%
Anotlier chance
to control roadside signs on
interstate highways is being
offered North Carolina. See
editorial, page 2.
Graduates
of two local high schools are
pictured on page 8, following
their commencement exercises
this week.
VOL. 41—NO. 29
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1961
EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS
Rej^istration Planned
The county commissioners, at
their meeting in Carthage Mon
day, gave Sam Riddle, chairman
of the county board of elections,
a go-ahead signal in planning a
new cotmty-wide registration of
voters, to be conducted in this
“off’ election year.
Mr. Riddle told the board that
there has not been a county-wide
registration since 1940 and that
the books ol all precincts are in
bad shape—crowded, confused
and in some cases so full of
names that auxiliary books are
needed.
The elections board chairman
said that precinct leaders should
be consulted and that boundaries
of precincts should be clearly in
dicated on maps. This would al
so give an ppportunity for cre
ating new precincts where need
ed, he said.
Mr. Riddle said he had no iaea
what the re-registration would
cost, but was asked by the board
to make his preliminary plans
and report back to them as soon
as possible, with soma cost es
timate. The commissioners agreed
that the registration is ad
visable at this time.
Circulation of
County Library
Doubles in Year
A county appropriation of $12,-
350 is asked in a tentative budget
for the Moore County Library
submitted to the county commiss
ioners Monday, to be supplement
ed by estimated State aid amount
ing to $4,000 and Federal aid of
$650, for a total operating budget
of $17,000, in 1961-62.
Miss HoUis Haney, county li
brarian, obviously pleased toe
commissioners with a report list
ing circulation from the library
at Carthage as more than double
in the period from last July
through April, as compared with
the same period in the previous
fiscal year — 8,157 as compared
with 3,992.
In the same period, she said,
circulation of books from the
bookmobile also increased—from
over 19,000 to over 23,000.
More people from arovmd the
county are using toe library and
its reference works in preparation
of club programs and reports,
study of technical subjects and
school work. For this reason,
she said, training of library staff
members at state-operated work
shops is important to increase the
knowledge of librarians.
The county part of the budget
request for 1961-62 is up $2,350
(Continued on page 5)
Max Rush Named
Credit Manager
At St. Joseph’s
Max Rush has been named
credit manager of St. Joseph’s
Hospital, it is announced by Sister
Virginia, hospital administrator.
Mr. Rush joined the hospital’s
business staff early in May. Duties
of his position include mainten
ance of accounts, admissions,
discharges and collections.
Until April of this year, he was
acting postmaster of Southern
Pines, a position he had held for
four years. Before that he worked
with Carolina Theatres, Inc., both
in Pinehurst and in Southern
Pines.
Mr. Rush is retiring president
of East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association. He is also
the immediate Past Exalted Ruler
of the Southern Pines Elks Club
in which organization he has held
other offices in previous years.
With his wife, Thelma, and
daughter, Kathy, Mr. Rush lives
at 255 North May St. He and his
family attend the Church of Wide
Fellowship. He has a brother who
is a doctor and a sister who is' a
nurse.
Swimming Pool
Opening Today
The big new swimming pool
built near the Country Club by
the Elks Home of Southern
Pines, Inc., and BPOE Lodge'No.
1692 is having its formal opening
today.
The pool is open to Elks Lodge
and Country Club members, ac
cording to a schedule of fees that
appears on page 12 of today’s
Pilot. Pool hours of operation are
also listed there.
Built by Paddock of the Car-
olinas, Inc., of Greensboro, the
pool is L-shaped, extending 82
feet, six inches on the long side
of the L hnd 70 feet on the short
side, to provide approximately
4,000 square feet of swimming
space. A large paved deck area
surrounds the pool, floodlighted
at night.
Agricultural
Outlook Good,
Agent Reports
The 1961 agricultural outlook
for Moore County is good, de
spite a cool, late, dry spring that
forced some farmers to replant
tobacco and cotton field, F. D.
Allen, agricultural agent, told
the county commissioners on
Monday.
All members of the board were
present for the regular monthly
session—Chairman L. R. Rey
nolds and Commissioners John
M. Currie, Tom Monroe, James
M. Pleasants and W. S. Taylor.
Mr. Allen brought the board
several baskets of Moore County
dewberries which are being pick
ed in quantity in the Cameron
area this week, by 28 growers—
evidence of what the agent called
‘■'the finest crop in years.’’ He
urged that Moore residents sup
port the growers by going to
farms to get berries for immedi
ate use and for freezing.
Highlights, of Mr. Allen’s farm
report:
Tobacco—held back by cool
weather, with premature bloom
ing in some cases, but the agent
thinks warm weather will end
these troubles.
Cotton—Stands good in some
areas, but in others farmers had
to replant.
Grain—Best crop in 10 years in
prospect. Cool weather in May
is good for grain crops.
Corn—Better than average
yield can be expected.
iPeaches—iFirst peaches ship
ped from Moqre County last
week. Crop outlook is good and
a new advertising program, with
auto bumper stickers and “N. C.
Approved Grower” signs for
roadside stands, is getting start
ed.
Poultry—“In a bad way” at
this time with broiler prices de-
(Continued on page 8)
Swim Classes to
Re Given by ARC
Registration is open for Red
Cross classes in swimming and
life-saving. Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr.,
of Pinehurst, chadrman of safety
services of the Moore County
Red Cross chapter, has announced.
There will be classes for be
ginning and intermediate swim
mers and in junior and senior
life-saving, all taught by certified
water safety instructors.
Dates of the classes were not
announced, but interested persons
were advised to register at the
Red Cross office on S. W. Broad
St. in Southern Pines or at toe
Country Club pool here, the
Pinehurst Recreation Association
pool in Pinehurst and the town
pool at Carthage.
Classes are open to both young
sters and adults.
No dates for the classes were
given in the announcement.
HONORED— J. S. Garzik, Jr., (right), second honor graduate
(salutatorian) of the Southern Pines High School graduating
class, receives from Luther A. Adams, superintendent of schools,
the James S. Milliken, Jr., Memorial Award, highest honor given
during the Honors and Awards Exercises held in Weaver Audi
torium Tuesday afternoon. The award consists of a cup and
$50. Garzik also received several other awards.
(Humphrey photo)
Milliken Award Won by Joe Garzik, Jr.;
Many Honors Presented to Graduates
COURT OF HONOR
A Moore District Boy
Scout court of honor, at
which rank advancements
and merit badges will be
presented, will be held
in the courtroom qf the
courthouse at Carthage at 8
p. m., Monday. Parents of all
Scouts are urged to attend.
C. C. Thompson of Pine-
bluff, district advancement
chairman, pointed out in
making the announcement
that the court of honor had
formerly been scheduled to
be held in Vass.
Presentation of the James S.
Milliken, Jr. Memorial Award to
Joe Garzik, Jr., second honor
graduate (salutatorian) of the
Class of 1961 at Southern Pines
High School led a long list at
the Honors and Awards Exercises
held by the senior class Tuesday
afternoon, preceding the gradua
tion exercises Tuesday night. The
program was held in Weaver
Auditorium.
The Milliken award, given in
memory of the son of the late
Dr. J. S. Milliken and Mrs. Milli
ken, goes annually to the best
all-around member of the class in
terms of scholarship, character,
athletic interests and, other con
siderations. Presentation on Tues
day was by Luther A. Adams,
superintendent of schools The
award consists of a cup and $50.
Garzik won several other
awards during the course of the
program.
Processional and recessional for
the Honors and Awards Exercises
were played by Dianne Fields,
William McAdams of the faculty
led in singing “America”, and
Dickey Hoskins, president of next
year’s student council, opened the
program with Scripture and pray
er.
Glen Cox, high school princi
pal, spoke the welcome and in
troduced the Junior Class mar
shals, headed by Cathie Sand-
strom, all chosen on the basis of
scholarship.
Other highlights of the program'
were presentation of the Senior
Class gift (funds toward a new
clock and scoreboard for the gym)
by Senior President Carlyle
Weatherspoon to Mr. Adams; and
the traditional transfer of cap
and gown from Weatherspoon to
Harold Williford, president of the
rising seniors.
Following is a complete list of
the other awards, listing the
award, the recipient and the per
son who made the presentation,
in that order.
American Legion Citzenship
Medal, Dorothy McNeill, William
Ed Cox.
American Legion Auxiliary Gift
Fund, Diana Gorman, Miss Gussie
Cameron of Southern Pines and
Mrs. B. M, Jarrett. State Legion
Auxiliary President (photo and
story about this special gift ap
pears elsewhere in today’s'Pilot).
Rotary Club Improvement Cup,
Rebecca Traylor, E. Earl Hubbard.
Danforth Foundation Awsirds,
Joe Garzik,. Jr., and Susan Ewing,
'Miss Pauline Miller.
Balfour Scholarship Medals,
Patricia Gordon-Mann (first honor
graduate) and Joe Garzik, Jr.,
(second honor graduate).
DAR Citizenship Award, Janet
McKenzie, Miss Pauline Miller.
H. M. Smith Memorial Scholar
ship Cup, Joe Garzik, Jr., Joe
Carter.
Perkinson Scholarship Cup,
Patricia Gordon-Mann, J. M.
Perkinson.
Sandhill Veterans Association
Scholarship (for three years of
nurse’s training), Linda Wellman,
Robert S. Ewing.
Junior Woman’s Club Scholar-
' ship, .$100, Carole Coffin, Mrs
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Moore Group in
Protest on New
Districting Plan
A delegation of Moore Dem
ocrats went to Raleigh Tuesday
morning to join groups from
Hoke, Lincoln, Montgomery,
Union, Yadkin and Davidson in
protest against the proposed re-
districting of toe Eighth Congres
sional District.
They told the House Commit
tee on Congressional Districts
that the proposal, already ap
proved by the Senate, would cut
Democratic strength at the roots
and, according to former State
Senator Hawley Poole of West
End, “reverse Biblical history.”
He said that instead of the whale
swallowing Jonah, “Jonas would
swallow us.”
Among those present to oppose
the plan, which would pit Rep.
A. Paul Kitchin against Charles
Jonas, were Poole, Moore Dem
ocratic Chairman W. Lamont
Brown, Aberdeen Mayor E. O.
Freeman, former mayor and
highway commissioner Forrest
Lockey of Aberdeen, former C
and D director W. P. Saunders,
Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grunm,
longtime Carthage precinct
chairman Mrs. Gilliam Brown,
and Miss Bess McCaskill, assist
ant register of deeds and vice-
chairman of the county Demo
cratic committee.
Rep. H. Clifton Blue, who
joined his fellow Moore Coun-
tians for the hearing, declared
that “the people of Moore are
very disturbed about this, they
do not regard it as a good or a
fair plan.”
Chairman Brown read a letter
from the county commissioners
expressing their “unalterable op
position,” and their belief that
“'an alignment of districts should
be made along lines of popula
tion—counties of substantial ru
ral population should not be put
with counties of large urban pop
ulation.”
Foundation Announces
Lar^e Gift to Hospital
VALEDICTORIAN— Patri
cia Anne Gordon-Mann, first
honor graduate (valedictor
ian) of the Class of 1961 at
Southern Pines High School,
spoke at the graduating ex
ercises of her class Tuesday
night and received several
awards at the Honors and
Awards Exercises held Tues
day afternoon.
RECREATION
PROGRAM SET
The municipal summer
lecrealion program will itor-
mally open June 15, with a
variety of activities for chil
dren and young people in all
age groups.
Bill Megginson, high school
coach, is director of the pro
gram and has planned the
most ambitious and varied
assortment of activities yet
made available to the chil
dren of the town. Archery
and track and field events
are among the new items to
be featured.
Details of the program, in
cluding plans for West
Southern Pines, will be pub
lished in next week's Pilot.
Blue Backed
Strongly For
Speakership
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
Moore County representative in
the General Assembly at Raleigh,
has a heavy backing of 42 votes
in a campaign for Speaker of the
House in the 1963 session of the
Assembly, The Raleigh News and
Observer reported this morning.
Friends had known for some
time that Rep. Blue was contem
plating a race for the speaker-
ship, but today’s announcement,
through Rep. Gordon Greenwood
of Buncombe, a strong Blue sup
porter, was the first authorized
public statement about the Moore
man’s intentions.
Rep. Blue, publisher of The
Sandhill Citizen at Aberdeen, is
serving his eighth consecutive
term in the House.
Rep. Tom Woodward of Wilson
The letter was authorized at County and Rep. Herbert Hardy
A gift of $55,000 to help pro
vide a new and expanded x-ray
department at Moore Memorial
Hospital in Pinehurst was an
nounced Monday at a meeting of
the executive committee of the
hospital’s board of directors.
The Irene Heinz Given and
John LaPorte Given Foundation,
of New York City, is t’ne donor.
News of the grant came to the
hospital directors through Eric
Nelson of Pinehurst who is a
member of the Foundation’s
board of trustees and was in
New jyork this week to attend
a board meeting.
The Foundation had been
informed in April of Moore Mem
orial Hospital’s need for improv
ed x-ray department facilities.
The original x-ray equipment at
the hospital—^which was also pre
sented by Mr. and Mrs. John L.
Given and the Given Foundation
—is described by hospital offi
cials as now “practically obso
lete.” Minimum requirements
for the department call for 2,500
square feet of floor space, as
compared to the 1,197 square feet
in the present department.
Recent Icomp^rative statistics
indicate that Moore Memorial’s
x-ray department is used more
than the x-ray department of any
hospital of comparable size in
the two Carolines, hospital offi
cials report.
The Given Foundation gift of
$55,000 wiU provide for cost of
necessary equipment to bring the
x-ray department up to an ade
quate standard, the local an
nouncement said. An additional
$67,000 which will be supplied
by the North Carolina Medical
Care Commission, because of the
Given Foundation grant, will
provide for necessary construc
tion and alterations to house the
new equipment.
Murray Clark.
Beta Club Awards ($150), Mary
Ann Sullivan (alternates, Joe
Garzik, Jr., and Glenda Mae
Frye), presentation by Susan
Ewing.
Southern Pines Lions Club
Baseball Award, Joe Garzik, Jr.,
J. P. Marley.
Glee Club Award, Cathie
Sandstrom (rising senior) who
was pianist and also sang in the
glee club, by William McAdams.
Band Award, Sandra Bridges,
by J. P.'Marley.
School Service Award, Susan
Ewing, Principal Glenn Cox.
Library Awards, Dale Landis
(senior) and Sarah Webster and
Sherry Thomas (not seniors),
Mrs. Tribble.
Home Economics awards, Janet
McKenzie and Nancy Rawlinson
(Adrienne Montesanti presented
gift by group), Miss Loree Keen.
Babe Ruth Sportsmanship
(Continued on Page 8)
Peach Festival
Planned in July
Peach growers of Moore, Mont
gomery, Richmond and Lee coun
ties are planning a Peach Festival
to be held July 19 at EUerbe at
which a 1961 Peach Queen will
be chosen.
'There will be five candidates
selected from each of the four
counties to compete for the title
and toe honor of aiding in the
promotion of the Sandhills peach
industry during the coming year.
The counties compose the area
of the Sandhill Area Development
association.
the commissioners’ regular meet
ing Monday.
Spokesmen for the other dele
gations echoed the Moore group’s
sentiments.
Under the proposal protested
by the delegations, the new dis
trict would include Moore, Lee,
Montgomery, Richmond, Union
and Anson Counties of the pres
ent 8th District and Lincoln and
Mecklenburg of the present 10 th
which is represented by Repub
lican Charles Jonas. It would be
the state’s most populous district.
of Greene are announced candi
dates for Speaker.
Col. Smith Buys
Weymouth Tract
From Boyd Estate
Annoimcement has 'l^een made
of the purchase of 14 acres of
Weymouth Heights property by
The Pines Realty Company. The
property, which lies between
East Indiana Avenue and Maples
Road, was formerly owned by
the Boyd Estate.
Lt. Col. Frank Smith, owner
of The Pines Realty Company,
states that the tract will be de
veloped into a subdivision of
large lots of an acre or more for
private homes. A road, and a
water line, from East Indiana
Avenue to Maples Road, is plan
ned.
The land in question was part
of the Weymouth Heights most
recent development which
stretched back westward to the
crest of the ridge as far as High
land Road, boiunded north and
south by Morganton Road and
Indiana Avenue and adjoining
lots to the south. With a large
portion of the acreage sold and
built on, the tract now owned
by Col. Smith remained one of
the last large portions still avail
able.
Col. Smith states that he plans
to continue the same sort of re
strictions on building which
were established by toe Boyd
brothers and which have been
maintained by those now owning
property in the former Boyd
I tract.
Rep. Blue Meets
With Moore Board
state Rep. H. Clifton Blue met
with toe county commissioners
Monday, to discuss legislation he
had introduced or would be ask
ed to introduce in Raleigh, at re
quest of the board.
The three items of legislation
which have been requested by
the board are noted in Rep. Blue’s
“In The General Assembly” col
umn on insert Page A of today’s
Pilot.
Adult Softball
Season to Open
Plans for the adult summer
softball league were made Wed
nesday night in a meeting at
town hall with Billy Megginson,
director of the municipal recre
ation program, and the managers
of the teams attending.
There are now three teams in
the league—Lions Club, Bill
Rush, manager; "VFW, George
Griffin, manager; and Galloping
Ghosts, Jo.sl Stutts, manager.
A sponsor is needed for f.
fourth team at once, to complete
organization of the league.
Spokesmen for interested firms
or organizations should call the
town office.
Play will start Tuesday of next
week. Play will continue with
double-header games each Tues
day and Thursday with the first
game beginning at 7:30 p. m., if
a fourth team can be organized.
Fitness Program
For Youngsters
Is Rescheduled
The “Junior Champ Day”
physical fitness program which
was cancelled a week ago Satur
day and incorrectly announced
last week as schedule for last
Saturday, will be held Saturday
of this week at Memorial Field,
starting at 9 a. m.
Boys and girls nine through 13
years of age are eligible to take
part in the contests sponsored by
the local Jaycees as part of a
state and national physical fitness
program. John Williams of the
Southern Pines High School
coaching staff will direct the
events.
Point scores—adjusted for age
differences—in various exercises,
dashes, jumps and other events
will be totalled to determine a
boy and girl “Junior Champ.”
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., Glenn
Cox, WiTour Creed, Bill Book
er, Dalton McNeill and Karl
Stuart are among the Jaycees
on the conunittee for the pro
gram.
ON WAY TO FRANCE
Jane Owen, Moore County’s In
ternational Farm Youth Ex
change delegate who wiU spend
the summer with a French fam
ily, was in Washington, D. C.,
this week for an orientation pro
gram, preparatory to sailing
from New York City tomorrow,
to arrive in France June 17. She
is thd daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Owen of upper Moore.
Bloodmobile to
Visit Aberdeen
A “bloodmobile” from the
American Red Cross blood center
at Charlotte will be at the Aber
deen school lunchroom tomorrow
(Friday, June 9), from 9 a.m. to
2:30 p. m., to receive one-pint
blood donations from volunteers.
The Aberdeen visit, which is
sponsored by the Jaycees there
with assistance of other local
workers, follows a stop of the
bloodmobile in West End today.
Donations of blood at periodic
visits of a bloodmobile to Moore
County communities make possi
ble a program in which the coun
ty’s two hospitals obtain blood
of any type needed for their
patients from the center at Char
lotte.
John Buchholz and Dr. Harold
Peck, both of Southern Pines, are
co-chairmen of the county-wide
blood program for the Moore
'County Red Cross chapter.