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VOL. 39—NO. 23
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1959
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
MATTER COMES UP MAY 9
Judge Decides Not To Intervene In
Hearing Concerning Jugtown Future
Trimble Officials
‘‘Pleased” With
New Plant Bids
Contracts for the construction
of the Trimble Products, Inc.,
building here were awarded low
bidders in Durham last week and
a spokesman for the company
said he was so pleased with the
bidding that an additional 5,000
feet would be added to the build
ing.
Overall cost for the modern
plant, which will now include
60,000 square feet, will be $302,-
580, of which $221,554 will go to
the general contractor, Dickerson,
Inc., of Monroe.
Interest in the job, according
to word received here from the
offices of John D. Latimer, Dur
ham architect who did the plans
for the building, was widespread
as indicated by the fact that 13
firms submitted bids on the gen
eral contract. Names of the win
ning subcontractors will not be
known for some 10 days, accord
ing to Norris Hodgkins, Jr.,
chairman of the local Industrial
Development Committee, but it is
understood that some of these
will be local companies.
Work has already been started
at the site, just north of town
on the US I bypass, by the State
Highway Department. Workers
are building an access road to the
plant from Yadkin Road and it
is expected that contracts for
water lines to the plant will be
let by the town in the next week
or so. The town has already
agreed to lay water lines.
Other low bidders for work on
the building, which will be of
brick construction, were King
Roofing and Manufacturing Com
pany of Sanford, heating and air
conditioning at a cost of $32,897;
General Automatic Sprinkler
Company of Charlotte, sprinkler
system, cost of $14,844; and
Adams Electrical Company of
Reidsville, elactrical contract at
a cost of $38,285.
Construction of the plant is
expected to get underway in
May.
BLOODMOBILE
The Red Cross regional
bloodmobile will pay a two
day visit to this county next
week, stopping in Aberdeen
Monday and coming to
Southern Pines Tuesday.
This is the second time the
bloodmobile has been to
Southern Pines and Aber
deen. the last time several
months ago when the quota
was woefully short.
In Aberdeen donors are
asked to go to the Baptist
Church any time between
noon and 6 p. m.; in South
ern Pines the bloodmobile
will be at the National Guard
Armory from 11 a. m. to 5
p. m.
Quotas in both towns are
250 pints.
Historical Group
Names George Ross
As New President
Judge Walter Johnston, Jr., re
fused this afternoon to intervene
in a restraining order which Jug-
town, Inc., secured last week for
bidding Jacques and Juliana
Busbee’s Jugtown, Inc., to oper
ate the famous establishment in
the northern part of the county.
The hearing was 'held at 2
o’clock and was attended by al
most a dozen members of
Jugtown, Inc., an organization
which is seeking to have invali
dated a corporation formed sev
eral weeks ago, principally by
John Mare of Southern Pines,
which has been operating Jug
town.
Judge Johnston, in effect, ruled
that a hearing which had been
set for May 9 in Rockingham be
fore Judge Donald Phillips was
in order. The hearing had been
ordered by Judge Heman Clark
on petition of Jugtown, Inc., and
was in the form of a restraining
order against Mr. Mare and asso
ciates from making or selling
pottery at Jugtown until tbs
hearing was held.
Mr. Mafe, through his attorney,’
W. D. Sabiston, had sought be
fore Judge Johnston to have the
hearing and restraining order
vacated on the grounds that no
valid cause was shown in the
complaint, presented before
Judge Clark.
Background of the legal tug-of-
war was this:
Early in March a charter was
issued by the Secretary of State
to the “Jacques and Juliana Bus-
bee’s Jugtown, Inc.,’’ and papers
certifying the incorporation ^were
duly filed in the courthouse in
Carthage. Mr. Mare, Mrs. Busbee,
and W. Lament Brown, attorney
for Mr. Mare, were listed as the
incorporators. Mrs. Busbee was
named, in the papers, as presi
dent; Mr. Mare vice president,
and general manager.
A deed in which Mrs. Busbee
conveyed the Jugtown property
to the new corporation was also
filed.
Mr. Mare issued a press release
in which he stated it was the aim
of the new corporation “to pre
serve the distinctive character of
Jugtown and to perpetuate those
things that have made Jugtown
a unique and attractive industry
for Moore County for so many
years. With the continued sup
port of Ben Owens (the potter)
we believe this fine craft will
continue to maintain the high
standards of beauty and use for
which it is famous.”
The pottery was operated in its
usual manner for a while but
then it became known among
some people who had connections
with the place that something
was brewing. Rumor had it that
things weren’t happy at Jugtown
at all.
Then, almost two weeks ago,
it became known that Owens had
quit his job.
Last Thursday Superior Court
Judge Heman Clark signed a
temporary restraining order, at
the request of several members of
Jugtown, Inc., which, in effect,
prevented Mr. Mare from alter
ing Jugtown in any way, making
or selling pottery, or doing any
advertising pending a court hear
ing. A show-cause hearing was
set for Saturday, May 9, before
Superior Court Judge Donald
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George Ross of Jackson
Sfirings was elected president of
the Moore County Historical As
sociation at a meeting of the di
rectors held at the Southern
Pines Library Tuesday afternoon.
Elected first vice president
was Mrs. K. N. McColl, with
Colin Spencer of Carthage sec
ond vice president, and Mrs. Al
bert Tufts oL Pinehurst, third.
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., was re
elected treasurer and Mrs. L. T.
Avery secretary.
'The meeting was conducted by
the out-going vice-president,
Mrs. Ernest L. Ivesi
Mrs. Ives brought several mat
ters before the meeting, among
them the fact that there had
been another outbreak of vandal
ism at Governor Williams’ tomb.
The lock had been taken from
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Survey Of Mineral Hobbs Lcttds Balloting In Council Race;
^^h n^^Fullenwider Has Wide Margin For Judge
ELECTION
Polls for Tuesday's election
open at 6:30 ajn. and close
at 6:30 pan.
Procedures for the election
will be the same as last week
in the primary: voters will
select five people they wish
to serve on the Town Council,
one for Judge of the Mtuiici-
pal Court, and one for Solid-
tor of the Court.
A vote of 1,200 is predicted
by many people, though that
would not be record.
Interest In
Mimng May
Be Restored
Moore County, long believed
to possess hidden deposits of
minerals that potentially would
yield extractors untold wealth,
will have a thorough geological
going ov^r by a team of experts
if some people who are interested
in the maAer have their way.
George Ross, newly elected
president of the Moore County
Historical Association, told the
Pilot this morning that ways are
being explored for such a survey,
though no definite plan has been
Redded on at present.
Last week, he said. Dr. Jasper
Stuckey, State Geologist, and
Harry Davis of the State Muse-
unt^ who is also a geologist, met
with several of the county com
missioners and others interested
in finding out just what minerals
exist here and initiate plans for
a geological survey.
Initiative for the meeting, was
supplied by the Historical As
sociation. Mr. Ross, who is a for
mer Director of the State De
partment of Conservation and
Development, is compiling data
of a geological nature, particu
larly as it relates to mining in
earlier days, for a history of the
county, of which E. T. McKeith-
en is gathering the information.
He said that mining was an
important part of the early in
dustry of the county, recalling
that Moore was at one time one
of the largest producers of gold
in North Carolina when the state
was the second largest producer
of the precious mineral in the
country.
Meeting with the commission
ers, in addition to Dr. Stuckey,
Mr. Davis and Mr. Ross, were
Ernest Ives, George Maurice,
Howard Butler, A. F. Granville,
Hugh Waddell, Rassie Wicker
and Fred Chappell.
Mr. Ross said he had learned,
during the course of initial in
vestigations into mining activi
ties, that there are several “rock HlghwHy Fatality
hounds” of note now residing in
the county and that they have-
enjoyed great success in their
collecting activities.
He also said that Moore Coun
ty, according to experts, was
known to possess one of the
State’s most varied mineral and
soil deposits.
“Potentially,” he said this
rnorning, “mining could again
become an important part of our
economy but that, of course, is
something we will have to find
out about in the future.”
He recalled that extensive
mining for pyrophillite is now be
ing done in two sections of the
county, at and near Robbins, and
near Glendon. /
And L. R. Reynolds, chairman
of the Board of Coxmty Commis
sioners told a reporter from The
Pilot Wednesday that he expect
ed to begin small scale gold
mining operations soon on prop
erty he owns in the Highfalls
area.
Young Musicians
To Perform In
Pinehurst Concert
Piano pupils of 12 Moore Coun
ty music teachers wiU perform
in the 10th annual Young Music
ians Concert, at the Pinehurst
Country Club, Saturday, May 2,
at 8:30 p.m.
The concert is sponsored by the
Sandhills Music Association and
concludes Association activities
for the season. There is no ad
mission charge. The public is in
vited.
As in past years, each of the 12
music teachers will present an
outstanding pupil.
Dr. William F. Hollister will be
master of ceremonies.
The young people who will
play, their home communities and
their teachers, in the order they
will appear on the program, are:
Ronnie Green, Farm Life
School—Mrs. C. Larry Hensley;
Mary Lee Inman, Southern Pines
—^Mrs. C. R. Mills; Libba John
son, West End—Mrs. L. R. Sugg;
SaUie Phillips, Cameron—Mrs.
Warren G. Ferguson; William Fi
Hancock, Robbins—Mrs. William
F. Hancock; Patsy Callahan,
Vass-Lakeview—Mrs. H. D. Mc-
Innis.
Also: Celeste Green, Aberdeen
—Mrs. C. H. Storey; Ellie Anne
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Coroner’s Jury
Clears Man In
Edmund Allison Ray, of Route
'4, Sanford, was cleared by a cor
oner’s jury Tuesday night in a
highway accident that took the
life of an Eastwood man.
Ray was operating a car that
struck Stacy Ritter, 40, of the
Eastwood community on US
Highway 15-501 in the Eastwood
section last Wednesday night. He
said at the time that he was trav
eling at a moderate rate of speed
and did not see Mr. Ritter.
Ritter died a few minutes later
of multiple injuries.
Coroner Ralph Steed impan-
neled a jury for Tuesday night
and it wqs the verdict that Mr.
Ritter was killed in an unavoid
able accident.
His was the third death attrib
uted to automobile accidents on
Moore County’s highways this
year.
Ray is a former resident of
Pinehurst, and a son of Mrs. Nor
fleet P. Ray of Pinehurst.
Dr. Charles Phillips To Head Mental Health Chapter
Dr. Charles S. Phillips, an as
sociate in the Pinehurst Surgical
Clinic, has been elected president
of the Moore County Mental
Health Association succeeding W.
Harry FuUenwider.
The association, meeting Tues
day night in the Town Hall, also
learned of a broad new program
of education on alcoholism to be
'nstifuted in the county and hesu'd
a brilliant and informative speak
er.
John S. Ruggles, chairman of
the Moore County alcoholic
education committee set up a
year ago, reported that ABC
funds in the amount of $5,000
had been granted for a program
which is already under way in
education of adults, and wiU be
instituted in the schools next
fall.
DR. CHARLES PHILLIPS
Under the State ABC laws,
certain proportion of profits may
be used for educational purposes
Dr. Joseph Kellerman, an
Episcopal minister now devoting
full-time to his work of executive
director of the Charlotte Council
on Alcoholism, spoke on alcohol
ism in relation to mental health,
and as an individual and a com
munity problem.
Other new officers: Rev. John
Brown, Pinehurst, 1st vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Robert S. Ewing, Sou
thern Pines, second vice-presi
dent; Miss Mary Logan, South
ern Pines, secretary; William
Graham, Jr., treasurer; addition
al members of the executive com
mittee, Dr. Emily 'Tufts, Harry
FuUenwider, Lawrence M. John
son.
Swearing In Of
New Officials
To Be Wednesday
Wednesday morning bids fair
to become a hectic one at the
Town Hall.
The Council—the outgoing one
will meet at 8:30 to certify the
results of Tuesday’s election.
After that piece of business is
disposed of the meeting will be
turned over to the Town Clerk,
Mrs. Mildred McDonald and she
wiU swear in the new Council-
men.
Following the swearing in cer
emonies, not expected to take but
a couple of minutes, Mrs. McDon
ald will call for nominations of
the Councilmen for Mayor. Once
the nominations are made the
vote is taken (and it can be done
either by secret ballot or by
voice vote) and the new Mayor
will take over.
He—or she, as the case may be
—will then ask for nominations
for Mayor Pro-Tern, that office
will be filled, and then nomina
tions for town treasurer. Once
that business is out of the way
the meeting will be adjouriied so
far as the Council is 'concerned,
but Mrs. McDonald will again
take over for the swearing in of
the new Recorder’s Court offi
cers.
As soon as that chore is finish-
ed---and there’s no estimate on
how long it will take—^the Court
will go into its regular Wednes
day morning session providing,
of course, that the hour of 9:30,
the regular time for the sessions
to begin, has been reached.
Hectic, indeed.
Welder’s Helper
Convicted On Two
Serious Charges
Larry W. Buie, 20-year-old
welder’s helper, was given an 18
months road sentence in court
here yesterdajr after being con
victed of forcible trespass and
"‘peeping tom.”
He is due to be tried in Aber
deen’s Recorder’s Court tomor
row (Friday) on charges of mak
ing obscene telephone calls,
which, it is reported, he has con
fessed to.
Buie was arrested Sunday
morning shortly after one o’clock
after a search that led all the
way to Aberdeen.
Mrs. Bruce H. Lewis of 310
North Bennett Street told polic^e
that someone was prowling
around her roof and she inquired
what the natme of his business
there was.
He replied that he was looking
for a ball he had dropped.
After she demanded that he get
off the roof, she said, he asked
if she had a ladder. Finally, she
told the police, he came down
and entered the house through a
window.
Three soldiers who rent apart
ments in Mrs. Lewis’s house talk-
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Official Returns
FOR COUNCIL:
James Hobbs
545
Felton Capel
478
Robert Ewing
475
Harry Pethick
372
John Ruggles
309
George Leonard
299
Dante Montesemli
264
Donald Madigan
207
Julia Steed
201
Janet Folley
123
George Tyner
117
Tom O'Neil
67
FOR RECORDER:
Harry FuUenwider
613
D. E. BaUey
220
WiUiam Barbour
21
FOR SOLICITOR:
John McConnell
335
Arthur Rowe
267
Howard Broughton
209
BASEBALL PLAYOFF
The Southern Pines Blue
Knights will play Boone
Trail, Harnett-Lee County
champions, in a district play
off baseball, game tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o'clock at
Memorial Field.
The Knights, by defeating
Westmoore Tuesday by a
score of 11-8, became chami-
pions of the county and re
ceived the right to represent
Moore County in the playoffs
which could lead to the state
championship.
The Knights have repre
sented the county in baseball
playoffs four times in the
past eight years, and have
twice been runners-up. Once
they went all the way to the
Eastern Division playoffs.
Next week's schedule de
pends on the playoffs, accord
ing to Coach Irie Leonard.
Soldier Killed In
Wreck At Powell
Pond .Last Night
One man was killed and anoth
er injured last night when a jeep
went out of control on a curve
at Powell’s Pond near here and
craSi.' i;d.
State Highway Patrolman Rob
ert R. Samuels, who investigated,
listed the fatally injured man as
Will E. Wright, 20, colored sol
dier of Fort Bragg. His compan
ion, Leon Goree, also colored,
was injured and carried by am
bulance to St. Joseph’s Hospital.
He was removed later to the hos
pital at Fort Bragg.
Wright’s was the fourth record
ed highway fatality in the coun
ty this year. Samuels said his in
vestigation was continuing and
he would need further informa
tion before he could determine
what charges, if any, would be
lodged.
He said that preliminary inves
tigation indicated that high speed
was probably the cause of the ac
cident.
Wright was killed instantly.
The jeep. Army owned and as
signed to the medical corps, was
totally demolished.
The accident occurred about
9:45.
Samuels was assisted by State
Highway Patrolman T. S. Clark
in the investigation.
School Officials
Ask Resignation
Of HS Principal
Irie Leonard, principal and
head football and baseball coach
at Southern Pines High School,
has been asked by the School
Board and Superintendent A. C.
Dawson to resign at the end of
the school year.
'The action, Dawson said this
afternoon, was taken after a
great deal of consideration on the
part of himself and the Board.
In the letter requesting Leonard’s
resignation, which was written
Tuesday, the basic reason for
making the request was in Daw
son’s words, “the inability of Mr.
Leonard to control his temper.”
He said he could not release
the entire contents because the
letter was a personal one to Mr.
Leonard.
Reached at the school, Leonard
said he was surprised at the ac
tion and could offer no comment
until he had time to study the
matter.
John Howarth, School B.oard
chairman, said over the tele
phone that the Board “has the
highest admiration for Mr. Leon
ard’s abilities as a teacher and
as a coach, but feels that its ac
tion was in the best interest of
the school.”
4- Harry FuUenwider, James
Hobbs, Felton Capel and Robert
Ewing emerged as the strongest
contenders for seats in town gov
ernment Monday as 949 voters,
considered a better than average
turnout, voted in the primary.
FuUenwider, running for the
seat of Recorder of the Municipal
Court, got a whopping 72 per
cent of the votes cast in this
phase of the election, defeating
D. E. Bailey by the margin of 393
votes. William Barbour ran a
poor third with 21 votes and was
eliminated.
'FUllenwider’s 613 votes was
the highest number received by
any candidate on the ticket
In the race for Solicitor of the
Court John McConnell led the
ticket with 365 votes, followed
by Arthur Rowe with 267 and
Howard Broughton with 209.
Broughton, as low man, was
eliminated.
That race, many think, will be
the hottest one come next Tues
day when the regular elections
are held. Rowe and Broughton
are both young and recent grad
uates of the University of North
Carolina and it might be that
Broughton’s support wiU be
shifted to Rowe.
The race for seats on the Town
Council was tight only in spots.
Along with Hobbs, Capel and
Ewing, the other tW in the top
five were Harry Pethick and
John Ruggles.
Hobbs had 545 votes to lead.
The other candidates wound up
as follows: Capel, 478; Ewing,
475; Pethick, 372; and Ruggles,
309.
With the’ exception of Tom
O'Neil, who ran la poor last with
67 votes, one less than he receiv
ed two years ago, and George Ty
ner, with 117 votes, the top five
will be joined by five others who
survived the primary for the reg
ular elections Tuesday.
Those other five are George
Leonard, who ran sixth with 299
votes; Dante Montesanti, 264;
Donald Madigan, 207; Julia
Steed, 201; and Janet Folley,
123.
If Capel is elected he wiU be
the second Negro ever to serve
on the Council. His supporters
were busy Monday in outdoor
quarters set up across from the
fire station and also in hauling
voters to the polls. The effective
ness of the campaign was clearly
visible in the fact that he ran
second on the ticket.
Most other candidates were
also at the polls some time dur
ing the day. Harry FuUenwider
was perhaps the busiest of all,
staying almost the entire length
of time the polls were open.
The vote of 949 was more than
in the primary two years ago. In
that one 873 people voted but in
the regular elections following a
total of 1,157 turned out. That
was less than the 1,214 who voted
in 1955, a record that still stands.
In 1957, however, the Council-
Manager form of government
was still in its early stages and
there was a great deal more in
terest. Last year, with th4 new
Town Hall building causing some
controversy, there also was an
issue.
But this year there are none, or
at least none that have come into
the open. Robert Ewing, who
lost in 1957, was the third best
vote getter this year so far as
the Council elections were con
cerned, and James Hobbs, who,
like Ewing, is an appointee to
the present Council, was far
out front on the ticket. Their
good showings seem to indicate
that issues are missing and most
people seem' to be satisfied with
the way Town HaU business is
being run.
With Leonard only 10 votes be
hind John Ruggles (neither did
much campaigning) that could
be a place Where the race wiU
be tight the next time. But the
next three in the listing, Monte
santi, Madigan and Mrs. Steed,
could also make the elections a
tight one.
Hobbs, Ewing, Pethick and
Ruggles all have experience in
running town affairs. The rest
are newcomers to politics, though
they, like the others, have been
active at various times in civic
affairs of the community.