VOL. 39—NO. 33
Appropriation Of
$15,000 Made To
Fix County Home
Commissioners
To Lease Building
To Private Firm
An appropriaton of' $15,000 has
been included in Moore County’s
budget for the new fiscal year to
be used for renovation of the old
county home.
The building, located south of
Carthage on the road to Southern
Pines, has bean in a state of bad
repair for several years. It was
closed because it was inefficient,
uncomfortable and in need of ex
tensive repairs.
Since then those people who
would have been housed there
have been sent to private board
ing hMnes.
The county has been petitioned
several times by interested peo
ple to repair the home and lease
it, according to one person in the
courthouse, but such a move had
never been undertaken because
there was sufficient space for
needy people in the private board
ing homes. Their subsistence,
either in part or, in most in
stances, in whole, was paid by
public funds.
But there has been an increas
ing need to open the facility be
cause of new regulations made by
the state which require the pri
vate boarding hofnes to adhere
to strict safety rules.
The commissioners allotted
$15,000 for the job this year, $14,-
000 of it for actual repair work.
The other $1,000 was the normal
appropriation for maintenance.
The dog pound at the county
home has been moved to new
quarters under the direction of
Hardy Barber, the dog warden.
Just when the renovation of
the county home will take plaos
is hot known at this time.
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SCHOOL HAS 1200 STUDENTS
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1959
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PRICE; 10 CENTS
Leonard Accepts Job As Principal
At Shallotte; To Move In Angust
Youth Groups Of
Local Churches
To Meet Sunday
.A town-wide youth federation
pleating will be held at Brown-
sojji Memorial Presbyterian
Church Sunday night, according
to Dr, Cheves K. Ligon, pastor
pf the church.
The meeting is one of a series
to. be held here during July and
^tigust, rotating among the vari
ous- churches. It is open to youth
groups of all churches.
Last week the meeting was
beid at the First Baptist Church
with approximately 100 attend
ing.
Sunday night the Rev. Robert
C. Mooney, new pastor of the
Southern Pines Methodist
^hurch will speak. Roger Gibbs
'(will also be on the program as
song leader and soloist.
Light refreshments will be
served.
Irie Leonard, former principal
and head football coach of the
high school here, has been named
principal of Shallotte High School
in Brunswick County.
He said today that he would
move his family there some time
in August, as soon as he com
pletes his work as director of the
summer recreation program fob
Southern Pines.
Leonard resigned his position
here several weeks ago after be
ing notified by school officials
that he would not be offered a
contract for the next school year.
The action subsequently caused
wide resentment against the
school board and superintendent
A. C. Dawson and resulted in one
public meeting of the ' school
board and a great many charges.
Leonard’s new job is actually
much larger than the one he held
here. The school at Shallotte, part
of the Brunswick County system,
is in the “union consolidated’’
classification, which . means all
grades from one through twelve
are under the supervision of one
man. Some 1,200 students attend
the school and there are 40 teach
ers on the staff.
As principal, Leonard will not
have any responsibilities of
teaching and coaching. He did
both, in addition to his principal’s
duties, while on the local faculty.
Mrs. Leonard, who was on the
faculty at Aberdeen for several
years as an English teacher, will
join the faculty at Shallotte.
Leonard came to Southern
Pines in 1951 from Walnut Cove.
He had received his college train
ing at Guilford and at the Univer
sity of North Carolina where he
was awarded a Master’s Degi^ee
in 1951 in Educational Adminis
tration and Supervision.
While here he has made one
of the State’s most outstanding
records as a high school coach.
His football teams have been con
sidered among the best in the
South, both while playing the
six-man variety and, in the past
two years, in 11-man.
IRIE LEONARD
Jury List For
August Court Term
Contains 70 Names
A slate of 70 people was se
lected Monday for the August
term of criminal court in Moore
County.
The list, twice the nprmal size,
was selected at the regular
monthly meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners. Reason
given for selecting so many was
that a grand jury must be ap
pointed in August.
The list:
Herman P. Smith, Route 1,
Aberdeen; Frank w! Price, Route
1, Aberdeen; James F. Kennedy,
Robbins; Edward S. Powell,
Aberdeen; J. C. Stanley, Sr.,
Manly; Raymond J. Burnett,
Route 1, Cameron; J. W. Kelly,
Route 2, Carthage; James Alex
Jackson, Route 1, West End;
Jackie Francis Edwards, Route 1,
Carthage, H. Wilford Lassiter,
Vass.
- „ , James Lester Maness, Robbins;
The teams under his coaching W. Glen Sniver, Route 1, Eagle
Mrs. Wilson Opens
Agency For Sale
Of Real Estate
Mrs. William J. Wilson an-
announces today the opening of a
real estate office in her home at
540 E. Ohio Avenue.
She will handle both sales of
real estate and rentals.
Mrs. Wilson, whose husband is
Building and Safety Inspector for
Southern Pines, recently, was li
censed by the North Carolina
Real Estate Licensing Board. She
also holds membership in the Na
tional Real Estate Licensing
Board.
She said today that she would
work out of her home until she
finds a suitable location for the
establishment of an office.
Mrs. Wilson is a native of New
York City. She grew up in Keene,
N. H., and Boston, and came here
to live during the war after mar
rying Mr. Wilson, an Air Force .
officer.
have won state championships
twice and have been in the finals
on three other occasions. Last
year, the second that the local
school fielded an 11-man team,
the state finals was achieved on
an unbeaten record that included
several shutouts.
His'^ baseball teams have also
won several county champion
ships and landed in the runner-
up position on other occasions.
Leonard holds membership in
the Lions Club, the American
Legion, and is a member of the
Board of Deacons at the Church
of Wide Fellowship.
He is also a member of the
Board of Directors of the North
Carolina Coaches Association and
a former member of the Board of
Control of the North Carolina
High School Athletic Association.
It will be recalled by many
that he has directed the activities
of the summer recreation pro
gram here for the past eigl..
years and during that time he
pushed formation of the Little
League, Pony League, and the
adult softball league.
'Mrs. Leonard has been acti^ c-
in the affairs of the Junior Wom
an’s Club.
The Leonards have two chil
dren, Gregg, 8, and Jason, 1.
This morning Leonard said that
he had enjoyed his stay in South
ern Pines and, of course, felt a
certain sadness in leaving.
“This is one of the best places
in the world,” he said, “and it
has been good to my family and
me. We have made some strone
friends and that is the hardest
thing to part from.
“The job in Shallotte is a good
one, however, and it means staj-
ing in educa.tion, which I think
is the most important thing in
the world.
“We will return often for visits.
And we welcome anyone coming
to the coast to visit us.”
Springs; Robert C. Monroe, Aber
deen; Thomas C. Cheek, Route 1,
Robbins; W. H. Arrington, Jr.,
Aberdeen; Lenwood Bryant,
Route 1, Cameron; Miss Dora
Maness, Route 1, Robbins; Char
lie Dowdy, Route 1, Carthage; W.
C. Williams, Eagle Springs; Her
bert Patterson, Route 3, Carth
age.
W. B. Hill, Carthage; Eugene
McDonald, Pinehurst; D. H. Gar
ner, Route 1, Robbins; W. W.
Batchelor, Route 1, Aberdeen; D.
R. Salmon, Star Route, Carthage;
H. L. Hendricks, Cameron; B. E.
Thomas, Route 1, Aberdeen; Ro
land Monroe, Route 1, Eagle
Springs; T. T. Bass, Robbins; J.
A. Chappell, Lakeview.
Lloyd M. Seawell, Route 1,
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Wilson To Bcome
National Guard
Training Officer
Resigns Position
With Town; No
Successor Named
William Wilson, Public Safety
and Building Inspector for South
ern Pines has resigned effective
July 15, it was announced today
by Town Manager Louis Schei-
pers, Jr.
Wilson will become the assist
ant operations and training offi
cer of the 2nd Medium Tank Bat
talion of the North Carolina Na
tional Guard. His headquarters
will be in Raeford.
Wilson, a former Air Force
pilot, has been with the town for
fiye years. His duties, in addifion
to that of public safety and build
ing inspector, included engineer
ing, drafting, and assistant to the
Town Manager.
He has been commanding officer
of the National Guard unit hens
since October of 1959. The unit;
Company D of the 2nd Medium
Tank Battalion, has 60 men and
three officers and has headquar
ters in a handsome new Armory
completed only last year on Mor-
ganton Road.
His new job will be that of as
sistant training officer for the
some 400 men and officers of the
battalion. Companies of the bat
talion are located in Lahrinburg,
Hamlet, Rockingham, St. Pauls
and Southern Pines, with head
quarters at Raeford.
Scheipers said this morning
that he had found no replacement
for Wilson yet. Other members
of the town staff will take over
the duties in the meantime, he
added.
Wilson has been succeeded in
his National Guard duties here
by Captain James Harrington of
Pinehurst.
Harrington, who is assistant
treasurer of Pinehurst, Inc., has
been a member of the Guard for
the past six years. He served in
the early 1950’s with the 82nd
Airborne Division for more than
three years.
He had formerly held the same
job in Raeford that Wilson will
be going to. Guard officials re
cently decided to make the posi
tion a full-time one.
Ha^ington was promoted to
captain in May of this year.
Wilson said he would continue
to maintain his home in South
ern Pines and commute to Rae
ford daily.
Commissioners Happed By County
School Board On Appropriations
"^Funds For Local,
Miss Gruebl Is
New Director Of
Tennis Program
Miss Mildred Gruebl has been
appointed tennis instructor for
the remainder of the summer
recreation program here, accord
ing to Irie Leonard, director.
Miss Gruebl, one of the area’s
outstanding tennis players, re
places John McMillan, who re
signed last week in order to at
tend a Boy Scout meeting in the
Philippines.
She is maintaining the same
schedule as before; 9 a. m. to
noon, and 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Mon
day through Friday.
Leonard also reminded parents
that a full program of activities is
available for youngsters at the
park daily under the supervision
of Nancy Jo Traylor. He said that
croquet, badminton, horseshcses,
and other activities are on the
schedule, 9 a. m. until noon, and
2 p. m. until 5 p. m. daily, Mon
day through Friday.
Four From Here
In State Jaycee
Golf Tournament
Four young golfers from
Southern Pines will compete in
the 8th annual N. C. Junior Golf
Tournament in Kinston July IS
IS.
The tournament, to ba played
over the Kinston Country Club
course, is being spftJisored by the
State Junior Chamber of Com
merce. It is open to boys in the
state who will not be over 18
years of age before August 15.
The four from Southern Pines
—Charles Rose, Eddie McKenzie,
Tommy Clark and Topper Parks
—were selected and are being
sponsored by the local chapter of
the Junior Chamber of Com
merce, of which Paul Boroughs is
president. <
All four of them played on the
team at the high school this year
and all are considered top golf
ers in their age brackets.
COUNCIL MEETING
The Southern Pines Town
Council has a routine meeting
coming up Tuesday night. Among
items to be discussed is the re
placement of Dr. Amos Dawson
as a member of the library for a
term to expire June 30, 1960.
RECORDSET
Audrey McCaskill, Moore
County's Register of Deeds,
said her office set a pleasant
record in June.
With some 34 marriage li
censes issued, she said, an
all-time high was establish
ed. She was so busy issuing
them for July, however, that
she didn't have time to check
the records to see just what
the previous record had
been.
$25,000 Suit Is
Filed As Result
Of Manly Wreck
A civil action asking $25,000
for personal injuries has been
filed in Moore County Superior
Court by Roger Lee McDonald of
Route 2, Cameron, against -Carl
Jesse Black of Aberdeen and
John Howard Edmonds and
Royce Edmonds of Cameron.
The suit grew out of an acci
dent which occurred in early
February on US Highway 1 at
Manly in which one person, Mrs.
Carl Jesse Black, was killed.
McDonald was a passenger in
the vehicle which Royce Gray
Edmunds was driving when it
collided head-on with the car
operated by piack. He alleges
that the wreck was caused by the
negligence of both drivers, and
as a result of the injuries he sus
tained, he was hospitalized and
out of work for five weeks. He
said he lo.st $69 per week in
wage^.
Another suit has also been
filed in the Clerk of Court’s of
fice in which Lawrence Rowell of
Moore County is seeking $7,500
for personal injury and $179 for
auto repairs. Defendants in the
action are listed as Walda Jean
Prim and Winfred Prim of Wake
County.
Rowell alleges that Walda
Jean Prim was operating a ve
hicle belonging to Winfred Prim
which struck the rear end of his
car on June 28 last year in San-
flord.
Overton To Have Restored Ford In
Horseless Carriage Tour Next Week
J. T^ Overton, proprietor of the
Sandhills Drug Company here,
is among a group of 75 members
of the North Carolina Horseless
Carriage Club planning to take
part in the annual tour July 14-
17.
The tour opens the night of
July 14—next Tuesday—with a
GUEST MINISTER
The Rev. Gene Bauer, chaplain
at McCain Sanatorium, will be
guest minister for the 11 o’clock
service Sunday at the Church of
Wide Fellowship.
is
TEENAGE CLUB at the local Moose Lodge
is getting to be one of the most popular places
in the Sandhills on Friday nights. The club,
open from 8 to 11 p. m. only on Fridays,
sponsored by the Moose and has been in prog
ress about one month. Good crowds have been
attending, according to E. M. Oldham of Vass,
lodge governor, and they are growing each
week. Teenagers from any place in the lodge’s
jurisdiction, which includes all of Moore County,
are invited to participate. There is* no charge.
The teenage club will run throughout the sum
mer and continue in the fall and winter if the
demand is great enough. Moose officials said.
It is located in the building on U. S. Highway 1
north of town that formerly housed the Johnson
Discount Store.
big horseless carriage exposition
at the Legion Park in Laurinburg
and will climax three days later
at Charleston, S. C. The exposi
tion portion of the tour will fea
ture a display of the old cars
making the tour, plus Johnny
Mack Brown, oldtime cowboy
movie star, as guest of honor.
Show time is 8 p. m.
The old- cars will chug out of
Laurinburg. , early Wednesday
morning en route to Columbia,
I where the group will spend the
night.
The second lap of the tour will
be to Charleston where the group
will hold its annual meeting the
night of July 16. Along the route
the caravan will stop for brief
periods at Bennettsville, Darling
ton, Florence, Tintmonsville,
Sumter, Orangeburg, Branchville
and Summerville.
Mr. Overton will drive his re
stored 1923 Ford Roadster in the
tour. He has spent the past few
days taking tune-up trips to
places as far away as Wadesboro.
He reports that he gets better
than 20 miles per hour in the
car.
Last year he was in a tour that
went to Concord, Gastonia, Spar
tanburg, Greenville and Hender
sonville. He also was in the Fall
Festival at Thomasville along
with dozens of other antique car
lovers.
The tour this year will feature
entries ranging from a 1904 Reo
to a 1929 Ford. Some of the other
famous makes are a 1908 Buick,
1910 Overland, 1907 Brush, 1909
Maxwell, 1911 Case, and a 1909
Pullman.
County Units Said
Out Of Proportion
The Moore County Board of
Education, backed by an im
pressive array of statistics and
accompanied by a delegation of al
most ' 100 school board members
from various parts of the county,
Monday charged the County Com
missioners with gross favoritism
in the allocation of capital out
lay funds to city administrative
school Units for the upcoming fis
cal year.
The commissioners, arms fold
ed and countenances stony, met
the charges, for the most part,
with silence. Only occasionally did
any of them volunteer an answer
to the questions that were pop
ped at them from either the
school board members or the del
egation.
The meeting had been request
ed by the County School Board,
of which J. A. Culbertson of Rob
bins is chairman, when the bud
get was published last week. He
noted that only $140,000 in cap
ital outlay funds had been made
available for county needs
though a total of $226,066, plus an
additional $150,000 reserve funds
for super schools, had been
requested.
At the meeting, held in the
courtroom, a mimeographed sheet
was distributed showing the al
locations in capital outlay funds
for the three units—county. Sou
thern Pines, Pinehurst—since the
1946-47 budget was adopted.
Culbertson said the summary had
been prepared by school officials
from records on file in the audi
tor’s office.
Biggest discrepancy, Culbertson
said, was the fact that the county
schools, with an enrollment in
excess of 7,000, had been allocat
ed only $140,000 for building
needs. Southern Pines, with an
enrollment of 1451, this year got
$90,000 ^nd Pinehurst, with 824
enrolled, received $45,000.
Superintendent Robert E. Lee
noted that the funds allotted to
the county units would not pro
vide for any new building pro
grams. On the contrary, he said,
it might be unable to finish jobs
already underway.
The commissioners, accompan
ied by John C. Muse of Sanford, a
certified public accountant who
prepares the county budget after
the commissioners get all the
figures together, said they were
doing the best with the funds
available.
L. R. Reynolds, the chairman,
said: “Of course we would like
to see the schools get more moiiey.
We would like to see them have
everything the School Board
thinks they need. But in order
to stay within the $1.35 tax rate,
there just wasn’t enough for
everything that was asked for.
We did the best with what we
had.”
But the delegation of school
board members from most of the
units in the county didn’t think
so.
Sample questions: Is someone
else’s child better than mine?
Why does it cost more to edu
cate a child in a city unit than
it does the county, if indeed it
does? Why does the county school
system always manage to get the
crumbs after the city units get
what they want? Aren’t county
kids due the same treatment as
those in Southern Pines and
Pinehurst?
Thus, the questions went. And
for the most part, they also went
unanswered.
Jere McKeithen of Aberdeen
pointed out that the over-all
spending in the county this year
was more than last year, but at
the same time, allocations for the
schools were down.
He criticized the commission
ers for keepng in the budget more
than $100,000 for the construc
tion of an agriculture building in
Carthage when a building was
already available.
He was referring to the old Car
thage elementary school, no lon
ger in use by the school system.
Several years ago, he remind
ed the commissioners, a delega
tion of farmers and agriculture
officials had requested the build
ing for their use. TTie School
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