ta-
WEAR A STAR
ON YOUR CAR
FOR SAFETY
WEAR A STAR
ON YOUR CAR
FOR SAFETY
Cooperative Deal
■ Assures Phones
For Cameron Area
Those Wishing
Service Asked To
Lei United Knoiv
S'
The Cameron area, which ovei-
the past few years has made main-
appeals for telephone service, vi’ill
have it within a few weeks, it v as
learned from the United Tele
phone Co. (formerly Central Caro
lina) this week.
Letters have been sent out to
potential subscribers in and
around Cameron, along US Higli-
way 1 from Cameron to Vass, and
in the White Hill section, asking
that they indicate at once if they
are going to want service. They
are asked also to state if they
want it as soon as the lines are
strung, or if they prefer to wait
till tobacco market time. This
foreknowledge will be of impor-
A tance in locating the spur lines
when the installation is being
made, the company said.
The area will be served out of
the Vass switchboard, with only
multi-party lines available at this
time.
The work has been pending
lor months—actually, for a year
or two—while efforts were made
to complete easements for poles
“along the right of way. Several
hitches developed, and the com
pany started afresh, this time
working out a cooperative deal
with the Carolina Power & Light
Co. This was completed last week.
The lines will be strung on CP&L
poles, and the power company
will replace a number of poles
which are too short to carry both
the light and telephone lines, and
j still provide the necessary clear
ance. As soon as the taller poles
are installed, and the response
from the letters has been ascer
tained, the work will start.
The Cameron Lions club has
promoted the project in its com
munity as a civic service, and the
118 names are from a list submit
ted by the club as potential sub
scribers. Of these, 73 persons are
^reported to have said definitely
“^they want telephones.
Extending the service from
Vass to Cameron will cost the
company approximately $9,000,
it was learned. It will add con
siderably to the cost to keep on
adding circuits later, and United
is asking that all who will want
service within the next few
months, even if they don’t want
^ it to begin right away, let them
.f know now. '
AN INVITING SPOT—the Frank de Costas’
home-built swimming pool. When this picture
was made Sunday afternoon the owners weren’t
visible—they were playing a tennis match with
a team from Chapel Hill. In the pool, happily
dunking, we found the Stanley Austin family.
That’s Stanley and Georgeanne, with baby Sal
ly; in wading pool, Don Thompson, with Becky
Austin. Don is the uncle of Sally and Becky.
For more about the pool, and other pictures
see Page 8. (puot staff Photo)
July 4 Will Be
General Holiday
Practically all local businesses
plan to observe a full holiday
July 4, with the regular Wednes-
..day afternoon closings both next
‘^eek and the week after, accord
ing to information gathered by
The Pilot.
This is the recommendation of
the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce thrcugh its better
business bureau, headed by Miss
Katherine McDonald.
For a time there was some
question about what the grocery
stores would do. Since the holi-
“day falls on a Saturday, their
busiest day of the week, some
store managers said at first they
might stay open Saturday, clcB-
ing Monday instead. However,
following conferences with each
other, in consideration for their
employees the Saturday closing
was decided on by all the stores,
with one exception.
Other stores, firms and offices
twill also shut down for the day,
giving owners, managers and em
ployees alike a long holiday
weekend. Exceptions will be such
businesses as restaurants and
service stations, closing of which
would constitute a hardship for
the traveling public.
Many local citizens are expected
to take advantage cf the holiday
weekend to go to the beaches, the
Jirountains or fishing lakes, or to
spend Saturday at the countywide
July 4 celebration at Carthage.
LITTLE LEAGUE
The Southern Pines Little
Lions continued their unbrok
en viqtory streak in their
third game of the Little
League series Monday. They
defeated Robbins 4-3 on the
home field.
Wednesday, the return
game at Robbins was rained
out. re-scheduled Thursday
(too late for this issue).
Next home game will be
with Carthage Wednesday,
5:30 p.m. The county seat
lads defeated Pinehurst 22-0
Monday. Rained oUt Wednes
day.
Great Scottish Lady, Chieftain
of AlacLeods, Will Visit Jtloore
Scott Addresses
West End Lions
At Dinner Meeting
Young Mother Of
Five Crushed To
Death By Tractor
A young mother of five children
was fatally injured last Friday
when a tractor she was operating
on the home farm in the Need
hams Grove community, in upper
Moore, overturned.
Mrs. Alton Needham, 31, was
driving the tractor lor her hus-
bahd, who was operating the
scraper for the opening up of a
drainage ditch. As her husband
watched horrified, the tractor up
set, throwing her off and crush
ing her beneath its weight.
He tcok her at once to Dr. Van-
ore’s clinic in Robbins, but she
was pronounced dead on arrival,
of a crushed chest and other in
juries. Coroner Ralph Steed ruled
the death accidental, with no in
quest necessary.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon in Needhams
Grove church, conducted by the
Rev. Martin L. Fogleman, with
burial lollcwing in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are her husband; two
daughters, Ina and Wanda, and
three sons, Darrell, Donnie and
Doyle, of the home; her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Coy Comer of Ether
Rt. 1; seven sisters, Mrs. Ollie
Williamson, Mrs. Fred Yow and
Miss Betty Comer of Ether Rt.
1; Mrs. Clarence Caveness, Mrs.
Colon Kennedy and, Mrs. J. B.
Ritter of Robbins Rt. 1, and Mrs.
Jack Upton of Asheboro; five
brothers, Tracy, Bill, Arnold and
Carroll Come?, sll of Ether Rt.
1, and Ted Comer, of Robbins Rt.
FINE GOING!
Members of the Vass Lions
club, sponsors for Ihe second
year of the annual Maternal
Welfare Tag Day in Vass,
reached into their pockets at
last week's meeting and pull
ed out $18 to add to the
$22.50 already collected, up
ping the total to $40.50.
This brings Vass to fifth
highest position in the county
in this drive, with two of the
four leaders being less than $3
ahead.
Speaking at the eighth anni
versary celebration of the West
End Lions club last Thursday
evening, former Governor W. Kerr
; Scott said that he considered
making it possible for the rural
churches to be active 12 months
during the year”the outstanding
accomplishment of his administra
tion as governor.
"What we need most is Chris
tion leadership,” he said as he
pointed out that “78 per cent of
our church membership belong to
rural churches.” With the good
road program in the rural com
munities he said that the “rural
church has come into its
more than ever.”
He said that some had called
him a “spendthrift,” but that
when he went into office as gov
ernor that the State had a sur
plus of $13 million and that with
all the schools, roads and hospi
tals that were built during his
administration, there was a sur
plus of $43 million when he went
out of office.
The plain-spbaking former gov
ernor voiced no criticism toward
the Umstead administration but
commended it for its attention! to
the primary road system. “I think
the present administration is do
ing right in giving attention to
the primary roads,” he said.
“We got a lot of things done
which I think benefited all the
people. If I did any one thing, it
was needling the people into do
ing things,” Scott told the group,
as he referred to telephones and
power for the rural people, as
well as his criticism of civic
clubs. “I think the Lions clubs
are doing more than any other
civic clubs,” he said, adding that
the Ruritans were a young or
ganization but seemed to be serv
ing well.
“We are turning things back to
private industry and that is what
we should do,” but he added that
“we ought to be careful and pre
serve those good things that help
ed us during the past 20 years.”
In North Carolina the' “biggest
single thing that we are wasting
is our water power,” he said, ad
ding, “We neglect it and we
waste it.” In advocating the har
nessing of water resources Scott
said. “There is no question but
that we need to get flood control
on the Cape Fear river.
We have got to preserve our
water supply. Anything that is
here ought not to be wasted. I
have never believed in wasting
anything in my liife.”
Continuing aboiit water, he told
the group that, “'it pays to irri-
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Lady Flora MacLeod
Will Speak At Old
Beihesda Homecoming
The word will soon go out to all
the MacLec-ds, or McLeods, or
however you' spell them,‘to don
the plaid, for the Chieftain of
their clan is coming to see them.
Lady Flora MacLeod, of Dun-
vegan Castle, Scotland, one of the
great ladies and humanitarians
of the United Kingdom, will visit
the Sandhills to meet with the
descendants of the,Scottish pion
eers—especially the MacLeods
(or McLeods!).
J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen,
chairman for some 25 years of the
annual Homecoming Day at Old
Bethesda church, said he has re
ceived word from Lady Flora that
she will attend the homecoming as
a special guest and speaker on
its traditional day, the last Sun
day in September. She asked him
also to arrange a meeting of Mac
Leods (McLeods) at Flora Mac
donald college, with a view to
ward organizing the clan in the
Sandhills.
Two local SpotSj^ pioneer-de
scendants, have visited Lady
Flora in her historic castle and
extended her a warm invitation
to come. These were Mr. Johnson,
president of the Moore County
Bar and past president of the
Moore County Historical associa
tion, and Edwin T. McKeithen,
foriner administrator of the
Moore County hospital, both of
whom made trips abroad in the
past y^ar or two.
They describe Lady Flora as a
‘lady and a scholar,” a vigorous
and forceful personality despite
her 74 years, and a speaker of
charm and wit.
She became 29th chieftain of
the Clan MacLeod when, for the
first time in 1,000 years, the male
line of descent failed. Her late
husband was the publisher of the
London Times, and she is a close
friend of Sir Winston Churchill
and other “greats” of the realm.
She became a Dame of the British
Empire by appointment of Queen
Elizabeth II at the recent corona-
tic-n.
Among many projects which
fill her life, the one to which i
she is sai^ to be most devoted is
that of maintaining the unity and
strength of the Clan MacLeod.
She has organized the Clan in
Canada and elsewhere and was
shocked to find there was no such
organization in North Carolina,
despite the fact that there are
many descendants of the historic
family here. She is coming to
attend to that matter personally,
having drastically rearranged the
itinerary of her U. S. trip to do
so, and all MacLeods (or Mc
Leods), native and strayed, are
urged to make their plans now to
be present, Mr. Johnson said.
Fire Chief Fowler
Elected President
Sandhills Group
Wadesboro Dep't
Host To Volunteers
In Annual Meeting
Harold B. Fowler, chief of the
Southern Pines volunteer fire de
partment, last week was elected
president of the Sandhills Fire
men’s association, comprising a
membership of 42 volunteer fire
departments in central Carolina.
Mr. Fowler was elevated to the
top spot from the vice presidency
at the association’s annual con
vention, held at Wadesboro last
Wednesday. (
The election returned the pres
jdency to Southern Pines for the
first time since the association
was formed in 1926. The late D
D. “Dune” Cameron, who was ac
tive in its organization, served as
first president.
One of the quarterly meetings
slated before the next annual
convention will be held in South
ern Pines, President Fowler said
this week.
Other officers elected were
John C. Wallace of Troy, vice
president,^ and R. E. Leatherbury,
Hamlet, secretary-treasurer (a re
election).
Sandhills Delegation
Representing the Southern
Pines department at the conven
tion were Mr. Fowler, Resident
Fireman Frank H. Kaylor and
Mrs. Kaylor, Joe Garzik, C. T.
Dunn, Jr., and G. R. Currie. Oth
er Sandhills departments among
some 30 in attendance were Pine-
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Fight Waged To Save
Steeds P.O. And Route
Patrons Ignored;
No Economy Seen
In Federal Move
BLUE CLAN
The annual Blue Clan re
union will be held Sunday at
Lakeview# in the pine grove
between US Highway. 1 and
the lake near the home of Mrs.
Fannie Blue Coore, according
to information from H. Clif
ton Blue of Aberdeen, clan
president.
Dinner will be Spread pic
nic style, at 1 o'clock. An in
vitation is extended all the
Blues, kinsmen and friends to
attend and bring along a
well-filled basket for the pic
nic dinner.
J
Central Carolina
Starts New Era
Under New Name
Local Lasses Will
Seek Beauty Title
In Carthage Event
At least two local young ladies
will be entered as candidates in'
the beauty contest at the July
Fourth celebration at Carthage
next Saturday. These are Miss
Patsy Dupree, sponsored by the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce, and Miss Johnsie Fergu
son, by Ferguson’s Sandwich
Shop.
Others may have sponsors by
the contest date. Southern Pines
has had several beauty winners
in the past, the last one being
Miss Suzann Burns in 1951. The
1952 beauty queen was Miss
Sylvia Davis of Carthage, who
will crown the new winner at the
Grand Ball in the evening.
The day will start with a band
concert and speech by Congress
man C. B. Deane at 9 a. m., fol
lowed by an all-day progranj of
street events, beauty contest, par
ade, baseball game, stringed con
cert and ball. Several thousand
annually attend the countywide
celebration, sponsored by the Car
thage Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
Central Carolina Telephone Co.
this week annonuced a change of
ownership, also a change of name.
To be known henceforth as
United Telephone Company of the
Carolines, Inc., it starts life anew
as a unit of United Utilities, Inc.,
third largest independent tele
phone holding company in the na
tion, fourth largest of them all.
The change will make no dif
ference in the local staff, set-up
or expansion program, said John
E. Cline, vice-president of the
Carolinas concern, which serves
27 communities in North and
South Carolina with headquar
ters in Southern Pines. He ex
pressed his gratification in the
change, saying, “It will be a fine
thing for our company and the
communities it serves.” United
Utilities is a $62 million concern,
about four times as large as the
former holding company. South
ern Investors Co. of Chicago.
The deal by which United Util
ities took over 66.69 per cent of
Investors’ common stock, setting
up a new holding company with
headquarters at Kansas City, Mo.,
actually took place last April, said
Mr. Cline. A merger of the sepa
rate units is now under way. As
far as the local firm is concerned,
it became official last Thursday
when the State Utilities Commis
sion approved the change of name
and financing plan.
First mortgage bonds in the
amount of $1,400,000, bearing four
per cent interest, will be issued in
the name of the Carolinas unit, to
be sold to the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. and Mutual Insur
ance Co. of New York. The pro
ceeds will go to satisfy some of its
obligations to Investors Tele-
(Continued on page 4)
The 55-year-old post office at
Steeds has been wiped out by
order of the Post Office Depart
ment, despite bitter protests by
its patrons, who are continuing
their desperate battle.
Since June 1 the Steeds patrons
have been seryed out of Ether.
The arrival of a postal inspector
to make a survey of the situation
this week encouraged them to
feel that Washington had at last
heard their outcries, and that
some compromise might yet be
worked out.
So far their appeals for a pub
lic hearing have been entirely ig
nored. Letters, telegrams and a
petition signed by 100 per cent of
the families affected have evoked
no reply from Postmaster General
Summerfield. Names on the pe
tition represented 325 families,
or approximately 1,200 persons.
The change was billed as an
economy move of the Republican
administration. However, the pa
trons say no economy has been
effected. In this they have the
support of Congressman C. B.
Deane, who has worked hard at
their side for retention of the post
office. Deane worked just as hard,
against protests as intense, to
close post offices in Wilkes coun
ty and other places in his'district
when it meant a saving to the
government.
Same Route. Carrier
Both Steeds and Ether are
small communities in Randolph
county, a short distance north of
the Moore County line. From
Steeds extended' a 65-mile rural
route, cutting across Moore Coun
ty’s northwest corner and serv
ing some patrons in both Ran
dolph and Montgomery. This
route, extended to 70 miles, is
now being worked out of Ether.
Since Ether had no rural route be
fore, and no new highway post
office route is being set up, as
was the case in ^Wilkes, they
see no saving in cost. The same
carrier, FarreU Auman, is carry
ing the mail as before.
The fight to save Steeds began
early in May when the retirement
of Mrs. Velon L. Auman, postmas
ter for the past 20 years, became
imminent. Word got about that
when Mrs. Auman retired May
31, no hew postmaster would be
appointed and the office would
be moved to Ether, which none
of the patrons desired.
((Continued on page 8)
Everett Walker,
City Inspector,
Passes Suddenly
Everett V. Walker, 69, Southern
Pines building inspector, died sud
denly at his home, 210 South Ben
nett street, following a heart at
tack Wednesday night.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at Hackensack, N. J.,
with burial in New York cemetery
there.
He was born in Areola, N. J.,
September 8, 1883, the son of
Samuel and Emily Vorrhis Walk
er and was educated in Hacken
sack. He was an architectural en
gineer.
He was associated for many
years as an engineer with the Na
tional Fireproofing Co. of Pitts
burgh, Pa. On his retirement in
1948, he and his wife moved to
Southern Pines. He was appoint
ed city building inspector in Oc
tober 1950.
He was a member of the Church
of Wide Fellowship, and of Ma
sonic Lodge No. 267 of Hacken
sack.
Surviving are his wife; one
daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Peterson,
of Ridge Park, N. J.; two grand
children, and one sister, Mrs.
James A. Van Valen, of Hacken
sack.
$25 Reward Offered
Southern Pines? flower thief and!He took it early in the morning,
desecrator of graves has been at went back for it soon after 5
work again, and this time there is o’clock.
a reward offered for information
leading to his discovery.
Clyde Tew, 380 West Pennsyl
vania avenue, said this week he
will give $25 for information lead-,
ing to the identification of the
person who broke off and stole a
pink begonia Sunday from his
father’s grave at Mt. Hope ceme
tery. 'This information should be
given to Mr. Tew personaUy, or to
the city police.
The large, beautiful potted
plant, bearing several blooms,
was Mrs. Tew’s. It formerly be
longed to her mother and was
much cherished. Mr. Tew took it
to the cemetery to adorn his
father’s grave for Father’s Day. been so violated.
His brother was there about 5
and told him the flower was there
then, and “looked beautiful.” A
short time later Mr. Tew found
only the pot in which it had stood,
the earth, root and broken stem.
The flower had been rudely tom
away. ,
This is one of several instances
of flower theft at the cemetery
during the past year, though in
the other cases known to • The
Pilot, azaleas planted there in
memory of the dead, near the
graves, had been dug up and re
moved. The graves of Mrs. P. T.
Kelsey, Joe C. Thomas, Jr., and’
Henry and Duncan Cameron, Jr.,
brothers killed in service, have
“Operation Impact”
Almost 50 more names were
added, and stars distributed, this
week in “Operation Impact,”
wlpch is designed to slow down
the summertime speeder through
a pledge and five-pointed symbol.
At the VFW Post Home, Com
mander Louis Scheipers reported
30 names added during the week,
bringing the total of signatures to
115.
At the Highland Pines Inn,
where the movement sponsored
by Tactical Air Command started
and branched out locally, 16
names were added to the 112 al
ready reported. Grand total of lo
cal drivers pledging their cars to
safe driving through Labor Day—
243.
The public is invited to drop in
at either place, sign their name
and secure a windshield star—
“but only if they mean it,” lead
ers at both places said. “Operation
Impact” is strictly an honor sys
tem. Police approve, and say they
can already tell the difference.
Jimmy Lane of the Pinehurst
Lions club is presenting “Opera
tion Impact” to the members this
week, and the expectation is that
this group will sponsor the move
ment in Pinehurst.
Commander Scheipers has ap
pointed Tom McKenzie chairman
for the VF'W, and he plans to take
steps to secure cooperation of oth-
p Southern Pines organizations
in “Operation Impact.”