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HIGHWAY DEATHS
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GAf Cayriusei Launch ed Today
With upwards of 50 entries, in
te ams of two, players in the sec
ond annual Southern Pines Golf
Carousal today were shooting
thei” qualifying rounds over the
three, courses to be used in the
. unique tournament that will run
through Sunday—Mid Pines, Pine
I Needles and Southern Pines
Country Club.
’ Intermittent drizzles today are
I ' hedilled to cease, according to
^Veather Bureau reports, and the
! tl. ok for a successful tourna-
• ment is bright.
j I’r st social event of the tourney
jv/ '1 come at 5:30 to 7 p.m. today
I (Thursday) with a cocktail party
, for participants at the Pine Need
les ^^untry Club.
Drawing wide interest and with
the public invited, is a golf clinic
at the Mid Pines Club Friday,
from 4:30 to 5:15 p.rh., with noted
professionals and amateur players
giving the demonstrations.
An informal dance at the South
ern Pines Country Club from 9
p.m. to midnight Saturday, is in-
clilded on the Carousel calendar.
Sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce, the Carousel has at
tracted some notable entries, lat
est of whom is Frank Strafaci of
Long Island, who has won several
outstanding amateur champion
ships around the country, inclu^’-
j ing the North and South.
, Among the many awards to be
given, so that half the competing
teams will get prizes, is the new
Bob Harlow Memorial Award, to
be given annually by the Carou-
.sel_ committee in honor of the late
E’xjb Harlow, founder and editor
- t Golf World at Pinehurst.
A proclamation c.esignating the
coming week as Carousel Week in
Southern Pines has been issued
by Mayor Voit Gilmore. It reads:
“Whereas the 1955 Carousel
Tournament is to be played No
vember 3-6 over three golf courses
of Southern Pines, and
“Whereas this important annual
golfing event attracts national at
tention to our community and its
superlative facilities for golf, and
“Whereas this year for the first
time the Carousel will feature the
Bob Harlow Memorial Award, sa
luting a great editor who did
so much for amateur golf and who
himself helped establish the Ca
rousel, and
“Whereas all of Southern Pines
appreciates the work of the Ca-
lousel Committee, now therefore
“I do proclaim November 3-6 as
Southern Pines Carousel Week
j and encourage all citizens to sup-
' port this annual golf tournament
in every possible way.”
Coliege Mass Meeting
Attracts Record Crowd
County-Wide
Support For
•iect Seen
serious, intense enthusiastic com
munity effort seldom witnessed
here before.
T> • . o Burney addressed an audi-
r roject oeen ence of more than 600, assembled
from all over Moore County, to
■‘Let’s show them that we wantjl*®^^ details of the proposal and,
the new Presbyterian college to iu particular, to welcome Dr!
coi^ie here!” j Harold J. Dudley, general secre-
These words, pronounced by A.' ^^ry of the Synod of North Caro-
L. Burney, chairman of the com- Bna, and principal speaker of the
mittee to bring the' Presbyterian
college to the Sandhills, opened
the mass meeting held at Weaver
Auditorium Wednesday night and
set the stage for an exhibition of
r-
"^hild Seriously Injured Here, Man
E'lled /■ t Pinehurst In Accidents
HUGE BiT-PASS FILL—This huge earth fijl,
seen from the air, is the No. l highway by-pass
approach to the site of a bridge that will carry
the two-lane road over the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad, slanting across center of photo, at Ni
agara. This view looks northeast toward Sky
line. Southern Pines is to the right, Niagara to
the left. In upper right is a corner of Judge J.
Vance Rowe’s pecan orchard. The route of the
* Detailed Plans
Of By-Pass Are
Now Mapped Out
Plans now in possession of the
town show that the new bypass
of Highway 1 presents every op
portunity, if fully carried out, of
jl bringing .to pass the goal of Dis
trict Highway Commissioner For
rest Lockey: “To make this by
pass the finest piece of road, from
the standpoints of beauty and ef
ficiency, in the state.”
Detailed drawings of the High
way Department, produced at the
plaimmg board meeting Tues
day night, show an over-all width
of state-owned land of 260 feet,
nmning through Southern Pines
•from the present Highway 1, be
low Skyline airport on the north,
to its re-entrance into the old
roadway at Fairway Motor Court
on the south.
Of the 260 foot right-of-way,
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present No. 1 highway runs at a slight angle
across the top of the photo. Note where the fill
has been temporarily made around a small
house in the center of the photo, pending per
manent disposition of the house. Forrest Lock-
of Aberdeen, 8th division highway commis
sioner, has praised speed and quality of the by
pass construction work. Dickerson, Inc., of Mon-
js ^he grading contractor. (Hemmer Photo)
POPPY DAY
The xi.uxiliar'y of John Boyd
Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will hold its annual sale
of "buddy poppies" Saturday,
with members of the organi
zation selling the poppies in
the. business section through
out the day. Proceeds go to
aid dis^lbled veterans, chil
dren of veterans and other
Auxiliary and VFW projects.
Basketball Clinic
Slated Next Week
John L. Ponzer
Named President
Of Kiwanis Club
John L. Ponzer of Southern
Pines was elected president of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club at its
meeting held on Wednesday at the
Southern Pines Country Club.
The secretary of the organization
for the past several years,' he be
comes its 35th president, succeed
ing Jack M. Taylor of Aberdeen.
Elected vice president was Dr.
C. C. McLean of Midland Road,
and as treasurer, J. Vance Rowe
Jr., of Southern Pines. '
Ponzer came to the Sandhills
ten years ago, after his discharge
from the Army as a major in the
Traffic accidents within the past
week in the Sandhills took the
life of a Florida Negro, Willie Gus
fewton, 26, and seriously ihjured
six-year-old Southern Pines
boy, Stevie Frazier, son of Sgt.
and Mrs. William E. Frazier, 210
E. Maine Ave.
The fatal accitrent, involving
collision of a 1950 Buick driveit
by Newson and a. truck pulling a
tiailer loaded with liquid asphalt,
took place Friday afternoon at the
ON HALLOWEEN
Basketball coaches, players and
spectators of Moore County are
invited to attend a basketball
clinic to be conducted by the Fort
Bragg Referees Association at thci — a mdjui’m xne
Carthage School gymnasium General’s Department
Wednesday of next week. No- been associated with the
vember 9, at 7:30 p. m. j Carolina Power and Light Com-
The referees will review and | , ^^^e since that time. He
explain rules and go over contro-. ^^® risen to the important posi-
versial plays, in anticipation of' Division Industrial Engi-
- - neer
the coming basketball season.
Mills Will Head Seal Sale
^ Eutice H. Mills of Pinebluff
will head the annual Christmas
seal sale of the Moore County
Tuberculosis Association, it was
announced this week by Mrs.
Timothy Cleary of Pinebluff, As-'
sociation president.
The Rev. J. R. Funderburk of
Southern Pines is expected to
head the Negro division of tlie
sale as he has for several years.
^ The sale will begin later this
' month, to run until Christmas.
Community chairmen and quotas
will be announced next week bv
Mr. Mills.
T^e National Tuberculosis As-^
sociation is conducting its 49th
annual Christmas seal sale this
year. Proceeds of the Moore
County sale will provide funds to
carry on the program of case
finding, health education and
•.ireatment conducted by the coun
ty association. As in past years
a portion of the funds will go to
aid State and national tubercu
losis education and research pro
jects.
Mr. Mills, who is serving his
fourth two-year term as mayor of
Pinebluff, has lived in Moore
County most of his life, at Car-1
thage, the Eureka cO'mmunity,
E. H. MILLS
/
Southern Pines, Aberdeen and
Pinebluff. He is a graduate of
Carthage High School. He is a
member of the official board of
Pinebluff Methodist Church and
a past president of the Pinebluff
Lions Club.
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Girl Scout Fund
Drive Scheduled
The Southern Pines committee
of the Central Carolina Girl
Scout Council will open its an
nual fund drive Monday.
A. A. Hewlett, local automobUe
dealer, will head the campaign
in the business section, with Mrs.
John Ostrom and Mrs. George H.
Leonard, Jr., in charge of the ef!
fort in residential areas. Personal
solicitations will be used in both
divisions of the drive.
Growth of Girl Scouting in the
four-county council is responsi
ble for increased quotas through
out the area, according to Mice
Cathryn Creasman of Sanford,
executive. The Southern Pines
quota is $2,800.
Ihe number of Girl Scouts in
the Moore - Lee - Chatham - Har
nett council area has about doub
led since Miss Creasman became
executive, the local committee
points out, noting that an assist
ant, Miss Sophie White, has been
added to the council office in
Sanford.
Some 1,250 girls are taking
part in the council’s program, it
was pointed out.
School Windows
Broken; House In
Pinebluff Burns
With the exception of five win
dows broken by rocks thrown
through them at Southern Pines
High School, Halloween vandal
ism here was not serious. Police
Chief (i. E. Newton sxiid today.
The police department receiv
ed seven reports of vandalism.
Chief Newton said, none of them
' involving heavy damage.
In Pinebluff, Police Chief K. G.
Deaton said Wednesday he is in
vestigating the destruction of a
vacant house—the old Reidthaller
home — by lire on Halloween
night, to determine whether the
fire was set by pranksters, delib
erately or by accident. The house,
an old pine frame building, burn
ed to the ground. Volunteer fire
men responded to an alarm but
were unable to save the struc
ture.
intersections of Highways 15-501
and 211, near the Norfolk and
Southern railroad overpass bridge
i) Pinehurst.
The Frazier boy was struck
about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, on S.
Bennett St., near the Massachu
setts Ave. intersection by a 1950
Ti’ord pickup truck driven by Don
ald F. Traylor, Sr., 220 E. Vermont
Aye. .--Two Negroes,; Clevelan"’
King and James McNeill, were
passengers in the pickup.
Taken to a physician’s office by
Mr. Traylor immediately after the
accident, the boy was transferred
by ambulance to Moore County
Hospital and, soon thereafter, to
Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill,
for surgery in connection with a
compression fracture of the skull.
Sergeant and Mrs. Frazier, who
have another child two and a half
years old, went to Chapel Hill
yesterday and reportedly remain
ed there while the boy underwent
surgery today.
Police Chief C. E. Ne'wton said
that investigation of the accident
through direct and indirect ac
counts of eyewitnesses, indicates
the Frazier boy—who was visiting
at the C. Parker 'Thomas home on
the west side of Bennett St., near
the Massachusetts intersection—
had gone across the street to an
swer a question about directions
from some one in a parked vehicle
on the east side of Bennett St.,
across from the Parker home. 'The
accident took place, this evidence
shows, when the boy darted from
behind the parked vehicle and in
front of the pickup being driven
south on Bennett St. by Mr. Tray-
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GUEST MINISTER — The
Rev. Graham b. Eubank, pas
tor of the Hay ; ;reet Meth
odist Church, Fayetteville,
Will be guest minister in a
series of services to be held in
the Civic Club at 7:30 p.m.
-n:ghtly Sunday through Fri
day of next week by the
Southern Pines Methodist
Church. Lynn Ledden will be
in charge of the opening song
service, with Mrs. James
Caldwell as pianist. The Rev.
Robert L. Bame, pastor of the
local church, invites the pub
lic to attend aU the services.
Local Couple In
Auto Accident
Major and Mrs. Adrian F. Sher
man, Jr., of East Indiana Ave.,
were bruised and shaken up and
Major Sherman was slightly in
jured in an automobile accident
on the Fort Bragg reservation
when another car ran the Sher
man car off the road last night.
The local couple were brought
to their home by a passing mo
torist, The Pilot was informed,
and from there they were taken
by ambulance to Moore County
Hospital where Mrs. Sherman
was treated and released and Ma
jor Sherman was kept for treat
ment.
None of their injuries was des
cribed as serious.
evening.
Gathered on the stage, besides
chairman and speaker, were
members of the Sandhills com
mittee: Mayor Voit Gilmore, the
Rev. Cheves Ligon, James Boyd,
Jr., Dr. R. M. McMillan, Donald
D. Kennedy, Mrs. Audrey K.
Kennedy; also Wilbur Currie of
Carthage, long a member of Flora
I Macdonald college board of trus
tees and recently appointed to
• the newly formed board of the
three merged institu Lions. Also
! present were H. Lee Thomas,
Moore County Superintendent of
! Schools, Harry Smyth, president
of the Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce, A. C. Dawson, su
perintendent of Southern Pines
schools.
Crowd Serious, Attentive
Following a description by Mr.
Burney of the purpose of the
meeting; to inform the public and
tocus aU efforts on the proposal
to bring the new coUege to South
ern Pines, the chairman introduc
ed Mayor Gilmore, who described '
the local organization now at
work and gave details of the pro
posed site, offered to the town
by the Boyd family.-He paid trib
ute to the tradition of community
service long manifested by the
family in all Sandhills affairs.
Addressing the audience directly,
he said:
“It seems to me we are a spe
cial group assembled here to
night. We are people of all faiths,
from all over Moore County,
joined togethr to take up a chal
lenge. We have a chance to bring
something beautiful and wonder-
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D. D. KENNEDY
ON COMMITTEE
Donald D. Kennedy of 140
Valley Road, will serve as co
vice chairman, with Mrs. Au
drey K. Kennedy, of fhe Pres
byterian College endowment
committee, it was announced
this week by Dr. R. M. Mc
Millan, committee chairman.
The t-wo committee members
are not related.
The committee is working
toward a provisional goal of
$200,000 in pledges for an en
dowment fund, to be offered
by Southern Pines and Moore
County to help attract the
proposed new Presbyterian
college here.
Other members of the com
mittee are Norris L. Hodg
kins,. secretary, and L, B.
Creaih of Pinehurst, treasur-
Air-Ground School
Wins Contest In
Traffic Safety
For the second consecutive year,
the United States Air Force Air
Ground Operations School has
won the annual Tactical Air Com
mand motor vehicle safety con
test, “Operation Impact,” it is an
nounced by the commandant.
Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jenkins.
“Operation Impact” nins each
year through the months of July
and August and is aimed at reduc
ing the number of motor vehicle
accidents in Thctical Air Com
mand through a determined safe
ty campaign. For the second
time in two years the USAF Air
Ground Operations School turned
in a perfect score of no accidents
to win the Group I division, com
posed of units With a strength of
less than 1,000 personnel.
Tactical Air Command, with
headquarters at Langley AFB,
Va., has presented the USAF Air
Ground Operations School with a
scroll and bronze plaque, appro
priately engraved, to be retained
until next year’s contest. Should
it be won again, the plaque would
become a permanent award.
KRAFFERT WINS TOURNEY—Ben F. Kraf-
fert, Jr., left, of 135 Highland Rd., Southern
Pines, and Titusville, Pa., defeated John W.
Roberts, right, of Columbus, Ohio, in finals of
the fourth annual North and South Seniors Golf
Championship at Pinehurst Saturday. Here, the
winner receives his silver service trophy from
Richard S. Tufts of Pinehurst. Over 300 Senior
golfers from 30 states and Canada played in the
week-long event. See detailed story, page 17.
(Henuner Photo)