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Page EIGHT THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY^..OCTOBER 15, 1964 V PUTTER PRESENTED— Visiting Pinehurst, “World’s Golf Capital,” Saturday, Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, right, who is a golfer, was given a putter by Robert L. Gavin, Republican gubernatorial candidate who introduced him to his Carolina Hotel luncheon audience. At left, seated, is Dr. R. Bruce Warlick of Southern Pines, who presided. The putter was inscribed; “To Dick Mixon from Pinehurst Friends.” (Hemmer photo) NIXON (Continued from Page 1) candidate for Governor—each of them receiving high praise from the visitor. Mr. and Mrs. Gavin flew in from Salisbury with Mr. Nixon, where they had all attended a breakfast meeting boosting the candidacy of James T. Broyhill, North Carolina’s other Republi can Congressman seeking reelec tion. Rep. and Mrs. Jonas, who had attended an event in Wadesboro on Friday, were waiting at the Southern Pines . Pinehurst Air port, along with Moore County Republican officials and candi dates and some from nearby counties, backed by some two to three hundred persons who had accepted the general invitation to come out and greet Mr. Nixon. Coming off the plane, Nixon looked bigger, healthier and more relaxed than he has customarily appeared on television. The poli- ticias and the crowd closed in for smiles, jokes, handshaking and autograph - , signing. Nixon was no sooner off the plane than he told reporters something that he repeated again to the airport crowd, at a press conference lat er, and in his luncheon address; that he had lived' in North Car olina, going to law school at Duke University for three years in the thirties, and that “I’m no carpet bagger, like Bobby Kennedy in New York State.” At the luncheon. Dr. R. Bruce Warlick, Southern Pines dentist who is chairman of the county’s Citizens for Jonas Committee, presided, introducing Rep. Jonas whose diligence in Washington he praised, noting that he had answered 98 per cent of the roll calls in the House. Jonas, in turn, noting that people in his district “are be coming less interested in j^arty labels anr mohe interested in principles,” presented Gavin, say ing that “no man ever defended more strongly the principles of our country.” The gubernatorial candidate, recalling his pride in having seconded the nomination of Nixon at Chicago in 1960 and his cam paigning with him in North Car olina that year, introduced him as “one of the most capable men in America,” ending the intro duction by presenting the inscrib ed golf putter. Mr. Nixon had this to say about the North Carolina candi dates : Rep. Jonas, he said, “is not merely a Republican; he is one of the big men in the Congress, able to do things no newcomer would be able to approach. He is a real man, with character, courage and brains.” If Gavin wins, he said, “there will be a new era in North Car olina” and Gavin’s victory will encourage the Republican parties in other Southern states—“at the grass roots where it counts.” He ripped into the Democratic Trustees Award First Contraets Construction contracts for the first phase of Sandhills Commu nity College to be built on the Pinehurst-Airport road were awarded Thursday of last week by the college board of trustees. Low bids amounted to $84,951. Brown Construction Co. of Charlotte received the contract for water line construction; Blue Contracting Co. of Sanford, sew erage disposal unit; and Patter son Construction Co. of Burling ton, basic site grading. Work is to begin immediately and will be completed before the end of the year. Architects, en gineers, and trustees were pleas ed with bid quotations, which were generally below estimates, said Dr. Raymond A. Stone, col lege president. In other action. Dr. A. A. Van- ore, a trustee, was named chair man of groundbreaking exer cises. The ceremony will prob ably be held in early December. Dr. Stone was authorized by the trustees to negotiate salaries in the employment of a director of technical education, director of adult education, and a librari an. The president reported receipt 'HELP DOES EXIST* Medical Groups Inform Elderly About Programs The Medical Society of the of $45’041 in state funds to en- state of North Carolina and the able the college to employ personnel. key Dr. Hollister Attends Meeting Of Surgeons Dr. William F. Hollister of Midland Road spent last week in Chicago, attending the annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the College, representing North Car olina. Dr. Hollister is associated with the Pinehurst Surgical Clin ic at Pinehurst. 9 WORKING GALS— While most of the hundreds of persons greeting Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon relaxed and enjoyed a day of speechmaking and politicking at Pinehurst, Saturday, two “working gals” were on the job dealing with the visiting press and other news media representatives. Shown with distinguished visitor are Miss Garrett Sutherland, left, director of the Pinehurst Press Bureau; and Mrs. Doris Clayton, manager of the Pinehurst Western Union office, who was on hand to receive and process reporters’ copy. (Hemmer photo) party in North Caroiina, noting that, as he said at the airport, in a short talk to the crowd, after 64 years of Democraic government, the state still stands 46th in the nation in “educational standards” and 43rd in per capita income. “The present administration has had its chance and failed,” he said. “Now we must recognize that there can be real progress .through conservative govern ment in North Carolina.” Nixon then lambasted the De mocrats on the national level, saying that President Johnson “and his hatchet men” have an swered every argument by smear ing Goldwater and that the Democrats “ have not offered one constructive program in this campaign. All they offer is con- deming, name-calling and smear ing the opposition.” Here is a summary of high lights of the Nixon speech. On peace and war: Both Presi dential and Vice Presidential candidates of both parties are loyal Americans and are against communism—but which party has a program to reverse the tide of retreat and defeat? In the past "our years. America has suffered its greatest period of defeat. There is no area of the world where it is not worse off. Under present policies, Viet-Nam will be lost in a year and aU South east Asia in three years and in four years we’ll lose most of Africa and part of Latin America, and Europe will move toward neutralism. Democratic leader ship is weak and vacillating, but Senator Goldwater offers strength, firmness and a return to the Eisenhower - Dullas pplicy of peace without surrender. On use of nuclear weapons; President Eisenhower set up a procedure for U. S. forces in Euroce to respond to Communist attack with battlefield nuclear weapons—and if President John son does not have such a policy, he had better get it fast, as 26 NATO divisions face 100 Com munist divisions to which the NATO forces could not stand up without nuclear weapons. (Earlier in his press conference, Mr. Nixon had gone into the nuclear wea pons matter in greater detail, pointing out that Goldwater’s pro posed authorization for NATO commanders to use such weapons assumed that this would happen only in case of the President’s death or disability or when there was a breakdown in communi cations. A delay of eight minutes, he said, in authorizing use of nuclear weapons could mean the destruction of 250,000 American troops in Europe.) On Sen. Goldwater’s changing his position on some issues; He should change. That is the way it should be—but he has remain ed loyal to his principles. Presi dent Johnson has changed even more. He has been successively New Dealer, conservative. Fair Dealer and moderate, all prior to 1960 when he was a conservative seeking the nomination against the liberal John F. Kennedy. On Senator Humphrey: The trouble with Senator Humphrey is that he is a sincere, dedicated radical. (Laughter). He really be lieves in all that stuff. He has followed the left-wing line of the ADA one, hundred per cent. If all the bills he has backed had been approved, it would have added $100 billion to the federal budget. When you take Johnson, you buy Hubert and the price is too high. Comparing Johnson and Gold- water: 'The most important quali ty in a President is character. President Johnson has left a cloud over the White House. He has not repudiated or disassociated himself from Bobby Baker and there has been no real investiga tion in the Baker case. Senator Goldwater is an honest man whom we can trust. He wants people to know exactly where he stands. state’s 77 county medical socie ties and their 3,600 member phy sicians has launched an intensive educational program to acquaint the Dublic with the broad range of health care available to the elderly. The Moore County Medical So ciety is cooperating with the in formation program, said Dr. Phil ip Green of Southern Pines, the society’s president. He said that queries about the program may be addressed to him or to Dr. Ed ward M. Sipple of Southern Pines, the society’s secretary. AU physicians are prepared to give information to their elderly pa tients, he said. Theodore S. Raiford, M. D., of Asheville, president of the State Medical Society said: “The med ical profession has undertaken this educational program because so many people are not aware that help does exist for those over 65 who need it in paying for health care, that the means of helping them is available right now in this state and generally in the other states of the union. “We call these programs Health Opportunity Programs for the Elderly, and there are many of them, local or state, ny which everyone over 65 who needs health care and cannot pay for it can get it.” Dr. Raiford said that “anyone over 65 who wants information on programs in this state is invi ted to communicate with the State Medical Society or his doc tor.” The Educational program in North Carolina is being conduct ed in conjunction with a nation al program inaugurated by the American Medical Association. NEW EVENT SET FOR 70-PLUS GOLFERS North-South Seniors, Starting Monday, Leads Off Trio Of Pinehurst Tourneys The Pinehurst Country Club will host three consecutive na tional golf tournaments in less than three weeks The 13th annual North and South Seniors Invitational, a six- day match play event for men 55 years or older, tees off Monday, S^ieaking at the airport, along with county candidates, before Mr. Nixon arrived, and otherwise prominent in planning the events of the day, was Wallace W. O’Neal of Pinehurst, Moore Coun ty Republican chairman. The arrangements committee for the day, known as “Republi can Day in Moore County,” was composed of persons from South ern Pines and Pinehurst, as fol lows: luncheon chairman, Wil liam Sledge; airport rally, David Drexel;; transportation, Michael Dunn; hospitality, Mrs. W. R. Bonsai III; tickets, Donlad Cooke, Mrs. Peter Tufts; ushers, Mrs. Charles S. Phillips. Host groups were the Moore County Citizens for Jonas and Citizens for Gavin committees, with Dr. Warlick and John Sul livan of Southern Pines as their respective chairmen. The Rev. W. K. Fitch, Jr., pas tor of Culd'ee Presbyterian Church, near Pinehurst, gave the invocation and benediction at the luncheon. Rep. Jonas was scheduled to be back in Moore County Friday afternoon of this week, campaign ing in the upper Moore area. A report on a Republican rally that took place at Westmoore School Saturday night with Jonas as principal speaker, appears eles- where in The Pilot. COUNCIL (Continued from Page 1) ed time to appear before the council, were Ralph Jones and Thomas Morgan, both residents of the area south of the landfill. All said that smoke and odor from the landfill continue to be offensive and Jones said that customers at his roller skating rink on Highway 15-501, further south, had complained to him, Valen presented a petition, signed by 10 persons living in the area, protesting the condi tions. inite action had been taken by the county. Mayor Reports The session began with a scheduled report on the landfill situation by Mayor Hodgkins who explained its theory of operation —that garbage is dumped into trenches dug by a bulldozer at the site, to be covered with earth daily to maintain a sanitary oper ation, noting that land, after a period of years, can be used again, when buried garbage and waste have rotted. “He said that “one problem over the years” has been use of the landfill by persons from out of town, coming from a wide area, with no financial compensa tion for the town. He rioted that the council had asked the county commissioners for $5,000, in the budget the county made up last spring, but that the request had not been grated. He said further requests had been made and that the council has been advised “that they did plan to do some thing about it,” but that no def- The mayor recalled that Mr. Valen had appeared at the Sep tember meeting, with complaints of smoke and odor from burning garbage and trash, and that, prior to that time, the bulldozer had been broken down and had fur ther handicapped disposal of waste matter on hand. Hesaid the council had inspected the area, that the landfill is having heavy use and that it is appar ent. in addition to the immeri- ate problem, that the town must find additional land for landfill use on a new and larger site. Valen, displaying photos of large piles of garbage and trash —maide, he said, Thursday of last week—said that there had been no improvement of the situation in the past month, that garbage was stiU not being buried and that it was still burning, night ad day. “It’s burning, night and day. “It’s ed He also displayed to the coun cil partially burned pieces of plastic he said had been dump ed into the pit intended for burn ing of brush and yard rakings, stating that plastic materials were dumped regularly there and that they caused a highly of fensive odor when burned. (The mayor replied that the matter of otherwise disposing of plastics waste was being discussed by the county sanitorian and the local company dumping the plastic, at the request of the town.) Valen said he has made fre quent inspections of the landfill area, day and night, and could find no evidence that garbage was being buried. He said he could see where garbage and waste had been pushed into piles, and where old auto tires had been placed against the piles apparently to selp set them on fire. These piles, he said are “acres in extent, piled higher than the top of my car.” He said nothing had been done to improve the situation since he made his first complaint to the town manager last Spring or his complaint to the council last month. Replying, Manager Rainey said that garbage and waste brought in by the town collection trucks is being buried regularly but that, under present circum stances, so much other material has accumulated that “we can’t catch up” on burying it, with the one bulldozer and a limited budget. (The manager had told the council last month that out- of-town use is estimated to ac count for as much as 60 per cent of the material brought to the landfill. The $5,000 aid re quest to the county commission ers was based on a 25 per cent conservative estimate, as the cost of operating the landfill runs about $20,000 annually, Rainey had reported). Rainey also maintained that Town employees are not setting the garbage and trash on fire, em phatically asserting that it is the outside users who set such fires. The manager also, when ques tioned by Valen, stated that the available land at the site had not been used up. “They used to open up huge trenches, dump garbage in and cover it up,” Valen said. “Why isn’t that done now? I’ve seen no hole dug there in a long time.” At his appearance last month, Valen had maintained that gar bage was being regularly left on the surface of the ground and burned—and had been for the past year. Rainey insisted, however, that out of town users are responsible for the accumulation of unbur- iad material. “This is a matter of great con cern to the council,” said Mayor Hodgkins, at the close of the dis cussion. “We are mindful of the problem and are on the way to getting somewhere.” The exact nature of the pro posed ordinance for the landfill was not outlined, until after the manager has consulted with oth er towns on how they are meet ing similar situations. The councilmen discussed pro posals to: 1. Close the area entirely to out of town users, operating the fa cility only for benefit of the town’s taxpayers and keeping it in good order. 2. Charge a fee to out-of-town users, with an employee guard ing the gate and admitting only those who pay or have paid. Later, it was mentioned, if the county chooses to share the cost of running the landfill, the pol icy could be changed. PTA COMMITTEE (Continued from Page 1) about 10) can control younger pupils at intersections but lack control over older ones. Student drivers often are not cautious when driving away from their parking spaces on New York Ave. The committee’s recommenda tions included; —Using the circle drive at the elementary school to capacity (it is often blocked by waiting cars). —Opening walking paths on ad joining streets where there are no sidewalks or sidewalks are blocked by trees and shrubbery. (Town Manager F. F. Rainey was to inspect and study this sit uation, with the committee chairman this week.) —Putting on a police patrol or women guards at intersections. (Two officers are now at the school daily when it lets out.) —Off-street parking for facul ty and student drivers. —Marking of parking places for teachers off the driveway in front of the high school. —A traffic safety study pro gram in all grades at the school. —The stop light at May and New York should be run on stop- and go adjustment at all times, to get the public used to stop ping there (it is now on stop-and- go adjustment only before and after school. —Delivery and pick-up of chil dren by parents should be only on the sides of Massachusetts and New York Avenues which are to ward the school, with no parking allowed on either side of either street. (At the council meeting, when this suggestion was made, the Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church said that all-day “no parking” would constitute a hardship for the church and its congregation and that he would like to be heard by the council when any such regulation is considered.) —Rainy-day shelters should be put up on the school grounds for children waiting to be picked up. SPEAKER (Continued from Page 1) features” of remaining indepen dent including: —The building program, done pay-as-you-go, is up to date, until recent needs, and the buildings are relatively new. —Both Southern Pines High Schools (East and West Side) are accredited by the Southern As sociation — top accreditation agency. —The supplemental tax (in which Southern Pines ranks 8th in the state in amount per pupil) permits teacher supplements, ad ded teachers and numerous other advantages. —Nearly 60 per cent of East Southern Pines graudates and more than 35 per cent of West Southern Pines graduates went on to college in 1963, justifying emphasis on an academic curri culum. (These figures were com pared to 25.8 per cent going to college from high schools of the Moore County system and a state average of 32.2 per cent. Later, the speaker said the figure for the county schools was for 1962 and that this increased to almost 32 per cent in 1963.) —There is a “reasonably wide range of curriculum” in the pre sent high schools here. —Location of the schools puts transportation of pupils at a min imum. —A total of nearly $700,000 is in prospect for Southern Pines District for school construction— from the already approved coun ty bond issue and from the state bonds if approved next month, permitting the local schools to “nearly complete” their building program. “Consolidation is not always the answer to school problems.” Black concluded. “For some ] schools it is best, for others not.” Mr. Hodgkins outlined two proposed plans for choosing a board of education, if the pro posed Southern Pines . Pinehurst school districts merger takes place. One, which he said is favored by the present boards of educa tion erf the district s),provides for an eight-member board, four elected and one appointed (by other board members) from Southern Pines; and two elected and one appointed, from Pine hurst. The other plan would call for a five-member board, elected on a politically partisan basis, with four-year terms and three mem bers from Southren Pines and two from Pinehurst. October I9th. With a field of 364, an 18-hole qualifying round will be played Monday over Courses One, 'Two and Five. Ninety-six players will qualify for a second qualifying round to be played Tuesday on Number Two Course. Semi-finals in the first six flights will be played Friday, and finals Satur day All other finals will be play ed Friday. Six of eight living for mer winners are entered, inclu ding the defending champion, James M. McAlvin of Lake For est, Ill. Canadian Senior golfer Miss Ada MacKenzie will defend her title in the Seventh Annual Woman’s North and South Sen iors Invitational, October 27-29, a three-day medal play tourney to be played over Courses One, Two and Three. Practice rounds will be held Monday, October 26th, with the first round of Championship tee ing off early Tuesday morning. Eighteen holes will be played each day, with finals on Thurs day The third upcoming event is the First Annual Tournament of the Three-Score-and-Ten-Club— a 72-hole stroke play event for senior golfers over 70, to be held October 26-31. Practice rounds are set for Monday, October 26, with tour nament rounds Tuesday, Wed nesday, Friday and Saturday. Thursday is a day of rest. The field will be divided into the following classes; V-1 (V for Venerable, 85 years and over; V-2, 80-84; V-3, 75-79; and V-4 70-74, ■ JONES CO. Adding emphasis to the need for traffic regulation was State Highway Patrolman Ray Wicker who said that he is on a Lions Club committee that has been studying the same matter and has come to some of the same conclusions. Also endorsed by the PTA was his suggestion that the committee seek at once from the Town a change in parking regulations to prohibit parking and loading and unloading of children on both Massachusetts and New York Aves. Mrs . J.S. Hiatt, Jr., PTA pres ident, presided at the business ness session when routine re ports were heard. Mrs. Hiatt sug gested that parents warn older children against indulging in any form of vandalism on Hal loween. Persons interested in attend ing a District PTA conference at Albemarle October 20, are asked to get in touch with Mrs. Harry Herendeen, PTA secretary. (Continued from Page 1) town of Humboldt, Tenn., where he has other textile connections. Fe said the 11 years since Jones, Inc., opened at Vass have all been both profitable and pleasant and it was with regret that he was leaving. The move has been contemplated since early this year but, he noted. “We waited till we had a suitable buy er who would be good for the community before making our final plans.” The large brick building be side the Seaboard main line is the one formerly owned for many years by the Cameron family textile interests. The town board replied to Jones, in a letter it authorized the clerk to write, with regret for his departure, appreciation for all he and Jones, Inc. have meant to the community over 11 years and good wishes for his fu ture success. THE DEMOCRATIC Party of Moore County has a head quarters in Carthage that is open from 10 a.m. each day except Sunday. Shown at the location on the courthouse square are J. Elvin Jackson, Moore Democratic chairman; Mrs. Tommy McKenzie, seat ed, full-time secretary at the headquarters, and Mrs. Wait- sel Deese who is helping, part-time. All types of cam paign materials are available, said Mr. Jackson, by visiting the office or by calling Car thage 947-2759. CORRECTION In the “School Merger” story on page 7 (Pinehurst Page) today, the second line of the story, “the proposal by L. Boyd Cireath” should be deleted, as it was mis placed from its proper position later in the story. The opening lines of the story should read; “Opinions, both for and against the proposed Southern Pines- Pinehurst school merger, were aired ...” etc. The Pilot regrets the error. REGISTRATION Registration for voting in the November 3 county, state and national elections is continuing in Moore County’s 19 precincts, with registrars scheduled to be at polling places Saturdav, Octo ber 17. and again—for the final time—on Saturday, October 24. Registration opened Saturday of last week. 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