VOL. 39—NO. 47
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1957
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AT COUNCIL MEETING
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Highway Commission Turns Down Bid
Put Mechanic St In State System
The State Highway Commis
sion has turned down a bid by
Southern Pines to have Mechan
ic Street become a part of the
state maintained secondary roads
system.
In a letter addressed to the
Town Council, highway officials
said that, because Mechanic
Street did not connect with other
secondary roads, it would not be
possible at this time, under pres
ent policy to accept the street.
Actually, there is no complete
street for the State to take over.
Town officials had hoped, how
ever, that the State would open
the street and allow free access
to Morganton Road from Penn-
A-ddor Negro Held
In Jail; Charged
In Ice Pick Death
A 16-year old Negro youth of
Addor is being held in Moore
County jail, charged with the
ice pick slaying of Rufus Berry,
also of Addor.
According to information of the
Moore County Sheriff’s office,
the youth, James Junior Harri-
.son, has admitted the slaying but
claimed he acted in self defense.
The stabbing, according to
Deputy Sheriff A. F. Dees, took
place about 11:30 Monday night
in Addor. Harrison confessed
early Tuesday morning after be
ing confronted with the informa
tion that an autopsy had indica
ted Berry had been killed with a
sharn instrument. He later led
officers to |the place he had hid
the ice pick and then told them
how it had happened.
Coroner Ralph Steed, who or
dered the autopsy, said that
Berry was stabbed in the chest
and that no blood was visible, a
fact that had officers baffled as
to the cause of death when they
first started the investigation.
The weapon was found in a
closet in a home in Addor which
officers said was the residence of
Harrison’s ^andmoher.
Harrison recounted to officers
that he and Berry had been in a
fight Monday night though the
cause was never brought out. A
resident of Addor, not identified,
was said by officers to have been
requested by friends of Berry to
take him some place and he dis
covered, after carrying Berry
around in his car, that the man
was dying. Officers found him
sprawled on a floor in Harrison’s
grandmother’s house.
No date has been set for a pre
liminary hearing. Harrison is be
ing held without bond until the
date is set, however, which prob
ably will l5e this week.
Helping in the investigation in
addition to Dees was ABC offi
cer Kieth Marks.
sylvania Avenue without use^ of
the parkway. It was pointed out
in the request also that, since the
State had closed Wisconsin Ave
nue where it crosses the park-
v/ay, opening of Mechanic Street
would relieve congestion in that
area of town and make travel
between East and West Southern
Pines easier.
The Council has not made any
further plans for the street,
though there has been some talk
that the street should be open
whether it is part of the South
ern Pines system, or part of the
State system.
In other action Tuesday night
the Council held a brief discus
sion, at request of Councilman
Robert Ewing, that a tJnited
Fund campaign should be held in
Southern Pines in lieu of the
many drives that are conducted
for charitable and civic organiza
tions throughout the year. The
Councilmen felt, however, that
it was not in the purview of the
town to initiate any action to
bring all drives under a United
Fund campaign, holding that it
was a matter for private ctiizens.
The Council voted to send
the voting machines back to the
company which had installed
them here several years ago. The
machines, which have only been
used four times—^twice in pri
maries and twice in regular
town elections—have cost the
town almost $1,000 and a debt of
$2,000 is still owed on them,
Under an agreement the town
has with the company the ma
chines may be returned at any
time and the loan agreement is
not renewed.
One big reason the machines
will not be used here any more
is that the county has turned
thumbs down on using them in
county-wide elections.
The Council also deferred ap
pointing anyone to the Town
Planning Board to replace Don
ald Case, who resigned earlier
this month because of ill health.
Mayor Blue suggested that, be
cause of the importance of the
job, particularly in the next few
years. Council should look long
and hard at a possible replace
ment.
In one other piece of action the
Council voted to advertise for a
public hearing on withdrawing
from dedication for street pur
poses certain property in the
West Southern Pines school area.
A. C. Dawson, school superin
tendent, had made the request,
citing the fact that should the
streets be built, they would run
through property that the School
Board is proposing for an athlet
ic field for the West Southern
Pines school.
The property in question in
volves Glover Street between
Indiana Avenue and New York
Avenue and Massachusetts Ave
nue from Carlisle to Pine Street.
Blue Knights Win
First Game; Meet
Hope Mills Friday
Plans For Annual
Homecoming Game
Announced Today
With a win under their belts,
and a resulting confidence that
can be gained no other way, the
Southern Pines Blue Knights
move into Hope Mills tomorrow
(Friday) night seeking their sec
ond victory in as many weeks.
Chances are they’ll get it. The
Millers, with a none won, four lost
record, have been having tough
luck of late and lost last week to
the Wilmington B team, 31-6. The
Knights, on the other hand, de
feated Shailotte 19-6 last Friday
night and served notice on the re
maining teams on their schedule
that they’re pushovers no longer.
The game tomorrow night gets
underway at 8 o’clock on Hope
Mills’ Memorial Field. For fans
who don’t know the way to Hope
Mills, Coach Irie Leonard this
morning said the best way to get
there is by way of Raeford. About
two-thirds of the way between
Raeford and Fayetteville, there is
a turnoff to the right and Hope
Mills is seven miles from there.
Leonard, pleased with the game
his charges turned in against
ShaUotte, is openly optimistic
about the game. “We should
win,” he said, “though I certainly
won’t predict that we will. We’re
improving every game, our play
is more spirited than it was when
the season opened, and our backs
are learning to handle the ball
better. I’ni particularly pleased
with the improvement shown by
Bobby Watkins, Bob McIntosh
and John van Benschoten. James
Bowers, Jim Tollison and Everett
Cushman are also gettting a lot
better and I believe they all will
be outstanding before the season
is over.”
The Knights are already mak
ing plans for their Homecoming
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GIRL SCOUT DRIVE
Final plans for the annual
Girl Scout fund drive in
Southern Pines, which begins
Tuesday, were announced to
day by Mrsi. Voit Gilmore,
chairman of the drive.
Letters will be sent to all
townspeople soliciting dona
tions and downtown mer
chants will be visited be
tween the drive opening date
and October 30, Mrs. Gilmore
said, in attempts to raise a
goal of $2,200.
This year marks the 10th
anniversary of the Central
Girl Scout Council, of which
troops in Southern Pines are
a part, and an all-out effort is
being made to secure ade
quate leadership for the more
than 2,000 Girl Scouts and
leaders, Mrs. Gilmore said. In
the local chapter, there are 11
active registered Girl Scout
troops, including one in West
Southern Pines.
Hodges Calls For Balance Of Industry,
Tourism And Agriculture At C&D Meeting^
Glen Rounds Pens BookOnSwampLife
Glen Rounds, who has been
poking around the swamps near
Pinebluff for several years, now
and causing large numbers of his
neighbors to wonder what he was
up to, has his secret no longer.
He has, as he most probably
would put it, “wrote and drawed”
a book.
' Writing a book, or drawing pic
tures, is nothing new for Rounds,
who is the Sandhills’ closest link
* with the literary world. This new
^ one, which is all about swamp
life, is his twenty-first. Those
who have seen advance copies of |
it, predict it will be acclaimed as
one of his best. And certainly it’s
different from anything he has
ever done.
“Writing about swamp life,” he
said earlier this week, “is a diffi
cult thing. There have been thous
ands of books about animals,
,, many of thend good and many of
them—too many—not worth the
paper they’re printed on. I’ve tak
en an entirely different approach
to animals and tried to acquaint
readers with what they can find
in,' the swamp if they go about it
the right way. There’s quite a
bit of activity there, you know.’’
And quite a bit of activity is
right.
GLEN ROUNDS
Rounds has written, “percep
tively,” his publishers, Prentice
Hall, say, about the animals he
has met on hundreds of trips to
the swamps. He tells stories
about the old muskrat, the little
green heron, the water snakes and
marsh rabbits, squirrels, possums,
and turtles—not a complete list
but enough to indicate the wide
range he has selected.
The book is entitled “Swamp
Life: An Almanac.” Rounds says
he has been working on it fqr at
least a year but has been prepar
ing it in his mind “many years
and I just don’t know how many.”
The book has a theme, some
thing new for Rounds. With gov
ernmental agencies and private
concerns by the hundreds grind
ing out stacks of press releases
imploring people to practice con
servation of resources, qo one has
made the pitch interesting enough
to appeal to young people. In
“Swamp Life,” an entire section
is devoted to the value of wildlife
and how nature keeps her popu
lation balanced.
By observing the animals and
watching their habits for weeks
on end. Rounds has gained an ex
cellent insight as to the need for
conservation of woods and the
animals that live in them. He has
turned his information into indi
vidual stories about the living
habits of the various swamp crea
tures and they are presented, his
editors say, as real eye openers.
Rounds is now living in South
ern Pines though he still main-
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WELCOME TO SOUTHERN PINES is ex
tended Governor Luther Hodges by Mayor Wal
ter Blue as the fall meeting of the State Board
of Conservation and Development got under
way at Mid Pines Club Sunday. Governor
Hodges, who is chairman of the Board, stayed
here for the entire meeting, conferring often
with his associates on matters before the various
divisions of C&D, and getting in some golf and
relaxation on several occasions. Looking on
here are, from left, H. Clifton Blue, Moore
County representative in the General Assembly;
Cecil Beith, manager of the Karagheusian Car
pet plant in Aberdeen; R. M. Cushman, execu
tive vice president of Amerotron Corporation;
and W. P. Saunders, C&D director.
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HEADS GET TOGETHER was the caption
Emerson Humphrey, local photographer, gave
to this picture made Monday just before mem
bers of the Board of Conservation and Develop
ment and visiting guests relaxed at Mile-Away
Farm. Pictured from left to right are My Bill,
head of the W. J. Brewster string of show
horses, champion hunter of the Madison Square
Garden show ^d most other major shows in
the country; Governor Luther Hodges; W. O.
Moss, head of the Moore County Hunt and Mas
ter of Hounds; Louis L. Sutton, head of Carolina
Power and Light Co.; Gen. R. F. Sink, head of
Fort Bragg; W. P. Saunders, head of the C&D
Board; and Voit Gilmore, head of the State
Travel Council. Shown in the foreground is
“Joyful,” lead hound of the Moore County
Hounds. The photo was made in the Brewster
Stable.
School Discipline
Will Be Discussed
A panel of parents and teach
ers will discuss the problem of
school discipline when the East
Southern Pines Parent-Teacher
Association meets in Weaver Au
ditorium at 8 p. m., Monday, Oc
tober 14.
The meeting will be the first
held under a new schedule which
sets regular meetings of the as
sociation on the second Monday
night of each month.
Mrs. I. A. Woodell, PTA presi
dent, said that Dr. A. C. Dawson,
superintendent of Southern Pines
schools, will serve as moderator
for the discussion.
Parents taking part will be
Mrs. Robert Ewing, Mrs. Don
Traylor and Dr. Bruce Warlick.
Teachers on the panel will be
Miss Pete Dana, Miss Barbara
Elliott. Mrs. Betty Foushee, Miss
Mary Logan, Roger Gibbs and
W. A. Leonani.
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HODGES. ERVIN STRESS MODERATION
YDC Convention Termed Successful
At PTA Meeting By County Officials; 24fl Re^er
Moore County YDC members
recapping the state convention
held here last weekend, decided
it was the most successful, as
well as the biggest undertaking
of the club’s entire existence.
That the convention was a suc
cess was also the sentiment of
the members attending from all
over the State, who said they had
a “wonderful time.”
They enjoyed the friendly spir
it and hospitality extended by
their hosts in true Sandhills
style; also the easy informality
and comfort of the luxurious
Mid Pines Hotel which was turn
ed over entirely to the convenr
tion.
Registrants totaled 240, stay
ing at the Mid Pines, other hotels
and motels of the Southern Pines
area. This number was swelled
by 100 or more who attended va
rious events, such as the Satur
day elections, without the for
mality of registering. The dining
room was filled to capacity for
the banquet, with 224 present.
Others dined elsewhere and
came in for the speeches.
Governor Hodges’ keynote
speech and Senator Ervin’s ban
quet speech, both stressing the
moderate stand and? calling for
unity rather than division, gave
the Young Democrats much to
think about. Their civil rights
resolution adopted at the Satur
day morning session was mod
erate in tone, seeking only a re
turn to basic States Rights’ prin
ciples as defined in the 10th
amendment, and not mentioning
Arkansas or Governor Faubus.
These received much mention,
though, in informal pow-wows,
with many views expressed,
from moderate to extreme
Eisenhower’s action in sending
federal troop? into Arkansas re-
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Urges ‘Select’
Industries For
Sandhills Area
A better balance between in
dustry, agriculture and tourism
was suggested for the Sandhills
and the rest of North Carolina by
.Governor Hodges speaking here
Monday before a combined meet
ing of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club,
Southern Pines Rotary Club and
the Southern Pines Lions Club.
The luncheon, held at Mid Pines
as part of the fall meeting of the
State Board of Conservation and
Development, attracted more than
150 people. It was one of a series
held in; honor of the C&D Board
and was termed by its sponsors as
a beginning of a needed lift for a
“bootstrap operation’’ in the Sand
hills lor a sounder economy.
Governor Hodges had apparent
ly been well briefed on the Sand
hills’ needs. He emphasized that
Moore County should go in for
“select” small, specialized indus
tries, and said the area w-as “most
ideal for living.” He alsO suggest
ed that efforts should be made to
entice research industry to locate
in the county, citing the fact that
many facilities demanded by such
industry are already present in
the resort areas.
At present, he commented, av
erage cash, income in all Sandhills
counties is less than the state av
erage of $1,305, ranging down
ward from Moore with $1,246 to
Hoke, which has only $891. Av
erage for the nine adjoining coun
ties, he said, is only $1,101. For
the state average, despite indus
trial gains during the past year,
he foresaw an increase this year
of less than one per cent.
But he warned the luncheon
group: “don’t drop the small bone
from your mouth while looking
for a bigger one,” an obvious ref
erence to the large tourist indus
try that is prevalent in the area.
In the tourist industry, he pointed
out, the area already has some
thing very special, with its golf
courses and other recreational fa
cilities known aU over the coun
try, and should never be belittled
but rather developed to an even
greater potential.
Value of the tourist business in
the state is now an estimated $300
million. Governor Hodges said.
He urged the group to look ahead
and help push it up to a goal of
$500 million, a figure he said that
WEIS not unrealistic at alL
He also noted that Moore Coun
ty had produced state leadership
far out of proportion to its popu
lation. He named several, includ
ing W. P. Saunders, C&D direc
tor; Superior Court Judge W. A.
Leland McKeithen; T. Clyde Au-
man of West End, a member of
the State Board of Corrections; J.
Hawley Poole, also of West End,
a former State Senator and pres
ent member of the State Board of
Agriculture; Senator Wilbur Cur
rie of the UNC Board of Trustees;
John Ruggles of the State Hospi-
als Board of Control; H. Clifton
Blue, chairman of the State Wa
ter Advisory Commission; and
Voit Gilmore, C&D member and
president of the State Travel
Council.
Governor Hodges and members
of the C&D Board pointed out
several times during the three day
meeting that C&D did not “try to
bring industry” to one place or
another. What they earnestly are
attempting to do, it was stressed,
is to aid the locality to find out
what it wanted and needed and
then to present that community
to industry location people in the
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American Legion
To Meet Tonight
’Uie Sandhill Post 134 of the
American Legion and its auxil
iary will meet tonight at 8
o’clock in the Legion Hut on E.
Vermont Avenue to discuss plans
for the forthcoming Armistice
Day observance in Southern
Pines. A special invitation is ex
tended to all veterans to attend
the meeting, according to A. R.
McDaniel, Commander of the
Past.