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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CARQLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1958
Graduatom In Some County Schools
Has Started; 400 To Get Diplomas
■raduation ceremonies inlviiio A
Graduation ceAemonies in
schools throughout t\he county be
gin tonight and will llijst until the
first week in June.
Some 400 boys and giWls will be
awarded diplomas, according to
m school officials, with tWe 62 at
^ Pinckney Negro school Vn
thage the largest.
Here is a list of the schools and
their programs that haAe been
received by The Pilot to ©ate:
Aberdeen
The baccalaureate sei
be held Sunday night at
in the school auditorium
Rev. Richard L. West of
fice will
i o’clock
. the
homas-
• Manly Church Will
Install New PaWor
At Sunday Serv
The Rev. Malcolm P. A
ton, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn.,
was graduated Tuesday
Union Theological Seminar w m
• I^ichmond, Va., will be OrdMned
and installed as pastor ofX the
Manly Presbyterian Church |n a
service at 7:30 Sunday evening.
Several visiting ministers [are
expected to have a part in \the
service. # |
A reception in the recreatijon
building, to which all attending
the service are invited, will ftol-
low to give all in the community
^ an opportunity to meet the njew
pastor and his family, which con
sists of his wife and their two
children, Carol, two and a h^lf
years old, and Phil, three and! a
half months.
The new minister, the fidst
to serve the Manly Church
as full time pastor, will occupy
a new manse across the street
from the church. The attractive
new house, erected almost e]n-
• tirely by volunteers from withjin
the congregation, has seven
rooms with two baths and fiill
basement. ^
The Rev. Grover C. Currie re
tired as pastor a few months agO
and since then guest minister?
have been called in for services.
Dr* Willcox To
Retire From Hoke
Health Department
Dr. J. W. Wilkox of Southern
Pines, who has held the dual post
of health officer in Moore and
Hoke Counties for the past 15
years, has resigned his Hoke du
ties effective June 30.‘ He listed
health reasons for his decision.
Dr. Willcox will continue as
health officer for Moore County.
At one time he comprised the
entire health department in Hoke
County. He has seen it grow,
however, until it now employs
four full time health workers and
a clerk, housed in a $30,000 center
dedicated last year.
delivering the sermon.
The graduation ceremonies will
take place Friday, May 30, when
Terry Sanford of Fayetteville, an
attorney and former State Sena
tor, will be the speaker
Class night wfU be held next
Thursday with a program pre
sented by the juniors and seniors
at 8 p.m. in the auditorium
sal'^tatorian, and
Gail Funderburk, the valedicto
rian, will speak at that time.
V ass-Lakeview
Steele, pastor of
the Vass Methodist Church, de-
hvered the baccalaureate address
Sunday evening. Class day exer-
tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o’clock, and grad
uation ceremonies are scheduled
tomorrow night at 8 o’clock
Valedictorian is Pauline Key
and salutatorian is D. A. McNeill
West End
The Rev. David McLean, retired
°nary tp the Belgian Congo,
will deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon Sunday night and graduation
nSr^^^ scheduled Monday
Dorothy Leigh VonCanon is the
valedictorian and Elizabeth Thom
as the salutatorian.
Cameron
In Cameron, the baccalaureate
service was held Sunday with the
Rev. Garland Hendricks of the
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary at Wake Forest as
speaker. Class night was held
last night and graduation exer
cises are scheduled for Friday.
The commencement speaker is
Dr. Ernest A. Beaty, of the Da
vidson College faculty.
Kitty McDonald is the valedic
torian and Shirley Stone was se
lected salutatorian.
• Farm Life
The Rqv. Dan E. Norman, pas
tor of Eureka Presbyterian
Church, delivered the baccalau
reate sermon Sunday. Tonight,
Thursday, is class night, and di-
plornas will be presented at cere
monies tomorrow. The Rev.
Grover C. Currie of Eagle Springs
is the speaker.
Peggy George is valedictorian
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PRICE 10 CENTS
Smithlield Firm Gets
Construction Contract
For Mozur Lace Plant
Formal Signing
NEW VICTORY BELL recently obtained by
the Student Council of Southern Pines and Ab
erdeen high schools to promote school spirit will
have to compete with this bevy of young ladies
next fall for the attention of the crowd. All of
them are students at Southern Pines High
School and all have recently been elected either
cheer leaders or majorettes for the coming aca
demic year. Pictured front row, left to right
they are Suzanne Steed, chief cheerleader, Kay
Underwood and Patsy McRee. Second row,
same order, are Emmaday Collins, Barbara Bo-
dine, Becky Traylor and Karen Johnson. On
the third row, the new majorettes are, from left,
Martha Caton, Faye Reid, Janet McKenzie, Bar
bara Blackwelder, Mary Ann Strickland, Arden
Fobes, chief, Betty Foshee, Betty Jo Louder-
milk, Frances Harper, Connie Pierce, Mary
Chappell, and Geraldine Tollison.
(Humphrey photo)
Final Registration Saturday Shows
16,000 Eligible To Vote In Primary
AHmif 1ft nnn •
About 16,000 people are regis
tered properly to vote in Moore
County May 31 in both Demo
cratic and Republican primaries,
Sam C. Riddle, chairman of the
Elections Board, said this morn
ing.
It is doubtful if more than 12,-
Lions Lay Final
Plans For Meeting
Here June 8-10
Interior Of House
On Ridge Street
Gutted By Fire
The cause of a fire that partial
ly gutted the interior of a house
at Rhode Island Avenue and
Ridge Street about 10:30 Monday
night was still undetermined to
day.
The house, owned by Leland
Daniels, Jr., was being refurbish
ed inside and had just been paint
ed.
Fire Chief Harold Folwer said
he had been unabid to determine
the amount of damage caused
pending further investigation.
The volunteer fire department
responded quickly to the alarm
and prevented spread of the blaze.
000 will vote, however, though
Riddle would not hazard a guess
based on past performances.
“There are so many candidates
and they’re running for so many
offices,’’ he said, “that I doubt if
anyone could make a prediction
that would hold up.”
New registi‘ation figures vfere
not available this morning ex
cept in three precincts. Southern
Pines, Aberdeen, and Little
River. In Southern Pines, Mrs.
Grace Kay lor, registrar, said that
37 people had added their names
to the books in the past three
Saturdays, 34 of them Democrats
and three Republicans. There was
one change in registration, she
Lions and Lionesses fromi all
parts of North Carolina to the
number of 1,000 or more are ex- rcgiairanon, sne
pected in Southern Pines June'®^^*^’ ® °®n^ocrat shifting over to
8-10 for the three-day annual Republican fold.. There was
convention of Ndrth Carolina person who had pre-
Multiple District 31 of Lions listed himself as an in
ternational. I dependent who placed his name
The Southern Pines host cluh'°^ Democrat roll.
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^ IN LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS QUESTIONNAIRE
has been busy for several weeks
winding up arrangements for the
convention, with Joe H. Carter
Jr., as general convention chair
man, assisted by President Mur
ray W^. Clark and the entire
membership of the local organi
zation.
The Hollywood Hotel will be
general convention headquarters
and registration will begin Sun- 0
dsy, ^ June 8, at 2 p. m. Sunday
evening the annual necrology
service honoring Tar Heel Lions
departed during, the past year
will be held in Weaver auditori
um, followed by the colorful
“Flag of Nations” ceremony in
which the flags of the more than
75 nations in Lions International
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Mrs. Kaylor said that with 2293
Democrats and 353 Republicans,
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Candidates Give Views On Issues
Eight candidates for member
ship on the Board of County Com-
imssioners have answered a ques
tionnaire recently sent out by the
League of Women Voters of
Southern Pinees, which had at
tempted to get candidates’ views
on several matters for presenta
tion to voters prior to the May 31
primary.
“We believe that most peoj^le
will be indeed interested in the
answers received to date,” Lodkie
Parker, League president, said to
day, “and, of course, the better in
formed people are, the /better
equipped they will be to vo,te.”
'The questionnaire consisted of
six questions. '
Here are the answers/ received
so far: /
!• The Moore Couri^y appro
priation for welfare is. lower
than that of other counties of
comparable population
(Franklin, Granville, Hender
son, Stanley, Vance, Rich
mond) though |ier capita in
come here is higher than any
of these. Would, you favor in
creasing this tto bring our
coimty into a position to com
pare favoral^y with others?
Would you ^avor using some
of the ABC funds for this?
W. S. Taylor, Aberdeen, Demo
crat: “I would state generally that
I have a deep personal feeling for
the needy and suffering and mat
ters that concern the Welfare De
partment are of great concern to
me. If I am privileged to serve
on the County Board, I shall take
much interest in the operation of
the department. I do not believe
that justifiable cases should be
neglected in our county.”
E. P. Hinson, West End, Demo
crat: “I would like to see some of
the ABC funds contributed to the
Welfare of Moore County 'if pos
sible.”
J. W. Rogers, Greenwood and
Carthage Townships: “Yes, but I
am in favor of a well organized
and efficient Welfare Department
for Moore County. I am not in
favor of using ABC funds for in-
creasiim the appropriation as the
ABC stores in Moore County were
established for the purpose of
supporting the schools. However,
as I sCe it, it would make no dif
ference whether the funds came
from ABC funds or the General
Fund. If we take the ABC reve
nue away from the schools, then
we would have to make up the
amount from the general fund.
Why not keep it straight? I see
no need to switch the revenue of
the County when it makes no dif
ference in the end.”
W. Curtis Garner, Robbins, Re
publican: “Yes.”
2. For many years the coun
ty poor fund has run out some
time before the end of the
year. Would you favor in
creasing this to take care of
presently neglected cases?
Taylor: Same answer as to first
question.
Hinson: “By all mqans I would
go all out to do all that we could
to increase the fund to take care
of the neglected cases.
Gamer: “Yes.”
Rogers: “Yes, I am in favor of
taking care of the needy, poor and
indigent.’
3. The state recommends
four public health nurses for
a county with our population.
Moore has only three who
carry case loads which far ex
ceed the maximum recom
mended per worker. Would
you be in favor of increasing
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Cub Scouts Here
To Stage ‘Circus’
This Saturday
A “Cub Scout circus,” forerun
ner to what leaders of Pack 73
hope will develop into ah annual
affair, will be held Saturday af
ternoon on the parking lot of Me
morial Field.
A regular circus midway will
be set up, according to Cubmaster
Bruce Warlick, and Scouts and
their parents will be able to take
part in a variety of games and
contests, including horseshoes,
darts, putting course, jousting
with boxing gloves, and a few
others not announced.
Sideshows will also be erected,
Warlick 'said, which will include
“some of the greatest attractions
in the world.”
Following the circus the young
scouts and their families will have
a picnic.
Warlick said that the hours of
the event would be from three to
five o’clock. In case of rain, it
will be moved to the high school
gymnasium.
Den mothers of the pack, which
IS sponsored by Brownson Memo
rial Church, are Mrs. Charles
Phillips, Mrs. D. A. Blue, Jr., Mrs.
William Bodine, Mrs. B. A. Mor
gan, and Mrs. J. Vance Rowe, Jr.
Assistant cubmasters are Major
William Bodir^e and John Mallow.
Of Contracts Is
Seen Next Week
The long awaited definite an
nouncement that a lace manufac
turing plant will be constructed
near here came Friday following
a meeting between Charles Mo
zur, president of Southern Laces,
Inc., officials of the Southern
Pines Development Corporation,
and J. P. Rogers of Smithfield,
whose company was low bidder
on the project.
Mr. Rogers, of J. p. Rogers
Construction Company, will be
here again next week with the
MRS. MARY TOWNES
Daughter of Local
Woman Receives
$4200 Scholarship
Mrs. Mary McLean Townes,
formerly of Southern Pines, now
a teacher at North Carolina Col
lege’s Biology Department, has
been awarded a Danforth Foimda-
tion scholarship of approximate
ly $4200 to continue pre-doctoral
study at the University of Michi
gan.
An NCC honor graduate of 1949,
Mrs. Townes received the M.S. in
Public Health Education degree
from NCC in 1951.
Mrs. Townes, wife of Dr. Ross
E. Townes, NCC Professor of phy
sical education, received the M.S.
degree from the University of
Michigan in the summer of 1953.
Among Mrs. Townes’ honor affil
iations are Beta Kappa Chi, Alpha
Kappa Mu, and Pi Lambda Theta.
She has been a member of the
NCC; staff since 1950.
Her mother, Mrs. Nora McLean
Jackson, lives at 154 Gaines St.
Six Teams Enter
Softball League;
June Opening Set
Six teams are definite entries
in the Summer Softball League
here this year, Morris Johnson,
league commissioner, announced
following an organizational meet
ing in the town offices 'Thursday
night.
The teams are Moose Lodge,
Little Nine, Church of Wide Fel
lowship, Carolina Power and
Light Company, National Guard,
apd the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
’The season will begin June 10,
Johnson said, and a full schedule
will be played. After the season
opens practice sessions will be
worked out for each team. Until
then, members will be practicing
on their own.
Johnson kaid that two games
would be played each of the play
ing nights, Tuesdays and Thurs
days, with the first one to get
underway at 7 o’clock.
'The Lions Club, which has
fielded a team! each year since
the inception of the League sev
eral years ago, did not do so this
year because of a lack of players.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce, which had an entry last
season, will not repeat, apparent
ly for the same reason.
Managers of the teams are as
follows: Moose, Davis Salmon;
Little Nine, Joel Stutts; Church
of Wide Fellowship, Davis Wor
sham; Carolina Power and Light
Co., Charlie Horton; National
Guard, Jack Barron; and VFW,
Frank Smith.
Mid Pines Highway
Case Underway;
End Seen Friday
Superior Court Judge George
M. Fountain of Tarboro began
hearing evidence this morning in
a civil pase brought against the
State Highway Commission by of
ficials of Mid Pines Qub, who are
seeking to recover damages which
they allege was caused by the con
struction of the US 1 thruway
across Mid Pines property.
A jury for the trial was select
ed yesterday afternoon at the con-
dusion of another case against the
Highway Commission in which
ClemenV Barrett, Carthage attor Principals for the formal
ney, was awarded $6,070 for dam- of contracts. Work, he ha
T-.- —. , said, is expected to commence
soon. He assured local officials
that he could, meet the November
7 deadline for completion of the
project, a deadline set by the
North Carolina Business Devel
opment Corporation, which has
advanced $175,000 first mortEsee
money. ®
The bid submitted by Rogers
represented a sizeable savings
over one previously submitted,
and later rejected, by C. M.
Guests and Sons Construction
Company of Greensboro. There
were a few changes made in the
plans since the rejection of
Guest’s bid but the building will
remain, for all practical pur
poses, the same, according to
members of the Southern Pines
Development Corjjoration.
When the plant is completed it
will have a payroll expected to
develop into at least $750,000 per
year. Some 250 people would be
employed in the manufacture of
lace goods for the garment and
allied industries.
It will be the first actual in
dustrial payroll for Southern
Pines since August, 1956, when
J. Bishop and Company shut
down its plant near here. Some
200 workers were thrown out of
ages done to his land on US High
way 15-501 near Carthage. He
had asked for $8,000. The award
was in addition to the interest, at
six per cent, which he wiU also
receive, making it a total of slight
ly more than $7,000.
First witness this morning for
Mid Pines was Mrs. Frank Cos
grove, one of the owners. She
was followed by T. H. Antrim, as
sistant secretary-treasurer of the
Homeland Development Corpora
tion of Durham, owners of the
property before it was sold to the
Cosgroves two and a half years
ago.
Mr. Antrim said the property
was not as valuable now as it had
been when it was sold. E. J. Aus
tin of Southern Pines, an architect
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Senior Play For
High School Set
Tomorrow Night
Seniors at Southern Pines High
School will present “Time Out
for Ginger” in Weaver Auditori
um tomorrow (Friday) night at
ander,/is^u^der^L^drr?c1ira^ofir" out of
Miss Hazel Ayscue, advisor. preceding
Miss Hazel Ayscue, advisor
■Taking leading roles are'Philip
Guin, who plays the father, Jean
Franklin, acting the part of the
mother, and Betty Foshee in the
title role.
The play concerns a young girl
who wants to play football and
the trouble she has with her fath
er about her ambitions.
Others in the cast are David
Coats, Gordon Mitchell, Gail Giv
en, Bob Mclntire, Charla Marcum,
Nancy Jo Traylor and Toby Hicks.’
Admission prices are 50 cents
for adults, 35 cents for students.
Kenneth Neese Is
New Assistant
At Moore Hospital
Kenneth E. Neese of Monroe
assumed his duties this week as
office manager at Moore Memo
rial Hospital in Pinehurst, taking
the place of Thomas M. Surratt
who recently resigned to accept
a position as controller at the
Rowan Memorial Hospital in Sal-
sibury.
Mr. Neese was graduated from
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel HiU in 1953 with a de
gree in Business Administration,
after which he served two years
with the army in Germany. Since
1956 he has been serving his in
ternship with the Charlotte Mem
orial Hospital in Charlotte.
His duties at Moore Memorial
as manager will include admis
sions and discharges, hospital in
surance claims, bookkeeping de-
partoent, payroll, credit and col
lections and numerous other
functions connected with the
business office. The hospital feels
itself very! fortunate in being
able to secure the services of Mr.
Neese, who comes highly recom
mended in training, back^ound
and experience for this particular
type of work.
Mrs. Neese, who is presently
teaching in Monroe, plans to join
him here next week, and they
will make their home at the
Knollwood apartments in South
ern Pines.
months.
Members of the Development
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Robbins Merchants
Acclaimed For Job
In Locating Plant
The Robbins Merchants Associ
ation, for iniitiating a project
which eventually brought a quar
ter million dollar poultry process
ing plant to the town, has been
awarded the BeU Cup by the
North Carolina Merchants Asso
ciation. In order to be eligible, a
town must be affiliated with the
state organization. ^
Presentation of the cup, given
annually to the town in the state
which has conducted the most
outstanding project, was made at
the closing banquet of the annual
convention of the association in
Raleigh Tuesday night. Johnny
Myers, president of the Robbins
group, received the award.
The plant. Colonial Poultry Co.,
which is now operating with some
260 employees, has a weekly pay
roll of between $10,000 and $12,-
000. It was opened for business
last August and has been hailed
by state officials as a model for
other communities to copy. '
In accepting the award Myers
Said: “This typifies what a com
munity can do when it has enthu
siasm and the spirit needed to
make a town grow. We still have
that enthusiasm and I can assure
you we aren’t sitting around rest
ing on our laurels.”
The Robbins merchants initiat
ed the project of raising funds to
interest the Athens, Ga.,’ company
in locating there. Later, the Rob
bins Development Corporation
was formed, comprising for the
most part members of the mer
chants association and that group
eventually raised approximately
$130,000 towards construction of
the building.
The plant operation has been
one of the largest factors in help
ing poultry growers in the county
Dush thejr industry figures* '
wards the $12 million '
mark. '