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VOL. 39—NO. 2
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1956
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
Presentation Of
Builders Cup To
Be Made Thursday
For Outstanding
Service During
Year To Area
A week from tomorrow night,
Dec. 7, the 23rd recipient of the
Kiwanis Builder’s Cup wil| be
known. The trophy honoring a
man or woman of Moore county
who “by unselfish personal serv
ice, without hope of personal
gain, has outstandingly contribu
ted to the upbuilding of the
Sandhills Section” will be pre
sented that night on the occasion
of the Kiwanians’ annual Ladies
Night. ,
The affair, with a program,
heralded as “something new,
something different,” will take
place at the Pinehurst Country
Club, with dinner scheduled for
7:30 o’clock. It is for members,
wives and guests of the organiza
tion which has played an impor
tant part in the life of the com
munity since its founding in De
cember, 1922.
Mystery always surrounds the
Builder’s Cup. Only members of
a small selection committee
know in advance who is to be
honored. The trophy was pre
sented last year to Sheriff. C. J.
McDonald of Carthage; Other
past recipients have been, in or
der, John R. McQueen, Bion H.
Butler, Leonard Tufts, Simeon B.
Chapin, P. Frank Buchan, Dr. H.
E. Bowman, Mrs. T. A. Cheat
ham, Paul Dana, Dr. Clement R.
Monroe, Charles W. Picquet,
George H. Maurice, G. C. Sey
mour, Miss BLrdilia Bair, Paul C.
Butler, A. L. Burney, William D.
CampbeU, Mrs. Audrey Kennedy,
Forrest W. Lockey, Mrs. William
A. Way, Miss Laura Kelsey and
Richard S. Tufts.
Attending the Ladies Night
banquet will be the Governor of
the Carolinas District of Kiwanis
IntemationaL M. E. Bambrell of
Hendersonville, and the Lieuten
ant Governor, Glenn Webb of
Laurinburg.
Thomas A. Howerton is in
charge of the program which he
describes as “diversified, and no
speeches.” He added that dress
for the party is optional.
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STREET SWEEPING will be made easier in
Southern Pines by the acquisition last week of a
new sweeper that wiU, according to town offi
cials, do the work that is normally required of
eight men with old-fashioned brooms. The new
sweeper, purchased at a price of some $13,000,
has already been used on all the town’s 12 miles
of curb and gutters, a job that took about five
working days to accomplish. Life of the sweep
er has been estimated at between 15 and 20
years. Pictured here, members of the Town
Council and City Manager Tom Cunningham
give a graphic dramatization of the old and new.
Left to right, they are Cunningham, Mayor Voit
Gilmore, Mayor pro-tem Henry Pethick and
Councilman T. T. Morse. On the truck is Crom
well Monroe, operator. (Pilot photo)
County Chairmen
For TB Seal Sales
Named By Mills
Organization of the 1956
Christmas Seal Sale of the
Moore County Tuberculosis As
sociation was continued this
week with appointment of com
munity chairmen who will con
duct the sale throughout the
county.
E. H. Mills of Pinebluff, coun
ty chairman, announced the com
munity Seal Sale leaders as fol
lows:
Southern Pines — Jerry D.
Rhoades, at the Broad Street
Pharmacy.
Aberdeen—^Mrs. C. G. Farrell.
Pinehurst—^Dr. Emily Tufts.
1 Carthage—^Mrs. Lessie G.
Brown.
West End—Miss Lucile Eifort.
Jackson Springs — Mrs. E. W.
Bruton.
Pinebluff — Mrs. Timothy
Cleary.
Manly—Mrs. G. L. Culler.
Niagara—^Miss Shirley Garner.
Laikeview—Mrs. Kate Mcln-
nis.
Vass—^Mrs. J. A. Hudson.
Cameron—Mrs. Rachel Phil
lips.
High School Basketball Team Begins
Drills For Season Opener On Tuesday
The Southern Pines high uent who has shown a lot of
Mrs.
Eureka commimity
Buna B. McLeod.
Clay Road Farms community—
Mrs. J. L. Matthews.
Highfalls—^HighfaUs school.
Glendon—^Mrs. Benson Poe.
Eagle Springs—^Mis Ellen Mau
rice.
Hallison-Parkwood—Mrs. Ken
ney Poe.
Westmoore School—J. C. Phil
lips.
Appeal letters containing
sheets of seals will be mailed out
in most communities next week.
Mr. Mills urges the people of
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school basketball teams, in prep
aration for their first game next
week, have been working out
daily and are rapidly rounding
into shape.
First game of the season is
Tuesday night when the Blue
Knights meet Farm Life at Car
thage. Coach W. A. Leonard said
this morning that an open date
was on the schedule for the week
also but he had been unsuccess
ful in attempts to fiU it.
The Knights wiU play a 17-
game schedule culminating in
the annual county tournament
February 15-23. One of the high
spots on the schedule will be a
game with Laurinburg December
11.
Returning lettermen this year
on the boys’ squad are Roger
Verhoeff, 6’6” center who won
honorable mention for All-State
last year, Tony Parker and Bob
by Parker, forwards, and Billy
Hamel, guard. All are senig^ and
all are expected to win ,®[ting
berths, though Leonard ^»ted
out that several juniors are
ing them serious competition^?r
the jo^s.
The other senior on the squad
is Sammy Self, a transfer stu-
promise in workouts.
Gone from last year’s squad,
runners-up in the county tourna-
dient, are Bob Cline, John Wat
kins, James Hiunphrey and Juli
an Pleasants, all starters, and
John Seymour and Paul Kinnison,
reserves.
Juniors trying for a starting
position are George Reams,
Charles Weatherspoon, John
Ormsby, Phillip Guin, David
Prim and Steve Darby. Sopho
mores are Everett Cushman, Hill
Boswell, Steve Smith, Jimmy
Tollison and Dennis Morgan.
Fresmen include Robert Wood
ruff, Bill Seymour, Jimmy Cald
well, Chuck Ward, Keith Davie,
Kenny Reid, Jimmy Carter,
Bobby Watkins, Kenny Holliday,
Keith Spence, Douglass Coats,
George Little, Dick Thomasson
and Ted Ward.
Girls' Squad
The girls, who didn’t do too
well in county competition last
year although several of the
players were considered among
the county’s best, have also been
working out daily in preparation
for their first game;
Patti Hobbs, Anike Verhoeff,
Lillian Bullock, Louise McDon-
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Christmas Cheer
Program Laimched
By Local VFW Post
Members of John Boyd Post
7318, Veterans of Foreign Wats,
this week launched their annual
Christmas Cheer program.
Ernest Klabbatz, chairman of
the project, and members of his
! committee have already distribut-
i ed attractively decorated contain-
jers in all grocery stores in town
which will serve as receptacles
for canned foods and non-per-
perishables. Shoppers are urged to
help :yil the containers, which will
be distributed to needy families
in the greater Southern Pines
area.
Klabbatz also said that a list of
needy families would be made
available by the Moore County
Welfare Department Within the
next few days which will be used
as a guide for the distributions.
Last year the post, through its^
voluntary efforts, distributed 138
baskets of food, and, in addition,
repaired and gave away hundreds
of toys and games to needy chil
dren.
A silver-colored drum has been
placed on the front porch of the
VFW home on W. New York Ave
nue where repairable toys may be
deposited. Work details have been
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Flying Foxhunters
By MIRIAM RABB
When the Moore County Hounds
opened their season with a 10 a.m.
fixture at the Moss’s “Mileaway
Farm” Thanksgiving Day, it seem
ed for a few minutes that they
would move off without their new
Joint-Master, Earl “Happy” Hoy
and long-time member Dwight W.
Winkelman.
But, ms MFH W. O. Moss and
whips Dennis Crotty and Mrs.
Moss brought the pack up from
the kennels, an alert member of
the field sighted the Winkelman
plane dipping down above the
longleaf pine country of the Sand
hills. This meant that Foxhunter
Winkelman and Joint-Master Hoy
would shortly be saddle-borne in
stead of airborne, and MFH Moss,
with the wholehearted approval of
the field of holiday hunters, de
creed that there would be a short
delay to give the flying foxhunt
ers time to get into their boots and
on their horses. This they did in
record time, and the Moore Coun
ty Hounds moved off for a rollick
ing drag in perfect weather.
Already in the field were Mrs.
Winkelman and young Peter (he
wearing colors for the first time).
To make conection \vith the meet,
Winkelman left Skaneatel.es, N Y.,
at 6 a. m.. and enrout to the Win-
kelman’s Lakelawn Farm and
winter home here, touched down
at Teterborough, N. J., to pick up
Joint-Master Hoy.
Stiff winds made flying slower
than they had planned; otherwise
they would have been in Southern
Pines well before 10:00 a.m.
In the big field of hilltoppers
who followed the drag by automo-
ibile was Dr. Herbert C. Chase of
New York, who with Mrs. Chase
had arrived by train just half an
hour before the hunt. It was their
first visit to Southern .Pines,
where they renewed acquaintance
with many friends.
The Chases’ were on the com
mittee for the 1956 National Horse
Show, at which Mr. and Mrs. Moss
were judges.
Urge;at Appeal For
Hungarian Relief
Made By Red Cross
An urgent appeal has been
made by the International Red
Cross and the United Nations for
aid to the more than 83,000 refu
gees from Hungary who have
made their way to freedom in
Austria.
The United States Government
has requested the American Na
tional Red Cross to raise a mini
mum of $5,000,000 for food cuid
clothing, blankets, etc.
The Moore County Chapter has
been allocated a quota of $828.
Checks should be made to the
i Hungarian Relief Fund and re
mitted to the local Chaper office
in Southern Pines.
“The need is great and urgent.
We know that the people of
Moore County will be liberal
with donations,” Chapter officials
said today.
Elks Club Takes
Option On Notre
Dame Property
May Be Site Of
State Boys' Camp
If Deal Passes
There is a strong possibility that
the Elks Clubs in North Carolina
may locate their summer boys’
camp here, it is reported today by
Col. Donald Madigan of Southern
Pines, chairman of the state board
of trustees of the Elks Club.
Negotiations have been institut
ed with the owners of the Notre
Dame Academy for a possible pur
chase of the property, he-said, at
the same time cautioning that
nothing definite had been deter
mined at this time and would not
be until after a special meeting of
the association here sometime in
January.
At present the state Elks associ
ation has indicated that it would
take M option on the property
and the Catholic order that owns
the property has indicated its in
terest.
The property lies on Young’s
Road and was formerly used as a
school.
The combined Elks lodges in the
state own and operate a summer
camp near Hendersonville at the
present time. The city of Green
ville, S. C., wants a portion of the
property that lies in South Caro
lina for development as a water
shed and has been negotiating
with the Elks Club for its pur
chase. The part of the property
Greenville wants comprises about
95 acres and has most of the
camp’s facilities located on it.
Col. Madigan said this morning
that the North Carolina Elks As
sociation held a meeting in Char
lotte November 15 and adopted a
resolution that would urge the
Board of Trustees of the state as
sociation to consummate negotia
tions with Greenville at once. At
that time several delegations, par
ticularly from the central and
eastern sections of the state, urged
that a more central location be
sought for a possible site of a fu
ture camp. Col. Madigan then
told them about the Notre Dame
Academy property here, citing its
nearness to the center of the state
and to the center of the lodge lo
cations.
The conventioij decided to take
an option on the property here
and wait until the next state con
vention, scheduled for May, to act
on the purchase. However, it was
later decided to call a special
meeting in Southern Pines prior
to the expiration date of the op
tion. 'The meeting will probably
be held in January.
The Elks have been operating
the camp near Hendersonville
since 1946. Some 500 boys attend
it each year and the number is
constantly increasing.
No prices for either the sale of
the Hendersonville property or for
the Notre Dame Academy proper
ty have been announced.
School Board Finishes
Probe; Backs Leonard
Statement Says
Punishment Was
Not Immoderate
Blue Knights Will
Field 11-Man Grid
Team Next Season
It’s official. Southern Pines will
field an 11-man football team next
year and will become a member of
the Cape Fear Conference.
At a meeting of representative
citizens last week, with James
Perkinson, president of the Blue
Knights Boosters Club, presiding,
it was decided to adopt the pro
gram, at least for one year, accord
ing to A. C. Dawson, superintend
ent of the city school system.
The group felt, it is reported,
that since it was becoming in
creasingly difficult to make a rep
resentative and competitive sched
ule with a six-man team, that the
new set-up would be far better. At
present, Southern Pines is consid
ered by far the top team in the
loosely knit six-man league in this
area, even though they lost to Ab
erdeen last week for the state
championship.
The Blue Knights had been un
defeated in 33 games prior to last
Thursday’s game and had run up
consistently high scores in most of
their games.
Southern Pines will be the only
team in this county with an li
man team. The rest are sticking
to six-man, although there have
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Senator Ervin To
Address Pinehurst
Forum Thursday
The Pinehurst Forum’s 1956-57
series of meetings gets under way
next Thursday evening when
North Carolina’s senior Senator,
Sam J. Ervin, Jr., or Morganton,
will appear before the group as
guest speaker at the Pinehurst
Country Club. Time for the sea
son’s opener is 8:30 p.m.
The stature of this North Caro
lina statesman, unveiled for the
national eye during the McCarthy
controversy, was no surprise to
North Carolinians who know him
as a lawyer, legislator. Congress
man, Supreme Court Justice, and
Sepator under appointment of
Governor William B. Umstead as
successor to the late Clyde R. Ho-
ey. Senator'Ervin was elected to
the Senate without opposition for
the late Senator Hoey’s unexpired
term, and was recently elected to
a second term in this year’s gen
eral election.
For the past several years, Sena
tor Ervin has been one of the
sharpest critics of the United
States Supreme Court, frequently
chastising the decisions of the
Court in recent months. In 1955
he paid the greatest tribute to
North Carolina justice in his fam
ous attack on the Court in a
speech before the Harvard Law
School Association when he said
he wished “the members of the
United States Supreme Court
were half as well qualified as the
members of the North Carolina
Supreme Court.”
In an address here earlier this
fall, Ervin stated that the “great
est service the American people
could do for themselves would be
to insist upon interpretation of the
Constitution as intended by those
who wrote it and not by those
who consider the process of
amendment too cumbersome.” He
cited George Washington’s charge
to the'American people in his
farewell address that “any change
in the fundamentals of govern
ment should be made by amend
ment in the manner pointed out
by Article Five of the Constitution
and not by usurpation.”
When interviewed about his ap
pointment to the select six-mem
ber, bi-partisan Committee on
Censure Resolution to investigate
censuring Senator Joseph McCar
thy, Senator Ervin’s comment was,
“I feel it’s my duty to serve . . .
but I’d rather go fishing or poli
ticking.” This politically hot po-
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The Southern Pines school
board yesterday issued a state
ment in support of Irie Leonard,
principal of the high school, who
has been charged with striking
one of the students there.
The trial has been scheduled
for 3 p. m. Monday in Moore Re
corder’s Court.
Full texts of the board’s state
ment, together with one made
earlier this week, are reprinted
below.
(An editorial appearing in
this issue of The Pilot, in
which mention was made that
the school board had taken no
stand on the matter, was
printed prior to the time the
statement by the school board
was made yesterday.)
Leonard, who is in his sixth
year as principal of the school,
was served with a warrant two
weeks ago which had been sworn
out by Ray McDonald of South
ern Pines, who charged that
Leonard had assaulted his son,
William, 16. Leonard has sstid he
would contest the charges.
In the two weeks since the
warrant was served, the board
and Superintendent A. C. Daw
son have conducted a “diligent
and continuous” investigation in
to the matter, according to the
statements. Mr. Dawson has said
he conferred with McDonald in
attempts to straighten out the
matter before it reached the
stage where court action was in
itiated but was unsuccessful!
The incident has caused an up
roar of comment in Southern
Pines. On Thanksgiving Day a
number of stiidon+'j Leon
ard’s home and delivered a peti
tion signed by several hundred
people in which they had pro
claimed their confidence in him.
He has denied assaulting the stu
dent and said he did no more
than grasp him by the shirt in
the course of a reprimand.
At the time a number of other
students were in the classroom.
They are listed as witnesses in
the trial.
Here are the complete texts of
the school board’s statements:
"On Tuesday night, No
vember 13, Mr. A. R. Mc
Donald called on Mr. John
M. Hc^arth, Chairman of
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EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27
Louis Scheipers Resigns To Take
Florida Position As City Manager
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Louis Schei-'
pers, Jr., Town ;
Clerk of South
ern Pines for the
past three and ^
one-half year.s,!
has resigned to i
accept a posi- i
tion as city |
manager of Tar-|
pon Springs, Florida.
The resignation date is effec
tive December 27 pnd Scheipers
and his family will leave shortly
afterwards.
Tarpon Springs, located on the
West coast of Florida on the Gulf
of Mexico, is known as the
“sponge center” of the country.
It is about the same as Southern
Pines in population.
In resigning, Scheipers said he
had given the move long and
careful consideration. “It is dif
ficult to leave a town that has
been home for more than half my
life,” he said, ’’but the new job
presents challenging opportuni
ties.”
A graduate of Staunton Mili
tary School, Scheipers also at
tended the University of North
Carolina where he majored in
political science. He was a World
War 2 navigator and flew with
the air-sea-rescue service in the
cubmaster of Pack 73 at Brown-
son Memorial Presbyterian
Church, where he is also a mem
ber.
He and his wife, the former
Eleanor Grover of Southern
Pines, have four children: Betsy,
14, Peter, 9, Sally, 8 and Joseph
10 months.
Tarpon Springs, he said, was
settled by people of Greek ex
traction many years ago. They
have come to be known as mas
ters at sponge processing and,
though the sponge beds in and
near Tarpon Springs have been
recently affected by an imknown
blight, sponges shipped in from
all parts of the world still play
a vital role in the town’s econo
my.
In addition to the sponge busi
ness, there are several other in
dustries located there.
*010 city manager he is replac
ing resigned to take a similar
position in Key West.
City Manager Tom Cvtnning-
ham said this morning that he
was presently accenting applica
tions for the position Scheipers
is vacating and asked that any
applicants interested to submit
them in writing.
Cunningham said that Schei
pers resignation would be a
“significant loss to the city and he
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He is a past commander of the jwill be a very difficult man to
■VFW post here and is presently replace.”