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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1958
^ EIGHT TEAMS TO ENTER
m
State Class A Basketball Tourney
To Get Under Way Here Wednesday
North Carol’na’s top eight class ipions and make the pairings.
“A” high school basketball teams) Four of the teams will
begin battling for the state cham-
pionsliip in the Southern Pines
high school gymnasium next
Wednesday night. Finals in the
tournament, first ever to be held
here, are scheduled for Saturday
night, March 15.
Irie Leonard, principal of the
high school and tournament man
ager, said today that the seating
capacity of the gymnasium, nor
mally about 975, will be increased
to 1200 for the fovu’-day event, ex
pected to draw capacity crowds
each night.
The entries,* which will repre
sent every section of the state,
will not ^ known until pairings
are made in Chapel Hill Sunday.
District tournaments, now under
way in eight towns around the
state, will conclude Saturday
night and officials of the North
Carolina High School Athletic As
sociation will meet in Chapel Hill
Sunday to declare district cham-
Antique Show Is
Planned By Moore
Historical Society
An “Antique Show” will be
presented March 18, 19 and 20
at the Southern Pines Armory as
Jjt one of the most ambitious projects
ever conducted by the Moore
County Historical association.
It wiU provide a richly varied
treat for antique lovers, as well
as opportunity for leading antique
dealers of the area to show and
sell their wares.
The Armory will be divided in
to separate display spaces, one for
each dealer. About half the
spaces have already been taken,
^ by some of the most prominent
^ dealers of North and South Caro
lina, and it is anticipated that
others from Virginia and even
farther away will take part. They
are expected to display some of
their most unusual and attractive
pieces, forming a show of rare
interest for all lovers of the beau
tiful. Admission tickets wiU be
sold to the general public, the
proceeds' to be used for projects
of the association.
The show will be open from 4
to 9 p.m., Tuesday, March 18,
the opening day, and from 10 a.m.
i to 9 p.m. March I9 and 20. Re
freshments will be sold.
Mrs. L. M. Johnson of Aber
deen and Mrs. W. F. Hollister of
Southern Pines are co-chairmen
of the committee in charge, assist
ed by Mrs. Tom C. Darst, Mrs.
Ernest JL. Ives and Miss Allie Mc-
Intosh oi Southern Pines, and
Mrs. Livingston Biddle of Pine-
hurst.
come
from the Eastern part of the state;
four from the Western. Aber
deen, champion in this county,
and runner-up Robbins are cur
rently playing in the district tour
nament in Red Springs with win
ners from 12 other southeastern
counties. '
Mebane High School is defend
ing state champion and has a
good chance to repeat, Leonard
said. The small school, rated as
having one of the best teams in
the state, is playing in the district
playoffs at Greensboro this week.
The Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce has volunteered as
sistance in sponsorship of the
tournament here, Leonard said,
and has been assigned the task of
helping with housing, eating fa
cilities, and setting up a hospital
ity room for visiting coaches, offi
cials and members of the press.
The room will be in charge of
Mrs. Graham Culbreth and Mrs.
Joe Marley and will be located, in
the bandroom just to the rear of
the gymnasium.
C. A. McLaughlin and “Buster”
Patch, Chamber of Commerce co-
ch .irmen, have been closely co
ordinating the Chamber’s activi
ties and reported today that ad
vance preparations indicated the
tournament would be successful.
Parking for the hundreds of cars
that are expected will be under
the direction of Joe Woodall,
Moore District Executive of the
Boy Scouts, members of various
troops, the school’s Hi-Y Club,
Southern Pines policemen and
members of the State Highway
Patrol.
Spectators have been requested
to park behind the elementary
school.
Prices for the games will be
fifty cents each night for students
and one dollar for adults. Mem
bers of the Chamber of Com
merce are helping with the sale
of tickets.
Among the entertainment fea
tures already scheduled is ap
pearances each night at half times
and between games by the major
ettes and the band of the local
high school.
Two games will be played each
night, the first beginning at 7:30
and the second at 9 p.m. On the
night of the finals, Saturday, two
games will also be held, the
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championship finals taking the 9
p.m. time slot.
CAMELLIA EXHIBIT
An exhibit of dozens of varie
ties of camellias is on display at
the Town Library through Satur
day. The exhibit was furnished
by Harry Vail, one of the out
standing growers in this section.
Mrs. Eugene Stevens is (assisting
with the arrangements.
Soldier Killed In
Little River Area
This Morning
Counly's First
Traffic Fatiility
Since Year Began
A 22-year-old soldier stationed
at Fort Bragg was killed shortly
after 1 o’clock this morning
(Thursday) when the car in
which he was riding crashed into
a bridge abutment on Lobelia
Road in Little River Township,
The victim, identified by the
State Highway Patrol as Morris
William Bising of Ludlow, Ky,
was apparently drowned after
being thrown into the shallow
waters of Cranes Creek.
It was the first traffic fatality
in Moore County this year.
State Highway Patrolman Ed
ward Shomaker, who investiga
ted, said that Bdsing and hjs
brother, Ronald, who is stationed
at Pope Air Force Base, appar
ently ran off the road on a shoul
der and then slammed into the
abutment, throwing Morris Bis
ing out into the creek.
A passing motorist, identified
only as a Mr. Morris of Jackson
ville, N. C., was the first to reach
the scene. He told Shomaker he
came upon the car s.tanding in
the middle of the road. On inves
tigation, he related, he discover
ed the younger brother still in
side the badly damaged automo
bile mumbling about his brother.
He was assisted out of the car
by Mr. Morris and together they
started a search for fhe older
brother, who was foimd already
dead in the creek.
Ronald is at St. Joseph’s Hos
pital where his condition is re
garded as serious. He has been
unconscious most of the time
since being removed there and
has been unable to provide in
formation as to the cause of the
accident.
PRICE 10 CENTS
Hundreds Attend Funeral Services
Sunday For Judge Leland McKeithen
N. C. Symphony To
Present Concert
Here On March 18
Cornelia Otis Skinner Will Appear
At Next Program of Pinehurst Forum
Cornelia Otis Skinner is an ac
tress—one of the few, aside from
Ethel Barrymore—who has car- '' !! =
^•’ried a family stardom into her
own generation. Daughter of Otis
Skinner, a truly distinguished
star of yesteryear, she not only
has perpetuated, her father’s
name but also has kept it in lights
as two-thirds of her own name.
Growing up in a star’s home.
Miss Skinner was more or less
predestined for the stage. But it I
was not until she had progressed!
through Baldwin School and well ’
into Bryn Mawr that. she began I
to shape her education expressly
for an acting career. With paren
tal consent she went to Paris and
at the Comedie Francaise learned ■ found further roles in “White
classical acting by working with Collars,” “In His Arms,” “In The
Dehelly and Jean Havre. Lee- Next Room,” “The Wild West
tures at the Sorbonne and the cotts” and “Will Shakespeare.”
study of modern acting in Jac- From her close-hand observation
^-^ques Copeau’s Theatre due Vieux of the rewards which acting had
j Colombier further prepared her brought her illustrious father,
for an invasion of the theatre. Miss Skinner decided that sec-’
and she returned to America for ondary roles gave an ambitious
the footlight baptism'. girl scant artistic or monetary
Her father, just then preparing satisfaction. Enciiraged by the
to appear in the leading role of approval of her friends she bold-
Ibanez s "Blood and Sand,” led ly decided to present herself pro-
her across the threshold of the fessionally in a few solo charac-
professional theatre by giving ter sketches of her own author-
^ a small part in his company, ship. They had an immediate
When that engagement ended she popularity, and so took her on
^ined a shoal of other eager the first of many tours of Amer-
young girls determined to be ica, the latest of which brings
actresses. The quest was arduous her to Pinehurst on Thursday
but on her own Miss Skinner (Continued on page 8)
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
The Little Symphony of the
North Carolina Symphony Socie
ty, Benjamin Swalin, conductor,
will appear in Southern Pines on
Tuesday, March 18, at the Weaver
Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. The con
cert is sponsored by the Sandhills
Music Association as the fourth
program on its 1957-58 series.
The Little Symphony is an in
tegral part of the North Carolina
Symphony touring season, this
year playing 68 concerts to adults
and children in 32 communities.
Tickets are available at the Bar-
num Realty Co., Southern Pines,
and at the box office.
The emphasis in the 25-man
Little Symphony is on delicacy,
refinement, and clarity. Much of
the music of the 17th and 18th
centuries is very adaptable to the
Little Symphony and can perhaps
be performed by it better than by
a larger orchestra.
To compensate for lack of vol
ume, the Little Symphony plays
music specially suited to it. Solo
instruments play a prominent
part. Musicians are chosen with
care to emphasize the quality of
the orchestra.
Fred Sahlmann To Play
Fred Sahlmann, pianist, will
appear with the North Carolina
Little Symphony in its concert
here.
Mr. Sahlmann will play Mo
zart’s Concerto for Piano and Or
chestra in E flat major.
The Little- Symphony will be
heard in Gretry’s Suite from the
opera “Cephalus and Procris”;
Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 in B
flat major; Kennan’s Night Soli
loquy, with flute solo by Gretel
“^hanley; and Kabalevsky’s suite,
“The Comedians.”
A native of Charleston, S. C.,
Mr. Sahlmann holds degrees from
Elon College aifd Columbia Uni
versity. He was recipient of a
Fulbright Fellowship to study pi
ano at the Academy of Music,
Vienna, Austria, in 1955-56.
Mr. Sahlmann is now a resident
of Burlington, where he is a mem
ber of the facultv of Elon College.
The E flat Concerto, which Mo-
art wrote in 1777 to celebrate his
twenty-first birthday, is a musi
cal masterpiece infrequently per
formed.
Hundreds of people overflowed
the Pinehurst Community Chapel
Sunday afternoon to pay last re
spects to Superior Court Judge
W. A. Leland McKeithen, 45, who
died last Thursday night at Duke
Hospital following a valiant 10-
day battle for life.
Unable to find seats inside,
many of the mourners, who had
come from hundreds of mile§
away, stood outside on the church
steps and in a nearby grove and
listened to the funeral services
over an amplifier. The Rev. R.
L. Prince, pastor of the church,
and Dr. Adam Weir Craig of the
Village Chapel, conducted the
services.
Judge McKeithen had entered
Moore Memorial Hospital Febru
ary 17 for a minor surgical proce
dure. ■ An unrelated and unfor-
seeable acute condition developed.
On Saturday of the same week he
was rushed to Duke Hospital in
critical condition. It was later
determined that death was inevi
table though accompanying phy
sicians tried desperately to save
his life. He died shortly before
10 p.m. last Thursday night.
Except for a “clean-up” term at
Carthage over which he presided:
last year, he held regular court in
Moore County only twice. These
were the last two terms, the crim
inal term of last November, and
the civil term January 20. The
January 27 civil term at Greens
boro was his last.
Following Scriptural readings
at the funeral service, the Rev.
Mr. Prince, a former college mate
of Judge McKeithen at Davidson,
said, “As his pcLstor during the
past 16 years, I came to kimw and
appreciate the beauty and lasting
v^ue of his life.” Characterizing
him by his “brilliant mind, capa
bility and unselfishness,” the Rev.
Mr. Prince recounted his faithful
membership and leadership in the
church. “He never turned down a
chance to serve, even to the point
W. A. LELAND McKEITHEN
of changing plans and coming
home to attend a meeting of the
Session, of which he was an hon
ored member.”
“Though tolerant and appreci
ative of all groups,” he continued,
“Judge McKeithen treasured the
logical and even austere doctrine
of his people.”
Members of the Moore County
Bar Association served as honor
ary pallbearers. Burial took place
in Old Bethesda in the family
plot.
Tributes/from leading citizens
all over the state had earlier been
delivered to members of the fam
ily. Most characterized Judge
McKeithen as a possessor of
skillful knowledge of the law, an
impartial administrator of justice,
and one who commanded a gen
eral understanding of human fail
ures and tempered his decisions
in that light.
He was appointed a special
judge of the North Carolina su
perior court by Governor Um-
stead in February 1964, and was
reappointed by Governor Hodges
(Continued on Page 8)
Pledges For Lace
Plant Coming In;
25% Is Collected
Officials' Hope
For Remainder By
End of Next Week
Memorial Scholarship Is Planned
A spontaneous desire on thei The committee being
part of many of his admirers formed to facilitate the project
throughout the State of North includes some 20 prominent cit-
Clarolina has resulted in the estab
lishment of an annual scholarship
award in the memory of the late
Judge W. A. Leland McKeithen.
The scholarship will be awarded
at Davidson College where Judge
McKeithen graduated with dis
tinguished honors in 1933.
At a meeting at the Pinehurst
Country Club of several of the
Judge’s friends with Grier Martin,
Treasurer of Davidson College,
to determine the conditions of
the scholarship, the contributions
already received were allocated
to an endowment out of which
izens of the Sandhills communi
ty under the chairmanship of Dr.
Adam Weir Craig. The Rev. Ros-
coe Prince of Pinehurst has been
named the local treasurer of the
Endowment fund, and the con
tributions ,of all who would par
ticipate may be sent either to the
Rev. Mr. Prince, or directly to
Davidson College at Davidson.
All such contributions should be
made to Davidson College and
designated for the Leland Mc
Keithen Scholarship,
The first steps are being taken
to acquaint Judge McKeithen’s
the scholarship will be awarded | wide, circle of admirers with the
to candidates on the basis of I project and a hearty response is
merit and need. • anticipated.
RETIRING MARCH 31
Lt Gen. Gavin, Army’s Expert On
Missile Program, Will Mbve Here
A Gavin, the with an exceptional grasp of the
Amy s former Chief of Research responsibilities related to Allied
and Development, will move to j operations.
Southern Pines temporarily after
his retirement March 31.
Gen. Gavin and his family, it
has been learned, will occupy the
Frank Roberts home on Valley
Road for April and May. He ex
pects to place his children in the
“His success in solving intri
cate problems with utmost diplo
macy materially promoted our
common defense. For 14 months,
beginning in December 1952,
Gen. Gavin commanded the U. S.
Seventh Corps in Germany. In
^uthern Pines school during 1953 Gen. Gavin returned to the
■’hat period. His plans beyond Department of the Army staff,
at time have not been learned, serving first as the assistant chief
Gen. Gavin will be honpred: of staff, G-3, then as deputy chief
March 31 at Fort Bragg with a|of staff for plans and research
farewell parade and the award- and, finally, as chief of research
ing of the Distinguished Service
Medal, the Department of the
Army announced this week. The
82nd Airborne Division of which
he was a former commander, will
march in review.
Part of the citation which he
will be presented I reads as fol
lows:
“From April, 1949, to June,
1951, as the senior Army member
of the Weapons System Evalua
tion Group, Gen. Gavin’s broad
background and combat experi
ence contributed substantially to
studies involving the develop
ment and use of small-yield
atomic weapons. At the personjpl
request of the Cbmimander-in-
Chief, Allied Forces in Southern
Europe, Gen. Gavin was assign
ed as his chief of staff from July
1951-December 1952. In this posi
tion he displayed outstanding
abilities as a military organizer
and development.
“During his tenure on the
Army staff, he furthered the de
velopment of new organizational
concepts, advanced weapons sys
tems, advanced means of mobili
ty for both air and ground ve
hides, and in the exploitation of
new research. Particularly note
worthy were his efforts in the
field of missiles which contribu
te greatly to the succesful or
biting of the first American sat
ellite, Explorer.”
SEVEN REGISTER
Mrs. Grace Kaylor. town
registrar, said today that only
seven people had added their
names to the registration
books for eligibility to par
ticipate in the forthcoming
$100,000 To'wn Hall bond
election.
On the first day, she said,
there were only two voters
who added their names: five
more came in last Friday.
The election is scheduled
for March 15 and calls for the
issuance of $100,000 in bonds
to complete the Town HaU
now uxider construction ^ S.
E. Broad Street.
Hobbs Named To
Town Council At
Thursday Meeting
James D. Hobbs, who operates
insurance agencies in both South
ern Pines and Pinehurst, was
named to fill the unexpired term
of the late Gen. Pearson Menoher
on the Southern Pines Town
Council last Thursday night.
Hobbs, past president of the
Sandhill Kiwanis
Gas Explosion In
Manly Causes
$2,500 Damag es
Damage estimated at $2,500 was
caused late yesterday afternoon
at Roy Dutton’s combination gro
cery store-filling station in Manly
when a gasoline pump exploded.
Southern Pines firemen re
sponded to the call cuid put out
the fire in a short time but the
front of the building as well as
the gas tank and a tractor were
destroyed.
Firemen also answered a call
Tuesday night about 11 o’clock
on W. New Hampshire Avenue
where the home of Joe Terry was
j burning badly. It was so far gone
when they got there, however,
that it was considered a total loss.
Fire Chief Harold Fowler is
hospitalized this rnbming with a
possible skull fracture, caused
when a hose burst under heavy
pressure last night. Firemen
were cleaning the equipment
when the hose burst, knocking
Fowler to the pavement. His con
dition is not considered serious
but physicians are keeping him
in bed for a few days as a pre
cautionary measure,
About 25 per cent of the pledges
made toward construction of a
$350,000 lace'plant here had been
collected this morning, according
to officials of the Southern Pines
Development Corporation.
Robert S. Ewing, the corpora
tion president, said that as of
noon today $42,600 had been turn
ed in to the Citizens B^mk and
Trust Company, trustees, repre
senting pledges from 38 people.
Following a whirlwind campaign
here before Christmas almost 200
people pledged $180,000 toward
construction of the plant.
“We are gratified with the re
sponse to date,” Ewipg said, “but
would remind those who made
pledges again that the quicker
they’re in the bank, the quicker
we get a building and more em
ployment for our people. We
realize that the funds are being
requested earlier than we had
originally anticipated, but we are
unable to alle'viate that fact.
“Actually, subscribers are get
ting a far better deal now than
had been proposed earlier and for
that reason members of the com
mittee are hopeful that those who
did subscribe and perhaps many
who did not will join the list.”
Last week the committee re
ceived a letter from Charles Mo- '
zur, president of the company
which will operate the proposed
plant, and was elated at its con
tents. (It is reprinted in full be
low).
Ewing said that the committee
would start soliciting the pledges
next week. In the meantime,
however, he said that pledges
should be turned into the Citizens
Bank as soon as possible so that
officials could begin plans for let
ting contracts for construction of
the building.
Here is the text of the letter
from Mr. Mozur:
“I was pleased to learn, upon
my return to the States, of the
sulsstantial progress which had
been made in our joint efforts to
locate our plant in Sbuthem
Pines.
“Specifically, I was happy to
learn that agreement had been
reached for the financing of the
building, and that plans and spe
cifications had been substantially
completed so that we -will be in a
position to receive bids from con
tractors within the next two
weeks. But most important of all,
I was pleased with the enthusias
tic reception with which the en
tire project has been received by
the citizens of Southern Pines.
The project which is now be
ing launch^ through our mutual
efforts has not been undertaken
lightly by either of us. You, on
your part, have been most care
ful in your investigation of us
and we are pleased that after >
thorough investigation by your
lawyers, bankers, business peo
ple, and others comprising your
Committee, your Committee felt
that it could in good conscience
recommend us as a worthy addi
tion to your community.
“We, on our part, investigated
(Continued on page 8)
WEEKLY REPORT
Politics Pick Up As Four Of
Incumbent Commissioners File
Still a little hedging in the po-1 had intentions of declining to
litical field this week but at least run again, something that many
five people have definitely filed people thought when Chairman
fpr office and a score of others Gordon Cameron of Pinehurst
have moved a bit beyond the said he wouldn’t stand for re-
mere rumor stage.
Bi'ceest item: four of the five
incumbent Countyv Commisioners
election.
Last year, it will be remember
ed, the entire board filed at the
t_ V • * B VXAC CXltllC IJUCU.U XiXeU at tile
body to Election same time: this year it was the
nominated by Robert Ewing and: Board Chairman Sam Riddle
elected unanimously. He is the
second replacement on the Coun
cil since its election last spring.
Councilman Ewing was appoint
ed in the fall to fill the seat va
cated by T. T. Morse.
Isame with the exception, of
course, of Chairman Cameron.
Presumably, they’ll be running
on their previous program. Here
tofore they haven’t waged vigor-
Monday afternoon and announc
ed their intentions of trying to
hold onto their seats for another
two year term. The four were^.^^^ no
Jim Pleasants of Southern Pines ’ ous campaigns for the very sim-
TP ' 1 j. ji » (there s strong rumors here&houts, pi© reRson thev’ve had nn nrtm
Ewing was elected Mayor Pro that he’ll get a lot of competition' petition This mlr howeverTu
Tem, . po.«.OA wluch h.d b«„ thta Jota Curte .( C»-jL a
Se and Highfalls, Toni Monroe probably have opposition before
of Robbins, and L. R. Reynolds filing deadline April 18.
filled by Gen. Menoher,
No oilier business was conduct
ed at the short meeting, held in
the office of Town
Louis Scheipers, Jr.
of the upper end of the county.
Manager) Monroe and Reynolds, incidental-
'ly, deny rumors that they ever
Currie will be facing E. Bi.
Cook, Monroe will have to cam-
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