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VOL. 35—NO. 38
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School Budget
Controversy In
Kennedy’s Hands
Joint Meeting Of
Boards Held At
Carthage Thursday
The county commissioners and
the county board of education
were to meet in Carthage at 2
p.m. Thursday to hear the decision
of Court Clerk Carlton C. Ken
nedy on the school capital outlay
budget controversy.
The meeting had been set for
Wednesday afternoon, but was
postponed because’ of funeral ser
vices held that afternoon for Mrs.
Belle Pegram, mother-in-law of
Mr. Kennedy.
BULLETIN
At 3 p. m. Thursday, cis The
Pilot went to press, a joint
meeting of the board of
county commissioners and
the board of education was
still in progress at Carthage.
The board of educcition at 3
p. mi had not accepted a pro
posal of Carlton C. Kennedy,
clerk of court and arbitrator
of the budget controversy,
that each board submit the
issues to himi in writing by
Wednesday. August 18, with
a hearing by the two boards
to be conducted Saturday,
August 21. and his decision
to be rendered Monday. Au
gust 23.
PRICE—TEN CENTS
Wednesday marked the end of
a 10-day period in which Mr. Ken
nedy was required to arbitrate
the budget dispute under a North
Carolina statute that provides for
appeal to a clerk of court if a
county board of education be
lieves that the county commission
er have not appropriated suffi
cient funds to carry on the school
prograrh of the county adequately.
"The law was invoked at a joint
meeting of the two boards Friday,
July 30, after the board of educa
tion refused to accept less than
the $422,471.43 it had asked for in
school capital outlay funds in the
1954-55 budget—and the county
commissioners refused to appro
priate more such funds than the
$269,000 they had allowed in the
budget.
The commissioners formally
adopted the budget the following
Monday.
Mr. Kennedy’s decision can be
appealed to Superior Court by
either side, to be heard either be
fore a judge or in a jury trial.
Further appeals could carry the
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Rabb To Speak At
Lions Dinner For
Little Leaguers
Walter Rabb, baseball coach at
the University of North Caro
lina, Chapel Hill, will be guest
speaker at a testimonial dinner
to be given tonight (Friday) by
the Southern Pines Lions Club,
honoring players and coaches of
the local Little League baseball
organization.
C. S. Patch, Jr., program chair
man, said that Rabb is expected
to bring baseball films to illus
trate his talk.
The dinner will begin at 7 p. m.
in the Country Club. The special
program is' part of the regular
Lions meeting tonight.
Patch urged full attendance by
the Lions and said that 17 players
on the Little League squad and
their coaches have been invited
Irie Leonard and C. L. Dutton
coached the boys during most of
the season, after the duties were
turned over to them by Russell
Simons who coached earlier
the summer.
Sponsored by the Lions Club,
the Little Leaguers won eight
games and lost nine during the
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Campaign breakfast of General Page’s “sport-
light Army ’ takes place in carnival atmosphere,
in restaurant festooned with cards containing
names of 680 Southern Pines citizens, from
whom contributions to the lights fund were to
be sought. Bottom row, from left—1. Capt.
Deadline 11 a.m. Saturday
Gilbert Redfern quickly spots a card containing
name of a friend who, he thinks, will be gener
ous; 2. Major Chff Worsham wonders just
how much will that one be good for; 3. Major
Joe Garzik is reaUy studying oyer this one.
(Photos by 'V. Nicholson)
No Aclion Taken
On Increase In
Cemetery Prices
Combining their “discussion”
and “action” meetings Tuesday
night, the town council in a long
session that lasted nearly to mid
night took three major actions af
fecting the water and sewer de
partments:
1. A.dopted a uniform policy of
extending water and sewer lines
by which the town will pay for
100 feet of line only toward the
property of a person applying for
service.
2. Adopted an ordinance that
cuts the minimum quarterly wa
ter charge from $5 to $4.50, not
affecting, however, rates on quan
tities used above this charge, for
the first 5,000 gallons (10,000 gal
lons in the summer quarter).
3. Authorized extension of the
sewer system in West Southern
Pines to serve 54 residences and
59 building lots along portions of
Wisconsin Ave., Stephens St.,
Gaines St. and Henley St.—to be
done at a cost of $10,000 to $12,000
without necessity of borrowing.
The council okayed an applica
tion of the United Telephone Co.
to place a public phone booth on
the parkway of Pennsylvania Ave.
near the Broad Street intersec
tion, at the side of the Broad
Street Pharmacy, specifying that
it be on a 60-day trial basis, with
the town privileged to rescind its
permission at the end'of 60 days
and also that the booth be painted
green, instead of the usual red, if
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Highway By-Pass On
McDeed Creek May
Hold Route 1 Here
Project Remains *
Uncertain, Clark
Informs Council
Surveys for re-routing No. 1
highway along McDeed’s Creek
between East and West Southern
Pines offer probably the only
route which will enable the high
way to remain in or close to
town. Mayor Lloyd T. Clark told
the town council Tuesday night.
In a discussion of the highway
project brought up,by the mayor,
he told the council that confer
ences with Forrest Lockey of Ab
erdeen, 8th Division Highway
commissioner, have convinced
him that only one thing is cer-
Town Recreation
Program Nearing
End August 20
$1,647 Collected In Lights Drive
Pledges Raise Total
To $2,366, To Match
$2,000 From Elks
NEGRO SCHOOLS
Soulhein Pines Negro
schools will open Wednesday,
September 8, the same date as
that announced last week for
opening of the white schools.
Principal J. W. Moore said
this week. A list of faculty
members will be announced
next week, he said.
Canvassers in the Chamber-of-
Commerce-sponsored ball park
lights campaign checked in $1,-
066.65 by Wednesday night, and
funds already on hand gave the
drive a total cash collection of
$1,647.67.
Pledges raised the prospective
total of $2,366.17, enough—when
converted to cash—to match the
Elks Club’s fund of $2,000 and
assure that the lights can and
will go up.
However, campaign leaders
urged, that the drive go on un
abated during the rest of this
week. Unless $2,000 in cash is on
hand by Saturday, the installa
tion may meet with considerable
delay, far past the opening of the
football season.
New Deadline
A new deadline of 11 a. m. Sat-
lu-day has been set by ‘‘General”
C. N. Page, head of the campaign
army, who asks that all canvass
ers turn in their cash and cards,
whether or not their report is
complete, at the Chamber of
Commerce office before that
hour. This will give Miss Alice
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SMITH TO RETURN,
VIALL IN HOSPITAL
Officer Lamar K. Smith of the
Southern Pines police department,
who underwent an operation at
Charlotte recently, is reported to
be convalescing at his home in
Aberdeen and is expected to re
turn to duty Monday.
Frank 'Viall, well-known South
ern-Pines man who has been serv
ing as third shift desk clerk at the
police department, midnight to 8
a.m., underwent surgery in Moore
County Hospital Monday. He is
reported getting along as well as
can be expected.
County YDC Will
Elect Delegates,
Officers Sept. 3
March Of Dimes
Plans Scheduled
Plans for Moore County’s par
ticipation in the nation-wide
Emergency March of Dimes will
be announced next week, Paul
Butler, chairman of the county
chapter of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis, said
Thursday.
Stating that it was impossible
to complete plans for the cam
paign this week, Mr. Butler said
that it will be announced next
week to what extent the county
will take part in the national
drive to raise $20,000,000 for im
mediate needs in the patient C2u-e,
gamma globulin and polio vac
cine projects.
Election of officers and also
delegates to the state YDC con
venticn will be the chief order
of business when Moore County
Young Democrats meet for their
annual convention in the court
house at Carthage, Friday, Sep
tember 3, at 8 p. m.
President j! Douglas Dayid of
Pinebluff, who was appointed
county tax collector by the coun
ty commissioners following the
death of 'W. T. Huntley several
months ago, has announced that
he will not be a candidate for re-
election to the top office of the
county organization.
Prominently mentioned as a
candidate lor the post is Voit Gil
more of Southern Pines, a mem
ber of the Southern Pines Demo
cratic precinct committee and
vice-chairman of the County
Democratiq Executive Committee.
David is nearing the end of his
second term in the office. It is
understood that Gilmore would
accept the nomination.
The State YDC convention will
be held at Charlotte September
16-18, with delegates from Moore
County expected to attend.
School Rumors
Quiet Thia Week
Little was heard this week
from rumors that the USAF Air-
Ground School might move from
Southern Pines.
Stories circulating on that sub
ject recently were dismissed as
only rumor last week by Col.
John G. Foster, executive officer
'at the school, who said that the
school had received no notice
from higher headquarters that it
is to move.
Charles SQtzer, head of the
Stitzer Hotel Cc-mpany, owners of
the Highland Pines Inn where the
school is located, pointed out this
week that under the lease con
tract signed with the Air Force,
the government may terminate
the contract at any time on 60
in writing, but that
ihe Pilot was in error last week
in stating that the hotel company
also could terminate the contract
on 60 days’ notice. Only the Air
Force has the cancellation privi
lege.
The present lease agreement
will expire June 30, 1955.
Several States
lepresented In
Tennis Tourney
The seventh annual Sandhill
Invitational Tennis tournament
will be held on the local courts
next Wednesday through Sun
day, with an array of top stars
from several states contending
for the handsome trophies which
will be offered.
Bill Umstaedter of Abbeville,
S. C., will be back to defend the
men’s singled title he won last
year, and Whit Cobb of Durham,
1953 runner-up, will again be a
challenger. -
Regarded as possibly the big
gest threat, though, is a new star,
Jose Aguero of Rio de Janeiro,
20-year-old Tulane student who
swept the N. C. Open with his
brilliant garne a month ago.
Sarah Rushton Walters of
Charlotte, winner of the women’s
singles title in 1952, will return
to try to get it again from its
current holder. Southern Pines’
Audrey West Brown. Miss Brown
is fifth-ranked women’s singles
player, Mrs. Walters sixth-ranked,
in the southeast.
Florida Delegation
A half dozen ojr more tourna-
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The Southern Pines municipal
summer recreation program
which was carried out under su
pervision of the town recreation
commission, with Irie Leonard as
director — and was directed in
West Southern Pines by J. C.
Hasty and Miss C. E. Steele—will
end Friday of next week.
A swimming party, with a pic
nic for boys and girls attending,
will wind up the East Southern
Pines program at the town 'lake
off Midland Road next Friday.
During the summer a weekly
program in East Southern Pines
has provided varied daily recre
ation events, starting June 14, in
cluding Little League and Pony
League baseball, free golf in-
structicn and privileges at the
Southern Pines Country Club,
basketball and volleyball for high
school boys and girls at the school
gym, story hour and play hour at
the elementary school library and
playground, cooking and sewing
classes, swimming parties and
regular supervised swimming at
the town lake, open house danc
ing Friday nights at the Church
of Wide Fellowship and tennis,
badminton, horseshoes, checkers,
croquet and table tennis at the
town park and the “Fox Hole.’’
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Graham Johnston
Killed By PI ane
Crash In Utah
POULTRY EVENT TODAY
The annual HighfaUs Poultry
Show and Sale, one of the out
standing agricultural evepts of the
year in Moore County, will be^n
today (Friday) al; 8:30 a.m. at the
HighfaUs School. Events will run
through the early part of the af
ternoon, with a free chicken din
ner served at noon.
Church To Be Chartered Sept. 12
Southern Pines Meth-i events was not known this week,
cdist Church will have its Char- due to plans of the town, owner
ter Day services and ceremony
Sunday, September 12, it was an-
nouned this week by the Rev. E.
E. W'hitley, pastor.
The Rev. O. L. Hathaway, ^uper-
inte;ident of the Fayetteville Dis
trict of the North Carolina Con
ference, will preside.
The first official quarterly con
ference of the new church wiU be
held in the morning, marking ac
tual organization of the church.
Officers will be elected.
Completion of the Charter Day
program will mean that the new
church will be recognized as a
of the Community Building on
May Street, where the congrega
tion has been meeting, to sell that
structure.
The Rev. Mr. Whitley said this
week that plans had not yet been
made as to where services wiU
be held after the building is tak
en over by the new owner.
A combined church and Sunday
School service will be held at the
Community Building next Sun
day, August 15.
■ The pastor returned Friday
from three weeks of a pastors’
school at Duke University, Dur-
Methodist Church in the North! ham. During the school, he has
Carolina Conference. been returning to Southern Pines
Location of the Charter Day to conduct services on Sunday.
Graham Johnston, 25, son of
Mrs. Alec Roberts of Pinehurst,
was killed Saturday in a light
plane crash 20 miles southeast of
Moab, Utah. Two other men were
injured.
Graveside services for the
young man will be conducted at
Mount Hope Cemetery, Southern
Pines, at 11 a. m. Monday, with
the Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheatham, rec
tor emeritus of the Village Chap
el, Pinehurst, officiating.
Flying as a “scintillometer ob
server” while prospecting for
uranium, Johnston was a passen
ger in the plane when it flew into
the rim of a canyon about 4:30
p. m. Saturday.
The pilot, E. G. House of Dallas,
Texas, and Richard Sherman of
Moab, a passenger, were reported
as not seriously injured.
A Civil Air Patrol search party
found the demolished plane at
6:30 a. m. Sunday.
Reports from Utah indicated
that the plane crashed into the
canyon rim while flying about
120 miles per hour. Sherman and
House apparently were thrown
clear. Johnston died about 7 p. m.
Saturday, according to news re
ports.
Johnston, known to his friends
and family as “Gray,” has been a
visitor and part-time resident in
Pinehurst, at the home of his
mother, for several years. Last
winter, he studied art in Wash
ington, D. C., and had previous
ly served in the Army. He was a
graduate of Harvard.
He is survived by his mother
and a sister, Mrs. John Walhnan
of Fort Benning, Ga.
tain: No. 1 highway is going to be
moved off May Street.
“So far as Southern Pines is
concerned,” the mayor said, “if we
are not successful in finding the
highway commission a right of
way in the McDeed’s Creek sec
tion, we will certainly not get No.
1 in Southern Pines. There is a
big possibility that) if it cannot go
there, it would have to be moved
about halfway to Pinehurst and
by-pass both Southern Pines and
Aberdeen.
“The highway department does
not care whether the route goes
through Southern Pines or not,”
the mayor pointed out. “They are
interested in moving traffic and
getting the shortest route they can
and would probably prefer to by
pass a town altogether. It Would
certainly be to the advantage of
the people of Southern Pines to
use what influence they have to
enable the highway to come
through town. So far as I can
see, the McDeed’s Creek route is
the only thing we’ve got to offer
where they could get a 200-foot
right of way.”
The mayor recalled that the
matter of re-routing No. 1 had
come up in a council meeting sev
eral months ago and that mem
bers of the council were asked to
think about the matter and pre
pare to plan for a route that
would protect the interests of the
town.
He stressed the fact that Com
missioner Lockey said there is
nothing definite yet about the
McDeed’s Creek route. Surveying
work going on here for the past
two weeks is “simply a survey”
the mayor quoted the commission
er as saying. If the route doesn’t
fit in with the State’s best inter
ests and plans in the matter, it
will not be accepted, he said.
“■With all the surveying that
has been going on through town,
we have had only one objection
from a property owner,” the may
or said. “I can’t imagine any
other route in or near town that
could be surveyed for a 200-foot
right of way in which many more
people wouldn’t have complained
already,” he said.
Describing in general outline
the survey that has been under
way, the mayor said the route
leaves No. 1 highway this side of
Skyline, north of Manly and
crosses Midland Road near the
intersection with the “cut-off”
road to Manly. It would run be
tween the W. P. Davis residence
and the Mid Pines lake and swing
in to follow south the course of
McDeed’s Creek, the stream that
runs in the hollow between East
and West Southern Pines. At the
south end of town the surveyed
route runs east of the cemetery
and runs back into No. 1 at the
curve just north of the Fairway
and Charlton Court tourist courts,
requiring removal of the old Sugg
home on_the West side -of the
curve.
If this route should be used,
tentative plans call for an over
pass traffic separation that would
carry Pennsylvania Avenue over
the dual-lane highway, with con
necting “clover-leaf” intersec
tions, at the bottom of the hollow
between East and West Southern
Pines. A similar traffic separa
tion would be considered for the
crossing on Midland Road, pre-
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LICENSE BUREAU
CLOSING 2 WEEKS
The Chamber of Com
merce office and auto license
bureau at the Southland
Hotel will be closed for two
weeks starting Monday as
Miss Alice Baxter, secretary,
will be on vacation.
Persons requiring motor
vehicle licenses or license
transfers during this period
are asked to go to the offices
at Sanford. Rockingham.
Fayetteville or Raleigh, or
'Write to the Raleigh office of
the State Department of
Motor 'Vehicles.
H. L. Brown, house com
mittee chairman for the
Chamber of Commerce, will
have the key and pick up the
mail during Miss Baxter's va
cation period. The office will
reopen Monday, August 30.