VOL. 40—NO. 40
EIGHTEEN PAGES
South Broad St.
^ Drainage Project
Now Assured
The widening, curbing and gut
tering of South West Broad
Street, with installation of storm
savmr, from Indiana Avenue to
Morgan ton Road moved nearer
reality last week with the signing
^ of a mutual agreement by the
' town council with the State High
way Commission.
The agreement was signed at
' a special meeting of the council,
said Town Manager Louis Schei-
pers, because of notice by the
Commission that they planned to
let contracts this week, and had
to have the signed agreement in
hand in order to do so. Work is
expected to start within 30 days
9- of the letting.
The council agreed unanimous
ly some months ago to its part
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1960
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Billy Megginson,
Hardy Bound Over
In Boggs Murder
,, Case; Bond Is Set
A tall, pallid defendant, with
dark curly hair and deepset eyes
under thick brows sat quietly in
Moore recorder's court Monday
and heard himself “fingered” as a
murderer by a dead woman
whom he had once loved.
Pleading not guilty at the hear
ing, James D. Hardy, 25, of
Southern Pines was bound over
I for grand jury action in Novem
ber on a charge of murder in the
pistol shooting of Mrs. Evelyn
Boggs, 41.
Hardy, who was without de
fense counsel, asked only a few
Questions of State’s witnesses. He
told Judge J. Vanqe Rowe, “I just
want this to be taken up to the
superior court.”
He stayed in jail voluntarily
for questioning in the case for two
} weeks before charges were pre
ferred, and while officers were
continuing their investigation of
one of the most baffling cases in
the annals of Moore County
crime. He was charged with the
murder 10 days ago.
' To Whom It May Concern"
Main evidence of the State was
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GOING INTO ACTION ,
head Southern Pines High School footbaFrcoach,’
right, and John Williams, Jr., line coach, lead a
group of candidates for the 1960 SPHS squad in
a charge, in an early practice session. These are
candidates for line positions. Line and backfield
players are practicing in separate sessions.
(Humphrey photo)
Blue Knij^hts Start from Scratch;
25 Out, Few Experieuced Players
Football
Schedule
The Southern Pines Blue
Knights' football season will
start Friday, September 9, at
Laurinburg. Game time. 8
p. m.
After that, it's every Fri
day night (except one Satur
day night, October 22)
through November 11.
The schedule, including six
home games and four away
■from home, was released this
week: The first two games
are non-Conference, the oth
ers Conference:
September 9, Laurinburg,
there; September 16, Seventh
First, here September 23. Lit-
tleueld, here; September 30,
St. Pauls, there.
October 7, Red Springs,
here; October 14, Fairmont,
there; October 22, Rohanen,
there; October 28. Aberdeen,
there (Homiecoming Game!}.
November 4, Hope Mills,
here; November 11. Carthage,
there.
Southern Pines’ new coach Bil-
J ly Megginson and his football boys
j have put in the past week or so
sizing each other up. From what
this reporter could learn, both
sides liked what they saw.
The big, husky coach, former
Lenoir Rhyne letterman and 1958
“Co-Coach of the Year” in the
Gastonia area, said, “We’ve got
a lot of new boys, very little in
the way of experience, and the
squad is going to average out un
dersized. But they’ve got interest,
spirit, spunk and the will to win.”
Even better, he said, they had
the ability to learn. That much
has come out in the first week’s
practice on Memorial Field, where
they put in the time running and
exercising. Wednesday was the
first day they came out in pads,
got down on the ground and test
ed their weight against each
other.
In the approximately 25
who came out are only four
or five holdovers from Icist
year's team, and just three
men who played regularly.
Jack McDonald, Joe Garzik
and W. C. Morgan. These will
form the nucleus of the 1960-
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Guardsmen Win
Highest Rating
On Eneampment
The Moore County Nation
al Guard contingent attending
the Fort Stewart, Ga., en
campment for 16 days return
ed home Sunday with a high
honor.
They wound up the en
campment with the highest
annual rating—combining the
summer camp with' the full
year's work—of all six com
panies in the Battalion.
The 44 Guardsmeen from
Moore County, including
Capt. James E. Harrington,
commanding officer, and
other officers—went to Fort
Stewart and returned by
military convoy, carrying
hundreds of Guardsmen from
this section.
There would have been
more from here, said Cap
tain Harrington, except that
a considerable number are
taking six-months training
courses.
Aberdeen Tobacco Markets Will Open
Sept. 6; Good Prices Anticipated
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Bulldogs Enter 11-Man Game
At Carthage Coach O. D. Wal
lace begins his seventh sea&on
with more than the usual prob
lems confronting a high school
coach.
Besides heavy manpower loss
es to make up for, Wallace takes
his squad into a new conference
while at the same time changing
it from eight-man to 11-man foot
ball.
The Bulldogs last year won the
Sandhils eight-man championship
as they compiled a 9-1-1 record.
Seven lettermen from that squad
will form the nucleus of this sea
son’s 11-man team which tackles
a 10-game schedule including
eight games with Cape Fear Con
ference foes.
“We lost some mighty fine foot
ball players last year that are go
ing to be hard to replace,” Wallace
comments. ‘However, we have
some good boys returning to build
around and we are looking for
ward to the challenge. If we can
get by the first few games with
out injury and our new boys can
get some experience, I feel we
will hold our own.
The backfield appears in ca
pable hands with three lettermen
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Republicans Plan
Headquarters On
East Broad St.
Moore County Republicans will
open their official campaign head
quarters on or about September
1 in the store building now occu
pied by The Glitter Box on East
Broad Street, it was announced
this week by. James E. Harrington
of Pinehurst, chairman of the
Moore Republican Executive
committee.
The headquarters will be staff
ed throughout the campaign per
iod by volunteers, and appropriate
buttons and literature will be dis
tributed there.
Also, said Harrington, informa/-
tion will be available there on
Republican candidates and their
platforms on all levels, and vot
ers — Republican, Democratic or
independent—will be assisted on
questions of registration, absen
tee voting, etc.
‘We are confidently predicting a
Republican victory, in the state.
Red Devils Get Good Start
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By A. I. BARNES
Sales Supervisor
Aberdeen Board of Trade
The Aberdeen Tobacco Market
is scheduled to start selling the
1960 crop of tobacco Tuesday,
September 6.
With a crop of tobacco that is
generally considered to be one
of the best crops raised in this
section, Aberdeen is looking for
ward to a successful season. The
high prices paid in Aberdeen
last year are expected to l^paid
again this year and Aberdeen
will again be one of the leaders
in the belt.
The same firms that operated
5> in Aberdeen last year will again
be here to ^et the most money
possible for each pile of tobacco
offered. New Aberdeen Ware-
Tom Faulkner doing the auction
eering. Planters Warehouse will
be operated by W. Fentress
Phillips with Col. Basil Byerly
doing the selling. Hardee’s Ware
house will be operated by Hugh
T. Hardee, Sr., with the help of
Yank Howell. The auctioneer will
be A B. Parker, Jr.
Aberdeen will again have a
full set of buyers with all major
buying companies having buyers
on the market.
The Warehousemen are busy
getting their houses ready for
the opening and at this time all
houses are expecting to start re
ceiving tobacco for the first sale
on Saturday, Sept. 3rd. However,
anyone desiring to bring tobacco
to market before that day may
Coach Jack Crenshaw of Aber
deen’s Red Devils is now in his
second week running and practic
ing with the boys who expect to
be on the gridiron team this fall.
The opening game for the Aber
deen Red Devils will be played at
St. Pauls Friday night, September
9.
Coach Crenshaw says that the
prospects are pretty good for the
Red Devils and that they have 11
lettermen returning from last
year. Four of the Aberdeen boys
who made the Cape Fear Con
ference team will be back.
Among those who have been
practicing in recent days are;
Frank Caldwell, Gary Coble, Eu
gene Polston, Marvin Weaver,
Herbert Kirk, Jack Prevatte, Sid
ney Taylor, Jr., Jay Garrison
by Pugh, Freddie Caddell, James
Schnell, John Pinkston, Roy
Hawks, Mike Cleary, Larry Muse, _ ,
Danny Williams and probably lies will be available for study"at
■ I the campaign headquarters
ngtion and county,” Harrington
said. “This year is bringing us
several ‘firsts’ — our first cam
paign headquarters, our first bro
chure, our first countywide tick
et and, we are sure, our first lo
cal victories in 32 years.”
The brochure, he said, is about
the local candidates, and is being
prepared for mailing, rather than
general distribution, though cop-
Xliree School Systems
Prepare for New Term
The Moore (^ounty, Southern Pines and Pinehurst school
systems are readying for their openings, with some changes
and improvements in prospect for all three. -
Pup^ils will register at all the county schools August 30, ex
cept Farm Li:fe, Vass-Lakeview and Cameron where registra
tion will be September 2 For all cotinty schools, Monday,
September 5, will be a full day of school.
Southern Pines with pupils registering September 2, will
observe the Labor Day holiday. Tuesday, September 6 will be
the first full day.
At Pinehurst, September 2 is also the registration day but
this week it hadn t been decided whether September 5 will
be a holiday or not. ,
Openings for all the schools this
year will be a three-day affair.
Under the new state ruling, teach
ers meet and plan the first day;
the second day, students register
and get their books and room as
signments; the third day is the
first full day. This gives time for
the teachers to prepare—with
P3y—for 180 full days of instruc
tion.
For most of the county schools,
the opening days will be August
29, 30 and 31. The exceptions are
Farm Life, Vass-Lakeview and
Cameron, where a change was an
nounced this week. Because of the
lateness of the tobacco season,
with many students still working
in the crop, opening days for
these will be September 1, 2 and
5.
For Southern Pines, they are
September 1, 2 and 6.
At Pinehurst, Supt. Lewis A.
Cannon said there are “some
problems still to be worked out”
before they know whether they
will keep the Labor Day holiday
or not.
School buses will run on the
registration day, but the cafe
terias will not be open, as the
pupils will be at school only a
couple of hours.' The cafeterias
will all be open the third, or first
full day.
All the principals emphasize
the importance of registration for
every boy and girl, whether he
has to stay out later to work in
the tobacco crop or not. Teach
er allotment is made on the bas
is of enrollment during the first
days. A few late entries can cost
a school teacher for the year.
New Principals
While superintendents have
been at work all summer, princi
pals reported, met and started
work a week ago. These included
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JOE E. SANDLIN of Southern
Pines has been named chairman
of the local community drive to
raise funds for the Boy Scouts
program this fall, according to an
announcement by John McPhaul
of Southern Pines, Moore District
fund chairman.
Contracts Soon
To Be Let for
$180,000 Wing
With working drawings in pro
cess and $180,000 in hand, Supt.
Luther Adams said this week,
“We hope to let contracts on the
new school wing by October 1.”
Construction should get started
then if, he added, “We are to
achieve our objective of getting
all our children back on campus
by the end of the school year.”
'll contact their warehousemen and ney xayior, jr.. Jay uarnson,
house will be operated by Tom make arrangements to bring it Jimmy Whitlock, Junior Wilson,
Faulkner and George Mabe, with in earlier if they desire. ' Bobby Alpert, Mike Weaver, Bob-
37 Paratroopers Injured in Drop
The new wing, “Phase C,” of the
high school building will apeom-
modate junior high school classes
and activities, relieving the con
gestion in the elementary school
building.
Elementary classes have had to
be held in the past few years in
the Presbyterian and Episcopal
educational buildings near by.
Adams said that at least three^
maybe four, classes must go off
campus when school opens Sep
tember 2. The tiny home ec cot
tage will also be used, and, if en
rollment should exceed expecta- , . “ , ’
tions, some “half-size” rooms nev- speaker at the an-
er meant for classes will have to
be pressed into service.
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Freak winds caught elements of
3,700 paratroopers taking part in
a major mock war exercise at
Fort Bragg Wednesday and car
ried them into pine woods where
37 men were injured.
Sixteen of the men remained
hospitalized with injuries ranging
from broken bones to internal in
juries. J
The injuries occurred ‘ over a
four-hour period of a mass drop
during Exercise Bright Star/Pine
Cone HI.
l\’’any of the injured were car
ried 300-400 yards to the right of
the drop zone by the winds. They
were dragged into trees and un
derbrush.
Among those whom a 10 - knot
wind steered from the 1,700 by
1,000-yard Nijmegen Drop Zone
was Maj. Gen. Dwight E. Beach,
commander of the 82nd. He land-
of his command staff was injured
An Air Force spokesman
said that a slight navigational
error caused about 95 per cent
of the men in eight planes—
40 paratroopers to a plane—
to miss the drop zone by some
400 yards. The planes were
units of the Air Force Re
serve's 440th Troop Carrier
Wing of Milwaukee, Wis.
“This was not a fiasco,” said
Maj. Roland Dessert, public infor
mation officer for the XVIII Air
borne Corps.
“Our troops are rugged enough
to take something like this in
stride. They dusted themselves
off, went on about their business
and by now (three hours after
wards) have probably forgotten
all about it.”
The 300 paratroopers were
members of the 82nd Division
- wi wic o^iiu 1-^ivision
a cleared area among trees headquarters unit. The jump had
ana neither he, nor any member i been postponed for 29 hours be
cause of bad weather.
The airdrop began at 11
a.nu over four drop zones,
some of those used by about
8,000 paratroopers of STRAC's
101st Division last weekend
in the biggest U. S. airdrop
since World War II.
The troopers who missed the
drop zone jumped about noon, af
ter other units had successfully
landed in the Nijmegen zone.
Some heavy equipment including
trucks and jeeps, also landed
among the trees south of the zone.
But the units quickly re-formed
and went on with the ground
phase of the war games v/hich
will end Friday.
In an interview at the drop
zone, Gen. Beach said, “It has
been a very interesting and suc
cessful maneuver. We had a little
trouble with the weather, but
we’re in now and everything is
going fine.”
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AT THE EASTER SEAL CAMP near Raleigh, the kids above
are having a wonderful time. The young fellow second from left,
getting his badminton instructions, is Albert Hurst, son of Mr’
and Mrs. A. D. Hurst of Southern Pines. The other children are
Maryland Dickerson and Patsy Saulton, addresses not given.
The instructor (left) and counsellor (right) are on the staff of
35 which includes a registered nurse and two physicians.
The youngsters are among 55 handicapped children from 38
counties enjoying swimming, boating, fishing, sleepouts, cook-
outs and other camp fun at the second three-week session, end
ing Saturday, at Camp Sycamore, WilUam B. Umstead State Park.
This is a temporary site; the permanent Easter Seal camp will
be built near Southern Pines by the N. C. Society for Crippled
Children and Adults.
Tight Squeeze
The “Phase C” wing (the main
building was “Phase A,” the first
wing “Phase B”) has been plan
ned as a $200,000 project. To $90,-
000 appropriated last year, the
county commissioners this year
added another $90,000. Supt. Ad
ams said he hopes for “extra good
contract conditions” to- squeeze
the wing and necessary equip
ment into $180,000.
The initial request made to the
commissioners was for $105,000
$85,000 for the building, $20,000
for equipment. The commissioners
tentatively aUoted $72,750, a cut
of $22,250. The local school board
Pliilpott Will Be
Speaker at Moore
YDC Convention
The Hon. Cloyd Philpott of
Greensboro, Democratic nominee
for lieutenant-governor, will be
nual Moore County YDC conven
tion, to be held in the courthouse
at 7:30 p. m. Saturday, Septem
ber 17, it was announced this
week by DeWitt Purvis of High-
falls, president.
The convention is being held
later than usual this year,
because, Purvis said, “that was
the only time this speaker could
give us on his crowded schedule,
and we are very lucky to be able
to get nim at all.”
He said he 'felt the members
would prefer to hear a speaker of
Philpott’s calibre than to have
a lesser speaker at a more accus
tomed time.
Officers will be elected at the
meeting, also delegates to the
went to bat for at least $90,000, or I state convention, and other an-
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School Buses Undergoing Thorough
Inspection by State Highway Patrol
The school buses in which some
7,000 children will be riding, once
school begins, are this week un
dergoing a thorough inspection
by the State Highway Patrol.
No bus can go out tmtil it re
ceives a permit signifying ‘"OK”
from the inspecting patrolman. If
he finds anything wrong, he notes
this fact to the county mechanic,
and checks the bus again to be
sure the fault has been corrected
before it can leave the shop.
Different patrolmen are being
assigned to the task at the coun
ty shop and garage in Carthage.
They have 103 buses to check, to
serve schools of the county.
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
systems. Four of the buses are
new this year, replacements of
old ones made by the State. The
new ones will get checked just
like the others.
Check-points listed by Sgt. J.
S. Jones of the Moore-Lee-Chat-
ham district include all the safe
ty devices—brakes, turn and stop
'signals, doors (with especial ref
erence to the rear or emergency
door, to be sure that it opens),
also the lighting system, tires,
windshield wipers, etc.