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VOL. 39—NO. 1
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1956
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
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‘GolfoteF To Be
Constructed Soon
At Mid Pines Club
Construction of a "Golfotel” at
Mid Pines will be started im
mediately, it was announced this
week by officials of Mid Pines
after they had secured a building
permit.
Mrs. Frank Cosgrove, an offi
cer in the corporation that will
own the building, staid a site has
been cleared near number four
green and Mid Pines Lake for the
location. A completion target has
been set the week of February
22, the approximate date of the
opening of the early spring sea
son for visitors.
The word “Golfotel” was coin
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Cosgrove
and, as applied to the new build
ing, means just what it says: mo
tel type accommodations for
golfers.
There will be nine studio-type
units, each with a combination
dressing rooih-bath. The units
are of a type that may be easily
converted to daytime use as liv
ing rooms. Each unit will have
two glass walls, one of brick and
one of i^od, designed in con
temporary type architecture. En
trance to the building will be by
way of Midland Road.
The entire structure will be air
conditioned and each unit will
be equipped with television re
ceivers.
When completed, the new
structure will . increase Mid
Pines’ capacity to 136 guests.
Stockholders in the corpora
tion, along with Mr. and Mrs.
Cosgrove, are Mr. and Mrs. Ber
nard O’Toole of Milton, Mass.,
frequent visitors at Mid Pines.
The corporation is separate from 1
the one which presently operates
Mid Pines.
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THIS FELLOW IS READY FOR THANKSGIVING I
A 'SORT OF' THANKSGIVING STORY
MR. KENNEDY
Donald D. Kennedy, prominent
winter resident, today accepted
the Chairmanship of the Moore
County Red Cross 1957 Committee
for Members and Funds, according
to an announcement by Garland
McPherson, chapter chairman.
Kennedy is an alumnus of
Princeton University and was in
strumental in bringing that Uni
versity’s Glee Club to the Sand
hills last winter. He has also been
active in other civic and commun
ity projects during the compara
tively short period that he has
been associated with the area.
He recently served as co-chair
man of the Endowment Commit
tee in the community’s efforts to
obtain the new Presbyterian Col
lege last fall. In this campaign,
he organized not only a large part
of Moore County, but traveled to
surrounding territory in the inter
est of the Sandhills. He was also
a committee chairman for the ex
pansion of funds for Moore Memo
rial Hospital in 1954.
He is married to the former
Juliet Vale and resides in South
ern Pines.
are extremely fortunate in
havi j Donald Kermedy, one of
our most public spirited men, as
chairman of our 1957 campaign for
members and funds,” McPherson
said today. “We all know that he
will draw capable and devoted
community workers to provide the
local chapter with its best support
(Continued on Page 8)
About Uncle Bushrod, A Sage
Hen, High Winds, Buffalo Chips
By GLEN ROUNDS | gone back East some time before.
Long years ago, when Uncle So when he got to the place it
Bushrod was just a young man was deserted. He sat on the door-
trying to get him a start in the step a while, being disappointed;
cattle business, he had a small and then rode off. Out on the flat
ranch up near the head of Skunk he came across a flock of sage
Creek. That is a long way from hens, and with his sixshooter he
anywhere, even today, so a man managed to shoot one. A sage
didn’t run to the store every time hen is tough, but anything was
he discovered he was out of can- better than beans on Thanks-
ned tomatoes, or any such thing, giving. So right there he got out
At the time I speak of. Uncle his little frying pan and the lard
Bushrod was busy getting things bucket he always carried rolled
ready for winter. He had wild in his slicker. He had a little bag
hay to cut and stack, as well as of coffee and so he set about
fences to build around the stacks, < cooking his Thanksgiving dinner,
and the million and one things There were still buffalo chips to
that have to Be done before the be found, in those days, so he
cattle are brought in from the buiit a little fire of them and put
unprotected summer range. And pan of coffee to boil, then cut
what with one thing and another, ^p the sage chicken. After
Uncle Bushrod ate more than | pounding the meat for a while
he’d figured, or the porcupines j ^gt^en a couple rocks he set
had got at his groceries. | ^o fry. Things didn’t look too j
His supplies ran low, until all bad after all
he had was bea^ and a little I And then the wind began to
coffee. So he ate beans, Beans for that coun
breakfast, beans for dinner, right brisk when it, _
beans for supper. After a few .= out to trv Before lone Uncle' “ neighbor against
weeks he was a little tired ot S-j-ighb- for the state six-man
beans. Then one morning he ,. 'football championship as South-
41 Grant To Speak
4t Annual Chamber
Commerce Banquet
Plans for the annual Chamber
of Commerce banquet have been
completed and announced by Earl
Hubbard, chairman of the banquet
committee and a member of the
Chamber’s Board of Directors.
Tickets for the banquet, which
will be held at the Hollywood Ho
tel November 28, are now on sale
and may be secured at either the
Southern Pines Pharmacy, Graves
Insurance Agency, or at the
Chamber’s offices on East Penn
sylvania Avenue.
Hubbard said that A1 H. Grant,
chief development engineer in the
State Department of Conservation
and Development and a frequent
visitor to this area in recent
weeks, has confirmed a request
that he be principal speaker.
Grant, who has had several con-
(Continued on Page 5)
Union Services
Tonight At 8 p. m.
Union Thanksgiving services
will be held tonight (Wednesday)
at Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
All church congregations in
Southern Pines are invited to at
tend the services, which will be
gin at 8 p.m.
In announcing the program, the
Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector of
the host church, said that five
ministers in the town would take
part.
The order for Daily Evening
Prayer will be read by the Rev.
Caldwell; Dr. Cheves Ligon, pas
tor of Brownson Memorial Church,
will read the psalm; the Rev. D.
Hoke Coon of the Baptist Church
will lead in the evening lesson;
and the Rev. W. C. Timmons of
the Church of Wide Fellowship
will offer concluding prayers and
the benediction.
The sermon will be delivered by
the Rev. Robert Bame, pastor of
the Methodist Church.
Judge Orders i
Sentenee After
Charge Reduced
Jack Key, 22-year old State
College engineering student, was
sentenced to 20 months in prison
by Judge H. Hoyle Sink this morn
ing for assaulting a Biscoe school
teacher last spring.
The sentence, delivered before a
packed courtroom, came after law
yers for both the State and the de
fense, as well as Key himself, had
made statements to the Court.
Judge Sink, in passing sejitence,
lashed out at what he fermed a
“terrible emotional state” that cit
izens had worked themselves into
during the course of the trial. He
said that he had received between
75 and 100 letters since he had
first been mentioned in the state’s
papers as the judge who would sit
for the trial. A great majority of
them, he said, had been in favor
of Key and had asked that he be
set free.
“I am appalled at the large
number of anonymous letters I’ve"
received, most of which are quite
biased in favor of Key,” he said.
He added that he had great con
tempt for such letter writers and
had actually had one of them
traced by the State Bureau of In
vestigation.
Key, who was allowed to sp^ak
after his attorney, W. D. Sabiston
had requested it, started out by
saying: “I don’t know what to say
that hasn’t been said already. I
ask that you. give me a chance to
rebuild my life ...”
Judge Sink interrupted him at
one time and repeated an earlier
warning he had made: he would
not hear anything unless it per
tained directly to the facts in the
case.
Sink, who has been on the
bench 30 years, said he had never
seen a case like the one he was
presently charged with. He said
it had presented an unusual situa
tion in emotional psychology that
“seems to have gripped the entire
state.”
He said, in passing sentence,
that he had stayed up until past
three o’clock this morning review
ing the case and had reached a
conclusion that Martha Sue Rob
inson, the 21-year-old teacher Key
was accused originally of raping,
had a high type character, was a
fine person and had done much
for the youth of her community.
“The other side does not indicate
similar circumstances,” he said.
He said he was of the belief that
Key possessed an emotional tem
perament.
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Pinebluff Mayor
To Head TB Drive
E. H MILLS
E. H. Mills, mayor of Pinebluff,
will head the 1956 Christmas Seal
Sale of the Moore County Tuber
culosis Association, it was an
nounced this week by Mrs. Timo
thy Cleary of Pinebluff, associa
tion president.
The sale, which will continue
through Christmas, is part of the
Golden Anniversary sale of the
National Tuberculosis Association,
marking the 50th year that Christ
mas seals have been sold over the
nation to help finance the fight
against tuberculosis.
Mr. Mills, who was also county
chairman last year for a sale that
brought more than $6,500 to the
county organization, said that he
plans to announce community
chairmen next week. Goal of this
year’s sale is indefinite, but the
association hopes to collect as
much or more than last year.
A county-wide x-ray testing
program, offering free chest x-
rays, will be held next Spring' to
be financed wholly by the Moore
County Tuberculosis Association.
The Association pays for free
x-rays offered the public the year
around at the Health Center in
Carthage.
Now serving his fourth two-
year term as mayor of Pinebltiff,
Mr. Mills is a member of the new
ly formed Moore County Industry
Development Committee and a di
rector of Moore County Hospital.
He is a member of the official
board of Pinebluff Methodist
Church and a past president of the
Pinebluff Lions Club. His wife is
the former Virginia Butner of
Pinebluff. They have seven chil
dren.
Blue Knights Meet Aberdeen
For Six-Man Football Title
ginning to get . away from him. j av. j
A buffalo chip is more or less Aberdeen meet to-
round and now the wind turned (Thxmsday) night on the
f T'v, V • • « them up and they started to roll. +
u There was nothing for Uncle Knights, current y
dinner? No sir! So he decided his frying 1 33-game winning streak
to ride over to a settlers place,I coffee going after their third
pail in the other and go after the state title. They’re favor-
fire. It was kind of a chore, try- are many who
ing to keep his dinner cooking * give or take a point
on the move that way. But Uncle father way, citing the close game
the two teams played previously.
In that one, which the Blue
Knights won 14-12 (the closest
went to cross off the day on his
calendar and saw it was Thanks
giving. And he spoke to himself.
some twenty miles off, and let
them ask him to eat with them.
He shaved, greased his boots and d^neTcooktog
rode off. '
But what he didn’t know was
that the settler had given up and
HOLIDAY
Though this issue of The
Pilot is dated Thursday it is
being published Wednesday
so that employees may enjoy
a Thanksgiving holiday.
The post office, bank and
most places of business in
Southern Pines will be clos
ed tomorrow. Of special im
portance are Union Thanks
giving services, which are
being held tonight (Wednes
day) at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church at 8 p. m.
Bushrod wasn’t about to eat
beans that day, so he walked
briskly along, stooping to hold
the skillet and the bucket over
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GOOD HUNTING!
No, not turkey hunting.
This is the Moore County
Hounds, going out for the first
drag run of the season.
The meet is at the W. O.
Moss stables in Manly, at 10
a.m. Thanksgiving Day morn
ing.
On Saturday, the younger
members of the hunt will take
the field in a fox himt.
they’ve come to being defeated
all year), the Red Devils appar
ently fell victim to a miscalcula
tion on the part of the signal
caller as they lined up for the
place kick after theit final touch
down. The center snapped the
baU and neither the kicker nor
the holder ever got his hands on
it. “There goes the game, right
over their heads,” one fan said
at the time.
Coach Irie Leonard said this
morning that his squad is in
pretty good shape, no injuries are
reported, and the members are
“up.” He added that his team
was eagerly looking forward to
the game and are confidently, ex
pecting to wrap up another
championship.
The Blue Knights will be play
ing in their fourth straight game
for the state title. The first time,
in 1953, they lost to Oldtown. The
next year they defeated Oldtown
and retained the title last year
by defeating Clemmons.
Aberdeen, which has had an
excellent season this year, waded
through stiff competition in the
Western division of dhe six-man
schools to reach the finals. This
is the first time they’ve played
in that division. Southern Pines
won the eastern division title last
Friday night by defeating Rock
Ridge at Buie’s Creek.
Fans are reminded that early
arrival means a selection of seats
at Aberdeen; late arrivals must
stand.
After the Thanksgiving turkey,
a word to the wise should be suf
ficient. Get there early.
High School Principal Charged With
Assaulting Student; Case Set Monday
A warrant, charging an assault
on a student, has been sworn out
against Irie Leonard, principal of
the Southern Pines High School,
by the father of the student.
According to the warrant,
which was sworn out before Jus
tice of the Peace Lloyd T. Clark,
Leonard is charged with assault
ing William E. McDonald, “strik
ing him about the head and neck
with his hand and fist causing
bruises and painful injuries. . .”
The alleged action took place at
the school last Tuesday. The war
rant was sworn out by Ray Mc
Donald, father of the student,
Thursday. '
Though no official statement
has been issued by school au
thorities, it was learned that sev
eral students had been called to
Leonard’s office Tuesday where
he was lecturing them for being
rude to a member of the faculty.
McDonald, it is reported, came
in the room after the others had
assembled and inljuired what the
trouble was all about.
It was then, according to one
of the students who was involv
ed, that the alleged assault oc
curred. Dr. R. M. McMiUan ex
amined the student soon after.
Superintendent A. C. Dawson,
contacted at his office this week,
said it was a “regrettable occur
rence” and was a matter of great
concern both to him and mem
bers of the school board.
“Questions of discipline in the
school have our earnest concern,”
he said, “and this is a matter
I which the school board and other
I authorities will thoroughly in-
jvestigate.”
I It is understood that several
members of the group Leonard
jwas dealing with had been in
volved in other trouble at the
school and had been reprimand
ed before.
I It is no secret at the school,
though it has been kept fairly
quiet, that a number of serious
I breeches of discipline have oc-
! curred in recent months. Since
this latest occurrence came to
I light it has been learned that
several students came close to
expulsion recently because they
: were shooting off home-made
bombs on the school ground and
had kept firecrackers in their
possession.
I Leonard has retained W. D.
Sabiston of Carthage as legal
counsel when the case comes up
for trial at next Monday’s ses
sion of Recorder’s Court.
Students who will be called as
witnesses in the latest action in-
' eluded Billy Wiggs, John Orms-
by, Jr., Jun Carter, Jim Thomas-
son. Jack Carter, Jerry Healy,
Bobby Watkins, and L. D. Jones.
I All are said to have been in the
room when the action occurred.