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VOL. 37—NO. 8
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SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1956
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Dr. Schweitzer Ponders Problem Of
Peace In Greeting To Gen. Marshall
Child Injured When Hit By Bus
Gen. George Catlett Mar
shall—former United States
Army chief of staff, secretary
of defense and secretary of
state—received for his 75th
birthday, celebrated at Pine-
hurst December 31, a letter
from world-renowned Dr. Al
bert Schweitzer—student and
interpreter of Christianity,
physician, musician and hu
manitarian.
The Pilot today prints this
letter below—marking its first
publication anywhere.
In October, 1953, General
Marshall and Doctor Schweit
zer received momentous news.
Each had been chosen as re
cipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize, one of the highest hon
ors of our time.
General Marshall was at his
Pinehurst home, Liscombe
Lodge, when the news arriv
ed. Doctor Schweitzer was
notified at Lambarene, in
French Equatorial Africa,
where he directs the work of
a hospital. Thus were two of
the outstanding personalities
of the 20th Century linked in
the sharing of a great honor.
Doctor Schweitzer’s letter
was one among many greet
ings from the world’s military
and political leaders, as well
as from less famous persons,
which went to General Mar
shall in Pinehurst. The letter
renewed a correspondence
that General Marshall had ini
tiated after the joint award of
the Nobel prize.
Written in French, in long-
hand, the original copy of the
letter was sent to General
Marshall in care of Dr. Emory
Ross, treasurer of the Albert
Schweitzer Fellowship of
New York City, who translat
ed it into English for General
A first grader, Eddie Ray, six-
year-old son of Sgt. and Mrs. R.
R. Ray, was injured this morning
when knocked down by a school
bus from which he had just
alighted, on the Southern Pines
school yard.
He was rushed to Moore Coun
ty hospital in an ambulance
which first picked up his mother.
Accompanying the child to the
hospital also was his teacher,
Miss Ison, also Mrs. N. L. Hodg
kins, Jr., of the school faculty.
The Ray family lives on Morgan-
ton Road, across from Memorial
Field.
Supt. A. C. Dawson said eye-^
witnesses told him the bus was
backing slowing arormd prepara
tory to parking, when the little
boy dashed behind it. Driver of
the bus was Tony Parker, an 11th
grade student. '
A report from the hospital was
unavailable this morning, as X-
rays were being made.
Supt. Dawson also reported the
accident would be fully covered
by the school insurance, which
pays costs of all accidents to the
children on school property, or on
their way to or from school. It
was the first time, he said, he had
ever known of a child to be
knocked down by a school bus in
all his 18 years of teaching and
administrative experience.
Hemmer Photo
GENERAL MARSHALL
Marshall and explained that it
was written as Doctor
Schweitzer journeyed by sea
from Europe to Africa where
he was to take a small launch
for the 160-mile trip up the
Ogowe River to Lambarene.
In sending General Marshall
the original letter and the
translation. Dr. Ross added:
“Please accept my own deep
expressions of gratitude for
your life and services, the
whole of which form a treas
ure of great price for today
and all the days to come.’’
Doctor Schweitzer’s letter
to General Marshall follows:
Doctpr Albert Schweitzer
Aboard M|V Claude Bernard
Opposite Tenerife,
December 1955
General Marshall
USA
Dear General Marshall:
Close to Tenerife, on the boat which is taking me to Africa
after a stay in Europe, I have just sent you a telegram with my
good wishes for your 75 years. But I want to speak to you long
er and more intimately than is possible by the waves (through
the air).
My attention was drawn to you when, after having done your
duty during the war, you put yourself at the service of peace.
I admired your clearsightedness and your courage.
I have followed you in your activity as you organized the
work to be done and I admired the way in which your idealism
sought to come to grips with realities. You approached the real
ities With a spirit of idealism that was rational and poised. You
gained my profound sympathy.
When, in the night at Lambarene, I received the news that the
two of us had received the Nobel Prize at the same time, my joy
was double: to have received it, and to have received it with you.
By the touching telegram which you sent me I learned that
you also attributed importance to this fact of a liaison established
between us.
We both of us know how little we have been able to do for
the coming of peace and that we were almost pained to have
received the prize dedicating us as artisans of peace in our time.
In working out my talk for Oslo on the problem of peace I was as
if crushed by this sentiment.
But if our two names have been put forward together in the
so pale light of peace that steals between the dark clouds which
weigh upon the world, we nevertheless know that we two feel
called to pledge ourselves to work for peace in an epoch when
one despairs of it. I believe that we are also united in the humil
ity of appreciation of our role in the service of peace, to which
we are vowed, each one in his place, each one with his means.
Like myself you have regretted that we were not able to be
together at Oslo to receive the prize. I was touched that in your
discourse you have spoken of me with sympathy as of your com
panion. And it is as a companion that I now offer you my best
wishes for your 75th birthday.
I regret with you that we have not been able to meet. We
can have but a rather feeble hope that that may occur in the
future. But it is in our nature to hope, we continue to hope.
The essential for us, however, is that we should feel ourselves
united in thought and that we should know ourselves to be privi
leged that the two of us have been led by circumstances to the
point that the spiritual brotherhood which exists between us has
been recognized and consecrated before the world.
Excuse me for writing you by hand. I do not use the type
writer because of its noise.
After a 4-months’ stay in Europe, one that has been very
fatiguing, I am returning again to the calm of the great forest and
to my work at Lambarene.
I beg of you to present my respects to Mrs. Marshall, and to
believe me your devoted
(S) ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Let us agree that either one of us should, from now on, let
the other know if he is going to Europe so that we shall not miss
the opportunity of meeting each other there, if it presents itself.
' As I do not know your address, I am sending this letter to you
by my friend Doctor Emory Ross in New York.
DOCTOR SCHWEITZER
College Campaign
Funds Coming In;
County Interested
The Endowment Fund Commit
tee for the Presb5d;erian College
project collected $30,015 in pledges
during the past week, it was an
nounced today, making the total
amount pledged $266,448, from 457
contributors in 13 Moore County
communities. One pledge of $10,-
000 is listed as from the “county
at large.”
Towns in the county are show
ing great interest and support,
said Donald D. Kennedy, co-vice-
chairman of the Endowment Fund
Committee. Purpose of the cam
paign is to raise a fund that will
help attract the proposed consoli
dated four-year Presbyterian Col
lege to Southern Pines.
All communities in the county
have arranged or are in process of
arranging meetings about the col
lege, fund proposal, Mr. Kennedy
noted. Without solicitation,
pledges have been received from
Rockingham, Candor and Raeford,
he said, pointing out that mem
bers of the over-all Executive
Committee and the Endowment
Committee plan to visit towns in
other counties, within about 35
miles of Southern Pines, next
we'ek, to solicit support. Value of
the college to such towns within
commuting distance for day stu
dents will be pointed out, he said.
Following is a tabulation of the
Fowler Reelected ,
Fire Chief, Gives
Report For 1955
. A recent election of officers by
the Southern Pines volunteer fire
department was formally approv
ed by the town council Tuesday
night and the council heard with
interest the report of Chief Har
old B. Fowler on the past year’s
operations of the department.
Chief Fowler' was reelected in
the recent voting by volunteers.
Assistant Chiefs are James A.
Tew and C. T. Dunn Jr. Stanley
T. Dunn was named company cap
tain and Frank Kaylor, Sr., was
chosen as truck captain and de
partment secretary and treasurer.
In 1955, Chief Fowler reported,
there were 64 alarms, of which 27
were grass or brush fires, 24 resi
dence fires and three,were in the
business section.
“Contrary to the general im
pression that a majority of the
fire department’s calls come from
West Southern Pines,” the chief
said, “21 of the 64 alarms were
from that area.”
Two, he reported, were from
outside the city limits—one a
“mutual aid” call to help a de
partment in another town and one
a call from a property owner who
had paid the fire service charge
that must be paid by any out-of-
towp resident before he can call
the Southern Pines department.
Comparing the numbers of 1955
fires and the estimate of damage
with the two previous years. Chief
Fowler said that damage from the
64 fires last year ran to $31,000.
In 1954, 54 fires caused damage of
$41,000; an din 1953, 57 fires caus-
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Korean War Vet
Is Charged With
Killing At Star
A 23-year-old Mpcre County
veteran of the Korean war, who
has been completing his educa
tion at Westmoore High School,
was held this week at Troy on a
first-degree murder charge.
Vernon L. Morgan of Spies is
charged with the shotgun killing
of Roy Joseph Cagle, 32, in the
center of the business section of
Star Sunday afternoon.
Sheriff Elwood Long of Mont
gomery County gave the follow
ing account of the killing:
Morgan, driving a 1955 Ford
with his younger brother, Arthur,
and Marvin Hancock as passen
gers, parked in front of Kearns
Motor Company. Cagle, driving
a 1949 Lincoln and accompanied
by Melvin Davis, 19, of Moore
County drove up and parked near
the Morgan car.
Morgan got out of his car and
took a double barrel shotgun from
the back seat and approached the
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fund campaign as of
Wednesday:
No.
Amt.
Con.
Addor
$ 1,110
13
Aberdeen
25,970
41
Carthage
8,080
28
Eagle Springs
2,635
24
Glendon
380
5
Highfalls
3,100
9
Jackson Springs
, 735
8
Lakeview
3,805
12
Niagara
2,310
16
Parkwood
3,000
2
Pinehurst
42,005
23
Southern Pines
161,018
269
Vass
2,300
6
County at large
10,000
1
TOTAL
$266,448
457
Young Man Held
Without Bond On
Capital Charge
A young Montgomery County
man, who allegedly broke into a
home in upper Moore County in
the middle of the night last week
and dragged a 15-year-old girl out
of the house in an attempt to kid
nap her, is in jail at Carthage.
Van Buren Mauldin, 24, of near
Troy, was given a hearing before
Judge J. Vance Rowe in Record
er’s Court at Carthage Monday.
He pleaded not guilty to all counts
against him, but Judge Rowe
found probable cause on charges
of breaking and entering a dwell
ing where people are sleeping in
the night-time, attempting to kid
nap and assault a female. He faces
trial in Superior Court during a
term starting January 30.
(Continued on page 8)
By-Pass Zoning
Turned Back To
Planning Board
The town council turned
the problem of zoning along the
No. 1 highway by-pass back to
the planning Board Tuesday
night, acting on the Board’s rec
ommendation that it would be
impossible to make an adequate
zoning decision until work on the
road has progressed farther than
at the present time.
With the new “Business III”
(by-pass) district eliminated, the
council went ahead and approv
ed amendments to the zoning or
dinance that affect other business
zoning districts of the town and
set up radical changes in business
section planning.
The amendments, for instance,
require a 10-feet set-back from
the street property line for busi
ness structures to be built or re
modeled in the future; also re
quired are: space for off-street
parking—one space for every
person working in the building—
and provision for off-street load
ing.
Approval of the amendments
unanimously by the council also
zoned for business the east side
of Bennett St., between Pennsyl
vania and New York Aves.
(part of this block Was already
zoned for business) and the en-
the west side of Bennett St., to
the depth of the deepest lot, be
tween New York Ave. and Ver
mont Ave. The changes had been
recommended by the planning
board.
Local Group Reveals
$500,000 Project On
Highway To Aberdeen
Restaurant,
M’otel To Be
Constructed
A Howard Johnson’s Restau
rant and a Howard Johnson’s
Motor Lodge, representing a
$500,000 investment, have been
franchised for construction on U.
S. Highway One between South
ern Pines and Aberdeen at the
proposed junction of the new
Highway 15-501. The site is west
of the highway, opposite the
Huntley building and the Star-
view Drive-In Theatre.
Land for the project is being
acquired from Esso Standard Oil
Company and Esso plans to con
struct a modern service station
adjacent to the restaurant and
motor lodge.
Construction of the restaurant,
motel and a service station is
scheduled for early spring. Rufus
Nims, Howard Johnson’s archi
tect from Miami, visited the
Sandhill? Monday and has begun
preliminary drawings.
Three corporations have been
established to operate the ven
ture, all three having as officers
Charles P. Cole, A. L. Folley and
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines.
One corporation will own prop
erty and buildings, one will oper
ate the restaurant, another the
motel.
36 Units Planned
The motel’s size’ is tentatively
set at 36 units. A swimming pool
and putting green are tentatively
planned. Modern Howard John
son’s styling will be used, inclu
ding year-round air conditioning,
free television in each room,
room telephones and other facili
ties that have caused Howard
Johnson’s motor lodges to be
among the most expensive and
luxurious in the United States.
The Howard Johnson’s restau
rant will have 108 seats and be
the most modem in the 500-res
taurant Johnson chain. Begun in
1922 at Wollaston, Mass., and
made famous by its 28 flavors of
ice cream', the Johnson chain has
made its slogan ‘‘Landmark for
Hungry Americans.”
In announcing the new ven
ture, the three local men, who al
so operate W. M. Storey Lumber
Company, stated, “We are pleas
ed to have a part in increasing
the tourist and resort facilities of
the Saindhills. Highway traffic
counts show that more restaurant
and motel accommodations are
needed and will help other estab
lishments by encouraging more
visitors to the Sandhills. Our fa
cilities will be deluxe in .every
respect and no expense will be
spared to give visitors the finest
in Sandhills accommodations.”
PUBLIC INVITED TO
HEAR FBI OFFICIAL
R. J. Abbaticchio, Jr., spe
cial agent in charge of the
Charlotte office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, will
speak at a meeting of the
Southern Pines Parent-Teach-
. er Association in Weaver au
ditorium Thursday night of
next week, at 8 p.m.
Stressing the juvenile prob
lem, the FBI special agent is
expected to make a talk that
will be of town-wide interest.
"We want to meike this a
kind of community meeting,
rather than a strictly PTA
event," said Mrs. J. P. Marley,
PTA president. "We invite all
interested persons to hear this
speaker."
Col.Lambert Heads
St, Anthony’s PTA
Lt. Col. Arthur Lambert was
elected and installed last Thursday
night as president of the newly
formed Parent-Teacher Associa
tion at St. Anthony’s School.
Other officers on a slate pre
sented to the Association by Mrs.
Vincent Schweiger, chairman of a
nominating committee, and in
stalled by Mrs. Curtis Townshend,
were: Mrs. Norman Black, vice-
president; Mrs. John Hunneman,
secretary; and Russell A. Peters,
treasurer.
A social hour followed the busi
ness meeting.
ARTIST—Gene Love of Charlotte, 23, an artist and designer
who paints despite handicaps caused by polio, with each arm in a
sling, is exhibiting his watercolors at the Southern Pines Library
art gallery. For more about this talented young man and his
vigorous work, see story on page 10.
LOOKING TOWARD THE BOND ELECTION (2)
Survey Reveals Needs Of Seiverage System
(Second in a series of four
explanatory stories about the
four separate bond proposals
which will be spbmitted to
the voters of Southern Pines
for approval or disapproval
January 31. The four pro
posals are: $150,000 for water
system improvements; $150,-
000 for sewerage system im
provements; $100,000 for mu
nicipal buildings; and $50,000
for a West > Southern Pines
swimming pool.)
Like the water system improve
ments (subject of the first of these
stories last week), proposed bond-
financed work on the town’s sew
erage system is (1) caused by a
growing population that has
tripled since the town’s basic sew
erage system was installed in the
1920’s and 1930’s, and (2) based on
an engineering survey that plots
exactly, in terms of numerous
separate projects, what it will take
to give Southern Pines a system
that is adequate for needs of the
present and the immediate future.
The sewerage system report was
prepared, at direction of the town
council, by Paul M. Van Camp
Associates, Itic., civil and sanitary
engineering firm of Southern
Pines, whose local associations for
many years have familiarized
these engineers with the town’s
facilities and problems.
The $150,000 of the bond pro
posal would cover sewer main re
quirements to the extent of $100,-
000 and work at the treatment
plant costing $50,000.
The pftncipal needs in the $100,-
000 project, summarized from de
tailed and specific recommenda
tions, are:
1. “Relief’ mains for tl\e east-
west avenues, centering on an
“Illinois Ave. relief dutfall,” a
“May Street relief line,” and a line
on Pennsylvania Ave., from May
St. to E. Broad St.
2. Outfall lines, where there is
now no sewerage, serving Midland
Road and the area of the Carolina
Orchid Growers; and also the
Knollwood Apartment develop
ment area in the vicinity of Say
lor and Leak Sts.
3. An outfall line along the
new No. 1 “by-pass” or thru-way,
from Pennsylvania Ave. to 'Wis
consin Ave. and Morganton Road.
4. Miscellaneous extensions in
West Southern' Pines, continuing
the program of sewerage which
has progressed considerably in
that area on a pay-as-you-go basis
in the past couple of years.
The term “relief” as applied to
mains on and east of May St. will
be recognized as apt by residents
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