WEAR A POPPY
SATURDAY FOR
OUR WAR HEROES
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WEAR A POPPY
SATURDAY FOR
OUR WAR HEROES
AWARDED HIGHEST HONORS for the 1953
basketball season, at the Rotary club’s testimo
nial banquet last Friday night, were the four
young folks above—far left and right, David
Woodruff and Peaches Cameron, named honor
ary captains by vote of their fellow squad mem
bers; an(J center. Sieger Herr and Steve Choate,
with their trophies given for “most valuable
player.” The trophies are given annually by the
John Boyd post, VFW, following selection based
on an opinion poll of coaches and players of both
the local and opposing earns. Story and more
pictures on page 13. (Pilot Staff Photo)
School Band Will
Present Public
Concert Tonight
Lovers of band music have a
special treat in view tonight (Fri
day) when the Southern Pines
school band will give its second
annual concert at Weaver audi
torium.
The program will start at 8
o’clock. There is no admission
charge, though a voluntary offer
ing will be taken for some needed
new instruments.
With 38 members, boys and
girls from the sixth through 12th
grades, the band is larger this
year and is offering a program
considerably more advanced than
before, according to Lynn S. Led-
den, director. It includes a num
ber of favorite band and marching
selections, plus some semi-classi
cal and even one “boogie” num
ber.
The first part of the program
will include the school song, “Fair
Star of Southern Pines”; Ameri
can Red Cross March, Mandalay
Overture, Mohawk View Fantasia
(with trumpet solo by David Bail
ey); The Way You Look Tonight,
and Coronation.
The second part will consist of
Entriumphant March, Overture
Argentina, Big Boy (with sousa-
phone solo by Kenneth McCrim-
mon); Big Horn Boogie, Stout
Hearted Men, Our Flirtations
March (with routine by major
ettes) and Star Spangled Banner.
Band Members
The instrumentalists: Clarinets
—Mary Matthews, Robert Speller,
Gilbert Harbort, James Collins,
Donald Fobes, Claude Reams,
John Seymour, Lillian Bullock,
Robert Spurgin, Lynn Peterson,
Margaret Smith.
Trumpets—^David Bailey, Jim
my Hatch, George Colton, Bryon
Naum, Billy Hamel, John McCon
nell, Jimmy Bowden, Bill McDon
ald, Mike Peterson, Iky Woodell.
Saxophones—Bobby Cline, Bil-
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Mayor Page, O’Callaghan Quit Race
After Many Years of Public Service
POPPY DAY
Wear a poppy tomorrow
for our war heroes!
Memorial poppies honoring
America's dead in all wars
will be sold downtown in
Southern Pines Saturday by
ladies of the American Ltegion
auxiliary and other volun
teers.
They were made by pa
tients at the Fayetteville Vet
erans hospital, and purchased
»'rom them by the auxiliary
ladies, according to their an
nual custom.
The proceeds go entirely
for the furthering of the aux
iliary's program of child wel
fare and rehabilitation of war
veterans and their families.
Thus, in honoring the dead,
the living are aided—a true
memorial.
PEACH FREEZE
The Sandhills peach crop
suffered considerable damage
as the temperature unseason
ably dropped just below
freezing Monday and Tues
day nights.
First reports that the crop
had been wiped out were
later modified. Though plen
ty of damage was done, it
was not >50 extensive as at
Jirst thought. Estimates rang
ed from a 15 to SO per cent
crop loss and it will be some
lime before it can be defin
itely determined, reports said.
It was the latest freeze re
corded in the slate, April 17
being the previous record.
The killing temperature per
sisted for only two or three
hours each night, and a
breeze was helpful. Growers
burned hundreds of truck
tires in smudge fires, helping
to keep the loss at a min-
umum.
Youngsters Will
Dance In Starnes
Recital Saturday
‘^‘Festival in April,” second an
nual recital of the Pat Starnes
Studio of Dance, will present
seme 30 young people in a color
ful show at Weaver auditorium
Saturday night. Curtain time is 8
p. m.
The show is open to the public
without admission charge.
The program is in two parts,
“Menu for Tonight” and “The En
chanted Doll Shop,” presenting
a total of 18 numbers.
The dances of the first part fea
ture foods — “Marshmallow
Whirls,” “Hawaiian Poi,” “Holi
day Puddings,” “Candy Kisses,”
and other exotic dishes—winding
up with “Southern Fried Chick
en.”
In the second part, the numbers
bear such titles as “Easter Bun
nies,” “Dolls on the Tight Rope,”
“Alice Blue Dolls” and “Dolls Go
Modern.”
Group and solo numbers in tap
and ballet, all gaily costumed, are
featured, and there are five
violet light. Mrs. George Mattocks
“blackout numbers” with ultra-
is in charge of costumes and mu
sic will be by Pat Kirk at the
piano, Bob Strouse at the drums
and Bus Doyle, guitarist.
Mrs. Starnes will dance one
number and the other performers,
from tiny tots up through the
teen-ages, will be Craig White,
Jean Nolen, Beverly Hodgin, Gail
Given, Gail Bradford, Barbara
Peterson, Martha Ellen Parks, Su
zanne Boezeman, Carol Ann
O’Callaghan, Nancy Ruth O’Cal
laghan, Winborne Howell, Jerryl
Langner, Patsy Beasley.
Sharon Harp, Margaret Collier,
Christine Collier, Gail Kelly,
Mary McMillaii, Julia McMillan,
Andrea Lee House, Ann Giauque,
Sharon Slaughter, Mary Lynn
Dixon, David Duke, Julie Ann
Penkunis, Linda Hisen, Nancy
Griffin.
♦ Two veterans of long and hon
ored service to this community
withdrew from the town govern
ment last week by the simple pro
cess of declining to file, though
urged, in Southern Pines’ first
primary.
Tiiey were the last two mayors
—and they may be the last in
Southern Pines history to be
elected as such, unless the coun
cil-manager plan is modified to
provide for a mayoralty race.
Mayor C. N. Page, on the town
board since 1945, mayor since
1947 (four terms) and Commis
sioner L. V. O’Callaghan, a mem
ber of the town board for 26
years, both said they thought they
had been in office “long enough.”
Mr. O’Callaghan was first elect
ed a commissioner in 1927, and
was reelected every time after
that. In 1945 he was elected
mayor, then in 1947 declined to
be a candidate for this office, and
the voters returned hiiA to the
board.
Highly Valued
Estimates of his value to the
board by those who have served
with him run very high. A plumb
ing contractor here for about 30
years, they say he “knows the
location of every pipe and water
connection in town.” His techni
cal knowledge, combined with
long experience, have saved the
town untold thousands of dollars
through the years.
Mr. O’Callaghan has been un
well during the past year and his
presence on the board has been
missed. This week he said, “I
think it is time for me to get off
the board and let the younger
generatic-n take over. I will al
ways continue to serve the town,
though, whenever there is any
way in which I may be useful. I
will always be available, just as
I have always been, to do what
ever I can for Southern Pines.”
His son Joe O’Callaghan is a
candidate for the new council,
offering for town office for the
first time.
Time of Growth
Mayor “Chan” Page, during
whose administration the town
has seen probably its greatest
period of growth and change, also
said he will continue to serve in
any way possible, though -in an
unofficial capacity. He had stated
two years ago that the term just
ending would be his last as “six
years is long eiiough.” He was
never opposed for the office.
This week he added, “I appre
ciate very deeply the confidence
the people showed i;> electing me
their mayor, and I hope I have
rendered real service, as I tried to
do. I have enjoyed my terms of
office—they have been a real
pleasure, and also educational. If
I have done anything for the good
of cur town, that is all the com
pensation I need.”
Progressive Measures
Many progressive steps have
-been taken during his administra
tion. Some of them are: the pur-
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N. C. Symphony
Here For Fourth
Concert Monday
Harold Cone Will
Be Soloist In
Mozart Concerto
• The 65-piece N. C. Symphony
orchestra, conducted by Dr. Ben
jamin Swalin, will offer a concert
here Monday at 8:30 p. m. at
Weaver auditorium.
This will be the orchestra’s
fourth annual visit. First playing
here in April 1950, it has drawn
increasingly large and interested
audiences.
Sponsored as befc-re by the
Sandhills Music association, the
program will feature Harold
Cone, noted pianist of Greensboro
and New York City, as soloist.
Cone will play with the orches
tra in the Mozart Concerto for
Piano and Orchestra.
Orchestral numbers on the pro
gram: wiU include The Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture; Bee
thoven’s Cavatina from String
Quartet in B Flat, Op. 130; the
Sibelino Finale from Symphony
"No. V, Op. 82; Three dances—
Hungarian Dance No. VII
by Br2thms, Slavonic Dance
VII by Brahms, Slavonic Dance
No. Ill by Dvorak and Riisager’s
“Dance of the Torgots”; also sev
eral excerpts from Jerome Kern’s
“Show Boat.”
Mr. Cone studied with Nelson
Kennedy at the University of
North Carolina, transferred to
Harvard, where he graduated
summa cum laude and Phi Beta
Kappa, studied under several emi
nent New York teachers, then
came back to Chapel Hill for more
graduate work, some of it with
Dr. Swalin. Returning to New
York for further work in piano
and conducting, 'he established a
studio in the Carnegie Hall build
ing and has attained to national
prominence as pianist, teacher
and composer.
His wife, the former Madeleine
Carabo, was a member of the first
violin section • of the Cleveland
Symphony when they were mar
ried in 1944. She will play with
the orchestira Monday night in
special recognition of an impor
tant date—their* ninth wedding
anniversary.
The children’s concert usually
held on the afternoon of the Sym
phony’s visit on account of a con
flict in dates was held Tuesday
of this week. An audience of
schoolchildren from the Sandhills
towns filled the 720-seat auditori
um to overflowing.
An unexpected preview for
some local music lovers followed
the children’s concqjrt. Richard
Cass, concert pianist, of Green
ville, S. C., who will solo with the
orchestra at a date later in the
season, joined it here for a re
hearsal. Permission was given by
Dr. Swalin fer townspepole who
and, despite the lack of advance
notice, a small but appreciative
crowd appeared.
Caucus Ruled Out; Town Primary
Monday; 15 Candidates Have Filed
Stoplight Mixup
On Highway Has
Fiery Results
A two-vehicle accident which
caused a power pole to topple,
wires to crash to the street, 7,200
volts of electricity to start spark
ling and crackling—it sounds like
a horrible accident, but no one
was even scathed.
It happened Tuesday about 11
a.m. at the corner of Massachu
setts and May—and it could have
been horrible, police said, if it had
happened later when children
streamed out of the school nearby.
Mrs. Eva Mae Veasey, 75, of
Pinebluff, traveling north, stopped
her car at the stoplight—and she
told police later it was red.
Jessie Odell Whitaker, of San
ford, driving a tractor-trailer 40
or 50 feet behind, swerved to
avoid her—he said the light was
green.
The truck struck the car a
glancing blow on the rear fender,
then hit the curb and the pole,
which came crashing down.
The jetting electricity caused
blue flames to flash through the
grass, and the cement curbing
boiled up like a pan of oatmeal.
CP&L crews had the mess
cleared up in short order.
No arrest had been made at last
report, as the police were still
trying to figure out—^was the light
red, or was it green?
Pick Five For Primary
Southern Pines voters will mark five names out of a list
of 15 on their ballots Monday, in this community’s first mu
nicipal primary.
Voting will be held at the fire station from 6:30 a.m. to
6:30 p.m.
Registration is now under way for the addition of new
names for the primary and also for the municipal election
of Tuesday, May 5. Today (Friday) and Saturday are the
last two days. Today, registration will be from 9 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. Saturday, it is from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The. 10 candidates standing highest in the primary will be
listed on the ballots May 5, when again the voters will mark
five narnes. The five then receiving the highest number of
votes will form the new* town council, under the council-
manager plan approved in the special election of April 15.
There will be no vote for mayor at either time, as under
the new plan he will be elected by the council from their
membership.
Pines for 29 years. The most out
standing leader in the campaign
for adoption of the new govern
mental form, he said, “Any state
ment from me should be unnec
essary—everyone knows how I
feel. I have been working for the
council-manager plan for South
ern Pines since long before I went
on the board in the fall of 1949.
I believe it is a good plan and will
be good for Southern Pines.
Whether I am reelected or not,
I will continue to work with all
my heart and soul for the good
of our community.”
DR. L. M, dAnIELS, dentist,
who has practiced here for the
past 33 years, owner of rental
property, member of the Rotary
club and a former town commis
sioner (under Mayor Stutz in the
1930s) voted for the council-
manager plan. His statement:
“Since not many of our natives,
including myself, have ever
lived under the council-manager
plan of government, one cannot
speak from experience. But I do
believe it will make for greater
econemy and efficiency than
heretofore under our commission
form, judging from the experience
of other towns who have the
managerial form.”
HAROLD B. FOWLER, electri
cian, a member of the Southern
Pines Volunteer Fire deparement
for 16 years and now its Chief,
has lived in Southern Pines for
33 years. He is an Elk, and a vet
eran of World War 2. Mr. Fowl
er reports that he opposed the
council-manager plan and voted
against it, but, “Since it is what
the people want I am willing to
go along with it all the way. I
don’t think we need so much
change here, and I believe the
new form of government can be
very effective without many
changes having to be made. I am
for progress and what is best for
Southern Pines, under any form
of government we happen to
have.”
REV. J. R. FUNDERBURK,
only Negro on the ticket, presi
ding elder in the AME Zion
church for the past 16 years and
a longtime worker for civic bet
terment in West Southern Pines.
Five Hours See
Drastie Upset In
Political Picture
In answer to interest expressed
on all sides. The Pilot asked each
candidate for a brief statement.
All of the 15 very willingly re
sponded, some preparing written
statements, others in informal
conversation. '
In presenting a few condensed
facts about each man. The Pilot
is not attempting a complete
description but merely endeavor
ing to identify the candidates for
the benefit of those who might
not know them: all, or might wish
basic information.
Seeing the council-manager is
sue as one of paramount interest.
The Pilot asked each man how he
stood. All but one answered
frankly. All the answers are giv
en below:
W. E. BLUE, incumbent board
member, in business here for. 27
years, proprietor of the Modern
Market for the past 17 years, op
posed the council-manager plan
and voted against it. Mr. Blue has
been an elder in the Presbyterian
church since he was 22 years old,
and Sunday School superinten
dent at Brownson Memorial
church since it was organized in
1936. His statement: “I am a can
didate for reelection on the city
council. Now that I have had
three and a half years of valuable
experience, I feel that I am bet
ter qualified to serve in this cap
acity. On April 15 the qualified
voters spoke their minds at the
polls and adopted a new form of
government. If reelected I will do
my best to put it into operation
as smoothly as possible, and go
along with it 100 per cent.”
H. L. BROWN, incumbent
board member, owner of the H.
L. Brown Agency (office ma
chines and supplies) and a resi
dent since 1935, past president of
the Southern Pines Rotary club,
opposed the plan and voted
against it. However, he said, “The
people have sifoken and if reelect
ed I wilt serve to the best of my
ability under the new form, as I
have for the past three arid a half
years under the old. With a good
council and a good city manager, I
think it should prove very suc
cessful and I will be glad to have
a part in making it so.”
L. T. CLARK, incumbent
board member, owner of Clark’s
Funeral Home and Clark’s Taxi
Service, past president of the Ro
tary club, has lived in Southern
Wake Forest College Choir Will Sing
In Auditorium Concert Sunday Night
The Wake For;est College cheir
will present a program of choral
music at Weaver auditorium at
8 p. m. Sunday, sponsored by the
First Baptist church.
The public is invited to hear
■
PAUL ROBINSON
A whirlwind of political activ
ity hit Southern Pines last Friday
afternoon. Five hours later, 16
men had filed for membership on
the new town council, subject to
a primary Monday and the muni
cipal election May 5. One candi
date later withdrew.
It was a history-making time in
Southern Pines, with precedent
falling shattered by the wayside.
Filing at a cost of $5 each at the
city hall were the following
(thought not in this order): W. E.
Blue, H. L. Brown, L. T. Clark,
Dr. L. M. Daniels, H. B. Fowler,
J. R. Funderburk, Joe S. Garzik,
Voit Gilmore, Johnnie A. Hall, W.
T. (Bill) Huntley, Jr., H. A. Lew
is, Russell J. Lorenson, Joe P.
O’Callaghan, J. T. Overton, C. S.
Patch, Jr., and J. T. Saunders
(who later withdrew).
Blue, Brown, Clark and Patch
are incumbent board members.
The stir-up started with a visit
to the State Attorney General by
Town Attorney Hoke Pollock, his
partner Harry FuUenwider, May
or C. N. Page and W. Lament
Brown, attorney v/ho had worked
with the citizen group promoting
adoption of the council-manager
plan.
For Specific Information
The trip was initiated by Mr.
Brown, concurred in by the oth
ers, to gain specific legal informa
tion as to the next step to be tak
en in the nomination and election
of candidates under the newly
adopted governmental plan.
An opinion remitted to the town
attorney from the Assistant At
torney General one month earlier
had been that the caucus could, or
should, be held here as before,
and as legalized for Southern
Pines by special act in 1951. This
opinion had been variously inter
preted, especially since the special
act called for nomination of a
mayor, which is dispensed with
under the council-manager “Plan
D.”
Mr. Pollock’s interpretation was
that the old form had to be fol
lowed. Mr. Brown couldn’t see it.
They decided to get the word from
the lion’s mouth—the Hon being
Attorney General Harry S. Mc
Mullen.
At their Raleigh appointment
Friday morning, Mr. McMullan
informed the group that, accord
ing to the law, the caucus and all
that went with it was out; that
candidates would have to file, and
quick—by 6 p.m. that day; and
that if more than 10 filed, a pri
mary must be held April 27.
Put Out the Word
On their return at 1 o’clock,
members of the group put out the
word by phone call, by visit and
on the air over WEEB.
He has led in many worthy causes
and humanitarian campaigns in pathArpH in W * t*' people
ii. i J r — gathered m knots un and down
the community and county. He the street or cornered likely H
zens to urge them to file.
Efforts to persuade a woman, or
women, to file were unavailing.
Those whe could, wouldn’t; those
who would couldn’t, for one rea
son or another.
Lacking time to coordinate, two
candidates filed from West South
ern Pines—the Rev. J. R. Funder
burk, who was a candidate in 1951,
and J. T. Saunders. Negotiating
later so as not to divide their
strength, they appeared together
Tuesday at the city hall for Saun-
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is first, vice-president of the
Moore County Tuberculosis as-
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this outstanding college group,
composed of 38 singers from
many North Carolina towns and
seven states. There will be no ad
mission charge, though a free
will offering will be taken to de
fray expenses. ■
'The program will be composed
of sacred music, ranging from
classics to-spirituals. It will be in
five parts in the order of a re
ligious service, starting with a
choral invocation and call to wor
ship, and ending with a benedic
tion and choral response. The of
fertory will be by the male quar
tet.
Paul Robinson, who will direct
the choir, is a native of Pennsyl
vania and a graduate of the Cur
tis Institute of Music at Philadel
phia. He was for several years
minister of rhusic at Centenary
Methodist church, Winston-
Salem, and last year, before com
ing to Wake Forest, was instruct
or of organ at the University of
Texas.
Alice Speas of Wake Forest is
accompanist.
PLAY BALL!
An interesting sports event
of last May will be repeated
here Wednesday—a baseball
game between the town mer
chants and high school team,
on the town field at 3:30 p.
m.
"Lineup" will be the same
as last year except for those
who have died of old age."
came the announcement from
the merchants. With a choice
of promising material, no sel
ection cf pitcher had been
made as yet.
The game will be held, as
before, for the fluid to buy
new bleachers for the field.
A good turnout is anticipated,
with many rooters on both
sides.