VOL. 40—NO. 43
SADA Group to
Tour Sandhills
After Luncheon
Moore Countians are cordially
invited to the Sandhills Area De
velopment Association luncheon
and county tour Tuesday, Septem
ber 20, at Southern Pines Country
Club.
The quarterly meeting of SADA
begins at 11 a.m., the dutch lunch
eon at noon and the bus tour of
horse farms, golf courses and in
dustries at 1:30 p.m.
Voit Gilmore, SADA president,
states, “Luncheon costs $1.75 and
we hope to have present all those
interested in the industrial, agri
cultural, travel and community
development of Moore County.”
Lynn Nisbet, president of the
N. C. Travel Council, will be lun
cheon speaker. The meeting’s em
phasis will be on travel and rec
reation development of the Sand
hills.
Lee, Montgomery and Kich-
mond counties are other members
of the Association. Their delega-
tipns will join Moore Countians
on the afternoon tour.
Ward Hill, Norris L. Hodgkins,
Jr., June Blue, Mayor Eutice
Mills, of Pinebluff, Ben Wicks
and James Steed comprise the
local arrangements committee.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1960
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
Merchants Oppose Parking Meters,
Say Will Use Unrestricted Streets
$15,300 Sought.
In Council Girl
Scout Campaign
(Photo of local drive chair-
Rven, with Council officials,
page S>)
The campaign for operating
funds for the Central Carolina
Girl Scout Council for 1961 will
open on September 15 throughout
the county. The Council is en
deavoring to raise $15,300.
The goal is “minimum for a
maximum of service” given to the
better than 2,000 Girl Scouts now
being served, says Sherwood
Brockwell, Jr., of Southern Pines,
council finance chairman. Mr.
Brockwell said that Miss Mary
tjuillen of Sanford has been em-
'f ployed to serve as a district di
rector for 'Moore and Chatham
Counties. Miss Quillen was added
to the staff consisting of Miss
Cathryn Creasman, executive di
rector and Miss Sophia White,
district director for Lee and Har
nett Counties, after a study of
staff time showed that the origi
nal staff was working nine
months overtime per year and
still unable to reach all communi
ties.
The drives in Moore County are
under the direction of Richard
James of Robbins, county finance
chairman.
Local chairmen are:
Southern Pines—Mrs. Albert F.
Grove, Mrs. Charles Phillips,
Mrs. William Donovan, Mrs. Mil
dred Merrill and Max Rush.
West Southern Pines—^Miss
Wilma Hasty.
Aberdeen—^Dr. Robert Vander-
Voort.
Berkley School, Aberdeen—
Miss Ernestine Pride.
Pinebluff—^Mrs. David Spence.
Vass—^Roy Frye.
Carthage—^Mrs. Lloyd McGraw.
Robbins and West End—Com-
mimity Chest, -i'
What’ 's Happening? Looks Like a Golfer’s Nightmare!
This scene could be a golfer’s
nightmare—a tractor plowing in
the carefully nurtured turf—but
it was all planned that way and
for an unusual purpose: the Pine-
hurst Country Club was installing
some 1,500 feet of underground
telephone cable to link its start
ing desk in the club with the first
tees of its four courses, to help
coordinate golfers’ starting times
when the courses are crowded
during the season. On hand this
week as the special cable plow
behind the tractor neatly buried
the line 18 inches below the sur
face while leaving only a trace of
its work behind, were, left to
Youngsters Win
Many Prizes in
Dairy Calf Show
Fourteen Moore County 4-H
Club members who' entered 22
dairy calves in the annual tri
county Sandhills Junior Dairy
Cattle Show at Hamlet Tuesday
showed animals that won two of
the three grand championships of
fered; won first, third and fourth
places in Fitting and Showman
ship; and took 14 first prizes and
eight second prizes.
Some 30 members of 4-H Clubs
from Moore, Richmond and Mont
gomery Counties entered about 45
calves to be judged
Of the cash prizes offered,
Moore County young folks won
$259, those from Montgomery $132
and from Richmond $79.
Sponsors of the prizes, for the
show were the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club which has a county-wide
membership in Moore County;
Montgomery Dairy of Troy which
serves customers in all three of the
counties; and the Carolina Bank,
with headquarters in Pinehurst
and branches in Aberdeen, Carth
age, Vass and West End.
Neill McKay of Southern Pines,
chairman of the Sandhills Kiwan
is Club’s Agricultural and Conser
vation Committee, who attended
the show, said, “Moore County
has every reason to be proud of
its 4-H Club members and the fine
showing they made in this event.”
Mr. McKay commended Fleet
Allen, Moore County agricultural
agent, and Thomas Hall, assistant
agent, for their work with the
young people taking part in the
show. Mr. Hall, who is in charge
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Blue Knights Slate First Home Game
Friday; Laurinburg Held to 0-0 Tie
right, in photo background: Joe
R. Kimball, district manager for
the United Telephone Company;
True P. Cheney; Pete Tufts, man
ager of the club; George Thomp
son, plant superintendent for the
telephone company; M. E. Ed
wards, supervising the job for
the Thomas Brothers Construction
Co. of Greensboro from whom the
special equipment was contracted
by the telephone company; and,
at right, Henson Maples, superin
tendent of the Pinehurst golf
courses. The workmen were not
identified. The machine was op
erating between the putting
course and the first tee on the No.
Democrats to
Hear Kennedy
A delegation of Moore County
Democrats is expected to journey
to Raleigh Saturday to hear the
Reynolds Coliseum address of
Sen. John F. Kennedy, Demo-
cratiic Presidential nominee, at
8.30 p. m.
The Raleigh speech will climax
Kennedy’s whirlwind all-day
speaking tour of the state by
plane on Saturday, starting at
Greenville and moving across to
Asheville-Hendersonville, then to
Charlotte and back to Raleigh-
Durham airport, with Kennedy
going to the Governor’s Mansion
for supper and a rest before his
Coliseum address.
The Coliseum event will be car
ried by a statewide television and
radio network.
Mrs. Valerie Nicholson, local
iiee-lanqe newspaper correspon
dent, said today that she will be
among the press corps making the
entire day’s flight with the Ken
nedy party. She will write a re
port for The Pilot.
3 course. While the machine can
plow in telephone cable at the
rate of one mile per hour under
normal operating circumstances in
soft ground, progress at Pinehurst
was slower because planking had
to be placed under the treads to
protect the turf. The cable feeds
off the reel at the front of the
tractor and into the ground
through a hole in the plow. Most
of the disturbed earth remains in
the narrow trench and Kttle more
needs to be done than to tamp it
down. It took only about three
hours to do the entire job at Pine
hurst even at the necessarily slow
rate of progress.
(Humphrey photo)
Volunteers Asked
Help Jaycees in
Literacy Program-
The Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce is acting
as coordinator in Moore County
for a “literacy by television” pro
gram designed to help non-read
ing adults to learn to read and
write. Dr. J. E. Currie, Jr., Jaycee
president, has announced.
William A. McAdams of 834
Leak St., a member of the South
ern Pines schools faculty, is chair
man of the program for the Jay
cees, Dr. Currie said.
Volunteer assistance with the
program is urgently needed. Dr.
Currie said. Anyone interested in
helping is asked to get in touch
with Mr. McAdams or some other
member of the Jaycees.
Most important problem in the
project. Dr. Currie said, is find-
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Public Hearings
Set on Zoning,
Curb and Gutter
Public hearings on a proposed
Pennsylvania Ave. zoning change
and curb and gutter petitions cov
ering 20 blocks in West Southern
Pines will be held at the next reg
ular meeting of the town council
October 11, the council directed
Tuesday night.
At its September session Tues
day, the council heard a report
from the citizens committee study
ing parking requirements (report
ed in a separate story in today’s
Pilot) and agreed to endorse the
proposed merger of the Seaboard
and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads,
while asking the Seaboard to in
stall warning lights and bells on
the New York Ave. and Illinois
Ave. railroad crossings.
All councilmen were present:
Mayor R. S. Ewing, Mayor Pro-
Tern Jimmy Hobbs and Council-
men Felton Capel, Harry Pethick
and John Ruggles.
The zoning hearing will be on
a proposal to rezone from resi
dential to business the north side
of W. Pennsylvania Ave. from
Bennett St. to the No. 1 highway
parkway right of way ^and the
south side of Pennsylvania from
Leak St. to the parkway.
This proposal differs from the
recommendation of the Planning
Board which was given to the
council Tuesday night.
The Planning Board asked that
the business zoning stop at Saylor
St. on the north side of Pennsyl
vania, leaving a short block to re
main residential between Saylor
St. and the parkway. Town Man
ager Louis Scheipers, Jr., told the
council the Planning Board had
made this recommendation so that
no property adjacent to the park
way would be zoned for business
at this point.
On the south side of Pennsyl
vania, the Planning Board’s rec
ommendation was for business
zoning only between Leak and
Saylor Sts. This side of the street
is already zoned for business from
Bennett to Leak. And the block
between Saylor and the parkway
is owned by the town and is used
for its municipal garage and
equipment parking lot.
Motion to change the zoning pro
posal to call for business zoning
on both sides all the way to the
■parkway was made by Council
man Ruggles who pointed out that
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‘Significant Changes’ in Schools Noted
By CHARLES ROSE
The Southern Pines Blue
Knights will be hosts to the Sev
enty-First School of near Fay
etteville tomorrow night in the
first home game of the football
season, at 8 p.m.
The Blue Knights steadied after
a first quarter fumble on the 14-
yard line in the first game of the
season at Laurinburg Friday,
which gave Laurinburg a chance
to score early, but the tough Blue
Knights defense took over and
held the Scots on downs without
a gain.
This was the story as the Blue
Knights gained a tie at Laurin-
hurg, 0-0.
Knights. It was mostly a middle
of the field contest with Laurin
burg holding the local offense to
a mere 52 yards rushing and pass
ing.
The fired-up Knights came back
after intermission and made the
only real bid for a touchdown
late in the fourth quarter.
Quarterback Eddie McKenzie
faded back and lofted a long pass
to lonesome Joe Garzik at the
two-yard line, but the ball drop-
oed just out of his reach.
Wingback Johnny Bristow was
the leading ground gainer for the
Knights, catching both of McKen
zie’s completed passes for 30
yards and added a 16-yard gain.
The Knights’ defense saved the i all in the last half. Jack McDon-
game several times as the Scots j aid. Bob Ryder, Paul Cheve and
drove into Knights territory only Oarzik were pointed out by Coach
to be stopped by the best defen- Billy Megginson for fine defen
sive job in two seasons by the c’ve work.
Theatre In Pines
Chairmen Named;
Play Is Selected
About 25 people attended the
third general meeting of the
Theatre in The Pines group at
the Southern Pines Town Hall
Monday night.
Dan Harvat, moderator, review
ed the progress made so far by
the group. Chairmen were chosen
for the various committees for
the mid-November play: assistant
to dii:ector, Gwyn Derouin; stage
manager, Carol Stuart; assistant
mamager, Julie Wasecka; lighting,
Dick Johnson; properties, Mary
Charles Sisk; costumes, Ann
Smith; make-up, Kay Brezinsky;
ushers, Jane McPhaul; telephone,
Anne .Mischke; box office tickets,
Anne M. Smith; secretary, Judith
Spivey.
“Light Up The Sky” has tenta
tively been selected as the play
to be presented. The finql part of
the program Monday night was
devoted to the production of the
first workshop. They presented
four scenes from •“Picnic” direct
ed by Dan Harvat.
The next workshop production
will be presented within a few
weeks.
Several “significant changes” ^stage.
in the program of the Southern
Pines schools were outlined Mon
day night by Supt. Luther A.
Adams at the first meeting of the
East Southern Pines P^ent-
Teacher Association in Weaver
Auditorium.
Max Rush, incoming president,
presided. Following Mr. Adams’s
talk, faculty members were in
troduced and parents and teach
ers went to the cafeteria in the
casement of the auditorium for
refreshments and an opportunity
to meet one another.
Three members of the city
board of education who were
present were introduced with the
faculty—Norris L. Hodgkins,
chairman; Mrs. Walter Harper
and J. E. Sandlin. Board members
and faculty were seated on the
LUTHERAN SERVICE
A Lutheran church service will
be held at the Civic Club at 7:30
1. m. Sunday. The public is in-
v’led.
Homecoming Set
At Old Bethesda
The annual homecoming for
Old Betnesda Church, located one
mile from Aberdeen, will be held
Sunday, September 25, with Dr.
Price Gwynn, Jr., vice president
and dean of Flora Macdonald Col
lege delivering the morning ser
mon at 11:15. The usual picnic
dinner will be held on the
grounds at the noon hour.
In the afternoon, beginning at
2 o’clock, a song service will be
gin, featuring a chorus of Sand
hills men directed by E. H. Poole.
Elder E. T. McKeithen is gen
eral homecoming chairman this
■'•ear. The public is invited.
Invocation was given by the
Rev. Carl Wallace, pastor of the
Church of Wide Fellowship.
Parents were requested to mark
their children’s clothing with
names, so that caps, jackets,
sweaters and other items can be
returned to the owners when lost.
The school still has on hand a
number of clothing items lost and
not claimed last year, it, was
stated.
In his discussion of changes in
the school program, Mr. Adams
pointed out that they were “not
niade just for the sake of change,
but each was made on sound,
justifiable, educational grounds.”
He listed the changes as:
1. Separation of the coaching
and principal’s duties in the high
school. This allows closer super
vision of the academic program by
the principal and permits each of
the men “not to have to do two
jobs at one time.” Both the aca
demic and athletic programs
should benefit from this change,
he said.
2. The board of education has
adopted a policy On “protection
of school time” as recommended
by the State Board of Education.
Thfe policy, Mr. Adams said, is
designed to curtail infringement
on classroom time by activities
both in and out of the school. “We
re not plagued with this sort of
’hing in Southern Pines as in
many schools,” the superintendent
said, “but the board adopted the
policy as a guide and already
some changes have been made
for the better along this line.”
3. Raising the requirements for
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REST HOME TO
BE DEDICATED
Moore citizens are invited
to attend an "open house" to
bo held Sunday from 3 to 5
p. m. as official opening of
the Reynolds Rest Home, on
NC 22 three miles south of
Carthage.
A brief dedication cere
mony will be held at 3:30.
said Mrs. W. B. Cole, county
v^elfare officer. Present for
the occasion will be the coun
ty conunissioners. county
welfare board and other offi
cials. including as special
guest and speaker. Mrs. Mac
Pemberton of the State De
partment of Public Welfare
staff.
Visitors will be invited to
inspect the building, the old
County Home recently reno
vated and modernized by the
county commissioners at a
cost ol approximately $30,000.
It is under lease to Mr. and
Mrs. John Smith, who are
operating it as a private
home for the aging, and who
will be on hand to receive the
company.
Party Officials
To Gather Here;
Rally at Carthage
Top officials of the Democratic
party of North Carolina will meet
at Howard Johnson’s Motor
Lodge, Southern Pines, Saturday,
September 24, for a campaign
strategy huddle.
Officially a meeting of presi-
aents of all state Young Demo
cratic Clubs and the YDC state
executive committee, the gather
ing will also attract such officials
as lieutenant-governor nominee
Cloyd Philpott and New Voters
Committee Chairman Bob Cox.
Monroe M. Redden, Jr., of Hen
dersonville, state YDC president,
will convene the meeting at 3 p.
m. in the motor lodge’s conference
.suite. Following a dinner session,
the group will adjourn to the
courthouse at Carthage to attend
the Moore County YDC Club’s
annual meeting.
Philpott, principal speaker at
the Carthage meeting, will be
guest in the ‘Governor’s Suite at
Howard Johnson’s and join in the
strategy talks.
Moore County Democratic Offi
cials who will participate in the
September 24 meetings include
County Chairman Lamont Brown,
Etate Representative H. Clifton
Blue, State Democratic Secretary
John McConnell, Moore County
YDC President Dewitt Purvis,
and County Vice Chairman Voit
Gilmore.
CHAIR ON FIRE
An alarm about 10:15 Wednes
day night sent local volunteer
firemen to the home of Mrs.
Talmadge Shaw on E. Vermont
Ave. where a chair had caught on
fire in an upstairs apartment.
Damage was confined to the chair,
firemen reported. <
Committee to
Extend Study
For 30 Days
Southern Pines merchants and
business people are against instal
lation of parking meters; a ma
jority o| them Approve of the
present system of tagging cars for
overtime parking; they over
whelmingly are willing to pledge
their support to keeping their ve
hicles and those of their employ
ees parked on unrestricted streets,
but don’t feel that their custom
ers and clerks would use off-
street parking lots two blocks
from their businesses.
Those are some of the conclu
sions drawn from a report made
to the town council 'Tuesday night
by Joe Montesanti, Jr., chairman
of a citizens committee studying
parking requirements in the busi
ness district.
Mr. Montesanti told the council
—which had all members present
—that 60 replies had been receiv
ed from 102 questionnaires sent
out to merchants and business
people in the downtown area—a
little more than 58 per cent. He
said that efforts would be made
to get replies from all of the ques
tionnaires and that he hoped jhat'
personal checking on them would
bring in 100 sets of answers be
fore the committee draws up its
final conclusions.
Here are the questions, in the
order given on the questionnaire
and the number of “yes” and
“no” replies to each, as read to
the council by the committee
chairman:
1. Are present spaces available
adequate (43 yes, 15 no).
2. Would off-street parking lots
two blocks from your business be
used by your customers and
clerks? (15 yes, 42 no).
3. Is present system of tagging
cars for overtime parking satis
factory and if not, what changes
do you recommend? (37 yes, 18
no).
4. Do you think seasonal tag
ging of cars would be feasible?
1.24 yes, 29 no).
5. Would you favor the instal
lation of parking meters? (10 yes,
4.1 no).
6. If you feel that present
spaces are adequate, will you
pledge your support to keeping
your personal vehicles on unre
stricted streets? (49 yes, 5 no).
7. Additional comments.
Several comments were read by
Mr. Montesanti, most' of which
attributed the business section
parking problem to business peo
ple themselves parking cars there
and moving them every two
hours, one comment even charg
ing that some business people
erase the chalk marks made on
tires by I checking police officers.
Some of the comments said that
unless business people would
stop parking in the downtown
area, parking meters will be the
only answer.
Mayor R. S. Ewing asked if the
committee had considered pos-
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Venable Given 5-8 Years in Assault;
Poison Liquor Maker Gels 12 Months
Three days of criminal court
held as a special term of Moore
County Superior Court last week,
with Judge Walter E. Crissmar.
of High Point presiding, resulted
in disposition of several cases of
interest in the county.
Rex Venable, white youth of
Aberdeen. Route 1, pleaded guil
ty to assault with intent to com
mit rape, the victim being a Ne
gro woman, Mrs. Dorothea Mar
tin Jefferson. He was sentenced
to serve not less than five nor
more than eight years in prison.
The case, occurring last April,
was delayed in coming into court
as Venable disappeared following
the incident and was widely
sought for several weeks. Extra
dited in June from New York
State, he was committed on court
''rrtp^ to the State Hospital at
tor ohaervation and treat-
qpotember
standing trial.
Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence
told the court Venable had a his
tory of mental affliction, for
which he had received psychia
tric treatment. At the tfane of the
incident involving Mrs. Jeffer
son, he was on probation follow
ing a child-molestation conviction
in Surry county. His family had
been cooperative with the officers
in desiring him to be apprehend
ed and treated. Judge Crissman
directed that copies of previous
psychiatric reports in the case be
attached to the prison commit
ment, so that further help can be
given him if needed.
Mrs. Jefferson had reported to
officers that Venable, whom she
had not known before, offered
her a job and she drove off with
him in his car, whereupon he took
her to a vacant house, made im
proper proposals and put his
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