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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.
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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.