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SLOW DOWN AND
LIVE! HELP STOP
HIGHWAY DEATHS
SLOW DOWN AND
LIVE! HELP STOP
HIGHWAY DEATHS
Council Calls For
Detailed List Of
Future Expenses
Action On Recreation
Bond Issue Deferred
Pending Information
Before moving one way of an
other on the Recreation Advisory
Committee’s suggestion that an
election be called on a $250,000
bond issue for construction of two
swimming pools and two recrea
tion center buildings, the town
council wants to know more about
what other financial obligations
are likely to be required in the
next few years.
At their meeting Tuesday night,
the council directed City Manager
Tom E. Cunningham to compile
as best he can a list of municipal
needs that will call for bond is
sues. In a rough estimate of these
needs, Cunningham said that the
town, between now and 1970 has
“in the neighborhood of a half
million dollars worth of work to
do.”
Another possible approach to
the matter of bond issues was
suggested by Councilman L. T.
Clark who said he would like to
see needs in aU departments put
up to a bond vote at one time—
water, sewer, storm sewers, new
municipal center (town hall, jail
and firehouse), as well as the re
creation proposals. Then, he said,
the people could choose which
proposals they want most, voting
separately on aU the needs in one
bond election.
The council’s decision to post
pone action on a recreation bond
election followed a presentation
of further information about
swimming pools by the Rev. Hoke
Coon, speaking for the Recreation
Advisory Committee in the ab-
serice of the Rev. C. K. Ligon,
chairraam. ,
The spokesman said he had
written to several towns in an ef
fort to get figures on pool main
tenance costs, as requested by the
council when the pool matter was
first brought before it by the
committee. He quoted a reply
from Roanoke Rapids which oper
ates a pool, 125 by 60 feet in size,
ahd a wading pool. May through
September, at a yearly cost of
$5,500 which is met by a 15 cents
admission fee and concessions at
the pool. A check showed that
the population of Roanoke Rapids
is about twice that of Southern
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Southern Pines Is
Considered As Site
For 4-Year College
Merger Of 3
Institutions
Proposed
Southern Pines is under con
sideration for location of a pro
posed fcur-year coeducational
college that would be formed by
merger of several Presbyterian
colleges and junior colleges now
operating in North Carolina.
Rumors of the merger proposal
and of the part that Southern
Pines might play in it have
abounded here in the past couple
of weeks.
OFFICERS AT SCHOOL—Gathering in Southern Pines for the
opening session of a course for law enforcement officers was the
group pictured here at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church
Fellowship Hall: from left to right, they are; seated—Cornelia P.
Vann, desk clerk. Southern Pines Police Department; A. W. Lam
bert, deputy sheriff; C. J. McDonald, Sheriff; Floyd Lucas, assist
ant chief of police, Aberdeen; Drake Rogers, policeman. South
ern Pines; John Sharpe, ABC officer; H. V. Chandler, police ser
geant, Southern Pines; Woodrow Eldridge, assistant chief of po
lice, Carthage; J. T. Shepherd, chief of police, Pinehurst; Irene
Mullinix, justice of the peace, Vass; standing—A. R. Laubscher,
chief of police, Vass; Richard A. Myren, assistant director, Insti-
Law Enforcement Officers, Others In
County Hold First Session Of School
First session in a short course director of the Institute of Gov-
tute of Government; Airman 1-c Fred O. Debrohi, air policeman,
USAFAGOS; J. W. McDonald, policeman, Carthage; C. A. McCal-
lum, chief ABC officer; O. R. Bailey,,constable. West End; Roy F.
Alexander, chief of police, Robbins; Malcolm R. Stout, policeman.
Southern Pines; Isaac E. Hendren, justice of the peace. Eagle
Springs; M. E. Williams, assistant chief of police, Vass; J. D. Sit-
terson, justice of the peace. Southern Pines; Maj. John F. McCar
thy, provost marshal, USAFAGOS; Kieth Marks, ABC officer;
Ray A. Overcash, wildlife protector; Gerald V. Wright, police
man, Southern Pines; John A. Lowdermilk, special agent. State
Bureau of Investigation; C. E. Newton, chief of police. Southern
(Photo by Henry Turner)
fox MoQfe, Copnty law enforce^
ment officers was held Tuesday
night at the Fellowship Hall of
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church.
The course is sponsored by the
Southern Pines police department,
in cooperation with the Institute
of Government of the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Second session of the course is
scheduled for the same location
Tuesday night of next week, from
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Police Chief C. E. Newton of
Southern Pines opened the meet
ing with words of welcome Tues
day. Richard A. Myren, assistant
RECREATION PROGRAM STARTS
Softball Openers Draw 1,000 Fans
First g^es in the new seven-] Regularly scheduled events in
earn Adult Softball League’play-[the municipal summer recreation
non program began Monday. Recrea-
mated 1,000 persons to Memorial
Field, despite chilly weather.
In the first game of the double
header under lights, the USAF
Air-Ground^ School walloped the
Lions Club, 34-2. The N. C. Cath
olic Laymen’s team defeated Car
olina Power and Light Co., 11-6,
in the nightcap.
Second double-header of the
tion Director Irie Leonard and
J. C. Hasty, assistant director for
West Southern Pines, have an
nounced the weekly schedule for
West Side events.
The program, which lists events
Monday through Friday each
week until August 15, features
supervised games for small and
season will be run off tonight. l^rge children and classes in mu-
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(Thursday), with Colonial Furni
' ture Co. facing the USAF Air-
Ground school at 7:30 and Holli
day’s Chicks tangling with the
Hill Top Jokers at 9.
Games will continue on Tues
day and Thursday nights through
July 28, according to a schedule
that was published in fuU in last
week’s Pilot. Seven-inning
games are played. Admission is
free, but a collection is taken for
the bleacher fund.
Next Tuesday night’s contests
are: 7:30—Carolina Power and
Light Co. vs. Hilltop Jokers; 9—
Lions Club vs. Catholic Laymen.
Results of the previous week
and standings of teams through
last Tuesday’s games will appear
weekly in 'The Pilot.
ADULT SOFTBALL
LEAGUE RESULTS
Tuesday Games
USAFAGOS 34, Lions 2
Laymen 11, CP&L Co., 6
STANDINGS
Team W. L.
Catholic Laymen l o
Air-Ground School 1 0
Lions Club , 0 1
Car. Power & Light 0 1
Colonial Fiumiture 0 0
Hill Top Jokers 0 0
Holliday’s Chicks 0 0
sic, knitting, crocheting and sew
ing. Miss Cora Steel and Mrs.
Emma Stubbs are assisting in the
West Southern Pines program.
The weekly schedule appears in
full elsewhere in today’s Pilot
Interested persons are advised tc
clip it for future reference.
Program Changes
In the east side program, which
was announced last week. Direc
tor Leonard listed the names o(
ernment, spoke on the subject,
“Law of Arrest.”
Mr. Myren will discuss the
“Law of Search and Seizure” at
next week’s meeting.
Chief Newton, who arranged
for the course to be conducted
here, said that all magistrates of
the county, as well as members o
the provost marshal’s section at
the USAF Air-Ground Operations
School were invited to attend the
sessions, in addition to law en
forcement officers from through
out the county. These officers in
clude town police, members of the
sheriff’s department, ABC officers
and township constables.
Third meeting of the course is
planned for June 29. Lew Wil
liams, special agent of the State
Bureau of Investigation, is slated
to talk on “Investigation at the
Scene and Preservation of Evi
dence.”
On July 6, when the fourth
meeting will be held, James F.
Bradshaw, Jr., assistant director
of the State Bureau of Investiga
tion, will speak on “Interroga
tion.”
On July 13, M. G. Boyette of
Carthage, solicitor of the 13th Ju
dicial District, is scheduled to talk
.to the officers on “Court Room
Procedure' and Law of Evidence.”
On dates to be announced later,
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Kennedy Talks To
Kiwanis On Work
Of Court Clerk
The duties of a clerk of court
were outlined to members of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at their
Wednesday luncheon meeting in
the American Legion Hut in Ab
erdeen. The speaker was Carlton
Kennedy, of Carthage, clerk of
the Superior Court in Moore
county, who entertained his audi
ence by reading from ludicrous
letters received by the court.
Judging from Mr. Kennedy’s re
cital, the clerkship is a full-time
job, plus. He handles all probate
matters. If you want to adopt a
child or want to have your name
changed, you see him. He collects
the fines and costs in both the
County Recorders Court and the
Superior Court. He handles non
support cases, with wives contin
ually calling on him when “hub
by” fails to pay up.
The clerk of court serves as
judge of the Juvenile Court, a job
in itself. Youngsters are “a prob
lem,” he said, constantly getting
into mischief, with breaking into
places a favorite pastime. Civil
actions are instituted in his office,
even those involving such large
corporations as railroads, and he
told of one interesting case in
which human frailty was respon
sible for a costly wreck.
Minister Called To Virginia Chureh
The Rev. C. V. Covell, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
submitted his resignation, effec
tive September 15, to the vestry
of the church Monday night. He
has been rector of the local church
since November, 1949.
The Rev. Mr. Coveil said this
ladies who will be in charge of ^ ^ Christ
three of the activities and a sche- Parish, Middlesex: Coun-
dule change in two of these ac
tivities.
Weekly schedule for the east
side appears elsewhere in today's
Pilot, with the changes made this
week. All the activities in which
ty, Va.. as rector and also as chap
lain at Christchurch School for
Boys. His work as chaplain will
include teaching classes in Sa
cred Studies during the regular
school week.
changes were made are those', ^rish is located on the
which will not start until
27, to avoid conflict with church Virginia with
Bible Schools. Persons who clip-'P^*^^^^ ’^o^k
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ped last week’s announced sche
dule are reminded to subsctitute
this week’s as a permanent record
of events for the summer program.
The changes are:
The girls’ sewing class, to be
in charge of Mrs. Stanley Austin,
will be held Wednesday after
noons from 1:30 to 3. Interested
girls are asked to call Mrs. Aus-
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years, in'Essex County and later
at Orange where he was chap
lain in the Woodbury Forest
School for Boys. He went from
Virginia to Ashtabula, Ohio,
where he served for some six
years, coming from there to
Southern Pines.
Built in the 18th Century,
Christ Church,' to which the.
Southern Pines man has been
STORM DAMAGE IN
SMALL AREA HEAVY
Heavy damage to crops in
the Hillcrest and Carthage
areas and toward Vass was
caused by a Saturday after
noon hail, wind and rain
storm that residents of the
section said topped the force
and destructiveness of Hurri
cane Hazel last fall, .
Damage to buildings and
houses also was reported. The
storm was confined to a
swath reported to be from
one-half to«two miles wide.
Farms on which damage to
crops or buildings was re
ported include those of S. C.
Riddle, E. E. Craven, Sam
Blue,' John Blue, M. G. Dal-
rymple. Bud Yow, J. A. Cad-
dell and Lige Sineath and
Bud Livengood of the HiU-
crest community. *
County Share In
ArmoryFunds Now
Set At IIO^OOO
Local share of money needed for
a proposed National Guard arm
ory here has been increased from
$7,500 to $10,000, Capt. William J.
Wilson, the Guard company’s
commander, told the town council
Tuesday night.
Last week, the commander
went before the county commis
sioners to ask for an appropria
tion of that amount to supplement
state and federal funds in con
struction of a $100,000 armory.
Since talking with the county
board, the increase in necessary
local funds was indicated, Wilson
said. He told the board he was
appearing only to brief them on
what the armory situation was,
but added, “I may have to come
back.”
The commissioners are expect
ed to act on the Guard’s request
at a special meeting for discussion
of budget matters Monday.
Partial public confirmation
came this week with a press re
lease from Dr. Harold J. Dudley,
general secretary of the Presby
terian Synod of North Carolina,
stating that “consideration of the
merger of seme of its institutions”
is slated to be one of the “matters
of major interest” that will be
placed before the 142nd meeting
[of the Synod to be held July 12-
14 at Barium Springs.
Further confirming local ru
mors, the institutions involved
were named by The News and
Observer of Raleigh on Wednes
day as Peace College at Raleigh,
Flora Macdonald College at Red
Springs and Presbyterian Junior
College at Maxton.
The Raleigh newspaper specif
ically named Southern Pines, Fay
etteville, Red Springs, Lumber-
ton and Laurinburg as towns un
der consideration for the site of
the new institution.
Comiiniunity Action?
Acting on confidential informa
tion they were not then at liberty
to reveal for publication, both the
town council and the Chamber
of Commerce have conducted in
formal discussions of the college
proposal recently.
While no specific plan has been
made for community promotion
of Southern Pines as the site, it
is expected that both the coun
cil and the Chamber of Commerce
will make plans for action, per
haps in cooperation with officials
of Brewnsoh Memorial Presby
terian Church, inviting the co
operation of all interested resi
dents of the community. This pro
cedure might lead to public meet
ings with the aim of gaining com
munity-wide support for the
Southern Pines site from all possi
ble sources.
Consolidation would call for a
$5,000,000 building program it was
reported by The News and Ob
server which added that Fayette
ville has organized a committee
of 100 men who have pledged
$10,000 each, to assure a $1 mil
lion contribution toward this
fund.
Dr. Dudley’s press release said
that the Rev. Charles Lynn
Brown, pastor of the White Me
morial Presbyterian Church, Ral
eigh, will present a report on
Christian Higher Education at the
Synod meeting.
The college merger proposal is
one of the items in this report.
'Ideal Institution' Sought
In order to effect the merger.
Dr. Dudley’s statement said, “it
will be recommended that a
board of trustees composed of
representatives of the institutions
entering the merger and members
at large engage in a study of a
place to locate - the consolidated
fcur-year, co-educational insti
tution and that the most expert
assistance available be obtained to
guide the planning group in es
tablishing as nearly as possible
the ideal institution of Christian
Higher Education.”
Some hint as to the size of the
college proposed may be gained
from a report, also to be given at
the Synod meeting, which derives
from a study of higher education
al institutions in the Synod, made
under a $50,000 Ford Foundation
grant.
This report is now in the hands
of a commission of about 30 lead
ing ministers and laymen of the
Synod, who have analyzed and
edited it for presentation, with
recommendations, to the Synod.
Dr. Dudley points out that one
of the “fundamental principles”
noted in this study is a ‘hninimum
of not less than 750 students for
a senior college or 300 for a jun
ior college.”
Concluding his forecast of the
Synod’s consideration of the
Higher Education matters next
month. Dr. Dudley wrote:
“One of the essentials for ac
complishing the goals which have
been set by the commission is
the procurement of large initial
support for the proposed new in
stitution, and already it has been
authoritively established that sub
stantial funds are in prospect.”
Peace Trustees Opposed
The News and Observer’s an
nouncement of the merger pro
posal on Wednesday drew from
William P. McPherson of Raleigh,
chairman of the Peace College
Board of Trustees, the informa-
Ition that the trustees have voted,
but not unanimously, to oppose
the merger plan when it is pre
sented to the Synod.
For an unexplained reason, Mr.
McPherson also said:
“Regardless of the Synod’s ac
tion, it likely will be 1960 before
any changes are made.”
Local Enthusiasm
Whatever the time element may
be—and it is obvious that such a
college could not be established
anywhere quickly — Southern
Pines residents have met the pro
posal with great enthusiasm. This
reaction was reported from bO'th
the town council and Chamber of
Commerce discussions.
9,000 WOULD BE RECEIVED HERE
CD Alert Poses Fvacuee Problem
THE REV. C. V. COVELL
called, is an ekample of colonial
style in chimch architecture, with
white pews and simple lines
throughout.
A native of Montclair, N. J.,
the Rev. Mr. Covell is a grad-
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Proclamation Signed
I
For 'Slow Down, Live'
Proclamations for the Slow
Down and Live traffic safety cam
paign were signed this week by
Mayor Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines and Judge J. Vance Rowe of
Moore County Recorders Court, as
well as other mayors and officials
throughout the county.
For more about the Slow Down
and Live campaign, see story,
page 11.
Southern Pines has a sim
ulated part in the nation-wide
Civil Defense alert taking place
this week when Col. Donald
[Madigan. local CD director, and
members of his staff “on paper
are making this community ready
to receive an estimated 9,00C
evacuated persons from Greens
boro and Guilford County.
That is the number. Colonel
Madigan said, that Southern Pines
might expect to receive in case of
an air attack on Greensboro which
is one of the “target cities” in
North Carolina.
Civil defense mass evacuation
plans have been discussed by the
local man and Capt. Murray
Thornton, Guilford County CD di
rector, who said that plans there
caU for distributing Greensboro’s
population to towns in a section
of the state that includes South
ern Pines, on a basis of about one
and a half times each town’s pop
ulation.
Reception of evacuees is the
major function of Civil Defense
here, under a program worked
out several years ago by Colonel
Madigan.
Helping the local simulat
ed “paper” reception of the
Greensboro residents here are
Garland Pierce, sub-director' of
housing in the local CD program;
Dr. R. M. McMillan, director of
public health; Bill Bushby, direc
tor of supply and City Manager
Tom E. Cunningham, transporta
tion and records, and others. Red
Cross activity in the health and
transportation phases was alsc
expected.
In actuality, the nation-wide
alert does not include Greensboro,
Colonel Madigan said, but a prac
tice alert is being held there. The
siren here was not sounded a1
the national alert hour of 11 a.m..
Colonel Madigan said, as he feels
there is no need to alarm local
residents.
A family of six in Southern
Pines, would, under the evacua
tion plan, be required to receive
up to 15 additional persons intc
their home, said Colonel Madigan,
to illustrate the scope of the evac
uation problem in personal terms.
There would be no other practical
way to take care of such vast
numbers of persons except billet
ing in private homes, he feels.
Evacuees would be directed to
bring with them a three-day sup
ply of non-perishable food, blank
ets and Other essentials.