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c- Kennedy Named To Receivership of Carthage Concern Changes Seen In Industrial Picture At County Seat The industrial picture brighten ed for Carthage and Moore coun ty this week as a pertnanent re ceiver was appointed for the Car thage Weaving company, the im minent building of a $400,000 tex tile plant was announced and Van B. Sharpe, head of the Carthage Weaving company, said a new manufacturing plant will be open ed in the old Moore Central Rail road station building.^ Taking up these items in order: Carlton Kennedy was appoint- ted permanent receiver of the Carthage Weaving company by Judge Allen H. Gwyn, of Reids- ville, Monday, in a hearing at Carthage in which application for the change was made by cred itors of the concern. Mr. Ken nedy, who has been keeping books for the plant on a part-time ba sis, will succeed W. R. Jones, of Rockingham, temporary receiver, on October 3. The change was em inently satisfactory to all con- 'cerned, it was reported later, as putting the manufacturing busi ness on a permanent basis with a full-time executive in charge representing all interests. At the hearing, which occurred in an interval of the current civil court term, the creditors were represented by Wesley McDonald, of Washington, D. C., former sec retary to Senator Bpb Reynolds; Mr. Sharpe, by H. F. Sea well, Jr.; the temoprary receiver, by W. La ment Brown, and the National Surety corporation, of New York City, guarantor pf the concern’s present government (mailbag) contract, by Robert Alley, of Waynesville and Richmond, Va. Mr. Kennedy, a Southern Pines insurance man, last week an-' nounced plans to move to Carth age shortly. Big Plant Coining The name of the northern con cern which has announced that it will break ground next month for a large textile plant, employing about 250 persons, has not yet been revealed. Arrangements have been made through the rep resentatives of a Charlotte indus trial concern and a corporation of 15 Carthage businessmen formed some weeks ago for purposes of the negotiation. Officers of the corporation are: Wilton Brown, president; Fred Flinchum, vice- president; Newland Phillips, sec retary-treasurer; directors, T. Roy Phillips, Charles Sinclair, Jr., (continued on Page 5) VOIT GILMORE, president of the new Moore County UNC Alumni chapter. (Humphrey Photo) Moore Chapter of UNC Alumni Is Reorganized Here Town of Pinebluff Gets New Officials Two new officials have been ap pointed for Pinebluff to succeed Levi Packard, town clerk, it was announced by Mayor E. H. Mills following a board meeting held Monday night. These are Manly Wade Well man, clerk, and Mrs. Nancy Mil ler, tax collector. Mr. PackEird had held for un counted years, until his recent resignation, the office of town clerk in which a variety of func tions were combined. Present- day laws of municipal govern ment, plus the increased size of the town, decreed that a mini mum of two persons shouJd take his place. i This completes the total reno vation of Pinebluff’s municipal set-up, in which Mayor Mills and Clary Parker, board member, both elected for the first time last May, are now the senior members. R. G ,McCaskill, street and wa ter superintendent and town con stable, recently resigned and Was replaced by K. G. Deaton. Walter Alpert and Harry Howie were appointed to the town board following a couple of resigna tions, to give Pinebluff one of the few all-GI town boards of the state, if not the only one. It is probably also the only town to have a Well-known prac ticing author as town clerk. Mr. Wellman has written a number of books and short stories and is the author of a biography of Wade Hampton, “The Giant in Grey,” which will be published October 3 as a highlight of the Scribners fall list, . Revival of the Moore County chapter of the University of North Carolina alumni, dormant since before the war, was effected at a buffet supper held at the Pine Needles Golf club last Thursday night, with 65 persons present. About one-fourth of these were undergraduates preparing to re turn to the university for the fall semester, attending as guests of the alumni. Motivating genius and presiding officer, until chapter officers were elected, was J. Maryon (Spike) Saunders of Chapel Hill, UNC alumni secretary, who had the cooperation of a local group head ed by Paul C. Butler ip arranging the meeting. Elected were Voit Gilmore, president; Ralph Leech, vice pres ident, and Mrs. E. Nolley Jackson, secretary-treasurer. Directors are to be appointed by President Gil more. A lively program had been pre pared, featuring an address by Acting President W. D. Carmi chael, Jr., UN(j: comptroller, who brought along as additional guests several others from “the Hill.” Among these were Moore County natives Fred Weaver, dean of stu dents; Dr. E. M. Cameron, of the mathematics department, and Harold Weaver, of the student loan office, also Claude Teague, assistant comptroller. All of these' spoke informally. Also a visitor and a speaker was Jake Wade, sports publicity direc tor, who gave a forecast (cautious ly optimistic) of football prospects for the coming season. Present also as - guests and (Continued on Page 5) Book Collection For German Youth Continues Here The book collection for German boys and girls is continuing through this week at the elemen- ber for the community as a whole, tary school, and through Septem- said Dr. L. M. Daniels, chairman of the sponsoring Rotary Club committee. Cash prizes of $10 for the great est number of books, $5 for the second greatest, will be given in the elementary grades on compleT tion of their collection. A splendid number of books is coming in. Dr. Daniels said— but we need more textbooks. Please, everybody, look in your shelves and in your closets for those outgrown textbooks that are no use to you any more. They need them, badly, overseas!” The Rotary club has set 5,000 books as a goal. Textbooks, ref erence books, “how-to-make-and do” books and clean fiction, both juvenile and adult, are wanted. Magazines too—^the Readers Di gest and other “popket” maga zines, Time, Colliers, the Nation al Geographic, etc. NOT Life or the Saturday Evening Post, please —they are too bujlky, sending shipping charges up sky-high. Headquarters for the collection is the Matthews buijding, behind Henry Graves’ and Harry Fullen- wider’s offices on East Pennsyl vania avenue. l Singles Titles Go To Sanford Stars In Sandhills Open Top Ranking Players Will Meet Sunday In Mixed Doubles Finals Moore County Hospital Annex Under Construction Ed Bender, of Sanford, won the men’s singles in the Sandhills Open here Wednesday night, de feating Harry Lee Brown, Jr., in a hard-fought battle lasting almost two hours. Starting last Sunday, the game was called on account of rain af ter Mr. Bender had taken the first set 6-3. Final score was 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, in a match featuring many unusual shots and place ments which drew applause from the gallery of around 100 persons. Such a fine time did the two players have at their game that, on conclusion of the final set, they continued with an exhibition match “just for fun” and the en joyment of the spectators. Mixed Doubles Sunday This brought down the curtain (Continued on page 8) Rev. C. A. Coveil Accepts Call To Emmanuel Church The Rev. Charles A. Coveil has accepted the call of the vestry of Emmanudl Episcopal church to become its rector, and will move to Southern Pines from Ashta^ bula, Ohio, early in November^ it was announced this week by N. L. Hodgkins, chairman of the pul pit committee. The call was recently extended after an intensive search by the pulpit committee for a successor to the R6v. F. Craighill Brown, who resigned last May, after 18 years’ service, to become dean of the theoogical school of the Uni versity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. Mr. Coveil, who is married and has two children, has been serv ing since 1943 as rector of St. Peter’s church at Ashtabula. A native of Montclair, N. J., he was educated in Philadelphia schools and graduated from Wil liams college and the 'Virginia Theological seminary at Alexan dria, 'Va. Before going to Ohio he served several Virginia parishes and was for several years at Orange, Va., where in addition to his services as rector he was chap lain of Woodberry Forest school. During the past two summers, Mr. Coveil has served as dean of the Adult Church Workers’ con ference at Kenyon college, in Ohio. Mrs. Coveil is a graduate of Goucher college, in Baltimore, Md. It’s on the way, that new wing to the Moore County hospital which is slated to expand the hospital facilities far beyond what they are today. (Photo by Hemmer) Hospital Annex Fund Campaign For $150,000 Starts This Week Chairmen Are Listed; Barron Heads Drive In Southern Pines Seven area chairmen, headed by Maj. Gen. I. T. Wyche and in spired by a good word from Gov- jernor Scott, this week moved into the opening phase of th& $150,000 campaign for building the three- story annex to the Moore County hospital, greatly expanding the hospital facilities. The chairmen are John C. Bar ron, Southern Pines; J. Earl Park er, Aberdeen; Mrs. Dorothy Bral- ley, Pinebluff; Wilton H. Brown, Carthage; Ralph G. Steed, Rob bins; M. M. Chappell, Vass-Lake- view, and Frank McCaskill, Pine- hurst. With yesterday (Thursday) marking the start of the drive, each chairman is. setting up his coterie of workers for this great humanitarian drive, slated to mean much to all citizens of the county, rich and poor, for many years to come. Local Meeting Southern Pines Chairman Bar ron has already selected several members of his committee and held the initial meeting Monday afternoon in the office of Lamont Brown. Meeting with Mr. Barron were Mayor Page, Lamont Brown, (Continued on Page 5) OLD BETHESDA Sunday will be Homecom ing day at historic Old Beth- esda church, an event which annually brings many chil dren of Moore back from dis tant places. The Rev,. E. L. Barber of Moultrie, Ga., a beloved for mer pastor of Bdthesda. will deliver the sermon at 11 a. m. The afternoon speaker will be NJalcom Fowler, of Lilling- ton, president of the N. C. Society of County Historians, an authority on the settle ment of the Cape Fear region by the Scottish pioneers. Between the two events will be the picnic luncheon, served from bounteous bas kets in the old-time tradi tions Chairman of the home- comihg event is J. Talbot Johnson, who has served in this capacity for 25 years. Wyche Tells Siory Of Moore Hospital's Growth And Service The history of seiVice of the Moore County hospital, and the' tremendous increase of that ser vice arnong the people of this sec^- tion, were indicated by figures re ported .this week by Maj. Gen. Ira T. Wyche. General Wyche, chairman of the $150,000 drive to aid in fi nancing the hospital annex, re ported as the drive got under way Thursday: Demands on the Moore County hospital have increased from year to yfear throughout its history. From its opening in November, 1929, to the close of'the year 1948, there were discharged from- this hospital 40,016 patients. (This nhmber includes newborn;) In cContmuea on Page 5) Tubercular Patient Dies In Moore Jail Awaiting Admission To State Hospital The situation of afflicted people who are put in jail because there is no other place for them was brought sharply to the attention of Moore county last week, with Father, Son, Two Others Awarded Eagle Badges Monday ■ Jaw 1 •S' U<i5 ilBt m Robert L. Tyner, Jack David, J. Douglas David and Marion Sessoms of Boy Scout Troop 206, Pine bluff, were awarded Eagle badges at the Moore District court of honor held at Pinebluff Monday night. This was the first father-and-son presentation remembered here—^J. Douglas David, assistant scoutmas ter of the troop, is the father of Jack. Another unusual feature of the occasion was that, of a quota of seven Eagle awards for the whole Moore district for the year 1949, the lively Pinebluff troop, sponsored by the Pinebluff Lions, made more than half at one fell swoop. This makes five Eagle badges awarded in this troop since January 1. Tom Durham, field executive, presided over the cer emony, and mothers of the new Eagles made the awards. (Story on Page 4). (Photo by Emerson Humphrey) the death of a Negro tubercular patient in Moore county jail, where she had been incarcerated since April. Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officer, said that Gwendolyn Wag ner, about 45 years old, had been on the waiting list for admission to the N. C. Sanatorium for six months or longer. He said she had been living with an aunt, Cota Grimes, who was no longer able to care for her when she got so “she wouldn’t do what anyone told her. Effords to find a pri vate boarding home for Gwendo lyn failed and “the jail was the only place she could go.” Her body 'was not claimed and she was buried in potter’s field at the Moore County home. Bernice Cameron, Carthage po lice chief and jailer, discovered the body. He said she weighed about 150 pounds when brought to the jail, but had become wast ed by the disease to the point of emaciation. According to Dr. Willcox, several doctors had ex amined her and declared her case hopeless, but could not effect her admission to a state institution “because there were at least 100 patients ahead of her.” The case was noted by the Grand Jury in making its rounds in August, along with the efforts of county authorities to get her into an institution. Recommen dation was made that these efforts continue and that she be removed from the jail as soon as possible. In its report, the Grand Jury de scribed Gwendolyn not as a tuber culosis patient, but as “a deaf and dumb girl.” Her speech difficul ty, however, was thought to be due to a throat malformation and she was said not to be deaf. She was committed to jail on a warrant issued by Sheriff C. J. McDonald, who described her case (Continued on Page 5) National Guard Federal Inspection Set September 30 Drill HaUAnd Strong Room Locations Changed The new Moore County battery of the N. C. National Guard will receive ^inspection for federal ap- I'Proval next Friday, September 30, ' mcording to Capt. Cifford Car penter, commanding officer, of 1 Southern Pines. Captain Carpenter said that Col. Redding F. Perry, of the Regular Army Cavalry corps, will come to Southern Pines to inspect the records of the infant organi zation at 3 p. m. on that day, ,and at 8 p. m. will inspect the per sonnel. Men of the battery now include two officers and 35 enlisted men, though it is anticipated that sev eral more will be sworn in before' the inspection date, thus entering the unit as charter members with the full priority privileges per taining thereto. New DrUl Hall Plans for the drill hall were changed last week. Captain Car penter ■ said. Instead of being in the Straka building it will be in the garage of the Belvedere hotel in Southern Pines. This is a large well constructed building with large floor space and windows al ready barred, meaning that it is ready for use at once instead of having to wait on remodeling. Also, instead of being on a second floor, the drill hall will have di rect access to the street. The en trance road gives directly upon ■West Pennsylvania avenue. The strong-room for storage of Weapons, will be built by the Town of Southern Piries in a fenced-in area belonging to the town, a short distance farther down 'West Pensylvania avenue. Equipment and vehicles will also (Continued on Page 8) Chamber Plans Annual Meeting,' Election of Board A communitywide barbecue, to be held Wednesday evening on the Elks Lodge grounds, will mark the conclusion of the year’s work for the present board of di rectors of the Chamber of Com merce, even as plans are made for the annu,al meeting and election of a new board the following week. Hoke Pollock, president, said that the date of the annual meet ing has been set for Tuesday, Oc tober 4, the time 8 p. m., at the Church of Wide Fellowship. By a stagger system set up in a con stitutional amendment last year, terms of seven of the 15 directors will expire at that time and they fnay not succeed themselves. All Chamber members are ask ed to attend, and elect seven from a list of 14 made up by a nominat ing committee composed of the retiring directors, or from nomi nations made from the floor. The list of nominees follows: W. L. Baker, George Pottle, Bryan Poe, June Blue, A. C. Daw son, Jr., Lamont Brown, C. H. Bowman, J. L. Parrish, Mrs. Anna Patch Blue, Jack S. Younts, Mrs. Thelma Holt, Joe O’Callaghan, Joe Garzik, John Howarth. COUNTY FAIR The Pilot visited the Moore County fair Tuesday night, and is pleased to report a fine crowd attending, an excellent array of exhibits and a mid way show filled .with lights and attractions. The Jaycees have lived well up to their promise of "twice as good a fair as last year's" with fun and information for all. Today (Friday) is "free day" for Negro school chil dren of the county. Tomor row, Saturday, is expected to be "the big day" for every body, with crowds until mid night. The Jaycees, wearing red ribbons, are on hand on every side, supervising operations and acting as true hosts of the event—one of which they can well be proud.
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