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SHOP AND SAVE!
SPRING VALUE
DAYS, MAY 19-21
SHOP AND SAVE!
SPRING VALUE
DAYS, MAY 19-21
COUNCIL STUDIES BUDGET — Pictured
while going over the proposed 1955-56 -budget,
which they later adopted, at town haU last
Thursday night, members of the newly elected
council seem thoroughly absorbed as the docu
ment was explained item by item by City Man
ager Tom E. Cunningham. Around the table.
Council Approves Budget Calling For
Continuation of $1.75 Tax Rate Here
left to right, are: Town Clerk Louis Scheipers,
Jr., Mr. Cunningham, Councilman L. T. Clark,
Mayor Voit Gilmore, Councilman W. E. Blue,
Councilman H. H. Pethick (in right background)
and Councilman T. T. Morse. Town Attorney
W. Lament Brown sits leaning forward in the
front row of audience seats in left foreground.
(Pilot Staff Photo)
Meeting for their first regular ♦
session at town hall Thursday $250 for purchase or construction
night of last week, the newly
elected town council adopted a
budget for the 1955-56 fiscal year,
with one minor change, as pre
sented by City Manager Tom E.
Cunningham.
The budget requires a tax rate
of $1.75 per $100 of property val
uation—the same rate as that in
effect during the past fiscal year.
While the council met Thursday
last week, the members formally
approved the second Tuesday
night of each month as the time
of their regular meetings in the
future.
It required adoption of two or
dinances to make the budget offi
cial—an ordinance covering the
budget itself and a tax-levying
ordinance. Texts of these two or
dinances appear elsewhere in to
day’s Pilot.
Only change made in the bud
get, as presented by Cunningham,
was the addition in the Buildings,
Parks and Grounds Department of
W. O. Moss Buys
Old Fire Truck
W. Ozelle Moss, of Mileaway
Farms, Manly, has bought the
town pumper truck for $1^000, the
price set by the town for this
piece of old equipment.
Mr. Moss plans to have the
truck fixed up for use fighting
forest fires and patrolling the area
out Manly way, he said, while
promising full cooperation with
the town fire department when
ever called on.
“Just let me know^” Mr. Moss
told Fireman Frank Kaylor,
“whenever my truck is needed
and I’ll see that it gets to the
fire.”
Recorders Court Will
Convene On Saturday
Because cf a term' of Superior
Court to open at Carthage Mon
day, a session of Moore County
Recorders Court will be held Sat
urday morning. Next following
session of Recorders Court will be
held Monday, June 6, after the
two intervening one-week terms
of Superior Court for trial of
criminal and civil cases.
of additional benches to be placed
at suitable places as resting places
for pedestrians. The addition was
suggested by Mayor Voit Gilmore
and was approved by other mem
bers of the council.
Notable features of the budget
include:
Appropriation of around $4,000
more in the Police Department to
add one new officer to the present
six-man force, making possible a
redUctidh Ifi police shifts from 62
to 54 hours per man per week.
Appropriation of $1,500 in the
Department of Building and Safe
ty Inspection for an automobile,
to be used by Bill Wilson who is
building, plmnbing and electrical
inspector.
Appropriation of $13,000 in the
Sewerage Department, to con
tinue the sewer extension pro
gram in West Southern Pines.
Appropriation of $7,500 in the
fire department for purchase of
an additional truck.
License Granted
The council granted a beer sales
license to J. A. Ferguson, to bs
used at a new establishment in
the former O’Callaghan building
on Connecticut Ave. Mr. Ferguson
was present with his attorney, W.
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Officers Will Be
Chosen At Final
Meeting Of PTA
Officers for the coming year
will be elected and installed at the
final meeting, for this school year,
of the Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association, to be held in
Weaver Auditorium Wednesday
of next week at 8 p.m.
The meeting was advanced to
Wednesday from its usual Thurs
day date, because of conflicts with
other events scheduled for Thurs
day.
A nominating committee will
present nominations for chair
man, two vice-chairmen, secre
tary and treasurer. Members of
the nominating committee are
Mrs. R. F. Hoke Pollock, Mrs.
Charles Cole and Dr. R. M. Mc
Millan who is retiring as the or
ganization’s first president.
Armed Forces Day
Display By Guard
Set For Saturday
Plans for local National Guard
participation in the nationwide
Armed Forces Day program were
announced this week, by Captain
William J. Wilson, local unit com
mander.
The Moore County Guard unit,
Company D of the 130th Tank
Battalion, will set up a display of
equipment Saturday, May 21, in
the parking lot next to the Colo
nial Furniture Co., on S. W. Broad
Street.
The display, which will be
opened about noon Saturday, will
feature a 90 mm. gun medium
tank, obtained through the cour
tesy of the 44th Tank Battalion of
Fort Bragg. The local company
has not yet received its own tanks,
and tank training has been con
ducted with the help of units of
the 82nd Airborne Division at
Fort Bragg.
In addition to the big tank, the
display will show small arms,
communications equipment and
information on the organization
and training activities of the coun
ty unit.
Guardsmen will be on duty
throughout the afternoon to ex
plain the various items of equip
ment, and to answer questions
about the National Guard.
Other Events
Armed Forces Day at Fort
Bragg and Pope Air Force Base
will be observed Sunday, to per
mit greater attendance during an
all-day program. (See detailed
story elsewhere in today’s Pilot).
The USAF Air Ground Opera
tions School here will have a spe
cial display in one of the hangars
at Pope Air Force Base, but no
local observance is planned by the
school.
Miss Martha Jane Brooks, 18-
year-old senior at Cameron High
School, has been selected to re
ceive the nurse’s training scholar
ship given annually by the Sand
hill Veterans Association, it was
announced this week by Watson
Scott of Southern Pines, SVA
chairman.
The winner, who will get an
expense-paid three-year training
course at the North Carolina nurs
ing school of her choice, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Z. V.
Brooks of Cameron, Route 2. She
has four brothers and one sister.
Mr. Brooks is a farmer and part-
time carpenter.
As an alternate choice of win
ner the selection board named
Miss Faye Wallace, senior at Elise
High School, Robbins. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Wallace of Carthage, Route 1.
The only condition on which
SVA scholarships are given is that
the winner return to Moore Coun
ty to practice her profession for at
least one year immediately after
her graduation from nursing
school.
There were five applicants for
the scholarship this year — the
ninth year in which one and
sometimes two such scholarships
have been awarded, all of them
financed by contributions of the
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MARTHA JANE BROOKS
public in an annual drive con
ducted by the Association. Mem
bers of the selection board were
Dr. C. R. Monroe of Moore Coun
ty Hospital; Miss Margaret Moser,
superintendent of nurses at the
hospital; T. Roy Philhps of Car
thage, representing the county
board of education; and Garland
McPherson of Southern Pines,
chairman of the Moore Red Cross
chapter.
Considered in picking a scholar-
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571 Eligible To Vote
On School Tax Tuesday
A total of 517 persons can vote^
in a special school tax ejection, >
With polls open from 6:30 a.m. to '
6:30 p.m. at the fire station, on
Tuesday.
The issue is whether the South
ern Pines school board of trustees
be authorized to increase the spe
cial school supplement tax from
48 cents to 50 cents per $100 of
property valuation.
Only those persons living in the
Southern Pines school district who
registered in a recent new regis
tration period are eligible to vote.
Error Corrected
in the General Assembly, would
give the’ Southern Pines board of
trustees the authority to increase
this tax rate to 60 cents.
2 Manslaughter
Cases Listed On
Superior Calendar Local Lions Club
William A. Benson
Elected President
Winner of S. Pines - Robbins Game To
Face Carthage In Tournament Finals
Rain and light trouble at Memo
rial Field have mixed up the an
nounced schedule of the Moore
County High School baseball
tournament—but with the lights
now fixed and prospect of good
weather, it appears that the finals
of the tournament, which are ten
tatively set for Saturday night,
will see some good baseball here.
The local Blue Knights, playing
in a semi-finals contest Thursday
night against Robbins, had an out
side chance To win and face Car
thage in the finals.
Carthage gained its berth in the
finals by edging out Aberdeen,
6-4, in a contest under lights here
Wednesday night. Aberdeen
reached the semi-finals by topping
West End. Robbins beat High-
falls, 9-3, to gain the semi-finals.
Southern Pines reached the
semi-finals by defeating Vass-
Lakeview, 6-3, Tuesday afternoon
in a game that had been rained
out last Friday night and which
was called in the first inning Mon
day night when transformer trou
ble cut off 36 lights. The lights
were repaired in time to play on
the field Wednesday night.
Any Other Teams
Want In League?
Managers of four teams in a
proposed town softball league for
summer play met Monday night
and made tentative! plans for the
coming season—but other teams
are invited to join the league.
The- managers at Monday’s
meeting represented the Carolina
Power and Light Co., the Air-
Ground Operations School, the
Lions Club and the Catholic Lay
men’s Association.
Representatives of other teams
interested in joining the league
are asked to call Town Recreation
Director Irie Leonard at 2-6551
(high school) or City Manager
Tom' E. Cunningham at town hall,
2-2462. Another meeting of man
agers will be held some time next
week.
A one-week term of Superior
Court for trial of criminal cases
is scheduled to open at Carthage
Monday, with Judge Allen H.
Gwyn presiding. The term will be
followed by trial of civil cases the
following week, also with Judge
Gwyn on the bench.
Heading the cases of interest on
a calendar that runs Monday
through Thursday are two involv
ing the death of persons in auto
mobile accidents which took place
last October.
Calendared for Tuesday are the
cases of Edward N. Williams,
Pinehurst Negro who was 25
years old last October and is
charged with, careless and reck
less driving, resulting in death;
and Howard Claude Sheffield,
who was 29 at the time of the ac
cident and is charged with man
slaughter and driving an automo
bile witlhout operator’s license.
Beth accidents which resulted
in death of a passenger in each
car, were one-car mishaps in
which the automobiles ran off the
road.
Killed in the car driven by Wil
liams was Howard G. Small, also
25 at that time, a Negro who lived
with his four-year-old child at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Anna
Small of West Southern Pines.
The accident occurred about a
mile and a half out of Southern
Pines on the “old road” to Pine
hurst, near Watson’s Lake.
Fatality in the Sheffield acci
dent was Eugene D. Melton, 59,
unmarried sawmill worker. The
location was near Red Branch
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William A. Benson president,
heads a new slate of officers elect
ed last Friday evening by the
Southern Pines Lions Club. The
officers will be installed as the
club begins its new year July 1.
Others elected are: Willis B.
Rush, re-elected secretary; W. O.
Spence, treasurer; Donald F.
Traylor, first vice-president;
Charles S. Patch, Jr,, second vice-
president; S. B. Richardson, third
vice-president; Ronell Thompson,
“lion tamer;” Joseph Marley, “tail
twister;” Howard Smith, assistant
“tail twister;” the Rev. Robert L.
Bame, chaplain. New directors
are Henry Clayton, Charles P.
Cole, the Rev. R. L. Bame and
Broadus Caudle.
The officers and directors were
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Court Of Honor
Set For Monday
A Boy Scout Court of Honor for
Moore District troops will be held'
Monday evening at West End, ac
cording to Lawrence Johnson, of
Aberdeen, advancement chairman.
The court,' featuring awarding
of merit badges and rank advance
ments, will be held at the West
End Presbyterian Church, instead
of the high school auditorium as
originally planned, beginning at
7:30 p.m.
The program will consist of
color slides of the National Scout
Ranch at Philmont, N. Mex. All
Scouts and their parents and
friends, are invited.
The Pilot incorrectly stated last
week that a bill concerning the
special school tax rate, introduced
Presbyterians
Will Dedicate
Two Buildings
Twenty years of organization
and effort by members of Brown-
son Memorial Presbyterizm
Church will be climaxed Sunday
in morning and afternoon services
of dedication for the church sanc
tuary and educational building, at
the corner of May Street and In
diana Avenue.
The church was organized in
1936 with 90 charter members. It
now has a membership of nearly
dOO and its sanctuary and educa
tional building are among the fin
est religious structures in this
area. The church is named for
the late Rev. Marcus Acheson
Brownson, D.D., pastor emeritus
of the Tenth Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia, Pa., who was a lead
ing organizer of the new church
here, two years before his death
in 1938.
Dinner On Grounds
Dinner on the grounds will be
served between the morning and
afternoon services Sunday.
Dedication of the sanctuary
had been delayed through the
years, pending not only continu
ing work on the sanctuary itself
but construction of an education
al building. The latter was fin
ished last year. The ceremonies
Sunday, therefore, mark the joint
dedication of the two buildings
which together constitute a com
plete church plant, with extensive
facilities provided for the many
organizations and activities of the
members.
Dedication of the sanctuary will
take place at the 11 a.m. service.
Returning to Southern Pines for
the occasion will be the Rev. Er
nest L. Barber who was pastor of
the church from its organization
until 1942. The origin of the
church is traced to vesper serv
ices conducted by the Rev. Mr.
Barber at the Civic Club, in 1931
when he was pastor of Bethesda
Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen.
The former local pastor, who is
expected here with his wife Sun
day, is now executive secretary
of GranviUe Presbytery, with
headquarters at Raleigh. During
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The proposed bill will only en
able the people of the school dis
trict to vote such an increase in
the tax rate, if and when it may
appear advisable and necessary.
This bill was introduced by Rep.
H. Clifton Blue at the request of
the board of trustees as a part of
its planning for school needs dur
ing the next several years.
It does not concern Or affect the
present proposal' to increase this
tax to the present legal maximum
of 50 cents, which will be voted
on,.in the election Tuesday.
D, E, Bailey Retires From Two Long-Standing Posts
$742 COLLECTED
A total of $742 was contributed
in the Southern Pines collection
for the annual fund drive of the
Moore County unit of the Ameri
can Cancer Society, Mrs. J. S.
Milliken, chairman, reported this
week. Local quota was $600. The
chairman thanked all who had
contributed, noting that it is im
possible for her to make personal
acknowledgement of each gift.
Dempsey Ernest Bailey—who is
known to more law-abiding and
non-law-abiding citizens of this
area than almost any other man
in Southern Pines—^has retired.
Not many men have the distinc
tion of retiring from two jobs at
once, by either of which they are
widely known, but that’s what
has happened with Mr. Bailey.
He had been ticket clerk and
telegraph operator at the Sea
board Air Line railroad station
longer than most residents here
can remember (since 1918, to be
exact) and as a justice of the
peace he had held court and per
formed his other duties night and
day for the past 23 years.
Both jobs are history now.
Travellers in and out of Southern
Pines will miss his alert and busi
ness-like countenance at the tick
et window in the station. It may
be that transgressors Of the law
will miss, in another way, the
stern judge of the town hall po
lice court who yet always had a
fatherly lecture for a kid in
trouble and showed mercy when
he thought it would serve the
cause of justice.
Born in Vass 65 years ago last
^Spring Value
Days\ Offering
Prizes Galore
Launching their second annual
Spring Value Days, participating
local merchants featured many
reduced prices and special items
as the sales event opened Thurs
day, to run through Saturday.
The trade promotion is spon
sored by the Chamber of Com
merce, with Mark King, Jr., and
Mrs. Jean Edson on the commit
tee in charge.
Participating members of the
Chamber of Commerce have at
their places Of business coupons
which adult shoppers can sign and
deposit in a box from which a
drawing will be made and a prize
awarded at each store late Satur
day afternoon. Shoppers may
deposit coupons in as many of the
boxes as they choose, throughout
the business section
The coupon of each store’s win
ner will be sent to the C. of C. of
fice in the Southland Hotel where
another drawing will be conduct
ed at 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Mr. King asks that all mer
chants send winning coupons to
the C. of C. office not later than
10 a.m. that day.
Winner of the grand prize can
choose $25 worth of merchandise
from any of the participating
stores—and the choice need not
be confined to one store.
So that there will be no undue
delay ifl a winner’s picking out
the ^ merchandise desired, the
grand prize winner will be given
a letter from the Chamber of
Commerce, to be presented at each
establishment at which merchan
dise is chosen. When the winner’s
selections have been made, each
store will send this merchandise
to the Chamber of Commerce of
fice where the winner will pick
it all up at one time when the $25
limit has been reached.
The winner, of course, can take
the $25 worth of merchandise at a
single store, if he or she so de
sires.
Appropriation For
Alston House Gets
MR. BAILEY ... at desk in his home
December, Mr. Bailey is the son
the late Dempsey J. Bailey
of
who died when his son was
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an
By ‘First Hurdle’
Word has been received from
Representative H. CJifton Blue, in
Raleigh, that the first hurdle has
been passed in the move to ob
tain, from the state, funds for the
restoration, repair and mainte
nance of the Philip Alston House
in Deep River township.
On Monday night, according to
Mr. Blue, the House passed a bill
for such preservatiO'n of historic
sites in which the special sum of
$5,000 was designated for Moore
County’s “House in the Horse
shoe” project of the Moore Coun
ty Historical Association.
Commenting on the fact, Mr.
Blue said: ‘T do not know what
fate this bill will meet in the
Senate, but I am encouraged over
its prospects of passage.”
This bill, for the preservation
of historic sites, was the measure
under consideration when a dele
gation with Mi’S. Ernest Ives,
president of the local historical
association at its head, appeared
before the legislature earlier this
spring to speak on behalf of the
proposal. It has had the concerted
support, since then, of Moore
County Stenator Hawley Poole, as
well as of Representative Blue