from the General Assembly, by
Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines, appears in “Raleigh
Report” on page 9.
The UN
is entering its most crucial
phase, writes James Boyd, The
Pilot’s United Nations corres
pondent. • See page 22.
VOL.—45 No. 13
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1965
TWENIT-FOUR PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
THE REV. R. W. ROSCHY
Minister Elected
By United Church;
driving March 1
The Rev. Robert W. Roschy
was elected by a unanimous vote
to become pastor of the United
Church of Christ of Southern
Pines (Church of Wide Fellow
ship) at a recent congregational
meeting. He will assume his
duties here March 1.
He comes to the United Church
erf Christ from an active pastorate
at First Reformed United Church
of Christ in Burlington and will
succeed the Rev. Carl Wallace
who resigned December 31 to be
come pastor of the United Church
of Christ, Newport News, Va
The Rev. Mr. Roschy served
pastorates in Pennsylvania be
fore coming to North Carolina
and was at one time the execu
tive secretary for the Associated
Churches of Fort Wayne, Ind. He
has been in Burlington since Feb
ruary, 1961.
Born at Emlenton, Pa., where
he was educated in the public
schools, he graduated from
Franklin and Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pa. and the Theologi
cal Seminary of the Evangelical
and Reformed Church in the
same city where he received the
B. D. degree in 1934. He has also
studied at Mt. Airy (Lutheran)
Seminary in Germantown, Pa.,
and the Episcopal Divinity School
of Philadelphia, Pa.
The pastor is married to the
former Dorothy M. Wilson, a
graduate nurse. They have three
sons and two daughters. Adrian,
the oldest, teaches 5th grade in
Cecil County, Md. John is an ele
mentary teacher in Maryland,
serving the public schools of Har
ford County. The oldest boy, Rob
ert, is a student at Fort Lauder
dale, Fla. Susan is a Junior at
UNC-Chapel Hill and the youg-
est child, Timothy, is in 9th
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UNC Glee Club
Singing Tonight
Sponsored by the Sandhills
Music Association as one of the
attractions in its winter concert
. series, the University of North
Carolina Men’s Grlee Club, direct
ed by Dr. Joel Carter, will sing
tonight (Thursday) in Weaver
Auditorium, at 8:30 p.m.
Sacred music, folk songs, musi
cal comedy selections and' old
favorites are on tonight’s pro
gram by the 50-member group.
There is a special admission rate
for students.
Special Events To
Assist Heart Fund
Two special events in this a,rea
will aid the Moore County Heart
Fund, Friday and Sunday.
On Friday, proceeds from all
coffee sold at Doug Kelly’s Holi
day Inn Restaurant, at Howard
Johnson’s and at Home’s in
Aberdeen will go to the fund.
On Sunday, from 1 to 6 pm,
Aberdeen Jaycees will conduct
a “motor solicitation’’ for the
fund, stationing themselves at a
traffic intersdetion and tasking
donations from passing motorists
stopping there.
FORUM PROGRAM
Miss Emily Kimbrough, well
known writer specializing in
travel topics, will be the speaker
at a meeting of the Pinehurst Fo
rum, Thursday, February 18, at
8:45 pm in the Pinehurst Coun
try club. The meeting will be
preceded by the usual buffet sup
per at 7. Forum progra^ are
open to members and their guests
xmd Pinehurst hotel guests.
Donnie Lee Black
Fatally Hurt In
Motorcycle Wreck
Donnie Lee Black, 26, of Vass,
Route 2, died Tuesday at N. C.
Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill,
of Injuries suffered in a motor
cycle accident on the Union
Church Road near Vass, Monday
night.
He suffered a fractured skull
and internal injuries when he
lost control of the motorcycle, it
skidded and he was thrown. Tak
en first to Moore Memorial Hos
pital at Pinehurst, he was trans
ferred early Tuesday to Chapel
Hill.
This was Moore county’s first
highway fatality of the year.
State Trooper W. R. Austin in
vestigated, and Coroner W. K.
Carpenter ruled the death acci
dental.
Black was a native of the East-
wood section near Pinehurst, at
tended Pinehurst schools and had
served with the U. S. Army, from
which he was discharged in 1958,
He was self-employed as a brick-
mason.
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at Culdee Presbyterian
Church near Pinehurst, conduct
ed by the pastor, the Rev. W. K.
Fitch, Jr., assisted by the Rev.
H. L. Wilson, pastor of the Vass
Presbyterian Church. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Sigrid Blum, native of Ger
many, whom he married while
stationed with the Army there;
a daughter, Janet, and son, John
nie, of the home; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Masger Black of Carth
age Route 3, and four brothers.
Tommy, Wayne and Wesley, all
of Carthage, Route 3, and Larry,
of West End, Route 1.
I
Blood Collections
Slated Next Week;
SCHOOL LIBRARY GIFT— Dallas PoUard of Heartland, Vt.,
a winter visitor to the Sandhills for many years, spoke to the
Social Science classes of Miss Brewer and' Mrs. Thompson, at
the Southern Pines Elementary School Library, Monday, and
made a cash gift to the library. The 89-year-old retired certified
public accountant is pictured handing his gift to Amy Buchan,
representing the students, as Miss Lurline Commander, school
librarian, looks on. Mr. Pollard, a cousin of the late President
Calvin Coolidge, reminisced for the students about his life in
N^w England and about growing up with his Vermont relative
and neighbor who became President. He makes his home here
at the Southland Hotel. Mr. Pollard also told the students that
Orson Bean of the TV panel show, “To Tell the Truth,” is his
grandson. (Humphrey photo)
New Agriculture
Building Will Be
Dedicated Monday
Dedication of the new Moore
County Agriculture Building, fol
lowed by an “open house,” will be
held Monday from 7 to 9 pm. The
public is invited.
The new facility was comple
ted last November, with only fin
ishing touches such as the as
phalted parking area and land
scaping added since then. It is
occupied by the farm and home
economics offices of the N. C.
State Extension Service, the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service, Farmers
Home Administration and Moore
County Soil and Water Conserva
tion District office.
The modem one-story structure
occupies a corner of the tract on
which the Moore County Health
Center was built several years
ago and has harmonizing archi'
tecture. Separated from the
Health Center grounds by
grassy embankment, it is entered
by the same driveway, which
leads on past the Health Center
to the new parking site;
F. D. Allen, Moore County Ex
tension chairman, will preside
over the dedication services, at
which the Rev. W. S. Golden,
pastor emeritus of the Carthage
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IN ADDITION TO BOND ISSUE
College Assured Over
$1 Million In Funds;
Trustees Accept Bids
Contract Let For
Rural Fire Truck
PROGRAM STARTS AT 10 A.M.
Hunter Trials To Be Held Saturday,
3 Junior Classes Set, 6 For Adults
Officials of the Moore County
Hounds reported this week that
many entries have come in for
, , the 33rd annual Hunter Trials to
Donations Laffeinglbe heW at Scotts corners near
I ” I here Saturday.
Spectators are reminded that
the program will begin at 10 a.m.,
with three classes for junior (18
Emd under) riders in the morning,
continuing after a lunch break
with six classes for adult riders
in the afternoon, starting at 1:30
p.m.
Judges have been announced
as Mr. and' Mrs. Robert Carter
III of Centerville, Md., former
masters of the now disbanded
Groton (Mass.) Hunt. They are
the guests here of Miss Betty
Dumaine of Pinehurst.
Trophies, with sterling silver
HISTORICAL GROUP
TO MEET TUESDAY
A meeting of the Moore
County ISstorigBl Associa
tion, will be held Tuesday,
February 16, at 8 pm, in the
conference rooms of Sanders
Whispering Pines Restaurant,
off No. 1 highway, north of
Southern Pines.
Colin G. Spencer of Carth
age is president of the coun
ty-wide group. All interested
persons are invited.
The Tuesday night gather
ing is not a dinner meeting,
but it is expected that re
freshments will be served.
What the progr,am will be
was not available for an
nouncement today.
Residents of the Carthage and
Southern Pines areas will have
a chance next week to give blood
in the program that supplies both
hospit2ds of the county through
the Red Cross center in Charlotte.
A bloodmobile will visit the
Carthage School gymnasium
Monday, February 15, from noon
to 5:30 p.m., and will be at St.
Anthony’s School here on the
following day, Tuesday, February
16, from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Col. John Dibb, chairman of
the local Mayor’s Committee to
promote the blood program here,
said today that arrangements
have been made with the Psycho
logical Warfare section of the
John F. Kennedy Special War
fare Center at Fort Bragg, for a
Bound truck with loudspeaker,
from the Center, to circulate in
Southern Pines Tuesday morning
and afternoon, with a local an
nouncer, to remind residents of
the blood collection taking place
here that day.
J. R. Hauser of Southern Pines,
Red Cross chapter chairman and
also head of the blood program,
said that Moore County is run
ning 210 pints short for the first
six months of the program’s year
which began last July.
This, he said, means that Moore
County patients have used that
much more blood than donations
have brought in. He urged' that
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replicas for winners, are award
ed in all classes of the Hunter
Trials.
The three junior classes are
Junior (13 years old and under)
Junior (14 trough 18), and Open
Junior (all ages through 18).
Adult classes include: First
Season Hunters, Thoroughbred
Hunters, Non - Thoroughbred
Hunters, Open Hunters and Hunt
Teams, in which at least seven
teams have been entered. The
hunt teams event always pro
ves one of the most enjoyable of
the day’s events.
There is also the final Cham
pionship Class, for the Stoney-
brook Perpetual 'Trophy, in
which first and' second place win
ners in all classes are eligible,
following a field master over a
special course.
A special feature is awarding
of the Field Hunter Challenge
Trophy, for the best field hunter,
in the opinion of the Hunt Com
mittee, being “fairly and regu
larly hunted with the Moore
County Hounds during the cur
rent year.”
Programs for the complete
Hunter Trials will be available.
The county commissioners in a
recent special meeting let a con
tract for a new fire truck, under
the county’s rural fire protection
program, which they said would
be assigned to Aberdeen, for use
out of town.
They also went on record as
planning to advertise for bids on
or about June 1 for another fire
truck, to be purchased with an
appropriation in the 1965-66 bud
get, which will be assigned to
Pinebluff.
The contact let last week was
to the. American Fire Apparatus
Co. of Fayetteville, low bidder
at $12,500, which is included in
the cuirent county budget. 'The
truck is expected to be delivered
within 90 days.
Price Of Haircuts To
Be Increased 25 Cents
The Moore County Chapter of
the North Carolina Master Bar
bers Association announced to
day that the price of haircuts will
be increased 25 cents in barber
shops throughout the county, ef
fective March 1.
The increase will raise the
price of a haircut from $1.25 to
$1.50 in all shops cooperating
with the association.
Officials of Sandhills Commu
nity College have been virtual
ly assured of state and federal
funds for construction in excess
of one million dollars, reports Dr.
Raymond A. Stone, president of
the college. A half-million dollar
allocation for construction has
been made by the State Board of
Education and federal funds to
taling $568,013 were recommend
ed by the N. C. Higher Educa
tion Facilities Commission, a
CAMERON NATIVE
Phillips Awarded
Big Scholarship
John A. Phillips, a junior at
the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and the son of Jack
A. Phillips, Jr., of Cameron, is
one of eight North Carolina col
lege students who have been
awarded Reynolds Scholarships
for study at the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine, Winston-
Salem.
'The scholarship program, spon
sored by the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation will provide each re
cipient $14,000 during his four
years in medical school. In addi
tion, the foundation will supple
ment each scholeu^is: internship
salary, during his fifth year of
medical education, guaranteeing
him an income of $5,000 for that
year.
Selection of the scholars is
made by the medical school’s
committee on admissions on the
basis of character, scholarship
potential as a physician and fi
nancial need.
SUCCEEDING J. T, SHEPHERD
Wright To Be Pinehurst PoKce Chief
Gerald L. Wright of Southern
Pines will replace retiring Pine
hurst Police Chief J. T. Shepherd,
it was announced this week by
Pinehurst, Inc.
Mr. Wright, who is resigning
as foreman of final assembly for
Proctor-Silex Corporation here,
will join the Pinehurst police
department Monday and will take
over as chief on March 1.
Mr. Shepherd has been chief at
Pinehurst since 1948,
“Jerry” Wright has had seven
years of experience with the
Southern Pines Police Depart
ment, in which he served as pa
trolman and sergeant, and had
previously served with the
Army Military Police. He has at
tended numerous police schools
and FBI short courses.
Members of the police depart
ment at Pinehurst which is not
an incorporated town, are actual
ly township constables serving
by appointment of the county
Robbins Heading
Hardware Group
J. C. Robbins of Aberdeen, a
partner with J. W. Cooper in
ownership and operation of Bur
ney Hardware Co., Aberdeen,
was elected president of the
Hardware Association of the Car
olines, at the Association’s annual
Show and Convention held last
week at the Charlotte Merchan
dise Mart in Charlotte. He had
previously been first vice presi
dent of the group.
More than 500 independent
hardware retailers in the two
Carolines are members of the as
sociation which is affiliated with
the National Retail Hardware
Association.
Mr. Robbins has been with
Burney Hardware since 1937. He
is secretary of the board of trus
tees of Sandhills Community Col
lege.
BENEFIT SUPPER
A spaghetti supper, open to the
public, will be served at the
Southern Pines Moose Lodge,
Sunday, February 14, from 5:30 to
7:30 pm, for benefit of the lodge’s
building fund. The lodge is loca
ted on Clark St., reached from
the north end of N. W. Broad St.
AUMAN NAMED TO
NATIONAL OFFICE
T. Clyde Auman of West
End, Moore County's new
representative in the General
Assembly, was elected pres
ident of the National Peach
Council, at its annual meet
ing in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Monday.
A former president of the
North Carolina Peach Grow
ers Society and fill orchard
operiitor in this county for
many years, Mr. Auman was
present with his witfe, Mrs.
Sally Auman, at the Michi
gan meeting.
Site for the 1966 silver an
niversary meeting of the Na
tional Peach Council, which
will be in North Carolina, is
to be selected by the new
president. The Council was
formed in Charlotte 24 years
ago.
Elected to the N. C. House
of Representatives last No
vember, Mr. Auman took his
seat in Raleigh when the
General Assembly convened
February 3.
federal agency.
Under the federal act, tentative
approval of the federal agency in
North Carolina is required before
final approval is granted by edu
cation officials in Washington.
Dr. Stone said that these funds
will be used along with $1,000,-
000 in Moore County bond issue
funds to construct the first three
college buildings. Preliminary
planning for a foiu^h building to
house trade and technical educa
tion has begun.
The $500,000 grant in state
funds is the first to be allocated
from appropriations made by the
1963 General Assembly. Four
other community colleges are ex
pected to receive similar grants.
'The recommended federal
grant of $568,013 was one of two
grants to community colleges in
North Carolina for construction
approved by the State Commis
sion. The other went to Gaston
College.
Federal funds for college con
struction were appropriated by
the 88th Congress. College offi
cials made application Novem
ber 30 for a grant. Since that
time, applications have been stud
ied carefully and assigned prior
ity before a recommendation was
made last week. Recommended
applications have now been sent
to education officials in Wash
ington for final approval. Dr.
Stone states that he expects ap
proval of federal funds within 60
days.
Contracts Awarded
Contracts totalling $1,292,533
for construction of the college
have been awarded to six North
Carolina firms, calling for com
pletion of one building within
eight months. 'This timetable will
enable the college to open on
schedule with the fall term of
1965, Dr. Stone said. Other Wild
ings will be completed within a
year.
Contracts were awarded last
week to the H. R. Johnson Com
pany, Monroe, for gerteral con
struction, $916,591; Steele Elec
trical Company, Monroe, for elec
trical construction, $115,958;
plumbing. Community Plumbing
& Heating Company, Greensboro,
$61,500, and Carroll & Gift, San
ford, for plumbing construction,
$25,302; heating construction,
Crutchfield Plumbing & Heating,
Greensboro, $170,393; Southern
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FORMER LOCAL ATHLETIC STAR
Mattocks Appointed Head Elon Coach
GERALD L. WIRIGHT
however, the head of the depart
ment has by custom had the des-
commissioners. For many years,'ignation, “police chief.”
News of the promotion of Gary
Mattocks from assistant to head
football coach at Elon College,
announced Saturday, recalls the
days when Gary performed as
the “galloping ghost” of Southern
Pines’ state championship sixman
football team.
Before his graduation from
Southern Pines High School in
1951, Gary was one of Coach Phil
Weaver’s stars, helping lay the
foundation for teams which cap
tured the state title three times.
Mattocks started his athletic
career in basketball, as an 8th
grader in the Jonesboro school,
which is now in Sanford. His par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George H.
Mattocks, moved to Southern
Pines in 1946 and he continued as
a three-letter man, tops in foot
ball, basketball arid baseball.
He played his first 11-man
football at Greenbrier Military
Academy, where he spent a year
on a scholarship following grad
uation here. He briefly attended
Duke, where he clayed freshman
football, then left at midterm of
his freshman year to enlist in the
82rid Airborne Division. After
SADA MEETING
Chancellor John Caldwell of
North Carolina State at Raleigh
is speaking this (Thursday) eve
ning at a 7 pm dinner meeting of
the Sandhills Area Development
Association at Howard Johnson’s
Restaurant, between Southern,
Pines and Aberdeen. Delegations three years as a paratrooper, he
are expected from Moore, Hoke, returned to student life, enrolling
Lee, Montgomery and Richmond at East Carolina College, where
Counties which comprise the he earned his bachelor S and roas-
SADA area. ter’s degrees, as a quarterback
College library Needs
Magazine Back Issues
Sandhills Community College
library is in the process of be
ing organized and needs back is
sues of magazines.
Mrs. Mary Drue McGraw, li
brarian, asks that individuals in
this area who subscribe to peri
odicals will remember the college
library and not destroy back is
sues.
“A library can grow into a
good research center for students
and faculty through gifts from
[friends which augment subscrip-
j tions,’* according to Mrs. Mc
Graw.
Donors are asked to contact the
(librarian of Sandhills Communi
ty College on N. W. Broad Street
or call 695-1471. 'The college will
evaluate gifts in terms of their
usefulness to the purposes of the
institution, it was stated.
CAMELLIAS EXHIBITED
Camellia blossoms from the
estate of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mor
ton on Youngs Road will remain
on view at the Southern Pines
Library through Saturday. FVesh
blooms exhibited this week, in
cluding numerous rare speci
mens, exceed in beauty those
shown last week, because of the
warmer weather. The public is
invited to view the display.
GARY MATTOCKS
for two seasons and a halfback
the third. As a graduate student
in physical education he' coached
freshman football.
He taught briefly at Hamlet
and served 'for a while as assis
tant, theii director, of physical
education at the, Fayetteville
YMCA. He joined the Elon staff
in 1960 as coach of backs and
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THE WEATHER
Max. 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.
February
February
February
February
February
February
February- 10
Max.
Min.
4 ....
48
18
5
49
16
6 ....
64
27
7
66
45
8
73
49
9 ....
75
47
10 ....
68
49