VOTE
Tuesday, Nov. 8
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Buildini^
* Gutted By
Night Fire
Tne' Gertrude Apartments, a
three-story, 40-year-old, frame
building at the corner of May St.
and New Hampshire Ave., was
badly gutted by fire last night,
f'. All occupants left the building
safely ' when a tenant smelled
smoke and the alarm was turned
in about 11:30 p. m. Some person
al belongings were removed from
some of the apartments but many
furnishings and other belongings
remaining in the building were
damaged or destroyed by fire,
smoke and water.
Volunteer firemen, whose ef-
il|| forts in fighting the stubborn
blaze were highly praised, work
ed until after 4 a. m.
Fire was first noticed in the
third floor and broke through the
roof around a chimney about the
time firemen arrived. The entire
third floor was burned out, with
fire burning down into the second
floor in several places.
Fire Chief James Tew said this
morning that evidence of fire had
9 been discovered in the basement
and that the blaze probably
started there, although it first
bioke out at the top of the struc
ture. He said he did not think the
fire originated with the heating
system, an oil-fired steam boiler.
“There is every indication the
fire started in the basement, prob
ably from wiring, and went up to
•the roof outside the chimney,”
I Chief Tew said. He explained that,
the chimney is cased in so that
there is an air space between
the walls and the masonry of the
chimney. As the basement was
closed tight this air space con
ducted the fire up to the roof
without its breaking out inside
the building. One tenant report
ed hearing a roaring sound from
near the chimney, he said.
The building was insured. One
) reliable source estimated damage
to the building itself a1 $10,000.
The structure contained eight
apartments, including space on
the third floor that has not been
rented for three years.
Six apartments are rented on
the first and second floors, of
which five were rented at the
time of the fire.
The building is owned by the
George W. Case estate and is man
aged locally by Max Rush as
agent.
By coincidence, Mrs. Albert
Ruggles of Kingsport, Tenn.,’
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Case, was here yesterday with
her husband, brother of John S.
Ruggles of Southern Pines, but
left later in the day for a trip to
tlie Outer Banks. Mrs. John Rug
gles said this morning that Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Ruggles had not
yet been located at that time.
A son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Case, Wallace Case, also lives at
Kingsport.
Age of the building is estimated
at about 40 years. Its heart-pine
lumber blazed furiously as fire
broke through the roof and it ap
peared to onlookers that the
apartment house was doomed,
but firemen, with all local equip
ment in use and hoses connected
to hydrants as far away as Broad
St., poured tons of water into the
structure. Outside porches at first
and second floor levels and roof
of a first floor porch across the
May St. side of the building, en
abled firemen to mount with lad
ders and have a platform from
which to direct water into the
interior.
At 9 a. m. today, water was still
seeping and dripping into first
floor apartments from the rooms
above. Strangely, however, there
were portions of some of the
apartments that remained almost
dry. Mr. Rush attributed this to
the tight structure of the build
ing. '
Tenants of the five occupied
apartments at the time of the fire
were; Mrs. S. D. Fobes, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Dutton, Mrs. Betty
Long, Mrs. Catherine Schilling
and Mrs. Jerry Hairdister.
After smelling smoke, Mrs.
Long went throughout the build
ing arousing the other tenants^
Mr. Rush said. All but one of the
tenants were asleep, Mr. Rush
said, crediting Mrs. Long with a
great service to the others by
arousing them.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1960
TWENTY PAGES
Many Enter Golf
Carousel; 100
Teams Expected
PRICE; 10 CENTS
P WINNER—Patsy McRee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
smile Afte “5, at center, has a right to
^tss Moore County High School”
at the Moore County Fair Wednesday night of last week, she was
picked as Southern Pines High School Homecoming Queen by
vote of the football squad, at the Homecoming football game with
Aberdeen here last Friday night. Crowning her is Karen Me
Kenzie of Southern Pines, last year’s Homecoming Queen. At
escort from the football squad. Eight
High School girls, two from each class, competed for the Queen
Funeral Held
At Aberdeen For
Drowned Child
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at Betnesda Presbyteri
an Church, Aberdeen, for Pamala
Anita Monroe, 16-months-old
Holiday Lights
To Be Installed;
Donations Asked
A Junior Chamber of Com
merce committee headed by N. L.
Hodgkins, Jr., is planning a di?-
Peter Green, University of
North Carolina student from
I ranklin Hills, Mich., and Ray
mond Floyd, Fayetteville, are the
latest distinguished golfers to en
ter the annual Southern Pines
Jaycees’ Golf Carousel, November
17-20.
“Both have outstanding records,
are fine young men and we are
very happy to' have them enter
our tournament,” tournament
chairman Tom Ruggles said.
Green, 19, was runnerup in the
North-South amateur last spring
and competed in the National
Amateur this summer in St.
Louis. Floyd, son of a Fayetteville
pro, won the National Jaycee golf
tournament this summer. The 17-
year-old is an extremely polished
player for his age and hits a tre
mendously long ball.
“These two present a formi
dable team,” Ruggles said, “but
despite their records they hardly
will be conceded the title for we
have many more who will be in
the midst of the championship
battle.”
At this moment it doesn’t ap
pear that defending champions
Bob Galloway, Winston-Salem,
and Ed Justa, Rocky Mount, will
return as a team since Galloway
is presently serving a six-months
stint of Army duty. However,
Justa is trying to line up a part
ner.
Entries are still pouring in and
there is no doubt that 1960 will
reach a record peak for entrants
in the Carousel. The field will
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Record Vote Expected In Moore
As Registration Reaches New High
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles | Lnctive new Christmas lighting
I Monroe of Pinebluff, who was ac- ‘project for Southern Pines
I Other members of the Jaycee
pool at the home of Mr. and Mrs L - •'^ycee
L. B. Monroe in Pinebluff Tues- are Joe Kimball, Clyde
^>mith and Dale Cox. The group
L. B. Monroe in Pinebluff Tues
day.
Dr. W. C. Neill, pastor of the
church, officiated. Burial was in
the family plot in Old Bethesda
Cemetery near Aberdeen.
The pool in which the child
di owned was described as about
six feet wide and 12 inches deep.
The child and her mother were
at the home. The mother went to
look for the little girl after she
had disappeared for only a few
minutes, it was reported-.
Survivors are the child’s par
ents and a brother, Charles, Jr.,
three years old.
Kiwanis Elects
Dr. VanderVoort
New President
Dr. C. Robert VanderVoort of
Southern Pines who practices
dentistry in Aberdeen, was elect
ed president of the Sandhills Ki
wanis Club Wednesday, during
the club’s luncheon meeting at the
Flollywood Hotel.
Other officers elected are:
Thomas R. Howerton, vice-presi
dent; and John L. Ponzer, treas-
ui er.
Newly elected directors are: the
Rev. Martin Caldwell, Neil Mc
Kay, Jack Taylor, Dr. R. Bruce
Warlick, Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
Joseph E. Sandlin and William C.
Sledge.
met recently with representatives
of the Town Advertising Commit
tee, which has appropriated funds
td aid the project, the Southern
Pines Garden Club, Carolina
Power and Light Co. and repre
sentatives of the merchants.
The project as planned calls for
placing 26 cedar trees about eight
feet tall along the street side of
the Seaboard right of way where
they will blend with the natural
planting. The trees will have indi
vidual strings of lights. The trees
will be placed at intervals for
about four blocks on both sides
of the railroad.
Merchants will be asked to help
finance the lighting program, Mr.
Hodgkins said. There will be an
over-all budget of about $500.
It is expected that the Garden
Club will again light the big mag
nolia on the corner of Broad St.
and Pennsylvania Ave. and the
post office will spotlight the big
holly tree in the post office yard.
Labor and the trees will be fur
nished by the Jaycees.
‘Bill Fisher Day’
To Honor General
A committee of Southern Pines
residents, headed by Jack S.
Younts, is planning a “Bill Fish
er, Day” on November 16 to wel-
icome to Southern Pines Major
General William P. Fisher, Air
Force officer who is a native of
this community. He is the son of
Mrs. Elinor Fisher of Southern
Pine.!.
Preliminary plans for the event,
Mr. Younts said, include an ap
pearance of General Fisher, who
commands the Eastern Transport
Air Force, MATS, at McGuire
AFB in New Jersey, at the South
ern Pines High School, of which
he is a graduate; his attendance
at the Sandhills Kiwanis (^lub
luncheon meeting; and a welcom
ing ceremony at the town hall.
Details of the program will be an
nounced next week.
Democrats To
Gather Tonight
Democrats from over the coun
ty will gather at Elise High School
cafeteria in Robbins tonight
(Thursday) in the last county
wide rally before Tuesday’s elec
tion.
Rep. A. Paul Kitchin, of Wades-
boro, candidate for reelection as
Eighth District Congressman, will
be the featured speaker.
^ All Democratic county candi
dates are expected to attend.
The rally will begin with a free
barbecue chicken supper at 7:30
p. m.
The public is invited.
Moore County citizens, in antici- f
pated record numbers, will go tc’
the polls in 18 voting precincts
Tuesday to help choose a Presi
dent and Vice President of the
United States; Governor, Lieuten
ant Governor and top State offi
cers for North Carolina; a U. S.
Senator, an Eighth District Con
gressman; representatives in the
State Senate and House of Repre
sentatives; and county commis
sioners, board of education and
other county officers.
A new registration of 2,115 in
the period that closed Saturday
brings the total number of regis
trations in Moore County to 18,-
772, Sam C. Riddle, chairman of
the Moore County board of elec
tions, said today. This is the larg
est number of voters ever regis
tered in the county, he said, and
the outlook is that a record
breaking number of them will
vote.
Polls in all 18 precincts will be
open from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m.
The new registrations include
424 in Southern Pines, 238 in
Aberdeen, 151 in Pinehurst and
98 in Pinebluff precincts.
Ihree Ballots
Each voter will be given three
ballots.
The smallest is the Presidential
ballot which lists the Democratic
candidates, John F. Kennedy for
President and Lyndon B. Johnson
for Vice President; and the Re
publican candidates for President
and Vice President, Richard M.
Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge
STATE OFFICERS
Here are the candidates listed
On the ballot for U. S. Senator,
State Officers and Congressman
(Democrat listed first. Republican
listed second, for each office):
For Governor. Terry Sanford,
Robert L. Gavin.
For Lieutenant Governor: H.
Cioyd Philpott, S. Clyde Eggers,
For Secretary of State: Thad
Eure, David L. Morton.
For State Auditor: Henry L.
Bridges, Dallas M. Reese.
For State Treasurer: Edwin Gill,
f led R. Keith.
For Supt. of Public Instruction,
Charles F. Carroll, Mary Jo Zach-
aiy.
For Attorney General; Thomas
Wade Bruton, Donald L. Paschal.
For Commissioner of Agricul
ture; L. Y. Ballentine, * A. H.
Parmer.
For Commissioner of Labor,
I rank Crane» T. Paul Messick.
For Commissioner of Insurance:
Charles F. Gold, J. E. Cameron.
iFor Associate Justice of Su
preme Court: R. Hunt Parker,
Paul C. West.
For Associate Justice of Su
preme Court: Clifton L. Moore, no
Republican candidate.
For Judge, Fifth Judicial Dis
trict: Rudolph I. Mintz, no Repub
lican candidate.
For Judge, Eighth Judicial Dis
trict: Albert W. Cowper, no Re
publican candidate.
For U. S. Senator; B. Everette
Jordan, Kyle Hayes.
For Member of Congress,
Eighth Congressional District; A.
Paul Kitchin, A. M. Snipes.
STATE SENATE AND HOUSE
AND COUNTY OFFICES
The third ballot handed voters
will list candidates for the State
Senate, Member of the House of
Representatives and County Of
ficers. Because of a rotation
. agreement among the four coun
VOTING REMINDER— Over 1,100 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts
and Explorers in Moore County are going out this week to
hang these liberty bell reminders on doorknobs of householders,
to urge citizens to vote in the election Tuesday, November 8.’
They are distributing some 10,000 of the reminders in this
county. Raymond Wilson, in doorway, greeted a trio compQsed
of Cub Scout James Trudell, Boy Scout Jerry Wilson and Ex
plorer Frank Staples, all boys from local Scouting units. Mrs.
Ira Turner, president of the Auxiliary of John Boyd Post, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, said this week that the VFW Auxil
iary, nationwide, also is carrying on a get-out-the-vote cam-
P^^Sn. (Humphrey photo)
St. Anthony PTA Will
Meet Thursday, Nov. 10
Regular meeting of the St. An
thony School Parent-Teacher As
sociation will be held Thursday
night of next week, November 10,
at 8 p. m. in the school auditori
um.
The speaker will be Sister Dor
othy, a Sister of the Blessed Sac
rament and Librarian at Trinity
School, Ilchester, Md. She will
speak on the place of the library
in a school’s curriculum.
Vocational Guidance Day Set For Students
ties of the 12th Senatorial Dis
trict—Moore, Hoke, Harnett and
Randolph—Moore County does
not supply a Democratic candi
date for this office this year. The
Republican ticket, however, based
on a different system of candi
dacy, provides a Moore County
candidate. Candidates are listed
below. Democrat first. Republican
second, for each office:
For State Senate: Sam J. Bur
row, Jr., of Randolph County and
J. Bruton Thomas of Hoke Coun
ty, Democrats; and Branson E.
Davis of Randolph County
ty and James E. Harrington of
Moore County, Republicans.
For State House of Represen
tatives: H. Clifton Blue, W. Clem
en: Barrett.
For Judge of Recorder’s Court:
J. Vance Rowe, no Republican
candidate.
For Prosecuting Attorney of
Recorder’s Court; W. Lament
Brown, no Republican candidate.
For Surveyor: Charles M. Mc
Leod, no Republican candidate.
For County Commissioners
District No. 1: John M. Currie,
J. J. Pilson.
District No. 2: T. R. Monroe, W.
C. Garner.
District No. 3: L. R. Reynolds,
no Republican candidate.
District No. 4: James M. Pleas
ants, Harry H. Pethick.
District No._ 5; W. Sidney Tay
lor, Floyd T. ’Cole.
For Board of Education
District No. 1: T. Roy Phillips,
Alex H. Thomas.
District No. 2: J. A. Culbertson,
Sr., Frank H. Trotter.
District No. 3: R. H. Upchurch,
no-Republican candidate.
District No. 4: W. H. Matthews,
no Republican candidate.
District No. 5: Jere N. McKeith-
en, Drewry E. Troutman.
Republican Candidates Tell Platforms;
GOP Rally Hears Washington Speaker
More than 500 Seniors from 11
Moore County High Schools are
expected to take part on Tuesday,
November 8, in Vocational Guid
ance Day sponsored by the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club. The program
is conducted annually at the
Southern Pines High School.
In addition to more than a doz
en persons who will discuss vari
ous occupations and professions,
representatives from 32 colleges,
Margaret’s Church, performed the
be present to answer questions
about their institutions. Parents
are invited to attend this portioh
of the program with their sons
and daughters.
Buses will transport students to
Southern Pines from other schools
in the county. Convocation will
oe held at 9:30 a. m. in Weaver rooms of the high school. They
Auditorium. J. E. Sandlin, chair
man of Vocational Guidance Day,
will preside. Invocation wiU be
feiven by Dr. Cheves Ligon; wel
come by Luther Adams, superin
tendent of the Southern Pines
Schools; response by Robert E.
Lee, superintendent of Moore
County Schools; welconae from
the Kiwanis Club of the Sandhills
and the Town of Southern Pines
by Mayor Robert S. Ewing; re
sponse by C. E. Powers, director
of guidance Moore County
Schopls.
James E. Harrington, Jr. com
mander of the Moore Coun-
ty National Guard will speak on
military service obligations.
The vocational guidance confer
ence will take place in various
will be divided into two periods.
10:15 to 10:55 and 11:00 to 11:40,
with the schedule so arranged
that the students can hear more
than one discussion if they so de
sire.
Representatives of more than
30 colleges will be present to talk
with students and their parents.
The college conferences will be
conducted in the school gymnasi
um from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. Par
ents are inyited to attend with
their children from 1 p. m. to 3 p.
m.
For students who are not inter
ested in the college conferences, a
special program will be held in
Weaver Auditorium from 11:40
to 12:25. I
Lunch will be servW in the
cafeteria at 12:25.
Republican candidates for coun
ty and state offices were joined by
a visiting speaker from Washing
ton—Elmer Benhett, Under Sec
retary of the Interior, in swinging
haymakers at the Democratic par
ty, last Thursday night, to climax
the liveliest campaign conducted
hereabouts by the GOP in many
years.
The rally in Weaver Auditor
ium, with County GOP Chairman
James E. Harrington of Pinehurst,
who is also a candidate for the
State Senate from Moore, presid
ing, concluded a series of meet
ings held over the county in the
past few weeks.
Mr. Bennett, a native of Col
orado and a member of the Re
publican national- “Truth Squad”
that is touring the nation on be
half of the Nixon-Lodge ticket,
warned against the loss of indivi
dual liberties and the growing
power of Democratic bureau
cracy in Washington.
He praised the “basic sound
ness of the traditional type of
Southern Democrat” and said that
“the great conservative, moder
ate forces of the nation must
unite, or we lose the traditional
way of life that has made this na-
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James E. Harrington of Pine
hurst, Republican candidate for
the State Senate; Drewry Trout
man of Addor, county board of
education candidate; and Harry
H. Pethick of Southern Pines
candidate for county commis
sioner, outlined their campaign
platforms at a rally in Weaver
Auditorium last Thursday night,
before Elmer F. Bennett, Under
Secretary of the Interior, address
ed the rally (see separate story
for a report on Mr. Bennett’s
speech).
Other county candidates intro
duced were: W. C. Gamer of Rob
bins, and Floyd Cole of West End,
candidates for county commission
ers.
Mr. Harrington, who presided
as chairman of the Moore County
Republican Executive Committee,
announced that A. M. Snipes of
Elkin, GOP candidate for Con
gress from the 8th District, was
unable to be present because of
his wife’s illness.
The meeting was opened with
invocation by Father Francis
Smith of Southern Pines and
closed with benediction by the
Rt. Rev. Louis Melcher of Pine-
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