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VOL. 36—NO. 44
Committee To
f Study Housing
Problems Here
Shortage of Units
For Sale And Rent
Noted At Gathering
Mayor Voit Gilmore was for-
mally requested by a group ot
interested persons meeting Tues
day to “take careful thought” and
select a committee to study local
housing problems and possible
solutions in detail.
Present for the conclave in
town hall were interested realtors
and builders, representatives of
Amerotron, Inc., and the USAF
Air-Ground Operations School,
. the mayor, Councilmen L. T.
^ Clark and H. H. Pethick, City
Manager- Tom E. Cunningham and
others.
While there was disagreement
on some points—such as whether
or not home financing was exces
sively difficult or costly in this
area—there was agreement that
there is a shortage of acceptable
rental housing, as well as homes
for sale at $15,000 or less.
~J Lt. Col. John J. Daunt, Jr., ex
ecutive officer at USAFAGOS.
said that five officers at the
school are now looking for houses
and that anything they would
wqnt to rent would cost them
about $120 per month, with heat
ing systems that cost from $70 to
$90 per month to operate.
Most airmen at the school
should pay $65 to $75 per month
^ for “decent rental property,” Col
onel Daunt said, and most are
now renting what he terms un
satisfactory quarters. He also said
(Continued on Page 8)
‘Holiday Ahoy’
Show To Be Seen
^ Monday, Tuesday
/
The big local talent variety
shew, “Holiday Ahoy!’.’—to be
presented Monday and Tuesday
nights at Weaver Auditorium—is
shaping up nicely in daily rehear
sals, reports Miss Nyla Ann Jes-
■ ter, director, who has been put
ting a cast of local folks through
their paces during the past week.
Curtain time for the two shows
® will be 8:13 p. m.
Sponsored by the Fellowship
Forum of the Church of' Wide
Fellowship, for benefit of the
church, “Holiday Ahoy!” features
a large cast of Southern Pines
people who impersonate famous
TV, radio and movie celebrities,
as well as taking parts of sailors,
cc-wboys and Indians—even a
group of women who make up a
A native tribe on one of the Fiji is-
^ lands.
A hitherto imannounced feature
of the entertainment is a “Miss
Holiday Ahoy” contest in which
19 girls are entered—the winner
to be chosen by votes at a penny
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1955
was predicted Friday night by
State Treasurer Edwin Gill in an
address to Moore County Yoimg
^ Democrats holding their annual
apiece, to be deposited in a large in the courthouse at Car-
container at the Sandhill Drug I ’*®®®'
ACTIVE IN YDC—Robert N. Page HI, right, of Aberdeen, new
president of the Moore County YDC, and Dorothy Ann Swisher
of Southern Pines, first vice-president, enjoy a look at the 1955
YDC Handbook, f^-esh off the press. Voit Gilmore, center, of
Southern Pines, national YDC committeeman and outgoing Moore
president, was on the editorial board of the Handbook. Page is the
.grandson of the late Congressman R. N. Page. Miss Swisher is a
former national VFW beauty queen whose interest has turned to
politics. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Robert N. Page III Elected President
Moore County Young Democratic Qub
Other new officers are: first
vice-president. Miss Dorothy Ann
Swisher of Southern Pines, nom
inated by J. Douglas David of
pinebluff and replacing Mrs. John
L. Frye of Robbins; second vice-
president, Ralph Steed of Rob
bins, nominated by L. T. Clark of
Scuthern Pines and replacing J.
V. Turbeville of Robbins; secre
tary, Miss Myrtle Frye of Carth-
Committee To Sludy
Plan For Holding
Big Rally Next Year
Robert N. Page III of Aberdeen
as president heads a slate of five
officers who were unanimously
elected, unopposed, during the
annual meeting of the Moore
Big Plans Made
For Homecoming
Came October 7
SPHS Classes Have
Queen Candidates*
Will Sell Tickets
Extensive plans for making a
gala event of the homecoming
football game October 7 are being
made by the Southern Pines Ro
tary Club which has taken over
sponsorship of ticket sales and
other details.
, Curry High School, Greensboro,
will be the visiting opponents of
I the Southern Pines High School
Blue Knights in a non-conference
j contest at 8 p.m.
! Shooting for a big crowd at
I the game, Rotarians themselves '
I are selling tickets for all they are
j worth. Carl Holt, chairman of,
j the game project, said this week '
I that high school classes will start ■
selling tickets Friday, conducting ,
a canvass of homes and selling on
certain days from booths in the ,
business, section. Class with top
sales gets a $35 cash prize put up
by the club.
To spark ticket sales, the club
will give away a 21-inch televi
sion set to a lucky ticket holder.
-And that’s not aU. Each high
school class has selected a candi
date in a beauty contest for the
title “Miss Homecoming Queen of
1955.” The winner chosen during
half time at the game and crown
ed by Mayor Voit Gilmore, will
be given a loving cup and will
draw the winning number in the
television give-away.
Homecoming Queen candidates
of the four high school classes are:
Senior — Jacque Davenport,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Davenport, Midland Road.
Junior—Ginger WoodeU, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Woodell,
146 E. Illinois Ave.
Sophomore — Karen Kinnison,
daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Kin
nison, 620 Valley Road.
Freshman — Arden Fobes,
daughter of Mrs. S. D. Fobes of
the Gertrude Apartments.
Game tickets are $1 for adults
and 50 cents for students and
children.
By-Pass Work Startin;* Monday To
Close Pennsylvania Ave. For Year
B <s^ Big Cli]^,lv0rts
BY-PASS PLANNING—Seaboard Air Line Railroad and State
Highway personnel are shown conferring at the site where the
dual lane No. 1 highway by-pass wiU span the railroad on an
overpass, between Manly and Niagara. They are deciding how
railroad signal lines will be moved and protected during con
struction. Left to right: J. R. Power, Jr., Aberdeen, assistant
signal maintenance. Seaboard; E. T. PoweU, Seaboard signal de
partment, Raleigh; Fred Beck, resident highway engineer, Car
thage; C. B. Cole, Carthage, highway inspector; and H. J. Edge,
Seaboard signal department, Aberdeen. Grading work on the
by-pass route continued this week, with crews working north and
south from the railroad bridge location. (Pilot Photo)’
Legion To Install
Officers, Stage
Fish Fry Friday
The 'World War 1 veterans of
Sandhills Post, American Legion,
,will be hosts Friday at the Legion
Hall on Maine Ave. to World War
2 veterans and auxiliaries for a
fish fry supper between 6 and 8
p. m.
To Be Built,
Fills Needed
^ Pennsylvania Ave., in the Mc-
Deeds Creek hollow between
East and West Southern Pines,
will be closed completely Mon
day, City Manager Tom E. Cun
ningham: said today, for installa
tion of a large concrete culvert,
in connection with the No. i: high
way by-pass work.
Fred Beck of Carthage, resident
highway engineer, said thgt the
seven-by-eight foot culvert is the
first of four large culverts that
will be built in the area. This
work, along with large dirt fills
and construction of a bridge to
carry Pennsylvania Ave. over the
dual lane by-pass in the hollow,
will keep the street closed for
about a year, Mr. Beck estimated
today.
; Mr. Cunningham outlined de
tour traffic routes as follows:
From east to west: north on
Leak St. to Connecticut Ave.,
west on Connecticut to Gaines
and south on Gaines to Pennsyl
vania (traffic light comer in West
Southern PineS).
From west to east: the sanie
route in reverse is recommended,
except that many drivers can en
ter the business section directly
on Connecticut Ave.
Second Shots of
Polio Vaccine To
Be Given ‘Soon’
Children who received the first
shot of Salk anti-polio vaccine
last spring will receive the sec
ond shot “soon,” if their parents
give permission.
Letters have been sent to pa
rents of all the eligible children-
wSe ^®co“nd Vnd
Woolly, Shields Cameron and first and second graders received
UJ. me XViUUlt; UX 4w<clXLli“
County Young Democratic Club age, nominated by Mrs. "Valerie
•■iX rv-w+V. .J..... mi J? ATinlirtldrw^ ^
at Carthage Friday night. The of
ficers will serve for the coming
year.
, Mr. Page succeeds Voit Gilmore
of Southern Pines as Moore YDC
president. He was nominated by
T. Roy Phillips of Carthage.
Gill Predicts
Democrats Win
’56 Elections
Nicholson of Southern Pines and
replacing Miss Bess McCaskill of
Carthage; and treasurer, T. Roy
Phillips of Carthage, nominated
by Mr. David and replacing Paul
Butler of Southern Pines.
The meeting authorized the
new officers to choose directors.
The five retiring directors are
,Mr. Steed, Mr. Page, Miss
Swisher, Hubert McCaskill of
Pinehurst and Luther MePher-
.son of Cameron.
Delegates Authorized
All Moore YDC members who
can attend were authorized by the
A Democratic victory in 1956 ! attend were authorized by the
as predicted Friday night bv ^^^ibership to be delegates from
this county to the State YDC con
vention to be held in Durham
(Continued on Page 8)
Co., 145 N. W. Broad St.
All the candidates for “Miss
Holiday Ahoy” will appear on
“ stage both nights of the perform
ance. The winner will be crowned
Tue.sday night, the second night
of the show, and will receive a
gown, photo portrait and other
prizes.
The 19 girls entered in the con
test are: Diana Pearson, Jean
Bushby, Betty Tew, Phyllis Wil-
(Continued on Page 8)
“If Adlai Stevenson continues
to ‘talk sense to the American
people’, not even the smile of
President Eisenhower can stop
him,” the State official said in a Avin+inn Tt„> , n u ■
speech that gave a forecast of a be the princi-
Lions To Sell
Blind Products
With next week, September 25-
30, proclaimed as “Sight-Saving
Week” by Mayor Voit Gilmore,
the Southern Pines Liens Club
will conduct ift annual blind pro
ducts sale Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday nights.
, With practically all club mem
bers participating, there will be
few doors on which a Lion will
not knock some time during the
three-night sale. The Knollwood
gnd other “new” areas of the
town will be canvassed for the
first time this year.
Proceeds go to help the club’s
program of aid to the blind and
(Continued on page 8)
Col. F. M. Dwight are the com
mittee in charge and extend a
cordial invitation to veterans of
all wars, for this open house
event.
Formal installation of the post’s
1956 officers will be held at 8
p. m. The installation ceremony
will be conducted by officials of
the State and District Legion de
partments. Sam Hartsell of Car
thage is district commander.
Officers to be installed are:
E. B. McDonald, commander;
Henry L. Graves, first vice-com
mander; Alden G. Bower, second
vice-commander; Lloyd L. Wool-
the first shots in the spring. The
letters are to be returned with
signature, to give the needed per
mission. Parents who have not
received such letters should con
tact their principals.
This year’s first graders are not
included in this vaccine admin
istration, nor any others who did
not receive their first. shots in
the spring.
Schools will cooperate as before
in the administration which
should take place within the next
two or three weeks.
, It is anticipated that vaccine
will be made available within a
PHONY RED CROSS
PLEA REPORTED
Don't give money to any
one purportedly soliciting
Red Cross hurricane relief
funds, the Moore County Red
Cross office warned today.
Any such plea is phony, it
was pointed out, as the Red
Cross solicits funds only dur
ing its anntial membership
drive.
‘The warning followed a tel
ephoned query to the office
from a local resident who had
been asked this week for
a "Red Cross" contribution
by a boy described as 12 or
13 years old. The person
phoning said the boy had also
been to the house next door,
but had obtained no money
at either place.
Red Cross office personnel
quickly went to the neighbor
hood fromi which the call
came and tried to trace the
boy or find him in the area,
but without success. Only the
one query was received by
the office.
Clubs To Honor Piedmont
Thomas H. Davis of Winsten-
Salem, president of Piedmont
number of issues likely to play a
part in next .year’s campaigns.
But he emphasized “the impor
tance of struggle in politics, re
gardless of victory” and cited the
case of Stevenson who, said Mr.
Gill, did more, in losing in 1952,
(Continued on page 5)
^ tournament set NOVEMBER 3-6
‘Carousel’ Invitations To Go Out
Invitations to play in the sec
ond annual Southern Pines Golf
Carousel, a four-ball tournament,
will be sent out socn by the
Chamber of Commerce, sponsor
of the event.
Play, in the unique Carousel
ji tournament will be over all three
local courses—Mid Pines, Pine
Needles and Southern Pines
Country Club, November 3-6.
All amateur golfers, men and
women, without any age restric
tions, are eligible to enter. Two
persons can enter as a team or the
tounament committee will pair
single entrants.
Special events, including
dance and golf clinic, are being
planned by the tournament com
mittee which is headed by Herr
mann Grover. Other committee
members are Miss Jean Cosgrove,
Leo Walper, Roy Grinnell, Harry
W. Davis and Warren Bell.
On an advisory committee are
Mrs. Peggy Kirk Bell, Julius
Boros, Richard “Dick” Chapman
and Pat O’Sullivan.
Half the teams in the totuma-
ment will receive prizes. The $25
entry fee' includes all greens fees
and entertainment.
Jack S. Younts is general chair
man for the event and Chester I.
; Williams is tournament director.
pal speaker at a joint meeting of
three civic clubs at the Country
Club, Friday of next week. The
event will honor Piedmont Air
lines in connection with resump
tion of their service at the Pine
hurst-Southern Pines airport Oc
tober 1.
Participating in the luncheon
meeting will be the county-wide
Sandhills Kiwanis Club and the
Lions and Rotary Clubs of South
ern Pines. Mayor Voit Gilmore, a
member of the Kiwanis Club, is
in charge of arrangements.
Invited to attend are Gordon M.
Cameron, chairman of the board
of county commissioners; mem
bers of the commission which ad
ministers the county-owned air
port; and various persons who are
concerned with air traffic in and
out ’Of the Sandhills. These in
clude Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jen
kins, commandant of the USAF
Air-Ground Operations School
and Frank T. Roberts of Southern
Pines, vice-presideht of Amero
tron, Inc., with offices at Aber
deen.
Piedmont now provides service
to the local airport in the fall,
winter and spring. The possibili-
ley, adjutant; W. E. Cox, finance . „
officer; the Rev. C. K. Ligon, time, either through the
chaplain; William Kenny, ser-i health department or
geant-at-arms; Francis ]y[ j through local physicians, for all
(Continued on Page 5)
THOMAS H. DAVIS
Piedmont President
ty of year-round service is one of
the topics that will likely be dis
cussed with Mr. Davis while he
is in this area.
Complimentary flights in a
Piedmont airplane will be offered
those attending the luncheon, at
the conclusion of the event.
Mrs. Lambourne
New Librarian
Mrs. Stanley Lambourne, of 330
North Ridge Street, has accepted
the position of librarian of the
Southern Pines Library.
I Announcement of the appoint
ment was made at the close of a
, ineeting of the board of trustees
of the Library Association, held
jat the library on Friday, with
George H. Leonard, Jr., president,
in the chair.
Mrs. Lambourne, who will take
up her duties on October 1, re
places Mrs. John Dundas, libra
rian for the past year, who re
signed early in the summer. While
new to library work, she has had
wide business experience, her last
position being with the Citizens
Bank and Trust Co. She will
work under the guidance of Mrs.
Dorothy Avery, Moore Coimty li
brarian, who heads the library
staff.
Besides voting on the new ap
pointment, a motion passed unan-
irnously, the trustees voted to
raise the monthly allowance for
the purchase of new books. Mrs.
Reid Healy is chairman of the
book committee.
Special praise was voiced for
the work of Mrs. C. A. Smith, of
children in the five-to nine group
who have not had it, also preg
nant women. Also, it is expected
that not many months win elapse
before everyone desiring the vac
cine may have it.
memories of her brother,
-- --. ,lai E. Stevenson,
Pinehurst, interim-librarian dur- | of Illinois and
Kids Day Saturday
School children from through
out Moore County will gather
here at 10 a. m. Saturday for
movies in Weaver Auditorium,
Iqnch and a visit to Pope Air
Force Base to see demonstrations
by the Air Force.
The occasion is the nationally
observed Kids’ Day, sponsored
here jointly by the USAF Air-
Ground Operations School and
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club.
Transportation will be provided
and the program will end about 4
p. m.
Jimmy McDonald
Heads Beta Club
Jimmy McDonald was elected
president of the Southern Pines
High School Beta Club when
members gathered Tuesday for
the first meeting of the new
school year.
, Other officers elected are: Bill
Marley, vice-president; Anike
Verhoeff, secretary; and Joan
Howarth, treasurer.
Regular meeting days of the
club were .set as the first and
third Mondays of each month.
HERE FROM CALIFORNIA
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Kelsey of
San Mateo, Calif., arrived Tues
day to spend a week with big
father and sister, Preston T. Kel
sey and Miss Laura Kelsey.
CONDENSED IN LADIES HOME JOURNAL
Mrs. Ives Writes ‘My Brother Adlai’
“My Brother Adlai,” by Mrs. ■ Stevenson's life to the age of 26.
Ernest L. Ives of Southern iPnes, j The complete book, however, will
go into his later years.
is being published in condensed
form in the October Ladies Home
Journal, it was revealed this
week, and will appear in book
form in February.
The book relates Mrs. Ives’
mg the summer months. Mrk i dential candidat
^ith, who is also a member of i Accordihg
tlie board of trustees, was not nouncement
present. L. .
• the magazin
Among many interesting details
of the early years of Mr. Steven
son and his sister, the book re
veals that Mrs. Ives’ nickname,
“Buffie,” was the result of her
younger brother’s attempts to
pronounce her name, Elizabeth.
Friends of Mrs. Ives recalled
Ladies Home Journal editor
^sited her here last Spring.
^Ives is now at Blooming-
and is expected here in