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Last week’s
school production of “The
Mikado” is praised in a review
on page 20.
Clare Cole,
^/^inner of the Kiwanis Junior
Builder’s Cup, is pictured on
page 6.
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Elks Golf Opens; 76 Trophies To Be Given
Two hundred and twenty-
two entrants in the second
annual National Amateur
Elks golf tournament began
practice rounds today over
the Southern Pines Country
Club and Mid Pines courses,
with the 54-hole medal play
event scheduled to end Sun
day.
The entrants, from 42 Elks
lodges in 16 states, will play
in 14 flights, vying for the
most spectacular array of
silver trophies ever offered in
a golf tournament here, as
pictured above with Bob
Strouse, tournament co-
chairman with Dr. Boyd
Starnes. Five trophies will
be given in each flight; there
will be a team trophy, with
four miniature replicas for
team members; an attend
ance award for the lodge
sending the largest delega
tion; and possibly other
awards.
Trophies will be presented
at 6 p. m. Sunday, at the
Southern Pines Country
Club.
Social festivities begin
with a party for players and
their wives from 6 to 7 p. m.
today at the local country
club. There will be a dance
there Saturday night.
Southern Pines Elks Lodge
No. 1692 is sponsor for the
increasingly popular tourna
ment. Pete Mitchell is tour
nament director.
RATE CUT BUT-
Mrs. Hiatt Chosen
President Of PTA;
Fashion Show Seen
Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, Jr., was elected
.president of the East Southern
Pines Parent-Teacher Association
and other new officers were
chosen Tuesday night at the final
PTA meeting of the school year.
The evening’s program featured
an elaborate fashion show by
Home Economics students, with
other students providing enter
tainment interludes.
The new officers were elected
as a slat.2 from a nominating com
mittee headed by Mrs. William
T. Huntley, Jr. The others are:
Mrs. Robert Leland, first vice
president; Don Moore, second
vice president (faculty representa
tive); Mrs. Richard James, secre
tary, and Dr. Robert VanderVoort,
treasurer.
Supt. Luther A. Adams install
ed the new officers after their
election. Mrs. James and Dr.
VanderVoort were not able to be
present.
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MUSIC PUPILS TO
PERFORM SATURDAY
The 14th annual Young
Musicians Concert, sponsored
by the Sandhills Music Asso
ciation will take place at 8
p. m. Saturday in the Pine-
hurst Country Club. The
event is open to the public
free of charge.
The concert will present
outstanding piano and voice
pupils of nine Moore County
music teachers. John A. Mc-
Phaul will be master of cer
emonies. Mrs. Charles Phil
lips is program chairman.
Ambulance Given
To Newly Formed
No- 4 Rescue Unit
Women’s Tourney
Finals Set Today
Mrs. Hub Covington of Orange
burg, S. C. Wednesday scored a
76—a five-stroke lead over favor
ed Marge Burns of Greensboro,
five-time winner of the Carolinas
Women’s Golf Association cham
pionship, in second round
matches of the 54-hole tourna
ment at the Pinehurst Country
Club.
Miss Bums, who was tied with
six others, including Mrs. Cov
ington, in first roimd par 78’s
over the No. 3 course, posted an
81 yesterday for third place. Sec
ond, with 80, was Miss Clara
Jane Mosack of Charlotte.
Finals were being played to
day.
The recently organized Sand
hills Unit No. 4 of the Moore
County Rescue Squad this week
was given an ambulance by the
Powell Funeral Home which is
owned and operated by June Blue
and Troy Geer.
The 1952 Cadillac vehicle, fully
equipped and in good condition,
was specially purchased by Blue
and Geer for the rescue imit. It
is being painted white to conform
with rescue squad practice.
Gratitude for the gift was ex
pressed this week by leaders of
the new group.
This unit was organized last
week at Aberdeen, and is ready
to assist in emergencies which
may occur in this area.
It is not yet ready, however, to
go out on rescue service on its
OAvn, but expects to reach this
stage in June, after all members
have had their first aid training
and the unit has acquired es
sential equipment and a place to
keep and maintain it.
Volunteers for the unit should
be able-bodied men 21 years old
and up (there is no top age limit),
of good moral character and repu-
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Negro Policeman
For West Side Is
Called Big Need
The need for a Negro policeman
to work in West Southern Pines
was emphatically presented to
the town council, in a special
meeting Tuesday afternoon, by
Councilman Felton Capel, a resi
dent of that area.
No action could be taken on
his request that a Negro officer
be appointed now, to fill a
vacancy in the police department,
nor could his remarks be con
sidered in order or even entered
on the minutes, as they were
made at a special meeting which
by law can take up only business
specified for consideration at the
meeting. And Tuesday’s session
had been called for another pur
pose.
The council expects to meet
again in special session next week
and it is likely that the police
matter will be docketed for con
sideration at that time.
In the informal and unofficial
discussion that followed Council
man Capel’s request. Town Man
ager F. F. Rainey said that he
did not feel he could fill the
current vacancy with a Negro
officer because the six officers
now serving the town are work
ing extended hours and need, at
once, the relief that only filling
the vacancy with a white officer
could give them on their regular
schedule of work.
However, said the manager, in
planning the 1963-64 budget, he
is expecting to include funds for
one more officer and one more
‘Outside’ Fire
Service Cost Up;
Area Extended
At a special meeting of the
council Tuesday afternoon, the
town’s ordinance relating to ser
vice by the local fire department
outside the city limits was amend
ed to:
1. Reduce the rate paid by per
sons requesting the service from
25 cents to 20 cents per $100 of j
property tax valuation.
2. Extend the area in which
service will be available from
two miles outside the city limil.s
to four miles out.
3. Increase the annual ceiling
fee paid by a few large property
owners from $250 to $275.
The rate was reduced because
property valuations, which are
taken from the county’s tax rolls,
have gone up. But even at the re
duced rate, “outside” property
owners will be paying more for
their protection, Town Manager
F. F. Rainey said. He estimated
the average increase of individual
payments at between $4 and $8
per year, with a total collection
of about $2,000 more than in the
past year.
The manager said he anticipates
an increase of about $6,000 in
the fire department budget, oc
casioned by the employment of
two “resident firemen” and other
needs.
The outside rate is geared to
what fire protection costs in-town
residents.
Property owners who pay the
special fee get their names on
a list that is immediately consult
ed by the fire department when
a fire call comes in from out of
town. The department is not obli
gated to calls from persons who
have not paid the fee.
Present for the special session
were Mayor W. Morris Johnson
and Councilmen Felton Capel,
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., and C. A.
McLaughlin; the manager; Town
Attorney W. Lament Brown and
Town Clerk Mrs. Mildred Mc
Donald. Councilman Fred Pollard
could hot be present.
Federal Ruling On ‘Impacted Area’
School Funds Would Apply Here
Sr'; '"’"i
JEAN DIANNE FIELDS
Valedictorian
JOSEPH S. HIATT III
Salutatorian
Top SPHS Honor Graduates Named
Chosen as first and second I Hiatt III, salutatorian. The top
honor graduates in the Southern honors are awarded on the basis
Pines High School Class of 19631 of academic grades throughout
are Jean Dianne Fields, valedic- students’ high school careers,
torian, and Joseph Spurgeon
Boy, 15, ‘Who Never Had A Chance’
Held In County Jail For Felonies
A 15-year-old boy who has
never had much of a chance in
life was placed in jail after the
Moore Recorder’s Court session
of Saturday in Carthage because
the court could not find anything
else to do with him.
While the law forbids jailing
juveniles, James Boggs had
pleaded guilty to five counts of
forgery of checks, and in felony
cases, defendants are treated as
adults no matter what their ages.
Solicitor W. Lamont Brown
urged that the court find some
means of taking jurisdiction and
suspend a sentence for the youth,
provided someone could be found
who would assume responsibility
for him. Judge J. Vance Rowe
Jackson Becomes
Cashier At Vass
At their last meeting, the di
rectors of the Carolina Bank pro
moted Elvin Jackson of Carthage
from assistant cashier to cashier
of the branch at Vass.
Mr. Jackson began his bank
ing career with the Carolina
Bank at Pinehurst and, after a
leave of absence for his military
service, was elected as assistant
cashier at the Carthage Office.
He has been in Vass since Janu
ary.
A graduate of West End High
School, he is married to the for
mer Iris Baldwin of Carthage.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
Residents of this area were re
minded this week that there will
be a Memorial Day service at
Mount Hope Cemetery, Simday,
June 2, at 5 p.m., with American
Legion, VFW, National Guard
police car, having m mind that i and other groups taking part. The
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Tennis Officers
Elected; Member
Campaign Starts
Officers for the coming year
were elected, summer tournament
dates set and a membership cam
paign launched at a recent meet-
in of the Sandhill Tennis Associ
ation.
Bselected as president was C.
A. McLaughlin. The other officers
are: Bill Samuels, vice president;
Mrs. David Drexel, secretary; and
Mrs. Voit Gilmore, treasurer.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., is tour
nament chairman; George Little
and Mr. Samuels are member
ship chairmen.
A membership drive is now
starting. Contributions, to help
the association with tournament
and other expenses should be sent
to George Little at P. O. Box 1236
here..
The association will again
sponsor a men’s team in the East
ern Carolina League, with try
outs scheduled at the municipal
courts both Saturday and Sunday
afternoons. All interested players
are invited to try out.
The Junior Sandhill Invitation
al Tournament is scheduled for
August 1-4 and the SandhiU
Senior event for August 8-11.
MOORE MEMORIAL
BID OPENING SET
Opening of contractors'
bids on the proposed new
wing and other work at
Moore Memorial Hospital is
scheduled to take place at the
National Guard Armory on
Morganton Road at 2 p. m.
tomorrow (Friday). The open
ing was postponed! from Wed
nesday, at the request of
subcontractors who wanted
more time to figure bids.
Each will speak at the gradua
tion program at 8 p.m. oh Thurs
day, June 6. The baccalaureate
sermon will be heard by students,
Sunday evening, June 2. Awards
Day will be conducted Monday,
June 3, at 1:30 p.m.
Dianne Fields is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fields of
390 New Jersey Ave.
In addition to having the
highest academic average, Dianne
has been active in extra-curricu
lar activities. She is president and
accompanist of the CJlee Club and
a member of the Beta Club, Or
der of the Rainbow, annual staff,
and Future Homemakers of
America. She is president of her
Sunday school class and Training
Union at First Baptist Church.
Dianne plans to attend Wake
Forest College in Winston-Salem
next year. She was a recipient
this Spring of a George Foster
Hankins Scholarship award. She
was a marshal last year and is
organist at her church.
Joseph Hiatt is the son of Dr.
and Mrs. Joseph S. Hiatt, Jr., of
Midland Road.
Joe has been an outstanding
student in academic work as well
as extra-curricular activities. He
has been a class officer two years,
a member of the Band all four
years and the Glee Club this
year and had four years on the
basketball team. He is a member
of the Monogram Club and on
the student council, besides serv
ing as president of the Beta Club
and one of the senior editors of
The Lance, student annual. He
was chief marshal last year. .
He is president of MFY of the
Southern Pines Methodist Church
and sings in the choir. He has
chosen Duke University in Dur
ham, both his father’s and moth
er’s alma mater, for his higher
education
Formal Opening Held For New Sherwin - Williams Store
A new U. S. government ruling
that schools receiving “impacted
area” federal funds must plan for
and Carry out racial integration
appai-ently applies to the East
and West Southern Pines schools
•though no official word to that
effect had been received here
early this week.
The federal funds are paid to
districts (“impacted, areas”) in
which children of military per
sonnel constitute three per cent
or more of those attending the
schools, to help the local units
bear the cost of educating chil
dren for whom little or no local
taxes are paid. Some 4,000 school
districts in the country, most of
them near military bases, receive
the funds.
Under the ruling an integration
plan must be made within a few
weeks and the plan must be im
planted by June, 1964.
In the Southern Pines district,
it was learned from Supt. Luther
Adams, the number of such chil
dren, varying from year to year
and even from month to month,
runs generally around 150 to 175,
close to 10 per cent of the total.
Impacted-area funds are received
totalling from $12,000 to $15,000
per year. This equals nearly one-
fourth of the amount received an
nually from the district’s 50-cent
tax supplement, which yielded
nearly $65,000 last year.
“The impacted-area funds are
extremely useful and it is hard
to see how we would get along
v/ithout them,” Adams said. “It
would mean the Southern Pines
district would be undertaking the
education of a large number of
students whom we welcome, but
whose families are here on a
nearly taxfree basis.”
Pinehurst and Moore County
system schools are not affected.
May 30 Closings
In County Noted
Post offices will close for Me
morial Day, Thursday, May 30,
and town offices will be closed
here, including the public libra
ry.
It is expected that some busi
nesses will be closed and others
stay open.
Both local banks—Citizens
Bank and Trust Company and
Southern National Bank—will be
open, having closed on Monday of
this week for Mecklenburg Inde
pendence Day, a State holiday.
However, the Carolina Bank of
Pinehurst and its branches will
be closed on May 30, not having
taken the holiday this week.
County offices at the court
house in Carthage will be closed.
said there was no way to do this
under the law, found probable
cause and bound Boggs over to
Superior Court under bond of
$350 for all five cases. There was
no one to make bond.
Carthage’s new police chief Al
lan J. Benner, who had picked
the boy up at Carthage Friday,
said Boggs told him he had been
sleeping in the woods, in cars
and in trucks and had forged the
five $10 checks and cashed them
in Carthage business places “be
cause he was hungry and needed
to buy food.” Though apparently
homeless, Boggs has continued to
attend the Carthage school. Ben
ner termed him “a victim of cir-
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The grand opening of the new
Sherwin-Williams Paint and
Wallpaper Color Service Center
in the Daniels Building on S. W.
Broad St., took place this morn
ing, with a ribbon-cutting by
Mayor W. Morris Johnson.
Extending through Saturday,
the grand opening features regis
tration for gifts of paint to be
made later and special prices on
many items. Details appear on
another page of today’s Pilot.
On hand to welcome the public
today were Raymond H. Hannah,
store manager, and Leo F. Walsh,
Jr., who has been named credit
manager of the new store.
With Mayor Johnson were two
members of the town council,
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., and C. A.
McLaughlin. Mrs. Johnson attend
ed. E. Earl Hubbard of the Citi
zens Bank and Trust Company
was at the ribbon-cutting cere
mony.
Sherwin-Williams Paint Com
pany officials on hand for the
opening were: A. J. McGraw,
area sales manager, W. H. Yount,
area credit supervisor, and R. E.
I;
RAYMOND H. HANNAH
Manager
Witherspoon, dealer sales repre
sentative, all of Raleigh; and
D. W. Hamer, branch manager,
of Rockingham.
The store is doing both a whole-
LEO F. WALSH. JR.
Credit Manager
sale and retail business, serving
Sherwin-Williams dealers of this
area and the public, with a large
line of paint, wallpaper and
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Memorial Plaque
To Be Presented
To Town By Club
A long-standing project of the
of the Southern Pines Rotary
Club will be brought to comple
tion on Memorial Day (Thursday
of next week) when a service of
dedication will be conducted at
the town hall for a bronze plaque
honoring local men and women
who have served in the armed
forces of all wars.
The event is set for 12:30 p. m.
The public is invited.
The plaque will be placed on
the brick screening wall that
stands at right angles to the main
entrance of the office portion of
the town building.
E. Earl Hubbard and E. J. Aus
tin are chairmen of the project
for the Rotary Club. The Rev.
Carl Wallace, a club member, is
expected to make the formal pre
sentation to Mayor W. Morris
Johnson. The ceremony will in
elude a prayer.
The new plaque replaces, in an
other form, a listing of local men
and women who served in the
armed forces in World War II,
that for many years was display
ed in a glassed-in wooden case
outside the public library. This
display was removed a few years
ago after its condition deteriora
ted.
First Federal Buys
4 Lots For Office
W. M. Womble, executive vice
president of the First Federal
Savings and Loan Association of
Sanford announced this week
that First Federal has purchased
four lots on the corner of S. W.
Broad St. and Wisconsin Ave. for
location of a proposed Moore
County branch office of the As
sociation. This property has a
frontage of 146 feet on each
street.
’The application for permission
to establish this branch office is
now being processed by the Fed
eral Hom.e Loan Bank.
The First Federal Savings and
Loan Association of Sanford has
shown exceptional growth since
its establishment in April, 1950,
with assets today amounting to
nearly $12,000,000. In addition to
its home office in Sanford, it
operates a branch office in Pitts-
boro, county seat of Chatham
County.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of the past
week were recorded as follows at
the U. S. Weather Bureau obser
vation station at the W E E B
studios on Midland Road.
Max
Min
May
16
79
60
May
17 .
75
60
May
18 .
82
62
May
19 .
86
53
May
20
85
64
May
21
84
63
May
22
83
59