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VOL. 38—NO. 21
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1958
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
PLAN HISTORICAL MARKER UNVEILING
50th Anniversary of Founding of
McCain Sanatorium To Be Observed
The fiftieth anniversary of the^
founding of the North Carolina
Sanatorium at McCain will be ob
served next Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock,
A special commemorative pro
gram will be presented in the au
ditorium, highlighted by a re
counting of the history of the tu
berculosis movement in the state
and the establishment and early
Two Oaks Planted
In Arbor Day Rite
At School Today
With 800 children attending,
Arbor Day exercises were held
history of McCainr it will be giv- at fhe East Southern Pines school
en by Mrs. P. P. McCain of South
ern Pines, whose late husband
headed the institution for a num
ber of years and for whom it is
named.
Other speakers on the program,
expected to last about one and
one-half hours, are Dr. J. W. R.
Norton of Raleigh, State Health
Officer; Dr. Stuart Willis, of
Chapel Hill, Superintendent and
Medical Director of the N. C. San
atorium System; Paul A. John
ston of Raleigh, Director of the
State Department of Administra
tion and personal representative
of Gov. Hodges; and Dr. Christo
pher Crittenden of Raleig’r, Direc
tor of the State Department of
Archives and History.
Dr. Willis will speak on the
present trends in the treatment of
tuberculosis and the future prob
lems in treatment; Johnston will
outline the responsibilities of gov
ernment to the individual; and
Dr. Crittenden will speak on the
importance of preserving traces
of North Carolina history.
Mrs. McCain, who is a member
of the Board of Directors of the
N. C. Sanatorium System, will
also show slides of the early
buildings and trace its growth
through the 50 years.
Following the program, a his
torical marker commemorating
the opening in 1908 of the institu
tion, first in‘the state for the
treatment of tuberculosis, will be
unveiled. McCain, incidentally,
is one of four sanatoriums operat
ed by North Carolina.
Earlier in the morning the
quarterly board meeting will be
held.
The public is invited to the pro
gram.
Large IVumber Of
Scout Awards At
^ Court Of Honor
In one of the best Courts of
Honor on record in the county,
more than three dozen young Boy
Scouts received advancements in
rank and merit badges at cere
monies in Robbins Monday night.
The Courts, according to E. O.
Brogden of Southern Pines, Scout-
ing leader, are held on a bi-
® monthly basis, usually shifting to'
various locations in the county.
The Monday ceremony was held
at the Robbins elementary school
and was presided over by H. Taft
Williams of Robbins, member of
the Moore District Advancement
Committee.
The complete list of awards:
Second class: Robert Venore
and Robert Lee Maness, Troop 74,
^ Robbins; Bobby Morton, Troop
* 936, Carthage; Jerry Wilson and
Gene Wilson, Troop 224, Southern
Pines; Gary Keith, Larry Muse,
Jimmy Dowless, Roger Puckett,
Gary Thompson, and Stephen L.
Moss, Troop 68, Aberdeen; and
Patrick Dougherty, Troop 873,
Southern Pines.
Tenderfoot: (All of Troop 74,
Robbins) Cameron Muse, Bobby
Edwards, John N. Slack, Gary T.
^ Maness, Raymond D. Brown, Wil
liam T. Harris, Jimmy Wads
worth, Ralph Steed, Jr., Hugh L.
McLaurin, Jimmy Brace and Bob
by Gordon.
First class: James A. Tew, Post
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this morning and two live oak
trees were planted, the last in a
project started several years ago
by the Southern Pines Garden
Club.
Arbor Day is a traditional cele
bration in this country and marks
the one time of year that formal
and organized efforts are put
forth to recognize the importance
and beauty of trees and other
plantings.
On the program this morning,
held on the terrace between the
high school and the gymnasium,
the Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector
of Emmanuel Church, spoke on
the history of Arbor Day and re
minded his listeners of the impor
tance of trees. He said it was a
throwback to the planting of the
Trees of Lebanon more than two
centuries ago.
Also on the program was Chas.
Johnson, a sixth grade, who sang
“Trees,” the poem by Joyce Kil
mer that has been put to music.
Ernest Morell, proprietor of
Holly Trees Nurseries and a man
long associated with planting pro
jects in public places, helped with
the planting.
Following a selection by the
band, the Rev. Carl Wallace pro
nounced the invocation.
Mrs. L. T. Avery, president of
the garden club, spoke to the
group and reminded her listeners
that the most important project of
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Stevens Announces
Sale Of Insui*ance
.(^gency To Scott
The sale of the Stevens Insur
ance Agency by Eugene C. Stev
ens to Joseph I. Scott was an
nounced this^ast weekend.
Scott, a native of Petersburg,
Va., has been associated with the
firm about three and one half
years. He came here from Nash
ville, Tenn., where he had been
manager of the Shenendoah Life
Insurance Company agency. He
previously has been in the insur
ance business in Petersburg and
Richmond..
In announcing the sale Mr.
Stevens said:
“Mr. Scott will continue our
business at the same location with
the same staff, Miss Blanche
Sherman, and he will continue to
represent the same fine com
panies I have represented for such
a long time. I, personally, will be
hovering in the background to
be of help to him or to any of his
clients.
“I want to take this opportuni
ty to express my very personal
thanks and appreciation to our
clients for allowing me and my
associates to handle their insur
ance business in. the past.”
He will continue, he said, in the
real estate business, which he
has operated for many years jp
conjunction with' the insurance
agency.
Scott is currently serving as
president of the Rotary Club, the
Chamber of Commerce, and the
Moore County Insurance Associa
tion.
Mrs. Scott, he said, has taken
up duties in the office with Miss
Sherman.
Hearings On Phone
Rate Increase Set
In Raleigh Tues.
Company Seeks
$277,000 Rate
Boo8t In Stale
Hearings by the North Carolina
Utilities Commission for a $277,-
000 rate increase requested by
United Telephone Company of the
CstroUnas, Inc., will be held in
Raleigh Tuesday.
Twelve towns, including South
ern Pines and some others in the
county, will be involved in the
rate increases if they are approv
ed.
The company petitioned the
Commission in February for the
increase, saying at the time that
only $125,000 would accrue to the'
company alter gross receipts tax
and Federal and state income
taxes had been paid.
Vem E. Lawson, vice president
of the company, said at the time
also that the requested increase
in local service rates would be
onlj^ the second state-wide rate
increase since 1930. An increase
in rates of $50,000 per year was
made effective in 1951 but subse
quently, in 1955, a decrease in
rates of $50,000 per year wais made
through a rate reduction.
Ed Smail, commercial superin
tendent, said several months ago
that a rate increase would be ne
cessitated alter new equipment,
including inter-toll dialing, had
been put into effect.
Lawson said, too, that the com
pany had been caught in a
“squeeze” between an increased
investment and increased ex
penses during the period 1951 to
1957. He said that seven wage
increases had been granted to em
ployees during that period and the
price of goods and services pur
chased had also shown a tremen
dous increase.
Joe Scott, president of the local
Chamber of Commerce, said this
morning that members of the
group had not been polled as to
their feelings on a rate increase
and that the short time remaining
before the hearing would not al
low for a formal taking of opin
ion. >
“We wish, however,” he said,
“that all members would drop by
the Chamber offices before noon
Monday and register their opin
ions so that those of us who ap
pear at the hearing will be better
able to present the views of busi
ness people in Southern Pines as
to the effect an increase in rates
would have. We have no • firm
policy as yet and will, of course,
abide by the feelings of the
Chamber members.”
In this area the United Com
pany serves Southern Pines, Pine-
hurst, "Vass, Carthage and Rob
bins. The rate increase request
does not apply to Aberdeen and
Pinebluff, both of which are serv
ed by other independent telephone
companies. I
Library Assn. To
Elect Officers
At Annual Meeting
Reports, Other
Business On
Agenda Friday
The annual meeting of the
Southern Pines Library Associa
tion will be held at 4 o’clock Fri
day, April 25, in the library.
A. C. Dawson, association pres
ident, reminded members today
that the meeting would be of the
full membership and would in
clude reports on all projects cur
rently underway, election of of
ficers, and election of trustees.
The association has a current
membership of 245. Use of the
library, which the association
maintains, is high and constant
ly increasing, according to a re
cent report for 1957 activities
Made by Mrs. Stanley Lam-
boume, the librarian.
Circulation in 1957, she said,
was 24,241; for the first three
months of 1958, circulation was
placed at 6,850.
Mrs. Lamboume also said at
the time that attendance figiues
indicated that 9,003 adults had
visited the library in 1957 and
3,245 children had made visits.
Circulation figures included
the following: adult fiction, 10,-
767, plus 4,128 new and
ciurent novels; juveniles, 5,417;
biography, 541; history, 471; trav
el, 331; and periodic&ls, 743.
Present officers of the associa
tion are, in addition to Dawson,
George Leonard, first vice presi
dent; Mrs. James Boyd, second
vice president; C. H. Bowman,
treasurer; and Thomas Darst, Jr.,
secretary.
Filing Deadline Is Saturday;
Six In Race For Sheriffs Job
Requests Made For
Donations To ’58
Cancer Fund Drive
Appeal letters for the 1958 Can
cer Drive in Southern Pines went
out this week and the local chair
man, Mrs. J. S. Milliken, urged
those who receive them to mail
in their contributions as early as
possible.
The local quota is $1,000, Mrs.
Milliken said, and anyone not re
ceiving a letter and wishing to
contribute, may do so by sending
a check to her at Box 55, South
ern .Pines.
Dave Ginsburg of Carthage is
the county drive chairman.
ROBERT DUNN
Robert Dunn Is
Elected Head Of
Local Jaycees
Robert F. Dunn of Bethesda
Road was elected president bf the
Southern Pines Junior Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday night suc
ceeding Norris Hodgkins, Jr. He
and the other newly elected offi
cers will assume their portions
at installation ceremonies in the
near future!
Dunn’s election made him the
third president of the organiza
tion. ’The first was James Baird.
Other officers, elected at a meet
ing in the Civic Club, were Rob
ert Stocker, first vice president;
Sumner Craven, second vice
president; Paul Burroughs, secre
tary;-and William Hamilton, re
elected treasurer.
Members of the Board of Di
rectors are Joe Brown, Joe Cur
rie, Curtis Everett, Gordon
Echols, and Joe Kimball. Hodg
kins will also serve on the board
in an ex officio capacity.
Announces $V^ Million Expansion
Construction of a quarter mil
lion dollar training center for
thoroughbred horses and steeple
chasers will begin early next
summer at Tremont Farms, about
two miles from Southern Pines
out Connecticut Avenue, accord
ing to an annoimcement made this
week by William H. Frantz, Sr.,
of Media, Pa., and his son, own
ers.
The center will include a three
quarter mile schooling track; tim
ber, hurdle and brush course;
stalls for 250 horses; and living
quarters, lounge, and a cafeteria
for horsemen.
Mr. Frantz and his son moved
here two years ago and acquired
the farm, which was formerly
owned by Harry Goldsmith, and
the old Olive Dairy Farm. They
have since remodeled several
buildings on the Goldsmith Farm
and the younger Frantz makes his
home thebe. Extensive clearing
has been accomplished and the
farms, which had adjoined, con
solidated.
Construction of such facilities
as announced Tuesday would
make the center the largest in this
area for training steeplechasers,
the owners said.
Bill Frantz, Jr., has been train
ing several years and had several
horses pntered irr" steeplechase
events in the Carolinas during last
season and the current one.
■When the center is completed,
the Frantz’s will rent space to
horse owners, train and take care
of them, and will also maintain an
extensive stable.
HISTORICAL SKITS
Visitors to the Shaw House
tonight between 7 and 8:30
o'clock will have the oppor
tunity of seeing life as it was
lived generations ago, when
Don Moore's eighth grade of
the Southern Pines School
presents three historic^ :^its.
There wiU be a quilting
scene, a square dance, and a
fireside scene, in all of whidh
the young people will be
wearing styles of a century or
more ago, and playing the
puts of the Shaw family and
their neighbors.
A small admission fee will
be changed.
ROBERT EWING
Ewing Announces
For House Seat
On GOP Ticket
Moore County is almost certain
to be represented in the next Gen
eral Assembly by a newspaper
publisher.
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines, publisher of the Moore
County News (Carthage), filed
Monday and will face H. Clifton
Blue, publisher of the Sandhill
Citizen (Aberdeen).
Ewing is chairman of the Coun
ty Republican Party and Blue,
though not the chairman of the
Democrat Party, has been one of
its leading figures for the past 15
years. Blue is seeking his sixth
consecutive term.
Now serving as mayor pro tern
on the Southern Pines Town
Council, Ewing is a comparative
newcomer to politicjp. He ran for
th'e Town Council in last year’s
election but was defeated. He
was later appointed to fill a va
cancy and when Gen. Pearson
Menoher died earlier this year, he
was elected mayor pro tern.
He is treasurer of the State Re
publican organization, and vice
president of the Piedmont Federa
tion, a Republican organization
that takes in 19 counties, includ
ing Moore.
He is currently serving also as
the first president of the Southern
Pines Development Corporation,
the group that has charged itself
with bringing more industry to
this area, and is an original mem
ber of the Moore County Indus
trial Development Committee, on
which he stiU serves.
He is a member of the Kiwanis
Club, the Elks Lodge, the Sand
hills Veterans Association, and
the Tin Whistles at Pinehurst. His
church affiliation is with Brown-
son Memorial Presbyterian
Church in Southern Pines.
Married to the former Ann Ma
son of Kennett Square, Pa., they
have five children, all girls.
FIRST IN CENTURY
CrtAitLES WIMBERLEY
W imber ley ,F ormer
Highway Patrol,
Files For Sheriff
Charles Wimberly of Aberdeen,
a member of the State Highway,
Patrol until he resigned Monday,
became the sixth candidate to*
enter the race for the Democratic ■
nomination for sheriff of the I
county. He paid his filing fee—j
$60—shortly alter testifying for;
the last time in a traffic case in
the regular Monday session of
Recorder’s Court. |
Wimberley’s announcement
came as a surprise to many court
house observers though it has
been rumored for several weeks
[that he was a ‘'potential.” j
He will face a field that al-}
ready includes J. Hubert McCas-
kill of Pinehurst, A. B. Parker of |
Vass, Wendell Kelly of Carthage, |
J. W. “Bunch” Sheffield of East- ^
wood, and Charlie Stewart of Eu- ■
reka. Persistent rumors also have
it that, prior to filing deadline
Saturday, at least two more can
didates and possibly three, will
also file. ’The two who are heavily i
rumored are rierman Grimmi of,
Carthage and Archie Dees of,
I Aberdeen.
Wimberly is 37 and a native of
Wake County. He first joined the
Highway Patrol in 194'7 and was
stationed at Hamlet for two
years. He resigned the force in
1949 and worked a year as a spe
cial investigating officer for the
Seaboard Airline Railway, living
In Charleston and Birmingham.
He returned to the Patrol in 1950
and was assigned to Moore Coun
ty.
He and his wife, the former
Betty June Thomas, a native of
Aberdeen, live near Aberdeen
with their three children, all girls
ranging in age from five to eight.
He is a Master Mason and im-
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Two More May
File; GOP Has
5 Candidates
Two days before filing deadline
and candidates for the May 31
primary stsu-ted a rush on the
Board of Elections this week.
The story, briefly, was this: One
candidate came out for sheriff,
giving the field a total of six; two
are still sitting on the fence
(neither had filed by noon today,
’Thursday), one more man came
out for (bounty Commissioner, and
five Republicans paid filing fees.
Charles Wimberley, a member
of the State Highway Patrol until
he resigned Monday in order to
become an active candidate, paid
his filing fee and announced he
would'hit the backroads in quest
of votes. (See accompanying sto
ry). He’ll face J. Hubert McCas-
kill, A. B. Parker, Wendell Kelly,
J. W. “Bimch” Sheffield ^md Char
lie Stewart. Before the deadline
noon Friday, he might also have
competition from Herman Grimm
of Carthage and Archie Deese of
Aberdeen.
David Sineath of Carthage filed
for County Commissioner in Dis
trict 1, a seat that is currently
held by John M. Currie. Sineath,
incidentally, ran for the same po
sition once before.
As for the Republicans, County
Chairman Robert Ewing led the
list when he filed for the seat in
the General Assembly now held
by H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen.
Mrs. S. D. Fobes of Southern Pines
paid her filing fee to run for
Clerk of Superior Court, and three
candidates, James Harrington,
George Leonard, Jr., and Mrs.
Ammie Foster filed for seats on
the Board of Education.
Though no Democrats have filed
as yet, it is expected that the
present board will seek to remain
in office.
Contests have developed for
four of the five seats on the
Board of County Commissioners,
with James Pleasants of Southern
Pines the only one so far not hav
ing opposition.
In addition to the Currie-Sin-
eath battle in District 4, there will
be contests in District II, where
Tom Monroe of Robbins is oppos
ed by Billy Poldy, who lives be
tween Carthage and Eagle
Springs. In District HI, L. R. Rey
nolds of Ritters Township is be
ing opposed by Gurney Wilson of
Highfalls. And in District V, E.
P. Hinson of West End wiU face
Sidney Taylor of Aberdeen. T.
Clyde Auman, also of West End,
is still considering nmfaig but
has made no definite announce
ment.
Negro Woman Files As Republican
For Seat On Board Of Education
A former school teacher in the
Vass and West End Negro schools,
Mrs. Ammie Foster, became the
first, member of her race to file
for a Moore county public office
in more than half a century when
she filed as a Republican candi
date Monday for membership on
the Moore County Board of Edu
cation.
Her filing threw the county
GOP in a tizzy, as it were; since
she had neither the endorsement
of the party nor did the chairman,
Robert Ewing of Southern Pines,
know anything about it until af
ter the filing was already com
pleted. '
James Harrington of Pinehurst,
an employee of Pinehurst, Inc.,
filed yesterday for the same posi
tion, thus assuring a Republican
primary.
The position on the Board of
Education is now held by Jere
McKeithen of Aberdeen. All five
members of the Board dre Demo
crats and, since the final picking
a Board falls to the General As
sembly which is expected to re
main Democratic, he is almost as
sured of retaining his seat.
Mrs. Foster, wife of Nathan 1 seat
Foster of the Jackson Hamlet
community, said yesterday that
she was a lifelong Republican and
a member of the Pinehurst unit
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
She is a member, also of the Bap
tist Church at Jackson Hamlet.
Mrs. Foster said she was asked
to file for the office by Mrs. Kath
erine McColl bf Southern Pines,
vice-chairman of the Moore Coun
ty GOP. Her filing fee, $5, was
contributed by Mrs. McCJoll, she
added.
Ewing said the mixup came
about when Mrs. McCoU, acting
in the interests of the party, start
ed a search for candidates to file
for office prior to the deadline
Saturday. Other officials have
been doing the same thing, he
said, which is nothing unusual.
Mrs. Foster said she had con
sidered running for a state-wide
office but the filing fees were too
high and prohibited her doing so.
It is believed that Harrington’s
candidacy will receive the sup
port of the organization.
George H. Leonard, Jr., of
Southern Pines, also filed for a
on the Board yesterday.
Registrars, Other
Election Officers
Picked By Board
The Moore County Board of
Elections, meeting in Carthage
Saturday to be sworn in and dis
pose of yearly business, named
registrars and Democratic and
Republican judges for the May
31 primary.
Chairman Sam C. Riddle also
announced that the board had
designated the entire Little River
Township community as a pre
cinct and picked the Lobelia
Community House as the regis
tration and polling place.
New registration for the pre
cinct will be required this year,
he said. Books there will be open
on May 3, 10, and 17 from 9 a. m.
to subset for the registration.
Named precinct officials of the
forthcoming election, and the
registration preceding it, were
the following (first name listed is
registrar, second' is Democratic
judge, third Republican judge,
and fourth is Democratic alter
nate judge)'.
Aberdeen — Mrs. Margaret
Dunn, Lee Buchan, John Greer
and Mrs. John Sloan.
Bensalem — Fuller Monroe,
Carolyn Blue, Neil A. Morrison
and R. C. McLean.
Cameron — John M. Baker, D.
K. Henderson, Carl Doby and
Mrs. June Tally.
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