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NEWS-WEEKLY
Southern Fines ;tnd Aberdeen, North Carolina. July 2, 1937.
of the Sandhill ">ry of North Carolina
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SEES BIG INCREASE'
IN TOURIST TRADE
THRU ADVERTISING
Lieut. Gov. Horton Sets Million
Dollars Annually as
State Goal
ADDRESSES KIWANIANS
The General Assembly has appro
priated $250,000 for the purpose of
advertising North Carolina.
North Carolina did a tourist busi
ness of $50,000,000 In 1936 while Vir
ginia was taking in $80,000,000, Cali
fornia $85,000,000 and Florida, $225,-
000,000.
Eighty million people of the United
States live withing three days travel
of North Carolina.
If this quarter of a mUlion dollars
is judiciously spent, we should get
our share of these millions of peo
ple into the state, should increase our
revenue from tourists 20 percent, soon
reach $100,000,000 a year.
This was the gist of the talk made
by Lieutenant Governor W. P. Horton,
of Pittsboro, to the Sandhills Kiwani3
Club at its meeting on Wednesday lu
the Methodist Sunday School Building
in Aberdeen. The State’s second rank
ing official was introduced by Dr. E.
M. Medlin.
We’ve Been Asleep
Mr. Horton said North Carolina
had been asleep but is coming to life
now with the funds made available by
the last Legislature. He reviewed the
numerous advantages the state en
joys, in agriculture, climate, indus
try, scenery, mountains, seashore, thi
piedmont and the Sandhills, told what
it would mean to hotels, merchants,
automobile people, filling stations, re
sorts and in direct benefit to the Gtatp
in gasoline tax revenue, to increase
our visitor patronage. He told of tha
state’s attractiveness to industry, of
the low cost of living for employes,
the ideal labor conditions. He cited
the agricultural advantages. He main
tained that he had a tax program
fair to all. “New people have nothing
to fear from excessive taxation here,”
he said. “And with increased revenue
from increased tourist trade, the tax
trend will be downward.”
“We want to bring those 80,000,-
000 people who live within three days
of us here to look us over. We wanl
to bring them to the Sandhills, to the
mountins, to the coast. And that is
the aim of our expenditure of this
huge fund. If the money is wisely
(Please turn to page five)
FIVE CENTS
Wants 80,000,000
LIEUT. GOV. W. P. HORTON
TO LET CONTRACT
FOR NEW SCHOOL
FOR HIGHFALLS
Upper Section of County Will
Have One of Finest Build
ings in NV)rth Carolina
TO BE READY BY 1938
Honor Certificate For
Moore County Red Cross
‘‘Distinguished Achievement” in
Roll Call for 1937 Brings Award
Signed by President
The Moore County Chapter of the
American Red Cross has been award
ed honor Certificate by National
Headquarters for Distinguished
Achievement in the Annual Roll Call
for 1937, this certificate being signed
by the President, Franklin D. Roose
velt, and by Cary T. Grayson, Chair
man of the American National Red
Cross.
Accompanying the certificate was
the following letter addressed to J. C.
Musser, Chairman, Moore County
Chapter, American National Red
Cross:
“The Honor Certificate for distin
guished Roll Call achievement has
been awarded to your Chapter and is
being sent you under separate cover.
The splendid success of your Roll Call
is a real tribute to the leadership of
your Chapter, and I wish to congrat
ulate you, your Roll Call Chairman,
and all who assisted in the Roll Call.”
“The fine increase in our member
ship throughout the country—now at
the highest figure since 1920—will
mak<> it possible for our chapters and
the National Organization to streng
then their program. We can look for-
ward to another year of increased
Red Cross service.
“With sincere appreciation and best
wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,
Cary T, Grayson, Chairman.”
With the granting by the Board of
County Commissioners to its chair
man, Wilbur H. Currie, of authority
to make application to the Local Gov
ernment Commission for its approval
of the issuing and sale bonds of
Moore county aggregating $40,000 for
the construction of a public school
building at Highfalls, plans are rap
idly being whipped into shape for the
beginning of the actual construction
work on July 10th of the most mod
ern schortl building not only in
Moore county but in this part of the
state.
Contract for the building will be let
within a week or ten days, County
Superintendent H. Lee Thomas stated
Tuesday, and it is expected to be
ready for occupancy by January 1st.
W. H. Deatrick of Raleigh is the ar
chitect.
The building, which will be only
one story, will contain twelve stand
ard class rooms, a library, work room,
principal’s office, a sick room and
and auditorium to seat 500 people.
It will be constructed of brick back
ed with tile, and will be practically
fire proof. The plans call for steam
heat and modern plumbing equipment.
The building will be so wired that
one or all rooms can receive radio
programs and a speaker can speak
from the principal’s office to one or
all rooms in the school.
The Highfalls school, located in
the manufacturing town in upper
Moore which bears the same name,
serves the Highfalls, Glendon, Put
nam, Hallison, McConnell and Cedar
(Please tiim to page five)
New Church Adds $1,174
To Its Building Fund
Work To Start Soon on Site at
May St. and Indiana Ave.,
Southern Pines
$18,000.00 PAVING
PROGRAM NEARING
COMPLETION HERE
Large Share of Recent $27,000
Rond Issue Spent on Street
Improvements
Camp Cabins at Uncle Sam’s New ParKf •
SEWER PROJECT HELD UP
Last Autumn the tow of Southern
Pines by the authority of the Mayor
and Board of Commissioners floated
a bond issue of $27,000, the money to
be expended for street improvement.
Quietly, and with no apparent in
terruption in traffic, work has pro
gressed until nearly all of the projects
have been completed.
Nearly $18,000 has been expended
in covering the streets with a mixture
of crushed stone and tarvia, giving a
surface resistant to all ordinary wear
at a comparatively small cost per
block. The surfacing of two blocks,
one on Vermont avenue between
Page and Leak streets, one one on
Page street between Connecticut and
New Hampshire avenue is still in
'Abeyance awaiting the action of abut
ting property owners, and the block
on East Broad street between Con
necticut and Vermont avenues lacks
its final coating.
Two thousand dollars waa used to
purchase and install 75 H. P. Fair-
banks-Morse pumping unit for the
w'ater supply plant, and $7,000 vs-
mains for the extension of the sewer
system, a W. P. A. project still await
ing approval.
Of the finished work, the longest
continuous stretch is that on Penn
sylvania avenue fi'om Bennett street
through West Southei'n Pines to the
city line, a distance of nearly a mile.
Three blocks on East Broad .■iitreet,
from Massachusetts avenue to Wis
consin avenue (Chandler’s ice plant)
and three blocks on Bennett street be-
tw’een the same avenues have long
been dusty streets in summer and
extremely muddy ones during the
winter season, and their surfacing!
will greatly reduce sums formerly
expended in keeping them in repair
Streets Nearly Paved
Other downtown blocks, many of
them now connecting with hard-sur
faced avenues receiving the new
pavement were:
Connecticut avenue, two blocks ■
from West Broad to Page street;
Bennett street, two blocks from Con-;
necticut to Maine avenue; New York
avenue, one block West Broad to|
Bennett street; Page street, one ^
block, Connecticut to Vermont ave-;
nue; Vermont avenue, one block,
Bennett street to Page street.
In the Weymouth Heights section,
(Please turn to page eight) I
BIG CELEBRATION
TOOPENSANDHILLS
PROJECT JULY 16
Ten Cabins like the above have been built at Indian Camp Recreational
Park in the Resettlement Administiation’s Sandhills Land Project at Hoff
man. These, with a large recreation building, surround a ten-acre lake just
completed. The cabins are equipped with beds, cook stoves, ice boxes, run
ning water and shower baths. They will be available to the public for over
night stops, week-end camping trips, etc. at a small fee.
COUNTY TO SPEND
$1,800.00 YEARLY
TO AID THE BLIND
With State Adding $5,400 Total
$7,200 Will Be Available
For Needv
RAIN HALTS GAME
WITH RALEIGH IN
SECOND INNING
Public Will Be Invited to Inspect
Resettlement Development
at Hoffman
On Tuesday aftenioon of this week
the Moore County Board of Commis
sioners met with Mrs. J. D. Wall ot
Raleigh, representing the chairman,
and other members of the State Blind
Commission to discuss the matter of
Moore county’s participation in an
organized program of financial aid to
the needy blind.
As a result of the meeting the
County Board agreed to appropriate
approximately $1,800 yearly as the
county’s share of this work, the State
appropriating $5,400 as its share.
Although the county has previous
ly appropriated sums for the aid of
the blind, it has always been a strict
ly local program and as tl.e set-up
now stands, the work will be carried
on under the supervision of the State
Blind Commission at Raleigh.
Moore county’h ^ conta'ibution will
henceforth be paid to the State Treas
urer’s office and all checks to approv
ed beneficiaries will be mailed from
Raleigh. The matter of determining
who shall and who shall not be eligi
ble for aid will rest first with the
Moore Count.v Board of Commission
ers and finally with the State Blind
Commission, and the decision will ba
based on the degree of total blind
ness of the applicant, his capacity to
earn and his financial circumstances.
Payments will average around $15.00
per month per person.
Sandhills Peaches. Now Fourth
in Legion Race, Tackle Ham
let Here Today
DISTRICT ST.\NDINGS
W L Pet
Dunn-Erwin
Hamlet
Raleigh
Sandhills
Troy
.750
.750
.500
.333
.250
Engagement of Miss Mary Swett
to Marshall Barney Announced
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James i
B. Swett To Wed Son of Prof. i
Barney of University of N. C. I
Bride-To-Be
Last Sunday proved to be another
great day for the Brownson Memor
ial Fiesbyleriaa Church. Tne Rev.
Marcua A. Brownson, D. D., spoke to
a large congregation, out of his own
rich experience on the text from the
Twenty-third Psalm, “Surely good
ness and mercy shall follow me all
the days of my life.” It was a ring
ing testimony of God's thoughtful,
loving care for His own.
A special offering was received at
the close of the service and the con
gregation presented $1,173.90 which
was dedicated to the Building Fund
for the new church to be erected at
the comer of May street and Indiana
avenue. Work will be started on the
building as soon as the plans and
specifications are received from tho
architect. Wenner and Fink of Phil
adelphia, who are the architects for
the Interdenominlational Bureau of
Church Architects, with offices In
New York, are drawing the plans.
Mr. Fink will be the consulting' ar
chitect
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Swett of
Southern Pines yesterday announced
the engagement of their daughter
Mary to Marshall H. Barney of Ral
eigh. The announcement was made at
a brldge-tea given by Mrs. Swett in
honor of her daughter at the South
ern Pines Country Club. Her guests
include Mrs. John Howarth, Mrs.
Morris Johnson, Mrs. Earl Overcash,
Mrs. George London, Mrs. Earl Mer
rill, Mrs. Grier Stutz, Mrs. George
Rose, Mrs. Emmett Golden, Mrii.
Clarence Bdson, Mrs. H. G. McElroy,
Mrs. W. S. Barney, Miss Miriam John
son, Miss Laura Kelsey, Miss Lois
Swett, Miss Susan Swett and Miss
Ruth Stebbins.
Miss Swett was graduated from
Southern Pines High School with the
Class of 1931 and from the Univer
sity of North Carolina, Woman’s Col
lege, in 1935. She also attended Sim
mons College in Boston, Mass., for
one year. She Is secretary to the gen
eral manager of the Central Carolina
Telephone Company here, k
Mr. Barney is the son of Dr. anu
Mrs. Winfield S. Barney of Greens
boro. Dr. Barney ia professor of Ro-
mian Languages on the faculty of the
University of North Carolina. The
MISS MARV SWETT
prospective bridegroom attended col
lege at the University and also Guil
ford College, after which he entered
the Air Service, e.nming his wings at
Randolph Field iu Texas. He is at
present employed In the Raleigh of
fice of the Social Security Board.
No date has been, set for the wed
ding.
By BEN BOVVDEX
A late afternoon thunder shower
Wednesday afternoon broke up the
scheduled Junior American Legion
baseball game between Sandhills
Post and Raleigh just after the first
man had batted in the first half of
the second inning and left the dope-
sters, who were counting on the re
sults of Wednesday’s games to furn
ish them with the wherewithal to
prognosticate the eventual outcome
of the district series, hanging on the
ropes. ,
There were two game'., scheduled
for Wednesday; one b<*'ween Sand
hills and Raleigh, and the other be
tween Hamlet and Troy and bot.i
games were figured to have an impor
tant bearing on the series outcome.
Hamlet, one-half game behind the
league-leading Dunn-Emin team be
fore Wednesday’s game, won a 3 to
2 decision from the tail-end Troy club
and went into a first place tie with
the idle Dunn-Erwinites. On that bas
is, a Sandhills win would have put
them in undisputed possession of sec
ond place, one full game behind the-
leaders, and within easy striking dis
tance of the top. While a loss would
have dropped them to fourth place,
practically out of the running.
As the situation now stands the
Peaches are in fourth place, a game
and a half behind the leaders, but with
the saving circumstance of having
an extra game to play and the chance
of climbing right up into the thick
of the fight.
The postponed game against Ral
eigh will probably be played some
time next week, but the exact data
will not be known until after the
American Legion baseball meeting in
Raleigh next Monday night. The
Peaches have open dates next week
on the 7th, 9th and 10th and the game
will be played at Southern Pines on
one of those dates. The Sandhills Post
officials are campaigning for the 7th,
but whether or not they will be suc
cessful Is a inatter of conjecture.
Defeat TH*y, II to 5
At Troy, last Friday, the Peaches
staged a four-run rally in their half
of the fifth to overcome a 5 to 4
Trojan lead, and then went on to win
the ball game, 11 to 5.
Lefty Brown, who started for the
Peaches, gave up four hits and three
runs in the first and Issued three
passes that resulted in two more runs
In the second before Buss Thomas
went to his rescue and put the quietus
on the Trojan uprising. Thomas was
nicked for only two hits during his
seven inning tenure of the mound and
in five of those innings he retired the
opposition in order. He struck out
(Pt0OtC turn to poffe four)
NOTABLES TO BE PRESENT
Friday, July 16, has been set as
the tentative date for the public cel
ebration and formal opening of Sand
hills Land Project of the Resettle
ment Administration, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, in which civic
organizations, officials and interested
citizens of surrounding counties will
take part near Hoffman.
Plans for the, celebration were laid
at a preliminary meeting at the pro
ject headquarters Friday and a com
mittee was named to take charge of
the program and arrange a barbecue
dinner for 2,000 people.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
Resettlement Administrator W. W.
Alexander. Governor Clyde R. Hoey,
Senators Bailey and Reynolds, Con
gressman Lambeth and Cooley, and
other prominent officials will be iii-
vited to attend.
The 62,000-acre Project, on which
general development features and re
creational facilities have been com
pleted or are nearing completion, is
located in Richmond, Scotland and
Moore counties. Rockingham, Ham
let, Laurinburg, Maxton, Red Springs,
Luniberton, Wagram, Raeford, Aber
deen, Vass, Pinehurst, Southern Pines,
Carthage, Sanford, Ellerbe, and Hoff-
(Please turn to page six)
Mrs. Evelyn MacDonald
Dies Suddenly on Trip
Patch Store Bookkeeper Came To
Southern Pines in 1919 at
Age of 10 Years
To her many associates in business,
former classmates, members of th«
choir of the Church of Wide Fellow
ship, and friends of every day lif<?
in Southern Pines and Niagara, th<?
news of the sudden death of Mrs.
Evelyn Gertrude MacDonald at
Kingstree, S. C., on Monday came as
a distressing shock, as in apparent
good health she was enjoying a short
vacation with her husband who is
temporarily employed in that town.
Evelyn, adopted in very early Uf .*
by Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Rhodes, was
born in Kenkad, Pa., on Novembe-*
18, 1909, and at the age of 10 years
came with them to Southern Pines
and then to their home in Niagara.
Graduating from the Southern Pines
High School with the class of 1928.
her temporary employment with the
Patch store led to a permanent posi
tion as confidential bookkeeper, a po
sition which she held following her
marriage to Irmon P. MacDonald on
April 14, 1933.
Funeral services were held in the
Powell Funeral Home at 4:00 o’clock
Thursday afternoon, the Rev. Myron
Adams officiating. Interment folfow-
ed in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Noted for her pleasing personality
modest and unassuming demeanor,
her untim.ely death at the early age
of 28 years leaves to mourn her pass
ing her husband, her adopted par
ents, her father, W. B. Smock, of
Greenville, Pa.; two brothers, Clea-
tus of Greenville and Ernest of Shar
on; two sisters, Mrs. Clement Garri
son of Sfaarpsville and Mrs. Roy Her
man of Kinsam, Ohio.
LEGION POST TO ELECT
NEW OFFICERS THURSDAY
The regular monthly meeting of
Sandhills Post No. 134, American Le
gion, will be held at Legion Hall in
Southern Pines on Thursday night,
July 8th, at 8:00 o’clock, at whicn
time the post will elect officers for
the coming year and delegates and al-
ternate3 to the department conven
tion to be held in Durham, commenc
ing July 26th.
Nominations for all officers and
delegates will be made from the floor
and all Legionnaires are requested to
attend this important meeting.