.Ok; €>1 Cf) Presbyterians Approve College Merger; Interest In Southern Pines Reported Board of Trustees SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JULY 14, 1955 Delegations To EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS To Be Named WiU Choose Campus Site (Details of college report, page 13) Presbyterians of the Synod of North Carolina approved over whelmingly Wednesday a propo sal to create by merger of three small colleges a four-year, coedu cational institution of higher learning to be located in the Southeastern part of the state. Southern Pines is imder consid eration as a site for the college and a committee formed here is already at work compihng infor mation to show the suitability and attractions of this community as th e site. Recently announced was the tentative offer by Mrs. James Boyd of a large tract of land on the Weymouth estate, as a campus site if the institution is located here. Attending the Synod session at Barium Springs as official dele gates of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church were the Rev. C. K. Ligon, pastor, and M. S. Farrior. Also attending from Southern Pines, representing the church and the town, were W. Lamont Brown and Mayor Voit Gilmore, both of whom are members of the church. Mayor Gilmore said today that the local group talked to many persons at the meeting and found “widespread interest” in South ern Pines as a possible site for the college. The Synod called for fomnation of the new four-year college through consolidation and merger of three Presbyterian colleges— Peace Junior at Raleigh, Presby terian Junior at Maxton and Flora Macdonald at Red Springs. Lillie Opposilioi] Only scattered opposition was heard against the proposal. (Continued on Page 8) MAYOR TO GO ON AIR 6:05 FRIDAY Mayor Voit Gilmore will go on Ihe air over Station WEEB, Southern Pines, Fri day at 6:05 p. m., to report to the residents of this area about the merger of three Presbyterian colleges and ef forts being made to make Southern Pines the site of the new institution. The may or also will report on efforts now going'on to bring the headquarters of the Profes sional Golfers Assticialion from Chicago to Southern Pines. Red Cross Group To Help Welcome Airlift Troopers Mystery Death Of Moore Girl Called Murder Sheriff C. J. McDonald and Deputy Sheriff D. B. Cranford, of Moore County, are assisting Sher iff Wayne W. Wilson of Randolph County in investigation of the mysterious death of a 16-year-old Moore County girl, Isabel Hussey, whose body was found this week in an abandoned house near Ashe- boro. The girl had disappeared June 22. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hussey of Robbins, Route 2, parents of the girl, were “almost positive” in their identification of her from clothing found on her body, a re port from Asheboro stated Tues day. They claimed the body and funeral services were held for the girl near Robbins Tuesday. An examination indicated the girl had been dead at least three weeks. A man picking blackber ries discovered the body in a sec ond story room of the house which had been vacant for six years. Thinks It's Murder Sheriff Wilson said the condi tion of the body made it impos sible to determine the cause of death. “Until something turns up to show us otherwise, we are holding to the opinion that the girl was murdered,” he added. (Continued on page 8) Mrs. George Thompson, Mrs. Cheves K. Ligon, Mrs. Harry Chatfield and Mrs. William A. Benson will lead four Red Cross teams from Moore County in Op eration Gyroscope at Camp Mac- kail, 10 miles south of Southern Pines, according to an announce ment by Garland McPherson, chairman of the local chapter. Operation Gyroscope is a mass airborne movement of the 187th Regimental Combat team from Japan to its permanent base at Fort Bragg^ The first plane load of troops landed at Camp MackaU early this morning and additional planes will arrive each two hours, throughout the day and night, un til noon Sunday. At that time some 4,000 men will have landed at the airfield and begun their truck trip to Fort Bragg. The teams headed by Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Ligon will begin work at midnight tonight and greet the incoming planes from then until 4 a.m. The team members are: Mrs. Chan Page, Mrs. J. A. Matthews, Mrs. W. C. Coffin, Mrs. Eugene McKenzie, Mrs. Stanley Austin, Mrs. Joseph P. Marley, Mrs. D. D. Curry, Mrs. Irie Leonard, Mrs. Charles Cole, Mrs. Victor Shephard, Mrs. W. A. Toyne, Mrs. Betty Coley, Mrs. McKee Kastner, Mrs. Edward Conlin, John S. Ruggles, Jimmie Menzel and Garland McPherson. The two teams headed by Mrs. Chatfield and Mrs. Benson, will begin on Sunday morning at 4 o’clock and serve the incoming planes until 8 a.m. The team members are: Mrs. M. J. King, Jr., Mrs. J. D. Stephenson. Mrs. O. A. Monroe, Jr., Miss Pauline Crain Mrs. D. D. Curry, Miss Geneva Hall, Miss Ruby Hall, Miss Alice Baxter, Mrs. J. T. Overton, Mrs. T. T. Hayes, Jr., Mrs. Chas. S. Patch, Jr., Mrs. Bruce Warlick, Mrs. Edward Conlin, Mrs. L. A. Silvemail, Mrs. McKee Kastner, Mrs. G. B. Kimball, Voit Gilmore, J. D. Stephenson, O. A. Monroe, Jr., and Garland McPherson. Mr. McPherson explained that Red Cross Chapters near Moore County will service the landing of the planes throughout the entire operation. “I am anxious to ex press the Red Cross’ thanks to all of the people who have volun- teontinued on page 8) NEW OFFICER—-Signing in as he went on duty, soon after appointment to the Southern Pines police force, is Robert Thur man Yonts, who formerly served with the Military Police and in a Civil Service position at Fort Bragg. His wife is the former Evelyn Snipes of Niagara. They have a four-months-old daugh ter, Mary Ellen. Mrs. Yonts has a daughter, Marie Short, eight years old. The new officer is a native of Kentucky. His appoint ment brings the Southern Pines police force to seven. (Pilot Photo) STUDY COMMITTEE APPOINTED Local School Board Directs Pupils Attend Same Schools Meeting Wednesday, the South ern Pines city board of education directed that all children in the Southern Pines school district shall continue to attend the schools they attended during the past school year. Appointed to a committee to study all aspects of the rulings of the Supreme Court concerning integration of the races in the public schools were John How- arth, chairman of the board of education who was also named chairman of the committee; L. F. Garvin and Harry Menzel, mem- Smith, Greer To Meet In Finals Of County Golf Bob Smith of Pinehurst and M. E. Greer of Southern Pines will meet in the finals for the 1955 Moore County Golf Champion ship. Smith defeated Harold Col lins, Southern Pines, 3 and 2 in the semi-final round, and Greer eliminated Bill Woodward of Rob bins 1-up There was a possibility that the match will be played some time this weekend, but no time had been set by noon today. The tournament has been in progress for several weeks at the Pine Needles Country Club. In the finals of the First Flight are J. Collins who defeated Louis Honeycutt and Jack Carter who beat Carlos Frye. Collins defeated Joel Hufford 6-4; Honeycutt de- ADULT SOFTBALL LEAGUE RESULTS July 13 Games (Postponed from July 12) Hill Top 18, Lions 16 Col. Fum. 15, CP&L 7 STANDINGS Team W. L. USAFAGOS 3 0 Cath. Laymen 3 0 Hill Top Jokers ... 2 2 Holliday’s Chicks.. 1 1 CP&L 2 3 Col. Fum 1 2 Lions Club 0 4 COMING GAMES TonigM, Thursday 7:00—Special women’s game 7:30—^HolUday’s vs. Col. Fum. 9:30—USAFAGOS vs. Laymen Tuesday, July 19 7:30—Jokers vs. Laymen 9:30—Holliday’s vs. Lions bers of the board of education; and A. C. Dawson, superintendent of schools. Other members of the board of education are Dr. Vida McLeod aijd Norris L. Hodgkins, Sr. The statement adopted by the board authorized the committee to call on any citizen or group of citizens to assist them in making their study. The board of education is the administrative group that has charge of both white and Negro schools in the Southern Pines city school unit, including the elemen tary and high schools in East Southern Pines and the elemen tary and high schools in West Southern Pines. The statement adopted by the board of education reads in full: “Because of the lack of suffi cient classroom faculties and the crowded conditions in all the schools in the Southern Pines School District, and since the or ganization of the schools for the 1955-56 term had been completed before the last ruling of the U. S. Supreme Court, and in order that the Board of Education have time to study the effect of the ruling on the Southern Pines (Continued on Page 8) Polling Places For Leaf Voting In 9 Townships Opp ose Marking New Route 1-A’ Adverse Effect On No. I Highway Is Cited By Objectors Delegations from several towns in this area are expected to at tend a meeting scheduled to be held at Raleigh at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, to protest the designa tion of an alternate route north of Sanford as “Highway 1-A.” Mayors and other town offi cials, Chamber of Commerce lead ers and owners of hotels, motels, restaurants, service stations and other businesses dependent on highway travel are expected to protest the move, which would si phon off traffic from the regular US Highway 1 and possibly di vert a large part of it along other routes. Opposed Forrest Lockey, Eighth High way Division commissioner at Aberdeen, said in answer to an inquiry that he was opposed to the proposal, which Originated with the Durham Chamber of Commerce, as establishing a prec edent which might seriously af fect the major tourist arteries throughout the State. At present, he said the “A” des ignation is given only to a true al ternate" route—that is, an old route which formerly had the pri mary numeral, but where a by pass has been built. Thus, a town which has always been on US Highway 1, but which is bypassed in the highway improvement pro gram, could remain on “US High way 1-A.” Durham, however, has never Ifeen on US Highway 1. The pro (Continued on Page 8) Town Bond Needs Set At S700,000; Plans For Election Started Council Has 41 Young People Play In Junior Tennis Tourney Forty-one young people, 34 of them from other towns—and from two other states—are taking part in the Junior Sandhill Invitation al Tennis tournament this week on the Southern Pines courts. Play began with four rounds of junior boys’ singles Wednesday afternoon after a meeting of aU participants at the coin-ts, where the visitors were welcomed by Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., president of the Sandhill Tennis Associa tion, and rules of the tournament were explained by Irie Leonard, general manager of the tourna ment. Girls will enter the play this af ternoon with several rounds of junior girls’ competition. Boys’, girls’ and doubles matches will start tomorrow, with finals set for (Continued on Page 5) HEADS LIONS — WiUiam A. Benson was installed Fri day as president of the South ern Pines Lions Club. For a photo of other new Lions of ficers and a report of the La dies Night meeting, see page 9. (Photo by Humphrey) Information For PGA Site Project Being Prepared Information collected by a com mittee working to bring the head quarters of the Professional Golf- rs Association from Chicago to Southern Pines,was pooled Tues day afternoon at a meeting of the group called by Mayor Voit Gil more, its chairman, in town hall. Detailed information about available sites or buildings, hous ing, communications, transporta tion, printing and other facilities and services in the Sadhills is be ing supplied the PGA in answer to a long list of specific questions submitted to Southern Pines and other communities under consid eration for the headquarters. All this material, with many other items of interest suggested by committee members, is being put together, with photographs of scenes around this community, and will be submitted to the sub committee of the PGA executive ccmmiittee that is working on the new headquarters site proposal. About a half dozen bffers to con struct buildings here for lease to the PGA were reported by com mittee members Tuesday. Chamber of Commerce Secre tary Alice Baxter, Mrs. Valerie Nicholson and Mayor Gilmore are preparing the material for presen tation. It is, expected that Mayor Gil- (Continued on Page 8) Busy Session Tuesday Night Preliminary steps in a town bond election for public- utilities and buildings were taken by the town council Tuesday night when they authorized City Manager Tom E. Cunningham to consult with the Local Government Com mission at Raleigh. Just what will be offered to the voters in such an election has not yet been determined. Estimated town needs that will call for bonds were listed by the man ager as: $200,000 for sewers; $150,- 000 for water; $150,000 for civic center (town hail-police station- fire station); $50,000 for two rec reation centers; and $150,000 for two swimming pools and two bathhouses—a total of $700,000 in needs. Tentative plans call’for an elec tion that would allow for voting for and against each of these pro posals separately, but exact amounts and how they would be presented on the ballot have not yet been determined. If the people do vote for aU the proposals, all of the bonds would not have to be issued. The elec tion would only give the council authority to issue the bonds when the funds are needed. Councilmen H. H. Pethick and W. E. Blue, with the manager, were appointed by Mayor Voit ' Gilmore to a committee to look into comparative merits of various companies’ group health insur- anc policies for town employees. Representatives of the Carolina Casualty Co. at Burlington ap peared at the meeting to present a plan of their company for the council’s consideration. The council voted not to charge for building permits in the future for public, tax-supported schools but decided not to refund build ing permits already paid. The council also declined to relieve the schools of sewer service charge, on the theory that the sewers are a definite service ren- (Continued on Page 8) Old Car Fans To * Be Entertained E. GLADSTONE E. R. GRAHAM ZONE CHAIRMEN—These Sandhills men were recently nam ed zone chairmen by Henry Price of Kannapolis, Lions district governor. Mr. Gladstone, a charter member and past president of the Vass Lions Club, is chairman of a zone that includes clubs at Vass, Broadway, Dunn, Erwin and Sanford. “Buck” Graham was president of the Aberdeen club in the 1953-54 year. The zone includes a number of Moore County Lions clubs. Earl Martin, chairman of the Moore County Agricultural Stabi lization and Conservation Com mittee, this week named nine j polling places at which tobacco ! growers of the coxmty wiU vote I Saturday, July 23, on whether or j not marketing quotas will be con- I tinued on flue-cured tobacco. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 17 p.m. The polling places,' listed by townships, are: McNeill, Matthews store at Clay Road Farms; Sandhill, Bur ney Hardware store, Aberdeen; i Mineral Springs, West End School I West End; Carthage, main hall of courthouse; Deep River, R. A. Dowd’s store, Glendon; Green wood, community house, Cam eron; Bensalem, Lynn Martin’s store. Eagle Springs; Sheffield, Garner’s store, Westmoore com munity; Ritter, Newland Up church’s store, Highfalls. The vote will determine wheth er the marketing quota program which has been in continuous op eration since 1940 will be in ef fect for the crops of 1956, 1957 and 1958; or for the 1956 crop only; or will be discontinued in 1956. See another story about the ref erendum elsewhere in today’s Pilot. NEILL CAMERON EDDIE CAMERON NEILL CAMERON, a 1955 graduate of Vass-Lakeview High othei ~ ■ School, and his brother, Eddie, 17, a rising senior, attained Caro lina Farmer rating at the recent Future Farmers of America con vention held at N. C. State College, Raleigh. They are the first from this school to reach this rank. Carolina Farmer status is attained after coming up through the Green Hand and Chapter Farmer degrees and meeting stiff requirements which include much memory work, and actual farm experience. Among the requirements are: at least a B average on all high school courses, and earning at least $500 from a supervised farming program. Both young men have been outstanding on various teams, accord ing to their instructor,- W. E. Gladstone, competing successfully in livestock and seed judging and tool identification, aU through high school. Both are members of the Vass-Lakeview Beta Club chapter. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cameron. Members of the Horseless Car riage Club, who will convene here Friday, July 22, will be guests of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce and Moore County au to dealers at an outdoor supper at Mile-Away Farm that night. J. T. Overton has headed a campaign for the Chamber of Commerce by which the local merchants and Moore auto dealers have contributed approximately $300 to pay for the supper and other incidentals of the three-day visit. The event wiU bring 150 mem bers of the N. C. Regional Group of this unique organization here as they wind up their annual tour. The 71 cars in which they wiU travel—models of 30 to more than 50 years ago—will be paraded downtown as they arrive, and ex hibited to the pubMc at the ball park that night. A business meet ing, judging, awards and another supper, at the Southern Pines Country Club, are scheduled for Saturday. The procession will de part in formation Simday after noon. This is the first time Southern Pines has been selected as the ter minal point of the tour. The Chamber of Commerce, through several committees appointed by Harry Smyth, president, is ar ranging details of their stay, and the local welcome. Harold Col lins and E. Nolley Jackson, mem bers of the Horseless Carriage Club, are general chairmen. CRITICALLY ILL Dr. R. G. Rosser of Vass is crit ically ill at the Pinehurst Conval escent Home, where he has been a patient for several months, Maj. Robert G. Rosser, Jr., presently stationed at Fort Dix, N. J., Mrs. Russell Spicer (Janet Rosser) of Haddonfield, N. J., and John Ros ser, a pharmacist at Charlotte, have been called home.

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