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with tent, station wagon or
trailer is fun! Story on page 15
tells how to get information
about camp sites in state.
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America
can be made and kept “the
beautiful” if enough of us care
and work to that end. See
article on editorial page.
VOL. 41—NO. 35
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
Hundredis Attend Peach Festival, See
Wadesboro Girl Win Title of Queen
Jean Brower of Wadesboro'^’
was crowned Sandhills Peach
Queen at the Peach Festival held
last night in Ellerbe.
A crowd of some 400 persons in
the Ellerbe school auditorium saw
the contest in which, two girls
from each of the five Sandhills
peach-growing counties took part
—Moore, Lee, Richmond, Mont
gomery and Anson.
Miss Brower was one of the
entries from Anson.
Earlier, about 500 persons ate
barbecued chicken and peach ice
cream in the school cafeteria.
The day’s program sponsored
jointly by the North Carolina
Mutual Peach Growers Associa
tion and the Sandhills Area De
velopment Association, included
an afternoon tour of places of in
terest in the Richmond-Mont-
gomery County area. About 80
businessmen, industrialists and
farmers went on the tour, riding
in a bus and 15 private automo
biles.
The group visited the big plant I
of the Norman Lumber Co., the I
State Peach Research Station at,
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Windblow; the packing facilities
at North State Orchards, where
10,000 bushels of peaches per day
kre processed; and the Town
Creek Indian Mound where the
State has restored the stockade
and buildings of an ancient In
dian village.
Having parts on the evening
program were Joe Comer, mayor
of Ellerbe; Mayor J. C. Liles of
Hamlet; and two chairmen of
boards of county commissioners.
Bud Rummage of Richmond and
R. B. Jordan of Montgomery.
It had been announced that
Congressman A. Paul Kitchen of
Wadesboro was scheduled to
speak, but he was not able to be
present.
PEACHES SENT
TO ASTRONAUT
Everybody agrees that top
grade Sandhills peaches are
"out of this world" for eating
—but some of them may lit
erally go out of this world
Friday morning—inside As
tronaut Virgil Grissom.
A peach grower, reading
that Grissom called for
peaches before one of his can
celled rocket shoots into space
this week, sent him a bushel
of the finest Sandhills peach
es, expecting the fruit to
reach him before he takes
off Friday—the latest sche
duled time for the flight.
Shipment of the peaches
was announced last night to
the crowd of some 400 per
sons attending the Peach
Queen beauty contest at Ell
erbe High School.
Mrs. Vanore Now
On Welfare Board
Mrs. Andrew A. Vanore has
been appointed as third member
of the Moore County Board of
Public Welfare by the other two
members of the board: Paul C.
Butler, chairman, of Southern
Pines, and Mr. Joe H. Allen of
Carthage. She attended her first
meeting and was sworn in as a
member of the board at the re
gular monthly meeting Tuesday.
Mrs. Vanore, wife of a Robbins
physician will represent Rob
bins, Highfalls, Westmoore, Eagle
Springs, and Carthage, Route 1
sections of the County. She has
been active in her community in
civic organizations and has co
operated with Moore County Wel
fare Department on many occas
ions through her contacts with
clubs and other means, said Mrs.
Walter B. Cole, county welfare
superintendent. Mrs. Vanore will
serve for three years and can
be re-elected for three consecutive
years.
Mrs. John L. Frye who resign
ed July 1, was the former mem
ber of the board from Robbins.
Her work with the boaid was
praised by' the other' board
members and Mrs. Cole.
PENNY STUTTS, 17-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. N. Stutts, of near Pine-
hurst, was chosen to be one
of Moore County’s two candi
dates for Peach Queen at the
Peach Festival held at Eller
be Wednesday night. Black
haired, blue - eyed Penny,
daughter of a peach grower,
is a rising junior at Pinehurst
High school. The other Moore
candidate was Clara Cole, 16,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Cole of Eagle
Springs, a rising sophomore
at West End High school.
(V. Nicholson photo)
OPEN HOUSE
Open house will be held from
2 to 8 p.m.' Saturday and 2 to 6
p.m. Sunday at a new “Medallion
Home’’ in the Sandavis Develop
ment, on Crestview Road at in
tersection of Saylor St. See de
tails on pages 9, 10 and 11.
Former Resident
Here Helps Save
2 From Drowning
Virgil Clark witnessed the
near-drowning of two children
June 29 in Pisgah National For
est,' and saw *his step-daughter
and a friend form a human chain
to rescue the six-year-old girl and
her young brother.
The Southern Pines man was
spending two weeks helping his
step-daughter. Miss Nancy
Wrenn, formerly of Southern
Pines, and Miss Ruth White open
Camp Awa-Niko, of which they
are co-owners and directors.
On the 29th, Mr. Clark had
driven the two camp directors,
and a group of girls from Awa-
Niko, located near Swannanoa, io
Pisgah National Forest for a
day’s outing.
The girls had been playing on
“sliding rock,’’ a natural falls
formed by water pouring down
over a rock about 100 feet long,
with a deep pool at the base of
th.e falls. The party from Camp
Awa-Niko was out of the water
and preparing to leave, when a
woman and her two small chil
dren. visiting the National Forest
from Charleston, S. C., appeared
and walked over to the rock slide.
The little girl slipped and fell
into the pool and her brother
went in after her. §oth were un
able to swim and the girl grab
bed her brother around the neck
as she started to sink, pulling him
down.
Tho mother started to scream,
whereupon Miss Wrenn and Miss
White ran together to the pool,
covering the 50-foot distance in
short order. Both waded into the
pool and Nancy took Ruth’s hand
and reaching down, was able to
get hold of the children and
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McConnell Takes
Oath as Judge of
Superior Court
A gathering'of some 75 persons
in the State Senate Chamber at
Raleigh Monday saw John D. Mc
Connell, Southern Pines attor
ney, sworn in as a Superior Court
Judge. The oath was administer
ed by Associate Justice E. B.
Denny of the State Supreme
Court.
Members of Mr, McConnell’s
family attending the ceremony
from Southern Pines were his
wife, Mrs. Margaret McConnell,
his older son, John, Jr., and two
daughters, Molly and Liza. His
younger son, Robert, is working
at Spring Lake, N. J., this sum
mer and could not attend.
Gov. Terry Sanford, who made
the appointment of the local man,
was present. He said he regarded
the appointment as “one of the
best I’ve had the privilege to
make. His record will be one of
which this administration and
his friends will be proud.”
Several members of the Moore
County bar, county officials and
other friends, some with their
wives, were in Raleigh for the
occasion. They included: From
Southern Pines—Mr. and Mrs.
Lament Brown, R. F. Hoke Pol
lock 2md Morris Johnson; from
Aberdeen—Mr. and Mrs. Robert
N. Page III, Lawrence McN.
Johnson; from Pinebluff, Doug
las David, county tax collector;
from Carthage—Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. Sabiston, Sheriff W- B. Kelly,
Chief Deputy Sheriff H. H.
Grimm and Clerk of Court Carl
ton Kennedy; from Robbins—Mr.
and Mrs. John L. Frye; from
Highfalls—DeWitt Purvis of the
county tax office.
Mrs. Frye, of Robbins, and Mr.
McConnell were Moore Coimty
ico-managers of Governor San
ford’s primary and election cam
paigns last year.
After the ceremony, the Moore
County delegation gathered for
a luncheon at which the McCon
nells were guests and the others
went dutch-treat.
Mr. McConnell is one of four
special judges named by Gover
nor Sanford, all appointed for
two-year terms. The others are
J. William Copeland of Murfrees
boro, H. L. Riddle, Jr., of Mor-
(Continued on page 8)
NOMINATION OF
GILMORE MADE
President Kennedy's nomi
nation of Voit Gilmore as
director of the new United
States Travel Service—which
has been awaited for the past
three weeks—i-was made Tues
day, subject to confirmation
by the Senate.
Actually. Mr. Gilmore has
been at work in Washington
as a Commerce Department
consultant for the past six
weeks, setting up the new
agency which will have six
offices in foreign nations, to
encourage travel to the Unit
ed States.
Mr. Gilmore and his family
expect to keep their home in
Southern Pines. Mrs. Gilmore
and their four children are
now on a trip to the West
Coast. Mr. Gilmore-was here
Saturday, spent the week-end
at Morehead City and return
ed to Washington to receive
Mr. Kennedy's appointment.
Rooms Are Needed for
Young Tennis Players
Rooms in private homes to
accommodate boys and girls who
will be here playing in the
Sandhills Junior Invitational Ten
nis tournament, August 3-6, are
wanted, chairman of the tourna
ment committee George H.
Leonard, Jr., noted this week.
Anyone who has room to spare,
and would like to put up one
or more tourney contestants, is
asked to call Mr. Leonard or
Walter G. Harper.
GUARD TO DISPLAY
FACILITIES SUNDAY
Moore County's National
Guard Company will hold an
open house and "kiddies' day"
at the armory on Morganton
Road Sunday from 1 to 3
p. m.
Lt. Ralph Horner of Pine
hurst, company commander,
said that rides will be given
children in the unit's tanks
and that other equipment will
be displayed and explained.
A regular all-day drill is '
scheduled for Sunday. Added
public interest in the open
house is expected in view of
current discussion in Wash
ington of possibility of mobi
lization of some National
Guard units.
County Education
Board Sees Plans
For School Plant
Plans for Moore County’s first
new consolidated high school
were displayed to the county
board of education Tuesday by
Architect T. T. Hayes, Jr., of
Southern Pines, partner in Hayes,
Howell and Associates.
It was the first time the board
had seen- complete plans for the
school plan-t which includes class
rooms, cafeteria, kitchen, indus
trial arts shop, agriculture shop,
music department, language and
science laboratories and other fa
cilities. The buildings of the plant
are linked together, with court
yards between them.
Mr. Hayes estimat-3d that the
school would cost $1,150,000.
The board took no action on
the plans. R. E. Lee, county
schools superintendent, said that
he would discuss the plans with
other school officials and teach
ers, for their reactions and sug
gestions.
The new school would be lo
cated in the Union Church area,
between Carthage and Vass, and
would serve the present Carth
age, Vass-Lakeview, Cameron
and Farm Life districts.
The county tax rate was raised
from $1.35 to $1.70 per $100 of
valuation for this year’s taxes, to
help finance construction of the
school.
Also on Tuesday, the board of
education opened bids on a physi
cal education building for the
Vass-Lakeview school.
Bids for the general contract
and for heating and electrical
work were received, but there was
no bid for plumbing. The board
withheld action on any of the
bids, until the plumbing bids are
r-3ceived.
DANCE TONIGHT
The Jaycees will stage their
outdoor square dance at the A
& P store parking lot tonight
(Thursday), weather permitting,
open to the public. Nick Crotty
I of Pinehurst will call the
I figures.
Several Persons
Slightly Injured
In 2 Collisions
Several persons received minor
injuries in automobile collisions
taking plac6 at two intersections
in this area yesterday morning.
The first collision occurred at
8:55 a. m. at the intersection of
Pee Dee Road and Midland Road,
at the Southern Pines city limits,
when‘a 1959 Oldsmobile station
wagon driven by Mrs. Arthelia
Hollister, 46 collided with a
1955 Pontiac convertible driven
by Miss Delores Cameron, 19.
Sgt. L. D. Beck of the Southern
Pines police department, who in
vestigated, said that Mrs. Hollis
ter was turning left into P-ae Dee-
Road, from the eastbound lane
of Midland Road, across the west
bound lane of Midland Road,
when ■ the collision took place.
Miss Cam.aron, who is employed
as a clerk in the business office at
the Pinehurst Surgical Clinic, was
driving west on Midland Road.
Sgt. Beck said that Mrs. Hol
lister would be charged with fail
ing to yield right of way. The
Hollister automobile, registered
in the name of Dr. W. F. Hollis
ter, of Midland Road, Mrs. Hollis
ter’s husband, sustained damage
estimated at $900. The car driven
by Miss Cameron was registered
in the name of D. Emerson Cam
eron, the police report showed.
Damage to this car was estimated
at $350.
Miss Cameron was riding alone.
She was taken to St. Joseph of
the Pines Hospital and was treat
ed for a bruise on the head, skin
ned knees and side injuries. She
was released after treatment.
Mrs. Hollister and two children
who were passengers with her
were shaken up but not injured,
despite the severity of the dam-
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Revaluation of Moore
Property Progressing
MacDougall to Be
Director of New
Home For Aging
John L. MacDougall has been
named managing'director for the
Episcopal Home for the Aging to
be built here. He will arrive in
Southern Pines July 30 and open
an office here, from which he
will supervise planning for and
construction of the Home.
“Work on the $600,000 initial
unit of the Home is scheduled to
begin in the early fall at a site
on the 'Weymouth estate east of
N. Ridge St.
Mr. MacDougall comes to Sou
thern Pines from Morris Plains,
N. J., where he has been manager
of an institution similar to the
one to be built here. His wife
will accompany him to Southern
Pines and they will make their
home here. They have three
grown and married children.
A past president of the Morris
Plains Rotary Club, Mr. Mac
Dougall is an Episcopalian and
an active Mason. He recently
directed a half-million-dollar
campaign to build a YMCA in
Morris Plains.
Local announcement of the ap
pointment was made by the Rev.
Martin Caldwell, rector of Em-
Imanuel Episcopal Church.
JOHN A, LANG. JR.
Lang Appointed
Assistant to Air
Force Secretary
Air Force Secretary Eugene M.
Zucker this week announced the
appointment of John A. Lang,
Jr., of Carthage, as deputy assist
ant for Air Force Reserves and
National Guard.
Mr. Lang, who has served as a
Congressional assistant for the
past 15 years, will advise the Air
Force Secretary on the training
and readiness of Air Force Re
serve and National Guard com
ponents and the ROTC program.
A graduate of the University
of North Carolina, Mr. Lang serv
ed as assistant to the director of
CCC camp education, U. S. Of
fice of Education, and as state ad
ministrator of the National Youth
Administration in North Caro
lina, just prior to World War II.
Mr. Lang volunteered as a pri
vate in the Army Air Force in
World War II and now holds the
grade of Colonel in the Air Force
reserves.
In 1947, Mr. Lang returned to
Washington as secretary to Con
gressman C. B. Deans of North
Carolina’s 8th District which in
cludes Moore County. Subse
quently, he served on the House
Government Operations Commit
tee staff and as administrative as
sistant to Congressman Robert E.
Jones of Alabama.
Mr. Lang has served as presi
dent of the Congressional Secre
taries Club and as president of
the North Carolina Society of
Washington, D. C.
He is married to the former
Catherine Gibson of Gibson. They
have four children.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of the
past week were recorded as
follows at the U., S. Weather
Bureau observation station at the
WEEB .radio studios on Midland
Road:
Max.
Min.
July 13
90
68
July 14
91
69
July 15
93
69
July 16
92
67
July 17
. 92 .
70
July 18
89
68
July 19
85
69
ALL WAS QUIET ON THE CRIME FRONT BUT THEN
^Everything Busted Loose In Moore County
During June and up through
the first week in July, reporters
checking the sheriff’s department
at Carthage received an unusual
ly consistent answer: no news.
Then, as Sheriff W. B. Kelly
put it this week, things “busted
loose.” Thefts, break-ins, a stab
bing and the slugging of a deputy
were all listed on the sheriff’s
records Monday.
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
police, also the SBI and Seaboard
Railroad police were all active
this week in investigations of va
rious incidents around the county,
w'orking with the sheriff’s depart
ment.
Just to round out the picture,
ABC officers raided an illicit
still last week and arrested two
men, one of them an old offender
who was released from prison
only a few months ago, after ser
ving a term for illegal manufac
ture of whiskey in Moore County.
(See a separate story on the still
raid.)
Here’s a round-up of activity
on the crime front around the
county:
Larceny Charge
Willie Frank Wright, Jr., 25, of
West Southern Pines was ordered
held for grand jury action, in a
hearing at Southern Pines Re
corder’s Court yesterday.
Judge W. Harry Fullenwider
found probable cause against
Wright on charges of felonious
breaking and entering and lar
ceny. Wright could not meet the
$1,000 bond which was set and
was taken to jail at Carthage yes
terday afternoon.
In a hearing, he pleaded guilty
to entering Wedge Inn on Mid
land Road last week. A quantity
of meat valued at about $100 was
taken, along with cash from a
juke box and a cigarette machine.
Officers think another man was
involved in the break-in.
Southern Pines police, under
direction of Chief Earl Seawell,
cooperated with County Sheriff
break'-ins.
Deputy Slugged
William Henry Goldston, Bis-
coe Negro, was charged Monday
W. B. Kelly’s department in in- with public drunkenness, carry-
vestigation of the break-in at
Wedge Inn.
Chief Deputy Sheriff H. H.
Grimm said this week that a war
rant is out for another man in
connection with last week’s
break-ins which included entries
of the Pinehurst Country Club
and the drink stand of Artemus
McCrae near the No. 1 golf course
at Pinehurst. Moore’s Service
Station near Southern Pines was
also entered last week.
Deputy Grimm said that a .22
calibre rifle taken at the drink
stand, along with merchandise
taken at other locations, had
been recovered.
An agent of the State Bureau of
Investigation and Pinehurst po
lice are also working on the
ing a concealed weapon, resisting
arrest and assaulting an officer,
in connection with an attack on
Deputy Sheriff I. D. Marley of
Robbins, about 9:30 a. m. Monday
morning.
The deputy reported that hg
was called to Chappell’s pack
house near Eagle Springs, after
a complaint that Goldston was in
an automobile, drunk, nearby.
After the man had been taken
from the car, and two ice picks
and a knife had been taken from
him, he struck the deputy with
his fist on the side of the head
and then ran, it was reported.
Deputy Marley gave chase, after
being dazed by the blow. Blood
hounds brought from the Car-
(Continued on page 8)
It might seem to be small po
tatoes making an appraisal of
Moore County real property for
tax equalization purposes after
having just finished doing the
same thing for the City of Dur
ham, but Frank Cooper doesn’t
feel that way about it. The ap
praisal, authorized by the county
commissioners is generally re
ferred to as a “revaluation.”
Mr. Cooper, of Associated Sur
veys, Inc., is about half way
■through the county survey and
says that every job of this sort
has its interesting pwints. And
perhaps, too, the fact that Moore
is now Mr. Cooper’s home county
adds extra incentive and interest
to the work.
Associated Surveys, Inc. is the
Greensboro firm of which Mr.
Cooper is a partner with William
Hester. The firni now has 12 of
their men working pn the Moore
County survey. They have com
pleted the appraisal field work
in Ritters, Deep River and
Greenwood townships and in
McNeill township outside of Sou
thern Pines, and have measured
and listed many of the commeri-
cal properties in Carthage and
Southern Pines, as well as the
industrial sites in the county. The
appraisers now working under
Mr. Cooper include men from
many parts of the state; only
local personnel employed in this
county operation are those acting
occasionally as guides to the
territory.
Mr. Cooper said that judging by
the way the work was going he
thought it would ba nossible to
complete the job for Moore
County by September, 1962. The
new values, then, would presum
ably go into effect for the year
1963. At the time the survey was
started an office in the basement
of the courthouse was turned
over to the appraisers and here
is wthere the. important paper
work goes on.
“The work has proceeded most
pleasantly,” Mr., Cooper said.
“The hundreds of property own
ers in Moore County, whom the
appraisers have already talked to
while making an inspection of
their property, have shown a
wonderful spirit of cooperation.
All necessary information regard
ing their property has been cour
teously given to our men. We
have had the same good coopera
tion from the commissioners and
county officials and feel well
satisfied with the progress of the
work.”
Mr. Cooper is now spending
most, of his time here on the local
work, living in his home, “Little
field,” on Indiana Avenue extens
ion. Until two weeks ago he was ,
obliged to spend most of every
week in Durham sitting with the
Board of Equalization, which is
always the final proceeding. The
Coopei; firm completed equaliza
tion appraisals of five counties in
the past year, holding such hear-
(Continued on page 8)
TREES BURNED BY
STREET MACHINE
Citizens who have felt a
wave of panic on noticing the
trees turned suddenly red
and brown along West Broad
Street may relax. Experts
agree—to the enormous re
lief of Town Manager Bud
Rainey, among others—that
only temporary damage heis
been done. The singed leaves
will drop off but there is no
reason to expect that healthy
new ones won't grow back in
their place.
"The branches may look
pretty mean in between."
says Bill Booker. State grad
uate nurseryman and town
consultant on shrubbery, "but
it won't harm the trees."
The "it" in question turns
out to have been neither a
strange coming of early fall,
a dose of insecticide spray,
nor atomic fall-out. 'What
seared the lower limbs was
the terrific heat generated by
the machine used in the
street work last week. In
order to melt the surface so
that a new surface could be
properly applied, it was nec
essary almost to set it afire.
The fumes, drifting up., shriv
elled the leaves like the pass
ing of a forest fire.