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VOL, 41—NO. 46
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961
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ACCIDENT SCENE—The motor grader that
left the road and overturned, killing Buster
Monroe of West Southern Pines, is seen at left
at bottom of the embankment down which it
rolled. Bystanders watch, at right. The camera
was faced south on No. 1 highway parkway.
Behind the people at right is the southbound
access road from W. Pennsylvania Ave. to the
parkway. It was on the access road that Monroe
apparently lost control of the machine.
(Pilot photo)
Truck Accident
In Pennsylvania
Kills Local Man
Jimmie D. Caddell, 25, was kill
ed in a truck accident near Dun-
cannon, Pa., Saturday morning.
He was a driver for Dewitt
Trucking Company, at EUerbe.
The State Police report from
Pennsylvania said the truck driv
en by Caddell plunged over a
75-foot embankment a mile south
of Duncannon.
Funeral services were held
Monu V at 2 p.m. at First Bap
tist Church, conducted by the
pastor, the Rev. Maynard Man-
gurr Burial was in Johnson
Gi ,ve Cemetery near Vass.
He attended Southern Pines
High School and served two years
in Korea. He lived with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cad
dell on Pinehurst Ave., South of
S'’ .them Pines.
Also surviving are two sisters,
Mrs. Billy Lee Greene of Platts-
b irg, N. Y., and Mrs. Troy Creed
•f Southern Pines; and three
brothers, J. C., of Melbourne,
Fla., and J. R. and Norman Jr. of
Southern Pines.
Buster Monroe, 32, Fatally Injured as
Motor Grader Runs Over Embankment
Cromwell Buster Monroe, 32, of
1040 W. Connecticut Ave. was
killed Monday afternoon after a
motor grader he was driving
went over an embankment bor=c
dering the No. 1 highway park
way, near the W. Pennsylvania
Ave. bridge and intersection, at
3:55 p. m.
According to the report of Po
lice Chief Earl Seawell, who in-
THE WEATHER
Maximum and nunimum tem
peratures for each day of the past
week were recorded as follows at
the U. S. Weather Bureau obser
vation station at the WEEB
studios on Midland Road.
Max Min
September 28 80 58
September 29 79 55
September 30 78 53
October 1 78 57
October 2 80 63
October 3 70 61
October 4 67 50
Bloodmobile Will
Visit Vass Monday
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
from the collection center at
Charlotte will be at the Vass-
Lakeview school from 12 noon to
5:30 p. m. Monday. Dr. R. J.
Dougherty, chairman, appealed
this week for blood donations
from residents of the area. Blood
collected at periodic visits to
Moore County enables the Char
lotte center to supply both hospi
tals in the county with all types
needed.
The quota is 125 pints, the same
as it was on its last visit here in
February, when 114 persons came
to give though only 93 were ac
cepted as donors. Though the to
tal fell short, it was the best par
ticipation of any Moore communi
ty during the past year.
“We are far behind in our debt
to the Bed Cross blood program,
and cannot continue forever be
ing on the receiving end,” said
Dr. Dougherty. “This means that
our hospitals must rely on other
counties and communities to help
fill our needs. The program is too
(Continued on page 8)
Lutheran Church Reaches 60 Members,
Enabling Pastor to Be Assigned Here
Having reached the required
membership of 60 adults. Our
Savior Lutheran Church of Sou
thern Pines is applying to the
North Carolina Lutheran Synod
for formal mission status, with
expectation that the application
will be approved at the Synod’s
December meeting.
Approval means that a regular
pastor could be assigned here by
the Lutheran American Missions
Board for further development of
the congregation. The Lutherans,
now holding services at the Civic
Club, have tentative plans for
acquiring land and building a
church.
It was also announced this week
that Dr. Albert D. Bell, who ser
ved the local congregation as
pastor during September, has
been 2issigned to other dutiies by
the president of the Synod, Dr.
F. L. Conrad of Salisbury, and
that the congregation is being
served temporarily by the Rev. J.
Schoenberg Stetzer, who is doing
gfaduate work at Duke Universi
ty, Durham, coming from there to
conduct , services here. He was
formerly pastor for three years
of the 600-member Union Luth
eran Church near Salisbury and
is a graduate of St. Olaf’s College
in Minnesota and of Lutheran
Southern Theological Seminai-y,
Columbia, S. C.
Later in October, an annoxmee-
ment ftom the local congregation
said. Dr. L. E. Blackwelder will
also serve the local church on a
temporary basis, until a pastor is
assigned by the American Miss
ions Board.
Dr. Blackwelder, now living at
Gastonia, is the retired superin
tendent of the Lowman Home for
the Aged at White Rock, S. C., a
Lutheran institution.
vestigated, Monroe was driving
the motor grader east on Pensyl-
vania Ave. and was turning south
into the access road to the No. 1
parkway when he apparently lost
control of the machine.
The police report said that the
motor grader came to rest on its
wheels 45 feet from the top of
the bank and 110 feet from the
point where it left the access
road. It turned over once, evi
dently throwing Monroe from the
driver’s seat and rolling over on
him, causing fatal head and in
ternal injuries. Damage to the
machine was estimated at $1,000.
The police report listed owner
of the machine as R. E. Finley
Co. of Raleigh, but Monroe was
employed by the Frantz Con
struction Co. of Southern Pines,
specialists in heavy equipment
work. He was reportedly taking
the motor grader to a job be
tween Southern Pines and Aber
deen, at the time of the acci
dent.
Monroe had worked for the
Town of Southern Pines for sev
eral years, as a heavy equipment
operator, before he left town em
ployment last year. Town Mana
ger F. F. Rainey said that he
had been a skilled and valued em
ployee when he worked for the
town.
(Continued on page 8)
County Acts Fast
To End ‘Mess’ in
Vital Statistics
(Other stories about Monday's
meeting of the county conunison-
ers, page 8.)
Action to bring up to state
standards the way by which
Moore County vital statistics are
secured and listed was taken by
the board of county commission
ers at their monthly meeting in
Carthage Monday. |
True to form, where health or
welfare is concerned, Moore
County has lagged behind in this
important and legally required
service, calling especially for pro
fessional and confidential hand
ling. The regulation passed Mon
day wiU result in the elimination
of all present amateur registrars,
the listing to be in charge of the
county Department of Public
Health.
The speedy action of the county
board was taken following the ap
pearance before it of Mrs. Ruth
Mebane of the vital statistics di
vision of the North Carolina De
partment of Public Health.
Mrs. Mebane described vividly
the shortcomings of the present
situation which, she said, “has
existed for years.” She told of
deaths and births not registered
until months after their occur
rence and of others improperly
registered and said that, judging
from the startling difference of
the records of Moore County as
compared with others of similar
population, it was only too evi
dent that a certain number of
these legally required statistics
had never been listed at aU.
(Continued on page 8)
Court of Honor
Set For Monday
Brownson Memorial Presbyte
rian Church here will be the scene
at 8 p. m. Monday for the October
Moore District Boy Scout court
of honor, with a large attendance
of Scouts and parents expected.
C. C. Thompson of Pinebluff,
district advancemeht chairman,
said that Eagle Scout rank will
be presented to Victor Grose of
Aberdeen’s Troop 68, son of Mr.
and Mrs. V. U- Grose of Aberdeen.
Moore District includes all
Scouting units in Moore County
and in the McCain community of
Hoke County.
Advertising Committee
Sets Monday Meeting
The town’s Advertising Com
mittee of which George Pottle is
chairman will meet for its first
session of the fall season at the
Information Center at 10 a. m.
Monday.
The committee, whose members
are named by the town council,
budgets the Town’s advertising
program, helps promote all local
resort facilities and activities and
solicits funds for the advertising
program and operation of the In
formation Center.
PLANT RYE GRASS,
URGES IX)C AL CLUB
"Plain i^e grass now for
town beauty throughout the
winter and spring!"
That's the message The Pi
lot is asked to convey this
week to local property own
ers from the Southern Pines
Garden Club.
The club, for many yeatrs
active in beautification of the
town in various ways, urges
people to plant all the rye
grass they can, especially on
parkways everywhere in
town.
Town crews have already
seeded the town hall block
and areas along the railroad
tracks. But it is up to private
property owners to help
beautify the rest of the town.
Garden Club members point
out.
"Please help!" says the
Garden Club.
Study Committee’s Report Covers
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Numerous Phases of School Here
'CONCLUSIVE IN MANY AREAS...'
Supt. Luther A. Adams, commenting on the report of the
Southern Pines School Study Group, said:
“The report is conclusive in many areas. It is in these areas'
that I will be immediately interested. The board of education,
the school staff and I will continue to study and evaluate the
conclusions of the report and wiU begin implementation of many
of the conclusions as soon as it seems practical.
“Perhaps the greatest value of a report such as this lies not
in its avowed purpose of studying the schools, but rather in the
knowledge and understanding of the problems of the schools
gained by the great number of lay people who participated in
the school study.”
Outstanding Church Figures, Speakers
To Take Part in Catholic Gathering
The annual convention of the
North Carolina Catholic Laymen’s
association is expected to bring
several hundred laity, clergy and
nuns from all over the State to
Southern Pines this weekend.
The program will consist of
workshops and talks Saturday at
St. Anthony’s Catholic school, a
banquet that night at the Mid
Pines and a Pontifical Mass to be
held at the National Guard Arm
ory Sunday at 11:30 a. m.
Presiding at the mass will be
the Apostolic Delegate, Most Rev.
Egidio Vagnozzi, D. D., papal rep
resentative to the U. S. This will
be the first official visit in his
tory of an Apostolic Delegate to
the State. The mass will be offer
ed by Bishop Vincent S. Waters
of the Diocese of Raleigh.
Three distinguished speakers
prominent in the history of the
times as well as in the Catholic
church will be heard Saturday at
events open to the public. These
will be Jose Ignacio Rivero, edi
tor of the oldest newspaper in the
Spanish-speaking world, the Dia-
rio de la Marina of Havana, Cuba,
License Offices
To Close 4 Days
Dlriver’s license examinati(<ns
will be suspended in Aberdeen
Monday and Tuesday of next
week and in Southern Pines Wed
nesday and Thursday, while D.
A. Clark, the examiner, is attend
ing a refresher course for license
examiners at the Institute of
Government in Chapel Hill.
Mr. Clark will' meet his regu
lar schedule at Pinehurst Friday
and will return to his usual
schedule in all three towns the
following week.
BARONESS VON TRAPP
now being published in exile in
Miami; Sister Miriam, a Domini
can teaching nun also exiled from
Cuba, who has been known dur
ing the past year as the “Angel of
Miami” for her work with the
refugees there; and the Baroness
Maria Augusta von Trapp, moth
er of the famous Trapp Family
Singers.
Editor Rivero and Sister Miri
am will speak at a general ses
sion in the school auditorium at
4:20 p. m.
The Baroness von Trapp, whose
life story is being celebrated in
the hit musical play, “The Sound
uf Music,” on Broadway, also in a
current film, “The Trapp Fam-
(Continued on page 8)
NO FIRE DAMAGE
Fire Chief Frank Kaylor re
ported, “Fire out on arrival, no
damage whatever,” after local
volunteers responded to an alarm
from the Saunders home at 1040
W. Illinois Ave. about 6:30 p. m.
Wed,nesday;. An overheated oil
stove was fhe cause of the alarm,
the chief said.
Ground Broken For Branch Office Of Bank
In a ceremony held Tuesday,
ground was broken for a branch
office of the Citizens Bank and
Trust Company, to be located on
the southwest corner of S. W.
Broad St. and Wisconsin Ave.
Construction of the building is
to begin immediately, an an
nouncement from the bank said,
with completion ^ntatively
scheduled for early in 1962.
Hayes, Howell and Associates of
Southern Pines are the architects.
The contractor is L. P. Cox and
Co. of Sanford.
The bank branch office will
have approximately 3,000 square
feet of floor space and will be of
modern brick and plate glass con
struction. It will feature a drive-
in window and will provide vault,
safe deposit box and other bank
ing facilities.
The building will be the first
drive-in-bank in Moore County..
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AT CEREMONY—^N. L. Hodgkins, president
of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company, wields
the shovel as ground was broken Tuesday, for
the bank’s new branch office on S. W. Broad
St. Watching, in the foreground with Mr. Hod
gkins, is Mayor John S. Ruggles. Attending
were directors and officers of the bank and
others. Left to right: R. F. Hoke Pollock, direc
tor; Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., executive vice
president; George Pottle, director; • George
Hodgkins, assistant cashier; E. Earl Hubbard,
vice president; Albert Cox of Sanford, repre
senting-L. P. Cox and Co., contractors; Dr. J.
I. Neal, director; and James D. Hobbs, director.
(Turner photo)
'The long-awaited report of the
Southern Pines School Study
Group has been delivered to the
Southern Pines city board of ed
ucation.
Formed in June, 1960, under the
chairmanship of Thomas R. How
erton, with Max G. Rush as vice-
chairman and Mrs. Joseph S.
Hiatt, Jr., as secretary, the group
planned:
1. To study the East Southern
Pines Schools.
2. To evaluate their education
program.
3. To report the committee’s
findings to the Southern Pines
city board of education.
The report covers seven fields
of study by committees:
1. High School curriculum and
extra-curricular activities, un
der the chairmanship of Dr. Har
rell W. Johnson and Mrs. O. Leon
Seymour. *
2. Elementary and Junior High
curriculum and extra-curricular
activities. Dr. C. C. McLean,
chairman.
3. Law, Finance and Taxes, un
der chairmanship of Charles Cole.
4. Parent-Teacher Association,
Mrs. R. M. McMillan, chairman.
5. Public Relations by the Rev.
Martin Caldwell and his commit
tee.
6. Transportation, Jack Reid,
chairman.
7. Administrative—Cecil Beith,
chairman.
The study was made at the re
quest of the Southern Pines city
board of education, whose duty it
now becomes to evaluate the re
port, and to determine by what
means and at what times its rec
ommendations may be incorpora
ted into the school system.
Great apprediation for the
study was expressed on behalf
of the Southern Pines board of
education by ' N. L. Hodgkins,
chairman.
Mr. Hodgkins said that his
board has already spent consid
erable time in studying both the
conclusions of the committee and
the details set out in its report,
and plan to spend much more
time over a period, quite possibly
in conference with members of
the study committees.
Mr. Hodgkins Stated, “This is
the most concentrated study of
our Southern Pines system ever
undertaken by other than profes
sional educators. It brings to con
sideration of our school system
the layman’s point of view and
evaluates the results in layman’s
language.
“Our very great thanks are due
the committee for the great
amount of time they have devoted
to this study and the valuable
conclusions they have given us.
“Several of the recommenda
tions, made known to us as the
study progressed, have already
been adopted and others, I am
sure, will be. All recommenda
tions. will be closely studied.”
Both Mr. Hodgkins and Luth
er A. Adams, superintendent of
schdols, pointed out that this
study is also an excellent source
of compiled factual and other in
formation, some of which had not
previously been in the school
files. For instance, they said,
study of the estimated school
population trend, projected for
(Continued on page 8)
PTA WILL HEAR
SCHOOL REPORT
Members of the East
Southern Pines Parent-Teach
er Association, will hear from
chairmen of the various
phases in the report ci! the
Southern Pines School Study
Group, when the PTA has its
regular October meeting in
Weaver Auditorium at 8 p.
m. Monday.
Mrs. Albert Grove, presi
dent, said that questions on
the report, in writing, may be
handed in and will be an
swered by members of the
study group.
A summary of portions of
the report, which may raise
questions in advance of the
meeting, appears in today's
Pilot.
The PTA had its own group
of representatives bn the
study group.