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VOL. 39—NO. 40
Program Honoring
Dr. Dawson Will
Be Held Sept. 4
Governor Hodges To
Speak At Session
Open To The Public
Complete plans for the Septem
ber 4 banquet and program hon
oring Dr. A. C. Dawson, former
superintendent of Southern Pines
schools, were revealed today by
Dr. Walter Sargeant, planning
committee chairman.
Both the banquet and subse
quent program will be attended
by North Carolina Governor Luth
er B. Hodges. The Governor will
be introduced at the banquet by
Voit Gilmore, master of ceremon
ies and will speak there informal
ly. Later he will deliver the main
address at the testimonial pro
gram.
The entire event was planned
by a joint committee of civic
clubs and other groups, to recog
nize the service of Dr. Dawson
to the community’s schools, dur
ing 22 years as teacher, principal
and superintendent. Dr. Dawson
resigned recently to become ex
ecutive secretary of the North
Carolina Education Association
and has moved with his family
to Raleigh.
The banquet, to be held in the
East Southern Pines school cafe
teria, is open only to ticket hold
ers. A limited number of tickets
are obtainable at $2.50 each from
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., at the Citi
zens Bank and Trust Company.
Most of the tickets are being sold
through civic clubs.
The testimonial program, at 8
p.m. in Weaver Auditorium, is
open to the public without charge.
Preceding the Governor’s ad
dress on this program will be a
solo by Tom Howerton and
prayer by the Rev. Cheves Ligon,
pastor of Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church.
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SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1959
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
40 & 8 Vehicle
Fire Burns Trio
At Minneapolis
The familiar “locomotive” of
Moore County’s 40 & 8 Voiture
made news at the American Le
gion’s national convention in
Minneapolis, Minn., this week
when it caught on fire, injuring
three men, one of theni from
Moore County.
A Moore County delegation to
the convention had taken the
vehicle with them. Holt McNeill
of Carthage, with Henry Johnson
of Fayetteville and Henry Hin
son of Monroe were the Legion
naires burned when a nearby
smoker ignited gasoline fumes as
the vehicle was being refueled
from a five gallon can.
Johnson, worst burned, requir
ed hospital treatment with minor
surgery. McNeill and Hinson
suffered ,arm burns.
Charles W. Swoope of Midland
Road, grand chef de gare of the
North Carolina 40 & 8 voiture, is
expected to drive the locomotive
back to the Sandhills after it is
repaired.
The 40 & 8, the Legion’s fun
and honor society, bases its tei^-
minology on World War 1 French
railroading. The name is derived
from box cars of that area which
carried 40 men and eight horses.
The “locomotive” appears fre-
qaentiy in parades in this area, j
Picture Behind A Picture: Winter Golf In August!
A couple of gentlemen dressed
in winter golf clothing (look
closely), somebody taking their
picture on the fourth hole of
Pinehurst’s No. 2 chaimpionship
course—say, what goes on here
anyway?
The golfers are J. Cecil Beith,
left, manager of the Aberdeen
Division of A. & M. Karagheusi-
an, Inc., carpet manufacturers,
and Edward T. Taws, head of
Fletcher Southern whose plant
on the Southern Pines-Carthage
road makes textile machinery
parts. And the man behind the
camera is Alan Gould, a top-
ranking free lance photographer
of Blowing Rock and Miami, Fla.
The photo he’s taking of the
golfers—or a similar one chosen
from several shots he made last
week—will be used by the Ad
vertising Division of the State
Department of Conservation and
Development in national adver
tising designed to show how in
dustry executives in North Caro
lina can easily get oat for a game
of golf on courses near their
places of business any time of
year.
The winter clothing was don
ned by models Beith and Taws
because the ads will appear some
time next winter. Photographer
Gould, whose color work appears
in big-circulation national mag
azines, was commissioned by the
Advertising Division. Voit Gil
more of Southern Pines, a mem
ber of the C. & D. board, said
that the aim was to get “some
thing original, something more
appealing” in the way of State
advertising. Sixty per cent of the
State’s advertising budget of
$750,000 for the biennium is spent
for travel promotion.
Leaf Markets In
County To Open
Monday Morning
Tobacco warehouses in Aber
deen and Carthage are being
readied for opening of Middle
Belt market sales on Monday,
August 31.
Three warehouses will operate
in Aberdeen: Hardee’s Ware
house on Highway 1, South; the
New Aberdeen Warehouse, be
tween Highway 1 and the Sea
board railroad: and the Planters
Warehouse on the Raeford high
way. I. A. Barnes is sales super
visor lor the Aberdeen market.
At Carthage, there are two
warehouses, the McConnell and
Victory.
Despite unfavorable weather
during the growing season—
drought for several weeks, fol
lowed by much rain—good tobac
co is reported ready lor sale in
this area and favorable prices are
anticipated.
UP, UP, UP!
The Iheimometer hasn't
been able to get below the
90's, for the high reading,
since August 14, according to
records at the official U. S.
weather station supervised
by Radio Station WEXB.
Top reading of the heat
wave came on Sunday with
96. Tuesday and Wednesday
were tied at 9S.
The Sandhills has known
hotter weather than this, but
seldom has there been as
prolonged a heat wave—two
full weeks in the nineties, if
it Icists through Friday.
Derby Leaves To Enter Law School;
Benedict Handling News Department
Vance A. Derby, who has been
news editor of The Pilot for the
past three years, has resigned,
planning to enter the University
of North Carolina Law School
at Chapel Hill, September 15.
Cad Benedict, associate editor,
this week took over duties of the
news department in addition to
his work with the editorial page.
He has worked on a part-time
basis for" the past three years.
Mr. and Mrs. Derby, who live
at 865 N. Saylor St, are now
building a house in Chapel Hill.
•They plan to move there next
month, with their two daughters,
Judy and Penny, and son, Tom.
Mr. Derby, who was born at
Tarboro, grew up in Charlotte
and is a graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina Journalism
School, came to The Pilot early
in 1956 as assistant news editor
and became news editor later
that year. He had previously been
associated with the Waynesville
Mountaineer and the Asheville
Citizen.
Mr. Benedict, who lives with
his wife and son, Christopher, at
610 Old Field Road, made his
home at Pinebluff before moving
to Southern Pines in 1956. Before
joining The Pilot staff in 1953,
he had been with the SandhiU
Citizen at Aberdeen and The
Sanford Herald.
AFTER HIP INJURY IN MAINE
Mrs. Boyd Convalescing Well
A direct communication from
Mrs. James Boyd, editor of The
Pilot, who was injured by a fall
in Maine last week, indicates she
is convalescing satisfactorily qt
a New York hospital.
In the letter, written Tuesday,
Mrs. Boyd said that she was sit
ting up in a chair, was suffering
no pain and was “coming along
wonderfully.”
The accident occurred at Mrs.
Boyd’s summer place at Sorrento,
Maine, and resulted in a hip frac
ture. 'The break was high up, re
quiring a metal cap, an operation
that took place Friday in New
York City after Mrs. Boyd was
flown there in a light plane ac
companied by a Maine physician.
Describing details of the fall,
Mrs. Boyd wrote: “Wearing new
(Slippers, walking down path of
Sandhills longleaf pine needles I
took up there, feet went out from
under me and I banged down
sideways and hit a rock.”
Mrs. Boyd did not say how long
she would be in the hospital. Her
address is Room 1064, Harkne^-
Pavilion, 180 Fort Washington
Ave., New York 32, N. Y.
A previous letter from Mrs.
Boyd’s daughter, Mrs. Noel Soko-
loff of Princeton, N. J., estimated
that Mrs. Boyd would be in the
hospital three or four weeks. ,
County Schools
Now In Session
Schools of the Moore County
system, which includes all
schools of the county except
those of Southern Pines and
Pinehurst—opened Wednesday
for registration, going into their
full time schedule on Thursday.
At the office of Supt. R. E.
Lee, it was stated that a complete
count of the system’s enrollment
had not yet been compiled.
Reports On Moore
County Youth To
Be Given Monday
Progress And Needs
Featured In White
House Group's Study
The public, particularly those
interested in Moore County youth,
is invited to an ■ open meeting to
be held Monday at 8 p.m. at the
high school auditorium in Car
thage, to hear the report of the
Moore County White House Con
ference Committee on Children
and Youth.
The Rev. Maynard Mangum of
the First Baptist church here,
chairman of the county commit
tee, said subcommittee chairmen
will make their reports on all
aspects of the youth situation in
Moore in the form of a panel dis
cussion.
The “grass roots” report will
then be incorporated in Mr.
Mangum’s report to the North
Carolina committee, to be com
bined with those of other coun
ties in the statewide report. This
will be presented, with those of
the other 49 states, at the sixth
annual White House Conference
on Children and Youth, to be
held at Washington, D. C. March
27-April 2, 1960.
The White House Conferences
have been held at 10-year inter
vals since the first one, called by
President Theodore Roosevelt in
1909, and serve as the basis for
increasing and changing facilities
and services for the nation’s
youth, with new legislation to
meet the needs of the times.
Theme of the upcoming confer
ence is “To promote opportunities
for children and youth to realize
their full potential for a creative
life in freedom and dignity.”
Making their reports Monday
night based on subcommittee sur-
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Boosters Slate
Barbecue Sept. 2
Members of the Blue Knights
Boosters Club and'persons who
v/ould like to join the club were
reminded today that an outdoor
barbecue dinner will be held by
the club on Wednesday, Septem
ber 2 at the Southern Pines
Country Club.
The dinner will take place two
days before the opening football
game of the Southern Pines High
School Blue Knights, Friday,
September 4.
Memberships will be renew
ed and the outlook for the
coming football season will be
discussed. The Boosters Club is
composed of adults interested in
high school athletics.
Schools Here Starting
New Term September 2
^ Elementary
School Short
Of Classrooms
Southern Pines youngsters,
from first through 12th grades,
have a date at 8:30 a. m. Wed
nesday of next week, September
2—the opening day of school.
Here are highlights of school
opening, announced by Superin
tendent Luther Adams.
All students, on entering
school, will find class rolls posted
on the doors of the rooms they
will occupy. Persons in the halls
will direct young children and
mothers with first graders to the
grade rooms.
J. B. PERKINSON
Perkinson Will
Head Financial
Drive Of Scouts
James B. Perkinson of South
ern Pines will be county chair
man for the annual financial
campaign of the Moore District
Roy Scouts, it was announced
this week by Joe Sandlin of Sou
thern Pines, district chairman.
The campaign will begin Sep
tember 14. Assisting Mr. Perkin
son will be: W. Lamont Brown,
advance gifts chairman; Harold
Collins, Century Club chairman;
and F. F. Rainey, general fund
chairman.
Looking ahead to the financial
campaign, Mr. Sandlin this week
told of the growth of Scouting in
Moore County during the past
year, as well as a lively activity
program. He recaUed that Moore
District (county) had won the
Dcconeechee Council’s President’s
Cup for first place in activity and
growth in Scouting in 1958 and
said that the district is in posi
tion to retain first place again
this year. The cup has never been
won for two consecutive years
by any one of the 15 districts in
the 12 counties of the Council, he
said.
Highlights of this year’s activ
ity were listed by Mr. Sandlin
as:
County Scout enrollment of
1,010, 140 of whom were added
this year.
Active units have increased
from 49 to 57.
Three Scouts and Scouters at
tended the World Jamboree in
the PhillipineS; 18 went to the
!^hilmont Scout Ranch in New
Mexico; four boys toured Canada;
and 40 attended Camp Durant,
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Daniel, Mrs. Jones Winners In Sandhill Tennis
Sam Daniel, veteran of Caro
lina tennis courts and of two pre^^
vious victories in the Sandhill
Invitational, retained his champj^
ionship in a breath-taking finals
match last Sunday afternoon.
In a tough three-set tussle
with 25-year-old Bobby Green,
a Duke medical student, Daniel
took one hard-fought set, lost
the second, then in the third ral-
lie when the score stood 4-0
against him. The gallery favorite,
Sam drew cheers as he see-sawed
to victory: 7-5, 3-6, 9-7.
Daniel teamed with Ed Hud
gins of Greensboro to win the
men’s doubles also, against Bob
by Green and Marvin Silver of
Chapel Hill.
Mrs. Raymonde Jones of Fort
Bragg, former French net ace,
returned to defend her title with
ease and grace against the same
opponent as last year, 18-year-
old Joanne Cooper of Charlotte.
Playing a nearly perfect game,
Mrs. Jones won 6-0, 6-1.
Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Evange
line Davis of Greensboro were
women’s doubles winners against
Miss Cooper and Sally Seebeck
of Charleston. In mixed doubles.
Miss Seebeck and Ted Keesler
of Charlotte won over Lillian
Seabrook and Benny Vam of
Charleston.
The tournament opened Thurs
day with a strong field of about
,30 men players, including some
of the best-known in the State.
A contingent from Fort Bragg
provided added interest. Only
about,a half-dozen women were
entered.
David Drexel served as tourn
ament chairman, assisted by-
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., Mildred
Gruebl, John McMillan and
others of the Sandhill Tennis
association, which sponsored the
event in cooperation with the
summer recreation program. The
STA entertained the visitors at
a barbecued chicken supper on
the town park Thursday night.
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CONGRATULATIONS—Just after the ex
citing men’s singles finals Sunday in the Sand
hill Invitational Tennis tournament, Mrs. Ray
monde Jones rushed over to congratulate the
finalists. From left—Sam Daniel, winner for
the third straight year; Dave Drexel, tourn
ament chairman; Mrs. Jones, women’ssingles
and doubles champion, and Bobby Green, run
ner-up to Daniel. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
. The session on Wednesday will
last until 12:30 p. m. The school
cafeteria will not be open on
Wednesday, but will be op.°n
Thursday which will be a full
school day.
Under the regular schedule, the
first through 3rd grades are dis
missed at 2:15, the fourth grade
at 2:30 and the fifth through 12th
grades at 3.
To enter first grade a child
must be six years of age on or
before October 15 of this year.
Registration of first graders is
taking place each morning this
week, 9 a. m. to noon, through
Friday. But if a child was not
registered this week, parents are
requested not to go to the school
for registration Monday or Tues
day, but to bring the child on the
opening day, Wednesday.
At the time of registration of
first graders, whether this week
or next Wednesday, a birth cer
tificate must be presented along
with evidence of immunization
for smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus
and whooping cough. Also, for the
first time this year, certification
is required that polio vaccine
“has been taken or is in process
of completion.”
This means that a child will be
admitted if he has started a series
of polio shots and has a doctor’s
certificate that the shots have
begun and wiU be completed.
Policy on second grade admit
tance from private first grade
schools—a rule that began last
year—was stressed by Supt.
Adams: such a student must pre
sent a birth certificate showing
he will be seven years of age on
or before December 1 of this year.
There will be three classes in
each of the East Southern Pines
elementary school grades this
year.
Shortage of classroom space
means that two of the sixth
grades will meet in church as
sembly rooms. Therefore all sixth
grade students are asked to go
to Weaver Auditorium at 8:30
a. m. on Wednesday, the opening
day. They will be assigned to
classes at that time.
The location of the two classes
to be held outside the school had
not been decided in time for this
information to be included in to
day’s Pilot.
The interior of Weaver Audi
torium was painted during the
summer. Also painted were the
corridors and lobby of the East
Southern Pines elem.entary
school, as well as some of the
classrooms.
103 Buses Ready
For School Use
All of Moore county’s 103 school
buses have been inspected and
found to be in good working or
der, s^dd Cpl. J. A. McColman of
the State Highway Patrol this
week.
After making their inspections,
the patrolmen were busy the first
part of this week riding all the
school bus routes with the drivers,
to check road conditions the buses
will meet after school begins.
Cpl. McColman reminds motor
ists that the “Stop” sign on school
buses means just that, and that
under the State law, traffic going
in either direction must come to
a full stop when a school bus has
halted to load or unload passen
gers.