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VOL. 39—NO. 45 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1959 TWENTY PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS PAVING PARKING LOT—^Men and machines were at work at the. rear of the new Trimble plant a few days ago putting down a hard sur face on the large parking lot at the rear of the building. The photo shows the long loading plat form and big rear entrance doors. Crates on the roof are evidence of final steps in construction of the large building. Most of the area seen here has been hard-surfaced. The rest is being seed ed in grass. There will be extensive landscaping at front and ends of the structure. (Pilot Photo) JOB APPLICATIONS WILL CONTI NUE First Trimble Muchitiery Shipped As the big new plant of Trim- 0 ble Products, Inc., nears comple tion, off Yadkin Road, just north of Southern Pines, William Donovan, president, said this week that the first shipment of machinery for the plant was made Wednesday by rail and truck from Rochester, N. Y. The machinery is destined for the Finishing Department at the plant where bahy furniture will be manufactured. Offices at the plant, to be lo cated at the center of the build ing, fronting on the access road, are expected to be completed the latter part of this month, Mr. Donovan said. Meanwhile, the president has rented an office from the Town in the Information Center build ing at the corner of S. E. Broad St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Garland Pierce, office manager for the company, said this week that several hundred applications for work at the plant have been received, all from persons living in Moore County. Many of the applicants, he said, are now working elsewhere, but want a change of employment in order to be closer to their homes. Both men and women are ap plying, Mr. Pierce said, pointing out that a large percentage of workers at the plant will be wo men. Taking of employment appli cations will continue through Missing Woman Still Not Found At Noon Today- Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm said at noon today that Mrs. Lily Bums, 64-year-old woman who disappeared from the Robbins Crossroads community Monday, had not been found. I The deputy said that the area in the vicinity of her home on N. C. Route 27 had been combed so thoroughly by law enforce ment officers and volunteer searchers that he does not see how she can possibly be there. ' Mr. Grimm said that in his opin ion, Mrs. Burhs must have sonie- how left the area, possibly by catching a ride. Groups from the Carthage and West End fire departments are among those who have aided in the search. Mrs. Burns left her home to take some peas to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Melva Craig, early Monday afternoon. The Craig home is within sight of Mrs. Bums’s house, but the woman never arrived at her daughter’s. A dog that was with her returned home late in the afternoon. Mrs. Bums is described as a little over five feet tall, wearing faded grey or yellow clothing and a straw hat. Ewing Named To Sales Position In Trimhle Co. Hewlett To Visit Sandhills Area Addison Hewlett, Speaker of the House in the 1959 General As sembly'and an unannounced Gu bernatorial candidate, will be vis iting around the Sandhills area this weekend. Mr. Hewlett will appear as a guest at the dinner of the N. C. Wildlife Federation convention at Pinehurst Friday night, but will not be on the program. A Saturday morning break fast at Howard Johnson’s Restau rant, for Mr. Hewlett, will bring together a npmber of friends and weU-wishers. Robert S. Ewing, 220 N. Valley Rd., today became sales promo tion manager of Trimble Prod ucts, Inc., the firm that is build ing a plant here for the manufac ture of baby furniture and rec reation equipment. The appointment was announc ed by Charles T. De Puy of Roch ester, N. Y., president of Trimble, Inc., parent company of the local corporation. William J. Donovan, who recently moved to Southern Pines from Rochester, is presi dent of Trimble Products, Inc. In his new position, Mr. Ewing will work closely with field rep resentatives to coordinate sales and factory design. Mr. Ewing, who is mayor of Southern Pines, has had wide ex perience in the synthetic fabric and fibre fields. He has been as sociated with the Amerotron Cor poration and E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. He is the pub lisher of the Moore County News, weekly newspaper at Carthage. Mr. Ewing moved to Southern Pines in 1955 as an Amerotron ex ecutive. His wife is the former Aline Mason of Wilmington, Del. They have five daughters. The local man is active in sev eral civic and fraternal organiza tions. He is chairman of the Moore County Republican Executive Committee, was Republican can didate for the General Assembly from Moore County last year and is treasurer of the State Repub lican organization. next week, Mr. Pierce said, at the Employment Security Com mission office, which is in the In formation Center building, with entrance on Pennsylvania Ave. Interviews will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Interviewing was suspended today (Thursday) but will contin ue on Friday. • Mr. Donovan said that the cleared area around the plant will be seeded and that extensive landscaping will be done. Plans include clearing scrub oak and brush all the way in to the plant from Yadkin Road and down to the Swan Pond stream swamp. Dogwoods will be plant ed in part of this area among the pine trees, Mr. Donovan said. “We are going to try to make it a real beauty spot,’’ he said. Host School Is Ending Today Persons who have completed the Travel Host School conducted at the Southland Hotel this week and last week for restaurant per sonnel of the area were to receive certificates this (Thursday) after noon. Presentation of the certifi cates was to be by Luther A. Adams, superintendent of schools. Mrs. Mary Ellen Booker, in structor at the school, said that “selling points” was the topic of Monday’s session and lessons in serving were given Tuesday and Wednesday. The school was sponsored by several state, county and local agencies. White Cane Sale Slated Saturday The “white cane sale’’ of the Southern Pines Lions Club, for funds to aid the blind, is being conducted this week. There is no house-to-house canvassing, but appeal letters are being sent to businessmen, and on Saturday, wives of club members and Girl Scouts will sell miniature white canes in front of the post office and the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. In cooperation with the Lions Club, the State Association for the Blind and other agencies. Mayor R. S. Ewing has designa ted the week of September 26 to October 6 “Sight-Saving Week” in Southern Pines. Welfare Cuts Cause Concern In This County Suffering Foreseen Unless Funds Found From Another Source How state-wide cuts in assist ance payments to the aged and disabled will affect Moor.e Coun ty was explained this week by Mrs. Walter B. Cole, superinten dent of the Moore County De partment of Public Welfare. The reductions of the portion of welfare funds provided by the ftate (which shares the cost with Federal and local governments] were authorized last week by the State’s Advisory Budget Com mission. Monthly payments to 147 per manently and totally disabled persons in Moore County will be reduced by five per cent, start ing in November, Mrs. Cole said. Totally disabled persons m Moore County receiving welfare payments include paraplegics, persons with severe heart condi tions, or serious mental or physi cal illnesses, cripples and other types. They now receive an aver age of $34.40 per month. A five per cent reduction in payments for old age assistance will begin in January. A total of 430 persons are now receiving Old Age Assistance payments in Moore County. These payments average $39.67 per month. Mrs. Cole predicted that the cuts will mean that additional money will have to be requested from the county and local com munities, if suffering by the per sons affected is to be avoided during the coming winter. “Moore County is mainly agri cultural,” she said, “however lit tle income is derived from gar dening and small truck patches by these disabled and aged per sons. The cuts could mean at this time of year quite a hardship on these persons who receive public .* (Continued on page 8) ( trr^— Safe Stolen At Aberdeen Store Resort Interests Predicting Good Year As Seasonal Places Reopen MR. WHITESELL—^At Desk In Town Hall PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR Whitesell Named To Town Post A safe containing over $4(!J in cash, about $200 in checks and three gold watches worth about $75 each was removed from the Brown’s Auto Supply Store in Aberdeen some time Wednesday night. Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm said he had been called in on the case by Aberdeen Police Chief Lamar Smith, along with Deputy J. A. Lawrence and an SBI agent. The entire safe was missing, it was reported. Mark L. (Mike) Whitesell of 415 E. Indiana Ave. began work this (Thursday) morning as the town’s public safety director. He succeeds William J. Wilson who ceased full-time work in the position July 15, but has supervis ed the public safety office’s ac tivities on a part-time basis until today. The new town official will serve as building and plumbing inspector, issuing building per mits and checking on construction work to insure compliance with the town building, plumbing and zoning ordinances. He will also serve as electrical inspector, in cooperation with W. H. Mumford W \ Ife- TURNS OVER KEY—In a ceremony between the halves of last Friday’s football game at Memorial Field, R. M. Cushman, left, president of the Blue Knights Boosters Club, turned over to Luther A. Adams, superintendent of schools, the key to the recently completed field house that contains lockers, showers and other facilities for local and visiting teams. The field house, costing about $6,000, was paid for largely by privately donated funds. W. S. 'Thomasson, chairman of the fund-raising committee, this week expressed his thanks and appreciation to all who had contributed to the fund, (Photo by Humphrey) Federal Funds Sought To Help Pave Runways An application for federal fi nancial assistance in hard-surfac ing the runways at the Southern Pines-Pinehurst airport has b&sn made, reports Richard S. Tufts of Pinehurst, chairman of the Moore County Airport Committee. Decision to seek federal funds, which would be matched by lo cal funds, was made at a meeting of the full airport corhmittee last week. Attending the meeting;, in addi tion to the chairman, we.re Wil ton H. Brown of Carthage; L. R. Reynolds, chairman of the board of county commissioners; W. S. Taylor of Aberdeen, a county commissioner; and James E: Sandlin of Southern Pines who was recently appointed to the committee. Goicion M. Cameron of Pinehurst, former longtime chairman of the board of commissioners, was also present. L. C. (Buck) McKenzie, mana ger of the county-owned airport, told the committee that recently constructed hangar facilities are already inadequate to take care of expanding activities. Plans for construction of additional hang ars were discussed but no action was taken. “Hard-surfaced runways are esssential if the airport is to con tinue to develop for commercial use,” Mr. Tufts said after tne meeting. He explained that commercial airlines which require surfaced rimways are expected to be put in operation on routes serving the local airport and that “this area is in danger of losing even some of the present air service” unless the improvements are made. of Southern Pines, the county electrical inspector. His duties will include supervision of gas installations under a new code. Administration of the weed con trol ordinance and other matters affecting public health and safe ty is handled by the public safety office. Mr. Whitesell has been employ ed for the past seven years by the Moore County Alcoholic Con trol Board. He was with the Pine hurst ABC store for three years and with the ABC store here dur ing the past four years. ^ Bom at Elon in Alamance County, Mr. Whitesell lived at Pinehurst as a boy and is a 1941 graduate of Pinehurst High School. He is the son of the late D. H. Whitesell, who died in 1952, and Mrs. Irene Whitesell who lives at Eastwood. Mr. Whitesell’s wife is the for mer Rosemary Ward of Southern Pines. They have three children Sheila, 12; Vicki, 8 and Pam, an infant of two and a half months. Following his graduation from high school, Mr. Whitesell worked as a marine electrician for the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington. He stud ied electrical engineering in night classes while he was at Wilming ton. Two years of service in the Navy followed. He returned to the Sandhills and became engaged in various types of construction work in this area and elsewhere, until his appointment to the ABC position sev^n years ago. Golf Courses Reported In Fine Shape Resort int^ests in Southern Pines are anticipating a good sea son in 1959-’60, it is apparent from information collected by The Pilot this week. Traditional start of the “sea son” about October 1 is marked this fall by the opening of the Pine Needles Lodges and Coun- thy Club and the Southern Pines Country Club today (Thursday) and of the Mid Pines Club and Golfotel tomorrow. All the clubs, which have 18- hole golf courses adjoining, re port courses in good condition. Mid Pines is starting its 16th season unnder the management of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cosgrove who will be assisted by their daughters Mrs. Wilfred Weldon and Mrs. John Stevenson. During the past summer, Mrs. Cosgrove said, 16 bathrooms at the Mid Pines have been done over, with installation of tile and new tubs and showers. All staff members, both in the hotel and golf departments, are returning to Mid Pines, inclu ding William Green as chef and Mrs. Charles Riegin as hostess. Ernie Boros will manage the golf shop for his brother, Julius, who now maintains permanent residence at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and will be playing in the Ryder Cup matches in California, in November. Tony Federici is back as assistant at the golf shop. The Mid Pines convention schedule will open Sunday when the Amerotron corporation will be host to a group of textile exec utives. Mrs. Cosgrove said the outlook for the s>eason is excellent. A new lodge building with six bedrooms and six baths has been constructed over the summer at Pine Needles, bringing the total of lodge units to 30, with 10 other additional bedrooms available outside the lodges around the golf course, report Warren and Peggy Kirk Bell, the owners. Mr. Bell said he anticipates a good season, starting with this weekend’s meeting of the Caro lina Aero Club whose headquar ters will be Pine Needles and moving through several other (Continued on page 8) HIGHWAY HEARING SET FOR MONDAY Moore County residents with road requests to bring before the State Highway Commission will be given a hearing at 2:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the court house at Carthage. Requests will be heard accord ing to an appointment schedule. The Highway Commission will remain in Carthage for its month ly business meeting on Tuesday, October 6. Monday’s session will be the 32nd hearing held across the State by the full Commission dur ing the past two years. FOR SPEEDING 115 MILES PER HOUR 16-Year-Old To Pay $500 Fine {a 16-year-old Moore County boy who pleaded guilty to speed ing 115 miles per hour was given a suspended eight months term on the roads in Moore Recorder’s Court\ on Monday, but was di rected, to pay a $500 fine out of his own earnings. Judge J. "Vance Rowe also rec ommended that the boy’s driver’s license be revoked for a period of three years. In one of the most flagrant cases of speeding ever heard in the court, Stanley Euland Phil lips of Highfalls was accused by State Highway "Patrolman T. S. Clark of driving a 1959 Dodge automobile owned by his father 115 miles per hour on Highway 22, two miles frc}m its intersection with Route 27. "- The speed was clocked by an .mtomatic speed watch which the patrolman had set up on the night of Septem ber 10. Five other teenagers were in the automobile with Phillips. Through his attorney, "W". D. Sabiston of Carthage, the defend ant pleaded guilty. The attorney argued, however, that sending the boy to the roads would place a stigma on him for the nest of his life, but that if his driver’s license were taken for three years he would be a liv ing example of the folly of speed ing to his fellow students at Highfalls School and to the en tire community. Judge Rowe for some time has made it standard practice in his court to make any defendant con victed of speeding 90 miles or more per hour serve time on the roads, without privilege of a sus pended sentence. Attorney Sabiston argued that Phillips was a daring, impulsive boy whose youth and high spir its were responsible for his of- (Continued on page 19)
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