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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 19, NO. 50.
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NEWS-WEEKLY
of th ** ^ N. c. itory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, November 10, 1939.
FIVE CENTS
F.D.R. BROADCASTS To Celebrate 200 Years of the
TOMORROW FOR
RED CROSS DRIVE
Hour’s Air Program Will Also
Feature Radio, Screen and
Stage Stars
ROLL CALL READY HERE
Settlement of Scotch in Section
Gala Week of F’estivals, Pa
rades and Pageants in Fay
etteville Starts Nov. 19
President Roosevelt will launch the
annual Red Cross Roll Call in a ra
dio address on November 11 over the
combined networks of the NaUonal!
Commencing November 19, Fay
etteville will observe a gala week of
festivals, parades, and pageants com.
memorating 200 years of Scotch set
tlement of the Upper Cape Fear Re
gion of North Carolina.
Headlining the scheduled events
will be a masque depicting the de-
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Broadcasting Company, Columbia
and Mutual Broadcasting Systems.
He will be introduced by Norman H.
Davis, National Chairman of the
American Red Cross, it was announc
ed j-esterday by Mrs. Burt Hunt,
chairman of the Moore County chap
ter.
The Chief Executive will be the
first speaker on a full-hour program
bringing together some of the most
Clyde R. Hoey portraying Samuel i
Johnston, colonial Tar Heel govern
or^ and Governor Prentice Cooper
of Tennessee in the role of John
Sevier, have already accepted their |
assignments. Other State officials ■
and men of prominence tak'ng part
will be former Lieutenant-Governor
“Sandy” Graham, former Governor^
Ehringhaus, Dean House and Unit
ed States Representative Clark. The'
DON HERRING. JR.
HURT IN FOOTBALLi
GAME, LOSES LEG
Former Resident of Southern!
Pines Injured in Contest Be
tween Princeton and Brown
Funds For New Hangar at
Airport Pledged in Week
After Launching Campaign
SISTER RESIDES HERE
. masque will be presented Thursday,'
popular stars on radio, screen, and x. '
’ November 21.
stage. The broadcast will start at
10:30 p. m. E. S. T., and will
switch from Washington to Nex’
York and Holljrwood for partic
ipation by such popular favorites as
Feature presentation of the weeK
will be the nightly production of a
pageant written especiallj- for the
celebration by Paul Green, author
Fred Allen, Ben Bornie, John Charles ,‘'f. Colony- and Pnlitzer Prize
Thomas^ Clifton Fadiman, Paul
Whiteman and his orchestra, Harry' been announced that a pa-
Von Zell, Don Wilson, Edgar Ber- fficie of Scottish clans wearing full
gen and Charlie McCarthy, Connie ^ regalia of the Highlanders, will
Boswell, Mijor Bowes and Jascha blend with many floats and bands
Heifetz. | in the street parade.
The program has been made pos-‘ The celebration will tike place in
sible through the courtesy of the ^he midst of Fayetteville’s historic
three cooperating broadca.'Jting sys- iricluding the familiar old Mai-
tems and the donated ser^-icos of one ^et House, the beautiful Presbyter-
of the largest advertising agencies in Church designed by Sii Chr 5-
the country, the Chairman, said. hi.storic co-
stars on the program, as Red Cro.«»T! buildings.
members, have volunteered Ihelr ser-* addition to the markmg of thej Carolina.-^.
; 200th anniversary ..f .settlement, Fay- —
Ml’KDOC'K M. JOHNSOX
Following a busy day in court on
Monday, Murdoch M. Johnson of
Camden, S. C., formerly of Aberdeen
and former State Senator from Moore
county in the North Carolina Genera] i
Assembly, suffered a cerebral hemor
rhage and is in a critical condition in
the Camden Hospital. His recovery is
uncertain, according to despatches to
The Pilot from Camden. Mr. John-
sonson during his residence \?ere was
at various time.s pre~ident of the
Kiwrmi.s Club and of llip Abor(t.jen
Chanibei' of Comnierco, He has; the
dijjtinctioa of being t'..c oai mr.
evei' to serve in the Legislature of
i etteville will observe the ratifica-;
tion of the constitution; ceding the 1
state of Tennessee to the United
States; chartering of the University|
Carolina; laOth anniver-
SEES VOCATIONAL
vices.
In recognition of thet need for in
creasing Red Cross membership in
one of the busiest years in the his
tory of the organization. President^
Roosevelt is appearing on the air|‘^f North
for the Red Cro.ss for the first time sary of the Fayetteville Guard, and
since he has been in the W'hite House. I meeting of the Grand^Lodge of Ma*
As President of the United States, s^ns, occurring in 1789.
!Mr, Roosevelt is also President of The eck s I rograni
the American 'Red Cross. His appeal Sunday, Nov. 19th, 3.30 p. m.
for membership will be coupled with ^ ^^clebration begins with Historical
that of Chairman Norman H. Davis | Service at the First Piesbyterian
who wan appointed to the chairman-,
ship in 1937 after a distinguished ca- Monday. Nov. 20th, 8.30 p. m,
veer in the Diplomatic Service. ! Scottish Historic Drama written by. of life If the best insurance policy for
Mrs. Hunt has announced that Paul Green, author of “The Ix)st Col-1 the future. Training them' for jobs,
her organization for Moore county, ony,” will be presented at the Opera ^ helping them to procure job.s, will
is complete, and that the canvass will House. This drama will be given for p^e.nerve American democracy. There
start throughout the county on next! five nights at the same hour.
OF YOUTH PROBLEM
Fi( Them For .Fobs and Into
Johs. N', Y, \. Director Lanij
Tells Kiwanians
Preparing our young manhood and
womanhood for the pi'aotical affairs I
Donnld Grant Herring, Jr., 237-
pound Princeton University football
tackle, a brother of Mrs. Will J.
Stratton of Southern Pines, under
went an operation for the amputa
tion of his left leg just above the
knee in a Princeton hospital last Fri
day, The injury to the leg was re
ceived in the Princeton-Brown game
the previous Saturday.
Hei'ring, who Is 21, spent a part
of his boyhood in Southern Pines, at
which time his parents owned and
occupied the house on Morganton
Road now the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence B. Smitli.
Three hours before the operation
the 21-year old football and track
athlete was notified that an amputa
tion must be performed. He received
the news with great courage. The
operation was successfully perform
ed.
Fourth Play «f (lame
The injury that necessitated the
operation was received in the first
((uarter and during the fourth play
of the game between Princeton and
the Brown University eleven at Pal
mer .Stadium in Princeton on Octo-
bei' £.S, Princeton had pcored and wrs
kicking off to Brown. Herring o
feet 4 inches of solid brawn and
rrus''le, was sprinting down for the
tackle when a Brown player hurled
himself at the giant tackle in a ter
rific block. After the play Herring
,’iil not get up. His left le"- was
doubled up and he was in such pain
that he fainted as he was being
placed on a stretcher.
Herring's father was one of the
great Princeton football stars of 30
years ago. Known as “Heff Herring,
he was in addition to his athletic
prowess a brilliant sludcnt and won
a Fihodes scholarship. His daughter,
Stratton, has made her home in
Southern Pines for the past several
years, and is an expert hor.«ewoman.
“Prize Example”
Southern Pines Postoffice
View Exhibited by Archi
tectural League
Construction on Building To
House Six Planes To Get
Under Way at Once
TO COST AROUND $3,000
"American architecture of 1939 is
stridently different from that of the
’20s, as revealed by a visit to the
current exhibit of the U. S. archi
tecture at the Architectural League
Club in New York,” reads the head
ing over a page of rotogravure pic
tures syndicated to a number of,
new.spapers throughout the country.;
“On view are photographs submit-1
ted by architects from coast to coast,,
of which these six are prize exam-!
pies. They graphically prove that
American building art has come a
long way since the post-war era,"
when U. S. builders borrowed heav
ily from traditional schools.” i
One of the “prize examples’’'
shown on the page is the Southern
Pines postoffice, Aymar Embury, II,
architect, beneath which appears the
following:
“Gone is the grim, drab utilitar
ian postoffice of yesteryear; this
trim entrance^ suggestive of the
Georgian period, indicates the new
trend as expiessed in the postoffice
r.t Southern Pines. N. C."
INFORMAL TEA TO
FEATURE OPENING
OF PLNE NEED!,ES
Hotel (JiieslN, Collajte Cohmy
and Residents of Commun-
ily Are Hidden to lieceplion
SEASON (JOLF SCHEDULE
Monday morning.
Roll Call Here Next
Monday and Tuesday
Residents Urged To Welcome
House To House Canvassers
For Red Cro.ss Funds
Today the final plans are being
perfected for the annual American
Red Cross Roll Call and drive for new
members in Southern Pines, which
will be concentrated into Monday
and Tuesday next, all materials be
ing given out to the workers today
at the Civic Club.
Volunteer workers, w^earing their
j-ound badge of introduction, will can
vass the entire village^ house to
house, as is the custom of the Amer
ican Red Cro!9s throughout the na
tion. The public is urged to welcome
these callers at the door, giving if
possible, and as generously as possi-
Out of every active member
Tue.sday, Nov. 21st^ 11:00 a. m
A parade, with floats, portraying the ^ make
historical, educational, industrial work,
and commercial life of this section.
There will be many military and
musical units in the parade. This
parade will be followed by an open
air historic drama presented from
the west balcony of the Old Market
House. This pageant will portray the
ratification of the Federal Consti
tution, the chartering of the State
University and the ceding of the
Tennessee territory- to the United
States. 2:30 p. m.—^At the High
School there will be a football
(Please titni to page four)
is no better national defense than
educated, healthy, happy people. They
the American system
To Celebrate Armistice
At West End School
■Jay-Cees To Decorate
13 Trees for Christmas
Sandhill Post. American Legion
Also To Attend Church
Service in Pinehurst
The Sandhill Post of the American
ble. —^
ship of one dollar, fifty cents goes’ Legion is again celebrating Armistice
to the National Society, and of the Day as the guests of Comrade J^ F.
other fifty cents one third goes .to Sinclair at the West End lljg ► c ooi
the County chapter and two thirds'tonight, Friday, at 8:00 o’clock. It
is retained by the Southern Pines is the hope of Conimpnder F.^ .1.
branch. Miss Laura Kelsey was chair- Dwight that all .service men with
man last ycnr, and thi.° money was their ladles and children, whether
used to furnish milk at the recess inembors of the post or not, will at-
time in our public schools, to those tend this annual event. The Aest
needin" it, ns part of the great pre- Rnd School always put on an cnter-
vention program already reaping its tainment that is a fitting reminder
reward. And of c urse there, were' of the Armistice Day that all ser-
other emergencies calling ton the vice men reme.Tiber.
! On Sunday, November 12th, Dr.
Miss Florence Cimpbell has been, T. A. Cheatham, pastor of the Vil-
appointed the ntv. • '> .lrt>ian and will lage Chapel in Pinehurst has given
direct the present dr/e and carry'the post a cordial invitation to wor-
on the work in != u:hern Pines.'ship in his church at 11:00 o’doe'
If you are not to b.: at your home. The service men are requested I
on Monday and Tn^'iday, , she re- as.semble on the Chapel gmunds at
quests that you eithor leave a mes- 10:45 and n.arch in 'with the Aux-
mease turn to page four) iliary and the Sons-of-the-Legion.
These are statements made by the
director of the National Youth Ad
ministration for North Carolina, John
A. Lang of Carthage, before the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at its week
ly meeting held on Wednesday in
the Presbyterian Sunday School
rooms in Aberdeen. Mr. Lang, pre
sented to the club by Ralph Chand
ler, chairman of the Program com
mittee, discussed “The Problem of
Adjusting Young People to Modern
Society” in a most interesting and in
structive manner.
One of the great problems in the
South is the struggle to fill up the
gap between our 11.5 percent of na
tional income and our 30 percent of
all U. S. population between the ages
of 16 and 25 years. In the United.,
States, Mr. Lang said, there are five
million between the ages of 16 and
25 who aie not in school nor at
work, just at the age when theyj
.«hould be starting careers and
homes. There are 15,000 such in ■
North Carolina alone. !
The Balance She'>t
On the liability side of the led
ger in the South wo have the prob
lems of income, of \T-aste of our na
tural rcpources, ,of our ma.of un
derprivileged, and imperfect foreign
conditioi>:. Ou the asset side he
listed our pure stock of pioneer set
tlers whoso blood is still with us in^
.a determined and courageous man-'
hood; our abundance of natural re-1
.sources, such as standing timber,!
hydraulic electric power, coal and
iron ore deposits, and 300 different
types of soil.
The problem of in»creaising the
assets and decreasing the liabilities
(Pit fc f''rn to page four)
Will IJe Liijhted Each Ni>fht
From December 10 to New
Ye?;r’s D^y
The Christmas lighting program
of the Southern Pines Junior Cham
ber of Commerce^ which attracted so
much attention and favorable com
ment last year, will be continued and
expanded this season, H. G. McElroy,
chairman of the Jay-Cee Christmas
Decorating committee announced this
week.
Plans are completed for the re
placement of the ten trees, extending
from Oonnecticut to Pennsylvania
avenues which were Titiilzed last
year, and in addition three new trees,
running from Pennsylvania to New
York avenue on West Broad street,
will be planted and decorated. These
trees will he a great improvement to
the holictay appearance of the tow’n,
the -sponsors believe^ as they will
front on the library and postoffice,
two of the communities most at
tractive new buildings.
Contracts for both the planting
of the ti'ees and the electrical work
vveie let this week, and the work is
to be completd by Dcenibcr .'ith. The
trees will be lighted ea<'h night from
Denemlx-r lOtli through January 1st
It was nece.ssary la.gt,year for the
Jay-Cees to ask th^ fisiancial aid of
the mer'hnnts and resident.>? of the
town, in order that the quite consid
erable cost of this project could be
met. The response to this was most
gratifying.
To f omplete their replacement and
expansion program this year ,it will
ngain be necessary for-outside funds
to be raised by the Junior Chamber,
but on a somewhat reduced scale.
Voluntary donations of an amount
sufficient to cover the needed ex
penses of the new trees and uiT
(Please turn to page fou' '
The formal opening of the Pine
Needles in Knollwood today will be
marked by a series of festivities.
From 4:00 to 6:00 this cfternoon
there will be nn informal tea to
which the guests of the hotel, resi
dents of the community and niem-
ber.s of the cottage colony ai'e cordial
ly invited. A dinner given in honor
of the officials of the Patuxent De
velopment Company, by Mr. and Mrs.
Emmelt E. Boone, will be followed
by an organ recital in the main
lounge. The program will be played
on a Hammond Electric organ by
B. F. Gordon, guest art’st and well
known organist of Raleigh.
The Pine Needles golf .'schedule this
season will include tl^ree major
events: a Thanksgiving Tournament,;
November 27th, 28th 29th, and 30th;'
the Annual Mixed Foursome Cham
pionship for the Pine Needles Tro-,
phy on December 25th; and a Pine,
Needles Best Ball jChampiortship
Tournament February 26th^ 27th,
(Please turn to page four)
As the result of a campaign laun
ched a week ago yesterday at meet
ings of the Chambers of Commerce
in Rnehurst and Southern Pines, the
Knollwood Airport will have a new
and mucii needed hangar by the end
of the year. Plans are being whip
ped in shape this week by Rassie K.
Wicker of Pinehurst, and bids will
be asked within the next few days.
Construction is expected to start
within ten days.
Reports that aviation enthusiasts
around the country were being in
formed that hangar space for their
planes was not available here
prompted the launching of the drive
for necessary funds for more han
gar space at the Knollwood field.
When Mrs. Floyd B. Odium of Stan
ford, Conn., the former Jacqueline
Cochran, famed aviatrix, arrived re
cently for a visit at The Pine Needles,
she slated she had left her plane in
Greensboro because she had been
told she could not hangar it here.
Other similar reports came to hand.
Need Has Been .\<ule
Unfortunately, the i-eportg are bas
ed on a con.htion which is true dur
ing the busy sea.son in the Sandhills.
Though the K.iollwoi.d Airpo^’t has
the reputation of being one of the
finest landing field.a in the South, it
has not had a<iequato housing facili
ties for planes, and on frequent oc
casions it has been neces«aiy to lash
down planes in the open f<^r over
night guests.
The new hangar will take care of
six planes. It will be similar to, but
larger than those now at the field,
and of sheet metal exterioi'. The cost
is expected to run between ;j;3,000 and
■S3,,500.
At the meeting of tlie Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce a week
ago Cliffoni Sloan, of Knollwood,
pledged SfiOO from the Knollwood and
Pine Needles section. Five hundred
each was made available b,y Pine
hurst, Inc. and the Ttjwn of South
ern Pines, and during the past week
arrangements have been made for
whatever adtlitional amount may be
necessary to complete the structure.
Permanent Home For
Venereal Clinic Asked
Move Launched at Meeting of
Kiwanis Club for Purchase
of Property
3,386,928 Pounds ol
Tobacco Sold Here
Aberdeen Starts Week with
Average on Mondav.
for Total of
Tobacco prices on the Aberdeen
market took a sharp advance last
Wf*ek. Monday's sales .showed prices
to be even stronger this wck. A to
tal of 3.3S(),02S pounds h.ive been
r'f'ld on the Aberdeen market through
%]"nflay of this wee^. Monday's sales
of 130.290 pound.'f brought $2'"),G10.79,
according to official figures, or an
average of SI9.67 per hundred which
included scrap tobacco.
H. Clifton Blue, secretary of the
market, statel yesterday that h’^
felt confident that with the l.;'m
prices prevailing on the Abercl'“'n
market that Aberdeen would sell
000,000 pounds this season v ..:cn
was the goal set at the opening >t
the season.
Tobacco is coming to Aberii>
th's year from great distances. Some,
fiom below Augusta, Ga. and from
above Greensboro.
If a project launched at the meet
ing of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
on Wednesday materializes, this sec
tion will have a permanerrt building
of its own for the use of the vener
eal disease clinics. Dr. W. E. Over
cash outlined the great need for such
a building, stating that the quarters
which have been used for some timp
are no longer available, and that at
present the schoolhouse in West
Southern Pines was being used tem
porarily and unsatisfactorily.
Dr. Overcash stated that the
Town of Southern Pines was will
ing to help finance the permanent
building! but that inii.^much as res
idents of other parts of the county
utilized the clinii hi-r ■, he believe:!
it was fitting and pr> for the
county to contribute ..->ward it. “If
■.ve can puf these cl;: '; :'n a pcr-
:ianent basia, w- can ki‘ p venereal
I’iseascs under contii-l in the conn-
S.v,’’ he said. He estin att d that $1,-
000 would provide the neee;:.' -.ry
property and the r;r;cdod re;iairs
thereto. The matter wis referred to
the Kiwanis Board of Directors.
BANKS CL )SEI) SATl^UnAY
The Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany^ Southern Pines, ard the Bank
(f Pinehurst, with its branches in
Aberdeen and Carthage, will be
closed ail day Saturday, Armistice
Day, a legal holiday.