0 SLOW DOWN AND / LIVE! HELP STOP HBGHWAY DEATHS SLOW DOWN A1W> LIVE! HELP STOP HIGHWAY DEATHS VOL. 36—NO. 32 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JUNE 30, 1955 TWENTY PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS Slilii 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 (Continued on page 17) 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, I 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, (Continued on Page 8) 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

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