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VOL. 3a—NO. 16
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1957
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
Dr. Malcolm Kemp To Head INewly
Formed County Mental Health Assn.
An interested gathering, obvi
ously eager both to learn and to
act, attended the organization
meeting of the Moore County
Mental Health association, held
Monday at Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church, Southern
Pines.
Some 75 persons attended, rated
“excellent” in view of cold, wet
weather and several conflicts. Be
fore the close of the evening,
about 30 had added their names
to the 47 already listed as dues-
paid members.
Following the open meeting,
at which Dr. Charles R. Vernon,
of the psychiatric staff at Chapel
Hill, was the provocative guest
speaker, the membership remain
ed for presentation of a slate of
officers, who were unanimously
elected.
These were Dr. Malcolm D.
Kemp, Southern Pines and Pine-
bluff, president; Rev. F. Eugene
Deese, Aberdeen, first vice-presi
dent, also , in charge of prograins;
Harry FuUenwider, Southern
Pines, second vice-president, also
in charge of membership; secre
tary, Mrs. Edith McLeod, Car
thage; treasurer, John F. Hunne-
man, Sout’ em Pines; and other
members of the board, L. M. John
son, Aberdeen; Dr. EmUy S. Tufts,
Pinehurst, and Rev.. Martin Cald
well, Southern Pines.
Dr. R. M. McMillan, temporary
chairman of the group during the
groundwork-laying period, pre
sided until election of a president.
Dr. C. K. Ligon of the host church
asked an invocation.
Dr. Vernon, the guest speaker,
whose topic had been announced
as “The Commimity’s Responsi
bility in Mental Health,” said that
instead he would talk on “Chang
ing Attitudes”—in the commun
ity, and everywhere. He traced
attitudes toward mental illness
through several eras—the ancient
Greeks, with their broadminded
ness; the Middle Ages, and their
“evil spirits”; a more recent pe
riod when mental iUness was
looked on as a shame and dis
grace; anc^ today, when the en
lightened recognize it as “the ill
ness of civilization.”
The complexities of modem so
ciety provide fertile soil for the
growth of the frustrations and
anxieties which all of us support,
and cope with, in some degree,
but which in many cause mental
and emotional Uls.
As to the cause and cure. Dr.
Vernon said simply, “I don’t have
those answers.” The scientific
frontier is pushing forward slow
ly, but as is usual with new con-
(Continued on page 8)
PINEHURST FORUM
High Army Official To Discuss
MiiEast Problem Next Thursday
Lieutenant General Clyde D.
Bddleman, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Military Operations, will
speak at the Pinehurst Forum
next Thursday (March 14) on
f^lhe. United States and Collec-
ttve Security.”
Special emphasis wiU " be
placed on the current Middle
East situation by Gen. Eddle-
man, who has been close to the
planning during the recent criti
cal months.
A native of Omage, Texas,
Gen. Eddleman is a graduate of
West Point and one of the
Army’s outstanding planning
i^eciahsts. He worked his way
ttirough the ranks, but rose rap
idly when this coimtry entered
World War 2. He served with the
Sixth Army during the South
Pacific campaigns and was later
assigned to occupation forces in
Japan.
Among his other assignments
have been chief of the Plans Di
vision of the Army, a member of
the Armed Forces Staff College,
and commanding officer of the
Army War College.
He has been decorated with
ttie Distinguished Service Medal,
the Silver Star, the Legion of
Merit, the Bronze Star and the
' GEN. EDDLEMAN
Philippine Distinguished Service
Star.
His talk, the seventh in the
current series of ^est lecturers
and musical artists for the Fo
rum, wUl be preceded by the
weekly buffet supper in the
Country Club dining room, for
which advance table reservations
are required.
WSP OVER TOP
IN MOD DRIVE
For the second straight
year West Southern Pines
has contributed double its
quota in the annual March
of Dimes campaigm .
J. C. Hasty, in his second
year as drive chairman for
the community, said he was
"elated" at the response to
the drive. West Southern
Pines' quota was $100. Total
raised, $200.09.
Contributions were as fol
lows: West Southern Pines
school, $50; First Baptist
Church, $15; Free Will Bap
tist Church, $11.47; Bible
Church of God, $2.77; St.
James Lutheran Church, $9;
Emmanuel Presbyterian
Chtirch, $8.20; Refuge
Church of God, $13.50; Trin
ity A. M E. Zion Church,
$48.84; Church of God in
Christ, $15.05; coin banks,
$16.26; and individual dona
tions, $10.20.
Suicide Attempt
Brings Tragedy ‘
To Farm Family
StiU cbnging to life by a thread,
John Baptist Comer, 38, lies in a
coma in Memorial Hospital,
Chapel HiU, following a suicide
attempt Saturday night, February
21.
Comer, who lived with his wife
and family of seven children in a
house he rents from R. P. Beasley
of Vass, on Route 1 between Sky
line and Lakeview, shot himself
in his home late Saturday night
in a fit of despondency over his
inability to get work. The near-
fatal shot entered the brain but
did not penetrate a vital area,
i Medical opinion was that complete
I recovery - was unlikely and sur
vival itseR uncertain; he remains
in critical condition.
Reconstruction of the event
shows that Comer had been in
low spirits for months. A skilled
carpenter, he was laid off last
Christmas from the job in Greens
boro to which he had been com.-
muting during the week. He had
tried in vain to find work in
Floriday in South Carolina, at Ft.
Bragg, and locaRy.
Said Mrs. Comer: “Everywhere
he went, seems like it was the
same thing. They’d tell him: The
weather’s been so bad we had to
quit; come back next week,’ so
he’d wait a while longer, and all
that time nothing coming in and
we ooiddn’t be paying up some of
the debts we still owed from the
year he tried raising tobacco. But
he wouldn’t ever take help. ’The
neighbors, they offered it: food
and things; they knew we were
having it hard, but he wouldn’t
take anything.”
Saturday night. Comer was out
late and “talked wild when he
came in.” His wife got up and
(Continued on Page 8)
Walter Davenport,
Famed Journalist,
Moves To Sandhills
Movies To Film Steeplechase
Buys Home In
Pinebluff For
Semi-Reliremeni
Walter Davenport, one of the
nation’s top journalists and as
sociate editor-colunmist of Col
lier’s Magazine until it ceased
publication recently, has pur
chased a home in Pinebluff
where he and Mrs. Davenport
will become “semi-retired.”
The home, “Cedarcote,” was
sold by Cad Benedict, executor
of the estate of his mother, Mrs.
Mary C. Benedict, who died last
September. It was buUt about 40
years ago by Mrs. J. A. Cadwal-
lader of Titusville, Pa., Mrs. Ben
edict’s mother, and was used by
her as a winter home until her
death in 1936. The house has
been occupied since as the per
manent home of Mrs. Benedict.
Mrs. Davenport, in ’The Pilot
office this week, said that ‘TVIr.
Davenport and the furniture”
would arrive from Winstead,
Conn., their former home, about
March 25. “We expect then to
make it our full-time home,” she
added.
Mr. Davenport, who conducted
the wonderfuUy humorous “48
States of Mind” column in Col
liers, got his start in the maga
zine field in 1923 as a co-founder
of Liberty Magazine. He has
(Continued on page 8)
Pilot Will Join
News & Observer
In Farm Contest
The Pilot this week became a
co-sponsor with the Raleigh
News and Observer of that news
paper’s Farm Income Contest,
with -162 cash prizes totaling
$6,900 to be spread over a 54-
coimty area.
The Pilot win provide an addi
tional $50 in prizes to be awarded
farmers who enter the oontest
from Moore County.
'The contest, designed to encour
age farmers to boost their in
comes with new and improved
methods of farming, has attracted
widespread interest in the area it
covers. The News and Observer
initiated it when farmers were
notified they would face a 20 per
cent cut in tobacco acreage allot-
mfents this year.
The Pilot will follow the con
test closely in this county with
feature stories and items of news
interest about farmers who have
entered. .
Entry blanks may be secxured
from either the Coimty Agent’s
office or direct from the Farm
Editor of the News 2ind Observer
in Raleigh.
The 10th annual Stoneybrook
Steeplechase, scheduled for the
Stoneybrook Stable track March
23, wUl be shot in full color by
a crew from Movietone-News, it
has been learned here. The film
wUI be distributed over the en
tire country.
According to Chris Wood, Jr.,
of the United Hunts Racing As
sociation, which sanctions the
local steeplechase, the scenes wUl
culminate a color film dealing
with steeplechase racing in this
coimtry which has been two
years in the making.
Preceding the filming of the
actual races, the crew wUl shoot
scenes of the Moore County
Hounds in the field and various
phases of training activities at
Walsh’s farm.
IM Earlier portions
of the film, which
were made at
Belmont Park in
New York, show
F. D. “Dooley”
Adams of Souto-
ern Pines win
ning the Temple
Gwathmey
Steeplechase on Mrs. Ogden
Phipps’ “Ancestor.” A highlight
of the United Hunts at Belmont
Park Meeting, the $50,000 added
steeplechase was the final vic
tory for Adams. Rated by experts
as the coimtry’s top steeplechase
rider, he retired to enter the
Jockey Club’s school for racing
officials and eventually serve in
this division of thoroughbred
racing.
Burke Davis, Author And G)lumnist,
To Address Historical Association
Broilers And Layers Worth $8 Million Yearly To County
Chickens are big business in
Moore County.
Though 1956 statistics are not
available, the county had estima
ted gross receipts of six to eight
mUlion doUars from the poultry
industry and ranked third in the
state broiler and egg production.
'The gross receipts figures may,
however, be misleading. Poultry
operators—there are some 1,000
broiler producers in the coimty
and an undetermined number of
egg producers—were lucky last
year if they broke even in a mar
ket that fluctuated erratically or,
as one producer put it, “not up
and down, just down.”
To understand the industry
with its complex “vertical plan”
arrangement, 50-50 tenant-land-
owner plan and several others
would require a great deal of
hard study and months of field
work. It is not so difficult, how
ever, to understand that Moore
County farmers who depend on
poultry for a livelihood are
afraid something is happening to
the lush days during World War
2 when chicken prices were high
and so were bank accounts.
The industry got Its start in
the county just as the war broke
out. Some attribute the sudden
QUALITY BIRDS is the yardstick of Dave
Drexel, who 'operates WhitehaU Poultry Com
pany in Southern Pines. Drexel has developed
his flock, considered one of , the finest in the
state, by using new methods and keeping up
with the programs suggested by poultry specialr
ists. He is one of the few operators who aUows
his flock to go on the “range,” believing it
makes for a better egg.
growth to the extremely heavy
demand that lay ahead; others
say it was the climate; still oth
ers lay the growth to the fact
that Moore County is composed
primarily of small farms and
producing broilers and eggs does
not take much land.
They point out, for instance,
that it takes two and one-quarter
pounds of feed to put a pound of
weight on a broiler as against
four pounds of feed to put a
pound on a hog. In one chicken
house a farmer can keep as many
as 10,000 broilers: it would take
considerably more space than a
(Continued on page 17)
Burke Davis, authca: and news
paperman, wiR be the speaker at
the next meeting of the Moore
Coimty Historical Association
scheduled for eight o’clock Mon
day' night, March 11. i
The county group will meet in
the Southern Pines Library, under
the chairmanship of Sheriff
Charles J. McDonald, president of
the association.
The visiting writer, who is from
Greensboro, is the author of two
outstanding biographies of South
ern generals; Stonewall Jackson
and Robert E. Lee, the “Grey
Fox” of the book of that title
which was a best seUer for many
months following publication
more than a year ago.
Davis is also known throughout
the state for hife daily column,
“Raleigh Notebook,” which ap
pears in the Greensboro Daily
News,’ for which he’ is ' a staff
writer. Covering in trenchant
style the doings and deliberations
of the i>oliticians in, that capital
city, Davis’s running-fire — also
termed “sneak attack”—has, it is
reported, caused many a legislator
to beat a hasty retreat team Inde
fensible positions.
'The writer and his ■wife, Evan
geline, editor of the Daily News’
Sunday book column, Irve, with
Weimar Jones To
Address League Of
Women Voters
Weimar Jones, one of the state’s
leading newspapermen, wUl speak
on the need for reapportionment
of seats in the legislature at the
next meeting of the League of
Women Voters, tomorrow (Fri
day) night at the Civic Club. The
time is 8:15.
Jones, editor of the Franklin
Press, has been in the news him
self recently as author of a con
troversial minority report to the
study of reapportionment.
The public is cordially invited
to the meeting.
I their daughter and son, on the
edge of the Guilford battleground,
on the far side of Greensboro.
Their home is one of the oldest
houses in the state and was stand
ing at the time of the battle.
.CONCERT
The Univexsify of North
Carolina String Quartet will
offer a varied concert in
Weaver Auditorium tonight,
beginning at 8:30. This is the
third in the series of concerts
under the ^>ozisocship of the
Sandhills Music Associatiem.
Tickets ina'7 be purchased
at the door for the peorform-
Coimcil To Hear
Guy Phillips On
School Board Plan
Coming Here
Tuesday Nlghl
For Meeting
Guy B. Phillips, executi've sec
retary of the State School Board
Association,- wiU meet with the
Southern Pines Town Council
Tuesday night to furtheir discuss
the various types of school boards
cmrently in existence in North
Carolina.
Council, which has directed
much of its attention recently to
the method of selection for future
school boards, is trying to put a
proposed new charter into final
shape in time to have it presented
to the General Assembly. Unof
ficially, they are working towards
an April i deadline.
Mr. Phillips has already con
ferred with the Council through a
lengthy letter, which was publish
ed in full in last week’s Pilot, in
which he outlined the various
types of school boards eind their
advantages and disadvantages:
Council is trying to determine
which type board — appointive,
elective or a combination of both
—would be most suitable for
Southern Pines. At present the
board is composed of five mem
bers, appointed by the Council.
The proposed charter would make
the board an appointive one with
seven members.
Other items are on' the agenda
for the meeting, which will be
held in the library at 8 p.m.,
though the school board discus
sion is expected to take up most
of the time.
Dame Flora MacLeod Plans Visit
To Area; ToXunch With Governor
Dame Flora MacLeod of Scot
land, who has visited this area
many times in the past, will be
here again this -we^end as the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot
Johnson of Aberdeen. ^ ;
Dame MacLeod wiU addre^
the MacLeod clan in Dillon Sat
urday and will come here after
wards. Nothing is on her sched
ule for Sunday, but on Monday
she, the Johnsons and BL Clifton
Blue of Aberdeen will have din-
nCT at the Governor’s mansion in
Raleigh.
She win also be presented to
the General Assembly Monday.
DAME FLORA MacLEOD
Pilot Takes Trip To Find Out
How ^^Welfare^" Helps Children
Episcopal Laymen
To Hold Statewide
Meet Here In ’58
The 1958 con'vention of the
Episcopal Lasmien’s Society will
be held in Southern Pines, it was
decided at the conclusion of the
annual meeting in Charlotte this
past weekend.
The convention will attract
about 300 laymen from aU over
North Carolina.
The invitation to hold the next
convention here was extended
by a delegation from Emmanuel
Church Sunday and was unani
mously accepted. This will be the
first time that the diocesan-wide
convention’has been held in the
church here.
Attending the meeting Sunday
from Southern Pines were R. F,
Hoke Pollock, Burton Q. Per-
ham, Robert V. Lamb, Larry
Lyerly and William Shore.
By KATHARINE BOYD
Said Dr. EUeh Winston, speak
ing to a joint meeting of the Ki-
wanis jmd Junior Women’s Clubs
at the Mid Pines Club recently:
“We of the North Carolina De
partment of Public Welfare con-
consider that oiir most important
service is the work done for chil
dren.”
Afterwards you asked her;
Why most important?
‘T couldn’t honestly say: be
cause there are more of these
cases,” she said, “and yet, if you
studied the welfare case load you
might come to that conclusion.
The problems involving children
come into many more cases than
are listed under the classification
of Aid To Dependent Children,
or ADC, as it’s called.”
The State Superintendent
of Public Welfare thought a
monientt 'TThe real reason,”
she said, "why we consider
the services for children the
most important of any ren
dered by our rtate and coun
ty departments is because
these are essentially services
of prevention. If the children
can be reached—if you can
get hold of them, take them
out of bad environments,
build them up, help them to
better lives, then half the
battle is won—more than
ha\f. Eventually all welfare
problems would be drastical
ly reduced.”
“You might say such preven
tive work for children is good
economy, mightn’t you? A way
to reduce welfare costs?”
She smiled: “You might,” she
said. “Of course, it’s true. And
you might say a lot of other
things, too. . . such as that it’s
good fun—or just good, period,”
What_ Is Local Picture?
What is the Welfare Depart
ment of Moore County doing
about its services for children?
It is doing a lot and wishing
that it could do more. In fact
there is a good deal of despera
tion in the eagerness -with which
the department is looking for
ward to the return of a former
field worker, Mrs. Ola King
from her year’s training as chii,^
welfare worker, to resume her
position in the comity depart
ment in this new capacity. Then,
it is believed, the local depart
ment 'will be able to give the pre
ventive help that can be so ef
fective, as well as carry on more
ably all the services for childrem
The range of services is wide:
from ADC, in which, through
federal-state-county grants home
care is assured in case of the
death, absence or incapacity of a
parent; foster care when the
children must be removed from
undesirable en-vironments, and all
the work entailed in cooperation
with the county Department of
Public Health in referrals for
mental and physical tests, crip
pled children work and so on.
You decide it’s about time to
take a look-see, and call up Mrs.
Walter B. Cole, the superinten
dent of the Moore County Public
•Welfare Department in Carthage.
(Continued on page 18)
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