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$ f/ c 10 WEAR A POPPY SATURDAY FOR DISABLED VETS WEAR A POPPY SATURDAY FOR DISABLED VETS VOL. 35—NO. 21 EIGHTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. APRIL 16. 1954 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE—TEN CENTS FINER CAROLINA SIGNS—A. C. Dawson, Jr., superintendent of schools, left, watches as Voit Gilmore, chairman of the Finer Carolina program in Southern Pines, Ward Hill, local manager of the sponsoring Carolina Power and Light Co., and W. T. Huntley, Jr., playground project chairman, place a sign on the elementary school grounds indicating the project which will be located near the school. Similar signs have been placed at the corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and Bennett St., for the project of beautifying West Pennsylvania Avenue, and at the West End of Pennsylvania Avenue, noting the project for improvement of the library at West South ern Pines School. These are three of the five projects in the over-all Finer Carolina program for municipal development. (Photo V.W. Hardee) Symphony Will Play Burt Overture Dedicated To Late Henry Page III Sandhills Officer's Death fin Action Inspired Composition of children selected from all schools cf the county, to the ca pacity of the auditorium, that afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Appear ance of the symphony here is <jx I.11C ijicsjr ui sponsored by the Sandhills Music an overture by Nathaniel a Playing of the “Elegy of Lyci das, Burt, former Sandhills resident, dedicated to the late Henry A. Page HI of Aberdeen, friend of Burt and Navy officer who lost his life in the Pacific in World War II, gives exceptional local in terest to the annual appearance of the full North Carolina Sym phony Orchestra in Weaver Audi torium Friday, April 23 at 8:30 p. m. Directed by Dr. Benjamin Swa- lin, the symphony will also play an afternoon concert for groups Campbell To Get Scouting Trophy At Atlanta, Ga. A number of Moore County Boy Scout officials will accompany William D. Campbell to Atlanta; Ga., next week when the Lorril- lard Spencer trophy, national Scouting award, will be presented to him as chairman of the four- state Region Six for the second successive year. Presentation will take place Tuesday at the annual regional meeting to be held at the Dinkler- Plaza Hotel. The trophy recognizes the high est percentage of increase in Scouts, Scouting units and sub scriptions to “Boy’s Life” maga zine in Region Six, as compared to all 12 other regions in the United States. The trophy has been in South ern Pines during the past year and will be brought back here for another year by Mr. Campbell. His term as Regional Chairman expires next week, when new of ficers will be elected. He is now president of the 12-county Occon- eechee Council with headquarters at Raleigh. Expected to make the trip to Atlanta are Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher, Moore District chair man; John Ponzer and the Rev. C. K. Ligon, vice chairmen; Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., Moore District Commissioner; Dr. J. D. Ives, neighborhood commissioner; W. Lament Brown, finance chairman; and Jim Wilson, district execu tive. All are from Southern Pines except Dr. Ives who is from Pine- bluff and Dr. Grier, from Pine- hurst. The concert wiU open with Bee thoven’s sixth symphony (pas toral). Intermission will follow and then the Burt overture— which was first played at Prince ton, N. J., where Mr. Burt lives, early this year—will be played. Performance of the overture was arranged in a conference of Mr. Burt and Dr. Swalin diming a visit of the composer and nove list to Southern Pines a few weeks ago. Its title derives from Milton’s famous poemi dedicated to a drowned friend. Henry A. Page III, son of the late H. A. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen and Mrs. Mitchell Page of New (Continued on Page 5) LENNON MANAGER Lloyd T. Clark, mayor of South ern Pines, this week was named Moore County manager of Sen. Alton A. Lennon’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the May 29 primary. The appointment was announced by Lennon head quarters in Raleigh. No Moore County manager has been named for the campaign of Kerr Scott or other senatorial nomination can didates. EASTER MONDAY Most stores and cffices in Southern Pines will close for an Easter Monday holiday, April 19. The Citizens Bank and Trust Oo. and the Southern Pines Library will be closed. Easier Monday is not a holiday at the post oiifice and windows will be open as usual. The dourlhouse at Ccmlhage will be closed and recorders court, usually held on Monr day, will be held Tuesday, April 20. Council To Study Representation For W. Sou. Pines As a result of discussion at town hall Tuesday night, when the council met to discuss business but not to take action until their meeting Friday night at 8 p. m., a study will be made of a possible revision of town election proce dure with a view to assuring rep resentation from West Southern Pines on the town council. Town Attorney W. Lament Brown was requested by the council to prepare a report of va rious possibilities along this line. The topic was introduced by Councilman C. S. Patch, Jr., who read a statement proposing that a (Continued on page 8) McPherson Heads Red Cross Garland McPherson-of Southern Pines was elected chairman of the Moore County Red Cross Chap ter at its annual meeting held here Friday. T. Roy Phillips of Carth age is executive vice-chairman. Other vice-chairmen elected were Gordon Clark of Southern Pines and Joel W. Cranford cf Robbins. They will take office in July. Three new directors, to serve lor three years, are Mrs. J. E. Causey and D. A. Blue, Jr., both of Southern Pines, and Mrs. Wal ter Alpert of Pineblulf. Farrell Brown of Aberdeen, retiring chap ter chairman, outlined the chap ter’s accomplishments since No vember, 1952, date of the last meeting. Time of the annual meet ings has been changed from No vember to April, so no meeting was held in the year 1953. Paul M. Moore of Atlanta, as sistant manager of the Southeast ern Area, gave the main address cl the meeting, which was held at the Brownson Memorial Presby terian Church. He reported that nearly 82 per cent of the $85,000,- 000 and 30,000,000-member na- r Sunrise Service To Begin Easter Observance Here Churches Planning Special Music For Services On Sunday A sunrise service at the Church oft Wide Fellowship at 6:30 a.m. will open the observance of Eas ter in the churches of” Southern ' Pines Sunday. The public is in vited by the pastor, the Rev. W. C. Timmons, D.D. The combined youth choir un der direction of Mrs. L. D. McDon ald will sing at this service. Judy Parker will read the Easter Story in Verse by Mrs. Grace Abraham. An Easter breakfast,^^ to which all are invited, will follow in the Fel lowship Hall.. At the 11 o’clock service there will be special music including the anthem, “Hail, Glorious Day.” Dr. Timmons will preach on “From Defeat to Victory,” the last in a series of sermons delivered through Lent. At Brownson Memorial Presby terian Church, the 11 o’clock serv ice will include an Easter message by the pastor, the Rev C. K. Ligon, special music by the choir, bap tism of several infants and recep tion into the church of a commun icants class of 20 young people. Other new members will also be received. Holy Communion will be cele brated at 8 a.m. at Emmanual Episcopal Church. At 9:45, the family service will be conducted with presentation of mite boxes for a missionary offering. The Rev. C. V. Covell will preach on the topic, “That They Might Have Life,” at the 11 o’clock service. There will be special Easter music by the choir. Easter masses will be held at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church at 7, 8, 9 and 10:30 Sunday morning. High mass will be at 10:30, said Father Peter M. Denges, pastor. Confessions will be heard from 5 to 6 and from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Satur day. No confessions will be heard preceding the masses Sunday morning. Holy Week services are being held at 4 p.m. Good Friday, fol lowed by confessions. On Holy Saturday, the special paschal cere monies will start at 6:30 a.m. with mass at 7:45. The Lenten season ends at noon Saturday. At the First Baptist Church, the Rev. D. Hoke Coon, pastor, will deliver his Easter sermon at the 11 o’clock service. There will be special music by the choir. Seven Ministers To Take Part In 3-Hoiir Service Seven Sandhills ministers will take part today in a union Good Friday service at Emmanuel Epis copal church, from noon to 3 p. m. The three-hour period of devo tions will include seven 25-min ute paeditations, each led by one of the ministers and based on the words of Christ from the cross. Worshippers may attend any por tion of the service, entering and leaving during the singing of hymns between the meditations. Members of local Protestant churches will take part in the service and visitors are invited. The church is on Massachusetts Avenue, just east of May Street (No. 1 highway). The ministers to take part and the meditations based on Christ’s words, that they will lead, are: The Rev. D. Hoke Coon, First Baptist Church, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” The Rev. Hogan Yancey, West End Presbyterian Church, “To day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.” (Continued on Page 5) Blue, Poole To File For Offices; All Commissioners To Run Aj^ain Saturday Is Last Day To Enter Races MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS of the boys’ and girls’ basket ball squads received VFW trophies Thursday night of last week at the banquet given by the Rotary Club honoring the squads and their coaches. Left, Jimmy Townshend, winner of the post’s James S. Milliken, Jr., Memorial Trophy; center, C. S. Patch, Jr., who awarded the trophies in behalf of the John Boyd Post, VFW; and right, Dorothy Newton, winner of the girls’ trophy. Story on Page B. (Photo by V. Nicholson) Float From Moore County To Appear In Festival Parade At Fayetteville Represeniation Of House In Horseshoe Feature Of Exhibit Participation by Moore County in the Bi-Centennial Festival of Cumberland County that begins at Fayetteville Monday was as sured this week when the Moore County Historical Association be gan preparations of a float for the feature parade of the week Tues day afternoon. The festival, described in detail in a story elsewhere in today’s Pilot, will run from Monday through the following Sunday. It marks the 200th anniversary of the founding Of the county. Moore County was a part of Cumberland before it was cut off as a separate county. At their meeting in Carthage Monday, the county commission- Dawson To Speak At PTA Meeting A. C. Dawson, Jr., superinten dent of schools, will be the speak er at the regular meeting of the newly formed Southern Pines Parent-Teacher Association, to be held Thursday of next week at Weaver Auditorium at 8 p. m. Mr. Dawson will survey the Southern Pines school system in detail as it now exists in order that the new members of the As sociation can become better ac quainted with the schools. ers voted to let the county pay for expenses if the Historical Associa tion will take care of preparing the float. Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, president, and other members of the Association have been work ing on the project this week and entry of the float has been as sured. Designed by Glen Rounds, Pine- bluff artist, the float will feature a representation of the “House in the Horseshoe” in Deep River township which is being taken over by the state as an historic shrine.- E. J. Austin, Southern Pines architect, is supervising con struction of the float. The display will be mounted on a large trailer that, with truck and driver, is being donated for the occasion by Benson Futrell of the Futrell Brothers Lumber Co. at Vass. Riding on the float in costumes of Revolutionary times, as nearly as they can be reproduced will be Joe McDonald, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray McDonald of Southern Pines; and Ruth Douglas Currie, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Currie of Carthage. Also invited to ride on the float are the children of Mr. (Continued on page 5) EASTER HOLIDAY It was “books away” for South ern Pines pupils at noon Thurs day and their Easter vacation will continue through Tuesday. In West Southern Pines school closed at noon Thursday, also, to reopen Tuesday morning. David Named Tax Collector MR. McPherson tional goals have been received. “There are not just 3,700 little Red Crosses throughout the coun try, but one great Red Cross with a common objective,” he said. “If (Continued on page 5) CANCER DRIVE LAGS Only around $400 ori' a $700 quota has been raised in the cur rent Cancer Fund Drive, accord ing to Mrs. J. S. Milliken, local chairman. Many who usually give have not yet made their do nations, Mrs. Milliken notes. Any who have not received let ters in regard to the drive are re quested to mail their contributions to Mrs. J. S. Milliken, Box 55, Southern Pines, at their earliest 1 convenience. - J. Douglas David, 47-year-old Pinebluff resident, was appointed Moore County tax collector by the county conamissioners Monday as board members met at the court house in a session that had been recessed from their regular meet ing the previous Monday. The new official, filling a va cancy caused by the death of W. T. Huntley several weeks ago, was chosen from among more than a dozen applicants for the post. He will begin work May 1. Mr. David, bom in South Caro lina, has lived in the Sandhills most of his life, has been a resi dent of Pinebluff for the past 21 years and has been active in local and county civic and political af fairs. He is now serving his second year as President of the Moore County Young Democratic Club and has been active in the YDC for many years. He has been ac tive, in Boy Scout work for 18 year^ on local and district levels. An Eagle Scout himself, he has held various Scouting offices and is at present a neighborhood com With filing time for all county offices slated to close Saturday, the past week saw several more candidates in the Democratic pri mary pay their fees to Sam C. Riddle, chairman of the board of elections, but as of Wednesday, there was as yet no contest in sight except in the sheriff’s race. Sheriff C. J. McDonald, R. G. Fry, Jr., and Wendell KeUy, all of Carthage, are the candidates for sheriff. New filers this week for the board of education, both incum bents, were T. Roy Phillips of Carthage and J. A. Culbertson of Robbins. Jere McKeithen of Aber deen and G. H. Purvis of High- falls and Herman Matthews of Carthage, Route 3, had previous ly filed. Poole Announces State Senate race speculation was settled last week when J. Hawley Poole of West End an nounced that he would be a can didate. He has previously served in the Senate from Moore. Wilbur Currie of Carthage, also a former senator, formally an nounced that he would not seek the office. He said in a statement announcing that he would not run: “I appreciate from the bot tom of my heart the confidence that has been shown me in the past and I am sorry that other duties prevent me from offering my services at this time. I am deeply grateful for the support I have always received.” For the State House of Repre sentatives, H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, incumbent, said he planned to file today (Friday). No opposition for Blue, seeking his fifth term, has been apparent so far. Carlton Kennedy, clerk of court, is also expected to seek renomina tion in the Democratic primary May 29. There has been little if any talk of opposition for him. Mrs. Bessie Griffin, register of deeds, filed last week and no op position is in sight for her at this time. Also coming up for nomination in the primary are solicitor of re corders court, now held by W. La ment Brown of Southern Pines, and judge of recorders court, now held by J. Vance Rowe of Aber deen and Southern Pines. As of Wednesday this week, there was no opposition in sight for them and both were expected to seek nomination and re-election. County coroner is another office to be filled this year. Ralph G. Steed of Robbins now holds the post. It is thought he will seek re nomination and no opposition has been heard from. J. W. (Bunch) Sheffield of East- wood, who earlier this year was expected- to make the race for sheriff and who was a candidate for sheriff four years ago, last week announced that he would not be a candidate, saying his business interests would not per mit him time for a campaign. All five members of the board of county commissioners filed as candidates Monday—G. H. Cam eron of Pinehurst, J. M. Currie of Carthage, J. M. Pleasants of Southern Pines, L. R. Reynolds of Leaman and Tom Monroe of Rob bins. As of Wednesday, there was no oppoMtion for themi. MR. DAVID missioner. Mr. Davis is president of the Pinebluff Lions Club. He is a member of Pinebluff Methodist Church and a former superinten- (Continued on Page 5) POPPY DAY Memorial Poppies, made by disabled veterans and sold for their benefit, will go on sale here tomorrow (Saturday) morning in the American Le gion Auxiliary's annual obser vance of Poppy Day. "Wear a Poppy" is the slo gan of the day, and the more awkwardly the poppy is made the more it should be cherish ed for in all probability it was fashioned by a badly disabled veteran. A pre-sale broadcast, "The Poppy Beds," will be present ed at 1:15 today (Friday) by high school students over WEEB.
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