VOL. 42—NO. 40
Society’s Plans
To Move Offices
Here Unchanged
Easier Seal Camp
Fund Campaign
Moves On Apace
A big headline in the Chapel
Hill Weekly last week, stating
“Crippled Children’s Society’s
Offices To Remain Here,” was
“j'ust as far off base as it could
possibly be,” commented Alvin
Pekutis, executive secretary of
the Society, visiting here several
days ago.
The Southern Pines Pilot last
week termed the Chapel Hill
paper’s headline and story entire
ly misleading. Noting that no de
cision as described had been
made, only that some unofficial
discussion had taken place, Piku-
tis called The Pilot’s comment
“the only sensible thing I have
read on the subject.”
The situation, Pekutis said, re
mains as it was when the decision
was reached som.a months ago by
the board of the N. C. Society for
Crippled Children and Adults, to
accept the offer of land on US 1
in Southern Pines, sell the Chapel
Hill headquarters building when
practicable and build new offices
here, close to the Society’s perma
nent camp soon to be established.
Further decisions about the of
fices and concrete plans for the
move have been pushed into the
background for the present, with
the fund campaign for the camp
taking priority. Miss Shirley
White of Chapel Hill, who is man
aging the “Capital Campaign,”
conferred here Wednesday with
E. J. Austin, architect, Mrs. Gra
ham Culbreth, state director, and
other local leaders in the move
ment.
Miss White reported the cam
paign “off to a fine start,” with
prospects excellent for letting the
contracts in November as plan
ned. The camp will be'built on a
tract purcha-sed three years ago,
northeast of Southern Pines, be
yond Knollwood. The first camp
season will definitely be held
there in the summer of 1963, Mrs.
Culbreth later reported
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1962
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REPRESENTING THE U. S. at a Scout Jamboree held re
cently in Iceland were five Sandhills Explorer Scouts, pictured
with one of their leaders and a host Scout in the group above.
They spent an exciting week in the far-north country, at an
international gathering of some 5,000 Scouts observing the 50th
anniversary of Scouting in Iceland. They flew from New York
City and returned there by plane arriving back home August 11.
The photo made in Iceland became available just this week.
Middle Belt Opeiiinj^s
Delayed To August 30
showing, from left. Bob Ganis of Southern Pines; Bill Oelrich
of Sanford; twins Chuck and Rick Lewis, of West End- R M
Ihrlmgton of Lillington, assistant leader of the groun- anH
Southotherwise identified, and Melvin Gardner of
uthem Pines. Not in photo is David Drexel of Southern Pines
As Middle Belt tobacco mar
kets, including the five in Moore
county, readied for their opening
next week, the opening date was
reset from Monday to Thursday
“because of the inadequacy of
buyer and grader personnel.”
Most of Moore’s $5,500,000 crop
is sold on the two Carthage mar
kets and three at Aberdeen. Other
markets affected are those of San
ford, Ellerbe, Durham, Puquay-
Varina, Henderson, Louisburg,
Oxford and Warrenton.
The Moore County markets are
McConnells and Victory at Car
thage, New Aberdeen, Planters
and Hardee’s at Aberdeen.
The change of date was an
nounced Tuesday by Fred S. Roy
ster of Henderson, managing di
rector of the Bright Belt Ware
house association. It affected
thousands of Sandhills growers
who have their biggest crop in
years nearly all in, ready for con
version into cash at the earliest
opportunity.
However, the change could be
a salutary one, giving prices a
chance to stabilize after the some
what mixed opening of the 17
markets of the big Eastern North
Carolina Belt Tuesday.
General price averages of $45
Short Funds WUl
Delay Opening
Of Union Pines
Lack of sufficient funds in this
years capital outlay budget has
thrown the Union Pines consoli
dated school construction one
year off schedule, and possibly
two.
At the rate construction must
now proceed, it was learned
from County Supt. Robert E Lee
at Carthage, it will be the fall
term of 1964 before the school
can be opened. If items omitted
this year cannot be made up next
year, it will be delayed till 1965
This will throw the construction
of the second consolidated high
school, planned for the upper end,
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Chief Seawell
Clarifies Details
Of Wreck In Fog
The accident in which Mrs. D.
G. Castro of Aberdeen was in
jured the evening of August 9
could not be made the subject of
an official report because both
drivers had moved their vehicles
from the scene, contrary to law,
by the- time the police got there,
said Chief Earl Seawell this week.
Chief Seawell had just return
ed from his vacation last week
and had not learned details of the
accident when The Pilot inquir
ed concerning them. He said he
would look into such matters why
no report was filed, and why the
investigating officers let Mrs.
Castro continue on her way with
a neck injury which later put her
in the hospital for a week, and
with car damage which Mr. Cas
tro told The Pilot amounted to
$240.
The collision occurred on North
May St. near the Manly Ave. in
tersection when Mrs. Castro ran
into the rear of a pickup truck
which had had to make a sudden
stop on hitting a small boy on a
bicycle. The accident occurred a
few minutes after the town’s fog
ging machine had passed that
way, and fog was still in the
street. Since no report was filed,
there was no record of the truck
driver’s name and address.
Chief Seawell told The Pilot he
had talked with the officers in the
case. Patrolman C. L. Frye and
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Pupils Report To County Schools
In Nine Districts Wednesday Mornina
CARTHAGE—'Wednesdav. Au- -f — ^
Mrs. Bridges Heads Sponsor Group
For Big Southeastern Flower Show
TV/Tt^c* . _
Mrs. Hazel Bridges, owner and
operator of Carolina Orchids and
a leading figure among florists
and orchid growers of the State,
will head the sponsor group put
ting on the big 1963 Southeastern
Flower and Garden Show.
The show, which has drawn
unprecedented crowds during the
past two years at Raleigh, is be
ing moved to the vast Merchan
dise Mart at Charlotte, where it
will be held next February 15
through 19.
The Southern Pines woman has
been named president of the
Southeastern Flower and Garden
Show, Inc., a sponsoring corpora
tion formed by flower and horti
cultural interests and organiza
tions.
Tuesday at Charlotte, contracts
were signed between this corpo
ration and Southeastern SIiows,
Inc., which produces and manages
the huge colorful spectacle, and
plans were announced at a lunch
eon of officers of the two groups
with civic leaders at the Char
lotte City Club.
The show was originated three
years ago by John Harden, presi •
dent, and Robert E. Zimmerman,
manager, of Southeastern Shows,
Inc. Harden also heads John
Harden Associates, public rela
tions firm of Greensboro and
Raleigh, which promotes and
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CARTHAGE—"Wednesday, Au-
gust 29, will be the opening day
of school for all students of the
Moore County system. School
buses will operate on that day,
which will be a half-day, for
pupil orientation. The cafeterias
will be open Thursday, the first
full day of school.
Teachers will start work Mon
day, when orientation meetings
will be held in all schools. Tues
day will be their day of individ
ual preparation for the start of
their classroom instruction.
County staff members and
principals started work last
Thursday, holding their Admin
istrators’ Conference Monday of
this week in the education offices
at Carthage.
Only a few teacher vacancies
remained this week in the nine
school districts, and County Supt.
Robert E. Lee said he expected
that all would be filled by the
opening of school. Two or three
substitutes may be used but there
will be no classroom without a
teacher.
Actual attendance figures last
year, somewhat lower than the
enrollment figure of 7,127, still
showed sufficient increase to give
the Moore system a net gain of
one teacher. Some districts gained
slightly while others lost, and in
some the gain of an elementary
teacher was cancelled out by the
loss of a high school teacher.
In general, the faculty has re
mained stable, with few changes
noted. There are three new prin
cipals, George B. Causby at Cam
eron. J. R. Brendell at "West End
and B. C. Scott, at Carthage Ele
mentary school.
Returning students will note
some changes in several build
ings, though construction through
out the system has been kept to a
minimum, so available funds
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East and West Southern Pines
Schools Prepare For Opening
Both East and West Southern day.
Small Still Close To Church
Is Seized; One Man Arrested
C. A. McCallum of Carthage,
chief Moore County ABC enforce
ment offioer, this week reported
the capture of a small copper still
Saturday morning almost in the
shadow of Summer Hill Baptist
church.
The still, well concealed in
woods near a small springhead,
was within 300 feet of the church,
on the grounds of Angus Nathan
iel Reuben Black, Negro, 43, a
neighbor of the church located on
Carthage Rt. 3.
Black was arrested on the
scene, and the still was destroyed
by the raiding party, along with
some 40 gallons of mash. No whis
key had been run.
By coincidence. Black was the
first man McCallum arrested
when he joined the ABC enforce
ment staff at its beginning in
1937. “We have arrested him
every few years since,” the offi
cer said, noting that “he’s an old
offender.”
It happened that McCallum
was sick Saturday and did not
take part in the capture, or latest
arrest of Black. The raiding group
was composed of ABC officer Ed
Floyd of Aberdeen, and two
ATTU agents from the federal
office at Rockingham. Black was
taken before the U. S. Commis
sioner at Rockingham, and made
$500 bond for his appearance at
the September term of federal
court there.
Pines schools are readying for
their opening dates—next Thurs
day for the teachers, and Tuesday,
September 4, for the students.
A real influx is expected in the
fast-growing local system, which
had average daily attendance last
year of over 1,700. The gain in
the East Southern Pines schools
last year increased this year’s
teacher allotment by two, while
at West Southern Pines, the al
lotment stayed the same.
All teachers will start off with
two days of orientation, followed
by the Labor Day holiday week
end.
The students’ first day wiU be
a half-day for orientation, with
dismissal at 12:30 p.m. for all.
The next day, September 5, they
will start to work in earnest. The
cafeterias will be open on that
At East Southern Pines, where
Supt. Luther A. Adams last week
announced his completed teacher
list, there were changes when
wo sixth grade teachers, Mrs.
Ruth Deaton and Mrs. Kay
Adams, both resigned. Mrs. Bar
bra Keopp of Southern Pines
who has had two years of ex
perience at Sanford, has been
employed to fill one sixth-grade
position, while Supt. Adams hopes
to fill the other during the com
ing week.
Another change has been the
renovation and re-equipment of
me former Home Economics
Building into a Fine Arts Center,
for public school music and high
school art classes. The home
economics department now has
its modern, spacious quarters in
the new high school wing, opened
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in for early sales was of poor
quality, the initial five days be
ing devoted to an experiment in
marketing untied leaf.
The bottom leaves, consisting
of low-quality and nondescript
grades, is being sold loose during
the five-day opening periods, the
growers who wish to take advan
tage of the experiment sacrificing
six cents of support price to elim
inate one step of hand labor in
preparing the leaf for sale.
Reaction to the experiment on
the Eastern Belt was mixed, but
growers were reported “general
ly satisfied, though some com
plaints were heard.”
One of the loudest voices heard
in complaint was that of Rep.
Harold D. Cooley, chairman of
the House Agriculture Commit
tee, who came from Washington
to observe the experimental sales
on the Eastern Belt and called
them “a tragic mistake, which
will certainly not be repeated
next year.”
He noted that “leaves were all
over the floor. It was an awful
mess. Farmers in this area are
used to tying their tobacco.” How
ever, warehousemen were quoted
as saying that the sales enabled
growers to dispose of “the com-
to $50 were not as good as last I monest end of the crop» ^iTa'
fhat’much aflh of l^^or, and that most
that much of the tobacco brought I of them appeared satisfied.
Jugtown Will Live On For Present;
As To Fnture-Execntors Will Decide
Jugtown will go on, at least for I favorable con'ditions.
e present, and as to the future. In regard to Jugtown, the tes
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New School Garage Completed; Three
Departments Move Into Modern Plant
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The new Moore County Schools
Garage building has been com
pleted, three miles south of Car
thage, and three departments
moved in during several days of
the past week.
These are the Department of
Transportation, headed by W. E.
Bailey as supervisor; the Depart
ment of Maintenance, with V. Ray
Griffin as supervisor, and the De
partment of Building, of which
T. R. Livengood is supervisor.
It was Livengood’s department
which constructed the big one-
story building of masonry and
brick, with 17,823 square feet of
useful space, during the past year
on the site facing US 15-501, next
to the Reynolds Rest Home prop
erty. Since it was built by coimty
crews out of funds allotted by
the county at various times, inclu
ding a transfer from other fimds,
Supt. Robert E. Lee said be could
not yet state precisely what it
had cost, but that it would total
something under $100,000. This in
cludes considerable equipment
secured through army-surplus
sources.
The transportation department
handles all the school buses, serv
ing the Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst systems as well as the coun
ty system, also all the county’s
rolling stock and heavy machine
ry. The bi^es, put in spic-and-
span condition, fully repaired and
inspected for safety at the old
site on the Carthage school
grounds, were left there for the
different schools to send for this
week, preparatory to the opening
of all schools.
There will be 105 buses in oper
ation during the coming school
year. The entire fleet, however,
serviced and supervised by Su-
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and disposition were vested by
John Mare in his executors.
The Jugtown owner, who died
Monday, August 13, at the age of
47 named as executors his friend
Oliver R. Grace, of New York,
and Howard C. Broughton, attor
ney, of Southern Pines.
Mare was fatally stricken be
fore he could complete his plans
assuring the future of the famed
pottery works, or the setting up
of the memorial to Jacques and
Juliana Busbee which he had
pledged in 1959.
Oliver Grace, here for the serv
ices last Thursday for John Mare,
said he planned to return the lat
ter part of September, at which
time he and Broughton will to
gether study plans for the future
of Jugtown. In the meantime A1
Powers, Mare’s close friend and
employee, who had worked with
him since he became owner and
manager, will continue with the
operation as before, returning to
work next week.
Mare’s will, filed last week for
probate at Carthage, gave the ex
ecutors complete authority for 20
years over all his business inter
ests, including Jugtown and the
Aiken Electronics Advertising
Corp., owner of Radio Station
WAKN at Aiken, S. C. They are
to hold and manage the interests,
with authority to sell, assign,
transfer and convey them or any
terested in the continuation and
promotion of Jacques and Juli
ana Busbee’s Jugtown, Inc., and
I urge but do not direct that my
executors see to the perpetuation
of said corporation as referred to
in the Articles of Incorporation. .
My wish is that, if a sale is effect
ed, my successors be some person,
corporation or foundation that
will continue in the pursuit of
the craft of pottery and its promo
tion, preserving the folkcraft in a
manner that will be a credit to
Jugtown, Moore county. North
Carolina and to the spirit of Juli
ana Busbee.”
In other provisions of the will,
made at the onset of Mare’s illness
in June, he left his friend and
longtime secretary, A1 Powers,
for his lifetime, his beautiful
home on a 50-acre estate near the
airport, with all its furnishings
and equipment. He also left to
Powers his automobile, outright.
Cash bequests were made to
each of his four brothers and two
sisters, who are also to benefit
from the proceeds of his business
intereste and investments “in the
discretion of rny executors,” and
are residuary legatees, or their
heirs per stirpes, of the estate.
The brothers and sisters—Nor
man Mare and Lt. Col. Donald
Mare, USAF ret., both of "Wash
ington, D. C., Martin and "Victor
Mare, both of New York City,
with their wives; Mrs. Matteo Tis-
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Best Tobacco Crop In Years Has
Bi^ Place In Moore Farm Pictnre
Moore tobacco growers will be
ready for the opening of Middle
Belt markets August 30 with the
largest crop in history, of which
the quality is nearly uniformly
excellent, according to F. D
Allen, county farm agent.
The 1,621 growers will have
their crop 90 to 95 per cent har
vested by this weekend. There
will be some late tobacco because
of re-settings necessitated by the
drought in May.
Many will take their offerings
to the five Moore County ware
houses McConnells and Victory
at Carthage, New Aberdeen,
Planters and Hardee’s at Aber
deen, which are readying their
big floors for the flood tide of
tobacco, while the two communi
ties prepare a welcome for the
farmers.
Others will go to markets in
nearby counties, but since the
Moore markets are drawing in
creasingly from as far as south
west Virgima and northeast
South Carolina, it evens out by
the end of the season.
While some of the growers
fought too much rain—while
others did not have enough—only
a very little tobacco is light as
a result of weather conditions,
said Allen. Nearly all is top quali
ty and they are looking for top
prices, as good or better than last
year’s.
$5,500,000 Crop
In 1961, they sold 349,889
pounds on all markets ofr a record
$5,427,427.85.
This year, because of the new
allotment transfer system, theyy
have a record 4,675.19 acres in
production, according to ASC
figures.
The yield per acre is averaging
out at, 1,785, a one-pound drop
from last year occasioned by the
spotty spring weather.
They have been aggressive in
recent years in learning and
adopting improved practices and
overcoming handicaps of the tra
ditionally poor soil—clay in the
upper part o fthe county, sand
in the lower. The results have
shown in steadily increased yields
up to last year—in 1956, 1,521
pounds per acre; 1957, 1,562; 1958
1,621; 1959, 1,628; 1960, 1,685; and
1961, 1,782.
They are fertilizing better, using
disease - resistant varieties and
more each year are installing ir
rigation. Farm ponds have tripled
in number, to about 1,500 today,
as compared with 500 or 600 in
1953. While there were only about
a dozen irrigation systems in the
county in 1953. today there are
275, watering down some 50 per
cent of the allotments.
The new mechanical tobacco
stringer has found favor in Moore
as in other Sandhill counties. Of
250 of this new labor-saving de
vice sold alreadyy in the State
22, or nearly 10 per cent, were
bought by Moore County growers
There have been 54 sold in six
Sandhills counties.
There have been no discount
varieties of tobacco discovered in
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