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VOL, 38—NO. 24
TWENTY PAGES
REGISTERED AS DEMOCRATS
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1958
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
Two Republican Candidates Found
Ineligible For Primary Election
Moore County Republicans,^
who had three primary races
scheduled May 31, learned this
week that two candidates have
been declared ineligible and the
primary races were cut to one.
Mrs. Annie Foster of Jackson
Hamlet, who was opposing James
Harrington of Pinehurst for a seat
on the Board of Education, was
found to be a registered Democrat
as was Mrs. S. D. Fobes of South
ern Pines, who was opposing Ar
thur Garner of Robbins for the
Clerk of Court.
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines, county GOP chairman, af
ter being informed that the two
names would be removed from
the ballots, said:
“There was, of course, no inten
tion on our part to circumvent the
law in any respect. We knew it
(the law) but understood that Mrs.
Fobes was not registered, a fact
which we only found not to be so
after she went down to register
last Saturday.
“While our eleciotn laws are
complicated, I must say that we
are fortunate in Moore County in
always having good,, clean elec
tions. And I know of no more
honest and upstanding public of
ficials than the members of the
Elections Board. It is the Repub
lican Party’s desire to cooperate
with them in every respect and
we regret this occurrence.”
Withdrawing of the two names
left the Republicans with only the
primary race between D. L. Ritter
of West End and A. B. Sally of
Pinehurst for County Commis
sioner from the Fifth District.
Mrs. Foster, the first Negro in
more than half a century to run
for county office in this county,
denied to a newspaper reporter
this week that slie had ever been
registered as a Democrat. She had
earlier said she was a “lifelong
Republican.”
Her name is on the registration
books in Aberdeen as a Demo
crat, however, according to Mrs.
Charles Dunn, the registrar there.
Mrs. Foster, it was also learned,
has.also voted in the past few pri
mary elections.
Mrs. Fobes, in a letter to the
Elections Board, said she was ex
tremely sorry for the mistake and
that it had been unintentional.
She said she was intending to reg- i
ister as a Republican as soon as
the registration books opened this
year, and subsequently did, but
discovered that she was in the
wrong because it is a rule that a
person must not be registered in
one party and file for office in an
other.
“I am sorry for causing embar
rassment to the many friends who
have asked me to run,” she said.
“I hope they understand this was
an honest mistake.”
Democrats Reelect
Thomas Precinct
Chairman Here
Four out of five members were
reelected, with one replacement,
at the Southern Pines Democrat
ic precinct committee meeting
held Saturday afternoon at the
library.
Returned to membership were
Joe C. Thomas, Mrs. Hilda E.
Ruggles, Curtis Everette and
Mrs. Valerie Nicholson. The new
member elected was Howard
Fry, replacing Paul C. Butler.
Meeting later, the committee
reelected the same officers to
serve during the coming bienni
um: Joe C. Thomas, chairman;
Mrs. Hilda E. Ruggles, vice-
chairman, and Mrs. Valerie Nich
olson, secretary.
Only a scant dozen attended
the precinct committee meeting,
which was characterized by
peace and harmony. W. Lamont
Brown, chairman of the Moore
County Democratic executive
committee and a member of thei
precinct, urged attendance at the
county convention to be held at
the courthouse at 3 p. m. next
Saturday, and at the state con
vention to be held at Raleigh
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Red Cross Plans
Annual Election
Chapter Officers
The Moore County Chapter,
American Red Cross, will hold
its annual meeting for election of
officers tomorrow (Friday) at
7:45 p. m. in the fellowship hall
of the Church of Wide Fellow
ship. Everybne is welcome to at
tend.
An interesting program has
been planned, ’according to an
nouncement by the executive
secretary, Mrs. Audrey K. Ken
nedy. There will be singing by
the Southern Pines High School
Glee Club, a skit by Junior Red
Cross members of the eighth
grade of the Cameron school, in
addition to reports of all activi
ties during the year.
The new officers will be in
stalled by Father Francis Smith.
The Rev. Carl WaUace will give
the invocation and the closing,
prayer will be by the Rev. W. S.
Golden of Carthage.
BOOSTERS CLUB check for $570 was turned over to A. C.
Dawson, superintendent of Southern Pines schools, this week by
Chan Page, president of the club. The check represented the
largest amount the club has ever raised for supplementing the
athletic program at the high school. (Emerson Humphrey photo)
TO SUPPLEMENT ATHLETIC PROGRAM
Boosters Club Turns Over Largest
Check In History To High School
Sale of Maternal Welfare Tags On
Saturday Planned For County Towns
This coming weekend, with its
recognition of Mother’s Day on
Sunday, brings to Moore people
the opportunity to give to this
celebration a practical signifi
cance, On Saturday the little
green ,and white tags of the
Moore County Maternal Welfare
Committee will be on sale in all
towns of the county.
The point of the appeal cannot
be missed for proceeds of the
drive go to the support of a free
bed for needy mothers at Moore
Memorial Hospital.
Funds raised by means of this
annual appeal are the only source
of support for a work that ranks
high in Moore County and State
health annals. It started as a
pioneer venture in 1935, the com
mittee including women from all
sections of the county, organized
and started the first prenatal
clinics then held by the County
Department of Public Health.
Added to this effort at that time
was the training of some fifteen
to twenty midwives then carry
ing on this old-time profession.
Now, long past the pioneer
stage, the committee’s work is
largely confined to support of
the free bed at Moore Memorial
HospitaL This bed, located in the
Elizabeth Woltz Currie Materni
ty ward, established by the com
mittee in memory of the founder,
has taken care of sixteen mothers
during the past year and there
are several more scheduled for
the coming months. Cost of a de
livery and entire care of mother
and baby is a flat $50.
On Saturday the volunteers
manning the sales of tags will be
on their mettle to attain and, if
possible, surpass goals of the past
years. With Mrs. J. Talbot John
son of Aberdeen and Mrs. James
Boyd in charge as co-chairmen
of the coimty committee, the
drive itself will be in the hands
of individual chairmen. In South
ern Pines Mrs. I4 T. Avery will
be in charge of volunteers who
will be located at tables by the
bank and post office. Aberdeen’s
drive will be headed by Mrs.
Johnson herself with the help of
Mrs. G. J. Studdert and Mrs. D.
P. Troutman.
In Pinehurst, Mrs. A. P.
Thompson will be in charge with
Mrs. Bill McKenzie, Mrs. Harris
D. Blake and Mrs. H. B. Alexan
der to help her. There is also a
letter campaign in progress.
Pinebluffs drive will be car
ried on by the entire committee
of the Thrift Shop as well as oth
er volunteers from among the
many in Pinebluff who support
this cause.
Mrs. Warren Ferguson and Mrs.
Jack Phillips will be in charge of
the drive, for Cameron. The
Woman’s Club of Vass, with Mrs.
C. R. Pope as special chairman,
will handle Tag sales there.
Carthage looks back to two
years ago a6 the high point in
tag sales success. That year, the
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SoftbaR League
May Get Eight
Teams This Year
Softball in Southern Pines this
summer will be played in the
■"slow pitch” manner, a type that
is fast catching on in niany sec
tions of the state.
The decision t6 play that type
was made at a meeting Tuesday
night in the Town Hall attended
by 21 representatives from vari
ous organizations that plan to
field a team in the summer
league.
Irie Leonard, who directs the
summer recfeation program here,
said that the" turn out could mean
that the league will have eight
teams this year as opposed to the
previous high of six.
Deadline for submitting rosters
of teams was set Jxme 5. The
same rule applies as has in the
past: a team may have no less
than 15 players nor more than 18.
Registration fee for any team is
$15.
“Slow pitch” playing, the dele
gates thought, would serve to
speed up the game and give more
people a chance to play. In that
method, it was pointed out, 10
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Young Musicians
Concert Saturday
WiU End Season
The Sandhills Music Associa
tion will present 16 young musi
cians in concert Saturday night
in the Pinehurst School Audito
rium. The program is the last in
the current series.
Dr. William F. Hollister will
serve as master of ceremonies for
the program which gets under
way at 8:15.
The students appearing and
their teachers are as follows:
James Mallow, Southern Pines,
Mrs. C. C. McDonald; Betsy
Grier, Pinehurst, Miss Julia
George; Kitty MacDonald, Cam
eron, Mrs. 'Warren G. Ferguson;
Sue Langfield, West End, Mrs. L.
R. Sugg; Fairley Cameron, "Vass-
Lakeview, Mrs. H. D. Mclnnis;
Mary Elizabeth Chappell, South
ern Pines, Mrs. C. R. Mills; Molly
Dotson, Carthage, Mrs. M. G. Dal-
rymple; Gloria (iruce, Aberdeen,
Mrs. Richard C. Self, Jr.; Paula
Cook, Farm Life, Mrs. C. L. Hen
sley; Susie Bridgers, Aberdeen,
Mrs. Sara W. Hodgkins; Rosie
Chandler, Southern Pines, Miss
Mary Josephine Davis; Jackie
Sue Beck, Robbins, Mrs. William
F. Hancock; Linda McGee, Car
thage, Mrs. H. G. Poole; Sylvia
Cooper, Aberdeen, Mrs. C. H.
Storey; Suzanne MiUer, Southern
Pines, Mrs. Theodore Webb; and
Graham Farrell, Aberdeen, Mrs.
Nell H. Jones.
4- The Blue Knights Boosters
Club, reporting their most suc
cessful year to date, turned ove/
to Southern Pines High School
a check for $570 Monday night to
be used as a supplement to the
school athletic program.
Chan Page, outgoing president
of the organization, made the
presentation to A. . C. Dawson,
school superintendent. The check
represented proceeds from adver
tising in the football programs
and the sale of the programs
themselves.
The club, holding its annual
meeting at the Southern Pines
Country Club, elected Harry
Chatfield president to succeed
Page. Other new officers are
R. M. Cushman, vice president,
and Margaret Hobbs, secretary-
treasurer.
Members of the Board of Di
rectors are William Caton, Dawn
Leland, Charles Rowe, Tom Mor
gan and Irie Leonard, head foot
ball and baseball coach at the
school. Robert Ewing was named
chairman of the club’s publicity
committee.
About 40 members of the club
enjoyed a hamburger supper
prior to the formal meeting.
Hospital Board
Asks County For
Increased Funds
Losing Thousands
Yearly Taking
Care Of Indigent
Citing rising costs as the princi
pal reason, four officials of Moore
Memorial Hospital went before
the Board of County Commission
ers this week and reported that
the hospital was going in the hole
“many thousands of dollars” each
year by providing care for pa
tients who live in the county and
are unable to pay their medical
biUs.
Those same people, the officials
said, are an obligation of the
county, not the hospital, and the
county should hasten to make ad
equate provision for financing
their future medical care.
Appearing Monday before the
commissioners, who are now hear
ing budget requests for the com
ing fiscal year, were John F. Tay
lor of Pinehurst, president of the
hospital’s board of directors; Den
ison K. Bullens of Southern Pines,
chairman of its finance commit
tee; Paul Dana, of Pinehurst, hos
pital treasurer; and Thomas How
erton of Southern Pines, admin
istrator.
One of the group, Bullens, told
the commissioners at the outset
of the meeting that people in this
county “are getting one of the
biggest and best bargains in the
country today—$78,000 worth of
medical attention for an outlay of
only $17,000.”
He was referring to the amount
the county pays the hospital for
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Mrs. Bell Is Golf Article Subject
Four New Bids On Lace
Plant Asked By Mozur
To Be Opened
In Durham
Next Wednesday
Four invited bids will be open
ed in the Durham offices of John
Latimer, architect for the propos
ed Southern Laces, Inc., plant
near herq^next Wednesday.
Robert Ewing, president of the
Southern Pines Development
Corporation, said that some re
visions had been made in origi
nal plans and it was hoped that
the new bids will be lower than
the one recently made by Guest
and Sons of Greensboro, one that
was subsequently turned down
by Charles Mozur, president of
Southern Laces.
Ewing said that the bid open
ing would allow ample time for
completion of the plant, provi
ding a decision is made to con
struct it, prior to the November
7 deadline set by the North Caro
lina Business Development Cor
poration, which would hold a first
mortgage on the building.
Guest will be one of the bidders
next week as will J. A. Jones
Construction Company of Char
lotte, a firm that was slightly
higher than Guest in the original
bidding. The other two bidders’
company names were not reveal
ed.
Ewing said the local group was,
of course, “very hopeful that the
new bids will come in nearer the
approximate $350,000 we had
originally planned on. We look at
the prospects for the building
getting underway as ‘extremely
hopeful’ at this time.”
HAROLD COLLINS
Collins To Head
Drive For Scouts
Harold A. Collins of Southern
Pines has been named chairman
of the 1958 Boy Scout fund rais
ing campaign in the county, ac
cording to an announcement made
this week by Joseph Sandlin,
chairman of the district executive
committee.
The drive will be held this fall,
CoUins said, but many arrange
ments are already being made.
Telephone Co.
Making Case For
Rate Boost Today
Officials of the United Tele
phone Company of the Carolinas,
Inc., continued their testimony
before the State Utilities Commis
sion today in efforts to secure a
rate increase that would cost
United’s customers about $214,000
per year.
The hearings began in Raleigh"
Tuesday.
'Vern E. Larson, vice president,
treasurer and general manager of
the company, testified that be
cause of higher operating costs
the company’s net income has
dropped since 1955 although its
gross revenues have increased
during the same period.
United, which has headquarters
in Southern Pines, had earnings
totaling $159,200 in 1955, but they
dropped to $136,200 in 1957, and
unless the rate increase is granted
will drop to about $134,800 this
year, Larson said.
The company, he told the com
mission, has spent large sums im
proving its facilities so that the
value of its plant in North Caro
lina has increased by $1,283,403
since 1954. But, he added, the
company’s investment per tele
phone in service has increased
from $156 at the end of 1954 to
$214 at the end of 1957.
Testifying yesterday was Rob
ert Strouse, the company’s audi
tor.
The company, in addition to
serving . Southern Pines, also
serves Angier, Bonlee, Carthage,
Fuquay-'Varina, GibsonviUe, Gold-
ston, Kemersville, Marshville,
Norwood, Siler City, Pinehurst
and 'Vass.
To Appear In
Future Issue Of
Sports Illustrated
Mrs. Warren Bell, known pro
fessionally in golf circles as Peg
gy Kirk Bell, wiU be the subject
of a “Tips From the Top” article
in a future issue of Sports Illus
trated magazine. The articles us
ually feature golf professionals on
different aspects of the game.
Herbert Warren Wind, pictured
at left with Mrs. BeU, was here
last week at the Pine Needles
Country Club gathering informa
tion for the story. He is one of
the nation’s foremost golf writers,
considered by many as tops in the
field at present. He regularly
conducts the “Tips” column for
Sports Illustrated.
Author of numerous books
about golf (including one about
Ben Hogan), Mr. Wind himself is
a golfer and got in a few round?
on his Sandhills visit.
He didn’t promise when the
article would appear but did say
that this area remains one of the
best golfing spots in the world.
Final Meeting
Of PTA Slated
Monday, May 12
Final meeting of the school
year for the Southern Pines Par
ent-Teacher Association will fea
ture election of officers for the
1958-’59 term and an entertain
ment program by the Blue
Knights Choir. Tile meeting is
scheduled for 8 p.m., Monday,
May 12, in Weaver Auditorium.
Mrs. I. A. Woodell, president,
said that reports will be made by
Treasurer Bob Leland and by oth
er officers and committee heads.
There will be a socied hour,
with refreshments, in the school
cafeteria after the meeting.
Mrs. Woodell urges attendance
by aU PTA members, as well as
friends of the organization and
others interested in hearing the
concert by the Choir.
The Choir, composed of about
45 high school and junior high
school boys and girls, will be di
rected by Roger Gibbs in a pro
gram of sacred, secular and nov
elty songs. It wiU be the choir’s
last public performance of the
school year, except for participa
tion in graduation ceremonies. |
Damage To Trees
Here Said Caused
By Winter Freeze
Freezing weather has been giv
en tentatively as the reason that
several magnolia and dogwood
trees in this area have died in re
cent weeks.
H. J. Green, pest control forest
er with the North Carolina De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment, visited Southern Pines
this week at the request of Town
Manager Louis Scheipers and ex
amined a number of trees which
appeared to be either dead or dy
ing. He said that an off-hand
opinion was that severe weather
in this area during the winter had
caused the condition.
It was first noticed about three
or four weeks ago, Scheipers said,
that several trees were dying. He
asked Fred Claridge, state fores
ter, to make an examination as to
the possibility of a blight or some
other reason for the condition.
Green took samples this week
and carried them back to Raleigh.
He said he would know in three
or four weeks whether a blight
had indeed hit the area, but said
before departing that he doubted
it.
AT OPEN MEETING TUESDAY
New Parking Limits Evoke Variety
Of Complaints By Town Merchants
BANK CLOSED
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company will be closed Saturday,
May 10, for Confederate Memorial
Day.
About 60 people, most of them
downtown merchants and profes
sional people, turned out for an
open meeting in Weaver Audito
rium Tuesday night to discuss the
town’s new one hour parking or
dinance.
Judging from the comments
made, few, if any, were in accord
with the Town CJouncil on the
new law which was put into ef
fect just a few days ago restrict
ing parking in the main business
area to one hour. Previously,
motorists could park a maximum
of two hours.
Observations at the meeting,
which was fairly well attended
despite rainy weather, ranged aU
the way from one merchant’s
statement that the ordinance
would serve to run local business
to nearby towns to another to
the effect that out-of-town cus
tomers would frown on shopping
here “once they knew they would
get a ticket if they parked over
time.”
One man, a Broad Street in
surance salesman, stated flatly
that the town had no parking
problem at all and that all re
strictions should be discontinued.
The meeting was an outgrowth
of a flurry of activity on the
part of a number of merchants
who, during the comparatively
short length of time the ordi
nance has been in effect, have be
come dissatisfied with it. Criti
cism has been harsh and petitions
have been passed up and down
Broad Street. Reports circulated
at the meeting indicated a large
number of people had signed the
petitions which, it has been
learned, call for a return in many
areas to the two-hour parking
limit formerly in effect.
On hand to explain the back
ground of the ordinance and to
help interpret it was Town Man
ager Louis Scheipers, Mayor Pro
Tern Robert Ewing, and Council
man James Hobbs. Another
Councilman, J. B. Tollison was
also in the auiiience but did not
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