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VOL. 36—NO. 48
County Fair To
Open Monday, Run
Thru Next Week
Carthage Event To
Show Farm Products,
Offer Entertainment
The annual Moore County Fair,
sponsored by the Carthage Junior
Chamber of Commerce, will open
Monday and run through Satur
day, to provide “six big days and
nights of fun and entertainment.”
Opening night is set for-Mon
day, while Tuesday has been des
ignated as the grand opening. All
white children of the county will
be admitted free of charge that
night.
Wednesday night will see one of
the main attractions of the week
—the annual high school beauty
contest, with representatives ex
pected from all the high schools
throughout the county.
Miss Faye Arnold (Miss North
Carolina of 1955) will be present
and serve as one of the judges.
Winner will be crowned “Miss
Moore County High School of
1955.”
On Wednesday afternoon the
junior cattle and dairy show will
be staged. Interest already shows
it should be one of the best yet,
say the Jaycees. All who have
any prized cattle are extended an
invitation to enter them in this
event. Moore County Farm Agent
E. H. Garrison, Jr., and his staff
are working with the Jaycees in
the cattle and dairy show.
Thursday night has been desig
nated as “fun night” and on Fri
day Negro school children of the
county will be admitted free to
the fair grounds.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1955
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ATTEND CONFERENCE—Basil D. O’Connor,
center, has been president of the National Fpun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis since its beginning
in 1938. At left is J. Frank McCaskill of Pine-
hurst, campaign co-director for the Moore Coun
ty polio chapter, and right, Paul C. Butler,
Southern Pines, chapter chairman. The picture
was made Tuesday at a luncheon session of a
three-state regional planning conference held by
Polio Battle Not
the National Foundation at Greensboro. No one
can say when the task of administering Sail?
vaccine shots will be completed, said Mr. O’Con
nor. Thirteen million shots have been given
but 105 million injections are necessary if all the
35 million children under nine years of age in
the U.S.A. were to be given the shots. Only the
shots can stop polio, he believes.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
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Bells Buy Other
Interests In Pine
Needles Property
The interests of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Cosgrove and Julius Boros
in the Pine Needles golf course
and Country Club at Knollwood
have been purchased by Mr. and
Mrs. Warren E. Bell. 'They have
all been co-owners for the past
two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Cosgrove operate
the Mid Pines Club where Mr.
Boros, winner of this year’s
“World” golf tournament at Chi
cago and top money winner for
1955 among the pros, is profes
sional. Mrs. Bell is the former
Peggy Kirk. A leading profes
sional, she will head the teaching
staff at Pine Needles.
The Cosgrove-Boros-Bell inter
ests bought the Pine Needles golf
course and leased the Pine
Needles Country Club in 1953
from the Catholic Diocese of
North Carolina, owner of nearby
St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital,
formerly the Pine Needles Hotel.
Yet Won; Vaccine
Safety Stressed
Representatives of the Moore
County polio chapter heard this
week from their National Founda
tion president, Basil D. O’Connor,
that the work of the Foundation
is far from over, despite the giant
stride forward represented by de
velopment of the Salk vaccine.
Speaking Tuesday at a lunch
eon meeting at the King Cotton
Hotel, Greensboro, where a two-
day regional planning conference
was being held. President O’Con
nor said that the January March
of Dimes campaign will be more
important that ever.
Attending the conference along
with other chapter representatives
from North Carolina, South Caro
lina and Tennessee were Paul C.
Butler, Southern Pines, Moore
County chapter chairm2m, who
was present Monday and Tuesday,
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PTA MEETING TONIGHT
The October meeting of the
Southern Pines Parent-Teacher
Association will be held tonight
(Thursday) at 8 p.m. in Weaver
Auditorium. “Free From Physical
Hazards” is the theme of a pro
gram to be presented by Garland
McPherson of Southern Pines and
Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst.
Subscriptions Sold
For Benefit of PTA
A magazine subscription drive
for benefit of the Southern Pines
Parent-Teacher Association be
gins today, to run through Octo
ber 31.
Pupils in the fifth through 12th
grades will solicit subscriptions.
The drive is sponsored by the sen
ior class.
A sinjilar effort last year sold
$1,200 worth of subscriptions.
Goal this year is $150 worth to be
sold by each home room. '
Halloween Party
Will Be Held;
Gift Announced
More than 1,000 children who
annu^dly attend Halloween cele
brations staged here by the Ro
tary Club will not be disappoint
ed this year.
Club President J. B. Perkinson
announced today that the com
munity carnival will be held —
with the likelihood that a fund
shortage to finance it would be
made up by private donations.
The outdoor fun and entertain
ment program will take place
l^onday night, October 31. De
tails will appear in The Pilot next
week.
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United Nations
Topic of Public
Meeting Friday
Mrs. Raymond Smith of Greens
boro will speak tomorrow (Friday)
at 8 p.m. on a United Nations
program in the Civic Club, spon
sored by the Southern Pines
League 8f Women Voters.
Mrs. Smith, who is a former
president of the Greensboro
League of Women Voters and who
has made a special study of the
United Nations, will be. introduc
ed by Mrs. Graham Culbreth who
recently returned from a visit to
the UN headquarters in New York
City. Mrs. Culbreth will give her
own impressions of the UN during
the program.
The community meeting is open
to the public, and is scheduled in
connection with United Nations
Day on Sunday which has been
proclaimed for the nation by Pres
ident 'Eisenhower. Mayors of
some 8,000 Americn towns and
cities were asked by the President
to arrange some observance of the
day. Mayor Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines said this week
that local observance of UN Day
is being carried out under spon
sorship of the League of Women
Voters at the Friday meeting.
Pledges May
Spread Over
Three Years
A “provisional goal” of $200,-
000 in pledges has been set for the
endowment fund to be offered by
Southern Pines and Moore County
to attract the consolidated Pres
byterian college here.
The pledges may be spread out
over a three-year period, accord
ing to Dr. R. M. McMillan, who
accepted chairmanship of the En
dowment Committee at an organ
izational meeting last Friday.
Since Friday, two more meet
ings have been Rfeld, and plans are
shaping up toward the canvass
ing campaign which is expected
to start within a week or two. In
the meantime, the chairman said,
letters are to be sent to a list of
300 selected persons who, it is
hoped, win make sizeable advance
gilts to get the fund going.
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy is
vice-chairman of the committee,
with Norris L. Hodgkins as secre
tary and L. B. Creath of Pine
hurst as treasurer.
Other members of the commit
tee are James Boyd, W. Lamont
Brown, Voit Gilmore. W. O. Moss,
Dr. J. I. Neal, Dr. C. C. McLean,
Garland McPherson, Claude
Reams and Harold Collins, of
Southern Pines, and J. Talbot
Johnson and G. C. Seymour of
Aberdeen.
At the organizational meeting,
A. L. Burney, chairman of the
central Moore County College
Committee, called on W. Lamont
Brown and Voit Gilmore of this
group to assist him. in briefing the
endowment committee with latest
information.
Burney gave the history of the
merger plan for three colleges of
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Officials Attend
Raleigh Hearing
Town Manager Tom E. Cun
ningham and Town Attorney W.
Lamont Brown were in Raleigh
this morning to attend a hearing
before the State Utilities Commis
sion on the applications of the
Texas-Ohio Gas Co. for authority
to build and operate a natural gas
pipeline that could serve South
ern Pines and other towns ,in this
area.
The two town officials were
designated by the town council to
attend the hearing. The council
has expressed its interest in the
proposal without committing the
town to any definite cooperation
with a plan for gas distribution, if
the pipeline construction is ap
proved.
COLLEGE PROJECT
ON AIR SUNDAY
A broadcast by Radio Sta
tion WEEB has been sched
uled at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, to
give listeners in this area lat
est information about the ef
fort to bring the Presbyterian
college to Southern Pines.
Taking part in the broadcast
will be A. L. Burney. Dr. H.
M. McMillan, W. Lamont
Brown and Mayor Voit Gil
more. The program will last
15 minutes.
$1,000 Fund
Sought For
Drive Cost
MR. MONTESANTI
A. Montesauti, 76,
Succumbs; Mass To
Be Sung Saturday
Angelo Mbntesanti, 76, a resi
dent of Southern Pines for more
than 40 years and one of this com
munity’s best known citizens,
died in his sleep at the Pinehurst
Convalescent Home Wednesday
night. He had been in poor health
for some time and seriously ill
since he suffered a stroke at his
home on W. Pennsylvania Ave.,
about a month ago.
The Rosary will be said at the
Powell Funeral Home at 7 p.m.
Friday and requiem mass will be
sung by Father Peter M. Denges
at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Burial will
follow in the family plot at Mount
Hope Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Judge
J. Vance Rowe, L. T. Hall, Paul
Fitanides, Joe Notragicomo, Jerry
Healy and James M. Pleasants.
Members of the Sandhills Kiwcinis
Club’have been named honorary
pallbearers.
Held in affectionate regard by
a wide circl^ of friends, Mr. Mon-
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Tobacco Trucks Are Rolling On The Highways, Fanners Are Bringing Their Crop To Be Auctioned
In Big Warehouses Golden Piles Of Leaf Put Money In Growers* Pockets
By KATHARINE BOYD it and children, or Negro tenants, the sales are going strong. You I place before the sale starts^. But high note, drops low, a sixth.
This is the time of year when
everywhere you go you see tobac
co trucks rolling on their way.
They are thick in this section,
now going to the market in Aber-
will be following, all going to the
market to see what happens to
their prized crop. And, from the
markets the great company trucks
go on with their towering loads
of hogsheads or burlap-covered
deen. You’ll see them along the baskets to the factories. North
back country roads, the pungent | Carolina’s tobacco crop is on its
It ads piled high under a well- way.
tucked in cover. The growers will' Growers Aie Early Birds ,
be driving the truck, like as not, | Down 'in Aberdeen where the
and a car or two with women in : market season is about half over.
drive down there behind a line the buyers are getting there early,
of rocking trucks, cars scurrying too. Everybody is in a hurry to
As you pull up near the Plant
ers Warehouse of Gene Maynard
and Bill Maurer on the Aberdeen-
Raeford road, you can hear the
auctioneer’s voice. From the dark
wide doorway in the sprawling
truck and ’low-rcofed tin building comes the
the ware-1 call: “doUaradollaradollar. . .”.
house trays. It must all be in'The chant starts on a middling
there early. The growers are the
first ones. They have to be early
birds, sometimes even to come
the night before. Their tobacco,
packed still on the sticks on
which the crop has been cured,
must be taken off the
arranged for sale on
maybe, and creeps up in a slight
ly dissonant chord.
Sculptured Beauty
At first, as you stand in the
door, coming in from the glare
outside, it is like looking into a
deep, dark, sweet-smelling cav
ern. Then the light from the sky
lights above, slanting in long sun
beams across the floor, begins to
catch the white shirts of the men,
to glint on a dolly or truck han
dle. And then the soft sea be
neath emerges, the long lines of
basket-trays of tobacco, each
one with leaves laid out in a pat
tern like a sunburst, the soft light
turning to gold the tawny leaves.
There is a sculptured beauty
here, the same kind of beauty you
see in a field of the stately liv
ing plants. Each bunch of leaves
is tied in a symmetrical knot, the
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TOBACCO IS PILED HIGH IN LONG ROWS
BUYERS SWAY DOWN THE LINE, SALE MOVES FAST
GENE MAYNARD—AUCTIONEER AND WAREHOUSE MAN
The Moore County College
Committee, to secure the consol
idated Presbyterian college for
Southern Pines, got into high gear
this week, with an Endowment
Committee organized and prepar
ing to function; collection of a $1,-
000 “operational fund” imder way
for campaign expenses, and a pub
lic meeting set for week after
next.
Progress reports will be made
and fuU information given, as far
as available, at the public meet
ing to be held at Weaver auditori
um, with Dr. Harold Dudley of
Raleigh as speaker and guest. Dr.
Dudley is executive secretary of
the North Carolina Synod of the
Presbyterian church, which took
action last July leading toward
consolidation of Peace \ Junior
College, Flora Macdonald College
and Presbyterian Junior College
into a four-year co-educational
institution, the site to be select
ed.
Dr. R. M. McMilla^is chairman,
and Mrs. Audrey Kzteenedy, vice-
chairman, of an Endowment Com
mittee organized last week, which
will make pledges toward a large
fund designed to help attract the
new college to Southern Pines,
it was announced this week by A.
L. Burney, chairman of the Moore
County College Committee. The
Endowment Committee plunged
into immediate activity, for news
of which see an accompanying
news story. '
The operational fund, for inci
dental expenses in connection
with advertising and promoting
Southern Pines as the college site,
was set at $1,000, and Thursday
morning a committee composed of
George H. Leonard, Jr., Hoke
Pollock and J. T. Overton, of the
Chamber of Commerce board of
directors, started out to collect
this amount from merchants and
others in the downtown district.
Appointed to the job by Harry K.
Smyth and W. E. Blue of the main
committee, operational fund
chairmen, they anticipated the
full amount would be in hand in
two or three days.
The $1,000 will be used for post
age, pledge cards, printing and
other expense^including the
publication of a special brochure
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HAS ANYBODY
SEEN'JUKE'?
Has anybody seen Juke?
If you have and can find her or
help find her, there’s a very lib
eral award for you, because Juke
—a liver and white English point
er, with small liver ticks on her
body and solid liver ears—is own
ed by a 12-year-old boy whose
father says he can’t face' telling
the boy that Juke is gone.
The father is Damon C. Abel
who is currently living on the old
Pender property off the “old
road” between Southern Pines
and Pinehurst, having moved here
from Florida not long ago. The
son, Wally, is in school at Miami.
Mr, Abel is known widely in
the golf world as he has a factory
manufacturing golf supplies at
Peoria, Ill. Monday of last week
he left here for a visit to Peoria,
leaving the dog to be cared for on
a farm near Vass. The dog dis
appeared and, since Mr. Abel’s
return from Illinois, the latter
part of last week, he has had but
one mission: to find the dog.
He has driven more than 600
miles on rural roads of this area,
stopping and tooting his horn at
intervals, knowing that if Juke is
free, she would come running or,
that if she is penned up some
where, she would bark.
A touching fact about the loss is
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NEW LIBRARY SERVICE
A new table featuring books for
children and teen-agers ■yvas ar
ranged today at the Southern
Pines Library and will continue
as a permanent part of the libra
ry’s facilities. The library’s book
committee is sorting children’s
books on the shelves and expects
to buy a number of; new books, it
was announced.