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VOL. 40—NO. 33
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PHES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1960
SIXTEEN PAGES
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Parking Changes
To Be Considered
Again by Council
The controversial question of
whether changes will be made in
the parking system on Pennsyl
vania Ave. will come before the
town council at its regular July
meeting Tuesday night of next
week in town hall.
Following a public hearing on
the matter at the June meeting,
the three councilmen present
voted to defer action until July,
so that all five members of the
council could make a decision.
The issue is whether to change
parking on both sides of Pennsyl
vania Ave., between Broad and
Bennett Sts., from the present
diagonal system to parallel. More
than 25 parking spaces would be
lost if the change were made.
At issue, tAo, but not arousing
much interest, one way or anoth
er, is the proposal to prohibit
parking on the south side of
Pennsylvania Ave., between Ashe
St. and May St.
Both the changes were asked
by the State Highway Commis
sion as essential if the State were
to designate an Alternate No. 1
highway route through Southern
Pines. The council had requested
that such a route be established,
after approving a recommenda
tion tor the route from the Town
Advertising Committee.
When the committer i.-iatte the
recommendation for the Alter
nate No. 1 route, it was not
known that the Highway Com
mission would stipulate parking
changes as a condition for estab
lishing the route.
The route would use Pennsyl
vania Ave., between the No. 1
parkway and May St., and May
St., north of Pennsylvnaia Ave.,
taking both northbound and
southbound traffic past the Infor
mation Center at the corner of
Pennsylvania Ave. and Broad St.
If the Alternate No. 1 were es
tablished officially by the High
way Commission, it would appear
on oil' company highway maps.
This, the Advertising Committee
believes, would encourage motor
ists to visit the town because they
would have a marked route, in
and out.
At the June meeting, business
men presented a petition indica
ting unanimous opposition to the
parking change on Pennsylvania
between Broad and Bennett by
business people in that block and
on the half block of Broad north
of Pennsylvania.
Joe Montesanti, Jr., who pre
sented the petition to the council
last month and spoke for the mer
chants against a change that
would decrease parking space on
Pennsylvania, said he had also
queried his customers and found
only one in 185 who approved the
proposed change to parallel park
ing.
Councilmen John Buggies and
Harry Pethick were absent from
the June meeting. Mayor R. S.
Ewing, and Councilman Jimmy
Hobbs and Felton Capel decided
at that time to defer final action
on the parking matter until the
absent members could be present.
Also on the docket for Tues
day’s meeting is a' public hearing
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HONORED — John M. Howarth, left, retiring
member and for many years chairman of the
Southern Pines city board of education, receives
from N. L. Hodgkins, chairman of the board, an
inscribed silver tray as a gift from the board in
recognition of his long service. At right is Dr.
Vida McLeod, who also retired from the board
on June 30, to whom the board of education had
previously presented a silver ice bucket in rec-
, -
ognition of her service. Both Mr. Howarth and
Dr. McLeod also were presented gifts by the
faculty at a dinner meeting held shortly after
school closed—a desk pen set for Mr. Howarth
and a silver plate for Dr. McLeod. The presen
tation pictured here took pjace last Thursday
night just before a board of education meeting
at the office of Supt. Luther A. Adams.
(Humphrey photo)
Anniversary of
Conservation
District Marked
Pupils Assigned
For Coming Year
Acting under the North Caro
lina pupil assignment law, the
Southern Pines city board of ed
ucation has assigned pupils in the
schools of East and West South
ern Pines for the coming school
year to the same schools that they
attended during the past school
year. All other children will be
assigned to a school upon request
for admission, when received by
the board.
Parents of any child who de
sire that the child attend a school
other than the one to which he
has been assigned must file a
Witten application to the board
of education before July 25. The
application should be filed
through the superintendent of
schools, Luther A. Adams, the
law provides.
Failure to file such an applica
tion, the law states, shall indicate
that the assignment by the board
of education is satisfactory.
S. Vernon Stevens of Broadway
Friday night received the 1960
Layman’s Achievement Award
from the N. C. Chapter of the
Soil Conservation Society of
America.
Presentation of the citation
came as a surprise feature of the
dinner marking the 20th anniver
sary of the Upper Cape Fear Soil
Conservation District which was
field at the Buffalo Presbyterian
church fellowship hall. Robert J.
Bowers, chairman of the Lee
county board of supervisors, pre
sided.
Attending the event from Moore
County were the three Moore
County SCS supervisors, James
.Fulk (who is also president of the
Upper Cape Fear Conservation
District), J. Hawley Poole, and
'Mrs. Poole, and Harold Purvis;
Jalso W. K. Keller, Moore County
fwork unit conservationist; F. D.
Allen, county agricultural agent;
and T. Clyde Auman.
An address by Dr. David S.
Weaver, Director of the N. C.
State Extension Service, sketches
of the 20-yeaT progress made by
the soil conservation district and
recognition of guests highlighted
..he dinner which attracted ap-
pinximately 100 friends of conser
vation from Lee, Moore, and Har
nett counties.
In other action the group on
recommendation of Paul Bar
ringer, Sr. instructed the Lee
board of supervisors to prepare a
special resolution praising the
long services of Dr. Hugh Ben
nett, former director U. S. Soil
Conservation Service, who lies
critically ill in Burlington at Ala
mance Hospital.
W. O. Lambeth, Lumberton,
area v/ork unit conservationist,
presented the conservation award
to Stevens which read as follows:
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QUIET FOURTH
Violence look no lives in
Moore Coknty. over Ihe long
July 4 weefe^Ld, allhough 18
I>ersons died in traffic acci
dents over Ihe slate. 1 trice as
many as last year. The ISSC
weekend was one day longer
than in 1959.
Sheriff W. B. Kelly and
Police Chief C. E. Newton re
ported a quiet weekend in
their departments, with no
more than routine offenses.
A few minor accidents took
place on the highways and in
towns of the county, but there
were no major smash-ups.
fatalities or serious injuries.
Drive for Burned
Child Continues
A drive started recently to aid
Angela McLean, a little six-year-
old girl of Addor who was severe
ly burned on Christmas Eve, 1959,
will continue through July, ac
cording to Mrs. Felton Capel,
chairman.
Donations totaling $200 have
been received from many individ
uals, churches and organizations.
Merchants throughout the Sand
hills have given gifts of clothing
or toys and all is greatly apprec
iated, Mrs. Capel said.
Angela is still hospitalized but
is progressing satisfactorily. She
is hoping to be able to enter school
in the fall, but if she can’t a group
of volunteer workers plan to help
her with her studies.
Contributiqns may be sent to
“Angela McLean Drive,’’ care of
Mrs. Capel, 1009 W. Pennsylvania
Ave., Southern Pines.
Highway Safety
Demonstration
Called Success
About 2,100 soft drinks in small
cups, along with traffic safety
pamphlets, were given to motor
ists during the safety project con
ducted by the Southern Pines
Junior Chamber of Conunerce
Monday (July 4) afternoon, dur
ing the heavy traffic hours of 2
to 5 p. m.
Paul B. Boroughs, Jr., chairman
of the Jaycees committee in
charge of the project, said that
the reaction of motorists who
stopped was good. All expressed
their appreciation for the refresh
ments and their interest in the
project, he said.
The committee—composed of
eight Jaycees and* four Jaycettes,
members of a recently organized
group of wives of Jaycees—set up
the safety demonstration, with
the help of the State Highway
Patrol, on the northbound lane
of tiie No. 1 highway parkway,
north of Southern Pines.
A wrecked automobile was
placed at the site, to attract at
tention, in line with the traffic
safety theme.
Out-of-state motorists were
given descriptive material about
North Carolina, as well as high
way safety literature.
The project was rated a success
ly the Jaycees, Mr. Boroughs
said.
Campbell Dinner
Set for Tonight
Moore County civic and religi
ous leaders will gather at 7:30 p.
m. today at the Jefferson Inn for
a dinner meeting in connection
with the development program of
Campbell College, Buies Creek.
Guest speakers will be C. B.
Deane of Rockingham, former 8th
District Congressman, and C. A.
Pitts of Pinehurst, lay evangelist.
The Rev. C. A. Kirby, Baptist
minister of Carthage, and Willis
Kivett of Southern Pines are co-
cnairmen for the meeting.
Commissioners
Told Precinct
Lines Outdated
Moo-e county’s precinct lines
are a network of confusion, a
hand-me-down from horse and
buggy days, and badly need to
be re-drawn, the 'commissioners
heard in regular session Tuesday
from Board of Elections Chair
man Sam C. Riddle. ’
Riddle said the whole county
needs re-districting, with some
precincts merged or divided and
at least one eliminated, and that
his board has the authority to do
it except for one’thing: in at least
three places a needed change
would involve changing a town
ship line also, which can be done
only through legislative action
backed by the commissioners.
He specified the three places
as the line between McNeill and
Sandhill township, dividing the
Southern Pines community and
precinct; and places on the Ben-
salem and Ritters boundaries
with Robbins where unnecessary
jogs are made.
The McNeill-Sandhill line was
re-drawn recently by R. E. Wick
er on order of the commissioners,
as requested by Southern Pines,
to accord with'the old Morganton
Road. This old road has now
largely disappeared and, instead
of following the new road, the
township line, which is also the
precinct line, touches it only here
and there, wandering otherwise
through woods, fields and lots,
Mr. Riddle said.
He said a recent questionnaire
had shown that most of the peo
ple, of the southern part of the
Southern Pines community, thus
divided for voting purposes from
their neighbors, wanted to vote
in McNeill township and South
ern Pines precinct rather than
Sandhill and Aberdeen, and he
thought they ought to do it.
To Commissioner Chairman L,
R. Reynolds’ question, “But sup
pose there is somebody who
doesn’t want to be changed?”
Riddle answered, “Well, you can’t
hope to please everybody except
a few politicians.”
Riddle made no formal request
of the commissioners, but said he
wanted them “to be thinking
about it,” that some day the issue
might give them “a lot of
trouble.”
Whereas a township can con
tain one or several precincts, he
said, they should not cross the
township line because of possible
contests for the offices of con
stable or justice of the peace.
Where as the township lihe^ are
official, and appear on many
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School Building Requests Cut lu
Moore Budget Settiuj* S1.35 Rate
The county commissioners, re
taining the county tax rate at
$1.35 per $100 valuation, placed
their estimated budget for 1960-
61 on file for public inspection
Friday, but have no plans to pub
lish a summary in county papers
as they have done heretofore.
John C. Muse, county auditor,
said at the commissioners’ meet
ing Monday that his office
couldn’t get copies ready in time
for last week’s papers, and that
if the budget is published, it
should be at the beginning of the
20-day inspection period.
He said that, contrary to the
popular impression, such publica
tion is not required by law, and
if anybody wants to see it he can
go to the register of deeds office.
' The budget estimate shows that
during 1960-61 the commissioners
will be operating a $1,320,769
business for the citizens of Moore,
based on a property valuation of
$50,000,000. Last year the total
was $1,206,023, based on $47,000,-
000 property valuation.
Amounts allotted to the var
ious departments for 1960-61 are
as follows: General Fund, $444,-
218; revaluation reserve, $17,500;
health department, $48,310; wel-
'fare department, $113,011; poor,
$20,000; debt service, $5,362, mak
ing a total for all departments
other than schools, of $648,701.
For the schools—Moore county,
■Southern Pines and Pinehurst
systems—sums are allocated as
follows: current expense, $294,-
T96; capital outlay, $345,705; debt
service, $32,467. Total, $672,368.
Comparing with last year, it is
seen that the General Fund esti
mate has gone up $26,518, from
$417,000; health department, up
by only $104, from $48,206; wel
fare',''.by $955, from $112,156; poor,
idown^ \^,000, from $27,000; and
debt sCTi^e, down $238, from
$5,600. \
For schoolh current expense is
estimated up $8,355 from last
year’s $285,341 ;'^apital outlay, up
$70,705 from $2X5.000; and debt
service, down $2,635? $35,120.
Thus, estimated Expenses for
departments other fthan schools
run higher this year\by $38,639;
for schools, by $76,397.
NEW ITEM
Only new item in the 1960-
61 county budget summary is
that of $17,500 for revaluation
reserve.
Holding their regular ses
sion Tuesday the commission
ers explained the property
revaluation is planned for
1963, and they are preparing
for it by setting aside a re
serve fund.
The intention is to increase
the reserve year by year, so
when revaluation time rolls
around the money will be
there. The 1950 revaluation,
which took about a year and
a half, cost about $65,000.
ue show total tax levy d)?P®cted
to be around $675,000, ^be
sum of $590,626 was employ®^
budget-balancing purposes, t« bl-
low for uncollectible taxes,
lectors’ commissions and taxpffy"
ers’ discounts which will cost
county an estimated $84,374. Re
enue to be obtained from sourcei
othr than the tax levy is listed
'as $730,143.
With the new fiscal year start
ing July 1, and well under way
by this week’s meeting, the com
missioners adopted the usual res
olution enabling them to do busi
ness at the same rat$ as before
pending adoption of the budget
July 20.
Plan for Changing
Jaypee Operations
Offered to Board
A plan to “take the justice of
the peace out of the position of
finding a person guilty, or receiv
ing no pay,” by making him a
county employee, paid by and ac
countable to the county, was dis
cussed with considerable interest
.■by the county commissioners
Tuesday.
The detailed plan was present
ed by Charles MacLeod, Carthage
justice of the peace, who asked
that, if it found favor, it be trans
lated into legislative action.
The commissioners said they
would study the plan further and
that on its face it appeared to
have “much merit.”
According to the plan, magis
trates would be selected in the
same manner as they are now,
but limited to two per township,
with at least one in each incor
porated town. These would consti
tute in effect an arm of the coun
ty judicial system, on county sal
ary, reporting to and audited by
the county authorities, who could
also remove a justice for improper
conduct of his office.
Costs would all be turned in
to the county, and the magistrate
would receive from these funds
($5 per trial held, regardless of
Sources and estimates\t’^ reven- whether the defendant were found
guilty or not guilty. There would,
however, be one magistrate, or
more if necessary, who would be
furnished his office and materials
by the county and receive' no ad
ditional return for individual
cases.
WaBs Up on Two
New Structures
On S. W. Broad St.
BOWERS IN HOSPITAL
Alden (Pee Wee) Bowers of S.
Bennett St., window clerk at the
Southern Pines post office, is at
Moore Memorial Hospital where
he has been a patient since July
4 when he was taken ill at his
home.
Walls are up and roof work
starting on two adjoining busi
ness buildings in the 600 block
of S. W. Broad St. '
David McCallum, owner of the
property, of Southern Pines, is
buildipg the two adjoining struc
tures.
The larger, 110 by 48 feet, will
be leased to Thomasson Furniture
Co., Mr. McCallum said this week.
The smaller 26 by 50 feet, will be
occupied for professional offices
by Col. C. B. Foster, now of Fort
Bragg, an ophthalmologist, who is
expected to move to Southern
Pines and open a practice on com
pletion of his military service.
Of brick and block construction,
the buildings are located between
the former Dietenhofer and Heart-
field brokerage office and the
former Southern Pines Motor Co.
'building.
The Thomasson Furniture Co.
is temporarily located in the for-
'mer motor company building.
The space vacated by the furn
iture company 6n N. E. Broad St.
is now occupied by the N. C. Na
tural Gas Co. offices.
Mr. McCaUum said that he ex
pects the new buildings will be
completed in about 90 days.
Cushman Nailed
[To Moore County
[industry Group
Robert M. Cushman, of South-
jkn Pines, executive vice-presi-
^g\it of the Amerotron Company,
witl
beem
missi'
the Ml
velop
At
offices at Aberdeen, has
named by the county com
iners as a new member of
fore County Industrial De-
mt Committee,
ir meeting in Carthage
Tuesday,
I the commissioners heard
report of the commit-
presented by James
lobbins, committee
the annua
tee’s wor’
Steed of
chairman. — , ,
■ Mr Steed SF" other members
of the commit^® ^ere reappoint
ed by the co^issmners They
are D. A. Blue, J*- Ward Hill ^nd
Norris L. Hodgki
ern Pines; Ben
L. B. Creath, Pi
Mills, Pinebluff;
Carthage; H. L.
bins; A. G. Edwa;
Hayes Harbour, Ca
Johnson, West En(^f|
Purvis, Parkwood. .
jis, Jr. of South-
Ijicks, Aberdeen;
^ehurst; E. H.
kWilton Brown,
I'illiams, Rob-
|ls, Jr., Vass;
keron; Billy
and Norman
First steps toward consolidation
of high schools, planned by the
county board of education, will
apparently not be taken in the
next year. The $200,000 the board
had lequested to buy land and
get the work going was chopped
out, along with numerous lesser
items, as the board was forced to
revise its original budget requests
sharply downward.
Requesting a total of $851,982
for the county schools during
1960-61, the board had to trim
its requests by nearly half, to
$459,144 oh direction of the
county commissioners.
Wasting no energy on fighting,
T. ,Roy Phillips and Howard Mat
thews, board members, with Supt.
Robeit E. Lee, sought approval
of the county commissioners
Tuesday for their revised budget.
They did not get it immediately.
The commissioners said they
would study it further and—de
spite efforts of Commissioner W.
S. Taylor to hold the study on
tne spot, while the school men
were there to answer questions—
decided to hold a special meeting
later.
The Southern Pines and Pine
hurst city school systems also
took cuts in capital outlay re
quests in the proposed budget.
Southern Pines, asking for
$105,000 to complete and equip
a new wing to the high school
(to be added to $90,000 appropri
ated in the past fiscal year) was
allotted $72,750.
Norris L. Hodgkins, local board
of education chairman, said today
that a request has been made for
enough additional funds to at least
get started on the construction
so that three classes of students
who will have to start the school
year in church facilities next fall
could be moved into the new
building by about the middle of
the coming school year.
No allotment was made to
Southern Pines on its request for
all or part of $175,000 for a West
Southern Pines high school.
Pinehurst received a capital
outlay allotment of $47,250. Supt.
Lewis Cannon said that $45,000
of this amount was to be put with
$45,000 being held from the past
year, to construct a new gymna
sium at Academy Heights school.
The additional $2,250 is to be ap
plied on a request for a $7,500
water tank needed at the Acade
my Heights plant to meet fire
protection laws.
The Pinehurst schools did not
receive a $10,000 request for reno
vation and equipment of the
science department at the Pine
hurst High School.
The county’s request had been
for $610,300 (including the $200,-
OGO for consolidation) for capital
outlay, and $241,682 for current
expenses. The revised budget lists
$225,705 in capital outlay and
$233,439 current expense.
The commissioners asked a few
questions, indicating special con
cern with three items—$70,000
toward an administrative build
ing, shop and garage; $6,000 for
a county school librarian, and $2,-
000 salary supplement for Supt.
Lee.
The delegation defended these
items. The administration build
ing was a necessity for efficient
operation, said Supt. Lee citing
the fact that his office, those of
the supervisors and guidance di
rector and the county garage are
scattered about in four or five
separate locations; that they lack
adequate room and need far more
storage space. The shop and gar
age, he said, was also important
(Continued on page 8)
Moore Officiifcl®
Attend Meetinm?
C. C. Kennedy, clerk o:
Coimty Superior Court,.
thage, Mrs. Kennedy a
Rachel Comer, deputy «
court, are attending the
four-day gathering of North
Moore
■f Car-
i Mrs.
rk of
nnual
Car
olina clerks of court at New
Wednesday through SaturdK^'
The meeting is sponsored by t^^®
Institute of Government at Chai
el Hill and is designed to heljP’
clerks of court improve their se^,
victs to the people of the state.i
Local Methodist
Pastor Remains
The Rev. R. C. Mooney, Jr.,
pastor of the Southern Pines
Methodist Church, was reappoint
ed to the local church at the an
nual meeting of the North Caro
lina Methodist Conference last
week in Rocky Mount.
All other Methodist pastors in
Moore Coimty were likewise re
turned to their charges with the
exception that the Rev, Max
Richardson was sent to the Rob
bins charge from the St. Pauls-
Grace churches in Richmori^
County.