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A fifth Moore
high school senior has been
granted a scholarship for nurse’s
training under the S. V. A. pro
gram. See page 12.
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Young people
from Moore County are graduat
ing at prep schools and colleges.
A round-up of graduation news
appears on page A.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, J961
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BASKETBALL AWARDS— “Most valuable
player” awards for a member of the girls’ and
boys’ basketball team of Southern Pines High
School during the past season were presented
during the annual Basketball Banquet sponsored
by the Southern Pines Rotary Club, held at
Howard Johnson’s Restaurant Monday night.
Left to right in photo: E. Earl Hubbard, Rotary
president; Jan Morris, winner of girls’ award;
Hubert Cameron, commander of John Boyd
Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, which gives
the awards; Glen Marcum, boys’ award wiimer;
and Gary Mattocks, former high school basket
ball star here, graduate of East Carolina College
and now a faculty member and assistant football
coach at Elon College who was the banquet
speaker. Coaches Bill Megginson and John Wil-
liam.s were presented gifts from the players
and the girls had a gift for Mrs. Megginson in
gratitude for her having chaperoned basketball
trips. Both Jan Morris and Glen Marcum were
centers on their squads. (Humphrey photo)
ADOPTED BY COUNCIL IN SPECIAL SESSION
Town Budget Keeps $1.75 Tax Rate
The town council, meeting Fri
day night in special session,
adopted a 1961-62 budget that
provides foir essential services,
allows little for expansion and
improvements and holds the tax
rate at the present $1.75 per $100
of property valuation.
Mayor John S. Ruggles called
it “a very austere budget,” but
the council agreed that a tax
rate increase that might have
provided for salary increases,
equipment replacement and va
rious other items would be in
advisable in view of the forth
coming county tax rate increase
of 35 cents per $100 in valuation,
to finance a school building pro
gram.
The budget lists anticipated in
come of $348,219 against antici
pated expenditures of $336,289—
a margin of $11,930 in the black.
To this can be added a surplds of
$4,809 anticipated at the end of
the current fiscal year June 30,
for a total expected surplus of
$16,739. From this amount, how
ever, will be paid $5,000 as the
town’s contribution to make pos
sible the county’s airport im
provement project. Pinehurst
Inc., is giving another $5,000 to
match along with Southern
Pines, an added $10,000 appro
priated by the county, to pay for
a $20,000 shortage in funds need
ed to let a contract.
The $1.75 tax rate will bring in
more money in the next fiscal
year than in the current year,
because property valuation in the
town was listed as $8,304,571 in
January, the valuation on which
the new budget is based. This is
$365,843 njore than the valuation
on which the current budget is
based.
Assuming that 94 per cent of
the next fiscal year’s tax levy is
collected during the year, the
new budget lists $136,610 to come
in from real and personal prop
erty taxes. Collection of delin
quent taxes from other years is
expected to bring in another $7,-
000.
Town Manager Louis Schei-
pers, Jr., went over the budget,
by departments, with the council,
before the budget was adopted.
A loss of income from one item
is anticipated. The anticipated
(Continued on page 8)
Contract Let For
Construction at
County’s Airport
The Moore County Commis
sioners in special meeting at
Carthage last Wednesday learn
ed the Federal Aviation Agency
had agreed to increase its 50-50
grant for development , of the
county-owned Southern Pines-
Pinehurst airport, resolved to ac
cept its offer of $72,000 and to
provide matching funds, and let
the contract for construction
work to begin within 90 days.
Actually the work is expected to
start this month.
The Hanover Co.’s low bid, one
of five opened by the commis
sioners at their' regular meet
ing May 1, was for $123,696.96—
considerably higher than had
been anticipated. This meant the
I total project would cost some
I $144,000 instead of the estimated
$115,000 of which the FA A had
^ agreed to give $57,500. The Han
over Company is a Wilmington
construction firm. The same
company was low bidder on the
State Highway W. Broad St. pav
ing project here.
The May meeting was contin
ued rather than adjourned, to
meet FAA legal requirements,
and J. E. Sandlin of Southern
Pines, acting chairman of the
airport committee, secured a 30-
day extension of the FAA’s May
13 deadline. With the commis
sioners agreeing to increase the
county’s part by $10,000, provi
ded Moore County towns would
match the amount, Mr. Sandlin
put in a hasty application for an'
increase in the FAA grant.
At last week’s meeting, Mr.
Sandlin told the commissioners
the FAA had agreed to give $72,-
000, and Southern Pines and
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62 Seniors at 2 Hi^h Schools W ill
Receive Diplomas Here Next Week
'Junior Champ Day' to
Be Conducted Saturday
The “Junior Champ Day”
physical fitness testing contests
for boys and girls nine through
13 years of age will be held dt
Memorial Field, starting at 9 a.
m. Saturday. The program, origi
nally scheduled for last Saturday
morning, was postponed because
of the death of D. E. Bailey
whose home is across Bennett St.
from the field. Mr. Bailey’s fu
neral was held Saturday. The fit
ness program is sponsored by the
local Jaycees.
Bloodm-obile to
Make 2 Visits to
Moore Next Week
The American Red Cross blood-
mobile from the blood center at
Charlotte will make two visits
in Moore county next week.
In West End the bloodmobile
will ba stationed at the high
school auditorium between 12
noon and 5:30 p. m. Thursday,
June 8. Lay chairman in that
community is Clyde Auman; Dr.
Clement R. Monroe is medical
chairman. In medical attendance
will be Drs. Allen, Phillips and
Peck.
Mrs. E. L. Sutphin, president
of the West End Woman’s Club,
has recruited members as volun
teer aides.
The visit of the bloodmobile to
West End will be preceded by a
dinner meeting tonight at the
Presbyterian Church at 7 p. m.
when a doctor will address the
group.
Walter DeLong is lay chair
man of arrangements for the
(Continued on page 8)
James P. Barksdale, Jr.,
Summer Paslor, Arrives
James P. Barksdale, Jr., stu
dent summer supply pastor for
Brownson Memorial Presbyteri
an Church, arrived in Southern
Pines Wednesday and will preach
Sunday at the 11 a. m. worship
service. He will live in an apart
ment at the church’s new manse
(former Ward Hill house) on
May St., next door to the church.
Mr. HiU and his family are still
occupying the main portion of
the house.
C. M. Patterson
Given ABC Post
The Moore County commis
sioners, board of health and
board of education, in a joint
called meeting Wednesday of last
week, appointed C. M. Patterson
of Carthage to the Moore Coun
ty Alcoholic Beverage Control
board to fill out the unexpired
term of L. L. Marion, who has
resigned.
Mr. Marion gave his resigna
tion after being elected to the
Carthage town board of commis
sioners. The law against double
public office holding precludes his
serving in both capacities.
Mr. Patterson has had phar
maceutical training and is part
owner of Shields Drug store in
Carthage.
COUNCIL NOW HOME
Clyde G. Council, The Pilot’s
advertising manager and local
justice of the peace, came home
from St. Joseph’s Hospital Tues
day and was out and around town
Wednesday. Mr. Council lost an
arm in an accident at his home
May 14.
E. H. Garrison, Jr., Moore Farm Agent
For 30 Years, Succumbs; Funeral Today
T. R. Howerton
Resigns Post at
Moore Memorial
Thomas R. Howerton this week
resigned from his position as ad
ministrator of Moore Memorial
Hospital.
’The announcement was made
by Mr. HoWerton and confirmed
by H. G. Poole, of Carthage,
president of the hospital board
of trustees, who stressed that
there had not yet been time for
a meeting of the executive com
mittee, but there could be, he
said, no doubt that the resigna
tion would be accepted, though
with greatest regret.
Mr. Howerton will go from
Moore Memorial to be adminis
trator of the new hospital to be
built 'in Wilson. A consolidation
of three present hospitals, it will
be an institution of .250 beds with
a nursing school. Completion of
the new hospital is set for 1963.
Said Mr. Howerton: ‘"This is an
opportunity of a lifetime for me.
Much as I shall hate to ..leave the
Sandhills and Moore Memorial, I
could not be justified in turning
it down.”
Mr. Howerton has been with
Moore Memorial for 10 years,
during which the hospital has
grown in size both of building
and staff to be one of the lead
ing institutions of its size in the
state.
In commencement exercises to'
be held Monday, June 5, at 8
p. m. in the West Southern Pines
school auditorium, 20 seniors of
the Class of 1961 at West South
ern Pines High School are ex
pected to receive their diplomas.
The Monday program will fol
low the Baccalaureate Service to
be held in the school auditorium
Sunday, June 4, at 4 p. m.
Elementary commencement
exercises for eighth grade stu
dents will be held Tuesday, June
6, at 2 p. m.
Full programs have been
scheduled for all three events.
Members of the graduating
class are listed on this page. The
valedictorian is Europa Fortuna
Gay and the salutatorian is Mary
Alfreda Chavis. Both were hon
ored at an awards program that
took place Friday night and that
is reported in a, separate story
in today’s Pilot. The valedictori
an is pictured on another page.
Comniencement Exercises
Dr. Hobart Jarrett, chairman
of the Humanities Division of
Bennett College, Greensboro,
will deliver the commencement
address at the Monday night pro
gram. He win be introduced by
H. A. Wilson, principal of West
Southern Pines High School.
N. L. Hodgkins, chairman of
the Southern Pines board of ed
ucation, and Luther A. Adams,
sui>erintendent of schools, will
speak and diplomas will be pre
sented by P. I. York, member of
the board of education from West
Southern Pines.
The Rev. F. L. Stanford, pas
tor of ’Trinity A. M. E. Zion
Church, will speak the invoca
tion. The West Southern Pines
High School Glee Club will sing
four selections during the pro
gram.
Baccalaureate Service
At the Baccalaureate Service,
the sermon will be preached by
Dr. Julius T. Douglas, pastor of
St. James Pi-esbyterian Church,
Greensboro. He will be intro
duced by Mr. Wilson.
The Rev. J. W. Peek, pastor of
(Continued on page 8)
TO TAKE NEW POST
Louis Scheipers, Jr., wound up
his work as town manager here
Wednesday and will leave Mon
day for Greenville wl^pre he has
been appointed city manager.
His family will remain here until
housing has been found for them
in Greenville.
Funeral services were held, this
morning at the First Presbyterian
Church, Carthage, for E. H. Gar
rison, Jr., 67, of Carthage, .who
served about 30 years as Moore
County farm agent before his re
tirement in 1956. Mr. Garrison
died Tuesday morning at Moore
Memorial Hospital, Pinehurst.
Officiating at the services were
the Rev. B. E. Dotson and Dr. W.
S. Golden, retired pastor. Grave
side services were held this after
noon at Ebenezer Presbyterian
Church Cemetery, Rock Hill, S.
C., Mr. Garrison’s native com
munity.
A graduate of Clemson College
in South Carolina, Mr. Garrison
was a veteran of World War I and
a member of Joseph D. Hinson
American Legion Post at Carth-
(Continued on Page 8)
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MR. GARRISON
Innes Resigns, Carolina
Bank; Dixon is Cashier
Roderick M. Innes of Pinehurst
has resigned as cashier of the
Carolina Bank at Pinehurst.
L. B. Creath, executive vice-
president of the bank-, said that
Sam W. Dixon, who came to the
bank in December as vice pres-
dent, has also now assumed the
post of cashier.
COUNTY BOARD MEETING
The regular June , meeting of
the Moore County commission
ers will be held at the court
house in Carthage Monday, start
ing at 10 a. m. The board is ex
pected to receive and discuss a
number of deparknent requests
for the 1961-62 budget.
Students on West
Side Win Awards
Exceptional students at West
Southern Pines High School were
the recipients of various scholar
ships and awards for high scho
lastic attainment and good citizen
ship, in an Award Night program
held Friday in the school auditor
ium.
To Europa Fortuna Gay, vale
dictorian, went the W. O. Spence
Memorial Award, ithe Lutz Clean
ers Award of $5 in dry cleaning
and the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
Award of $5 and a medal.
To Alfreda Chavis, salutatorian,
went the Zeta Phi Beta award of
$50, the Livingston^ College
Scholarship Award of $200, the
Bethea Memorial Award of $10
for the best all-round student and
the Eastern Star Award of $5
for the best all-round girl.
The Lions Club Award for high
achievement in band was present
ed by Joseph P. Marley, club
president, to Frank Waddell. E.
Earl Hubbard, president, present
ed to Robert York the Rotary
Club Award for having been the
most improved student of the
year.
Class Scholarship awards went
(Continued on page 8)
END OF SCHOOL
School ends for students
in all grades of the East and
West Southern Pines schools
at the regular hours for dis
missing of each grade on
Tuesday, June 6.
Teachers in all schools will
work one more day. Lunch
eons for teachers and guests
have been scheduled Wed
nesday in the school cafe
terias. at 12:30 in East
Southern Pines and at noon
in West Southern Pines.
Schedule for the next
school year calls for opening
of local schools on September,
6, following a teacher-pupil
orientation day on September
S. Teacher orientation day
will be held September 1.
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DR, W. H. PLEMMONS
Graduation Speaker
DR. F. L. CONRAD
Baccalaureate Preaicher
Many to Receive
Honors Tuesday
At the Honors and Awards pro
gram of Southern Pines High
School Tuesday afternoon, a long
list of awards to be made is
headed by the James S. Milliken,
Jr., Memorial Award to the best
all-around student in the class.
Recipients of the awards are
never announced before the pro
gram; except in the case of the
BaKour Scholarship Medals
which go to the first and second
honor graduates (valedictorian
and salutatorian), and two other
awards, the H. M. Smith Memori
al Scholarship Cup to ttie vale
dictorian and the Perkinson
Scholarship Cup to the saluta
torian.
In the Class of 1961, Patricia
Anne Gordon-Mann is the first
honor graduate and Joe Garzik,
((Continued on Page 8)
Forty-two members of the Class
of 1961 at Southern Pines High
School are scheduled to receive
diplomas Tuesday, June 6, at
Weaver Auditorium, in graduation
exercises beginning at 8:15 p.m.
The commencement address
will be delivered by Dr. William
H. Plemmons, president of Ap
palachian State Teachers College
at Boone.
The Tuesday night progr^^m will
climax a series of events starting
Sunday at 8:15 p. m. in Weaver
Auditorium when the commence
ment sermon will be preached by
Dr. F. L. Conrad of Salisbury,
president of the North Carolina
Lutheran Synod.
At the Honors and Awards Ex
ercises, to be held in Weaver
Auditorium at 1:30 p. ri). Tuesday,
many awards wiU be distributed,
as outlined in another story in
today’s Pilot.
Graduation Exercises
At the graduation exercises, the
High School Band will play the
traditional “Pomp and Circum
stances” for both processional and
recessional, as well as two other
selections during the program.
Dr. Plemmons will be introduc
ed by Luther A. Adams, superin
tendent of schools.
The valedictory will be deliver
ed by Patricia Anne Gordon-Mann
and the salutatory by Joseph S.
Garzik, Jr.
Diplomas will be presented by
N. L. Hodgkins, chairman of the
Southern Pines board of educa
tion. J. E. Sandlin, vice chairman
of the board, will bring greetings
to the graduating class.
Father Francis M. Smith, pastor
of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
will give the invocation and the
Rev. Maynard Mangum, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, will
pronounce the benediction.
Honor Graduates
A full list of the graduating
seniors appears on this page.
Honor graduates, in addition to
the valdictorian and salutatorian
are: Barbara Irons Bodine, Carol
Christine Coffin, Glenda Mae
Frye, Karen Johnson, Dorothy
Carlene McNeill, Owen Tracy
Parks III, Nancy Bridgers Raw-
linson, Mary Ann Sullivan and
Linda WeUman. All have main
tained an average of 90 or above
for their four years in high
school.
Commencement Sermon
The Rev. Carl Wallace, pastor
of the Church of Wide Fellow
ship, will introduce Dr. Conrad
at the Commencement Sermon
service Sunday night.
(Continued on Page 8)
DANCE FOR SENIORS
Mothers of members of the
graduating class at Southern
Pines High School will give a
dance for the seniors at the
Country Club, following the
commencement exercises next
Tuesday night. Alumni are in
vited to join the new graduates
for the occasion.
The Graduates
Southern Pines
John Russell Beith
Barbara Irons Bodine
Sandra Hazel Bridges
Bobby Martin Caddell
Paul Franklin Chavez
Alfred Gregson Chiswell, Jr.
Carole Cristine Coffin
Harriett Ellen Cornett
Bobbie Grace Dutton
Susan Mason Ewing
Glenda Mae Frye
Ronald Joseph Ganis
Joseph Stanley Garzik, Jr.
Patricia Anne Gordon-Mann
Diana . Carol Gorman
Karen Johnson
James Edward Jones
Gerald Claude Kirby
Dale Edward Landis
Jerry Marshall Lentz
Jack Glenmore Marcum
Richard Earl McCormac
Harold Jack McDonald
Elizabeth Janet McKenzie
Dorothy Carlene McNeill
Patsy Lynne McRee
Adrienne Claudia Montesanti
Walter Carson Morgan
Janice McDonald Morris
Owen Tracy Parks, III
Carol Anne Powell
Nancy Bridgers Rawlinson
Hurshell Scott Robson
Charles Anderson Rose
Benjamin Proctor Rowe, III
Shirley Joanne Smith
Michael Lee Smithson
Mary Ann Sullivan
Don McClain Thompson
Rebecca Fleetwood Traylor
Linda Warren Wellman
Phyllis Ann Wilson
West Southern Pines
Juanita Louise Brown
Donnie Chavis
Maiy Alfreda Chavis
Flora Ann Dowdy
Europa Fortima Gay
James GUlis, Jr.
Solomon J. Andrew Graham
Ruth Ann Hallman
Reginald Dallas Harrington
Thelma Louise McLaughlin
Mack Monroe, III
David Charles Reed
John Henry Rich
Fletcher Earl Rogers
Larry Alphonso Ross
Maxine Claudette Ross
Carol Ann Stevens
Carrie Renea Stevenson
Mary Ellen Thompson
Carol Jean Wright