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Alternate Route 1 Through Business
Section Discussed By Town Council
Purpose Would Be
To Guide Traveler
Wanting See Town
The thinking of the town’s Ad
vertising Committee on the long-
discussed proposal that an alter
nate No. 1 highway route be of
ficially established by the State,
to run through the Southern
Pines business section, was re
ported to the town council Tues
day night.
Committee Chairman George
Pottle and Ward Hill, a member,
appeared before the council, with
Mr. Hill as spokesman.
He told the council that the
ommendation for a route before
the State can do anything about
it, Mr. Hill pointed out. He said
the committee would welcome
the thinking of the council on
the matter.
Mr. Hill said that proposals dis
cussed by the committee inclij.de:
Entering Southern Pines via
tk.3 old No. 1 highway entrances
at north and south of town, the
northbound traffic going through
Broad St., then east on Connect
icut Ave. to May St. and so out
north; the south-bound traffic,
taking the reverse of thig course!
Entering Southern Pines with
both north and south bound traf-
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routes and had conferred with
State Highway officials but had
arrived at no definite recommen
dation.
The point of an alternate route,
Mr. Hill said, is not to route
through traffic into town, but to
provide an official route that
would appear on oil’, company
tersection with the parkway, go
ing east on Pennsylvania to May
and thence north or south as de
sired—or east on Pensylvania to
Broad St. and north or south on
the proper side of Broad St., as
desired.
Entering Southern Pines,
southbound, at the Midland Road
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maps for those motorists who are ' intersection and thence through
travelling in a leisurely way, who | business section on West
want to stop and who can see I Broad St. and out the old No. 1
plainly on a map that there is a the south end of town; with
marked way to get into the town
and out again.
The council must make a rec-
State Will Share
Drainage Project
For S. W. Broad St.
An ordinance regulating instal
lation of natural gas facilities
was adopted at the December
meeting of the town council Tues
day night.
H. J. Dye, utilization engineer
with the N. C. Natural Gas Com
pany, was present to suggest a
few changes in the wording pf
the original ordinance, which
were adopted after detailed dis
cussion.
The changes, Mr. Dye said, are
consistent with all national gas
codes, such as those of the
American Gas Association, Un
derwriters Laboratories and in
surance companies, but they will
fnake the ordinance more prac
tical for gas equipment and facil
ity installers to comply with.
The full ordinance, as adopted,
appears elsewhere in today’s
Pilot.
The full council was present
with Mayor R. S. Ewing presiding
and Mayor Pro-Tern Jimmy
Hobbs, and Councilmen Harry
Pethick, John Ruggles and Felton
Capel. The small citizen atten
dance, in the courtroom-council
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north-bound traffic taking the re
yerse of this course or else turn
ing east from Broad St. on Con
necticut Ave. to May St. and
thenc.3 out north on the old No.
One objective of the routes
would be to get m.otorists to the
town Information Center at the
corner of S. E. Broad St. and
Pennsylvania Ave.
Literacy Program
Explained Here
A training meeting for volun
teer teachers in the Literacy Pro
gram was held at the First
Baptist Church in Southern Pines
for Moore, Anson, Lee, Montgom
ery and Richmond Counties on
Tuesday.
The Literacy Movement today
is an outgrowth of an experiment
staged last winter over WBTV
in Charlotte. The teaching is done
by a combination of television and
informal instruction. It is neces
sary to have a TV set and volun
teer leaders. Through this move
ment illiterates are given an op
portunity to learn to read and
write up to the third grade. The
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50-STAR FLAG—The new 50-star United
States flag, with the North Carolina State flag
beneath it, was raised during a short ceremony
on the East Southern Pines school grounds
Monday morning, December 7, 18th anniversary
of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Photo shows the
massed student body pledging allegiance to the
flag. Superintendent Luther A. Adams made a
short talk on the importance of the flag as a
symbol of patriotism and students spoke brief
ly on the significance of the dates on the North
Carolina flag. The school band, directed by Wil-
Ram McAdams, played several selections, end
ing the program with the national 'anthem.
(Pilot Photo)
Resignation
Is Accepted
The town council accepted
“with extreme regret’’ the resig
nation of Col. Donald Madigan as
town Civil Defense director, to
become head of the Moore Coun
ty CD program, at. the council’s
meeting Tuesday night.
Town Manager Louis Scheipers
Jr., was directed to write Colonel
Madigan a letter thanking him for
his services.
No appointment was made to
fill the vacancy.
Jugtown Restraining Order Lifted
But More Legal Action Threatened
A ruling handed down by Resi
dent Judge F. Don Phillips at
Rockingham Tuesday freed
Moore County’s famed Jugtown
from legal action which h2is made
it inoperative for many months.
In a hearing in his chambers.
Judge Phillips sustained a de
fense demurrer and dismissed a
restrainer brought last June by
a group opposing the present
ownership.
The ruling leaves Jugtown in
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Mrs. Acker Takes
Town Post; Mrs.
Traylor Resigns
Mrs. Don Traylor has resigned
as administrative secretary at the
town Information Center, effec
tive December 15, and Mrs. Carl
Acker of 857 Leak St., has been
appointed to the post.
Mrs. ’Traylor said this week that
she is resigning to take part-tim.e
work with the Austin Business
Machine Co. store, giving her
more free time than she has had
with the Information Center. She
has been at the Center since it
was opened in October, 1958, in
the town-owned former Milliken
building at the corner of S. E.
Broad St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Mrs. Acker and her husband,
who is ap agent of the Right of
Way department of the State
Highways, have lived in South
ern Pines since May of this year.
They have previously lived in
Raleigh and Greenville where
Mr. Acker was graduated from
East Carolina College.
A graduate of Peace College at
^ Raleigh, Mrs. Acker is the former
Mary Rebecca Buie of Wagram.
When in Raleigh, she was em
ployed as a file clerk in the N.
C. Department of Motor Vehicles.
The Ackers are active in civic
and religious work. Mr. Acker is
a Jaycee and Mrs. Acker is a
member of the Junior Woman’s
Club. Mr. and Mrs. Acker are
members of Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church and are the
' advisors for the Pioneer Youth
Fellowship at the church.
Wilbur Currie Awarded Kiwanis Builders Cup
State Senator Wilbur H. Cur
rie of Carthage received the
Sandhills Kiwanis Builders Cup
Friday night, and told the assem
bled Kiwanians, their wives and
guests, “This is the proudest mo-
m-ent of my life.’’
The award of Moore county’s
foremost recognition of individual
service was the highlight of the
club’s annual banquet and Ladies’
Night at the Pinehurst Country
Club.
Suspense built up during the
presentation speech by W. La
ment Brown as master of cere
monies, when he referred to the
subject as “born on a Moore
County farm, as much at home
in a tobacco patch as an indus
try’s front office. . . An all-out
Tar Heel and Presbyterian, who
took Carolina’s 50-0' score against
Duke as practical proof of predes
tination. . . A form.2r star on
the Carolina baseball team, who *
could have been a giant killer in
professional baseball but instead
used his strong right arm to fight
for the cause of education, and
in the battle for the State’s aged
and disabled.’’
Curri.2 is a longtime trustee of
Flora Macdonald College and the
University of North Carolina, and
is on the board of the’ new Con
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PRESENTATION—State Sen. Wilbur Currie
of Carthage, center, receives the Kiwanis Build
ers Cup from W. Lamont Brown of Southern
Pines, left, in a ceremony at the Pinehurst
Country Club Friday night. At right is R. F.
Hoke Pollock of Southern Pines, club president.
(Humphrey Photo)
the possession of the corporation
formed last February by Mrs.
Jacques Busbee and John Mare
of Southern Pines, known as Jac
ques and Juliana Busbee’s Jug
town, Inc.
The opposing group, Jugtown,
Inc., had sought to break up the
association of Mrs. Busbee with
Mare. With actions, it had kept
the pottery inactive for nearly 10
months.
Mr. Mare, who has rebuilt the
wood-burning kilns in which the
hand-turned pottery is baked
and glazed, said he hoped to get
Jugtown back into operation soon
after the first of the year. Melvin
Owens and his son Vernon
Owens, of a well known pottery-!
making family, will be the pot-
ters. Ben Owens, who was Jug-
towns’s potter for many years, is
now working independently’ at
his home nearby and is not as- ■
sociated vrith Jugtown.
The first restrainer of Jugtown,
Inc., headed by Mrs. Isabelle
Bowen Henderson of Raleigh, was
dismissed last June. The latest
one, filed immediately after, bore
as co-plaintiff the name of a rel
ative of Mrs. Busbee’s as “next
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Light Voting In Poll
Favors Elected School]
Board Over Appointed
OPEN SATURDAYS
For the convenience of pa
trons' Christmas mailing the
Southern Pines post office
will be open all day Satur
day, this week and next
week. Postmaster Max Rush
said this week. He urged
early holiday mailing. "The
rush is beginning," he said.
Council Urges
More Citizens
To Cast Votes
Glee Club, Band
To Entertain PTA
Meeting Monday
Entertainment by the school
glee club and band will be fea
tured on the program of the East
Southern Pines Parent-Teacher
Association at the regular meet
ing of the group Monday, De
cember 14, at 8 p. m. in Weaver
Auditorium.
C. S. (Buster) Patch, Jr., pres
ident, said this week that the en
tertainment will follow a short
business session. Refreshments
will be served in the cafeteria
after the program.
Both the glee club and band
are directed by William Mc
Adams of the school faculty.
They will perform separately and
together.
Eight selections are on the glee
club’s program, all with a Christ
mas theme, including several less
frequently heard carols from for
eign nations.
The meeting is open to the pub
lic without charge. Mr. Patch
urged that all interested persons
take this opportunity to hear a
program of Christmas music.
Singletary Aid
Fund Still Op en
The aid fund for Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Lee Singletary, young
Negro couple whose three chil
dren were burned to death and
whose house and furnishings at
Midway' were lost in the fire,
amounts to several hundred dol
lars.
Sponsors of the fund—the
.United Telephone' Co. and the
Rev. J. R. Funderburk of South
ern Pines—^reminded the public
today that the fund is still open
for donations.
Joe Kimball of the telephone
company said this morning that
funds donated, together with some
life insurance due the parents,
amount to about $750. Mr. Funder
burk said he had in hand $300.80,
with contributions from Aberdeen
and Pinehurst still to be reported.
Goal of the effort, Mr. Kimball
said, is to collect enough money
So that a substantial down pay
ment can be made toward build
ing a house for the young couple.
Ernest has land, Mr. KimbaU
said, and expects to do much of
the work himself, as he had done
on. the house that burned.
Dr. Nettlelon To
Be 90 On Friday;
Service Lauded
^ Dr. DeWitt B. Nettleton of
Knollwood, longtime resident of
the Sandhills, will mark his 90th
birthday tomorrow, Friday, De
cember 11.
' Prominent for many years in
the civic and religious affairs of
i the community. Dr. Nettleton was
I honored this week by the follow
ing resolution adopted, for the
I occasion of his birthday, by the
board of directors of the Pine
hurst Religious Association:
“RESOLVED that—
“The Board of Directors of the
Pinehurst Religious Association,
at their meeting held on Decem
ber 7, 1959 is indeed happy to be
able to extend its best wishes and
heartiest congratulations to. their
fellow members. Dr. D.eWitt B.
Nettleton, on his ninetieth birth
day.
“Dr. Nettleton has been a prom
inent figure in all Pinehurst ac
tivities for some thirty-five years,
but in no other connection has he
been more honored and beloved
than in his devoted work for the
Village Chapel.
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Of a total of 762 persons cast
ing votes in the town’s informal
poll on methods of selecting
Southern Pines school board
members, 491 favor election and
271 appointment, as of Tuesday
night.
Town Manager Louis Schei
pers, Jr., reporting on the poll
to the town council at its Tues
day night meeting, said that this
shows 64 per cent of the votes
cast are for election and 36 per
cent for appointment.
Of 1,600 cards sent out to
households in the Southern
Pines school district, only 391
were returned up to Tuesday
night, he said—only about 23 per
cent of the total. The votes on
these 391 cards, however, repre
sented the opinions of 762 per
sons as the votes averaged near
ly two per card.
Each card asked indication of
how many voters in the house
hold favored election and how
imany favored appointment. The
' card was then signed by the head
of the household.
Mr. Scheipers estimated that
there are 2,700 eligible voters
(persons over 21 years of age) in
the school district which includes
territory outside the Southern
Pines town limits.
Seven cards, the manager re- -
ported, indicated that the voters
represented on them favored a
half . elected, half - appointed
board. These opinions, of course,
cound not be counted in the poll.
Councilmen expressed disap
pointment at the light voting and
asked that residents of the school
district be urged through this
newspaper to indicate their pref
erences and return their cards.
Persons who have mislaid their
cards can get duplicates at the
town office. Any resident of the
school district who did not receive
a card can also get one on appli
cation there.
The council requested that the
poll be taken, after hearing sever
al complaints about the present
method of selecting the school
board by appointment by the
council.
No change in method could be
made without an enabling act of
the General Assembly.
[ School board members serve
staggered terms, so that the ap
pointment of all the board’s mem
bers does not come up in any one
year.
SCHOOL HOUDAYS
Students in the Southern
Pines; Pinehurst and Moore
County school systems will
start their Christmas holidays
at the close of the school day
on Friday, December 18, and
return at , the usual hour
Monday, January 4, it was
announced this week by su
perintendents of the three
school units.
Pin^bluff To Have Plastics Plant
A plastics extrusion plant that
will provide materials used by the
Trimble Products, Inc., factory
here will be established at Pine-
bluff, it was learned this week.
Joseph A. Mirguet of Rochester,
N. Y.—where he operated a simi
lar plant to supply the Trimble
operation there—^has purchased
the building at the corner of No.
1 highway and Philadelphia Ave.
from Edward A. Tucker of
Berkeley, Calif., it was announced
by. Resort Realty and Develop
ment Co. of Southern Pines, ag
ents for the transaction.
Mr. Tuck^, former resident of
Southern Pines, operated an auto
parts and equipment supply busi
ness from the building several
years ago. It has been vacant
since Mr. Tucker closed his busi
ness.
Machinery is being moved from
Rochester and production wiU
start when the Trimble Products
plant here goes into operation
early in 1960. Four to six men will
be employed, it was stated.
Mr. Mirguet expects to live at
Pinebluff for the present and
plans to move his family from
Rochester to the Sandhills next
year. The Mirguets have a son
and daughter.
The realty company spokesman
said that various improvements
and alterations will be made on
the building. Adjoining the Pine-
bluff Telephone Company build
ing, the structure fronts 40 feet
on No. 1 highway and runs back
75 feet on a lot 124 feet in depth.
The realty conipany spokesman
said that Mr. Mirguet may later
expand his business into the
manufacture of other plastic pro
ducts, as well as the materials
produced for the Trimble plant
which will manufacture baby
furniture and play equipment.