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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
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CIRCULATION &
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of the Sandhill ^rritory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, April 16. 1937.
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PINE NEEDLES TO
CONSTRUCT FIFTY
ROOM ADDITION
Tentative Plans Are Made to
Increase Capacity of This
Popular Hotel
GRASS GREENS COME FIRST
Close upon the announcement that
the grass greens are to be Installed on
the Donald Ross golf course at the
Pine Needles in Knollwood, word has
been received to the effect that
the Patuxent Corporation, owners of
the Pine Needles, have tentatively
decided to enlarge the hotel itself.
According to information received
Wednesday from George T. Dunlap,
Sr., he, S. Y. Ramage and Harrison
Stutts, the officers of the Pateuxent
Corparation, have been in consultation
with architects on the matter of a
four story addition joining the pres
ent building at the rotunda side and
extending across the sand play ground
to the right of the putting course.
The upper three floors of this ex
tension will mean the addition of a-
bout 50 rocms to the hotel’s present
modern, fire-proof facilities, and the
ground floor will be devoted to space ;
for offices and shops. |
The present plans al.so include a!
new one story addition to the north i
side of the building to provide a 250-!
person capacity dining room for which i
the original specifications call.
The present dining room at the Pine'
Needles occupies space that was in
tended to be an extension of the lobby I
and, with the completion of the new '
dining room, the lobby wi’l extend
the entire length o f the ground
floor of the building.
The esimated cost of the planned
additions is in the neighborhood of
$100,000 and the tentative plans call
for the work to be started next year.
there had been some thought given
to the proposal that the work be became so
started this year, but that the instal
lation of grass greens of the golf
course was the foremost matter for
consideration and that the buliding
program would, in all probability, be
postponed until after the completion
of the golf course project.
Acquires Property
NEW GREEN PINES
CASINO SWEPT BY
SUNDAY BLAZE
Nijjht Club on Aberdeen HikH-
way Furnishes Most Spectac
ular Blaze in Many Years
FIVE CENTS
Green Pines Casino Fire**^
PARTIALLY INSURED
JOHN ,1. K.\8K()R
J. J. RASKOB BUYS
BARNSDALL HOME
IN KNOLLWOOD
Former Chairman of Democrat
ic National Executive Commit
tee in Immediate Possession
WELL LANDSCAPED
Chamber Vote Favors
Civic Center Purchase
Committee Instructed To Urge
Acquisition of Property Be
fore Town Board
The Barnsdall residence in the
Knollwood secticn was sold this week
to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Raskob, of
Wilmington, Del., and the eastern
shore of Maryland, through the Paul
T. Barnum and L. L. Biddle, II,
agencies of Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst, respectively.
Mr. and Mrs. Raskob, who have
been members of the Mid-Pines Club
of Kn.llwood since its inception, made
their winter residence this season in
the Van Keuren house in Knollwooti
enamoured of the
community as a permanent winter a-
bode that they determined to pur-
cha.se. The Barnsdall house on Grove
Drive, Knollwood, overlooking the
Pine Needles golf course and near the
Pine Needles Inn, appealed to them
and the purchase was consimimated
this week. The property acquired in
cludes a most attractive house and
The most spectacular fire since the
burning of the old Southern Pines
Hotel six years ago drew a throng
of spectators from their Sunday din
ners in Southern Pines, Aberdeen and
Pinehurst to the recently completed
Green Pines Casino, located on the
Southern Pines-Aberdeen road oppo
site the Sugg Dairy.
Responding to an alarm turned in
at 20 minutes past 12:00 o'clock the
firemen found heavy smoke issuing
from the roof and flames showing
vividly, apparently fiercest in the part j
of the kitchen nearest the dance hall.
The firemen, breaking in through the
do rs fronting on the highway, were
unable to penetrate the dense smoke.
Two streams from the tanks of the
boo.ster apparatus were turned on the
blaze in the kitchen, but the fire,
•spiead by the stiff southwest breeze,
swept thiough the doomeil structure
so rapidly that it was down to the
foundation within 30 minutes. Not
(me article i f the furnishings, valued
at $900, was saved. The nearest hy
drant to the building is the one near
ly one-half mile distant, and it is
doubtful that the outcome would have!
been any different, could that great,
length of hose have been put in use.
The boiling column of thick black'
:-moke bursting through the roof;
soon gave way to bright flames, shot
with green, from the roofing material
i which spread an intense heat that
I foiced the removal of cars parked on
[ the highway in front of the building.
! though they were to windward of
ihe fire.
! Started last summer by Harold
I Green, Fi'ank Ritter and Nick Rapa-
I tas as a new feature in Southern
Southern Pines High School
Wins Music Honors at Durham
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Girl’s Glee Club and Mixed Chor
us Repeat Victory in Dis
trict Contest
ENTER STATE SIN*G
The Southern Pines High school
girl’s glee club and the mixed chorus,
under the direction of Frederick
Stanley Smith, again returned victor
ious from the annual district music
contest at Durham last Friday.
The Southern Pines singers were
schools of
Pines entertainment, the building;
wa~. of fiame and stucco construction! with Class B.
with a metal rcof, • and included B'aRgtown both of
having an enrollment ot
among other features was an excel- > lattei
, . , ,, 1-.1 • u 1 • tu 1 t : more than two hundred students,
lent dance floor. Finished m the late,
fall it was operated until quite recent-1 The Southern Pines school with an
ly by Green' and Ritter but was leas-; enrollment of around one hundred and
ed about a month ago by D. F. Bene- i thirty belongs to Class C. according
approximately one acre of grounds, I field of Moncure. The loss is report- j classification by numbei of stud-
well landscaped. They are taking im- j ed as partially covered by insurance, j but due to its excellent per
formances in previous contests it has
been allowed to compete with schools
with from two hundred to six hund-
SALES, BUILDING
AND RENTALS AT
HIGH LEVEL HERE
Barnum Agency; L. L. Biddle
and R. F. Potts Report Con
tinued Interest
ONE NEW COTTAGE
By Charles Maeauley
Activity in the building and real
estate market still keeps the steady
pace started last fall. Without a ves
tige of a boom, progress has been
continous as has been chronicled in
The Pilot. Reports this week include
the important sale of the Barnsdall
house, in Knollwood to Mrs. John J.
Raskob by Paul T. Barnum and L. L.
Biddle, II. Other sales cf the Barnum
agency include the A. I. Sherman
house, on Orchard road, to Lacy B.
Bradshaw, of Orange, N. J. Mr. Lacy
plans to take immediate possession:
The Stroud house on Massachusetts
avenj>- to Colin P. Osboine, of Sou-
there Pines; and a 9 acre tract of
land on U. S. R ute 1, in the Pine-
dene section, to J. D. Arey. Leased
for next season are the Bernstein
house “Crescent Lodge" on Massa
chusetts avenue and the Lachine
house on Pine Grove road. Mr. W.
Irving Glover, of Englewood, a seas-
I onal resident has leased the former,
1 and Reginald Roberts, of Princeton.
I the latter.
I Also in Southern Pines, through
■ the R. F. Potts agency, the sale of
I the H. S. Knowles Ridge street
. house, to Earl D. Sprague, of Bridge-
1 port, Conn. Mr. Sprague and his
I mother. Mrs. Lucy Sprague have
i been seasonal residents of Southern
I Pines for several years. E. C. Stevens
I has sold the Baker house, Ashe
street and Indiana avenue to W. G.
McAvoy of the Telephone company.
J He plans to improve and add to the
('anadian Visitor Tells Chamber ^ Property.
I C. J. Austin has the contract and
I has commenced construction of a
! Cape Cod type cottage for Mrs. Vir-
Photo by Boyd
LOW GOLF RATES
URGED BY WINTER
RESIDENT HERE
of Commerce Move
Bring Guests
Will
ITRGES NEW OFFICE i
Fred C. Elford of Ottawa, Canada,
past president of the World’s Poultry
Science Association and a winter res
ident of Southern Pines, told direc- j
The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce went on record on Tues
day as favoring the purchase by the
city of the property between the Mud-
gett Building and the site of the new
Postoffice on West Broad street, and
instructed its committee, comprising
Frank Buchan, James Boyd and
Struthers Burt to wait on the Board
of Commissioners and urge the ac
quisition cf the land, to be used ulti-
mately as a civic center. The future
plan is to erect on the property a li
brary building and a municipal build
ing for city offices.
MRS. WILLIAMS, MOTHER OF
MRS. .\LMET JENKS, DIES
Mrs. Hannah Biddle Williams of
Philadelphia, Pa., widow of the late
Charles Williams and mothes^f Mrs.
Almet Jenks of Southern Pines, died
at the Jenks home on Youngs Road
here last Sunday morning. Mrs. Wil
liams was born in Philadelphia on Ap
ril 18, 1855.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs.
Jenks, are two daughters, Mrs. Ran
dall Morgan of Philadelphia and Mrs
Lawrence Wilbur of Haverford, Pa.
Funeral services were held in Hav
erford on Wednesday.
mediate possession.
The Raskobs, in addition to their
newly acquired estate here, are in
terested in a shooting preserve in the
northern part of the county, along
Deep River, property which they pur
chased several years age.
Mr. Raskob is former chairman of
the Democratic National E^xecutive
Committee and was for many years
Chamber to Extend
Broad St. Plantinj^
Appropriates Fund For Beautifi
cation of I’arkway Opposite
Postoffice Site
At the Chamber of Commerce held
closely affiliated with the duPonts j last Tuesday at Jack’s Grill in
in the E. I. du Pont de Nemours | Southern Pines the sum cf $300 was
Company and the General Motors j appropriated for the Committee on
Corporation. | Planting and Beautification to be
- - I used for a concentrated planting pro-
(JYMKHAN.A tX>MMITTEE | giam on West Broad street between
HAS SUCCESSFUL SE.VSON | New York avenue and Pennsylvania
I avenue, in connection with the erec-
Chairman Fred Stimson of the j tion of the new Postoffice building
Gymkhana committee of the South- | there.
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce re- ! Present plans call for the com
ported this week that after the series | mencement of work on the Postoffice
of seven gymkhanas and one roileo ] building this summer, with its com-
staged here this winter the commit- : pletion hoped for before the end of
te found itself “in the black," thanks : the year. The planting program is to
to donations of prizes during the sea- i begin at once with the preparation of
son by merchants cf the town and to j the special clay base soil that will
the sale of season parking spaces. i be required and, when that is ready,
The Directors of the Chamber at a i ma.ssed banks of azaleas will be
meeting Tuesday voted to have the j planted with a background of earlier
honor roll of donors published in an j flowering shrubs and a foreground
early edition of The Pilot. A vote of | of daffodiles that will also blossom
thanks to Mr, Stimson and Herbert
Cameron, who arranged and managed
the shows, was unanimously passed.
SCHOOL. SUPERINTENDENT
At the regular monthly meeting of
the Southern Pines school board,
Frank W. Webster was re-elected
superintendent of schools for the
Southern Pines school district to
serve until 1939.
Mr. Webster has been re-elected
three times and is now serving his
*ixth year in that capacity.
KIW.ANIS OFFICI.4L
LUNCHEON GUEST HERE
F-anklin Keane of Washington, D.
C., field secretary cf Kiwanis Inter
national, was the luncheon guest at
Park View Hotel, Southern Pines,
Wednesday noon of officers and di
rectors of the Kiwanis Club of Ab
erdeen. Mr. Keane, here on an in-
pection trip, found the local organiza
tion In “A-1” condition and spcke
in high praise of its accomplish
ments.
before the azaleas. All of these shrubs
and bulbs will be in blossom to greet
the opening of the new building.
It is also proposed to extend this
same principal of planting along
West Broad Street from Pennsylvan-
i.'j, avenue to Vermont avenue and the
committee requests that anyone who
is interested in the projct forward
his donation to the Chamber of
Commerce to augment the fund for
the continuance of the same planting
program further afield. The Planting
Committee, of which Dr. G. G. Herr*
is chairman, has pressed into ser
vice In an advisory capacity A. B.
Yeomans and E. H. Mcrell, who will
supervise the planting progfram.
red students.
The Southern Pines closest compet
itor was Chapel Hill, which also gave
an excellent performance but lacked
the spirit with which the winning
club's numbers were rendered, though
approaching them in excellence of
tone quality and interpretation.
The girl's glee club and the mixed
chorus will compete in Greensboro at
the state music contest scheduled for
April 21 and 23.
HIGH SCHOOL BALL TE.\M
TO TRAVEL TO HICKORY
The Southern Pines High School
baseball team leaves today for Hick
ory to play the high school baseball
team there. This will be the longest
trip and one of the most important
games on the local high school’s sche
dule and the boys claim that they
have an excellent chance to come
home with the victory.
The full squad of players and
coaches will make the trip and Frank
Buchan and Alex Fields will go along
to keep a weather eye on any likely
candidates for the Junior American
Legion team that Southern Pines will
put in the national field as soon as
the High School schedule Is com
pleted.
MISS SWETT A HOSTESS
AT STUDENT CONGRESS
gil Lee, of Baltimore. Located on
Coimtry Club drive, between India
na avenue and Morganton road, the
residence will be of frame, one and
one half st<jry, 25 by 35 feet witli
attached garage, field stone terraces
on the south and west sides. When
tors of the Chamber of Commerce 1 finished, about July 1st. will contain
here on Tuesday that all Southern j 6 rooms and bath. Mrs. Lee has been
Pines needs to make it ideal as a a guest of the Hollywood this season,
winter residence is “more effort to j and Mr. Lee a frequent visitor. They
make people feel at home a common, were formerly seasonal residents of
meeting place for visitors to get ac-1 Southern Pines.
quainted with one another, and a low- j
er golf rate at the Country Club.",
He told of his first stop here sev-i
eral years ago. He and his wife Aere | SchOOl Bond Vote
so impressed witli the town as they
dr ve along May street headed south" I^'^t^ct.Referendu^m^ Be
that they decided to stop over. They
Held Until After Town
Election
have been coming regularly since.
Mr. Elford spoke in high praise of ■
local hotels and shops, but said he I ^ ^ ^
_ I made on Tuesday, by Dr. George G.
According to an announcement
The Woman’s College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina is hostess
to the eighth annual congress of the
North Carolina Federation of Stu
dents this week. Among students at
the Woman’s College who are serv
ing as committee chairmen for the
convention Is Miss Susan Swett, of
Southern Pines.
found a “lack of civic wish for peo
pie to come here.” The visitors need
a better reception than is accorded
them, he said. He thought the Cham
ber cf Commerce should have a down
town headquarters, that there should
be more guidance of visitors, more
things for them to do. The shuffle-
board courts, roque and tennis courts
are a good start, but they are not e-
ncugh, he thought, citing what is
done for visitors in St. Petersuburg,
Miami, and other southern resorts.
“If you would advertise golf at a
reasonable fee. say $1.00 a day, you
wouldn’t be able to accommodate the
people who would come,” he said,
citing a number of instances where
friends cf his from Canada had want
ed to come down but did not feel they
could afford the golf rates.
Mr. Elford spoke in high terms of
the cordial relationship existing be
tween his country and the United
States. Lack of acquaintanceship, he
said, was an obstacle to peace. We
should do more visiting back and
forth between the two countries, ac-
quire more information about each
other. “The more information, the
less confusion,” Re said. Mr. Elford, a
former offcial of the Canadian govern-
ernment, has been traveling through
the states for some time in the inter
est of the forthcoming World’s Poul
try Congres^.
Herr, chairman of the Board of the
Southern Pines School District, the
election on the question of a special
bond issue to finance the proposed
new buildings for the Southern Pines
schools, will not be held until after
the regular town elections.
Dr. Herr stated that the School
Board felt that, inasmuch as the
Southern Pines school district is more
extensive than the corporate limits
of the Town of Southern Pines, thr>
combining of the two elections w ul.l
confuse the issue and that a special
election, called for the sole pui-pose o'
voting on the bond issue recently
authorized by the state Legislature
at Raleigh, would better serve tho
purpose.
The date for the special electioi
will be made public in the near f ;-
ture.
MINISTERS HERE TO .MD IN
DRIVE CAREFULI.V CAMPAIC'
The Sandhills Ministeis’ Assc<- a-
tion, at its regular meeting Ap • I
6th, went on record as endorsing thj
movement of the Carolina Motor CHI')
in making April 18th "Safety Snb-
bath” and will assist in the “Dr!v3
Carefully” campaign. The resolu-
ticn was Introduced by *he Rev. S.
M. Harris, pastor of the Bap iat
Church in Aberdeen.