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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959
Alcohol Education Program Begins;
Wide VaViety Of Material Available
Educational materials for “put
ting the facts before school chil
dren concerning the effects of
alcohol” are in abundant supply
for Moore County and will be
used extensively in a program
expected to get underway in the
near future.
At a meeting Tuesday night
the Rev. Robert Bame pastor of
the Methodist Church here and
director of a new program aimed
at educating the public on the
effects of alcohol, discussed some
of the material already available
and the methods planned for get
ting it before the public in the
best form.
The county has a $5,000 fund
to be used in the program. Mr.
Bame, together with Miss Mary
Logan, supervisor of elementary
education in Southern Pines
schools, will be in charge of the
program and will be assisted by
several teachers. Two met with
them Tuesday night.
Also at the meeting was Dr.
Norbert Kelly .executive direc
tor of the North Carolina Alco
holic Rehabilitation Program, and
George Adams, the program’s
educational director.
Both spoke on the work the
^tate is now doing and urged the
local committees to set up an ef
fective program. They also prom
ised any assistance the State
might be able to offer.
Dr. Kelly said that “if we are
ever going to do anything about
alcohol education, we must do it
through families and schools.”
He added that there were 64,000
court convictions in this state last
year involving whiskey, 45,000
arrests made for public drunken
ness, 10 to 12 thousand people
lost their drivers license because
of drunken driving convictions,
and 4,000 accidents on the high
ways where inebriation was in
volved.
He said there were 52,000 cases
of alcoholism in the State at pres
ent, “an appalling figure, but one
that we have seen reduced in the
past few years.”
Moore County has 15 scholar
ships for study at Eastern Caro
lina College this summer and it
is the hope of the committee that
a teacher from each of the schools
will make use of them. Details
may be obtained from Mr. Bame
or from John Ruggles in South
ern Pines, or from Miss Logan.
Mr. Bame said at the meeting
that he hopes to take the program
to the public through civic and
church groups as well as private
meetings with anyone wishing
to learn more about the effects
of alcohol.
Workers Laying Gas Lines Commended
For Efforts In Completing Neat Job
“People have been extremely
cooperative and patient with us
and we haven’t experienced any
trouble at all,” an official in
charge of laying natural gas pipe
lines in Southern Pines said this
week.
Andy Anderson, inspector for
Porter Barry and Associates, the
engineers handling the laying of
some 40,000 feet of pipes here
for the North Carolina Natural
Gas Corporation, said that; bar
ring any unforeseen trouble3(‘'the
job should be completed this
week with the exception of one
or two points.
“We have found the relation
ships here very pleasant,” he
said, “and would like to report to
the people that we have not been
forced to take out a single tree
while digging these miles of lines.
We have, to the best of our abil
ities, put the land back in as good
a condition as we found it.”
Mr. Anderson, a pleasant fel
low who has a dual job—diplo
macy and inspection—said that
two crews with as many as 50
workmen employed during the
peak of the construction, had
completed laying, a six inch line
^from Aberdeen to Morganton
Road; a four inch line from'Mor
ganton Road up Broad Street to
New York Avenue; a three inch
line down New York to Page,
then to Vermont and Leak, and
then out Crestview to the site of
the new Trimble plant.
Workmen have now dropped
back and are laying a two inch
main line and will be gping out
Bennett Street to Morganton
Road,
The workmen have gained the
friendship of many people who
thought that bringing natural
gas to town would also bring
plenty of trouble.
Mr. Anderson said he had
“leaned over backwards” when
the occasion demanded it, onoe
having crossed the street when a
woman objected to the pipelines
in front of her house.
H.3 has also directed the work
men to take up sod and where
possible replace it after the pipe
has been laid, and to fill in ditch
es as well as possiple.
“Digging a ditch in the Sand
hills is eeisy,” he said, “but it does
present one difficulty: we fre
quently had_cave-ins that were
bothersome, but by no means
something that we couldn’t over-
com.e.”
He said the only two pieces of
construction of any major im
portance still needed to be com
pleted were the laying of lines
under the railroad at two points:
New York Avenue and Vermont
Avenue.
The company, he said, expect
ed to begin laying the service
lines within two weeks and gas
would be available by the middle
of the summer.
Dominick Defatta, who is the
local representative for the com
pany, said this week that he had
about 150 customers, both resi
dential and commercial, signed
up for gas when it is available.
The project started in Southern
Pines April 6.
Alaska has the- highest birth
rate and the lowest death rate
of any state.
Automobile-bicycle collisions
during 1958 injured 59,300 per
sons.
JUDGE VACATES
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ana Busbee’s Jugtown, Inc., ar
gue the legalities of operating
the pottery under the present
setup.
Mr. Mare operated the pottery
only a few weeks before the re
straining order was issued and
since then it has been idle.
Each corporation claims a deed
to the property and Jugtown,
Inc., alleges that Mr. Mare ob
tained his deed by “undue influ
ence and chicanery.” Jugtown,
Inc., is a non-profit corporation
which has as its explicit aim “to
preserve the art and history of
handcrafted earthern-ware made
famous by Juliana and Jacques
Busbee.”
Mr. Mare’s organization also
has similar objectives.
At Saturday’s hearing Mr. Sea-
well read his complaint and in
troduced some 30 affidavits from
people who said they considered
Mrs. Busbee to be incompetent
and unable to manage her affairs.
Their statements covered vary
ing periods of time.
He claimed that Jugtown, Inc.,
had obtained a deed from Mrs.
Busbee to her property early in
December of last year but had
sent it to Alabama to be signed
by Mrs. Edith Judd, Mrs. Bus-
bee’s sister. Mrs. Judd died be
fore signing the deed and it
never was recorded.
In the meantime, be contended,
Mr. Mare stepped into the pic
ture during that period and ob
tained a deed and took over
operation of the pottery.
Mr. Sabiston, attorney for Mr.
Mare, asked at that point: “If she
was incompetent for a whole
year, what kind of deed do you
haVe?” He was raising the ques
tion, he said, to point up the fact
that if one deed was obtained
from “an incompetent woman,
then so was the other.”
Judge Phillips sustained a de
murrer presented by Mr. Sabis
ton for the defendants, Jugtown,
Inc., stating that on its face the
action of obtaining a restraining
order was invalid because the
plaintiff corporation had po real
interest in the case, could be
neither benefited nor damaged
by the outcome of the litigation
and consequently had no capacity
to sue.
To Mr. Seawell’s protest con-
To Mr. Seawell’s protest concern
ing. the rightness of his clients’
position. Judge Phillips said: “I
understand your objectives and
am in compete sympathy with
them. But you will have to cite
me some law if you want me to
find for your side.”
Included in Mr. Seawell’s large
number of affidavits and other
signed statements were two let
ters from doctors, Dr. A. A. Van-
ore of Robbins and Dr. Clement
Monroe of Pinehurst. Both said
that in their opinion Mrs. Busbee
exhibited signs of senility.
Mrs. Busbee was not in court,
Mr. Mare was though, as was a
small crowd of interested onlook
ers, including about a dozen peo
ple who term themselves “friends
of Jugtown,” and have formed
Jugtown, Inc.
The North Carolina Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles says to
all pedestrians: look alive to stay
alive.
ICE CREAM AND CASH were the awards
presented to winners of the Howard Johnson
Invitational Ladies Golf Tournament held at
Mid Pines Club last weekend and the ladies in
the above photo are enjoying a little of each.
Handing the winner’s check for almost $1,000
to Joyce Ziske of Milwaukee, second from left,
is Howard Johnson, president of the restauremt
and motor lodge chain, while Mary Lena Faulk
of Thomasville, Ga., at left, and Beverly Han
son, of Indio, California, enjoy a generous help
ing of ice cream from a sterling punch bowl.
Miss Faulk and Miss Hanson tied for second in
the tournament.
JOYCE ZISKE
(Continued from page 1)
Gloria Fecht, 223; Fay Crocker,
223; Peggy Kirk BeU, 224; Betty
Jamison, 226; Mickey Wright,
226; Kathy Cornelius, 227; Murle
McKenzie, 228; Marlene B. Hagge,
232; Betty Bush, 232; Mary Ann
Reynolds, 234; Gloria Armstrong,
234; Bonnie Randolph, 235, Wan
da Sanches, 235.
Prizes were presented on the
18th hole following the tourn
ament. A large contingent of lo-
col people and others who came
from points throughout the state
to witness the tournament were
on hand.
One of the big features of the
tournament was the dispensing
of free ice cream to any and
everyone who wanted it.
For the first year of the tourn
ament, sponsoring officials said
it was a whopping success, with
the possible exception of the rain
on the concluding day.
COUNCIL
(Continued from Page 1)
pointive and elective members
would serve the best purposes
of the town. Harry Pethick, re
turning to the Council this term
after failing for re-election two
years ago, said he had been in
favor of an appointive board,
when the question came up be
fore, but now believed that the
majority of the people in town
wanted an elective board.
“For that reason,” he said, “I
am in favor of making a change.”
It was Mr. Pethick who sug
gested that a post card survey
of opinion be made.
Mayor Ewing several times
during the conversation injected
a plea for avoiding hasty action
and allowing time for a complete
study of the matter. While in
sisting throughout that if the
peq'ple wanted a change they
were entitled to vote on the mat
ter, he ptressed the point that,
dife to the'legal requirements in
volved, immediate action was
impossible, even if desirable.
As to who would be eligible
to vote, it was brought out at the
meeting that, according to a sur
vey niade by a town-appointed
precinct study committee two
years ago, some 2,700 people live
in the school district which would
take part in the voting.
To pleas made from several in
the audience for “action” and, “a
public meeting,” the council
turned a subduingly deaf ear.
Councilman Pethick, backed by
W. Harry Fullenwider from the
audience, suggested that to hold
a public meeting would “turn
neighbor against neighbor, and
that’s something we want to
avoid. There is enough tension
now without creating more.”
Mr. Pethick was referring to
the controversy created when it
became known that Superinten
dent A. C. Dawson, Jr. had noti
fied High School Principal Irie
Leonard that his name would not
be included in the list of teachers
submitted to the School Board
for re-appointment and that the
board concurred in the decision
—a controversy which has creat
ed wide divisions in town.
Only positive action taken at
the Council meeting, besides the
decision to hold the post card
survey of, public opinion, was the
reappointment to the School
Board of P. I. York, for a four-
year term. Mr. York is the first
Negro to serve on the Board.
Drivers under 25 years were
involved in 27 per cent of the j
fatal accidents in 1958.
Youngster, After
Visit llere, Killed
In Auto Accident
One person was killed and five
others injured when a car skid
ded on a rain-swept highway
near Hamlet Sunday and smash
ed head on into another vehicle,
the State Highway Patrol report
ed.
The dead victim was Lee Ella
Ellison, 4-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Benton El
lison of Route 4, Taylors, S. C.
Ellison, his wife and 7-year-old
daughter, Emily, were carried to
the Hamlet Hospital.
Also injured and hospitalized
were Carlisle Morrison Smith
and James Willie McDoweU, both
of Hampton, Va. The accident oc
curred five miles south of Ham
let on N. C. 77.
Patrolman J. B. Pierce, who in
vestigated, said Smith told him
his car skidded on the slippery
highway and struck the Ellison
vehicle.
The Ellisons had been to South
ern Pines to visit Mrs. Ellison’s
mother and were on their way
back home. Pierce said Ellison
sustained severe lacerations of
the face and head and possible
broken ribs. His wife, Patricia,
suffered a broken back and brok
en hip. Emily received minor in
juries. Pierce said Smith has a
dislocated back, while McDow
ell sustained a dislocated hip.
Mrs. Ellison is the sister of Mrs.
Joe Woodall of Southern Pines.
Mr. Woodall is the Moore District
Boy Scout Executive.
ENEMY FORCES
(Continued from page 1)
and, |Something unusual, the re
serve units will be called to duty
(immediately from their homes
and immediately take up their
military missions.
The use of the Air Force Na
tional Guard and reserve forces
in a major exercise is a new test
of the nation’s Armed Forces’
ability to marshal for. a “brush
fire” war.
Here’s what will happen in
Southern Pines:
Two fictitious countries, North
Salada and Mountania, are at
odds with each other. The “Bram-
ac” strip is the heart of the prob
lem because its vast oil reserves
have made the area, a part of
North Salada, a tempting prize.
The strip takes in the Camp
Mackall Reservation and Fort
Bragg with aU land in between.
Southern Pines is the principal
town in the area.
The strip becomes the object of
much tension and finally the
United Nations (theoretically)
answers an appeal from North
Salada for help. The UN agrees
to provide aid and requests the
United States to furnish military
help.
Vigorous fighting results in the
strip, including parachute jumps
and the movement of heavy
equipment, but Southern Pines
is taken over by the invading
forces of Mountania.
That’s where the real role of
the town comes in. After being
invaded and the town govern
ment, newspaper and radio sta
tion confiscated by enemy troops,
there are pitched battles and the
town is liberated.
After that a special team
comes in from the 95th Military
Government Affairs Group and
will help to re-establish the nor
mal government.
Col. Bethancourt said that
realistic procedures will be fol
lowed as mudi as possible, but
stressed the fact that normal
business routine would not be
affected.
MATERNAL
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of Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson, co-
chairman of the county commit
tee, raised $110.00, with probably
more to come. Mrs. Carl Wynne,
Mrs. D. P. Troutman and Mrs.
H. J. Edge, of the Senior Wom
an’s Club, assisted Mrs. Johnson.
In Pinehurst, Mrs. Alfred M.
Derouin had as her helpers Mrs.
Michael Pishko, Mrs. J. Watson
Smith, Mrs. True Cheney, Mrs.
Melvin Wicker, Mrs. Journey,
and Mrs. Lela De Garve. Pine
hurst exceeded its usual amount,
raising $130 this year.
Carthage also added to its last-
year’s total by a slight margin,
turning in $89.26. The drive was
in the hands of Mrs. Fred B.sck,
president of the American Le
gion Auxiliary, with Mrs. Worth
McLeod assisting.
' From Cameron came a check
for $25. Mrs. Warren Ferguson
is the chairman for this neighbor
town.
Pinebluff’s contribution this
year is $41.00. Pinebluff’s major
effort, as always go.es into the
fine work carried oh now for
many years by the volunteer
committee which works closely
with the county welfare and
health departments under the
leadership of Mrs. Walter Mac-
Neille, secretary of the Maternal
Welfare Committee.
Helping Mrs. MacNeille were
Mesdames Walter Davenport,
John Fiddner, Clarence Durant,
Timothy Cleary, M. K. Lausten,
John D. Mangum, Mrs. Gustaf
son, and Miss Polly Sproul.
Vass remains to be heard from,
as do the Community Chest
towns of Robbins and West End,
always yearly contributors, and
the churches of West Southern
Pines.
HUBBARD
(Continued from page 1)
to formulate plans for next year’s
program.
At the meeting Friday reports
from the various chairmen of
chapter activities indicated that
a great deal of work had been
accomplished during the past few
months. Reports were received
from Father Francis Smith, pas
tor of St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church on home nursing; Gen
eral Hill on home service; Dr.
John C. Grier, Jr., on safety serv
ices; Mrs. Vance Wilson on Jun
ior Red Cross; Donald Kennedy
on the blood program. Mr. Ken
nedy was not at the meeting but
John Buchholz, reporting for him,
said that $10,176 has been collect
ed towards a goal of $13,684 for
Red Cross activities.
General Hill reported on var
ious activities during the past
year, congratulating the various
committee chairmen for their un
tiring efforts in behalf of the pro
gram. He said the base of the
chapter’s work must be broaden
ed so that more people could avail
themselves of Red Cross services,
and also for more people to take
an active part in the activities of
the chapter.
The guest speaker was Mrs.
Marion Ritzert, assistant director
of Volunteers of the Southeast
Area, Atlanta. She told of the
many Red Cross projects which
are continually expanding.
The nominating committee for
new officers wes composed of
A. L. Burney, chairman; Mrs. Ira
T. Wyche and Frank Shamburger.
General Hill announced that
the annual meeting of the Red
Cross would be held in Atlantic
City June 1-3, and that Mrs.
Audrey Kennedy, executive di
rector of the chapter, has been
appointed a member of an eigh
teen member committee on reso
lutions. She will leave for the
convention M.ay 26.
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