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VOL. 36—NO. 32
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JUNE 30, 1955
TWENTY PAGES
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Leak Repaired In Old Dam At Crystal Lake
Crews of prisoners and highway
workers are shown Monday in the
two top photos as they dug down
through the roadway over the
Crystal Lake dam at Lakeview,
preparing to stop a leak that un
dermined the dam, causing a col
lapse of the road surface, last
Sunday night. Interested specta
tor at the left of both the top pic
tures is Coley Blue to whose
great-grandfather, Duncan Blue,
the lake site and surrounding
land was deeded by King George
III of England in 1770.
Wyandotte Worsted Company,
present owner of the lake, has
leased the property to C. A. Mc
Laughlin of Southern Pines who
authorized draining of the lake
about seven and a half feet below
its full depth, in order to repair
the dam.
In lower photo, C. B. Patton" of
Ssmford (right), bridge foreman
for the 8th Highway Division,
talks over the repair job with J.
O. Chappell of Carthage, (left)
foreman of a gang of prisoners
from Camp 805 at Carthage, and
C. L. Alexander of Hillcrest, fore
man of a highway patching crew
composed of honor grade prison
ers and salaried highway person
nel.
At lower right, water roars
through the double spillway un
der the dam when flood gates are
Sandhills Pushed
As New Site For
Offices Of PGA
An informal committee of
Sandhills residents this week
launched an effort to bring the
headquarters of the Professional
Golfers Association from Chicago
to Southern Pines.
Called together by Mayor "Voit
Gilmore, who said he had infor
mation directly from Harry Mof-
fitt, PGA president, that the or
ganization is dissatisfied with its
office set-up in Chicago, the
group pooled ideas and informa
tion and set up committees to an
swer a list of questions about real
estate, housing, transportation,
communications, printipg and
other facilities here, as well as
availability of office personnel,
wage levels and other considera
tions. ' '
Present were the mayor. Coun
cilman Harry H. Pethick, City
Manager Tom E. Cunningham.,
Jack Younts, president and gen
eral manager of Radio Station
WEEB; Mrs. Bob Harlow and
Tom O’Neil, of Golf World mag
azine at Pinehurst; Leo Walper
and Roy Grinnell, golf pros, Jerry
(Continued on Page 5)
Tuesday Court
Is Suspeuded
The weekly Tuesday session
of Recorders Court at Carth
age will be suspended after
July 5, Solicitor W. Lamont
Brown said this week.
Decision to ehminate the
Tuesday sessions until such
time as the docket may be
come overcrowded again was
made by Judge J. Vance
Rowe and the solicitor after
they were informed by Clerk
of Court Carlton Kennedy
that the court has made good
progress in catching up on its
backlog cf untried or unset
tled cases.
Solicitor Brown said that in
May the court turned over
some $4,700 in fines and for
feitures to the school fund
and in June about $3,400.
The Tuesday session next
week is in reality the Mon
day session postponed to
Tuesday because of the July
4 holiday on Monday.
The weekly current case
load of the court has not de
creased, the solicitor explain
ed, but the court has pretty
well caught up on its backlog
of pending cases.
PILOT EDITOR OVERSEAS
French Friendly To Americans
Some cities have a special col
oration. In Rome, the color is ter
racotta; every imaginable vari
ation, from the softest cream to
the deepest red-brown. The wails
of the old palaces and ancient
ruins glow like flames at sunset
time.
In Holland, the cities are grey-
brown. A rather drab shade.
There was only one sunny eve
ning, when I was there, and then
we were way out in the placid
green country, moored to the
bank of a canal. Then you see
the cities as a misty brown sil
houette against the sky across
the wide expanse of flat fields.
The color of Paris is pearl.
I arrived early in the morning,
when the streets were still in
deep shadow and the long early
light fell soft and fresh across the
Place de la Concorde. The color
was dusky grey then, brightening
opened to drain the lake. The
100-acre lake has been there for
more than 100 years, but concrete
reinforcements to the earth dam
were constructed in 1913, Mr.
Blue recalled.
"Worries of fishermen were eas
ed when it was learned that the
lake would not have to be drained
to a level that would endanger
fish life, although one observer
expressed concern for fish nests
in shallow waters. Where the
channel runs the lake is in places
30 feet deep, although much of its
bottom was exposed by draining,
in the shallower; places. Comple
tion of the dam repair work was
expected this week.
■ ’ • (Pilot-Staff Photos)
Red Cross Workers
To Play Part In
Airlift To Maekall
Volunteers from the Moore
County Red Cross Chapter will be
assigned to Camp MackaU, July
14-17, to help welcome home from
Japan more than 3,000 paratroop
ers of the 187th Airborne Regi
mental Combat Team. Helping in
the project will be volunteers
from four local women’s organi
zations: BPO Does, Junior Wom
an’s Club, VFW Auxiliary and the
USAFAGOS Officers Wives Club.
The 187th, only paratroop out
fit which saw action in the Korea
fighting, is being transferred to
the States in the biggest airlift of
military personnel ever undertak
en by the U. S. Air Force.
The first plane will arrive at
Camp Maekall on July 14 after
several brief stop-overs enroute
from Japan and will continue to
reach the North Carolina airfield
at spaced intervals over a four-
day period.
Garland McPherson, chairman
of the Moore County Chapter,
said at least eight Red Cross
chapters are sending a total of ap
proximately 100 workers to Camp
Maekall at the invitation of the
commanding general of Fort
Bragg.
Participating chapters also will
(Continued, on Page 5)
July 4th Speech
At Carthage Set
By Senator Scott
Soap Box Derby Is
New Event; All-Day
Program Is Mapped
Senator W. Kerr Scott will
s*'eak at the annual Independence
Day Celebration Monday in Car
thage it was announced this week
by Paul Simpson, president of "he
Carthage Junior. Chamber of
Commerce.
This announcement culminates
several weeks of intensive effort
to secure the qclorlul senator,
who has been unable to commit
himself prior to this week due
to the heavy work load in the
Senate. Clyde Auman of West
End lent his service to the Jay-
cees in their efforts to secure
Scott for his occasion.
This will be one of the first
public appearances of the
•‘Man from Haw River” back in
North Carolina since he began
active duty in the Senate.
Intensive preparations for the
celebration by the Jaycees are
•matched by the activity of the
Soap Box Derby entrants in their
efforts to build a winning race
car. Race Chairman C. G. Spenc
er, Jr., revealed that each en
trant will receive a prize and also
that the winner and the runner
up will be awarded additional
prizes. In preparation for the
race, aU entrants were feted to a
wiener roast this week after
which fin official film of the na
tional Soapbox Derby race was
shown to the youngsters. Several
members of the race committee
attended the Charlotte Races on
Wednesday as guests of the Char
lotte Jaycees and were able to
observe at close hand all phases
of the event. There is a feeling
among the club membership fnat
the" Soap Box Derby could be
come the high point of the cele
bration in the future.
Hill-billy Music
That ever increasing band of
folks who are followers of coun
try-style music are in for a real
treat in Carthage Monday, as one
cf the best known hill-billy shows
in North Carolina will be on hand.
Jim Thorton and his gang from
WTVD in Durham will give a
show in the High School Audi
torium from 7 to 8:30 p, m. and
then move to the McConnell
warehouse for a square dance
which will last from 9 to 1 a. m.
Those planning to attend the
show in the auditorium are urged
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Traffic Safety Stressed As Area
Begins Long, Dangerous Week-End
Police To Stop
Drivers, Give
Safety Leaflet
A PLEDGE TO
SLOW DOWN
and Live
"driveriV
and LIVE
Copyright 1955,
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Walt Disney Productions |
I do hereby pledge to subscribe to the motto “SLOW
DOWN AND LIVE” and to dedicate my driving practices
to the principles of safe and careful driving.
I do furthermore pledge to at all times conform to the
basic tenets of safely on our highways and to take special
care to avoid the following traffic violations:
EXCESSIVE SPEED
SPEED TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS
IMPROPER PASSING
FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY
FAILURE TO YIELD RIGHT OF WAY
This pledge is sponsored by your slate safely coordinator
in cooperation with the National Conference of State
Safety Coordinators.
The “Slow Down And Live” program has the endorsement
of your governor and is dedicated to the cause of safety
on the highways of the nation.
' SIGNED
STATE OF RESIDENCE
DRIVERS LICENSE NUMBER
WANT TO HELP?—Lend your moral support to the nation
wide Slow Down and Live campaign by signing this pledge and
sending it to T. Roy Phillips of Carthage, chairman of the drive
for Moore County.
LITTLE LEAGUE DIVIDES
Southern Pines Little League
players divided their contests this
week, beating Pinehurst 4-1 on
Monday and losing to Robbins
12-10 on Wednesday.
quickly, though, as the sun grew
stronger.
I had myi taxi man drive me
across the lovely Place, with the
wonderful 18th century buildings
stretching their Greek cornices
and colonnades across the Eastern
side of it and on down the- Rue
de Rivoli. The trees were fresh
green along the Champs Elysees
and in the Tuileries Gardens, and
as we drove across the latter, to
wards the Seine, you could see
the bright flower-beds, laid Out
in the formality the French love,'
and the color scheme of pink ger-1
aniums and purply blue ageratum
that suits them. '
By mid-day the pearly grey of
Paris is almost white under the
bright sun. The afternoon ad
vances and the old stone and
plaster takes on opalescent tints
as the sun drops lower. As the
(Continued on Page 8)
ADULT SOFTBALL
LEAGUE RESULTS
June 23 Games
Rained out.
June 28 Games
USAFAGOS 18, Hill Top 5.
CP&L Co. 16, Holliday’s 8.
Local Girl To Vie
For Beauty Queen
At Carthage Event
Patricia Morrison, 16, a rising
senior at Southern Pines High
school, will be sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce in the
beauty contest to be held at Car
thage Monday as part of the all
day Fourth of July celebration.
She will ride with other con
testants from high schools
throughout the county in the
Grand Parade scheduled for 2
p. m., and appear in the contest
at 3 p. m.
The Chamber’s 1954 candidate,
Jacque Davenport, was the win
ner last year and will preside
over this year’s event until a new
Queen is chosen. She will crown
the new “Miss Moo-re County” as
climax of the contest.
The girls will wear evening
dresses this year, a departure
from the summer daytime dress
es which they have worn in pre
vious contests.
Patricia is a blue-eyed “brown-
ette,” five feet, four inches tall.
She was a polio victim last
year. Stricken late last summer,
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MOORE POLIO CASE
'EXTREMELY MILD'
The month of June brought
Mcwjxe county its first polio
case of the year—a two-and-
a-half year old child.
Paul C. Butler of Southern
Pines, chairman of the Moore
County polio chapter, SEud
Joseph Melvin Garner, small
son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Gamer, who live between
Aberdeen and Pinehurst, was
taken June 9 to N. C. Mem
orial Hospital at Chapel Hill,
and returned home last
Weekend, after about 10
days. "While it was ascer
tained he definitely had
polio, the case was termed
"extremely mild."
Moore county, like the
State as a whole, has an un
usually light incidence of
polio this year. "Whatever
the cause, this is so far the
lightest year for polio we
have had in a very long
time." Mr. Butler sedd.
Mrs. John Dundas
Ends Library Work
STANDINGS
Team W.
USAF Air-Ground School 3
N. C. Catholic Laymen 2
Holliday’s Chicks 1
Hill Top Jokers 1
Car. Power & Light 1
Colonial Furniture 0
So. Pines Lions Club 0
COMING GAMES
L.
0
0
1
2
2
1
2
Tonight, June 30
7:30—Lions vs. CP&L Co.
9:30—Colonial Fur. vs. Laymen
No gsunes next week
REAPPOINTED—Judge W. A.
Leland McKeithen, 43, of Pine
hurst was reappointed a special
1 judge of Superior Court by Gov.
Luther H. Hodges last week.
Judge McKeithen, who was for
merly solicitor of Moore County
Recorders Court, chairman of the
Moore County Democratic Execu
tive Committee, member of the
State Bar Council and president
of the N. C. Bar Association, had
been serving as special judge un
der an appointment made by the
late Gc-v. William B. Umstead
in February, 1954. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. McKeithen
of Aberdeen. His wife is the
former Janet Wiggins of Middle-
j'town, N. Y. They have one son,
I John Leland, six years old.
O’Neil To Build
Sports Center On
Midland Rd. Site
Tom O’Neil of Southern Pines,
proprietor of the Hillendale Little
9 lighted golf course on Midland
Road, said this week that prelim
inary work has begun on a Hillen
dale Sports Center to be located
on a tract he owns east of the
golf course, between the Little 9
and the town limits at Pee Dee
Road. (Pee Dee Road is the road
to Carthage from the south end
of Pennsylvania Ave.)
Under direction of John Gold
smith, clearing and grading for a
baseball field—the first step in
the Sports Center plan—began
this week. The field will be set
well back from both Midland
Road and Pee Dee Road, allowing
room for a proposed shopping
center and office development
which O’Neil has had in mind for
some time, at the intersection of
the two thoroughfares.
(Continued on page 8)
Meeting in Carthage "Wednes
day night, the Moore County
steering committee for the nation
wide Slow Down and Live cam
paign mapped an intensive traf
fic safety drive for the long
Fourth of July week-end.
With Committee Chairman T.
Roy Phillips presiding, represen
tatives from various sections of
the count}) divided up a small
supply of publicity material
whose delayed arrival has here
tofore held up campaign opera
tions in this county.
Plans call for distribution on
Friday of information leaflets and
a small supply • of dashboard
stickers to motorists in all towns
of the county.
Highway Patrolmen will assist
in this distribution at points
where they are needed. Cpl. M. S.
Parvin, who heads the Patrol con
tingent in Moore, is an active and
enthusiastic supporter of the
Slow Down and Live campaign
which began officially Memorial
Day and will run through Labor
Day, but which is viewed as a
continuing drive in Moore Coun-
ty.
Brig. Gen. R. B. Hill, Southern
Pines representative on the coun
ty committee, brought back from
the Wednesday night meeting a
supply of publicity material to be
used in Southern Pines. Police
Chief C. E. Newton and members
of his department, offering full
cooperation, will pass out leaflets
and stickers Friday. Boy Scouts
(Continued on page 5)
Holiday Set
For Sandhills
Most residents of Southern
Pines and Moore County are look
ing forward to a holiday Monday,
with some industrial workers of
the county enjoying several days
of vacation.
Stores and offices generally
will be closed throughout the
county as will the Citizens Bank
and Trust Co. and other banks.
Thte Southern Pines municipal
offices will be closed and town
employees, except for necessary
maintenance work, will have a
holiday. There will be no garbage
collection, but garbage will be
collected Tuesday from homes on
the Monday route.
At the post office the usual
holiday schedule will be follow
ed: one window open from 10 to
11 a. m., no city delivery, mail
distributed to boxes and outgoing
mails dispatched as usual.
The courthouse at Carthage
will be closed Monday. Meeting
of the Moore County boEird of
NOT "JULY 77"
Shearwood Travel Service in
Pinehurst, whose closing from
July 2-9 is announced in an ad"
on page 16, will reopen July 11.
Would-be travelers need not wait
until the date “July 77,” which
appears in the ad, to get assist
ance with their planning.
The Southern Pines Library
Board has accepted with regret
the resignation^ of Mrs. John Dun
das as librarian, effective today.
Miss Elsie McKenzie, who has. , - --
been general assistant at the li- cemmissionefs and the regular
brary for several years, will fill session of Recorders Court, both
in at the desk during the sum- usually held oi^ Monday, wiU be
m.er, with Mrs. C.- A. Smith as
part-time librarian. It is hoped
postponed to Tuesday.
O' far as is known to The Pilot,
there will be no formal observ
ance of July 4 in Sputhern Pines.
U. S. Sen. Kerr Scott is scheduled
to speak at Carthage Monday on
that a professionally-trained li
brarian may be secured by Octo
ber, the announcement said.
Mrs. Dundas wiU fee associated'
with the Southern Pines office of | a varied all-day program spon-
Eastman Dillon and Co., New I sored by the Junior Chamber of
York brokerage firm, beginning Commerce. For details, see an-
September 1. [other story in today’s Pilot.
WORK BEING DONE AT INN
No Word On New Air Force Lease
Today, June 30, is the expira- and improvments at the hotel and
tion day of the lease on the High
land Pines Inn to the Air Force
which has its Air-Ground Opera
tions School there.
As of today, no information has
been received from either mili
tary or civilian sources, as to a
new lease between the Stitzer
Hotel Co., owners of the High
land Pines Inn, and the Air Force.
Several weeks ago it was an
nounced that negotiations for a
new lease were going on and it is
presumed that a lease agreement
has been or soon will be worked
cut.
It is understood that the hotel
firm, under the new agreement,
is making considerable repairs'the Aberdeen Amerotron plant.
that some of the work is now
going on.
’The school is now in a “stand
down” or suspended period for
the July 4 holiday and Brig.
Gen. Daniel "W. Jenkins, com
mandant, could not be reached to
day for comment on the lease
status.
General Jenkins and family are
moving from the Tate cottage on
Midland Road to the George Dun
lap home in Knollwood which is
being vacated by the Frank T.
Roberts family who are moving
into a newly constructed home of
their own on "Weymouth Heights.
Mr. Roberts is an executive with
Amerotron, Inc., with office in