VOL. 38—NO. 41
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, - SEPTEMBER 4, 1958
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County To Have Representative On
Next Industrial Search Of North
Members Of Local
Moore County’s efforts to at-4~
tract new industry will be extend
ed to the Philadelphia area next
month, the newly elected chair
man of the county’s industrial de-
velopment committee said today. J Vrl UUp
Robert Ewing of Southern
Pines, who was named chairman
yesterday succeeding L. B. Creath
of Pinehurst, said he would prob
ably make the trip as the official
representative of the committee.
He will join a large group of Tar
heels, including prominent indus
trialists, members of the Depart
ment of Conservation and Devel
opment, and Governor Hodges
and staff on a whirlwind indus
try search campaign similar to
ones already conducted in New
York and Chicago.
Other residents of the county
who will be members of the group
are W. P. Saunders, director of the
Department of Conservation and
Development, and Voit Gilmore, a
member.
The county committee is enter
ing its third year of operation and
has promised renewed efforts to
attract new industry and encour
age expansion of that already
present.
At yesterday’s meeting the com
mittee discussed the advisability
of coordinating its activities with
Richmond, Montgomery and An
son Counties. A concerted effort
will be made along those lines,
Ewing said, “since industry any
where in the four county area is
bound to have a good effect on
Moore County.’’
Members of the county commit-
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Council Meeting
On ZoningProblem
Near Town Park
An informal meeting of the
Town Council was scheduled to
be held in the town offices this
afternoon (Thursday) at 3 o’clock.
Mayor Blue called the meeting
earlier this week, probably with
the intentions of discussing fur
ther what the Council planned to
do concerning re-zoning of a piece
of property adjacent to the Town
Park.
• The property, on the comer of
Broad Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue, is owned by Dr. J. S. Mil-
liken, who wants it zoned for
business purposes or, if the Coun
cil elects, to sell it to the Town.
Reported asking price for the
property is $30,000.
The (Council rwently purchased
from Dr. Milliken a 40-foot strip
on Broad Street next to the new
Town Hall for $8,000.
The general feeling expressed
by most of the Councilmen at a
recent meeting was that the Town
should exert all efforts to pur
chase the property under discus
sion if funds could be found.
Another meeting of a semi-gov-
emmentai nature is scheduled for
Friday afternoon when the special
committee named to make ar
rangements for the dedication
program of the new town hall will
discuss tentative plans. The com
mittee is headed by Voit Gilmore.
Are Reappointed
Mayor Walter. E. Blue an
nounced today the reappoint
ment of the entire Southern
Pines Industrial Development
Committee for an additional one-
year term. He also added a new
member to the six already serv
ing.
Renamed to the committee
were John Ponzer, Norris Hodg
kins, Jr., John C. 'Ostrom, Harry
Fullenwider, D. A. Blue, Jr., and
Robert S. Ewing. The new mem
ber is Jack Younts of WEEB.
Mayor Blue said he was pleas
ed with the work of the commit
tee during the past year “even
though we do not have any con
crete results of their efforts.”
He cited the whirlwind cam
paign conducted by the commit
tee and volunteer workers to
raise $180,000 for the proposed
construction of a lace manufac
turing plant near here as “a tre
mendous job that was over
whelmingly successful.”
He add^; “The fact that we
did not get the plant is no re
flection on this committee. I and
other members of the Town
Council are gratified with the
work that has been accomplished
and feel that much has been
learned that will be useful in the
future.”
The committee scouts for new
prospects for industrial expan
sion or location in this area and
serves as a source of information
and assistance to those prospects.
There is one such currently
interested in the area but coiri-
mittee members said planning
was still in a preliminary stage.
BLUE KNIGHT BACKFIELD—With an av
erage weight of 156 pounds, considered light for
the Cape Fear Conference, these nine players
have been battling for first string positions on
the local high school football team. All will
probably play tomorrow night when the Knights
meet Hope Mills in the opening game. Pictured
HOPE MILLS IS VISITOR
left to right, front row, they are Everett Cush
man, Jimmy Carter, Kenny Reid, Robert Wood
ruff and Melva HalL Back row, same order,
they are Bob McIntosh, Bobby Watkins, Law
rence Ryder and Dickie Mcln^is. Pictures of
other members of the team are on page 8.
(Humphrey photo)
Football Opener Set Friday Night
Qualifying Rounds
For 4-Ball Golf
Tourney Slated
Qualifying rounds for the an
nual Moore County 4-Ball golf
tournament at the Southern
Pines Country Club get under
way Saturday and run through
the following Sunday, tourna
ment officials announced this
morning.
Joe Carter and Jack Carter are
defending champions of the tour
nament which annually attracts
some 65 players over 17 years of
age in the county.
Harry Davis, ift charge of ar
rangements, said the event
would be conducted this year as
in the past. Entry fee, he said,
was $3 per player, and any resi
dent of the county over 17 is
eligible to enter.
Match play begins Septem
ber 15 and runs through October
5.
All play will be conducted at
the Southern Pines Country
Club.
Water Usage Here
Reached All-Time
High In August
Southern Pines reached a new
milestone in water cnsumption
in August, according to Ralph
Mills, superintendent of the
water purification plant.
On August 11, a Monday, a to
tal of 1,153,000 gallons was
pumped, considerably above any
other day, not including times
when there was a leak in the
lines.
Mills said that a total of 19,
941,000 gallons was pumped in
August for a 643,000 gallons daily
average.
In comparison, he said, a total
of 16,000,709 gallons was pump
ed in Jime Vith a daily average
consumption of 557,000 gallons,
and 16,544,000 gallons was pump
ed in July with a daily average
of 533,000 gallons.
Ordinarily,- he said, water
customers use about 540,000 gal
lons per day, with a high mark
reached usually on Mondays. In
August he listed eight days when
the consumption exceeded 700,-,
000 gallons per day.
“Hot weather, people watering
shrubs and lawns, and the con
struction of several swimming
pools in our service area'was un
doubtedly responsible,” he said.
On the high day when more than
a million gallons ■ was pumped,
Mills said that it was a Monday
and that day is traditionally wash
day for many people.
A tiny smell of fall was in the
air last night as a combination
of Blue Knights, barbecue and
ballyhoo got the 1958. football
season in Southern Pines off to
a roaring start.
The annual barbecue kickoff
dinner, sponsored by the Blue
Knights Boosters Club, was held
at the Southern Pines Country
Club outdoor grill and some 200
fans turned out to eat and meet
this year’s squad. They also join
ed in a few rousing yells led by
the cheerleaders and heard Coach
Irie Leonard discuss prospects
for this season.
The Knights meet the Hope
Mills Millers Friday night on the
local field at 8 o’clock and will
be favored to win by a small
i margin.
Leonard’s starting lineup will
consist of Steve Smith, Ted Ward
or Jesse Williford at ends; John
Marcum and Richard Lockey at
tackles; Jimmy Tollison and
Jimmy Caldwell at guards; Bill
Seymour at center; Everett Cush
man at quarterback; Robert
Woodruff at wingback; Bob Mc
Intosh or Kenny Reid at full
back; and Bob Watkins or Jim
my Carter at tailback.
100 Scout Leaders
Meet Here Tonight
Scout executives of Occonee-
chee Council will be in Southern
Pines tonight at 7:30 for what
was termed an important meet
ing by James Perkinson, public
ity chairman of the Moore Dis
trict.
The meeting will be held at
the Church of Wide Fellowship,
he said, beginning at 7:30 and
some 100 adults who are inter
ested in the Scout program will
attend.
All except Marcum are veterans
of last year’s squad.
The Millers will be led by Cap
tain George S-wansoh, a 160
pound halfback, and Bobby
Jones, 230 pound center. Another
linesman of excellent repute 'is
Johnny Player, 210 pound tackle,
and Gene Hester, 150 pound
quarterback, will round out the
biggest threats to a Southern
Pines victory.
As far as this year is concern
ed Leonard expressed optimism
about winning five games of the
t^ game schedule “but prob
ably no more than that.”
Last year the Knights, playing
their first year of 11-man foot
ball, compiled a 3-7 record, not
bad considering it -was their first
season, and was rated as one of
the better teams in the Cape
Fear Conference. Several of the
games, were close and, with a
couple of breaks, the Blue
Knights could have been the
winners instead of on the other
side.
The 3-7 record, incidentally,
was good enough for a fifth place
league standing.
The Knights are employing the
same single wing formation they
used last'year. Hope Mills will I
use the T-formation.
In going over the list of play
ers last night Leonard brought
out that there were 11 lettermen
returning. They include Bob Wat
kins, a 173 pound junior; Ever
ett Cushman, 150 pound senior;
Robert Woodruff, 150-pound
junior; Steve Smith, 170-pound
senior; Jim Tollison, 155 pound
senior; Bill Seymour, 170 pound
junior; Ted 'Ward, 160 pound
junior; Jesse Williford, 160 ijound
senior; Richard Lockey, 160
pound tackle; Jim Caldwell, 175
pound guard; and Dickie Mcln-
nis, 158 pound senior.
The game gets underway at 8
o’clock and will be announced by
Walter Harper, and Harry Chat-
field. Spectators were asked by
school officials to park in the
practice field between Morganton
Road and the new bypass.
Leonard said a change had been
made in admission prices from
last year, an increase of 25 cents
to out of town students.
Prices are $1 for adults, 25
cents for local students, and 50
cents for out of town students.
Next game for the Knights after
the Hope Mills opener is against
Chadboum September 12 at
Chadbourh.
Most Of Area Schools
Have More Enrolled
Largest Ever
In School Here
Officials Say
Telephone Users
In Pinebluff To
Pay Higher Rates
Pinebluff Telephone Company
Tuesday was authorized to in
crease its rates by approximately
$2,142 a year.
The higher rates will go into
effect for the firm’s 345 custom^
ers at the next billing.
In authorizing the hikes, the
State Utilities Commission said
the firm “might reasonably ex
pect annual gross operating rev
enues of $23,148.70” under the
new schedule.
This I compares with $21,006.70
in gross revenues under the pres
ent schedule and operating ex
penses of $27,461.
“It k apparent that the rates
requested do not result in im-
reasonable or excessive returns,”
Commissioner Richard Long
wrote in the order.
New business phone charges are
$9 a month for one-party service;
$8.25 for two-party service; $7.75
for four-party service; and $6.50
for multi-party service. New res
idential rates are $5.50 for one-
party service; $4.75 for two-party
service; and $4,25 for both four-
party and multi-party service.
Commissioner long noted that
the firm could increase its gross
revenues to $27,461.13 a year if
it levied mileage tolls for multi
party service outside its base
rate area. 'The company so far
has elected not to make the addi
tional charge because it might
cost some subscribers.
5-DAY PROGRAM PLANNED
Bulletins For Hunting School Here
Now Ready; Early Re^onse Is Good
Bulletins describing the new
game hunting short course which
North Carolina State College will
conduct November 30-December 5
here are now available.
The eight page bulletin gives
detailed information and applica-
OUTDOOR WRITERS
The fall meeting of the
North Carolina Outdoor
Writers Conference 'will be
held here September 14-15,
according to Hank School-
field of the Winston-Salem:
Journal-Sentinel, president.
The urriters, more than
two dozen of them, 'will gath
er at Howard Johnson's
Motor Lodge for a briefing
on the new hunting short
course, to be conducted in the
area November 30-December
5. and conduct other routine
aUairs.
Schoolfield said a number
of officials of the N. C. Stale
College Extension Division,
which is conducting the short
course, will be present to ex
plain the background and
aims of the program and out
line the 'various phases of the
five day schooL
A complimentarr dove shoot
will be provided fixe writers
wldle here.
’nils is the first time the
writers have ever met in the
Sandhills.
tion forms on the five-day-non
credit course to improve hunting
and shooting skills an^ increase
wildlife knowledge.
The school—this is its first year
of operation—will have Howard
Johnson’s Restaurant and Motor
Lodge on U. S. 1 South as its
headquarters.
Dr. Fred Barkalow, head of the
Zoology Department at State, will
be in charge of instruction, the
buUetin points out. Others par
ticipating on the program are Bob
Hazel, assistant chief of the pro
tection division of the Wildlife
Resources Commission; Jack Der-
mid, wildlife photographer and
managing editor of Wildlife in
North Carolina, the magazine pub
lished by the Wildlife Resources
Comihission; Jim Dee, director of
shooting development and Charley
Dickey, shooting preserve repre
sentative, both of the Sportsmen’s
Service Bureau.
'The program will include quail,
pheasant, deer and other hunting
trips as time allows. Trap and
skeet shooting will be included to
improve marksmanship.
Classroom instruction will cov
er guns, gun handling and safety,
hunting techniques, and discus
sions of wildlife facts and game
regulations.
The short course is described as
the “world’s first college-conduct
ed course for hunters.” It is mod
eled after the famed salt water
fishing institute held annually at
Nags Head on North Carolina’s
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PTA MEETING
The first meeting this year
of the East Southern Pines
school Parent Teachers Asso
ciation will be held Monday,
September 15. instead of this
coming Monday, according to
Charles Patch, Jr., president.
Too many conflicts with
other events plus the fact
that school opened only to
day were cited as recisom for
moving the regular meeting
date up.
Patch said that in the fu
ture meetings w^ ,be held
regularly on the second Mon
day of each month.
Elementary Grades
Will Get Foreign
Language Studies
Southern Pines school officials
and teachers, with the announced
intention of “keeping up with
some schools and ahead of most
of them,” inaugurate a new pro
gram in the elementary grades
this year, one they hope will give
students a deeper appreciation
for foreign languages.
A. C. Dawson, superintendent,
and a special panel composed of
teachers met with other teachers
in both the elementary . and
higher grades Tuesday morning
in the first of a series of pro
grams outlining the intentions of
the program.
Miss Mary Logan, elementary
school supervisor, said the pur
pose of the program is simple:
“We hope to give the children,
wha are great imitators at the
elementary school age, a proper
foundation for later studies in an
other language,” she^said. “We
feel as have officials in many
other schools in the nation, that
children are quite receptive to
language? in their earlier years
but may not be as they grow
older.”
There won’t be an organized
grammar course, as sUfch, she
said, but students will be ex
posed to expressions of foreign
tongues in several ways. Among
them, she pointed out, are rec
ords, simple translations on the
blackboard, visits to the school
by local people who speak for
eign languages, and books.
At the workshop Tuesday
morning members of the panel
spoke on various aspects of
teaching foreign languages. It
was pointed out that at present
Southern Pines students—at least
those in the East Southern Pines
schools—can study only two years
of Latin and two years of Span
ish. Latin, strangely enough, is
more popular than Spanish,
though in many schools i Latin is
something that is shunned by
most students.
Dawson said that funds for
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Large Number Of
Bluegills Put In
3 County Streams
Several thousand bluegills, one
of the most popular of all fish
in this area, were released in a
number of county streams Tues
day.
Members of the Moore County
Wildlife Club assisted Charles R.
Hensley, superintendent , of the
state fish hatchery at Morgan
ton, placed the fish in the follow
ing streams: Deep River, Bear
Creek and Little River.
Of fingerling size, the fish will
be ready for catching next sea
son.
The club, of which Albert
Tufts of Pinehurst is president,
will hold its September meeting
next Tuesday night in the Pine
hurst Community Church. Col.
A. Jablowsky, chief of the fish
and game program at Fort Bragg,
has been sectmed as speaker by
Gen. R. B. Hill, program chair
man.
Dinner will be served by the
women of the church.
First day enrollment figures in
East Southern Pines schools
reached the highest in history this
morning as a total of 785 students
registered. It was an increase of
41 students over opening day last
year and Superintendent A. C.
Dawson said more students will
enroll in both high school and ele
mentary school in the next few
days.
In West Southern Pines Princi
pal Henry A. Wilson said a total
of 431 students registered this
morning, four less than last year.
He noted, however, that a total
enrollment of 450 to 460 was ex
pected.
Mr. Dawson said that 204 stu
dents enrolled in the high school
this morning, one less than last
year. There were 580 in the ele
mentary school however, while
last year there were only 536.
Both schools will have more reg
istration and the total enrollment
should be in excess of 800.
■ Mr. 'Wilson said high school reg
istration in West Southern Pines
was 103, three less than opening
“■day last year. Elementary en-
rollees totaled 328, one less than
the opening day figure of 1957.
In the county a total of 3,181
pupils enrolled in five of nine
whits schools on opening day last
Thursday. Figures for four other
.schools which opened just this
mofning were not available.
Robbins had the largest opening
day attendance with some 240 in
the high school and 737 in the ele
mentary school. Aberdeen had
753 enrolled with 209 in the high
school and 544 in the grades.
Carthage had 199 in high school
and 506 in the lower grades.
All three schools experienced
an increase in the total number of
students on opening day.
In the other white schools in
the county system Highfalls had
92 in high school, 245 in grades,
and Westmoore had 108 in high
school ^d 301 in grades.
In Negro schools the figures
were like this: Berkley, 130 in
high school, 344 in lower grades;
Pinckney, 180 in high 'school, 402
in grades; Davis, 93 in lower
grades; and Vineland, 158 in low
er grades. Neither of the last two
have high school departments.
New Hangar At
Airport Set For
Early Completion
Workmen were putting the
roof on a new hangar at Knoll-
wood Airport this week and ex
pected to complete the project in
ample time for the opening of
the tourist season.
M. O. Johnson of Southern
Pines has the contract for the
new hangar, a “T” type which is
designed to accommodate four
planes for storage purposes.
Completion will give the airport
four separate hangars and stor
age capacity for about 20 planes.
The new building is located on
the north side of the Piedmont
terminal.
Piedmont Airlines
To ResumeRegular
Service October 1
Piedmont Airlines will resume
regularly scheduled air service
at Knoll wood Airport October 1.
The airline, with headquarters
in Winston-Salem, has in the
the past switched planes from
the Myrtle Beach, S.C., run to
Southern Pines at the advent of
the tourist season, and it is ex
pected the same procedure will
be followed this year.
Regular air mail service to and
from Southern Pines 'will be re
sumed at the same time.