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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., TOURSDAY,’ OCTOBER 4, 1962
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Young Democrats Set Up Headquarters
In Carthage To Help In Campaigning
The Moore County Young Dem
ocrats Club has set up a county
headquarters at Carthage, to
serve as a center of Democratic
activities during the fall cam
paign, and as a source of infor
mation for party workers and
voters.
The project is headed by J. El-
vin Jackson of Carthage, who re
cently returned from a six-
months tour of Army duty to re
sume his duties as Moore YDC
president.
The headquarters is in the new
McGraw Building next to the
Penn Theatre, donated by J. L.
HEP, A. PAUL KITCHIN
Kitchin To Speak
Oct. 10 At County
YDC Convention
The annual Moore County
Young Democrats Club conven
tion will be held at the courthouse
in Carthage, Wednesday, October
10, at 7:30 p. m. with Rep. A. Paul
Kitchin as speaker, it is announc
ed by J. Elvin Jackson, YDC
president.
Officers will be elected, also
delegates to the state YDC con
vention to be held Thursday at
the O. Henry Hotel at Greens
boro.
The county meeting, usually
held the week before the State
convention, has been set this time
on the night before, as it was the
only time Rep. Kitchin could
come during the busy campaign
against Rep. Charles Jonas.
The Eighth District has two in
cumbent Congressmen, both bat
tling for reelection. The situation,
resulting from last year’s re-dis-
tricting, has made the 1962 cam
paign crucial.
At the county convention, plans
will be made for attendance at
the District Rally to be held in
behalf of Kitchin’s candidacy at
Rockingham October 23, when a
cavalcade of cars will carry the
Moore County delegation from
Carthage.
The YDC has undertaken the
big jobs of increasing the regis
tration and getting out the vote,
assisted by the Teen-Dems, new
organization of young voters-to-
be sponsored by the YDC. All
Democrats are urged to turn out
next Wednesday evening in sup
port of their effort and the dis
trict and county campaigns, said
President Jackson.
McGraw and decorated by the
YDC with posters and placards
outside and inside.
Following its opening Monday,
it is being staffed daily, Monday
through Friday, from 3:30 to 7:30
p. m., and on Saturdays from 9
a. m. to 6 p. m.
Teen-Dems are on duty daily,
after school, till 5 p. m., when
President Jackson and other YDC
members take over.
Campaign information and
bumper stickers in behalf of Rep.
A, Paul Kitchin’s reelection are
available there, also facts on reg
istration, voting and absentee bal
lots.
A phone has been installed and
anyone needing a ride to the reg
istrar’s post, when registration
begins, can call and get one. The
number is WH7-2223.
This is the first time a Demo
cratic campaign headquarters has
been established in the county
seat. It is also being used as a
YDC and Teen-Dem meeting
place and workshop, and is avail
able for any other party use. Jack-
son said.
License Offices
To Close 4 Days
state driver’s license examin
ing offices will be closed next
week in Aberdeen Monday and
Tuesday and in Southern Pines
Wednesday and Thursday, while
D. A. Clark, examiner, is attend
ing a special course at the Insti
tute of Government, Chapel Hill.
He will return to meet his reg
ular schedule in Pinehurst on
Friday.
Local Office Moves
Mr. Clark moved his local of
fice Wednesday from the town
hall to the Information Center
building at the corner of Pennsyl
vania Ave. and S. E. Broad St.
His days and hours in Southern
Pines each week will remain the
same at the new location; Wed
nesday and Thursday, from 8:30
a. m. to 5 p. m., with the excep
tion of next week, as noted above.
Young Bankers
Elect Hodgkins
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., executive
vice president of the Citizens
Bank and Trust Co., was installed
Monday as vice president of the
Young Bankers Division of the
N. C. Bankers Association. He
moved up from second vice pres
ident, to assume the new office.
Installation took place at a lun
cheon at the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, during the group’s two-
day, seventh annual convention
that opened Sunday.
W. H. Stanley of Rocky Mount
is the new president.
GREAT BOOKS PROGRAM
The Great Books discussion
group is starting another season,
with its first meeting set for Mon
day October 8, at 8 p. m. in the
James Boyd room at the South
ern Pines Library. William Bon
sai III and David Drexel will
again be the discussion leaders.
Anyone interested in joining the
group is invited.
First Baptist Church Sets Homecoming
Looking toward the beginning man and a past-president Of the
of the 85th year of its existence
in 1963, the First Baptist Church
of Southern Pines has planned a
Homecoming for Sunday, October
14, the Rev. Maynard Mangum,
pastor, announced today.
The Homecoming Committee,
headed by W. E. Kivette, has in
vited all former pastors now liv
ing and all non-resident members
for whom addresses could be
found. Former members no long
er living in Southern Pines,
friends of the church and Sunday
School members who have not
yet joined the church have also
been invited. These, along with
the regular members and their
families, are expected to swell
the attendance figure to well over
300 for all services of the day.
Sunday School will convene at
9:45 a. m. as usual, followed by
the morning preaching service at
11, when C. B. Deane of Rock
ingham will bring the message.
Mr. Deane is a former Congress-
N. C. Baptist State Convention.
Following the morning preach
ing service there will be an old-
fashioned “dinner - on - the
grounds” with special music and
the singing of Gospel hymns.
This period will be followed by
a brief session in the sanctuary
of the church when special guests
will be recognized and an histori
cal sketch of the church will be
given by Sam Richardson.
Training Union and the eve
ning preaching service have been
cancelled for October 14 only.
The First Baptist Church was
organized as the Manly Baptist
Church in 1879 and was active
there until May, 1899, when it
moved to Southern Pines and a
church building was built at the
corner of W. Connecticut Ave.
and Page St., which was used un
til the present church structure,
at the corner of N. Ashe St. and
New York Ave. was occupied in
August, 1936.
GETTING READY—Signs and placards were put in place
this week at the new YDC headquarters in Carthage. Young
Democrats in the photo are, left to right: DeWitt Purvis, John
Barringer, Elvin Jackson (on ladder), Roy Wallace, Mrs. Louise
Alford and Arthur Rowe.
Youth, 2 Children Killed, 8 Injured
In Traffic Accidents Saturday Night
Ronald Judson Gordon, 18, of
West End, Route 1, was killed
when the car in which he was a
passenger, driven by Karl Arthur
Andrews, Jr., 16, of Pinehurst,
went out of control about 11 p.
m. Saturday on US 15-501 about
a mile and a half north of the
No. 1 highway intersection.
State Trooper W. R. Austin said
the car, apparently traveling at a
high rate of speed, ran off the
highway on the right as it went
into a long curve, traveled 350
feet along the shoulder, skidded
across the highway for 150 feet,
then along the left shoulder for
150 feet more. It leaped a small
ravine, struck a tree and was
whirled about, hurtling into a
clump of trees, pinning Gordon
underneath when it came to rest.
Marks with bits of red tailligkt
glass still embedded in them
showed later, 10 to 12 feet up on
the trees beside the road.
Young Andrews, only slightly
hurt, stayed overnight at Moore
Memorial Hospital, where Gor
don was pronounced dead on ar
rival.
The Andrews car had stopped
at the “Park-N-Eat” Grill near
the junction of 15-501 with US 1.
The accident happened as it head
ed toward Pinehurst. The car, a
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Company Hired to
Build Camp Lake
N. C. Beal and Sons, a Sanford
firm, has been employed to con
struct a lake on the site for the
camp of the North Carolina Socie
ty for Crippled Children and
Adults, near Southern Pines, it
was announced this week.
Society officials said that the
contract price is $4,400, -with the
Beal company agreeing to donate
five per cent of the price to the
Society. Appreciation was ex
pressed for the donation. Work
is expected to start next week.
'The agreement calls for re
moval of all trees and tree stumps,
cleaning of vegetative growth
from the existing pond at the
site and doing “whatever else is
necessary that will present an
attractive lake ready for use.”
The Society plans to construct
a camp for crippled children on
the site is located northeast of
Knollwood. E. J. Austin of Sou
thern Pines is the camp building
architect. A state-wide fund-rais
ing drive for the project is now
going on.
SQUIRREL MYSTERY
Children in the Orchard Road-
Old Field Road area of Wey
mouth Heights report finding up
to a dozen squirrels, many of
them about half-grown, dead
from no visible cause, over the
past two weeks. The Pilot would
be interested in hearing from any
reader who might shed light on
the mystery of the deaths or who
has any pertinent comment on
the matter.
A car carrying nine members
of a Negro family, including five
children and four adults, was
wrecked at the dead-end inter
section of the Browns MiU Road
with NC 705, four miles north of
Robbins, about midnight Satur
day. Two of the children were
killed.
State Trooper Tommy Clark
said the car, entering 705 from
the side road, skidded 87 feet
through- the stop sign and into
the opposite embankment. The
impact crushed the occupants to
gether except for the driver, who
was thrown out.
Dead on arrival at Moore Me
morial hospital were George
Smith, Jr., 12, and Gloria Smith,
10. With injuries ranging from
serious to critical were another
Smith brother and sister, Georgi
ans, eight, and Willie, six; their
grandmother, Mrs. Beatrice Mc
Laughlin, 50; her son, Willie Al
ton McLaughlin, 27, identified by
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COURT OF HONOR
The Moore District Boy
Scout court of honor, at which
rank advancements and merit
badges will be awarded, will
be held in the auddtorium of
the elenventary school at
Eagle Springs, at 8 p. m.
Monday, it is announced by
C. Coolidge Thompson of
Pinebluff, advancement
chairman.
Over $1 Million
Granted On Moore
Hospital Work
Announcement was made this
week by the board of directors of
Moore Memorial Hospital of ap
proval by the North Carolina
Medical Care Commission of
matching funds for the hospital’s
expansion program.
The Commission approved a
Federal share of $1,122,391 of a
possible total project cost of $2,-
041,000. Notification of approval
was received Saturday by letter
from William F. Henderson, ex
ecutive secretary of the North
Carolina Medical Care Commis
sion to H. G. Poole of Carthage,
president of the hospital’s board
of directors. This approval, along
with local monies pledged during
the recent hospital fund drive and
from recent foundation grants,
will enable the hospital to pro
ceed with plans for implementing
its expansion program.
The project calls for a new
three-story wing adjoining the
existing building. 'The new wing
will provide facilities for x-ray,
pharmacy, central sterile supply,
operating rooms and beds for 88
patients. The existing boiler plant
and maintenance department will
also be expanded.
It is planned that several items
originally scheduled to be in later
phases will be included in the in
itial project. These include alter
ation of old surgery to patient
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Ninety-Nines To
Meet; Miss Cobb
Can’t Be Present
Women airplane pilots from
several states will fly in at the
Southern Pines-Pinehurst Airport
Friday for the weekend’s annual
meeting of the Southeastern and
Middle East sections of the Nine
ty-Nines.
The members of the 33-year-
old national organization will
make the Pine Needles Country
Club and Lodges their headquar
ters for a program that includes
a business meeting, golf tourna
ment and Saturday night banquet.
Miss Page Shamburger of Aber
deen, a Sandhills member of the
group, said that one of the two
featured banquet speakers will
not be present—Miss Jerrie Cobb
of Washington, D. C., the nation’s
leading candidate to become the
first woman astronaut. A consult
ant for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, Miss
Cobb was at Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
this week for Wednesday’s space
shot that sent Astronaut Walter
Schirra nearly six times around
the world, and notified Miss
Shamburger that she would be
detained and would not be able
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Hotel, Country Club,
Golf Project Proposed
AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE—Henson Maples (right), course
superintendent at the Pinehurst Country Club, receives from
Pinehurst’s board chairman, Richard S. Tufts, the Golf Course
Superintendents Association award for “excellence of the golf
course (Number Two) for the USGA Amateur.” Henson is the
son of the late Frank Maples, who began as course superinten
dent at the Pinehurst Club 60 years ago. (Hemmer photo)
FATHERS URGED
TO ATTEND PTA
Fathers at students are urg
ed to attend the "Pop’s
Night" meeting of the East
Southern Pines Parent-Teach
er Association to be held in
Weaver Auditorium at 8 p. m.
Monday.
Mrs. Albert Grove, presi
dent, said that of course
mothers are also invited, but
the occasion is designed to
give fathers especially an
opportunity to visit their
children's classrooms and
talk with their teachers.
Refreshments -will be serv
ed in the school cafeteria.
Travel Executives
From Europe Will
Visit Sandhills
Some 25 travel executives and
tour operators from England,
France, Germany, Switzerland,
Holland, Italy, Denmark, Norway
and Belgium are expected to ar
rive in Southern Ihnes by bus
about 11 a.m. Wednesday of next
week for a visit in the Sandhills
as part of their six-day tour of
North Carolina.
Their local schedule, which is
being arranged by George H. Leo
nard, Jr., and other members of
the town’s Resort Advertising
Committee, call for lunch at How
ard Johnson’s Restaurant and an
afternoon of either golf or sight
seeing.
The tourists will go to the Car
olina Hotel at Pinehurst for din
ner Wednesday night and will fly
to Asheville 'Thursday.
Members of the Advertising
Committee will escort those trav
elers who want to look around
the Sandhills instead of playing
golf.
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines
is expected to be on hand in Ral
eigh Monday to help Gov. Terry
Sanford greet the travelers, but
will not be able to make the tour
of the state with them as he will
leave for London, England, where
th.e first opening of the U. S. Tra
vel Service offices overseas will
take place Wednesday. Mr. Gil
more is director of the Travel
Service.
At its regular meeting Tuesday
night of next week, the town
council is expected to approve
removal of certain land use re
strictions from a tract that is part
of the town reservoir’s water
shed. The 33.78-acres area is part
of a larger tract for which a hotel-
country club-golf course project
is being proposed. The question
before the council is whether
the town will permit golf course
construction on the restricted
area, as well as residential con
struction there.
Plans for the project were plac
ed before the council at a special
meeting Monday afternoon, with
the full council present: Mayor
John S. Ruggles, Mayor Pro Tern
J. D. Hobbs and Councilmen Fel
ton Capel, Morris Johnson and
Fred Pollard. Present also were:
W. O. Moss, owner of a 271-acre
tract which includes the restrict
ed areas; Attorneys W. Harry
Fullenwider and Arthur Rowe
representing Mr. Moss, and Mrs.
Julia Steed and Robert Pearse
from the Steed Realty office,
agents in the transaction.
Proposing to buy the entire
tract from Mr. Moss, develop ex
tensive recreation facilities and
possibly do some home building
as well, is Charles A. Pitts, Can
adian businessman who has lived
in the Sandhills for several years
and has built a large home at
Manly on the former Brewster
property.
The tract lies north of Midland
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Council Adopts
Bond Ordinances
In a special meeting Tuesday,
the town council adopted three
bond ordinances, setting forth the
four municipal bond issues on
which citizens of Southern Pines
will vote November 6.
The proposed bond issues, on
which voters can indicate ap
proval or disapproval separately,
are: $280,000 to improve and ex
tend the sewer system; $105,000
for the improvement and exten
sion of the water system; $35,000
for construction of a swimming
pool in West Southern Pines; and
$25,000 for an addition and equip
ment at the Southern Pines Li
brary.
Full texts of all four bond ordi
nances are on page 20.
ON 400 ACRES NEAR SOUTHERN PINES
Plans Made For State Nature Preserve
Plans are under way for the
establishment by the State of
North Carolina of a Nature Pre
serve on land donated by the
Boyd family, it was announced
this week by Mrs. James Boyd.
The land comprises the “Holly
Woods,” a tract of 400 acres run
ning east and west on the south
side of Connecticut Avenue ex
tension towards Fort Bragg. It
includes about a third of the es
tate of James Boyd and the late
Daniel L. Boyd, the other thirds
being the so-called “Salty Marks
land” to the south and a large
acreage lying between Connecti
cut Avenue and Young’s Road.
The action, by which the state
would acquire the tract in ques
tion, was sparked, Mrs. Boyd
said, by the decision of the exec
utors and the guardians of minors
involved that the estate must be
settled.
The area included in the
preserve has been studied by the
Division of State Parks of the
Department of Conservation and
Developm.ent and the Special
Projects Committee appointed by
the Governor, whose reports state
that it meets all the State’s re
quirements for a park of this sort,
devoted to the development and
enjoyment of nature, with no
other recreational uses involved.
In describing the project,
Thomas C. Ellis, superintendent
of State Parks, who was in town
Tuesday, revealed that his depart
ment has been interested in the
Sandhills for a good many years.
He explained that a feature of the
department’s long-range planning
is to try to include in the parks
system an example of each of the
separate natural areas of special
interest throughout the state.
There are parks in the mountains.
at the seashore, in the Piedmont,
and so on; the State was most
anxious that the Sandhills, with
its geologic interest and the pine
forests for which it is noted, be
added. According to the surveys,
Mr. Ellis said, this area near
Southern Pines is the only one
in the State, where such a large
grove of the big old pines still
exists in its natural environment.
Mrs. Boyd also stressed this fea
ture.
“When the word spread that
this land might be sold,” she said,
‘ there were people interested in
the timber for lumbering. I had
seen what happened in such
cases and tried to think of some
way in which the trees might be
saved. These woods—^full of old
hollies, too—have been in our
family for many years, 60 or
more, I should think. Before that
it belonged to the Shaw family
early settlers of this area. Many
people have enjoyed and loved
these woods. The only way we
could figure out to preserve them
for others to enjoy in the future
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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 on Midland Road.
Max. Min.
Sept. 27 75 63
Sept. 28 75 46
Sept. 29 75 42
Sept. 30 76 44
Oct. 1 78 52
Oct. 2 79 63
Oct. 3 79 60