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What’s going
on in Vietnam was told here
yesterday by General Stilwell,
former commander there. Story,
photo—Page B.
Why does
North Carolina need a proposed
$100 million school bond issue?
See explanation and editorial on
page 2.
VOL.—44 No. 46
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
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TO MEET MONDAY
200 Sign Petition
For Better Rural
Law Enforcement
A petition asking that the
county commissioners investigate
“lack of adequate law enforce
ment in rural areas” has been
signed by over 200 persons and
will be presented to the county
commissioners at the board’s
October meeting on Monday,
Francis W. Howe of Linden Road,
near Pinehurst, said this week.
He said a delegation from
among the petition signers will
meet with the commissioners at
3 p.m. Monday and invited all
interested persons to be present.
The petition asks that the com
missioners make public a report
of their investigation and what
steps they intend to take to im
prove the situation.
The petition was circulated in
the Pinehurst - Southern Pines -
Aberdeen - Pinebluff area, during
the past 10 days.
WITH FAMILY— Mrs. Carolyn Blue of Eagle Springs, recent
ly elected national committeewoman of the North Carolina
Young Democrats, is a busy wife and mother as well as one of
the county’s most active participants in politics. Here she’s sur
rounded by her husband, Harold Blue, and children (from top
down), Tommy, 16; Sharon, 15; and Christy Lynn, 10.
(Humphrey photo)
YDC NATIONAL COMMITTEEWOMAN
Carolyn Blue Wins Post
Mrs. Carolyn Blue, president of
the Moore County Young Demo
crats Club, swamped her opposi
tion at the State YDC convention
in Raleigh last weekend, to win
the post of YDC national commit
teewoman. Approximately 100 of
FATHER, SON TO SPEAK
C. A. McLaughlin, a member of
the town council, and his son, C.
A. McLaughlin, Jr., will speak at
the Southern Pines Rotary Club’s
luncheon meeting Friday, in the
Southern Pines Country Club.
Facts concerning the growth of
Southern Pines during the past
five years will highlight the pro
gram.
the 108 county and college clubs
voting were for the Moore Coun
ty candidate who is the wife of
Harold Blue of Eagle Springs.
In the Saturday morning elec
tion session at the Sir Walter
Hotel, when the alphabetical roll
call of counties brought her the
49 votes of the Mecklenburg club,
she had a clear majority, but her
opponent, Miss Sue Stephenson
of Raleigh, refrained from con
ceding. In order to get her home
club, Wake County, on record with
its 33 votes for her, the roll call
had to go on to the end. However,
once it was over. Miss Stephenson
moved for election of Mrs. Blue
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County’s 3 School Systems Would Get
$833,603 From Proposed State Bonds
Blood Collections
Slated Next Week
In Vass, Robbins
An American Red Cross Blood-
mobile from the collection cen
ter in Charlotte will be in Moore
County two days next week, ac
cording to John R. Hauser of
Southern Pines, chairman of the
county Red Cross chapter blood
program.
Next Tuesday, October 6, the
bloodmobile will be at the Vass-
Lakeview school gymnasium in
Vass, from 12 noon until 5:30 pm.
The next day, Wednesday, Octo
ber 7, it wiU be at the High
School gymnasium, Robbins,
from 11 in the morning until 4:30
in the afternoon.
Stressing the importance of the
first Fall visits of the Bloodmo
bile, Mr. Hauser stated that the
number of pints actually used
by the ill and injured during the
summer has depleted the supply
of blood for the two hospitals in
Moore County.
“It is vitally necessary that the
supply be replenished by donors
to take care of the constant need
, for the life-saving blood,” he
said.
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AT GUN CLUB— With automatic trap machinery in opera
tion, shooting began at the Pinehurst Gun Club Sunday. The
club has been rebuilt since it was destroyed by fire in July.
Everette Horrell is on the stand, holding the electric target
switch. Others, left to right, are: Frank White, Jr.; Norman
Amstutz, who has leased and operates the club, checking the
score board; and Frank Swaim, manager of the Pinehurst Hunt
ing Preserve. (Hemmer photo)
Political Pots Boiling;
Parties List Events
’MISS MOORE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL*
Janice Cagle 01 Robbins Wins Contest
Janice Cagle, tall, brown-eyer,
brown-haired senior at Elise
High School, Robbins, was
crowned “Miss Moore County
High School” Wednesday night
at the Moore County Agricultural
Fair in Carthage. First runner-
up was Kathy Marshall, also of
Elise High School, and second
runner-up was Martha Paschal of
Highfalls High school.
The winner was crowned by
Sharon Finch of Thomasville,
“Miss North Carolina,” who offi
ciated under difficulties. In a
dozen years of the annual con
tests conducted by the Carthage
Jaycees, this was the first to be
chased indoors by rain. After 13
of the 18 participants had been
presented on the outdoor plat
form, it became apparent the
light drizzle wasn’t going to go
away but was getting worse. Cars
were removed from the automo
bile display building across the
way, a makeshift platform was
hastily put together, the crowd
surged inside and the contest con-
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COUNTY FAIR
CONTINUING
Friday will be "Agricultural
Day" and Saturday "Moore
County Day" at the annual
Moore County Fair taking
place this week at Carthage,
sponsored by the Jaycees.
The choice of a ''Miss
Moore Countv High School"
(Janice Cagle of Robbins)
highlightedilast night's activi
ty at the fair, as reported in
detail in another story today.
Gates open each day at
noon. There is a wide variety
of agricultural and commerc
ial exhibits, and the O. C.
Buck Shows provide midway
entertainment.
Plans Set For
Nixon^s Visit
Richard M. Nixon, former Vice-
President of the United States,
will speak at a fund-raising lunch
eon at the Carolina Hotel in
Pinehurst, Saturday, October 10 at
12:30 p.m.
The luncheon, highlight of
Nixon’s flying visit to the Sand
hills, will be in honor of Robert
L. Gavin, Sanford attorney and
Republican candidate for Gover
nor of North Carolina, and Eighth
District GOP Congressman Char
les Raper Jonas, who is seeking
his seventh term in the U. S.
House of Representatives. Moore
County is in the Eighth District.
Tickets for the luncheon may
be obtained by writing to the
Nixon Day Committee, Box 902,
Pinehurst. Ticket price will be
$15 per person, and checks should
be drawn to Donald D. Cooke of
Pinehurst, Treasurer of the Com
mittee.
Nixon is expected to arrive in
Pinehurst shortly before noon on
October 10. The committee is
making plans for additional acti
vities, depending upon Mr.
Nixon’s schedule.
Details of other activities will
be released as soon as possible,
said Republican officials in the
Sandhills.
Nixon’s visit to North Carolina
will begin with a breakfast meet
ing in Salisbury, also to be attend
ed by Gavin, to boost the candi
dacy of North Carolina’s only
other incumbent Republican Con
gressman, James T. Broyhill.
Morgan, Scott
Slated to Speak
There’s a busy time coming up
for county and state Democrats in
the coming 10 days.
On the local and county scene
there will be two meetings next
week.
Tuesday, October 6, at 7:30 p.
m. in the town hall courtroom
here. Sen. Robert Morgan of
Lillington will be the guest speak
er. He, like Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines, is a Democratic
nominee for State Senator, unop
posed, from the 18th District.
The district, including Moore
County, sends two senators to
Raleigh, Numerous other candi
dates are expected to attend.
The meeting is another in a
series sponsored by the county
Democratic executive cornmittee
of which J. Elvin Jackson of
Carthage is chairman. The public
is invited. The three Southern
Pines precincts will serve refresh
ments.
Bob Scoll lo Speak
On Thursday night of next
week, October 10, Robert L. Scott
of Haw River, Democratic nomi
nee for lieutenant governor and
chairman of “Rural Americans
for Johnson” by appointment of
the President, will be the guest
and speaker of the Moore County
Young Democrats at a 7:30 p.m.
meeting in the courthouse at
Carthage.
Mrs. Carolyn Blue of Eagle
(Continued on Page 8)
A number of Moore County
people attended this morning’s
non-partisan statewide planning
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JOHN M. HARNEY
Harney Chairman
Of Campaign To
Raise Camp Fund
John M. Harney, attorney
who is associated with the John
son & Johnson law firm at Aber
deen, has been named state
chairman of a Capital Gifts Cam
paign to raise funds for new
buildings at Camp Easter in the
Pines near Southern Pines.
The camp is a facility for han
dicapped childreri, owned and
operated by the North Carolina
Society for Crippled Children
and adults.
Other Sandhills persons on the
committee are: Mrs. Graham Cul-
breth and W. P. Davis, both
members of the Society’s state
board of directors; Dr. L. B. Dan
iel, Jr., Mayor Norris L. Hodg-
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meeting in Raleigh where a drive
was started for approval of the
$100 million state school bond is
sue on which the people will vote
November 3.
An Act approved by the legis
lature authorizes the issuance of
$100 million in bonds of the state
to provide funds for public school
facilities, subject to a vote of the
people.
The money will be used for
providing grants-in-aid to the
counties of the state for the “con
struction, reconstruction, en
largement, improvement and ren
ovation of public school facilities
and for the purchase of essential
equipment for the operation of
the facilities.”
Each county and administra
tive unit would receive funds
from the proceeds of the bonds
on the basis of the per capita
average daily membership for the
1961-62 school year.
According to information from
the office of Dr. Charles Carroll,
state superintendent of public in
struction, the following amounts
would be received by the three
separate school systems in Moore
County, if the bond issue is ap
proved: Moore County system,
$613,683.57; Southern Pines sys-
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JOINS IN FUN— Dan K. Moore, Democratic
nominee for Governor in the November 3 elec
tion, joined in the fun Monday, as amusing
prizes were given out during the luncheon of
the Young Bankers of North Carolina at the
Mid Pines Club here. He is pictured with Norris
L. Hodgkins, Jr., of Southern Pines, outgoing
president of the statewide group, and Mrs.
Hodgkins. Moore spoke to the bankers in late
morning and stayed for lunch. Robert L. Gavin,
Republican gubernatorial nominee, had address
ed them and left for another engagement, earlier
in the morning. (V. Nicholson photo)
Dr. War lick Named
Chairman of Jonas
Citizens Committee
Dr. R. Bruce Warlick of South
ern Pines has been selected as
chairman of a bi-partisan citi
zens for Jonas Committee in
Moore County.
Dr. Warlick has announced the
formation of a steering commit
tee for the citizens group which
will assist in Republican Rep.
Charles R. Jonas’s reelection
campaign. Congressman Jonas is
seeking his seventh term.
Members of the committee, in
addition to Dr. Warlick, are;
Charles M. Hazelhurst and Ed-i
ward T. Taws, Jr., of Southern
Pines; Billy Von Canon of West
End; Robert Lea of Eastwood; J.
Atwood Whitman of Carthage;
and Leonard Tufts, Harris Blake,
Robert Viall, Admiral 'Thomas
Ragan and General Ira T. Wyche
of Pinehurst.
In announcing the coininittee.
Dr. Warlick said, “We believe
that Congressman Jonas’s dis
tinguished 12-year record of dig
nified and dedicated service to
all the people speaks for itself.
We want to take this opportunity
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'Dads' Night' Planned
At Game Here Friday
It will be “Dads’ Night” Friday
at Memorial Field when the
Southern Pines High School Blue
Knights meet the Red Springs
Red Devils in a conference foot
ball game.
In a variation of the “Mothers’
Night” held in former years,
fathers of the players will be
introduced at 7:45 p.m., before the
game, and otherwise honored.
They will occupy special seats on
the sidelines during the game
which is set for 8 pm.
Bast Friday, the Blue Knights
defeated St. Pauls High School,
26-6, in a contest played there.
See page 24 for details.
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Driver License Offices
To Be Closed 4 Days
W. C. Poe. driver’s license ex
aminer in this area, announces
that his office will be closed next
week, in Aberdeen on Monday
and Tuesday (October 12 and 13)
and in Southern Pines on Wed
nesday and Thursday (October 14
and 15), while he is attending
an in-service training school for
examiners, in Chapel Hill.
He will return, however, to
meet his regular office hours at
the fire station in Pinehurst, Fri
day, October 16. and the full
schedule at Aberdeen and South
ern Pines will be resumed the
following week.
Gavin, Moore Wage Campaigns At Meeting Here
Paths of the two candidates for I top-level importance in the econo-
Governor of North Carolina cross- my of the State.
ed, though they themselves did
not meet, at the annual conven
tion of the Young Bankers Divis
ion of the N. C. Bankers Associa
tion, held Sunday and Monday
at the Mid Pines Club here.
Presiding over the convention
until the closing luncheon ses
sion, when new officers were
elected, was Mayor Norris L. Hod
gkins, Jr., of Southern Pines who
was also retiring president of the
Young Bankers Division. He is
executive vice-president of the
Citizens Bank & Trust Co..
At the Monday morning busi
ness session, Robert L. Gavin of
Sanford Republican nominee, was
first on the program at 9 a.m.,
and Dan K. Moore, Democratic
nominee, was the concluding
speaker at 11:30.
Both, in their brief addresses,
assigned to bankers a position of
Gavin, noting that fiscal re
sponsibility is the key theme of
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ROBERT L. GAVIN
Speaks To Bankers
his program, pledged that, if elect
ed governor, he would “place a
banker on every one of our state
boards, especially the Board of
Conservation and Development.”
He said bankers of the State
should have been consulted as to
the advisability and soundness of
the school bond vote upcoming in
November.
Moore pointed out that, as no
segment of the economy was more
important to the State than the
bankers, also no segment had
more at stake, and this,” he said,
“refers particularly to the young
bankers building their profession
al and personal future.” Their
investment in North Carolina’s
progress would reap rich divi
dends for them, he said.
He revealed a new plan by
which, if he is elected governor,
he will appoint industrial special
ists to serve the State in regional
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Free Glaucoma Clinic
Sei Here October 15
Persons 35 years of age and
older are reminded by Dewey L.
Ritter of Southern Pines, Zone 5
Lions chairman, that a free clinic
for detection of glaucoma, a lead
ing cause of blindness among
adults, will be held at the National
Guard Armory here, Thursday,
October 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A local physician and two
others from Duke Hospital, Dur
ham, will make the examinations
which are brief and painless^ The
clinic is part of a state - wide
Lions Clubs project in which more
than 15,000 persons have been
examined.
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. M
September 24 86
September 25 81
September 26 79
September 27 83
September 28 85
September 29 87
I September 30 80
JAMES W. JENKINS
Jenkins To Head
Seal Sale For
TB Association
The appointment of James W.
Jenkins, superintendent of the
Southern Pines school system, as
chairman of the 1964 Seal Sale of
Association has been announced
by Dr. Edward M. Sipple of
Southern Pines, recently elected
association president.
The seal sale, starting in No
vember, will run through Christ
mas, to raise funds for Moore
County’s program of health edu
cation, free chest x-rays and as
sistance to persons with TB and
other chest diseases, as well as to
finance research in the battle
against tuberculosis at the state
and national levels.
Named to head the Negro Divi
sion of the sale—^with details to
be announced later—^was Samuel
H. Kelly of Carthage, a member
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