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GIVE TO LIGHT SOUTHERN PINES ATHLETIC FIELD VOL. 3S—NO. 37 GIVE TO LIGHT SOUTHERN PINES ATHLETIC FIELD Field Lij^lit ® DriveToBe Held Mon. 'General' Page Is Directing All-Out Effort On Project i Monday will be “L-Day”—the^ “ day which may tell the story as to whether Southern Pines lights up its athletic field, or not. The Icng-desired lights will be the goal of an army of canvass ers who will start out early that day to give everyone the oppor tunity to give. Headed by C. N. Page as “gen eral, the “army” has been or ganized in military fashion, and Jts campaign is expected to sweep ahead with the success of Cae sar’s legions. Though with deter mination equal to that of the age- old conquerors, there is, however, one important difference—Mon day’s invading army wiU be meeting with friend, not foe. AH are expected to be of one mind to get those lights up at the baU park for footbaU and softball, and if possible for baseball also. ^ General Page,” his colonels, majors and captains will meet at 7:30 a. m. Monday for a kickoff breakfast at Holliday’s Coffee 3hop. There they will receive their briefing, their ammunition the form of cards and receipt slips (tax-deductible) and their marching orders—effective the minute breakfast is over. Goal Set High All personnel will select cards bearing the names of persons they will and can visit on that day, to secure a cash subscription or a pledge toward the goal a (Continued on Page 8) TWO MOORE CASES Polio Leaders 'fi Will Consider Aug, 16 Drive Paul Butler of Southern Pines chairman of the Moore County (Chapter of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, said this week that the executive com mittee and directors of the chap- . ter will meet some time next week to decide what steps should be taken by this county in the nation-wide emergency March of Dimes August 16-31. The national campaign seeks $20,000,000 needed immediately to continuing care for 67,000 patients under treatment ^d to meet the cost of increasing the nation’s supply of gamma ^obulin and the cost of financing the polio vaccine study. Two Mooie Cases As the national drive was an nounced, the first two polio cases of the year were reported to the Moore County health department. They are Carson A. Lemons, six years old, son of Carson L. Lem ons of Southern Pines, whose case was diagnosed at Memorial Hos pital, Chapel Hill, about the third week in July, and was reported to me health department Friday: and ^David D. Keith, year-old son of ^Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Keith of mnebluff whose case was diag nosed at Mercy Hospital, Char- lotte, July 29, and was reported to the health department Satur day. Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officer, said that these are the only two cases of polio reported to the health department in 1954. Dr. Willcox said that an Eagle ^Sprin^ child was taken to Duke (Continued on page 8) snrin^^^ HAERISON. peach grower and farmer of Eagle io‘4 <-34 ptZ ■ V. Town Schools To Open September 8 With 10 New Members of Faculties Schedule, Faculty For Negro Schools Not Yet Announced Southern Pines white schools will open Wednesday, September », It was announced this week by Supt. A. C. Dawson, Jr. Schedule for Negro schools, as well as faculty appointments in these schools, have not yet been announced. Preliminary faculty meetings for teachers in the white schools will be held Tuesday, September teachers have been assigned to grades other than they taught for merly. High School In the high school, where Irie Leonard continues as principal and teacher of social studies, there wiU be two new faculty members ^ Miss Julianne Leimone, replac- ^ Larkin as teacher of English and Spanish; and Mrs. Dons Story, replacing Mrs. Ted Warner as home economics teach er. Other high school teachers will be: Miss Pauline Miller, English high schools this year, while some There will be 10 new facultv j ^ members in the elementary and Mrs. Ruth Swisher, hivt. .u; '/‘'^indry ana commercial; Miss Billie Williams physical education' W. A Leonard, mathematics; Lynn H. Ledden, science, band and physical education. Elementary School The elementary school has two more teachers than in the last northbound Seaboard Air year, caused by an increase Line passenger train struck and “ second grade rooms from two - - - |+" -i’ Reduction Of Water Rate Is Contemplated Council To Ponder Resolution Setting Extension Policies If the town council at its meet ing Tuesday night next week adopts a resolution setting a def inite policy on extension of water and sewer lines in and out of the city limits, sailings realized will allow a reduction of the mini mum water rate from $5 to $4.50 for the first thousand gallons used. City Manager Tom E. Cun ningham said this week. At request of the council, Cun ningham has prepared a resolu tion on utility extensions. Sent to the councilmen for study, the resolution will be discussed and probably will be put to a vote Tuesday night, if the council again combines its “discussion” and “action” meetings into a sin gle session, as was done in July. Cunningham said that Mayor Lloyd T. Clark suggested the pos sibility of passing on savings in the water department to consum ers, after the mayor had studied the water and sewer extension policy. The reduction in minimum water rate would apply only within the city limits under the proposal that Cunningham will make to the council. (Continued on Page 8) PRICE—TEN CENTS Board Of Education,CoHimissioners Deadlocked On School Fund Budget Matter Given ** To Court Clerk For Arbitration A controversy about school cap ital outlay funds in the 1954-55 Moore County budget is now in the hands of Clerk of Court C. C. Kennedy of Carthage for arbitra tion. Capital outlay funds are those used for construction of school plant buildings of all types or in major additions or improvements to such buildings. As of Thursday, Mr. Kennedy h^ not rendered his opinion on whether or not the county com missioners were justified in cut ting $422,471.43 requested by the county board of education to $269,000 in the budget. School funds Eire appropriated by the commissioners but the spending of these funds is in the discretion of the board of educa tion. It is the first time in the history of Moore County that a board of education has formally rejected a budget allotment, setting into mo tion a legal procedure authorized in a State statute that has been seldom used, but which has been invoked m similar budget disa greements in several North Caro lina counties this year. The con troversy affects only the county school system, not the city school ' Capital Outlay Proposals Of School Board Summarized November 4-7 Set As Dates For Golf Event Items in the capital outlay bud get requested by the county board of education and cut in the adopt ed budget from $422,471.73 to $269,000 by the county commis sioners were summarized, without details, by the board of education as follows: CARTHAGE—^Replacement of oteolete facilities in. elementary schools at Carthage, Vass and West End, also two new buses CAMERONt—Completion of au ditorium, sanitary facilities and other equipment $37,700.00 FOR GENERAL COUNTY- ~ Audio-visual aids and other facihties $7 600 00 total capital OU-TLAY $422,471.73 H. Lee Thomas, county school superintendent and secretary of the board of education, said that the first itern on this list, headed Carthage,” includes $154,500 for a new white elementary school at Carthage, containing 12 class rooms. A portion of the remaining funds in this item is earmarked to go with_ anticipated State bond Train Hits Car At Intersection auucK. ana damaged an automobile that staU- ed at the Illinois Avenue inter section about 8 p.m., Tuesday but five passengers left the vehicle safely before the collision. Pfc. Donald E. Fugett, who lives at Magnolia Lodge here and is stationed at Fort Bragg, was driv ing the 1941 Packard convertible according to a report of the acci dent frdtn Police Chief C. E New ton. With him were Miss Jean Ad- ams and Mrs. Jimmy Irvin, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Ad- ams, and Mk. and Mrs. Irvin’s two children, Jimmy, seven, and Jean, four and a half years old. As the car was just starting across the tracks from west to east, the gears- apparently locked, stalhng it in position just as the train rounded the curve south of the intersection. Efforts to move the car before the train reached' the intersection were useless and the locomotive sheared off the front bumper and damaged the radiator grill and the right front headlight and fen- uer. to three and of seventh grade rooms from one to two. Here is the complete elemen tary school faculty list, with the eight new members and the teach ers they replace indicated: is grade—Miss Mae Delle Kennedy (taught second grade Carolyn Chester and Miss Elizabeth Peterson, new ^achers replacing Miss Florence Dawson and Mrs.' Ralph Chandler Jr. ’ Second grade—Mrs. A. C. Daw son, Jr., and Miss Carolyn Saw yer and Miss Catherine Smith new teachers (one added and one (Continued on page 8) The Southern Pines Golf Car rousel, a four-day tournament for pros and amateurs, men and women, wHl be played on the three Southern Pines golf courses November 4 through 7, it was an nounced this week by Jack S. Younts, chairman. The announcement was made following a meeting held by Chairman Younts of the sponsor ing Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce and his committee Wednesday -with Chester I. Wil liams of Pinehurst, who -will manage the tournament. Mr. Williams flew here for the meeting from White Sulphur Springs, where he was on a na tionwide committee for arrange ments for another big tourna ment slated to be held late this year. Well-known in the golf wicrld, with wide acquaintance P™® amateurs, Mr. Williams will have complete charge of the Carrousel with committees of the Chamber of Comi^rce working under his di- (Contlnued on Page 8) ' ROBBIN^Completio^M^h^r°'^^'^^^^^^^^ State bone sical education building and ofeL project of en facilities $82 454 oS n;®Tio^® elementary VASS-LAKEVIEW — Improve Carthage, so that the ob- ■rr . •pO^,tO‘±.UU VASS-LAKEVIEW — Improve water supply, classroom ventila- tion and other facilities $5,611.20 farm life — Completioh of cafeteria and other facilities ABEEDEEN-E„large?afS“ two new buses and other facili- 'wEST'ENDZstokersSoVher HIGHk'LLS Z . CompfeS cafeteria and other facilities . WESTMOORE-Improve”’S- mg system and other facilities $5,698.63 solete Negro elementary school buildings at "Vass and near West End (Vineland School), can be taken out of use and their stu dents sent to a consolidated school at Carthage. The county anticipates about $185,000 in State bond money, a large portion of which, Mr. Thom as indicated, is expected to go in to the important project of ena- ming the county to cease using the two inadequate Negro elemen tary schools. The $185,000 is not included in the county’s capital outlay budget as listed above. Townshend la All-Star Game uate of Southern Pines High School and outstanding guard on last season’s boys’ basketball t^eam, leaves today for Greens boro where he is slated to play Tuesday night of next week with the Eastern squad in the East- West All-Star basketball game Practice sessions will.be held hy the East and West teams, with the All-Star game set for 8 p. m. Tuesday in the new Greensboro High School gymnasiumi ° — .xg. Huge Fig Tree Yields Harvest of 400 Quarts Lst stance QYv»i-.T\rt- ■fU.-v License Bureau Now In Southland Hotel The motoring public is remind- ed that the auto license sales bu- reau serving this area has been moved to a new location in the Southland Hotel. The bureau is operated by the Southern Pines Chamber of Com merce which moved last week after being located on East Penn sylvania avenue for one year J. Earl Parker is Chamber # operation of the bureau, which is attended by Miss AUce Baxter, Chamber manager. Hours are 9 to 1 and 2 to 5 daily—closed Wtednesday and ' p^turday afternoons. ‘Yield Right Of Way’Signs Placed Sips reading “Yield Right Of Way have been put at a number .intersections, replacing Stop signs formerly used at these crossings. City Manager lorn E. Cunningham said this week. Among the intersections at which these signs appear are Massachusetts Ave., and N. E. Broad St., Massachusetts Ave. pd Ashe St. and Connecticut Ave. and Ashe St. The law says that a motorist approaching on a street where one of the signs appears must enter the intersection at a speed no greater than 10 miles per hour. The signs are designed to speed up traffic by eliminating stops at intersections when caution is m order but cross traffic is not heavy enough to require every car approaching to stop. John Gilchrist stands among the 11 huge branches, some of them “ diameter, that form a monster fig tree from which he gathered about 400 quarts of figs last year and ex pects to pick an equal or greater Imrvest this year. The tree is in the yard of his home at the corner of Wisconsin Ave. and Henley St., planted there by himself when it was a yard or so tall, 23 years ago. It was originally obtained from a farm near Drowning Creek. Rising to a height of 15 or 20 feet, the fig tree sends its great branches out to a width of 25 or 30 feet, drooping to meet the ground on all sides and creating a cool shade underneath the canopy of its leaves. Slung over the left shoulder of the West Southern Pines man is a bucket in which he gathers figs which he sells each year to indi viduals and stores throughout this area. In his left hand he holds a rubber glove he always wears whp picking figs, as prolonged contact with them irritates the skin—something that is true of all figs but which appears to have no influence on their eating qual ity. It requires a ladder to reach into the upper branches of the tree The harvest continues from the last of July to the middle of August, as the figs ripen progres sively. Now 67, the local man is semi- ^AO tiAc auxA ui ivir. and ^rs. Curtis S. To'wnshend of Country Club Drive, is the only player from this area invited to take part in the All-Star contest. An All-Star football game, also featuring high school players from throughout the state, will be played in Greensboro High School stadium Friday night, August 13, but no players from Moore County are scheduled to take part. retired, but still does a little yard work. He has given the big fig toee no special treatment, but thinks a drain from the kitchen sink that keeps the area around the tree moist has something to do with its amazing size. (Pilot Staff Photo) 27 Contestants Start Matches In Jnnior Tourney First-round matches for boys parted Wednesday, and for girls Thursday morning, in the Junior SandhiU Invitational Tennis tour nament being sponsored for the seventh consecutive summer on the municipal courts. Finals are scheduled to be held Satmday if the good weather holds out, otherwise they may run over until Sunday. With 27 mtries in junior boys’ singles, 16 in boys’, 16 in junior girls and 12 in girls’, the tourna ment operated by the Junior SandhiU Tennis association is the largest and most outstanding in quality of players since the start of the series in 1948. Such a plenitude of talent turn ed up among young players from all over the State that the only defending champion. Southern Pines’ Lillian Bullock, is not even seeded. With five top girl players for the four seeded positions, the seeding committee resorted to a draw from a hat to settle third Md fourth positions, and “Little Lil” lost out. Seeded players represent prac tically the entire lineup of trophy winners from the Eastern Carolina Championships held at Durham last weekend, with the sole ex ception of one runner-up in jun- (Continued on Page 8) units at Southern Pines and Pine hurst. Joint Meeting Machinery set up in the statute began to turn last week when the board of education rejected the capital outlay budget and caUed a joint meeting with the commis sioners last Friday afternoon at the courthouse. In the meeting, J. A. Culbert son of Robbins, chairman of the board of education, and Jere Mc- Keithen of Aberdeen and T. Roy Phillips of Carthage, members of the board, appealed to the com missioners to grant the full school capital outlay request, asserting ^ptire amount was needed for a “minimum” construction pro gram. ^ Faced with the fact that it would take an increase in the tax rate from $1.35 per $100 of prop erty valuation to about $1.77, if the request were granted and if no other budget items were cut, the commissioners rejected the ap peal. According to the provisions of the statute covering such a dead lock, ehch board empowered its chairman to cast one vote on whether the school budget as it stood should be approved. Chair man Gordon Cameron of Pine hurst voted “yes” for the commis sioners. Chairman Culbertson voted “no” for the board of edu cation. By resolution of the board of education,, the matter was refer red to Mr. Kennedy for arbitra tion, his decision to be rendered within 10 days of the time the vote was taken, that is, last Fri day afternoon. Either side, the statute states, may appeal the clerk’s decision to Superior Court, but the appeal must be made within 30 days of that decision. Further appeal may be made to the Supreme Court by either side. Can Go To Jury The matter is a civil action and also may be heard by a judge without a jury, but should the board of commissioners ask a jury trial, they may have one, the stat utes provide, this action to take precedence over aU other business of the court. If the commissioners fail to le-vy the tax ordered by the court, the statute says, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined or imprisoned within the discretion of the court. When the budget was under discussion Friday, it was still in tentative form. On Monday, at their regular monthly meeting, the commissioners formally adopt ed the budget, thus sealing their Friday decision that no change in it was to be made. Should Mr. Kennedy’s decision be appealed to Superior Court, the appeal could be heard at the September civil term of Moore County Superior Court, with the prospect of a Supreme Court ap peal by either side. How all this will affect tax bill ing and collection is necessEirily (Continued to Page 8) SCHOOL HAS NO NOTICE OF MOVE The USAF Air Ground School at the Highland Pines Inn has received no notice from higher headquarters of the Air Force that it is to move from Southern Pines, Col. John G. Foster, executive officer at the school, said Thursday. In the absence of Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jenkins, command ant, who was out of town Thursday, Colonel Foster was questioned by The Pilot about a widely-circulated rumor that the school may move. 'This rumor is circulating in town and it is circulating here at the school," said the executive officer, "but where it came from I don't know. Neither Tactical Air Com mand nor Air Force head quarters has sent us notifica tion to move." The lease agreement be tween the Air Force and the Stitzer Hotel Co., owners of the Inn, runs through June 30, 1955, with the provision now in force that either party to the contract may terminate the lease on 60 days' notice.