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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18. 1955
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PRICE TEN CENTS
THE CHAMPS!—Holliday’s Chicks, winners
of the Adult Softball League playoffs, are pic
tured with Mascots Larry (left) and Kenny Hol
liday in the foreground. Kneeling, left to right,
C. A. McLaughlin, utility and coach; Jimmy
Davenport, left field; Harry - Chatfield, pitcher;
Bill Wilson, center field; Dr. Boyd Starnes, sec
ond base; and Joe Garzik, right field. Stand-
Diane Brushes
Area Lightly;
Rain Is Heavy
Hurricane Diane, like her sis
ter Connie last week, passed the
Sandhills by at a comfortable dis-
^'^mce to the east Wednesday, al
though it looked early that
morning as if the storm was head
ed straight for the Sandhills.
In this area, Diane brought a
soaking rain that totalled 3.69
inches in the 36 hours preceding
Thursday morning, according to
information from the official
Weather Bureau instruments at
Radio Station WEEB. The weath-
observation equipment recent
ly was moved to the radio station
from town hall.
Gusts of fairly strong wind were
felt here throughout Wednes
day, but no damage has been re
ported to The Pilot and there was
no interruption of utility service
in this area.
While there may have been
some damage to crops in Moore
County, the
WAGE INCREASE
Production employees in
the Area B plants of Amero-
tron Corporation—which in
clude the Aberdeen and Rob
bins mills in Moore County—
will get a five-cenls per heur
wage incrase, starting Man-
day.
The increase was announc
ed this week by Frank Rob
erts of Southern Pines, vice-
president of Amerotron in
charge of Area B. Other
plants at which: the increase
will become effective Monday
are those at Raeford. Red
Springs and Clarksville. Va.
Guardsmen Start
Tank Training At
Camp Stewart, Ga.
Under command of Capt. Wil
liam J. Wilson, Moore County Na
tional Guardsmen this week be-
,gan a two-week intensive train-
_ — T ,ing session at Camp Stewart, Ga.
winds and rain of i They left Southern Pines in a
^iane were not strong enough in truck convoy at 6 a. m. Sunday,
this area to create the severe The current training period is
crop destruction that was the hur-* the first since the local Guard
ricane’s most telling blow to unit became a tank compemy—
Eastern North Carolina. Ipart of the 130th tank battalion.
As with Connie, last week. Red The change from an anti-aircraft
Cross, Civil Defense, town and'unit took place when North Caro-
other officials in this area were lina acquired the entire 30th In
ready for Diane in case the storm
struck with destructive fury.
The communications division of
>4he Moore County Civil Air Pa-
fantry Division, of which the
130th tank battalion is now a part.
, With the Southern Pines unit
at Camp Stewart are companies
^trol was called at 11 p. m. Mon-*of the 130th tank battalion from
day to proced at once with the
local squadron’s mobile radio
truck, to Burgaw where they set
up CAP Radio Station Red Dog
54 at the city hall to handle hur
ricane messages to the Charlotte
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Red Springs, Raeford, St. Pauls
and Lumberton.
, The 130th is at Camp Stewart
because of its tank training fa
cilities, but the remainder of the
30th Division is at Fort Bragg for
its summer training period.
BUT INCIDENCE STILL BELOW NORMAL
Seven Cases of Polio Reported In
Moore County Within Past 10 Days
Seven cases of polio within 10
days—the last four reported in
two days’ time—has made this
short period the worst for polio in
Moore county since the epidemic
days of 1948.
^ However, said Paul C. Butler,
^chairman of the Moore County po
lio chapter, he feels there should
be no immediate alarm, unless the
disease keeps breaking out at the
same rate in the next few days.
The polio season is almost at an
end, the total incidence—just 10
cases for the year—is still consid
erably below normal and the
chances are the flurry wiU sub
side as quickly as it sprang up.
He said he will check with state
authorities to see if it reflects a
general rise in polio incidence,
and if they believe precautionary
measures should be instituted
here.
Most of the cases are widely
scattered except the last four, all
from West End, Route 1. "rwo
girls, Jennie Garrison, 12, and
' Carol Ann Black, 13, were strick
en Tuesday in this rural area, and
iJjtwo boys, Stanley Blue, 12, and
Wayland Black, 16, Wednesday.
POLIO IS
STILL WITH US
V/hen polio is around,
follow these precautions:
MINT GET 0VERTIREI>
ing, same order; Billy Davis, catcher; Tom Cun
ningham, first base; Irie Leonard, third base;
Chick Holliday, manager; Dr. Delamar Mann,
pitcher; Clyde Dunn, Jr., shortstop; and Raul
Morales, pitcher. Drake Rogers, also a squad
member, could not be in the picture.
(Photo by Humphrey)
"Holliday’s Wins
Championship In
Softball League
Before a crowd estimated at al
most 1,000 persons, Holliday’s
Chicks copped the Adult Softball
League championship by defeat
ing the USAF Air-Ground Opera
tions School team 7-4 in the third
game of a two out of three series
at Memorial Field Monday night.
The contest that clinched the
title saw a brilliant pitcher’s duel
between Raid Morales, southpaw
for Holliday’s, and George Norris,
right-hander of the Air-Ground
School.
The Air-Ground School led 3-1
at the top of the fifth inning, but
then Holliday’s Chicks exploded
for three runs and went ahead,
4-3, when Irie Leonard homered
with two men on.
In the sixth frame, the Air^
Ground School tied the score. In
the top of the seventh, Holliday’s
scored teree runs on hits by Irie
Leonard* and Dr. Boyd Starnes.
Morales allowed only five hits.
The ladies All-Stars staged a
short exhibition contest with the
Hilltop Jokerettes before the fea
ture contest.
Following the game. League
Commissioner Carl E. Holt and C.
S. Patch, Jr., presented to W. B.
(Chick) Holliday, manager of the
winning team, a handsome trophy
on behalf of Buster’s Sport Shop
which is, owned and operated by
Mr. Patch, and also gold basket
balls to all squad members.
A runner-up trophy, given by
C. A. McLaughlin on behalf of the
Style Mart store, of which he is
proprietor, was not received in
time for presentation Monday
night, but was given to Sgt.
George Rasar, manager of • the
Air-Ground School team, for the
team, the following day.
Monday night’s deciding game
was played after the two top
teams had tied for the league lead,
with five wins and one loss each,
at the end of the regular season,
and then had each taken a game
in the playoffs.
In the opener of the playoffs
Tuesday of last week, the Air-
Ground School set back Holliday’s
Chicks, 9-4. The second game,
scheduled for Thursday night was
rained out until Saturday night
when Holliday’s rallied and
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Post Office To
Cut Personnel,
Reduce Service
Slash In National
Budget Reflected;
Cooperation Asked
A nation-wide economy drive
in the Post Office Department is
resulting in personnel and serv
ice curtailments at the Southern
Pines post office. Postmaster Gar
land Pierce said this week.
A $13 million slice off the na
tional budget of the Department
includes $1 million in the Atlanta
region under which the Southern
Pines post office operates—mean
ing about a seven per cent cut in
.funds for the local office as com
pared to the amount previously
allotted.
On top of this, the postmaster
said, postal sales at the local of
fice have dropped off $1,326.14
for the first seven months of
1955 as compared with a similar
period in 1954—and the Post Of
fice Department says that a drop
in postal sales must be made up
by a corresponding reduction of
expenditures at the office con
cerned.
Changes Listed
Here is how the ecopomy
moves will affect the local post of
fice:
1. Starting next week, the win
dows will be closed,^ after 12:30
p. m. each Wednesday. Windows
have previously been closed after
12:30 p. ra. Saturdays.
2. The services of substitute
clerks and carriers have been dis
pensed with “for the foreseeable
future.”
3. Personnel of the post office
will “combine assignments and
consolidate duties.”'
4. Post office windows will not
all be manned at all times of the
day. At slack times, one clerk will
handle the services of iiarious
windows, although all windows
will remain open.
In regard to the substitute
clerks and carriers (there have
been two such clerks and one
such carrier). Postmaster Pierce
expalined that these three substi
tutes have worked regularly in
the post office on a part-time ba-
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Dim MIX WITH GROUPS
HTTDO KEEPClEMl
Stanley Blue, son of John S.
Blue, and Wayland Blaclc, son of
Sandy Black, are cousins. It is
not Imown whether Carol Ann
Black, daughter of W. A. Black,
is related or not. Jennie Garrison
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MR. McNEILL
Hoke’s Little River Pupils T’o
Continue At Schools In Moore
Compromise
Reached In
Controversy
The boards of education and
county commissioners of Moore
and Hoke counties met at Ciar-
thage Tuesday night and reached
a compromise in a school contro
versy which had at one time
seemed hopelessly deadlocked.
The school situation arose when
the Moore commissioners, strug
gling with budgetary problems
intensified by school needs, woke
up last spring to the fact that for
years the county had been educat
ing many Hoke County children
without charge. Most of these—
176 of them last year—came t>
schools in the Vass-Lakeview dis
trict from Little River township,
which is cut off from the rest Of
Hoke by the Fort Bragg reserva-*
tion.
• Doing some cost-accounting
with the board of education,
which also felt Hoke should becir
its share of the load, the Moore
commissioners last May made a
proposition to Hoke that it pay
$36 per child, or $6,336 for the
year, starting immediately, or ed
ucate the Little River children
elsewhere. Hoke was also to pro
vide the transportation.
Hoke countered with an offer of
all the Little River school taxes,
about $3,000. And there the matter
stood, except for the distress
which mounted in Little River
township, which is only a few
miles out from 'Vass, the natural
center of their school, trading and
other activities.
Compromise Accepted
At the Tuesday night meet
ing, the Moore county board Of
education, with Moore commis
sioners concurring, tendered a
compromise proposition. Hie
Hoke boards met together and the
Hoke board of education, with
Hoke commissioners concurring,
accepted it in full.
The proposition, presented in
the form of a resolution by the
Moore board of education: $28 per
Little River schoolchild, or $4,924
per year for the next two school
years, based on the 1954-55 head
count, to be paid to Moore schools
by Hoke; also to be provided by
Hoke county a new school bus, to
cost $2,930, which will become the
property of Moore if and when
this arrangement is abandoned.
The proposition is to be renego
tiated in two years in the light
of circumstances at that time,
which may change in any one of
several ways—^Hoke may find less
costly means of educating its chil
dren at home or in some other
county, or Little River township
may become a part of Moore. The
switch from one county to another
is one which has long had strong
advocates in the township, is geo
graphically feasible and may in
time become politically so.
Patrons, Officials Pxesi^
A delegation of Little River
school patrons was present at the
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JUDGE SUSIE SHARP, left. North Carolina’s only woman su
perior court judge, and Mrs. Blanche McQuage of Monroe, court
stenographer, leave the Moore County courthouse at Carthage,
on their way to lunch. Judge Sharp is making her first official
visit to Moore county, presiding over this week’s term of criminal
court. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Judge Sharp Well Received In First
Term On Superior Court Bench Here
Marriage Annulment
Work Begins On
New Building
"Work was begun Tuesday on
foundations for a new building
adjoining the A & P store on the
east and fronting on Pennsyl
vania Ave.
The one-story block and brick
structure is being built by H. L.
Brown for an office supply busi
ness that will be managed by his
daughter. Miss Audrey West
,Brown. E. V. Perkinson Of South-^
ern Pines is the contractor.
With a frontage of 30 feet and
a depth of 60 feet, the building
will have a brick front and block
side and rear walls. Completion
is expected in from 60 to 90 days,
Mr. Brown said.
Rites Held Today
ForW.H.MeNeill,
Local Businessman
Funeral services were held this
morning at Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church for William
Henry McNeill, 73, who died
Tuesday at Moore County Hospi
tal. The Rev. C. K. Ligon, pastor,
officiated. Burial was at Union
Church cemetery, between Vass
and Carthage.
Active pallbearers were W. L.
Baker, Howard Butler, Cyrus O.
Butler and Virgil Clark, aU of
Southern Pines; and Curtis
Dowdy and John C. Muse of San
ford. Honorary pallbearers were
the elders of Brov^nson Memorial
Presbyterian Church and Union
Presbyterian Church.
Mr. McNeill, a leading business
man of ^his area for many years,
succumbed after a critical illness
of four days, but had been in poor
health for some time. He was
stricken late Friday afternoon
while. in the Modern Market on
Broad St. and was taken to Moore
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Granted Girl Who
Was Wed Al Age 12
See pages 13 and "B" for
more Superior Court news.
Judge Susie Sharp of Reidsville,
j whose visit to the county had
been awaited with curiosity,
made a splendid impression Mon
day on the first day of her first
term of Moore County Superior
Court. Looking as feminine as
any pleasant housewife, she con
ducted her court with serene dig
nity, and left no doubt in any
one’s mind that she Was a judge,
and a good one, too.
Her presence stirred a little ex
tra attention which added an un
accustomed note of beauty to the
courtroom. Employees in the
clerk of court’s office sent her
a large bouquet of white chry
santhemums and red carnations,
which ornamented the judicial
desk throughout the day.
Five divorces, an annulment
and a jury trial in a drunken
driving case occupied the entire
day. Divorced were Robert Mon
roe Jackson from Esther Marie
Jernigan Jackson; Anna Caviness
Suber from James Suber; Louise
Way Spence from Robert R.
Spence; Frances McDonald Burk-
head from Hampton Keanes
Burkhead and Earl Melvin from
Vernise H. Melvin, all On grounds
of two years’ separation.
In the annulment case, Louise
Bruce Beck and also her mother,
through whom she was suing as
next friend, testified that she had
been only 12 years old at the time
of her marriage in December,
1953, to James Beck. The pretty
young girl, now just 14, and look
ing very young despite her high
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Local Scouts At
World Jamboree
Two Southern Pines Boy Scouts
are among 10 from the Occonee-
chee Council’s 12-county area
now on their way to the Scout
World Jamboree at Toronto, Can
ada.
They are Jimmy McDonald and
John Chappell, both of whom left
Raleigh Sunday with 136 other
Scouts from Region Six (North
and South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida).
The Jamboree will be held in
Toronto, with some 10,000 Scouts
from 28 nations attending. Sight
seeing stops for the Region Six
group will include Natural Bridge,
Luray Caverns, Niagara Falls and
Annapolis.
The trip and 10-day Jamboree
will take a little over two weeks.
'YOUR HONORESS'
A juror arose in Moore Su
perior Court this week and
addressed the judge, “Your
Honoress—”
Later, Judge Susie Sharp,
who is presiding over the
criminal term at Carthage,
said, “I’ve been called many
things as a woman judge, but
' this was the first time I’d
heard that. And,” added the
lady, who has a down-to-
earth way of saying things
herself, “it sounded to me
like he’d hit on a right good
expression, and I couldn’t
fault him for that.”
STEADY GOLF REWARDS LOCAL PRO
Boros Cops Rich ^World^lTitle
He did it again—and he says he
didn’t even know it when he
came to the last green of the Teun
O’Shanter course at Chicago Sun
day.
For the second time in four years,
Julius Boros—the Mid Pines
Club’s genial, big professional
who has a host of local fans and
admirers—won the “World” golf
championship which carries a
monetary reward worthy Of its
title: $50,000 cash for winning, a
contract for 55 expense-paid ex
hibition matches at $1,000 each
and an option for 50 more.
When Boros will come back to
Southern Pines was not known
here this week—but he told re
porters in Chicago that he hoped
to come to Mid Pines for a while
before embarking on the fabulous
exhibition tour.
With him at Chicago were his
wife—^the former Armen C. Boyle
Of Miami, Fla., to whom he was
married at Aiken, S. C., in April
and his four-year-old son. Jay,
whose mother, the former But
tons Cosgrove, daughter of Mr.
JULIUS BOROS
and Mrs. Frank H. Cosgrove, man
agers of the Mid Pines, died
when the boy was bom.
In 1952 Boros also had the Na
tional Open title tucked away and
was the top money winner of the
year among the pros. The rich re-
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