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Southern Pines
By-Pass Surveys
For No. 1 Slated
Wesiern Route Is
RepoTied Favored
3y State Officials
SIXTEEN PAGES
Farewell For Gen. Gross Set Tonight
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Davenport of Southern
Picti^ed at Carthage Monday after she was desig-
nated Miss Moore County, 1954.” With her is Jimmie Ann Ger-
ner of Robbins, runner-up. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Jacque Davenport Chosen Miss Moore
County During Program At Carthage
15 Girls Compete
In Beauty Contest,
Each Gets Applause
A tall, slender, brown-eyed miss
of 16, Jacque Davenport of South
ern Pines, won the beauty crown
and title of “Miss Moore County
1954” in the beauty contest at
Monday’s July Fourth celebration
at Carthage.
A sparkling brunette, Jimmie
Ann Garner of Robbins, was run
ner-up in the contest, in which 15
young girls from aU parts of the
county took part.
The gold crown was placed on
Queen Jacque’s short honey-
brown hair by last year’s queen,
blonde Marie Kennedy of Pine-
hurst.
The winner was sponsored by
Safety Awards
Distributed To
School Drivers
Safety award certificates are in
the process of being distributed in
Moore County to school bus driv
ers who successfully completed
the 1953-’54 term by conforming
to prescribed safety rules and
regulations.
The awards are presented an
nuity by the Safety Division, N.
C. Department of Motor Vehicles,
and the N. C. State Automobile
Association, the South’s largest
motor club.
Qualified drivers in this state
travel some 220,000 miles daily
to haul more than 400,000 school
children.
Cqngratulations were offered
the winners by John G. Frazier
Jr., president of the automobile
association, and Edward Scheidt,
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.
Winners in Moore County in
clude:
Jerry Adams, Joseph Eaton,
Claude Barber, Hugh Dorcie Mad
ison, Jr., Ira McLeod, WiUiam
Stancil, Robert Thomias, Charlie
Gore, John Barnes Dowd, Bobbie
Lee Dowd, Jessie Mae Brower,
J«hn Henry Jones, John Curtis
Williams, Robert Barrett.
Also: Fred Jones, James Leg
gett, Paul Alston, Betty Martin,
Elizabeth Williams, Otis Bor
oughs, Franklin Farmer, Otis Pat
terson, Hubert Covington, Lee
Curtis Walden, Charlie Oldham,
Earlie Brady, Bobby Ritter, Bert
SeaweU,' Charles Russell, Billy
Maness, Edwina Burns, Horace
Ritter, Crissie Rouse, H. B. Moore
Jr., Laura Ann Butler.
the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce, and the, runner-up by
the Robbins Lions Club. The con
test was held at the Carthage high
school gym before a crowd of
some 1,200 persons which almost
filled the bleachers on both sides,
also the large balcony.
Eliminations
The 15 girls, wearing dainty
summer dresses, mostly in pastel
hues, carne onto, the gymnasium
floor one by one and walked to
the center, where they all lihed
up, then single-filed for the length
of the gym again as the judges
made notes. They were then call
ed out one by one. Each drew ap
plause from the crowd during her
appearance and it was apparent at
this time that Jacque (pronounced
Jackie) was a popular favorite.
Others also drew real ovations,
and four were recalled for a third
appearance on the floor-^acque,
Jimmie Ann, Doris SeaweU of
Carthage and Virginia Troxler of
Carthage Rt. 2. Suspense mount
ed, till the judges’ decision was
announced—then applause hit the
rafters.
Basketball Player
The winner is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Davenport' of
the Midland Road. She is an out
standing basketball player at
Southern Pines High school,
where she will be a junior in the
faU. She also plays the piano,
dances and sings.
A real Outdoors type, it was her
queenly bearing as much as facial
good looks which made Jacque
outstanding. She carried her five
feet six inches, 115 pounds, with
grace and dignity. She wore a
lettuce-green dress of dotted
Swiss, with circular skirt, made by
her mothef.
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Siirveys for a by-pass to carry
U. S. No. 1 highway around
Southern Pines have been author
ized by the State Highway Com
mission, it was announced this
week in Raleigh.
Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen,
8th Division highway commission
er, called the proposal a “routine
exploratory survey” like others
that are being made along the
route of No. 1 in North Carolina,
m line with the overall plan to
improve No. 1 as much as we can ”
Mr. Lockey said he thought the
surveys would start in the very
near future, but explained that
survey crews are not under the
control of the division office and
work directly out of the Highway
Department at Raleigh.
This week’s announcement said
that studies would be made of by
pass routes on both the eastern
and western sides of Southern
Pines, but that “tentative plans
call for the route to lie on the
western side.”
The western side plan, it was
explained, would permit the by
pass to serve N. C. Routes 2 and
22, as well as No. 1. No. 2 is the
Midland “double” road from
Southern Pines to Pinehurst.
Route 22 leaves No. 1 at Manly
running west to Midland Road and
then turning north off Midland
Road to run past St. Joseph of the
Pines hospital toward Carthage.
Dr. Phillips New
Staff Member At
Moore Hospital
The addition of Dr. Charles A.
Speas Phillips, urologist, to the
staff of Moore County Hospital
was announced this week by
Thomas B. Howerton, administra
tor.
This gives the hospital a new
service, and one which has been
badly needed for a long time, the
administrator said. Hitherto pa
tients needing this service have
had to be referred to other hos
pitals 50 to 75 miles away.
Dr. Phillips will restrict his
practice to his specialty, and will
be associated with Drs. Hollister,
Pishko and Monroe, with offices
at the hospital.
He is a former resident of Moore
coimty. A native of Bonlee, in
neighboring Chatham county, he
moved with his family to South-
ern Pines in 1932 and graduated
at Southern Pines High school in
1938.
He won his B. S. degree in
1942 at the University of North
Carolina, where he was a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa. He took
two years of medicine at Carolina
--all that were provided at that
time—and graduated in 1947 from
the medical school of Northwest
ern University, Chicago. He then
served 33 months with the U. S.
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Brig. Gen. Wimarn M. Gross,
who for the past three years has
commanded the USAF Air-
Ground School at the Highland
Pines Inn, will be honored today
(Friday) at the Southern Pines
Country Club, prior to his leaving
early next week to become deputy
commander of the 12th Air Force
at Ramstein, Germany.
General and Mrs. Gross and
USAFAGOS officers and their
wives will be guests at an infor
mal friedr chicken supper at the
Elks Club’s outdoicr barbecue fa
cilities on the Country Club
grounds at 7 p. m.
Between 5:30 and 6:30 p. m., the
Southern Pines Elks Club will en
tertain informally for Gen. and
Mrs. Gross as well as Air-Ground
School officers and their wives,
in the Country Club, prior to the
outdoor gathering.
The public can obtain tickets for
the outdoor supper.' Tickets may
be obtained at the Country Club
or from any member of the steer
ing committee for the event whose
members are: Sam Richardson for
the Lions Club; Garland Pierce
for the Elks; Herbert Cameron
and June Phillips for the Rotary
Club; Louis Scheipers Jr., for the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Shields
Cameron for the American Legion
and Earl Parker for the Chamber
cf Commerce.
All the civic or fraternal organ-
GENERAL GROSS
izations represented on the com
mittee are combining their efforts
in planning the farewell event for
General Gross.
Gen. Jenkins
To Take Post
Here Monday
Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jen
kins will assume command of
ihe USAF Air-Ground School
Monday, succeeding Brig.
Gen. William M. Gross who
will leave Southern Pines ear
ly next week.
General Jenjkins comes here
from Ramstein, Germany,
where he was deputy com
mander of the 12th Air Force.
General Gross will succeed
him in this position.
General and Mrs. Jenkins
and their young daughter
have arrived in Southern
Pines and are staying at the
Charlton Court Motel, No. 1
highway, south, while they
are looking for permanent liv
ing quarters.
David Gamble, president of the
Lions Club, will preside at a pro
gram to accompany the outdoor
supper, and will introduce the
guests. The Rev. C. ' K. Ligon,
pastor of Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church and Ameri
can Legion chaplain, will deliver
the invocation.
The regular Friday noon lunch
eon meeting of the Rotary Club
will not be held today, as club
members will meet with other
service club members at the ever
ning event.
Details of the programi tonight
Observer Corps
To Be Recognized
The Southern Pines and other
Moore County units of the Ground
Observer Corps will be recognized
Wednesday of next week, along
with units throughout the nation,
as “Ground Observer Corps Day’’
is marked.
Harry Chatfield heads the
Southern Pines unit. David Drex-
el of Southern Pines is county
chairman. Other units have been
set up at Aberdeen, Vass, West
^d, Carthage and Robbins. More
than 20 persons are working with
the Southern Pines unit.
The national day of recognition
was set by the U.S. Air Force and
its Air Deferise Command under
which the Observer Corps oper
ates.
I have not been announced, but the
event will include expressions of
apppreciation for General Gross’s
service to the community and co
operation in community endeav
ors of the Air-Ground Schoiol un
der his command. A resolution
adopted by the town council will
be presented to him. .
It was almost exactly three
years ago that General Gross was
assigned to head the Air-Ground
School which had moved to the
Highland Pines Inn from Pope
Air Force Base in June, 1951. For
merly assistant chief of staff of
the Tactical Air Command, Gen
eral Gross was promoted from
colonel to brigadier general coin
cident with his tEiking command
here.
General Gross has been in mil
itary service since 1927 and is a
1934 graduate of the U. S. JVTil-
tary Academy at West Point. He
had a distinguished record in
World War II, commanding the
First Combat Bomb Wing of the
Eighth Air Force in England and
himself taking part in 22 combat
bombing missions over Europe in
B-17 “Flying Fortresses.”
Under the command of General
Gross, the Air-Ground School has
been on a basis of full coopera
tion with the civilian community.
The town, in turn, has recognized
the important place of the school
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Council To Meet Tuesday, Set Policy
On Water Lines Outside City Limits
Proposal To Enlarge
Council Slated For
Further Discussion
Having reached an agreement
last week with Newland Phillips
about extension of water lines in
the Golfcrest development outside
the dity limits, the town council,
at its regular meeting to be held
Tuesday night of next week in
town hall at 8 p.m., will discuss
Holiday Week-End
Safe In Connty;
P atrolmen Bnsy
While traffic accidents took „
toll of 14 lives over North Carolina
during the long July 4 week-end,
Moore County had a normal or
less than normal accident record.
In addition to two or three
minor traffic mishaps that in
volved only small property dam
age, the only accident that was
reported to the State Highway
Patrol was a freak collision that
sent two people to the hospi
tal for'emergency treatment.
On a side road Off the East
wood-West End highway the two
cars ran together head-on, both
vehicles held in their tracks by
the deep sandy ruts in which they
each were travelling.
Cpl. M. S. Parvin, patrol chief
in Moore County, said that he
investigated the wreck but could
make no indictments because it
occurred on a private road. He
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setting a policy to follow in the
future for all extensions of water
and sewer lines outside the town
limits.
The Tuesday meeting is the reg
ular “discussion” meeting of the
board when discussion is welcom
ed from the floor. One week lat-
Tuesday, July 20, the council
will hold its “action” meeting at
which discussion by visitors is
limited and the council debates
and takes action on matters dis
cussed the previous week.
At recent discussions of the
water and sewer extension prob
lem, council members have seem
ed to favor setting a policy where
by water and sewer lines joining
the town system would be dedi
cated to the town as soon as they
are installed by developers or in
dividuals outside the city limits.
In the Golfcrest situation, this
policy was followed and was
agreed to by Mr. Phillips, so far
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PO Box Rent Can
Be Paid Annually
Post office box rent now may
be paid on an annual basis, it was
pointed out this week by Postmas
ter Garland A. Pierce.
The nation-wide ruling went
into effect July 1. Heretofore post
office box rent was collected quar
terly only. Quarterly payments
may still be made, but those pre
ferring an annual payment may
now pay that way, the postmaster
explained.
Hfip. C. B. Deane of Rocking
ham sponsored the bill in Con
gress that authorizes the aimual
payment method.
jiieuioa.
Scout Troop 224 Enjoys Hard-Earned Week At Camp Durant
Thirty-three Southern Pines :— — M^UTUTlt.
Methodists Plan
lOmbined Service
A 10 a. m. “family service,”
combining Sunday School and
church services will be held Sun
day at the Community Center on
May Street, by the new Southern
Pines Methodist congregation.
The Rev. E. E. Whitley, pastor,
said that the new plan of services
would be tried and, if approved
by the congregation, would be
continued until further notice.
A news item on page 3 of to
day’s Pilot, written and printed
before the pastor announcement
of the combined service, lists both
Sunday School and church scrv-
ices for Sunday, but members of
the congregation are asked to dis
regard this page 3 announcement.
Thirty-three Southern Pines
Boy Scouts are having a big time
at Camp Durant this week, enjoy
ing it all the more because they
earned it themselves by hard
lyork over a total period of about
six months.
All the boys are members of
Troop 224 except one, a “visitor”
from Troop 73. The group at camp
constitutes practically the entire
membership of the troop.
Under the guidance cf their
scoutmaster, Russell Simons, the
boys of 224 carried the News and
Observer for three months last
fall and three months in' the
spring, paying all expenses con
nected with the job and banking
the profits for camp. They took
turns at the early-rising job, also
helping with the collecting.
Mr. Simons went out every
morning, with the boys, taking no
pay, though he kept the route go-
ing as a private cnterprpise dur-
ing the three winter months in
order to hold it for the troop.
With heavy schoolwork and short
daylight hours, it was thought
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OFF TO CAMP—Members of Boy Scout Troop
224 and Scoutmaster RusseU Simons are pictur
ed here as they gathered Sunday at the First
Baptist Church, their sponsoring institution, be
fore leavi^ for a week at Camp Durant near
Raleigh. They are, left to right: first row, Stu
art Simons, Tommy Johnston, Butch May, Jim
my Tew, George Little, Melva Ray Hall, Vinson
Gilmore, Lee Garvin, Richard Lockey, Bobby
Wicker; second row, Charles Weatherspoon
Wayne Davenport, Tony Simons, Pat Calcutt
Bobby Watkins, Ike WoodeU, Jimmy Parker,
Jimmy Caldwell, Larry McDonald, Jimmy Car-
ter (from Troop 73), Donald Barber, Norwood
McDonald, Robert Woodruff; third row. Scout
master Simons, Dick Mclnnis, Skipper Spence
Jesse Williford, John Van Benschoten, Bill Sey
mour, Ted Ward, Thomas Vann and Richard Be
thea, Explorer Scout attached to Troop 224.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
Tentative
County Tax
Rate $1.35
Resolutions On
Spence, Saunders
Passed By Board
Devoting a large part of their
regular July meeting to work on
the 1954-’55 budget, the county
cpmmissioners adopted a ten
tative budget that sets the tax
rate at $1.35 per $100 of property
valuation—^the same rate as din
ing the past fiscal year which
ended June 30.
The board went into executive
session with Auditor John C. Muse
of Sanford to work out final de
tails of the budget. After the
meeting ended. Chairman G. M.
Cameron said the tax rate had
been tentatively fixed at $1.35,
pending final adoption of the
budget in August.
The board chairman said also
that requirements listed in the
budget are slightly less than last
year’s. Miss Maida Jenkins, coun
ty accountant and tax supervisor,
said this week that the new bud
get is based on an estimated prop
erty valuation of $40,000,000. This
is the same figure used in the bud
get estimate for the 1953-’54 fis-
cal year. Increased valuation from
listing of new construction, sh’e
said, is offset in this year’s tax
assessments by a decline in per-
onal property listings.
Miss Jenkins pointed out that
there had been Little new con
struction by business and indus
try to be listed for taxes this
year. Residential construction has
been largely in McNeiU, Sandhill
and Sheffield townships. Robbins
is in Sheffield. ^
Special school taxes raise the
county tax rate in Southern Pines
school district to $1.83. These tax
es are collected by the county for
use in the Southern Pines school
district.
After publication, the budget
will lie open for 20 days for pub
lic inspection. Changes are rare
ly made in the budget between
tentative and final adoption.
County Home Problem
Mr. Cameron said that the com
missioners are continuing to study
the county home problem and that
the press and public will be in
formed when some decision is
made. The board is faced with
the question of whether to con
tinue to operate the county home
on the present basis which, during
the past year required an appro
priation of $12,500 for payment of
operators, maintenance costs and
other expenses; or to convert the
imtitution to a privately-operated
licer^ed boarding home; or to dis
continue its use in any welfare
capacity and sell or lease the
building for another purpose.
Resolutions
The commissioners authorized
the county attorney, M. G. Boy
ette, to prepare resolutions of re
spect and sympathy in regard to
the death last week of U. L.
Spence, 86-year-old Carthage at-
tcrney, and also to prepare a res
olution expressing the board’s ap
preciation of services to the coun
ty by W. P. Saunders of Southern
Pines who recently resigned as
executive vice-president of Rob
bins Mills, Inc., which has plants
at Bobbins and Aberdeen. Texts
of the resolutions were not imme
diately available, pending their
completion by the county attor
ney. Spence and Boyette, the firm
of which Mr. Spence was senior '
partner, has handled the county’s
legal business tor some time and
Mr. Spence had worked closely
with county officials during his
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POSTAL RECEIPTS
HERE RISE 10%
Receipts at the Southern
Pines post office showed a
10.6 per cent increase in the
first -six months of 1954, as
compared with the
period of 1953, Postmaster
Garland A. Pierce said this
week.
The 1954 receipts amount
to $35,528.64. This is $3,412.23
more than was taken in at the
post office in the first six
months of 1953.
Postal receipts are consider
ed a good index of business
activity.
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