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f # 9 VOL. 39—NO. 42 EIGHTEEN PAGES Councilmen Asked To Clarify Their ® Position On Ne^o Police Proposal The usually routine action of minutes of the August meeting SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1959 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS confirming the rtiinutes of the previous month’s meeting became a matter of extended discussion at Tuesday night’s session of the town council, when Councilman Feiion Capel of West Southern Pines said that he thought the ^ Objection Voiced To Proposed New Law On Vagrancy Action of a proposed vagrancy ordinance was defernsd to the October meeting of the town council, after it had been read at the regular meeting of the coun cil Tuesday night. Decision to defer followed a motion by Councilman Felton Capel of West Southern Pines who cited'the fact that two coun cilmen were absent Tuesday and also said that council members should have more time to study the proposed new law. The ordinance, drawn up by Town Attorney i W. Lamont Brown and read in full by him at the meeting, defines a number of circumstances in which a person may be arrested as a vagrant. In introducing the ordinance as a matter for council’s atten tion, Mayor R. S. Ewing said that complaints had been made about drifters around the railroad sta tion. In explaining the ordinance, (Continued on page 8) New System. Of Speeding Fines In Local Court A “rule of thumb” to determine amounts of fines in normal high way speeding cases tried in the Southern Pines Recorder’s Court was explained at the Wednesday court session by Judge Harry Fullen wider. Applying on the open high way, but not in town, the new system sets the. fine at $1 for each mile-per-hour of speed for the first five miles-per-hour over the limit; $2 each for the next five miles-per-hour; and $3 each for the next five miles-per-hour. Above that, the fine will be in the discretion of the court. Judge Fullenwider said, how ever, that each speeding case is subject to special consideration, including the weatl^er and trafhc conditions, the record and age cf the driver and other factors. In certain cases, therefore, the rule of thumb may not r-pply, he said. did not show in sufficient detail how individual members of the council felt about the West Sou thern Pines Civic Club’s request at that time that the council em ploy one or more Negro police men. Councilman Capel also asked that the matter of a formal state ment of the council, as to wheth er or hot it favors appointment of Negro policemen, be put on the docket of the council’s meet ing for October. Last month. Mayor R. S. Ewing had told the group making the request that the question of hir ing policemerr* would be left up to the city manager and the chief of police. It was explained Tuesday night by Town Manager Louis Scheip- ers, Jr., that the clerks do not make a record in the minutes un less direct action on a subject is taken by vote of the council. There had been no vote on this item at the August meeting. How ever, he noted, a letter from the (Continued on page 8) Garland Pierce Nam-ed To Manage Trimble Office Garland A. Pierce of Southern Pines will be office manager at the new plant of Trimble Prod ucts, Inc., it was announced to day by W. J. Donovan, president. Prior to the beginning of oper ations, Mr. Pierce will assist in employing a staff there, the an nouncement said, it is expected he will start work abt u the mid dle of this month. Trimble Products, Inc., is building a plant here for the manufacture of baby furniture. Mr. Donovan, now at Rocliester, N. Y., is expected here soon to assum.e direction of the new op eration. Mr. Pierce, a resident of South ern Pines for many years, is a former local postmaster. Recent ly, h.3 has been associated vyith Professional Mlanagement, Inc.^ local firm that furnishes business advice to physicians and dentists. New Decorative Map Helps Advertise Town WARNING! Chief of Police C. E. New ton today warned drivers in Southern Pines that officers are operating the automatic speed watch ("whammy") in various parts of town at va- uous times of the day and night, in an effort to con trol speeding in town. Sev eral arrests have already been made, he said today. A new dscorative map of the Southern Pines area is being ex amined here by Mis. Don Tray lor, left, secretary at the town Information Center, and Miss Beth Turner who designed and drew the map. Called the “Southern Pines Guest Guide,” the map has been printed up in quantity, in black and green, at direction of the Re sort Advisory Committee which commissioned Miss Turner to do the work. Dominant themes of the map’s decorations are golf, riding, fish ing, weather, natural beauties, and many points of interest in' and around Southern Pines. Its publication called for two com plete drawings by Miss Turner, one for each of the colors in which the map is printed. Com ment on the map has been high ly favorable, said Mrs. Traylor. The map is sent from the Infor mation Center to persons re questing information about mov ing to Southern Pines but they are not sent out with casual re quests for tourist information. However, they are available free of charge to visitors and will, the Advertisinng Committee thinks,- make a striking souvenir of Southern Pines. The maps are suitable for framing. Local residents can obtain copies of the map at 10 cents each. Because of the expense of producing the map, the commit tee decided they should be free Church To Mark 5th Anniversary Work Begun On New Supermarket Grading has been completed and work on foundations begun at the site of the new A & P sup ermarket on S. Vf. Broad St. The lot, just south of the Curtis Radio and T'V Service, runs through the block to Bennett St. The new building will feature an antique red brick front in early American style and will contain more than 13,000 square feet of floor space. Preliminary plans call for occupancy early next year. Homecoming Day will be ob served at the Southern Pines Methodist Church on Sunday, marking the church’s fifth anni versary. The church was organ ized September 12, 1954. The program will be limited to the morning worship services. The pastor, the Rev. R. C. Moo ney, Jr., will preach, the choir will present special music, ai’.d there will be words of welcome by the church lay leader, 'W. M. Clark. Lunch will be served at the church. Former members, friends of the church and all interested persons are Invited to attend. only to visitors and out-of-town persons. At the present time,_ the maps are available only at the Innfor- mation Center, corner of S. E. Broad St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Miss Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Turner of South ern Pines, has returned to her studies as a sophomore at Mere dith College where she plans to major in art. Her talent in draw ing and painting has received wide recognition. (Pilot Photo) FIRST HOME GAME Southern Pines High School plays its first home game at Memorial Field Friday night, against Lau- . rinburg, an AAA schooL The band and the majorettes are expected to perform. Game time is 8 p. m. At Raeford, in their season opener last Friday, the Blue Knights played well for the first half, but were worn down to a final score of 35-6 for Raeford. Ted AVard scored on a pass from Jimmy Carter in the last quarter. Kenny Reid^ played an outstannding game for Southern Pines. Raeford was held scoreless in the first quarter, gaining seven points in the second and 14 each in the third and fourth. Coach J. E. Walser praised the excellent performance of the local teaml in the first half. Contracts A’AYarded To Renovate Connty Home Contracts totalling $24,557 were awarded Tuesday by the county commissioners, to re model and modernize the former county home on the Southern Pines-Carthage road. The com missioners appropriated $15,000 from the general fund to get the work started at once. Plans previously discussed by Postmaster To Speak At First Meeting Of PTA Parents of pupils in the East Southern. Pines schools were re minded today by C. S. (Buster) Patch, Jr., president, that the first meeting of the Parent- Teacher Association will be held Monday, September 14, at 8 p. m. in Weaver Auditorium. The program inncludes intio- duction of the faculty by Supt. Luther A. Adams and a short talk by Postmaster Max Rush on the problem of obscene matter sent through the mails. A room count will be held, with an award for the class which has the most parents of its pupils present. There will be no formal recep tion for the faculty, Mr. Pa*ch said, but parents and teachers will meet informally for refresh ments in the school cafeteria after the program. Parents who did not send in their PTA membership fees—50 cents per parent per year—^with school fees can join at the meet ing Monday night. Training School For Dogs May Be Conducted Again Persons interested in bringing their dogs to an obedience train ing school, to start within the next two weeks, are asked to in form Dr. J. E. Currie at the Sand hill Veterinary Hospital, at once.i Dn Currie, heading the pro ject for the Jaycees who sponsor ed a similar school here several months ago, said that plans call for a 10-weeks training schedule, with meetings of an hour, one night per week. Thursday is ten tatively set as the night for the classes each week. Mrs. P. A. Buck of Fayetteville, head of the Cape Fear Kennel Club,' is expected to be the in structor again. There will be both beginner and advanced in struction. the commissioners call for leasing the building, alter it is recondi tioned, lor a boarding or nursing home. The home will be run as a pri vate enterprise. Persons receiv ing Old Age Assistance payments under the Welfare Department program would pay their own way with these payments. Other old persons could pay with pri vate funds. It is expected that 35 to 40 boarders can be accomodat ed. Since the county home was closed several years ago, elderly persons receiving Welfare as sistance have been cared for in several private boarding homes that have been set up around the county. The building has been occupied until recently by Hardy Barber, county dog ward en, and his family. Bids were sought on kitchen equipment for the building, but none were received and this item will be readvertised. It is expect- to cost about $2,500—bringing total cost of the project to about $27,000. An alternate plan of til ing could reduce this by about $1,000, however. 14 Bids Opened E. J. Austin, Southern Pines architect, supervised the open ing of 14 bids from 11 contractors, (Continued on page 5) Lively Election In Prospect For Young Democrats Friday night will see Demo crats from over the county gath ering at the courthouse in Carth age for the first organized coun ty-wide political events calendar ed for some time. At 7 p.m., W. Lamont Brown of Southern Pines will preside at a meeting of the Moore County Democratic Executive Commit tee of which he is chairman. The committee is composed of pre cinct chairmen from throughout the county. The meeting will be in the commissioner’s room at the courthouse. At 7:30, the annual meeting, of the Moore County Young Demo cratic Club will be held in the courtroom, featuring election of officers. A lively election is in prospect, as Mrs. John L. Frye of Robbins, who has been president for the past three years, has announced that she will not be a candidate for reelection. E. O. Brogden, Jr., of Southern Pines and DeWitt Purvis of Deep River have been mentioned as possible candidates. Southern Pines Honors Dr. Dawson^ Welcomes Gov. Hodges Willingness To Support The Schools . . / There Is A Great Future Ahead Of Us .. / Greeted with a standing ova tion as he was introduced by Dr. Walter Sargeant at a community banquet in his honor last Friday night. Dr. Amos C. Dawson told some 250 Southern Pines friends and well-wishers: “Any success sess. . The educator—former teacher, coach, high school principal and superintendent here and now executive secretary of the North Carolina Education Association— repeated approximately tbs same I have had in education! is due statement in a public meeting in more to this community’s will- ingnsss to support good schools than to any ability I might pos- Weaver Auditorium, following the banquet in the school cafe- (Continued on page 5) Gov. Luther H. Hodges chose a Southern Pines program honor ing Dr. Amos C. Dawson, to call for long range planning and in creased financial support to im prove public school education in North Carolina. The Governor, who-was intro duced by 'Voit Gilmore, master of ceremonies, called Dr. Dawson, who is now the executive secre tary of the North Carolina Edu cation Association and was fir- merly superintendent of schools here, “a man of vision and cour age as well as wide and practi cal experience in matters of pub lic education.” Pointing out the current inter est of the public in education. Governor Hodges noted that this (Continued on page 8) AMUSED—^Though there were solemn mom ents at the program honoring Dr. A. C. Dawson Friday night, a spirit of warm friendliness—^to Dr. Dawson and to visiting Gov. Luther H. Hodges—pervaded the occasion, summed up in this photo which is an exceptionally good shot of the Governor (center). Dr. Dawson, left, who is a good golfer, is receiving from Mayor Rl S. Ewing a putter which is customarily given here in lieu of a “key to the city.” Applauding in right background is the Rev. Carl Wallace, a member of the planning committee. In left backgroimd is Thomas R. Howerton who open ed the program with a vocal solo. (Photo by Humphrey) BANQUET SCENE—After most of the gentlemen had removed their coats in the school cafeteria at the banquet which honored Dr. A. C. Dawson and was host to Gov. Luther H. Hodges last Friday, a camera caught this scene at the speakers’ table, show ing many of the participants in the occasion. Seated at the table, in addition to Governor Hodges, were members of the planning committee and their wives. Froni right to left: the Rev. Maynard Mangum, Garland Pierce, Mrs. Pierce, Johnnie HaH, Mrs. Hall, Luther A. Adams, new school superintendent who succeeded Dr. Dawson, Mrs. Adams, Dr. Dawson, Governor Hodges, Voit Gilmore, Mrs. Gilmore, Dr. Walter Sargeant (face hidden) planning committee chairman; Mrs. Sargeant who was in charge of decorations; the Rev. Carl Wallace, Mrs. Wallace, Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. W. Calvin HoweU, Mr. Howell, C. S. Patch, Jr. Mrs. Patch; and Dr Bruce Warlick who led grpup singing at the banquet and at a subsequent pro gram in Weaver Auditorium. Rows of long tables at which some 250 persons sat ran out at right angles from the speakers’ table. (Photo by Humphrey)
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