Two civic club^
installed officers during the past-
week, the Southern Pines Lions and
Rotary Clubs. Stories and a photo,
page 8.
‘Rays of sunshine’ -
that’9 what one patient called the
young volunteer workers at Moore
Memorial Hospital. Story and photos,
page 17.
VOL. 40—NO. 32
Howerton Named
* Chairman Local
Study of Schools
Thomas R. Howerton w'as elect
ed permanent chairmaiv of the
Southern Pines School Study
Group at the first meeting of the
group, in the library in the ele
mentary building Monday night.
Other officers elected were Max
Rush, who is president of the East
Southern Pines PTA, vice pfesi-
deiit; and Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, Jr.,
secretary. School board members
attended, on invitation of Mr.
Howerton who was formerly teiii-
porary chairman. r
The name, “Southern PineV
School Study Group,” was adopt
ed as the designation of the com-\
mittee which consists of 11 per-
sops.
Set as the basic purpose of the
group was; “To study the South
ern Pines Schools, evaluate their
program, set goals for the future
and report findings to the school
board, who in turn will inform
the public.”
Committees, on which persons
outside the group will be called
to serve, will be set up on curri-
culum; administration; law, fi
nance and taxes; transportation;
extra curricular activities; ele
mentary, junior high and senior
high; P.T.A.; and public relations.
Six months was set for the com
pletion of committee work and'
one year for the total program.
The group will meet the first
Tuesday in each month at 8 p. m.
.in the elementary school library,
g. Members of the School Study
^ Group are: Cecil Beith, Charles
Cole and Mrs. Robert M. McMil
lan, the original group of three
chosen at a county-wide school
study meeting in Aberdeen; four
members appointed by the PTA:
Jack Reid, Max Rush, T. R. How
erton and Dr. C. C. McLean; and
tour members named by the
school board: Mrs. O. Leon Sey-
/ mouT, Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, Jr., Dr.
^ W. Harrell Johnson and the Rev.
Martin Caldwell.
All members were present at
tlie Monday meeting, except Mr.
Caldwell, who is away on vaca
tion.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1960
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
ELECTED — Dr. C. C. McLean,
partner with Dr. J. I. Neal in the
Sandhill Veterinary Hospital, be
tween Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst, was named president-elect
of the North Carolina State Vet
erinary Medical Association for
the coming year, at the recent an
nual meeting of the Association in
Asheville. Dr. and Mrs. McLean
attended the state-wide conven
tion.
Plans for Amateur
Theatre Develop
At Meetings Here
(Photo on page 8)
The Drama Workshop held in
Southern Pines Monday through
Wednesday has resulted in pre
liminary organization of a com
munity theatre group.
Mrs. John A. McPhaul, who was
elected president-pro-tem of the
group at one of the evening ses-
\sions in the high school, is invit
ing all interested persons to, meet
in the court room at town hall
Monday night, July 18, to elect
officers and make further plans.
A nominating committee has
been named, Mrs. McPhaul said,
and two area representatives have
been chosen: Mrs. A. N. Derouin
in Pinehurst and Mrs. Anne
Mischke in Aberdeen. Further in
formation may be obtained from
Mrs. McPhaul or these represent
atives.
T)ie name ‘Theatre in the Pines”
was selected for the community
theatre by persons attending the
meetings this week.
The meetings ■were part of a
drama workshop conducted with
day and night sessions by Mrs.
Nancy Stamey of Raleigh, under
sponsorship of the State Recrea
tion Commission and the South
ern Pines summer recreation pro
gram. Miss Huldah Lineberry,
leadership training executive from
the State Recreation Commission,
took part in the workshop with
Mrs. Stamey.
Plans of the theatre group in
clude not only adult productions
but “a play for and by youth”
which might be presented in sev
eral Moore County communities.
In morning sessions during this
(Continued on page 5)
TWO COURSES OPEN
The Pinehurst Country Club
management reminded golfers
this week that both the No. 1 and
No. 2 courses will be open over
the long holiday weekend, July
2 throiJgh 4. Only one course has
been open since the end of the
resort season.
McDonald Auto
In Daytona Race
Ray McDonald of Southern
Pines is entering a 1959 Oldsmo-
bile in the Daytona 500 auto race
on July 4 at Daytona Beach, Fla.
Roy Tyner of Red Springs will
drive the entry which is the same
car in which Lee Petty, who then
owned it, won the 1959 Daytona
race. McDonald has since bought
the car from Petty.
Mr. and Mrs. McDonald and
daughter, Kasey, are planning
to leave tonight for Daytona
Beach to see the race Monday and
retmn to Southern Pines the next
day.
Holiday Closings
The Southern Pines business
community, which is not always
unanimous in its holiday closing
procedures, will be generally
closed on Monday, July 4, Inde
pendence Day.
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Co. and other banks throughout
the county will be closed.
The post office will be on its
holiday schedule of no home de
livery and windows closed, but
mail ihcoming and outgoing as
Usual.
The Southern Pines Library
and the Moore County Library at
Carthage will be closed.
Town and county offices will
'shut down for the, day. At Car
thage, Moore County Recorder’s
Court, usually held Monday, will
nave an advance session Satur
day instead. The regular “first
Monday” monthly meeting of the
county commissioners will take
place Tuesday.
ABC stores in Southern Pines
and Pinehurst will be closed for
the 4th.
News and business departments
of The Pilot will be closed.
A LONG. DANGEROUS WEEKEND!
Little League to
Play Doubleheader
Night of July 4
Little League baseball will be
featured at Memorial Field Mon
day night (July 4) when the^e
will be a doubleheader contest
with Aberdeen teams.
Managers of the local Little
League and Minor League are
counting on a 50 cents admission
charge per person to pay off a de
ficit in the treasury of the two
leagues. There is normally no
charge for Little League games.
In the preliminary game, start
ing at 6:30, the Cubs of the Sou
thern Pines Minor League will
play a Minor League team from
Aberdeen.
The feature game will begin at
8, with an all-star team chosen
from the four local Little League
nines tackling a strong aggrega
tion from Aberdeen.
Scheduled to play for Southern
Pines are Jimmy Pate, Mac Fow
ler, Ronnie Brown, Johnny Rowe,
Dempsey Bailey, Frank Ligon,
Ted Atkins, Jerry 'Wilson, Ronnie
Bradley and Paul Grootman.
There are four teams in each of
the Southern Pines leagues, with
nearly 100 boys taking part. The
teams are sponsored by the Sou
thern Pines summer recreation
program, business firms and civic
clubs.
Tax Rate Set at
$1.35 in County’s
Budget Estimate
A budget estimate for Moore
County for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1 has been approved by
the county commissioners and is
on file, open to public inspection,
for a 20-day period in the office
of Mrs. Audrey McCaskill, regis
ter of deeds, who is clerk of the
board.
In the proposed budget, the new
year’s tax rate is set at $1.35 per
hundred dollars of property valua
tion, the same as for the past sev
eral years. %
Of this rate, 85 cents will go for
school purposes and 50 cents for
county purposes other than
schools.
Jaycees to Help
Safety Program.
Southern Pines Jaycees and the
newly organized Jaycettes will be
cooperating with the State High
way Patrol July 4 in a highway
safety program.
A committee of the Jaycees,
with Paul Boroughs as chairman,
will set up a refreshment stop on
No. 1 highway north, just north
of the entrance to the parkway,
where safety pamphlets and cold
soft drinks will be given to mo
torists. A highway patrolman
will be present.
The safety effort will be in
operation from 2 to 5 p. m. on
Monday, the estimated hours of
heaviest traffic on the highway.
Traffic will not be stopped, Mr.
Boroughs said, • but those who
stop voluntarily will be given the
safety materials and refresh
ments.
Members of the Jaycettes, wives
of the- Jaycees who organized
here this week, are expected to
help with the project, Mr. Bor
oughs said.
Aberdeen Police
Chief Resigning
Lamar Smith, Aberdeen chief
of police, has resigned to become
a state parole supervisor in Nash
and Edgecombe Counties. He will
be stationed at Rocky Mount and
expects to move there with his
family in August. His wife, Mrs.
Hattie Brooks Smith, has been
prominent in musical activities (in
the Sandhills. Their son. Sonny,
19, is a student at the University
of North Carolina.
Highway Patrol
Warns Motorists
The State Highway Patrol in
this area will be operating at full
strength during the long July 4
holiday weekend, Sgt. J. S. Jones
of Siler City, who heads Patrol
operations in Moore, Lee and
Chatham Counties, said this
week.
The official holiday period will
begin at 6 p. m. Friday and ex
tend through midnight, Monday,
July 4.
In this period last year. Ser
geant Jones pointed out, nine per
sons were killed and 209 injured
in North Carolina traffic acci
dents. 'The weekend last year ex
tended Friday through Sunday,
he noted, whereas this year, the
holiday period includes one more
day.
All electrical speed checking
equipment in the district will be
used over the holiday, including
radar and speed watches. A num
ber of dummy, or inactive, speed
watch tubes will be placed ,on
heavily travelled highways to
help cut traffic speed. Sergeant
Jones said.
Heavily travelled highways will
be given “saturation” patrolling
and checking stations will be set
.up somewhere in the district each
day. Highway safety pamphlets
Wfill be given away to all persons
stopped.
OPE^
HOUSE
Camp Gertrude Tufts will hold
Open House on 'Wednesday, July
G, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., it was
announced by Miss Cathryn
Creasman, Director of the camp
and Executive Director of the
Central Carolina Girl Scout Coun
cil. The Open House will be open
to all Moore County residents.
f?
Sanford Carries 14 of 18 Moore
Precincts, Wins in County, State
V''
THE WINNER — Terry Sanford, winner of the Democratic
nomination for North Carolina governor in a run-off primary
with I. Beverly Lake on Saturday, has a big smile for Eliza Mc
Connell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. McConnell of South
ern Pines. Mr. McConnell and Mrs. John L. Frye of Robbins were
co-managers of Sanford’s campaign in Moore County. The photo
is reminiscent of one used effectively in newspapers and on TV
in Sanford’s campaign, showing him with his own daughter, Bet
sy, stressing his program for improvement of the state’s schools.
(Humphrey photo)
Stock Investing
Course Cancelled
A proposed State College Ex
tension course in stock investing
will not be held, because of la;:k
of . sufficient advance ' registra
tions, Supt. of Schools Luther A.
Adams .'^aid this week.
The course, tentatively planned
for four Thursday nights in July,
with Dr W. L. Turner of State
College a^ instructor, required a
minimum of 18 registrations.
There were about six or seven
applications, Mr. Adams said.
'tt
id-M'.
Ground Broken, Work Begins on VFW Home
Music Assn. Plans
Concerts, Elects
Officers for Year
Members of the Sandhill Music
Association, meeting at Wey
mouth last week, elected Mrs.
James Boyd of Southern Pines
president of the Association
the coming year, reviewed the
past year’s operations and made
plans for the 1960-’61 concert sea
son.
Elected with Mrs. Boyd, who
had been president-elect, were
these officers: Leonard Mudd-
imer, president-elect; Mrs. John
S. Ruggles, treasurer; and Mfs.
Bill Benson, secretary.
Mrs. Boyd has named the fol
lowing activity chairmen: ticket
drive, Howard Broughton; mem
bership, Dr. W. F. Hollister; con
certs, Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.;
program and arrangements, Row
land R. McElvare.
A letter is going Out this week
to all members of the association,
reporting on the past year’s ac-
vivities and enclosing a dues no
tice. Membership is open to the
pubiic and members may or mav
not purchase concert tickets.
Tentative plans for next sea
son’s concerts were discussed at
last tyeek’s meeting. These plans
call for four concerts, as in the
past season, one of which will be
devoted to folk music and jazz.
In addition to the four regular
concerts, two special events are
planned for association members
only in one of which local talent
will be heard.
Tickets for the next season’s
concerts will go on sale later in
the year, at the Barnum Realty
and Insurance Co. offices on
Broad St., or through local chair-
m^en to be named in each com-
fiiunity of the county.
Terry Sanford, winning candi
date in Saturday’s run-off second
Democratic primary for the gub
ernatorial nomination, carried 14
of Moore County’s 18 precincts for
a total of 3,208 votes, against
1,754 for I. Beverly Lake, his op
ponent. ,
Spies precinct, with the smallest
vote of any precinct in the county,
gave the biggest margin to Lake—
19 for him and eight for Sanford.
In the other three Lake pre
cincts, the margins were small—
^—61-60 in Eureka, 33-29 in Little
River and 152-132 in West End.
Robbins precinct gave Sanford
his biggest majority of any in the
county: 315 votes against 47 for
Lake. Southern Pines went heav
ily for Sanford, 609-263.
Here are the " official Moore
County returns, by precincts, as
canvassed and certified Tuesday
by the Moore County board of
elections:
Precinct Sanford Lake
Aberdeen 548 252
Bensalem 80 54
Cameron 153 , 129
E. Carthage 155 130
W. Carthagp 344 156
Deep River 60 40
Eureka 60 61
Highfalls 75 42
Little River 29 33
Pinebluff 98 88
Pinehurst 271 124
Ritters 63 28
Robbins 315 47
Southern Pines 609 263
Spies 8 19
Vass 165 112
West End 132 152
Westmoore 43 24
Totals
3208
1754
The total vote cast Saturday
was 4,962. Total vote in the 4-man
gubernatorial race in the first pri
mary May 28 was 4,886. As some
persons who voted May 28 did
not vote in the race for governor,
nearly the same number of votes
were cast in each of the primar-
- lies—a better vote Saturday than
most experienced observers of
Moore County elections had an
ticipated without the stimulus of
a local race on the ballot.
In the May 28 primary, the vot
ing for governor ran:
Sanford 2561
Seawell 1094
Lake 1020
Larkins 211
Ground was broken Saturday
and work was begun this week
on the new post home of the John
Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, a 4,030-squai‘e-foot building
to be located on a 'large tract ad
joining N. W. Broad St. and Dela
ware Ave.
Total investment in building
and land will run to more than
$50,000. Hayes, Hovell and As
sociates, local archJjectural firm
are the architects ol'the modern,
one-story brick and glass struc-
the contractor.
At the ground-breaking cere
mony, pictured above, Mrs. James
Boyd used, a gilded shovel that
will be preserved as a memento
Df the occasion. The late James
Boyd of Southern Pines was the
uncle of John Boyd for whom the
post was named and whose life
was lost in naval action in the
Pacific in World War II. John
Boyd was the son of Jackson
Boyd, now of Harrisburg, Pa. and
I the late Mrs. Boyd.
Others in the photo are, left to
\ ture. W. J. Sessoms of Manly is I right, Gerald Ritter, member of
the post; Mayor Robert S. Ewing;
Joe Garzik, post surgeon; Hubert
Cameron, building committee
member; Ernest Klabbatz, trustee;
Fred Hall, Jr., post commander;
Mr. Sessoms; and Thom McKen
zie, immediate past commander
and trustee.
The building will be 71 by 60
feet in size and will contain an
assembly room capable of seating
65 persons. The room will be
available for use by the public.
There wi|l be a lounge, social
room, game rooms and a room for
the post’s Woman’s Auxiliary.
Two Properties
Annexed to Town
•
Two properties adjoining the
city limits were annexed at re
quest of the owners, after a public
hearing before the town council
at town hall Monday morning.
The properties, which also ad
join each other, were those of Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Gelshenen on
E. Massachusetts Ave. extension
and Mrs. Marion Taylor Brawley
on E. Indiana Ave. extension.
Demo Convention
Alternates Attend
Raleigh Gathering
Southern Pines has two alter
nate delegates to the Democratic
National Convention that will
open in Los Angeles, Calif., July
11—and both were on hand at a
meeting of the North Carolina
convention delegation in Raleigh
Monday.
The local alternates ate Voit
Gilmore and John D. McConnell.
Mr. McConnell was elected an
alternate delegate at the 8th Con
gressional District caucus during
the Democratic State Convention
a few weeks ago.
The other 8th District alternate
is Elsie Webb, Rockingham attor
ney. There are two alternates
from each Congressional District.
Mr. Gilmore, an alternate dele
gate-at-large, was named to the
post by Governor Hodges. He is
reported definitely planning to at
tend the convention.
Mr. McConnell said this week
he was not certain that he would
go.
Mrs. James Boyd, editor of The
Pilot, who is now in California
to visit relatives and friends, ex
pects to attend the convention
but without official party status.
Delegates from the North Caro
lina Congressional districts, each
with half a vote, control 24 con
vention votes. The at-large dele
gates control 12 votes.
Alternates stand by to join the
state’s delegation in voting, if
needed.
The state’s 37th vote is split be
tween the committeeman and
commltteewoman.