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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL.. 19, NO. 45.
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday. October 4, 1940 Pinehurst ^ ♦ FIVE CENTS
HOMAGE PAID TO
OLD BETHESDA ON
150TH BIRTHDAY
Record Home-Coming Crowd in
Fitting Observance of Ses-
quicentennial
HEARS DR. W. L. LINGLE
The largest crowd that ever at
tended a Home Coming of Old Be-
tbesda Church gathered last Sunday
In fitting observance of the 150th an,
niversary of its founding, heard an
exceptionally fine sermon by the Rev.
Walter L. Ungle, D. D., president
of Davidson College, and enjoyed the
presentation of members of the va
rious clans which have played a
proniinentp art iiT the history of the
church. The day, long looked forward
to by sons and daughters of the an
cient institution, was a brilliant suc
cess from every angle.
Dr. Lingle preached on ‘The Con
tribution of F*resbyterianism to Re
ligion and Liberty," at the morning
service an<j showed liow closely the
organization of his Church had been
followed in the institution of demo
cratic government in this country.
He made a /Stirring appeal for the
continuance of democracy in relig
ion and in government, at any sacri
fice.
The services opened ’.vith the invo
cation by Dr. C. G. Vardell of Flora
Macdonald College. The Rev. Dr.
Tlvddeus A. Cheatham of the Vil
lage Chapel, Pinehurst, led in pray
er, and a trio from Flora Macdon
ald sang beautifully. The Rev, Ern
est Lowry Barber, pastor of Bethes-
da Presbyterian Church, presented
Dt. L4ngle.
ClMift Are PreMnted
Lunch on the ground.9 preceded the
afternoon progrram. J. Talbot John
son, chairman of the Anniversary
Committee, presided at “The Gather
ing of the Clans" in the afternoon
and presented Dr. A. C. Bethune of
Rapford for the Bethune clan, the
Rev. Frank Blue of Raleigh for the
Blues, Edward Buchan of Sanford for
the Buchans, Gordon Cameron of
Pinehurst for the Camerons, H. A.
Campbell of Pinehurst for the Camp
bell clan. J. W. Graham of Aberdeen
for the Grahams, D. D. McCrimmon
of Hemp for the McCrimmons, M.
C. McDonald of West End for the
McDonalds, T. D. McLean of Aber
deen for the McLeans, Dr. A. H. Mc-
1/Cod of Aberdeen for the McLeods,
Dr. Vardell for the McNeills, John R.
VrQi'cer of Fairmont for the Mc
Queen clan, Edwin T. McKeithen of
Alierdeen for the McKeithens, D.
Lacy Patterson of Jackson Springs
for the Pattersons, Fairley Ray of
Wagram for the Rays, and Angus
Shaw of Charlotte for the Shaws.
One of the features of Home-Com
ing was the presence of such patri
archs of the community as John A.
McLeod, 88, whose father, 71 when
he was bom, actually fought in the
Revolutionary War; Mrs. E)velyn
Blue, Mrs. John A. McLeod, Miss
Maggie Graham, Mrs. Mary McFay-
den. Miss Effie Rayj^Miss' Kate Ray
and Mrs. Belle Pleasants, the last
named being honorary chairman of
the Anniversary committee. The ag
gregate age of the seven ladies men
tioned, *11 present at Home-Coming,
was 569 years.
Southern Pines - Trained Horse
Wins Historic Meadowbrook Cup
Mansfield Park, Which Lost Rid
er in Sandhills Cup, Victor.
—Faction Fighter Killed
To Speak Here
Party of Four Gets
Three Deer in Hurry
Season Opens Auspiciously For
Southern Pines Hunters
at “Shawarden”
The opening of the deer season on
Tuesday morning was featured local
ly by the shooting of three bucks by
a party of four before they had been
out long enough to say so. George
Colton, Archie Ferguson, Lee Cavf-
ness and Hoyt Shaw hunted “Shaw-
artJen," the estate of Mr. Shaw on the
Raeford Road, out Connecticut ave
nue, Southern Pines, and all but Mr.
Shaw got his deer. Ml-. Shaw^ had an
open shot at one which would have
meant 'four for four” but was In
doubt as to whether It WM a buck
or doe, so wttlAeM fire.
Mansfield Park big brown gelding
owned by Paul Daly of Westport,
Conn., and trained in Southern Pines
last winter by Geoffrey L>aing, won
the historic Meadowbrook Cup at
Westbury, Long Island, last Saturday
ir’ a thrilling race which also saw
the end of the career of Paul Mel-
lon’s Faction Fighter. Both Mans
field Park and Faction Fighter were
prominent contenders for the Sand
hills Cup in the three-mile timber
lace over the Barber Estate course
here last March.
The finish of the race was one of
the clo.sest in the history of the
Mpadowbrok event, Mansfield Park
nosing out Henchman to win by half
a length. The Daly horse had started
three times before the Meadowbrook,
showing terrific speed in the Sand
hills ev'^t and having a big lead up
to the time his rider lost a strrup
iron and fell, and again leading at
Camden until he ran out at one of
the big jumps. He didn't start again
until the Whitemarsh, Pa., meeting a
week before the Meadowbrook, this
time going the limit to win. Henry
Frost, who rides here regularly, wa.s
up on the horse in both his wins.
Mellon's Faction Fighter, winner
of the Sandhills Cup in 1939 and a
favorite to repeat iast year until he
tossed his rider, hit a fence on the
first time around the course at Mead
owbrook, stumbled and broke his
right hind leg. He had to be destroy
ed.
In the other race on the Meadow-
brook card, Mrs. Lewis Park’s Crook
ed Wood, which wfas second in the
$1,000 brush race here last March,
was a close second to Whitelaw Reid’s
Bagpipe over the two-mile brush
course.
SOUTHERN PINES
SPORTS SCHEDULE
STARTS NOV. IITH
$6,000 For Airport Here
In Army Recommendation
For Expansion in Carolinas
Season Events Listed by Chair
man Burns, with Women’s Mid-
South Event March 17, 18, IJ)
Found Dead in Plane
HORSE SHOW ON FEB. 21ST,
.’♦Ut.S. P.\IL p. McCMN
Vice-Chairman of State Demo
cratic Executive Committee at
Civic Club Monday
Registration Books To
Open Saturday, Oct* 12
Voters Must Be Newly Register
ed To Cast Ballots on
November 5
Books for the registration of all
voters in the elections on Tuesday,
November 5th, will be opened on Sat
urday, October 12th, one week from
tomorrow, and will be open for reg-
iptration on the following two Sat
urdays, October 19th and 26th. Hiram
Westbrook, Southern Pines precinct
registrar, will be at the Municipal
Building on those three days, and
will accept registrations at The
Trade Store on West Pennsylvania
avenue on other days during that
period.
Everyone eligible to vote in the
November Presidential, gubernator
ial and county elections MUST reg
ister. No previous regrlstration has
any bearing on the November iith
elections.
Absentee voting is permissable un
der certain conditions in November
PROVIDED you are duly registered,
not otherwise.
Fort Bragg To Hj^ve
20,000 Men, Says Pierce
Anti - Aircraft Officer Tells
Kiwanis of Big Housing
Problem at Post
Mrs. Paul P. McCain, vice-chairman
of the State Democratic Executive
Committee will address the voters of
this community at the 3outhem Pines |
Civic Club on Monday, October 7 at'
8:00 o’clock. The meeting is under]
the auspices of the Young Democrat.'
ic Club of Southern Pines. :
Mrs. McCain familiarly known as!
"Sadie” has been Vice Chairman of
the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee of the Eighth District for sev
eral years and at the last State Con
vention she was unanimously made
State Vice Chairman. She is the
daughter of the late Dr. L. B. Mc-
Brayer of Southern Pines.
Mrs. McCain is not only interested
in politics but in all civic and relig
ious work. She has always been an
ardent supporter of Sandhills insti
tutions and a worker for everything
looking toward the upbuilding of this
section and of the state, everyone Is
invited to hear her. It is expected
that many prominent people from
other sections of the state will be
present.
The 13th annual Women's Mid-
South golf championship tournament
has been set for Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, March 17th, 18 and 19th
at the Southern Pines Country Club.
The Sports Program for the 1940-
1941 season in Southern Pines was
n.mounced this week by Howard F.
Bums, chairman.
Starting the golf season off will be
the Armistice Day tournament, 18
holes, best of pair, on Monday, No
vember 11th, this event to be follow
0(1 through November and December
na follows:
Saturday, November Ifith—18-hole
Kicker handicap tournament at the
Country Club.
Thursday, November 28th —
Thanksgiving Day tournament, 18-
hole mnd O play. Country Club.
Saturday, Dec/niber 7th—18-hole
Sweepstakes, Country_ Club.
Saturday, December 21st—18-hole
Blind Bogey tournament. Country
Club.
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Sums Included For Development
of Ports at Laurinburg, Max-
ton, Sanford, Siler City
$228,000 FOR ROC:KnVGHAM
BBIG
HOXI'^YCrTT
Fort Bragg authorities were noti
fied Wednesday that the body of
Brigadier General Francis W. Hon-
Wednesday, December 25th _ The'>’««« recovered from a
Pine Needles Mixed Foursome tour-! Georgia swamp where he and
nament, medal play with handicap, at companions plunged to death in
an airplane crash two weeks ago.
A joint memorial service was held
Pine Needles.
The January schedule starts off on
the 4th with a Scotch foursome event
N.
at the Country Club, followed on the
18th with a medal play 18-hole tour- i
nament and on the 25th with a mixed, killed, and Capt. George F. Ke-
yesterday for Gen, Honeycutt, who
had assumed command of the Fort
Bragg post only a few days before he
foursome event.
I hoe, pilot of the ill-fated plane.
In a comprehensive program for the
development of 141 airports in North
and South Carolina, announced this
week in Wa.shington, the sum of $5,-
998 is included for improvements at
the Knollwood Airport here. The
Carolina projects in all total $1,136,-
489, and include, in addition to Knoll
wood, the following in this vicinity:
Asheboro, $123,444; Chapel Hill,
$156,000: Fayetteville, $84,690; Laur-
inburg, $123,555; Lumberton, $74,990;
Maxton, $23,200; Rockingham, $228,.
000; Sanford, $123,444; Siler City,
$28,371. For the Charlotte airport,
$800,871 in included; for Greensboro,
$482,616, and for Raleigh-Durham,
.^673,114.
The program has been outlined to
the Appropriations Committee of the
* House of Representatives by the Civ-
I il Aeronautics Administration. War
I Department officials emphasized that
] the inclusion of a city on the list
I does not mean that there is prospect
I of action any time soon under the
I program, and added that the gov-
ernmeiit may never get around to the
development of many of the ports.
The greatest need of the Knollwood
Airport here is floodlighting and
searchlights, and it is beUeved that
the amount set down in the War
Department estimates is for this
purpose.
There will be an 18-hole medal play Kehoe’s body has not been recovered,
tournament on February 1st, and the, The third victim of the accident,
annual Lincoln’s Birthday tournament 1 Staff Sergeant Robert J. Schmit*,
on the 12th. The Southern Pines Coun- was buried Wednesday in Arlington
try Club Championship event will be
held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, February 20th through
the 23d.
Pine Needles E’/ent
The Pine Needles best ball cham
pionship is scheduled for FebruarjT
26th, 27th and 28th over the Pine
National Cemetery.
A funeral service for Gen. Honey,
cutt was conducted after the joint
memorial with Chaplain R. E. Mc-
Caskell in charge. The body arrived
at Fort Bragg early yesterday morn
ing.
Gen. Honeycutt’s body will be sent
Lieut. Col. H. R. Pierce, command
ing officer of the 76th Field Artil
lery, Anti-Aircraft, stationed at Fort
Bragg, told members of the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club on Wednesday some
thing of the mammoth undertaking
at the military post in preparing it
for the 1,000 or more officers and
20,000 enlisted men which will be en
camp there following the first call
to duty of men undsr the new draft
law.
When the present units stationed
at Bragg are at full strength, there
will be 750 officers and 15,000 en
listed men, and this will be comple
mented by draftees up to some 20,000,
according to presant plans, h* said.
Included will b« field artillery, In
fantry, coast artillery anti-aircraft,
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1940 SEAL SALE
PLANS DISCUSSED
AT MEETING HERE
Dr. McCain, Frank Webster,
Mrs. Cheatham, Others Speak
at District Conference
Plans for continuing with increased
vigor the fight against tuberculosis
generally, and in this vicinity partic
ularly, were discussed at an enthu
siastic Christmas Seal Sale meeting
of the Southeastern District held on
Wednesday in the Community Church
in Pinehurst. The funds for this fight
come solely from the annual Seal
Sale, and the meeting was devoted
largely to a discussion of plans for
stimulating the sale of the little
Christmas seals.
Frank W. Webster, managing di
rector of the N. C. Tuberculosis As
sociation and former superintendent
of schools in Southern Pines, presid
ed at the meeting and outlined its
purposes In a few Introductory re
marks. Mrs. Florence Breed, field ad
viser of the national association, talk
ed on the subject, “High Lights of
the 1940 Christmas Seal Sale,” and
Mrs. Thaddeus A. Cheatham of
Pinehurst, Moore county chairman,
discussed "Organization." Incidental,
ly, Mrs. Cheatham came In for high
praise from all other speakers for
the splendid work she has done In
Moore county, the county which
leads the state in per capita contri
butions to the cause.
After luncheon Dr. T. A. Cheat
ham Introduced Dr. Paul P. McCain,
president of the National Tube'^ulos-
Is Association, who discussed “What
Can Local Tuberculosis Organisations
Do to Help Eradicate Tuberculosis?''
As . usual, Dr. MbCain gave • most
interutlng and inspiring talk full of
(PUut tMTH <• pagt •ifht)
Needles course. At the Country Club. iq west Point for burial in the Unit
on March 1st will be the March states Military Academy Ceme-
Sweepstakes event, 18 holes with ban-; tery. «
dicaps. Then comes the Women’s Mid-1 __— — —
South the forepart of the week of the|~^ i nm 117AH 17
March 17th, with the golf schedule! N I | ^ ijlVxl OJM
winding up with the annual Sand
piper championship tournament on
April 12th.
Equestrian g^ymkhanas, always
popular here, start on Friday after
noon, December 20th, Mr. Bums an
nounces, and he hopes to have these Pinehurst Unit Are
events regularly every other Friday
through the season. The annual Sou
thern Pines Horse Show at the Coun
try Club is scheduled for February
21st, and hunter trials are expected
NEW VOCATIONAL
SCHOOL BUILDING
Approved by Works Prog
ress Administration
“June” Campbell of
Aberdeen Passes
Well Known Accountant Victim
of Streptococic Throat
Infection Monday
Steeplechase and Racing Association
tentatively scheduled for Saturday,
March 15th.
’The Sports Schedule also lists activ
ities in archery at the Country Club,
in roque at the Men’s Club, shuffle-
board on the Municipal playgrounds,
and tennis on the Municipal courts.
J. A, Ferree, 33, Dies
After Long Illness
Plans for the new Vocational
Building of the Pinehurst Schools
to be held the day before the seventh approved by the
annual race meeting of Uic Sandhills progress Administration and
construction of the building is to be
gin at once, it was learned in Pine
hurst this week. Superinten^nt J.
W. Harblso states that it is hoped
to have the building ready for oc
cupancy before the end of the
school year.
The structure is to be 45 by 60
feet in dimensions. The entire length
of one side will be used for shop work,
the other to contain two classrooms
for shop classes. The program is to
coslst of work in carpentry, auto me
chanics, arts and crafts, tin and metal
work, smelting and general household
mechanics.
The industrial arts program for
tli!s school year has already started
at the Pinehurst school under the able
direction of William Campbell, grad
uate of Stout Institute. Preliminary
instruction in drawing and sketching
Is now being given to some 60 of the
students.
The new building will be one of the
finest In the state devoted exclusively
to vocational education.
Funeral Services Today for Son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Fer
ree of Aberdeen
J, Arnold Ferree, 33 years old,
prominent resident of Aberdeen, died
at his fathers home yesterday after
an extended illness, Mr. Ferree was
the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Fer
ree of Aberdeen who with his widow,
Mrs. Mildred Ferree; three sisters,
Mrs. J. Wimberly Bowman, Mrs. Rob
ert Farrell and Mrs. J. B. Edwards,
and one brother, Purvis Ferree, sur-
^ive. ,
Funeral services will be held at
his late home this afternoon, Friday,
at 2:30 o’clock, with burial to fol
low at Bethssda Cemetery.
Th* tax MU o< the Carolina Powar
and Ufht Company averagwl 15,
440 a day during IMt.
PABMEBS’ CLUB MEETS
The Moore Cotmty Farmers’ CTub
mat Thursday night In the Cameron
school building with around SO in at
tendance. Dinner was served by ladies
of tile Bi^ptiat cburcia.
Funeral services were held on Wed.
nesday afternoon for Junius Graham
Campbell, 49 years old, of Aberdeen,
who died Monday night while being
taken to the Moore County Hospital
after an illness of a few hours. Death
was caused by streptococic infection
of the throat.
Familiarly known as "June” by his
many friends throughout this section.
Ml'. Campbell was bookkeeper and
accountant for several Aberdeen bus.
iness houses, including the tobacco
warehouses. He was a native of Mon
trose, in Hoke county, where he was
born on June 1st, 1891, the son of
the late D. B. Campbell and Mary
Campbell. He came to Aberdeen in
1910. On March 16th, 1918 he mar
ried Miss Gertrude_Brantley of Aber
deen. He saw overseas service in
the World War ap’^ was a member
of the American Legioi),
He is survived by his wife, tliree
sons, Junius, Jr., Daniel Erwin and
Robert Stertivant Campbell; his mo-
ther, Mrs. Mary Campbell of Aber.
deen; a brother, Herman JDampbell of
Pinehurst; four sisters, Mrs. A. W.
Thomas of Raleigh, Mrs. John Sloan
and Mrs. Clayton Brasington of Aber
deen and Miss Mildred Campbell of
Lincolnton.
The funeral services were here at
the Aljerdeen Presbyterian Church of
which he was a member, the Rev.
f;. L. Barber, pastor, officiating, with
Interment in Old Bethesda cemetery.
Gives R. A. F. $400,000
Howard Heinz, Brother of
Mrs. John L. Given of Pine
hurst, Honors British
Howard Heina, president of the
H. J. Hein* Company, on behalf
of the employes of his company,
has handed to Lord Beaverbrook
of the British War Cabinet a check
for $400,000 as a gift to the Roy
al Air Force, In appreciation of Its
indomitable and courageous fight
against Germany. The Heins com
pany operates a plant In England.
Mr. Heinz is a brother of Mrs.
John L. Olven of Pinehurst.