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•*1 Welcome Lions Welcome Lions VOL. 38—NO. 28 SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1958 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE 10 CjENTS More Than 1,000 Lions And Ladies Coming In Snnday Full Program Is Planned For Lions State Convention More than 1,000 delegates and their wives are expected to swarm into Southern Pines Sunday for the annual North Carolina Lions State Convention, It is the big gest convention ever to be held here in point of numbers and members of the local club, hosts for the three-day affair, are fairly bursting with pride at the prospect of it. Registration will begin at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Hollywood Hotel, convention headquarters. By 6 o’clock, pro gram planners think, the major portion of it wiE be over and the mai.i part of the meeting begins. A three-page program has been prepared and shows that almost every minute is taken up with business meetings, recognition ceremonies, dinners, entertain ment, and elections. Joe Carter, chairman, and Nor man Trueblood of Raleigh, state secretary, prepared the program, the bulk of which wil be conduct ed at the Hollywood and at the Armory and Weaver auditorium. Following registration Sunday, a necrology service will be held in Weaver Auditorium at 7 p.m. with District Governor Robert M. Langley, of District 31-J, presid ing. Following that the Flag of all Nations wiU be observed un der the direction of t^e Southern Pines Lions Club, which will also have direction of the necrology service, and will be presided over by District Governor Emmett V. Stone of District 31-D. Monday morning at 7:30 the Tailtwisters breakfast wiE be held under the direction of the Pine- hurst Lions Club. Presiding will be Chief Tailtwister Littlejohn Faulkner, termed by Lions as about the most colorful member in the state. The convention proper will be called to order at 9:30 in Weaver Auditorium by Murray Clark, president of the Southern Pines club. The meeting wiE be pre sided over by District Governor WilEam A. Hart, of District 31-A, and will feature a speech of wel come by Mayor Walter E. Blue, reports from various committees, and introduction of district gover nors for presentation of their cab inets and their reports. International counsellors will also be introduced. ■ Coming back again at 1 p.m., this time in the armory, the dele gates will have luncheon, and fol low that up in the afternoon with various schools for club officials. A buffet supper is on tap for Monday night at the armory, to be foEowed by a variety show and square dancing. On Tuesday the International Counsellors Breakfast and the Presidents and Secrecies Break fast will be held at 7:30 to start the day off. The program wiE be under the direction of the Pine- bluff Lions Club. (Continued on page 8) Staff Selected For Recreation Program In Town David Page, who graduated from. Davidson College this week, Malcolm. Clark, a student at the University of North Carolina, and Patti Hobbs, a student at Choker CoEege, wiE assist in the summer recreation program here begin ning June 16, it was announced this week by Irie Leonard, di rector. Prof. 'J. C. Hasty wiE conduct the program in West Southern Pines. He vsdll be assisted by Miss Coral Steel and Mrs. Emma Stubbs. Leonard said that one phase of the program, the adult softball league, will begin next week with games scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the Pony League and Little Leagues are already underway. Planned for the program this year are tennis instructions, cro quet, badminton, volleyball, bas ketball, skating, story-telUng ses sions, and painting classes. '/■M I’*'' ..S|| i, v-X / I "f'l * ‘ 1958 GRADUATES at Southern Pines High School are, front row, left to right, Nancy Jo Traylor, Sue Jones, Theresa Brad ford, Johnsie McCrimmon, Carolyn Smith, Marian Caton and Grace Dupree. Second row, Carol Staples, Jean Franklin, Sondra Bailey, Mary Louise McDonald, Patricia Bryant, Charla Marcum, Katherine Harriss, and Janice Holliday. Third row, Beth Tur ner, Joan Carolyn Lockey, Mary Elizabeth Grant, Phyllis Garzik, BLUE KNIGHTS at Southern Pines High School, the official name for the athletic teams and the band, wiE have something to look at with pride next year. Beth Turner, who has won many honors for her painting abiEty, was loudly cheered by the graduating seniors when she gave this painting of a Blue Knight on his 'BLUE KNIGHT" PAINTING PRESENTED Large Group of Seniors Honored Wednesday At Awards Day Program Mary Louise McDonald, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mc Donald of 280 N. Page Street, was named the winner of the coveted James S. Milliken Memorial Award at the annual Honors and Awards Day program of South ern Pines High School Wednes day morning. The award, worth $50, is considered tops by the stu dents and is given for the best all-around senior. The rest of the awards which recognize outstanding students for the contributions during their three-year high school career— each of them equally important to the students who receive them —are outlined below. One of the highlights of the pro gram came when Beth Turner, the class valedictorian and prob ably the best art student ever to attend the school, presented a portrait of a Blue Knight on a charger as her own gift to the school. She had been working on the painting, for several months and its presentation came as a com plete surprise to the seniors, who approved the gift warmly. Also on the program was the presentation of the senior class gift which this year was in the form of $100 to be used for the bus fund, and an additional $50 for permanent benches to be placed in the school yard. The Student Council also pre sented the school with a victory bell to be used at athletic con tests. Winners of other awards, and the names of the donors, were as follows: American Legion Citizenship Medal for best citizen of the senior class, presented by the American Legion, won by Marion Caton. Rotary Club Improvement Cup, presented to the student in the high school showing the most im provement, won by Johnsie Mc Crimmon. Southern Pines High School Service Award, given to the stu dent who has shown the most un selfish service to the school, pre sented to Mary Louise McDon ald.' Charlotte Erson Music Plaque, (Continued on Page 8) Patti Britt, Gail Given, Delores Maready, Judith Parker, and Charles Weatherspoon. Fourth row, Leonard Shaffer, Bruce Davie, David Coats, Jack Carter, Jr., Jerry Healy, Jr., WiEiam Tew, James Thomasson, Steve Darby, David Prim, and Philip Guin. Fifth row, Frank Talbert, L. D. Jones, Jr., James Bowers, WiEisim Wiggs III, WiEiam McDonald, John van Benschoten, Jerry Seward, and John Ormsby, Jr. Dr. Weaver Urges Graduates To Continue Learning Southern Pines is a community any educated minded person would come to and the caliber of its schools ranks with any in the state, members of the high school graduating class, their pa rents and friends were told here last night. Dr. L. Stacy Weaver, former superintendent of Durham City schools and now president of the new Methodist CoEege in Fay etteville, spoke to the graduates prior to the awarding of diplomas by Norris Hodgkins, Sr., member of the school board. “Your education here should not be the end of your learning,” Dr. Weaver told the graduates, “opportunities for learning — whether formal or informal—are always there.” He referred to the cmrent talk about learning, with special em phasis on science and mathe matics, as the “hysteria of the moment.” There is no doubt, he said, that schools should teach science and mathematics better. “But they should teach everything better,” he said, “and that, if anything, is what is wrong with our educa tional system.” He urged teachers and students alike to avoid attempting to de partmentalize their knowledge. “We wiE never solve our inter national problems,” he said, “by delving into just one department of knowledge. Almost everything we do today is dependent on, or has effects on, something else. We must constantly strive to add to our learning and to develop those intangible qualities of the (Continued on page 8) charger to the school at the Honors and Awards Day progrsim yesterday. Looking on are Nancy Jo Traylor, president of the senior class, Mary Louise McDonald, ssilutatorian, and Steve Smith, president of the student body. (Emerson Humphrey photo) St. Anthony’s To Graduate Seven On Tuesday Night The third annual commence ment exercises at Saint Anthony’s Parochial School will be held next Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Sev en youngsters will receive diplo mas marking completion of the course of studies as prescribed for the Raleigh Diocese, as weU as the development of a good Chris tian character. The Rev. Francis Smith, pastor of Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church, will deliver the principal address and later award diplomas. The following will receive di plomas: Thomas D. Difatta, Louis M. Honeycutt, Roland V. Jager and Kenneth Smithson, aE of Southern Pines; John E. Barry and William R. Boles of Pine- hurst; and Jon W. Lausten of Pinebluff. Awards will be presented to Smithson for general exceEence in his work throughout the year; John E. Barry for religion; and Jon W. Lausten, who won the medal for good citizenship. Prizes wiE also be awarded to outstanding students in each of the other classes. Record Budget Adopted By Council; $345,871 TAXPAYERS: NOTE No great need to fret about those town tax bills. Some residents, town offi cials reported this week, were pretty upset about re ceiving them, this early in the year. But there's a reason, and it's all to the taxpayer's advantage. According to State law, taxes are due and payable the first Monday in October. But the law also gives towns and counties the authority to maU out due notices in June and those taxpayers who pay them during that month will collect a two per cent dis count. Southern Pines is one of the few towns in the State which sends out bills in June (the cormty, for instance, doesn't usually get them out until September, though some business firms and in dividuals ask for, and get, their notices in June and are eligible for the discotint). Here is the schedule of times, for payment; Juim, two per cent discount: July, one and one-half per cent dis count: August and Septem ber, one per cent discount; October, one-half of one per cent discount. Beginning February, there is a one per cent penalty on payments: in March it's two per cent penalty; and aifter that, the additional penalties are one-half of one per cent a month. Telephone Co. Gets Only Half of Proposed Increase United Telephone Co. of the Carolinas received permission this week for a watered down rate in crease, and was told by the State Utilities Commission to begin im- piediately to improve its service. United was one of seven tele phone companies to apply to the commission for rate increases in recent months. . The companies, including Southern BeE and Caro lina Telephone and Telegraph, lepresent a heavy majority of the state’s telephone users. United’s was the first case to be disposed of. The company asked for rate hikes which would increase its gross annual revenue by more than $221,620. It cited greater costs and declining earnings. The commission, ifi an order written by commissioner Harry (Continued on page 8) Provisions Made Foj* Partial Town Hall Completion The Town Council, meeting in special session Monday night at the town offices, adopted the 1958-59 budget which calls for expenditures of $345,871, largest in the town’s history. No increase in taxes was asked for, however, as Manager Louis Scheipers presented what was referred to by one member of the Council as “a tight budget, one that we can live with.” Among major items included were funds for operation of the library strictly as a department of the town, installation of jail cells and air conditioning system in the new town building, repairs to the fire department, and a $5,- 000 payment on the right-of-waj>- costs for the new thruway. Scheipers, in his message ac companying the budget, pointed out that the town had started operation at the beginning of the present fiscal year with only $520 surplus funds to be used for contingencies. The town will conclude the present fiscal year with $3,685 surplus (after operating .on a $298,246 budget for 1957-58) and can count on approximately $36,- 210 at the end of the next budget year, he said. One big item in the budget, re ferred to as “readjusting a book keeping situation,” will add $73,- 596 to income for the next year. Those funds, Scheipers said, represent water and sewer im provements made out of general operating expenditures since the first of February, 1956, when the town voted $300,000 in water and sewer bonds, and which will be returned to the general operating fund once bonds are sold. He did not say when he expected bonds would be sold, though left the impression it would be during the early part of the budget year. “This recommended budget proposes no tax increase,” Schei pers told the Council. “It defines the items necessary to meet nor mal recurring expenses which provide services in a manner es tablished over a period of years, plus capital expenditures chief ly in connection with the new town building..” He broke down capital expen ditures of non-recurring items, which total $45,600, as follows: Furniture for new building, $4,500; air conditioning, $8,000; jail, $7,500; fire department, equipment purchase and building repairs, $6,000; water and sewer department truck, $3,000; motor- (Continued on page 5) AUMAN, TAYLOR ALSO IN RUNOFF Wimberly Top Man In Sheriff Race; , Second, To Call For Runoff NO ACCIDENTS HERE Not a single accident occurred on Moore County roads over the Memorial Day weekend, the State Highway Patrol reported this week. Throughout the nation there were 371 killed in traffic ac cidents, which makes the county scene all the more remarkable. COURT OF HONOR The bi-monthly court of honor for Boy Scouts in Moore District will be held Monday at 8 o’clock at Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Aberdeem Kelly, Two ex-members of the State Highway Patrol) Charles G. Yim- berly of Aberdeen and ’WendpE B. KeEy of Carthage, finished first and second, respectively, in the Democratic primary Saturday for the party’s nomination for Sheriff. They will go into a run-off June 28, just three Saturdays away, along with T. Clyde Auman of West End and W. Sidney Taylor of Aberdeen, who are seeking the nomination for County Commis sioner from District 5. The sheriff’s rac^ was about the, only excitement generated in Sat urday’s primary, which, though held in perfect weather, attracted only a few more than 5,000 voters. Heaviest voting was in Aber deen, Southern Pines and Car thage, though two of those pre cincts, Southern Pines and Car thage, usually vote a few more in a primary. It was undoubtedly the candida cies of Wimberly and Taylor that brought out such a heavy vote in Aberdeen. AU incumbents went back into office without any trouble. Clearest cut victory was in the Register of Deed’s race where Mrs. Audrey McCaskill poUed 3,155 votes to 1,028 for Fred E. Flinchum and 931 for Archie Muse. She will be the Democratic nominee in the November general elections. Ralph G. Steed of Robbins han dily defeated E. R. Kerns of Car thage for the coroner’s post, 3,477 to 1,377. The incumbent county commis sioners who returned to office (providing they win in the No vember general elections) were John M. Currie of Carthage, who defeated David Sineath, 3,759 to 916; T. R. Monroe of Robbins, who defeated BiEy J. Poley, 3,150 to 1,297; and L. R. Reynolds of Rit ters, who defeated Gurney L. Wilron of Highfalls, 2,698 to 1,698. Mosley G. Boyette of Carthage trounced Walter E. Brock of Wadesboro 4,273 to 701 in the (Continued on page 8) RITTER GOP WIJINER D. L. Ritter of Pinehurst won the Republican nomina tion for membership on the Board of County Commission ers representing District 5 in Saturday's primary. He de feated A. B. SaUey of Pine hurst. 103 to 62 in the only race on the GOP ticket, and will face the winner of the T. Clyde Auman-W. Sidney Tay lor runoff in the general elec tions in November.
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