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Methodists To
Conduct Charter
Day For Church
73 Persons Will
Be Accepted Foj:
Membership Sunday
Charter Sunday for Southern
Pines’ new Methodist Church will
be observed September 12 by
prospective members and friends
of the church with special serv
ices at the Civic Club at the cor
ner of Ashe St. and Pennsylvania
Ave.
The Rev. O. L. Hathaway of
Fayetteville, superintendent of
the Fayetteville District of the
North Carolina Conference, will
deliver the sermon at the morning
service which is to begin at 11
a.m. Regular Church School at
9:45 a.m. will precede the Charter
Sunday service.
The call to worship and the in
vocation will be delivered by the
Rev. E. E. Whitley, pastor, who
has been organizing the new
church during the last several
months. There will be special
music. Prelude and postlude will
be played by Mrs. Eleanor Cald
well, 'pianist.
Seventy-three persons will be
received into membership of the
church—12 coming by profession
of faith, 43 by letters of transfer
and 18 children coming by bap
tism and preparatory member
ship.
The service will include bap
tism of infants and children, re
ceiving baptized persons into the
church, reception of members of
transfer, reception of preparatory
members; and also the church
conference and quarterly confer
ence at which the actual organi
zation of the new church will take
place.
A nominating committee will
bring in nominations to be consid
ered by the new church members
for stewards, trustees. Church
School superintendent and a num
ber of commissions and commit
tees, as well as lay delegate and
alternate to the annual confer
ence.
Tentative plans caU for con
struction of an education building
and church sanctueiry, when pos
sible, on a lot at the southwest
corner of May St. and Maine Ave.
PRICE—TEN CENTS
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NEW SCHOOL OPENS—Students gather on
the steps of the new “Phase A’’ unit of South
ern Pines High School, as classes opened Wed
nesday, marking first use of the structure which
was built at a cost of $126,644. Leslie N. Honey
of Wilmington was architect of the brick build-
Toial Town Enrollmenl Tops LOOP
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ing which has a “modified Colonial” design to
harmonize with other units of the; school plant
here. Work is expected to begin later this year
on the adjoining “Phase B” unit that will ex
tend 191 feet north, paraUel to May St. Total
cost of the whole structure is expected to be
about $250,000. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Record Number Pupils Enter Schools
Blue Kjiights To
Open Season At
Maxton Tonight
Southern Pines High grid squad
completed a week of hard work
^ursday afternoon with taper
ing-off drills in preparation for
Friday night’s opener with Max-
ton under the lights at Maxton.
A broiling sun all this week
failed to dampen the high spirits
of the squad although their shirts
and practice pants were quickly
sweat-drenched. Workouts were
spirited Wednesday, made more
so by the boys making terrific
bids for starting positions in Fri
day’s game.
Headcoach Irie Leonard on
Wednesday hadn’t picked the
starters for the game with the
Robeson County high team, but
indicated that Tony Parker and
Bill Marley would be on the ends.
(Continued on Page 8)
First-day enrollment at South
ern Pines white schools increas
ed by'71 pupils, as compared to
the first day last year, Supt. A. C.
Dawson, Jr., reports. Local
schools opened Wednesday.
An increase of 50 was recorded
in the elementary school—from
475 last year to 525 this year. In
the high school, enrollment jump
ed from 125 to 146.
Further increases in the high
school registration, probably to
between 155 and 160, are expect
ed, Mr. Dawson said, as addition
al students who have been out of
town return.
In the West Southern Pines
schools. Principal J. W. Moore re
ported an increase of 16 in the
elementary school, from 228 to
244, and an increase of 18 in the
high school, from 82 to 100.
This brings the total first-day
enrollment in all schools of the
Southern Pines city unit to 1,015
—the first time enrollment has
topped the 1,000 mark in the local
school system.
Total increase of pupils in all
the local schools this year, as
compared to last year, amounts
to 105.
Supt. Dawson said that the in
flux of pupils at the white ele
mentary school may mean that
one class will have to move to
quarters outside the school plant
The school is short four dagg
rooms and is conducting one class
in the teachers’ lounge, two in
the horne economics cottage and
one in the gymnasium office.
Mrs. Struthers Burt Here; Service Of
Mr. Burt For Moore Hospital Recalled
Mrs. Struthers Burt, widow of
the novelist and poet who died at
Jackson, Wyo., August 28 and
who had spent a large part of his
life in Southern Pines, arrived
here this week and is staying at
Weymouth, the home of Mrs.
James Boyd.
Mrs. Boyd is expected to arrive
in Southern Pines from Sorrento,
Maine,' Monday.
Funeral services for Mr. Burt
were held at Jackson, W^ednesday
of last week. Burial was in the
Jackson cemetery which is de
scribed as a beautiful spot in view
of the Teton mountains. The
pree Rivers Ranch, which had
been owned by Mr. and Mrs. Burt
for many years, is not far from
Jackson.
Mr. Burt’s many years of faith-
fm service as both a director and
officer of the board of directors
of Moore County Hospital were
pointed out this week by Paul
Dana of Pinehurst, secretary of
Moore County Hospital, Inc.
He was one of the 15 original
directors elected at the permanent
organization meeting of the hos
pital board on April 28, 1928, and
continued to serve as a director
for about 20 years, until the end
of 1947.
He was a member of the first
finance committee appointed in
1928 and chairman of that com
mittee in 1932. He served as vice-
president in 1932 and as president
of the board during 1933.
He was a member of the'execu
tive committee from 1934 through
1937; a member 6f the public re
lations committee from 1940
through 1942; and a member of
the professional relations commit
tee from 1943 through 1946.
“During aU these years he was
onb of our njost faithful and val
uable directors,” Mr. Dana noted. i
The teachers’ lounge, he said,
will accommodate a class of only
20 students, because of its size.
As it appears each teacher will
have to instruct the full comple
ment of 30 students, it may be
this room, cannot be used for an Borklpv
emergency classroom, he said.
, The Parent-Teacher Associa
tion formed here early this year
will have its first meeting in the
school auditorium Thursday
night, September 23.
County Schools
Supt. H. Lee .Thomas at Car
thage reported that the county
school system showed a first-day
attendance gain of 303 as a total
of all elementary. and high
schools in the nine districts of the
county.
Total enrollment in the county
schools was 6,407 as compared
to 6,104 last year.
ToWn Audit Shows
ExcjKSS Of Nearly
»,000 For Year
Deficit Of Previous
Year Overcome; Funds
In Bank Increase
• An audit of the town’s accounts
received from W. M. Russ and Co.,
certified public accountants, of
Raleigh, shows an excess in the
general fund of $14,420.53 and in
the water fund of $14,422.23.
The audit report covers the fis
cal year ended June 30, the first
fiscal year under the council-man
ager form of government.
An audit of the previous fiscal
year, ended June 30, 1953, had
showed expenditures exceeding
revenue in the general fund by
$5,590 and in the water fund bv
$1,299.
While the town at the begin
ning cf the fiscal year had a defi-
(cit of about $20,000, some of
which had been carried over from
previous years, the new audit
shows a surplus cf $24,300 in the
water fund and $4,109 in the gen
eral fund, for a total accumulated
surplus of $28,409. The deficit of
$20,210 was wiped out during the
year.
The audit for the 1953-’54 year
shows cash in banks as $118,699
compared to $47,787 at the end of
the previous fiscal year.
Because the transactions had
not been undertaken when the
new audit was made, the report
does not show as cash assets for
the town $13,500 which is expect
ed from sale of the Community
Center building on May St., nor
$7,000 which is the price the town
expects to receive for the site of
the former police station and ABC
store building. Dr. Malcolm
Kemp of Southern Pines now
holds an bption on the site for
that price.
SPCC TOURNEY
Wilh about 65 entries, play
in the qualifying rounds of
the annual Southern Pines
Country Club golf touma-
nxent began Wednesday.
Harold Collins of Southern
Pines is defending champion.
Match play will start Sep
tember 15.
'^Outsize Zoning,’
To Be Discussed
“The audit report shows that
the town is now in a much better
Largest gain registered was at P°®ition to tackle things that need
erkley Negro school in Aber- done,” said City Manager
Tom E. Cunningham. Among
these things he listed building
Negro school in Aber
deen which showed an enroll
ment increase of 100. Aberdeen
white schools showed 33 more
students in high and elementary
schools combined; Westmoore
School showed an increase of 39
and Pinckney Negro school at
Carthage 38.
Four schools of the county sys
tem showed decreases in first-
day enrollment—seven at Farm
Life, nine at Highfalls, 12 at Vass
sewers and streets and a new
town hall, police station and fire
station.
elementary (Negro); and 20 at
Vineland, a Negro elementary
school near West End.
The Vass and Vineland Negro
schools are priority prO'jects for
consolidation with the Carthage
schools.
Gommissioners Accept
School Money Decision
Tax Rate Will
Not Be Raised,
Officials Say
The county commissioners,
meeting Tuesday at Carthage, re
solved to accept the decision of
Clerk of Court C. C. Kennedy, ar
bitrator in the school capital out
lay dispute with the county board
of education, thus terminating the
controversy between the two
boards.
The board of education had
previously accepted the decision,
leping the way open to the com
missioners to accept or appeal to
the civil court .
By their action, both boards
have now abandoned their right
of appeal, and the caiptal outlay
budget remains in effect as ap
proved by the commissioners Au-
^st 2, except for the modifica
tions ordered by the arbitrator.
The budget as originally ap
proved reduced capital outlay
funds from $472,471 requested by
the board of education to about
$269,000. The modification restor
ed certain deleted items totaling
$8,359, bringing the total capital
outlay for the year for the county
school system to $277,359.
No Tax Increase
Before adopting the resolution
in their regular session, the com
missioners asked John C. Muse,
auditor, who was present, if the’
addition of the $8,359 would ne
cessitate any alteration in the tax
rate, already set at $1.35. The
auditor informed them that it
need not, as that amount could be
“absorbed” in the budget.
The acceptance was advised by
M. G. Boyette, county attorney,
who also attended the meeting.
He told the commissioners of their
right to appeal to the superior
court, in which the findings of
the clerk would be laid aside and
the judge would make his own
findings, and reach his own de
cision. “He could go lighter on
you, or he could make it very-
much worse,” warned the attor-
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Discussion of a proposal to in
crease the membership of the
town council from five to seven
and of a proposal to work with
Aberdeen on joint zoning of terri^
tory between the two towns, as
well as possible zoning of other
outside areas, is slated for the
town council at its regular meet
ing at town hall Tuesday night of
next week at 8 o’clock.
Also on a tentative docket being
prepared by Clity Manager Tom E.
Cunningham is discussion of cem
etery financing with a view to
setting policy now and in the fu
ture. A study made by the man-
ager, at the request of the council
recommends that contributions to
a perpetual care fund be discon
tinued, that prices of lots be rais
ed and that the cemetery, now
claiming about five cents of $1.75
tax rate, be put on a more nearly
self-sustaining basis.
All three of these matters have
been previously discussed by the
council, some at several meetings!
Change in the council member
ship, as well as “outside zoning”
would require authorization from
the 1955 session of the General
Assembly. The zoning proposal
looks to discussion with Aberdeen
officials, as well as public meet
ings for the property owners in
volved ^nd all other interested
persons. Its aim is to give the
towns some control over the de
velopment of approaches to the
communities.
GILMORE ENDORSED FOR COMMITTEEMAN
260 At YDC Rally Hear Call To Party Activity
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A lively group of 260 Young
Democrats from all but one of the
12 counties of the 8th Congres
sional District gathered at the
Southern Pines Country Club last
Friday night to hear L. Y. (Stag)
Ballentine, State Commissioner of
Agriculture, and other party lead
ers call for Democratic enthusi
asm and activity in the fall elec
tions.
Of paramount local interest was
the endorsement bestowed by the
convention on the candidacy of
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines,
president of the county YDC and
general chairman of Friday’s
gathering, for YDC national com
mitteeman, a post that is to be
filled by election at the state YDC
convention in Charlotte, Septem
ber 16-18. A delegation from
Moore County is expected to jour
ney to Charlotte to back Gilmore’s
candidacy and take part in the po
litical maneuvering that is always
a part of state YDC meetings.
Motion for endorsement of Gil
more’s candidacy was made by
Ralph Monger, Jr., of Sanford,
who is Lee County Democratic
chairman and has been active in
YDC for many years.
Pat Taylpr, Jr., of Wadesboro,
8th District YDC chairman, pre
sided at the outdoor chicken sup
per for which Morris Johnson and
associates at the Country Club re-
(Continued on page 8)
BROOM SALE CONTINUES
The broom sale begun Tuesday
by the Southern Pines Lions Club
is continuing through Saturday.
Proceeds of the sale are used to
help the Lions’ program of aid to
the blind and sight conservation.
Brooms will be sold Saturday
from a booth in front of the Cit
izens Bank and Trust Co. and also
from a truck at the post office.
Emergency Dimes
Drive To Go On
A “very good response” in the
emergency March of Dimes was
reported this week by Paul C.
Butler of Southern Pines, chair
man of the Moore County Chap
ter of the National Association
for Infantile Paralysis.
While reports have not been
received from most of the com
munity chairmen throughout the
county, Southern Pines has con
tributed close to $500, Aberdeen
has about $200 and one report
lists $30 collected in Niagara.
The emergency drive, nation
wide attempt to meet a $20 mil
lion-need to continue programs of
polio research, will continue
through September 15.
IN TOWN OFFICE
Mrs. Dick Mattocks of S. Ben
nett St., began work as adminis
trative clerk at town hall Friday
of last week, resuming a position
that she left March, 1 of this year.
She replaces Mrs. Elizabeth* Zoli
who will leave with her husband
for Gainesville, Fla., September
10. *
APPRECIATION
C. N. Page, "general" for
the athletic field lights cam
paign which has been con
ducted during the past month,
and W. B. Holliday, chairman
of the project for the Cham
ber of Commerce, this week
expressed their appreciation
to all persons who have been
active in the drive or who
have made contributions.
Calling the campedgn a
"wonderful community effort
in which many worked hard
and many gave generously,"
the chairman pointed out that
installation of the lights will
enable larger numbers of per
sons to see athletic contests
of all types here and will
bring pleasure to the town for
years to come.
"We are deeply grateful to
everyone who has given time,
effort or money, whether the
contribution was large or
smaU. The response in
campaign was a tribute to
Southern Pines." they said.
Contract Signed For Work On Lights;
Flks Lodge Turns Over $2,000 Fund
democratic rally — Commissioner of Agriculture
Stag Ballentine rides in the “YDC Special,” a tiny cart drawn by
a Democratic” donkey at the Young Democrats’ 8th District
convention here. At right is Voit Gilmore, general chairman of
Wadesboro, district
chairman. Onlookers in the background were not identi
fied. -The commissioner, main speaker at the gathering, drove
the cart around among the outdoor picnic tables before he deliv-
raut bv supervised at the
rally by Bob Priest of Pinehurst, their owner.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
W. B. Holliday, chairman of the
athletic field lights project of the
Chamber of Commerce, reports
that a contract was signed Wed
nesday with the Cameo Construc
tion CIo. of Sanford to start work
Saturday of next week on instal
lation of the poles and lights.
Work to be done by the Sanford
firm will cost $845 under the con
tract. This will cover setting the
poles, installing the lights on the
poles and part of the wiring.
Some of the remaining work
may be done by volunteer labor.
“We are trying to make our mon
ey go as far as possible,” said Mr.
HoUiday.
Elks Fund Turned Over
Also this week, the Elks contri
bution of $2,000 to the project was
turned over to Mr. Holliday by
Bryan Poe, Exalted Ruler of the
Southern Pines lodge.
I This amount, raised by the Ellrg
j through various activities over the
past years, formed the original
backbone of the lights fund, of
fered by the lodge to the project
some time ago, if it were matched
by other funds.
Mr. Holliday said that two con
tributions from individuals — one
of $200 and one of $100—^had
swelled the total collected in the
campaign to over $2,800. This
does not include the Elks’ contri
bution nor the $1,500 pledged by
the Southern Pines Rotary Club.
Contributions from, individuals
continue to come in, he said, o-
tal contributions, therefore, now
amount to almost $6,000.
Trees Given
A unique and welcome contri
bution to the campaign this week
was the gift of six trees by W. I.
Barbour from his property near
Southern Pines. The particular
trees given will not be used for
the light poles, but wiR replace
poles purchased from the creosot-
ing plant at Gulf.