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Smyth Appoints
Committee Heads
In C. of C. Work
Letters About Move
Of USAFAGOS Sent
To Deane, Cooley
Chamber of Commerce Presi
dent Hairry K. Smyth announced
his appointments of chairmen of
operating committees for 1955- at
the regular meeting of the board
of directors held at the Southland
Hotel Tuesday night.
All holdover directors were
given back their last year’s jobs.
There were: J. Earl Parker, auto
license bureau; George''^. Leon
ard, better busines bureau; H. L.
Brown, house committee; Virgil
P. Clark, streets and highways,
liaison with town in highway and
parking matters; Jack S. Younts
golf and resort committee; Mrs.
Jean Edson, Christmas lights;
Hoke Pollock, constitution and
by-laws, legal adviser; George
Pottle, hotels and conventions.
New directors were assigned
jobs as follows: John C. Ostrom,
membership; Mark King, special
events^ Mrs. Oscar Holtzclaw, re
tail division; Jerry V. Healy, fi
nance; and Harry K. Smyth, in
dustrial. Mr. Smyth said he would
ask J. Graves Vann, who has
headed the committee for the
past two years, but who is not
now a member of the board
directors, to serve as a member
of the industrial committee.
By vote of the directors on
President Smyth’s suggestion, th4
immediate past president was
made an ex officio member of
the board for one year. This re
turned Mrs. Valerie Nicholson to
the board in a non-voting ca
pacity. She was returned also to
her former job of chairman cf
publicity and promotion, with
Mrs. Holtzclaw, the board’s US
Highway 1 Association director,
as co-chairman.
The list of chairmen is incom
plete, and there may be some re
visions, with the setting up of at
lease one new committee, accord
ing to discussion held Tuesday
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TWENTY PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
County Tourney
Pairings Drawn;
Starts Tonight
Moore County basketball
coaches met at Carthage Tuesday
afternoon to draw up pairings for
the annual Moore County tourna
ment which opens at Robbins, at
6:30 p.m., with Carthage andj’arm
Life girls playing in the opener.
In the girls’ division Robbins
(15-1) is seeded first and Aber
deen (7-1) drew the second seeded
position. Aberdeen (8-0) was giv
en the number pne seed in the
boys’ league and Carthage (14-3)
was ranked in the second position.
Anticipation is that this will be
the strongest field of participants
in Moore County tournament his
tory and one of the best tourna
ments ever. The winner of the
boys’ championship will advance
to the state district playoffs at
Red Springs where the Moore
Champions' will play the winner
of the Richmond County - Lee
County Champions on Wednesday,
March 9.
The tournament win be played
February 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 and
26. The semi-finals will be on
Thursday night, February 24, and
the finals will be played on Satur
day night, February 26.
Schedule for the tournament
follows:
Friday, February 18—6:30, Car
thage vs Farm Life girls; 7:30,
Westmoore vs Cameron girls; 8:30,
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Panel On Youth
To Be Featured
At PTA Meeting
A “panel on youth” will be con
ducted at the regular monthly
meeting of the Southern Pines
Parent-Teacher Association, to be
held in Weaver Auditorium
Thursday, February 24, at 8 p. m.
The discussion panel will be
composed of three adults and
three High School students, with
Dr. Bruce Warlick as moderator.
Adults to take part are Mrs.
Joe Marley, a parent and former
teacher; D. E. Bailey who has had
30 years of experience as justice'
of the peace and police court
judge; and Dr. W. C. Timmons,
pastor cf the Church of Wide
Fellowship.
Six students have been chosen
by the Student Council as candi
dates to take part in the panel
and three will participate. Extra
students were chosen because the
meeting comes during the Moore
County basketball tournament
and some of them may not be
able to appear at the meeting.
Students from whom the three
panel members will be picked,
according to availability on the
meeting night, are: Patti Woodell,
president of the Student Council;
Bobby Cline, vice-president of the
Student Council; Garland Pierce,
president of the Senior Class;
John Ray, president of the Junior
Class; Jimmy Menzel, president
of the Hi-Y Club; and Kay Davis,
president of the Beta Club.
The unusual PTA business ses
sion will be held. Dr. Timmons
will lead the devotional.
N. C, Little Symphony Plays Today
In Afternoon And Evening Concerts
Hundreds of School
Children Expected;
Swalin To Conduct
The North Carolina Little Sym
phony, composed of 25 musicians
I under the direction of Benjamin
I Swalin, will present two concerts
, in Southern Pines in the Weaver
Auditorium today (Friday). Ap
pearance of the Little Symphony
, here is sponsored by the Sandhills
Music Association as an attraction
in its 1954-’55 concert season.
Miss Vivian Morrison, champion
bagpiper and sword dancer of
and who has previously appeared
in Southern Pines, will play the
pipes in the Scotch Song Round
up which features music of Scot
land and pays homage to the Scots
who settled along the Cape Fear
River almost 200 years ago.
Young Soloist
Soloist for the adult concert at
8:30 p.m. will be Dixon Thomas,
pianist, from Statesville. A Sym
phony audition winner many
times over in the Children’s Con
cert Division, Thomas is making
his first appearance this season as
an adult soloist. He is currently
working toward his Batchelor of
I Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada, | Music degree at RoUins College,
and a freshman at Flora Macdon- ' Winter Park, Fla., where he is
I aid College, win be guest soloist ^ studying with John Carter. He
with the Little Symphony at the will play Liszt’s Concerto No. 1.
children’s concert. Miss Morrison, "" . - - *
Tragedy Strikes
Family 3rd Time
In Recent Years
Mrs. Purvis Thomas and her
seven children on Saturday saw
their farm home, two miles from
Vass, go up in flames.
The fire was discovered when
some of the children started up
stairs to bed.
The Vass Fire Department re
sponded, but the blaze was out of
control before they could arrive.
They were able to keep the barn
from burning. Practically nothing
^ was saved except the furnishings
from one bedroom.
Work Begins On 2nd
Unit Of High School
who has been greatly in demand
for dancing Scottish dances and
playing the bagpipes since coming
to Flora Macdonald in September
Clinic Scheduled
For Children To
Enter 1st Grade
Thomas attended Columbia Uni
versity in the spring of 1952 and
summer of 1953 and the Juilliard
School of Music for one term. He
is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha
fraternity and Pi Kappa Lambda.
Bersons who enjoyed Loewe’s
music throughout the movie,
j “Brigadoon,” can hear the follow
ing excerpts by the Little Sym
phony tonight: “Sword Dance,”
“Down on MacConnachy Square,”
“The Heather On the HiU,” “I’ll
Go Home With Bonnie Jean,”
A pre-school clinic for white] “Come To Me, Bend To Me,” “Al-
children who will enter first;most Like Being In Love,” and
grade in the Southern Pines, “Brigadoon."
Light Bulb Sale
Will Aid Blind
With all members of the club
taking part. Southern Pines Lions
plan to call at nearly every house
in town next week, selling $2 bags
of assorted light bulbs to help the
club carry on its work for the
blind, sight conservation and oth
er civic projects.
Walter Harper and W. O.
Spence, co-chairmen of the sale
committee, this week solocited the
cooperation of local residents.
Most of the house calls yrill be
made at night, Monday through
Saturday of next week.
“See that you can see, so the
blind can see,” has been adopted
by the club as a motto for the
sale.
12 Above Recorded
As Snap's Coldest
Lowtest tiemperature recorded
here in the past week’s cold snap
which covered the South was 12
above zero during the night of
last Saturday-Sunday, according
to the Weather Bureau observa
tion station records at town hall.
The Friday-Saturday low was 15.
Temperatures in this area rose
this week. Wednesday, sunny and
mild, was as pleasant as last
week’s cold was unpleasant.
school this fall will be held at
the elementary school building
between 9 a. m. and noon on
Thursday, February 24, it was an
nounced this week by Supt. A
C. DawSon.
Children who can enter the
first grade this year are those
who reach the age of six on orj
before October 15. j
Other numbers on the program
include Beethoven’s Overture to
the ballet THE CREATIONS OF
PROMETHEUS, Roman’s Sym
phony No. XVI, in P major,
Strauss’ “Village Swallows,”
Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise,” Cop
land’s “Celebration Dance,” from I
the ballet BILLY THE KID, An
derson’s “Sandpaper Ballet,” and
I This is thq third tragedy to
strike this family in a little over
three and a half years. The father
• was killed in a tractor accident
Iwhen the youngest of eight chil-
,'dren was/about a month old. Last
November the second oldest child,
Emma Deane, was accidentally
killed by a shotgun blast.
Mrs. Thomas and the children
are temporarily staying with rela
tives. Friends and neighbors are
giving aid, and it is hoped that a
move can be started to enable
them to get settled again. The
family includes boys aged 13 and
6 and twin girls 11, and others
aged 9 and 3 1-2. The oldest
daughter is married and she and
her husband were living with
Mrs. Thomas.
Second Fire Saturday
Vass firemen were called out
around 7 p.m. Saturday to extin
guish a fire at the home of Arch
Frye, and this was accomplished
with slight damage.
POSTPONED CARDY
SHOW SET SUNDAY
The schooling horse show
scheduled last Sunday at Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon L. Cardy's
Vernon Valley Farm was not
hield because of cold weather,
but will take place Sunday
afternoon. February 20. it was
announced this week.
With eight classes for adult
and younger riders, including
a costume lead line class, the -
show will be judged by Gen.
Tupper Cole of the American
Equestrian Horse Show team.
The public is invited and
there is no admission charge.
Vernon Valley Farm is east of
the Bethesda Road. near
Southern Pines.
Chamber Office
Parents and children are ask-1 opera CloSCS At 4*30
ed to go to the elementary school i _
librarv at anv time Vio+Tircr, Q Children s Concert
library at any time between 9
and noon. Each child need remain
at the school only about a half
hour. ■
Children who are in private
school first grades this year and
will enter second grade in the
fall need not attend.
The clinic consists of a short
and simple examination—which
may, however, be made at anoth
er time by the family physician;
A children’s concert will be pre-
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HONORABLE MENTION
Southern Pines received honor-
abje mention, which carries a cash
award of $100, in the 1954 Finer
Carolina qontests, it was announc
ed by the sponsoring Carolina
Po'wer and Light Co. this week.
-- Voit Gilmore was chairman of the
an orientation program; a visit to 11954 contest which involved five
a first grade room; and refresh-! civic projects. Competing were
ments. Each child is given a num- towns served by the company in
ber and data about parents is re-'North and South Carolina, in
corded. ' three population classes.
Closing hour of the Chamber
of Commerce office has been
moved up from 5 p. m. to 4:30, ef
fective immediately, according to
Chamber House Chairman H. L
Bro'wn.
Mr. Brown said the change was
necessary because of reports on
license bureau operations which
Secretary Alice Baxter has to
make up and mail to Raleigh at
the close of each day. This has
been taking a half-hour Or more
daily in overtime work.
The office opens at 9 a. m., and
is closed from 1 to 2 p. m., the
secretary’s lunch hour.
Hunter Trials, Hunt Ball Saturday
Saturday afternoon, at 2 o’clock
wiU find a large audience of Sand
hill residents and visitors at the
Scott farm, beyond Notre Dame
Academy on Young’s Road, to
witness the 23rd annual Hunter
Trials of the Moore County
Hounds in which leading local and
visiting himters and riders will
take part.
The afternoon event will pre
cede dinner at the Pine Needles
Country Club at 8 p.m., to be fol
lowed by the hunt ball, with
dancing from 9 to 1, with Clyde
Watson’s orchestra providing the
music.
' Parking spaces on the hilltop at
the start of the course may be re
served by calling the hunt secre
tary, Mrs. Ozelle Moss, at South
ern Pines 2-7252, or Joan Bowden
at Pinehurst 5982. Hunt ball tick
ets may also be reserved. Many
out-of-town reservations have
been received.
Robert Fairburn, MFH of the
Spring Valley Hunt, Mendham, N.
J., will judge a series of classes
for hunters. The Moore County
Hounds will parade to open the
event and there will be a short
drag over the trial course later in
the afternoon.
Investigation Of
Woman’s Death On
High w ay Con tinues
A temporary verdict of acciden
tal death, with inquest pending,
has been rendered by Coroner
Ralph G. Steed in the case of Mrs.
Betty Jean Brown Williams, 25, of
Robbins, Route 1, who was run
over by a car while lying on the
highway one-half mile north of
Southern Pines Saturday night.
Absolved of blame was James
Wayne Griffin, 17, of Vass, who
told the coroner that he did not
see the woman’s body on the road
until too late to avoid hitting her.
He stopped at once and summon
ed an ambulance and highway pa
trolman.
The young woman was pro
nounced dead on arrival at Moore
County Hospital. However, Steed
said, investigation is continuing,
with questioning of persons
known to have seen or been with
Mrs. William Saturday evening.
Though no marks appeared on her
body other than tho’se which
might have been made by the car,
the possibility that she was al
ready lifeless has not been ex
cluded.
There is evidence that she was
drinking earlier in the evening,
the coroner said. She and her
young son had been living with
her parents while her husband
was away in service.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pilgrim Hol
iness Church, Robbins, with buri
al in the Robbins Cemetery. Offi
ciating was the pastor, the Rev.
Benny Maness. Surviving are her
husband, James (Bud) Williams,
formerly of West End, now sta
tioned at Beal AFB, Calif.; one
son, Ricky; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Brown, Robbins, Route
1; two sisters, Mrs. T. A. Davis,
Robbins, and Mrs. Charles Vines,
Bessemer, Ala.; three brothers, R.
G., Robbins, Route 1; E. L. Ashe-
boro, and Swanson, Washington,
D. C.
CHILLY PARADE—Though the sun was shin
ing brightly. Boy Scouts of Moore County and
other units in last Saturday’s Scout Week pa
rade here marched in freezing weather that cut
the size of the column from a planned 50 units
to about h^M that number. Shown here are Cub
Scouts of Southern Pines Pack 7, with Den
Chief Lee Garvin, a Boy Scout of Troop 224, at
the left. Residents who braved the chilly day
to witness the parade saw a good show, how
ever, led by the 82nd Division band from Fort
Bragg, with the bands of Southern Pines and
West Southern Pines schools also providing
music. The parade was the final event in the
National Boy Scout Week celebration in Moore
County. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Tag Day Slated
For Heart Fund
Tag day in the local Heart Fund
drive will be held Saturday, it was
announced this week by Mrs. Voit
Gilmore, Moore County chairman
in the nation-wide appeal for
funds to carry on research in the
cause and alleviation of heart ail
ments.
On a county-wide basis, the
drive will be conducted by letters
to be mailed out this weekend,
Mrs. Gilmore said! She pointed
out that Sunday has been pro
claimed “Heart Sunday” in North
Carolina by Gov. Luther H.
Hodges, but said that the Moore
campaign will be limited to the
mailed letters and will not include
a house-to-house canvass on Svm-
day as planned in many commun
ities.
Assisting in the tag day collec
tion Saturday will be: Mrs. R. E.
Rhodes, Mrs. Jack White, Mrs. R.
M. McMillan, Mrs. Lament Brown,
Mrs. Maxwell Forrest and Mrs.
Gilmore.
Total Cost of
Structure Is
$138,225.39
Grading and excavating work
began this week for construction
of the “Phase B” unit of the new
Southern Pines High School which
is expected to be ready for occu
pancy next fall.
Total cost of the two-story
Phase B unit will be $138,225.39,
including the amounts of con
tracts let recently and the fee of
Leslie N. Boney of Wilmington,
architect.
With a little over 14,000 square
feet of floor space, the long brick
structure in a modified Colonial
design will extend 200 feet north
from the “Phase A” unit, parallel
to May St., with a center entrance
facing May St., that wiU be the
main entrance to the high school.
Library Included
Off the entrance lobby will be
a reception room and principal’s
office, a teacher’s room and a
health and first aid room. The
building will contain seven class
rooms of the same size as those in
Phase A—22 feet by 34 feet, eight
inches—and a library on the sec
ond floor, with adjoining work
room and conference room that
will be about the size of two
classrooms.
Twenty-four feet of the front
age at the north end of the build
ing will eventually become a part
of a proposed “Phase C” structure
that will correspond with the
; Phase ,A building at the south end.,
I which is now in use. In this sec-'
tion are a stair tower and toilet
facilities on first and second floors
—designed to serve 'the Phase B
unit now and eventually also
serve the Phase C section.
Looking Ahead
Plans call for the proposed
Phase C as a junior high school.
Supt. A. C. Dawson said that
sixth, seventh and eighth grades
now in the overcrowded elemen
tary school building would prob
ably occupy rooms in the new
Phase B structure next fall, af
fording more room for lower
grades, some of which contain 90
or more pupils, in the elementary
building.
By this time the high school has
grown to need all the rooms in
Phase A and Phase B, it is hoped
that the Phase 6 portion can be
built as a junior high school for
the sixth, seventh and eighth
grades.
'‘This plan,” he said, “wUl give
us time to catch up before . we
have to build more elementary
classrooms, although such class
rooms will eventually have to be
built to keep up with the growing
needs of the town.”
Contracts Let
Contracts let for the Phase B
building are: general, O. W. God
win, Dunn (the same firm tha
had the general contract on Phas
A), $112,868; electric, Starr Ele
trie Co., Greensboro, $4,896.'
plumbing, Whiteville Plumb'
Co., $5,563; heating, Robeson Sf
Inc., Lumberton, $7,040 (the h
ing plant for both Phase A .
Phase B was installed in
Phase A building, so this contr.
is only for connecting the nt
building with the already existii
heating plant, including the cor,
vectors, and other equipment nec
essary).
Total of the above contracts is
$130,367.35. "With the addition of
the customary six per cent archi
tect’s fee, which is $7,858.04, the
total cost of the building is $138,-
225.39. Total, cost of the Phase A
unit was $126,644.
COOKIE SALE
Girl Scouts of Southern Pines
and other troops in Moore County
are continuing through this week'
their door-to-door sale of special
ly packaged cookies, to raise funds
for their Scouting activities.
Borden Stevenson
Stationed At Bragg
Pvt. Borden Stevenson, son of
Adlai E. Stevenson, reported to
the Psychological 'Warfare Cen
ter, Fort Bragg, last week and
was assigned to Headquarters and
Headquarters Company of the
Center’s 6th Radio Broadcasting
and Leaflet Group. He was in
ducted into the Army in Novem
ber, 1954, and took his basic train
ing at Camp Chaffee, Ark., before
being transferred to Fort Bragg.
He is a nephew of Mrs. Ernest L.
Ives of Southern Pines.