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VOL. 43—NO. 4
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Big Unfinished Motel Purchased By
Virginia Company; Suit, Liens Filed
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1962
The 66-unit motel nearly com
pleted on US Highway 1 Just
south of South*srn Pines, on which
construction practically halted
several months ago, has been sold
to Byron Nelson & Associates,
Inc., a Virginia corporation with
headquarters at Petersburg.
The sale was made by The
Country Inn, Inc., of which E. L.
Wynn, Jr., of Richmond, Va., is
president, in a transaction record-
Motel Property.
Other Owners Ask
For Annexation
Meeting in regular session
Tuesday night, the town council
set public hearings for 8 p. m.,
Thwsday, December 27, on appli
cations by several property own
ers for annexation of their land
by the town.
Ther.a were three separate an
nexation requests. Of most pub
lic interest was one covering the
large tract on which a new
motor court and restaurant is be
ing built, south of town on No.
1 highway and also three other
tracts adjoining—one owned by
Karl Andrews, one own.3d by Our
Saviour Lutheran Church, and a
third, the Fairway Motor Court
property, all with frontage on No.
1 highway.
The required connection with
the present city limits is obtained
at the rear of the tracts where
the Andrews land adjoins town-
owned Mount Hope Cemetery.
The new motel tract applica
tion was made by Byron Nelson
and Associates, C. J. Thomas,
agent, new owners of the proper
ty, as reported in another story
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ed at Carthage.
Monday of this week, a com
plication arose in the form of a
suit for $150,000 damages brought
against The Country Inn, Inc.,
and E. L. Wynn trading as the
Wynn Construction Co. of Rich
mond, in which a New York con
cern, Murray Director Affiliates,
Inc., claims Wynn entered into
a sales agreement with them in
October. The sale, it is alleged,
was contingent on the subsequent
lease of the property by Murray
Director Affiliates, Inc., and the
claim is made that such a lease
was arranged, for 21 years, on No
vember 1 and that if the sale does
not go through as allegedly
agreed, the New York firm is
damaged in the $150,000 amount.
The suit, with attachment of
assets allegedly held for Wynn
by the Albemarle Savings and
Loan Co., was filed by T. Lamar
Caudle of Wadesboro, well-known
attorney, who visited the clerk of
court’s office at Carthage Mon
day, bringing a bondsman from
Wadesboro. Bond for the attach
ment of the assets (stated as $38,-
000) was set at $2,500, which the
bondsman made.
A number of liens have been
filed against the property during
recent months, the latest being
one for $4,608.86 by the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Co., filed De
cember 3.
The motel project was
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Tax Assessment Ratio
For All Property Set
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The county commissioners in a
special meeting Wednesday at
Carthage set the tax assessment
ratio for all property in Moore
county, real and personal, at 60
per cent of fair market value.
“Fair market value” is the stan
dard now to be used in property
evaluation, under new laws
passed by the 1961 General As
sembly. Each county, on this
basis, determines its own ratio of
assessment, which is constant for
all taxable property. The tax rate
is then adjusted to the assessment
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Christmas Parties
For Kiddies Slated
Lions Club Gives
$300 To Camp Fund
w. P. Saunders, State fund
raising chairman of the $350,000
Easter-In-The Pines campaign to
raise funds to build a camp and
center for the physically handi
capped near Southern Pines, has
announced receipt of $300 from
the local Lions Club. Chairman
Saunders expressed appreciation
for the interest of the club.
In discussing the project for
North Carolina’s crippled, he said:
“All people in North Carolina
have the opportunity to enjoy
the benefits of recreational pro
grams today except those who
probably need it most, our crip
pled c^^ren and adults.”
A 7C^ ;o tract has been pur
chased / the North Carolina
Socie,% ^or Crippled Children and
Adult- -Inc., for the recreational
and f.'inabilitation center.
Annual Christmas parties for
local children have been sched
uled by the Southern Pines Elks
Lodge and by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
The Elks parties, with children
up to nine years old invited, will
be:
On Saturday, December 15,
from 2 to 5 p. m. at the West
Southern Pines school gym, for
Negro children.
On Sunday, December 16, same
hours, at the Southern Pines
Country Club.
Walter Harper is chairman for
both Elks events. Santa will be
present and there will be refresh
ments for all.
The VFW party is scheduled
for Sunday afternoon, December
23, at the post home on N. W.
Broad St. Details will be an
nounced in next week’s Pilot.
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AT EPISCOPAL HOME SITE— An on-site
inspection is being made here at the location of
the Episcopal Home for the Ageing off N. Ridge
St. as work at the site began last week, with
surveying for land grading lines going on. Left
to right: Paul Lucas of Sanford, with the staff of
W. L. Jewell Construction Co. of Sanford, con
tractors; Town Manager F. F. Rainey, W. L.
Jewell, Jr., of the contractors, in charge of the
project; Ward Hill, Carolina Power & Light Co.
district manager; N. L. Hodgkins, treasurer of
the Home and president of the Citizens Bank
and Trust Co.; and John MacDougall, adminis-
strator of the Home, who, with his wife, will
be in charge of its operation after construction.
Completion of the home, with facilities for about
40 persons in its main building, is expected by
next October. The group is examining a ground
plan of the site.
(Pilot photo)
Houses Burn To
Ground In West
Southern Pines
Two houses were burned to the
ground in West Southern Pines
this week with loss of all of the
occupants’ personal belongings.
At 8 a. m. Monday, Southern
Pines volunteer firemen were
called to S. Carlyle St. where a
house owned by Mrs. Flora Cam
eron and occupied by her son and
a nephew was well on its way to
destruction before firemen ar
rived. Two nearby houses, also
owned by Mrs. Cameron, one of
which she occupies, were saved by
water thrown on them by fire
men. Chief Kaylor said wiring
could have been the cause, as the
two other houses were served
vvith electricity by light exten
sion cords run from the house
(Continued on Page 8)
Christmas Cheer Program For Needy
Of County Started; Local Plans Set
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Farmers To Attend
Hearing On MH 30
Moore County tobacco farmers
will assemble on the south side of
the courthouse in Carthage at 8
a.m., Friday, to attend the
MH 30 hearing in Raleigh at the
Memorial Auditorium.
This meeting, sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
will give tobacco farmers a chance
to express their views on the use
of MH 30 as a sucker control
jhemical on tobacco.
F. D. Allen, county extension
c’l 'Tnan, urges farmers to attend
the “aring.
West End Asking
School Tax Vote
The West End School district
this week formally petitioned the
county board of education and
through that board, the county
commissioners for authority to
hold an election on whether or
not a supplemental school tax in
the district shall be levied.
Approval of the petition is ex
pected from both bodies, inform
ed sources said. The supplemen
tary tax is a first step in proposed
consolidation of the West End
and Aberdeen school districts. The
Aberdeen district now has a
special tax of 30 cents per $100 of
property valuation.
Chairman for the annual Christ
mas Cheer program for aid to tHe
needy were announced this week
by Mrs. Walter B. Cole, director
of the Moore County Welfare De
partment; and local plans for the
program were told by Joe Garzik,
commander of the sponsoring
VFW post and this year’s Christ
mas Cheer chairman.
'The program is conducted by
numerous organizations and in
dividuals who prepare Christmas
food baskets, often with clothing
and toys added, for families whose
need is certified by the county
welfare department.
Here ai'e the chairmen for the
county:
Aberdeen, M. B. Pleasants.
Carthage, G. K. Suggs.
Pinehurst, Mrs. James Tufts.
Jackson Springs, H. C. Carter.
West End, Mrs. Everette Cole.
Pinebluff and Addor, Pinebluff
Firemen. .
Vass and Little River, A. G
Edwards, Jr., and W. J. Morgan
Cameron, Mrs. Merle S. Gaines.
Southern Pines, VFW, Joe
Garzik, commander.
Glendon, Parkwood and Put
nam, Mrs. Richard Dowd.
Eagle Springs, President Puri
tan Club.
High Falls, Newland Upchurch.
Robbins, Rev. H. R. Helms.
Parkwood and Putnam, Mrs.. O.
T. Parks, Sr.
Lakeview, Mrs. Bessie Griffin.
Chairman Garzik said that
barrels have been placed in local
grocery stores for non-perishable
food contributions from shoppers.
^ Cash contributions will be so
licited on the streets of the busi
ness section this Saturday and on
Saturday of next week. Cash do
nations are essential, the chair
man emphasized, because food
gifts are never enough to fill the
baskets. Checks for additional
funds should be made out to
“VFW Christmas Fund” and be
sent to Mr. Garzik.
Toys are being collected by
both the VFW and the local
Moose Lodge, Garzik said. Toys
that need repairing should be
left at the Moose Lodge on Old
No. 1 highway, south, as members
there are doing this repair work.
Toys in good condition may be
left at the VFW post home on
N. W. Broad St.
It was also announced this week
that toys and clothing for
Christmas giving to the needy, in
cooperation with several local
churches, are being collected at
the Western Auto Store on N. W.
Broad St.
FlF tT FORUM TONIGHT
The \ t meeting of the Pine-
hurst nqi'um for the current sea
son is scheduled for tonight
(Thursday) at 8:30 at the Pine
hurst Country Club, following the
club’s buffet supper, for Forum
members and guests, at 7. Two
of Great Britain’s outstanding
theatrical personalities, Hannah
Watt and Roderick Lovell, will
present scenes from the works of
distinguished English playwrights.
SCHCX)L VACATION
Southern Pines schools will
close for the Christmas holi
days at the end of classes on
Thursday of next week, De
cember 20, and will reopen at
the usual time on Wednesday,
January 2, SupL Luther A
Adams has announced.
MISFORTUNE. SICKNESS. LOWTa.TNFgQ
Who Needs Help At Christmas ?
‘What kind of people are being
helped at Christmas-time? Just
who are the ones who are receiv
ing the baskets of Christmas
cheer, or the clothes and food pur
chased by the money we’re ask
ed to give?”
These questions most probably
pop into a good many minds as
folks go about town noting the
barrels to be filled in the stores
and the pleas to remember the
needy, those who “won’t have
any Christmas without your help.”
Mostly the questions arise sim
ply through natural curiosity and
the surge of sympathetic feeling
that the pleas arouse. Sometimes
there’s perhaps a bit of suspicion:
are these people REALLY needy;
is this do-gooding, all this fuss
about the Christmas spirit, gen
uine?
A check with those who know
t^he conditions that lie behind the
Christmas is surely a time for
following descriptions of several
of the families on the lists being
sent to the churches, civic clubs,
service organizations and so on of
all Moore County communities
are typical:
Nine Children
Family A is a large family of
nine children. They live in a rent
ed house, small, poorly built, out
in the country. There is no heat,
no refrigeration and they cook
on a flat-topped heater stove.
There is no plumbing. The father
works, the oldest boy, sixteen,
has had to stop school and get a
job in order to help out. He is a
bright boy and was doing extra
well at school. He and his father
work at home and in their garden
patch when they can. The ages of
the children run from two to the
sixteen-year-old. Clothes would
be wonderfully welcome and, as
toys and fun, too, a little help
along these lines will make the
day a brighter one for all. This
family is on the list to be helped
—^but only if folks who can help
get busy on the other end of the
Une.
In Boarding Home
Family B is a smaller family: in
fact it’s no family at all but two
little girls in a boarding home.
They are eight and four-and-a-
half. Their parents are dead and
other relatives unable to help. It
is hoped to place them in an
adoption home but that will take
time. Meanwhile here’s Christmas
coming and—what? No new socks
or mittens? No doll, no wooly
bear? Santa whizzing by without
stopping? Let’s hope not.
Father In Prison
Family C. Here’s a sad family
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Poole Reelected
Head Of Hospital;
Big Year Noted
H. G. Poole of Carthage was re
elected president of Moore Me
morial Hospital for the year 1962-
63, at the annual meeting of the
full board of directors, held
Tuesday night in Pinehurst.
Other officers elected were
Mre. John E. Dixon, first vice
president; R. L. Chandler, Jr.,
second vice president; Mrs. Paul
Dana, secretary; John F. Taylor,
treasurer, and William C. Sledge,
assistant treasurer.
Final reports for the year indi
cated that 1961-62 had been “a
year of accomplishment.” Duncan
L. McGoogan, hospital adminis
trator, cited statistics showing
greatly increased use of the hos
pital compared with the previous
year, with an average increase
of eight more patients per day, a
32 per cent increase in emergency
room visits, and with total income
and expense figures exceeding
the $1 million mark for the first
time in the history of the hospital
The most gratifying aspect of
last year’s work, was “the over
whelming response of the commu
nity to the building fund drive,”
said McGoogan.
The new hospital wing is now
on the drawing board, and is ex
pected to be under contract by
the first of June, 1963.
In addition to the officers the
following directors were elected
for the coming year: Mrs. S. G.
Allen, Mrs. James Boyd, R. L.
Chandler, Jr., J. M. Currie, W. H.
Currie, Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs. John
E. Dixon, J. B. Edwards, B. S.
Ewing, Ward Hill, Norris L. Hodg-
kins, A. H. Jackson, Dr. E. M.
Medlin, E. H. Mills, Allan A. Mc
Donald, J. Reece Monroe, Eric
Nelson, Mrs. Henry A. Page, T.
T. Prickett, L. R. Reynolds, E.
Marvin Ritter, W. P. Saunders,
W. C. Sledge, John F. Taylor,
Jack M. Taylor, George Thomas
and L. C. Tyson.
Muse Firm Oj^ens
New Office Here
John C. Muse & Company of
Sanford, certified public account
ants, this week opened an office
at 130 E. New Hampshire Ave.,
with Ezra Quesenberry as resident
manager.
The office space, which has
been completely renovated by the
owner, was leased from Leland M.
Daniels, Jr. It is the former shoe
repair shop next to Valet Clean
ers.
Mr. Quesenberry and his wife,
the former Bonnie Holder of San
ford, are living at 455 E. Delaware
Ave. A native of Pulaski, Va., and
a veteran of service as a Navy
officer, he has been with the Muse
company about a year and a half,
coming to Sanford from Danville,
Va. He is a graduate of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute at Blacks
burg, Va.
to bring in the needed funds.
In Moore, this will probably
mean a downward revision in the
actual tax rate, though, except
for straightening some inequities,
it may make little actual differ
ence to the individual taxpayer.
His tax rate may be lower but
his evaluation will be higher.
Professional appraisers who
have been at work in Moore for
the past 18 months have brought
in a figure of $115,000,000 as the
“fair market value” total of all
real property. At the 60 per cent
ratio, this would set the valua
tion at a total of $69,000,000, con
siderably higher than the $52,000,-
000 figure used last year and the
year before.
Automobile owners will get a
break as cars are to be taxed at
the 60 per cent ratio rather than
the full blue-book value, or, as
has been used in Moore, the loan
value (66 2-3 per cent of blue-book
value).
This will represent a loss of
revenue to the county, which the
commissioners took into consid
eration, among other things, in
setting the ratio assessment.
Confer With Officials
Their decision was made fol
lowing conferences held during
their all-day session with officials
of Moore County towns, most of
whom recommended the 60 per
cent ratio.
All were vitally concerned, as
as they must base their municipal
tax rates on the same evaluation
and ratio as the county. Their
major interest lay in seeing that
the ratio was high enough to
bring in at least as much ad-
valorem taxes as before. This
they explained, was necessary to
maintain their general funds at
present levels, as they are limit
ed by law to $1.50 of per $100
valuation fou general fund pur
poses, no matter how high or low
(Continued on Page 8)
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
December 6 40 32
December 7 47 25
December 8 52 29
December 9 44 33
December 10 39 15
December 11 44 17
December 12 26 11
1 BELOW ZERO
Lowest temperature in the
Sandhills iot many years was
record^ this morning at the
official Weather Bureau sta-
tion at the WEEB radio stu
dios on Midland Road—one
degree below sero.
Yesterday (Wednesday) the
high for the day was 26 de
grees. following a low of 11
that morning. Other lows for
the week were 15 on Monday
and 17 on Tuesday.
Moderating temperatures
tonight and tomorrow were
predicted in this after
noon's state weather forecast,
promising some relief from
the mass of arctic air that has
hit the eastern U. S. for the
past few days.
FEED THE BIRDSI
Sub-freezing weather, friends
of the birds remind the public,
means hardship for the many
winter bird residents of the Sand
hills. A few cents worth of baby
chick feed, sunflower seeds, bread
crumbs, peanut butter or suet
may save songbirds’ lives at such
times as this, it is noted.
BLACK ALSO NAMED TO POST
Baker Appointed Resident Fireman
Charles E. (Ed) Baker has been children. They now live on Page
appointed resident fireman, to re
place Frank Kaylor who is retir
ing Saturday from the post he has
held for the past 23 years, it was
announced today by F. F. Rainey,
town manager.
Assisting him, as a second full
time professional fireman, will be
Ernest Black who operates an
auto repair business at his home
in Pinedene.
ADDRESSES OMITTED
Store locations were inadvert
ently omitted from two Glenn
Newberry Company advertise
ments appearing on page 16 of
today’s Pilot. Each ad should have
carried the addresses: West Broad
St., Southern Pines, and Fayette
ville.
Baker and his family will live
at the fire station on New Hamp
shire Ave., taking over the quar
ters occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Kaylor. Black will be stationed
there during the day, Rainey
said, giving the town two profes
sional firemen on duty, for the
first time in its history. Both men
are now members of the volun
teer fire department.
Baker is a retired Air Force
master sergeant. His wife is the
former Evelyn 'Thomas of South
ern Pines and they have three
St.
'The manager said that mainte
nance of the two professional
firemen gives the town a better
rating status with the Fire Un
derwriters Bureau. Black, he
pointed out, will be well fitted
for mechanical maintenance of
the department’s equipment.
Mr. and Mrs. Kaylor will move
Saturday to their recently com
pleted new home in Manly. Mr.
Kaylor said he will continue as
a member of the volunteer de
partment and as fire chief, until
the regular meeting of the de
partment members in January.
He said he will open a shop for
machine work and welding at his
n>3w place in Manly.
Rainey said that renovation
work would be done at the fire
station living quarters before the
Bakers move in. Provision will be
made for night answering of fire
calls during the period when no
on.3 is living there.