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VOL. 35-WO. 3
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
New Hij*h way Will Run
Pineliurst to Route 27
;
Plans Revealed By
Lockey In Session
WlRi County Board
Plans for a new highway from
Pineburst to a point beyond Car
thage on NC 27 were presented
^ by Fcrrest Lockey of Aberdeen,
Eighth District Highway Commis
sioner, to the county board of
commissioaers and the Carthage
town board in joint session Mon
day.
The meeting occurred in the
course of the county commission
ers’ monthly meeting held at the
coiixthouse in Carthage. T. G.
^ Officer Shot,
Man Killed
At Carthage
James (Jim) Worthy, Carthage
Negro who had been a mental pa
tient within the past few years
and who was noted for irrational
■behavior and speech, was shot
kf and killed by law enforcement
officers last Friday afternoon in
the Negro section of Carthage.
State Highway Patrolman
Johnny Lowrirnore is a patient at
Moore County Hospital, recover
ing from a wound in ttie left foot,
which required surgery, received
when Worthy fired on officers as
they atttempted to take him into
custody.
g Officers had been called after
Worthy threatened V7ill Harris,
proprietor of a store in the Negro
community, and Nannie Parks, a
resident there.
Worthy shot before officers re
turned the fire, killing him in
stantly. Officers present when the
shooting occurred were Carthage
Police Chief John Joyce, Night
Officer E. R. Kerns and Lowri-
more. ABC Officer C. A. McCal-
■iS lum had returned to the court
house for more help and weapons,
at the time of the shooting.
Sheriff C. J. McDonald and
Deputy A. W. Lambert were at
Fort Bragg to bring back two
prisoners, when the call for offi
cers came in Friday afternoon.
Patrolman Lowrirnore respond
ed to a radio summons after Har
ris brought the alarm to the
courthouse that Worthy was be
having in a threatening manner.
He cursed and threatened officers
before advancing on them with a
loaded pistol.
Worthy spent about six weeks
in the State Negro mental hospi
tal at Goldsboro in 1951. He has
reportedly been showing signs of
mental derangement for the past
four years.
Poindexter, district engineer, was
present with Mr. Lockey to ex
plain the plans.
While expressing regret that
the through route will bypass the
county seat, the Carthage com
missioners, headed by Mayor A
L. Barnes, made no formal pretest
and it is anticipated that there
will be none.
There was general agreement
that the present Pinehurst-Carth
age road has long needed im
provement or replacenicm, and
Lockey rated it as ‘ one of th-
worst in the distiict.” Improve
ment of the existing road wa'
deemed inadvisable, also it wa^
net possible to secure the needed
rights-of-way for widening it, h
said.
The new road will leave tb'
present one in the vicinity of Hill
crest and cut across near th
county home, some two mile
from Carthage It will provid
a modern express route for th
heavy traffic from Pineburst t
US Highway 1.
Zouini*, Server Hearings Scheduled;
New Garbage Ordinance Is Adopted
New System Of
Russian Singers
To Give Concert
Saturday Night
The Sandhills Music Association
starts its fifth season Saturday
evening, December 12, at 8:30, at
Weaver Auditorium, with the Pla-
toff Don Cossack Chorus and
Dancers under fhe direction of
Nicholas Kostrukoff. The Cho
rus will give a varied, 'colorful
program of Russian church music,
folksongs, regimental songs and
gay, exciting dances, with some
thing to please everypne in the
audience.
The Don Cassack Chorus com
prises the best of the vocal talent
, u
PRESENTATION—-The Builder’s Cup, given by the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club, is presented to Miss Laura Kelsey of Southern
Pines by Kiwanian Voit Gilmore during the club’s annual ban
quet and Ladies Night at the Pineburst Country Club.
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Miss Laura Kelsey Awarded Builder’s
Cup For Unselfish Service To County
Kiwanis Club Honor
Recognizes Work
For-Various Causes
Miss Laura Kelsey of Southern
sonal gain.”
Announcement of the award,
which was kept a secret until the
'moment of presentation, brought ^vionaays ana xn^aays. un
— tK ’ the wBst Side,, collections will be
General Arnold To
Speak To Club
Major Gen. A. V. Arnold of
Southern Pines, head of the Jvloore
County CivU Defense organiza
tion, will speak on Civil Defense
£t the Ci-vic Club*Monday at 3:30
p. m.
The program will be open to
the public.
Two films will be shown,
dealing with Civil Defense topics,
‘‘Duck and pover,‘’ and ‘‘Survival
lender Atomic Attack.”
During the program Mrs. Bryan
Poe wiU sing, accompanied by
Mrs. L. D. McDonald.
obtainable among the White Rus- t Pines Friday night became the
sians who were driven out of 20th winner, and fifth feminine
Russia by the Communists. They' recipient, of the Builders Cup of
have traveled over the world for the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, an
many years, giving their inspiring award made for ‘‘valuable and un
concerts in London, Paris, Turkey, selfish service to Moore County
India, South America, The East without thought or hope of per-
Indies, South Africa and many
other places. They have been in | -«/r rri ¥T 1
America for 14 years and stand ln.Cri.30 JL O £103(1
among the best choral groups to
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M3sonic Lodge
Collections To
Sturt Monduy
A new garbage ordinance was
■-nacted into law by the town
council Tuesday night.
Full text of the new measure
"appears on page 13 of today’s
Pilot.
A major change in the new or
dinance is changing of collections
of‘garbage to two days a weak,
mstead of three as formerly. Yard
makings and tree trimmings will
be collected, by request, on two
days each week. The complete
new collection schedule is listed
on page 13.
While town officials want to be
reasonable in giving residents
time to meet provisions of the
new ordinance, enforcement is ex- ,
pected to be strict.
Here are some of the points in
the new ordinance that will re
quire action, on the part of many
citizens in order to comply with
the law.
You must have a galvanized or
non-rusting metal can with han
dles and a tight-fitting lid and
the can may not weigh more than
20 pounds empty or have a ca
pacity of more than 30 gallons.
You have to remove the can
from the parkway except the
night before collections or during
the daylight collection period on
your collection days.
You must keep your can reason
ably clean with lye or a cleaner.
Wet garbage must be wrapped
in paper before it is placed in the
can.
Collections at residences east of
the Seaboard tracks will be made
on Mondays and Thursdays. On
Members of the Southern Pines
Masonic Lodge No. 484, AF & AM,
Monday night elected Luther Rus
sell McRae as Worshipful Master; ^
Alden G. Bower, senior warden; j tablishmenrof a hospital c^teen.
James I. Lawson, Jr., junior war-| Miss Kelsey was present as the
den; L. L. WooUey, secretary, and i guest of her father, a longtime
Ralph L. Chandler, treasurer. AU loyal Kiwanian. Also present to
warm applause from the crowd of
150 attending the annuail banquet
and Ladies Night held at the Pine-
hurst Country Club.
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines
made the presentation, citing Miss
Kelsey’s faithful service over a
number of years in many fields,
with emphasis on the Moore
County Hospital auxiliary. Red
Cross, Tuberculosis association
and the Sandhills Womans Ex
change at Pinehursk
During her presidency of the
hospital auxiliary last year, the
group completed an air-condition
ing project for the operating
rooms at a cost of $8,000, and also
filled a long-felt need in the es-
COLONEL JOHN G. FOSTER
has been named Secretary of
the USAF Air Ground Opera
tions School, it was announced
today by Brig. Gen. William M.
Gross, school commandant. Suc
ceeding Lt. Col. Charles H. Wil
liams who has been designated
Deputy for Education (Air),
Colonel Foster recently return
ed from the Far Eastern Theater
where he was Commander of
the 67 th Tac Reconnaissance
Group. He received his commis
sion in 1942 and is a veteran of
both World War 2 and Korea.
He is a native of New York
City. Col. and Mrs. Foster have
three children: John, age 7; Mi
chael, age 5; and Ann, one year
old.
VFW Will R0p3ir
Toys For Cheer
B3sket Delivery
Further plans for the Christmas o , __ t.- . , ^
cheer program of the John Boyd m Southern Pmes except ^ share m the proud occasion, was
of vo.oioo uro:., McRae, who is from Lakeview. her twin sister, Mrs. Wallace
post. Veterans of Foreign Wars
were announced today by Fred
Hall, chairman.
The post is asking families with
discarded toys to put them on the
porch of the VFW post home on
New York Avenue or to call and
have them picked up. Members of
the post will repair the toys and
add them to baskets distributed
by the post, according to the ages
of children in the aided families
Also announced was the post’s
plan to put barrels in all grocery
stores in which can be placed
canned boods or ether groceries
that will go in the Christmas bas
kets. Similar barrels will be plac
ed in two variety stores in which
toys can be placed, also to be dis
tributed.
Testifies On Korea Atrocities
CpL Lloyd Kreider, 26, who i
lives with his family at 765 North 1
Ridge street, was one of 15 former
prisoners of war called to testify
last week before a Senate investi
gating committee concerning
atrocities committed by their
communist captors.
Corporal Kreider followed Gen.
Mattthew B. Ridgeway as a wit
ness before the committee, which
was gathering material to support
the charges of inhuman treatment
of prisoners of war, n;ade by U. S.
Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.,
before the UN General Assembly.
Kreider was a prisoner of war
only three months, but they com
prised an eternity of horror and
brutality. The story he told cen
tered around the tunnel massacre
at Eunchon in October, 1950,
when the GI’s were taken from
a halted train ostensibly to be
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He succeeds A. G. Edwards, Jr.,
of Vass, in the master’s post.
All will be installed, along with
appointive officers, at the Decem
ber 21 meeting, ^cretary Wool-
ley and Treasurer Chandler will
be starting on their 27th year of
service in these positions, to which
they have been reelected every
year for more than a quarter of a
century.
Chinese Offieers
Visit USAFAGOS
Three high-ranking officers of
the Chinese Nationalist Air Force |®?’^tation of the
sister, Mrs. Wallace
Speers of New Jersey.
L. B. Creath of Pineburst, pres
ident, served as master of cere
monies for the informal program
which followed the banquet. He
presented a number of distin
guished guests, including several
district officials. Dr. R. B. War-
lick, banquet chairman, gave a
greeting to the ladies, to which
Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins made graci
ous response.
W. A. Leland McKeithen pre
sented the 1952-53 officers, also
the new ones who will succeed
them in January, with a warm
tribute to each.
Paul VonCanon made the pre
club's ’ annual
Tuesdays and Fridays. Business
section collections will be made as
far as possible daily. There will i
be no collections on holidays.
The new schedule will go into
affect Monday.
Tree trimmings and yard rak-
ings will be picked up Wednes
days and Saturdays.
m
CORPORAL KREIDER
on Formosa arrived here Tuesday
o visit the USAF Air-Ground
Operations School. They were
yelcomed by Brig Gen. William
M. Gross, commandant.
They are: Maj. Gen. Huan
■^heng Hsu, chief of staff; Col. I.
Chen Chow, deputy commardant i
af the Air Technical Service Com- |
■■'and; and Cel. Kuo Piao Chao,
’ommandant of the Air Staff Col-
'ege' of the Chinese Nationalist
\ir Force.
They were accompanied by Ma-
or Eleven J. Welsh, USAF escort
fficer. The group is visiting Air
■^orce installation in the United
"tates under provisions of th'e
Mutual Defense Assistance pro-
Tam.
check for the Moore County Hos-
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Sehool Committee
Members Org3nize
In County Group
Meeting in the lunchroom of the
Carthage High School Monday
evening, representatives of local
school committees in 11 school
districts of Moore County formed
an orgainization which they hope
will help district school board
members in their administration
of school affairs.
Officers elected by the new
group are: Paul Von Camon, West
End, president; S. C. Alexander
of Robbins, vice-president; and
Landon Tyson of Vass, secretary.
During the program, the group
heaird a talk on school board or
ganization by Dr. Plemmons of
the University of North Carolina.
The Cairthage High School Glee
club, directed by Mrs. Colin Spen
cer., Jr., sang.
About 36 persons attended, rep
resenting all 11 districts. State
school officials are urging organi
zation of local committees into a
Council Pays
Large Item Not
In Town Audit
For the third time in recent
months, the town council Tuesday
night authorized payment of a
large amount for which the town „ . _ _ ..
had been billed but which had Maj. (Jen. Jul-
not appeared as an account pay- ‘ representing resi-
Sewer Finn
Opposed By ,
Knollwood
Public hearings on two propos
ed new ordinances were set by the
town council at its regular meet
ing Tuesday night.
I Scheduled for Tuesday night of
next week at 8 o’clock in the town
hall is a hearing on an ordinance
that would impose a sewer serv
ice charge on the owners of all
property connected with the
town’s sewer system, in or out of
the city limits.
Set for Thursday night, January
7, also at 8 o’clock in the town
hall, is a heairing on a new zoning
ordinance that re-enacts, with
some new provisions, existing city
planning and zoning ordinances.
Full texts'of both these pro
posed ordinances appear on pag
9 of today’s Pilot. Also, a report
of a sub-committee of the Citizens
Advisory Committee, explaining
the background and reasons for
the sewer service proposal, ap
pears on page 10.
The full council was present at
Tuesday night’s meeting—Mayor
Lloyd Clark and Councilmen W.
E. Blue, Voit Gilmore, Joe O’Cal
lahan and C. S. Patch, Jr. Also
at the council table was City Man
ager Tom E. Cunningham and
Louis Scheipers, Jr., town clerk.
There was little discussion
about the zoning measure when it
was brought up. Donald Case,
chairman of the committee that
prepared it, said that an attempt
was made to make it the least re
stricted possible, ‘‘based on condi
tions that exist,” and that provi
sions in the ordnance allow ap
peal and discussion for special
situations through the zoning
board of adjustment and the zon
ing board.
A new feature in the ordinance
is restriction of large areas of the
town, east of May street and else
where, to one-family dwellings.
Exact boundairies of these atreas
are described in the text of the
ordinance on page nine.
The proposed sewer charge or
dinance was strongly opposed by
able in last year’s audit.
The latest item, amounting to
$3,551, is a principal amount of
dents of Knollwood who are mem
bers of the KnoUwood Sanitary
District, a unique organization of
some 26 home-owners who O'wn
$3,350, plus mteres., due on a sewer lines that send sewage to
traxcavatcr —e^'th moving town treatment plant,
machine—purchased by the t<wn Under the present arrangement
board of commissioners m De- with the town, each member prop-
nember, 1952. ! erty owner of the Knollwood San-
After the bill for this balance itary District pays iftto the Dis-
on the $8,000 machine was receiv- trict fund $25 per year sewer ser-
ed, town records were searched vice charge which is in turn tum-
and a record of the* transaction ed over to the town as a lump
was found in the correspondence sum. In addition a charge of $125
file with a Raleigh equipment is paid by the Mid Pines Club aind
company. The item, however, was the District pays $75 for St. Jos-
not entered on the books. ieph’s hospital.
Total cost of the machine rani Under the proposed ne'w ordi-
to $8,000. A used machine was the Knollwood residents
traded in for $1,300 and $3,350 outside the city limits-
cash wais paid, leaving a badance ^°hld pay an amount equal to 100
of $3,350. The purchase was au-' cent of their water bills as a
thorized in October, 1952.
Investigation showed that at
the time the purchase was made,
there was a large cash balance
in the Powell Bill street work
funds from which it could have
been purchased, according to a
review of the matter at the coun
county-wide unit in which mu- i cil meeting Tuesday night. Coun-
tually helpful information can be cilman Voit Gilmore expressed
exchanged.
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CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
A bazaar featuring homemade
pastries aind Christmas decorations
’HI] bo held bv the Junior Wom
an’s Club at the Old Police Sta
tion building today (Friday) and
Saturday. Hours will be from 10
a. m. to noon today aind from 8
a. m. to 5 p. m. Saturday.
sewer service charge and the $25
charge would be abolished.
In-town residents, under the or
dinance, would pay a sewer ser
vice sharge of 50 per cent of the
water bill. This, however, would
be accompanied by a 20 per cent
cut in the property tax rate.
The KnoUwood spokesmen said
they felt the proposed charge
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COLililblON—Riding in the Oldsmo-
bile sedan shown at left, Mrs. W. E. McCord, 77,
and Miss Ruth Presbrey, 80, Southern Pines,
were injured early Sunday afternoon in a col
lision at the intersection of No. 1 highway and
N. C. Route 2 at Manly. In this photo, High
way Patrolman E. G. Shomaker talks to a sailor
who was a hitchhiker in the Ford, driven by Pfc.
Edward AUen of Fort Jackson, S. C., which
struck the Southern Pines car, driven by Mrs.
McCord. For details, see story elsewhere in to
day’s Pilot. (Photo by V. W. Hardee)
NOW IT FITS
The town council was in
formed Tuesday night that
one of its minor problems—
involving a major problem,
too—^has been inadvertently
solved.
The problem: how to get
the new fire truck into the
firehouse.
The solution: loaded with
water and hose, it was discov
ered, it will go in as to height,
with the ladder still on top.
Widening the doorway per
mitted side clearance.
The minor problem solved
was what to do about protect
ing the truck in freezing
weather. In the hea'ted fire
house it’s safe.
The major problem involv
ed is where to find a better
location for a better and big
ger fire station. A committee
headed by Dr. R. M. McMil
lan is working on this.