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Parishes Unite
In Campaign For
Convent, School
Members of the Catholic par
ishes of St. Anthony’s, Southern
Pines, and Sacred Heart, Pine-
hurst, are uniting this week in
debt retirement campaign which
was initiated with a dinner at the
Pine Needles Country Club Tues
day night.
David A. Drexel of Southern
Pines is general chairman for the
campaign, which has as its goal
the retirement of $75,000 of the
debt on the new parochial school
and convent, with pledges to be
paid off within the next three
years.
Total debt on the buildings is
$205,000. The campaign is aimed
not only at reduction of the prin
cipal but of interest now standing
at $7,255 per year.
About 130 members of the two
parishes attended the diimer
Speakers included Chairman
Drexel; Mrs. Curtis Townshend,
who spoke on history and devel
opment of the parishes; John F.
Hunnemann, on their needs; Allen
Peters of Pinehurst, on meeting
the needs; Stephen Van Camp,
on the making and meeting of the
pledges; Father Peter M. Denges
and Father John Brown.
Canvass This Week
Canvassers, who will see the
parishioners this week, are head
ed by Stephen Van Camp, teams
committee chairman. They in
clude C. H. Bowman, Dr. Ray
mond Daugherty, Ralph Gacomo,
J. F. Hunnemann, Col. Arthtir
Lambert, Joe Montesanti, Philip
Nardo and Allen Peters.
Mr. Peters was chairman in
charge of arrangements for the
dinner,' and Mrs. Curtis Town
shend headed the hostesses, each
of whom headed a table and pro
cured the attendance of a group
of guests. The hostesses were
Mrs. J. G. de Berry, Mrs. Awilda
mann, Mrs. F. L. Owens, Miss
Duyk, Mrs. Ralph Gacomo, IVfrs.
Voit Gilmore, Mrs. J. F. Hunne-
man, Mrs. Francis L. Owens, Miss
Barbara Poole, Mrs. J. V. Rowe,
Mrs. W. J. Wilson, Mrs. Stephen
Van Camp.
50 Persons Will
Attend Girl Scout
Conference Here
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
THURSDAY. JANUARY 19. 1956
Defendant Appeals Sentence To Roads
For Speeding Over 11# Miles Per Hour
Race From Officers
Extended 15 Miles
Into Scotland Co.
For speeding over 110 miles per
hour during a chase by two State
Highway patrolmen, Everett (Bil
ly) Linens, 26, of Siler City, was
sentenced to four months on the
roads in Moore County Recorders
Court at Carthage Monday.
Although he had pleaded guilty
to the charge, the defendant ap
pealed the judge’s verdict to Su
perior Court and bond was set at
$750. The judge provided for no
suspended sentence on payment of
a fine, stating that he would like
to fine Linens $1,000, in view of
the evidence presented by the pa
trolmen. The actual senjtence was
six months on the roads, reduced
to four by Judge Rowe in view of
the defendant’s humble attitude in
court.
The Regional Camping Confer
ence of Girl Scouts of U. S. A. for
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia will be held Monday
and Tuesday at the Southern
Pines Country Club.
The Central Carolina Girl
Scout Council, composed of the
counties of Lee, Moore, Harnett
and Chatham will be serving as
the hostess Council. Staff for the
two day event will be members
of the National Staff from the
Regional office in Atlanta, Ga.
Headquarters for the conference
will be the Southland Hotel in
Southern Pines.
Around 50 people from the
three-state area are expected to
attend the conference.
Committees in charge of‘ar
rangements for the conference
are composed of Mrs. Audrey
Kennedy, Southern Pines, coim-
cil president; Mrs. Grady John
son, Lillington, first vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Sam Schwartz, San
ford, secretary; Mrs. C. J. Har
rington, Sanford, treasurer; Mrs.
J. M. Caddell, Sanford, staff and
office Chairman; Mrs. M. S. Whit
ted, Jr., Sanford, public relations
chairman; Mrs. George Leonard,
Southern Pines, chairman; Mrs.
W. P. Davis, membership nomin
ating chairman; and Mrs. Mildred
Merrill, Southern Pines, publici
ty chairman.
An informal coffee hour will
be held at the Country Club clos-
inj the first day’s session hoiior-
ing the visitors to this Council.
Venezuelan Air '
Force Officer At
Air-Ground School
Lt. Col. Antonio J. Mendoza of
the Venezuelan Air Force is at
tending the USAF Air Ground
Operations School specialist
course. He has been in the Unit
ed States since July, 1955, and has
previously attended the Air Com
mand and Staff College at Max
well Air Force Base, Ala.
Lieutenant Colonel Mendoza
has visited the United States pre
viously as a member of the Vene
zuelan generpl staff, by official in
vitation. He said lhat he is grate
ful for' the opportunity to return
for the training available to for
eign officers. He feels that the
quality of the courses and hospi
tality accorded are a great asset
to the improvement of relations
between peoples of different ori
gin and nations, in world affairs.
This attitude, patrolmen told re
porters, contrasted with his cocky
assertion* at the time of his arrest
that his 1952 Oldsmobile sedan,
fitted with “headers” and twin ex
hausts, could do 130 miles per
hour and that, if the motor hadn’t
been missing, he would have out
run the officers. Patrolmen E. A.
Samuels and C. G. Wimberly.
Patrolman Samuels said that
during the chase his patrol ,car
registered 117 miles per hour and
quoted Linens as saying his car
had hit 118. The charge, how
ever, was speeding “in excess of
110.”
Linens, a married man with two
children, was accompanied during
the chase Wednesday night of last
week, by another young man and
a 16-year-old girl, officers said.
Patrolman Samuels described
the chase as follows:
The two officers, each in his pa
trol car, noticed Linens came
through Aberdeen at high speed
on Highway 15-501 and chased
him some 15 miles into Scotland
County on the highway to Laurin-
burg.
At this point Linens pulled off
the road suddenly stopping so
quickly that Patrolman Samuels,
leading the chase some distance
ahead of Patrolman Wimberly
whose car had developed motor
trouble, shot by him.
Linens, however, had to back
once, to get the long auto turned
around in the highway, while the
patrolman swung his shorter ve
hicle around in one turn and pull
ed up with his car in front of the
Oldsmobile. Then Linens slam
med his automobile into the side
of the patrol car, head on, doing
damage estimated at $113 to the
patrol vehicle and smashing one
headlight and doing other minor
damage to the Oldsmobile.
Patrolman Wimberly, who was
in radio communication with Pa
trolman Samuels, arrived at the
scene soon and Linens was taken
before a magistrate in Aberdeen
making $500 bond.
A hair-raising aspect of the in
cident was related by Patrolman
Samuels who said that not long
before the chase ended he heard a
slapping sound that made him
think the fender apron was com
ing off his car. As he was turning
around at the end of the chase, a
front tire blew out. Examination
of the tire later showed that it had
Income so hot at the terrific speed
that the rubber had come loose
from the fabric and most of it had
been thrown off. It was the rub
ber that had caused the noise the
patrolman heard.
Other cases heard Monday, list
ing defendant, charge and disposi
tion of case, are:
Junior Ritter, West End, care
less and reckless driving on school
grounds, $35 and costs; Thomas
I^obbins, speeding
76, State accepts plea of guilty of
speeding 75, $35 and costs, driver’s
hcense to be suspended; John
®osgs, Vass, speeding 8^,
60 days or $85 and costs, driver’s
license to be suspended; Malcolm
David McCollum, Jr., Southern
Pines, careless and reckless driv
ing, accident, $25 and costs;
health, term on roads was chang
ed to 30 days in jail to' work in
and around the jail; Alfred Mont
gomery Lightner, Pope AFB, driv
ing without operator’s license
(required to wear glasses when
driving), judgment continued on
payment of costs and on condition
that he comply in the future with
terms and conditions of his U-
cense; Evans Alex McRae, Aber
deen, speeding 65, improper muf
fler, $25, to included costs; Willie
McLean, Aberdeen, breaking and
entering residence in night time,
with intent to commit felony, as
sault with deadly weapon, defend
ant pleaded not guilty, probable
cause found on burglary charge,
bound to Superior Court for trial,
bond set at $2,500; Frank Dortch
Coore, Lakeview, drunken driv
ing, careless and reckless driving,
pleaded not guilty .but offered
plea, which was accepted by the
State, of guilty of public drunken
ness and careless and reckless
driving, $25 and costs.
Ruth Boggs Woodell, Aberdeen,
careless and reckless driving, $25
and costs; Billy Maples, Aberdeen,
driving without operator’s license,
careless and reckless driving,
pleaded guilty of former charge,
not guilty of latter, found guilty
of aiding and abetting in careless
and reckless driving, $25 and
costs; Nezro Buddy Worthy, Pine
hurst, possession of whiskey for
sale, pleaded guilty to possession
but not for sale (Ezekiel Ross,
Pinehurst, in companion case,
pleaded guilty to aiding and abet
ting in possession of whiskey for
sale and transporting illicit whis
key), both found guilty as charg
ed on all counts, three months on
roads for each, suspended for two
years on payment of $50 fine each
and costs and on condition they
not violate prohibition laws for
two years; Myrtle Cole, Aberdeen,
possession of illicit whiskey for
sale, pleaded not 'guilty, found
guilty, three months in jail or $25
and costs and not violate prohibi
tion laws in pext two years; Graf
ton Thomas Dawkins, Candor,
Route 2, speeding 50 in 35-mile
zone, $5 and costs.
Jesse Willard, Robbins, assault
with deadly weapon (iron poker),
pleaded not guilty, found guilty of
simple assault—Howard Sheffield,
Carthage, Route 1, in companion
case, was charged with trespass,
using vile and profane language
in public place and assault with
deadly weapon (butt of rifle),
pleaded . not guilty, Sheffield
found guilty of assault and bat
tery, judgment continued for both
defendants on payment of .the
costs, one-third by Willard and
two-thirds by Sheffield, and on
condition of good behavior toward
each other for the next 12 months;
Walton L. Sheppard, Norman,
drunken driving, trespass, plead
ed not guilty, found not guilty of
drunken driving, guilty of tres
pass, judgment continued on pay
ment of costs—Sheppard, in an
other case, charged with abandon
ment and failing to support wife
and children, carrying concealed
weapon and assault, pleaded not
guilty, found guilty on all counts,
six months on roads or $50 and
costs and pay to the clerk of court
$15 per week for support of wife
and children, until further order
of the codrt.
Mary McCrimmon, Aberdeen,
possession of illicit whiskey for
sale, pleaded not guilty, found
guilty of aiding and abetting her
daughter, Lucile, in possession of
illicit whiskey, 30 days in jail or
pay one-third costs — jointly
charged in this case was Elbert
Williams, Aberdeen, possession of
whiskey for sale, pleaded not
guilty, found guilty of aiding and
abetting Lucile Williams in pos
session of whiskey—^Lucile WiL-
liams, Aberdeen, also charged
with ypossession of whiskey for
sale, pleaded guilty—each sen
tenced to 30 days (man on roads,
woman in jail) or pay $25 fine
each and two-thirds of the costs;
The League itself has taken no
stand on the bond issues and its
members, says the announcement
of the forum, will be there to gain
information and make up their
own minds.
The meeting will open with a
15-minute motion picture, “Ticket
To Freedom,” narrated by Edwin
R. Murrow, which presents a four-
point program of effective citizen
ship.
COLLEGE
(Continued from Page 1)
rious Moore County communities:
No.
Amt.
Con.
Aberdeen
$ 30,670
49
A.ddor
1,100
13
Cameron
no report
Candor
* 1,380
10
Carthage
8,080
28
Eagle Springs
1,525
18
Eastwood
no report
T^nreka
no report
Glendon
380
5
HighfaUs
3,100
9
Jackson Springs
1,885
25
Tiakeview
3,805
12
Manly
no reoort
Niagara
2',310
16
Parkwood
3,000
2
Pinebluff
no report
Pinehurst
42,005
23
Robbins
7,198
101
Roseland
no report
Southern Pines
222,052
284
■Vass
2,300
6
West End
2,375
8
County at large
10,000
1
Total
$342,165
610
vise the planting that now screens
the railroad tracks that run
through the business section. With
the late Alfred Yeomans, he map
ped out a tree-planting scheme for
the entire town, certain kinds of
trees on certain streets, but the
plan was never adopted and -fol
lowed. He has been responsible,
however, for much effective t
planting in town and for years has
been consulted by town officisds
as to the care and cutting of trees
his
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snpoHirfff Bolton, Carthage, Pvt. Daniel Compean, Fort Bragg,
a? . yithout lights careloss and reckless driving, acci-
registration dent with property damage and
. days or $50 and costs; serious personal injury, found
Vmgil Ray Brown, Southern
Pines, speeding 86, 60 days or $90
and costs, driver’s license to be
suspended; Frances Underwood
Hill, Carthage, Route 2, allowing
unlicensed person to operate mo
tor vehicle, judgment continued
on payment of costs on condition
that she doesn’t allow boy to drive
until he obtains license; Donald
p. Walter, Southern Pines, speed
ing 66, $10 and costs; Richard R.
Seawell, Fort Bragg, careless and
reckless driving, accident with
personal injury, possession of tax-
paid liquor with seal broken,
judgment continued on payment
of $35 fine and costs (sheriff or
dered to destroy one-haK pint of
vodka).
Lemuel Markus Johnson, Aber
deen, route, drunken driving,
careless and reckless driving, acci
dent with property damage and
injury, possession of illicit whis
key, three months or $100 and
costs and pay medical expenses of
those hurt who were riding with
defendant—-because of defendant’s
personal injury,
guilty of exceeding safe driving
speed around a curve, causing ac
cident and serious property dam
age and injdry, three months on
roads, suspended on payment of
costs and payment of hospital bills
of two'injured persons who were
riding in other auto; Jack Walker,
Jr., Fort Bragg, driving without
operator’s license and with im
proper muffler, $10 and costs;
James William Furr, 'Vass, drunk
en driving, pleaded not guilty,
found guilty, 60 days or $100 and
costs, driver’s license to be revok
ed for 12 months, appeal to Supe
rior Court entered, bond set at
$200.
OPEN FORUM
(Continued from Page 1)
schools; George H. Leonard, Jr.,
local businessman, and possibly
others.
There will be no formal panel
discussion, and comments.^ from
visitors wiU be encouraged.
GARDENS
(Continued from page 1)
ticulturist who has assisted
brother in the winter season for
the past 10 years, will also work
with Clarendon (hardens, as will
the entire staff of Holly Tree Nur
series, Mr. Howe’s announcement
stated. Mr. and Mrs. Jules Morell
have an apartment in Southern
Pines.
“The combination of these two
organizations will make one of the
largest companies in this business
in North Carolina,” Mr. Howe
said. “The same high quality
work will be maintained and the
complete field'of plant materials
-and landscaping service will be
covered.”
The facilities of Clarendon Gar
dens and Nursery now comprise a
total of 30 acres of landscape ma
terial, Mr. Howe said, with all re
lated equipment to conduct a com
plete landscaping and garden
service. The acreage of scenic
landscaping at the Gardens site
off Linden Road, out of Pinehurst,
surrounds a five-acre lake and
features the slogan, “America’s
Kollyland.”
Mr. Morell, who has been ac
tive'in the Sandhills for the past
30 years, said that it is his ambi
tion to enlarge the famous Holly
Arboretum at Clarendon Gardens
and to otherwise develop the Gar
dens. The Holly Arboretum was
established by Mr. Howe at Mr.
Morell’s suggestion about eight
years ago. He is recognized as an
authority on broad-leafed ever
greens.
During his 50 years as a horti
culturist, Mir. MoreU, who was
born in Germany, has worked in
his native land, in England, in
other European nations, in Egypt,
and at various places in the Unit
ed States.
He came to Southern Pines first
to supervise landscaping at the
Highland Pines Inn, returning as
a permanent seasonal resident
some years later. Mr. and Mrs.
Morell spend their summers at
Peace Dale, R. I.
Mr. Morell ^aduated from a
college of horticulture in Ger
many and gained practical experi
ence in nurseries there and in
England where he was with the
famous Kew Gardens for about
five years, studying and working
with experts. He spent three
years in Egypt and was one of the
men associated with landscaping
the gardens of the famous Mena
House, a hotel near the Pyramids,
which later was the headquarters
for several international confer
ences.
In this country he conducted a
nursery and landscaping service
at Harrisburg, Pa., and later join
ed the Bobbink and Atkins Nur
series at Rutherford, N. J.
After coming to the Sandhills,
Mr. Morell supervised the land
scaping of many of the largest and
handsomest estates in this area, as
well as many other properties.
Through the years, he has contin
ued to supervise landscape work
at numerous estates.
He has introduced to this area
many new species of plants. He
was the first to introduce the Jap
anese holly. He keeps in touch
with gardens and seedsmen and
has done experimental work with
seeds in cooperation with the U.
S. government. He has a fine col-
lection/of color photographs of bo
tanical subjects and his photos, as
well as articles on horticulture,
have appeared in professional
publications.
“I am a plantsman above - all
else.” he said recently. “It is my
hobby to introduce plants. Many
failed, but many also survived.”
Over the years Mr. Morell has
done much volunteer work for the
town of Southern Pines and has
always been interested in beauti
fying the town. He helped super-
on town property. He is currently
ly cooperating with the Southern
Pines Garden Club on a landscap
ing plan around the new high
school.
Organizations of which Mr.
Morell is a member include the
Holly Society of America, the Ca
mellia Society of America, the
Massachusetts Horticultural So
ciety, the North Carolina Associa-,
tion of Nurserymen and the So
ciety of Southern Nurserymen.
CO the high front porch. There is
■no adequate space for interroga
tion, storage or communications
lacdities in the police depart
ment.
The fire station on New Hamp
shire Ave. is too small for the
equipment now housed in it and
providtes no space for proper
storage of hose and ladders, no
meeting or training place for fire
men, and even lacks parking fa-
FUTURE OF
(Continued from Page 1)
again be one of the nation’s best.
“Once we have the roads, the
tourists will come,” he said. “It
is an axiom of this busines that,
when these facilities are provi
ded, they are used.”
He was presented by Mayor
Gilmore as “one of the great
North Carolinians of aU time,
leader for many years in the fight
for better highways, 'how head
ing a highway building program
of a scope to stagger the imagin
ation.”
To Chairman Graham, Com
missioners Lockey and Sorrell
and Director Saunders he made
the first presentations of a spe
cial Southern Pines honor and
appropriate local version of the
“keys to the city.” Each received
a golf club with suitable inscrip
tion on the head.
John L. Ponzer, iKwanis presi
dent, conducted the luncheon
meeting.
DOES THE TOWN
(Continued from Page 1)
lend itself to other public uses.
All this would probably be
under one roof or in adjoining or
grouped buildings. The site,
council recognizes, should be cen
trally located and should provide
adequate off-street parking.
To judge from talk about the
proposal at town hall, the coun
cil would favor a one-story build
ing, or at least one in which all
offices patronized by the public
would be easily accesible on the
ground floor. It would be the
problem of the architect to get
all that the council would like to
put in this municipal center ar
ranged in the most economical
and efficient manner.
Extreme Contrast
The contrast between what is
envisioned in these proposals and
what the town has now in the
way of municipal offices, safe
guarding of records and police
and fire department facilities is
extreme: in fact, some of the pro
posed facilities—ones regarded as
essential in any community the
size of Southern Pines—are al
together lacking.
Notable among such lacks is a
jail. It costs the town about $1,-
000 per year, the city manager
estimates, for Southern Pines to
take arrested persons to the Car
thage jail—not to mention re
moving on these almost nightly
and daily trips a police car and
two officers from the town for
an hour or more at a time. At
night, especially, such absences of
officers and equipment are a
threat to public safety.
A vault for town records is
another essential whose present
lack gives town officials the jit
ters when they think about the
matter.
Maps of the water, sewer and
street systems, engineering draw
ings and other records reposing
in files at the half-century-or-
more-old private residence that
has, with the greatest ineffici
ency and difficulty, been pressed
into service as town hall and po
lice station, could not be replaced
for the $100,000 in the proposed
bond issue, it is estimated. And
many other records are continu
ously subjected to a fire hazard
that few owners of a private busi
ness would tolerate.
A Long List
To a reporter inspecting facili
ties in the administrative, police
and fire departments, the list of
existing dangers, difficulties and
inefficiencies is interminable.
The town hall is fantastically
expensive to maintain. The fur
nace burns more than 30 gallons
of fuel oil daily in the winter,
but its occupants are not always
comfortable on cold days. It
needs painting; chimneys and
porches need repairs, some offices
are bigger than needed, some are
too small; much of the floor
space is unused and practically
unusable; there are no public
toilets and grossly inadeqaute
employee toilet facilities; light
ing is bad. And so on.
The police station is on the sec
ond floor—up winding steep
stairs that have the officers and
the public puffing daily, having
already negotiated the steps up
cilities for volunteers who rush
to the station to ride the truck at
the time of an alarm. Two pieces
of equipment are stored in a
wooden shed at the rar, inclu
ding a pumper which must be
drained of water to prevent dam
age in freezing weather.
The fire station needs repairs.
The piping in it must soon be re
placed. The building, located on
a grade, off a one-way street, is
poorly located to serve its pur
pose, iiremen say.
If the fire station were com
bined with the proposed town
hall and police station facilities,
there would be marked econo
mies in heating, lighting, tele
phone service and administration
—to such an extent that the sav
ings, believes the city manager,
would go a long way in paying
for it. The present fire station lo
cation if sold and privately own
ed, would go back on the tax
books at a valuation of at lea^t
$15,000, bringing in some $250'
per year to both the town and
county in taxes.
So pressing are the needs at
the present town hall location
that, if bonds for a new munici
pal building are not approved, a
considerable sum of money will
have, to be spent to make it even
passably serviceable. Yet it seems
inevitable that this money will
be a great extent wasted as the
old dwelling can’t for very lo.ng
even pretend to serve the needs
of a growing town. As with all
the bond proposals, growth of
the town, in the recent past and
expected in the next 15 or 20
years, is a basic reason for the
work that proposed funds would
do.
The matter of the town’s pride
in its public buildings is a potent
argument for approval of this
particular bond proposal, in the
minds of some citizens. Any town
that prides itself on the impres
sion it makes on the public—es
pecially a resort town—should
present to the public at its town
sahall a less ravaged face than is
possible with the old remodeled
home now in use, they believe.
With such adequate public
buildings as the library, post of
fice, schools and auditorium, it is
poor policy, they say, to inflict
such an inefficient and unsight
ly building as the town hall on
visitors, not to mention ourselves.
ties increase trade.
“Over 20,000 pamphlets have
been printed for nationwide dis
tribution to bring people here. We
sold 2,000 license plates in two
weeks alone. All this activity re
quires capital, so we look forward
to another "'Year of increasing
membership and even grbater ad
vancements.”
mark J. KING
(Continued from page 1)
speech by King thmiking him for
his service of the past year and
noting its accomplishments.
Jerry V. Healy, retiring treasur
er, reported that the audit of 1955
books has not been completed, so
he could not present an official
annual report. However, the un
official figures showed that the
Chamber started its new fiscal
year with a balance of $507.22.
Payment of bills and salaries had
left a current balance of $3J7.35.
He said the Chamber operated
at a deficit last year, and came out
with the nice balance only be
cause it had started the year 1955
with one somewhat larger. The
1955 income totaled $5,794.90,
while expenses were $5,935.90.
Mr. Healy reported on the for
mation of the new North Carolina
Travel Council, which he attended
Monday at Raleigh as representa
tive of the Chamber. Others in
the Southern Pines delegation
were Mayor Gilmore, Mrs. Mattie
Belle Holtzclaw and Mrs. Frank
Cosgrove.
He and Mrs. Holtzclaw both ex
pressed the view that the Travel
Council will fill a great need in
fusing the efforts of Chambers of
Commerce and similar organiza
tions with those of private indus
try and tourist-related businesses
all over the State, for promotion
of tourist travel in North Carolina
and improvement of recreational
and tourist facilities.
COMMITTEES
(Continued from Page 1)
James Hartshorne; publicity, Mrs.
Valerie Nicholson; community
welfare, W. B. (Chick) Holliday;
and community progress, John C.
Ostrom.
Each chairman is requested to
appoint his own committee asso
ciates from the general member
ship, Mr. King said.
Mr. King’s statement follows:
“With a feeling of humility and
appreciation, I rthank the mem
bers of the Southern Pines Cham
ber of Commerce for the privilege
of serving as president for the
year 1956.
“The committees and their
chairmen, we can be confident,
will be a great force in the ad
vancement of the Chamber this
year.
“Two new committees have
been created. The Community
Welfare Committee is expected to
concern itself with matters rela
tive to parking, zoning, traffic and
similar items as they influence
commerce and trade.
“The new Community Progress
Committee is visualized as a liai
son between the commercial life
of the community and youth, as
represented by Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, PTA, the proposed college
and similar activities.
“The Chamber of Commerce
cannot be an expanding, potent
factor in the business life of the
area without the active support of
all business interests. Therefore,
it solicits and welcomes the im
mediate renewal of annual mem
berships of previous members and
the addition of new members who
have not been an active part of
this effort in the past. As the
Chamber grows and expands its
influence, the small dues “are an
unusually small investment for
the steadily increasing advSfitages
of an active Chamber of Com
merce in Southern Ifines.
“The Chamber now has several
active contacts in process aimed
at providing increased permanent
payrolls for this area. That will
increase trade.
“We are actively associated with
the US Highway 1 Association and
other efforts to promote Southern
Pines. Last summer we succeed
ed in bringing the Horseless Car
riage Caravan here for an out
standing convention and commun
ity enterprise. 'The 2nd Annual
Golf Carousel drew great interest
to our town and it will be run
again this year. All these activi-
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fire away from their campsites. A
group of Southern Pines Explor
ers, older boys aiding the adult
leaders in the simulated search for
survivors of a crashed airplane,
also was camped in the area but
they managed to save their equip
ment.
The camping area was near
Cagle’s Lake, off the road that
runs from Pinebluff to the old
sandpit where it intersects with
Highway 15-501-211. The fire
burned a relatively narrow swath
from the campsite southeast to
this road, driven by a strong
breeze out of the northwest.
Breaking out about 12:30 p.m.,
soon after the exercise started and
most of the boys had left the
campsite to search for “survivors,”
the fire was brought under con
trol by 3:30 p.m. Leaders, troop
committee members and all the
Scouts helped fight the fire.
Members of Troop 73 of South
ern Pines and David Drexel of
Southern Pines, camping and ac
tivities chairman for Moore Dis
trict, who planned the exercise in
cooperation with the Civil Air Pa
trol, stayed in the area until al
most dark to guard against a re
currence of the fire and bury in
sand a slab pile that had been
burning.
The exercise had been planned
as one of the most elaborate that
Scouts of this district had ever
had. For the purpose Mr. Drexel
had procured the use of a small
plane, a PT-19, which was placed
at on angle, standing on its nose,
in woods back of the old Chapin
peach orchards now owned by
Earl Auman. At noon a gun went
off and smoke bombs placed near
the plane started pouring forth
smoke as a Civil Air Patrol plane
circled the area.
This was the signal for the ap
proximately 60 Scouts of a half-
dozen units, with a dozen adult
leaders, who were camping in the
woods, to fan out all over search
areas which had been previously
designated on maps. Some were
to follow the smoke signals to the
simulated wreck, others to set up
communications and others to
search for “bodies” or survivors
(dummies previously placed at
strategic points). Rescue work
was to be performed.
Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher of
Southern Pines, Moore District
Scout chairman, was at the simu
lated plane crash to observe the
maneuver and was waiting there
for Scouts to find the plane, when
the fire was discovered. It was.
General Menoher—who drove out
of the area in his jeep over rough
terrain—who summoned the For
est Service personnel, when in
formed of the fire by Mr. Drexel,
using the nearest telephone on the
highway.
Mr. Drexel, also driving over
the maneuver area in a jeep, had
discovered the blaze in the camp
ing. area and relayed the appeal
for the Forest Service to General
Menoher.
The Pinehurst Fire Department
sent a small truck to aid the*
Scouts and Forest Service. Aber
deen land'pinebluff volunteer fire
men were alerted and were stand
ing by ready to go to the area.
Forest Warden Wicker said that
the fire could have been a very
dangerous blaze, had it jumped
the road from the sandpit to Pine-
bluff and swept east from there '
toward Aberdeen.