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GIVE TO CRUSADE FOR CHILDREH GIVE TO CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN Town Boar^ Hears Plan For Water Plant Expansion Estimated Cost Around $218,000 Contribution Made To Chamber of Commerce A report on a proposed expan sion of the Southern Pines water plant, with extension of lines principally in West Southern Pines, was made Thursday night to the town board by L. E. Woot- ten, of Raleigh, a water engin eering specialist, who estimated that the projected enlargement of existing facilities would cost $218,600. This includes an additional water storage tank built 20 feet higher than the tanks now in use, to- give better water pressure to homes on the Weymouth ridge, where the water from upstairs faucets now slows to a trickle or goes entirely off if the present tank water level becomes lower ed. Mr. Wootten’s survey was be gun about two months ago fol lowing discovery by the town board that at peak times the town’s water consumption ap proaches dangerously close to. the maximum capacity of 1,000- 000 gallons a day, keeping the motors -working without let-up and with a very real menace present "if the main line should break at any time. The estimate, Mr. Wootten em phasized, was extremely flexible, depending on the amount of ex pansion the board deemed abso lutely necessary, plus that which would be considered desirable in view of anticipated development of the town. Details of Plan The plan he presented inclu ded, for the water plant, general additional construction to double the present size, with addition of a filter, five chemical feeding machines, a two-way distribution panel, a 1,600-gpm pump and three hydraulic operating tables; for the lines, 6,400 feet of 10-inch pipe, 1,650 eight-inch and 9,200 six-inch, with valves, hydrants and fittings to give water service and fire protection over a much enlarged area; for the new tank, a 100,000-gallon reservoir, foun dation, two altitude valves and a pilot control system. This amounted to $187,875, to which was added $18,125 to take care of variations in the final cost, if the project is decided upon, and $12,360 for the engin eering. One variation discussed was the use of eight-inch pipe instead of 10-inch from the water plant into town, or to the intersection of the Knollwood-West Southern Pines line, with the laying of secondary line to take care of emergencies. Dependence bn single line for a distance of al most a mile was considered present hazard they do hot wish to carry into the future, accord ing to ensuing discussion by the commissioners. All listened intently to Mr, Wootten’s presentation, which was of necessity cut short on ac- tContinuea on Page 5) Polio Quarantine SHU On, Though Peak May Be Passed Five New Cases Include First For Southern Pines Five cases of polio reported in the county during the past week brought the total to 51 for the year, keeping Moore in the epi demic class though Dr. J. W. Willdox, county hdalth officer, said he believed “the peak has been passed.” The week brought also the first case for the Southern Pines com munity in the current outbreak. Nine-year-old James Morrison, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mor rison, was taken last week to Rex hospital, where he was re ported this week to be doing nicely. His family lives a mile from the city limits, on the 01d» Bethesda road, and his father is employed at Johnson’s Food store here. James is a rising fourth- grade student at the Southern Pines school. Other Moore polio victims of the week were Bobby Cox, five, stricken last week, and his sister Nancy, whose illness was diag nosed as polio Wedneday of this week. The children, who live on Carthage, Rt. 3, were taken to the Guilford Polio Center at Greensboro. Also taken to Rex hospital over the week end was Betty McLeod, five, of Cameron; and to St. Agnes at Raleigh, James Adams Person, 15 months, of Carthage RFD. Quarantine Continues The quarantine on gatherings of children 15 and under remains in full force, and the DDT-spray- ing program is proceeding in the Robbins area, Carthage, Aber deen, Pinehurst and Southern Pines. In this community, the spray team moved this week from West Southern Pines to Southern Pines. (Continued on Page 51 CONFERENCE VFW District Meeting Here August 7-8 POLIO TEAM A polio team of medical specialists, sent to Noi/th Carolina by the National In fantile Paralysis Foundation to render aid in the current epidemic, has been invited by the Moore County Medi cal society to confer with leadeoTs here during their stay, it was learned from the society's president. Dr. R, Mt McMillan. The epidemic aid team, headed by Dr. Jessie Wright, orthopedic specialist, was ex pected to arrive at Raleigh today by plane. Four physiotherapists are accom panying Dr. Wright. Their visit will be for only two days and it is not known whether or ndt they will be able to come here. Physi cians, nurses and physiother apists from an 11-county area, including Moore, have been invited to confer with, them. The annual convention of the Eighth district. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be held at Southern Pines Saturday and Sunday, August 7-8, according to announcement made this week by Jack Reid, recently elected district commander. The district, which roughly parallels the Eight Congressional district, is one of the depart ment’s largest, with 19 posts. Not all of these are expected to be represented, however, said Com mander Reid, who estimated the number to convene here at from 75 to 100. Business sessions will be &eld both Saturday and Sunday, with the VFW clubroom as convention headquarters, and a dinner and dance, with floor show, are scheduled to be held ,at Scottie’s Saturday evehing. Congressman C. B. Deane has been invited to be the banquet speaker and has said he will be present unless congressional duties prevent. Among others expected to at tend are Department Comman der Harry Van Der Linden, of Hickory, and a number of other department officials. David Knaupf, of Jacksonville, N. C., ■depaSrtment 'commander of the ■"Cooties,” fun organization qf the VFW, has also been extended an invitation, a^ has also Past VFW Department Commander', E. C Snead, of Wilmington. Wives will be welcomed and a program for the ladies is to be arranged. Their headquarters will be the Reed apartment at the Belvedere hotel. Ten of the 19 district posts have auxiliaries, and both the department presi dent, Mrs. Alberta Varner of Greensboro, and the district pres ident, Mrs. Bertha Williams, of Mocksville, are expected to be present and take part in the pro gram. Many of the delegates, living in nearby towns, will probably go home for the night, returning Sunday, but a number will re main as guests in local hotels. Chairmen appointed from local post member^ip to attend to convention details are C. S. Patch, Jr., accommodations and publici ty; Ray Backlund, program, and Bob Arey, entertainment. Dr. Myron W. Marr, ' of Pinehurst. was one of more than 1,000 medical men and health leaders from many states and 33 foreign coun- tries to attend the First In- teri i>rtion'al Poliomyelijtis Conference, held July 12-17 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. New York, under sponsorship of the National Infantile Par alysis Foundation. Hr. Marr, who has been interested in polio for many years, was sent by the Moore County hospital as its staff representative on suggestion of Paul C. Butler. Moore County Foundation chair man. and Philip Randlolp^. of Chapel Hill, head of the state organization. He is thought to have been the only Nozltb Carolina repre sentative there. He is expected to report on the conference before the Moore County Medical so ciety Monday evenhtg. A re port will also be carried in > next week's Pilot. Mid Pines Not To Be Sold, Says John Sprunt Hill SPEAKS HERE Dowell Presents Merchants’ Group Plan At Meeting Steps Will Be Taken Toward Formation Of Local Association “The Mid Pines is not going to be sold this year or any other that I know of, as long as I stay alive,” the Pilot was told last Friday in an exclusive (tele phone! interview with Jbhn Sprunt Hill, of Durham, majority stockholder of the Homeland In vestment company, which owns the resort hoteL He added, “And I expect to stay alive a good many years. I’ll be 80 years old my next birth day, but I’ve been coming to Pinehurst and Southern Pines every year for about 25 years now and you can expect to see me around there for a good many years yet.” He said preparations are now being made for the Mid Pines’ opening in the fall, in better con dition than ever before, with Frank Cosgrove at the helm as usual. A fine season is anticipat ed with many visitors — among them Mr. Hill. He talked to The Pilot from the home of friends in Asheville, where he is vacationing. He had just come in from a round of golf, and sounded like a young sprout of no more than 40 or 50. Since the sale of the Pine Need les, persistent rumors have been making the rounds that the Mid Pines will be the next of South ern Pines’ fine resort hotels to go, The reports had it that it was being purchased by some large industrial concern for a sort of glorified old folks’ hdme, something of that nature. When presented with the ru mor, Mr. Hill said promptly, “Not a word of truth in it.” REGISTRATION Registralion wiU begin Sat urday, July 31. for the coun tywide school bond issue, for a school building or build ings, or additions to present buildings, in the Aberdeen school district. Those already on toe books need not regis ter in order to vote. The amount of $375,000 has been seft to take care of the pressilng nmds of the Aber deen district, where popula tion is growing and is expect ed to cmitinue to grow, with the opening of the new Colo nial milll Both white and Negro schools were already congested, and their build ings said to be antiquated. Succeeding registrations will be on August 7 and 14. Those qualified to vote who, are not already on the books will find registrars at their regular stands on toe ap pointed days. The election, to be held Tuesday, August 24. will be decided by a simple majority. Morgan’s Defiance Of Law May Lose Airport Its Lease County Authorities "Disturbed" At Skycruise Violations ^ ' » The very real danger that Re sort Airlines, Inc., may lose its lease on the county-owned Knoll- wood airport, as the result of a double defiance of the law on the part of a restaurant sublessor, loomed thig wee.i as the county commissioners admitted them selves to be “deeply disturbed” and Richard Tufts of Pinehurst, chairman of the county airport committee, said the group would meet soon to consider the situa tion. Tommie Morgan, manager of the Skycruise club at the airport, arrested in April and again July 3 for the open sale of liquor there, failed to appear at recorders court Monday for trial, and his cash bond of $500 was declared forfeit as a capias was issued for The functions and benefits of This week it was revealed that an active Merchants’ association the county commissioners had |'Within a community, with those postponed the signing of a con-;of the North Carolina Merchants’ association as a whole, were pre sented by W. L. Dowell, of Ra leigh, executive vice plresider(t of the state organization, before a group of Southern Pines busi ness men and women, with some also from Aberdeen, at a lunch eon meeting held at Scottie’s Kitchen Wednesday. An immediate result was the decision made by the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce di rectors, in conference with Mr. Dowell after the meeting, to meet at. the Community building Tues day at 8 p. m. with local retail ers and others extending credit, to take the first steps toward such an organization here Election of officers will be held Tuesday night for the Southern Pines Merchants’ assoc iation, to function as a bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, which sponsored the visit of Mr, Dowell here. Advantages Shown In his speech, broadcast over WSTS, advantages of a Mer chants’ organization were pre sen ted in threefold form: as means of developing a friendly spirit of cooperation among busi nessmen; for promotion of bette: trading conditions, with protec tion from unbeneficial practices, and, through an organized credit bureau in the hands of an execu tive, by confidential exchange of information concerning the pay ing habits and capacities of those seeking credit. Mr. Dowell, who has served the North Carolina association and its local units for 21 years, was emphatic in, his statement that a properly functioning Mer chants’ association is worth its weight in gold.” While it can operate in conjunction with Chamber of Commerce, and this is desirable in the smaller towns, its function is different. While the Chamber of Commerce is civic activity, a Merchants’ as sociation he termed a business activity, handling all details con ducive . to good and profitable trade. “However, the two work to gether .well, for the merchant should never forget that what is good for the community is good for business, and vice versa,” he said. The state organization, which in turn ties in with the national, he pictured as active in behalf of merchants in a larger way', work ing for improved business condi tions everywhere, sponsoring leg- .'islaition deemed beneficial, op posing that considered detrimen tal. Open Forum Of much interest was the ques- tion-and-answer session which followed his talk, which also went on the air by means of a portable microphone. Among questions asked were the following: C. S. Patch, Jr.,—“Can a credit bureau be opetated independent ly of a Merchants’ association?” “Yes, but it is not profitable to do so, though the credit bu reau brings in an income. There are heavy state taxes, also prob ably county and local, on an in- (Continued on Page 5) Pinebluff Croup Protests Bond Order, Wins Modification From County Board BOXING MATCH tract approved by them in regu lar session early in June, by which rent to be paid by the Standard Oil company for use of facilities at the airport might be used to pay off a loan, to be negotiated by Resort Airlines with the Citizens Bank and Trust company, for the building of a passenger lounge. Committee To Meet The signing was postponed, ac cording to Gordon M. Cameron, chairman, of the, board of com- miasionprii pending recommen-? dation of the airport committee concerning the continuance of Resort Airlines in business at its present stand. The committee will meet prob ably early in August, Chairman Tufts told The Pilot, and until it does, nothing definite could be said. In any case, he said, the committee can only recommend, for action to be taken by the commissioners. However, he added, “unless we receive very definite assur ance that the place will be con ducted properly, there will be nothing to do but revoke the lease.” This can be . done, he said, on the basis of clauses in the con tract between the county and re sort by which the type of opera tions to be carried on there were specified—“and nothing was said about an operation of this sort” —and by which any sub-leases (Continued on Page 5) A boxing show will be sponsored Friday evening, July 30, at toe Southern Pines High School Memorial Ball park, by toe James Boyd post of toe Veterans of For eign Wars, Ray Backlund, local chair man, said the boxers are to be from out of toe county, several from Georgia. Fur ther announcement has been withheld pending the pairing > of weights, determining who will fight whom. However, toe date and place are definite and a good crowd is looked for. Midland Road Water District Plans Being Made Plural Phrase May Open Way For Long-Desired School School Will Open September 8 With One New Teacher All Southern Pines high school teachers and all but one of the elementary school teachers are expected to return in the fall, it was announced this week by Supt. Philip J. Weaver. Missing from the elementary faculty when the classes troop in to their new building six and i half weeks from now will be Mrs. Troy Geer, who has resigned. She taught the second and third combination grade last year. Mrs. Geer will be succeeded by Miss Lucille Creel, of Dunn, a member of the elementary facul ty at Sanford for the past eight years, who will teach the same grade as a combination third and fourth. The opening date has been set for Wednesday, September 8— tentatively, in view of the polio situation. However, chances that it will not have cleared up by then are thought to be extremely remote. Disappointment has been met in the plans for the establish ment of vocational home econom ics and industrial arts depart ments in the school this year, Mr. Weaver said. Applications sub- initted a year and a half ago for the school year 1948-49 were turned down by the federal voca tional education department on account of a shortage in federal funds. Action has been started by a group of property owners of the Midland road, between Knoll- wood and Pinehurst, for the es tablishment of a water district, with the laying of a new main not only large enough to take care of present needs but also for anticipated future expansion. Costs are being ascertained, not only for the main but for fire hydrants and valves to give ade quate fire protection. A group of some 25, meeting Monday evening at the Commun ity building in inehurst, named Col. G. P. Hwaes, Jr., chairman and Jimmy Hobbs and Mrs. W. F. Hollister members of a commit-' tee to further the project. Paul ■Van Camp, of Southern Pines, has been employed as engineer, Spence and Boyette of Carthage as attorneys and letters are be ing written to all property own ers along the road who are now out of town. Colonel Hawes said this week. Answers have been received from several out-of-town owners who were written to earlier, to ascertain their views in regard to the project, and so far all have given assurance of their support, he reported. The Midland road is already served with a two-inch main, laid more than 20 years ago, which is‘now proving inadequate to its task as this important area is developed. Water is supplied from the Pinehurst water system. It has not been decided yet whether it will be sought to sup ply the new district from Pine hurst or Southern Pines, Colonel Hawes said, as this depends dh the engineer’s findings. Among alternatives are the laying of a line about four miles out of Pine hurst, almost to the Knollwood limit, in which case it uould be (Continued on Page 8) CALLED TO DUTY Capt. Coker D. Blue, Field Ar tillery, Reserve, has been called to active duty with the Army for seven weeks. Captain Coker, a resident of Lakeview, will report to Fort McPherson, Ga., for duty with Headquarters Third Army at Fort’ McPherson. Bond Order Approved Pinebluff citizens at last struck a spark, in their long struggle to get an elementary school, when the county commissioners, meet ing at Carthage Monday, gave ear to their cause and amended the Aberdeen school bond order slightly to pave the way for fu ture action in this regard. Responsibility for this action, the commissioners made clear, rests with the county board of education, the Aberdeen school board or both. If their past deal ings with these two boards are any indication, the Pinebluff group still has a fight on its hands, but made clear Monday that they were ready to take on anybody, anywhere and go as high as necessary to achieve their aim. Approving the bond order in modified form after the delega tion left, the commissioners set the date of the countywide elec tion on Tuesday, August 24, with registration days on three succes sive preceding Saturdays—July 31, August 7 and August 14. Sat urday, August 21, will be “Chal lenge day.” Other business attended to Monday included the granting of $25,500 to the Pinehurst district, for a new floor for the gymna sium, and new or repaired heat ing and plumbing in white and Negro schools. Items lopped from the Pinehurst request were $1,000 worth of equipment for the in dustrial arts building, and $1,000 for seats in the Negro school au ditorium. Pinebluff Closes Pinebluff closed up Monday af ternoon, shutting the doors of all its businesses so everybody could go to Carthage. Some 60 single- minded men and women present ed themselves to the county board, .overflowing the commis sioners’ room and filling the cor ridor outside. The occasion was the hearing required by law before approval could be given the countywide bond order for $375,000 for the Aberdeen school district. The first spokesnian was Leon ■Wylie, chairman of the Pinqbluff citizens’ committee which some months ago presented to the com missioners a petition signed with 356 names, asking for an elemen tary-school in Pinebluff. History Given The ensuing history of the pro ject was a sad one. Referred to the board of education, they pre sented themselves time and again before this body and had yet to receive a “yea” or “nay.” Re ferred to the Aberdeen district board, they had met with definite refusal. With the bond issue com ing up, Mr. Wylie said, they felt their last chances for a score or more of years were going glim mering, unless they could defeat the bond issue, and, if their own needs were not incorporated therein, they proposed to try. Other speakers were Lament Brown, Aberdeen attorney living (Continued on Page 5) Pilot Editor Finds Cordiality, Age-Old Beauty In England Mrs. James Boyd, Pilot publisher and editor, sailed ■June 21 for England. Here with is published Iter first letter to toe Pfiot readers. She win fly today (Friday) from England to Switzer land, and will visit other countries also, from which we hope to have other let ters from time to time. Present address: Bibury. What’s Bibury? It’s a narrow vaUey with a clear trout stream running through its green center, crossed by ancient stone bridges. An old stone mill and a weir face the Swan Inn, where I am staying, on the other side of the valley . . . the whole thing not more than 300 yards across. Great trees climb the hillsides, the vil lage nestles under them; just a few clusters of houses, running haphazard, fitting the curves of the land. The old stone cottages, with their lichened slate roofs date back to the twelfth or thirteenth centuries, with a few earlier than that, before William came over from France. There are ruins of Saxon farms and of Roman villas nearby. At the far end of the val ley, hidden in the trees, is the Norman church, with the manor house behind it. The latter is very beautiful, but shows the neglect made neces sary by these hard times: the 4wns are plowed up, and pota toes and market garden crops grow everywhere; the gardeners are at Work there , instead of trimming the box hedges and rak ing the driveway. But it is no (Continued on Page 12)