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«} 4 <?> ‘To Help Other Men’ is the title of a new book of ser mons by the late Rev. Harold C. Buckminster of Pinehurst who died in August, 1955. Photo and story, page 9. The world needs reassurance, writes The Pilot’s editor in an open letter to Sen ator John F. Kennedy, Demo cratic Presidential nominee, on today’s editorial page. VOL. 4a-NO. 37 Commissioners, Education Board In Disagreement Joint Meeting Slated For Monday to Decide School Money Dispute A joint meeting of the county commissioners and the county board of education, held Monday during the commissioners’ regular monthly session, was adjourned to Monday, August S, at 2 p.m., , after the two boards could not reach an, agreement on how a por tion of the funds in the education board’s jurrent expense budget for the 1960-’61 fiscal year are to be spent. One member was absent from each of the boards — Chairman J. A. Culbertson of the board of education and Commissioner John M. Currie. Commissioners present were L. R. Reynolds, chairman; Tom Mon roe, J. M. Pleasants and W. S. Taylor. Board of education members at the meeting were Jere McKeithen, Howard Matthews, T. Roy Phil lips and Roland Upchurch, also Supt. R. E. Lee. School law permits the two boards to meet and vote jointly when a dispute arises. The board of education wanted to vote Mon day, but Chairman Reynolds of the commissioners said he thought a vote should not be taken with one commissioner absent. The dispute concerns four items that were stricken from the board of education’s current expense budget after it was submitted to the commissioners: 1. A $2,000 salary increase for Supt. Lee. , 2. $6,000 for salary of a county school librarian. 3. $180 for half a year’s salary increase for C. E. Powers, the county school system’s guidance director (the other half is paid by the federal government). 4. Salary increases averaging (Continued on page 8) Democrats Plan To Attend Meet At Fair Arena W. Lamont Brown of Southern Pines, chairman of the Moore County Democratic Executive Committee, will lead a delegation of Moore Democrats to the party’s big luncheon gathering in the State Pair Arena at Raleigh on Tuesday. Plans are being made to ffeed a thousand or more persons at the gathering. The luncheon will begin the Democratic campaign for all the party’s candidates throughout the state. Mr. Brown said today that some half-dozen persons from Moore have already indicated they would attend and that he hopes and expects many more will make plans to be there SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS B0¥V BY '.11 .'U' f!kr Outlook Bright for Long-Desired North-South Air Service to Area Guard Unit to Leave Saturday Co. D., 2nd Medium Tank Bat talion—Moore County’s National Guard unit, with headquarters at the armory here—will leave for its annual two-week summer en campment at Fort Stewart, Ga., at 3 a. mi. Saturday. Capt. James E. Harrington, Jr., of Pinehurst, company command er, said that the company will spend the first week in tank gun nery qualification and during the second week will put on a night fire power demonstration for the division commander and his staff. The local Guard company 's a unit of the 30th Division, a Na tional Guard division with units throughout North Carolina. The Guard company will travel to Fort Stewart in its o\vn ve hicles. Moose Lodge to Have Dances for Teenagers starting August 8, the Southern Pines Moose Lodge will sponsor a teenage dance each Monday from 8 to 11 p. m. Teenagers from all of Moore County are invited to attend. OFF TO ELKS CAMP — Twenty-two boys aged eight to 14 are enjoying two weeks of sum mer camp at Hendersonville as guests of the Southern Pines Elks Lodge. The boys, who live in several Moore County towns, Laurinburg, Red Springs, Hamlet and Rockingham, are pic tured just before leaving for the camp early Sunday morning when the Elks entertained them at breakfast at the Southern Pines Coun try Club, headquarters of the lodge. Adults in the rear are Max Rush, exalted ruler of the, lodge (left), and Tom Caddell, chairman of the Elks Boys Camp committee. Front row, left to right: Michael Bohlander, Southern Pines; John Harrison, Southern Pines; J. D. Barr, Carthage; Lonnie McNeill, Aberdeen; Tommy Eldridge, Carthage; David Dendring, Rockingham; and Vann Harris, Hamlet. Second row, same order: Robert Fleming, Southern Pines; David McRae, Southern Pines; Billy McLawhom, Carthage; Ralph Hinesley, Carthage; Charles Lewis, Carthage; Wayne FOUND SHOT IN MANLY HOUSE Smith, Red Springs; and Tommy Perry, South ern Pines. Third row, same order: Johnny Cox, South ern Pines; Johnny Andrews, Laurinburg; Wayne Lewis, Aberdeen; Jimmy Polston, Aberdeen; Arnold Freeman, Robbins; Billy Strickland^ Manly; Max Garner, Cameron; and Johnny Fo- shee, Southern Pines. The group is the largest ever sent to camp by the Southern Pines Elks Lodge in this annual project. All expenses are paid for the boys. At the 150-acre camp site which is owned by the N. C. State Elks Association, the boys will par ticipate in swimming, baseball, softball, hiking and other sports. The camp program includes a guided tour of Hendersonville and surrounding area. The 1960 camping project is being conducted in honor of Curtis Everette and Bill Ruffin, two members of the Southern Pines Elks Lodge who died within the past year. The boys will return from the camp August (Photo by Humphrey) Woman’s Death Still Mystery Tennis Tourney Enters Finals; Players Listed Finals in the 12th annual Jun ior Sandhill Invitational Tennis tournament were slated Thursday afternoon, too late for The Pilot to publish results. They bade fair to be exciting and a good gallery was expected. Though the half-dozen local en tries had been eliminated, several unseeded ones had climbed right to the top, ousting the favorites in intense competition along the way. Biggest upset was that scored by Goldsboro’s Buddy Douglas in junior singles semifinals, when he beat the No. I seed, Di.ck Pregnall of Columbia, S. C. Scoring not one point in the first set, Douglas’ steady play began to wear down his opponent in the hard-fought second set, and in the third, Preg nall capitulated fast. The score— 0-6, 7-5, 6-1. Douglas and Kay Stallings of Goldsboro, also unseeded, were due to slug it out in finals today. In boys’ singles, Jim Donnan of Burlington, No. 3, was the only seeded player to survive to the finals, fhen he was to meet Ed Parker of Raleigh. There’s nothing like young male players to stage prolonged contests of seemingly unending suspense. Their endurance seems never to give out. Three-set matches were common through out the tournament, though some of the two-set ones were even longer as advantage swung back (Continued on page 8) Negro Club Makes Gifts to Hospital 1 J-*./, A grim puzzle was handed Moore County law enforcement officers with the finding of the body of Mrs. Evelyn Boggs, 41, in a ramshackle cottage on the old sandclay Manly road Saturday morning. The body had lain in the tightly closed house in blistering sum mer heat for at least five or six weeks, possibly eight weeks, be fore a Negro man pushed open the back door and looked inside He told officers he thought the house in the weed-grown yard was empty, and wished to rent it. His discovery brought all law enforcement facilities of the county, also the SBI, into play. In the ensuing four days one sordid chapter after another, has been revealed, with the end not yet forecast. That the woman’s death came by violence was immediately de termined. On the floor of the un tidy bedroom, some six feet from her left hand as it dangled from the bed, lay a pistol from which one shot had been fired. X-rays taken in the course of an autopsy showed a pistol bullet located in the chest region, but the condition of the body was such the bullet could not be re trieved. A handwritten, penciled note on a chair in another room of the house, addressed “To Whom It May Concern,” pointed the finger at a 26-year-old man of this com munity who (it said) “has shot me and left me to die. I want him ' punished.” The man was picked up for questioning within a few hours and is still being held in Moore County jail, his name not yet re vealed, while all possible leads concerning Mrs. Boggs’ past are being checked out. Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence, who is heading the investigation, said, “We have not ruled out the possibility the Wound was self- inflicted, and the note was an ef fort to ‘get even’ with this man.” The man admitted “going with” Mrs. Boggs over a period of months, also that he was the father of a child which would have been born to her about Aug ust 1. However, he said he broke off with her early in June and had not sought her company nor seen her since. Picked up Tuesday in Sanford, (Continued on Page 8) The Moore County Citizens Club, a Negro organization, has given a Venetian blind for the nursery window in the Negro ward of Moore Memorial Hospi tal, as well as a $50 cash donation to be used as the hospital sees fit, it was announced this week by Thomas R. Howerton, administra tor of the hospital. Officers of the club are Charles Barrett, president, H. L. Kearns, vice president and Mrs. Grace Lee, secretary. Mr. Howerton expressed the hospital’s gratitude for the gifts. DREWRY TROUTMAN GOP Candidate Launches Drive For School Post Drewry Troutman of Addor, Republican candidate for the Moore County board of educatiop, has launched his campaign for the November election, with appoint ment of Coolidge Thompson of Pineb'uff as county-wide cam paign manager. Local managers announced by Mr. Thompson are E. H. Mills, mayor of Pinebluff, and Billy Mc Kenzie at Pinehurst. In a statement issued this week, Mr. Troutman pointed out that Moore County voters, under a local bill approved by the Gen eral Assembly last year, are voting directly for school board members for the first time in 1960. Formerly, school board (Continued on page 8) Pethick Thrilled by Republican Convention Harry H. Pelhick of Soulh- em Pines was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chi cago last week. On his re- lurn. The Pilot asked him to write his impressions of the convention at which Richard M. Nixon received the nomin ation ifor President and Henry Cabot Lodge the nomination for Vice President. Mr. Peth ick, a member of the South ern Pines town council, isi retired live. oil company execu- Local Folks at Gavin Reception Republican gubernatorial can didate Robert Gavin was feted by his home town at Sanford with a reception Monday night, on his return from the Republican Na tional Convention where he had the honor of seconding the nomi nation of Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican Presi dential candidate. Attending the event from Sou thern Pines were Harry H. Peth ick, who was an alternate dele gate to the convention, Mrs. Kath erine McColl and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kennedy. By HARRY H. PETHICK Most delegates, alternates and visitors to the 1960 Republican Convention converged on Chica go Sunday, July 24. Between 2,- 600 and 2,700 delegates and alter nates had seats on the convention foor and the press had a generous allotment of seats at the right of the podium. The number of visitors from all over the country was amazing. There were 8,000 teenagers, in cluding a large delegation from Kansas, with all the girls wearing sunflower hats. All hotels were full to the roof and seats in the mezzanine and gallery of the con vention hall were at a great pre mium. The 28 North Carolina delegates had excellent seats less than half way to the rear of the hall. Thfe 28 alternates were in the rear cen ter. I was alternate to Mr. Sim A. DeLapp of Lexington and he graciously allowed me to occupy (Continued on page 8) . GREETINGS—Vice-President Richard M. Nixon is shown greeting Harry H. Pethick of Southern Pines, alternate delegate at the 1960 Republican Convention in Chicago last week. Mr. Pethick was greeted by Vice-President Nixon at one of the “Workshop Meetings” attended by the North Carolina delegates at the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. Daylight Robbery Takes Place Here Police are investigating a bold daylight robbery of a/house on the Midland Road, home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Grove, in which $160 was taken, Tuesday. Chief C. E. Newton said Mrs. Grove took her husband, a super visor at the Karagheusian plant at Aberdeen, back to his work after iunch, and stopped to do some marketing on the way home, being gone from her home less than two hours. She had left the back door unlocked. S!ie found the house had been ransacked, and desk drawers, table drawers and dresser draw ers pulled out, in a search which evidently was only for money. Gone were bills from a purse, and from an envelope in a desk, total ling $160. Nothing else was miss ed. / 4" If an examiner’s recommenda- I tion to the Civil Aeronautics Board is approved, the Sandhills will attain its long-sought goal of north-south air service in and* out of the Pinehurst-Southem Pines Airport. A decision on the change could come within 60 days, according to information from informed sources. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, who presented this area’s argu ments for a north-south air link with Raleigh-Durham Airport be fore the CAB in Washington, D. C., about a year ago, told The Pilot this week that a new devel opment has greatly improved the outlook for the service desired here. That development is the appli cation of Capitol Air Lines to be relieved of its Knoxville, Tenn., to Norfolk,' Va., route and the recommendatibn of the CAB ex aminer that Piedmont Air Lines be given this route. Piedmont now serves Southern Pines-Pinehurst Airport with an October to May seasonal east-west service only. Mr. Gilmore said that he had been assured this week by Tom Davis of Winston-Salem, president of Piedmont, that if Piedmont is given the Knoxville to Norfolk route, and if the Southern Pines- Pinehurst stop is included in it. Piedmont would try to synchron ize its service here to provide convenient service to Raleigh- Durham Airport, for connections with north-bound planes there. If approved, the route would run through Southern Pines, Ra leigh, Rocky Mount and Elizabeth City to Norfolk. Northbound pass engers from the local airport could go through to the end of the route with Piedmont or could leave it at Raleigh to make other connections. Mr. Gilnlore said that Mr. Davis, who has through the years at tempted to give the best possible service to Pinehurst-Southern Pines, is very enthusiastic about the new development. Because the relief of Capitol Air Lines from the Knoxville- Norfolk service has an “emergen cy” status, it is likely that the CAB examiner’s recommendation will move more quickly than most applications heard by the CAB. The board usually follows its own exapiiners’ recommendations. Eighty per cent of potential air traffic in and out of Southern Pines has been estimated as north-south, Mr. Gilmore said. ANNUAL PICNIC The annual Masonic-Eastern Star picnic will be held at the Vass community house, Wednes day, August 31, at 5:45 p. m., it was announced this week. 2 Graduate at SPHS on Friday Two inembers of the class of 1960 of Southern Pines High School were graduated Friday after completing requirements for graduation during summer school courses. A brief ceremony was held at the school. The two graduates, who join 55 other members of the class graduated in June, are Linda Holder Tulloch and Issac Allen Woodell, Jr. Cardinals Are Little League Champs; Teams Feted by Elks, Trophies Given (Photos of winners and runners-1 Charles McLaughlin, John Me- lirv AM _ /I 1 . up, on page 12) The Cardinals, coached by Joel Stutts and sponsored by the Pine Needles Country Club, de feated the Pirates 5-0 Saturday night to win four straight games in the play-offs and the Little League championship. The Cards committed only one error in winning over the heavy- hitting Pirates. The Pirates, coached by Frank Buchan and sponsored by Mid Pines, won eight games and lost only four during the regular season as a result of heavy hitting by Jerry Wilson, Harry Webb, Ronnie Bradley, Paul Grootman and Ricky John son. They were held to one hit by Teddy Nanopoulos, in the cham pionship game, who had good backing by James Mallow, Dan ny Crowley, Dempsey Bailey, Laughlin, Frank Ligon, Terry Michael and Ray Britt. Fred Atkins, the Cards’ heav iest hitter and fastest pitcher, missed the game as well as Ron nie Bradley, the Pirates league leading hitter. The Cardinals won two straight games with the Dodgers in the first round of the play-offs with scores of 16-1 and 7-4. The Pirates defeated the Braves two straight games in the first round. The Clards then won the champion- hip with two wins over the Pirates by scores of 20-16 and 5-9. Entertained by Elks A chicken supper was held at the Southern Pines Country Club Wednesday evening for Over 100 boys and coaches participating in the Little League, Minor League and Pony League program. The (Continued on Page 12)
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