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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Pollock Suggests
Broad Changes In
New Town Charter
R. F. Hoke Pollock, practicing
attorney of Southern Pines, went
to the Town Council meeting
Tuesday night well prepared to
offer opinions and suggestions on
the new town charter, which has
been under the preparation of a
committee for several months.
“You asked at the last meeting
for suggestions and, after a great
deal of time and study, I have a
few,” Pollock said.
Chief among his suggestions
for change was a provision that
the Council would be required to
hold a public sale before it could
dispose of unneeded real estate
or other property. Under the pro
posed new charter, Council can,
in its discretion, hold either a
public or private sale.
Pollock said his suggestion for
a public sale, a practice which he
said was followed in most areas
throughout the state, would pos
sibly save the Council from much
criticism “in the event you make
a bad sale privately, and that is
not beyond the realm of possi
bility.”
He reminded the Council that
the sale of the Southern Pines
Country Club some years back
had been of a private nature
“and some people in the town,
I among them, stiU remain in the
dark as to just what happened.
The only thing we definitely
know is that the purchaser got
an awfully good bargain.”
Pollock also suggested that the
Council be composed of seven
members, plus a mayor who
would run separately, as opposed
to the present plan which calls
for the election of five council-
men who in turn elect the mayor
from themselves.
He recommended that higher
salaries for both the mayor and
the councilmen be established
though not necessarily put into
effect immediately. “Inflation is
on us and we might as well be
prepared for it,” he said.
. Several other changes, he said,
were of a minor nature.
Council took all of them under
consideration.
Dimes Club Plans
Opening Of 21st
Season Tomorrow
The Dunes, a privately charter
ed club located two miles from
Southern Pines on Midland
Road, opens its 21st season to
morrow night.
The club’s main feature for the
opening, and for a formal en
gagement thereafter, is Dave
Lester and his Society Orchestra,
which has recently been engaged
in one of the famous hotels in
Miami.
An added attraction is the
Woodside Sisters who have been
featured on the Arthur Godfrey
television show.
Reservations are needed and
may be had by calling the club.
2 Vass-Lakeview
Boys Involved In
Separate Accidents
Two Vass-Lakeview school
boys, one from each of the towns,
had accidents last weekend that
gave parents some anxious mo
ments, but both stories have hap
py endings.
Wayne Caddell, 8-year-old son
of the Herbert Caddells of Vass,
had gone by way of a disappear
ing stairway to where some of his
toys were, Sunday, and, with the
adventurous spirit of 8-year-oMs,
Nvas walking astride the stair
DeMolay Order To
Organize Chapter
For Sandhill Area
A new chapter of the Order of
DeMolay, one of the largest
young men’s fraternal Organiza
tions jn the world, will be or
ganized Saturday night at the
Masonic Lodge in Aberdeen.
The chapter, to be called the
James A. Marks Chapter, is be
ing sponsored by Roman Eagle
Masonic Lodge in Aberdeen with
the assistance of Southern Pines
and West End lodges.
Time for the meeting is 7:30.
The purpose of the organiza
tion is to train young men be
tween the ages of 14 and 21 to
be leaders in their community.
Many former members of the or
ganization have attained high of
fice in politics, industry, and in
the armed forces.
Approximately 50 boys from
Aberdeen, Pinebluff, Southern
Pines, Pinehurst, West End, Mc
Cain, Vass and Eastwood will be
among the charter members to be
initiated at the Saturday night
program. The DeMolay chapter
from High Point will confer the
degrees of DeMolay on the candi
dates.
Sunday the new candidates
and the members from IHgh
Point will attend Page Memorial
Church for services.
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 a
public installation of officers of
the new chapter will be held
to which the public is invited.
The charter is named in mem
ory of James A. Marks, a former
DeMolay who lived for many
years in Aberdeen.
Surface Water Has
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Ruined Lake, Man
Tells Councilmen
Surface water from newly
paved town streets is ruining a
I large property owner’s lake and
he would like to have the town
cried for a little while, then sud
denly became limp. He was rush
ed to St. Joseph’s Hospital where _ , ....
the parents were advised to take hignt.
him to Memoried Hospital at
do something about it. Town
Council was told at its meeting
W. P. Davis, who has large
Chapel Hill and he was carried i ho^iI^Ss in the Knollwood area,
there by ambulance. Examina- Council that water from
tion revealed a skull fracture, but i Delaware Ave., Crestview Road
by Tuesday he was feeling much' and several other streets in the
better and his parents hope to | vicinity was washing down
bring him home late this week. i Crestview Road and “has all but
A gulp of surprise at being told ruined a lake I built near Mid-
by his playmate, David Crockett land Road at considerable ex-
that he had “made a bull’s eye” in pense.”
a dart game resulted in Eddie i Davis has deposited a sum
Causey’s getting a cork with a pin [ ^jth the Town Manager to help
stuck through it lodged in his pgy f^j. curbing and guttering of
throat Friday night He had been ^^e side of Crestview Road, a
blowing the cork through a tube,' he thinks would greatly
aiming at a target and was ready ^ alleviate the problem,
for another shot when the ex- ,
citing success was realized. 1 the town has held off be-
In an hour’s time his parents, ® .u
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Causey, had among other reasons,
their son back at Lakeview from I Cost of curbing and guttering
Moore County Hospital with the | entire section where ^ surface
cork and pin safely removed and! water runs into the Davis prop-
with thankful hearts for good erty would involve several
doctors and hospitals so close at thousand dollars. Town Manager
hand. Louis Scheipers said.
Six Artists Have
Exhibits In Show
Now At Gallery
Six artists make up the exhibi
tors in the art show now on view
in the Library Gallery. Of these,
five are from North Carolina.
The exhibit comes from the
Mint Museum in Charlotte, part
of the permanent collection, sent
here on loan and to remain on
view until March 1.
The work which will probably
attract most notice—not only be
cause this is a horse-loving com
munity—is the large watercolor
of thf-ee circus horses. Hung fac
ing the entrance door, it catches
the attention and holds it for the
excellence of workmanship and
the charm of the composition.
The horses arb lovely; sleek-
coated, graceful. Their necks are
bent in the submissive trained-
horse posture—though they face
away from the artist—and those
broad comfortable backs, two
white and the center one chestnut
—invite the light pose of the bal
let-skirted lady-rider.
Thd artist is Kenneth Whitsett.
A North Carolinian, he contri
butes to this show also a water-
color portrait of the head ^nd
shoulders of an old Negro man,
entitled “Old Tom.” Here, he has
not been so succgessful. The
study has a static, postery qual
ity, and th,e subject is treated as
a “type” rather than as a human
being, though the merry expres
sion is lively enough.
Cecelia Neuheisel, Elizabeth
Lobingier, Tom Hines and Eugene
Grisby are all Tarheel painters,
each represented by one work.
Miss Lobingier’s “Storm Over
Bearskin Neck,” painted at Rock-
port, Mass., stands out as a dis
tinguished piece of work. Decid
edly impressionistic in style, it is
all mood: the small New England
harbor, with lobster wharf and
boats at anchor, water just feel
ing the wind, the whole in the
shadowy menace of the approach
ing storm.
A stark, reaching quality in
Miss Neuheisel’s “Trees,” catches
the eye. This work relys on good
drawing and pure composition for
it^ effect. Composition, deliber
ately chaotic, we would imagine,
plays a strong part in the painting
“Modern Landscape” by Tom
Hines: a picture of a bit of a small
town—a shacky town.. In Eugene
Grisby’s “Florida Contrasts,” it is
color that supplies the mood, on
the supplementary theme of the
tall, shooting palmtrees and va
riegated shapes—and colors—of
the houses.
Only “furriner” in this exhibit
is the New York painter. Jack
Lubin. Mr. Lubin contributes a
study of a draped nude figure, a
pastel, “Moonrise,” and two
guaches, “Windy City” and
“Brooklyn Nocturne.” The wind
iness of the street scene, with
roaming rooflines and shadowy
distance, was, real The wind
whistled audibly around those
roofs. An effective painting.
For the reader ignorant as was
this reporter, it may be that a
note, furnished by the Gallery
Committee may be appreciated:
it read: “A gauche is a watercolor
nade opaque by the addition of
white or black pigment.” (Paint,
to you.) —KLB.
Hiring Of Negro
Policeman Will Be
In Next Budget
Employment of a Negro police-
•man to be assigned to West
Southern Pines was one step
nearer to reality Tuesday night
when Town Manager Louis
Scheipers, Jr., handed Council
the results of a study he had
made at their request
Cost of an added policeman,
Scheipers’ study showed, would
be somewhat in the neighborhood
of $6,500 if Council decided to
purchase an additional patrol
car at the same time. If the car
was not added, Scheipers said,
the costs would probably be in
the neighborhood of $3,300.
Council, besieged with re
quests for a Negro policeman for
the past six months,or so, had di
rected Scheipers to make the
study so that he might know
how much money to include in
the next budget for the purpose.
Council is on record as favor
ing a policeman for West South
ern Pines but has held off mak
ing a decision as to just how he
would operate until cost figures
v/ere submitted.
Caravan Theatre
Begins Season At
Pinehurst Thurs.
“Bell, Book and Candle,” John
van Druten’s witty comedy, will
be the first presentation of the
Caravan Theatre company when
it opens its season next Thursday
night, February 21, at the Cara-
van-Pinehurst Theatre in Pine
hurst.
Curtain time is 8:40 p.m.
According to Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Carmichael, co-producers of the
company, the box office is now
open for general admission ticket
sales, with season series tickets
available through the first pro
duction. All seats are reserved,
they reminded the public, and
reservations may be made by tel
ephone.
Company members are comfor
tably situated ini their new home
on Bennett Street in Southern
Pines.
For “Bell, Book and Candle,”
one of the most successful of all
comedies to have been produced
op Broadway, rehearsals will be
gin at the 'theater tomorrow un
der the direction of Warren E.
Murray of Pelham Manor, N. Y.
He will arrive tomorrow with
Mrs. Murray, scenic designer for
the company.
Pegeen Rose will be seen in the
leading role. A member of the
company during the past three
feummer seasons, and a leading
actress on the winter tours, Miss
Rose comes from Toronto. She
recently played a leading role op
posite Lon Chaney, Jr., in a tele
vision movie. She has also ap
peared with Bob Hope, Lome
Greene, Ilona Massey and many
others in television productions,
and has been resident actress
with the Straw Hat Players in
Muskoka Lakes, Canada.
Two Clubs Hear
Dr. Ellen Winston
On Welfare Work
The Sandhills Kiwanis Club
and Southern Pines Junior
Woman’s Club joined in a lunch
eon meeting Tuesday to honor a
distinguished North Carolinian,
Dr. Ellen Winston, state Super
visor of Public Welfare.
With Dr. Winston was Miss El
len Bush, newly appointed su
pervisor for the group of coun
ties of which Moore is One. 'The
two Raleigh visitors were accom-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957
INDUSTRY LOOKING
(Continued from Page 1)
spent millions of dollars in de
veloping methods that practical
ly eliminate all such disposal
problems, and emphasized that
many companies consider it a
public responsibility to avoid
contamination of the area,
i In speaking of brochures that
are now becoming an almost
necessity for towns and areas
seeking to lure industry, he cau
tioned that brochures are, at
most, only a -“first invitation” to
the industry. “We think it should
be attractive and informative,”
he said, “but not with all the fine
print. We have a staff of experts
—and most other major compan
ies do also—who visit a town or
area and draw up our own find
ings after ihany days of patient
research.”
He said that 83 different fac
tors were weighed before the
company finally located its dac-
lon plant in Kinston. Other
towns had some things more im
portant to the company than
Kinston could offer, he pointed
out, but in the final analysis,
Kinston offered the most advan
tages.
He reminded the committee
that his company, not unlike
most other major corporations,
has a training program that
helps to overconfe the problem
of unskilled labor in an area. In
many instances, he suggested, the
training program produced far
better workers than a specific
training school would “primarily
because we have a definite way
of doing thihgs which are better
accomplished if the workers are
trained in our methods at the out
set.”
Several examples were cited
by Mr. Ewing when asked just
how his company decided to turn
down a site. He cited taxes as
the reason for duPont’s failure to
locate in one place, lack of ade
quate water in another, and a
lack of desire on the part of a
town in another.
“Once,” he said, “we discover
ed that the same plant would be
charged $10,000 for taxes in one
community, and $300,000 in an
other. We naturally chose the
first one.”
North Carolina has many
things to boast about, he said,
listing them as pure air, good
water supplies, “a good citizen
ry,” and good deposits of miner
als. “In Moore County, you have
panied to the meeting by two j all those things and I’m sure
members of the Moore County you’ll get a good industry if you
ern Pines, is chairman of the
rally committee, with Mrs. John
Frye of Robbins, county YDC
chairman, and Monroe Chappell
of Vass serving as the other
members.
Board of Public Welfare, Mrs. W.
P. Davis and E. H. Garrison Jr.
of Carthage. The county superin
tendent, Mrs. W. B. Cole, was
prevented by illness from being
present.
The meeting, held at the Mid
Pines Club, attracted a record
crowd, many of the Kiwanians
bringing their wives, and ■ one,
J. Talbot Johnson, his “two
sweethearts” as well, according
to the introduction of his three
companions made by the Aber
deen attorney.
With James Hobbs, Kiwanis
president, and Mrs. Norris Hodg
kins Jr. who heads the young
women’s group, presiding, the
clubs and their guests partook of
a bountiful lunch, enjoyed some
entertainment in the forms of
“The Singing Thomas Twins of
Jackson Springs,” and then set
tled back to listen to the speak
er of the day. Dr. Winston was
introduced by Mrs. A. O. Leon
ard, program chairman of the
Junior Woman’s Club.
Choosing as her topic the work
she heads, Dr. Winston concen
trated on clarifying in her hear
ers’ minds, the complicated oper
ations of the many services
which the State Department of
Public Welfare operates, focus
ing, towards the end of her talk,
on county responsibilities and
management.
Jr. Women's "Clothes Closet"
Doctor Winston compliment-
only put your minds to it,” he
added.
Summing up his talk and an
swers to questions, Mr. Ewing
said the single most important
thing in securing new industry is
“the desire on the part of a com
munity for industry. It’s para
mount, and most locating and de
velopment engineers can sense in
a very short time if that desire
is not present.
“They don’t stay around long
after that.”
BASKETBALL
(Continued from Page 1)
ner vs Aberdeen-Vass winner
boys.
7:30—Carthage vs Southern
Pines-Vass winner girls.
9:00—Pinehurst vs Farm Life-
Westmoore winner boys.
Wednesday, February 20
6:30—Robbins vs Highfalls-
Westmoore winner girls.
7:30—Southern Pines vs Car-
thage-Highfalls winner boys.
9:00—Semi-finals girls contest.
Thursday, February 21
6:30—Boys semi-finals contest.
7:30—Girls semi-finals contest.
9:00—Boys semi-finals contest.
Saturday, February 23
7:30—Girls championship game.
9:00—Boys championship game.
HIGHFALLS MAN
(Continued from Page 1)
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Egg sales in North Carolina in
1955 topped sales in all other
Southeastern states. Also, North
Carolina poultrymen have in
creased egg sales, faster since
1940 than either the Southeast
ern area or the United States.
Farmers’ prices held at the
1955 level in 1956 after declining
for four consecutive years.
which would begin immediately
ed the Junior Woman’s Club onjaf^0j. April 1. For the long term
“doing a good job here.” The, another candidate, Harold Pur-
club supports a “children’s gQ^ of the former member,
clothes closet,” collecting dis-. .y^^g ^jgQ nominated,
carded clothing and making it Ordinarily a candidate would
available to the local Welfare de-lgj-gj^jj jq]. election and would,
partmeht. The closet is continu-1 under normal circumstances, be
ally refilled as clothing is taken j .supported by the Executive
out for use in the county. Committee of a recognized politi-
Dr. Winston stressed the fact ^ party. Should he be elected,
that in the three main services: j^jg name would be submitted
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carried on by her state depart-1 gg g nomination to the Gen-
ment, the major share of the fi- gj-gj Assembly which actually
nancial burden is assumed by the ,jQgg “electing,” rarely de
parting from the nomination.
Chairman W. Lamont Brown
presided at the session, which
was held in the court house in
state and federal government,
with the county contributing
from one-sixth to one-eighth of
the cost.
County statistics, as given by' Carthage. The committee dis-
the speaker, showed that Moore cussed plans for a rally, which
County aid to the aged, (whose
age average is 75 years, with 60
percent elderly women,) ave
rages $35 a month. Aid To De
pendent Children, she said, is ris
ing “because there are more chil-
ilren.” Moore County is carrying
475 cases. The average county
grant per child is $16 a month.
would climax a statewide fund
raising campaign, to be held in
the school gym in Carthage the
second week in April. Delegates
would attend from throughout
the state, with both the Young
Democrats and the senior party
represented.
Vbit Gilmore, Mayor of South-
BOYS' CHOIR
(Continued from page 1)
Dors, Ma Colombo, Alsatian carol
arr. by P. Berthier; Kyrie from
the “Messe des Enfants de St. Eu-
stache-La Foret,” by Caplet; II
Est Ne Le Divin Enfant, French
carol arr. by Noyon.
II. Voicy le Verd et Beau May,
by Jacques Mauduit (French 16th
Century); Sur le Pont d’Avignon,
by Madeleine Perissas (fantasia
on a French folk song, on a theme
probably Provencal); Margot, La-
bourez les Vignes, by Marc de
Ranse; Repands, Charmante Nuit,
by J. B. Lully (French 17th Cen
tury); A La O Che Buon Eco
(eight parts), by Orlando di Lasso
(16th Century); Trois Beaux Ois-
eaux de Paradis, by Maurice Rav
el; Tengo Que Subir A1 Puerto
(Spanish' ballad); Danny Boy, arr.
by Jean Pagot; Nous N’lrons Plus
Au Bois, a country dance, arr. by
Bernard Loth.
Following their American tour
—which has included two per
formances in New York City, at
the Cloisters February 1 and
Town Hall February 3—the Little
Singers of Paris will leave from
San Francisco for a five-week
tour of Japan. They wiU return
to France via India. After ^ tour
of Europe, they go to South
America. They will not return to
the United States until 1958.
The concert Monday night will
be preceded by a buffet supper at
the Hollywood Hotel, at which
members of the Association and
their friends may meet and greet
the artists and add to the enjoy
ment of a rare musical evening.
Reservations for the supper
should be made with the hotel in
advance.
ures that revealed 38 to 40 per
cent of the school population in
Southern Pines is made up of Ne
gro children.
A number of young people also
suggested the board be an elective
one, with several of them approv
ing the idea of having the board
elective and appointive. One
pointed out he felt the young peo
ple had not been represented on
the board at aU, and said he had
learned that only one member of
the present board had children in
school.
There was no criticism at all
voiced of the present board at the
meeting. In fact, most of the ones
who spoke said they felt the
board had done an outstanding
job, but reminded the Council
that times were changing and that
younger people were needed “if
they are to grow with the com
munity.”
Council, which had at one time
hoped to have the charter ready
for submission at the opening of
the General Assembly, which
must approve it, said at the outset
of the meeting that it was recep
tive to “any and all” ideas con
cerning any proposed changes.
“We don’t want to rush this
thing through and make mistakes
we’U be sorry for in the years to
come,” Mayor Voit Gilmore said.
The charter, he reminded those in
attendance, is something a town
lives by and shouldn’t be made to
undergo constant changes.
At the end of the discussion on
the school board, which consumed
two hours. Council said all sug
gestions would be taken into con
sideration before any final decis
ions are made.
SCHOOL BOARD
(Continued on Page 8)
“We wouldn’t have the schools
in this community we have today
if all sections of the town were
not represented,” he said. “May
be some sections have not had ac
tual representatives on the board,
but they have certainly been rep
resented in the spirit with which
the board has considered the
school problems of the entire
community.”
Dawson had earlier quoted fig-
URGE PRECINCT
(Continued from page 1)
no precinct map for Southern
Pines has ever been drawn up, or
at least no such map was ever
found.
The committee had 10 members
representing every geographical
section of the area. Mrs. Graham
Culbreth served as chairman.
At no time, she has repeatedly
said, did politics enter into any of
the discussions. “We were in
structed to determine as intelli
gently as possible just how and
where to establish an outside
boundary line that would, in fair
ness, indicate where people should
vote. The town, county and even
the state has long known of the
problem and there has been much
work done on it,” she said.
Council took the report under
consideration.
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