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Southern Pines, N. C.. Friday, January 9, 1948.
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
NCEAWaiBase
Fund Demands On
Rising Cost Data
Dawson Is Leader
As Schoolfolk Seek
Special Session
It Was All In Fun At Rotary Club Ladies’ Night
I Members Support
IC Of C Action To
Imploy Secretary
Winslow, Krusz
Speak At Tuesday
Dinner Meeting
In a move to demonstrate the
immediate need for increased ap
propriations for the schools, the
North Carolina Education assoc
iation’s legislative committe
will sponsor a survey to show
how' costs of school operation
have risen, and also how much
more it costs teachers and others
to live today than it did even a
short while ago, it was announc
ed this week by ^A. C. Dawson,
of Southern Pines, NCEA acting
president.
The survey will be made
through the “spot check” method
in communities all over the state,
in and around where the commit
tee members live. Results are ex
pected to provide a sound back
ing for the NCEA’s request that
Governor Cherry call a special
session of the legislature, to
amend what is said to be a
grievous situation.
Dawson, who’ is chairman of
•the legislative oonunittee, con
ducted a meeting of that group at
Raleigh Saturday at which the
survey was planned. It will get
under way, he said, here this
week, as soon as the necessary
forms can be gotten out and sent
around to the members.
Mrs. Swisher In Charge
In Southern Pines he has asked
Mrs. Ruth Swisher, president of
the local unit of NCEA, to con
duct the survey, assisted by
others of the school personnel.
Coal, suppiies-ahd:~ot
sentials for the operation of the
schools have gone up so in price
that even last year’s appropria
tions are outmoded today, Daw
son said the committee believes.
Considered as only one item,
though a major one, on the
schools.
■While raising school salaries
has been a hotly argued point in
North Carolina for the past few
years, and an increase was grant
ed by the last General Assembly,
■the cost of living has risen now
to the place that teachers are
farther than ever from being able
to make ends meet on state-paid
salaries, the committee believes.
Differences To Be Shown
It hopes to make this point
clear to the Governor and to leg
islators with the results of the
survey, which will include lay
as well as schopl personnel
among those questionned, to show
the present-day scale of living
costs and the disparate salaries
with which different groups must
meet them.
The costs of such items as food,
clothing, rent and fuel, also their
differences in different parts of
the state, will be explored and
revealed.
One group after another with
in the ISjpEA, and also the board
of directors, have gone on record
as favoring the special General
Assetaibly session for considera
tion of the situation.
Educo Club
The Educo club of Moore coun
ty is among educators’ groups
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POLIO MEETING
Community chairmen of
the forthcoming March of
Dimes campaign, to be held
in the county January 15-30,
will be dinner guests of H.
Clifton Blue at a planning
meeting to be held at Pope's
restaurant Monday at 7 p. m.
Chairman Blue said this
week.
At this time community
quotas will be and other
essential information given
out.
In addition to chairmen
previously listed. Blue De
ported the following appoint
ments: 'Vass, Mack Callahan;
Mlattily, L. F. Garvin; Niag
ara, J, M. Patterson: High-
falls, Prof, Thad N. Fry;
Eagle Springs, Rev, H. A.
McBath.
Mrs. Eldon 9. Adams of
Carthage is chairman of the
women's' division and Mrs.
Valerie Nicholson, Southern
Pinds, of publicity.
Gus ’Travis, center left, columnist h the Charlotte Observer, receives a cordial welcome from
Mayor C. N. Page at the Rotary club’s Plies’ Night banquet and fun program, heU at the Highland
Pines Inn last Friday night. At left is se" Lloyd T. Clark, Rotary president, and at right Rev. Tucker
G. Humphries, chairman for the event who served as master of ceremonies. Fun was the order of the
(Jay—or night—with “Tuck” and Gus utdoing themselves, and each other, in spreading mirth among
the huge crowd of Rotarians, their ladik ®tid their guests.
June Phillips led the singing, Mr;
S'
eral ladies won prizes in the “lucky /J
Graham Culbreth were winning moy
deen, and John Ormsby with all so?
their trimmers, were Stanley AustiibJ
A fine time was had by all, thcTbl
laughing.
■ ,Ta
f. J. Hall of Carthage entertained with the accordion and sev-
,ber” drawing. In a ,hat trimm'ing cojitest Alton Clark and
earing hats trimmed respectively b?' Dr. Bowen, of Aber-
objects including the table decorations. Other models, with
Dr. L. M. Daniels, Morris Johnson aad Will Wiggs.
veral complained this week that th?ir sides still hurt from
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
To3
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McFai
MANY API
With several othe^
in North Carolina—£
them resort towns-r-s!
Chamber of Commerce exec
utives, the fact that 36 appli
cations have been received
for the post which is open
here has been of great inter
est to the local Chamber di
rectors.
They, came from nine
states.
Phone calljs and personal
visits have accompanied
many of the< applications
according to John S. Ruggles,
Chamber of Commerce presi-
.dent. The enthtTsiasm which
has been evidenced the di
rectors consider a good
Chamber of Commerce item
in itself.
WSP Choral Group
Will Sing Monday
At Civic Club
A choral group of 25 voices,
representing the combined choirs
of the churches of West Southern
Pines, will preseent a program
for the public’s enjoyment at the
Civic Club building Monday at 8
p. in., under sponsorship of the
Civic club.
A cantata will be sung which
the group gave in West South
ern Pines during the Christmas
season. Members hearing the
Christmas program were so im
pressed by its beauty that they
felt it should, have a wider audi
ence, and so arranged for its pre
sentation under the club'jiispices,
according to Mrs. L. D. McDonald,
Civic Club president. An evening
of unusual musical enjoyment is
promised. Miss B. M. Pitts is di
rector of the goTup, H. B. Ward
serves as violinist and Mrs. I. H.
Moore plays the piano accompan
iment. There are several soloists.
There will be no admission
charge. A free will offering will
be taken. The general public is
given cordial invitation to attend:
This will take the place of the
regular program scheduled for
Monday afternoon, Mrs. McDon
ald said. ^ Civic Club directors,
however, will meet as usual at
2:30 p. m.
Route I
The bu|
end of to|
tract wit
Companyl
Morris
continued
operators!
This is I
in the atl
j Agency
inue To
ssengers On
Town
tough
at the southern
operated under con-
Queen City Bus
I. B. McFarland and
^nold, has been dis-
the request of the
latest development
pt being pressed by
the town board and
members iiamber of Commerce
the local an adequate station
to secun limits of the town,
within tl when the recent op-
It accum the station, realizing
errors o present circumstances
that unde lically impossible for
it was p ipply the improve-
them to n a station the size
called fo* needed in Southern
of the on^ed that, in view of
Pines, deciertainty about the
present un they would prefer
whole thinn the picture.
:y was checked out
’s request” was the
at McFarlaJng Passenger Agent
way Tf&velthe Queen City Bus
Williams, ofi it. Williams, who
Co., expresjf Monday night clos-
ccount of the local
d regret over the
,complimented Mc-
nold on the excel-
handling of the
hile.they ran the
that as far as
id never been
id said “they
Reiitord December
Boost® Year’s
Postal Receipts
to retire fri
“The agef
spent mud
ing out 41
men, expri
situation
Farland an|
lence of
ticket bush
station. Htate!
he knew,ere
any coraints
did a gi. job.”^Bned that buses
Willis explaiB|top at the Me-
woe'continue to ^ktion to take
Far/^-Arnold st»ngers, though
oil neposit passe^ gold there,
no 1-ets would bwd continue,
Lhe ^route wou^eet, passing
thrjug] Bennett st^k jjje corner
tti firt station, on^mont ave-
of*3rod street and Ve^^ passen-
would take route,
gf^s upn signal along situa-
(^i ciimm’enting on the^^.).
ti“h, Mirris Arnold said
ccnsidered a good conveniej
station a number one
Sputhem Pines, and on^
should be supplied as soon ■
ih for the con^
ftSgers and to har
tvi amount of
K®iw travelling
ki'that this sid^
seeds immedia^
I that the aba
tion will be a|
linued on Pa
With a final boost given by a
record peacetime December, in
which 175,507 cancellations were
tallied at the Southern Pines
post office, postal receipts for the
year showed an increase over the
previous year for the first time
since 1943.
From that wartime peak, re
ceipts have slid downward each
year until now.
Receipts for 1947 were $40,941.-
14, according to Acting Postmas
ter L. T. Hall. For 1943, they were
$40,239.83—a difference on the
credit side of $701.58.
A tremendous volume of Christ
mas mail passed through the local
office, said Hall, reporting the
biggest day Monday, December
22, when 13,302 separate pieces
of mail were cancelled.
Cancellations record only the
outgoing first class mail, includ
ing all letters and cards. No rec
ord is kept of incoming mail or
parcels, incoming or outgoing,
but there was plenty of each.
On each of the five days froin
December 16 through 20, cancel
lations ran between 11,000 and
13,000 pieces of mail. Though two
extra helpers, H. M. Fowler and
Lewis Pate, were employed, and
put in long hours, the regular
staff was called on also for many
overtime hours. The situation was
complicated by the fact that sev
eral regular staff members were
ill during the Christmas rush, and
one of them, Lawrence Grover, is
still out.
All mail was cleared late Christ
mas Eve and the post office work
ers went wearily home to take a
well earned Christmas ’ rest—all
but Dwight Hoskins, John Steph
enson and Alden Bowers, who
worked part of Christmas day to
open up first class mail, get the
“specials” out and deliver outgo
ing mail to the trains.
Late mailing kept the Christ
mas volume up past Christmas
day. Hall said, and they were
busy all through that week end.
Though first class mail then fell
off sharply, parcels have kept
right on coming and gping at a
rapid clip. .
More than 100 members of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce, who with their guests fill
ed the banquet hall of the High
land Pines Inn to overflowing,
with unanimous accord at a meetr
ing Tuesday night approved a
resolution recommending that the
board of directors employ a full
time, trained executive secretary
to carry, forward a broad pro
gram of civic progress.
The motion, made by John J.
cConnell, followed an evening
of talks by speakers experienced
in the business field, and of ex
temporaneous comments bsf a
number of citizens, most of whom
said they were “with the project
100 per cent.” There were no ex
pressions of disapproval, though
thfese were invited by John S.
Ruggles, president, who explain
ed that the meeting was for the
purpose of discovering the mem
bers’ sentiment toward the in
creased expenses and responsibil
ities the program would entail.
Speakers were Dr. Rex Wins
low, director of the bureau of
business services and research
of the school of commerce of the
University of North Carolina,
who explained Chamber of Com
merce work in general as a town’s
“collective economic voice,” lik
ening the Chamber also to a cor
poration in which each citizen is
a stockholder; and Harry Krusz,
executive of the Winston-Salem
Chamber, and president of the
North Carolina association of
Chamber of Commerce Executive
Secretaries.
Organized Expression
In a good Chamber of Com
merce, said Krusz, the voice of
free enterprise finds organized
expression in the most truly
American way.
It coordinates activities which
improve and advance the com
munity as a whole, and each busi
ness individually, he said; and
dues paid to it should not be con
sidered “contributions” but in
vestment or rather as a logical
part of business overhead.
An executive of character and
ability, carefully selected, put
ting his full time on the job, is
an essential of the program and
will pay his way, he declared. In
making such a move, he said.
Southern Pines was joining in
with other towns of North Caro
lina, most of whom are waking
keenly to their opportunities and
are moving forward aggressively
toward their place in the sim.
He named, among major fields
in which Chambers of Commerce
work successfully, those of educa
tion, industrial development,
cultural development, roads and
highways, agriculture, city plan
ning, labor relations, aviation,
veterans’ activities and those of
young men in general.
The. question of employment of
Government Tenure Of Airport Ends;
Improvements Turned Over To County
SLIDE DOWN
Without necessarily adopt-
any luckier-than-thou alti
tude, Sandhills folks and
friends may legitimately
congratulate themselves that
they were here and not up
there during the recent
weeks.
It's been nippy in the early
mornings, but what could be
finer than this holiday in
Carolina?
Better buckle on the skiis,
friends, start at the top of
the map with a good hard
shove and slalom right on
down.
Do a Christie at the White
House and park the skiis in
the basement. Golf shoes and
riding bools will do you from
then on.
Polio Strikes In
Vass, Foundation
Gives Swift Aid
Bobby Phillips Taken
To Gastonia Hospital
On the eve of the March of
Dimes campaign, another striking
example of the work of the Na
tional Infantile Paralysis Founda
tion is presented in Moore coun
ty—another child stricken with
polio, its tragedy considerably al
leviated by the Foundation’s aid.
Bobby Ray Phillips, 23 months
old, of "Vass, was taken to the
Gastonia Orthopedic hospital last
Thursday, his illness tentatively
diagnosed as polio. Wednesday of
this week, confirmation of the di
agnosis was received by Dr. J.
W. Willcox, county health offi
cer, ffom the hospital.
Arrangements for the transfer
of the little boy from the Moore
County hospital, where he was
first taken, to the Gastonia insti
tution were made by Paul C.
Butler, Moore County, chairman
of the Infantile Paralysis Foun
dation, who told the worried
mother then that all the hospital
expenses would be taken care of.
Whether the treatment requir
ed is short or prolonged, the
Foundation will stick with the
child until it has done all it can
do, he said. It is hoped a com
plete cure may be effected.
Father In Texas
Bobby Ray is the child of Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Phillips. His fath
er is working in Texas. His moth
er, sister and brother are staying
with her sister at 'Vass, and had
planned to join the father soon.
Other children in the family
have been quarantined.
At the Gastonia, hospital Bobby
Ray will be given the best of care
for as long as he needs it. Physi
cians, trained nurses and techni
cians will bring to bear on his
case all the most recent scientific
knowledge concerning the dread
disease—polio.
Continued Operation.
And Maintenance As
Airport Required
The Moore County airport was
this week returned to the county
by the U. S. government, its les
sor for the past five years, com
plete with buildings, equipment
and other improvements added
during the government’s wartime
tenure, subject to conditions care
fully worked out over a period of
months to the present satisfaction
of both parties.
The agreement, signed by rep
resentatives of both sides, was
incorporated into the minutes of
the county commissioners at< their
regular session at Carthage Mon
day. ,
The airport has been leased for
the past two years by the county
to Resort Airlines, subject to the
prior claims of the government,
which are now released. Declared
surplus and delivered to the War
Assets administration for dispos
al, the additions and all ease
ments for their use have been
transferred to the county on ap
plication, with the major condi
tion being the continued use, op
eration and maintenance of the
property as a public airpprt.
The term “public” is translated
as meaning the exclusion of the |
use of the buildings and struc
tures for manufacturing or indus
trial purposes.
The airport use shall be “on
reasonable terms, and without un
just discrimination or exercise of
any exclusive right for usd of the
same.” Facilities shall be main
tained in good and serviceable
condition, and not psed in Siiy
way that would constitute a haz
ard to “the landing, taking-off or
maneuvering” of aircraft and oth
erwise limit their usefulness.
The government, released from
all claims, retains the right to use
of the airport, when necessary,
under CAA limitations and regu
lations; and can revoke the trans-/ ■
fer of the airport improvements
if any of the conditions are vio
lated.
F. L. McGinnis, deputy zone'
administrator for real property
disposal. Zone 2, WAA, signed the
agreement for the government.
Dr., Mrs. Fuquay
Lose Their Lives
In Lee Co. Crash
At the hospital he will be with
a secretary, for which the Cham- j another Moore County child, lit-
ber already has a number of ap-1 tie Guye Franks Womble, 28-
(Continued on Page 8) ’ (Continued on P’age 5)
Young Kinsman Of Local Folks Wins
Rhodes Scholarship, High UNC Honors
RADIO SINGERS
The Silvertone Gospel Singers,
of Sanford, will present a pro
gram of hymns and spirituals at
the Church of God in Christ,
West_§outhern Pine's, qL.l;31
January]
Donald Graham Henderson, of
New York City, University of
North Carolina senior who re
cently won a Rhodes scholarship
in competition with students in
■all the southeastern states, is the
grandson of Mrs. Maria B. Hen
derson and grandnephew of Fran
cis H. Robinson, both of Southern
pines.
He entered the university in
January, 1946, following 34
months of overseas duty, 14 of
them in combat, and just this
week—only two years later-
completed the work required in
the usual four-year course for
graduation. As if all that were
not enough for any one young
man, he made Phi Beta Kappa,
graduated summa cum laude in
history, and is planning to win
his M. A. degree at the univer
sity before he sails for England
next October to begin his Rhodes
scholarship tenure.
His record is one of the most
dutstanding of the university’s
history, the authorities there
have said. Majoring in medieval
history and minoring in archi
tecture, he requested and passed
examinations in many courses
without actually taking the
courses, and later passed exams
in more advanced courses in the
same fields—all with Phi Beta
grades." ‘
His Brother ait UNC
He is at the university with his
brother, Hanford, a graduate of
Haverford college, who took his
M. A. in English at the university
and is now a candidate for a Ph.
P degree in comparative litera
ture. Both young men are mar-
riecL Their father was the ^late
Hai^rd M. Henderson of.
York City, where their
the former Aline Graham
uml^a, S. C., still lives.
!ontinued on Pag
Dr. and Mrs. Fuquay of Cos,
the latter a sister of Mrs. Ln
Talton of Southern Pines, we
fatally injured in an automob
accident Saturday night ir
Sanford as they were ■ i
their way for a weekend •*'
with the Taltons here.
Both died at the Lee CourJ
hospital soon after the acCidJ
which took place on the Joni
boro-Tramway highway wha
they were taking as a short cut'
Southern Pines.
The accident took a total of
three lives, the third that of
Dewey McNeill, 29, Negro, of
Sanford, driver of a car which
came into violent collision with
the Fuquay oar, police said, as
McNeill was apparently trying to
pass a wa'gon. McNeill was said
to have • been instantly killed.
A Negro woman, who was driv
ing the furniture-laden wagon,
was taken to the Lee Councy
hospital, where she sustained an
amputation of her leg.
The Fuquay and McNeill cars
w:ere in head-on collision, "ac
cording to the police report. Both
cars were completely demolished,
and the wagon was cut in half.
Both Dr. and Mrs. Fuquay
suffered multiple injuries as they
were crushed in the wreckage of
their car.
Double funeral services werq
held Monday at 3 p. m. at tl;
First; Baptist church at Cog
Rev. Joe Long, pastor, assijj
by other mini,‘''fers, officis
burial was in*
Surviving *
senior at
Both Dr ajj
prominent
in Coatg
graduat
oil
, Coata