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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1957
Robbins Industry Will Manufacture New-Type Industrial Stool
A new type industrial chair, or
stool, designed primarily to re-
lieye tension and provide for
greater efficiency of assembly line
workers, was unveiled here Tues
day morning.
It will be manufactured in Rob
bins, with production scheduled
to begin around July 1.
Gsirland McPherson, president
of the newly-chartered Seating,
Inc., the firm that will manufac
ture the stool, said the long range
market outlook for the product,
never before used in this country,
is bright.
“We are starting out with 23
employees, enough for a single as
sembly line,” he said. “In the very
near future, as soon as we can see
how things are shaping up, we
earnestly expect to hire more.”
Payroll for the new company
will be approximately $100,000
per year for the one assembly line
operation. The building where
the stools will be manufactured,
the old Robbins Community
, House, has enough room, however,
for at least 100 workers, about the
number that would be employed
on five assembly lines.
The new industry is the seventh
one for Robbins. Others are the
Amerotron mill, a chicken pro
cessing plant now nearing comple
tion, Standard Minerals Company,
a hosiery mill, and two planer
mills.
Mayor Wayland Kennedy and
his Town Commissioners were in
strumental in helping to locate the
industry there, McPherson said.
“Mr. Kennedy worked out a plan
whereby the more people the
company hires, the cheaper the
rent. Both seem to be good for
Robbins.’
The building was erected in the
early 30’s but has been used only
sparingly in the past few years.
Most community activities are
now conducted at the school
house.
Associated with McPherson in
the new company will be J. A.
Culbertson, former office manager
with the Amerotron Corporation
plant in Robbins, Thomas H.
Green, of Shelby, formerly with
Wilson Tree Company, and E. O.
Brogden of Southern Pines, who
is with the law firm of Boyette
and Brogden of Carthage.
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EXTENDOR CHAIRS, a new product on the
industrial scene, will be manufactured in Moore
County by a firm owned by people from this
coimty. Announcement of the new product was
made here Tuesday. Pictured here, Wade Lu
cas, who is with the State Department of Con
servation and Development, listens carefully sis
the three men who will operate the company
tell him about the product. Next to Lucas is
Thomas Green, who will manage the metals de
partment; Garland McPherson, president; and J.
A. Culbertson, who will be in charge of the of
fice of the new company, which wiU. be located
in old Community-House in Rpbbins.
(Pilot photo)
Culbertson is also chairman of
the Moore County Board of Edu
cation, and .prominent in Robbins
civic ^fairs.
The new chair was developed
by English industrialists and is
now being manufactured in large
numbers in England. Some of the
largest industrial firms use it, Mc
Pherson said, a fact that should
help its sale in this country.
“Many of the firms presently us
ing the stool are names we’re all
pany, General
Manufacturing
Motors, Briggs
Company and
many others,” McPherson said.
A unique use of rubber gaskets
allows the chair to move freely.
The process, which is patented,
will extend the work life of the
user of the chair, and increase
production by allowing more free
dom of movement.
It allows about five inches
movement both ways for assembly
line workers. McPherson said the
familiar with—Ford Motor Com- price would be competitive with
the ordinary stool.
In addition to industrial work
ers, other types that could use the
chair to advantage, McPherson
said, are telephone operators,
draftsmen, sewing machine opera
tors, “or anything that requires
the worker to sit down for long
periods of time.”
The State Department of Con
servation and Development coop
erated with McPherson in helping
to locate the plant, and in putting
him in touch with many suppliers.
BOOKLETS
(Continued from page 1)
from a local and state standpoint,
housing, banking, retail sales and
services, medical services, educa
tional facilities, churches, recre
ation, newspapers, radio and tel
evision, manufacturing establish-
iments, agriculture, plant sites,
and facts about individual com
munities.
The booklet was illustrated with
photographs provided by Emer
son Humphrey and Henry Tinn
er, Southern Pines photogra
phers, and John Hemmer, Pine-
hurst.
Several maps and other type
illustrations are also used.
Grand Opening Of
Calcutt Station
Set For This Week
Plant Sites
Of particular interest is a large
map in the back 'of the booklet
that locates 15 different plant
sites widely scattered throughout
the county. AH but one, a four
story building in Carthage, are
located outside the corporate lim
its of towns.
In Southern Pines the two sites
recommended are the vacant
Bishop Plat on the Carthage
Road and a large acreage north
on US Highway 1.
One chart in the booklet indi
cates that the average weekly
wage payment to workers in
manufacturing establishments al-
erady located in the county is
$50.65, based on 1955 figures. One
member of the committee said
the figure was below the nation
al average; the addition of sev
eral more plants would do much
toward increasing that figure, he
added.
The committee said it would be
happy to acquaint the public
with the facts as presented in the
booklet but, because^ of the big
expense involved in its publica
tion, no copies would be avail
able to anyone other than pros
pects for industry.
Present members of the com
mittee, which was established
last fall, are W. L. Batchelor,
Ralph Leach and Dr. E. M. Med-%
lin, Aberdeen; Hubert Nickens,
Cameron; A. L. Barnes and Johnj
Williams, Carthage; E. H. Mills,
Pinebluff; W. H. Burroughs and I
Albert Tufts, Pinehurst; James
F. Steed, Robbins; Robert Ewing,
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., Joe i
Montesanti, Jr., John L. Ponzer, i
Harry K. Smyth and Jack
Younts, Southern Pines; A. G.
Edwards, Vass; and Paul 'Von
Canon, West End. Ostrom, the
chairman, is also from Southern
Pines.
County Assistance
At the meeting Friday mem
bers learned from Ostrom that
the County Board of Commis
sioners had requested a bill be
introduced in the General Assem
bly authorziing the appropria
tion of not more than $5,000 an
nually for “industrial develop-
Tomorrow (Friday) and Satur
day will see the Grand Opening
of another business in the fast-
developing U. S. Highway 1
South section between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen, the new
Calcutt ^Amoco Service.
H. E. Calcutt of Southern Pines
is the owner, and Dan Holder is
operating the business.
There will be many free gifts
for customers on these opening
days as announced in an ad on
page 12, and lollipops for the
kiddies. In addition there will be
a drawing—no purchase neces
sary—in which three prizes of
Amoco gas wQl be given, the
first prize being 100 gallons. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend the grand opening and in
spect the premises.
The new building presents a
spick and span appearance in
white and green, and a block
wall, painted in the same col
ors, adds to the attractiveness of
the place. A complete line of
Amoco products is offered, along
with superior automotive service.
Mr. Calcutt is a longtime resi
dent of this community. Mr.
Holder, also, is no stranger to
the Sandhills. Since his separa
tion from the army two years
ago following overseas duty, he
has been in the employ of Mr.
Calcutt.
Harris Fletcher^
West End, Passes
ment and other purposes.”
Under the bill, introduced by
Rep. H. Clifton Blue April 8, the
county could authorize the ap
propriations out of non-tax rev
enues. It is presently in the Fi
nance Committee of the Senate.
Technical Schools
Also at the meeting a plea was
made by L. T. Avery of South
ern Pines for the committee to
exert every effort to obtain a
state-sponsored technical school
for this area.
“Such a school would be a tre
mendous assistance in the ef
fort to lure more industry here,”
he said.
Mr. Averyh as done much
spadework, together with Mr.
Burroughs, a member of the com
mittee, in determining, the state’s
requirements for future loca
tions of such schools. He told the ^
committee that this county has
an excellent opportunity to se
cure a school and urged their
efforts toward that end.
Funeral services were held
Friday morning at the West End
Presbyterian Church for Harris
Fletcher who died suddenly in
Franklin, Va. Wednesday. He had
served as Railway Express Agent
in Franklin for the past five
years.
He is survived by his wife, the
fornier Miss Monnie Gordon and
two sons Harris Gibson Fletcher,
Jr., of Pawleys Island, S. C. and
Jerry Gordon Fletcher of George
town, S. C.; four grandchildren;
one brother T. J. Fletcher of
West -End; , four sisters, Mrs. Al
bert Austin of Gastonia, Mrs.
Fred B. Monroe and Mrs. D. D.
Richardson of West End and Mrs.
Labron Stubbs of Jackson
Springs.
GARDEN CLUB
STANDS PAT
George Jewett,
Little River
Trainer, Dies
George V. Jewett, 64, died sud
denly Wednesday afternoon.
Funeral services will be held
from Powell Funeral Home Satur
day afternoon at 3 o’clock with
the Rev. Tom Young officiating.
Interment will be held later in
Bath, Me. ,
Mr. Jewett was bom in West-
port, Me., and until 1951 was a
prominent horse trainer in the
New England states.
He became associated with Lit
tle River Farm in 1951 as horse
trainer and superintendent.
He is survived by his wife, one
sister, Mrs. Reginald Lombard,
South Portland, Me., and one half-
brother, J. Edward Drake, Bath,
Me.
VASS NEWS
Sign at a railroad crossing;
“The average time it takes a
train to pass this crossing is 14
seconds, whether your car is on
it or not!”
Mrs. G. W. Griffin, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Griffin and Tommy ac
companied Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Griffin on a trip to Pembroke
Sunday to see the destruction
wrought by the tornado a few
days ago.
Mrs. G. M. Blue and Mrs.
Levi Jessup spent a day last^
week with the latter’s daughter,
Mrs. J. S. Monk, in Wilson, mak
ing the trip with Mrs. R. A. Ed
wards who was going to attend a
meeting.
Mrs. F. L. Taylor of Pinehurst
was a luncheon guest of Mrs. G.
W. Brooks and daughter, Mrs.
.Arthur Read, last Thursday. Mrs.
Read left on Friday for her home
in East Bridgewater, Mass., after
spending several days here.
Traffic accidents in North Car
olina during 1956 claimed 1108
Victims.
It has been said that vrom-
en don't know their owh:'
minds. Not so the Southern
Pines Garden Club.
"We stai^ pat/' was the
word received by the Town
Council, yesterday, in their
effort to persuade this group
to change their conviction
that the cedar trees, left
standing on the newly-widen
ed Pennsylvania Avenue,
Said Mrs. Claude Reams,
president, reporting for the
club, "We were asked by the
council to study the question
and make our recommenda
tion. We did. We recom
mended that, because the
trees add greatly to the beau
ty of the street, they should
stay. We made our decision
and we stand pat."
And so, it's always pos
sible, will the trees. And pos
sibly not.
No Holiday For
School Students
OFTEN MORE THAN FINE
When The Judge Says ^And Costs”
The Lawbreaker Must Dig Deeper
'The costs of breaking the law costs. If the fine is ’ more than
in Moore Coqjaty can be pretty
stiff these days. And you don’t
have to go to jail to be made
painfully aware of the fact.
Running a stop sign, which
might bring a fine of perhaps $5,
mushrooms into a whopping $23
minimum when the judge says
those words that almost auto
matically go with the rulings;
“and the costs of court.”
In Recorder’s Court the costs
have- been established in the
great majority of cases at $18; if
you get caught breaking the law
and land up in a magistrate’s
court (Justice of the Peace), costs
are usually about $7.50.
The theory of costs, and that
•theory is practiced throughout
the country, is let the lawbreaker
pay for some of the expense of
bringing him to justice. In some
counties, and Moore seems to be
one of themi, crime can even be
profitable for the county, though
some would argue with your
method of figuring.
Take, for instance, a typical
case tried in Recorder’s Court
any Monday. Assume the defend
ant was convicted and fined “$10
and costs.” Minimum would, un
der most circumstances, be $28.
On the itemized bUl of costs, here
is what the convicted person
must pay for:
Docketing, 25 cents; indexing,
25 cents; preparing a bill of costs,
50 cents (it even costs to find out
how much it costs!); filing pa
pers, 25 cents; indictment, each
defendant in bill, $1; certificate
on indictment, 50 cents; final
judgment, $1; docketing judgment,
75 cents; recording in minutes, $1;
and sending the driver’s license
report to Raleigh (providing, of
course, the defendant was being
tried for breaking traffic laws),
50 cents.
That totals $6 and is known as
the Clerk of Superior Court
Arch Coleman Is
Rotary Speaker
There will be no Easter holidays
for school children in Southern
Pines this year.
A. C. Dawson, superintendent,
said this week that the customary
vacation had not materialized this
year because of a one-week spring
holiday at the end of the third
quarter. School officials had de
cided to have the vacation at that
time, he said, rather than take
days off at Easter because Easter
was late this year.
Arch Coleman, Southern Pines’
noted traveller and lecturer,
traced the background of the
current Mid-East crisis at the
regular meeting of the Rotary
Club last Friday.
Coleman, who has traveled
extensively in the Middle East,
told the Kjwanians of the many
problems that will have to be re
solved before there is unity in
that area, now described by
many as the potential spawning
grounds for 'World War 3. He also
brought the Rotarians up on the
history of the area, both from an
economic view and from one of
ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Guests at the meeting were
Erny Smith, New Britain, Conn.;
John L. Mulaney, Garden City,
N. Y.; Bob Drake, Buffalo, N. Y.;
A. Caputi, Roaloah, Mich.; Dick
Dovan, Russell Park, N. J.; and
Joe Borhand, Buffalo.
SCHOOL TEACHERS
(Continued from page 1)
were Mrs. A. C. Trivette, state
hairman of international under
standing, and Mrs. Irie Leonard,
ncoming district secretary, both
of Aberdeen School; Mrs. Robert
Tomlinson, incoming district pres-
dent, of Robbins; and Mrs. P. A.
Wilson, district treasurer, of 'Yass-
Lakeview School.
Mrs. R. M. Cushman's
Father Passes
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Cushman of
Southern Pines were called to
Nashua, N. H., Monday because of
+be death of her father, Louis C.
Mignery. Funeral services were
scheduled for 3 p.m., Tuesday.
S50, the Clferk would also have
tacked on a five per cent com
mission of the fine.
But there’s more.
For the Recorder’^ fund, $6; to
the State Treasurer for the L. E.
B. fund, $2; for the arrest fee
$1.50 (if it was a Highway pa
trolman, $2.50 if a member of
the sheriffs department); and
$2.50 for the magistrate.
There are many things that
could be added to those costs of
course. If the defendant has to
go to jail before he stands trial,
the coimty charges him $1.10
each day for room and board and
a flat $1 “for the key,” which
means $1 to lock him up and let
him out.
Continuing a case at the re
quest of the defendant for having
to bring him into court by force
naturally costs money and the
defendant gets biUed for these
services also. i
If the defendant who is found
guilty in Recorder’s Court miikes
an appeal to Superior Court, the
costs continue to creep up,
though skyrocket might be a bet
ter word.
In that court, the solicitor’s
cdst is $4; the county tax and
jury fund is $4; and the stenog
rapher’s fee is $3. And, of course,
all the above charges, with few
exceptions, alsjo apply. They also
are added on the final costs if
the defendant is convicted in Su
perior Court. Court attendants
say Superior Court costs average
about $21 or $22.
Of course, only a person who
is found guilty pays any costs.
If he is found not guilty, or if the
case is nol pressed, or even if
he goes to the roads, costs must
be found elsewhere. In Moore
County, the county pays one-half
the costs of most items. Others
are knocked off as the price for
administering justice.
Where does cdl that money go?
It’s difficult to trace all of it
without bogging down in a mass
of figures. '
Ijast year, the Moore • Record
er’s Court took in. about $80,000
in fines and costs. ’The fines, as
is the case aU over the state, go
into the school fund directly; the
costs go to the county and state.
I The schools in this county got
j approximately $50,000 last year.
! It costs the county about $20,-
*000 each year to administer the
I Clerk of Court’s office. That
I leaves $10,000 which either goes
'to the state, to arresting officers
in cases where fees are paid, or
to the magistrate.
The county puts the remainder
into the general fund and uses it
wherever needed (judge, solici
tor, etc.)
In almost all criminal cases
tried in the stale, defendants
must, if convicted, pay $2 into
the so-called “L. E. B. Fund,”
which is the State Law Enforce
ment Officers Benefit Associa
tion. The fund aids injured or re
tired officers and the families of
officers who have died.
Many people think that being a
juror is profitable. In Moore
County it definitely is not! The
jurors are paid $5 per day for
their services. That $5, incidental
ly, is a cost that is borne by the
county. If a case took 10 days to
try, it would cost the county
$600. Few last as long as even
two days hut most counties still
think that paying a jury should,
like the other costs, be borne by
the defendant.
Witnesses are paid, in this
county, $1 per day plus a travel
allowance of five cents per mile
one time.
TThe individual charges which
add up to costs of court in each
of the state’s counties are set by
the legislature.
MISS JACKSON
Robbins Girl Is
‘Sandhills Queen’
Flora Jacqueline Jackson, a
student at Elise High School in
Robbins, was named “Queen of
the Sandhills” at the annual
Pinehurst Fireman’s dance last
week.
Miss Jackson was voted the
honor from among a group of 30
contestants. She was crowned by
Shirley Faye Hunsucker of Rob
bins, queen in 1955.
Judges were Ralph Battles,
Tewksbury, Mass.; Ralph A. Car
rol, Worcester, Mass.; and J. E.
McDonald, Latrobe, Pa.
NORTH-SOUTH
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pion; H. H .Haverstick, Lancas
ter, Pa., a top flight Pennsylvania
player and North-South medalist
in 1,950; Donald Hoenig, Thomp
son, Conn., the Connecticut Open
Champion; Jake Howard, Augus
ta, Ga., 1956 North and South
quarter-finalist; Paul E. Kelly,
Ossining, N Y., who won the
South Florida Championship last
month; Dale Morey, Indianapolis,
Ind., veteran of North and South
competition and medalist in 1951;
Jack Penrose, Miami, Fla., win
ner of the National Mixed Four
somes at Boca Raton with Anne
Richardson; long-hitting Dave
Smith of Gastonia, the 1955 Caro-
linas Champion; George N. Toms,
Durham, Champion of Golf Club
Champions at Ponce de Leon this
winter; and Alex Welsh, Rock
ford, Ill., North and South run
ner-up in 1954.
Expected to play in the tour
nament, but not yet entered, are;
the 1954 titleist, Billy Joe Patton
of Morganton; Rex Baxter, Jr., of
Houston, Texas, third amateur in
the recent Masters; and Dr. Bud
Taylor of Pomona, Calif., 1957
Palm Springs Invitational Cham
pion and second low amateur in
the Masters.
The Carolinas will be repre
sented by a contingent which, in
addition to Chapman, Smith and
Toms, includes the 1954 Caro- *
linas champion, John L. McCann,
Jr. of Charlotte, Ben L. Goodes
of Reidsville, 1954 medalist; for
mer French - Amateur titleist,
Robert W. Knowles, Jr., of Ai-'
ken, S. C.; P. J. Boatwright, Jr.,
Pinehurst; Frank B. Edwards,
ly. Rocky Mount; and Keely
Spartanburg; Edmund K. Grave-
Grice, Jr., Charlotte.
INS AND OUTS
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hamel, par
ents of R.sA. Hamel of Hamel’s
restaurant, who had been here
since January, and his sister, Mrs.
.\nn Witham, and six-year-old
Lynn Witham, guests for several
weeks, left Monday for their
homes in Waterbury, Conn. Lynn
will remember her visit for a long
time as Mr. and Mrs. Hamel gave
a diijner party for her in celebra
tion of her sixth birthday.
The average life of a motor
vehicle has increased from six
years in 1925 to a present all-
time high of more than 13 years.
BAND CONCERT
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all the students when they go out
of town. That necessitates many
parents and members of the club
taking them in private cars.
Out of town trips are many:
football games, requests to play
in parades, particularly at Christ
mas time, and performances in
district and state contests.
In addition, with the adding of
more students, there comes the
added problem of rriore instru
ments.
The bsmd is called on frequent
ly for out of town parades. Often
it is necessary to turn the invita
tions down; at other times school
officials think it is in the best in
terests of Southern Pines to par
ticipate. 'The majorettes, consid
ered tops in this'area, have help
ed to make the' band a popular
Present head majorette is
Patty Britt, who last summer at
tended a band camp where she
learned the art of twirling a light
ed baton, one of the most popular
innovations of the past football
season.
Tickets for the concert wiU be
on sale by Band Boosters and
members of the band. Prices are
50 cents for adults, 25 cents for
children.