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I . I ■P Iv K4 VOL. 42^-NO. 35 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1962 $99,701 In Contracts Let For First Phase of New West Side High School The Southern Pines board of tary of the board, said that the • . J_ i -I ..1 1 fWtL. TWENTY PAGES education awarded contracts totalling $99,701 last night for construction of a “Phase A” eev- ,en-classroom building and heat ing plant for a new West South ern Pines High School. Supt. Luther A. Adams, secre- Champ Woodward Eliminated In Golf Tournament board had to hold its contract lot ting to the “Phase A” plan be cause the local school district had not been allotted requested addi tional school capital outlay funds "by the county. Southern Pines District is re ceiving $81,500 from the county in the new budget, Mr. Adams Said, and has on hand $61,500 from the past year’s capital out lay appropriation, which was sav ed for the West Southern Pines project. The local school board had re quested an additional $50,000 from the commissioners, over the $81,500 allotted, to enable con struction of two phases of the West Southern Pines building. Building both phases together would have saved several thous and dollars, Mr. Adams said. % PRICE: 10 CENTS ft' Moore County will have a new golf champion this year. The de fending titlist. Bill Woodward of Robbins, was eliminated last week in the first round of the an nual tournament at the Pinehurst Country Club, losing to Bill Ham el of Southern Pines, 4 and 2. The opening round of match , - play brought out some champion- tilttlc ship calibre golf. Two contestants ^ ■in the third flight shot 73S: Alvie All Claxtbn and W. J. Burke. It was 1 O r lay an all-time low score for Claxton, ^ president of the club staging the OrBCIlVlilo GaiTlf* tournament. The second round is under way The Southern Pines Little this week for survivors of last' League All Stars will leave for week, and must be completed by j Greenville Friday where they will Town Asks Authority To Issue Sewer, Water, Swimming Pool Bonds Sunday in all flights First round results: Championship flight — Bill Hamel defeated Bill Woodward, 4-2; John Marcum def. Charlie Rose, 3-2; Joel Hufford def. Top per Parks, 4-3; Harry Davis def. Joe Carter, 1-up; Pete Tufts def. Clyde Mangum, 3-1; Glenn Criss- man def. Will Wiggs, 1-up; Bar ney Avery def. Tom Grey, 3-2; Bill Wilson, Sr. def. Carlos Frye, 4-3. First flight — Melvin Wicker def. Tip Eddy by default; Ed Co mer def. Tom Shockley, 5-4; Watt Smith def. E. Yarborough, 2-1; Bill Purcell def. Harold Collins, 4-2; Bill Sledge def. Wayne Hardy, 3-2; B. E. Dotson def. Har ry Chatfield by default; Layton Ford def. Raymond North, 1-up; Mike Cheek def. Louis Honeycutt by default. Second flight—Earl Allen def. Leonard Yearby, 3-2; Glenn Las siter def. Ralph Horner, 1-up, 20 holes; Frank Wells def. Cecil (Continued on Page 8) meet the winner of Greenville’s two All Star teams which are playing today (Thursday). Joel Stutts has been appointed manager of the local team. He is assisted by John Crowell. Stutts said that the local team is expect ing plenty of trouble from the .Greenville team, “although the Iwal team will field some of the finest Little Leaguers anywhere ’’ Pitching for the Southern Pines team will be Mike Warlick, Eddie Allen, Billy Strickland and Pete Buchan. All games will be played at 4 p. m. Should Southern Pines win Fri day, they will, stay overni^fr at Greenville to meet-the Roberson- viDc-Tarboro winner for the Dis trict 4 Championship Saturday (Continued on Page 8) Meeting in special session last night, the town council started legal wheels turning that will lead to a municipal election in which Southern Pines voters will be given a chance to approve or disapprove: Bonds totaling $280,000 for ad ditions and improvements in the sewer system. Bonds totalling $105,000 for ad ditions and improvements in the water system. And $35,000 in bonds to finance construction of a swimming pool in West Southern Pines. A fourth bond proposal—^$25,000 DOLL SHOW WINNERS— Among the many girls exhibiting dolls in a show simnsored by the town summer recreation program on the park block last week were these whose dolls were declared winners in various categories of judging. Front row, left to right, with their dolls: Judy Spear, best baby doll; Nancy John son, second place for best show doll; Donna Black, largest; Patricia Hubbard, most unusual; Mary Jean Rodgers, best hairdo; and Denise Black, funniest. Back row, same order: Betsy Harper, best-cared-for doll under three years old; Marian McPhaul, smallest (the tiny doll held against her white blouse front is scarcely visible); Kathy Lamb, best show doll; Jennifer Smith, best-cared-for doll over three years old; and Sherry Johnson, oldest doll. The show was supervised by Arden Fobes, director of daily recreation activities on the park block. The judges were Mrs. Ed Willis, Mrs. J. F. Folley and Mrs. S. D. Fobes. Results of a pet show conducted at the park yesterday will be report ed in next week’s Pilot. ' (Pilot photo) Game Protest To Be Considered Bensalem Church To Dedicate New Building July 29 Bensalem Presbyterian Church of Eagle Springs will be dedica ted on Sunday, July 29, at the 11 o’clock service. The pastor, the Rev. Dawes B. Graybeal, will deliver the sermon, “The House of Glory,’’ using the same text that was used in 1859 when the former church building was dedicated. Other ministers assisting in the dedication will be the Rev. Harv-ey A. McBath of Eagle Springs, the Rev. Grover Currie of West End and the Rev. Lacy McDuffie of Candor. Weather permitting, picnic lunches will be spread on the grounds. Former members and friends of Bensalem are especial ly invited to attend. In March of 1958, the 99-year- old, heart-pine church burned to the ground. With only $15,000 in surance to begin on, the congre gation immediately made plans to rebuild. Four years and hundreds of manhours later, the modem brick sanctuary and educational department were completed and free of debt. The actual cash outlay was $100,000, not including gifts of labor, materials and furnishings. The present membership of the church is 165. Currie Succeeds Richard Tufts As Bank President Dr. William F. Hollister yjx Midland Road, president of the Southern Pines Little League, is expected to call a meeting of the league’s board of directors next week, to consider a protest entered by James E. Pate, coach “— of the Braves, one of the four best known as chairman Little League teams. ’ , - — . . - The protest was made last week, in the absence of the league president on a trip with his family, and so could not be considered by the directors at the time it was made. Pate contended that his 6-won, 2-lost game record at the close of the second half of the season beat Coach Joel Stutts’s Cardin als record of 5-won, 3 lost, and that a tie which had been regis tered by the two teams in one game during the second half season should be disregarded and need not have been played off. Stutts said the tie game should have been replayed. It was played last Wednesday night. The (Continued on Page 8) Wilbur H. Currie, longtime res ident of Carthage who is active in business, civic, political, and religious affairs in .this ai;ea, was elected president of the Claroliha Bank at the last regular meeting j of the directors. Mr. Currie was elected to suc ceed Richard S. Tufts who had , 'rerigned at the same meeting. Mr. ® Tufts’s resignation was accepted I with deep regret by the directors. He had been a director of the Carolina Bank since 1924 and had I been president since 1938. Though active in many civic affairs he is best known as chairman of the board of Pinehurst, Inc., and is past president of the U. S. Golf Association and has served for a number of years on its Rules of Golf Committee. He is spending ■the summer at York Harbor, Maine. Mr. Currie has been a director of' the Carolina Bank since 1935. He has also been a director of the Moore Memorial Hospital for many years and from 1930 to 1942 was chairman of the board of county commissioners. He repre sented the 12th District as sena tor for several sessions of the N. C. State Legislature. Mr. Currie has been a trustee of the consoli dated University of North Caro- (Continued on Page 8) ON FAILURE IN DUTY CHARGE 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 W E E B studios op Midland Road. ■ Max. Min. July 12,? j-..; 88 69 July 92 67 July i4;,ii..; 92 71 July 15:^154-....- 100 72 July 97 69 July nim 78 • - 67 July la^fe; 88 65 'The entire governing body of the Town of Pinebluff—with the exception of one town commis sioner away for the summer—^was acquitted in Moore County Re corder’s Court at Carthage Mon day of a charge brought by a tax payer: that it had fai.l^ to en- .Torce the town zoning ordinance. Mayor E. H. Mills and two town commissioners, Walter Davenport and Robert Brock, were found not guilty of “omitting, neglecting and refusing” to discharge their official duties by failing to en force the town’s, zoning ordinance. Judge J. Vance Rbwe found there ■was Insufficient evidence.,of any violation of the ordinance,' also that the alleged Condition of vio lation, as described, by' State’s witnesses,'“was at most only tem- porar^i*’ David A. Spence, a business was allowed to operate in a building in the business district in which living quarters had also been set up for the owner and his family. Spence, tvho has a home in Pine- bluff and operates a wholesale horseshoe manufacturing shop near No. 1 highway, south of the town, testified that a partition had been removed in the old Post Of fice building, the structure in question, which he claimed con stituted a “structural alteration” in violation of a clause in the zoning ordinance. The building is located at the corner of No. 1 highway and Philadelphia Ave! in Pinebluff^ three; - blocks - long, sparely built-up business section along the highway. However, Spence was undble to give any evidence that any ;busi- neSs had actuallji been transacted mi. * 1.,.. ' ■ . . avvudiijr uccn uiiusaciea The Condition'was one m'which, there by a carpet concern which testified complaining witness I (Continued on page 19) JACK E. STARNES Starnes Assigned To Scouting Post One of two new professional executives who eventually will divide administration of the Boy Scouting program in the Moore District is now at work with headquarters in Southern Pines. ! He is Jack E. Starnes, native of Monroe and veteran of service in the Marine Corps, who is as suming his first post in profes sional scouting. He succesds Charles Riddle who has taken an executive’s post at Fayetteville. John A. McPhaul, Moore Dis trict chairman, said that another executive, Lewis 'Weskey, will be assigned to the district by .Occon- eechee Council about the middle of August, and will live in-Carth age. 'While the two executives will work throughout the district for the present, it is expected that later the area will be divided be tween them, with 'Weskey having the upper part of the county and Starnes the lower part. Weskey is now attending the executive’s training course at the Schiffman Scout Reservation, Mendham, N. J. Starnes is a recent graduate of this course. Moore District includes all of Moore County and a portion of Hoke County, in the McCain-Ash- ley Heights area. This would be (Continued on Page 8) GOOD PEACHES Peach growers oi the Sandhills area report the best quality of fruit in years and point out that the popular freestone Elbertas are now ripe. Even though the crop is a little short, growers say, qual ity of the fruit is expected to off set any loss from this cause. Duke Endowment Gives 150,000 To Moore Memorial Announcement was made last week by H. G. Poole, president of the Board of Directors of Moore Memorial Hospital, of a grant of $50,000 by the Duke Endowment whose North Carolina offices are located in Charlotte. Notification of the appropria tion was by letter to Duncan Mc- Googan, administrator of Moore Memorial Hospital, from Marshall I. Pickens, Director of the Hos- iptal and Orphan Section of the Duke Endowment. At its final report meeting on May .1, the hospital’s Building Fund Campaign reported a total of $473,385. Since that date, an additional $14,308 has been receiv ed in. pledges. A donation in the amount of $50,000 from the Given Foundation was announced two weeks ago and is. to be .used to buy special items of equipment. With the Duke Endowment grant hospital "Officials' plan to expand the initial project to include such items as a second new elevator, expansion of the lobby, and alter ations within the existing build- ing. The $473,385 campaign total an nounced May 1 included $45,000 frorn Moore County, a pledge au thorized by the board of commis sioners April 18 in a “letter of in tent” which said the county would make the contribution in three annual installments of $15,- (Continued oh Page 8) Proposed Library Bond Issue Fails To Get Approval Action on a proposed $25,000 bond issue to finance an addition and more shelving for the South ern Pines Library was not taken last night when the town council gavo approval to three other bond proposals and authorized legal steps leading to an election on them. (See another story for de tails of the other proposed bonds.) The proposed library work, and j the need for it, which had been } discussed briefly in former meet ings, were outlined in detail for the council by Town Attorney W. Lament Brown who is ako chair man of the library’s six-member board of trustees, a body whose members are appointed by the council. Three members of the council— Fred Pollard, Felton Capel and Morris Johnson—said one or two members of the library board of trustees had, in the past few days, voiced to them disapproval of the proposed work. They said these two trustees had denied any need for the addition and had said that the present library is adequate if unused and unneeded books are eliminated, if present equipment is used efficiently and the collec tion properly catalogued. The opposing trustees were not for expansion and equipment at the town-owned Southern Pines Library—was rejected by the council for inclusion in the elec tion, after objections to the pro posed work to be financed by the bonds, on the part of two of the six library trustees, were revealed and discussed. Specific action taken by the council on the three approved proposals was to authorize the mayor, manager and clerk to make application to the State Local Government Commission for authority to issue the three sets of bonds. Application is made separately for each proposed bond issue and each would appear as a separate question on the election baUots, so that voters may vote separately for or against any of the three proposals. The full council was present for the meeting: Mayor John S. Ruggles, Mayor Pro-Tern J. D. Hobbs and Councilmen Felton Capel, Morris Johnson and Fred Pollard. Also present were To-wn Attorney W. Lament Brown who explained the legal procedure to be followed; Mrs. Mildred Mc Donald, town tax collector who is also clerk for the council; and Paul M. Van Camp and Stephen Van C^amp of Paul M. Van Camp Associates, Inc., local civil and sanitary engineering firm which made estimates of amoimts need ed for the water and sewer work. The council’s votes to ask for authority to issue the water and sewer bonds were unanimous. In the vote asking for authority to issue the West Southern Pines swimming pool bonds, taken on motion of Mayor Ruggles, second ed by Capel, two council mem bers, Hobbs and Johnson, abstain ed from voting. The mayor, Capel and Fred Pollard voted for the proposal. Rejection of the library pro posal took place when there was no motion, and so no vote, on whether to ask for authority to issue bonds. (Details of the library bond discussion appear in a sep arate story in today’s Pilot). Projects Listed A report from the Van Camp firm broke down the sewer and ~jrg o vivwii me ocwtri <uiu at first identified by the council- water bond proposals as follows. men but, as discussion progressed, (Continued on Page 8) Plans For Dances Made By Teenage Committee The teenage entertainment committee met Monday night and discussed a variety of dances to be held during the next four weeks. A square dance, street dance and swimming party were some of the suggestions which were offered as a change from the regular dance held back of the East Southern Pines school gymnasium. The weekly dances are sponsor ed by the municipal recreation program, for boys and girls of high school age and older. Tomor row (Friday) night activity will again be centered behind the school gymnasium. The entertain ment committee has expressed hopes of having an even better turnout than the 50 or so teen agers who attended last Friday night. listing work: estimated costs of the EIRST DEATH AT WEST END FIRM Explosion Fatal To Plant Worker The first fatal accident in the 35-year history of the Sandhill Furniture Corporation at West End took the life of a longtime Negro employee, Lafayette Eller- be, last week. Ellerbe, a truck driver for the company and a resident of Taylor Town near Pinehurst, was clean ing an engine in the firm’s truck ing division last Tuesday, when an explosion of unknown origin took place. Rushed by ambulance to Moore Memorial Hospital at Pinehurst, critically injured, he was given first aid and, on the advice , of attending physicians,, was sent by ambulance to North' Cafdlina Memorial Hospital, Chapel HiU for further treatriient unavailable at Moore Memorial. He died, be fore reaching Chapel Hill. Accompanying Ellerbe in the ambulance was Mrs. Mercer Parrot, registered nurse who is employed by the furniture com pany, and Bill VonCanon, com pany official. EUerbe’s wife, mother and other members of his family followed the ambulance by car, driven by J. B. Barnette. Survivors are his wife and four children, and his mother. Company officials praised EUerbe’s work. Erbie Sutphin, under whose supervision Ellerbe had worked for seven years, said he was “one of the best em ployees I have ever known.” The manager and two other officials of tile Sears, Roebuck warehouse at Lenoir, to which Ellerbe had made daily truck deliveries of Sandhill Furniture products, attended the funeral in appreciation of the efficient and courteous service he had render ed in his work. Sewer Bonds Sewage treatment plant, $160,- 000; trunk sewers, $40,000; sewers to existing homes, $30,000; and sewers in areas to be annexed, $50,000. Total for sewer bonds, $280,000. 'Water Bonds New pumping units, $12,000; raw water line, $25,000; raising water storage tanks, $18,000; and water mains in areas to be an nexed, $50,000. Total for water bonds, $105,000. Mayor Ruggles opened discuss ion on the sewer and water bond proposals by recalling that the town, in a former administration, had been warned by the State Stream Sanitation Commission that improvements and changes must be made in the sewage treat ment plant in order to comply with state law. He said that a schedule of proposed work adopt ed several years ago had not been followed, that extensions on time to do the work had been granted and that the present administration has dra-wn up, after study during the past year, a new schedule of work that has (Continued on Page 8) STORM DESTROYS 75 ACRES TOBACCO Heavy damage to tobacco crops was done by a hailstorm cutting a narrow streak across lower Moore County Monday afternoon, hitting in the airport section. Clay Road Farms and several places in between. 'The storm came up about 4:30, causing a little rain at Carthage, .deepening to nearly a cloudburst in the Southern Pines area. The heavy black cloud was pierced with lightning flashes, from which came wind, rain and the streak of haiL F. D. Allen, county agricultural agent, said some 75 • acres of to bacco were pracJacaHy destroyed by the storm.
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