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SHOP AND SAVE!
SPRING VALUE
DAYS MAY 13-15
SHOP AND SAVE!
SPRING VALUE
DAYS MAY 13-15
THE NEW EDUCATION BUILDING of
Brovmson Memorial Presbyterian Church, con
secrated recently, is constructed in the Williams
burg style of architecture that harmonizes with
the church building to which it joins at the
right. The structure has 10,000 square feet of
floor space in 20 rooms on its two floors, and is
capable of housing a Sunday School of 400 pu
pils in 15 of the 20 rooms. (Pilot Staff Photo)
40-Miniite Civil Defense Movie To Be
Shown At Town Gathering Tonight
County CD Leader
Says Program Will
Answer Questions
Forty minutes of Civil Defense
movies are included on the pro
gram cf a meeting to be held to
night (Friday) at 8 o’clock in
Weaver Auditorium, to speed up
organization of the Southern
Pines CD program.
Gen. A. V. Arnold, county Civil
Defense head, said that the movies
and program would provide the
answers to many questions that
Boros Captures
Ardmore Tourney
The many loyal Sandhills fans
of golfer Julius Boros, profession
al at the Mid Pines Club here,
were rewarded Sunday when the
admired former National Open
champion walked off with $7,200
top money in the Ardmore Open
tournament at Dornick Hill.;;
Country Club, Ardmore, Okla.
The husky 34-year-old Boros,
for whom the Sandhills turned out
in a “Julius Boros Day’’ celebra
tion in 1952 after his Open and
World Championship victories,
warmed the hearts of local admir
ers as he edged out two Califor
nians, Jerry Barber and Jimmy
Clark, with a 72-hole total of 279.
In addition to the $7,200 prize
money. Boros collected $720 in
bonus money put up in the unique
tournament by its sponsors, Mr.
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might be asked about the Civil
Defense program. He urged all
residents of the town to attend.
The meeting will demonstrate.
General Arnold said, how resi
dents can prepare to help them
selves and their neighbors should
disaster strike Southern Pines.
Other questions that will be an
swered include: the power of an
atomic bomb burst, the difference
between an atomic and hydrogen
bomb, the size of the H-bomb fire
ball, the power of the H-bomb
that wiped out a Pacific island
and how far the 280 mm. atomic
cannon can shoot.
Also illustrated will be: what a
home owner can do to prevent
fire in his^home, how much more
powerful a tornado is than an
atomic bomb burst, what a block
warden is and how he or she can
save lives.
Blue Knights Beat
Richlands In First
Of 3-Game Series
Two Murder
Cases Slated
Questions that are to be an
swered also are: If Southern Pines
were hit by a tornado, would the
fire department be able to put out
all the fires? Can you be sure you
are safe from a tornado? Does the
possibility of disaster call for se
rious preparation? What is a res
cue squad and do we need one
here? If your home is blown,
^ chance of fire? i Cox collected two
Defeating Richlands High
School of Onslow County 9-2 here
Wednesday afternoon, the Blue
Nnights of Southern Pines press
ed forward in their drive for the
State Class A baseball champion
ship.
This week’s victory gives the
local boys a chance to cop the
Regional title for which a two out
of three series must be played
with Richlands. The next game
is set for the Onslow County
school’s field today (Friday) at
2:30 p. m.
If a third game is necessary,
said Coach Irie Leonard, its site
will probably be determined by
a flip of a coin.
Should the Blue Knights win
the Richlands series, they will be
regional champs—and the next
step will be play for the Eastern
title. Beyond that, it is one step
to the State championship.
On the mound for the Blue
Knights Wednesday, David Page
racked up his 10th win against
no defeats to remain one of the
few undefeated schoolboy pitch
ers in the state. Tommy Ruggles
clouted a homer in the fourth inn-
n|ing and Jimmy Barber and Bill
!? I r.riY jjjjg apiece.
Tf -1 : ■ uunecieu two mis apiece.
Page walked four and struck out
Two murder cases head the cal
endar for a term of Moore Coun
ty Superior Court to open at Car
thage Monday with Judge Frank
M. Armstrong on the bench.
Lonnie (Buck) Mitchell of Niag
ara, is charged with shooting On-
nie Davis of the same communi
ty September 5, 1953, after Davis
allegedly attacked Mitchell with
a sword.
Ed EUiott of near Vass faces
trial for the strangulation death
of his wife, Mildred, March 15 of
this year.
Also facing trial will be two
young Moore County men, Albert
Sheffield and Wbrthy Hector
Moore, charged with forgery in
a series of bad check cases.
Fourteen cases are to go before
the grand jury and there are
about 50 other cases on the cal
endar.
BAND TAG DAY
Majorettes of the Southern
Pines High School band and
school cheer leaders will be
on the streets Saturday morn
ing selling tags for benefit of
the band. Director Lynn Led-
den .said the band is badly in
need of instruments. A table
■will be set up in ifronl of the
post office tor tag sales and
girls will circulate
throughout the business sec
tion.
enough doctors and nurses to take
care of the injured?
^ “Civil Defense,’’ said General
Arnold, is a must fot everyone
in Southern Pines, as it is for all
citizens of the United States in
these times.’’
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^Value Days’
Sale Starts
Spring Value Days,” coopera
tive sales event of 35 merchant
members of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce, is under
way Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of this week.
Yellow-and-green window signs
mark the sale stores and business
es. Shoppers are reminded to ask
for coupons inside—^prizes will be
given by each participating store
and a $25 grand prize certificate
can be spent by the winner in the
members stores of the wiimer’s
choosing.
Sacrifice specials, end-of-season
clearance values, services offer-
ed at great reductions may be
found by the practical shopper
visiting the participating stores.
Apparel shops, department
stores, cleaning establishments,
restaurants, book shops, gift shops,
auto dealers, and a variety of
specialty businesses — including
some of the Sandhills’ finest shops
are taking part in the event.
Coupons being given in each
store, also to be clipped from ads,
may be used by adults in the prize
drawings to be held by each in
dividual store—all to be put to
gether later for a drawing for
the $25 Grand Prize offered by
the Chamber of Commerce.
The stores will hold their prize
drawings at 5:30 p. m. Saturday.
You need not be present to win.
The Grand Prize drawings will
take place at 11 a. m. Monday at
Radio Station WEEB, and the
winner will be announced on the
noon broadcast that day.
12, allowing only two hits.
By tight pitching and good hit
ting the Blue Knights achieved
their victory despite an amazing
seven errors.
Meanwhile the Moore County
baseball tournament is getting
started to determine the runner-
up in the county championship
which has gone automatically to
Southern Pines.
Exlra Sessions Set
By Recorders Court
Because of a term of Moore
County Superior Court starting in
Carthage Monday, recorders court,
usually held on Monday, will be
in session both Friday and Satur
day of this week. The two-day
session was called by Judge J.
Vance Rowe and Solicitor W. La
ment Brown because of a crowd
ed docket.
Although the court convened
for two days last week, the dock
et remains crowded, partly be
cause one case tried Monday of
this week, involving six defend
ants and some 18 witnesses, con
sumed the entire afternoon ses
sion.
Candidates Will
Appear At Open
Meeting May 21
League of Women
Voters Sponsoring
Discussion Session
Residents of this area will have
a chance to hear Democratic can
didates for Congress, the General
Assembly and county offices at
the Southern Pines Country Club
Friday of next week at 8 p. m.
The Voters Service Committee
of the Southern Pines League of
Women Voters has invited all the
candidates to attend the meeting,
state their positions and answer
questions.
Mrs. Graham Culbreth, chair
man of the committee, reports
that all candidates asked so far
have responded enthusiastically.
Others will be asked within "a
few days, she said. All candidates
have been invited, whether or not
they have opposition in the Dem
ocratic primary May 29.
W!. D. Sabiston, Carthage attor
ney, will be moderator for the dis
cussions.
Mrs. C. A. Smith, president of
the local League, said that the
meeting will riot in any sense be
partisan, for it is contrary to
League policy to support or op
pose any political party or candi
date. The aim in this meeting, she
said, is to give every voter the
fullest information before he
casts his vote.
“It is our hope,” Mrs. Smith
said, “that citizens from all over
the county will feel it worth while
to come and talk with the men
who seek to carry on our busi
ness as county officers or to rep
resent us in the State legislature
or the United States Congress.”
Most of the candidates for coun
ty offices are without opposition.
Candidates already invited or to
be invited are:
U. S. Congressman—C. B.
Deane, Rockingham; Coble Fun
derburk, Monroe.
State Representative—H. Clif
ton Blue, Aberdeen.
State Senate—J. Hawley Poole,
West End.
Recorders Court Solicitor—W.
Lamont Brown, Southern Pines.
Recorders Court Judge — J.
Vance Rowe, Southern Pines.
Sheriff—C. J. McDonald, R. G.
Fry, and Wendell Kelly, all of
Carthage.
Register of Deeds—Mrs. Bessie
Griffin, Lakeview; and Cliff L.
Worsham, Southern Pines.
Clerk of Court—Carlton C.
Kennedy, Carthage.
County Commissioners — Gor
don Camferon, Pinehurst; James
Pleasants, Southern Pines; T. R.
GENEVA BLACK
LILA MARIE WICKER
Miss Black, Miss Wicker Awarded Nurse
Training Scholarships By Vets’ Croup
Miss Swaggerty Is
Chosen As Aliernaie
By Seleclion Board
Miss Geneva Black of Pinehurst
High School and Miss Lila Marie
Wicker of Aberdeen High School
have been selected to receive the
nurse’s training scholarships giv
en annuaUy by the Sandhill Vet
erans Association, Inc.
Miss Black is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jasper Black
of West End, Route 1. Miss Wick
er is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond B. Wicker of Aberdeen.
Each of the girls will receive,
after her graduation from high
school this year, a scholarship cov
ering all expenses of a full nurse’s
training course—on condition that
she return to Moore County to
practice her profession following
her successful completion of the
course.
As an alternate, in case one of
the girls should not be able to en
ter training, the selection board
Monroe, Robbins; L. R. Reynolds,
Leaman; John Currie, Carthage;
and David Sineath, Carthage (op
posing Currie).
Board of Education—T. Roy
Phillips, Carthage; J. A. Culbert
son, Robbins; Jere McKeithen,
Aberdeen; G. H. Purvis, Robbins;
Howard Matthews, Clay Road
Farms; E. E. Monroe, Cameroon,
opposing Matthews.
Serving on Mrs. Culbreth’s com
mittee to organize the meeting
are: Mrs. George Matheson, Mrs.
Mary Grover, Mrs. A. R. McDan
iel, Mrs. Curtis Townshend, Mrs.
Bob Gracey, Mrs. J. T. Suttles,
Mrs. George Heinitsh, and Mrs.
Russell Simons.
BANKS TO CLOSE
The Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
here and other banks in this area
will be closed Thursday of next
week. May 20, in observance of
Mecklenburg Independence Day,
a legal holiday.
Armed Forces Day
To Be Observed
Here, At Bragg
Plans for Armed Forces Day,
Saturday, May 15, are nearing
completion in communities in the
United States and oversea:
wherever American military per
sonnel are serving. The day is de
voted to honoring the men and
wc-men of the Armed Forces who
provide “Power for Peace.”
Principal interest in local ob
servance will be in open house
programs. Southern Pines will be
represented when the USAF Air
Ground Operations School will
open its doors to the public at
9 a. m. until 4 p. mi. and display
its static equipment used by all
the instructors at the school, in
training about 4,000 officers from
lieutenants to lieutenant generals
of all the services and the allied
nations, each year.
At 11 a. m. three members of
the school staff living here will
chose a Cameron High School
senior. Miss M^lry Lou Swagger
ty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. L.
Swaggerty of Carthage, Route 2.
Members of the selection board
were: Garland ‘ McPherson of
Southern Pines, representing the
Moore County Red Cross Chapter
of which he is chairman; T. Roy
Phillips of Carthage, a member of
the county board of education; Dr.
M. T. Pishko, representing the
Moore County Medical Society;
Miss Margaret Moser, chief nurse
at Moore County Hospital; and
Thomas R. Howerton, chairman of
the Sandhill Veterans Association.
Three of the girls who have re
ceived scholarships in past years
are still in training. Five have
graduated and three of these are
practicing in the county. Two
have left the county and the two
new scholarship winners will en
ter school in the fall—making a
total of' 10 girls who have benefit
ed by the program since it was be
gun.
“This has all been due to the
sustained support of the people of
Moore County,” Mr. Howerton
said this week in announcing the
new scholarship winners. “Their
support of the program indicates
the need and the desire to have
more trained nurses in our coun
ty.”
On behalf of all the present and
past scholarship winners and the
Sandhill Veterans Association, Mr.
ovpr;5Pp« Howerton thanked the people of
the county for their support.
Letter Arrives After Death
One of the last letters that
Sen. Clyde R. Hoey ever
signed arrived in Southern
Pines Thursday morning—the
day after he died unexpected
ly while resting in his Wash
ington office.
In the letter, addressed to
Voit Gilmore, a member of
the program committee of the
Pinehurst Forum, the veteran
and beloved 76-year-old legis
lator tentatively accepted an
invitation to address the Fo
rum March 31, 1955. The let
ter was dated Tuesday, but, to
have reached Southern Pines
Thursday, might well have
been signed Wednesday. The
senator . died at 3:45 p.m.,
Wednesday.
“Of course,” wrote the sen
ator in the letter to Gilmore,
after accepting the invitation,
“it is impossible to tell defi
nitely this far in advance . . ”
Senator Hoey asked that
the local man remind him
again of the invitation about
the first of the New Year
“when I will know more defi
nitely about my situation and
the likelihood of being able to
fill the engagement.”
Residents of this area join
ed the state in mourning the
respected political leader who
had given North Carolina a
lifetime of public service.
Proposed Budget Sets $1.75 Tax
Rate For Year Beginninj* July 1
Hearing On
New Plumbing
Code Is Held
Meeting at town hall Tuesday
night, the town council received
from City Manager Tom E. Cun
ningham a proposed budget for
the 1954-’55 fiscal year, starting
July 1, that reduces the town tax
rate from $2.20 to $1.75 per' $100
of property valuation.
No action was taken by council
on the budget nor on most of the
other matters coming up at the
meeting, under the new plan
whereby the council has a dis
cussion meeting on the second
Tuesday of each month, wi^h the
“action” meeting scheduled for the
third Tuesday night. The action
meeting, formerly set for the Fri
day night fC'llowing the discussion
session, will therefore be held
Tuesday night of next week.
’The proposed budget assumes
the annexation of Knollwood on
which a public hearing has been
set for May 25 and which is ex
pected to be approved.
Highlights of the manager’s
budget message, explaining and
commenting on the budget, appear
at the end of this story.
In a public hearing Tuesday
night on a proposed plumbing and
heating code, the new measure
was praised by plumbers in at
tendance and, on advice of the
plumbers and after suggestions by
several persons present, an
amendment was set for approval
that would change inspection fees
from a minimum of $5 to a
straight $1 per fixture in jiew or
replacement work.
Longest discussion of the meet
ing centered on a proposal by
Newland Phillips to lay at his own
expense 1,000 feet of six-inch
water main, tying on to a line he
now owns, in the Golfcrest sub
division outside the city limits.
No decision was made as to the
terms under which this permis
sion should be given—City Man
ager Cunningham advising the
council that the line should be
deeded to the town when it is in
stalled, to prevent future com
plications of ownership should the
area be taken into the city limits,
and Mr. Phillips asking that an
arrangement be made with the
new line, as with a formerly in
stalled line, to sell it to the town,
taking depreciation into consider
ation if the area should become
part of the town.
The matter will come up for de
cision next Tuesday night.
The council also:
Heard a complaint from Mrs.
Naomi Cameron, 135 S. Gaines St.,
that her water was turned off be
cause she did not pay the sewer
charge on the water bill, although
she has no sewer connection, the
council pointing out that there is
a sewer available by her house
and that she must, under the law,
connect to the sewer, and that a
service charge is made where a
sewer is available.
Approved the use of “yield right
of way” signs at certain street in
tersections.
Indicated they would not ac
cept an offer of $3,000 for the
Community Center building on
May St.
Following are selected portions
of the manager’s message:
“This budget has been prepared
with three paramount Objectives
in mind: (1) The meeting of all
financial obligations of the Town
squarely and maintaining essen
tial services at the highest possible
level; (2) The equipping of Town
forces with the best possible
equipment to perform their re-
siJonsibilities smoothly, efficient
ly, and with maximum economy;
(3) The reduction of the high ad
valorum tax rate as low as pos
sible and removing from the tax
dollar those expenses that are for
the peculiar benefit of individual
citizens and property owners.
“I am submitting this budget to
you as the financial plan under
which the operation of the Coun
cil-Manager form of government
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There has been some specula
tion about the lease in view of the
receive awards for their partici- ^^‘^t that, under terms of the lease
Indications Are
Air Force WiB
Remain At Hotel
Ail indications point to the fact
that the Air Force does not intend
to terminate its lease for the Air
Ground School at the Highland
Pines Inn any time in the near fu
ture, it was pointed out this week
by James Hartshorne, resident
manager at the Inn which is own
ed by the Stitzer Hotel Co.
pation in the war in Korea. Lt.
Col. Albert R. Cupello of 465 Or
chard Rd., will receive the Legion
of Merit; Major Robert J. Rader
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Fowler Graduates
At Fire College
Chief Harold B. Fowler and
Capt. C. T. Dunn, Jr., of the
Southern Pines volunteer fire de
partment, attended the North
Carolina State Fire College at
Charlotte four days last week.
Having attended the course an
nually for four years. Chief Fow
ler received his diploma in grad
uation exercises conducted at the
close of the college. Captain Durm
this year completed his third year
conrse and -will be eligible to
graduate if he attends satisfactor
ily next year.
Frank Kaylor, resident fireman,
is a 1950 graduate of the Fire Col
lege.
as it now stands, the Air Force,
after June 30, can terminate the
lease upon 60 days’ notice
Mr. Hartshorne also pointed out
that the Air Ground School is not
a unit that would become a part
of the proposed new U. S. Air
Academy—an aspect of the
School’s status that has also caus
ed speculation.
The Air Force however, cannot
stay at the Highland Pines Inn be
yond June 30, 1955, without sign
ing a new lease.
■While the 60 days’ notice pro
vision is effective throughout the
year to begin June 30, it was
pointed out by Mr. Hartshorne
that both the owners and the Air
Force are making improvements
at the Inn that would indicate
continued occupancy. The hotel
company is levelling a volleyball
court and preparing a putting
green and making other improve
ments.
“We have no indication on the
part of the Air Force that they
intend to get out,” said Mr. Harts
horne.
TO CLOSE WEDNESDAYS
Beginning Wednesday of next
week the Southern Pines Library
will close at 12:30 each Wednes
day until October.