Groundhog
Day (he saw his shadow: more
winter ahead) has come and gone
—or has it? More on page 15.
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made a full inspection of coimty
buildings at last week’s term of
Superior Court. See page 13.
VOL.—45 No. 12
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1965
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
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SAFE THEFT CASE
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Young Farmers Win Scholarships To Course
Two young Moore County farmers are at
N. C. State in Raleigh, taking the Modern Farm
ing short course—which began January 25 and
runs through Friday—on scholarships given
them through a program of the N. C. Bankers
Association. They are Floyd Ernest Haywood
of Route 1, Carthage (second from left) and
Herbert Wayne Martin of Route 1, West End
(second from right), pictured as each received
a $75 scholarship check from Samuel C. Harri
son of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company
here, who is this year’s “county key banker”
representing the Southern National Bank and
the Carolina Bank, as well as the Citizens
Bank, in the scholarship program. At left is
F. D. Allen, county extension chairman. The
course is designed to help young farmers re
cognize and evaluate modern technology in
farming and business and includes study of
pesticide safety, agricultureal finance, world
trade, government in agriculture and the legis
lative process. The two scholarship winners
were chosen by a county selection committee.
(Moore County News photo)
IN ROUTE 2, ROBBINS HOME
Man Kills Wife As Children Watch,
Says Shotgun Fired During Tussle
Virgil Deaton, 54, of Robbins,! rel shotgun blast about 11 pm
Route 2 is being held without | Sunday at their home on a rural
bond in Moore County jail, await- road, about three miles north of
ing a hearing in Moore Recorder’s
Court on a charge of murdering
his wife.
Deaton, a former talc mine em
ployee, admitted that he killed
his wife, the former Emily Shef
field, with a 12-gauge single-bar-
Four Members Of
Ben Owen Family
Injured In Wreck
Robbins, according to investiga
ting officers. He was quoted as
saying that the gun went off ac
cidentally as he was holding it,
when his wife grabbed it and it
fired as they tussled, while three
of their children looked on.
Deaton told Robbins Police Chief
D. B. Cranford, Deputy Sheriff I.
D. Marley and Coroner W. K.
Carpenter that they had been
drinking beer, had gotten into an
argument and his wife had “come
at him” with a knife before he
grabbed up the gun. The blast,
fired at a distance of about six
Four members of the family of feet, made a wound about three
Ben Owen, widely known mas- j^er right collar-
ter potter of Seagrove, Route 2,
in upper Moore County, were
seriously injured early Saturday
morning when their car skidded
on an icy bridge in Chatham
County during a snowstorm.
Mrs. Lucille Owen, 49; her son,
Ben Wade Owen, Jr., 27, the
driver; and her daughter, Mrs.
Jane Bardot, 24, and Mrs. Bar
dot’s 21-months-old son, James
Bardot, Jr., of Boston, Mass.,
were taken to Chatham Hospital
at Siler City where they remain
ed as patients this week.
Mrs. Owen, her son and grand
son were said at the hospital to
be “getting along very well” but
Mrs. Bardot continued in serious
condition and might be removed
to Duke Hospital, Durham, later
in the week, it was reported.
Mrs. Bardot, the former Jane
Harris Owen, and her son had
been visiting her parents at their
home on NC 705, north of Rob
bins, and were being driven to
a plane to return home when the
accident occurred two miles
north of Bennett at about 6:50
am.
The car, which crashed into
an abutment of the bridge, was
rated a total loss. State Trooper
Robert Russell, who investigated,
attributed the accident to the
weather, with no law violation
indicated and no charges to be
filed.
Ben Owen, former master pot
ter of Jugtown, operates the
Plank Road Pottery at his home.
(Continued on Page 8)
UNC GLEE CLUB
TO SING FEB. 11
The Glee Club of the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill will appear at
Weaver Auditorium here<
Thursday. February 11, at
8:30 p.m.. in a concert spon
sored by the Sandhills Music
Association.
A group of UNC alumni,
with Paul Butler in charge,
will entertain the young men
of the glee club for dinner at
Doug Kelly's Holiday Inn
Restaurant, prior to the con
cert. The regular pre-concert
dinner for members of the
Music Association and others
will be held in the Golden
Door at Howard Johnson's
Restaurant. Reservations
should be made.
The glee club, which was
well received at a Music
Association concert here two
years ago, will sing a variety
of selections. It is expected to
be particularly interesting to
young people. Special student
rates apply.
Chairmen Named
For Heart Fund
Drive In Moore
C. A. McLaughlin, local mer
chant and a member of the town
council, and Mrs. Leon H. Baker,
who has long been active in civic
service here, have been appoint
ed Southern Pines chairmen for
the 1965 Heart Fund campaign
being conducted throughout the
county during February by the
Moore County chapter of the
American Heart Association, it is
announced by J. Douglas David
of Pinebluff, county drive chair
man.
Contributions for the Heart
Fund are used to make possible
research in the cause and treat
ment of heart and circulatory
diseases, including projects being
carried on in North Carolina, and
for public education in this field.
Plans for the drive, which has
a goal of $4,500, Mr. David said,
were made in a meeting held last
week in Doug Kelly’s Holiday
Inn Restaurant.
Other community chairmen ap
pointed by Mr. David are:Aber-
deen, C. T. Oschwind; Cameron,
Mrs. Warren Thomas; Carthage,
N. A. McLeod; Clay Road, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Matthews; Dov
er’s Cross Roads, Jason Freeman;
Eagle Springs, Lynn Martin; East-
wood, J. W. Sheffield; Eureka, the
Rev. Dan Norman; Hillcrest, Mrs.
Charles Frye; High Falls, Glen-
don, Dewitt Purvis; Howard Mills
.'Community, Alex Kolb; Lake-
view, Mrs. Max Edwards; Lo
belia, L. D. Brooks; Manly, Mrs.
Edgar Klingenschmidt; Niagara,
Mrs. W. H. Bobbitt.
Pinebluff and Addor, Mrs. W.
K. Carpenter, Jr., Pinedene, Nol-
(Continued on Page 8)
Prison Sentences
Appealed By Two
Convicted Youths
Two young men convicted of
stealing a safe from the Sandhills
Electrical Supply Co. near South
ern Pines January 3, drew stiff
prison sentences in Moore Coun
ty Superior Court last Thursday,
and then gave notice, through
counsel, of appeal to the State
Supreme Court. They were being
held in Moore County jail in de
fault of $10,000 appearance bond
each.
Of three other youths charged
in connection with the case, all
of whom were witnesses for the
State, one received a suspended
prison sentence; prayer for judg
ment was continued for another,
age 16; and the case of a third
was continued to a future term,
of court, because his attorney
was hospitalized with illness.
David W. Phillips, 19, of Car-1
thage. Route 3, pleading not guil
ty, was sentenced to six to eight
years for breaking and entering
and three to five years for lar
ceny of the safe and its contents,
including $125 in cash, and a
number of tools, large and small,
from the electrical firm located
on US 15-501, between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen.
Joel L. Phillips, 22, of South
ern Pines, brother of David, also
pleading not guilty, drew five to
seven years for breaking and en
tering, and three to four years
for larceny.
A jury found the brothers guil-
(Continued on Page 8)
Commissioners Approve Sale Of
$2,560,000 In Moore Bonds For
Hi^h Schools, Commnnity College
The Moore County commission
ers, in regular meeting Monday,
adopted a resolution presented
by M. G. Boyette, county attor
ney, authorizing the sale of the
largest block of bond's in the
history of the county—$2,560,000
worth of community college and
school construction bonds, part
of the $4 million bond issue voted
by the people in November, 1963,
to build the Sandhills Communi
ty College plant and complete a
high school school consolidation
and expansion program.
Contracts for the college will
soon be let. One of three planned
consolidated high schools has
been completed and is in use;
another is under construction;
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BENEFIT BOWLING
Local bowling leagues will
stage a tournament next week
for benefit of the Southern Pines
Heart Fund campaign. Full de
tails and a schedule of play for
the leagues appear on page 19.
Work Begins On
Parking Lot At
School Grounds
Off-street parking for about 30
cars will be provided by a lot
now under construction off New
York Ave., on the East Southern
Pines School grounds.
Schools Supt. J. W. Jenkins
said that the board of education
received three bids on the work,
awarding the contract to the low
bidder, B. Q. Perham. To cost
about $7,000, the work includes
some excavation at the edge of
the elementary school play
ground, a masonry retaining wall
with sloped bank and guard-rail
above it, paving of the lot and
construction of a landscaped cen
tral plot, where trees will be left
standing and the monument
stones listing the names of South-
(Continued on page 5)
BOY SCOUT WEEK
TO BE OBSERVED
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts,
Explorers and their adult
le.aders in Moore County will
join millions of other boys
and their leaders, across the
nation, in observing Boy
Scout Week, February 7-13,
marking the 5th anniversary
of the founding of the Scout
ing program.
Taking part, in Moore
County, will be the young
sters and .adults of two
Scouting "districts," both asi-
sociated with the Occonee-
chee Council. They are the
Sandhills District which cov
ers Southern Pines, Aber
deen, Pinebluff and adjacent
areas, including a portion of
Hoke County; and the Yad
kin Trail District that in
cludes the rest of Moose
County.
The familiar 12-point
"Scout Law" is featured in a
display on page 9 of today's
Pilot.
REP. T. CLYDE AUMAN
SEN. VOIT GILMORE
Auman, Gilmore Start Assembly Term,
Sharing Interest In Much Legislation
■Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines, 18th district Senator, and
T. Clyde Auman of West End,
Moore County representative,
have gone to the General Assem
bly at Raleigh with many of the
same things on their minds, for
the benefit of this area and of
the State.
Moore County also has repre
sentation in Robert B. Morgan of
Harnett county, the other Sena
tor from the 18th district com
posed of Moore, Lee, Hoke, Har
nett and Randolph Counties. Sen.
Morgan, a veteran legislator
McLaughlin, hendren
Moore Students
In Raleigh For
Assembly Work
Two Moore County students—
one in high school and one in
college — have interesting roles
in connection with the General
Assembly that convened in Ra
leigh yesterday.
C. A. McLaughlin, Jr., senior
at East Southern Pines High
School and president of the
school’s Student Council, is serv
ing as a page in the House of
Representatives, a spot in which
he also served in the 1963 session.
The appointment came from H.
Pat Taylor, Jr., speaker of the
House. The son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. McLaughlin, the local stud
ent recently was chosen as a
finalist in competition for More-
head scholarship awards at the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
Ralph C. Hendren, Jr., of West
End, a former local resident who
is a sophomore at UNC, is one
of three UNC students who are
among a group of 10 from North
Carolina colleges who will study
in Raleigh during the entire ses
sion of the General Assembly, at
tending classes in State govern
ment and also sitting in on ses
sions of General Assembly com
mittees to which they are assign-
(Continued on Page 5)
A WEEK OF EXTREMES IN MOORE COUNTY
Cameron Fire Dept. Sets
Benefit Supper Saturday
The Cameron Rural Fire De
partment is sponsoring a ham and
chicken supper, for benefit of the
department, Saturday, February
6, at the Cameron School cafe
teria, from 5 to 8 p.m.
The supper was announced by
Lewis N. Cooper, secretary. The
volunteer fire department, an of
ficially organized and incorpora
ted group, depends for much of
its support on fund-raising
events.
Mercury Drops...Violence Flares...Death Strikes
The past week has been one of
extremes in Moore County—in
weather, human behavior and in
the quirks of fate called acci
dents, resulting in violence, death,
and tragedy of unprecedented
concentration, according to recol
lection of The Pilot’s editors.
As reports of these sad and
shocking events flooded into this
newspaper’s office—any one of
which would, in a normal week,
be topranked front-page news—
it became apparent that today’s
front page could not hold them
all, if other worthy news were to
be placed there, too.
In six days during which the
mercury dropped four times into
the temperature teens, with lows
of 13 on Monday and Wednesday,
and freezing rain and snow on
Saturday, the following are the
stories that came in—to be found
on this page or elsewhere in to
day’s Pilot:
In Southern Pines—A man was
fatally stricken while driving his
car on 'Vermont Ave. . . A pistol
in the hand of a West Southern
Pines youth shot and severely
wounded a companion. . . A quar
rel between two hotel cooks led
to the severe wounding of one
of them by stabbing.
In upper Moore County—A
man and wife quarreled, tussled
with a shotgun and the wife was
shot and killed. . . A shift boss
at the “talc mine” was accident
ally electrocuted. . . A five-year-
old Moore County child was kill
ed in a head-on crash in Ran
dolph County. . . Four members
of the family of Ben Owen, wide
ly known master potter, were in
jured in an auto accident, one of
them seriously. . . Two Robbins
men were hurt in a highway col
lision.
Elsewhere in the county—^An
whose home is at Lillington, was
elected president pro tern of the
Senate at a caucus held Tuesday
night.
For both of the Moore County
men, the General Assembly con
vening Wednesday is their first.
However, both have wide experi
ence in state and local service.
Gilmore has also seen national
service as the first director of
the U. S. Travel Service; and Au
man will be installed National
Peach Council president at a
meeting February 12-17 in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Both said this week the mat
ters foremost on their minds as
legislators will include education,
highway improvement, highway
safety and conservation.
In addition. Rep. Auman, a
farmer and peach grower, said
agriculture will be a major in
terest of his, and Senator Gil
more added libraries as a main
point for consideration. In the
conservation field, the former
C&D board member, who has
long been interested in travel
and tourism, said he plans to in
troduce legislation to give fur
ther protection for the State’s nat
ural resources, and to reserve
more land for parks and recrea
tion.
Both men stated their inten
tion of being home on every pos
sible weekend, and said they will
be glad to see all constituents
with, legislative matters on their
minds, at their homes or in Ra-
(Continued on Page 8)
and plans for the third are await
ing results of a professional sur
vey of all schools in the county
for which the commissioners con
tracted last December.
Funds For Survey
On Monday, they authorized
expenditure of $1,500 from the
contingency fund to pay the first
bill of Education Resarch, Inc.,
for field work done in the sur
vey, which will cost a total of
$3,500 and be completed February
15.
The survey may determine
whether the consolidated school
in the lower part of the county
will merge two, three or four
existing schools, depending on
whether Southern Pines and
Pinehurst city units join in. So
far, they have objected, prefer
ring to stick to their own merger
plan, which the survey may or
may not find to the best interests
of the students.
Five-Year School Plan
Jere McKeithen of Aberdeen,
county board of education chair
man, and Supt. of Schools Robert
E. Lee presented a five-year plan
of further needed school con
struction, with remodeling and
renovation of existing buildings.
The commissioners approved a
tax assessment of 70 cents per
$100 valuation for the new sani
tary district established at Taylor-
town, a Negro comhiunity near
Pinehurst, also a proposed first-
year budget of $2,000. Page and
Neville, legal firm of Pinehurst,
representing the district, said'
$746 would be spent for street
lights, $600 for sanitary purposes,
clean-up and maintenance, and
$654 for supplies, office expenses
and miscellaneous overhead.
Road Mailers
The meeting opened with an
invocation by Commissioner J. M.
Pleasants, W. S. Taylor was
absent on an out-of-state trip,
and Wiley Purvis left shortly
after the afternoon session be
gan, to attend a funeral. Present
for the full day were Chairman
John M. Currie, presiding, and
Commissioners Pleasants and W.
Lynn Martin. Several road re
quests were heard and were re
ferred by Currie to the appro-
(Continued on Page 8)
Spanish Teacher Will
Speak To PTA Monday
The importance of a high school
language program, with particu
lar reference to the study of
Spanish as relations between the
U. S. and Latin America become
closer and more frequent, will be
discussed by Dr. Jose Infante,
Spanish instructor at East South
ern Pines High School, when the
East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association meets in
Weaver Auditorium, Monday,
February 8, at 8 p.m.
Dr. Infante, who joined the
local school’s faculty last year,
will also show a film on
■Venezuela.
WOMAN COMPANION ARRESTED
Officers Capture Convicted Man Who
Escaped Undetected From Courthouse
escaped convicted felon, subject
of one of the county’s biggest
manhunts, was captured hiding
out in a house near Carthage.
Two men froze to death over the
frigid weekend, near here and
near Pinehurst. . . A Route 3 Car
thage man was hospitalized with
painful injuries after his pickup
truck overturned near Farm Life
school. . . Break-ins, with an es
timated $1,000 loss at one loca
tion, took place between South
ern Pines and Aberdeen and at
Pinehurst.
Henry T. Hoover, 20-year-old
Negro who boldly walked out of
the Moore County courthouse in
Carthage, after being sentenced
to prison in Superior Court,
Tuesday of last week, was found
by searching officers Monday af
ternoon, hiding in a house about
five miles east of Carthage.
Acting on a tip. Chief Deputy
Sheriff H. H. Grimm, with Dep
uty Ed Cockman and Constable
L. F. Wood of Cameron, entered
the house on US 15-501 and
found Hoover hiding under a bed.
They also found, hiding be
hind a chimney in the attic, Fan
nie Mae Small, 20-year-old Negro
woman who is believed to have
been Hoover’s companion dturing
his flight from the law. The
young woman, who was tried for
forgery in a separate case at last
week’ court term, had been re
leased on probation.
The two were returned to the
courthouse and to the county jail,
the man additionally charged
with escape, a misdemeanor, and
the girl with aiding and abetting
in the escape of a felon, which is
a felony charge.
The incident ended one of the
most intensive manhunts ever
waged in this area, which in fact
extended all the way to Roches
ter, N. Y., present home of Hoov
er, a native of Cameron. It began
when he parted from his attor
ney following a conference, after
drawing prison terms for auto
larceny and two counts of break
ing and entering. Instead of re
turning to the prisoners’ dock, he
walked down the steps to six
days of freedom.
During the week, Moore Coun-
(Continued on Page 8)
THE WEATHER
Mcix. Min.
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.
January 28
55
17
January 29
62
30
January 30
34
23
January 31
31
19
February 1
47
13
February 2
40
32
February 3
44
13