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HiAfaHL , '^RotrUixiA ylGl'?ndoo bl^ VOL. 37—NO. 29 Plans Announced To Form Jaycee Club Here Soon Plans for establishing a Junior Chamber of Commerce in South ern Pines will be discussed at an informal organizational meeting ' at the high school library here next Thursday night, June 14, at 8 o’clock, it was announced today. State Jaycee officials, including Bob Cox of Chapel Hill, the state president, met with a group from Southern Pines and members of the Aberdeen Jaycees Monday night to lay the groundwork for the meeting. The Aberdeen group has agreed to sponsor the Jaycees in Southern Pines, according to Russell Batchelor, president. Jim Baird, who has been acting as spokesman for the Southern Pines group, said several state of ficers would also be on hand next Thursday. Included, he said, are John Goode of Winston-Salem, national director for Districts 4 and 5; Tuck Gudger of Charlotte, district vice-president for the fourth dis trict; and Charles Briley of Char lotte, national director for Dis tricts 2 and 7. Basic requirement for member ship in the club is that, a member must be between the ages of 21 and 36. There was a Junior Chamber of Commerce organization in South ern Pines prior to the war but was disbanded in 1941 and has never been reorganized. The Southern Pines group meet ing at Aberdeen last Monday in cluded Baird, Charles R. Myers, David Drexel, Frank Yandell, Da vis Worsham and George Wilcox. Anyone interested in member ship or attending the meeting may call or write Baird at Barnum Realty and Insurance Company. Local Woman Has Two Sons, Son-In- Law Die In Week Tragedy struck the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Hewitt, a longtime resident of Southern Pines, this week. She learned that two of her sons and a son-in-law had died in one week. Mrs. Hewitt’s son-in-law, Jo seph Gajdos of Ravenna, Ohio, who formerly lived in Southern Pines, died Tuesday of last week. Saturday her son, Earl, of Lake Wales, Fla., died, and Monday another son, Thomas, died. Both had often visited her at her home here. Funeral services for the two sons were held today in Pitts burgh. Mrs. Hewitt could not be present but two daughters, Mrs. Lenore Mulholland and Mrs. Emma Warren, attended, along with Mr. and Mrs. George Poole. Lions Club Delegates Attend State Meeting Several members .ot the South ern/Pines Lions club, attended the State convention held at Car olina Beach this past Sunday through Tuesday. Regular delegates were Dave Gamble, Charles Patch, Jr., Don Traylor, and Ranell Thompson. Alternates were William Ba ker, Joe Carter, Jr., Bill Rush and William Spence. twenty pages SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956 TWENTY PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS H ii* tilt J. THE CLASS OF 1956 Southern Pines High School received diplomas at annual commencement exercises in Weaver Audito rium Tuesday night. Pictured, front row, left to right, are Pran ces Stoots, Barbara Brewer, June Bristow, Frances Nall Frazier, Barbara Goodwin, Betty Jean Blackmon, Pat Morrison, Margaret Thomas, and Betty Jo Britt. Second row, left to right, Barbara Williams, James McDonald, Deryl Holliday, Richard Parshley, James Humphrey, Robert Cline, David McCallum, James Prim, and Ann Vann. Third row, left to right, John White, Francis Michael Short, Joseph McDonald, Juhan Pleasants, William Mar- ley, John Ray, Matthew Toia, Herman Smith, and Betty Jo Bar ron. Fourth row, left to right, John Watkins, Winfred Cox, Joseph Diggs, Robert Kennedy, George Patterson, Claude Reams, Paul Kinnison, Jr., John Seymour, and Fay Ratledge. Absent when the picture was made was Jacqueline Davenport. (Photo by Humphrey) Big Docket Will Be Discussed By- Council Tuesday Town Council will meet at the library at 8 p. m. Tuesday night with “about 15 or 16 things on the docket,” according to mana ger Tom Cunningham. Up for discussion will be the adoption of an ordinance to reg ulate charitable solicitations on the streets here, Cunningham said. A large number of people have complained of such prac tices in the past and the discus sion will delve into the steps needed to regulate such solicita tions. Also scheduled are discussions on natural gas, ordinances to reg ulate the placing of awnings and signs over the public sidewalks and zoning ordinances in the business district. Ounningham said that the zon ing discussion will be confine^ mostly to the block surrounded by Massachusetts Ave., Bennett Street, S. W. Broad Stre.et, and Indiana Ave. This is the first meeting the council has had since town of fices moved to its temporary lo cation last week. CANCER DRIVE The cancer drive recently con cluded in Southern Pines went $200 over the quota of $700, ac cording to Mrs. James S. Milliken, chairman. Mrs. Milliken express ed her gratitude today to all con tributors. Reappointed To Hospital Board John S. Ruggles of Southern Pines has been reappointed a member of the North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control, Gov ernor Hodges announced this morning. The board is composed of one member from each Congressional District and three members-at- large. , Mr. Ruggles, who was original ly appointed to the board in 1949 to fill the unexpired term created by the death of a Raeford mem ber, and reappointed to a full four-year term in 1952, is chair man of the N. C. Alcoholic Re habilitation program, which is under the Board of Control. Ruggles was first chairman of the Alcoholic Rehabilitation pro gram, which was started in 1949, and is a member of the Board’s Large Croup of Seniors Honored Tuesday At Awards Day Program Annual honors day program at Southern Pines High School, when outstanding seniors are honored for their achievements during school days, was held in Weaver Auditorium Tuesday morning. Speaking at the program were Bill Marley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marley, the salutatorian, and Bobby Cline, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cline, the valedicto rian. The annual senior class gift this year was in the form of a check which will be used for the school’s bus fund. Previously the seniors had presented the school a punch bowl and silver tray in honor of Miss Pauline Miller, senior advis or, and the sign which stands in McPherson Named Olympic Campaign Funds Chairman The appointment of Garland McPherson of Southern Pines to head the Olympic Fund campaign in Moore County was announced today by George E. Perrin of Greensboro, state chairman. In accepting the appointment McPherson said he was delight ed with the honor and was sure that Moore County would re spond .to the campaign, which seeks to raise approximately three and one-half million dol lars to send a contingent to the games to be held in Melbourne, Australia in November and De cember. ‘‘The Olympic teams have, for many years now, been accepted throughout the world as the best ambassadors this country has,” McPherson said. “In the trying times we are now facing, it is imperative that we send a large group of our best athletes to the games to demonstrate our willing ness to participate in worldwide affairs without political over tones.” , ' i McPherson said he was shoot ing for 100 contributions of $10 each in the county. The contribu tions must be in during June, he jotm Dawm front of the school. The award winners; Janies S. Milliken, Jr., Memorial Award ($50) given to best all- around senior—^Bobby Cline. American Legion Citizenship Medal, given to best citizen of senior class by the American Le gion—John Ray. Rotary Club Improvement Cup, given to the student in high school showing the most improvement— Barbara Brewer. Southern Pines School Service Award, awarded to student who has shown the most unselfish ser vice to the school—John Ray. Charlotte Erson Music Plaque, awarded to the outstanding mem ber of the Glee Club—Jacqueline Davenport. Danforth Foundation Awards, given to the senior boy and girl who show qualities of physical, mental, social and spiritual con duct—Bobby Cline and Jacqueline Davenport. Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Awards, awarded to senior boy and girl who show the most j sportsmanship—Jphn Ray and June Bristow. Beta Scholarship Award ($200) awarded to John Ray. Jimmy Mc Donald, first alternate, and George Patterson, second alter nate. Junior Women’s Club Scholar ship ($100), awmded to Bill Mar ley. Perkinson Scholarship Cup, awarded to valedictorian by Per- kinson’s Jewelry Store — Bobby Cline. H. M. Smith Scholarship Cup, given to salutatorian by Johnnie Hall and Joe Carter—Bill Marley. Balfour Scholarship Medals, given by the Balfour Company— Bobby Cline and Bill Marley. Blue Knights Booster Club Award, given by the Boosters Club to the most valuable mem ber of the baseball team—Johnny Watkins. American Legion Auxiliary Awards (essay contest). First prize ($10) Lucy McDaniel. Second prize, Lillian Bullock, Joan How- Eirth, Howard Morgan, Ginger Woodell. Poppy poster awards: First prize, Jacqueline Davenport; second prize. Ivy Hall; third prize. JOHN S. RUGGLES planning committee. His new appointment is to April 1, 1960. said, and are deductible for tax purposes. Funds raised in the campaign will help send the largest contin gent of athletes ever assembled in this country to the games, inclu ding the equestrian team that trained here in North Carolina. VFW Auxiliary Awards (essay contest). First prize ($5), Jacque line Davenport; second prize ($3), James Prim; third prize ($2), George Patterson. Rotary Club June Phillips Me morial Loan Fimd, given by the Rotary Club—David McCallum. Fi*ee Lance Writer Here Getting Data For Daly Article Harry Kursh, free lance writer of New York, spent four days here this week gathering material for an article in a national maga zine. Kursh has established a repu tation in the magazine world as an exposer of phonies and impos ters. His byline has appeared in Redbook, Bluebook, Coronet, Pageant, True, Argosy and num erous others, and he has written a number of books. He was the author of an article caUed “The Con Men Will Get You” in Mechanix Illustrated, a Fawcett publication, three years ago, in which reference was made to Vkicent J. Daly, late of South ern Pines. The story revealed how Daly, with no formial training in psy chology, secured an internship and then jobs as chief psycholo gist in several state mental hos pitals, even teaching psychology courses in colleges. He was fired from a staff position at the Jack- son, Miss., state hospital when an investigation showed he didn’t have the education and degrees he claimed. In January, 1954, as “Dr. Daly’ he set up private practice of psy chology in Southern Pines. He claimed degrees from Oxford and from an institution at Bern, Swit zerland. He recently disappeared from town following conviction of criminal libel in Moore record ers court. Kursh put in his time here talking with many persons who knew Daly, and ascertaining his methods of operation, also the ways in which he apparently won the confidence of many people. He said he had gathered many facts substantiating previous data from Washington and elsewhere, and that the whole constitutes “an amazing picture.” The writer is a former foreign correspondent, a member of the Overseas Press Club and its Free dom of the Press committee which is aiding investigation of the recent blinding of columnist Victor Reisel by means Of acid thrown in the dark. LITTLE LEAGUE The Southern Pines Little League won its first three games of the season but dropped one Wednesday to Robbins, 16-5. In earlier games they defeated Car thage 18-4, Robbins 8-4,. and Pine- hurst 7-6. Southern Pines who were released were Frank Roberts, a vice-presi dent, and Bill Croxton, Morris Greer, Hal Adams and Wayne Harrison. Roberts, who lives on Valley Road, came with the company when J. P. Stevens Company ac quired the Robbins Mills about two years ago. Whether or not the release of the officials was coupled with the acquisition of the other two plants by Burlington Industries was not explained by company officials. Pacific Mills Acquires Two Amerotron Plants Aberdeen Plant Has No Connnent On Help Changes A terse press release from Am erotron Corporation over the weekend, announcing the acquisi tion by Burlington Industries of two Amerotron plants, has been interpreted as the underlying rea son for a widespread personnel shakeup at the Aberdeen plant. Rumors had been circulating for the past two weeks that Amero tron, which has factories in North and South Carolina and Vir ginia, would lease the two plants to the giant Burlington Industries of Greensboro. R. M. Cushman of Southern Pines, vice-president of Amero tron, reached at his office in Aber deen last Thursday, had no com ment to make either on the sales or on the personnel shakeup, which some sources have said in cluded 18 or 20 in the Aberdeen plant alone. The release over the weekend said: “Amerotron Corporation and Pacific Mills, a member company of Burlington Industries Com pany, Inc., has announced that Pa cific Mills has acquired Raeford Mills at Raeford and the Clarks ville Finishing Plant of Amero tron.” Officials of Burlington Indus tries have not announced any de tails on the acquisition yet. The personnel changes at Amer otron have not been announced “and probably never will,” one of ficial, who did not want his name used, said. Among those from Board Names Hall New Assistant To County FarmAgent Thomas Hall, who graduated last week from North Carolina State College, has been appointed assistant county agent, it was an nounced Monday by the Board of Commissioners. Hall, a graduate of. both the agronomy and horticulture de partments at the college, is a na tive of Georgia. He succee(ls Fleet Allen, who was appointed agent when' E. H. Garrison, Jr., resigned in May. A veteran of eight years in the Navy, Hall and his wife, a native North Carolinian, will make their home in Carthage. Summer Softball League To Begin Here On Tuesday The adult softball league,, part of the summer recreation pro gram here, gets under way Tues day night at 7:15 with.two games, according too Irie Leonard, di rector of the program. Seven teams are entered in the league, with games scheduled twice each week on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Managers of the teams are: Airmen, Master Sergeant Razor; Officers, Capt. William J. Ryan; Carolina Power and Light, Char lie Horton; North Carolina Cath olic Laymen’s Association, Dick Kobleur; Church of Wide Fellow ship, Gene Blackwelder; South ern Pines Lions Club, Bill Spence;; and National Guard, Capt. BiU Wilson. Commissioners of the league are Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher and Carl Holt I Admission to the games, to be played at Memorial Field, is free, Leonard said but a small donation will be collected to help pay for lights and new bleachers. Rained-out games will be play ed the following night. Chamber Of Commerce Closes For One Week The Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce closed Wednesday at noon and will be closed through next Wednesday. Mrs. S. D. Fobes, secretary, who is also in charge of the li cense bureau maintained at the Chamber’s offices, has been granted a week off to attend the wedding of her daughter. 'The office will open as usual Thursday, June 14. ^Case Dismissed^ It was one of those things you read about in the short, short stories used to fill up small spaces left over in the magazines. Leroy Jones, a Negro painter, had been doing some work for Miss Annie Batchelor of Cameron. She had taken $67, aU the money she had, and put it in her billfold ... $25 for Jones in the regular place for bills, and the other in the secret compartment. When Jones finished his work late in the day. Miss Batchelor' had extracted the $25, thanked him and paid him off. He would be back next day, he said, to work some more. But he might be late. Next morning Miss Batchelor went to the hardware store to buy some more paint. When she got ready to pay for it, she look ed in her “secret” compartment but found nothing. She swore out a warrant for Jones’ arrest. No one else had been in the house, she said, so it was a foregone conclusion that Jones had stolen the money. He denied it. That was May 18. Jones was put in jail. In court Monday, Miss Batchelor took the stand and told of her careful hiding of the money. She was sorry, she said, that she had to accuse Jones. He was a good worker and she had be lieved him to be honest. She retraced her actions in hiding the money, produced the billfold for a better demonstration, and said she was still sorry to have to accuse Jones. Herbert Seawell, no piker when it comes to use of dramatics in the course of defending his clients, was representing Jones. He examined the wallet. Judge J. Vance Rowe remarked as to how it would be a very nice thing indeed if he discovered the money. Miss Batchelor said it certainly would. “I’ll give you half if you do,” she said. Seawell, acting like a magician about to pull a rabbit out of a hat to the accompaniment of a continuous line of banter, asked what the bills were. “A twenty, two tens and two ones,” Miss Batchelor said. With a gesture that would have done justice to the great Blackstone, Seawell reached down, tugged at the bottom of a lit tle pocket in the wallet . . . and started counting: “One twenty, two tens and two ones.” Miss Batchelor was contrite. She apologized to Jones. He could, she said, work for her anytime, although she wouldn’t blame him one whit if he didn’t. Seawell walked over to his client. “Your Honor,” he said, pointing one finger skyward, “When I was in law school w4 used to end such cases as tMs by gaylng, T move the case be dismissed.’ ” Case dismissed.
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