six year olds and upwards, 160
Duke Endowment, the Board of pounds. Additional penalties are, win-
Commissioners of Moore County, the
various organizations such as Ki
wanis, and individual donations, the
annual deficit—something which ev
ery hospital properly serving its com
munity must expect—was being car
ed for.
It was an informational and In
spiring talk which Manager Me-
Kelthen gave the memebrs and
their guests at Wednesday’s meeting,
and one much appreciated by the
organization, one whose principal
charities Is the institution which the
I speaker represented.
The club welcomed one new mem
ber this week, Edward G. Fitzgerald
of Pinehurst, and elected two new
members, Leland McKeithen, Pine
hurst attorney and Hugh Betterley,
manager of the Southern Pines
Warehouse. It was announced at
the meeting that John C. Muse of
Carthage would be the speaker at
next week’s meeting at the Pinehurst
Community Church, talking on the
subject of Moore county taxes.
The club has as guests Wednesday
Assistant Division Engineer Whit-
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n'»,rs of two races in 1936, 8 pounds,
winners of three races, five pounds.
Plate to the winner presented by
Ernest L. Woodward.
The other races on the card are:
Event 1—"The Kamachatka.” One
half mile on the flat, for three year
olds and upwards. Plate to winner
presented by D. Walter Mabee.
Event 2—“The Mulberry Steeple
chase.” Two miles over brush, for
non-winners over brush. Winner’s
plate presented by David R. Williams.
Event 3—“The Washington’s Bir
thday Plate.”
regular school months, a large num
ber of seasonal residents witn chil
dren of school age make their tem
porary homes here. To them, the
matter of available school facilities
is one of primary importance.
At the present time the school
faculty here, under Superintendent
Frank W. Webster, is unquestion
ably one of the finest in North Car
olina, and in extra curricular activ
ities—notably music and dramatics,
directed by Frederick Stanley Smith
and Mrs. Sarah A. Ellis, respeclvely
—there are no finer school groups
in the state. During the past few
years both the Dramatic Club and
the Muscial clubs have won the ma
jority of the first prizes offered in
i the annual state-wide competitions
/Event 4—“The Cherokee Steeple-1 such groups held at Chapel HUl.
cftiase.” Two miles over brush. Plate j With such an excellent faculty and
to the winner presented by Harry D. with such high scholastic standards
Kirkover. maintained here, and particularly
Event 5—“The Bloomsbury Plate.” 1 in view of the value to this, or to
One and one half miles over hurdles.
Plate to be presented by John L.
Weeks.
Elvent 6—“The Burwell Boykin.”
One and one half miles oyer hurdles.
Plate to winner presented by The
Committee.
Event 7—“The Cool Spring.” One
mile on the flat for three year olds
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any other community of adequate
and modernized physical school fa
cilities, this seems to be the appro
priate time to take the matter un
der serious consideration and to se
cure an expression of opinion on the
subject before the condition growi
any worse. Even as the present fa
cilities now stand, the school buUd-
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