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THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North CaroUnn
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 11. 1955
Committment Is
Ordered For Man
On Check Counts
Over $5,000 To Be
Paid By Franklinton
Man Not Received
Judge J. Vance Rowe in Moore
recorders court Tuesday ordered
a capias issued for it. M. Brown,
Franklinton lumberman, for im
mediate commitment to the roads
to serve sentences totaling 15
months on five bad-check counts.
The Tuesday term was the first
cf regular session? of the court
to be held on Tuesday each week,
in addition to ! the Monday ses
sion. The Tuesday court replaces
a Friday .session that was tried
for a few weeks but has been dis
continued.
Brown was convicted in the
Mcore court June 30 of issuing
to lumber concerns of this sirea
worthless checks in amounts
totaling $5,491.10. He was given
a three-months road sentence on
each count, suspended ' in each
case on payment of $50. and costs,
also on condition that he repay
the full amount of each check. On
his plea eft financial inability to
meet those conditions at once, the
court gave him until July 20 to
pay the fines and costs, with the
checks to be paid off at the rate
of $100 per month starting Au
gust 1.
The payments on the checks
were not made and Brown was
brought back into court January
7 of this year. Pleading illness
in his family as excuse for the
delay, he was given until Febru
ary 7 to comply “completely'
with the original judgment.
Tuesday, Solicitor W. Lament
Brown told the judge that the
convicted man’s attorney had
phoned him that morning to say
the money was being wir*d and
was “on the way.” The entire day
went by without any delivery of
funds or further word from R. M.
Brown or his attorney. Judge
Rowe’s last act of tjie day was
to note the violation of the sus
pension, ordering the capias and
commitment.
The worthless checks, drawn
on the First-Citizens Bank of
Franklinton in behalf of the
Franklin Lumber Co., had been
paid to Futrell Brothers Lumber
Co. of Vass and affiliated con
cerns. Dating back as far as 1952
every one had been returned
marked “Insufficient Funds.”
Because there was a short
docket, the judge and solicitor
had an opnortunity to clear offi
cash bond forfeitures, a time-con-1
suming job. These resulted fromj
highway arrests of motorists,
mostly for speeding, w;ho posted |
bonds and failed to appear for
trial. Fifty bonds were forfeited]
for an accrual of $2,360 to the
county school fund. |
Johnny Follete, an 18-year-old
prison carrp escapee, received an
extra 30 days on the roads for
two hours of freedom. He was
recaptured by his guard a short
time after walking off from a
road gang on NC 211 near Pine-
hurst that morning. j
Other cases disposed of: Ron-^
aid Clinton Ferguson, Yonkers,
N. Y., speeding 65, $25 including
costs; Lois Boyd, Robbins, assault
with deadly weapon (knife),
judgment continued for 12
months on conditio'ns of good be
havior toward Nannie Gamer;
Jesse E. Gamer, careless and
reckless driving, accident causing
personal injury, failing to'report
accident, no operator’s license,
capias and sci fa on bondsman,
new $100 bond required; Donald
Pfahler, Fort Bragg, attempting
to pass on highway without as
certaining whether it was safe,
driving at excessive speed under
circumstances, judgment contin
ued on payment of costs (not
guilty of careless and reckless
driving); Allison Burns, West
End, non-support, six months on
roads to be served concurrently
with previous six months’ sen-
tense ordered into effect; Clifton
Waddell Moss, Atlanta, Ga.,
speeding 73, $20 and costs.
Robert BlackweU, Southern
Pines, larceny and receiving, not
guilty; Arthur Aaron Cole, alias
Buddy Cole, Eagle Springs, driv
ing while dmnk, speeding 70, 60
days or $100 and costs, license re
voked for 12 months, gave notice
of appeal, bond set at $200; Sam
uel Emery Roberts, Jr., Durham,
careless and reckless driving, cap
ias returnable February 21, bbnd
$100.
ARTIST EXPRESSES CONVICTIONS
Broderson Show Continues At Library
An exhibition of paintings by
Robert M. Broderson, 34-year-old,
instructor at Duke University,!
Durham, continues at the South
ern Pines Library Art Gallery, j
Mr. Broderson, who has ex
hibited widely in North Caro-
Una, Pennsylvania, New York
and the Middle West, writes as
follows about art and the artist
in the modern world:
Of his work and convictions
about painting, Mr. Broderson
writes:
“I believe the path out of the
20th Century art maze will be via
representational expression.
“We have rebelled against 19th
Century pictorial art, we have re
belled against the innumerable
20th Century visual devices which
have relegated the object to the
common-place, and we have re
belled against a materialist socie
ty seemingly capable of destroy
ing itself. And in this rebellion
what has taken the place of the
social 'and natural object if not
an excursion into one’s own
physche? Instead of facing our
age as social creatures, we have
suffered through it with our pri
vate aesthetic. ’This has been a
necessary transition from an age
cf Absolutes through Relativist
unrest to what we now sense as
a new and fruitful period of re
aligned and consistent values. The
fragmentation of 20th Century
art has been due, then, to personal
views of the self, coutfhed in tech
niques and inventiveness for their
own sake to the exclusion of hu
man and social values.
“Art is personal but ought to
be directed toward a social end,
for a continual turning inward
can bring forth an eventual bar
ren harvest. Now we are thirsty
again and must drink from the
broad fountains of our past. We
must return to the great tradition.
We must once more look back to
see what other generations have
to teach us. This is not to charge
ourselves with reaction, for if we
are of an age we do not try to es
cape’ its responsibilities, but rath
er, we look about for ways to
comprehend and to solve our con
temporary problems. Cezanne was
not unwilling to take one step
backward in order to take two
steps forward. He looked at Pous
sin in preparation for a journey
into the future. If we look back
ward as well as inward we shall
discover that the last that can be
said about nature has, as yet, not
been said. We shall rediscover the
object—and indirectly, a way of
representing it.
“But what of the representa
tional painting that is being done
today? There are those unfeeling
beings—painters and public—who
cannot acknowledge an art other
than that established by the can
ons of the 19th Century French
academy; which senselessness
prevails to resist all change. They
count for nothing. And the re
maining represenfationalists be
gin with a style instead of tradi
tion and the object.
“If the painter can feel some
thing about the object and can re
late what he feels about the ob-
ject-^without stylistic conceits—
a new representational image will
arise; not a tired image, but an
image imbued with life. The
painter must somehow represent
the object with extreme external
clarity but with psychological un
dertones reflecting his feelings as
a social creature.”
U. S. farm exports were 30 per
cent higher last October than for
the same month in 1953, the
USDA reports. With a valuation
of $315 million, the total was
ahead of every month since De
cember, 1952.
The 1954 North Carolina cotton
crop is now estimated at 360,000
(500-poxmd gross weight) bales—
20 per cent under 1953 prodijction.
COUNCIL
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$35,000.
Authorized the sale of a 20-foot
wide strip of land on S. W. Broad
St., adjoining the Phillips Motor
Sales location, to Garland Mc
Pherson for $700.
Authorized the manager to pro
ceed with a comprehensive survey
of the town water distribution
system and to enter into a con
tract with the Pitometer Associ
ates of New York, for this pur
pose, at a cost not to exceed $1500.
Authorized the manager to pro
ceed with a comprehensive land
use planning survey in coopera
tion with the Department of City
and Regional Planning of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, extend
ing such a survey made by the
department several years ago, the
only cost to be expenses of the
department’s representatives, not
to exceed $500.
Authorized Mayor Clark and
the manager to enter into a con
tract with the W. M. Russ Com
pany of Raleigh to conduct the
annual audit of the town for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1955.
Author! zed appropriation
switches of $5,000 of water funds
to the Water Department and
$4,000 from general fund to the
Sanitary Department, to meet ex
penses occasioned by extra labor
required in those departments as
a result of Hurricane Hazel and
other causes.
Disaster Study
By Red Cross To
Start On Tuesday
American Red Cross represen
tatives of nine North Carolina
counties will attend a disaster in
stitute in Southern Pines Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week.
More than SOO men and women
are expected at morning and af
ternoon sessions in the Brown-
son Memorial Presbyterian
Church. The institute will be pri
marily an advanced course of
training for members of the
American Red Cross which will
enable them more efficiently to
cope with death and destruction
from the elements should a dis
aster occur.
The Moore County chapter of
the American Red Cress, which
has headquarters in Southern
Pines, will be host with Garland
McPherson, chapter chairman,
calling the first meeting to or
der. The chapter’s executive' sec
retary, Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy,
is in general charge of arrange
ments.
Chapters in the following coun
ties will send representatives:
Anson, Cumberland, Harnett,
Hoke, Lee, -Montgomery, Rock
ingham and Scotland.
AIL mayors, chiefs of police and
heads of fire departments in
Moore County have been invited
along with various other public
officials and citizens active in
civic affairs.
APPEALS
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schools as a means of conserving
this resource.
Of 112,311 pupils entering the
first grade, as an average over the
past few years, only 35,087 finish
high school, they pointed out.
They appealed for public support
of the United Forces program
which is backed by a number of
state wide civic organizations such
as the PTA, Grange, Jaycees and
other groups.
Items in the United Forces pro
gram include:
Attendance personnel, locally
employed and state-paid, to help
cut down on absenteeism and
drop-outs.
Clerical assistance for princi
pals.
Increase in teachers’ salaries.
Extension of the teachers’ school
year by 10 days, to allow time for
administrative work by teachers
before school opens and after it
closes.
Improvement in school libra
ries.
Increased appropriations for in
structional and janitorial supplies.
Greatest need, the speakers
said, is for more teachers. The
training schools of the state are
graduating fewer teachers each
year than are needed by the
state’s school system, they said.
The Rev. C. V. Covell, vice-
president, presided at the Rotary
meeting in the absence of Presi
dent Johnnie A. Hall. New Ro
tary officers, elected at the previ
ous meeting, will be installed at
the first meeting in July, when
James B. Perkinson will take of
fice as president. Claude Reams,
Jr., was junior guest last Friday.
George Reams, vice-president of
the Freshman class, was the jun
ior guest of the week at Friday’s
meeting.
President Jack Taylor presided
at the Kiwanis gathering which
featured presentation by the club
of $1,000 to the Moore County
Hospital building fund, as noted
with a front-page photo in today’s
Pilot.
Don’t wash white nylon gar
ments with colored clothes. White
nylon will quickly become dingy.
HUNTER TRIALS
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secretary, Mrs. Moss, (Southern
Pines 2-7252) or Joan Bowden,
(Pinehurst 5982), who will also
oblige with tickets for the hunt
ball, gala social affair of the sea
son. ’To be held the evening after
the trials, at the Pine Needles
Club, the hunt ball will be pre
ceded by dinner, there, with time
set for 8 p. m.
Reservations for both the trials
and the ball are being made by
many out-of-towners, this year
and it is expected that attendance
will be large. With so many out
standing hunters and jumpers in
this section, added to the outside
entries expected to take part, the
horse people are flocking in. Ac
cording to all advance reports,
the event should prove one of the
mest successful of recent years.
The 14,220-acre Harmon Den
Cooperative Wildlife Manage
ment Area was established in 1954
in Haywood County, where wild
life will be managed by the N. C.
Wildlife Resources Commission
on U. S. Forest Service lands. ’This
area is being stocked with deer
trapped on other refuges.
Questions Asked
About By-Pass In
Letter To Manager
Officials Answer
Queries By Citizens
At Council Meeting
What provisions are being made
by those in charge of planning the
pew location of Route 1 in this
section, for the operation of town
facilities on both sides of the
road? How many and what sort
of crossings will there be? What
type of zoning will be in force
along the route?
These are among questions rais
ed in a letter from W. P. Davis
received by the town manager last
week; a copy of which was sent
by the manager to each council
man. The Davis letter had been
listed on the docket for discussion
at the town council meeting Tues
day night but was removed from
the docket prior to the meeting,
since councihnen felt that the
questions asked in the letter could
not be answered at this time, due
to the stage of planning the by
pass is now in.
Mr. Davis, who owns a large
acreage in town to be crossed by
the proposed route, stressed, in his
letter, that he was not either pro
testing or endorsing the plan. He
wrote that either stand must be
based on full information on what
is proposed and that he has been
unable to obtain answers to ques
tions he considers vital to any re
sponsible judgment on the matter.
Here is the text of the Davis
letter which was sent not only to
the town manager but also to the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, the Moore County
board of commissioners, T. G.
Poindexter, division highway en
gineer, at Aberdeen, and William
H. Rogers, Jr., state highway en
gineer, at Raleigh:
“Subject: Proposed route of US
Highway Number 1, from just
South of Southern Pines, North
Carolina to North of Manley,
North Carolina.
“Gentlemen:
“As a property owner on the
proposed relocation of U. S. High-
way'^umber 1, and as a citizen of
the town and county, I have stud
ied the map posted at the Court
House at Carthage, North Caro
lina. In addition, I have inquired
of the Town Manager and State
Highway officials.
“This is not a formal letter of
protest or endorsement of the new
route, because favor or opposition
to any plan must be based on the'
proposal as a whole. In this case,
there are many answers to ques
tions that the writer could not ob
tain from the Town Manager or
State Highway officials.
“As one of the property owners
involved, protest or endorsement
should be based upon the answers
to these questions which are not
now obtainable:
“1. Location and type of grade
separations or cross-overs and the
fixing of them in detail as a defi
nite part of the plan.
“2. Location and type of paral
lel service roads and the fixing of
them in detail as a definite part
of the plan.
“3. When, where, and what
ype of town zoning ordinance will
be put into effect along the pro
posed route.
“4. Value of the land actually
taken lor the right-olrway and
damages to other property, plus
separation damages.
“As a citizen of the Town of
Southern Pines, North Carolina,
the answers to the following ques
tions should form a basis of pro
test or endorsement:
“1. Availability of one side of
town to the other. Will the ave
nues or a large number of them
be permanently separated? How
many and where will there be
cross-overs? •
“2. Will the present water and
sewerage facilities crossing the
proposed route, accommodate the
future growth of Southern Pines?
“If not, what provisions are be
ing made to build and finance fu
ture facilities?
“3. Availability of fire-fighting
equipment to the sections on the
sides of the highway?
4. What will the project cost
the Town, and how will such costs
be financed?
“5. How many grade separa
tions will be necessary to prevent
their project from creating a bar
rier, to future development?
“I believe more information
should be made available to me
before I could intelligently pass
on the'merits of this project.
“I certainly hope that by my
asking these questions, no one
presumes that I oppose this or any
other worthwhile project. I am
vitally interested in the develop
ment of our State as well as our
Town, and certainly would not
knowingly oppose any project
mutually beneficial to my State
and Town.
“I would appreciate, hearing
from you on the above.”
Route Discussed
Question of the by-pass route
was brought up at the council
PARADE
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planning committee whose mem
bers are Jim Wilson, Moore Scout
executive; David Drexel, Carl
Holt, Curtis Everette, Cliff Story,
and Dr. A. ,M. Jamison, Jr., all of
Southern Pines, and E. H. Mills of
Pinebluff:
Color guard, Explorer Post 936,
Carthage; Boy Scout banner,
Troop 224, Southern Pines; Na
tional Guard; Southern Pines
High School band; Troop 7 and
Cub Pack 7, both of Pinehurst;
auto cavalcade of 14 cars; Troop
224, Southern Pines; Cub Pack
73, Southern Pines; Explorer
Post 809, Southern Pines; Troop
73, Southern Pines; West South
ern Pines High School band; Ne
gro Scout units; Del Cameron,
horseback.
Also: Red Cross; fire depart
ment; 40 and 8; Carolina Power
and Light Co., Civil Defense:
Ground Observer Corps; Civil
Air Patrol; Troop 206, Cub Pack
206, and Explorer Post 807, all of
Pinebluff; N. C. Ferest Service;
Troop 810, Vass; Troop 208, Cam
eron; Troop 98, West End; Berk
ley High School band (Aberdeen);
Troop 936, Cub Pack 936 and Ex
plorer Pest 936, all of Carthage;
Cub Pack 74, ’Troop 74 and Ex-
nlorer Post 74, all of Robbins:
Also: Troop 815, Highfalls;
Pinckney High School band (Car-
thaee); Southern Pines Veterans
of Foreigb Wars; Carthage Vete
rans of Foreign Wars; Southern
Pines, Aberdeen and Carthage
American Legion posts; Miss Saf-
ford, on horseback; four farm
eouipment displays; Troop 68
Aberdeen.
Negro Scout units in Moore
County, all expected to be repre
sented in the parade, are at Ad-
-^or, Cameron, Vas.s. Pinehurst,
West Southern Pines, Car
thage and Mt. Zion community.
Scout Week wirfdow displays
have been set up in Southern
Pines at the Broad Street Phar
macy by Troop 224 and at the
Pine Shop by ’Troop 73. Other
window displays. all of which
will be judged for awarding of
ribbons at the March court of
honor, are set up elsewhere in the
county.
County To Assume Debt Service On
Bonds For Construction of Gym Here
PARKING
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except if they violate the parking
limit apolicable to all parking
snaces. A loading zone, under this
view, is there for the convenience
of the public.
Ccuncilman W. E. Blue voted
against abolition of the privilege
parking spaces. Voting for the
motion were Councilmen Voit
Gilmore, Joe OCallaghan, C. S.
Patch, Jr., and Mayor Clark, Mr.
Blue said he would have voted
to abolish the privilege parking,
had loading zones been included
in the action, but he does hot
think one should be done away
with without the other.
Derailment Causes
Train Delays Here
Derailment of a freight car
between Lakeview and Niagara
caused an interruption of
train schedules on the Seaboard
main line for several hours Tues
day morning.
Railroad officials said the acci
dent was minor and no damage
was done. The derailment occur
red at 6 a. m. and it was almost
noon before the morning trains
began coming through.
meeting by John C. Barron who
asked whether there would be
crossings at Wisconsin Ave., and
the old Pinehurst road and why
the route should go througl\ the
middle of town; by Mrs. RusseU
Simoqs who asked whether the
council could now take a stand, if
they chose to, on where the route
would go; and by Mrs. A. R. Mc
Daniel who asked why the by
pass route here goes through town
when many other towns which
want the highway to go through
in town are being completely by
passed.
Replying to these questions, the
mayor, Councilman Gilmore and
the city manager said:
That details of crossings are to
be worked out and that, while no
direct crossings are to be expected
except overpasses , at Midland
Road and Pennsylvania Ave.,
there is under consideration a
system of access roads that would
permit access from other streets
and allow crossing, but not direct
ly, of the by-pass.
That the route through town
was chosen by the highway engi
neers, not by the council, as being
most efficient in the area from an
engineering standpoint—and op
portunity for discussion of de
tails will be provided when it
comes time for the town to enter
into an agreement with the high
way department, without which
agreement work in town cannot
proceed.
That until the highway depart
ment asks for an agreement and
it is known what the department’s
exact plans for the road are, there
is “not much the town can do.”
Bradshaw Appointed
Electrical Inspector;
Dog Pound Requested
Southern Pines will be reim
bursed by the County from now
on for payments due yearly on
the bonded indebtedness for the
Gymnasium, if the County Com
missioners may legally do so.
That was the word received by
School Board Chairman John C.
Howarth and A. C. Dawson,
Southern Pines Schools superin
tendent, who presented the local
board’s request for such funds be
fore the board of Moore County
Commissioners at their monthly
meeting at Carthage Monday.
At the time the plans for build
ing the gymnasium were formu
lated, Moore County was not
building any gyms. The request
for building funds for Southern
Pines was refused at that time on
these grounds, with the tacit un
derstanding that whenever the
county “went into the gym-build
ing business,” as Chairman Gor
don M. Cameron put it, “we
would do what we could to make
it up to you.”
“You decided to go ahead on
your own on that basis,” the
chairman said, “and now if we
find, on consultation with Mr.
Boyette, that we can work out a
way of taking the debt service
payments off your hands, we’ll be
glad to do it.” , ‘
Interest and principal on the
gym bonds amounts to $8,000
this year. Relief from the payment
will release funds for current ex
penses, according to Mr. Dawson,
who gave this as the prime reason
for the request. Mr. Boyette, con
sulted informally, gave it as his
opinion that the arrangement
could be made but said he would
have to study the case before
making a final decision.
Electrical Inspector
Only motion of the day passed
by the Commissioners was the
provisional appointment of an
electrical inspector for the coun
ty, to replace W. F. Mumford who
resigned in January.
S. J. Bradshaw, of Carthage,
now building inspector for the
town, was appointed electrical in
spector for unincorporated towns
and rural districts on condition
that he is able to pass the state
examination. Mr. Bradshaw’s
candidacy received the approval
of six Moore County electrical
contractors, invited to the meeting
to advise with the commissioners.
Repeaters, As Always
There were, as frequently is the
case, at least two “repeaters”
between $700 and $800 a month
until it closed November 15. De
cember bills totalled $881, and
January $452, with .$211 of this
paid in insurance, and $100 to
Pinehurst, Inc., for repairs on the
pump. It is expected that current
expenses will be far less, the com
missioners said.
Departments Repott
The balance of the day was tak
en up with the regular monthly
reports of the various county serv
ices.
A strong plea that she be bond
ed was made by Mrs. ’Walter Cole,
superintendent of the county de
partment of Public Welfare.
Mrs. Cole said that this step was
being urged by the state depart
ment and was being taken by most
progressive counties. She handles
a good deal of money, she said, in
the various types of welfare
checks that come in from state
and federal sources. “It’s only
good business, it seems to me,”
said Mrs. Cole, “that I should be
bonded, just like Miss Jenkins or
anyone else handling such funds.”
No action was taken.
Farm Agent E. H. Garrison, Jr.,
and members of his staff. Fleet
Allen and John Dinan, reported
on chickens, (“going along well . .
need to push laying around the
Eagle Springs section . . . N. C.
still has to import 40 per cent of
its eggs; ought to do better than
that.”) 4-H clubbing, (“Four 4-H
club signs up now on the edges of
the county . . . we all enjoyed our
visitor, the youth delegate from
Brazil; he told about *’ e lush
green pastures down the^ , , . . not
like Moore County! . 16,000
chicks gi.ven to member.' year,
2,000 more than last .”) on
tree planting, (“trying t/S’’ it folks
to plant loblolly pine i ill un
productive land . . . ig county
face’s a serious situatiL.i in the
shortage of growing trees,”) and
in the newly organized Dairy
men’s Cooperative in which the
farmers will own stock, and,
eventually, their own business.
Monday was a red letter day in
that only one road construction
request was received and that one
turned out to be easily set aside.
Mrs. Maness, of Sheffield town
ship, though she admitted her
road was “just a little piece”
stressed that it was “a curvy road,
a narrow road where two cars
can’t pass to. save theirselves.”
Discovery by the commissioners
that it was less than a third of a
mile and on land entirely owned
by one man, brought the advice:
“You’ll just have to get%iim to
pull that road; we can’t recom
mend it.”
among items brought up at Mon
day’s meeting. A High Falls del
egation returned, for the second
time, to ask that a deputy sheriff
be appointed for their district,
provoking a lengthy discussion, in
which Sheriff McDonald, . sum
moned from the courtroom,'gave
the final word; he would look for
a man and hoped to get one pick
ed out and sent up there within
the week. Previous incumbents,
it was agreed, had proved unsatis
factory.
Dog Pound Critical Need
An impassioned plea to “do
something about the dog situation, S
and do it soon, was made by two
Carthage men. Mayor Archie
Barnes and Jack ’Williams.
Mr. Barnes urged, for the second
or third time, the appointment of
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a county dog warden and con
struction of a pound, suggesting
this might be built out on the
County Home property. The com
missioners, while admitting “that
something ought to be done,” took
a dim view of any immediate ac
tion on their part. Mr. Cameron
raised successive objections, based
on the issue of cost. Speakers
claiming that what other counties
were doing Moore County could
do, received scant attention, while
the suggestion that the commis
sioners appoint a citizens commit
tee to study the problem and offer
a plan, caused a visible shudder
of horror to sweep the room. Ac
tion appeared to be a thing of the
very dim future, at best.
County Home Items
Only other matter of major im
portance to come up, aside from
the regular monthly reporting of
the county bureaus, was the ques
tion of disposition of the County
Home. It appeared that there
have been several persons inter
ested in acquiring the timber on
the place and at least one pros
pective buyer of the building and
a small portion of the land. How
ever, according to Mr. Cameron,
there is at this time, no intention
of, selling any of the property.
The chairman said that the board
felt there might well be. need for
it in one capacity or another, and
the county would most probably
retain it for such future use.
Discussion of the present fi
nances of the Home, taken up as
part of the report of Miss Maida
Jenkins, county auditor, brought
out the fact that the former sup
erintendents, Mr. and Mrs. Bar
ber, are living there as caretakers,
their expenses for fuel, light and
telephone being paid by the coun
ty.
A house-to-house sale of elec
tric light bulbs will be conducted
by the Southern Pines Lions Club
February 21-26, it was announc
ed this week by Walter Harper
and W. O. Spence, co-chairmen
of the committee in charge.
With the slogan, “See ’That
You Can See, So The Blind Can
ee,” the sale will help finance
the club’s work for the blind 'and
sight conservation, as do the
broom sales conducted periodical
ly by the club.
A bag of bulbs in assorted watt
sizes will be sold for $2, approxi
mately the normal retail cost^f
the bulbs in the bag.
Sanford Store
Staging Sale
Having bought for cash an en
tire furniture store in Western
North Carolina—even the stock
of a special jewelry department
the store had—Sprott Brothers of
Sanford is staging a “$100,000
furniture close-out,” selling doz
ens of nationally advertised
brands of furniture and house
hold appliances of aU types at
greatly reduced prices.
Today (Friday), at 9:30 a. m.,
Sprotts is giving $1,000 in $1 cash
merchandise bonds, good for $1
in trade at the store. At 2:30 and
7:30 p. m. today, as an additional
feature Of the sale, the store is
giving a child’s bracelet to the
first 150 adults to come to pick
one up.
Based upon post harvest reports
from growers and late season
sales data, production from the
1954 fliie-cured tobacco crop in
North Carolina is now estimated
at 913 million pounds.
Hog producers can save an ave
rage cf three pigs in every two
litters by using infrared heat
lamps during and after farrow
ing according to research men.
The total cost is negligible.
North Carolina’s four million
people are divided almost equally
among the urban, rural non-farm
Expenses for the home ran at and rural farm areas of the State.