■i
Fooling with Fate
Are those who are fooling with
the moon . . . perhaps. An enter-,
taining number of reasons why
are contained on the editorial
page (page 2) today.
Time and Weather
Are the big enemies in the frozen
Antarctic. What the men there
do during the long winter night
is told in another of a series on
page 8.
VOL,
Episcopal Laymen
^Holding Statewide
Meet Here Sunday
Not^ Publisher
Is Main Speaker;
100 Are Expected
The 24th annual convention of
the Laymen’s Association of the
Diocese of North Carolina will be
held Simday at Emmanuel Epis
copal church, Southern Pines. A
highlight of the session will be
an address by William R. McCul-
ley of Rye, N. Y., president of
the publishing firm of Thomas
Nelson and Sons and an outstand
ing layman of the Diocese of
New York. This is the first state-
l|. wide Episcopal Laymen’s meet-
^ing ever held here.
■ Registration will open at 9:30
a. m. and a continental breakfast
will be served for early regis
trants.
Corporate communion services
will be held at 11 a. m., with the
Rt. Rev. Richard H. Baker of
Raleigh, Bishop (ikiadjutor of the
Diocese, as celebrant, assisted by
^the Rev. Meirtin Caldwell, rector
of the host church.
Following the celebration of
Holy Communion, there will be
an address of welcome by Gener
al Lehmann W. Miller, president
of the Men of Emmanuel Church.
Diocesan officers will present
their reports.
Luncheon at the parish house
at 1 p. m. wUl be followed by a
t; business session featuring the
address by Mr. McCulley, pre
sentation of committee reports
and election of ^officers. Presi
ding wiU be Herbert G. Bailey,
Jr., of Greensboro, Association
president.
William R. McCulley, presi
dent of the ’Thomas Nelson and
Sons publishing firm' since 1950,
supervised the publication of the
PRICE 10 CENTS
COMMUNITY CHAIRMEN for the annual
Easter Seal Sale Drive have been appointed d|id
will begin conducting their drives next week.
Pictured above, the chairmen are, top row, left
to right, Mrs. Roy Williams, Eagle Springs; Mrs.
Dorothy Dutton, Niagara; Mrs. Alton Matthews,
Lake view; Mrs. Larry Simmons, Aberdeen; Mrs.
A. G. Edwards, Jr., Vass, and Mrs. Wilbur Cur
rie, Carthage. Bottom row, same order, Mrs. J.
D. Mangum, Pinebluff; Mrs. K. C. Blake, Jack-
son Springs; C. E. Powers, HighfaUs; William
Johnson, Southern Pines; and Melvin Wicker,
Pinehurst.
PINEHURST WOMAN IS CHAIRMAN
^Revised Standard Version of the
'^Holy Bible, called the most im
portant Biblical milestone in
three and a half centuries. He al
so headed up a program of sev
eral advertising agencies by
which this great work became
and has remained, for five con
secutive years, the world’s fastest
selling book.
During preparation of the work
l^by 36 outstanding scholars, he
'‘learned several ancient languages
in order to be sure that the new
translation into modem terms re
mained true to the spirit of the
old.
He was also greatly responsible
for the publication of the Con
cordance to the Revised Standard
Version immediately following
the publication of the Bible it-
^self, and more recently of the Re
'vised Standard Version of the
Apocrypha, all of these books be
ing considered not only outstand
ing events in the publishing
world, but most important in the
spread of Christianity and of Bib
lical knowledge throughout the
world.
The regular morning service
for parishioners will be held at
9:30, Mr. Caldwell said, and
'^Bishop Baker will conduct a ser
vice of confirmation at that time.
Community Leaders For Easter Seal
Drive To Begin Campaign Thursday
The 1958 Easter Seal Sale be-t
gins in this county next Thurs
day, according to Mrs. EYank R.
Gramelsbach of Pinehurst, chair
man of the Moore County chap
ter of the National Society for
Crippled Children, which bene
fits from; the drive.
Community .chairmen were
named by Mrs. Gramelsbach and
will begin conducting their drives
within the next few days. Serv
ing in those capacities are:
Southern Pines, William S.
Johnson; Pinehurst, Melvin
picker; Aberdeen, the Junior
Women’s Club, Mrs. Larry Sim
mons, president; Carthage, Mrs.
Wilbur Currie; Vass, Mrs. A. G.
Edwards, Jr., Jackson Springs,
Mrs. K. C. Blake; Cameron, Miss
Vera McLean; Eagle Springs and
Samarcand, Mrs. Roy. Williams;
Niagara, Mrs. Dorothy Dutton;
HighfaUs, C. E. Powers; Lake-
view, Mrs. Alton Matthews; and
Pinebluff, Mrs. J. D. Mangum'.
Serving with Mrs. Gramelsbach
in the county chapter are Mrs.
Graham Culbreth of Southern
Pines, treasurer; Mrs.
Baird, Aberdeen, secretary;
David Drexel, Southern Pines,
publicity director; and Dr. Emily
Tufts, Pinehurst, medical advis
or.
•Special advisors are Roger
Gibbs, Mrs. Bertha Allen and
Miss Mary Logan, Southern
Pines. The service committee is
composed of Mrs. Gramelsbach,
Mrs. Culbreth, Dr. Tufts, Mrs.
Wilbur Currie of Carthage, and
Mrs. W. E. Alexander of Robbins.
T eachers-Parents
To Play Annual
Game Monday
The annual parents and teach
ers basketball game at Southern
Pines High School wiU be held
Monday night in the school gym
nasium at 7:30. Proceeds wiU be
used for the junior-senior banquet
later this year.
More than 50 players have been
signed up for the colorful game,
according to Miss Billie Williams
of the school faculty. Entertain
ment will be furnished by the
band and the majorettes with spe
cial numbers.
Those who have been signed to
date include:
Parents (men) Harry Chat-
field, Norris Hodgkins, Jr., Lewis
McNeil, Davis Worsham, Joel
Stutts, Jack Deberry, Bob A5ams,
William Wilson, Jack Barron,
Robert Dunn, Jimmy Hobbs, Fred
Teeter and Gary Henry.
Parents (women)—Mrs. May-
belle Britt, Mrs. Lennox Forsyth,
Mrs. Bob Adams, Mrs. George
Florence ^ohle, Mrs. Voit Gilmore, Mrs.
Robert McMillan, Mrs. Jimmy
Hobbs, Mrs. Ray McDonald, Mrs.
C. T. Worth, Mrs. Joseph Hiatt,
Mrs. Isaac Woodell, Mrs. Ray
mond Cameron, Mrs. M. G. Mc
Rae, Mrs. Davis Worsham, Mrs.
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., Mrs. Etta
Cain, MrS. Joe Woodall, and Mrs.
Jean Lowestuter.
Faculty (men)—^Roger Gibbs,
Don Moore, Ralph Foushee, Irie
Leonard, W. A. Leonard, A. C.
Dawson, George Short, Hugh
Bowman, Ernie Boros and Dave
(Continued on Page 8)
'HOLDING HIS OWN'
superior Court Judge W.
A. Leland McKeilhen of
Pinehurst, who has been crit
ically ill at Duke Hospital
for the past several days,
was reported at press time
today "to still be holding his
own."
He underwent an opera
tion for a kidney ailment
Monday of last week at
Moore Memorial Hospital
and complications set in
Mon after. He was removed
to Duke Hospital over the
weekend where his condi
tion was reported to be
somewhat better.
Blue Knights To
Meet Aberdeen And
Sanford This Year
GARDEN TOUR
"Will there be a garden
tour this spring?"
That is a question which
has been going the rounds,
and the answer, announced
this week, is "Yes."
The Southern Pines Gar
den Club, which sponsors
this popular springtime
event, has decided to hold it
this year, as usual, and an
nounces Wednesday after
Easter, April 9, as the date.
Houses and gardens in both
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
will be shown.
Working with the presi
dent, Mrs. L. T. Avery, as a
Homes and Gardens Tour
Committee are Mrs. Ben F.
Kraffert. Jr., as chairman,
Mrs. John C. Ostrom, Mrs. R.
E. Rhodes, Mrs. James S.
Milliken, Mrs. Marion Braw-
ley, and Mrs. R. M. McMU-
lan.
Homes to be included on
the tour will be announced
soon.
Stoneybrook Event
This Year Will
Benefit Hospitals
The 11th annual Stoneybrook
Steeplechase, scheduled for March
22, will be run this year for the
benefit of the ladies auxiliaries of
Moore Memorial and St. Joseph’s
Hospitals, according to Carlyle
Campbell, secretary of the Stoney
brook Steeplechase Association.
This is the first time that such
an arrangement has been made,
he pointed out. ^'
To date a good many owners
have indicated they would enter
horses and- (he field is growing
rapidly. Last year’s top entry.
Dancing Beacon, winner of the
Sandhills Cup two years running,
will not be entered however,
Campbell said.
Bad weather conditions recent
ly have prevented many horses in
the North from securing adequate
training and it is doubtful if the
number of entries from that area
will be as large as in the past.
One encouraging note, however, is
that even the worst of the weath
er experienced here failed to stop
training sessions and the local
field is expected to be larger than
in past seasons.
The Blue Knights will play a
10-game schedule in the Cape
Fear Class A Conference next
fall, it was announced this week
by Irie Leonard, head coach.
Opening game is September 5
against Hope Mills on the local
field. There are no open dates on
the schedule, which is divided
equally between home and away
games.
Leonard said that two teams
had been added this year: Aber
deen, newest member of the
Cape Fear Conference and
natural rival for Southern Pines"
and Sanford, a Class AA school
The Knights will meet each of
the other six teams in the cc
ference.
One change noted this year is
that Chadbourn, Elizabethtown
and Shallotte, members of the
conference last year, had drop
ped out. The schools said that the
great distances that were involv
ed in meeting conference oppon
ents was the reason^ It is expect
ed that they will band into an
other conference, composed most
ly of Eastern North Carolina
Class A schools, either this sum
mer or next year.
Addition of Sanford to the
Blue Knight schedule i^ the cul-
Mobre County farm income of several months’ hard
was up an estimated $1,856,000 in f’y Leonard. “Sanford and
Despite Weather,
Weed Cuts, Gross
Farm Income Is Up
Aberdeen will, of course, be our
big games,” he said, “and I
ex-
1957 over the previous year, ac
cording to Fleet Allen, county ^
farm agent. The estimated gross that Sanford will develop
income last year, he said, was' ^ crowd puller. They’re
$16,730,000. much larger school and will
The increase was encouraging, ■ Probably field one of their better
farm leaders reported, because of year.”
a $1,378,000 reduction in the cash! (Continued on page 8)
income from sale of tobacco.
Commenting on the reason for the
reduction, Allen said that a vari
ety of reasons had entered the pianist, will present a varied
picture, including a poop season; concert tonight at the Pinehurst
forum artist
Fred Sahlmann, talented young
Country^ Club as the sixth in the
Pinehurst Forum’s current series.
The program begins at 8:45 and
the club’s
weatherwise, and a cut in allot
ments of 1,576 acres.
“The peach crop was better
than in 1956, however,” he said, | will be preceded by
“and the production of broilers weekly buffet supper,
and laying hens was up consider-
ably.”
Also added to the gross income
of farmers for this year was pay-
The first half of the program
will include “Fantasia in D
Minor” by Mozart, and Chopin’s
"“Sonata in B Flat Minor.” Fol-
ments through the Soil Bank and] lowing intermission Sahlmann
the ACP of $165,187 more than! will play “Gaspard De La Nuit”
the previous year. The amount,:by Ravel, Debussy’s “Clair De
Allen noted, if added to the to- Lune,” and “The Night Winds”
tal farm sales would give an in- by Griffes, concluding with Con-
creased gross income of $2,021,- cert Arabesques on Themes of
340 in 1957 over 195f “By the Beautiful Blue Danube ”
Two Party System
Needed In State,
GOP Leader Says
Flays Democrats
For Telling "Big
Lie" To PubUc
Good government in North Car
olina is not possible without an
active two-party system, Moore
County Republicans were told
here at a Lincoln Day . dinner
Tuesday night.
William E. Cobb, minority lead
er in the State Senate in the past
session, told about 150 assembled
party faithfuls that “one party
states produce only sorry govern
ment. We have no axe to grind
except good government.” And
with that he urged a full slate for
every county and state office at
every election.
Cobb, wanted by many Republi
cans as their next State leader,
said that recent boasts by Demo
crats that North C2uoliHa is a
well-run state is a “big lie.” He
criticized Democrats for falling
down on reapportioqment plans,
for putting out Democratic publi
city with State funds, and for
putting out false publicity that
North Carolina has a “fine system
of public education.”
Along that line, Cobb said, 43
per cent of the State’s population
has less than five years of school
ing, “giving us the lead in the na
tion in illiteracy.” He also said
the State had the highest rate of
any Southeastern state in high
way casualties despite claims to
the contrary.
The speaker, warming to his
task, also sailed into tobacco com
panies, which, he said, were heavy
contributors to the Democratic
campaign funds, and to health and
welfare agencies, which he said
provided less than half the aid to
North Carolina families as the na
tional average.
Robert S. Ewing, county Re
publican leader, also spoke at the
dinner and said the GOP was
‘morally right on every issue.”
He said of the Little Rock
school integration case: “The
blame rests on the Supreme Court
which is Democrat packed. What
would Adlai Stevenson have
done? I’ll tell you. He’d have
sent troops in there two to three
weeks before President Eisenhow
er did.”
He also criticized the procedure
of selecting a County Schopl
Board, telling the group that they
had been “disenfranchised.”
Both parties file names for the
Board, he said; the slates go to
the Legislature, listing the party
affiliation of those named, and the
Legislature appoints the Board.
Such a system always assures a
Democratic Board, he pointed out,
whether the people in the county
wanted such a group or not.
Also appearing on the program
was Mrs. Katherine McColl of
Southern Pines, a candidate for
the state GOP vice chairmanship,
and Donald Kennedy of Southern
Pines, who served as master of
ceremonies.
The meeting was held in the
National Guard Armory here.
New Goiincilman Mi^ht
Be Appointed Tonij^ht
Council To Meet,
ONLY 2 REGISTER
If new regisiralion is any
indication, the upcoming
$100,000 bond election for
funds to complete the new
Town H^lll has little interest.
Last Saturday, the first
day for new registrants to
get their names on the qual
ified list, Mrs. Grace Kaylor.
the registrar, reported only
two new , names had been
added.
Registration is over tomor
row (Friday) at 5 p. m., she
reminded the public, and
anyone not properly register
ed by that time will not be
allowed to vote in the elec
tion March. 15.
Challenge day, incidental
ly, is Saturday.
E. Carolina Grad
Is Administrative
Assistant For Town
J. R. “Tink” Bowen, a recent
graduate of East Carolina College,
has been appointed tax collector,
purchasing agent and finance of
ficer of the Town of Southern
Pines, it was announced today by
Louis Scheipers, Jr., town man
ager.
Bowen is assuming duties that
were formerly held by Gary
Head, who resigned earlier this
month to accept a position as town
manager of Carolina Beach.
Bowen is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Bowen of Robbins.
He attended high schools in
Southern Pines, Robbins and
Asheboro, and graduated with a
Bachelor’s degree in business ad
ministration from East Carolina
College this winter.
He has already assumed his du
ties here and Scheipers said he
was happy to have him on his
staff.
“Mr. Bowen is well known
here,” he said, “and has all the
necessary qualifications to more
than adequately conduct the du-1
ties he has been assigned to.”
Name Successor
To Gen. Menoher
Mayor Walter Blue has called
a special meeting of the Town
Council tonight (Thursday) to ap
point a new member of the Coun
cil to fill the unexpired term of
the late Gen. Pearson Menoher.
At the same time, the Council
will elect a Mayor Pro-tem, an of
fice Gen. Menoher filled at the
time of his death.
There has been little specula
tion as to who would be selected
for the office though several
names have been discussed in pri
vate conversations and among
Councilmen themselves. Whoever
gets the appointment will serve
until a new Council is elected in
the Spring of next year. '
This is the second “time during
its administration the present
Council has had to appoint a new
member to its ranks. Last "fall T.
T. Morse, the only Negro ever to
serve on the Town governing
body, resigned and Robert S.
Ewing, who had been an unsuc
cessful candidate in the elections
which put the present Council in
office, was appointed.
The meeting tonight will be
held in the town office beginning
at 7 o’clock. No other items of '
major concern are expected to be
brought to the Council’s attention.
PTA Planning
Variety Show
For March 10
A large number of el^entary
and high school students are pre
paring to take part in a variety
show to be sponsored by the
East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association Monday
night, March 10. The show will
be given in Weaver Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m.
Mrs. R. L. Chandler, Jr., PTA
program chairman, said this week
that one of the most interesting
events on the evening’s program
will be a fashion show in which
high school students will take
part, featuring clothes of 25 or
more years ago. She asked any
one having such clothes which
could be loaned for the show to
notify Mrs. W. T. Huntley, Jr.
Mrs. Huntley heads the plan
ning for the entire show. Mrs.
Charles Cole of the school facul
ty is in charge of participation
by the elementary grades. Don
Moore is working with the junior
high school poup and Miss Haz
el Askew is in charge of the hi^h
school’s part in the production.
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PLANTS PURLOINED
Of all things!
Someone has been stectling
plants destined for the beauti
fication of the new US 1
Parkway and officials are
pretty sore about it.
The ones that have been
reported missing were taken '
from their temporary rest
ing place; it weis only be-
'cause of the weather that
they had not been planted.
In case the culprit..—or cul
prits—-read this, they are re
minded that ofiiicers have
been instructed to keep a
sharp lookout in the future.
Golf Team Being
Organized At High
School For Spring
Formation of a, golf team in
the Southern Pines High School
—the first such team in a decade
or more—has been completed and
details of a spring schedule are
currently being worked out.
To be coached by Don Moore,
a member of the school’s faculty,
the team will be composed of at
least six boys and probably more.
Already six schools have indica
ted an interest and at least one,
Badin, has confirmed a match.
It is expected that a schedule
of 10 to 15 games will be arrang
ed. Teams contacted include Ra
leigh, Durham, Goldsboro, San
ford, Fayetteville, and others.
Mainstay on the team will
probably be George Reams, a
senior who usually sho.ots 75 or
under. He was entered in tour
naments in ’ Greensboro and
Charlotte this past summer and
'acquitted himself well. He was
also a mem,ber of the team that
won the championship .consola
tion prize in the annual Jaycee
sponsored Golf Carousel here.
Others expected out are Jack
Carter and Jerry Healy, seniors,
Charley Rose, freshman, and two
brothers, Glenn and John Mar
cum, who moved here from Ken
tucky several weeks ago.
WEEKLY REPORT
County^s Political Line-Up
Remains Virtually Unchanged
"ins
and
Political
“outs” lay low this week, ap
parently waiting for the other to
make the first jump in filing for
the primary elections in May.
Only one man, an “in,” has
said since last Thursday that he
would definitely seek office and
he hasn’t officially filed yet. He’s
Carleton Kennedy, who has held
the Clerk of Court’s job for six
years and, according to some as
tute observers, has a good ch4nce
of holding it for six more if he
wants it.
We had an announcement from
Mrs. Audrey McCaskill ]a,st
week, too late for publication, an
nouncing her intentions of run
ning for the Register of Deeds
office, assuring a race for the
position now held by Mrs. Bessie
Griffin. The other already an
nounced candidate is Fred Flin-
chum, Carthage merchant and
prominent in the town’s
affairs.
Mrs. McCaskill, wife of Clin
ton McCaskill, is already in the
Register’s office serving as a dep
uty, a fact that probably gives
her a slight edge on Flinchum.
political _ Also to her advantage is the fact
’that Miss Bess McCaskill, who
served in the office for close to
30 years, is her sister-in-law.
Assurance of a race for the
Register’s office might make the
campaign and subsequent elec
tion a little more exciting to
those who enjoy that type of
thing. 'Two other offices are al
most sure to be fought over: the
sheriff’s job and representation
on the Board of County Commis
sioners.
No new candidates have an
nounced for sheriff but talk has
it that Herman Grimm and A. F.
Dees will be the men to beat.
CJrimm has been looking the
field over end his friends report
he has found much favorable re
action to his candidacy, particu
larly in the southern end of the
county. But Dees, now serving as
chief deputy and rated high in
popularity in this area, would be
difficult to 'defeat, those same
people say, if he decides defin
itely to make the race.
For the County Commissioner’s
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civic