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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1960
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Plans Made for
Town Election
Tuesday, May 2
A schedule for this year’s town
election—when voters will name
five councilmen and a judge and
solicitor of the recorder’s court
—^was set up Tuesday night
when the council approved a
series of resolutions. The elec
tion will be held Tuesday^ May
2.
The schedule:
Filing time f^r candidates for the
seven offices will open Satur
day, April 1 at 9 a. m., and close
at noon, Saturday, April 15. Can
didates must pay a $5 filing fee
and will file at the town hall.
Council candidates must reside
within the city limits, but court
candidates can live within the
territorial jurisdiction of the
court, that is, in or -within five
miles of Southern Pines.
Registration of voters who are
not on the town election books
will begin at the polling place
(fire station) at 9 a. m., Saturday
April 15, with books open to 9
p. m. that Saturday, registration
to run through Friday, April 21
with Saturday, April 22 as chal
lenge day. Mrs. Grace Kaylor, at
the fire station, will be the reg
istrar, appointed by action of the
council, along with Mrs. Ger-
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Mayor Appoints
Group to Manage
Memorial Fund
The town council at its Tues
day meeting, directed Town
Manager Louis Scheipers, Jr.,
and Town Attorney W. Lamoni
Brown to prepare a resolution ot
sympathy and respect, in mem
ory of the late Police Chief C. E
Newton, who was fatally shot
March 3, the resolution to be seni
to each of his five children, to be
put on the minutes and to be
published locally.
In another action arising from
Chief Newton’s death, Mayor R
S. Ewing appointed a committee
authorized to accept contri
tions to a memorial fund foi
Chief Newton and to decide what
form a memorial will take.
Named to the committee were:
John Buchholz, Dante Monte-
santi. Miss Jean Edson, Miss
Katherine Wiley, Mrs. Edna Bla
lock of West Southern Pines
Sgt. Earl Seawell of the police
department and Mr. Scheipers
The committee will select its own
chairman.
Mayor Ewi_„ said that he Vas
appointing the committee' “in or
der to lend some official capacity
to the memorial :Mnd endeavor.”
The fund began when several
merchants expresed a desire to
contribute for such a purpose.,
Contributions may be made tc
any member of the committee.
IT’S SPRING! — Peach blossoms, now pro
viding vistas of pink beauty in Sandhills orch
ards, frame the pretty daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. T. Clyde Auman of West End. Laura, 10,
is on the left. Nancy, at right, is 17. No damage
to peach trees was reported in this area from
last week’s light freeze. A warm sun after soak
ing rains has brought Sandhills forsythia, daf
fodils, Judas trees and other flowering trees and
shrubs into bloom early, contrasting with the
weather of a year ago when this area was dig
ging out from its second heavy snow in the
month of March. Dogwood and even some azal
eas show signs of opening their flowers. Press
ed by the early season, the Southern Pines Gar
den Club has moved its annual Homes and Gar
dens Tour here up to April 5 from the scheduled
April 12. Complaints? Not one. Spring is a sea
son of bounty in beauty, especially in the Sand
hills. So let her bust! (V. Nicholson photo)
35-Ceiit Increase in County Tax
Rate Slated for Building Schools
(Editorial, page 2)
The county commissioners—
rreeting for the second succes
sive Monday with representatives
of ths Moore County, Souchern
Pines and Pinehurst boards of
education—agreed this week to
raise the county tax rate by 35
cents to finance an ambitious
program of school construction,
including two consolidated coun
ty high schools, over the next
several years. Presumably, the
increased rate would apply in
definitely into the future.
The increase would go into ef
fect with this year’s taxes, as de
termined by the new budget for
fiscal 1961-’62, starting July 1. If
SCHOOL COMMITTEES MEET
Consolidation Plans Backed
The Moore County board of ed- ministrative units,
ucation’s plans for consolidation I Jere McKeithen, member of the
of seven of the nine small high' county board of education, out-
schools in the county system in- ! lined the high school consolida-
to two consolidated units wasjtion plans as: .
given a vote of confidence last 1. A school on a 50-acre tract
Friday night by the Moore Coun- of land near Robbins, on which
ty School Board Association, I the board has an option, near the cents lower than this rate was
meeting in the courtroom of the i Pleasant Hill Methodist Church,
courthouse at Carthage. [that would serve the area whose
the present tax rate of $1.35 per
$100 of property valuation is not
cut in some other phase of coun
ty operations, the increase will
up the rate to $1.70. Residents of
Southern Pines school district
pay an additional 50 cents special
school tax and there is a similar
tax of 30 cents in the Aberdeen
and Pinehurst districts.
There was no formal action on
the tax increase, the commission
ers simply pledging that they
would increase the capital outlay
budget lor schools in that
amount. A tax rate of 47% cents
for capital outlay is in force for
the current year. With the addi
tional 35 cents, it was pointed out
by spokesmen for the county
board of education, the new rate
of 82% cents is three and a half
Elks Let Contract
For Large Pool
At Country Club
A contract has been let and
work has begun on a large swim
ming pool at the Southern
Pines Country Club, with com
pletion expected by June 1.
The Elks Home of Southern
Pines, Inc., and BPpE Lodge No
1692, owners of the Country Club
property, have contracted for th
pool with Paddock of the Caro-
linas, Inc., of Greensboro, a unit
of a nationally operating con
struction firm.
Robert E. Strouse, president of
the Elks Home of Southern
Pines, Inc., said this week that
membership requirements and
fees, in connection with the pool,
have not yet been worked out.
'The L-shaped pool will have
a length of 82 feet, six inches, on
the long part of the L and 70 feat
on the short part which will be
the diving area, with both one-
meter and three-meter diving
boards.
The 82-feet, six-inches length
.equals 25 meters, making the
pool long enough for swimming
meets under national and inter
national rules.
A large paved deck . area
around the pool will be fenced
in. The area will be floodlighted
and there will also be under
water lights.
There will be approximately
4,000 square feet of swimming
area.
DEALERS COMING FROM 9 STATES
Antiques Fair to Open Wednesday
The fourth annual Antiques
Fair of the Moore County His
torical Association will open
Wednesday at the National Guard
Armory for three full days and
nights—10 a. m. to 11 p. m.
All spaces have been taken by
som.e 26 exhibitors from North
Carolina and eight other states,
who will display their choicest
wares.
The Fair has become establish
ed as one of the top events of its
kind in the East. Many more
dealers wrote for space this year
than could possibly be accommo
dated, said Mrs. W. B. Bodine
executive secretary.
Thousands of dollars’ worth of
antique furniture, glassware
objects will be shown. Coming
at the height of the Sandhill sea
son, the Fair attracts visitors
from many States.
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives is general
chairman for the event. Mrs. Ed
ward Schneider is in charge of
the canteen department which
will serve sandwiches, coffee
and other light refreshments foi
dealers and visitors.
The School Board Association students now attend the Elise
is composed of school committees school at Robbins and the High-
from each of the nine districts, falls and Westmoore schools.
The Moore County school system 2. A school on a 35-acre tract
includes all schools of the county near tlnion Church, between Car-
except those in the separate S'^u- thage and Vass, on which the
them Pines and Pinehurst ad-
JIM PLEASANTS IMPROVING
James M. Pleasants of South
ern Pines, insurance agent and
member of the board of county
commissioners, who has been a
patient at Moore Memorial Hos
pital since Tuesday of last week,
crystal, silverware, copper, pew-j was reported in better condition
ter, jewelry, paintings and other t this week.
CLEAN-UP WEEK
The town council Tues
day night designated the
week beginning March 27—
the week before Easter—as a
clean-up week in Southern
Pines.
Action was taken in line
with the council's customary
cooperation with the Homes
and Garden Tour, sponsored
by the Southern Pines Gar
den Club. This tour, the
council was informed, has
been moved up from April
12 to April 5, because of the
early Spring.
All property owners are
urged to clean up their yards
.^nd vacant lots before or
during the clean-up week.
Town crews will work to
clean up town property and
cooperation is also expected
£rom State Highway person
nel along those town streets
which are maintained by the
slate.
COLORFUL STONEYBROOK FESTIVITIES SET
Governor to Compete in Mule Race
HOW INSURANCE SYSTEM WORKS
What About Unemployment?
When there’s any crisis in the
economy, such as now, people
begin to worry and ask questions
and start rumors.
Here in Southern Pines, .the
line of people iting to get into
the Unemployment Insurance of
fice at the Information Center
Thursday mornings keeps reach
ing farther and farther along the
block. Passersby look at them
and wonder.
In general it is known that un
employment is rising in the na
tion, but how much? And is it
bad here, or not? Is this a real
crisis, as some affirm, or is it
just the annual mid-season lull,
or is it, as the Republicans claim
ed during the campaign, simply
a figment of the Democratic im
agination?
Last week this reporter deci
ded to try to find out. We would
pay a visit straight to the horse’s
mouth, i. e, to L. Garland Scott,
manager of the Employment In
surance Office in Sanford. The
idea was to ask some of those
questions, we were hearing ban
died about up and down Broad
Street, from somebody who
really knew the answers and
could give us the facts.
Mr. Scott was most welcoming
and cooperative. He allowed, to
start with, that it was always a
good idea to get the facts. And he
didn’t allow himself a smile
when be said it, but he did em
phasize that word: “facts.”
' Mr. Scott reminded us that at
this time of year unemployment
was always high around South
ern Pines due to the annual mid
season after-Christmas lull, but
this year, he said, there was more
drop-off in the local industrial
pic,ture. He estimated that em
ployment was off 50 per cent
from last year.
Two weeks ago, in Southern
Pines, 139 people came to pick
up their employment insurance
checks. Of these, 103 were men
and 36 women. ,
An office list of th/j situation
by categories of work showed
the construction and textile in
dustries to be hardest hit. These
two tied for top place with 25
filing last week for their insur
ance checks. The following list
gives the figures for the South-
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First race in the 14th annual
Stoneybrook Hunt Race Meeting
will begin at 2 p. m., Saturday
March 25—but anybody wanting
to see the Honorable Terry San
ford, Governor of North Caro
lina, taking part in a mule race
astride an animal allegedly nam
ed “Miss Tarheelia,” had better
get to Mickey Walsh’s Stoney
brook track near Southern Pines
ahead of the scheduled starting
hour.
And most people will—if not
to picnic, as many do, at parking
places on the pleasant slope
overlooking the track, then a1
least to stroll and watch and take
in a colorful program of pre-race
events.
Donald D. Kennedy, chairman
of the Stoneybrook Hunt Racing
Association—a busy man who is
selling parking spaces for the
races like hot cakes these days—
is probably the only race prohio-
ter who has succeeded in signing
up the Governor of a sovereign
state as a jockey, and he’s sign
ed these other well known state
figures to compete with the oc
cupant of the executive mansion:
Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles,
director of the Departm.ent o'
Conservation and Development
who is said to be giving his mule,
“Miss Developing Fast,” a daily
workout in Guilford County.
Major Gen. Dwight E. Beach
of the 82nd Airborne Division at
Fort Bpagg;"whio will ride “MisN
Aipborne.”
./Ray Reeve, sports director of
WR AL-TV, Raleigh, riding
“Miss 23,” because l)e has never ^
been on a mule and “wants to
try it,”
Official starter of the race, if
Chairman Kennedy actually
succeeds in getting his distin
guished jockeys aboard their
mounts, will be Grady Cole of
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board also has an option, to serve
the Carthage, Farm Life, Cam
eron and Vass-Lakeview districts.
The Aberdeen and West End
high schools are the only county
system high schools not included
in the plan at this time.
Yet spokesmen from these dis
tricts pledged support Friday
night to first meeting the needs
of the seven other districts.
T. Clyde Auman of West End,
a member of that district’s school
committee, said: “Since the
emergency exists in the two areas
that are proposed for the first
consolidation, I am for building
the two schools as soon as pos
sible. I hope an acceptable plan
can then be worked out for the
Aberdeen and Wdst End areas.”
J. D. Arey, Jr., chairman of the
Aberdeen school committee, said
that the people of Aberdeen are
for better schools all over the
county. Sections where emergen
cies exist must receive priority,
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INTERVIEW — W. O. Moss, M. F. H. of the Moore County
Hounds, introduced some of the hounds to visiting newsmen at
Sunday’s party for press, radio and TV people, given by the
Stoneybrook Hunt Racing Association to publicize the Stoney
brook races here March 25. Mr. Moss stands at left. Seated atTight,
with microphone ready for the comments, if any, of a hound,
is Ray Reeve, sports director of WRAL-'TV, Raleigh, who is fea
turing Southern Pines horse news and scenes on his 6:30 to 6:45
broadcast each day this week. Kneeling behind Mr. Reeve is
Phil Ellis,, director of public affairs of Radio WPTF, Raleigh.
Standing are Donald D. Kennedy, chairman of the Stoneybrook
Hunt Racing Association, left, and Guy Munger, Raleigh rep
resentative of the Greensboro Daily News. A story elsewhere in
today’s Pilot tells more about Sunday’s gathering of news media
representatives here. (Humphrey photo)
Lily Sale to Aid
Fund for Crippled
Children Saturday
The annual “Easter lily sale”
for benefit of the Moore County
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults will be conducted in
towns of the county Saturday.
The Society’s county-wide fund
raising drive is now on, to rut)
until Easter.
Mrs. Harold Peck will b? in
charge of the sale of the small
imitation lilies in the Sout'ier.n
Pines business section, assisted
by Mrs. R. M. McMillan, Mrs. J.
B. Boyle, Mrs. William F. Hollis
ter, Mrs. Edward Schneider and
Mrs. Charles Phillips.
Members of Girl Scout Troo,?.^
82 and 66, also five Rainbow
Girls, will assist with the sale
The Society conducts an ex
tensive year-around program of
aid to. the handicapped in Moore
County.
Local Business
Buildings Sold
The Waverly Building on N. E.
Broad St., formerly owned by Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Blue, was sold at
auction yesterday to M. L. Lide
of Hickory. The price was $24,000.
The two-story brick structure,
fronting 59 feet on Broad St.,
contains the former Mason’s
Restaurant location, Koonce’s
Barber Shop and the Southern
Pines News Stand, with five
furnished apartments on the sec
ond floor.
In another downtown real es
tate transaction, closed this morn
ing, Mr. and Mrs. David A. Suth
erland purchased the Matheson
Building, 115 E, Pennsylvania
Ave., former location of the
Courts & Co. brokerage office,
and plan to move their Studio
Bookshop there within two weeks.
The shop is now located at their
home, “Buttonwood,” on E. Indi
ana Ave. extension.
Seller of the building is Mrs.
George W. Matheson of E. Con
necticut Ave. who has owned it
since 1953.
in 1952, since when, they pointed
out, it has steadily declined.
The 35-cents increase, based on
the current $50 million county
property valuation, would theo
retically bring in $175,000. Ac
tually, said John C. Muse of the
county’s auditing firm, who at
tended Monday’s meeting, the in
crease can be ^xpected to net
about $160,000, allowing for
costs of collection, uncollectible
taxes and other items. In subse
quent years, it would produce
somewhat more, he said.
School money is derived from
ABC profits and court fines and
forfeitures, as well as from tax
sources.
Though the commissioners ap
parently would have liked to
hold the tax increase to a smaller
figure, they did not have this
choice. 'The school boards had
told them that if they did not
promise the 35-cents increase,
putting future school construc
tion on a pay-as-you-go basis, the
boards would call for bond issue 3
totalling $2,125,000.
The bond issues, if approved,
would cost the county $900,000 in
interest over a 20-year period, re
quiring a 37-Gents increase in
tax rate to pay interest and prin
cipal, Mr. Muse said.
The boards, which in the past
have competed for the capital
outlay funds which never would
stretch to' cover their needs,
pledged to work out their dif-
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‘Little Miss S. P.’
Contest Entries
To Close Saturday
Saturday, March 18, wiU be the
final day to register entries in
the Little Miss Southern Pines
1961 contest, parents were re
minded today by the Jaycettes
who are sponsoring the event.
The contest for girls under
five years of age will be held in
Weaver Auditorium Friday
March 24, at 7:30 p. m. The v/in-
ner will receive a silver loving
cup and will hold the Little Miss
Southern Pines crown for a year
Entries should be made in
writing to Mrs. Robert C. Bishop
545 Highland Road, giving
name of child and name, address
and telephone number of par
ents.
Tickets for the contest are on
sale by the Jaycettes. TTie pro
ceeds, in part, will go to the
playground equipment fund of
the Jaycees.
Further information can be ob-
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Seawell with Police
Force Since 1955
In a front-page story in last
week’s Pilot, it was incorrectly
stated—due to a typographical
error—that Sgt. Earl S. Seawell
joined the Southern Pines police
department May 1, 1959, whereas
the year should have been 1955
Sgt. Seawell, as senior officer
in the department, was made of
ficer in charge of the police de
partment, by action of Town
Manager Louis Scheipers, Jr.,
after Chief C. E. Newton was
fatally shot March 3.
Pending the appointment of a
chief of police by the town man
ager, Sgt. Seawell remains offi
cer in charge.