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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1956
Blue Knights Defeat Carthage 54-6 Friday Night
Coach Irie Leonard’s Blue
Knights, displaying a powerful
running game, Struck for touch
downs in every quarter as they
crushed Carthage Bulldogs 54-6
in the 1956 football opener Fri
day night at Memorial Field.
Using every player on the
bench in the second half Coach
Leonard made it clear to future
opponents that the Blue Knights
are determined to withstand any
assaults on its six-man state foot
ball title the rest of the seaso^.
Carthage, which had squeaked
by Pittsboro 19-18 in its opener
a week previously, never was in
the ball game Friday. Guy Fanes
scored on a 20 yard scamper in
the third quarter in the only real
flash of brilliance the Bulldogs
displayed all night.
Fanes was clearly the out
standing player for Carthage but
even that wasn’t much as a hard
charging Blue Knight line kept,
him from getting loose on almost
every occasion and often he was
thrown for losses before he got
started.
Lynn van Benschoten paced
Southern Pines with two touch
downs, one in the first quarter
on a run of 35 yards, and again
the third quarter when he
handoff and raced 48
in
took a
yards.
Benschoten’s 35-yard romp
was the first score. Later in the
same period, on fourth down with
five yards to go on the Carthage
32. Charles Watkins took a hand
off from Benschoten and outran
his pursuers for the second score
In the second quarter the Blue
Knights started another drive
Beginning at the Carthage 24,
handoff from Self to Hamel to
Bobby Parker put the Blue
Knights within striking distance
The score was made by Sammy
Self from nine yards out on
re'''erse from Don Walter.
Bobby Watkins added his sec
ond extra point from placement
and the Blue Knights went out
ahead 22-0.
In the second half the Blue
Knights were apparently unwill
ing to reveal any of their plays
to future opponents as Coach
Leonard put every avaialble sub
stitute in the game, completely
clearing the bench. But even that'
didn’t stop the scoring.
With a couple of the first-
stringers still in the game just
for safety sake, the Blue Knights
started scoring again almost. as
soon as they got their hands on
the ball.
Moses Boyette, workhorse for
the Bulldogs, returned the kick
off 17 yards and managed to pick
up one first down before the Blue
Knights got possession.
On the second down following
Boyette’s punt to Lynn van Ben
schoten, the 180 poimd tailback
scored his second TD of the
night, a tremendous run of 48
yards.
Bill Hamel scored minutes
later when a pass from Boyette
that was intended for Kelly was
deflected into Hamel’s hand.
Hamel’s run was good for 24
yards.
Other Blue Knights scoring
were Everett Cushman, from two
yards, Bobby Watkins, also from
two yards, and Jimmy Carter,
who tried twice before pushing
over on a wide sweep of his left
end in the fourth period.
Bobby Watkins kicked all the
Bdue Knights’ extra points.
Statistics in the first half show
that Southern Pines led in rush
ing with 162 yards gained com
pared to a total loss of 24 yards
JIMMY CARTER, freshman tailback on the
Southern Pines High School football team, saw
very little action in last Friday night’s game
against Carthage, but in the few minutes he was
in the game, he proved his mettle. Shown here
scoring the last touchdown in the Blue Knights
54-6 victory over Carthage, Jimmy easily dodg
ed the seeming giants on the Carthage team.
Other Blue Knights shown are Kenneth Creech
and Bill Seymour. (Pilot photo)
by the Bulldogs.
Southern Pines picked up
yardage by passing while Carth
age, obviously lacking in the
ground game, tried about nine
passes, good for 26 yards.
Carthage was limited to one
first down for the entire night
while Southern Pines picked up
seven.
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mothers’ safety patrols to help
guard school children at danger
ous intersections, since there are
not enough town policemen avail
able to perform this task at or
near all schools. This would in
clude the West Southern Pines
schools and also St. Anthony’s
school, it was stated.
The council also assured the
Negro delegation that it would
take under consideration the re
quest for a Negro school board
member, although any such ap
pointment, if it were approved,
would have to be defefred also
until 1957.
Town Advertising
An immediate campaign to raise
$2,000 from private business and
hotel interests, to be matched by
another $2,000 from the town
treasury, for town advertising,
wiU be undertaken by a Chamber
of Commerce committee.
The plan, authorized by the
council several months ago, has
been delayed by what was appar
ently a misunderstanding on the
part of the private interests as to
appointment of a solicitation com
mittee. James Hartshorne, repre
senting the Chamber, said he had
been under the impression that
the council was to appoint such a
committee. A reference to the
minutes showed, however, that
the council had undertaken only
to name a committee that will
help administer the fund after the
sum raised by private interests is
turned over to City Manager Tom
E. Cunningham.
The deadline of October 1 for
obtaining the private funds still
stands, by agreement of both the
council and the Chamber of Corn-
representatives Tuesday
night. George Pottle, Hollywood
Hotel proprietor, said he thought
the deadline could be met.
Plans call for using the $4,000
fund for a town advertising cam
paign in which professional adver
tising assistance probably will be
sought to get maximum effective
ness. Both private interests and
town government will be repre
sented on the committee that will
advise the city manager in the
disbursement of the^ funds.
The joint advertising effort was
proposed by Charles Stitzer, own
er of the Highland Pines Inn, last
spring. At that time he said he
thought that town advertising was
lagging and that if private and
public funds were pooled a much
more effective campaign could be
undertaken.
To Seek Park Sites
Reporting on correspondence
with the Webb Associates, city
planning firm in Chapel Hill,
Manager Cunningham said that
the company had informed him it
could make a complete long-range
survey of the town for future park
locations at a cost of $1,000. The
survey would take about three
months.
With the council concurring.
Mayor Gilmore recalled the obli
gation of the council to begin at
once attempts to set up neighbor
hood parks in town—an obligation
that was pledged in the resolution
that chose the park site for the
new municipal building. He said
that he thought $1,000 would be
better spent on an actual start on
park work. The council directed
the manager to make a study of
possible locations and other perti
nent information and to report at
the November meeting.
two or three of these parks, possi-
bly helped by memorial donations
of land and perhaps aided by the
efforts of private organizations,
before the end of our term of of
fice next May,” he told the coun
cil.
I would rather develop one
real park than 10 on paper,” add
ed Councilman Pethick.
The city manager said that he
had been informed by the W. R,
Booth Co., of Texas that it would
make a complete aerial tax map
of the town:—a procedure that
would be expected to disclose
considerable property on which
taxes are not being paid—for the
sum of $2,990. No action was tak
en on this proposition which is ap
parently at this stage only a fu
ture possibility in the minds of
the council.
In other actions the council:
Adopted a resolution to install
curb and gutter on E. Rhode Is
land Ave., between May St. and
Ridge St., following completion of
the required petition and legal
procedure.
Confirmed three awards of con
tracts by the manager to low bid
ders on town purchases, as fol
lows: to Johns Manville Sales
Corp. for 700 feet of eight-inch
water pipe at $2.32 per foot; to the
Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Co.
of Lynchburg, Va., for 3,000 feet
of six-inch water pipe at $1.89 per
foot; and to the Pressure Concrete
Co., of Florence, Ala., for repairs
to the coagulating basin at the
water plant (total cost $2,715).
The law requires that the coun
cil approve all purchases amount
ing to $1,000 or more.
A table giving the complete,
but unofficial returns of the vote
Saturday may be found on page
6 of The Pilot today.
TV PLANS
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yers and others important to the
court action will appear as them
selves.
Among the legal talent will be
Judge P. H. Wilson of the recently
organized Aberdeen recorders
court, who served as private pros
ecutor in the trial of April 24.
Persons wishing to observe the
action of the camera crew in full
may come to the courtroom as
early as 9:30 a.m., when filming
of the courtroom personnel will
begin, followed at 11 a.m. by that
of members of the press.
At 12 noon, the crowd is expect
ed to appear. Present will be
many of the same people who
were at the original trial, includ
ing a number who served as char
acter witnesses.
Mrs. Valerie Nicholson, South
ern Pines free-lance reporter,
whose real-life experience forms
the basis of the drama,- will be
somewhere” in the crowd. So
will Clegg Maye, GibsonviUe high
school youth who played a major
role.
Later in Southern Pines, Mrs.
Nicholson and Clegg will have the
peculiar experience of watching
professional actors play their
parts. Both have expressed them
selves as eager to meet their tele
vision counterparts.
Playing the role of Mrs. Nichol
son will be Sara Seegar, the wife
of Ezra Stone of old-time radio
fame. (Remember Henry Aldrich?)
The name of the boy actor who
will play Clegg has not been an
nounced.
Southern Pines, however, will
produce somie boy actors of i^
The only local actors who
will have speaking parts will be
la committee that would lay the
'basic plan for developing data
that would appeal to an industry
with expansion plans.
Graves Vann, who has been con
ducting a private study of the
area looking towards future ex
pansion, said a few select indus
tries would prove an asset to the
town.
Gilmore, acting on behalf of the
businessmen, appointed a group,
which will be called the Southern
Pines Development Committee, to
organize, evaluate and transmit to
the Department of Conservation
and Development the basic data
of Southern Pines that would be
necessary before any move to
wards locating an industry in the
area i^ launched
The committee is headed by
John Ostrom, who also is serving
as chairman of the Industrial
Committee of
Commerce. Members are Robert
Ewing, Joe Montesanti, Jr., Graves
Vann, Harry Smyth, and Norris
Hodgkins, Jr. ,
The group will meet with repre
sentatives of other town on the
Seaboard Railroad, — Aberdeen,
Pinebluff and Vass—to form a
central committee which will
function as a clearing house for
ideas and the assembly of data
about the area.
Also attending the meeting were
Garland McPherson, W. B. Holli
day, Ward Hill, John Ruggles,
Lloyd Clark, John Howarth, Nor
ris Hodgkins, Sr., Sam B. Richard
son, W. Lament Brown, and Mrs.
Berenice Harrington.
and Mrs. A. S. Ruggles: I was
sfiocked when I saw what was be
ing done. The proposed building
completely destroys the character
of the town. Southern Pines has
expressed itself time and time
Pines architectural firm that pro
duced the controversial plans, was
called upon by Mayor (jilmore to
answer questions. As each of the
quoted speakers and others gave
their opinions, he responded with
again on what it wants in the form information about modern archi-
of architecture. (The speaker cited
numerous public and 'business
buildings and hlso certain- school
buildings which the people will
ingly built at additional cost in
order to make them conform to
the colonial style). The proposed
building would be a tragic mis
take.
Mrs. S. O. Nicholson, who re
called that she had taken the side
of traditional against contempo
rary architecture in a discussion
with Mr. Hayes when he first
came to Southern Pines several
years ago: I don’t know what it is,
the Chamber of but something happens to you as
you see more of this contemporary
architecture. You reach the place
where it looks wonderful. If we
are building for the future, people
then will love this building. If we
keep on with the traditional we’ll
get a stage set instead of a town.
L. T. Clark, former mayor: I am
not opposed to a functional build
ing but I don’t like this particular
building on the park lot. I think
that more people will be unhappy
than happy if that type of build
ing is put there.
E. C. Stevens: This type oi
building at this particular point
nullifies what the people of South
ern Pinbs have been trying to do
for 40 years. I am unalterably op
posed to the present building at
the present site.
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jority vote, a school or schools in
a local option unit may be sus
pended. Similar election ma
chinery for reopening schools is,own
provided.
(2) That the state may pay young Tommy Clark and Kenny
“educational expense grants” Holliday, in a scene with Miss See-
equal to the annual per pupil gar.
cost of public school education Some of the others who will
for the education in private, non- take part as bystanders, passers-
sectarian, approved schools of by, etc., will be Charlie Picquet,
children whose public schools John Ruggles, Mrs. Ruth Swisher,
are closed, or whose parents ob- Harry Fullenwider, Mrs. Bannie
ject to their attending a school Fobes, an dperhaps one or two
in which the races may be
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minority.”
Suggests Vote
Mr. Patch suggested that some
kind of vote to determine how a
large number of townspeople
really feel about the design. No
formal action was taken on this
suggestion.
Some of those who deplored the
contemporary design of the pro
posed building said that they had
no general prejudice against mod
ern architecture but that they felt
this style would be unsuitable at
the town park site where the
building is to be located.
There is at this time no question
of changing the site, however. The
park site was chosen after another
public hearing and a report from
professional city planners.
A model of the entire park
block, showing a model of the pro
posed building at its future loca
tion, was displayed at the meet
ing. The model showed how thor
oughly the building was screened
by trees from the Broad Street
side of the park. During the dis
cussion, Councilman H. H. Pethick
said that he would feel differently
about the exterior appearance of
the building—which he is appar
ently prepared to approve—^if the
trees were not there.
Cost Estimated .
One question was asked — by
Joe Moritesanti, Jr.,—^that did not
concern the appearance of
the structure: how much will it
cost? The council directed the
question at Mr. Hayes who said
that details of finishing the build
ing would cause the cost to vary,
but that it could be built for $135,-
000 or $140,000, in his estimation.
Bond funds voted by the people
for the project total $100,000. The
matter of where the additional
money would come from was not
pursued, but the figure seemed to
be no surprise to the council and
it is assumed there are plans for
raising the additional funds. Sale
of the present fire station on New
Hampshire Avenue has been men
tioned before as a possible source
of an estimated $15,000 or $20,000.
The town hall building under
discussion Tuesday night is more
Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher,
who recalled that he had advocat
ed, in meetings and a letter to The
Pilot, splitting up the units of the
center and putting only the ad
ministrative offices in a building
on the park site: I think Tom
Hayes has done a fine job with
the requirements given him, but I
don’t think the building fits in
well with what we have done ih
the past. The trouble was his dif
ficulty in designing a building to
contain all these units. To get
them air in required the use of a
contemporary building. A tradi
tional style could be used if the
units were split up as I recom
mended.
City Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham commented at this point that
the town government is one or
ganization whose departments
should be closely linked. Nearly
all new city halls being built in
North Carolina are being built in
closely linked units, he said.
Councilman Pethick, later in the
meeting, also stressed this point.
J. T. Overton, vice-president of
the Chamber of Comnmrce: In the
absence of the Chamoer of Com
merce president, I have received
eight or 10 calls in regard to the
proposed building and all those
calling said they thought the
building was unsuitable for South
ern Pines.
Shields Cameron, whose refer
ence to a “ranch-type town hall”
brought laughter: Trees, shrub
bery and beautiful buildings are
the only assets we have. People
have always come j here to get
away from the big city. We ought
to get back to our original idea of
charming Southern town that
will also please visitors.
mixed. The grants have been fig
ured at $135 per child.
Opponents of the plan claimed
that instead of discouraging inte
gration, the plan would increase
agitation by integrationists to at
tempt racial mixing, believing
that school patrons would rather
accept integration than close a
school. The same opponents also
claimed that the plan would cer
tainly be declared unconstitu
tional, that the $135 each year
foF^rivate education would be
grossly insufficient, and that not
enough private non-sectarian
schools were available in the
state.
One of the biggest arguments
against the plan was that it
would be a severe blow to the
guarantees of public education
by the state.
Biut Governor Hodges, chief
backer of the program,- contend
ed that the state needed “protec
tion” against the possibility that
under the Supreme Court rulings
children might be forced to at
tend integrated public schools
against theirs and their parents
wishes.
Though official returns have
not been canvassed by the state
Board of Elections yet, at least
two places voted down the school
amendment proposal.
Winston-Salem, the state’s sec
ond largest city, voted against
the plan by a slim five votes. The
totals were 4,493 against and 4,-
488 for.
Members of the Moore County properly known as the municipal
center. It will contain adminis-
In Chapel Hill three of the pre-
“We ought to try to establish' cincts there rejected the plan.
press in the courtroom scene will
include Vance Derby and Cad
Benedict of the Southern Pines
Pilot, H. Clifton Blue of the Sand
hill Citizen, Nelson Hyde of the
Pinehurst Outlook and Woody
Wilhoit of the Moore County
News, also Editor Robert F. Mason
of the Sanford Herald and Charlie
Manning of Troy, feature writer
with the Greensboro News.
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this area, but one reservation that
was continually raised was that
any industry, whatever type,
should be clean and should com
pliment the area.
Grant, in outlining the potential
that this area has, said that a large
number of industries have been
locating near resorts, primarily
because of the atmosphere that
prevails in such locations.
He reminded the group that
Southern Pines was a unique
town in that it could compare
with any in the state so far as a
“good living” atmosphere is con
cerned. “I would assure you,” he
said, “that if Southern Pines, or
the area surrounding it, indicates
its desire to have an industry lo
cated here, the Department of
Conservation and Development
would concern itself primarily
with respecting that atmosphere
and would certainly steer clear of
recommending the town to an in
dustry that would not prove com
patible.”
The group, which numbered 16,
expressed enthusiasm in forming
trative offices, a combination
council chamber and magistrate’s
courtroom, lock-up facilities and
police and fire departments.
A floor plan and front elevation
of the structure appeared in The
Pilot two weeks ago. Councilman
Pethick pointed out during the
meeting that the so-called jail seC'
tion of the building actusdly is :
lock-up in which persons would
not be held more than 24 hours.
Prisoners who could not be releas
ed in that time would be placed in
the jail at Carthage, he said.
Opinions Voiced
Here are some of the opinions
or questions voiced by the persons
at the hearing:
Garland Pierce: The building
doesn’t conform with the colonial
architecture we have.
Mrs. Alwfn FoUey: What hap-
peiied to the colonial architecture?
Why modern all of a sudden?
Wouldn’t it be more suitable to
have the Williamsburg type?
Edward Schneider: We have
loved Southern Pines because of
the colonial architecture and at
mosphere. The buildings here are
still predominantly of the colonial
type. Once begun, contemporary
architecture will creep in and will
change the town. Southern Pines
is a quaint town and this quality
should be preserved.
John S. Ruggles, who said he
had been a resident of Southern
Pines for 55 years and that he was
also speaking for his parents, Mr,
Dr. Bruce Wrrlick, who describ
ed how he and his wife lived with
a model of a contemporary home
they later built, to see whether
they would like living in it: The
longer you live with contempora
ry functional architecture, the
more you’ll love it. We are living
today, not yesterday. We should
build for today and the future. I
feel sure something can be work
ed out that will please the people
of Southern Pines.
Architect Explains
tectural theory or the specific de
sign of the proposed Gilding;
Points that he made, in response
to various speakers, included:
The matter of contemporary
versus traditional design is an ar
chitectural problem everywhere
today. The question is: can a co
lonial type structure here offer the
possibilities within the money you
have to spend, as compared with a
contemporary design? Colonial
architecture is beautiful but it
cannot fulfill the functions of a
town center as well as a modern
style and it costs more to force a
colonial building to try to serve
the purpose.
The chief reason for a flat roof
IS economic. The roof as planned
would be bonded for 20 years and
should last much longer than that.
A slate roof on a traditional colo
nial hipped roof would increase
the cost because it takes such a
heavy structure to support it. The
flat roof makes possible fireproof
construction. If a hipped roof
were used, ther'e would practically
have to be a duplicate roof be
neath it to make the building fire
proof. The post office and the li
brary (cited by several as good ex
amples of colonial type public
buildings) were built when mate
rials were cheaper and workman
ship was better.
Today, more and different mate
rials are available for construc
tion, labor costs have greatly in
creased and there is generally a
different way of living for which
a public building should be de
signed. (The proposed “drive-in
window” at the new town hall
was cited as an example). Tradi
tional architecture is often copyr
ing style for the sake of style, not
for the usefulness of the building.
We as architects owe it to the
community to give you the best
kind of building we can. We tried
designing a colonial type and we
just couldn’t make it work to pro
duce the best building we could
for the money, which is always
our aim. We feel that this build
ing is architecture that suits this
area—it grows out of the mate
rials we have to use and the way
of living here. The open court in
the center of the building will
preserve the park feeling and will
also serve to help eliminate noise
from the nearby railroad. It is in
line with our. outdoor mode of liv
ing.
A contemporary building is de
signed from the inside out,
whereas if we were to try to make
this into a colonial structure, we
would have to work from the out
side in. We would rather design
a building efficiently for the func
tions to be carried 'on Avithin it
and let this be reflected by the
outside appearance.
I think people should approach
contemporary architecture with
an open mind. Some people just
don’t like what modem architec
ture stands for. They approach it
with a closed mind. They have
never experienced the difference
between traditional and contem
porary architecture.
Mayor Gilmore read to the
meeting a telegram from Mrs.
James Boyd, editor of The Pilot,
who is out of town. The telegram
expressed her approval of the
floor plan of the center and her
hesitancy to criticize the exterior
elevation “as personal taste prej
udices me against the style.” She
would prefer, the telegram said,
“simple colonial architecture as
having greater dignity and in
keeping with local buildings
which have won much praise and
recognition for our town.”
Farm production of milk in the
state during June was estimated
I at 152 million pounds. This is 10
] million pounds below the May
j production but 4 million pounds
Mr. Hayes, head of the Southern more than last year.
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