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VOL. 37—NO. 48
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1956
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
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Young Democrats Plan Active Part In
Campaign; Elect E. 0. Brogden Leader
Young Democrats of Southern^
Pines, who had demonstrated lit
tle or no active interest in the
current political campaign prior
to this week, got together Wed
nesday night and elected E. O.
Brogden, local attorney, as presi
dent and pledged themselves to
renew efforts in whipping up en
thusiasm for the upcoming gen
eral elections.
Brogden, who classed himself
as a “fervent” Democrat, told the
group that “the Democrats can
win this year. . . maybe by a
landslide if we can get all the
registered Democrats to the
polls.”
He said that the Republican
Party has demonstrated “Eunaz-
ing abilities” at accomplishing
two things: dealing in “blow-
hard double talk and cliches,
and practicing a fantastic give
away of our natural resources
like they were so much nothing.”
The group, numbering about
26, was one of the largest turn
outs in recent years. Other offi
cers elected were Mrs. Norris
Hodgkins, Jr., first vice-presi
dent; Harry FuUenwider, second
d vice-president; Mrs. Ray McDon
ald secretary; and Johnnie Hall,
(Continued on Page 8)
Progri
Water Expansion
*am To Start
With Nine Projects
The first phase in the improve
ment program of the Southern
Pines water system—a program
that citizens approved of by voting
a $150,000 bond issue last spring—
will get underway in the next few
weeks.
City Manager Tom Cunningham
told the Town Council last week
that bids would be opened No
vember 7 on a series of nine pro-
*. jects that were mapped out as the
most pressing in the long range
program.
Those projects, primarily for
fire protection and reinforcing fire
protection mains, will cost in the
neighborhood of $75,000, half the
amount authorized in the water
improvement bond issue.
The rest of the money will be
used in later phases of the pro-
gram.
' * Cunningham listed the first nine
projects as follows:
S. Ridge St. from Morganton
Road to Mass. Ave.; East Indi
ana Ave., from Ridge St. to
Highland Road; Midland Road
from Pee Dee Road to Central;
E. Broad St. from Maine Ave.
to Coxm. Ave.; Weymouth Road
from Indiana Ave. to Conn.
_ Ave.; N. Stephens St. from
» Conn. Ave. to Penn. Ave.; W.
Penn. Ave. from Hardin St. to
New Hampshire Ave.; N. Saylor
St. from Conn. Ave. to Penn.
Ave.; and E. Delaware Ave.
from Ridge St. to the underpass.
Completion of these projects
will not, by any means, be a
“cure-aU,” Cunningham pointed
out. The water system, he re
minded Council, serves a two-fold
purpose: water for home and busi-
iness consumption, and water for
fire protection.
At present Southern Pines has
a good supply of water for home
and business consumption but is
(Continued on Page 8)
Citizens For Ike
Bandwagon Tours
8 County Towns
A 50-mile tour that . covered
eight Moore County towns raised
considerable interest in the Citi
zens for Eisenhower campaign to
re-elect the national ticket this
fall, members of the group said
this morning.
The tour, which was taken
Tuesday, was made in the “Ike
Bandwagon,” a station wagon that
has been plastered with posters of
President Eisenhower and Vice-
President Nixon, and which car
ries campaign literature for distri
bution. The wagon is the mobile
headquarters for the ’ Southern
Pines Citizens for Eisenhower
committee, headed by Robert
Ewing.
Psu-ked along Broad Street for
the past few days, the wagon has
been thef focal point for Republi
cans and Democrats who are ex
pecting to support the Republican
ticket. Committee members re
port they have given away thous
ands of buttons and car stickers,
and further report that plenty are
left and all are welcome.
Harry Pethick, who is serving
on the committee, said the Tues
day tour was given over in part to
public service announcements on
the loudspeaker system mounted
on the wagon urging citizens to
register and vote. “There was
nothing partisan about it,” he said.
“We urged everyone, regardless of
their politicEil affiliations, to get
themselves registered for the elec
tions.”
A rally of the Citizens for Eis
enhower supporters will be held
here in the high school auditorium
October 29. No speaker has been
announced yet.
C&D Board Still
Undecided On Fall
Flans For Meeting
No definite decision has been
made on the Southern Pines in
vitation to the state Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment to hold its fall meeting next
year here, but the guess this
morning was that the invitation
would receive favorable action.
In a letter from William P.
Saunders, director of the depart
ment, to Mayor Volt Gilmore,
Mr. Saunders said the board had
acknowledged the invitation and
that it would consider it in due
time. “You can be sure,” he
wrote, “that the members are all
enthused over the prospects of
coming to Southern Pines for the
fall-meeting next year and that
official action will be taken well
in advance of the time for the
meeting.”
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EAGLE SCOUT AWARDS were presented to two members of
Troop 206, Pinebluff, by Brig. Gen. (ret.) Pearson Menoher, dis
trict Scout chairman, at a Court of Honor at West End last week.
Shown at left is Jerry Adams, assistant scoutmaster of the troop,
looking on as Gen. Menoher congratulates Harry Howie III.
Joan Melton, Miss North Carolina, To
Appear At County Fair Tuesday Night
Flora Macdonald Fall
Ariisi Series Starts
Carola Goya, world famous ex
ponent of the Spanish dance,
will open the year’s artist series
at Flora Macdonald College
Tuesday evening at 8:15.
Miss Goya, who will be accopi-
panied by her young partnet,
Matteo, will offer a highly varie
gated program of dances from
different countries of Europe,
Asia and Latin America.
Surgical Clinic Started
fj, Moore County’s medical facili
ties will be increased next spring
by the completion of the new sur
gical clinic now* under construc
tion opposite Moore County Hos
pital at Pinehurst.
Designed in contemporary style
by McDowell and Cooler, Char
lotte architects, the building is be
ing erected by the Young Con
struction Company, also of Char
lotte. The cost of the structure,
2 which will stand on approximate
ly one acre of land — acquired
from Pinehurst, Incorporated—is
expected to be around $130,000.
The completed clinic will be
equipped for the most modern
surgical, gynecological and uro
logical practice. Major surgical
procedures will continue to be
carried out at the hospital, but the
clinic will have complete and up-
to-date examining and diagnostic
facilities as well as accommoda
tion lor minor surgery.
Features of the new clinic in
clude steel modular construction,
a steel ceiling “deck” inside, com
plete air-conditioning, a terrace
adjoining the reception room and
ample provision for parking cars.
Occupying the new building
will be Dr. Clement R. Monroe,
Dr. Michael T. Pishko, Dr. William
F. Hollister, ail of whom have
been associated with Moore Coun
ty Hospital as surgeons for a num
ber of years, and Dr. Duwayne D.
Gadd, who came to Pinehurst last
.A.ugust.
At present the surgeons work in
the limited space available in the
former out-patient department of
the hospital. It is expected that
additional surgeons will join the
group when the increased accom
modation is ready for use.
“Bigger and better than ever,
with something for everyone,”
was the cry of the Carthage
Junior Chamber of Commerce
this morning as they moved
along with their promotion of
the annual Moore County Agri
cultural Fair, which gets under
way Monday.
Included in the highlights of
the fair will be a personal ap
pearance Wednesday night by
Miss Joan Melton of Albemarle,
Miss North Carolina of 1956. She
will act as one of the judges in
the annual beauty contest.
Russell Smith, Jaycee presi
dent. said that nothing had been
overlooked in efforts to make the
fair the best ever held in the
county. “We have two new
buildings ready for the fair this
year and they will add greatly
to the space for livestock and
commercial exhibits,” he said.
The fair actually opens Mon
day but the Jaycees have desig
nated Tuesday as the grand
opening.
All white school children in
the county will be admitted to
the fairgrounds free of charge
Tuesday beginning at noon and
lasting until 5:30.
Negro children will have a
similar day Thursday when they
will be admitted free during the
same hours.
Wednesday has been set up as
the biggest ever held. Through
the efforts of Fleet Allen, county
farm agent, many prized entries
have been received from cattle
owners in adjoining counties.
A number of cash prizes will
be awarded the winners.
The beauty contest, which will
be judged by Miss Melton along
with several others, will be held
(W^dneBday night. The winner
will be named “Miss Moore
County High School of 1956” and
will wear the crown until next
year. Linda McGee, Carthage
((Continued on page 8)
Carousel Entries
Pass 60 Mark As
Deadline Nears
With 60 definite entries already
in and indications of at least 50
more, the Southern Pines Golf
Carousel committee started mak
ing final plans this week lor the
four-day affair.
Joe Carter and Johnnie Hall, co-
chairman, said they were ex
tremely pleased with the response
to date and indicated that the en
tries received so far were good
evidence that the Carousel would
be a real success. “We have re
ceived few entries from Southern
Pines but have learned that most
one of the biggest days of the | of them wiU be coming in at the
fair. Events scheduled include last minute,” they said.
the junior cattle and dairy show
which has attracted entries so
far from Moore. Montgomery,
Richmond and Lee counties; and
the beauty contest that night.
A Jaycee spokesman said the
cattle and dairy show, long con
sidered one of the top attractions
of the lair, would probably be
Entries so far received have
come from such diverse areas as
Florida, Michigan, Maine and New
York. Several have been in large
groups of six or more.
Prizes lor the Carousel have
been placed on display—or at
least a part of them have—in the
window of Barnum Realty Com-
^pany on Broad St.
Business Development Group
Meets, Plans Area Promotion
GROUND BREAKING MONDAY
Poultry Processing Plant Started At
Robbins This Week; Will Employ 200
Ground was broken in Robbins
Monday for a new poultry pro
cessing plant that will employ 200
people.
The new plant, which will be a
subsidiary of an Athens, Ga., firm,
will have an annual payroll of
nearly a half-million dollars. The
bulk of the chickens it will pro
duce will be shipped to nearby
markets. Robbins, it will be re
called, has steadily built a repu
tation as a center for poultry rais
ing in central North Carolina.
Commenting on the new plant
at a meeting here Monday, Jim
Steed, Robbins businessman said:
“We had to do something to keep
our poultry business. Processing
plants were springing up all over
the area near Charlotte and many
growers like to be hear the plant.
It was inevitable that such a plant
would have to be located in the
Robbins area.”
What Steed didn’t elaborate on
was the fact that Robbins citizens,
faced with the prospect of losing
some of their business, formed
committees and raised the money
to build the plant. They agreed
to lease it to D. W. Terry of Ath
ens, who heads the organization
which will operate it.
The new building, which will be
modern in every respect, is ex
pected to be completed by the first
of the year. It will have 20,000
square feet of floor space.
Terry told the Robbins group at
the groundbreaking ceremony that
the organization had been making
a survey for six months as to
whether necessary requirements
of poultry could be met in the
Robbins area and, after the sur
vey, had decided that the location
was ideal.
The supply of chickens will
come from growers in the imme
diate area, he said.
With the addition of the Rob
bins plant, Terry said the four
plants now in his organization
could process a million chickens
each week. The Robbins plant
will process between two and four
hundred thousand weekly.
Terry also said that, with the
exception of one or two key men,
all employees will be hired local
ly.
Fleet Allen, Moore farm agent,
recently said that the poultry bus
iness was fast becoming a vital
part of the county’s agricultural
economy and pointed to the fact
that Robbins is the center of a 35-
mile area that markets close to
one million chickens each week.
John C. Myers, president of the
Robbins Chamber of Commerce,
spearheaded the original move to
secure private funds to build the
plant. Merchants, farmers, chick
en growers and operators of feed
and equipment houses chipped in,
beginning last August, to help
raise the funds. T. B. Hopper, op
erator of the Hornaday Hatchery
in Robbins, served as president of
the Robbins Development Corpor
ation, the group that actually
raised the money.
The plant will be known as the
Colonial Poultry Company, Inc.,
of North Carolina. It is located on
highway 705 on the banks of Bear
Creek.
NO SOUTHERN PINES-ABERDEEN TOLLS?
Sandhill Phone Company Seeks Funds
To Expand And Increase Its Services
ART SHOW
If variely is fhe spice of life,
fhe saying is certainly true cis
it applies to modern art.
Any who doubt and all who
are intrigued to know what it
is all about, may get a com
plete briefing on the subject
by a visit to the show now on
view at the Library Art Gal
lery.
From New York's Museum
of Modern Art has come this
exhibit of prints showing a
famous work of each of the
artists, from the impression
ists to the abstract-ists — or
abstract-ers—who make up
the famous names of the great
contemporary art collections.
And there are dear and
graphic descriptions of each
variety of style and mood to
assist the wanderer in the
mystic mazes of the New
Dawn. The show is fine, and
it's fun.
(
SHINED AND READY, these trophies are a
part of the ones that will be presented at the
conclusion of the third annual Southern Pines
Golf Carousel, scheduled for November 8-11 on
the three courses in Southern Pines. The large
trophy in the center is for the winner of the
championship flight. Jaycees who are sponsor
ing the tournament reminded would-be partici
pants that there would be two trophies given,
each alike, to winners and runners-up in each
flight. The tournament is a team play, four-ball
event. The trophies may be seen in the window
of Barnum Realty Company on West Broad St.
(Pilot photo)
Toll-free, extended area tele
phone service between Aberdeen
and Southern Pines has been re
quested of the State Utilities Com
mission by the Sandhill Telephone
Company.
The request was made along
with others this week through an
application made by the company
in which it sought to borrow mon
ey and raise the rates in Aberdeen
and Wagram.
According to the application the
company, which presently serves
107 business and 474 residential
subscribers in Aberdeen and 20
business and 65 residential sub
scribers in Wagram, said it want
ed to borrow $145,000 from the
Stromberg-Carlson Credit Corpor-
3tion to improve and expand fa
cilities. 'The company also wants
to enter into an agreement with
the United Telephone Company,
which maintains offices in South
ern Pines, for toll-free, extended
area service between Aberdeen
and Southern Pines by January
31, and for the same type service
(Continued on Page 5)
Hospital Admits
70,000th Patient
As Birthday Nears
Mrs. Harry Menzel of Southern
Pines hasn’t gotten over it yet.
She was admitted to Moore Coun
ty Hospital Tuesday and immedi
ately informed that she was the
70,000th patient since the hospital
opened 27 years ago.
Photographs and a general
round of congratulations followed
Mrs. Menzel’s admittance.
The hospital, now undergoing a
modernization and building pro
gram, will celebrate its birthday
November 27.
The construction program is
progressing on schedule with the
new entrance wing now in use
with one exception: thb canteen
area operated by the hospital’s
women’s auxiliary.
The space vacated by the move
of the administrative staff, with a
number of alterations, will in
crease to 145 the total number of
patient beds. When the hospital
opened it had only 33 beds.
John Ostrom To
Head Committee
Of Town Leaders
Efforts to lure industry to
Moore County wiU be central
ized in a committee represent
ing each town in the county, it
was announced following a meet
ing in Southern Pines Monday
afternoon.
The new committee, of which
John Ostrom of Southern Pines
is the head, planned a meet
ing for this coming Monday to
correlate data from each of the
county’s towns, preparatory to
publishing a brochure that lists
the pertinent information for
prospective industrialists.
Committee members are Al
bert Tufts of Pinehurst; Wey-
land Kennedy, Robbins mayor;
Archie Barnes, Carthage mayor;
Eutice Mills, Pinebluff mayor; A.
G. Edwards, Jr. Vass-Lakeview
Paul von Canon, West End; and,
representing Southern Pines, Os
trom.
A1 Grant, chief development
engineer in the State Depart
ment of Conservation and De
velopment, attended the meeting
and suggested a number of steps
that should be taken prior to the
publication of the brochure
which, incidentally, will be fin
anced by an as yet unannounced
“angel.” Grant cautioned the
group against hasty action, citing
the many advantages to be had
if the area was completely or
ganized in its efforts to lure in
dustry, efforts he said that were
Incoming highly competitive.
Grant had attended the origi
nal meeting held here about a
month ago when Mayor Voit
Gilmore had assembled a group
of Southern Pines businessmen
to start planning action to help
plug the economic hole left by
the departure of several of the
area’s industries, and the immi
nent departure of others.
At that time he had appointed
Ostrom as chairman of the
Southern Pines group. Ostrom,
(Continued on page 18)
Samuel G. Allen,
Winter Resident,
Passes Tuesday
The Sandhills lost a valued
friend and the nation a distin
guished citizen in the death on
Tuesday of Samuel Gordon Allen,
of Pinehurst.
Mr. Allen died at the Moore
County Hospital several hours
after he had been taken there
following a heart attack suffered
at 8:30 a. m. at his home on Mid
land Road. He was 86 years old.
Mr. Allen had made a good re
covery from a previous attack in
1953, enjoying several years of
good health before a severe bout
with pneumonia at his summer
home in Lake Placid in July. Re
turning here recently, he had not
fully recovered his strength,
though in good spirits and able
to enjoy walks about his place,
before the heart attack which
brought on his death.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Emily Myers Allen, a neph
ew, Bertram S. Allen, of Green
wich, Conn., and two nieces, Mrs.
W. N. Hutchings and Mrs. D. W.
Crossett, Jr., of Warren, Pa. His
first wife, the former Anna
Lewis, of Warren, died in 1944.
Funeral services for the Pine
hurst resident will be held at the
Village Chapel, with the Rev.
(Continued on page 5)
Book Consultant To
Address PTA Tuesday
Members of the Southern Pines
PTA were reminded again today
of the special meeting next Tues
day night in Weaver Auditorium
when Miss Julia Teasley, reading
consultant, will speak.
The meeting will substitute for
the regular one, which ordinarily
would have been held tonight.
Miss Teasley, a leading authori
ty on reading habits among chil
dren and a writer of textbooks,
win speak at 8 p.m.