A new barn
has been built at the Pinehurst
race track, for trotters in train
ing. See details on page 9.
* This is
National Cat Week. See story
about a much-traveled Cat, page
19, and Grains of Sand, Page 2.
VOL. 41—NO.. 51
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1961
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Charge of Second
Degree Murder on
Docket Next Week
A second degree murder charge
against Alec Everett, 80-year-old
‘ hermit” accused of the pistol
slaying of Henry Boggs, about 50,
in September, is on the warrant
docket of cases to go to the grand
jury at the- opening of a term
of Moore County Superior Court
in Carthage Monday. Judge Al
len H. Gwyn is scheduled to pre
side at the one-week term for trial
of criminal cases.
Everett was arrested after he
sought out Sheriff W. B. Kelly
and told him that Boggs was
dead near Everett’s isolated cabin
off the Southern Pines-Carthage
road. He said then that he had
shot Boggs, who had been living
intermittently with him in the
house for several months, when
Boggs started choking and beat
ing him. An autopsy showed that
Boggs had been shot twice with
a pistol, in the area of the stom
ach. ‘
Also on the warrant docket for
the grand jury Monday are these
cases:
Bernice McLeod, rape; James
Wooten, Oscar McGill Dunlap
and Vornie Harrington, assault
with intent to commit rape (three
separate cases); Billy Cole and
James Walton, felonious break
ing and entering and larceny;
Richard Cole, accessory after the
fact of breaking and entering and
larceny; Ronald Collins Brown,
felonious breaking and entering
and larceny and receiving stolen
goods; Mario Rivera (listed with
four aliases), receiving stolen
goods ; and Robert Lee Hunter,
breaking and entering.
Also: Milton C. Thomas, - and
Billy Gray, breaking and enter
ing; Charles Prevatte, secret as
sault; John Dennis Greene, as
sault; Roy W. Berry, public
drunkenness; James S. Blue, pub
lic drunkenness and possession of
seal-broken whiskey; William H.
Wood, drunken driving; Robert
D. Ashley, drunken driving and
illegal possession of whiskey;
Martin E. McCaskill, Jr., speed
ing; Robert L. Garrett, wprthless
check; Frank Cox.| Jr., larceny;
and Raymond Lloyd Brown, lar-
The rape charge (of a girl over
12 and under 16) against Bernice
McLeod, young Vass Negro, orig
inated last August 2 at a night
club near Vass. The Negro girl
involved said that McLeod drag
ged her into some bushes and as
saulted her. He left the state but
returned and surrendered volun
tarily to Vass police Septeiriber
(Continued on page 17)
PROPOSED BUILDING for the headquarters
of the North Carolina Society for Crippled
Children and Adults to be built in Southern
Pines, is pictured in this drawing by the archi-
SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
tect, E. J. Austin of Southern Pines, Tentative
plans call for about 3,000 square feet of floor
space in the structure.
Group to Move Offices Here
Sandhills Horses
Win Show Honors
Pike’s Peak, Mrs. Eleonora E.
Sears’ bay gelding, created the
big excitement at the National
Horse Show this year when h.9
retired the East Hampton Tro
phy for Conformation Hunters.
Ridden to perfection by Mrs. E.
Hogan, (Joannie Walsh, to her
many Sandhills friends), this fine
show horse and hunter cleared
the fences at Madison Square
Garden in perfect form to win
handsomely over stiff competi
tion.
Requirements for winning this
famous trophy are: that it must
be won three times before be
coming the possession of the
horse’s owner, and the rider must
be a member of a recognized
hunt and attired in full hunting
livery.
Adding an extra fillip to this
spectacular triumph la-sit -week
was the fact that Miss Sears’ en
try had won three times in suc
cession. Only one other horse
since the trophy was established
(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
November 2 86 56
November 3 81 66
November 4 83 61
November 5 82 68
November 6 81 58
November 7 75 59
November 8 56 47
Fifteen members of the board'^~
of directors of the North /Carolina |
Society for Crippled Children and O
Adults, meeting in Winston- 1
Salem last Thursday night, voted i I
8-7 to transfer the headquarters
of the organization from Chapel
Hill to Southern Pines.
George Hodgkins of Southern
Pines, a member of the board,
said that the decision was reach
ed after a “heated argument.”
However, he noted, letters from
four directors who were not pres
ent at Winston-Salem indicated
that three favored the move to
Southern Pines and one was op
posed. Expectation is that the
move would be completed within
a year, he said.
The Winston-Salem meeting
was attended on Friday by Mrs.
William Wood of Pinebluff, pres
ident of the Moore Chapter of
the Society, and Mrs. (Jrahatn
Culbreth of Southern Pines, a
vice president and service chair
man of the county chapter, who
was installed as a state director
Friday and so was unable to take
part in the Thursday night vot
ing on moving the headquarters
to Southern Pines.
Mr. Hodgkins said that the
proposed headquarters building
would be located on a lot that
would be donated to the Society
(Continued on page 8)
300 Expected For
Golf Carousel to
Start November 16
starting with early arrivals on
Sunday the Southern-Pines Jay-
cees are preparing to play host
to some 300 persons who will be
in town next week in conjunction
with the eighth annual Golf Car
ousel.
“There will be approximately
225 persons competing in the
four-ball match play tournament
and this will be a record. Each
year. the field hqs grown pro
gressively larger and the Jaycees
feel this is a vote of confidence
and shows the high esteem in
which our tournament is held
both in the United States and
Canada,” said Eddie Ervin, Jr.,
tournament chairman.
The tournament is scheduled
next Thursday through Sunday
at Pine Needles Lodges and
Country Club and at Southern
Pines Country Club.
For $20 an individual is offered
six days of golf, a get-acquainted
party, which is next Thursday
night, and an informal dance next
Saturday night. Green fees alone
would amount to $30 for six
(Continued on Page 8)
“ OH. H. k WARLICK
Dr. Warlick Will
Head Kiwanians;
Others Elected
Dr. R. Bruce Warlick has been
elected president of the county
wide Sandhills Kiwanis Club, to
succeed Dr. C. Robert Vander-
Voort. Both the new and retiring
presidents are dentists living in
Southern Pines. Dr. Warlick
practices here and Dr. Vander-
Voort in Aberdeen.
Lawrence McN. Johnson, Aber
deen attorney, was elected vice
president and John L. Ponzer of
Southern Pines, engineer with
the division office of the Carolina
Power and Light Co., was re
elected secretary and treasurer.
Newly elected directors of the
club are Luther A. Adams, Ralph
L. Chandler, Jr., L. B. Creath and
Dr. W. H. Johnson. Mr. Creath is
from Pinehurst and the others
live in Southern Pines.
Carry-over directors are Norris
L. Hodgkins, Jr., and J. E. Sand
lin, both of Southern Pines, and
William C. Sledge of Pinehurst.
The new officers and directors
Christmas Lights
Drive Launched
By Local Jaycees
Letters have gone out to
Southern Pines business and pro
fessional people from Thomas
Ruggles, president of the South
ern Pines Chamber of Com
merce, asking for contributions
to help the Jaycees get started on
an ambitious business section
Christmas lighting program.
Mr. Ruggles, who is chairman
of the project, said this week that
he had a fine response from mer
chants so far and urged that all
contributions be sent in immedi
ately, as decorations must be or
dered withip.A few days.
The letter, which went to some
165 merchants and professional
people of the Southern Pines
business community, asks that
each contribute $10 toward pur
chase of “English lantern post
decorations,” each of which is
five feet tall, to be mounted by
30-inch brackets on utility poles.
Contributions should be mailed
to Christmas Lighting, P. O. Box
145, Southern Pines. The Jaycee
president said that contributions
from persons other than mer
chants would be welcome. Many
residents of the community, he
said, as well as merchant^, have
(Continued on Page 8)
Youth Killed in
Night Wreck on
South May Street
A Hoke County youth was kill
ed here this morning when his
car went out of control on the
South May Street curve at Mor-
ganton Road and bounced from
one pine tree into another, spin
ning around and throwing him
out.
Local police identified the dead
youth as Clarence Glendon Odom,
Jr, of Route 1 Aberdeen.
The accident occurred about 1
a.m. when the 1953 Ford, travel
ing south, went off May St. on the
left and skidded and turned for
a total distance of 225 feet, smash
ing into first one tree and then
another. When it came to a stop
it had spun completely around
and, in a totally demolished con
dition, was again headed south.
The body of the driver was found
on the parkway 21 feet away.
Young Odom was a 1959 grad
uate of Aberdeen High school.
With his father he operated a
service station on the Laurinburg
Road. Both the home and busi
ness are just over the line in Hoke
county.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. G. Odom; three
sisters, Mattid Elizabeth, Sarah
Frances and Helen, all of the
hom.e, and his maternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elsie
Greene of Wagram.
.Funeral services will be held at
2 p.m. Friday at Bethesda Pres
byterian church, Aberdeen, cbn-
ducted by the pastor, Dr. W. C.
Neill, assisted by the Rev. Brooks
Patten of Page Memorial Metho
dist church. Burial will be in
Spring Hill cemetery at Wagram.
Proposed State Bond
Issues All Defeated
Garden Club Asks
Bids on Planting
The Southern Pines Garden
Club, is considering planting
around the new wing of the East
Southern Pines High School and
invites local nurserymen to sub
mit bids.
Plot plans indicating the areas
involved will be available at the
office of the school superinten
dent next week.
Interested persons or firms
should address bids to Mrs. A. V.
BLOOD COLLECTION
SET AT PINEHURST
In a special one-day visit
to the county, a bloodmobile
from the Red Cross center at
Charlotte will be at the school
gymnasium in Pinehurst,
Tuesday, November 14, from
II a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Quota for
the visit is 125 pints.
Local Red Cross officials
urged generous giving of
blood Tuesday as the county
is lagging far behind its quota
in collections for this year.
Blood given by Moore resi
dents makes possible a system
of obtaining blood from the
Charlotte center, a system
used by both hospitals in the
county.
will take office January 1, 1962, Arnold, chairman of the projects
to servh throughout next year. committee, before November 27.
Dr. Swalin to Speak Twice Friday
Dr. Benjamin F. Swalin of
Chapel Hill, who has been direc
tor of the North Carolina Sym
phony Orchestra since 1939, will
be in town all day Friday, to dis
cuss his work with the orchestra
and to tell about his other ac
tivities in the field of music.'
At noon he will speak to mem
bers of the Rotary Club, and at
6:30 p. m. he will address the
Southern Pines Lions Club. Both
the luncheon and the dinner
meeting are at the Southern Pines
Country Club.
Dr. Swalin is widely known
throughout North Carolina and
has many friends in Southern
Pines where he appears annual
ly with the North Carolina “Lit
tle Symphony,” brought here by
the Sandhills Music Association.
The orchestra will again come
here as the final concert in the
1961-1962 series presented by the
Association, on Thursday, Feb
ruary 15, 1962.
Born in Minneapolis, Minn.,
Dr. Swalin became the young
est member of the Minneapiolis
Symphony Orchestra. Further
studies were undertaken in New
York relating to the musical art
Many Books Ready
For Special Week
For Children’s Book Week—
November 12-18—a wide variety
of new books'will appear on the
shelves of the Southern Pirwes
' Public Library, announces Mrs.
Stanley Lambourne, librarian.
An appropriate display will be
arranged for the Art Gallery by
Mrs. Alwin Folley and Mrs. Max
well Forrest. Children ^re invited
to visit the library, and if not
members, sign up for a card.
For those who are not yet able
to read, there are picture books
such as “New Shoes” by Sam
Vaughn, illustrating all the de
lights and problems of selecting
new shoes, and in the Easy-to-
Read group, “John and His
Thumbs” by Leonard Shortall
will provide encouragement for
those who have been accused of
“being, all thumbs.”
Others include:
Zip-Zip and the Red Planet by
Joan M. Schealer, Christmas Is
a Time for Giving by Joan Walsh
Anglund, Becky’s Christmas by
Tasha Tudor, Tim and Tom Play
Ball by Charlotte Steiner, Lone-'
some Little Colt by C. W. Ander
son, Puppy-Dog Tales by N. D.
W’atson, Cat Tales by N. D. Wat
son..
Raggedy Ann Stories by John
ny Gruelle, A Day of Winter by
Betty Miles, Katie and the Sad
Noise by Ruth Stiles Gannett,
The Terrible Mr. Titmeyer by
Moore and Adelson, A Little
House of Your Own by B. Schenk
de Regniers, Why? . . . Because
(Continued on page 19)
Nearly 4,000 Moore County cit
izens went to the polls Tuesday
and, in company with other
voters over the State, delivered a
smashing, defeat to all 10 of the
State’s bond issue proposals.
What had appeared in advance
i to be a general, but not necessari
ly fatal, apathy turned out to be
a massive resistance against fur
ther state spending.
The prediction of a light vote
was accurate. In Moore, the total
of 3,981 voters turning out in the
18 precincts was a bare 34 per
cent of the 11,363 who voted for
'president a year ago.
; But those prophesying a com-
jfortable margin in favor of the
.bond items were wrong.
I The bond election was held be-
, cause State law required that a
1 vote of the people approve State
I expenditures for which the money
has to be borrowed. The proposed
bond issues would all have gone
for “capital improvements,” that
is, acquisition, construction or ex
pansion of buildings or other faci
lities in the 10 various fields of
State activity.
The accompanying tabulation
shows the vote on each of the
10 bond issues, in Southern Pines
and county-wide.
The tabulation shows that the
least popular proposal of the 10,
here and county-wide, was the
issuance of bonds to build a State
Libra^ and Archives and History
building in Raleigh. The proposal
that would have financed a State
office building in the capitol area
at Raleigh was not' much better
accepted by the voters.
The two other proposals that
won less than 1,000 of the nearly
4,000 votes, county-wide, were
those for improvements at the
State’s, agricujtural research sta
tions and improvements, in facili
ties for the conservation and
development of the State’s natur
al resources.
Precinct Voting
In only 14 instances in Moore
(bounty precincts did the affirma
tive side carry, two of them by
the edge of just one vote. No. 7,
for capital improvements at state
mental institutions, found the
least disfavor throughout, and
carried in Pinebluff, ' Eureka,
W. P. SAUNDERS
Saunders Heads
Fund Drive for
Hospital Wing
William P. Saunders of South
ern Pines has accepted the chair
manship of a new building fund
drive for Moore Memorial Hos
pital, the directors of the hospital
were informed at a called meet
ing yesterday in Pinehurst.
Mr. Saunders, former director
of the N. C, D.9partment of Con
servation and Development, for
mer Moore County industrial ex
ecutive and a longtime civic
leader, also was , elected a mem
ber of the board of directors, re
placing Voit Gilmore who has re
signed. Mr. Gilmore, though
maintaining residence in South
ern Pines, now heads the United
States Travel Service, with head
quarters in Washington, D. C.
Over $500,000.00 is to be raised
between now and June of 1962,
for the building of a new surgical
wing, which will include two
floors, to permit the hospital to
be built up from its present 140
bed capacity, to over 200. Tenta
tive plans have already been Aberdeen, Southern Pines,"West
(Continued on Page 8)
DR. BENJAMIN SWALIN
under distinguished teachers at
Columbia University. At the lat
ter institution he received his M.
A. in English Literature. After a
period in Europe on a fellowship,
a period of study was ma’de avail
able to him through an interna-
(Continued on page 8)
Junior Hunt Club to
Stage Race Skturday
The Sandhills Junior Hunt
Club, recently formed organiza
tion of young riders in this area,
will have a point to point race
starting at 2 p.m. Saturday and
invites the public to watch along
the course.
The race will begin at Scotts
Corner and will end at Boyd’s
Field, in the “hunting country”
out Youngs Road.
Among the judges expected to
be on duty are Beverly Gray,
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stratton, Miss
Gay Tate, Mrs. Verdie Caddell,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harper and
W. O. Moss.
Miss Tate and Mrs. Harper are
instructors for the young riders.
COURT OF HONOR
A Moore District Boy Scout
court of4ionor will be held in the
elementary school at Eagle
Springs, Monday, November 13,
at 7:45 p. m.
Closings Slated
For Veterans Day
Several public offices and banks
of the county will close Saturday
in recognition of Veterans Day,
but business as usual is expected
to be the order of the day with
most offices and stores.
The Southern pines town offices
will close, but the Information
Center and the public, library will
remain open, said Town Manager
Bud Rainey.
Offices in the courthouse at
Carthage will bp closed all day
Saturday. The offices normally
close at noon on that day.
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Co. here and other banks in the
county will be closed .
Post offices will be on holiday
schedule. Locally, this means no
home delivery and windows clos
ed but processing of incoming
and outgoing mail as usual within
the post office.
Alcoholic Beverage Control
stores here and in Pinehurst will
be closed Saturday.
Veterans Day, formerly known
as Armistice Day, honors the ve
terans of all wars. It formerly
marked the armistice that preced
ed the end of World War I in 1918..
End, East Carthage and Pine
hurst.
In addition. Southern Pines and
Pinebluff favored No. 2, for State
correctional institutions; South
ern Pines and Eureka both went
for No. 3, for college and univer
sity improvements and expansion;
Southern Pines voted for No. 8,
for local hospitals, and Eureka
for No. 10, agricultural research.
The majorities of defeat ranged
in most cases from 2-to-l and 3-
to-1 ,up to the towering 355-to-O
scored in Westmoore precinct
against the No. 1 item, for capitol
area buildings.
Less Margin Here
In general, the margin of de
feat was less in Southern Pines,
Aberdeen, Pinebluff and Pine
hurst. In the upper Moore pre
cincts, it was whoprping.
Spies, with a total vote of 94,
was consistent with one lone vote
cast in favor of each issue except
for No. 7 (mental institutions)
which had four. Those against
were 92 and 93 in each Case, 89
against No. 7.
Little River cast the smallest
vote—24. These ranged from 3 to
8 in favor of the issues, 16 to 22
against. In Eureka, with 42 votes,
the vote was m.uch, more evenly
divided.
Largest vote cast was that of
. (Continued on Page 8)
BOND VOTING. HERE AND COUNTY-WIDE
ISSUE
SOUTHERN
PINES
MOORE
COUNTY
For
Against
For
Against
1. Capitol Area Buildings
155
287
839
3080
2. Training Schools
256
193
1169
2726
3. Educational Institutions
229
220
1096
2798
4. Community Colleges
203
239
1011
2850
5. Archives and Library
134
301
752
3090
6. State Ports
216
227
1058
2801
7. Mental Institutions
277
168
1479
2439
8. Local Hospital Aid
222
221
1174
2705
9. Natural Resources
187
251
958
2900
10. Agricultural Research
182 .
254
907
2792