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i VOL. 38—NO. 27 FULL PROGRAM PLANNED TWENTY PAGES Commencement Exercises At School Next Week; 38 Receiving Diplomas L. STACY WEAVER DR. HOWARD POWELL Request Made To Re-Zone Broad St. Area For Business The Town Planning Board, holding its regular monthly meet ing last night, was requested to re-zone East Broad Street from Pennsylvania to New York Ave nue so that property could be sold to the Building and Loan Associa tion for the construction of a new office building. The request was made by Dr. J. S. MiUiken, owner of part of the block. He said the association had been negotiating with him for ihe purchase of 40 feet front on East Broad adjoining his office building. The association, he added, had indicated it would con struct a building 30 feet wide and provide off-street parking. At present zoning ordinances allow businesses on East Broad from Pennsylvania to Connecti cut Avenue, and from New York to Illinois Avenue. The block in question contains the new town hall and Dr. Milliken’s office. The request stipulated that the zoning should be for at least 110 feet in depth. The Planning Board took the matter under advisement and vot ed to recommend it to the Town Council. Stacy Weaver To Deliver Maii^ Address Dr. Stacy L. Wteaver, former superintendent of Durham schools who resigned to accept the presi dency of the new Methodist col lege at Fayetteville, will be the commencement speaker at South ern Pines High School Wednes day, June 4, at 8:15 p. m. He will speak at Weaver Audi torium, named for his younger brother, Phillip J. Weaver, who was superintendent of Southern Pines schools for 12 and a half years. Since 1951, Philip Weaver has been assistant superintend ent of Greensboro city schools and will soon accede to the su perintendent’s position. Both brothers, nephews of the late Chief Justice Stacy of the State Supreme Court, are ranked at the top in educational circles in the State. Dr. Weaver is presently serv ing as vice-chairman of the Gov ernor’s Comifiission on Public School Finance, secretary of the Governor’s Commission on Re vision of Public School Law, aqd vice-president of the North Caro lina Education Association. He is an author of various articles in religious and educational jour nals and served at one time as state president of the Horace Mann League. He is currently the national vice-president of the league. The graduation will climax a commencement season which • started last Friday with presen tation of the senior play. Dr. Howard G. Powell, pastor of Edenton Street Methodist church in Raleigh, will be the baccalaureate speaker at the service at the Church of Wide Fellowship Sunday, June 1, at 8:15. Dr. Powell was educated at Duke University and Asbury Col lege and in 1938 was given the honorait^ degree of Doctor of Div inity by High Point College. He was admitted to the Western North Carolina Conference ^in 1924 and has served appointments in Spray, Murphy, Marion, Ashe- boro and Charlotte. A native of Sampson County, he travelled in 1930 to Palestine, Syria and Egypt with the Travel Institute of Bible Research. The Honors and Awards pro gram will be held Wednesday morning, June 4, with graduation exercises that night. Valedictori an is Beth 'Turner and salutatori an Mary Louise McDonald. (Continued on page 5) SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1958 TWENTY PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS Vote Of 6,000 Seen In Satnrday Primary; Sheriff’s Race Is Tops FIRST HONOR GRADUATES at Southern Pines High School this year are Beth Turner, right, the valedictorian, and Mary Louise McDonald, salutatorian. Miss Turner is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner of 202 E. .Ulinois Avenue, and Miss McDonald is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McDonald of 280 N. Page Street. (Photo by Humphrey) Red Cross Reports Fulids Uncollected For Bloodmobile There w£is no official announce ment from officials of the Building and Loan Association as to when possible construction of a building would be started. License Bureau Will Be Closed Until June 6 The automobile license bureau, in the Chamber of Commerce of fice will be closed until June 6, it was announced this morning. Closing was necessitated because of the illness of Mrs. S. D. Fobes, man^^er. Car owners seeking license platte may go either to Raeford or Sanford during the period. The Chamber offices will be open during the regular hours. President Joe Scott said, under the management of Mrs. Lillian Raymond and Mrs. Susan Chat- field, substituting for Mrs. Fobes. Gen. L. W. Miller, chairman of the Ited Cross funds and mem bership drive, said this morning that the campaign is over, with some $13,000 raised. Still needed, he said, was $2,438 to secure the bloodmobile pro gram in Moore County. “We have talked at length on methods of raising this addition al money,” he said, “but conclu ded there will be ho further sol icitation. The campaign is being held open until June 30 and, in that interval, if people wish to contribute, they may do so by sending their contributions to chapter headquarters at 244 S-. W. Broad Street in Southern pines. “It is up to the people of the County as individuals to decide whether to support the program” he added. “If the money comes we will have the Red Cross Bloodmobile Octpber 30 and 31. If not, then we can’t have that service.” • Gen. Miller thanked the many people who worked and contrib uted in the campaign. Not obtaining *the fimds for the bloodmobile, he said, was a disappointment both to the Red Cross workers and to the doctors in the county who had planned to use the service for their pa tients. AFTER "LAST DITCH" MEETING Chamber of Commerce Seeking New Members, Plans Brochure On Area “We must close the Chamber of Commerce doors in debt by the end of the month unless we can conceive a way to bring other merchants, who should be mem bers, into the organization—” That was the situation that fac ed the Chamber of Commerce as between 35 and 40 members gath- MidPines Club Is Awarded $8,000 Highway Damage A two-day trial in which file right-of-way policy of the State Highway Commission was assail ed on all sides by a battery of three lawyers ended late last Fri day afternoon when a jury awarded $8,000 to Mid Pines Club for damages incurred dur ing construction of the new US 1 bypass through Mid Pines prop erty. To the $8,000 award the State was ordered to add six per cent interest from September, 1955, when construction of the bypass was started. The trial marked the second time in less than a week that the State had been defendant in a .right-of-way damage suit in this county. Previously, a jury had awarded Carthage attorney Clement Barrett $6,070, plus six per cent interest, for damages to his property along US 15-501 near Carthage. He had sued for $8,- 000. Mid Pines officials had origi nally entered suit for $17,500 After failing to achieve satisfac tion from the State in a counter offer, and after an appointed threef-man commission’s recom mended award of slightly more than $9,000 had been refused by the State, Mid Pines brought the case to trial. Attorneys J. Talbot Johnson and Lawrence McN. Johnson of Aberdeen, and H. F. Seawell, Jr., of Carthag.e, appear ed for the club; E. . Brogden of Southern Pines, associate counsel for the State Iffighway Commis sion and Harrison Louis of Ra leigh, member of the Attorney (Continued on page 8) ' ered Monday night in a last ditch effort to save it from folding. But those same members, dis playing what some remember as the “most enthusiasm” in years, kicked in extra $25 memberships, voted to increase the minimum membership rate to $50, and laid plans for the publication of a new brochure showing the town’s de velopment over the past five dec ades. President Joe Scott had sent out a letter to all members a few days before the meeting describing the plight the Chamber was in. In it, he and eight other directors had stated flatly that, if more support wasn’t in the immediate making, the Chamber would close at the end of the month. Describing it a “tragedy” that the office was about to be closed just as the com munity was about to welcome a new industry, the directors said further that the town would lose the automobile license bureau if the office closed. At the meeting it was decided to contact all other members who were not present to encourage them to subscribe to the extra membership. At present, there are 82 paid members, about half of the 175 goal that was set at the beginning of the year and the number on which the budget was estimated. Scott appointed a committee to make a study to determine the maximum membership fee and re port back at the July meeting. Jack Younts was named chair man, with the following members: John Ostrom, Joe Montesanti, Jr., Johnny Bums, and C. S. Patch, Jr. Polling Information For Voters Beetween six and seven thous- party, though generally there is and Moore County citizens will go ' ‘ - - . * to the polls in Saturday’s primary, observers think, though the num ber legally qualified to vote is slightly more than 16,000. The polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 6:30 p.m. If you’re im properly registered, there’s no need to go. If you are, however, the following information will be of value. There are two primaries—one for Democrats, one for Republi cans. On the Republican ballot there are only two names, Albert B. Sally and D. L. Ritter, who are running for county commissioner from the fifth district. But the Democrats will have 28 names on the ballot, with only five major offices not being con tested. They are the State Sen ate, the Clerk of Superior Court, the Board of Education, Judge of Recorder’s Court, and Solicitor of Recorder’s Court. Races have developed for Sher iff, County Commissioner in four of the five districts, the Register of Deeds, House of Representa tives, Solicitor of Superior Court, Judge of Superior Court, and Cor oner. There can be no independent or cross-voting in the primary. Dem ocrats will be entitled to mark a Democratic ballot, and only Re publicans who are so registered may obtain a Republican ballot. Also, there can be no write-in names on primary ballots. (Actu ally, there has been no indication that such will happen in either always a few ballots that have write-in names. They aren’t counted and would probably have the effect of voiding the entire ballot.) Each voter will be given only one ballot of the kind he is entitled to. If he wrongly marks or spoils the ballot, he may re turn it to the registrar and get an other. If he spoils three ballots, however, he is out of luck. He just’cAn’t get anymore. No voter will be permitted to enter a booth to mark his ballot which is already occupied. Judges will see that the rule is strictly carried out. Permission for hus band and wife to occupy the same booth, and for aid in marking bal lots is largely at the discretion of the registrar. Since the election in this coun ty has not generated as much in terest as some people thought it would, it is doubtful if much cam paigning will be done near the polls. Actually, it is against the law to electioneer within 50 feet of a polling place, and no poster, banner, oik placard may be allow ed in the polling places during the day of elections. In Southern Pines, the polling place is the fire station oh East New Hampshire Avenue. Registrar is Mrs. Grace Kaylor. The Democrat judge is Mrs. Ger trude Stephenson, and Col. Don Madigan is Republican judge. Al ternate Democrat judge is Joe Garzik. 10 Contests On Democrat Ticket; GOP Has Just One Tag Day Sales For Maternal Welfare Placed At $650 An incomplete report of the Maternal Welfare League tag day sales made today by Mrs. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, co-chair man, shows that approximately $650 was raised. Reports from a number of com munities were not available, she said, but should be in the next few days. She listed the commu nities as Glendon, Highfalls, Rob bins and Eagle Springs. Mrs. Johnson, who directed the drive along with Mrs. James Boyd of Southern Pines, gave the following breakdown of funds re ceived: Vass, $29.50; Pinehurst, $68.52; Pinebluff, $53.70; South ern Pines, $273.68; Cameron, $25; West End, $25 (from the Commu nity Chest; Carthage, $50 with more still to come; and Aberdeen, $110.15, plus an additional $10 from the Woman’s Federation Club of Berkley, of which Mrs. L. D. Harris is eliairman. Memorial Day To Be Observed Here By Legion Post Town Budget For Next Year Given To Councilmen Members of the Town Council are studying the budget message and recommended budget for 1958-59 and are expected to act on it within the next few days, ceremonial decoration of all sol- Gen. Ira T. Wyche of Pine hurst will be the speaker at the Memorial Day observance in , Southern Pines Friday,(conducted annually by the American Le- gion. Sandhill Post 134. It will be held at Mt. Hope Cemetery at 6 o’clock. Boy Scouts will as semble at the West Entrance at 5:30, to serve as honor guard at each veteran’s grave, which will be decorated with flowers and flags by the American Legion Auxiliary, according to D. D. S. Cameron of Post 134. There will be a parade to the terrace assembly point from the west entrance at 6 o’clock, in which the Southern Pines High School Band will participate. Memorial Day greetings will be extended by Capt. A. R. Mc Daniel, Commander of the Le gion Post, and Ernest Klabbatz, commander of the V.F.W. John Boyd Post. Other veterans, ladies of both Auxiliaries, and Boy Scout troop leaders, will also par ticipate. Memorial services, imder di rection of Dr. C. K. Ligon, chap lain of the Legion post, will be the ministers of all Southern Pines churches. Gen. Wyche will be introduced by Gen. R. B. Hill. Following his address there will be a formal salute by the Moore County Na tional Guard Unit, Capt. W. W. Wilson, commanding, and the LIBRARY HOURS Beginning next Wednesday June 4, the Southern Pines Libra ry will be closed on Wednesday afternoons tmtil October 1, it was announced today by Mrs, Stanley Lamboume, librarian. The regular schedule will be resumed October 1. . MEMORIAL DAT The town offices and the post office will be closed tomorrow (Friday) for Memorial Day ob servances. Most other bi^^esses, including the bank, will be open as usual. The budget, recommendations of which were not disclosed, was submitted by Manager Louis Scheipers, Jr., this week. He said a special meeting, would probably be called between now and Sun day for its adoption. The Sunday date was picked so that tax bills may be mailed out before June 1. If they are, Scheipers added, residents may pay their 1958-59 taxes in June and obtain a two per cent discount. CANCER DRIVE The drive for funds to combat cancer 'has faUen about $275 short Of the goal of $1J)00 in Southern Pines, Mrs. J. Sk MiUiken said this mondng. She urged those who had planned to Mnd a cheek and forgot to do so as guiddy as possible. Her post box num ber is 85, Southern Pines. diers’ graves. Taps and a benedic tion will conclude the ceremony. An estimated 6,000 people will flock to the polls in Moore Coun ty Saturday to vote in the Dem ocratic and Republican primaries. Most observers said that the long Memorial Day weekend would probably have little or no effect on the number of voters. Highlighting the election is the contest for the Sheriff’s seat, be ing vacated this year by Charles McDonald, who has held it almost 30 years. Eight candidates are in the running and few people would hazard a guess as to the eventual winner. One thing appears certain: there will, in all likelihood, be a runoff between the top two. Candidates are, in alphabeetical order, S. J. Bradshaw of Carth age, Herman Grimm of Carthage, Wendell Kelly of Carthage, J. Hubert McCaskill of Pinehurst, A. B. Parker of Vass, J. W. “Bunch” Sheffield of Eastweed, Charlie Stewart of near Carth age, and Charles Wimberly of Aberdeen. There is also a strong possibil ity that there will be a runoff for one county commissioner’s seat, in district 5, which is comprised of Sandhills and Mineral Springs Townships. The seat was former ly held by Gordon Cameron of Pinehurst who decided several months ago not to run. Three candidates are in that race, T. Clyde Auman of West End, E. B. Hinson of West End, and Sidney Taylor of Aberdeen. James PleEisants of Southern Pines, representing District 4, was the only commissioner with out opposition. On the Democratic ticket, other contenders for seats are: District 1, John Currie, incumbent, is be- Siiieath; District 2, Tom R. Monroe, in cumbent, is being opposed by Billy Poley; and District 3, L. R. Reynolds, incumbent, is being op posed by Gurney Wilson. Other contests to be decided are for the House of Representa tives, in which H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen is making a bid for a sixth term over the opposition of Tony Gilchrist of Carthage; the 20th Judicial District, in which Judge Don Phillips, the incum bent, is being opposed by W. G. Pittman, both of Rockingham; and the 13th Solicitorial District, in which M. G. Boyette of Carth age has opposition from Walter E. Brock of Wadesboro. Three people, all from Carth age, are in the race for the Reg ister of Deeds job. They are Mrs. Audrey McCaskill, Archie Muse and Fred Flinchum. Mrs. Bessie Griffin,'who presently holds the office, is not seeking re-election. Ralph Steed of Robbins is op posed by E. R. Kerns of Carthage for the Coroner’s job to round out the Democratic ticket. The Republican Party has only one contest* that for the County Commissioner nomination in Dis trict 5. The candidates are D. L. Ritter and A. B. Sally. (Pictures of all mght candi dates for Sheriff are on page 18 of this issue of The Pilot.) LWV QUESTIONNAIRE Three More Candidates Give Views On Problems Facing County Today Three more candidates for seats on the Board of County Commis sioners returned completed ques tionnaires to the Southern Pines League of Women Voters this week, making a total of 11 that have responded to date. The only two Democrats who did not answer the questionnaire before the Pilot went to press to day were Gurney Wilson of High falls, running from District 3, and David Sineath, ninning from Dis trict 1. D. L. Ritter, and A. B. Sally, Republicans ninning from District 5, did not answer. The other candidates who did not answer have no opposition in the primary. Here are the questions and the answers received this week: 1 The Moore County ap propriation for welfare is low er than lhaf of of other coun ties of compilable population (Franklin, Henderson, Stan ley. Vance, Richmond) though per ca;^ta income here is higher than any of these. Would you favor increasing this to bring our county into a position to compare favor ably with o&ers? Would you favor using some of the ABC funds for Biis? (Continued on page 8)
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