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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding SPRINOS LAKEView 9PRIM09 PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill T}. '“Hory of North Carolina o'"'*" U VOL. 17, NO. 48. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, October 22, 1937. STATE NEARS NO. 1 PLACE m U. S. IN AUTO FATAUTIES Capt. Farmer Urges Safety Council Here in Talk Before Sandhills Kiwanis Club GIVES STARTLING FIGURES Quartet To Open Festival Series Eve/y third child in the United States is either injured or killed by an automobile accident. If every person killed in North Carolina aiitomobile accidents in a year was placed between Asheville and Raleigh, there would be a dead body every quarter of a mile; and you’d pass an injured person every 15 feet. These were gruesome points used by Captain Charles D. Farmer of the State Highway Patrol to em phasize his talk on “Your Life and Your Own Pi’operty” before the Sandhills Kiwanis Club at Wednes day’s meeting in the Southern Pines Baptist Church, Captain Farmer was introduced to the club by Willard L. Dunlop of Pinehurst, chairman of the Program committee. RALPH CHANDLER NEW PRESIDENT OF KIWANIS CLUB Organization Holds Annual Meeting; Howarth Vice Pres ident, Tarlton Treasurer SEVEN DIRECTORS CHOSEN KING’S AMBASSADOR QUARTET This quartet opens the Collins Fes tival which the Chamber of Com merce of Southern Pines is putting on during the next four weeks here, with matinee and night performances each Saturday at the High School Auditorium.” The quartet is on a mission of good cheer to every music- loving audience," reads the prospec- Despite all safety measures, pub-]tus. "Four male voices that fit each licity and stricter law enforcement, | other like the /ingers of your hand, we had the largest number of high- perfected in harmony under Lloyd way fatalities in the state last mon th since the inauguration of auto mobiles, Captain Farmer said. Cas ualties are increasing not only in North Carolina but in the nation. Nothing: can halt this increase but the cooperation of the individual cit izen, he said, and urged the Kiwanis members to take the lead here in ob servance of safety laws, in cooperat ing with officers and with judges and the courts. "Help us and you help yourselves. Stop this useless slaughter of life and destruction of property. We have the best roads in the country here, but apparently they are among the most dangerous, for according to statis tics, this state is seventh from the top in fatal accidents and appears destined to go higher this year. If we do not take heed, we will be on top. "When we drive norti we begin to obey traffic and highway laws as soon as we strike Virginia. We be come more alert the farther we get (Please turn to page seven) King’s leadership, skillfully w'eave a musical spell^that’s enchanting in its smoothness and satisfying in its art. XTnusually beautiful effects on a peal of a hundred English bejls always appeals to their audience, and make a splendid contrast to their harmony singing." Tickets for the scries of four en tertainments went on sale this week, at a price of one dollar. Tickets for individual performances will be 50 cents at night, 35 cents at matinees for adults, and 25 ce^ts at night, ten Ralph L. Chandler, manager of the Carolina Power and Light Company here, was elected president of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club for 1938 at the annual meeting held Wednesday noon in the Southern Pines Baptist Church. Mr. Chandler was one of the organizers of the club when it was founded in Aberdeen in 1922, has pre viously served as vice-president and director. j John M. Howarth of Southern i Pines was elected vice-president, and Richard F. Tarlton re-elected treasur er. The following were elected to the board of directors; J. Vance Rowe of Aberdeen, Herbert F. Seawell, Sr. of Carthage, Howard Burns, P. T. Kelsey and Dr. J. I. Neal and Dr. Robert P. Shepard c.l’ Southern Pines and Paul Dana of Pinehurst. Mr. Chandler will succeed Charles W. Picquet, whose term as president FIVE CENTS New Kiwanis VEGGS GET $135 IN SAFE-CRACKING JOB IN PINEHURST Stutts Supply Co. Warehouse Entered Early W'ednesday Morning HAMLET PLANT ROBBED RALPH L. CIL\NDLER GOLF TOURNAMENT SEASON TO OPEN :et^s at night, ten W. Picquet, whose term as president | qm \TA\/I?MD17D 1C • ^ildren. Funds '^he past year has been mark-1 flEiUL llU T CJtIUJIU 10 cents matinees for realized from the festival will be used I increased membership and i by the Chamber of Commerce for an extensive planting program here. Big Plans For Beauty Contest, Amateur Theatricals November 5 club activity in all lines. The new president and other officers will be j installed on Wednesday, November j 3d, after which the projects of the! organization for 1938 will be deter-1 mined upon, new committees appoint- i ed and plans perfected for the new 1 year. * ‘Miss Sandhills” To Be Chosen at Affair Sponsored by Sou thern Pines Civic Club County Fair All Kinds of Exhibits and En- Plans for the beauty contest and tertainment Features Next the amateur theatrical contest to oe Week in Carthage sponsored by the Southern Pines Civ ic Club on Friday night, November | The Moore County Agricultural 5th, are rapidly taking shape, accord-, p^ir opens in Carthage on Monday ing to Miss Fl(#ence Campbell, Miss; 3^^ ^uns through the week with per- Birdelia Bair and Mrs. N. L. Hodg-1 formances both day and night. There kins, who are directing arrangements ■ jjg jj.gg attractions twice daily. for the program, and the organiza-1 • 1 t. ’ b I Though this year s fair is empha sizing the agricultural exhibits it will not be lacking in the usual en City Tentatively Turns Down Harringrton Offer Refuses Proposal to Cancel Tax Assessments on Property.— Votes $50. For Band At the regular monthly meeting of the Southern Pines Board of Com missioners, held Wednesday night in the office of the City Clerk, the board voted to turn down the recent counter offer made by J. J. Harring ton in connection with the sale of his West Broad street property that is under consideration as a site for a proposed new Civic Center. • A few weeks ago the board offer ed Mr. Harrington $9,000 for the property and last week Mr. Harring ton agreed to the sale price provided he be relieved of 1937 tax assess ments on the property. At the meet ing Wednesday night the board voted to Inform Mr. Harrington that their price of $9,000 was a flat price and that Mr. Harrington 'would have to be responsible for the 1937 taxes. Other business of the meeting was the awarding of the contract to make the necessary repairs to the Southern Pines Country Club ball room to the firm of Relnecke-Dille- hay, Inc., of Southern Pines, and the agreement of the board to donate $50 to the Southern Pines School band for the purchase of new In struments. old and young. Among these will be Polly Jenkins and her Plowboys, ra dio stars; the Great Billettl Troupe in aerial acts; the Gregorys in a sen sational cycling act; Cook and Cook, (Please turn to page 12) tion anticipates a highly succssful affair. The evening’s program, to be held in the auditorium of the Southern Pins High School, will consist of three parts, namely: A beauty contest open to all girls in th Sandhills between the ages of 14 and 25, married or single, for the title of “Miss Sandhills,” wi^h the winner to go to the State contest with all expenses paid and the State winners to be eligible for the nation- j al title of “Miss United States." At [ the State contest all local winners I will be given a screen test. This con-; test is not to be confused with the | "Miss America’’ beauty pageant held j annually at Atlantic City, N. J. | There is no connection whatever be-1 Party Touring State Shown tween the two. | Sights of Pinehurst, Knoll- An amateur theatrical contest wood and Southern Pines open to single acts and groups of Will of Mrs. Skinner Leaves $1 to Husband Estate Valued at $9,840 in Pro bate at Carthage.—^Citizens Bank Co-Executor The will of Ruth B. Skinner, late of Wilmington, Del., and Southern Pines has been filed for probate in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Moore county. The estate is valued at approximately .?9,840, After directing that her just debts be paid, Mrs. Skinner’s will continues: tertainment features which appeal to ^ bequeath unto my beloved hus- SANDHILLS HOST TO TRAVEL GROUP AT BIG RECEPTION PINEHURST CHA»raER OF COMMERCE TO ELECT The Pinehurst Chamber of Com merce will elect its officers for the coming year at a supper meeting to be held in the Village Court Grill on Tuesday evening, October 26th, at 7:00 o’clock. No nominating committee has been appointed and all nominations will be made from the floor. WiUiard Dtlnlop Is the retiring president. persons up to four. The winner of this contest will be eligible to com pete in the State contest, winners of which will compete in a National contest for the title "United States Amateur Winner.” Winners of State contests will receive radio and thea trical auditions as part of their prize compensation. Although no act of more than four prsons can com pete In the State contest, the South ern Pines Civic Club is offering ad ditional prizes to acts in six groups regardless of the size of the acts. These additional prizes will go to winners in the following claasifica- (Please turn to page 6) SWEEPSTAKES EVENT AT COUNTRY CLUB SATURDAY band, Robert Skinner, the sum of one dollar, knowing full well that he will clearly uaderstand the reasons prompting me in so doing.” All the rest of the estate was left to her sisters, Mrs. Ethlyn Parks of Norwich, N. Y., Mrs. Lottie Stephens of Mercy, N. Y., and Mrs. Bessie H. Lowery of Wilmington, Del., share and share alike. The Delaware Trust Company was named executor, with the Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Southern Pines as co-executor in North Caro lina and Mrs. Bessie H. Lowery as co-executrix to act with the Delaware Trust Company. Manager Roy Grinnell of the Sou thern Pines Country Club has an nounced the first golf event of the season there for this Saturday and Sunday. It will be a golf ball sweep stakes with an entrance fee of 50 cents per contestant and the entire amount of the entry fees will go to ward the prizes. In the absence of any current han dicap records the prizes will be awarded on the basis of gross scores, but in future similar events net scores will govern the distribution of the prizes. On Sunday morming at 11:30 a motor bus caravan of some 70 travel executives representing newspapers and travel ajcncles from nearly every part of the country east of the Mississippi arrived in Southern Pines and stopped over for a half hour or so to partake of the hospitality pro offered by the Southern Pines Cham ber of Commerce. The Chamber had sent a delega tion over to Pinehurst to act as guides for the trip here, pointing out the steeplechase course, the Pine Needles Inn and golf course, the Mid- Pines Club and other points of inter est and to guide the visitors througj^ a portion of the business and residen- tiall section of town to the scene of the reception at the Highland Pines Inn. M. *1 Turner had generously open ed up his Weymouth Heights hostel ry for the occasion and there was waiting a Chamber of Commerce re ception committee headed by Presi dent Robert L. Hart and Dr. George G. Herr and comprising -Dr. W. C. Mudgett, Charles Macauley, Roscoe Potts, Paul Barnum, Dr. James Milli- ken. Dr. Greer Stutz, Nelson C. Hyde, Robert Hayes, Dr. E. Levis Prizer, Prank Webster, Duncan Mat thews, Eugene Woodward, Eugene Stevens, Dante Montesanti, Charles (Please turn to page 6) Stables Filling Up in Pinehurst, So. Pines Parshall, Smith, Laing and stony Brook Horses Arrive. Webster Knight Coming Mid-South Professional Event First of Winter on Pine hurst Schedule Pinehurst has the usual number of golf tournaments scheduled for this winter season, starting the ball roll ing on November 16th with the four- day 17th annual Mid-South Profes' sional tournament. The first two days will be devoted to a best ball event, 18 holes each day; the third and fourth days to an individual open. Prizes for the best ball scale down from $400 for the winning pair to $100 for the fifth, while in the in dividual event first prize is $250, scaling down to $50 for the tenth man. The other feature tournaments of the winter are scheduled as follows: the 36th annual United ^orth & South Open on March 23d, 24th and £5th, for prizes aggregating $4,000, the winner taking $1,000 of this; the 3Qth annual North & South Invita tion for Women the week of March 28th; the 38th annual North & South Invitation Amateur champion ship the week of April 4th. In between come these events: 22nd Annual Carolina Tournament November 23, 24, 25 and 26. 17th annual Carolina for Women November 30th. 35th annual Midwinter December 27, 28, 29 and 30. Third annual Christmas tourna ment for women December 28. 16th annual Father and Son tour nament December 31. 33d annual St. Valentine’s tourna ment for women February 1, 2, 3 and 4th. 34th annual February tournament February 8, 9, 10 and 11. (Please turn to page five) The Pinehurst race track stables are starting to fill up, and there is no doubt they will be filled within the next few weeks, for reservations In excess of the facilities are being asked for, James W. Tufts reports. Several horses of the Parshall and Stacy Sm^th stables arrived this week, and Mr. Tufts says he expects all the horses that were here last winter and probably some additional stables. In Southern Pines there was also horse activity this week. The Laing Stables on Weymouth Heights opened for the season, with Merritt N. Sugg in charge until the arrival of Wil liam A. Laing later on. Additional horses are arriving this coming week at the new Stony Brook Stables of F. H. Burke an(^W. J. Stratton on Youngs Road. It is also reported that Webster Knight of Providence, R. I., will send a number of his show har ness horses down here this winter, to occupy the stables on Ms estate, “The Corral,” near The Paddock. Louis Scheipers has taken the Dun can Robinson stables, also near The Paddock, for the season and already has his horses there. At an early hour on Wednesday morning safe crackers broke into the Stutts Supply Company warehouse on the outskirts of Pinehurst and escap ed with cash amounting to $135.05 that had been locked in the office safe, and a small but as yet undeter mined amount of merchandise. The amount w’as fully covered by insur ance. Entrance was gained by the use of a crow'bar with which the thieves forced and sprung the office door. Af- terter gaining the inner office they went to work, apparently calmly and deliberately, with a sledge hammer and cold chisel and, after cutting away the combination to the sate, disengaged the locking compartment on the safe door and gained access to the interior. The money was in a bag in one of a series of unlocked drawers in the upper compartment of the safe. Pinehurst Chief of Police Dees, who was the first officer on the scene, was of the opinion that the robbery was the work of experienced safe crackers. Aside from a small amount of debris left at the outer door where the original entrance was gained there was little or no disorder any where in the office. The floor in the immediate vicinity of the safe was perfectly clean at the time the rob bery was discovered. On Wednesday fingerprint exjperts from Raleigh visited the Stutts wars- house and took impressions from the broken entrance door and from both exterior and interior of the safe, but as yet there has been no report as to the result of their investigations. As the door through which the thieves gained entrance is used hundreds of times every day by employes and customers alike and the safe is also In constant use it is feared that the results of the fingerprint investiga tion will amount to but little. Later Wednesday morning three men driving a Buick automobile broke into the Nehi Bottling Com pany plant in Hamlet and escaped with a considerable amount of mon ey. Police believe that there may be some connection between the two rob beries. DISTRICT CONVENTION OF FEDERATION ON THURSD.AY The annual meeting of the Ninth District of North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs will be held in Sanford next Thursday, starting at 10:00 o’clock, with the Sanford Wo man’s Club as hostess. This district takes in six counties, among them Moore which has six clubs. Mr^. Howard G. Etheridge, president of the federation, will preside and Mrs, J. N. Britt, chairman of districts, will speak. After reports from the various clubs the annual election of officers will be held. A large number from this county will attend. VILLAGE CHAPEL, PINEHURST, RESUMES SERVICES SUNDAY $25,000 Sewer Project Under Way Next Week Southern Pines To Furnish $7,- 000 in Labor and Materials and W. P. A. $18,000 The Village Chapel In Pinehurst will have its opening services of the season this Sunday morning, the Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheatham, minister, announced this week. The services will be as follows: Holy Communion at 8:00 a. m.; children’s service at 10:00 a. m., and church service at 11:00 a. m. The public is cordially in vited. The early part of next week work will start on a new Southern Pines sewer line project which, when com pleted, will provide sewer lines for all of the area north of Rhode Is land avenue within the town limits and will ♦*'i capable of serving Man ley and tiV Knollwood section on the Immediate outskirts of the Southern Pines town limits. This new sewer line, a ’oint pro ject of the Town of Southern Pinc.i and the Works Progress Administia- tion, will be about three and or.e- half miles Ik length and it is esti mated that the total cost will be ap proximately $25.00. Of this amoi Southern Pines will furnish $7,003 in skilled labor and m.-’terials a ! the WPA will furnish the remaini. 3 $18,000 in unskilled labor and matc.- lals. Heretofore the area In. the to n limits and north of Rhode Island a c- nue has had no sewer line and th;* lesldents of that area have had a> install septic tanks. When the pro ject, including almost 19,000 feet of Southern Pines will have se ... lines. The new lines will run along ho.'’. Ridge and May street' from RhiJe Island avenue to Ohio avenue. Tho e two lines will meet at Ohio aven • where they will Join and the one line will follow Ohio to the Seabo.iid tracks, pass under the tracks, fo' o v Artillery road to Boiling Springs Cir cle and thence to the Southern Pines sewage plant.
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