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VOL. 42—NO. 25
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
New Re^stration
^ Of Voters to End
Saturday, May 12
still moving slowly, the re
registration of all Moore County
voters is nearing its end at sun
down, Saturday, May 12, in all 19
precincts of the county.
Because of the smallness of the
registration in all precincts, elec
tions officials said this week that
it appears many persons do not
realize that they cannot vote in
the Democratic primary May 26
unless they register before the end
of the day Saturday.
A completely new registration
of all voters was ordered by the
county board of elections several
weeks ago because three new pre
cincts were created, one precinct
was eliminated and numerous
other precinct boundaries were
changed or definitely established
for the first time by law.
The. new precincts are North and
South Southern Pines, cneated by
division of the old Southern Pines
Precinct; and Pinedene, created
from a portion of the old Aber
deen Precinct, just south of
Southern Pines.
All registrars have descriptions
of precinct boundaries and can
advise voters as to their correct
polling places.
Registration books will be open
Friday in most cases, at the homes
or places of business of registrars
for persons who are unable to
come to the polling places on
Saturday.
Here is a complete list of the
county’s precinct polling places
where the registration books will
be open all day Saturday for the
last time prior to the May 26 pri
mary:
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THE CAPTAIN—Ralph Hendren, student vocalist who is a
junior at Southern Pines High School, will play the leading
role of captain in the school’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s
“H. M. S. Pinafore” to be presented in Weaver Auditorium Friday
and Saturday, at 8 p.m. Tickets may be obtained at the door
For details, see story, page 5. (Bob Madigan photo)
Joe Garzik, Jr.
Named to Attend
Air Force Academy
Joe Garzik, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Garzik of Southern
Pines, is the first young man
from this area to receive an ap
pointment to the Air Force Acad
emy in Colorado.
The 19-year-old salutatorian of
^he Class of 1961 at Southern
Pines High school is now in his
first year at Purdue University,
Lafayette, Ind. He is to report to
the Academy June 25. He recent
ly underwent surgery on a knee
injured while playing football
with the Southern Pines Blue
Knights.
Winner of the James S. Milli-
ken, Jr., award, highest given at
the local school, at the time of
his graduation, Garzik was ac
corded numerous other awards
while in school and was a leader
in athletic and extra-curricular
activities.
The four-year course at the
Academy leads to a commission
as an Air Force Officer, training
primarily officers for career Air
Force service. The Academy is
the Air Force equivalent of the
Army^s West Point and the
Navy’s Annapolis.
The appointment was received
through Sen. B. Everett Jordan.
Candidates, however, must meet
stiff academic, physical and char
acter requirements. i
Democrats Will
Gather Saturday
For Convention
the second phase of the organ
ization of the Democratic Party in
Moore will occur on Saturday,
May 12, when the bi-annual Dem
ocratic County Convention will
be held, according to W. Lament
Brown, county chairman. ’The
convention is set for the court
room in Carthage at 3 p. m.
The first phase was completed
last Saturday when precinct offi
cers were named. (See another
story in today’s Pilot).
The third and final level of the
state-wide organization will be
completed in Raleigh on Thurs
day, May 17, when several thous
and Democratic delegates from
all over North Carolina will con
verge on Memorial Auditorium at
noon, for the Democratic State
Convention.
No formal program has been
prepared for the convention at
Carthage Saturday and the meet
ing should be short, said Mr.
Brown.
There will be a roll-call of pre
cincts, and candidates for county
offices will be recognized.
Delegates will be named to
cast Moore’s vote at the state
convention.
“We can’t afford to be lethargic
m view of the crucial Congres
sional primary and general elec
tion ahead,” the county chairman
said. “We viill have no voice in
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Disaster Plan in
School System
Given Approval
OFF CRITICAL LIST
R. A. Ham<^l of Southern Pines
was reported this morning as off
the critical lisf at North Carolina
Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill,
LEGALITY TO BE CHECKED
2 Protests Made To Commislisioners
On Pledge To Moore Hospi^I Drive
A “disaster survival program”
for Southern Pines schools has
been approved by the board of
education.
Supt. Luther A. Adams, in mak
ing the program public, said that
the board expects to discuss the
program with the town council
and local Civil Defense person
nel, with a view to coordinating
the school program and other dis
aster or Civil Defense planning.
Several months ago, Mr. Adams
said, the board of education ap
pointed J. E. Sandlin, vice chair
man of the board, to represent it
in Civil Defense and disaster pre
paredness matters.
Mr. Sandlin worked with a citi
zens committee—Howard Butler,
John Howarth and R. F. Hoke
iPollock—in recommending pro
cedure and preparing the pro
gram that has been adopted by
the board of education. The com
mittee met several times with the
faculties of the East and West
Southern Pines schools, Mr.
Adams said.
This local Disaster Study Com
mittee reviewed recommenda
tions of the Department of De
fense and studied the general pro
cedure now being used in other
school systems that have com
pleted evacuation plans. A school
faculty steering committee incor
porated additional recommenda
tions as the program applies to
Southern Pines.
Following is an outline of the
completed plan:
PLAN
It is the opinion of the Com-
mhtes that where possible, stu-
Wide pubUcity is being given
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Opening of the Little League
baseball season in Southern Pines
will be marked Friday and Sat
urday with ceremonies, a parade
and first games.
Taking part in the program ai e '
eight teams involving about 120
boys aged 9 through 12, each
team with a volunteer adult
coach. Teams in the Little League
—the more advanced players
are the Braves, Cardinals, Dodg
ers and Pirates. In the Minor
League are the Reds, Cubs, Tigers
and Yanks. All teams are uni
formed.
Festivities of the two-day “Lit
tle League Day” will open Fri
day at the new regulation Little
League ball park opposite the Na
tional Guard Armory on Morgan-
ton Road, at 6:30 p. m.
Dr W. F. Hollister, president
of the league, will introduce
Mayor John Ruggles who will
speak and throw out the first
ball. Also introduced by Dr Hol
lister will be players, coaches,
batboya and “queens” chosen by
the boys as representatives of
their teams, from girls ®f their
own age group.
Four one-inning games, with all
Sat^ay events begin with a
downto^ parade, to music of the
^hool band, starting at 10 a.m
games will be
Cubs at 2; Tigers vs Yanks at 4-
Cards vs Braves at 6:30; and
Pirates vs Dodgers at 8
In addition to Dr. Hollister, of-
T little League are
J(^l Stutts, vice president; Harry
Klabbatz, secretary; and Shirley
Wooster, treasurer.
Regular season Little League
games will be played Monday and
nday mghts of each week at
6:30 and 8:00. Minor League
games will played each Wed
nesday night at the same hours.
A complete season schedule will
found elsewhere in today’s
Pilot in convenient form to clip
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Suddenly Ws Summer
Suddenly, this week, it seemed to be Summer in the Sandhills
after a slow, chilly Spring that barely sent the trees into leaf
in time to hide bird nests in their branches. *17115 photo is evi
dence of the season: three four-day-old cardinals, all mouth and
and always hungry, with the mother bird caught by Bob
Madigan’s camera as she crammed a tasty morsel down one
of the yawning gullets. A shower Tuesday night and a heavy
driving rain early Wednesday afternoon broke a period of in
tense heat cUmaxing three weeks of drought that was beginning
to make fanners and home gardeners worried. The photo was
taken in the Madigans' yard on N. Ridge St.
Rescue Squad to
Conduct $10,000
Drive For Units
The county commissioners’
pledge of $45,000 to the building
fund drive of Moore Memorial
Hospital, authorized April 18 and
announced last week by the
drive’s committee, was protested
by two Southern Pines residents
at Monday’s meeting of the com
missioners in Carthage.
John F. Buchholz and Mrs. Val
erie Nicholson who was at the
meeting also in her capacity as
free-lance news reporter;, both
questioned the right of the com
missioners to pledge public
money to a private institution, es^
pecially^ they said, in view of
many other pressing needs for
county funds.
The pledge by the county, cov
ered in a letter of intent given to
the hospital fund drive chair
man, W. P. Saunders of South
ern Pines, and signed by L. R.
Reynolds, countj^ board chairman,
commits the coinmissioners to
give $15,000 perl year for three
years. j
“Where is the'i money for this
donation comingl from?” asked
Mr. Buchholz. “I (have just been
hearing in this 1 meeting how
much the county! needs money
for schools, yet here you are giv
ing money away.” \
Commissioner W| S. Taylor of
Aberdeen replied tkat the board
considers the pledg l as “a moral
commitment, not 4 legal one”
Both he and Chairr^n Reynolds
pointed out that tl* board ex
pects to consult Coukty Attorney
M. G. Boyette of Calrthage (who
was out of town and fcould not be
called Monday) as to fee legal as
pects of their action.!
Chairman Reynold#, said that
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VFW Spaghetti Supper
Open To All Saturday
A spaghetti supper and inardi
gras, open to the public, will be
held by John Boyd Post, Veter-
Ms of Foreign Wars at the post
home^ on N. W. Broad St. Satur
day, May 12 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Music and entertainment with
clowns will be provided in ad
dition to the supper. The entire
post home will be open for ins
pection, first time since construc-
modem building
VFW members and the Auxil
iary are joint hosts for the oc
casion.
County-Wide Track
Meet Here Postponed
The county-wide high school
track meet to have been held at
Memorial Field here Wednesday
afternoon was cancelled because
of ram.
CMch Billy Megginson of
Southern Pines High School said
that the event has been tenta
tively scheduled for Thursday
afternoon of next week. May 17.
STAY OFF RANGES
All persons visiting Fort
Bragg are warned to stay off
the firing ranges unless on of
ficial business. Ranges are in
daily use. and a hazard exists
due to artillery and small
arms firmg and imexploded
ammunition. TTie danger area
is bounded by Gruber Road
on the east; Manchester Road
on the north; King Road on
the west; and Plank Road on
the south.
The Moore County Rescue
Squad, now operating on a coun
ty-wide basis, with headquarters
at Robbins, is launching a one-
year-long campaign to set up
units of the squad at Carthage
and in the Southern Plnes-Aber-
deen area. The goal is $10,000.
The project was described to
the county commissioners in Car
thage Monday by W. D. Stutts of
Robbins, squad head. No formal
action by the county board was
required but the commissioners
gave their approval and praised
the group’s work.
Contributions should be mailed
to Bill Brown, secretary-treasu
rer, at Robbins and should be
made payable to Moore County
Rescue Squad.
Stutts said, that no county funds
would be needed for tbs propos
al. The commissioners recently
agreed to pay for the insurance
on the volunteers. This made the
Rescue Squad a recognized coun
ty unit, and made it eligible to
purchase surplus equipment from
the Federal Government. Total
county outlay for this insurance
amounted to $168.
Rescue Squad units consist of
volunte<ers who undergo exten
sive training in first aid and use
of emergency equipment. The 25
volunteers in the present Rob
bins unit have completed tb^ De
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School Building
Requests Exceed
Available Funds
ALL DAY IN MOORE TODAY
GROSBEAK LISTS
Miss Mary Wintyen of Southern
Pines asks that persons who have
been compiling information on
appearances of evening grosbeaks
m this area send her their lists
soon. Miss Wintyen, one of the
Sandiulls’s best informed students
of bird hfe, coordinates such in
formation for state and national
ornithological organizations.
Kennedy Tours County
Moore County was host today
to John P. Kennedy of Charlotte,
candidate for the 8th District Con
gressional nomination in the De
mocratic primary on May 26.
The challenger of Rep. A. Paul
ffitchin of Wadesboro spent all
day in the county, visiting most
of the towns, shaking hands, mak
ing short talks and otherwise
meeting the voters.
Accompanied by J. Frank Mc-
Caskill of Pinehurst, his chair
man in Moore, the candidate went
from Pinehurst via Eastwood,
home community of one of his
assistant county managers, J. W.
®unch) Sheffield, and then on to
Carthage.
IThe Kennedy route went on to.
Robbins, Eagle Springs, and Wes?
End, with the day’s touring end>
mg up in Vass and Southern^,.
.Y°ters_h a feature
Capital outlay requests ^or
school construction funds made
to the county commissioners Mon
day far exceed the estimated
amount of funds to be available
for this purpose in the 1962-63
budget to go into effect July 1.
Robert E. Lee, county school
system superintendent, appeared
with construction and major
equipment requests totalling
$516,975, including $410,000 need
ed to let a contract for two-thirds
completion of the Union Knes
School—first of the proposed con
solidated units in the county sys
tem.
John C. Muse of Sanford, the
county’s auditor who works with
the commissioners in making up
budgets, estimated that only be
tween $450,000 and $460,000 will
be available for school capital
outlay in the next budget. He
cited a drop in intangible tax re
funds to the county by the state
and some $40,000 decrease in AIBC
profits as two limiting factors in
the next budget.
Southern Pines school officials
making their requests offered
several plans for building, over
the next three or four years, a
new West Southern Pines High
School.
One plan calls for $125,000 per
year for three years, with the
first appropriation in the next
fiscal year, to be added to $63,500
on hand and as yet unused from
the current fiscal year’s allotment
by the county.
Another plan foresees comple
tion and furnishing of two phases
of the school at a cost of $136,500.
An alternate plan also for con
struction of two phases, but with
one different phase than in the
second plan, would cost $158,000.
To build one phase only, the
first seven classrooms and a boil
er room, including equipment and
furniture, would cost $110,000
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A total of 176 entries from 16
states have been received for the
first annual Southern Pines Na
tional Amateur Elks Invitational
Golf Tournament to be played
over the local Country Club’s
course May 17 through 20.
Dr. Boyd Starnes, co-chairman
with Richard Mattocks, said that
only 30 of the entries are from
players in this area. The Elks
Lodge, sponsor of the 54-hoie,
medal play .event, stopped accept
ing entries May 3, although there
are a few on a waiting list in the
event there are any cancellations.
All contestants must be B.P.O.
Elks in good standing. Charles
Marcum, local professional who
is representative of a golf equip
ment company, will be tourna
ment director, and he and Andy
Page of the Southern Pines Coun
try Club will act as rules com
mittee.
General committee members
working with Dr. Starnes and
Mattocks are Morris Johnson,
Holly Sisk, Carlos Frye, Joe Mon-
tesanti, Jr., Walter HaiiJer, Bill
Gant and Harold Cuff.
On the first day, Thursday of
next week, the course will be
open to all contestants for a prac
tice round. A cocktail party for
contestants will be held at the
Country Club from 6 to 7 p. m.
that day.
Qualifying rounds will be
played Friday and Saturday, May
18 and 19, with 18-hole ■ medal
play in flights on Sunday, May
20. Sunday scores in flights will
be combined with the Friday and
Saturday qualifying rounds.
Presentation of the many tro
phies will take place at 6 p. m.
Sunday at the Country Club.
Special Saturday events include
luncheon and bridge for the
ladies, starting gt 1 p. m. Satur
day, and a dance to which all con
testants and lady guests are in
vited at 9 p. m. Saturday.
The $15 per person entry fee
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Young Man Freed
! Jn Manslaughter,
3 Other Charges
county manager, Tom Ruggles.
This afternoon a group of local
women met and welcomed the
candidate during a Coke and
coffee hour at Weymouth, with
^s. James Boyd as hostess. Such
informal gathwings of neighbor-
JOHN P. KENNEDY
Congressional Candidale
■,ofi the Kennedy campaign
throughout the rfistrict.
Tomorrow (Friday), Kennedy
will campaign in Lee County. He
will addles a press limcheon at
the Wilrick Hotel, speaking on
issues in the 8th District.
Forestry Agent
Named by Board
Bennie Fulcher was appointed
the county commissioners
Monday as assistant agricultural
agent, to specialize in forestry
matters, to begin work in the
coqnty June 1.
Mr. Fulcher has been with the
U. S. Forest Service for the past
four years, living at Troy.
The action was taken on re
commendation of Fleet Allen,
agricultural agent, and farm
leaders who some time ago told
the commissioners that it would
pay the county to have some one
to give landowners advice on
forest management..
Gerald Wayne Lambert, 22, sole
survivor of an automobile accident
of last November on Midland
Road in which two other young
men were kiUed, went free when
his case was non-suited in Moore
Sunerior Court Friday for lack of
sufficient evidence.
Lambert was charged with
manslaughter, drunken driving
md careless and reckless driv
ing when his car struck a tree
Killed were Robert Wicker, 20,
and Ronald Benton, 19, of South
ern Pines. Lambert was gravely
injured and spent months in a
hospital.
Following Southern Pines po
lice officers’ testimony before a
jury, defense counsel moved for
a non-suit on the grounds that
there were no surviving wit
nesses to what happened other
than the defendant, and that
Lambert couldn’t remember
whether h^ had been driving or
not.
“You can’t convict this boy or
either of the dead boys,” said W.
D. Sabiston, defense attorney,
noting that Lambert, who was on
crutches, would receive lifelong
punishment — “It is doubtful that
he will ever walk normally
again.”
Lambert was also charged
with lack of financial responsi
bility, in that there was no lia
bility insurance on the car, but
the car was in his mother’s
name and ' Judge Robert M.
Gambill, in non-suiting all the
charges, left that matter to the
civil courts.
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.
Max Min
May 3 78 48
May 4 .... 83 45
May 5 85 51
May 6 89
May 7........
May 8 ...:.'..
May 9