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VOL. 35—NO. 51
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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1954
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
N. C School Supervisors To Hold
Annual Conference Here Next Week
IVA KITCHELL, dance sa
tirist, will open the season of
the Sandhill Music Associa
tion with a performance to
night (Friday) in Weaver Au
ditorium at 8:30. She is known
for her genius in impersona
tions. Her accompanist will be
Harvey Brown.
Robert L. Bame,
New Methodist
Pastor, Arrives
The Rev. Robert L. Bame, new
ly assigned pastor of the Southern
Pines Methodist Church, was
preacher at church services in the
Civic Cllub lEist Sunday and
Two Moore County^
Supervisors Assist
With Arrangements
More than 200 members dt the
department of supervisors of the
N. C. Education Association are
j expected to attend the depart-
I ment’s annual conference here
Sunday through Tuesday noon.
Heedquarters will be at the
Hollywood Hotel. Advance reser
vations indicate that the confer
ence will fill several local hotels.
Program sessions will feature
as speakers a number of figures
distinguished in the world of edu
cation. President of the depart
ment, which includes supervisors
and directors of instruction from
all over the State, is Mrs. Emily
McC. Butler of Lumberton.
The two Moore County super
visors are assisting in arrange
ments for the meeting. Miss Mary
Logan of Southern Pines is chair
man of registration, and Mrs
Beulah McPherson of Cameron of
the reception to be held early
Sunday evening, honoring all the
new supervisors. Chairman of ar
rangements for the banquet to be
held Monday night is Miss Mary
Currie of Carthage, supervisor in
Lee County schools.
Speaker from Washington
Registration will be held at the
Hollywood during Sunday after
noon, and a number of the mem
bers are expected to arrive early
for a round of golf. Speaker at
the first session, to be held al
moved here with his wife and
•on, to Occupy the parsonage Auditorium Sunday eve
ning, will be Dr. Jane Franseth,
specialist in rural education with
the U. S. Office- of Education at
Washington. Dr. Franseth will
give an evaluation of the confer
ence at the final session Tuesday
mc-rning, and will be available
for consultations and conferences
throughout the meeting.
Others appearing on the pro
gram will include Dr. Charles F
Carroll, state superintendent of
public instruction; Dr. Arnold
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Girl Scout Drive
Starts With Local
Goal Set $1,400
The annual financial campaign
of the Central Carolina Girl Scout
Council which includes troops of
Moore County, is being conducted
in November. The Southern Pines
drive is headed by John C. Os-
trom and George C. Leonard, Jr.,
with a goal of $1,400.
Goals for other communities of
to i Moore County are: Aberdeen,
$200; Carthage, $350; Pinebluff,
$100; Pinehurst, $400; Robbins,
$350; West End, $200; and Vass,
$100.
435 N. Ashe St., Wednesday of
this week.
The pastor,' who has been in
the ministry 11 years, comes to
Southern Pines from La Grange.
He is a graduate of Duke Divinity
School.
As pastor of the recently char
tered Sc-uthern Pines Methodist
Church, he replaces the Rev. E. E.
Whitley who was sent here by
the North Carolina Conference
June 1 to organize a new Metho
dist church which now has 84
members.
A native of Rowan County, the
Rev. Mr. Bame received his A. B.
degree from Wofford College,
Spartanburg, S. C., before attend
ing the Duke Divinity School. His
wife is the former Helen Butner
of Kinston. Their son, R. L., Jr.,
(Bobby) is three and a half years
old. The pastor was district di
rector of Youth Work in the New
Hern Conference, while at La
Grange. He had previously served
at Pikeville and Enfield.
The Rev. Mr. Whitley, with his
wife, Mrs. Betty Whitley, and two
sons, Gregory, six, and Barry,
three, moved on Wednesday
Rcseboro in the Goldsboro Dis
trict, one of the two new districts
created this year in the North
Carolina conference. He was
preacher at that church Sunday,! The entire council budget for
prior to moving. Appointments of 1955 is $7,100. There are 860
CHAMPS—While most entries in the South
ern Pines Golf Carousel were from out of town,
a team of local men took top honors. Max For
rest (left) and George Pottle receive engraved
silver serving dishes from Pinehurst’s Dick
Chapman, famed amateur golfer and a member
of the tournament advisory committee. Jack
Younts, general Carousel chairman, observes the
presentation from the background, at the South
ern Pines Country Club. (Photo by Humphrey)
ministers in the Conference, in
cluding the change at Southern
Pines, were read at the closing
session of the annual Conference
in Raleigh.
5 Local Persons
Join In Ceremony
Of Naturalization
Three Southern Pines adults,
and the two young daughters of
one couple, went to Greensboro
Thursday to take part in natural
ization ceremonies of the Middle
District Federal Court.
All went to swap their Polish
nationality for American citizen
ship, after having made their
home here for five years.
The five, who came here origi
nally as “DP’s”—sunder the State
Department’s Displaced Persons
program—are Mr. and Mrs. Alek-
sy Guryn, with their daughters
Jasia, 16, Marysia, 11, and Mrs.
Adrian Donnelly. Mrs. Donnelly,
whose husband accompanied her
to Greensboro, was Maria Ciszak,
the first DP to come to Southern
Pines. She has since married an
American. The Guryn family
came later that year.
The active 1949 program
brought SO' many DP’s to the na
tion that November 11—now “Vet
erans Day”—has been set aside
all over the country for the nat-
urglization ceremonies. In Greens
boro, local organizations planned
an all-day pro^am welcoming the
newly-naturalized into citizen
ship.
Scouts in the council—the largest
number since its founding in 1947
and a gain of 146 girls during the
past year. Miss Cathryn Creas-
man of Sanford is executive di
rector.
Local contributions, which are
tax-deductible, should be sent to
John C. Ostrom, P. O. Box 1017,
Southern Pines. '
Included in the council are
troQps in Moore, Lee, Chatham
and Harnett Counties.,
In each community of the coun
cil for the past year there have
been gains either in number of
troops or number of girls in
troops, it was announced this
week, indicating a continuing and
increasing need for council funds.
AMONG WINNERS—Among flight winners in the Southern
Pines Golf Carousel were Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jenkins, right,
commandant at the USAF Air-Ground School here, and Capt.
Ben Gilliland. The USAFAGOS team, one of two teams com
posed of Air Force personnel who played in the event, are pic
tured with prizes awarded Sunday. (Photo by Humphrey)
C. of Co Banquet
Set Wednesday
At Country Club
Record attendance is expected
at the annual banquet of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce to be held Wednesday at
7 p. m. at the Southern Pines
Council Okays
Christmas Bonus
For Employees
Southern Pines town employees
will get a Christmas bonus
amounting to one-half of one per
cent of annual salary provided
they entered 'the service of the
Country Club, according toj town before July 1, it was de-
George H. Leonard, Jr., chairman cided by the town council at the
of arrangements. regular monthly meeting of the
Main speaker will be E. N council Tuesday night. In any
'■‘Red” Pope, of Raleigh, director! case, the bonus will not be less
than $10, the council specified.
Volunteer firemen will receive
$10 each as a Christmas present
of the advertising department of
the Carolina Power and Light Co
Mr. Pope is one of the foremost
advertising executives of' the j from the town,
state, as well as one of its mostf While discussing
sought-after speakers. He will be
introduced by W. Ward Hill, vice-
president of the Chamber and
manager of the Southern Pines
district office of the CP&L.
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Sandhills Mourns Governor
Residents of Southern Pines and
Moore County joined the State
this week in mourning Gov. Wil
liam B. Umstead who died of a
heart condition Sunday.
A number of Moore residents
attended Governor Umstead’s
funeral at Durham Tuesday and
the swearing-in of Lt. Gov. Luth
er H. Hodges as Governor at Ral
eigh later that same day.
The new Governor has 26
months to serve of the unexpired
Umstead term. He spoke at a
Democratic rally in Carthage
week before last and al§o at a
meeting of the Sandhill Kiwanis
Club that week, making a most
favorable impression during his
appearances in the county.
Among those from the Sand
hills attending the late Governor’s
funeral in Durham were State
Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
W. P. Saunders of Southern Pines,
Highway Commissioner Forrest
Lockey of Aberdeen, Judge W. A.
Leland McKeithen of Pinehurst
and others. Present at Raleigh
for the swearing-in ceremony of
Governor Hodges were Mr. and
Mrs. W. Lament Brown, Mr. and
Mrs. Voit Gilmore, and’Marshall
G. McRae, of Southern Pines» Rep.
Blue and others.
Mr. Brown and Mr. Gilmore,
respectively head of the county
Democratic Executive Committee
and the County Young Democrats,
had been host to Governor Hodges
on behalf of their organizations,
at his appearance in Carthage. -
the bonus
matter, the councfl asked City
Manager Tom E. Cunningham to
work out with the N. C. Institute
of Government a definite pay
plan for employees that would
provide for wage and salary in
creases and also a Christmas
bonus that would be given on the
same basis from year to year.
'CAROUSEL' SUCCESS
Local Team
Winners In
Golf Event
This community added to its
laurels as a golf center last week
end with the holding of the first
Southern Pines Gclf Carousel,
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce with cooperation of all
three local. courses.
The Carousel drew 120 entries
or 60 teams, mostly from other
North Carolina towns or other
States, for four days of,play over
the Mid Pines, Pine Needles and
Southern Pines Country Club
courses. ■ ■
The unique four-ball tourna
ment in which, after qualifying
rounds, all the flights were rota
ted from course to course, drew
unqualified enthusiasm from the
participants. A social hour Thurs
day afternoon, a golf clinic with
three topnotchers Friday, and a
dance Saturday night added to
their enjoyment.
The expressed wish of practi
cally every visitor to return next
year, and bring their friends,
practically decided the question
as to whether the Carousel would
become an annual event. As a be
ginning, it was rated an unusual
succes^, promising future events
two and three times as large. Also
notable for a first tournament,
local old-timers said, was the fact
that, it broke even financially.
It is considered highly likely
that the Chamber will carry on,
and that the Carousel will become
an established Sandhills event..
A home town team, George
Pottle and Max Forrest, emerged
as the first Carousel champions,
defeating Richard McDonald of
Wilson and Kenneth Smith of
Ridgwood, N. J., in the final
round of the championship flight
Two teams from USAFAGOS
were winners—Brig. Gen. Daniel
W. Jenkins and Capt. Bennett P
Gilliland, in the third flight, and
Capt. A. R. Howarth and Capt.
J. J. McDonald, in the fourth.
Local golfers Jack Carter and
Joe Carter were medalists in the
qualifying round, with a 66. (It
took a 71 or better to' make the
championship flight.)
Half of all teams entered took
home prizes. Those defeated in the
first round immediately started
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Stevenson Expected To
Arrive Here On Snnday
Plans To Have
Week’s Vacation
At Ives Farm
Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 Demo
cratic Presidential candidate and
outstanding possibility for the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent in 1956, is expected to arrive
in the Sandhills Sunday for a visit
with his sister and brother-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ives at Paint
Hill Farm between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen, off the Be-
thesda Road.
Mr. and Mrs. Ives were to ar-
Libertyville, Ill., .home Tuesday.
Inquiry at Paint Hill Farm
brought information as to the
plans for his arrival. At Liberty-
ville, Mr. Stevenson said he would
be in Southern Pines for a week’s
vacation, but exact length of his
visit here is not known. During a
visit here last spring, he was per
sonally greeted by hundreds of
persons at a rally and reception in
Carthage.
Raymond Cameron
Reported Well On
Road To Recovery
Raymond Cameron, young local
man who was severely burned in
an explosion that took the life of
his cousin, Alec Cameron, last
week, is reported to be making
goo(J progress toward recovery at
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill,
this week.
Recent visitors report that he
was able to get out of bed briefly
Tuesday. Another visitor said . -
doctors at the hospital say his vis- automobile at Paint Hil]
itors may have to be restricted I Farrrr'Thursday afternoon from
because more persons have been ' Bloomington, Ill., their summer
going to see him than he ^hould , Stevenson, former
be allowed to see at the present governor of Illinois, has frequent
time. I ly visited here.
Mrs. L. W. Hall of Laurinburg, | The proposed visit to Southern
his sister, told The Pilot this week I Pines was revealed by Mr. Stev-
that her brother had been burned enson in a press conference at his
on 50 per cent of his body. She
said that their aunt. Miss Pearl
McMillan of Aberdeen, a register
ed nurse, was at Chapel Hill help
ing to care for him.
Hundreds of relatives and
friends attended funeral services
for Alec Cameron at the Church
of Wide Fellowship Saturday
morning. Dr. W. C. Timmons,
pastor, officiated, and burial was
in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Knights Facing
Rowland Tonight
At Red Springs
The Blue Knights of Southern
Pines High School—who walloped
Ellerbe 36-6 for their group cham
pionship at Pinehurst last Friday
afternoon—tonight (Friday) play
for the regional title in an Eastern
playoffs semi-finals game, against
Rowland at Red Springs. Kickoff
is set for 8 p.m.
The Blue Knights beat Rowland
63-19, playing at top form, during
the regular season, but Rowland
was lacking'four of their best
players in that contest.
“We’re expectin^g a tight game,”
Head Coach Irie Leonard of the
Blue Knights said this week.
If Southern Pines beats Row
land, the Blue Knights will play
the winner of the Clayton-Bath
game, also being played today, for
the Eastern championship, Friday
of next week. East and West win
ners will play for the state cham
pionship Thanksgiving weekend.
Old 'Town school of Winston-
Salem, which defeated the Blue
Knights for the state title last
year, is playing today in a West
ern semifinals contest with Yan-
ceyville. Other teams in the
Western semi-finals are Courtney
of Yadkin County and Scott of
Iredell County.
The Thanksgiving weekend
state six-man championship game
will be played in the West this
year, according to a rotation
agreement. .
Prices for the regional game un
der lights at Red Springs tonight
will be 75 cents for adults and 35
cents for students and children.
The Blue Knights remain in the
No. 2 spot among state six-man
outfits in this week’s Greensboro
Daily News rating, with Old Town
rated No. 1. Aberdeen is in No.
4 position.
Hobbs To Head Seal Sale
J. D. (Jimmy) Hobbs has ac
cepted appointment as county
chairman for the 1954 Christmas
Last years bonus, which 'was seal sale of the Moore County
not on a percentage of salary ba
sis, but allotted certain amounts
to various classifications of work
ers and employees, cost, the town
$620. This year’s plan would cost
$715, Cunningham said.
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HEADS COMMITTEE
Ralph T. Mills, local superin
tendent of water purification, at
tended the 34th annual joint con
vention of the American Water
Works Association and the North
Carolina Sewage and Industrial
Waste Association at Asheville
Monday through Wednesday
morning.
Mr. Mills was named chairman
of the nominating committee of
the groups for 1955-'’56.
Tuberculosis Association, it was
announced this week by Norris
Hodgkins, Jr., Association presi
dent.
The Rev. J. R. Funderburk of
Southern Pines will head the Ne
gro division of the sale, as he has
done for the past several years
The sale will begin throughout
the county November 22, to run
until Christmas, with a goal of
$6,040, Mr. Hodgkins said. Com
munity chairmen and quotas will
be announced by Mr. Hobbs next
week.
The National Tuberculosis As
sociation is conducting its 48th
annual Christmas seal sale this
year. Proceeds of the Moore
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W A
h
Scouting Officers
To Be Installed;
Resell Will Speak
The annual recognition dinner
of the Moore District Boy Scout
organization will be held at
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church in Southern Pines Thurs
day of next week at 7 p. m., ac
cording to General Pearson Men-
oher, district chairman. General
Menoher will preside. Plans are
being made for attendance of
over 200 friends and associates of
Scouting.
Distinguished-service awards
will be made to outstanding Cub
Scouts and Explorer Scouts, and
also to district leaders, tO' be pre
sented by Dr. Adam W. Craig of
Pinehurst, chairman of the Ad
vancement Committee. Lawrence
Johnson, district advancement
chairman, will recognize unit
leaders of Moore District.
Guest speaker at the occasion
will be Al Resch of Siler City,
council public relations chairman.
The council president, W. D.
Campbell, will also address the
gathering. A program report for
1954 in this district will be given
by District Chairman Menoher.
The 1955 officers to be installed
include: General Menoher, dis
trict chairman; Rev. C. K. Ligon
and John Ponzer, district vice-
chairmen; Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., dis
trict commissioner; La'wrence
Johnson, advancement; C. C.
Swaringen, health and safety; Dr.
J. Bruce Warlick, organization
and extension; David Drexel,
camping; Al Foley, training; and
E. H. MiUs, special events. S. P.
Gaskin of Raleigh, Occoneechee
Council Scout executive, will in
stall the officers.
District and unit committee
men, leaders, and other district
officers and their wives, as well
as all friends of Scouting are in
vited to this annual event. Tickets
can be secured from neighbor
hood commissioners or operating
committee chairmen.
J. D. HOBBS
FARM BUREAU BARBECUE
A*
The annual Moore County
iFarm Bureau hjaxbecue supper
will be held on this (Friday) eve
ning at the Carthage High School
beginning at 6:30 p. m., according
to T. Clyde Auman, chairman of
the membership committee.
The barbecue was originally
scheduled for Friday, November
5, but had been postponed for one
week.
Speaker for the Occasion will be
William T. Crisp of Raleigh who
is general manager and counsel
for the Tar Heel Electric Mem
bership Association.
Auman said that the barbecue
would bring to a close the 1954
membership drive.