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Beaver Dam At Powell's Pond
Beavers, those wonderfully
industrious and ingenious
woodland animals, are becom
ing common in the Sandhills,
extending their range along
streams and in lakes and
ponds, from a colony intro
duced several years ago in the
State Wildlife Protection Area
at Camp Mackall some 10
miles south of Southern Pines.
At Powell’s Pond, out of
Southern Pines near the Be-
thesda Road to Aberdeen,
beaver dams are holding back
the waters of a good-sized
lake, parts of them four to six
feet high—one section extend
ing 30 or more feet in length.
The photo above, taken
from below a section of one of
the Powell Pond’s dams with
the camera held just above
the level of the water beyond,
shows the massive jumble of
sticks on the face of the dam.
The dams are built as thick,
or thicker, as they are high.
Beavers are also working at
Pinebluff lake, along Aber
deen Creek and on a number
of other streams in this area.
Watchers who conceal them
selves carefully and remain
quiet are likely to be able to
see the beavers at Powell’s
Pond about dusk or about
sunrise. There’s another pic
ture and more about beavers
on page 2. (Pilot Staff Photo)
Miss Helen Dunlap
Honored At FHA
District Meeting
Personnel of 21 county FHA of
fices on Wednesday concluded a
two-day district meeting at the
Southland Hotel, at which they
learned new aspects of their work
under recent streamlining proce
dures, and became acquainted
with their new state director,
Horace J. Isenhower, Catawba
County farmer appointed to the
post two months ago.
New policy of the Farmers
Home Administration places the
burden of coni .ol and decision in
the hands of the county supervis
ors and their staffs rather than in
the state or federal offices. Direc
tor Isenhower told the more than
50 workers attending the meeting.
County and state committees,
elected by the farmers, are also to
be used piuch more than they
have in the past, and will have
new responsibilities.
Certificates and honor pins for
meritorius service over long terms
of years were awarded Wednesday
by Isenhower to four county
workers, two receiving 20-year
certificates and two receiving 10-
year certificates. One of the 10-
year certificates went to Miss Hel
en C. Dunlap, county office clerk
at Carthage, who joined the staff
in 1944 following her graduation
from Woman’s College, Greens
boro.
The Moore County office, of
which C. C. Lingerfelt is super
visor, was host to the meeting,
which was held here for the third
successive year. In charge of the
two-day program, with a half-
dozen state officials as speakers
on various phases of the work,
was Dennis H. Sutton of Raleigh,
state field representative.
Welch, Deputy
Commandant At
School, Leaving
A change in deputy command
ant, as well as commandant, is
slated at the USAF Air Ground
I School here.
I Two weeks ago, it was announc
ed that Brig. Gen. William M.
Gross, commandant, will leave
July 17, to become deputy com
mander of the 12th Air Force in
Germany, with Brig. Gen. Daniel
W. Jenkins, who is now in Ger
many, arriving to replace General
Gross July 12.
This week the announcement
was made that Lt. Col. Lamar A.
(Bill) Welch, infantry officer who
has been deputy commandant at
USAFAGOS since the faU of 1951,
has been selected to attend the
Armed Forces Staff College at
Norfolk, Va., reporting there Au
gust 16.
He will be replaced by Col. A.
K. Clark, also an infantry officer,
who is now a student at the Staff
College.
Fire Protection
Ordinance Going
In Effect July 1
Volunteers Will Go
Outside Town Only
If Contract Signed
Perons living outside but witii-
in two miles of the town limits
were reminded this week bv City
Manager Tom E. Cunningham that |
the town’s new fire protection
service policy goes into effect
July 1.
The new ordinance forbids the
Southern Pines volunteer fire de
partment to answer alarms outside
the town limits unless the otvner
of the property to which they are
called has paid in advance an an
nual fire service charge. The prop
erty must be within two miles of
town.
The charge amounts to 25 cents
per $100 of value of the property
to be protected. The names of per
sons who pay this charge and
location of property on which
they have paid it are listed at
town hall and at the fire station.
The fire department wiU respond
only to alarms for property on this
list.
The new policy was put into
effect by the town council as part
of their program to put town
services on a paying basis and to
provide town services outside the
city lim^its only to those persons
who pay a fair share of their
cost.
Musi Share Cost
Fire protection, the ordinance
assumes, is a continuous advan-i
tage, whether or not the fire de
partment is called. The taxpayers
of the town, the council reasoned,
have a large investment in the
fire station and equipment, for
which they have been paying
taxes for many years. Non-tax-
payers out of town, should there
fore, they said, share in the finan
cial support of the department,
if they are to derive the benefit
of fire protection, whether or not
they have a fire. Under former
policy, an “'outside” resident to
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MR. LORENSON
Russell Lorenson.
Elected President
N. C. Accountants
DIRECTOR OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Council To Meet
Tuesday, June 29 ,
The town council will meet
Tuesday of next week at 8 p. in.
in the town hall for a public hear
ing on annexation of the Southern
Pines Country Club and several
private^ properties in the nearby
area, as petitioned by the property
owners involved.
Also expected to come up at
the meeting are two matters on
which the council did not act in
a regular meeting June 15, be
cause two councilmen were ab
sent. These are: the policy to be
followed by the town in connec
tion with proposed extension of
a water main by Newland Phillips
in his Golfcrest development out
side the town limits; and whether
or not to permit Sunday fishing
at the waterworks lake.
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Russell J. Lorenson of Southern
Pines was elected and installed as
president of the North Carolina
Society of Accountants during the
seventh annual convention of the
Society held at the Skyland Hotel,
Hendersonville, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorenson and their
daughter, Jane, attended the en
tire convention, leaving Wednes
day and returning Saturday.
A member of the Society since
it was formed in 1947, Mr. Loren
son served on the board of direc
tors one year four years ago. He
was executive secretary the next
two years and during the past
year has been first vice-president.
About 250 persons, including ac
countants and their families and
guests, attended the banquet at
which Mr. Lorenson took his oath
of office as president Friday night.
Mr. Lorenson is the only officer
of the Society from this area.
Hoyle Davis of Rockingham was
elected to the 16-member board of
directors.
James E. Keyes of Washington,
D. C., executive director of the
National Society of Public Ac
countants, installed the new offi
cers.
Miss Davis To Begin Work
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Town Receives
Ditch Machine
The town received delivery
Wednesday on a hydraulic ditch
ing machine which is expected to
speed work and save labor on all
kinds of ditching jobs.
The machine was bought from
the Ford Motor Co., through the
local dealer, Jackson Motors, as
low bidder at a price of approxi
mately $3,800.
City Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham said that the ditcher would
be put to work within the next
week on several small water and
sewer extension jobs.
The first full-time education
worker to be employed by a
Southern Pines church will start
her duties July 1.
Miss Saradee Davis, a native of
Quincy, Fla., and a 1954 graduate
of Flora Macdonald Qollege, Red
Springs, will become director of
Christian education at Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church,
according to an announcement by
the Rev. C. K. Ligon, pastor.
Miss Davis will live, for the
present, at the home of Mrs. P. P.
McCain, dean at Flora Macdonald,
who is spending the summer at
her home here.
College sources said that Miss
Davis was an outstanding student
and one of the most popular girls
on the campus throughout her col
lege years. She was a Bible major,
was prayer band leader and was
president of the Christian Associa
tion of the College in her senior
year.
She was graduated cum' laude,
which requires a four-year aver
age of 90-94, was a member of
the May Court for two yea>s and
was May Queen this year. Active
in athletics and a member of a
number of student clubs. Miss Da-
Sandbags From
Air Crash Into
Chicken House
Full payment of damages has
been arranged by military author
ities for damage to a chicken
house and death of several chick
ens, when sandbags fell acciden
tally from a passing helicopter on
the property of George Dowdy,
Manly Negro, last week.
Eye-witnesses were quoted as
saying that what was apparently
a box or package of several sand
bags fell from the helicopter and
“seemed to come apart in the air.”
They crashed through Dowdy’s
chicken house and killed several
birds.
It was reported that Dowdy’s
children, or other children of the
neighborhood, had come in from
the chicken house, where they
had been gathering eggs, shortly
before the bags hurtled down.
The place is located near the
intersection of the Seaboard
tracks with the road from Manly
to the Midland Road.
Dr. Mobbs Urg es
Tighten Controls
On Pesticide Use
Aberdeen Physician
Appears In Senate
Committee Inquiry
Dr. Robert F. Mobbs, Aberdeen
physician who has been studying
the effects of pesticides on human
beings and animals for several
years and who advocates stricter
legal controls in the use of these
substances, testified Wednesday
before the Senate Labor and Pub
lic Welfare Committee in Wash
ington, D. C.
Testimony offered by the physi
cian at the hearing outlined the
need lor strengthening the provi
sions, in a bill now in Congress,
to control the residue of pesticides
in food products for human con
sumption.
Before he left for Washington
Tuesday night. Dr. Mobbs said
that his testimony would consist
largely in recommending certain
changes in the bill as it now
stands in order to afford the pub
lic more protection from pesticide
residues which he believes may be
poisoning people in many of the
food products they eat.
It was learned here Thursday
that all or part of the hearing in
which Dr. Mobbs took part was
televised in the Washington area
Wednesday night.
Previous 'Testimony
On July 14, 1953, Dr. Mobbs tes
tified before the House Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Commit
tee on the original form of the bill
that was under discussion by the
Senate committee this week.
His testimony at that time gain
ed national attention through
Drew Pearson who devoted an en
tire “Merry-Go-Round” syndicat
ed newspaper column to the com
mittee hearing.
At that time. Dr. Mobbs said
that reports on insecticide toxicity
which have been prepared by doc
tors and chemists “have been
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PRICE—TEN CENTS
Traffic Safety Program
Proclaimed In 5 Towns
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THE REV. MR. HILL
Interim Pastor
To Preach First
Sermon Sunday
The Rev. William H. Hill, inter
im minister at the Church of Wide
Fellowship in the absence of Dr.
Wofford C. Timmons, will preach
Sunday on the topic, “What I
Think Jesus Christ Would Do If
He Came to Southern Pines.”
. SARADEE DAVIS
vis was president of her class in
her sophomore year, was a mem
ber of the Student Council and
was one of nine students to repre
sent her college in “Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Univer
sities,” her senior year.
Broiler Growers
To Meet Tonight
A meeting of Moore County
broiler growers wiU be held in the
courthouse at Carthage tonight
(Friday) at 8 o’clock.
A letter to growers signed by
E. H. Garrison, Jr., farm agent,
and F. D. Allen and John A. Di-
nan, assistant agents, says that the
support of every broiler grower in
the county is needled to make the
meeting a success. Mr. Allen,
who is a poultry specialist, termed
the meeting the most important
ever held in the county about
broilers.
Purpose of the meeting, says the
letter, is “to work out a good
sound program to follow” in order
to cut costs to compete with the
Georgia and Northern markets.
It is likely that the growers will
form an organization, with a
board of directors, to work on
i their problems.
Sandhills Peach
Outlook Bright
The outlook is good for Sandhills
peaches this year, reports Clyde
Auman, large grower in the West
End arda.
While Spring freezes cut the
size of the Sandhills crop to an
estimated 50 per cent Of normal,
on the average, quality of the fruit
promises to be favorable and the
cutdown in quantity should lead
to good prices.
There wiU be plenty of peaches
for those in this area who want
them, Auman said. “Don’t let it
scare you that I said the crop
was cut 50 per cent.”
Rain in the past month has in
creased the size of the fruit, the
grower pointed Out.
Last week Dixie Reds were be
ing shipped from the Candor area.
Golden Jubilees will be ready for
shipment about July 1.
The Rev. Mr. Hill, who, was in
troduced to the congregation last
Sunday by Dr. Timm'ons, will re
main in Southern Pines through
Sunday, August 22. Dr. Timmons
' will return to his pulpit with the
morning service August 29.
For the past two months, the
visiting minister has been living
at Rutherfordton. He formerly
was pastor of Immanuel Congre
gational Church at Dubuque, Iowa,
with a membership of nearly 800,
where he served for 11 years. The
interim minister and his wife are
occupying the local church’s par
sonage, 260 N. Ridge St., during
their stay in Southern Pines.
Dr. and Mrs. Timmons left Sun
day for New Haven, Conn., where
Dr. Timmons has charge of the
Pre-Council Spiritual Life Mis
sion of the General Council of the
Congregational Christian Church
es. He also has charge of the Sem
inar on Evangelism there.
Dr. Timmons plans to attend the
World Council of Churches meet
ing at Evanston, Ill., in August.
^ Drivers Sign
Pledge To Heed
Speeding Laws
Car owners in Southern Pines
who have pledged themselves to
obey all speed laws in an effort
to reduce traffic accidents jumped
from 62 to 75 during the past
week, according to a report from
the John Boyd Post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, and the USAF Air-
Ground School, joint sponsors of
the continuing safety program
that ip running May 23 through
July 10.
But the big push in “Operation
Impact” is yet to come.
Mayor Lloyd T. Clark of South
ern Pines and mayors in Aber
deen, Vass, Pinehurst and Car
thage have issued a proclamation
setting the period June 26 through
July 5 as “Operation Impact
Week”—a time for special atten
tion to traffic safety by the people
of this area and a time for volun
tary signing the “Operation Im
pact” pledge.
The full text of this pledge and
an endorsement of “Operation Im
pact” by business firms of this
area appear on page 15.
In Southern Pines, the pledge
can be signed and a windshield
star obtained at the VFW Post
Home, across from the post office
on New York Ave., or at the Air
Ground School in the Highland
Pines Inn.
The program was started by the
Tactical Air Command, of which
the Air Ground School is a unit.
It was pushed locally by the
School, in cooperation with spon
soring organizations in each of the
Sandhills towns. In Southern
Pines, this is the second year the
program has been held.
Count of motorists who have
signed is now: about 150, that is,
100 per cent of all military and
civilian personnel, at the Air
Ground School; Vass, 129; Aber
deen, 116; Pinehurst, 80; Southern
Pines, 75; and Carthage, 68.
Here is Mayor Clark’s proclama
tion:
Darst Elected To
Church Position
Thomas C. Darst, Jr., was elect
ed senior warden of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church during a meet
ing of the church’s vestry Monday
night. He replaces Garland A.
Pierce who had resigned from this
position because of the pressure
of his duties as president of the
North Carolina Chapter, National
Association of Postmasters.
“By virtue of the power vested
in my office, I hereby proclaim
the period from June 26 to July
5, 1954, as ‘'Operation Impact
Week’.
‘“Operation Impact’, Tactical
Air Command’s second annual
safe driving campaign designed to
combat the manpower and mone
tary losses attributed to motor ve
hicle accidents involving citizens
of this area, is proving effective
and is saving lives. The core of
the movement is the little pledge
of which the windshield star is
tye sign and symbol. The pledge
is that of the car owners who
promise: ‘We, the undersigned, in
order to reduce, the loss of life,
health and property by accident,
do hereby voluritarily pledge that
we will obey all speed laws.’
“This new kind of warfare, the
battle against property damage
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METHODIST ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES CONTINUE
Visiting Minister To Speak Here Nightly
The Rev. Thomas A. Collins of
Raleigh, secretary of church ex
tension under the Board of Mis
sions and Church Extension of the
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church, will conduct
services Sunday through Friday
night of next week at the Com
munity Center building (former
Elks Club) on May St.
The Rev. E. E. Whitley, newly
assigned pastor who is organizing
a Methodist congregation here,
said that the visiting minister will
hold the first service Sunday at
8 p. m. and will continue to hold
services, at the same hour each
night through Friday, in connec
tion with formation of a new
church here.
At other times during the week,
the Rev. Mr. Collins will be with
the local pastor in visiting pros
pective members of the church
and in helping in other ways with
the current organizational activi
ty.
The Rev. Mr. Collins was ap
pointed last October by Bishop
Paul Garber of the North Carolina
Conference to help new churches
organize in cooperation with
what is known as the $10 Club.” i
THE REV. MR. COLLINS
This is a group of persons all
over the Conference who are in
terested in the advancement of
the church and who have agreed
to send in $10 when the call comes
to organize a new church, provi
ded not more than three calls per
year over a period of four years
are made on each “member,” of
the club.
This plan, it was explained,
gives churches a chance to get
their building program started
without imposing too great a bur
den on small congregations in the
process of being organized.
Funds from “$10 Club” sources
will be used here, it is expected,
to build an education building for
the new Methodist Church at the
corner of Maine Ave. and May
St., giving the local congregation
a boost in its effort to start their
building program.
'The Rev. Mr. Whitley said this
week that he is receiving much
encouragement in his organiza
tional activity. He reported that
19 persons attended the service at
the Community Center last Sun
day, as compared with about 10
on the previous Sunday.
Sunday School is held there at
9:45 a. m. and preaching service
at 11 a. m. These regular services
will be held next Sunday, June
27, with the special services of
the Rev. Mr. Collins starting Sim-
day at 8 p. m. The local pastor
will also have a part in the night
ly services throughout the week.