Golfers! Gei Set
For Weathervane
Tournaments
Golfers! Gtet Set
For Weathervane
Tournaments
VOL. 34—NO. 21
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 1953
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
'4
Nearly 700 Come
For Garden Tour.
Largest In History
Visitors From
All Over Throng
Homes And Gardens
Nearly 700 garden lovers pour
ed into this town Wednesday to
make the 1953 Homes and Garden
Tour the best in its four-year his
tory.
With the affair sponsored and
managed by the Southern Pines
Garden club, of which Mrs. James
S. Milliken is president, the tour
was in the hands of Mrs. B. F.
Kraffert, Jr., chairman, assisted
by all members of the club, most
of whom acted as hostesses during
the day.
Evidence of the importance the
affair has come to have in garden
circles was shown in the presence
of State News Bureau personnel
here for the first time to cover the
event. Miss Miriam Rabb and
Gus Martin, photographer, of the
Bureau, and Glen Hazen of Tele-
News, were on hand to give cov
erage in the press and on the tele
vision screen.
The visitors came from all over
the state, as well as beyond its
borders, to stroll-among the blos
soming azaleas and dogwoods now
at their height of beauty. For
many it was a “repeat” experi
ence, a source of special satisfac
tion to garden club members.
“That pleases us more than any
thing else,” Mrs. Milliken said.
“It is so good to know that peo
ple enjoy it so much they want to
come back.” Some, from Char
lotte, were here for the third
time, they said.
Shaw House Headquetrlers
The tour started from the Shaw
House, where tickets Were pur
chased from Mrs. Milliken and
Mrs. "N. L. Hodgkins, seated at a
table under the trees.
Starting with the white clap
board cottage of Miss Mildred
Hatfield on Morganton road, the
accent of informality set the tone
of this year’s event. Here there
was much color in the plantings
of azaleas, closely surrounding the
patch of green lawn. Inside, old
pine paneling made a dusky con
trast to soft deep blue trim and
draperies. The glint of Stafford
shire caught the eye.
From there the line of march
followed th eold road to the J. R.
Marsh home. Here the Wild gar
den was the attraction, with the
house a close second as visiting
ladies exclaimed longingly over
the innumerable gadgets, racks
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Headlines Bring Hope
Mrs. Bradford, with Gail and “Tinkie”—and the Christmas doll,
all dressed for when “daddy comes home.” (Pilot Staff Photo)
Negotiations For Prisoner Exchange
Arouse High Hopes of Bradford Family
Hope is filling a Southern Pines
Mayor Loekey,
All Ineumbents
Are Renominated
Citizens of Aberdeen in bien
nial caucus Tuesday night renom
inated their Mayor, Forrest Lock-
ey, for a seventh term; renomi
nated also their entire five-man
board of town commissioners, and,
for good measure, three alternates
in case any of the incumbents de
cides not to run.
Nominated for reelection to the
board were J. B. Edwards, Dr. E.
M. Medhn, M. B. Pleasants, N. A.
Pleasants and A. J. (Jack) Smith.
Nominees in case any of those
drop out of the race by the April
27 deadline are L. C. Lawhon, W.
S. Taylor and FerreU H. Brown.
Additional candidates may also
file before the April 27 deadline.
Mayor Loekey, who was elect
ed to the board in 1939 and first
elected Mayor in 1941, reviewed
the town accomplishments lor the
two-year period now ending, and
highlighted some of its problems,
n2uning the biggest of these that
of enlarging the water supply. He
stated that an engineering survey
and consultations with the State
Board of Health and' Local Gov
ernment Commission have indi
cated that the answer would be a
treatment plant, with 1,000,000-
gallon daily capacity, to cost ap
proximately $180,000. This would
entail a special election and bond
issue, which, said Mayor Loekey,
the town officials hope can be ac
complished without a raise in
taxes.
J. D. Ar^, Jr., served as cau
cus chairman. Mrs. Evelyn Pleas
ants, town clerk, read a report on
the town’s financial condition. At
tendance at the meeting was
small.
home With an anticipation that
cannot be stemmed today.
Every morning Mrs. Henry
Bradford gets up early to listen
to the news—every night she sits
up late to listen some more. In
between, she scans the headlines
in every newspaper!
Through the house rings the cry
of her four-year-old, “Tinkie”—
“My daddy’s coming home” And
IN WHITEVILLE
Read about 'Whiteville in
the story below.
Population, property evalu
ation and town budget are all
slightly smaller than South
ern Pines'. The tax rate of $2
is lower. With no increase in
taxes since the council-man
ager plan was adopted six
years ago, the police force has
been increased from five to
nine men; a full-time recrea
tion director is employed at
$5,000 per year; $2,500 annual
ly is given to the library;
many civic improvements
have been wrought.
'Whiteville adopted the stat
utory form of council-man
ager government—^"Plan D"
by a vote of the people in an
election exactly like the one
Southern Pines will hold
Wednesday.
Visiting Officials
Give Information
On Manager Plan
“If you have an axe to grind,
or if you hope to wangle a few
favors, don’t vote for the Council-
Manager Plan!”
So said Willard Cole, White-
ville’s famous fighting editor,
speaking at Weaver auditorium
Wednesday night before the pub
lic meeting in behalf of the Coun
cil-Manager pihn.
Mr. Cole was one of three
speakers, the others being White-
ville’s city-manager, C. D. Picker-
rell, and R. W. Flack, city-mana
ger of Durham.
The meeting was presided over
by W. Lamont Brown, local at
torney, and attended by a group
of about 40 people who, from the
questions that followed the
speeches, appeared to hold views
both pro and con.
Only town officials present
were Commissioner Lloyd Clark
and town attorney Hoke Pollock.
The town board stuck to its
regular meeting date and was in
monthly session at the city haU.
Mr. Cole, introduced by Mr.
Brown as “the man who helped
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her other child, Gail, a poised and
gentle 13, smiles to herself in
hope.
The opening of negotiations for
the prisoner exchange with the
Chinese communists in Korea,
even though only the sick and
wounded are being talked of now,
and the delays continue to drag
on, has filled them with the feel
ing — hardly daring to call it
hope — that Cpl. Henry Bradford
wiU soon be home, and the long
waiting over.
Thanksgiving Letter
A letter came from him Wed
nesday, written last Thanksgiving
day—one of a thin trickle of brief
penciled messages which have
kept the ir hopes alive, since the
first one came in January 195^.
This is the first in about two
months. “Maybe I will be seeing
you soon, but I’m afraid not this
year. . . Give my regards to the
folks at church, maybe soon I will
see them again. . . By the time
you get this letter you’ll be work
ing in the garden—I certainly
would enjoy working in it! Kiss
the kids lor me.”
Corporal Bradford has been a
prisoner of war since July 1950,
captured within a week of his'
landing when the Korean war was i
hardly three weeks old. Since'
then season after season has roll
ed by. Hope sprang up in his
home here when his name was
read on the first prisoner list re
leased by the communists in De
cember 1951. The letters—giv-
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FIREMEN'S BALL
An event which has been
red-letter in the town's his
tory for 20 years is coming up
Tuesday night, and the whole
town will turn out to have
Jun and to honor the fire
men..
The event is the annual
Firemen's Ball, staged by the
Southern Pines Volunteer
Fire department for the ben
efit of the Firemen's Fund.
It will be held at the South
ern Pines Country club from
9 till 1—admission by couples
only. Bob Smith and his Or
chestra will provide the mu
sic.
Dr. Hollister Is
Reelected To Head
Music Association
Dr. William F! Hollister was re
elected president of the, Sandhills
Music Association at the annual
meeting of the organization
Thursday evening at the Library.
Also re-elected as directors
were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Benson,
Mrs. Ralph Chandler, Mrs. W. F.
Hollister, Mr. and Mrs Voit Gil
more, Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Howerton, Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Premo, Mrs. James
Boyd, E. C. Stevens, Charles W.
' Picquet, Mrs. Paul Barnum, Mrs.
, Hoke Pollock, Dr. and Mrs. Fred
Langner and Mrs. John Dundas,
all of Southern Pines, and Dr.
Dwight Nettleton, Mrs. Stuart
Cutler and Mrs. Adam Craig of
Pinehurst, Mrs. Henry Page Jr.
and Lawrence Johnson of Aber
deen, Miss Rozelle WiUiamson
and Mrs. Colin Spencer Jr., of
Carthage, and Dr. William M.
Peck of McCain.
Newly elected to the board are
Mrs. I. C. Sledge, Miss Sara Wil
son and Mrs. Roscoe Prince of
Pinehurst, and Mrs. W. D. Sabis-
ton of Carthage.
Officers elected to serve for this
coming year are, besides Dr. Hol
lister, Mrs. William Wood, secre
tary, and Dr. Bruce Warlick,
treasurer., Mr. Gilmore and Mr
Premo agreed to serve again as
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Mills Renominated
In Pinebluff Meet
Mayor E. H. Mills was renomin
ated without opposition at Pine-
bluff’s town caucus held last Fri
day night at the town halL Nom
inated for the three-man board
of commissioners were Gordon
Keith, incumbent, Harold Payson
and Cad Benedict.
Clay Parker and Harvey La^
than, incumbents, declined ito be
candidates again. David Packard
and 1. L. Meaner, also nominated,
declined to accept.
Additional candidates may file
with the town clerk, Mrs. Ade
laide Schnell, before April 25.
Before the opening of nomin
ations at the meeting. Mayor Mills
reviewed the financial condition
of the Town of Pinebluff, noting
an increase in taxes collected,
from $7,042 in 1949-50 to $12,-
404 in 1952-53. He cited a number
of heavy expenditures of recent
years, including a new fire truck,
and went on to say that “the fu
ture is much brighter from a fin
ancial outlook.”
Mrs. Tilghman Resigns After 22 Years
As Tax Collector; Scheipers Employed
The town board, in regular ses
sion Wednesday night at the city
hall, made formal acceptance of
the resignation of Mrs. J. H.
Tilghman, tax collector, April 1
and instructed Howard F. Burns,
clerk, to write her a letter of com
mendation for her service of more
than 20 years.
Mrs. Tilghman resigned for
health reasons, said Mr. Bums.
Her husband was formerly tax
collector, and she succeeded him
in the office 22 years ago.
To take her place, it was learn
ed, Louis Scheipers, Jr., had been
hired and is .expected to go to
work on or about April 15.
Mr. Scheipers is now in the em
ploy of the VFW. He was recent
ly elected commander of the John
Boyd post.
In a redistribution of the work
load at the city haU, he will serve
as full-time tax collector and also
as assistant to Mr. Bums in hand
ling the many details of his office
as town clerk and treasurer.
The meeting was led by Mayor
C. N. Page. Present were Town
Commissioners C. S. Patch, Jr., H.
L. Brown and W. E. Blue, Town
Attorney Harry Fullenwider and
Mr. Burns. Toward its close the
meeting was joined by the other
town attorney, Hoke PoUock, whp
had attended the public meeting
on the council-manager plan.
Municipal Center
Discussion was held on the prO'j
gress of plans toward securing
property at New York avenue and
Bennett street, according to the
proposal of the Municipal Plan
ning Board recently accepted oy
the commissioners. Several talks
with owners have been held,
though no prices settled on, and
Mr. Burns was instructed to pro
ceed in the securing of options for
six months or longer.
In the discussion of the poten
tial cost of the property, in the
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Eight Glee Clubs
In County Contest
For Picquet Cup
Public Invited
To Kiwaiiis Event
At Auditorium
Eight high school glee clubs,
possibly more, will compete in the
annual Moore County singing con
test, to be held at Weaver audito
rium at 7:30 Wednesday night for
the award of the C. W. Picquet
cup.
The largest contest in the eight-
year history of the event, it is be
ing moved to the auditorium and
thrown open to the public by its
sponsors, the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club. There will be no admission
charge.
The trophy was established by
Mr. Picquet, theatre owner of
Southern Pines and Pinehurst, in
1946. Several years ago sponsor
ship was undertaken by the Sand
hills Kiwanis, of which Mr. Pic
quet is a longtime member. As
the Moore County High School
Glee Clilb contest, it has been an
annual program feature of the
club in April. This is the first
time it is being held as an evening
event, for the public.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., chair
man, said Wednesday acceptances
had been received from eight of
the county’s 10 high schools, and
that 100 per cent participation is
hoped for. Usually, only three
high schools have competed,
though once there were four, and
last year there were five.
The first contest, in 1946, was
won by the Southern Pines High
School Glee club, as was also that
of 1947. Pinehurst has been the
winner four times—in 1948, 1949,
1951 and 1952. Its third-time win
in 1951 retired the Picquet cup
and a new one had to be provided.
Aberdeen was the winner in
1950, only a few weeks after their
beloved young director, Bobby
Whitesides, was killed in an auto
mobile accident, and the direction
was taken over by J. E. Swanton.
Each glee club wiU sing not
more than three numbers, of their
own choice. Musicianship, bal
ance of voices, program content
and appearance will all be deter
mining factors in the judging.
Neighbors Aid
Stricken Family;
Appeal Is Issued
Good neighbors went into ac
tion in the Needham Church com
munity, Robbins Rt. 2, over the
Easter weekend, when 47 people
gathered to start building a new
house.
The home is for the Ralph Wil
liams family—father, mother and
six children—whose dwelling and
all belongings were completely
burned up Thursday afternoon.
The welfare department got to
gether an outfit of clothing for
each school-age child, so their
school attendance would not be
interrupted, but they need prac
tically everything.
The Red Cross chapter house is
opening its facilities to receive do
nations. Besides the youthful pa
rents, there are four boys, aged
12, nine, seven and five; and two
little girls, one two years old, one
nine months.
Clothing, furnishings for the
new home, which wiU soon be
completed; kitchen utensils, bed
ding—anything, everything, will
be appreciated and used.
People Will Vote On
“Plan D” Wednesday
In Sonthern Pines
WINS, LOSES
The Southern Pines High
school baseball team won one
and lost one this week—the
loss being its first in the ini
tial four games of the spring
series.
Playing Aberdeen here last
Friday, the local lads defeat
ed Aberdeen 11-6, with Da
vid Page as winning pitcher.
Two home runs, first of the
season, were scored by Jimmy
Barber and Donald Van Ben-
schoten.
Wednesday afternoon the
local team lost to West End,
there, by a narrow 8-7 score.
Outhitting the other teams all
the way. they lost through a
succession of errors. David
Bailey was on the mound.
Citizens of Southern Pines*
will go to the polls Wednesday
to vote on whether to adopt
the council-manager form of
city government, or retain the
present form, a modification
of the mayor-commission.
Voting will be at the fire
house from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. Mrs. Grace Kaylor, reg
istrar, will be in charge of the
books, with Joe Garzik and N.
L. Hodgkins, Jr., as judges.
Unusual interest in the elec
tion was shown by the addi
tion of 171 new names to the
books during the seven-day
registration which ended last
Friday. While lackadaisical at
first, the registration became
extremely active during the
final two days, Mrs. Kaylor
said. The total of names now
on the books is 1,217.
The form of government to be
voted on is the statutory Plan D,
so-called because the N. C. Gen
eral Statutes present four general
plans fqr municipal government,
known as Plan A (mayor and
council elected at large); Plan B
(mayor elected at large, council
by districts); Plan C (mayor-com
mission) and Plan D (council-
manager).
Plan D, as outlined in a good
many pages in the General Stat
utes, too lengthy for presentation
here, is that by which the people
elect a five-man council, which
then hires a city manager to oper
ate the business of the town.
The council sets policy; the city
manager operates with full au
thority within its framework, and
is responsible to the council,
while the council is responsible to
the people, for the efficient run
ning of the town’s affairs.
May Be Modiified
Under the statutory form, no
one is elected mayor, as the coun
cil elects one of its number to
serve as its chairman and titular
head of the town. Many towns
have seen fit to modify this pro
vision so that a mayor is elected,
as are the councilmen.
Members of the council have ho
power outside of meetings with
a quorum present, and all busi
ness is conducted in open meet
ing.
Provisions of the original town
charter, town ordinances, etc., are
not affected by the change ex
cept in the administrative proce
dure, according to the General
Statutes.
Once adopted, the simplified
form may be modified to suit
needs of the community as requir
ed, or desired, by vote of the peo
ple or by a special act.
(Continued on page 5)
Four Events Will
Benefit Palsy Fund
An exhibition by Paul Hahn,
world famed trick-shot golfer,
will be held at the Mid Pines club
at 5 p. m. Sunday as the Mid
Pines’ participation in the Weath
ervane events for the United Cer
ebral Palsy Fund. Miss Jeanne
Cosgrove and Tom O’Neil of Golf
World will be in charge of the ex
hibition, proceeds of which will
go in their entirety to the United
Cerebral Palsy Fund.
This is one of four events sched
uled at local golf clubs, acebrding
to Bob Harlow of Golf World,
Pinehurst, national director of
club participation for the Fund.
Incidental expenses of all the
events are paid by Alvin Hand-
macher of New York City, origi
nator of the famed Wathervane
cross - country tournaments. The
clubs lend their facilities and per
sonnel; the golfers pay modest
amounts to take part; the victims
cf cerebral palsy benefit.
Elsewhere on this page is the
story of the tournaments to be
held at the Southern Pines Coun
try club Saturday and Sunday.
The Pine Needles is scheduling
a blind-bogey tournament for
Sunday, April 19.
At the Pinehurst Country club
a painting of the Cathedral Hole
by W. U. Stephenson, famed golf
er-artist, is on display, and bids
will be, accepted throughout the
month of April. Donated by the
artist, the painting wiU go to the
highest bidder.
Editors^ Letters
From NC Cities
Give Full Story
The Pilot this week presents
one of the most unusual informa
tional features on a civic matter
it has ever been privileged to car
ry-
In an effort to get an all-round
and objective viewpoint on the
council-manager plan of munici
pal government, on which the
people of Southern Pines will vote
Wednesday, Mrs. James Boyd, ed
itor of The Pilot, wrote to other
editors, asking questions.
She wrote to the editors of
newspapers in towns having the
council-manager plan, asking
them if it had been good for tne
community from (1) the tax angle;
(2) civic improvements; (3) poli
tics and (4)general efficiency; also
if Plan D as set up in the General
Statutes had been the forip adopt
ed, or if the change was made
through charter amendment, or
how.
Unbiased
She felt the newspaper people
were the ones most apt to give a
fully unbiased view, also to know
well their community background
and problems, and to judge on the
evidence alone.
Through Wednesday of this
week, 27 letters had arrived.
These had to be scattered through
the paper as space could be found,
filling in without any picking and
choosing, and may be seen on
Pages 2, 3 and 11, also the third
page of the second section (un
numbered).
While no one letter tells it all,
in sum they present just about
every angle of the question.
Taken all together, thejl com
prise a pretty full education on
the council-manager plan, and no
one reading them, carefully could
ever be caUed uninformed.
"Plan D"
Few of the letters answered all
the questions, only about half tell
ing what plan they adopted and
how. Of these, however, it is
worth noting that Dimn, Sanford,
Lumberton, Washington and
Charlotte editors say their towns
adopted Plan D; that Gastonia
adopted Plan D, though a vote re
cently restored the ward system;,
that Greenville adopted “the pure
statutory form” which will gq in
to effect May 5, with no modifica
tions to be made for two years;
that Winston-Salem adopted tne
plan through charter amendment,
and two years later went to the
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Weatjhiervane
Tournaments
At Country Club
Weathervane Club Golf Tour
naments for the benefit of United
Cerebral Palsy will be held at the
Southern Pines Countny club Sat
urday and Sunday, Phil Martig-
netti, club pro, announced this
week.
The tourneys are open to all
club members and guests, both
men and women. Two silvbr tro
phies, one for men and one for
the ladies, which have been do
nated by Alvin Handmacher, of
. New York City, will be offered
as prizes. The number and types
of tourneys, hours of play, and so
forth, will be determined as soon
as an estimate can be made of
the number of participants, Mr.
Martignetti states.
Minimum entrance fee will be
$1, but participants may give any
amount above this, with the as
surance that all proceeds will go
to United Cerebral Palsy for aid
ing crippled children.
Bob Harlow of Pinehurst, well
known throughout the golfing
world, is this year’s national man
ager for the Weathervane Toim-
naments, and he is collaborating
closely with Phil Martignetti to
make the event at Southern Pines
an outstanding success. Mr. Mar
tignetti, on his part, expressed '
hopes that the many golfers now
enjoying the Sandhills courses
will enter the tournaments this
weekend. and help the cause
along.