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VOL. 42—NO. 6
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1961
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SOUTHERN PINES RECORDER'S COURT
Man Given Year’s Prison Term For
Drunken Driving, With No License
One of the stiffest sentences yet said that he thinks heavier son-
meted out by Judge W. Harry
Fullenwider in Southern Pines
Piecorder’s Court was pronounced
in the Wednesday court session
last week when Willie Thomas
Ray, 24-year-old Negro laborer,
of Aberdeen, was given a year’s
prison term for drunken driving
and having no valid operator’s
permit.
It was Ray’s second offense
within a year on each charge.
For more than a year, Judge
Fullenwider has been sentencing
defendants in traffic cases to jail
and prison terms, often in addi
tion to fines, ranging from spend-
ig the remainder of the court day
in jail to the year’s sentence last
week. The judge has frequently
Registration For
Commercial Class
Set January 8
Registration for Commerical
classes will be held Monday night,
Januauy 8, at Southern Pines
High School at 7:30 p. m., it is
announced jointly by Luther
Adams, superintendent of schools,
and W. A. Martin, director of the
Industrial Education Center, San
ford.
Courses offered will be Advanc
ed Typing, Beginner’s Typing,
Bookkeeping, and Shorthand II.
Shorthand II is not a beginner’s
course, but is designed for those
who already know some short
hand. A minimum of 15 students
is required to hold a class. Classes
will be conducted at the Southern
Pines High School three hO'Urs
each night, one night a week.
Each course, will - be .45 hours,
long.
The objective of these classes,
Mr. MEirtin said, is to upgrade
those who are engaged in office
work and. who need more profici
ency in office practice. Tuition
will be $15 per course, plus the
cost of required books. Students
who were registered last semester
in Typing will continue to use
the same book.
The new series of classes fol
lows other courses given here in
cooperation with the Industrial
Education Center at Sanford, un
der sponsorship of the Southern
Pines Industrial Committee.
tences from the courts do moic |
than anything else to deter viola
tions of traffic laws and thus cut
traffic fatalities, injuries and
property damage.
The local police department’s
current drive on traffic violators
produced another large group of
defendants jin last week’s court,
most of them charged with ex
ceeding the speed limit in 35-
miles-per-hour zones. Judge Ful
lenwider again offered defendants
the choice of paying a fine or
walking everywhere they went
for a specified number of days
or specified distance, but all de
fendants, if found guilty, were
required to pay the court costs.
An 18-year-old Aberdeen girl.
Linda Kay Parker, charged with
speeding 60 in a 35-miles-per-
hour zone, chose to walk from
Southern Pines to Aberdeen, rath
er than pay a fine, also paying
costs.
Defendants in other' speeding
cases were:
Daniel Lee 'Webster, 50 in 35
zone, pay costs and walk every
where he goes for 96 hours; John
J. Noga, Youngstown, Ohio, 50 in
35 zone, $15 and costs; Louise B’
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CHEER BASKETS—^Ready for delivery last
Saturday afternoon at the VF’W post home are
some of the dozens of Christmas Cheer food
baskets given to feimilies in the Southern Pines
area. Shown with baskets and two of the food
collection barrels that were placed in grocery
stores are members of the John Boyd Post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Auxiliary. The
Christmas Cheer program, which is coordinated
with the county welfare department’s list of
needy families, is supported by donations of
canned goods and by cash contributions from
the public. Harry Chatfield, standing to the
left of the Santa Claus figure in the background,
was chairman of the VFW’s Christmas Cheer
committee this year. (Humphrey photo)
General Holiday
Slated Monday
There will be a general closing
of public buildings and private
business throughout the county
on Monday, New Year’s Day.
Most stores and businesses will
be closed, as well as the banks
of the county. Post offices will be
on holiday schedule. In Southern
Pines,.post office windows will be
be *cTose(i''and~there will" be no
home delivery, but mail will be
handled as usual at the post of
fice.
Southern Pines town offices. In
formation Centqr and Library will
be closed Monday, as will the
offices in the courthouse at Car
thage. The regular meeting of the
county commissioners will be held
'Tuesday, January 2. Moore Coun
ty Recorder’s Court, usually held
each Monday, will convene on
Tuesday next week.
ABC stores in both Southern
Pines and Pinehurst will be closed
Monday.
Weekend Quiet in
County; Traffic
Warning Issued
Moore County had a quiet
Christmas weekend, with no
traffic or other violent deaths re
corded.
With the exception of an ex
mental patient who went berserk
at Aberdeen and had to be forci
bly captured (see story elsewhere
in today’s Pilot), law enforcement
officers reported no serious diffi
culties during the long weekend.
Local police made several routine
arrests for public drunkenness, as
sault and speeSiiig.
North Carolina’s traffic fatality
toll of 16 was nine under the
number killed on the highways
over the Christmas weekend in
1960, but the nation’s 525 traffic
accident deaths set the worst re
cord since Christmas of 1955 when
621 persons were killed.
Highway patrolmen, who went
all-out to try to cut the Christmas
weekend toll, are preparing to
renew their vigil over the New
Year’s weekend. The State record
ed 16 traffic deaths for the period
last year. This year’s traffic acci
dent count will run from 6 p.m.
Friday to midnight Monday.
The Highway Patrol, North
Carolina Motor Club and other
organizations this week issued a
warning, to motorists not to
drink before driving. A special
campaign against drinking alco
holic beverages before driving is
being carried on by the Highway
Patrol in this area and elsewhere
in the state.
Marshall Memorial
Ser'vices Set Simday
Lt. Gen. H. H. Howze of Fort
Bragg will be the speaker at the
annual memorial service for the
late Gen. George C. Marshall^ to
be conducted at the monument in
Marshall Park at Pinehurst at 2
p.m. Sunday, sponsored by A. B.
Sally, Jr., Post 350 of the Ameri
can Legion. Further details of the
service and a special story re
miniscing about General Marshall
will be found on page 9.
YDC Launching
Member Drive
‘ is
The Moore-County Young-De
mocrats Club is launching its 1962
membership drive, J. Elvin Jack-
son of Carthage, president, said
this week.
Letters going to many Demo
crats over the county point out
that all persons of 18 years of age
or older can join the club. The
$1 membership fee includes a
subscription to “The North Car
olina Democrat,” the party’s of-
fical state newspaper.
Persons not receiving member
ship letters can join by sending
the fee, v.'ith name and addrOss,
to the president at Box 372, Car
thage.
J. Hawley Poole
To Be Honored for
Long Work in SCS
By Willard K. Keller
Work Unit Conservationist
J. Hawley Poole, of West End,
will be honored by the N. C.
State Association of Soil and Wa
ter Conservation District Super
visors at their annual convention,
to be held in Goldsboro, January
3, 9 and 10.' Mr., Poole is one o'
13 district supervisors who have
served the state and their coun
ties for 20 or more years. Moore
County is part of the Upper Cape
Fear District.-
The District was organized in I94f
and Mr. Poole has served as su
pervisor from Moore continuous
ly since that time, being reelect
ed every three years almost with
out opposition. James Fulk, Her
bert McCaskill and Mr. Poole arc
the present supervisors and de
serve the thanks and congratula
tions of Moore County farmei"
and businessmen for helping to
make Moore County a better place
in which to live.
Equally deserving of thanks
and recognition are past supervis,
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LOOKING BACK ON 1961
Construction Projects
Feature Developments
Auto Licenses to
Go On Sale at
Aberdeen Tuesday
The 1962 state automobile - li
censes will go on sale Tuesday at
the Farmers Supply Co., 104 E.
Main St., Aberdeen, where N. A.
McGill, proprietor of the store, is
license contractor for this area.
’The store is located next door to
the Aberdeen Fish Market, east
of the railroad tracks and across
the tracks from the passenger
station.
Hours of sale are 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. daily, except on Saturday
when the closing hour is 12 noon.
Purchasers should have with them
their renewal cards and, where in
dicated, their FS-l’s indicating
compliance with the laws regard
ing automobile insurance.
At the same time, the Southern
Pines tags required by town ordi
nance will go on sale at the town
Information Center, Pennsylvania
Ave. at Broad St.
All motor vehicles will have to
show the new State tags after
February 15, and those owned by
Southern Pines residents must
also carry the town tags after
that date, or be subject to penalty
as provided by law.
Reminder goes out to all moto
rists this week that they will
save time by buying their tags
early. There are always late-com-
ers, and lines inevitably form
toward the end of the period.
For about 10 years the state
license sale was handled locally,
by the Chamber of Comerce, then
at the Western Auto Associate
store. The contract changed hands
when the Western Auto Associate
store changed management a
few months ago.
■f Biggest single accomplishment
for Moore county in 1960 was the
$144,000- improvement project at
the county-owned Southern Pines-
Pinehurst airport, with new 4,500-
foot runway permitting use of
Piedmont Airlines F-27’s and in
auguration ' of the long-sought
north-south air service. Piedmont
has served the area seasonally for
14 years with east-west flights,
but the link with Raleigh-Durham
airport, started in November on
a “use it or lose it” basis, is seen
as important both industrially
and to resort interests.
Moore County schools, comple-
FORUM TONIGHT
John Jay, skiing authority, will
show his color film, “Olympic
Holiday,” at the regular meeting
of the Pinehurst Forum in the
Pinehurst Country Club tonight
at 8:45 o’clock. The performance,
open to Forum members and
guests, will be preceded by a
buffet dinner at the club, starting
at 7 p.m.
ONE YEAR AFTER F1R£ TRAGEDY
MAJOR GENERAL JULIAN F. BARNES, in this World War
II photograph, is shown standing in front of a German plane -
that flew in on “V-E Day” to surrender to him at Krefeld, Ger
many.
General Barnes, Retired Army Officer,
Dies; Rites Conducted at Arlington
A graveside service with mili
tary honors was held yesterday
afternoon at Arlington National
Cemetery for Major General
Julian F. Barnes, 72, of Southern
Pines, who died Sunday at Moore
Memorial Hospital, Pinehurst.-
General Barnes and his wife,
the former Agnes Graff of Wash
ington, D. C., bought a home in
Knollwood prior to his retirement
from military service in 1947 and
had made their home there since
his retirement, after 35 years of
military service, including assign^
ments in both the Pacific and Eu
ropean theatres of operation in
World War II. His wife is his
only immediate survivor.
Quiet and unassuming. General
Barnes settled in Southern Pines,
he once said, because of his inter
est in golf and riding, which was
shared by his wife, and his love
of quail shooting. At his home in
Knollwood, he was enthusiastic
about gardening. He was a mem
ber of the Moore County Histori
cal Association.
At the time of annexation of
the Knollwood area to Southern
Pines, about seven years ago,
General Barnes was active in ne
gotiations on behalf of the Knoll
wood community, in working out
an agreement with the town, cov
ering the terms of annexation
He was subsequently appointed
by the town council to the South
ern Pines Planning Board and
served with that board until his
resignation in February of this
year when he told the council
that the state of his health did not
permit his further service with
the board.
The Planning Board is the
(Continued on page 8)
Train Hits Car
Saturday Night
The Seaboard Air Line’s Sil
ver Star, southbound last Satur
day night, struck a passenger car
at the Manly crossing about 10
p.m. No one was hurt.
Bill Parsons of Candor, driver
of the car, said it had a blowout
as it crossed the tracks. He and
his three companions had time to
get out before the train struck
■md demolished it.
The train was said to be travel
ing 80 to 85 miles an hour at the
time but managed to stop with
in a short distance. It proceeded
on its way after authorities deter
mined that no one was hurt.
The Silver Star, Florida-bound,
does not stop in North Carolina
south of Raleigh, except at South-
Pines, one mile south of the
Manly crossing, when flagged.
Christmas Spirit Shines at Kennedy Home
h
m
THE WEATHER
Christmas spirit shines this
iveek at tlTe home of Ihe Robert
W. Kjennedys, on ,Lake Bay
Poad near Skyline, a few miles
north of Southern Pines.
It shines in the star aton a
Christmas tree, aav with tinsel
-’nd lights. It shines in every
voom of the Kennedys’ neat ne’v
home. Fsp.ecially. it shines in th--
faces of the young coimle a"'"
their little daughter Nancv Jo
nearly five.
For all of them. Christmas ibt-
year was very different from la-^^
How different was told in the ser
ious look of Bob and Nancv Ken
nedy as they expressed them ow-
foremost Christmas wish—“to
thank all those who have been so
kinri to us.”
The burning of their home
with all their possessions, two
days before Christmas last vear
was a Moore .County tragedy. Lost
in the blaze was their 13-months-
old daughter Beverly Kay.
Barely three days later, friends
and neighbors were at work, re
building a home for the Kenne-
dys. The young husband worked
right along with them, and much
of the masonry cottage into which
they moved last September is the
work of his hands.
Friends and neighbors, his tel
low employees at Jones, Inc. at
Vass, and members of the South-
ielsjl:Moose Lodge gathered;
>■
ting a new garage building near
Carthage, moved toward consoli
dation of 11 small high schools
with the purchase of sites for
two “super high schools,” the
first of which is on the drawing
board for construction next year.
The rural fire protection pro
gram grew with the purchase of
the county’s fifth fire truck, lo
cated at Robbins, with plans to
buy the sixth, for location at
Vass.
In banking, the Southern Nat
ional Bank of Lumberton is re
modeling an office building in
Southern Pines for estabilshment
of a branch, while the Citizens
Bank & Trust Co. is building a
drive-in branch here.
The Standard 'Trucking Co. of
Charlotte built a terminal at
Aberdeen. The county’s largest
industry, A & M. Karagheusian,
enlarged its Aberdeen plant by
half to add another Gulistan car
pet manufacturing process.
A fifth golf course was built at
the Pinehurst Country Club and
the Holly Inn at Pinehurst was
converted for year-round opera
tion.
Tourist accommodations on US
Highway 1 ncEu- Southern Pines
are being enlarged by construc
tion of a 66-unit Holiday Inn,
with a restaurant, also by the
newly built Pinehurst Motel; ad
ditional units and an office build
ing, also a “Golden Door” res
taurant, at the Howard Johnson’s;
and new units at the Charlton
and Fairway Motels. The Carolina
Soap and Candle plant between
Southern Pines and Aberdeen,
expanded and moved one phase of
its operation to an in-town lo
cation.
At Southern Pines, the Holly
wood. Hotel converted to a year-
round “Home for senior citizens,”
the first for this area. Plans for
the new Episcopal Home for the
Agoing have been approved, a
'“‘anager employed and office set
up. A large home given to the
I Episcopal church by Mr. and Mrs.
D. W. Winkelman opened as “The
I Terraces,” a diocesan conference
center. Our Saviour Lutheran
1 church, the first for Moore Coun
ty, was organized and accorded
formal mission status, and plans
to build as soon as possible.
The North Carolina Easter Seal
Society, which purchased land a
year or so ago for its permanent
camp near here decided to move
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Ma.Kimum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of the past
week were recorded as follows -
.b, U. S. Weath„
Moh^, in; iidijition.
On. the pincrwooded site of the
small, frame cottage which burn
ed, there now stands a larger,
substantial and modern home with
four sunny rooms, bright curtains
and many conveniences.
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vatiort station at the .WEKi^
studios on.Midland Road, j
December 21
December 22 65
December 23 50
December 24 48
December 25 44
iDecemb«: 26
I December 2T 58
Republicans to
Gather Tuesday
Republicans of- Southern Pines
precinct will meet in the new
wing of the high school at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, to elect officers and de
legates to the 1962 convention.
All interested persons Me invited
I to attend.
The meeting was called by
James E. Harrington, Jr., of Pine
hurst, chairman of the Moore
County Republican Executive
Committee. '
: IN NEW HOME—Grateful for the help given them during the
past year in rebuilding and furnishing their home, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert W. Kennedy and their daughter, Nancy Jo, are pictured
here with their Christmas tree—symbol of a brighter future for
the family. (V. Nicholson, photo)
MEETING POSTPONED
The regular meeting of the
Moore County Wildlife Club, nor
mally held on the first Tuesday
of each month, will take place on
January 9, the second THiesday,
for January only, it was announc
ed today. Details of the meeting
will be given in next week’s Pilot.
LISTING TO START
Listing of real and personal pro
perty for taxes will begin
throughout the county Tuesday
of next week, to run through
January. Residents of Southern
Pines will list in the Information
Center building (Pennsylvania
Ave. entrance).