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TH LOT VOL. 29 NO. 26 TWENTY PAGES Southern Pines, N. C.. Friday. May 21, 1948. TWENTY PAGES TEN CENTS Injunction Denied State Board In Vass School Case The Bridge In Millen Park In 1928 Judge Upholds Stand Of Moore Board Of Education Authority Denied The Moore County board of ed ucation won a hands-down vic tory over the State Board for Li censing Contractors at a hearing held at Carthage Monday, when Judge Luther Hamilton denied! the State Board’s petition for a writ of injunction to hait con struction of the Vass-Lakeview school. The petition, filed last Febru ary 18, with the hearing post poned to the present term of court, charged a direct violation of state law in non-employment of a licensed contractor, on con struction of a public' building, built with public funds amount ing to more than $10,000. The judge upheld at every point the Moore County’s position that, in case of emergency, it could not be forced to employ a licensed contractor when that contractor’s bid, even though the lowest submitted, was considered exorbitantly high- The Vass-Lakeview school, on which construction was begun last summer, is now nearing com pletion by a conty construction crew with N. N. McDonald, of Aberdeen, as foreman. Costs are estimated to be running around $200,000. When completed, it will be the largest school in the coun ty system. Ho Contract Let Legal procedure of advertising for and canvassing bids was fol lowed up to the point of letting the contract, the county board stated in its reply, when it was found that the lowest aggregat' hid totaled $230,535, far more than the board had on hand to (Continued on Page 8) As It Used To Be Pine Needles Purchase Said Being Negotiated Operation Of Hospital Planned By Franciscan Nuns Still In Rumor Realm As It Is ’'roday Should Millen Park Be Restored As Beauty Spot, Or Returned To Qwner? The Bridge In 1948 Two Wins Give Town Team Top Place In League By Slim Forsyth The Southern Pines Town team moved into first place again in the Peach Belt League by virtue of two wins this past week. Last Sunday the long-awaited contest between the two league leaders took place when Aber deen played Southern Pines here before a large crowd of 400 fans. Aberdeen took an earL’ lead and had Southern Pines 7-0 going into the seventh inning. At that time the unpredictable Southern Pines boys went into action and before the dust cleared away in the last Of The tenth. Southern Pines emerged with a 11-9 vic tor^. Dick Hardison started on the mound for the local team but was relieved by Carleton IVfcNeil] in the fourth. McNeill, a right ■'hander, went on to finish the game in very creditable style. »*.!r Carleton is the younger brother of Les McNeill, former Southern ■ Pines catcher, now with Aber deen. Bob Pugh was the Aber deen pitcher, who tried his best t(f win his ball game by lifting out a long home run over the right field fence with two men on. Doc McRae, Frank Buchan, Ed Newton, Fred Hall, Walter Harper were the big _ sticks for Southern Pines. In Top Place By virtue of Aberdeen’s defeat this Wednesday afternoon by ,Beaunit Mills, 2-0, and Southern Pines’ defeat of Hamlet under the lights Wednesday night 9-6, the local team now has first place in the Peach Belt League. Bus Thomas was the wining pitcher for Southern Pines, going the full nine innings and holding the Hamlet sluggers to six scattered hits. The next home game for South Pines will be Sunday afternoon, when they will play an exhibition game with the strong Safie Mills nine of Rock ingham. Game time 3 p. m. Southern Pines plays Beaunit Mills at Rockingham tomorrow (Saturday). Game time, 4 p. m. Twenty Years Have Turned Wooded Acres To Wasteland Many Register For Citizens Committee Primaries Here; Does Good Work On Saturday, the last of the days to register to vote in the primaries of May 29th, close of business found 1321 names on the 1321 names was placed on the books, it was announced by Reg istrar Tom Wicker, Chamber of Commerce secretary. This makes one of the largest registrations, and perhaps the largest. Southern Pines has ever had. Prospective voters were divi ded into 1198 Democrats and 123 Republicans. The total of new reg istrations came to 493, with only 29 of these Repablican. While it was felt that, this year, citizens are unusually alert to their civic responsibilities and eager to exercise their voting privileges, the consensus of opin ion attributed such a large regis tration to the hard work done by the citizens committee in getting out the voters. Organized more or less spontaneously in response to popular feeling, this group of more than 20 townsfolk canvas sed the town, going from house to house to urge people to regis ter; signs were also placed at strategic points, and written across store windows. Big Response The first two registration days, attendance was poor and this in spired the concerted action of this committee. So great was the response that, last .Saturday, Reg istrar Tom Wicker and Judges Hiram Westbrook and Maxwell Rush were literally swamped. A line stretched clear around the room of the Community building most of the afternoon, and Wick er put in a solid ten hours sign ing people up. Had it been pos sible to work quicker, in fact, it is felt the registration might have been still larger as several grew weary of waiting and* went home. Queried as to the school bond issue election registration. Wick er said that the first day many registered for that as well as for the primaries, 275 was the figure. But on the last day, the press to register for the primaries was so great that It was impossible to carry out the local bond issue registration also. Wicker feared, in fact, that a good many peo ple may not realize that these (Continued on Page 4) The two nin+ures above show scenes in Millen park as they looked 20 years ago, when the. five wooded acres were given to! the town to be maintained for the public’s use. j The tv/o pictures at lower k 11 and right, made this week bv Emerson Humphrey, show the, same scenes after 20 years of neg lect. On the right above, is the entrance to the wide lane which formerly ran through the park; and below it is the narrow foot path the lane \)ecame after it was closed on account of some of the neighbors’ objections to passing traffic many years ago. The gate posts have diss'opeared entirely. On the legt above, is a con tinuation of the lane, crossing a bridge over the dam behind which had backed up as pretty a little lake, fed by natural springs, as you would ever want to see. Below it is shown an eroded ravine which bears little resemblance to the top picture, but it is the same place. You can see the. remains of the cement bridge supports. A. little stream, trickling below, is out of sight beneath fallen trees and tangled growth. The “springhouse” seen in the top picture is no more. Shocked By Sight The park was dedicated in 1928 at a ceremony at which A. B. Yeo mans, then a fcommissioner, made the speech of acceptance for the town. At that time, also, special bird houses were erected for the proposed bird sanctuary. A condition of the gift in 1928 was that it be maintained as a public park, or revert to its for mer owner, Mrs. Edmund Millen. Returning recently from a long period away, Mrs. Millen was shocked by what she saw. She asked that, if nothing was to be done about the park, it be return ed to her. At the last town board meeting, the board set about do ing just that. Mrs. Millen, writing voluntari ly to The Pilot, has set forth her nosition in a letter to be found on the editorial page. Other letters have been received, and since pub lishing the board’s decision last week the Pilot has had visits and phone calls from others who think it would be a shame -to lose this park property. Some who have moved here of recent years knew nothing of its history, nor to whom it belonged. Now they have learned, they are aroused. Others remember it as it used to be—a pretty, tidy place loved of picknickers and stroll- ers-in-the-woods, with a lake which provided swimming, boat ing and fishing. It is still used, as in bygone years, by the Bird club which each spring rheets at the New (Continued on Page 8) It was reliably ascertained jay The Pilot this week that the Pine Nefdles is being ourchased for ^"■nversicn to a hospital, to be operated by a Catholic nursing order, the Franciscan Sisters. The confirmation remained un official as final arrangements have not been completed, though it was expected that they would be within a few days. The Pine Needles, located on the Midland road, is one of the I'rgest and most beautiful of lo cal resort hotels. Possessor of its own golf course laid out by Don ald J. Ross, it has won fame na tionally and internationally as a rnecca for golfers and spring visitors here. Negotiations for its purchase have been under way for seme months by the Right Rev. Vincenj*’ S. Waters, bishop of the North Cerblina diocese. The Franciscan Sisters, whose Mother House is at Marysville, Mo., operate four large hospitals, of 100 to 120 beds, in the middle west. They also have two orphan ages in Missouri, and operate schools in connection with them. They also operate “Maryhurst” retreat house for women in Pine- hurst, to \)feiich they came early this year. Plans for the hospital were not revealed, pending completion of the final'details of the purchase. Fire Protection Added In Two Sections Of Town Survey Being Made Of Water System With Eye On Future Expansion ]>feeds Second Line Planned From Plant To Town »An extensive survey of the Southern Pines water system is being made by L. E. Wooten, con sulting Sigineer, of the firm of Wooten and Kovac, Raleigh, for recommendations concerning the best ways of meeting future ex pansion needs. Decision was made by the town board in March on receipt of in formation that the present plant, built in 1924, is consistently push ing. 70 per cent of capacity, and at peak times runs uncomfortably close to capacity—1,000,000 gal lons a day. At that time also the board was informed by Howard Burns, town clerk and water superintendent, that it had become necessary to put the 100-hp. motor at the wa ter plant into use, as the 75-hp. motor which had been hitherto considered adequat'e was running 24 hours a day. Though the water plant is con sidered more than adequate for present needs, the probability of the town’s growth during the next 24 years at the same rate, or greater, than that of the past 24 caused the board to consider ex pansion possibilities at the water plant. Not only the mechanics of the plant are being studied, but the location of new lines, said- Mayor C. N. Page 4:hls week, with em phasis on one ip particular—a line more or less paralleling the present one on its way from the plant through Knollwood into (Continued on Page 8) BOND ELECTION the is An all-new registration is now under wav for the South ern Pines * school district's special election;, having as object a $45,000 bond issue for school improvements. Though you may have reg istered for the primary, you will have to register again to vote in the special elec tion. A word of caution school bond election '1'Sigainst the registration"— which means that if you reg ister and fail to vote, you will be counted as having voted against the bond issue. Registrar Tom. G. Wicker will be on duty all day Sat urday of this week and next at the Community building, after which the registration will be closed. 'Voting will be On June IS. t Funds promised by the county toward an auditorium, lump them all in one build ing. The $45,000 supplement will'' assure construction of two buildings, with separate auditcrium and g-ymnasium. Plans call for the cafeteria to be in the basement of the audltoriuin^.i This will be one more step —or two—toward an ade quate, modern school build ing system for Southern Pines- Register—then vote. Six blocks of the water mains have been laid in two sections of town, with hydrants at eight in tersections to provide fire protec tion for several blocks which have not had it before. Similar installation, for which pipe and hydrants are already on -hand, are to be made along seven more blocks, awaiting only the completion of a survey of the town.^s entire water system' now being made by L. E. Wooten, con sulting engineer, of Raleigh. Mains have been laid in the six blocks from U. S. Highway 1 at Youngs road to Ohio avenue, and east on Ohio to where Youngs road intersects again; and along Leake street from West Vermont to West New Hampshire avenues, and along West Connecticut, be.- tween Leake and Saylor streets, in a T-shape pattern. It was in this second section that t-wo Negro homes burned early last summer, for lack of a fire hydrant Pear enough to help the firemen at their work. The third, section will go four blocks along Gaines street, turn ing at Wisconsin for an additipnal three blocks, for further' protec tion in West Southern Pines. The town board decided on in stallation of the new mains, to be paid for out of water department reserves, soon after going into of fice last JuneT and shortly after (Continued on Page 5) MEMORIAL DAY Memorial day will be marked by veterans here in two tradition ally significant ways: by the an nual Poppy Day sale of the John Boyd post, VFW, and the plac ing of VFW flags and American Legion markers by members of these two groups working togeth er. The marking of the graves will be held Sunday, May 30. Poppy Day will be observed the day before, according o the cus tom by which the nearest Satur day is selected for the sale, Meip- beTs of Boy Scout Troop 73, of which Col. D. M. Madigan is scoutmaster, will be the salesmen on downtown streets and adja cently residential areas. Proceeds will be used for, rehabilitation of veterans and relief of their fam ilies.
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