A ceremony
at the Penick Home for the aging
honored its retiring president,
H. T. Cosby of Charlotte. Page
17.
A young man
under indictment for larceny,
who walked out of a hospit^, re
mained missing this week. See
page 17.
VOL.—45 No. 14
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1965
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
EXTRADITION WAIVED
M'
2 Young Men Arrested In Florida
For Armed Robbery At Inn Sunday
A holdup committed early
Sunday morning at Holiday Inn,
where Mrs. Mary Baxter, nigh^
auditor, was forced at gunphint
to turn over nearly $200 in cash
to two nervous young bandits,
triggered a police investigation
which apparently reached a suc
cessful conclusion two days later.
Southern- Pines Chief Earl Sea-
well said Tuesday afternoon that
ACCIDENT VICTIM
Rites Held Here
Today For Mrs.
^ra S. Elliott
Myi
Mrs. Louis Elliott, 39, the for
mer Myra Scott of Southern
Pines, was instantly killed Sun
day afternoon in an automobile
accident at Conway in North
ampton County, close to the
North Carolina-Virginia line.
She and her husband were re
turning to their home at Wil
liamsburg, Va., after spending the
weekend here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Scott, pro
prietors of the Charlton Court
Motel.
Mr. Elliott was taken to the
Naval Hospital at Portsitnouth,
Va., following the head-on col
lision, so seriously injured that
he was unable to give information
immediately as to who his wife
was, or whom to notify. Word
of their daughter’s death did not
reach the Scotts until Monday
night. According to information
reaching Southern Pines, the ac
cident was a head-on collision
and involved three cars. The
driver of one of the other cars
was charged with manslaughter,
it was reported.
She was a native of Duplin
County, who moved here with
her parents when a child, and at
tended local schools.
Surviving, in addition to her
husband and parents are one
daughter by a former marriage,.
Charlotte Boes of Southern
Pines; one sister, Nancy Scott, of
Southern Pines; and four broth
ers, Thomas Scott of New York
City and John, Andy and Mike
Scott of Southern Pines. '.
Funeral services were held
here this (Thursday) afternoon at
the First Baptist Chinch, con
ducted by the pastor, the Rev,
John D. Stone, with burial in Mt.
Hope Cemetery.
SUNDAY NIGHT
Local Sponsors
Urge Public To
See ‘Saint Joan’
Drama with a religious theme
has been presented in all 50
states by The Bishop’s Company
of Burbank, Calif., which will
bring a production of George
Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan’’ to
Weaver Auditorium, Sunday
evening, February 21.
Sponsored here by the Men of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, the
play about Joan of Arc—the
young French peasant girl who
became a martyr for her faith-
will begin at 7:30 pm.
The Bishop’s Company is spon
sored on its travels by churches
of numerous denominations. Its
local sponsors urge that members
of all churches here plan to at
tend.
Tickets will be on sale at the
door or may be obtained in ad
vance at Barnum Realty, Hobbs
Insurance or Tots’ Toggery.
Organ Recitals At
Pinehurst Continue
A series of Wednesday after
noon organ recitals at the Village
Chapel in Pinehurst continued
this week with William C. Whit
ley, organist and choirmaster at
Enimanuel Episcopal Church, as
guest recitalist.
At- 5 pm Wednesday of next
week, February 24, William
Stokes, organist at Brownson Me
morial Presbyterian Church, will
play.
On Wednesday March 3, and
subsequent Wednesdays, also at
5 p.m., Theodore H. Keller, organ
ist and director of music at the
Village Chapel, will continue the
recitals.
The public is invited.
two Wake County youths an
swering the descriptions of the
ivanted pair, with similar car and
weapons in their possession, were
being held at Palatka, Fla., by
the Putnaih County sheriff’s de-
partnient.
Seawell said he was preparing
fugitive warrants preferring
charges of armed robbery against
Frederick Howard Johnson, 20,
Cary and Bobby Phiel Clay
ton, 21, of Morrisville.
Ihformation from Palatka Wed
nesday night was that, while de
nying the charge, Johnson and
Clayton would waive extradition
to North Carolina. It is expected
that they will be brought here
within the coming week.
Identified From Photo
Johnson was identified by Mrs.
Baxter from a photo from Ra
leigh police files as the medium-
height,' .slim-built bandit who
held a shotgun on her as he or
dered her to turn over all the
cash. Shd did so, scooping curren
cy and coins out onto the coun
ter, whence he and his stockier,
light-haired companion stuffed it
into their pockets. They were
seen by Mrs. Baxter and another
witness. Miss Pat Willcox, to
drive off at high speed in a small,
cherry-red Volkswagen.
The car provided a trail which
was followed, among many oth
ers, in the intensive investigation
which led to Palatka 56 hours
later. While cooperation was giv
en by many law enforcement
agencies, Seawell credited the
SBI and the sheriff’s departments
of Stanly, Wake and Gaston
counties with specific aid which
helped tie loose ends into a knot.
Crucial Clue
The clue which proved crucial
was the report of a salesman at
The Ponderosa, a combination
store and restaurant at Albe
marle, that he had sold shotgun
shells to two youths driving a
red Volkswagen Sunday at 11
am. The youths answered the de
scriptions of the wanted men on a
news broadcast of the holdup
which the salesman had just
heard. He noted the license num
ber of the car which, while it had
a minor error in it, led to Wake
County when closely similar li
cence-numbers were checked out.
Wake Officers determined the
identity of the youths, also that
they were missing from their
homes and that one had relatives
in Palatka. They were able also
to provide a photo of Johnson,
who, they said, is on probation
following a larceny conviction of
August, 1962, in Wake County
Superior Court.
Gaston County officers entered
the picture when the red Volks
wagen was seen passing through
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Foundation Aid
Asked For Camp
, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Liddell re
turned recently from Atlanta,
Ga., where they showed color
slides taken last summer at Camp
Easter in the Pines to the director
of the Sears Roebuck Founda
tion.
Mrs. Liddell, who is coordinator
for Camp Easter, requested that
this facility for crippled children
be included in the Sears Roebuck
Foundation budget for aid-to-
youth programs.
Camp Easter, a state-wide fa
cility of the North Carolina So
ciety for Crippled Children and
.Adults, open^ last summer at a
site just north of Southern Pines.
Additional construction at the
camp is expected to begin soon.
TO BREAK GROUND
FOR CAMP LODGE
Ground will be broken Jor
Ihe large lodge building at
Camp Easier in the Pines,
'north of Southern Pines, at
,a ceremony set for 2 pm,
• Wednesday, Febfluary 24,
Mrs. Mark Liddell, coordina
tor for the camp, announced
this morning.
' The public is invited.
The main lodge building at
the facility for handicapped
Children will contain a dining
ball capable of seating ISO
personsi, kitchen, lounge and
first aid room. Austin and
Faulk are the architects and
L.' M. -Daniels, Jr. was low
bidder on the construction
coxUtact.
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Mrs. William Gilbert is the champion’s rider.
At left is the reserve champion. The Imp,
owned and ridden by Miss Mary Virginia Mor
ton of Southern Pines. The trophy is given by
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Walsh.
(Humphrey photo)
WINNERS— Mrs. Eldridge Johnson of Edge-
mont. Pa., right, holds the Stoneybrook Per
petual Trophy won by her brown mare.
Mystery, center, in the Championship Class at
Saturday’s 33rd Annual Hunter TriMs here.
FOR CRIPPLED
Gilmore To Head
’65 State Easter
Seal Fund Drive
Charles T. Enman of Asheville,
president of the North Carolina
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults has announced the
appointment of Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines as the State
Easter Seal Campaign Chairman
for 1965.
Senator Gilmore, a prominent
North Carolinian, served as the
first director of the United States
Travel Service frcwn August 15,
1961, until May, 1964. He estab
lished USTS travel . promotion of
fices in London, Paris, Frankfurt,
Rome, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Tokyo,
Mexico City, and Sydney; and
set up visitor reception programs
within the United States.
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He has served as town council
man and mayor of Southern
Pines. He twice has been elected
president Of the North Carolina
Travel Council, and was appoint-
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OFF UMITS
The South Cantonment Area of
Camp Mackall, south of Pine-
bluff, is Off Limits to all person
nel during the period March 1-5,
as military demolitions will be
exploded in this area during this
period, it was announced this
week by the Information Office
at Fort Bragg.
ROCHAMBEAU GIVEN TROPHY
Mystery Wins Championship, The Imp
Places Second In 33rd Hunter Trials
After winning the Open Hunt
ers Class at Saturday’s 33rd An
nual Hunter Trials, conducted
here by the Moore County
Hounds, Mystery, a brown mare
owned by Mrs. Eldridge Johnson
of Edgemont, Pa., became the
Local Girl Serving
As Senate Pagette
Gerry Gilmore, 15-year-old
daughter of State Senator and
Mrs. Voit Gilmore, of Southern
Pines, is serving this week as a
“pagette” in the Senate at Ra
leigh and may continue her work
there into next week. She is a
sophomore at East Southern
Pines High School.
Pagettes, like their boy coun
terparts, the pages, are available
to senators and representatives
throughout each day’s session, to
do errands and perform other
chores. In Raleigh, Miss Gilmore
is staying with her father at the
Sir 'Walter Hotel.
Charles A. McLaughlin, Jr.,
local high school senior and son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McLaugh
lin of Southern Pines, is in his
third week of service as a page
in the House of Representatives
at Raleigh, expecting to conclude
his work there at the end of his
week, perhaps to return later in
the session.
STEEPLECHASE SET FOR APRIL 10
Office For Stoneybrook Race Meeting
Opens This Week In Southland Hotel
Donald D. Kennedy, serving
again this year as chairman for
the Stoneybrook hunt race meet
ing to be held here Saturday,
April 10, opened an office this
week on the ground floor of the
Southland Hotel. The Stoney
brook office in previous years
has been located in the Macken
zie Building which is on the
same block of W. New Hamp
shire Ave. as is the Southland.
Among local persons assisting
in preparing for the 1965 Stoney
brook meeting are Henry C.
Flory, chairman of the Finance
Committee; W. H. Frantz, Sr.,
chairman of the Entertainment
Committee; and Mrs. A. M. Kos-
ter, who will be in charge of pub
licity and advertising. James
.Hartshorne of Resort Realty Co.
will assist as in past years
Mr. Kennedy also revealed that
the Race Committee Chairmen’s
Association will meet here Fri
day, April 9, the day before the
Stoneybrook meeting.
The Association is a new group
formed at a meeting in New
York City last October, Mr. Ken
nedy said. At that time, the
group accepted Mr. Kennedy’s in
vitation to hold its Spring meet
ing in Southern Pines. The
Spring meeting of the Association
will be held regularly at the sites
of various hunt race meetings in
the Eastern and Mid-'W'estern
areas from which its membership
is drawn.
For the past three years, Mr.
Kennedy has been appointed a
special member of the Hunts
Committee of the National Stee
plechase and Hunt Association.
The Hunts Committee, whose re
cently elected chairman is Austin
A. Brown of Camden. S. C., ap
proves racing dates for meetings
conducted under auspices of the
National Steeplechase and Hunt-
Association
Mr. Kennedy’s appointment to
the Hunts Committee is generally
considered to be a tribute to the
high regard in which the Stoney
brook meeting is held by those
interested in steeplechasing.
champion of the day when she
placed first in competition with
first and second place winners
from all classes of the event at
Scotts Comers.
Mrs. 'William Gilbert rode My
stery to take the two trophies—
the Stoneybrook Perpetual Tro
phy for the championship and
the Dwight Winkelman Challenge
Trophy in the Open Hunters
Class.
Declared reserve champion was
The Imp, a brown gelding owned
and ridden by Mary Virginia
Morton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
T. E. Morton of Youngs Road.
Before competing for the cham
pionship, The Imp had placed
second in the Open Hunters Class.
Judges for the Saturday trials,
which drew a large crowd of
spectators, and entries from over
North Carolina and out of the,
state, were Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Ciarter HI of Centerville, Md.
Three Junior classes were held
in the morning and six classes for
adult rid'ers in the afternoon.
In the colorful hunt teams,
event (three horses and riders)(<:
The Sedgefield Hunt’s entry, frorfi
Greensboro, placed first, followt^
by the team of the Moore Counl^
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Mrs. Brogden On
Demo Committee;
Lockey Endorsed
The Moore County Democratic
Executive Cornmittee last week,
elected Mrs. Hope Brogden of
Southern Pines first vice-chair
man of the committee to fill out
the unexplred term of Mrs. Pat
Rainey who resigned in Novem
ber. Mrs. Brogden is the wife of
E. O. Brogden who is the chair
man of the North Southern Pines
Democratic Precinct Committee
and practices law in Carthage.
The Executive Committee, with
Chairman' J. Elvin Jackson of
Carthage presiding, went on rec
ord' as unanimously endorsing
Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen for
the position of Highway Commis
sioner for this district, with Gov.
Dan K. Moore to be informed of
the endorsement.
Other business included the
mapping out of a program for the
Democratic Party in the county
for 1965.
Survey Recommends
Place All Schools In
One County System
In a report submitted to the
county commissioners, who or
dered a professional survey to
help county and school officials
decide what to do about school
facilities in the southern part of
the county, a research group con
cludes: “The best solution would
be such legal action as would be
necessary to place the southern
part of Moore County entirely
within the County system. The
school population of the entire
152 Pints Blood
Donated Here, 68
At Carthage Stop
Residents of the Southern
Pines area turned out in force
Tuesday to donate 152 pints of
blood during a visit here by a
bloodmobile from the Red Cross
Center in Charlotte.
The center regularly supplies
blood of all types to patients at
both hospitals in Moore County,
without charge except for a
small handling charge.
A collection at Carthage on
Monday amounted to 68 pints.
Results of the two collections
were announced by Mrs. Audrey
K. Kennedy, executive secretary
of the Moore County Red Cross
Chapter, in the absence of J. R.
Hauser of Southern Pines, county
ARC and Blood Program chair
man, who is a patient at Duke
Hospital, Durham.
Mrs. Kennedy praised the co
operation of-S^tfaem Pines don
ors and the work- done here in
promoting the collection by Col.
John Dibb, the new chairman of
the local Mayor’s Committee to
boost blood donations. She call
ed the Carthage collection disap
pointing.
Colonel Dibb this week thank
ed all the persons who gave
blood Tuesday and the groups
who had helped in soliciting don
ors or at the collection point, St.
Anthony's School. These inclu
ded members of the BPOE Does
and the'Junior 'Woman’s Club.
“I want the people of Southern
Pines to know we appreciate
what theyrhave done for us,” said
Colonel Dibb.
The 152 pints collected here
Tuseday approached but did not
reach the record-breaking 174
pints donated in a collection here
one year ago, following the an-
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county is about 10,000. This is just
about the right size for building
a good school system.”
The survey was made by Edu
cational Research Services, Inc.,
of White Plains, N. Y.
More specifically, the report
states:
“By far the best solution from
the standpoint of best distribu
tion of facilities, most efficient
use of construction money, great
est convenience in meeting popu
lation growth and transitions in
enrollment, is a plan which would
place all three districts (Area HI
of the county system. Southern
Pines and Pinehurst) into one
adhiinistrative unit.”
Along this line, the report sug
gests that the central consolidat
ed school built for this district
“would initially be a 9-12 (grade)
school but ultimately would be
come a 10-12 (grade) senior high
school for . . . the entire southern
part of Moore County . . . Exist
ing facilities could be converted
by appropriate additions and re
novations to junior high school
centers. . . ”
In noting two other alterna
tives, for both of which several
disadvantages are listed, the sur
vey stresses that any alternative
should be undertaken “if carried
forward so as not to stand in the
way of a future combination of
the entire southern part of the
county.”
These two alternatives are:
1. To merge, the separate “city”
school systems of Southern Pines
and Pinehurst and leave the
Aberdeen and West End (Area
III) district of the county school
system with a high school of its
own.
2. To merge the Pinehurst sys
tem with the Area III consolida
ted district, leaving the Southern
Pines Schools in a separate sys
tem, as they are today.
Another alternative which was
investigated—and which the sur
vey called the “least desirable”
of the three—would be to leave
the schools as they now are—
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
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$1,287 COLLECTED
Contributions to the Moore
County- Cerebral Palsy fund drive
amount to $1,287.29, Mrs. "Vivien
McKenzie of Pinehurst, treasur
er, reported yesterday. Donations
may still be made to the fund,
she said.
Pinehui^f Wins ’
Regulii^ Seasori
Basketball Title
GERALD GARNER
The Pinehurst Rebels won
their third Moore County Regu
lar Season Championship Tues
day night as they demolished
Aberdeen ,64-29. The Rebels pav
ed the way to their 25th straight
victory of the . year last week by
downing West End 71-51 and by
crushing Southern Pines 90-51.
Pinehurst went into the game
Tuesday night holding a slim one
game lead over Aberdeen. Aber
deen’s only previous loss was to
Pinehurst by. the score of 73-44
earlier in the season.
Pinehurst jumped to a quick
lead as Wiley Barrett tapped the
tip-off to. Johnny Williamson
who proniptly .laid it in for Pine
hurst. Pinehurst scored again on
a field goal by Don 'Vest and
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Ceremony Held
At New Building
For Agriculture
Several hundred visitors
streamed through the Moore
County Agriculture Building
Monday night, following a dedi
cation program at which this
new facility was turned over to
the citizens of the county.
The brief ceremony was held in
the combined home demonstra
tion kitchen and meeting room,
from which the crowd overflow
ed into adjoining corridors and
offices.
Prayer was offered by the Rev.
W. S. Golden of Carthage. John
M. Currie of Carthage, chairman
of county commissioners, made
the dedication speech. Expressing
the commissioners’ pride in the
completion of the building, he
said, “After years of waiting till
we could build up a reserve, we
took what money we had in hand
and went ahead. It is paid for. We
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COUin'Y TOURNEY
SET NEXT WEEK
B^ketball coaches of
Moore' County high schools
and tournament official^ will
meet-Saturday morning in
Carthage to decide pairings
in the Moore County Basket
ball Tournament which will
open Monday at Union Pines
High School gym.
Play will continue Monday
through ' Thursd^.y. with
finals set for Saturday, Feb
ruary 27. There will be no
games Friday.
Boys' and girls' teams from
seven high schools will par
ticipate.
FEB. 22 CLOSINGS
Banks throughout the county
will be closed Monday, February
22, in observance of Washington’s
Birthday and post offices will be
on holiday schedule. In Southern
Pines, there will be no home mail
delivery and windows at the post
office will be closed, but incom
ing and outgoing mail will be
processed as usual.
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.
Max. Min
February 11 79 56
February 12 73 59
February 13 60 56
February 14 35 34
February 15 37 29
February 16 43 24
February 17 47 40