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NOTICE OF HEARING ON PE
TITION FOR PERMISSION TO
CONSTRUCT FILLING STA
TION AND BUS STATION IN
TOWN OF SOUTHERN PINES.
Notice is hereby given that a
public hearing will be held in the
public Library in the Town of
Southern Pines at 8:00 o’clock p.
ni. on the 27th day of December,
1956 in connection with petition
for permission to construct a fill
ing station and bus station at the
Page SEVENTEEN
Three Local Residents Do Well In Venture That
Started As Hohhy; Shop Now Open To Show Wares
•e’s a situation that wonlH
Here’s a situation that would
cause envy in almost anyone.
Suppose, for a minute, you
have a hobby, get requests to
turn it into a business, which
you do, then discover
corner of Pennsylvania Avenue [ sudden’ that ""whoirsali^ °has
and Leake Street in the Town of
Southern Pines, on that particu
lar property more particularly
described as follows:
Being lots Nos. 13, 14, 15 and
16 in Block L and 6 as shown
on map of Town of Southern
Pines, Moore County, North
Carolina, which map is duly
recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds for Moore
County.
All persons interested are
hereby notified to appear at said
public hearing and in case of a
protest against the granting
taken the fun out of the hobby.
What would you do?
The situation did happen and
the three people who were di
rectly involved did the only
thing left open to them: they
went into the retailing business,
where they can make their prod
ucts unhampered by the peering
eyes of the wholesaler who is
constantly saying: “Sure, it’s
pretty, but wUl it sell?”
The three are Marion de Costa,
Don Moore and Mildred Gruebl,
who have more fun than most
ctgcuiisi me granting of *—
such consent to construct said better still, manage
filling station and bus station on
said property signed by the own
ers of 20% or more either> of the
to make a little money out of it.
'They have joined to form
Sandhill Ceramics and show off
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lots included in the same block at the Craft Shop,
as the proposed site of said filling ^‘ecently opened in the Woodlyn
station, or those directly opposite
thereto extending 400 feet from
the street frontage of such pro
posed site of said filling station.
Motor Court between Aberdeen
and Southern Pines.
“We started this jiobby sim
ply as a means of self-expres-
in any direction of the street ad- sion,” Moore says, “and never
jacent to such proposed site of bad any idea it would grow the
said filling station, such consent I way it has. We get stumped when
shall not be given except by fav- trying to explain it.”
orable vote of three fourths of All three have diverse back-
ourselves with no place to put
aU the things we made and it
was inevitable that we start
looking for ways to dispose of
them. Selling to gift shops seem
ed like a good idea,”
Mrs. de Costa and Miss Gruebl
loaded up the car on numerous
occasions and headed for the
mountains and the gift shops
tnere; they returned with noth
ing but orders for more.
The hobby, it seemed, was •
turning into a business. j
The three craftsmen turned to!
taking wholesale orders for their
wares. They also exhibited in gift j
shows and found their products '
were enjoying a mUd success. j and other things that go along
But worrying about produc-j with being in the wholesale busi-
tion scheduling, bookkeeping ’ (Continued on Page 20)
FETTLING, the process of removing blemishes on mold-formed
pottery, is a job that requires the able hands of aU three partners
in Sandhill Ceramics, newest craft in this area. Pictured here,
left to right, are Miss Mildred Gruebl, Mrs. Marion de Costa, and
Don Moore, who operate the hobby turned business. (PUot photo)
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lery and has sold many portraits
and landscapes; Miss Gruebl,
who has designed jewelry,. is a
commercial artist.
The talents fit nicely together.
Moore first got the other two
interested in ceramics after a
all the members of the Town grounds: Moore teaches art in the ^ ^ i for th
Council of the Town of Southern Southern Pines school system' W^em North Carohna j has moved again and
Council of the Town of Southern
Pines.
This 11th day of December,
1956.
(S) LOUIS SCHEIPERS, Jr.
Southern Pines school
and serves as principal
vases they had in mind.
Space was set up in the rear
of the de Costa home on US
Highway 1 South of Southern
Pines. Since that beginning Mr.
de Costa, whose workshop was
commandeered for the venture,
is being
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Qf tjig I ^ couple of years back. While slowly pressured into giving up
elementary school; k&s.'de Costa, ^ a cer^ics shop | more space,
a student of New York art Asheville and asked a few j Moore says: “You take a thing
_ schools, has had several exhibits I like this where you can mold
Clerk, Town of Southern Pines in the Southern Pines Art Gal- ' he decided that i what you want and paint it the
.making ceramics might be just | way you think is best and it’s a
the thing to have fun with. He lot of fun. While learning we
later interested Mrs. de Costa did have a lot of fun, even
and Miss Gruebl and they order-, though we made more than the
ed some of the basic needs for normal share of mictairog
turning out the various pots and • “But after a while we found
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