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VOL. 40—NO. 19
Funerals Held for
Moore Men Killed
In Head-on Crash)
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at separate
churches for three men who were
killed about 7 p.m. Saturday in a
head-on collision on Highway 211,
two miles west of Pinehurst.
Killed in the crash were:
Everett P. Hinson, 53, of West
End, secretary of the Sandhill
Furniture Co. at West End and a
department head with that com
pany.
Robert Owen Carter, 20, of
Eagle Springs, Route 1, a third
shift weaver at the A & M Kara-
glieusian, carpet plant in Aber-,
deen.
Cyrus Monroe Donaldson, 34, an
inter-state truck driver employed
by the L. G. DeWitt Trucking
Co. of Ellerbe.
State Highway Patrolman R. R.
Samuels, who investigated, said
that Hinson and Donaldson were
in one car headed toward Pine
hurst, and that Carter was alone
in the other car, going in the op
posite direction.
' Cause of the accident remained
unknown. The road is straight at
the point of impact. Whether Hin
son or Donaldson was driving the
east-bound automobile was not
determined.
Hinson was well known in this
area and had been a candidate for
county commissioner several
years ago. He had been with the
Sandhill Furniture Co. for many
years.
Funeral services for Carter,
were held at the Eagle Springs
Baptist Church at 4:30 p.m. Mon
day. The pastor, the Rev. Winfred
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TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1960
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
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Trimble Plant Has 150 Payroll,
Shipping out 1,000 Units Daily
With 150 persons employed on
two shifts, the Trimble Products,
Inc., plant that was completed
here late in 1959 is producing
about 1,000 uni,ts of nursery fur
niture daily.
William J. Donovan, president.
estimates that the plant is oper
ating at about 60 to 75 per cent
of capacity. Two big trailer loads
of “Kiddie-Baths,” “Kiddie-
Yards” and other Trimble metal
and plastic nursery and play
equipment roll out of Southern
iWlQT
THE PILOT
.1 PILOT
ready to GO! — The Pilot’s street sales
boys go out today for the first time with new
newspaper carrier-bags printed with The Pilot’s
name in big green letters. These boys sell a com
bined total of about 500 papers, on the streets
each week. Left to right: Sylvester Dixon, Jer
ry Absher, Dempsey Bailey, David McRae and
Richard Wilson. (Pilot photo)
COUNTY-WIDE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FORMED
Troutman, GOP
Man, First .to
File in Primary
Drewry E. Troutman of Addor
was the first Moore County can
didate of either party to file in
the May 28 primary when he list
ed his Republican candidacy for
county board of education with
Sam C. Riddle, chairman of the
county board of elections, Wed
nesday morning.
Mr. Troutman filed for nomin
ation as candidate for the District
5 post now held by Jere McKeith-
en of Aberdeen, Democrat.
James E. Harrington, Jr., Moore
Republican chairman, said this
week his party expects to enter
a full slate of candidates in the
primary for county commission
er, board of education and pos
sibly other offices.
Filing time wiU end April 15.
Republican candidates have
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3 High School Consolidation Plans Outlined
$1,400 Netted by
Antiques Fair;
Dealers Pleased
The Antiques Fair sponsored
last week by the Moore County
Historical Association netted
about $1,400—which is $400 more
than last year—Mrs. Ernest Ives,
general chairman, reported this
week. This was the third, and
most successful year, that the
show has been held.
The total includes about $234
taken in by the food canteen
where donated hame-made food
items were served by volunteers
on a committee headed by Mrs.
Edward Schneider.
Mrs. C. W. Covington of Route
1, Aberdeen, was the winner of a
blown glass decanter which was
offered as a door prize. All the
dealers exhibiting contributed to
ward purchase of the decanter.
Hundreds of Moore County res
idents and visitors came to the
show which had displays of many
types of antiques. Dealers express
ed their satisfaction and a num
ber entered applications to return
for a similar event next year.
Proceeds of the show go toward
Nearly 200 persons from every
school district in Moore County,
including the Southern Pines and
Pinehurst city administrative
imits, heard an explanation of the
county board of education’s high
school consolidation proposals
Tuesday night—and a county
wide committee was set up to ad
vise the board and help explain
the proposals to the public.
The meeting was held in the
! Aberdeen school auditorium.
Many of the group had gathered
in the school cafeteria there for
a supper before the meeting.
The advisory committee mem
bers were chosen by the persons
present from each of the 11
school districts, who met in small
groups around the auditorium';
during an adjourned part of the
meeting, to elect their own repre
sentatives on the committee.
The committee members, by
school districts, are:
Southern Pines, Charles Cole
and Mrs. R. M. McMillan.
iPinehurst, Paul Monroe and
Mrs. Wesley Viall, Jr.
Aberdeen, J. C. Robbins and
Mrs. Adelaide Schnell.
Carthage, Ken Suggs and Wil
bur H. Currie.
Cameron, Hayes Harbour, Paul
Thomas and Mrs. Warren
Thomas.. '
Vass-Lakeview, J. E. Causey
and R. E. Matthews.
Robbins, Arnold Gamer and
West End Billy Johnson and
Foster Williams.
Highfalls, Harold Purvis, Mrs.
Norris Shields and Dr. M. E.
Street.
Westmoore, Jimmy Garner and
Oliver Lambert.
Before the committee was
formed, R. E. Lee, superintendent
of the county school system—
which includes all schools of the
county except those in the sep
arately administered Southern
Pines and Pinehurst “city” units
—gave a detailed explanation of
the county board of education’s
high school consolidation plans
and proposals which consist of
three separate projects, each of
which, he estimated, would cost
about $1 million.
The proposals are:
1. Consolidation of Carthage,
Vass-Lakeview, Farm Life and
Cameron districts into one high
school.
2. Consolidation of Robbins,
Westmoore, Highfalls and part
of the West End district into one
high school.
3. Consolidation of Aberdeen,
Southern Pines, Pinehurst and
Library Week
To Be Observed
The Southern Pines Library is
joining in observance of National
Library Week, April 3-9, to en
courage greater use of library fa
cilities.
The observance here has adopt
ed a hobbies and pastimes theme,
pointing out that many books on
these subjects are available.
Mrs. Stanley Lambourne, li-, harness horse matinee of the sca
the advantages of consolidation tbrarian, said that a display of son at the Pinehurst track at 2:30
the lower end of the West End
district into one high school.
The last proposal would entail
the approval of the . Southern
Pines and Pinehurst districts and
it was stressed by Mr. Lee that
the reasons for this consolidation
oroposal are different, in part,
from those for the other two
plans.
For groups 1 and 2 he listed
Pines from the plant daily, with
items destined for dealers over
the United States. Some orders
are shipped overseas from the
company’s export department in
New York City..
Mr. Donovan revealed this
week that by June 1, it is planned
that the entire Trimble office de
partment will have moved here
from Rochester, N. Y., location of
the former Trimble operations.
Since work has begun here, the
accounting, orders, billing and
other office operations have been
conducted through Rochester, al
though all machinery that was in
Rochester has been shipped to
Southern Pines and is set up and
operating at the local plant.
Harry McStevick, Trimble sales
and Saturday. manager, who has been operating
The club is an organization of ^he Rochester office, was
adults interested in the band. expected here today-last of the
. ^ ^ Trimble executives and key per-
A percentage of the selling
price will be retained by the club southern Pines,
for the uniform fund, as a dona-
Fund Drive for
Band Uniforms
Launched Today
Members of the Band Boosters
Club are launching a fund drive
for new pniforms for the South
ern Pines High jSchool band by
selling Jesse Jones meat products
in local food stores; today, Friday
tion from- the meat company.
Mrs. Dwight Hoskins, chairman
of the club’s publicity committee,
said that the high school band’s
uniforms are 13 years old and
“are literally falling apart.” The
life of a uniform is considered to
be about six years, she said.
Cash donations to the uniform
fund, from organizations or in
dividuals, will be welcome, she
said.
Plans for the meat products
sale were made at a meeting of
the club in the school cafeteria
Monday night.
Harness Racing
Set for Sunday
The Pinehurst Driving and
Training Club wi)l stage its first
as:
Enabling the school to qualify
for membership in the Southern
Association by having a librarian,
full-time music teacher, adminis
trative secretary and additional
teacher for the commercial de
partment.
Make it possible for teachers to
replace teaching principals.
Make it possible to have a
band, glee club and public school
music.
Make possible larger and better
science laboratories and libraries.
Enrich the total curriculum.
Provide a high quality of lead
ership.
Improve teacher assignment.
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amateur pottery, and the mater
ials and tools used in making it,
has been loaned to the library by
Mrs. Donald White of Little Riv
er Farm on the Carthage road
and will be on view next week.
p. m. Sunday.
Six races are carded, inclu
ding a feature event with all
horses entered having two min
ute records.
Some of the nation’s finest trot-
Books and other materials deal- ters and pacers, in the Sandhills
ing with hobbies will be display
ed in the window of Barnum
Realty and Insurance Co. on N.
W. Broad St., Mrs. Lambourne
said. These include stamp and
coin collecting, painting and high
fidelity sound equipment.
Posters announcing Library
Week will be placed at various
places arodnd town.
Adults 'and young people are
urged to visit the library next
week, to learn about its various
services.
for winter trainings will perform
during the afternoon.
BIG CROWD ENJOYS STONEYBROOK RACES
Bin Junior Wins Sandhills Cup
projects of the Historical Associa- Richard James,
tion, including continuing restd-1 Farm Life, the Rev. Dan Nor-
ration of the Alston House in man, Hugh Martin McLeod and
Deep River Township. ! Furman Frye.
City Unit Education Boards Making
Joint Study of Consolidation Plans
in a hurry.
“It was the concensus of the
arth, chairman of the local dis-i two boards,” the statement said.
two boards, after the Friday
The Southern Pines and Pine
hurst boards of education are meeting, made it clear that they
conducting a joint study of prob
lems involved in any high school
consolidation program, it was an
nounced this week by John How-
Bin Junior, the favorite, won
the Safidhills Cup in the featured
race at the Stoneybrook Steeple
chase meeting here Saturday af
ternoon—but Mrs. M. G. Walsh’s
dark brown gelding, also the win
ner last year, was pushed hard in
the stretch by Coup-de-Vite, own
ed by Mrs. Henry Obre and rid
den by Michael Wettach, and won
by only a length. Tommy Walsh,
Mrs. Walsh’s nephew, rode the
winner.
Mrs. Jeanne Hamilton White’s
Maximum Kumma, ridden by R.
are not going to decide anything Wolfe, Jr., ran third. Power Hav-
trict’s board, and L. B. Creath,
Pinehurst chairman.
“that there are a number of edu
cational and operational problems
The two boards held a'joint consolidation involving
meeting at the Pinehurst school
library last Friday night', to dis
cuss present curricula and oper
ations of the two units and the
consolidation study. '
‘We are. trying to go into every
phase of the matter as it would
affect these particular units,” a
Southern Pines board member
said after the meeting.
Comparisons will be made with
other school units comparable to
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
with investigation of both those
which have and have not consol
idated with other units, to deter
mine what will be the best course
for the two Sandhills school dis
tricts to adopt.
A joint announcement from the
these two city administrative
units, and that enough detailed
information on the advantages
and disadvantages, upon which to
base an opinion or recommenda
tion, will not be available until
the completion of a study now
underway.”
Southern Pines school board
members present were John
Howarth, chairman. Dr. 'Vida Mc
Leod, Harry Menzel, N. L. Hodg
kins, Sr., P. I. York, and Luther
Adams, Superintendent.
Pinehurst school board mem
bers attending were L. B. Creath,
chairman, J. F. Taylor, A. H. Gar
rison, Jr., J. W. Sheffield, Mel
vin Wicker, and Lewis Cannon,
Superintendent.
en, owned by Mrs. W. T. Hall and
ridden by Allen Dutton, placed
fourth.
The race was about two and a
quarter miles over timber for a
purse of $1,000, of which the win
ner got $650.
The eight races on the card of
the Stoneybrook Hunt Racing As
sociation—of^ which Charles W.
Stitzer is president, Donald D.
Kennedy chairman, and Michael
G. (Mickey) Walsh, general man
ager and owner of the steeple
chase course—drew a crowd of
thousands who picknicked on the
hillside parking area, visited with
friends, cheered the horses and
enjoyed the season’s first bright,
mild afternoon.
Worst spills came in the final
race. The Appalachian, a mile and
a half over hurdles, when only
two of the four starters finished.
And the winner, Guilford Dud
ley’s Hurst Park, ridden by Nor-
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WINNER — Bin Junior, owned by Mrs. M. G. Walsh of South
ern Pines and trained by M. G. (Mickey) Walsh, is led to the
winner’s circle at the Stoneybrook Steeplechase Saturday, after
leading all the way in the featured Sandhills Cup race. The rider
is Tommy Walsh who brought Bin Junior in first for the second
consecutive year in the Sandhills Cup. Other Stoneybrook photos
are on pages 19 smd 8. (Humphrey photo)
Band, Drill Team,
Harness Horses
Add to Program
Units from the 82nd Airborne
Division at Fort Bragg and har
ness horses from Pinehurst train
ing stables added interest and
color to the Stoneybrook Hunt
Racing Association’s program
here Saturday afternoon.
For Southern Pines, it was a
double show, so far as the 82nd’s
units were concerned. At 11 a. m.
they paraded through the busi
ness section, allowing many per
sons to see them who would not
be able to view their display at
the races in the afternoon.
Seen at both places were the
Division’s band, color guards,
and precision drill team, wearing
spotless white gloves—with all
50 state flags. ^
The flags were carried in the
I parade and, at the race meeting,
jwere set up in long lines at each
side of the judges’ stand, remain
ing flying in the stiff breeze that
blew across the course, affording
a bright and unique sight.
The band took part in a cere
mony saluting a large group of
retired generals and admirals
who were the Racing Associa
tion’s guests of honor for the day.
The drill team put on an amaz
ing precise performance of
marching and elaborate rifle
drills.
Octave Blake of Pinehurst,
owner of the Newport Stock
Farms, commented on harness
racing and the two horses driven
back and forth before the specta
tors on exhibition. 'The horses
were a pacer. Bright Star, winner
of the $100,000 two-year-old pace
at the Yonkers, N. Y. Raceway,
driven by Earl Avery; and the
trotter, Dundee B, driven by
Wendell Wathen. This horse has
accumulated earnings of over
$100,000.
Mr. McStevick’s arrival is the
first step in consolidation of all
office procedure here.
Mr. Donovan said that the com
pany has sold its Rochester plant,
which has 124,000 square feet of
floor space, to a real estate firm.
The employees here, many of
whom are women, come from a
radius of 40 miles around South
ern Pines, although most of them
live in the Sandhills. About 100
work on the 7:30 a. m. to 4 p. m.
shift and 50 on the 4 p. m. to
12:30 a. m. shift.
Mr. Donovan is pleased with
the quality of the persons em
ployed. “They learn rapidly and
give a good day’s work,” he said.
The company is not now ac
cepting additional employment
applications, unless they are re
quested.
Key personnel who have moved
here from Rochester inclqde Mr.
Donovan; Robert Paddock, vice-
president in charge of production;
Edward Ashworth, production
manager; Edward Hahle, plant
engineer; and Bernard Ochs, pur
chasing agent.
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines is sales promotion manager;
and Garland Pierce of Southern
Pines is office manager.
Mr. Ewing said that thefe was
a,good response to the showing of
Trimble products at the January
markets in Chicago, Atlanta and
New York City. In April, the
company plans to show its prod
ucts at a Boston market and re
turn to the other markets again
in June.
Mr. Ewing said that shipments
have gone recently to customers
in, practically every major city in
the East and to the West Coast. A
recent foreign shipment went to
Venezuela and others have been
sent to Puerto Rico, West Indian
islands and to Naples, Italy. Most
of the export business, he said, is
to South America.
Products of two other Moore
County manufacturing plants are
used constantly in the Trimble
operations.
Heavy, wide-mesh nylon lace
for the sides of the patented
Trimble “Kiddie-Yard”—a play
pen with a metal frame—is made
at the Carolina Lace plant at Rob
bins. Extruded plastic belting and
tubing for the Kiddie-Bath and
other items is made by the Mir-
guet-Hyland company at Pine-
bluff, re-using scraps of plastic
material trimmed from mattress
coverings and other plastic parts
of items on the Trimble produc
tion line.
In the plant there is a canteen
area with several tables, chairs
and vending machines, where em
ployees can relax during lunch
periods. 'The company plans to
construct an outdoor area for this
purpose, which can be used in
good weather.
Further grading, landscaping
and removing of scrub oak trees
in the area around the plant is
planned. Extensive landscaping
has already been completed.
On TV Program
The Trimble Kiddie-Bath, in
which Alcoa aluminum is ■ used,
will be featured in a commercial
on the Alcoa Theatre TV pro
gram, Monday, April 4, 9:30 to 10
p. m., on NBC-TV. North Caro
lina stations carrying the program
will be Channel 5, Raleigh, Chan
nel 9, Charlotte; SjOd Channel 12,
Winston-Salem.