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VOL. 37—NO. 12
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1956
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
Modern Prison Hospital Building At
McCain Will Be Dedicated Next Week
Governor. Highway
Chairman To Speak;
Cost About $500,000
Gov. Luther H. Hodges, High
way Chairman A. H. Grah&i and
other state officials will take part
in a dedication service for the new
prison division of the North Caro
lina Sanatorium at McCain Wed
nesday afternoon of next week.
The event, to be held at the new
Moore Business
Man Seriously
Injured Sunday
Thomas Wellons (Thom) Mc
Kenzie, well-known heating, re
frigeration and air conditioning
contractor of near Pinehurst,- is
in serious condition at Veterans
Hospital in Durham, as a result of
injuries incurred in an automobile
accident Sunday morning near
Pinehurst.
According to State. Highway
Patrolman R. R. Samuels, who
investigated the accident, Mc
Kenzie apparently went to sleep
and ran his 1951 Plymouth,
which was completely demolish
ed, into a bridge abutment on
the Murdocksville Road about 1
a. m. Sunday.
McKenzie, who was first tak
en to Moore County Hospital, told
Patrolman Samuels he didn’t re
call what happened. He was
found pinned between the dash
board and the front seat.
Patrolman Samuels, said that
extensive work was required be
fore McKenzie could be removed.
He suffered multiple breaks of
the right thigh, a broken jaw, and
lacerations on his face..
Wreck Near Cameron
In another accident last week
reported by Patrolman Samuels,
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building, will begin at 2 p.m. Carl
C. Council, chairman of the board
of directors of the North Carolina
Sanatoriums, will preside. Mrs.
P. P. McCain of Southm Pines,
widow of the physician who head
ed the State Sanatorium system
and for whom the McCain post of
fice is named, is a member of the
board of directors.
Invocation wiU be spoken by
the Rev. Eugene J. Bauer, North
Carolina Sanatorium chaplain.
William F. Bailey, N. C. director
of prisons under the Highway and
Public Works Commission, will
speak, as will Dr. H.- S. Willis of
Chapel Hill, formerly of McCain,
general superintendent and medi
cal director of the North Carolina
Sanatoriums. Dedicatory prayer
will be offered by the Rev. Ray
Gosnell, pastor of the Ashley
Heights Baptist Church.
A tour of the prison hospital
will follow the ceremony.
Accommodating 139 tubercular
prisoners, the building replaces
the old prison hospital which had
a capacity of only 65 and which
will now'be used for storage pur
poses. The new building will
have a staff of 25 nurses and other
workers. Nurses Will be provided
by the Central Prison nursing ser
vice in Raleigh.
Cost of the building, which is
modern in every respect, is about
$500,000. It is located between
the white and Negro divisions of
the Sanatorium, facing Highway
211.
Dr. W. H. Peck, superintendent
of the hospital facilities at Mc
Cain, has expressed appreciation
to the 8th Highway Division, of
which Forrest Lockey of Aber
deen is chairman, for beautifica
tion work along the highway.
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STUDENTS VIEW EXHIBIT—Four South
ern Pines High School students visit the Library
Art Gallery where an exhibition of paintings by
19th Gentry modern masters opened Monday.
Left to right: Jim Tollison, Cathy Pollard, Nan
cy Butler and Peter Butler. All are ninth grade
students except Cathy who is in 11th grade.
FAMOUS NAMES
State Alumni To
Meet F ebruary 17
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County Road To
Get New Bridge
The State Highway Commission
has advertised for bids on a pro
ject involving 1.22 miles of grad
ing, paving and structures on the
road from US 1 highway at Pine-
dene to the Bethesda Road.
According to T. G. Poindexter,
Eighth division engineer of the
State Highway Commission, the
project will eliminate a dangerous
grade, crossing of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad and will give
convoys from Pope Air Force Base
and Fort Bragg better access to
main highways in this area.
Some Southbound trains, ac
cording to Mr. Poindexter, main
tain a speed of about 70 mph at
the present crossing. The new
bridge will be built about 2,000
feet-south of the present crossing
and the road will be considerably
improved to that point.
The present road is dirt.
The Board of County Commis
sioners adopted a resolution ap
proving the project at their meet
ing this week. See page 12 for
details.
State College lalumni of Moore
County will gather at the South
ern Pines Country Club Friday
night of next week, February 17,1 anniversary of scouting
Scouts of County
To Attend Church
In Family Groups
A large number of events, in
cluding special family worship
services Sunday morning, are
scheduled for the few remaining
days in which Boy Scout units in
Moore County take part in the
nation-wide observance of Boy
Scout Week.
Various “Blue and Gold” ban
quets have been scheduled Friday
and Saturday nights by Ciib
packs, and a few have been sched
uled by scout and explorer units.
Sunday, which marks the last
day of the observance of the 46th
in the
for their annual election of offi
cers and a dinner program that
features a talk by Dean Camp
bell of State’s famed textile
school.
AU who plan to attend are ask
ed to notify Lee Buchan Of Aber
deen, vice-president of the Moore
County State College Alumni
Club. J. Graves Vann of Southern
Pines is president of the organi
zation. AU State alumni are in
vited, whether or not they have
formerly been associated with the
club.
Club members are making
plans to attend as a group the
State-Wake Forest basketbaU
game in Raleigh February 25.
LISTING DEADLINE
Moore County tax payers
have been reminded that next
Wednesday, February 15, is
the last day to list property
for 1956 taxes.
After that date, according
to Mrs. EsteUe Wicker, tax
supervisor, cmyone not listing
property is liable for a 10 per
cent penalty.
United States, church-sponsored
units wiU be recognized as part of
the worship service in many of
the county’s churches.
Among the units are Southern
Pines 223 and Pack 73, Brownson
Memorial i Presbyterian Church,
and Explorer Post 809, Church of
Wide Fellowship.
At the Baptist Church in South
ern Pines Sunday morning, a part
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Dawson To Head
Library Group
A. C. Dawson, superintendent of
the Southern Pines school system,
was elected president of the
Southern Pines Library Associa
tion, succeeding George Leonard,
who was elected first vice-presi
dent, at the annual meeting of the
Association this afternoon.
Mrs. James Boyd was elected
second vice-president. Re-elected
were John Ostrom, secretary, and
C. H. Bowman, treasurer. '
Various reports of the library’s
activities for 1955 and projected
activities for 1956 were heard. ,
Great Art Of
19th Century
On View Here
'The exhibit now hung in the
Library Gallery, a loan collection
from the files of New York’s fam
ed Museum of Modern Art, is a
double treat, qualifying as both
an educational and an aesthetic
experience of rare value.
As an educational project, the
show surpasses any held here
recent years. It covers, howevdr
briefli’. . . in view of the small
ness of the local gallery. . . the
range of leading 19th century
French painters. This in itself
insures double enrichment; for
the beauty of the paintings could'
hardly be bettered by a different
selection. Though it could be
equalled again and again from
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775 TO ATTEND CHILDREN'S CONCERT
Little Symphony To Play Twice Friday
Friday’s double appearance of
the North Carolina Little Sym
phony in Southern Pines, spon
sored by the Sandhills Music As
sociation, promises to be one of
the most interesting ever pre
sented here.
Under the direction of Dr. Ben
jamin Swalin, veteran conductor
of the nationally-famous N. C.
Symphony Orchestra, the Little
Symphony will play for some 775
Moore County children Friday
afternoon. The evening concert,
starting at 8:30, will include a Mo-
zaft violin concerto, with Miss
Viviane Bartolami as soloist, and
a pleascmtly varied program.
Both events will be in Weaver
Auditorium.
Pupils from the third through
eighth grades in 11 Moore Coun
ty schools will be transported by
bus and private automobile to
Southern Rnes where they will
join local boys and girls from
those grades in the most careful
ly organized children’s symphony
concert ever staged in the county.
Admission for all school children
DR. SWALIN
is free, according to the sym
phony’s policy.
Evening Program
The evening program will open
with Nicolai’s overture to “The
Merry Wives of Windsor,” arid
the orchestra will play Haydn’s
“Oxford” symphony in G-major
before Miss Bartolami’s appear
ance in the E-flat Mozart con
certo.
A widely varied selection of
dances by Bach, Sibelius, Straus
and Bartok (six Roumanian
dances) follows and the program
will be concluded with Rossini’s
ballet music from “William Tell”
and overture to “H Signor Brus-
chino.”
Miss Mary Logan, Moore Coun
ty schools supervisor, is chairman
of the children’s concert. Serving
tyith her on the committee are
Mrs. Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., mu
sic teacher in the local schools,
and Mrs. Ralph Chandler, Jr.
Lawrence Johnson of Aberdeen is
president of the sponsoring Sand
hills Music Association.
Mrs. Swalin, wife of the con
ductor, will do a running com
ment on the program during the
children’s concert, as in past
years.
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Mrs. Ives Gives
$5,000 To Fund
For Alston House
A gift of $5,000 has been made
to the Alston House Fund of the
Moore County Historical Associa
tion by the president of the socie
ty, Mrs. Ernest L. Ives.
Announcement of the gift was
made to the Board of Directors by
the vice-president of the society.
Judge Leland McKeithen, as they
met at his home in Pinehurst Sun
day evening.
Present beside the host were
Mrs. Katherine N. McColl, Mrs. L.
T. Avery, recording secretary,
Mrs. Albert Tufts, Mrs. James
Boyd, and Messrs. R. E. Wicker,
George Maurice, Sheriff Charles
J. McDonald, E. T. McKeithen and
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., treasurer.
Following the announcement of
the gift, which was accepted in a
resolution of grateful thanks to
the donor, the group discussed
lengthily plans for completion of
the project with the funds now at
hand.
It was agreed that the plaster
ing of the interior, exterior paint
ing, enclosing of the space under
the house with some sort of lat
tice, and most other contemplated
improvements could now be car
ried out.
Here, they examine a Cezanne still life. Behind
them hangs a Gaugin South Sea scene. Rous
seau’s “Bleeping Gypsy,” center, is partially hid
den by a head. The reproductions, hung in the
gallery and also in part of the North Carolina
wing, were obtained through the Museum of
Modern Art in New York City. (Pilot Photo).
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Hunter Trials To
Be Held At Scott
Farm February 18
Sandhills horse life swings into
full stride next Saturday, FebrU'
ary 18, when the twenty-fourth
annual Hunter Trials will be held
at 2 p. m. at Scotts’- Comers.
The picturesque event, consid
ered one of the country’s out
standing displays of horses and
horsemanship, is expected to in
clude most of Moore County’s
best horses and riders arid an un*’
usually large number from other
barts of the country.
As usual, the Moore County
Hounds will parade to open the
event, proceeds of which go into
the hunt’s fencing fund. W. O.
Moss, M. F. H., will be handling
the pack, with Mrs. Moss, secre
tary, whipping in, and Dennis
Crotty in the second whip’s posi
tion.
Judging this year will be Mr.
and Mrs. Gilbert Humphrey of
Chagrin Valley, Ohio. Hum
phrey, incidentally, is the son of
the Secretary of the Treasury,
George M. Humphrey.
Classes for open hunters, weight
classes, classes for v)orking hunt
ers, green hunters, hunt teams in
livery and other features figure on
the varied program.
The event, always attracting a
large number of viewers, may be
seen from the hilltop at the start
of the course, at the further end
of Young’s Road. Parking space
reservations are in the charge of
Mrs. Moss of Mile Away Farm.
The annual Hunt Ball will be
held again this year at Pine
Needles Club from eight until one
o’clock Saturday night. Dinner
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College Lost To Town
But Tt Was Good Try’
Final Count On
Pledges More
Than $457,000
Disappointment in their effort
for consideration as the site of the
new Presbyterian college this
week brought from Southern
Pines and Moore County people
mainly the reaction: “Well—it was
a good try.”
The Moore County College
Committee was notified by tele-
Car Owners Given
Warning: Deadline
For Tags Feb. 15
With all 1955 auto tags due to
expire Wednesday, February 15,
the Southern Pines Chamber, of
Commerce this week issued a re
minder to motor vehicle owners
that, unless they buy their new
state tags this week, they may
have to stand in line.
As an aid to last-minute buy
ers, however, the Chamber auto
license bureau will stay open
until 4 p. m. Wednesday, without
observing the usual half-day clos
ing. '
The bureau will be closed from
12 noon to 1 p. m. Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. Miss Baxter
and Mrs. Fobes, who are on duty
there, have been “spelling” each
other for the lunch hour, but the
crowds are getting too large for
one person to handle, so they will
keep' a joint schedule next week.
The office is closed promptly
at 4 p. m. so the daily reports
can be made and mailed accord
ing to Carolina Motor Club regu
lations.
By Tuesday of this week, Mrs.
Fobes reported, 4,649 state tqgs
had been sold at the local bureau,
or 773 more than at the same
period last year. They have also
sold 600 town tags.
Moore Democrats
Surpass Quota
Moore is the first county in the
state to oversubscribe its quota
of tickets for the Jefferson-
Jackson Day Dinner, annual
Democratic pow-wow which will
be held February 25 at the Sir
Walter Hotel in Raleigh.
According to W. Lament
Brown, chairman of the Moore
Democratic Executive Commit
tee, nine tickets, costing $50 each,
have been sold to Moore Demo
crats. This is three more than the
quota.
Brown said that tickets were
getting quite scarce and that,
should anyone care to attend the
dinner, they should contact him
no later than this weekend.
Senator Stuart Symington of
Missouri will be the featimed
speaker at the dinner.
Pinebluff Resident To Head Red Cross
Membership, Fund Campaign In March
Heart Fund Drive
Opens Next Week
The annual campaign of the Na
tional Heart Fund will be headed
in Moore Coxmty by Mrs. Nolley
Jackson, with Mrs. Garland Mc
Pherson as treasurer, it was an
nounced this wek. Both live in
Southern Pines.
Mrs. Jackson said that letters
appealing for funds will go out
about February 16 and that “tag
day” contributions will be receiv
ed at the post office here from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. February 25.
The drive is part/of the National
Heart Fund campaign to finance
research in the cause, prevention
and alleviation of heart diseases.
J. D. Ives of Pinebluff, a retired
college professor who is active in
Boy Scout work and other civic
projects, has been named chair
man of Moore County’s 1956
American Red Cross membership
and fund campaign, it was an
nounced today by Garland Mc
Pherson of Southern Pines, chap
ter chairman.
With a quota of $14,920, the an
nual drive will take place during
the month of March.
Gordon H. Clark of Southern
Pines and John A. Tuckerman of
Jackson Springs will serve on the
comniittee with Dr. Ives.
Born in Maine, but having a
lifelong association with the Sand
hills, Dr. Ives received B.A. and
M.A. degrees from Wake Forest
College. He later did graduate
work at the University of Chicago
and Yale University, New Haven,
Conn., and taught biology for
many years.
Mr. Clark returned to North
Carolina, his native state, after a
career in the milling business in
Minnesota. Mr. Tuckerman came
to this state from New England
where he was. a leading banker.
Officers of the Moore Red Cross
chapter this week asked fcflfgen-
J. D. IVES
eral support of the campaign and
cooperation with the committee
and the community chairmen who
will be named. They pointed out
that about $500,000 was spent by
the Red Cross in North Carolina
last year for hurricane rehabilita
tion work.
phone from Raleigh Friday night,
after the trustees had taken their
final ballot, that Southern Pines
was one. of 12 towns—and the last
of the 12—to be eliminated, leav
ing five from which the final lo
cation wiU be chosen.
No specific reasons for the se
lection of the fiye remaining
towns or elimination of 12 were
officially given by the trustees in
their public announcement, but
William H. Neal of Winston-Sal
em, chairman of the board, said
they had given consideration to all
factors, not just promised finan
cial support.
“We have sincerely sought,” he
said, “to discover the pl^ce where
it (the college) would most likely
have its fullest development, and
where it would receive the contin
ued support of the entire com
munity.”
From this statement and from
information reaching the local
committee from the trustee board,
some reasons for elimination of
Southern Pines appear to be lack
of population, less money than
was pledged in other communities
and the somewhat cryptic state
ment that Southern Pines is not a
“typical town.”
The elimination came following
the local presentation made at
Raleigh last Wednesday by mem
bers of the committee, accom
panying their bid' with an offer of
almost half a million dollars, a
$300,000 memorial bequest and a
beautiful site valued by independ
ent appraisers at $364,000.
AU of the five towns who made
it through the elimination—Laur-
inburg, Lumberton, Fay^tteviUe,
Rocky Mount and Wilmington—
made offers of well over $1,000,000
plus other considerations.
The elimination came at the
close of a six-months effort to at
tract the college, culminating in a
pledge campaign lasting three
months, and covering aU parts of
the county.
A. L. Burney of Southern Pines,
chairman of the Moore County
College Committee, said this
week, “The response of the people
was wonderful, and showed weU
the high value they set upon this
type of enterprise. Many people
worked very hard in the effort to
secure the college, and I do not
feel that any of their work was
wasted. Such a fine, selfless, co
operative endeavor brings re
wards of its own to any commun
ity. Also, we gained a great deal
of the finest type of pubUcity.”
1.586 Pledges Made
The project was the largest of
its sort ever undertaken by the
people of Moore County, the re
sults the greatest. A few pledges
drifted in after the campaign end
ed, bringing the final total of
pkdges to $457,677 from 1,586 in
dividual contributors.
Of this, $285,020 was pledged in
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RESOLUTIONS LAUD
COLLEGE EFFORTS
Resolutions adopted this
week by the Moore County
Presbyterian College Execu
tive Committee and by the
Chamber of Commerce recog
nize efforts here and through
out the county during the
long campaign to bring the
college to Southern Pines.
The executive committee's
resolution expresses gratitude
to all concerned and the
Chamber of Commerce resolu
tion expresses the board of
directors' appreciation of the
County Executive Commit
tee's work.
Full texts of both resolu
tions are printed elsewhere in
today's Pilot.
PANEL SESSION
SLATED BY PTA
A panel discussion'on school
extra-curricular activities will
be conducted at the regular
meeting of the Southern Pines
Parent-Teacher Association,
to be held in Weaver Audito
rium at 8 p.m. Thursday night
of next week, February 16.
With the Rev. C. K. Ligon
as moderator, the panel will
include two high school stu
dents, Jacque Davenport and
Bobby Cline, and Mrs. Leon
Seymour, Mrs. John D. Mc
Connell,' W. A. Leonard of the
school faculty and Dr. Charles
Phillips.
Various extra-curricular ac
tivities at the Southern Pines
schools win be described prior
to the panel discussion.