VOL. 35—NO. 36
SIXTEEN PAGES
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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JULY 30. 1954
SIXTEEN PAGES
BLOOD TYPING—After the regular meeting
of the Lions Club last Friday, laboratory techni
cians from Moore County Hospital took speci
mens of blood from members of the club, to be
typed and put on record for use in calling do-
McDaniel To Serve Restraining Order
On Town In Golfcrest Water Dispute
Council Approves
nors m emergencies. David W. Gamble, club
president, is pictured as Miss Lynn Hiller, cen-
ter, and Miss Rosalind Colley, take a sample of
blood. The technicians were guests of the club
at the supper meeting. See also story, page 16.
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Contract To Buy
Part Of Water Line
On the advice of Town Attor
ney W. Lament Brown that they
were acting within the law, the
town council, in a special meeting
Wednesday afternoon, approved
a contract by which Mr. and Mrs.
Newland W. Phillips, owners of
the Golfcrest development out
side the city limits, dedicate 2,-
700 feet of water line to the town
and the town pays them $4,232.59
for a 1,000-foot section of six inch
pipe included in the total foot
age dedicated.
Prior to voting on approval of
the contract the council heard
Louis Scheipers, Jr., town clerk,
read a letter from Attorney E.
J. Burns of Carthage, written on
behalf of his client A. R. McDan
iel, retired Merchant Marine cap
tain, of Southern Pines.
The letter asked that the town IVn 1 TTifvlivAro-sr
rescind any agreement made to
reimburse Mr. Phillips for ex
penses incurred in laying pipes
on his development and quoted
State statutes which prohibit ded
ication to the town of streets be
yond the city limits.
Attorney Brown told the coun
cil that there was no proposal by
Mr. Phillips to dedicate streets
and quoted law to show that the
town, in accepting dedication of
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JOINT MEETING
The. board of counly coni'-
missionens slid Ihe county
boud of education have set
a >oinl meeting, at the re
quest of the educcttion board,
to discuss school appropria
tions in the tentative 1954-
'55 budget.
The budget has been tenta
tively approved by the com
missioners but can be chang
ed before final adoption in
August.
A school board memiber in
dicated the purpcue of the
meeting was to request larger
capital outlay appropriations
than those allotted to the
county schools in the tenta
tive budget.
Surveying For
DECLINES INVITATION
Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., of Car
thage this week declined an in
vitation to attend the Young
Democratic Clubs’ state-wide
rally at Hickory Saturday. He
said in a newspaper interview
that he was still undecided
whether to join the Democratic
party. Mr. Seawell was Republi
can candidate for governor in
1952, but split with the adminis
tration in Washington this year
after he was turned down for a
federal attorney appointment for
which he was widely endorsed by
leaders of both parties in the
state. i
Route Started
state Highway surveyors were
working in and around Southern
Pines this week on what Highway
Commissioner Forrest Lockey of
Aberdeen has called an explora
tory survey for a new route of
No. 1 highway.
A recent announcement said
that routes both east and west of
Southern Pines were under con
sideration for a by-pass. Prom
the location of surveys being
made here this week, it appears
that one route being explored
would cross Midland Road just
east of the intersection of Route 2
(cutoff to Manly), apparently
headed on a course that would
take it between East and West
Southern Pines.
League All-Stars
Open Tourney At
Aberdeen Monday
The All-Star Team of the Aber-
deen-Raeford Little League will
be host to the All-Star Team of
the Moore County Little League
Mcnday, August 2, at 5 p. m. at
the Aberdeen Little League base
ball park.
This is the first game of tour
nament play, and the winner will
play the High Point Little LeagueJ
All-Star Team at Aberdeen at 5
p. m., Tuesday, August 3. The
winner of this game advances to
the District Tournament in Dur
ham on August 9.
Further wins would enable a
team to advance to the Regional
Tournament to be played
Greenville, and the National
Tournament to be played at
Williamsport, Pa., climaxed by
the Little World Series.
The 1954 Moore County Little
League All-Star Team, chosen by
Carthage Manager O. D. Wallace,
Robbins Manager Tracey Brown,
Pinehurst Manager Jim Bowles
and Southern Pines Manager C.
L. Dutton includes: Ted Ward,
Southern Pines, first base; Joel
W. Cranford, Jr., Robbins, sec
ond base; Phillip Williams, Rob-|
bins, short stop; Doug Handy,
Carthage, third base; Bob Wat
kins, Southern Pines, catcher;
Jimmy Caldwell, Southern Pines,
right field; Don Whitaker, Carth
age, center field; Jimmy Spinks,
Robbins, left field; Archie Kelly,
Carthage, pitcher; Bobby Wood
ruff, Southern Pines, pitcher;
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Ballpark Lights
Drive Resumed;
Page Is Leader
Commillee Will
"Shoot The Works"
For 120-Unit Plan
The fund drive to light the
school baU park, started a year
ago and later suspended, is being
resumed with vigor and with high
hopes of procuring lights for at
least two sports.
A campaign “army,’’ with C. N.
Page as “general,” with “colo
nels,” “majors” and “lieutenants”
on down the chain of command, is
being organized for effective cov
erage of the community in a
whirlwind three-day drive.
oieeting of the “top echelons”
will be held, for planning pur
poses, at Holliday’s Coffee Shop
tonight (Friday). The goal is ex
pected to be set close to $10,000 as
an outside figure, which would
pay for a complete 120-light job
for three major sports—football
softball and Class A baseball. In
any event, lighting with a mini
mum of 84 units is expected to be
achieved for football and baseball
even if the greater illumination
required for baseball must be left
till later.
A total of approximately $3,200
in cash and pledges is available
as a starter, left over from the
campaign which went on last
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PRICE«—TEN CENTS
Local National Guard Battery To
Be Changed To Tank Organization
Much Equipment,
Added Training
Young Woman
Killed Here
In Collision
A young Army wife who had
just taken her husband to join
his car pool to go to Fort Bragg
was involved in an accident with
another car on her way home
about 11 p.m. Wednesday, and
was killed. '
Mrs. Winifred Marie Donald
son, 22, was thrown from her
1953 Oldsmobile convertible as it
overturned for 100 feet along In
diana Ave. after being struck by a
1951 Studebaker sedan, driven by
Augustus Berg of Newark, N. J.,
at the, May Street (US Highway
1) intersection. Rushed to Moore
County hospital, she was dead of
a skull fracture and internal in
juries on her arrival there, ac
cording to Police Chief C. E.
Newton.
The Berg car, heading north
on US 1, spun around in the
street and stopped on the park
way across the street. Mrs. Berg
and a year-old child were thrown
out of the car. The baby w^s
badly skinned up and bruised.
Mrs. Berg suffered lacerations,
also severe injuries to one leg and
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Junior Sandhill
Opens Wednesday
On Town Courts
Visiting players from a dozen
towns all over the State and a
large crowd of local players are
expected'to take part in the Sev
enth Annual Junior Sandhill
Tennis tournament, which will
start at 2 p, m. Wednesday on ”* '
the municipal courts and con-'
^ tinue through Saturday or Sun- The first round of match play
■ . I in the various flights will start
Big Pro-Am Event
Planned For Fall
On Local Courses
Plans are moving ahead for a
large pro-am tournament to be
held here some time this fall un
der sponsorship of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce. It
is being planned as a four-day af-
^“h thVX^ec\°atfon rf
j Moore County
Golf Tourney
Gets Started
The annual Moore County Golf
COL. ALFRED K. CLARK is
the newly assigned deputy com
mandant at the USAF Air-Ground
Operations School in the High
land Pines Inn. An infantry offi
cer, Colonel Clark is living at 190
Valley Road. His wife is the forr
mer Clarissa Bennett of Lincoln
Neb. They have a 12-year-old
daughter, Connie. A veteran of
World War 2, Colonel Clark has
served^in Europe and Asia. He
replaces Lt. Col. Lamar A. Welch
as deputy commandant under
Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jenkins.
der way on Wednesday at the
Pinehumt Country Club with a
qualifying round which will con
tinue through Sunday, August 8.
Entries may be made by residents
of the county any time during that
Kenneth Tew, president ef the
Junior Sandhill Tennis associa
tion, said that players are expect
ed from Greensboro, Goldsboro,
Kinston, Durham, Elkin, Thomas-
ville, Charlotte, and possibly Ra
leigh and Asheville, with a scat
tering of other towns.
Singles and doubles, also mix-
ed doubles, will be played in two
divisions, junior boys’ and girls,
aged 15 to 18, and boys’ and
girls, under 15. All matches will
be in the daytime with the ex-
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RECOVERING
Officer Lamar K. Smith’ of the
Southern Pines police department
was reported recovering nicely
this week from a kidney stone
operation at Memorial Hospital
in Charlotte Thursday of last
week. It was not known here
when he can return to duty.
August 9 and must be completed
by August 15. The second round
and the first round for the beaten
eight of the Championship flight
will start on August 16 to be com
pleted by August 22, after which
the third and final round will be
played off between August 23 and
28.
The entry fee for men wiU be
$3, and for women $2, to include
greens fees. Prizes will be award
ed the winners and runners-up in
each flight, and the title of county
champion, now held by Carlos
Frye of Carthage, will go to the
top division victor. Frye defeat
ed his fellow townsman, Harry
Davis, in last year’s event. Mrs.
Pearson Menoher of Knollwdod is
expected to defend the women’s
title she won for the second suc
cessive time last year.
Drawings for the match play
will be made on August ,8. Rules
of the U. S. Golf Association will
prevail.
WHERE TALBOT JOHNSON MIXED SODAS
Old Landmark Housed Pharmacy^ Variety Store
Bv VAT.PPTIT ‘K^Tr•^J/’^T ”
It was emphasized in Lockey’s I NICHOLSON
atement that the surveys that Demolition of the old police
station building on West New
;
statement that the surveys that
began here this week were pre
liminary and exploratory and that
no final decision on the route had
been made.
Contracts Let
Meanwhile bids Were opened in
Raleigh on several other highway
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Roberts In Robbins Mills Post
Frank T. Roberts, 42, a na
tive of Laurens, S. C., has as
sumed the post of director of
manufacturing of the Robbins
Mills plants at Aberdee* ,
Robbins, Raeford and Red
Springs, under the new own
ership of J. P. Stevens and
Co. His office is at the Aber
deen Robbins plant.
Mr. Roberts was formerly
associated with the Carter Fa
bric Division of the Stevens
company. He and his wife,
the former Erma Lee Lamp of
Georgia, have lived in
Greensboro since 1943 but
plan to move to the Sandhills.
They have no children.
MR. ROBERTS
The Robbins executive en
joys golf. He is a Methodist
and a Democrat.
Hampshire avenue, which is now
under way, brings recollections of
Its 55 years of existence and the
two remarkable ladies for whom
it was built in 1899.
These were the Misses Alice
and Sarah Johnson, both holders
of pharmacy degrees. They were
possibly the first lady pharma
cists in the State, certainly the
first sister pharmacists.
Johnson’s Pharmacy, as they
called their enterprise, was so
successful that within a year or
two Miss Alice was able to take
her share of the profits and ful
fil her lifelong ambition of be
coming a doctor. She went to the
Woman’s Medical College in Phil
adelphia and returned with her
medical degree, also the medal
for highest grades in her gradu
ating class, to practice in South
ern Pines.
Her first case after her return,
and first operation, made news
all over the State. A Seaboard
Air Line train wrecked at Manly,
one mile north, and a number of
persons were injured. A two-by-
four stob was driven clean
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drawing several hundred players
from the Carolinas and other
states.
Jack S. Younts, Chamber direc
tor serving as chairman for the
affair, said that the committee
had decided to ask Chester I. Wil
liams of Pinehurst, a weU-known
expert in this line, to serve as
professional manager of the tour
nament.
Mr. Williams, who has been out
of town, was contacted by the
committee this week and agreed
to serve as manager if a date can
be settled on with which there is
no major conflict in his own plans
or with other major tournaments
He will come to Southern Pines
next week to discuss the plans
with the committee, after which it
is expected that dates can be an
nounced and cooperative plans
made with all local golf clubs,
also with the hotels, motels and
guest houses belonging to the
Chamber of Commerce, v^ch
win be expected to provide ac
commodations.
A highly original type of tour
nament possible only where sev
eral golf courses can be employ
ed, brand new and extremely
popular in the West, will be in
troduced to Eastern golfers in the
Southern Pines tournament, ac
cording to present plans of the
committee. Nationwide publicity
is being planned, said Mr. Younts.
Will Be Needed
The 130th Anti-Aircraft bat
talion, of which the Southern
Pines National Guard battery is
a unit, will be converted within
the next couple of months to a
tank battalion, Capt. WiUiam J.
Wilson, commander, said this
week.
The change-over is due to the
planned absorption of the entire
30th Division — hitherto divi
ded between North Carolina, and
Tennessee—by the North Caro
lina National Guard, it was ex
plained.
A complete switch of major
equipment items, in which about
$300,000 of anti-aircraft weapons
and other equipment wiU be
turned in and about $500,000
worth of tanks and supplemen
tary equipment acquired, wiU be
necessary.
Also in prospect is a complete
new training program for mem
bers, probably involving special
schooling for officers, it was sta
ted.
The battalion has units at
Southern Pines, Sanford, Red
Springs, Raeford and St. Pauls.
Lt. Col. William Lament Jr., of
Raeford is the conunanding offi
cer.
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Residents Asked
Not Call To Ask
Location of Fire
EVOKES MEMORIES-^The former police station-ABC store
uildmg on New Hampshire Ave., is shown here as it looked
when occiipied. Owned bj^ the town, it is now being razed and
only the shell of the structure is standing. A town landmark, it
once housed a pharmacy and physician’s office and later a va
riety store. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Bible School To
Start On Monday
Bible School will open in the
educational building of the
Church of Wide Fellowship (Con
gregational Christian), Monday
to run through Wednesday, Au
gust 11, with sessions each day
from 9 to 11:30 a. m.
Children whose families axe
members of other churches in
town are invited to attend the
classes for youngsters aged 4
through 12. The Bible School was
scheduled later in the summer so
as not to conflict with schools
conducted by other churches
earlier in the summer.
Mrs. WiUiam H. Hill, wife Of
the interiml pastor at the church,
will be in charge of the Bible
School. Mrs. Dorothy Blackweld-
er will head the Kindergaflen De
partment; Miss Mary Jane Prilla-
men will be in charge of the Pri
mary Department; and Mrs.
Harry Pethick wiU head the
Junior Department.
Graduation ceremonies wiU be
held Wednesday, August 11, with
details to be announced next
week. -
Fire Chief Harold B. Fowler
this week requested residents of
Southern Pines not to make tele
phone calls in an attempt to find
out where a fire is within at least
15 minutes after an alarm is
sounded.
He said he had written a letter
to the United Telephone Company
asking the compnay to instruct its
operators not to give out informa
tion about fires immediately the
siren has sounded, starting Au
gust 1.
Reason for the two requests.
Chief Fowler explained, is that
operators attempt to call aU mem
bers of the volunteer fire depart
ment after an alarm has sounded,
particularly at night when fire
men might be asleep and not hear
the siren.
Calls coming in from other per
sons often clog the switchboards
and make the process of calling
firemen difficult, the fire chief
said.
Also, he said, firemen working
at a distance from the fire station
call in after an alarm to find out -
where the fire is. If the switch
board is jammed with calls, they
have to come to the fire station,
losing valuable time.
Operators in the Southern
Pines office have to handle callg
from Pinehurst, Carthage, Vass
and other towns in the area. Chief
Fowler pointed out—an activity
that continues whether or not
there is a local fire. Local people,
therefore, can ease the strain on
operators by not calling after an
alarm.
DR. EMILY TUFTS, pediatri
cian, has opened an office in Pine
hurst. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Tufts of Pine
hurst, formerly of Chapel Hill.
She received her M.D. degree
from Temple University, Philadel
phia; was an interne at Memorial
Hospital, Charlotte; and for the
past three years was on the staff
of St. Christopher’s Hospital for
Children, Philadelphia. .