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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1952
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Council Reelected
Library President
At Annual Meeting
Library Reported
In Greater Use
Than Ever Before
Officers and trustees of the
Southern Pines Library associa
tion were elected last Friday
afternoon at the annual member
ship meeting, at which reports
were made showing the library
saw greater use in 1951 than in
any previous year.
All 1951 officers were reelected
—Clyde G. Council, president;
Mrs. Jeannette Healy, first vice-
president; the Rev. Robert Lee
House, second vice president; Mrs.
James B. Swett, secretary, and
Miss Laura Kelsey, treasurer.
Trustees elected for three-year
terms were Mrs. C. A. Smith, Mrs.
L. T. Avery, Mrs. Wallace Irwin
and A. C. Dawson, Jr.-The first
three were reelections, while Mr.
Dawson was elected to succeed
Mrs. J. H. Towne, who preferred
not to serve during the coming
term. Mrs. Towne will, however,
retain her position on the book
committee.
Other trustees are: serving
through 1952, Miss Birdilia Bair,
Mrs. W. E. McCord, Arch F. Cole
man, June Phillips; and, serving
through 1953, Mrs. James Boyd,
the Rev. C. V. Covell, Mrs.
Howard Butler and W. Lament
Brown.
Miss Amy Churchill, librarian,
reported that, according to all
available information, the year
lust ended saw all records broken
in library attendance, circulation
and membership. '
Attendance increased from 18,-
618 in 1950 to 19,809 in 1951. Total
book circulation gained from 23,-
317 to '24,432. Membership reach
ed 173, as compared with 165 the
year before.
A breakdown of circulation
figures showed 19,730 adult books
loaned, and 4,702 juveniles. Of
the adult books, 12,878 were fic
tion; 3,656 non-fiction, while 3,-
198 were from the rental shelf, a
figure kept separately from the
others.
New books purchased during
the year totaled 390, while 23
were ordered on interlibrary
loan.
TIME RUNS OUT
Unless you have a 1352 li
cense on your car, trailer,
truck or motorcycle, you'd
better not drive it today or
any day until you get one.
Thursday, January 31, was
the final day of grace for se
curing new licenses. Lines
have formed every day this
week at the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce ofHce,
where licenses are sold for
this area. According to fig
ures revealed by Mrs. Emily
Redding, secretary, it appears
that . a good mnay vehicle
owners have yet to buy theirs.
Through Wednesday of this
week a total of 4,111 plates
had been sold at the local of
fice. These include 3,268 for
passenger cars. 694 for trucks.
135 for trailers and 14 for
motorcycles.
J. Bishop & Co. Offers Jobs
An employment office, for se
lection of the first trainee-em
ployees of the new J. Bishop &
Co. Platinum Works, will be op
ened Monday and Tuesday at the
Knollwood Airport administration
building.
Women between 18 and 40 years
nary training for the first group
of employees in the meantime.
The announcement, made by
John Howarth, president of the
Southern Pines Development cor
poration, followed a visit paid
here last weekend by Paul Kerk,
president of the Bishop company,'
County Board Will Group Chartered For
of age will be selected for the of Malvern, Pa., and two repre-
Aiken Building,
Sold To Graves,
Gets New Name
There were 305 registrations
of new borrowers, also 26 regis
trations from the West Southern
Pines school for special books.
Temporary registrations, for
which deposits were made, num
bered 81.
POLp BROADCAST
There wiD be a March of Dimes
broadcast over Station WEEB Fri
day from 1:15 to 1:30 p.m.
The Aiken building on West
Pennsylvania avenue, Southern
Pines’ largest and most modem
office building, was purchased
this week from E. M. Aiken, of
Washington, D. C., by Henry L.
and Gladys Graves as partners.
The new owners announced that
the name would be changed to the
Professional Building, by which it
was briefly known when it was
built in 1948, before the builder-
owner decided to give it his own
name of Aiken.
Mr. and Mrs. Graves are o'wners
of the Graves Mutual Insurance
company, which has occupied a
suite in the building since July
1950.
Details of the sale were not
made known. The transfer was
handled by W. Lament Brown as
attorney.
The handsome two-story brick
building, first in Southern Pines
to be entirely air-conditioned, is at
present fully occupied. Its 21
rooms are divided into eight
suites and two one-room offices,
with occupants as follows: on the
first floor. Graves Mutual Insur
ance company; Sidney N. Evert,
wholesale lumber; Dr. B. J. Dur
ham, dentist; Moore Distict, Boy
Scouts of America (W. D. Camp
bell); W. Lament Bro'wn, attorney;
on the second floor, W. M. Storey
Lumber Co., Inc.; Southern Ad
vance Bag & Paper Co.; Berkshire
Life Insurance company; Grannis
& Sloan and C. Y. York, Jr.; and
E. A. Tucker, distributor.
Mr. and Mrs. Graves returned
to the Sandhills in 1946, moving
to Southern Pines after several
years in the insurance business in
Charlotte. Mr. Graves is a native
of Carthage and Mrs. Graves, the
former Miss Gladys Dunlop, is
from Pinehurst.
skilled work of manufacturing
and finishing hypodermic needles.
A high school education is requir
ed of the first group of applicants.
Application must be made in per
son. William H. Morrow^ Jr., per
sonnel manager of the Bishop
company, will be in charge.
No office personnel will be em
ployed at this time. These and the
rest of the labor force, to consist
largely of women, will be recruit
ed later, prior to the opening of
the new plant in early ApriL An
instruction center will be set up
at the airport to provide prelimi-
sentatives of the affiliated John
son Matthey, Ltd., of London,
England.
The new Bishop plant is going
up rapidly on the tract adjoining
the Southern Pines water plant,
purchased from the Town of
Southern Pines several months
ago. The land has been leveled,
the walls are up and the building
is to be roofed in the next couple
of weeks. The company has rent
ed the garage of the Belvedere
hotel to store machinery and sup
plies shipped here before the plant
is completed.
Annual Scout Dinner And Meeting
Will Honor Unit Leaders of Moore
FILES
Rep. C. B. Deane announc
ed Tuesday at Washington
that he was filing for renom-
ination for a fourth term
from the Eighth district.
He said he was mailing his
certificate of candidacy to the
board of elections at Raleigh.
Deane was elected to Con
gress in 1946 and has served
continuously since that time.
He is a resident of Rocking
ham.
Sandhills Veterans
Plan 1952 Nurse
Scholarship Drive
^Battle of Pines” Will Be Fought
As Cage Teams Meet At Gym Tonight
The “battle of the Pines” ■will be'^
fought out here tonight in the big I Last year Pinehurst came over
gym with Southern Pines host to,a 20-point favorite to wallop tha
Pinehurst high’s basketball clubs. | local boys’ team, but when the
It would take a seventh son of smoke of battle cleared from the
a seventh son of a savant to pre-1 big scoreboard, Southern Pines
diet the outcome of this series on had the 20-odd point margin,
any given night.
ROY NEWTON, Blue & White
guard . . . one of the reasons the
home f(^s think Southern Pines! doubtedly are nursing a keen de
can'win'tonight. 'sire for a win, —JAP
Then the Blue and White mov
ed over to the neighbor resort
town for a return go, and suffer
ed even greater ignominy.
Both teams have equal won-
and-lost records at this ■writing.
Pinehurst has lost to Aberdeen,
beat Highfalls, and crushed Car
thage. Southern Pines beat Aber
deen, split with Highfalls, and al
so crushed Carthage.
On squad strength the teams
are about equal, both having one
senior on the squad, the rest of
the players being juniors, sopho
mores, and freshmen.
Supt. Lewis Cannon, of the
Pinehurst schools, thinks the pres
ent Pinehurst team “the most in
teresting and colorful club” Pine
hurst has had in many years. They
use the set style offensive pattern
and usually a zone defense, high
ly effective against some teams.
Southern Pines will stick to
their new razzle-dazzle style of
play, which incidentally, the zone
defense usually is set up to stop.
The Pinehurst and Southern
Pines girls’ records are about
equal in the county, but the locals
have a slight edge in total of
games won. Pinehurst girls un-
Letters will be mailed Monday
to almost 1,000 Moore County cit
izens asking their participation in
the sixth annual Nurse Training
Scholarship campaign of the
Sandhills Veterans association.
Inaugurated in 1947, the drive
—strictly a Moore County pro
ject—has become traditionally,
and firmly, established in the
hearts of the citizens.
They have watched the first
two campaigns bear fruit in the
form of graduate nurses returned
to the county, practicing their
orofession here. Each year one or
two Moore County girls gradu
ate from accredited nurse train'
ing schools, where their education
was financed by the SVA annual
drive.
The unique campaign consists
of the mailing of letters contain
ing dollar bills, to be returned
with a companion bill or bills. In
the sending out of thousands of
dollar bills over a period of sev
eral years, losses sustained by the
veterans have been slight.
R. L. Chandler, Jr., is chairman
of the Sandhills Veterans associa
tion, a small independent group
of veterans living in Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and Aberdeen
Dr. R. B. Warlick is campaign
chairman, with Dick Greer hand
ling publicity.
Scholarship graduates to date
are Mrs. Beatrice Simpson Beas
ley, class of 1950, High Point
Memorial hospital, and Mrs. Betty
Teeter Kerr, class of 1951, Presby
terian hospital, Charlotte. Both
returned to staff positions at the
Moor^ County hospital.
Now in training are Miss Betty
Cleaver, who will graduate next
September from Rex hospital,
Raleigh; Miss Ida McDonald, class
of 1953, Charlotte Memorial hos
pital; Miss Peggy Cole, class
of 1953, Cabarrus hospital. Con
cord; and Miss Dorothy Mae Mc
Neill, class of 1954, Charlotte
Memorial hospital.
Following the conclusion of the
coming campaign, a candidate—
or two if there are sufficient
funds—will be selected from ap
plications made 1^ senior girls
of Moore high schObls by a selec
tion board consisting of the ad
ministrator and superintendent of
nurses, Moore County hospital:
the Moore County Red Cross
'Chairman, superintendent of
county schools, a physician, and
the chairman of the Sandhills
Veterans association.
The scholarship winner will at
tend the training school of her
choice, pledging herself only to
return to Moore county on her
graduation in three years.
Resch Will Speak
At Country Club
Wednesday Night
Annual meeting of the Moore
district. Boy Scouts of America,
will be held Wednesday evening
at the Southern Pines Country
club, it was announced by W.
Lament Brown, of Southern
Pines, district chairman.
'This will be a supper meeting.
Seek Installation
Of Driver Training
Kiwanis Program
Gets Okay For
County System
The Moore County board of ed
ucation, in Regular session at Car
thage Tuesday, voted unanimous-' em Pines feU this week into the
ly to request the county commis-j “deep-freeze” which had all the
Mid-South H orse Show
Planned March 22-33
Officers Elected;
Sandhills Kiwanis
Sponsoring Show
DEEP FREEZE
Folks who don’t like it cold are
looking to the Ground Hog to rem
edy matters Saturday, February 2.
After springlike weather, South-
sioners to inaugurate driver edu
cation courses in all high schols
cf the county system, beginning
in September 1952.
Attending the meeting in the
interest of the driver education
program as proposed by the Sand
hills Kiwanis club was Garland
McPherson, chairman of the Ki
wanis public affairs committee.
The matter will come up be
fore the school boards of the
eastern seaboard in its grip.
Cetmellias and other flowers
which had started blooming Jurn-
ed brown and sere, and from a
bird-iover came the reminder,
“Feed the birds!”
“When the ground is frozen,” he
said, “just a few seed won’t do.
The little fellows must have bread
and suet—something to stick to
their ribs.”
The Sandhills saw their first
Southern Pines and Pinehurst TT
administrative districts at early
meetings. If the program also
meets with their endorsement,
this will mean 100 per cent sup
port of the program among edu
cation beards of the countv.' ad
ministering the affairs of eleven
school districts with 15 high
schools.
The action of the county board
of education was taken with the
full membership present, with
each member expressing his per-
fast and hard for an hour and a
half Tuesday morning, but it did
not stick.
Four Youths Are
Sentenced For
Wanton Shooting
A sudden change of plea from
tag o. boy. ,„d gtal. 16 year, old ““ ‘I'.'™
and up is an essential of educa- Moore
starting at 7 o’clock, with its chief tion today, and a vital safeguard clos^ with a
purposl the recognition of all to life and property. ^ sus-
scouters working on the “boy
level”—scoutmasters and their
assistants, cubmasters and assist
ants, den mothers, and Explorer
Scout advisors and assistants.
Expected to attend are all adult
scouters of the county—unit lead
ers listed above, neighborhood
commissioners and district offi
cials and chairmen, also all others
directly or indirectly interested in
the Boy Scout movement.
The event will mark the open
ing of the local observance of Boy
Scout Week, celebrated through
out the nation in furtherance of
the Boy Scout program.
Reporting on the action to the
Sandhills Kiwanis club at its
weekly luncheon meeting Wed-
pended sentence for the others.
A crowd that filled the Carth-
'age courtroom to capacity, with
...day. Chairman MePherao,;
said ha contldently >"tialpatad ^
the program would have the sup- t Vor.,.0 unaer
port of all-three boards when it “PP!"’
Dates of the 1952 Mid-South
Horse Show were set for Saturday
and Sunday, March 22 and 23, by
the newly chartered Mid-South
Horse Show Association, Inc., at
a meeting held last Friday at the
W. J. Brewster Stables on Mile-
Away Farm.
At the meeting the non-profit,
charitable charter recently grant
ed by Thad Eure, Secretary of
State, was presented and approv
ed; by-laws were also approved,
officers and directors elected and
plans for the horse show, chief
equestrian event of the spring sea
son, got well under way.
The horse show will be held in
the showring at Starland Stables,
home of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Tate
on the Midland road, between
Southern Pines and Pinehurst, it
was announced this week by C,'
Louis Meyer, of Bilyeu Farm,
president of the association.
It will be ' sponsored by the
Sandhills Kiwanis club for the
benefit of the two local hospitals
Moore County hospital and St.
Joseph of the Pines. Entries are
expected from all local stables and
also from many otherk in North
Carolina and other eastern states.
Besides President Meyer, offi
cers elected at the association’s
organization meeting were: vice-
president, L. P. Tate, Pinehurst;
under secretary, Mrs. Jack Goodwin,
is next nresented to the coimtv ® criminal proceeding,
IS next presented to the county ^ ^ company, bad
commissioners. • 1 ,
i i. ■ and violence that painted
The clubs request for installa-'a dark picture of recent condi
tion of the courses was placed be
, tions in the Brown’s Mill section,
fore the commissioners several, „ . . ...
itiionths ago, for due attention' ^^ate with as-
sault with a deadly weapon with
i»^tent to kill, Elbert Junior Ken-
around. They are being called on , n/r»xT„ji j » j
to finance the employment of '^‘^feil and Roy and
Larry Cagle, whose wild actions
Southern Pines; and treasurer.
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trained instructors, and mainte--„, t.
Principal speaker wUl be E. A-lnance and operation of four J
Resch of Siler City, editor and! specially-equipped cars which
publisher of the Chatham News,
district governor of Rotary Inter
national and an active leader in
scouting in his own community.
Other guests and speakers will
include Roy Armstrong of Chapel
Hill, president of the Occoneechee
Council, director of admissions at
the University of North Carolina;
and Welty Y. Compton of Raleigh,
Occoneechee Council executive.
Tom Burgess, new field executive
for this area, will at this time
have his first formal introduction
to the district as a whole.
Appreciation awards will be
presented to the unit leaders—^to
the den mothers, cubmasters and
assistants by a Cub Scout; to the
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will be provided free of charge by
automobile dealers of the coun
ty-
Down Payment On
Bus Assured By
Lions’ Benefit
State Orchidists
Will Hold Sunday
Meeting Here
The North Carolina Orchid so
ciety will hold its winter meeting
at the greenhouses of the Carolina
Orchid Growers in Knollwood
Sunday afternoon.
The organization, which is af
filiated with the American Orchid
society, has some 44 members in
the state. Most of these are ex
pected to be present, coming
ffrom 'Wilmington, Charlotte,
Winston-Salem, Greensboro and
other places throughout the state.
brought them into the clutches of
Approximately $60 turned over
to the school activities bus fund
by the Southern Pines Lions club
Thursday brought the fund up to
$2,150, thus assuring the neces
sary down payment.
The $60 represented proceeds
of a basketball program sponsor
ed by the Lions Wednesday night.
Added to $85 previously contrib
uted during the week, this
brought up the total from about
$2,000 reported earlier.
Other donors during the week
were the VFW auxiliary, Harry'
J. Menzel, J. C. Barron, N. L.
Hodgkins, Jr., E. Nolley Jackson
and Mrs. Lillian Welch, it was
learned from A. C. Dawson, Jr.,
who is receiving the gifts for the
fund.
Superintendent Dawson ex
pressed appreciation for each and
every gift but reminded that, once
the down payment is made, “we
are just about halfway along.”
He asked that citizens keep the
gifts coming in.
A volunteer citizens’ commit
tee inspired the collection, and
the bus was ordered—on faith—
the law, first denied all part in
the story brought forward by the
state. However, as the evidence
developed. Defense Attorney
Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., realizing
that his clients hadn’t a chance,
ended the suspense by changing
the plea to: Guilty to assault with
a deadly weapon, omitting the
final “with intent to kill.” Pun
ishment for both offenses, under
their classification as misdemean
ors, being the same, a maximum
of two years at the discretion of
the court, the state accepted this
change of plea.
Sixteen Bullet Holes
The story as developed in the
testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Spivey, Sheriff McDonald, Offi
cer McCallum and other state’s
Sisters Injured
In Accident At
Pinebluf f Sunday
Miss Mary Ruth Baker, 20, and
her sister Carol, 14, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Baker of
Pinebluff, were painfully, though
not seriously, injured when their
car was struck at the Methodist
Church intersection at Pinebluff
Sunday morning.
The accident occurred just at
the time the congregation was
gathering for morning service, so
that there were many witnesses,
and help was inunediately avail
able for the girls.
Tke car driven by Miss Baker
was hit in the right rear by one
driven by Robert Augusta Mc
Lean, 27, of Aberdeen, Negro em
ployee of the Pinebltiff &tnat^-
ium. Carol Baker was thrown
from the car for about 15 feet
along the roadway, while the Mc-
witnesses, under the questioning skidded violenUy side-
of County Solicitor W. A. Leland backward for almost
McKeithen, corroborated the ® block.
Any interested visitors in the
Sandhills are cordially invited to] three weeks ago. It will be deliv-
be present, said Mrs. W. W. 'Way ered some time this month, ac
of the Carolina Orchid Growers.' ^ ^
Besides serving as hostess, Mrs.
■Way as vice-president will be in
charge of the meeting, as the
president, Mrs. K. A. Bridges of
Charlotte, is unable. to attend.
The meeting will open at 2 o’clock
and will continue for about two
hours.
'The pT*ogram will include a
workshop session On orchid ar
rangements in corsages, conduct
ed by James Davis, of the Uni
versity Florists at Chapel Hill.
There will be discussion Of prob
lems of orchid growers, new va
rieties and their uses, etc. If
there is time, kodachrome slides
of orchids will be shown.
cording to information from the
state school authorities, through
whom the purchase is being
made. Even at the special school
rate, the bus is costly. Purchase
price is approximately $4,300.
After the down payment is
made, the balance should be paid
off as quickly as possible to avoid
extra interest on the note.
For their money, the citizens
will get a completely modern,
comfortable, safety-equipped bus
of 33-person capacity, which will
be used to transport the school
teams and band, and classes mak
ing . field trips, and which can
also be put to full use in the
youth recreation progrsun.
charge as reported last week.
As the Spiveys were driving
back to their home, on the Rob-
bins-Steeds road, late that 'Thurs
day night, their car was shot at
four times, followed to their home
and raked with 22 rifle-fire. The
attacking car, a cream-colored
Mercury, drove into the yard,
turned a spotlight on their park
ed car and someone was heard to
say: “maybe it’s not the right
one.” 'The Spiveys had by that
time run in the house and Mr.
Spivey got his shotgun. The car
drove off but when he heard it
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Miss Mary Ruth Baker was
given emergency treatment at
Moore County hospital for a bad
cut on the hand, while her sister,
who was severely bruised and
scratched, remained for three
days as a patient. McLean was not
hurt.
The investigating patrolman
said McLean was arrested for
careless and reckless driving,
causing an accident, resulting in
personal injury. He will be tried
Monday at Moore recorders court.
The injured girls are sisters of
Officer E. R. Baker of the South
ern Pines police department.
Church Needs $40,000 More To Finish
And Equip Annex; Committees Named
With something over $70,000
received so far in cash and pledg
es, the congregation of the Church
of Wide Fellowship is facing the
fact this week that they wiU need
about $30,000 more to complete
their new educational building,
now under construction, also $10,-
000 for equipment.
A letter going out to all the
members from A. C. Dawson, Jr.,
chairman of the finance commit
tee, congratulates the congrega
tion on their splendid support up
to this point, but lays the facts
on the line—^more money must
be forthcoming.
Accompanying the financial
statement is a report by Chairman
Dawson on a meeting of the fin
ance committee held Monday eve
ning, at which subcommittees
were set uo to handle the cam
paign for the additional funds.
Moneys received so far include
insurance for the original build
ing destroyed by fire two years
ago; a $10,000 loan and grant from
the National Board of Home Mis
sions; a $2,000 contribution from
the Mission Board of the South
ern Convention; approximately
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