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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17, NO. 39.
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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory ^h Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, July 9, 1937
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DEAL FOR LEASE Dunn-Erwin Team Clinches
OF COUNTRY CLUB
TO CITY CLOSED
FIVE CENTS
Golf Courses, Clubhouse To Be
Operated One Year By Board
of Commissioners
WITH RENEWAL OPTION
Negotiations were closed this week
between the Board of Commissioners
of Southern Pines and the Executive
Committee of Southern Pines Countrj
Club whereby the city takes over
the golf courses and clubhouse of
the club corporation for the period of
one year, with renewal option. The
deal is in the form of a lease, but
no direct payment is made to the
club under the lease. The city agrees
to operate the club, maintain the
courses and clubhouse, pay such fixed
annual charges as insurance and in
terest on bank loans.
It is understood that the city will
start at once on fertilizing the golf
courses to get them in good condition
for next winter’s play. There is a
probability that greens fees will be re
duced and evxery effort made to
stimulate interest in the game on the
two local courses, the championship
No. 1 course and the easier No. 2
nine-hole layout.
The Bqard of Commissioners a-
greed to take over the property un
der lease at a recent meeting and At
torney U. L. Spence drew up the
lease. It was signed this week by
H. J. Betterly, president of the club,
and the other members of the EJxecu-
tive Committee, M, G. Nichols, J. C
Barron, N. L. Hodgkins and Nel.son C.
Hyde.
. . ^ SOUTHERN PINES
Jimior District Championship $28,443.00 SCHOOL
BUDGET APPROVED
Early Peach Estimates
Hold; Hileys Moving:
Quality and Price of Sandhills
'Crop Give Promise of Suc
cessful Season
With the Sandhills peach crop hold
ing firm at the original general aver
age of 5 to 20 percent over the 1936
production and with prices on the-east-
ern seaboard markets likewise re
maining firm and, in some instances,
slightly rising, local peach growers
are more than ever looking forward
to a highly successful season.
This past week has been marked by
the virtual finish of the Carmen
crop—only a very few bushels of the
tail end of the crop are now on their
way to the market—and the start of
the Hileya. Prices for both varietiPJi
have averaged from $1.50 for the
better grade half-bushels down to
$1.00 for the poorer grades and in
several instances extra fancy early
Hileys have brought $2.00 per half
bushel in the New York market.
Hileys will start to come in heavj'
about the end of this week and will
continue for approximately another
week, at which time they will make
way for the Georgia Belles and El-
bertas.
Through last Monday North Caro
lina had shipped 31 carlots of peach
es as against only six on the same
date last year, and in addition lo
that great quantities of peaches have
left the Sandhills by truck. Truck
shipments this year are also far m
excess of similar shipments last year.
Fund Shortage Hampers
Tuberculosis Prevention
With 13 Patients in Sanatorium
Committee Feels Drain on
Finances
Shortage of funds may make nec
essary a curtailment in the preven
tative work which the County Tu
berculosis Committee has been and
is doing, it was stated this week af
ter a meeting of the committee held
at the home of Mrs. T. A. Cheatham
in Pineh»vat on Tuesday.
Although the Board of County
Commissioners has Increased the
county’s appropriation for the work
of the association from ^100 a month
to $150 a month, effective July 1st,
the committee is at present support
ing 13 patients in the State Sanator
ium at a coat of approximately $185
a month. In addition it has a number
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Southern Pinp Peaches Lose to
Leaders and Hamlet; Beat
Raleigh in Busy VVeek
By BEN BOWDEN'
While the Junior American Legion
baseball district play is all over with
the expection of the official tilting of
the laurel wreaths over the brows of
the entries \from Dunn-Erwin and
Hamlet, there is still another game to
be played at the local ball park this
afternoon—the previously rained out
contest between Raleigh and the
Peaches.
Yesterday afternoon in a game that
finished too late for inclusion in thii
summary, Troy —the t^am that held
the league-leading Dunn-Erwinites to
two hits and beat them, 5 to 1, on
Wednesday afternoon—^came to Sou
thern Pines to wind up their schedule,
but the results of that game and the
gamf' today ca® do no more than
settle the question as to the eventual
occupant of the cellar position.'
Two wins for The Peaches will give
them undisputed possession of thira
place with a .500 percentage and drop
Raleigh into last place with a .2501
lating. A win from Troy and a loss
to Raleigh will tie all three teams up
in a triple occupancy of the cellat,
at .375. A win from Raleigh and a
loss to Troy w'ill Jump Troy into,
third place and drop Raleigh to the
bottom of the standings, and the un
thinkable possibility of a double loss
for the Peaches would drop them to
the cellar while Troy would still hold |
undisputed possession of third place. >
By the end of this week the i
Peaches will have played a schedul?;
of five games within seven days and,
although two of the three games play
ed before yesterday went against
them, the spectators both here and at
Raleigh saw the kind of baseball—
with but a few exceptions—that
makes fans out of the most apathet
ic onlookers.
Liose To Ounn-Erwin, 4 to S
On Tuesday afternoon, with their
hope of survival in the current dis
trict play hanging in the balance, the
Peaches dropped a 4 to 2 decision tj
the league leading Dunn-Erwinites at
the Southern Pines ball park and the
outcome of- the game, while it sent
glimmering the localities last chances
of a place in the State elimination
play, practically sewed up Dunn-Er-
wm'a first place hold in the district
series.
Buss Thomas went to the mound
for the Peaches and Warren Gardner
was nominated to toss them up for
Dunn-Erwin, and for seven innings
both moundsmen pitched scoreless
ball.
Dunn-Erwin broke the tie in the
first of the eighth. Bass singled and
stole second. Strickland was safe
when Williams held his grounder to
third in an attempt to keep Bass from
advancing £ind then hurried his throw
to first so much that it went over
Pate’s head. Strickland pulled up at
second and Bass scored on the error.
Adcox doubled to center, scoring
Strickland. Lee was hit by a pitched
ball and given free transportation to
first and Fuquay doubled to center
scoring Strickland and Lee.
Southern Pines got their two in
the last of the eighth. Pate led off
with a single to left and pinch-hittars
Barnett and Alexander went down
swinging. At that point it looked like
a shut-out for Dunn-Erwin but Leon
Melvin was safe when Fuquay Jug
gled his rap to third base, Buchan
was hit by a pitched ball and New
ton hit one down the third base line
so hard that it deflected off Puquay’s
glove far into foul territory and Pate
and Melvin scored before the ball
could be recovered. Williams struck
out to end the inning and both sides
went down in order In the ninth.
Gardner held the Peaches to three
hits and struck out 15 while Thomaj
gave up seven hits and chalked up
four strike-outs.
Beat Raleigh, 9 to 2
On Monday the Peaches travelled
to Raleigh to engage the Caps and
Howard Auman turned in a master
ful piece of pitching that limited the
opposition to four scattered singles
and two runs while his teammates
were collecting nine bingles which,
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Dies Suddenly
Wanted: One Goat
Charlie Picquet Seeks Tho
One That Ruined His Wa
termelon Crop
Charlie Picquet, movie mogul of
the Sandhills, wants to get some
body’s goat.
He doesn’t know whose goat he
wants to get; in fact he isn’t so
much interested in the owner. It’s
a punitive expedition he’s on.
Charlie is something of an ama
teur gardener and has quite a va
riety of crops on his Midland Road
property. He svas particularly
proud of his watermelons, Just
coming into succulence this week.
The other morning he went out
to get one of the big ripe ones. Too
late! All were crushed open, ths
luscious insides gone, only the
rinds left.
Inquiry revealed that a goat had
been seen near the home the night
before.
Thirty-eight young people of this
section have been helped to carry on
their education beyond high school
grades through the Moore County Ed
ucational Foundation, Richard Tufts,
treasurer of the foundation, told
members of the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club at its weekly meeting on Wed
nesday. Loans to these students, since
the loan fund was started back in
1926, have totalled $5,907.
Mr. Tufts gave a brief history of
the foundation, a “Godchild of Ki
wanis,” as he called it, for the fund
was started by the club originally to
aid students of Farm Life School at
Eureka. After that school became a
part of the county system, the scops
was widened and loans made to de
serving students throughout the sec
tion, young people desiring to contin
ue their education in various colleges.
Although for some time payments on
the loans made were very slow, ac
cording to Mr. Tufts—and he attri
buted this largely to the depression
—of late many of the beneficiaries
have been making payments on both
principal and Interest, and the foun
dation is now “in funds” for further
loans to needy and deserving stu
dents.
The money from which loans were
originally made was raised by the
foundation through benefit dances
and minstrel shows and by gifts from
public spirited citizens. Directors of
the foundation are, in addition to
Mr. 'Tufts, Edwin T. McKelthen of
Aberdeen, Paul Dana of Plnehurst,
Frank Buchan and Nelson C. Hyde of
Southern Pines. Dr. J. W. Dickie, who
died this week, was also a director,
and there is one other vacancy on
the board caused by the resignation
some time ago of Murdoch M. John
son of Camden, S. C.
YEAGER NEW DIRECTOR
OF PHYSICAL. EDUCATION
County Board Authorizes Sum
For Current Expenses, Capital
Outlay and Debt Service
ASKS DEEP RIVER BRIDGE
38 PUPH.S AIDED
BY EDUCATIONAL
FOUNDATION HERE
Loans Made To Students Sincc
Orfi:anization Total $5,907,
Tufts Tells Kiwanis
Befdre leaving for his summer
studies at Columbia University, Sup
erintendent Frank W. Webster filled
the last vacancy In the faculty of the
Southern Pines school for the term
of 1937-1938 by securing the serv
ices of Charles M. Yeager as Direc
tor of Physical Education.
Mr, Yeager to whom the position
was offered twc years ago, is a ne
phew of Dr. Clement Monroe, of the
Moore County Hospital, and comes
highly recommended. He is a gradu
ate of the University of Maryland
and of Davidson College, and has been
a member of the faculty of the
Jonesboro, Ga., schools for the past
two years. He Is now taking the sum
mer course at Duke University for
his Master’s Deg^e.
At a regular meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners held Mon
day, July 5, the annual school budget
for 1937-1938 of the Southern Pines
city adminisiraiive unit was approv-
I ed and adopted, authorizing the fol-
j lowing appropriations for the schol
, astic year 1937-38 to be provided from
I local and county school funds as pro-
I vided by statute: Current expense,
I $19,932.78; Capital outlay, $1,933.20;
Debt .service, $6,577.25.
County Superintendent H. Lee
Thomas was authorized to issue school
vouchers to the Southern Pines city
administrative school unit In the
amount of $1,265.60 and to the Pine
hurst city administrative school unit
in the amount of $983.36 for capital
outlay appropriations of 1936-37,
provided that “.such amount or
amounts herein authorized to be paid
shall be reduced by a per capita
amount of any appropriation original
ly appropriated for other than school
transportation purposes which were
expended for school transportation
purposes.”
Board Seeks New Bridge
The Board voted to request that
the State Highway and Public Works
Commission build and surface-treat
that portion of State Highway No.
22 running through Moore county so
as to make an all-weather rosuf and
build a bridge across Deep River on
said road suitable for traffic using
this road.
It was also voted to recommend
that the State take over and main
tain two other roads, as follows:
Starting near the Bible School antJ
going by the C. C. Phillips home to
the Moore county line, said road be
ing in Ritters township and extending
for about one-half mile; starting on
the Glendon road near E. M. Welch's,
going by C. E. Scott’s up to Deep
River, Ritters township, about one
mile.
The Board rejected all bids for 23
markers at the county home, and asks
that sealed bids be made on the first
Monday in August for 23 markers, 22
set up at the county home and one
at Putnam.
It was ordered that beer licenses j
be Issued to Bill Hanner (Green Top
Service Station) of Hemp and N. V
Keith of Cameron: also that five
shares at $10 each be purchased in
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New Store Building: To
Replace Powell Block
Modern Structure To Rise on
Corner of Broad St. and New
Hampshire Avenue
The one-time pride of Broad street,
the Powell building, erected in 1913,
one of the first cement block struc
tures devoted to business in Southern
Pines, is to be razoil. For nearly 20
years the office of the late J. N.
Powell, and following his death, the
J. N. Powell Company, the doomed
building served its purpose for many
years until the demand for more com
modious and modernized quarters for
the business led to its abandonment.
In its place will arise a modern
structure fronting 50 feet on Bast
Broad street and 75 feet on New
Hampshire avenue. As planned the
new building is designed for two
stores, and is to be one story, steel
frame, tapestry brick walls suffici
ently heavy to carry an additional
story if demanded.
The new block, the first to be e-
rected on Broad street within the pas':
three years, is for Mr. Powell’s broth
er-in-law, W. Keenan Rand, of Dur
ham. The architect and builder, W. E.
Chas, is Mr. Rand’s contractor. Ma
terial will be furnished by local deal
ers. R. F. Potts has been active in
placing the need of a new building
before Mr. Rand, and it is understood
that several applications have been
filed with him for space.
DR. JAMIE W. DICKIE
START WORK ON
NEW POSTOFFICE
IN NEAR FUTURE
Contractor’s Representative Vis
its Site Preliminary To Break
ing Ground for Building
After many long months of wait
ing, work Is about to start on the
new Southern Pines Post Office build
ing at West Broad street and New
York avenue.
On June 23rd, Charles J. Medland,
general manager of the Charlotts-
ville, Va., office of James I. Barnes,
the general contractors In charge of
the construction work, visited South
ern Pines to obtain advance esti
mates of preliminary foundation costs
and at that time he predicted that
work would start within the next
three weeks. That would indicate
that ground will be broken any day
now and that the actual start of con
struction is Imminent.
M;-. Medland has stated that aa
much local labor as Is practical and
possible will be used and that the
only limitation on the use of local
labor will be In such cases f.s would
conflict with unionized trades.
The successful bid for the Post Of
fice building was $49,790.00.
Social Security To
Cost County $14,650
$7,-'>00 For Needy Aged People,
$3,960 for Dependent Children,
$3,190 for Administration
Estimates complied by the State
Board of Charities tmd Public Wel
fare Indicate that Moore county’s new
Social Security program, which be
came operative on July 1, will require
county expenditures of approximate
ly $14,650 a year.
This information is contained In
budget estimates sent to the Board of
County Commissioners by the Divis
ion of Public Assistance of the Wel
fare Department, of which Nathan
H. Yelton is director.
The computation shows that Moore
County will spend. In round figures,
the sum $7,500 a year for assistance
to 250 needy aged, and $3,960 for aid
to 210 dependent children. The coun
ty cost for old age assistance is one-
fourth of the total, indicating that
total expenditures for that purpose
will amount to approximately $30,000,
while more than $11,880, based on the
counties paying one-third, will be
spent on underprivileged children.
Aside ftom the $7,500 aid to the
needy aged and $3,960 assistance for
dependent children, Moore county’s
share of the Federal, State and coun
ty administrative expense for this
work will amount to approximately
$3,190, thus running the total cost
to $14,650.
NO TYPHOID IN COUNTY
The results of the County Health
department’s efforts to stamp out
typhoid fever in Moore county are
most gratifying as not a single case
of this disease has occurred in the
county so far this summer. No case
of Infantile paralysis has occurrc.!.
DR. bh •I DIES
SUDDENLY AFTER
HEART AHACK
Head of Pine Crest Manor
Passes at 43 at Moore County
Hospital
FUNERAL ON WEDNESDAY
Following a heart attack suffered
last Saturday morning, which condi
tion was further complicated by the
development of double pneumonia. Dr.
Jamie W. Dickie, medical director of
the Pine Crest Manor sanatorium
here, and one of the country’s lead
ing authorities on the care and
treatment of tuberculosis, succumbed
at 8:25 Tuesday morning at the
Moore County Hospital. He was 43
years old.
Dr. Dickie came here from Hender
son In the Fall of 1919 to establish
Pine Crest Manor, and remained as
its active head and medical director
until last summer when he left the
sanatorium to spend a year at the
post graduate schools of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania Medical Scliool
and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hos
pital in Boston, where he took courses
in internal medicine. He had return
ed to Southern Pines only a few days?
before his illness and was making
plans to resume the active dlrectioii ol
the sanatorium when his death oc
curred.
Dr. Dickie was one of two sons of
George T. Dickie, of Ontario, Canada,
and Amalie CopplCjje Dickie and was
born at Epson, N. C., on October 25,
1894. He was a graduate of Wake
Forest College and Jefferson Medical
School In Philadelphia. Following his
graduation he Joined the U. S. Navy
Medical Corps with which he served
throughout the World War. Following
his discharge from the service, Dr.
Dickie w'as associated with Dr. W. L.
Dunn of Asheville In tuberculosis
work for tw'o years before he came to
Southern Pines. Here, he was always
active in civic affairs. He was a char
ter member and former president of
the Aberdeen Kiwanis Club.
Service Held Here
A short funeral service was held at
the Dickie home at 11:00 o’clock Wed
nesday morning where the Rev. F.
Craighill Brown and the Rev. J. Fred
Stlmson read the service and the re
mains were shipped Immediately to
Henderson for burial at New Bethel
Church Cemetery, Wednesday after
noon.
Pall bearers were Doctors W. E,
Overcash, W. C. Mudgett and J. S
Milliken and R. L. Hart, Frank D.
Shamburger and Paul T. Barnum.
Honorary bearers were Dr. W. G.
McLeod. Preston T. Kelsey, Arthur
S. Newcomb, Eugene C. Stevens, E.
V. Perkinson. Mayor D. G. Stutz,
James B. Swett, C. T. Patch, Dr. L. B
McBrayer, N. L. Hodgkins, Claude L.
Hayes and Alfred Grover, all of
Southern Pines; Edwin T. McKelthen,
Harrison Stutts, I. C. Sledge, Richard
Tufts and Dr. C. R. Monroe, of Pine-,
hurst; Drs. P. P. McCain and H, J.
Bettlnger, of State Sanatorium; Dr.
H. E. Bowman, Dr. A. H. McLeod and
H. A. Page, Jr., all oi Aberdeen; Drs.
J. W. Houston and D. J. Green, of
Asheville, and Drs. Sloan and Math-
ewson, of Charlotte.
Hundreds attended the servnces
both at the home and at the ceme
tery near Henderson. At the local ser
vice a quartet comprising Mrs. Ralph
Mills, Miss Katharine Buchan, S. B.
Richardson and Shields Cameron
sang “The Old Rugged Cross,” with
Mrs. P. E. Kennedy as accompanist.
A number from here accompanied
the family to the services in Hender
son.
Dr. Dickie is survived by his wife,
the former Inez Benthal of Woodland,
a son and a daughter, David Henry
and Jane, and his mother and a broth
er, Durwood, both of Henderson.
For the past year, during Dr.
Dickie’s absence. Pine Crest Manor
has been under the active direction
of Dr. W. E. Overcairti, who has been
Dr. Dickie’s associate there for the
past four years.
With Dr. Dickie’s impending return
to assume the directorship of the
sanatorium. Dr, Overcash had accept-
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