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Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday. May 23, 1941.
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FIVE CENTS
CHANDLER HEADS
NEW DIVISION OF
C. P. &L COMPANY
District Manager Here For 17
Years Promoted; M’Elderry
New Superintendent
Promoted
DUBOSE LOCAL MANAGER
Ralph L. Chandler, who has been
district manager here for the Caro
lina Power and Light Company since
July 10. 1924, has been named ntfina-
ger of the newly created central di
vision of the company, it was an
nounced this week.
The division embraces the Southern
Pines, Sanford, Troy, Asheboro,
Wadesboro, Rocklnghap, Hamlet, and
Maxton districts of the company.
CJ. T. M’Elderry, who has been dis
trict manager for the power company
at Hamlet for several years, has been
named superintendent of the central
division and will make his headquar
ters and home in Southern Pines.
Announcement was also made that
D. C. DuBose, who has served as lo
cal man ’ger at Spruce Pine for some
tim«, has been ntmed local maitiger
at Southern Pines.
Beginning work with the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad at the age of 13,
Mr. Chandler worked with the rail
road for 15 years before he began
work on September 1, 1913, with the
Southern Pines and Carthage Electric
Light Plant. He was with this com
pany until August 1, 1920, when he
became secretary of the Sandhill
Power Con^>any, which, like the Sou
thern Pines and Carthage EUectric
Light Plant, was the predecessor In
this section of the Carolina Power and
Light Company.
When the Carolina company took
over the electri? utility in thia section
in July, 1924, Mr. Chandler was named
district manager. He has had a dis
tinguished record of service in the
electric utility field. He has also been
active in church and civic work in
Southern Pines: fn the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club, of which he is a past
president; on the Southern Pines
School Board which he served as sec
retary for many years; as treasurer
of the Southern Pines Building and
Loan Association; as a director of
the Chamber of Commerce, and in
Masonic circles.
Mr M’Blderry has been with the
Carolina Power and Light Company
and its predecessor companies aince
April 1, 1917, and has worked at a
number of places in the company's
territory. Mr. DnBose joined the C. P.
& L. .-jeveral yearg ago and has held
a nun^er of responsible positions.
Town Pays $2,741.25
in Principal, Interest
Amount Includes Payment Re-
duciiig 1929 Water Bond Is
sue To Even $10,000
The Town of Southern Pines for
warded check to the Chase National
Bank on Tuesday of this week in the
amount of $2,741.25, in payment of
bonds and interest due June 1, 1941 as
follows;
Semi-annual interest on $20,000, 6
percent, 1915 P. I. bonds, $600.00.
Semi-annual interest on $30,000,
5 1-2 percent, water and sewer
bonds, 1925, $825.00.
Semi-annual interest on $11,000, 5
3-4 percent, waler bonds, 1920,
$316.25.
One water bond, 5 3-4 percent,
1929, $1,000.00. ,
Total, $2,741.25.
The payment of $1,000 on princi
pal on the 5 3-4 percent water
bonds of 1929 reduces this bond is
sue from $20,000 as of June 1, 1929
to $10,000 as of today.
mss HILDERMAN’S (PLAV
PRESENTED AT GREENSBORO
Miss Catherine Hilderman of Sou
thern Pines has ben elected president
of the Masqueraders at Woman’s Col
lege of the University of North Car
olina, Greensboro. Among plays pre
sented this week by Play Production
classes at the college was one,
“Among the Living,” a play set in a
restaurant in a war-toni town, writ
ten by Miss Hilderman.
RALPH L. CHANDLER
DR. J. SYMINGTON, CURRIE GETS LIFE
COUNTY HEALTH FOR AHACK ON
OFFICER, RESIGNS
To Retire on September 1st Af-
t«r 12 Years Faithful and
Effective Service
BOARD PAYS HIM TRIBUTE
MRS. RUBY BLYTH
State Accepts Plea of Acces
sory Before Fact in Criminal
Assault Case
G. T. M'EIOERRY
OWNERS OF FARM
LANDSCOOPERATE
FOR MANEUVERS
Meetingfs Held Throughout
County To Sign Up For
Land Use by Army
Meetings were held throughout the
county this week and will continue
into next week for the signing up by
owners of farm lands for the use of
their property by the Army during
the greatest military maneuvers in
the history of the country, to be
held throughout North and South
Carolina during October and Novem
ber of this year. A county-widf. meet
ing is to be held in the Coui lhouse at
Carthage this coming Monday night
at 8:00 o’clock, with R. P. Beasley,
County Chairman, and Captain John
n. Galbraith of the Army in charge.
All farmland owners are urged to
attend.
Attorney Frank W. McCluer of
Aberdeen will be in charge of the
Sandhills Township meeting in the
Aberdeen High School building next
Wednesday night at 8:00 o’clock
when rural property owners of this
section are expected to be present.
A meeting for the West End section
is being held tonight, Friday at the
school there. The McNeill’s Town
ship meeting was held in Vass Wed
nesday of this week, and another
gathering was at Cameron Monday
night.
Farmland owners are willingly
complying with the government’s re
quest to sign permits for the use of
their lands during the gigantic ma
neuvers, resilizing the need for train
ing of our troops in face of the
emergency. They are assured protec
tion from loss by the government,
which agrees to pay for any damage
sustained.
MI.SS STEGALL. ELECTED TO
HONORARY MUSIC SOCIE’I*
Miss Selma Stegall, Instructor in
music in the Southern Pines Schools,
Is among five honored by election to
the Woman’s chapter of PI Kappa
Lamhda, national honorary music
fraternity, and will be formally ini
tiated at the annual ceremonies Sun
day evening, June 1st at Woman’s
College, U. N. C-, Greensboro. Those
clected were all outstanding musi
cians during their college years and
have continued outstanding work In
music since graduation. Miss Ste
gall w’aB graduated from Woman’s
College In 1931.
At a meeting of the Moore County
Board of Health held on Thursday of
last week. Dr. J. Symington tender
ed his resignation as county health
officer, to become effective Septem
ber 1st, and it was accepted with re
luctance by the board, which is com
posed of County Commission Chair
man W. H. Currie. County Superin
tendent H. Lee Thomis and Mayor
C, P. Shaw, of Carthage: Dr. E. M.
Medlin of Aberdeen, Dr. Clement
Monroe of Pinehurst and Dr. J. F.
Davis of Hemp.
The board passed resolutions in ap
preciation of Dr. Symington’s faith
ful service to the county in the past
twelve years. Dr. Symingrton took
charge when the department was in
its infancy and has built it up to the
point where it is one of the leading
county health units in the state, said
a member of the board, who gave as
Dr. Symington’s reason for resigniQg
the fact that the work is getting
heavy and the health officer's need to
conserve his health.
The board doeg not have anyone
in mind to take over the duties of the
office.
IVlrs. C. H. Durgin Dies
at Wheel of Her Car
INDIAN GIVEN 18 MONTHS
Winter P'jsident Here 20 Years
Suffers Heart Attack in
Goffstown, N. H.
stricken suddenly HI, Mrs. Clar
ence Durgin, 70-year-old Southern
Pines Wiinter resident, collapsed and
died at the wheel of her automobile
as she drove down Main street In
Goffstown, N. H., early last Friday
morning.
M)rs. Durgin had completed her
marketii^ and was driving along the
street when she slumped over the
'wheel of her machine. The car man
aged to get across the Main street
bridge, narrowly missed a telephone
pole and came to a stop near the
railroad station.
Dr. Robert E. Biron, medical ref
eree, was called and said death was
due to a heart attack.
Sun’ivors are her husband and two
nephews, Maurice and Earl Johnson,
one-time proprietors of the old Shir
ley Hill House.
Mr. and Mrs. Durgin, following the
closing of their Winter hom^ here,
had been at their Summer home in
Shirley Hill, near Manchester, for just
one week when Mrs. Durgin was
stricken.
Seasonal residents of Southern
Pines for more than 20 years, Mrs.
Durgin numbered many close friends
in the community who will long re
member her pleasant ways and her
kindness to all. She w^s an ardent
worker in the Church of Wide Fel
lowship. Following the receipt of the
shocking news of her sudden passing
many evidences of sympathy for her
bereaved husband were offered by
their friends In Southern Pines.
“Big Brother” Meeting
of Jay-Cee Big Success
Rev. W. I. Howell of Hamlet
Scores Hit in Talk to Boy
Scouts
Davis Currie of Pinehurst was sen
tenced to life imprisonment in Super
ior Court in Carthage this week by
Judge Zeb V. Nettles following his
plea of guilty to a charge of being
an accessory before the fact in the
criminal assault case resulting from
his attack on Mrs. Ruby A. Blyth of
Southern Pines on the night of Ap
ril 19th. A true bill on the criminal
assault charge was found against
Currie by the Grand Jury, but the
State accepted a plea of guilty on
the lesser charge, thereby saving the
young man from a death sentence.
Jack Clench pleaded not guilty to
being an accessory in the same crime,
and upon trial was found guilty of
simple assault and sentenced to serve
18 months. Clench, a Mohawk Indian,
V'as with Currie the night of the as
sault on Mrs. Blyth, remaining in
the car when the attack occurred in
the woods along the old Southern
Pines-Pinehurst road. Currie had of
fered to take Mrs. Blyth home from
a dance hall near Southern Pines in
his car, but instead drove in an op
posite direction, eventually forcing
her from the car and attacking her.
The long standing case against
James Horner resulting from an au
tomobile accident on February 7th,
1937 in which Charles C. Milam and
William Milam, brothers, of South
ern Pines, were killed, was nol pross-
ed with leave at this week’s term of
court. A large number of cases were
disposed during the term.
•
National Civilian Defense
Organization, Announced by
President, Conceived Here
New Pilot
James Boyd Becomes Publish
er on Purchase of Majority
Interest in Paper
With this issue of The Pilot, James
Boyd of Southern Pines becomes pub
lisher of the paper. Mr. Boyd has ac
quired a controlling interest in The
Pilot corporation from Nelson C.
Hyde.
Mr. Boyd plans to spend much time
here in the future and will devote
himself actively to the affairs of the
paper He has long been a firm be
liever’ in the importance and influ
ence of the independent community
newspaper in American life. His plans
for The Pilot are outlined in an edi
torial in today's issue.
The Pilot was founded by Stacy
Brewer and the late Blon H. Butler
in Vass in 1920 and sold to Mr. Hyde
in 1928. Upon ita removal to Aber
deen in 1929 a corporation was form
ed, with Air. Hyde purchasing a ma
jority of the stock. It is his interest
that Mr. Boyd has acquired. Mr.
Hyde will continue as editor of the
paper.
Plan Submited To Governor
Hoey Last July by Struthers
Burt of Southern Pines
LA GUARDIA APPOINTED
1,000 Rotarians in
Session in Pinehurst
Fourth Annual Conference
188th District To Hear
Prominent Speakers
of
In what was proclaimed to be one
of the outstanding programs of this
,j’ear for the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, a guest speaker and a
potential yearly meeting were bo;h
discovered. The first "Big Brother”
evening meeting provided by the Jun
ior Chamber for their sponsored Boy
Scout Troop No- 73 was held at the
Southern Pines Country Club Monday
evening. The council president, N. L.
Hodgkins introduced the evening
■speaker, the Rev. W. I. Howell of
Hamlet, chairman of the Richmond
County District Committee, who
scored a hit with the boy».
The fourth annual conference of the
188th Rotary District of>ened yester
day in Pinehurst with some 1,000 Ro
tarians expected from the 43 clubs
in the State. The Concord club is host,
and District Governor Ed. K. Willis
presiding.
Heading the list of speakers this
year are Cesar Daniel Andrade of
Guayaquil, Ecuador, vice president
of the Rotary International, and Dr.
John L. Davis of New York City.
MISS Jl'LIA BURT IS
BRU)E IN CANAL ZONE
Starnes Buys Manor
Block Southern Pines
Mr. and Mrs. Struthers Burt of
Southern P*lnes announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Julia Bleeck-
er, to Ensign George Charles Atte-
berry of the Naval Air Squadron, on
Wednesday, May 14th. They were
married in St. Paul’s Church in Bal
boa, Canal Zone, and went to a Span
ish seacoast town for their honey
moon. They are returning to Upham,
Canal Zone where he is stationed and
where they will live. He is the son
of Bradley and Marion Atteberry of
Kansas City, Mo., and a graduate of
the University of Missouri and of the
Pensacola Trulnlng School for Avia
tion.
KDMUND MILLEN DIES AT
HOME IN MIDDLETOWN, N, Y
Word reaches The Pilot of the death
of Edmund Millen in his homeat Mid
dletown, N. Y., on Wednesday, May
7th. He is survived by his widow,
Gladys V. Millen; a son, Edmund, Jr.,
and three daughters, Joan, Eunice and
Mary.
Following the destruction of the
old Hney Woods Inn by fire the
property came Into the possession of
the Millens, prominent manufactur
ers of Middletown, who still retain
their interest in that section of South
ern Pines. The younger daughters,
Eunice and Mary were residents here
until quite recently. They are now
touring the Gulf and Pacific Coast
states In company with Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Spelr of Southern Pines.
To Remodel into Apartments—
W P. Benner Buys Gibbon
Block for Theatre
Two Important downtown real es
tate transactions hav“ been consum
mated in Southern Pines during tho
past two weeks.
W. E. Starnes, of Ed’s Cafe, has
purchased The Manor Building on
East New Hampshire avenue, and
has already started to remodel the
structure to provide, in addition to
.seven stores, two apartments on the
second floor and one on the ground
floor. Two of the stores are now oc
cupied and will continue with the
same tenants, the Drs. McLeod and
the Tate Beauty Parlor. The build
ing was owned by the Realty Pur
chase Corporation of New York.
Mr. Starnes plans to di.spose of his
cafe on East Broad street, retiring
from the restaurant business which
he has conducted here for 16 years.
W. P. Benner of Carthage has ac
quired from Nicholas L. Gibbon the
building which has recently been oc
cupied by the Atkinson Furniture
Company and B. J. Simond’s grocery,
and plans to remodel into a motion
picture theatre
The newly organized National Civ
ilian Defense Adminijtration, to head
which President Roosevelt has ap
pointed Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of
New York City, was conceived and
first proposed in Southern Pines and
submitted to Governor Clyde R.
Hoey in July of last year by
Struth’E^s Burt, author. No action
was taken by the Governor, but Mr.
Burt launched a campaign among civ
ic organizations here, later carrying
his proposal to Washington and New
York.
For the past several weeks Mr. Burt
has been actively engaged with “The
Fight For Freedom Committee,”
headed by Senator Carter Glass as
honorary chairman and the Right
Rev. Henry W- Hobson, Episcopal
Bishop of Ohio as chairman, and with
a list of sponsors of many of Amer
ica’s most prominent citizens in all
walks of life. The action of the Pres
ident in announcing an Administra-
t’on of Civilian Defense as a govern
mental agency is believed to have re
sulted from the work and influence
of this committee.
"It’s exactly our idea and was first
proposed in Southern Pines,” Mr.
Burt writes The Pilot from the office
of the committee in the 'RKG Build
ing, New York.
The Civilian Defense organization
will have three big objectives; 1.
'Ho translate defense needs to
states 4^d towns. 2. To coordi
nate civilian effort. 3. To boost na
tional morale.
These were the points brought out
by Mr. Burt in talks before the
American Legion, Southern Pines Ro
tary Club and other local civic organ
izations some time ago.
Commencement Starts
At Pinehurst School
Twenty-Eight Seniors in Gradu
ating Class.—Rev. Binkley
Baccalaureate Preacher
Supt. James W. Harbison of the
Pinehurst Schools announces the
Commencement program as follows:
tonight, Friday, Miss Harriet Shil-
linglaw will present her pupils In a
music recital. She will award a med
al to the pupil having done the most
comprehensive practicing and hav
ing made the most progress in mu
sic. Sunday, May 25th, at 11:00 a.
m., /baccalaureate sermon by the
Rev. O. T. Binkley of Wake Foreste
at the Community Church.
Monday evening, Class Night will
be held in the school auditorium.
Tuesday morning at 10:00 o’clock
Miss Ruth Lilly will present the Sev
enth grade students’ certificates.
Tuesday evening the graduation
exercises will be held in the audi
torium, at which time the following
will receive their diplomas;
Jesse Cole, Wilbur Currie, Graham
Jones, Robert Lea, D. C. McKenzie,
Ellis Mosher, Watson Smith, Bill
Tate, Jack Taylor, Richard Veno,
(Please turn to page four)
Commencement Here
Opens Sunday, June 1st
l^ccalaureate Sermon To Be Fol
lowed Monday By Class Day,
with Graduation Tuesday
The school year is drawing to a
close and the Seniors of Southern
Pines High School are planning their
commencement programs. On Sun
day, June 1st, at the Church of Wide
Fellowship, the commencement ser
mon will be delivered by Dr. Charles
C. Weaver. The following morning at
11:15 an Honor' Day assembly, open
to the public, as are all the gradua
tion events, will be held in the high
school auditorium. This new feature
will consist of the presenting of tro
phies and honors to students out
standing in Sports, Dramatics and
Music. At this time the American Le
gion Citizenship award and the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce award to
the most Improved student will be
m.?de.
Monday evening in the high school
auditorium at 8:15 the Seniors’ an
nual Class Day exercises will be pre
sented. The program for this year
includes songs, skits and speeches
that promise great entertainment for
the audience.
Another new feature will be the
presentation and dedication of a flag
and staff, f.rected on the front lawn
of the school, which will take place
Tuesday morning at 11;15. ’The flag
3nd jxjle will be the Senior class gift
to the school.
The final graduation exercises will
ho held at the Church of Wide Fel
lowship Tuesday evening, June 3d
MRS. DANA TELl« KlWAfOS
ABOUT H08PIT.-VL AUXILIARY
Mrs. Paul Dana of Pinehurst told
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club all about
the Moore County Hospital Auxiliary
and what It has accomplished for the
hospital since Its inception at Wednes
day’s meeting in the Aberdeen Com-
■nunlty House. She read a most In
teresting paper she had prepared and
read before the Carollnas-Vlrginla
lospltal Conference in Greenville, S.
In April.