U
A resolution
by the town council honors the
Moore County Hounds and per
sons who have led it through 50
years. Story, photo, page 8.
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New buildings
of Our Saviour Lutheran Church
were dedicated on Sunday.
Story, photo on page “A.”
Another photo on page 4.
VOL.—45 No. 4
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C-, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1964
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County Commissioners Order Survey^ To
Make Decision On School Consolidation
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INSPECTION— Visiting -travel writers and
three yearlings at Refugio Farm, the Adams
training center off Youngs Road, look each other
over. Exercising the horses for benefit of the
writers were Mr. and Mrs. F. Dooley Adams
and their son, Mike. Dooley Adams retired from
racing in 1956, after a career as a leading
steeplechase rider. (Humphrey photo)
Albert Liitz Appointed
To School Board Here
Meeting Tuesday night at the, in the community for 40 years,
municipal center, the town coun-| Saying he “likes to see two on
cil accepted the resignation of a ballot,” Councilman McLaugh-
P. I. York of West Southern
Pines from the Southern Pines
Board of Education and appoint
ed Albert Lutz, West Southern
Pines businessman, to fill the
vacancy.
The council directed that a
letter of appreciation for his ser
vice on the school board since
1959 be sent to Mr. York who
has moved to Pittsburgh, Pa.
All the councilmen were pre-
ent for the regular December
meeting: Mayor Norris L. Hodg
kins, Jr., Mayor Pro Tern Fred
Pollard, and Councilmen Felton
Capel, C. A. McLaughlin and
Harry Pethick.
There were two nominees for
the school board post—Mr. Lutz,
nominated by Councilman Mc
Laughlin, and T. R. Goins, also
of West Southern Pines, nomina
ted by Councilman Capel.
Voting was by secret ballot and
the result was four votes for Mr.
Lutz and one for Mr. Goins.
Councilman Capel was first to
make a nomination, detailing a
long list of civic, church, school
and other activities and interests
that he said well qualified Mr.
Goins, who, he said, had resided
Parker Hardware,
New Local Store,
To Open Tuesday
Opening their business next
Tuesday and planning for a
grand opening January 1st, are
Elwood and Tony Parker, father-
and-son partners in the Parker
Hardware and Builders Supply
Company on N. E. Broad Street
in the location formerly occupied
by Woodell Billiards.
Designed to be a “builders
hardware,” the new firm will
specialize in paint, glass and oth
er hardware, as well as home re
pair service, installation of plate
glass windows and painting.
The service end of the business
will be handled by Elwood Park
er, formerly employed by the
Southern Pines Warehouse.
Certain household hardware
will also be merchandised along
with builder hardware items.
After the first of the year a
complete line of lumber supplies
will be handled and the business
will begin regular store hours of
from 8 am to 6 pm Monday
through Saturday.
During December, store hours
will be from 8 am to 7 pm.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each d'ay 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.
December 3 70 38
December 4 68 44
December 5 65 45
December 6 51 44
December 7 ,46 25
December 8 52 22
December 9 56 27
lin made his nomination without
listing any qualifications for his
candidate other than to note he
was a businessman and was well
recommended, in West Southern
Pines.
Commenting on the nomina
tions, before the voting, council
man Capel, a resident of West
Southern Pines, described Mr.
Lutz as a good businessman and
a personal friend of his, but said
there was '“no comparison” be
tween the long record of com
munity service and civic interest
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Leaders Named In
County-Wide Aid
To Needy Program
Community chairmen in the
county-wide “Christmas Cheer”
program for the needy, conducted
in cooperation with the Moore
County Welfare Department,
were announced this week by
Mrs. Walter B. Cole of Carthage,
department director.
In all the communities, the
designated chairmen coprdinate
Christmas giving of food baskets
(sometimes also toys and other
items) to families whose need has
been certified by the Welfare De
partment. Churches, clubs,
schools and private individuals
are asked to make their gifts
through the coordinated system,
so that they will be distributed
evenly and that all needy fam
ilies will be reached.
The chairmen are:
Aberdeen, Dr. W. C. Neill; Car
thage, G. K. Suggs; Pinehurst,
Mrs. James Tufts; Jackson
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Visiting Writers
Voice Enthusiasm
About Sandhills
The red carpet was figurative
but the brass band was real as a
group of travel writers arrived
here Friday night, for a week
end of Sandhills hospitality that
brought many expressions of en
thusiasm from the visitors.
As the writers, some with hus
bands and wives, stepped off a
special Seaboard Air Line club
car at the station, the band
struck up music which soon had
them dancing.
The merry sounds of welcome
caused heads to peer from win
dows all along the train, and one
woman, headed for South Caro
lina, hopped off to see what it
was all about. As she enjoyed the
sight, the train pulled out, leav
ing her distraught.
Town Manager F. F. Rainey,
on hand with Mayor Hodgkins
and members of the town Adver
tising Committee to meet the
guests, commandeered a police
car to carry her to Hamlet, to
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The Moore County commission
ers under their new chairman,
John M. Currie, moved strongly
forward at their December meet
ing in Carthage, Monday, to find
a solution to the problem of con
solidating high schools in the
lower end of the county.
They ordered an out-of-State
survey, to make recommenda
tions and asked that all present
plans be held up, pending its re
sults.
Almost as soon as they were or
ganized, they were in deep dis
cussion with the county board of
education and legislators-to-be
Voit Gilmore and Clyde Auman,
then later in the day discussions
continued with Albert Tufts, pre
sident of Pinehurst, Inc., and A.
B. Hardee of Whispering Pines
presenting strong proposals.
Other discussion participants
included N. L. Hodgkins of the
Southern Pines school board and
Joe Lennon, chairman of the Ab
erdeen-West End school commit
tee.
Headed for Showdown
Whether the four districts—
the Southern Pines and Pinehurst
separate “city” units, and the Ab
erdeen and West End county
school system districts — would
consolidate in the county system
or as a separate unit of their own,
or whether Aberdeen, West End
and Pinehurst might consolidate,
leaving Southern Pines as is, ap
peared headed for a showdown.
More and more it appeared
that, unless the financial picture
changes drastically, the proposed
Southern Pines-Pinehurst merger
and consolidation of Aberdeen
with West End are out, as this
would call for two separate, big,
new, high schools very near each
other. Chairman Currie stated
positively, “We stand pat on
building just one-million-dollar
high school for the lower end of
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NO BUILDERS.CUP
No Builders Cup is being
awarded by the Sandhills Kiwan-
is Club this year, it was an
nounced at last Friday night’s
Ladies Night meeting of the club
in the Carolina Hotel at Pine
hurst. Several other awards were
made at the meeting. Details in
story on page 7.
TAKING OATH— Clerk of Court C. C. Ken
nedy (left) administers the oath of office to
four members of the Moore County Board of
Commissioners. Left to right: W. Sidney Taylor,
James M. Pleasants, John M. Currie who was
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elected chairman at the board’s organization
session, and' W. Lynn Martin of Eagle Springs,
who is starting his first term of office. The fifth
board member, L. R. Reynolds, was absent.
(V. Nicholson photo)
POLLING PLACES SET
Farmers To Vote
Tuesday On Leaf,
Cotton Programs
Polling places for the referen
dum on marketing quotas for the
next three crops of flue-cured to
bacco, to be conducted Tuesday,
December 15, have been desig
nated by the Moore County Agri
cultural Stabilization and Con
servation Committee as follows,
listed by rural communities
(townships):
Bensalem — Lynn Martin’s
Store, Eagle Springs.
Carthage — Main Hall of Moore
County Courthouse, Carthage.
Deep River—iPressley’s Store,
Glendon.
Greenwood—1. Kent Harbour’s
Store, Cameron; 2, Henry
Marsh’s Store, Rt. 1, Cameron.
Little River—L. D. Brooks’
Store, Rt. 2, Vass.
McNeill—1. Richard Matthews’
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J. M. Currie Elected
To Head Moore Board
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CHRISTMAS CHEER
FUNDS NEEDED
Commander Hubert Cam
eron of the John Boyd Post,
VFW, which heads the
Christmas Cheer program in
the Southern Pines area, ap
pealed today for money do
nations with which the post
expects to buy food for
about 80 gift baskets.
Checks should be made
payable to "VFW Christmas
Cheer Fund."
The VFW receives canned
goods donations through the
schools but will not collect
canned goods in grocery
stores this year. Also, he
pointed out, the post dioes not
plan to receive and repair
toys for distribution this
year.
Aerial View Shows Exteni of New Union Pines High School
Big Union Pines School Dedicated
FIRST FORUM MEETING
'The first 1964-65 season meet
ing of the Pinehurst Forum will
take place Thursday evening of
next week, December 17, at the
Pinehurst Country Club, featur
ing “The Tripjacks,” a well
known folk singing group. De
tails in another story elsewhere
in today’s Pilot.
A major step toward better ed
ucation for Moore county’s boys
and girls was measured Sunday
afternoon with the dedication of
Union Pines High School on the
Union Church road, between
Carthage and Vass.
The culmination of six years of
planning and two and a half
years of actual construction.
Union Pines opened this fall as
the first of three units which will
consolidate nine small high
schools of the county school sys
tem. ’The county system includes
all schools in the county except
those in the separate Southern
Pines and Pinehurst districts.
Dr. Guy B. Phillips, retired
dean of the University’s school of
education, and a State Board of
Education member, as guest
speaker, congratulated the Moore
County Board of Education and
the people of this county on their
achievement.
Yet he noted that for some
persons, the low rambling struc
ture of almost severe contempor
ary design was something of a
shock—very different from the
schools of long ago.
“We are used to buildings
stacked up on each other, and
now we see wide spaces used.
This is an improvement, much
better for beauty and for use. In
education, as in the architecture
of our schools, improvement is
the key word to quality today. It
is a challenge to you to see that
your schools continue to im
prove.”
Dr. Phillips noted that such im
provement doesn’t come cheaply
and that the people of Moore
must continue to support the
schools with their tax dollars as
well as with their desire to see
their children get the best in edu
cation today.
He commented, “Few realize
the importance of the county
commissioners in such a program.
Their support and understanding
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John M. Currie of Carthage,
president of Currie Mills at High-
falls and a veteran of 20 years’
service as a county commission
er, was elected chairman Monday
morning for the new two-year
term, while J. M. Pleasants of
Southern Pines was elected vice-
chairman.
The organization of the board
of county commissioners took
place immediately following the
swearing-in at the office of Clerk
of Court C. C. Kennedy, when
Kennedy administered the oath
to Currie, Pleasants, W. S. Tay
lor of Aberdeen and W. Lynn
Martin of Eagle Springs, the only
new commissioner.
Absent because of illness was
L. R. Reynolds, a member of the
board for 30 years and chairman
for the past six years, who was
reelected November 3 along with
Currie, Pleasants and Taylor.
At noon Kennedy went to Rey
nolds’s home at Highfalls and
swore him in. The chairman had
previously stated his intention of
resigning because of the state of
his health, which had prevented
his attending several recent
meetings. The resignation was
prepared at his request by Coun
ty Attorney M. G. Boyette, but
he did not sign it, and, it was
learned from Kennedy, did not
mention it on Monday.
Instead, he appeared to be feel
ing much better and said he was
looking forward to being with
the board again at its January
meeting.
Under the new chairman, the
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'Santa's Mailbox' Now
Ready For Letters Here
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce announced this week that
a special mail box has been plac
ed in front of the Southern Pines
Post Office in which children may
place letters to Santa Claus.
Durward Grady, chairman of
the project said this week that
children who write Santa must
enclose their letter in an envelope
with a five cent postage stamp.
Each child’s complete return add
ress must be printed legibly on
the envelope.
The special mail box will be
designated as “Santa’s Mailbox”
and will remain at its location in
front of the Post Office until
Christmas.
Nominations For
Service Award To
Young Man Asked
The Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce announc
ed this week that it is seeking
nominations for the outstanding
local young man of the year.
A committee is being formed
to canvass churches, businesses,
clubs and other organizations to
determine which young man,
aged 21 through 35, has contrib
uted most to the community dur
ing the past year.
The nominee must be a resi
dent of Southern Pines, but is
not required to be a Jaycee.
The Distinguished Service
Award winner will be honored at
a banquet planned for this pur
pose in late January.
Nomination blanks may be ob
tained from any local Jaycee. All
nominations must be received by
the Jaycee Distinguished Service
Award committee prior to mid
night, December 31, 1964. Nom
inations are to be addressed to
DSA Committee, Box 1072,
Southern Pines.
STARTS JANUARY IN 5 COUNTIES
College To Conduct Basic Education
Program For Adults; Teachers Needed
Sandhills Community College
will begin classes in Basic Edu
cation for Adults in January.
These classes are provided for
under the Economic Opportunity
Act of 1964. The program will in
clude Moore, Hoke, Richmond,
Scotland and Montgomery Coun
ties, said Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
college president.
'The purpose of these basic ed
ucation classes is to provide in
struction for adults whose defi
ciency in a particular area has
made it difficult for them to ob
tain regular employment. Those
interested in participating rriust
have less than an eighth grade
education. There will be no
charge to those attending.
The program of instruction will
include basic education in read
ing improvement, writing, speak
ing, listening, arithmetic, citi
zenship, health practices, con
sumer knowledge, homemaking,
family living and other studies to
make an adult abler to meet his
responsibilities.
Classes will be held morning,
afternoon, evening, or whenever
a group of adults and the instruc
tor may be brought together.
They will be held near the homes
of students, wherever a suitable
space can be obtained in public
school buildings, other public
buildings, church facilities, libra
ries, private buildings or private
homes.
Adults in Moore County inter
ested in applying should contact
the Director of Adult Education,
Sandhills Community College,
Box 509, Southern Pines, or call
695-1471; in Hoke County, con
tact the Chamber of Commerce
offices at 213 N. Main Street in
Raeford or call 875-2179; in Rich
mond and Scotland Counties con
tact the Tri-County Community
Action Program at 211 Atkinson
Street in Laurinburg or call 276-
0005; and in Montgomery County
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