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6 VOL. 38—NO. 44 Attorney Is Named Head Of Mental Health Group Here Outgoing Leader Reports Great Progress Made W. Harry Fullenwider of South ern Pines was elected president of the Moore County Mental Health Association last night succeeding Dr. Malcolm D. Kemp. The iheeting was held in the parish house of Emmanuel Episco- I pal Church and at- 1 traded members I from almost every I community in the I county.' Other officers I elected were the •following: the Rev. Ijohn A. Brown of ipinehurst, first vice ■Jpresident; Mrs. Rob- FuUenwider ert S. Ewing of Southern Pines, second vice pres ident; Miss Mary Logan of South ern Pines, secretary; and William J. Graham, Jr., also of Southern Pines, treasurer. The executive committee is composed of Dr. Em ily Tufts of Pinehurst, the Rev. Robert L. Bame of Southern Pines and Lawrence McN. Johnson of Aberdeen. The association was told that an increase in membersbip of approx imately 20 per cent had been ac complished during the past year and the fund drive netted almost thrice the funds as during the pre ceding year. Dr. Kemp reviewed the work of the organization which consisted for the most part in showing a number of films to PTA and other parent groups throughout the county. The films were accompa nied in each instance, he said, by a discussion period led by laymen and physicians interested in men tal health and proved interesting and beneficial to the various groups. John Ruggles, a member of the North Carolina Board of Hospitals Control, told of the work of that agency as related to mental health and outlined some of the projects now underway in the state. North Carolina, he said, was showing a marked improvement in its care and treatment of mental health patients and an educational pro gram now in effect has greatly in creased the interest in mental Jiealth problems. The group was also shown a new mental health film, “A Fam ily Affair,” by the Rev. Roy A. Barham, who is chaplain at the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center at Butner State HospitaL A discussion was held after wards. SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1958 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS .. ■ . fiuiow- '"V KHft- • ARCHITECT'S VIEW OF THE PROPOSED ADDITION AT EMMANUEL CHURCH Annual Fall Rally Of Presbyterian Men Set Sunday T. Clyde Auman of West End, president of the Fayetteville Pres bytery Men of the Church an nounced today that plans are com plete for the annual fall rally which will be held at Camp Mon roe near Laurinburg, Sunday af ternoon and evening, September 28. Registration will begin at 3:30 with the discussion groups meet ing from 4:30 to 5:20 with a fel lowship period from 5:20 until 6:15 at whic;h time supper will be served. Those leading the afternoon dis cussion groups will include Attor ney General Malcolm B. Seawell on ‘‘Responsibilities to Christian Fellowship”; Jerome B. Clark, Jr., “What Is A Presbyterian Chris tian?”; Dr. Robert F. Sloop, “What Do Presbyterians Believe?”; Dr. A. N. Wells, “Responsibilities Be yond My Congregation”; and Rev. David McLean, “Responsibilities to Christians of Other Countries.” Principal address of the evening will be by the Rev. Hubert Black, pastor of Highland Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville. In addition to President Auman, other officials of the group are: Marcus Smith, Raeford, first vice president; A. L. Burney, Southern Pines, second vice president; R. North Lewis, West End, secretary and treasurer; and Jerome B. Clark, Jr,, immediate past presi- . dent. James Heartfield Is Victim Of Wreck In Alabama James R. Heartfield, of the in vestment firm of Dietenhofer and Heartfield of Southern Pines, was killed in a headon collision with a truck during a storm in Alabama Monday night. Details of the accident were skimpy but it was learned that Mr. Heartfield was en route to Beaumont, Texas, when the ac cident occurred. While driving slowly along a road covered with water his car, it was reported, was struck by a truck which was on the wrong side of the road. Mr. Heartfield had, for some time, made his home part of the year in Pinehurst with his son- in-law and daughter, Lt. Col. and Mrs. H. J. Dietenhofer. The re mainder of the year he lived in Beaumont. He was a member of the Pine-- hurst Lions Club and attended a meeting just before leaving for Texas. He was also deeply inter ested in Boy Scout work and had b^en active in that organization in Pinehurst. Mrs. Dietenhofer left by plane Tuesday morning for Bea\nnont where the funeral was held yes terday afternoon. Mrs. Heartfield died several years ago. TO COST $67,500 Congregation At Emmanuel Church .Votes Approval Of Added Building The dongregation of Enrmian-'t" uel Episcopal Church voted un animously Sunday to proceed with plans for immediate con struction of a Children’s Build ing adjacent to the present parish house. I The proposed new building has been designed by Charles Ben ton and Sons, of Wilson, the ar chitectural firm which designed the present church building about 35 years ago. The Rev. Martin Caldwell, rec tor, said the new building would more than double present class room space on Sunday and would, in addition, provide class rooms for a week-day school which will open in September of next-year if the building is com pleted by that time. Cost of the building is estima ted at $67,500, according to John L. Morgan Jr., who is chairman of the building committee. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Lloyd P. Tate, Mrs. C. Rob ert VanderVoort, Garland Mc Pherson, Herbert Dietenhofer, and Burton Q. Perham. A special campaign for ad- Vance gifts will begin within a few weeks, Morgan said, and will be directed by Eugene C. Stev ens and Dr. William Hollister. Outlook Termed Good For Aberdeen Carpet Operation Steele L. Winterer of New York, president of the A. & M. Karagheusian’s Gulistan carpet manufacturing plants said Tues day that business of the firm had shown a marked improvement over the past six weeks. Visiting in Aberdeen, Mr. Win terer also announced that he would recommend to Karagheu- sian directors that the former Amerotron office area at the plant be altered to provide addi tional manufacturing space. “We have a. good backlog of orders for the Aberdeen plant,” he said, “due in part to the addi tion of two new carpet lines to be manufactured in Aberdeen, which should continue to provide sizeable business.” Winterer also said the company was pleased with the Aberdeen operation, now well into its sec ond year. The company operates a carpet manufacturing plant in the build ing formerly occupied by Amer otron Corporation. Registration t)f New Voters To Be Held 3 Saturdays Registration dates for the No vember 4 elections have been an nounced as October 11, 18, and 25 by Sam C. Riddle, chairman of the County Board of Elections. Voters who are not registered now must visit the registrar on one of those days and have their names placed on the books in or der to vote, he said. Challenge day is November 1, the last Saturday before the elec tion. Riddle also said this week that slightly more than a dozen ab sentee ballots have already been mailed to servicemen who are out of the state. He said j;hat ser vicemen may reqquest the ab sentee ballots up until 30 days prior to the election. He said also that in certain other instances people out of the state on election day were en titled to absentee ballots, and could make application for them to the Board of Elections. Mrs. Grace Kaylor, longtime registrar in Southern Pines, has been designated again for the job. Plans For Continued Operation Of Chamber Of Commerce Outlined Includes Full Time Manager, Increased Dues The Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce is conducting an emergency membership cam paign to enable the Chamber of fice, closed since July, to remain open on a part-time basis from October 1 to the end of the year. Funds are being sought from more than 100 firms and indivi duals who are eligible for Cham ber of Commerce membership but have not joined this year. About 90 other businesses and individuals paid their 1958 mem berships but the funds sub scribed by them were insufficient to keep the Chamber office open. Decision to conduct the emer- Homecoming will be observed gency membership drive was at historic' Old Bethesda Church made Monday night when about Sunday. Two services are plan- 25 members met in the basement ned, one in the morning and one'of Brownson Presbyterian in the afternoon, together with i Church for a widely-advertised, the traditional noon-time picnic j meeting that, it tvas hoped, would in the grove adjoining the church, j bring a much larger response Robert N. Page, Jr., chairman than it did. LIBRARY HOURS The ■winter schedule at the Southern Pines libra ry ■will be resumed October 1, according to Mrs. Kath leen Lamboume, librarieui. The new hours are as fol lows: Monday through Friday, open in. the morning fromi 9 until 12:30, and in the after noon from 2 until S. Saturdays, open from 9:30 to 12:30 in the morning, and from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. Homecoming For Bethesda Church Slated On Sunday ABOUT CHILDREN, BOOKS AND TV Local Author Disagrees With Pilot Editorial; Composes Strong Answer Glen Rounds, one of the na tion’s best known authors and il lustrators of children’s books, has taken issue with an editorial ap pearing in the Pilot last week, a piece about children and books, and has forwarded his views on the matter. Ordinarily, his communication would be printed on the editorial page but in this instance the policy was changed because what he has to say about children and their books rightfully falls under the heading of news. Mr. Rounds, tvhose home is in Southern Pines, is a friend of i long standing of the Pilot. He has . frequently contributed articles to its pages and, on occasion, a drawing of special interest. He has had more than two dozen books published, the most recent of which was “Swamp Life: An Almanac.” That book was hailed in children’s book publishing circles as one of the better books of the past season. He is current ly at work on another with a similar theme. His views oh books versus tele vision, as printed below are, and should be, of concern to all pa rents. The Pilot, it should be pointed out, has another editorial on the subject in this issue which fur ther explains the position taken GLEN ROUNDS last week. Here is Mr. Rounds’ article: Concern for the fact that John nie can’t read good now stands head and shoulders above those old, old standbys, reverence for motherhood and abhorrence of sin, as an absolutely safe subject on which to take a stand. A vig orous stance in defense of moth erhood or a violent denunciation of sin does little more, these days, than reaffirm the fact that the writer is a redblooded one hun dred per cent American. But a public admission of con cern for Johnnie’s neglected reading, laced with a fpw aptly chosen platitudes, marks one as a thoughtful fellow, as well. And without the slightest risk of be ing thought dangerously intellec tual. A splendid example of what I mean is the Pilot editorial built around some remarks of Mr. Carl Sandburg. It is standard in that it speaks well of self denial (for the child, that is) and of books and “Crea tive Solitude.” It views with alarm the fact that there is too much of everything in the world today. It states, boldly and fear lessly, that an incessant diet of television, radio and movies is BAD, and that books are GOOD. It gives a short and absolutely unexceptionable list of virtues to be gotten from books and, (by implication) from nowhere else. Then, just when the reader is breathlessly waiting for the word of wisdom that will solve his problem—that will tell him how to go about introducing his child to this new magic—^the Pilot folds its hands and gives up. There is a half hearted sugges tion that the adult might turn off the television some afternoon and “dig out from books a little of that knowledge and inspira tion. as an example to the young, but nothing more. Now, let us examine this little (Continued on Pace 8} Cameron Votes To Establish Modern Fire Department Cameron has organized its first fire department in the history of the town. At the meeting of the citizens of the towp and surrounding communities this week Bob Laubscher was elected the first fire chief. Th,e group, with INJayor Hubert Nickens as spokesman, accepted a lot given by Pete Phillips, ,a local businessman. A fire station will be erected on the lot. Raymond Thomas was named chairman of the building com mittee. Nickens said that the fire-fight ing equipment will be furnished by the county. of the program- committee, said that Dr. John D. McLeod, Jr., a son of Old Bethesda and current ly minister of the Presbyterian Church in Welch, W. Va., will deliver the morning sermon. Dr. W. C. Neill, who recently became the pastor of Aberdeen’s Bethesda Presbyterian Church, will be the afternoon speaker. Girl Scouts Will Assist Lions In Drive Saturday Girl Scout troop 66 of South ern Pines will solicit funds on Br6ad Street Saturday for the annual “White Cane” drive being sponsored by the Lions Club. The girls, under the direction of Mrs. James H. Ratliff, their leader, will be stationed near the bank and postoffice and will give White Cane badges to donors. The drive, an annual one, af fords the public the opportunity to make contributions to the North Carolina Association for the Blind. The funds are used to provide services, including eye glasses, to blind people through out the state. Members of the ■ Girl Scout troop who are participating in the drive are Mrs. Ward Hill and Karen McKenzie, assistant lead ers, and Robert Austin, Barbara Kay Webb, Pat Patch, Brenda Watkins, Patricia Darden, Julia McMillan, Molly McConnell, Helen Causey, Janet Howard, Mickey Pritchett, Judy Waldock and Susan Hill. 'The handful of members pres ent, including President J. I. Scott and several members of the board of directors, agreed Mon day, however, that the town needs a Chamber of Commerce and efforts to keep it active should not be dropped. The group discussed tentative plans for an all-out membership campaign at the beginning of 1959, based on the 13-point pro gram of recommendations drawn up by the directors in a meeting September 15. If sufficient funds are sub scribed in the current emergency drive, the Chamber plans to open an office on a half-day basis in rooms, offered rent-free by C. S. Patch on the second floor of the Patch’s Department Store build ing. Members at Monday’s meet ing voted a formal resolution of thanks to Mr. Patch who offered the space, rent-free for as long as two years if necessary, in an ef fort to help the Chamber get on its feet. Mrs. Don Traylor is expected to be the part-time secretary, should the Patch building office be put into operation as planned. Volunteers are soliciting the non-paid-up potential members during the special drive this week. Anyone who is not reached by a solicitor or anyone else who would like to help financially in the emergency drive may send funds to the Chamber’s treasurer, C. H. Bowman, at the Citizens Bank and 'Trust Co. Proposals The proposed 13-point program (Continued on Page 8) SANDHILLS COULD HAVE BEEN HURT ‘‘Differences’^ Settled By Southern Rail Lines and Giant Pennsylvania CIRCUS COMING The three ring Mills Broth ers circus moves into Aber deen next Thursda-y, October 2, for two performances under the sponsorship of the Aber deen Lions Club. Shows are scheduled for 2 pjn. and 8 p. m. and will consist of the us ual circus stcindbys—clowns, animals, acrobats, aerialists, and some addded attractions. "Forty tons of elephants" are being advertised, along with a number of troupes with continental names. The circus will set up tents on US Highway 1 between Southern Pines and Aberdeen next to Howard Johnson's. Tickets, incidentally, may be purchased in advance for a somewhat smaller price from members of the Lions Club in Aberdeen than they may be at the gates. Reported “differences” between the Pennsylvania Railroad and three lines operating in the South have been adjusted and no disrup tion in services will be experienc ed because of those differences, the Pilot was told yesterday by Seaboard officials in Richmond. Just how close 4;he South came to having a disruption could not be determined from the Seaboard officials who said they preferred not to speak for the Pennsylvania. They confirmed, however, the rumor circulating in New York that there had been differences between the railroads, and that the Pennsylvania had made cer tain demands. The railroad withdrew the de mands, however, the Seaboard spokesman said, when the three Southern lines—Seaboard, Atlan tic Coast Line and Southern—re fused to accede to them. The demands were reported to be sharply increased charges for handling sleeping cars from New York to Washington. Seaboard and the others presently do not operate beyond Washin^on ex cept on the tracks of other lines. Without the Pennsylvania’s “bridge” to Washington, puUman passengers would have to travel by coach or parlor car between New York and Washington and transfer there to sleeping cars. Presumably, the same 'w/ould have happened for passengers going North. Here’s how it would have af fected Southern Pines. During the tourist season, when it is not unusual for between 150 to 200 people to detrain here at one time, business would proba bly have suffered a great setback. There is, for example, a group of golfers from Maryland who have been coming to the Sandhills for years to spend a few days. Would they have continued their annual trek if the railroad service be tween their homes and Washing ton been reduced to only day coach and nothing more? Railroad officials think probably not. The Palmland, an all-pullman which leaves here nightly at 8 o’clock, arrives in Washington at 5:25 a.m. Passengers going be yond Washington would have had to detrain there and wait for a day coach to their destination. By the same token, the Palm- land leaves New York at 8:30 each night and arrives in Washington at 1:05 in the morning. The train arrives in Southern Pines at 7:35. (Continued on page 5)
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