National Guard Battery Gets Early
Start On Trip To Georgia Camp
Unit Plans Return
June 26; Will Test
Firing Abilities
Rising before daylight Sunday
morning, Southern Pines National
Guardsmen assembled for a dawn
breakfast ana, boarded their
trucks for a 325-mile journey to
Camp Stewart, Ga., where this
week and next they will test their
abilities in their annual two weeks
encampment.
The local unit. Battery D of the
130th Automatic Weapons Battal
ion. has its headquarters at South
ern Pines but draws its member-
Ci.
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FHA Meeting
Slated Here
June 22, 23
Southern Pines will be host
next week to Farmers Home Ad
ministration supervisors and sec
retaries from 20 counties of the
Federal agricultural agency’s
third North Carolina district, as
weU as FHA leaders from Ra
leigh, in a two-day meeting with
headquarters at the Southland
Hotel.
C. C. Lingerfelt of Carthage,
FHA supervisor for Moore Coun
ty, is making local arrangements
for the gathering Tuesday and
Wednesday. Miss Helen C. Dunlap,
secretary at the Carthage FHA
office, is expected to attend the
meeting.
For most FHA personnel from
the district, the meeting will af
ford their first opportunity to
meet Horace J. Isenhour, Catawba
County dairyman and former
county commissioner, who recent
ly moved to Raleigh as the Re
publican appointee for State FHA
director.
Mr. Isenhour and members of
his Raleigh staff plan to attend all
sessions of the meeting. He is ex
pected to appear as guest speaker
on the regular . agricultural pro
gram: on Radio Station WEEB
here at 12:15 p. m. Wednesday.
A feature of Wednesday’s pro
gram will be the presentation of
service awards to agency person
nel at 1 p. m.
Coming under discussion at the
gathering will be new FHA pol
icies that tend to put greater con
trol and responsibility in the local
county offices.
All .counties adjoining Moore
are included in the 20-county dis
trict. '
ship from throughout Moore
County. Commanded by Capt.
WiUiam J. Wilson, the battery
was formed in 1948 and has at
tended camp each summer since.
Sunday morning. Battery D was
to join other units of the battalion
commanded .by Col. William J.
Lament, Jr., from Sanford, Rae
ford, St. Pauls and Red Springs,
en route below Laurinburg.
Warrant Officer Lennox For
syth said before leaving that plans
called for the battalion to bivouac
Sunday night at Ridgeland, S. C.,
with arrival at Camp Stewart
slated for 9 a.m., Monday.
Return journey will begin Sat
urday morning, June 26, with the
Southern Pines unit expected to
arrive back here between noon
and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Busy Schedule
Schedule for the two weeks en
campment calls for firing of the
40-mm. guns and 50-cal. multiple
machineguns during the first
week.
A parade Saturday morning,
June 19, will climax the week’s
work. Passes will be issued for
personnel without extra duty giv
ing liberty from Saturday noon
until Monday morning.
Specialized classes will occupy
Monday and Tuesday of next
week. The field problem will be
encountered Wednesday as men
work under simulated combat
conditions. The night will be
spent in the field.
Preparations for the homeward
journey will begin Thursday and
continue through Friday or Sat
urday morning.
Battery officers urged relatives
to write to Guardsmen participat
ing in the training.
Addresses should include rank,
full name and serial number di
rected to Battery D, 130th AAA
Bn. (Aw Sp) NCNG, Camp Stew
art, Ga.
Emergency phone caUs or wires
must be directed through 252nd
AAA Group Headquarters at
Camp Stewart.
Other units participating in ma
neuvers will be the 725th and
150th, a 90-mm. outfit from Wil
mington.
Members of the local battery at
camp number seven officers and
61 enlisted men.
FIREMEN'S QUEEN—^Miss Shirley Tyner, right, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tyner of Pinebluff. holds her trophy as win
ner of a beauty contest sponsored by firemen at Pinebluff Mon
day night—two days before she waS chosen Queen of the Sand
hill Firemen s Association in a contest at the group's convention
in Hamlet Wednesday. At left, above is Miss Carol Baker, daugh
ter of Mr, and Mrs. C. C. Baker, runner-up in the Pinebluff con-
(Photo by John David)
Fowler Re-Elected President Sandhill
Firemen; Miss Tyner Is Beauty Queen
Safety Campaign
Stress Scheduled
June 26 - July 5
Vass Slill Leads
Cooperaling Towns
In Driver Pledges
Council Okays Plan To
Raze Old Police Bld^.
Water Policy
Second Storm
In Week Hits
Local Section
The USAF Air-Ground School
and sponsoring organizations in
Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Pine-
hurst, Vass and Carthage
planning a special period of em-!trai" rain«
phasis for “Operation Impact’’— thunder
a continuing traffic safety cam-1 ^ ...
paign-June 26 through July 5.* driveways
The period—which ---i- i washed out m the torrents that
The second violent storm within
a week struck Southern Pines and
portions of this area Monday af-
I ternoon, accompanied by torren-
violent lightning and
In Golfcrest
Not Decided
ably see proclamations by mayors the skies Wednesday
nf all ficl the gutted all
■ over again. Repairs made since
of all the towns—includes
traditionally dangerous July 4
weekend.
Capt. James J. McDonald, pub
lic information officer at the Air-
Ground School, said that the spe
cial period will be a climax of the
current Operation Impact cam
paign. V
rain were largely
last week’s
washed out.
Homes and business buildings
in low areas again were flooded.
The A. & P. store on Pennsylvania
avenue had to close its doors to
the public about 3:30 p.m. because
In the campaign, xriotorists aL^^Manfge?”""'
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David W. Gamble
Takes Office As
Lions President
The Southern Pines Lions Club
holding its regular bi-monthly
meeting Friday at the Southern
Pines Country Club, formally in
stalled their newly elected officers
for 1954-55 year. Lion District
Deputy Governor H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen had charge of instal
lation ceremonies for the occasion.
The following officers were in
stalled: David W. Gamble, presi
dent; Willicun A. Benson, first vice
president; Donald F. Traylor, sec
ond vice president; Charles S.
Jr., third vice president;
Willis B. Rush, secretary-treasur
er; Clifford M. Story, Lion Tamer;
Walter F. Harper, Tail Twister;
Charles Cole, director, two years;
and Henry Clayton, director, two
years.
Upon the conclusion of the in
stallation by Lion Blue, President
Gamble made committee assign
ments and urged that each ap
pointee accept the responsibility
of augmenting his committee with
members of his choice and that
the chairman of each committee
will be expected to make regular
reports to the club of his commit
tee activities.
The appointments were as fol
lows: attendance. Cliff Story; fi
nance, Willis Rush; Lions infor
mation, Henry Clayton; publicity,
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Carthage Chief
Subdues Bad Actor
A bad actor was brought to
book in Carthage Wednesday,
when Chief of Police E. R. Kerns
shot and seriously wounded Eddie
Alfonso Cole, 35, who was terror
izing the Negro section.
The call for the officers was
made by Cole’s brother, Harold,
who came to the police station be
tween 3 and 4 o’clock to say that
Alfonso was on the rampage and
was threatening to kill an aged
neighbor, Joe Bennett. He had no
gun but was wielding a swing-
blade grass cutter. Before the call
could be answered, a telephone
message came in: “Tell the police
to hurry!’’ ,
When Deputy Sheriff A. W.
Lambert and Chief Kerns arrived
on the scene, Alonzo was on the
porch of the Huntley Johnson
home. He came off the porch on
the run, cursing and swinging his
blade at the oncoming officers.
Both ordered him to stop, and shot
at the ground in front of him, to
no effect. The berserk man was
finally felled by a shot from Chief
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Joyce Lewis
Is Local Enlxy In
Contest At Hamlet
Harold B. Fowler, Southern
Pines fire chief, was re-elected
president of thd Sandhill Fire
men’s Association during the 28th
annual convention of the associa
tion at Hamlet Wednesday.
Chief Fowler headed a Southern
Pines delegation to the meeting
that included several firemen,
Methodists Will '
Have Services In
Community House
Southern Pines’ new Methodist
congregation, now being organ
ized by the Rev. E, E. Whitley,
will hold services each Sunday at
the Community Center building
(former Elks Club) on May St.,
until further notice, the pastor I aboard and other Southern Pines
firemen riding on the vehicle.
Frank Kay lor, resident fireman
who lives at tRe firehouse, and
Mrs. Kaylor, and Joyce Lewis, the
local department’s entry in a
beauty contest that was a high
light of the all-day program.
Other officers named at the con
vention were: Perry Covington,
Rockingham chief, replacing J. R.
Wallace of Troy as vice president;
and E. P. Leatherbury of Hamlet,
re-elected secretary-treasurer.
Following a business meeting in
the morning at Hamlet town ball
the firemen, representing a large
number of the 43 central and east
ern North Carolina towns in the
association, had lunch at the fair
grounds.
Old Truck Shines
In the afternoon parade, the
beauty contest entries rode atop
the rear seats of convertibles. Miss
Lewis being driven by fireman
George Little. The local depart
ment’s 1926 La France truck was
shined up for the parade, with Mr.
and Mrs. Kaylor, in uniform.
pledge safe driving and no speed
ing and receive a windshield
sticker. In Southern Pines, the
stickers can be obtained at the
Air Ground School or at the VFW
post home.
Vass stiU leads in the number of
motorists who have signed the
driving pedge. Captain McDonad
said. Vass has 129, Aberdeen 116,
iPnehurst 75, Carthage 68 and
Southern Pines, 62. The local fig
ure does not include the Air-
Ground School which has some
150 signers, including all military
and civilian personnel associated
with the school.
Mrs. John Dundas
Named Librarian;
Starts This Fall
said this week.
On the schedule are Sunday
School at 9:45 a. m. and preach
ing service at 11 a. m. These are
the only services being held there
at this time.
The newly appointed pastor said
that preliminary plans for the
church here include construction
of an education building first at
Named Firemen’s Queen in the
beauty contest was the Pinebluff
entry, Shirley Tyner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tyner. The
Rockingham entry was runner-up.
Seven girls were entered in the
contest.
After the beauty contest Thad
Eure, N. C. Secretary of State, ad-
Maine Ave. and May St., so built dressed the firemen at the fair
that an adjoining church sanctu
ary can be constructed later.
Building plans are being investi
gated. I
The Rev. Mr. Whitley is devo
ting his full time now to meeting
Methodists in Southern Pines and
nearby areas unserved by any
existing church.
Plans call for chartering the
new church here some time in
September.
grounds. Also speaking briefly
was Charlie Gold, recently re
nominated state insurance com
missioner, and his deputy, Everett
Jones.
Entries Praised
Mrs. Graham Culbreth, who ac
companied Miss Lewis to Hamlet,
had high praise for the beauty of
all the girls entered in the contest.
She said that the Southern Pines
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DIRECTOR REPORTS BRISK INTEREST
RED CROSS HOURS
The Southern Pines office Of
the Moore County Red Cross
Chapter will observe the follow
ing hours' through September: 8
a. m. to 4 p. m., Monday through
Friday; and 9 a. m. to noon on
Saturday.
Summer Recreation Program Gets Good Start
Director Irie Leonard reported
a “brisk interest” by young peo
ple in Southern Pines’ summer
recreation program as the varied
events began this week.
The complete weekly schedule,
which appeared in The Pilot last
week, is reprinted this week on
page 9. Readers are advised to clip
this program for regular refer
ence, as it will not appear each
week during the summer.
Bobby Renegar is now on reg
ular duty as life guard at the
Southern Pines lake off Midland
Road, from 1 to 6 p. m. seven days
a week. At other hours, persons
swim there at their own risk.
The concession stand at the
lake, operated by W. A. Leonard,
is open each day except Monday.
One change was made in the
regular schedule this week and
is shown in the list of events on
page 9. The cooking class for girls
at the Home Ec building was mov
ed from Wednesday morning 'to
Tuesday morning.
Director Leonard praised the
efforts of volunteer workers in
getting the program off to a good
start. These workers include: Mrs.
James McDonald, Miss Florence
Buckner, Miss Lucy McDaniel, W.
A. Leonard, Russell Simons, Mrs.
Margaret Fredericks, Mrs. Ward
Hill and members of the Fellow
ship Forum of the Church of Wide
Fellowship.
Summer events not on the rec
reation schedule include Vacation
Bible School at the First Baptpist
Church for children aged four
through 15, which opened Monday
and runs through today (Friday);
Bible School at the Church of
Wide Fellowship, to run the week
of August 2; classes at the South
ern Pines school, conducted Mon
day through Saturday mornings
by Miss Bess McIntyre, Mrs. Quil-
lie McDonald and Miss Pauline
Miller through July 17; and the
SandhiUs Activity Center at
Southern Pines Cottages, Route
I, South, through August 19, Mon
day through Friday, 9 a. m. to 2
p. m., conducted by W. A. Leon
ard, Dr. Vincent Daly, Miss Buice
and Mrs. DeCosta, school mother;
The Negro recreation program
is continuing under direction of
J. C. Hasty, Mrs. E. Stubbs and
Miss C. E. Steele.
Mrs. John Dundas of 610 VaUey
Road has accepted appointment as
librarian at the Southern Pines
Library, to begin her work in the
fall, it was announced this week.
The library has been without a
regular librarian since June
when Mrs. Marie H. Hunter, a na
tive of Minneapolis, Minn., left the
post after having held it only
month.
During the summer, Mrs. Tom
Smith, substitute librarian, and
others are expected to perform
the required duties until Mrs.
Dundas takes over.
Mrs. Dundas is the former Ruth
Coleman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Arch Coleman of “Skyline”
on No. 1 highway, north of South
ern Pines. Her husband. Vice Ad
miral John Dundas (Royal Navy),
died in March, 1952, five and a
half years after the family had
moved to the United States from
England.
The five Dundas children are:
Mrs. Penn Watson, Jr., of Wilson;
Rosemary, who graduated at Duke
University, Durham, this year;
Deirdre, who will be a senior at
Duke next faU; John, 12, and Al
exandra, 8.
For the past two years, Mrs.
Dundas has been employed by the
Pinehurst Press Bureau and the
Shearwood Travel Service, of
Pinehurst. She has now termi
nated her connection with these
two organizations.
L. D. McDonald
were on the job until 9:30 Monday
night, cleaning up, and returned
to work at 6 a.m. the next morn
ing in order to ready the big es
tablishment for its regular open
ing Tuesday.
“We’re right back where we
started,” said City Manager Tom
E. Cunningham after Monday’s
rain. Since last Wednesday, Street
Supt. Roland Norton had put all
available men on the task of re
pairing washed out streets and
driveways, but their work was
largely undone Monday. On Tues
day, the effort was begun once
more and Cunningham reported
good progress being made on re
pairs this week.
The city manager estimated be
tween 50 and 100 driveways wash
ed out, saying that this was the
biggest source of complaints to
town hall and that town crews
have been concentrating on repair
of driveways and streets this
week.
Cunningham listed some of the
worst street damage as: Rhode Is
land Ave., the south portion of
Stephens St., Crestview Road be
low the Knollwood Apartments
and Maine Ave., between Bennett
and Page Streets.
He said that some sections of
a dirt streets that had been prepar
ed for hard surfacing were dam
aged to such an extent that the
surfacing will be impossible until
extensive repairs are made.
The manager praised Mr. Nor
ton and town crews for the inten
sive work done this week and last
week. He again asked the public
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Wilson Child Hit
By Car, Reported
Recovering Well
Little Paul Wilson, two and a
half years old, narrowly escaped
serious injury Wednesday when
he was struck by a car near his
home.
The small son of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Wilson, of 255 East Con
necticut Avenue, was hit by a
car driven by Carson L. Lemons
of 537 S. E. Broad St. Mr. Lemons
was driving up hill from the May
Street intersection. Paul suffered
a blow On the head and a broken
collar bone, examination at Moore
County Hospital disclosed.
The accident occurred at 6:30
]?. m. when a slow rain was fall
ing. Apparently the child ran in
to the street and into the car, as
far as could be ascertained by the
investigating officers, »Chandler
and Stout. No charges against Mr.
Lemons were preferred.
Latest report is that Paul is get
ting along well.
Registration For
Speech Clinic To
Be Held Saturday
Parents of children with speech
imperfections or handicaps were
reminded today that registration
for the annual Moore County
speech clinic, June 21-July 30,
will be held at, the health center
in Carthage tomorrow (Saturday)
from 9 a.m. to noon.
Articulation, hearing and vision
of applicants for the free clinic
classes will be tested and physical
examinations wiU be given if con
sidered necessary.
The school itself wiU be held at
the West End school building each
weekday morning, under direc
tion of two experienced teachers
who have had special training for
this type of work—^Mrs. Shields
Cameron of Southern Pines and
Miss Blanche Monroe of West
End.
Mrs. Cameron said she will
drive to the school each morning,
going through Eastwood, and wUl
be glad to arrange to pick up chil
dren who can meet her at the
road.
The clinic is financed with Eas-
er Seal funds contributed to the
Moore County Society for Crip
pled Children.
ATTENDS CONVEN'nON
C. G Priest, postmaster at
Lakeview, was among the post
masters from this area attending
last week’s convention of the
North Carolina Chapter, National
Association of Postmasters, at
Fontana Village. Other postmas
ters attending the convention, at
which Garland A. Pierce of South
ern Pines was elected president
of the organization, were listed in
last week’s Pilot.
With two councilmen absent,
the remaining three members of
the board Tuesday night deferred
action on two pressing matters—
the Golfcrest water line and
whether or not to permit Sunday
fishing at the water works lake
until a special meeting June 29,
but the council did authorize City
Manager Tom E. Cunningham to
accept bids on razing of the old
police station and ABC building
on New Hampshire Ave.
Present were Councilmen Voit
Gilmore, who presided as mayor
pro tern in the absence of Mayor
Lloyi T. Clark, Joe O’Callaghan
ana C. S. Patch, Jr. W. E. Blue
was the other absent member of
the board.
The council’s authorization
specified that the police station
building be razed at no expense
to the town and that the contract
stipulate the job be done within
60 days of the time it is started.
Last year, the old building-
one of the town landmarks which
had once been a pharmacy and
then a variety store with living
quarters upstaus-was sold at pub
lic auction to the late Harry Vale,
who died recently, but the deed
was never signed because Mr.
Vale had been unable to obtain
from an adjoining property own
er satisfactory access to the east
side of the building.
The building is worth little as it
stands, as the town is prohibited
by law, because of fire district
regulations, from spending on it
the funds it would take to put it
in good condition. Manager Cun
ningham said he had a proposal
from one party to take the build
ing down for the lumber in it.
With the building gone, the site
would be a valuable business sec
tion lot.
Manager Cunningham reported
that there had been a number of
requests to lift the Sunday fish
ing ban. Councilman Patch also
reported such requests and sug
gested, while on the fishing topic,
that the visitor’s daily fishing fee
be reduced from $2 to $1.
A matter on the docket deferred
to the July meeting was appoint
ment of two alternate members
of the zoning board of adjustment,
so that all members of the council
could be present to consider sug
gested names.
The Golfcrest water line pro
posal came in for a long discussion
between council members and
Newland Phillips, owner of the
development which lies outside
the town limits.
Mr. Phillips is asking that the
town give assurance it will reim
burse him, eillowing for deprecia
tion, for 1,000 feet of six-inch
water main he proposes to install
at his own expense, adding it to
1,000 feet of six-inch main he had
previously installed under a sim
ilar agreement with a former
town administration.
Manager Cunningham is rec
ommending to the council that the
town set a policy requiring out
side development owners to deed
such water lines to the town at
the time they are installed, con
tending that developers are paid
for the lines in the price of their
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CHILD AT HOME
Michele Lynn Valen,. 11-
months-old daughter of Mich
ael Valen of Murray Hill
Road, was brought home
from Moore County Hospital
Sunday and is reported “do
ing fine.”
The child was injured in an
auto accident that took her
mother’s life Monday of last
week. Although she was
thrown from an overturning
car, the child’s only injuries
were a cracked collar bone
and severe bruises.
Mr. Valen’s mother, Mrs.
Anna Valkauskas Of Phoenix,
Ariz., is remaining at the
Valen home. His sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew S. Bodnar, of Car
teret, N. J., and their two
children spent Friday and
Saturday with Mr. Valen
here.