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VOL. 37—NO. 28
Sheriff McDonald
Named President
Historical Group
Reports Indicate
Alston House Work
Nearly Completed
Sheriff C. J. McDonald was
elected president of the Moore
County Historical Association
succeeding Mrs. Ernest L. Ives at
a meeting of the association’s
board of directors in the library
here Tuesday night.
Mrs. Ives was elected first vice-
president.
Other officers include Superior
Court Judge W. A. Leland Mc-
Keithen of Pinehurst, second
vice-president; Mrs. Katherine N.
McColl of Southern Pines, third
vice-president; Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., Southern Pines, reelected
treasurer; and Mrs. L. T. Avery,
also of Southern Pines, reelected
secretary. The board has asked
Miss Flora McDonald of Carthage
to serve as recording secretary.
At the meeting, held in the
James Boyd Room of the library,
a detailed accounting of the prog
ress of work on the Alston House
was made by George Maurice.
Reconstruction of the historical
house, one of the association’s
main projects, is about finished,
Mr. Maurice reported, including
painting of both the inside and
outside.
The association was also in
formed that the collection of au
thentic furniture for the house
has been started and that some
pieces probably would be placed
in the house within the next
month.
A fence, which has been pur
chased by the association to en
close the house and grounds, is
ready to be put up and shotild be
in place within the next 10 days.
KHlen Hancock, who owns the
farm around has agreed to erect
the fence without charge.
A report on the shrubbery
which was planted by members
of the Southern Pines Garden
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Final Exercises
At West Southern
Pines School Held
Nineteen seniors at West
Southern Pines High School re
ceived diplomas in annual gradu
ation exercises Wednesday night
in the school auditorium. John
Howarth, chairman of the South
ern Pines Board of Education,
made the presentations.
The awarding of diplomas was
preceded by the annual com
mencement address, delivered by
Mrs. Mary Hopkins, professor of
English at Livingstone College in
Salisbury. Mrs. Hopkins, who
also heads the drama department
at the school, weis introduced by
J. W. Moore, principal.
Commencement exercises at
the school started Sunday with
the annual baccalaureate sermon'
delivered by the Rev. H. S. Diggs,
pastor of the Providence Baptist
Chxrrch in Rockingham. He
spoke on “Life’s Unexpected
Crosses,” and urged the gradu-
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TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 31. 1956
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
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HONOR GRADUATES of the Class of 1956 at Southern Pines
High School are Robert Edward Cline, right, valedictorian, and
William Howard Marley, salutatorian. Both have attained a gen
eral average of 90 or above each year in high school. Cline is
first honor graduate. (Emerson Humphrey photo)
37 Seniors To Receive Diplomas In
Graduation Exercises Next Tuesday
Th'rty-seven seniors at South
ern Pines High School will re
ceive diplomas in exercises at
Weaver Auditorium Tuesday
night.
The class, termed one of the
best in the history of the school,
begins a full three-day program
of events Sunday night at 8:15
with the annual commencement
sermon at the Church of Wide
Fellowship. Dr. E. Daryl Kent,
dean of Guilford College, wiU de
liver the sermon.
Graduation exercises wiU be
held in Weaver Auditorium at
8:15 Tuesday night. Dr. Harold
H. Hutson, president of Greens
boro College, will be the speaker.
The Honors and Awards Day
exercises, at which time the vari
ous awards and other prizes won
by students during the year will
be presented, is scheduled for
Tuesday morning at 10:30, also in
Weaver Auditorium.
On the program for the com
mencement sermon Sunday will
be Dr. Wofford C. Timmons, pas
tor of the Church of Wide Fellow
ship, who will deliver the invoca
tion and introduce the speaker;
the Rev. David Hoke Coon, Hirst
Baptist Church minister in South
ern Pines, scripture reading; and
the Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector
of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in
Southern Pines, benediction.
'Several selections of music by
Wanted: A Town To Adopt
A group of Southern Pines citi
zens would like to stretch a long
arm of friendship to a foreign
town but they’ve run into a de
laying problem—which town?
Meeting at the library Tuesday
night the group, working towards
a program of town affiliation, also
known as “town adoption,” decid
ed to ask for suggestions on the
final decision as to which town to
become affiliated with. Several
foreign towns were suggested to
the group as a starter.
Lt. Col. Paul Kinnison, chair
man of the group, said it should
be made clear at the outset that
the program is not designed to re
quire any form of financial con
tributions to support it. Town
affiliation, he said, is primarily
of a cultural relationship. It
should be, he added, as much as
possible a “two-say street” with
Southern Pines contributing what
it could to the end that each of
the towns would know each other
better as neighbors and as friends.
Col. Kinnison, acting on behalf
of the group, has forwarded a let
ter to the State Department in
Washington asking information as
to the possibilities of affiliating
with a country behind the Iron
Curtain. Such a program has
never been attempted so far as
any of the members knew.
If the letter from the State De
partment is encouraging, and
Southern Pines could correspond
with a town behind the curtain,
it probably would be the first
town in the country to do so, it
was pointed out.
Col. Kinhison said that every
one is invited to suggest a town.
All will be considered. The Pilot
is printing a blank today with
spaces provided for such sugges
tions. The blanks may be mailed
either to Mrs. Stanley Lamboume,
librarian or to the Pilot office.
'They wiU be turned over to the
committee for study.
Help Choose the Town! Blank on Page 8
DR. HUTSON
the Junior High School chorus
and the high school choir wiU be
rendered.
Dr. Kent, who will deliver the
sermon, attended Guilford College
where he is presently the Dean of
Men, a position he has held since
1946.
He received his divinity degree
at Hartford Seminsiry in Connec
ticut and his Ph.D. at Columbia
University. During World War 2
he served as a Naval chaplain.
Graduation Exercises
At graduation exercises ■ Tues
day night the Rev. Robert L.
Bame, pastor of the First Meth
odist Church in Southern Pines,
will give the invocation.
John M. Howarth, chairman of
the Southern Pines school board,
will introduce Dr. Hutson, the
principal speaker.
Dr. Hutson, a native of South
Carolina, has been president of
Greensboro College since 1952.
Prior to that he had taught at
Wofford College, the University
of Chicago, Birmingham-Southern
College, and was chairman of the
Department of Religion at Ohio
Wesleyan University. He has al
so held pastorates in several
churches.
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Ford Foundation
Makes Grants To
County Hospitals
Total of $34,700
Made Available
For This Year
A check in the amount of $25,-
950 was received from the Ford
Foundation this week by Moore
County Hospital, one-haif of the
foundation’s grant to help the
hospital improve and extend its
services.
St. Joseph-of-the-Pines Hospi
tal, Southern Pines, received a
check for $8,750, half the $17,500
allotted that institution.
These gifts are from the foun
dation’s $200,000,000 grant to as
sist the nation’s 3,500 voluntary,
non-profit hospitals. The balance
of the gifts is expected to be paid
on March 15 next.
Under terms of the grant, final,
decision as to the use of the mon
ey is left to the hospitals’ govern
ing boards. 'The only condition
made by the foundation in its
original announcement of the
grant last December, was that the
funds could riot be used for repay
ing past obligations or “operating
expenses for services currently
being performed by hospitals.”
Thomas A. Howerton, Adminis
trator of Moore County Hospital,
said that in making formal appli
cation for the grant, it had in
formed the foundation of possible
uses of the rnoney. A priority list
is now being made up for consid
eration at a meeting of the Exec
utive Committee on the hospital’s
Board of Directors, to be held
soon. A list, of projects approved
by the comiriittee then wiU be for-
yarded to the Ford Foundation for
its approval.
On the list to be considered by
the Executive Committee are:
New elevator to replace one
which has been in operation for
2614 years; emergency power gen
erator; new equipment for X-ray
department; new kitchen equip
ment; replacement of some bed
room furniture; new roof over
older portions of hospital; miscel
laneous equipment, and needed
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Sandhill Peach
Growers Approve
Crop Assessment
North Carolina peach growers
have apparently passed a referen
dum assessing themselves approx
imately $1 per acre to help pro
mote the sale of peaches.
Results of the special referen
dum, conducted among members
of the North Carolina Peach
Grower’s Society Tuesday, were
not immediately known, but sev
eral prominent peach growers
said the vote had undoubtedly
been favorable.
The referendum was originally
scheduled for last year but a crip
pling freeze wiped out the peach
crop and members of the society
decided to hold it this year.
The growers were asked to vote
whether or not they would assess
themselves one cent per tree over
four years old “to promote and
stimulate research, consumption
and utilization of North Carolina
peaches.”
In one voting place a total of 32
growers voted and all were favor
able.
Taking p'art were farmers from
Union, Montgomery, Moore, Hoke,
Richmond and Anson Counties.
W. C. Capel, president of the
society, could not be reached for
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Town Tax Rate Stays At $1.75;
Hayes Firm Will Design Center
Job Of Tearing
Town Hall Down
To Be Awarded
Two important preliminary
moves toward construction of a
new municipal center were made
by the town council in a special
meeting Wednesday night.
The council chose the Thomas
T. Hayes architectural firm, a lo
cal business, as architects for the
project and it authorized City
Manager Tom E. Cunningham to
demolish and salvage the existing
town hall by awarding a contract,
after public advertisement, to the
riighest bidder.
Previously discussed in an in
formal meeting, the choice of ar
chitect was the. last temaining
major step to be taken to get the
municipal center project imder-
way. The center is planned to
consist of administrative offices,
police station, jail and fire sta
tion, and wiU be built with $100,-
000 authorized for the purpose in
a bond election earlier this year.
Site of the center, recently chos
en* by the council, will be the
town park block where the pres
ent town hall, an old residence,
stands.
In employing the Hayes firm as
architects, the council directed
that as many trees as possible on
the block be left standing and that
the architect furnish the council
with a model of the building, as
well as architectural plans.
Mr. Cunningham said that he
and T. T. Hayes, Jr., head of the
local firm, also plan to visit three
or four recently built municipal
centers in North and South Caro
lina, to aid the architect in his
planning.
Specifications for the jail will
be obtained from the North Caro-
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GOC BUILDING DAY ^
Saturday wiU be “building day”
for the Southern Pines Groimd
Observer Corps. The new' post
will be located on the Boyd estate
on Connecticut Avenue exten
sion, said David Drexel, Moore
County supervisor for the' GOC,
who added that “visitors, helpers
and kibitzers will be welcome.”
Chamber Office
Closing For Week
The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce office and the automo
bile license bureau there will be
closed from .Thursdriy, June 7,
through Wednesday, June 13, it
was announced this week by offi
cials of the organization.
The board of directors voted
several weeks ago to close the of
fice during that period so that the
secretary, Mrs. Frances B. Fobes,
could take time off to attend her
daughter’s wedding.
Mrs. Fobes suggested today that
anyone who had stencils to be run
for June to bring them in as soon
as possible.
The office will reopen June 14.
Insect Spraying
Program Planned
.In a special meeting Wednes
day night, the town council au-«
thorizd City Manager Tom E.
Cunningham to make arrange
ments for a town-wide fog-type
spraying program for control of
insects, to begin as soon as pos
sible.
Mr. Cunningham said that he
would undertake the spraying
after consultation with a State
board of health entomologist and
that it would be done on a con
tract basis. The town does not
own spraying equipment.
One coverage of the town is ex
pected to last several weeks in
controlling insects. Mr. Cunning
ham said that complaints about
mosquitoes have been made fre
quently this .year. The spraying
was first discussed by the council
last fall after gnats had been par
ticularly troublesome last sum
mer.
Mr. Cunningham said that pub
lic announcement would be made
when the spraying is actually to
be done. The light fog-type spray
is said to be harmless to human
beings and animals.
A. PAUL KITCHIN
Paul Kitchin Beats
Deane In Eighth
District Primary
(See tabulation, page 19)
A. Paul Kitchin, Wadesboro at
torney and former member of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
unseated veteran Congressman C.
B. Deane of Rockingham by
slightly more than 4,000 votes in
Saturday’s Democratic primary.
Kitchin, speaking from his
home shortly after the outcome
of the hotly-contested race was
determined, credited the race
question for his victory, though
he insisted he personally had not
qjade racial segregation an issue
in the campaign.
"I think,” he said, “that Mr.
Deane’s refusal to sign the South
ern Manifesto played a large part
in m.y victory.”
Deane, who first went to Con
gress in 1947 after winning the
seat left vacant when W. O. Bur-
gin of Lexington died, said he
had “no regrets” for not signing
the controversial Manifesto.
“The stand I took during the
campaign and before was right,”
he said. “In all sincerity I could
not have done otherwise.” '
Kitchin, as had been predicted,
was strongest in the southern end
of the 12-county district. He rack
ed up victories in Anson, Mont
gomery, Union, Scotland, and
i^chmond, Deane’s home county,
in the south, and in Lee.
His biggest margin was in
Richmond, where he polled 2,999
more votes than peane. In his
home county of Anson, his mar-
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PICNIC PLANNED
A picnic for members of Sun
day School classes at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church will be held
Wednesday, June 6, at Pinebluff
Lake. All children and parents
at the church are invited to at
tend and are asked to bring picnic
lunches. Cold drinks Emd des
serts will be furnished.
Nurse'ii^cholarship Awarded
\
Mable Davis, one of the seniors
who graduated from Elise High
School in Robbins this week, has
been awarded the Sandhill Veter
ans Association nursing scholar
ship for 1956, officials of the SVA
have announced.
Miss Davis, daughter of Mi.
and Mrs. Clarence W. Davis of
Robbins, has agreed, in return for
the scholarship which will cpver
all expenses of a full nurse’s
training course, to nurse in
Moore County for at least one
year after graduation.
Alternate winner of the schol
arship, given annually by the as
sociation, is Maggie Elizabeth Mc
Kenzie, of Route 1, West End,' a
senior at Pinehurst High School.
During the past year Miss
Davis has been a member of the
Monogram Club, the future
Homemakers of America, the 4-H
Club and the school's annual
staff. In making her application
for the scholarship she listed her
lifelong ambition as nursing.
Two girls who are presently in
training on the SVA scholarships
are scheduled to graduate this
year. They are Mary C. Stewart,
who graduates from Mercy Hos
pital in Charlotte, and Velma
Richardson, who graduates from
the High Point Memorial Hospi
tal.*
Promotion Fund
Of 12,000 New
Item In Budget
(More about'the budget, page IQ)
A town budget that anticipates
revenues and expenditures of
over $300,000 in the 1956-57 fis
cal year, and which continues the
tax rate at the present $1.75 per
$100 of property valuation, was
adopted by the town council in a
special meeting Wednesday
night.
Two important items were
added to the next fiscal year’s
expenditures, before the budget
was approved. The council upped
the appropriation for town pro
motion and advertising from $500
to $2,500, and directed the mana
ger to rebudget an $8,000 item
for replacement of the'tractor at
the sanitary land fill. Under this
change, the $8,000 would be used
for the first of three years’ lease-
purchase payments on both the
tractor and a $10,000 street
sweeper.
The council’s action gives City
Manager Tom E. Cunningham the
authority to make lease-purchase
arrangements for both of the
pieces of equipment, but does not
obligate him to get them both.
The motion to get both the items
on a lease-purchase plan speci
fied that it be done within the
budget as submitted and with
provision for a pre-payment plan
without penalty.
Actual cost of the land fill trac
tor would be $12,000 and of the
street sweeper $10,000, a total
of $22,000 wriich the manager
said could be budgeted, with in
terest, Over a period of three
years at about $8,000 per year.
Wednesday night’s meeting
was the last the council will hold
in the old town hall'. Town offices
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City Offices Now
In New Quarters
On N. E. Broad St.
All departments at to-wn hall
packed up Tuesday, and moved
Wednesday to temporary quarters
in the former 'WEEB studios on
N. E. Broad St.
A holiday on Wednesday facili
tated the move. The police station
operated continuously, with a tel
ephone operating in both old and
new offices during part of the
day.
Telephone numbers for aU de
partments remain the same in the ,
new quarters as in the old.
The town is paying $75 per
month for the temporaiV offices.
The offices will be in the new
air-conditioned quarters pntil
completion of the municipal cen
ter buildings which will be locat
ed in the park block. The present
town Mall wiU be demolished.
Bids on the job wiR be asked
through a legal advertisement to
appear in next week’s Pilot.
Installed in the temporary quar
ters are the police station and
chairs for the magistrate’s court;
City Manager Tom E. Cunning
ham, administrative secretaries
and machines. Town Clerk Louis
Scheipers, Jr., and Safety Engi
neer 'William J. Wilson. Mr. Cun
ningham and Mr. Scheipers share
an office at the rear of the build
ing.
The only town function that
will not be carried on in the tem
porary quarters is council meet
ings, because of the lack of space.
■Where the council will meet had
not been settled today, but pos
sible places for the sessions, said
the city manager, are the Civic
Club, the library or a school
building.
Where state and federal agency
representatives, who have been
going to the old town hall, wiU
now meet the public was not set
tled today, except that the driv
er’s license exsuniner wiU be at
the old building tomorrow (Fri
day).
Plans had not been worked out
today for the meeting place of the
Social Security representative
from Fayetteville or the state’s
Unemployment Compensation
Commission representative.
When these meeting places are
kno-wn, announcement will be
made in The Pilot.