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VOL. 38—NO. 42
Leaders For Scout
Fund Drive Here
Listed By Collins
Advance Gifts To
Be Sought In
Campaign Next Week
The advance gifts portion of the
annual Boy Scout fund raising
campaign will get underway in
the Occoneechee Council, of which
all of Moore County is a part,
next Monday and last one week,
according to Harold Collins, co-
chairman of the drive.
The advance gifts committee is
headed in Southern Pines by
James D. Hobbs and E. J. Austin.
General chairman of the drive
here is E. Nolley Jackson.
Collins said that the general
solicitation for funds would be
conducted the week ofi" October
1-7 throughout the county.
The entire council, he said, has
a budget of $180,000 for the com
ing year. No definite portion of
that amount has been allocated to
Moore County fund raisers.
Collins listed these other men
as chairmen of the various aspects
of the drive in their communities,
with the general chairman’s name
first, the advance gifts chairman’s
name second:
Pinehurst, J. B. Von Schlegell
and W. H. Burroughs; Carthage,
T. Roy Phillips and M. G. Boy
ette; Aberdeen, W. Sidney Taylor
and J. G. Farrell; and Pinebluff,
R. T. Brock and Brady Brooks.
In several communities no ad
vance gifts chairman was named.
The general chairman will be in
charge of that phase of the drive.
Chairmen are: Vass, W. J.
Morgan; Cameron, M. L. Moses;
Eagle Springs, Lynn Martin;
Highfalls, C. E. Powers; and Eu
reka, Mrs. J. D. Matthews.
In the Negro division, of which
V. T. Headen of Southern Pines
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MISS MOORE COUNTY TO BE NAMED
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1958
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Agricultural Fair Begins Monday;
Exhibits And Midway Are Readied
MISS N. C. HERE
Miss North Carolina, Belly
Lane Evans of Greenville,
will be in Southern Pines
nexl Wednesday but alas! no
public appearances in town.
She's coining to judge the
beauty contest at the annual
Moore County Agricultural
Fair Wednesday night and
will be here for that purpose
only.
She's due to arrive late in
the afternoon and will go
straight to the Howard John
son Lodge where she'll spend
the night.
Miss Evans, as is pretty
well known by now, placed
fifth in the annual Miss
America contest in Atlantic
City last week. She is cur
rently on a lour of North
Carolina towns and cities and
her schedule is about eis light
as can be.
Town’s Recreation
Committee Submits
Annual Reports
'The organized recreation pro
gram in Southern Pines, limited
to summer activity because of a
lack of funds, nevertheless has en
joyed one of the best years in his-
toiT, according to a report sub
mitted to the Town Council Tues
day night by Mrs. Nancy Marley,
chairman of the Recreation Advis
ory Committee.
The report is one in a series the
and Harold Williams of Pinehurst j Council is asking from its com
are co-chairmen, the following | mittees. At the last meeting W.
Lament Brown rejlorted on the
activities of the library.
Mrs. Marley’s report indicated
that large numbers of children
took part in the program in both
East and West Southern Pines.
Among the activities she listed
were Little League baseball, Pony
League baseball, adult softball,
playground activities and tennis.
She recommended that rnore
emphasis be placed on activities
during the winter, particularly for
teenagers, and that “senior citi
zens” be taken into consideration
in the future.
More funds are needed, she said,
to carry on a fuller program.
Councilmen went on record as
being of the unanimous opinion
that the program probably afford
ed as much as anything else the
town does a full measure of the
taxpayers’ money.
general chairmen were named:
Southern Pines, Rev. W. S.
Henderson; Pinehurst, Richard
Highland; Aberdeen, E. A. Whit
taker; Carthage, Clay Kelly; Vass,
Moses Morrison; Cameron, Leroy
Barrett; Eagle Springs, W. P.
Brower; and Jackson Hamlet,
Walter Stancil, Jr.
Southern Sehiors
Tourney October 28
The annual championship tour
nament of the Southern Seniors
Golf Association will be played
at the Pinehurst Country Club
October 28-31, according to
Chester I. Williams, executive
secretary.
The tournament will be of 54
holes play and will be limited to
200 men contestants, and 48 ladies
in the ladies’ division.
The annual Moore bounty Fair,
complete with agricultural and
commercial exhibits,' a beauty
contest to be judged by Miss
North Carolina, and a spectacular
Midway opens in Carthage next
Monday and runs through Satur
day. The event is sponsored by
the Carthage Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Tommy Hall, president of the
Jaycees, said yesterday that every
thing is in readiness for the big
fall entertainment attraction for
this area. It will be bigger and
better than ever, he says.
Gates to the fairground will offi
cially open at 6:00 o’clock Monday
evening. Tuesday will be white
school children’s day, with the
youngsters admitted free from
12 until 6. ‘
One of the,finest Junior Cattle
and Dairy Shows in the history of
the fair will be held next Wednes
day with prized stock entered
from Moore, Richmond and Mont
gomery counties. Valuable awards
will be made to the winners.
As always, the featured attrac
tion of the week-long event is the
beauty pageant and this year is
no exception. Scheduled to be on
hand as one of the judges will be
Miss Betty Lane Evans of Green
ville, “Miss North Carolina of
1959.” Miss Evans was the win
ner of the bathing suit event at
the “Miss America” pageant held
last weekend in Atlantic City, and
was fourth runner-up to the new
queen. Miss Mississippi.
O. D. Wallace, Jr., chairman of
the beauty contest, says there will
be two contestants each entered
from the eleven white schools off
the county, making a total of 22
girls who will vie for the title of
“Miss Moore County High School
of 1958.”
Last year’s beauty queen. Miss
Ellie Ann Purvis of the Carthage
High School, will reign until a
new “first lady” has been select
ed. Valuable prizes will be pre
sented to the winner and two
runners-up.
Next Thursday has been desig
nated as colored school children’s
day with the main gate as usual
opening at 12. Friday will be
Agriculture Day and Saturday
Moore County Day.
The O. C. Buck Shows will be
furnishing the attractions on the
Midway. The big caravan which
moves on 52 pieces of rolling
equipment will arrive at the fair
grounds Sunday morning and ev
erything will be in readiness for
Monday’s opening.
Featured with the Buck shows
will be all the usual rides such as
the merry-go-round, ferris weel,
planes and many others. Besides
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JOHNNIE HALL
Johnnie Hall Is
Named Leader Of
Young Democrats
Johnnie Hall, partner in Hall-
Carter Opticians here, was nam
ed president of the local chap
ter of Young Democrats at the
annual meeting held in the town
library Monday night.
He succeeds E. O. Brogden, at
torney. HaU formerly served the
organization as treasurer.
The meeting, of a brief nature
because of the necessity of sev
eral of those attending having
to go to other functions, attract
ed only a^ handful of people.
All members of the club who
are in good standing were nam
ed delegates to the annual state
Young Democrats convention in
Greensboro October 2-4.
Other officers who will serve
with Hall the coming year are
Mrs. Mildred McDonald, firgt
vice president; Harry Fullenwi-
der, second vice president; Mrs.
Hope Brogden, secretary; 'and
Mrs. Gladys Graves, treasurer.
Council Agrees, To Purchase Dr.
Milliken’s Property For $30*000
First PTA Meeting Monday
The initial meeting of the East
Southern Pines Parent Teachers
Association will be held in 'Weav
er Auditorium Monday night at 8
o’clock, according to the presi
dent, Charles Patch, Jr.
The primary order of business,
he said, will be to bring in new
members and announce the ap
pointments of various organiza
tional committees. A portion of
the program will be conducted by
A. C. Dawson, school superintend
ent, who will outline the school’s
policies for the year and introduce
the faculty.
Immediately following the
meeting. Patch said, a reception
wiU be held for the teachers in the
cafeteria where parents may meet
the teachers informally. The ar
rangements for the reception are
in charge of the hospitality com
mittee under the chairmanship of
Mrs. Isaac Woodell.
Patch urged all parents who are
not already members of the PTA
to attend the meeting and become
members.
POLICE CHIEF CITES NEED
Establishment of Municipal Court
Here Being Studied By Councilmen
Chapman Holding Own
In U. S. Amateur Golf
Rchard Chapman, Sr., of Pine
hurst, Wbn two matches in the
National Amateur Golf Champion
ships Wednesday and was sched
uled for another today.
The tournament, being played
in San Francisco, has only two
North Carolinians left: Chapman
and Harvie Ward, formerly of
Tarboro. Ward is the favorite to
win.
Chapman, who won the U. S.
Amateur title in 1940 and the
British Amateur in 1951, was the
winner of the North and South
Amateur tournament in Pinehurst
last spring.
His son, Richard Chapman, Jr.,
lost out in an earlier match.
Establishment of a municipal+
court, a move that has been court
ed here on and off for many years,
came a step closer to reality Tues
day night when the Town Coun
cil directed Manager Louis Schei-
pers, Jr., to prepare a study of the
possibilities and report back at the
October meeting.
Discussion ^of the matter, last
item on an average docket, was
lively and all five councilmen
seemed genuinely in favor of an
early establishment of such a
court if it proved advisable.
The matter this time was
brought up by Councilman Robert
Ewing, who stated that he had
been giving some 'thought to the
matter and felt it would serve a
definite purpose. “We now have
a suitable place for location of
such a court,” he said, referring to
the new Municipal Center, “and it
appears to me an excellent climate
has been established for the re
ception of one.”
Adding weight to his argu
ments, which were persuasive,
was a report on police activity
during 1957 which was presented
to the Council by Chief of Police
C. E. Newton.
He said that during the year the
department had ma& 744 arrests
and a total of 275 trips had been
rriade by policemen to Carthage to
lock up prisoners, and for other
business purposes. The figure, he
said, did not include the trips
made each Monday by policemen
appearing in Recorder’s Court.
He said that 168 cases had been
tried in Recorder’s Court in Car
thage and that some 140 people
arrested here had been Confined
for varying periods in the jail
I there.
I “We need a court here desper-
, ately,” he said, “if for no other
'reason than to cut down on this
! growing number of trips we have
to make to Carthage.”
The trips, he added, frequently
left the town without adequate
police protection. Moreover, he
continued, the cost involved ran
into several hundred dollars an
nually.
Each Councilman placed himself
on record as emphatically opposed
to giving any impression that
establishment of such a court
would be for revenue purposes.
Even so, the matter of revenue
was not overlooked. Aberdeen’s
court, according to a visitor at the
meeting, did a business of more
than $40,000 during the past 12
months. Expenses of operating
the court amounted to something
in the neighborhood of $38,000,
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Methodists Here
Plan Anniversary
ObservanceSunday
The fourth anniversary of the
establishment of the Southern
Pines Methodist Church will be
observed with special services
Sunday, according to the Rev.
Robert L. Bame, pastor.
The Rev. O. L. Hathaway, dis
trict superintendent of the Fay
etteville District, of which the
local church is affiliated, will be
the guest speaker at the 11
o’clock worship service. Follow
ing that the congregation will
have a picnic dinner in the base
ment of the church.
In the afternoon, Mr. Bame
said, ^ musical program featur
ing congregational singing and
a quartet will be presented. Mrs.
R. E. Bullock, church organist,
will provide the accompaniment.
The church, which boasts a
present membership of 250 in the
church and 193 in the Sunday
School, had a membership of 58
on its charter Sunday, Septem
ber 12, 1954. Groundbreaking
ceremonies were held September
11, 1955.
Geer Is Selected
District Director
Of Funeral Group
Troy Geer, partner in Powell
Funeral Home here, has been
elected director of District Seven
of the North Carolina Funeral
Directors Association.
He was named to the office last
night as the district members
met in Rockingham.
The district comprises nine
counties: Anson, Moore, Harnett,
Lee, Montgomery, Scotland,
Stany, Richmond and Hoke.
D. A.-<June) Blue, the other
partner, is a member of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the state
association.
Agreement Will
Be Effective
• On October 1
The Town Council voted unani
mously Tuesday night to purchase
for $30,000, the property owned by
Dr. J. S. Milliken on the corner
of S. E. Broad Street and East
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Transfer of ownership is expect
ed to take place October 1.
The property, which fronts 60
feet on Broad Street, was the only
piece in the block the town did
not own. Several weeks ago the
Council paid Dr. Milliken $8,000
for a 40-foot strip adjacent to the
60-foot strip. That piece was be
ing sought by the Savings and
Loan Association for the location
of a new office building.
Councilmen said at the time
though that they had preferred to
keep the block free from private
business and refused to zone the
strip for business purposes. The
Savings and Loan Association sub
sequently purchased a comer lot
across from the new Municipal
Center and is now making prepar
ations to have architectural plans
drawn for a building.
Under the terms of purchasing
the property presently owned by
Dr. Milliken, Council agreed to
make payments in installments of
$7,500 until the $30,000 had been
paid. Payments are due the first
day of January each year for the
next four years.
Dr. Milliken is also to keep a
small office in the rear of the
building during the remainder of
his life or until he decides to
abandon it. He agreed to pay $40
monthly rent.
Dr. Milliken did not appear at
the Council meeting this week.
He was, instead, represented by
Attorney W. Harry Fullenwider,
who elaborated on the terms Dr.
Milliken had laid down for the
sale of the property. Fullenwider
said that $40 was a fair rate of
rental, “the same that had been
paid Dr. Milliken for the same
quarters during the past 10 years.”
He added that Dr. Milliken
would be responsible for renovat
ing the quarters.
Actually, the Council had little
choice in the matter of agreeing
to purchase the property. Dr.
Milliken had made formal request
on the town several weeks ago
seeking to have the property re
zoned for business purposes. He
cited a law which made it manda
tory on a town to re-zone for bus
iness if owners of property on the
three other corners did not object.
At present the Council nor Man
ager Louis Scheipers will com
ment on possible uses for the
building. There have been sug
gestions made, though not formal
ly, that a teenage center be estab
lished there, or that the space\ be
utilized by other agencies such as
the drivers license examiner. So
cial Security representative, and
the Employment Security Com
mission representative.
NEW TRACK NEARING COMPLETION—This new track, be
ing constructed at Tremont Farms, makes a total of seven in the
area and further adds to the reputation of the Sandhills as a
winter training grounds for all types of horses. The track is lo
cated just off Connecticut Avenue as is the property of William
Franz, a Pennsylvanian, who purchased the old Goldsmith place
and the W. W.. Olive dairy farm two years ago as the nucleus of
a planned development that will be one of the most modem in
the South for traiping horses. Though no definite announcements
have been made, stables are planned as well as other facilities.
The horse business in this area was recently said to represent
what an equivalent $3 million industry would. John Hemmer of
Pinehurst made the above photograph several days ago as a part
of a series of aerial pictures he was doing of the entire area,
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Blue Knights Play
Chadbourn Friday;
2 Games In County
Football fans were reminded to
day that the Blue Knights travel
to Chadbourn tomorrow (Friday)
night for a game there with Chad
bourn High School at 8 p.m.
Chadbourn, incidentally, is on
highways 74 and 76 and is beyond
Lumberton.
Elsewhere in the county the Ab
erdeen Red Devils meet Red
Springs on the Aberdeen field at
8 o’clock tomorrow night and Car
thage meets Broadway in Car
thage at the ssime hour.
Carthage, still in the six man
ranks, lost their season opener to
Greenwood last week 27-18 while
Aberdeen defeated Liberty 21-0. |
License Examiner
HasRoughMonday
Over Half Flunked
Monday was a bad day in the
automobile license examiner’s of
fice here.
More than 50 per cent of those
attempting to either obtain a li
cense or renew old ones flunked
and were told to come back when
they became more familiar with
the requirements.
D. A. Clark, who operates the
office and gives the exams, said
it was “just a bad day. The bulk
of those who failed the tests just
hadn’t studied for them, which
continues to be the principal rea
son people fail to get licenses.”
Ordinarily, he said, about 25 to
30 per cent of those who are ap
plying for the first time fail to
get them, and the same percentage
applies to those seeking renewals.
His remedy for the situation?
Study the requirements.
Anti-Litter Law
Here Is Adopted;
Clean-Up Urged
With the publication of this is-
of The Pilot the town of Southern
Pines has an anti-litter ordinance
in effect and the penalties for vio
lating it are fines and jail sen
tences.
The ordinance was enacted at
the regular Council meeting Tues
day night and is now effective.
Its provisions make it unlawful
to deposit trash on any streets, al
leys, sidewalks, parks, play
grounds and any other public
places “or any, other place where
the public might be permitted to
gather" within the corporate lim
its of town.
Incorporated in the ordinance is
the provision that owners and oc
cupants of commercial establish
ments shall keep their premises in
good clean condition. Receptacles
are also required.
Any violations of the ordinance
is considered a misdemeanor and
punishable by a fine up to $50 and
30 days in jail.