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Natioail^ ' Rewspaptr Wiat October 15*2J. t059 Rolr^i" ^Gl^don I Natioial^ 'Rewspapar Week Q]^ VOL. 39-iNO. 47 EIGHTEEN PAGES <4' County School Board Planning Consolidation Member Tells PTA About Plans For Moore High Schools Members of the East Southern Pines Parent-Teacher Association and visitors at the meeting heard an explanation Monday night of the county board of education’s plans' for high school consolida tion.! Using charts to explain the or ganization of the county' school system and of the Southern Pines and Pinehurst independent city school units, Jere McKeithen of Aberdeen, a member of the coun ty board of education, told his audience that under tha plan the nine high schools of the county system would be consolidated in to three super higl\ schools which, he said, would give the taxpayer more for his money and would make possible improve ment of curriculum in both col lege preparatory and vocational education fields. An alternate plan, which he presented as a suggestion, mak ing it clear that the county board of education has no control in the matter, would include the South ern Pines and Pinehurst systems in the consolidation plan, joining with the Aberdeen school, to form a school with an enrollment (based on present figures) of 721. He estimated that it would cost about $3 million to launch such a program. An election on a bond issue to furnish the money would also serve ,to indicate the people’s feelings about consolidation, he said. Only high schools are involved in the plan, he stressed. Present high school buildings would be used to accommodate the growing needs of elementary schools. Mr. McKeithen recalled that in 1950, survey teams from Duke (Continued on page 8) SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1959 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS : "t 'tT Seniors In 2nd Ronnd; North-Sonth Will Begin i”'' 0 i tUs Machinery Arrives At New Plant f! Jaycees To Buy New Equipment For Playground A long-range project of the Southern Pines Junior Chamber of Commerce to provide a wide variety of modern playground equipment for the park block re ceived the formal blessing of>he town council Tuesday night. Appearing to explain the pro ject and pass around a brochure picturing a dozen or more color- . ful pieces of equipment were * Paul B. Boroughs, Jr., Jaycee president, and Tommy Buggies, secretary. The first piece of equipment is due for delivery 30 days after the end of the steel strike, the coun cil was informed. It is being bought with proceeds from last summer’s donkey baseball game sponsored by the Jaycees. . Other equipment will be bought •• as money becomes available from Jaycee fund-raising projects, it was stated. William J. Donovan, president of Trimble Products, Inc., looks on with interest (left, above) as a tube-bending machine is rolled through one of the service doors into the new Trimble plant off Yadkin 'Road, north of Midland Road. The machine is part of two flat cars of machinery and equipment that arrived from Rochester, N. Y., to be set up in the plant hei c Riggers of the Southern Build ers Equipment Co. of Fayetteville unloaded the machines and swung them from a truck to the loading platform at the plant with a big crane. In the top photo at right, an other machine rolls in. Watching ' » Large Field Entered At Pinehurst Over 335 acceptances have been received for the eighth an nual North & South Invitation Seniors Golf Championship which Opens at the Pinehurst Country Club Monday. Contest ants from all over the United States and Canada are converg ing on the Sandhills this week for several days of pre-tourney practice, while others are playing in the Southern Seniors tourna ment this week in Southern Pines. An 18-hole qualifying round is set for Monday, October 19. Play ers in the Championship bracket and other top flights will see match-play action on the famous Number "IVo Course, with play on Numbers Three and One scheduled for other divisions. Veteran golfers 55-years-old and over compete in the popular event designed to assure several days of competition for all con testants. The 32 low-qualifiers comprise the championship flight, all other flights to be 16. In addition to consolation divi sions for all flights, two 18-hole medal play consolation events will be held the end of the week, one for better ball of pair and the other for best ball of aU four partners. J. Wolcott Brown of Sea Girt, N. J., three-time Southern Seniors champion, will defend his North & South title against a top- (Continued on page 8) in the background are Wilbur L. Edwards, left, and Thomas A. Capel, first local employees to be hired at ’Trimble. They are do ing maintenance work and will install the machinery. Lower photo shows the long front facade of the plant with recently installed identifying .A- sign at left comer. Offices slated for completion by the end of the month are in the center behind perforated concrete block lattice- work that screens the g^ss walls. . A large bake oven on one of the freight cars was damaged en route, delaying installation of equipment while parts are order ed for repairs. One of the freight cars became separated from the other and did not arrive until a couple of days later. Another large load of machines arrived by tmek from Rochester last week. (Pilot Photos) Mrs. Wicker Will Head Fund Drive Mrs. Marvin S. Wicker will be campaign chairman for the Girl Scout fund drive,' to start in Southern Pines October 26 and run through November 7, it was announced this week. Max Rush is chairman in charge of advanced gifts, and Mrs. Frank C. Pollock is co-chair man for the drive. Canvassers in the business and residential areas and other de^ tails will be announced next week. Purpose of the drive is to seek urgently needed funds for con tinuing and expanding Girl Scout services in this area. AT HOSPITAL IN GIBRALTER Son Of Local Residents Striken By Bulbar Polio While Living Overseas Walter G. Robertson of South ern Pines has flown to Gibraltar to be with his 29-year-old son, Walter G. Robertson,| Jr., who is in a hospital there, almost com pletely paralyzed after an attack of bulbar polio. Mr. Robertson is vice-president and general manager of the United Telephone Company of the Carolines whose offices are 4 in Southern Pines. According to information re- reived from friends of the family here, Mrs. Robertson has been at Lynchburg, Va., preparing to fly to Gibraltar from New York City tomorrow (Friday). Both Mr. and Mrs. Robertson plan to be away several weeks. Physicians at Gibraltar were quoted as saying, the younger Mr. Robertson would have to be in the hospital for at least three weeks and then could be moved to a polio treatment center. It would be at least four months be fore he could be moved to the United States, it was reported. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Stroi.ise left Southern Pines Friday to at tend a telephone company con vention in Chicago. The Robert sons received a message about their son’s illness after they ar rived Saturday night. Mr. Rob ertson went immediately to New York and flew overseas on Sum day A graduate, like his father, of Virginia Military Institute, the younger Mr. Robertson had been an Army officer overseas and had remained in Spain, in business, after leaving the Army. He had married and planned to bring his wife to the United States later (Continued on page 8) Council Takes No Action On Negro Police An effort to put the town coun cil on record as favoring the em ployment of one or more Negro policemen failed Tuesday night when agreement could not be reached on the wording of a res olution. Councilman Felton Capel of West Southern Pines, who made the motion, withdrew it after dis cussion. Councilman John Ruggles said he would second a motion favoring the employment of a Negro policeman if the phrase, “when the funds become avail able” were included in it. Councilman Jimmy Hobbs said he would go along with the mo tion, too, if the words, “when the manager and the chief of police see the need” were also included. Mr. Capel said that he could not accept these amendments to his motion. He said that he thought fimds could be made (Continued on page 8) Library Display Marks UN Week A display at the Southern Pines Library will mark United Nations Week, jOctober 19-24. The display, featuring small flags of the UN, and booklets and pamphlets about the United Na tions,' is a project of the Wom an’s Society of Christian Service of the Southern Pines Methodist Church. United Nations Week will mark the 14th anniversary of the signing of the UN charter on Oc tober 24, 1945. WILL SELL BUDDY POPPIES SATURDAY Members of Ihe Auxiliary of John Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be selling "buddy poppiesT' in the business section Satur day, October 17. A few Girl Scouts are expected to help. Buddy poppies are made by disabled veterans orf mili tary service. They are pur chased from the veterans. Proceeds of the sale go to aid various community projects of the VFW and its Auxil- jary. Mrs. John Stephenson is in charge of the poppy fund drive. Registration For Bond Vote Ends Saturday Mrs. Frank Kaylor, registrar for Southern Pines precinct, said that four persons have registered to be eligible to vote in the state wide referendum on bond issues, to be held ’Tuesday, October 27. Registration will close at sun set on Saturday of this week, Oc tober 17. Mrs. Kaylor will have the books open at the fire station on E. New Hampshire Ave. No new registration is required for persons who are on the gen eral election books. A full explanation of the bond issues will appear in next week’s Pilot. Nine separate issues are proposed for education, mental hospitals, community colleges, lo cal hospitals and health centers, armory buildings, correction and training institutions, rehabilita tion center for the blind, port fa cilities at Southport and restora tion of historic sites. Friends Honor Curtis Everette More than 700 persons turned out Wednesday night for a fish fry sponsored by the Elks Club at the Southern Pinas Country Club as a gesture of friendship for Curtis Everette, local man who has been hospitalized for several weeks. Mr. Everette attended the ■avent in a wheel chair, receiving the greetings and good wishes of his many friends. It was the first time he had left Moore Memorial Hospital since the onset of his ill ness. Morris Johnson, secretary of the Elks Club, said today that be tween 700 and 800 persons were served. Spanish mackerel was flown in from Norfolk for the event. Chicken was also on the menu. All food was provided by the Elks Lodge, leaving almost the full proceeds to be turned over to Mr. Everette as a tangible evidence of the regard with which he is held in the communi ty, helping meet the high ex penses of his illness. Early this year, Mr. Everette was chosen -“Young Man of the Year” in Southern Pines by the Jaycees. It was noted at that time that the award was not made for any one accomplish ment, but because in every good cause, Mr. Everette was found at work, “quietly helping.” Senator Jordan To Speak Dec. 3 U. S. Senator B- Everett Jor dan of North Carolina will be the speaker at a “pot luck dinner” honoring adult Boy Scout work ers, to be held at the National Guard Armory December 3. Announcement of the event was made this week by local Scout officials who said prepara tions will be made for an attend ance of about 700 persons. Parents of Scouts and all others interested in Scouting are invited to attend. Persons attending will bring food items for the dinner. Both men and women are invited. Gilmore Ending Conf erence Task Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines who served as chairman of arrangements at the 25th annnual Southern Governors Conference, was expected here by air this (Thursday) afternoon, after winding up his duties in Ashe ville. Mrs. Gilmore, who had been with him in Asheville during the conference, returned to Southern Pines Wednesday. Awarding Of Trophies Set For Friday Anthony W. Alley of Salisbury scored low gross in opening rounds of the annual champion ship golf tournament of the Sou thern Seniors Golf Association played here Wednesday over the courses of the Pine Needles and Mid Pines Country Clubs. Alley’s 75 led the field of over 100 into the second round of the three-day event. Low nets of 69 were turned in by R. H. Johnson of Bronxville, N. Y. and Dr- C. C. Herzer of Evansville, Ind. Ralph C. Crock er of Greensboro had the Low Gross among the junior members of the 29-year-old organization with a 74 which also gave him a net 70 to lead in the junior han dicap division. Other low gross scores; James Fearing, 76; O. L. Lewis, 76; W. E. Norvell, Jr., 77; Robert R. Bell, 77- Scoring low nets of 70 were Lewis, Alley, F. A. Prather, E. T. Davis, F. L. Davis, Hopewell, Va., and S. C. Sandzen. The Women’s Southern Seniors launched their tournament today over the Southern Pines Country Club course, to run through to morrow. The men are playing on both the Mid Pines and Pine Needles courses- A card party lor the ladies was held at Mid Pines Wednesday af ternoon. Mid Pines will also be the scene today for the annual all-member cocktail party at 6 p.m. and banquet at 7:45. Prizes lor toirmament and ladies putting contest winners will be awarded after Friday’s finals. Officers Seek Boy Aceused Of Series Of Crimes Police Chief J. T. Shepherd of Pinehurst said that every law en forcement officer in Moore Coun ty has been alerted to look for John McCarthy Glynn, 17-year- old Taylortown Negro, who is ac cused of auto theft, several break-ins and other offenses over the course of 'the past several days. Glynn was last seen in Jackson Hamlet about 4 p. m. Wednesday, Chief Shepherd said. Break-ins ascribed to Glynn in clude a store in Jackson Hamlet, the Pinehurst American Legion Hut, The Girl Scout Camp Ger trude Tufts, and homes, including the L. C. Burwell home at Pine hurst where a gun, radio, electric razor and cuff links were taken. He is also charged with two car thefts, in both of which the ve hicle was recovered, and another attempted auto larceny. 4 GIRLS IN BEAUTY CONTEST Prospects Bright For Homecoming At Memorial Field On Friday Night JOHNSbN NAMED Morris Johnson was appoint ed by the town council Tuesday night to fill the vacancy on the town’s Advertising Advisory Committee caused by the resig nation of Vance Derby who left Southern Pines to enter the Uni versity of, North Carolina Law School. An outstanding Homecoming Game for Friday night at Me morial Field was in prospect this week as the Southern Pines Blue ^Knights drilled for the contest against Rohanen High School of Rockingham and the Rotary Club put the finishing touches on its plans for the accompanying festivities. Competing in the beauty con test among representatives of each high school class will be: Karen McKenzie, senior; Patsy McRee, junior; Peggy Worth, sophomore; and Sandy Woodell, freshman. The contest will take place between halves of the game. Tickets are on sale by Rotar- ians and their wives and through the school where classes are com peting for a $25 prize to the class that sells the most. A feature of the half-time wiU be giving away by the club of a $75 gift certificate, a $50 certifi cate and three for $25 each. These wiU be redeemable in merchan dise at any business establish ment in the Southern Pines school district- Coach Jim Walser said this week he thinks the football game with Rohanen will be a “good, even match.” Rohanen received its first con ference defeat Monday when it played an afternoon game with Red Springs at Rockingham, Red Springs winning 6-0. Red Springs had previously defeated South ern Pines, 12-7, indicating the teams are pretty well matched. The Blue Knights lost to Fair mont 27-6 on the winners’ field last Friday night. The Southern Pines touchdown was made in the first period when Kenny Reid ran 10 yards to score. 'The defeat gave the Blue Knights a one-won, two-lost rec ord in conference play.
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