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VOL. 19, NO. 42.
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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill o ^'^ory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. P'liday, September 15, 15)39.
JOHN M. HOWARTH Three Former Southern Pines
NEXT PRESIDENT
OF KIWANIS CLUB
Organization Chooses Officers
Directors at Annual Meeting
on Wednesday
Residents Brides on Same Day
Good News!
Travel in State to Materially
Increase On Account of
War, Says Sharpe
Travel in North Carolina is go
ing to be materially increased by
the present war, which has shut
off all travel to Europe, and put a
crimp in the luxury cruise busi
ness, according to Bill Sharpe,
manager of the news bureau of
the Advertising Division of th®
Department of Conservation and
Development.
Just back from New York, where
he talked to travel bureau heads,
travel editors, advertising mana
gers and others, Sharpe says that
much of the travel heretofore go
ing to Europe is going to stay in
the United States, and that North
Carolina should get a large share
of this tourist business.
CLlIli’S YEAR ACTIVE ONE
John M. Howarth of Southern |
Pines was elected president of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at the an-.
nuai meeting of that organization'
held Wedne.sday noon at the South- j
ern Pines Country Club. Mr. Howarth I
will succeed Judge J. Vance Rowe!
of the County Recorder’s Court on!
January 1st. !
Preston T. Kelsey of Southern j
Pines was elected vice-president, and,
Richard F. larlton was re-elected;
treasurer. The following were elected i
to the Board of Directors: A. L>. Bur-j
ney and G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen,
Dr. T. A. Cheatham and I. C. Sledge
of Pinehurst, W. D. Sabiston and
Herbert F. Seawell, Sr., of Carth- j
age, and Eugene C. Stevens of Sou-|
them Pines. |
J. Talbot Johnson, Aberdeen^ and
Harry A.^ Pethick, Southern Pines,;
were named as ielegates to t\e Car-1
olinas District convention of Kiwanis
International, to be hold in {laleigh
September 24, 25 and 26, with Mr.,
Howarth as ex-officio delegate. J. i
Vance Rowe and H. F. Seawell were |
elected alternates. Military Training “Out” and
sixteenth President j They Cannot He Inducted
Mr. Hc'varth, power sales engineer Into Service as Unit
of the Carolina Pow'er and Light I
Company for many years^ is a native i Around 15 or 20 white boys and a
of Webster, Mass., and was graduat- j few colored boys will be accepted for
ed from the Alabama Polytechnic In-1 CCC .service from Moore county in
stitute with B. S. and E. E. degrees. 1 October, according to information
He has been active in civic and re- given out by Mrs. Lessie Brown, and
ligious affairs in the Sandhills for | assurance is given that boys need not
some time, and is a member of the | be afraid to enter camp on account
Mrs. Eleanor Boyd Colt, Miss
Marjorie Kopf and Miss Fran*
ces Glover Wed Saturday
ABERDEEN SELLS !
600,000 POUNDS
IN 3-DAY SESSION
FIVE CENTS
To Address Bar
Three former residents of South
ern Pines were married in northern
cities last Saturday. Mrs. Eleanor
Boyd Colt's marriage to Lemuel
Pierce Dean of Charlotte, N. C., was
solemnized in Mrs. Colt’s apartment
• at 829 Park avenue. New York. Mrs.
I Colt is a daughter of the late Mr. i
j and Mrs. John Y. BoyJ of Southern ^
I Pinos nnd a sister of James and;
1 J.ick.son II. Boyd. Mr. Doan, son |
I of Mrs. Lemuel Pierre Dean of Char- ;
' lotto and the late Mr. Donn is !
I a.ssiftant manager of t).c Haile Gold !
Tobacco Mnrket Opens IMonday,.
Close.s Wednesday Due To j
Iniperiars Withdrawal |
HOLIDAY INDEFINITE i
“In again, out again, go on again,
Finnegan," about tells the story of
the Aberdeen tobacco market to date.
It opened Monday morning, closed 1
Wednesday r.ftornoon, in company I
with every other market in North
Carolina, due to suspension of sales'
ordered by the Tobacco Association
Mines. Kershaw. S. C. The ceremony | United States after the Im-I
was performed by the Rev.
WAR TO HAVE NO
EFFECT ON BOYS
IN C. C. C. CAMPS
Southern Pines School Board. He was
vice president of the Kiwanis Club
in 1938, and has been chairman of its
Vocational Guidance Committee for
several years.
He becomes the clubs 16th presi
dent, (his predecessors in office be
ef war as military training is not
planned for the CCC progi-am.
Mrs. Brown has been advised from
the State office that ‘Since there ap
pears no possibility of military train
ing being injected in CCC, the Euro
pean situation should not affect the
Philip! . , ^ . I
T r ti. J- . T-. porial Tobacco Company, a British
Jones of the Madison Avenue Pres
byterian Church, with only members 1 '-ind a major purchaser of
of the families preyent. Mr. and Mrs. I ■'^rnoricaii leaf, withdrew its buyers
Dean will reside in Camden. S. C.
-Mso on Saturday, in Plainfield, N.
J., Miss Marjorie Kopf, formei’ly as
sociated with the Nursery School on
Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines,
became the bride of Thomas Hutchin
son Kewley of Shaker Heights, Ohio,
the ceremony being performed by the I
Rev. Dr. John James Moment in the
Crescent Avenue Presbyterian i
Church. Mrs. Kewley was graduated I
from Colby Junior College and re-1
ceived her B. degree from Wheat.!
SOUTHERN PINES
TAX RATE $2.80,
SAME AS ’38-’39
No Increase Results From City’s
Purchase of Site For New
Library Ruilding
FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE
JIDIJK A
SEAWELL
following tlie outbreak of the F^uro-
pean war.
Abeideen had record sale.s for the*
three days, selling around 600,000
pounds in its two warehouses. But
the prices paid appeared to warrant
temporary closing of markets to give'
the powers-that-be time to detei--
mine upon a course which will mean!
fi fair return to the growers. The |
thiee-day average price in Aberdeen
was 12 cents a pound. Speculation i
Despite acquisition by purcha.>?e of
property for a new library building
during the past year at a cost of $9,-
000. the Southern Pines tax rate re
mains.the same. The Board of Com
missioners at its meeting on Wed
nesday night approved the budget for
the fiscal year from July 1, 1939 to
June 30 1940, calling for the same
rate as last year, $2,80 per hundred
dollar valuation.
“The town has operated well with
in its budget during the past year
and finds itself in excellent finan
cial condition,” City Treasurer Ho
ard Burns told The Pilot yesterday.
"The buying of the lot for the li
brary, with resultant loss of tax rev*
enue from the property, has not nec.
essitated any increase in our tax
rate, savings having been effected in
other departments to absorb this
commitment.”
The board bases its new budget on
The Mprjj’e County Bar will be host f estimated tax revenue of $73,-
i ut a meeting of the 13th Judicial' 306.04, and of this amount apportions
COUNTY BAR TO
Lawyers Will IMeet at Lakeview;
Judge A. A. F. Seawell
Probable Speaker
hereabouts is that the holiday will
last from 15 d.iys to a month.
on College. Mr. Kewley is a grad-1
uate of Colgate University. They will
reside in Corning, N. Y.‘ where Mr. without cash for their
Kewley is associated with the Corn-
ing Glass Works. I
I to carry to market when
Miss Frances Glover, daughter of, resumed,
former Assistant Postmaster Gt>ne»‘al
W'arring Irving Glover and the late
Mrs. Glover, became the bride in
District Bar Association to be held $38,966.23 to the general fund^ which
in the Crystal Lake Hotel at Lalje- includes maintenance of the fire, po-
, view at 4:00 p. m. on September 23 p'ce. administrative, street and sew-
Farmers, meanwhile, face the pros-i Tf
’ ' accoj’ding to an announcement made / departments^ and lightmg. It seta
this week by Herbert F. Sc?v.'ell, Jr., j aside $31,749.81 toward maturing
president of the district association, j t>onds and interest, $1,420 for parks
It is hoped to have A. A. F. Seawell' buildings, $670 for upkeep of
of the Supreme Court as guest speak- j Hope Cemetery, and $500 to-
and if.
ing Dr. William C. Mudgett, October enrollment and local agents
late Robert N. Page, J. Talbot , should emphasize the fact that the
son^ Edwin T. McKeithen, Murdoch | ^ training work program and
M, Johnson, Paul Dana, the late Dr. | pf,j,ollees are on the same basis
Jamie W. Dickie, Richard Tufts, Hei- others of their age not in the
■bert Vail, Nelson C. Hyde, Dr. E.; ..
M. Medlin, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson,'
Charles W. Picquet, Ralph Chandler
In the issue of "Happy Days” of
Sept. 2, Director Robert Fechner is
and J. Vance Rowe.) , ^ i. ,!•
I- auoted, under the headhne::
The club has had an active year|;«^ _ - ^ ^
in various civic and charitable lines
in the county, its main projects being
the support of a bed in the child
ren’s ward of the Moore Connty Hos
pital, other aid to underprivileged,
aid to clinical work in the county,
and vocational guidance of pupils in
the schools of the county. Meetings
are held weekly on Wednesday, in the
various towns of the county.
Here’s Big Chance For
Young Dressmakers
Winner of County Dress Revue
to Compete in State Contest
in Raleigh
Plans to hold the Moore County
4-H Dress Revue on Saturday, Sep
tember 30th at 2:00 o’clock in the
Home Agent’s office in Carthage
have been punounced.
Girls between the ages of 15 and
21 are eligible to compete in the con
test. Each contestant is required to
make and model a dress and slip of
her own handiwork. County dress
reTues will be held and the high 15
per cent of the scorers in each coun
ty will be invited to the State contest.
There are four divisions in the con
test: (1) Entries of wash dresses and
suits for school or sport wear; (2)
wool dresses, suits, or ensembles for
school, sport, or street wear; (3)
"best” dreses or ensemble including
dress; and (4) informal party
dresses.
At least five girls must take part
in the county contest before the win
ner is eligible to compete in the
State contest. The participants must
have completed at least three years
of 4-H Club work. Including the cur
rent year.
‘‘No
Chance of CCC Being Inducted in
Army if War Comes’ ’in a news
article which is as follows:
Non-Military
"In spite of rumors and published
reports, there are no official plans
afoot to inject military training into
the CCC. Nor, in event the United
States is drawn into the war now
fermenting in Europe, can CCC en-
rollees be inducted into the nation’s
fighting forces, except as individual
citizens on the :,ame footing as would
apply to those outside the CCC.
•‘With serious war threats in Eu-
lope and none of us knowing what
the future may hold for our own
country during such trying times the
question of military training in the
CCC may be raised, as it has in the
past.
"The public on the whole, I be
lieve, has not favored military train
ing for the CCC. The President has
opposed it on various occasions.
"There are no official plans be
ing made now to require enrollees to
undergo military training. The Di
rector does see possible changed con-
ditionse in the world and in the
United States which might change
the minds of the public and of Con
gress regarding the advantageous
ness of military training for the CCC.
“The CCC is not a part of the
armed forces of the country—WhUe
I am sure that if they are needed
to defend the nation or uphold its
rights, CCC men would be tynong the
first to reepond to a call for such
duty, enrollees cannot, under existing
law, be inducted into these armed
forces. They would enlist *r be draft
ed Into national defense service just
as any others of their age not in the
OCC.”
The pui'pose of the meeting is to
elect officers for the year 1940 and to
hear reports of committees concern
ing actions of the Bar. Supper will be
ward maintenance and operation of
the Knollwood Airport, these items
totaling the $73,306.04.’ * / '
Other Revenue
In its bond account, the city will
Confer In Washington
In Washington the Department of
Agriculture took steps on Wednes-
Washington, D. C., last Saturday ofj^|jjy to^vard reopening. After an all-
Arthur Mowbray Randolph Charring- j ,neeting of growers, warehouse-
ton, Jr., .<?on of Mi', and Mrs. Char-1 j^ien and businessmen from Virginia,
rington of Warrenton, Va., the cer- j North Carolina, South Carolina and
emony taking place in the All Souls j Georgia, the department announced
Memorial Church, the Rev Clyde | plans were being prepared to hold at .^eretirv and U L Spence the $31,749.81 set up in
Brown officiatmg. A reception fol- an early date a farmer election on dmluct .secietary ana u. l. t>pence or
erved at the hotel. Clerks of Courts *31,000 of maturing obligations
in all the counties in the district will meet during the fiscal year, and
be special guests Mr. Seawell stated. ^27,300 in interest, a total of $.'58,-
R P. Pelton of Southern Pines is |Revenues to make up the differ-
lovved at the Shoreham Hotel. Mrs. I control of the 1940 crop through im-
Charrington spent several winters in • position of marketing quotas.
Southern Pines, occupying with herj pia^g were taken under consid-
father the Lachine house on the cor- j gration for disposition through gov-
ner of Pennsylvania avenue and j ernment loans or purchases, of grades
Highland Road. The young couple of tobacco normally purchased by
plan to reside in Haverford. Pa. i companies buying for British inter'-!
j ests, who withdrew their buyers. j
397 Enrollment in British interests normally buy be-
Va«a«-T akpvipw 2.50.000,000 to 275.000,000
V ass LiaKeVieW acnooi ^ „f flue-cured tobacco annual-
and it was estimated less than
125,000.0 pounds had been bought be
fore buyers were withdiawn.
Carthage is dean of the Moore Coun-1 budget and the required $58,300,
ty Bar. ,
JAV-('KE.S START BKIIXJE
PAKTIES TO All) SCOI’TS
Pupils and Patrons Welcome
New Principal, Hear Plans,
Meet Facultv
The Vass-Lakeview School had a
most successful opening Monday
morning with 397 pupils and a large
number of patrons of the district on
hand for the formal exercises.
County Superini“ndcr.t H. Lee
Thomas made a brief tain, giving
helpful suggestions as to how to have
a successful school. He then intro
duced the new principal. Prof. W. V.
Nix, who discussed plar* for the
school. Mr. Nix introduced the new
teachers. Mrs. Mix, Miss Valeria Wo
mack, Mrs. C. P. McMillan and Mrs.
Davidson Johnson. Mrs. A. M. Cam
eron, secretary of the school board,
spoke briefly.
The devotlonals were conducted by
the Rev. S. J. Starnes of Aberdeen,
Methodist minister.
Of the 397 pupils enrolled on the
opening day, 88 are in the high
school.
IIEV,
VOKiHT T.WLOU IS
KOTAKY CLUB SPEAKER
SANDHILLS GETS BOOST ON
SHORT WAVE BROADCAST
The Sandhills came in for a big
boost on th« air early this week when
General Electric's short wave station
at Schenectady, N. Y. "told the
world" about the attractions here in
wintertime. The broadcaster referred
to the excellent hotels, mentioning
the Pine Needles by name, even to
its managr, J^mmett E. Boone, prais
ing the numerous Donald Ross golf
courses of Pinehurst and Southern
Pines, and telling the public that
they’d find here a number of leading
hotel men they run into in big north
ern hotels in summer.
At Friday’s regular Rotary Lunch
eon. the Rev. Voight Taylor, pastor
of the Church of Wide Fellowship,
gave a vocational talk. He outlined
the various activities of the church,
and the many organizations that had
to participate in the church work so
that it could function successfully in
a community. Speaking of a minis
ters own job^ Mr. Taylor said that
It has its many problems, among oth
ers acute business ones. He was glad
though to say that there was a
great amount of personal satisfaction
in being a part of the Church.
To fit oneself for the job requires
as much training as dops the pro
fession of law or medicine, he .'wid.
And as a lawyer reads lawbook af
ter lawbook in preparing briefs for
a case, so does a preacher have to
read volumes too in preparation for
not only the sermons he must deliver,
but for the order of worship as a
whole.
LAVRINBURG AVENGES
EARLY GOLF LOSS HERE
Laurinburg Country Club on Wed
nesday iifternoon avenged an early-
season loss to Southern Pines Coun
try Club golfers by handing the lo
cals a 13-5 setback.
Brick Smith, former Charlotte
golfer, played with Laurinburg and
took medal honorr ^or the match with
40-37 77, fiix strokes under par. Dr.
Fairley Tames captained the Laurin
burg team.
will be derived as follows: from spe
cial street assessments, $919.39; from
the water department^ $22,587.53;
from rent of A. B. C. store, $1,150,
and from other sources, such as sink-
Tho first of a series of public investment.s, $1,893.27, a to^
, ., , 4.1 V, ft e tal of $26 550.19.
bridge parties for the benefit of the ^ ’
Boy Scouts will be held fcy the South
ern Pines Junior Chamber of Com
merce on Thursday night, September
21.st. The Civic Club has been se-
ured for this event. Home Demonstration Clubs
This party will be carried out just, Sponsoring Tour To Washing.
as tho.se of last season which proved Pihladelphia. New York
so popular here, Individual prizes will /■
Plan Six-Day Trip to
World’s Fair for $26.50
be awarded the winner of high score
The Home Demonstration Clubs of
month, the trip to be for six days
and specially conducted. The first
H. H. PETHICK F.XMILY
TO MAKE HOME IN DI RHAM
at each table and light refreshments j Ty^oore county will sponsor a tour to
will be served by the Jay-Cees. The tj,e New York Worid’s Fair this
tickets are now on sale at fifty cents
each, and the response has already
been good. The usual "full house’ 'is, day will be spent in Washington, D^
expected. I q the second in Baltimore, Phila'del-
All proceeds of the event go, as in | p^ja and New York, the third and
the past, to the local Boy Scout troop fourth at the Fair, the fifth and sixth
for the return home.
The price of the trip will be $2C.50,
to include round-trip bus transporta
tion. six meals (two breakfasts in
Washington, th-ee breakfasts in New
York and one supper in Wnshington),
rooms en route and in New York,
two admissions to the Fair, round
trip transportation to the Fair, and
visits to the observation roofg In
■Radio City and points of interests in
Washington and Philadelphia.
Those Interested are asked to write
Miss Flora McDonald, Home Agent,
at Carthage.
Harry H. Pethick of Southern
Pines,, with Mrs. Pethick and their
children, moved this week to Durham
w'here he will represent a leading life
insurance company. Mr. Pethick re
cently returned from China where
he represented the Standard Oil Com
pany for 25 years, and last year pur
chased the Lachine house at the cor
ner of Massachusetts avenue and
Highland Road. The territory he rep
resents for his new connection will
embrace the Sandhills, and he expects
to be here on frequent visits. Mrs.
Pethick is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George C. Abraham.
FORMER U. S. CONSUL GENER.AL
LE.ASES WINTER HOME HERE
MISS LOUISE GARDNER IS
BRIDK OF W. L. WIGGS.
JR.
Ernest L. Ives former U. S. Con-
^ »
sul General at Belfast, Ireland, and
for many years in the U. S. consular
service in various parts of the world,
has leased the John Y. Boyd house
on Weymouth Heights for the winter
season. Mr. and Mrs. Ives aud their
son Timmy are taV ng Immediate pos
session. The lease was executed by
the E. C. Stevens agency.
Miss Louise Gardner, daughter of
Mrs. W. E. Gardner of Southern
Pines was married last Saturday af
ternoon at her home here to William
Larkins Wiggs, Jr., son of Mrs. W.
L. Wiggs ©f Zebulon. The ceremony
was {>erformed before a small group
of friends of the couple by the Rev.
Voight O. Taylor, pastor of the
Church of Wide Fellowship.
Mrs. Wiggs has been for 80111^
time the efficient secretary of Dr.
P. J. Chester. Mr. Wiygs Is with
the Carolina Power and Light Cont-
paaiy hM-e.