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MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 19, NO. 52.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen
Southtrn Pines, North Carolina, Friday, November 29, 1940.
Pinehurst
FIVE CENTS
CHRISTMAS GIFT
BUREAU TO AID
NEEDY PLANNED
Civic Club Sponsors “Clearing
House” That All May Be
' Remembered
MEETING ONt FRIDAY
Plans are in the making for a
Christmas Bureau in Southem'Pines
this year and a meeting of those be
hind the movement is to be held thla
Friday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock in
the Civic Club.
The Civic Club is sponsoring the
plan which, in the words of Miss'
Laura Kelsey, welfare chairman of
the organization, ‘‘is a ‘clearing
house’ for all Christmas giving so
that there will be no duplications,
and all needy families or persons
being remembered and no one left
out.
“This can be accomplished,” Miss
Kelsey says, “if all churches, organi
zations, schools or individuals who
do charitable giving at the holiday
reason will cooperate."
Details of organization will be dis
cussed and worked out at the meet
ing on Friday.
Two Polo Games
Pinehurst Meets Bragg on
Thanksgiving, Winner to
Play N. Y. A. C. Sunday
Polo will be the highlight of
the week at Pinehurst. On Thanks
giving afternoon starting at 3:00
o’clock Fort Bragg will play the
strong Pinehurst team in the sec
ond game of the Aiitmun tourna
ment. and the winner of this con
test will meet the New York Ath
letic Club team next Sunday after
noon in the finals.
Both games promise to be thrill
ing, and there is no question that
there will be a big turnout from
all over Moore county for the con
tests.
RED CROSS ROLL
CALL NETS $1,300
IN SOUTHERN PINES
Generosity of Donors Sends City
“Over the Top” of Quota
By $456
CAMPAIGN 13 SUCCESS
MORE NEW BOOKS,
SPEEDIER SERVICE
AT S. P. UBRARY
Fellowship Forum To
Present Religious Play
“Simon, the Cross Bearer” To
Be Given at Wide Fellow
ship Church Sunday
“The play’s the thingi” Thus
thought the Fellowship Forum, the
Senior Young’s People’s group of the
•Church of Wide Fellowship. Accord
ingly, this Sunday evening, will mark
the beginning of evennig services at
the church, and the forum is taking
over for the first service of the sea.
son. The time is 8:00 o’clock, Decem
ber 1st.
The play, “Simon, the Cros.s Bear,
er,’ by Dorothy L. Marshall, has its
scene in the carpenter shop of Simon
cn the fifth day after the Resurrec
tion. Following is the cast of char
acters: Simon, the Cyrenian, Milford
Grantham; Zara, wife of Simon, Mary
Alice Tate; Rufus, twelve-ycar-old
son of Simon, Edith Davenport; Po
ll nus, a Roman soldier, Charles Aus
tin.
The director is Algene Hoskins;
promoter, Lois Hall; stage director,
Dorothy Tate; make-up. Iris Tate;
lights, Robert Henderson and Dwight
Hoskins. There will be special music
by Viiss Hazel Getchell, violinist and
Mrs. Charles Gray, organist.
No admission charge is made, but
a free-wil'. offering will be taken.
Remember, you have a date with the
Forum at 8:00 o’clock this Sunday
right.
Southern Pines responded magnifi.
cently to the annual Red Cross Roll
Call, just completed.
With a quota of $844 established
on the basis of last year's drive here,
and despite the fact that there waa
a mid-year campaign for the Red
Cross War Emergency Fund, a to
tal of $1,300 is reported this v.'eek by
Miss Florence Campbell, Southern
Pines chairman. This tops the quota
by $456.
Miss Campbell expressed deep grat.
ification “for the generosity of the
people of Southern f»ines and their
loyalty to the Red Cross. The result
of the campaign of the 28 workers
bere seems like a miracle to me,"
Miss Campbell said.
Mrs. A. Burt Hunt, county chair
man, reports that the same spirit of
generosity which pervaded Southern
This week the Southern Pines Li-j Pines was evidenced throughout the
brary will open a new Special Service county, and although returns are not
department. It is the purpose of this' yet in from many of the districts,
department to supply more new fhe anticipates a record over-subscrip-
books, more promptly, to its readers. I tion in the 1940 Roll Call.
In the past, because of the limited I —
:rt J McCnmmon Dies
‘ Library should be permanent addi-
I tions to its shelves. This has meant
Carl Thompson, Jr., to Head
New W P A Project in Si^
r: I SEAL SALE OPENS
FURTHER WAR
Southern Pines Resident To Di
rect Universtiy-Sponsored
Work Service Program
Special Department Opened This
Week To Provide Latest
in Publications
Here in Her 84th Year
University Glee Club
Opens Forum Season
North Carolina Students To Give
Concert at Pinehurst Coun
ty Club Dec. 5
I that many books, well worth reading, I W'idow of Kenneth McCrimmon,
ihave had to be omitted from tBe* One of Fort Bragg Settlers
j monthly lists. It has meant also that^ Before U. S. Purchase
I it was impossible to supply an ade- j
quate number of duplicates of books Funeral services conducted by the
especially popular, and that long Mullis, with the Rev. E. L.
waiting lists were inevitable. A speC'^ assisting, were held in Be-
ial fund has now been set aside Church at 3:00 o'clock Monday
the establishment of this new depart-!Mrs. Frances Fergu-
ment. It will endeavor to s'apply the^"" McCrimmon, who died in her
'book you want the time when you^*’°”'® niiles east of Southern
Want it: best sellers, popular fiction,!^'"®® Sunday mornnig.
mysteries, duplicates. j Born in Cumberland county July
The charge for this service will be 16. 1857, the daughter of John Mc-
tliree cents daily for books with- Lain Ferguson and Kate Priest Fer-
drawn, plus a deposit of one dollar! Si'son, Mrs. McCrimmon, the widow
(returnable) for those who are not of Kenneth McCrimmon, had passed
regular library members. The pro-{her 83d birthday by three months,
ceeds from circulation will be turned' Long a neighbor with the once num-
(Please turn to page fight) erous clans of Priests and McCrim
mon who relinquished their holdings
in the making of F'ort Bragg for new
homes on the easterly border of
Moore county, Mrs. McCrimmon was
for many years affiliated with the
Mrs. Peg Gainer Suffers Broken Manley Presbyterian Church.
Survivors are two sons, John R.
McCrimmon of Southern Pines and
Grover McCrimmon of Manley; one
daughter, Mrs. E, C. Calloway of
Southern Pines. Interment svas at
Bethesda cemetery.
Carl G. Thompson, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson of Southern
Pines, was this week named by C.
C. McGinnis, Rtate WPA Administra
tor, as State Supervisor for the
Workers’ Service Program, a new
type of community service project
just approved for operation in North
Carolina. Workers’ Service propects
will be developed in areas where
farm and industrial workers desire
a broader knowledge of industi'y, leg.
islation, labor and community prob
lems, and want opportunities for
greater educational and leisure time
activities to be carried on through
group activities.
Th program will serve members of
the organized labor movement, indus
trial clubs, rural groups, and other
similar groups of wage earners which
requests aid in developing activities
of this nature. The project is set up
to give employment to out of work
people capable of working with work
ers’ groups in developing classes and
discussion groups, recreation, art and
craft activities, information service
centers on labor and social legisla
tion, visual aid workshops, and pre
paration r(|9earch material foe
use with wage-earning groups.
The WPA project is spoisorcd by
the University of North Carolina,
through its extension division, and
will cooperate with government and
private agencies in planning and car
rying out its program.
Thompson Is a graduate of South
ron Pines High School and the Uni
versity f North Carolina and was
formerly a member of The Raleigh
I News and Obsei'ver staff and con-
I nected with the State NYA. For the
I past year he has been field represen-
I tative for the Southern Summer
j School for Workers, on independent
! workers’ education institution.
WPA Supervisor
CARL G. THOMPSON, JR.
PARR LAND GffT
IS MEMORIAL TO
JOHN L. McKINNEY
\Vidow, Resident of Southern
Pines, and Daughter, Present
Acreage to Titusville, Pa.
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County Lx/mmittee Hopes to Top
$2,000 Mark of Last Year
To Aid Work
COLORED SET $500 GOAL
The Pinehurst Forum will open its
Reason at the Pinehurst Country
Club on December 5th, presenting the
University of North Carolina Glee
Club under the direction of Clyde
Keutzer. Mr. Keutzer has succeeded
John E. Toms as director of vocal
music in the School of Music of the
imiversity. Mr. Toms is on sabbati
cal leave from the University, and
Is with the Philadelphia Opera Com
pany.
The members of the Glee Club will
be the guests of various Pinehurst
hostesses before the concert.
At a meeting of the advisory board
of the Forum held Monday it was de.
cided to abolish membership dues
fhjs season, making the regular pres
entations open to all. Voluntary con
tributions are* expected to meet the
financial noeds of the organTzation,
and are solicited from all interested.
Those at Monday’s meeting were
Mrs. J. D. Hathaway, Dr, T. A.
Cheatham, Donald Parson, and J.
Pryor Williamson of Pinehurst, Pres
ton T. Kelsey and DeWltt B. Nettle-
ton of Southern Pines, and H. F.
Seawell of Carthage. Mr. Nettleton
is chairman.
Nine Injured in Car
Collision Near Hemp
Back.—Five Rushed
To Hospital
One hundred and eighty acres of
adjoining land has been presented to
the Drake Well Memorial Park in
Titusville, Pa., by Mrs. John L. Mc
Kinney of Southern Pines and La-
Grangeville, N. Y., and Miss Ethelyn
McKinney of Greehwich, Conn. The
erift is made as a memorial to the
late John L. McKinney by his v.id-
ow and his daughter.
The land comprises beautiful
wooded hills east and west of the
present park, and some land south
of the park in which are locted pre
historic oil pits. The purchase was
niadfl from the Preston e.«?tate which
retains the mineral rights.
Perhap.<) none of the first genera
tion of oil men in Oil Crek valley in
\\'omen of Emmanuel Episcopal Penn.sylvania was better known than
John L. McKinney, and his interest
Sale by Auxiliary ot*
Articles Made by Blind
Church To Aid Sightless
Workers December 10, 11
in the petroleum industry continued
for a period of over 70 years, or un-
A sale of artide^hearth brooms,' t** » f®"' years prior to his death on!
knitting bags, woven rugs, leather, ®^ay 20, 1937, aged 95. He was taken'
etc made by the blind of,
Nine persons, all occupants of the
car of Peg Gamer of near Hemp,
were injured Sunday afternoon when
their car collided with a pick-up
truck driven by a Mr. Davis. The
accident occurred about six miles
north of Hemp on Route 705.
According to Iniformation gained
by officers investigating the wreck,
Davis, whc resides in that commun
ity, started to make a right hand
turn and the Gamer car, evidently
being operated at a terrific speed,
tried to pass him on the right. The
Gamer car struck the pick-up, sped
on against an embankment, left the
ground and landed on its radiator 22
steps farther along the way,
The first car reaching the scene
ot the accident picked up the five
Orphanagre Head Is
Speaker at Kiwanis
Joseph B. Johnson Attributes
Happiness of Children to Con
tagion of Neighborliness
The contagion of neighborliness, of
the kindly spirit, is respolslble for the
happiness of the children at Barium
Springs Orphanage, Joseph John
son, head of that Presbyterian In
stitution, told members of the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club at their annual
Thanksgiving meeting at the home
most seriously injured and rushed of M!rs. J. R. Page In Aberdeen on
them to the Moore County Hospital. I Wednesday. The proceeds of the
Another car going In the opposite meeting are dedicated to theorphan-
directlon carried the other four to the
Randolph County Hospital in Ashe-
boro. Mr. Davis escaped injury.
Mrs. Gamer is reported to have
sustained a broken back and two or
three of the number had legs brok
en.
Officers had been notified that
Garner was driving while intoxicated
and had ben looking for him for two
hours before the accident occurred.
In the car with him were his wife,
bis mother, a grown sister, a Mr.
Richardson and four children. Gar.
ner s brother or sisters. All occu- There are few days in the year
pants of th^ cat except the children when golf cannot be played in the
are reported to have been drinking. Sandhills.
age each year.
Mr. Johnson told of the apprecia
tion not only of himself and his as
sociates but of the children for the
support given the institution by the
public. The knowledge that they have
so many friends gives them the feel
ing of parenthood which they would
otherwise lack.
The club, in addition to its grfft to
the orphanage, voted |10.00 to the
Moore County Tuberculosis Associa
tion at Wednesday’s meeting.
goods,
Moore county and North Carolina—
will be sponsored by the Woman’s
Auxiliary of Emmanuel Episcopll
church and held in the Thrift Shop
on Pennsylvania avenue on Decem.
her 10th and 11th.
This effort to help is the result of
a talk given before the auxiliary by
Mrs. Edna Keeler, a representative of
the N. C. State Commis.sion for the
Blind. The articles have all been
made under the Intnictlon of a blind
teacher, and all proceeds of the sale
are returned to the makers.
Only the President
V/herein Talbot Johnson Finds
Tobacco Market Visitor is
Head of Princeton
A young looking man stood
watching the tobacco auctioneer,
sellers and buyers with keen In
terest on the floor of one of the
Aberdeen warehouses on Tuesday,
so keen. In fact, that J. Talbot
Johnson, president of the Aber
deen Chamber of Commerce, who
was also present, engaged him In
conversation.
They chatted for several min
utes, and Mr. Johnson asked him
where he was from. He said
Princeton, New Jersey.
“I am thinking of sending my
son there," M!r. Johnson said. "Are
you connected in any way with the
university.”
“Yes, I’m its president„” he
answered.
President Harold W. L>obbs of
Princeton, guest this week in
Pinehurst, was deeply interested
in the proceedings at the ware
house.
in Weymouth Heights, Southern
Pines, and rushed by private car to,
Titusville where he lived but a few j
days. I
Bom in Warren county of a pio-;
old when Col. Drake drilled his well in
Titusville. The stories of fortunes to j
he made In oil thrilled the young man |
and his older brother, James Curtis ■
McKinney, who decided, against the j
advice of their father, to engage in
the oil business.
Plon«!er in Oil
The success of the McKinney
brothers is well known to all of the
That one .short period of the year
vhen all funds for the fight against
tuberculosis in Moore county are
rai.sed is here. The Seal S.hIo is on,
right after Thanksgiving and extend
ing until Christmas. More than $2,000
was raised in last year’.s campaign;
the County Committee, of which
Mrs. T. A. Cheatham of Pinehurst is
chairman, hopes to better this fig
ure this year.
In an interview with The Pilot this
week, Mrs. Cheatham outlined some
of the work accomplished during the
pHst year, some of the reasons why
generosity Is needed for the work of
the cr>mlng year.
Twenty-seven cases were cared for
by the County association during the
past year at the State Sanatorium.
Nine out of ten cases were dis
missed as arrested cases. Four died
In the Sanatoriuin,
Two cases are now on the waiting
list for admission to the Sanator
ium.
There are at present only two in
curable outside cases in the county,
a smaller number of incurables than
ever before.
Five of seven children who were in
the Sanatorium have been rettimed to
school.
The.se figrures, by comparison with
leports of the associaoion In its ear
lier days?, reveal the tremendous Im-
Drovemonts in conditions in the coun_
ty, due to the work of the County
nsscciation. That thia work must go
on, and that it will eventually result
in Ihe elimination of active cases in
homes in the county, appears self-
evident.
The Seal Sale for the colored peo
ple this year is being handled by the
colored people them-selves with Paul
11. Brown of Southern Pines as chair
man, a.ssisted by a committee of four
comprising J. W. Groves of Carth
age, treasurer, C. H. Flagg of Pine-
I'lirst, S. L. Cnlbert of Carthage and
Edna B. Taylor of Pinehur.st. They
will be assisted by all the colored
teachers of the county acting as lo
cal chairmen in their communities.
The colored workers have set $500
as thpir goal for the county, $131
more than their record high of last
, year, which was $369.
Local Chairmen
Mrs. Cheatham announced this
week the local chairmen for the
county, as follows:
Aberdeen, Mrs. J. B. Edwards; Ad-
dor, Mrs. Henry Addor; Cameron,
Mrs. J. S. Snow; Carthage, Miss Ro-
zelle WilUi'.mson; Eagle Springs, Miss
.. Watson; Eureka. Miss Marv
elder residents of western Pennsyl. ^
. , . . VI » T » B'ack; Glendon, Mrs. June HarrinE-
vania. The keen foresight of John L. . „ , ’ _ ®
„ I,. t .e * , I ion; Hemp, Mrs. W. Stuart Evano:
McKinney as to the future of the ^ „ ’
I , , - ... .iHigh Falls, Miss Lucy Reynolds:
lusiness made him one of the most , , „ . . j
Jackson Springs, Miss Lola Carter;
successful of hundreds whose advan
tages were equally as god as his.
Mr. McKinney was among the first
of the independent operators to ap.
predate the advantage of co-opera-
tion and he threw his interefts with
the Standard Oil Co., of which John
D. Rockefeller was the head, and he
worked with Mr. Rockefeller through
the years.
In the early days, Mr. McKinney
was president of the first dll ex
change In Tituville, organized as a
private enterprise In 1871 and con
tinued as Its head for many years.
SON BORN NOVEMBER 20 TO
MK. AND MRS. PAUL C. BUTLER
Mt. Holly, Mrs. G. P. Jones; Pine-
bluff, Mrs. J. M. Townsend; Pine
hurst, Mrs. Leroy Gates; Roseland,
Mrs. Lottie Lowder; Samarcand,
Miss Reva Mitchell; Sliver Springs,
Mrs. W. M, s)iannon; Southern Pines
and Manley, Mrs. Clara Pushee;
Sprin^leld, Mrs. Lee Comer; Vass
and Lakeview, Mrs. S. R. Smith, and
West End, Miss Alberta Monroe.
The Pinehurst “drive day’’ will be
this Saturday, November 2flth.
FRANJEANS CELEBRATES
ITS SECOND BIRTHDAY
A son, Paul Carraway Butler, Jr.,
was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Paul C.
Butler of Southern Pines on Wednes
day, November 20th in the Moore
County Hospital. Mrs. Butler and
her son are expected to return short
ly to their home on Midland Road.
Mr. Butler is president of the South
ern Pines Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
Franjean’s on West Broad street.
Southern Pines, ds celebrating its
second anniversary this week. It was
ji'st two years ago that Mrs. Paul
C. Butler and Mrs. Clarence Edson
openml their attractive shop for Mi-
Ipdy, under b. name selected from
their own given names, Frances and
Jean respectively. They have made a
splendid success of their undertaking
and have become one of the establish
ed business houses of the Sandhills,
with a large clientele.