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Friday, April 2, 1948.
THE PILOT. Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page Eleven
Elks’ Installation
And Chicken Fry
Slated Thursday
Preparations were being made
yesterday at the Elks club for
many visitors, as well as for full
attendance of the local member
ship, at the installation of lodge
officers to be held Thursday
evening, with a chicken fry also
to be held in conjunction with the
event.
The chicken fry, first this sea
son of this type of hospitality for
which the lodge is famed, was
scheduled for 7 p. m. at the out
door fireplace, after which the
assemblage would go to the Civic
club for installation of officers
elected last week and others ap
pointed by the new exalted ruler
since that time.
They are, elected, A. B. Patter
son, exalted ruler; Marshall Mc
Rae, leading knight; George C.
Thompson, loyal knight; Howard
Hoffman, lecturing knight; Col.
D. L. Madigan, secretary; Lyle
McDonald, treasurer; tiler, Ted
Barrow, Jr.; appointed—John
Ponzer, esquire; Rev. T. G. Hum
phries, chaplain; Anton Reese,
iimer guard.
Installing officers were to be
a degree team from the Raleigh
lodge, headed by George Vick,
exalted ruler, acting as Grand
Lodge officers. Invitations sent to
Raleigh. Sanford, Fayetteville
and Asheboro lodges were ex
pected to bring a number of vis
itors, for a crowd of around 125
Elks altogether.
The Man Who Knew |
Coolidge” was for the Southern i
Pines Rotary club last week
more than the name of a book—1
it was a description of their
^speaker, Dallas F. Pollard, of
Burlington, Vt., ,a cousin and, boy
hood playmate of Calvin Coolidge.
Reminiscences of his cousin
formed just a part of Pollard’s
Funderburk Sues
Zion Churchmen
In Complex Case
‘‘Man Who Knew Coolidge” Addresses
Rotarians On New England Boyhood
Scott Transfers
Business Here
From Goldsboro
Alton Scott, who with his
brother, O. W. Scott, invented the
Scott tobacco curer and revolu-
affectionate recountal of an old- tionary Scott tobacco harvester.
In action instituted Saturday in
Moore County superior court.
Rev. J. R. Funderburk, pastor of
the West Southern Pines AME
Zion church, charges three of his
superiors in the church with
fraud and conspiracy, for the mis
use of church funds, and mali
cious action against him person
ally, to cause his silence and to
“destroy” him as a minister.
He seeks $5,000 actual and $10,-
000 punitive damages *and an en-
joinder against further expendi
ture of the church’s funds pend
ing a complete investigation by
the courts:
Temporary enjoinder was grant
ed, with April 17 set as date of
a show-cause hearing of all
parties to the suit, to be held at
Rockingham in the chambers of
Hon. F. Don Phillips, 13th judi
cial district resident judge.
Defendants
Defendants in the case are
Bishop W. W. Sherman, of Wash
ington, D. C.; the Rev. G. F. Hall,
financial secretary of the AME
Zion church, with offices at
Charlotte;, and W. S. Dacons, ap
pointed presiding elder of the
Fayetteville district by Bishop
Sherman in November, 1945.
This appointment, and others
made by Bishop Sherman in the
past four years, will be null and
void if claims made in the suit
are found valid.
According to Funderburk’s
statement, the discipline of the
AME Zion church requires re
tirement of a bishop at the time
of the conference nearest his 74th
birthday.
At the May, 1944, conference,
plaintiff alleges, a “false, fraudu
lent and forged” birth certificate
was circulated showing Bishop
Sherman’s birth date to have
been October 28, 1876.
Passport
The year, it is now claimed,
should have read 1871—^the proof,
a passport issued by the State de
partment, containing Sherman’s
statement of birth and an affida
vit by his mother.
The alleged forgery, it is claim
ed, is part of a conspiracy on the
part of the defendants to keep
Sherman illegally in office, “for
continued use of the general fund
illegally and improperly.”
Ill will began some years back,
it is claimed, when “plaintiff
tried to bring to light treatment
of some ministers, and improper
and wrongful reports about
money.” His questions “made de
fendant exceedingly angry . . .
and he brought charges four
times in conference, of which
plaintiff was declared innocent.”
The appointment of Dacons as
presiding elder was made while
Funderburk was filling the post,
and ‘‘when plaintiff refused to re
tire from this position, he was
sued and forced to expend large
sums.”
fashioned New England village
childhood, given with many
touches of humor and nostalgic
description. Of his cousin, a rather
prim, reserved little boy who
stayed clean while the others got
dirty, was dressed neatly when
the rest wore overalls and wore
shoes while the other boys frolick
ed barefoot in summer, he re
flected that “then we laughed at
him as having no sense, but it
turned out he had much more
•chan we did.”
School days, fishing, the first
school play, pranks and chores
all loomed more important in
those days, he said, than his as
sociation with the boy who was
to become president of the United
States, even while his companions
noted the traits that set him
apart.
Pollard, who spent Easter in
Southern Pines as a guest at the
Southland hotel was presented by
Lloyd T. Clark, presiding.
The club members, meeting at
fo]^’s restaurant, bent their
minds also during the after
luncheon session to the filling out
of questionnaires distributed by
Gary Mattocks, junior Rotarian
for March. The quizzes sought
their opinions on many phases of
the state’s educational program.
Besides the speaker, a Ro
tarian in his home town, other
visiting Rotarians were Carroll
B. Knowlton, Everett, Mass.;
Fred B. Howland, Titusville, Pa-;
T. Arthur McCrea, Bracebxidge,
Conn.; Thomas Appleyard, Yon
kers, N. Y.; Hal Jones, Natick,
Mass.; Jack Contie, Harrisburg,
Pa.; J. Paul Slaybaugh, Elkton,
Md.; John Appleby, Harrisburg,
Pa.; Clare Rossell, Syracuse, N.
Y.; Harace A. Crary, Warren. Pa.
Earl Sprague, Bridgeport, Conn.
Gino S. Pauth. Arlington, Me.,
was the guest of Carroll Knowl
ton, and Frank H. Aston, Fairfax,
Va., of Arthur McCrea.
has purchased his brother’s inter
est in their business and moved it
lock, stock and barrel from Golds
boro to the outskirts of Southern
Pines.
The Scott Manufacturing com
pany is now located, for further
experimentati6n and fpr manu
facture, in the basement of Scot-
tie’s, south of town on Highway
1. Added to the tobacco curing
and harvesting equipment is a
new product of the inventive
Scott mind, a lumber kiln,- three
of which are in operation in vari
ous places in North Carolina. Sev
eral more are on order and will
be built here, Scott told The Pilot
this week.
Scottie’s Tayern was started by,
and named for, Alton Scott when
he lived here several years ago.
During the past half year it was
managed by his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Boes.
It was recently leased to E. C.
Hayble of Southern Pines with
the exception of the basement,
where Boes is shortly to join
Scott in the manufacturing of his
specialties- ^
An organization of several
salesmen, set up while the plant
was in Goldsbdro, has been re
tained, Scott said. Right now a
construction crew has the place
in hand, remodeling to suit the
needs of the concern.
The Scotts are living in their
home close by, purchased when
they were residents here before.
Farmers Urged
To Be Ready For
Blue Mold Fight
Because blue mold is unpre
dictable and may appear in tobac
co plant beds without warning,
farmers should prepare in ad
vance to fight the disease when It
does strike, Howard R. Garriss,
extension plant pathologist at
State college, warned this week.
Garriss said fermate has been
found effective against blue mold
when used properly and applied
in tirne. In addition, it also
causes healthier, stronger plants,
and farmers feel they are bene
fited whether blue mold ever ap
pears or noVhe added.
The pathologist explained that
fermate may be applied as a spray
or as a dust, with equally good
results when proper methods are
used. The dpst treatment is more
expensive. The spray is simple to
prepare but takes longer for mix
ing and applying.
Either treatment is a preven
tive rather than a cure and should
begin before blue mold appears
in the plant bed. The first appli
cation should be made when the
plants are about the size of a
dime.
Treatments should be applied
twice a week until plants free of
blue mold are assured for trans
planting. Thus eight to 12 appli
cations are usually needed. Ap
plications of spray or dust washed
off by rain should be repeated as
soon as weather will permit.
Complete instructions on appli
cation of fermate may be obtained
by writing Howard R. Garriss, ex
tension plant pathologist, State
College station, Raleigh, or from
the county farm agent.
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Veterans Ask
Seniors Consider
Nursing Career
Senior girls in county high
schools are asked this week by
the Sandhills Veterans associa
tion to bend their minds serious
ly to thoughts of a future career
—and, if they select nursing (as
it is hoped many will) to apply
through their principals for the
Sandhills Veteran scholarship.
The scholarship will be award
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scholarship fund, including
pocket money. The only condition
is that she promise to return to
Moore county to work after her
graduation.
The group of 13 young veterans
of World War 2, of which Dick
Greer, of Aberdeen is president,
will open their fund drive next
week, soliciting financial support
in a unique countywide campaign
by mail.
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Only One Accident
On Easter Weekend
Calm and quiet prevailed over
the Easter week end here, with
Jack Frost as the only miscreant.
There were no arrests, accord
ing to city police. On an unusual
ly long docket at recorders court
Tuesday, no Southern Pines cases
appeared.
With the town about as full as
it ever gets, and cars from many
states busily plying the streets as
the tourist season got fully under
way, traffic violations were few
and only one accident was re
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This was a collision between a
car driven by Miss Pauline Nich
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house-trailer, driven by Ray Ja
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No injuries were reported,
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have been considerably smashed
up. Private settlement was ar-.
ranged between the drivers and
no prosecution eventuated.
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