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HIGHWAY DEATHS
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HIGHWAY DEATHS
Oil Company Buys
Big Tract Between
S. Pines, Aberdeen
To Build Station,
Offer Other Parts
Of Land For Sale
One of the largest real estate
transactions involving undevelop
ed land in the histcry of Moore
County was completed Tuesday
with the purchase by Esso Stand
ard Oil Co. of a tract of about 186
acres, with a 1,700-foot frontage
on US Highway 1 between Scuth-
, ern Pines and Aberdeen, for the
price of $67,720.
In completing the 'deal with
owners W. T. Huntley and D. I
Allred, of Southern Pines, Esso
Standard got in just under the
deadline, having taken an option
cn the land for three months oh
March 1, with an extension for
30 days granted May 1.
The transaction was handled by
L. T. Clark, Southern Pines real
estate dealer, with officials of
Esso Standard at Charlotte head
ed by Herbert Dowd, manager qf
the North Carolina division of the
company.
The tract extends more than a
mile west of US 1, all the way to
Aberdeen Creek, across from the
drive-in theatre, at a location
where it is anticipated US High
way 15-501 will be extended from
Pinehurst to intersect with US 1.
Service Station Planned
Clark said Esso Standard plans
to build a “super-service station”
on part of the land, occupying a
300-foot frontage, the site to be
determined after it is known
where the highway intersection
will be.
The rest of the land will then
be offered for sale, under heavy
restrictions, to enterprises which
are deemed suitable for high-type
development of the arfea. The re-
25 To Receive Diplomas Tuesday;
Other Commencement Events Set
Twenty-five members of the
Class of 1955 at Southern Pines
High School will receive diplomas
Tuesday when graduation exer
cises will be conducted in Weaver
Auditcrium at 8:15 p. m.
Students to graduate are: Pa
tricia Ann Blasko, Norma Ruth
Bowles, Patricia Janet Woodell
Campbell, Donald Taylor Cheat
ham, James McLeod Holliday
Collins, Jerry Dean Daeke, Wil-
lene Catherine Davis, Kathryn
Ann Dwight, Dcnald Ray Haney,
Gilbert Carlyle Harbort, Elizabeth
Anita Harriss, Martina Frances
Harriss, Shirley Ann Calcutt
Holder.
Also: James Harry Menzel,
Betty Lou Morris, Dorothy Eliz
abeth Newton, Geirland Frank
Pierce, Paunl Laurence Propst
John Robert Ramsey, Jean Char-
Ictte Safford, William James Ses-
soms, Jr., Emery Smith HI, An
thony Geral4 Spinello, Lelmor
Kenneth Tew, Rodney Buell
Whiting.
The school band, under direc
tion of Lynn H. Ledden, will play
the processional and recesionai,
as well as two other selections,
during the program.
Dr. Herbert V. Carson, chair
man of the division of religion
and philosophy at Queen’s College
Charlotte, will deliver the com
mencement address. He will be
introduced by John M. Howarth
chairman of the school board of
trustees.
The Rev. C. V. Covell, rector
of Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
will speak the invocation. Bene
diction will be pronounced by
Father Peter M. Denges of St. An
thony’s Catholic Church.
Honor Graduates
Ncrma Ruth Bowles, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Qurnie L. Bowles
of Niagara, is the first honor
graduate, or valedictorian, of the
strictions are to be worked out class. Patricia Janeti Woodell
by Clark in cooperation with Esso I Campbell, daughter cf Mr. and
Standard officials, and he will Mrs. Isaac A. Woodell of 145 E.
handle all sales and development.
'The highway frontage will be
used for commercial develop
ment, while it is anticipated that
the portion of the tract toward
Aberdeen Creek will become a
residential subdivision. The tract
includes the former site of the
Hole-In-One golf range which is
at the northeast corner of the
property, fronting on the high
way. The 1,700 feet frontage on
Highway 1 extends south from
there.
There are no structures at pres
ent on the tract except a small
office for a sand company which
is marketing sand on a contract
basis. The contract has been
transferred from the former own
ers to Esso Standard.
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TOP HONOR GRADS—With Weaver Auditorium, where they
wiU receive their diplomas, in the background, the valedictorian
and salutatorian of the Class of 1955 at Southern Pines High
School are pictured here. At left is Norma Ruth Bowles, first
honor graduate, and at right “Patti” Woodell Campbell, second
honor graduate. (Photo by Humphrey
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Todd by 8 p. m. Tuesday, in the All members of the east are not
Softball League
Play Opens 14tli
Play in the newly organized
Adult Softball League will start
Tuesday, June 14, Irie Leonard,
summer recreation director, said
today. Regularly scheduled
games will continue through July
26, with two games played each
night at Memorial Field, the first
at 7:30 and the second at 9:30.
Sponsored by the Town Recrea
tion Department, the League in
cludes teams representing the
USAF Air-Ground Operation
School, Carolina Power and Light
Co., Southern Pines Lions Club,
N. C. Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion, Colonial Furniture Co., “Hol
liday’s Chicks” and “Hill Top
Jokers.”
The regular summer recreation
program, with varied activities for
all ages of young people, wiU
open Monday, June 13, to run
through August 19, Leonard said.
Commissioners To
Convene On ^^^onday
Reports from county depart
ments on budget needs in the fis
cal year starting July 1 will be
heard by the county commission
ers when they gather for their
regular meeting in the courthouse
at Carthage Monday. Preliminary
work on making up a new county
budget has begun.
Illinois. Ave., is the second hon
or grJiduate, or salutatorian.
Listed as other honor graduates
are Dorothy Elizabeth Newton,
Willene Catherine Davis and
Elizabeth Anita Harriss, the lat
ter two having spent two years
as students in Southern Pines
High School. Honor graduates
must have a general average of
90 or above for each year in which
they are in high school.
Marshals, who are chosen on a
basis of scholarship from other
high school classes, are: Bobby
Cline, chief; Bill Mar ley, John
Seymour, David McCallum, Bar
bara Williams, Frances Nall.
Thomas Vann, Joan Howarth.
Anike Verhoeff, Beth Turner and
Mary Louise McDonald.
The Senior Class Mothers Club
will entertain seniors, juniors,
alumni and faculty with a dance
at the Country Club after the
graduation ceremonies.
This years’s commencement
exercises are dedicated to the lov-
! ing memory of June Alton Phil-
, lips, whose death occurred in the
past year, ‘Tor his many years of
devoted and unselfish service to
the boys and girls of Southern
Pines High School.”
The alumni cf the Southern
Pines High School are invited to
march with the graduating class.
school cafeteria.
Baccalaureate Sermon
Events of the finals will begin
at 8:15 p. m. Sunday in the
Chuch of Wide Fellowship when
Dr. Kenneth Goodscn, superin
tendent of the Winston-Salem
District of the Methodist Church
will deliver the commencement
sermon. Dr. W. C. Timmons, pas
tor of the church, will deliver the
invocation.
Scripture reading will be by the
Rev. David Hoke Coon, pastor of
the First Baptist Church. The
Rev. Robert L. Bame, pastor of
the Southern Pines Methodist
Church will pronounce the bene
diction.
The school choir will sing two
selections during the program.
Mrs. L. D. McDonald will be at
the organ for processional and
recessional and to accompany
singing of hymns.
Class Night
Second event on the finals pro
gram will be Class Night, with
“Drums of Death,” a mystery
play, to be presesnted by the
Senior class Monday at 8:15 p. m.
in Weaver Auditorium. There wiT
be a small admission charge.
The cast of the play includes:
seniors.
Awards Day
Next of the finals events comes
Tuesday at 10:30 a. m., with hon
ors and awards exercises'. No ad
vance announcement is made of
the awards. A full list of recipi
ents will be in next week’s Pilot.
Noma Ruth Bowles, first honor
graduate, is a sister of Doris Lee
Bowles who was valedictorian of
the class of 1952—an unusual
honor lor one family. She was
a marshal in her freshman and
sophomore years in school and
was chief marshal last year.
Specializing in commercial
subjects, she was voted “most de
pendable” and “best looking” by
members cf her class. She was
manager of girls’ basketball in
her sophomore yeat, was vice-
president of her class and student
council representative, in her
junior year, and was treasurer of
the senior class and corresponding
secretary cl the Student Council
in her senior year.
Patricia Janet (“Patti”) Wood
ell Campbell, second honor grad
uate, is the wife of John Thomas
Campbell, Jr. They were married
this spring.
She has played basketball dur
ing four years of high school and
Mrs. Abraham, 96,
Oldest Resident
Of Town5Succumbs
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at the Church
of Wide Fellowship for Mrs. Grace
K. Abraham, 96, who died Sun
day night at Moore County Hos
pital, Pinehurst. She was the
town’s oldest resident in point of
age and had made her home here
since 1912.
Officiating were Dr. W. C. Tim-
m.ons, pastor of the church, and
the Rev. C. V. Coveil, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Burial was in the family plot at
the Methodist Cemetery, Damas
cus, Pa., today (Thursday).
Mrs. Abraham had been in the
hospital for the past two weeks,
following a fall. About 25 years
age, she broke her hip, but had
remained active, although she
used crutches.
Born at Equinunk, Pa., Septem
ber 5, 1858, Mrs. Abraham was
the daughter of David and Sylvia
Erisack Kellam. She was educa
ted at Prompton Academy,
Prompton, Pa. On April 22, 1884
she was married to George Cly-
mer Abrahami and they lived in
Pennsylvania before moving to
Southern Pines.
Three of their five children sur
vive: Mrs. Clarence M. Peck of
Binghampton, N. Y.; and Mrs.
Harry H. Pethick and Mrs. Norris
L. Hodgkins, of Southern Pines.
A daughter, Grace, died in infan
cy, and a son, Clinton D. Abra
ham, was killed in an automobile
accident at Toronto, Canada, in
1920. Seven grandchildren and 16
great-grandchildren also survive.
George C. Abraham, who had a
successful career in the mercan
tile and lumbering business be
fore coming to Southern Pines,
died at Moore County Hospital
March 29, 1941, at the age of 81.
He was a director of the Citi
zens Bank and Trust Co. from
1927 until his death and had been
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S250,000 Bond Issue
For Recreation Asked
lO-Cent Raise
Clark Backed
For State Post
In Tax Rate
Is Suggested
Friends in the Sandhills and
other parts cf the State are pro
moting the cause of Lloyd T. ^ special meeting of the
Clark, local funeral director, real, council Tuesday night, the
estate dealer and member of the] Advisory Committee
town council, for appointment by j P^ss^rited a survey which termed
Governor Hodges to the office of j facilities here inade-
State Burial Commissioner. '(and recommended construc
tion of two swimming pools and
two community centers, with the
suggestion that the $250,000 pro
ject be financed by a bond issue.
Action to be taken by the coun
cil, if any, would be to call an
election in which residents of the
town would vote on whether or
A delegation of nine went to
Raleigh Friday morning to see
Governor Hodges and endorse
Clark fer the post.
'While the Governor listened
sympathetically, and himself
spoke words of warm praise for
th^t^°n^ would be^ issued^
that Clark’s candidacy came “a no action was taken Tuesday
little late,” and another candidate,
who was in the field immediately
when the office was vacated, was
well in the lead. The appointment
is expected to be made some time
this week.
The Governor told the visitors
that they “could tell him little
about Mr. Clark,” as he had
known and admired him for a
gcod many years and knew him
to be an outstanding man, well
qualified for the post.
Letters in behalf of Mr. Clark
have gone to the Govemer from
a large number of local persons,
•representing business and pro
fessional men and women and
civic and political leaders of town
and county, ds well as from oth
ers throughout the State.
"Visiting Governor Hodges Mon
day were W. Lament Brown,
chairman of the Moore County
Democratic committee; W. Ward
Hill, Southern Pines precinct
chairman; Rep. H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen; D. A. Blue, Jr., Brig.
Gen. Pearson Menoher, W. B. Hol
liday, Johnnie A. Hall, J. B. Per-
kinson and Mrs. 'Valerie Nichol
son.
Burns, Spence Portraits Unveiled
Those who wish to march are Safford, John Chappell, Jimmy
asked to meet with Miss Aline I McDonald and Elizabeth Harriss.
Commencement Speakers
Sally Michelson, Emory Smith .was captain her junior year. She
Rod 'Whiting, Dorothy Newton, was on the Student Council four
Pat Blasko, Tina Harriss, Jean years, serving as president this
year and vice-president last year.
She was chief cheer leader, for
both her junior and senior years
She was voted “best all round’
by her class, won a World Peace
speaking contest and was a mem
ber of the Beta Club during her
last two years in high school. She
has been active in the Dramatics
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With impressive ceremony, por
traits of two deceased members of
the Moore County Bar were un
veiled on the courtroom wall at
Carthage Wednesday night.
The portrait of Robert L. “Bob
by” Bums, former county attor
ney and State Senator, who died
in 1927, was unveiled by his little
granddaughter, Linda Mae Burns,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Burns of Carthage.
The portrait of U. L. Spence,
member of both the House and
the Senate on several occasions
and dean of the Moore County
Bar when he died June 30, 1954,
was unveiled by his 10-year-old
grandson. Max Gardner, Jr., of
Alexandria, "Va.
Judge Allen H. Gwyn of Reids-
ville, current presiding judge of
the district, presided over the oc
casion, which was designated as a
special term of court, and J. Tal
bot Johnson, president of the
sponsoring Moore County Bar as
sociation, served as master of cere
monies.
Members of the families of both
Burns and Spence, with a consid
erable gathering from over the
county, including many who had
been friends of both men, were
present.
The term was opened by Sher
iff McDonald in his usual manner,
and the court stenographer was
present to record the event in
minutes which Judge Gwyn or
dered to be placed on the court
records as a permanent memorial.
Outstanding among the legal
and judicial luminaries present
was Associate Justice R. Hunt
Parker of the State Supreme
night, pending further informa
tion which the council asked the
committee to provide on operating
costs of the pools.
The committee report stated
that payments of interest and
principal on the bonds could be
financed by an additional 10 cents
(per $100 of property valuation)
on the present tax rate of $1.75.
The Rev. C. K. Ligon, speaking
for the committee, said that a
study of municipal swimming
pools elsewhere had shown that
they can be self-sustaining by
charging a small admission fee to
swimmers.
The committee spokesman said
that he and other committee
members had met with much en
thusiasm in talking to Southern
Pines residents about the project.
The committee.presented a state
ment signed by 142 persons ex
pressing approval, which they said
had been gotten up without diffi-
cultjr. The signatures were not
presented as a formal petition for
an election, but only as a show of
opinion, it was pointed out.
Of the amount suggested for the
bond issue, $150,000 would go for
the two pools and $100,000 for the
community centers.
Asked about other forthcoming
town needs which might require
bond issues. Town Manager Tom
E. Cunningham listed needs in the
water and sewer departments, and
a proposed administrative build
ing to contain all town offices, po
lice and fire departments, as run
ning to an estimated $450,000 in
bond issues on which the people
might be asked to vote in the next
10 or 15 years.
The Rev. Mr. Ligon said that it
was not the committee’s purpose
to advance the bond issue for
pools and community centers as
taking precedence over other im
portant projects but “it’s our opin-
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LEGION MEETS TONIGHT
Sandhills Post 134, American
Legion, will meet tonight (Thurs-
CourtV who had dTfven fr;m”hi; j
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DR, KENNETH GOODSON
DR. a V. CARSON
Post Office Has
New Panel Truek
Special delivery service wiU be
expedited and faster parcel post
delivery made possible by the re
cent addition of a one-haK ton
panel delivery truck to the vehi
cle fleet of the Southern Pines
post office. Postmaster Garland
Pierce said today.
The postmaster also pointed out
that a new commemorative three-
cent stamp, whose subject is the
armed forces reserve, is now on
sale at the post office.
TAKING PART in the special term of Moore
Superior Court, at which portraits of R. L.
Burns and U. L. Spence were unveiled, were,
from left, front row. Resident Judge F. Don
Phillips, Associate Supreme Court Justice R.
Hunt Parker and Presiding Judge Allen H.
Gwyn; back row, members of the Moore County
Bar John D. McConnell, Judge J. "Vance Rowe,
J. Talbot Johnson (president), "W. D. Sabiston,
M. G. Boyette, H. F. Seawell, Jr. Portrait in
center is that of Judge W. J. Adams, hung in a
previous special ceremony September 7, 1951.
Portraits of Spence (upper left) and Burns (up
per right) are superimposed on the photograph.
In actuality, they are hung high on the wall, far
to each side out- of camera range.
(Photo by "V. Nicholson)