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VOL. 37—NO. 35
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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JULY 19. 1956
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UNDERCOVER AGENT TESTIFIES
More Liquor Cases Tried Tuesday;
Fines, Suspended Sentences Ordered
Nineteen more defendants,
charged with 44 counts of viola
ting the prohibition laws, were
in Moore County Recorder’s
Court at a special session Tues
day.
The defendants were the last of
more than 50 that had been ar
rested in sweeping raids by coun
ty and state ABC officers June
9. The others were tried June 14,
with most receiving road sen
tences, suspended on payment of
fines.
Only two of the defendants
Don Traylor To
Head Lions Club
Here This Year
Don Traylor was installed as
president of the Southern Pines
Lions Club for the 1956-57 year at
ceremonies held at the Country
Club last Friday night.
He succeeds Bill Benson.
They, along with the other offi
cers were installed by Coy Daw
kins of Rockingham, district gov
ernor.
Prior to the installation Daw
kins addressed the club, calling on
it to increase its membership for
the coming year’ because “such an
increase is vitally necessary since
the whole world will be looking
at North Carolina this year.”
Dawkins, just back from the re
cent Lions Convention in Miami,
said the other clubs in the world
would be looking at this state be
cause the international president,
John Stickley, is from Charlotte.
“It would be nothing less than
awful if the Lions Clubs in this
state failed to really do a big job
in improving clubs and getting
more members this year,” Daw
kins said.
Dawkins said that more than
6,000 North Carolinians attended
the convention.
Attending from the Southern
Pines Club were Don Traylor, in
coming president, and Bill Benson,
whom he succeeds.
At the installation meeting held
last Friday night, Dawkins called
on each new officer to take fuU
reabzation of the responsibilities
he was about to receive.
Benson was presented with a
handsome retiring president’s gav
el at the conclusion of the meet
ing.
tried Tuesday appealed the con
victions: Letha Rowaui Harris and
k^rtle Cole, both sentenced to
six months in Women’s Division
of Central Prison.
The two gave notice of appeal
to Superior Court, which begins
August 6, and Judge J. Vance
Rowe set bond at. $350 for each
Bessie Prescott, who had been
convicted on similar charges pre
viously, objected strenuously to
a special SBI undercover agent’s
method of obtaining evidence and
expressed her objections on the
witness stand. Such methods
were not fair, she contended, and
she shouldn’t be convicted.
Judge Rowe, noting that she
had a total of seven counts lodg
ed against her, gave her 18
months in Central Prison and or
dered her to serve the previous
suspended sentence concurrently.
Here are the defendants and
sentences imposed:
Tonzle Akins, Aberdeen, two
counts, 60 days on roads, sus
pended two years on payment of
$50 and costs and on condition he
refrain from violating prohibition
laws during that period.
Alphus Stubbs and Clara Jane
Stubbs, Carthage, two counts, 12
months as to Alphus, suspended
five years on payment of $250
and costs, and not violate prohibi
tion laws during that period; and
60 days in jail as to Clara Jane
Stubbs, suspended two years on
payment of fine of $25 and costs.
Whit Hines, Southern Pines, two
counts, six months on roads, sus
pended for three years on pay
ment of $150 and costs.
Gertrude Gillis, Southern
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Contract Awarded
For Demolition
Of Old Town Hall
Town officials have awarded a
contract to John Ferguson of Ab
erdeen to tear down the old Town
Hall building on South East Broad
Street, it was announced today by
Manager Tom Cunningham.
Ferguson, who said he would
start demolition some time this
week if weather permitted, has 90
days to carry out the contract.
The contract carried no money
stipulations; Ferguson is doing the
job for the material he can sal
vage.
Circus Trains Pass Through
People who saw it said it was
one of the saddest things they had
ever witnessed.
They were talking about the
Ringling Brothers circus trains
that came through Southern Pines
in three different sections Wed
nesday.
The people on the train had long
faces. The train, they knew, was
taking them back to winter head
quarters in Sarasota where, it is
understood, the circus will be dis
mantled. Poor attendance, bad
weather, and a long history of bad
luck had forced the circus to give
up its annual tour of the country.
There were several boys and
girls standing along Broad Street
when the first section of the train
passed through about 8:30 yester-
dai^ morning. Nothing but trucks
and heavy equipment on the flat
cars . . . equipment that was be
ing sent to Sarasota) to get ready
to dismantle the rest of the “Big
Top.”
To them, another freight train.
Later trains, one about 6:15 and
another about 6:45 in the evening,
carried animals, portable seats
and cages.
It was a sad day.
Sad, that is, for people who had
once awaited eagerly for the cir
cus to come to town.
Others, youngsters who have
been subsisting on a steady diet of
Ed Sullivan and other TV per
formers, couldn’t quite get the
feeling.
■ They just didn’t know.
Pinebluff Phone
Company Secures
Government Loan
Congressman Charles B’. Deane
of the Eighth North Carolina Dis
trict announced Tuesday that
REA Headquarters in Washing
ton, D. C., has approved a loan
application submitted by the
Pinebluff Telephone Company,
for $132,000.00.
The loan, Deane said, will en
able the Pinebluff Telephone
Company to provide modern dial
service for 160 of its present sub
scribers and to extend telephone
service to 158 additional farm
families, now without telephone
service, in the counties of Moore,
Hoke, Richmond and Scotland.
The president of the Pinebluff
Telephone Company is Mrs. A.
G. Wallace of Pinebluff.
In announcing the REA loan
approval Deane said, “It pleases
me very much to report that the
REA has approved the loan ap
plication of the Pinebluff Tele
phone Company for sufficient
funds to extend telephone facili
ties to many farm families in the
Sandhill section of North Caro
lina that have .needed these fa
cilities for a long time.
“This is another example of the
growing effort to provide our
farm families with modern con
veniences that will improve their
JayceesToHold
Charter Night
Program Friday
Presentation of its charter and
official recognition as the 109th
member of the North Carolina
Junior Chamber of Commerce will
be presented to the recently or
ganized Southern Pines chapter
Friday night at the Country Club.
Jim Baird, local president, said
today that upwards of 100 people,
including state Jaycee officials
and civic club leaders in this area,
will attend the “Charter Night”
program, which begins with a
banquet at 7 p.m.
Scheduled to attend the pro
gram are Bob Cox of Chapel Hill,
state Jaycee president; Tuck Gud-
ger, district vice-president of the
district in which Southern Pines
is located; John Googe of Win
ston-Salem, national Jaycee direc
tor, Red Gurganus, past state pres
ident, and several other state of
ficials.
Also scheduled to attend are
John Ponzer, president of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club, Mark
King, president of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce, A.
C. Dawson, president of the
Southern Pines Rotary Club, Don
Traylor, president of the Lions
Club, a number of Jaycees who
formerly belonged to a Southern
Pines chapter, and members of the
Carthage and Aberdeen clubs.
Baird reminded local members
once again today that they must
get in 'touch with him or a mem
ber of the Charter Night commit
standard of, living and afford tee in order to secure reservations
them equal facilities with those for the banquet. It is essential to
of city dwellers. During my
period of service in Congress, I
have exerted my best efforts to
improve the living conditions and
facilities of our rural .people.”
know, he said, before 10 a.m. Fri
day.
Charlie Clapp, announcer at ra
dio station WEEB, will serve as
toastmaster at the program.
French Government Decorates Local Woman
Almost 12 years have passed
since Nazi troops, determined to
conquer the world for a mad
‘Adolph Hitler, invaded France
and placed a steel grip of occupa
tion on the country.
The -occupation brought to a
halt all work by charitable and
other service organizations
throughout the world that had
been sending help to the war-
stricken country.
Among the organizations whose
work was halted was “Les Amities
Feminines de la France,” (Femi
nine Friendship for France) an or
ganization which had, for some
years,. been sending a steady
stream of cases filled with warm
clothing, sweaters and blankets
for babies and children.
Last week the founder of “Les
Amities Feminines de la France,”
Mrs. L. Henry Pierre Delarue of
Southern Pines, was informed by
the French consulate in Washing
ton that France had remembered
her work and had bestowed upon
her the “Madaille de la Reconnais
sance Francaise,” an acknowledge
ment of gratitude.
Mrs. Delarue, with her hus
band, a former chief reception of
ficer of the French Line, came to
Southern Pines for a vacation in
1949. They had left New York for
a brief period while their apart
ment was being painted and plan
ned to stay here just a short time.
But after one day here they de
cided to stay and said farewell to
New York.
Mrs. Delarue, an inveterate ad
mirer of anything French, was re
turning from one of her periodic
trips to France in 1938 when the
idea struck her to organize a
group of women—^they were all on
board the ship—to promote friend
ship and understanding between
France and the United States, and i
MRS. L. HENRY PIERRE DELARUE
to provide a means of exchanging
cultural interests between Ameri
can and French women.
Eight women joined the group.
In 1939, when war was more
than a threat, the group decided
to direct their energies towards
war relief.
For the next five years Mrs.
Delarue worked tirelessly to help
France. She and members of her
organization staged dozens of ben
efits—teas, luncheons, French art
shows—to raise funds to Carry on
their work.
Once, there were seven ships,
including the famed Normandie,
docked in the New York harbor.
The ships were unable to return
to France and the crews, their pay
stopped, were restless with bore
dom and lacked many of the es
sentials of a reasonably comfor
table living.
Mrs. Delarue and members of
“Les Amities Feminines” prompt
ly moved in and started raising
money to help the French sailors.
They also encouraged athletics to
relieve the boredom, furnishing
necessary equipment and prizes,
and staged innumerable other af
fairs that were of great assistance
to the stranded sailors.
The society operated a work
shop in St. Thomas Parish House
in New York, staffed by volunteer
workers who spent many hours
collecting and making clothing for
destitute French children. The
workshop was partially supported
by an adjoining souvenir shop.
The hundreds of cases of clothing
were sent to French refugees both
in England and France.
Branches of the organization
sprouted in a number of towns in
the country and on college cam
puses. Volunteers numbered in
the hundreds and Mrs. Delarue
and the society recei-ved countless
words of praise for the fine work
they were doing.
“All of it,” she has said, “was
because of a deep love I had for
France and by the consuming in
terest the women of this fcountry
had for the French children. Mem
bers of the society were the most
selfless people I have ever
known.”
Shortly after the dark days of
1944 when the Germans occupied
France, Mrs. Delarue also encoun
tered dark (Jays. She slowly start
ed losing her eyesight.
Together, the two factors were
too much . . . the work of the so
ciety stopped.
Today, Mr. and Mrs. Delarue,
who live in a house on Morganton
Toad well furnished with antiques,
are planning a trip to France next
spring. This will be the first time
either has visited since they were
married.
Mr. Delarue, an- accomplished
amateur chef who does all the
cooking in the Delarue home, is a
native of France and has crossed
the Atlantic 301 times. The pro
posed trip next spring has, he ad
mits, generated more excitement
in him than any of the others.
Governor Reveals
Education Bills
At Press Meeting
Governor Hodges made public
at Raleigh Saturday the steps he
and his Advisory Committee plan
to recommend that the Legisla
ture and the people take in order
to “preserve public schools and
help preserve the public peace.”
The Pilot was represented at
the conference.
The Governor and Tom PearsaU,
chairman of the N. C. Advisory
Committee on Education, held
statewide news conferences simul
taneously at Raleigh and in Ashe
ville. There they and their asso
ciates presented copies of suggest
ed bills to bq submitted to the
Legislature in a special session
starting Monday. Then they an
swered questions.
Gist of Plan
The gist of the school preserva
tion plan would provide attend
ance expense grants, formerly re
ferred to as tuition grants, to citi
zens who do not want their chil
dren to go to school with a mem
ber of the opposite race, and allow
a local school unit to suspend op
eration of its schools, upon ma
jority public vote, if the situation
is considered intolerable.
If the Legislature approves, the
people of North Carolina may
vote on these questions. At the
news conference Governor Hodges
named Saturday, September 8 as
a likely election date.
Holding of the news conference
followed conferences with legisla
tors in four convenient places in
the state. These sessions were
harmonious, it was reported, and
led to several changes in the pro
posed legislation.
Bills Summarized
Five bills were released at Sat
urday’s conferences.
Here, briefly, is what the sug
gested bills would do:
1. Provide for a pubhc vote on
the question of amending the
State constitution to permit the
General Assembly to provide lo
cal option and education expense
grants. A local option unit is de
fined as “Any county or city
school administrative unit, or any
convenient and reasonable terri
torial subdivision within an ad
ministrative unit which includes
within its boundaries one or more
public schools.”
The statewide vote would de
cide whether permission would be
given the General Assembly to
authorize upno majority vote of
its voters, to suspend or authorize
the suspension of the operation of
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County Commissioners
Get Request For Rural
Fire Protection System
Delegation Asks
Initial Funds For
Three Fire Units
Rural fire protection for Moore
County came in for a two-hour
discussion between the Board of
Commissioners and interested cit
izens groups at a meeting held in
the courthouse Monday night.
Such protection, it was pointed
out by W. R. Kennedy, mayor of
Robbins and leader of a group
seeking to convince the commis
sioners of the need, had been re
quested before, but never with
any results.
Attending the meeting were of
ficials of about a dozen county
towns and members of volunteer
fire departments in those towns
or communities.
Kennedy, accompanied by
DR. MARK LINDSEY
Rotary’s District
Governor To Make
Annual Visit Here
Moore Scouts To
Make Good Will
Tour Around Cuba
The first Occoneechee Council
International Good Will tour be
gins Monday as 90 boys and 14
adult leaders leave for Havana,
Cuba, and two weeks of sight
seeing.
Going from Moore District will
be the following scouts: Kent
Kelly, John Chappell, Jimmy Mc
Donald, Jack Carter, A1 Butler,
and Jimmy Parker, all from
Southern Pines, and the follow
ing from Pinehurst: Johnny
Grier, Bobby Tufts, Albert Sneed,
Carter Burwell, and Ralph Gilli
land.
The adult leader from Moore
District will be Billy McKenzie,
of Pinehurst, scoutmaster of
Troop 7.
They will leave Southern Pines
by chartered bus at 9:30 Monday
morning, from the high school.
Two other busses from' this coun
cil will join them at Sumter, S.
C., and all are scheduled to spend
the night at Jacksonville Naval
Air Station.
There will be sight-seeing at
Jacksonville and Miami, from
which they will go by boat to
Havana harbor, join a day-long
Cuban scout camporee, and go to
Candler Methodist College in Ha
vana for the night.
After eight days in Cuba, the
»roup will return via Miami, Fort
Myers, Tampa, Silver Springs and
Ocala, Fla., and arrive from
Georgia Sunday afternoon, Au
gust 5.
The scouts will be guests of the
Bov Scouts of Cuba. During part
of the visit, each will be the guest
of a Cuban Scout.
Headquarters will be at Cand
ler College.
The Rotary Club of Southern
Pines will be host at the regular
Friday meeting to Dr. Mark
Lindsey, Governor of the 281st
district of Rotary International,
who is now making his annual
official visits to each of the 33
clubs in the central district of the
state.
Dr. Lindsey will address the lo
cal club and will later confer
with A. C. Dawson, president,
James Hartshorne, secretary, and
various comiraittee chairmen on
administration and service activ
ities.
Dr. Lindsey is a surgeon in
Hamlet and is a member and past
president of the Hamlet Rotary
(jlub. He was elected district gov
ernor of Rotary International for
the 1956-57 fiscal year at Rotary’s
47th annual convention in Phil
adelphia last, June.
SgJ. Chandler
Resigns From
Local Police
The resignation of Sgt. H. V.
Chandler, Jr., of the Southern
Pines police department was an
nounced today by Chief C. E.
Newton.
Sgt. Chandler, who has been
with the local department since
December, 1953, will take a posi
tion as chief of the police depart
ment Of Ayden, North Carolina,
later this month.
A former special agent of the
North Carolina Alcoholic Bever
age Control Board, Sgt. Chand
ler has been living with his wife
and two children, Brenda, 15, and
Jerry, 13, at 275 W. New Hamp
shire Ave.
Chief Newton indicated today
that a promotion to fill Sgt.
Chandler’s position would be
made from within the present
personnel of the local depart
ment.
For the present, he said. Officer
Malcolm Stout is serving as acting
sergeant.
He commended Sgt. Chandler
for the excellent work he had
performed here during the past
three years and said Sgt. Chand
ler had done much to improve
police work during that period.
I Ralph Steed of Robbins, present
ed- to the commissioners a pro
posal that would, if looked on
favorably by the commissioners,
do much to alleviate what he
called a “severe and critical prob
lem facing the rural people of
this county.”
Proposals
Under the proposal the com
missioners would appropriate this
year sufficient funds to purchase
three fire fighting units, and ad
ditional funds each succeeding
year until enough units had been
purchased to insure adequate
protection. Kennedy said that
probably nine or ten units would
be enough.
The units would be housed in
local fire departments, Kennedy
said, and would be serviced by
the various towns. In return for
such service the towns would use
the units to supplement their own
protection.
Kennedy also proposed that all
fire chiefs in the county be ap
pointed as a committee to select
the type equipment which should
be purchased, and that a commit
tee of mayors be appointed to de
termine details of the location
and other procedures to be used
in administering the fire pro-
Pram.
County Responsible
Southern Pines officials at the
meeting — Mayor Voit Gilmore,
Manager Tom Cunningham;, and
City Clerk Louis Scheipers, Jr.—
were in agreement that the coun
ty should take the responsibility
of providing rural fire protection.
Gilmore reminded the commis
sioners that it was their responsi
bility to safeguard rural areas
against fire,, and, he added, such
protection has been lacking. He
told the commissioners that a
blan of “subsidy,” in which
the commissioners would allocate
certain money to each town on
an annual basis to fight rural
fires would be acceptable to
Southern Pines.
At present, he pointed out.
Southern Pines has a property
valuation of some $7 million,
which is provided excellent fire
protection. In addition, he said,
another $1 million in property on
the outskirts of Southern Pines is
protected by the Southern Pines
fire department on a fee basis.
The total $8 million in property
valuation represents almost 20
percent of the county’s total val
uation, he pointed out, so that
on any “subsidy” arrangement.
Southern Pines would receive at
least 20 per cent of any funds set
up for rural fire protection.
Other towns, he pointed out,
should receive the same treat
ment.
Gilmore a*greed with Kennedy
and the other spokesmen that ru
ral fire protection was urgently
needed. He said that it was ex
tremely difficult for people in
Southern Pines to be in a position
of having to sit by and watch a
neighbor’s house burn, but that
under present regulations of the
state’s fire control board, that
was the policy that had to be fol
lowed unless people in designa
ted areas pay a fee for the pro
tection.
All the officials at the meeting
said that rural fire protection
plans are working in other coun
ties. Kennedy said the commis
sioners would not be able to find
a single person in the county
^^gainst rural fire protection,”
even those in towns.
Budget Difficulties
Chairman Gordon Cameron of
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Court of Honor
Planned Monday
Boy Scouts of the Moore Dis
trict of Occoneeched Council will
hold a Court of Honor Monday at
8 p.m. in the high school audito
rium at- Robbins, according to
Frank McNeill, advancement
chairman.
Mayors of several to-wns in the
county will present the awards.
One Eagle Scout award is also
scheduled.
Parents and friends of the
scouts are invited.