FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING rriTTTJ J. inZZf A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 17, NO. 32. ^OTARTHAOE ^ e>CI.K SPftlNCS 4LAKEVIEW WEST tNO 4 ^ OACKSOM 9PRIN08 ■ 'msoutHR^TM pir«is MAHLBV Me*CHTS AeKROC£)i - ^PiMBOUUF^ PILOT MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY Southern Fines ;tnd Aberdeen, North Carolina. July 2, 1937. of the Sandhill ">ry of North Carolina Vj» ^ •>* 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