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.POPPY DAY IS SATURDAY :> a d Eleven Candidates File For Council; Seven Newcomers Only One Will Be Eliminated Through Primary Town Council Seeking M^ay For Construction Of New Municipal Building; Funds Insufficient Eventual Cost Could Be Almost THE SYMPHONY IS COMING to Southern Pines and many children, much like the ones shown here admiring the xylophonist, will be able to join their parents for an evening of beautifully rendered music. The full North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, with Dr. Benja min Swalin directing, will make its annual ap pearance here April 23 at Weaver Auditorium. This is the first concert of the year by the full symphony and a well rounded program has been selected. Walter Carringer, noted tenor, will be the guest artist. To date this year, it is reported, the symphony has played before audi ences totalling more than 100,000. Tickets for the concert are enjoying a brisk .sale in the area, according to Mrs. John Ruggles, who is in charge of sales. Eleven candidates, which some observers say is a siUTprisingly small turnout, filed for seats On the Town Council before the deadline last Friday. Heading the list are four in cumbents: Sam Richardson, Harry Pethick, T. T. Morse and Walter Blue. Others who filed are Mrs. John Ruggles, Robert Ewing, J. B. Tol- hson, D. E. Bailey, Leland Dan iels, Jr., Brig. Gen. Pearson Men- oher, and Tom O’NeiL Only one will be eliminated at the primary, scheduled April 29. The other ten will go into the municipal elections which will be held May 7. Of the 11, speculation is fairly general about who will eventual ly win the five seats. Name a ticket and, without a great deal of trouble, someone will agree that it’s a winning one. Gen. Menoher is the only one of the seven new candidates who is a repeater from last election. Sketches of each of the candi dates will appear in The Pilot next week. Eh*. Eugene Grace To Open Medical Offices Monday Dr. Eugene V. Grace, a native of Jackson, Tenn., will open of fices here Monday for the prac tice of general medicine. A medical graduate of the Uni versity of Michigan, Dr. Grace attended grade schools in Flint, Michigan, and did undergraduate work at Flint City College, Santa Monica Cit^ College, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He spent his internship at City Hospital in Winston-Salem and at McLaren General Hospital in Flint. His offices here will be located at 120 W. Pennsylvania Avenue next to the Belvedere Hotel. Dr. Grace is a member of the American Medical Association and will become affiliated with the staffs at Moore Courtty Hos pital and St. Joseph’s of the Pines Hospital. A member of the baptist Church, he is married and has one son. County’s Two Hospitals Again Are Accredited By National Commissibn •A- M. E. GAMBRELL Sandhills Kiwanis To Host District Meet Next Week Homewood Garden To Be Open To Public Sunday “Homewood,” one of the most beautiful private gardens in the Sandhills, will be open to the pub lic Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. for the benefit of Moore County Hospital. The home, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Denison K. BuUens, is open once each year for the tour, for which the admission will be one dollar. Considered one of the show- places of the Sandhills, the home affords the garden lover a glimpse into a five-acre carefully tended garden surrounding one of the finest Georgian homes in, the South. The house is centered among terraces and shaded walks filled with carefully planned color arrays featuring shrubs of rare varieties, hundreds of blooming dogwood trees, camellias and aza- Ifeas. Always a popular affair, the auxiliary expects many visitors from throughout the state. The public is cordially invited to come early and will be escorted by host esses. "Homewood” is located in Knollwood just off Midland Road. Directional signs will be posted for the visitor unfamiliar with the area. Moore County Hospital in Pine- hurst, soon to adopt the name of Moore Memorial Hospital, and St. Joseph of the Pines in Southern Pines, are included in the annual list of accredited hospitals in the country, released this week by the Joint Commission on Accredita tion of Hospitals in Chicago. Both these institutions have been on the accredited lists for some time, the result of periodical surveys made by the commission. “Accreditation of a hospital,” according to Dr. Kenneth B. Bab cock, director of the commission, “is a badge of recognition which the hospital can display to its community to prove that it con forms to high standards of patient care.” The accreditation program is a voluntary one, and only those hos pitals which request surveys by the commission to determine their eligibility are visited by commis sion survey teams. The name of Moore County Hospital is to be changed to Moore Memorial Hospital on completion, soon expected, of the new build ing and remodeling project at the institution in Pinehurst. Winners Announed For Annual Horse Training Shows Appeal Made For Support Of Annual Cancer Drive Here Letters containing requests for fimds for the annual cancer drive in Southern Pines have been mailed and returns should begin coming in this week, according to Mrs. James S. MHliken, local chairman. She said that no particular Concluding what its sponsors Quota had been fixed for South- said was a highly successful sea- Pines, although the county son, champions and reserve has a quota of $3,500 and that a champions were named for the great portion of it would be ex annual training shows for young- pected from this area. .'■■ters in this area at Pinehurst | The coimty quota is about the Sunday. The winners were an- j same as last year. David Gins- nounced as follows: ibimg of Carthage, county chair- Beginners: Suzanne Huntley, man, said he hoped it could be champion, and Sandra Younts, raised during April reserve champion. ' j^^eph Hough, a representative Intermediate Horsemanship: of the North Carolina Cancer c ‘Champion, and Society in Chapel HiU, speaking rge Currie, rescue cham- to g group here last week, said J TT ^hat funds raised through the Advanc^ Horsemanship “A”: drive would be used for treat- p't V f ’ ^ ampion, and ment and a statewide educational e er mkelman, reserve cham- program, designed primarily to J, TT , . encourage cancer victims to go to Advan^d Horsemans^p “B^’: reliable and reputable doctors champion, instead of quacks that promise and Terry Reeves, reserve cham- quick cures, pion. I In addition to the trophies for' Another point of the education- points, two other trophies were he said, would be awarded. George Currie was ^^her emphasis on periodic awarded the Improvement Tro- J^heckups and recogmzing any of phy, and Ann (Pinkie) Doyle was danger sisals associ- named winner of the Sportsman- m the state that were attributed M. E. Gambrell of Henderson ville, District Governor of the Carolinas District of Kiwanis In ternational, will be principal speaker at a joint meeting of clubs in this district next Wednesday night. The meeting, which will be held in Weaver Auditorium in South ern Pines, will be preceded by dinner at 7 o’clock. I The Sandhills Kiwanis Club, of which Jimmy Hobbs of Southern Pines is president, will be hosts for the meeting. ELECTION CHANGE Candidates for seals on the Town Council should be hap py: they've got an extra week of politicking. Because an error was dis covered in the original reso lution calling for a primary election here April 22, town officials today said the elec tion would be held April 29. one week letter. Town Manager Louis Schei- pers discovered the error. In the resolution, the primary had been called for "April 22, the same being the second Monday preceding" the dale set for the municipal election May 7. That date. May 7, is one established by state law as the one for municipal elec tions. April 22 is, as has been du tifully discovered, the third Monday. EASTER SEALS Have any money for the Easter Seal campaign? Roger Gibbs, county chairman, said today that the drive is lag ging with only 20 per cent of the quota on hand. He urges edl those who have not mailed their contributions to do as early as possible. They should be mailed to Mrs. Graham Cul- breth in Southern Pines, county chairman. NIGHT BASEBALL Night baseball begins in South- - o- ern Pines next Tuesday night John Ponzer of Southern Pines, i when the Blue Knights play Vass- past president, is Lt. Governor of Lakeview at Memorial Field, the local district. | Game time is 8 p.m. Twice Bond Issue Citizens attending the town council meeting at the library Tuesday night were handed a doleful piece of news in the re port, as developed during discus sion of the proposed new town hall, that the building if con structed as now plknned, will cost almost twice as much as the original estimate, on which the bond issue of $100,000 voted for this purpose, was based. Costs, depending on just what is built,, could run as high as $196,000, it developed. It became clear as Tuesday’s meet ing proceeded—the l^lst over which Mayor Voit Gilmore will preside—that the Council has, during the past two weeks, been engaged in a mighty struggle with figures and facts, with vital town needs and with the earnest hopes of citizens and council, to see what should be done and what can be done. There appeared to be two al- The Council has caUed a m&eling at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) in the office/ of Thomas Hayes, architect, to further discuss the building. FORUM MEETING Ivan T. Sanderson, well-known naturalist, will appear as guest speaker' this evening at the Pine hurst Forum. The Forum meeting, at 8:45 in b^pSSerby^thrtaffet^suppS''”^- Stratton, Bill Tate, Mar? I The b^t place to get a cancer at 7 o’clock. i and Mrs. Dwight Winkel- examination, he said, is at one of , . .. TV,*,., the clinics which are now located .^ere throughout the state. Nearest one ship Trophy. The show was announced by Dennis Crotty. Beverly Grey was prevented if the di ringmaster, and Joan Goodwin, ^®®ti recognized earlier W. J. Stratton, Bill Tate, Mary to cancer last year could have been prevented if the disease had t ^ ■ Sanderson is an authority on were judges. - ’■ ■ ■ ■ - - ' Before the trophies the living sciences and has done | tseiore me trophies were ‘-'“‘manoui, me state, ryearest one considerable travel and research j awarded the final schooling show to Moore County, he added, was in the field. He will concentrate' of tho year was held in all four, at Asheboro. Donations should be mailed to Mrs. Milliken at P. O. Box 55, Southern Pines. primarily on rare animals he has classes. seen in his travels in his talk to night. Winners of the classes were: James Perkinson, outgoing president of the Blue Knights Boosters Club, presents a check for $437.88, representing the club’s contribution to the athletic program at Southern Pines IHgh School, to A. C. Dawson, superintendent. , Of the amount, $330 wUl be used to purchase insurance for football players. Looking on are Irie Leonard, at left, head football coach and principal, and C. N. Page, new Boosters president. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey) Chan Page New Booster President; Club Gives Athletic Program Check C. N. Page was elected presi-1 dent of the Blue Knights Boost- Jimmy Hobbs, bae- ers Club, succeeding James Per-1 Gene Blackwelder, base- kinson, at the annual springy ball, Gen. Pearson Menoher, meeting held last week. The member at large, and Irie Leon- meeting was highlighted by the L,.,, presentation to the school au- thorities of a check for $437 to be ^ automatic member, used in the school’s athletic pro- It was announced at the meet- gram. ing that the football committee Other omcern elected include plans to begin its promotion Ha^ChaUieM, vice president; early. Advertising in the pro- Robert M^d, secretary; Mrs. gram for the games wilf be sold Harry Chatfield, treasurer; and before school is out this year to the following members of the facilitate printing next year. tematives. To postpone. Or elimi nate outright, enough of the hoped-for features to remain within the original estimate, or at least close to it, or to work out a system of financing the con struction as plsmned, which would be leasable and acceptable to the town. It seemed to be recognized that both these alternatives are re grettable; both will disappoint many citizens, it was understood. However, with a choice appar ently inevitable, the Council ap- ipeared ready to make it to the jbest of its ability. It has been said that people with beer pocketbooks should not develop champagne tastes. It has also been said that there are more ways than one to skin a cat. The Council appears to be lieve that it has found a way to skin this particular cat so that the champagne-taste town hall (Continued on page 5) Board of- Directors: Robert Ewing, in charge of football pro- CHAMPIONS in the annual Mid-South Horse Show Associa tion were named following the final show Sunday at the Brew ster Ring. Pictured here the champions are, left to right, Suz anne Huntley, beginners; Carol Coffin, intermediate horseman ship; Audrey Walsh, adveuiced horsemanship “A”; and Nancy Lou Gouger, advanced horsemanship “B”. Irie Leonard, head football coach, announced that a 10-game schedule had been worked out for the year, the first that South ern Pines has taCken part in the Cape Fear “A” Conference. Foot ball at the school next year will, incidentally, be of the 11 m^ va riety. Leonard gave 'this schedule: September 6, Liberty here; Sep tember 13, Elizabethtown there; Se,ptember 20, Chadboume here; September 27, Red Springs there; October 4, Shallotte here; Octo ber 11, Hope Mills there; October 18, Massey Hill there; October 25 (Homecoming) Rohanen of Rockingham- here; November 1, St Pauls here; and November 8, Fairmont there. Parks, Parkways Committee Named By Town Council Creation of a new committee that would be concerned primari ly with planning and recommend ing beautification projects for the town’s parks and parkways was announced at the regular meeting of the Town Council 'Tuesday night. Denison K. BuUens of KnoU- wood was designated chairman of the new committee which has as members Mrs. James Bovd, Mrs. Felton Capel, Ed Schneider and Mrs. Voit Gilmore. 'The committee was appointed for two year terms. In the resolution setting up the committee. Council spelled out its functions as follows: “To plan and recommend by regular and special reports to the Town Council any such action ^ls may be deemed necessary to cre ate, develop, beautify, or other wise improve the parks and park ways of the Town with the objec tive of improving their beauty and appearance, and beautifying, preserving or otherwise enhancing the beauty and character of Southern Pines.” The committee was authorized to cooperate with any public au thority and to aid and assist in co ordinating beautification activi ties of the town’s parks and park ways. It was also encouraged to work with various individuals and groups in all phases of beautifica tion of the town. 'The committee wiU meet at least once each month.
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