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Southern Pines
North Carolina
‘ In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a good
paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Wherever there seem^ to be
an occasion to use our influence for the public good we wUl try to do it. And we will
treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941.
Why Was Grand Jury Ignored?
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At the August term of Superior Court
in Carthage, the grand jury recommend
ed that certain repairs and replacements
of equipment be made at the Moore
County jail, including replacement of a
commode and several mattresses, and in
stallation of a larger exhaust fan in the
kitchen.
When the grand jury again inspected
the jail during the recent Novernber
term, according to its report to the pre
siding judge, none of the recommenda
tions at the jail had been carried out. It
was again recommended that the work be
done.
There was no mention in the grand
jury’s latest report about another recom
mendation made in August in connection
with the coroner’s .office: that proper re
ports be filed of cases investigated by the
coroner and that a coroner’s jury be em
paneled immediately when the coroner
sees any indication of foul play. We hope
that this means that the grand jury has
evidence that its recommendations in re
gard to the coroner’s office are being car
ried out and we urge that the next grand
jury report make public what progress is
being made in this respect.
Now and then. Over the years, instances
have come up in which jury recommenda
tions have been ignored. 'The grand jury
should command the highest respect in
all quarters, as it is an instrument of great
power and service to the community
when conscientiously and vigorously ad
ministered. We dislike seeing its recom
mendations in any field sidetracked over
a period of months.
Last summer, in connection with the
commissioners’ adoption of the county
budget and its relations with the county
board of education in regard to budget
requests, it was our comment that there
sfiould be genei^al tightening of adminis
trative procedure on the part of the com
missioners. It apnears that such a tight
ening might well extend to seeing that
the appropriate agencies carry out grand
jury recommendations on matters for
which the commissioners are ultimately
responsible.
‘This Will Be Everybody’s Job’
Governor-elect Terry Sanford outlined
a long-range program for North Carolina
education in an addrejss last week at the
Southern Conference on Education in
Chapel Hill.
Titled “A Statement of Faith and Pur
pose in Education,” the address is chock
full of both his philosphy of education and
his specific recommendations to put this
philosophy to work for the benefit of the
state.
We are struck by the validity of his ap
proach: that all good things for a s'tate
stem from education and that, without
the best in education, the state cannot at
tain the best in any field of endeavor.
The specific recommendations, which
are too numerous to list here and which
will all come before the General Assem
bly for debate, are designed to make
teaching a more attractive and rewarding
profession and to widen and deepen the
impact of education on the state’s children
and young people through curriculum and
administrative changes, better buildings
and equipment, consolidation of small
high schools, special education of the
handicapped and the gifted, community
colleges and other measures.
What must be emphasized now, we
think, is the vital importance to every
body in North Carolina of an all-out pro
gram for education. Mr. Sanford put it
this way, toward the close of his speech:
“This: will be everybody’s job. This is
a call to arms. It is time for North Caro
linians to march—to start our march
from the forefront of the South to the
forefront of the nation . . . Above all, it
will take the understanding and support
of the citizens, a willingness to go forward
in the conviction that all progress stems
from education
We can find nothing in Mr. Sanford’s
program that is not needed and nothing
that is not eventually possible, though, as
he noted in his address, all the goals could
not be attained during his administration.
We are pleased to back this program at
the outset of the fight to make it reality.
And we urge readers to consider every
aspect of it carefully as it comes into the
news in the weeks and months to come.
Service to County
Moore County Alcoholic Beverage Con
trol Board officers are doing a good job
in combatting the illicit liquor menace
which robs the government of taxes, is a
threat to the life and health of those who
drink it and leads to other violations of
the law.
More than 30 petty bootleggers were
tried in a special session of Moore County
Recorder’s Court recently and a large still
was captured and destroyed last week in
the Westmoore section. Some of the liq
uor held as evidence in trial of the boot
leggers was tested and found to contain
poisonous lead salts.
It is our conviction that bootlegging of
one sort or another goes on or is attempt
ed in every community, rural or urban,
and that if nothing is heard about it, that
simply means that the operators are get
ting away with their activities.
Thq work of the ABC officers, which is
made possible by profits from sale of legal
alcoholic beverages in the two Moore
County ABC stores, is. a valuable service
to the county. ,
Alcoholism Information Week
This is “Alcohglism Information Week”
in North Carolina, as proclaimed by Gov
ernor Hodges.
The Governor urges all citizens to co
operate with state and local programs by
“learning the truth about alcoholism.” He
points out that for 10 years, the state has
been carrying on a three-pronged pro
gram of education, treatment and re
search, to bring an understanding of this
complex illness to citizens and to offer
Coping With Caroline
The heart of any father who has had to
look after the children while his wife is
in the hospital or otherwise removed
from home will go out to President-elect
Kennedy for what he went through while
taking his three-year-old Caroline to
church on Sunday.
Caroline’s running ahead and lagging
back, her endless questions—some of
them undoubtedly maddeningly inane—
her performance in the church where she
banged her feet, crawled under the pt^w
and finally had to be held and silenced
continually—all this is familiar.
And it would be that much worse if you
knew you were being watched and very
likely the whole nation would know in a
few hours how your pride and joy had
been behaving in church.
Whether the senator used an old weapj
on against church wigglers—the hidden,
really, hard and I-mean-business pinch-
will probably never be known. Maybe,
some day, what happened in church last
Sunday will be related in the publication
of President Kennedy’s papers or an auto
biography by Caroline.
If the incident had taken place before
the election, it would have been good, we
bet, for a million more votes for Senator
Kennedy. After that trip to church, cop
ing with Khrushchev would be a picnic.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1960
‘‘You Sure That’s An Original?”
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'THE ROCK ON WHICH TO BUILD'
All Goals Depend on Education
hope for recovery to those already suffer
ing from alcoholism.
North Carolina has a leading position
in the field of alcoholic rehabilitation.
This area has. been especially close to the
program, since John S. Ruggles of South
ern Pines for more than 10 years headed
this phase of the state’s public health pro-
'gram, while a member of the State Hos
pitals Board of Control.
Moreover, this county has an active Al
coholic Education Committee and has had
for some years active and effective chap
ters of Alcoholics Anonymous. And there
is cooperation and coordination among
all of these activities.
The blackest and most disheartening
aspect of any illness or misfortune is
when there is nowhere to turn, no help in
sight from any source. And indeed that
used to be the lot of many, if not most,
alcoholics.
The people of Southern Pines, Moore
County and North Carolina can rejoice
today that skilled help, counsel and treat
ment are available for anyone with an
alcohol problem. The load of misery that
these services are lifting from North
Carolina individuals and families daily is
staggering. These agencies are rendering
a public health service out of all propor
tion to their cost to local communities and
the state.
The director of the Moore County Al
coholic Education Committee is the Rev.
Martin Caldwell of Southern Pines. The
time and place of AA meetings ar( adver
tised weeklv on the classified ad page of
The Pilot. Help is available from theso
sources and other sources with which
they are in touch.
To be helped, we are told, an alcoholic
must want assistance. But once he makes
this decision, in North Carolina today, he
will find many competent hands out-
•stretched to guide him.
Of this the State can be proud.
(From an address by Gov
ernor-Elect Terry Sanford
last week at the Southern
Conference on Education,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.)
We are justly proud of North
Carolina’s position. We came up
the hard way. We have come a
long route. We have no apologies,
out too many of us have become
somewhat, self-satisfied and com
placent about our reputation as
‘ first in the South,” and too many
have thought the job was finish
ed.
The job is not finished. What
we have really done is to create
new and unlimited opportunities.
Dr. Howard Odom of the Uni
versity 6f North Carolina showed
clearly that North Carolina did
not need to slay in the group of
states called the “nation’s econ
omic problem number one.” While
we do not have everything, he
pointed out, we do have in abun
dance those resources that really
matter—-soil, water, climate, rain
fall and people—most of all we
have a stock of sturdy and able
people. We only need to develop
lully this human resource. . .
To that goal I dedicate the full
ni'easure of my devotion. I believe
that a fearful, hesitant approach
to the future will, indeed, cause
us to “lose our ventures.” I be
lieve, like Page, in universal edu
cation, in the eternal values of
democracy, and in growth ever
lasting. I pledge myself and my
party, like Aycock, to achieving
for each child the opportunity “to
burgeon out all that there is with
in him,” regardless of where he
lives or who his parents are.
Quality education is no mean
goal. For all other goals we seek
for North Carolina can be meas
ured by the quality, the scope, the
reach of our educational efforts.
Education is the foundation of
economic improvement. I am con
cerned, vitally, with industrial
development, farm income, the
economic growth, the chance of all
to make a better, livng, and be
cause I am concerned I have
chosen quality education as the
rock on which to build the house
of my administration.
Education is the foundation of
democracy. I am concerned with
defending the principles of free
dom, of individual liberties, of
nee enterprise, of equality and
dignity of man, and therefore I
seek the fulfillment of these prin
ciples through quality education
we offer our boys and girls.
Education is the foundation of
the needs and hopes of the nation.
I am concerned with our part in
the world, and I am concerned
with the peace of the world, and
therefore I propose that we ade
quately educate the scientists, the
statesmen, and the citizenry who
will fully understand and are
equipped to defend and promote
the ideals of our dynamic democ
racy of the Twentieth Century.
Education, put in the bleakest
terms, is survival. Here in our
own small part of the free world,
we can do no less than' seek the
best so we can prepare to do our
part to defend America and the
free world.
And education, put in its
brightest terms, is life and growth
and happiness. We are not here
merely to make a living. We are
talking- about the fundamental
when we are talking about edu
cation, and our goal is worthy of
the best we have in mind, and
heart, and spirit.
As Governor of North Carolina,
I will work for a program which
provides educational opportunity,
appropriate and available, second
to none in quality, for all the chil
dren of our State and I will work
to obtain adequate support for
that program.
The Public Speaking
OLD SAYING
On Main Street one day last
week, I took refuge under a store
awning from a downpour of rain.
It wasn’t an ordinary drizzle, but
a really hard rain. Meanwhile,
all the time the sun was shining
brightly.
That reminded me, of course,
of the old saying that, when the
sun shines during a rain, it means
the Bad Man is beating his wile.
I first heard that as a very
small boy, and even then, I won
dered what was the connection
between a weather phenomenon
(though of course I didn’t use That
term then) and the devil’s domes
tic troubles. I’ve wondered many
times since. Last week I wondered
again.
Sometime, perhaps. I’ll find a
folklorist—or better still, maybe,
a specialist in superstitions—who
can give me a satisfactory ex
planation.
—WEIMAR JONES
in The Franklin Press
Levi Packard Came
To PinebluH in ISSS
To The Editor: •
We were, naturally, interested
in reading that little sketch of my
brother Levi which appeared in
your issue of the 17th and pleased
to see that he was honored by
your giving him space. There was,
however a rathei bad error in
dates in the item. '
Your reporter had Levi coming
to Pine Bluff (that is the way the
town’s name was first spelt) at
the age of ten years, in 1880; he
came'here in July, 1888, and was
then seventeen years old; I be
lieve that Pine Bluff was not even
an idea in 1880; in January of
tnat year the tract on which the
town stands was conveyed to a
Luther Spear in a deed signed by
Alexander B. Andrews as Trustee
with about a dozen other persons.
Andrews was in an earlier period
an officer of the Raleigh & Gas
ton Railroad and the Chatham
Railroad, both now sections of the
Seaboard Air Line; he was also
later the president of the South
ern Railway. '
This same tract, about 760
acres, was conveyed in January,
1884, to John T. Patrick, the
founder of Southern Pines, just
what year I do not know defin
itely, and a httle later he founded
Pine Bluff.
Pinebluff has been the home of
my brother for seventy-two years
without a break and his home is
the oldest house in Pinebluff,
everything that existed as houses,
barns, sheds and every other
structure when we came here
have disappeared either by fire
or demolition, this including Mr.
Patrick’s residence.
Levi and I are the oldest resi
dents, living in Pinebluff, of the
town in point of residential years,
and I think he is the oldest in
point of age. There were seven
of us when we came, he and I be
ing the only survivors.
You will want to cut this down
to half a dozen lines but perhaps
you will want to correct the error
in age. and date in the original
article.
Sincerely,
DAVID S. PACKARD
Pinebluff
Juror Praises Conduct
Of Police in Court
To the Editor;
It was my privilege to serve as
juror in the last Criminal Court
and I admired the way that the
court procedure was carried out.
My greatest thrill came from the
conduct of the Southern Pines po
lice force.
The judge instructed us to de
cide solely on the evidence as
given by witnesses. However,
when a witness was vague or un
corroborated it was often hard
to decide. There was never any
doubt when the Southern Pines
Police were on the stand. They
appeared in many cases. Chief
Newton was an impressive wit
ness and gave firm, factual state
ments in his big voice. Also good
were Sergeant Beck and Sergeant
Seawell. I noticed that they had
always collected complete and
corroborated facts, evidently with
care and foresight.
It occurred to me that many
citizens would be pleased, as I
was, to know how efficient they
are in court action. Catching the
law-breakers is only half their
job; then they have to get them
convicted. We can help them by
showing our appreciation.
KATHERINE McCOLL
Southern Pines
Grains of Sand
Bowling—French Style
A report on the opening of a
bowling pavilion (get that, not
•“alley’’ but “pavilion”) in Paris is
enough to make the proprietors
of the OK Bowl here sick with
envy. The local establishment, as
we recall, had an impressive for
mal opening but listen to what
happened in Paris, where bowling
is a brand new sport:
Maurice Chevalier rolled a
golden ball down one of the 12
lanes to the roll of drums of
France’s Napoleon Guard.
More than SOO government offi
cials, French sports champions
and other dignitaries gathered in
the “glass-walled, red-tapestried
building” in the Bois de Boulogne.
France’s elite military corps,
the Garde Republican, flanked
the red-carpeted entrance.
The next time John Ostrom and
Don Kennedy open a bowling es
tablishment, the least they can do
is call out the National Guard,
Miss North Carolina, Andy Grif-
ilth (North Carolina’s Maurice
Chevalier), the 82nd Airborne Di
vision Band and color guard and
what have you. Can’t let Paris get
ahead of us in these matters.
Internatioital
Bow’ling, by the way, is ’becom
ing an international spprt—and
we were amazed to learn how
new it is to most countries.
London, like Paris, saw the
opening of its first alleys this
year, as have Monte Carlo, Biar-
, ritz, Belgium, the Bahamas, Nor
way, Germany, Australia and
Switzerland
Scheduled to take up the sport
soon, according to information
from the Automatic Pinspotters
company, wRose equipment is
used at the OK Bowl here, are
Austria, Italy, Lebanon and Iran.
Object
About 10:30 p. m. Tuesday, a
late worker at The Pilot office re
ceived a call from Mrs. Colin
Smith of 655 E. Indiana Ave., who
said that for several hours off and
on, she had been observing some
thing in the sky that looked like
a star, but was larger, was yellow
in color and noticeably flickered.
Mrs. Smith wanted to know if
The Pilot know or had heard any
thing about such an object. She
said it was first observed toward
the east and. at the time she call
ed, had moved over toward the
west.
Mrs. Smith said that she had
first seen the phenomenon while
driving from Pinehurst with her
niece, Mrs. Henry Flory, and that
they had stopped the car and had
gotten out and watched it, agree
ing that it looked too big and
flickered too much to be a star.
From outside The Pilot wb
could see nothing and by the time
we could leave the office and get
out in the open, away from the
trees, we Weren’t able to observe
anything except the moon and a
lot of stars.
Anybody else see something
mysterious in the sky Tuesday
night?
I
Recognized ’
“The Amico Agent,” magazine
published for representatives and
staff . members of American
Motorists Insurance Corporation
(Kemper Insurance), carried in its
fall issue an article and photo
summarizing a story about John
S. Ruggles, local insurance man
and member of the town council,
that appeared in The Pilot and
other county papers when he re
tired earlier this year from the
State Hospitals Board of Control,
after more than 10 years of serv
ice on that board. The article
stresses his work with the state’s
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program
and notes that he still heads the
Moore County Alcoholic Educa
tion Committee. Award of the Ki-
wanis Builder’s Cup to Mr. Rug
gles, and other civic activities
and recognition, are told.
The PILOT
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Southern Pines, North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYC—1944
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