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VOL. 35—NO. 21
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. APRIL 16. 1954
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
FINER CAROLINA SIGNS—A. C. Dawson,
Jr., superintendent of schools, left, watches as
Voit Gilmore, chairman of the Finer Carolina
program in Southern Pines, Ward Hill, local
manager of the sponsoring Carolina Power and
Light Co., and W. T. Huntley, Jr., playground
project chairman, place a sign on the elementary
school grounds indicating the project which will
be located near the school. Similar signs have
been placed at the corner of Pennsylvania Ave.
and Bennett St., for the project of beautifying
West Pennsylvania Avenue, and at the West
End of Pennsylvania Avenue, noting the project
for improvement of the library at West South
ern Pines School. These are three of the five
projects in the over-all Finer Carolina program
for municipal development. (Photo V.W. Hardee)
Symphony Will Play Burt Overture
Dedicated To Late Henry Page III
Sandhills Officer's
Death fin Action
Inspired Composition
of children selected from all
schools cf the county, to the ca
pacity of the auditorium, that
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Appear
ance of the symphony here is
<jx I.11C ijicsjr ui sponsored by the Sandhills Music
an overture by Nathaniel
a
Playing of the “Elegy of Lyci
das,
Burt, former Sandhills resident,
dedicated to the late Henry A.
Page HI of Aberdeen, friend of
Burt and Navy officer who lost
his life in the Pacific in World
War II, gives exceptional local in
terest to the annual appearance
of the full North Carolina Sym
phony Orchestra in Weaver Audi
torium Friday, April 23 at 8:30
p. m.
Directed by Dr. Benjamin Swa-
lin, the symphony will also play
an afternoon concert for groups
Campbell To Get
Scouting Trophy
At Atlanta, Ga.
A number of Moore County Boy
Scout officials will accompany
William D. Campbell to Atlanta;
Ga., next week when the Lorril-
lard Spencer trophy, national
Scouting award, will be presented
to him as chairman of the four-
state Region Six for the second
successive year.
Presentation will take place
Tuesday at the annual regional
meeting to be held at the Dinkler-
Plaza Hotel.
The trophy recognizes the high
est percentage of increase in
Scouts, Scouting units and sub
scriptions to “Boy’s Life” maga
zine in Region Six, as compared to
all 12 other regions in the United
States.
The trophy has been in South
ern Pines during the past year
and will be brought back here
for another year by Mr. Campbell.
His term as Regional Chairman
expires next week, when new of
ficers will be elected. He is now
president of the 12-county Occon-
eechee Council with headquarters
at Raleigh.
Expected to make the trip to
Atlanta are Brig. Gen. Pearson
Menoher, Moore District chair
man; John Ponzer and the Rev.
C. K. Ligon, vice chairmen; Dr.
J. C. Grier, Jr., Moore District
Commissioner; Dr. J. D. Ives,
neighborhood commissioner; W.
Lament Brown, finance chairman;
and Jim Wilson, district execu
tive. All are from Southern Pines
except Dr. Ives who is from Pine-
bluff and Dr. Grier, from Pine-
hurst.
The concert wiU open with Bee
thoven’s sixth symphony (pas
toral). Intermission will follow
and then the Burt overture—
which was first played at Prince
ton, N. J., where Mr. Burt lives,
early this year—will be played.
Performance of the overture
was arranged in a conference of
Mr. Burt and Dr. Swalin diming
a visit of the composer and nove
list to Southern Pines a few weeks
ago. Its title derives from Milton’s
famous poemi dedicated to a
drowned friend.
Henry A. Page III, son of the
late H. A. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen
and Mrs. Mitchell Page of New
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LENNON MANAGER
Lloyd T. Clark, mayor of South
ern Pines, this week was named
Moore County manager of Sen.
Alton A. Lennon’s campaign for
the Democratic nomination in the
May 29 primary. The appointment
was announced by Lennon head
quarters in Raleigh. No Moore
County manager has been named
for the campaign of Kerr Scott or
other senatorial nomination can
didates.
EASTER MONDAY
Most stores and cffices in
Southern Pines will close for
an Easter Monday holiday,
April 19.
The Citizens Bank and
Trust Oo. and the Southern
Pines Library will be closed.
Easier Monday is not a
holiday at the post oiifice and
windows will be open as
usual.
The dourlhouse at Ccmlhage
will be closed and recorders
court, usually held on Monr
day, will be held Tuesday,
April 20.
Council To Study
Representation
For W. Sou. Pines
As a result of discussion at town
hall Tuesday night, when the
council met to discuss business
but not to take action until their
meeting Friday night at 8 p. m.,
a study will be made of a possible
revision of town election proce
dure with a view to assuring rep
resentation from West Southern
Pines on the town council.
Town Attorney W. Lament
Brown was requested by the
council to prepare a report of va
rious possibilities along this line.
The topic was introduced by
Councilman C. S. Patch, Jr., who
read a statement proposing that a
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McPherson Heads Red Cross
Garland McPherson-of Southern
Pines was elected chairman of the
Moore County Red Cross Chap
ter at its annual meeting held here
Friday. T. Roy Phillips of Carth
age is executive vice-chairman.
Other vice-chairmen elected were
Gordon Clark of Southern Pines
and Joel W. Cranford cf Robbins.
They will take office in July.
Three new directors, to serve
lor three years, are Mrs. J. E.
Causey and D. A. Blue, Jr., both
of Southern Pines, and Mrs. Wal
ter Alpert of Pineblulf. Farrell
Brown of Aberdeen, retiring chap
ter chairman, outlined the chap
ter’s accomplishments since No
vember, 1952, date of the last
meeting. Time of the annual meet
ings has been changed from No
vember to April, so no meeting
was held in the year 1953.
Paul M. Moore of Atlanta, as
sistant manager of the Southeast
ern Area, gave the main address
cl the meeting, which was held at
the Brownson Memorial Presby
terian Church. He reported that
nearly 82 per cent of the $85,000,-
000 and 30,000,000-member na-
r
Sunrise Service
To Begin Easter
Observance Here
Churches Planning
Special Music For
Services On Sunday
A sunrise service at the Church
oft Wide Fellowship at 6:30 a.m.
will open the observance of Eas
ter in the churches of” Southern
' Pines Sunday. The public is in
vited by the pastor, the Rev. W. C.
Timmons, D.D.
The combined youth choir un
der direction of Mrs. L. D. McDon
ald will sing at this service. Judy
Parker will read the Easter Story
in Verse by Mrs. Grace Abraham.
An Easter breakfast,^^ to which all
are invited, will follow in the Fel
lowship Hall..
At the 11 o’clock service there
will be special music including
the anthem, “Hail, Glorious Day.”
Dr. Timmons will preach on
“From Defeat to Victory,” the last
in a series of sermons delivered
through Lent.
At Brownson Memorial Presby
terian Church, the 11 o’clock serv
ice will include an Easter message
by the pastor, the Rev C. K. Ligon,
special music by the choir, bap
tism of several infants and recep
tion into the church of a commun
icants class of 20 young people.
Other new members will also be
received.
Holy Communion will be cele
brated at 8 a.m. at Emmanual
Episcopal Church. At 9:45, the
family service will be conducted
with presentation of mite boxes
for a missionary offering. The
Rev. C. V. Covell will preach on
the topic, “That They Might Have
Life,” at the 11 o’clock service.
There will be special Easter music
by the choir.
Easter masses will be held at
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church at
7, 8, 9 and 10:30 Sunday morning.
High mass will be at 10:30, said
Father Peter M. Denges, pastor.
Confessions will be heard from 5
to 6 and from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Satur
day. No confessions will be heard
preceding the masses Sunday
morning.
Holy Week services are being
held at 4 p.m. Good Friday, fol
lowed by confessions. On Holy
Saturday, the special paschal cere
monies will start at 6:30 a.m. with
mass at 7:45. The Lenten season
ends at noon Saturday.
At the First Baptist Church, the
Rev. D. Hoke Coon, pastor, will
deliver his Easter sermon at the
11 o’clock service. There will be
special music by the choir.
Seven Ministers
To Take Part In
3-Hoiir Service
Seven Sandhills ministers will
take part today in a union Good
Friday service at Emmanuel Epis
copal church, from noon to 3 p. m.
The three-hour period of devo
tions will include seven 25-min
ute paeditations, each led by one
of the ministers and based on the
words of Christ from the cross.
Worshippers may attend any por
tion of the service, entering and
leaving during the singing of
hymns between the meditations.
Members of local Protestant
churches will take part in the
service and visitors are invited.
The church is on Massachusetts
Avenue, just east of May Street
(No. 1 highway).
The ministers to take part and
the meditations based on Christ’s
words, that they will lead, are:
The Rev. D. Hoke Coon, First
Baptist Church, “Father, forgive
them for they know not what
they do.”
The Rev. Hogan Yancey, West
End Presbyterian Church, “To
day shalt thou be with Me in
Paradise.”
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Blue, Poole To File For Offices;
All Commissioners To Run Aj^ain
Saturday Is
Last Day To
Enter Races
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS of the boys’ and girls’ basket
ball squads received VFW trophies Thursday night of last week
at the banquet given by the Rotary Club honoring the squads
and their coaches. Left, Jimmy Townshend, winner of the post’s
James S. Milliken, Jr., Memorial Trophy; center, C. S. Patch, Jr.,
who awarded the trophies in behalf of the John Boyd Post, VFW;
and right, Dorothy Newton, winner of the girls’ trophy. Story
on Page B. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Float From Moore County To Appear
In Festival Parade At Fayetteville
Represeniation Of
House In Horseshoe
Feature Of Exhibit
Participation by Moore County
in the Bi-Centennial Festival of
Cumberland County that begins
at Fayetteville Monday was as
sured this week when the Moore
County Historical Association be
gan preparations of a float for the
feature parade of the week Tues
day afternoon.
The festival, described in detail
in a story elsewhere in today’s
Pilot, will run from Monday
through the following Sunday. It
marks the 200th anniversary of
the founding Of the county. Moore
County was a part of Cumberland
before it was cut off as a separate
county.
At their meeting in Carthage
Monday, the county commission-
Dawson To Speak
At PTA Meeting
A. C. Dawson, Jr., superinten
dent of schools, will be the speak
er at the regular meeting of the
newly formed Southern Pines
Parent-Teacher Association, to be
held Thursday of next week at
Weaver Auditorium at 8 p. m.
Mr. Dawson will survey the
Southern Pines school system in
detail as it now exists in order
that the new members of the As
sociation can become better ac
quainted with the schools.
ers voted to let the county pay for
expenses if the Historical Associa
tion will take care of preparing
the float. Mrs. Ernest L. Ives,
president, and other members of
the Association have been work
ing on the project this week and
entry of the float has been as
sured.
Designed by Glen Rounds, Pine-
bluff artist, the float will feature
a representation of the “House in
the Horseshoe” in Deep River
township which is being taken
over by the state as an historic
shrine.- E. J. Austin, Southern
Pines architect, is supervising con
struction of the float.
The display will be mounted on
a large trailer that, with truck and
driver, is being donated for the
occasion by Benson Futrell of the
Futrell Brothers Lumber Co. at
Vass.
Riding on the float in costumes
of Revolutionary times, as nearly
as they can be reproduced will be
Joe McDonald, 12-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray McDonald of
Southern Pines; and Ruth Douglas
Currie, 16-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Currie of
Carthage. Also invited to ride on
the float are the children of Mr.
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EASTER HOLIDAY
It was “books away” for South
ern Pines pupils at noon Thurs
day and their Easter vacation will
continue through Tuesday.
In West Southern Pines school
closed at noon Thursday, also, to
reopen Tuesday morning.
David Named Tax Collector
MR. McPherson
tional goals have been received.
“There are not just 3,700 little
Red Crosses throughout the coun
try, but one great Red Cross with
a common objective,” he said. “If
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CANCER DRIVE LAGS
Only around $400 ori' a $700
quota has been raised in the cur
rent Cancer Fund Drive, accord
ing to Mrs. J. S. Milliken, local
chairman. Many who usually
give have not yet made their do
nations, Mrs. Milliken notes.
Any who have not received let
ters in regard to the drive are re
quested to mail their contributions
to Mrs. J. S. Milliken, Box 55,
Southern Pines, at their earliest
1 convenience. -
J. Douglas David, 47-year-old
Pinebluff resident, was appointed
Moore County tax collector by the
county conamissioners Monday as
board members met at the court
house in a session that had been
recessed from their regular meet
ing the previous Monday.
The new official, filling a va
cancy caused by the death of W.
T. Huntley several weeks ago, was
chosen from among more than a
dozen applicants for the post. He
will begin work May 1.
Mr. David, bom in South Caro
lina, has lived in the Sandhills
most of his life, has been a resi
dent of Pinebluff for the past 21
years and has been active in local
and county civic and political af
fairs.
He is now serving his second
year as President of the Moore
County Young Democratic Club
and has been active in the YDC
for many years. He has been ac
tive, in Boy Scout work for 18
year^ on local and district levels.
An Eagle Scout himself, he has
held various Scouting offices and
is at present a neighborhood com
With filing time for all county
offices slated to close Saturday,
the past week saw several more
candidates in the Democratic pri
mary pay their fees to Sam C.
Riddle, chairman of the board of
elections, but as of Wednesday,
there was as yet no contest in
sight except in the sheriff’s race.
Sheriff C. J. McDonald, R. G.
Fry, Jr., and Wendell KeUy, all
of Carthage, are the candidates
for sheriff.
New filers this week for the
board of education, both incum
bents, were T. Roy Phillips of
Carthage and J. A. Culbertson of
Robbins. Jere McKeithen of Aber
deen and G. H. Purvis of High-
falls and Herman Matthews of
Carthage, Route 3, had previous
ly filed.
Poole Announces
State Senate race speculation
was settled last week when J.
Hawley Poole of West End an
nounced that he would be a can
didate. He has previously served
in the Senate from Moore.
Wilbur Currie of Carthage, also
a former senator, formally an
nounced that he would not seek
the office. He said in a statement
announcing that he would not
run: “I appreciate from the bot
tom of my heart the confidence
that has been shown me in the
past and I am sorry that other
duties prevent me from offering
my services at this time. I am
deeply grateful for the support
I have always received.”
For the State House of Repre
sentatives, H. Clifton Blue of
Aberdeen, incumbent, said he
planned to file today (Friday).
No opposition for Blue, seeking
his fifth term, has been apparent
so far.
Carlton Kennedy, clerk of court,
is also expected to seek renomina
tion in the Democratic primary
May 29. There has been little if
any talk of opposition for him.
Mrs. Bessie Griffin, register of
deeds, filed last week and no op
position is in sight for her at this
time.
Also coming up for nomination
in the primary are solicitor of re
corders court, now held by W. La
ment Brown of Southern Pines,
and judge of recorders court, now
held by J. Vance Rowe of Aber
deen and Southern Pines. As of
Wednesday this week, there was
no opposition in sight for them
and both were expected to seek
nomination and re-election.
County coroner is another office
to be filled this year. Ralph G.
Steed of Robbins now holds the
post. It is thought he will seek re
nomination and no opposition has
been heard from.
J. W. (Bunch) Sheffield of East-
wood, who earlier this year was
expected- to make the race for
sheriff and who was a candidate
for sheriff four years ago, last
week announced that he would
not be a candidate, saying his
business interests would not per
mit him time for a campaign.
All five members of the board
of county commissioners filed as
candidates Monday—G. H. Cam
eron of Pinehurst, J. M. Currie of
Carthage, J. M. Pleasants of
Southern Pines, L. R. Reynolds of
Leaman and Tom Monroe of Rob
bins. As of Wednesday, there was
no oppoMtion for themi.
MR. DAVID
missioner.
Mr. Davis is president of the
Pinebluff Lions Club. He is a
member of Pinebluff Methodist
Church and a former superinten-
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POPPY DAY
Memorial Poppies, made by
disabled veterans and sold for
their benefit, will go on sale
here tomorrow (Saturday)
morning in the American Le
gion Auxiliary's annual obser
vance of Poppy Day.
"Wear a Poppy" is the slo
gan of the day, and the more
awkwardly the poppy is made
the more it should be cherish
ed for in all probability it was
fashioned by a badly disabled
veteran.
A pre-sale broadcast, "The
Poppy Beds," will be present
ed at 1:15 today (Friday) by
high school students over
WEEB.