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IN AUGUST
VOL. 38—NO. 39
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21,1958
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FEW FACULTY CHANGES
Only One Vacancy Listed On Staffs
Of Local Schools; Workshops Slated
A complete teacher’s list, with'*'
one exception, was annoilnced to
day for both East and West South
ern Pines schools by A. C. Daw
son, school superintendent.
A number of new teachers have
been added to the faculty at East
Southern Pines schools, Dawson
said, and one new teacher will be
gin her first season at the West
Southern Pines elementary school.
Schools in town will open Sep
tember 4. The two days prior to
that will be devoted to a series of
discussions and workshops by
teachers. Dawson also said that
Irie Leonard, principal of the East
Southern Pines High School, will
be in his office, beginning today,
each day from 10 a.m. until noon,
and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. to talk
with parents who are seeking in
formation on registering their
children. Dawson’s office is open
daily from 9 until 5 o’clock.
New teachers in East Southern
Pines elementary school are Mrs.
Alice Caddell, who has been
teaching in Carthage a number of
years, first grade; Mrs. Davis Wor
sham of Southern Pines, a mem
ber of the Vass-Lakeview faculty
last year, second grade; Miss Ag
nes Barrow, who taught in the
Angier schools last year, fourth
grade; Mrs. Doris Wilson, who
taught in the Granite Falls schools
for a number of years and is the
mother of Mrs. Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., fifth grade; and Miss Edwina
Rooker, a recent graduate of Duke
University and one of several stu
dent teachers in the schools here
last year, second grade.
In the high school, John Porter
of Durham, who received his Mas
ter’s Degree from Duke Universi
ty this summer, will teach science
and mathematics. He has former
ly taught at Riverside Military
Academy and in Kings Mountain.
Lee Giles, a graduate of Eastern
Carolina College and the son of a
professor at N. C. State College,
will assume the directorship of
the band.
The returning teachers are as
follows:
First grade: Mrs. Ralph Foushee
and Miss Mary J. Prillaman.
Second grade: Mrs. A. C. Daw
son and Miss Katharine Childs.
Third grade: Mrs. Travis Wick
er, Miss Penelope Dana and Miss
Peggy Joyce Blue.
Fourth grade: Mrs. Joe Jenkins
and Miss Margaret Lou frye.
Fifth grade: Mrs. Marsden Far-
rior and Miss Wilma Grey Blue.
Sixth grade: Miss Carey Buice
and Miss Sarah Eason.
Seventh grade: Miss Annie Mar
garet Brewer.
Eighth grade: Don Moore, who
is'also principal of the school, and
Ralph Foushee.
Mrs. Frank Strauss is the libra
rian and Miss Mary Logan is the
elementary school supervisor.
In the high school, the teacher
list is composed of Irie Leonard,
principal and history teacher;
Miss Pauline Miller, Latin and
English; Miss Billie Williams, sci
ences and physical education; Miss
Hazel Ayscue, English and Span
ish; W. A. Leonard, mathematics;
Mrs. Ruth W. Swisher, commer
cial studies; Miss Mary Ann Oates,
social studies; and Miss Margaret
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KICKOFF SUPPER
The traditional Blue
Knights Boosters Club barbe
cue kickoff supper will be
held at the Southern Pines
Country Club outdoor grill
Wednesday night, September
3.
Tidcets for the affair, which
will be held between the
hours of 6 and S pun., will go
on sale immediately by mem
bers of the club and the foot
ball squad at the high schocjl.
They &re priced at $1.25 for
adults and $.75 for children
under 12.
Highlight of the kickoff
program will be the introduc
tion of members of this year's
squad and the cheerleaders,
plus a rundown by head coach
Irie Leonard on prospects of
the season.
Membership in the club,
which has as its sole function
the furtherance of athletic ac
tivities at East Southern
Pines High School, will also
be renewed at the meeting at
$1 per person.
Town Receives
$16,000 Payment
In Intangible Tax
School Officials
Hold Conference
ToDiscussOpening
A School Administrators Con
ference was held Tuesday in the
library of the Carthage High
School, with all white principals
in the county present for the
morning session, over which
Supt. H. Lee Thomas presided.
■The discussion centered around
the opening of the county
schools, with West End the only
one that announced postpone
ment from the scheduled date,
August 28. R. P. Johnson of West
End, the only new principal, was
welcomed by the others.
Negro principals joined the
group for the afternoon session,
at which Mrs. Walter B. Cole,
welfare superintendent, spoke.
She explained the requirements
for receiving free lunches, and
the compulsory attendance regu
lations.
Accident insurance for school
children was discussed by a rep
resentative of the Wlalker Insur
ance Agency in Charlotte, the
plan being the same as the one
in effect in the county last year.
Driver Training was discussed,
and Aberdeen, Robbins, Camer
on, Westmoore and Highfalls
were listed as the schools of the
county system plannihg to par
ticipate. The county has purchas
ed two automobiles for use in the.
training program. In each Of the
above-named schools a member
of the faculty who has taken
special training for this work will
be in charge.
Mrs. Beulah McPherson, school
supervisor, outlined plans for a
science workshop, as emphasis is
to be placed on this subject in
the schools this year.
A countywide teachers meeting
is scheduled for August 27 at 8
p. m.' at the Carthage High School
building, with Dr. W. Amos
Abrams, editor of the North Car
olina Education magazine as fea
tured speaker.
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PLEASING GRIN is displayed by Cliff Worsham, Jr., as he
shows the eight pound largemouth bass he pulled from the head
of Thaggard’s Pond late Sunday afternoon. The fish, which Cliff
says he caught on a six-pound test line, is the biggest one he’s
ever taken from fresh waters. The fish isn’t the biggest one
caught in this area this season. Cliff said, but it put up a battle
that a ten-pounder would be hard put to match. “I saw him
jump completely out of the water four times,” the proud angler
said, “and battik him for what seemed to be at least an hour be
fore getting him safely in the boat.” (Pilot photo)
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40 Report For Grid Squad On Ojpening
Day; Workouts Are Being Held DaUy
Twice-a-day workouts continu
ed this week for the Southern
Pines Blue Knights football squad,
largest ever to turn out since the
school took up the sport.
Coach Irie Leonard, looking for
ward to the school’s second season
in the Cape Fear Conference, ex
pressed keen pleasure on opening
day as 40 youngsters reported.
The squad includes junior varsity
Town Manager Louis Schei-
pers, Jr., reported this week that
his office had received a check
for $16,784 from the State repre
senting the town’s share of intan
gible taxes collected this year.
The amount, he said, was the
highest in history. Last year the
town received $15,887. Towns
now get the entire amount col
lected in intangibles taxes less
a small charge the State makes
for collecting and distributing it.
Formerly the State took g
straight 20 per cent cut.
Intangibles taxes are paid on
such things as bank accounts,
stocks and bonds, and other re
lated items.
Scheipers also reported that
the town received recently $328
as a rebate on gasoline taxes paid
during the first quarter this year.
This is the first year that this
type payment has been made to
towns and counties. The amount
returned is sjx cents per gallon.
The rebate will be made quar
terly, Scheipers said, and the fig
ure received is slightly more than
he had planned on when he in
cluded $1,200 in the budget un
der that item.
No Powell Bill funds have been
receiveiJ yet but the town will
probably get in the neighborhood
of $28,000. In the 1957-58 fiscal
year the amount was $27,456.
Those funds are earmarked and
can be used only for improving
and building streets within cor
porate limits.
One sad note has crept into
budget planning, however. That,
Scheipers said, was the smaller
amoimt of funds received so far
this year from the operation of
the ABC store here.
Golf Carousel To
Be November 20-23
The fifth annual Golf Carousel,
sponsored by the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, will be con
ducted this year November 20-23,
it was announced this week by
Bill Hamilton, Jaycee treasurer
and tournament chairman.
All three courses in Southern
Pines—^Mid Pines, Pine Needles,
and the Southern Pines Country
Club—^will be employed for the
four day tournament. Hamilton
said he was looking for an entry
in excess of the 160 who played
last year.
“We are beginning our promo
tion earlier this year than in the
past,” he said, "and hope there
by to attract a larger field and,
consequently, have a better tour
nament. We’ve already had a
number of inquiries from people
who played in previous years and
several from' people who have
never entered. As of right now,
I’d forecast the best field in the
event’s history.”
Hamilton said that Mrs. Hol
brook Platt, who was employed
as tournament director last year, j
would handle the same chores:
again for the upcoming tourney.!
Invitations and a brochure, in I
which hotels, motels and restau- |
rant owners are listed who stand
to profit from the tournament are
being prepared and will be mail
ed early in September, Hamilton
said.
This is the third year the tour
nament has been sponsored by
the Jaycees. It was started and
operated under the Chamber of
Commerce during its first two
years.
Ben Goodes of ReidsviUe and
Bill McIntyre of Maxton are de
fending champions and are ex
pected to play this year.
Hamilton requested that any
one who knows of golfers wish
ing to be invited to participate to
leave their names at the Pilot of
fice.
members, Leonard hastened to
add, lest someone get the idea that
the Blue Knights have more tal
ent that is actually available.
“We’re looking for a so-so sea
son,” Leonard said yesterday, “but
we’ll probably do better than last
year. To date two boys^ have
been outstanding in practice ses
sions, Richard Lockey at tackle
and Jimmy Carter in the back-
field.”
The Knights open the current
season September 5 against Hope
Mills. The game, a Cape Fear
Conference one, will be played
here at night. The Blue Knights
travel to Chadbourn September
12 and return here September 19
against Elizabethtown.
The squad has been using the
practice field near the new park
way to save wear and tear on the
regular field and has been attract
ing large crowds of spectators
daily.
Leonard said yesterday that in
juries have hurt two players but
both are expected to be back in
uniform next week.
Drills will continue both morn
ings and afternoons until school
starts, and then will go on a once-
a-day basis.
Elsewhere on the football scene
the Aberdeen Red Devils, joining
the 11-man ranks this year as the
newest member of the Cape Fear
Conference, prepared for their
opener against Liberty September
6. Their first home game will be
against Red Springs September
12.
Coach Hugh Bowman said his
charges were learning the funda
mentals of the 14-man type of
football fairly well and thought
they would be well rehearsed by
the opener.
In Carthage, where six-man
football is still the thing, work
outs were being conducted daily,
as was the case in Robbins and
Pinehurst, also members of the
six-man loop.
S & L MOVES
The Savings and Loan As
sociation of Southern Pines
moved into temporary quar
ters this week in space for
merly occupied by the Cham
ber of Commerce,
The new location is on N.
E. Broad Street in the same
building as the town offices.
The association's move is
temporary, officials said. Un-
-der consideration are plans to
erect a modem structure on
S. E. Broad Street and New
York Avenue on a piece of
property the association re
cently purchased.
Parade, Exhibits
Feature Aberdeen
Farmers Festival
Thousands Are
Expected For
Saturday Event
More than 50 agricultural ex
hibits, a beauty contest, an “Hon
est John” rocket, a band concert,
mechanical rides and a free lunch
will feature the 9th annual Aber
deen Farmers Day Festival Sat
urday.
Sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce there, the
festival will center around the
New Aberdeen Warehouse. The
huge rocket, on loan from Fort
Bragg, will be displayed in the
warehouse following a parade
which begins at 10:30 and which
features the famed marchi’-
band of the 440th regiment of
the 82nd Airborne Division.
Mechanical rides have been in
operation all week and have
been drawing large crowds.
Thousands of people are expected
to wait until Saturday to visit
Aberdeen, however, the big day
of the festival.
Starting^ at 12:15 a fried chick
en lunch will be served free to
everyone present. The military
band, which has appeared at the
festival previously, will present a
concert at 1:30.
The beauty contest is sched
uled for 8 o’clock Saturday night
and a number of contestants will
vie for the title of “Miss Farmers
Day of 1958.” Top prize for the
winner is a $25 savings bond.
The "Nite Hawks” of Troy will
play for a dance beginning at
8:30.
Biggest center of interest,
however, is expected to be the
exhibits of agricultural products.
Modern farm and home equip
ment, local products and public
service displays will be included.
Many prizes will be awarded
for the exhibits with the draw
ings slated at 11 p. m., which also
marks the end of the festival.
The Jaycees have mailed 10,000
brochures to fafmers in Moore
and adjoining counties outlining
the attractions of the festival.
They expect at least that many
people to attend and perhaps
double that number.
The parade, which will form on
the top of the hill on Main Street,
goes first to Sycomore and then to
Knight street. From there it will
proceed to the warehouse. Many
floats and mobile units will be
included and some cars of an
cient vintage have been pressed
into service, together with an old
hand-powered fire truck.
Clowns and other surprises are
also promised.
BIG BRITCHES
Ever see a pair of cowboy
pants that would hang loosely
on an oversized giant? Well,
you can if you'll look on the
sidewalk outside the Belk-
Hensdale store in Aberdeen.
This Lee Riders garment,
said to be the world's largest
pair of genuine cowboy pants,
is size 160 and 14 feet in
length.
Annual Sandhills Net
Tournament Underway
' Small Field Is
WALTER G. ROBERTSON
General Manager
Of Phone Company
Takes Over Duties
Walter G. Robertson, succes
sor to the late Vern Larson as
general manager of United Tele
phone Company of the Carolinas,
Inc., arrived here Monday to take
up his new duties.
- Mr. Robertson has taken a
home on Midland Road and will
move his family here from Vir
ginia shortly.
He has been spending a major
part of the week with various
officials here and in other offices
familiarizing himself with the
company’s operation.
He was . formerly associated
with the Tidewater Telephone
Company with headquarters in
Warsaw, Va.
County Picked For
Federal Farm Test
A test of schedule and field
procedure for the 1959 census of
agriculture will be conducted in
17 sample counties throughout
the United States, with enumera
tion beginning November 10, ac
cording to a dispatch from Wash
ington this week.
Moore County is the only one
in North Carolina to be selected.
Other counties are in Connecti
cut, New York, Delaware, Penn
sylvania, Georgia, Louisiana,
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Miss
ouri, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado,
California and Washington.
Training of crew leaders for
the test is scheduled for October
13-17.
Entered; Daniel
Gets Top Seed
With an entry of some 34 play
ers in both men’s and women’s
divisions, the annual Sandhills
Invitational Tennis Tournament
got underway this afternoon.
Though not the biggest field
the tourney has attracted in its
history, it does represent some
of the outstanding players in the
State, at least in the men’s divi
sion.
Sam Daniel of Leaksville, who
won the singles title last year
after serving as runner-up for
three years running, drew down
the No. 1 seeded spot but will
face formidable opposition in his
efforts to retain the trophy.
No. 2 seed went to Jim Win
stead of Roxboro and Charlotte,
a former member of the UNC
squad and highly ranked in the
South. Allen Strand of Char
lotte, a recent Carolinas Open
winner, was awarded the No. 3
seed, and Malcolm Clark of
Southern Pines, who won the
Eastern Carolina tourney in
Rocky Mount last week, is No. 4.
Clark, playing bn his home
court and fresh from his Rocky
Mount victory, is drawing sup
port from several quarters to
upset Morris and the others for
the handsome trophy which will
be awarded Sunday.
Mrs. Raymonde Jones of Fort
Bragg, who holds the ranking as
France’s No. 3 player, and for
several years was top-ranked, has
little opposition in the women’s
division. She’s topseeded here
and will find heavy opposition
only from Mary Lou Jones of
Sanford, a former winner of the
Sandhill, and Joanne Cooper of
Charlotte, state junior girls’
champion.
Mrs. Jones, whose husband is
an officer stationed at Fort
Bragg, is expected to win the
title handily. Her husband, inci
dentally, is also a tourney entry.
Clark will team with Richard
Makepeace of Sanford in doubles.
The team, in addition to winning
the Rocky Mount tournament,
also was victor in the Winston-
Salem Invitational, and has been
seeded No. 1 here.
Daniel will pair with Ed Hud
gins of Greensboro and Winstead
might team up with , Strand in
that division.
The tournament is the last to
be held here this year and brings
to a- close one of the best tennis
seasons in recent years.
VARIOUS CROPS DISCUSSED
Farm Outlook For County Is Termed
Good But Dry Spell Concerns Agent
Poultry Day In
Highfalls Offers
Large Prize List
The annual poultry show at
Highfalls is scheduled for this Sat
urday, beginning at 8 o’clock in
the morning and officials of the
show said today that a large num
ber of broilers, eggs and 4-H pul
lets had been entered.
According to*Wiley F. Ritter,
Jr., publicity chairman for the
show, one of the highlights of the
one-day program will be an edu
cational discussion featuring Ray
M. Ritchie, Jr., agricultural engi
neering extension specialist of
North Carolina State College, and
Dr. Frank R. Craig, who is in
charge of the poultry disease lab
oratory at the college.
Ritchie will talk on “features of
a good poultry house.” Dr. Craig’s
talk will deal with new poultry
inspection laws and poultry dis
eases.
Another highlight will be the
selection of a Moore County Poul-
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Dry weather is hitting Moore
County farmers hard and they can
already see a cut in their tobacco
crop, which will be drastic unless
it rains within a week. However,
within the past few years they
have diversified to the extent that
on the whole they’re in faip shape,
according to F. D. Alleii, farm
agent.
Where in bygone years tobacco
was king, now there are hardly
5,000 acres of it in the county, Al
len said. However, it’s stiU a
heartbreaking sight to see it bum
up for lack of rain. Because of
dry weather, priming is about
three-fourths done and some have
already sold at early-opening
markets. Local markets, at Car
thage and Aberdeen, open Sep
tember 4.
The drought has been spotty,
bad in some sections such as Rose-
land, Eureka, in the Carthage
area and most of upper Moore,
whereas arotind West End, Jack-
son Springs and a few other
places there has been plenty of
rain and tobacco and pastures are
still in good shape.
The Horseshoe section had a
good rain last Friday but the rest
of Deep River township hasn’t
felt a drop in weeks.
One farmer, J. Newton of Car
thage Rt. 1, said he’d “sell out
now for 1,000 pounds per acre,”
at which he could hardly survive.
Yet last week Fred Thomas’ crop
at Jackson Springs was estimated
at 2,200 pounds, and James Hardy
of dameron Rt. 1 stands to make
1600 to 1800 pounds per acre.
Broiler Industry
The broiler ihdustry is rapidly
becoming Moore (Zlounty’s main
farm income reliance, and is held
responsible for the fact that
Moore’s farm income showed the
biggest gain of any county in the
State, in a year when two-thirds
of the counties and the State as a
whole showed a loss.
In 1957 Moore farmers produced
21,000,000 broilers, and this year
it will be up by 4,000,000 to 5,000,-
000, though prices right now are
off. The establishment of the
Colonial dressing plant at Robbins
last year was a shot in the arm to
the broiler industry, and produc
tion is increasing right along to
keep this plant supplied. With
voluntary inspection, the plant
can take on all they can produce
shipping all over the East.
A new income source within the
past two years has been the lay
ing hen, of which Allen estimated
there are some 43,000 now in the
county, with more being added all
the time for commercial egg pro-
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