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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.)