Basketball
season for Moore County high
schools starts Saturday. See
stories on page 19 and 20.
VOL. 43—NO. 2
A golf
tournament was played over
three Sandhills courses this
week. Details, photo, page 19.
TWENTY PAGES
Consolidation Of
School Districts
Talked By Group
A delegation of Aberdeen
school officials and citizens asked
the county board of education, at
the board’s meeting in Carthage
Tuesday night, for assistance and
leadership in helping work out a
high school consolidation program
for the Aberdeen and West End
Districts, to include the Pinehurst
District (now a separate adminis
trative unit), if possible.
The group heard that the West
End district is requesting the
board of education and county
commissioners to call an election
on a special 30-cents school tax
in that district. Aberdeen and
Pinehurst districts now have a
special tax of 30 cents per $100 of
property valuation, for school
purposes. Uniformity in the
special tax would be an essential
of consolidation.
County Commissioner W. ' S.
Taylor, a member of the Aber
deen delegation, said he would
ask the board of commissioners
to conduct a survey in the sou
thern part of the county (the
Aberdeen, Pinehurst, West End
and possibly also the Southern
Pines school districts) to learn
how school capital outlay (build
ing construction) funds should be
spent for the best advantage of
the children involved. The county
commissioners appropriate funds
for school construction.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1962
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
Mrs. Annie Moss,
Robbins, Killed
In S. C. Aecident
Mrs. Annie C. Moss, 68, of Rob
bins was killed and her husband,
William R. Moss, was injured, it
was not known here how serious
ly, in a two-car collision near
York, S. C., Wednesday afternoon.
Few details are known of the
accident, other than that it occurr
ed at the intersection of High
ways 55 and 161 south of York,
and that Mrs. Moss was thrown
out of the car, which she was
driving. Mr. Moss was taken to
a hospital at York.
One person was injured, out
of two women and five children
who were in the other car.
The Mosses, longtime residents
of Robbins and members of the
Presbyterian Church there, were
returning home after a month’s
visit to Florida. He is a retired
railroadman. They have three
married daughters, Mrs. Carl Fu-
quay of Burlington, Mrs. Ed
'Thomas of Red Springs and Mrs.
Purvis Boyette of Aberdeen, who
at this time is herself a hospital
patient at Bethesda, Md.
$ly 100 Missing From Laundry
Safe Biirj^Iary Called Skilled Job;
Library, Post Office Also Entered
Local Bakery Now
Open Under Lease
To John Carver
‘ ^
THiN"” UG ‘K’ figure with the jolly Scotsman head and a
hen^ . ..ii greeting is “Jock K’wani-Angus,” composed of Angus
r ..aning cloths that members of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club will
sell Saturday in Moore County towns for benefit of the club’s
Educational Foundation. At left is Dr, R. Bruce Warlick, club
president. John M. Howarth, president of the Foundation,’ is at
right. The Angus cloth, made at Angus Mills of Vass, is an all
purpose cleaning cloth for dish-washing, dusting and general
cleaning.
The Mid South Bakery, operat
ed by John Carver of Fayette- ^
ville, opened Monday at the loca-1
tion of the former Howard’s _
Bakery on N. W; Broaii St. Th» ^ YOUNG .PEOPLE BEING
Bakery had been closed for sev-
eral weeks.
Mr. Carver said that he has
leased the bakery, with an option
to buy, from the Howard family
of Southern Pines, and will per
sonally supervise its operation.
His wife, Mrs. Eleanor Carver,
will be active in the business.
They have a son, James, 15, who
will attend school here.
The Carvers expect to move to
Southern Pines soon from their
home at Fayetteville, but yester
day had not yet decided where
they will live here.
Bloodmobile To Be
At Aberdeen Friday
A bloodmobile from the Red
-Cross center at Charlotte will be
•at the First Baptist Church, Aber
deen, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fri
day, to collect blood from donors
of the area.
Today (Thursday), the bloodmo
bile has been at West End.
The Jaycees are in charge of
the Aberdeen collection. Blood
given in Moore County is used to
supply th.2 Charlotte center which
furnishes blood of all types on
short notice to both hospitals in
this County.
Kiwanis To Sell Cleaning Cloths To
Raise Funds For Education Project
To focus attention on the need ed over 300 young people of this
for additional funds to carry on | county finance an education that
the work of the Sandhills Kiwanis I they otherwise would not have
Educational Foundation, Inc.,
Kiwanians will be selling “Ki-
wani-Angus” cloths in Southern
Pines, Aberdeen, Pinehurst and
been able to afford.
The Foundation had its origin
back in March, 1930, when Edwin
T. McKeithen of Aberdeen was
county-wide membership.
Mr. Carver has had 32 years of
experience in baking and owned '
and operated retail bakery shops
at Fayetteville and Whiteville for
several years. He sold both the
businesses last year.
Former personnel of Howard’s
Bakery are bein,g retained, Mr.
Carver said, including Mrs. Norma
Berry, head sales lady, and Bobby
McNair and LeRoy Sloan, assist
ant bakers who were with Ho
ward’s Bakery eight years. Mr.
Carver is head baker.
He is a member of the Ruritan
Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars
and the Moose Lodge, in Fayette
ville. The Carvers are Presbyter
ians.
|MUis in Vass, will be sold to help
raise money for an educational
project that, since 1930, has help-
EXPLOSION WARNING
The Army announced this week
that one-quarter pound charges
will be exploded in Camp Mac-
kail and in Wildlife Areas B and
D on December 2, 4, 14 and 15.
All persons in the area are re
quested to comply with warning
signs and instructions of guards
who will be posted.
Canvass Shows No
Bond Vote Change
Carthage this coming Saturday. I elected its first president. Other
The Sandhills Kiwanis Club has original officers were Dr. J. W.
Dickie of Southern Pines, Richard
S. Tufts of Pinehurst, ,@nd Mur
doch M. Johnson of Aberdeen.
This year, 25 young people of
the county are benefiting from
the program which makes loans
available on a non-interest bear
ing basis until the completion of
their courses. The affairs of the
Foundation are administered by
^ I a board of directors, currently
Meeting at the municipal build-! John Howarth
ing Wednesday morning, the town i “ Southern Pines, which reviews
council officially canvassed the i ^PP^i^^tions and grants loans to
return and determined results of \ ts deserving students,
the November 6 town bond elect- increases in recent years
ion in which four separate bond j
issues were approved by local hence the,
vntprc ^ appeal at this time for additional
- 1 IX , , 'participation.
Official results showed no
change from the unofficial count
previously published;
Water bonds ($105,000)—615
for, 159 against.
Hungry For Pancakes?
I See VFW Saiurday
I A “pancake jamboree,” to raise
money for its activities fund, will
be conducted by John Boyd Post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, from
6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, ser
ving pancakes with trimmings—
“all you can eat”—for a low price,
with special price for children.
The event is open to the public at
the post home on N. W. Broad
St.
RIPPED AND ROBBED— At Carter’s Laundry, Saturday
night, the outer facing of this safe’s steel door, riveted to the
inner facing, was pried apart v/ith a crowbar and other tools, and
the filler of white gypsum, a rocklike substance, was broken
away to permit maneuvering of the heavy bolt. Above, examin
ing the burglar damage, are,^f^, Southern Pines Chief Earl
Seawell, SBI Agent Gary Gpiffiui, 9nd (kneeling) Jack Carter,
owner of the laundry. (V. Nicholson photo)
dr. WALSH
Sewer bonds
for, 156 against.
Librars" bonds
for, 324 against.
($280,000)—608 .
I
I
($25,000)—429 i
New Brokerage
Office To Open
Dr. M. G. Walsh
Opens Practice
As Veterinarian
Senator Ervin To Speak Here Friday At
Pot Luck Dinner Of Boy Scout District
U. S. Sen. Sam .1 Ervin will ir xt.,ui j m .
U. S. Sen. Sam J. Ervin will be
guest speaker Friday night at
the annual Moore District Boy
Scout Pot Luck Dinner, to be
held in the National Guard Arm
ory on Morganton Road, starting
at 6:30 p.m., with some 800 per
sons expected.
The affair affords parents of
Scouts and friends of Scouting an
opportunity to honor the county’s
“Scouters”—the unit leaders and
adults associated with the Scout
ing program in the District which
includes all of Moore County and
a portion of Hoke County.
Scouts themselves generally
do not attend except as they have
parts on the program. Parents
bring “pot luck” suppers which
are eaten at tables set up in the
armory.
West Southern Pines swimming | office in Southern Pines Monday,
pool bonds ($35,000)—390 for, 376 . under management of John A.
against. McPhaul who has managed the
Courts & Co. brokerage office
here since 1956.
The new office will be at the
same location as was the Courts
office, 115 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Mr. McPhaul is discontinuing his
association with Courts & Co.
Southeastern Securities was
formed at Charlotte in 1960 and
has grown rapidly, opening since
then branches in Greensboro,
V/inston-Salem and Spartanburg,
S. C. It furnishes complete brok
erage service, including listed
and unlisted stock, municipal and
corporate bonds, mutual funds,
private placements and corporate
underwriting.
Mr. McPhaul had been with
Courts & Co. since 1951, hav
ing offices in Fayetteville, Atlan
ta, Ga., and Greenville and Flor
ence, S. C., and then returned to
head the operation here.
He is widely active in civic and
, and Harold church affairs. With his wife, Mrs.
Trentman, past president of the' Jane McPhaul, and four children
council. I > . ■ - - >
c ,, , c Walsh has opened an
Southeastern Securities Corpor- office for the practice of veteri-
Charlotte_will open an ^ nary medicine at Stoneybrook
E. T. McKeithen
Honored For Work
On Moore History
In its first meeting since May,
held Tuesday night at the muni
cipal building, the Moore County
Historical Association honored
Edwin T. McKeithen of Aberdeen
for “faithful service performed in
the publication of the History of
Moore County” and heard Dr.
Hugh T. Lefler, Kenan professor
of history at the University of
North Carolina, who spoke on the
Carolina Charter Tercentenary
observance scheduled in North
Carolina in 1963.
“1 feel that I am being given
credit for much that other people
have done,” said Mr. McKeithen
in receiving from George R. Ross
of Jackson Springs, who was in
charge of the program, a scroll
expressing the Association’s grat
itude for the Aberdeen man’s ef
forts.
Mr. McKeithen, it was pointed
out, worked closely, as chairman
of the Association’s county his
tory project, with the authors of
the two volumes of the work—
Dr. Blackwell Robinson of
Greensboro who wrotS the first
volume, and Manly Wade Well-
(Continued on Page 8)
E. Earl Hubbard will be master
of ceremonies. There wiU be a
Silver Beaver award, high Scout
ing honor, to an adult whose name
is not revealed in advance.
Incoming officers of Moore
District to be installed are: Upper
Moore—Luke Marion, chairman;
Karl Schweinfurth, commissioner.
Lower Moore— Ted Taws chair
man; C. C. Thompson, commis
sioner.
W. Lament Brown is expected
to introduce Senator Ervin.
Scout officials expected include,
from Raleigh: Wallace Wood,
Occoneechee Council executive,
and Mrs. Wood; Roy McCallum,
assistant council executive, and
Mrs. McCallum; and Harold
I he lives on Country Club Drive.
Stables, off Youngs Road.
Specializing at this time in
treatment of horses. Dr. Walsh has
a varied background in his field.
For the past two years, he has
been working in Ontario, Canada,
with Dr. J. B. Chassels in an
equine practice. He had previous
ly been for about a year at Rob
bins in Moore County where he
set up and operated the State
diagnostic laboratory for poultry.
Before his work at Robbins, he
was at Smithfield, in a mixed
practice, for about a year.
Dr. Walsh and his wife, Marion,
are living in an apartment at
Stoneybrook. They have two
young sons, Michael Gerard, three,
and Thomas Joseph, aged 20
(Continued on Page 8)
HIATT ALSO NAMED
The name of Joseph S. Hiatt
HI, Southern Pines High School
student, was omitted in last
week’s Pilot in the list of Moore
County Morehead Scholarship
candidates who had been praised
by the county scholarship com
mittee.
Mrs. Thomas Of
Near Vass Found
Shot Last Sunday
Mrs. Navie Mae Thomas, 35,
died at her. home on the Union
Church Road near Vass some time
Saturday night of a bullet wound
which officers say was apparently
self-inflicted.
Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm,
heading the investigation for the
sheriff’s department, said foul
play had been ruled out. There
were no sighs another person had
been in the home, and suicide or
accident is indicated.
An autopsy was conducted Mon
day, and the report has been sent
to Coroner Ralph G. Steed, but
his report had not been filed by
this morning.
Mrs. Thomas was found dead on
her bed Sunday morning by her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn Parker, who live next
door. A small .22-cal. revolver was
found on a dresser three feet
away, with one bullet expended.
Mrs. Thomas had been shot
through the heart.
The bullet was recovered in the
autopsy and sent, with the pistol,
to the SBI laboratory to make
sure it was fired from the weapon.
(Continued on Page 8)
AT FLORENCE, S. C.
Miss Celeste Allen, Niece Of The Late
Mrs. Collins, Killed In Auto Accident
Miss Celeste Allen, 20, of Flor- threw Miss Allen against the
ence, S. C., niece of the late Mrs
Harold S. Collins of Southern
Pines, died early Wednesday
morning at a Florence hospital of
injuries suffered in an automobile
collision the night before.
Her brother Edwin M. Allen,
III was slightly injured in the
wreck, which occured within a
block of their home in the Coun
try Club section of Florence. Both
the young people had been to
Southern Pines only three weeks
earlier on a tragic mission, to at
tend the funeral of their aunt,
who died suddenly November 4.
Young Allen, with other nephews,
served as pallbearer.
Police investigation of the Flor
ence accident is incomplete, but
they are. holding the driver of the
other car for drunken driving and
no valid license. The collision
windshield, causing severe con
cussion and hemorrhaging.
She was said to have been one
of Florenoe’s most popular and
beautiful girls. She was May
Queen and a student council
member at her high school there,
from which she graduated in 1960,
and as a freshman and sopho
more at Converse College, Spart
anburg, had been in the May
Court. At the University of South
Carolina, to which she transfer
red in September, she was one
of the five finalists in the “Garnet
and Black” beauty contest, results
of which will not be made known
until spring. She had visited fre
quently here and was widely
known in the Sandhills.
She had returned home from
college Tuesday afternoon on re-
(Continued on Page 8)
I Police are investigating three
break-ins here, two discovered
Sunday morning and one on Mon
day, all probably committed Sat
urday night and apparently the
work of the same outfit, according
to Chief Earl S. Seawell.
At Carter’s Laundry, a skilled
“rip job” was done on the safe
for a haul of approximately $1,100
in cash, the largest cash theft
made here in a good many years.
Under normal conditions, it pro
bably would not have been dis
covered until Monday, but work
was being done in the building
Sunday, installing a new machine.
At the post office, a systematic
search was made but nothing was
taken. Chief Seawell said. Pre
sumably, cash was the object. The
break-in was discovered by post
office employees at 6 a.m Sunday.
At the Southern Pines Library,
entry was made through a win
dow that was unfastened in the
art gallery passageway from the
main library to the Boyd wing.
A locked drawer in the librarian’s
desk was forced open and $83.10
was reported missing, when the
theft was discovered Monday
morning. Chief Seawell said.
Strangely, $19 was left lying on
top of the desk, as though the
thief or thieves had been frighten
ed away.
Though the thieves profited
nothing from the post office
break-in, it has had the effect of
bringing federal authorities into
the investigation. Postal Inspector
Hubbard arrived promptly Sun
day on notification by the police.
■ Aj^iJarter’s Launcfryt property
of ^ t.,ch adjoins that of the i-car
'of the '^t office., with only a
driveway and hedge separating
them, the back door was forced
open and tools found inside the ’
building were used in ripping the
safe door. Checks and other pap
ers were left untouched, also sev
eral small amounts of cash, inclu
ding some change. 'The money tak
en was petty cash, weekend re
ceipts and other funds. A crowbar-
used in opening the safe was left
beside it.
At the post office, entry was
gained through cutting a screen
and forcing open a back window.
There was little disarray, but
several drawers left open and ob
jects moved indicated the extent
of the search.
The SBI is assisting in the in
vestigation.
Machine Robbed,
Another Missing
A cigarette machine was robbed
of some change at McNeill’s Pur-
oil Station on US 1, south of Aber
deen, Tuesday night or Wednes
day morning, and at Vass, thieves
carried a cigarette machine en
tirely away.
In the Aberdeen robbery, the
thief or thieves broke a back win
dow in the grease rack and crawl
ed in, dragged the cigarette ma
chine from the front room to the
back, broke it open and took an
estimated $10 in change.
At Vass, Night Officer J. R.
Grissom said he checked the Gulf
Station on US 1 at 4:10 a.m., and
the cigarette machine, kept on an
outside stand, was there. Soon
after 5 a.m. it was foimd to be
gone. There was no estimate of
the amount of money it contained,
or the value of the machine.
The Sheriff’s department is in
vestigating the Aberdeen robbery
and assisting police in the one at
Vass.
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
Midland Road.
Max.
Min.
21
58
45
22
66
58
23
58
45
24
66
36
25
54
39
26
46
31
27
48
37
28
51
44