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A # Cr VOL. 40—NO. 36 Bloodmobile To Be Here Tuesday; Need Is Urgent The Red Cross Bloodmobile will make its second visit of the summer to Moore County this week, coming to Robbins Monday and to Southern Pines Tuesday. Quota for each place is 125 pints At Robbins it will be set up at the school gym from 12 noon to 6 p. m.; at Southern Pines at St. Anthony’s Catholic School from 11 a, m. to 5 p. m. Jotm L. Frye and Mrs. W. E. Alexander are recruiting donors in the Robbins community. At Southern Pines, donor cards are in the hands of several citi zens. Cards here are also avail able at the Red Cross chapter of fice, Citizens Bank and Trust Co. Jack’s GriU, Hamels Restamant, the two barter shops and all drug stores in town, said Earl Hubbard, chairman. He urged that all per sons wishing to build up their donor credits sign a card at one of these places. Donor cards on hand for repay ment of blood that has been M- ready used totaled only 67 early this week, only about half enough to meet the qUota. Hubbard asked that those who have signed these cards note the date, and be sure to be on hand. Without repayment as pledged, the blood program goes deep in the hole and hospital and patients must suffer, he reminded. Moore County is already in debt to the program, with needed blood bein^ supplied by other chapters. “When blood is needed, nothing else will do,” l;ie said. “Every day in our hospitals if saves life and restores health. Its value simply cannot be rated too highly—^yet in actuality it has none at all. It is free. But it must te given by One human being for the benefit of another.” Advice from the program is that those who have given blood with in the past 90 days should not give this time. Since the Blood- mobile visit to Aberdeen and Car thage was so successful in June, possible donors for the August visit were cut down. Also, many people are out of town. For these reasons,' those who are here and able to give are even more strong ly urged to do so. John Buchholz, chapter blood chairman, is out of town this week but is expected to return in time to supervise the upcoming visit. Volunteer doctors, nurses and canteen workers will be on hand at both Robbins and South ern Pines. SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1960 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Traffic Problem Now Can^t Compare to ’28 a Davis Appointed To Parole Post Harry Davis of Carthage has been appointed parole commis sioner for Moore, Lee, Montgom ery and Richmond Counties, a state position for which com petitive examinations were held. Five new commissioners were named throughout the state. His headquarters will be in Carthage. A graduate of Duke University, Mr. Davis is married and has four daughters. He has lived in Carthage since 1949, op erating an electrical appliance business there and in Southern Pines for several years. For the past year he has been connected with the Carolina Motor Club. His new work will be to assist in the rehabilitation of paroled prisoners living in the four coun ty area' and perform other duties in connection with the parolees. Cards Win 20-16 In Series Game Second game of the Southern Pines Little League championship series, between the Pirates and the Cards, was rained out Wed nesday night and has been re scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday). In the first game of the two out of three series, the Cards beat the Pirates 20-16. If a third game is necessary to decide the championship, it will be played at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. All games are at Memorial Field. In the good old days, when the Moore County Hounds used Penn sylvania Avenue as a place to stretch their legs and make friends with the folks, nobody had to worry about traffic. No fins stick ing way out into the street, but parking spaces seem to have been scarce even then. The picture. Miss Marcum Gets ‘Congeniality’ Title at Pageant Miss Charla Anne Marcum, 19- year-old Southern Pines music teacher who took part in the Miss North Carolina Pageant at Charlotte as “Miss Sanford” last week, received the pageant’s “Miss Congeniality” award Satur day night—^a tribute from the 68 other young women Who took part in the event. The award, which carries a $250 scholarship, was made by vote of the participants in the pageant to the one of them whose friendli ness, good spirits and congeniality were most displayed toward other entrants. Miss Marcum is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marcum who recently moved from South ern Pines to the Whispering Pines development at Thagard’s Lake. Mr. Marcum is a golf professional who is a representative of a golf equipment company. Miss Marcum said she expected to use the scholarship to further her musical education at Flora Macdonald or East Carolina Col lege. She was accompanied to Char lotte by her chaperone, Mrs. John McPhaul of Southern Pines, and business manager, Roy Cashion of the Sanford Jaycees, her sponsors in the pageant. The Miss North Carolina title was won by Ann Herring of Win ston-Salem. In the talent division of the contest. Miss Marcum sang two songs of her own composition, ac companying herself on the piano in “Sick Song,” and singing “Fool That I Am” with orchestral ac companiment. She received an ovation and was recalled to the stage. H. A. Lewis Has 90th Birthday H.^A. Lewis, who has been ac tive in the business life of South ern Pines since 1915, marked his 90th birthday Monday. Formal observances included dinner with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Heller on Sunday and with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sadler at the Parkview Hotel on Monday. After coming to Southern Pines, Mr. Lewis operated a grocery store and meat market for many years. In the 1930’s he opened Lewis’s Trade Store on Pennsyl vania Ave., selling it in 1948 to Mr. and Mrs. Heller. He owns the Homestead Apart ments on Bennett St. and active-, ly manages the apartments and other real estate interests. He drives his car regularly. His first wife, Mrs. Mabel Wal lace Lewis, died in April, 1958. In June, 19.^9, he was married to Mrs. C. L. Hayes. They live at 275 S. Bennett St. taken, we would think, around 1928, shows the pack, then owned by James and Jackson Boyd, joint masters, being shepherded through town as they return from their exercise by the kennelhuntsman, Harry Knott. The old hounds are on their own and some old folks may recognize Duke, ancestor of JOBS OPEN AT PINEBLUFF PLANT Interviews for employees of the new Watson-Williams shuttle plant on No. 1 high way, south of Pinebluff, will be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. From 40 to 50 production workers, both men and wom en will be employed, the com pany stated. Also to be em ployed are a bookkeeper, sec retary and payroll clerk, to go to work by August IS. In addition there will be jobs if or "seven to 10 strong men" to unload machinery and materials and set up equipment in the plant, dur ing the next three weeks. Harry Pethick At Convention; Gavin Honored Harry H. Pethick of Southern Pines is attending the Republican national convention in Chicago as an alternate delegate elected from the 8th Congressional district. The entire North Carolina dele gation cast its votes for Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon who re ceived the Republican Presiden tial nomination at the convention Wednesday night. Mr. Pethick flew to Chicago from Raleigh-Durham Airport, accompanied by J. E. Fleming of Southern Pines who was on his way to visit relatives in Illinois. Robert L. Gavin of Sanford, Re publican nominee for governor of North Carolina, who is well known in this area, gave the sec onding speech for Vice President Nixon, an honor which delighted the North Carolina delegation. The 44-year-old Sanford attor ney is married to the former Grace McNeill Blue of Carthage. They have three children. Board Adopts Coimty Budget A budget setting a tax rate of $1.35 per $100 of property valua tion was adopted by the county commissioners in a special meet ing Monday. The budgets covers the fiscal year July 1, 1960, to June 30, 1961. The budget lists income and ex penditures of $1,320,789 and is based on a county-wide property valuation of $50 million, highest in the history of the county and $3 million above the valuation listed for the past fiscal year. The tax rate is unchanged from the oast several years, but in creased property valuation makes possible higher expenditures. most of the present pack. Dervish, Sorrowful, and several other fam ous trailers. Those in couples are pups—better be safe than sorry when leading this gang past the Windsor Market, of which Mr. E. C. Loomis was the proprietor. The picture was brought to The Pilot by Jerry Healy, whose wife is the late Mr. Loomis’s daughter, Pete Tufts Wins Moore Golf Event, Defeating Purcell Pete Tufts of Pinehurst is the 1960 Moore County golf cham pion, defeating Bill Purcell of Southern Pines 3 and 2 over the No. course at Pinehurst last week? He had defeated Davis Wor sham of Soutoem Pines 1-up in the semi-finals, after elimina ting Will Wiggs a'*®". Bill Sledge in previous roundi** Purcell won by default, in the first round from Henson Maples. In the second rmmd he stopped a young contender, Charlie Rose, 2 and 1, and won 1-up over E. I. Comer in the semi-finals. Winners in other flights were: First Flight—Joel Hufford, 1- up, over Boyd Starnes; Second Flight—Harry Chatfield, 4 and 3, over Harold Collins. Third Flight—Bill Wilson, 1-up, over W. J. Burke. Foiu-th Flight— Melvin Wicker, 1-up on 21st, over Topper Parks. Fifth Flight—George A. Short, Jr., 7 and 5, over Dr. W. E. Alex ander. Sixth Flight—^Roland Johnson, Jr., 2 and 1, over Ed Klingenschmidt. Seventh Flight —^B. T. Perham and J. C. Rob bins, even. Prisoner Dies Early Today in Jail at Carthage Vernon (“Pet”) Dowdy, 48- year-old Negro, of Manly, died in the Moore County jail at Carthage between 5:30 and 6 a.m. today. He had been placed in jail Wed nesday afternoon to serve a 30- day sentence for public drunken ness. The sentence, for an offence committed July 18, was pronounc ed in Southern Pines Recorder’s Court earlier Wednesday and was suspended if a $10 fine and costs of the case were paid. Dowdy told court officials that he could not pay the line and costs and that he would serve the 30 days. L. E. Hussey, jsdler, said a pris oner summoned him about 5:30 a.m., saying that Dowdy was hav ing some kind of lit. When the jail er saw Dowdy, the prisoner was apparently dead, but he called Dr. R. L. Felton. The jailer said the physician told him to call Coroner Ralph Steed of Robbins who came to the jail and pro nounced Dowdy dead of natural CBUS0S> * Coroner Steed told The Pilot that there was no evidence of foul play. Asked if a physician had ever seen Dowdy, the coroner said that it was not necessary lor a physic ian to see the prisoner and that he (the coroner) could pronounce him dead. The coroner at first said specifically that the prisoner had died of a heart attack. Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health officer, who lives at Southern Pines, was not called but was in formed later of the death. Hussey said that prisoners told him that Dowdy was in good spir its the night before his death. The jailer said the prisoners told him that Dowdy got up for a drink of water about 4 a.m. and that he had given no signs of illness un til about 5:30 when they saw him having some kind of seizure. Southern Pines police depart ment records show that Dowdy had a record of six arrests since 1953, all for public drunkenness. He is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. George Dowdy of Manly, a re spected Negro couple. His father is a Methodist minister, with a church in Sanford. $25,000 POOL The Pilot had zero trouble in its story last week about the Pinehurst swimming pool project, stating that the pool wordd cost $250,000, to be raised by payment of 250 $100 membership fees. Correct total to be raised is $25,- 000. Somewhere in the course of getting the story into print an other zero was attached. Junior Tennis Tourney To Start Here Monday Moore County Scouts Proud of Hiking Record at Ranch on Way to Jamboree Four Moore Covmty Boy Scouts who have been attending the Na tional Boy Scout Jamboree on a ranch near Colorado Springs, Colo., were preparing today to leave the Jamboree area which will be vacated by Saturday. Attending from Moore County are Ronny Brown of Southern Pines, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. La- mont Brown; and three West End boys, Rick and Chuck Lewis (who are twins) and Michael Cole. They are members of a Jambo ree troop 57 whose Scoutmaster is A. C. Hood of Sanford, with Ray Steel of Fort Bragg and Joe Johnson of Erwin as assistant adult leaders. The troop reached Colorado Springs via the National Scout ranch at Cimarron, N. Mex., where they stopped for five days of hiking and camping. At the Jamboree, there have teen boys from all ,50 states and 27 foreign countries. The troop left Sanford July 9, with 32 boys from Moore, Lee and Wake Counties. On the way, they stopped at Air Force bases for the night and vis ited Carlsbad Caverns and other points of interest. In a letter to The Pilot, Mr. Hood related highlights of the trip, the visit to the Philmont ranch and the Jamboree, with side trips to the State cdpitol and museum in Denver, the Royal Gorge where the group walked over the highest suspension bridge in the world (1,035 feet), the mod ern zoo in Colorado City and the Air Force Academy. Another report on the trip and the Jamboree was received from a letter written by Ronny Brown to his parents, a portion of which follows: “We arrived at Philmont July 15.1 never anticipated that it was as rough as it was. We hiked sev en miles the first day (it was the longest), but it was pretty easy. The second and third days we hiked up and up. This was about the roughest route in the whole trip. The next day we were sup posed to hike about 3% miles. The troop decided to go ahead and hike the rest of the way. So we did (about 8 miles). After we hik ed four miles that day, we started going down hill. That was the hardest part of the trip. The next morning we got on the bus hav ing the satisfaction that we were among the very few troops in the jamboree trek that made it. “That afternoon we had a real meal for the first timejn 6 days (yum-yum). “That night we hit the jambo ree (what a bang). We got there at about 9 p.m. and in 40-degree weather had to put up two tents, but we did get to bed at 1 a.m.. MR. MEGGINSON Megginson To Be ]Coach, Athletic Director, SPHS The appointment of Billy Mc Leod Megginson, 30, as athletic director and head football coach at East Southern Pines High School was announced today by the board of education and Supt. Luther A. Adams. He will also be an instructor in Social Studies. A native of Shelby, Mr. Meg ginson is a graduate of Shelby High School. He received his A. B. degree at Lenoir-Rhyne Col lege, where he was a letter man in football for four years and in baseball for three years, and his M. A. degree in Social Studies and Administration at Western Carolina College. Mr. Megginson’s wile is the' for mer Diana Jo Cummings of Rob bins, who has an M. A. degree in primary education and will teach in the Pinehurst schools. They have no children. Mr. Megginson met his wife when he played sum mer semi-pro baseball with a Robbins team while he was in college. Mr. Megginson has an impres sive athletic record—personally and as a coach. For the past three years he has been head football coach at Mt. Holly High School in Gaston County. In 1957, his football team won the conference championship and was runner-up in the State AA-C race. The . team’s season record was 7-2-2. The conference championship was won again with a similar record in 1958 When Mr. Megginson received the Gastonia Gazette’s “Coach of , the (Continued on page 8) Welfare, Health Departments Fill Vacant Positions Mrs. Leonard Miller, o,f Carth age, has joined the Moore County Welfare Dept, staff as case work er and interviewer. Mrs. Miller replaces Mrs. Sarah Mclnnis McCaskill of West End, who is now on maternity leave. Mrs. McCaskill has teen case worker and child welfare worker for approximately 10 years in Moore and Randolph Counties. Mrs. Miller has her B. S. degree from Pennsylvania State Univer sity and has had three years ex perience with a West Virginia public welfare agency as child welfare worker. She and her husband are active members of the Presbyterian Church in Carthage. Mr. Miller is connected with Wayne Distribut ing Company, Parkwood. At the Moore County Health Dept., Mrs. Imogene Klingenfus has begun work as public health nurse, replacing the late Mrs. Edith McLeod. The former Imogene Pence of Marlboro County, S. C., and Rockingham, she served as an Army flight nurse and has about 10 years of experience in public health work. Her husband is with the Army in Korea. Mrs. Klingen fus is living in Carthage. The 12th annual Junior Sandhill Invitational tennis tournament will be bringing young players into town this weekend, for com petition on the municipal courts, Monday through Wednesday. Players in the tourney usually numbering up to 50 or 60, come mostly from North and South Carolina with a sprinkling from other states. John McMillan, tournament director said Tuesday night that only about a dozen entries had been received by mail, “but this is normal for this stage—they’ll come piling in before the dead line of midnight Sunday, ready to start play first thing Monday morning.” The many inquiries re ceived, along with requests for entry blanks, indicates much in terest and good attendence this year. The tournament, sponsored by the Sandhills Tennis Association, for the past several years in co operation with the summer recre ation program is one of the top flight events in its field for this section. Sanctioned by the South ern Lawn Tennis association, it draws some of the best players, with SLTA ratings, as well a3 newcomers eager to take a shot at the Sandhill Junior trophies. Upsets Frequent Upsets are frequent as when last year, fourth-seeded David Morgan of Asheville, who had never played here before, knocked over the No. 1 seed to capture the top singles trophy. Singles and doubles will be played in four divisions—^jtmior boys and junior girls (18 and un der); boys and girls (15 and un der). Mixed doubles will be held only if there are enough entries for a good compdtitive event. Those in the younger bracket may play in the Older bracket, if they think they are good enough, but, not vice versa. Trophies will be awarded winners and runners-up in all events. McMillan said he had not had definite word that any of the de fending champions will be here. Due to age limitations, the mor tality rate among junior title- holders is high. They are always graduating upward. 1959 Winners Last year’s winners were David Morgan of Asheville, junior boys’ singles; Joanne Cooper of Char lotte, junior girls’ singles; Jim Causey of Davidson, boys’ singles and Gay Williams of Charlotte, girls’ singles. In doubles, winners were, in the older division, David Morgan and Stanley Cocke, Joanne Cooper and Gay Williams; in the younger division, Jim Cau sey and Jim Sloan (Clinton, S. C.), Gay Williams and Shirley Holliday (Belton, S. C.) The Southland Hotel and Jef ferson Inn have set special rates for the players, and some will te guests in private homes. Jacks Grill and Hamels Restaurant are also cooperating with special dis counts for their meals. Hosts at Supper Monday night, the local players (Continued on page 8) Dees Appointed Aberdeen Chief A. F. Dees has been appointed Aberdeen chief of police, succeed ing Lamar Smith who resigned a month ago to go to Rocky Mount as a state parole supervisor. The appointment was announc ed Wednesday by Mayor E. M. Medlin. Naming of a new chief had been delayed pending Mayor Medlin’s return from a trip to Europe. Mr. Dees has 30 years of exper ience in law enforcement work. He has been assistant chief of po lice at Aberdeen, chief at Pine hurst for 11 years and was a dep uty Moore County sheriff for more than 10 years. For the past two years he has been employed by the Pinehurst Country Club during the resort season. He was president of the Moore County Law Enforcement Officers Association 1958-’59. D. J. Jones, who has teen with the Aberdeen police department four months, has teen acting chief since Mr. Smith left.
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