■> VOL. 41—NO. 39 EIGHTEEN PAGES l l AT BALL PARK SITE— Grading has been completed at the Morganton Road site for a proposed official Little League ‘ baseball park. The area was leased from the town. In this photo, Dr. W. F. Hollister (left), chairman of the board of directors of the Southern Pines Little League, and Joel Stutts, chairman of the park committee which will supervise the work, look over progress during the grading. These bulldozers were two of several pieces of heavy equipment used in the work, with their services fully or partially donated by W. O. Moss, John Goldsmith and W. H. Frantz, Jr. Fuel for the machines was donated by Eugene McKenzie and Chris Shamburger. Other members of the park committee are Shirley Wooster, Jr., Woodrow McDonald, John Crowell and Joe Kimball. The National Guard armory appears in the background of the scene, across Morgan ton Road. (Humphrey photo) County Schools Will Open August 31; New Schedule Helps Teachers Prepare Stlirl.P'nfiC Tn +lio cr*>«r\/-vlc C + -i* tnj Students in the schools of the Moore County system will regist er on August 30 and will begin their classes the next day, August the State Board of Education to request the two additional days as a part of its progreim in 1961. This fall, Supt. Lee explained. Qi .i 1 XI ■ -I AlAla XdJ.1, OLX^t. 0X{)ldin0Q. 31, It was announced this week i children will receive books, begin by the superintendent of the, to study and be assigned home- r'mintv cr'nnrvi c-\rcf<am T? W. T.o/a ^ county school system, R. E. Lee. The county schools include all the schools in Moore Cbunty ex cept those in the separately organized Southern Pines and Pinehurst districts. Teachers in the county schools will start their 1961-’62 school year on August 28. Principals will begin their duties on August 17. Unofficially, Mr. Lee said, “principals must work virtually 12 months in planning, handling transcripts and interviewing prospective teach ers.” “The teachers,” said Mr. Lee, “will work a total of five non teaching days—three days before the term and two days next spring —in planning, evaluating and gearing the schools for teaching.” The superintendent pointed out that two additional days of ex tended term were provided by the 1961 General Assembly as part of the improved educational program. “These non-teaching days will insure 180 days of teaching and will make for an orderly opening and closing of schools,” Supt. Lee said. The extended term was first granted by the 1959 General As sembly, which provided three days. The marked improvement in school procedure which result ed as a result of the action led Theatre-in-Pines Meetings Slated workshop session of the Theater-in-the-Pines is sched uled for 8 p. m. Friday in the basement of tjie Batnum Realty and Insurance Co. offices, it was announced today. Tom Connolly of Pinehurst will be in charge of the session in which members of the group will practice reading lines. Another similar workshop is planned for the same place and time on Friday night of next week, August 25. Also announced today is a gen eral meeting of the local commu nity theatre group at 8 p. m. Tuesday, August 22, in the court room at the municipal center. All interested persons are in vited to attend any of the meet ings. I work on the first day of school. “No Ipnger is it necessary to spend precious time in getting organized, as was the case before 1959,” he said. Teachers Named For Schools of West Side Here A full faculty has been employ ed for the West Southern Pines schools, including one additional teacher authorized under the new “quality education” program, Supt. Luther A. Adams, has an nounced. H. A. Wilson is contin uing as principal at West South ern Pines. The East Southern Pines facul ty, also with one additional teach er, was announced last week. All local schools will open Sep tember 5. Six new teachers are included in the West side list, Mr. Adams said. Miss Ledella Moore of Wilming ton, with a B. S. degree from Fayetteville State Teachers Col lege in Mrs. John Frye In State Post Mrs. John L. Frye of Robbins was appointed yesterday by Gov. Terry Sanford to a six-year term on the State Board of Corrections and Training. Mrs. Frye, wife of a Robbins merchant, has long been active in civic and political affairs in Moore County. She is a former member of the county board of public welfare and was co-mana ger with John D. McConnell of Gov. Sanford’s primary and elec tion campaigns in Moore last year. The county now has two m.3m- bers on the Corrections and Training Board. T. Clyde Auman of West End has been a member of the board since 1951. He was appointed to his second six-year term by Gov. Lutbsr H. Hodges in 1957. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1961 Catholic Laymen Schedule Meeting Here in October St. Anthony’s Catholic parish is preparing for the biggest job of its 65-year history, the hosting of the annual convention of the North Carolina Catholic Laymen’s association Saturday and Sunday, October 7 and 8. Laymen throughout the State are expected to attend, also about 250 clergy and Sisters, including several bishops. A distinguishing feature will be the visit of the Apostolic Dele gate, the Most Rev. Egidio Vag- nozzi, D. D., papal representative in the United States, with resi dence in Washington. He will conduct the Pontifical Mass which will climax the convention at noon Sunday. St. Anthony’s church is far too small to accommodate the crowd that is expected for the mass, and arrangements have been made to hold it at the National Guard Ar mory. Workshops will be held Satur day morning and afternoon at St Anthony’s school. Place of the Saturday night banquet has not yet been determined. There will be a nationally prominent speak er. Martin Niessner was chosen general chairman for the conven tion at a parish meeting held at the school Monday night. Also named were chairmen and co- chairmen of the convention com mittees, with some of the com mittee m.3mbers. Membership of the committees will be enlarged as needed, and it is anticipated that every member of the parish will be called on to serve in some (Continued on Page 5) EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS t Intangibles Tax Allotments Made Moore County is receiving $128,873 as the county’s share of the state’s tax on intangible per sonal property. In the distribution to munici palities over the state. Southern Pines is receiving $17,721. The entire intangibles tax, less administrative expenses, is re turned by the state by the state to counties and cities where it was collected, elementary education, , The tax, due last April 15, was , 1— 4.—u;__ levied on bank accounts, stocks. $385 Taken From Local Moose Lodge A robbery at the Moose Lodge, just south of town on the old No. 1 highway, is being investigated by the county sheriff’s depart ment. Chief Deputy H. H. Grimm said that entry to the building was made through an unlatched win dow in the men’s room sometime between midnight Sunday, when the club closed, and 8 a. m. Mon day. The sum of $385 was missing, taken from a cash register which had been placed out of sight un der a shelf, including about $100 in silver and the balance in bills. career grade Mrs. Busbee Injured In Fall at Her Home Mrs. Juliana Busbee is a pa tient at St. Joseph’s Hospital where she is receiving treatment for bruises of her left shoulder received in a fall on the porch steps of her home at Jugtown in steps of her home at Jugtown in upper Moore County. will begin her teaching here this year as third teacher. Mrs. Mable P. McLean, who took her B. S. degre at Johnson C. Smith University, and M. A. degree at Howard University, Washington, D. C., will teach the fourth grade. Mrs. McLean has had experience as teacher of ele mentary education at Barber-Sco- tia College and Johnson C. Smith University, demonstration teacher at Maryland State Teachers Col lege, and grammar grade teacher in the public schools of Norwood and Candor. Shs is a native of Carthage. Mrs. Martha W. Rodgers of Greenville will teach high school English. She has a B. S. degree from Barber-Scotia College in Concord, and two years of experi ence as teacher of English at the Artesia High School, Hallsboro. Guion C. Davis of Rocky Mount will teach high school science and assist with coaching. He is a 1960 graduate of North Carolina (Continued on Page 8) SCHOOL REPORTER NEEDED Any East-Southern Pines High School student interested in writing school news, including sports, for The Pilot during the coming year is asked to apply at The Pilot office Friday or Mon day morning. Payment for school news is made at the regular rate for Pilot correspondents. Charles Rose, school reporter for. the past year, graduated from high school this year. bonds and other intangible per sonal property. NO LOCAL COURT No session of the regular week ly Southern Pines Recorder’s Court was held yesterday because of this week’s term of Moore County Superior Court at Carth age. It is custonftiry not to hold the Recorder’s Court when Su- Paving Begins on W. Broad Street Paving of W. Broad St. began this week at the south end of the street, Shaw House corner. Com pletion is expected in about five days from start of the work. The Hanover Co. of Wilming ton is doing the work under state contract. Town Manager Bud Rainey said that some inconvenience to citi zens is expected as sections of the street are blocked off to facilitate the work. The job includes r-ssurfacing the entire length of the street, north to Vermont Ave., and pav perior Court is in session because the presence of officers and at- torneys is frequently required in ling of the'wideneV portion "^at^ the Carthage on the local court day.' south end. MOORE SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION ROBERT S. EWING Ewing Sworn in Today as Member Of State Board Robert S. Ewing of Southern Pines was sworn in today at Ra leigh as a member of the State Board of Elections.. His appointment to the board was made by Gov.- Terry Sanford Friday. Mr. Ewing was one of two Re publicans named to the five-man body. Dan S. Judd, Asheville businessman, was the other. Two Democrats who also re ceived appointments to the board from Gov. Sanford Friday were Warren Williams of Sanford and David McConnell of Charlotte, both attorneys. Mr. McConnell is a cousin of Judge John D. Mc Connell of Southern Pines, who was recently appointed a Superi or Court judge by the Governor. The fifth member of the board is Joe Zaytoun of New Bern, a Democrat, who had been pre viously appointed. The board was swprn in today at the Capitol and was also to elect a chairman. Mr. Ewing said yesterday that his wife, Mrs. Anne Ewing, and five of his six daughters would accompany him fo Raleigh for the ceremony. In appointing Mr. Ewing and Mr. Judd, Governor Sanford fol lowed the recommendations of Republican leaders, drawing praise from State GOP Chairman W. E. Cobb of Morganton. Mr. Ewing has has been promi nent for several years in county and state Republican affairs. He is a former chairman of the coun ty GOP executive committee and former State party treasurer, and has been a candidate for the Gen eral Assembly from Moore Coun ty. He is a former mayor of South ern Pines and resigned yesterday as a member of the town council, to accept the State post, because of the regulation agaiijst double office holding. He came to Southern Pines in 1955 as an Amerotron executive. He resigned July 1 as vice presi dent in charge of sales, of Trim ble Products, Inc., local manufac turing firm, continuing as pub lisher of the Moore County News, weekly newspaper published at Carthage and the Pinehurst Out look, also a weekly paper. Within the past month Mr. and Mrs. Ewing opened the Village Printers, a job printing plant, in Pinehurst. Pollard Named to Fill Town Council Vacancy In a special meeting at town hall yesterday afternoon, the town council accepted with regret the resignation of Robert S. Ewing as a council member and appoint ed Fred B. Pollard to fill his un expired term. The term runs to May, 1963. Present were Mayor John S. Ruggles and Councilmen Felton Capel, Morris Johnson and Ewing. Councilman J. D. Hobbs was un able to attend. Mr. Pollard was a candidate for the town council in last May’s municipal primary and election. Mr. Ewing resigned because of his appointment as a member of the State Board of Elections. His letter of resignation to Mayor Ruggles was read to the council by Mrs. Mildred McDonald, clerk to the board, at yesterday’s meet ing. All the councilmen praised Mr. Ewing’s service as mayor (1959- 61) and councilman and the re tiring member expressed his ap preciation for their comments. The vote on appoiiltment of Mr. Pollard was unanimous. No other name was placed in nomination. A resident of Southern Pines since January, 1956, when he moved here from Anderson, S. C., Mr. Pollard lives at 205 Highland Rd. A native of Greenville, S. C., Mr. Pollard has a B. S. degree in tex tile engineering from Clemson (College and has been in the tex tile business for many years. For the past eight years he has been with Amerotron Company in the Yarn Procurement Department will have many inexperienced and has his office at the Amero-lboys, with a crop of 20 freshmen tron headquarters building at scheduled for Coach Williams’s junior-varsity team. This is a re- FRED B. POLLARD 20 Boys Out For Football; Others Expected Report By CHARLES ROSE Head Coach Bill Megginson and Assistant Coach John Wil liams have announced that 20 boys are out for pre-season prac tice for the Blue Knights football team. Megginson said that some of the lettermen will report for practice early next week as sev eral are still on vacation. This year, as last, the Big Blue will hav.3 Aberdeen. Before going with Amerotron, he worked lor the Tennessee Eastman Co. of Kingsport, Tenn., serving there as department su pervisor, and at Providence, R. I., in textile yarn sales. Mr. Pollard served four years in the Army Ordnance Depart ment during World War II and is a major in the U. S. Army retired reserves. He is a member of the South ern Pines Methodist Church and has been chairman of its finance committee for the past four years turn to the old tradition of large squads for the Southern Pines Knight teams. Formerly the Knights won'many conference titles and the State six-man title. After the switch to 11-man foot; ball in 1958, the local team be came State runners-up in 1959. With the season about three weeks away, the schedule will open with Laurinburg on Sept. 8 hens. Last year the two teams battled to a scoreless tie. The other games of the schedule are: Sept. 15 Seventy-First, home; TT -j 10 oevemy-Dirst, nome; mLT UlMield, there) Sept! Men’s Club and served three years as church treasurer. 29, St. Pauls, home; Red l^prings, there, on October 6. In the second A "u J! 1.1. nit i_ J oil \../cioD0r o. ill iii0 second A member of the Elks Club and,i,„,f • -ce • u “ “e season it IS Fairmont Sandhills Kiwanis Club, he serves on a Boy Scout troop committee and was president of the Invest- ; ment Club of Southern Pines. For two years he headed the South ern Pines Easter Seals committee of the Moore County Society for (Continued on Page 8) there on Oct. 16; Rohanen on Oct. 20, the Homecoming; Aberdeen, there, on Oct. 27; Hope Mills on November 3, there; and Carthage Nov. 10, at home. Local Man Gets Prison Term for Robbery C. L. Frye Joins Police Department; Bridges Resigns Willie Frank Wright, Jr., 25-1 her year-old West Southern Pines' Negro, drew the stiffest sentence of the current criminal term of Moore County Superior Court at Carthage when on Tuesday Judge J. William Copeland sent him to prison for five to seven years Wright, who had appealed from the guilty verdict in the break ing, entering and larceny case in Southern Pines Recorder’s Court, pleaded guilty in superior court to breaking into Wedge Inn, a Midland Road restaurant, and stealing an estimated $40 worth of beef, ham and pork. In another West Southern Pines case, Grace King McArthur, an old hand at the whiskey-selling game, was handed a 12-months’ sentence, suspended for three years, when the State accepted plea of possession of illicit v/hiskey but not for sals. A con dition of the suspension was that the defendant permit law en forcement officers to search her place at any time, without a search warrant. 'Be More Careful' Britt Page, 40-y.3ar-old tenant farmer of Cameron, Route 2, Tuesday received an 18-months suspended sentence for felonious assault, along with a word of ad vice from Judge Copeland to “be more careful about shooting pso- ple in future.” ' It was just luck, the judge re minded Page, that Carl West, 71- year-old victim of the shootjng, wasn’t dead. Instead, testified the husky West, who walks with a cane, tl;ie three ■ bullets fired point-blank at close range made only flesh wounds in his thigh, chest and back, the one creasing his chest also fracturing some ribs. Page had pleaded guilty to as sault with deadly weapon with intent to kill his elderly neigh bor. The shooting took place March 17 at Page’s home in Little River township. West said he had no idea why, that he and Page “had had words” a week or so before but “Page came over and rnade up, and invited me back to his place. He never said anything before the shooting.” With, three bullet wounds in him. West had to hobble a half mile to get help. Judge Copeland suspended Page’s sentence for three years on condition he pay costs and a total of $289 to the Clerk of Court (Continued on page 5) i Coy Lee Frye, native of Pine hurst and a veteran of Air Force service, has been employed as a patrolman in the Southern Pines police department, it is aimounced by Police Chief Earl Seawell. . He replaces Odis C. Bridges who resigned after two years on the police force to join the sheriff’s department of Anson County. - A graduate of Pinehurst High School, Mr. Frye, who is 27, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Frye. His father is assistant police chief at Pinehurst. The new officer is married to the former Ruth Williams of Man ly. They have a son, James Clyde, 17 months old. Mrs. Frye is employed at the local Carolina Power & Light Co. office. Mr. and Mrs. Frye are members of Beulah Hill Baptist Church near Pinehurst. He is vice presi dent of his Sunday School class and his wife is assistant secretary and treasurer of the Sunday School. They are now living at Aberdeen but plan to move to Southern Pines. Immediately before becoming an officer here, Mr. Frye was employed by Crucedale Cleaners at Aberdeen. He, had previously been with the Pinehurst Laundry for several years, with time out for , nearly four years of service as an Air Force aircraft mechanic, 195^-’59, and has also worked with the Colonial Stores in Sou thern Pines. Wesi Side Practice to ; Begin Next Wednesday I Joe Wynn, athletic director, and I Guion C. Davis, football coach, at West Southern Pines High School have announced that the 1961 football practice will begin Wednesday, August 23. All eligible boys who are inte rested in trying out for the team are asked to meet in the gym nasium Tuesday, August 22 at 6 p. m. This meeting is to organize a practice schedule and take physical examinations. Mrs. Underwood Now Deputy Court Clerk Mrs. Elizabeth Welch Under wood of Carthage has been nam ed deputy clerk of Moore Coun ty Superior Court, by Clerk of Court C. C. Kennedy. She fills a vacancy created by the recent resignation of Mrs. Rachel Comer, assistant clerk, to enter private business. Mrs. Underwood is a graduate of Pinehurst High School and Kings Business College and was formerly employed at the Paul Dana accounting office in Pine hurst. She is the wife of Charles Underwood of Carthage. SPEEDING CHECKED Local police have had the town’s speed watch out at various locations this week, cracking down on speeding on streets. Po lice Chief Earl Seawell warned that with the opening of school there will be a grater hazard to children from speeders. The cur rent crackdown is a reminder that speeding on town streets will not be tolerated.

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