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VOL. 35—NO.
U. L Spence, 86, Dean of Moore County
Bar, Succumbs; Rites Scheduled Today
Brilliant Attorney
Active Until Heart
Attack Last Sunday
Union Lee Spence, 86, died
Wednesday afternoon at Moore
County Hospital. He was dean of
the Moore County Bar and the
oldest practicing attorney in the
county at the time of his death.
Born in Stanly County, the son'
of Daniel and Margaret Spence,
he was educated at Oak Ridge In
stitute and the Law School of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Mr. Spence taught school for
number of years and began the
practice of law in Troy. In 1894,
he moved to Carthage where he
had a notable career. He was a
past president of the Moore Coun
ty Bar.
From 1903 until 1931, Mr.
Spence served in the General As
sembly as both senator and repre
sentative. In 1935, he was again
elected to the State Senate.
Funeral services will be held
this (Friday) morning at 11 o’clock
from the Carthage Methodist
Church. The Rev. George Blount,
pastor, will officiate. Burial will
be in Cross Hill Cemetery at Car
thage.
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PRICE—TEN CENTS
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Holiday Will
Be Observed
Mon., July 5
Business life of this area will
virtually come to a standstill July
5 as a long holiday, extending
through Monday, is taken in rec
ognition of the July 4 Independ
ence Day which this year falls on
Sunday.
Most local stores and offices will
be closed in accordance with the
holiday calendar of the Chamber
of Commerce.
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Co., as well as banks throughout
the section, will be closed all day
Monday.
At the Southern Pines post of
fice, a window will be open be
tween 10 and 11 a.m. only. Mail
will be distributed to boxes and
dispatched out as usual, but there
will be no city delivery service.
The Southern Pines offices at
town hall will be closed all day.
All city employees not needed on
maintenance work will have a
holiday. There will be no garbage
collection Monday. Collection will
be made Tuesday in aU areas hav
ing regular Monday collection,
said City Manager Tom E. Cun
ningham.
In Carthage, the courthouse will
be closed Monday. The regular
Monday session of recorders court,
and the July meeting of the board
of county commissioners have
been deferred to Tuesday.
'Operation Impact'
In connection with long holiday
week-end, spokesmen for the
USAF Air-Ground School and the
John Boyd post. Veterans of For
eign Wars—joint sponsors of the
“Operation Impact” traffic safety
program—urged careful driving
by motorists throughout the area,
Similar warnings were issued by
sponsors of the program in Aber
deen, Pinehurst, Vass and Car
thage.
In all five communities the pe
riod through July 5 has been set
for special eipphasis on the pro
gram which features signing i
safe driving pledge and receiving
a windshielci sticker star.
Persons wishing to cooperate
with Operation Impact can get the
stickers and sign the pledge at the
VFW post home across from the
post office on New York Ave., or
at the Air-Ground School in the
Highland Pines Inn.
Mr. Spence is survived by his
wife, the former Mary Worthy of
Carthage; one daughter, Mrs.
Maxwell F. Gardner of Alexan
dria, Va.; a son, U. L. Spence, Jr.,
of Wilmington; and several grand
children.
Mr. Spence was a senior partner
of the law firm, Spence and Boy
ette, at Carthage, with M. B. Boy
ette who is Superior Court solici
tor for the 13th District.
Retaining his competence and
brilliance as an attorney to the
end of his life, Mr. Spence was
throughout his career an eager
student of the law. He was noted
for his ability to grasp the salient
points of a legal situation and
summarize them with clarity and
effectiveness in whatever case he
was involved. While Mr. Spence
commanded universal respect, he
was nevertheless a friendly man
who enjoyed a joke and was easi
ly approachable.
Tall and slim, he had an erect
bearing and moved quickly and
vigorously, even in his later years.
In a term of Superior Court at
Carthage a few weeks ago, Mr.
Spence made what one experienc
ed Moore County attorney called
one of the most brilliant speeches
he had ever heard in a courtroom.
Mr. Spence suffered a heart at
tack Sunday and was taken to
Moore County Hospital where he
appeared to rally but suffered an
other attack Tuesday. He survived
Last Performance At Old School
The stage at the old South
ern Pines High School, shown
above with its surrounding
auditorium completely remov
ed, is the scene of a farewell
performance where many
classes have graduated and
many dramatic scenes have
been portrayed. The last act
for the old stage is played by
wreckers of the Star Lumber
Co., of Chicago, Ill., who are
rapidly tearing down the
school to make way for a pro
posed wing of the new high
school. The whole section,
where a man is visible here
on the roof tearing off boards,
is now down. The chimney
beyond the man is that of the
power plant in the first unit
of the new high school build
ing that is being built next
door to the old structure.
(Pilot Staff Photo)
Younts Appointed
C. of C. Director;
Replaces Cosgrove
Jack S. Younts. WEEB president
and general manager, has accept
ed appointment as a director of
. the Southern Pines Chamaber of
succumbed Commerce, it was announced this
week by Mrs. Valerie Nicholson,
TIME. PLACE OF
CONTEST CHANGED
Attention is called to the
fact that arrangements for the
beauty contest at the Fourth
of July celebration in Car
thage Monday will be some
what different from previous
years.
Formerly, the contest was
held outside the courthouse at
noon, with the girls riding in
the parade later.
This year, said Chairman
Colin G. Spencer, Jr., the girls
will ride on a float together in
the parade, starting at 1:15
p.m., then will be transported
to the Carthage school gym,
where the contest will take
place at 3 o’clock. It is open
to the public.
Only one Southern Pines
girl has been entered this
year, so far as was known to
The Pilot at presstime. This is
Miss Jacque Davenport, 16-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Davenport, who has
been entered by the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce.
Wednesday. Cause of death was
given as coronary thrombosis.
It is expected that the Moore
C^ounty courthouse at Carthage
will be closed during the funeral
service today.
Active pallbearers will be Eu
gene Stewart, Wilbur Currie,
James Pleasants, C. M. Patterson,
Joe Allen and Charles Sinclair,
Jr.
Designated as honorary pall
bearers are members of the Moore
County Bar and out-of-county at
torneys attending the services;
also Clyde Shaw, Sheriff C. J. Mc
Donald, Colin Spencer, Sr., C. C.
Kennedy, Wilton Brown, Charlie
Jenkins, W. P. Saunders, Dr. F.
H. Underwood Dr. R. L. Felton,
Dr. Charles T. Grier, Dr. J. S.
Hiatt, Jr, and Robert T. Cagle.
Over 100 Attend
CAP Gathering
Over 100 persons, including
members of the Pinehurst-South-
ern Pines Civil Air Patrol squad
ron, gathered at the airport Tues
day night to welcome Major Up-
sher, commander of Group II,
CAP, Greensboro District, Major
Littleton and Major Jordan. A
large number of interested visitors
attended the meeting.
A feature of the evening was
an exhibition by the Greensboro
CAP cadet drill team composed of
boys in the 14-21 age group eli
gible for CAP cadet membership,
under the direction of Cadet Capt.
John Carroll. The cadet training
program' of the local squadron is
being organized.
president.
Mr. Younts succeeds Frank H.
Cosgrove, resigned, both as a di
rector and chairman of the Cham
ber’s golf committee. The com
mittee was organized to coor
dinate plans for a hoped-for fall
event, employing all three local
courses.
Mr. Cosgrove resigned recently
because his business as manager
pf the Mid Pines Club here, and
also of a summer resort hotel in
Massachusetts, prevented his be-
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Carthage Sets
Big Celebration,
Program Monday
By W. PAUL BLACKMAN
Everything is being readied for
the 15th annual Fourth of July
celebration to be held at Carthage
on Monday, July 5, under the
sponsorship of the Carthage Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce.
An exciting program has been
arranged, one^that the Jaycees
hope will keep the large crowd
expected for the celebration en
tertained every minute of their
stay.
Jaycee President Clinton Camp
bell said this week that every
thing is being done to give the
people of Moore and surrounding
counties a fuU day of fun and
frolic during their visit to Car
thage for the celebration.
O. D. Wallace, Jr., is chairman
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Surveys For New Route From Hwe To
Raleigh Reported By Sanford Herald
Surveys are being made for a
direct route from Southern Pines
to Raleigh which .would by-pa^
Sanford but go through Broad
way, the Sanford Herald said
Wednesday.
Sanford’s Mayor E. W. Fields
was quoted as saying he had
heard the surveys were being
made but had been informed
‘these will not mean anything.”
Forrest Lockey, of Aberdeen,
Eighth Division highway com
missioner, said he had not heard
of any such surveys being made
but that they could be carried out
under orders from Raleigh with
out his knowledge.
It was repoxled the route be
ing surveyed would start at
Southern Pines and (follow
straight line to Raleighi.
Reports are that two' routes at
Broadway are being discussed.
One would take traffic across
Avent Ferry bridge and Sanford
side of Broadway, while the sec
ond would be on the other side of
Broadway.
No additional action has been
taken on the proposed by-passing
of Sanford on U. S. No. 1, Lockey
was reported to have said.
A lot of , work still has to be
done by the Federal Bureau of
Public Rpads and the State High
way commission before any defi
nite action could be undertaken.
At present, Lockey concluded,
there are no funds available for
any by-pass work around Sanford,
a' even if such a plan were adopted.
Fred McLean To
Face Trial For
Double Attack
One of the most spectacular in
cidents of violence, short of mur
der, that has occurred in Moore
County in years was outlined in
recorders court at Carthage Mon
day when a preliminary hearing
was held for Fred McLean, Aber
deen white man.
Probable cause was found by
Judge J. Vance Rowe on two
charges of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill and
McLean was bound over for trial
in Moore County Superior Court.
Bond was set at $750 in .one case
and $500 in the other.
McLean, the State charges, at
tacked Floyd Seals of Aberdeen
while Seals was sitting in the Ab
erdeen Theatre, next to McLean’s
wrife, using a leaf from an automo
bile spring as a weapon. Accord
ing to testimony at the hearing,
McLean stunned Seals with one
blow of the spring leaf and opened
a gash over his eye, that later re
quired 28 stitches, with another.
Then, it was testified, McLean fol-
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Hyde, Plunkett
Buy ‘Outlook’
The Pinehurst Outlook, which
was founded in 1896, was pur
chased this week from the Pine
hurst Printing Company by a new
Annexation Reqnest From Conntry
Clnb Section ^^thdrawn Snddenly
Agreement Is
Armory Here
19th On List
Of Priority .
Southern Pines is 19th on a list
of North Carolina towns and cities
in whicR National Guard armories
are to be built, it was revealed last
week after a meeting of the state
armory commission in Raleigh.
Armories are built jointly by
the state and federal governments,
the state putting up 25 per cent of
the money and the federal govern
ment paying the rest.
In the current building program,
contracts have been awarded for
construction of 13 armories, some
of vvhich have been completed.
State funds are available for an
other four armories, accounting
for 17 on the list. Next comes
Clinton in 18th place and South
ern Pines in 19th. The list made
public by the commission runs up
to 26.
A step taken by the commission
makes it possible for a town or
city to obtain an armory before
State funds are available. The
commission approved a proposal
by Charlotte that the armory be
built now with privately collected
funds which would be paid back
when the state and federal money
is appropriated. Charlotte is 25th
on the priority list.
■yVith Southern Pines in 19th po
sition, it is not likely that such a
procedure would be attempted
here, although the possibility for
it remains. A site off the old
Southern Pines-Pin'ehurst road,
where the National Guard garage
is located, has been chosen for the
armory location.
104 IS OFFICIAL
HEAT FOR SUNDAY
Last Sunday's official tem
perature of 104 degrees on the
Weather Bureau thermome
ter, as reported by Mrs. T. A.
Kelley, observer, may have
been a, record for June, a
quick scanning of Mrs. Kel
ley's records shows.
Only higher temperature
found in records of recent
years was 106 in July of 1940
when there was a string ctf
nine days with temperatures
over 100. In July. 1952, a tem
perature of 103 wais recorded
by Mrs. Kelley.
Sunday's heat was the talk
of this area early this week.
Temperatures dropped con
siderably early this week, af
fording a few cooler days, but
yesterday (Thursday) was
hot, tempered by a pleasant
breeze.
Pastor of Newly
Formed Ghurch Is
Lions Club Speaker
Reached About
Golfcrest Water
No Outside Area
Yet All Signed
For Fire Service
The town’s new fire service law,
forbidding volunteers to answer
alarms out of the city limits unless
the owner of property to be pro
tected has paid a' fire service
charge, went into effect Thursday.
City Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham said that in the Sunnyside
area all but one property owner
had signed contracts with the
town. In the Weymouth Heights
area, all but about 10 hqve signed,
he said.
Unless town fire protection is
given all property in a well-
defined area, outside the limits,
property in such an area is sub
ject to higher fire insurance rates.
Local insurance agents have been
informed by the North Carolina
Insurance Rating Bureau of Ra
leigh that classifications must be
changed effective July 1. Specifi
cally rated properties, the Bureau
said, will be re-rated as soon as
possible.
It is up to the Rating Bureau,
corporation headed by William C. agents pointed out, to determine
Plunkett, of Heartwellville, Vt.,
and Nelson C, Hyde, of Pinehurst.
Mr. Plunkett is a textile indus
trialist with offices in North
what is a “recognized, well-
defined suburban area” in which
property owners can receive bet
ter rates if all sign fire protection
Adams, Mass., and a winter resi- contracts with the town. Fire pro-
dence in Pinehurst. Mr. Hyde,
former chief of the Washington
Bureau of the Philadelphia (Pa.)
Evening Bulletin, has been editor
of the Outlook for the past three
years. Before going to Washing
ton he owned and published The
Pilot in Southern Pines.
The owners of the Pinehurst
Printing Company, Thomas W.,
Paul S. and J. H. Wilson, broth
ers, and John W. Jones, all for
merly of Laurinburg, have recent
ly acquired the weekly papers in
St. Pauls and Red Springs, in ad
dition to publishing the Nashville
Graphic. They will continue tO'
operate The Pinehurst Printing
Company.
Couniry Club Sets
July 4 Tournament
The public is invited to partici
pate in a Fourth of July golf
tournament at the Southern Pines
Country Club, opening Saturday
and running through Monday.
Ladies and men can take part on
payment of a small entry fee.
The tournament features 36
holes of medal play and partici
pants can play any timie during
the three days.
tection costs 25 cents per $100 of
property valuation, paid annually
in advance to the town.
Bookmobile Will
Stop West Side
The bookmobile of the Moore
County Library will stop on
Thursday, July 8, from 4:30 to 4:50
p. m., at the corner of West Penn
sylvania Ave. and Gaines St.,
(stoplight), for the benefit of any
adults who may wish to borrow
books. Children accompanied by
adults or children whose parents
will sign appplication cards for
them will also be issued books.
A stop was made at the Penn
sylvania Avenue stoplight corner
Thursday of last week, but no
one met the bookmobile, although
post cards had been mailed to
some adults wl^o had expressed in
terest in reading during the sum
mer.
Mrs. Dorothy H. Avery, librari
an-secretary of the Moore County
Library Board, said that bookmo
bile service has been available to
Negroes since the system went
into operation. Everyone who en
joys books is welcome tO' use
bookmobile facilities, she said.
The Southern Pines Lions Club,
holding their final bi-monthly
meeting in June last Friday night
at the Southern Pines Country
Club with President Dave Gamble
presiding, heard a talk by the
Rev. E. E. Whitley, pastor of the
newly organized Methodist
Church. S. B. Richardson was ap
pointed to represent the club on
a steering committee being formed
by other civic organizations to
formulate plans for a special pub
lic affair to be announced at an
early date.
Don Traylor gave a full report
of the State Lions Convention,
held in Raleigh June 10 through
the 13, to which he and Bill Ben
son were the local club’s official
delegates and they were- both in
attendance. Following this report
Walter Harper gave a report con
cerning the activities of Little
League baseball team and urged
that more Lions support their
team by coming out to the ball
games. Harper also stated that
the local team hsd just won their
fourth game of the season giving
them a 500 percentage for the
season. Also the team has two new
^coaches for the balance of the sea
son headed by Coach Irie Leonard
and assisted by Coach C. L. Dut
ton. The Little Leaguers next
home game will be July 12, with
Carthage furnishing the Opposi
tion.
Program Chairman C. S. Patch,
Jr., made the introduction of the
guest speaker, the Rev. Mr. Whit
ley formerly of Burlington, who
is under an assignmtent of the
North Carolina Conference’s
Board of Missions and Church
Extension to build and organize
the first Methodist Church
here. He gave a brief summary
of the steps taken in the course of
building a church hnd the tasks
of organizing a congregation. He
spoke appreciation to the town of
ficials for being permitted to use
their property site on South May
Street as a temporary church.
Upon adjourning the meeting,
there was formed a volunteer
group of Lions to meet Tuesday
evening at 5:45 p. m. in front of
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GUARD UNIT RETURNS
Members of the Southern Pines
National Guard battery, which
draws its membership from
throughout the county, returned
Sunday from two weeks at Camp
Stewart, Ga., where they took
part in their annual encampment.
Members reported a successful
test of their firing abilities and
a rigorous but enoyable camp
schedule.
TO ATTEND CAMP
Some 35 boys of Scout Troop
224 will go to Camp Durant near
Raleigh next week, leaving at
nocn Sunday from the First Bap
tist Church and returning Satur
day evening. Russell Simons,
Scoutmaster, will accompany the
group. The big, well-equipped
camp north of Raleigh off No. 1
highway is a gathering place for
Gathering at town hall Tues
day night for a public hearing on
annexation of the Southern Pines
Country Club and three adjoining
residential properties, the coun
cil found with surprise that their
problem had been settled at 4 p.
m. Tuesday when the request for
annexation had been withdrawn.
Reporting the unexpected de
velopment to the council. City
Manager Toanl E. Cunningham said
that the Elks Club, owner of the
Country Club property, and two
of the three private property own
ers were reported to him as hav
ing concurred in the request to
kill the proposal.
Cunningham said that reasons
for the action had not been given
to him.
Attorney Harry Fullenwider, an
official in the Elks organization,
rose to thank the council for their
consideration in receiving a peti
tion for the request several weeks
ago and advertising and calling
the hearing. He asked that the
town send the bill for legal adver
tising to the Elks.
Fullenwider presented no ex
planation for the request to with
draw the annexation petition. “I
hope we can come back some oth
er time and iron out the lines
more smoothly,” he said.
Mayor L. T. Clark said that he
had heard it reported that he, the
mayor, was opposed to annexation
of the Country Club and the other
property involved and that he
hoped this report had had nothing
to do with the action taken Tues
day afternoon.
“I would like to have it under
stood that I am not opposed to
anything before it- has come to
the council and been discussed,”
the mayor stated.
Present for the meeting were
Mayor Clark and Councilmen W.
E. Blue, ■'/oit Gilmore and C. S.
Patch, Jr. Councilman Joe O’Cal
laghan was reported as having
sickness in his home and being
ill himself and therefore could not
attend.
Although the meeting had been
called primarily for the annexa
tion hearing, the council had sev
eral items to consider, held over
from the regular meeting June 15.
Sunday Fishing Okayed
On motion by Gilmore, second
ed by Patch, the regulation pro
hibiting Sunday fishing at the
water works lake was lifted, so
that such fishing can now take
place. Regardless of the day of
the week, annual or special daily
visitors’ permits must be obtained
at town hall. On the suggestion
of Patch, made at the last meet
ing, cost of a daily permit for non
resident visitors, who must be ac
companied by some one holding
an annual permit, was reduced
from $2 to $1. Annual permits cost
$5 for residents of the town and
$10 for non-residents.
On motion of Covmcilman
Patch, secbnded by Councilman
Blue, the Pine Needles Country
Club was granted approval for an
“on premises” beer and wine li
cense, subject to the required
check by the police department
and to an investigation as to how
many sales outlets the club plans
and whether or not more than one
license will be required. Since
the annexation of the Knollwood
area, the club is now within the
town limits and so is eligible to
apply for a beer and wine license.
■While several names were
brought up by council members
for consideration in appointing
two alternate members to the zon
ing board of adjustment, and pos
sibly also to the zoning board, no
action was taken Tuesday night,
pending the suggestion of other
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CLINIC DATE CHANGED
The date of the Orthopedic
Clinic held quarterly in the
Health Center in Carthage has
been changed from the second
Tuesday to the fourth Tuesday.
Therefore, the next Orthopedic
Clinic will be held Tuesday after
noon, July 27, beginning at 1 p.
ml, conducted by Dr. Hugh A.
Thompson, it was announced this
all Scouts from the 12-county week by Dr. J. W. Willcox, county
Occoneechee Council. 1 health officer.