FRIDAY. APRIL 9. 1954
Variable March
Ranges 20 To 82
A variable March, whose tem
peratures ranged from a low of
20 to a high of 82, was recorded on
the Weather Bureau instruments
of Mrs. T. A. Kelley, official Ob
server here.
While March provided over six
inches of rain to gladden the
hearts of farmers and gardeners.
it also gave residents of the Sand
hills 23 rainless days.
The high temperature of 82 on
the 25th came three days after
the low of 20 on the 22nd. The
mercury went below freezing on
seven days of the month and rose
to 65 or warmer on seven days.
Low temperatures, of course, are
usually recorded during the night.
Division Of ABC Profits Discussed At
Joint Meeting Of Three County Boards
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As Groups Confer
At Carthage Monday
The cuinual joint meeting of the
boards of County Commissioners,
Education, Health, and Alcoholic
Beverages Control was held in
the commissioners’ room at the
Carthage courthouse, Monday.
Attending were, besides the five
county commissioners, H. Lee
Thomas, T. Roy Phillips and Jere
McKeithen of the board of educa
tion, Dr. Willcox, representing the
board of health, and L. L. Marion,
and James Tufts, chairman, of the
ABC board, and L. J. Hinson,
manager of the stores.
J. V. Healy, member of the ABC
board from Southern Pines, whose
term had expired, was pot pres
ent. First order of business was
his re-election tO' membership on
the board by unanimous vote.
Mr. Hinson reported that total
sales during the past year
amounted to $1, 587,437.70 of this
amount $134,256.34 was paid in
state taxes and $715,000 in federal
taxes.
The profits turned over to
Moore County from the stores to
tal $145,000. This brings the sum
accrued to the county, since the
establishment of the ABC board
in 1938, to $1,978,500.
Yearly profits have risen as high
as $185,000 in 1946 and again in
1951, with recent slight decreases.
Profits for 1952-53 wer^ $179,000
(after deductions for law enforce
ment, the law requiring that not
less than five per cent nor more
than 10 per cent should be thus
expended.)
Allocation of ABC funds coming
to the county during the 15 year
period since establishment of the
stores has been as follows:
schools, $1,225,500; county general
fund, $573,500; poor fund, $43,000;
health $112,000; welfare, $19,500;
highway, $5,000.
Southern Pines Asks For
Larger Share
The questions raised by a
Southern Pines delegation which
had met with the joint boards a
month ago were then placed be
fore the group by Mr. Cameron.
He said they had been asked to
take up two points: what immedi
ate help could be given Southern
Pines to compensate somewhat for
what seemed to be a drastic, de
crease in the town’s recent allo
cation; and would the board con
sider increasing the town’s share
of profits to 25 per cent.
It was voted to split the cost
of the recently installed police ra
dio equipment and its mainte
nance, with the county assuming
a greater share. This would give
them, yearly, it was estimated.
The second question provoked
long discussion, as Mr. Cameron
requested opinions from each one
present.
A list, prepared by Southern
Pines, giving the recor.d of similar
arrangements in other counties,
with sums allocated to towns, was
studied. It showed the towns re
ceiving a far larger share of ABC
store profits than is the case in
Moore County. However it was
felt that Southern Pines profits
from the stores in several ways
not indicated by the figures: in
taxes paid on the stock, and, es
pecially, ■ in increased business
coming to the town in general be
cause of the presence of the stores.
Also, as J. C. Muse of Sanford,
auditor for the county and ABC
board, stated, ‘‘Southern Pines
schools have profitted by as much
as 36 per cent.”
‘‘But, undoubtedly,” put in Jere
McKeithen, ‘‘the town has much
higher law enforcement costs and
other expenses because of the
stores.”
Carthage mayor. Arch Barnes,
Mr. Phillips and CommissiO'ner
Pleasants were among those who
felt that it was better to let the
present arrangement stand. ‘‘They
should be glad to have the store”
. . ‘‘Once you start trying to
change this thing, you upset the
applecart.” . . “You might lose the
whole thing” were some of the
sentiments expressed.
However, interest was shown in
the suggestion that the law en
forcement costs be met by the
county and the towns with ABC
stores^ (Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst) given a flat 10 per cent
share in the profits. On this note
the meeting closed, with nothing
settled, but a decision to meet
again before the week was out.
At that time a fuller study of all
suggestions will be made, it was
stated, and the boards will be
ready to give their answer to the
Southern Pines request.
ABERDEEN HOMECOMING
Judge W. A. Leland McKeithen
of Pinehurst will speak at the
Aberdeen High School homecom
ing program to be held Sunday
from 2 tO' 5 p. m. He is a graduate
of the school. A picnic supper
will be served on the grounds
after the program.
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An exhibition of drawings and
paintings by Dan Boyd, who grew
up a^ Southern Pines and now
lives in San Francisco, Calif., will
continue the series of exhibitions
at the Southern Pines Library art
gallery, opening Monday of next
week and lasting for two weeks.
The current exhibition of por
traits and paintings by Mrs. Emily
Forrest will close Saturday.
Daniel Lament Boyd, 30 years
old, attended Southern Pines
schools and received a B.A. de
gree in modern history at Prince
ton University in 1947. The exhi
bition to be seen here begins with
a drawing done in 1946 in repre
sentational style and unfolds from
that to the abstract painting he
has been doing recently.
Mr. Boyd continued his study of
art and received an M.A. from the
University of California in 1952.
He also studied at the California
School of Fine Arts. He has ex
hibited at the San Francisco Art
Festival, 1952-’53, the Alexander
Rabow Galleries, the Salon des
Refuses and the Richmond (Calif.)
Art Center. He also has done
sculpture and it is expected one
piece of sculpture will be included
in the show here.
A “sense of conviction,” he feels,
is the most important attribute of
the artist.
“The artist must feel that ev
erything he does, every stroke he
paints, is supremely important,’
he recently wrote. “If he does not
have this sense of conviction, his
work will never rise above the
level of the sophisticated. Only
when his work successfully com
municates this feeling of consum
mation will it acquire signifi
cance.”
Emotional quality, he believes,
is the aim of artistic expression:
“In the last analysis, style is sec
ondary in a work of art and the
work is valuable as a work of art
only when it has successfully ex
pressed that hard-to-define emo
tional quality which is the pri
mary ingredient of all great paint-'
ings.”
Mr. Boyd, son of Mrs. James
Boyd of Southern Pines, has lived
in California for the past three
years. His wife is the former
Rhoda Whitridge of Salisbury,
Conn., and New York City. They
have three children, Chris, seven,
Jamie, four, and Wendy, 15
months old.
Horses will be jumping from
one state to another on Saturday,
April 10, when the eighth annual
race meeting is held on the pic
turesque Block House Steeple
chase Course at ’Tryon.
The course lies in two states and
three counties, with one jump sit
uated so that steeplechasers take
off in North Carolina and land in
South Carolina.
The North Carolina Hunt Cup,
three miles over timber, and the
B14ck House, two miles over
brush, are featured events on a
program which also includes the
March Hare, two miles over brush,
and the Tryon, five-eights mile on
the flat. All four races will be
run under sanction of the Hunts
Committee of the National
Steeplechase and Hunt Associa
tion. Post time for the first race is
2:30 p. m.
As one of the most colorful
events on the nation’s hunt racing
circuit, which opened at Southern
Pines, March 20 the Block House
races will again draw top ranking
horses and riders from many
states, including entries from the
Sandhills.
Exercise Flash Burn is the sev
enth large-scale Army field man
euver in which the 82nd Airborne
division has participated since
1946.
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