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IN AUGUST
VOL. 38—NO. 38
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, 1958
SIXTEEN PAGES
legal action was threatened
Apparent Compromise Reached By Dr.
Mlliken, Council On Zoning Corner
Township Lines
For Local Area
Still Undetermined
Some voters in the general area
between Southern Pines and Ab
erdeen are still confused about
their proper voting precinct, mem
bers of the Town Council were
told Tuesday night, and the Board
of County Commissioners have
refused to help alleviate the con
fusion.
Councilman Robert Ewing told
his colleagues that he had been
approached several times from
voters along Morganton Road who
wished to know the status of a
precinct study commission’s rec
ommendations that the boundary
line between Sandhills and Mc
Neill’s Township be re-surveyed
so they would know just which
precinct they were in.
The study; “It has .been present
ed to the county Board of Elec
tions,” he said, “and the County
Board of Commissioners who have
also been notified of the report,
have not answered a letter writ
ten asking their support in mak-
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Greenhouses Of
Carolina Orchids
Being Disposed Of
Greenhouses occupied by Car
olina Orchids, Inc., and a large
portion of the plants and equip
ment will be sold at public auc
tion, probably next montb, it was
learned here this morning.
Mrs, Karl Bridges, who with
her husband has owned and oper
ated the firm' since 1952, said she
would continue in the orchid
business under the same firm
name, however, with headquar
ters in Southern Pines.
The greenhouses were estab
hshed in the early 1920’^ by the
late Judge W. A. Way. Mr. and
Mrs. Bridges took over operation
of the firm under a mortgage six
years ago. It will now be return
ed to Dr. Katherine Way of
Washington, John Way of Penn
sylvania, children of Judge Way,
and Louise Way Spence of New
York, a granddaughter.
Mrs. Bridges told the Pilot that
she was keeping possession of
part of the stock and would en
gage in importing, retailing and
wholesaling but on a smaller
scale than before.
No definite plans were told the
Pilot as to the disposition of the
greenhouses and property bnt it
is believed such action will be at
a public auction, probably in
September.
Members of the Town Council,
threatened with a law suit Tues
day night when they refused on
a split vote to accede to demands
from Dr. J. S. Milliken to im
mediately start proceedings to
re-zone his property adjacent to
the new Municipal Center, were
reported breathing a little easier
today.
Dr. Milliken had told the
Council at its regular meeting, in
the library Tuesday that he
wanted his property re-zoned for
business purposes. He indicated
he had a tentative purchaser for
the property which includes his
offices and frontage on both
Broad Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue. “There is nothing def
inite about this,” he said, “and
I wouldn’t want you to think
there is. But I want the property
re-zoned just in case.”
After heated discussion, he had
demanded that the Council start
the re-zoning machinery in mo
tion Tuesday night “or I’ll start
suit tomorrow.”
Council, however, voted ^2 to
adopt a motion made by Coun
cilman Robert Ewing to table
any further discussion of the
matter for 30 days. Mayor Walter
Blue and Councilman D. E. Bai
ley voted “no” to the motion, but
Councilmen James Hobbs and
J. B. Tollison went along with
the motion.
Dr. Milliken promptly strode
from the room and said as he left:
“Gentlemen, my lawyers will start
suit tomorrow.”
Yesterday, however, four of
the Councilmen visited the prop
erty (Ewing, publisher of the
Moore County News in Carthage,
was busy getting his paper out
and was unable tc attend) and
reached an informal agreement
with Dr. Milliken tc put off any
decision for 30 days.
It is believed they agreed with
him to either make concrete pro
posals to purchase the property
then or to begin re-zoning ac
tions.
Several weeks ago the Council
had agreed to purchase a 40-foot
strip from Dr. Milliken for $8,000.
That deal has been completed.
The $8,000 price was agreed upon
when Dr. Milliken told them he
had a concrete offer from the
Savings and Loan Association to
purchase the strip for $8,000. The
Savings and Loan, according to
Harry Fullenwider, its vice-
president, proposed to erect its
headquarters building on the
property.
But Council decided then to
keep as much of the block,
known familiarly as the “Town
Park block” in town hands for
future use as a park.
During the discussions at that
meeting Dr. Milliken had broach
ed the subject of the town pur-
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CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY for the Little Nine softball team
was presented to Willis Calcutt, field manager, by Leagiie Com
missioner Morris JcJinson at the conclusion of the final game
Thursday night. Joel Stutts, Little Nine player, looks on. The
Little Nine defeated the Moose Lodge 6-2 in the opening game
Tuesday night, dropped a close one by a margin of 4-3 the second
night, and came back on Thursday to take the winning game 4-3.
The Moose Club had defeated the National Guard, league leaders
almost all season, in two straight, 7-6, 6-2, to enter the finals.
The Little Nine beat the Church of Wide Fellowship for its place.
(Other pictures on page 8) (Pilot photo)
PARENTS ARE THRILLED
Local Boy Is Crew Member Of Atomic
Submarine Skate On Trip Under Pole
When the atomic submarine when he could watch them from
his dormitory window. New Lon
don is the home base for atomic
submarines.
The Skate, which followed by
eight days the Nautilus, first sub
to go under the pole, is the same
sub that got into the news last
May when it was disclosed that
the vessel had stayed submerged
for 31 days and five and one-half
hours. The Navy termed the feat
at the time “a major break
through of the first magnitude.”
Reports are that there are
some 72 enlisted men on the
Skate and nine officers. The
Navy said it started its historic
trip from New London, headed
immediately for polar waters,
and would probably return to an
Atlantic port.
Before Law enlisted in Sep
tember, 1956, he attended the
University of Virginia two years
and worked for a while at A^er-
otron Corporation, where Mr.
Law is internal auditor.
Originally from Boston, the
Laws have been in Southern
Pines five years.
Mr. .and Mrs. Law visited theit
son in New London for a week
end before he sailed July 30.
Skate went under the North Pole
Monday night, a young man from
Southern Pines, Robert E. Law,
was aboard. He was one of two
North Carolinians on the sub,
second in history to cross the top
of the world under a solid sheet
^ of ice.
The other sailor, W. D. Spoon,
is from Dobson.
Young Law is the 23-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W.
Law of 560 S. May Street. His
mother said this week that the
trip—“the only thing we know
about it is what we read in the
papers”—was the most exciting
event in many years for her and
her husband.
“We’re thrilled lor Bobby,” she
said, “and know that he is the
happiest yoimg mian in the world
today. He’s had an interest in
nucleaf submarines for several
years now, since he graduated
from Admiral Billard Academy
in New London, Conn., and went
into the Navy specifically to
serve on them.*’
Law is a seaman now. Mrs.
Law said he first got his interest
in submarines at New Londpp
Daniel To Defend
Title In Sandhill
Tennis Tourney
Sam Daniel, defending singles
champion in the Sandhills Invita
tional Tennis Tournament, is ex
pected to defend his title when
the annual event begins next
Thursday on the local courts.
Deadline for entries in the tour
nament, marking its eleventh an
niversary this year, is Monday at
midnight. Director Malcolm Clark
said this week that a good field
was expected but could give no
idea as to how many players
would participate. “This will be
one of our best tournaments, hov^-
ever,” he said, “and we expect
fans will see some of the finest
games ip the Carolinas before the
championship matches are con
cluded on Sunday.”
Daniel, who hails from Leaks-
ville, won the singles champion
ship last year after being runner-
up to Bill Umstaedter of Abbe
ville, S. C., for three successive
years. He appeared here earlier
this summer in an exhibition
match with AUen Morris of Char
lotte when the State Junior
Chamber of Commerce Champion
ships were being held.
He and Jack Womack of,
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10-Year-Old Girl
Is Found Not To
Be Polio Victim
The condition of a 10-year-old
Soupthern Pines girl, at first
thought to have contracted a
mild case of polio, was reported
somewhat improv^ today.
The girl, Linda Guffey, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene i
Guffey of Oak Road in Kenwood.
Mr. Guffey told the Pilot that
he took his daughter to Memori
al Hospital in Chapel Hill last
Thursday afternoon. She at first
was thought to have contracted
polio but doctors there reported
after extensive examinations that
she was suffering probably from
a mild dase of virus meningitis.
Linda was brought back to
Southern Pines Sunday afternoon
and is .still confined to her bed
with high fevers. Mr. Guffey said
examinations were continuing at
Chapel HilL
A fifth grade student at the
elementary school here, she had
all her Salk vaccine shots, Mr.
Guffey said.
Dr. J. W. Willcox told The Pilot
yesterday that no cases of polio
have been reported in Moore
County this year.
Grand Jury Asks
That Courtroom Be
Air Conditioned
Finds Most County
Facilities In
Good Condition
A Moore County Grand Jury
has recommended that air condi
tioning be installed in courthouse
offices and the courtroom.
The recommendation followed
an earlier one by Superior Court
Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn that such
a system be installed in the court
room. (He even went so far as to
order subpoenas for the county
commissioners to sit on jury duty
to experience the discomfort shar
ed by others in the unusually
warm room but later recanted his
order).
The Grand Jury, of which Max
well Forrest of Southern Pines
•served as chairman, cited noise,
hot weather and distractions caus
ed by traffic on nearby streets as
the principal reasons for its rec
ommendation.
The Grand Jury report also rec
ommended the following;
Courthouse: basement in need
of paint-and plaster repairs, stor
age facilities inadequate, screen
doors need repairing, witness box
should be provided, and addition
al room for orderly storage and
normal expansion of various of
fices and departments. It also
recommended that commissioners
look into the possibility of a 24-
hour watch on the radio in the
sheriff’s office.
Health center: minor repairs to
cabinet doors and walls.
Jail: commodes for cells and re
placement of several window
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Council To Issue
$31,000 In Bonds
For Town Hall
The Town Council put into mo
tion action 'Tuesday night which
will make it legal for the body to
borrow $31,000, enabling the town
to complete payments for the con
struction currently underway on
the new Municipal Center.
The money will be obtained by
the sale of bonds.
Council has authority to borrow
that much without a vote of the
people. It represents three-
fourths of the amount the town
retired on its general bonded in
debtedness last year.
The $31,000 would make avail
able a total of $142,000 for present
work, plus $9,000 froin the current
budget. Of that amount $100,000
is from the issuance of bonds,
$1,000 is the interest the funds
drew until they had to be paid
out, and the $31,000 to be borrow
ed shortly.
NEW PILOT OUTLETS
Three additional outlets for
sale of The Pilot are being
established with this edition.
Customers may now pick up
their papers from racks locat
ed at Stanley's Sinclair Sta
tion in Manly, PowelTs 66
Service Statioin on US 1 just
south of Southern Pines, and
Sanders Sinclair Station, also
on US 1 south of town.
Other Pilot outlets are lo
cated as follows: In Southern
Pines, Hayes Book Shop,
Southern Pines Pharmacy,
Broad Street Pharmacy, the
Pilot office, and Lillie Dun
lap's store on W. Massachu
setts Avenue in West South
ern Pines: Brooks Open Air
Market on US 1 South; Vass
Drug Store; Youngblood's
Drug Store in West End; Bry
an's Drug Store and Craig's
Drug Store in Aberdeen; Mi
chael's Store on the Carthage
highway just north of the air
port: Eastwood Trading Com
pany in Eastwood; Carpen
ter's Grocery in Pinebluff;
and at the Caroliim Pharmacy
and Pinehurst Pharmacy in
Pinehurst.
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North Carolina Elks Lodges were hosts for this
group of youngsters from this area at a two
week camp near Hendersonville recently. The
boys, 12 of whom were sponsored by the local
Elks lodge and two by Bill Ruffin, returned Sun
day. They are identified in the accompanying
story. On the back row of the photo is Curtis
Everett of Southern Pines, a member of the
Board of Directors of the camp and chairman of
the camp committee of the local lodge.
14 Boys Relumed From Elks Camp Last Sunday
Foiudeen youngsters from
Southern Pines, Aberdeen smd
Carthage returned from a two
week vacation at the North Caro
lina Elks Camp for Boys near
Hendersonville Sunday ahd all re
ported, according to local mem
bers of the lodge, that they had a
real bang-up time.
The 14 are Gayle Lynn Frye,
Tbaddeus Black and Douglas
Brown, Carthage; James Pigg,
Charles Swearingen, L. D. Shel
ton, Lonnie and Paul McNeill,
Wayne Luck and Robert A. Yates,
Jr., Aberdeen: and Michael Mor
rison, Harold Morrison, Dennis
Tyson and William McRae of
Southern Pines.
The camp, located deep in the
mountains near Hendersonville,
has four periods each summer for
worthy and deserving boys. ’The
local boys—12 of them — were
sponsored by the local Elks lodge.
The other two were sponsored by
William Ruffin.
While at the camp they learned
crafts, archery, riflery, boxing,
wrestling, gym work and tumb
ling, swimming, canoeing, and va
rious athletic events. Picture
shows and various other enter
tainment was also on tap and, it
is reported, was quite extensive.
'There were 155 boys in the class
with^the local group coming from
Elizabeth City, Fayetteville,
Goldsboro, Greenville, Henderson,
Hendersonville, Kinston, Lumber-
ton, New Bern, Morehead City,
Rocky Mount, Rutherfordton, San
ford, Washington, Wilmington,
Wilson and Spartahburg, S, C.
Curtis Everett, a member of the
State Board of Directors for the
camp, was also chairman of the
local committee. Helping him to
get the boys to the camp and back
were Morris Johnson, Morris Ar
nold, and Tom Caddell of Car
thage. It cost $50 per boy for the
two weeks’ stay.
Savings And Loan
Making Plans For
New Headquarters
The Southern Pines Savings and
Loan Association will move from
its present location on W. New
Hampshire Avenue to quarters on
N. E. Broad Street formerly occu
pied by the Chamber of Com
merce within the next few weeks,
it was learned this week frorn
Harry Fullenwider, vice president
of the association.
The move will be temporary, he
said, adding that the association
has plans for construction of a
building on the corner of E. New
York Avenue and S. Broad street
in the near future.
The association recently pur
chased a lot with a 100-foot front
age on Broad Street from Mrs.
Mollie Burgess. It is across the
street from the new Municipal
Center.
Fullenwider said a committee
from the association will start vis
iting other Savings and Loans of
fices in the state in the next few
weeks to “observe the various
types of buildings now in use and
determine the best type for South
ern Pines. Past experience'^ has
proven that the type facilities pro
vided in a building can make a
tremendous difference in the ef
fectiveness of the association’s
work.”
Fullenwider added that the only
thing he could predict now would
be that the building “will be built
to fit the future both of the asso
ciation and the area it serves.”
Lloyd Woolley is president of
the association which currently
lists assets in the neighborhood of
$900,000.
DATE IS AUGUST 23
Varied Program For Farmers Day In
Aberdeen Is Announced By Sponsors
Saturday, August 23, will be
Farmers Day in Aberdeen, an an
nual event sponsored by the Ab
erdeen Junior Chamber of Com
merce. With over a week yet to
go, this group has plans whipped
into shape for what promises to
be the biggest and most varied
event of its kind in a series of
successful special days.
Saturday’s program will get un
derway at 10:30 a.m. with a street
parade. Advance information is
that a number of early-vintage
automobiles will be among the
colorful entries.
The New Aberdeen Warehouse
will be the center of the day’s ac
tivities. At 12:15, a Southern
fried chicken limch will be served
free of charge there, to be follow
ed at 1:30 by an Army Band con
cert.
The afternoon will be taken up
with viewing the numerous ex
hibits which will be set up in the
warehouse. ’These will include a
wide range of artiples from in
fants’ wear to automobiles, with
displays to interest every member
of the family.
At 8 p.m., a beauty contest will
be held and the winner will be
crowned “Miss Farmers Day of
1958.” Girls who wish to enter
should notify Lee Buchan. ,
This is not a “bathing beauty”
contest, it is pointed out, and en
trants should wear party dresses
for the judging, which will be
based on poise, charm and beauty.
Girls 16 and over from anywhere
in the Sandhills may enter the
contest without a sponsor and
compete for the beauty queen’s
trophy.
At 8:30 a dance wiU be held,
with The Night Hawks of Troy
furnishing music for round, square
and various jmpular types of
dancing.
Climax of the events will be the
drawing at 11 p.m. for a Scotch-
craft boat.
As The Pilot goes to press to
day (Thursday), the list of exhib
itors has grown to a total of more
than 20, names of whom are list
ed in an advertisement in this is
sue.
Aberdeen merchants are plan-
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PRICE 10 CENTS
Von Canon Is Convicted
On Manslaughter Charge
$33,000 To Be
Paid In Lieu Of
Prison Sentence
Richard VonCanon, 19, of
West End, was found guilty on
two counts of what amounted ■'■o
manslaughter in Moqre Superior
Court yesterday and ordered to
serve not less than three years
nor more than five in the State
Prison.
The judgment was suspended
by Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn, how
ever, on the following conditions:
that young Von Canon pay or
cause to be paid $33,609.39 with
in 40 days to the administrator
of the estate of William Wayne
Brackett, one of the persons kill
ed in a collision in which Von
Canon was involved last year;
that he not operate a motor ve
hicle in this state during the next
three years; and that he pay the
costs of the action.
Costs, according to Clerk of
Court Carlton Kennedy had not
been figured as of noon today but
they were expected to be rather
high.
The $33,000 settlement was in
addition to more than $60,000 al
ready paid by VonCanon’s pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
VonCanon, Jr. W. D. Sabiston,
attorney for the youth, said in
court yesterday that that amount
had been paid to others in the
accident, $45,000 to the estate of
Bobby Jerome Morris, 24, who
was killed almost immediately,
and another person who lost an
eye.
The wreck occurred near West
End on the Labor Day weekend.
Judge Burgwyn ordered that
both cases of manslaughter be
consolidated for judgment.
The estate of Brackett had en
tered suit in Guilford Superior
Court only this week seeking
$300,000 for his death. There had
also been an earlier suit for
$300,000. The case was called in '
Superior Court Tuesday and
reached the jury soon after court
convened Wednesday morning.
VonCanon maintained that the
steering mechanism on his car
was faulty and caused him to lose
control. He said he was only go
ing about 50 miles per hour at the
time of the crash.
Two passengers in the other
car, estimated his speed at a far
higher rate, however, and said
the car was already out of con
trol when they first saw it.
Patrolman Robert Samuels,
who investigated the accident,
showed a chart to the jury and
Judgp Burgwyn outlining how
the wreck occurred. He testified
also that yoimg VonCanon had a
reputation for driving carelessly
and at high rates of speed. Only
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