County Allots
$25,000 Toward
Hospital Wing
Grant Is Made
From ABC Surplus;
Hospital Commended
The board of county commis
sioners in regular session at Car
thage last week unanimously en-
lorsed a resolution appropriating
^25,000 out of surplus ABC store
:eceipts, for the building fund of
he Moore County hospital. The
iction followed a visit paid to the
commission by members of the
lospital’s board of directors, head-
id by Wilbur H. Currie, of Car-
hage, chairman.
This leaves approximately $20,-
100 to be raised in the county for
he hospital to have the benefit of
1 contingent fund of $40,000 from
he Duke Endowment, on which a
eadline of August 1 has been set.
h a campaign which has been un-
[er way since last September, to
ecure $150,000 for the new wing,
ontributions have totaled about
65,000, now raised to $90,000 by
he commissioners’ action.
The resolution passed by the
ounty board was as follows:
‘‘Whereas the Moore County
Headed For Nursing Careers
Recreation Program Starts
Next Week~ $ly800 Needed
Announcement of the start of
the fourth annual community
summer recreation program was
made this week, as a fund-raising
-mpaign for $1,800 opened to fin
ance it.
A. C
PEGGY ANN COLE
IDA MARTIN McDONALD
Two 1950 Moore Graduates"Awarded
Sandhill Veterans’ Nurse Scholarships
First Scholarship
Winner Graduates At
High Point Memorial
The Sandhill Veterans associa
tion, through some lucky breaks,
was enabled this year to pick two
ospital, a non-profit hospital, is nurse training scholarship win-
' ners, instead of one as in previous
years, it was announced this week
by Dr. R. Bruce Warlick, presi
dent.
The two fortunate young ladies
are Miss Ida Martin McDonald, a
new graduate of the Carthage
High school, and Miss Peggy’Ann
Cole, of the Pinehurst High
school.
Miss McDonald is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. D. A- McDonald,
Jr., of Carthage. Miss Cole is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mal
colm Cole, of West End RED.
They were chosen by a disinter
ested selection board on the basis
of character, personality and serv
ice qualities indicating success in
the high profession of nursing.
They are planning to enter train
ing in September, Miss McDonald
at, Presbyterian hospital, Char
lotte, and Miss Cole at Cabarrus
hospital. Concord, and in three
years to return to their home
county of Moore to practice their
profession—sole condition of the
scholarship.
Economies Help
Miss McDonald was selected
first, from among a number of
applicants from various Moore
County High schools. It was then
that it was found that, through the
generosity of Moore county citi
zens which made the 1950 cam
paign the best one to date, plus
1 process of construction of a
reatly needed v«ng at a cost of
pproximately $400,000, which
dll add greatly to the capacity of
le hospital and enable it to give
eeded hospitalization to many
lore patients, and will add great-
r to the efficiency of the hospital
1 the comfort, treatment and hos-
italizatioq of patients; and
“Whereas, receipts by Moore
lunty from the ABC stores for
le current year have exceeded
le expected and budgeted re-
dpts of $116,000 by approximate-
’■ $49,000, and by reason of the
iceipt of the , funds aforesaid
love the budgeted receipts the
lunty now has a surplus of at
ast $25,000 from receipts from
le ABC stores; and
Whereas, the services rendered
le people of Moore county by the
bore County hospital have been
such a satisfactory and com-
endable nature that the county
immissioners would like to grant
le,petition and request of the di-
ctors of the Moore County hos-
tal and make an appropriation
the sum of $25,000 out of the
irplus receipts from the ABC
ore^ to provide the necessary
;nds for the construction of the
;w wing to the Moore County
ispital,
“Be it resolved, therefore, that
(Continued on page 8V
POPULATION 4,179
The "preliminary official"
figure on Southern Pines pop
ulation—the one which will
be submitted to Washington
—is 4,179, it was announced
Thursday by W. Lamont
Brown, district supervisor of
the census.
It is still not too late to
send in your name, to the
Lexington office, if you have
been skipped. Additional
names will be added in the
tabulation at the U. S. Bu
reau of the Census, for an
nouncement of all popula
tion statistics by President
Truman in December.
Preliminary official figures
on all Moore County towns
will be reported next week,
Mr. Brown said.
Dawson, Jr., will serve
again as director, as he has since
1946. Paul C. Butler is fund rais
ing chairman. Appeals went out
by mail this week to Southern
Pines citizens, asking the partici
pation of all in meeting the ex
penses.
Swimming at Aberdeen lake, to
be held each Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoon, will start next
week, with the rest of the pro
gram opening the week after, fol
lowing the closing of the Bible
schools. The bus will leave the
town park at 2::30 p. m. on
“swimming days,” taking the boys
and girls to the lake for two and
a half hours of fun and instruc
tion under a qualified Red Cross
and_ Boy Scout instructor.
Activity Schedule
Next week, the program begins
in earnest, presenting a wide
range of activities for all ages.
Starting Monday, June 26, the
schedule will be as follows:
Story hour, Mondays 10:30 a.
m. to 12, elementary school libra
ry; sewing class, Tuesdays 10 a.,
m. to 12 at high school; cooking
class, Thursdays 10 a. m. to 12,
place to he announced later; base
ball, Tuesdays and Thursdays 10
a. m. to 12 at high school field.
Tennis instruction, girls on
Mondays, boys on Fridays, 70
m. to 12 on town courts; indoor j Two Directors
games for boys and girls. Wed- (Continued on page 8)
nesdays 10 a. m. to 12 at school
gymnasium; dancing, Friday or
Saturday nights at school gymna
slum; pingpong, checkers etc.,
every day Mtonday through Fri
day at Foxhole; tennis, badmin
ton, every day Monday through
Friday on the town park.
Baseball league play for the
younger boys, with several near
by towns also having recreation
programs, was successful last year
and is being planned again this
summer.
Volunteer Helpers
Mr. Dawson said a number of
volunteer workers will help with
the program, and more will be
needed. He asks that those willing
to help let him know at once.
Volunteer cooking instructcws
will include some town experts in
this field—Mrs. John Ponzer, Mrs.
J. M. Pleasants, Mrs. Joe N. Steed
and Mrs. W. F. Hollister. All help
ed last year in the cooking pro
gram, one of the most successful
features ever staged in the recre
ation project. ,
Volunteer sewing instructors
are also tops: Mrs. L. C. Loren-
son, Mrs. Marshall Palmer, Mrs.
P. S. Ward and Mrs. Broaddus
Smith.
The recreation program has
grown each year since it b'fegan,
except lor the summer of 1948
when it had to be canceled on ac
count of the polio epidemic. Last
year’s program was enjoyed by
about 150 young people, and it is
anticipated that fully that many,
a. I or more, will come out this year.
Umstead, Cordon At
Meeting For Graham
Here Monday Night
RESIGNING
m
DR. T. E. DAVIS
Dr. Davis Asks
To Accept Call
Of Virginia Church
Southern Pines,
Pinebluff Firemen
Win Contests
Board Approves
Extension Of
Business District
economies practiced by previous
scholarship winners and the fail
ure of some anticipated contin
gencies to happen, the Association
felt it could afford to start still
another girl on her way toward
being a registered trained' nurse.
The board met again, reviewed
all the applicants and chose Miss
Cole, as the second scholarship
winner.
The girls will have tuition fees
at the hospital of their choice paid
by the Veterans, all incidental ex
penses and some pocket money as
they go along, amounting to ap
proximately $300 per year per
girl.
Tom Shockley represented the
Association at the Carthage High
(Continued on Page 8)"
Piedmont Makes Last Flight Into Sandhills
Piedmont Airlines, Inc., flew its
3t flight into the Southern
nes-Pinehurst airport Wednes-
y, before suspending service
ere until November 1.
Pleas of the mayors and other
iding citizens of the towns of
)uthern Pines, Aberdeen and
irthage, and intercession of Con-
essman C.' B. Deane and Senator
ank Graham went unheeded by
e CAB, which sent word to Har-
Fullenwider, representing the
otesting group, that “concrete
:ts on potential use of the serv-
:s in the Sandhills” were insuf-
ient as presented.
Despite information from Wash-
jton that it would be impossible
get the matter reopened for a
aring. Attorney Fullenwider,
10 is also president of the
uthern Pines Chamber of Com-
;rce, said he was marshaling
ire “concrete facts” for presen-
ion to the board.
The CAB authorized suspension
the service May 26. Piedmont
limed returns were insufficient
the summer to justify main-
ning service to the local air-
rt.
rhough the flights are not
latly used for passenger service,
mail and parcel post, freight
J express have seen a consid-
ible increase during the past
ir, and are now considered es-
itial to local business opera-
ns. They can be developed
ther only through continued
iration, the petitioners claim,
dr. Fullenwider said it is pos-,
le the service may never be re-
ned, as the local stop may have
;n an expedient only until com-
tion of the Fayetteville airport.
Airport Lighting Contract Is Let;
Health Center Architects Engaged
The Moore county commission
ers have taken steps this month
toward two great improvements
for the county.
In a special session they let the
contract for the airport lighting
project for the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst airport, the work to be
done by the B & W Electric com
pany of Fayetteville, according to
specifications drawn up by the
Southern Engineering and Map
ping company of Greensboro. Ap
proval of the contract was receiv
ed from the CAA, following nego
tiations which have continued
LIGHTS—NOW?
The Southern Pines town
board, meeting Wednesday
night, tabled a request from
the county for payment of a
proportionate share of the
costs of the airport lighting
project.
They plan to investigate
first the amount the airport is
being used, and the need for
lighting under present condi
tions.
At the start of the negotia
tions for lighting the runway,
the county airport was being
used regularly by Resort Air
lines, and later by Piedmont
Airlines. Resort is now using
it only as an operational base,
and I^iedmont service was
suspended this week.
over many months. Cost of the
$8,000 project, which is expected
to be completed this summer, will
be met 50 per cent by federal
funds, 50 per cent by the county
its incorporated towns and Resort
Airlines, Inc.
Health. Center
Contract for the architectural
work for the Moore County Health
center was awarded the firm of
Holloway-Weber-Reeves of Ral
eigh, specialists in this type of
work, which will provide not only
specifications for the building and
equipment, but supervision of the
construction. On completion of
the plans, the building contract
will be let by due process, and the
building erected on a county-
owned lot within a half block of
the courthouse at Carthage. The
lot, approximately an acre in size,
lies southwest of the courthouse
square, behind Williamson’s store
and the William Penn movie thea
tre.
The $53,000 cost of the building
will be shared in approximately
equal thirds by the federal gov
ernment, the state and the county.
The plans, which will follow along
lines of those approved by the
state ,require the atfre of ground
to provide plenty of parking
space. The center will serve as a
modern and well-equipped home
for the county health department,
with facilities far beyond those
which it now possesses.
Southern Pines and Pinebluff
contest teams each took one first
prize and one second, in competi
tions held Wednesday as a high
light of th eannual Sandhills Vol
unteer Firemen’s association
meetng held at Pembroke. Only
three teams competed, all show
ing excellent form and speed.
Prizes were in cash.
In the water contest, the South
ern Pines speed demons complet
ed their task in the brief space of
15 seconds. Pinebluff followed
with 21 and Sanford with 23.
In the chemicals division, the
Pinebluff team made it in only 10
and a half seconds. Southern
Pines came in just one second
later. Sanford trailed with 17 and
a half.
About half of the 40 local de
partments in the Association at
tended the meeting, including
I some 150 men. Registration start
ed at 11 o’clock. An afternoon
business session was held at Pem
broke College.
During the session a moment of
silence was observed honoring the
memory of D. D. “Dunk” Cam
eron, of Southern iPnes, a charter
member, who died during the past
year.
The invitation of the Pinebluff
department was accepted for 1951,
which will be the Association’s
silver anniversary year. At that
time the organization will return
to the scene of its birth, as the
first meeting was held at Pine
bluff in 1926.
PETITION
A petition for a referendum
to establish a permanent com
munity recreation program
started going the rounds in
Southern Pines Thursday,
and indications were that the
necessary names would be se
cured within a day or two.
Hoke Pollock, town attor
ney, said that such a petition
bearing the names of 25 per
cent of qualified voters would
make an election mandatory.
According to the petition,
such a vote would call for a
special tax of not less than 1
mill, nor more than three, on
$1 property valuation. A mill
is one-tenth of a cent. This
would amount to from 10 to
30 cents on the $100 valua
tion.
Mr. Pollock said that by
law this is the only way such
a civic program can be set up
—by petition and vote of the
people. Ad valorem taxes can
not be used.
The tov/n board, in regular ses
sion Wednesday evening at the
city hall, approved a recommen
dation of the zoning board that
the business district be extended
along New Hampshire avenue,
from West Broad to Bennett
street, and north on Bennett to
include the Sandhills Funeral
home and driveway.
The Funeral home has been op-*
erating in a residential district
under a special permit granted by
the town in 1940. R. J. Hughes,
of Siler City, who recently pur
chased the property, had request
ed that this be made permanent.
Attending the town board meet
ing, Mr. Hughes said he plans to
convert the building to offices and
apartments.
"The zoning board’s recommen
dation fell short by one lot of ful
filling his entire request, which,
however, he said was all right
with him. A vacant lot between
the Funeral Home building and
the Congregational parsonage re
mained “residential” for protec
tion of the parsonage. If need for
further business expansion is felt
in this area, the matter can be re
opened in future years, the board
members said.
(A. B. Patterson, Sandhills Fun
eral Home proprietor, said this
week he will maintain -his busi
ness there for some time yet.)
Mayor C. N. Page said he had
taken up the matter of putting
power lines underground, with
representatives of the CP&L.
They said, he reported, that they
would like to discuss the matter
at a meeting of the Civic club,
whose president, Mrs. Cecil Rob
inson, made the request last
month with an eye to protection
of the trees. Since the Civic club
has recessed until fall, the project
was tabled until that time.
Commissioner W. E. Blue
brought up the matter of garbage
containers left offensively—and il
legally—uncovered, and the board
decided unanimously to enforce
the town ordinance, requiring
their covering with close fitting
tops.
Mayor Page reported on speed
ers arrested in May and June,
commending the police depart
ment for vigilance against this
hazard.
Application of W. B. Holliday
to sell beer at his restaurant, the
Coffee shop, was granted.
Installation of street lights was
authorized at the intersections of
Leake street and Maine avenue,
and Page street and New York
avenue.
Dr. Thompson E. Davis, pastor
of the Brownson Memorial Pres
byterian church since November,
1943, ahnounced to his congrega
tion Sunday morning his desire
to resign the local pastorate
order to accept a call from the
Royal Oak Presbyterian church of
Marion, Va.
A congregational meeting was
set for Sunday, June 25, to take
action on his request, and to set
up a pulpit committee for selec
tion of a successor. He does not
expect to leave the church at
once. Dr. Davis said, but will
probably remain several weeks
before going to Marion.
Marioh^ is a historic town of
some 7,000 people, in the moun
tainous southwest corner of the
Old Dominion, not far from Bris
tol, Ten.-Va. It lies within the
Synod of Appalachia of the South
ern Presbyterian church. A Luth
eran college is located there.
^ The Royal Oak church was or
ganized in 1776, the year of the
Declaration of IndepLdence. It|?re"Genera?A^f' ^
has about 500 members, with more Ld ^ Alumni
than 600 Gnrolled in the Sundav
school. The church maintains four
outpost chapels. Dr. Davis will be
the senior pastor, assisted in the
work by the Rev. G. Hunter Nor
wood, .D. D.
Dr. Davis came to the Brown-
son Memorial church from Cal
houn, Ga. He found here a partial
ly completed church building and
a debt of approximately $8,000.
During his pastorate the building,
a beautiful example of colonial
architecture, has been virtually
completed. The debt has been
cleared and construction work has
Droceeded on a pay-as-you-go ba
sis. The church has also bought
a manse.
Twb years ago the church pro
gressed to independence from a
mission status, and since then has
borne its full share of obligations
and benevolences.
MIembership, now standing at
313; has approximately doubled,
as has the Sunday School enroll
ment, which is now 261.
Two circles have been added to
the women’s work, and new or
ganizations have included the
"Vouth Group, Pioneers, Men’s
club and junior choir.
Dr. Davis is married to the for
mer Miss Anna May Carper, of
Lewisburg, W. "Va., a graduate of
the Presbyterian Training School
for Lay 'Workers at Richmond, 'V'a.
They have four children, Marg
aret, aged 13; Thompson E., Jr.,
nine; John, six, and Dorothy,
three, born in Southern Pines.
All Invited To
Auditorium For
Address And Songs
John W. Umstead, Jr., of Chapel
Hill, Orange County representa
tive in the General Assembly,
will make a public address in
I Southern Pines Monday at 8 p.m.,
in behalf of the candidacy of Sen
ator Frank P. Graham for reelec
tion to the U. S. Senate.
Mr. Umstead-will speak at the
Southern Pines school auditorium.
He will be introduced by Judge
J. 'Vance Rowe of Aberdeen.
Norman Cordon, of Chapel Hill,
famous North Carolina bass who
formerly sang star roles with the
Metropolitan Opera, will be pres
ent as a special guest, to sing sev
eral selections and lead in group
singing. Mrs. Jack .Younts (Betty
Hall), ■ WEEB organist, formerly
with the ABC network, will ac
company at the piano.
Arrangements for the meeting
were made by the Moore Countv
Comrhittee for Graham, headed
by T. C. Auman of West End, and
E. J. Austin, of Southern Pines,
co-managers. While it will be in
the nature of a Moore county ral
ly for Graham, non-supporters of
the junior Senator will be wel
comed as well as supporters, and
questions may be asked and \yill
be answered, the co-managers
said.
Mr. Umstead is one of the
state’s leading Democrats, a State
Senator from the 16th district in
1931 and 1939, before he was elect
ed to the House of Representa
tives for the first time in 1941. He
has been reelected for each term
since. •
He has long been one of the
state’s leading workers for legis
lation in behalf of education, hos
pitals and other movements which
have made North Carolina the
south’s most progressive state. As
a member of the State Hospitals
Board of Controls he secured the
use of Camp Butner for state hos
pital purposes, and has been in
strumental in getting the state’s
new Alcoholic Rehabilitation pro
gram under way.
A 1909 graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, he has
served since 1921 as director of
association,
a trustee of the Greater
University. He is a member of
the State Democratic Executive
committee, the Masons, the Elks,
Grange and Methodist church.
He lost a son, Capt. John Wes
ley Umstead, 3rd, of the U. S. Ma-
rine corps, in action on Saipan- in
1944. A.nother son is a lieutenant
colonel in the Marine corps and a
daughter served as a corporal in
the Marine Corps Women’s Re
serve.
Mr. Umstead is a brother of an
other of North Carolina’s promi
nent Democrats and great public
servants, former State Senator
William B. Umstead.
He is manager of the Durham
branch office of the Jefferson
Standard Life Insurance company.
APPOINTED
Jack S. Younts is another
Southern Pines citizen ap
pointed by Governor Scott to
his Advisory Committee on
Highway Safety, which will
hold its first meeting at Ral
eigh June 27.
Otto B. Edwards was previ
ously announced as an ap
pointee to this important
body. He was placed on a
subcommittee for uniformity
of traffic signs and signals.
This is the second of the
new state advisory groups on
which Younts will serve. He
was named several weeks ago
by Scott to the Advisory
Board on Communications.
Slow Down - Children At Play !
“School is out—watch out for
children,” Mayor C. N. Page ap
pealed to motorists this week.
He revealed that the town is
cooperating fully in the county’s
canipaign against speeders, fol
lowing a number of serious acci
dents since the first of the year.
During May 30 speeders within
the city limits were apprehended
by local police, and there have
been 13 already in June. Though
most of these were from out of
town, some of those caught disre
garding the speed laws were local
people.
“Our police are doing a good
job in arresting speeders, but an
accident can happen any time be
fore they catch the offender,” the
Mayor said. “The best answer is,
DON’T SPEED. Nobody’s going
to be easy on you if you do.
Speeding will cost you money—
and it may cost a life.”