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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1962
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FULL-TIME FIREMEN— Charles E. (Ed) Baker, right, who
has replaced Frank Kaylor as resident fireman at the New
Hampshire Avenue station, and Ernest Black of Pinedene, who
has been employed by the town for full-time daytime fire duty,
are pictured v;ith one of the trucks. Mr. Baker, a retired Air
Force master sergeant, and his family will move to the living
quarters over the truck garage after renovation work is com
pleted. Both were members of the volunteer fire department,
before their appointment to the new posts. (Pilot photo)
Ico Storm Hits Section,
Utilities Suffer Damaj^e
There was no “God rest ye i utility lines at the same time,
merry, gentlemen” for the electric in and out of towns.
power and telephone crews on
Christmas Day or the day after,
as they were out around the clock,
from dawn on Tuesday, repairing
damage caused by the season’s
first ice storm. Some town offi
cials and work crew members
were also out clearing streets on
Christmas afternoon and night.
Monday’s chill rain and mist
started freezing at dark that night,
and early Christmas morning
grew heavy and thick enough to
bring tree-branches crashing
down all over Moore County.
Many of them brought down
It was fine weather for rein
deer, but bitter for the repairmen
as they left their homes with first
light, about the time their children
were waking joyfully to Christ
mas.
The bad weather was general
throughout the State north and
west of the Sandhills, but accord
ing to W. Ward Hill, Southern
Pines branch manager for the
Carolina Power & Light Co.,
“This area was in a belt which
bore the full brunt of the storm.”
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Property Listing
For Taxes Starts
Wednesday, Jan. 2
Listing of real and personal
property for taxes will begin
Wednesday of next week, January
2, to continue through ' January.
All persons living in the coun
ty who own real or personal prop
erty are required to list, even if
there is no change in their hold
ings since last year, points out
Mrs. Estelle T. Wicker of Carth
age, county tax supervisor. Fail
ure to list during January will re
sult in a penalty of 10 per cent
of taxes due. Minimum penalty is
$1.
There will be no extension of
listing time beyond January, Mrs.
Wicker said.
Real estate valuations, as set by
professional appraisers, will go
into effect for all property owners
as of January 1. The county com
missioners have set the assess
ment value of property as 60 per
cent of the “fair market value”
put on all Moore County real es
tate by the appraisers.
Towns take their valuations for
taxes from the county listings. No
separate listing for town taxes is
required.
McNeill Township, which in
cludes Southern Pines, is the only
township in the county with two
list takers. Mrs. Irene Mullinix,
who is the Vass town clerk, will
list property within the city lim
its of Southern Pines and Vass.
She will be at the Information
Center building here each week
day in January, except Thursdays
and Saturdays. On Thursdays and
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Husband-Wife Duo
To Perform Here
Saturday, Jan. 5
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Main Entrance and Administrative Offices of New Proctor - Silex Corporation Building Here
Proctor-Silex Electrw Iron Plant Will
Start Operations On Thursday^ Jan, 3
Gratitude To Workers Expressed
Numerous expressions of ap-, service to many locations as
preciation for the work of Car- rapidly as possible,
olina Power and Light and David A. Drexel, whose estate
United Telephone crews during | off Pee Dee Road, just out of the
the Christmas Day ice storm ^ city limits, was, without power
emergency have been heard in i Christmas afternoon and, late into
Southern Pines and several per- that night, wrote to The Pilot, in
part:
“This week, during the ice
storm, many of our Christmas
trees w-ere dark and in the dark
ness light was shed upon a rich
blessing of our community: the
selfless and untiring efforts of
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sons have called or written The
Pilot, to praise the workers.
A visitor from New York City
stopped at The Pilot office Wed
nesday to express amazement at
the devotion to dut.v of CP&L
crews on Christmas Day, giving
up their holiday to restore electric
The first musical festivity of
the new year will take place a
week from Saturday, on January
5, when. Weaver Auditorium will
be the scene of the second con
cert in the series being presented
by the Sandhills Music Associa
tion.
This week the big poster will
go up in front of the Bamum
office on Broad St., saying that
tickets may be purchased within
for this featured appearance here
of two distinguished artists, the
Lucktenberg Duo.
Jerrie Cadek Lucktenberg and
George Lucktenberg are a hus-
bapd-and-wife team who have
concertized both together and in
solo performances since their
marriage in 1953. Mr. Luckten-
berg’s tours with his mighty nine-
foot harpsichord have done much
to arouse interest in this delicate
and beautiful early instrument,
while his wife is the envied pos
sessor of two famous violins, an
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CHRISTMAS CHEER—A few of the dozens
of Christmas Cheer baskets packed and de
livered in Southern Pines and nearby area by
members of John Boyd Post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, are pictured here with a group
of the veterans on hand Monday afternoon at
the post home to make deliveries. The baskets
went to families whose need was certified by
the Moore County Welfare Department. Similar
Personnel At New
Plant To Be Hired
Thru ESC Office
Production personnel at the
new Proctor-Silex Corporation
plant here will be hired through
the State Employment Security
Commission, it was stated this
week by Joe Fowler, Jr., of Mount
Airy, industrial relations manager
for North Carolina operations of
the company.
Applications for employment
should be made to the ESC San
ford office, or when a represen
tative of the office visits South
ern Pines each Thursday from 10
a. m. to noon, at the National
Guard armory on Morganton
Road..
Mr. Fowler stressed that it is
nbt necessary* lor -persons who
made applications for employ
ment during a labor registration
here last March to apply again.
Those names are all on file with
the company, he said. Some 3,700
persons made applications at that
time.
Proctor-Silex has received ex
cellent cooperation from the San
ford ESC office and its manager,
Garland Scott, Mr. Fowler noted,
and will continue to use the serv
ices of the office for testing and
other employment functions.
Man Killed, 8 Hurt
In Collision Near
Cameron Sunday
One highway fatality marred
the Christmas weekend in Moore
County, resulting from a wreck
near Cameron about 4 p. m. Sun
day which sent eight other peo
ple to the hospital.
Instantly killed was Woodrow
E. Person, 24-year-old Negro Of
Carthage; Route 2, when his car
reportedly sideswiped another,
throwing him out, then rolled
over on top of him.
Hospitalized was his wife Elsie,
■25, while another passenger, Odell
Small, was reported unhurt.
The sideswiped car. damaged
so badly it had to be towed in,
contained seven people, including
four children. Given first aid at
St. Joseph’s Hospital were the
driver, John Archie Smith, 36,
of Carthage, Route 1, his wife
Mary, 37, and their sons Richard,
aged five, and Johnnie Ray, no
age given; also Mrs. Smith’s sis
ter, Mrs. Frances Smith, of Cam
eron, Route 2, and her son David,
aged two. Her daughter Dorothy
Ann, eight, was admitted to the
hospital, remaining overnight for
observation and treatment.
Mrs. Elsie Person, the most seri
ously hurt, told Coroner W. K.
Carpenter her husband had been
drinking. At St. Joseph’s she was
reported Thursday to be “in sat
isfactory condition.”
Carpenter ruled Person’s death
accid-ental. Trooper R. F. Wicker
investigated the accident.
Richard B. Tucker, Plant Manager
Christmas Cheer deliveries were made through
out the county by various civic and fraternal
organizations and individuals cooperating with
the Welfare Department program. Toys were in
cluded. with .baskets for families with children,
so far as possible. The local Moose Lodge re
paired broken toys to be given away. Barrels
placed in food stores brought donations of many
grocery items. (Humphrey photo)
VFW PARTY HELD
Many children of the communi
ty enjoyed the annual Santa Claus
party of John Boyd Post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, held last Sunday
afternoon at the post home on
N. W. Broad St. Refreshinents
were distributed. Members of the
post and its Auxiliary were on
hand to welcome the kiddies.
Operations at tbs Proctor-Silex
Corporation’s big, new electric
iron manufacturing plant are
scheduled to start Thursday, Jan
uary 3, Richard B. Tucker, plant
manager, said this week.
Though hampered recently by
delays due to bad weather, work
ers at the plant have been busy
through the holidays, with the ex
ception of Christmas Day, install
ing machinery arriving here from
a half dozen or more locations.
With 120,000 square feet of
floor space, the recently comple
ted building is located at the in
tersection of Yadkin Road and
Meetinghouse Road. Yadkin runs
from Midland Road to Manly.
Meetinghouse is the access road
to the Trimble Products plant, as
well as the new Proctor-Silex
structure.
The plant is the 14th to be put
into operation by the company
and the third in North Carolina.
Other Proctor-Silpx manufactur
ing facilities are located at Mount
Airy and Lexington in this state;
and at Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Chicago, two other Pennsylvania
locations, and in Canada and
Puerto Rico. Various electric ap
pliances and heavy industrial
equipment are produced.
A half dozen or more execu
tives, .engineers and supervisory
personnel have moved to South
ern Pines with their families.
Most of them have been training
together at the Mount Airy plant,
in preparation for their work
here. Several local men have also
been training at Mount Airy.
Some 20 local employees have
been hired in recent weeks and
an additional 50 are being select-
■-id from the applicant file, Mr.
Tucker said, to compose the in
itial operating group.
The manager expects that all
phases of the operation will be
under way in about six months,
with about 300 persons employed.
The plant should-reach top pro
duction, employing 400 to 500 per
sons, in about a year, he said.
. In a., labor registration held by
the company, .and .the State Em
ployment Security , Commission
last March, about , 3,700 applica
tions for work at the plant were
filed.
Mr. Tucker replaces Kenneth
E. Herrmann who was designa
ted plant manager when the new
industry was announced in March
and was closely in touch with
progress during the plant’s con
struction, spending much time
here and buying a house at Whis-
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INSTALLATION WORK— Huge size of this floor-to-ceiling
plating machine being installed at the new Proctor-Silex plant
can be seen by comparison with the welder working at lower
left. The scene is typical of the past week in the big new build
ing where machines are rapidly being set up in preparation
for a January 3 start of operations.
(Pilot photos, top and bottom, above. Humphrey photo, center)
NEW YEAR'S DAY
Banks, post offices, ABC
stores and some local stores
and offices in Moore County
will take a holiday on New
Year’s Day, Tuesday, January
1.
The municipal offices here
will close at noon, Monday,
and be closed through Tues
day, Town Manager F. F.
Rainey said.
The Pilot office will open as
usual.
Highway Patrol Warns
About Traffic Danger
Special caution on the highways
during the 102-hour New Year’s
week-end, from 6 p.m. Friday, to
midnight, Tuesday, January 1, is
urged by the State Highway Pa
trol, noting that 10 persons were
killed and 409 injured in the 78
hours of the New Year holiday
one year ago. One traffic fatality
(s.ee separate story) was recorded
in Moore County over the Christ
mas week-end.
Dr. Chester Showing
Slight Improvement
Dr. P. J. Chester, local physician
who suffered a stroke at his home
December 16, has made slight, but
definite improvernent this week
at Moore Memorial Hospital, but
remains seriously ill, the. attend
ing physician said this morning.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and
minimum
tem-
peratufes 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 20
59
37
December 21
28
28
December 22
49
28
December 23
55
26
December 24
46
28
December 25
32
27
•December 26
■ 53
28