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Court Changes will be a
major item recommended to the
General Assembly next year. Read
about why they’re needed in a pro
vocative article on the editorial page
in this issue.
Rare Adventure was
one recently made by Voit Gilmore
when he visited both the Arctic and
the Antarctic in one year. Read
about his recent trip to the North
Pole on page 5.
VOL. 38—NO. 49
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958
EIGHTEEN PAGES
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Blue Knights Will
Probably Meet Mt.
Olive In Playoff
New Conference
Champions Go To
Shallotle Friday
The Blue Knights of Southern
Pines, winners of the Cape Fear
Conference, will play either Mt.
Olive or North Duplin High School
in opening rounds of Class A play
offs November 7, according to
Coach Irie Leonard.
Site of the game has not been
selected yet and will be determ
ined by a flip of the coin Monday
of next week. Leonard said the
game would probably be held
either here or at the field of the
opposing team, though he did
not discount the possibility of
playing on a neutral field.
The Knights won the confer
ence title Friday night by defeat
ing Aberdeen 26-0, a victory that
gave them six conference vic
tories and no defeats. The game
marked the sixth one straight in
which the Knights have held their
opponents scoreless while racking
up a total of 161 points.
The next game on the schedule
is tomorrow (Friday) night when
the team travels to Shallotte for
a non-conference encounter. The
final game with Sanford, which
had been scheduled for Novem
ber 7, was canceled when the
Knights won the right to compete
in State Class A playoffs.
Mt. Olive will probably be the
team the Knights will face.
They’ve already tied for the East
Central Conference and even if
they lose to North Duplin, chan
ces are they’ll be picked to play
Southern Pines. Warsaw, the sec
ond ranking team, was defeated
earlier in the season by Mt. Olive
and is, for that reason, given lit
tle chance of being considered:
_ Other conferences in the eastern
division Class A teams are Albe- Republicans will gather in the
marie, already woh by Edenton; courthouse in Carthage tonight
Coastal, in which LaGrange is {(Thursday) at 8 o’clock to hear
DIE FLEDERMAUS, a sparkling comedy with music by Johann
Strauss, will be presented by the National Grass Roots Opera
here next week as the first of four programs of the Sandhills
Music Association for the season. The above photo shows a scene
from the second act as Gabriel Eisenstein is completely charmed
by his wife whom he does not recognize because of her disguise
as a Hungarian countess.
‘Die Fledermaus’ To Be Presented
By Music Association Tuesday Night
Opening the concert season of
the Sandhills Music Association,
the National Grass Roots' Opera
Republicans Plan
Rally Tonight At
Courthouse
ermaus,” Johann Strauss’ gay
operetta, at Weaver Auditorium,
Tuesday evening, November 4, at
Company will present “Die Fled- 8:30 p. m.
A pre-concert buffet supper at
7 p. m. will be served at the Hol
lywood Hotel. Reservations
should be made directly with the
hotel, Norris Hodgkins, Jr., Mu
sic Association president, said
this week.
The
leading; Mid Central, won by Er
win; Tar-Randolph, won by Wel
don; Tidewater, won by Camden;
and Wake County-Edgecombe.
Vass Native Held
On Fraud Charges
By Federal Agency
Cole Edward Wilson, 24-year-
old native of Vass, was picked up
in Chicago last week by the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation on
charges of fraud.
Wilson was charged with plac
ing telephone calls to two differ
ent Guilford County men several
days earlier, in each instance re
questing money for sons of the
men. He claimed the boys had
been in accidents.
The two men were identified
by the FBI as Lee H. Ingle, sup
erintendent of Guilford County
Prison Camp No. 1, and E. L. Hen
ley, a member of a work main
tenance detail there at one time
and now an employee of the coun
ty schools maintenance depart
ment.
Both, the agency said, became
acquainted with Wilson when he
served time in prison in Guilford
County.
The arrest was made because
Ingle received a telephone call
from Chicago requesting that $86
be sent there to pay a fine for
his son, whom the caller alleged
ly said had been in an accident.
Ingle, it was reportecj, checked
the name of the hospital given
him by the Chicago informant
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their candidates and invited
speakers.
Chairman Robert S. Ewing of
Southern Pines who is seeking
election as this county’s repre
sentative to the General Assem
bly, said this morning that Mrs.
Louis G. Rogers of Charlotte, na
tional committeewoman, will be
the principal speaker. Also on the
program will be A. I. Ferree of
Asheboro, well-known party
wheelhorse.
Ewing will preside over the
meeting, to which he has invited
the general public. All candidates
will be introduced, he said, and
those desiring to speak will be
accorded the time.
Carousel Entries
Now 48; Only 3
Weeks To Sign Up
Some four dozen golfers, sev
eral of them scratch handicap-
pers, have entered the Junior
Chamber of Commerce sponsor
ed 5th annual Golf Carousel, ac
cording to Bill Hamilton, tourna
ment director, and an eventual
field of 200 is expected.
If the 200 figure is reached it
will be the biggest one since the
tournament was inaugurated.
Hamilton said that entries had
been received from Dick Chap
man of Pinehurst, the North-
South Amateur champion and
his partner. Art Ruffin. Others
have been received fronv Fred
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I' Plans Art Shows
Vienna of 1873 and is set to the
most familiar music of Johann
Strauss, including the “laughing
song’’ and the waltzes of the
second act.
Girl Scout Fund
Drive Underway;
ProgramExplained
Seek $2,500 Here
To Help With
Coxmty Budget
Monday was the big day for
Girl Scouts in Southern Pines as
16 men and women assembled
for a kickoff luncheon for the
yearly fund drive, now under
way.
Similar luncheons have been
held elsewhere in the Central
Carolina Council in order to im
press the workers and solicitors
with the needs for financial suc
cess.
Mrs. Sherwood Brockwell, who
is Southern Pines chairman of
the drive, explained to those as
sembled the field work that had
gone into the ^ormulation of
plans for the drive, and Miss
Cathryn Creasman, executive di
rector, gave an overall picture of
the 1959 budget.
Unlike the budget of the pre
vious two years, she pointed out,
funds this year must provide for
sending eight elected senior
scouts from the district to the
Girl Scout Round-up in Colora
do next summer. There will be
about 7,500 other Scouts and
leaders at the meeting, she said,
and the Central Carolina Coun
cil should be represented. The
chances of an elected senior
scout from this area attending
the meeting are excellent, she
added.
The budget for the Council is
$17,879. In Southern Pines a total
of $2,500 will be sought.
Gallery Committee
The operetta, with its colorful
costumes and lively action, was
presented by the National Grass
Roots Opera Company 74 times
last season, in North Carolina
and throughout the South and
Southwest.
Founded in 1948, this opera
company has had steadily in
creasing success. Many outstand
ing young singers have perform
ed with the group. All its per
formances are sung in English.
Season and individual concert
tickets are on sale at Bamum
Realty and Insurance Company
in Southern Pines. Memberships
in the Sandhills Music Associa
tion and season tickets can also
be obtained from' chairmen in all
towns of the coimty.
For Coming Year
Six members of the newly-
formed Gallery Committee met
at the town library Wednesday to
draw up plans for the coming
season.
Those present included Mrs. C.
A. Smith and Mrs. Alwin Folley,
both former chairmen, Mrs.
Frank Cooper, John Faulk, Don
Moore and Mrs. James Boyd.
Mrs. Boyd assumed the chair
manship this year in accordance
with the new town rule which
specifies that chairmen of com
mittees must be members of the
Library Commission.
Unable to be present Wednes
day were three other committee-
members: Miss Harriet Barnum,
Mrs. Emmanuel Sontag, and Mrs.
Stanley Austin.
Meeting with the committee
were the librarian and her assist-
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Li^ht Vote Forecast In Tuesday’s
Election; 15,000 Are Registered
* Voters To Pick
35 For Office;
AT DEMOCRATIC RALLY MONDAY
Kitchin Knocks Administration For
Hurting Farmer, Damaging Economy
Congressman A. Paul Kitchin
of Wadesboro, the only real
heavyweight Democrat politico to
come into this county during the
current campaign, fired up some
75 loyal party members Monday
night as he piled into the Repub
licans for everything from bung
ling foreign policy to creating a
bankrupt economy.
The Congressman, speaking in
a light vein at first but rising to
a fighting pitch as he went on,
was described by one person in
attendance as having, delivered
“the hottest talk I've ever seen
him give and certainly one of the
best I’ve heard this year.”
“Hot” it was: Kitchin managed
to get in licks at the Republi
cans for what he described as a
“giant give-away” program in
foreign policy, at Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Benson for
“running small farmers off their
places” and turning them over to
big farming interests, and at the
Administration’s leaders for pil
ing up the biggest debt the coun
try has ever known.
“They’re the only people in the
world,” he said “who can inflate
the dollar, produce a false econ
omy, and bring the nation to the
brink of bankruptcy and still
brag about how well off the coun
try is.”
Mr. Kitchin, who had been in
troduced by W. Lamont Brown,
chairman of the county’s Demo
cratic Executive Committee, re
called that President Eisenhower
carried Moore County and the
8th District in the last presiden
tial election.
“Don’t take anything for grant
ed this year/’ he cautioned his
listeners. “The Republicans are
out working and even without
the magic of the Eisenhower
name, they’re still not going to
be easy to beat.”
He forecast a sweeping victory
for Democrats however, and urg
ed his audience to turn out in
heavy numbers to vote. “Espe
cially you women,” he added.
He lashed out at what he des
cribed as “two sets of brothers
running this country with the as
sistance of a man who follows
them and carries out their orders
merely for self advancement.”
The people he was referring to,
he explained, were President
Eisenhower and his brother. Mil-
ton, and Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles and his brother, Al
len, who heads the Central Intel
ligence Agency. "Vice-President
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BLOODMOBILE
The first visit of the reg
ional bloodmobile was under
way at the National Guard' *
Armory today and at press
time reports indicated the
visit was not too successful.
Tomorrow (Friday), the
bloodmobile will be at the
First Baptist Church in Ab
erdeen and a total of 125 pints
will'be sought. A similar a-
mount was being requeued
here today.
Volunteer workers are on
hand today and will be avail
able tomorrow to assist those
who are making donations.
Town Offices Now
In New Building
The town offices were moved
yesterday morning from old quar
ters on N. E. Broad Street to the
new building a block away. The
administrative offices and police
department were open this morn
ing for business as usual.
Town manager, Louis Scheipers,
Jr., said the move was made with
out a hitch. Office employees had
been packing records for about
10 days, he said, and new furn
iture had already been placed in
the building for their reception.
The building is not complete
yet, but should be in two to three
weeks. Painters and clean-up men
were working in the jail section
this morning and were scheduled
to be out in a few days. Only
minor touchups will be required
after that.
Scheipers said that for this year
the bulk of the landscaping pro
gram will consist of construction
of a parking lot on New York
Avenue for customers and a small
one in the rear of the building
for town employees. A sidewalk
that is part of the landscaping
project is under construction and
should be completed shortly.
Scheipers said that the rest of
the landscaping this year would
be confined to the planting of
grass. After that, he added, the
ground will be beautified as funds
become available.
The police department tempo
rarily hooked up their radio equip
ment awaiting installation of a
new transmitter and receiving
unit. Those are expected to be in
operation in about two weeks. A
concrete base has already been
poured on the town’s water tanks
at Weymouth as preparation for
a large antenna.
Candidates Named
A vote of less than 7,000, less
than half the number of those
qualified, has been predicted for
Tuesday’s General Elections.
"Voters will be selecting a total
of 35 officials, including a United
States Senator, a Congressman,
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, two Associate Justices,
and' Attorney General on the
state level, Superior Court Judg
es and a District Solicitor, and
closer to home, two State Sena
tors, a member of the State
House of Representatives, and ■
the usual county offices; Clerk of
Court, Register of Deeds, Judge
of Recorder’s Court, Solicitor of
Recorder’s Court, Sheriff, county
surveyor, coroner and five coun
ty commissioners.
In addition, voters will also be
asked to vote on a Constitutional
Amendment to determine wheth
er the jurisdiction of Justice of
the. Peace shall be increased.
The prediction of a light turn
out in Moore County was based
on the fact that new registration
was small and the absence of
either a Presidential or Guber
natorial campaign.
A total of 15,256 people are
registered, 12,310 of them' Dem
ocrats. Republicans have 3,738
and 697 are listed as indepen
dents.
Hottest race in the county is
expected to be between Demo
crat H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
who has served 10 years in the
State Legislature, and Robert S.
Ewing of Southern Pines, the Re
publican candidate, who is mak-
Polls Open At 6:30 A.M.
Close At 6:30 P.M.
Your Vote WUl Be The
Most Important One Cast
Library Gallery To Observe
Children's Book Week
Childreh’s Book Week will be
celebrated at the town library
next week.
The big room will be gay with
a display of the new children’s
books lately acquired, while weU-
wom treasured volumes among
perennial favorites will be there,
too, to remind grown-ups of hap
py times and bring new delight
to the young fry.
In the gallery, a show, put on
by the local artist and writer,
Glen Rounds, will emphasize the
message of this occasion when
the nation honors those who write
books and publish them, espec
ially books for children.
The new gallery exhibit will
replace the showing of etchings
by Louis Orr now on view. This
artist’s renderings of North Caro
lina scenes, notably buildings of
colonial times, are attracting
much attention.
Correcting an error in last
week’s Pilot, it is t)ie etching col
lection and not the artist that
comes from FayetteviUe. This is
a loan collection from the Fay
etteville Library. Mr. Orr, is is
understood, spends much of his
time in Paris.
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IR
QUEEN FREDERIKA OF GREECE, shown here at the right,
visited Gen. and Mrs. George C. Marshall in Pinehurst last Sat-^
urday, the first time a reigning monarch has ever appeared in
Moore County. Shown next to her is Mrs. Marshall. At the left
is Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gameau of Pinehurst, holding their two
adopted Greek children. A story about the visit appears on page
5. (Henuner photo)
ing his first bid for the job. Both
are newspaper publishers. Ewing
is the head of the Republican
iparty in the county and Blue is
one of the top powers in the
Democratic party.
Elsewhere there seemed to be
little doubt that the Democrats
would go back into office and
for that matter, there are few
who will give Ewing a chance,
though those same people think
he will score more heavily
against Blue than any person has
ever been able to do.
Democrats
Here are the candidates on the
Democratic ticket:
For the 13th District Solicitor,
M. G. Boyette, unopposed.
State Senator, 12th District:
"Wilbur H. Currie and Robert R.
Morgan. The district elects two
senators.
House of Representatives, H.
Clifton Blue.
Clerk of Superior Court, C. C.
Kennedy.
Register of Deeds, Mrs. Audrey
McCaskill.
Judge of Recorder’s Court, J.
Vance Rowe, unopposed.
Solicitor of Recorders Court,
W. Lamont Brown, unopposed.
Sheriff, Wendell B. Kelly.
Surveyor, C. H. (Pat) Blue, un
opposed.
Coroner, Ralph G. Steed, un
opposed.
County Commissioners: First
District, John M. Currie; Second
District, T. R. Monroe; Third
District, L. R. Reynolds; Fourth
District, James M. Pleasants;
Fifth District, W. S. Taylor.
Republicans
The candidates on the Repub
lican county ticket are:
State Senator, 12th District, J.
Willie Plummer. '
House of Representatives,
Robert S. Ewing.
Clerk of Superior Court, Ar
nold R. Garner.
Register of Deeds, Merla S.
Gaines.
Sheriff, Herbert McCaskill.
County Commissioner: First
District, J. W. Rogers; Second
District, W. Curtis Gamer; Third
District, Ted E. Comer; Fourth
iDistrict, J. Earl Parker; Fifth
District, D. L. Ritter.