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VOL. 37—NO. 41
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3a 1956
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS.
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PROPOSED ELEVATION PLANS FOR NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING
Plans For Municipal
Building Presented
To Council On Monday
Tom Hayes, Southern Pines architect, submitted detailed
drawings of the floor plan and the outside elevation of the
new municipal building for Southern Pines to Town Coxmcil
in a special session Monday.
Council immediately voted to place the plans and sketches,
together with a model of the entire block on which the build
ing will be located, on public display.
The model, which is detailed to the scale of the block,
shows the relationship of the new building to the present
facilities in the park and shows where parking areas, tennis
courts and other facilities are located.
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A detailed floor plan of the
new building will be found
on page 8 of this issue of The
Pilot.
FROM 1747 TO 1847
New History Of County In Earliest Days Distributed
To Original Subscribers By Historical Association
After nearly three years of Blue and J. Talbot Johnson of^
preparation, first copies of “A
History of Moore County, 1747-
^ 1847” has been delivered by the
printer and distributed to origi
nal subscribers by the Moore
County Historical Association,
publishers.
The book, a labor of love of
the Historical Association, was
written by Dr. Blackwell P. Rob
inson, professor of history at
High Point College, from a mass
of historical material accumula
ted from various sources by as-
sociation members and others.
E. T. McKeithen of Aberdeen,
member of the association and a
guiding spirit in the compilation
of material for the book, said
this week as copies were being
distributed that the history
would mean a great deal to
Moore County in that it was the
only work available of a good,
sound history of the county.
^ “We deliberately limited the
book to the years prior to the
1840’s because, to bring it beyond
that period would have been a
far too ambitious project for the
association at this time,” he said.
“The job would have been sim
ply terrific and, I’m afraid, just
couldn’t have been as good.
There was a veritable wealth of
material, coming from many
sources and comprising little
i known facts about family con
nections and the like, that had to
be sifted and organized.
“We decided to limit the years
of the history but we are hope
ful that the job will be comple
ted at some later date.”
Members of the association
first decided in 1953 to have the
history compiled. They asked Dr.
Hugh Lefler, a professor of his-
tory at the University of North
Carolina, to suggest someone
suitable for the jbb and he rec
ommended Dr. Robinson.
Dr. Robinson, a prolific writer
who has earned a solid reputa
tion for his historical works (he
was also editor of the “North
Carolina Guide”), spent the sum
mer of 1953 at Paint Hill Farm,
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Ives, preparing a manuscript.
W This past winter the Historical
Association decided to have the
book published and started se
curing the names of subscribers
who would insure the financial
success of the book.
Dr. Robinson, in his preface,
has given credit to the associa
tion, to R. E. Wicker of Pine-
hurst, Mr. McKeithen, Mrs. P. S.
Melvin of Roseboro, Mrs. Jacques
Busbee of Jugtown, H. Clifton
PAPER DISPLAY
A detailed drawing of a
paper-making machine, com
plete with samples of pro
ducts used in the processi, has
been placed on display in the
shop window of The Pilot.
The display, furnished by
ti._ Hammermill Paper Com-
.4^ pany as a public service,
traces the steps in the process
of paper-making from the
pulpwood to the finished pro
duct. Samples of the various
ingredients used are also dis
played.
l^e drawing and samples
will be in the window for a
month. Interested peoi^e may
view the display and an at
tempt will be made to answer
any questions.
Aberdeen, Mjra. Katherine Mo-
Coll and Dan Ray of Southern
Pines, and Miss Meade Seawell
of Carthage, for furnishing time,
advice, and old family records, as
well as other material.
Mr. Wicker, a good historian in
his own right, turned over to Dr.
Robinson material and research
he had collected in more than a
quarter of a century of looking at
old land grants, deeds, will books
and court records; Mr. McKeith
en, who had done research into
the economic, social, religious
and intellectual life of the coun
ty, also turned ov^r his material.
Dr. Robinson also expresed his
acknowledgements to the libra
rians and assistants in the South
ern Pines Library and to Mrs.
Katharine Boyd for her sugges
tions and for the use of the
James Boyd Memorial Room
with its papers on Caroliniana.
Also, he wrote, he was indebt
ed to, Mr. and Mrs. Ives for the
use of their home for a place to
work.
The book has chapters on the
physical setting of the county,
the Indians, the first families to
settle here, the coming of the
“Highland iS'cot,” the Tory Lead
ers, the Alston House, economic,
social and educational life in the
county, and a chapter on church
es of early Moore County.
A wonderful series of appen
dices in the back of the book
deals with early settlers, giving
names, locations and the dates of
their settling here, together with
pernianent 18th century settlers.
Early names, genealogists will
be happy to learn, correspond
amazingly with many still prom
inent in county affairs.
Dr. Robinson has sifted
through the old records and com
piled also a list of officers from
the county who served in the War
of the Regulation, 1770-1771, as
well as a list and brief history of
some of the officers who served
in the Revolutionary War.
Other appendices deal with of
ficers and men who served in the
War of 1812, the War with Mexi
co, and a breakdown of the libra
ries of two prominent men of
the county at that time. The li
brary lists were included. Dr.
Robinson said, to indicate the
literary tastes of the settlers.
He has listed all the early
members of the General Assem
bly from Moore and county of
ficers during the early period,
and the various postoffices of
early dates.
Of tremendous interest will be
a complete listing of the various
owners and tenants of the House
in the Horse Shoe, known famil
iarly as the Alston House.
A supplemental map in the
back of the book shows the
stream names and road locations
of the county from the period
1747-1847. The map, drawn by
R. W. Wicker, is of much help in
locating the historical places of
interest in the county.
Mr. McKeithen said a few
copies of the book are still avail
able and that interested people
should get in touch with him.
CIVIL COURT
Judge Walter Crissman of High
Point will preside at a regular
one-week term of Civil Court for
Moore County beginning Tuesday,
it has been announced.
Collins, Forrest
Advance In County
Golf Tournament
James Collins and Max Forrest
are moving along in the annual
Moore County Golf Tournament
being held at the Southern Pines
Country Club.
Matches played to date show
that Collins, who defeated Perry
Fry in the first round,, defeated
Carlos Fry 2 up in the second
round; Forrest defeated H. G.
Crissman in the first round 4 and
3, and defeated O. T. Parks in the
second, round 1 up.
Those are the only two second
round matches played so far in the
championship flight.
Other results to date:
First flight—Perry Fry defeated
Hubert McCaskill 2 and 1, and
Harry Davis defeated Jere Mc
Keithen 2 and 1.
Second flight—Dave Wagen-
voord defeated Dr. C. R. Vander-
voort 7 and 6; Tom Shockley de
feated Harry Chatfield 3 and 2;
C. A. Rose defeated Charlie Rowe
1 up; Harold Collins defeated Ray
Tarleton 1 up on the 19th hole.
Collins, in a second round
match, defeated Rose 5 and 4 to
move ipto the finals.
Third flight—Bob Strouse de
feated Doug Joslin 1 up; Dr. Watt
Smith defeated E. J. Austin 5 and
4; Jim Besley defeated Jimmy
Mann 3 and 2; and iSfl Comer de
feated Chick Holliday 3 and 1.
Strouse defeated Smith 6 and 5
in a second roimd match.
Fourth flight—Jim Prim defeat
ed Johnnie Hall 2 and 1; Dr. W.
E. Alexander defeated W. L.
Batchelor 5 and 4; and Dr. C. A.
Medlin defeated C. N. Page 3 and
2; and M. R. Wicker defeated
Louis Honeycutt by default.
Dr. Medlin defeated Wicker 2
and 1 in a second round match.
Fifth flight—Henry Graves de
feated Dave Ginsburg 1 up; Bill
Thrailkill defeated W. M. Puckett
2 up; R. L. Comer defeated J. Gil
bert 3 and 2; and Dan Mangrum
defeated T. I. Wilson 2 up.
ThrailkiU defeated Graves in a
second round match 3 and 2.
Sixth flight-r-Buster Patch de
feated C. Hackney 5 and 4; Joe
Steed defeated Bill Saunders 8
and 7; Harry Pethick defeated Bill
Bushby 4 and 2; and John Himne-
mann defeated J. Kirby 3 and 1.
Patch defeated Steed 1 up on 19
holes and Hunnemann defeated
Pethick 6 and 4 in second round
matches.
Seventh flight—Bill Morris de
feated J. W. Smith 8 and 7; Curt
Townshend defeated W. Alpert 2
and 1; J. A. Culbertson defeated
Irie Leonard 6 and 5; H. B. Clark
defeated Aubrey Johnson 4 and 2
in extra match to determine who
played in flight; R. W. McLeod
defeated Clark 5 and 4 in regxilar
match.
Culbertson defeated McLeod 1
up in a second round match.
There are some 65 players in the
tournament. Officials have indi
cated the tournament may be over
within the next two weeks.
All play is being held on the
Southern Pines Country Club
course.
Pinebluff Phone
Loan Approved;
Rates To'Go Up
The North Carolina State Util
ities Commission has authorized
the Pinebluff Telephone Com
pany to borrow $132,000 from: the
Rural Electrification Authority
to build a new telephone system,
it was annoimced Satimday.
At the same time the Utilities
Commission authorized the com
pany to raise its rates in order to
provide a return adequate to
meet the loan requirements.
The new business rates will be
$7.50 per month for one-party
service, and $6 per month for
multi-party service. Present
business rates are $2.75 and $2.50
per month.
Residential rates will be $5 per
-month for one-party service,
$4.25 for two-party, $3.75 for
four-party, and $4 a month for
multi-party service. Present res
idential rates are $2.75 for one-
party service and $2.50 for multi
party service.
The company plans to build a
new system in Pinebluff and will
improve and extend service to
outlying communities in Moore,
Hoke, Richmond and S'cotland
Counties.
F ootball Drills
Will Taper Off
For Game Friday
With some two weeks of prac
tice behind them and rapidly
rounding into ' shape, the Blue
Knight football team will taper
off its two-a-day football drills
about Wednesday of next week in
preparation for the season opener,
Friday, September 7, against Car
thage, Coach Irie Leonard said
this morning.
Starting lineups for the opener
will be announced next week,
Leonard said, adding that as of to
day he has a number of spots on
the team that players are scrap
ping for “hot and heavy.”
One shift has been noted, on the
team—Lynn Van Benschoten, who
played the regular middle-guard
spot last year, has been moved
over to tailback. Van Benschoten
extremely fast, will play the po
sition both on offense and defense.
Looking good in pre-season
workouts to date are Tony Parker,
Billy Hamel, Roger Verhoeff,
James Bowers, Bobby Parker,
Kenneth Creech, Charles Watkins,
John Van Benschoten, Bobby
Watkins and Don Walter. Two
newcomers, transfers from other
schools, who are also brightening
the picture are Sammy Self, wing-
back, and Bob McIntosh, middle-
guard.
Leonard said today he was ex
tremely pleased with, the fresh
men and sophomore members of
the squad who, he said, are “look
ing good enough that some of
them might see a lot of action.”
Weather, which hamperfed drills
a few days earlier, has been fine
lately. “We’ve just been covering
the waterfront, you might say, so
far as drills are concerned,” Leon
ard said. “We’ve been doing a lit
tle of everything.”
A new set of bleachers, purchas
ed with funds from the school ath
letic association and from contri
butions made at the summer soft-
ball games, will be installed in
(Continued on page 8)
New Registration
For School Vote
Picks Up Saturday
Interest among new voters
showed a decided increase this
past Saturday as 110 added their
names to the Southern Pines pre
cinct'book, in preparation for the
special September 8 state-wide
vote on the Pearsall School Plan
Amendments and the November
general elections.
Mrs. Frank Kaylor, registrar,
said this morning that until Satur
day there had been only 37 new
registrations in the two previous
weeks the books had been open.
But interest picked up Saturday
when 110 registered.
She said there still did not ^em
to be a great deal of interest in
the September 8 election.
County-wide the figures were
not available but a spot check in
dicated that registration was not
heavy at any of the other regis
tration places.
Ballots for the September elec
tion are on hand and will be dis
tributed to the various precinct
polling places next week. This
Saturday is challenge day.
Mrs. Kaylor said also this morn
ing that the books would be open
for new registration again Octo
ber 13 in preparation for the No
vember 6 general elections.
Absentee ballots for the Sep
tember election may be obtained
from the chairman of the County
Board of Elections, and are avail
able to people who will be away
from their polling places on elec
tion day, and to those unable to
go to the polling place because of
illness.
Servicemen may also obtain ab
sentee balolts.
Gilmore Parleying
With Adlai, Estes
Today In Tenn.
Mayor Voit Gilmore is among
24 prominent North Carolina
Democratic party members meet
ing with Adlai Stevenson and
Estes Kefauver in Knoxville,
Tenn., today in a closed-door cam
paign strategy meeting.
Mayor Gilmore, who was an al
ternate delegate to the Democratic
convention held two weeks ago in
Chicago, flew with Gov. Hodges’
party from Raleigh early this
morning in planes furnished by
Burlington Industries and Pied
mont Aviation Co., for the trip.
The meeting, which will be at
tended by officials and leaders in
the party from seven Southern
States, is one of a series the can
didates have set up to map cam
paign strategy and sound out va
rious officials on local issues be
fore the campaign proper gets un
der way.
The meeting is not expected to
cause any deviation from party
imity although a number of
Southern governors, including
hard-running, but unsuccessful,
candidate A. B. (Happy) Chandler
(Continued on Page 8)
LABOR DAY
Town offices, county offices,
banks, most businesses and the
post office will be closed Monday,
which is Labor Day.
No special observances of the
day, other than the business and
office closings, have been sched
uled.
All county and town offices will
be open as usual Tuesday morn
ing.
The plan, according to Hayes,
will not require any of the pres
ent recreational facilities to
either be destroyed or moved.
The building, he said, was de
signed with the growth of South
ern Pines in mind. It is planned
in four distinct units; the admin
istrative units, the police depart
ment and jail, the fire depart
ment, and the council chamber.
The administrative area has
been planned to contain the
usual functions of town admin
istration: tax and water depart
ments, city manager’s office, en
gineer’s office, vaults, storage,
the clerk’s office, and a drive
in window for the convenience of
the public.
Hayes said he had made a
complete study of the advisabili
ty of a drive in window and had
found that at least 90 per cent of
all present day municipal build
ings have drive in windows. In
addition, he said, they are gain
ing favor with banks and post
offices.
The jail is designed to accom
modate 16 prisoners.
The fire department, 'which
will be large enough to hold four
trucks plus the facilities needed
to maintain them, is located in
the back of the building. Many of
its facilities will be used “in
common” with the police depart
ment.
The council chamber opens off
a lobby on the front of the build
ing. It is located, Hayes said, so
that it could conceivably be used
in the future for a court room.
Prisoners, in that event, could be
brought directly from the jail to
the room without going through
other parts of the building.
The building is of functional
design and is considered contem
porary architecture. Hayes said
that he worked on two princi
ples; to get as many features as
possible within the economy of
the building and to make those
features completely utilitarian;
and to preserve as much of the
park area as possible.
None of the trees in front of
the building on Broad Street will
of necessity have to be removed,
he pointed out, though a few will
be removed where the parking
area is located.
The building will be located
oractically on the site of the old
building, now being demolished.
Two courts have been incor
porated into the design for the
purpose of preserving a “park”
feeling, Hayes said. He acknow
ledged that Southern Pines had
great pride in its natural beauty
and it was with that thought in
mind, he said, that he tried to
make the building fit into that
scheme of things.
One other thing, he pointed
out, which does not show on the
plans, has been the constant
(Continued on page 8)
BARBECUE
A barbecue kickoH dinn»
will be held Wednesday, Sep
tember 5, at the Southern
Pines Country Club from 6 to
8 pun., sponsored by the Blue
Knights Boosters, it has been
announced.
Price of the dinner, which
is being held to stimulate in
terest and membership in the
Blue Knights Boosters, is
$1.25 per person. Tickets may
be secured from either Gene
Blackwelder or Harry Chat-
field.
The Boosters is composed of
adults interested in building
and maintaining a better in
ter-scholastic athletic program
at Southern Pines High
School.
Man Killed Near
Pinehurst While
Driving Tractor
Galean Goodwill Campbell, 62,
horse triiner for Q. A. Shaw Mc
Kean of Pinehurst, was kiUed in
stantly Tuesday afternoon as he
fell from a tractor and was thrown
into a power mower behind him.
Coroner Ralph Steed ruled the
death accidental and said it was
caused when Campbell was puUed
from the tractor by an unseen
clothes wire and hurled into the
mower.
The body was found some three
hours after the accident.
Campbell, an experienced horse
trainer, moved to Pinehurst from
South Hamilton, Mass., three
years ago to work for Mr. Mc
Kean, a prominent New England
■owner of both race and show
horses, at his “Sandy Woods” es
tate near Pinehurst.
He had worked with horses in
France and England and had
shown horses in several national
shows during his career.
He was bom in Cambridge,
Mass., the son of the late Allen A.
and Margaret 'Wheeler Campbell.
He \s survived by his wife, the
former Margaret Massie of Aber
deen, Scotland; one son, Galean
Massie Campbell of Hamilton,
Mass.; seven brothers; and one
sister.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at 4 p.m. from the
Powell Funeral Home chapel. In
terment wiU be held Friday after-
noon in the Beverley Farms Cem
etery in Beverley, Mass.
Legal Aid Fund
For Jack Key Now
Reported At $712
A legal aid fund for Jack Key,
22-year-old N. C. State College
student being held in Moore
County jail to face a rape trial
for the second time, totaled $712
Wednesday, according to an an
nouncement made by the Rev. C.
J. Andrews, pastor of the Rob
bins Methodist Church and treas
urer of the fund.
Key has been in jail without
privilege of bond since May 27,
the day after he allegedly raped
Miss Martha She Robinson, a 21-
year-old schoolteacher from Bis-
coe. '
Meanwhile, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cole of South Ashe Street,
Southern Pines, said this mom-
ing that she has obtained the,
names of more than 5,000 people
on a petition she has circulated
stating that Key should be freed
from jail.
She said that she had secured
the names from people in 'I^ass,
Lakeview, Southern Pines, San
ford, Aberdeen and Carthage.
She said there -were more
women than men who had signed
the petition. There has been no
indication as to just what she
plans to do with the petition.
Many “group donations” have
been made to the defense fund
for Key, Mr. Andrews said. He
said that money has been receiv
ed from several towns in the
state, including $25, the largest
single donation, from Durham.
As of this morning Key’s at
torneys, H. F. Seawell, Jr., and
W. D. ©abiston of Carthage, had
still not made any moves to sub
mit a petition for a habeas cor
pus hearing before a Superior
Court judge in the state.