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VOL, 40—NO. 45
Gavin Here Today,
Makes Plea for
2-Party System
Candidate Declines to
Comment About UFE
Plan Endorsement
Robert L. Gavin, GOP guber
natorial candidate, made a strong
appeal for support of a two-party
system in North Carolina, before
a luncheon group of more than
100 persons at the Holly Inn in
Pinehurst today.
He said he believed from all
signs that he saw across the state
that he was going to win in No
vember, largely thanks to the sup
port of the “Citizens for Gavin”
group which includes many Dem
ocrats.
He said that he is being subject
ed to a great deal of abuse by his
opponent, Terry Sanford, but
means to keep his campaign on
a high level.
To a reporter who queried him
before and after the luncheon, he
said he preferred not to make a
statement answering a story in
today’s morning papers in which
he was accused of having denied
endorsement of the United Forces
for Education’s educational pro
gram, an endorsement the NCEA
said it has in its files.
Dr. A. C. Dawson, NCEA ex
ecutive secretary and former sup
erintendent of schools here, said
■he has in his files the letter of
endorsement along with a ques
tionnaire which was submitted to
all primary candidates last Spring.
Gavin said he would have to
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1960
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Republicans
Plan Events
James Harrington of Pinehurst,
chairman of the Moore County
Republican executive committee,
presided at a well-attended GOP
meeting in the courthouse at Car
thage Friday night.
Plans Were made for a series
of rallies to be held throughout
the county, the first to be at the
Robbins High School cafeteria at
7 p.ni. Friday of this week. Moore
Republican candidates will be
present and there will be refresh
ments.
A bus to carry Moore County
Republicans to ,Charlotte to hear
Vice-President Nixon, GOP Presi
dential candidate, speak, on Oc
tober 3, iwill leave from the court
house in Carthage at 3 p.m. that
day.
At times not yet set in October,
A1 Snipes, GOP candidate for
Congress from the 8th District,
will visit throughout the county.
Also expected is the state-wide
Republican Caravan and other ral
lies, according to information re
ceived this week from the execu
tive committee.
BLUE KNIGHTS — The football squad of Southern Pines
High School, shown, here with Head Coach Billy Megginson,
right, and Assistant Coach J. W. Williams, Jr., left, go into their
fourth game of the season undefeated and unscored-on, playing
St. Pauls at St. Pauls at 8 p.m. Friday. The players are, left to
right:
Front row — Barry Blasko, Eddie McKenzie, Bob Ryder, Jack
McDonald, Joe Garzik, Harold Williford, W. C. Morgan, Paul
Chavez, Francis Dwight.
Second row —■ Mr. Williams, Pat Dougherty, Barry Trent
Johnny Bristow, Jerry Bradley, Norman McKenzie, Ricky Wil
liams, Wally Wallace, Jerry Barnes, Mr. Megginson.
Top row — Tom Strong, Dan Thomas, Ronnie Strickland, David
Morgan, Chuck Johnson, Edgar Talbert, Lin Dunn, Phil McRee,
LeRoy Chavez.
Mr. Megginson’s dog “Pepper,”
mascot. (Humphrey photo)
Terry Sanford to
Attend Rally in
Carthage Oet. 14
A Moore County Democratic
Rally will be held at the court
house at Carthage with Terry
Sanford as speaker, at 8 p. m.
I'riday, October 14.
Announcing the rally. County
Democratic Chairman W. Lamont
Brown of Southern Pines also an-
ounced a finance committee for
the campaign appointed by the
County Executive Committee.
This is headed by Forrest Lock;
ey as chairman, working with E.
Nolley Jackson of Sojithern Pines,
Earl O. Freeman of Aberdeen and
Pinebluff, Jack Morgan of Vass,
H. H. Grimm of Carthage, John L.
“Dink” Frye of Robbins and Wat
son Scott of Eagle S^jrings.
The committee will work to get
up funds for the Democratic cam
paign in Moore, also some for the
state campaign and the visit of
President Truman.
Sanford will fly here direct
from Rocky Mount Where he will
lake part in the program there
attending on President Truman’s
Visit October 14.
The date of Sanford’s visit to
Moore, originally set for October
15, had to be changed recently by
state headquarters because of
numerous campaign pressures;
and Chairman Brown says he is
not sure yet just what other party
County System Schools Closing Friday
For NCEA Meeting; Local Schools Open
Schools of the Moore County
system will be closed Friday,
when school officials and many
of the teachers will be attending
the 38th annual convention of the
Central District of the North
Carolina Education Association at
Salisbury.
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
schools will remain in operation.
From Southern Pines, the meet
ing will be attended by Supt.
Luther A. Adams, Miss Mary Log
an, supervisor, and Mrs. John Mc-
Phaul, Junior High School science
teacher who Will take to the con
vention for exhibition some teach
ing aids used in her science
Air Service to
Start Saturday ’
Piedmont Airlines will resume
its seasonal service to the South
ern Pines-Pinehurst Airport Sat
urday, October 1. The service has
been suspended since May.
Postmaster Max Rush said this
week that in order for air mail to
be placed directly on a Piedmont
flight it must be in the post office
by 1 p. m.
This is the only one of the two
Piedmont flights that will handle
1 direct air mail conveniently, Mr.
Rush pointed out, as the other
ilight is too early for direct air
. ’ mail service.
PIONEER HOMESTEAD TO BE RESTORED
New Lake Under Construction at Whispering Pines
&
' As if Thagards Lake, some two
miles long, with six miles of
wooded waterfront, weren’t
enough. A., B. Hardee of Sandhill
Properties, Inc., is busy creating
a twin lake within hollering dis
tance.
Big esmth-moving machines
have been at work since about
September 1, scooping out a huge
irregular oval on forested land
adjoinihg property already de
veloped, the two lakes to be the
heart of Hardee’s Whispering
Pines development on the Niagara
Road, between Southern Pines and
Carthage.
Work is also starting on the
construction of an 18-hole golf
course between the two lakes,
with a clubhouse to be built on a
65-foot knoll overlooking them
both.
Farms Acquired
Three farms comprising some
460 acres were recently acquired
by Hardee’s firm from the John
Ray Estate, S. R. Ransdell, Sr.,
and Mrs. 'Thad Blue, to double
the size of the fishing-boating
swimming residential community
started by the young Lexington
promoter a year and a half ago.
The new lake, to be christened
Pine Lake, will spill into Thag
ards, from which it right-angles
with its foot only about a quarter
mile from the older, and slightly
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OLD JOHN RAY HOME — Ernest McCutchen, Whispering
Pines engineer, is shown on porch of 18Ui century rural home
which he plans to restore. Remaining of the original home are the
exterior siding, weathered black; interior walls of heart pine,
wide floor boards studded with handmade nails, enclosed stair
case and hand-hewn ceiling timbers (now concealed) pegged into
place. The chimney of handmade brick was added later. In rear*
is glimpsed original old “kitchen,” with stone chimney.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
classes.
A spokesman for the Pinehurst
schools said that no delegation
would go to the meeting from
Pinehurst.
Supt. Adams said that a few
other teachers may go from South
ern Pines but that substitute
teachers would be provided for all
who attended, so that no teaching
time would be lost.
Moore and Seven other counties
comprise the Central District.
There will be a general session
and meetings of 24 divisions and
dpartments of the organization,
for the purpose of professional
improvement in various areas of
teaching and administration.
Boy Scout Fund
Drives Launched
In Communities
Here are the community chair
men and kick-off dates for the
Moore County Boy Scout fund
raising drive as announced by
County Chairman J. A. McPhaul
of Southern Pines:
Aberdeen, Ed McCarthy, chair
man, October 13.
Cameron, John McPherson, the
kick-off took place September 23.
Carthage, A. L. Barnes, Sep
tember 29.
Pinebluff, Brady Brooks, Octo
ber 4.
E. Sandlin,
Resort Interests Look
To Good Season Ahead
Operators of hotels, motels, golf
clubs and other re&rt facilities
at Southern Pines are looking for
ward with optimism to the 1960-
’61 season, a survey by The Pilot
revealed this week, but there
were some expressions of a guard
ed “wait and see” point of view,
because of possibly doubtful busi
ness conditions ahead. Generally,
the outlook was seen as bright.
One thing appears certain:
never were resort interests here
better prepared to make visitors
comfortable in a wide variety of
establishments, from' the simple
to the luxurious. Additions and
improvements to a number of the
local facilities—including places
to stay and golf courses—^have
Southern Pines, J.
September 28.
Pinehurst, William
October 27.
Vass, A. L. Keith, October 13.
Eagle Springs, Lynn Martin,
September 30.
R. A. Smoak is chairman in the
Ashley Heights community where
the kick-off will be October 5.
Scouting in Moore County has
grown in the last three years from
over 40 cub troops and explorer
units to 68 units with over 1,100
boys. Adult enrollment has grown
from 300 to over 600 volunteer
Scouters.
Chairman McPhaul said that,
“We are still reaching only 28%
of the total boys between the ages
of 8 and 18 who would like to be
come scouts.”
Cameron Report
Reporting on the Cameron kick
off, Mr. McPherson said that $55
was collected in less than ah
hour’s time in a door-to-doqr cam
paign, with pledges for much
more.
Mr. McPhaul praised the effort
made there and said that he hoped
equal enthusiasm will be shown
in all the communities.
Captains for the Cameron area
are Mrs. Curtis WaU, Mrs. Johnny
Kelly, Mrs. Joe Rilson and Mrs.
Jessie Loving^ each with five
workers to help in the drive.
seen at right, is the squad’s
Ewing Elected
SVA President;
Drive Planned
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines was elected president of the
Sandhills Veterans Association
Monday night at a meeting when
SVA members made plans for
their 1961 Nurse Fund Drive to
be held in February. The meeting
was held at the home of Jere Mc-
Keithen in Aberdeen.
Mr. Ewing, who is mayor of
Southern Pines, is an executive
with Trimble Products, Inc.
Other officers elected were: Dr.
R. B. Warlick, secretary and
treasurer; B. C. Avery, drive
chairman; Jere McKeithen, as
sistant drive chairman; and T. E.
Shockley, publicity chairman.
The outgoing president, Don
Traylor of Southern Pines, auto
matically became vice-president.
The SVA is a group of World
War II veterans who have annual
ly since 1947 conducted a drive
for funds to’ give one or more
Moore County girls a scholarship
for a full course of nurse’s train
ing. Twenty-one girls have enter
ed schools of nursing under the
program, the graduates returning
to work in Moore County. Miss
Georgia Mae Joyce, this year’s
graduate, is now employed at
Moore Memorial Hospital.
Plans were made Monday night
for the annual fall outing of the
organization, to be held at the
Causey-Forrest lake near Lake-
view. Dr, Warlick is picnic chair
man.
Next SVA meeting will be held
at the home of Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines bn Monday, Oc
tober 10. *
Judge’s Order to
Examine Prisoner
Not Carried Out
(Editorial, Page 2)
A 49-year-old Greensboro man
—a former resident of Robbins
who according to court testimony
was afflicted with arthritis and
had an alcohol problem—remain
ed in jail at Carthage from August
8 until Monday of this week,
without receiving a medical ex
amination that was ordered for
aim on August 8 by Judge J.
Vance Rowe of Moore County Re
corder's Court at Carthage.
Also ignored was the judge’s
recommendation in a judgment
uhat sentenced Norman Kennedy
to six months in jail on a non-sup
port charge, that he be admitted
if possible to some institution for
ireatmeni of alcoholism.
The disregard of court orders
came to light in Monday’s session
of the court when Kennedy was
brought before Judge Rowe on
recommendation of Clerk of
fcourt Carlton Kennedy who said
relatives of Kennedy had been to
Carthage to inquire about hiin and
had brought in evidence that
might tend to mitigate the non
support charges against him. Such
evidence, being hearsay, could not
be admitted to the court, but was
apparently taken into considera
tion by the judge in suspending
Kennedy’s sentence Monday, al
lowing him to return to a job he
said he had in Greensboro and
directing him to pay $15 weekly
support payments and pay the
court costs in his case.
Judge Rowe, obviously irked
that his orders had been disre
garded, did not attempt to fix
blame for the neglect but remark
ed that it seemed impossible to
get a medical examination for a
prisoner in the jail.
The August 8 judgment had di
rected that Kennedy be examined
by the authorized county physi
cian or a doctor employed by the
county, before being assigned to
work and that if he be found well
enough to work that he be assign
ed to the state prison camp for
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c Sledge, Elected President of Moore YDC;
Philpott Add resses Rally at Carthage
Reaffirmation of faith in the
Democratic party’s record and the
state and national party tickets
marked the annt^al Moore County
YDC convention, held in the
courtroom at Carthage Saturday
night. Some 150 memebrs and out-
of-county guests were present.
Hon. H. Cloyd Philpott of Lex
ington, the party’s candidate for
lieutenant-governor, as keynote
speaker, answered the Republican j
gubernatorial candidate’s charac-i
terization of the state administra-1
tion as “grifters, grafters and bos-;
ses” with a challenge—“Speak up,
Mr. Gavin, and tell us who they|
are!” _ |
Answering Robert L. Gavin’s
charges of machine politics, he de
manded th^t “names be named,”
while he himself went do'wn the
roster of great North C^olina
governors, and described Terry
Sanford as one who “will well fill
their shoes.” He noted, however,
“We agree with Mr. Gavin that
our government could be more
efficient. That is teue of all gov
ernment, state and federal, and
we could not serve the people
well did we not continually work
to do better. This is easier to say
ARTHUR ROWE
than to do. We have come a long
way, we have a long way to go
and we confidently accept the
challenge of the 1960’s.”
Philpott was presented by John
A. Lang, Jr., of Carthage and
Washington. 'The meeting opened
with a welcome by DeWitt iWvis,
president. Initial program feature
was a 15-minute film strip pre-
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been made at a cost of many
thousands of dollars.
The three golf courses that
draw more people to Southern
Pines than any other single at
traction—two within the city
limits and one just outside—are
reported in top shape: the best
they have ever been.
Mid Pines
The town’s most extensive re
sort facility—the Mid Pines Club,
a resort hotel with adjacent golf
course—has its formal opening to
day, playing host to a medical
_ group and a gathering of Blue
Cross insurance personnel, with
conventions to continue through
October.
Mid Pines went all-out on a re
modeling and redecorating pr07
gram during the past summer, in
stalling copper pipe to replace old
piping throughout the building.
Every bathroom was tiled and
new tubs with showers and glass
doors were installed. Every room
was “done over.”
Outside, the big parking lot
was hard-surfaced with “black
top.”
On the golf course a program
of re-seeding all greens with Tif-
ton 328, the special Bermuda
grass that is producing, good re
sults in this area, was completed,
with about two-thirds of the
greens done this summer. The
others had been previously seed
ed. Ray Williamson is the greens-
keeper.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cosgrove,
the longtime operators of the Mid
Pines, will again be assisted by
their daughters and sons-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Weldon and
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stevenson.
Also returning are Ernie Boros,
golf shop pro, and his assistant
Tony Federici; Richard Daven
port, in charge of reservations;
Mrs. Charles Riggin, hostess in
tne dining room; and Chef Bill
Green of Pinehurst.
(Continued on page 8)
Lions Sponsoring
White Cane Sale
To Aid the Blind
The Southern Pines Lions Club
is conducting its annual white
cane sale for benefit of the blind
and the program of sight conser
vation that is carried on locally
and over the state by Lions Clubs.
The Lions will offer member
ships in the North Carolina State
Association for the Blind, as well
as white cane bangles for sale.
The Association renders services
to any blind and visually impaired
person, if there is a need and
there are no other resources avail
able. These are some of the out
standing services on which funds
are expended: eye examinations,
eye treatment or surgery, glasses
and artificial eyes; to sponsor the
Visual Aids Clinics, Memorial
Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Caro
lina; to co-sponsor the medical
eye clinics in local areas, when
these are essential for adequate
eye care; for the Research Pro
ject, Laboratory for Experimental
Ocular Pathology, Memorial Hos-
oital. Chapel Hill, North Carolina;
the Eye Bank for Restoring Sight,
Inc., of North Carolina; Glaucoma
Detection Clinics, state wide; and
prevention of blindness educa
tional materials. All these services
relate to prevention, other general
services are: gift radios to shut-
in blind: white cane walking
sticks, drugs. X-rays and trans
portation.
Light Bulb Sale
Not Authorized
Dr. J. E. Currie, Jr., president
of the Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce, told The
Pilot this morning that he had
reports that youths of high school
age had been selling light bulbs
house to house in Southern Pines,
representing the sale as a project
of the local Jaycees.
No such sale is being conducted
by the Jaycees here. Dr. Currie
said, pointing out that sale of
light bulbs locally is an annual
Lions Club project.
Dr. Currie said that he had been
informed the youths came from
out of town and that he did not
think any local high school boys
were involved.