■'>
Medical care
for the aged will be \a major
item of debate in the upcoming
session of Congress. SeQ article
and editorial, page 2 .
Uiqhfoti
Union Church,
between Carthage and Vass, is
proud of its fund for the care
of grounds and cemetery. For
details, see article, page 15.
VOL. 42—NO. 7
SIXTEEN PAGES
Cape Fear River Basin Dam Projects
Endorsed by County Commissioners
A + rf«-v j __ _ . .
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1962
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
A letter will go from the Moore
County commissioners to U. S.
Senator B. Everett Jordan, ex
pressing the Moore board’s appro
val of the recently announced
proposed Cape Fear River basin
dam proposals.
The action was taken on mo
tion of Commissioner John M.
Currie on Tuesday. He recalled
that he had represented this
Charlotte Boys
Choir to Present
Show January 12
The 80-member Charlotte Boys
Choir, a professionally directed
touring group that has made many
highly praised appearances from
New York to Florida, will pre
sent its musical variety show in
"Weaver Auditorium here Friday,
January 12, at 8 p.m.
The choir’s appearance in Sou
thern Pines is sponsor jd by the
local Rotary Club. The choir itself
is sponsored by the Charlotte
Rotary Club. The boj members
are nine to 12 years o.d.
Presenting a series of songs, im
personations and musics] dramatic
skits, with many spechlty num
bers in costume, the choir puts on
a show that features spectacular
stage effects, splendid discipline
and lively good humor. It is de
scribed as “a wonderful show for
all ages in any community that
enjoys the best in eitertaih-
ment.”
Started in 1947, under Ihe lead
ership of James P. McBillan of
Charlotte, who is now nanager
of the organization, the clnir, with
its personnel changing in part
each year, has won increising ac
claim. Its tour manager ia Gordon
Lee. Its director is Chrles C.
Starnes who has charge tc musTc
at East way Junior High School,
Charlotte.
Disciplined but retailing the
natural spontaneity of b^ys, the
choir is noted for its exhujf.rance
and gaiety. Coming from'varied
backgrounds and differentichool?
in Charlotte, the boys praefce two
evenings a week. The spojsoring
Rotary Club feels that thj choir
is more important as an Experi
ment in youth service ati de
mocracy than it is for its show
manship and public acclaini
The boys travel in two arge,
air-conditioned buses, with a spec
ial truck for sound equif^ient,
(Continued on page 81
county at a Fayetteville meeting
some years ago when the Cape
Fear proposal was in the early
planning stages.
The recently announced plan
calls for dams on the Haw River,
a few miles north of Moncure; on
Deep River at Howards Mill in
Moore, less than a mile south of
the Randolph County line, almost
due north of Robbins; and a third
dam on Deep River, further north
in Randolph.
Haw River and Deep River con
verge near Moncure to form the
Cape Fear.
The dam on the Haw River, if
the project receives Congressional
approval, would be the first to be
built. The Howards Mill dam
would create a considerably smal
ler, but yet large, lake, most of
which would be Randolph County.
However, Commissioner Currie
pointed out, the Howards Mill
dam would produce several bene
fits for Moore, including improv
ed water supply in the area, near
by recreational opportunities and
flood prevention.
Mr. Currie recalled a 1945 flood
that washed out dams at Howards
Mill and Glendon, forcing costly
replacements. Control of flood
waters by the Howards Mill dam
aitd the other Deep River dam in
Randolph County would do much
to prevent flood damage all along
the course of Deep River in
Moore, he said.
Deep River flows from west to
east across alwut two thirds of the
pxtreme upper (northern) portion
of Moore County, with many
twists and bends, including the
famous “horseshoe” bend from
which the historic “House in the
Horseshoe’ takes its name. The
house was the scene of a skirmish
in the American Revolution.
Adding to the county’s water
supply by formation of the lake
north of Howards Mill might help
attract industry, too, Mr. Currie
noted.
There was unanimous agreement
among board members on his pro
posal to write Senator Jordan,
the Tar Heel senator who has been
most active on behalf of the Cape
Fear basin project.
Moore Officials Back
L,on^-Souj^ht Highway,
Carthage to Pittsboro
FUNERAL FRIDAY
AT CEREMONY— Lt. Gen. H. H. Howze of
Fort Bragg lays a wreath at the Marshall monu
ment in Pinehurst, during a memorial service
honoring the Tate General of the Army George
C. Marshall. The color guard was provided by
the local National Guard company.
(Hemmer photo)
Schooling Showi,
Point-to-Point i
Set This Month J
Following the annual Mid '’in
ter Horse Show at the Car’ina
Hotel ring in Pinehurst last'^ri-
day (see report elsewhere i^^to-
.day’s Pilot), informal schoting
shows have been scheduleclfor
Sundays, January 14 and 28.;
Equestrian highlight of .-.he
month will be the Old Fashi(‘ed
point-to-Point Race, beginnin at
Mile Away Farm near SoutlVn
Pines, Saturday, January 20. Ihe
race, sponsored by the M< re
•County Hounds; is open to'ill
qualified hunters that have pt
raced between flags.
Each of the schooling sh<^s
will have a minimum of fi*r
■horsemanship classes fof junfs
fuid three green hunter clasy.
No entry fees are charged ^
outside entries are welcome.
The January 14 show is sch(_-
•uled for D. W. Winkelman’s Lai"
Tawn Farm. The January 28 sh<
will be at Mrs. Mary Doyli
Economy Farm ring. Both fan'
are out Youngs Road, near Sout
■ern Pines.
Reynolds Grant
Made to Hospital
W. P. Saunders of Southern
Pines, chairman of Moore Memor
ial Hospital’s $800,000 new wing
fund-raising campaign, said this
week that the Hospital has been
granted $50,000 by the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation, Inc., of
Sapelo Island, Ga.
Mr. Saunders said that a letter
to the hospital from Richard J.
Reynolds, president of the Foun
dation, reports that the Founda
tion’s trustees have approved the
grant “to assist in the construc
tion of an Orthopedic Floor and
conversion of space to a Physical
Therapy Department.”
’The Foundation makes grants
to hospitals and other public ser
vice institutions.
W. C. Dunn, 52,
Aberdeen, Drowns
On Florida Visit
W. C. Dunn, 52, proprietor of
the Aberdeen Fish Market, and
his brother Joe Dunn of Apopka
Fla., were drowned Monday while
fishing off Cape Canavarel Inlet
on the Florida coast.
Joe Dunn’s 13-year-old son was
saved by a shrimping vessel which
came to the rescue, but which
was unable to save the father and
uncle.
Few details of the tragedy were
learned here, other than that
their fishing boat became caught
in rough breakers and capsized
The Aberdeen man, his wife and
18-year-old daughter Barbara, a
student at St. Andrews College,
Laurinburg, left home before
Christmas to visit their relatives
at Apopka, a holiday trip they
made at this time every year.
They had planned to return home
Monday but were persuaded to
stay over New Year’s Day so the
brothers could have one more
day of coastal fishing.
Double funeral services were
held Wednesday morning at an
Apopka funeral home.
A graveside service for W. C.
Dunn will be held Friday at 11
a. m. at Old Bethesda cemetery,
conducted by his pastor, the Rev.
R. D. Spear, Jr., of the First Bap
tist church.
(Continued on page 8)
FIRST BABY
First baby of 1962 at the
county's two hospitals -was
the son of the Rev. and Mrs.
W. B. Heyward of Raeford.
bom at 2:48 a. m., January
2. in Moore Memorial Hospi
tal. The Rev. Mr. Heywjurd is
minister of the Presbyterian
Church in Raeford.
St. Joseph of the Pines
Hospital reported no births in
1962 through yesterday.
As the first baby of the
year, the Heyward child will
receive gifts from various
clubs and businesses.
THE WEATHER
REAPPOINTED
S. J. Bradshaw was reappointed
Tuesday as county electrical in
spector, by action of the county
commissioners. Normally running
for a calendar year, the term was
extended only until December 1,
Uie date when the next board,
elected in Novenfber, will take of
fice.
March of Dimes io
Be Launched Friday
Moore County’s March of
Dimes, to raise funds for the Na
tional Foundation’s fight against
polio, arthritis and birth defects,
will begin with a kick-off dinner
of community chairmen and oth
er interested persons at the Car
thage Hotel, at 7 p. m. Friday.
Frank McCaskill of Pinehurst is
the county campaign chairman.
Chapter officers for the coming
year will be elected.
Community chairmen named so
far are listed in a sponsored ad
vertisement in today’s Pilot.
One Driver Freed,
Another Held for
Manslaughter
Billy Jackson Dark, 35, of
Route 3, Pittsboro, driver of one
of the two cars involved in a
fatal automobile accident at the
comer of Massachusetts Ave. and —°:—
May St., December 19, paid a $10 Legion
Marshall Lauded
By Gen. Howze as
Example to Youth
Calling the late General of the
Army George Catlett Marshall
“one of the giants of the 20th cen
tury,” Lt. Gen. Hamilton H.
Howze of Fort Bragg, speaking in
Pinehurst Sunday afternoon, ad
monished young people of the na
tion to study General Marshall’s
selfless devotion to duty, high
patriotism, wisdom, forbearance
and courage.
“Having seen these things,” he
said, “go, and do likewise.”
General Howze spoke in Mar
shall Park during the third an
nual memorial service sponsored
on December 31, General Mar-
sliall’s birth date, by the A. B.
Sally Post 350, American Legion,
at Pinehurst. Wreaths were plac
ed at the Marshall monument in
the park by General Howze, on
behalf of the armed fortes, and
by Fred Fields, commander of the
Legion post, for the American
Moore County commissioners
reported today as “very satisfac
tory” an hour-and-a-hah session
they had yesterday morning with
Elsie Webb of Rockingham, ,8th
Division highway commissioner,
in regard to the routing of a pro
posed new highway from Carth
age to Pittsboro.
Attending the meeting at the
t division engineering headquar
ters building in Aberdeen were
also: State Senator Wilbur Currie
of Carthage, County Attorney M.
G. Boyette of Carthage, Earl J.
Dark, chairman of the Chatham
County board of commissioners,
and T. C. Johnson, Jr., division
engineer. The proposed road, as
well as an alternate route that is
being advocated by the State
Highway Commission, would run
in both Moore and Chatham
Counties.
The Wednesday session con
tinued a discusion that began
Tuesday at the January meeting
of the commissioners in the court
house at Carthage, with the full
board present: Chairman L. R.
Reynolds of Robbins RFD, and
and Commissioners John M. Cur
rie of Carthage, Tom Monroe of
Robbins, J. M. Pleasants of South
ern Pines and W. S. Taylor of
Aberdeen. Senator Currie, who
has worked for a new Carthage-
Pittsboro highway for the past
10 years, and Attorney Boyette
were at the Tuesday meeting also.
A member of the Moore Com
missioners said after Wednesday’s
meeting that the group had
thoroughly discussed the two pro-
E. C. Stevens,
Longtime Civic
Leader, Dies
Eugene C. Stevens, 65, longtime
civic leader and former member
of the Southern Pines town board,
died early this morning at St.
Joseph of the Pines Hospital.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at 4 p. m. at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, conducted by
the rector, the Rev. Martin Cald
well. Burial will be in Mt. Hope
Cemetery. There will be a general
closing of local businesses and
offices during the funeral.
Since coming to Southern Pines
in 1924, he had been active in
business, cultural and religious
affairs. In 1956 he was awarded
the Builders Cup of the Sandhills
Kiwanis club, recognizing his out
standing service in many fields
“without thought of personal
gain,” over a period of many
years.
.A heart condition in recent
years had occasioned his with
drawal from most- of the civic
and other activities in which he
had long been engaged.
He was born in St. Paul, Minn.,
the son of John F. Stevens, inter
nationally famous civil engineer
and pioneer railroad builder, who
had done engineering for the
/-I 7 , i . uiuiuuKiiiy ulscussea tne two pro-
Panama Canal and took p^t m posed routes and that Mr. Webb
the construction of the Great solidly backing the so-called
Northern Railroad 'through the !
we.stern wiiHerne^ I or Eastern route ror
which a survey \#as made several
Board Learns Why Jail Costs Rise
Noting that cost of operating
the county jail in Carthage is
rising, the county commissioners
called in Sheriff W. B. Kelly and
Jailer Landis Hussey, while the
board was in session at the court
house Tuesday, and asked: how
come?
Hussey said that he’s simply
having to feed more prisoners
and having to feed some of them
Maximum and minimum instance, he explain-
peratures for each day of the pai a defendant is sentenc-
week were recorded as follows S ^
the U. S. Weather Bureau obsei
ration station at the wEEl
the prisoner is sent to the county
jail that same day, because there
studios on Midland Road.
Max
December 28 44
December 29 43
December 30 43
December 31 51
January 1 37
January 2 45
.January 3 .. 53
Ml
2^ are no food preparation facilities
jg in the Southern Pines jail.
12 The State, however, only picks
21 up prisoners to go to its camp
32 near Carthage on Wednesday
30 nornings. Therefore, Hussey said.
from the Southern Pines court
usually has to spend a week in
the county jail, waiting to be
picked up the following Wednes
day morning.
Three courts—at Carthage,
Southern Pines and Aberdeen—
are now sending people to the
county jail, Hussey noted. He
cited one defendant who was sen
tenced from the Southern Pines
court to a 90-day term, to work
in and around the county jail
This means the county has to feed
this prisoner during that time,
Hussey said.
Members of the board congrat
ulated Hussey on a good report
for the Moore jail, received in the
last state inspection. They said
they didn’t think they could do
much about cutting the cost of
feeding prisoners, although they
commented that the week’s delay
fine and court costs, on a charge
of running through a stop light,
in Southern Pines Recorder’s
Court yesterday.
Neither Dark nor his attorney
appeared, as they had been per
mitted to sign a waiver of ap
pearance and send in the fine and
costs.
Dark was the driver of an au
tomobile which struck a car driv
en by Miss Marguerite Wolf, 71,
whose sister, Mrs. Irene Wolf
Welsh, 76, a passenger with her,
was thrown from the car and kill
ed as a result of the collision.
Dark, who was represented by
counsel, faced the local court last
week charged with involuntary
ma^laughter, as a result of the
accident. The police investigation
had determined that he went
through a red light before his au
tomobile struck Miss Wolf’s car.
In last week’s preliminary-
hearing' on the manslaughter
charge, no probable cause was
found by Judge W. Harry Fullen-
wider and Dark was freed. He
had pleaded not guilty. He was
later charged with running
through a red light—the case that
was settled yesterday.
Dark told investigating officers
after the accident that he thought
the traffic light was changing to
green, not to red, when he enter
ed the intersection.
Judge Fullenwider explained
that he had ruled no probable
cause last week because he could
find no criminal intent on the
part of Dark, nor any other in
criminating circumstances such as
speeding or use of alcohol on the
defendant’s part. The judge said
his ruling was based on State Su
preme Court decisions and that
he was confident no grand jury
(Continued on page 8)
General Howze is commander
of the XVIH Corps and of Port
Bragg. He was introduced by
Gen. I. T. Wyche of Pinehurst,
one of several retired generals
and other retired military person
nel who' attended the memorial
service.
General and Mrs. Marshall had
western wilderness.
Mr. Stevens left Yale in his
junior year, in 1917, to enter gov
ernment service as an assistant to
his father, working to solve Rus
sia’s postwar transportation prob
lems following the withdrawal of
Allied troops, and keeping the
Transiberian Railroad in opera
tion in Siberia and Manchuria
On his return after severa
years overseas he came to South
ern Pines, establishing himself
as a real estate and insurance
agent. He headed the company
until 1958, when he sold the in
surance agency to Joseph I. Scott,
retaining the real estate business.
In his business, he was a lead
er in the development of the
aiiu ivxio. xvidiaiiau iiaa — —
a house in Pinehurst for many Knollwood and Weymouth
years prior to his death in 1959.
Mrs. Marshall was unable to at
tend Sunday’s service as had been
hoped. She has not been in good
health recently. 'Though she no
(Continued on page 8)
Students to Speak
At PTA Meeting
Student leaders in extra'-curri-
cular activities at the East South
ern Pines schools will speak, ex
plaining their organizations, at
the regular meeting of the Parent-
Teacher Association to be held
in Weaver Auditorium at 8 p. m.
Monday.
Mrs. Albert Grove, president,
said that Miss Mary Logan, school
supervisor, will show slides of
local school activities. Refresh
ments will be served in the cafe
teria after the meeting.
Heights subdivisions, helping to
bring to the town many outstand
ing residents.
He served on the town govern
ing board from 1934 until his res
ignation in 1950 because of pres
sure of business.
(Continued on page 8)
APPRECIATION
Appreciation for food items
and money given to the
Christmas Cheer betsket pro
gram of John Boyd Post, Vel-
erans of Foreign Wars, has
been exinressed by Harry
Chatfield, chairman of the
project for the past holiday
season. Eighty-six baskets
were packed andi delivered to
needy families of the South
ern Pines area. ''The VFW
Post is deeply grateful for all
contributions," Mr. Chatfield
said.
J. Elvin Jackson of Carthage
and Pinehurst, president of the
Moore County Young Democrats
Club, will lead a delegation to the
27th annual YDC installation
rally at Statesville Saturday.
Court of Honor Set
At Farm Life Monday
19i inybody going “to the roads” ers doesn’t make sense.
The Moore District Boy Scout
court of honor will be held at
Farm Life School on Monday,...,.,,., ..i,
January 8, at 8 p. m., it is an-^ son,
'.u .u o . T,. ^ "Oilseed by C. C. Thompson of
with the Sotuhern Pines prison-Pinebluff, district advancement
Young Democrats to Attend State Rally
chairman.
Gov. Terry Sanford will be^tlte
featured speaker at the everil. W.
E. Graham, Jr., of Charlotte,
attorney who is a native of
son Springs in Moprfe County,
be installed a^«ate YT^ft' pru
dent, along^xWith othbr ^.^fficers
elected qt' the state ^^'ni’ention
sever^-lwtfeks ago^^/
_,-i!^^c)ted to attend the rally
from ^pore, rh addition to Jack-
son, Mrs. Harold Blue of
Eaglrf Springs, first vice pr.'si-
Ident, of the Moore YDC, and klr.
I^ue, and Arthur Rowe of Abe'v
deen and Southern Pines, secre
tary and immediate past prseidnt
of ■the Moore club.
Toie held at the Vance Hotel,
thrl-^y will include a banquet
7:30^. m., to be followed by
a danceX
Mr. Jackson said this week that
he ia' pleased with response to
tl>^1962 YDC membership cam-
_ aign which is now going on. He
reminded Democrats that anyone
18 years of age or older can join
the 'YDC for a $1 membership fee.
All members will receive the
state party newspaper which is
issued every six weeks. Member
ship cards will be mailed out-at
the end of January, he said.
Persons wishing to join should
send their fees to Mr. Jackson at
post office Box 372, Carthage.
years ago.
Chairman Dark and several
other members of the Chatham
board of commissioners also re
portedly favor the original, east
ern route.
Discussion.of the two routes be
gan December 15 when the Moore
and Chatham commissioners met
jointly at Pittsboro, deciding to
seek a hearing on the controver
sial routes before W. F. Babcock,
state highway director. They des
ignated Mr. Boyette, who was
present, to ask Senator Currie to
arrange a hearing.
Meeting with the Moore com-
missionei-s Tuesday, Senator Cur
rie said he thought the matter
should be handled through the di
vision highway commissioners in
volved. Moore is in the division
of Mr. Webb and Chatham is in
the division of W. E. Horner of
Sanford. Prior to last year’s re
organization of the Highway Com
mission, during the many years
of planning for the proposed road,
Moore and Chatham were in the
same highway division.
The two routes for the Carth-
age-Pittsboro road under discus
sion are;
1. The original, eastern route,
backed by the Moore commission
ers, which would run north and
east out of Carthage generally
(Continued on page 8)
Tax Listing, Dog
Registration Start
Listing of real and personal
property for taxes began through
out the county Tuesday . A com
plete list of the township list tak
ers appears on page 6. Mrs. Irene
Mullinix of Vass is listing local,
in-town property at the Informa
tion Center.
Also starting Tuesday was reg
istration of dogs at the local po
lice station by residents of South
ern Pines only, in compliance
with a new dog control law.
Both tax listing and dog regis
tration must be completed by the
end of January.
$500 RAISED
Approximately $500 was raised
toward construction of the offi
cial Little League baseball park
on Morganton Road, by the re
cently held Ball Park Ball dance
at the armory, it was reported
today by Shirley Wooster, treas
urer of the local Little League or
ganization. Little League officials
expressed their appreciation for
the public’s support of the fund
raising event.