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REGISTER ! You can’t vote on May 26 if you don’t UKjhFak, ylGl^nioo tllorbc REGISTER ! You can’t vote on May 26 if you don’t rE VOL. 42—NO. 24 TWENTY-TWO PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1962 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE; 10 CENTS Hospital Building Fund Campaign Exceeds Its Goal Moore Memorial Hospital’s building fund campaign has sur passed its $450,000 goal by more than $23,000. At a “victory meeting” Tues day night leaders in various phases of the drive reported con tributions or pledges amounting to $473,385. A pledge of $45,000 in county funds, authorized by the county commissioners, was responsible for reaching and surpassing the goal. The $450,000 campaign, con ducted by a professional fund raising organization, Ketchum, Ina, with W. P. Saunders of Southern Pines as general chair man, is part of a million-dollar- plus project to build a new wing at Moore Memorial Hospital, the balance of the funds to come from state and federal sources. The chairman said that more pledges are expected to be heard from and that the campaign office will remain in operation to re ceive further contributions and pledges. These should be sent to Moore Memorial Hospital Fund Drive, Box 711, Pinehurst. Mr. Saunders said that the campaign cost amounted to less than 4 percent of the money raised or pledged. Paul Dana, hospital treasurer, said that this cost is to be paid out of a special fund previously set up by the hospital, so that none of the con tributions will be used for cam paign costs. (Continued on Page 8) iw - 1? EDUCATION LEADERS— With two wings of the Southern Pines High School building partially visible in the background, three men influential in building the school talk with the visiting speaker of Sunday’s school dedication program, Dr. Henry H. Hill (left), president emeritus of George Peabody College for Teach ers, Nashville, Tenn. With him, left to right are: N. L. Hodgkins, school board chairman; Luther A. Adams, superintendent; and Dr. A. C. Dawson of Raleigh, former local superinten dent in v/hose administration work on the school was begun in 1954. (V. Nicholson photo) $600,000 High School Dedicated All-County Track Meet Set May 9 A county-wide high school track meet will be held at Mem orial Field here Wednesday, May 9, Coach Billy Megginson of the local school announced this week. All students in the 9th through 12 th grades of all Moore County high schools ha;ve been invited to participate in the track and field day, which will include 12 events. Medals for first place winners will be awarded, as well as ribbons for second and third place contest ants. Events scheduled are: the 50- yard dash, 100-yard dash, 440- yard relay, 880-yard relay, mile relay, mile run, 120-yard low hur dles, broad jump, high jump, pole vault, discus throw and shot put. The program is scheduled to start at 4 p. m. THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum tem peratures for each day of the past the U. S. Weather Bureau obser- week were recorded as follows at vation station at the W E E B studios on Midland Road. April 26 April 27 April 28 April 29 April 30 May 1 May 2 Max. Min. 83 57 84 53 85 58 83 67 89 61 95 61 93 59 Southern Pines school patrons and students, alumni, present and former school board members, school officials, teachers and nu merous special guests of the town and county, dedicated the East Southern Pines High School building Sunday afternoon. Before a crowd of about 500, School Board Chairman N. L. Hodgkins—who has served on the board some 24 years—led a ser vice of dedication in the form of a responsive reading. The service dedicated the school, which includes also the junior high school department, to “the development of healthy minds and bodies ... to the Tennis Group to Seek Memberships A membership drive at $1 dues per year (more for those who wish to give it) will be conducted soon by the Sandhills- Tennis associa tion, to secure wider interest and participation in its program and help with expenses of its two sanctioned tournaments. Plans for the drive were initi ated at a meeting held Wednes day night in the town courtroom, led by Ray Schilling, president. George H. Leonard, Jr., member ship chairman, will head the campaign. The tournaments, held here an nually in cooperation with the town recreation program, have been set this year for two succes sive weekends in August—the Junior Sandhill Invitational August 2-5, the senior event August 9-12, The association gratefully ack nowledged the gift of $250 from a local friend, primarily for a con cession stand to be placed near the town courts. moral and spiritual training of our children. . . to an understanding of the basic importance of the home, neighbors, nations and races and the tolerance needed to understand and live in peace with one another. Also “to the acquiring of skills and appreciations in the fields of art, music, literature and handi crafts . . .to the training for citizenship that will lead to safe, clean and wholesome community life . . . and to realize that each child is an individual having varied degrees of ability and possessed of certain moral and ethical beliefs; and to present to each child instruction in citizen ship, health, home and commun ity living, fundamental subjects, skills for leisure hours, vocations and character.” Dr. C. C. McLean gave a wel come for the school board, and the Rev. Carl Wallace of the United Church of Christ led a prayer of dedication. J. E. Sandlin, vice-chairman of the school board, introduced the guest speaker. Dr. Henry H. Hill, president emeritus of the George Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville, Tenn., who spoke optimistically of the future and the part to be played in it by education. “We are rearing a better genera tion, with wonderful years ahead, and the schools are the agency by which they are to be prepared. The opportunities and rewards for learning have never been so great. You have in this school a wonderful challenge and I wish you godspeed and great going.” A hymn of dedication, “Bless This House,” was sung by a student, Ralph Hendren, and the junior and senior high school chorus sang a dedicatory anthem, “The Spacious Firmament on High.” Supt. Luther A. Adams recog nized distinguished guests, includ ing town and county officials and members of the Moore County board of education, representa tives of the PTA and other local organizations, architect Leslie Boney, Jr., of Wilmington and (Continued on page A, 1st Sec.) Maternal Welfare Group Plans For Tag Day May 12 The Maternal Welfare Com mittee, now under the sponsor ship of the Auxiliary of Moore Memorial Hospital, will hold the annual Tag Sale drive for funds, following the established tradi tion, on Saturday, May 12, the day before Mother’s Day. Announcement of the coming Tag Day was made by Mrs. James Boyd, who heads the Aux iliary committee now in charge of this event. Funds collected on that day go for the maintenance of the free bed for needy mothers of the county in the maternity ward of Moore Memorial estab lished in memory of Elizabeth Woltz Currie, who founded the original county health project. Organized some thirty years ago, the committee, made up of women from all parts of Moore County, worked closely with the Health Department in setting up prenatal clinics and the follow up work carried on by the county nurses. The work was headed by the late Mrs. Edith Baine Mc Leod, public health nurse who took special training for this work, 'file doctors of the county held the clinics and volunteers— some from the Red Cross unit— fetched women unable otherwise to attend. With the great change in obste trical practice in the county and the opening of the special mater nity wards in both hospitals, the work of the original committee changed also. It is now concen trated on raising funds for the free bed and for an “emergency fund” on which the public health nurses may draw. Number of mothers using the free bed, (for which the cost to the committee is $50 per de- (Continued on Page 8) New Registration Of All Voters Lagging; Chance Ends May 12 Democrats To Meet Saturday In Precincts The biennial Democratic pre cinct meetings will be held Sat urday in all 19 Moore County precincts, including organization meetings for four new or altered precincts. Elections of committees to serve during the next two years will be held. The committees will be faced with one of the biggest jobs to be conducted on the pre cinct level in Moore County in many years—promoting the coun- * Members of the board of elec tions, party leaders, political workers and numerous citizens are worried about the slowness with which Moore County resi dents are putting their names on the books for an all-new, start- from scratch registration of the county’s voters. Everybody who wants to vote in the May 26 primary must reg ister before sundown, Saturday, May 12. With the registration period two-thirds gone, only a fraction of the potential voters have gotten their names on the books, election officials say. Only two Saturdays—May 5 and May 12—remain when regis trars in the county’s 19 precincts will be at polling (places to reg ister voters. Registrars may be School Spring Festival Slaled Friday Night der way, and getting all Demo crats back on the books for the primary. W. Lament Brown, county Democratic chairman, told the Moore executive committee meet ing. at the courthouse Monday af ternoon that the new registration is going “very, very slowly,” and that speeding it up is a job for the precincts to do. Time and place of each precinct meeting will be determined by the local precinct chairman or organ izer, and a notice posted at the polling-place. Local Meetings With the approval of the com- (Continued on Page 8) Ruggles, Sheffield Named Assistants In Kennedy Drive Appointment of 'Thomas Rug- rm. 1 o * • - gles of Southern Pines and J. W. The annual Spring Festival of oi. i, x iv. -p x ^ “ (Bunch) Sheffield of the East- students in grades one through six at East Southern Pines ele mentary school will be held Fri day at 7:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium. The program of singing and dancing, developed through the school’s music program, will have a “spring garden” theme. Attorneys, Visiting Judge Mark ‘Law Day’ With Ceremonies in Courtroom “Law Day” was obs.srved at Carthage Tuesday morning. May 1, with a program in the court room sponsored by the Moore County Bar association. Judge Robert M. Gambill of North Wilkesboro, presiding oyer this week’s term of Superior Court for criminal cases, suspend ed the session on the opening of court to permit the program to be held, and to take part in it. Stressing the “rule of law” vs. the "rule of man”—or justice in a democracy as opposed to a dicta torship—^Bar Association Presi dent W. Lamont Brown of South ern Pines read President Ken nedy’s “Law Day” proclamation, also the Ten Commandments as the “fundamental principles” of justice and truth. He presented the following members of the Moore County Bar who took part in the pro gram: Lawrence M. Johnson of Aber deen, a third-generation Moore County lawyer, who distributed the “Handbook for Jurors” pre pared by the Young Lawyers Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, and spoke on the sig nificance and responsibilities of jury duty. W. B. Sabiston of Carthage, member of the State Bar Coun cil, who contrasted the May 1 celebrations of the free and com munist worlds, and called inter national law “the only antidote to nuclear power.” J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen, dean of the Moore County bar, who recalled the county’s leading legal figures of the past in review ing their portraits hung on the courtroom wall. H. F. Seawell, one of the State’s best-known lawyers, as well as famed after-dinner speaker and successful author, who cited the U. S. Constitution in listing the safeguards of the law for indiv idual liberties. M. G. Boyette of Carthage, dis trict solicitor and county attorney, who dwelt on the meaning of Law Day and the contributions made to its establishment by two great North Carolinians, the late Judge John J. Parker of Charlotte, and (Continued on Page 8) ALL SMILES—Billy Joe Patton of Morganton left) grins as he receives the champion’s trophy Saturday from Alvie J. Claxton, president of the Pinehurst Country Club, after Patton de feated Hobart Manley of Savannah, Ga. (right) in the finals of the North and South Amateur golf tournament. The loser manages a good smile, too. Both he and Patton are former win ners of the North and South in other years. (Hemmer photo) tywide re-registration now un- reached at their homes or places of business on other days, but the bulk of registration is usual ly carried on at the polling places. Her.2 is a list of the polling places where registrars will be on Saturday. Many of the polling places will also be the location on Saturday for Democratic pre cinct meetings. WESTMOORE School. ROBBINS — HIGHFALLS Station. RITTERS Westmoore City Hall. — Rural Fire wood community near Carthage as assistant Moore County chair men for the campaign of John P. Kennedy of Charlotte, was an nounced today by J. Frank Mc- Caskill of Pinehurst, Kennedy chairman in Moore. Kennedy is challenging Rep. A. Paul Kitchin of Wadesboro, in cumbent, for the 8th District Democratic Congressional nom ination in the May 26 primary. Both the assistant chairmen have been active in the Demo cratic party. Ruggles, who is as sociated with Barnum Realty and Insurance Co. here, is immediate past president of the local Jay- cees and is expected to work pri marily among younger Democrats over the county. Sheffield, a merchant who is active in civic affairs, has been candidate for sheriff in former years. McCaskill said numerous other Democrats around the county are active on behalf of Kennedy. Horne's ai Aberdeen Sets Formal Opening Formal opening of the new Horne’s gift shop, restaurant and service station at Aberdeen will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a ceremony at 10 a.m Saturday, it is announced by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Durkin, man agers. See page 18 and other pages in today’s'Pilot for details. McConnell. DEEP RITER — R. R. Station — Glendon. BENSALEM — Rural Fire Sta tion, Eagle Springs. EAST CARTHAGE _ Old Printing Office, rear of Shields Drug. WEST CAfeTHAGE — Fire House. CAMERON — Community House. LITTLE RIVER — Community House. VASS — Fire House. EUREKA Precinct — School. NORTH SOUTHERN PINES — Fire House. SOUTH SOUTHERN PINES — Southern Pines Municipal Building. (The dividing line between North Southern Pines and South Southern Pines Precincts runs east from West Southern Pines on Pennsylvania Ave. to May St., north on May to Connecticut Ave. and east on Connecticut and its ''xtension to the Fort Bragg re- .soTvation line.) PINEDENE — Jackson Motors, Inc. (Pinedene Precinct lies just south of Southern Pines and ex tends south about as far as West brook’s Market) PINEHURST — Community Hall. WEST END — Rural Fire Sta tion. PINEBLUFF — Woman’s Club. ABERDEEN — American Leg ion Hut. • COURT NEWS News of various cases tried this week in the Superior Court at Carthage will be found under separate headlines on other pages of today’s Pilot, Judge Robert M. Gambill of North Wilkesboro is presiding at the term for criminal cases. 8th District Fight Draws Interest Over County as Primary Approaches Patton Beats Manley For North-South Title A three-time finalist in the North and South Amateur Golf Tournament at Pinehurst, Billy Joe Patton of Morganton, won his second championship in the 62-year-old event Saturday, over whelming Hobart Manley of Sav annah, Ga., 7 and 6. Manley had beaten Patton for the title in 1951, winning l-<up. Patton was the 1954 champion. The new champ reached the finals Friday with an exciting 1- up victory over Dr. Edward Up- degraff of Tucson, Ariz. Manley defeated Dale Morey, another Morganton golfer, in the semi finals, on the 21st hole. 'The 36-hole Saturday match climaxed a week of tournament play, with many of the nation’s top-flight amateurs competing among the dozens of contestants. 5 Up in Nine Patton, 40 years old, with a graying crew cut, duplicated his 1951 start against Manley, now 35, by going 5 up on the first nine holes of the 36-hole match. But this time, there was no closing surge by Manley, who finished with five threes to pull out the victory 11 years ago. Patton led by six holes rmtil the 15th where a birdie gave Manley his first winning hole. Billy Joe went back to six up with a birdie on 16 but three putted the 18th hole to lose to a par four and go to lunch five up. It was his only three putt hole in four rounds. At the intermission, Patton had (Continued on page 17) Under such flaming headlines as “EIGHTH DISTRICT CAUGHT IN HOT POLITICAL FIGHT,” the dailies have been carrying surveys of the Kennedy-Kitchm campaign. Reporters have been nosing into every one of the eight coun ties forming the Eighth, which each of these two gentlemen wish to represent in Washington, list ing, with what they will claim to be unblemished objectivity, what’s going on in each one. In one county the machine is going full blast, and, as would be ex pected, generally rooting for the incumbent; in another county, the band of young frontiersmen is wide awake crusading, with less know-how but much enthusiasm, for the North Carolina Kennedy. Readers gralb up the paper, spot the article and then start skimming to get to their county. Most of them will already know better than the reporter what’s going on, but, just as the man who’s been roaring his head off at a football game wants to read about every play the next day, so the locals eagerly pour over their county’s mood to date as observ ed by the press. Turning, .theni to the name MOORE COUNTY, in the News and Observer’s Simday survey, we find the county listed as run- true to form. As the N&O puts it, the trio of “long-time political leaders— Forrest Lockey, W. P. Saunders and Sheriff Kelly” are all set, but then so is the other crowd, though in our opinion here the (Continued on Page 5)
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