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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17, NO.^.Z^
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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and AberdeenTNorth Carolina. June 11, 1937
FIVE CENTS
AIRPORT NEARING
COMPLETION AFTER
18 MONTHS WORK
Will Be One of Best in South
With Landing Surface For
Largest Planes
PLAN REGULAR SERVICE
After nearly 18 months of work
that entailed draining swamps, filling
in gullies, grading uneven ground,
clearing woods and planting grass,
the Knollwood Airport stands today
within two weeks of the completion
of the project designed to transform
it from a small and comparatively ob
scure landing field to one of the best
in the south and perhaps, except for
its limited hangar facilities, in the
country.
Summer before last the Knollwood
Airport had two runways, one 1,400
feet long, the other 2,000 feet long,
each 200 feet wide. Such accommoda
tions, while adequate for small planes
and a small volume of business, did
not hold any promise of a possibility
of expansion and so Moore county
bought the site and appointed a com
mittee consisting of Mayor D. G.
Stutz of Southern Pines, City Clerk
Howard Burns of Southern Pines,
Richard Tufts of Pinehurst, S. H
Miller of Carthage and County Com
missioner Reynolds of Highfalls,
whose duty it became to plan for the
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Southern Pines Scouts
Going to Washington
Patrol of Eight From Troop 1
To Attend Jamboree and
See Capital
C'HABLES P. STEVICK GETS
HIS M. D. DEGREE AT DUKE
D. Wade Stevick and family, Mrs.
Charles P. Stevick and Mrs. Lenora
S. Stevick of E51yria, Ohio attended
the graduation exercises at Duke Un
iversity on Sunday and Monday.
Dr. Charles P. Stevick received his
M. D. degree. He completed his work
In the medical school last August,
since then he has interned at Johns
Hopkina and Duke hospitals. On July
first Dr. Stevvlck will go to Cleve
land, where he will be senior interne
In Pediatrics at the Babies and Chil
drens Hospital of The University
Hospitals of Cleveland.
“Down on the Farm”
Series of Interesting and
Helpful Agricultural Ar
ticles to Appear in Pilot
"Down on the Farm,” a
weekly feature which we be
lieve will be of interest to our
constantly growing clientele
among the farmers of the
Sandhills section, starts in
next week’s Pilot, It is writ
ten by Abe Crosby, of Ashe
ville, a dirt farmer himself,
and a philosopher.
PROMPT WORK OF
NEWTON, FIREMEN
SAVES BUILDING
When the National Jamboree of
the Boy Scouts of America convenes
at Washington, D. C., from June 30
to July 9, Southern Pines will be rep
resented by a patrol of eight Scouts
from Southtm Pines Troop No. 1.
The Rev. Thomas A. Williams,
Scoutmaster of the troop, has been
working .or some time to make it j
possible for a full patrol of eight
boys to attend the Jamboree and has
finally completed all arrangements.
Three boys were elected by the
troop for general excellence in scout
ing. They are Daniel Boyd, Charles
Phillips and Ross Grey, and their
expenses will be paid for them, one
out of the troop treasury, another
from funds made available by their
Scoutmaster and the third as a re
sult of the generosity of James Sher
idan, of New York City, who has of
fered to pay the expenses of one
boy.
The other five boys who will make
up the patrol are Edward Prizer,
Leo O’Callaghan, James Ritchie, Wil
liam Alexander and Robert Dunn. Of
this number, two will meet their own
expenses, two are being sent by St.
Anthony’s Church and the other will
use the funds donated for the pur-
ix)se by James Boyd.
Scoutmaster Williams will accom
pany the boys as Assistant Scout
master of the troop of which the
Southern Pines patrol will be a part.
While in Washington the Scouts
will not only attend the regular scout
ing meetings and assemblies but they
will make numerous side trips to his-
tnriral sites around Washington, and
the morning before the Jamboree
breaks up they will participate in a
grand revue to be followed by a re
ception at the White House.
Police Officer Discovers Mid
night Blaze in Baker Food
Store, Southern Pines
LOSS HELD TO $3,000
•
Police Officer Ed Newton patrol-
ing Broad street, Southern Pines at
midnight Monday noticed a bright
glow in the Baker Foot! Store and in
stantly turned in an alarm. Members
of the Fire Company responded with
the celerity for which they are not
ed, and break'ng in through the rear
door the hose crew entered the smoke-
filled store to find a rapidly spread
ing blaze in the shelving and stock
above the refrigerators in the rear.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Quick work with the' small hose
soon doused out the fire with a min
imum of damage to stock and fix
tures. The promptness of Officer
Newton and the department undoubt
edly averted a serious fire in tha
heart of the business district.
W. L.. Baker estimates the danr.-
age at about $3,000, fully covered by
insurance with the H. A. Lewis and
D. H. Turner agencies.
The building was erected by I. F
Chandler in 1927 replacing the old
Perkins Hotel. The Bakers, W. L. and
Tom, bought out the Stanady Com
pany in 1930.
Dewberry Prices Run
From $1.75 to $2.25
Farmers With Good Offerings
Pleased With Returns; Rain
fall Helps Vine Yield
There has been little or no change
in prices at the dewberry auction
platforms in Vass and Cameron since
the markets opened last week. Prices
continue to average from $1.75 to
$2.25 a crate depending on the size
and lustre of the berries and the far
mers are realizing satisfactory prof
its generally.
Intermittant rains have sometimes
resulted in practically no market for
the wet and swollen berries that have
reached the auction platforms in the
morning and berries packed too late
in the day to reach the market and
held over until the following morn
ing have brought dissappointing
prices, but good berries of a represen
tative size and color have found a
receptive market with the price seem
ingly established at between $1.75
and $2.25 per twenty-four quart
crate.
The rainfall during the past week
has increased the vine yield consid
erably above the anticipated yield
the early part of last week and the
averagre size of the berries that are
being packed this week is somewhat
larger than those at the market open
ings.
HLKL£D ROCK AT WIFE,
BROKE GARAGE WINDOW
THAD PAGE TELLS
CLUB OF NATIONAL
ARCIflVES BLDG.
Administrative Secretary De
scribes New $14,000,000 Home
of Government Records
PRAISE FOR DR. CONNOR
Faulty aim landed Walter, alias
"Weedy" Kelly in trouble. He hurled
a rock at his wife, missed her and
broke the plate glass window in the
Jennings Garage building in Carth
age. In order to have his 60-day road
sentence suspended, Kelly must allow
his salary, which he is earning by
working for the county, to be paid to
the clerk until there is a sufficient
amount to take care of the court
costs and the coat of replacing the
window.
Illustrating his talk with photo
graphs which he passed around
among the members, Thad Page of
Washington, .formerly of Aberdeen,
told the Kiwanis Club on Wednesday
all about the National Archives, of
which he is the administrative secre
tary. The club, of which Page was a
charter member, enjoyed one of its
most interesting meetings of the
year.
After recounting how long it took
Congress to act on the establishment
of a national archive—it dates back
to 1810 and the appropriation for the
building was finally passed in 1926—
Mr. Page proceeded to tell them
something about the magnificent edi
fice on Pennsylvania avenue which is
now a reality.
“The National Archives Building is
the finest structure of its kind in
the world," he said. “The building is
essentially a double one, consisting
of two huge cubes, one inside of ami
projecting above the other. The in
ner cube is a gigantic concrete vault,
containing 21 levels of stacks and
subdivided by fire walls and concrete
floors into numerous smaller vaults
or stack sections. The rest of the
building is devoted to administrative
offices, search rooms, a reference li
brary, an auditorium, and an exhibi
tion hall.
"From an architectural point of
view the building i« generally regard-
eu as one of the two most beautiful
in Washington, while from an admin
istrative point of view it is perhaps
the most nearly perfect building: ol
its kind in the world.
"The building is in classical style
to harmonize with the Capital, the
White House, the Treasury Building,
and the Lincoln Memorial. In keeping
with the principle of expressing; in
the architecture the significance and
safety of the various records to be
deposited In the Archives Building,
materials for the exterior were select
ed with permanence as the para-
paramount consideration.
Complete Historical Record
“Regarding the interior treatment,
the public Exhibition Hall, which is
entered through the portico on Con
stitution avenue, has been deslg^ied
In monumental proportions in char
acter with the exterior, with the ain
always in mind that the general pub
lic is to gain from these features a
proper realization of the significance
and importance of the building itself
as a complete record of the history of
the National Government. The hall,
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Howard Butler Honored
by American Institute
Southern Pines Resident Noti
fied of Election to Mining
and Metallurgical Body
Honor has come to another resi
dent of Southern Pines. Howard N.
Butler, son of Mrs. Bion H. Butler
and the late Mr. Butler, former edi
tor of The Pilot, recently received
the following communication from
the American Institute of Mining
and Metallurgical Engineers, which
has its national headquarters In New
York:
"On behalf of the President and
Board of Directors I take pleasure in
informing you that you have been
elected a Member of this Institute,
and In extending to you a sincere
welcome to its membership. (Sigpied)
A. B. Parson, Secretary."
Membership in the institute is a
coveted honor by all interested or
active in mining and metallurgical
pursuits. It is awarded only to out
standing members of these profes
sions and is a high tribute to the
qualifications of Mr. Butler. Mr. But
ler is head of the Carolina Drilling
& E^quipment Co. of Sanford, but
makes his home on Morganton Road,
Southern Pines.
The White Oaks on the Court House Square
Gift of H. F. Seawell, Sr. “That As Their Shadows Lengthen
and Their Garments of Living Green Deepen, Men May
Have Pleasure in Sight and Shade."
There’s a story behind those white
oak trees on the grounds of Moore
county’s court house in Carthage. We
got hold of a copy this week of the
document which brought about the
setting out of the ten-year old trees
which eventually will spread shade
over what has been one of the hot
test places in the county to wait for
one’s trial. It presents the case in
legal phraseology, to wit:
NORTH CAROLINA,
MOORE COUNTY.
H. F. Seawell, (Sr.) to the Board
of Commissioners of Moore County.
Nature has lavished much upon the
land in which we live, but nothing
more valuable or more beautiful than
our trees. Among the trees there are
none that surpass the “white oak.-? ’
for beauty, symmetry and strength. It
is .said that more people claim the
white oak as their favorite than any
other tree in the world. It is sturdy,
stately, strong and stalwart. It is
fieldom uprooted by the strongest
winds, and it resists insect pests and
the unseen things that attack wood
life.
There are "ten thousand” and manv
more straight, vigorous, growing,
symmetrical saplings in our woods of
which just four should be transplant
ed to the court house square to
adorn the grounds and afford shade
and beauty and loveliness to our own
people and the stranger who passes
by or stops within our gates.
Your petitioner, therefore, prays
your honorable body that he may be
granted the privilege of seeking out.
fmding and transplanting on the
Court house square four young white
oaks, two on the East and two on
the West, that they may grow there
and as their shadows lengthen and
their arms widen and their garments
of living green deepen from season to
season in the coming years, men may
have pleasure in sight and shade.
January 2nd, 1927.
Respectfully.
H. F. Seawell (Sr.),
Petitioner.
Order of the Board of Commission
ers—Upon reading and considering
the foregoing petition of H. F. Sea
well, it l3 ordered by the Board of
County Commissioners of Moore
County, that the said H. F. Seawell
be and he is hereby grnnted the priv
ilege to seek out in his discretion and
find and transplant on the Court
house .square four young “white oaks"
two on the East and two on the
West, there to be permitted to grow
and adorn their surroundings and to
remain indefinitely, and all persons
are warned not to injure or mar said
trees, but to protect and care for
them as they regard beauty and use.
fulness of the public property of the
county. The Clerk will spread the pe
tition and this order on his minutes
as evidence of the authority hereby
granted.
This January 3rd, 1927.
D. A. McLauchlin. Chairman
M. C. McDonald
G. C. Shaw
Commissioners.
Recorded in Minute Book No. 6, page
608.
Local American Legion Juniors
Take Ball Game From Troy, 3-1
Prize Contest
The Pilot Offers Autographed
Baseball For Best Nickname
For Sandhills Team
The name "Sandhills Junior Amer
ican Legion baseball team" being
somewhat too cumbersome for prac
tical purposes in a newspaper story,
and having heard that there is some
criticism to the effect that the nick
name "Junebugs’ 'which we arbitrar
ily chose for the baseball team is
lacking in dignity. The Pilot is offer
ing an autographed baseball as a
prize to the boy or girl living m
Moore county who coins the best one-
word nickname for the Junior Legion
naires.
We don’t know at the moment who
will autograph the baseball but we
can assure you that it will be one of
the outstanding big league stars.
Maybe Carl Hubbard, maybe Dizzy
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Thomas, Sandhills Pitcher, Al
lows Trojans But Three Hits
Play Raleigh Today
Southern Pines Has
Nucleus for a Band
Lieut. Lacock, With 15 Signed
Up, To Register Other Ap
plicants Monday
As a prelude to the building of a
band for Southern Pines Lieut. E. J.
Lacock, U. S. Army, retired, is start-'
ing classes here this summer and
already has 15 High School pupils
signed up to learn how to play var
ious instruments. Except for the
large instruments Lieut. Lacock
states that he has the nucleus now
for a well balanced band.
Registration for the summer school
for the band will start Monday morn
ing next, between the hours of 9:00
and 12:00 noon at the High School
building, at which time Lieut. Lacock
will be there to take the names of
those desiring to join the summer
course.
"By Fall," he said yesterday, "I
hope to be able to have the young
folks in shape to put on a band con
cert. It won’t be the Fort Bragg band
by that time, but the public will
know what they are playing.”
Lieut. Lacock was bandmaster at
Fort Bragg from 1921 to 1934, at
which time he retired from the army.
EIGHT-YEAR OLD
BAXTER EDWARDS
KILLED BY AUTO
One of Twin Sons of Seaboard
Ticket Agent in Southern Pines
Ran in Front of Car
NEAR HOME IN VASS
By BEN BO’WDEN
Snapping back to the form that
carried them to three straight train
ing season victories before they were
subdued by Raleigh last W’ednesday,
and displaying a brand of baseball
far superior to anything they had
previously shown, the Sandhills Jun
ior American Legion baseball team
took a 3 to 1 decision from Troy last
Friday and so enthused the small
contingent of Sandhills rooters who
made the trip that there is now a
firm conviction that we have a pro
spective band of champions in our
midst.
For the first time, too. since the
training season started. Buss Thomas
.showed the pitching form that the
coaches knew he had and limited the
opposition to three hits over the full
nine inning route. He walked only
one man, struck out four, and in six
of the nine innings set them down
in order.
Junior (Shanty) Dees contributed
mightily to the victory with the fine
display of catching he turned in when
he stepped into the spot left when
Curtis Wall was declared ineligible.
It was a spot to be in, fon Wall was
a star of the first magnitude and
had set a precedent that was hard to
follow. But Dees apparently did not
share the fans’ doubt as to his ability
to perform up to specifications and
his fine work behind the plate had
a steadying influence on the whole
team.
The (iame In Detail
Arthur Pate startea the ball roll
ing for the "Junebugi’’ when he
singled to open the first half of the
first inning. Buchan struck out.
Pate had gone to second on a passed
ball. Newton beat out an infield hit
to third and Pate went to third op
the play. Newton stole second and
Richardson walked, filling the bases.
Bill White hit one on the ground to
short stop who threw to the plate
forcing Pate, and White was safe on
a fielder’s choice. Then Melvin sin
gled between third and short scoring
Newton and Richardson. Dees lined
out to third base to end the inning.
Thomas and Pate both singled to
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Baxter Reed Edwards, one of the
eight-year-old twin sons of Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. EdwHrds of Vass, was fa
tally injured Tuesday afternoon when,
after playfully shooting water from
a squirt gun at 10-year-old Mary
Ruth Ford, a neighbor who was walk
ing along the sidewalk, he darted into
the street directly in front of an au
tomobile driven by Francis McGill
of Hoke county.
He passed away shortly after reach
ing the Moore County Hjospital.
The accident ‘occurred near tihe
residence of Mrs. Bertie L. Matthews,
which is near the Edwards home.
McGill was driving on the right
side of the street and made every
effort to avoid striking the child. He
was in a highly nervous condition fol
lowing the accident, which was wit
nessed only by the little victim’.^
companions witb whom he had been
playing.
Coroner D. Carl Fry investigated
the tragedy Tuesday night, but no
formal action has been taken.
Funeral services were held at the
Vass Methodist Church, which Bax
ter had attended since babyhood, at
3:00 o’clock Wednesday aftenioon In
the presence of a vast crowd. The
Rev. L. M. Hall, pastor, was assisted
in the sei'vice by the local Presbyter
ian minister, the Rev. C. I. Calcote.
A mixed quartet composed of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, Miss Mar
ian Cameron and Robert Rosser sang
"I ’Think When I Read That Sweet
Story of Old," "Bright Jewels," and
“Around the Throne,” accompanied
by Mrs. C. L. Tyson at the piano.
FlaymatcH Honorary tfearers
Active pall bearers were Franklin
Matthews, Albert Graham, N. N. Mc
Lean. George W. Koustenis, M. M.
Chappell and S. R. Smith. Directeil
by Mrs. A. M. Cameron, the following
little playmates served as honorary
bearers; Billy Jessup, A. Mac Camer
on, E)dgar Klingenschmidt, Hugh Mc-
i^ean, Billy Calcote, J. B. Crouse,
Duncan, Jr. and Billy McGill.
Mrs. S. R. Smith and Miss Kath
arine Graham, superintendent and
pianist in the children’s department
of the Methodist Sunday School
which Baxter attended regularly, had
charge of the flowers with the follow
ing girl friends of the child assist
ing: Marie Tyson, Retha Mae Cox,
Janet Rosser, Mary Ruth, Herschel
and Effie Mel Ford. Faye Corbett
Margaret Bettini, Pauline Jessup
Mary Catharine Blue, Lorraine Blue,
Hazel Coore, Elizabeth Cameron,
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Lillian Flinchum Wins
$500 in Slog'an Contest
Carthage Girl Had Almost For
gotten At>out Her Year-Old
Entry When Check Came
The purchase of a $1.75 hat, which
Miss Lillian Flinchum of Carthage
gave to her father as a Father's Day
gift last June, won for her the right
to compete in a slogan contest fea
turing Strawfel hats, and last Satur
day she received a check for $500, the
first prize. If she had sent the sales
slip along with her entry, the amount
would have been $1,000.
When asked what her slogan was,
Miss Flinchum said that she had for
gotten. In fact, she had almost for
gotten about the contest, for it closf J
June 21, 1936,. and the entry blan.c
plainly stated that winners would :
notified within sixty days after the
close. A letter accompanying th-
che^ explained that the delay wa.i
due to the large numbi.r of entu.i
received.
PLAY DUNN HERE TUESDAY
At a late hour yesterday afternoo n
the Sandhills Junior American L«;-
gion baseball team scheduled a gar.'e
with Dunn to t>e played at Southern
Pines next Tuesday afternoon at 4:00
o’clock.