VOL. 39—NO. 20
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 19 CENTS
Bill For Election
Of County School
Board Is Proposed
Rep. Blue Sees
Favorable Action
By Legislature
A bill providing for the election
of members of the Moore County
Board of Elections was introduced
in the General Assembly this
week by Rep. H. Clifton Blue.
Chances of its passage are ex
cellent, he believes, since it is of
a purely local nature and the
General Assembly traditionally
passes local bills without opposi
tion.
Blue, in his column of legisla
tive happenings which he writes
for this newspaper, said that he
suspected the bill would cause
little change in the ultimate
make-up of the Board, composed
entirely of Democrats.
“Since Moore County has been
strongly Democratic in county
and state elections for a long
time,” he wrote, “and if this sen
timent continues, the people. wiU
little note the application of the
proposed change . . . .”
Under the present set-up can
didates for seats on the board run
under party banners only in the
primary. The names of the top
five Democrats and the top five
Republicans then are filed with
the State Department of Educa
tion in Raleigh and the names
are also submitted to the General
Assembly.
The Representative then either
approves the names or substitutes
ones of his own choosing. The
five he approves are namted to
the Board.
Blue said that in Moore Coun
ty he had “never known of a Sen
ator or a Representative to fail
to approve the certified names
of those winning the nomination
of his political party.”
Under the proposed law the
school board members will still
be nominated from the districts
as in the past and will run just
as do the county commissioners.
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines, chairman of the executive
committee of the Republican
Party in this county, said today
that he felt the bill was “a step
in the right direction,” and that
Blue had displayed a great deal
-ojttn sxq ui ..ssaupapuiui Jtiej,, jo
duction of the bill.
Blue’s bill provides that mem
bers of the Board take their oath
of office the first Monday in De
cember next succeeding their
election. They will - serve two
year terms.
STONEYBROOK PROFITS of $1,500 have
been divided equaUy between Moore Memorial
Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital. M, G. Walsh,
in center, is shown presenting the checks to
Mrs. Voit Gilmore, president of the auxiliary at
Moore Memorial, and Mrs. Audrey Kennedy,
president of St. Joseph’s auxiliary, as Donald
D. Kennedy, chairmah of the Steeplechase, looks
on. (Humphrey photo)
Homes And Gardens Tour Wednesday
The 11th annual Homes and
Gardens Tour of the Southern
Pines Garden Club will take
place next Wednesday, April 15.
Open to the visiting public on
that day will be in all, eight
homes—four in Southern Pines,
one between Southern Pines and
Pinehurst and three in Pinehurst,
all new to the tour.
Headquarters will be the Shaw
House, where tickets will be sold
during the tour hours—10 a. m.
to 5:30 p. m.—also luncheon and
tea will be served. Hostesses will
be on duty at the Shaw House
and at all homes along the tour.
Luncheon for those takin| the
tour may be obtained at the
Shaw House for a reasonable
price. Mrs. Dwight Winkelman,
who has been in charge of that
portion of the tour for the past
two years, has niade arrange
ments again to start serving at
about 11:30 a. m.
Several reservations have al
ready been made, she said.
Coffee and donuts may be ob-
Doris Betts, Sanford Writer, Will
Address Local Junior Woman’s Club
Doris Betts, who won an im
portant literary award two years
ago for her first novel, will speak
to the Junior Women’s Club
Tuesday night at the Church of
Wide Fellow.ship.
Mrs. Betts, who lives in San
ford, is one of North Carolina’s
finest young authors. She won
the Sir Walter Raleigh Award in
1957 for her “Tall Houses in Win
ter,” said by many critics to be
among the finest first novels that
they had ever read.
She was a staff member of the
Sanford Herald for some time
until she was awarded a Guggen
heim Fellowship last year, en
abling her tb devote full time to
her fiction. She is working on
a long novel which is set in a
mythical place in Piedmont
North Carolina in the 1890’s
which she has tentatively titled
“I, Thomas Allen.”
Mrs. Betts also has two other
books, a short novel and a sec
ond story collection, with her
agent in New York.
In addition to “Tall Houses in
Winter,” she has also authored
“The Gentle Insurrection,” pub-
^ llshed in 1954, which won the
^ University of North Carolina—
G. P. Putnam book length award
for 1953. The book was a collec
tion of stories.
I She won, also in 1953, the Mad
emoiselle Magazine College short
fiction award.
Her stories have appeared in
Mademoiselle, Virginia Quarter
ly, Carolina Quarterly, New Mex
ico Quarterly, New Campus
% Writing, a New Southern Read
er, Stories from the Old North
State, and other collections.
MRS. DORIS BETTS
“Tall Houses” and ‘"The Gen
tle Insurrection” have both been
published in England. “Tall
Houses” is being translated for
publication in Italy later this
year.
She and her husband, Lowry
M. Betts, live in Sanford with
their two children. He is a mem
ber of the law firm of Pittman
and Staton.
Mrs. Betts is a native of States
ville and is 26. She attended
Woman’s College of the Univer
sity of North Carolina from 1950
to 1953, married at the end of
her sophomore year and went to
live with her husband in Chapel
Hill where he was attending law
school.
Her talk is scheduled for 8 p.
m. in Fellowship Hall.
tained at the Shaw House from +
9:30 on.
While the visitors may start
the tour at any point, visit only
as many homes as desired and
remain as long as they wish at
any one point, here is the list of
homes on the tour as it will be
arrow-marked, starting with the
Shaw House:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ewing,
Valley Road, Southern Pines.
Rambling clapboard colonial
surrounded by azaleas and cam
ellias. Large studio living room.
Also open, guest house and sum
mer house adjoining swimming
pool. In the summer house will
be a display of trophies won by
Mrs. Ewing, who is N. C. State
Trap Shooting champion.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cushman,
Valley Road, Southern Pines.
Modem ranch-type home of stuc
co and stone exemplifying mod
ern outdoor-indoor living. Out
side lodge with open fireplace,
overlooking broad vista of lawn,
flowering shmbs and pines.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Regan,
Fairview Drive. Knoll wood. Col
onial white-painted brick house
adorned with grape-patterned
wrought iron. Pebble garden by
entrance to house filled year
round with seasonal blooming
small plants. Holly arboretum of
40 different species surrounding
house and wooded grounds.
Mr. and Mrs.* D. K. Bullens,
Crest Road, Knollwood. Formal
Georgian house in pine grove
with five acres under planting
of magnificent azaleas, camellias,
bulb flowers and Oriental shrubs
and trees. Central portion of
handsome residence designed
to resemble Westover, ances
tral home of the Byrds in Vir
ginia. Wings resemble Home-
wood, after which the Bullens
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Joint Meeting Of
Two Organizations
To Hear Librarian
The League of Women Voters
and the Moore County Histqrical
Association will meet together
April 21 at the Shaw House then
adjourn to the Civic Club to hear
Mrs. Elizabeth Hughey, State Li-
*heJ°Pj,‘=-iMary Logan, secreter^raXlbe
Band Boosters To
Conduct Rummage
Sale Two Days
Lee Giles, director of the Sou
thern Pines high school band, will
leave in June for a tour of duty
with the Air Force, Superinten
dent A. C. Dawson said today.
Giles has been here two years.
In the meantime. Dr. Dawson
called attention to the rummage
sale being conducted by the Band
Boosters Club Friday and Satur
day and urged the public to assist
if they could.
'The band, he said, is almost
entirely dependent on funds
raised by the Band Boosters. 'The
Salary of Mr. Giles is paid as is
that of any other teacher but
little more financial assistance
can be made by school officials
to the band.
The rummage sale will be held
in the building on Bennett Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue form
erly occupied by the , Country
Bookshop.
From Lamplight to Satellite.'
The historical association will
first hold its annual meeting,
however, and the League will
hold a business meeting.
’There will also be a buffet sup
per served to the joint meeting,
which is Open to the public.
Attending the League’s meet
ing will be Mrs. Neal Austin of
High Point, president of the state
organization, and Mrs. I. Max
Miller of Greensboro, state coun
sellor.
OUTDOOR ART SHOW
An outdoor art show, to be
held in the Village Court in
Pinehurst, will be held next
Wednesday, the day of the
annual Homes and Gardens
. Tour of the Southern Pines
Garden Club.
Area artists are invited to
show their work in the show,
according to Mrs. John W.
Rettew and Mrs. L. P. Rigby,
operators of the Sandhills
Candy Shop in Pinehqrst
and sponsors of the show.
Artists are reminded, how
ever, that they must supply
their own easels. Further in
formation may be obtained
from either Mrs. Rigby or
Mrs. Rettew.
Plastic Bib Is
Death Mask For
Tiny Baby Here
A four-months old baby was
accidentally suffocated here Sun
day, apparently when a plastic
bib smothered him.
The baby was the son of Air
man 2|c Billy Whiddon of Pope
Air Force Base and his wife,
Frances, who live on Pennsyl
vania Avenue. His name was
Ricky Dale.
Coroner Ralph G. Steed pro
nounced the death an accidental
one caused by asphyxiation. 'The
child, found by his mother. Was
taken to Moone Memorial Hos
pital where efforts at resuscita
tion failed.
Funeral services were held
Monday, conducted by the Rev.
Maynard Mangum, pastor of the
First Baptist Church ahd burial
was in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
. The Whiddons have no other
children.
Huge Portion Of
ABC Income Coes
To Federal Gov’t
Annual Report
Shows $648,000
Paid In Taxes
The Federal government,
which doesn’t furnish a dime’s
worth of law protection in Moore
County and which doesn’t pay
a single employee of the ABC
system, nevertheless took a bite
of some $648,000 from the sale of
legal whiskey here in the last fis
cal year. That was about four
times the amount the county got.
The figures were revealed in
ai report made by L. J. Hinson,
secretary of the ABC board, at a
meeting of the County Commis
sioners Monday. The report cov
ered the operations of the two
stores—one here and one in Pine
hurst—for the year ending March
31.
Total sales in the stores were
slightly in excess of $1,450,000
Hinson said, and $185,000 was
turned over to the'county. With
that amount, he noted, the coun
ty has now received a total of
$2,913,500 since the ABC Board
was started in 1937.
First report of a new organiza
tion for education on alcoholism,
sponsored jointly by the ABC
Board and the Moore County
Mental HeMth Association also
appeared in Hinson’s report.
A State law permits a maxi
mum of five per cent of the total
profits to be expended for edu
cation on effects of the use of
alcoholic beverages, he said, and
that will be done in the future.
A committee, to be known as
the Moore County Alcoholic Edu
cational Committee, has been
formed, he said, with John Rug-
gles, a member of the State
Board of Hospitals Control, as
chairman. Other officers are L.
L. Marion, Jr., of Carthage, vice-
chairman; J. V. Healy, treasurer;
School Board Requests
$195,000 To Construct
High School ‘Phase C’
Dawson Says 8
Classrooms To
Be Included
A total of $195,000 for construc
tion and equipping “Phase C” of
the East Southern 'Pines High
School was requested for inclu
sion in Moore County’s 1959-60
budget by representatives of the
school Monday.
John Howarth, school board
Rev. R. L. Bame; pastor of the
Methodist Church here, program
director.
Marion and Healy are members
of the ABC Board.
Hinson continued in his report
that ABC officers in -the county
had made 163 arrests during the
year, with nine of that number
being acquitted at their trials.
Fines paid totaled $5,045. The
officers seized 274 gallons of
whiskey and 20 gallons of home
brew. They also destroyed 15
stills and 1,950 gallons of mash.
They also assisted in discover
ing and destroying distilleries in
adjoining counties as part of the
cooperative effort of other ABC
officers and Federal ATU agents.
Candidates Scarce
As Deadline For
Filing Approaches
Filing deadline for municipal
elections here is less than a week
off and there are still dnly six
candidates for seats on the Town
Council.
Next Wednesday at 5 p. m. is
the deadline, according to Town
Manager Louis Scheipers, Jr.
There are enough candidates
for Judge of the Recorder’s Court
to insure a primary but, unless
more people file, that will be the
only one. Candidates for that
position are D. E. Bailey, a pres
ent member of the Town Council,
William I. Barber and W'. Harry
Fullenwider.
The only announced candidate
for the position of Solicitor of
the court is Howard Broughton.
Seeking seats on the Council
are John Ruggles, George Tyner,
Dante Montesanti, Jr., Robert
Ewing, James Hobbs and Felton
Capel. It will take 11 or more to
have a primary in that election.
I Final Program In
Forum Series Set
Next Thursday
For its closing program of the
season on Thursday, April 16, the
Pinehurst Forum will present a
distinguished evening of music
with Miss Marjorie Lawrence,
great dramatic soprano, and Nel
son and Neal, outstanding young
duo-pianists, appearing in joint
recital at the Pinehurst Country
Club at 8:45 p. m.
The Forum program will be
preceded by the usual Country
Club buffet supper at seven
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chairman, and Dr. A. C. Dawson,
superintendent, met with the
Board of County Commissioners
at the Board’s regular monthly
meeting Monday in Carthage. The
request was taken into considera
tion along with others being made
by various agencies in the coun-
•iy..
Dr. Dawson, in presenting the
capital outlay budget for the lo
cal schools, said the funds would
be used to construct eight or nine
more classrooms adjacent to the
present school. The new building,
he said, would include an indus
trial arts department and another
science room as part of the class
room Space.
In reviewing the meed for the
building. Dr. Dawson said that
all of the first wing (Phase A),
which was completed in 1955,
houses the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades, plus the copimerc-
ial department and the laboratory
which are used by the high school.
There is also an eighth grade
classroom in the May Street
‘building (Phase B), with the rest
of the building being used by the
high school.
“We have a sixth grade current
ly being taught in the student
activities room, which is large
enough only for 22 students,” he
said, “and we also have a fifth
grade in the home economics cot
tage.” Both should be moved to
regular classrooms.
“So, as you can see, we are two
classrooms short right now. For
next year, we will have to add
a seventh grade, which will put
us three classrooms short as of
September 1, and by the time the
proposed new building is com
pleted we will be forced to add
another eighth grade class, which
will make us four' classrooms
short by the time we finish.
“We will, then, need four of the
proposed classrooms for elemen
tary grades.”
■The new building. Dr. Dawson
continued, will be similar in size
to the Massachusetts Avenue
wing and will make a “U” of the
building. It would be connected.
The $195,000 request included
$175,000 for the building and $20,-
000 for equipping it.
A similar request was made
last year but was turned down.
Almost all of the funds received
by Southern Pines last year went
into new construction in West
Southern Pines.
Dr. Dawson said no plans for
the proposed new building have
been drawn. He based the request
on requirements which he said
had been proven by past exper
ience and “the known things that
we will have to face.”
PINEHURST MINISTER
Southern Pines Masons Plan Joint
Service To Hear Dr. Thomas S. Roy
JOHN R. ORMSBY
Ormsby Installed
As Exalted Ruler
Of Elks Lodge
John R. Ormsby, Southern
Pines building contractor, was
installed last Friday night as Ex-
atled Ruler of the ^uthem Pines
Elks Lodge.
He succeeds Walter Harper
who has been serving for the
past year.
The ceremopies, in which a
large number of other officers
were also installed, were held
at the Southern Pines Country
Club, -which is owned and oper
ated by the Elks Lodge.
Dr. Thomas Sherrard Roy, resi
dent interim minister of the Vil
lage Chapel at Pinehurst, will de
liver the sermon at a special Ma
sonic service at the Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian church
Sunday at 7:30 p. m.
All Masons, their wives and
families, and other interested
persons are invited to this serv
ice sponsored by the Southern
Pines Masonic Bodies.
Dr. Roy, Canadian-bom, re
tired in 1951 after 23 years as
pastor of the First Baptist church
in Worcester, Mass. He served
twice as a delegate to the World
Council on Faith and Order, in
1927 when it convened in Switz
erland, and in 1937 in Edinburgh,
Scotland.
During a distinguished Mason
ic career he served during 1951,
1952 and 1953 as Grand Master of
Masons in Massachusetts; is a
past Grand Cfiaplain of the Im
perial Shrine of North America,
and was executive secretary of
the Conference of Grand Mastefs
of Masons in North America
from 1955 through 1958. He is a
33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason,
also a member of the York Rite
Masons.
He is a former chaiman, and
now secretary, of the Commis
sion on Information for Recogni
tion of the Conference of Grand
Masters of Masons in North
f^erica.
Dr. Roy is the author of “Di-
DR. THOMAS S. ROY
gest on Immortality,” published
by the Masonic Service Associa
tion, and editor of the two books
“Grand Lodge Recognition” and
“Information for Recognition.”
He is past president of the
Worcester (Mass.) Council of
Churches, past trustee of Worces
ter Polytechnic Institute and
presently on the board of direc
tors of Worcester Academy. He
has D. D. degrees from Acadia
and Colby colleges, L. M. D.
from Clark University and D.
Sc. from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute.