VOL.—44 No. 39
Tennis Stars
Defending Titles
In Sandhill Meet
The 16th Annual Sandhill In
vitational Championships, a star-
studded tournament, started
Thursday on the municipal
courts with finals slated for
Sunday.
A total of 73 entries made this
the largest in recent years. Forty-
five are in the men’s division, 13
in the women’s and 15 in the
seniors’ which started just last
year and proved highly popular,
both with players and spectators.
Defending champions in both
men’s and women’s divisions will
battle for their crowns—college
student William Poore of Belton,
S. C., and Mrs. Alicia Smyth of
Jacksonville. In the seniors divi
sion, the defender Sam Daniel
of Columbia, S. C., is absent and
sadly missed, as he has been a
Sandhills regular for years. A
conflict in tournaments kept him
in the Palmetto State this year.
Mrs. Smyth, wife of a Marine
sergeant on Camp LeJeune, a
trim and dainty little lady with
a powerful game who is No. 1 in
her home country of Ecuador, is
pilaying under a disadvantage.
She broke her foot in May and it
was in a cast for several weeks,
ending her plans for a summer
full of tournaments. Now out of
the cast into a surgical bandage,
she recently got back into play
and this will be her second tour
nament of the summer.
Men’s division seedings place
a newcomer in top spot. No. 1 is
Paul DeZeeuw of South Africa,
who last year was No. 1 on the
Florida State University team
and has won several tournaments
this summer, including the
“Horn in the West’’ tournament
in this State; No. 2, defender
William Poore of Belton, S. C.;
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1964
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
Billy Powell,
Rawlings Win
Junior Sandhill
Billy Powell, rangy and be
spectacled 16-year-old from
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stroked 1 is
way coolly to the Junior Sai^d-
hill Invitational chahipionshlp
in junior boys’ singles last week
end.
Powell, fourthseeded in the
tournament, here as the protege
and guest nf Wavne Sabin, noted
tennis coach operating the Wayne
Sabin Tennis Camp at Pinehurst,
downed topseeded Billy ’Trott of
Paleieh in semifinals, and the
No, 3 seed, Richard Holderness of
Greensboro, in finals.
Holderness, a former Junior
Sandhill boys’ champion and
junior singles runner-up, one of
the State’s excellent xopng tour
nament players, who had toppled
secondseeded Ed Parker of Ra
leigh in semifinals, was outplay
ed all the way by the Florida
youth, who has a national rank
ing. The score was 6-4,6-l.
The boys’ singles play rated
nearly as much attention, though
without the upsets characteriz
ing the junior singles play. Fred
Rawlings, of Durham, No. 1 seed,
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Crowd Fills Armory For Details
Southern Pines - Pinehurst Merger
School Leaders
'PROPHIES FOR ALL— Southern Pines All-
Stars are holding their individual trophies
awarded for winning the Invitational Tourney
Championship. From left, front row, Jerry
Simpson, Joe Parker, Robin Smith, Tommie
Southern Pines Little League Team
Wins All-Star Tournament Saturday
The Southern Pines Little
League All-Stars, coached by
Joel Stutts, won the Little
League Invitational Champion
ship Saturday night, defeating
the Robbins team 7-0.
They had previously elimina
ted Pinehurst 18-1 and West End
12-0 to qualify for the finals in
the tournament, which included
all eight Moore County All-Star
teams.
During the week-long tourney.
Southern Pines had committed
only one error and allowed only
one run while scoring a total of
37 runs.
Fred Hollister, pitcher for the
winning team, struck out a total
of 28 batters during the tourna
ment. He pitched for the cham
pionship game, also the first-
round game with Pinehurst. Lar
ry Solomon pitched a no-hitter
game against West End in semi-
finals. Robin Smith, who had hit
Mrs. Westbrook
Wounds Husband
With Pistol
C D. Westbrook, owner and
'^'-prator of the Min-It Market be
tween Southern Pines and Aber
deen, suffered two flesh wounds
from bullets fired by his wife
with a .32 revolver last ’Thurs
day night, it was learned from
the Moore County sheriff’s de
partment.
Deputy Sheriff J. A.\ Lawrence
said he was called to Moore
Memorial hospital ab ut 8:30 p.
m., finding that Westbrook had
been admitted there with one
bullet wound under his right
arm, another on his thigh just be
low the groin.
Beside the hospital bed, the
deputy said, stood Mrs. West
brook, “still arguing.” She accus
ed her husband of “running
around with another woman,
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Criminal Term Next Week, McConnell
Presiding; 17 Cases For Grand Jury
Resident Judge John D. Mc
Connell will preside over the reg
ular criminal term of Moore su
perior court, which will be bnld
next week at Carthage starting
Monday morning.
Unless further cases are added
before the term opens, the
Grand Jury will have a fairly
short warrant docket to examine,
consisting so far of only 17 cases.
One of these is the only murder
case listed this time, against Re-
ba Ann Williams, 22, charged
with the fatal shooting of her
husband Eli Williams, 28, at the
home of Robert Douglas in “Lost
City,” West Southern Pines, last
May 23. Probable cause for sec
ond degree murder was found
against her in. preliminary hear
ing, with bond set at $10,000.
Grand larceny of several hun
dred dollars’ worth of MH-30, an
expensive tobacco spray, from
the Olin-Mathieson Co. of Aber
deen is charged against Joe Jones
of Shannon Rt. 1, also for grand
jury action.
Also on the warrant docket are
the manslaughter case agaiifst
Wiley Robert Reynolds, driver of
a truck involved in a head-on
collision near Robbins, April 27,
in which Tillet Leo Maness was
killed; two auto larceny cases,
against John Lee Holley, 16, of
Edenton, charged with theft of
a car belonging to Martin Motor
Co. of Aberdeen, and Charles
McKaskill, charged with theft of
the car of a soldier, Conrad Jos-
lyn, at Skyline. Both thefts oc
curred July 20.
Five Carthage youths, Pete
Wooten, Bobby Quick, Jesse
Charles Person, Robert Hampton
and Willie Dowdy, face grand
jury action for the break-in of
the dwelling house of Latta
•Smith at Carthage June 12.
Also on the warrant docket:
Ivey Irving Hall, Jr., speeding,
driving after license suspended;
W. E. Everette Morrison, embez
zlement; James E. Ransom, no
operator’s license; Lonnie Tay
lor, assault with deadly weapon
with intent to kill (in the shoot
ing of Bernice Reaves of Aber
deen June 20): Vernon Preston
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a 200-foot homer out of the park
in the area playoffs against
Greenville (who went on Friday
to the state championship) hit
three more in the Invitational
here. Other outstanding players
who had come up during the sea
son in Southern Pines were Phil
lip Wicker, Alan Smith, Jerry
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Football
Practice
Starts Sat.
Football practice starts Satur
day and Tony Trentini, new head
coach at Southern Pines High
school, wants to meet all the
boys interested in trying out for
the varsity team on the athletic
field at 9 a. m.
’Tryouts are limited to boys
who will be in grades nine
through 12, said Trentini, who
will greet them, along with As
sistant Coach Larry Addleton.
He said he expects 45 to 50 play
ers to come out and will explain
details of his program to them
at that time.
But the main object Saturday
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Thompson, Larry Solomon; back row, Joel
Stutts, manager and tournament director, Cliff
Worsham, Phillip Wicker, Alan Smith, Fred
Hollister, Scott Newton.
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
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Municipal Pool
Dedication Held
On West Side
Civic leaders and members of
the Southern Pines town council
gathered last Saturday morning
at the municipal swimming pool
in West Southern Pines to dedi
cate what was termed “an ex
ample of tremendous progress in
human relations.”
Many persons from East and
West Southern Pines were on
hand to see the formal dedica
tion of the new pool which open
ed over a month ago.
Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
formally dedicated the new rec
reation facility , which was con
structed especially for residents
of West Southern Pines on the
municipal playground there.
Introductory remarks were
made by Councilman Felton Cap-
el, after which “America” was
sung and the invocation given b:v'
the Rev Martin Caldwell. Fred
erick Lutz sang, “No Man Is An
Island.”
Mayor Hodgkins in his dedica
tion speech cited John S. Rug-
gles, former mayor of Southern
Pines and present for the poolside
dedication, as the one to whom
all should be grateful, as plans
for the pool were begun during
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Page 8)
Capel Denies Council Okayed Merger;
Says ‘‘School Obsolete Before Built”
Felton Capel, Negro member
of the Southern Pines council,
told The Pilot Wednesday that
he felt “deeply resentful of the
statement made at the school
merger meeting that the entire
council had approved the merger
plan.”
He said this was untrue, that
the councihnen had not discussed
the merger in any official way,
only in a gereral fashion following
the July meeting, and that no
details were given at that time.
Also, he said, no formal approval
was made then or later.
He said he learned later, in a
discussion with Dr. McLean,
school board chairman, of the
plans for merging Academy
Heights and West Southern Pines;
but again, no approval was
asked and none given.
“I would certainly never give
it,” the councilman said', ‘and,
judging from the conversations I
have had with Negro patrons of
both schools since the merger
meeting, they are not going to go
along with such a plan.”
He said many Negro citizens
spoke to him after the meeting
and on Wednesday, called or
visited him. He said, “They feel
that if any such million-dollar
school is going to be built out
of tax money, the Negro children
should get something better out
of it.
“The Academy Heights people
strongly disapprove the plan of
transporting them nearly twice as
far as the white, students, in
order to put them into another
segregated school.
“This would have been a
splendid plan in 1940, but today,
with all the social changes that
are occurring, the Supreme Court
opinions and the Civil Rights Bill,
it is disturbing to find no more
constructive thinking than this.
“I can say quite positively, the
new million-dollar school would
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Speak Of Site,
Courses, Costs
More than 500 persons crowd
ed into the National Guard Arm
ory Tuesday night for a program
on the proposed merger of the
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
school administrative units.
The crowd filling 475 seats and
lining the back wall with stand
ees, included patrons of the East
Southern Pines and West South
ern Pines high and elementary
schools and the Pinehurst and
Academy Heights schools.
All the patrons of the two
units had been invited to hearj
details of the merger recently
nroposed by the two boards of
education, with plans for a new
consolidated high school for
Pinehurst and Southern Pines,
and consolidation of Academy
Heights with West Southern
Pines at the latter’s nearly com
pleted new school plant.
Dr. C. C. McLean, chairman of
the Southern Pines board of ed
ucation, presided, presenting Dr.
R. M. McMillan, a member of the
board, for introductory remarks.
Following the program, Mc
Lean noted, questions would be
welcomed, and he recognized con
troversial facets of the subject
by requesting that they not be in
the nature of “debate.”
Dr. McMillan, stating simply
that “our purpose is only to help
our children—not to make a point
or stage a power play, not to
throw brickbats at another
school board or the proponents of
county consolidation,” described
conditions which had led up to
the unanimous agreement of the
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
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September 4
Opening Date
Local Schools
Pupil regislration at South
ern Pines schools will be
held Friday, September 4
with Tuesday. September 8,
the first full day of school,
it was learned this week
from Supt. J, W. Jenkins.
It is important for all pu
pils to register at the sched
uled time and be on hand
from the full opening period,
he said.
'While the Sisters of St.
Anthony's have not yet re
turned from their summer
studies and The Pilot has not
been informed on the open
ing date of the parochial
school it is usually the same
or very close to that of the
public school.
Legislators Differ In Views On
Introducing School Merger Bill
Dr. C. C. McLean, presiding
over the Southern Pines^Pine-
hurst school merger meeting
Tuesday night, asked how pro
spective legislators who were
present might feel about intro
ducing legislation for a vote on
the merger.
Responding were all three
“prospectives,” Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines, Democratic can
didate (unopposed) for the State
Senate, and the Democratic and
Republican candidates for the
House, Clyde Auman of West End
and Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines.
Gilmore indicated he would in
troduce such legislation, as he
felt it proper for taxpayers to
have the right to vote, but he
noted that “it is a mater of great
concern to many of us here that
two million-dollar campuses may
be built within a few miles of
each other. I’ll be glad to be a
party to let the affected taxpay
ers express themselves as to the
use of their taxes and the future
of their schools.”
Favors County Unit
Auman declared only that “I’m
in favor of the county unit. I
would like to see Aberdeen, West
End, Southern Pines and Pine
hurst get together in one unit,
and I would be for letting the
people affected vote on it.” Quer
ied later on his stand, Auman
said he did not know at this time
whether he would actively op
pose legislation calling for the
exclusive Southern Pinesi-JPine-
hurst vote, but reiterated that
“My position is for the four dis
tricts to get together.” He noted
that the old Jackson Springs
High school, now merged with
West End, was “one of the earli-
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“One-Sided Story Has Been Told” -
Dr. Phillips Asks A Question
Dr. Charles Phillips chairman
of the Southern Pines Citizens
Committee for Long-Range
Planning For Our Schools, arose
with what he termed “just one
question” at the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst school merger meet
ing. It was a loaded one.
'The question: “Would the
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
boards be willing to have a com
parison made by the State Board
of Education (on the costs of
school operation in the smaller
city unit and the county unit),
and to publicize them so all can
see them before we make our de
cision on the merger?” No an
swer was made.
Explains Chart
In the asking of his questioiv
Dr. Phillips moved to the plat
form and, with applause from the
audience, to the mike. There was
a good-natured exchange be
tween him and the presiding
chairman. Dr. C. C. McLean, who
held Dr. Phillips’ chart of school
operation costs while the speaker
explained it.
Figures he had obtained just
that day from the State Board of
Education, said Dr. Phillips,
showed the general-control costs
of the smaller unit to be propor
tionately much higher than in a
larger unit, necessitating greater
use of tax funds to accomplish
the same results.
He noted that, “We are all
pleased with our schools, but a
one-sided story has been told
here tonight. There are many
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Racial Questions Loom In Plan For
Two Schools, Longer Bus Routes
Possible racial problems im
plicit in the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst school merger were in
dicated by several persons speak
ing up during the question-and-
answer period.
The location of the proposed
new high school for white stu
dents, to cost more than $lmil-
lion, on US 15-501 at the Mor-
ganton Road intersection ,i?as
discussed, with the propo'cd
merger of Academy Heights High
with West Southern Pines, at
West Southern Pines, presented
by P. I. York, Negro member of
the Southern Pines school board.
York showed a diagram of the
West Southern Pines school
plant which is now in its' final
phase of construction, and which
under the merger proposal would
receive additional classrooms and
other enlargement features. Ten
tative bus routes transporting
students from the present Acad
emy Heights high school a dis
tance of 6.7 miles taking about
20 minutes, were outlined by
Pinehurst Supt. Lewis Cannon.
An Academy Heights mother
inquired, “If I should want my
children to go to the new school
instead of being carried on past
all the way to West Southern
Pines, how would I go about it?”
Her question was referred to
York who explained North Car
olina’s pupil assignment law.
This did not satisfy her, and ap
plause from her companion pa
trons supported her as she insist
ed', “I pay taxes like everybody
else and why can’t my children
go to the school that is nearest to
them?”
New Issues
Toward the close of the meet
ing, Wally O’Neal of Pinehurst
noted that “Here we are talking
about spending a million dollars
or more, and then maintaining,
a big new high school, without
noticing new issues we have got
to face. I think before we spend
the money we should discuss in
tegration plans. From my conver
sations with interested people, I
know there are many here to
night who would like -to ask what
your plan for integration is.” Ap-
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COUNTY SCHOOLS RE - DISTRICTING
PROPOSAL. This map illustrates the Moore
County board of education’s proposal that,
through agreement with Southern Pines and
Pinehurst, a merger could be effected with
greater proportionate control in the more pop
ulous areas. Through special legislation, the
five-man county board would be enlarged to
seven members, each elected from two school
districts (instead of townships as now) except
for one, elected from Southern Pines. The seven
th member would be elected at large. Tentative
pairing of districts is shown above—^West End
with Robbins, Westmoore with Highfalls, Car
thage with Cameron, Pinehurst with Aberdeen
and Eureka (Farm Life) with Vass-Lakeview.
With the Southern Pines member, each would
represent a fairly equal population.
The county board will present this proposal
Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of interested
boards called by the county commissioners,
who have asked that they offer plans for
Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen and West
End schools to get together in a single unit,
with one consolidated high school.
NAME NEEDED
The Pilot has received an
excellent letter signed simply
"A Mother/' expressing the
vie'wpoint of a Pinehurst
Negro mother on aspects of
the proposed school merger
plan. We would like to pub
lish the letter but it bears
no name. The rule is that we
must know the source of the
letter even though the name
need not be published, if the
writer prefers. Would she
please communicate with The
Pilot and give her name, so
we may use the letter next
week?