You Can Help PREVENT BLINDNESS! Support While Cane Sale! i^ridoi' Jad$op 'IGl^nJon haq£ Cameron p) E.ll«rbe 'Vas& ’anlji Pin&luf You Can Help PREVENT BLINDNESS! Support White Cane Sale! VOL, 41—NO. 46 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961 TWENTY PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS \| X * ~ ^ > '/-if! ■ > IV; '“i' V,? i-; ^ Mr > + ' V 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 i „ 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(