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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 19, NO. 10.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, February 3, 1939.
FIVE CENTS
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
FOR EARLY START
ON NEW LIBRARY
Fifth Annual Steeplechase Races to Be Held Here Saturday, March 18
Supreme Court Affirms Decision
Which Set Aside Friendly
^Restraining Order
OPINION AWAITED HERE
Prospects appeared bright yester
day for prompt action in providing
Southern Pines with a new library
building.
The State Supreme Court handed
down a decision affirming, with modi
fications, the decision of the Super
ior Court in the friendly action
brought recently by Hiram West
brook of Southern Pines against the
Town of Southern Pines, based on
the erection of the proposed build
ing.
The test case was to determine
•whether a library building, for
which the town has been allotttd
$11,500 by the federal government,
comes under the provision of the law
which reads “buildings which may le
gally be erected” on city property
with public funds.
Mr. WestbrooK obtained a restrain
ing order, which the Superior Court
set aside. An appeal was taken to
the Supreme Court which no^ af
firm,the lower court, “with modi
fications.” What these modifica
tions are will not be known until the
papers have been received here.
Pending decision of the Supreme
Court,, Southrn Pines has been at
a standstill In Its Civic Center
plans.
I
State’s Business
Increased ''00,000 in
First Year ^.dvertising
Fashion Show
Annual Hospital Ball Chang
ed To Something Different,
On Night of March 28
Gross Annual Return of 64 Mil
lions, Governor’s Secretary
Tells Kiwanis Club
214 NEW INDUSTRIES
Civic Club Announces
Two Artistic Progrrams
Presents Miss Seawell and Mrs.
Pearson Today, Hoffman at
Mid-Pines Next Week
The program this afternoon, Fri
day, at 3:00 o’clock at the Civic
Club of Southern Pines, is open to
all guests of the Sandhills who are
in hotels or cottages, on Invitation
without cost, and promises to be a
very delightful one. Miss Meade
Seawell of Carthage Is a favorite
speaker In the state, and her visits
to the Sandhills are most welcome.
Miss Seawell has chosen “Today’s
Challenge’’ aa her topic.
Mrs. Harlow Pearson, lyric ao-
prona, also a daughter of the South
by birth, will sing two groups of
songs, accompanied by Mrs. Norris
Hodgkins. Mrs. Pearson is from New
York and with her family Is winter
ing in Southern Pines. Mrs. Virgil
Lee and Mrs. Edward A. Campbell
will be hostesses at the tea hour.
Next the list of guarantors
will be published for the Valentine’s
Day recital to be played at the Mid-
Pines Club by Mark Hoffman, con
cert pianist. The Civic Club is pre
senting Mr. Hoffman on Tuesday af
ternoon, February 14th at 3:00
o'clock, and a limited number of tick
ets may be ordered at Hayes’ Book
Store in Southern Pines, and at .the
Carolina Pharmacy In Plnehurst.
For the past five years. Mark
Hoffman has been the director of the
School of Music In the Womens' Col
lege of the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, and is gain
ing national reputation for his school.
Mr. Hoffman Is a Gold Medal prize
winner of the Chicago Mvisical Col
lege and a pupil of Rudolph Reuter
and EJmest Hutcheson. He Is a Bach
elor of Music from the Eastman
School of Music, Rochester, and a
Master of Arts, New York Univer
sity. He had a yea^L ln Berlin, Ger
many, with George Schumann, study
ing theory, and then toured Ger-
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SOUTHERN PINES MEN’S
CLUB HOUSE RENOV.\TED
The National Steeplechase and Hunts Association last week awarded the date of Saturday,
March 18th to the Sandhills Steeplechase and Racing Association for its fifth annual meeting on
the Barber Estate course on the Midland Road. Reserved parking spaces have already gone on
.sale at the association’s office in the Village Court Building, Plnehurst, and officials report an
unprecedented early demand.
A
J.J
CANADIAN BANKER
AND INDUSTRIALIST
President of Trust Company,
Railroad and Mining Concerns
Passes in Southern Pines
LONG A WINTER RESIDENT
The Southern Pines Men’s Club
has completed renovation of its
clubhouse on East Pennsylvania ave
nue. The Interior of the building has
heen repainted, a new heating plant
installed, billiard tables rebuilt and
nevsr curtains and furniture ordered.
Dr. George C. Herr Is president of
the Club, 8jid Eugene Wodward sec
retary and treasurer.
James J. Warren, Canadian bank
er and industrialist, died last Satur
day at his winter home on Wey
mouth Heights, Southern Pines at
the age of 68. Death followed a
heart attack of short duration.
Mr. Warren, who had come here
for several years, was president of
the Trusts and Guarantee Company
of Toronto and had been president
of the Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Company for twenty years.
It is Canada’s largest silver produc
er.
At his death Mr. Warren was
president also of the Kettle Valley
Railway Company in British Colum
bia, which he built as a subsidiary
to the Canadian Pacific Railway. He
was managing director of the West
Kootenay Power and Light Company
and a director of the Canada Starch
Company. He was a member of the
National Club In Toronto and the
Union Cljb, Victoria.
Mrs. Warren and a daughter, Mrs.
F. W. Perclval, accompanied Mr.
Warren to Southern Pines early last
month. Another daughter, Mrs. Har
old Hummell of Vancouver, and two
sons, James W'arren of Edmnlton
and G. M. Warren of Vancouver, also
survive. Funreal services were held
in Toronto on Wednesday.
School Children of County Net
$733.64 in 1938 Seal Sale Drive
From Flop to Top
Best (iymkhana Ever Prom
ised /or Southern Pines
Next Thursday Afternoon
j Colored Pupilsi Collect $230,
[ Whit© $503 For Campaign
Against Tuberculosis Here
The Sandhills is to see the last
word in Fashion Shov/s thl.s Spring,
the biggest and most colorful affair
of Its kind ever staged in the Sand
hills. This was decided upon Wed
nesday morning at the regular meet
ing of the Plnehurst Hospital Aux
iliary. The affair will take the place
of the annual Hospital Ball which
has been held for several years for
the benefit of the Auxiliary's char
ity fund, and will feature the latest
evening gowns, wraps and sports
wear from a Pinehurst shop, modeled
by a selected group of society wo
men of the Sandhills, and by pro
fessional models from New York.
The Fashion Show is scheduled for
Tuesday night, March 28th, the first
night of the Plnehurst Horse Show.
After serious consideration by the
members of the Auxiliary it was de
cided to vary this year’s program
and to offer something different. Mr.
and Mrs. F. R. Razook presented a
fashion show at Lake Placid during
the past summer which was both an
tertalnment here. Their offer was ac-
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The next gymkhana will be held
In Southern Pines next Thursday af
ternoon at 2:30 o’clock, and plans are
In the making for the most exten
sive equestrian event here thus far
this season. The last gymkhana, due
to the absence from town of several
officials and many of those who us
ually enter their horses, came close
to being “a flop.” Chairman Fred
erick H. Burke, just back from Flor
ida, promises to make this one a
“humdinger” to average up.
"We’ll have the best program, the
most horses and the most riders
we’ve ever had here,” he told The
Pilot yesterday. “We have postpon
ed it from this Friday, as scheduled,
until next Thursday for two reas-
one: first, there’s to be a gymkhana
In Plnehurst this Sunday, postpon
ed from last week; second, we want
plenty of time to prepare for this
affair, because we’re going to make
It 'the top’.”
Mid-South Golf For
Women Here March 20
Patty Berg, National Champion,
Expected To Defend Title
She Won in 1938
Mary Ellenore Eddy
Married Last Summer
Mr. and Mrs E C Eddy of Sou
thern Pines Announce Betroth
al To Harold B Smith
The committee In charge of the
11th annual Women's Mid-South
Golf championship tournament, to be
held at the Southern Pines Country
Club Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day, March 20, 21, and 22,1 this
week announced the schedule of
prizes for this event which has
drawn the elite of women golfers
since Its Inception In 1929. This year
^ I the tournament will be played on
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Eddy of South-1 greens of the club for the
ern Pines announce the marriage of f**st time.
their daughter, Mary , Ellenore, to i The championship trophy will go
Harold Bryant Smith of Lakeport, N. | to the winner of the low gross
H., on last July 22. j for 54 holes. There will be a prize
Mrs. Smith Is a graduate of the! fo*" . anner-up, second low gross.
Southern Pines High School. She at- j ^ for low net for the 54 holes,
tended Qu6ens-Chlcora College In j the second low net. Prizes
Charlotte and Is a member of Alpha i wUl also be given for low gross and
Delta Theta Sorority. | net for each 18 holes.
Mr. Smith Is the son of Mr. and | Entry is by invitation only and
Mrs. Harry L. Smith of Lakeport, N. j no entry fee or greens fee will be
H., and Is a graduate of Laconia | charged. The No. 1 champlon.ship
High Schol. He attended th Unlver-1 course will be available to entrants
sity of New Hampshire n d Is a j for the two days before the tourna-
member of the Phi Delta UpsUon ment. Entries close March 17.
More county can justly second the
sentiments of Mrs. T. A. Cheatham
of Pinehurst, chairman of the Coun
ty Tuberculosis Committee who told
The Pilot this week: “I wish to com
mend the fine co-operation of the
county schools in the 1938 Seal Sale
campaign.”
A total of $733.64 was collected
by the pupils of the schools of the
county, Mrs. Cheatham reports,” and
we have five schools yet to hear
from.” Fourteen schools topped their
quotas, thus earning for their own
health uses the ten percent bonus
offered them. These .schools, with
their total collections, were:
White—Plnehurst, $149.42; Aber
deen, $75.00; emp, $69.00; Carthage,
$61.00; Southern Pines, $35.00; West
End^ $30.00, and Vass-Lakevlew, i
$21.90.
Colored—Eastwood, $35.00; Car
thage, $34.00; Southern Pines, $30.00;
Pinehurst, $25.00; Aberdeen. $21.00;
Eagle Springs, $10.00, and Spies,
$10.00.
Honorable mention goes to the
Eiastwood colored school which,
though but a one-teacher schol, led
the colored division with collections
of $35.00. Mrs. Edna Taylor of
Pinehurst is th-. tf.scher.
In the entire coi'nty, the w'iilto
schools collecteJ .S503.13. the colored
$230.51.
Figures for the cf)unty other than
the returns from the schools aie not
sufficiently complete fo'- publication
IMs week, Mrs. Cheath^'.m announced.
Several towns have not a.v yet turned
I I their reports, as moiicy is s'lll
dribbling in.” But tho county chair
man felt safe in slatinsj to The Pilot
that the total receipt-^ in the county
for the campaign against tuberculos
is will top last year’s total.
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
TO RAISE $600,000
FOR boys: SCHOOL
Fraternity. His father is '...slstant
State Engineer of New Hai.ip^ire.
The young couple plan to make
their home in Nashua, N. H.
It is expected that the present na
tional champion. Miss Patty Berg,
who won this event last year, will
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A Gift For Health
Mrs. Kealing Sends Check
for $118.21 To County Phy
sician. Dr. J. Symington
with the final payments from
the llq,uidation of the Page Trust
Company Mrs. Francis T. Keating
of Pinehurst, president of the
Health and Welfare Association
has sent the Moore County De
partment of Health a check for
$118.21, to be used for definite
purposes.
"We are very grateful for this
check as it will help greatly in
our work and will be used for the
purpose designated,” the Cour,+y
Health Officer told The Pilot.
T. Ashley Haywood of Rock
ingham Elected Chairman of
Trustees at Meeting Here
full BOARD IS CHOSEN
Following promptly the approval
of plans by the Boaid of Trustees of
the North Carolina Preparatory
School for Boys at the dinner meet
ing held in the Carolina hotel at
Pinehurst last Saturday night, the
campaign for the Building Fund was
launched this week under the direc
tion of the newly elected chairman of
the board, T. Ashley Haywood of
Rockingham, and with the a.ssist-
ance of Francis M. Osborne, execu
tive secretary and J. A. Baldwin,
assistant field manager. The plans
call for raising $600,000 for build
ings and endowment.
Citizens of Moore, Montgomery and
Hoke counties have pledged $20,000
for tlic! purchase of land on Midland
Road, to be donated to the school
when the first $100,000 of the build
ing fund is subscribed. The executive
committee of the .school will con
duct the campaign for funds and
has divided the state into five sec
tions, with these cities as headquar
ters: Charlotte, High Point, Raleigh,
Rocky Mount and Wilmington.
Board of Trustees
The following were elected mem
bers of the executive committee of
♦he trustees: Mr. Haywood, chair
man; Dr. Paul P. McCain, State San
atorium; Dr. Henry L. Sloan, Char
lotte; O. Arthur Kirkman, High
Point; Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheatha-n and
Mr. Osborne.
Other members of the board, in
addition to the executive commit
tee, announced at the meeting are:
.Tames S. Ficklen, Greenville; J. E.
L. W'ade, Wilmingtdn; Leslie Weil,
Ooldsboro; Dr. W. D. James, Ham
let; the Rev. J. Fred Stlmson, South
ern Pines; A. H. Oraham, Hillsboro;
Jack Joyner, Statesville; J. Ed Mills,
Fllgh Point; Dr. Oren Moore, Char
lotte; Frank O Sherrill, Charlottet;
Trank O. Sherrill, Charlotte; John F.
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SUFFERS FALL I’ROM HORSE
Fred B. Wilmshurst, of Rumson,
N. J., and Hasty, near Laurinburg,
suffered a fall while jumping a fence
on one of his horses near Southern
Pines on Wednesday and is confined
to the Moore County Hospital. His
condition is reported as not seriouB.
North Carolina is getting more
than value received for Its annual
expenditure of $125,000 in advertis
ing the state, Robert L. Thompson,
private secretary to Governor Hoey,
told the Sandhills Klwanls Club at
its luncheon meeting held Wednesday
in the Mid-Pines Club. And Mr.
Thompson backed up his statement
with a recitation of facts and figures
which proved most Interesting and
enlightening to the Klwanlans.
“The value of advertising should
be appreciated by the Sandhills,” he
said, “for this section saw the light
long before the rest of the state.
But I doubt that even you realize
how much has been accompltsjied by
the advertising division of the De
partment of Conservation and Devel
opment, and how serious will be the
future as well as the immediate loss
to the state In the event this pro
gram is sacrificed on the altar of
false econemy.
"For North Carolina to drop State
advertising at this time would be as
foolish as it would be for Plnehurst
to plow up its golf courses in order to
save the salary of a greens keeper.
It is the most profitable i»»vei)tment
of $12.5,noQ il probabLy ever
made in our history, t
“But, first, let’s a fev^f
facts for I claim to be at least a
God-father of this baby and I’ll ad
mit I’m prejudiced.
‘‘Because It took tlm? to map out
policies, select ftn agency, buiJd up
a publicity office and make neces
sary MfltftctM ae well a« contrictS, it
was not until the fall of 1937 that
the program got nroving and certain
ly things were not In full swing be
fore January 1, 1938. Now that was
about the time the recession got go
ing. Nevertheless, according to Co-
timates made by agencies of the
United States Government as well as
State agencies. North Carolina’s
tourist business Increased by from
twenty to twenty-five million dollars
last year and today it is not only
the fastest growing business In our
State but its gross annual return
of $64,000,000 is equaled to one-
third of our much vaunted tobacco
crops.
Gasoline Taxes
Was the advertising program en
tirely responsible for this? It most
certainly was NOT. There were a
number of causes, including the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park which was visited by over
694,000 people. But don't forget this:
Half of that park is in Tennessei
and while North Carolina's gasoline
consumption increased to the extent
that we collected $1,241,000 addition
al in gasoline taxes last year Ten
nessee's consumption Increased less
than half that much and In many
states there was a decrease rather
than an Increase In the amount of
gasoline consumed.
“Well, someone might say, do you
think this tourist business will con
tinue to increase and, if so, will It
Increase only when we advertised ?
Let’s answer tho.«»e hypothetical
questions one at a time. The Federal
government estimates that this coun
try spends six billion dollars a year
on travel. If you will admit that
North Carolina Is even an average
state, with no more than an average
climate and an average attraction to
offer visitors, we are still getting le: s
than half the share of the average
state, although we are larger than
average in population and a darn
sight better In most other ways.
Certainly our tourist business should
be doubled at the very least.
“But, to answer the .second ques
tion, we may a» w'ell give up hope
of selling the attractions of North
Carolina to the people ofthe oth^r
sections of thig country unless we
tell and show them what vre have to
sell. How long do you think ‘The
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