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VOL. 19. NO. 2f.5
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, May 19, 1939.
SCOUT FIELD DAY
ON JUNE 7TH IN
SOUTHERN PINES
All Troops in County To Com
pete in Scouting and Athletic
Events at Ball Park
TO PARADE THRU CITY
All the Boy Scout troops in
Moore county plan to compete in
the first Scout Field Day ever
to be held in this county. The site
chosen is the Southern Pines base-
■ball park ?nd the date set lor the
meet is Wednesday, June 7th. Al
though May 30th had been previous
ly selected it was later learned that
all the schools in the county would
not be closed on that date.
The committee in charge of ac
tivities consists of the Rev. James H.
King, chairman,' assisted by Ben Bra-
did, P. A. Wilson and the Rev. S.
J. Starnes. This committee has pre
pared an appropriate program which
begins with a parade of all troops
from Troop 4 headquarters at the
Southern Pines Scout hut. The com-
■bining Scouting ability with athletic
prowess will be followed by Scout
stunts by the several troops. The
day’s fun will close with massing of
colors in an appropriate closing cer
emony.
The list of events follows: Parade.
Massing of colors on the field^ Ante
lope race, Flag relay race. Fire build
ing with flint and steel. Water-boiling
contest. Undressing race, One hun
dred yard Dash, Tug of War, Close
Order Drill by all the troops.
The public is cordially invited to
attend and cheer favorite troops on
to victory.
C. C. Kitchell, Resident
Here Since 1886, Dies
Came Here in Response to Cir
cular Advertising Embryo Vil
lage—111 25 Years
Funeral services conducted by the
Kev. Voight O. Taylor of the Church
of Wide Fellowship were held in the
Powell Funeral Home at 4:30 o’clock
yesterday for Clifford Cooke Kitchell,
who died in the Moore County Hospi
tal Tuesday, having been admitted
to that institution May 1st.
Mr. Kitchell, who was 84 years of
age, was born in Hanover, N. J., and
In length of residence was very near
ly the oldest citizen of Southern
Pines. In response to one of John T,
Patrick’s circulars he and two sis
ters, the Misses Louisa and Frances
E. Kitchell arrived in the embryo
village on the last day of December,
1886. and for the next few years re
sided here or in Manly .finally re
turning to Soathem Pines in 1902
and building a home at No. 6 North
Leak street. There Miss Louisa died
in 1912. followed by Miss Frances
in 1930.
During their early years of resi
dence all were active in church and
local affairs, Mr. Kitchell becoming
noted as the town’s first landscape
photographer, many of his early ef
forts being used to illustrate town
publicity. Some 25 years ago he suf
fered an illness from Ae effects of
which he became bedridden.
Following the funeral services the
laody was taken north for burial in
the family plot at Hanover, N. J.
DR. MUDGETT REELECTED
TO MASONIC OFFICE
At the State convention of North
Carolina York Rite Masons held in
Durham last wek Dr. William C.
Mudgett of Southern Pines was re-
elected grand treasurer. More than
300 Masons from all sections of the
state attended the convention, among
them Ralph Chandler of Southern
Pines.
EARL E, MERRILL OPENS
DRUG STORE IN VASS
Earl E. Merrill, proprietor of Mer
rill’s Pharmacy. Southern Pines, has
taken over the former Wiggins Drug
Store in Vass and will operate it un
der the name of Merrill’s Pharmacy.
Wilbur Whitlock will be in charpe.
Radio Devotional Hour Locates
Pent For Moore County Police
His Voice on WRAL, Raleigh
Leads To Arrest for Destruc
tion of Timber Here
Arnold V. Pent^ Jr., who is alleged
to have pulled a Ponzi act in the
Sandhills last month, was arrested
last week in Raleigh by Officers A. F.
Dees and Herman Grimm of Moore
county, and will face trial in Carth
age on June 5th on ^ charge of ma
licious destruction of timber, on prop
erty other than his own.
Mr. Pent was located through the
radio. It seems he has been broad
casting the “Devotional Hour” from
Station WRAL in Raleigh since he
left here. A warrant was issued for
him and the officers located him at
his Raleigh address. At the moment
he is out on $300 bond^ pending his
appearance here.
Pent is accused of having borrowed
$600 from a Sandhills resident, us
ing $50 of it to purchase five acres
of a plot of 600 acres on the out
skirts of Pinehurot, on vt’hich he pro
ceeded to cut timber, regardless of
whether he was on his own five acres
or some of the other 595 in the plot.
It is also alleged that he never paid
the large staff of men he hired to
cut down the trees. He is also alleged
to have sold the same timber to
several different parties, collecting
in advance. They say, too^ that he
never paid for the cottage he rented
and occupied in Pinehurst and from
which he and his wife made a hur
ried exit when the Law was about
to catch up with him.
It will probably all come out in
the trial at Carthage if Mr. Ponzi—
pardon us. Mr. Pent, can get some
one else to conduct the “Devotional
Hour” on WRAL on June 5th.
Dunlop Aj^ain Heads
Yadkin Golf Club
Re-Appointed
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HOWARD F, BURNS
Burns Renamed City Clerk-
Treasurer; Mayor Appoints
Board Committees
ACCUSED OF WAGE
LAW VIOLATIONS
Furniture Company Operated by
Von Canons Indicted by
Judge Hayes
CHARGED ON 24 COUNTS
Officers Elected and Plans Made
For Summer Tournament
Season
Willard L. Dunlop was re-elected
president of the Yadkin Golf Club,
Pinehurst, at a meeting of the or
ganization held this week. Wilbur H.
Currie of Carthage was made vice-
president^ and A. P. Thompson of
Pinehurst secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Dunlop appointed the following
committees: Handicap and Tourna
ment—Dr. B. M. Medlin, Aberdeen;
H. F. Seawell. Carthage; Dr. R. P.
Shepard, Southern Pines, and Purvis
Ferree. Aberdeen; Membership—Dr.
J. Symington, Carthage; George
Scott, Biacoe; Mackle Caldwell. Aber
deen; F. L. Dupont, Pinehurst, and
Kenneth B. Trousdell. Southern Pines.
It was decided to hold all weekly
tournaments on Wednesday or Sat
urday to be completed the same
week.’The first tournament will be
a blind bogey event next Saturday,
with prizes for blind bogey and high
and low net scores. The schedule Is
expected to be ready for members by
the first tournament date.
JERE McKEITHEN, ABERDEEN,
A CITADEL GRADUATE
Cadet Jere Norfleet McKelthen
of Aberdeen will be graduated from
The Citadel, the Military College of
South Carolina, next month with the
degree of bachelor of science In bus
iness administration. He has been
prominent in extra-curricular activi
ties and has maintained a creditable
academic record. He Is assigned to
Company “C’ of the Infantry R. O.
T. C. unit.
HOLD FREE CLINIC FOR
TYPHOID VACCINATION
A free clinic for typhoid vaccina
tion wrfil be held Saturday, May
20. in the Chadboum Dewberry Mar
ket building in Vass. This clinic is
sponsored by the Adult Education
program and the County Health de
partment.
Every person who want?? this vac
cination must be at the clinic Sat
urday beginning at 9:30 to 12
o’clock.
Howard F. Burns was re-elected
City Clerk-Treasurer of Southern
Pines at a regular meeting of the
Board of Commissioners held in the
Municipal building on Wednesday
night. Mrs. J. H. Tilghman was re
named tax collector, and J. A. Gar-
gis chief of Police. The Citizens Bank
& Trust Company was designated as
official depository for city funds.
The following committees of the
board were announced by Mayor
Stutz: Appropriations, L. V. O’Callag-
han, E. C. Stevens and C. S. Patch;
Finance, R. L. Hart, Stevens and H.
J. Betterley; Auditing, O'Callaghan
and Betterley; Streets and Public
Works, O’Callaghan, Betterley and
Patch. Mr. O’Callaghan, who has been
on the board longer than any of his
associates, was elected Mayor pro-
tem.
The board voted the necessary ap
propriation for improvements to the
filter system at the water works, and
voted to renew its contract with the
Outdoor Advertising Company for
billboards in Southern Pines, Aber
deen and Laurinburg.
Lauds Group Payment
Plan for Hospitalization
Dr. Isaac Manning, Former Dean
of U. N. C. Medical School,
Kiwanis Club Speaker
Medical care for the underprivileg
ed is an acute problem in the coun
try today, but It is a community
problem, not a doctor’s problem. Dr.
Isaac Manning of Chapei HUl, former
dean of the University of North Car
olina Medical School, told members
of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club on
Wednesday in the Pinehurst Com
munity Church. Dr. Manning com
pared the free hospitals in England
with those in this country, and went
on to explain one solution which ap
pears to be worfking out well here,
the group payment plan for hospitali
zation. Dr. Manning is president of
the Hospital Savings Association in
this state, which is meeting with
splendid success.
In its short life this association has
paid out to hospitals In the state
more than one-half million dollars, he
said, predicting that by the end of
this year the figure will reach three-
quarters of a million. It has 95,000
members to date. Ebcpansion of such
group Insurance against illness would,
he believes, solve the problem of med
ical care for those unable to lay
aside anything against Illness.
Dr. Manning was presented to the
club by Dr. Paul P. McCain, super
intendent of the State Sanatorium.
Next week's Kiwanis speaker will be
Superior Court Judge F. Donald Phil-
li{|9 of Rockingham. ^
BANK CLOSED SATURDAY
Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer
F. Andrews announced this week in
Washington that an indictment on
24 counts alleging violation of the
wage-hour act had been obtained
against the Sanford Furniture Com
pany of Sanford, N_ C.
The indictments were handed down
Tue.sday by Federal Judge Johnson
J. Hayes in the United States court
of the middle district of North Car
olina at Wilkesboro, Mr. Andrews
stated. Among the charges made
against the Tar Heel firm are allega
tions of failure to pay the 25-cents
an hour minimum wage, falsification
of records, failure to keep adequate
records, and wilful discharge of em
ployes.
Each of the 24 counts carries a
maximum penalty of $10,000 fine.
Named in the indictment are the of
ficers of the company, Fred VonCan-
on, manager and principal stockhold
er, Mrs. Elizabeth VonCanon, treasur
er, and Mack Auman_
Earlier, Judge Hayes had upheld
the Department of Justice and the
wage-hour division in the use of sub
poenas in obtaining corporate rec
ords for Federal grand jury investi
gations.
President Invited To
Fayetteville in Fall
Dies Suddenly
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FIVE CENTQ
B. GRAHAM,
>.ADING CITIZEN
OF VASS, PASSES
WALTER a. GRAHAM
FACULTY MEMBER
HERE TO INSTRUCT
AT CHAPEL HILL
Miss Elizabeth Scarborough Will
Give Course on Dramatic
Art at University
FOR SUMMER SESSION
May Attend Anniversary of Rat
ification of U. S. Constitution
by North Carolina
The Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany of Southern Pines will be closed
all day tomorrow, Saturday. Meck
lenburg Day, a legal holiday In North
Carolina.
'rhe Sandhills may have an oppor
tunity to see and hear President
Roosevelt in November. Yesterday an
invitation was extended to the chief
executive to visit Fayetteville on Nov
ember 21st, to attend the “Pageant
of History” celebrating the 150th an
niversary of the ratification of the
Constitution of the United States by
North Carolina.
A committee composed of Sena
tors Bailey and Reynolds, Represen
tatives J. Bayard Clark and Robert
L. Doughton, and federal Judge I. N.
Meekins of Elizabeth City extended
the invitation at the White House.
At the time of the ratification of the
Constitution the State Legislature
was meeting In Fayetteville.
Miss Elizabeth Scarborough of the
Southern Pines High School facul
ty has been selected by the Univer
sity of North Carolina as instructor
in the course on Dramatic Art for
high school students. The first sum
mer lesson opens June 8th and is
under the supervision of John W.
Parker, busin<^sa manager of the
Carolina Playmakers and field rep
resentative of the University Bureau
of Community Drama. ^
, Among the notable people con-
! nected with this dramatic group are
I Dr. Frederick H. Koch, head of the
j Department of Dramatic Art, who
j will act as advisor; Dr. j. H. High-
j smith of the North Carolina Depart-
' ment of Public Instruction, and Paul
I Green, famous pla)wright, who will
be the school’s guest lecturer.
Miss Scarborough, who comes from
I Mount Gilead, was on the faculty
of the Atbemarle schools last year.
She took her dramatic training at
Columbia University. Besides her
1 work ill the local school this yjar,
she has been active in the organlza-
j tlon known as the Three Arts Group,
; and appeared in two of its produc-
I tlons this winter, the last being
“Job’s Kinsfolks’’ which took second
prize in the State-wide contest held
at Chapel Hill.
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Heart Attack Fatal to Secretary-
Treasurer of Cotton Mills,
Former Mayor
Aberdeen Girl Honored by Press
Group of North Carolina Colleges
Frances Wimberley Awarded
Gold Key in Appreciation of
Service To Organization
Honored by Press
Three Flora Macdonald girls cov
ered themselves, and mcidentally
their college, with glory at the
spring meeting of the North Carolina
Colkfiiate Press Association in
Greensboro last week. Frances Wim
berley of Aberdeen, 2nd vice presi
dent of the State Collegiate Associa
tion, has established an enviable
precedent for the young women of
North Carolina colleges. Elected last
spring, the first girl to hold that of
fice, Miss Wimberley was this Spring
awarded a gold key as a token of ap
preciation ifor her efficient service In
the organization during the year.
Miss Wimberley, who Is editor of
the “White Heather’’ (the college an
nual), and will receive her B. S. de
gree this month, has made an excep
tionally fine record since entering
college four years ago. In addition to
a scholastic record above the average,
and she has taken a leading part in
many extra-curricular activities, her
enthusiasm and outstanding ability
insuring sucfess In any undertakli»g.
as evidenced by this, her most recent
honor.
Dorothy ^irooks of Penns Grove, N.
J., and Edythe Townsend of Hickory,
editor and business manager, respec-
MISS FRANCES WIMBERLEY
lively, of the college magazine. “Pine
and Thistle,” were signally honored
at the Greensboro meeting, when
th<^y received gold keys to signify
highest awards for the best college
map'azine in class B rating In the
state. Flora Macdonald is in class
B because the student body numbers
fewer than 1000.
INTERESTS WIDESPREAD
Walter B. Graham, leading citizen
of Vass and secretary-treasurer of
the Vass Cotton Mills Company since
its organization In 1909, succumbed
to a heart attack at his home at
5:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Graham suffered an attack at
1:30 laist Saturday morning, but af
ter spending two days quietly at
home, felt better Monday and went
to his office for two short periods
during the day and again rode down
town after supper. Not feeling quite
so well Tuesday, he remained in
bed He passed away almost instant
ly after being stricken with the
final attack.
A crowd which overflowed the
building gathered at the Vass Meth
odist Church for the funeral service,
which was held at 4:00 o’clock Wed
nesday afternoon. The pastor, the
Rev_ S. J. Starnes, was assisted by
the Rev. W. V. McRae of Fayetteville,
a former pastor, and present pre
siding elder of the district, and by
the Rev. Walter C. Ball of Golds
boro, a former pastor here. Each paid
tribute to the splendid life of Mr.
Grahan..
A choir from the three churches
in town sang three hymns with Mrs.
W. E. Gladstone at the piano, and Dr.
M. L. Matthewa of Sanford sang
“When They Ring Those Golden
Bells For You and Me.”
Many Floral Tributes
The church was banked with
beautiful floral designs from friends
far and near. One especially beauti
ful design was from employees of
the Vass Cotton Mills.
Active pallbearers were Robert aad
Julian Leslie, Htnry A. Borst, Jr.,
Vick Keith, W. D. McGiU, A, G. Ed
wards, Jr., and C. P. McMillan all
of Vass and Joseph A. Matthews of
Southern Pines.
Honorary bearers were Charles J.
McDonald of Carthage. S. R. Smith
of Vass, H. Lee Thomas of Carthage,
Austin McCormick of Sanford, T.
Frank Cameron of the Cranes Creek
iommunlty and H. C. Callahan of
Vass.
Burial was In Johnson’s Grove cem
etery, the.* grave being the first to
be placed on the opposite side of the
road from the old part of the ceme
tery. It stands directly In fronl of
the spot where old Johnson’s Grove
Church, built by early settlers of the
community, stood. Two old cedars
planted by Joseph H. Bjmum, for
whom the settlement now known as
Vass was first called before there
was a railroad and postoffice there,
are wilhln a few feet of the grave.
It was In this old church that Mr.
Graham’s family worshipped as he
was growing up.
Born In January. 1879 thr eldest
son of Archie Graham and Mollle
'Thompson Graham. Mr, Graham was
reared on his father’s farm In the
Cranes Creek coramunity. After
studying In the little community
school, he attended Lemon Springs
Academy, an outstanding school of
its day. Thirty-four years ago he was
married to Miss Loula Cameron, sec
ond daughter of A. Cameron, a pio
neer settler of Vase. With the excep
tion of a few years preceding and
immediately following his marriage,
Mr. Graham spent his entire life in
the community.
CI\4c Leader
Deeply interested In the growth
and development of the town. Mr.
Graham gave of his best to the re-
liglrcj and civic organizations. ITor
years he has served as chairman of
the Board of Stewards of the Vass
Methodist Church and treasurer of
the Sunday School. Formerly, he wias
superintendent of the Sunday School
for a long period. He has served as/'
mayor of the town and was on the'
local school board before being elect- >,,1
ed to the Coimty Board of Education "
an office which he held until
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