VOL. 40—NO. 29
Change in Dialing
System Announced
By Telephone Co.
United Telephone Company
plans a gradual changeover soon
to the new All Number Calling
PJan for its Carthage, Pinehurst,
Rbbbins and Southern Pines of
fices. Joe R. Kimball, district
manager, announced this. Under
the ANC Plan, also referred to as
the 7D Plan, the customer’s num
bers will consist of 7 numerals as
against the 2 letters and 5 num
erals presently in general use.
This will not mean a change
in any of the present numbers,
Kimball said, r. the new 7D num
bers will be assigned only to new
customers or where for some rea
son a present customer’s numbers
requires a change. However, if for
any reason a present customer de
sires a change to the. new plan,
such change will be made. Kim
ball pointed out that regardless
of whether the 2L-5D or the 7D
number is dialed, the call will be
completed. (CY 4-1234 is the same
on the dial as 2&4-1234.) '
Kimball also stated that the
new telephone number cards to
be placed on the telephone will
list the Area Code Number: 919.
The customers may give out this
number to out of state callers or
to callers in the other area of
North Carolina (the Eastern half
of the State is in the 919 Area
whereas the Western half is as
signed as the 704 Area), as calling
by the Area Code will facilitate
the completion of calls to the call
ed telphone.
The changeover to the new call
ing plan will start on and after
July 10.
The Vass office v/ill not be af
fected under these plans until
February, 1961, at which time,
effective with the installation of
the new dial central office equip
ment and the issuance of a new
telephone directory, all Vass num
bers will be placed on the 7D
Plan. Not only will the last 4
digits of the customer’s number
be changed ^but the office code
as well. The present Office Code
“986” (Yukon 6) will change to
“245”.
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' SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1960
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
Hearing on Parking to
Be Held Tnesday Night
■F A public hearing on proposed
changes in Pennsylvania Ave.
parking regulations 'will be held
at the regular meeting of the
town council in town hall at 8
p. m. Tuesday.
The council has this to decide:
If an alternate No. 1 highway
route, to run through Pennsyl
vania Ave. and May St., is to be
designated by the State Highway
Commission—as recommended by
the town’s Resort and Advertising
Committee—the State will re
quire that parking on Pennsyl
vania Ave., between Broad and
Bennett Sts. be changed from
diagonal to parallel and the park
ing be eliminated entirely on one
side of Pennsylvania between
CLASS OF 1960 — Graduates of Southern Pines High School
are pictured on the steps of Weaver Auditorium.
Bottom row, left to right: Susan Pollard, Kay Underwood,
Anne Yow, Gerrie Madigan, Mary Anne Strickland, Jean Bush-
by, Pat Farrior, Martha Caton, Therese Gaby Dufort, Vickie
. Michael.
Second row: Connie Pierce, Merilea Morris, Nancy Roberts,
Mary Jane Deadwyler, Emmaday Collins, Frances Harper, Diana
Pearson, Judy Wicker, Alice Farrior, Judy Chandler.
Third row: Betty Jo Tew, Barbara Blackwelder, Sandy Fitz-
gibbon, Diana Tolar, Karen McKenzie, Betsy Scheipers, Frances
Solomon, Mildred Pierce, Carolyn White, June Talbert.
Fourth row: Larry Moore, Kenny Reid, Billy Gay, Robert
Woodruff, Dick Thomasson, Gaby Gordon-Mann, Mary Ann
Cox, Mary Cameron Nichols.
Fifth row: Leonard Short, Richard Lockey, Melva Hall, Lee
Garvin, Henry Turner, Jim Carter.
Top row: Richard Phillips, Mike Boes, Charles Jones, Ted
Ward, Bill Seymour, George Little, Tom Culbreth, John Grover,
Chuck Ward.
Graduates not in the photo: Julia Ann Stoots and Michael Lee
Smithson. (Humphrey photo)
St. Anthony’s to
Observe 65th
f Anniversary
On Monday, June 13, Saint An
thony’s Church win celebrate its
65th Anniversary. Mass will be
I offered in the church on Monday
evening at 6 p.m. by the present
pastor, the Rev. Francis M. Smith.
This will be followed by a Fi
esta Supper, prepared by the
m ladies of St. Anthony’s Women’s
Club, on the school lawn.
School Graduation
St. Anthony’s School graduated
its fifth and largest class Sunday,
Its eighth grades are staffed by
the Sisters of Notre Dame, whose
international headquarters are in
Namur, Belgium.
Some 175 families form the
membership of St. Anthony’s, al
though the attendance at Sunday
^ Masses is considerably increased
during the tourist season.
RED CROSS MEE'HNG
Officers and directors of the
Moore County Red Cross Chapter
will be elected at a meeting of
members in the chapter office, on
Broad St., Friday at 7:45 p. m.
Fifty-five girls and boys strode
up on the stage of Weaver Audi
torium last night to accept their
badges of achievement, the prized
diplomas, indicating graduation
from the Southern Pines School.
The Chairman of the Board of
Education, N. L. Hodgkins, made
the presentation.
Sharing the platform with Mr.
H.
Milliken Award
Lake Rally To Be
Held at Carthage;
Taylor to Speak
A Lake for Governor rally, will
be held in the courthouse at Car
thage Friday, at 8 p.m. with Dis
trict Solicitor Archie Taylor of
Lillington as the speaker. Mr.
Taylor is a former law partner of
Robert Morgan who is serving as
the state campaign manager for I.
Beverly Lake of Wake Forest,
who is opposing Terry Sanford of
Fayetteville for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination in the bv ^^^Oodruff*
June 25-second primary. ^
In the first primary campaign
there was no organized effort for
Lake in Moore County. The vote
in Moore was: Sanford 2,561, Sea-
well 1,094, Lake 1, 020, and Lar
kins 211.
A Lake organization in Moore
is expected to be set up at the
Carthage meeting.
No Lake organization has been
announced for Southern Pines. In
Aberdeen E. O. Freeman is re
ported to be heading the Lake
campaign.'
In this area, there has been lit-
tl activity by either the Lake or
Sanford forces since the May 28
primary.
Graduates at Commencement Exercises
36,557 IN MOORE
The population of Moore Coun
ty in the 1960 census is 36,557, ac
cording to an official figure pre
sented to the county commission
ers during their meeting at Car
thage Monday; The 1950 count was
22,993. The 1960 figure is the same
as that announced recently in a
preliminary return.
Drive Started to Aid Burned Child
A drive to raise funds to help
pay medical bills for a little Ad-
dor girl, Angela McLean, who was
burned severely over most of her
bod^r on Christmas Eve, 1959, has
been started according to Mrs.
Felton Capel of West Southern
Pines.
Angela, then five years old, has
been hospitalized since that time
and during this long period she
has had to have close medical at
tention. She was on the “critical
list” several times. She has had
a large amount of special medi
cation as well as many blood
transfusions because of severe
anemia. Despite all the suffering,
Angela has remained cheerful. She
is progressing satisfactorily and
according to the doctors will have
skin grafting again soon.
She has several sistOrs and
brothers and her parents are not
financially able to pay the mount
ing hospital and medical bills;
The Welfare Dept, will help some
but there will still be veiy large
medical and hospital bills.
While in the hospital she has
celebrated her sixth birthday and
like any other youngster is anx
ious to enter school in the fall.
“This is a very worthy cause
and everyone is asked for a dona
tion. Anything will be greatly
appreciated,” 'Mrs. Capel said.
Donations should be sent to
“Angela McLean Drive,” Mrs.'
Jean W. Capel, 1009 W. New
Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines.
Others Honored
Robert Edward Woodruff, sec
ond honor graduate of the South
ern Pines High School gradua
ting class, who delivered the sal
utatory during the Honors Day
program at Weaver Auditorium
Wednesday afternoon, received
the school’s highest honor, the
James S. Milliken, Jr., Memorial
Award, later in the program.
The award goes to the best all-
aiound member of the class in
terms of scholarship, character,
athletic interests and other con
siderations.
Joe Garzik of the junior class
opened the program with Scrip-
true and prayer.
Following the awards, Alice
Farrior, first honor- graduate, de
livered the valedictory.
Below is a complete list of the
awards, giving the award, the re
cipient and the person who made
tne presentation:
American Legion Citizenship
Medal, Merilea Morris, by Ed
Cox; School Service Award, Alice
Farrior, by Bill McAdams; Rotary
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Cancer Drive to
Run Through June
The Southern Pines fund cam
paign for the Moore County chap
ter of the American Cancer So
ciety is being extended through
June, Mrs. James S. Milliken,
chairman, said this week.
Although almost $700 has been
given here, Mrs. Milliken said,
the drive was late in starting and
she feels that many persons who
would like to contribute have not
yet given.
Donations may be sent to her
at Box 55, Southern Pines.
Hodgkins were, besides the Su
perintendent of Schools Luther
Adams and Principal of the High
School James Walser, another
member of the school board, J. E.
Sandlin, the speaker of the eve
ning, Dr. Guy B. Phillips, profes
sor of education at UNC, and the
two ministers who pronounced
the invocation and benediction:
the Reverend Maynard Mangum
of the First Baptist Church, and
the Reverend Father Francis M.
Smith of St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church.
Also the school band which
played several selections diming
the evening as well as the tradi
tional “Pomp and Circumstance”
march at the opening and closing
of the exercises.
Two Honor Graduates
The Class of 1960 boasted two
honor graduates, students whose
grades had never dropped below
90 during the four years in -High
School.
Alice Grace Farrior and Rob
ert Edward Woodruff received
added applause when their names
were read and they stepped for
ward; however the big ovations of
tne evening, delivered by then-
student comrades, were reserved
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Swimming Classes
Will Start Soon;
Instructor Needed
Swimming and life-sa-ving
classes sponsored by the Moore
County Red Cross Chapter will
begin soon, Mrs. Audrey K. Ken
nedy, executive director, said to
day, with divisions for noni-swim-
mers, intermediates and‘in junior
and senior life-saving.
Parents whose children are to
take part are asked to register
them and sign a permission card
at the Red Cross office on S. W.
Broad St. They will be informed
of the places and times at which
the classes will be held.
Non-swimmers must have com
pleted the first grade to enter
that class. Senior life-saving class
members must be 16 and Junior
life-saving applicants 12.
Mrs. Kennedy also asked that
any qualified water safety in
structor who would like to work
with the program call the Red
Cross office at OXford 2-8571.
$200,000 Fire
Razes West End
Furniture Plant
The Sandhill Furniture Corpo
ration’s No. 3 plant near West
End burned to the ground Satur
day night in a fire believed to
have been started by a bolt of
lightning.
The fire was discovered about
11:30 p.m., by Francis Currie, Jr.,
an employee who is also a mem
ber of the volunteer fire depart
ment, as he was driving to his
home. He immediately drove to
the fire station and turned in the
alarm.
Firemen from Eagle Springs
and Candor as well as West End
responded to the call but little
could be done except to keep the
fire from spreading. A small an
nex to. the rear of the building
was saved./
Paul VonCanon, treasurer of
the company, said that 85 people
were employed in the unit which
manufactured beds. Mr. VonCan
on estimated the loss at $200,000,
partially covered by insurance.
The plant destroyed was located
about one-half mile south of West
End in a concrete building erect
ed in 1948 by the Markham-Lewis
company and used as a table fac-
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New Tax Raid
Held at $1.75
A municipal budget anticipa
ting income and expenditures of
$341,800 was adopted for the 1960-
’61 fiscal year by the town coun
cil in a special meeting in the
conference room at town hall Fri
day afterncfon. The new year be
gins July 1.
With an estimated real and per
sonal property valuation of $8,-
258,375, the budget retains the
present tax rate of $1.75 per $100
ox property valuation.
Councilmen went over the
budget, department by depart- Broad and Ashe,
ment, with Town Manager Louis -phe change from diagonal to
Scheipers, Jr., and Tax Collector 'parallel would result in loss of
F. F. Rainey. |28 parking spaces in the block af-
Summing up, after the adoption i fected. It is understood that a pe-
of the budget. Mayor R. S. Ewing |tition from merchants will be
said, -‘I’m glad we can continue i presented in opposition to the
operation of the town without in- change.
creasing the cost and still main- phe Resort and Advertising
taining all services.” j Committee recommended the Al-
Details of the budget and the ternate No. 1 proposal, after long
manager’s budget message to the study, to bring persons interested
council will appear in next week’s in visiting Southern Pines past
Pilot. / the Information Center. The route
would be indicated on oil com
pany road maps.
Benefits to the town that this
would bring, would overshadow
the drawback of losing parking
spaces, the committee feels.
'There is, however, an organized
^ opposition to the plan among mer-
• The town’s municipal recreation | <:liarits and other business people,
program, more extensive and var- '
Monday" ' Rcd Cfoss Starts
Jim Walser is in charge, with
J. C. Hasty directing activities in
West Southern Pines.
Miss Arden Fobes will be in
charge of playground activities
for younger children (none ac
cepted for this program under .
school age, however) at the town Chilean earthquake victims was
park in the mornings and early ^nno'^ced t^ay by the Moore
Summer Program-
Of Recreation to
Begin oji Monday
Fund Collection
For Chile Relief
A special fund collection for
Help Needed in
Measuring Crops
The Moore County ASC office
reports that it is badly behind in
measuring tobacco and other al
lotment crops. Anyone who can
work on this job is asked to noti
fy the ASC office at Carthage
immediately. They can use 50 men
at once.
The announcement was made
by Luther W. Bryant of the State
ASC office staff who is on duty
in Carthage for eight weeks dur
ing which the Moore office man
ager, Walter I. Fields, is attending
an office manager training course.
BANK TO CLOSE AT
NOON WEDNESDAYS
The Citizens Bank and
Trust Co. began this week a
schedule of dosing on Wed
nesdays at 12 noon, to con
tinue through June, July and
August.
afternoons and at the school play
areas after 3:30 p.m. Parents pick
ing up children in late afternoons
are asked to meet them back of
the gym.
On the West side, Mrs. Emma
Stubbs and Miss Cora Steele will
be recreation and athletic leaders,
with W. D. Peerman and M. Mc
Lean in charge of the adult base
ball program.
The entire program was plan
ned at a recent meeting of the
Recreation Advisory committee
of which Mrs. Joe Marley is chair
man.
Robert Woodruff will assist Mr.
Walser. John McMillan will teach
tennis, with Julian Pleasants sub
stituting in the early phase of the
program.
Total budget for the program
on both sides of town runs to $4,-
503.
Included in the recreation pro
gram are the eight Little League
and Minor League baseball teams,
involving about 100 boys, though
uniforms of these teams were pur
chased by private sponsors.
Also in the progrsun is the adult
softball league, with night games
at Memorial Field.
Programs in instrumental music
instruction will be conducted later
in the season by William McAdam
in East Southern Pines and J. C.
Hasty on the west side, details
to be announced.
All schedules on the program
run Monday through Friday.
Miss Fobes announces the play
ground program as follows:
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County Red Cross chapter. Con
tributions should be sent to the
chapter’s office an S. W. Broad •
St., Southern Pines.
Cash contributions are needed.
The National Red Cross already
has allocated $150,000 for Chilean
relief from disaster funds and
$25,000 from the Children’s Fund,
the announcement said. The Red
Cross, which is coordinating all '
relief efforts in Chile, also urged
contributions of clothing and
blankets to the various church-
sponsored and other organizations
that are handling that aspect of
the relief work.
Some two million persons are
homeless as a result of the earth
quakes and tidal waves, it was
pointed out. Thousands are dead
or injured. It is now winter in
Chile.
“We urge an immediate, gener
ous response on the part of the
people of Southern Pines and
Moore County,” the local an
nouncement said. “The need is
great.”
Flag Day To Be
Marked by Elks
The Southern Pines Elks Lodge
will hold a public observance of
Flag Day, Sunday, June 12, at
3:30 p.m. at the Elks Club, Max
Rush, exalted ruler, has announc
ed. The public is invited.
The lodge will be one of more
than 1,900 Elks Lodges over the
nation saluting the 183rd anni
versary, of the flag’s adoption by
the Continental Congress on June
14, 1777.
M. G. McRae was named chair
man by Mr. Rush Of a committee
to plan the local observance.
Other committee members are
Morris Arnold and Joe Garzik.
The Order of Elks began ob
serving Flag Day in 1907.
Smith Will Open
New Realty Firm
Lt. Col. Francis M. Smith said
today he expects to open a new
real estate firm. The Pines Realty
Co., at 115 W. Pennsylvania Ave.
next week.
'The office will be located in the
“Eddy Building” which Colonel
and Mrs. Smith recently purchas
ed from Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stev
ens. Larry’s Men’s Shop was the
most recent tenant in the location.
Colonel Smith was formerly a
partner in the Scott Realty Co.
'The new company will handle
sales, rentals and 'property man
agement.
Morell, Mrs. Brawley
To Operate Nurseries
HoUy Tree Nurseries, the Ismd-
scaping and nursery servic^, on
Midland Road, founded by the
late Ernest Morell, will continue
operations under the direction of
his brother, Jules, and Mrs. Mar
ion Taylor Brawley, it has been
announced. Mrs. Brawley lives on
Morganton Road, Southern Pines.
Mr. MorelTs home is near the nur
series on Midland Road. He had
formerly assisted his brother in
the business.