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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 17, NO. 84.
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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. July 4^. 1937.
PINE NEEDLES’ AIM
IS WORLD’S MOST
BEAUTIFUL COURSE
Extensive Remodeling; of Golf
Layout on Knollwood Heights
Nearinj? Completion
NEW SPRINKLER SYSTEM
By A. S. NEWCO»IB
The Pine Needles golf course is
rapidly recovering from a highly suc
cessful face-lifting operation.
The incisions have all been healed,
the scars are rapidly disappearing
and the whole face of the course will
soon be covered with an underskin
of Bermuda grass upon which a new
outer covering of Italian rye will be
growing. By the oppning of the com
ing season the patient will have fully
recovered, much improved in appear
ance, health and vigor, to be one of
the most beautiful and attractive golf
courses in the world, green from end
to end.
During the early days of construc
tion of New York's subw'ays many of
the principal streets were strewn with
piles of rock, soil, lumber, pipes and
other litter. A woman of Hibernian
extraction visiting the metropolis for
the first time accosted a policeman
with the question; “Do this be Broad
way?” “It do” was the reply. “Well,”
asked Bridget, “where be they
amovin’ to?”
A stranger walking over the Pine
Needles course at almost any time in
the past two months might have
been prompted to make a similar in-
quiry, for ever since the season's close
until last Monday a crew of from 40
to 60 men has been diligently employ
ed plowing up putting greens, dig
ging ditches lengthwise and sidewise
through the fairways, hauling in
pipes, valves, meters and other gad
gets used in the science of hydraulic
engineering, and generally cluttering
up the whole area until it looked as if
it was about to be transported to
parts remote.
Sprinkler System
But last week order came out of
■chaos and the new sprinkler system
wag given its initial tryout when
valves in the connections with the
big Southern Pines water main
were operfed and the sprinklers, with
a long stream projecting from one
end and a short one from the other,
began to revolve, each capable of wa
tering a circle 130 feet in diameter,
laving the entire course from the
first tee to the last green, thus sup
plementing the work of Dame Nature
who here as elsewhere sometimes
nods in her duty of supplying suffi
cient rainfall.
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NEW DATE SET
FOR OPENING OF
SANDHILLS PARK
Sandhills Legion Juniors Wind Up Season in 3d Place
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FIVE CENTS
Public Celebration of I’roject at
Hoffman Postponed from
July 16 to 30
GOVERNOR TO ATTEND
The date for the public celebration
and formal opening of the Sandhills
Land Use Project has been changed
from the 16th of July to the 30th,
Frank Eatman, the Project Manager
and a member of the citizens com
mittee on arrangements has announc
ed from the project headqliarters at
Hoffman.
The new date was set because it
was found inconvenient for Governor
Clyde R. Hoey and other notables to i
attend on the previous date which
had been only tentatively set.
The new date was set at a meet
ing of the citizens’ steering commit
tee held in Rockingham last week, in
the office of C. B. Deane, chairman
of the committee. Other members of
the committee are: Edwin Pate of
Laurinburg, J. A. McGoogan of Rae-
ford, J. R. Page of Aberdeen, the
Rev. W. I. Howell of Hamlet and
Frank Eatman, Hoffman. This com
mittee was appointed and given full Bottom row
authority to arrange the program, at
a citizens’ meeting held at the head
quarters of this 62,000-acre forestry,
wild life and recreational develop
ment, two weeks ago.
To Feed 2,000 Persons
The celebration is to be held at In
dian Camp Park, a new park on the
Sandhills Project v/here a new lake,
a large pavilion, ten vacation cab
ins. and other recreational facilities
have just been completed. The ex
penses are being contributed by Rich
mond, Scotland, Moore, Hoke, Robe
son and other surrounding countie.*
and plans are being made to feed up
wards of 2.000 people.
The celebration will last all day, thf
committee announced. Inspection
tours will start at 9:00 a. m., the
public addresses at 11:00, barbecue
dinner at 1:00, followed by further
inspection of the project in the after
noon and a dance that night.
In addition to Governor Hoey, Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace, Re
settlement Administrator W. W.
Alexander, the North Carolina Con
gressional delegation and other not
ables have been invited.
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XK*^ASED TAXES
^PRESENT
RATE OF SPENDING
Congressman Lambeth Calls for
Reductions in Federal Expen
ditures, Balanced Budget
“PUT HOUSE IN ORDER”
Top Row—left to right Charles Ritter, manager, Alec Cameron, Arthur Pate, Howard Auman, Frank Bucha)i,
Meek Barnett, Buss Thomas and Bob Richardson,
left to right Neil Melvin, Ernest Brown, Ed New'ton, “June” Williams, Leon Melvm and Clyde
Alexander. Bat Boy. Jimmie DeBerry
Tony Huntley and Junior Dees were not present when the picture was taken.
ABERDEEN STARTS
A BOOST TOBACCO
MARKET CAMPAIGN
Kiwanis Speaker
With Prospects Favorable, Cit
izens Organize For Big Sea-
-son; Seymour Chairman
ADVERTISING PLANNED
Tom Bost to Preach
in Aberdeen Sunday
■Well Known Greensboro News
paper Man to Supply For
Rev. Mr. Barber
Tom Bost, of the Greensboro Daily
News, one of the best known news
paper men in North Carolina who is
styled by his friends, “The Bootleg
Preacher,” will preach in the Pres
byterian Church in Aberdeen this
coming Sunday morning at 11:00
o’clock.
For a number of years Mr. Bost
has made It a point to speak in some
church nearly every Sunday. On the
occasion of the joint cruise of the
State Bar Association and the North
Carolina Press Association to Ber
muda last month he delivered one of
the finest sermons ever heard by
those present, according to J. Talbot
Johnson, a member of the party. Mr.
Johnson was instrumental in getting
Mr. Bost here to preach in the ab
sence on vacation of the pastor of
the church, the Rev. E. L. Barber,
and a large congregation is expected
to hear him.
Page Motor Company
To Remodel Building
Modern Service Station Planned
for Corner of Broad St. and
New Hampshire Ave.
TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS
Members and friends of the Town
send Club of Southern Pines met at
the home of the retiring president,
D. H. Turner, on Tuesday evening for
a picnic and get-together. A most en
joyable time was spent In games anJ
^sociability.
Plans for modernizing the Page
Motor Coippany’s headquarters at
East Broad street and New Hamp
shire avenue have been submitted to
the Street committee of the Board
of Commissioners of Southern Pines
for its approval, as the plan includes
a slight change of grade for the New
HamtJihire avenue sidewalk. The
committee, of which L. V. O’Callag-
han is chairman, is expected to ap
prove the change as it will not only
greatly improve this corner in ap
pearance but eliminate dangers to
pedestrians.
As planned by Contractor C. J.
Austin, the changes in the building
include the razing of the outer walls
and roof of the present office, the
space thus gained to be an open con
crete floor beginning 17 feet from
the south wall on east Brorfd street
and extending 37 feet up New Hamp
shire avenue. This space, accessible
from both street and avenue, will
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PENNSYLVANIA AVE, PAVING
TO MIDLAND RD. FINISHED
Some 35 to 40 interested business
men, farmers, warehousemen and to
bacco buyers attended the Aberdeen !
tobacco market rally at the Commun-'
ity House in Aberdeen last Friday
evening. The purpose of the meeting
was to formulate plans through
which it is hoped to make the Aber
deen market one of the best in the
state when it opens its doors on Sep
tember 16th, and those present voic
ed opinions that prospects for a good
market were extremely favorable and
agreed to cooperate to the fullest
extend in working for the Aberdeen
market.
It was voted to raise sufficient
funds to properly advertise the mar
ket and Chairman G. C. Seymour ap
pointed a Finance Committee consist
ing of A. L. Burney, Henry Blue, W.
D. Caviness, Leon Seymour and C.
J. Johnson, and an Advertising and
Publicity Committee consisting of
Foirest Lockey, Frank D. Sham-
burger, C. W. Covington, A. L. Bur
ney and Neill A. Sinclair to work to
gether to that end.
Shields Cameron New
Commander of Legion
Elected at Annual Meetin,? cf
Sandhills Post to Succeed
. Rassie Wicker
For the past week the new tarvla
and crushed rock surface has been
in use on Pennsylvania avenue from
West Southern Pines to Midland
Road, providing a continuous smooth
ly paved stretch from Southern Pines
on the much travelled thoroughfare.
The State Highway Department
project was- done at an estimated
coat of 30 cents a square foot and
was opened for use a week ago today.
At the annual meeyng of Sand
hills Post, No. 134, American Legion,
held at the clubhouse in Southern
Pines, D. D. Shields Cameron of
Southern Pines was elected command
er to succeed Rassie E. Wicker of
Pinehurst, who has served the post
tor the last year.
District Commander John H. Ste
phenson was present.
Rassie Wicker-and Shields Camer
on were elected as delegates to the
State convention, with Bob Denny and
Paul Dana as alternates.
Other officers elected for the year
were Charles Creel, Elarl Monroe and
L. T>. Williams as first, second and
third vice-commanders, respectively:
Haynes Britt as finance officer; as
service officers. Judge J. Vance Rowe
of Aberdeen, L. L. Woolley of South
ern Pines, R. E. Denny of Pinehurst
and J. P. Sinclair of West End were
reelected. D. L. McBryde of Aberdeen
was elected sergeant- at-arms.
REV. F. CRAIGHILL BROWN
Clergyman Tells Club of Work
Among Colored People and
County’s Tubercular
PEACHES WIND UP
BASEBALL SEASON
IN THIRD PLACE
Play Brilliant Ball in Final
Games To Defeat Troy
and Raleigh
SEASON’S AVERAGES
By BEN BOWDEN
Last Thursday and Friday after-
noon.s, in a desperate campaign to
stay out of the American Legion Jun
ior Baseball cellar and to finish as
high in the league as possible, the
Peaches defeated Troy and Raleigh
to bring their season record to four
wins and four losses and clinch third
place in the district standing, two
full games behind the league-leading
Dunn-Erwin club and one game in
back of Hamlet.
On both afternoons the Peaches
played the kind of baseball thp.t
would have won from any club in
the league and U is to be regretted
that they didn’t flash the same form
The work that the Negro Welfare jn' the two previous games against
Representative J. Walter Lambeth
of this Congressional district in a
statement this week predicted that
unless Federal expenditures decline
sharply. Federal taxes on lower
bracket incomes would have to be
increased.
Comparing the S8-a-year income
tax a married person in the United
States pays on a $3,000 annual in
come with the $362 paid in F^ngland,
Lambeth said:
“We could establish such income
tax rates as England has and balance
our budget, and it is not at all unlike
ly that this w'ill have to be done.”
He said the Federal tax in larga
incomes is now the highest in the
world.
Lambeth said also he favored a
constitutional amendment to provide
that all future issues of bonds be
taxed and that the salaries of gov
ernment employees not be exempt
from Federal or State income tax.
Pointing to a rising public debt,
he said "The time has come for the
government to put its house in order.”
“The national income for this year
is estimated to approach 70 billion
dollars, having climbed from the low
point of 39 billion dollars in 1932; so
‘hat it is now well above the normal
level,” Lambeth said.
"We should not only have a bal
anced budget but should bejrin to re
duce the public debt.”
He said, "Expenditures must be
decreased and revenues must be in
creased to reach a balanced budget,
and we may as well face the issue."
Lambeth proposed reductions in the
cost of relief. Army and navy expen
ditures and the personnel of govern
ment departments, especially emer
gency agencies.
Ball Team To Spend
Week at Myrtle Beach
Peaches Lose Game to “All-
Stars” But Win Post-Sea
son Vacation
Committee is doing in West Southern
Pines and the County Tuberculosis
Committee is doing throughout the
community was recounted to mem
bers of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club at
their weekly meeting held on Wed
nesday in the Methodist Sunday
School Building, Aberdeen, by the
Rev. F. Craighill Brown, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Mr. Brown told of the need for
funds to carry on the tuberculosis
work to the full extent it demands
here, stating that the financing of
more than the usual number of local
cases at the State Sanatorium had de
pleted the committee’s treasury. He
then enlightened the members on the
splendid work which is being done in
the improvement of health conditions '
in West Southern Pines, through the
acquiring of a building for clinics, a
reading roojn and social center, the
grading of the school grounds for
tennis, volley ball and other athletic
activities.
The clinics which Dr. Symington,
county health officer, is holding once
Hamlet and Dunn-Erwin. A win from
either one of those clubs would have
necessitated a play-off for the sec
ond place in the district play and
the opportunity to go up into the
State elimination series. The brand
of ball the Peaches played in their
last two games would have won at
least one, and probably both of the
two previous games.
Thursday afternoon Howard Au
man went to the mound for the
Peaches against Troy and he held
the visitors to five hits and two un
earned runs. Both of Troy’s runs
came in the sixth as a result of a pair
of hits and errors by Buchan and
Melvin. For the remaining eight in
nings Auman gave up only three
scattered hits and shut out the op
position.
The ’Peaches got two in the first
on singles by Leon Melvin, Buchan
and Williams, and three more in the
third on Leon Melvin’s second single,
Buchan’s sacrifice, singles by Wil
liams and Newton and Pate’s sac
rifice.
Win from Raleigh, 4 to 2
On Friday afternoon Buss Thom-
a month have revealed an appalling
condition among the colored popula-1 as faced Raleigh and for the second
tion, he stated, and large numbers i time this season he subdued them
are undergoing treatment found nec- handily. Raleigh made seven hits and
essary through' Wassermann tests, i two runs; one in the fourth on Thom
The county nurse is also holding din-1 son’s triple and Horton’s single, ana
ics to advise members on the prop- i the other in the seventh when Holmes
er care and feeding of children, and | was safe on Leon Melvin’s error,
it is planned soon to have the coun- j stole second and scored on Holding’s
ty’s home demonstration agent meet} single to center.
occasionally with the women of the
section, giving talks on preparation
of food, proper sanitation and other
household advice.
A snappy double play, Leon Mel
vin to Buchan to Pate, broke up a
threatened Raleigh rally in the third
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About ten days ago the manage
ment of the Sandhills Junior Ameri
can Legion baseball team came to
the decision that it would be an ex
cellent idea to treat the Junior Le
gionnaires to a week at Myrtle Beach
at the end of the season—if the
treasury w'ould stand hte strain.
They contacted Treasurer E. Levis
Prizer and were informed by him
that there w'as a respectable sum
still remaining that would doubtless
suffice for the purpose, but that it
might be a good idea to bolster up
the finances a little to be absolutely
sure.
Accordingly they arranged a game
for Wednesday afternoon between a
slightly augmented and re-vampe,i
aggregation of Peaches and a group
of “All-Stars” from Southern Pines.
West End and Hemp under the man
agement of Charlie Ritter, erstw'hile
coach of the Peaches, with the hope
that the collection at that game
would do the trick. But the cards
were stacked against the Peaches^ for
a heavy downpour just about game
time kept the anticipated crowds
away from the ball park and they
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PEACH PRICES CONTINl'E
STRONG; SHIPMENTS HEAVV
With the Hiley market at its peak
and Georgia Belles beginning to come
in, the market for Sandhills peaches
remains strong with prices excellent.
To date the Sandhills have shipped
nearly two and one-half times the
volume of peaches that had moved
out of the area by the same date la-st
year and prices have been consistent
ly around 13.75 to $4.00 a bushel ir
New York for average grades, with
some fancy and extra fancy peaches
bringing as high as 14.50 to |4.75.