VOL. 36—NO. 7
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 7. 1955
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
Map Shows Route
Highway By-Pass;
Details Lacking
Inierseclion Plans
Not Yet Complete# ,
Reports Engineer
The proposed No. 1 highway
by-pass, a map of which is posted
in the courthouse at Carthage, go
ing frcm south to north, leaves
No. 1 highway six-tenths of a mile
south of the town limits, bearing
left off the present route of the
highway to cut off a small ocrner
from the Fairway Motor Court
property, passing through the lo
cation of the old Sugg home
which would be removed, and
heading north through Pinedene
to pass close to the east side of
Mount Hope Cemetery.
Crossing Morganton Road, the
proposed by-pass route goes north
along the approximate location of
Saylor St., and continues to fol
low the McDeed’s Creek ravine to
the W. P. Davis property. It pass
es close to the Mid Pines Lake,
on the east, cresses Midland
Road, crosses the Seaboard Air
Line railroad west of the Rowe
pecan orchard and re-enters the
prese.it route of No. 1 highway
about 900 feet south of the road
that runs from No. 1 to Niagara,
south of “Skyline.”
The proposed right of way is
260 feet wide throughout, a dual
lane highway, with center divi
sion, r. nd the length of the by
pass route is about five and a
half miles.
The map was posted in the
courthouse at Carthage December
22. Protests in regard to the
route, says a statement posted
with the map, must be made in
writing to the State Highway
Commission at Raleigh within 30
days.
Ir. Pl-.r- Ing Stage
T. G. Poindexter of Aberdeen,
Eighth Division highway engi
neer, said this week that the by-
LEADING FIGHT AGAINST POLIO—Some
of the community chairmen and chapter offi
cials, attending the dinner meeting Monday
night at Carthage which kicked off the January
March of Dimes drive in Moore County, are pic
tured here. Front row, from left—H. Clifton
Blue, Aberdeen, campaign co-director; C. H.
Bowman, Southern Pines, chapter treasurer; J.
Frank McCaskill, campaign co-director and pre
siding officer at the meeting; Mrs. Philip Math
er, Pinebluff; Mrs. Kimes Blake, Jackson
Springs; Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officer
and a chapter director. Faces seen behind them
are, from left, those of W. D. Sabiston, Carthage
(co-chairman with Mrs. Sabiston); Monroe
Chappell, Vass; Paul C. Butler, chapter chair
man (also Southern Pines drive chairman); J. F.
Sinclair, West End; Ray Burns, Aberdeen; Mrs.
June Harrington, Glendon; Miss Fay Bradshaw,
county health nurse; Mrs. Pete Phillips, Cam
eron; T. H. Lingerfelt, Farm Life, and Howard
L. Kennedy, Westmoore.
Polio Drive Leaders Accept Quota of
$7,560 In Campaign Now Beginning
Butler Reelected
Chapter Chairman;
'Victory In Sight'
With victory almost in sight
after 17 years, now dependent on
a great gamble—the nationwide
testing of the Salk vaccine—the
1955 .March of Dimes will be the
most crucial in history, Moore
County community chairmen in
the polio campaign learned Mon
day night.
Enthusiastically they accepted
their share in the gamble, along
with quotas totaling $7,560 for the
county, at the March of Dimes
kickoff dinner held at the Carth
age Hotel.
The dinner not only initiated the
ass is still in the planning stage' campaign to be held during Jan-
nd that details of intersections uary, but served as the annual
d access roads haVe not been!'meeting of the Moore County
access
torked out. He also said that no
fccurate figure could yet be giv-
for cost of the project, as this
rould be determined by the num-
[ber and kind of grade separations
'and other factors not yet fully
worked out.
It has been generally under
stood that plans called for grade
separations at the Pennsylvania
Avenue and Midland Road inter-
' sections, with overpasses carry
ing the crossing roads over the by
pass and with access allowed be
tween the by-pass and the two
crossing roads at these points.
Mr. Poindexter said that details
of plans at' these intersections
would be worked out later after
the bridge department is called in
to furnish plans.
'Controlled Acceas' Planned
chapter. National Infantile Paral
ysis Foundation.
Officers Reelected
Reelected by acclamation were
Paul C. Butler, Southern Pines,
chairman; Ralph G. Steed, Rob
bins. vice-chairman; Mrs. Eldon
S. Adams, Carthage, secretary
and C. H. Bowman, Southern
Pines, treasurer.
Frank H. McCaskill, .Pinehurst
co-director of the 1955 drive v,^th
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, pre
sided. Campaign plans were map
ped out and the story of the chap
ter’s work of the past year was
revealed in annual reports.
Effectiveness of the Salk vac
cine, which won a Nobel prize for
its discoverer and may provide
I the long-sought immunity against
I polio, will not be known for sev-
The division engineer said also, eral m'Cnths, Chairman Butler
that tentative plans call for, told the group. But the fight goes
PAUL BUTLER
“frontage” or “service” roads that
would parallel the two lanes of
the highway and from which ac
cess eculd be obtained to the by
pass itself “at designated points.”
Whether such points are contem
plated other than the Pennsyl
vania .Avenue and Midland Road
intersections was not revealed, as
the engineer said this feature of
the project is still in the planning
stage.
The frontage or service roads
would be for the use of property
owners adjoining the highway
right of way and would serve the
present east-west avenues in the
developed portions of the town
East-west avenues that now cross
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MAGAZINES WANTED
Making a plea for used maga
zines tO' be distributed by book
mobile in rural areas, Mrs. Doro
thy Avery, county librarian, said
this week:
“If you are through with some
magazines and would like to get
them out of the way, the Library
will be glad to have them and
will pass them on and you can be
assured they will be appreciated.
We would prefer 1954 issues but
can use all kinds and our stock
is extremely low at present. They
may be left at the library in
Southern Pines.”
Julian Pleasants Is House Page
Julian Mclver Pleasants, 16-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
James M. Pleasants, 160 N. Ridge
St., has been appointed a page in
the House for the session of the
General Assembly that opened at
Raleigh Wednesday. The appoint
ment was made by Rep. Larry I.
Moore of Wilson County, speaker
of the House, and the local youth
was on hand to take over his du
ties immediately, having gone to
Raleigh with his father Tuesday.
-A Junior in Southern Pines
High School, Julian will live at
the YMCA in Raleigh, with other
pages in House and Senate, and
will be required to devote regu
lar periods to study. Southern
Pines school officials cooperated
in allowing the local youth to ac
cept the post in Raleigh. He has
a high scholastic standing.
Julian’s appointment was the
first as page to be made in Moore
County since C. A. (Tony) Hunt-
ley of Aberdeen served as chief
page in the Senate during the
1941 session of the Assembly.
Huntley had previously served as
a Senate page for the regular ses
sions of 1935, 1937, 1939 and the
special sessions of 1936 and 1938,
Huntley, who still lives at
Aberdeen,.said this week that it
is his understanding that he was
the first from Moore to serve as
a page in the General Assembly.
Naval Reserve
Unit In Process
Of Organizing
Organization of a Naval Re
serve Unit for this area has be
gun, reports James I. Lawson of
Southern Pines, Naval Reserve,
ensign who is leading an effort
to' establish such a unit here.
Needing a minimum of 15 per
sons to organize, the proposed
unit this week had 14 qualified
Naval Reserve members signed
Coroner Reports
Drop In Violent
Deaths In Moore
1954 Record Shows
Traffic Falalilies,
Homicides Decline
Desths requiring coroner inves
tigations in Moore county during
1954 totaled 38, nine fewer than
in 1953, according to the annual
report prepared this week by Cor
oner Ralph G. Steed of Robbins
for submission to the county com
missioners..
Natural causes, determined in
each case by a physician, totaled
13, as compared with 20 the year
before.
Traffic fatalities numbered 10,
a reduction from the previous
year’s 12. Five took place on
highways in the county, five in
towns—three in Southern Pines
arid two in Aberdeen. One of the
Southern Pines deaths was that of
a pedestrian who was struck by
an automobile.
A reduction was also noted in
the homicides, of which there
were four in 1954, five in 1953.
Other cases were listed as fol
lows: acute alcoholism, 3; sui
cides, 2; drowning, 2;- accidental,
gunshot, 1; burned to death, 1;
exposure, 1; unknown, 1.
The “unknown” case was that
of a Negro man from another
state, visiting in the county, who
was found dead. Without refer
ence to the recent criticisms lev
eled at North Carolina’s coroner
system. Coroner Steed let it be
known that an autopsy was per
formed by a pathologist, and a
further study made by a toxicol
ogist at Puke Hospital. Their com
bined efforts failed to determine
a cause.
Patrolmen Work
18 Hours Daily
#
During Holidays
Cpl. M. C. Parvin of near Car
thage, Highway Patrol chief in
Moore County, said this week,
that he and the four other patrol
men assigned to Moore County
made 135 arrests for traffic viola
tions during the period Decem
ber 20 through 26. All the officers
were on duty from 7 a. m. to 1 a
m., 18 hours per'day, throughout
this period, he said, operating the
speed watch mechanical clocking
device and otherwise patrollingVTTrftfiifloTn^ SllVljpp.t
the highways of the county. | J
Of the arrests made, about half
were for speeding and of the
speeders, about half were travel
ling at an exceptionally high rate,
seme 75 and 80 miles per hour.
Corporal Parvin reported.
In that period, only three minor
al injuries, were reported by the
patrolmen.
Traffic on Thursday and Fri
day of Christmas week was the
heaviest he has ever seen in
M'core County, the corporal sta
ted. Equally heavy traffic was
noted by patrolmen on the New
Year’s week-end when all patrol
men were out again in force for
long hours, .after working the
speed watch regularly during the
week between Christmas and
New Year’s.
None of the patrolmen were
able to spend Christmas with
their families. This week, they be
gan getting delayed holiday
Of LWV Sessious
“Freedom Agenda,” a subject
called “a community adventure
in discussion of freedom,” will be
taken up at three “unit meet-
irigs” of the Southern Pines
League of Women Voters this
month. All interested persons are
invited to attend.
First of the series will be Tues
day of next week, January 11, at
10:30 a. m., in the home of Mrs.
Curtis Townshend, with Mrs. Rus
sell Simons as leader.
Second is scheduled for 8 p. m.
January 19, in the basement of
the Belvedere Hotel, to be led by
Mrs. Graham Culbreth. A third
meeting has been set for 3 p. m.
January 21 at the home of Mrs.
Harry Pethick, with Mrs. C. A.
Smith as leader.
One purpose of the discussions
is to foster interest of other civic
up, with early prospect of gaining leaves to catch up on their rest groups in the discussion of free-
' and relaxation, although all'were j dom in many aspects of local and
not released from duty simul-j national life today, said the an-
taneously. nouncement.
the single additional necessary
member, as well as a number of
others, Lawson said.
He reported many telephone
calls expressing interest in the
project, in addition to the 14 per
sons who have returned to him
cards giving necessary informa
tion as to their Navy status.
Contracts To Be Let
For 2 Local Schools
Problem In
Financing
Is Solved
COURT OF HONOR
SET JANUARY 24
The Januciry court of honor
for the ^Moore District, Boy
Scouts, will be held Monday
evening. January 24, at the
Community Church in Pine- •
hurst. Lawrence M. Johnson
of Aberdeen, advancement
chairman, calls attention to
the date, as through an error
this date has been announced
through the Council office as
January 10. The court of hon
or will be important, as it
will be the time for awarding
the Storey Memorial Trophy,
following a year-long compe
tition among all troops of the
districL
Education Board
Of County Hits
City Unit Plan
Meeting last week in Carthage,
the county board of education pre
pared and adopted a resolution
opposing proposed establishment
of a city school administrative
unit in Aberdeen school district
and favoring abolishing all city
administrative units in the coun-
ty-
The only city administrative
units in the county are now locat
ed in Southern Pines and Pine
hurst districts.
City units deal directly with the
county commissioners in obtain
ing school funds, whereas county
system units channel their re
quests through the board of edu
cation. City units hire their own
teachers and there are other ad
ministrative distinctions in the
two typ^s of school units.
The resolution was sent to Rep.
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen who
had been approached by the Ab
erdeen district school board about
the possibility of introducing a
special legislative! act in the cur
rent General Assembly, creating a
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Official Heard
By PTA Leaders
Miss Blanche B. Haley, field
secretary for the North Carolina
Congress of Parents and Teachers
Spoke on PTA by-laws, committee
duties and other administrative
matters to the executive commit
tee of the Southern Pines Parent-
A local school construction pro
gram that has been stymied by
financial and legal complications
was put in the clear this week
through action by the county
commissioners and assurance of
enabling legislation in the Gen
eral Assembly, to be introduced
by Moore Rep. H. Clifton Blue.
John Howarth, chairman of the
board of school trustees in the
Southern Pines district, and A. C.
Dawson, superintendent of schools
said that contracts would probably
be signed by Friday of next week
for construction of the “Phase B”
portion of the new high school
building and also a four-classroom
elementary (primary grades)
building at 'West Southern Pines
—the latter being the first unit
in a planned 15-classrpom struc
ture which will also contain a
cafeteria. Heating plant for the
entire proposed building wiU be
in the first four-room unit, in ad
dition to the classrooms.
Work on both buildings is ex
pected to start soon after con
tracts are let, with completion of
both in time for use at the begin
ning of the school year in Septem
ber.
Cost will be $138,225 for the
high school building and $54,337
for the elementary unit, for a to
tal cost of $192,562.
The high school building will be
200 by 36 feet in size, a two-story
block and brick structure in the
modified Colonial design of the
“Phase A” unit completed last
summer. It will lun parallel to
May St., on the location of thc'
former high school building which
was razed last year. Heating plant
for both buildings was put into
the Phase A unit.
Cost of the high school building
ran more than originally planned
because the architect’s proposal to
use open corridors on the east side
of the structure, on both first and
second floors, was rejected by
State school planning authorities
and the corridors were closed in.
The rejection specifically applied
to the second floor corridor, but
both the corridors were closed in
the revamped plans on which bid
ding w;as based.
Also influencing the current
money shortage was the fact that
the county commissioners, in mak
ing up the budget last June, cut
Southern Pines school district’s
requested capital outlay funds.
Teacher association at the office Funds for construction are pro
of Dr. R. M. McMillan, PTA pres
ident, Tuesday night..
During the meeting, the execu
tive committee heard a discussion
of Southern Pines sohool con
struction plans, as reported in de
tail elsewhere in todaj^. Pilot.
Columbus Boychoir To Sing Here Toni
The Columbus Boychoir will ap
pear at Weaver Auditorium to-
„ , ..... i night (Friday) at 8:30 p.m., as a
Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aber-j concert series
deen and Vass are represented on Sandhill Music Association.
the preliminary list of members,
he said.
Meeting To Be Called
Names turned in have been
sent to the Sixth Naval District
Headquarters at Charleston, S. C.
for checking as to Navy status—
the first step in the organizing
procedure. When this has be'en
completed, the group will be call
ed together to choose meeting
nights and select a commanding
officer and administrative clerk
The commanding officer of a
Composite Company can be any
officer of any rank. Selection is
left to prospective company mem
bers.
For the purpose of organizing,
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4-H COUNCIL TO MEET
Officers for the coming year
will be elected at a meeting of the
County Council of Moore 4-H
Clubs, to be held in the Home
Demonstration office at Carthage
at 10:30 a. m. Saturday. Amaury
Xavier, young man from Brazil
who is visiting at the Clyde Au-
man farm. West End, this month,
has . been invited to attend the
meeting.
Travelling in their own “school-
house on wheels” (a large bus)
especially fitted with desks at
each seat and a piano for rehear
sals, the talented boys will pre
sent a unique concert program
from Palestrina to Gershwin, in
cluding folk songs, Negro spirit
uals, Latin motets and “boogie-
woogie.” They will appear under
the leadership of Herbert Huff
man, founder and director of the
Columbus Boychoir School.
Originally established in Co
lumbus, Ohio, the school opened
its doors in 1940 with 30 students
which has now grown to over 70,
representing all the states and
Canada.
In 1943, one of the large Ameri
can concert agencies became in
terested in the Boychoir and their
enthusiasm led to a New York
debut concert. Also, in the sum
mer of that year, the school open
ed its camp for musica^
Chautauqua, N. Y.
the Boychoir has
cities and appeared^
100 programs '
and television
motion i
A COLUMBUS BOYCHOIR GROUP
estate two miles southwest of
Princeton, N, J., in a cooperative
program with Westminster Choir
College. In addition to thorough
musical training, it offers a com
plete program of elementary edu
cation for grades 4 through 9, and
the boys keep up their scholastic
grades in spite of the fact that
some of them are on tour five out
of nine months. Chara cter devel
opment is stressed, in the belief
that the power of music influences
and strengthens character.
Any parent in'the Sandhills de-j
siring to have his child auditioned
for musical aptitude or good voice,
towards entrance into the Colum
bus Boychoir school, may do so
with the director, immediately af
ter the concert.
Season tickets for admission to
tonight’s concert and three subse
quent concerts in the Music Asso
ciation’s series, are. available at
Barnum Realty Co., 124 N. W.
Broad St., at $6, $9 and $12. Next
concert will be an appearance of
the North Carolina Little Sym
phony in February.
vided by the county.
When bids on the two buildings
were opened recently, school offi
cials found that the district was
about $36,000 short of being able
to let contracts, in spite of the
fact that a number of alternate
plans had been provided in the
invitations to bid. The West
Southern Pines building will be
built largely with State bond is
sue funds.
Board Chairman Howarth and
Supt. Dawson had a busy three
days in seeking a solution to the
problem this week.
On Monday, they went before
the board of county commission
ers, explained the situation and
asked for permission to use for
the |?uilding itself $10,000 that had
been allocated by the commission
ers for equipping the building.
Permission to do this was granted
(see story about commissioners’
meeting elsewhere in today’s
Pilot).
Tuesday night, the school offi-
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‘New Year Baby’
Born On Tuesday
Moore County had to wait un
til 2:01 p. m. Tuesday for its first
1955 baby. A son was born at that
hour to Mr. and Mrs. John Rich
ard Cagle of West End, route, at
Moore County Hospital.
First birth of the new year at
St. Joseph’s Hospital was a son
to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ward
of Southern Pines at 5:50 a. m.
Thursday.
Two babies whose mothers are
from Hoke County were born be
fore the Cagle boy, but they don’t
count in the traditional Moore
County listing.