VOL. 40—NO. 28
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1960
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55 Seniors to Get Diplomas Wednesday
'4i'
Fifty-five members of the Class
of 1960 at East Southern Pines
High School are scheduled to re
ceive diplomas Wednesday, June
8, at Weaver Auditorium, in grad
uation exercises beginning at 8:15
p.m.
The commencement address will
be delivered by Dr. Guy B. Phil
lips, a member df the State Board
of Education and professor of ed
ucation at the University of North
Carolina.
The Wednesday night program
will climax a I series of events
starting Sunday at 8:15 p.m. at
the Church of Wide Fellowship
when the commencement sermon
will be delivered by Dr. J. Lem
Stokes II, president of Pfeiffer
College at Misenheimer.
The Honors and Awards exer
cises, when the valedictory will
be delivered by Alice Grace Far
rier, first honor graduate, and the
salutatory by Robert Edward
Woodruff, second honor graduate,
will take place in Weaver Aud
itorium at 1 p.m. Wednesday,
June 8.
Scheduled to receive diplomas
are: '■ Barbara Jean Blackwelder,
Michael White Boes, Lynda Jean
Bushby, James Richard Carter,
^ Martha Louise Caton, Judy Beth
™ Chandler, Emma Holliday Collins,
Mary Ann Cox, Thomas Eastwood
Culbreth, Mary Jane Deadwyler,
Therese Gaby Dufort.
Alice Grace Fafrior, Patricia
Kay Farrior, Sandra Louise Fitz-
gibbon, Henry Lee Garvin, Billy
MacArthur Gay, Gabrielle Maria
Gordon-Mann, John Maitland
Grover, Melva Ray Hall, Frances
. McLeod Harper, Charles Seaman
% Jones.
George Wesley Little, Richard
Glenn Lockey, Geraldine Berna
dette Madigan, Karen Jean Mc
Kenzie, Vickie Louise Michael,
Charles Larry Moore, Merilea
Morris, Mary Cameron Nichols,
Diana Webb Pearson, Richard
Busbee George Phillips, Connie
Greer Pierce, Mildred Charlene
Pierce.
Susan Pollard, Kenneth Man-
9 ning Reid, Nancy Louise Roberts,
Elizabeth Scheipers, William Gor
don Seymour, Leonard Harold
Short, Michael Lee Smithson,
Frances Pearl Solomon, Julia Ann
Stoots, Mary Anne Strickland, El-'
sie June Talbert, Betty Jo Tew.
Richard Eugene Thomasson,
Diana Carole Tolar, Henry Web
ster Turner, Carmen Kay Under
wood, Charles David Ward, Theo-
dore Thomas Ward, Carolyn Anne
White, Judith Carole Wicker, Rob
ert Edward Woodruff, Theodosia
Anne Yow.
Graduation Exercises
The school band will play El
gar’s “Pomp and Circumstance”
for processional and recessional at
the graduation exea’cises Wednes
day night and will also play
“Hymn of Freedom” from
Brahms’s/Symphony No. 1, and
Q Purcell’s “Hymn of Victory” from
“King Arthur,” during the pro
gram.
Invocation will be given by the
Rev. Maynard Mangum, pastor of
the First Bhptist Church. Bene
diction will be spojeen by Father
Francis M. Smith, pastor of St.
Anthony’s Catholic Church.
Joseph E. Sandlin, recently ap
pointed member of the Southern
Pines city board of education, will
4' bring greetings to the graduating
class and N. L. Hodgkins, chair
man of the board of education
will present the diplomas.
Dr. Phillips will be introduced
by Luther A. Adams, superinten
dent of schools.
Commencement Sermon
Gounod’s “Marche Romaine”
will be the processional for the
commencement program at the
Church of Wide Fellowship.
” The Rev. Carl E. Wallace, pas
tor of the church, will give the
invocation and scripture reading
will be by the Rev. Martin Cald
well, rector of Emmanuel Episco
pal Church. '
The High School choir will sing,
“O Praise the Name of the Lord,”
by Tschaikowsky and Mozart’s
“Gloria in Excelsis.”
Dr. Stokes Will be introduced
4, (Continued on page 81
Commencement
Speakers
DR. GUY B. PHILLIPS
DR. J. LEM STOKES, II
N. L. Hodgkins
Named Chairman
Education Board
Norris L. Hodgkins was chosen
chairman of the Southern Pines
city board of education when the
board met last night for the first
time with its two new members,
J. E. Sandlin and Mrs. Walter
Harper. Other members of the
board, both present, are Harry J.
Menzell and P. I. York.
The new members, appointed
by the town council, replaced
John M. Howarth and Dr. Vida C.
McLeod. Mr. Sandlin and Mrs.
Harper signed their official oaths
of office last night.
The board authorized the chair
man and secretary—Luther A.
Adams, schools superintendent—
to sign a contract with Hayes,
Howell and Associates, local
architectural firm, to draw pre
liminary plans for a new West
Southern Pines High School, at
a cost not to exceed $4,500, the
fee to be credited against the
architect’s total fee when the
school is built.
Estimated to cost between $200,-
000 and $250,000, the school would
replace the present high school
whicl;! has been severely criticiz
ed for its condition by the Moore
County grand jury. Funds for the
school are being requested from
the county commissioners, with
likelihood that only a portion of
the amount, if any, would be ap
propriated this year.
I Named as the board of educa-
I tion representatives on a citizens
committee to study the pros and
cons of high school consolidation
(Continued on,page 8)
Sanford Wins in Moore;
Incumbents Hold Seats
(Tabulation of Moore
County Vote, Page 8)
Terry Sanford of Fayetteville,
t;ie Democratic gubernatorial
candidate who failed to get a ma
jority of the North Carolina votes
cast in Saturday’s primary and
is now engaged in a second pri
mary campaign against his run
ner-up, I. Beverly Lake of Wake
Forest, won a majority in Moore
Alumni Invited to
March with Seniors
All alumni of Southern Pines
High School are invited to march
at the graduation of the Class of
1960 Wednesday night.
Alumni who will march are
asked to meet in the school cafe
teria at 8 p. m. that night.
Schedule!^ Given
For Ball Leagues
Complete season schedules for
Moore County Pony League and
Little Tar Heel League baseball
games were announced this week
and appear elsewhere in today’s
Pilot.
Pony League games will be
played on Tuesdays and Thurs
days. Teams and coaches in the
league are: Southern Pines, Rob
ert Woodruff;’ Pinehurst, CJeorge
A. Short, Jr.; Carthage, John
Hendricks; Robbins, E. C. Brady;
West End, Tom McNeill.
Teams and coaches in the Little
Tar* Heel League are: Pinehurst
Lions, Bob Currie; Pinehurst
Cubs, George A. Short, Jr.; Car
thage Car-Fab, O. D. Wallace, Jr.;
and Carthage Rotary, Coy Oakley.
Art of Old Japan
Is Current Show
In Library Gallery
The Library Gallery is putting
on its—probably—final exhibi
tion of the season, going out, ac
cording to the Committee, “in a
blaze of glory.”
The current exhibit is part of
a collection of Japanese art loan
ed to the Gallery by Paul Green
of Chapel Hill.
The North Carolina playwright
and novelist, who went to Japan
several years ago on a special
mission to visit the centers of
dramatic art, the universities and
the museums, gathered together
at that time a collection that in
cludes prints, books—many fanci
fully illustrated—and objets d’art.
Of special interest are the items
centering around the famous
classic Kabuki Theatre of Japan.
The loan exhibit includes ex
amples of these various items,
also two large hand-painted post
ers, used in Japan as playbills,
which are on view in the North
Carolina Room adjoining the gal
lery.
The exhibit will be changed in
mid-June with another selection
of prints from Mr. Green’s col
lection.
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
Official closing time ilor the
East Southern Pines elemen
tary and high schools will be
2:30 p. m., Wednesday, June
8, Supt. Luther A. Adams an
nounced today. Normal clos
ing time each day is 3 p. m.
Tennis Assn, Has
Fund Drive; Dates
Of Tourneys Set
The Sandhill Tennis associa
tion, with an active season al
ready underway, is conducting a
membership campaign to replen
ish the treasury against expenses
of the coming months.
Letters have been sent out
signed by Mrs. R. M. Mclilillan,
president, seeking dues of $1 for
adults and 50 cents for students—
with as much more as contrib
utors want to give.
Major expenses will be trophies
and balls for tournaments, the
Junioi: Invitational of August 1-4
and the Senior Invitational of
August 11-14—sanctioned events
which annually draw some of the
top Tar Heel players, along with
het stars from nearby states.
The association is cooperating
with the summer recreation pro
gram in regular tennis instruc
tion, tournament management,
etc. John McMillan will be in
structor, with Julian Pleasants
serving during the early part of
the summer. One successful clinic
for junior players has already
been held, with Malcolm Clark
and Mrs. Shaw McKean as in
structors.
League Schedule
The association will also field
a team in the “B” League of the
Eastern Carolina Tennis associa
tion, with schedule as follows:
June 5, Raleigh at Chapel Hill,
South'Sfn Pines at Sanford.
June 12, Chapel Hill at San
ford, Southern Pines at Raleigh.
June 19, (Jhapel Hill at South
ern Pines, Sanford at Raleigh.
June 26, Sanford at Chapel Hill,
Raleigh at Southern Pines.
July 10, Chapel Hill at Raleigh,
Sanford at Southern Pines.
July 17, Southern Pines at
Chapel Hill, Raleigh at Sanford.
West Side Finals
Set Friday Night
Graduation exercises at West
Southern Pines High School will
take place Friday at 8 p. m. in the
school auditorium. Dr. A. C. Daw
son of Raleigh, former superin
tendent of Southern Pines schools.
Will deliver the graduation ad
dress.
Full details of this and other
West Southern Pines commence
ment programs were given in last
week's Pilot.
TOP SCHOLARS — Alice Grace Farrior, first honor graduate,
and Robert Edward Woodruff, second honor graduate, of the
Southern Pines High School senior class, will deliver the vale
dictory and the salutatory, respectively, at the Honors and
Awards program at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Weaver Auditorium.
They are the two-top-ranking scholars in the graduating class.
' (Humphrey photo)
Betty Sue Black, Elsie Garrison Win
Scholarships for Training asi Nurses
Two. fortunate young girls grad
uating this week at high schools
in Moore county received SVA
nurse training scholarship awards
at their final exercises.
Betty Sue Black, graduating
Monday night at Farm Life, and
Elsie Garrison, valedictorian of
her class at Pinehurst Wednesday
night, were presented the awards
by Don Traylor of Southern Pines,
president of the Sandhills Veter
ans Association.
Elsie is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ira P. Garrison, and Betty
Sue of Mrs. Betty Black, all of
Route 3, Carthage.
Chosen as alternate was Bar
bara Dunn, daughter of Mr. and
Eddy Building
Sold to Smiths
Annpuncement was made today
of sale of the Eddy Building on
W. Pennsylvania Ave., by Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Stevens to Lt. Col.
and Mrs. y. M. Smith. The trans-
artion was handled by Sam Rich
ardson.
The building houses the Vogue
Beauty Shop on the ground floor,
along v/ith a vacant store space
occupied until recently by Larry f
Men’s Shop which has closed its
local store.
The second floor of the build
ing IS occupied by the Rowe and
Rowe law offices.
The property sold includes the
small lot between the building
and the Austin Business Machine
Co.
RIDDLE NAMED
TO SCOUT POST
Charles Riddle, a native of
Raleigh, who is graduating
this week from High Point
College, will succeed Joe
Woodall as Moore District
Bo-y Scout executive, said J.
B. Perkinson, district chair
man.
Riddle will go to Schiff
Scout Reservation, Mendham,
N. J., immediatel'y following
his graduation to take the six-
week Scout executive train
ing course. He has had exper
ience on the staff of Camp
Durant, the Occoneechee
' Council camp, for the past
several summers.
Mrs. W. C. Dunn of Aberdeen, a
Monday night graduate at Aber
deen High school.
The three girls, all 18 years old,
have been outstanding in their
respective schools. They were se
lected from a group of applicants
on the 'basis of intelligence, char
acter, personality, general merit
and special aptitude for their
chosen profession. One of them,
Betty Sue Black, already has ex
perience in it—she has worked as
a nurse aide at Moore Memorial
Hospital for the past two sum
mers, and will do so again this
summer.
The scholarships will pay all
expenses—tuition, books, uni
forms and all incidentals, includ
ing pocket money—for the three-
year training course at High
Point Memorial Hospital. The on
ly condition is that the young reg
istered nurse, following gradua
tion, return to Moore County to
practice her profession.
The winners will join^ other
young women who since 1947
have through the SVA been en
abled to train for a nursing career.
This is the original project of the
SVA, an independment group of
World War 2 veterans of Sand
hills communities, organized in
1946 for purposes of fellowship
and service. The project repre
sents their contribution toward
(Continued on page 8)
Plans Made for
Annual Moore Co.
Golf Tournament
The Pinehurst Country Club
will be the scene of the Annual
Moore County Amateur Golf
Tournament. The event, usually
held one year in Pinehurst and
the next in Southern Pines, will
be held again this year at Pine
hurst, due to repair work planned
for the Southern Pines course this
summer.
Last year’s event was reported
as being the largest to date, but
tournament officials are out to top
it this year with a record entry
list. Play will get underway with
the qualifying rounds beginning
June 19, and ending June 26. The
first round is scheduled for June
27 through July 3. Second round
play must begin on July 4 and be
completed by July 10, with the
third and final round to be play
ed July 11 through 17.
The entry fee will be $3. The
event will be played over the No.
1 course at Pinehurst. The champ
ionship flight will comprise the
16 low qualifiers with the second
flight being made up of the eight
losers in the first rbund of the
championship flight. There will be
winner and runner-up trophies
for all flights, and the number of
flights will depend on the number
of participants playing in the
qualifying round.
Trimble Products
Names Ewing to
Head Sales Force
A joint announcement was
made this week by C. T. DePuy,
chairman of board, and W. J.
Donovan, president, of Trimble
Products, Inc., of the election of
Robert S. Ewing as vice presi
dent, sales, and as a director of
the company.
Mr. Ewing, who is mayor of
Southern Pines, joined Trimble
Products October 1, 1959, and has
served in various capacities. As
vice president of sales, he will
be responsible for overall direc
tion of the nation-wide sales
force
The moving of the sales office
from Rochester, N. Y. to South
ern Fines this week, completes
the organization of Trimble Prod
ucts, Inc., a North Carolina cor
poration.
The company, whose offices
and manufacturing plant are in
a new building between the No. 1
highway parkway and Yadkin
Road, makes baby furniture, nur
sery equipment and children’s
recreation devices, using metal
and plastic materials.
Woodall, Scout Executive, Leaving
Joe Woodall, Moore District
Boy Scout executive, is being
transfened after ^ nearly three
years of service. He will re
port June 15 as'executive of the
Shawnee District, one of two
large districts covering portions
of Durham county and the city of
Durham.
J. B. Perkinson, Moore District
chairman, announcing the Wood-
all transfer, said, “All our best
wishes go with Joe, and he de
serves them. He is one of the
finest young men I ever knew,
with splendid character and per
sonality. He has served our Dis
trict well and it has been a joy
to work with him.”
As signs of progress made by
the Moore District, which in
cludes all of Moore County, dur
ing the period of Woodall’s serv
ice, Perkinson pointed out that,
fContinued on Page 81
County, in the four-way race for
the nomination for governor,
polling 2,561 votes.
Malcolm B. Seawell of Lumber-
ton, a native of adjoining Lee
County—the only county in the
state where he was the front
runner—came in second in Moore
with 1,094 votes. Not far behind
was Lake with 1,020. John D. Lar
kins, Jr., of Trenton trailed well
behind in this county, getting only
211.
Lai kins ran fourth in the stale
a whole where Sanford led
Lake by more than 80,000 votes
—not enough to win him a ma
jority of all the votes cast and
the nomination. Seawell had a
slight lead over Larkins, placing
him third in the state-wide
voting.
For lieutenant governor, Moore
gave its biggest vote to David
McConnell of Charlotte, who had
1,932, closely edged by H. Cloyd
Philpott with 1,846. C. V. Henkel
brought up the rear with 782
votes. ■
In the senatorial race, the coun
ty went handsomely for Addison
Hewlett, with 2,918 votes—seen
as a vote of confidence in Rep. H.
Clifton Blue of Aberdeen as well
as in the candidate from New
Hanover County. Blue is said to
have encouraged his fellow legis
lator to run, and helped engineer
his campaign as he did Hewlett’s
successful bid for speakership of
the House in, 1959.
Of his man’s statewide defeat
by Senator B. Everett Jordan,
Blue said Saturday night, “Hew
lett ran a good race and we are
not disappointed. It was an uphill
climb against a widely known in
cumbent. Wherever Hewlett'
could go personally, he made
friends, but it was not humanly
possible for him to meet enough
people. I am satisfied his career
has been helped and not hurt by
this race.”
Also in the Senate race, Greg
ory won 85 votes and McIntosh
91, in Moore County.
Incumbents won handily in the
two other state contests in Moore
County. Associate Justice Moore
garnering 3,320 votes to Cocke’s
887, and Insurance Commissioner
Gold getting 3,370 to Frederick’s
1,006.
The total county vote was some
200 less than in the 1958 primary,
and was considered a light vote,
probably because only three local
contests were offered. All were
for seats’ on the board of county
commissioners, and all three in
cumbents won, though one of
them.—J. M. Pleasants of South
ern Pines (District 4) had a close
call. It took the preponderant vote
of his home precinct of Southern
Pines, the county’s largest, to put
him over with a total of 2,491
votes against J. E. Causey’s 2,-
226. John M. Currie of Carthage
(District 1) had 2,859 over .the
1,725 of his oppoiient Eugene B.
Cook. Tom R. Monroe of Rob
bins, (District 2) topped the entire
ticket with 3,010, while challen
ger Billy J. Poley of Route 1,
West End, had 1,379.
Moore Rejpublicans displayed
little interest in their state pri
mary, with about 100 votes report-
ed.
For lieutenant governor. Batten
led in Moore with 50 votes, fol
lowed by Bailey with 36 and Eg-
gers with 23.
In the only other Republican
primary race for state offices,
Clifton polled 64 votes for insur
ance commissioner, against 39 for
Cameron.
There was no Republican pri
mary race for any county office.
(Note: In the tabulation of
the Moore County vote to be
found elsewhere in today's
Pilot, the totals are the of
ficial totals as certified by
the Moore County board of »
elections, but precinct figures
are unofficial, listed before
the vote was canvassed. Most
of them are indentical ’with
the official returiis but there
may be some discrepancies.)