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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1957
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
$100,000 Suit Filed
Against Local Woman
V. J. Daly Seeks
Jutlgment Against
Mrs. Nicholson
A $100,000 damage suit, charg
ing that Mrs. Valerie Nicholson,
Southern Pines newspaperwom
an, conspired to ruin the Sand
hills Institute of Social Adjust
ment, which operated here, was
filed in Middle District Court in
Greensboro Friday.
It was filed by Vincent Daly,
F. Edwina Hallman and Martha
Dixon Underwood, all of whom
are now reported to be residents
of Washington, D. C.
It was served on Mrs. Nichol
son here Wednesday.
They filed the suit themselves,
after first going to the court
house in Carthage where Daly
voluntarily accepted service of
a $50,000 suit filed by Mrs. Nich
olson several months ago. The
two women have already been
served. The case had been dock
eted at the two previous terms
of Civil Court but was never
tried because of a lack of time.
In the papers filed Friday in
Greensboro, the trio claims that
‘Mrs. Nicholson conspired with
others to drive them “from their
normal and legal enterprise, de
priving them of their means to
earn a livelihood. . .”
Cause of Action
They state in their action:
That they “were engaged in
the enterprise known as “Sand
hills Institute of Social Adjust
ment” at Southern Pines, North
Carolina. The enterprise was
legally constituted and ethically
operated for the purpose of help
ing people to achieve social and
emotional adjustment by the ap
plication of proven techniques,
religious cooperation and other
methods.
"The prime motive of this en
terprise was to bring religion
into the field of emotional ad
justment; it had the approval of
many of the local clergy and
many of the clients were refer
red by ethical physicians and
hospitals.
“In addition, the- enterprise
had, at the request of local, .state
and federal agencies, made its
facilities available and gave ser
vices and performed any duties
requested of it without fee or
favor. Its policy was the antithe
sis of communistic influences.”
Daly and the two women also
charge that Mrs. Nicholson “util
ized vicious, monstrous and un
lawful means to carry out the
plan aforesaid; and has attempt
ed to use, and did use, false
newspaper and magazine publici
ty, contempt of legislative bodies,
slander, libel, intimidation ^ and
false reports to further the cause
of the conspiracy.”
Mrs. Nicholson, the suit as-
.serts, “for a period starting on
or about the month of November
1955 and continuing to the time
of this complaint has willfully,
unlawfully and maliciously, en
gaged in an unlawful and vile
conspiracy with one Harry
Kursh, now of the State of New
York, and others unknown to the
plaintiffs to cast into oblivion
any further chance they might
have for fame or fortune in their
chosen professions and to break
up the marital relationship be
tween Vincent J. Daly and his
wife.”
Daly and the two women each
an award of $25,000 as spe
cial damages. An additional
award of $25,000 is sought as
punitive damages.
Daly and the two women also
have been named in Superior
Court grand jury indictments.
All are charged with conspiracy
to commit perjury and, in addi
tion, Daly is charged with subor
nation of perjury and the two
women with perjury.
Daly was tried and convicted
of criminal libel against Mrs.
Nicholson in April of last year
in Moore Recorder’s Court. He
was fined $500 and costs and giv
en a two-year suspended 12
rnonths road sentence, on condi
tion he not further violate the
libel laws.
Several other suits have been
filed in the matter. Daly, Mrs.
Underwood and Miss Hallman
filed a $'75,000 suit, with practi
cally the same wording as he
used in the one filed against Mrs.
Nicholson last Friday, against
Harry Kursh, a free lance writer
of Peekskill, N. Y. The suit was
dismissed, however, since it was
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Harold Collins In
Semi-Finals Of.
Moore Golf Event
Harold CoUins of Southern
Pines was carried to 21 holes by
Harry Chatfield, also of Southern
Pines, before winning 1 up to
move along last week in the
Moore County golf tournament
being played at the Pinehurst
Country Club.
In a later match in the week
Collins defeated O. T. Parks, Jr.,
5 and 4, for a berth in the semi
finals, and is the only player to
reach that point to date.
In other matches in the cham
pionship flight Jack Carter of
Southern Pines defeated Carlos
Frye -of Carthage, 2 up; B. Wood
ward defeated Jimmy Mann, 5
and 4; and Jimmy CoUins de
feated Ed Comer, Carthage, 5 and
4.
First flight matches, for those
defeated in the first round of the
championship flight, resulted as
follows: Parks defeated Pete
Tufts, 5 and 4; M. C. Hufford de
feated Robert Ewing by default;
and H. McCaskiU defeated Tom
Shockley, 2 up.
Play will continue this week
end.
FOR ONE YEAR TERM.
Pleasants Elected President Of
State County Commissioners Assn.
James M. Pleasants of South
ern Pines, a naember of the
Moore County Board of County
Commissioners, was elevated to
the presidency of the North Car
olina Association of County Com
missioners at the golden anni
versary meeting of the associa
tion just concluded in Raleigh.
Mr. Pleasants has previously
served the association as first
vice-president.
He is now serving his third
term on the Moore County board,
having been elected with scant
opposition the first two times
and unopposed, along with the
rest of the board, last summer.
Mr. Pleasants, a native of Carth
age, is an insurance -man and
owner of the Pleasants Oil Com
pany, which is distributor in this
area of Phillips 66 products. |
The state association has mem-
Rev. D. Hoke Coon
Resigns Pastorate
Of Baptist Church
To Accept Post
In Forest City
On July 10
JAMES PLEASANTS
The Rev. D. Hoke Coon, pastor
of the First Baptist Church here
for the past four years, an
nounced to his congregation last
Sunday that he was resigning to
accept a call to the First Baptist
Church in Forest City.
He will assume his new duties
July 10. Meanwhile, it is expect
ed that a pulpit committee will
be selected at the church here
Sunday and that an immediate
search will be started to obtain
a new pastor.
Mr. Coon, who has been active
m civic and religious activities
throughout his career here, told
the congregation it was “the
hardest decision in my life to
bers from 94 of the 100 counties, | least one member on each of the i make,” referring to his accept
with only a few of the mountain state’s agencies and is considered j ance of the new post. The Forest
counties still not included. Its one of the most potent of all as- City church has about 1,100
primmy atm is to serve as an sociations in the state that deal members, he said later, and the
agency for the study and promo- with government. | challenge was too great to pass
tion of county government. j Mr. Pleasants’ term is for one up.
It has succeeded in placing at year.
HEADQUARTERS FOR EIGHT MILLS
New Amerotron Office Building Is
Modern, Spacious Quarters For 100
Amerotron’s new administra-’ ipg blue glow. Counter-sunk
tion building was opened last ceiling lights reflect the azure
week and all personnel are now ^ sheen of long panelled walls. In
installed and hard at work, to the anteroom, baskets of flowers,
judge by appearance and sound, testimony to last week’s opening
The place fairly rocks with all j gala, add to the surprising therial
the humming and scurrying, not effect. The baskets have cards
to mention heavy thinking that, attached testifying to the good
clearly, is going on there. [wishes of friends and businesses
But it doesn’t actually rock, in the community.
not this sound, substantial both-
feet-on - the -g round building,
ieated there, four-square, along
the Aberdeen-Pinehurst road.
The good-looking structure,
like the mill nearby, which now,
under the Karagueshian emblem,
makes carpets in^ead of suit
ings, is of modern construction:
brick, with cement trim. It de
pends for its good looks on sim
plicity and basic structural
soundness of design, and the im
plication' of efficiency that ac
companies straight lines and no
foolishness. The structure has a
decided air of dignified durabil
ity—outside.
Inside, you walk into a bleas-
Gilmore Named C&D Board Member
Voit Gilmore, former mayor of
Southern Pines, has been named
to a six-year term on the North
Carolina Board of Conservation
and Development. His ptosition
v/ith the board will be primarily
to promote the State’s tourist in
dustry.
Governor Hodges made the\ ap
pointment Thursday.
Gilmore presently is the presi
dent of the North Carolina Trav
el Council, an independent group
that has charged itself with pro
motion of the entire state as a
vacationland and retirement cen
ter. He is also heading up, as
president of the Council, a com
mittee appointed by the Gover
nor several weeks ago that is
trying to educate the public to
be “anti-litterbuggers” on the
highways.
This is the second appointive
position that Gilmore has held to
State office. In addition to those,
however, he has been a national
committeeman of the Young
Democratic Club, and was chair
man of the statewide fund rais
ing committee for the new con
solidated Presbyterian College to
be built in Laurinburg.
His appointirEent to C&D gave
Southern Pines two men on the
VOIT GILMORE
board; the other is W. P. Saun
ders, the chairman, who was for
merly president of Robbins Mills.
Gilmore, along with H. C. Ken-
nett of Durham and Walker Mar
tin of Raleigh, two others whom
the Governor just appointed,
will be sworn in at the Board’s
summer meeting in Morehead
City Monday.
LIBRARY CLOSING
The Southern Pines libra
ry 'will close at noon Tues
day July 2. and uriU not re
open until Monday. July 8.
according to Mrs. Katherine
Lamboume. librarian.
She said the closing was
necessitated to make repairs
to the building. In the mean
time, she suggested that pa
trons check out the boolcs
they desire for that period
either this 'weekend or Mon
day.
In plan, the building is like a
ship. A long, narrow corridor,
also blue, runs the length of it
and the, offices open off it on
each side. It’s all so new, so
shining, so blue you might have
wandered onto a page out of an
article in “Fortune Magazine” or
“Interior Decoration,” describing
the New Administrative Look.
These blue walls
A graduate of Catawba College
and the Southern Baptist Theo
logical School in Louisville, Ky.,
Mr. Coon had been associated
with the First Baptist Church in
Salisbury as interim pastor before
accepting the call here.
He is a native of Bessemer
City.
He and Mrs. Coon, who is from
Salisbury, have a son, two years
of age.
Fred Chappell, chairman of the
church’s Board of Deacons, is ex
pected to name the pulpit com
mittee Sunday.
Sandhill Telephone
(Co. To Sell Slock
The Sandhill Telephone Com
pany was authorized Tuesday by
the State Utilities Commission to
sell up to'4,000 shares of prefer
red stock at a par value of $10
per share.
The company operates tele
phone facilities at Wagram in
Scotland County and Aberdeen
ar ein
triguing. The panels are made of j in Moore County. It said funds
very strong and durable material j from sale of the stock will be
whose base is gypsum. (We got [ used to improve service to pa-
mixed up with oakum, on that, trons in the area,
one: the ship-like quality again.
Gypsum is calcium sulphate and
is used to make plaster of Paris.
Also panels. They are quickly
put ITP and need almost no main
tenance. And you can nail into
them. If you have the nerve.
Another good thing is that
these panels are constructed
GROUNDBREAKING
Groundbreaking ceremo
nies for the new Town Hall
will be held Tuesday morn
ing at the site in the Town
Park at TO o'clock.
Town Manager Louis
Scheipers, Jr., said this
morning that a number of
present and past to'wn offi
cials would attend the cere
monies, as would Thomas T.
Hayes, Jr., the architect, and
T. E. Saunders ctf Troy, con
tractor.
The site has been cleared
and construction of the new
building will get underway
next -week, according to
Saunders.
The public has been in'vi-
' ted to attend the ground
breaking ceremonies.
National Guard
Returns From 2-
Week Encampment
Members of the Moore Coun
ty National Guard tank company
returned from Camp Stewart
Ga., from what was described as
one of the most outstanding
summer encampments ever at
tended by the unit.
Capt. William Wilson of South
ern Pines, company commander,
said the unit received high ra
tings in every phase of the two
week operation. And, though
final ratings have not been re
leased, Wilson added he was con
fiderit the over-all rating would
be excellent or higher.
The summer camp ratings, in
cidentally, indicate the efficien
cy of the unit and are made by
regular Army inspecting officers.
Capt. Wilson had special praise
for the performance of the mess
section under Sgt. first class Ce
cil Hutchinson, and the supply
room, under Sgt. Robert Davis.
Both received a Superior rating,
the highest possible under the
system.
Thirty three members of the
unit fired qualifying scores on
the 90 mm tank guVi ranges ^d
a composite 'platoon from the lo
cal unit was rated best in the
battalion in conduct of a platoon
attack exercise.
Plans for future training, Wil
son said, include clesming up
equipment and preparation for
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New Rotary Officers Installed
Joseph I„ Scott was installed as
president of the Southern Pines
Rotary Club at a banquet held
last night at the Elks Club.
Scott, an insurance agent con-
with a space along the baseboard, with the E. C. Stevens
to facilitate wiring. Doors, fram- "S®^cy here, succeeded A. C.
ing and so on are of metal, these ^^^son, ^perintendent of the
painted a slightly darker blue.
that sea effect again. The floor is
a handsome dark marbelized
rubber tile.
Each of the offices, opening
off the corridor with mathemati- Dawson, Herbert Cameron,
cal regularity is blue, too, and Walter S. Sargeant,
Southern Pines schools.
Other new officers are Harry
Chatfield, vice-president; James
Hartshorne, re-elected secretary;
and Royden Council, treasurer.
Named to the Board of Directors
most of them have* colored pic-
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HAD FOUR YEAR TENURE
Lockey Reviews Work As Highway
Commissioner; Muck Accomplished
“I’ve enjoyed every minute of
my four years and two months as
Eighth Division Highway Com
missioner, and wouldn’t take
anything for the experience,”
said Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen
this week.
He added, “I’ve come through
with a greater respect for peo
ple, and their good sound com
mon sense, than ever before.”
He expressed no pegrets that
he was not reappointed,,as Gov
ernor Hodges made a clean
sweep of the entire old Commis
sion, setting up a new one h^ed
on a new administrative pattern,
to take office July 1.
A former Mayor of Aberdeen
for 12 years, Lockey is content to
get back to full-time work as
vice-president and assistant to
the president of the Aberdeen
.and Rockfish Railroad Co. But
he. will treasure the memory of
his term now ending, complete
with struggle and activity, and
the satisfaction of service and of
accomplishment.
To accept Governer Umstead’s
appointment May 11, 19J53, he
had to resign the office of mayor
to which he had been elected,
unopposed, for a seventh term
just six days before.
From the beginning be was
known as a man in a. hurry, as
if he wished to get as much done
as possible in four years, in a
division which compris^ one of
the most neglected areas, road-
wise, in the state.
Plans once inade did not lag.
Decisidns were reached without
delay and were translated into
highways- which sprang across
the landscape as modern marvels
of engineering, with some of the
soundest-built, most beautiful
structures on the State’s highway
system.
Yet roads mean people, people
mean roads—and the combina-
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and
James Perkinson, a past presi
dent of the club.
E. O. Brogden, of the law firm
of Boyette and Brogden in Car
thage, was principal speaker. He
based his talk on the needs of
the community at the present
time, calling attention to the sev
eral reverses the town and sur
rounding area has suffered in the
past year or so.
“Now is the time for all of u's
to act as informal ambassadors in
helping to bring new business in
terests to this community,” he
said. He pointed out that now
is a propitious time to convince
others in the area that industrial
development of the proper type
would be beneficial to Southern
Pines.
There has been some objection
to bringing industry to Southern
Pines, he said, but the objections
have been lessened to a great ex
tent by the declining business
brought on by the removal of
several industries that had been
located here and close by.
“Through careful planning —
none of us want a glue factory
next door—^this town and area
cordd be the. scene of much bus
iness activity,” he said.
Brogden reminded his listen
ers that no one civic club could
do the job, but called on all of
them to help with the groups al
ready formed to help with bus-
JOSEPH SCOTT
iness expansion.
Brogden was introduced to the
club by Johnnie Hall.
Others on the program were
E. J. Austin, Jr., song leader;
Harry Chatfield, introduction of
guests; welcome, Dr. Philip
Green, response, Rotary Ann
Dawn G. Leland;. invocation,
Chaplain Darkey of Fort Bragg;
and presentation of the past pres
ident’s gavel. Garland Pierce.
John Ray, a student at the Un
iversity of North Carolina and son
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan S. Ray, play
ed a number of pieces on the
piano.
Guests were Mrs. R. J. Darden,
twin sister of Mrs. A. C. Dawson,
Murray Clark, incoming presi
dent of the Southern Pines Lions
Club, and Mrs. Clark, and Ray
and Chaplain Darkey.
James Perkinson was in charge
df the program and flower ar
rangements were a courtesy of
Jane McCormac of the Southern
Pines Florists.
$12,000 Bequest
To Institutions
In Area Revealed
John L. Given
Adds To Gifts
Made By Wife
John LaPorte Given, promi
nent winter resident of Pinehurst
who died on May 20, bequeathed
$5,000 to the Pinehurst Village
Chapel, $2,000 to the Pinehurst
Community Church and $5,000 to
Moore Memorial Hospital, ac
cording to Eric Nelson, a director
of the Irene Heinz Given and
John LaPorte Given Foundation,
Inc.
The bequests were in addition
to the following made by Mrs.
(^iven, who died October 5 of last
year: ,
Pinehurst Religious Associa
tion (Village Chapel) $10,000;
Pinehurst Community Church,
$5,000, and Moore Memorial Hos
pital, $10,000.
The residue of both estates
goes to the foundation, Mr. Nel
son said.
Mr. Given died in Doctor’s
Hospital in New York following
a heart attack suffered in Pine
hurst on April 1. He was 85 years
of age. A graduate of Cornell
University, he had entered news
paper work early in life as a
member of the staff of the Al
toona, Pa. Times, and later be
came News Editor of the New
York Evening Sun, one of the
great dailies of the time.
Mr. Given had authored a text
book, “Making a Newspaper,”
which ran through many edi
tions and was widely used in
schools of journalism.
Mrs. Given was the former
Irene Edwilda Heinz, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Heinz
of Pittsburgh. Both were deeply
interested in Pinehurst’s religious
and charitable institutions.
HOLIDAY
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company and the post office will
be closed all day next Thursday,
July 4. Many other businesses in
the area will also close for the
holiday.
Fees For Special
Services At PO
Go Up On Monday
A number of increased fees for
special services at the local post
office will go into effect July 1,
it has been announced by Post
master Garland Pierce.
The rate increases, ordered by
the Post Office Department to
help offset losses for such serv
ices, are in effect throughout the
country.
First class mail, by far the big
gest single item, the post office
handles, is not affected unless
special services are required.
Pierce listed the changes ais
follows:
Minimum fee for registered
mail will be 50 cents instead of
the 40 cents previously charged.
Return receipts for registered
mail, parcel post or certified
mail will be increased in cost
from seven cents to 10 cents.
The certified mail fee will be
20 cents, an increase of five
cents per item.
Minimum money order fee will
be 15 cents instead of 10 cents.
Special delivery mail will go
up from 20 to 30 cents, plus th^
usual postage.
Certificates of mailing wiU be
five cents instead of three, and
correction of mailing lists will
he five cents per name instead of
one cent.
On business reply envelopes
and cards the fee will be two
cents instead «f one, plus the
usual postage.
Special handling fees will be
increased' to 25 cents for packages
of two pounds or les.s. The prev
ious fee had been 15 cents.
VISITING MINISTER
The Rev. ChEtrles M. Maness,
chaplain at McCain Sanatorium,
will be guest minister at the
Southern Pines Methodist Church
Sunday morning. Earl Hubbard,
church lay leader, will preside
during the service.