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FOOTBALL STRATEGY was the subject of
this conversation as Coach Irie Leonard took
time out during a recent workout to pose with
three Blue Knights who^re expected to carry a
major portion of the team’s success on their col
lective shoul(^ers this year. Getting instructions
xrom Coach Leonard for the season opener here
tomorrow night against Carthage are, from left,
Tony Parker, Lynn van Benschoten, and Roger
Verhoeff.
Blue Knights Set To Open Season
Here Tomorrow Against Carthage
(Pilot photo)
The Southern Pines Blue^
Knights, trained to a fine edge in
three weeks of strenuous work
outs, open their , 1956 campaign
against Carthage tomorrow (Fri
day) night at Memorial Field.
With a record of three state
championships for six-man foot
ball and a reputation as one of the
outstanding teams in the country
to protect, the Blue Knights are
looking for a quick victory to get
the season off to a good start. Car
thage opened last week' with a
19-18 victory over Pittsboro.
Coach Irie Leonard said this
fnoming that injuries to two mem
bers of the team had failed to
dampen the spirits of the team.
Lynn van Benschoten has come
down with an infected toe but is
expected to be ready for at least
part of the game. And John van
Benschoten has a sore shoulder
and is a doubtful player.
Leonard said the tentative start
ing lineups would be, for the of
fensive team, Tony Parker, center;
James Bowers, guard; Roger Ver
hoeff, right end;,Bobby Parker or
Kenneth Creech, quarterback;
Charles Watkins or Sammy Self,
wingback; and Lynn van Benscho
ten, tailback.
Defensively, the tentative start
ing lineup has Parker at end,
Lynn van Benschoten at guard,
Creech at end, Bobby Parker and
Charles Watkins at halfback, and
Billy Hamel at) defensive safety.
Hamel will probably do the
punting and Watkms will kick the
points after touchdown.
Leonard said the band and
cheerleaders would be on hand,
and that programs would be sold
by the Blue Knights Boosters.
He requested fans to use the
parking lot below the field house
arid to get to the field early for a
choice seat.
One change from last year: ad
mission is up, at least for adults.
Prices this year are 75 cents for
adults and 25 cents for students.
Photo Exhibit To
Be Art Gallery’s
1st Show Of Year
A photography show entitled
“North Carolina from Mountains
to Coast” will be the first offering
of the Southern Pines Library Art
Gallery committee this fall, it has
been anhounced by Mrs. Alwin
Folley, exhibit chairman.
The show, which begins Sep
tember 10 and runs through Sep
tember 29, will consist of some 60
pictures selected from a group of
75 by the state’s top photograph
ers. The exhibit has been loaned
by the N. C. Department of Con
servation and Development. Mrs.
Miriam Rabbj travel editor of the
state’s Advertising Division, se
lected the photographs that should
have the most appeal to Sand-
hillians.
Some of the titles may interest
Pilot readers and will give some
indication as to what to expect:
“Wreck on the Outer Banks,” by
John Hemmer; “Blowing Rock,”
by Gus Martin; “Orton Planta
tion,” by Sebastian Sommer; “Mist
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Council Sets Open
Meeting Tuesday
On New Town Hall
A public hearing on comments
concerning the design of the new
^uthem Pines Municipal Build
ing has been scheduled as part of
the regular Town Council meet-;
ing Tuesday night in the library.
Council, meeting in extra ses
sion Monday of last week, voted
to put the design and a model on
public display so that the public
could see them and offer com
ments prior to any move towards
formal adoption of the final
plans.
To date there has been very
little interest shown by the pub
lic in the design of the building.
The scale model of the building
as it is located in the entire pres
ent block, together with an ele
vation drawing will be on dis
play at the meeting Tuesday
night, which begins at 8 p. m.
■^e model is at present in the
offices of Tom Hayes, architect,
who was commissioned by Coun
cil to db the job. The public has
been invited to his office to see
the model, the plans, and to ask
'questions about them.
Also scheduled for the Tues
day night meeting is a discus
sion of the fund which Council
approved several months ago ap
proving the allocation of $2,000
to be used for advertising and
promotion providing a similar
amount is raised by public sub
scription.
James Hartshornei, resident
manager of the Highland Pines
Inn and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce, has been working as
a committee of one to raise the
funds and reports good results so
far.
Other business Of the Council
will be a public hearing on a res
olution to install curbing and
guttering on East Rhode Island
Avenue between Ridge arid May
Streets. A petition has been re
ceived indicating the majority of
property owners in the pre
scribed area wanted the work
done.
School Enrollment
Bigger Than 1955
Enrollment in the Southern
Pines school system was on the
upswing this year as only one
school in the system reported a
smaller enrollment figure than
last year.
A. C. Dawson, superintendent,
released the following figures this
morning, following opening yes
terday;
East Southern Pines elemen
tary: 1955, 549 enrolled; 1956, 560
enrolled.
East Southern Pines High
school; 1955, 165 enrolled; 1956,
203 enrolled.
West Southern Pines elementa
ry: 1955, 299 enrolled; 1956, 349
enrolled.
West Southern Pines High
School: 1955, 117 enrolled; 1956,
103 enrolled.
Dawson said the increase in the
East Southern Pines High School
came primarily as a result of 75
freshmen enrolling, the biggest
in the school’s history.
And last year, he pointed out,
there was a graduating class of
only 37.
Figures for West Southern Pines
elementary school are somewhat
misleading as compared to last
year, he said. Actually, the in
crease of 50 pupils is not necessa
rily a permanent one; usually the
first day enrollment in the school
is not as high as the permanent
enrollment since a large number
of the children do not come to
school the first day because they
are working, or for other reasons.
Invitations Will
Be Sent To 4,000
For Golf Carousel
Jaycees Expect
More Than 300
In Competition
Mailing of some 4,000 invita
tions to the third annual Southern
Pines Golf Carousel, being spon
sored this year by the newly-
formed Junior Chamber of Com
merce, begins early next week, it
was announced today by Charlie
Clapp and Bob Dunn, co-chair
men of the Jaycees’ Invitation
Committee.
The invitations will be going to
golfers throughout the country,
many of whom have played in the
two previous Carousels. In addi
tion, several private lists are be
ing used, comprising altogether
some 4,000 names.
The Jaycees arej looking for an
entry of more than 300 golfers for
the event, scheduled for Novem
ber 8, 9,10 and 11 over three local
course^Mil Pines, Pine Needles, n.uiux oo luen
and the Southern Pines Country when Gibbons’ car struck
Club. —
Dunn and Clapp said today that \rk t •
local golfers who intended enter- DemOCratS LaVlllff
mg the tournament should obtain *' “
entry blanks either from them or
from some other member of the ”Or MCaVV
Jaycees.
Entry fee this year is the same Yotft Ill NoVf'ttiViPf*
as the two preceding years—-$12.50 ’ «VCmWCr
^ With optimism running at an
tournament with ^o^n.V extremely high pitch, members of
wi h Johnnie Hall, | the Moore County Democratic Ex-
Vote On School Amendment Set
[For Satnrday; Li^ht Turnout Seen
12th Highway Death Reported
Paul Buie Coore, 17-year-old
Vass-Lakeview High School sen
ior, died at 1 a.m. Saturday in
Moore County Hospital from in
juries received two hours earlier
when the motor scooter which he
was riding was struck by an auto
mobile on US Highway 1 just
south of Lakeview.
He became the county^s 12th
traffic fatality of 1956. There were
13 recorded last year.
Winford Merlon Gibbons, 26, of
Route 3, Carthage, was arrested
by officers and charged with man
slaughter in the fatal accident. He
was released on $5,000 bond pend
ing a preliminary hearing before
a magistrate in Carthage Septem
ber 14 at 10 a.m.
According to State Highway Pa
trolman H. A. Hight, who investi
gated, Coore and a companion,
Joe iSalton Furr, Jr., were riding
the motor scooter on the highway
~ "' ' themi
from behind. Hight said that Gib
bons car traveled some 425 feet
before it stopped.
The impact of the crash was so
terrific, he said, that the scooter
was driven up into the grill of the
car and it was impossible for him
and Patrolman R. R. Samuels to
remove it.
Furr suffered lacerations and
multiple contusions and has been
reported doing well.
Coore was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank B. Coore of Lakeview.
Funeral services were held at
Lakeview Presbyterian Church
Sunday afternoon with the Rev.
Grover C. Currie, pastor, officiat
ing. Members of the senior class
at Vass-Lakeview served as pall
bearers and flower girls. Burial
was in the family plot in Lake-
view Cemetery.
In. addition to his parents, young
Coore is survived by four sisters,
Sylvia, Sue, Janet and Frances
Coore, all of the home.
has confirmed that a “pro-am’’
would be held in conjunction with
the Carousel. The “pro-am” is
scheduled for Thursday, Novem
ber 8, and will be held at South
ern Pines Country Club.
Carter said that a number of
pros in the state and several in
ecutive Committee met at the
Court House in Carthage Friday
night and held what one official
described as an “excellent” open
ing meeting in preparation for the
November Presidential election.
‘This is the year for the Demo
crats,” W. Lament Brown, South-
i j At_ v-idio, w. j-idmoni jjrown, ooiitii-
wS?omn^ indicated they Lm Pines attorney and chairman
w^ld compete. L, Executive Committee, told
The pro-am” is a separate part the group. /We have a platform
of the tournament and aU ama- that has been weU conceived and x-* -ux cumei-
teur entries will be required to we have two very strong candi-!, ^ , state legislative and
pay an extra entry fee, established dates ” (educational officiajls while the
pay an extra entry fee, established
at $6. Carter said that the scores
of the amateurs in the event
would also serve as their qualify
ing scores for the Carousel.
Also scheduled for the four-day
Dawson To Speak
On Pearsall Plan
At Public Meeting
A. C. Dawson, superintendent
of the Southern Pines school sys
tem, will explain the mechariics
of the 1955 Pupil Assignment
Act and the Pearsall Plan at an
open meeting of the Parent-
Teacher’s Association tonight
(Thursday) at 8 p. m. in Weaver
Auditorium.
Mr. Dawson, who served as
chairman of the State Legisla
tive Committee of the North Car
olina Educational Association,
took part in a number of confer-
with state legislative and
Others Give
Plan Backing
North Carolina voters will go
to the polls Saturday to vote on
what has been described as the
most profound changes in the ed
ucational system in the state in
the past 50 years.
Those changes are contained in-
an amendment to the State Con
stitution relating to public schools
and have come to be known as
the “Pearsall Plan,” after the
chairman of an educational ad
visory committee, Thomas Pe’ar-
sall of Rocky Mount.
Governor Hodges appointed
the committee to pome up with
some workable solution to a Su
preme Court decision which, in
effect, m^de it illegal to practice
segregation in the public schools.
The constitutional amendment
on which voting will take place
^turday would if approved, put
into effect two major pieces of
legislation affecting the schools.
These two bills, along with six
others which were approved by
the recent special session of the
General Assembly and are al
ready in effect, constitute, as a
dates.
He urged the members of the
conimittee to begin early prepara
tions for turning out a big vote in
their precincts
At the meeting it was tentative-
P^’^.'“>|ly'dedded tosra^aTerierrr^^^^^
cCTemonies when prizes lies in various localities in the
. county between now and election
The presentation of the prizes, time. Final decision and a sched-
which will be awarded to approx- ule of the rallies will be made at
mately half the entries, will be [another meeting tomorrow (Fri-
Held at Mid Pines Club at the con
clusion of the 36-hole final match
in the championship flight.
DIRECTORS TO MEET
The Board of Directors of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce wiU hold a regular meeting
at 8 p.m. Tuesday night at the
Chamber offices on East Pennsyl
vania Ave.
day) night beginning at 8 o’clock.
The committee has recommend
ed that rallies be held in Robbins,
Aberdeen, Cameron, Eureka, Pine-
bluff, Pinehurst, Southern Pines,
and Ca^hage. Some of the small
er precincts will be asked to com
bine forces for the rallies. Sched
uled for the combined affairs are
Ritters, Highfalls, and Deep River
precincts; Spencerville and Spies
precincts; and Bensalem and West
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re-writing of the state’s school
laws was being accomplished.
He and members of his com-
iqittee were invited to attend
hearings on both the Pupil As
signment Act and the proposed
Pearsall Plan legislation and of
fer suggestions.
Dr. Charles Phillips, PTA pres
ident, said this morning the
meeting would be turned into a
question and answer session after
Mr. Dawson spoke and that Mr.
Dawson would attempt to an
swer all questions that might
arise.
‘The meeting is in the public
interest and we are hoping for
a large turnout to hear these
most important details on pro
posed legislation that will cer
tainly have effects on the opera
tion of public schools in North
Carolina,” Dr. Phillips said.
A light vote in Moore Coun
ty is expected Saturday when
qualified voters go to the polls
to pass on four amendments
to the State Constitution-
Sam C. Riddle, chairman of
the county Board of Elections,
said early this morning that
registration had been light in
all but a few precincts in the
upper end of the county. He
pointed to Spies and Spencer
ville as two of the precincts
that had heavier thw'usual
registration, but said there
seemed to be little interest in
the election in, the lower end
of the county.
The polls will be open from
6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Satur
day.
Voters in Southern Pines
use the fire statiori on East.
New Hampshire Ave. as
polling place.
known as the
Methodists To Meet
In New Church Sunday
The Methodist Church of South
ern Pines will observe its second
birthday Sunday by meeting in
the new church building for Sun
day School and morning worship,
followed by a church family pic
nic dinner for which the various
families wil Icarry baskets.
This is the only service to be
held there before the completion
of the building. The Rev. R. L.
Bame is pastor.
The church observed Charter
Sunday September 12, 1954, the
ground-breaking service Septem
ber 11, 1955, and as next Sunday
will be the date nearest the birth
day, this special celebration is be
ing held in the unfinished build
ing.
NEW TEACHERS in the East Southern Pines school met with
their classes for the first time Wednesday morning. And, after
class, they looked as though the meetings had been a most pleas
ant experience. Pictured, left to right, are Kenneth Miller, who
teaches high school English and social studies; Miss Sally Cowles,
librarian; Mrs. Jean Jenkins, fourth grade; Mrs. Joan Ripple,
high school English and Spanish; and Mrs. Jane McPhaul, sixth
grade. In back is Mrs. Louise Milliken Howard, third grade.
(Pilot photo)
whole. What, is
Pearsall Plan.
The legislation would not
change existing language in the
constitution which requires the
state to maintain a free and uni
form system of public schools.
Instead, changes would be tacked
onto the Constitution as addi
tional sections, if they receive
voter approval Saturday.
One major law would permit
a child to receive a state-paid ex
pense grant for attendance at a
private, non-sectarian school if:
(1) The child were assigned,
against the wishes of his parents,
to a public school attended by
a child of another race, and
(2) The child could not be as
signed to another public school
in which the races were not mix
ed.
The other major change would
permit residents of a communi
ty, or a “local option unit,” by a
majority of those voting, to sus
pend one or all of the public,
schools in that community.
An ' election on whether to
close (or open) schools could,
under this law, be called either
by the district school board or by
petition by 15 per cent of the
local option unit’s voters.
A number of readers of The
Pilot, which has editorially op-
pbsed the proposed legislation,
have requested that an explana
tion be made of the propositions
which will be put to a vote Sat
urday.
First, it should be pointed out
that schools in the state this year
are being onerated under what is
known as the Pupil Assignment
Act. legislation passed by the
1955 General Assembly.
Under that law, various school
boards assign pupils to a given
school, prior to the beginning of
the school year. The school board
reserves the right to change the
assignment of any nupil at any
time whenever, in the ooinion of
the board, the best interests of
the nupil, of the school attended
by him or of other punils. or the
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