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PAGE EIGHT THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1955 BUYS FIRST TICKET—According to local tradition, Mayor Voit Gilmore, right, is buying the first ticket to the High School homecoming football game to be played Friday night of next week at Memorial Field. J. B. Perfcinson, president of the Rotary Club which is sponsoring promotion of the game, is handing the ticket to the mayor. At left is Carl E. Holt, chairman of the homecoming game project for the club. (Photo by Humphrey) substitute librarian during the summer. Mrs. Lamboume will work in cooperation with Mrs. Dorothy H. Avery, -librarian of the Moore County Library which is housed in the same building. The two libraries cooperate extensively in the use of books. Also at the li brary is Miss Elsie McKenzie, as sistant to the county librarian, whose “spirit of friendly service” recently was praised by library officials. The Southern Pines Library As sociation, which administers the library^ is a dues organization founded some 35 years ago. George H. Leonard, Jr., is presi dent. The library building is own ed and maintained by the town. NEW BUILDINGS (Continued from Page 1) F. Hunnemann of Southern Pines and Mrs. Elizabeth M. McCarter and Mrs. John G. Hemmer of Pinehurst. Reception Comimitiees With Mrs. Catherine Duyk of Southern Pines presiding, a meet ing of parents of children at St. Anthony’s School was held last week to plan for the reception and formation of a parent-teach er association which is expected to elect officers in November. Committees named for Sun day’s reception are: Welcoming—Mrs. Ray Dough erty, chairman; Mrs. Norman Black, Mrs. Estelle Magee, Mrs. Bd 'Tucker, Mrs. J. G. de Berry and Mrs. Curtis Townshend. Decorations—Mrs. Stephen Van Camp, chairman; Mrs. Daniel B. Adams and Mrs. Olive Barrie of Pinehurst. ' Refreshments — Mrs. Joseph Ganis, chairman; Mrs. Dean Van Lydegraf, Mrs. Mary Doyle, Mrs. Albert Cupello, Mrs. J. Vance Rowe, Jr., and Mrs. Margaret Peters and Mrs. Ralph Gacomo, of Pinehurst. 3-YEAR-OLD (Continued from page 1) where the Scotts lived now, she said, but told them that Mrs. Vir ginia Bupps, who was working downtown at the Perry Collection Co. office, might know. So the officers and Mike, who was en joying his rides in the police car, went there. Yes, said Mrs. Bupps, she knew. So they all drove to the Scott home. It was a relieved Mrs. Scott who was finally located. She was out looking for the boy and was get ting pretty worried. She had call- ^ her husband at the USAF Air- pround School where he is sta tioned and he drove up in the family car, to continue the search, about the time the officers arrived with Mike. Mrs. Scott said Mike had been playing in the yard with another child and she heard one of them suggest that they go to a neaurby nursery school yard to play—as they sometimes did. That’s where Robbins, West End and Lake- view are on a community chest basis. Of these Robbins and Lake- view have approved a Boy Scout -budget request and West End is expected to give its approval, ac cording to Scout officials. Most of the community solicita tion groups will meet for 7 a. m. breakfasts Tuesday, but some wUl have dinners Monday evening. The Southern Pines breakfast .will be at the Country Club. • iWliSli fV .* - COUNTY GROUP (Continued from Page 1) Boyd, Jr., were added to the lo cal committee. Mrs. Boyd, who, with the family, has offered a beautiful weeded estate as a site for the college, and her son were away this summer when Mayor Gilmore appointed seven local persons as the initial working group. , 'The tract originally offered was reported to consist of about 125 acres of Weymouth Estate, just Over the town line. Since then it has been estimated the college would require 200 or more acres. At the meeting Mrs. Boyd and Mr. Boyd told the group that as much land as was needed—200 acres or even mo-re-^ould be rhade available if the site commit tee should decide to locate the college here. Trustees of the proposed con solidated institution have now all been chosen, and are to meet next week to name a site committee from among their membership. At last report, some 17 towns had, officially or unofficially, en tered the lists of those offering sites for the college. and gutter and drainage on the .street along which traffic from Scuthern Pines and Pinehurst now enters Carthage. Towhee Construction Co. of Charlotte was low bidder on .52 mile of concrete curb and gutter and drainage in Robbins, from Hemp St., along Carthage St., Salisbury St. and Middleton St. ,to Asheboro St. These two low bids likewise will be reviewed by the Highway Commission at Raleigh Friday. Blind Products Sale To Continue 'The blind products sale of the Southern Pines Lions Club was so successful this week that most of the products were sold out be fore all homes in town had been reached. Therefore the sale will be continued next week, after new supplies have arrived, C. S. Patch, Jr., chairman of the sale, announced today. A sale of the products from booths in the business section has been postponed from Saturday of this week to Saturday of next week. Brooms of several types, door mats, ironing board covers and tea towel kits are among the pro ducts sold by the Lions here. Ah are made by blind workers and proceeds go to aid state and local program of aid to the blind and sight conservation. Wingback a four-year SCORES TWICE James Humphrey, veteran with the Blue Knights, scored twice on long runs in last week’s Laurel Hill game. Last year he made All-Eastern and All-State. One of the outstandina players on the squad, he shines as an open field runner and pass re- receiver and regularly kicks extra points after touchdowns. UNDEFEATED (Continued from page 1) dents continued this week to sell tickets for the homecoming game with Curry High School of Greensboro. Friday night of next week. The affair promises to be the mother thought Mike was j the most brilliant and best at- whil" he was touring the town.'tended ever held here. “Hiat was one of the smartest A television set will be given bo> .^ i ve ever seen,” said Ser- away, a Homecoming Queen will geant Smith. “He’d teU you any- be chosen, and the school band thing—anything except who he will perform. Two sets of new was and where he lived.” | bleachers, each accommodating At the bakery, they said Mike 110 persons, brings the seating was in and Out several times be-l-capacity of the field to 550. fore he went to the nearby bar bershop for his haircut. He wasn’t a bit afraid. They asked him there, too, who he was and—guess what—^he wouldn’t tell. BOY SCOUT (Continued from Page 1) program. Simultaneous one-day drives will be conducted in the other 11 counties of the Council. An 8:15 But when Watkins At Laurel Hill Southern Pines scored twice in the first quarter when Billy Cox and then Johnny Watkins went over in short rushes. Humphrey kicked the conversion for both touchdowns. But Humphrey’s toe failed him in kicks made after his own two spectacular runs for scores—a dash of 60 yards in the second quarter and 55 in the final frame went over a. m. radio broadcast by WPTF, Raleigh, will bring to Tuesday breakfast meetings of workers a message from Roy Armstrong of from the two-yard line in the third queu-ter, Jim’s kick was good. , Aubrey Currie passed to Ray Chapel Hill who is directing thA Thomas from five yards out for Council campaign. T Laurel HUTs lone touchdown and Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher of Southern Pines, Moore Boy Scout chairman, said this week that the county has 700 Scouts—a 100 per cent increase over 1953 member- shin. ‘Increase of units and boys in the conversion try was no good. Members of the Blue Knights Club, attending the Laurel Hill game in a body and wearing their blue hats, provided enthusiastic backing for the Southern Pines squad. The club’s presence at- Scouting demands an increase in tracted much interest at the host the budget,” he said. “Moore is field, now second only to Durham County in the ‘ten tests of Scout ing, a rating by which the County organizations are judged. I hop$. every effort will be made to as- svro the drive’s success.” Canvassers are organized into MRS. LAMBOURNE (Continued from Pag° 1) Lambourne looks forward to her new work with pleasure, she says. As librarian, Mrs. Lambourne majors, captains and workers in succeeds Mrs. John Dundas who the various communities of the | resigned earlv this summer. Mrs. county. IC. A. Smith of Pinehurst hrs been RECEPTION (Continued from page 1) and Esthonia. Mrs. Perts’ plans to study at the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg were frustrated by the revolution, but she studied in Lat via with Konstantine Vyssotsky. She went to Virginia in 1939 and has exhibited in Roanoke, Lynch burg and Richmond. She is president of the Suffolk Art Club and teaches art in the high school there. Mrs. Perts paints in a technique reflecting her European training and the influence of the Pissaro- Cezanne tradition. With organ ized brush strokes she creates paintings characterized by a lyri cal mood of repose. The September Library Gallery show—etchings by Louis Orr— ends this week. $219,510 Is Low I Bid On Carthage By-Pass Project A low bid of $219,510 by Brown Paving Co. of Lexington for work on the Highway 15-501 “Carthage by-pass” was opened in Raleigh Tuesday and will be reviewed, along with bids on oth er projects, by the State Highway Commission on Friday. , The bid covers “fine grading” and paving on 10.41 miles from a point on NC 2 (Midland Road to Pinehurst), about three quarters of a mile east of the intersection of NC 2 and the present US 15- 501, running north to a point about a mile and a half east of Carthage. Most of the route has already been graded out roughly. From the intersection of the .south end of the route with Mid land Road,' it is anticipated but not officially announced, that the new 15-501 route will be extend ed across Midland road south to intersect with No. 1 highway be tween Southern Pines and Aber deen. Highway surveys that have been made of this route puts the intersection with No. 1 at the portheast comer of the large tract Recently sold to Esso Station Oil Co., on the west side of No. 1, midway between Sotuhern Pines gnd Aberdeen. This point is al most directly opposite the Hunt- ley building -which now houses a restaurant, a barber shop and a soap manufacturing firm; ' Other Moore Projects Low bids on two curb and gut ter projects of about a half mile each, both to be installed by the State, one in Carthage and one in Robbins, were also opened Tues day. The .58 mile concrete curb and .gutter and drainage contract in Carthage went tentatively to Dickerson, Inc., of Moproe for $35,714.60. The project runs from a point .on NC 22 (Southern Pines I road), about 105 feet southwest of the Carthage City limits, north- 1,east through Carthage to NC 27 (stoplight corner). It ■'will put curb SPHS Seniors, Dramatic Club Name Officers The seni'or class and the Dra matic Club at Southern Pines High School have elected officers for the new school year. Senior officers are: James Hum phrey, president; Bill Marley, vice-president; Jacque Davenport, secretary; and Julian Pleasants, treasurer. , An executive committee, com posed of officers of the class for this year and last year, was form ed to plan sale of tickets for the homecoming football game Octo ber 7. George Patterson was elected president at the first- meeting of the Dramatic Club. Other offi cers are: Julian Pleasants, vice- president; and Jacque Davenport, secretaryrtreasurer. Miss Julianne Leimone, Eng- lish-Spanish teacher, is advisor of the club. Rehearsals wUl begin soon on the club’s first produc tion, “Stars In Their Eyes.” Home Demonslralion Club News Westmoore Club The Westmoore Home Demon stration Club met with Mrs. H. L. Davis for the September meeting with 11 members present. The secretary, Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, read the minutes of the last meeting after which new of ficers were elected as follows: Mrs. Clyde Comer, president; Mrs. Thomas Greene, vice-president; Mrs. Wade Hare, secretary and treasurer; and Mrs. Ottis Chriscoe and Mrs. Edd Hussey, County Council members. Miss Flora McDonald, Moore home agent, gave a very interest ing discussion on financial secur ity. Everyone congratulated our re tiring president, Mrs. Ottis Chris coe, for missing only one meeting in the two years she has served. Mrs. M. E. Stutts closed the meet ing with prayer and Mrs. Davis served delicious refreshments. The next meeting will be held October 6, with Mrs. Thomas Greene.—By Mrs. Nannie Brewer, publicity chairman, Westmoore Club. Firemen's Jobs To Be Filled At Bragg The Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at Fort Bragg has an nounced an open competitive ex amination- 'for appointments to .the positions of supervisory fire fighter (general), firefighter (driver-operator), and firefighter (general), at Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. Annual salaries of the three Jtypes of positions are, respective ly, $4,970; $3,370; and $3,415. Application forms or infonna- tion where they may be obtained available at any post office. Applications will be accepted by the Office of the Executive Sec retary, Board of U. S. Civil Serv ice Examiners, at Fort Brag^, un til the close of business on Octo ber 20. I There are 15,000 members of , the Occoneechee Council, B.S.A., comprising Durham, Chatham, Cumberland, Granville, Vance, I Warren, Franklin, Wake, Harnett, Lee, Moore and Orange Counties. In no other sport does it take so little to cost you so much as in driving. 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