VOL. 40—NO. 30
Sanford Endorsed
By Moore Leaders
In Varied Fields
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1960
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Leaders in business, govern
ment, politics, education, agricul
ture and other fields—all closely
associated with Moore County—
this week endorsed Terry San
ford in his second primary cam
paign against I. Beverly Lake for
the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination. The voting will take
place June 25.
The endorsements, given to
John D. McConnell, co-chairman
of the Sanford campaign in
Moore, and.to The Pilot, include:
W. P. Saunders, Southern Pines
and Raleigh, director , of the State
, Board of Conservation and Devel
opment and former prominent
textile manufacturing executive:
“I commend Terry Sanford to the
voters of Moore County in the
coming primary, for his level
headed approach to the state’s
problems. He will not be forced
into hasty action, nor will he give
way to undue pressure. As a
trustee of the University, I feel
that we need for governor a man
liice Sanford who is fully aware
of the needs of education.”
Mrs. Sadie McCain of WilsoA,
formerly of Southern Pines, for
mer dean of women at Flora Mac
donald College and trustee of the
University of North Carolina, who
has been described as “knowing
more people than anybody else in
North Carolina, calling them all
by their first names”: “I have
known Terry Sanford since he
was five years old and I am more
than willing to put our wonderful
state in his hands.”
Walter Davenport of Pinebluff,
former senior editor of Colliers
magazine, author, journalist, keen
student of politics, a citizen of
North Carolina and an elected
member of the Pinebluff board
of commissioners: “Let’s be civi
lized. Surely we have gotten be
yond tlie age where we let blind
prejudice and defeatism dictate
our actions. North Carolina must
not go backward. Terry Sanford
seems to me both sane and sen
sible. I can’t say the same, in
either case, for his opponent.”
State Senator Wilbur Currie of
Carthage, prominent in business
and politics" for many years: “I
think Terry’s a better man. I
shall support him in the coming
primary.”
Clyde Auman, West End, peach
grower, farmer, leader in civic
and agricultural organizations:
“I have always been for Terry
Sanford. I’ve known him' for 10
years and have always found him
a ciean-cut, sane man with plen
ty of courage. He has a positive
program. He has optimism and
laith, but . still he’s a realist.
When Kerr Scott was running for
governor, he had an ambitious
program for roads, hospitals and
telephones. Some said it couldn’t
be done, but it was done. None of
us want to turn back that pro
gram. I can say the same for San
ford. The Sandhills and Moore
County have much to profit if
Sanford is elected, in cormection
with their resort business and
CHAIRMAN — John A. (Jack)
McPhaul of Country Club Drive
has been named chairman for the
Moore District Boy Scout fund
campaign^ to begin in September.
He will soon name committeemen
to assist him. A native of Robeson
County and a graduate of th^
University of North Carolina, Mr.
McPhaul is manager of the Courts
& Co. investments office here. He
is currently district Boy Scout
training chairman.
Property Owners
Ask Annexation
PubUc hearing will be held by
the town council June 27 on pe
titions from two property owners,
whose lots adjoin the city limits,
to be taken into the town.
Town Manager Louis Scheipers,
Jr., read to the town council at
Tuesday night’s meeting requests
for annexation of their property
from Mrs. Lawrence Gelshenen
of 850 E. Massachusetts Ave. and
Mrs. Marion Taylor Brawley of
E. Indiana Ave. The properties
concerned adjoin each other as
well as the town line.
Council also set for the July 12
regular council meeting a public
hearing on a curb and gutter pe
tition for two blocks of Indiana
Ave., between Carlyle and Gaines
Sts. More than 51 per cent of the
pJoperty owners affected were
represented on the petition,
required.
Tennis Classes
To Start Monday
John McMillan, recent gradu
ate of The Hill School at Potts-
town, Pa., will start his classes
in tennis, under the municipal
summet recreation program, at
9 a. m-. Monday, Jim Walser, rec
reation director, announced this
week. McMillan was co-captain
of his school tennis team, rank
ing number two man of the team
in singles and number one in
doubles.
It was annotmeed last week
that Julian Pleasants, recent
graduate of Davidson College,
would take over the tennis in
struction until McMillan was
available. However, unforeseen
developments prevented this and
there has been no tennis phase
of the recreation program this
week.
The playground activities and
other phases of the summer pro
gram, in East and West Southern
Pines, began this week. In East
Southern Pines, attendance was
Speaker at Lake
Rally Lambastes
Sanford Program
Between 50 and 60 people as
sembled in the Carthage court
house Friday night to listen to
John J. Burney, Jr., Wake Forest
graduate and Wilmington solici
tor, tell them why he believed
they should vote for Dr. I. Bev
erly Lake in the coming guber
natorial Democratic second pri
mary.
Burney was substituting for
Archie 'Taylor of Lillington, the
announced speaker, who was un
able to attend. He was introduced
by attorney Ed Burns of Carth
age, who presided over the meet
ing.
The speaker did not go into the
Lake principles or platform but
confined himself almost exclu
sively to a free-swinging attack
On Dr. Lake’s opponent, Terry
Sanford. He appealed “to the
masses instead of the classes” as
he called on his audience to elect
the Wake Forest professor who
had run 87,744 votes behind San
ford in the first primary.
Saying: “If it’s going to be a
new day in North Carolina, it will
be a long^ long night,” Burney
painted a lurid picture of an al
leged Sanford tie-in with “the
captive press. Governor Hodges,
the AFL-GIO, and the NAACP.”
“But,” Burney told his audience,
“I don’t believe they can buy
your vote,” and warned that “if
we let Beverly Lake down we
will be letting our children
down.“
At one point, referring to a
Sanford criticism of Lake’s steuid
on education, Burney stated:
“Lake desires good education—
within reason.”
The Lake champion climaxed
his talk with another reference to
the “sinister influences surround
ing Sanford and financing his
campaign” and pledged that “we
wiU hot let them run the state.”
Exhorting his hearers to “work
for Beverly Lake,” the speaker
closed with a peroration that in
cluded references to the Founding
Fathers, the Battle of Manassas,
Yankees, and the origin of the
word “tarheel.”
Merchants Reject Plan
To Cnt Parking Space
CHAMPIONS — Winners of the Bantam Bowling League
championship, undefeated in 26 games (13 matches) are the
“Welus,” pictured at the O K Bowl with tneir sponsor, J. L. Brad
ley (center, rear) and trophy. Front, left to right, Ronnie Brown
and Robin Grover. Left and right, at rear, are Larry Bradley and
Ronnie Bradley. The team is named for the national champion
bowler Welu. (Humphrey photo)
ON WAY TO ATTEND FUNERAL
Elderly Man Hit by Truck, Killed
need for industry. People want to j cut by Bible Schools conducted
come to a progressive state. That by several churches, but it is ex-
could mean a lot in this area.” ipected to increase next week.
SCS District to Mark Anniversary
On Friday, July 1, at 7:30 p.m.,
the supervisors of the Upper Cape
Fear Soil Conservation District
will meet to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the formation of
the District. This dinner meeting
will be held in the Buffalo Pres
byterian Church about three
miles south of Sanford on old
U. S. highway No. 1. The public
is invited. Reservations majr be
made by notifying W. K. Keller,
Box 338, Carthage, or James Fulk,
Route 3, Carthage. Mr. Keller is
the Soil Conservation Service
conservationist for Moore County.
A talk on “Twenty Years of
Progress” will be made by S. Ver
non Stevens, district supervisor
from Broadway. The principal ad
dress will be made by David S.
Weaver, director. North Carolina
Extension Service.
What has been accomplished in
the past 20 years? “A great deal,”
says Mr. Keller. “But, despite pror
gress already made, every con
servationist realizes that the fight
against erosion and other forms
of land and water waste has not
yet been won. Greater efforts will
be required if the Americans of
the future are to live as well as
we do.”
History of District
Promotionfil work leading to
the formation of the Upper Cape
Fear Soil Conservation District
was initiated by the Extension
Service through its county offices.
E. H. Garrison, Jr., was then coun-
E. J, Burns Heads
Moore Lake Drive;
Candidate to Visit
E. J. Bums, Carthage attorney,
was elected Moore County chair
man for I. Beverly Lake’s guber
natorial campaign in the second
primary* at a rally for Lake held'
in the courthouse Friday night.
The election was made by the
group of about 60 persons attend
ing, and after the meeting Chair
man Bums, assisted by several
others present, appointed the fol
lowing to the campaign commit
tee:
Mrs. L. T. Clark and Mrs. Ruth
W. Swisher, Southern Pines, co-
chairmen of women’s division; Al
ton Scott, Southern Pines, Moore
representative on a five-coimty
board; A. J. Crabtree, Carthage,
head of feirmers’ division; and as
community chairmen, Russell
Bullock and W. L. Richardson of
Vass; W. T. Upchurch of High-
falls, E. O. Freeman of Aberdeen
and W. K. Carpenter, Sr., and
Claude Leavitt of Pinebluff.
The appointments were made
with the help of Beverly (Red)
Simpson of Sanford, who was
present as a volunteer organizer.
Others were to be named later,
Bums said.
To Visit Moore
Announcement was made that
Lake will be in Moore County
Thursday, June 23, two days be
fore the primary, on his way to
speak at a five-county rally in
(Continued on page 5)
Pollock Named Judge
For June 22 Session
R. F. Hoke Pollock, local at
torney, was appointed vice-re
corder of Southern Pines Recor
der’s court for the weekly session
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at Doubs
Chapel Methodist church, near
Eastwood, for Dockie Franklin
WilUams, 71, of Route 1, "West
End, who was fatally injured Sat
urday aftei^ioon nearly iii front
of the church.
Mr. Williams and his wife were
walking from their home nearby
to the church to attend the fun
eral of a neighbor, Mrs. Daisey B.
Cole, which wa|S being held at 3
p. m.
The accident occurred shortly
after 2 p. m. when Williams was
struck by a truck of the Pepsi
Cola Bottling Co. of Fayetteville.
The driver of the truck, Harley
Davis Lee, 28, of Stedman, told
the investigating patrolman, J. F.
Swaim, that he lyas going only
about 30 to 35 miles per hour. He
saw the couple walking along the
shoulder of the road, and, he said,
just as he came abreast, Williams
left his wife’s side' and started
across the road tO'vi'ard the
ciiiuch. Lee said he s\V'erved as
GLAD TO CORRECT
!
ty agent in Moore. It was through, of June 22, when Judge W. Harry
his personal interest and efforts
on behalf of the people of Moore
County that a petition was sub
mitted from Moore.
Petitions requesting creation of
(Continued on page 5)
Fullenwider will be unable to
preside.
The town coimcU made the ap
pointment Tuesday night for the
single day’s session, as authorized
by law.
It’s better to be safe than sorry;
in other words: check and double
check your facts!
The correct: facts being now
available—as supplied by the
highest authorities—'The Pilot
corrects the misstatement of last
week anent the scholastic record
of two Southern Pines graduates,
George Wesley Little and Charles
Seaman Jones.
The great burst of applause
that greeted these two young men
as they went up to receive their
diplomas, and that had so im
pressed this reporter, had nothing
at all to do with records of any
sort but was based on popularity:
on the good opinion and affection
of their friends. Quite a tribute!
Incidentally, George who was
one of the school bus drivers, has
been accepted at Chapel Hill,
starting next faU.
And, lest this newspaper be ac
cused of flagrantly underrating
the honors achieved that eve
ning, we hasten to say that when
we stated that there were only
two honor graduates, instead of
the correct figure of eleven, we
were following the program and
failed to notice the little asterisks
beside the names of the others.
The two referred to were, of
course, Alice Grace Farrior and
Robert Edward Woodruff, vale
dictorian and salutatorian re
spectively, and the other nine
honor graduates were: Barbara
Jean Blackwelder, Mary Ann
Cox, Billy MacArthur Gay, Gab-
rielle Maria Gordon-Mann, Ger
aldine Bernadette Madigan, Meri-
lea Morris, Richard Eugene
Thomasson, Diana Carole Tolar
and Carmen Kay Underwood.
hard as he could to avoid striking
him but some part of the right
side of the truck knocked him
down.
Williams suffered a crushed
chest and othe^ injuries and died
soon after admission to Moore
Memorial Hospital. Several chil
dren of the couple were already
at the church for Mrs. Cole’s fun
eral and were quickly by their
father’s side, though they did not
see the accident.
Officiating at the funeral Mon
day were the Rev. Bill Meachan,
assisted by the Rev. B. E. Dotson
(Continued on Page 5)
8th Fatality
The death of 72-year-old Dock
ie Franklin Williams, pedestrian
who was struck by a truck near
Doub’s Chapel Church Saturday
(see story elsewhere in today’s
Pilot) was the eighth traffic ac
cident fatality of the year on
highways and roads of Mc^ore
County, outside city limits, ac
cording to records of the State
Highway Patrol.
This year’s Moore County acci
dent record, listing the number
of accidents, the number of in
juries and the number of fatali
ties, in that order, by months:
January—29, 25, two. — .
February—27, 16, two.
March—^22, 10, three.
April—25, seven, no fatalities.
May—20, seven, no fatalities.
June (through Tuesday)—11,
four, one.
Meeting in regular monthly ses
Sion Tuesday night, the town
council postponed until its July
session action on proposed amend
ments to the traffic control ordi
nance.
Primary reason for the post
ponement was the absence of two
of the five councilmen, John Rug-
gles, who was reported resting
on doctor’s orders, and Harry
Pethick who was attending the
50th reunion of his college class.
The others were present: Mayor
Robert S. Ewing, Felton Capel
and Jimmy Hobbs.
Proposed changes which were
discussed at Tuesday’s public
hearing were:
1. To change parking on both
sides of Pennsylvania Ave., be
tween Broad and Bennett Sts.,
from diagonal to parallel.
2. To prohibit parking on the
south side of Pennsylvania Ave.,
between Ashe and May Sts.
3. And, not requiring action by
ordinance, to change the timing
of the stop light at the corner of
Pennsylvania Ave. and Bennett
St., to give more time for move
ment of the traffic on Pennsyl-
Stock Investing
Extension Course
May Be Condueted
If registrations are sufficient, a
State College extension course in
stock investing will be given at
tne high school on four Thursday
evenings in July—7, 14, 21 and 28,
it was announced today by Luth
er A. Adams, superintendent of
schools. Classes will be at 7:30
p.m. <
The instructor will be Dr. W. L.
Turner, extension economist, as
sisted by representatives of local
brokerage firms.
The course will cover operation
of the New York Stock Exchange,
and various aspects of investing,
including taxes and management
of personal finances.
Interested persons are asked to
register for the course at Mr.
Adams’s office in the elementary
chool building on Massachusetts
Ave., The class will be limited to
the first 30 applicants. The fee is
$20, payable on application.
Checks should be made out to
the College Extension Division.
Mr. Adams said tentative ar
rangements were made for the
course after a successful extension
reading course was given here
earlier this year and 'it became
known locally that the investing
course could be available. Several
persons have already applied, he
said.
' ’The superintendent said he
thought that the course would be
of particular interest in the Sand
hills, with its large proportion of
retired persons, many of whom-
have stock investments. He also
pointed out that it is now possible
for the average person on salary
to invest in stocks and that many
more persons are now interested
in stocks and their management.
New Realty Company Opens This Week
Francis (Frank) M. Smith open
ed his new real estate firm, The
Pines Realty Co., at 115 W. Penn
sylvania Ave. this week.
Formerly partner in the. Scott
Realty Co., he retired from the
Army as a lieutenant colonel in
July of last year and moved to
Southern Pines with his familj',
occupying a home on Country
Club Drive, purchased nearly two
years previously while Colonel
Smith was serving his last active
tour of duty in 'Turkey.
Souvenirs of his stay in Turkey
as well as from other locations
where he has been in Army ser
vice around the world are used
as furnishings and decorations in
the new* company’s office which
has been painted and redecorated
throughout.
Colonel Smith and his wife,
Mrs. Helen Smith, recently
bought the building in which the
office is located from Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. Stevens. The basement
portion of the building has been
leased to W. M. Booker for his
business. Landscapes, with a new
outside entrance and stairway
constructed on the Pennsylvania
avenue side.
The new realty company will
specialize in sales, rentals and
property management.
Colonel Smith is a member of
Emanuel Episcopal Church and
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club. The
Smiths have two sons, Richard,
a student at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and
Frank, at home.
The Smiths first came to South
ern Pines when Colonel Smith
was assigned as an instructor
with the USAF Air-Ground Oper
ations School at the Highland
Pines Inn in 1952. They lived here
two years.
Coionel Smith had previously
had a wide variety of Army as
signments, ranging from White
House aide to President Harry S.
Truman to infantry company
commander in Korea. Before his
retirement he had been assigned
as a legislative liaison officer be
tween the Pentagon and the U. S.
Senate in Washington.
vania. This change, said Town
Manager Louis Scheipers, Jr., has
already been made.
The other two proposed changes
were the terms—and the only
terms—on which the State High
way Commission would designate
an Alternate No. 1 highway route
that would use Pennsylvania Ave.
and May St., north of Pennsyl
vania Ave., for both northbound
and southbound traffic.
The route had been recommen
ded to the council by the town’s
Resort and Advertising Commit
tee, so that the Alternate No. 1
designation could then appear on
oil company road maps, to indi
cate to tourists a marked way in
and out of town.
When the plan was passed on
to the Highway Commission, how
ever, the commission had, said that
it would designate the route only
if the parking changes were made.
A second request from the coun
cil that parking be changed to
parallel on only one side of Penn
sylvania Ave., was turned down.
The change to parallel on both
sides of the block would eliminate
27 or 28 parking spaces.
The proposed change in the
Ashe to May block (incorrectly
reported in The Pilot last week
as the Broad to Ashe block) ex
cited no controversy. Pennsylvan
ia narrows in this block and the
reason for the proposal was ob
vious.
The Pennsylvania to Bennett
proposal, however, was a differ
ent story.
Jofe Montesanti, Jr., proprietor
(Continued on page 17)
Appointments to
Town Committees
Made by Council
Appointments to three town ad
visory boards were niade by the
council at its Tuesday night
meeting.
The one-year terms of all mem
bers of the Advertising Advisory
Committee, expiring June 30,
were filled by reappointment of
present board members, with one
exception.
Renamed to the committee were
Ward Hill, its present chairman,
George Pottle, Morris Johnson,
George Leonard and Jimmy
Hobbs, the council’s representa
tive on the committee.
Mrs. Jean Edson was named to
the group, to succeed Mrs. Peggy
Kirk Bell.
Councilman Hobbs, making the
nomination for Mrs. Edson, said
that Mrs. Bell had made it clear
that she was unable to attend
meetings of the group as often as
she would like and that he felt
the change would be agreeable
with her. He praised her interest
and work with the committee. He
said he was nominating Mrs. Ed
son because he thought a mer
chant should be on the group.
Mayor Ewing praised the com
mittee’s work, pointing out that
four conventions have beenjsecur-
ed by its efforts, to meet in Sou
thern Pines at various times in
the coming year.
Library Board
Renamed to six-year terms on
the Library board of trustees
were Councilman. Harry Pethick,
the council’s representative on the
board, and D. E. Bailey. The new
terms begin July 1.
Recreation Committee
A single term on the seven-
member Recredtion Advisory
Committee, to expire June 30,
was filled by appointment of W.
D. Peerman who is now associated
with the West Southern Pines rec
reation program, in charge of
adult baseball. Councilman Felton
Capel, who made the nomination,
said that Mr. Peerman has had ex
perience in teaching and coaching
in several schools and was also
formerly associated with Morrison
Training School.
He replaces T. R. Goins, one of
the charter members of the com
mittee.
’The council directed that letters
of thanks for their services be
written to Mrs. Bell and Mr.
Goins.
WRONG DATE
The date of Father’s Day given
in a Melvin’s advertisement on
page 15 should be June 19, not
June 18 as written.