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GIVE GENEROUSLY
TO
MARCH OF DIMES
VOL. 38—NO. 9
Sandhills Seeks
Location of New
Institute Here
Meeting Scheduled
Al Auditorium On
Friday This Week
Every one interested in the pos
sibility that the Two Year Tech
nical Institute, to be established
somewhere in Eastern North Car
olina, would be located at South
ern Pines is invited to come to cin
open meeting at 3 p.m. Friday in
Weaver Auditorium here.
Purpose of the meeting is to
i give information about the pro
ject—which is already well organ
ized under the direction of civic
leaders throughout the county—
and to discuss the various prob
lems involved.
Wherever the Institute will be
located, the State wiU furnish, as
allocated by the 1957 General As
sembly, $100,000 to be used main-
' ly for salaries of a director and 10
instructors on the staff of the new
junior college.
The community or Eirea to which
the college is assigned wiU be re
quired to raise $150,000 to be used
for machinery and equipment and
also the necessary buildings to
house the Institute.
It was stated here this week by
local leaders in the project that
OzeUe Moss and Dwight W. Win-
kleman, owners of the former
Notre Dame Academy property
on Youngs Road are holding it to
be made available for the Insti
tute in case this area were chosen
for its location.
Attending the meeting Friday
afternoon will be Dr. Robert G.
Carson, Jr., head of the depart
ment of Industrial Engineering at
State CoUege, and James I. Ma
son, director of the Gaston Tech
nical Institute at Gastonia, an in
stitution similar to the one that is
being sought here.
The following citizens have
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GIVE GENEROUSLY
TO
MARCH OF DIMES
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THEY’RE WINNERS—Mrs. W. O. Moss pre
sents the winner’s trophy to Richard Webb of
New York City at the close of Saturday’s point-
to-point race, which attracted many lovers of
equestrian sports to the Sandhills. Tommy
Walsh (right), came in only slightly behind, and
Miss Sandy Glenn of Green Farms, Conn., was
a close third. (Photo by Humphrey)
Urged
GOP Women Are
Work For
Worthy Projects
“No matter how much we be
lieve in a cause, it will not bring
about the results we want unless
we do something,” asserted Mrs.
Peter Gibson, national president
of Republican Women, in an ad
dress at Tuesday night’s opening
session of the fifth annual con
vention of the North Carolina
Federation of Republican Wom
en, held at the Hollywood Hotel.
She was introduced by Mrs.
Louis G. Rogers of Charlotte, a
national committeewoman.
The speaker told her hearers
that women are actually just be-
giiming to realize the power they
hold in remedying this nation’s
problems.
“Women can’t do it (improve
government) by letting some
body else carry the ball; either
they back up the people carrying,
the ball or be willing to carry it Conn., Mrs. Sarah Stillwell and
themselves,” she insisted. Mrs. Jane McNeal, of Savannah,
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Point-To-Point
Race, New Event,
Won By R. Webb
Described as a “terrific suc
cess,” Saturday’s point-to-point
race, first such equestrian event
ever held in the Sandhills, drew
a colorful field of 20 starters that
headed out from Mile Away
Farm at 2 p. m., and a mile-long
parade of cars taking enthusias
tic viewers to vantage points
along the nine-mile course to
watch their progress.
It was a close finish. Richard
Webb of New York City on his
big bay hunter, the winner, and
Tommy Walsh on his steeplechas
er came in almost neck to neck, in
slightly over 32 minutes. Behind
them and close, came the third
rider. Miss Sandy Glenn of Green
Farms, Conn., with a bunch right
on her heels. Happy Hoy, joint
master of the Moore County
Hounds, at their head.
All horses were adjudged in
good condition, few of them even
sweating from the long ride,
though this latter may well have
been due somewhat to the icy
wind that was blowing.
Entries had been halted at the
two stopping points: the High
House, home of General and .Mrs.
MR. LARSON
Vern Larson, New
Phone Executive,
Honored In N. J.
Vern E. Larson, recently ap
pointed vice-president and gen
eral manager of the United Tele
phone Company of the Carolinas,
returned to Southern Pines early
V^J. ctliVA .XVXld. X lllCTd Cctxiy
Archibald Arnold, and Weymouth jthis week from New Jersey where
Farm, home of the John Gold
smiths, out on the Morganton
Road. Here judges had been post
ed to look the horses over, test
them for wind and general fitness
to go on.
Judges for the event, stationed
at eight different points along
the course, were: S. E. Clyburn
of Camden, S. C., Mr. and Mrs.
Harley Walsh of Yeungs Road,
Miss Jean Cochrane of Fairfield,
Ho R. Stamper Joins Police Force
Harold R. Stamper has begun
work as a member of the South
ern Pines police department.
Chief C. E. Newton announced
this week.
He succeeds John K. Sharpe
who resigned to become assist
ant chief at Vass, after serving
more than a year in Southern
Pines.
'The new officer became ac
quainted with this section of the
country while serving as aS>ara-
tTOoper at Fort Bragg. His wife
is the former Doris Marie Spivey
of Johnsonville in Harnett Ctoun-
ty. They have a son, James Roy,
two months old and are living at
440 N. May St. |
Bom in Wyoming, Mr. Stamp
er, who is 25 years old, graduated
from high school at Bentonville,
Ark., and attended Abilene
Christian College at Abilene,
Tex., for two years. His father,
Roy Stamper, lives at Bartles
ville, Okla. His mother is de
ceased.
After leaving military service
in September, 1956, Mr. Stamper
was employed by the natural gas
he was honored with a testimoni
al farewell dinner. He succeeds
John E. Cline, who has resigned.
Mr. Larson formerly lived at
Newton, N. J., and held similar
positions with the United Tele
phone Co. of New Jersey as he
does here. The organization hon
oring him last Thursday night was
the Branchville Business Men’s
Club, of which he was a member
and which includes members from
the Newton and Branchville area.
After having begun his work here
eatiy in the month he returned
for a few days especially for the
testimonial event.
At the dinner, Mr. Larson Wcis
presented with two handsome
pieces of luggage and, in humor
ous token of his business connec
tion, an old magneto telephone.
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Health Clinic
Moves To Former
Book Shop Site
The Southern Pines Health
Clinic of the Moore County DC'
partment of Public Health open
ed up its new quarters for cus
tomers yesterday.
The clinic, which was held for
many years in an old house in
West Southern Pines, is now
lodged in the lower floor of the
Bowman Building at 210 West
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Condemned la;8t year as un
safe anl qnfit to house the coun
ty clinic, the old building, the
property of the town, was finally
abandoned in the nick of time
before another Grand Jury Re
port was due. ’The present quar
ters are rented by the county
from Mr. William F. Bowman.
Clinics of the Department of
Public Welfare, which have been
held in the old building, where
a lending closet of clothes was
also maintained, were discontin
ued last December. At that time,
the department stated that wel
fare patients from this area
v/ould be obliged to go either to
the department headquarters in
the Carthage courthouse, where,
under the state rules, all original
applications must be filled out,'
or else to Aberdeen. The same
quarters in Aberdeen where the
health clinics have been held,
are also available for welfare pa
tients once a month.
Yesterday’s opening found
Miss Mary Swett, public health
nurse, and Mrs. Lyn McLean,
secretary, on duty, with the
county health officer. Dr. J. A
Willcox in charge.
Patients were rather scarce this
first day. Miss Swett reported,
“but they’ll come,” she said,
“when they find out just where
it IS. And it should be handy to
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Buchan Family
Gives Land For
School Grounds
Education Board
Tells Gratitude
With Resolution
A gift of 6.79 acres of land—
the equivalent of almost two city
blocks—to the Southern Pines
City Board of Education by the
family of the late P. Frank Buch
an as a memorial to him, was an
nounced Tuesday by Dr. A. C.
Dawson, secretary of the Board.
The deed was delivered last Mon
day to the Board, which, however,
had previously been informed of
the gift.
The land adjoins and extends
westward from the present
grounds of the West,Southern
Pines School, which already had
a campus of approximately two
and a half city blocks. No street
separates the new holdings from
the old. A portion of the addition
will be cleared and graded to en
large the athletic field. Dr. Daw
son said.
The Board expressed deep grat
itude for this gift which assures
room for expangion at the school
for years to come. The plant con
sists of an old high school build
ing, home economics cottage, in
dustrial arts shop, band building,
gymnasium, cafeteria, and ele
mentary school, the final phase of
which—five additional rooms—
saw construction begin on Mon
day of this week.
The Board, meeting last week,
adopted the following resolution:
“Whereas Helen C. Buchan,
widow, Katherine Buchan Whit
lock and husband, W. P. Whit
lock, and Frank W. Buchan and
wife, Carolyn H. Buchan, did on
the 23rd day of December, 1957,
convey to the Southern Pines
City Board of Education a certain
tract of land, adjacent to the pub
lic school properties on Glover
Street, as a gift in memory of the
late P. Frank Buchan; and
“Whereas P. Frank Buchan,, for
many years prior to his death,
gave freely and unselfishly of his
time and energy to the upbuilding
of the community of Southern
Pines and of Moore County, North
Carolina, and was much loved by
his fellow citizens: and
‘Whereas the Southern Pines
City Board of Education has ac
cepted this gift from his widow,
daughter and son, in recognition
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$2,500 Awarded Local
W Oman In Damage Suit
Directed
Judgment
Ends Trial
The nearly two-year-long fight
of a Southern Pines newswoman
and free lance writer to clear her
na.me and obtain financial re
dress for what she alleged was a
conspiracy by three persons to
drive her out of her profession
and blacken her reputation
reached a conclusion in Moore
County Superior Court at Car
thage^ this (Thursday) morning
with a directed judgment that
awarded $2,500 to the plaintiff,
Mrs. S. O. (Valerie) Nicholson.
The three defendants were
Vincent J. , Daly, Miss Edwina
Hallman and Mrs. Martha Dixon
Underwood, all of Washington,
D. C., and all former residents
of Southern Pines.
Said Mrs. Nicholson as she
walked from the courtroom:
“That’s all I wanted. I just want
ed to get this thing out into the
open, so people would know about
it: so it would stop and the public
would be warned.”
MR. STAMPER
company at Sanford. Since last
November, he has been doing
construction work at Fort Bragg.
He was active In athletics in
high school and college. He was a
member of . the American Legion
post at Sanford.
Nominations For
Jaycees’ Service
Award Are Sought
Nominations by the public for
the young man (21-35) who will
be honored for community service
February 4 by the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce were urged to
day by Bill Hamilton, chairman
of the committee in charge.
Nomination blanks were to be
distributed to merchants this
week. They may be obtained at
Barnum Realty & Insurance Co.
and at the Town office.
A plaque will accompany the
Jaycees “distinguished service
award” to be made at a banquet
February 4. Nominations may be
made by any one and judging will
be done by five prominent South
ern Pines men who will remain
anonymous.
Weaver Named
Head of Schools
^ ♦ Greensboro
Philip J, Weaver, former sup
erintendent of Southern Pines
schools, has been named Superin-
tonrient of Schools of the city of
Greensboro.
Mr. Weaver, for whom Weaver
Auditorium was named, left this
town in 1951 to take the position
of assistant superintendent in
Greensboro. He will take over
the top position when the present
incumbent, Ben L. Smith, retires
June 3.
A native of Emory, Va., Mr.
Weaver holds degrees from Duke
and the University of North Caro
lina. He was teacher and acted
•’f coach in schools in Kannapolis
and Rome, Ga., before coming
here in 1939. During his years as
superintendent the local school
grew greatly in size and standing
as well as gaining high honors in
athletics, with six-man football a
' specialty.
Man Held In Jail
For Break-In At
Local Drug Store
Garland McGirger, 39, is in
Moore County jail at Carthage,
charged with entering the Sand
hill Drug Store on Broad St.,
Wednesday night of last week and
stealing over $100, Police Chief
C. E. Newton says.
McGirger, who lists his home
address as High Point, was picked
up at Lillington this .week by
Harnett County officers who sus
pected that he was a man who
escaped from the prison camp at
Laurinburg December 5.
This proved to be correct. Mc
Girger had served about eight
years of a 25-year sentence for
safe robberies when he escaped
in December. |
Chief Newton said he heard
about the arrest and was interest
ed in the report that over $100 in
money, including a large quantity
of change and silver coins had
been found in McGirger’s suitcase
when he was arrested.
Money found in the suitcase
later was positively identified as
coming from the local drug store.
Chief Newton said.
A State Bureau of Investigation
agent, accompanied by Chief
Newton, went to Lillin^on and
arrested McGirger. The convict
waived a preliminary hearing be
fore Magistrate Charles McLeod
at Carthage and was remanded to
jail for grand jury action, prob-
ablv at next week’s term of Su
perior Court in Carthage.
After his trial in Moore Clounty,
Mc(3irger will be tried in Scot
land County for escaping from the
prison camp.
Though McGirger is charged
only with the Sandhill Drug Store
robbery, he is believed also to be
the man who entered Mack’s 5 &
1() on the same night last week.
Little was missing at the Mack’s
store.
Daly had maintainefi an office
here as a psychologist, with the
two women co-defendants as his
assistants, for about two years
up to April, 1956, when he was
convicted in Moore Recorder’s
Court of criminal libel against
Mrs. Nicholson; His sentence to
12 months in prison in that case
was suspended on payment of a
$500 fine. He and the women left
Southern Pines shortly after his
conviction.
Both of the young women were
subsequently indicted for per
jury, and Daly for subornation of
perjury, by a Moore County
grand jury on the basis of their
testimony in the Recorder’s
Court trial and other alleged ac
tions.
The three defendants, the
plaintiff and their attorneys also
wrote into the judgment this
morning an agreement that all
pending legal actions and coun
ter-claims by any of the parties
it
Gary Head Plans
Leave Post Here
William Gary Head, who as
sumed his duties as assistant to
Town Manager Louis Scheipers
the first of last March, has re
signed his position effective Feb
ruary 19 to become Town Man
ager of Carolina Beach. He plans
to begin his work there on Feb
ruary 24.
Mr. Head, who is from Norman,
Okla., received his master’s de
gree in public administration from
the University of Oklahoma short
ly before coming to Southern
Pines. He and Mrs. Head resided
at the A. C. Grovers’ on May
Street for the first several months
they were in Southern Pines and
are now in the Knollwood Apart
ments. They attend the First
Baptist Church.
The resignation was accepted
with regret by Town Manager
Louis Scheipers, Jr.
VALERIE NICHOLSON
will cease and that none will pro
ceed with any further legal ac
tions in the future.
Judge W. A. Leland McKeith-
en of Pinehurst presided at this
week’s trial which opened with
choosing a jury on Monday and
in which testimony was given by
the plaintiff and her witnesses on
Tuesday and Wednesday. Al-
through denying Mrs. Nichol
son’s allegations, the defense of
fered no testimony and none of
the defendants went on the wit
ness stand.
On Wednesday afternoon, court
was recessed by Judge McKeith-
en after he had denied motions
of non-suit by the defendants’ at
torneys as to each of the defend
ants separately. On the comple
tion of the plaintiff’s evidence,
the defense also rested its case.
When the motions of non-suit
by the defense were denied,
appeared yesterday afternoon
that this morning would see
speeches by the attorneys—^P. H.
Wilson and Clement Barrett for
the plaintiff and Garland Garris
of Biscoe and Richard L, Brown
of Albemarle for the defense,
after which the case would have
gone to the all-male jury which
was chosen Monday largely
jfrom residents of the upper part
'of the county. All of the jurors
had stated when being chosen
that they were unfamiliar with
the background of the case.
In court this 'morning, how
ever, Judge McKeithen told the
jury that the matter that had
been under trial for two days
h.3d been settled by consent of
the parties involved.
'rhe judge then told the jury
that they had two issues before
hem:
1. Did the defendants utter or
publish defamatory statements
concerning the plaintiff? The
Court instructs you to answer
“yes.”
2. What amount is the plaintiff
entitled to recover from the de
fendants? The Court instructs
you to answer “$2,500.”
'The judgment requires that the
defendants pay the court costs.
Mrs. Nicholson had sued for a
total of $50,000 — $25,000 actual
damages for alleged injuries to
her character, reputation, health
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West Southern Pines Man Held For
Savage Knife Killing of His Wife
Police officers responding to a
call to 750 S. Stephens St., in
West Southern Pines at 6:40 p.m.
Saturday arrived as Will Stewart,
62, was walking away from the
stabbed and slashed body of his
wife, Sarah, wiping blood off his
hands with a newspaper. Chief C.
E. Newton told The Pilot.
The woman was lying on the
ground outdoors, already dead,
stabbed and slashed in 14 places
on head, throat, neck and back,
the chief said.
Stewart was arrested and is in
Moore County jail at Carthage,
charged with murder. He was
given a preliminary hearing be
fore Justice of the Peace William
Barber at 10 p.m. Saturday-and
was bound over for grand jury
action at next week’s term of Su
perior Court in Carthage.
Coroner Ralph Steed of Robbins
investigated, prior to the magis
trate’s hearing.
Chief Newton quoted Stewart
as telling officers at the police
station that his wife had been
drinking and that they began to
quarrel shortly after she returned
from Aberdeen. Stewart was
quoted as saying that his wife had
knocked him down and had run
out the door. He said he follow
ed her with a knife, struck her
with it and then “started cutting,”
the chief related.
To judge from the condition of
the body, it was one of the most
savage killings in the annals of
the local police department. The
woman’s throat was cut, her neck
was cut under one ear, there were '
stab wounds in her neck and she
was stabbed and cut on the back.
Chief Newton said.
According to information on
file at the police department and
from other sources, Stewart was
arrested in November, 1949, for
shooting and wounding his wife.
The case reached Superior Court
on appeal in August, 1950, and
wa.<; nol pressed at that time.
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