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VOL. 35—NO. 15
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, MARCH 5. 1954
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
Majority Of
Parents In
Favor PTA
Superintendent Says
Plans To Be Made
To Organize Group
Response by parents to an in
quiry letter about organizing a
Parent-Teacher Association in the
local schools is overwhelmingly
in favor cf a PTA here, A. C.
Dawson, Jr. superintendent, said
this week.
The letters went to parents of
pupils in the elementary and high
school via the pupils who were
to take them heme. Each letter
asked a yes or no answer to three
questions:
1. Do you feel that a PTA would
serve the best interests of the
Southern Pines schools? '
2. Do you favor organization of
a PTA?
3. Would you join and actively
support a PTA?
The letter provided space to
check the answers. While replies
varied and a final count of an
swers has not been made, it is
apparent that sentiment is strong
ly for a PTA, Mr. Dawson said.
The superintendent said that
he hopes plans can be made next
week for an organization meeting
to which he would invite State
PTA officials to aid in local or
ganization.
Blue Knights Jubilant After Winning County Tournament
Weekly Informal
Horse Shows Set
Horse events are coming thick
and fast as the season draws to
the climax of the Steneybrook
Race Meet set for March 20.
Wleekly informal horse shows,
held Sunday afternoons, with in
terest centering around children’s
riding, are drawing large galleries.
Last Sunday’s show, held despite
sudden showers, at the Starland
ring divided the winnings be
tween Southern Pines and Pine-
burst, with the two big jumping
classes going to Starland Farms’
Venus, (open jumping), with Bil-
yeu Farms, (Mrs. Louis Meyer)
second with Irish King; W. J.
Brewster, joint master of the
Moore County Hounds, won the
working hunter lass with North
Slope.
The stiff Knock Down and Out
competition called for a jump-off
with the obstacles raised to sky-
heights. Miss Eleonora Sears’
Reno, ridden by Gabor Faltani,
was the winner, over L. T. Tate
Jr.’s First Attempt, (second), Ver
non Valley Farms’ Friar’s Maid,
Joan Walsh up, (third) and Star-
land Stables’ Venus (fourth).
This Sunday’s schooling show
will be held at the Brewster ring
just beyond Mileaway Farm on
Highway 1 beyond Manly, while
two weeks ahead, March 21, will
be the turn of Dwight D. Winkel-
man to be host to the Sunday
afternoon event, at his Lakelawn
Farm.
Meantime hounds are going out
regularly, showing the good sport
that is the rule with this Moore
County pack. Thursday’s meet,
held at the Corbett Alexander
stables on the Midland road, at
tracted a large field, with many
following in cars, led by the
‘“roadmistress”, Mrs. Dwight Win-
kelman.
Change In Division Of
ABC Profits Proposed
At Officials* Meeting
~ ;; Council Thinks
Hosiery Mill
Changes Hands
MOORE COUNTY CHAMPIONS—Southern Pines High School
basketball squad members flash smiles of victory at Carthage
Saturday night after defeating the Robbins High School boys
65-58 to clinch the 1954 Moore County championship. Aberdeen’s
Red Devilettes'captured the girls’ title by topping Carthage, 55-39.
See stories on page 5 for details of tournament, all-county teams'
and awards. In the photo are, kneeling, left to right: James Col
lins, Coach W. A. Leonard, James Humphrey, Tony Parker, John
ny Watkins. Standing, same order: J. F. Sinclair, West End
principal and coach; Irie Leonard, Southern Pines High School
principal and chairman of the tournament, who presented the
trophies; Charles Watkins (over Mr. Leonard’s shoulder), Billy
Hamel, David Page, John Seymour, Tommy Ruggles, Jimmy Mc
Donald, manager; Jimmy Townshend, Bill Mar ley, Bobby Cline,
Roger Verhoeff (behind Cline), Julian Pleasants, Joe McDonald
(partially visible), Joe Diggs and James Morris. Not in the photo
are Don Moore, assistant coach; Jimmy Bowden, Jimmy Barber,
Jimmy Cheatham and Bobby Parker. That’s the remnknts of a
souvenir net around the neck of Coach Leonard. Note the hand
some trophy held by Page and Ruggles.
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Gordon H. Clark
Heads Local Red
Cross Campaign
Tuesday of next week opens the
Red Cross Drive for members and
funds in Moore County, except for
Pinehurst which begins on the
following Monday. The goal is
$17,995.
Regional dinners of community
chairmen have been held, with the
remaining one scheduled at High
land Lodge next Monday at 7 p.
m. to kick-off the drive in the
south end of the county.
Brig. Gen. R. B. Hill released
this week the names of most com
munity chairmen for the drive,
with quotas:
Southern Pines, $5,500, Gordon
H. Clark; Aberdeen, $1,800, Dan
E. Hancock; Pinehurst, $5,500, Dr.
John C. Grier, Jr.; Pinebluff, $250,
chairman not listed; Carthage, $1,-
200, chairman not listed; Addor,
$40, Mrs. Henry A. Addor; Bensa-
lem, $20, Mrs. J. A. Kelley; Big
Oak, $15, Evander Cole; Cameron,
$1,75, Mrs. Frank Loving; Clay
Road Farms, $30, C. L. Ragsdale;
Eagle Springs, $120, Herbert Bost;
Eastwood, $50, W. L. Sheffield;
Eureka, $30, A. T. Perry; Glen-
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Sectional Tourney Underway
Aberdeen’s boys defeated Pine- '
hurst 71-46 and the Southern
Pines boys downed Vass-Lake-
view 60-50 here Wednesday night
to advance to the semifinals of the
sectional Class A basketball tour
nament.
Gerald Cribb scored 22 points to
lead the Aberdeen victory, and
Frazier Smith scored 14 for the
Finals will be played Saturday
night at 8 o’clock, with a Jayvee
game between Southern Pines and
either Aberdeen or Pinehurst Jay-
vees preceding the feature con
test, reports Irie Leonard, chair
man of the tournament.
Only boys are playing in this
tournament. The winner will go
losing Pinehurst team. For South- j to Red Springs to a district tour-
j Vienna String
Orchestra Will
Play Next Week
Music from the city with the
world’s most glamorous musical
tradition will be featured in the
program of the Vienna String
Symphony at the Weaver Audito-
ern Pines, the big star was John- nament to be run off Wednesday rium in Southern Pines Thursday,
ny Watkins, who dumped in 19
points. Haynes of the Vass-Lake-
view team had 22, however.
No games were scheduled
Thursday night, with Aberdeen
meeting Southern Pines and Rob
bins battling Carthage in semi
finals tonight (Friday).
through Saturday of next week.
The district winner will land a
berth in the Class A State finals
at Aberdeen, March 18-20. j
Carthage’s Bulldogs rolled to a
62 to 51 victory over West End
and Robbins’ Bearcats trounced
Farm Life 58-38 in first round.
News that a new industry
has come to Carthage is re
ported this week in the sale
of the Phillips-Russell Hos
iery Mills, Inc., to the Russell
Hosiery Mills of Star.
Paul Russell, president of
the company, has already
started moving equipment
from his establishment in
Star and it is hoped to start
work at the new Carthage lo
cation within a few weeks.
Mr. Russell takes over the
concern from the Phillips
brothers, N. W. and T. Roy,
who took a lease on the Car
thage plant three years ago,
thereby saving this industry
for the town of Carthage, and
Moore County.
It is believed that, with the
proposed expansion, an addi
tion to the labor force of from
50 to 75 workers may be an
ticipated.
No Action Taken
By Commissioners
On Tax Collector
Moore County wiU be without
a tax collector fer at least another
month.
No action on this question was
taken at the regular meeting of
the county commissioners to fill
the place left vacant by the death
of the late William T. Huntley,
tax collector for 22 years.
At the monthly meeting, held
in Carthage, the chairman, Gor
don Cameron, cf Pinehurst, re
ported that 10 applications for the
position of collector had been re
ceived. It is expected that there
will be even more, with many
seeking this important county of
fice. The board agreed that the
next month should be spent by
individual members in screening
the applicants, with decision to
be made at the April meeting.
Meantime the work of the of-;
fice is being carried on by the
staff. Miss Jenny Cameron and
Mrs. Dot Bryant. As Mr. Huntley’s
regular report had been presented
only two days before his death
on February 21, affairs are con-
Towns Should
Receive More
March 11, at 8:30 p. m.
The ensemble, conducted by
Kurt Rapf with Rosl Schwaiger,
coloratura soprano of the Munich j sidered to be up to date, with no
and Vienna State Operas, and [heavy lead expected during the
the distinguished young concert coming month, the chairman sta-
viclinist, Elfriede Bachner, as so-j ted.
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Wounded Congressman Recalled By Classmates
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Witness Describes Shooting
Deane Felt ^Glued To Floor^ As
Bullets Blasted House Chamber
A Tarheel knows gunfire when
he hears it.
Even though the firing was in
the chamber of the House of Rep
resentatives, where he wouldn’t
expect to hear it, C. B. Deane,
Congressman from this Eighth
district, knew that it wasn’t “fire
crackers”, as some of his col
leagues thought.
Another reason he knew it was
because he was up in the gallery,
almost across from' where the
guns were blazing. In fact, Mr.
Deane was pretty much in the line
of fire at one moment.
“The firing came from' across
the floor of the House,” Mr. Deane
told the Pilot, when queried about
the dramatic event on the tele
phone Tuesday “and was aimed
all over the place. While some of
the shots found their mark irf the
five Congressmen who were hit,
others went into walls and ceil
ing, and some came right across to
the opposite gallery.”
Mr. Deane had taken some
friends to lunch and had just
shown them into the visitors’ gal
lery when the uproar started.
“Congressman Cooley had call
ed for a standing vote on the
Mexican question he was discuss
ing. Many stood and just as they
were sitting down again, the fir
ing started,” Mr. Deane said.
“Congressman Jensen, (one of
the men hit) was starting to walk
off the floor,” Mr. Deane de
scribed, “and was just between us
and the opposite gallery. The guns
were going up and down, bullets
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Old friends, acquaintances and
classmates of Alvin Morell Bent
ley—the Michigan Congressman
who was critically wounded when
Puerto Rican fanatics shot into
the House of Representatives in
Washington Monday, this week
were recalling the youth who liv
ed here and was graduated from
Southern Pines High School with
the class of 1934.
For many who had known the
young Bentley as “Morell” in
Southern Pines, it was not imme
diately recognized that “Rep. Al
vin M. Bentley (R.-Mich.)” was
the boy who once lived at 165 N.
Ridge Street (now the Earl Park
er home) and who attended ele
mentary school here, also the Ark
School on Indiana Avenue Exten
sion (now an apartment building)
and later Southern Pines High
School.
Most classmates had lost touch
with Bentley who continued his
studies at the University of Mich
igan and later went into the U.* S.
Consular Service, serving in Bud
apest and Mexico City. But sev
eral of the members of the class
of 1934 recalled their school days
with the boy whom fate put into
the headlines of every daily news
paper in the nation this week.
Reports Thursday were that the
Congressman, shot in chest, lung,
liver and stomach, had been taken
off the critical list. He was the
most seriously injured of the leg
islators hit by bullets from the
guns of the Puerto Ricans.
In Southern Pines, Bentley liv-
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BENTLEY AT GRADUATION—Standing at
extreme right of this photo of the 1934 graduat
ing class of Southern Pin^s High School is Alvin
Morell Bentley, now a Republican Congressman
from Michigan and most seriously injured of the
legislators who were shot by Puerto Rican fa
natics in the House of Representatives at Wash
ington Monday. Several members of the class
still living in Southern Pines got out these pho
tos, somewhat faded after nearly 20 years, as
they reminisced about the classmate thrown into
national prominence by the tragic occurrence.
Members of the class, as listed under this photo
appearing in The Pilot of June 1, 1934, were:
Front row, left to right—^Mary Pethick, Charles
Carlisle, Alice Abel, E. J. Austin, Madeline Chat-
field, Paul Blue, Mary Weatherley and Edith
Poate. Center row, same order—Earl Powell,
William Wilson, Theresa Montesanti, Frances
Swearingen, Raymond Yorke, Susan Swett, Lois
Camerpn, Helena Kelly, Robert Gifford, Katie
Ward and Bentley. Back row, same order—
John Notargiacomo, John Hewitt, Henson Ma
ples, George Moore, Jr., Thomas Atkinson, Ralph
L. Chandler, Jr., William Cox and J. H. Hassell.
Members of the class not present when the pho
to was taken were Katherine Buchan and Sarah
Stewart. A number of the class members stiU
live in Southern Pines. Most of the girls have
married but The Pilot was unable to obtain the
married names of all of them and therefore
omitted this designation for any.
The question of equitable divi
sion between the two towns and
the county of the profits of the
ABC stores in Pinehurst and
Southern Pines formed the sub
ject of a joint meeting of the
county commissioners, the ABC
board, and a delegation of offi
cials and citizens from Southern
Pines, Monday.
Held in the commissioners room
of the courthouse, with the chair
man, Gordon Cameron, presiding
informally over the discussion,
the meeting proved both informa
tive and valuable as establishing a
friendly spirit among all concern
ed. •
Representing the ABC board
was James Tufts, of Pinehurst,
chairman, and L. L. Marion of
Carthage. Jerry V. Healy of
Southern Pines, the third mem
ber, was not present.
The Southern Pines delegation
included Mayor Lloyd Clark,
Councilmen Voit Gilmore and Joe
O’Callaghan, and Town Manager
Tom Cunningham; also John Rug
gles, John Pottle, Claude Reams,
Jack Younts, Max Forrest and
Graves Vann, Jr.
All commissioners were present.
Mayor Clark opened the discus
sion, saying that there were two
main points upon which the
group desired information and, if
possible, action. The current town
budget, he said, had been based
on the expectation that funds ac
cruing from ABC profits would
run about as usual. Instead, Mayor
Clark said, there had been a cut
of a considerable amount. Mayor
Clark asked the ABC board, as
Point 1, if they could not find
some way of making up this
amount.
Percentage To Towns Too Low
The other point he emphasized
was that it was felt the towns re
ceived too small a percentage of
the profits from the ABC stores,
as compared with the amount ac
cruing to the county.
The system under which the
Moore County ABC operates is
similar to that existing in the 35
state ABC stores, but, whereas 32
of these 35 stores make a direct
contribution of a share of the
profits to the towns in which the
stores are located, the Moore
County board is one of only three
which aUow no share to the town.
The Southern Pines mayor
pointed cut, by means of statistics
showing similar systems in other
localities, that many towns such
as Tryon, Asheville, Wrightsville
Beach, Carolina Beach and oth
ers received anywhere from 25 to
75 percent of ABC store profits.
Judging it on a per capita basis.
Mayor Clark pointed out:
Wrightsville Beach gets $28 per
capita, others $30 and $25; South
ern Pines gets only $1.00.
The only revenue Southern
Pines has received from ABC
store sales has been a share of
whatever was left over from the
amount which is set aside under
stat^ law for law enforcement.
The law specifies that ABC boards
must spend not less than five per
cent nor more than 10 per cent of
the profits derived from the stores
for law enforcement. Employment
of at least one law enforcement
officer by the board is mandatory.
With no pre-arranged allocation
of profits to Southern Pines and
Pinehurst, the amount received
by the two towns has varied ac
cording to the decision of the
board and in relation to how much
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COUNCIL TO MEET
Marking the first use of its new
“double meeting” system, the
Southern Pines town council will
convene next week for its “discus
sion” session Tuesday at 8 p.m.,
and will gather again for the
“action” meeting Friday at the
same hour, in town hall. At the
first meeting, council will not vote
on any matters before it, reserv
ing debate and voting lor the Fri
day meeting when there will be
no discussion from the floor. Both
meetings will be open to the pub
lic.