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GIVE GENEROUSLY TO MARCH OF DIMES VOL. 38—NO. 8 GIVE GENEROUSLY TO MARCH OF DIMES ^ Council Approves $100,000 Issue Of Town Bonds Town Hall Project Would Be Subject To Vote o£ People .n ' The intricate legal machinery of a municipal bond issue was cranked up by the town council Tuesday night with adoption of resolutions that authorize a $100,- 000 bond issue, to complete the municipal center on the park block—subject to a vote by citi zens of Southern Pines. So slowly does the machinery of setting up a bond issue turn ^ over—notice of intention to the Local Government Commission, notice to bond attorneys, and oth er steps—that no election could legally be held before March 7. The council will set a date for an election later. The amount of $100,000 in bonds has already been approved by voters of the town for the muni cipal center and estimates now are that it will take nearly an- other $100,000 to get the job com pletely done—that is, with admin istrative wing, council chamber, police station, detention cells and fire department facilities. The exact cost figure now is $199,- 343.51, subject to various adjust ments that may be made as the work progresses. Complete details of the munici pal center project will be publish ed by The Pilot soon, so that vot- • ers will have full information on the proposal they will be asked to decide. Federal Aid The council authorized Town Manager Louis Scheipers, Jr., to make application through the State Board of Health for Federal funds that would pay two-thirds of a proposed $80,000 sewage plant improvement project. Application must be made be ll fore February 1, it was explained, for Federal funds to be distribut ed in the 'fiS|Cal year 1958-59. Appointed to Board The council appointed Alter nate Membeir C. A. McLaughlin to fill a vacancy on the Board of Zoning Adjustment caused by the resignation of T. K. Atkinson. T. C. Johnston was named as the alternate member, succeeding Mr. McLaughlin. % Other members of this board are Joe Thomas, chairman; Mrs. Alwin Folley, E. L. Pleasants and Joshua Ferguson. ' Mrs. George Leonard, Jr., is the other alter nate member. The council granted the request of Floyd McDonald to construct a modem service station on West Pennsylvania Ave., west of Stephen Street. JAMES BOWERS, left, received the James Milliken memorial “Most Valuable Player” award from C. W. “Red” Smith at the annual testimonial banquet given by the local Elks lodge for the 1957 Southern Pines High School football squad, Mr. Smith is commander of the John Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, which sponsors the award each year. Bowers also was elected post-season captain by other members of the squad. He is the son of Mrs. Flora Bowers of Manly. (Photo by Humphrey) YOUNG MAN TO BE RECOGNIZED Nominations Asked By Jaycees For New Distinpished Service Award Nominations are invited from | the Jaycee committee in charge the public by Southern Pines of arrangements. Other commit- Jaycees for a “distinguished ser vice award” to be presented by the Jaycees to an outstanding lo cal young man. Presentation will be- made dur ing a banquet at the Hollywood tee members are Sumpter Cra ven, Jim Baird, Tom Surratt, Norris Hodgkins, Jr., and Gary Head. Nomination blanks are avail able at the Bamum Realty and Hotel on February 4. Nomina- Insurance Co. and at the Southern tions must be made before Jan-|?^’^'^® Town .offices. When filled uary 30 and judging will be done to Box by five prominent local resi- jl058. Southern Pines. Nominees must be aged 21 through 35. Their qualifications Will be judged 50 per cent on con- dents, who will remain anony-' mous and who are all over the Jaycees age limit of 35. Contes tants’ names will be kept secret tributions to the general commu- until the night of the banquet, ^^ity welfare during the past Bill Hamilton is chairman of | (Continued on Page 8) Death Of Woman Remains Mystery; Probe Continues Something New: Point-To-Point Race Scheduled The Moore County sheriff’s de- A new Sandhills winter sports partment and Cumberland Coun- attraction—announced as the first ty officers continued this week of a series of annual events in their investigation of the death of i the increasingly prominent Mrs. Adeline Tyndall, 44-year- i equestrian activities here—is old white woman who was found scheduled for Saturday of this ^ New Pastor Serving St. Anthony's Church Fathet Francis M. Smith is the new pastor at St. Catholic Church. He came to Southern Pines from Edenton and conducted services at the dead near the home of Mrs. Don Blue, off the Vass-Carthage road last Thursday morning. Two Fayetteville men who had been identified as having seen Mrs. Tyndall at 2:30 on Wednes day morning of last week—the An+iinTi-o-’c definitely known persons to , ‘ have seen her alive—were brought to Carthage and placed in jail without charge about 5 a. m. Friday by Moore Deputy A. services church for the first time Sunday u . morning He succeeds Father’^’ handling the in- morning ne succeeds ijatner gg^j ^^j^j^ supervision of Francis McCarthy who has leftj sheriff C. J. McDonald and in co- j||...outhern Pines, h^vmg^ served operation with the State Bureau of Investigation which immedi- here about seven months. For the past four years. Fath er Smith had been pastor of St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Eden- ately put an agent on the case The Fayetteville men were re leased later Friday. Questioned ton and had previously served at length, together and separate as assiMtnt pastor at churches in ly, they stuck to their assertion 1 (Continued on Page 8) Greensboro and Durham. Chairman Tells Progress In Seouting, ^Makes Fund Appeal In Southern Pines J.^. Sandlin of Southern Pines, Moore^pistrict Boy Scout chair- rnan, this week outlined air ambi tious 1958 Scouting program that already has shown remarkable progress—and appealed to the peopp of Southern Pines for fi nancial help in “making Moore County Scouting pay its own •way.” ^ Following a “Together We Or ganize” meeting last Thursday night of the Moore District Ex ecutive Committee—a group com posed of adults who head the va rious phases of Scouting in the county—Mr. Sandlin told The Pilot: 'That in the Boy Scout fund drive conducted last fall. South ern Pines obtained only 50 per vent of its financial quota—the only community in the county not to reach its goal. That five new Scouting units aiready have been chartered in the county since the first of this year and more than 15 new units are in various stages of develop ment. ^hat new members have been added to the Executive Commit tee to help those adults who have served Scouting in the past carry out the ambitious program for the coming year. Appeal Quoted Mr. Sandlin asked that The Pilot publish the .following “open letter ’ to Southern Pines resi dents, a letter that is the same as one sent privately to a number of “friends of Scouting” in town. The appeal is concentrated in Southern Pines, he explained, be cause it was here that giving in the Boy Scout fund drive fell to (Continued on page 8) week; a point-to-point race, to begin at Mileaway Farm at 2 p. m. and end at the same location. There will be no entry or spec tator fee. The public is invited to watch the cross-country ride from various vantage points on the course which will be about nine miles long. A point-to-point is a contest across a given hunting country for riders and their mounts. It is not an out-and-out race. There will be eight different points in the nine miles at which judges will be stationed. Riders and their mounts v/ill be judged on suitability of mounts, their con dition, their time, and the care with which rider handles the horse. Each rider can pick his own course-the longest will un doubtedly be the easiest while the shortest will be over the big gest jumps. Riders will pick up a chip at each point. The first one back at the finishing point, without penalties for over-tiring, his horse, will be the winner. Entries have been invited from over the Carolines and the North. Among those who have already entered are Miss Jean Cochran of Greenwich, Miss Jane McNeal of Savannah, Miss Sandy Glynn of Greens Farms, Conn., Miss Sunny Pierson of Greenv/ich, Richard Webb, Dool ey and Cinny Adams, Mrs. Mary Doyle, Beverley Gray, Ozelle Moss, and Mrs. Douglas Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Sutton and Dan Whittaker, all of Greens boro. Among those who have been invited to judge are: Mrs. Sarah Stilwell of Savannah, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Glynn of Greens Farms, Conn., Cyril Harrison of Camden. S. C., Sen. G. V. Hinkel and William Stratton. Judge McKeithen To Preside For Civil Court Term $50,000 Damage Suil By Mrs. Nicholson On Trial Calendar Judge W. A. Leland McKeithen of Pinehurst is scheduled to pre side at a one-week term of Moore County Superior Court for the trial of civil actions, opening at Carthage Monday morning, Jan uary 20. Judge McKeithen replaces Judge J. A. Rousseau who is as signed to hold court in Moore County during the first six mrnths of 1958. Judge Rousseau presided at the long trial of Frank E. Wetzel for the murder of State Highway Patrolman Wister Lee Reece, held at Rock ingham last week. Judge Rous seau, however, is expected to be in Carthage the week after next to preside at a one-week term for <rial of criminal cases. Damage Suit Of wide local interest is the case calendared for Monday in which Mrs. Valerie Nicholson, newspa per correspondent who lives in Southern Pines, is asking $50,000 damages from Vincent J. Daly, Miss Edwina Hallman and Mrs. Martha Dixon Underwood, all of Washington, D. C., and former residents here. Mrs. Nicholson alleged in her complaint that the three defen dants conspired over a period of several weeks to libel her, cul minating in March, 1956, with the sending by Daly of defamatory letters about her to four North Carolina newspapers, including The Pilot. It was for statements made in these letters that Daly was con victed of criminal libel in Moore County Recorder’s Court in April, 1956, and was sentenced to 12 months in prison. Sentence v/as suspended on payment of a $500 fine. Daly, who had been maintain ing an office here as a psycholo gist, with the two young women as his assistants, and the two women left Southern Pines soon after his conviction. Trial of the damage suit has been continued (Continued on page 8) Officials Confer On Lace Plant Proposals $3,714 Raised JUDGE McKeithen Traffic Toll In Comity In 1957 2 Less Than ’56 Twelve persons were killed in traffic accidents in Moore Coun ty in 1957, as compared to 14 in 1956, according to the annual re port of Ralph Steed, Moore County coroner. Nine of the traffic deaths oc curred in rural areas and three in towns, the report shows. Patrol Report A report from Sgt. Victor Ald ridge of District 4, Troop C of the North Carolina State High way Patrol lists the nine fatali ties in rural areas of Moore County in 1957, as compared to 14, all in rural areas, in 1956. The annual Patrol report also lists a total of 272 accidents in vestigated by Highway Patrol men in Moore County in 1957. In 74 of these accidents, a total of 130 persons were injured, the re port shows. The total number of arrests made by Highway Patrolmen in Moore County last year is listed as 3,324. Of these 1,348 arrests for speeding led the list of of fenses. There were 314 arrests for driving with improper equip ment, 181 for reckless driving and 82 for driving drunk. Arrests for having no operator’s license, failure to stop at stop signs and driving on the wrong side of the road were listed at 185, 143 and 165, respectively, along with a number of arrests for other of fenses. Other Deaths Mr- Steed’s report listed in ad dition to the traffic fatalities these other deaths which he had investigated: homicide, 3; fires, 2; acute alcoholism, 5; alcohol poisoning, 1; di-owning, 3; acci- de.ntal gunshot, 1. Twenty-one deaths in which the coroner was called were at- (Continued on Page 8) Toward $9,700 Donation Goal Three officials of the Southern Pines Development Corporation have returned from New York af ter two days of conferences with officers and attorneys of Mozur Laces, Inc., drafting a lease, con tract and other legal documents that will be required for the pro posed industrial project here. MR. BLUE Blue Elected To Local Bank Board The, election of D. A. Blue, Jr., to the board of directors of The Citizens Bank and Trust Com pany of Southern Pines was an nounced this week by N. L. Hsdgkins, president. Blue was the only new direct or elected at the annual meet ing of the bank’s stockholders held on Tuesday. The present members of the board—who are John C. Barron, N. L. Hodgkins, Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., John M. Howarth and George W. Pottle— w.3re all reelected for the com ing year. “We are pleased at the addi tion of such an outstanding young businessman to our board,” Mr. Hodgkins stated in making the announcement. Blue is a partner in the Powell Funeral Home of Southern Pines and Aberdeen and is descended from one of the pioneer Moore County families. He has served on the town council of Southern Pines and is presently a member (Continued on Page 8) Hospital Room To Honor Memory Of Miss Kelsey* A special room dedicated to the memory of Miss Laura Kelsey, a former president of the Moore 'Memorial Hospital Woman’s Aux iliary, and a devoted worker for the hospital during the years of her life here, has been completed and will be dedicated next Wed nesday, it was announced today. Due to the size of the room, it was explained, the ceremony will be confined to members of the family and a very few friends. The room, to be known as the Meditation Room, has been estab lished through contributions to the fund started at the time of Miss Kelsey’s death. It fills a need long felt, it is stated, at Moore Memorial, where it will serve as a refuge for those in need of quiet in times of anxiety and sorrow. The project has been under the guidance of friends of Miss Kelsey and members of the Woman’s Auxiliary, with a committee in charge consisting of-Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy, chairman, Mrs. Paul Dana, Miss Frances Pleasants, and Mrs. Alwin L. Folley. Under their guidance the former record room has been redecorated for this pur pose. The Rev. Martin Caldwell, rec tor of Emmanuel Church of which the late Miss Kelsey was a mem ber, will conduct the'service. Fowler Reelected Fire Chief, Gives Report ’57 Fires Harold B. Fowler has been re elected chief of Southern Pines’ volunteer fire department. Other officers elected at a re cent meeting of firemen are: S. T. Dunn, assistant chief; James A. Tew, company captain; and Frank Kaylor, Sr., truck captain, secre tary and treasurer. Annual Report Making his annual report to the town council Tuesday night. Chief Fowler reported that there had been 45 alarms in 1957. Sev en of these, he said, were “silent alarms” -for which the siren was not sounded but to which Resi dent Fireman Frank Kaylor re sponded with equipment, along with the chief or some other des ignated fireman, once it had been ascertained that a larger force was not needed. Burning of the Highland Pines Inn, with an estimated loss of $445,000, upped the year’s fire losses here to an estimated $474,- 175, Chief Fowler told the coun cil. He compared this with a 1956 loss of $7,500. One life was lost as a result of fire in 1957: the death of Mrs. Pa tricia Ann Sullivan in a small house outside the town limits on Christmas morning. Thirteen of the 45 alarms were from West Southern Pines and $22,300 of the loss was in that area, the chief reported. The Floyd McDonald property in West Southern Pines, burning for an estimated loss of $10,000, was one of the largest losses of the year. There was one out-of-town “mutual aid” call in 1957 — to Pinebluff when the Silver Springs dairy barn burned. All Moore County fire departments are members of the Sandhills Fire men’s Association which has a long-standing mutual aid agree ment among its members. This aid is given at no cost to the town that is assisted. In New York on Tuesday and Wednesday were Robert S. Ewing, president of the local cor poration which is conducting ne gotiations but which will not, un der present plans, actually con struct the proposed building for Mozur Laces; Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., secretary-treasurer; and Har ry Fullenwider, a director and le gal adviser. Mr. Hodgkins said this morning that Charles J. Mozur, president of the lace company, and Walter Kuffler, vice-president, were ex pected here today. Mr. Mozur and Mr. Ewing stopped in Ral eigh, en route from New York, to confer with representatives of the North Carolina Business Develop ment Corporation, the agency which had given assurance of a $150,000 loan to the local corpora tion when plans called for the lo cal group to build a plant here for the lace company. Under present plans, a Mozur corporation will construct the building and local investors, who have pledged about $186,000, would invest in that, receiving 20- year bonds paying six per cent in terest. Before the loan assurance can be transferred from the local cor poration to the Mozur firm, the entire board of directors of the Business Development Corpora tion must meet to approve the transfer; This meeting will be held February 3, it was learned today. Mr. Hodgkins said this, morning that the local group working on the project feels that the loan as surance will be transferred and that construction on the building can begin around February 10. Meanwhile, said Mr. Hodgkins, a North Carolina architect is be ing .brought in to go over plans that were drawn originaUy for a Tennessee location, to alter them to meet North Carolina building standards. Also, he said, at least one more bid will be asked, in addition to the one offered by the same company that had made a bid on the Tennessee project. Donation Project Mr. Hodgkins said that $3,714 by this morning had been prom ised in the effort to collect $9,'700 as gifts to the Town of Southern Pines to finance extension of wa ter and sewer lines from the town limits to the proposed Mozur plant. Despite the fact that such a small proportion of the total has been raised, Mr. Hodgkins said, he and other officials are confident that the needed amount can be obtained by a more inten sive campaign. He added that there appears to be a possibility that around $2,000 can be cut from the project’s cost. The delay due to the loan trans fer has given the local group more time to complete this phase of the project. IN ANTARCTICA TODAY Local Men Plant State Flag Direct word from Southern ed, Mrs. Gilmore was in Sanford Pines’ Antarctic expedition^—Voit Gilmore,and Vance Derby—reach ed here through two sources this week, both amateur radio opera tors. On Monday night a radio “ham” at Oak Ridge, Tenn., called Mr. Gilmore’s wife, Mrs. Kathy Gil more, with a direct message from her husband via a hook-up of ra dio and telephone. As it happen- Stores Entered Here Last Night Break-ins at the Sandhill Drug Store and Mack’s 5 & 10 are be ing investigated by the local po lice department. Police Chief Ed Newton said that officers making their rounds last (Wednesday) night about 11:45 p.m., discovered the break- ins, apparently very shortly after the intruders had left. A small amount of money is missing from each location, the chief said. At Mack’s, entrance was ob tained by breaking a glass in the back door and reaching in and unlocking it. At the drug store, iron bars were pried apart with a board and glass was pushed out of a window. Officers have found where the burglars had look-outs stationed and think there were more than two persons involved. at a Girl Scout Council meeting and the conversation was conduct ed by Alwin L. Folley, a business associate of Mr. Gilmore. . Mr. Folley said that Mr. Gil more reported a “heat wave” in Antarctica—32 degrees above ze ro. He said that both he and Derby were feeling fine and had been at Elsworth Scientific Sta tion for three days and that they were leaving for South America sooner than they had expected. This latter information Has led Mrs. Gilmore and Mrs. Derby, who plan to join their husbands in Buenos Aires for a short stay there before returning to South ern Pines, to move their date of departure from Southern Pines up to February 3. Last night (Wednesday), anoth er dispatch was telephoned to the Raleigh News and Observer, for which Mr. Gilmore is a corres pondent, by an amateur radio op erator in Norcross, Ga., stating that 20 Tar heels expected to join the local men today (Thursday) in planting a North Carolina flag from the N. C. Board of Conserva tion and Development, of which Mr. Gilmore is a member, “on a hilltop of slippery snow overlook ing ice-choked Weddell Sea.” The North Carolina men taking part are men of the Navy’s “Op eration Deep Freeze,” he said. He concluded: ‘"There’s a snow storm tonight and the sun is shin ing brightly all night.”