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VOL. 39—NO. 41 SIXTEEN PAGES Morse Successor May Be Selected By Council Friday Two Endorsed By WSP Civic Club For Post SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. 1957 SIXTEEN PAGES Dr. W. C. Timmons Dies Suddenly A. tentative meeting of the Southern Pines Town Council has been called for next Friday, September 6, to select a member to fill the vacancy created when T. T. Morse resigned last week. Mayor Walter Blue said this morning, however, that the meet ing was contingent on the feel ings of other members of the Council ah to whether they had had sufficient time to, consider prospective nominees. Also, he pointed out, Gen. Pearson Men- oher is out of town and will not return until after Labor Day. There is some possibility he will not be here for a meeting if it were called for September 6 and Mayor Blue has stated that he feels all members should be pres ent when the selection is made. Meanwhile, there has been , ^uch discussion as to the even- y tual successor to Morse’s posi tion. In West Southern Pines this week an emergency meeting of the Board of Directors of the West Southern Pines Civic Club was held and two nominees were selected and proposed to the Council. The Rev. G. D. McNeill, presi dent of the club, said in a letter to individual members of the % CouncU that “because of the vast amount of work that had been done in West Southern Pines in the past election,” a Negro should be appointed to fiU the vacancy. Morse was the first Ne gro ever to hold a seat on the Council and he held it for one term and part Of Smother. Rev. McNeill suggested to the Council that two Negroes had re- f ceived endorsement from the dub, T. R. Goins and Felton Capel, both well known. Members of the Council said they had been approached only a few times by people with sug gestions for a - replacement. Mayor Blue said he had received perhaps five suggestions; D. E. Bailey had received three. There has been some discus sion (mostly on street comers) of § calling for a special election to fill the post. However, the Town Cnarter calls for the Council it self to select a member if there is a resignation. Also, and again it’s only street talk, there have been suggestions that one of the defeated candidates in the May' election should be appointed, i Some other people feel the Coun- ' cil should go outsidfe the defeat- ed list and select the new Coun- " oilman. Morse resigned last week for what he termed personal and (Continued on page 5) The Rev. Wofford Colquitt Timmons, D. D., 68, who recent ly retired as pastor of the Chinch of Wide Fellowship in Southern Pines, died early today at his home here after a short illness. He was one of the most dis tinguished men ever to occupy a Sandhills pulpit, coming to the largest Congregational Christian church of this area March 1, 1954, after nine years of national seivice which won him esteem' in his denomination from coast to coast. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 p. m. at the Church of Wide Fellowship, conducted by Dr. W. T. Scott, Sr., of Elon College, superintendent of the Southern Conference of Congre gational Christian Churches, Dr. E. Wallace Mast, pastor of the South Congregational church of New Britain, Conn., and the Rev, Carl E. Wallace, new pastor of the church here. Burial will take place later in Waterville, Ohio. Dr. Timmons accepted the lo cal pastorate as a preliminary to retirement following nine years as national director of the Com mission on Evangelism and De votional Life for Congregational Christian Churches in the U. S. A. Some months ago he asked that a successor be selected, re maining in service while this was done. In July the Rev. Carl Edi son Wallace of Fayetteville ac cepted the call to the local church, and is to deliver his first sermon there Sunday. In June Dr. Timmons became ill, sustained an operation at N. C. Memorial hospital and was a patient there and at Moore Mem orial hospital for several weeks. He was recently removed to his heme, and his condition has been, critical. Though he had lived in the Sandhills a comparatively short time, his influence had been v/idespread and he had become one of the most beloved person alities of the community. The years 1945 to 1954, during which he headed his denomina- ,tion’s Commission on Evangel ism and Devotional Life, were dedicated and fruitful. He devel oped committees, seminars and convocations enlisting hundreds of ministers, superintended the publication of devotional litera ture, held workshops for writers of devotional material, wrote a Manual for Pastors and Book Of Worship now used thrughout the country, issued a churchwide “Daily Devotion,” and conducted numerous campus missions and institutes on evangelism. In 1949, he held a series of conferences on the Hawaiian Islands. From 1952 to 1954 he planned 11 area con ferences covering the United States and conducted most of them. During this period he also developed the “Socratic Sermon,” an effective method of forum presentation now in wide use. In February 1954 he was awarded a citation fop meritori ous service by the Board of Home Missions of Congregation al Christian Churches, which read in part, “You have quicken ed the spiritual life of thousands of churches. . . In labors abun dant, and in the care of all the churches, you have insisted that evangelism is the chief business of the Christian today and al ways.” In Southern Pines he took full part in the community life. He was an active Rotarian and a Mason. He , aided in reorganization of the Moore County Ministerial as sociation, and served as its pres ident and in other capacities. He was bom in Lawrenceyille, Ga., September 20, 1888, the' son New Pastor To Assume Duties The Rev. Carl E. Wallace will assume his duties as pastor of the Church of Wide Fellow.ship Sun day. Mr. Wallace, a native of Greensboro, has previously serv ed pastorates at Louisburg and Fayetteville and is currently president of the Eastern North Carolina Conference of Congre gational Christian Churches. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Elon College and a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Duke Divinity School. .He and Mrs. Wallace, the for- ! mer Rachel Elkins of Greens- |boro, have a son, Carl, Jr., 12, who will be in the eighth grade I this year, and a daughter, Rose mary, who is three. They are living in the parson- ;age at 260 N. Ridge St. FRIGE TEN CENTS DR.- TIMMONS of Benson Ellison and Margaret Longden Timmons. He was edu cated at Southwestern College, Kansas, Drew Seminary, Union Seminary, Columbia University and Oxford University, England. During World War 1 he served as a chaplain with the YMCA, and later worked with this or ganization 'in Minnesota. As a Congregational minister he serv ed pastorates in Minnesota, Miss ouri and Connecticut. As director of the national church commis sion, he lived at North Tarry.- town, N. Y., moving form there to Southern Pines. He was married in 1917 to Fanny Elizabeth Pray of Toledo, Ohio, who survives. One son, James Joseph, lost his life in an accident at the age of eight. Two sons survive. Dr. Robert L. Tim mons of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and John B. Timmons, of Schen ectady, N. Y.; also four grand children, and one brother, Willis M. Timmons,' of Atlanta, Ga. REV. CARL E, WALLACE ■^5 YOUNG DRUGGISTS, as any old druggist will tell you, are hard to come by these days. But apparently Southern Pines has a special lure because each of the above young men is a druggist and each has joined a drug firm in Southern Pines in recent weeks. Left to right, Emory Watson, who is at Sandhill Drugs, Philip O Donnell, Jr., at the Southern Pines Pharmacy, and Dan McCormick, who is at Broad Street Pharmacy. (Piiot Photo) BCX)STERS CLUB The Blue Knights Boosters Club will have its annual barbecue kickoff at the Coun try Club next Wednesday night. At th2d time members of the football team and the cheerleaders wiU be intro duced. Tickets may be secured from cheerleaders in the bus iness district Wednesday, or from Gene Blackwelder or Mrs. Robert Leland. KKK Says Second Rally To Be Held Tomorrow Night Another meeting of the Ku Klux Klan has been announced for Friday night at 8:30. The an nouncement was received here Tuesday morning and, like a sim ilar announcement made two weeks ago, bore a Charlotte ad dress. The “King Kleagle” is sched uled to discuss “God Set a Pat tern for Segregation.” A cross burning is also planned, the announcement said. The rally will take place on highway 211 at the block plant. CORRECTION In a story appearing in last week's edition of The Pilot, it was stated that "Truth Magazine," apparently the official organ of the KKK in this area, was printed in Handel. Chester Martin, publisher of the Hamlet News-Messen ger and another paper in Wadesboro, said this week that the magazine was not printed in Hamlet though it bore a Hamlet address. "We are the only printing concern here," he said, "and, as the Klan is now constitu ted, we would refuse to print such a magazine even if it were offered us." The magazine, four sheets, claims to be a "cdiaunpion of white sui>remacy and segre gation." It was distributed at the Klan meeting held here two weeks ago at which timn the robed Klansmen said it was "published" in Hamlet. The Pilot sincerely regrets its error. Blue Knights In Final Practice For Opening Came Squad Numbers 33; Starling Lineup Not Set still a little confused with the ^ intricacies of 11-man football, the jBlue Knights will begin a once- , a-day practice schedule after I Monday in preparation for the opening game of the season against Liberty next Friday night on the local field. ,Irie Leonard, head coach, said this week that 33 members are on the squad and a great deal of progress had been made since workouts started two weeks ago. “We’re still green and having a little trouble with the new sys tem,” he said, “but I think we’ll be all right by game time. L. D. Jones, who has been working out at the tackle posi tion, has been lost to the team for three weeks because of injur ies, Leonard said, and a number of other players are suffering bruises and bumps. Otherwise, the team appears to be in good shape. Next Thursday night, Leonard has scheduled a workout at Memorial Field and fans can get a glimpse of what the team will look like. Most of the scrim mage sessions will be held to running through plays, however, since the opening game with Lib erty is the next night. Liberty, of which little is known at this writing, is a mem ber of the Guilford-Randolph Class A Conference and usually fields a heavy team. The game Friday will be a non-conferenge aflair for both teams. Leonard released the squad and positions as follows: Ends—Steve Smith, Ted Ward, Jesse Williford, Steve Darby, W. C. Morgan, Douglas Coats and Bobby Wicker. Tackles—James Bowers, John van Benschoten, Richard Lockey, Ronnie Rowe, L. D. Jones, Jack McDonald and Joe Garzik, Jr. Guards—Jimmy Tollison, Ken ny Reid, Jimmy Caldwell, Leon ard Shaeffer, and Keith Davie. (Continued on page 5) ISew Phone System Is Deluyed Again I Company Blames Equipment Firm For 5tli Holdup LABOR DAY Most business establish ments in Southern^ Pines will be closed Monday in observ ance of Labor Day. Post office officials .said that mail would be put in boxes and would be dispatch ed as usual but there would be no home delivery nor win dow service. Also scheduled to be closed are the library, town offices, and the courthouse in Car thage. The County Commis sioners, scheduled to meet the first Monday of each month, postponed the meeting until Tuesday, September 3. ABC stores in both South ern Pines and Pinehurst will also be closed. 't" Opening Sales On Tobacco Market Reported Excellent I Tobacco sales at both Carthage and Aberdeen were reported ex cellent this morning as the 1957 selling season, expected to last for some two months, got under way. Reports early this week indi cated that the quality of the leaf has been generally pleasing to the warehousemen with a good portion of it coming from upper primings and some of the lug va riety. Selling got underway at ware houses in both tpwns at 9 o’clock. Both Carthage and Aberdeen has three warehouses. The houses are expected to 'have a sufficient amount of leaf on hand for the time allotted to each for sales. In Aberdeen the floors of two of the three ware houses were filled this morning and the third had a sufficient supply for a fuU sale. The tobacco crop this year has been reported about 35 per cent shorter than last year, due in most part to the extremely dry v/eather apd the reductions in acreage. Officials of the United Tele phone Company said this morning that extended area service for Southern Pines would be delayed again and blamed the postpone ment on the failure of suppliers to ship the necessary equipment. This is the fifth such postpone ment. The service, which will link Southern Pines and Aberdeen and Southern Pines and Pine hurst on a toll-free basis, was scheduled the last time to be in stalled Saturday. The postpone ment is for 30 days with the new' date set for September 29. This is a great disappointment for us and, I’m sure, to our cus tomers,” Ed Smail, commercial superintendent, said. “It is due, however, to circumstances entire ly beyond our control.” Backing up Smail was Robert Reed, technical advisor of the Federal Telephone and Radio Company, the firm that is supply ing the equipment for extended area service. Reed said: “The delay in the provision of this service is abso lutely no fault of the telephone company here. The delay is occa sioned entirely by our inability to produce or secure certain of the necessary equipment. An addi tional four weeks is believed to be adequate time for such equip ment to be installed and tested.” The equipment that hasn’t ar rived are three transformers. They are enroute, Smail said, but even if they were installed this weekend the company would not have time for a sufficient amount of testing. The new telephone directories, with new numbers for subscribers in Southern Pines and Pinehurst, will be delivered two days before the new systeni goes into effect, Southern Pines is known as OX FORD, and all numbers here will be prefaced with OX. The United Telephone Com pany, which also operates ex changes in Pinehurst, Carthage, Robbins and Vass, recently has- been revamping its service in most communities. JUDGE CRAVEN PRESIDING Two Week Civil Court Term Begins Tuesday; Two Jury Lists Are Drawn RAY DAEKE Wins Scholarship At State College Ray Daeke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Daeke of South ern Pines, is one of 89 students who will register at N. C. State College next month under “Tal ent For Service” scholarships. Young Daeke, who will study aeronautical engineering, is an honor graduate at the local school and was president of the Beta Club and secretary-treasur er of the Hi-Y club. The “Talent For Service” scholarships range in value from $100 to $1,050 per year depending on the financial need of the re cipients. Applicants for the scholarships were screened first by commit tees in their home communities and counties and then by the col lege committee The scholarships were established at State in 1953 and are made available by a number of state and national business firms and individuals. A special two week term of civil court, with Judge J. B. Cra ven, Jr., presiding, wUl begin next Tuesday at the courthouse in Carthage. A number of cases v/hich have been continued from term to term over the past few years are calendared, including several involving the State High way Commission in right-of-way disputes. Actually, the court termi is di vided into two sessions. During the first week 12 uncontested di vorce cases are calendared and 13 cases are on the motion dock et. These cases are expected to consume the greater part of the first two days. All told, there are more than 50 cases ^ be heard, including the uncontested divorce hearings. Of particular interest in South ern Pines is the suit brought by Mrs. Valerie Nicholson against V. J. Daly, Edwina Hallman and Martha Dixon Underwood. 'The case is scheduled for Monday, September 9. The jury list for both terms; September 3 term—Leo Arey, H. Russel Bryant, Arthur Clark, Roy Coble. G. R. Hendrix, Cecil J. Hutchison, Aberdeen; A. C. Cole, Jr., A. A. Graham, Camer on, Route 1; Walter Caviness, Robbins, Route 1; W. Clarence Crabtree, Joe E. Nall, Willie Thomas, Carthage, Route 1; Z. B. Conrad, Martin Hannon, Thomas Malloy, Jesse I^ee Saun ders, Max Richard Whitsell, West End; Mary Chriscoe. S. T. Dunn, Harold O. Easton, O. M. Holtz- claw. Southern Pines; Mrs. Ber tha Councilman, Carol Jordon, Robbins; Vada Kelly, Samuel Wicker, Carthage; Edgar Kiser, Eugene Kelly, E, E. Love, J. A. Wall, Carthage, Route 3; Albert Morgan, Frank R. Talbert, Niag- ora; Curtis Morrison, West End, Route 1; J. B. McLeod, John C. Wicker, John F. Yow, Carthage, Route 2; S. R. Randsdell Aber deen, Route 1; Albert Tufts, Pinehurst; Charles W. Von Metz ger, Va^s; Herbert T. Williams, Manly. September 9 term—Mrs. Jane L. Aycock, Alex P. Flinchum, Edna Goins, Berlin Hussey; T, G. Pressley, Carthage; W. A. Black, Paul VonCanon, West End; Mrs. Athalia Brigman, J. R. Kennedy, W. A. Worsley, 'Aber deen; Nettie Boyte, Arl Danley, G. B. Eaton, W. M. Williams, Carthage, Route 3; Prank Car ter, Morris W. Sheppard, South ern Pines; W. J. Green, Earl Stutts, Robbins; J. E. Gamer, Carthage, Roqte 1; Herbert L. Garner, Robbins, Star Route; W. Melvin Hussey, Lewis Ritter, Josie Stutts, Robbins, Route 1; D. H. Kelly, Dwight Marsh, Cecil Nickens, Cameron, Route 1; H. M. Lewis, Sherman B. Williams, Eagle Springs, Route 1; C. M. • Martin, Carthage, Route 2; Swanson Oldham, LsJreview; Crockett Poe, J. L. Thomas, Mar- gerie Whitsell, Cameron; Vernon Phillips, Carthage route; Wade Smith, Vass; W. A. Stubbs, Jack- son Springs; L. E. Zachery, Eagle Springs; A. D. Tener, Niagara; Nolson McDonald, Cameron, Route 2.
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