VOL. 39—NO. Jury Report On Clinic Building Shocks Community Cooperation Lack By Town, County Largely To Blame Last week the report of the Moore County Grand Jury se verely condemned ^he old build ing in West Southern Pines used by the combined monthly clinics of the Moore County departments of health and welfare. There is no doubt that the jury’s criticism was justified, but it is only fair to the people of both county and town to give them, as far as possible, an ex planation of the facts, and just how the deplorable condition they described came about. The whole story is a lament able example of what happens when there is no cooperation be tween interested and responsible officials. The Southern Pines clinic was established back in the mid- Thirties. The move was sparked by the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, then rector here. The West Southern Pines building was chosen be cause, at that time, it was the only available place Mr. Brown could find. How it was then made habitable is lost In the shades of the past: presumably Mr. Brown enlisted the aid of his church people and others to pay for the repairs and painting that must have been necessary. The clinic was for venereal dis ease work, at first, but when the Moore County Maternal Welfare committee was organized, it be came interested and the prenatal clinics and well-baby clinics of the Department of Public Health were also held in the building. There appears to have been no written agreement as to how the place would be kept up, but, ac cording to County Commissioner Gordon Cameron, there was an understanding that the county would pay for the maintenance in lieu of paying rent. As far as (Continued on Page 8) EIGHTEEN PAGES 9MI SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1957 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS AT ROTARY CONFERENCE — Among offi cers and speakers at the conference of the 281st District of Rotary International; held this week at the Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst, were, left to right: Bunyan Stephens of Rome, Ga., past dis trict governor; Joseph I. Scott, president-elect of the host Rotary Club of Southern Pines; W. M. Wild of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, who pre sented a message from the president of Rotary International; Dr. Amos C. Dawson of Southern Pines, president of the local Rotary Club; Dr. Mark Lindsey of Hamlet, governor of the 281st District; Holt McPherson of High Point, past district governor, and brother of Garland Mc Pherson of Southern Pines; and Harry B. Finch of ThomasviUe, district treasurer. Other speak ers and entertainment were on the program. A “Rotary Ann” fashion show and luncheon are reported on the women’s pages of today’s Pilot. —Hemmer Photo Precinct Division Proposal To Be Discussed By CouncQ On Tuesday Hearing On Charier Will Be Continued At Library Meeting Important items on the docket for the regular meeting of the Southern Pines town council Tuesday of next week include further discussion of a proposed new town cheirter and a report from the Precinct Study Commit tee. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Li brary at 8 p.m. A. C. Dawson, superintendent of schools, has aske'-’ to be heard in Rummage Sale To Help School Band The annual rummage sale that is the major fund-raising project of the Band Boosters Club will be held Friday and Saturday at the Page Motor Co. building on N. E. Broad St. The club is an organization of adults who are interested in the Southern Pines school band. Mr^. George Thompson, chair man of the sale, said that clothing ' and practically any household item would be welcome. • Persons who cannot bring ar ticles to the place of sale can phone Mrs. Broadus Smith or Mrs. C. D. Way and the items will be called for and picked up. All proceeds will go to the band fund. ART EXHIBIT The Good Neighbor Policy is believed in—and practiced —^by the City of Charlotte. Now oh view in the South ern Pines Library Gallery is a loan collection from the neighbor city's famed art gal lery—the Mint Museum. The collection forms part of the gallery's permanent collec tion. , Faced with a sudden disap pointment by the withdrawal of the exhibit planned for this time, the gallery committee. • Mrs. Alwin Folley and Mrs. C. A. Smith, co-chairmen, sent out an SOS to Charlotte . and the big city responded nobly. The collection now on view comprises watercolors, the work of six artists. Three of these axe local Charlotte painters, one a gradueite of Charlotte's John C. Smith College. All are Southerners except for one New York ar tist. The show, considered by the committee one of the best to be hung this season, will be on view until March 1. Scouts Of County Join Observance Of Anniversary Hundreds of Boy Scouts in Moore County will participate in the nation-wide observance of Boy Scout Week through next Tuesday, as the nation’s 4,500,000 Scouts and leaders join in cele brating the 47th anniversary of their organization. The week of February 6-12 has as its theme, “Onward for God and My Country,” with a special emphasis , on “Duty to Country.” Almost 20,000 members are joining in this recognition in the 12-county Occoneechee Council which includes Moore County. Window displays of Scout crafts will be one of the features of the occasion. Frank Yandell, Scout executive for Moore district, said that various units will have public displays and that the following were already prepared early in the week: at Style Mart store, on Pennsylvania Ave., by Southern Pines Pack 73; at West End by Pack and Troop 801; at Pinebluff by Troop 206; and at Pinehurst by Troop 7. Others also are expect ed to be prepared. Judging for prizes for displays will be done Saturday. On Scout Sunday, February 10, all Boy Scouts are encouraged to wear uniforms and attend church with their parents. Almost half of all Scout units are made pos sible by sponsorship of churches. Coaches To Plan County Tourney Moore County High School bas ketball coaches will meet in Car thage at 10 a.m. Saturday to make plans for the annual county tour nament. To be played at the Carthage gym, the tourney is expected to get started Thursday or Friday of next week. For reports on games of the past week in the Moore County Conference, see stories elsewhere in today’s Pilot. I regard to a nuisance created by dogs running loose on the school grounds. , The precinct committee, of which Mrs. Graham Culbreth is chairman, has been studying a proposal that the large and popu lous Southern Pines precinct be divided to ease voting congestion. Provisions of the new charter that have aroused discussion in clude the right of the council to sell property at a private sale and the enlargement of the town school board from five to seven members. A public hearing was held on the charter at the January meet ing but was continued until this month’s meeting to allow more time for study, comment and dis cussion. Warning: Use Air Rifles Properly Police Chief C. E. Newton today asked parents of children who have air rifles to warn the young sters against using the guns to de stroy property. Numerous complaints have come in to the police department about windows and street lights which have been broken by shots fired from air rifles, the chief said. An unoccupied house in Pine- dene, from which nearly all the windows have been shot out, was cited by Chief Newton as an ex ample of the extensive damage that is being done. J^ere is no town ordinance pro hibiting possession or use of air rifles, the chief noted, but laws against property damage can be invoked when such damage is done. Officers are watching for children who misuse their guns. It’s up to parents to help con trol this situation. Chief Newton thinks. ON FEBRUARY 12 Dr. Winston To Speak To Civic Clubs Dr. Ellen Winston, North Caro lina’s energetic and capable com missioner of public welfare, will address a joint luncheon meeting of the Southern Pines Junior IVoman s Club and the Sandhills Kiwanis Club next week. Members of the two organiza tions, with their guests, will meet at the Mid Pihes Club at 12-15 p.m. Kiwanians, who come from throughout the county, have been invited to bring their wives. Mrs. Walter B. Cole of Car- hage, Moore County superintend- ent of welfare, issued an invita tion Monday to the board of coun ty commissioners. County welfare board members have been invited. Because two organizations are involved and because there is widespread interest in operation of the county and state welfare departments, the meeting is ex pected to be one of the most wide ly attended civic club gatherings held here in some time. Mrs. W. A. Leonard, welfare and youth chairman of the Junior Woman’s Club, is program chair man for the meeting. LISTING EXTENDED According to the custom followed each year in Moore County the period for listing real and personal property for county and town taxes has been extended through Feb ruary 15. The commissioners author ized the extension, at their meeting Monday in Carthage. See stories elsewhere in to day's Pilot about other busi ness coming before the coun ty board. George Ross Says Intangible Tax Burden On State Tells Moore Board It Should Lead In Effort To Abolish It George Ross of Jackson Springs, who recently retired after many years of service with the Agriculture, Conservation and Development and other State departments, visited the meeting of the county commis sioners at Carthage Monday to suggest that Moore County work through the State Association of County Commissioners in taking tne lead to abolish or modify the state’s Intangible Property tax. He said this tax—which levies a 25 cents per $100 of market value of stocks and bonds—is a nui sance levy that keeps many per sons from making their residence in North Carolina where, if they settled here, the state would col lect income and inheritance taxes, as well as advalorem taxes from those who owned homes here. A large proportion of this tax is now returned by the state to the counties and municipalities in which it is collected and a proposal is coming up that would send it all back to local units. Mr. Ross warned the commis sioners against welcoming this money. Refund Proposal At least, he said, the counties should ask for a clause in the tax bill that would give a county op- (Continued on page 8) Industry Committee To Discuss Plans, Work Visitors To J'i, HAPPY—Mable Davis of Robbins, who won the 1956 nurse’s training scholarship given annually by the Sand hills Veterans Association, is evidently enjoying her train ing at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. The SVA is launch ing its 1957 fund drive that will provide another such scholarship for a Moore Coun ty high school graduate this year. Three scholarship win ners are now in nursing schools and eight have gradu ated asl nurses since the’ pro gram was begun. Don Traylor of Southern Pines is head of the drive committee. A mail solicitation is being made. Contributions may be sent to the chairman. COMMISSIONER'S 'BOMBSHELL* Uurrie Asks Discuss Proposal To Consolidate Moore High Schools Admitting his. suggestion would be like exploding a bombshell. County Commissioner John Cur rie of Carthage said during the board’s meeting Monday that he would like to see the county board of education and the South ern Pines and Pinehurst city school boards get together with the county commissioners to dis cuss a proposal that has arisen pe riodically in the past 10 years: Blue Starts 6th I House Term; On Rules Committee Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aber deen, Moore County’s representa tive in the General Assembly, was on hand for the opening session of the body in Raleigh, Wednesday. He was named to the powerful House Rules Committee, a 24-mari group composed mostly of veter an legislators. He is serving his sixth consecutive term. A delegation of Moore County political and civic notables was in Raleigh today to witness inaugu ral festivities and the swearing in of Gov. Luther H. Hodges at noon in Memorial Auditorium. Mayor Voit Gilmore of South ern Pines went io Raleigh Wed nesday and remained to witness today’s events. PILOT TAKES A FIELD TRIP TO FIND OUT What Kind Of Job Does ‘The Welfare’ Do? By KATHARINE BOYD construction of two or three con solidated high schools to serve the entire county. The many advantages that could be provided students at larger schools have overcome per sonal opposition he once had to this idea, the commissioner said. Jere McKeithen, member of the county board of education who i sion. was present when the suggestion' was made, said he felt sure the county school board would be de lighted to discuss the matter. > “That would solve our building problems in one fell swoop,” he said. At the rate school needs are ex panding, Mr. Currie pointed out, it would not take long for existing high school buildings to be taken over for elementary school use in the various districts. There are now 11 high schools in the county, attended by white students. Negro high schools have been consolidated into four—at Aberdeen, Carthage, Southern Pines and Pinehurst. No action was taken by the commissioners on Mr. Currie’s suggestion, but no opposition was voiced to the proposed discussion meeting. Take Part In WEEB Forum A duPont Company executive and representatives of the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development will meet with members of the Moore County In dustrial Committee Monday to discuss activities and plans of the county-wide group. To be held in the offices of Ra dio Station WEEB here at 4 p.m. the meeting will be broadcast to reach as wide an audience as pos sible throughout the county. Expected from the C & D De partment are A. H. Grant, former resident of Southern Pines, and Les Branson. Homer H. Ewing, a member of the Development De partment of the duPont company at Wilmington, Del., will be pres ent to answer questions on what industry looks for in a plant site. Mr. Ewing, father of Robert S. Ewing of Southern Pines, is a past president of the National Se curity Industrial Association. He will spend the weekend at the home of his son here, stopping on his return north from a meeting of the Association in Florida. The duPont Development De partment studies development of new products and location of new plant sites for the giant chemical corporation. Committee mem bers have expressed pleasure that the local group will be given the benefit of Mr. Ewing’s experience in this field. The Moore County Industrial Committee was formed recently to promote the industrial inter ests of the entire county, in view of the need foi^ more industry in the area and the closing of the Amerotron plant at Aberdeen, the Bishop plant here and the antici pated loss of the USAF Air Ground Operations School—a loss since made definite by the burn ing of the Highland Pines Inn where the school was located. Chairman of the committee is John C. Ostrom of Southern Pines who is away on a trip and wiU be unable to attend the Monday ses- To find out, you ask: can you What is the Moore County De-' I “ partment of Public Welfare’ A ? And thats how, one staff of workers; an office in'the if ^0“ ^^^ppen to be riding basement of the Carthage court- worker house; a place where people in ^ heading out need can get help? ^oore County. Yes, but how does it work? I It’s a nice day; that’s going to What do these workers do? When help. You are glad, because you you say that some take care of Iinve a feeling you will probably the office end, and others of the. into a good many things that field end—all right. But what do ] 'won’t be so nice during the com- they DO? Well, you can imagine pretty much what the office people do. ing hours. You ask the driver about her plan for the day. You note that or at least, the general type of ■ we are heading west, (which, let thing: records, interviews, and so it be firmly established, is NOT on, (the wild variety of items {the direction in which the car that come before them would | was traveling that day—all de defy any imagination.) But what about the “field workers”? What do they do? tails of geography and names, in the following piece, are plucked oat of the air and bear no re semblance, we prayerfully trust, to actuality.) Your friend tells you that she has recently been assigned a dif ferent part of Moore County as her field and this will be one of her first trips to see certain of these welfare cases. “What sort of cases will we see?” "Every Kind" A little smile touches the cor ners of your companion’s mouth: “Just about every kind,” she says. “Some getting ADC, some APTD, some OAA, some. . .” “Hold on, now, hold on! You sound like the government- What does all that mean?” And so she describes each one of the “aids,” the individual (Continued on Page 8) Committees Of Chamber Named; Ads Get Results Meeting Wednesday afternoon, the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce heard an nouncement of new committees by President E. Earl Hubbard, discussed plans for industrial and town promotion and learned that the town advertising in New York newspapers is bringing a “tremen dous response.” The directors decided to hold the next few meetings of the board on the first and third Wed nesdays, on an experimental ba sis. Following are the new commit tee members — the first person named on each committee being the chairman: Industrial—L. D. McDonald, A1 Folley, Newland Phillips. Commercial Relations — Miss Kitty Wiley, Mrs. Graham Cul breth. Publicity—Mrs. Valerie Nichol son, Joe Soott, Mrs. S. D. Fobes, (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 8) Games Tonight To Help Dimes Drive Entertainment by the “Elvis Benson Trio,” at half-time has been announced as an added at traction during the doubleheader basketball game to be played in the High School gymnasium to night (Thursday) for benefit of the March of Dimes. The twin bill opens at 7:30 when junior high school teams of Southern Pines and Pinehurst tangle. The feature attraction, to follow, is a fray between the local Jaycees and Lions. The mystery vocal unit is said to be composed of three Lions— Bill Benson, Joe Carter and Dr. Dave Whitehead. 'There will be no admission charge, but a collection will be taken for the March of Dimes. FEB. 15 DEADLINE FOR LICENSE TAGS Friday of next week. Feb ruary 15, is the deadline for owning and displaying 1957 state motor vehicle licenses, the public was reminded to day. The same deadline applies to Southern Pines town tags which must be displayed by all car owners who live with in the city limits. For the convenience of mo torists, the auto license bu reau in the Chamber of Com:- merce office will remain open Saturday afternoon of this week and Wednesday after noon of next week. Office hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mrs. S. D. Fobes, Chamber of Commerce secretary who is in charge of the license bu reau, today urged car owners to get their plates ahead of deadline to avoid delays and standing in line.

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