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Area planning,
once successful in the Sandhills,
got a big boost at a meeting here
last week. Stoiy, page 21.
Uighfolt
A Pinehurst
landmark, the hotel bus used
there for over 35 years, has a
new home. Photos, story, page 17.
VOL.—44 No. 40
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1964
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE; 10 CENTS
Arthur McMullen, Pinehurst, Dies Of
Beating; 3 Men Held For Questioning
Arthur Cabot McMullen, 52, of
Pinehurst died early Sunday
morrtihg at his home on Linden
Road “as the result of a beating
at the hands of a person or per
sons unknown,” according to the
coroner’s ruling.
Immediate cause of death, it
was determined by an autopsy,
was a fractured skull. Of many
cuts and bruises found on his
body, some were old but most
were new, made probably within
hours before his death, the coro
ner said. The time of death was
County - Wide Area
Phone Service Is *
Under Discussion
A study of costs which would
be involved in providing Ex
tended Area Service for all
Moore County communities
which do not now have it has
been made by the United Tele
phone Co. of the Carolinas and
is now in the hands of the State
■Jtilities Commission.
Until the Commission has had
a chance to study the survey and
has approved or disapproved it,
discussion of the possibility of
such toll-free service all over the
county will have to be “very
general indeed,” said Robert C.
Bishop, United’s commercial su
perintendent.
He said it is possible the Com
mission might determine EAS
would not be feasible in all the
areas surveyed. However, the
company is definitely interested
in providing such service where
there is to be sufficient interest
on the part of the patrons, with a
community of interests among
various areas, and where costs
would not be too high.
Interest in cooperating toward
such widespread coverage—
which could even extend beyond
county lines—has been ex
pressed by three other telephone
companies serving Moore county
communities. These are the Sand
hill Telephone Co. at Aberdeen;
the Pinebluff Telephone Co. at
Pinebluff, and the Central Tele
phone Co at Candor, which some
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fixed at after midnight Saturday.
He was found dead about 3:30
a.m.
Graveside services were held at
Mt. Hope Cemetery here, Tuesday
afternoon, conducted by Bishop
Louis C. Melcher of the Pinehurst
Village Chapel.
Surviving are his father, Ray
W. McMullen, of Baltimore, Md.;
one sister, Jane (Mrs. George)
Browne, of Charlottesville, Va.;
and two brothers, both U. S.
Army officers. Col. Ray McMul
len of Derita, La., and Major
Malcolm McMuUen of Norfolk,
Vk A sister, Isabel (Mrs. Tom
Johnston), died while a resident
of Southern Pines, more than 15
years ago.
His mother, Mrs. Isabel Cabot
McMullen, a member of a promi
nent Boston family, died in 1954.
He was a veteran of Army ser
vice in World War 2. He had
never married.
The home in Pinehurst had
been in the family about 30 years.
Mrs. McMullen and her children
had previously lived' at Pinebluff
where their residence was de
stroyed by fire. For many years,
the family spent summers on
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Baptists Win In
League Softball
In Church League adult soft-
ball—an activity of the munici
pal summer recreation program
—the Baptist team, winner of
the regular season title, won the
post-season tournament staged
last Thursday night at Memorial
Field, defeating the United
Church team 11-2 in the finals.
In semi-finals games, the Bap
tists defeated the Catholic team
10-0, v/hile the Presbyterians,
who did not have a full team on
hand, forfeited to United Church.
In the opening game of the eve
ning, the Catholics beat the
Methodists, 5-2.
The United Church and Pres
byterian teams were tied for sec
ond place in the regular season
standings.
PROGRAM ENDS— Conclusion of the Town’s summer re
creation program was marked on the park block Saturday by
passing out refreshments to children who have been taking part
in the activities here. Pictured are Bobby Watkins and Miss
Sandra Fitzgibbons, assistant directors of the East Southern Pines
program, as they “filled orders” for refreshments. David Page,
not pictured, was the town’s summer recreation director.
(Pilot photo)
PUBLIC INVITED TO LEE CENTER SUNDAY
Trade, Technical Courses To Be Shown
The public is invited to view
demonstrations of advanced ed
ucation in the technical and
trade fields, at the Lee County
Industrial Center, Sanford, from
2 to 5 pm, Sunday, August 23.
Called the “Doorway to Your
Future Exposition,” the after
noon’s program is designed es
pecially for persons who want
to know more about the courses
Firemen Oppose
Town Park Site
For New Station
The Southern Pines Volunteer
Fire Department last week ex
pressed itself as opposed to lo
cating the proposed hew fire sta
tion on the town park block, ad
joining the municipal center
building.
A spokesman for the depart
ment told the town council in
regular session Thursday night
(postponed from Tuesday) that
the firemen felt unanimously
that it would be dangerous in
view of the many activities on
the park, particularly the chil
dren’s playground.
Not only does the necessary
fast movement of the fire truck
out of the station have to be con
sidered, the spokesman said, but
also the firemen’s cara rushing
to the station from various direc
tions in answer to an alarm. Such
movement close to the park could
conceivably cost a life, perhaps
that of a child, he said*-
A dozen of the volunteer fire
men were present when the op
position of the department was
made known by Harold Fowler,
assistant fire chief, in the ab
sence of Fire Chief Joe Garzik
(who came in later). Fowler said
he had not been present when
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4 APPOINTED TO
STUDY COMMITTEE
At the Town Council meet
ing last week, Majyor Norris
L. Hodgkins, Jr., was asked
to appoint a committee to
look into possible locations
ior a new fire station and also
to study various questions
about the DeparitmenA He
has named Councilmen Fred
Pollard and C. A. McLaugh
lin and Town Manager F. F.
Rainey; and from the Fire
Department, Chief Joe Gar-
sik. Assistant Chief Harold
Fowler and Fred HaU, Jr.,
one of the volunteer firemen^
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SOUTHERNERS—But she’s from South America, and he‘s from
South Africa. Alicia Smyth, No. 1 player of Ecuador, wife of
a Marine sergeant at Camp LeJeune, and Paul DeZeeuw of
South Africa were each seeded No. 1 in singles in the Sandhill
Invitational Tennis Tournament here last week and also formed
an international, topseeded mixed doubles team. Finalists in
singles and doubles in their categories, also in mixed doubles,
they appeared headed for a possible cl6an sweep of championship
trophies when the finals were rained out Sunday.
(V. Nicholoson photo)
MATCHES TO BE PLAYED ELSEWHERE
Rain Knocks Out Tennis Finals
The 16th annual Sandhill Invi
tational, opening Thursday with
a star-studded list of 75 entries,
ran smoothly as a champion’s
serve till Sunday, when the rains
came.
Cloudy, cool weather Saturday
changed overnight to a steady
drizzle, and all finals, scheduled
for Sunday afternoon, had to be
postponed. Except for one match.
they were to be played off at
various places in the State dur
ing the subsequent two weeks.
In men’s singles, a 6-foot-three,
blonde, blue-eyed youth of 18,
Paul DeZeeuw of East London,
Union of South Africa, will play
Norman Chambers of Charlotte
Saturday at Shelby, where De
Zeeuw is temporaily employed.
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offered at the Center, and who
might be interested in sudying
there.
Students in drafting, machinist
work, auto mechanics, agricul
ture, practical nursing and oth
er courses, will demonstrate
skills they have learned. Refresh
ments will be served.
“Statistics prove,” says an an
nouncement from the Center,
“that the skilled worker makes
35 per cent more than the un
skilled worker. A visit to the
Lee County Industrial Education
Center on Sunday could prove
to be the key to your future.”
There is no racial segregation
in enrollment at the Center.
Mrs. Rainey Will
Go To Convention
Mrs. Pat Rainey of Southern
Pines will leave by air from
Raleigh Sunday to attend the De
mocratic National Convention in
Atlantic City, N. J., next week.
She is an alternate delegate from
North Carolina.
Mrs. Rainey, wife of F. F.
Rainey, Southern Pines town
manager, has been active in De
mocratic political work for sev
eral years. She is vice-chairman
of the Moore County Democratic
Executive Committee.
A group of about 80 Tar Heel
delegates and alternates will fly
to the convention from Raleigh
on Sunday, Mrs. Rainey said.
LOCAL SCHOOLS TO
DISMISS AT 3:15
All pupils in the East and
West Southern Pines schools
will be dismissed at 3:15 pm
daily, starting with the com
ing school year, Supt. J. W.
Jenkins announced this week.
Formerly children in the first
through third grades had
been dismissed at 2:30.
Only exception, he said
is that first graders will be
dismissed at 12 noon during
the first two weeks of school.
Also, all students will attend
only a half day when school
oi>ens September 4.
The uniform dismissal
hour was set to conform
with a requirement of the
North Carolina and South
ern Association of Colleges
and Schools that there must
be a minimum six-hour in
structional day for all pu
pils.
The longer school dlay will
permit "a more enriched
school program," the superin
tendent said.
School Officials
Present Proposals
To Commissioners
Little that was new came out
of a meeting held at Carthage
Tuesday afternoon, looking to
ward proposals to consolidate
schools in the lower part of the
county. However, there was evi
dence of an increasing concern
of the county commissioners
with tax angles of the present
situation.
Attending were the commis
sioners and members of the
County, Southern Pines and
Pinehurst boards of education
and the Aberdeen and West End
school committees.
The Moore County board of
education, through its chairman,
Jere McKeithen, presented its
previously publicized plan for
re-distribution of that board’s
representation, upping it from
five to seven members through
legislative act and giving a great
er weight of control to the more
populous areas.
The districts comprising these
more populous areas. Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, stood pat on
their previous decision to merge
in one “city” unit without con
sideration of a merger with the
county.
As for the alternate plan of
Aberdeen and West End’s joining
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Hearing Slated Tuesday
On Amount To Be Spent
For Community College
The county commissioners will
conduct a public hearing Tues
day of next week, at 7:30 p.m.
at the courthouse in Carthage, to
determine if Moore County cit
izens will approve the expendi
ture of $1.5 million in available
funds to build a larger Sandhills
Community College, serving
more students, than was initially
planned.
The original estimate of $1
REPLIES TO CAPEL
Hodgkins States
Council’s Part
In Merger Plan
Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
issued the following statement
this week:
“After talking with other mem
bers of the Southern Pines Town
Council, I feel impelled to clarify
the position of the Council rela
tive to the merger plans of the
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
school boards in the light of state
ments made last week to The
Pilot by Town Councilman Felton
J. Capel.
“The members of the Town
Council have been kept informed
of the merger plans since before
the first public announcement last
Spring. We have discussed the
matter informally several times,
with Mr. Capel present, and at
no time did he raise the objections
which he stated in his newspaper
interview.
“It is true that the Town Coun
cil of Southern Pines has not
taken any official action on the
proposed merger. Our members
have left that, as the elected rep
resentatives of the people of
Southern Pines they should
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Boy Scout Council
Reported Close To
Decision On Camp
The Occoneechee Boy Scout
Council is reportedly close to a
decision on a site for its new
council camp after a search of
more than a year, in which the
choice has narrowed to two sites
in Moore County and one in
Wake.
W. Lynn Martin of Eagle
Springs, chairman of the site sel
ection committee of which W.
Lamont Brown of Southern
Pines is also a member, headed
a delegation of interested citizens
attended a meeting in Raleigh
last week. It was anticipated that
the decision would be reached at
that time, but because of further
information needed on one of the
sites, the matter continued in
suspension.
The Southern Pines town coun
cil, learning of the pending de
cision from Town Attorney
Brown at its meeting last Thurs
day night, adopted a resolution
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VOTE ON UNION
SET AUGUST 25
In an election supervised
by the National Labor Rela
tions Board, employees of the
Proctor-Silex plant here will
vote Tuesday of next week,
August 25, on whether the
International Union of Elec
trical, Radio and Machine
Workers, AFL-CIO, will be
come their collective bargain
ing agent.
The plant, manufacturing
electric irons, has been in
operation here since January,
1963. For several months, the
union, with a headquarters
on No. 1 highway, north of
Southern Pines, has been con
ducting an organizing cam
paign. A hecuring in connec
tion with the union petition
for an election was conducted
here by the NLRB on July
20.
million in building costs on
' which last year’s overwhelming
ly successful bond issue cam
paign was based arose from in
formation which was the best
available at the time but has
since undergone drastic revision,
the commissioners were told in
a special meeting Tuesday after
noon with the college board of
trustees.
Board Chairman H. Clifton
Blue, college president Dr. Ray
mond A. Stone and a special vis
itor from Raleigh, Dr. I. E. Ready,
director of the State Department
of Community Planning, urged
the use of the full amount avail
able to provide a college to serve
the present need.
The mounting popularity of
the community college prografn,
a new survey of the student po
tential of the area, and the com
prehensive nature of the planned
institution providing many types
of courses for all ages and types
of students, all indicate a student
body of 600 within the first two
or three years instead of the 400
originally estimated, they said.
The commissioners, with John.
M. Currie, vice-chairman, pre
siding in the absence of Chair
man L. R. Reynolds, made it plain
they want to provide the type of
institution the people need and
want but hesitate to go against
what they regard as a “moral
commitment” to the people.
Based on the original estimate of
$1 million in building costs, they
approved holding the bond issue
of last November for that amount
(in a total $4 million bond vote,
the rest for the public school pro
gram). It was publicized at the
time that $500,000 might be forth
coming out of State surplus
funds at the, end of the fiscal
year—pledged by the State in
the event a surplus existed.
Should this amount become
available, the voters were told at
that time, the full $1 million in
county bonds need not be issued.
The $500,000 will be paid by
the State, Dr. Ready told the com
missioners, but it will take that
and the county’s $1 million in ad
dition to build the type of col
lege which is needed in the light
of today’s knowledge. “We gave
you the estimate of $1 million in
building costs, for a potential
student body of 400, at the first
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HONOR GRADUATE— 2nd' Lt. Lemuel D. Jones, Jr., of South
ern Pines, right, receives from Maj. Gen. Claude Bowers, ad
jutant general, N. C. National Guard, the traditional saber and
an award for being the honor graduate in a class of 36 who were
commissioned second lieutenants in the N. C. National Guard
in recent ceremonies at Fort Bragg. He is a member of the
16th Special Forces Group, a National Guard unit with head
quarters at Wilmington. The class met during two summer
camps and 10 weekend periods, to complete requirements. Lt.
Jones is married to the former Dorothy Thomas of Southern
Pines. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Jones, Sr., also
Southern Pines residents.
St. Anthony’s
Registration
Set August 28
Registration for students in St.
Anthony’s Catholic School will
take place Friday of next week,
August 28, and the school will
open Tuesday, September 1, it
was announced this week by
Sister Catherine Leonard, princi
pal.
Half-day sessions will be held
September 1 through 4, she said,
with the full schedule—8:30 a.m.
to 3:15 p.m.—starting Tuesday,
September 8, following the Labor
Day holiday.
The racially integrated school
consists of first through eighth
grades. An enrollment of about
140 is expected.
Two of the four faculty mem
bers, all sisters at Saint Anthony’s
Convent, are new to the school
this year. They are Sister Anne
Christian who comes here from
Norfolk, Va., and will teach first
and second grades; and Sister
Catherine Thomas from College-
ville. Pa., who will teach seventh
and eighth grades.
Returning faculty members are
Sister Catherine Leonard who
teaches third and fourth grades
as well as serving as principal;
and Sister Helen Philip, fifth and
sixth grades.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of the past
week were recorder as follows at
the U.S Weather Bureau obser
vation station at the W E E B
studios on Midland Road.
Max. Min.
August 13 78 59
August 14 72 57
August 15 78 52
August 16 73 65
August 17 82 63
August 18 86 61
August 19 87 64