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What’s it like
to live ori Guam? A former Sand
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charmingly of his new life in the
Pacific ... on page 17.
VOL. 40—NO. 27
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
Dr. Dawson to Deliver Address June 3
* To Graduates at West Southern Pines
Dr. A. C. Dawson, Jr., of Ra-f
leigh, executive secretary of the
North Carolina Education Assoc
iation and former superintendent
of Southern Pines schools, will de
liver the commencement address
at graduation exercises of West
Southern Pines High School, Fri-
day, June 3, at 8 p.m. in the school
auaitorium.
_ Presentation of diplomas to 22
7 high school seniors at that time
will Climax a week of activities
at the school, starting Friday
night of this week. May 27, with
the Awards Night program at 8
p.m. At that time, students who
have excelled in scholarship,
sports and certain character traits
will be rewarded for their efforts.
This and all other programs of
the week will be in the high
school auditorium.
The baccalaureate service will
be held Sunday, May 29, at 4 p.m.,
with the Rev. R. L. Speaks, pastor
of the St. Mark A. M. E. Zion
Church, Durham, delivering the
sermon. Music will be furnished
by the high school glee club under
the direction of Mrs. I. H. Moore.
H. A. Wilson, West Southern
Pines School principal, will intro-
duce the speaker. Scripture and
W prayer will be given by the Rev.
J. R. Funderburk, retired presid
ing elder of the A. M. E. Zion
Church.
The senior class will present
Class Night exercises Monday,
May 30, at 8 p.m. The salutatory
will be delivered by Madelyn
Hart Moore, daughter of Mrs. I.
H. Moore, and the valedictory by
Brenda Joyce Marshall, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Major Marshall.
Nearly 100 boys
are playing supervised baseball in
Southern Pines. For a report on the
opening games of the season, with
photo, see page 9.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. Cf., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1960
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
DR. A. C. DAWSON, JR.
On Thursday, June 2, at 2 p.m.,
commencement exercises for the
eighth grade will be held.
The salutatory will be delivered
by Arlena Huntley and the Male
dictory by Etta Rose McCallum.
Music will be furnished by the
elementary glee club, also direct-
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^Mrs. Chandler Is
Hurt by Own Car
In Freak Accident
Mrs. Ralph Chandler, Jr. was
run over Tuesday night by her
own car in the driveway of her
home on Highland Road, after re
turning from Aberdeen where she
4jtook her daughter, Susie, for a
dance recital dress rehearsal at
the school auditorium.
Returning at 10 p.m., Mrs.
Chandler hurriedly parked the
car, leaving it, she believed, in
parking gear, on a small incline.
The automobile, evidently in an
other gear, started to slide down
hill as she got out, and the door
knocked Mrs. Chandler down. She
PLANS MADE FOR
COMMENCEMENT
Preliminary plans for Sou
thern Pines High School com
mencement exercises were
announced today by Luther
A. Adams, superintendent of
schools.
Events will begin Sunday,
June 5, at 8:15 p.m., when the
commencement sermon will
be delivered at the Church of
Wide Fellowship by Dr, J.
Lem Stokes, II, president of
Pfeiffer College at Misenhei-
mer.
Honors and Awards exer
cises will be held Wednesday,
June 8, at 1 p.m. in Weaver
Auditorium.
At 8:15 p.m., June 8, grad
uation exercises will take
place in Weaver Auditorium,
with Dr. Guy B. Phillips of ■
Chapel Hill delivering the
commencement address. Dr.
Phillips is professor of educa
tion at the University of
North Carolina and a member
of the Stale Board of Educa
tion.
' Details of all the programs
will appear in The Pilot next
week.
Summer Courses
To Be Given by
Local School
The Southern Pines City'|
Schools will operate a summer
school for students who failed a
subject during the school year.
Subjects offered will be liniited'
Warning Given on
Woods Fires after
Three This Week
An urgent warning of forest
fire danger was issued today by
Travis Wicker, Moore County
forest ranger, against a back
ground of three woods fires in the
county this week.
Woodlands dried by a long
period without rain and by wind
n'eate a fire hazard all over the
county, Mr. Wicker Said.
The forest ranger said that fire
fighting crews fortunately were
able to keep all three of this
week’s fires under control. But,
he noted, “We might not have
such good luck next time. One
carelessly thrown match could
devastate many acres and cause
the loss of much valuable tim
ber.”
First fire of the week was on
woodlands owned by Joe Caddell,
near Highway 15-501 at Hillcrest
on Monday. High wind hampered
fire fighters, but the burned area
was held to about four acres by
the use of firebreaks cut through
the woods and along old roads
with heavy equipment. The fire
was fought from noon to late in
the afternoon. Some farm build
ings were threatened.
Wednesday night there were
two fires. One burned over about
two acres near Pinehurst golf
courses, toward Southern Pines.
Another, four miles above Rob
bins near Route 705, burned about
four acres.
Primary Voting Will
Take Place Saturday
Moore County voters will go to
their 18 precinct polling places
Saturday to nominate three Dem
ocratic candidates for county
commissioner; to join in state
wide voting to nom.inate Demo
cratic candidates for governor,
lieutenant governor. United
States Senator, associate justice
of the Supreme Court and com
missioner of insurance; and, in
the Republican primary, to nom
inate candidates for lieutenant
governor and commissioner of in
surance.
Polling placqp will be open from
6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m.
Democrats going to vote will be
Many Phones Out
Of Service When
Cahle Cut Today
A 100-pair, underground tele
phone cable was accidently cut
by N. C. Natural Gas Co. work
ers who were digging a ditch
back of the Church of Wide Fel
lowship, about 11 a. m. today,
knocking out phone service in a
large part of the business section
between Pennsylvania and New
Hampshire Aves.
Joe R. Kimball, district mana
ger of the United Telephone
Company, said that a repair crew
was put on the job immediately
and that it is expected service
will be restored tonight, “ready
for business tomorrow.”
Mr. Kimball stressed that the
cut was not the fault of the gas
company workers. Location of the
telephone cable had been mis
judged, he said. The gas company
crew was digging a ditch to run
a* pipe into the Church of Wide
Fellowship.
AT RECEPTION—Mrs. Ray McDonald, left, and Mrs. Donald
Jones, who had charge of arrangements for a reception and cof
fee hour given for Terry Sanford of Fayetteville, Democratic
candidate for governor, at the Southern Pines Country Club Fri
day night, appear to be enjoying their chat with the candidate.
Mr. Sanford came to Southern Pines after addressing a rally at
Carthage. A large cake decorated with the candidate’s name was
included in the hospitality accorded him at the Country Club.
(Humphrey photo)
‘Let’s Wrap It Up in the First Primary,’
Sanford Urges Democrats at Carthage
Terry Sanford became the first I printed for general distribution
of the four Democratic candidates I niust be signed
for governor to campaign official
ly in Moore county, when he
spoke at a rally held in his honor
at the courthouse in Carthage last
Friday night.
Later his county co-managers,
John D. McConnell of Southern
Pines and Mrs. John L. Frye of
Robbins, were hosts at a coffee-
and-cakes “social” for him at the
Southern Pines Country Club.
Approximately 180 attended the
Carthage meeting, many of them
coming over later for the informal
gathering at the Country Club,
where they were joined by others,
for a crowd of some 150.
At the courthouse, the audience
waited patiently for the candidate,
who arrived 30 minutes after the
scheduled hour of 8 p.m. He ex
plained that he had been delayed
by a press conference at Raleigh
in connection with some “race
baiting anonymous leaflets” which
he said had been issued by oppo
sition campaigners in four coun
ties, in violation of the law which
decrees that political literature Connell.
Sanford said he had asked the
Cumberland County sheriff to re
quest an SBI investigation, and
added that, if there turned out to
be a definite law infraction, “we
are determined to prosecute to
the fullest extent of the law. We
don’t believe North Carolinians
want to run their political cam
paigns like that.”
Heading into the home stretch
toward the primary on Saturday,
the candidate appeared earnest
but relaxed and smiling. Cutting
his speech short because of the
initial delay, he touched on salient
points of his 35-point “program
for progress.” As he stressed his
major platform planks of activity
m the fields of education, indus
try, agriculture and roads, ap
plause punctuated his address.
There was another burst of ap
plause as Sanfnr-ri noted, “It’s get
ting awfully hot and I don’t think
anybody wants to campaign in
June—let’s wrap it all up in the
first primary!”
He was introduced by Mr. Mc-
MONDAY CLOSINGS
Most Southern Pines stores
and business offices will close
Monday in observance of fed
eral Memorial Day.
Town offices, including the
Information Center, will be
closed, as will the Citizens
Bank & Trust Co. and other
banks throughout the coun-
ly-
The post office will be on
holiday schedule: no home de
livery and windows closed,
but mail distributed to boxes
and outgoing mail processed
as usual.
The courthouse at Carthage
will be closed. Moore County
Recorder's Court will be held
Tuesday.
v* LIUWII. one •'
^ell on her face and the left front j make-up work, due to a sum-
wheel passed over her back from r ’
her left shoulder to her right hip,
causing several fractured ribs and
multiple bruises and lacerations.
perintendent Luther A. Adams
announced today. Jim Walser,
high school principal, will direct
Ruffin Wins Successful Elks Golf Event
Mr. Chandler, hearing his wife’s ' the summer school program,
screams, ran out of the house to j Registration will begin on Mon-
find the car stalled, against some day, June 13, at 8:30 a. m. in the
bushes. Susie had remained in the j office of the high school principal
c^ until it stopped, getting out:located on the May Street side
about her;of the school. Classes will begin
• • I immediately following registra-
^ Mrs. Chandler is a patient at tion
Moore Memorial Hospital. I c, j ^ ,
j Students from Pinehurst and
^ A C! 1 Moore County system schools
fjrliniOrC to iSpCaK. |Will be eligible to attend the sum-
j mer school.
At PJC Graduation Regulations require that a sum
mer school make-up course be
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines taken for three hours per day,
will deliver the commencement tor a period of 30 days. Classes
address at Presbyterian Junior begin at 8:30 a. m. and con-
/^ollege, Maxton, Monday, May tinue until 12 noon each day. No
MO, at 11 a. m. in the college audi- i classes will be held on July 4. 'The
toriurn. , school will close on July 25.
Mr. Gilmore is chairman of ’• Summer school expenses will
Synod’s council and a director of be $30 per course, payable upon
Consolidated Presbyterian Col- registration. A small additional
lege now under construction at, sum will be charged, where ap-
Laurinburgw A member'of the N. jplicable for the materials and
C. Board of Conservation and De-, supplies, Superintendent Adams
velopment, he is president of the ! said
W. M. Storey Lumber
.Southern Pines.
Co. of
If there is enough interest in a
remedial program in grades 1-4
and grades 5-8, a faculty will be
secured and this made a part of
MOOSE LODGE DANCE
First dance for members and the total summer school program,
guests will be held Saturday. Superintendent Adams explained.'
night, starting at 9 p. m., by j Summer school application
Southern Pines Moose Lodge No. ■ blanks may be secured from the
1817, at its new hom.e on old No. j office of the high school principal
1 highway south, in the former,in Aberdeen, Pinehurst and
Village Inn building. Francis' Southern Pines, or from, the of-
Marx is in charge of arrange- ] fice of the superintendent of
schools in Soutiiern Pines.
Art Ruffin of Wilson became
the first champion of the South
ern Pines Invitational Amateur
Elks golf tournament at the Sou
thern Pines Country Club Sunday
with a 148 total in the 36-hole
medal play event. Ruffin had
rounds of 73 on Saturday and 75
on Sunday.
Runner-up was Bill Woodward
of Robbins, who has copped the
Mopre County championship sev
eral times. His score was 78-72-
150.
Playing conditions were tricky
both days. Wind, 90 degree-plus
heat, dry, hard fairways and pins
placed in difficult spots on the
greens complicated play for the
best of the participants. Ruffin’s
qualifying round of 73, two over
par, was the lowest score shot
during the tournament, though 11
players broke 80 in the qualifying
round.
Trophy winners in the champ
ionship flight, in addition to Ruf
fin and Woodward, were: Rock
Zammiello, Gastonia, 80-75-155;
Mac Neeley, Statesville, 78-78-
156; Pete Patton, Morganton, 75-
82-157; and Perry Frye, Galax,
Va., 77-80-157.
Scores of othe^ Moore County
players in the championship flight
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TROPHIES PRESENTED—-Art Ruffin of Wil
son, second from left, receives the championship
trophy in the Elks golf tournament held here
last weekend from Mayor Robert S. Ewing. At
right is Bin Woodward of Robbins, runner-up
with his trophy. At left is Dr. Boyd Starnes of
Southern Pines, co-chairman of the event.
, (Humphrey photo)
Man Held Without
Bond for Attack
On Young Woman
A young West End Negro is be
ing held in Moore County jail
without privilege of bond, for
grand jury action, on capital
charges arising from a bold as
sault against a white woman.
Probable cause was found at a
preliminary hearing Monday be
fore a magistrate against Nathan
iel Terry, 22, on charges of first
degree burglary and assault with
attempt to commit rape. Victim of i
the attack was Mrs. Betty Con
rad. The assault took place at her
home in West End, Saturday
night. May 14.
Mrs. Conrad, 21, wife of Robert
Conrad and mother of two small
girls, positively identified Terry
as the man who had entered her
lighted living room late that
night, pursued her as she ran
screaming through the house and
out the back door, grabbed her as
she fell in the driveway and
wrestled with her on the ground,
tearing her clothing.
Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm
said that, after being held in jail
nearly a week, denying he, was the
man, Terry had sent for him
Sunday night and made a full
signed confession admitting the
acts. He said he had entered the
Conrad house—he didn’t know
why, something just told him to
go in there; that he had been
drinking and didn’t deny putting
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[handed two ballots—one for
county officers and one for state
officers.
County Officers
A sample ballot obtained from
Sam C. Riddle, chairman of the
Moore County board of elections,
lists the candidates in the three
county commissioner races as fol
lows:
District No. 1
JOHN M. CURRIE
EUGENE E. COOK
District No. 2
T. R. MONROE
BILLY J. POLEY
District No. 4
J. M. PLEASANTS
J. E, CAUSEY
Voters will be asked to vote for
one candidate from each district.
Candidates file from districts, but
are voted on by the entire county.
In the list above, the first can
didate in each district is the in
cumbent commissioner. Two oth
er commissioners are unopposed
for the Democratic nomination,
W. S. Taylor of Aberdeen, L. R.
Reynolds of Highfalls, and so do
not appear on the ballot.
Stale Officers
The ballot for state officers
lists:
For Governor
JOHN D. LARKINS Jr,
I. BEVERLY LAKE
TERRY SANFORD
MALCOLM B. SEA WELL
For Lieutenant Governor
C. y. HENKEL
H. CLOYD PHILPOTT
DAVID M. McConnell
For Associate Justice
Supreme Court
WILLIAM J. COCKE
CLIFTON L. MOORE
For Commissioner of Insurance
JOHN N. FREDERICK
CHARLES F. GOLD
For United States Senator
ROBERT M. McIntosh
ADDISON HEWLETT
ROBERT W. GREGORY
B. EVERETT JORDAN
Republican State Officers
The single short ballot that will
be handed to Republican voters
lists:
For Lieutenant Governor
DAVID BAILEY
S. CLYDE EGGERS
OTHA BARDEN BATTEN
For Commissioner of Insurance
J. E. CAMERON
DEEMS H. CLIFTON
There will be no Republican
ballot for county officers. Though
the party has candidates for some
ounty offices, none are opposed.
In Moore County, Sanford and
Seawell appear to have the lead
in the gubernatorial contest, with
Sanford given the edge by some
observers. Lake strength here,
like over the state, is relatively
unknown but rated greater than
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Library Will Close
Wednesday Afternoons
starting June 1, the Southern
Pines Library will close on Wed
nesday afternoons, it was an
nounced today by Mrs. Stanley
Lambourne, librarian.
The library will close at 12:30
p.m. each Wednesday. The new
schedule will continue through
September.
Mrs. Lambourne said the library
would not close on Memorial Day,
Monday, May 30.
DIES ON COURSE
Fred N. Lloyd, 49, one of
the players in the first annual
Southern Pines Invitational
Amateur Elks golf tourna
ment at the Southern Pines
Country Club, died of a heart
attack on the course Satur
day afternoon. His wife was
with him. A physician who
was among the players at
tempted to give him mouth-
to-mouth artificial respira
tion but the effort was un
successful, An ambulance was
called, but Mr. Lloyd died be-
bore he could be taken to a
hospital.
518 New Names
Registered in
Moore Precinets
The addition of 518 new names
to the Moore County general elec
tion books, during the registra
tion period just ended, brought
the total number of registrants to
slightly more than 16,000, it was
reported this week by Sam C.
Riddle, chairman of the county
board of elections.
The total includes 12,484 Dem
ocrats and 3,600 Republicans, re
ported to the chairman by the
registrai-s in the 18 precincts.
Riddle said there is a scatter
ing of “Independents,” the exact
number not reported but estima
ted at around 300.
There are two changes in the
list of registrars published before
the registration period Opened.
Mrs. Carolyn H. Blue is the new
registrar for Bensalem precinct,
replacing Fuller Monroe, who re
signed. In the Vass precinct, Mrs.
J. D. Matthews has replaced Mrs.
R* F. Griffin^ who moved away.
No complaints have been re
ceived in any precinct from
would would-be registrants turn
ed down because of failure to
meet quabfications. Riddle said.