VOL. 39—NO. 41
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1959
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Thomasson Heads
^ Bowlers; League
Play Will Begin
Other Officers Of
New Group Elected;
Leagues Organized
Completing its organization,
the new Sandhill Bowling Asso
ciation has elected W. S. Thom
asson of Southern Pines as its
first president and has named
other officers and directors.
Meanwhile organization of
bowling leagues here and in oth
er towns of the area is going
ahead and league play is expect
ed to open Tuesday at the OK
4^ Bowl on S. W. Broad St.
Officers elected to serve with
Thomasson are William Sanders,
vice-president; Jack Barron, sec
retary; and Bill Lee, treasurer,
all of Southern Pines. The di'
rectors are Billy VonCanon of
West End and James Johnson,
Southern Pines. The president
expects to appoint other directors
who will provide representation
0 for the various participating com
munities.
Membership in the Association
is confined to men but plans call
for formation of a ladies’ associa
tion, following the formation of
a Women’s International Bowl
ing Congress.
The men’s group is designed to
secure sanctions for league play
under rules and regulations of
0 the American Bowling Congress.
However, among the newly
formed leagues which will soon
begin play at the OK Bowl are
a Carthage Ladies League, one
formed by the BPO Does here
and another mixed league of
couples.
Men’s leagues already formed
include: Businessmen’s Leagues
No. 1 and No. 2; Pacific Mills,
^ Raeford; and Amerotron. Several
church leagues, of both men and
women, are being formed here.
Entry of church leagues may be
made with Col. G. H. Garde,
manager of the OK Bowl.
It was emphasized that mem
bership in the Sandhill Bowling
Association is not required to en
ter league play. However, men
bowlers in this area are invited
« to join the association which in
cludes members from various
leagues.
The first league expected to
start play Tuesday is Business
men’s League No. 1. Teams in
this league include Thomasson
Furniture Co., Scott Insurance
Agency, Five O’clock Club, Col
onial Stores, Sandhill Furniture
Co., VonCanon Furniture Co. of
West End, Karagheusian of Aber-
r deen. Southern Pines Lions Club,
Denton Realty Co. and Little’s
Gulf Service.
Practice matches and some
league play have been conducted
during the past week.
EAGLE SCOUT—Jack Dowless, 14, of Ab
erdeen, center, receives from his mother, Mrs.
Jack Dowless, the high-ranking Eagle Scout
pin, in a ceremony at the morning service of
Page Memorial Methodist Church, Aberdeen,
on Sunday. Others in the photo, left to right,
are J. G. Farrell, district Explorer Scout com
missioner; Jesse Wilson, advisor for Explorer
Post 808, Aberdeen; and Jack’s father. (Photo
by Humphrey)
HIGH PRICES PAID
ON TOBACCO MARTS
Opening day average prices
of better than $60 per 100
pounds were listed on the
Aberdeen and Carthage to
bacco markets Monday.
Warehousemen described
the opening as the best in
years. Both poundage and
money paid ouKset a record
on the Aberdeen market, said
1. A. Barnes, sales supervisor.
Average price paid at the
three Aberdeen warehouses
was $62.68. At Carthage the
average at the McConnell
warehouse was $63.86 and at
the New Victory $60.81.
The three Aberdeen ware
houses—Planters, New Aber
deen and Hardee's—sold 342.-
266 pounds of leaf. At Car
thage, the two warehouses
sold 241,406 pounds.
Game At Raeford Friday To Open
Football Season Of Blue Knights
Two Democratic
Groups To Meet
On September 11
Mrs. John L. Frye, president of
the Moore County Young Demo
cratic Club has announced that
the annual meeting of the organ
ization for the election of officers
for the coming year will be held
Friday night, September 11 in
the courthouse at Carthage at
7:30 p. m. '
Mrs. Frye who is now conclu
ding her third term as president
of the Moore County YDC has
announced that she will not be
a candidate for reelection.
So far no one has announced
for the County YDC presidency
to succeed Mrs. Frye although
the names of E. O. Brogden Jr.
of Southern Pines and Carthage
and DeWitt Purvis of Deep River
have been mentioned as possi
bilities.
_ W. Lamont Brown of Southern
Pines chairman of the Moore
County Democratic Executive
Committee, has called a meeting
of that organization the same
night at 7 p. m., in the county
commissioners’ room in the
courthouse 30 minutes prior to
the meeting of the YDC.
Opening Bids On
Savings & Loan
Building Today-
Bids on constructing the pro
posed building of the Southern
Pines Savings and Loan Associa
tion were to be opened at 2:30
p. m. today (Thursday) in the of
fice of the architect, Thomas T.
Hayes, Jr., and Associates.
’The Pilot’s news deadline pre
vents publication of the success
ful bidders in today’s paper.
Separate bids, also to be open
ed today, were taken on banking
equipment and fixtures for the
building.
Planning to bid on the general
contract were W. L. Jewell and
Son and L. P. Cox Co., both of
Sanford; Dickerson, Inc., of Mon
roe; A. G. Carter, Jr., of White-
ville; McDevitt and Street Co. of
Charlotte; and Consolidated Con
struction Co., Inc., of Lumberton.
Ther.3 was a possibility that a bid
would also be entered by T. E. j
Saunders of Troy.
The new building will be on the
southeast comer of S. E. Broad
St. and New York Ave.
The Southern Pines High
School Blue Knights will open
their 1959 football season against
Raeford at the Raeford field Fij-
day night.
The squad will work out under
lights at Memorial Field here to
night (Thursday) in their final
pre-game session.
James E. Walser, the Knights’
new coach, said he has a good
first team, but few experienced
reserves.
“We’re going into this game
cold,’’ he said. “We don’t know
about Raeford and they don’t
know about us. We’ll run from
the T, while Icist year the single
wing was used by Southern Pines.
We’ll be playing a triple-A ball
club.”
The Blue Knights lost their
best back last week when a slight
concussion in a practice session
put Robert Woodruff out of ac
tion for the rest of the season.
The expected starters Friday
night are: Jimmy Carter, quarter
back; Kenny Reid, left half;
Melva Hall, right half; Richard
Lockey, fuUback.
Ted Ward, right end; W. C.
Morgan, left end; Joe Garzik,
right tackle; Jack McDonald, left
tackle; Chuck Ward, right guard;
Dick Thomasson, left guard; Bill
Seymour, center.
Five boys on this line-up were
starters last year: Carter, Lock
ey, Ward, McDonald and Sey
mour.
Reserves include: George Lit
tle, Paul Chavez, Harold Willi
ford, Johnny Bristow, Francis
Dwight and Louis Honeycutt.
There are only 22 boys on the
^quad.
Cuslimaii Urges
Support Teams
A barbecue supper staged by
the Blue Knights Boosters Club
at the Country Club Wednesd^
night was attended by 165 per
sons.
Members of the football squad
were introduced by Coach James
Walser, cheer leaders performed.
Schools Supt. Luther Adams
spoke briefly and R. M. Cushman,
president of the club, welcomed
persons present and urged sup
port of the Blue Knights athletic
Hedrick Named To
Sales Post Here
Ted Taws, president of Fletcher
Southern in Southern Pines, an
nounces the appointment of L.
Gordon Hedrick of White Sul
phur Springs, W. Va., to a posi
tion in sales and management in
the firm which manufacturers
narrow fabric looms.
Prior to his association with
Fletcher, Hedrick was connected
with the Russell Manufacturing
Company in Middletown, Conn.,
and Burlington Ribbon Mills in
White Sulphur Springs. He has
been connected with the narrow
fabrics industry for the past 13
years.
Labor Day To Be
Observed; Traffic
Danger Stressed
Schools, Stores To
Close; Board Will
Meet On Tuesday
Most public buildings, stores
and offices will be closed for
the Labor Day holiday on Mon
day.
-Town administrative offices,
the schools, the public librar3'
and the Citizens Bank and Trust
Company will be closed.
The post office will follow its
usual holiday schedule: no home
delivery of mail and windows
closed all day, but mail will be
processed in the post office and
distributed to boxes.
In Carthage, offices in the
Moore County courthouse will
be closed and the regular meeting
of the county commissioners, set
for Monday, will be held Tues
day
Cpl. J. A. McColman, who
heads the State Highway Patrol
in Moore County, said that pa
trolmen will conduct round-the-
clock “saturation” traffic patrol
ling over the long weekend, in
an effort to prevent nighway ac
cidents. He urged the public *to
exercise all possible caution in
weekend driving.
At Aberdeen, the Jaycees will
dramatize weekend traffic haz
ards by setting up a road bloclc
at the No. 1 highway traffic light
corner where they will pass out
safety pamphlets, along with
soft drinks and coffee, to passing
motorists.
The Jaycees will be on duty
there Friday and Monday nights
from 7 p. m. to midnight or later
—the times of expected heaviest
traffic concentration.
Hearing Sel Tuesday
About Deer Hunting
The North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission announces
that a public hearing will be held
at the High School in Hoffman at
7:30 p. m. Tuesday, September 8,
for the purpose of discussing p.-o-
posed special himts for deer of
either sex in certain sections of
teams during the coming school j Richmond, Scotland and Moore
year. I counties.
Youths Severely '
Hurt In Single
Car Wreck Here
Two teen-age students from
Miami, Fla., were seriously in
jured in a spectacular one-car
traffic accident on the No. 1 high
way parkway early Monday
morning.
Exact cause of the accident re
mained a mystery this week, as
the driver. Matt P. Meehan, 17,
was so badly injured that he still
could not be questioned by police
up to yesterday. The other occu
pant of the car, Albert M. Reese,
18, told officers that he was
asleep on the back seat of the
1957 two-door Chevrolet sedan
and did not know what happen
ed.
According to the police investi
gation, the automobile, north-
boimd on No. 1, left the road on
the parkway curve between
Pennsylvania Ave and Midland
Road and travelled 465 feet on
the strip between the two high
way lanes, apparently overturn-
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Hodges Planning Major
Address On Education
At Friday Event Here
Dr. A. C. Dawson
COOKIE ARTIST. BEAUTY QUEEN. BEATNIK BUSINESSMAN
W. P. Lane New
Carthage Chief
W. P. (Red) Lane went on duty
Friday as Carthage’s chief of
ipolice. He succeeds WUliam
(Buck) Baldwin who died sudden
ly of a heart attack about a month
ago.
Mr. Lane, a native of Dillon,
S. C., comes to Carthage from
Statesville where he was a mem
ber of the police department for
six and a half years. He had
previously been chief of police at
St. Pauls, for two different terms
totalling about three years.
The chief’s wife and a married
daughter live in Statesville. Mrs.
Lane is expected to come to Car
thage to live after housing has
been located. At present, the new
chief is living at the Carthage
HoteL
Other members of the Carth
age force are John W. McDonald,
night officer; and Paul T. Lamm.
Former Local Young People Make Colorful News
Young people who formerly
lived in Southern Pines made
colorful news in North Carolina,
South Carolina and Washington,
D. C., during the past week.
At Charlotte, Salli Atkinson,
14-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Tommy Atkinson, formerly
of Southern Pines, was recog
nized, along with others, for her
extraordinary artistry in building
a fairy-tale-house entirely of
cookies.
The project, sponsored by a
cookie company, resulted in a
structure some 15 feet high con
taining cookies worth $340. Miss
Atkinson is a talented art. stu
dent.
At Myrtle Beach, S. C., Diane
Taff, whose parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Taff, moved from
Southern Pines about two years
ago, after several years of resi
dence here, was crowned “Miss
Carolinas Press Photographer”
during a meeting of press photog
raphers from the two Carolinas.
Since leaving Southern Pines, she
has won other beauty contests
including the “Miss Myrtle
Beach” title.
Perhaps the most colorful of
the news makers is Bill Walker,
,24, of Washington, D. C., who
was described in a Charlotte Ob
server feature on Sunday as
“well on his way to becoming the
nation’s number one beatnik
businessman.”
Bill, who was bom in Southern
Pin,9S and has lived here at vari
ous times, as well as at Charlotte,
is the son of Bob Walker, veteran
of Navy service and former box
er, who left Southern Pines a
few years ago, after operating an
interior decorating service and
a tropical fish and bird shop here.
Bill’s mother is the former Anne
Atkins of Southern Pines.
The business was located in the
building on the old No. 1 high
way, north, now occupiel by the
Tew sheet metal shop.
Bill Walker’s place of business
was listed as “an increasingly fa
mous beards-and-poetry java
shop.” The establishment, where
coffee is 50 cents a cup and $1 a
cup on weekends, is known as
“Coffee ’n Confusion.”
The Observer story said that
Bob Walker has arrived in Wash
ington to help manage his son’s
enterprise.
Both father and son are sport
ing beatnik beards, tlie story re
lates. A beatnik is defined by
Bill Walker as a guy who believes
in individual thought and ex
pression. Bill is the author of a
32-page collection of poems en
titled, “Aww, Hell.” Some 20,000
copies of the volume are on sale
at 50 cents each.
At Coffee ’n Confusion, “a
dimly lit basement bistro with
modern art and scraps of for
eign newspapers hlong the
walls,” poetry readings begin
about 11 p. m. “while volunteer
musicians pick up rhythms on the
drums.”
Young Walker has appeared on
television and radio, been inter
viewed by several national maga
zines and newspapers and has re
corded an album of poetry read
ings and jazz.
The business was opened in
April of this year.
BANQUET TICKETS
STILL AVAILABLE
Tickets for the banquet
honoiinng Dr. A. C. Dawson,
at the school cafeteria Friday
at 6:30 p. m., are still obtain
able from Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., at the Citizens Baidc and
Trust Company or from John
nie A. Hall a! the Hall and
Carter Optical Co. on N. E.
Broad St.
Mr. Hodgkins is also re
ceiving donations to the fund
for the purchase of a gift for
Dr. and Mrs. Dawson. The
gift will be presented at the
6 p. m. program in Weaver
Auditorium. following a
speech by Gov. Luther H.
Hodges.
Attendance Up
As Local School
System Reopens
An orderly and efficient open
ing of Southern Pines schools on
Wednesday was reported by Supt.
Luther A. Adams.
Second-day attendance figures
for the local schools showed at
tendance up in all units, as com
pared to last year.
Total attendance today in East
Southern Pines was 844 and in
West Southern Pines 474.
The East Southern Pines ele
mentary school showed'the larg
est increase in attendance—634
this year as compared to 5&0 last
year.
Opening day went smoothly in
both the East and West Southern
Pines schools, he said, listing as
the only handicap the necessity;,
for two of the three East ^outfl^
ern Pines sixth grades to meet
at Brownson Memorial Presby
terian Church, because of a short
age of classroom space. .
Classroom furniture for the
two groups, about 60 students,
is expected to arrive here Wed
nesday of next week. Meantime,
the two classes are holding ses
sions with temporary furniture
obtained from various sources.
The schools will be closed Mon
day for Labor Day. Operation of
a full schedule, with cafeterias
open in both East and West Sou
thern Pines, began today. (Thurs
day).
County Schools
Opening-day enrollment report
ed by Moore County schools was
down some 400 from last year,
but Supt. Robert E. Lee said he
expected the figure would be ad
justed by the time of the “10-day
!feport.”
In fact, he said, he expected
one teacher might be added, in
the HighfaUs elementary schooL
Most of the loss was in the
Negro schools. Indications were
it was caused by the one-week
earlier opening which caught
many rural families still working
in the tobacco crop.
To Be Honored;
Open To Public
Gov. Luther H. Hodges will
deliver a major speech on educa
tion in Southern Pines tomorrow
(Friday) night.
An address by the Governor
had been scheduled on a program
in Weaver Auditorium, honoring
Dr. A. C. Dawson, but it was not
known here until today that his
speech would be on education
and would be rated as a major
address.
The program, open to the pub
lic, will begin at 8 p. m. The
Governor will appear previous
ly at 6:30 p. m. at a banquet in
the school cafeteria. He is expect
ed to speak informally then and
answer questions. A likely topic
for queries is his recent trip to
Russia.
Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines, a member of the State
Board of Conservation and De
velopment, told The Pilot today
that he had talked with Gover
nor Hodges yesterday and that
the Governor said he planned an
important address on educaton.
The speech is expected to in
clude comment on what the 1959
General Assembly did in the field
of education, a topic the Gover
nor has not previously had an
opportunity to review at length,
and a discussion of where North
Carolina stands in education to
day and may stand in the future.
Governor Hodges is expected
here by plane late Friday after
noon. Following the program that
will recognize the services of Dr.
Dawson—^now the executive sec
retary of the North Carolina Ed
ucation Association—as teacher,
principal and superintendent
here for 22 years. Governor
Hodges will spend lYiday night
in the Governor’s suite at the
Howard Johnson Motor Lodge on
No. 1 highway. South.
Local hosts to the Governqj;
hope that he can get in a short
round of golf on a Sandhills
course Saturday morning. He is
scheduled to speak to the North
Carolina News and Feature
Writers Conference at Chapel
Hill early Saturday afternoon
and then plans to attend a birth
day party for Sen. Everett Jordan
at Saxapahaw.
Dr. Walter Sergeant, chairman
of a committee planining the
two-part event honoring Dr.
Dawson, said that the commit
tee, composed of representatives
of a number of civic clubs and
other organizations, met 'Tuesday
night for a final planning ses
sion. He said that Mrs. Dawson,
to whom a daughter was born a
few days ago, would not be able
to attend.
Belvedere Hotel Leased To Pappas;
Renovation Program Now Underway
Effective September 1, the Bel
vedere Hotel on Pennsylvania
Ave., has been leased to Harry
Pappas of Greensboro, an ex
perienced hotel operator, by the
owner, J. Addison Smith of
Greensboro.
The hotel had been under lease
to C. Allan McLaughlin of Sou
thern Pines for about the past
four years.
Mr. Smith, a retired general
contractor who bought the hotel
from Frank Welch in 1945, was
in Southern Pines this week sup
ervising the start of a renovation
program that includes inside and
outside painting, reconditioning
of furniture, remodeling the ga
rage at the rear of the building
and other work.
Mr. Pappas, who is staying
here for an indefinite period, to
supervise operation of the hotel,
has been a resident of Greensboro
for more than 30 years. He owns
the furnishings, but not the build
ing, of the Greensboro Hotel and
was personally active in its man-
Mr. Pappas sold the Puritan Cafe
in Greensboro in 1955, after hav
ing operated it for more than 25
years. He retains his interest in
the Greensboro Hotel.
M. W. McQuay, who was with
the Carolina Hotel at Raleigh for
23 years, has been employed by
the new management of the Bel
vedere as day clerk. Mr. McQuay
is the father of Mrs. Dorothy Sho-
maker, wife of State Highway
Patrolman Edward G. Shomaker
of 869 N. Leak St. Mr. McQuay’s
wife is expected to come from
Raleigh to join him here later.
Personnel retained at the hotel
include Billy Madison, also a day
clerk, and Frank A. Monroe of
360 N. Bennett St., night clerk.
Mr. Pappas’ wife is remaining
in Greensboro, for the present.
They have two sons> and a daugh
ter. E. H. Pappas, a graduate of
the University of North Carolina,
is with Sears, Roebuck and Co.,
at Miami, Fla. J. H. Pappas is a
student at Guilford College, near
Greensboro. Miss Olga Pappas of