' i| HAPPY NEW YEAR! ■LOT HAPPY NEW YEAR! VOL. 42—NO. 6 SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1961 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS 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’ (Continued on Page 5) 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, (Continued on page 5) 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 (Continued on Page 5) Max :‘46-' ■ 23 55 24 .50 31 . 48 32 . 44 26 . 55 17 .58 30 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. (Continued on Pa