K-^lkllOlllldS^ a term used
Icribe those who collect rocks
Jobby, are a growing breed in
County. For a report on the
lies of one of them, turn to
|A” and see how he goes about
: them and what he does after
crowding out everything
the house.
VOLf39—NO. 31
eighteen pages
Tw^Tournaments
• Slaied In August
Byffennis Group
ior And Senior
bnis Both Will
[Held Same Week
TwS
11th al
vitatioi
b held'
17-23
|tennis tournaments, the
lual Sandhills Junior in
i and a senior .event, wjll
*ire the week of August
ider sponsorship of the
Sandhill Tennis Association.
Announcement of the comple
ted plans for the tournament
were made this week by Mrs
^ Robert McMillan, association
president.
The Sandhill Invitational will
<||l begin Monday, August 17, and
conclude Wednesday. The senior
tournament begins Thursday, Au
gust 20. and conch des Sundav.
Both '* ili be sanctioned by the
Southern Lawn Tennis Associa
tion anu will include mens' and
women’s singles and doubles and
mixed doubles.
David Drexel is chairman 03
the toutnament con mittee. Mem
» bers of his committee are Nervs
• Hddgkins, Jr. Mrs. Charles Phil
lips, Mr. and Mrs. George H.
Leonard, Jr., and George Little.
Walter Harper is in charge of
securing trophies.
Mrs. McMillan will direct ac
tivities of the entertainment com
mittee and has already planned
a supper party in the park on the
opening day of each of the tour
naments.
The association is holding its
membership drive next week.
Old members and prospective
new ones will be contacted by
the junior members of the asso
ciation.
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Tires Valued At
$3,000 Stolen;
One Arrest Made
An estimated $3,000 worth of
tires were stolen from the Qual
ity Oil Company at Eagle Ejrings
last Thursday night and ’^iter
located by Montgomery Coum.y
officers.
Sheriff W. B. Kelly said that a
woman had been arrested in the
case but declined to reveal her
identity. She is being held in
Moore County jail.
The tires, there were 53 of them
including 10 large ones for use
on trucks, were located by the
Montgomery County officers in
a wooded area about 12 miles
west of Troy. Kelly said that
Moore County deputies took part
in the search and hunt.
He said that the officers kept
a night-long watch on the hiding
place and saw two men brought
there in a car driven by a wo
man. The men became alerted to
the officer’s presence, however,
and managed to get away. The
woman also drove off but was
picked up later parked on the
highway a short distance* away.
The sheriff offered few details
on the case. He said his office
was still investigating as of this
morning.
The oil company, of which Wat
son Scott of Southern Pines is
manager, has been robbed several
times before.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959
THREE STILL HOSPITALIZED
EIGHTEEN PAGES
Trees and wires are always a
favorite editorial subject of The
Pilot. Recently, a. member of our
staff saw what was done in a neigh
boring town and, on today’s editorial
page, describes what could, suid
should, be done in Southern Pines
to preserve what many think is the
most precious possession we have.
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Six Injured, One Critically, When
Car Rams Into Another In Pinehluff
Six people were injured, one of
them critically, in a two car ac
cident in Pinebluff last Friday
afternoon.
State Highway Patrolman
Frank Swaim, who investigated
l^ss Parker Resumes
Book Reidew Column
<1^ Miss Lockie Parker, who con
ducts a book review for The Pil
ot, was back on the job this
week, both for the reviewing task
and in her regular job as co
proprietor of the Country Book
shop.
Her column today, spritely as
ever, deals for the most part with
books she read while recovering
from a long siege of illness at
^ Moore Memiorial Hospital. She
* expects to spend only a small
amount of time at the bookshop
for the next few weeks but when
fully recovered will take up her
duties oh a full-time basis.
One of the other owners, Mrs.
Margaret Richardson, is operat
ing the summer shop in Blowing
Rock. The store here will be
open throughout the summer on
a part-time basis with Mrs.
V Margaret Lausten in charge. '
Russian Movie Of
Ballet Will Be
Presented Here
The first Russian motion pic
ture to be shown in North Caro
lina will be presented Wednes
day, July 15, at the Sunrise
‘Theatre, according to Robert Dut
ton, manager.
The picture is entitled “Stars
of the Russian Ballet,’’ and stais
Galina Ulanova, leading balle
rina in the world today.
The film is being distributed in
North Carolina by the Shan V.
Sayles organization of Fort Bragg
and coincides with the first tour
of the famed ballet corps of the
Bolshoi Opera House.
The film, of feature length, was
photographed in the new Soviet
color process, Magiccolor. Sayles
says it has never before been
seen in North Carolina and is
completely different from the re
cent J. Arthpr Rank production
presented in several movie
houses.
Among the ballets presented in
the film are Tchaikovsky’s clas
sic “Swan Lake,” which stars
Mile. Ulanova and N. M. Dudin-
skaya; “The Fountain of Bak-
nchisarai,” an Arabian nights
fantasy based on the poem by
Alexander Pushkin and featuring
Ulanova and Maia Plisetiskaya;
and “The Flames of Paris,”
which uses as its vehicle the
French Revolution.
Advance tickets are now on
sale at the movie boxoffice.
the accident, listed the injured
as a Mrs. Kelly and her two
daughters, and a Mr. Helms and
his wife, and daughter. Mr. Kelly
was not injured.
Swaim said the accident occur
red in front of Keith’s Grill,
which fronts on US Highway 1,
about 1 p. m. He said that Mr.
Keith and his family had parked
in front of the grill and had plan
ned to go in and eat. The Helms
car came over the hill from the
South and crashed into the rear
of the Kelly car.
Worst injured was four-year-
old Patricia Kelly. She was
standing in front of her father’s
car when Helms crashed into the
rear and was run over and then
picked up by the Helms car and
dragged about 70 feet. Several
bystanders quickly removed the
car and the little girl was taken
to the hospital by Earl Collins,
who is .employed by the tele
phone company in Pinebluff.
All but Kelly were admitted to
the hospital and three, including
Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Helms and the
Kelly child are still there.
Patrolman Swaim, who was on
the scene in about two or three
minutes (he lives two blocks
away) said that Helms told him
he “blacked out” and the last
thing he remembered coming into
Pinebluff was seeing the sign at
Carpenter’s Gulf station. He has
been (Charged with careless and
reckless driving and being in-
^ volved in an accident where a
personal injury occurred.
Mr. Kelly, who lives in Phil
adelphia, was returning from
Georgia where he had visited his
son at an Army camp. Helms,
Swaim said, is from Cocoa, Fla.,
and was reportedly coming to the
State for a visit.
Both cars were considered total
wrecks.
County To Get Poultry
Diagnostic Laboratory
Blue Reviews
Assembly Bills
Affecting County
GRANITE MARKER which officially renames Pine Grove in
Pinehurst in honor of General George C. Marshall, a winter resi
dent of the community for several years, has been installed but
not yet dedicated. The marker is located about 75 yards from the
Sandhills Woman’s Exchange and across the street from the
Village Chapel. The park contains a grove of old* pines, the only
such grove in the area at the time of the resort’s founding.
(Pilot photo)
Stanley Austin Announces Purchase
Of The Brown Office Supply Company
Stanlpv Aii-Qtin of q I I’nO't'OA i*kf TS 11 1-(.n m m It
Stanley Austin, proprietor of a
business machine company here,
has purchased tbs -Sandhills Of
fice Supply Company, owned by
the family of the late Harry L.
Brown.
The transfer of the business,
and the opening date, will be
July 1, Austin said yesterday. It
will be operated under tbe firm
'mam
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name of Austin Business Machine
Company.
The Sandhills Office Supply
Company, located next to the
A&P store on Pennsylvania Ave
nue, was organized by Mf. Brown
about four years ago. Prior to
that he had operated the Under
wood Typewriter agency and an
office machine business for
more than 30 years in the Sand
hills and adjoining area.
Austin was associated with Mr.
Brown fo)^ 11 years. He purchased
the business machine part of the
business about a year and a half
ago, maintaining a sales store and
repair shop in the Eddy Build
ing on Pennsylvania Avenue.
He said yesterday that he
would continue as the franchised
dealer for Underwood machines
of all types in seven counties, and
would also handle Olivetti add
ing machines and calculators,
Smith-Corona portable type
writers, and the same type mer
chandise formerly sold by the
Brown business, which consisted
for the most part of office sup
plies, office furniture and rela
ted equipment.
Austin is now in the process of
moving his equipment from the
Eddy Building to the Brown
Building.
Unusual Cemetery Markers
stoneware jugs, turned on kick wheels more thn
years ago, have been placed on half a dozen graves instead
of the customary granite headstones in the Union Grove
Baptist Church on Highway 705 jmt over the Moore Coun
ty line m Randolph. The jugs, turned with what one pot
ter of the area considers the finest stoneware clay he has
ever seen, have withstood the ravages ot weather and
time for six decades. Made so that no water ^ay enter,
though a small hole in the bottom allows moistui^ to es
cape, the jugs, or headstones, were once in abundance at
the graveyard but vandalism and removal by other mu^ns
has reduced them until there is now only those shown i,
the picture plus one other in the newer part of the grave
yard. The marker in the picture at left reads: “Flora Jane
Teague, Born Oct. 7th, 1891, Died May 24th, 1895.” One
other distinction of the cemetery: though there are more
than a thousand graves, only one contains the remains of
a doctor. Several slaves are believed to be buried in un
marked graves nearby. (Pilot photos)
Grover Grandson
Still Missing In
New York Woods
The search for little David Ra
leigh, five-year-old grandson of ' )
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Grover of
Southern Pines, is continuing in
the Catskills Mountains of New
Fork today.
The boy has been lost since
Saturday, June 13. Reports re
ceived here by Mrs. Louis Schei-
pers, Jr., a relative, were that the
search had not been given up and
that the parents of the youngster,
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Raleigh, Jr.,
were still hopeful the search
would yield their son.
Hundreds of people, including
members of the armed forces. Boy
Scouts, National Guardsmen,
neighbors of the Raleighs, and
people who do not know them
but Me sympathetic, have been
combing the heavily wooded area
Mound Lake Winnisook, high in
Catskills, since the yoimgster
"^^discovered missing.
Grover, parents
Ari mother, have been in
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friends of the family ^
Hew did Moore County fair in
the 1959 General Assembly,
which adjourned Saturday after
a near record 137 days in session?
R.epresentative H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen, who served as
chairman of the House Finance
Committee, and Senator Wilbur
Currie of Carthage, chairman of
the Senate’s Welfare Committee,
were satisfied for the most part
with the session.
Blue said the major piece of
legislation passed for Moore
County was a bill providing for
the establishment of a poultry
diagnostic laboratory to be loca
ted “somewhere in the county.”
Ihe bill was sponsored in the
House by Blue and in the Sen
ate by Currie. Though the labora
tory is to be Seated ip Moore
County, it will be lor use of any
one in the state.
There’s one catch to the bill,
however: for it to become effec
tive, it will be necessary for
Moore County or one of its mu
nicipalities to provide the land
and the building to house the
laboratory. The State will pay the
salary of those who operate it.
The measure. Blue said this
week, was introduced at the re
quest of poultry leaders in Rob
bins and the adjacent area who
pointed to the great need for
such an installation.
“It is understood,” Blue said,
“that Mayor John L. Frye of
Robbins and other leaders of that
community are anxious to have
the laboratory located there since
Robbins is regarded as' the
‘Chicken Capital of North Caro
lina.’ It has also been suggested
that the facility be located in
Carthage.
“While the laboratory will be
avialable for poultry growers
anywhere in the State, it is ex
pected that it will be used by
the poultry growers in the sur
rounding counties since the
nearest State-operated poultry
diagnostic laboratory is in Ra
leigh.”
The poultry industry in Moore
County now commands the dis
tinction of being the top money
crop, according to county farm
officials, and far exceeds tobac
co in dollar sales.
The General Assembly, inci
dentally, also passed similar leg
islation to make a laboratory
available for Duplin County, an
other poultry center.
Blue listed other legislation
that affected the county or one
of its municipalities, as follows;
H. B. 221. This bill relating to
the Southern Pines Recorder’s
Cburt provided that any quali
fied voted residing within the
court’s territorial jurisdiction is
eligible for election as recorder
or prosecuting attorney and for
appointment as vice recorder,
clerk and assistant or deputy
clerk (prosecutng attorney must
be a licensed attorney).
H. B. 328. Provided that there
will be no closed season on foxes
in Bensalem, Sheffield, Ritters,
Deep River and Carthage Town
ships in Moore County.
H. B. 482. Provides that the
members of the Moore County
(Continued on page 8)
School Positions
Here Still Vacant
Applicants for the positions of
principal of the Southern Pines
High School and superintendent
of the school system were being
interviewed this week and more
will be conducted in the next
few days. Dr. A. C. Dawson said
this morning.
Both positions have been va
cated because of resignations:
Dr. Dawson accepted the job of
executive director of the North
Carolina Education Association,
and his superintendent’s job will
be vacant when his resignation
becomes effective next week; Irie
Leonard, who was principal of
the high school, said this week
he was considering several offers
he had but did not reveal the
nature of them.
Applications for both positions,
it is undferstood, have arrived
in fairly heavy numbers. It is Dr.
Dawson’s job to screen applicants
for the principal’s post and make
a recommendation to the School
Board.
The Board has been interview
ing applicants for Dr. Dawson’s
job but has met with no success
to date.
Annual Reunion
Of BJue Clan At
Lakeview Sunday
The annual Blue Clan reunion
will be held in Lakeview Sunday,
according to J. Sam Blue, presi
dent.
A picnic dinner will be spread
at 1 p.m. at the commimity house
which is located near the Pres
byterian Church. The Blues and
their kinsmenr—and there are
many of them in this county—
are urged to attend and bring
well-filled baskets for the oc
casion.
Other officers are Elwin Blue,
vice president, and Mrs. Alma,
Negro Youth Of
Carthage Jailed
On Capital Charge
A 17-year-old Negro boy Wcis
being held in Moore County jail
this week without privilege of
bond following a hearing before
a Carthage magistrate. The boy,
identified as Clarence Edward
Small, was charged with first de
gree burglary, a capital offense.
Sheriff Wendell B. Kelly said
that a complaint had been made,
by M. H. Tillman of Route 2,
Carthage, that the boy had en
tered the bedroom of his two
daughters Friday night. Tillman’s
two daughters, both teen-agers,
were asleep in the room. Sheriff
Kelly said he was informed,
when they awoke a little after
midnight and saw the youth in
the room.
Their screams scared Small
who hurriedly left the room
through a window.
Sheriff Kelly said that he call
ed in several other officers when
he learned of the offense, inclu
ding deputy sheriff Robert Ed
wards, Corporal Jim- McColman
of the State Highway Patrol,
ABC Officer C. A. McCallum,
and Captain N. J. Morgan of the
State Prison Camp near Carth
age. Bloodhounds from the pris
on camp were brought to the
house but were unable to follow
the scent.'
A tip was provided him, how
ever, Sheriff Kelly said, and he
went to the home of Small, about
(Continued on Page 8)
Jones, secretary.
1,000th Scout In
County Will Be
Honored Tonight
The young boy who became
the 1,000th member of the Boy
^out program in Moore County
in active service will be intro
duced to Scout workers and spec
ial guests tonight (Thursday).
J. E. Sandlin, district chair
man, said the introduction would
be made at a district meeting at
8 p.m. in the Church of Wide
Fellowship.
Identity of the youngster is be
ing held secret until the meeting,
S^dlin said, and not even dis
trict Scout adult workers had
been told his name. But who
ever, he is, he is due to receive
a nuhiber of gifts.
In the past 18 months the total
number of Scouts in the county
has almost doubled, as has the
number of adult workers.
Sandlin said that those figures,
along with others relating to the
number of advancements and re
ports from various committees,
would be released at the meet
ing.