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PAGE TWO THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY. JULY 28. 1955 Southern Pines North' Carolina “In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a good paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Where there seems to be an occa sion to use our influence for the public good we'will try to do it. And we will treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May'23, 1941. It’s Going To Take Money — Lpts of It News stories rdbrinted elsewhere on this page show that several more towns have leaped into the competition for the proposed consolidated Presbyterian college, making their bids in no uncertain terms and implementing wishes with action. This is a competition Southern Pines entered some time ago, with what we believe is the most unified public support we , have ever seen accorded a local project. There is no ques tion but that all of Southern Pines earnestly desires this college. The question is, how badly do we want it? Having a beautiful site to offer, a lovely and friendly tdVn, a variety of advantages, is not going to be enough. Money must be contributed —lots of it. The site offered by Mrs. James Boyd, we truly believe, cannot be bettered anywhere, both- in beauty and convenience of location. Without it we could not even compete; but it is apparent that that is just the first step. ■ Little Red Springs—which now has Flora Macdoriald college, and is proving its desireabil- ity, if such a thing were necessary, by its evi dent eager desire to retain it—is offering a site, and $100,000. Rocky Mount and Lumberton, both much larger and richer towns, are certain ly going to top that. At Lumberton it was esti mated that “at least a half million will- be need ed” and Fayetteville, we learn, is aiming for a million. Others in the running are Goldsboro and Kin ston, both sizeable and wealthy Eastern Caro lina towns, also the smaller Kenansville and Laurinburg. The Sanford Herald Iasi week call ed on its citizenry to produce a leader and get moving, and there undoubtedly will be Others. While any or all of these may be ruled out for other considerations, certain it is that the trustees of the proposed four-year co-education- al institution will look on all offers with a cold ly practical eye. They have to. It takes money, and lots of it, to build and operate a good col lege—the kind we know the Synod has in mind; the kind every one of these communities, including Southern Pines, wants it to be. Besides money, they must also consider the day-student potential, which reportedly must be-sufficient to form a basic student body large enough to keep the college going. Our local committee will have to consider the matter of' financial pledges very soon. If we are going to be in the running -at all, the committee must ask that commuity-minded citizens open their purses as widely as possible—^wider, per haps, than they think possible at this time. What they give will be in the purest sense an investment in the future, not only for our com- muity but for youth here and everywhere. We suggest the committee set definite goals— a certain number of $10,000 donations; others of $5,000, $1,000, $500 and $100, and start a pledge campaign at the earliest possible time. We have citizens who “could give well over $10,000, and do give more than that to worthy causes every year, without greatly affecting their standard of living. Do they feel the com munity needs and wishes, have the community interests at heart, strongly enough to hearken to this appeal? While every po^ible small dona tion will certainly be needed, it is in our poten tial of large donors that our chance for the col lege rests. Individuals and organizations all over the county ■ should also consider the matter .of es tablishing scholarships for all deserving boys and girls, to be awarded at high school com mencements in recognition of achievements in many specified fields, to assure a basic home- student representation of the most valuable type. Horseless Carriage Club, We Want You Baek We can’t remember anything nicer ever' hap pening to Southern Pines than the visitation of the Horseless Carriage Club last weekend. Our hat is off to the Chamber of Commerce folks who arranged it, and all who cooperated in making the weekend such an all-round happy occasion. The vintage vehicles, in spit-and-polish con dition, v^^hich chiigged into town Friday and de parted Sunday, remaining meanwhile parked on the athletic field, provided delight for uncount ed hundreds of all ages. For old-timers, they evoked a nostalgic mood of the pleasantest kind. For the youngsters they were endlessly fascinating, both as tangible evidence of a past which had been previously only heresay, and as mechanical contrivances as startling and ap pealing today as when brand-new—though in a different way. For everyone, they were an education in automotive development, thus of an extremely important part of our American civilization, over more than half a century. The Horseless Carriage people, as much as their cars, delighted and thriUed us. They turn ed out to be a wonderful and jO'lly crowd, all- out for their hobby, with all the zeal, energy and good humor bred by a healthy hobby, en thusiastically undertaken. It’s a highly conta gious hobby; they left a number of local citi zens, who had never thought of such a thing before, badly infected and already checking likely sburces for an old car .of their own. It’s a many-faceted hobby—something hus band and wife, kids too, can enjoy together. It offers an education in mechanics, an cutlet for the play-acting instinct, cooperation evolving into lasting friendships. Social and material dis tinctions vanish, as hard work and ingenuity produce the richest rewards. (Hey, wait—^have we got bit by the bug, too? Maybe we havel) At the banquet held Saturday night at the Country Club, Mayor Voit Gilmore in welcom- the crowd urged that they consider Southern Pines as their permanent terminal for their an nual summer tour. This we wish to second heart ily, feeling that all our fellow-citizens would feel the same. Many different tours, reaching into three states, could be arranged to wind up here. We could Ipok forward to such a uniquely interesting weekend, with increasing pleasure every year. ' How about it. Horseless Carriage fans? Piedmont, Take A Chanee-Help Us Get PGA! We commend Mayor Gilmore and Harold Col lins, emissaries from the Town and the Cham ber of Commerce, who flew to Detroit at their own expense recently to present our bid, in per son, for the PGA national headquarters. • Amateur golfers both, they went for no pur pose other than civic promotion, to do their best to secure for Southern Pines an establish ment which would be of value to our economy, and of great importance publicity-wise. The Professional Golfers Association of America would find here a most appropriate home, also an appreciative one, which would meet practically all its demands. As we are in terested in them, so they are in us, and they want to come. However, it appears we may all be defeated because of two facts—^items which at first list ing seem relatively unimportant, in view of all else we have to offer. But they may whi^ us. We don’t have year-round airplane service. And at Dunedin, Fla., our most formidable rival, the PGA owns a golf course of its own, also a tract of land on which retired pros may build homes. Tbe latter item we can’t do anything about— except present our belief that the veteran pros would be happier here! There is plenty Of room for them—and with our three golf clubs, and Pinehurst, they would not lack for a golfing home. The year-round airplane service, which we so badly need—not Only for the PGAi—we may get any year, depending on when Piedmont Air lines sees a profit in regular summer stops. Can’t Piedmont take a chance on us? The PGA in itself would provide some additional summer travel. Also, all summer long, people here are making plane reservations on many lines, taking a train or driving a car or cheuter- ing a plane to carry them to Raleigh-Durham Charlotte, Fayetteville or Washington. We believe there is enough ol this traffic now so that Piedmont would at least break even on maintaining an office here ip summer. The plane flies over twice a day, to stop at Fay- etteviUe. Piedmont could do much to help us build up faster, rather than waiting until we struggle up to the level they wish, no matter how long it takes and how many good things we lose along the way. The providing of transportation op expecta tion, rather than immediate profit, has been a factor in the development of this country and. many of its greatest cities, since the railroads opened up the West. Southern Pines itself was started through promotion efforts of the Sea board Air Line, creating a profit soxirce rather than waiting for a demand. Without that vision back in 1880, there would be no Southern Pines today. Come on Piedmoiit—pitch in and help us growl Then those profits will come sooner— and you will deserve, them more. ■ J ,4 Grains of Sand mm 7’J‘MET Carolina Towns Initiating Action To Secnre Consolidated College Red Springs Wants .To Retain School RED SPRINGS—This site of Flora Macdonald College here, 124 additional acres of land and $100,- 000 were offered today in a bid for the proposed four-year, liberal arts college to be established in Eastern North Carolina by the Presbyterian Synod of North Car olina. The offer was made by a spe cial “college committee” headed by George Ashford and Red Springs Mayor R. D. McMillan Jr. It came on the heels of the Synod’s approval last week of a plan to merge Peace College at Raleigh, Flora Macdonald and Presbyterian Junior College at Maxton to establish the new co educational •institution. It was the first definite offer although several other Eastern localities have nominated them selves as a possible site. The Red Springs offer is con tingent on the proposed school being built around the present site of Flora Macdonald. The ad ditional 124 acres are adjacent to Flora Macdonald, the only senior college involved in the merger plans. Meanwhile, meetings have been set by the three Presbyteries that control Flora Macdonald to act on the Synod’s proposal. Peace and PJC, which are controlled by the Synod, can be “directed” t0‘ par ticipate in the merger. The school merger plan, calling for an initial outlay of $5,000,000 for the new school (including the present assets of the three schools involved), w.as approved over the objections Of the Peace College Board of Trustees. School officials and trustees of the Other two generally favor the' plan. The proposal was recommend ed after an extensive survey made possible by a $50,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. answered numerous questions f 000 college which the North Car- asked him by the group. ' olina Presbyterian Synod will Last night a group of officers create through merger of three A defendant in Moore County Recorder’s Court was charged with “larceny of Vienna sausages.” Whatever else can be said about the case, it is Obvious that he never served with the armed forces overseas in Wlorld War II. Rocky Mount Seeks New College ROCKY MOUNT — This city made a strong bid last night and this afternoon in a series of meet ings to land the proposed consol idated Presbyterian college in this vicinity. At a special called meeting of the Board of Directors of tlie Chamber of Commerce at the Ricks Hotel, plans were made to go all out for the college for this area of Eastern Carolina. Dr. Har old Dudley, secretary of the Syn od of North Carolina, Raleigh, was present. Dr. Norman Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this city, was also an invited guest. Representatives of all the civic clubs had represen tatives at the meeting. Dr. Dudley and leaders of the First Presbyte rian Church met and agreed to contribute a sum of money for a prospectus to be prepared. Anoth er meeting will be held here Fri day night with leaders of the five Presbyterian churches in this city on hand to help push this area for the location of the proposed col lege. Last night’s meeting was called by Archie McLean, local banker and Presbyterian leader. Various Presbyterian leaders here have been busy today seeking support of surrounding communi ties for locating the college here. The Synod of North Carolina recently voted tO consolidate Flora Macdonald, Presbyterian Junior College and Peace into one four-year college in Eastern Carolina. First minutes of the Synod called for the college to be located in the southeast quadrant of East Carolina but this was changed to read “Eastern Caro lina.” Fayetteville, Kinston, Redj Springs, where Flora Macdonald is located, and Southern Pines, in addition to Rocky Mount, are making bids for the college. It will be some time before the site-selecting committee meets and decides on a location. Reeky Mount has been seeking a college for the last decade and business and.'civic leaders are anxious to land the proposed four-year college. Ray Bandy, president, presided over the special meeting of the chamber board today. The follow ing resolutions were adopted: 1. That the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce approve and actively seek the new Presbyterian col lege to be located in the vicinity of Rocky Mount and such notice be, given to the proper authorities. 2. That a thorough study be mkde of the proposed proposition and adequate funds be made available for such a study. 3. That all civic groups and oth er organizations be encouraged to work for this project. 4. That a notice be sent to the officers of the local Presbyterian churches offering the services of the chamber in working with any of their committees toward bring ing this college to Rocky Mount. And. . . 5. That complete information concerning Rocky Mount be sent in support of the official letter to the secretary of the Presbyterian Synod. existing colleges. Mayor R. A. Hedgpeth was ask ed to form a committee to study the possibilities of luring the col lege to this town and make rec ommendations on procedure. The Lumberton group left the door open to strengthen Robeson County’s efforts to obtain the school. Hector MacLean, president of the chamber and a trustee of Flora Macdonald College, pressed for support of Red Springs as a site if Lumberton is turned down. MacLean is also a trustee of Peace College in Raleigh, which will be merged with Flora Mac donald and Presbyterian Junior College of Maxton to form the new four-year school. Red Springs made its bid by offering a 125-acre tract of land near Flora Macdonald and $100,- 000. A rally was held in that town Monday night to begin fund rais ing. Mayor Hedgpeth, who origina ted the move to seek the college for Lumberton, told the "directors he had been approached by sev eral citizens who would make large contributions. Another director. B. G. French, told the group that the communi ty would have to “think big and bid, heavily.” He estimated that a half million dollars would be minimum requirements. French, Hedgepeth and Mac- Lean were among several leaders who successfully carried out a campaign recently to retain Cale donia Mills, Lumberton’s largest payroll, when the owners an nounced they would either have to sell or liquidate. Hedgepeth said some citizens have expressed more interest in obtaining the college than industry. Lumberton Launches Bid For College LUMBERTON — Directors of Luniberton Chamber of Com merce and Agriculture started the ball rolling this week in their bid for the proposed new $5,000,- PARK ATTENDANCE National Park Service figures show that from January through June the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Great Smokies Park, which meet in Western North Carolina, had a .combined total attendance of 1,413,879. The Smokies Park, With 825,218- visit ors for the six months, marked up ,an attendance gain of 19,967 over the corresponding period of 1954. The fir^t half ol 1955 show ed a total visitation of 1,588,661 for the Parkway, or 63,851 less than that for the first hall of 1954. The drop was attributed to cool weather. ROBBINS POSTMASTER Refreshing Change At Carthage, they have a way o-f making you feel hotter than ever by asking 'everywhere you go, “Hot enough for you?” This is a question whidft disciplines the soul, as you resist making the an swers which spring to ycur weak, dry lips. But we met with a re freshing difference when we ran up on Chub Seawell, who with out preamble noted, “Pipes froze last night. Just got ’em thawed out. Sure hppe they don’t freeze again tonight.” We gulped, mopped our brow and commented, “Better get out your red flannels-.” “Got ’em on,” came the brisk answer as he went on his -w*ay. “Got ’em on!” Temperature However, in case you’ve been wondering, the mercury didn’t touch 100, during the first 20 days ol this calorific month. In fact, we note from the town weather report, 97 was the highest—on July 3, and again July 19. On July 13, maximum temperature was down to 80 degrees. The highs on other days ranged be tween, and on July 3, which we remember as a real scorcher, it was only 92. Also, according to this weather report, the. first 20 nights were rather nice. That is, we assume the minimum temperatures re corded were at night, ranging from a delightful 63 to an endur able 76. Precipitation occurred on eight days, ranging^ Iro-m dribble to shower, totaling 2.10 inches. Costume on Display Martha .Aden, of the Aden Studio of Dance, has sent one of her costumes to New York City, cn request of Dazian’s, Inc., for display at a series of national dance conventions to be held there in August. Martha has been buying her costume materials for several years at Dazian’s, famous and world’s largest theatrical fab rics house. In showing what types d materials she needs, Martha has frequently sketched off some of the costumes she has in mind, and her original designing has won considerable respect at the New York establishment. She recently received a letter from a Dazian vice-president ask ing her to select one o-f her new est to lend them for their annual display for dance teachers from all over the U. S. She chose the one she wore in the Indian Sum mer number in the June recital— a glorified Indian suit of silver metallic cloth lined with nylon jersey, trimmed with red and white fringe, and with an Indian symbolic design in sequins, beads and tubing on the front. Witn it went the pert little headdress of red feathers, sequins and fringe. This was quite an honor for a small-to-wn dance teacher, though we yield to none in our admira tion for Martha’s superb sense of design—in choreography, cos tumes, lighting and related fields of her chosen profes,sion. Our Loyal Scots A recent Saturday Evening Post contained a story on the contributions made to this coun try by those of Scottish descent, with a long and Impressive list of their notable figures. In every field our Scots have distinguished themselves, and they constitute a large portion of both houses of " Congress. They have produced presidents, soldiers, writers, musi cians, scientists of renown. They have fought With valor in every war—but here the SER sticks its neck out, stating that they always fought “on the side of American democracy.” Our Scots are born with the spirit of democracy, and their rugged individualism has had its best opportunity in this land of the free—but the SEl» should learn about the Scottish oath of fealty, which caused many of those in these parts to fight on the Loyalist side in the Revolu tion. Their dominant trait, we would say at that time, was loy alty to an oath, no matter how repugnant the circumstances un der which it was sworp. The PILOT Published Every Thursday by THE PILOT, Incorporated Southern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYIV-1944 Katharine Boyd Editor C. Benedict News Editor Dan S. Ray Gen. Mgr. C. G. Council Advertising Mary Scott Newton Business Bessie Cameron Smith Society Composing Room Lochamy McLean, Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen, Jasper Swearingen Subscriptign Rates: One Year $4. 6 mos. $2; 3 mos. $1 Coy G. Lewis, Jr., has received the nomination for postmaster at Robbins, to succeed G. F. 'Wlalker, deceased. The nomination was made Monday by President Eisenhower. It must be approved by the Senate Post Office and Civil Ser- vice committee before going tolMember National Editorial Assn, the Senate for confirmation. and N. C. Pr^ Assn. Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter
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