VOL. 40—NO. 34
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 14, I960
EIGHTEEN PAGES
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STEERING COMMITTEEMEN — With Presi
dent. L. H. Campbell, standing fourth from left,
are steering committeemen of the Moore Coun
ty campaign for Campbell College. Standing,
left to right, are Thomas T. Hayes, Jr., Southern
Pines; C. L. Tyson, Vass; Fred Taylor, Pipe-
.t
hurst; President Campbell; Charles A. Pitts,
Pinehurst; and the Rev. C. A. Kirby, Jr., Carth
age. Seated are J. D. Ives, Pinebluff; the Rev.
Lee Pridgen, Pinebluff; and Willis Kivett, Sou
thern Pines, member of the Campbell board of
trustees.
Campbell Drive Starts
Representatives of 12 commu
nities voted last week to put
Moore County into the state-wide
drive to enlarge Campbell College
at Buies Creek into a senior insti
tution.
The group of 56 civic and re
ligious leaders attending a dinner
meeting last Thursday night at
the Jefferson Inn, named Willis
Kivett of Southern Pines and the
Rev. Lee Pridgen of Pinebluff to
head a drive for Campbell in the
Moore County area. Mr. Kivett,
retired oil-company representa
tive, has served as trustee of the
college for 10 years. Mr. Pridgen
is associational missionary of the
Sandhills Baptist Association.
Other Moore County steering
committee members appointed at
the meeting are Fred Taylor,
Pinehurst; C. L. Tyson, Vass; J.
D. Ives, Pinebluff; Thomas Hayes,
Jr., Southern Pines; the 'Rev. C.
A. Kirby, Carthage; W. Sidney
Taylor, Aberdeen; and Charles A.
retary of the group.
In the main address of the eve
ning, Charles A. Pitts, Pinehurst
engineer and businessman, made
a plea for equipping young people
to defend themselves against ‘The
prevailing sophistries of modem
life.” Mr. Pitts voiced his own
conviction that education founded
on Christian principles is basic to
this defense.
He commended the Moore
County drive for Baptist-church-
related Campbell College in Har
nett County. “We should get be
hind any effort in any community
that will get “men and women
back to .the knowledge of Jesus
Christ,” Pitts said. Pitts, who
selves on the advisory board of
the Billy Graham Crusade, is also
a member of Graham’s evangelis
tic team.
Pledging his own support for
the Campbell movement, C. B.
Deane of Rockingham stressed
hie importance of strengthening
the Baptist educational effort in
Pitts of Pinehurst. Mr. Ives is sec- Baptist educal
the state. “Unless we Baptists
throughout North Carolina put our
arms around our students and
provide better facilities and more
teachers, I don’t have much hope
for the future.” he said. Mr.
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I
Lewis Elected
GOP Chairman of
Eighth District
Coy S. Lewis, Jr., of Robbins,
was elected Saturday to ihe posi
tion of 8th Congressional District
chairman for the Republican par
ty. Mr. Lewis was elected at a
special convention in Lexington,
to replace James Brock of Mocks-
viUe, who has resigned to accept
a position with the Veterans Ad
ministration.
The election of Mr. Lewis, for
merly District census supervisor,
“continues the accent on youth
and ability that has characterized
North Carolina’s Republican lead
ership in recent years,” said an
announcement from the Moore
County Republican executive
committee.
As District Chairman, Mr. Lewis
will coordinate the activities of
the various county chairmen, with
emphasis on the campaign of A.
M. Snipes, Republican candidate
for Congress from the 8th District.
The 8th District includes Wilkes,
Yadkin, Davie, Davidson, Mont
gomery, Moore, Lee, Hoke, Scot
land, Richmond, Anson and Union
counties.
Theatre Group to
Organize Monday
An organizational meeting of
the “Theatre in the Pines,” a pro
posed amateur dramatic group,
will be held at 8 p.m. Monday in
the courtroom of town hall.
Mrs. John McPhaul, president
pro-tem of the group, invited all
adults interested in participating
in the various activities of a com
munity theatre to attend the
meeting.
The project, drawing its mem
bership from throughout
CD DIRECTOR
J»hix F. Buchholz of 750 E.
Indiana Ave. was appointed
Civil Defense director for
Southern Pines by the town
council at its regular meeting
Tuesday night.
Town Manager Louis Schei-
pers. Jr., said later that Mr.
Buchholz has accepted the ap-
ment.
The post had been vacant
for several months, since Col.
Donald Madigan. the former
town CD director, accepted
appointment as head of Moore
County Civil Defense.
Mr. Buchholz. who served
with the U. S. Marines in
combat in the Pacific in
World War II, has been active
for many years with the
Moore County Red Cross
blood collection program.
Arrest Made in
Armed Robbery at
Service Station
An armed robbery which took
place at an Aberdeen service sta
tion early Monday morning ap
peared "solved Tuesday by Aber
deen police, with the arrest of a
17-year-old Negro “positively
identified” by the hold-up victim.
Clarence P. Dunn, 45, night at
tendant at the Gulf service sta
tion on the stoplight corner, iden
tified Hugh D. McNeill as the man
who forced him at gunpoint to
open the station cash register,
scooped up $120 in bills and fled
on foot.
McNeill, arrested by acting Po
lice Chief D. J. Jones, who spot
ted him on the street from Dunn’s
description, denied knowledge of
the robbery but offered to pay
back the money, Jones said.
He was one of a dozen suspects
which had been taken before
Dunn for possible identification.
When arrested early Tuesday
afternoon, he wore the same
clothes Dunn had described—grey
sweater, dark trousers and crepe-
soled shoes.
McNeill, who had just Sunday
night quit his job at a Sandhills
restaurant, was placed in Aber
deen jail under an armed robbery
charge, pending a hearing Friday.
Dunn reported the hold-up
shortly after midnight Monday
morning, calling police and G. I.
Doolin, station owner. Night Of
ficer Pearlie Norton arrived from
the police station a block away
so fast the sound of the fleeing
man’s footsteps were still audible
in the streets. He gave chase for
several blocks but lost him in the
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Volunteers Fight
Stubborn Fire in
Sunrise Theatre
Southern Pines volunteer fire
men were battling a stubborn,
smoky fire in the basement of the
Sunrise Theatre on N. W. Broad
St. as The Pilot went to press this
afternoon.
An alarm was turned in about 2
p. m. when the theatre was unoc
cupied. The first show of the day
was scheduled to begin at 3.
Firemen who entered the
smoke-filled building with air-
pack masks discovered that- a
popcorn piaehine in the basement
had apparently caught on fire
and had also burned an area
around the machine, causing the
heavy smoke.
Knocking out a basement
window, the firemen quickly ex
tinguished the active fire with
foam solution, but smok.- was
still coming from the building a
half-hour later.
Theatre Manager Bob Dutton
was reported out of town on va
cation.
Extent of the damage could not
be determined before The Pilot
went to press.
The fire drew a throng of spec
tators who lined the railroad sta
tion platform across Broad St. Po
lice were busy keeping young
sters and other spectators back
from the doors through which
smoke was pouring.
MR, COX
Recreation Dept.
Music Programs
To Begin Monday
County Library Back
On Regular Schedule
The Moore County Library at
Carthage is now open to the pub
lie regularly Monday through
Friday from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and
Saturday from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
This does not affect the bookmo
bile schedule which continues as
announced.
Rotary Planning Memorial Monument
A T'lr.^—U -v-vr. ...
- the
Sandhills, followed a drama work- ^ cuiumu-
shop conducted here by Mrs. Nan- nity residents who saw service in
^ Stamey of the State Recreation World War II.
A proposal for a World War II
memorial monument will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the board
of directors of the Southern Pines
Rotary Club Monday night, E.
Earl Hubbard, club president,
said this week.
If approved by the board, the
project wiU be referred to the
club membership, Mr. Hubbard
said.
The club has had plans drawn
for a permanent, marble monu
ment, to replace the wooden vet
erans’ service board which was
removed from the grounds in
front of the town library, after
complaints had been made about
its dilapidated condition. The
board was originally erected by
the Rotary Club and listed more
than 400 Southern Pines commu-
Commission, two weeks ago.
Mr. Hubbard said the Rotary
Club’s tentative plan for the mon
ument is to put on it only the
names of local men who lost their
lives in World War II
‘‘We hope to have every ‘gold
star’ member of the armed forces
from this town listed there,” he
said.
The list of names on the former
board, representing persons who
served 90 days or more in the
armed forces, was probablly not
complete, Mr. Hubbard pointed
out. The large number of names
would make it impractical to in
scribe them on stone.
Location for a new monument
has not been determined. The
club will confer with the town
council, Mr. Hubbard said, to dis
cuss the possibility of putting the
memorial somewhere on the town
hall-park block. However, he add
ed, it may be felt that a location
near the library or post office
would be preferable.
The music program to be con
ducted under the municipal sumr
mer recreationn prograni will be-'
gin Monday in East and West
Soutiiem Pines, Jim E. Walser,
recreation director, has announc
ed.
In East Southern Pines, Wil
liam McAdams, director of the
High School band and glee club,
will be in charge.
Mis? Lois Sutton, West South
ern Pines school faculty member,
who directs the highi school and
elementary glee clubs there, will
direct the program, under super
vision of J. C. Hasty, head of the
West Southern Pines summer rec
reation activities.
Activities in both programs will
take place at the high schcK>I band
roo ns, and will be conducted
each day, Monday through Fri
day.
'I'he programs will be open to
children entering the fourth
grade, and older, up through
adults.
Mr. McAdams announced his
schedule as follows:
9-9:30 a. m.—Beginning ton-
ettes (the tonette is a ‘tre-band”
instrument and will be provided),
for children entering fourth grade
and older.
9:30-11 a. m.—Advanced band
for high school students only.
11 a. m.-noon — Intermediate
band for students who have play
ed one year, up to high school.
1- 2 p. m.—^Beginning band for
fiftn grade students and older.
2- 3 p. m.—Adult beginning
band.
3- 4 p. m.—Adult band, for all
persons with prior band experi
ence.
Mr. MpAdams said there will be
an opportunity to discuss pur
chasing and rental of band instru
ments.
West Southern Pines
Miss Sutton said that she will
conduct an instructional program
to cieate interest in music.
She is asking students of all
ages to come from 10 a. m. to 1
p. m. or from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m.
Miss Sutton is a gradaute of
West Southern Pines High School
and Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege. She has served as organist
for various West Southern Pines
churches and has been a member
of the West Southern Pines school
faculty for two years.
Glenn Leigh C ox
Named Principal
S.P. High School
Glenn Leigh Cox, 31, has been
appointed principal of East Sou
thern Pines High School, it was
announced today by N. L. Hodg
kins, chairman of the city board
of education, and Luther A. Ad
ams, superintendent of schools.
The school officials said Mr.
Cox was chosen for the post after
several aj)plicants had been in
terviewed and that the board
feels fortunate to have obtained
his services.
Now taking part in his second
summer of study at N. C. State
College, Raleigh, under a National
Science Fellowship research par
ticipation grant, Mr. Cox expects
to move to Southern Pines v/ith
his wife and infant daughter in a
few weeks.
A 1947 graduate of Elizabeth
City High School, the new princi
pal received a B. S. degree in
science and mathematics at East
Carolina College in 1951. Four
years in the Army, during which
he graduated from officers can
didate school, were followed by
four years of teaching biology and
mathematics at High Point Senior
High School.
Meanwhile, Mr. Cox had com
pleted the requirements for and
had received a masters degree in
education, in the field of school
administration, at the University
of North Carolina.
In Southern Pines, Mr. Cox
will have charge of administra
tion and supervision of the high
school. Supt. Adams said he will
teach two classes but will have
no coaching duties. i
The superintendent said the
board of education is now seek
ing a man to coach athletics and
teach social studies.
The new principal succeeds Jim
E. Walser who has resigned to
accept an appointment at Fort
Mill High School. Mr. Walser,
who came to Southern Pines last
year, is staying here as director
of the municipal summer recrea
tion program, before going to his
new appointment.,
Council Kills Plan to
Change Parkin;^System
It took the town council only
a few minutes 'Tuesday night to
decide that having an Alterna'C;,
No : highway rot'.te through town
wp.? not worth the less of Pe -n-
sylvania Ave. parking space that
the route would require.
But Councilman Jimmy Hobbs’s
motion to reject proposed amend
ments to the traffic regulation or
dinance directed that a comrriittce
nf business people be appointed
to study the downtown parking
situation.
This group was named later in
the meeting by Mayor R. S. Ewing
as Joe Montesanti (who had pre
presented a merchants’ petition
against parking changes at the
June meeting), H. M. Patterson,
L. H. McNeill, Sam Bozick and
William L. Heller.
Tne committee will be asked to
bring back recommendations at
Little League to
Begin Playoffs;
Pirates Leading
With best-two-out-of-three series
playoffs to begin Monday, the
Pirates lead the four-team local
Little League at the end of the
regular season.
The playoffs schedule:
Monday
6:30 p. m.—Cardinals vs.
Dodgers; 8 p. m.—Pirates vs.
Braves.
Wednesday
6:30 p. m.—Pirates vs. Braves;
8 p. m.—Cardinals vs. Dodgers.
Friday
6.30 p. m.—Cardinals vs. Dodg
ers; 8 p. m, (if necessary)—^Pirates
vs. Braves.
STANDINGS
End of Regular Season
Team W L
Pirates 8 4
Cardinals 7 5
Dodgers 6 6
Braves 3 9
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
Friday, July 8
Cardinals 5, Dodgers 0.
, Braves 16, Pirates 13.
Monday. July 11 (Makeup Game)
Braves forfeited to Dodgers
(not enough players).
the September council meeting.
Mayor Ewing said, stressing that
its function is to study parking
space requirements and the pos
sibility of the town’s acquiring
lots for off-street parking.
In the vote on Mr. Hobbs’s mo
tion, Mayor Ewing and Council-
men Harry Pethick, Felton Capel
and Hobbs voted to reject any
changes in parking. Councilman
John Ruggles abstained. During
discussion of the motion he had
said that it was “a sad state of af
fairs when the council can’t back
up a committee of men of sub
stance who spent two years work
ing on the alternate No. 1 high
way proposal.”
'The committee to which he re
ferred is the town’s Advertising
Advisory Committee which had
proposed an alternate No. 1 route
so that it would then appear on
oil company maps, helping mo
torists wanting to visit the town
to get in and out by a marked
route. The route was tq have used
Pennsylvania Ave., between the
No. 1 parkway and May St., and
May St., north of Pennsylvania,
to take traffic in both directions
past the Information Center.
When the proposal was sub
mitted to the State Highway
Commission for the needed ap
proval, however, the Commis
sion stipulated that it could not
designate the route unless park
ing on Pennsylvania Ave., be
tween Broad and Bennett St., was
changed from diagonal to paral
lel, to allow a freer flow of traf
fic and less congestion on this
blex-k. The change would elimi
nate more than 25 parking spaces
in the block.
At the council’s June meeting,
with Councilmen Ruggles and
Pethick absent, the council re
ceived a petition against the
change, signed by 24 business
persons in the area. Another li;;t
showed mmre than 180 of one
store’s customers as opposed to
the change.
None of the group protesting ai
the June meeting was back at this
week’s meeting,- but on the in
quiry of Mayor Ewing if anyone
present would like to be heard,
Dr. L. M. Daniels cited a situation
with which he was familiar in
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TOP TEN BATTERS
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Bradley
(P)
43
17
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Webb
(P)
35
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T.
Michael
(C)
26
9
.346
J.
Rowe
,(B)
21
7
.333
P.
Grootman
(P)
43
13
.302
J.
Wilson
(P)
41
12
.293
R.
Easley
(B)
24
7
.292
T.
NanOpoulos
(C)
24
7
.292
C.
Lawrence
(D)
21
6
.286
R. Brown
(B)
25
7
.280
Open House Scheduled
At New Sandavis Home
Open house will be held this
weekend for the public at the new
“Gold Medallion” home recently
completed by William P. Davis in
his Sandavis development, at the
intersection of Crestview Rd.
and Saylor St. Hours will be 2 to
18 p. m. Saturday and 2 to 6 p. m.
j Sunday. For details, see story on
page 8 and numerous advertise-
Ihroughout today’s Pilot.
TN MISS NORTH CAROLINA PAGEANT
Gharla Marcum to Seek State Title
Bowling Association
To Meet Friday Night
There wiU be a meeting of the
Sandhill Bowling Association Fri
day, July 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the
OK BowL All league presidents
and secretaries are asked to be
present.
Miss Charla Anne Marcum, lo
cal contender for the “Miss Nortli
Carodna” title, will leave here
Tuesday for Charlotte and a
tight-packed four days of activity
culminating in the crowning of
the winner Saturday night;^ Juiy
23, in Ovens Auditorium.
Crowned “Miss Sanford” in a
Jaycte-sponsored contest in late
April, Miss Mangum, described by
the Sanford Herald as “a brunett:
with a flashing smile and &
throaty voice,” will compete with
68 beauty queens vying for the
title on the State level. This num-
I'cr will be whittled down dur
ing the week to 10 for the final
judging Saturday night, and the
winner will become eligible to
enter the “Miss America” contest
beginning September 4 in Atlan
tic City, N. J.
Accompanying Miss Marcum to
the Queen City are her chaperone,
M s. John McPhaul of Country
Club Drive, and her business
manager, Roy Cashion of Sanford.
All contestants will be met five
miles outside the city by a wel
coming committee which will
conduct them through Charlotte
and back again to their headquar
ters. the Coliseum Motel.
Then the fun begins. A round
of luncheons, banquets, press con
ferences, rehearsals and picture
taking will continue “throughout
MISS MARCUM
the week.
Time Element
Though enjoying to the full the
excitement and glamor attend
ant upoi the coming festivities.
Miss Marcum expressed herself
as being a little perturbed about
the lime element.
“They’re crowding all these
things into lour days this year in
stead of the five days they had
last year,” she said, “and there
are twice as many things going on
this year as there were last.
“Do you want to know the
maximum amount of time I have
to change clothes? Fifteen min
utes,” she exploded, ‘"and this is
for the most formal affair of the
week, a banquet Friday at the
Airport.”
The schedule of appearances for
Miss Marcum, who is not only
beautiful but a talented singer
and pianist, and composer of
nearly 100 compositions, begins
Wednesday night when she will
join the other girls for a prelim
inary judging in formal evening
attire. She has chosen to wear a
white silk organza strapless gown
with three-tiered' skirt and gath
ered bodice, on this occasion.
Thuisday night, she will be
judged in a bathing suit and Fri
day is “talent night” when Miss
Marcum will again sing the com-
positijns for which she composed
lyrics, music and orchestration,
and which helped win her the
“Miss Sanford” title—“Fool 'That
I Am” and the “Sick Song.” She
will be playing her own accom
paniment, backed up by the
Loonis McGloin orchestra of
WBTV, Charlotte. Accentuating
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