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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 20, NO. 3
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NEWSWEEKK
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, December 15, 1939
$1,266,582 PAID
FOR TOBACCO IN,
FIVE CENTS
New President
Aberdeen Sales Total Four and
One-Half Million Pounds. High
For Many Years
CARTHAGE 3,552,838 LBS.
One and one-quarter million dol.
lars have been turned loose in this
section through the tobacco auctions
in Aberden and Carthage since Sep
tember. The exact total is $1,266,582.
Official figures of the Department
t)f Agriculture, released this week,
show total sales on the floors of
Aberdeen’s warehouses on Decem
ber 1st as 4,510,951 pounds, sold at
an average price of $16.13, which is
the average for the entire Old Bright
Belt. The average for the entire
state to December 1st was $15.98 a
hundred. ITiis is the largest volume
of tobacco sold in Aberden In any
one season in many years.
To December 1st Carthage had
sold 3,552,838 pounds at an average
■of $15.17. Sanford sales had totalled
■6,482,300 pounds at an average price
•of $14.38.
Sales of tobacco in North Caro
lina through November 30th repre-
-sented a 43 percent increase In
poundage over the 1938 season, but
a 31 percent drop in price average.
"Flue-cured sales totalled 691,306,-
■245 pounds for $110,486,668, com
pared with 484,889,644 pounds
througa November 30 last year, for
$112,232,588. Last year’s average in
the state was $23.15.
$2,000 Fire Damajye
On East Broad Street
Barber Shop, Wall Paper Co. and
Rooms Above Damaged; Fire
men Use Gas Masks
BURT HONORED BY
STATE LITERARY&
fflSTORICAL ASS’N.
Mayflower Cup Goes to Mrs.
Harris For Her First Novel,
“Purslane”
GRAVES EULOGIZES SOUTH
Their Hats Tossed in Ring
I
STRUTHERS BURT
GROUP HERE ASKS
IMPARTIAL STUDY
OF LABOR DISPUTE
Southern Policy Committee Calls
On President To Analyze A.
F. L and C. I. O. Differences
PROMINENT LEADERS HERE
Fire of undetermined origin last
Saturday night caused damage esti-^
mated at more than $2,000 to the
Roth Barber shop, Shaw Paint and
Wallpaper Company and 17 rooms in
the Stroud building on Broad street
In Southern Pines. No one was in
jured.
An alarm telephoned in at 9:10 p.
m. brought the local volunteer fire
department, under Chief L, V. O’Cal-
laghan to the scene of the smoky j
building out of which all occupants
had been driven.
Gas masks were used by the fire
fighters for the first time in many
years. Dense smoke filled the 17
rooms over Ed’s Cafe, causing much
damage to personal property. Hours
after the arrival of the firemen, the
rooms were still clouded.
When the supply of gas masks ran
out. Chief O’Callaghan’s men swath-
the lower part of their faces in wet
handkerchiefs before entering' the
building. The fire was under control
by 10:00 o’clock.
*1940 AUTO TAG SAU:S
STILL TOP 1989 MARK
Sales of automobile licensc piates
are running ahead of R.iles for the
same period last year^ State Motor
Vehicle Bureau officials report.
Through last Saturday, the sales
this year totaled 60,381 compared
with 58,524 for the same period last
year.
A few 1939 plates still Rtre being
sold, even though they will be no
• good after December 31, Through
December 7. 632,146 of the 1939
plates had been sold, compared with
record sales all last year of 583,-
035.
The 1939 purchases are bains'
made chiefly by persons who are
leaving Nortli Carolina and want a
tag good only until the first of the
year. The 1939 plates now are on
sale at one-fourth the regular rate.
HOSPITAL MEETING MONDAY
Th
t’’
C'
ri pr tlar December meeting of
Foa: 1 of Directors of the Moore
ty HospitnT on Monday Decem
ber ISth, at 4:00 p. m.
The Southern Policy Committee,
at its annual meeting held over last
week-end at the Mid-Pines Club,
called upon President Roosevelt to
appoint an "impartial committee” to
inquire into the “basic differences’’
between the American Federation of
Labor and the Congress of Indus
trial Relations.
The 20-odd business men, legisla
tors, educators, lawyers and news
papermen here for the conference
adopted the resolution unanimous
ly at the conclusion for the two-
day meeting which was devoted to
a discussion of Southern economic
and social problems. The group, so
well pleased with the Sandhills and
the Mid-Pines Club as a gathering
place for their yearly session, voted
to return here next year.
Text of Resolution
The text of the resolution follows:
“The members of the Southern
Policy Committee believe that the
conflict between the American Fed
eration of Labor and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations is among
the most disturbing situations in,our
national life.
“The committee therefore respect
fully requests the President, in the
interest of the general welfare, to
appoint an impartial committee for
the purpose of inquiring into the
basic differences between these two
labor o‘rganizations and the reasons
for this conflict, and to report their
findings to the nation.”
At the Southern regional meeting
last January in Atlanta, G.I., a five,
point “working economic plan for
the South” was adopted. Memberr
of the committee, in toeir disciis-
sions here, said they believed that
this progfram had an important in
fluence upon the formulation of a
national policy in regard to the
Soutb.
Those signing the resolution were:
Barry Bingham, president and pwb-
lisher of the Courier-Joumal. Louis
ville, Ky.; Prof. R. Preston Brooks,
University of Georgia; Virglnius Dab-
ney, editor of The Times-Dtepatch,
Richmond, Va.; James C. Derleux, as
sociate editor of The State, Colum-
bia, S. C.; George A. Dreyfus, at
torney, New Orleans: Mark EJthridge,
general manager, Courier-Joumal,
Louisville; Clark Foreman of the
Public Works Administration, Wash
ington.
Also, Superior Court Judge Blan-
ton Fortson of Athens, Ga.; Marc
Friedlaender of the Woman’s Col-
leEre, University of North Carolina.
Greensboro: George Watts Hill, bus
iness man and banker, Durham; Fran,
cis P. Miller member of the Vir-
glnla legislature, Fairfax, Va.; Prof.
Warner Moss, William and Mary
U1L.1UNS
BROUGHTON
KIWANIS AWARDS
’39 BUILDERS CUP
TO DR. MONROE
HOKTOX
The first woman ever to be so
honored, Bernice Kelly Harris of Sea-
bo.nrd, was the winner of the 1939
Mayflower Cup for the most distin
guished North Carolina book of the
year ,as Struthers Burt of Southern
Pines succeeded to the presidency
(^f the State Literary and Historical
Association.
Mrs. Harris received the award
for her novel "Purlance,” a story of
farm life in Wake couty early in j Mr. Broughton, prominent Ral- Others expected to en-
thp nre<»pnt PAntnvir thaf onri ^er the field within the next few
the present centuiy, that scene and.^jgh attorney, announced his candi-, , , Pravelv Revenue
time of the author's childhood. , . ^ .u <~i 1 Crravely, Revenue
1 «.« Q&cy for Governor oi C&rO“ OnmrnissioriGr A J Willi*?
The book was her first, and the (commissioner a. j. jyidXA^eu, wmis
first novel to be published by the I Tuesday, following by a week Smith, and Mayor Thomas E .Cooper
University of North Carolina Press, j the announcement of Lieutenant Gov- ^ of Wilmington, possibly others.
It was selected over a field of 33
other works, in.iludlng those of sev.
eral established authors.
A replica of the cup (the original,
in massive stenlng. remains hi the
Hall of History with winners’ names
engraved on the base) was presented
to Mrs. Harris by Dr. Wallace E.
Caldwell on behalf of the North Car.
olina Society of Mayflower De
scendants, donor.s.
Superflous Distinctions
Following the presentation, John
Temple Graves, n, editor and col-
umiiist of Birmingham, Ala, ad.
dressed the association in Hugh Mor-
son Auditorium on “The Eternal
South.”
Cluh Hears Carl Goerch And
Former Gov. Ehrin^haus at
Alumni Meeting
150 AT MID PINES CLUB
Four Hundred Enjoy Amateur
Hour Staged By Rotary Club
*
W. D. Matthews Plays “Major
Bowes” For Local Talent in
Aid of Christmas Fund
Wins Jay-Cee Award
Last Friday the Rotary Club of
Southern Pines produced on the
stage at the High School auditor-
I lum a benefit show designed to give
the audience the illusion of a ra
dio broadcasting station during a
Major Bowes Amateur Hour.
The program opened with a mus-
I icHl rerordipg by Jerry Mack’s
There are many distinctions be-1 Qub orchestra, followed by a
tween the South and other regions station break for announcement of
which need to be and can be erased, ’ j Major Bowes prog^ani. And then
he said. “There are many distinc-1 himself, impersonated by
tions which erase themselves, and^ j^^^^^ews stepped before
the erasure has justified the saying
that there was an old South and spinning in true paternal
! manner.
"But there is a South which does
not will not, must not change, an' feature of the program was 8-
eternal South, of a nature forever |
stamping a region and of qualities' whose tap dancing brought waves
forever marking a people. Our South-1 of applause. Others in the order of
em people need to remember this their perfarmance were Buster and
unchanging South as they go about Elinor Doyle, guitar and voca ,
the problems, tasks and opportuni-! Arch Yarboro and T C. McFar in,
ties of the South that is subject to old-time fiddlers; Emily an er- ^
change ! ^''’owler_ duet; Amoa and Andy^
“They need to remember and to take-off, Frank Buchan, novelty^
make America remember the eternal dance by Pete Bazemore of Raleigh,
South that was bom in those six Betty Lane Dunn, soloist; Herbert^
days when the Lord was making Bird of Raleigh, violinist; Tyler T. A \ITO A M 117I\TC*
heaven and earth, and when He In- Overton, young man with a horn; 1IIAiU WllMS
eluded In this particular part the the Hurley Brothers and Lloyd Woo -
M. F. GRANTH.VM
climate, topography, shore lines. for-|l®y. J*" ' guitars; Lenore Smith, pop-|
est, rivers, stones, warm suns and ular songs; Jack and Preston Stan
bright moons that make this a re
gion.
“For that is an eternal South
eternally different, eternally con
tributing the variety that must con
dition unity In these United States of
America.”
The speaker specmlflcally called
SOUTHERN PINES
JAY CEE AWARD
cil, guitar and harmonica; and Lloyd
Clark, harmonica solo.
Four hundred persons attended the
show, benefits of which were turn- Retiring President of Junior
The Builder’s Cup coveted award
presented annually by the Sandhills
Kiwanis club to a Moore county res
ident for outstanding .services to the
community was awarded Friday night
to Dr. Clement R. Monroe, Moore
County Hospital surgeon. The pres
entation was made at the Kiwanls
Club’s annual Ladies Night, held
this year at tfie Mid Pines Club, by
the Rev J. Fred Stimson.
More than 150 active members of
the club, alumni, and their ladies
were present at the banquet-
meeting to applaud the winner
of the award and to hear Carl Goerch,
editor of The State Magazine, declare
the wisest thing he ever did “was
when I left New York and came to
North Carolina to live.”
Mr. Goerch, principal speaker of
the evening, entertained the guests
with a series of anecdotes which in
terspersed his more serious remarks.
In his speech, he cited some of the
advantages of this state, declaring
it has a decided advantage over
many other states In Its Ideal cli
mate, Its moimtains and seacoast
and its freedom from labor disputes.
It is, he said, fast becoming one of
the nation’s principal tourist cen
ters.
Attorro.7 J. Talbot Johnson Intro
duced Mr. Goerch.
Former Governor J. C. B. Eliring-
haus made a brief address.
Part of the evening’s entertainment
was provided by Miss Jane Gibbs,
who performed two Scottish dances
for the gruests.
Frank Buchan’s preaching of a
negro sermon was the most novel
event on the program. At the con-
chision of the sermon Mr. Buchan
led the group in singing a Negro
.•spiritual, “Shine On Me” and then
climaxed his act by taking up a col
lection, which, it is reported^ netted
a nice round sunj.
Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Kelsey were
surprised 'at the meeting by a pres
entation of a bouquet of flowers by
Mrs. Paul Dana. They were celebrat
ing their 45th wedding anniversary.
Music during the evening was furn
ished by the Dunes Club orchestra.
The award of the Builder’s Cup
to Dr. Monroe makes him the eighth
person to be so honored. Recipients
in former years have been John R.
AIcQueen, Leonard Tufts. S. B. Chap
in, Bion 11. liutler, P. Frank Buchan,
Dr. H. E. Bowman and Paul Dana.
ed over to the Rotary Club Christ- ^
mas basket fund. Ernest Lorenson,.
station announcer, made Individual |
recordings of each act and present- j
Chamber Honored at Meeting
At Pine Needles
“ordered, umpired, civilized ed them to the performers
STATE HEAD A GUEST
-)r an
competing” as the South’s means of
attaining its due place in the na
tional life.
New Officers
’The new president of the llterary-
hiistorlcal group, Struthers Burt, is
a resident of Southern Pines, a na.
tive of Baltimore, and is author of
more than a dozen works of pros®
and poetry. He succeeds Dr. A. R.
Newsome of Chapel Hill.
Past winners of the Mayflower
Cup, which was established in 1931,
have been from that year to this:
M. C. S. Noble for “History of the
Public Schools in North Carolina;"
Archibald Henderson for “Bernard
Shaw: Playboy and Prophet” Rup
ert B. Vance, “Human Geography of
the South”; Erich W. Zimmerman,
M. F. Grantham, retiring president
JaVCeeS Offer Prizes for the southern Plnes junior Chamber
jZ, . . — of Commerce, was presented the Jay^
Christmas Decoratinff ^ service award Wednesday night
, ! during the organization’s second an.
Residence and Busine* Ho^s meeting at the Pine Needles.
In Southern Pines EhgHble;
Aberdeen Group to Judfire
E. W. Golden, chairman of the
award committee, pointed out in his
presentation speech, that the name of
the recipient of the award had been
kept a dead secret by him tmd his
few sisslstants who had resu:hed their
decision by quiet observation of
I members of the Jay-Cee throughout
the year, and checking each candi'
To complete their Christmas Dec
orating project, the J\mlor CWam-
ber of Commerce will again award
cash prizes to th* residences and
business houses of Southern Pines
considered by a committee of im
partial Judges to be the "most appro, j (jute’s merit by a careful and con-
priately and attractively decorated.” ^ point system. Grantham
The Garden Club of Aberdeen has aymbol of honor, a gold
again consented to appoint a com-l words of simple
... *"^ttee of its members to serve as gurprtag
“Worid Resources and Industries;”! Judges, Mrs. F. p. ,;Shamj3urger.'
more than 75 membei’S and
James Boyd “Roll River; Mitchell' President of the club announces. | attending, the program
B. Garrett. “The Estates General of| Prizes will be as follows: Resi-j started with dinner in the Pine Need-
dential, $5.00, first prize- $3.00, sec-ijea dining room Between courses,
ond. Commercial: $3.00, first prize,i Buster Doyl. led group singing, "nie
$1.50, second .The Jay-CfPs liope that; Rev. J. Fred Stimson invoked the
the cc 2st will be a ^ popular as blessing, and new Jay-Cee president
last I', a; d that everyone will Paul C. Butler Inlr'^dnced the guests
William Rotii announces that he i- '!»^tomake be homes and business | r,f the f^v< ning "nor.g whom were
•Jok-ge, WiJlllamsburg, Va.; Dr. How-(has moved his barber shop tempora- houses^--' esent a really attrac-jChan i'age, v'sid.jnt of the Cham
(P'lL^ee turn to paO“ eight) j lily to the Montesanti Bullulng. 1 tivo and .astive appea.fance. : (PlcMt turn to pnge eight)
1789;” Richard H. Skyrock, "The De
velopment of Modem Medicine’* and
Jonathan Daniels, “A Southerner Dis-
rovers the South.”
COUNTY RED CROSS CH.\IRMAN
THANKS ALL FOR SUPPORT
Mrs. Alice Burt Hunt Moore Cou.'.-
ty Chairman of the Red Cross wishes
to thank everyone who helped to
make the 1939 Roll Call a tniccess.
While not quite all of the reports are
completed the records show that
Moore County went about $300 over
the goal that at which they aimed.
Latest reports show a membership
of 1,261 and a total of membership
dues and contributions of $2,152.28.
Last y«ar Moore county held sixth
nlace among the counties of North
Carolina and we hcpe that the
shovdng this year will put us even
nearer the top.
COUNTY ISSUES APPEAL
FOR CliOTHES FOB NEEDY
Mrs. Lessie Brown, welfare sup-
erinitendent of Moore county, is
sending out an urgent call for slices,
underwear, .sweaters and coats for
distribution among the needy of the
countv at Christmas. Clothijng of
any size for children and grown-ups
will be gladly received. Contribu
tions may be sent to the welfare
office In Carthage, or Mrs. Brown
will collect tlie garments if noti
fied.