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Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, April H). liMO
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BUT ONE CONTEST
IN DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY PRIMARY
No Opponents A^rainst Hoard of
Commissioners, Judije or
Solicitor
FEW C- O V CANDIDATES
There will bo but one contest on
the Moore county ticket in the Dem
ocratic primary on May 25th, that
involving the cnndiclricy for the
State House fif Ilopri'sentativcs.
The time for canrliUates to file for
r.ffice expired lust Saturday niffht,
and the coniplete list shows no oppn.
sition to the candidacies of the Dem
ocratic Board of Commissioners, to
the Judge of the Keeoider’s Court,
to the County Solicitf)r, nor to the
Board of Kdueation. Not only will
Judge J. Vance Kowe and Solicitor
W. A. Leland McKeithen have no
opposition in the Democratic pri.
inary, but they will be unopposed by
the Republicans in the general elec
tion in November. Republicans nom
inated only a County Board anrl a
candidate for the Legislature, Herbert
P. Seawoll, Jr., who made a strong
run against \V. R. Clegg for the
same office two years ago.
There will be no election of Sher
iff, Clerk of Court or Coroner this
year, these offices have been made
of four-year tenure two years ago.
Roard Kennminated
The present unopposed County
Board comprises Wilbur H. Currie of
Carthage, Gordon Cameron of Pine-
hurst, T. Frank Cameron of Cam
eron, L. R. Pteynolds of Ilighfalls and
W. J. Dunlap of Hemp.
Republican nominees for County
Commissioner.s are: Carthago di.strict,
Cleveland Cnglc; Deep River—Rit
ters, Wiley Gaines of Glendon; Shef
fields—Ben.salem. Roy Garner, Hemp;
McNeills—Greenwood, Alton M. Cam.
eron, V.i.ss; Mineral Springs - Sand
hills, Henry B. Fry, Pinehurst.
Candidates for the Board of Eclu.
cation are Chairman John W. Gra
ham of Aberdeen, John F. Taylor of
Pinehur.st, L. B. McKeithen of Cam
eron and W. E. Kelly of Carthage,
who, with Dr. J. F, Davis of Glen
don comprises the present board. Dr.
Davis’ term does not expire until
1943.
The one Democratic primary con
test is that between W. R. Clegg of
Carthage, J. Hawley Poole of We.st
End, and Malcolm J. McLean of Car
thage for the State Legislature. Mr.
Clegg is the present incumbent, Mr.
Poole his predeccessor in office, and
Mr. McLean a newcomer to politics
who is making friends rapidly
throughout the county.
This contest, with the five-man
race for Congress, are furnishing the
excitement locally. The Congressional
candidates arc Representatives W.
O. Burgin of Lexington, C. B. Deane
of Rockingham, “Bob” Steele of
Rockingham, Giles Y. Newton of
Gibson, and D. C. Phillip.s of South,
ern Pines. Some political wiseacres
predict Mr. Burgin’s nomination on
the first ballot, but others do not
believe this likely. That there will be
a second primary in any event is
probab’e, as no one of the seven Dem
ocratic candidates for Governor is
given an outside chance to win in
the first primary. So we may have
the Congressional fight all over again
along with the Gubernatorial run.
off.
Kiwanis Vocational Guidance H TLIRNFR DIFS
J)ay Presents 23 Speakers^ PROPRIETOR
FIVE CENTS
Leaders in Various Lines of En
deavor To Address Students
From County Schools T(»day
Kditor To Speak
Dies In His Sleep TNE\\ OPEN
FOKRE(,i!^ ‘iTlON
NEXT S.41UH!-AY
»nSS HILDEBM.\N WINS
l..\rRELS IN ST.ATE CONTFi>5T
Miss Mary Hilderman, piano pupil
of Mrs. Claude Hafer of Southern
Pines, received a rating of one, the
highest, from the judges in the State
Music contest in Greensboro, Miss
Hilderman won in the district elimi
nation contest held recently in Dur
ham. She is a Senior in Southern
Pines High School, and represented
the school at Durham and Greens,
boro. Lloyd Woolley, Jr., of South,
em Pines received a rating of three
in the contest among clarinetists at
Greensboro. The school glee clubs,
winners at Durham, will appear in
the State finals at Greensboro to
day.
Pruniinont speakers arc on the
piogruni for the fourth annual Vo
cational Guidance Day of the Sand-
hills Kiwanis Club at the Southern
Pinos High School this morning, Kii-
(lay, starting at OiTiO o’clock. Sonior.s
and Juniors from higli school.s
throughout the county wili hcnr vo
cational talk:) oil 2a subj'. cl.s. Tlie
program will bo ia thaigo of lOu-
goue C. .Sti'venw, reiiiv|;,'iitiiig Uk
Kiwanis Club, and Mis.s Mary Hollo
i’l'ico, president of tho Southern I’inori
High School . Student HoUy, ropri.
.sorting the bchool. lialph Chaniller is
oliairinan of tho Conui’iUoe on Vo-
or.tional UuidaiKo of the Kiwanis i
I
Club whi 'h anangod the progiam. j
Speakers on the vai iou.s subjecth!
will be as follows: j
Accounting, I'aul Dana of Pine- ,
hur.sf, .A,uto Mechanics, Virgin IV j
C lark, Southern Pines, Beauty Cul-1
lure Mrs. Holon H. John.son, South-1
I
orn Pines; Chemical Knginooring, E. ‘
N. Stiro'.valt, Southern Pinos; Civil
I'n.ginoei ing, Kassio E. Wicker. Pine-|
hur.st; Commercial Art Clifton Kiuc, i
Abordon; Home Economics, Miss Sa-1
die Winstead, Carolina I’ower & Light ;
Co., Southern Pines; Hotel Work, G. !
I'.d'.vaid Horne, Pinehurst; Medicine, |
Dr. Paul P McCain, State Sanator.
iitm; Social Work, Mis.q Myrtle
Dowd, Carthage; Teaching, li F.
Lowry, Cameron.
Banking, N. L. Hotlgkins, S.)Uth-
orn Pines; Electrical t-.'ngineering
Paul E. Davis, Jr., Southern Pines;
Farming. E. G Adoin, Federal Se
curity Administration, Carthage;
Floiiciiltuie, L. O. Kelley, Pinch,irst;
Journalism, Wiliam E. Horrer, pres
ident, North Carolina Press Asso
ciation and editor of the Sanford
Herald; Law, W. A. Leland McKeith-
en. County Solicitor, pinehurst; Li
brary Work, Miss Martha H. Davis,
Southern Pines High School; Music,
Mrs. Claude Hafer, Southern Pines;
Nursing, Miss Sara Robinson, Moore
County Hospital, Pinehurst; Secre
tarial Work, Miss Mildred Pankey,
Hemp High School; Veterinary Med
icine, Dr. J. I. Neal, Pinehurst, and
Aviation, Major Lloyd O Yost, Sou
thern Pines
Major Yost will illustrate his talk
with a film, "Flying Cadets,” pro-
cured through the courte.sy of the
United States Army Air Corps
Refre.shments will be served those
attending the talks, during the recess
period from 11:45 to 12:00 noon,
comprising ice cream from Southern
Dairies and cake from the National
Biscuit Company and the l.oose
Wiles Company, arranged for by tho
Sandhills Drug Company and Dorn’s.
Prominent Hofei Man First
Canu* To Sandhills as Man
ager of Holly Inn. I’inehurst
nOK\ IN .MAINE IN 1SS2
WiI.IJ.WI K. IIOK.M.K,
President, North Carolina Pross
Association.
THREE MILLION IN
Millurd llonry Tui’nor. i\ l -:iding'
fitizen of tho .S.'indhills for the past
37 yciii's ami a nationally known h.>-
tol man, passod .'iway in his sleop on
Sunc!;iy nit;ht, following an 'llnoss
of nioie tlirin ;t year. Ho was .^.S
years of a^o. i
The death of Mr. Turner cast a
, spell of gloom ovi'r Southern I’ines
i and Iho l oiiununity on Monday, and
i deep e.xpros.'^ions of sympathy were '
, honril on all sitles for Mrs. Turner.
1 People from all walks r>f life at- \
tended the funeral sorvices hold on;
Tuesday aft«'r:ioon in the Powell ;
I Chapel, and the iloral tributes testi-
fiod to the esteem in which .Mr. Tur
ner was held by his friends and
neighbors of nearly half a century.
The Rev. F. Craighill Brown official,
od at the services which were follow-
?d by burial at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Millard Turner was born in Broad
Cove, Maine on .Seplonibor 2(ith, 18S2,
the son of Frank Turner and Laura.
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N«> I’rcvious Listinnf Lej^- h'zes*
Votinjjr in Primaries or
(Jeneral Election
UECilSTRAHS ARE NA.MED
Mii.i.\i:i) II. Ti kni:k
ESTIMATE 20%
PEACH CROP IN
SANDH!L!.S
HPRJl 1„ Oan,l,.r
llILclt-J 0-:i ,*./JIJ to r>inehur.st in l!»03 where he was Hardest Hit Hv latest
Temperature Drop
S. Y. Ramage, Pioneer
in Oil Industry, Dies
Winter Resident of Pinshurst
Was Deeply Interested in
Pine Needles Development
Samuel Young Ramage, a pioneer
in the oil industry in this country,
passed away in Duke Hospital, Dur-
ham, on Monday of this week after
an illness of several weks. Mr. Ram.
age was in his 87th year, having
been bom in New Brighton, Pa., in
1853.
Mr. Ramage has been a winter res.
ident of Pinehurst for 25 years, and
has played an active part in many
affairs of the community. During the
past few years he has been closely
ESoeited with George T. Dunlp and
others in the development of the
Pine Needles Inn, golf course and
real estate holdings, and has given
of his time, energy and resources to.
ward building that property into the
affiliated in the managen’.ont of tho
i.i f- 1 L"* i- Holly liui. With Andrew I. Creamer
Interesting !• inures and Statis-
lies For .Aloore County Con
tained in U S Report
as a partner, he took charge of the
then New Highland Pinos Inn in
Southern Pinos iit 1912, Mr. Turner
and Creamer developing thi.s
The second polai' wav? in lo.s.s than
a month to .strike the North Carolina
fiuit and vegetable indu!-*ry caused
:lccl in to other crops A. B. Harlcs.s, i<eder
I report t*'** rnanager of the St. James:, Ropresenta
the Of. i'-°‘«* Wa.shington, D. C., the Ot- uve at tho .State Dcnartmont of Agii
tawa Boaeh hotel in Ottawa, Mich.,
! and the Charlevoix Inn at Charlevoix,
. Mich. Since the death of Mr. Cream-
From -March 4, lOS.S through June ^„„sj,|prable damage to the con\mer-
,"0 1M9, a total of ?,3,021,619 of into one of the mo.st popular in
Federal funds wore expended He was at variou.s
Moore county, according to a
of the .'’■t.'iti.stical Section of
fice of Government R'-pori.s, forv. ard.
ed to The Pilot by United States
Senator J. W .Bailey. Of this amount,
?1,193,391 is listed as repayable, $1,. ^^^2, Mr. Tuiner. aided by Wil.
r,.17,403 as non-repayable.‘with the!”''"’ the High,
balance of $183,762 made up of mis-i" ^he exception of one
fellaneous benefits.
Broken down, the
following expenditures
' ' I Pines. He was active for many years
Reconstruction Finance Corpora- the Chamber of Commerce, was a
tion $3.36 01.') ^ charter member of tho Kiwanis Club,
PubUc Works Administration, non-! affiliated with the Coun-
|try Club and other local institutions.
Active in Masonic affairs, he was
buried with Masonic lites on Tues-
scason.
pa rrni on t of Agi i
cultiir* reports. !
I’roliminary icports indicate a 20 j
pei'cent peach crop in the .Sandhills'
ioction. The most severe damage oc.
currod in the Pinehurst to Candor
section and to the Elborta variety, i
On the Seaboard, .Southern Pines to
Kogi.stration books ojun in .Moore
county next .Satinday, Apiil 27th, for
tho primaries to be hold on ATay 2,1th.
No por.SDti will bo pormilted to
vote in the primaries who has not
I ;)reviously registered; registration
prior to this year entitles one to
vote. The State Legislature author-
izod counties so desiring it to call an
intiroly now registration in 1910, and
the Moore County Board of Elec-
I tions so ordered.
I
I There will bo separate regis-
^ tration books for Democratic and
, Uepublican voters. The books will he
open from the 27th through May 11th
In Southern Pines the registrar,
! Hiram Westbrook, will be at the
! Jlunicipal Kuilding on Saturdays
I irom 9:00 a. m. to ,'):00 p. m. On
! other days he will be at the office
of H. A. Lewis, corner of West
Pennsylvania avenue and Bennett
street.
Regi.stiars in other townships of
tho county are as follows:
East Carthage: R. W Pleasants
West Carthage: Sam Riddle
Konaalom: John Campbell
Spies: W. J. Baldwin.
.'?poncpiville: Dan Dunlap.
Hemp: W. F. Bryant.
P.itters: Hoidon Ritter.
HighXalls: Artie Martinclalc.
West End: Arch John.son.
Deep River; George Willcox.
Greenwood: Pharnah Bullock.
Vass: Btn Wood. ■ ■
Eureka: Mrs. D. J. Blue.
Aberdeen: J. V. Forree.
Pinebluff: J. V'ance Adams.
Pinehuist: Foster Kelly.
The following have been named
^ ‘ vr Tii»-ner nlnved a nrominenf ' ’ ’ . , judges for the primaries and the No.
repoit shows the I P‘a>eu a prominenc damage is reported as less \ , *•
es under repaya.;i-t in U.e^^ Mrs ...o. r...
federal project, SIM.OOO.
Farm Credit Administration, Land
Biink Commissioner, ,$166,730,
Ditto, Emergency Crop and Fed,
$66,140.’
Ditto, Rural Rehabilitation, $76,.
509.
Rural Electrification Administra-
tion, $77,,100.
Home Owners Loan Corporation,
$317,494.
Total repayable, $l,ld3,394.
Non-Kepayiihlo Items
Expenditures listed under the
heading of non-repayables show the
following;
Public W’orks Administration, non-
federal projects, $172,879.
Ditto, federal projects, $60,470.
Public Roads Administration, com.
pleted projects, $431,338.
Public Buildings Adndnistration,
federal buildings, $65,258.
(Pleaie turn to page eight)
FREE MOTION PICTURE
AT CAROLINA THE.ATREj
, ^ Southern Pines, Mrs. Bruce Lewis
Spartanburg. S. C. section, but the.
* , , and S. B. Richard.son; East Carthage,
set of fruit was heavy and a good
crop is still in prospect. In other
parts of the state, however, tiie
ciamage w,as relatively heavier.
The Hiloy Bolle variety was ron-
f-idorably damaged in tho Fort Val-
day. The bearers were C. T. Patch, area, but a fair to gocd crop
T\ o *♦! r» /I T3i rtvnrt \K’'i 111 n r%-i
D. G. Stutz, Garland Pierce. William
is still expected. The damage was
K. Flynn, Dr. Ernest Bush. Fr.ink Thomiston .listrict es
Pottle, William E McNab and Fred-
crick W. VanCamp .
Henry Lawhon and Frank Boyte;
Bonsaleni, Ebbie Kelly and D .E.
Cole; Spies, Jason Freeman and W.
T. Brown; Spencerville, A .L. Ken
nedy and J. E Britt; Hemp, E. C.
McSwain and W. C. Garner; Ritters,
B. F. Howard and T. J. Reynolds;
Highfalls, Frank Brad.v and J. B.
Powers; West End Clyde Aun>an
.Sui-viving in addition to his widow
is one brother, Frederick K. Turner
of Portland Maine.
Docially on Hileys and Klbertas. A,
' , .1 • 1 ot r'r.v.r.n 1 ond Clarence Gordon; Deep River W.
heavv lo.s.s .seemed evident at Come- . , n
lia. The Tennessee crop is a near!
; failure and Alabama prospects were
1 reduced somewhat.
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10 Eagle Scouts
AwarcJ. To Six More Boys of
Troop 63 Boosts Total to
Record Number
Boy Disappears After
^ Accidental Shooting
i Durwood Epps. High School Ball
I Player, Leaves Home After
I Brother Loses FinRer
A. Tyson and J. D. Willcox, Green,
wood, Luther McPherson and R. R.
Thomas; Vass, W. D. Smith and J.
M. Tyson; Eureka, W. M. McLeod and
Mrs. JoJhn Primm; Aberdeen, H. A.
Gunter and J. K. Prlmm; Pinebluff
»
James O’Quinn and A. G .Walace;
Pinehurst, Ellis Fields and Frank
Dudgeon.
•a
The crowning giory of Troop 63.
Southern Pines, arrived on the night
of April 12th when six Scouts re
ceived the highest award in Scouting,
the Eagle Badge. The awarxls, made
at the regular inonthiy Court of
Honoi- held in Carthage, were made
] to Eagle Scouts Eugene Clark, James
"Blame It On Love,” a motion pic. j deBerry, Robert Dunn, Norris Hodg-
ture starring Joan Marsh and John kins, Floyd Mulholland and William
King, will he presented at 3:00 Raymond. Paul Butler presided and
o’clock this afternoon, Friday, in the Mr. Calhoun Assistant Scout Execu.
Carolina Theatre, Southern Pines, tive, of Sanford was in charge of the
with the public invited as the guests program. Troop 73 of Southern Pines
. ., ^ ^ , .1. , J • hap. caught a ride in a pa.<ising car.
of the Simons Electric Company. No gave four short skits exemplyfymg *’ . ^ ^
J , , • i V. J V. t *-„i, Li. . J r 1 ,lHe has failed to communicate with
admission is to be chargod, but tick, the u.sefulness and resourcefulness of
Arthur Charles Davis of
The Hollywood Dies
Following a shooting accident in
which his brother Kenneth, aged 17.
lost a finger, Durwood Epps, 16, pu.
pil in Southern Pines High School
and member of the baseball team, dis.
appeared from his home of his pa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Epps on
Youngs Road last Sunday and no
trace of him has been found since.
The brother, who suffered the
loss of a finger in the accident, isi^’‘=’°"’^ afternoon for Ar.
back in school after amputation of
the shattered finger. It is believed
that Durwood, frightened by the mis-
Associated with Pottles in Ho
tel Business Here for
32 Years
Funeral services conducted by the
Rev. J. Fred Stimson were held in
the Powell Funeral Home at 3:30
Sun.
ets available at the Simons store will a Scout. At the conclusion of the
be required. , regular Court of Honor program the
Billed as “Hotpoint's Hollyw'ood mothers of the Scouts pinned the Ea-
Talking Picture, "Blame It On Love” | gie awards on their boys after hav-
is full length production made in the, ing received them from Mr. Calhoim.
Hal Roach Studios with nearly 100 |“i have never held so many Eagle
persons in the cast. It reveals the j badges in rr^y hand at one time, and
successful winter resort that it has simplicity and and economy of elec- j i doubt if I ever will have the priv.
trie cooking under the Hotpoint ilege of doing so ag^in.” said Mr.
method, and is the last word in cook. ~ '■
ing schools, made entertaining as
well as instructive in its presenta-
tion to the public.
his family.
become.
An early developer of oil fields in
Pennsylvania, Mr. Ramage sold out
his holdings to the Standard Oil
Company, at the same time joining
with the Rockefelers In the building
of their great empire. In Oil City,
Pa., his permanent residence, he has
been the 'first citizen” for half a
(PUa$» turn to pa0* fivt)
Miss Mary Ward of Pinehurst
was elected president ot the Sand,
hills Woman’s Exchange at the an.
nual meeting held on Tuesday.
Calhoun.
Troop 63 now boasts of ten Eagle
Scouts. Four others received their
awards in December. This is the
greatest record ever held by any one
troop in Moore county and is due
in a large measure to the efforts of
the zealous S'butmaster, Fat|»er
King.
TII1STI.E PICNIC
AND RRIDtiE \VE1)NESI>AY
Next Wednesday at the Southern
Pines Country Club the Thistle Club
will have it annual luncheon picnic
and bridge party, the club’s final
event of the winter season. The wo.
men's organization will have its reg
ular meeting tomorrow, Saturday
CONCERT ON \VEDNF«SDAY
A concert will be given at the
Civic Club by Jerry Mack’s Orches
tra, featuring Dianne, soloist, on Ap.
ril 24th at 8:00 p. m. for the benefit
of St. Anthony’s Church.
thur Charles Davis, who died
day following a brief illness.
Bom at Bow, N. H., October 15,
1869, the son of Charles W. and
Hattie L. Hadley Davis he came to
Southern Pines in 1908, associating
w’ith J. L. Pottle In the old South,
ern Pines Hotel, and continued with
the Pottles in the new Hollywood ho.
tel from 1913^ until his death.
His brother, William Davis of New'
Smyrna, Fla., and Mrs. Irene Davis
accomjmnied the body to Grassmere,
N. H., where services conducted by
the Rev. William Locke w'ere held on
Wednesday.
Mr. Davis, while of quiet and re.
tiring disposition, numbered many
friends among the extensive patron
age of the Hollywood. He Is survived
by his widow, the former Irene Pot
tle, a sister of Frank Pottle; a bro.
ther .William Davis ,and a sister,
Mrs. Herbert Smith of Epping. N. H.