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Page EIGHT -Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday. July 3. 19S3 ■I . - * * J ^MwM * a iiiifeii### ^Wili «;4#r ' 4^; ? a. Uv ^ ^ f LION PRESIDENT David W. Whitehead, left, newly elected by the Southern Pines Lions club, receives his gavel of office from J. D. Peacoc , of Lumberton, district governor-elect, who con ducted the installation of officers Friday night at the Southern Pines Country club. Other officers in the picture are, from left, /=: Bob Arey, secretary-treasurer; Henry Claytop, tail twister; Don Traylor, Bill Benson, vice pres idents, and James Clayton, lion tamer Not m the picture; David Gamble, vice-president, and directors W. L. Baker, M. R. Mills, Elliott Shear- on, H. M .Patterson. (Pilot Staff Photo) Local Teen-Agers Arrested In Theft Of Thompson Auto BALL GAME Two 18-year-old boys, Harry Peterson of Southern Pines and Billy Walker of Manly, were ar rested Friday night in a car offi cers said had been stolen from the parking area behind the Burns Building on Broad street. The car belonged to Clarence O. Thompson, resident of the building, who had left by train for New York City earlier that evening to be gone for two or | three days. Someone notified city police that the boys were seen “fooling with the car,!’ it was learned from Chief C. E. Newton. Night Offi cers Backlund and Marks found the car had disappeared and, cruising around, sightedj the car on Morganton road about 10:45. Walker was driving. A baseball game will be held on the town ball field at 3:30 p. m. Saturday, July 4, presenting the Southern Pines town team against a team from Norman. This will be the first pub lic appearance of the town team, which is made up of young businessmen and high school and college youths, who have been practicing to gether Wednesday afternoons under the summer recreation program. The public is invited to at tend. There will be no admis sion charge, though “the hat will be passed.” Donations dropped into the hat will help finance the team through the summer season. 1 new queen has been selected After the queen has been chos en, there will be a brief pause for lunch. The afternoon program will get under way at 1 o’Aock when the parade will form at the Carthage elementary school build ing. It will start on its way through town promptly at 1:30. In the parade will be the mill tary band, color guard, the quep and her court. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, members of the Carthage Little League team and floats from many business firms and or ganizations throughout the coun ty. Hoover Carter is in charge of I the parade. A softball game on the high school athletic field will follow the parade, pitting an all-star ag gregation composed of players from over the county against the I Pinehurst Legion club. At 4:30 p.m. the lucky-name the resort and tourist interests. Many inquiries are still handled at the town office, through this work has been largely returned in late years to the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Burns is a member of the Sandhills Kiwanis club and served as i^s president in 1943. He has been active in the Southern Pines Elks Lodge, and has served it as director and in other offices. He has been on the board of directors of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. for a number of years. He is a member of the International City Managers association. He has been active in local golfing circles, was a member of the Sandpipers club during its 25 years of existence and is on the golf team of the Southern Pines Country club. His municipal responsibilities were increased over the years un til the title of clerk-treasurer was misnomer. He was in effect a city manager, though under the old form of local government he had neither the title nor the full authority of this office. The town’s water system and business have been under his di rect supervision, along with the opening up and maintenance of streets, the cemetery, fiscal and bond matters, and a wide run of other town tasks. He has served as secretary to the town board throughout his tenure, and also secretary to the school board. He is married to the former Katherine (Kay) Shepherd, of Faribault, Minn., and has a son, Howard F. (Scottie) Burns, Jr., by his first marriage, now serving with the Air Force in Casablanca. The Burns family has always made its home in the apartment above the town hall. It was im possible for Mr. Burns to keep office hours, as he was accessible to the public night and day to give services, meet situations and cope with complaints. One feature of his new position especially pleasing to them both is the new, separate, home. M I '■4 \' CITY MANAGER (Continued from Page 1) HOT WORK. Men on the ground pull h^ard to get the high- voltage line into place, in a temperature of well over 100 m the sun ^Rear views shown above are those of Howard Fuquay and Page Choate. Just visible are the arms and gloved hands of Fra4 Leake Waddell, janitor at the Southern Pines division of fice wh^was hnpressed into service along with practicaUy every SeT able-bodied employee of the CP&L. (Photo Geo. Sherrerd) Sandhills Swelter As Linemen Labor Trophy Donated By Mrs. Barnum of Southern Pines. ^ I In Richmond, he has the job of drawing for the grand prize of the ^oy^ing with 40 city departments, festival will be held, as climax to a total budget of approxi- the afternoon program. mately $30,000,000, to assist each During the ball game there will i-jja preparation of their bud- be two hours of old-fashioned hill- see that the money is billy music in the high school au- gpg^t wisely and well, ditorium, furnished by the “Drift-1 references and others checked to The boys said FLTA Toiimevling Playboys.” well-known musi-L ^ere fully riding ^(^^$300' ^ 1 A. 1 OUF CJ | aggregation from Sanford. I v.Tr +v»o pnnnpil comniitte( cal aggregation from Sanford. I, council committee headed „„ ^ „ 1 . , At 8 o’clock in the evening, in p m Yoit Gilmore. bond they were taken to Carthage a trophy to be known^ lup the new McConnell warehouse, by y endorsements, jail, but each made bond later in Sandhill Trophy, for award in the celebration will end with the M^ll | cuiminVam has no engi- the week for their appearance in annual Eastern Carolina -Tennis independence BaU. Music jence. However, in recorders court Monday, and tournament, has been ^nated in ^g jm-nished by Jimmie Per- j„„ting^ the interviews, the were released. behalf of the Sandhill Tennis as- jjig Orchestra from Bur- yjjj.ji members came to the con- Peterson is under a 12-month sodation by Mrs. Paul T. liar- featuring Miss Betty Ann I ^.j^gy could not get a sentence, suspended for two years num. Knight as vocalist. trained administrator and also an under probationary conditions. The announcement was made Jaycee club, through their engineer rolled up into one, and imposed in March 1952 following by Harry Lee Brown, Jr., Prep- p^ggi^gnt, ’Thomas Caddell, ex- ^gcMed that, for the first city a similar escapade. With two other dent, at a meeting of the assoaa- Lgj^d a most cordial invitation to manager, with the organization vouths he was arrested for taking tion’s directors at the home of Mr. people of Moore county to p- job ahead, the administrator ^ oar from McDonald-Page Motor land Mrs. Frank deCosta Monday 1^—3 .uj.. on_,iov roioV>rnfinn. bid- i u Mr P.nnnigham’s Investigation night. The directors expressed tend this all-day celebration, bid- ^ould be best. Mr. Cunnigham’s ding all, “Come early, stay late, experience in fiscal, tax and cost matters was also highly regarded by the council. Mr. Cunningham gave as his reasons for wishing to come to Southern Pines his desire to re turn to North Carolina and his brought other charges and he was great pleasure in the gift, which | and"meet your friends here, convicted for auto larceny and will be a permanent trophy for several counts of larceny of auto winner of the women’s doubles. “ , radios tires, hubcaps and rims, will be given for the first time ROBBERY At the time of the trial Judge at this year’s tournament, to be (Continued from Paee 1) Rowe explained the terms-of Pro- held at Durham the week of Au- ^ ^ S' 1. a —, o, a u uV to you,” Walker was aasocktion, and the mother of tan ohureb, alter the clergyman | ;»edV the ease. TrUg ~e —ss had > its founding. Mrs. Noyes now lives j to Charlotte. The Negro had p^^^ in California. The Sandhills association, a member of the ECTA, had been asked for a trophy to help fill out SS and her family lives there. , . .J Important Factors give him a ride | opening Wednesday’s meet- ABC Store Will Move To Site On E. Connecticut The Southern Pines ABC store will move from its present loca tion on West New Hampshire avenue to the O’Callaghan build ing on East Connecticut, on or about July 15. The move is occasioned by the fact that its present quarters in the city-owned police station building are badly in need of re pairs; also, more storage space is badly needed, the county ABC board reported. The O’Callaghan annex, built as a showroom in the spring of 1951, of modern fire-resistant brick construction, is being remod eled by O’Callaghan’s, Inc., to suit their new tenant. Ample stor age space is afforded at the rear. The ABC store has been in the old frame building, which also houses the police station, since it first opened in 1937. For the past couple of years its need for addi tional storage space, also some safety improvements, have been disccussed by the city fathers, and, when the roof recently be gan to leak, the town council had an inspection made, with estimat ed cost of repairs. ’The estimate came to about $7,000. Regretfully, the council decided this was too much to spend on the old place, since a new police sta tion with jail, etc., are among municipal buildings the town hopes^ to build in the foreseeable future. The move will cost the town some $1,500 annually, in rent paid by the ABC store. the list of awards. Members of the local group regularly play in the tournaments. Discussion was held at the Mon day night meeting of the Junior Sandhill Invitational, to be held July 22-26, and the Sandhill Invi tational, slated in August. “-""'rr:—Z"': \mg, Mayor Clark summarized ed a pistol on the minister, beat- g^w as the most impor- en him up and thrown him out L |jg ggjjgidered in the beside the road unconscious. When gjjgjge These he listed as ability he came to, his car, watch and operate the town’s affairs well wallet containing $8 were gone. g business standpoint; Descriplion Tallies knowledge of, and training under. The description of the missing the city manager form of govern- man, even to the clothing—green'ment; a wide vision m regard to BENEDICT (Continued from Page 1) topher, four years old. Benedict attended Southern Pines High school for two years, 1927-1929, continuing his educa tion at the Loomis School, Wind sor, Conn., and Princeton univer sity, Princeton, N. J. He returned and was active and white sport shirt with blue- jean pants—tallied with the de scription Newton had secured of Lucius Chambers. From the man’s effects he gathered information that he was from BishopviUe and had at one time been employed at hotel in Washington. He had also lived in Southern Pines some 15 years ago. He is about 30 years old. . Mecklenburg and BishopviUe police cooperated in the search which resulted in locating Cham bers, though Mr. Lyerly’s condi to Pinebluff, and was active in ^“"’jg ^ooTserious for him to at- the civic and political life of the county. He was serving on the Pinebluff board of town commissioners when he entered military service in May, 1942. Assigned to the Air Force, he spent about three and a hall years in service, including two and a half years in England where he was with the pubUc re lations section at headquarters of the Eighth Air Force’s 3rd Air Division. Mr. and Mrs. Benedict are mem bers of Emmanuel Episco^ial church. Mr. Benedict is a former member of the Pinebluff Lions club and in Sanford was a mem ber of the Junior Chamber Of Commerce. He and his family wiU continue to live in Pinebluff for the present. tempt identification. He was beat en severely about the head, par tially blinded, and most of his teeth were knocked out. CELEBRATION (Continued from Page 1) year’s event, wiU reign until the BURNS (Continued from Page 1) ern Pines municipal position from Raleigh, where he had been in business, in October 1925. S. B. Richardson was mayor at that tithe. During his first five years here he served also as part-time sec retary of the Chamber of Com merce, under the presidencies of E. C. Stevens, Frank Buchan and Dr. MacBrayer. The town office remained until recent years the center lor dis semination of local publicity, and hundreds of news stories, pictures and advertising items were sent out by Mr. Burns in promotion of the community’s needs for present and future, plus a talent for pub lie relations. Among the final candidates^ these capacities were so well dis tributed that the choice was not an easy one. There was an em barrassment of riches. More than 100 applications for the position have been received by Mr. Gilmore’s committee since advertisements were first placed in suitable publications the mid dle of May. These aU received careful screening, by the commit tee and, as the eliminations pro gressed, by the fuU council. The decision as to which ones should be invited to come lor personal interview was made by the coun cil, which agreed to pay hall the expenses of the trip for those liv ing far away. Lee Turned Down The lour men interviewed this week were selected at a meeting held last Thursday night, at which the council decided it could not meet the conditions of its first choice, Marvin W. Lee of Norfolk, Va. Mr. Lee was so notified. Mr. Lee was interviewed early in June and was offered the job. He at first set the salary of $5,800, then, in a letter written from Nor folk the following week, upped this to $7,000. This was the coun cil’s top figure, to be offered only to someone with considerable ac tual experience as a city manager, or the ceiling for raises to be giv en a less experienced man after a period of successful service here. (Continued from Page 1) was located as between there and Aberdeen, though just where, along that line through swamps and woods, nobody could say for sure. Alternate switching anrange-’ ments with adjoining districts got the juice flowing again into Car thage, West End and part of Pine hurst. These lines were not harm ed by the break. In about 25 min utes, before anyone got very un comfortable, both Moore County hospital and St. Joseph of the Pines were getting their power through the Pinehurst feeder line. The transmitter of Radio Station WEEB, also on the Pinehurst line, resumed broadcasting—though in few places could radios be cut on to hear it. Temperature Goes Up The temperature went up to ward 100—well past that, in the sun. Refrigerators started slowly defrosting, and the motorists hunting gas began to fume. Through a swampy jungle near West End engineers, servicemen and crewmen o# the CP&L, puU- ed in from their jobs all over the area, began to converge on the trouble spot. They patrolled the cross-coun try line as best they could, though their cars and trucks could not get near it in many places. Lunch time came and went as they strug gled through the brush. It was steaihing hot. After an hour or two they dis covered the wreckage and dead, fallen line. In Southern Pines District Man ager Ward Hill received the news and started directing operations via two-way radio, like a general directing the strategy of a major battle. From 11:16 a. m. his phone had been ringing, with queries pouring in as to what was the trouble. In this community, as in all the rest, the citizens were sud-. denly missing terribly something they had come to take pretty much for granted—the miracle of electricity in daily use. Everything Paralyzed Air-conditioning was off. Ice cases began to lose their chill. In the drugstores, the ice cream started melting. In the restaurants and homes, stoves wouldn’t cook. Said Mr. Hill, a World War 2 veteran, later, “I’d rather be back Hill said. “We will try to find out so that it won’t happen again. Maybe we will never know.” He said the break was the kind cf thing every power man dreads, and that it was unique in his ex perience. “We know all sorts of things can happen. We don’t guar antee uninterrupted power. We just do our best, all the time, to see that it doesn’t get interrupt ed.” This week’s interruption was rated by local power men , as the worst in their recollettion. It was the longest in the Sandhills in re cent history. The Robbins MiUs at Aberdeen, the Sandhills largest industry, happened to be closed for its one- week vacation period so it was not affected. No cases of hardship of grave consequence were immediately reported. One man suffered an asthma at tack when his air-conditioning Vi^ent off. Fears were felt for the effects on the contents of well- filled deep-freezes—though if the owners left these closed during the failure there should be no spoilage, Mr. Hill said. Deep freezes stay cold, he stated, for some 20 hours if the owners don’t keep opening the doors to look inside. The power failure was good for some types of business. One mo- tcrist said that, leaving for Ral eigh fearly Tuesday afternoon, he found he couldn’t get gas from the dead pumps in Southern Pines so drove on up U. S. Highway 1 looking for a station. He stopped at one after another and found they were all dead, too. At Lake- view it was the same story, then at Vass and Cameron., His tank, nearly empty when he started, be gan operating on a deficit, and he knew that couldn’t continue very long. Finally he stopped at a coun try store which had no pumps, though he saw a gasoline engine. He figured he could buy some gas out of a tin can. He was right. But he had to wait a while. There was quite a line of cars ahead of him. in Europe getting shot at in a USAFAGOS (Continued from Page 1) commodations at Pope AFB, Fort that B-17 than go through all again.” Danger in Swamp The two dozen sweating men in the swamp had to move slowly—r there was danger in climbing the broken poles, removing the de bris piled like atom-bomb rubble. Their engineefs sought new ways of supplying power to the stricken areas. Electricity was routed into a part of Aberdeen over a line from Raeford. Directing this op- ration, Mr. Hill said, “I breathed a prayer.” You never know, in such makeshift arrangements, if the line is going to be able to cope with the sudden pull on the pow er — hundreds of refrigerators, lights, pumps, fans, air condition ers, stoves, deep freezes, ma chines, small and large, starting up again. The line stood up all right, but looked as though it might not be able to keep on, so after a while a part of the load ^as removed, for safety’s sake. That was why, in part of Aber deen, the lights went on--and in a little while went off again. Through various devices, each one entered into with great cau tion and delicacy, segments of the sweltering towns got their power back again. These included part of Aberdeen again, at 4 o’clock, and, at two minutes to 5, Southern Pines west of Broad street. It was 7:33 p. m. before the restoration was complete in Southern Pines, 7:55 in the final areas—Cameron, Lakeview and Vass. Temporary Job Even so, the job was just temporary one, said Hill. Going without lunch and supper, the men re-strung the broken stumps of the old poles, clearing the ground' only about 14 feet. New poles are to be put in at once. But in the meantime—the power Bragg. Arrangements made with the Stitzer company for occu pancy of the building, largest re sort hotel in Southern Pines, were mutually satisfactory, and the "in terim” has stretched out into a period of years. Staffed with officers who gain ed their experiences in various theatres of war, including the Ko rean, it provides intensive indoc trination courses in modern air- ground coordination for groups of officers of all services. Fresh classes enroll each week for five- day periods (some remaining for longer courses). Graduates now number almost 10,000.Visitors and students have also included many from NATO nations, such as Sweden, Norway, Italy, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Hol land and France. Brig. Gen. W. M. Gross is com mandant of the school. is on! Many rumors got abroad as the was melting—-they couldn t even | jjay wore on, with its de get a cold.drink. Fans wouldnt „ Vinlidav air. One wa: get a run. One man had just defrosted his deep freeze, and was getting ready to put his meat back in, when the power went off. A wom an was caught in the middle of her canning. In the suburbs, elec tric pumps would pump no wa ter. At The Pilot, the linotypes were dead. At the bank, the ma chines working to get out month- end statements were in a state of paralysis Manager Hill detailed one after another of his office staff to an swer the phone. As fast as one caU ended, another came through. Hundreds trying to caU never got anything but a “busy” signal. TK boy at the phone tried to go for a drink of water (lukewarm) and was called back by the phone’s ring three times. Finally some one else went and got him some water. It was time for the afternoon movie shows to start. They didn’t, In the markets, meats in display ceptively holiday air. One was that a bulldozer had crashed into the guy wi;^e, causing a tower to fall and the wires to burn. ■Honestly, we don’t know what caused the guy wire to break,” said Mr. Hill. “A bulldozer was in that woods last winter clearing a right of way. Somebody wondered if it could have hit the guy wire, weakening it so that it broke months later. Maybe it did. We don’t even know that the bulldoz er was anywhere near the wire.” The wire could, have been struck by lightning, he said. Abrupt temperature changes could have caused expansion and contraction, weakening the wire. If a war were on, it could have been sabotage—and in peace, it could be vandalism. Couldn't Worry Then nivestigation may determine the cause. However, “We were too busy getting it fixed to worry about the cause at the time,” Mr. LIFE GUARD (Continued from Page D visible poles. The hole (which ac tually became filled with sand when the bulldozer was extract ed) presents no danger as no one can reach it by walking on the bottom. The lake is lighted at night with five street lights which are part of the town’s lighting systen^ go ing on at dusk and remaining lighted until dawn. A wide park ing area overlooking the water has been leveled off, accessible either from the Midland road or Highway No. 2 from Manly. The lake was originaUy opened July 4, 1952, at which time is was formally placed in charge of the Recreation Commission. The first season was not too successful, as the bottom had been filled with a clay mixture which became oozy. In work done during the past few weeks the ooze has been scraped up and the bottom well covered, out to the middle of 'the lake, with some 1,200 to 1,300 truckloads of fine clean sand. Lakeview Gets New Postmaster Mrs. Dora M. Cooper has re signed as Lakeview postmaster and C. G. Priest has been named to fill the position, effective Wed nesday, July 1. , J - Mrs. Cooper said she had sub mitted her resignation in March for health reasons, but that it was not accepted until this week. Mrs. Cooper served for 18 months as Lakeview postmaster, assuming the job January 1, 1952. Mr. Priest, a Republican, -will serve as acting postmaster until a civil service selection can be made. The Lakeview post office is fourth class and pays approxi mately $1,588 per year, out of 'which the postmaster must pay the building rent, lights, fuel, etc. ■M
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