1
Mountains
in France provided an exciting
day for a visiting Moore Couny
girl—page 14.
VOL. 41—NO. 47
Outdoors
is the place to be these days. A
Pilot editor comments on the
weather—page 2.
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1961
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
AT COUNCIL MEETING
Mayor Appoints
Industry Group,
Adds Merchants
Part of O'Neil Land
Annexed, Zoned; Dog
Problem Under'-Study
An expanded Southern Pines
Industrial Committee was named
by Mayor John S. Ruggles at the
town council meeting Tuesday
night, with a view to enlisting
more participation and support by
merchants.
Reappointed to the commit
tee, which works for industrial
expansion and cooperation with
industry in the Southern Pines
area, were Norris L. Hodgkins,
Jr., its present chairman; Alwin
Folley, W. Harry Fullenwider,
Ward Hill and Councilman James
D. Hobbs.
Merchants named to the group
and new to the committee are J.
T. Overton-and William Thomas-
son. Mayor Ruggles said he is
asking them to undertaike for
mation of a Merchants Council to
work in cooperation with the
committee.
Appointed to a separate Indus
trial Advisory Committee, also to
work in cooperation with the
main committee were four indus
trial executives living in Southern
Pines, William J. Donovan, R. M.
Cushman, Ted Taws and Cecil
Beith. Also named to this group
AT NCCLA BANQUET—In seats of honor at
the banquet of the North Carolina Catholic
Laymen’s Association at the Mid Pines were,
from left, Martin Niessner of Southern Pines,
convention vice - chairman; Mrs. D. Hooper
Sanders of Smithfield Route 2, “N. C. Catholic
Mother of the Year”; the Apostolic Delegate,
Most Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, papal representa
tive in the U. S.; the Baroness von Trapp;
Bishop Vincent S. Waters, and Frank Barron
of Leaksville, retiring president. Not in photo
at right were Jose Rivero, exiled Cuban editor,
and Father Francis M. Smith of St. Anthony’s,
convention chairman. Empty chair between Mrs
Sanders and the Apostolic Delegate is that of
David Drexel of Southern Pines, who served as
master of ceremonies but had left the table
when photo was made. Also at the speakers’
table, but not visible here, was Msgr. Herbert
F. Hawkins, rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral,
Raleigh, and former pastor of St. Anthony’s.
(Photo by V. Nicholson)
Methodist Church
was W. P. Saunders, former presi
dent of textile firms and former Planning |)(J Tutc
director of the State Department
of Conservation and Develop
ment.
Mayor Ruggles will serve as an
ex-officio member of the In
dustrial Committee.
Present at the council meeting
to hear the mayor’s appointments
were five members of the com
mittee: Chairman Hodgkins who
i-eported on activity of the past
year, Judge Fullenwider, Mr.
Folley, Mr. Hill and Councilman
Hobbs.
Appreciation for work of the
(Continued on page 8)
Local Registrar
Praised For Work
With Statistics
Mrs. Margaret Mattocks of the
office staff at town hall has been
praised for her work as registrar
of vital statistics for this town
ship (McNeill) and two other
townships in the county.
Mrs. Ruth Mebane, field work
er with the vital statistics divi
sion of the State Board of Health
—who last week appeared before
the county commissioners to ex
press dissatisfaction with the way
some registrars in the county had
handled the registration of births
and deaths over a period of years
—-went to the local town hall to
thank Mrs. Mattocks personally
for her work, after 4Mrs. Mebane
had met with the commissioners
last week.
The commissioners voted at
their meeting to discontinue the
system of township registrars and
transfer the registration of births
and deaths, on a county-wide ba
sis,. to a worker under supervi
sion of the county health depart
ment, at the health center in Car
thage.
The Southern Pines town of
fice has handled vital statistics
for an increasing number of
townships over the past several
years, taking on the task at re
quest of the State Board of
Health, after registrars in other
townships resigned or when the
handling of registrations in oth
er townships had been unsatis
factory. A large percentage of
the birth and death registrations
in the county is now handled
(Continued on page 8)
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum 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
70 36
. 75 40
78 43
82 46
85 46
October 10 83 50
October 11 83 49
Religious Census
As a part of the United Witness-
For Christ and His Church cam
paign in the North Carolina Con
ference of the Methodist Church,
members of the Southern Pines
Methodist' ‘Chtitch' 'Will ‘ be calling
at the homes in Southern Pines
during the month of October to
ascertain the church affiliation
and church attendance habits of
the people of the area.
The women of thfe church will
secure this information for the
Southern Pines area in the days
prior to October 22. On Sunday
afternoon, October 22, the men
of the church will canvass the
areas adjacent to Southern Pines.
‘"The Conference program has
as its objective that some Meth-
otlist person wiU knock on every
door in Eastern North Carolina
by or on October 22,” said the
Rev. R. C. Mooney, Jr., pastor
of the local church.'‘‘The goals
of the campaign are to discover
unreached persons, to win these
unreached persons for Christ and
to church and church school
membership, to train these per
sons for church and church school
membership and assimilate them
into the life of the church, to
start out-post church schools
where they are needed, and to
make every member of the
church sdhool who is of proper age
a member of the church akid
Rental Housing
Acutely Short,
Agents Report
Rental housing in Southern
Pines is acutely in short supply,
said a number of real estate peo
ple queried by The Pilot this
week. •'
Several agents said they had
rented all available houses and
apartments and could rent more
if they had them listed.
The pressure on housing was
attributed to military units of
Army Reserve and National
Guard being sent to Fort Bragg.
The first of these units have ar
rived and more are scheduled, for
a total of about 15,000 men be
fore the end of the year.
Some agents said that apart
ments and houses had been rent
ed here sight unseen by tele
phone, by servicemen expecting
to be sent to Fort Bragg.
The Knollwood Apartments,
tbs town’s largest apartment fa
cility, has no vacancies, it was re
ported, a situation that has not
prevailed for several years.
“I wish I was able to build
some houses or apartment units
quickly,” said one realtor. ‘‘I
know I could rent them all.”
However, there was this ques
tion in the minds of both agents
and townspeople: will the de
mand last? One man said: “It’s
fine to rent houses and apart-
every member of the church a ments, but what I’d prefer to see
member of the church school, at- is the vacant downtown stores
tending regularly.”
This project is being sponsored
in the local church by the Com
mission on Membership and
Evangelism. In the census the
Commissions on Education and
Missions will be assisting the
Commission on Membership and
Evangelism. The Commission on
Membership and Evangelism
chairman, Norris Edge, and the
pastor ask people of the commu
nity to give the information re
quested to those who call upon
them.
rented.”
Another added: “Maybe, if all
these extra folks come here to
live, that is just what will hap
pen.”
Freedom Lauded
By Speakers at
Catholic Meeting
The 15th annual convention of
the North Carolina Catholic Lay
men’s association, held here Sat
urday and Sunday with St. An
thony’s parish as host, brought
laity, clergy-'and nun§ fipm over
the State to a series of outstand
ing events.
While many of those attending
went home Saturday night, oth
ers came in Sunday for the Pon
tifical Mass held at the National
Guard Armory, and attendance
at its peak was estimated at
around 500.
The first Pontifical Mass ever
held in North Carolina had as
pontificator the convention’s
guest of honor, the Apostolic
Delegate, the Most Rev. Egidio
Vagnozzi, D. D., papal represen
tative to the Church in the U. S.
The solemn and reverent occa
sion* was enhanced by the pres
ence of an honor guard from the
82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, also
honor guards of the Knights of
Columbus of Charlotte, Raleigh,
Greensboro and Durham. Assist
ing at the mass were Bishop Vin
cent S. Waters of ths Diocese of
Raleigh and numbers of other
church dignitaries. The Rev.
Francis M, Smith, pastor of St.
Anthony’s, served as deacon and
the Rev. James R. Jones of Sa
cred Heart church, Pinehurst,
delivered the sermon. Choirs of
schoolchildren from St. Anthony’s
school here and St. Gabriel’s in
Charlotte sang the mass.
The occasion climaxed the con
vention which on Saturday of
fered a full program of talks and
(Continued on page 8)
Suspended Term
Given Soldier in
Tep Piir Case
Pfc. Michael S. Southard, 24-
year-old soldier who has lived in
Southern Pines for the past year
and 'a half, pleaded guilty Mon
day in Moore County Recorder’s
Court to two counts of selling
stimulating drugs in violation of
the law. Southard, who is from
Oklahoma, is with a hospital
evacuation unit at Fort Bragg.
State’s -witnesses were William
S. Hunt, SBI investigator, and'
Haywood Starling, SBI narcotics
chief for eastern North Carolina,
who pursued the investigation on
request of Southern Pines police
and in cooperation with them. |
Hunt testified he made an un- ^
dercover purchase of ampheta- .
min.3 capsules—otherwise known |
as “pep pills,” “goof balls” and
“bennies” from Southard Septem
ber 16. At that time. Hunt said,
he arranged to meet Southard
later and buy more. Starling ac
companied him to the second
meeting, and also maide a pur
chase .
Hunt said he bought 12 cap
sules for $2 from the soldier,
while Starling bought 177 for
$15. They posed as out-of-town
auto salesmen needing the pills
to “keep their drivers awake”
while making overnight hops to
bring in new cars.
The agents said that, following
his arrest September 27, South
ard was cooperative in giving in
formation to them and also to
Army authorities on Fort Bragg.
As a result, the Army is contin
uing the investigation on the
post, centered around the recent
disappearance of 1,700 ampheta
mine capsules from hospital sup
plies.
.'Southern Pines Police Chief
Earl Seawell, who had investiga
ted suspected sale of dirugs in
Southern Pines for several weeks
before calling in the SBI, was
present in court but did not testi
fy. The defendant, represented
by W. D. Sabiston as counsel,
also gave no testimony.
Defense counsel pleaded for
leniency for his client on' the
grounds of his youth and previ
ous clean record, laying the
blame partly on the Army at Fort
Bragg for “letting the drugs be
available.” Solicitor W. Lamont
Brown, however, bore down on
the seriousness of the offense and
the taint to a law-abiding com
munity, also noting that “if Fort
Bragg is going to be careless
about the way they handle drugs,
we will have to protect ourselves
and our people as strongly as we
can.”
Judge J. Vance Rowe handed
down a stiff 12-months sentence
which he suspended for five
years on payment of a $300 fine
(Continued on page 8)
Area Companies Have
Displays at Trade Fair
TO HEAD SALE— Forrest
Lockey of Aberdeen has been
appointed Moore County
chairman for the annual
Christmas Seal Sale of the
Moore Coimty Tuberculosis
Association, it was announc
ed this week by Dr. J. S.
Hiatt, Jr., of Southern Pines,
president of the association.
The Aberdeen and Rockfish
railroad executive hasi been
active for many years in
civic and political affairs in
this area. He is a former State
Highway commissioner and
m^or of Aberdeen. The Seal
Sale, an annual event to help
finance the fight against tu
berculosis in county, state and
nation, will open at Thanks
giving, to run through Christ
mas. Community chaiianen
-will be announced.
Campaign for Boy
Scouts Starting
In Part of Town
October 5
October 6
October 7
October 8
October 9
School to Obtain
Another Teacher
Enrollment in the East South
ern Pines schools has been suf
ficient to allow the assignment of
another teacher here by the state,
Supt. Luther A. Adams said this
week, and a teacher will be em
ployed as soon as a qualified per
son can be found.
The ad^ed teacher will be asr
signed to a third grade class, he
said. There are now 106 third
grade students in the East South
ern Pines school, being taught in
three classes. These pupils will
be divided into four classes, after
employment of the new teacher,
he said.
Registration For
Bond Voting Set
Persons who are not properly
registered to vote in general elec
tions in Moore County and who
want to vote November 7 in the
election on whether the state will
issue capital improvement bonds
in the total amount (j>t $61,665,000
can register from Saturday
through Saturday, October 28.
Registrars will have their books
open at polling places in Moore
precincts on the three Saturdays
from J a. m. to 5 p. m. and can be
reached at their homes or places
of business at other times.
Mrs. Frank Kaylor is the
Southern Pines precinct registrar
and will have the books open at
the fire station on E. New Hamp
shire Ave.
New residents can get infor
mation as to voting eligibility
from the registrars.
A description of the proposed
10 bond issues, with amounts of
each, appears on page 7 of today’s
Pilot.
'POWDER PUFF' GAME
For benefit of the Junior-Seni
or prom fund, girls of the senior
and junior classes at East South
ern Pines High School will play
girls of the sophomore and fresh
man classes in a touch-football
game at Memorial Field, Friday
night, at 8 p.m. Boys wiU act as
cheerleaders and majorettes.
There wiU be gate prizes.
SENIORS GOLF
STARTS MONDAY
The lOlh annual North and
South Invitrtion Seniors Golf
Championship 'wiU open at
Pinehurst Monday, to run
through Saturday of next
week.
The tournament wiU be fol
lowed the next week by the
4th annual Women's North
and South Invitation Seniors
tournament, starting October
24.
Both the tournaments have
proved increasingly popular
'events of the Pinehurst fall
season, drawing many entries
to the Sandhills.
Pinehurst ‘Outlook’ Future Uncertain
As Paper Omits Publication Today
Robert S. Ewing, publisher of
the Pinehurst Outlook, said this
morning that the weekly ne;wspa-
per, customarily issued on 'Thurs
day, would not be published to
day.
William Plunkett, president of
the Outlook, could not be reach
ed for comment.
Mr. Ewing, who is vice-presi
dent of the Moore County News
Publishing Co., of Carthage—a
firm of which George H. Leon
ard, Jr., of Southern Pines is
president—said that six months
ago he had agreed to operate the
Pinehurst Outlook, with* an op
tion to buy, lor six months, at the
end of which time he was privi
leged to turn the paper back to
Mr. Plunkett. He said that a de
cision might be reached at a con
ference later today.
Postal laws require a newspa
per to maintain continuity of
publication, but an edition can be
published late and back-dated,
to maintain this continuity.
Mr. Ewing mentioned this pos
sibility, but said this morning
that he could make no, definite
statement on The Outlook’s fu
ture.
The annual Occoneechee Coun
cil fund drive to finance Boy
Scouting activities got imderway
here this morning with a break
fast meeting at the Jefferson Inn
of a group of 14 workers who will
canvass west of the railroad
tracks, but • not including West
Southern Pines.
E. Earl Hubbard, in charge of
the campaign injthis area, said
that more than a dozen other per
sons who could not be present
this morning will assist in the
ipertonal solicitations. Goal for
the area is $1,000.
Ted Taws, chairman of per
sonal solicitation in the area east
of the railroad, said today that
plans for the drive in that sec
tion will be announced next
week.
Harry McStravick of Southern
Pines, county-wide chairman has
announced the following chair
men and other information about
drives in other communities of
the county.
Pinehurst, Hubert McCaskill
and Bill Sledge, goal, $2,000;
Aberdeen, Troy Geer, advance
gifts chairman, October 27;
Piilebluff, Brady Brooks, drive
underway since' September 8,
with returns still coming in.
Also: Farm Life, T. H. Linger-
feldt and Paul (jreen, $150 to
start October 20; Eagle Springs,
Lynn Martin, campaign began
Friday; Carthage, W. B. Hill,
drive to begin next week.
(A general story on the
Trade Fair appears else
where in today's Pilot).
Two Moore County companies
and another in Chatham County
headed by a local resident have
exhibits in the North Carolina
Trade Fair opening today at
Charlotte, to run through October
21.
They are Trimble Products,
Inc., of Southern Pines, manufac
turers of metal and plastic equip
ment for the care and recreation
of infants and young children;
the Amerotron Company, the tex
tile division of Textron, Inc.,
which has a textile mill at Rob
bins in this county, as well as
elsewhere in North and South
Carolina, and central offices and
warehouse at Aberdeen; and the
General Creosoting Company of
Gulf which is headed by Howard
Butler of Southern Pines.
Harry McStravick, sales man
ager of Trimble, said the com
pany’s exhibit (Space No. 123 at
the Charlotte Coliseum) features
a backdrop of pastel plastic fab
rics used in the products; a rota
ting turntable displaying blown-
up photos of the products in use,
as posed by models; a large photo
of the company’s plant here; and
actual products displayed on the
floor, including the Kiddie-Bath,
Kiddie-Yard, the screened Kid
die-Coop and the Baby-Form
high chair.
William J. Donovan, president
of Trimble Products, is in Char
lotte today for opening ceremo
nies of the Trade Fair and to su
pervise the exhibit. He will re
main through tomorrow and Mr.
McStravick will take over on
Saturday anA Sunday.
R. M. Cushman of Southern
Pines, executive vice president of
Amerotron, with offices at Aber
deen, said that Amerotron has a
large booth at the Trade Fair,
displaying a variety of textile
products from all of its mills, in
cluding those at Robbins in this
county, at Red Springs and in
South Carolina. All of these
products are sent to the Aberdeen
Amerotron warehouse before
shipment, he explained, tying the
whole Amerotron operation close
ly to this area. The exhibit also
includes photos of all Amerotron’s
plants.
Mr. Cushman is a member of
the Trade Fair Council appointed
by Gov. Terry Sanford. He was
unable to attend various pre
opening and opening events yes
terday and today, but planned to
be at a luncheon to be held at the
Myers Park Country Club in con-
(Gontinued on Page 8)
Blood Donations Run
Low at Vass, Robbins
Blood donations during visits
of a Red Cross bloodmobile to
Moore County this week amount
ed to 43 pints at 'Vass Monday
65 pints at Robbins Tuesday.
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy, ex
ecutive secretary of the Moore
County chapter of the Red Cross
said that both totals were well
below the quotas soughlt.
Blood collected in Moore Coun
ty makes possible the obtaining
of blood of all types by the two
hospitals in the county from the
Red Cross blood center at Char
lotte.
Boston Man Raises
Bid on Patch’s in
Sale Held Today
In the second sale of the Patch
Department Store building, con
ducted at the courthouse door
in Carthage by Judge J. "Vance
Rowe, trustee, at noon today, a
bid of $37,500 was entered by
Frederick J. Mahoney, Boston,
Mass., businessman.
The bid topped by $1,000 the
$36,500 offer made by Attorney
Robert N. Page III of Aberdeen,
on behalf of an unnamed client.
The Page offer had been made
after Mr. Mahoney, through At
torney Lawrence McN. Johnson
of Aberdeen, had entered a bid
of $35,000 for the building in the
first sale conducted September 13.
The building, constructed in
1909 and housing the Patch De- .
partment Store imtil early last
month, was ordered sold to satisfy
indebtedness to the Southern
Pines Savings and Loan Associa
tion and other creditors.
Mr. Mahoney’s bid will not be
final until after a 10-day period
in which any prospective pur
chaser can enter another bid
which must exceed Mr. Maho
ney’s by at leart five per cent.
EURE TO SPEAK
Thad Eure, North Carolina sec
retary of state, will be the speak
er at the regular luncheon meet
ing of the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club next week. Club members
will meet at the Mid Pines Club
at 12:15 p. m. Wednesday.