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VOL. 36—NO. 16
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
southern pines, north CAROLINA. FRIDAY, MARCH 11. 1955
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
Pleas For Negro
Farm Agent, Dog
Warden Are Made
Delegations Make
Requests To Moore
County Officials
Requests that have been heard
before by the county commission
ers were repeated at the board’s
regular monthly meeting at the
courthouse in Carthage Monday
—including a Farm Bureau dele
gation’s plea for a county dog
warden and dog pound and the re
quest for a Negro farm agent by
a group of 40 or more Negro res
idents of the county.
While no action was taken on
either request, further investiga
tion was promised. The Negro
group was told that the board
would query the State Extension
Service to find out whether a Ne
gro farm agent would be avail
able.
Appearing for the Farm Bureau
were Richard Matthews of Car
thage, Route 3, president; R. L.
Comer of Carthage; and Clyde
Aximan and Paul VonCanon of
West End.
Auman and VonCanon had sep
arate business with the commis
sioners in regard to the recently
authorized special tax for fire
protection which was voted by
residents of the West End area
in a referendum. The county is to
collect the tax and the West End
men wanted to work out with the
commissioners how the money
collected would be paid over to
the fire district officials and other
details of the program.
In the Negro delegation were
representatives from various sec
tions of the county. Their spokes
men maintained that the number
of Negro farmers in the county
and the interest of these farmers
in improving their operations jus
tify appointment of a Negro farm
agent.
The only Negro Extension Ser
vice worker in the county at pres
ent is a Home Demonstration
agent who was appointed more
than a year ago. White Extension
Service personnel include a Home
Demonstration agent and assist
ant and farm agent and two as
sistants, one of whom resigned
this week, but is expected to be
replaced by another white assist
ant agent, since funds for such as
sistant are already budgeted.
If a Negro agent is appointed,
he would probably be employed
as of the start of another fiscal
year July 1.
A somewhat unusual matter
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TABLES TURNED—Completing their sale of light bulbs and
netting nearly $200 to help their work with the blind in Moore
County, members of the Southern Pines Lions Club reversed the
usual situation and sold their last bag of bulbs, rather than the
first, to Mayor L. T. Clark, center. He is flanked by co-chairmen
in the sale, W. O. Spence, left, and Walter Harper, right.
Stenhouse Will
Address County
Historical Assn.
Naval Reserve To
Be Discussed At
Session Tonight
James Allen Stenhouse of Naval Reserve personnel ahd
Charlotte, chairman of the State ■ all interested veterans of Navy
Historic Sites Commission and * service. are invited to attend a
president of the Mecklenburg’ meeting tonight (Friday), at 8
County Historical Society, will o’clock, at the Brownson Memo-
speak to the Moore County His- rial Presbyterian Church, when
torical Association at 8 p. m. i Lt. R. B. Deadmond will explain
Tuesday in the Southern Pines | formation of a Naval Reserve
Composite Company here.
The Navy officer, who is from
the U. S. Naval Base at Charles-
$1,250 Given To
Moore Heart Fund
A total of $1,250 has been col
lected in the Moore County Heart
Fund drive, reports Mrs. Voit Gil
more of Southern Pines, county
chairman, who said that the com
mittee is pleased with this re
sponse which came entirely from
a mail campaign, except for col
lections on the street in Southern
Pines.
Any person who wishes to con
tribute to the fund is asked to get
in touch with Mrs. Nolley Jack-
son of Southern Pines immediate
ly as the county committee ex
pects to turn in its report soon to
the State organization.
Library. The meeting will be the
first since December for the As
sociation.
A member of J. N. Pease and ton, S. C., comes to Southern
Company of Charlotte, the largest j Pines at the invitation of Lt jg
architectural firm in the South-1 James I. Lawson who, with other
east, Mr.. Stenhouse has made a Naval Reserve men in this area,
study of North Carolina antiqui- j has been working for several
ties for many years. He has been months on the preliminary steps
deeply interested in acquisition of in setting up a (Company,
the Alston house, in Deep River! Former Navy officers and en-
Township of Mcore County, by, listed, men, both men and wom-
the State as an historic site and | en, are invited. Marine Corps and
has done much to encourage the ^ Coast Guard Reserve personnel
project. are also invited as they can meet
Mr. Stenhouse is expected to ^ with a Composite Company on
discuss the Alston house and also an associated basis,
the rapid growth cl the Historical
Society in his home county as an
evidence of growing interest in
the past. On his visit to Southern
Pines, he will be accompanied by
his wife and they will be the
Tuesday night guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives. Mrs. Ives is
president of the Moore County
Historical Association.
Benefit Musical Program
A musical program to benefit
the Alston House restoratioh pro
ject will be held under auspices
of the Moore County Historical
Association at 3:30 p. m., in the
home of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew M
Jamison, Jr., in Knollwood, with
Mrs. Luther H. Hodges, wife of
the Governor, as honor guest, it
was announced by Mrs. Ives this
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Forest Fires Hit
Throughout Moore
County Wednesday
Local Truck, 4 Men
Go To Carthage As
Town Is Threatened
At least five separate forest
fires ravaged a large acreage of
Moore County land Wednesday,
one of them near Carthage posing
such a threat to the west edge of
town that the Southern Pines fire
department sent a truck and four
men to help fight the blaze and
guard the approach to a residen
tial section.
Travis Wicker, warden at the
Southern Pines fire tower, and
other Forest Service personnel
were out most of Wednesday night
fighting fire and patrolling to pre
vent new outbreaks. Wicker was
out again Thursday—so busy away
from the tower that The Pilot
could obtain no check on the ex
tent of damage done and acreage
burned, before press time Thurs
day afternoon.
Fires were reported at Hillcrest,
between Pinehurst and Carthage,
between West End and Eagle
Springs and elsewhere in the west
side of the county.
A general call for fire fighting
volunteers was broadcast Wednes
day afternoon.
Fire Service personnel warned
against trash burning in windy
weather. A pall of smoke from
fires in this area and elsewhere
hung over the Sandhills Thurs
day.
BASEBALL SCHEDULE
The Southern Pines High School
Blue Knights will open their 1955
baseball season with an afternoon
contest against Vass-Lakeview
here Wednesday, March 23. The
season schedule appears in full on
page 18 of today’s Pilot. Fans are
advised to clip and save it for fu
ture reference. The squad is
working out daily now and Coach
Bunk Leonard says that positions
on the team are “wide open.”
Valerie Nicholson’s Pilot Feature
To Go On ‘Big Story’ TV March 18
A Moore County news story
which was used as the basis for a
national network radio program
last September will be seen as a
nationwide television drama Fri
day evening, March 18. The pro
gram will show scenes in and
around Southern Pines eis back
ground.
The true story about a typhoid
carrier’s cure, written in 1948 by
Valerie Nicholson when she was
news editor of The Pilot, will be
used on the Pall Mall program
“The Big Story” on NBC-TV. The
program) is seen at 9:30 Friday
evenings Over WTDV (Durham
Channel 11) in this area.
Notified Lsist Friday
Mrs. Nicholson, who lives in
Southern Pines, is serving as
“pinch-hit” editor of the Sand
hill Citizen at Aberdeen during
the present session of the Gen
eral Assembly for the editor and
publisher, Moore County Rep. H.
Clifton Blue. . She was notified
last Friday by long distance tel
ephone call from New York City
that her story had been selected
from the “Big Story” file for TV
presentation.
George E. Gore, NBC camera
man, was here Monday to make
moving pictures of Broad Street,
The Pilot, the library, Moore
County Hospital and other places
for quick “background glimpses”
at the start of the program, with
some shots worked into the
drama itself. Mr. Gore also took
some rural scenes on the South
ern Pines-Carthage road.
Local Scenes Photographed
’The cameramian took the films
for Proctor Productions, produc
ers of The Big Story program.
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HARNESS RACING
Following a meeting last week,
the Pinehurst Driving and Train
ing Club of which Percy Grey,
Providence, R. I., is president, has
set the following dates for har
ness horse matinees at the Pine
hurst race track: March 27, and
April 3, 10 and 17. In case of
postponement, there will prob
ably be a race on April 24. A date
has been requested cf the U. S.
Trotting Association for a record
meeting, or time trial, to establish
a time record for young horses,
on April 26, With alternate dates
of April 27, 28 or 29.
Lady Astor At
Raleigh Events
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Ives of
Southern Pines and their guest in
the Sandhills, Nancy, Viscountess
Astor, drove to Raleigh Tuesday
where they were luncheon guests
of Gov. and Mrs. Luther H.
Hodges and where Lady Astor
spoke to members of the General
Assembly and to the ladies of the
Sir Walter Cabinet, an organiza
tion of legislators’ wives.
The distinguished visitor from
England (see another story and
photo in today’s Pilot for more
about her Sandhills visit and her
opinions) was unable to attend a
Moore County Young Democrats
rally, to which she had been in
vited, at Carthage Wednesday
night.
Her appearances in Raleigh
charmed her audiences. Many
persons in this area heard with
interest on Tuesday night a re
broadcast of her witty and spirited
address to the General Assembly.
She is staying at the Manor Hotel
in Pinehurst, with her sister, Mrs.
Nora Flynn of Tryon, who is ill.
Young Stevenson
Makes Hit During
Democratic Rally
A young Army private held the
spotlight at the Midwinter Rally
■cf the Moore County YDC at Car
thage Wednesday night. Amid a
sparkling gathering of distin
guished guests and an eager
crowd of local luminaries and
party stalwarts, he received per
haps the warmest welcome.
Pvt. Borden Stevenson, now
stationed at Fort Bragg, attending
the dinner meeting with his aunt
and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Ives, of Southern Pines, won all
hearts with his friendly response
to their hospitality, his unaffected
ways and his resemblance to his
famous father, Adlai Stevenson,
leader of the party.
His inflection and turn of
phrase were more than reminis
cent of his father as he answered
the greeting of Voit Gilmore,
president, with “I am grateful to
be included ' among the ‘big
wheels,’ though I feel I am only
a small spoke. I’m very happy to
be here among so many fine Dem-
■ccrats. I thaijk you.”
• 'The, rally was another in the
series of lively meetings for which
the Moore County YDC is becom
ing known throughout the State.
One distinguished guest after an
other referred to the delight they
felt in an invitation from Moore
county, and the alacrity with
which they accepted it.
The notables and local party
stalwarts jammed the hotel din-
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POWER OFF SUNDAY
The local office of the Caro
lina Power and Light Co. has
announced that power will be
off from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday,
March 13, in Southern Pines.
Aberdeen, Pinebluff, Pine
hurst, Carthage, Lakeview,
Vass and Cameron and adja
cent rural areas. The inter
ruption is necessary in order
that needed facilities can be
installed at the West End sub
station, explained Ward Hill,
manager of the Southern
Pines district office.
Girl Scout Week
Displays Noted
Girl Scout troops of Moore
County are joining with others
throughout the nation in observ
ance of Girl Scout Week.
Southern Pines Troop 53 has
decorated a 'window at Welch’s
Gift Shop at the comer of Broad
St. and New York Ave., featur
ing a large cake made and deco
rated by Mrs. W. D. Campbell,
with 43 candles to mark the 43rd
anniversary of founding of the
Girl Scout movement in the
United States. Also in the win
dow are a badge sash and Girl
Scout and leaders’ uniforms.
In the town park ■cn Saturday
girls of Troop 53 will pitch tents
for a simulated camping display.
The tents will be open for inspec
tion from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
New Booster Club
To Make Annual
Baseball Award
At the first meeting of the new
ly formed Booster Club for
Southern Pines High School ath
letics, held at HoUiday’s Restau
rant Monday night, members de
cided to make an annual award
of a loving cup to the most val
uable player on the baseball
squad. Similar awards exist for
other sports and the need was felt
to extend this custom to baseball
The club also decided to spon
sor the sale of adult season base
ball tickets. The tickets, to sell
for $1 for nine home games, six
of which are under lights at night,
represent a $3.50 saving on the
individual game 50 cents entrance
fee. All club members have tick
ets or they can be obtained at
Holliday’s Restaurant.
The club plans to buy special
caps to wear at future home
games. Temporary officers of the
club were permanently elected
Monday night: Carl E. Holt, pres
ident; J. B. Perkinson, vice-presi
dent; and E. J. Austin, secretary-
treasurer.
In-Town WaterConsnmers Allowed
l(),000-Gallon Minimum All Year
Moi^e Water For
Same Rate Will
Aid Town Beauty
The town council made some
gtod news for Southern Pines
water consumers Tuesday night
when an amendment to the town
water rate ordinance was adopt
ed to establish a :^ear-around rate
of lO.MO gallons for the minimum
charge^ pf $4.50 per quarter.
The fate goes into effect with
the Ap^^ May 'and Jpne quarter.
The former rate was $4.50 for 5,-
000 galloi^ in all except the sum
mer quari^ when 10,<j00 gallons
was alloW^ by longstanding
custom designed to encourage
summer watering to preserve the
landscape beauty of the town.
A similar aim guided the coun
cil to allow the new minimum cf
10,000 gallons per quarter for the
same money payment, the year
around.
City Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham told the council that revenue
in the water department was suf
ficient to “comfortably allow”
the change, although it could
mean a loss of up to $5,000 per
year in revenue as compared to
the old scale. However, the man
ager said, increased water use,
even over the 10,000-gallon mini
mum, may reduce this loss, once
people begin to use water liberal
ly-
Mayor L. T. Clark hailed the
action as “a considerable relief
to ordinary people in watering
their gardens, lawns and shrub
bery the year around” and said
the new rate will tend to keep
the town pretty.
Cunningham said the new rate
“offers the most-water at the low
est rate” since the water plant
was built.
Another section of the same
amendment ordinance cuts the
water of consumers outside the
city limits to 5,000 gallons for the
minimum charge of $7.50, the
year around. Formerly, “outside”
consumers were given the 10,000
gallon minimum in the summer
quarter, for the 5,000-gallon “out
side” rate, as were those in town.
The uniform rates, the year
Moore .o„„Vs thW highway
even with the cut in the minimum
amount of water allowed the out
side consumers in the summer
Stoneybrook Races March 19 Will Be Best Yet
Steeplechasing and hunt rac
ing officially enter the nation
wide sports scene for 1955 with
a one-day race meeting March 19
at the Stoneybrook course near
Southern Pines.
This community, famous as the
winter home of leading owners,
trainers, riders and horses, has
been assigned the opening date
on the A.merican hunt racing and
steeplechasing circuit which ex
tends from New York to the Car
olines. The races are sanctioned
by the Hunts Committee of the
National Steeplechase and Hunt
Association.
Charles Stitzer, local resident,
says seven races are on the pro
gram for March 19. Record entries
for this 8th annual meeting are
predicted by Stitzer, well known
owner and amateur rider who
won the Deep Run Hunt Cup in
Virginia last year and has sev
eral horses training for this year’s
hunt racing season.
Already in Southern Pines for
winter training, or arriving by
March 19, are horses which 'will
carry the colors of a score of
well known sportsmen in the
Stoneybrook races.
Siandhills Cup
The March 19 program is high
lighted by the Sandhills Cup
Race, about two and one-fourth
miles over timber, and the
Stoneybrook Open Hurdle Race,
about one and one-half miles over
hurdles. Trophies and a purse of
$500 are offered in each. Other
events will be the Pink Coat Race
for members of the local hunt
club, the Moore County Hounds;
a sprint on the flat race course for
two-year-old horses and another
for horses with lady riders; the
six-furlong Silver Run on the
turf, and the Yadkin over hur
dles.
An added attraction to the di
versified six-race program is the
scheduled trial for 2kyear-olds
destined to race on the major
courses this coming summer. At
tracting attention in the latter
event is the entry of a bay colt
by Citation-Mahogany. A $34,000
purchase at the Saratoga sales
last summer by Mrs. Magruder
Dent, a local resident, the juve
nile is one of 57 horses under
Walsh’s training.
Stables Filled
Post time for the first race is
2 p. m. at the Stoneybrook Race
Course, just off U. S. Highway 1.
The course is on the property of
M. G. “Micke3r” Walsh, leading
steeplechase trainer of 1953 and
1954. Walsh’s training stables at
Stoneybrook Farm are filled with
top-ranking steeplechasers which
have won first money and set
new records on the steeplechase
courses at Belmont, Saratoga and
other racing centers. They in
clude L. R. 'Troiano’s King Com
mander, which turf writers voted
best steeplechaser of 1954; and
Rhythm'inhim, top hurdle horse
of the past year. Also under
Walsh’s tutelage at Stoneybrook
are the consistent winner Sun
Shower and a number of import
ed.’chasers owned by Vernon. G.
Cart'.^y, Canadian sportsman who
makes his . winter home at South
ern Pines; and winners or pros
pective winners from a dozen
other stables. Walsh serves as
manager of the annual Stoney
brook race meet.
Other Trainers
Southern Pines is the home of
a number of other leading train
ers, in addition to Walsh, and of
F. D. “Dooley” Adams, the na
tion’s top steeplechase rider for
the past five years. The Adams
farm adjoins Stoneybrook.
Adams’ mother, Mrs. C. E.
Adams, is a successful steeple
chase trainer whose Southern
Pines stables, like Walsh’s, are
the winter home of winning brush
and timber horses.
Visitors are welcome to watch
the horses in training for the
Stoneybrook race work out be
tween 2 and 5 p.m. each day.
On the morning of March 19,
race fans can watch a formal
hunt when the Moore County
Hounds move off for a formal
drag hunt at 10 a. m. On the day
after the Stoneybrook races,
March 20, an informal gymkhana
and horse show will be held at
Lakelawn Farms, the estate of
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Winkel-
man.
From Southern Pines, steeple
chasing in North Carolina shifts
to Tryon, where the .Blockhouse
races are scheduled for April 16.
Top Season Predicted
What looms as the most preten
tious and richest steeplechase
season in two decades will open
with the Stoneybrook Races. It is
estimated that over $800,000 in
prize money will be disbursed by
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Delbert Cobb Is
Moore’s 3rd Road
Fatality Of 1955
fatality of the year, by official
count, was tallied early Monday
in the death of Delbert Cobb, 25- _
year-old Negro of Carthage, j quarter, it can be argued that the
Route 3. j outside consumers are not paying
According to the State High- ^ high enough rate,
way Patrol, Cobb’s car left a Full text of the water amend-
straight stretch of highway about ment appears on page 20.
a mile west of the airport road Election Called
on the road to Niagara, swerved ■ The council formally called a
off on the left, back into the left town election for May 3, setting
lane and again onto the left
shoulder, where it overturned.
John McLaughlin, a young Ne
gro and Cobb’s companion in the
car, managed to get out and walk
ed two miles for help. When help
arrived Cobb was found to be
dead, and it was believed he had
bled to death from) arterial cuts.
McLaughlin was taken to St.
Joseph’s Hospital where it was
found he had suffered only a
bad shaking-up. He was also
found to be very drunk. In ;
short while the hospital summon
ed Southern Pines police, who
took him to Moore County jail,
booking him on drunk and dis-
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filing time, registration period
and other details and appointing
(Continued on page 8)
COTTON ACREAGE
Moore County farmers are re-
minded.by the Agricultural Stabi
lization and Conservation office in
Carthage that March 25 will be
the closing date for release of cot
ton acreage. Farmers who have
sm acreage Mlotment and who do
not plan to use all or part of it are
asked to go to the ASC office and
release it, so that it can be used
by another farmer, prior to March
25.
Local People, Horses On Television
Sandhills horses and horse peo-|ing. This television show reach-
pie are appearing on television es this area from Durham.
shows this week and next week.
While George E. Gore, NBC
cameraman, was in Southern
Pines this week to make back
ground films for “The Big Story”
television program March 18 (see
another story on today’s front
page), he became interested in
horse training, and took a num
ber of human interest movie films
of M. G. (Mickey) Walsh and his
riding daughters, with some of
Program Next Week
Meanwhile it was announced
that steeplechasing in the Sand
hills, showing a number of local
horses, trainers, riders and own
ers, will be the subject of the
first of a new series of programs
from WUNC-TV, the educational
televisicn station at Chapel Hill.
This program, first of 13 to be
seen at 9 p. m. Wednesdays, will
the horses in training gt W)alsh’s be seen Wednesday of next week,
Stoneybrook Stables. Appearing
in the films also is Miss E. R.
Sears of ■ Prides Crossing, Mass.,
some of whose horses are stabled
at Mrs. Reid Healy’s nearby Fir-
leigh Farms.
’Ehe films taken by the NBC
represnthtive were to be shown
on the Dave Garraway “Today”
show, from 7 to 9 a. m., either
Thursday or this (Friday) morn
March 16. The program is timely,
as it will precede the Stoneybrook
Races here March 19.
Miriam Rabb of Raleigh, travel
writer with the State Advertising
Division of the Department of
Conservation and Development—
who is a frequent visitor to the
Sandhills—will be master of cere
monies for the steeplechasing tel
ecast.