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fv I, f graduates, Class of 1953. Front row *SeUe Kiik Faircloth, Mary Johns Cameron^ oiv^w^Janet Hamel, *Sieger Herr, Elaine Johnson, Car- olyn Hoskins, Louise Johnson. Second row—Kenneth McCrimmon, Steve Choate, James Mat- ^ Moore Schools Gain 3 Teachers In State Allotment The Moore county school sys tem gained three teachers in the state'allotment just made on the basis of attendance during the past ■fy year, it was learned from Supt. H. Lee Thomas of Carthage. ' One elementary teacher will be added at Aberdeen, Robbins and Car thage. The allotment gives Moore county 198 teachers so far, but 12 more will be allotted as soon as a final decision is made on the open ing of the Farm Life and High- faUs schools. This will make a total of 210, as compared with 207 last year. In addition, if Farm Life re opens, and Highfalls stays open, as anticipated, the county will continue its custom of supplying Eaymond WiUi.ms, Ernest Pitts. Wo?dr„,rM;?K;i ““ «“"««>■■ Honald Eukets, D.vid Absent from picture, Edith Johnson Honor graduates. (Pilot Staff Photo) A v-riiui ocaii rn • You Are Democracy’s Hope,” Abrams *7. T—z: g Tells High School Graduating Class ^^”"°* „ *** .* “The fire is laid. How it win-* S. iNCSfrO “The fire is laid. How it will+ burn from, now on depends on you.” Thus Dr. W. Amos Abrams, speaker at the commencement ex ercises of the Southern Pines LOST: 1 TEACHER The ..stale ..allotment ..of teachers for the local school district is one less than last year. Wost Southern Pines is losing a high school teacher on account of poor attend ance during a portion of the school year just past, it was learned from Supt. A. C. Dawson. That was the only change. The 19S3-S4 allotment gives Southern Pines five high school teachers, 14 elemen tary; West Southern Pines, five high school, 11 elemen tary. each one, also Westmoore, a voca tional teacher. (Last year, instead of employing a vocational teacher, Highfalls used the salary to pay a commercial teacher.) Maintaining Farm Life and Highfalls as separate schools, ® rathet than consolidating them with Carthage, has been approved by their school districts, the coun ty board of education and county commissioners, said Mr. Thomas, and now remains only to be ap proved by the state board of edu cation. 'Since the General Assem bly passed a law enabling small schools (45-60 daily average at tendance) to stay open if the pa- trons and county support the ■ move, no hitch is expected. All teachers and principals in the Moore system were reappoint ed, and the principals have accept ed reappointment 100 per cent, the superintendent said. There have been no teacher resignations so far since two Carthage teachers, Mrs. Janie Middleton and Mrs. Rad Fry, gave notice in the spring, effective with the end of the I school year. The teachers have until August 2—30 days before the opening of school—to resign if they wish. 28 Enter Moore Championships On Municipal Courts Play started Wednesday night in the Fifth Annual Moore County Closed Tennis Championship, with 16 entered in the men’s di vision, 12 in the women’s. Actually, there are 15 men en tered, 13 women. However, Au drey West Brown, three-time win ner of the state singles title, was entered in the men’s events, .as those for the women offer her no competitive play. Finals have been tentatively set for Sunday night, and may run over into Monday, said W. F. Bowman, tournament chairman. The tournament is sponsored by the Sandhills Tennis association, second in the summer series of senior and junior events which will reach its climax with the Sandhills Invitational in Augusts Harry Lee Brown, Jr., and Mil dred Gruebl, defending cham pions, are seeded No. 1, with oth er seedings as follows: men—Mal colm Clark, No. 2; Ray Schilling, No. 3, and Page Choate, No. 4; women—Marion deCosta, No. 2; Millie Montesanti, No. 3, and Vickie Lupton, No. 4. Pairings for first-round play in singles events: Men—Harry Lee Brown, Jr., vs Steve Choate; Frank deCosta vs iDeryl Holliday; Ray Schilling vs Norris Hodgkins; Audrey West Brown vs Jimmie Garner; Mal colm Clark vs Helen Grey Smith; Col. A1 Belsma vs Leo Lupton; Page Choate vs Johnny Watkins; Kenneth Tew vs Wilbur Dixon. Women—Mildred Gruebl, bye; Patty Britt vs Patty Woodell; Vickie Lupton, bye; Frances Pear son vs Margaret Hobbs; Marion deCosta, bye; Mary Dell Matthews vs Cringer Woodell; Millie Monte santi, bye; Patty Hobbs vs Betty Jo Britt. The lis.ts include a number of the younger players who took part in the Moore County Schools tour- narnent two weeks ago, now rated sufficiently advanced to compete on the adult as well as the junior level. Committees assisting Chairman Bowman before and during the tournament were appointed by STA President Harry Lee Brown, Jr., with chairmen as follows: courts, Frank deCosta; seeding and tournament draw, Norris Hodgkins, Jr.; trophies, Don Moore; finance. Page Choate; membership and entries, Vickie Lupton; umpire, Malcolm Clark. High school at Weaver auditorium Tuesday night, indicated to the graduating class the path that Is opening up before them. “The fire had been laid wAh the fuel of love, the love of your parents and your friends,” he said, with the fuel of the patience and perseverance of ycur teach ers, with the fuel of your own endeavors while in school. You have been given a chance to learn industry, tolerance, to become ac quainted with the thoughts of the great men and women of the ages, to learn facts of science, history’ geography, mathematics, home economics, art. The fire has been well laid; now it is up to you!” Dr. Abrams, a graduate of Duke wjth postgraduate experience at Cornell, described himself as fully equipped, from his lifetime spent in the educational field, to give such advice. Opening his ad dress with a series of jokes, fanci fully attributed to various nota bles and students in the audience and on the platform. Dr. Abrams waxed serious as he spoke direct ly to the class of 1953, the 22 seniors seated before him. "Hope Of Democracy" “You are the hope of democra- (Continued on page 8) First Negro Home Ag^nt After Year’s Wait Further Tryouts For Little League Set Next Week Young Southern Pines baseball players, 30 strong, turned out Sat urday morning for tryouts for the local team in the Moore County Little League. No selections were made, but more tryouts were held during the week and there will be others Monday and Tuesday after noons at the school baU park at 5 o clock, said Coach Irie Leonard. All the boys who have tried out before, and any others, eight to 12 years of age, wanting to make the team should be on hand. Selec tions have to be made during the coining week as the Little League series will open Monday, June 15. The first game’will be Southern Pines vs. Pinehurst at Pinehurst, and Carthage vs. Robbins at Car thage. Other games will follow each Monday and Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. through August 1, rotat ing among the four towns. Aber deen is not included as it is al ready a member of another Little League. For the Southern Pines entry, 15 boys will be selected—five who are 12 years old, and will not be 13 before August 1; five 11 years old, and five 10 or younger. Those making the team will be outfitted in new uniforms provided by the Southern Pines Lions club, which is cooperating in the project with the summer recreation program. Mrs. Freda C. McNeill of Ra leigh was appointed by the coun ty commissioners .'Monday as Mcore’s first Negro home demon stration agent. She will assume her duties July 1 in headquarters to be set up in Carthage during this month. Her appointment came almost a year after the commissioners responded to the appeal of Negro citizens to secure a home agent for them. However, on applica tion to the State, they were ad vised that funds to pay the state’s share of the program cost were not available at that time. The funds are now available and Mrs. McNeill was selected for Moore by Mrs. Dazzelle Lowe, district agent for Negro home demonstra tion work, subject to the county commissioners’ approval. Highly recommended, Mrs. Mc Neill appeared before the com missioners at their regular meet ing at Carthage Monday. She was educated in the public schools of Raleigh, graduated from Shaw university there, and for the past nine years has been teaching home economics at the high school at Clarkton. In her new position she will be in State Ex tension Service work for the first time. Seven Named To Moore Committee For Bicentennial Fayetteville Plans Cape Fear Valley Historical Event A request presented to- the Mocre County commissioners in their regular Session at Carthage Monday heralded the newest in the way of historical celebrations in North Carolina—the Cape Fear Bi-Centennial, to be held at Fay- I etteville sometime in the sprine I of 1954. ^ j H. F. Seawell, Jr., placed before ' the commissioners the request of John A. Oates, Fayetteville attor ney and well-known historian of the Cape Fear Valley, that they name a committee of native-born citizens of the county to be the official Moore representatives in connection with the Bi-Centen nial. The citizens named, all of an cient and honorable Moore Coun- tji lineage, were R. E. Wicker and Gordon Cameron of Pinehurst; E. T. McKeithen and J. Talbot John son of Aberdeen; W^. H. Currie and H. F. Seawell, Jr., of Carth age, and James M. Pleasants of Southern Pines. Their duties,- as described in tfie official appointment, will be to> “do all in their power to promote and advertise, and to recall to all those who endeavor to record the history of the Cape Fear Valley, any and all of those things neces sary to the preservation of the great histcrical traditions of those pioneers who established Moore and Cumberland counties. . . . Moore county having been cut out of Cumberland, and many native sons of Moore now being descend ed from those' who established Cumberland county, these repre sentatives, are authorized and em powered to help in all ways pos sible in making the Bi-Centen nial at Fayetteville a greate suc cess and a blessing to the posteri ty of these great sections of North Carolina.” Accident Causes Senior To Miss Being In Picture FUN WILL BEGIN The summer recreation programi will start in South ern Pines Monday, June 15, with Irie Leonard again serv ing as director under the Municipal Recreation Com mission. Mr. Leonard, high school principal and coach, who headed the summer program, for the first time last year, said. a complete announce ment will be ready ifor next week's issue of The Pilot. Swimming, baseball, tennb, weekly dances, story hour, and classes in cooking and sewing, all of them popular in years past, will again star on the program for boys and girls. The program will also be held at the Same tim^ in West Southern Pines, as has been the customi in years past. Work Hushing Alon^ For Use Of Town Lake Friends of Town Help Out With Sand And Trucks Work is speeding ahead on the municipal lake, after a number of delays, and it should be ready for use by the week of, June 15, said Jack S. Younts, chairman of the project for the Municipal Rec reation Commission. The empty lakebed is being sanded to a depth of eight or 10 inches, with clean new sand car ried by a fleet of trucks ferrying back and forth all day long. The beach, extended some 400 feet longer than last summer, is also getting a new topcoat of sand. The water will be turned back into the lake when the job is fin ished, probably early next week, and from then on—it just depends on how long it takes to fill ’er up. With some 1,200 loads of sand to be hauled, the job bogged down when no dump trucks were found available, and the manpower in volved in loading and unloading regular trhcks seemed impossible to obtain—or for the Commission to pay fcr. However, said Mr. Younts, friends of the town and its young folks have come to the rescue, so that now it’s just a matter of a little time. The sand is being given by the Pleasants Sand Co., of Pinehurst, Bryan Sand Co. of Aberdeen and W. O. Mess, from his sandpit north of town. The two sand com panies are also lending loaders, and Mr. Moss is lending a bull dozer. Of the fleet of 16 trucks doing the hauling, 12 are being loaned by friends of the town who prefer to remain anonymous. The other four belong to the town, and the town crew is also pitching in (Continued on page 8) D. L. MADIGAN Madigan Elected President Of State Elks Association statewide honor came to the Southern Pines Elks lodge Satur- day with the election of its secre- tary, Col. Don L. Madigan as pres ident of the N. C. Elks association. The election marked the clos ing business session of the an nual convention held at the Southern Pines Country club. It came as an unusual honor in that Colonel Madigan had previ ously held no state offices other than as general chairman for two conventions, for which the local lodge was host. He has, however, been prominent in the activities cf the Southern Pines lodge, which is rated as outstanding among the 35 of the state. He was a founding member in 1946 and has served as secretary since that time except in 1950, when he was exalted ruler. He has headed numerous special projects of the lodge, and devoted much time to its affairs. Through attendance at district and state meetings he has become well known among Elks of the state. The new president is a native of Rhode Island, and has lived in Southern Pines since his separa tion from the Army in 1945. Dur ing World War 2 he was com manding officer of the 503rd Combat Team in the Pacific theatre. He is office manager in Southern Pines for the invest ments and securities firm of Rey nolds and Co. , Succession to the state presi dency of the Elks is usually made up a ladder of district and state offices, with the vice-president traditionally moving into the lead position. This time, however, the vice-president was unavailable for the office and the floor was thrown open for nominations. Colonel Madigan, nominated by John E. Cline of the local lodge, was elected on the first ballot. He succeeds Charlie Thomas of (Continued on Page 8) Zoning Case Continued While Lawyers Study Challenge To Validity Of Law The first town zoning violation sidered a separate offense. “Absent from - picture, Edith Johnson,” it says under the pho tograph of the high school gradu ating class at top of this page. Edith was there, in her grey cap and gown, when the picture was ready to be made. On the audi torium steps she tripped and fell, with an impact which cut her chin, injured her left arm and knocked her out. Instead of posing for her pic ture, she was rushed to Moore County hospital where several stitches were taken in her chin. It was thought at first her arm was fractured but no fracture showed cn the X-ray, the hospital said. It was, however, painfully.- twisted and bruised. She was al so suffering from shock. She was sufficiently recovered Monday night to appear in the senior play, turning in a highly creditable performance, and re ceived her diploma with her class Tuesday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Johnson of Manly avenue. case ever to come up in Moore recorders court hung up at its cutset Monday afternoon on a point of law which sent judge and lawyers alike diving into their statute books. They may come up with an an swer which will invalidate mu nicipal zoning ordinances all over the State, along with those of the Town of Pinebluff, which are im mediately involved. Judge J. Vance Rowe contin ued the Pinebluff case till nevt Monday for investigation of the point on which defense counsel, before entering a plea, moved to quash the indictment: that the Supreme Court in four similar cases rufed that the penalty was too vague, therefore void, thereby voiding the whole ordinance. Pinebluff town officials are charging Odes Spurlin with a misdemeanor, i. e., violation of the town zoning law by placing a house trailer on property restrict ed to- dwelling houses, and do ing so after he had been informed of the ordinance. Penalty for vio lation is set by the ordinance at •‘imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or a fine not exceeding $50,” each day of violation to be con- The general statute on which the ordinance is modeled—also those of many cities . and towns across the State—employs identi cal wording. However, said W. A. Leland McKeithen, defense ccunsel, it must be specific as to the imprisonment and|or fine. At least, that’s what the Supreme Court said in the precedent-set ting State vs. Crenshaw decision, and three subsequent ones, all in volving zoning laws. They were handed down in the period 1886 to 1900, but, McKeithen said, as far as h^ could find out they re mained the last word, overruling the 1871 statute. W. D. Sabiston, defense counsel, cited some law in his turn, to the effect that, where a town ordi nance is modeled directly on a state statute, it needn’t even men tion a penalty as the statute takes care of it. Also, he said, waving the Pinebluff town code, “If in validating one portion renders the whole thing invalid, not a bit of this book is any good.” McKeithen agreed, “That may be so.” Judge Rowe commented, “It looks now as though the motion (Continued on Page 8) Dewberry Pie Leads To Hope Of Industry’s Revival Prospects of revival of Moore county’s once-flourishing dew berry industry were enthusiasti cally surveyed by the county coiniTiissioners and a group of agricultural workers and rural leaders at a luncheon held at Car thage Monday. Grand climax of the luncheon, prepared and served by the home deinonstration staff in their kitch en in the courthouse, was dew berry pie made with berries grown on a test plot on the farm of J. B. McLecd near Carthage. The big, juicy berries were de clared by the luncheon guests to be as fine as any ever grown in the past in Sandhills soil, or metre so. They marked the introduction of the “Carolina Dewberry” strain, developed at the State College experimental station. The new strain is now being success fully raised by James and John Graham, of Cameron, in addition to Mr. McLeod, said E. H. Gar rison, County farm agent. H. W. Niswonger, State Exten sion horticulturist, a guest at the affair, tolij the gathering that the Carolina dewberries are believed to be more disease resistant than the old varieties, and will assure heavier yield. “If they prove to have permanent qualities as we believe, Moore county may again become a big producer,” he said. For years Moore was one of the leading dewberry counties, supporting at Cameron the largest dewberry market in the world. Then a mysterious blight struck the berries, or the soil, in which’ it appeared they could no longer thrive. The growers had to turn to other crops and the market' died out about four years ago. Also attending the meeting from State college was G. S. Ab- shier. Extension marketing spe cialist. It was revealed that the new strain has been developed by C. F. Williams of the Extension Service. While still in the ex perimental stage, it has come through its tests in actual pro duction this spring with flying colors.