VOL.—44 No. 51
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C^, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1964
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
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DOUTHIT L. FURCHES
Administrative
Appointments At
College Revealed
Douthit L. Furches, Mrs. Mary
Drue McGraw, and Mrs. Imogen
W. Poole have been appointed to
administrative positions with
the Sandhills Community College,
it has been announced by
Dr. Raymond A. Stone, president.
Mr. Furches was appointed
director of Adult Education and
Community Services and began
his assignment with the College
last week.
He came to the newly created
post after a career with the Unit
ed States Army where he held
many positions of responsibility
as an educational administrator.
He earned a bachelor’s degree
from the University of North
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Sheriff’s Office
Starts Operating
Night Prowl Car
in Uic ' i * . .I»v
le tile ' *.
Starting Monday, the Moon ,
County sheriff’s department is
providing round-the-clock service
and protection, with a patrol car,
or “prowl car,” on duty all night I t
every night, staffed with, both a
special and. a regular deputy
It will take about six week-, to
get two-way radio equipment
stalled and licensed, and
meantime persons outside the|»^?i^^
jurdisdiction of town police de- C. -
partments, needing law enfoice- ^
ment service at night, are asked
to telephone the office or home
of Sheriff W. B. Kelly or the
home of Chief Deputy Sherifl H i '
H. Grimm, at Carthage; or De
puties J. A. Lawrence, Aberdeen:'
Lawrence Buie, Vass, or I D
Matley, Robbins, Route 2.
These aren’t all in the plione
book and listing of the numbers
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'ANNIE OAKLEY'
New Basketball
Season Starting;
Spencer Reports
Bobby Spencer, Science
teacher at Pinehurst High
School, will be writing Moore
County Conference basket
ball news for the county's
papers this season, replacing
Joel Slutts of Southern Pines,
who has moved to Laurin-
burg where he is city recrea
tion director. Mr. Spencer's
first report follows:
BY BOBBY SPENCER
Although the big sports event
in the county this week is Friday
night’s battle for the football
championship between the Aber
deen Red Devils and the Blue
Knights of Southern Pines, bas
ketball fans will be happy to
know the 1964-1965 season kicks
off with several games this week.
The schools not engaged in foot
ball have been practicing basket
ball since October 13.
At least two games are schedul
ed this week, one played last
night with West End meeting
Hoffman and the Pinehurst
teams getting started Friday
night meeting non-conference
Seagrove at Seagrove. Schools
having football teams started
practice Monday, November 2
and should be playing their first
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Trapshooting
Event Slated
At Gun Club
Trapshooting returns to Pine
hurst with the 1st Annual Annie
Oakley Trapshooting Champion
ship, November 6-8, at the new
Pinehurst Gun Club.
Among the contestants will be
some of the most famous names
in the sport, including Adolph
Nelson of Detroit, Bill Hoffman
of Sarasota, Fla., Jack Hardesty
of Dallas, Texas, and a group
from Ohio—Joe Hiestand of Hills
boro, Bill Davis of Lynchburg,
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey of Pataskala
and.Mr.jind,Mrs. Earl Shaner of
Lancaster.
Mrs. Robert S. Ewing of South
ern Pines, twice winner of North
Carolina and New Jersey cham
pionships, expects to compete, as
well as two Tar Heel husband
and wife teams from Charlotte,
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Hill and Mr.
and Mrs James Ross.
Shooting will begin at 9:30 a.
m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
A party for contestants and fri
ends will follow Saturday’s shoot
ing.
Democrats Win In All Bnt One
Race In Moore Co.,* Jonas Keeps
Congress Seat, Pushed By James
(lAll vote counts unofficial)
Moore county stayed in the
Democratic column in all con
tests but one in Tuesday’s general
election.
'That one was the Eighth Dis
trict congressional race, in which
Charles R. Jonas, GOP incum
bent, won with 5636 votes to
5523 for his Democratic challen
ger, Dr. Bill James of Hamlet.
Jonas was also the district-wide
winner, polling 8'4,595 votes to
73,704 for Dr. James.
This county, which went Re
publican nationally with wins
for Nixon and Eisenhower in re
cent years, slid back this time
with a thumping victory for
Johnson, 6383, to 5162 for Sena
tor Goldwater. President John
son, also carried the state and
won a landslide victory over the
nation.
The Johnson-Humphrey ticket
won in 14 out of the 19 Moore
County Authorizes $2,000 To Help
Town With Disposal Area Problem
COSIUME WlfiiNERS— 'I’hcie were so many outstanding
costumes worn by children in the annual Halloween Party
sponsored by the Southern Pines Rotary Club last Saturday
night, that no graded prizes were given, but all of the large
group chosen in the preliminary judging received awards. Here’s
a view of most of this group. If you look carefully, details of
many of the costumes can be seen. (Humphrey photo)
LIBRARY DEDICATION
Dedication of the new Given
Memorial Library at Pinehurst
will take place at an 11 am cere
mony tomorrow (Friday). See
page 18 for details.
Carthage Youth
Killed When Car
Wrecks, Friday
Larry Bennett, 19, a senior at
Union Pines High school, died Fri
day afternoon while in an am
bulance being rushed to N. C.
Memorial hospital at Chapel Hill,
following an automobile aceiderrt;
He was one of five Carthage
students thrown from the car
when it went out of control and
overturned on the Union Church
Road, about a half-mile west of
the school, between Carthage and
Vass. All were injured but only
one, Otis Matthews, remained this
week as a patient at Moore Me
morial hospital. His condition was
reported satisfactory.
Oscar Eldridge, 17, dhiver of the
car, was released Sunday, while
Baxter Paschal and Jimmy Spears
had been given emergency treat
ment at the hospital following
the accident, and were sent home.
The car, a 1962 Corvair, was
demolished, said Trooper Willis
Austin, investigating. Young Eld
ridge had owned the car only one
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Rev. Carl Wallace,
Pastor Of United
Church, Resigning
The Rev. Carl Wallace, pastor
of the United Church of Christ
here, announced to his congre
gation Sunday morning, that he
IS resigning, effective December
31, to become pastor of a New
port News, Va., church.
A pulpit committee was form
ed by the local church Monday.
A spokesman for the committee
said that it is not anticipated the
church will be long without a
pastor.
The Rev. Mr. Wallace has been
active in community affairs dur
ing his seven years in Southern
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VETERANS DAY
Banks throughout Moore
County will close on Wednesday
of next week, November 11, for
the national Veterans Day ob
servance and post offices will be
on holiday schedule, with no
honie delivery here. A general
business holiday, however, is not
anticipated.
Mrs. Haskell Wins N&S
Senior Women's Tourney
Mrs. John S. Haskell of Titus
ville, Pa., playing in her first
North & South Women’s Seniors
Invitational golf tournament at
Pinehurst last week, won the
event with a score of 80-81-84—
245. Details and a photo on page
18.
The Moore County commission
ers have authorized the transfer
of .$2,000 from the health depart
ment budget to the Town of
. Southern Pines, to be used in con
nection with its sanitary landfill,
it was revealed at the regular
meeting of commissioners Mon
day.
The grant was authorized at a
special meeting in October but
will have to be approved by the
county board' of public health and
also by State health authorities,
Maneuver Activity
In Area Beginning
A free concert by the 82nd
Airborne Division band and cho
rus, in Weaver Auditorium Wed
nesday night, precedes increas
ing Army maneuver activity in
this area, over the coming week
end and into next week.
Exercise “Air Assault II,”
which has been taking place in
North and South Carolina, is
now in its second phase, testing
the Army’s “air mobility con
cept” by three air assault meth-
thods—helicopter-borne, paradl-op
and fixed-wing aircraft. A total
of 32,000 troops is taking part.
WILL PLAY FOR
CHAMPIONSHIP
The Blue Knights of South
ern Pines High School will
play the Red Devils of Aber
deen High School, for the
Cape Fear Conference cham
pionship, here Friday night.
The game is set for Me
morial Field at 8 p.m.
The Knights won their 8th
straight victory Friday night
of last week, beating Rob
bins 27-0. Details and a pho
to, page 6.
the commissioners said.
The action was taken in res
ponse to appeals from the South
ern Pines town council, which
has in recent months found itself
unable to handle all the refuse
dumped on its landfill by out-of-
towners in addition to that regu
larly collected in town. There had
been complaints of garbage piled
up and burning, instead of being
buried in the landfill. The Town
had asked that the county help
share expenses in the sum of
$5,000, or approimately one-fourth
of operating costs.
It was revealed also at Mon
day’s meeting that the county is
again without a public health
officer. Dr. Roy Berry, English-
born physician who had accepted
the post, coming here July 1
from N. C. Sanatorium at McCain,
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Council To Hear
About Planning
Scheduled to meet for its reg
ular November session Tuesday
of next week, November 10, at
8 pm in the town hall, the town
council is expected to get from
Ralph Chandler, chairman of the
Planning Board, a report on a
proposal that the Town employ
the Division of Community
Planning of the N. C. Depart
ment of Conservation and De
velopment to conduct a planning
survey, to help guide the devel
opment of various aspects of the
community.
Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
invites persons who would, like
to hear more about the proposal
to attend the meeting.
Mid-Town Fire Group
Schedules Meeting
The group of residents in the
mid-town area, between South
ern Pines and- Aberdeen, who
are planning to set up a fire dis
trict with its own fire-fighting
equipment to serve the area, has
scheduled a meeting for further
discussion of the proposal, at the
Aberdeen school auditorium,
Thursday, November 12, at 8 pm.
All interested persons living
in the area are invited to attend
Alton Scott of the Charlton Mo
tel is chairman of a steering
committee for the prcjjccl
precincts, with only Bensalem,
Ritters, Robbins and Westmoore
in upper Moore County, and
Pined'ene in the lower end, going
for Goldwater-Miller.
Overall voting was fairly
heavy, with some 11,500 voting
out of about 13,800 registered.
It was nip and tuck all evening
in the State House of Represen
tatives race, in which Democrat
Clyde Auman of West End and
Republican Robert S. Ewing of
Southern Pines battled for the
General Assembly seat vacated
by H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen
after 18 years’ service. The final
result was a victory for Auman
who won 5999 votes to Ewing’s
5166.
State Senate
iFor State Senarte, with two
seats to be filled in the five-
county 12th District, Moore hand
ed its own candidate, Voit Gil
more of Southern Pines, top vote
with 6712. Incumbent Robert
Morgan of Lillington had 6387
and their lone Republican oppon
ent, John Ogburn of Asheboro,
lost with 4231. The district-wide
count was: Morgan, 32,375; Gil
more, 31,629; and' Ogburn, 22,818.
County Races
Democrats won in four local
contests, as follows:
For county commissioner, in
cumbent W. S. Taylor, 6471, to
Kim Watson’s 4383, and Lynn
Martin. 6487, to Robert G. Hol
den’s 4410.
For county board of education,
incumbent chairman Jere Mc-
Keithen, 6308, over C. C. Thomp
son, 4540; and incumbent mem
ber W. H. Matthews, 6096, over
Dr. Charles Phillips, 4767.
Governor and Others
In the State races, Dan K.
Moore won easily for Governor,
with 5964 votes to Robert Gavin’s
5511, and all the other state con
tests were comparably lopsided
for the Democratic incumbents.
Robert W. (Bob) Scott polled
® 6411 votes in Moore County, to
4815 to Clifford Lee Bell his Re
publican opponent for lieutenant
governor.
It was a long, hard tally for
the registrars and their counters
of all precincts. With five ballots
and an unusually large amount of
ticket-splitting—though not actu
ally as much, perhaps, as had
been anticipated—only a few re
turns in the presidential races
came in before 8 p.m. After that,
partial reports were made by
several precincts d'uring the next
two hours, fewer than half the
precincts completing their re
ports.
It was 12:30 a.m. before the re
turns were complete and totals
could be run up.
FOR SCHOOL BONDS
Moore County’s voters joined
those over the state in heavily
approving the proposed $300 mil
lion bond issue for school build
ing construction and remodeling.
The county’s vote was 7,623 for
the bonds and 3,580 against.
IN WEAVER AUDITORTTTM
PTA TO MEET
All classrooms at East Southern
Pines school will be open for vis
its by parents, following a short
business session at the Novem
ber meeting of the Parent-Teach
er Association, to be held in
Weaver Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Monday, Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, Jr.,
president, announced today.
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. Min.
October 29 7(4 52
October 30 77 50i
October 31 71 49
November 1 70 41
November 2 72 43
November 3 72 43
Uovember 4 72 42
RALLY SPEAKERS— Shown are East Southern Pines High
School students who spoke during the mock political rally held
at Weaver Auditorium Monday, prior to voting on Tuesday
Supporting the Republican cause were Charles Phillips, Jr., and
Janice Campbell, on the left. Speaking in behalf of the Demo
cratic ticket were Gerry Gilmore and Becky Austin, right. The
speeches were followed by cheering and demonstrations by
students in the audience. (Pilot photo)
CASTINCi BALLOTS— At West Southern Pines High School
students voted Tuesday during a mock election conducted by
the school in an effort to instruct the future voters on election
and voting procedures. Here a group is seen approaching ballot
boxes with their votes. Boxes were provided for state and
national officers as well as for the school bond issue. Shown
(1-r) are Claresa Jones, Linda Curry, Jackie Ingram and Gwe-
(Pilot photo)
Local High Schools Conduct Mock Elections
As a part of their social studies.
East and West Southern Pines
High School students conducted
mock election campaigns follow
ed by “voting” on Tuesday, in
conjunction with the national
elections this week.
Results
At East Southern Pines High
School, an electoral vote system
was worked out, based on the
student enrollment in each of the
four classes.
As shown in full in tabulations
at the end of this story, in the
Presidential race, Goldwater won
the popular vote for the school
as a whole, with 130, to 124 for
Johnson. But the electoral vote
of the school as a whole reversed
this decision, with 46 for Johnson
and 33 for (loldwater.
In the Governor race, for the
whole high school, it was 134 for
Moore to 120 for Gavin; and in
the Congressional race it was 155
for Jonas to 98 for James.
At West Southern Pines High
School, popular vote totals only
were counted and the voting was
confined to the Presidential con
test, as follows:
Of 220 eligible voters, 205 cast
their ballots. The Johnson-Hum
phrey ticket won 193 votes and
the Goldwater-Miller ticket got
12, it was reported by Mrs. Sledge,
the coordinator.
Counselors for the student in
East Southern Pines were David
Page, world history teacher, and
Vernon Crumpler, U. S. History.
In West Southern Pines Mrs.
Frances Sledge, social studies
teacher for the high school, acted
as counselor.
The campaign rally on the West
Side was conducted last Friday,
with speakers for the candidates
and other features.
Monday, students of the East
gathered in Weaver Auditorium
Southern Pines High School
for the climax of their two weeks
of campaigning to hear both
sides of the political coin.
In summarizing the purposes
of the campaigning and elections,
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Violinist To Give Recital Tuesday
[arilyn Dubow. vinlir>ic+ -.ttUu .
Marilyn Dubow, violinist with
a rising international reputation,
will appear in a recital at Weav
er Auditorium here, Tuesday
evening of next week, Novem
ber 10. The concert, to begin at
8.30 pm, is second in the annual
series sponsored by the Sand
hills Music Association.
Season and other tickets are
obtainable in advance from the
Barnum Realty & Insurance Co.
The regular pre-concert dinner
will take place at the Golden
Door at Howard Johnson’s, be
tween Southern Pines and Aber
deen. '
Miss Dubow started her career
at the early age of 11 when she
made her debut with the New
York Philharmonic on the Young
People’s Series under Wilfred
Pelltier. She also appeared a
second time with the New York
Philharmonic at the Lewisohn
Stadium, as well as three tim.es
on the “Telephone Hour” under
Donald Voorhees.
More recently Miss Dubow has
appeared with such symphony
orchestras as Allentown, Pa.;
New Haven, Conn.; Asbury Park.
N. J.; Montreal, Canada; Savan
nah, Georgia; and Niagara Falls,
New York. She has played many
MARILYN DUBOW
recitals throughout the country,
including one at the Greenwich
Village Series in New York City,
where she was very wellreceived.
Miss Dubow also made an ex
tended recital tour of three weeks
in Mexico.
Born in Philadelphia, she was
brought up in New York City,
where she began her musical
studies two weeks before her
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