GIVE GENEROUSLY
TO
MARCH OF DIMES
VOL. 38—NO. 7
Twin Honors Go
To James Bowers
At Elks Banquet
Awards Presented To
Football Squad In
Testimonial Event
Twin honors were accorded
James Bowers of the high school
football team last night at the
12th annual testimonial banquet
given in the Country Club by the
Southern Pines Elks lodge for
members of the football squad,
managers, coaches, cheer leaders,
school officials and other guests.
Bowers was presented the
James Milliken memorial “Most
Valuable Player” award by C. W.
“Red” Smith, commander of the
sponsoring John Boyd Post, Vet
erans of Foreign Wfirs. By vote
of his fellow squad members.
Bowers was also named post-sea
son team captain, according to a
local tradition.
The 1957 football team was the
first 11-man aggregation fielded
by Southern Pines in many years
and played as a member of the
Cape Fear football conference,
winning three games and losing
seven. Irie Leonard was the
coach, assisted by W. A. Leonard.
T^wo members of the local
squad were placed on all-confer
ence teams—John Van Benscho-
ten at tackle on the first team and
James Bowers at tackle on the
second teeim.
Awards at the banquet includ
ed stars to previous letter win
ners and letters to those who won
them in the past sea^n. Minia
ture gold footballs were present
ed by the Elks to star and letter
winners and medallions to the
squad members.
Garland Pierce presided. Rob
ert E. Strouse, exalted ruler of the
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Sports Rivalry
With Aberdeen
To Be Renewed
GIVE GENEROUSLY
TO
MARCH OF DIMES
SIXTEEN PAGES
ON VASS-CARTHAGE ROAD
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958
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Woman^s Body Found Today
An autopsy is being performed
by a pathologist this (Thursday)
afternoon on the body of an un
identified white woman who was
found about 11:30 a. m. today
down an embankment on the
Vass-Carthage road.
Coroner Ralph Steed said that
the body was found by Henry
Cockman of Robbins who hap
pened to be passing and noticed
the woman, and who notified the
Moore County sheriffs depart
ment.
Mr. Steed said that, pending the
resijlts of the autoposy, he could
make no ruling as to the cause of
death. Bruises were noticed on
the woman’s body, he said, but
it could not be determined prior
to the autopsy whether these
were old or new.
A clue to identification was a
prescriptipn in the woman’s hand
bag, bearing a name. The coro
ner said, however, that he would
not accept this as identification
until some one knowing the
woman had personally seen the
body and made direct identifica:
tion. He said he could not release
the name found in the handbag
at this time.
Mr. Steed estimated the wom
an’s age at between 40 and 45.
No further information was
available as The Pilot went to
press this aft'ernon.
Scott Elected Chamber President
Joseph I. Scott is the 1958 pres
ident of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce, elected
Tue.sday night at a meeting of
the board of directors. Newly ap
pointed and old directors took
part in the voting.
Other officers elected were:
Mrs. Graham Culbreth, first vice-
president; Mrs. J. N. Steed, sec
ond vice-president; C. H. Bow
man, treasurer; and Alwin L.
Folley, corporation secretary.
There was a standing round of
applause for JE. Earl Hubbard,
the retiring 1957 president, after
Mr. Scott expressed appreciation
to Mr. Hubbard for his work
during the past year.
The new president is setting
up committees and will announce
them at the next Chamber meet
ing January 21. He told The Pilot
that he plans to have directors in
charge of various areas of work
and also appoint members to
coiTvmdttees.
“There is a lot of enthusiasm
about the coming year and I
think we have a wonderful
MH. SCOTT
hoard,” Mr. Scott said.
.^.t Tuesday’s meeting, the di
rectors approved Chamber spon
sorship of the State Class A boys’
ba.sketball tournament to be held
here in March (see another story
in today’s Pilot).
Anyone wanting to be sure of a
seat had better get in the Aber
deen 'gym early Friday night,
when the Southern Pines Blue
Knights meet the Aberdeen Red
Devils for the renewal of an old
sports rivalry. This friendly ri
valry was missed in the 1957 foot
ball season as Southern Pines
went to the 11-man game while
Aberdeen remained in the six-
man conference.
The 1958 football schedule will
see the footbaU rivalry renewed
also, as Aberdeen is going to 11-
man in the Cape Fear Conference,
with Southern Pines.
But right now, the old rivalry
will flame up in basketball when
the girls’ teams clash in the first
game at 7:30 and the boys imme
diately after that contest. Aber
deen has an up-and- coming girls’
team, but Caviness and Voss are
sure to have their hands full
against Southern Pines’ Britt and
McDonald. All of them are sharp
shooters and it wiU be anybody’s
game to the final whistle.
The boys of the two schools al
ways put on a tight game, regard-'
less of either’s conference stand
ing or record comparison. Aber
deen is undefeated in conference
play to date while Southern Pines
has lost a couple. However, South
ern Pines ha^a dangerous squad,
with Cushnian, Seymour and
Caldwell the leaders and liable to
break losse on a scoring spree in
any game—particularly the one
Friday night.
Continuing Need For March of Dimes
Stressed At Drive’s Kickoff Dinner
Moore County polio campaign
ers kicked off the 1958 March of
Dimes last Friday night with new
goals, a new slogan and also a
new quota, for the first time in
many years.
For a decade or more, the
Moore C5ounty quota has stood at
$7,560. This year it was raised
STATE TOURNAMENT
TO BE HELD HERE
The Slate Class A boys'
basketball championship
tournament will be held at
the school gymnasium here
March 12-15, it was announc
ed this morning by Dr, A. C.
Dawson, superintendent of
schools.
Four teams from the East
and four from the Wast will
take part. The event is of
much state-wide interest.
Sponsoring the tournament
will be the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce whose
directors approved the poro-
posal at their meeting Tues
day night. Sponsorship will
involve advertising, provi
ding people to lake tidcets
and other services.
voluntarily by $100 because of the
addition of Little River Township
to the county on January 1. Dou-
gald Cameron, chairman, and
Murdoch Cameron of the new
township were present at the
kickoff meeting.
“Survival Is Not Enough!” This
is the new slogan for the fund
drive to be conducted in Moore
County and the nation for the
fight against polio during Janu-
ary.
J. Frank McCaskill of Pine-
hurst, county March of Dimes di
rector, told chapter officials and
community chairmen assembled
to the dinner meeting at the Car
thage Hotel that, though the Salk
vaccine has greatly reduced the
incidence arid dangers of polio for
today’s youngsters, “we still have
polio and we still have as our re-
sponsibiility the victims of for
mer years.”
Butler Speaks
Paul C. Butler, Moore County
Miss Logan will also explain chapter chairman—who this year
how teachers’ workshops prepare I is also the State March of Dimes
Teaching Will
Be Discussed
At PTA Meeting
Miss Mary Logan, supervisor of
Southern Pines Schools, will
speak on “Improved Methods of
Classroom Instruction” at the reg
ular meeting of the East South
ern Pines Parent-Teacher Associa-
ation, to be held Monday, Janu
ary 13, at 8 p.m. in Weaver audi
torium.
them to Use modern equipment to
aid instruction in the schools.
.Mrs. I. A. Woodell, president, in
announcing the meeting, said that
the constitution and by-laws of
the PTA wbuld be read Monday
night for the benefit of new mem
bers who are not familiar with
them and because these docu
ments are due to be approved or
revised this year—a procedure
that must take place every four
years.
The flag ceremony will be con
ducted by Girl Scouts of Troop
64 whose leader is Mrs. Marvin
Wicker.
Lister For Sandhill
Twd. Here On Friday
Listing of real and personal
prdperty for county and town
taxes continued this week, with
list takers at work in all town
ships of the county.
Mrs. Irene Mullinix, who lists
in-town Southern Pines property
for McNeill Township, is at the
Piedmont Electric Co., 237 N. E.
Broad St., daily. Mrs. Adelaide
Schnell will be at this same loca
tion to list Sandhill Township
property today and tomorrow
(Friday)-. •‘Mrs. Schnell’s full
schedule fqr the month is pub
lished in aq advertisement else
where in today’s Pilot.
campaign director—told the cam
paigners that “for these victims,
many of whom survive only by
grace of March of Dimes funds,
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Priorities For
Road Work Are
Placed On Map
County Board Gels
Informaiion About
New Paving System
The priority order in which
about 86 miles of Moore County
roads will be “black-topped” is
shown on a map filed with the
county commissioners at their
meeting in Carthage Monday. The
map was later posted for public
inspection in the first-floor hall
of the courthouse.
T. G. Poindexter of Aberdeen,
the eighth highway division en
gineer, and T. C. Johnson, assist
ant division engineer, presented
the map to the commissioners and
explained how the priorities for
road construction are determined
by a point system.
The map is evidence of the new
deal in road paving over the state,
which sets up a merit rating for
all roads and proposes to pave
them according to this rating’s re
sults. Applications for paving
work can still be made by petition
to the commissioners—the board
received one such application on
Monday—but when the petition
reaches the Highway Department
division office, it is subjected to
the merit rating test to determine
its priority for construction.
Among the items considered in
establishing the merit of a project
are: traffic count, occupied homes,
whether or not a school bus route,
whether or not a mail route, man-
ufacting concerns and whether
the road is a connecting rodte be
tween two other highways.
The map illustrates future work
without indicating just when this
work will be done. Exactly how
far ahead the map is looking in
listing the approximately 86 miles
of paving in various projects can
not be determinedj^ as the work
depends on availability of funds,
weather and other factors.
Contract Lot
A contract to “tuck point” the
courthouse was let to the Western
Waterproofing Co. of Charlotte
whose bid was $5,985. There were
two other lower bids on the pro
ject, which was open to public
bidding, but these two contrac'
tors proved to be unable to fur
nish the five-year surety bond that
was set as one of the requirements
in the specifications for the job.
The work will consist of replacing
loose, worn and old mortar be
tween and around the blocks of
stone with which the courthouse
is built.
Fortune Tellers
Appearing before the commis
sioners to ask for a county for-
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Gifts To Town Asked To Put
JFater Sewer Lines To Plant
Ih furtherance of Industrial Development I hereby agree
to make a gift of
to the Town of Southern Pines, to provide water and
sewer extensions to the proposed Mozur Laces, Inc.,
plant.
Date-
THIS FORM, similar to cards being distributed by officers and
directors of the Southern Pines Development Corporation, is
provided for the convenience of any one wanting to make a do
nation to the town of Southern Pines to help pay for water and
sewer extensions beyond the town limits, to the proposed lace
manufacturing plant. Forms should be left at the Citizens Bank
& Trust Co., Southern Pines, or mailed to the bank. (Details of
donation-plan in stdry).
INFORMATION SUMMARY
About Lace Plant Proposals
Here are highlights of develop
ments of the past week, and out
look for the future, in connection
with the proposed plant here of
Mozur “Laces, Inc., as reported by
officers and directors of the
Southern Pines Development Cor
poration, the group that is con
ducting the negotiations:
1. Major change in the plan is
that the Southern Pines Devel
opment Corporation will not itself
build the $351,000 building for the
Mozur plant, to lease to the Mozur
firm, as first proposed. Because
of tax considerations, the return
to local investors under the first
plan would be considerably lower
than was expected.
2. The proposal now, therefore.
Wilson T6 Serve
As Principal of
West Side School
DECIMAL TROUBLE
Newly acquired Little River
township’s assessed property val
uation of about $700,000 would
bring Moore County ad valorem
tax revenue of $9,450—not $94,-
flOO as stated in last week’s Pilot.
The incorrect statement was a
matter of decimal trouble—one
point too far to the right. The
$9,450 is the amount theoretically
to be taken in at a tax rate of
$1.35 per $100 of property valu
ation, the current county rate.
Discounts and uncollectible taxes
would probably reduce the fig
ure somewhat in actual practice.
Dr. A. C. Dawson, superintend
ent of schools, said today that he
will recommend to the board of
education that H. A. Wilson, as
sistant principal of West South
ern Pines schools, serve the Re
mainder of this school year as
principal, to fill the vacancy oc
casioned by the death of J. W.
Moore a few weeks ago.
Mr. Wilson, who teaches science
and mathematics, has been at the
West Southern Pines school about
10 years. He is now acting prin
cipal. I
The board of education has
scheduled two meetings since the
death of Mr. Moore, but both have
had to be postponed for various
reasons. The board now plans to
meet next Wednesday, January
15.
Procedure to be followed in
filling the vacancy calls for a rec
ommendation by the superintend
ent to the board of education.
The present recommendation is
for Mr. Wilson to serve £is princi
pal the remainder of this school
year. There is the possibility that
the appointment would be made
permanent with the start of a new
school year.
as suggested and concurred in by
Chas. J. Mozur, head of the com
pany that wants to corrie here, is
that the Mozur interests build the
structure and that local funds be
invested therein as second mort
gage bonds, to bear interest at six
per cent. Investors would receive
monthly checks, with all book
keeping conducted by the Mozur
firm, over a period of 20 years,
unless the bonds are peud off
sooner.
3. According to R. S. Ewing,
president of the Southern Pines
Development Corporation, the lo
cal’group was given assurance
that $175,000 would be available
as a first mortgage loan, for con
struction of the building, from the
North Carolina Development Cor
poration, a state-sponsored agen
cy making loans not available to
business from other sources.
■Whether this assurance applies
also to the new plan whereby the
Mozur interests will build the
building is being investigated in
conferences held today and to
morrow. Officials of the local
group believe the assurance will
still stand.
4. The $175,000 first mortgage
would be paid off under the new
plan after 10 years, so that the
bonds of the local investors—of
which about two-thirds, or $100,-
000, would then remain outstand
ing—would then become a first
mortgage on a $350,000 building,
strengthening the position of local
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General Miller To Head Red Cross Campaign
Brig. General Lehman W.
Miller has accepted the position
as chsurman of the Moore Coun
ty Red Cross Fund Campaign for
1958. He will be assisted by Frank
D. Shamburger of Aberdeen as
vice-chairman. The campaign
will be conducted during the
month of March.
General MiUer, familiarly
known as “Duke,” graduated
from the United States Military
Academy at West Point in the
class, of 1915. He retired from ac
tive duty in 1946, and moved
from Westminster, Md., to
Southern Pines in 1956. While in
Westminster, he was chairman of
the Red Cross Disaster Prepared
ness and Relief Committee. He is
married to the former Dorothy
Carter of Virginia and they have
two daughters, one of whom, Su
san, is an eighth grade student
in the local school.
General Miller has had an in-
GENERAL MILLER
31 years of service in the Corps
of Engineers. Among his several
teresting military career, totaling assignments were those of U. S.
District Engmeer at Jackson
ville, Fla.; Panama, Canal Zone,
and New Orleans. He was Chief
of the U. S. Military Mission to
Brazil from 1940 to 1942. Just
prior to his retirement he was
executive assistant to the For-
lign Liquidation Commissioner
in Washington. After retirement
he served under the State De
partment as Foreign Liquidation
! Commissioner for Eastern South
' America.
During World War II, he com
manded Engineer Training Cen
ters at Fort Bragg and Fort Sut
ton, in North Carolina.
General Miller is organizing
his committees and teams for the
Fund Campaign and from time
to time will announce the names
of his sub-chairmen.
The Moore Coimty Chapter is
most fortunate in having such a
capable and energetic person to
serve as County Chairman of the
Red Cross Campaign.
Public Warned
About Numbers On
New TS-r Forms
Sale of State motor vehicle li
cense plates had passed the 1,400
mark today at the License Bureau
in the Chamber of Commerce of
fice, 123 N. E. Broad St. In addi
tion, over 400 Southern Pines
tags had been sold.
Mrs. S. D. Fobes, Chamber sec
retary who is in charge of the Li
cense Bureau for the Motor Vehi
cles Department in Raleigh, cau
tioned the public today about one
difficulty that has quite frequent
ly arisen in connection with the
“FS-1” certificates of liability in
surance that each vehicle owner
must have to obtain a license
plate, under a new North Caro
lina law.
The point she made is that the
number given on the “FS-1” form
has to match a number on the
vehicle’s registration card. For
instance, she said, sometimes a
motor number will be given on
the “FS-1” form, but a serial
number on the registration card.
To make sure that this difficulty
does not arise, she said, registra
tion cards should be shown to in
surance agents who fiU in the
“FS-1” forms.
The License Bureau is open
daily, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., closing
however from noon to 1 p.m. daily
and on Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons.
In addition to the regular li
cense plate charge, there is an ex
tra $1 charge, payable when plates
are obtained, to pay for the State’s
new driver training program in
the schools. This, too, is a new
feature this year.
$9,700 Sought
In Effort To
Get Industry
Raising of $9,700, to extend wa
ter and sewer lines from the town
limits to the proposed Mozur
Laces, Inc., plant north of Mid
land Road on No. 1 Highway
parkway, is apparently the biggest
hurdle that has to be passed to
make the new industry a reality
for this community.
The goal of the Southern Pines
Development Corporation, whose
officers and directors are devot
ing most of their time to the lace
plant project, is to raise this mon-
ey by the end of the week.
Following a public meeting at
Weaver Auditorium Tuesday af
ternoon, in which the officials ex
plained all aspects of the project
in detail and described it again
as a “refisonable businessman’s
risk,” more .than $1,500 had been
promised this morning.
The local group explained Tues
day aftemoofn that it has to raise
the money by donations made to
the town because the town, under
local ordinances, cannot legally
build the water and sewer lines
beyond the city limits. 'The town
will extend water and sewer lines
for the plant up to the town lim
its at a cost of about $7,500.
The town could build the lines
outside the town if it had surplus
funds in the water fund or in any
other fund that is not derived
from ad valorem taxes. But it
can’t use tax money for the work.
Officials of the local -Develop
ment Corporation are contacting
the nearly 200 persons who pledg
ed about $186,0Q0 for second mort
gage investment in the proposed
lace plant building and are asking
them for a five per cent increase
in their pledge—the additional
five per cent to be a gift to the
town of Southern Pines.
It was pointed out at the meet
ing Tuesday that, if the second
mortgage bonds pay six per cent
as now planned, the local invest
ors will be getting more than the
four and a half per cent that the
bonds would have paid under a
former investment plan. Over a
period of 20 years—^the life of the
bonds—this would bring local in
vestors some $27,000 more than
would four and a half per cent
bonds, it was noted. In view of
this return, the point was made,
should no^ local people be willing
to give the $9,700 needed to as
sure and complete the lace plant
project?
Local Development Corporation
officials plan to confer with Mr.
Mozur early next week and it is
hoped that he can be assured at
that time that all local participa
tion fimds, including those neces
sary to extend water and sewer
lines, are available—and that a
final commitment on the project
can be obtained.
Taking part in the Tuesday pro
gram and presenting various as
pects of the plans and negotia
tions, including a favorable report
on investigation of the Mozur
firm’s operations in Tennessee,
were the following officers and
directors of the local Develop
ment Corporation: R. S. Ewing,
Jimmy Hobbs, Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., John Ponzer, Norris Hodg
kins, Sr., Harry Fullenwider and
L. B. Creath. ‘ Other directors of
the corporation are R. F. Hoke
Pollock, June Blue and John Os-
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FIRST BABY
First baby of 1958 in Moore
County was the son of Wil
liam Donald and Otelian
Pearman. 1028 West New
Hampshire Ave., Southern
Pines, bom at Moore Mem
orial Hospital at 11:06 a. m.
January 1.
First to arrive at St. Jo
seph's Hospital was the
daughter of Leon and Ann
Canriness of Lakeview. at 4
a. m., January 2.
The Pearman child receiv
ed a number of gifts, includ
ing groceries from Colonial
Stores, baby food from Hobbs
Market, a blanket from
Patch's Department Store
and an order for laundry and
dry eleaxiing from Carter's