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AIOORE COUMrV’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding ^^ARTHAOe ^5^ ^PAINCd \JINS 2^ 9^ ALAKEView E.NO MAHLRY ASMUGV MtKiMTS AeSROeEJi PlMEBUi^P ran r K n r»//< riHST L\ NEWS, C'lKCl LATION & ADVEKTISLXG of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina VOL. 19, NO. 13. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North (!arnimr< Friday, February 24. 1935). FIVE CENl'b MATERNITY WORK HERE OUTLINED BY MRS. Moore County Chairman on I’ro- gram at State Conference in Kaleigh Race Officials Prominent Horsemen To Be At Finish Line at Steeple chase Meet Here NEW PLANTS FOR \Pinehurst Horse Show Ass’n. STANDARD milling! Votes To Widen Scope, Become COMPANY IN HEMP - Sandhdls Institution Leading lights in amateur hunt racing circles in America have ac cepted invitations to serve as offi. cialsi at the fifth annual meeting of MANY FROM HERE AITENI) ; the Sandhills Steeplechase and Rac- I ing Association on Saturday, March Moore county \sas well icpresent | officers of the organization an- ■ed at the State Conference on ‘‘But- ] , , ^ . „ nounced yesterday, ter Care tor Mothers and Babies | held last week in Raleigh, and one ^ Algernon S. Craven of Charlottes- of the group, Mrs. Wilbur H. Currie ; ville, Va., will represent the Na- of Carthage, chaii-man of the Moore | tional Steeplechase and Hunt Asso- County Welfare Committee, made j elation in the Stewards' stand, and ' 'interesting and constructive : rei ving with him as stewards will bution to the program. u o a u - ^ ^ i bo S. A. Warner Baltazzi ot Aiken, Completely Modern, With N'ew Devices for Protecting Em ployes from Harmful Dust Plans Move to Steeplechase Course After This Year.— Elects Hurd President CONCERN EMPLOYS 50 Resigns Among those prosent at the con ference were Miss Louise Brittain, Mrs. Anna McLauchlin and Mrs. Walter MacNeille of Pinebluff, Mrs. Alice Burt Hunt of Southern Pines, Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, Mrs. George Carter, Mrs. P. K. Ken nedy, Mrs. Charles T. Grier, Mrs. Fred Undenvood, Mrs. Alonzo Blue and Mrs. Currie of Carthage, and the following from the Moore Coun ty Health Department: Dr. and Mrs. John Symington, Mrs. Archie Barnes, Miss Vista Markham, Miss Margaret McQueen and Mrs. Edith B. Harris. Mrs. Currie said. S. C., F. W’allis Armstrong of Phil adelphia, Pa., and Harry D. Kirkover of Camden, S. C. The judges will be Jackson H. Boyd of Southern Pines, Brig. Gen- VVilliam Bryden of Fort Bragg, Nat S. Hurd of Pinehurst, and B. A. Tompkins of New York. Robert B. Young of Middleburg, Va., Stew- ai t Rose, and associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and Will J. ; Stratton of Southern Pines will be patrol judges. ' Paddock judges will be Howard C. i Fair of West Chester, Pa., Ralph In her talk Mrs. Currie saia, in ; Chase of Camden, S. C., and William , A. Laing of Amissville, Va. John “Moore county is situated in the ^ E. Cooper will be clerk of scales, as- Sandhill section of North Carolina in ! sisted by W. O. Moss of Southern which are located the famous win- i Pines. W. V. Slocock of Pirohurst will ter resorts of Pinehurst and South-, be clerk of course, assisted by L. M. ern Pines Our winter residents by | Tate, also of Pinehurst, and Ernest their unselfish interest and capable '!. White of Syracuse, N. Y., will act: health of the men engaged in these leadership in all phases of health and —i The Standard Mineral Company, which operates the pyrophyllite mine at Hemp, has recently comp'eted con struction of two new flants thr're which are completely modern in all Of particular interest to employees of the company and t > the State Boanl of Health i.« ‘ihe dust control equipment in these new plants which entirely remove’ all dangei' to the employees of breath ing dupt in harmful quantities. Constructed at a reported cost in excess of $225,000 the plants re ceive pyrophyllite ore from the un derground mine of the company and grind it to a fineness about equal to that of talcum powder. The material is then shipped in carload lots to con suming points in the United States, Canada, Europe and South America. The material is used principally in the rubber, ceramic, paint and tal cum powder industries, although small quantities are used in a num ber of other fields. Several years ago it was recogniz ed that the breathing of dust gener ated by the mining and milling oper ations constituted a hazard to the as official timer. Dr. J. I. Neal has been appointed veterinarian for the meet. Parking spaces in the Membership Enclosure continue in demand at the association's office in the Village welfare work have played an impor tant part in awakening our citizens to health questions. Our combined efforts have culminated in the es tablishment of an excellent welfare department, a splendid County Hos pital and in 1928 of the County , going rapidly,” Assistant Secretary Health Department. For two years | Beveriy Walter said yesterday, an infancy and maternity nurse was Men have been busy all week pre- paring the course, jumps and out side fences for the big event three weeks from tomorrow. operations. Accordingly, the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the State Board of Health undertook elaborate medical and other studies to ascertain to what degree and in what concen trations the dust did affect men in were de maintained, but her services discontinued in 1930. "It was the articles by Paul Kruif published in the Ladies’ Home (Please tury. to page four) Appeal For Funds For School Music Activities Song Books, Sheet Music, Vest ments Needed For Choral Group, Says Letter An appeal for funds to help carry on the music activities in the South ern Pines School is being made to residents of the school district. In a letter sent out during the past week, attention is called to the fact that the school is carrying on its music activities this year under he direc tion of Miss Selma Stegall. Public school music is being offered to all of the elementary children twice each week and to the high school students five times each wo^k. “The school budget makes ^‘'^^^^V^j.national will address the locaj provision for instructional service | subject of “International the letter states, "but it is though j u^^g^gt^anding," at the regular lun- Court Building, Pinehurst. “They are each division of the company’s opera tions. Based on the findings of this State Board, which cooperated to the fullest extent in evolving a solution to the problem, dust control equip ment was designed and installed, at a cost of about $40,000, and is now operating to the satisfaction of all concerned. Fans and Watrr Sprays In the mine itself, the dust hazard is removed, first by the use of pow er driven fans to improve the nat ural ventilation so that each working place will have a supply of clean (Please turn to page four) Rotary to Celebrate Founding 34 Years Ago John Park, Publisher of Raleigh Times, To Address Local Organization On February 23, 1905 Paul P. Har. riF, a lawyer of Chicago, 111., organ ized the first Rotary Club. In the 34 years since that date over 4,800 clubs in 80 counties throughout the civilized world have come into being. This week these 4,800 clubs are ob serving the anniversary of the found ing of this great movement with ap propriate programs of an interna tional nature, stressing good will amongst the nations and world eco nomic cooperation. John A. Park, publisher of the Raleigh Times, world traveler and a past district governor of Rotary In Local Horses Do Well in Camden Hunter Trials that furher demands on his source for supplies needed to carry out the departments plans would be dispro portionate to its expenditures on other clubs of the school. However there is at present no current fund available for such materials nor can the department provide itself with them since all its public performances this year are free. “At present the Choral Group needs song books and sheet music. T'he sixty boys and girls particular ly need vestments for their Spring appearances in their Annual Festi val, their church and civic organiza tion programs’, ar<^ their participa tion iri the State contest in Grccns- I'l i'O. It is estimated that material for these robes can be secured for approximaely one dollar and fifty cents each—an expenditure of ninety dollars. The.se will last for several years. The West Soi(‘.hem Pinee Home Economics Class has kindly consented to assist in the making of those vestments.” Contributions towards the purchase •of these supplies may be sent to Superintendent . W. Webster. cheon meeting to be held on today, Friday, at the Southern Pines Coun try Club at 12:15 p. m. —- i VASS #ETS KILLED AFTER MAD DOG RUNS WILD Thu Pinehurst Horse Show Asso ciation, at its annual meeting held on iMonday in the offices of the Secre tary, Charles W. Picquet, in Pine- huist, voted to change it.s name to the Sandhills Horse Show Associa tion, to widen its scope to cover the entire section, and to procede at once with plans for a “bigger and better" 1939 .show, to be held on March 28th and 29th. Plans for the building of ,) new .show ring within the Midland Road steeplechase course for future events were launched at the meet ing. The resignation of Leonard Tufts, who ha.s served the Pinehurst asso ciation as president for many years, was accepted with regret by the association, and Nat S. Hurd of Pine hurst was elected to succeed him. Nelson C. Hyde of Southern Pines was re-elected vice-president. Col. George P. Hawes made chairman of che Executive committee, and Charles | W. Picquet re-elected secretary and' treasurer. The Executive committee comprises the following: The officers and Capt. H. S. Sea- light, Fort Bragg; Mrs. C. W. Middle ton, Mrs. Leroy Gates, Mrs. Law rence B. Smith, Walter Northgraves, George K. Livermore and Frederick H. Burke. Application was made immediately after the meeting to the National Horse Show' Association for the change of name from the Pinehurst Horte Shc^ to the Sandhills Horse Show, and Secretary Picquet receiv ed word yesterday approving the new designation. The Pinehurst associa tion has been a member of the na tional body for many years. Forty-six classes, exclusive of mili tary classes, will be shown at the show to be held next month at the present show ring near the Pinehurst race track. It was decided at the meeting Monday that it would be impossible to prepare the proposed new ring at the steeplechase course :n time for this year’s event, and the present ring win be put in first class condition at once for what may bo the last show to be held there. An nouncement of the variovis classes and premiums will be made within a few days, it was stated by Mr. Picquet. Mad Negro Kills 2, Turns Gun on Self FAMOUS LECTURER TO SPE.4K TO-NIGHT ON A.MERICANISM Charles Millon Newcomb Will Be Presented at High School Hy Civic Club HIWIORIST. PHILOSOPHER LEONAKO Tl FTS HAROLD DILLEHAY HEADS $1,500,000 HOUSING PROJECT Southern Pines Young Man Named Executive Director of Charlotte Kuilding I’rogram SALARY $3,600 A YEAR One of America's best known lec turers, Charle.s Milton New’comb, i.s to be presented tonight, F'riday, at the Southern Pines High School aud- itoi'ium by the Southern Pines Civic Club. Mr. New'comb, noted for his humorous and inspirational messages, will di.scuss: “What Is It To Be An American ?” What is this “republic” of ours? Upon what ii(isumj f ons were its foundations laid? W'ho are the en emies who s-eek to destroy it? What are their methods of attack? What form of political control do they wish ! to substitute? How may we best meet this crisis? Ha.= America a destiny ; to perform and if so what is this (iestiny? A timely di.scussion of vital i.ssues of the day based on first hand knowledge is the purpose of the Civic Club in presenting Mr. Newcomb. Charles Milton Newcomb has been on the lecture platform for 30 years I appearing before the leading club.s, tiade and professional associations of the United States and Canada, with many return dates. I Humorist and I'hilosopher He is perhaps most widely known as a humorist. At a recent appear ance before the Milwaukee Kiwanis Club, one of the men present counted ; the number of times the audience : laughed during the talk—the average was more than two laughs per niin- ; ute. But it is not merely his humor which makes Charles Milton New comb one of America’s favorite Entries of Mrs. George Watts Hill and Mrs. S. Sloan Colt “In the Ribbons” Horses entered from Southern Pines in the 11th annual hunter trials of the Camden Hunts at Camden, S. C., on Monday acquitted themselves well and carried off a fair share of the ribbons. Miss Susan Fuller rode Mrs. George Watts Hill’s Lucky Buck and Miss Catherine Colt, dau ghter of Mrs. S. Sloan Colt of New York, who has been staying at The fr.ddock, w-ere ribbon winners in the lightweight class, and Mrs. Hill’s Big Storm was in the ribbons in the Working Hunters division. In thr Hunt Teams event, feature of the day, the Hill team was fourth, with Mrs. Colt's team also showing to advan- Vass had its first mad dog scare ’ tage thougVi outsdie the ribbons, of recent years last week, when a J Tereus, a former steeplechase horse stray dog visited the home of W. H.Noel Laing. Keith and attacked the two dogsj won first place in the class for hun- there. Vick Keith killed the dog and | shown at a walk trot and can- sent its he^d to Raleigh and later | second in the lightweight in the day a wire conveyed the in- ijnnters. Harold Dillehay of Fayetteville, son of Mrs. Mattie Dillehay of Sou thern Pines, has been appointed to and has accepted the position of ex ecutive director of the Charlotte Housing Authority, in charge of a low-cost housing project for which speakers and brings him back year Charlotte is to receive $1,500,000 of , after year before the same audiences, federal funds at this time, with ad- Beneath the sparkling wit which sea- ditional funds expected a year from f^ons his talks there is a basis of now. It is understood that Mr. Dille- i sound philosophy. He is, moreover, a hay will receive a salary of $3,600 deep student of current affairs and the first year, more thereafter. of political trends. For 13 years he Harold Dillehay is a member of was in college work, at the Jiead of the contracting firm of Reinecke, Dil- the Department of Public Speaking Ithay & Co., of Southern Pines and in a large university. Fayetteville. A son of the late J. T. j Mr. Newcomb has long been rec- Dillehay and Mrs. Dillehay, who re- ognized as an opponent of the radical- sides on Page street here, he was ism in thought and action which is graduated from Southern Pines High seeking to destroy our American way School and made his home here un til placed in charge of his company's Fayetteville office about three years ago. He attended the University of j North Carolina for two years. He has had several year’s exper- William Smith of Near Aber deen Fatally Wounds W'ife and Uncle, Kills Self Apparently becomfng violently in sane, William Smith, negro of the Faint Hill section near Aberdeen, fa tally shot Jessie Smith, suppo.sed to be his wife, and his uncle, Dan Ray, then turned the gun on himself in a suicide effort at Ray’s home Mon- (Please turn to page four) Mrs. Lansing Buys W. C. Arkell Residence ience in the construction and con- Acquires Attractive Home in tracting busine.ss, specializing in the Weymouth Heights Section building of residences. The Housing * Southern Pines Authority received applications from ^ a large number of acceptable men The attractive W. Clark Arkell rea- for the position and selected Dillehay idence at the corner of Highland as the best fitted to bring its pro- Road and Connecticut avenue, in the gram to a successful conclusion. He will assume his duties on March 1 | and w’ill make his headquarters in Charlotte. Leading Charlotte architects are ■ day morning. He died on Wednesday j already engaged in drawing plans afternoon in the Moore County Hos- j tor the houses to be built on land : to be acquired as soon as funds of formation that the dog was rabid. Then came the slaughter of house hold pets, some of the owners being willing to take any chance even if their dogs h.’d been vaccinated. Faye Corbett was perhaps the most heart sick little girl in the country when she learned that “Pal.” her German Police pup, and another recently ac- quired little dog had been killed. Mrs. F. W. Taylor’s favorite, an Aii- dale, was know'n to have been wiUi the mad doR'. so it was killed, as well as the Keiths’ dogs and several others. The Sandhills was well represented among the crow'd which watched the events from the hilltop overlooking the hunter trial and steeplechase courses for which Camden is fa mous. In the group were Mrs. B. A. TompKins, Mrs. S. Sloan Colt and hex daughter Catherine, Mrs. Robert C. WMnmill, Mr. and Mrs. George Watts Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson C. -.yde, Ernest I. White, William A. Laing, Richard W'alls.ch. Jr., Miss Susan Fuller, Homer B. Gray, Wil- !i;'.m E. Schermerhorn and Richmond Meyer. pital. Officers were unable to get a full account of events leading up to the shooting as Smith's two victims died instantly and he shot himself in the face, teai’ing off a part of his ton gue and making it impossible for him to talk. Smith, who appears to be fairly well educated, wrote^ a brief message for the officers, stat the United States Housing Authority are made available. Weymouth Heights section of South ern Pines, was sold this week to Mrs. Barbara S. Lansing of Englewood, N. J. The property is among the most desirable in Southern Pines, the house modern in every detail and the grounds well landscaped and cov- 01 ed with dogwood and pine. The houre was built in 1927 by Arthur S. Newcomb and Roy A. Pu- shee, and ivas acquired oy Mr. Ar kell, vice- president of the Beechnut MKS. UILLIA.M FIDDXER P.VSSES XT I’INKBLl'FF i Packing Company, in 1931. Mr. Ar- Suffcring a sudden heart attack j kell enlarged the residence, whic'i Mrs. William Fiddner died in her now has six master bedrooms and home at Pinebhiff Isat Thursday | throe servant’s rooms. There is a nisht. Funeral services were held at spacious garage. The property coni ng that ho will write them when 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternon in the prises about an acre and one-halt ho feels able. ! Methodi.st church of Pinebluff, con- The murdered uncle's wife, Hattie ducted by the Rev. L. A. Lewis. In- Ray, is quoted as' saying that Smith lerment followed in the Pinebluff vas heard in his room having an ar- cemetery. Tument with his wife, then a shot Mrs. Fiddner, the former Florence vas heard. Running into the yard May Chrirtophor, was born at New' vith a .shotgun. Smith bia.sted away , Rochelle, N. Y., February 10th, 1890. "■nd hos l~c"n a lesidert of Pinebluff for a nur')~'T of years. She is sui-v’ived by her husband and one son, Richard Clark Fiddner. at his uncle. Mrs. Lansing, who has been lef'S- ing a house on Highland Road f r the past two seasons, purchases for a permanent winter residence, arid ii taking immediate poses ion. The d "'.1 was consummated by E. C. Stever.n. BISHOP PENICK TO PUEACH AT EM’VL'XNVIJEL C'HUKC*! HCSPITAI. Al XIMAKY TO .MEET NEXT WEDNESD.VY The Rev. Edwin A. Penick, D. D., Mrs. Fiddner was active in civic j Bishop of North Carolira. is r The regular monthly mooting of affairs in Pinebluff throughout her ^ the Woman's Auxiliary of the Moore long residence, and served for some ■•onntv Hospital will be held next time as librarian of the Pintbluff Li I'cdncrJay morning, Marcn l.^t at brary. She leaves many 10:30 o’clock in the Nurses' classroom I it the hospital. tion. She leaves many devoted throughout the Sandhills see ing his annual visitation to the Em manuel Episcopal Chuk-ch of So-'th orn Pines this Sunday. Bishop P'n- ick will preach ut the H:C0 o’rlo morning service and administer r..e Aportolic Rite of Confirmation.