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VOL. 39—NO. 46
Town Council
Will Consider
Police Matter
Request For Negro
Officers Will Come
Up Tuesday Night
The controversial question of
Negro policemen is expected to
come up again at the regular
meeting of the Town Council
Tuesday, October 13, at 8 p.m. in
the town hall.
The docket will also include:
Further discussion of a propos
ed vagrancy ordinance to which
an objection was entered at the
last meeting by Councilman Fel
ton Capel of West Southern Pines.
A hearing on a re-zoning re
quest and subdivision approval for
a portion of the W. P. Davis prop
erty, off Crestview Road.
A zoning hearing on a proposal
to change to a business zone a
200-foot frontage on Bennett St.,
between New York and Mass
achusetts Aves.
Hearings on curb and gutter
proposals on W. Vermont and E.
Ohio Aves.
At the September meeting.
Councilman Capel asked that
members of the council clarify
the position they had taken on
the Negro policeman question at
the August meeting, whose min
utes, he said, did not show in
sufficient detail how individual
members of the council then felt
about the matter.
At the August meeting. Mayor
R. S. Ewing had told a West Sou
thern Pines Civic Club group,
who were asking for one or more
Negro policemen, that the coun
cil would leave the decision to
the city manager and the chief
of police.
After the proposed vagrancy
ordinance was read at the Sep
tember meeting. Councilman Ca
pel said that he did not think it
could be administered fairly as
written and that there was a
danger that innocent persons
would be arrested.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
Invention Seen At Aero Club Convention
Collection Of
Clothing Slated
The “clothing closet” collection
of the Southern Pines Junior
Woman’s Club will be made
from 7 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Oc
tober 15, it was announced this
week by Mrs. Douglas Kelly,
chairman of the club’s welfare
and youth committee.
Anyone having clothing to give
is asked to place it on his front
porch and turn the porch light
on. Club members plan to tour
the town in cars and pick up the
clothing.
Items donated are kept in stock
by the club to be drawn on by
the county welfare department
when clothing is required for
needy families. Therefore cloth
ing of all types and for edl ages
is acceptable.
Serving with Mrs. Kelly on the
committee are Mrs. Stanley Aus
tin, Mrs. W. J. Graham, Jr., and
Mrs. Maynard Mangum. Members
of the committee will pick up
clothing at other times from any
one unable to put it out for col
lection October 15.
Here’s a close look at the
“Little Zipster” one-man helicop
ter, with its inventor and manu
facturer, Igor Bensen of Raleigh,
at the controls. The golf bag? Mr.
Bensen says you can zip around
a golf course in the Zipster and
demonstrated how it could be
done at the Pine Needles course
as part of the program of the
Carolina Aero Club meeting here
over the weekend. Looking on
with interest in the picture are,
left to right: Mayor R. S. Ewing
Official Shown
Traffic Problem
On S. W. Broad St.
The problem of the dangerous
intersection at the south end of
S. W. Broad St. was brought to
the attention of the State High
way Commission this week dur
ing the visit of the full commis
sion to Moore County.
Town officials and representa
tives of the Moore County His
torical Association conferred
Monday morning with W. F. Bab
cock, director of highways, who
examined the situation at the in
tersection.
Display of the historic Shaw
House, at this corner, which is
owned and maintained by the
Historical Association, is one of
the major considerations, along
with safety, in the proposal to re
model the intersection.
Conferring with Mr. Babcock
were Miayor R. S. Ewing, Town
Manager Louis Scheipers, Jr., F.
F. (Bud) Rainey, tax collector;
Mrs. James Boyd, a member of
the board of directors of the His
torical Association, and Norris
Hodgkins, Jr., treasurer of the
Association.
The Eighth Division Highway
office at Aberdeen, through th.e
division engineer, T. C. Johnston,
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who was on hand to welcome the I a member of the “Ninety-Nines,”
an organization of v/omea pilots
who were here along with mem
bers of the Aero Club. Others on
the arrangements committee were
Mr. Bell; L. C. (Buck) McKenzie,
manager of the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst Airport; and Charles
J. McDonald, Jr. Pilots flew in
for the meeting from over North
and South Carolina. The conven
tion marked the opening of the
Pine Needles Lodges and Coun
try Club for the season.
(Photo by Humphrey)
flyers Saturday; Warren Bell of
Pine Needles Lodges and Coun
try Club which was the conven
tion headquarters; Miss Page
Shamburger of Aberdeen and
Fort Worth, Texas, who was in
charge of the program and -ar
rangements; Mrs. Peggy Kirk
Bell; and Mrs. Bensen. The Little
Zipster is powered by an out
board motor. Its appearance
here was its first public demon
stration. Miss Shamburger is also
The
David
Missing Child’s Body Found
body of five-year-old
Raleigh, missing since
June, has been found.
The child was the son of Mr
and Mrs. Stuart Raleigh of Fay
etteville, N. Y. Mrs. Raleigh is
the former Lucille Grover,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Grover of Southern Pines.
The boy disappeared on June
13 from the area of a summer
cottage where the Raleigh fam
ily was vacationing at Lake
Winisook, near Big Indian, in
New York State’s CatskiU moun-|
tains.
The family lives at Fayette
ville, a suburb of Syracuse, N. Y
Mr. Raleigh has an insurance
business in Syracuse.
Funeral services for David
were conducted at the Presbyte
rian Church in Fayetteville on
Tuesday.
The Raleighs have two other
children, Susan, 10, and Bill, who
will be eight this month.
According to information
reaching the grandparents here,
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PTA wm Hear
Discussion Of
G)nsolidation
County Education
Board Member To
Describe Proposals
The thinking of the Moore
County board of education on
high school consolidations will be
expressed before the East South
ern Pines Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation at its October meeting
Monday night.
The meeting will begin at 8
p. m. in Weaver Auditorium.
C. S. (Buster) Patch, Jr., PTA
president, said this week that
Jere McKeithen of Aberdeen, a
member of the county board of
education, will speak on the sub
ject. Mr. Patch stressed that the
program does not mean the PTA
is endorsing consolidation but
only that members of the local
organization will be able to learn
how the county board of educa
tion is approaching the subject
at this time.
Mr. Patch said that, after the
program, parents will be invited
to visit their children’s class
rooms where teachers will be
present to talk with them.
Refreshments will be served
in the cafeteria in the basement
of the auditorium after the meet
ing.
Mr. McKeithen, Aberdeen busi
nessman, is a member of the
board that administers schools of
the county system which includes
all schools in the county except
those at Southern Pines and
Pinehimst which have their own
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MEMORIAL FUND
A fund to provide a schol
arship to Princeton Univer
sity has been established in
memory of David Raleigh.
Donations to the fund will
be held in trust until the year
that David would have enter
ed the University, bad he liv
ed until that tune.
David's father, Stuart Ra
leigh, is a graduate of Prince
ton, as was his grandfather.
Contributions to the fund
may be sent to the father at
Fayetteville, N, Y.
The fund was established
after consultation with au
thorities at Princeton.
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GILMORE DESCRIBES TRIP
On World’s Fastest Nuclear Sub
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Voit Gilmore here reports
on a journey aboard USS
Skipjack, world's fastest nu
clear submarine, including
five hours of underwater op
erations at heretofore unal-
lained depths and speeds. He
made the one-day cruise out
of New London, Conn., last
Thursday. A resident of
Southern Pines and member
of the N. C. Board of Conser
vation and Development, Mr.
Gilmore has previously writ
ten newspaper reports on his
trips to both the Arctic and
Ant^lrclic and on a supersonic
jet flight across North Caro
lina.)
By VOIT GILMORE
The world’s swiftest, deadliest
nuclear submarine is plunging to
ward the bottom of the Atlantic
-—so steeply that we liuige for-
v/ard and grab steel safety rails.
Our dive angle exceeds 30 de
grees, as steep as a ski run. Count
to ten and we have plummeted
another 200 feet. Footage figures
on the depth gauge blur past,
faster than a gas pump toting
your bill.
The fathometer pings the
warning that ocean floor is rush
ing toward us. Our imaginary at
tacker is left f2ir above.
Captain speaking; “Level off!”
Our pullout is like hitting bottom
on a roller-coaster. Then stagger
ing rolls and pitches in fast suc
cession: “Full right rudder. . .
take her up smartly . . . now full
left rudder.”
Somewhere below us in Long
Island Sound lie Navy’s S-51 and
the S-4, victims of sea trageries of
the 1920’s. Their crews perished
below water because early subs
lacked such simple equipment as
radar and escape hatches. Skip
jack’s modem magic would as
tound those heroes of watery
graves.
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MR. SMITH
Frank M. Smith
Joins Scott In
Realty Business
Joseph I. Scott of the Scott
Insurance Agency announced this
week the association of Francis
(“Frank”) M. Smith with his or
ganization. Mr. Smith, recently
retired from the Army, will work
in real estate.
Mr. Smith retired from the
Army as a lieutenant colonel in
July and he and his family have
liv^ here since that time. From . men’s and women’s organizations
^ 1 and for the ladies’ putting con-
while the Air-Ground School was jjg awarded immediate
ly following conclusion of play in
Scheduled On
Local Courses
The Mid Pines Club is head
quarters for this year’s Annual
Championship of the Southern
Seniors Golf Association, being
held October 14 through 16, al
though play will be split up over
Mid-Pines and Pine Needles
courses for the men while the
women’s competition will be
played over the Southern Pines
Country Club course.
The organization has a mem
bership of approximately 965
golfers from all over the country
with the women’s division num
bering 130.
, On the social program for Wed
nesday is a card party from 2 to
4:30 p. m. at Mid Pines for the
women, and a get-together cock
tail party for both men and wom
en members from 6 to 7:30 p. m.
at Pine Needles. The men will
play their first round of the
Championship on Wednesday at
Pine Needles and Mid-Pines
Clubs.
The Women’s Southern Seniors
will hold their tournament
Thursday and Friday at Southern
Pines with a putting contest to
follow Thursday’s first round.
The all-member annual cock
tail party is scheduled for 6 to
7:30 p. m. Thursday with a ban
quet to follow at 7:45 at Mid-
Pines.
Prizes for winners in both the
REELECTED—^Dr. George Heinitsh of South
ern Pines, pictured second from right, was re
elected secretary of the North Carolina Wild
life Federation whose annual convention was
held in Pinehurst Friday and Saturday. Dr.
Heinitsh was general chairman for the meeting.
Other officers, pictured at the Holly Inn con
vention headquarters, are, left to right: N. C.
“Bud” Austin of Asheville, Western vice-presi
dent; David L. Goforth of Greensboro, Central
vice-president; Thomas W. Reese of Hickory,
president; Norman Perry of Golerain, Eastern
vice-president; and B. K. Lineberger, Sr., of
Hickory, treasurer. The executive secretary.
Turner W. Battle of Rocky Mount, is not pic
tured. (Photo by Hemmer)
while the Air-Ground School was
located in Southern Pines, he was
an Army instructor in the school
Other assignments during his
military career included those of
an infantry company commander
during World War II and of a
battalion commander in Korea in
1950-’51.
In addition to various other
trpop and staff assignments, Mr.
Smith served as a military ad-
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License Exam
Offices To Be
Closed 4 Days
D. A. Clark of Route 2, Cam
eron, driver’s license examiner
for Southern Pines, Aberdeen
and Pinehurst, said that his of
fice in Southern Pines and
Aberdeen would be closed next
week because he will be attend
ing a school for license examin
ers at the Institute of Govern
ment in Chapel Hill.
His regular schedule puts him
each week at Aberdeen Monday
and Tuesday and at Southern
Pines Wednesday and Thursday.
Mr. Clark said he would be
able to meet the public as usual
at Pinehurst on Friday.
The examiner serving Carth
age will also be at the school,
Mr. Clark said. Sanford or Fay
etteville will be the nearest of
fices open, Monday through
Thursday of next week.
Friday’s finals.
150 Expected,
VFW District
Meeting Sunday
John Boyd Post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary
will be host Sunday to VFW and
Auxiliary members from posts
over the organization’s 9th dis
trict.
About 150 persons are expect
ed for a meeting and dinner to
be held at the National Guard
armory on Morganton Road.
Thom McKenzie, commander of
the local post, will open the meet
ing at 2 p. m., turning the chair
over to David Adeimy of Ham
let, district commander. Registra
tion will begin at noon. “Member
ship” will be the theme of the
meeting.
Featured speaker will be Dr.
Charles English of Wilmington,
VFW Department (State) sur
geon.
Dinner will follow the meet
ing.
(See women’s pages of today’s
Pilot for announcement of the
Auxiliary’s part in the meeting).
STILL MISSING
Mrs. Lily Burns of the Robbins
Crossroads community, who dis
appeared Monday of last week,
had not been found today.
WELFARE DRAWS ATTENTION
Wildlife Club Host To State Meeting
Blue, Currie Deplore New Cuts
Members of the Moore County
Wildlife Club described this we?-
as highly successful the annual
convention of the North Carolina
Wildlife Federation which
brought about 200 persons to the
Holly Inn at Pinehxirst Friday
and Saturday.
Many members of the club
were present to welcoihe the vis
itors and attend various sessiens
of the two-day meeting.
Dr. George Heinitsh of South
ern Pines was the general con
vention chairman. Other mem
bers of the Moore County Club
playing prominent parts in the
event were; the president, Albert
Tufts of Pinehurst; Neill McKay
of Southern Pines, registration
chairman; and Gen. R. B. Hill of
Southern Pines, entertainment
chairman.
Mrs. R. B. Hill was in charge
of a ladies’ entertainment pro
gram’ that included watching a
parachute drop on the Fort Bragg
military reservation.
Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aber
deen, a member of the Moore
County Wildlife Club, was toast
master at the Friday night ban
quet.
Attending the convention were
members of the N. C. Wildlife
Resources Commission, National
and State Wildlife Federation
representatives, game protectors
and officers and members of
many of the 48 Wildlife Clubs in
North Carolina. Many of the del
egates brought their wives.
The Moore County club has a
'number of women members and
they, with wives of other mem
bers, helped play host to the vis
itors.
Resolutions dealing with wild
life preservation and manage
ment were adopted at the con
vention’s business session.
Of widest interest was one call
ing on the Wildlife Resources
Commission to hold public hear
ings before making annual himt-
ing and fishing regulations.
Other resolutions included a
protest against registration of
firearms; an objection to propos
ed dumping of radio-active waste
off the North Carolina coast; a
protest against Roanoke River
pollution that affects the spawn
ing places of striped bass; and
others.
State-wide concern about pro
posed cuts in welfare payments
to the aged and to the permanent
ly and totally disabled was foc
used this week on Moore Coimty,
as Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aber
deen suggested a special session
of the General Assembly to deal
with the problem, if no other so
lution can be found, and Sen. Wil
bur Currie of Carthage, who
fought for additional welfare
funds during the General Assem
bly last Spring, backed Mr. Blue’s
position and caUed the welfare
fund shortage a “terrible mis
take.”
The Welfare cuts broke into
the news recently when the State
Advisory Budget Commission re
duced the share of welfare pay
ments provided by the state.
Effect of the action was to
make it necessary to lower Old
Age Assistance payments by five
per cent, effective in January, and
payments to the disabled, also by
five per cent, effective in Novem
ber.
Last week, Mrs. Walter B. Cole,
superintendent of the Mopre
County Welfare Department, said
that she anticipated suffering in
Moore Coimty this winter among
welfare recipients, unless addi
tional funds can be provided from
some other source.
Senator Currie told a reporter
this week:
“It is unthinkable that the
state’s aged and handicapp^ the
poor unfortunate, should lose a
few dollars when many other ap
propriations were increased, when
early revenue returns show the
state is well able to afford better,
and when North Carolina’s wel
fare grants already were the low
est in the nation.”
(See editorial, “Moore Legisla
tors Work for Welfare,” page 2)