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VOL. 40—NO. 38
Compromise By
Boards Reached
In Money Hassle
The Moore County board of ed
ucation considered they won a
victory in a compromise settle
ment this morning at Carthage
after the arbitration hearing they
had called against the county
commissioners in a budgetary dis
pute was dismissed.
The settlement was for $2,185
—a long way from the $9,900 they
had asked to be transferred from
one section of their current ex
pense budget to another.
But the $2,185 covered the most
controversial item, a $2,000 sal
ary supplement for Supt. Robert
E. Lee. It also covered a $185
per year increase to be matched
by federal funds for the county
schools’ guidance director, C. E
Powers.
Temporarily foregone were two
other items, raises for the cleri
cal staff of the education office
and the salary of a library super
visor. They said it was too late
anyway to find a librarian for the
coming school year.
As the arbitration hearing op
ened before Clerk of Court C. C.
Kennedy, with both boards ready
for an all-day interrogation, M.
G. Boyette, counsel for the com
missioners, moved for dismissal
on the ground the clerk had no
jurisdiction. He cited law show
ing that any supplement to the
state-paid salary of the superin
tendent was a matter exclusively
for approval or disapproval of the
commissioners. The clerk, acting
as arbiter, allowed the motion.
W. D. Sabiston, counsel for the
board of education, gave notice
of appeal to the Superior Court.
Both boards then went into pri
vate conference. Within a short
while the school board made the
compromise offer, which the com
missioners accepted, ending a con
troversy which had built up be
tween them since early in June.
The stage for this morning’s
events was set Monday at a joint
meeting of the commissioners and
the board of education, when their
official disagreement over how the
$9,900 in current expense funds
are to be spent resulted in a dead
locked vote that, by law, sent the
mattdr to Clerk of Court Ken
nedy for arbitration.
At the Monday session, the full
membership of the two boards
was present; for the, commission
ers, Chairman L. R. Reynolds and
Commissioners Tom Monroe, W.
S. Taylor, J. M. Pleasants and
John Currie; and for the board of
education, ChairmEm J. A. Cul
bertson, and Jere McKeithen,
Howard Matthews, T. Roy Phillips
and Roland Upchurch.
The Monday meeting was ad
journed from the previous Mon
day when the commissioners had
refused to allow the board of ed
ucation’s request to transfer $9,-
9Q0 in county school current ex
pense funds from maintenance to
four uses they said were vital to
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SOUTHERN P],NES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1960
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
LITTLE LEAGUE FETED—C. L. Dutton of 610 S. Bennett
St., veteran coach of Little League teams in former years in
Southern Pines and a lifelong baseball fan is pictured (cen
ter in striped shirt) presenting trophies to winners and run
ners-up in the 1960 Little League championship race during
a chicken supper gathering with the local Elks Lodge as host.
At Mr. Dutton’s right is Coach Joel Stutts of the winning Car
dinals and at his left is Frank Buchan, coach of the Pirates,
runners-up. Boys in the photo include members of the Cardinals
and Pirates and also of the other Little League teams, and the
Minor League and Pony League teams. On the table are in
dividual trophies presented to the Cardinals (left) and Pirates
(right). Gold baseballs for presentation to the players on the
other two Little League teams, the Braves and the Dodgers, had
not arrived for the gathering last Wednesday at the Country
Club. They are now on hand and will be presented soon. About
100 boys were entertained by the Elks at the event, many of
whom are visible in this picture. (Humphrey photo)
Commissioners Okay
Start of Airport Work
In actions taken at a special
meeting in the courthouse at Car
thage Monday, the county com
missioners gave a strong push for
ward to the Pinehurst-Southern
Pines Airport improvement pro
gram.
The board authorized the Air
port Committee to sign a con-
Move Begun To
‘Affiliate’ With
Town In Europe
Preliminary plans were made
Wednesday morning for partici
pation by Southern Pines in the
program of “Operation Town Af
filiations, Inc.,’’ an organization
with headquarters in New York j dared on the warrant and trial
Superior Court Term To Open Monday
At Carthage; Judge Bundy To Preside
Judge William J. Bundy of
Greenville, an assigned judge, is
scheduled to preside at a one-
week term of Moore County Su
perior Court, for trial of criminal
cases, opening at the courthouse
in Carthage Monday morning.
Morq than 50 cases are calen-
City, to promote “international
people-to-people understanding.’’
Prank Warner of Southern
Pines is a member of the board
of directors of the organization
and chairman of its New Neigh
bors Committee. It is through his
efforts that local interest in the
project was aroused.
The New York office serves as
a clearing house in coordinating
and arranging contact between
towns and cities in the United
States and towns and cities in
Europe. Once such an affiliation
is agreed on, the governing heads
of the towns correspond and con
tacts are encouraged between
club, church and school groups
and individuals in the two towns.
A group of interested persons,
most of them representing civic
organizations, elected officers and
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dockets, of which more than 20
are for traffic law offenses, in
cluding many appeals from lower
courts by defendants charged
with drunken driving.
More than 20 defendants are
scheduled to go before the grand
jury.
Two of the defendants, in cases
rousing county-wide interest at
the time of their arrests, are
charged with assault with intent
to commit rape.
Nathaniel Terry, young West
End Negro, faces this charge and
also a charge of burglary in con
nection with his entry of the Rob
ert Conrad home at West End and
his alleged assault on Mrs. Betty
Conrad who said she was chased
out of the house by Terry and
attacked in the yard nearby.
The other defendant, a Route 1,
Aberdeen, white youth, is accused
by a Negro woman who told of
ficers Rex Venable attacked her
but she freed herself by promis
ing to meet him later. Venable
was committed to a state mental
hospital June 30 and it was not
known here this week if he would
be judged able to stand trial.
Of local interest is the case of
John Robinson, Negro resident of
Youngs Road, who will also go
before the grand jury.
Robinson is charged with per
mitting an unauthorized person to
drive his automobile and aiding
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Band Practice
Begins Aug. 15
Regular high school band prac
tice will start Monday, August 15,
at 10 a. m., William McAdams,
band director, said this week.
The sessions will be held each
day, Monday through Friday, at
the band room in the high school,
until the opening of school.
The municipal summer recrea
tion band program, of which Mr.
McAdams is in charge, will con
tinue through Friday, August 26.
Sandhill Tennis
Tourney Slated
To Begin Today
Sam Daniel of Leaksville, top-
seeded in the 12th annual Sand
hill Invitational tennis tourna
ment starting here today, may be
hard put to hang on to his thrice-
won crown.
With finals in all events set for
Sunday, both defenders—Daniel
and Mrs. Raymonde Jones of
Fort Bragg—face topnotch com
petition. Entries listed from both
Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia and
Tennessee include some familiar
stars as well as bright luminaries
whose quality is as yet untested
here, though their fame has pre
ceded them.
Daniel is fresh from his victory
at the Kedmont Closed held at
Greensboro last week-end — his
latest in a string of wins all over
the South. Among challengers are
the No. 2 seed, Ed Hudgins of
Greensboro; No. 3, Malcolm
Clark of Southern Pines and No.
4, Charlie Shaffer, Jr., of Chapel
Hill.
Shaffer, too, has a new scalp
on his belt. Just emerging into
men’s play after virtual domi-
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Schools Faculty
Announced; New
Teachers Named
All administrative and teach
ing positions in the Southern
Pines schools have been filled witn
the exception of two teachers in
the West Southern Pines units,
Supt. Luther A. Adams said this
week.
There are nine new teachers in
the East Southern Pines schools
and one in West Southern Pines,
with two more to be appointed,
as of this week.
Information about the new
teachers appears following the
faculty lists for all the schools:
EAST SOUTHERN PINES
Elemenlaiy
Miss Mary Jane Prillaman, Mrs.
Alice Caddell, Mrs. Betty Foushee,
first; Mrs. Faye Worsham, Mrs.
Jean Bennett, Mrs. Jean Wallace,
second;' Miss Peggy Blue, Mrs.
Edla Wicker, Mrs. Penelope
Broughton, third; Miss Margaret
Frye, Miss Hilda McConnell, Mrs.
Jean Jenkins, fourth, Mrs. Grace
Farrior, Mrs. Doris Wilson, Mrs.
W. C. Callaway, fifth; Miss Kay
Buice, Mrs. Eva Frye, Mrs. Ruth
Deaton, sixth;
Junior High
Miss Margaret Brewer, Miss
Edwina Rookes, Mrs. Jane Mc-
Phaul, Ralph Foushee, Mrs. Eliza
beth Adam, John Williams, Don
Moore, principal;
Miss Mary Logan, music super-
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Football Practice
To Start Monday
Southern Pines High School
football practice will start Mon
day, Coach Billy Megginson an
nounced today.
The new coach, who comes here
from Mount Holly High School in
Gaston County, asked that all
high school ‘boys interested in
playing football meet at the high
school building at 9 a. m. Monday
for a conference on plans for the
coming season.
Practice sessions will be held
each day early in the mprning and
late in the afternoon, with about
an hour and a half for each ses
sion, Megginson said.
tract with the Southern Mapping
and Engineering Co. of Greens
boro to make the needed engi
neering studies for the $115,000
runway extension and paving pro
ject.
Half of 'the cost of extending
the runway to 4,500 feet and pav
ing the runway will be borne by
the federal government.
Gordon Cameron of Pinehurst
and J. E. Sandlin of Southern
Pines, Airport Committee mem
bers appearing before the com
missioners, also asked the board
for funds up to $3,200 for land
purchases and easements to ob
tain the required land in and a-
round the runway project site.
The government also is paying
half of, this cost. Mr. Cameron
said that easments have already
been tentatively obtained qn all
the land except three tracts at
the south end of the project.
The engineering fee, Mr. Cam
eron told the commissioners, will
be six per cent of the contract
price, plus “extras.’’
The county owns the airport
and operates it under contract.
Body of Mrs. Boggs Exhumed Today; Bullet Is Recovered
the school program:
1. A $2,000 salary supplement
for Supt. R. E. Lee.
2. A $6,000 salary for a school
library supervisor.
3. A salary supplement of $185
per year (to be matched by fed
eral funds) for C. E. Powers, guid
ance director.
4. Increases averaging $50 per
month for clerical help in the
board of education office.
At the meeting this week, the
board of education offered to drop
the request for librarian salary
and cut the clerical worker re
quest to an average of about $25
per month increase, but the com
missioners would not agree.
Going into executive session,
the commissioners then came,out
with a counter proposal — they
would allow the board of educa
tion to use only $1,000 of the sum
in question as they chose.
This the board of education re
jected and the two boards found
themselves in official disagree
ment.
The locked vote followed and
the matter went to the clerk of
court for today’s hearing.
(Editorials appearing on
page 2 of today's Pilot, deal
ing with the controversy and
other related matters, were
written prior to this morning's
compromise settlement that
makes posidble a requested
salary supplement for Supt.
Lee.)
'The body of a woman some two
months dead, found in a tumble-
down house at Manly Saturday,
July 30, was exhumed this morn
ing from- a grave in the Douba
Ghapel Church cemetery in an
intensive search for more clues
as to the cause of death. The
body was returned to the grave
before noon, after an autopsy.
The county commissioners on
Monday authorized the expendi
ture Of funds for the exhrunation
tion of the remains of Mrs. Evely:
Boggs, 41, on request of the sher
iff’s department. , A brother of
Mrs. Boggs, cooperating with thi
officers in their continuing in
vestigation, agreed to sign th(
exhumation order.
Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence
handling the investigation, said
that all available scientific meth
ods are being employed in trying
to determine if the woman com
mitted suicide or was murdered.
The pistol bullet, which showed
up in the chest region by X-ray,
was recovered during today’s au
topsy performed by Dr. P. P.
Green, pathologist of Moore
Memorial Hospital.
Because of the decomposed con
dition of the body, an autopsy
performed before Mrs. Boggs’s
btu-ial July 31 was inconclusive.
Two men are being held in jail
for questioning—her husband
Henry Boggs, a former mental
hospital patient; and an admitted
former lover of the woman.
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Billy Needham, 21,
Held In Shooting
Of Wade Maness
Wadfe Maness, 41-year-old far
mer of near Carthage, is in Moore
Memorial Hospital in serious con
dition and his nephew Billy Need
ham, 21, who makes his home with
the Maness family, is being held
in Moore County jail charged
with shooting him, according to
the sheriff’s department.
Though gravely wounded, Man
ess was reported still living at the
hospital this morning. He was
shot Saturday morning.
Needham has been charged
with felonious assault but has
been denied bond and the char
ges are being help open pending
Maness’ condition. Said Chief
Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm,
“Maness received the full blast
from a shotgun in his side at a
range of five or six feet.”
Maness was able to give his
version cleEirly, Grimm i^eported.
He told the officer he had come
into the house to- find his nephew
drunk and creating a disturbance,
and tried to quiet him down. Bil
ly’s response was to grab the shot
gun and fire at close range.
Arrested later Saturday, Billy
admitted'the shooting but said it
happened “in a scuffle over the
gun.” He is iinder a suspended
sentence in Moore Recorders
Court.
Maness, married and with sev
eral children, is a respected far
mer on land belonging to Dr. Co
lin G. Spencer of Carthage.
MURDER OR SUICIDE?—Photo at left shows the aban-
■ doned, dilapidated house where the body of Mrs. Evelyn Boggs
was found several weeks after she died of a bullet wound.
Window at left is to the room where the body was found on a
bed. The door from the rotted-out porch leads to a central hall.
At right is window of room where a note in Mrs. Bogg’s hand
writing was found accusing a 26-year-old local man, now be
ing held in the Moore County jail, of having shot her. She was
pregnant when she died. At the rear of the house are two
other rooms. The whole house, where Mrs? Boggs had lived
some months ago but not immediately prior to her death, is in
an advanced state of disrepair. In the photo at right, two of
the investigating officers, SBI Agent Gary Griffith, left, and
Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence, are pictured going through the
contents of a pocketbook found in the house. It contained snap
shots, letters and 35 cents. Other letters and a few personal
possessions were found scattered around. The house is located a
half mile north of the Midland Road intersection on the unpaved
road that is a continuation of N. W. Broad St.
(Photos by V. Nicholson.
Lions Announce
Chicken Supper
To Aid Projects
Plans for a chicken supper—to
raise funds for their community
service projects—were announced
today by Southern Pines Lions.
The club’s supper will be held
at the outdoor cook-out area at
the Southern Pines Country Club,
Wednesday, August 24, from 5:30
to 7:30 p. m.
Joe Marley, club president, said
there will bfe free home delivery
of box suppers for those ordering
them and that suppers can also
be picked up at the Country Club.
Walter Harper will be in charge
of the food preparation. Similar
suppers staged by the club in the
past have been most successful.
Moore Boys Win
Game at Sanford
The Moore County Little Tar
Heel League baseball team beat
Wilmington 1-0 in its first contest
at the state league playoffs in
Sanford last night.
The Moore team faces Greens
boro at 9 o’clock tonight in their
second game of the playoffs at
Dalrymple Field.
There’s a photo and more about
the Moore'County team on page
13.