SATURDAY IS 'POPPY DAY' — BUY TO HELP DISABLED VETERANSI ^llwbc SATURDAY IS 'POPPY DAY' — BUY TO HELP DISABLED VETERANS! c > ^ t' VOL.—44 No. 23 Candidate Preyer To Visit Around County Saturday Richardson Preyer of Greens boro, Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the May 30 primary, will tour Moore County Saturday, starting with an 11 a. m. appear ance and short talk at the town hall here, introduced by Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr. The day’s activity will end with his appearing as guest speaker at a 7 p. m. dinner in Doug Kelly’s Holiday Inn Restau rant, during a district Rotary convention. Preyer is expected to ramble around the business section here, shaking hands after he appears at the town hall. He will be pres ent for opening of his local head quarters (see separate story) on S. W. Broad St. at noon and will have lunch in Southern Pines, His afternoon schedule is: 1:15—Cameron town hall 2—Courthouse at Carthage. (Continued on Page 5) TWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1964 PRICE: 10 CENTS w iftlit I.... A V ' r GroundbreakinjS Rites To Launch Program Of Building By Lutherans The congregation of Our Sav iour Lutheran Church here will launch a building program when ground is broken Sunday after noon for its first phase, at the church’s property on No. 1 High way Parkway, south. At the church’s tract, which is just north of the Fairway Mo tel, a groundbreaking service will be held at 3 p.m. The pub lic is invited. OPENING SATURDAY Trailer To Be Headquarters For Preyer Here A local Preyer-for-Governor headquarters will open here Sat urday, with the candidate him self expected for the occasion. Richardson Preyer, Democratic candidate for the nomination, who will spend most of the day in Moore County Saturday (details in another story), is expected to be on hand about noon for open- nig of the campaign headquarters in a house trailer on S. W. Broad St., between the Red Cross office and Colonial Furniture Go. Plans call for having the head quarters open daily from then until the May 30 primary, staff ed by volunteer workers, said Nolley Jackson and Mrs. Pat Rainey, local members of the Moore County Preyer committee. Brochures, bumper stickers, but tons and other campaign material will be available, they said, in viting the public to visit the trail er at any time. Opening Of Winn-Dixie Supermarket Set Tuesday The new Winn-Dixie Super market at the Town and Country Shopping Center, between Sou thern Pines and Aberdeen, will have its grand opening Tuesday of next week, April 28. A view of the new building, from the front, is shown above. Completed ahead of schedule as the first business unit in the new shopping center development near Howard Johnson’s Restau rant and Motor Lodge, the $150,- 000 supermarket has 14,000 square feet of shopping and storage space. The paved' parking lot will accomodate 150 cars. The supermarket is reached from Magnolia Drive which in tersects with Highway 1-15-501 at Howard Johnson’s. Manager of the big new facil- —a unit in one of the top 10 food chains in the nation—is Two Face Murder Count Next Week Murder, breaking and entering and larceny, with two armed rob beries, three felonious assaults, two manslaughter charges arising from auto accidents and two counts of possession of narcotics (against one defendant) make up most of the warrant docket for next week’s term of Moore Coun ty Superior Court, for trial of criminal cases, at Carthage. Judge John R. McLaughlin of Statesville will preside, paying his first offical visit to Moore county, with Solicitor M. G, Boyette prosecuting. The murder case was added to the calendar Wednesday when Bobby McNair, 28, and Abraham Mincer, 22, charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Shelly Griffin here last week, waived hearing in the local Recorder’s Court and were bound over to Carthage. Around 25 cases await the opening of court and' grand jury action, with around 65 on the trial docket. Harold C. Cole who came here from Greensboro. Assistant man ager is John Currie, formerly of Rockingham. Sherrill Lee comes here from Florence, S. C., as produce man ager and Horace Roberts, manag er of the meat department, has arrived from Salisbury. The managers and department heads all are experienced food store personnel who have been working with Winn-Dixie at other locations. A large number of company personnel, merchandising specia lists and display experts are working hard at the supermarket this week to ready it for the grand opening. Much of the huge stock of thousands of separate items is already in place. Num erous specials and other features are planned for the opening. DR. BILLY GRAHAM TO DELIVER TRIBUTE Kennedy Library Campaign in State to Include May 17 Program, Chapel Hill John A. McPhaul of Southern jlast week with other North Car Pines, who has been appointed by Governor Terry Sanford as chairman of Moore County’s par ticipation in the fund-raising drive for the proposed John Fitz gerald Kennedy Library in Massachusetts, met in Chapel Hill John C. Ray On Pilot Staff After Service In USAF greeted by Mrs. John MacDougald as she arrived this week to become one of the first guests at the Penick Memorial Home here. Miss Cook, a resident of Southern Pines recently, is a former longtime resident of Pinebluff and is a member of Emmanuel Church here. Mrs. MacDougald and her husband are administrators o the home. (Humphrey photo) Joining the staff of The Pilot this week was John C. Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan S. Ray of Southern Pines. Mr. Ray has been with the United States Air Force for the past four years, serving as public information of ficer. Mr. Ray and his family return ed last week from an overseas tour of duty with the Air Force which took them to Izmir, Tur key, and Bitburg, Germany. Prior to the overseas assignment they were stationed at Mission and Laredo, Texas, and Myrtle Beach, S. C. A 1956 graduate of Southern Pines High School, Mr. Ray at tended the University of North Carolina, at Chapel HiU, finishing in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature. While there he was a member of the student legislature, the stu dent council and the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps of which he was commander dur ing his senior year. During his student days he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity and the Or der of the Old Well. Mr. Ray’s wife, the former Har riet Walton of Scarborough, New York, attended Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and the Univer sity of North Carolina where she graduated in 1961. She is a mem ber of Kappa Delta sorority and the Junior League. The Rays have two daughters, Paige, 2V?, and Laura, 2 months old. olina county campaign chairmen. The group discussed various details of the drive and the sub sequent program of tribute to the late President who was assassina ted last November. Governor Sanford announced recently that North Carolina’s tribute to President Kennedy will be delivered by Dr. Billy Graham as a part of a special memorial program in Kenan Stadium on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at 3 p. m. on Sunday, May 17. The Governor appointed Hugh Morton of Wilmington and Grandfather Mountain as chair man of the fund-raising drive for the Library and G. Andrew Jones of Raleigh, state budget officer, as treasurer. Tickets Numbered Each person who contributes $10 to the Kennedy Library Drive I in North Carolina is entitled to a ticket to the May 17 program in Kenan Stadium. The check covering North Car olina’s contribution to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library will be presented during the May 17 program, which will be held in Kenan Stadium, rain or shine. The State committee on Ar rangements appointed by Gover nor Sanford includes distinguish- (Continued on page 11) Collections Of Blood Set At 4 Moore Locations Collections in the continuing Red Cross program which sup plies free blood of all types to both hospitals in the county have been scheduled as follows, it is announced by Jack R. Hauser, Moore County chairman for the program: At Robbins, Monday, April 27 -^12 noon to 5:30 p.m. in the high school gym. At Vass, 'Tuesday, April 28— 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the high school gym. At Pinehurst, Monday, May 4 —12 noon to 5:30 p.m. in the high school gym. At Aberdeen, Tuesday, May 5 —8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the First Baptist Church. Praising the fine record of blood donations under the reor ganized Moore County program that began last fall, Mr. Hauser urged generous giving so that the program can be maintained in the county. Five Democrats Seek Nomination For Two Senators Vive candidates—one from each of the five counties of the 18th Senatorial District—are seeking the Democratic nomina tion for the district’s two seats in the State Senate, subject to the May 30 primary. B. Harry Register, Jr., of San ford was added Friday to the four previously announced—Voit Gil more of Southern Pines, John R. Ingram of Asheboro, Charles A. Hostetler of Raeford and Robert B. Morgan of Lillington. Counties in the new district— in which all candidates must now file at large—are Moore, Lee, Hoke, Randolph and Harnett. Three of the candidates, Hos tetler, Ingram and Morgan, are lawyers. Gilmore, owner of lum ber, motel and restaurant busi nesses, has served for nearly three years as U. S. Travel Serv ice director, a post from which he recently resigned. Morgan has served in the State Senate for three terms under the old rotation system in the former four-county district. He and Sen. W. P. Saunders of Southern Pines currently repre sent this district which is com posed of the same counties, ex cept Lee. Saunders did not file for renomination. Hostetler was campaigning in Moore County Tuesday, spending part of the time visiting around Southern Pines. Taking part will be: Dr. George R. Whittecar of Salisbury, presi dent of the North Carolina Sy nod of the Lutheran Church in America, who will be guest speaker; the Rev. David F. John son of Chicago, regional super intendent for the Board of Amer ican Missions of the Lutheran Church; the Rev. Jack Deal, pastor of the local church; Mel vin O. Johnson, chairman of the Building Committee; Mayor Nor ris L. Hodgkins, Jr., and T. T. Hayes, Jr., of Hayes-Howell and Associates, architects of the pro posed buildings. The first phase of the pro gram calls for construction of a chapel, education building, court yard, driveway, parking lot and other facilities. The main sanct uary of the church will be the major item in Phase 2 of the pro ject. The congregation of Our Sax- iour Church was formally or- (Continued on Page 5) Precinct Meets Set Saturday By Moore Democrats Saturday will be the day for the biennial Democratic precinct meetings in county and State, when party members at the grassroots have an opportunity to elect their officers and committee members for