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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 18, NO. 19.
Southern IMnes and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, April 8, 1938.
FIVE CENTS
Open
New PostoKice
to Public
Tuesday Night
High School Band and Glee Club
on Program For Inspection
Ceremonies
TO MOVE IN APRIL 18
The new Southern Pines Postoffice
will be opened for public inspection
next Tuesday evening, and formally
for business a week from next Mon-
<Jay, on April 18th.
Arrangements were completed yes
terday for the inspection or "house
warming," on Tuesday by a com
mittee headed by Dr. George G.
Herr and comprising Harry A. Lew
is, P. T. Kelsey, Alfred Yeomans and
Nelson C. Hyde. The reception will
begin at 7:30 o’clock with a concert
by the Southern Pines High School
Band, followed by singing by the
High School Glee Club directed by
Frederick Stanley Smith. The band
and glee club will gather on the
steps of the new building for their
part in the program.
Receiving tlie visitors, in addition
the the above mentioned committee,
will be Mayor D. G. Stutz; Robert
L. Hart, president of the Chamber
of Commerce; Roy A. Grinnell, pres
ident of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce; Frank Webtter, superin
tendent of schools, and Frederick
Stanley Smith, head of the Music de
partment in the schools. Hostesses
will be Miss Mary Richardson and
Miss Florence Campbell, aided by
eight young ladies they are to se
lect.
The inspection of the building will
follow the musical program, and the
public, after being escorted through
the various departments, will be
.«»erved a light punch by the young
ladies.
Open For Business April 18
Business will be transacted as us
ual at the present postoffice on Sat
urday, April 16th. The office will
Dr. Louis B. Me Brayer, Leader
In War on Tuberculosis, Dies
Former Head of State Associa-
tion and Secretary of State
Medical Society Passes at 69
Funeral services for Dr. Louis
Burgin McBrayer, former Executive
Director of the North Carolina Tu
berculosis Association and for many
years Secretary of the North Caro
lina Medical Society, were held in
Bethesda Church, Aberdeen last Sat
urday afternoon. Dr. McBrayer pass,
ed away at the home of his daught
er, Mrs. P. P. McCain, at Sanator
ium, early last Friday morning fol
lowing a long illness of pernicious
anaemia.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. J. Fred Stimson of the South
ern Pines Baptist Church, assisted
by the Rev. A. D. Carswell of the
Presbyterian Church of R^ford.
Surviving members of the Sandhills
Sixteen, of which Dr. McBrayer was
a member, sang. The church was
filled to overflowing with friends
and associates of one who had play
ed a prominent part in the upbuild
ing of this section of the state, as
well as in medicine. The medical fra
ternity was represented by more
than 100 physicians from this and
other states, and delegations were
present from various organizations,
including the Southern Pines Cham
ber of Commerce, the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club, the U. S. Highway No. 1
Association, in all of which Dr. Mc
Brayer was active during his life
time.
Dr. McBrayer was bom in Bun
combe county, December 27, 1868,
the son of Adolphus and Lou Case
McBrayer. He attended Newton
Academy, Asheville; Judson College,
Hendersonville and received his M.
D. from the University of Louisville,
Dies in 70th Year
DR. IX)UIS B. McBRAYEB
“BEHER HOMES IN
AMERICA” MONTH
LAUNCHED HERE
GEORGE MAURICE
NEW PRESIDENT
OF M. C. HOSPITAL
Chosen at Annual Meeting to
Succeed James Iloyd.—Three
New Directors
YEAR’S WORK REVIEWED
State Chairman Pays Tribute
To Bion Butler and Leon-
ard Tufts in Speech
Full Fashioned Hosiery
Mill To Locate in Aberdeen;
To Erect $1,600 Building
ASKS YEAR ’ROUND WORK
“If any coxmty has advertised the
State, Moore county has done so,”
. rT j. said Miss Pauline Smith, district
Ky.. m 1899. He held his first public . , ^ j
D t I home demonstration agent and State
office as Coroner of Buncombe
county in 1901. He was surgeon for
ten years on the staff of Mission
Hospital, Asheville, and was a sur
geon for the Southern Railway. He
organized and built the Asheville
model city health department which
attracted attention throughout the i
nation; designed and put into use;
Better Homes chairman, in address
ing 60 persons representing eleven
home demonstration clubs and twelve
other civic-minded organizations
from 22 communities who assem
bled in the home agent’s office in
the court house on Wednesday af-
i ternoon for the launching of the!
the first sanitary service closets ever
Better Homes in America Campaign
close at 10:30 o’clock that night, later adopted throughout the
which time everyone is urged by | United States. By proper sanitation
Postmaster Frank Buchan to remove hygiene he reduced the typhoid
j in the county.
“Bion Butler and Leonard Tufts
have taken tf!c lead,” the speaker
their mail from the boxes.
Mail will be despatched from the
new building on Sunday, tho I7th,
but there will be no distribution of
mail that day. The public is asked
to bear with the postoffice force
that day, in order to give them the
nece.ssary time to make the move
from the old to the new quarters.
On Monday morning the 18th, the
new building will be in full opera
tion for the receipt, despatch and dis
tribution of all mail matter. Keys for
the new boxes assigned to present
boxholderg wUl be procurable at the
office that day. Two keys will be
issued for each box; special arrange-
fienta may be made for additional
keys as may be needed.
Mr. Buchan and his staff will have
a busy week-end transferring all
their goods and chattels from the
Welch Building quarters to the hand
some new structure.
Postoffice Staff
Mr. Buchan has been Postmaster
of Southern Pines since July 1933.
His staff comprises Mrs. Ola M.
Thompson, assistant postmaster;
Miss Edna M. Hutchinson, senior
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SPECIAL, BLASTER SEIBVICE
AT CIVIC CLUB SUNDAY
A special Easter morning service
will be held at the Southern Pines
Civic Club at 11:00 o’clock. The Rev.
Marcus A. Brownson, D. D., will
preach the sermon. Mrs. Reid Alii-
son Page will sing, “Open the Gates
of The Temple,” by M^rs. Joseph F.
Knapp.
A special Blaster offering will be
received and dedicated to the Build
Ing Fund of the new Presbyterian
Church. It is hoped ths.t this offer
ing will enable the Bi'ilding Com
mittee to resume work on the build
ing. Communion will be adKiuLjter-
ed to the congregation at this ser
vice. The public Is cordially Invited
to attend.
rate of Asheville from 150 with 15 said, “and she paid tribute^ to the
deatiio annually, to 15 cases and no
deaths. He organized the first med
ical milk commission in the South
in charge of certified milk. He was
first president of the North Carolina
Public Health Association. In 1903
he was Grand Master of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, serv
ing as Grand Representative to the
Soverign Grand Lodge for six years.
He organized the Rebekah branch of
the Odd Fellows in North Carolina.
From 1914 Lo 1924 he was superin
tendent of the North Carolina State
Sanatorium at Montrose and was
chief of the Bureau of Tuberculosis
of the State Board of Health, organ-
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Over $3,000 Raised For
Hospital at Annual Ball
Auxiliary Meeting Hears Also
of Donations of $1,025 and
Votes New Equipment
Members of the Moore County Hos-
ital Auxiliary, at their monthly meet
ing Wednesday, heard the gratifying
report that over $3000.000 had been
realized for the hospital through
the prize-drawing and the Hospital
Ball. In addition to this figure, $1,-
025.00 in further donations was re
ported by Mrs. Norwood Johnston,
head of the Auxiliary’s Finance Com
mittee.
The meeting warmly congratulated
Mrs. Richard Tufts, who managed
the prize-drawing; Mrs. Heman Gif
ford, the chairman of the ball, and
Mrs. Johnston, on their combined ef
forts.
It was decided to purchase for op
erating room use an emergency light
set, which will prevent interruption
to surgery in the event of a failure
of the normal electric supply.
Further purchases authorized in-
eluded an idditional set of surgical
instruments and an instrument cart,
both of which will simplify and ex-
pedite operating routine.
beauty of PinehursL and Southern
Pines, where so much has been ac
complished largely by the use of
native shrubs.
“Why, with so much beauty pres
ent all around us,- isn’t it conta
gious?” she continued.
Definite plans for the observance
in North Carolina of Better Homes
W’eek, April 24, 30 were outlined
with especial emphasis on cleaning
up and beautifying the state. Each
community was asked to set up a
committee and get to work, not just
for one week, but to work from
year to year toward its goal.
How To Help
Suggested community projects in
cluded the cleaning up of homes and
vacEUit lots; removing junk and dis
posing of it in some way other than
dumping it near public roads; remov
ing highway signs; planting church
grounds and cemeteries: promoting
plant exchanges, and improving rur
al mail boxes. She urged foundation
plantings for homes in order to do
faway with the unattractive “house
on stilts” appearance of so many
North Carolina homes.
At the close of Miss Smith’s talk,
Miss Flora McDonald called upon
the following, who responded with
brief remarks: E. H. Garrison, repre
senting the Kiwanis Club; Mrs. W.
G. Brown, representing the welfare
department; C. B. Shaw, mayor of
Carthage; Mrs. Eldon Adams, P. T.
A. president for Carthage; Mrs. John
Symington, representing the health
department of the county for Dr.
Symington; Mrs. C. J. Ragsdale, rep
resenting the Farmers’ Club for Mr.
Ragsdale; Mrs. Paul Dana of the
Moore County Hospital Auxiliary;
Mrs. J. W. Suttonfleld, district pres
ident of home demonstration clubs;
Mrs. J. L. McGraw, Carthage Book
Reviewers; Mrs. R. G. Rosser, Amer
ican Home department of Vass Wo
man’s Club; Mrs. M. C. McDonald,
West E]nd Book Club, and other h(»ne
I demonstration club leaders.
George H. Maurice of Eagle
Springs was elected president of the
Moore County Hospital at the an
nual meeting of the Board of Direc
tors held Monday night at the hos
pital. James Boyd, retiring presi
dent, received the enthusiastic
thanks of the directors for his cap
able guidance of the affairs of the
institution during the past year.
S. B. Chapin of Pinehurst was
again chosen honorary president.
Mrs. James H. Andrews of Southern
Pines, and G. C. Seymour of Aber
deen were re-elected vice-presidents.
Paul Dana was reelected secretary-
treasurer, and Col. George P. Hawes,
Jr., continues in the post as assist
ant treasurer.
Twenty-nine directors will serve
for the coming year. Mrs. John L.
Given, of Pinehurst, joins Mrs. J.
H. Andrews, Mrs. Paul Dana, and
Mrs. B. C. Keating as women mem
bers of the Board. Kenneth B. Trous-
dell of Southern Pines takes the
place left vacant through the recent
death of M. G. Nichols, and Leighton
B. McKeithen of Cameron succeeds
the late H. P. McPherson.
The following directors were re
elected:
Mrs. J. H. Andrews, Southern
Pines; L. L. Biddle, II, Pinehurst;
Jackson H. Boyd, Southern Pinea,
James Boyd, Southern Pines; Struth-
ers Burt, Southern Pines; M. F. But-
ner, Pinebluff; John Currie; High-
falls; Wilbur H. Currie, Carthage;
Mrs. Paul Dana, Pinehurst; Paul
Dana, Pinehurst, Nelson C. Hyde
Southern Pines: George P. Hawes,
Jr., Pinehurst; Mrs. E. C. Keating,
Knoll wood: George H. Maurice, Ea
gle Springs; D. McCrimmon, Hemp;
M. C. McDonald, West End; Arthur
S. Newcomb, Lake view; Vemer Z,
Reed, Jr., Pinehurst; G. C. Sey
mour, Aberdeen: Frank Shamburg-
er, Aberdeen; Clyde B. Shaw, Car
thage: S. Donald Sherrerd, Pine
hurst; U. L. Spence, Carthage; D.
G. Stulz, Southern Pines, Richard
S. Tufts, Pinehurst and James H.
Walker, Pinehurst.
Nurses’ Home Flans
Before relinquishing the chair to
the new president, Mr. Boyd reviewed
briefly the record of the hospital
during the past twelve ijionths. He
told the directors of the conditional
gift which an anonymous benefac
tor has offered, namely, the sum
of $15,000.00 toward the cost of a
Nurses Home, provided the balance
of the necessary $40,000.00 is rais
ed within a reasonable time.
Mr. Boyd told further of gifts of
land from Curtis Wigg, of Pinehurst,
and from Pinehurst, Incorporated,
affording a proper site for the Home,
and guaranteeing space for neces
sary future-expansion. Announce
ment of plans for the financing of
the Nunses Home will soon be made.
E. T. McKeithen, business manager
of the hospital, stressed the fact
that no single improvement in the
plant is so much needed, from the
viewpoints alike of efficiency and
economy.
Mrs. Andrews described the pro
gram of kitchen and dining room rev-
ovation which the Auxiliary has just
completed, at a cost of nearly $5,-
000.00. A delicious dinner was serv
ed to the 'Directors in the dining
room before the business session.
TO TALR on EDUCATION
AT CIVIC CLUB TODAY
Winners
The Week’s Sports Events of
Local Interest, in a
Nutshell
Modern Plant To Install Ma
chines Making Entire Hose
in One Operation
TO EMPLOY 80 PEOPLE
Miss Jane Cothran of Greenville, 1
S. C., won the annual Women’s
North & South golf tournament at'
Pinehurst last Sunday, defeating,
Miss Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, Ga., i
in the finals, 3 and 2. i
At Camden, S. C. M.rs. Frank M. i
Gould’s Ostend won the feature Car-1
olina Cup race over timber in the j
annual steeplechase meeting, with!
Independence Boy second and Com i
Dodger, Sandhills Cup winner, third.
Many from Pinehurst and Southern
Pines witnessed the six races on the
card.
Mrs. Lawrence B. Smith’s trotter
Sir Peter Britton won the feature
event on the card at the Pinehurst
Matinee races held Tuesday after
noon before a large crowd at the
Pinehurst track.
The following are the survivors in
the North and South Amateur golf
tournament now being played at
Pinehurst: Charles Clare, Pat Mucci,
Frank Strafaci, R. D. Chapman, G.
T. Dunlap, Jr., R. W. Knowles, Jr.,
H. Anderson and M. McCarthy.
Mrs. Roy Grinnell and Mrs. Ken
neth B Trousdell won the Pine Dod
gers golf tournament held Tuesday
at the Southern Pines Country Club.
Artist and Lecturer
Here Next Saturday
John Everini?ton To Give Illus
trated Lecture on English
Gardens at Civic Club
On Saturday, April 16th, at 8:00
p. ni., the Southern Pines Civic Club
will present a natural color illustrat
ed lecture, “In The Gardens Of Old
England,” by the noted artist and
lecturer, John Everington.
All of the pictures areoriginal
camera studies and were personally
painted by Mr. Everington. There are
some 200 pictures in all and the sub
ject provides a most interesting study
of beautiful rural England. It is be-
enthusiastically received wherever it
is presented.
Mr. Everington and Mrs. Evering
ton, who assists him, were here last
spring and were cordially received.
Tickets for the lecture are 35 cents.
Civic Club membership tickets (not
transferable) will admit members
free.
Gymkhana Saturday
in Southern Pines
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
to Meet in Broom Polo Con
test, Among Other Features
This Saturday eifternoon in South
ern Pines, at the Horse Show Ring,
the Gymkhana committee is offer
ing what will jpe one of the few re
maining equestrian programs of the
current season. There are still, how.
ever, many good horses and fine rid
ers in the area and Saturday’s pro
gram will be one of the best that
has been presented this season.
For the comedy element there will
be a sack race and the ever popu
lar broom polo game between teams
from Pinehurst and Southern Pines.
EASTER CANTATA AT UNION
SERVICE SUNDAY EVENING
Sandhills’ residents and visitors are
ttiost cordially invited to hear Fran
cis N. Osborne at the Civic Club to
day at 3:00 p. m. on "Modem E3du-
cation.” Mr. Osborne is the Execu
tive Secretary of the Board of Trus
tees of the North Carolina Prepara
tory School Project, here to estab
lish an outstanding boy’s school in
the Sandhills. Following his address
there will be a question period lead
by Mr. Osboroe. Also on today’s
program will be a soprano solo by
Mrs. L. D. McDonald, accompanied
•on the piano by Mrs. Charles Owj.
“Hail, Redeemer,” an Easter can
tata by Henry Bishop Willtrie will
be presented at the union service
of the Baptist church and the Church
of Wide Fellowship on Sunday, even
ing at 8:00 o’clock in the Southern
Pines Baptist Church. Under the
direction of Mrs. L. D. Williams the
cantata has been especially prepar
ed for this service by a Baptist choir
of 15 voices, assisted by five voices
from the Congregational church. It
is throughout a composition of rare
beauty, notable both for its melo
dious quality au! widely varied
un<ts—solos, duets, men’s chorus,
etc. lEJveryone will be mo«t welcoBi<».
Negotiations were consummated
this week under the terms of which
Thomas A. Oliver of Jenkintown, Pa,,
will operate a full fashioned hosiery
mill in Aberdeen. A contract has been
signed whereby the citizens of the
Town of Aberdeen will erect a mod
em factory building, including a
sprinkler system, air-conditioned and
oil burning heating system. The
building will be approximately
60x115 feet of brick and steel con
struction. The site agreed upon will
be that of the present baseball park,
adjacent to the Taylor Chemical
Plant, and fronting on the highway
from Aberdeen to Pinehurst.
At a meeting of the Aberdeen
Chamber of Commerce held on Mon.
day night a sum of $8,000 was sub.
scribed toward the erection of the
building for the new plant, and since
then an additional $3,000 has been
pledged. It is understood the build,
ing, to cost in the neighborhood of
$16,000, will be sold to the new com
pany on a ten-year payment plan,
one-tenth to be paid off each year,
with interest at six percent on the
unpaid balances. The building is ex
pected to be ready before July 1st
Machinery From Germany
Mr. liver will install as a first
unit eight new Combi Full Fashioned
Hosiery machines which will be
.shipped from Germany. Each ma
chine woiehs nearly twenty tons
and costs approximately $12,509.00
each. Mr. Oliver says these machines,
perfected by Dr. Robert Reiner of
the Reiner Machine Company of
Weehawken, N. J., are the latest
and most modern full fashioned hos
iery machines in the world, and are
capable of making the entire hose
in one operation in contract to the
customary machines of the logger
and footer type.
Mr. Oliver is an experienced hos
iery manufacturer, having been in
the full fashioned hosiery business
in the city of Philadelphia for many
years, specializing in high grade
silk hosiery under the brand of “Su
per-Silk,” which trademark he owns
and which, it is understood will be
the name under which he will op
erate here.
Mr. Oliver will install as a first
factory on a basis of three eight-
hour shifts per day, giving preference
to local labor, and says that he
will pay the customary wages pre
vailing among other full fashioned
hosiery mills operating in this part
of the state. He, however, plans
bringing with him to Aberdeen sev
eral families experienced in hosiery
mills and their operation. It is esti
mated that this first unit of the
mill will employ approximately 80
people.
Mr. Oliver plans to arrive in Aber
deen within the next teh days to
personally supervise the erection
of the building. He will not move his
family here, however, until the first
of June, his children being in school
in Philadelphia.
Credit should be given James"^r.
Anderson, Industrial Agent for the
State of North Carolina, Warren T.
White, Industrial Agent for the Sea
board Air Line Railway and A. h.
Monroe John Howarth of Carolina
Power & Light Company, all of
whom have rendered excellent and
efficient service in cooperation with
the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce
in establishing this industry in Aber
deen.
JUNIOR CHAMBER SP0N80R.S
DANCE HERE ON APRIL 19TH
The Southern Pines Junior Cham
ber oc Commerce is sponsoring a
second dance this Spring, for the ben
efit of the recently organized asso
ciation. An Easter Frolic will be
held at IV..; Southern Pli;es Country
aub on Tuesday evening, April i9th,
and Jack Wardlaw and hi* orchestra
has been engaged to furnish music
zor the affair.