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SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1955
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
USAFACOS-Town
Group Confer On
Mutual Problems
Cooperation Asked
In Setting Up
File On Housing
Both staffmen and students of
the USAF Air-Ground school
want to know Southern Pines bet
ter, enjoy its events more—and
particularly, many, of the staff,
both officers and airmen, want
to find homes here for their fami
lies and are having a hard time
doing so.
Any real estate dealer or pri
vate individual having a home or
apartment for rent, or knowing of
one, is asked to phone the Billet
ing Department at the Air-Ground
school. A card file is to be set up
there, and every effort, made to
bring renter and landlord togeth
er, to the satisfaction of botji.
These were some of the prob
lems discussed, with one solution
reached, at a meeting of mem
bers of a local committee with
members of the school staff at
Highland Pines Inn Wednesday
afternoon.
Lt. Col. J. J. Daunt, Jr., new
executive officer, led the meet
ing for the Air-Ground School
staff. W. Lamont Brown, chair
man of the local committee which
worked to keep the school here
during the past few months, con
tinued as chairman of the com
mittee, in its new form to secure which has become the biggest
Horseless Carriage Tour Reaches Town For Week-End
Softball League
Playoffs Will
Begin Next Week
The Adult Softball League,
improved relations between the
school and community.
Others of the' military attending
the meeting were Col. A. K.
Clark, deputy commandant; Ma
jor Allan Shaw, squadron com
mander; Capt. Albert R. Howarth;
school adjutant; Capt. Dave Cal
laway, food service and transpor
tation officer; and Lt. William J.
Ryan, squadron adjutant, person
nel officer, and past billeting of
ficer.
Members of the community, be
sides Chairman Brown, were L.
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Judge Susie Coming
The August criminal term
has been set back from the
week of August 8 to August
15—and Judge Susie Sharp is
coming at last.
The lady jurist was sched
uled to come to Moore for a
special term of superior court
two years ago, but the term
was called off and she did not
come. Her visit of next
month will be her first to
Moore county.
Resident Judge F. Don
Phillips was slated to preside
over the August term, but
will be on vacation and
Special Judge Sharp has been
assigned to the job in his
place.
V The one week’s postpone
ment was made at the in
stance of District Solicitor M.
G. Boyette, as in the setting
up of a completely new
schedule foUowing the judi
cial redistricting of July 1,
the Moor,e term was found to
be in conflict with one in
Richmond county.
feature cf the summer recreation
program, is heading into the final
stretch. Regularly scheduled
games end Tuesday night, with
Shaughnessy pfayoffs starting
Wednesday—doubleheaders all.
The series—^made possible by
the spcrtlights installed by the
community last September—^has
been dravvihg close to 1,000 sp('c-
tators per game. Those of t.ie
week just past were no exception.
Collections taken up at the
games have been averaging about
$16 per game, it was learned this
week from Irie Leonard, League
manager. Total proceeds will be
applied on the purchase cf ncv,
bleachers.
Last Thursday, the Hill Top
Jokers edged past the Colonial
Furniture Co. 18 to 16, and the
Air-Ground School mauled the
CP&L 13 to 10, to maintain their
top standing in the League.
Tuesday night Hollidays Chicks
phnished the Cathc&ic Laymen
11 to 5, to move from third into
second place. The program fea
tured also an exhibition game by
two ladies’ teams, with Mrs.
Woodell’s All-Stars 'beating the
Hill Top Jokerettes 11 to 5.
Tonight and next Tuesday
night, games rained out earlier
will be made up, ending the reg
ular series. Tonight’s doublehead
er will be Holliday’s Chicks vs.
Air-Ground School, and Colonial
Furniture vs. Lions Club.
STANDINGS
Team
W.
L.
Pet.
USAFAGOS
5
0
1.000
Hollidays Chicks
?
1
.750
Cath. Laymen
3
2
.667
Hill Top Jokers
3
2
.667
CP&L Co.
2
4
.333
Colonial Furn
1
4
.200
Lions Club
0
4
.000
Straight out of the year 1911, the Jack Southerlands of High
Point are greeted at the city limits by Harold Collins, left, and E.
Nolley Jackson, right, for the Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor
Voit Gilmore for the town. The 1911 Maxwell won the trophy for
best two-cylinder car. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Strange Procession Out Of Yesterday
Chugs Into Heart Of Southern Pines
DRIVE CHAIRMAN
A strange procession wended
I its way down US Highway 1 last
Friday afternoon, into Southern
IPines and straight into the heart
,'of this community, yf. '4 ' ■
j It was' a prdcession of cars ana
: people which came—at the dizzy
speed of 20 miles per hour—out
of many yesterdays, trailing an
aura of nostalgia like the veils
which fluttered from the ladies’
hats..
This was the caravan of the
Carolina Regional Group, ending
Uhe best and biggest of its annual
I tours at Southern Pines, with a
'festival weekend in view.
Crowds had lined the roads,
towns had turned cut for them,
mayors had presented,them with
the keys to the city all along the
two-day tour from High Point via
Danville. In Southern Pines, there
was quite a turnout; the' people’s
eyes popped, their smiles widened
and hundreds followed the pro-
cessioon right to the parking area,
on the town athletic field.
All weekend long, until the
vintage vehicles went chuggidg
homeward Sunday, the curious
and delighted hung about the ball
park.
65 In Caravan
At the northern town limits
Friday, the caravan was greeted
by Mayer Gilmore, also by E.
Nolley Jackson and Harold Col
lins, who headed the Chamber of
Commerce committee on arrange
ments. A police escort guided the
DR. C. C. McLEAN
McLean Will Head
Boy Scout Fund
Drive In October
Dr. C. C. McLean, local veter
inarian, has been appointed Fund
Drive chairman for the Moore
district. Boy Scouts, in the annual
campaign to be held in October, _
according to announcement made | old cars—dating back from 1929
this week by Brig. Gen. Pearson'to 1903—to the ball park.
Mrs. Boyd Enjoys Home Life Among
Pleasant, Hospitable Folk of France
In last week’s Pilot, a letter
from Mrs. James Boyd, editor
of this newspaper, who is
travelliiig in Europe with
friends, told of her stay at the
Chateau de Chaban, near St.
Leon sur Vezere in the Dor
dogne region of France where
there are said to be more ■
than a thousand chateaux,
largely owned by residents of
French cities who spend their
summers in this isolated and
somewhat primitive region,
enjoying the simple pleasures
its country life affords. Mrs.
Boyd herewith writes more
about her visit in the Dor
dogne.)
It was a rare experience stay
ing at Chaban. One had a chance
to feel the real life of the French
people and to get the feel of the
country.
The French people are appar
ently not given to hospitality in
the way of the British or Ameri
cans. They do not go in for guests
and are apt, I’m told, to do their
entertaining at restaurants; ex
cept, presumably, for the very
wealthy who seem to lead much
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Menoher, chairman of the Moore
District committee.
Dr. McLean has headed the dis-
There were 65 of tjiem, bearing
almost-forgotten names of such
makes as Reo, Marmon, Maxwell,
trict finance committee during Case, Knox, Metz and Winner;
the past year, and was its repre
sentative at the Occoneechee
Council’s annual budget-planning
conference. A total budget of
$147,420 was set for Council oper
ations in 1956, with proportionate
shares to be raised by each of the
12 counties in the Council during
the October drive.
also names still current, such as
Studebaker, Buick, Packard,
Chevrolet, and Ford, Ford, Ford—
35 ‘.‘Tin Lizzies”!
Two cars, a 1919 Chevrolet and
1920 Maxwell, had had to leave
the tour on the way because of
mechanical trouble. All the rest
made it under their own power
A steering committee for the except the oldest, a 1903 Winner
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Town May Discard
Hyd rant Charges;
Protests Heard
Means Sought For
Town Ownership Of
All Water Lines
Southern Pines’ ancient fire
hydrant charge may be on its
way out, and so—if any fair and
legal means can be found—^may
be the headaches arising from
private-line ownership by out-
of-town water consumers.
The town council, meeting in
formally Wednesday night, found
net a single voice, not even
among its own members, raised in
favor of the $50 a year fee for
each out-of-town fire hydrant, as
sessed against home owners with
in 1,000 feet.
A full-scale discussion, public
hearing and possible action were
set for a meeting to be held Thurs
day night of next week, by which
recommendations are to be pre
sented by the town manager.
The manager was: asked by
Mayor Gilmore to work out with
the town attorney, if possible,
some system by which the town
could secure complete ownership
■cf all lines and hydrants now
privately owned, reimbursing the
owners from future taps until
their investment is paid in lull,
in cases where this has not al
ready been done.
New Policy Now
Much of the problem is a hold
over from far in the past. Present
water and sewer line policy
adopted last year forbid the at
taching or any privately-owned,
line to the town system. Out-of-
town lines, privately financed,
must now be dedicated to the
town, which repays original costs
out of fees charged for subsequent
connections.
The fire hydrant fee was estab-
new fire service policy, on a
lished years ago at $25 a year. It
was raised to $50 some five years
ago. Original cost of the fire hy
drant, and its connection, is also
paid by the out-of-towners.
Town Manager Tom E. Cun
ningham called the meeting to
ask, he said, that a definite policy
be set in regard to the hydrants
and the collection of the fees.
Many Not Paying
With the establishment of the
contract basis with individual
home owners, more and more out-
of-town residents of the commu
nity had ceased to pay the fire
hydrant charge.
Also, some hydrants were in-
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Council Approves Plan
For Highway 1 Bypass
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Service Roads Give
Access To Every
Property On Route
DROWNED
CHARLES Me CALL
11-Year-Old Boy
Drowned Tuesday
In Woods Pond
A little Negro boy, who yielded
to temptation to visit an ‘‘old
swimming hole” in the woods on
a hot summer day, was drowned
Tuesday afternoon when the
pond proved deeper than he was
aware.
Charles McCall, 11, disappeared
beneath the water in a spot seven
or eight feet deep, in a pond so
isolated that it was 45 minutes
Right-of-way men from the
State Highway Commission office
at Raleigh last week began their
negotiations with property own
ers along the new US Highway 1
bypass route, and the town coun
cil okayed th6 bypass plan
through town.
The council gave its final ap
proval through its executive,
Town Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham, after he had worked out
several local problems of a minor
nature with Commissiop. officials.
The plan will now go before the
Bureau of Public Roads for ap
proval, looking toward inclusion
in the August contract-letting.
The plan^^ still only a general
one, differed only a little from
the engineering plan posted at
the courthouse last January for
public inspection. The difference
lay in tbe problems locally* work
ed out, to see that access was pro
vided by service roads for all in
dividual properties along the
way, and the definite specifica
tion of two overpasses and one
underpass for the new highway,
on the portion of approximately
two miles within the city limits.
The overpass at Midland Road,
and underpass at Pennsylvania
avenue, will be standard type
grade separations with four
ramps, providing access and
egress from both north and
south. The Midland Road over-
. . Tj- 1 pass, which Cunningham describ-
before rescuers could reach the
MUST CUT DOWN
Town Manager Tom E.
Cunningham told the town
council Wednesday night that
$200,000 to $250,000 must be
shaved from estimated bond
issue needs of the town.
Visiting the Local Govern
ment Commission at Raleigh
that day, he found that $500,-
000 is the top limit for any
debt the town can now as
sume. More than this “would
seriously impair the debt
structure,” he was informed.
Bond issue needs for the
present and 10 years in the
future had been previously
estimated at $700,000 to $750,-
000—$150,000 for a civic cen
ter — $200,000 for sewers,
$150,000 for watei* and $200,-
000 for community centers,
swimming pools and bath
houses.
Recommendations as to
where these can be cut down
will be presented to the coun
cil at its meeting, of Thurs
day night, August 4.
scene. Resuscitation efforts then
proved futile.
Charles was one of five young
sters who went from West South
ern Pines to the lonely fishpond
on the grounds of the Sandhill
Lumber Company at Manly, loca-
teed in deep woods behind the
lumber plant fronting on US
Highway 1.
When the boy, who could swim
only a little, went under the
water, his brother, Melvin, 16,
said he “tried to get him out” but
couldn’t, and with the O'thers of
the group—Carl, Robert and
Thomas Terry, aged seven, eight
and 10—ran to seek help.
They reached the home of Mrs.
James Hill, about a half-mile dis
tant, and from there Melvin
phoned his grandmother, Mrs.
Stuckey, in West Southern Pines.
She called his mother, Eva- Mc
Neill, employed in the home of
Mrs. Max Forrest, and Mrs. For
rest called city police.
Mrs. Hill alerted Mrs. L. F.
Garvin, of Manly and others, and
more calls came to the police.
Chief Newton called a physician
and ambulance, picked up the
respirator at the fire .station and
was on his way.
Within a short while firemen,
divers, the ambulance, and also
the mother, were at the scene.
Some of the rescuers had trouble
finding the lake—^so isolated that
few people even knew it was
there. It is a private fish pond
owned by Everett Black of the
a beautiful job,” is the
more complicated of the two be
cause of the intersection at that
point with NC 2 and 22 from
Manly.
An overpass will also be pro
vided at Morganton road, in the
fortn of a similar grade separa
tion, but with only two ramps,
for southbound traffic leaving the
highway. Access for northbound
traffic was not considered neces
sary, as there is an entrance for
this traffic just a few hundred
feet south.
Cunningham said “about 23”
houses will have to be moved, the
cost for each to depend on the
size of the house and the distance
it will have to be moved from the
right-of-way. Each wiU be moved
to the nearest available, satisfac
tory, and similar, site. In some
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Britt Injured
In Accident
At Lmnberton
Haynes Britt, of 560 North Ashe
street, was painfully injured
when his car was struck by an
other, overturning three times, at
a street intersection in Lumber-
ton Tuesday afternoon.
The local man, who has an ac
cident-free record in many years
of driving, was on his way home
after attending the meeting of the
Sandhill, Lumber Co., and located Fayette’^lle Presbytery in Lum~
behind the home of his son Nor- berton when the collision occur-
man. Neither of the Blacks knew red. He is a patient in Robeson
the children were swimming General hospital there,
there. Britt sustained four broken
The rescue effort was further
Selayed by the fact that the boys
who had been with Charles had
run home, and "no one knew even
the approximate spot where he
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ribs, and a severe shaking-up. The
car, which belonged to his daugh
ter Miss Ethel Blue Britt, was
badly damaged. The driver of the
other car was reported to be un
hurt.
^^Horseless Carriages^^ Parked On Athletic Field Present Picture Of Automotive Evolution