Friday. September 1. 19M.
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page Five
In and Out of Town
Mrs. F. E. Stubbs and daughter
Milburn went to Myrtle Beach, S.
C., Tuesday to spend a few days.
Mr. Stubbs plans to go down Sun
day to bring them home.
Mrs. F. G. Edwards of Patch’s
was made happy Tuesday by an
overseas call from her son, Capt.
W. L. Edwards, who is at Bremer-
haven, Germany. He reported
that he and other members of the
family were fine.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sessoms and
daughter, Gracie, of Sanford visit
ed Miss Georgia Wilson and La-
Verne Tyner Sunday. '
Mrs. W. A. Arey flew fromi Mi
ami, Fla., to Asheville to visit,
then to Raleigh, and en route
home spent from Wednesday until
Mrs. James Prim and her moth
er, Mrs. G. R. Chatfield, arrived
home Simday morning after a
week spent with Mr. and Mrs.
George R. Chatfield, Jr., at Chart-
ley, near Attleboro, Mass. Mr.
Chatfield took them to New York
to spend the day Saturday and
they visited Radio City Music Hall
and other interesting places in the
city before taking the train for
home that night.
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Gamble
have returned from a two weeks’
vacation trip. After spending a
week at Windy Hill Beach, they
visited relatives in Waxhaw,
Monroe and Charlotte.
“Municipal Planning For Small City”
Is Subject of Article By Van Camp
The advantages of orderly plan- I should come first, how it was all
ning for municipal improvements
are clearly set forth in an Eirticle
by Paul Van Camp, of Southern
Pines, in the July issue of Public
Works, a national magazine.
The article, “A Municipal Plan
for a Small City,” deals with such
a plaii as set up and now being
followed in Whiteville, a North
Carolina town of some 3,800 pop
ulation.
Illustrations showing details of
Whiteville’s new water plant, one
of the improvements secured un-
Thursday in Southern Pines with Durham), left Wednesday on a
the Areys, Parkers and Bensons, motor trip to California, where
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry V. Healy
and son, Jerry, Jr., returned Sun
day from a two weeks’ vacation
spent at Cherry Grove Beach. Mr.
der the planning system, were
Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Pelton and made by Donald L. Madigan, of
daughter. Miss Isabel Pelton of, Southern Pines/
Whiteville’s municipal plan,
says Mr. Van Camp, came
ftey will visit Mr. and Mrs. P. P. ^ result of postwar needs, when
Pelton Jr. and little Paul Philip, municipal
III, at Saji Mateo, hey plan to re ■, facjijtjgg j^^d failed to keep up
turn the last of September. jwith its growth. Much needed to
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Greene done—^but which project
and children John and Jo Ann,'
and a niece, Pat Morrison, spent
the weekend at Blowing Rock
Healy’s mother, Mrs. Mary Healy,
was at Miss Chase’s convalescent
home while the family was away.
Dr. and Mrs. R. M. McMillan,
their son John, and Dr. McMillan’s! with Mr. Greenes parents, Mr.
mother, Mrs. John McMillan, Sr., and Mrs. John Greene,
plan to leave today on a motor Mrs. J. S. Ramsey, John and
trip to Omaha, Neb., where Mrs. Bertha Maud Ramsey left Mon-
McMillan, Sr., will remain with dky for a week’s visit in New York
her daughter, Mrs. W. Lee Smith, with Mr. Ramsey, the husband
for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kivette and
Everett, returned Monday
and father, and the childreii’s
aunt. Miss Edna Bortel.
Mrs. Dorothy H. Avery will
from a 10-day vacation. Mr. and,leave tomorrow for a vacation in
Mrs. Kivette first drove to Burns- western North Carolina, visiting
ville, where their son had been relatives and friends in States-
attending painting classes for four ville, Morganton and Lenoir.
to be financed and how it could
best be built on the existing struc
ture, the city fathers found hard
to solve.
Their plan, with which Mr. Van
Camp assisted, consisted in the
preparation of a base map, re
peated in reproductions which
showed different essential feal-
tures of past history, current re
quirements and future needs. Most
of the information on the maps
was available in various forms,
or in the heads of longtime city
officials or employees; coordina
ted, it formed a working basis for
the setting of goals.
In the intervening years much
of the work has been done, with
new water and sewer projects as
the highlights of accomplishment.
How these were built in adapta
tion to existing conditions is
graphically explained by the au
thor.
weeks, and the three visited
Ridgecrest, Fontana Dam, Chero
kee, where they saw “Unto These
Hills,” Oak Ridge, Tenn., and
other places of interest.
' Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Robinson re
turned Friday from a two weeks’
vacation which included a motor
trip through the mountains of
West Virginia, a visit in Pitts
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Vann of
Badin were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Vann in Manly.
Mrs. J. M. Moody of Piney
Woods, Southern Pines, was a re
cent overnight guest of the Bee-
kman Tower Hotel in New York
City.
Miss Peggy Herr of Waterbury,
burgh. Pa., and travel through i fte guest of her Mu-
the western part of Pennsylvania, j Sieger Herr, Fnday and Sat-
Dr. and Mrs. George Heinitsh 1 ^^day. Sieger and her father. Dr.
IG. G. Herr, accompanied their
guest home, with the girls doing
the driving, to be guests of Dr.
attended the medical symposium
of the New Hanover County Med
ical society at Wrightsville Beach
last Friday, and from there went
to Myrtle Beach to spend the
weekend. Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Peck
also attended the symposium, and
went to Myrtle Beach for a vaca
tion. ^
Mr. and Mrs. Arch Parnell of
Herr’s brother. Dr. F. W. Herr,
during this week.
Mr. and Mrs. B'. C. Doyle re
turned Saturday night from a two
weeks’ vacation during which
they visited Mrs. Doyle’s parents
in Dannemora, N. Y., and saw sev-
$100,000 SUIT
A $100,000 damage suit has
been filed against the Sea
board Air Line railroad by
the estate of William J. Bru
ton, of Jackson Springs, in
Federal District court at Col
umbia, S. C.
The suit is the third in this
amount to be filed arising
from a three-death grade
crossing collision in South
Carolina last October 29. Bru
ton, Walter H. Smith of Col
umbia and James Roy Thom-
asop of Greenville were killed
when their car came into col
lision with the Seaboard's
Silver Meteor.
The Bruton suit lists 12
counts of negligence against
the railroad.
Mrs. Edwards’
First Grade
Opens Wednesday
Dr, Whitehead,
Optometrist,
Moves Offices
Philadelphia and their son and eral places of interest in Canada,
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Mark J. King, her daugh-
Walter Parnell, of Schenectady, N. ter and granddaughter, Mrs. Ehz-
Y., motored to Southern Pines'abeth Remington and Miss Joan
and spent Sunday and Monday Remington, all of Concord, N. H.,
with Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hos-
were guests of Mrs. King’s sister-
kins. They drove through western in-law, Mrs. V.' Maude_Thayer,
North Carolina to view the moun- from Wednesday of last week un-
tain scenery. til Tuesday. They drove back by
Mrs. A. W. Atherton has been way of the Skyline drive,
vacationing at St. Petersburg, r. p. Brown of Norfolk, Va.,
Fla., for several days. She plans
to return today (Friday).
Mrs. Lela B. Stroud returned
Friday with Mrs. Alice Adams
'and her party from a month’s stay
in Massachusetts, where she visit
ed friends in Greenfield, Lake
Pleasant, Northfield, Orange,
Athol and Boston. A friend iit
Orange took her through New
Hampshire by way of Keene,
Plymouth, and the White Moun
tains, returning by way of Lake
W'innepesaukee and Concord.
Mr. and? Mrs. J. Hunter Wood
were at the Beekman Tower hotel
in New York City for a week re
cently.
Mrs. R. S. Brown and daughter,
Robin, of Norfolk, Va., spent
Thursday night with Robin’s
grandmother, Mrs. R. P. Brown,
in Manly. Miss Vallie Glenn of
Durham is spending this week
with Mrs. Brown.
Miss Mary Wintyen has return
ed from a three weeks’ vacation
spent in Pennsylvania, New York
and New Jersey.
After spending a large part of
the summer with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hilderman, at
Pine Cone Lodge, Misses Cather
ine and Helen Hilderman have re
turned to Missouri to resume their
duties. Miss Catherine Hilderman
is a member of the 'faculty of
Stephens college in Columbia, and
her sister, a chemist, is on the
staff of the University Medical
school in St. Louis.
Miss Ethel Blue Britt, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Haynes Britt of
North Ashe street, returned home
Thursday of last week after at
tending summer school at Appal
achian State Teachers college at
Boone. Miss Britt graduated from
Montreat college at Montreat last
May, receiving an A. B. degree,
with social science as her major
and English and education as
minors. Her summer work at
ASTC gives her a certificate of
grammar grade status, and she
left Tuesday for Mt. Gilead to
teach in the elementary school, a
position which she accepted upon
her graduation last spring.
Johnny Beasley and Reggie
Hamel returned Friday night
from a vacation of about a month.
They visited Reggie’s grandpa
rents at Waterbury Vt. Johnny’s
uncle in Lewes, Del., went to New
York and other places of interest.
Johnny spent a week visiting Miss
Betty Baucom on Cape Cod.
Mrs. Edwards’ First Grade
school at 235 North Ridge street
will open for its third year Wed
nesday morning, according to an
nouncement made by Mrs. Elean-lTroy.
Dr. David W. Whitehead, op
tometrist, is moving his office this
week from the Hart building (up
stairs) to the South Broad street
office in the Belvedere Hotel
building, recently vacated by^the
Town Shop.
The new office has an entrance
directly on Broad street. It is
ready for business today (Septem
ber 1).
Dr. Whitehead came to South
ern Pines last October and for a
time was associated v/ith his
brother ,Dr. Philip M. Whitehead
in the practice of optometry. Dr.
Philip Whitehead, who also had
an office in RoCkingham, has
since moved there.
They are two of five brothers
who are all practicing optome
trists. All are graduates of the
Northern Illinois College of Op
tometry at Kansas City, Mo. The
other three brothers are located
at Fayetteville, Kansas City and
came last week to spend several
days with Mrs. Brown at Manly.
Mr. and Mrs. Fulton I. McMil
lan and baby, Beth Ann, of Berke
ley, Calif., visited their aunts,
Mrs. A. W. McNeill and Mrs. R.
P. Brown, recently.
Mrs. John Scull and children of
Raeford spent Tuesday with Mrs.
Walter Edwards.
Betty Ruth and Patricia Tinker
have returned to their home in
Lenoir after spending some time
here as guests of their uncle and
aunts, Dennis Greene, Mrs. Irv
ing Morrison and Mrs. John Ab-
scher.
Mrs. L. T. Sutherland has re
turned from a week’s visit to Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Gibson. They
spent a part of the time at the
Gibsons’ home in Charleston, S.
C,. and the remainder on Sulli
van’s Island.
Calling on Mrs. W. J. Cameron
ns? ISO School Friends
or E. Edwards, director, this week.
The “little white schoolhouse”
being refurbished with paint
inside and out, and considerable
redecoration is going on in the
schoolroom, with the addition of
some new equipment. Mrs. Ed
wards is this year introducing
“felt painting,” a colorful medium
for pictorial instruction and en
tertainment.
Both boys and girls are admit
ted to the class, which prepares
directly for entry into the second
grade at public or private schools.
Mrs. Edwards formerly taught
in the Georgia schools. After rais
ing her own family she assisted
her daughter. Miss Eleanor Ed
wards, now Mrs. John Scull of
Raeford, in conducting a kinder-
ten here. First grade work was in
troduced in answer to local de
mand. After her daughter mar
ried and moved from Southern
Pines, Mrs. Edwards continued
with the first grade work.
She took a postgraduate course
in first grade teaching at Ohio
State university, Columbus, last
summer, and this summer has
been coaching elementary pupils.
Further information about the
school should be secured from
Mrs. Edwards.
Local Girls Hold
Open House For
terson of Winston-Salem and Mrs.
Catherine Shaw of Robbins; Mrs.
Ned 'Tyrrell and Mrs. Willi ams, of
Winston-S'alem, Mrs. L. L. Mc
Lean of Cameron and Miss Al
berta Monroe of West End.
Mrs. Cliff Johnson, Mrs. Gor
don Brown, Burton Brown, and
a friend of Burton’s from' Chapel
Hill left Wednesday morning for
a motor trip to Canada,
Mrs. Alice Adams and her guest
on the trip, Mrs. Dwight Hoskins,
returned Friday from a month’s
visit to Mrs. Adams’ relatives at
Contoocook, N. H. A feature of
their visit was a motor trip
through the White Mountains and
a four-hour ride on Lake Winne-
pesaukee. Returning with them
were Albert Adams, Jr., also Miss
Edith Bartlett who is back for
the winter after a visit to her
mother in Contoocook, Mrs. E.
Bourgault, who visited relatives
in Massachusetts and Connecti
cut, and Mrs. Lela Stroud.
!^s. Alice Adams and son, Al
bert, Jr., went to Greensboro Sat
urday for a weekend visit with
Mrs. Adams’ son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd
Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Parker
and son Jimmie left Tuesday for
their home in Hyattsville, Md.,
alter spending 10 days visiting
Mrs. Parker’s sisters, Mrs. Walter
J. Brown, Mrs. Bruce H. Lewis
and Mrs. R. W. Tate.
Dr. Whitehead is a veteran of4Q.^g.
Carthage Truck
& Implement Co.
In New Building
10,500 Square Feet
of Floor Space For
Growing Concern
The Carthage Truck and Imple
ment company, which has been
doing business at the county seat
for some five years, moved this
week into its huge new building
built directly in front of the old.
The new headquarters is not
yet complete, said Haynes Britt,
general manager, and work will
continue as business goes on, on
the 10,500 square feet of new floor
space.
The Carthage Truck and Imple
ment company is headquarters for
Moore county and parts of Mont
gomery and Hoke for the sale of
the famous International Harves
ter line of farm equipment and
machinery. The line also includes
heavy appliances such as refriger
ators and deep-freeze units,
A full line of hardware, paint
and other farm needs is also car
ried. Work yet to be done in the
building includes the installing of
shelves for these stocks along one
side of the big building. Though
all construction (brick, steel and
cinderblock with concrete floor)
is fire resistant, a modern sprink
ler system is to be installed. Heat
ing will be by oil.
The building is divided into
four departments; showroom,
parts, building supplies and hard
ware, and garage. It has a “full-
view” front display window on
Monroe street. The lot goes back
to Barrett street, on which the old
building, now to be used for stor
age purposes, is located.
Haynes Britt, of Southern
Pines, president of Pinehurst
Warehouses, Inc., at Pinehurst,
and general manager of both bus
inesses, said this week, “We of the
Carthage Truck and Implement
company deeply appreciate the
patronage which has made this
growth and development possible.
Our new facilities will enable us
to give even better service to our
friends on the farms and in the
towns of the area.”
He listed his personnel as fol-
FCX)TBALL CLINIC
Invitations have been sent
to 50 or more high school
coaches to attend the first
statewide six-man football
clinic for North Carolina,
which will be held here next
Friday and Saturday, Septem
ber 8 and 9.
The invitations were issued
by L. J. (Ch|ap) Perry, of
Chapel HiU, executive secre
tary of the N. C. High School
Athletic association, which is
sponsoring the clinic. to
coaches of all high schools
having six-man football as a
regular part of their athletic
program, and also to others
who have shown interest in
establishing the game at their
schools.
Any other interested coach
es or principals are welcome,
he said. Experts in the game
will discuss all phases of it at
the clinic, showing how to get
1 it started, what equipment is
needed, how to tackle financ
ing problems and—most im
portant of all—how to teach
it. Southern Pines gridders
will give demonstration
scrimmages.
Aberdeen Man
Injured As
Truck, Engine Hit
With The
Armed Forces
Cpl. Peter Myers, 21, sailed this
week with a U. S. Marine Corps
unit from Los Angeles for Korea.
“Pete,” who served as a mer
chant seaman and also as a Ma
rine in World War 2, came to
Southern Pines in 1948 to make
his home with his sister, Mrs.
Lois Beauregard. He graduated in
June of that year from the Souht-
ern Pines High school, and was
employed for a time by the H. L.
Brown agency. He then went back
to sea, then returned to the Ma
rine Corps and for the past year
has been stationed at Camp Le-
Jeune. He was in charge of type
writers and office equipment but
recently has been given a refresh
er in combat training.
four years of Army service with
the field artillery during World
War 2.
NINTH POUO
The 1950 polio coUnt for
Moore went up to nine this
week as Doris Jean Medlin,
aged four, of Cameron, Rt. 1,
was reported to be a victim.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Medlin.
The little girl became ill
August 17, according to a re
port received by the county
health department. Delay
with the report was occasion
ed by the fact that her tests
were made at Lee County
hospital rather than in her
home county. She was trans
ferred to the Central Carolina
Polio Center at Greensboro.
Paul C. Butler, chairman of
the Moore County chapter.
Infantile Paralysis Founda
tion, said her case is reported
ly a light one.
WEAVER TO SPEAK
C. L. Hensley, assistant mana
ger; Charles Underwood, parts
manager; Clinton Campbell, sales
manager; William Maness, hard
ware department manager; Leon
ard Lawhon, farm machinery and
truck salesman; manager and
truck salesman; Dewey Ritter,
bookkeeper; Charlie Roberts, Ray
Hensley and Robert Dowd, me
chanics; Clyde Blue, Nathaniel
Blue, Fred Shipman and Chris
Floyd, truck drivers and mechan
ic helpers.
The Ark Opens
September 25
K. M. Garner,, Jr., 24, of Aber
deen is in Moore County hospital
with a concussion and painful
wounds as the result of a truck-
locomotive collision near West
End Tuesday about noon.
Garner, a Marine veteran of
World War 2, was driving a load
of sand from a sandpit to a siding
when the big dump truck collided
with a Norfolk Southern engine
approaching from West End.
The truck, loaded with about 15
tons of sand, was whirled side
ways and dragged along the track,
then fell over on its side. Btoth
truck and locomotive were con
siderably damaged.
Garner was rushed to the hos
pital on a pickup truck by fellow
employees, six of whom sat in a
row and held the injured man on
their laps.
The accident occurred at a tem
porary crossing at the top of a
grade, near the pit which is be
ing worked by the Bryan Rock
and Sand company of Raleigh.
First Lieut. William J. Wilson,
of 565 North Ashe street, is at
tending the Associate Basic course
at Fort Bliss, Texas.
He will receive instruction in
light and heavy gunnery, com
munications, radar, tactics and
methods of instruction during the
14-week course.
Lieut. Wilson first entered mili
tary service in 1943 and served in
the European Theatre of Opera
tions, where he participated in 25
missions with the Eighth Air
Force and was awarded the Air
Medal with five clusters.
He is commander of the Moore
County , battery , of the H., C. Na
tional Guard. , ; ,
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CITY SCHOOLS
Last Friday night from nine to
one o’clock at an informal open
house at the Southern Pines
Country club, seven Southern
Pines girls joined hands in being
hostesses to around 180 students
who within a few days will be
returning to schools here and
there across the country.
Prior to the open house, the
girls entertained their escorts at
dinner at the home of Miss Su
zanne Burns on Country Club
drive. Hostesses and their dinner
guests were Miss Burns and Hil
ton Thomas of High Point, Miss
Sue HaU and Leon Capel of Troy,
Miss Janet Cornwell and Larry
Martin of New York, Miss Louise
Dorn and Jimmie Parker of
Washington, D. C., Miss Milbum
Stubbs and Billy Huntley of
Chapel Hill, Miss Peggy Mason
and Willie Miller of Troy, and
Miss Martha Carpenter and Roy
Bowden of Southern Pines.
At the Country Club,’ dancing
was enjoyed and refreshmetns of
lemonade and pop corn were serv
ed during the evening.
Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs.
John Barrows, Mr. and Mrs. Chick
Holliday and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie
Overton, all of Southern Pines.
Lewis Pate returned Wednes
day from Omaha, Neb., where he
visited his brother and sister-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pate,
and their new baby.
Philip J. Weaver, superintend
ent of the Southern Pines schools,
will be the speaker at the 11
o’clock worship service at Brown-
son Memorial Presbyterian church
this Sunday morning.
The church, which has been
without a pastor for a month, has
had guest speakers to fill the pul
pit from time to time. Chaplain
Frank Thompson conducted the
service last Sunday.
CARTHAGE BUSINESS
CHARTERED
The Carthage Housing corpora
tion was chartered this week by
Secretary of State Thad Eure to
carry on a real estate business.
Three shares each of 100 shares of
authorized capital stock (no par
value) were subscribed by W. D.
Sabiston, Jr., Thelma Sabiston
and Ola McLeod, all of Carthage.
TEACHERS TO MEET
Teachers in the Southern Pines
schools will start their school year
Tuesday, with a meeting in prep
aration for the opening of school
the following morning.
All teachers are expected to at
tend the meeting, to be held at 3
p.m. in the elementary school li
brary, said Supt. P. J. Weaver.
West Southern Pines teachers
will meet at \their school at the
same time.
W. C. HILDERMAN
REAL ESTATE BROKER
Ph. 7264 225 Weymouth Rd.
Southern Pines, N. C.
The Ark, Southern Pines, a
country day and boarding school
for girls and boys, will open on
Monday, September 25, according
to an announcement by its,prin
cipal, Mrs. Millicent A. Hayes.
The Ark offers a complete ele
mentary course through the
eighth grade, giving thorough
preparation for entrance to lead
ing schools. Piano, art, needle
work, crafts, tennis, basketbaU
and all playground games are of
fered.
For children four to six years of
age The Ark has a kindergarten
and reading readiness group.
Mrs. Brown's School
Opening September 25
Preparations are being made at
the home of Mrs. R. P. Brown, at
Manly, for the reopening of her
private school for boys and girls
Monday, September 25.
Kindergarten and first grade
Iwork are offered. Transportation
is furnished if desired. Further in
formation should be secured from
Mrs. Bro-wn at her home. i
Moore County TB
Group Is Chartered
The recently formed Moore
County Tuberculosis Association,
Inc., received its charter of incor
poration this week from Secre
tary of State Thad Eure. It suc
ceeds the former unincorporated
organization of which Mrs. T. A.
Cheatham of Pinehurst was chair
man for 20 years.
OJficers and incorporators of
the non-stock corporation are W.
C. Scoggins, Robbins, president;
Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson, Aberdeen,
first vice - president; the Rev. J.
R. Funderburke, Southern Pines,
second vice president; Dr. T. A.
Cheatham', Pinehurst, treasuretr;.
Incorporation will enable the
association to conduct its affairs
in a more businesslike manner,
with assured continuity from year
to year enabhng it to receive be
quests and perform other func
tions not within the scope of an
unincorporated group. A constitu
tion and by-laws have been drawn
up.
The 1950 corn crop in North
Carolina is estimated at 78,516,000
bushels as of August 1. Average
per-acre yield is estimated at 36
bushels,-highest on record.
TRAGEDY
(Continued from Page D
few years has been busy at home,
what with the advent, first, of
little Miss Joanna Christine Hall,
then,of little Miss Mary Reid Hall.
In the new cafeteria, located
in the basement of the audito
rium building, Mrs. Hall will have
the most. modern equipment for
the preparation and serving of
hot meals to the children.
The 1950-51 student body
will have the benefit of one
of the finest and most com
plete public school plants in
North Carolina, all of postwar
construction except the high
school building. The elemen
tary school, considered a
model for the state, embodies
the best in school architecture
and construction. The splen
did new gymnasium was com
pleted last winter, and th&
classically beaujtifiAl audito
rium! in time for the 1950 '
commencement evenfs. i
The three handsome build
ings, in a row facing East
Massachusetts avenue, rep
resent an investment of ap
proximately $530,000.
Part of the funds came from
the county, and part from bond
issues voted by citizens of the
Southern Pines school district.
The new elementary classrooms
will be financed by funds from the
county 'up to $25,000, supplement
ed by state bond issue funds, ac
cording to the general plan okay
ed by the State Board of Educa
tion. Delays in starting the con
struction' were occasioned, first,
by a whittling-down process to
fit skyrocketing costs into fund
limitations, then by a shortage
of steel. The necessary steel has
now been located alter an ardu
ous hunt, Mr. Weaver said.
The West Southern Pines school
auditorium, also a part of the
state-approved plan, is still in the
blueprint stage. It will probably
be advertised next month, with
construction due to start well be
fore the snow Hies.
COUNTY SCHOOLS
PIXY POTATOES
Harold M. Fowler, police
desk sergeant, thought he
was planting Idaho potatoes
last spring, but now he's wlon-
dering if it wasn't some pixy
vegetable.
He's digging up some pixil-
lated specimiens, out of his
hills—potatoes with little po
tatoes growing out of them,
like head^ aims, legs or
wings. They look like strange
animals—or people.
His seed potatoes were
some which had been thrown
out of the back of Baker's
Food store, as some of theni
had spoiled. Mr. Fowler let
the spoiled ones alone, cut
the eyes out of the good ones
and planted them.
No matter what the y look
like, he says, they still taste
like Idahoes.
A tragedy at the Curtis
Deese. home on Carthage, Rt.
2, Saturday afternoon result
ed in the death of 15-months-
old Linda Kay Deese, as she
ran into the path of the fam
ily car, which her father was
backing out of the yard.
A wheel passed over the
childTs head. She was rushed
to Moore County hospital but
was pronounced dead on arri
val. Coroner Hugh P. KeUy
rendered a verdict of acnden-
tal death.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at Red
Branch church, 'with burial in
the church cemetary. The pa
rents and several brothers
and sisters sur'vive.
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for old buses, due to be delivered
this summer, have not yet arriv
ed, nor have four new buses being
purchased by the state. 'When
completed, the school fleet will to
tal 84 buses.
Mr. Griffin said a full detail of
school bus drivers has been certi
fied, along with a number of sub
stitute drivers. All have passed
both road and classroom tests.
Most of them are high school
juniors or seniors, with a sprink
ling of adult drivers.
Drs. Neal and McLean
VETERINARIANS
Southern Pines, N. C.
PRIVATE FIRST GRADE
AGES 5 TO 7
MRS. WALTER EDWARDS
235 North Ridge—Phone 7982 Southern Pines. N. C.