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GIVE FOR
SUMMER
RECREATION
PROGRAM
GIVE FOR
SUMMER
RECREATION
PROGRAM
VOL. 30—NO. 31
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Southern Pines, N. C.
Friday, June 24, 1949
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
TEN CENTS
Three Local Boy Scouts Are Awarded Eagle Badges PGA MEETING
There is a strong likelihood
that the annual meeting of
the Professional Golfers asso
ciation will be held at the
h^id Pines in late fall or early
December, it was learned this
week from Bob Harlow, edi
tor of Golf World at Pine-
hurst.
The meeting will bring two
official delegates from each
of 32 sections of the country,
and all PGA officers, for bus
iness of topflight interest to
pros—setting of policies af
fecting golf playing every
where, election of officers, ar
bitration of controversies, etc.
Business of the annual meet
ing is top news on sports
pages all over the country.
Selection of the site will be
made at a directors' meeting
to be held shortly. Decision
apparently will hinge on the
guarantee of $1,000 for offi
cial expenses, and guarantors
have been found m the Sand
hills towns for practically the
full amount, it was learned.
These boys,are justly proud of the Eagle badges you see pinned over their hearts. Malcolm Clark
(left) and Dick Ray (right) are wearing the uniform of the Senior Sc'out. They are members of Outfit 73
of Southern Pines, of which Don Madigan is scoutmaster. Eddie Mepefee (center) is a member of Troop
73, of which Capt. Ben Bradin is scoutmaster.
Malcolm and Dick, both 16, entered scouting together when they were 12 and were members of
Troop 73 until organization of the Senior Scout outfit a year and a hplf ago. The outfit of a half dozeh
boys has one other Eagle Scout, Tom Avery.
Eddie, 15, started in scouting at 12 in Pinehurst, but joined the local troop when his family moved
to Southern Pines a few months later. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Cook Commended For Fine Service;
Bettini Is New Man On Local Force
Vass Veteran Enters
Police Work Here
Clyde R. Cook, patrolman with
the Southern Pines police depart
ment since November, 1946, left
this week to accept a new post as
chief of police at Jacksonville.
Announcing his departure.
Chief C. E. Newton reported also
the addition of a new man to the
force. Curtis Earl Bettini, of Vass,
26-year-old veteran of Army serv
ice, went to work Tuesday and,
with his wife, the former Miss
Josephine Smith of Cahieron, will
move to Southern Pines in the
hear future.
Bettini has been with a trucking
company at Sanford since leaving
the Army, in which he saw two
years of Pacific service and had
some training as an MP. He is the
son of Mrs. T, J. Smith of Vass,
and a graduate of Vass-Lakeview
High school.
Cook will go to Jacksonville
.fuly 1. In this busy coastal town
he will have a staff of six patrol
men.
Regrets At Loss
Mayor C. N. Page and Chief
Newton this week both expressed
regret at the loss to this depart
ment. “He’s been an exception
ally fine officer and we hate to
see him go,” the Mayor said.
“However, this is a definite pro-
LEAVING FORCE
C. R. COOK
motion for him, one which we
could not match. It is a bigger
job he goes to, and one which he
is sure to handle with utmost
credit. He has our best wishes
now and in the future.”
I Chief Newton also spoke high-
ily of Cook’s abilities. He said,
I (Continued on page 8)
MEN AT WORK — POWER CUT OFF
Electric service will be cut off in various sections of town dur
ing the next week or two for completion of work for the improv
ing of local facilities, according to announcement by R .L. Chand
ler, district manager of the Carolina Power & Light company.
“The nature of the work is such that it cannot be done without
some interruption to service,” Mr. Chandler said. “We have
scheduled these interruptions for the times we felt would be
least inconvenient to our customers, and hope the public will
bear with us.”
Interruptions will be as follows:
SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 4 a.m. to 7 a.m.—Illinois avenue from
Kensington road to South Ashe, including all of west side of Sea
board track. West Broad to McDeeds creek.
MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2:15 to 5:15 p.m.—Indiana avenue south
along Ashe, May and Ridge streets, including Southern Pines
Country club.
TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2:30 p.m. to 4:40 p.m.—Pennsylvania
avenue. Park View hotel and Orchard road, including portion of
Ridge street adjacent to Orchard road.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 4 to 6 a.m.—East Pennsylvania from
Ashe to East Broad; 2:15 to 4:45 p.m.—^East Broad street and In
diana avenue, along Ashe street including all of East Massachu
setts avenue, Weymouth Heights and Ark School area.
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 3 to 4:30 p.m.—May street from Penn
sylvania to Manly, including Youngs road and Ridge street north
of Pennsylvania. '
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2 to 5 p.m.—Pennsylvania to Rhode Island
avenue, including Ridge street, and aU between May street and
Ridge.
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.—^Rhode Island avenue to
Manly avenue, including Ridge street and Youngs road.
Special Ceremony
At Vass Honors
New Fagle Scouts
Eagle Scout badges were
awarded three Southern Pines
boys at the June court of honor,
Moore district, BSA, held in the
auditorium of the Vass-Lakeview
school Monday evening.
Malcolm Clark, and Dick Ray,
of Senior Scout Outfit 73, and Ed
die Menefee, of Troop 73, were
presented their badges in a cere
mony setting forth impressively
the path of achievement from
Tenderfoot to Eagle rank.
Other Eagle Scouts of the coun
ty, numbering about a dozen,
were seated in a welcomng semi
circle about the stage, which was
centered wi^h a stand bearing a
large Eagle emblem. Groups of
candles lighting the emblem sig
nified the 12 points of the Scout
law, the three parts of the Scout
oath and the six ranks of scout
ing.
Briefly outlining the require
ments for advancement to the
Eagle rank were Eagle Scouts
Forrest Lockey, Jr., of Aberdeen,
(Continued on Page 5)
Special Activities
For Girls Added
To Play Program
Special activities for girls, in
cluding cooking, sewing, handi
crafts and others, were planned
at a meeting of A. C. Dawson, Jr.,
director of the summer recreation
program, with several volunteer
assistants Thursday night. An
nouncement will be made con
cerning these next week. Director
Dawson said. In the meantime,
girls may find out the schedule
by seeing him: at the High School
club building on Pennsylvania
avenue, or on the town park dur
ing morning program hours.
Attendance remains excellent
at the program events, which fea
ture sports and games of all kinds
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and from
2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Fri
day each week. The swimming
sessions on Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoons remain tops in
popularity, with 35 to 40 kids
boarding the school bus at the
High School building every time.
(Continued on page 8)
State Educators Road Delegations Meet
nrrA'B'a *a ar a
Will Make Survey With Coble At Carthage
Of County System ^
Board of Education
Requests Planning
Specialists' Advice
Just what is needed in Moore
county in the way of school build
ing and improvement—and where
these are needed most—will be
determined by an impartial board
of specialists who will visit the
county next fall on request of the
county board of education.
With school demands far ex
ceeding funds currently in sight,
and with state funds, and possibly
federal, coming into the county
for new building, the board de
cided this was the best means of
assuring wise expenditure of the
money.
On application of the board, the
county commissioners have
agreed "to incorporate the sum of
$400 into the up-coming bhdget
for expenses of the survey board,
which makes no charge for serv
ices, it was learned from Supt. H.
Lee Thomas, secretary of the
board of education.
Dr. W. F. Rosenstengl, school
planning specialist with the Uni
versity of North Carolina, will be
in charge of the survey, and the
board will include representatives
of the state department of educa
tion and the education depart
ments of both the University of
North Carolina and Duke univer
sity.
They will make an independent
survey of all educational facilities
of the county in relation to the
population centers, and will pre
sent recommendations based on
the best ways of serving the
school children withput regard to
local pressures and community
sentiment.
Whether or not the local pres
sures will allow these recommen
dations to be followed, where
they are not in line with com
munity feeling, will be another
thing. Still in the files of the
board of education office is a sur
vey of the Moore school system,
made by a group of educators in
1935, containing many recommen
dations which were never used.
Sanitary Garbage Truck Goes To Work;
New Collection Schedule b Announced
Swimming Classes
Start Next Week
Registration will be held to
morrow (Saturday) at Aberdeen
lake, from 10 a. m. to 12 noon and
from 4 to 6 p. m., for swimming
and life-saving classes to be held
at the lake under auspices of the
Moore County chapter, American
Red Cross.
Classes will be made up from
the registration list, with enroll
ment in the order in which regis
tration is •made, said L. L. Hall
man, water safety chairman, so it
is essential that both children and
adults wishing to enroll put their
names on the list tomorrow.
Instruction will begin Monday
at 10 a. m. Beginners’ classes will
be held from Monday through
July 1, and others according to a
schedule to be arranged. Children
must have written permission
from their parents in order to en
ter the classes, also a note from
their family physician certifying
that they are physically fit to do
so, Mr. Hallman said. Class ros
ters will be posted on the bulletin
board at the lake as they are
made up.
Instructors will be Misses Ed-
wina Hallman, of Aberdeen, and
Frances Campbell, of Pinehurst,
who have just returned from tak
ing the aquatic course at the Red
Cross camp at Brevard, where
they were awarded their instruc
tors’ certificates.
With the arrival this week of
the town’s new type garbage col-
imminentThe truck drives right into .
f ^ sanitary fill-in trench, drops its load through
method of garbage disposal, How- ■ • ’ - ^ “ vmuugn
ard F. Burns, town clerk, this
week announced a new collection
schedule effective immediately
Instead of two residential
collections a week, there will
henceforth be three—on Tues
days, Thursdays and Satur
days.
Pickup in the business sec
tion will be held four days a
week instead of three: Mon
days, Wednesdays, Fridays
and Saturdays. ‘
In West Southern Pines
there will be no increase in
the number of collections, but
the days will be Monday and
Friday of each week instead
of Tuesday aixd Saturday.
The new schedule is a “try-out,”
Mr. Burns said, to be made per
manent if it is found practical.
Any further changes will be an
nounced in advance.
The increased number of col
lections is made possible by the
fact that the hydraulic-compress
or truck can pick up trash and
garbage all along any local r9ute
without having to go to the dtunp
ground. The old type truck had
to go to the dump two or three
times while covering any given
route. Also, two or three ordinary
trucks had to be used to collect
from all over town. Since now
only the new truck is necessary,
it has been assigned a permanent
crew^ to take it out every day. It
goes to the dump just once—
when the day’s work is done.
Will Teach New Method
The garbage is still being taken
to the old dumping ground on
West Pennsylvania avenue. The
sanitary tfill-in-method will be
started next week, when a repre
sentative of the U. S. Public
Health service will come here to
stay several days, instructing the
crew in the new method and get
ting it off to a good start.
By this method, a trench is dug
with a tractor with bull clamp
pestilence. The filled-in areas girls will vie for the honor of be-
cannot now be detected, from the ing named queen for the day and
behind a growth of trees. “It will be a baseball game between
wouldn’t bother the neighbors, if Carthage and Aberdeen, members
(Continued on Page 5) | of the Sandclay league.
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trap in the bottom and drives on many of the local kiddies are
out. The tractor then mashes the anxiously looking forward to the
load flat and covers it with earth
Started In Wartime
The method originated during
the war, when the swift burgeon-
mg of military bases to the size to Jack Morgan the chairman, is
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of cities presented the authori
ties with a vast disposal problem, of girls already entered. Several
The sanitary fill-in solved the more sponsors have let it be
problem, disposing of the refuse known that they will have a girl
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without dirt, disorder, smell or
surrounding ground.
The site selected here is on land which is to be held that night in
already belonging to the town, on Carthage High school gymna-
jf. ■ cinm
the Old Pinehurst road, several sium
hundred feet back from the road
HIGHWAY 1
The meeting of Chamber of
Commerce directors which
was to have been held here
ne:(t Wednesday, to seek im
provement of U. S. Highway/
1 (see story on Page 9), will
be hel^‘ at Sanford instead,
according to announcement
}jy Tom White, manager of
the local Chamber of Com
merce.
George R. Coble, Sixth Dis
trict highway commissioner,
hcis agreed to meet with the
group, but selected Sanford,
and the hour of 6 p. m., as
most convenient to his crowd
ed schedule.
Managers of all Chambers
of Commerce belonging to the *
Highway No. 1 association
are being asked by the local
Chamber 'directors to attend
the meeting, bringing other
interested persons if they
wish, and help formulate a
plan for concerted action.
Towns on the list are Rock-
inghanv Aberdeen, Pine
hurst, Southern Pines, San-
fHord. Apexi CJtItV, Raleigh^
ford. Apex. Cary, Raleigh,
Henderson and Norlina.
Plans Shaping For
Carthage Jaycees’
July 4 Festival
A memorial service and VFW
flag raising ceremonies will open
the Fourth of July celebration to
be held at Carthage by the Car
thage Junior Chambel of Com
merce. Clifford Barnes is chair
man of this part of the program
which promises to be an impres
sive event.
Newland Phillips, who is head
ing the band and parade commit
tee, said this week that a number
of business firms and individuals
have entered floats in the parade,
with several others also giving
assurance of having one entered.
Mr. Phillips says he is hoping to
have a military band on hand for
the parade and to present a con
cert during the day’s activities.
Doyle Miller, chairman of street
events, said his committee has ev-
the erything in readiness. These
street contests have long been
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• .jjjg one of the outstanding events of
the traditional celebration
scramble for watermelons and the
other contests.
Beauty Conlesi
The beauty contest, according
coming along fine with a number
entered in the pageant. 'These
will be crowned at the grand ball
Main feature of the afternoon
Sixth Division Highway Com
missioner George Coble, of Lex
ington, outlined plans for initia
ting Governor Scott’s $200,000,000
bond issue program and heard 23
Moore County delegations peti
tion for road improvements at
Carthage Tuesday afternoon.
Between 150 and 200 persons
assembled in the Moore County
courtroom for the special hearing.
Before the meeting Commis
sioner Coble- and other Sixth Di
vision highway officials met with
the Moore County board of com
missioners. They discussed Moore
county’s participation in the ex
panded secondary road program,
and heard a plea from Coble for
closer cooperation in choosing
roads for addition to the state
highway system.
The group also reviewed Moore
county’s road improvement pro
gram for the next few years.
Highway officials pointed out that
roads improved under the $200,-
000,000 bond issue program will
be selected on the basis of traffic,
school bus routes and general
needs. The Commissioners were
asked to participate in the job of
selecting these roads.
Commissioners present were;
G. M. Cameron, of Pinehurst,
chairman, L. R. Reynolds of Lea-
man and T. L. Blue of Carthage,
Rt. 1.
Six Miles Nexl Year
In a brief speech to the delega
tions, Coble said about six miles
of roads will be added to the high
way system in Moore county next
year.
Chairmap Cameron presided
and introduced T. G. Poindexter,
newly appointed Sixth Division
highway engineer; L. E. Whit
field, recently transferred as en
gineer from the Sixth to the Third
division, at Fayetteville; E. T.
Brame, district engineer; Dexter
Hough, maintenance engineer;
William D. Snider, director of
public relations for the State
Highway commission.
Spokesmen for the delegations,
and the roads they requested were
as follows:
Road Requests
Dr. M. E. Street and J. 6. Phil
lips, Carthage to Chatham Coun
ty line by Glendon.
George Purvis, Howard’s Mill to
Glendon by High Falls.
George Purvis, to Randolph
County line toward Bennett.
I. C. Sledge, Old Southern
Pine^-Pinehurst road past fair
grounds. '
Colin Spencer, NC 705, south
at Garner’s Store to NC 27 near
Carthage.
J. S. Whitman, Glendon to Hal-
lison by Putnam.
E. H. Mils, Sandpit to Pnebluff
road.
John Taylor, NC 2 northeast by
KnoUwood airport.
Tom Black, US 501, Carthage
to Pinehurst.
W. E. Horn, Niagara Creek
north to Carthage—^by clay road. '
G. A. Maness, from McConnell
to Old Plank road near Calvary
church.
Z. V. Blue, Blue’s Siding by
Eureka to "Vass.
John Goldsmith, from Connect
icut avenue in Southern Pines to
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New Garbage Collection Truck With Hydraulic Compressor
In goes the trash—and the big flap at the back sweeps down with a circular motion, its 25,000-pound
pressure stowing away cans, crates, boxes, garbage, everything in a compact mass inside. Eugene Nor
ton at the wheel, James Wells and Burell Monroe at the back form the permanent crew working with
the truck on its daily collection routes. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)