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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NE'VVS-WEEKLY T*UT7 L JtXJE> A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding ^PRINC9 \j»^l LAKEVI6W E.NO HANufiY jack&oh SPRIH09 SOUTHCRN PtMCd ASHt.SV HK.ICHTS PIMEBUJF^ PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCl'LrATIOX & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina VOL. 20. NO. 3(5. Aberdeen Southern Fines. North Carolina. Friday, Aujjiist S. If)II. Pinehurst FIVE CENTS ONE IS KILLED, 'Moore Hospital Report Shows Constant Increase in Services IN AUTO CRASH John Smith of Aberdeen Dead Asi Result of Wreck; Clark, j Hatch and Riley Hurt ' Married T\VO>STILL IN HOSPITAL John Smith of Aberdeen was killed, and Lloyd Clark, Jim Riley and Joe Hatch of Southern Pines were serious ly injured early Tuesday morning when the car in which they were rid ing skidded on a w.et street in the town of Bolton and crashed into a store building. The four Sandhills men had set out on a fishiJig- trip to Fort Fiaher, ran Into heavy rains, and were returning to Southern Pnes w^Ji^ri the accident occurred. Reports received here said that Riley was driving the car, a 1940 Mercury ewned by Clark. Smith died In Columbus County Hospital a few hours after the acci dent occurred, without regaining con sciousness, and was brought back to Aberdeen for burial Thursday after noon in Old Bethesda Cemetery. Clark, operator of the Clark Fun eral Home, was in improved condition Wednesday and was allowed to return to his home here- Mrs. Clark drove to WTiiteville to got him. Hatch and Riley are still in Co lumbus Hospital, where the former is receiving treatment for lacerated hand and fractured ankle, and the latter for a broken rli,ht leg and crushed left arm and hand. Clark sus tained chest injuries and severe cuts and bruises. Young Smith was employed at a Sinclair Service Station in Aberdeen; R;ley is the operator of an automo bile junk yard, and Hatch is associat ed with Clark in his business here. According to reports, the car in which they were riding was complete ly demonished and the Bolton Cash Store, into which the Mercury skid ded, was knocked 18 inches off its foundation by the impact. f'OXST.XN'TIXO MONTES.VNTI •■Tint/” Montesanli, son of Mr. and Mrs A. Montesanti, is best remember ed around here as he is pictured above, with baseball uniform and trophy. This week, "Tino” discarded his “bachelor" robes rostume and ulonned the garb of a "Benedict” win ning ,a different trophy, in the person of Miss Feme Moore. The occasion took place at Miami Beach, where "Tino’’ has been working for 5 years. : His family has no details of the mar riage, as yet, other than it took place August 2 and Miss Moore is the daughter of a Miami Beach hotel owner. JOHN T. SMITH, .FU. Funeral for John T. Smith, Jr., of Aberdeen was conducted at the grave side in Old Bethesda Wednesday af ternoon at 3 o'clock. He was 22 years old. Surviving are his father, John T. Smith of Aberdeen, four sister.'*; Hes- ta and Vesta, twins, Nora and An nie Lois Smtih, and three brothers, Ray, Joe and Norman, all of Aber deen- HIGH FALLS MILL SOLD TO CURRIES Industrial Plant on Deen River to Be Operated by W. H. and J. M, Currie Rotarians To Hear Report of Assembly Tho Southern Pines Rotary Club Will get first hand reports of the 18Sth District Assembly held at Wrightsville Beach last Monday when the club meet."! Friday at 12:15 for lunch at the Church of Wide Fellow ship. President Otis Broom, Arthur New comb and Vernon Allan attended the Assembly, and President Broom put on a “star performance” as a part of the entertainment, accordng to the others. The performance was a dem onstration of how a newly elected member should he inducted into Ro tary-. Carl G. Thompson Jr., editor of The Pilot, will speak at the "Rotary lun cheon. Moore School Puoils May Seek NYA Help Moore County boys or girls who need assistance in order to attend public schools this fall may apply for NYA help next Tuesday morning, when James G. Woodson, NYA stu dent work officer will be In the of fice of H. Lee Thomas, county super intendent, from 8:30 to 10:30 a. m. The NYA representative will inter view white and Negfro students need ing NYA in-school assistance during the coming school year. According to NT A, a boy or girl must be at least 16 years of age and be able to show proper need of funds In order to be eligible for NTA assistance. The transfer of the High Falls dam acro.ss Deep River to W. IT- Currie and J. M. Currie by Arthur Ross and wife and others, along with other property of the High Falls Manufac turing Company including the cotton factory building in which is located a 4,080 spindle cotton mill complete, a roller mill with equipment for mak ing flour and meal, a concrete stor age warehouse, office building, mer cantile store building, cotton gin and residence buildings, was the most im portant real estate transfer recorded in Moore county during the past I week. I When questioned as to future plans for the newly acquired indus trial plant, which for a number of years has been one of the important manufacturing plants of the county, W. H. Currie stated that nothing special had been planned and that the mill would continue operations as in the past. The High ^alls mill is one of the few industrial plants in the county that takes advantage of the natural water power. Other transfers listed include the following: M G. Boyette, commissioner, to Home Owmers’ LiOan Corporation: property in Southern Pines. W. Clement Barrett, commissioner, to W. L. McKenzie and wife: proper ty in Bensalem township. J. VanCQ Rowe, commissioner; to Trustees of Manley Presbyterian Church: property in Manley. Eugene B. wmiiaras to Anne B- Porter; one lot in Pinehurst. Paul T. Bamum and wife to' Har old J. Maloney and wife; 'ots 22, 23 and 24 in Block G and 2, Southern Pines. H. A. Gunter and wife to T. C- Bob bitt: proi^rty in Sandhill township. “liona Fide Demand” Reflected in I'se of Institution; Sum mary of Work (Jiven Constant increase in services of Moore County Hospital to the com munity is revealed in a 40-page report of tho in.stitution's activities for 1940, just issued this week. Showing an increase in "in-pa tient’s” from 766 during 1930, the first full year of operation, to 1,928 in 1940, the report comments, ' the rate of increase has been .so great that it clearly reflects bona fidi de mand.” Notable was the fncreire to 161 babies born in the hospital last year, compared with a previous high of 138 in 1939. Shows Safer Childbirth "Safer child-birth has been a sig nificant aspect of improved public health in Moore County, but on this point great credit is due to an inde pendent agency, the efficient Matern al Welfare Committee,” the r'port adds. The attractive pamphlet summar izes the growth of the hospital from its beginning in 1929 through the end of the la.st calendar year ,describing its location, various high spots in its growth, and including a complete fi nancial statement, showing need for additional assistance in making erds meet. "The average stay of a patient in the Hospital has decreased over the decade from about 11 days to nine,” according to the summary. "Part of this change may be ascribed to bet ter general health and to earlier iios- pitalization, the latter being a reflec tion of increased commimity confi dence.” Laboratory examinations during 1910 reached an all-time high of 15,- 310, and these do not include W asSer- mans, which are sent to the State laboratory in Raleigh, and tissues, which go to Duke Hospital in Dur ham. Need X-Ray E<|U\pment Announcement is also made of the acquisition of a new diagnostic X-ray' equipment for radiography, flouro- scopy and superficial therapy, as well as a mobile X-ray imit. making possible pictures at bedside. For five years, there were no stu dent nurses at Moore County Hospi tal. Now the institution includes a Superintendent of Nurses, assistant superintendent, four graduate super visors, 10 graduates in general staff duty and 10 students. An Idea! Postmaster Huchan and Oth ers Think Local Homes Need Numbers or Names Postmaster P. Frank Buch.in first brought up the matter ono afternoon, and since then, u num ber of local citizens have concurred in his opinion that Scuthorn Pines needs some inipioved meth od of locating homes nnd dwell ings in the town. "We have strangers come into the post office constantly to ask where friends of theirs live,” the postmaster said. ‘‘Even when we know the house, it is difficult to direct them, becau.se there aie few house numbers or hou.se name."!." Point of his conversation and the opinions of others is this: Doesn’t Southern Pines, being largely at resort town, need either hoii.se numbers or name plates for the homes? Wouldn’t this improve service of stores, mail and other delivery? Wouldn’t this be e.i.sier on visitors, trying to locate friends who live hero County Tax C., Is Cut From 95 To $100; Budget Totals j80,762 Durham Speaker New Hud^et Estimates Levy for School Capital Oullav; Tax .Must Raise $17«,;J21 GROUP SELECTS NEW OFFICERS A cut of 10 per cent in tho Moore i County tax levy was approved by I Moore County Commissioners, in reg- mSS H-ARRIET ELUOTT Mayor uuncan Mattnews and Town Clerk Howard Burns are expecting to ‘ ' hear Miss Harriet Elliott, dean-on- Mrs. Johnson Heads Maternal leave of V. N. c.'s Women's College Welfare Committee; Plan to iin Greensboro, bo«s of the Consumer Increase Service ! Division of U. s. civilian defense, In-hen she speaks at the 33rd annual New officers of the Moore County ‘ of the N. C. League of Maternal Welfare committee were Municipalities in Durham, meeting elected and plans launched for ex-' Thursday through Saturday next tending its clinic services at a meet- ‘ week Secretary of Navy Frank Knox ing in Carthage during this w’eek. 1 jg expected to address the meet- Mrs. J, Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen jng « was elected chairman to succeed Mrs. " Wilbur Currie of Carthage, who was elected executive secretary. Other of- flceif^i are Mrs Malcolm Kemp of Plnebliiff and Mrs, James Boyd of Southern Pines, first and second vice- chairman, respectively; Mrs. Frank McCluer Jr.. of Southern Pines, treas urer; Mrs. Ethel Davis of West End.j recording secretary. After a report from Mrs, Edith * Harris, nurse mid-wife, showed a de crease in the number of white wo- ' men attending pre-natal clinics con (I’lensf, turn to pnpe five) “JOKE” MARRIAGE TURNS OUT REAL Annulment Sought in South Car olina Marriage of Helen Swear ingen, 15, to Soldier Draft Board Orders Ten Men to Report Married as a joke at the age of 15 years to a boy three years her sen ior whom she had known only four days and between whom there is no love is the plight of Helen Swearin gen of Southern Pines, according to allegations in a complaint filed in .Moore County Court for the girl by her next friend and mother, Mrs. J. L, The Moore County Draft Board‘gwcaringen, has ordered 10 local men to report to plaintiff asks annulment of the the Board's office in the Courthouse: marriage to Ralph C. Mclnnis George H, Maurice of Eagle Springs Monday, August .5, for induction into Aberdeen and Fort Scrivens, Sa- was president of the Moore County the army. vannah Ga Hospital during 1940, and was sue- The men are supposed to report ^ride was led to ceeded this year by G. C. Seymour of i0;45 a. m„ daylight time, to be sent|j,^,j^^.^ ^^.^riage "would be Aberdeen. A section of the report devotes it- Fred Morris McLellan, volunteer self to the Moore County Hospital Southern Pines; Grant Lee Campbell, ^o Fort Bragg. Those called included'^ v^-ould not amount to ' anything of any importance,” accord- Auxiliary which, during tho decade covered by the report, assisted in fi nance to the amount of $40,156.27. Mrs. A. J, McKelway headed the aux iliary in 1940 and her successor is Mrs. Edwin S. Blodgett of Pinehurst, Addor; Willie Alma Kelly, Carthage; Lonnie Tony Taylor, Carthage, Luth er Wa.shington, Jr., Southern Pines; John We.sley Sellars, Vass; Russell Lee Johnson, Hemp route 2, Edward Jefferson Goins, Carthage route 3, Al- Members of the auxiliary numbered i bert Earl Davis, Hemp route 2, and (Plenxf turn to page eight) ' Colin Eric Person, Carthage route 1. Old Moore Schoolhouse Now Has Classrooms Crowded With 7,000 ing to the complaint. The story, as brought out in the _ ^charge, is that young Mclnnis, a mem ber of the National Guard in camp at Fort Scrivens, had been at home for a few days and, on July 7, his sis ter, Mrs. Bobby Pleasants was to take him back to camp. Mclnnis asked the Swearingen girl, whom he had met on July 4, to accompany them on the trip along with two or three others. After the party reached ,‘3outh Car olina, some person in the car starte'd a conversation with references to people from North Carolina going to South Carolina to get married, and it was suggested that it would be a "good joke” if Helen and Ralph would ril.ir se.ssion Monday, b.v auoption of a budget calling for expenditures of S380,762 during 1911-42, of which S176,321 must be raised by taxation at the rate of 85 cents per $100 on estimated property valuation of $20,- S00,000, The new rate represents a 10 per rent reduction over the 95 cents per $100 last year and is three cents low er than the levy foi 1939-40- In spite of thi.s, estimated expenditures are over $40,000 higher than the budget estimate for last year, a difference which is made up by a higher antici pated revenue from revenue other than taxes, including court collec tions, State and Federal grants. The new budget eliminated entire ly a levy for capital outlay for schools, an item which a year ago was assumed by the county as a whole, for the various school districts. Not Included in this, however, the special district levies for the Aber- cieen. Southern Pines and Pinehurst school districts for supplementing StatC’Supportod school terms, The new budget provides for ap proximately a $3,000 cut in general county and court expenses?, but in creases for other items, with the ex ception of school debt service and county road and bridge bonds, (Com plete budget estimate is shown on Paee 7 of the Pilot. I Budgets for welfare, health and poor responsibilities of the county were each given about $1,000 in- I crease over last year. Total expendi tures for county schools, including current expen.se, capital outlay and debt service, was boosted from $144,- 937 fcr 1940-41 to $164,217 for the current year. However, it was antic ipated that $60,000 for capital outlay would come from sources other than taxes, while $42,962 of the $31,781 for current operating .school expense is anticipated from other than tax sour ces. The total amount to be collected by taxes during this year is $176,321, compared with $198,282 in the bud get estimate mate last year at this time, f f ' Kiwanis Hears Talk On Biblical Symbols The old Acorn Ridge grade school, j Last week, the first of his barred up beyond Hemp, is undoubtedly the, rocks w'ere ready for eating, and over most crowded schoolhouse in the, to one of his barns they went, to be State. Its four rooms have around prepared for market. Besides the 7,000 occupants, A'ith a class being barred rocks and reds, which he is, get maVried while they were'in South graduated every 10 weeks. raising for sale, he’s got one class-j Carolina, according to the charge. This abandoned Moore ‘ - school isn’t graduating school chil-' hoins, soon to be a source of eggs, dren, however; it graduates biddies; With nothing to do but eat, drink from coop to dining room table- The and chirp merrily, the school occu- class rooms which, until a year ago, contained sevcal elementary grades. County, room filled with strutting white leg- others joined In the opinion that it (Please turn to pagt right) Three Local Youths Start on New Work pants manage to peck up over 1,000 pounds of mash and com feed per are now the fattening grounds for, day, and they keep the electric pump, 7,000 chickens. | which pulls water out of the old When B. A. Hussey, who has been | school well, chugging constantly to marketing chickens and turkeys in, send enough water to allay their these parts for some years, decided to thirst. raise chickens, he bought from the county the abandoned Acorn Ridge After the present enrollment of 7,- 000 are cleaned out and aired, and School, piped it with heating units, | then a new enrollment will be made, put in an old sawTUill boiler, and j “None of this business of letting a shipped in a lot of day-old biddies to | school lie idle four months of the start them on their way to broiling i year,” declared Mr. Hussey. ‘Tm go- ovens. I ing to keep this plant going.” Three Southern Pines young men left this week for Radford, Va., to begin new work as junior inspectors of material on a government defense project. Billy Wilson, Robert Beck, and L- T. Hall all obtained employment on this projoct- These yotmg men took a 12-week s’leelal course at State Col lege last Spring to fit them for such work. Biblical symbolism was made re.al- istic and applicable by a Hungarian- born Presbyterian minister who ad dressed Kiwanians at their bi-week ly session in the Berkshire Hotel at Pinehurst Wednesday. Dr. George F. Fisher of Newton, la-, guest of Kiwanian Robert S. DuRant, described the continuing need among men, especially in a war-torn world, for those qualities symbolized by EJse- klel in Chapter 1, verse 10, when he saw the ‘‘face of a man, the face of a lion, the face of an ox, and the face of an eagle.” ‘•iTie fa.'’e of a man represents hu man pci'soiiallty,” Dr. Fisher declar ed, recalling his first view of these four symbols in an old Northern Hun- gqi'ian church, which he visited in his boyhood. Courage and devotion to ideals is the quality depicted by the lion’s face, the speaker continued, re ferring to the wide usage of the Lion on coats of armsand by Britain. “We may think it odd that the ox should represent sacrifice,” he said. “But how this quality of sacrifice is needed t/|,iay in the Second World W’ar.” Finally, the face of the eagle rep resents the inner vision—an objective judgment of values, the speaker con cluded, without which a man’s life can not reach its full height. The Kiwanis Club adopted a resolu tion of condolences to be sent to Mrs. Lucy Hart, widow of the recently de ceased Robert L. Hart, a member of the Club.