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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, January 6, 1939»
THE PILOT
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Grains of Sand
The Week in Aberdeen
towards recovery at the Moore i count of the serious illness and
County Hospital, where he was car
ried in a serious condition last
week.
Mrs. J. R. Page is confined to her
home suffering from injuries receiv
ed last week when her car was over
turned near the Aberdeen Sand Com
pany pits.
Frank McCIuer. Jr., spent the
Xew Year holidays at New Orleans,
La., where he attended the Sugar
Bowl football game with friends.
Mrs. Tim Clark and daughter of
Fayetteville spent the past week-
■nd with Mr. Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker spent
the pa?t week-end in Wendell visit
ing Mr. Parker'.s parents.
Mrs. Joe Shack of New Yoi k City
is spending some time in Aberdeen
DF the guest of Miss Marj' John
\Vb tson.
Mr. and Mrs. Walton Baker have
vetuined to their home in New York
^ity aftei' spending the holidays in
.\bcrdeen with their parent.?, Mr. and
Mrs. T. M. Sharpe.
Mi.^s Fiances Wimberly visited
!‘iiends in Florida during the Christ
mas holidays.
Mi.'s Marion Harrington has i-e-
tiirnsd to her home at Mwncure af-
fer a virit with her aunt, Mrs. Gar
land Farrell.
Mrs, Joe E. Weaver and children
of Durham spent last 'veek-end in
.-Aberdeen viriting Mrs. E. B. May
nard.
Miss Eloise Lineberry has return
ed to her home in Raleigh after a
v^eek's visit with friends in Aber
deen. She was accompanied home on
last Monday by Misses Louise Wick
er and Mary Ella Bethune, who went
up for a day's shopping.
Miss Marianne Hite of Pinebluff
visited Miss Elizabeth Caviness over
Entered at the Postoffice at South
ern Pines, N. C„ as second class mail
matter.
AN INVESTMENT
IN HEALTH
Moore county has joined in
the nation-wide campaign to
eradicate syphilis. There are
now three public clinics in the j
county for the detection and |
treatment of this disease: one |
in Pinehurst, one in Southern;
Pines, and the third in the office i
of the County Health Officer |
in Carthage. The Pinehurst din- j
ic is operated by Dr. R. B..
Owens and financed by a volun- j
teer group in that community. i
The clinic in Southern Pines is!
operated by the County Health
Officer, Dr. J. Symington, and i
his staff and financed by thCj
Committee on Negro Welfare, a, ■
local volunteer organization.!
The work in Carthage is a part;
of the regular office routine ofj
the County Health Officer. In
addition to local financial sup- ^ Page Biddle of W'arren-1 Mr, and Mrs. Sherman Craven
port these clinics are now re- ’ been a guest of her .=;pent last Sunday in Asheboro vis-
ceiving some State and federal' Robert N. Page, Sr.liting Mr. Craven’s parents.
through the holidays. I Dr, and Mrs. E. M. Medlin were
Statistics are not available^ making rapid strides | called to Zebulon last Friday on ac-
at this writing from the Pine
hurst and Carthage clinics but
it may be presumed that they
will show substantially the
same picture as those from the
Southern Pines clinic w'here it
has been found that 30 percent
of the persons tested are in
fected with syphilis.
Duiing the 19 months of its
operation the clinic in South
ern Pines has provided VVasser-
iTiann tests for some 1,500 per
sons. Nearly 7,000 free treat
ments have been provided. Pa
tients at the clinic come not
only from Southern Pinos, but
al.so from Addior,. Aberdeen,
Carthage. ]\Ianly, Niagara, Cam
eron and other points in the
county. A few even come from
points outside this county. By
an arrangement with the Pine
hurst clinic, which provides
only one type o ftreatment, pa
tients from that community are
received and treated at South
ern Pines,
An added impetus to an
already existing effort to deal
with the problem of svphilis,
particularly among the negroes,
was given by th: enactment in
1937 of a State law. This law
requires ihat all persons seuk-
ing domestic employment must
secure a health certificate show
ing freedom from communicable
di.seases. No person may ’oe le
gally employed as a domestic
servant, or in hotels and res
taurants, or in dairies without
a statement from a reputable
physician that he or she is free
from syphilis or, if infected, is
taking regular treatments. Per
sons under regular treatment
Locally, the news has been both
'rood and bad during the passt w’eek.
The good: Reduction in rates an
nounced by the Carolina Power &
I Light Company; “Jim" Boyd accepts
presidency of Sandhills Steeplechase
& Racing Association; Sandhills en
joys summer weather.
The bad: Corbett Alexander, pop
ular horseman, breaks his leg when
pony rolls on him; Duke loses to
University of Southern California in
Rose Bowl. 7-3, in last minute of
play.
In our mail bag:
“Who is Sylvia? What is she?”
(See Pilot editorial, signed “H,
K. B.’’)
Then when you find what’s in
side here—
Remember that bills come the
first of the year.
The small girl and Sylvia Will
tell you what to do,
And I hope a lot of others will
dig down tool
The “bill” inside was a five-spot.
The letter was postmarked “Pine-
burst.” Sylvia will have ag much joy
out of disposing of her five as many
would the same five with rows of
trailing ciphers.
Garrison Explains Effect of the
Tobacco Defeat on 1939 Program
“Since the Tobacco Control pro
gram did not go over, a good many
people are beginning to ask w'hat
the program for 1939 will be,” says
County Agent B, H, Garrison, Jr.
“The Cotton progiam carried all
right so there will be a limit on the
amount of cotton which anyone can •
market and avoid the tax. There'
will be no control on tobacco and
no sales cards will be issued next
fall on the tobacco sales. Payments
will be made on the cotton and to
bacco to those who stay within the
allotments set up for the farm. These
will come under the Soil Conserva-;
tion program just as they did in
1937 when we had no control on
cotton and tobacco. The same soil
building practices will be in effect
for 1939, Seeding of lespedeza, ter
racing work, thinning of timber,
turning under or leaving peas on the
land or turning rye green will all
count again toward earning pay
ments for practices. Those who have
no cotton or tobacco allotments may
still earn some payment by carrying
out the above named soil building
practices. This is of course in cases
where the farTn has been signed up
and soil conserving and depleting
bases set up for the place.
“Some time after the first of
the year w’e shall begin to sign up
any (additional farms toy whicb
bases will have to be set up. Also
to making changes where the owner
ship of the place has been chaiigd.
W'here a division in the property has
occurred we should b6 notified about
this unless the farm will still be
operated on the same basis as before,
“Payments under the Soil Conser
vation program were easily earned
and hope that as many as possibly
can stay within the cotton and to
bacco allotments will earn some pay
ment this year. General bases were
set up for all farms also. These
bases cover all crops other than
cotton and tobacco and the soil
building crops. The penalty for over
planting the general is not exces
sive but takes that much out of the
payment for the farm. It has been a
practice in the county, and a good
one, for a long time to plant com
and peas in alternate rows. This
makes the corn acreage count up too
fast now, so we are advising that
the corn be planted in regular width
rows and peas sow'n at laying by
time. This will still count all com
and half credit for the peas, A few
changes like this do not change
the program for the farm a great
deal and gives a great many people
a chance to comply who possibly
would not do so otherwise,”
death of Dr. Medlin’s father .
Mrs. S. E. Sloan had as her guests
during the holidays Mrs. Scott Bark
ley, Mrs. W'alter Atwell, Misi? Louis
Barkley and Howard Russell of
Statesville, Mrs. A. B. Ho.skins of
Asheville and Lex Barkley of Mar
ion.
J. Walter Lambeth of Thomasville,
former Congressman from the Eighth
Dirtrict, spent last Wednesd.'iy in
town, calling on friends.
Miss Katharine Caviness of Lake-
view visited her cousin, Miss Louise
Caviness over the past week-end.
Mrs. Thomas B. Wilder and Miss
Mary Page spent last Tuesday in
Greensboro,
Misses Margar-et McLeod, Ruth
Lawhon and Katie Lee Shear were
shopping visitors in Raleigh last
5;atuiday,
Mrs. Maud Wilkins ha.s rctui'ned
from a visit with friends and rela
tives in Richmond and PetersDui'g,
Va,
Mrs'. Jack Smith entertained her
bridge club last Tye.sday evening at
hei' home on Poplar street. Follow
ing the game prizes were presented
as follows; Mrs. William Carter, Jr.,
high score club prize. Mrs. Murdoch
Johnson, guest prize, and Mrs, Glenn
Caviness, consolation prize.
After spending their Christma.<«
holidays at home the following young
people of Aberdeen have returned
to their respective colleges: Miss
Betsy Jean Johnson, Lawrence Rowe
and Billy Burns to JT. N. C. Chapel
Hill; Mis-es Margaret McLeod and
Kathryn Charles to Flora Macdonald
Those around here who like polo
can witness a game at Fort Bragg
Sunday between picked teams from
Camden, S. C., and the artillerymen.
are as safe to employ as those hast week-end.
who are not infected. Indeed,, Miss Bes~ie Gunter, who spent the
they may be consideied sfifpr, i holidays in Atlanta visit-
since they cannot tiansmit theji^or her .sister, Mrs. Fannie Martin,
disease to otheis while tho,se | returned home,
who are not infected may be
come so at any time
It is of vital importance to
the success of the campaign
that all employers obey the law'
to the letter by requiring a cer
tificate of health and by insist
ing that their employees, if
they require treatment, be reg
ular in attendance at the near
est clinic, or upon some physi
cian for uninterrupted treat
ment.
A good start has been made
in the county; but a great deal
yet remains to be done before
anything like an adequate plan
IS in force. The minimum re
quired for successful treatment
of the disease is 50 to 75 w’eekly
treatments. That means that
even if every infected person in
the county were under regular
treatment it would be a year
and a half before the disease
was stamped out. Actually, how
ever, the process must be a
very much longer one than that,
covering many years. Only as
a community becomes deeply
and widely concerned about the
problem and makes careful,
long-time plans can any success-
“Best Poems of 1938,’’ just pub
lished in England by Jonathan Cape,
contains only a few' by Americans.
But of the few', two are by Sandhills
writers, one by Donald Parson of
Pinehurst, author of “Glass Flowers,”
published in 1937 and which ran into
several editions; the other by Struth-
ers Burt of Southern Pines, whose
new book, “Powder River,” is now
enjoying a splendid sale. The Bur't
poem was titled, “Bloody Men.”
As Mr. Par.ion’s sor.net, selected
for publication, was not one of those
appearing in his “Glass Flowers” we
ire printing it herewith. IL is ti
tled: “At Keats’ Grave:”
If I could wi'ite one sonnet ere I die
On some large theme of love or life
or death,
Sung to one note, as if a single
breath
Had flung a fanfai'e to the curtain
ed sky;
Where every rhyme shoald meet it^
fellow-ihyme
Like lov'ers’ lips, and every phase
be fair.
And evei’y thought, new-minted,
' proudly wear
The robe of beauty, yet the stamp
of time;
Then might I lie, like you, almost
content,
Blind to the moon, deaf to the alien
tongue,
And make 'this sanctuary of the-
birds
My home, under a foreign firmament,
Until some day a stranger, blond and
young.
Should whisper to my dust dear Sax
on word,"!.
Here’s a record to be proud of:
Leo C. Fuller of Pinehurst hasn’t
missed a Kiw’anis meeting in ten
years. As the club meets weekly.
College, Red Springs; Miss Nancy this means 520 consecutive meetings.
Wimberly, Miss Theresa and Rober-|Mr. Fuller, a member of the Sand-
ta Zimmerman, W, C. U. N. C. I hills club, attends the sessions of a
Greensboro; Misses Rebecca and club in Maine during the summer
Dorothy Doub, Greensboro College, months,
Greensbor’o; Misa Lida Duke Blue,
to Marjorie Webster School, Wash
ington, D, C„ Mi.sB Kathryn John
son, E. C. T. C. Greenville, Miss Mar-
shall Page, Garden City, Long Is- John N. Medlin, 64, retired farmer
land, N, Y,, Charlton Huntley, Pres- of Zebulon, and father of Dr. E.
byterian College, Clinton, S. C., Sid- M. Medlin of Aberdeen, died last
ned Windham. Syracuse College, Sy-' Saturday morning following a stroke
tacuse, N. Y., Jerry McKeithen, Cit- of paralysis.
adel. Charleston, S. C., June Camp- i Funeral services were held at the
bell. Presbyterian Junior College, home at 2:30 p. m, Sunday, con-
Griffin,
Baptist
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FATHKR OF I)K, MKDLIN
DIES IN ZKBl’LON AT 64
Mrs. H. W. Doub is making a sat
isfactory recovery at Moore County
Hospital after a major operation.
Ralph Graham has returned from
■;tate-ville where he attended the
marriage of his brother. Walter
Traham to Miss Katharine Presley,' Maxton, Henry Wilder and Jean Fol- ducted by the Rev, G. J.
R. C. Zimmerman has been confin- j State College, Raleigh, Cht'ls pastor of the Zebulon
ed to his home for several days with p^ge Shamburger, Chattanooga Mil- Church
-;ciatica.
*'ul campaign be pro.secuted.
Such a plan mu.st be at least
'■-•ounty-wide in scope if it is to
prove effective. Every commun-
■iv in the coun^-- should have
a clinic, or provide some means
>y which people can be trans-
lorted to existing clinics.
A successful plan w’ould re-
luire unremitting effort, care
ful education, the interest and
'•ooperation of every per.son, anri
considerable money. But all
these would prove to be well
^pent, for there is no better in
vestment than in the health of
he community. The unanimous
i^erdict of public health author
ities is that syphilis can be
•tamped out. Moore county has
^>egun to eradicate it. Let the
job be done thoroughly!
itary College, Chattanooga, Tenn.,| Mr. Medlin, who had lived in Zeb-
and Bob. Wilder, Wake Forest, Miss ulon 26 years, was one of the first
Mae Rhyne to Peace College, Ral- settlers of that community,
eigh, I Surviving are two sons, E. M.
Courtney Huntley left this week Medlin of Aberdeen and A. D. Med-
for Raleigh where he will enter the ^ lin; and three daughters, Mrs. Derock
North Carolina Senate, now in ses- Vincent of Greenville and Mrs, C. A.
Sion, for his fifth term as a page.
AKCHITECT HERE TO M.VKE
SURVEY OF SCHOOL SITE
Knott and Mrs, Edwin Richardson of
Zebulon. His wife died a number of
years ago.
J. E, Atwood, Durham architect,
was here this week to look over the
site proposed for the Boys’ Prepara
tory School on the Midland Road.
Mr. Atwood made preliminary draw
ings of the location and will submit
sketches for proposed buildings to
the school’s executive board in the
near future.
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