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THE PILOT—Southern PLies, North Carolina
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959
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BUDGET
(Continued from page 1)
$16,737, $21,863; water depart
ment, $49,157,. $44,661; public
safety, $4,269, $3,823; miscellan
eous, $5,039, $6,970; debt service,
$64,831, $71,855; and Recorder’s
Court, nothing appropriated in
1957-58, $8,756 this year.
Scheipers also disclosed in his
message that a large gift of an
undisclosed amount was received
during the year, and told the
Council that it was being used
to help reduce the debt on the
Milliken property.
Here are excerpts from his
message;
Fire Department
During the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1959, the Fire Depart
ment purchased approximately
$2,000 worth of,hose, nozzles and
clothing, installed new plumbing
in the lire house, installed a new
oil burner furnace, repaired all
the gutters, painted the inside
and the outside of the building
and all the necessary carpenter
ing was completed. These expen
ditures have put the fire house in
first class condition.
It was hoped that a new build
ing could replace the old build
ing in the rear; however, funds
are not available for this project
at this time.
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FIRST. . . «n<i SAVI I
ABERDEEN’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE
Police Department
Expenditures under “equip
ment purchases and replacements”
for the current year provided for
the installation of the jail area
and furnishings necessary for the
operation of this department. The
recommended budget figures for
the coming year provide for a
$20.00 per month salary increase
for each officer and sergeant and
a $30.00 a month increase for the
police chief. The $1,700 for equip
ment will provide for the annual
purchase of a new police cruiser.
As an added fringe benefit for
the police department, the Town
now pays for the cleaning of uni
forms and laundering of shirts.
With facilities in the new build
ing, officers are required to wear
civilian clothes to and from work
and their uniforms remain in
their lockers when they are not
on duty.
Recreation Department
Appropriations in this depart
ment remain fairly constant.
Provisions have been made for
adding to the staff a tennis in
structor for East Southern Pines
and a person to supervise the
baseball league in West Southern
Pines.
Buildings, Parks, Grounds
The expenditures in the year
ending June 30, 1959) provided
for cleaning equipment and clean
ing materials for the new Munici
pal Building, furniture for the
conference and council rooms,
new base' radio station, and re
pairs to the information center
building and ■ the library. The
largest item in the new budget,
with the exception of personal
services, provides for heating the
Municipal Building and the In
formation Center. ^
Library
The Library Board of Trustees
has recommended additional per
sonnel to operate the library.
Since the Town has taken over
the library, the circulation has
greatly increased. The figure for
the purchase and replacement of
items will be allotted entirely to
the purchase of new books. The
Board of Trustees recommended
that this item be increased in the
future whenever possible.
Cemetery Department
The chief item in this depart-
mfent is for the purchase of seed
and fertilizer for the annual sow
ing of Italian rye grass in the
Cemetery.
Sanitary Department
The $6,000 decrease in the rec
ommended budget is due entire
ly to the conclusion of payments
for the street sweeper and the
tractor at the sanitary landfill.
These items were purchased on a
36 month lease-purchase agree
ment and in the coming year,
there remain two monthly pay
ments on the street sweeper and
four monthly payments on the
tractor.
Street Department
In the year ending June 30,
1959, an appropriation was made
in the Street Department to sup
plement the planting of the
Highway Department on the new
Southern Pines Parkway.
Funds for additional planting
are not recommended in the
forthcoming budget.
The payment to the State High
way Department for the right-of-
way costs on the new Parkway
has been reduced to $2,500 over
the previous $5,000 for the pre
ceding year. The State Highway
Department agreed to have the
Town pay what it could afford
until the full share has been paid.
Sewerage Department
Personal services in the Sewer
age Department show an increase
for the coming year and the
Street Department shows a de
crease for the coming year. This
is brought about by the reshuff
ling of personnel in these two de
partments. The superintendent
and myself decided that this
change should be made in the
coming year. With that exception,
the budget for this department
remains unchanged.
Water Departmepl
The decrease in the coming
year is due largely to the pur
chase during the current year of
furnishings for the new building.
The Water Department is admin
istered from the Municipal Build
ing and pays part of the cost of
the operation of the Municipal
Building. The figures indicate
that the rates are sufficient and
there will be no need for any
change in the coming year.
Public Safely
This department operates the
engineering services rendered to
the Town as well as plumbing and
building inspection. A portion of
the personal services for this de
partment Eire charged to the Sew
er Department.
Miscellaneous
There are six items contained
under miscellaneous, including
one new one which was created
during the year ending June 30,
1959, This new item provides an
amount of $1,000 to cover local
expenses incurred by the South
ern Pines Industrial Committee.
The appropriation for publicity
has been doubled this year over
previous allotments for the pur
pose of advertising the Town.
The Advertising Advisory Com
mittee this year saw fit to create
an Information Center largely
because of the failure of the
Chamber of Commerce. The op
eration of the Information Center
which includes personal services,
utilities and supplies, costs ap
proximately $2,500 per year. It is
recommended for the coming
year that the Town Council com
promise with the request of the
Advertising Committee for an in
crease in taxes to provide addi
tional funds for their purposes.
It is my recommendation that the
Town Council endeavor to make
an additional increase next year
and thus boost the appropriation
for this department to $7,500 per
year which would then satisfy
the request • of this extremely
conscientious group.
Three years ago when the Na
tional Guard building was con
structed here in Southern Pines,
a request was made by the Com
pany Commander for a small
appropriation pach year to supple
ment the appropriation by the
State for the maintenance and
operation of the new building.
For the past three years, the
Town Council has appropriated
$300 and it is my recommendation
that we continue this practice
to aid in the operation of a build
ing that has meant a great deal
to this community.
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MOORE DISTRICT Boy Scouts—17 of them
—are leaving Saturday for Philmont Scout
Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. They will be.
accompanied by two adult leaders, Sam Garcia
of Lakeview and Joe Woodall, who is Moore
District Scout Executive. The ranch is located
on a 127,000 acre tract and each year Scouts
from all parts of the country pitch tents for 12
days of instruction and hitting the trail. Pro
grams at the ranch include mountain climbing,
geology, archeology, gun handling, fishing, na
ture studies, forestry, and many other associated
activities. Those going from the county are,
from left to right, in the top photo, the Pioneer
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Crew, composed of Kenneth Smithson, South
ern Pines; Sid Taylor, Aberdeen; Hal Williford,
Southern Pines; Leon Keith and Mack Blue,
Vass; Jim Tew, Southern Pines, crew leader;
Sam Garcia, Lakeview, advisor; and David Fun
derburk, Aberdeen. In lower photo, members
of the Pathfinder Crew, are Frank Farrell, Aber
deen; Jim Bradley, Pinebluff; Paul Chavis,
Southern Pines; Melvin Gardner, Southern
Pines; Pat Dougherty, Southern Pines; Kippy
David, Pinebluff; George Pettigrew, Jr., Raleigh,
advisor; Frank Staples, Southern Pines, crew
leader; and Marvin Cornell, Southern Pines.
Debt Service
The increase / in debt service,
both principal and interest, for
the coming year is brought about
by the sale of wa^er and sewer
and municipal building bonds
during the year June 30, 1959.
Recorder's Court
With six months experience in
the operation of the Southern
Pines Municipal Recorder’s Court,
appropriations have been made
for the coming year to meet the
needs in this operation. Under
personal services an item has
been recommended to pay the
salary of the Recorder, Prosecut
ing Attorney, one-third of the
salary of the Chief of Police and
one-half the salary of the Clerk
of Court.
With the revenue anticipated
for the coming year, the Court
will pay for itself and at the same
time render a fine service to the
people of our community.
Summary
This budget recommends a
blanket salary increase. The in
crease is $10 for all salaried em
ployees per month, with the ex
ception of the police receiving a
$20 a month increase and the
Clerk of Court and Administrative
Secretary also receiving a $20
a month increase. The hourly em
ployees in this recommended bud
get wiU receive an increase of
five cents per hour. This would
set the hourly wage scale at nine
ty cents to $1.05.
A pay plan ordinance provid
ing for these salaries is recom
mended by the Manager for adop
tion by the Council to conform
with these recommended salary
increases. This is the first blanket
salary raise received by the
Town employees since July 1,
1956. According to statewide fig
ures compiled by the North Caro
lina League of Municipalities,
these new salaries would place
the salaries of Southern Pines
Town employees slightly above
the average.
This budget can be met with
the present tax rate of $1.75 and
water and sewer service charges
remaining as they are. Provided,
however, that we adhere very
closely to the ordinances provid
ing for services to our townspeo
ple such as water and sewer ex
tension policies, yard raking
pickups, street improvement pol
icies, and others wherein the
citizens all receive benefits in a
like manner.
Chub Seawell’s New Book Reprted
Selling Well; Good Reviews Helpful
Herbert F. (Chub) Seawell’s re
cently published book dealing
with the life and times of the late
Judge Walter Siler, “The Earl of
Chatham,” is apparently enjoying
a mild literary success in book
stores throughout the State.
Though no sales figures are
available as yet, SeaweU said
Monday that he had learned
•through “several spy friends” of
his that customers in Greensboro,
Raleigh and Charlotte were “prac
tically falling all over themselves”
trying to get copies.
This weekend, to help things
along, dozens of copies will be
available in Blowing Rock where
the North Carolina Bar Associa
tion is holding its annual conven
tion.
Excellent reviews (one appears
in the Pilot today on page 3)
have appeared in most daily pa
pers. And SeaweU, who practices
law from home base in Carthage,
says the book has occasioned let
ters from all sorts of people: “old
friends I haven’t seen, or pros-
cuted, in years, strangers I’ve
never heard of, friends of my
wife, and some letters from peo
ple who, judging from the ex
cessively kind thoughts express
ed fear that I might be on
the opposite side of them in a law
case one of these days.”
One of the letters he treasures
most came from Ben Dixon Mc
Neill, author of “The Hatteras-
man,” one of the most applauded
books to be published in the
State in recent -years.
In the letter (which SeaweU
said he fired off promptly to his
publishers to be used “in case
the good publicity starts dying
down”) McNeiU said the book had
already occasioned him great
troubles.
“In the first place,” he wrote,
“I stayed up all night reading
the thing. Two friends of mine
got into an argument over who
would be the next to read it, and
I practically had to shove one fel
low out of my bed when he in
sisted on reading it along with
me.”
There were 2,500 copies of the
book pubUshed by Heritage
Printers, Inccorporated, Charlotte
publishers. A large number went
to Straughan’s, Greensboro book
store, and others were distribut
ed around the state in smaller
numbers.
Here in Southern Pines the
book has sold well, according to
a spot check of both the Country
Bookstore and Hayes Bookshop.
As far as could be determined
this week there were no copies >
available in Carthage.
Genial Chub, holding forth in
an anteroom at the courthouse
Monday while waiting to try a
case in Recorder’s Court, is ap
parently enjoying his new status.
“Why, I could tell a thousand
more stories about Sir Walter,”
he claimed, “and not one of them
even getting close to the ones
I’ve written in the book.”
And he probably could.
Adult Softball League Schedule 1959
Southern Pines Recreation Department
7:30—Galloping Ghosts
Manly
7:30—VFW
Manly
7:30—Galloping Ghosts
Moose
7:30-
-Moose
Lions
7:30—Manly _
VFW '
Thursday, June 18
vs. Lions
vs. VFW
Tuesday, June 23
vs. Lions
vs. Moose
Thursday, June 25
vs. VFW
vs. Lions
Tuesday, June 30
vs. Galloping Ghosts
vs. Manly
Thursday, July 2
vs. Galloping Ghosts
vs. Moose
7:30—^Manly
Galloping Ghosts
Tuesday, July 7
vs. VFW
vs. Lions
Thursday, July 9
vs. Moose
vs. Lions
7:30—Manly
VFW
Tuesday, July 14
7:30—Moose vs. Lions
Galloping Ghosts vs. VFW
Thursday, July 16
7:30—Lions vs. Manly
Moose
vs. Galloping Ghosts
Tuesday, July 21
vs. Moose
vs. Galloping Ghosts
Thursday, July 23
vs. Lions
vs. VFW
Tuesday, July 28
vs. Lions
vs. Moose
2nd games will start 10 minutes after completion of the first
game.
7:30—VFW
Manly
7:30_VFW
Manly
7:30—Galloping Ghosts
Manly
Play-offs begin Monday, August 3.
Recreation Director: Irie Leonard.
League Commissioner; Morris Johnson.