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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1957
INFORMATION GIVEN TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
Riley Says Massachusetts Tests Confirm His Theory
That Nuclear Explosions Create Hazard To Mankind
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TOURIST PROMOTION was the subject of
conservation as these four leaders, representing
various parts of the state, got together at a
meeting of the State Travel Council Saturday
morning at Mid Pines Club. Left to right, they
are Richard Degenhardt of Asheville’s Cham
ber of Commerce, who heis been assigned to
work out a program for “Travel host schools”
for employees and owners of tourist facilities;
Mrs. LuciUe Winslow, Nags Head, president of
the Nags Head Chamber of Commerce f Hugh
Morton, Wilmington realtor, owner of Grand
father Mountain and a member of the State De
partment of Conservation and Development;
and Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, president
of the Travel Council (Humphrey photo)
State Travel Council Meets Here;
Makes Plans For Tourist Promotion
North Carolina’s tourist indus
try, a “sleeping giant” that could
produce a great many more dol
lars for Tar Heel pocketbooks if
it were promoted better, was the
subject of intensive discussions
last weekend at Mid Pines as
members of the State Travel
Council met here in the first of
several projected meetings.
Voit Gilmore, president of the
Council, presided at the meeting
attended by executive council
members and others from tourist
centers across the state.
Just how much the tourist in
dustry in the state is worth is
still a matter to be determined
but figures from three hundred
to six hundred million dollars for
both the tourist industry and the
travel industry were mentioned.
It is difficult, Charlie Parker,
head of the state advertising bu
reau said, to say where the “tour
ist” tag leaves the gross figimes
and the “travel” tag begins.
Parker reviewed the history of
state advertising and reminded
the group that the late Irvin S.
Cobb, noted writer and humor
ist, once said that "all North
Carolina needs is a good press
agent. It has everything else.”
The state, he said, had been
blessed witii several.
The state now spends some
$450,000 each two years for ad
vertising and promotion, with
$375,000 going into direct adver
tising channels. The state is now
beginning to “approach” appro
priating enough money for a
complete job of promoting the
many facilities here, both from a
tourist and an industrial view
point, he said.
Work of various committees
recently set up by Gilmore was
outlined along with ways in
which eadi could work with
other agencies in ' prompting
travel in the state.
Several of the projects were
discussed, among thenn the es
tablishment of a speaker’s bu
reau to teU people all over the
state of the importance of the
travel business. “Everyone bene
fits in^ the long run,” Gilmore
said.
Ken Knight of Winston-Salem,
publisher of the .North Carolina
travel guide, urged the group to
seek adequate funds for promo
tion. “Promotion is the life blood
of travel and the tourist busi
ness,” he said.
He urged the group to promote
not only within the tourist busi
ness but aU over the istate.
“Make everyone travel conscious
and you have a lot of the battle
won,” he said.
The group decided to make
preparations for a complete stu-
vey of the travel business so that
more of its potential could be
learned. Parker said that coop
eration by his department in
■supplying information and ad
vice for local promotion would
be of great assistance.
Gilmore announced the fol
lowing committee chairmen: .
Tourist signs, BiU Sharpe, Ra
leigh; speaker’s bureau. Bob
Garvey of Old Salem, Winston-
Salem; tourist industry coordin
ation, Hugh Morton of Wilming
ton and Grandfather Mountain;
advertising and promotion, Ken
Knight of Winston-Salem; travel
and tourist industry survey, P.
G. Pickard of Charlotte; recrea
tion, P. M. Camak of Wilming
ton; travel hosts schools, Richard
Degenhardt Of Asheville; and
goveitamental affairs, Gilmore.
Special Series Of
Services Set For
Methodist Church
4,..
Moose Lodge Holds
First Session;
Plans Initiation
The first session of Moose
Lodge 1817, newly instituted in
Southern Pines last week, was
held at the Civic Building Mon
day, conducted by Gen. Pearson
Menoher, governor.
It was announced at the meet
ing that an additional initiation
will be held for all members who
were not initiated when the lodge
was instituted. The initiation
will be held Monday at 8 p.m. at
the Civic Building with a degree
team from Sanford in charge.
REV. W. R. STEVENS
A special series Of services will
be held at the new Southern
Pines Methodist Church May 20-
24, it was announced today by
the Rev. Robert Bame, pastor.
Visiting preacher wUl be the
Rev. W. R. Stevens, presently
pastor of the First Methodist
Church in Rockingham.
Rev. Stevens, who has held
pastorates in Roanoke Rapids,
Jacksonville, Fla., and Lumber-
ton, attended Duke University,
N. C. State College, Emory and
Henry College, and the Biblical
Seminary in New York.
Services, to which the public
is invited, will begin each night
promptly at 7:30.
Final Rites For
Ben F. Lane Are
Conducted Stmday
Ben F. Lane, 65, of Star Route,
Pittsboro, died in Chatham Hos-
j • j u 41.- .nital Sunday. He was a son of
V rT rr ^^the late Crawford and Barbara
week of the death of Johnny,
Johnny Mock, Out-
Door Writer, Dies
E. G. B. Riley of Southern
Pines, who for the past several
years has been outspoken on be
half of stopping nuclear weapon
tests, this week told The Pilot that
the controversy now being debat
ed on the bomb test problem con
tinues to miss the main point.
The primary danger to man
kind, asserts the local man, is not
from radioactive fallout but in a
weakening of the “atmospheric
shield”—the air that surrounds
the earth. Since long before nu
clear weapons were heard of, he
explsdns, the atmosphere has been
protecting earth’s living* things
from deadly wavelengths of radi
ation that are constantly emitted
by the sun—cosmic and gamma
rays.
Until a report published recent
ly about tests in Massachusetts,
showing that cosmic rays are
reaching the earth in unusual
quantities, Mr. Riley had admit
tedly been playing a hunch in his
conviction about the relationship
of nuclear weapons tests and cos
mic ray danger to mankind.
Now, he points out. Dr. Bruno
Rossi, professor at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, has
reported showers of particles
bombarding the earth, nine times
since April of last year, indicat
ing, according to news reports,
that these showers were started
by cosmic rays traveling close to
the speed of light and with en
ergies ranging upward of a bil
lion, billion volts. .
The cosmic showers were meas
ured by the reaction of many
four-inch plastic disks set up over
u fifty-acre tract. The disks give
off measurable flashes of light
when hit by the particles.
This week, Mr. Riley repeat^
a statement he has made many
times in his extensive correspond
ence with world leaders about the
nuclear bomb problem: tests for
(osmic ray penetration of the
atmosphere should be made at va
rious spots over the world, and at
varying altitudes, to try to deter
mine to what extent the deadly
rays are reaching the earth or, if
not reaching the surface, are pen
etrating lower into the atmos
phere.
Cosmic rays from outer space,
he explains, have always reached 1
the earth to some degree. 'Their
numbers increase as one goes
higher from sealevel. In fact, one
of the points being made by Dr.
Willard F. Libby of the Atomic
Energy Commission, and by oth
ers who minimize the dangers to
mankind of radioactive “faUout”
from atomic and thermonuclear
explosions, is that this fallout ra
dioactivity is far less than that
normaUy absorbed by human be
ings from cosmic rays and other
“natural” sources.
'The attention on faUout, thinks
Mr. Riley, may well prove a kind
of booby-trap. When you try to
cut down fallout, he reasons, the
energy from explosions must go
elsewhere. Where it will go, he
believes, is into those radioactive
particles that can destroy, by pho
todynamic action, the protective
particles in the asmospheric
shield.
A complete exposition of Mr.
Riley’s theories about the effect | such an agreement, we, by the
of nuclear explosions on weather i instruments whiqh are now set up.
and on the weakening of the at
mospheric shield has just been
placed before the Congressional
Armed Services Committee by
Sen. Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire, a personal friend of
Mr. Riley for many years.
'The matter is of special signi
ficance at this time, Mr. Riley
says, in view of the series of nu
clear test explosions by both
Great Britain and the United
States in the Pacific, as well as
the continuing tests by Russia in
Siberia. Great Britain’s first test
shot was fired yesterday, while
the United States plans no less
than nine shots of different sized
bombs between now and Septem
ber.
In view of these tests, Mr. RUey
wrote to Senator Bridges, “It is a
certainty that not only wiU the
world experience climatic disturb
ances of record-breaking intensi
ty smd number but that volcanoes
which have remained dormant for
many years will erupt and earth
quakes wUl be incurred in loca
tions that have never been sub
jected to them.
“This is a forecast ^hat one dis
hkes to make, but something must
be done to awaken you and Con
gress to the dangerous path you
are pursuing in not forcing the
Secretary of State to immediate
ly agree to the proposal of Russia
that test detonation of nuclear
and atom bombs be banned.
Should Russia fail to live up to
would be aware of a ■violation
within a matter of seconds and
could pinpoint the location of the
detonation and also determine the
approximate megator power of
the nuclear bomb that had been
detonated.”
Having outlined in this letter
the theory about the weakening
of the atmospheric shield and the
danger to all living things from
the resulting increased bombard
ment of the earth by cosmic rays,
Mr. RUey adds in his letter to toe
senator:
“It would be a pimple and inex
pensive matter to outline and
place in operation a plan which
in a minimum period of time
would prove that the lethal cos
mic rays of increasing intensity
are now endangering all life by
reaching lower altitudes than ever
before.
The Southern Pines man, who
claims no formal scientific edu
cation, holds more than 30 U. S.
and foreign patents for materials
and devices involving the effects
of light. He is president of RUe-
Coe FUter Process, Inc., a corpor
ation that is the commercial de
veloper of these products. They
include materials for fqqd preser
vation, a television screen, pro
tective textUes, a medical lan^
that has been used successfully in
the treatment of burns and other
products.
Since he retired some 20 years
ago after a successful career as a
New York business executive, Mr.
RUey has read and studied widely
in the subjects of hght, radiation
and allied matters.
In producing the theories that
he believes have such vital impor
tance for aU mankind, he sees
himself simply as “coordinating
information that scientists have
been producing for hundreds of
years.”
In the past few years, he has
written personal letters expound
ing his convictions to toe heads of
state and the foreign ministers of
toe world’s leading nations, as
weU as to the U. S. Atomic En
ergy Commission, the President,
toe Secretary of State and others,
in this country.
Thoroughbred Boxer Pups
8 WEEKS OLD — WEANED and DEWORMED
JIM BAIRD
Res. Phone Pinehurst 6421
Bus. Ph. So. Pines 2-92S1
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF MOORE
The undersigned, having duly
qualified as toe Administrator of
the Estate of Marie Storrs Wells
Randolph, deceased, late of the
above named County and State,
all persons having claims of what
soever nature against the said
Marie Storrs Wells Randolph, de
ceased, are hereby notified to ex
hibit the said claim or claims to
toe undersigned on or before the
16th day of May, 1958, or this no
tice wiU be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons in
debted to the said Marie Storrs
WeUs Randolph, deceased, are
hereby requested to pay the said
indebtedness to the undersigned
immediately.
This 16th day of May, 1957.
P. S. P. RANDOLPH, Jr.
Administrator
W. Lamont Brown,
Attorney. ml6,23,30j6,13,20c
Mock of Pittsburgh, one of toe
nation’s outstanding out-door
writers. Mr. and Mrs. Mock had
built a home here out Connect
icut Avenue and planned to
make it their retirement home.
Mr. Mock had fished or hunt
ed in most of the states and in
various foreign countries. He
was most noted for his efforts to
promote the fish and game laws
of Pennsylvania.
Funeral services and burial
were held Tuesday in Pittsburgh.
Though not widely known in
this area Mr. Mock had made
many friends since his first visit
here. He had planned, it is un
derstood, to spend part of toe
time here and part in Pittsburgh,
I contributing articles on wildlife
and other out-door topics to
newspapers and magazines.
Services Held This
Morning For Mrs.
Anna M. Hollister
Robeson County. Funeral serv
ices were held at the Bynum
Methodist Church Monday at 2
I), m. conducted by toe pastor,
Rev. Warren Bishop.
Burial was in Johnson Grove
Cemetery at Vass.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Eleecy Stutts Lane; two
daughters, Mha. Johnsie Eubanks
of the home; and Mrs. Eloise
Medlin of Gaither, Md.; one
son, J. C. of Pittsboro,
Route; two brothers, Henry of
Bonlee and Jim of Cameron;
six sisters, Mrs. Wade Smith,
pnH Mrs. Bertha Stewart, both
of Vass, Mrs. Clyde Canady of
High Point, Mrs. Minnie Blake
of Hillsboro, Mrs. Mary Petty of
Mount Vernon Springs, Mrs.
Sara Pope of Kannapolis; and
six grandchildren.
Mrs. Anna Mitchell HoUister,
mother of Dr. William F. Hollis
ter of Southern Pines, died at
Moore County Hospital Tuesday.
She was 78 years old.
Funeral services were held this
morning at Emmanuel Church
conducted by the Rev. Martin
Caldwell, rector. Burial will be
held later in Santa Monica, Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Hollister was bom in
Aldo, Nebraska, and was a long
time resident of California. Her
husband died a number of years
ago. She had been spending win
ters here since 1952.
In addition to Dr. Hollister,
she is survived by two grandchil
dren.
Lyman Whilney Dies
From Heart Ailment
Ralph Mills Named
As Trustee For
Firemen’s Relief
Lyman Whitney of Cambridge,
Mass., a winter resident of the
Sandhills, died suddenly of a
heart condition at his home May
4. He had been ill only about a
week.
Mr. Whitney was associated
with Comstock and ' Westcott
Company. Mrs. Whitney is a well-
known archer.
They o-wned the cottage here
that is located on toe Dimes Club i Chandler, Sr., on the five
property and spent several win-. her board. Mills, now retired,
ters in residence there. They was honored last year by the
were last here in September. I Bremen on completion of 25
Ralph T. Mills, superintendent
of the water filtration plant for
Southern Pines, was named to
the Board of Trustees of the
Firemen’/s Relief Fund by toe
To'wn Council Tuesday night.
He succeeds the late Ralph
years of service with the group
The relief fund, which was es
tablished to help members of the
volunteer firemen’s group and
their families, has several thous
and dollars in its treasury, Town
Manager Louis Scheipers told toe
Council. The Board of Tmstees
is charged with overseeing dis
position of toe fund.
Its membership is composed of
one member appointed by the N.
C. Insurance Commission, two
appointed by the volunteer fire
men themselves, and two ap
pointed by toe Town Council.
Other members are Louis
Scheipers, Jr., Stanley T. Dunn,
Frank Wilson, and R. W. Tate.
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