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Holiday Planned
^ For Labor Day;
Closings Noted
CountY Board Will
Meet Tuesday; No
Garbage Collection
A general holiday in observance
of Labor Day will be taken in
Southern Pines Monday, with
most businesses and offices closed
for the day.
The town office will be closed
and there will be no' garbage col
lection. Tom E. Cunningham said
that collections will be made at
all residences on Tuesday, if pos-
r sible.
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Co. and other banks of the coimty
will be closed.
The' Pilot office will not be
open Monday.
The post office which has here
tofore opened one window for an
hour in the morning on holidays
will have no window open Mon
day, in line with the economy pro-
gram that is now being put into
** effect' there. Mails will be dis
patched and distributed to boxes,
but there wOl be no city delivery.
In Carthage, the courthouse
will be closed Monday. Regular
meeting of Moore County board
of commissioners, usually held on
the first Monday of each month,
will be held Tuesday.
A two-week term of Superior
Court will open at the courthouse
READY TO OPEN—Workmen put finishing-
touches on the grounds of the new St. Anthony’s
Catholic school built during the past summer
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and opening next week. At right are doors to
the auditorium and extending to the left is the
classroom wing. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Tuesday.
Local Girls Hurt
When Car Wrecks
On Reservation
Two local girls, June Bristow
tjand Dorothy Newton, , are in
Moore County hospital with pain
ful but not serious injuries suf
fered in an automobile accident
on the Port Bragg reservation
Wednesday afternoon.
They were expected to be re
leased from the hospital in a day
or two, it was reported Thursday
mOming.
Miss Bristow, daughter' of Mr.
(Jand Mrs. K. D. Bristow who oper
ate a motor court on No. 1 high
way, north, was badly cut on the
face, bruised and shaken up. Miss
Newton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs!
Roy R. Newton received a frac
tured rib, leg injuries and facial
cuts.
Both the girls were thrown
froha the automobile driven by
Miss Newton when, it was report
ed, the brakes apparently locked
“and the car left the road as they
were rounding a curve about 14
miles from Southern Pines, on the
reservation. They were going to
Fayetteville on a shopping trip,
it was reported.
They were found by a passing
Army officer. Taken to the Fort
Bragg Hospital, they were trans
ferred later to Moore County Hos
pital.
New Catholic
School Slated
Open Sept 8
The new, modern St. Anthony’s
Catholic school will swing open
jts attractive green doors for
classes next Thursday morning,
Grades one through eight, also
a kindergarten, wiR meet in the
brick building just completed,
facing North Ashe street between
Vermont and Connecticut ave
nues, on the grounds of St. An
thony’s church.
Approximately 100 children
from Southern Pines and neigh
boring communities have already
been registered, according to
Father Peter M. Denges, who as
parish priest will have direct su
pervision of the new parochial
school.
No Bus This Yeax
, The school will not operate a
bus this year, and Father Denges
said parents are setting up car
pools for transportation of chil
dren living at a distance. Father
John A. Brown of Pinehurst will
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Our Lady of Victory
Registration Friday
Registration will be held Friday
from 9 a.m. until noon at Our
Lady of Victory school in 'West
Southern Pines.
The school, a mission of the Re-
demptorist Fathers, will open
Tuesday at 9 a.m. The school
busses will make their regular
rounds on that day.
The teaching staff will be com
posed as formerly of Sisters of
Notre Dame. Teaching grades one’
through eight will be Sisters Joan
Marie, Camilla Marie and Barba
ra 'Marie, with Sister Catherine
Bernard, principal and teacher at
St. Anthony’s parochial school in
Southern Pines, as their Superior.
Sister Catherine Bernard taught
at Our Lady of Victory last year.
FEW GIVE FUNDS
FOR FLOOD RELIEF
Local oonlxibulions to the
Northeast flood disaster fund
of the American Red Cross
amount to just short of $800,
Garland McPherson of South
ern Pines, chsiirman of the
Moore County Red Cross
chapter, reported this week.
The amount, he pointed
out. represents the gifts of
only 34 contributors. He urg
ed that many more residents
of Moore County send in con
tributions, no matter how
small.
"■What has been given so
far seems very little for this
community, in view of the
desperate need for the funds
in the stricken areas," the
chairman said.
Club To Support
Athletic Program
Asks New Members
THE YEAR'S QUIETEST CONVENTION
State Chess Experts To Gather
Here For Championship Matches
The North Carolina Chess Asso
ciation will hold its annual meet
ing and championship matches
•^ere this weekend, in a hushed
.atmosphere not usually associated
with convention sessions.
Forty or more members are ex
pected for the three-day event,
Saturday through Monday, at the
Southland Hotel, said W. E. Cox
J^, president of/ the Sandhills
Chess Club, host organization. He
sdid every effort is being made to
assure the utmost in privacy and
quiet for the competition,,even to
'.vanning leather-heeled shoes in
me tournament room.
Only members of the associa
tion will take part, with each
playing two games daily. Suffi
cient time will be allowed for the
study and concentration which
are an integral part of the game.
Spectators will be admitted for a
fee, but may remain only as long
as they do nothing to distract the
players.
. Strict rules of procedure will be
observed, with a “chess clock’’
provided for each player, and a
written record made of every
move.
Two trophies, one of them per
manent, plus $56 in cash will go
to the winner. Other prizes will
be awarded to players finishing
in second to fifth place, to win
ners under 21 years of age and to
the winner of the shortest game
played.
State winner in the 1954 tour
nament, held at Raleigh, was Air
man l|c George Krause of Pope
AFB. Another high contender
was Sgt. Ivers Strals, of Fort
Bragg, a native Latvian. Presi-
dfc.xt of the state organization is
Dr. Norman Hornstein of South-
port.
Competing from the Sandhills
Club, which meets every two
weeks during the winter season,
will be W. E. Cox, Jr., and Dr.
F. W. Langner, of Southern Pines,
and George B. Little, Sr., of Pine-
bluff.
An open invitation for new
members was issued this week by
the Blue Knights Club, an organ
ization of adult supporters of the
local high school athletic program.
Carl E. Holt, president of the
club, said that a kick-off meeting,
to which all interested persons
are invited, will be held at Weav
er Auditorium, Thursday, Sep
tember 8, at 8 p.m., the night be
fore the high school’s opening
football game with Maxton here
on Friday night of next week.
Members of the 1955 Blue
Knights squad will be introduced
to the club and visitors by Coach
Irie Leonard,
be present. Refreshments will be
served in the school cafeteria after
the meeting.
Eligible to join the club are all
persons over 18. Members do not
have to be parents or connected
in any -^ay with the school. En
thusiasm for the athletic program
is the only requirement for mem
bership, it was stated.
The Club has on hand a supply
of the special blue hats that mem
bers wear while watching games.
Membership cards to be issued at
next week’s meeting, on payment
of $1 dues, will be good through
the entire calendar year of 1956. I
Baker Sells Store
To C. L. Worsham;
Will Open Tuesday
This community’s oldest inde
pendent grocery and market will
change hands Monday when W.
L. Baker turns over Baker’s Food
Store at 232 N. W. Broad St. to C.
L. Worsham who is purchasing
the business and stock and will
open the establishment Tuesday
morning as Worsham’s Grocery
and Meat Market.
Established in 1930, the Bake?
store has been operated continu
ously by Mr. Baker, assisted by
,his uncle, T. N. Baker. W. L. Ba
ker has lived in Southern Pines
for 30 years and his uncle-since
1927.
Saturday night, Mr. Worsham
wiU close the Specialty Shop on
N. E. Broad St., which he has
owned and operated since taking
it over from H. S. Knowles, vet
eran Sandhills grocery and niar-
jiet operator who retired last
year.
Superior Court
Calendar Lists
Many Civil Suits
Two-Week Term To
Open Tues.; Judge
Phillips On Bench
A two-week term of Moore
County Superior Court for trial of
civil cases is scheduled to open at
Carthage Tuesday, with Judge F.
Donald Phillips of Rockingham
presiding.
Court will convene Tuesday be
cause of the Labor Day holiday
on Monday.
C. C. Kennedy, Moore County
clerk of court, has prepared a cal
endar that lists more than 40
cases. Members of two separate
jury panels, one for each week,
are listed elsewhere in today’s
Pilot.
All cases for the two-week term
are listed on one calendar which
assigns them to four days of the
first week, but Mr. Kennedy
pointed out that many of these
cases will be carried over into the
second week for trial. A few
cases are expected to produce long
trials during the first week, he
said.
Here is the calendar for the
entire two-week term, although
all the cases are listed under spe
cific days next week:
Tuesday, September 6
Robert Monroe Jackson vs. Es
ther Marie J. Jackson; Robert J.
Hawks vs. Helen Parsons Hawks;
Ann Caviness Suber vs. James Su-
ber; Marie Barrett Smith vs. Ev
erett Lee Smith; Frances McDon
ald Burkhead vs. Hampton Kearns
Burkhead; Ellis Herman 'Williams
vs. Bertha Mae Williams; Kenneth
Quick vs. Betty Gray Quick; Paul
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J. M. PLEASANTS
Pleasants Elected
2nd Vice-President
State-Wide Group
Council To Meet
With Recreation
Group On Tuesday
By-Pass Work To
Start ‘Right Away’
City Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham said today he was informed
yesterday by the State Highway
Commission' that the grading con
tractor on the No. 1 highway by
pass will move in “right away”
to begin work in t^he 5.19-miles
by-pass route.
visitors oy .joach commissioners.
Cheerleaders wilD™®®*'”® Thursday in Raleigh,
p_._ t . - annrnvpd +np Intxr
An informal meeting of the
town council, open to the public,
will be held with members of the
.Advisory Recreation Committee
ot, .. u- ■ council chamber at town
The Specialty Shop building is u-h Tupsdav at S n in
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Town Manager Tom E. Cun
ningham said that he has called
the meeting, on request of the
council, to consider recommenda
tions of the Committee concern
ing swimming pools and commu
nity centers.
, In a recommendation made - to
the council May 31, the Com
mittee suggested a program for
construction of two swimming
pools, two community centers and
two bathhouses—one of each to
be located in East and West
Southern Pines—at a total cost of
$250,000.
Committee spokesmen have
since told the council that the
comrmttee is willjng to scale
down' some of the requests, if
necessary in view of other town
approved the low bid of Dicker-
son, Inc., of Monroe, for the by
pass grading work. The bid, $337,-
815.90, was to receive routine ap
proval by the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads. Such approval I expenses
probably has now been given. | Next week’s meeting will take
Other by-pass bids okayed by
the highway commissioners last
week were: structures, Blythe
Brothers Co., of Charlotte, $389,-
233.90; and moving buildings, J.
K. Cecil and son of Lexington, $7,-
930.04.
Cunningham said he expected
that the Charlotte contractors also
would begin their work soon.
up recreation requests in the light
of town needs in water and sewer
improvements, police station, fire
station, town hall and other needs.
, While estimates of all needs
that might be met by bond issues
have run as high as $700,000, the
limit of bonds that can now be
issued by the town is about $500,-
000.
Schools Here To Open
Wednesday; New Hi^h
School Not Completed
To Operate On
Short Program
First Two Days
School will begin Wednesday of
next week at 9 a.m. for pupils in
the Southern Pines district.
Schools of the county system, as
well as those at Pinehurst, opened
today.
Supt. Amos C. Dawson said that
9 a.m. will be the opening hour
the first two days, Wednesday and
Thursday. On Friday, the regular
opening time of 8:25 a.m. will go
into effect, to continue thereafter.
School in East and West South
ern Pines will be dismissed about
noon on the first two days, Mr.
Dawson said. Regular dismissal
times are 1:45 p.m. for first and
second grades; 2:15 for third and
fourth grades; and 2:45 p.m. for
fifth through 12th grades.
Exception to this is that first
grade classes will be dismissed at
noon for the first couple of weeks
of school, the superintendent
pointed out.
School -busses — two serving
East Southern Pines and two
seeing West Southern Pines —
will gear their running times to
the later opening and earlier clos
ing of the first two days of school.
Faculty members in the East
Southern Pines schools have been
listed previously in The Pilot. The
faculty list for West Southern
Pines schools, including two new
teachers, appears on page 18 of to
day’s Pilot.
The cafeteria at East Southern
Pines will open for the first lunch
on Friday, September 9. The
cafeteria in West Southern Pines
.. „ .... J, will not open until about two
resolutions i 'weeks after school begins. Water
‘ that ran into the basement loca
tion of the lunchroom has made
the place unfit for use at this
time, it was reported.
Principal J. W. Moore of West
Southern Pines schools urges par
ents to send students to school the
first day, so that they can be reg
istered and classified.
New Wing Incomplete
The new wing of the High
School in East Southern Pines,
now under construction, will not
be ready for opening of school.
Completioh date was forecast this
week as about November 1.
Because this classroom space
will not be available, two sixth
grade classes and one seventh
grade class will meet in the Fel
lowship Hall of Brownson Memo
rial Presbyterian Church until the
new high school wing is open.
Two eighth grade classes will
meet until then in the Home Eco
nomics cottage.
Crowding in the elementary
school is such that only five
grades (several with more than
one classroom) can use that school
this year, Mr. Dawson explained.
One other class, the eighth grade
of Don Moore, elementary princi
pal, also will meet in the elemen
tary school.
When the new wing of the
high school is ready, six elemen
tary grades will be housed in the
high school building, in addition
to all the high school, because of
a shortage of space at the elemen
tary school.
James M. Pleasants of Southern
Pines, who is serving his third
consecutive two-year term as a
member of the Moore County
board of commissioners, was
elected second vice-president of
the state-wide N. C. Association
of County Commissioners during
the group’s annual convention in
A;^heville last week.
He had been a member of the
board of directors of the Associa
tion fcr the past three years and.
served during last week’s meeting
as chairman of the
committee.
Commissioners attending the
convention from Moore County,
in addition to Mr. Pleasants, were
Board Chairman Gordon Cameron
of Pinehurst and Tom Monroe of
Robbins.
Mrs. Estelle Wicker of East-
wood, county accountant, and her
assistant, Mrs. Dot Bryant of Car
thage, attended the state meeting
of the Association of County Ac-
jcountants, held simultaneously at
Asheville.
Recorder's Court To
Convene On Saturday
A special session of Moore
County Recorder’s Court at Car
thage will be held Saturday be
cause of the Labor Day holiday
on Monday of next week and the
opening of a two-week term of
Moore County Superior Court on
Tuesday.
The Saturday session of Re
corder’s Court will be the last
held until Monday, September 19.
Recorder’s Court normally is held
each Monday.
Match Play In Golf
Event Starts Sunday
Qualifying play in the first an
nual Moore County Four-Ball
golf tournament at the Southern
Pines Country Club will extend
through Saturday. Match play
will begin Sunday.
The event is open to all golfers
in Moore County or those living
TO RESUME PULPIT
Dr. W. C. Timmons, pastor of
elsewhere who are members of the Church'of Wide Fellowship
Moore County clubs. There will be will return to his pulpit at the'
trophy awards in all flights.
church Sunday. Dr. and Mrs.
Timmons were expected here to
day after a two months vacation
spent with their children in Mich
igan and in Connecticut. In the
absence of Dr. Timmons, Allen R.
Gibbs, music director, has been
in charge at the church.
AT WEST SOUTHERN PINES-Pupils of the first and sec^
grades (two classes each) will occupy this ultra-modern four-
classroom school building completed this summer on the campus
of the West Southern Pines schools. Functional and colorful in
and out, the structure, which cost about $54,500, without interior
school equipment, was designed by T. T. Hayes and Associate
(formerly Hayes and Marshall), "locM architect! ‘Thr conTracIoi
was W. L. Jewell of Sanford. At right is the boiler room and at
left the four spacious and colorfully decorated classrooms which
are linked by interior doors and restroom facilities. A wide eave
overhang runs along the opposite side of the building.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
HUBBARD NAMED
Earl E. Hubbard was elect
ed assistant c'ashier of the
Citizens Bank and Trust Co.,
at a meeting of the bank’s
board of directors Wednes
day, it was announced today
by Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
executive vice-president.
Mr. Hubbard, who was for
merly in charge of the local
office of the Internal Revenue
Service and joined the staff
of the bank July 1, will work
principally in the installment
loan department, Mr. Hodg
kins said.