VOL. 36—NO. 20
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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 1955
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Easter Holiday To
Be Marked; Many
Services Planned
Seven Pastors Will
Take Part In Good
Friday Rites Today
With observance of Easter in
Southern Pines centered on religi
ous services, the town will take a
general holiday Monday when
most stores and offices will be
closed. The Citizens Bank and
Trust Co. and other banks of this
area will close Monday.
The post office, however, will
follow its regular schedule Mon
day, with home delivery of mail
and windows open for the usual
hours.
Town offices will be closed and
there will be no garbage collection
on that day. The Monday garbage
schedule will be followed on Tues
day.
The courthouse at Carthage will
be closed Monday and there will
be no session of recorders court.
Court will convene on Tuesday.
Religious rites of the Easter pe
riod were to begin Thursday with
Maundy Thursday communion
services at 8 p.m. in the Church of
Wide Fellowship and Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, in observance
of the anniversary of the institu
tion of the Last Supper.
Seven ministers will take part
in a Good Friday service from
noon to 3 p.m. at Emmanuel Epis
copal Church. Those attending
may arrive or leave during musi
cal interludes. The junior choir
of the church will sing.
Taking part and each speaking
on one of the seven words spok-
ejj by Christ from the Cross, will
be; the Rev. C. V. Covell, rector
of Emmanuel Church; the Rev.
Jarnes Benjamin of Jackson
Springs Presbyterian Church; Dr.
T. A. Cheatham, rector emeritus
Of the Village Chapel, Pinehurst;
the Rev. Hogan Yancey, of West
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Cancer Crusade In
County, S. Pines
Is Now Under Way
For the seventh successive
year, David Ginsburg is serving
as campaign chairman for the
Moore County Unit of the North
Carolina Division of the Ameri
can Cancer Society. Mr. Ginsburg
a business leader from Carthage
has been a volunteer for the unit
since 1942.
Mrs. J. S. Milliken, a veteran
volunteer in cancer crusades, will
again head the Sojdthern Pines
campaign.
Mrs. Milliken said that she will
send out appeal letters in South
ern Pines this weekend. Persons
who wish to contribute and who
do not receive letters are asked
to send checks to the local chair
man at Box 55, Southern Pines.
The aim of the program in the
Moore County unit is twofold:
cancer control and relief of suf
fering. The mone^y that is allotted
to the County for local spending
is divided between these two pro
jects. As a result of the education
program, since last April about
150 white people have attended
the Detection Center at Watt’s
hospital in Durham and 135 col
ored people have gone to the De
fection Center at Lincoln hospi
tal. Equally as many have gone
to local doctors, 'fhose attending
the Detection Centers are refer
red by letter to their local'physi
cians. This arrangement has the
approval of the Moore County
Medical Society.
Pair of Winners from Sandhills
Repose (top. photo), cocks his ears as Mrs. M. G. Walsh of
Southern Pines, owner, receives the Carolina Cup from Lt. Gov.
Ernest F. HoUings of South Carolina. At left is Mrs. Walsh’s
daughter, Mrs. Kathleen Healy. In lower photo, Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon G. Cardy of Southern Pines smile as they look over Mrs.
Cardy’s Cammell Laird, with Jockey A. P. Smithwick in the sad
dle, after the local horse won the Springdale Cup, one of the
events at Camden. (Photos by Humphrey)
Repose Takes Carolina Cup At Camden
In 5:38, Breaking Record For Event
Walsh-Trained Horses
Win Five of Seven
Races Last Saturday
Repose, 11-year-cld bay gelding
owned by Mrs. M. G. Walsh of
Southern Pines, closed with a
rush on the home stretch at Cam
den, S. C., Saturday, to beat out
stablemate Erin’s Cottage and win
FIREMEN'S BALL
One of Ihe most popular
annual events of the spring
season is scheduled for Tues
day night when the 22nd
Annual Firemen's Ball, for
benetfit of the Southern Pines
Volunteer Fire Department,
will be held at the Country
Club.
Fcx couples only, the dance
will last from 9 to 1 and will
feature the music of Carl
Helms and his orchestra.
Tickets may be obtained from
any member of the fire de
partment.
4 More Council Candidates File
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Four more candidates filed for
the town council election during
the past week, bringing to eight
the total number who have signi
fied their intention to run.
In the order of their filing, this
week’s candidates are: D. G.
Stutz, 180 N. Ashe St., Seaboard
Air Line freight agent who is a
veteran of local politics and serv
ed a num:ber of terms as mayor.
Voit Gilmore, 700 E. Indiana
Ave., a member of the present
council and lumber firm execu
tive.
Mrs. B. M. (Bunny) Harrington
proprietor of the Southland Hotel,
who said that she filed at the re
quest of a number of friends who
want to see a woman on the tick
et.
Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher of
Knollwood, retired Army officer.
Candidates who had previously
filed are; W. E. Blua, present
member of the council; Harry H.
Pethick, Harry W. Chatfield, Jr.
and T. T. Morse of West Southern
Pines.
Filing time will run through 6
p. m. April 15. If more than 10
candidates file, a primary will be
conducted April 25. The election
is set for May 3.
Incumbent C. S. Patch, Jr., has
announced that he will not run
Members of the council who have
not yet indicated their intentions
are Mayor L. T. Clark and Joe
O’Callaghan.
the 21st running of the prized
Carolina Cup steeplechase and set
a new record doing it.
It was the fastest Carolina Cup
ever run, Repose’s time of 5:38
breaking the old record of 5:41 1-5
set in 1935 by Paul Mellon’s Drin-
m.ore Lad.
It was the fourth victory in this
big event, second on the United
Hunt program of the season, for
Trainer M. G. (Mickey) Walsh of
Southern Pines. He won in 1951
and 1952 with Gift of Gold and
last year Repose turned the trick.
Repose was in even better form
today, although his stablemate
gave him a great battle.
Walsh Day
All in all, it was a great day
for the Walshes. Their Tippy Do
won the first race, the Wateree;
Another Hyacinth, owned by
Charles W. Stitzer of Southern
Pines and Walsh-trained, took the
second, the Camden Plate; their
Basilia captured the third, the
Midwest; and then Repose made
it four 'straight in the feature.
And Cammell Laird, own
ed by Mrs. Vernon G. Car
dy of Southern Pines and
trained by Walsh, won the
Springdale Cup. This made it five
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Music Group To
Elect Officers
Officers and directors of the
Sandhill Music Association will be
elected at the annual meeting of
the organization (to be held at the
Southern Pines Library at 8 p. m
Tuesday. The meeting was an
nounced by Lawrence Johnson of
Aberdeen, president.
Members of the nominating
committee are Mrs. Ralph Chand
ler, Jr., Dr. William Peck and Bert
Premo. The association budget
and programs for the 1955-56 sea
son will be discussed.
Amerotron Head
Gives Press Look
At Coming Events
Fashion Leaders' Visit,
Local Job Openings
Highlights of Meeting
The Amerotron Ccmpany is
planning to consolidate all admin
istration and accounting, for its
four plants in this area, in Aber
deen.
The announcement was made
by J. R. Huffines, Jr., president
of the company, at a luncheon
meeting, with the press of the
area as guests, held at the Pine
hurst Country Club 'Tuesday.
Mr. Huffines said that the pro
posed consolidation of the Rob
bins, Raefcrd, Red Springs, and
Aberdeen departments will mean
the creation of some 50 job open
ings here in the clerical field. It
is hoped, he said, that these can
be filled locally.
Work has already started on
the office addition to the present
Aberdeen plant and is expected
to be completed by June 1.
Also under construction is a
$25,000 addition to the Raeford
mill to make room for some new
equipment, 36 Jacquard tooms,
recently purchased. Of brand new
design/ the looms turn out ma
terial of an elaborately patterned
effect, reminiscent of the familiar
Jacquard print silk” much in use
for lining material and women’s
dress goods.
Fashion Leaders Invited
A seocnd announcement, this of
special interest to the women
present, was that Amerotron is
expecting so^ of the leading
fashion editors of the nation to
visit the four Carolina plants,
next Tuesday.
In the belief that women only
need to hear more about the new
synthetic materials now being
manufactured in these parts to
go for them in a big way, the
mpany has invited the fashion
editors of Vogue, Harper’s Ba
zaar, Mademoiselle, and a score
of other leading women’s maga
zines, to spend a day here. The
visitors will arrive Tuesday
morning, Mr. Huffines said, and
tour the fcur plants during the
day, being entertained socially
by plant officials before taking
the night train north.
Present at Tuesday’s luncheon
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Pro;^ress Made In Effort To Keep
USAF Air-Ground School At Inn
2nd Conference
At Pentagon Is
Termed Hopeful
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THE REAL THING—National Guardsmen from this area were
“checked out” on tanks recently in a class conducted by a unit of
the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. On the tank are Sgt.
Pete Rapatas of Southern Pines (left) and Sgt. Daniel A. O’Quinn
of Eagle Springs (head just visible). .
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Guard Awaits Call
Much More Needed
In Seal Campaign
Only $173 toward a goal of $500
had been collected this week in
the locad Easter Seal sale, reports
Mrs. W. P. Davis who, with Mrs.
Harry Pethick, is co-chairman for
the sale here.
Mrs. Davis said that seven
Senior Girl Scouts will be selling
Easter lily pins on the streets in
Southern Pines Saturday morn
ing. She urged that persons who
have received seals in the mail
return their contributions, as the
sale ends on Easter.
There are handicapped children
in Moore County who will not be
able to get the care they need if
the seal sale quotas are not met,
points out Miss Blanche Monroe
of West End, seal sale chairman
for the Moore County chapter of
the North Carolina Society for
Crippled Children and Adults.
Methodists Buy
Lot For Church
On Midland Road
Trustees of the Southern Pines
Methodist Church announced this
week that the church has bought
four and a half acres on Midland
Road as site for a new church
building.
The tract, purchased from Mrs.
Verdie Caddell Ferguson of
Greensboro, fronts on the north
east side of Midland Road, on the
curve not far beyond the point
where Midland Road begins as an
extension of N. W. Broad St.
T. T. Hayes of the local Hayes
and Marshall architectural firm,
is preparing plans for the struc
ture and it is hoped that construc
tion can begin about June 1.
Negotiations for acquisition of
the tract were completed last
week-end. The church, with the
Rev. Robert Bame as pastor, is
now holding services in the Civic
Club.
Members of the board of trus
tees are Richard W. Boaz, Dr. J. S.
Hiatt, Jr., and Dr. Malcolm Kemp.
Vernon Maness is chairman of the
building fund committee and Karl
Bridges is the committee treasur
er.
Gymkhana, Parade
Set At Pinehurst
The annual Easter Gymkhana
and Costume Parade will begin
at 1:45 p. m. Saturday in the Car
olina Hotel riding ring.
Prizes will be given for pret
tiest, funniest, and most original
ocstumes in the parade. Classes
in the gymkhana will include;
Beginner’s Horsemanship, Musi
cal Stalls, Intermediate Horse
manship, Easter Egg and Spoon
Race and Advanced Horseman
ship.
Trophies for the entire year,
computed on the point system,
will be presented, together with
championship and reserve ribbons
tO' winners.
For Nation-Wide
Testing Exercise
The National Guard Bureau
and the Department of Defense
have announced a surprise mobil
ization, known as “Operation
Minuteman,” to test all units of
the National Guard “siometime
after the first of April.”
'The test alert wili Originate
from the Pentagon, and will mo
bilize almost 409,000 Guardsmen
in units in every state, the Dis
trict of Colurnbia, Alaska, Hawaii
and Puerto Rico. Object of the
test is tO' demonstrate the speed
and efficiency with which the
Army and Air National Guard
can be pressed into active service
in the event of a national emer
gency. Also, the test will give the
American public a chance to see
their Natioiial Guard in training.
Captain Willim J. Wilson of
Southern Pines, commanding of
ficer lof Moore County’s National
Guard tank company, said this
week that the local unit was
ready and anxious to participate
in the alert.
“We have always had, as part
of our regular training, a plan for
rapid mobilization in the event
of an emergency,” said Wilson
“This test will be our first chance
to try out our Alert Plan and to
show the people of Moore County
how quickly we can respond to
an emergency.”
Captain Wilson also asked that
everyone note that this will be
only a practice, designed to test
the efficiency of the Guard in the
event of a real disaster or emer
gency.
Exacl Dale Secret
The best information available
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FIDDLERS CONVENTION
A fiddlers convention and
square dance sponsored by Sand
hill Post, American Legion, will
be held at the Legion haU on
Maine Ave. Easter Monday at 8
n. m. The public is invited.
Reduction Ordered In Residence Phone Rates
Because of an order by the
State Utilities Commission at Ra
leigh Tuesday, the bills of resi
dential telephone subscribers at
Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Car
thage, Robbins, Vass and adjoin
ing areas served by the United
Telephone Company will be cut
50 cents per month, starting
Monday.
’The same order applies in oth
er qcmmunities served by the
company in North Carolina.
The Commission ruled that
United "Telephone Company is
charging approximately $50,000 a
year too much and ordered it to
cut residential subscribers’ bills
50 cents a mouth.
A careful examination of the
company’s books and records
showed, the Commission report
ed, that United’s present rates are
“resulting in a rate of return in
excess of .that deemed fair and
reasonable.”
The reduction will take effect
starting April 11 and will remain
in effect, the Commission said,
until “financial operating results
warrant further revision's.”
United Telephone is known of
ficially as “United Telephone
Company of the Carolinas, Inc.”
Before June, 1953, it was known
as Central Carolina Telephone
Company. It is owned by a mid-
western holding company. United
Utilities, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo.
United Telephone has its North
Carolina headquarters at South
ern Pines and serves Angier, Gib-
scnville, Bonlee, Marshville, Nor
wood, Pittsbcro, Robbins, Vass
Goldston, Carthage, Fuquay-Va-
rina, Kernersville, Siler City
Southern Pines and Pinehurst and
several communities in South
Carolina. Including both business
and residential subscribers, it has
9,733 customers.
During 1953, United Telephone
had one of the highest rates of
return listed by a North Caro
lina public utility—a return of
8.88 per cent on an average net
North Carolina investment of $2,-
342.127.
Its operating revenues for 1953
totaled $1,194,375.20. After de
ducting all expenses and taxes, it
had a net income of $208,164. A
large part of the profit, $63,105
went ^0 United Utilities as
dividends on stock. The payments
averaged $35 per $100 share. The
balance went for fixed charges
and surplus.
’The Commission said it was
assigning the reduction to resi
dential exchange rates because
“the present differential between
business and residential rates
does not fairly represent the dif
ference in value of the respective
services.”
W. Lament Brown, chairman
of a citizens’ ocmmittee that is
working to keep the USAF Air-
Ground Operations School at the
Highland Pines Inn, returned
from Washington, D. C., Thursday
morning to report to a meeting of
interested persons Thursday
afternoon that a local delegation
had been received “cordially and
cooperatively” at the Pentagon
Wednesday.
Mayer L. T. Clark, a member
of the delegation, said he thinks
“real progress” was made at a
conference with Franklin G. Flo-
ete, assistant secretary of defense,
and his aides on Wednesday.
Going to Washington from
Southern Pines were Brown.
Clark, George H. Leonard, Jr.,
vice-president of the Chamber of
Commerce; and Jack Younts, a
director of the Chamber of Com
merce. The group was'joined in
Washington by John Lang of Car
thage, administrative assistant to
Congressman C. B. Deana
Under discussion was a propos
al that funds raised locally be
added to government funds to
buy the Highland Pines Inn for
government use. The plan was
initiated when the Air-Ground
Operations School, like other gov-
ernmerA^nstallations over the na
tion, last*fall was ordered to move
to a government-owned site—in
this case Keesler Air Force Base,
Biloxi, Miss.
If the Highland Pines Inn be-
eemes government property, ac
cording to- the reasoning behind
the current effort, the school
would not have to move'.
The school has a $90,000 per
month payroll. Its lease at the
Highland Pines Inn expires June
30.
, While the exact terms of the
nroposal made to Secretary Floete
have not been revealed. Brown
said Thursday that the local men
were informed that if the propo
sition made Wednesday is not
considered economically feasible
by the government, they will be
notified immediately and given
an opportunity to come back with
another proposal.
If the government does decide
the proposal is economically fea
sible, the government’s share of
the purchase price to the Stitzer
Hotel Co., present owners, would
be included in an amendment to
the Military Public Works bill to
be presented to Congress.
Secretary Floete told the local
delegation. Brown said, that
work on buildings for the Air-
Ground School at Keesler Air
Force Base had been stopped on
February 19, after his first confer
ence with a Southern Pines dele
gation.
With Secretary Floete at the
conference was Henry Pike, a for
mer resident of Tarbero and now
attorney assigned to the assistant
secretary’s office, as well as two
assistants.
1710 local men had lunch with
the assistant secretary in a pri
vate dining room at the Pentagon
and reported that throughout
their conference they were hos
pitably and pleasantly received.
The proposal discussed at the
Pentagon includes a provision that
the school would revert to com
munity ownership if the govern
ment ceases to use it—after a rea
sonable waiting period which the
local delegation said should not be
more than six months.
Persons contributing to the fund
that would go into the purchase
price would receive shares of
stock in a corporation to whose
ownership the property would re
vert, according to tentative plan
ning by the citizens committee.
TAX OFFICE HOURS
’The Internal Revenue of
fice in the basement of the
post office will be open Mon
day through Friday, 8:30 a. m.
to 5:15 p. ml, Earl E. Hub
bard, local representative,
said this week. There will be
no Saturday hours, but on
Friday, April 15—deadline
for filing Federal income tsuc
returns —< the office will be
open until 8 p. m.