VOL. 36—NO. 12
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLlJiA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1955
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
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June A. Phillips
Succumbs At 50
In Fayetteville
Local Civic Leader
Taken Ill On Trip,
Passes On Thursday
June Alton Phillips, 50, of 330
■S. Ashe St., died at Highsmith i
Hospital, Fayetteville, Thursday
morning, following a heart attack
near Fayetteville late Wednesday.
Details of his sudden illness
and death, as well as funeral ar
rangements, were lacking as The
Pilot went to press Thursday
afternoon.- It was recalled that he
had suffered a serious iieart at-!
tack several years ago.
An employee of the Carolina
Power and Light Co., for manyi
years, Mr. Phillips was a '
past president of the Southern
Pines Rotary Club and had been I
active in civic affairs. At his I
death he was division personnel
representative for the power firm. |
Mr. Phillips was born in Ran- 1
dolph County May 17, 1904, and
attended Trinity College, now
Duke University. He became con
nected with the Carolina Power
and Light Co. in December, 1929,
in the sales department at Ashe-
boro and later served the com
pany in Sanford. He came to
Southern Pines in November, 1935
as junior industrial representative,
later becoming industrial repre
sentative. On June 16, 1952, he
became division personnel repre
sentative.
The local man maintained a
keen interest in young people and
high school sports and was noted
for his contributions of time and
energy in the upbuilding of the
High School athletic program and
other programs in the interest of
children and young people.
He was on the board of trustees
of the Southern Pines Library for
several years and had served as
treasurer of the organization. He
was a deacon of the Church of
Wide Fellowship and was active
in the work of the church.
According to unverified reports
reaching The Pilot Thursday, Mr.
Phillips 'had been driving near
Fayetteville Wednesday afternoon
when he became ill and drove, or
was taken, to Highsmith Hospital.
Hour of death Thursday was not
known here as The Pilot went to
press.
Mr. Phillips is survived by his
wife and one daughter, Mrs.
Peter Tufts of Pinehurst, the for
mer Peggy Phillips, and one
grandchild.
CHOSEN—Thomas C. Vann, with drum, and Mike Peterson,
with sousaphone, shown with Lynn H. Ledden, director of the
Southern Pines High School band. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Cardy Hoi^se Show
Scheduled Sunday;
Public Is Invited
A schedule of eight classes has
been announced for the Schooling
Horse Show to be held Sunday
.afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
G. Cardy’s Vernon Valley Farm,
■off Bethesda Road, near Southern
Pines.
The show will begin at 1:30 p.
m. The public is invited and there
is no admission charge.
Mr. and Mrs. Cardy, hosts for
the event, said this week that
Gen. Tupper Cole of the Ameri
can Equestrian Horse Show team
has accepted an invitation to ac?
as judge. Dennis Crotty will be
announcer and ringmasters are
to be John C. Goodwin and Percy
Knott. Dr. J. I. Neal will be on
.hand as veterinarian.
The point system of the Sand
hill Horse Show Association will
-prevail in the children’s and
( young peoples’ classes. Under this
. system, cumulative point totals
J are being compiled for a series of
shows during the 1954-’55 season.
Trophies and ribbons provided by
Mr. and Mrs. Cardy will be pre
sented in all events.
The classes are: 1—warm up
jumping, hunters and jumpers;
2—equitation, beginnerc only; 3—
green hunters; performance, 75
per cent and conformation, 25 per
cent; 4—costume lead class, open
to aU: prizes for prettiest, funniest
and most original, with ribbons
Members of Band
Leave Today For
Chapel Hill Event
Thomas C. Vann and Mike
Peterson, 10th grade students,
have been selected to represent
the Southern Pines High School
band in the All-State High School
Band Clinic, East Central divi
sion, to be held at Chapel Hill
today (Friday) and, Saturday.
The boys will go to Chapel Hill
Friday morning and spend two
days there playing in rehearsals,
with about 100 other ycung musi
cians representing high school
bands of the division.
They will rehearse sectional
and group numbers, then on Sat
urday will be combined into one
giant band under direction of a
distinguished guest conductor.
That night, each wearing the uni
form of his own school band, they
will be heard in a public concert
at Hill Hall.
Director Lynn H. Ledden, as a
member of the N. C. Bandmasters
Association, co-sponsor of the
clinic with the music department
of the University of North Caro
lina, was asked to submit a list
of 10 of his band members ad
judged most worthy of the honor.
From this list two were chosen
according to tl\e instrumentation
needs of the aggregate band.
From the Aberdeen High
Schcol band, which Mr. Ledden
also directs, Mike Lewis and Bill
Taylor were selected.
Tom Vann, who plays the drum,
is the son of Mrs. T. C. Vann of
455 South Ashe Street. Mike
Peterson, who plays the sousa-
phcne, is the son of Mrs. Chris
Wright of 970 South Bennett.
Of the Aberdeen students, Mike
Lewis plays the trumpet and Bill
Taylor the clarinet.
50-Unit Parade
Slated Saturday
For Scout Week ^
Marking Moore County’s ob
servance of National Boy Scout
Week, February 6-12, a parade
with some 50 units, including five
bands, will be- held in Southern
Pines, starting at 2 p. m. Satur
day.
The parade will form near the
schools on Massachusetts Ave..
east of May St. (No. 1 highway),
and will go- west on Massachu
setts to S. E. Broad St., and north
on "Broad to Connecticut Ave.,
crossing the railroad there and
proceeding south on W. Broad St.
and east on Massachusetts to- dis
band at the point of beginning.
Bands taking part are the or
ganizations of Southern Pines and
West Southern Pines schools and
the Negro school bands from
Aberdeen and Carthage. The
82nd Airborne Division band
from Fort Bragg will have a posi
tion about in the center of the
parade (not listed in unit line-up
given below).
White and Negro Scout troops.
Cub packs and Explorer posts
from throughout the county will
march, accompanied by units and
equipment of veterans’ and other
organizations, new car and farm
machinery dealers and others.
Two hc-rses will accompany
Explorer Post 936 of Carthage,
packed with camping gear, and
other horses will be ridden by
Miss Jean Safford, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Safford,
and by Del Cameron of Octave
Blake’s Pinehurst stables.
Order of March
Here is the line-yp of parade
units announced this week by the
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' J. A. Barber, Jr.,
College Student,
I Fatally Stricken
I Scholarship Holder,
I I Prize Winner, Dies
On Thursday Morning
James A. Barber, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Barber of N. Ashe
St., died suddenly Thursday morn-
!ing at ^tate College, Raleigh,
where he was a freshman student.
As the Pilot went to press'
Thursday afternoon details could
not be learned and funeral ar
rangements were incomplete.
The local young man was a 1954
graduate of Southern Pines High
school where his scholastic record
and other qualifications earned
for him a $2,000 scholarship at
State College. He began his stud
ies there last fall, planning to en
ter the field of engineering.
At the 1954 High School com
mencement ceremonies, “Jimmy”
Barber was given the James S.
Milliken Memorial Award as the
“best all-round senior student.”
I At that time, he was 17 years old.
iln addition, to his high scholastic
standing, which it is understood
he maintained at State College,
the young man was active in the
athletic program of the school. He
was well-liked and respected by
both students and faculty mem
bers.
The young man’s father is a ci
vilian employee at Fort Bragg and
his mother has been working as a
waitress at Hamel’s Restaurant.
Before moving to Southern
Pines about two years ago, the
family lived near Vass and Jimmy
attended Vass-Lakeview High
School for two and a half years
before transferring to the South
ern Pines School. At Vass-Lake
view, he was president of the Beta
Club, scholastic honor society, and
of the Junior classj
Surviving, in addition to his
parents, is a younger brother,
Donald.
Kiwanis Gives $1,000 To Hospital Fund
John Ponzer, of Southern
Pines, treasurer of the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club (right)
hands Jack M. Taylor of Aber
deen a check for $1,000 from
the club for the Moore Coun
ty Hospital building fund, at
the regular meeting of the
club Wednesday. Mr. Taylor,
president of Moore County
Hospit2Ll, is also president of
the Kiwanis Club. Member
ship in the organization is
county-wide. The hospitsil
seeks over $100,000, to be
matched by some $200,000 in
state and federal funds, for
additions and improvements
at the institution. The drive
began after Mr. and Mrs. H.
Arnold Jackson of Pinehurst
gave $50,000 for a new emer
gency suite. Since then over
$25,000 more has been sub
scribed. (Photo by Humphrey)
Appcfals Made For
Public Support In
EducationProgram
Programs outlining the legisla
tive program of the United Forces
for Education in North Carolina
were presented to two civic clubs
this week.
Speaking to the Rotary Club
last Friday, was W. A. Leonard of
the Southern Pines High School
faculty, while Mrs. John L. Frye
of Robbins, former teacher now
active in one of the supporting or
ganizations, the N. C. Federation
of Women’s Clubs, spoke to the
Sandhills Kiwanis- Club on Wed
nesday.
The legislative program, to be
presented to the General Assem
bly now in session, was described
against the background of 61,000
absences per day in North Caro
lina schools and the fact that
45,000 students drop out of school
each year.
Both speakers called North Car
olina’s children the state’s great
est resource and cited the pro
gram for improvement of the
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OLD FOLKS HAPPIER. GET BETTER CARE
Boarding Home System Brings Improvements
By KATHARINE BOYD 15 patients by the state last fall
I (before the new regulation
Two questions come home to j against two-story homes came
roost, so to speak, on the Pilot into effect), and was opened No
desk: one is; “Now that the Coun-, __ I
. TT 1. 1.* 1 J u i u Gibson Home
ty Home has been closed, what has
Mrs. Gibson and her two adopt
ed daughters live on the second
floor, with the first floor fe-
Gibson in West End
Mrs. Gibson is a former practi
cal nurse who has taken board
ers, for some time, in the house
to all; 5—working hunters (out- she rents in West End. This is a
big two-story frame building
happened to those old people?”
The other one is: “What is hap
pening to the old Home building gepYe^j fo-p the boarders. These in ,
and are there any plans for it?’| dude, at the present time, four'
To take up the first question: ^.j^e former County Home in-
The inmates of the old County | mates, the two bedridden old I
Home have been moved into|men, Mr. O. and Mr. Y., the
three privately operated boarding younger man, Mr. C., and Mrs.|
homes in the county. The largest ]y[^ mentally deranged. Of twoi
of these, (with a fourth, still larg-1 other mental casesi, with Mrs.
er, in process of opening) is the Gibson previous to this arrange-
boarding home of Mrs. Mamie ment,, one is now in the hospital.
There is one full-pay private
boarder.
Pilot readers.
side course);
horsemanship;
-and out
R—intermediate
7—knock down
who recall the
first article carried by this news
paper on the County Home, in
frame building j which the deplorable condition
owned by the Markham and i of the inmates was described, will
Lewis estate. It was licensed for I understand the interest with
which this writer’s recent visit to
see the old people was made. How
would they be? Were they still
lying in their beds alone, silent,
listless, eyes closed or gazing
emptily ahead? Would their
rooms be cold, as before? What
would be their condition?
The door to the big house,
standing back from West End’s
busy crossroad, was opened by
Mrs. Gibson in a fresh white
dress with an apron over it. She
greeted us warmly and took us,
without more ado, into the large
bedrocm to see our two old
friends.
They were still in their beds,
but there the sameness ended.
The room was full of sunlight,
there were gay curtains at the
windows, the beds, one in each
corner, were fresh and clean.
There was an oil stove in the
room and it was warm, almost too
warm for odtsiders but just right,
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Mayor Names Group To Study
Need For New Towu Registration
Lot Cleaning
Law Approved
By Council
A committee was appointed by
Mayor L. T. Clark at the town
council meeting Tuesday night to
investigate the condition of the
municipal registration books,
make recommendations as to a re
registration of local voters and
check on whether there are any
legally allowable more efficient
systems of registration than by
the book form. The committee is
empowered to recommend to the
j council any legislation that might
jbe called for on these matters.
I On thq Committee are Gouncil-
! man Voit Gilmore, Town Attor-
jney W. Lamont Brown and Mrs.
j Russell Simons, representing the
j League of Women Voters, seven
of whose members were at this
week’s council meeting. Mrs.
Simons said that bringing the
town registration books up to date
is a major project of the League.
She said that the League’s check
of the books would indicate that a
new registration would be in or
der. The committee will report
at the March council meeting. The
town election is in May. The
committee will welcome com
ments which should be sent to
Mr. Gilmore. .
I Hospit2Ll, is also president of $25,000 more has been sub- Mrs. Frank Kaylor, who has
served previously as registrar for
town elections without a formal
appointment for a stated length
of time was named registrar by
the council for the period 1954-56,
corresponding with her appoint
ment term by the‘county as regis
trar for Southern Pines voting
precinct.
Zoning Action
In the absence of any protests,
the council amended the town
zoning ordinance to include in the
business district the entire block
on the east side of Bennett Street,
between New Hampshire and
Connecticut Aves., and the entire
block on the south side of Connec
ticut Ave., between Rennett and
Broad Sts. A portion of each of
these blocks had previously been
in the business district. The ac
tion was recommended by the
Zoning Board and the proposal
had been advertised.
Lot Cleaning Law
The council approved the ordi
nance requiring removal of weeds
and trash from lots within the
town limits. The law ' requires
that weeds and grass be cut down
to within four inches of the
ground at least twice a year—not
later than June 15 and not later
than September 15, or as often as
necessary to keep the growth un
der a height of 12 inches.
The ordinance gives the town
authority to make a special assess
ment against property which is
not cleaned off after due notice is
given to property owners by the
town, the assessment to be includ
ed in the next tax against the
property. Notice of the special
assessment must be published and
personal notice of it must be serv
ed by registered letter from the
city manager.
Other Actions
The council also:
Authorized the city manager to
invest temporarily in federally in
sured securities a sum of the
town’s general and debt service
funds not to exceed $50,000, rais
ing the amount from a previous
authorization to invest up to
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Irie Leonard Is
Recreation Head;
Conunittee Named
Organization of the local recre
ation program as part of the town
government, rather than a prl
vately administered commission
set-up, preceded this week with
appointment by City Manager
Tom E. Cunningham of Irie Leon
ard as recreation director, and
appointment by Mayor L. T.
Clark of 10 members of a recrea
tion advisory committee.
The committee members,
whose names were announced by
the mayor at the town council
meeting Tuesday night, are: the
Rev. C. K. Ligon, C. P. Cole, Mrs.
S. O. Nicholson, Carl E. Holt, Mrs.
Joe Mar ley, Jerry Healy, Wlalter
Harper, Mrs. Chris Shamburger,
T. R. Goins and the Rev. Hoke
Coon.
Mayor Clark said that he had
asked a number of civic leaders
to submit lists of suggested names
for the committee to him and that
he had been guided in his ap
pointments by these lists and also
by an effort to achieve represen
tation for all parts of town and
for various interested organiza
tions such as civic clubs, Parent-
Teacher Association and others.
Mr. Leonard, who is principal
of Southern Pines High School,
has served previously as director
of the summer recreation pro
gram here.
Aberdeen Games
Slated Tonight
The Blue Knights and girls of
Southern Pines High School go
to Aberdeen tonight (Friday) for
their second basketball games of
the season with the Red Devils
and Devilettes who defeated the
local teams in the annual classics
played here January 21 before
more than 1,000 persons. Aber
deen boys won, 59-51 and the
girls, 59-54.
Two games next week , will
wind up the regular season for
the local teams—with Carthage
here Monday night and with
Pinehurst at Pinehurst Wednes
day night.
LIBRARY MEETING
Members of the Southern Pines
Library Association are reminded
that the annual meeting of the
association will be held at the
library at 4:30 p. m. Tuesday.
Names of officers and trustees to
be elected will be submitted by a
nominating committee appointed
at a recent meeting 6f the board
of directors.
Privilege Street
Parking Places To
Be Discontinued
By a 4-1 vote at their regular
meeting Tuesday night, the town
council directed Town Manager
Tom E. Cunningham to have
privilege parking places—cur
rently assigned to a number of
physicians and to the Red Cross—
removed from the streets of
Southern Pines.
The action followed a report
‘from Town Attorney W. Lamont
Brown who said that a letter
from the office of Harry McMul-
lan, N. C. attorney general, indi
cated that designation of such
special parking places in the
name of an individual would be
unconstitutional.
While there does not exist a
Supreme Court decision on this
specific matter, Mr. Brown said
the attorney general’s letter cited
two cases involving private en*
croachments on public streets, in
one of which it was cited that an
“entire street, from side to side
and end to end belongs to the
public.”
The question seems to be
whether privilege parking spaces
benefit the privileged user or the
public, Mr. Brown explained. As
used in Southern Pines and in the
light of a downtown parking
prjiblem, the privilege spaces
exist more for the benefit of the
individual than for the public,
the council thinks.
The action does not abolish
loading zones which the council
appears to view as more for- the
benefit of ^he public than for the
individual. Under this view, any
body can park in a leading zone.
Cunningham said police officers
do not tag cars in loading zones,
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Hunter Trials February 19
Promise Leading Horse Event
The horse life of the Sandhills
swings into full stride next week
with , the twenty-third annual
Hunter Trials at 2 p.m., Saturday,
February 19.
To be Held, as usual, on the
Scott Farm, (beyond Notre Dame
Academy on Young’s Road) this
picturesque eyent is expected to
include most of Moore County’s
best horses and riders, as well as
entries from many other sections.
The Moore County Hounds will
parade to open the event, and
there will be a short drag, or “fol-
low-the-leader,” over the trials
course later in the day. Master
and Huntsman, Ozelle Moss, will
be on hand with the full hunt
staff of the Moore County
Hounds.
Robert Fairbum, MFH of the
Spring Valley Hunt, Mendham, N.
J., will be. the judge.
Classes for open hunters,
weight classes, classes for work
ing hunters, green hunters, hunt
teams in livery and other fea
tures figure on the varied pro
gram.
’This event, always attracting
a large audience, may be viewed
from the hilltop at the start of
the course. Parking spaces in this
area are on sale and may be ob
tained by telephoning the hunt
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