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Pinebluff Phone
Company Has REA
Loan Of $32,000
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, „JUNE 19, 1958
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e,
Will Increase
Service Area
By 44 Phones
A $32,000 loan to the Pinebluff
Telephone Company has been
approved by the Rural Electri
fication Administration, Con
gressman Paul Kitchin^s office in
Washington announced this
week.
The loan will enable the com
pany, which has patrons in Pine
bluff, Hoffman, and several oth
er smaller communities, to con
struct 15 miles of new lines and
provide service to an additional 44
subscribers.
The company, which was reor-
ganizd last year, has moved into
its new building on US Highway
1 in the middle of Pinebluff and
conjpleted installing new equip
ment.
The company is at present
serving 330 customers, according
^ to E. H. Mills, general manager
and secretary-treasurer.
Previously, he said, the com
pany had received loans from the
REA of $132,000 and $29,000. The
original loan was based on an
REA survey which figured about
58 miles of line would need to
be constructed to serve the com
pany’s proposed area. Later, the
company hired an engineer and
another survey indicated the
’‘Increase Chamber
Mills said that REA loans are
made with the view of allowing
companies five years for con
struction purposes and funds are
drawn from the REA when need
ed.
He added that it would be per
haps two or three months before
new construction of lines would
begin.
GOD AND COUNTRY AWARD, considered
tops in Boy Scouting, was awarded to Ronald
Thompson, 14-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Thompson of Pinebluff, at the regular morning
services at Emmanuel Episcopal Church last
Sunday. The award, held by only two other
Scouts in the county, is attained by working
with the church and related religious activities.
Ronald is a member of Emmanuel Church and
one of its most active members. The photo
shows the Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector, shaking
hands with young Ronald after presenting him
the award while looking on are, left to right. Dr.
C. C. McLean, Moore County Scout Commiss’ion-
er, H. Nolley Jackson, John Morgan, and Dr.
William F. Hollister, vestrymen of the church,
and Mr. and Mrs. Thompson.
(Emerson Humphrey photo)
Proposal Made To
Of Commerce Dues
Telephone Rates
Here Going Up
With Next Bills
^ Telephone subscribers in
Southern Pines will get larger
bills next month.
Rate increases for United Tele
phone Company allowed recent
ly by the State Utilities Commis
sion average about 10 per cent.
Ed Simail, commercial superin
tendent of the company, said to
day that the increases became ef
fective June 3 an(f will continue
^ on all service after that date.
Customers will receive their first
new bills reflecting, the higher
rafe about July 9, he said.
For Southern -Pines customers,
the new rates shape up this way:
Business, one party, $8.75 to
$9.75; two party, $7.25 to $8.50;
four party, $6.25 to $7; rural, $6
to $7; and extensions, $1.50 to
$1.75.
Residence, one party, $4.75 to
15.50; two party, $4 to $4.50; four
party, $3 to $3.60; rural, $3 to
$3.60; -and extensions, $1.00 to
$1.25.
Smail said that several other
rate increases were allowed but,
were of a minor nature. Rates for
switchboards will also go up.
A general membership meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce will
be held Tuesday, July 1, in the
town library to discuss far-reach
ing changes in the organization.
President Joe Scott said this
morning.
A general membership meeting
is a rarity; generally, the Board
of Directors and various commit
tees are the only groups that meet
on a regular basis. But the up
coming meeting, called following
a Board of Directors meeting last
Thursday, was necessitated be
cause of new proposals concerning
the Chamber set-up, Scott said.
Among the changes to be rec
ommended to the members are:
Change the name of the organ
ization to the Sandhills Chamber
of Commerce.
Adoption of a new dues scale,
running from $25 to $100.
Employment of a full time ex
ecutive secretary who will spec
ialize in convention work.
A special committee which
made the recommendations said
that under a “Sandhills Chamber
of Commerce” organization, no
definite boundaries would be pre
scribed, a' move which conceiva
bly would induce more out-of-
town firms and individuals that
benefit from Chamber work to
join.
Under the new dues scale, the
minimum payment would be $25,
that for individuals. Other rec
ommended figures were $50’for
professionals, $50 for businesses
(Continued on page 8)
ATTRACTS WIDE ATTENTION
Local Man’s Rooster Is All Mixed
Up; Hatched Six Chicks This Week
Bensalem Church
Groundbreaking
Ceremonies Slated
To Be Held On
Site of Old Church
Destroyed By Fire
Groundbreaking ceremonies for
the new Bensalem Presbyterian
Church of Eagle Springs will be
held Sunday morning at the site
of the old church.
The 100-year old church was
completely destroyed by fire in
March of this year. Since then
the congregation has been making
plans for a new building.
The Rev. Lacy McDuffie of
Candor will preach the sermon
Sunday morning. Services begin
at 11 o’clock.
Conducting the service of dedi
cation will be the Rev. Paul D.
Buzard, the pastor, and he will be
assisted by a former pastor, the
Rev. Harvey A. McBath of Eagle
Springs. Also helping with the
services will be the Rev. Grover
Currie and the Rev. Alex M. Mc-
Innis, both of West End, and both
former members of Bensalem
Church.
Immediately after the ceremon
ies a picnic will be spread on ta
bles under the old oak trees on
the site.
Friends of the church- have
been invited to attend the service
along with the congregation.
PRICE 10 CENTS
Statewide Jaycee Net
MeetBe^ins W ednesday
' —♦*
Daniel-Morris
Exhibition To
Highlight Event
Insect Spraying
To Be Conducted
3 Days Each Week
Insect spraying schedules were
announced today by Town Man
ager Louis Scheipers, Jr.
The truck will spray only on
Mondays, Tuesday and Wednes
days, he said, unless rain inter
rupts the schedule. In that event,
the schedule will move up one
day.
He said the truck would spray
streets west of US Highway 1
(West Southern Pines and KnoU-
wood) on Mondays; between the
thruway and the Seaboard tracks
Tuesdays; and east of the tracks
on Wednesday. Each area will be
sprayed weekly.
Generally speaking, it takes
about five hours to complete the
job, he said. Spraying begins on
the prescribed days about 6 p.m.
^ County Budget
Ready Next Week
Moore County’s budget for the
coming fiscal year should be
ready by next week, a member
of the board said today.
The commissioners have been
meeting often during the past two
^ weeks, paring down requests from
various agencies to equal the
amount of funds available.
No definite announcement has
been made but it is believed that
the budget will provide funds for
another welfare worker (whom
the Welfare Department has made
repeated requests for) and set up
funds for the future construction
of an agricultural building
Carthage.
^ The tax rate is expected to re
main the same, $1.35 per $100 val
uation.
Qualifying Rounds
For Annual County
Golf Tourney Set
Qualifying rounds for the an
nual Moore County Golf Tourna
ment begin Sunday and last
through July 5 at the Southern
Pines Country Club, site of the
tourney this year.
Match play will begin July €,
a Sunday, and conclude during
the week.
Bill Woodard of Southern
Pines is defending champion of
the tournament, annually one of
the biggest in the area.
Open to all residents of the
county and to non-residents who
maintain memberships at any of
the golf clubs, the tournament
wiU be played in flights of eight
players each. 'The championship
flight for the first day will con
sist of sixteen players, the eight
losers to comprise the first flight
in for the remainder of the tourna
ment. '
Entry fee is $3.
All qualifying rounds will be
18 holes.
It’s summertime, it’s hot and
muggy, and animals, like people,
are doing odd things.
Take, for instance, the bluejay
who was observed on Bennett
Street by one of our elder citi
zens. The ‘jay swooped .down
from' a tree top, screaming as he
went, and attacked a squirrel
who was nonchalantly crossing
the street. |
Later in the day, the same fel
low saw a towhee, also known as
a chewink, furiously tousle with
a bluejay twice his size for about
five minutes (and, he tells us,
come out much the better).
And added to the odd doings,
a nice dog owned by a local cou
ple vacationing at the beach de
cided he didn’t like one of the
guests in the house. Tore two
chunks out of her leg. And he’s
never even so much as looked
angry at anyone before.
But. . .
The oddest thing of aU is „
bantam rooster that has decided,
for some unknown reason, to
‘set” some eggs, something he’s
done so successfully that as of
yesterday there were six nice lit
tle biddies in the nest and three
Mozur Officials
Now Negotiating
With J. A. Jones
Negotiations for the Mozur lace
plant continued this week, this
time with a different contractor,
J. A. Jones Construction Com
pany of Charlotte.
Members of the local develop
ment committee, though discour
aged at the present state of prog
ress, said that some definite
agreement should be reached be
tween Jones officials and Mozur
representatives within the next
few days.
A Sanford firm and one from
Smithfield were ruled out when
it was determined neither could
secure a construction loan. The
Jones company, however, is one
of the largest in the country and
would have no trouble in that
department.
Robert Ewing, chairman of the
local committee, said that hopes
were still high “and this thing,
notwithstanding a couple of ru
mors, is still very much alive.”
The Jones company has recent
ly completed one of the South’s
major housing projects at Fort
Bragg, and has engineered and
built such other diverse projects
as Navy yards, office buildings,
colleges, and industrial plants.
more apparently ready to be
born.
“Can’t tell for the life of me
whatever come over that roos
ter.” Charlie Parker, its owner,
said. ^‘First thing I knew about
all this was one day I saw him
setting on a nest. Nothing in it
so I let him set. Fool thing stay
ed almost two weeks,
“I’m a prudent man and hate
to see time wasted, so I put nine
eggs under him. Confidentially-,
I think he was the daddy of those
eggs but I’m not too sure.”
He continued:
“Well, sir, he just sat there on
those things, proud as a rooster
ought to be, and he’s never mov
ed except to eat once a day.” ■
Mr. Parker, who lives on West
Vermont Ave., raises chickens
and pheasants as a hobby and
as a way to help with the weekly
food bill.
“All my life,” he says, “I’ve
had chickens but I’ve never seen,
or even heard of, a rooster ‘set
ting’ a nest. To look at him sit
ting there you’d think he was a
perfect specimen of a hen. I can’t
see a bit of difference between
the way he sets and the way a
hen would set.” I
(Continued on page 8) 1
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Helicopter Crash
Near Hoffman
Injures 2 Soldiers
A two-passenger Army heli
copter accidentally struck a tele
phone-line near Hoffman yester-, wiu c
day morning (Wednesday) about nounced as early as possible
10 o clock and injured both its
occupants.
Driver Education
Program In School
Begins Next Week
Classroom instruction for^ the
driver education program in East
Southern Pines High School be
gins Monday, according to W. A.
Leonard, the instructor.
Two hours of classroom instruc
tion will be given daily, he said,
with a tentative time set from 4
to 6 p.m.
A tentative date of July 7 has
been set for the beginning of the
program in West Southern Pines
High School, McKinley Arm
strong, a member of the school
faculty and the instructor, said
today. Definite times will be an-
Details of the crash were
skimpy but E. H. Mills, general
manager of the Pinebluff Tele
phone Company, said it was his
understanding that the two men
were not seriously injured. He
said their names were not avail
able.
The accident occurred when
the helicopter was coming down
near the farm of Mrs. C. B. Car
ter about two miles east of Hoff
man, “They apparently did not
see the line,” Mills said, “and I
was told the ’copter was com
pletely destroyed.”
The telephone line was a sin
gle circuit and did not throw
service in the entire area out.
Mills added.
The soldiers were in the area
on maneuvers. They were appar
ently checking to find a good site
for large troop carrying ’copters
to land to pick up other troops in
the area.
Between 40 and 45 youngsters
are expected here next week for
the annual North Carolina Junior
Chamber of Commerce Tennis
Tournament.
The event is being. sponsored
by the local club and Bob Dunn,
president, said most advance
planning had been completed.
Entries have been received
from throughout the state, ac
cording to Malcolm Clark, tour
nament director, four of them
from Southern Pines.
The local entries are Kenny
Little, George Little, John Mc
Millan and Dick Thomasson.
Gther entries have been receiv
ed from Charlotte, Asheville,
Winston-Salem, Elkin, Rocky
Mount, Raleigh, Durham, Bur
lington, Thomasville, Greens
boro, Lexington, Goldsboro, and
Wilmington.
Expected to be the front run
ners are Jack Hep ting of Ashe
ville, John Talley of Gastonia,
and Chad Harris of Wilmington.
Richard Helms of Goldsboro, one
of the defending doubles cham
pions, is also entered. His part
ner last year. Bill Moore, is too
old this year, however, and can
not return.
The defending champion. Tom
my Ricks of Durham, also is in
eligible this yea- Clark said.
Registration for the meet will
be held Wednesday and match
play gets underway on Thursday.
Finals are scheduled Saturday
afternoon. Both singles and
doubles will be played.
Under state Jaycee rules, towns
are permitted only four entries.
Many clubs, which sponsor the
boys, have entered the limit,
Clark said, though many single
entries are also on file.
As an “extra,” the local club
has arranged an exhibition
match Friday night between Al-
For East Southern Pines those
students who registered for the
course before the end of school
should enroU on June 23, Leonard
said. If the class is found to be
too large, he added, preference
will be given to those who will
reach their 16th birthday by Sep
tember 1.
The Board of Education hcis ap-1—mgju, oetween Al-
proved the purchase of a car forM®^ Morris of Charlotte and Sam
use in the program and also ap- Daniel of Leaksville. Morris is
proved a plan for the summer in-1 top ranked in the state third in
stmction. During the regular the South, and 16th in the nation
school term the classroom instruc- Daniel is a past champion of the
tion for driver education will be Sandhills Invitational Touma-
carried on during the regular ment and a familiar figure to lo-
school day, and the “in the car” I cal tennis enthusiasts
p^se of the training will be car- The public is, of course invited
ried on in the ^ternoon after the to the exhibition as well i the
^smissa of students at the end of regular tournament matches
the regular school day. ,
Irie Leonard, W. A. Leonard, a banquet
and Ralph Foushee are certified n? ^*- ^** “Sht for
to teach the program. In Westlj^ entries and members of the
Southern Pines, Armstrong, Wil-r^”'®!' Chamber of Commerce
liam F. Monroe and J. C. Hasty| j^“ their wives. It will be out-
are certified. j doors at the Southern Pines
Superintendent A. C. Dawson I Club.
(Continued on Page 8) | One sad note crept into the pic
ture this week: Billy Stone of
Henderson, the state high school
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champion and an expected entry,
wrote to say he could not make’
it because of his counselling job at
la summer camp.
Dunn requested -today that
anyone with available housing
for the players could contact
him. So far, he said, rooms have
I been found for 22 of the players.
No eating arrangements are
required, he said, as the players
are having their meals in local
[restaurants.
This is the first year the tour
nament has been held in South
ern Pines and the local club con
siders it the top project for the
I year. Members have been busily
working on the benches on the
[Ashe Street side of the court,
making them ready for the tbur-
I'hament. One section is being re
placed completely and another
section is being repaired. They
will be ready for the matches,
Dunn said.
ODDEST OF THEM' ALL—Bantam roosters,
which sometimes have a reputation for doing
queer things, can’t hold a light to one owned by
Charles Parker of 335 West Vermont Avenue,
shown here sitting on what remains of a nest
of nine eggs. Six have hatched and, as indicat
ed by one in Mr. Parker’s hand, are doing fine.
Mr. Parker s other hand is in a characteristic
pose for a man who says: “Queerest thing ive
ever seen a rooster do.”
(Emerson Humphrey photo)
ART EXHIBIT
An exhibit of paintings by
Ellen Maurice of Eagle
Springs was hung in the Art
Galley at the library today
and wUl remain throughout
the summer.
The paints, mostly of ocean
and mountain scenes, are in
the main gallery.