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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY WTTT? iL HEt A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 19, NO. 12. ^^^ARTHAOe &AGi-e SPRINC9 9^ /lakevicw manuky SOUTHCRN Pines ASNU6V MfttCHTS PlMEBtUPP PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING j# Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, February 17, 1939. WALLACE WADE TO TALK TO HI-Y BOYS OF COUNTY 1938 Seal Sale in County Clears iJAY-CEE STATE $1,880 for Tuberculosis Fight Famous Football Coach Speaker at Biff Brother Banquet Arranged by Kiwanis IN SOUTHERN PINES !\IAR. 22 Total Tops Previous Year’s Fig ure by Nearly $200, Report of Mrs.: Cheatham Shows v> ailace w arte Wallace Wade, coach of the “Duke 'B 1 u e Devils,” the only footoall team in the coun try that went through its reg ular schedule this past season with out being defeat ed, tied or scored upon, will address the “Big Broth er” banquet to be put lOn by (the Sandhills Kiwanis Club on Wednesday evening, March 22d at the Southern Pines Country Club. Guests of the Kiwanians on that occasion will be the members of the Hi-Y clubs of the Abonleen, Carth age, Pinehurst and Southern Pines schools, and Coach Wade will give them some sound advice on growing to mandhood in addition to telling them some thing about the sport in which he has risen to eminenece. The Kiwanis Committee on Boys and Girl?) W’o'k is in charge of ar rangements foi the dinner. Compris ing this committee are Frank W. Webster, chairman; A. L. Burney of Aberdeen, S. Donald Sherrerd of P*inehurst, Charles J. McDonald of Carthage and Harry H. Pethick of Southern Pines. Leading Golf Stars To Play Here in March Patty Berg, National Champion, Will Defend Mid-South Ti tle Won Last Year Invitations went out this week for the Eleventh Annual Women’s Mid- South Golf Championship to be play ed on the grass green course at Southern Pines Country Club on March 20th, 21stand 22nd. The tournament, which is expected to be one of the outstanding golf events played in the mid-south this season, will include a line-up of the country’s leading stars headed by Patty Berg, national champion and defending champion in this tourna ment. Eugene C. Stevens, chairman of the Tournament committee, has announc ed that others having signified they will play here include Laddie Ii-win, Katherine Hemphill, Jane Cothran, Estelle Lawson Page, Marian Miley and Betty Jamison. The tournament, a 54-hole medal event, will be made up of a field of close to one hundred women golfers. Handsome trophies have been donat ed for the winners and runners-up and as special prizes. The sum of $1,880.62 was the I'ec- ord total of receipts from the 1939 Christmat, Seal Sale campaign in Moore county, Mrs, T. A. Cheatham of Pinehurst, chairman of the Coun ty Committee, announced this week. This sum i.s close to $200 more than the 1937 receipts, and is $339 more than was netted in the campaign of 1936. In almost every community in the county more seals were sold for the fight against tuberculosis than a year ago. Pinehurst led with $879.05, Southern Pines raised $447.88, Car thage $142.66 and Aberdeen $110.00. In the smaller towns the receipts weie as follows; Addor $8.70, Cameron $25.37, Ea gle Springs $21.83, Eureka $12.52, Hemp $79.00, High Falls $14.13, Jackson prings $6.51, Mt. Holly $3.44, Pinebluff $36.90, Putnam $1.50, Rose- !and .50, Samarcand $11.38, Silver Springs $2.05, Spies $10.00, Spring field $1.20, Vass and Lakeview $22.00 r.nd West End $38.00. All reports are in except from three small colored schools. Mrs. Cheatham announced. The Moore County Board of Com missioners matches dollar for dollar up to $1,800, the total raised through the Seal Sale, making the grand to tal $3,680.62. One-quarter of the ac tual Seal Sale receipts goes to the National Tuberculosis Association ,but of this 20 percent is retained in the state for the use of the State organ ization which furnishes free exam inations and free tuberculin tests from which Moore county benefits. The State also contributes $2.50 a daj to’«-ard each patient from the county in the State Sanatorium. The total Seal Sale receipts throughout the 100 counties of the state were $51,000, so that Moore county with no town of over 2,500 population may be justly proud of its record of raising $1,880. Lack of space prevents recording here the names of the more than 40 children who conducted the campaign through out the various sections of the coun ty, but great credit is due them for their efforts, and due Mrs. Cheat ham for her successful management of the 1938 drive. The fight against terbucolosis in Moore county is being made easier each year by the work of Mrs. Cheatham’s committee and its support by the public and the County Board. Danger of Communism in U. S. To Be Discussed Steals Liquor Right Out of Sheriff’s Office While court was in session in the court room above, Arthur Fry, white, of Carthage, walked into the Sheriff's office in Carthage and, paying no reed to the janitor, who was working there, imlockcd a cabinet and carried off half a gallon of impounded li- quoi’ that was being held for the piupose of evidence. He used a key from the inner office door, which r.fficorp them.selvcs did not know would open the cabinet. In Recorder’s Court Saturday Fry pleaded nol contendere to the charge of larceny and was given three months on the roads, this to be suspended upon payment of a fine of $25 and the costs and upon fur ther condition of good behavior for twelve months. Jim Gatewood, white, charged with (Please Utm to page eight) WELFARE OFFICEB EXPLAINS POLICY OF DEPARTMENT Records Open For Inspection But Too Personal For Publi cation, Mrs. Brown States HERE MAY 6,7,8 Southern Pines Country Club To Be Scene of First Annual Championship MORE THAN 100 EXPECTED FIVE CENTS Chan N. Page Elected Head of Chamber of Commerce BACKED BY STATE BOARD Civic Club To Hear Program Led by F. H. Burke and the Rev. J. Fred Stimson OPEN BENEFIT BRIDGE SERIES FOR HOSPITAL, Mrs. M. G. Nichols was hostess at the first of a series of benefit bridge parties to be given in Southern Pines for the Moore County Hospital Aux iliary, at her home on Weymouth Heights yesterday afternoon. These affairs will be a regular feature of social life during the balance of the winter season. Among hostesses in the near future will be^Mrs. William C. Mudgett, Mrs. John L. McKinney and Mrs. H. Sylvester Bernstein. >IRS. LOULA McI. MUSE HONORED BY PRESBYTERY A life membership in Fayetteville Presbytery was voted Mrs. Loula Mc- Iver Muse of Cameron at the meeting of the executive committee of the Presbytery held last week in Fay etteville. The honor was conferred in recognition of Mrs. Muse’s record of having attended 38 Presbyterial meetings and of her 45 years of ac tive church work. Cameron was selected as the place of meeting for the auxiliary officers’ training course to be held In April. The Civic Club will be closed today, Friday, owing to the active work of the Hospital Auxiliary in its service of bridge teas. Next week, Friday afternoon, at 3:00 o’clock, the post poned program on the “Dangers of Communism in the United States” will be given by Frederick H. Burke and the Rev. J. Fred Stimson. These gentlemen are both well qualified to present the subject fairly, and men and women interested are cordially invited to attend. Questions and dis cussion are always enjoyed at the end of the program. The meeting will be in no way political, but intensely patriotic. The program will be op ened by Patrick J. Leonard and John McGrosso of Asheboro, director and assistant director of the Young Men’s Musical Association Band Camp at Willomoor Springs and teachers of band music in public schools in many cities of the state. 16TH anniversary OF THE C AROLINA THEAIKES “From time to time there has been criticism of the County Department of Welfare because its transactions are not published in the county pa pers, some even going so far as to hint at “croockedness” or a desire to keep its operations concealed,” said Mrs. Lessie G. Brown, Moor Coui'.ty Welfare Superintendent, in a state ment to The Pilot this week. For t'le information of those not familiar with the work Mrs. Brovm made a re-statement of the department’s policies. "We say in the first place that we receive many and varied appli cations for assistance, and much of the information required in complet ing an application may be of a per sonal and condifential nature which we insict on treating as such. We can not conceive of any good pur pose that would be served by pub lishing the name, address, and amount received by the bentificiaries. The Welfare Board which passes upon the applications, and has general su pervision of the department’s work, is composed of three mighty good, honest, level-headed citizens, as good as the county affords. “We may say in the second place that the records of the Welfare De partment have always been and are open to inspection by any citizens at any time for his own private information, and any citizen desiring to make such inspection will be wel come, and will be courteously assist ed in Securing such information. “We may say in the third place that we do not give out personal and confidential information or lists of recipients for publication or merely to satisfy morbid curiosity because we are personally opposed to doing so, and because we have instructions to that effect. Mrs. W. T. Bost, State Commissioner: ‘The Social Security (Please turn to page eight) MANY CONTR.XCTORS FIGURE ON SOUTHERN PINES LIBRARY Another golf tournament comes to {Southern Pines, as the Southern Pines Junior Chamber of Commerce announces plans for holding of the I-’iist Annual North Carolina Jay- Coe Championship, to be played over the championship course of the Sou thern Pines Country Club on May 0th, 7th and 8th. This will be an of ficial tournament of the North Car olina Junior Chamber of Commerce, Tentative plans announced by Roy Grinncll, golf pro at the local club and chairman of the Jay-Cee golf committee, are for a 54-hole medal play tournament, with handicaps. The Championship Cup will go to the win ner of low gross. Attractive trophies will aso be awarded to second low gross, low net, and Second low net, and daily prized for low net will be given. The tournament is open to any member in good standing of the Jun ior Chamber of Commerce of any city in the United States or Canada. An invitation to all clubs through out the country is being extended by the sponsor club. The Southern Pines club made for mal application to the directors of the North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce at their meeting in Ral eigh on February 12th for permission to hold an official tourney and this was immediately granted them. The loca) organization hopes to make this an annual affair and exp>ects to at tract an entry list of at least 100 players for the inaugural tournament. The sponsors are grateful to the Town of Southern Pines for the do nation of the handsome Champion ship Cup. Dr. Peake To Address Rotary Club Today Former Army Major Will Tell of Fxppriences in Philippines, Canal Zone, China Next week marks the 16th anni versary of the opening of the Carolina Theatre in Pinehurst and the open ing of the remodeled Carolina Theatre in Southern Pines. During the en tire history of these theati'es Char les W. Picquet has been the mana ger, and has maintained a high stan dard of entertainment for his clien tele. City Clerk Howard Burns of Sou thern Pines has had numerous re quests from contractors for plana and .specifications for the new Library building to be eiec4ed on the Civic Center site adjoining the postoffice, purchase of which by the Town of Southern Pines was consummat ed this week. The plans for the new building arc by Aymar Embury, II, architect of numei-ous buildings here. The library is to be built with funds granted by the federal government and private donations, and is expect ed to cost in the neighborhood of $15,000. Dr. I. F. Peake, of the Pinebluff Sanatoium, will be the speaker at the Southern Pines Rotary Club lun cheon this noon, Friday, at 12:15 o’clock at the Southern Pines Coun try Club, telling the Rotarians some of his military experiences. Dr. Peake was formerly a major in the Army Medical Corps and served in the Philippines, the Canal Zone and in China. Rotary is having a Teachers’ Night banquet on March 17th, each mem ber inviting a teacher in one of the local schools as his guest. Heads Civic Body John J. Fitzgerald Chosen Vice- President, H. J. Betterley Sec- I retary-Treasurer for 1939 CHAN N. P.\GE TOBACCO SALES IN COUNTY IN 1938 5,241,600 POUNDS Official Figures Show Farmers of State Received 26 Million Less Than Year Ago AVERAGE PRICE OFF 6% Figures released this week by the State and Federal Departments of Agriculture reveal that sales on the Aberdeen totwicco market for the 1938 season totaled 2,577,810 pounds, at an average price of $20.32 a hun dred. The Carthage warehouses sold dur ing the season 2,663,790 pounds at an average of $23.42 a hundred The total sales of the Old Bright Belt, in which the Moore county markets are located, were 195,190,758 pounds at an average per hundredweight of i $22.23. ! ! North Carolina tobacco growers re ceived $26,000,000 less for the tobac co sold on North Carolina markets 29 DIRECTORS ELECTED Chan N. Page, president of the Page Motor Company, was unani mously elected president of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerc at the annual meeting of directors held yesterday noon in Jack’s Grill. Mr. Page succeeds Robert L. Hart, who has served for the past two yeai’s. John J. Fitzgerald, manager of the Mid-Pines Club, was elected vice-pres ident, and Hugh J. Betterley re-elect ed secretary and treasurer, both by unanimous votes. The following comprise the new Board of Directors: W. G. McAvoy, Chan Page, James Boyd, J. J. Fitz gerald, R. L. Chandler, Herbert N. Cameron, P. T. Kelsey, Struthers Eurt, E. W. Reinecke, A. B. Yeo mans, Howard F. Bums, J. Fred Stim son, C. J. Simons, Dr. Ernest Bush, Norman Shenk, Frank Pottle, Em mett E. Boone, Charles W. Picquet, J. M. Windham, George W. Case, Louis Scheipers, W. B. Blue, P. T. Barnum, J. T. Overman, N. L. Hodg kins, Lloyd T. Clark, Lyle McDon ald, Harry H. Pethick and Earl G. Merrill. Past presidents of the Chamber were elected honorary directors, as follows: Harry A. Lewis, P. Frank Buchan, Dr. George G. Herr, Shields Cameron, S. B. Richardson, Robert L. Hart, Eugene C. Stever^?, Nelson C. Hyde and Hugh Betterley. Mr. Page, in accepting the presi dency, pledged his beat efforts and bespoke the cooperation of all mem. bers toward a successful year’s work. He made several recommendations for the consideration of the new board. Rising votes of thanks for services rendered during the past year were given President Hart, Sec retary Betterly and Charts W. Pic quet. E. C. Stevens, chaiman of the Golf tournament committee, reported at the meeting that things looked bright for the best Women’s Mid-Kouth tournament in the long history of that event, stating that the national champion, Paty Berg, and other lead- irvg players of he country would be during the 1938-39 season than for the crop sold a year ago, according j on March 20th for the three- Vass Vindicated! Not Laid Out “For Liquor’ But Ag’in It, a Resident E.xplains To Pilot to the Warehouse Sales report releas ed by the State Department of Agri culture. As a result of the 6 per cent lower prices, the total amount re ceived showed 18.5 per cent less mon ey paid for a 13.2 per cent smaller crop sold. Warehousemen generally reported slightly better prices paid this season for poorer grades, while those for better grades were below those of last season. The amount paid for all first-hand sales totaled $114,- 996,213 compared with $141,060,367 received the previous year-, and the pver'age price of sales at $22.92 was $1.50 per hundred less than the 1937- 38 average at $24.42. Producer’s sold .501,641,989 pounds of first-hand sales during the season compared with day event. Parkinj? Spaces For Race Meet in Demand Every Evidence This Year’s Sandhills Event Will Be Most Successful, Says Secretary Parking spaces in the Clubhouse EJnclosure continue in great demand for the fifth annual race meeting of the Sandhill Steeplechase and Racing Association, to be held on the Barber Estate course on the Midland Road on Saturday afternoon, March 18th. The number of reserved spaces is limited, and the early demand gives 577,644,681 pounds marketed first- every evidence of exhausing the sup- hand from the 1937 crop. That the town of Vass was laid cut for a “liquor district,” as stated in a legal paper filed recently in Car thage, might easily be misinterpre ted and would be more accurately expressed if “anti-” appeared before the “liquor,” a resident of the town explained in a •it.atement to The Pi lot. A Cameron, one of the ear liest set tler’s and for many years a leading citizen of the village, was strong in his opposition to the liquor traffic and did everything in his power to stamp it out. When the town was about to be incorporated, he used his influence | in having the boundary fi.xed as it is, one mile out in every directon from a central point, making the town cir- j cular in shape with a diameter of j two miles. His object in wanting the incorporated area go large was t0| enable the town authorities to keepi bootleggers as far out as> possible. I So it’s “anti-liquor district,” the Vass citi;:en says. SCOl’T LEADER’S TR.VlNIN<i COURSE TO BEGIN MONDAY ply well before race day. Nelson C. Hyde, secretary of the association, announced yesterday that there are a few spaces near the fin ish line still available at $25.00, and others along the home stretch at $10.00. Five tickets to the Clubhouse Enclosure go with each parking space- Last year evei-y reserved space was sold in advam-e and this year the demand is even grfater, Mr. Hyde stated. He advised those desir ing reserved spaces to contact the office of the secretary in the Village Court Building, Pinehurst, soon. "We are getting request? by tel egraph from all parts of the coun try—in fact We have had two wires for parking spaces from Canada,” Mr. ELOEKS .VXD ' OE.ACONS ,\RE | Kyde said yesterday, "and there is OUD.XlN'En BY I’KKSBVTKRLXNS j every evidence that this year’s meet- ' ing will be the most successful in D. Erne.st Bailey and Warren A. the five-year history of the aasocia- Smith were ordained as elders and tion. The offer of $2,200 in purses for A Scout leader’s training course will begin Monday night, February 20th at the Community Church in Pinehurst. N. C. Williams, Jr., As sistant Executive, Central N. C. Council, Boy Scouts of America, will direct the course. Training certifi cates will be awarded those receiv ing credit. This particular course will be on "Principles of Scout Leader ship,’’ and will deal with the ac tual Boy Scout organizations and program. Don Jenson, Dan McNeill and F. M. OwigVit as> deacons of the Brown- Eon Memorial Presbyterian Church at last Sunday’s service held in the Cai’olina Theatre in Southern Pines. the five races is attracting the lead ing steeplechase horses now in train ing, and Mr. Wallach, the racing sec retary, tells me he anticipates more (Pleaae turn to page eight)