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ft ilugjj Progress and problems of the North Car olina Symphony Orchestra make interesting reading. See page 6. Uiqh To lGlqn<lon Coft ^ Jodsi laqt Cameron PI •Vas5 I P«t)« erdMA Needed now in the United States,, says Senator Fulbright, is a “national style.” See items on page 2. VOL. 41—NO. 33 SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS Group Promoting New Bank Meets To Discuss Plans Thirty or more citizens of the county, with men from Southern Pines predominating, assembled in the Welch Building Monday afternoon to discuss plans, under way for some weeks, for the es tablishment here of a branch of the Southern National Bank of Lumberton. In charge of the informal meet ing were A. L. Burney and W. T. Huntley, Jr., who have been at the forefront of the movement. Also present and taking part in the proceedings were two of ficials of the Lumberton concern, Richard Conder, of the Hamlet branch, and J. Watson, auditor at the Lumberton headquarters. Mr. Burney described the local response to the feelers put out by Southern National’s president, Hectot McLean, and others in as saying sentiment in Moore-Coun ty towards another bank locating here. A committee of about 50 was formed, Mr. Burney said, and an opinion poll conducted of businessmen “from the Colonial Stores area to Howard John son’s.’’ The result was 95 percent FOR, he said. Thomas T. Hayes, Jr., of Hayes- Howell and Associates, presented plans on which the architectural firm is working for the remodel ling of the Welch Building on which the bank has taken an op tion. They show a functional floor plan for offices, a vault, in stallment loan department and long tellers’ counter at the left rear. There will be a night de posit window about where the present entrance is on the corner of Broad Street and New York Avenue and a drive-in w/indow in tbs rear with room for parking several cars. Additional space provided by the former V.F.W. property, Mr. Hayes said, will add 19 to 20 parking spaces. The spa cious basement will be occupied by the bookkeeping department, a directors’ room, kitchenette, storage, and other facilities. The architect said completion of the work should take no more than four months from the starting date. Before adjourning the meeting, Mr. Burney reminded those pres ent that the federal investigator, w'hose duty it is to sample local reaction toward adding to th-e banking facilities of the town, before a charter can be issued, was due to arrive yesterday and would be spending today CThurs- dayl'in town. He will then report back to Washington. Mr. Burney said it would probably he'at least two weeks before a decision could be expected. Brochures of the town and a map of the coun ty with suitable information pre pared by W. E. Kivette will be available, Mr. Burney said. * OFF ■’’O CAMP!— Twenty - three Moore County boys are pictured at the Southern Pines Country Club early Sunday morning just be fore starting for the Elks Boys Camp at Hender sonville, to spend two weeks under sponsorship of the loc d Elks Lodge which sends a group of boys there annually for an expense-free vaca tion, The boys were given breakfast at the Country Club before leaving. Adults in the background are, left to right: Walter Harper, Cecil Hutchinson; George Thompson, chairman of the local lodge’s Boys Camp committee;'Gene Blackwelder, Harry Davis and Carlos Frye. All except Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Frye helped drive the boys to the camp, along with other Elks not pictured, including Don Thompson, Larry Ryder and Emerson Humphrey. The camp offers a full range of summer recreational activities. (Humphrey photo) VFW, Auxiliary lo Host District Meeting Here John Boyd Post 7315, Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary will be hosts to the Ninth District meeting, VFW Posts and Auxil iaries from East Laurinburg, Laurinburg, Hamlet, Rocking ham, Wadesboro, TroJ, Mt. Gil ead and Sanford, at the post home Sunday, July 9, at 2:30 p. m. Presiding at the meetings will be District Commander Charles Kelly of Olivia and District Pres ident Betty Tagge of Hamlet. Tennis Group Has Membership Drive; Tournaments Set The Sandhills Tennis Associa tion, with a membership drive now going on, today announced the dates of the two tournaments sponsored annually by the As sociation. George H. Leonard, Jr., presi dent, said that the Sandhills Junior Invitational Tournament has been scheduled for August 3- 6 and the Senior Invitational Tournament for August 10-13. Entry forms can be obtained from Mrs. Charles Phillips, sec retary of the association. Billy Megginson, director of the municipal summer recreation program and coach at Southern Pines High School, will b-e di rector of the tournaments, assist ed by Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., and Ray Schilling. Sandhills Tennis Association dues are 50 cents for students and $1 for adults, but Mr. Leonard urges new and former members to contribute as much as possible;, “as W.9 are operating on a very limited budget.” A Southern Pines adult team, representing the Association, is playing matches regularly with teams from various communities over the state. This team’s win in a match with the Raleigh B team, played Sunday, is reported elsewhere in today’s Pilot. The annual Junior and Senior ST. JOSEPH'S TO HAVE OPEN HOUSE Marking the 13th anniver sary of opening of St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital, the public is invited to an "open house birthday parly" at the hospital from 2 lo 4 p. m. Sunday. July 9. Refreshments will be served. County Goes Over Battleship Quota Moore County was listed yes terday by Gov. Terry Sanford as one of 20 North Carolina counties that have met or exceeded their quotas in the $250,000 state-wide drive for funds to save the battle ship North Carolina. Moore County’s quota was $2,- 500. Col. Don Madigan was chair man of the drive, winning there by a commission as an, “admiral in the North Carolina Navy.” The Governor said $153,000 had been raised toward the state’s goal. Plans call for the battleship to be brought from Bayonne, N. J., and permanently berthed at Wilmington as a public exhibit. Work Continues On Broad Street Aberdeen Man to Assume District Office of Lions Installation of E. R. (Buck) Graham of Aberdeen as governor of Lions District 31-F, which in cludes about 40 Lions Clubs in central North Carolina, will take place at the Aberdeen School cafeteria Wednesday night of next week. With Lions and their wives from the Sandhills and through out the district taking part, the program will begin with a buffet dinner from 6 to 7:30 p. m., to be followed by the installation ceremonies. More than 300 per sons are expected. The installing officer and speaker will be Jack Stickley of Charlotte, past Lions Internation al president. R. F. Bums of Lum berton will be master of cere monies. The program was announced locally by Joe Carter, deputy district governor. junior and adult players from over North Carolina and other Southern States. USIA Service Award Presented by Murrow to Clary Thompson Family Preparatory work for the re- , surfacing of W. Broad St. contin- tournaments draw outstanding necessitating clos ing various sections of the street while high spots were burned off and the surface was o,therwise prepared. The paving from Vermont Ave. to the old No. 1 intersection is scheduled to begin next week, with a Wilmington contractor do ing the work for the State High way Commission. The street is a link in the State Highway system. The Town will raise manhole covers and storm sewer grills to the level of the new pavement, doing this work along with the paving operations. OFFICERS INSTALLED Robert M. Leland was install ed as president of the Southern Pines Rotary Club, succeeding E. Earl Hubbard, and other officers of the club and of the Rotary Anns were installed at a ladies night meeting last Thursday night. For details and a photo, see page 15. The personnel director of the United States Information Agency told the widow of the late USIA official Clary Thompson that her husband displayed “inspiring leadership” and “the highest qualities of resourcefulness” dur ing his years with the organiza tion. William H. Weathersby read the tribute to the former North Car olina newsman as Edward R. Murrow, USIA director recently presented the agency^s disting uished service award to Mrs. Thompson and her three children, in a ceremony at Washington. The award for Mr. Thompson, who died at Washington in Febr- ruary, was one of five distinguish ed service awards presented ta agency workers during the cere mony at the State Department. Lesser awards went to 70 other workers. Mr. Thompson, a native of the Cameron community, was deputy assistant director of the agency for the Near East and Asia at the time of his death. He came to Washington from an assignment in Athens, Greece, last year. He was associated with North Carolina newspapers before World War II. His wife is the former Jessie Futrell of Winston-Salem. Two sons, Stephen and Richard, and a daughter, Laurie Elizabeth, also survive, as do four sisters— one of whom is Mrs. Jasper Blevins of Route 1, Cameron—and a brother. IN TOWN OFFICE Miss Dorothy McNeill, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy J. Mc Neill, Sr., and a 1961 graduate of Southern Pines High School, has been employed in the book keeping and payroll department of tbs town office in the munici pal center. Miss McNeill lives with her parents at 310 Iowa Ave. Town, Area Have Quiet 4th; State Traffic Toll Down No serious traffic accidents or other violence were reported in Southern Pines and Moore County over the long July 4 week-end. Though North Carolina register ed 15 traffic deaths in the four- day holiday, the record better than expected and com pared to a toll of 18 in a three- day July 4 period last year. Nationally, however, the death toll soared to a record high for a comparable holiday period. State Motor Vehicles Commis sioner Edward Scheidt said that the state’s drop in fatalities and accidents “indicates in a realistic way that when laws are carefully observed and obeyed, death can be whipped ait its own game.” All highway patrolmen station ed in Moore County were active throughout the four-day period. Hundreds of cups of cold soft drinks and safety pamphlets were given away by Southern Pines Jaycees and Jaycettes at a traffic safety demonstration north of Southern Pines on No. 1 highway, from 2 to 5 p. m. on July 4. With Cpl. C. W. Moricle, Pfc. E. G. Shoemaker and Pfc. Bob Samuels of the Highway Patrol cooperating, motorists stopped and were given drinks and high way safety information. Bill Blue was in charge of the project. Jaycees taking part said that many motorists expressed their appreciation for the hospitality and the information. May’s Body Shop provided a wrecked car as an eye catcher at the site. A tent to shelter persons taking part was provided by the Powell Funeral Home. $175,000 Bond Issue Proposed for Library, Agriculture Building The board of county commis sioners started the wheels turn ing Monday for an election on a proposed $175,000 county bond is sue to help finance a combined Second Class For Student Drivers To Begin Monday The second driver training class of the summer for East Southern Pines High School students will begin Monday, July 10, at 9 a. m., Luther A. Adams, ^superintendent of schools, reminded students to day. Students wanting to take part are asked to meet at the high school office at that time. The class will run until August 2. A third class is planned for later in August. Class work and behind-the- wheel, training will take place Monday through Friday each week on a schedule that is flex ible, to alldw for road training in cooler parts of the day and also to adapt the schedule to jobs or other commitments the students have. Students must be 16 before they can take behind-the-wheel training. Though classroom work can be taken at an earlier age, the two parts of the program are usually taken together. The Southern Pines driver training course is now given only in the summer, not during tbs regular school year, Mr. Adams pointed out. Automobiles driven by graduates of the course are subject to a lower insurance rate than those driven by non-gradu ates of the same age group. Peach Festival To Be at Ellerbe The location of the peach festi val planned for July 19 was in correctly given in last week’s Pilot as Rockingham. The festival will be held at Ellerbe. Incorrect information was furnished to Thfe Pilot last week. The festival will feature a beauty contest with entries from several counties of the peach growing area and a tour of places of agricultural, industrial and historical interest, sponsored by the Sandhills Area Development Association. , The North Carolina Mutual Peach Growers Association, which is putting on a vigorous advertis ing and promotion campaign for peaches grown in the area, is co sponsor of the festival. Scout Court of Honor Set Monday, Pinebluff A Moore District Boy Scout court of honor will be held at Pinebluff Lake at 8 p. m. Monday. Troops attending can go to the lake any time after 4 p. m. for a swim. It is suggested they bring picnic suppers. FIRE WAS OUT Summoned to a house on W. Indiana Ave., Wednesday after noon, local volunteer firemen found the fire already out: an oil stove had blazed up briefly but was soon extinguished with out the firemen’s aid. Chief Frank Kaylor said the call was “almost a false alarm” and that no record had been made of the owner of the property involved. • TO WORK AT MOORE MEMORIAL Hospital Board Makes Three Appointments ]Mrs. Bodiiic lo Head Volunteers Town Officials Attend Institute Mayor John S. Ruggles and Councilmen W. Morris Johnson and Felton J. Capel attended the School for Mayors and Cpuncil- men held at the Institute of Gov- •ernment in Chapel Hill last week. The school covered the full scope of duties of mayors and councilmen and was designed especially for officials elected to office in May. Mr. Johnson is town treasurer as well as a m.ember of the coun cil, succeeding the late D. E. Bailey in that post. The treasurer may or may not be a member of the council. D. L. McGOOGAN Administrator Announcement is made this week by H. G. Poole of Carth age, chairman of the board of directors of Moore Memorial Hos pital in Pinehurst, of the appoint ment of Duncan L. McGoogan of Charlotte as the new administra tor at the institution, effective August 1. Mr, McGoogan replaces Thomas R. Howerton who resign ed* last month to head the admini stration of a. new hospital in (Continued on Page 8) Mrs. William B. Bodine of Southern Pines has accepted the position of Volunteer Co-ordma- tor at Moore Memorial Hospit.al, filling the vacancy on the staff created by the resignation Iasi Spring of Mrs. Fred Pollaid ol Southern Pines. Mrs. Bodine will assume her duties on July 10. ac cording to Thomas R. Howeiti-n administrator, who annouim-cl Mrs. Bodine’s appointment thi.s week. Mrs. Bodine has been active for several years in the work of the volunteers. It will be her duty to recruit, train and staff the many important posts filled by these workers, Mr. Howerton said. The volunteers work in various fields of service in the hospital-each day, including mail, flowers, visitors control, central supply and canteen. Mrs. Bodine’s husband, a major now in ttiilitary service in India, plans to retire from the armed forces in May of next year. They have three children. Mrs. Bodine was executive secretary for the Antique Fair which was spon sored here this Spring by the Moore County Historical Associa tion. DR. E. M. SIPPLE Radiologist Dr. Harold A. Peck, radiologist at Moore Memorial Hospital, an nounces the appointment of Dr. Edward M. Sipple, resident in radiology at University Hospital, Baltimore, Md., as his associate at the Pinehurst institution. Dr. Sipple assumed his duties July 1. Dr. Sipple, a native of Bur lington, Iowa, attended Park High School in Baltimore and received his Bachelor of Arts degree at (Continued on page 8) county agriculture aind library building. With County Attorney M. G. Boyette of Carthage and County Auditor John C. Muse of Sanford present to give advice on the pro cedures to be followed, the com missioners voted to authorize L. R. Reynolds, chairman of the board, and the clerk, Mrs. Au drey McCaskill, to make applica tion to the State’s Local Govern ment Commission, to hold such an election. While such an application is pending, the matter of issuing bonds will be taken up with New York bond attorneys who will set up the machinery for the election ' and for issuing the bonds if it carries. It would be an estimated 60 to 90 days before such an election could be held. Board members said they hoped it could be held at least by September. For six years, it was pointed out, the commissioners have been trying to make provision in their budgets for an agriculture build ing which could also provide much-needed space for the Moore County Library. But school demands, board members noted Monday, have prevented appropriation of suf ficient funds for the proposed building which would house all the agricultural agencies with headquarters in Carthage and would also provide ample meet ing space for gatherings of farm people, Hayes, Howell and Associates, of Southern Pines, drew plans for such a building some time ago and the proposed structure to be financed by the bond issue, if ap proved by the voters, would be built to these plans. Designed for a site in Carthage, the two story building would be built on a slop ing lot, to provide ground floor entrances for both levels, one to be occupied by the farm offices and an auditorium and the other by the library. According to the rough figur ing cited at the meeting Monday, the county now has $99,000 which has been budgeted for the build ing. With the proposed bond is sue, a total of $274,000 would be available. Cost of the building is ‘estimated at $230,000, equipment and furnishings at $20,000 and cost of the bond election at $3,000 or more. There would therefore be a surplus for contingencies of more than $20,000 under the present financing plan It is per missible to pay the cost of the election out of the proceeds of the bonds. If the election does not carry, it could be paid out of the $99,000 on hand. Three road requests came before the board and all were ap proved and will be forwarded to the State Highway department. John F. Taylor of Pinehurst appeared on behalf Of prop.erty owners, to ask for slate mainte nance on .4 mile of road east of the traffic circle near Pinehurst. Maintenance was also asked in a petition for .7 mile in Sheffield Township, between Highway 705 and Road No. 1003, and for a por tion of Road No. 2049 in the Pine- dene section near Southern Pines. Black top treatment was asked for Road No. 1459 in Sheffield Township. In the morning session, the board heard monthly reports from F. D. Allen, agricultural agent; Miss Mary Braswell, as sistant home economics agent; Miss Hollis Haney, county libra rian; Mrs. Eva Crawford, Negro home economics agent; and Mrs. W. B. Cole, welfare department director. Appearing with Mrs. Cole wa? Paul Butler of Southern Pines, chairman of the welfare board. Mr. Allen told the commission ers that in last week’s hail storms that hit in the Bensalem and Glendon communities, some 150 acres of crops had been affected, though most of the damage was light,, except in a small section of the Bensalem community. (More news about the com missioners' meeting on page 8.)
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