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32—NO. 45
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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1951
14 PAGES THIS WEEK
PRICE—10 CENTS
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11 Present Data
Jaleigh Hearing
iiizen Proiest
gainst Phone Rate
icrease Expected
Central Carolina Telephone
any will make lorrhal Sppli-
for an increase in rates
lay morning at Raleigh. By
day of this week it was not
te whether a concerted pro-
ATOUld be made from here,
hearing will be conducted
State Utilities Commission
hearing room, starting at
m.
^or C. N. Page said he felt
)wn board, singly and as a
il action would be taken he
not say, pending a called
ag of the board to be held
the next few days.
Chamber of Commerce will
representation at the hear-
id Arch j^i. Coleman, pres-
company will request suffi-
ovelall increase throughout
North Carolina exchanges
>duce additional revenue of
0 peir year. A spokesman said
plication is based on recent
lanned plant improvements,
'^age increases for which ap-
on has been filed with the
Stabilization board atWash-
:ie Division
ves To Mackall
REV. DONALD MacKINNON and hs daughter, MISS MAIRI Mac-
KINNON, above, will speak here tonight before the Moore County
would be against an in- Historical association, and at the Old Bethesda Homecoming Sunday,
in local rates, but whether
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them Pines and the Sand-
rea, which put out the wel-
mat for thousands of sol-
during maneuvers last Au-
(viU be having company in
m again on October week-
while the 31st Infantry
division is stationed' at
Mackall.
division, numbering 13,000
will start moving in by
convoy this weekend for
reeks of regimental combat
nd division exercises. Their
ivill be about evenly divi-
etween the two, according
)rmation from Maj. Gen. A.
xton, commander,
ng weekends the division
will be followed of giving
from 12 noon Saturday to
ht Sunday, according to the
ncement received this
Dixie division, formerly an
na - Mississippi National
division, was called to ac-
uty in January, and has
>een stationed at Fort Jack-
C. During the October ex-
a small security force will
at Jackson while all or-
nits are in action at Mack-
Dixie division has an out-
ig history of accomplish-
in two world wars. During
War 1, units of the division
ction in Europe. During
War 2, it fought in the
Pacific.
;ral Paxton is one of the
1 officers who has been in
:rn Pines this summer for
ir-ground coordination in-
lation course given at US
DS, Highland Pines Inn.
Visitors From Scotland
Powell Bill Funds
Received Here To
Maintain Streets
More Than $16,000
In First Allotment;
May Buy Machinery
The Town of Southern Pines
last week received $16,957.97 as
its share of state funds for main
tenance of city streets, the first to
be distributed under provisions of
the Powell bill.
Moore Historical Society Will Have,
Special Meeting And Program Tonight
SCOUT INSTITUTE
An all-day institute for Girl
Soout leaders will be con
ducted by Mrs. Mary McNair,
of Sanford, executive director
of the Central Carolina area,
next Thursday in the base
ment of the Style Mart store.
Conferences will be held
during the coining few weeks.
All adult workers connected
with the Girl Scout program,
also parents and others wish
ing to help with the program
may see Mrs. McNair at the
Style Marl during the day.
Little And Big
Girl Scouts Will
Aid In $800 Drive
Girl Scouts, little and big, will
start out next week to carry
through a fast campaign for funds
to finance their program on the
area and local levels lor the com
ing year.
The little ones—more than 80
members, of the town’s lour or
ganized troops, and one in process
of organization — will visit the
business district Tuesday morn
ing leaving letters explaining
what it’s all about. Wednesday,
the big ones—adult workers, men
and women—^will come along to
receive contributions which they
are sure will eventuate.
The “big ones” include not only __ ___
the women who serve as city and day they wiiraddress the student
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A special meeting of the Moore
County Historical association will
be held tonight (Friday) at 8
o’clock at the Southern Pines li
brary. for the purpose of welcom
ing and hearing talks by two dis
tinguished visitors from Scotland.
These are the Rev. Donald Mac
Kinnon, minister of Kennoway at
Fife, and his daughter Miss Mairi
MacKinnon, a 1947 graduate of
the University of Edinburgh.
The opportunity of having Mr.
MacKinnon and his daughter has
inspired the holding of the meet
ing several weeks before the as
sociation’s fall activities are nor
mally resumed. In the absence of
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, president,
the vice president, W. A. Leland
McKeithen of Pinehurst, will pre
side. It is an open meeting and
all interested persons especially
those of Scottish descent or in
terests, are given special invita
tion to attend.
Dr. MacKinnon is a well-known
author, editor, historian and
churchman of Scotland. His
daughter served as librarian at
the University of Glasgow fol
lowing her graduation at Edin
burgh, and during the past year
was senior cataloguer at the Red-
path library at McGill university,
Canada. She will return to Scot
land with her father this fall.
Their appearance here is one
of four scheduled for them this
weekend. Saturday, they will par
ticipate in a gathering of the Mac
Kinnon (McKinnon) clan at a
noon meeting at Presbyterian
Junior college, Maxton. Later that
troop committee members and
troop leaders, but a number of the
town’s leading businessmen who
are proud to be “registered Grl
Scouts.” They give their services
not only in the annual campaign
but in various year-round official
capacities to maintain and expand
this worthwhile program.
Mrs. Louis Scheipers, city com
mittee chairman, is general chair
man of the campaign, which will
be conducted next week in the
business district only, and, in the
residential district the week after.
The local quota is $800, Southern
Pines’ proportionate share of the
$6,200 annual budget of the four-
county Central Carolina area.
Head of the business solicitation
is Mrs. Louise Scheipers Johnson,
with Mrs. Sherwood Brockwell,
Jr., as co-chairman. Canvassers
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itakers-Battleboro, 1950 Winners,
pt Challenge For Homecoming Day
akers-Battleboro, 'big con
ed school of the eastern see
the,state, and a newly ar-
ix-man football power, will
e Wednesday, October 17,
outhern Pines’ ' colorful
oming Day grid classic.
;he rise for the past three
in the eastern conference,
cers last year derailed the
nd White express ,at Rocky
for the eastern title in a
briller-diller decided on ex-
nts.
abrupt ending of the local
23-game winning) streak,
he spoiling of Southern
hopes to be in thp -state
’s, served as a magnet to
the schools togetheV again
ason.
that dreary Wednesday
last November under the
lights at Rocky Mount, when a
weary, defeated Blue and White
teapa, battered by a stronger foe
and beset with injuries, left the
field, a return game has been a
“natural” as a coming event.
In announcing the coming con
test Superintendent Dawson said:
“It is in keeping with the tradi
tion of our Homecoming game
that we bring the best and strong
est team we can find to Memorial
Field October 17. Our coaching
staff and the players wanted this
game, if a suitable playing date
could be arranged.”
Whitakers’ record this year
gives all the promise of living up
to the history and abilities of the
teams coming here over the years
for this game, highlight of the lo
cal season. —JAP
body of Flora Macdonald college.
Red Springs.
Sunday, they will attend the
annual homecoming at Old Beth
esda church, near Aberdeen, and
address the crowds gathered
there in celebration of the his
toric church’s 161st anniversary.
The money was prorated to
towns and cities of the state on
the basis of $435 for each mile of
streets not already in the state
system, and $1.51 for every man,
woman and child counted in the
1950 census. In Southern Pines, a
total of 24.15 miles of city streets
was the basis for the prorating.
Powell Bill money may be used
not only for maintenance of
streets but also, if the governing
board decides, for machinery
which will make the job come
cheaper. Town boards are allow
ed wide leeway in the manner of
having their necessary work done,
as it can be done by contract or
town-employed labor working
with town equipment.
The State provides that the
Powell allotment may be used for
surfacing or resurfacing, drainage,
bridge construction where it is
pertinent to streets, routine main
tenance or purchase of street de
partment equipment. Any sur
plus may be used for improve
ment of main thoroughfares with
in the city.
The funds cannot go for the ini
tial surfacing of streets, which
must still be done through assess
ment of property owners along the
right of way.
'The Powell Bill money does not
constitute all of the local street
department funds. The town bud
get provides $38,195 for streets,
sewers and lights, of which streets
will take by far the largest por
tion.
While some towns have already
spent their Powell Bill funds in
advance, this has not been done
in Southern Pines, where city of
ficials are taking time in consid
ering the most economical way to
employ them. The likelihood is
that some machinery will be pur
chased, as Southern Pines has had
good experience with having its
work done by its own crews. A
cement mixer, recently purchased
for approximately $600, has prov
ed its efficiency in its first job,
the laying of a good-sized strip of
new sidewalk on South West
Broad street. It is also being used
for some sidewalk-patching, and
a good many other jobs are lined
up for its use.
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OLD BETHESDA CHURCH. From a drawing by Frank Meinnis, Aberdeen.
Eastwood Child ""Homecoming Sunday WiU Celebrate
Fatally Injured
In Tragic Accident
Dottie Carol Hunt, nine-yetir-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert L. Hunt of Eastwood, was fa
tally injured Wednesday after
noon when she fell from the run
ning board of the car her mother
was driving.
Funeral services will be held at
4 p. m. today (Friday) at Culdee
Presbyterian church, conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. James
Porter. Burial will be in the fam
ily plot in the church cemetery.
The tragic accident occurred
about 5 o’clock at the home, while
Mrs. Hunt was driving from the
house to the barn. The child
tumbled beneath the wheels of
the car, which ran over her body.
She never regained consciousness.
Rushed to the Moore County
hospital, she died within an hour.
Dottie Carol was born April 20,
1942, at Moore County hospital.
She was a third grade student at
the Pinehurst school. Her father
is an employee of the A. L. Mon
roe Construction company of
Southern Pines, and also farms
at Eastwood. Her mother is the
former Miss Ethel Maples of
Pinehurst.
Surviving, besides her parents,
are three sisters, Barbara Ann,
Elsie and Patricia, and one broth
er, Bobby, all of the home.
Wildlifers Plan
White Cane Sale
Is Lions’ Project
Series of Shoots
Around County
Merchants Asked
Aid Program For
US 1 Promotion
161st Anniversary of Old Bethesda
MAIL CLOSINGS
Daily closing for airmail
out of the local post office
will be at 2:30 p. m. starting
Monday, when Piedmont
Airlines service at Knollwod
field will be resumed. All
mail will go out on the after
noon eastbound flight, with
prompt transfer to be made
at Fayetteville for points
west, north and south, said
Postmaster A. Garland
Pierce.. Omtar Williams has
the airmail messenger con
tract.
With a change in the late
train schedule starting Mon
day the final mail closing will
move up from 9 to 8 p. m.,
and collection from the oully-
ing boxes will be at 7:30 in
stead of 8. This will be ef
fective daily except Sundays
when the last closing at the
post office will be 6 p. m.
The daily closings of 6 p.
m (southbound) and 6:15 p.
m. (northbound) for the earl
ier trains wUl remain Un
changed.
Mail Delivery
Routes Will Be
Extended Again
The Southern Pines Lions club
next week will join 281 other
Lions clubs of North Carolina in
the Fifth Annual' White Cane
drive, a statewide fund raising
event for financing activities of
the N. C. State Association for
the Blind.
The association, a non-profit,
lay organization was created in
1934 through the efforts of Lions
and other interested individuals,
to render service to the blind in
all sections of the state.
Graham Culbreth, president of
the Southern Pines Lions club,
said that one-third of the funds
raised here will be spent for the
blind in this community, while
two - thirds will go toward fin
ancing of the statewide program.
Last year the association helped
3,285 persons in securing medical,
dental and hospital care, furnish
ed 809 white cane walking-sticks,
bought radios for shut-in blind,
paid transportation charges on 510
“talking book” machines, gave
clothes, fuel, food and also stock
for small stores by which blind
persons might earn their own liv
ing, bought 811 pairs of glasses,
and sponsored the first institute
for pre-school blind babies and
their mothers jointly with the N.
C. State School for the Blind and
the N. C. State Commission for
the Blind.
The Sandhills Wildlife club will
resume fall activities with a bang
■a shooting match, to be held at
Southern Pines Wednesday, Octo
ber 10, initiating a series of week
ly matches rotating among South
ern Pines, Aberdeen, Carthage
and Vass.
Plans for the series of shoots,
also for a fish fry at Aberdeen
lake Wednesday, October 17, were
made at a meeting held Wednes
day night at McDonald-Page
Motor company in Southern
Pines, with Gene McDonald of
Pinehurst, president, in charge.
The shoots, to be held from 2 to
4 p. m., with turkeys and coun
try hams as prizes, will continue
until Christmas, rotating in se
quence among the four towns.
At the end of the series a tourna
ment of prize-winners will be
held. At Southern Pines,
the matches will be held on Wed
nesday; at Aberdeen, Saturday;
and at Carthage and "Vass, what
ever day of the week their chair
men find suits the local marks
men best.
Ed Starnes was appointed
chairman for Southern Pines,
Haney Harris for Aberdeen, W.
G. Wicker for Carthage and Mon
roe Chappel for Vass.
The fish fry, repeating a popu
lar event held by the club last
year, wiU follow a deepsea fish
ing party to be held at Shallotte,
at which members will endeavor,
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The local campaign of the US
No. 1 Highway association, a cause
to which Southern Pines business
men have always rallied, is head
ed this year by Mrs. Mary Baxter,
of the board of directors of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce.
Mrs. Baxter has been appointed
Southern Pines director on the
US No. 1 Highway Association
board, said Arch Coleman, Cham
ber of Commerce president. W. B.
Holliday headed last year’s suc
cessful campaign.
Mrs. Baxter will start immedi
ately on the raising of this year’s
quota, set at $480. Solicitation of
local firms will be made, but Mrs.
Baxter requested this week that
contributors mail her their checks
at once as a timesaving measure.
The deadline has been defined by
Lester Rose, of Raleigh, associa
tion executive, as “immediate.”
Printing of maps and literature
designed to draw travel along US
1, featuring the names of partici
pating towns, is awaiting the rais
ing of quotas. There is an in
creasing demand for this litera
ture, said Mr. Rose, and he is anx
ious to get the distribution under
way.
The association is a publicity
medium for this great artery of
north-south travel, working to put
its best foot forward amid intense
competition.
Hotels, motels and guest houses,
restaurants, service stations and
other businesses benefiting from
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Besides resumption of airmail
service Monday, various other
post office services are ^eing ex
tended or changed on or about
that date, according to announce
ment by Postmaster A. Garland
Pierce.
City mail delivery service is
undergoing another expansion, at
both ends of town. Carrier routes
will extend to the J.00 and 200
blocks of Midland road, within
the city limits; also in the south
ern part of town, both in and out
of the city limits, to the 200, 300
and 400 blocks of West Iowa ave
nue; 200 and 300 blocks of West
Morganton road; 900 and 1000
blocks of Flynn avenue, and 200
and 300 blocks of Gatewood ave
nue. This is the section roughly
bounded by the athletic field and
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Large Gathering
Expected For
All-Day Program
By Frank MeInnis
Outstanding speakers, greetings
galore, and heaps of homecooking
will reign supreme Sunday when
Old Bethesda church, near Aber
deen, one of North Carohna’s his
toric landmarks, wiU hold its an
nual homecoming.
The church will this year ob
serve the 161st anniversary of its
founding.
Friends and associates are cor
dially invited to attend with well-
filled baskets of food. It is expect
ed that many states will be rep
resented. J. Talbot Johnson of
Aberdeen is the general chairman
of arrangements, as he has been
each year for more than a quar
ter century.
The homecoming sermon will
be delivered at 11' a. m. by the
Rev. Donald MacKinnon, minis
ter at Kennoway in the county of
Fife, Scotland. MacKinnon is a
distinguished author, speaker, and
secular historian in Scotland. He
is currently making a number of
appearances and addresses in the
United States and Canada as a
representative of the Free (Pres
byterian) Church of Scotland. He
is a native of Applecross in the
county of Ross and Cromarty,
Scotland.
Daughter Will Speak
MacKinnon is being accompan
ied on his appearances in this
country by his daughter. Miss
Mairi MacKinnon, who will speak
to the Bethesda gathering in the
afternoon program. Miss MacKin
non is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Edinburgh, Scotland, and
for the past year has ben em
ployed by the Redpath library at
the McGill university, Canada.
The early afternoon will be
turned over to gastronomists who
know good home cooking when
they taste it. Then will follow the
usual discussions and renewal of
acquaintances.
Old Bethesda is located just east
of Aberdeen in a fabulous oak
grove in a sedate section of this
famed winter resort area. The
tombstones—old and new, the
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Mrs. Foster Co-Author of New Book
For Parents, To Be Published OeL 6
Mrs. Constance J. Foster of
Pinebluff will go to New York
next week to take part in events
attendant upon the publication of
her new book, “Fathers Are Pa
rents Too.”
The book, written in collabora
tion with O. Spurgeon English,
M.D., professor of psychiatry at
Temple University Medical school,
will be published by G. P. Put
nam’s Sons Saturday, October 6.
Several radio and television ap
pearances have been requested,
according to information received
by Mrs. Foster from her publish
ers this week.
The Pinebluff author and Dr.
English have formed a successful
collaboration team for the past
five years, during which their
dual by-line has appeared on a
number of articles in Parents and
other national magazines. These
are articles dealing with parent-
child relationships from the mod
ern psychiatric viewpoint, put by
Mrs. Foster into readable layman’s
language, with a happier home
life as their goal.
Their latest article, entitled
“Father’s Changing Role” and bas
ed in part on their book, appears
in the October issue of Parents,
the 25th anniversary issue — a
very special one—of this famous
magazine. It marks an anniver
sary for Mrs. Foster also, for her
writing career began with an ar
ticle in the magazine’s first issue.
This was called “Keep Off the
Grass!” and had to do with main
taining a child’s personality in an
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