: i
New Kiwanis
officers have been installed and
several club members honored.
Story, photo, page B.
David Miller
is winner of the Milliken award
as most valuable SPHS football
player, Photo, page 8.
VOL. 43—NO. . 9
Assembly Preview
Given To Club By
Moore Legislator
Budgetary issues will be of
prime importance in the 1963
General Assembly, Rep. H. Clifton !
Blue told the Moore County Wild
life Club Tuesday night. Also, i
the State will have consideiable,
balance on hand, “perhaps $90 or I
$100 million, and there w ill be i
just as many problems dividing ,
it up as if there were no surplus i
at all.”
Blue, who is expected to become
Speaker of the House, was pro-'
sented by Gen. R. B. Hill, to give !
the club his annual preview of
legislative matters.
“An effort will be made to re
peal the food tax, but I doubt
if it is successful,” he predicted.
“An auto inspection law will also
no doubt be considered. Utility
laws and banking laws will take
much attention. I feel also the
Senate must do its own redistrict
ing, as is mandatory in our Con
stitution, or we will find some
federal court handling down a
decree.”
Court Heform
Rep. Blue said he hoped a start
could be made toward court re
form, as authorized by the people
—^possibly in setting uniform costs
of court throughout the State.
Abolishment of the death penalty
didn’t get far in 1961, but prob
ably will be the subject of more
debate.
Matters he admitted were close
to his heart, and that he would
work hard to see effected, were
more help for the mentally re
tarded; full use of Kerr - Mills
funds for “our senior indigent
citizens”; and further advances
made in the field of education
beyond the high school.
Community Colleges
“We took some big steps for
ward in quality education two
years ago and now I would like
to see our community college pro
gram expanded, with an opportun
ity for college training within
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EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARYIO, 1963
eighteen pages
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Aberdeen Businessman
Seriously Hurt Today
When Car Hits Tree
J. D. Arey, Jr., president of J.
D. Arey & Co., Aberdeen insur
ance and real estate firm, was
seriously injured when his car hit
a tree at Bethesda Church near
14 Horses Die In Stable Fire At Pinehurst
This was the scene at the Pinehurst race track last Friday
morning after a fire starting between 12:30 and 1 a.m. the prev
ious night had taken the lives of 13 harness horses and a pony
in the stable of which a portion is shown here. All the animals
were in winter training at the track.
A digging machine (large wheel visible, with operator seated
above it, in center of photo) had begun excavating one of several
large holes in which the dead horses were buried on the spot,
some of them badly burned and others asphixiated by smoke
before firemen arrived
The exact center section of the stable building (at about the
location where the machine is at work) was apparently where
the fire originated and was entirely burned away. Some of the
rubble and twisted metal roofing can be seen at right, after it
was pulled from the ruins. Seven horses all owned by the
Columbus Stable at Jericho, N. Y., and trained by Skip Lewis
March Of Dimes
Drive Starting;
Chairmen Named
The annual fund drive of the
Moore County chapter. National
Foundation, is under way, with
the list of community chairmen
now nearly completed by Cam
paign Chairman J. Frank Mc-
Caskill of Pinehurst.
The county quota of $7,460 and
community quotas for this 1963
March of Dimes are the same as
before, McCaskill said, noting that
for the past two years Moore has
fallen slightly short of the goal.
He urged intensified efforts m
view of the changes and oppor
tunities seen in the Foundation’s
work today.
With polio now nearly elimina
ted, though with many past vic
tims still to care for, the Founda
tion is emphasizing a three
pronged program, mostly of re
search, into three great cripplers
—polio, birth defects and various
arthritic conditions.
Marking the 25th anniversary
of the “President’s Birthday Ball”
which began the first .March of
Dimes in 1938, chapter leaders
and directors meeting Friday
night at the Carthage Hotel re
viewed achievements of the past,
as they envisioned the challenge
of the future.
Paul C. Butler of Southern
Pines was reelected Moore chap
ter chairman for his 21st term,
and H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
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Need For Mental
Health Clinic In
Area Discussed
Dr. William Thomas, psycholo
gist with the Mental Health Sec
tion of the State Board of Health,
told the Moore County Mental
Health Association in an open
meeting Tuesday night that his
office stands ready to assist in
every way possible in providing
a Mental Health Center for the
citizens of this area.
Citing the need for one “mental
health team” for every 50,000 per
sons, Dr. Thomas quoted statistics
showing how far Moore County
citizens must now travel in or
der to obtain mental health serv
ices and how the needs of a large
segment of our population are
not being met because such serv
ices are not available locally.
The clinical team for a mental
health center consists of a psy
chiatrist, a psychologist, and a
psychiatric social worker. Some
of the 15 community mental
health centers in North Carolina
have a full time social worker,
with a psychiatrist and psycholo
gist available one day per week.
Dr. Thomas felt that such an ar
rangement would go a long way
towards meeting the needs of
Moore County citizens.
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Cause Of Bam Fire Poses Mystery
State Investigators Aiding In Probe
who lives in Southern Pines, were in the section of stable seen
in right background. They included Mark Adios, a three-year-
old whose sire was the famous Adios whose progeny have won
more money than those of any other sire and hold 13 world
harness racing records.
At left is shown a corner of an equally long section of stable
that stretched out of the photo at left, housing six other horses
and a pony, in charge of John Edmunds, Pinehurst trainer who
himself owned one of the horses and the pony. One was owned
by his father, LeRoy Edmunds and four others by New York
State owners: Sheila Schlamowitz, Bronx, N. Y; Art Foster,
Savannah, N. Y.; Whitehouse Stable, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; and
by Bernard Wezenter and Jim Lee, Bronx, N. Y. (jointly owned).
Mark Adios was bought for $25,000 last November, Lewis said,
at first estimating loss in his end of the stable, with “very little”
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-f-
An investigation of the stable
fire that killed 14 horses at tte
Pinehurst racetrack early last Fri
day morning was begun immedi
ately by George Veno, chief of the
Pinehurst Volunteer Fire Depart
ment.
Then fire investigators for the
State Fire Marshal’s office were
called in to assist in probing the
blaze that drew expressions of
disbelief and amazement Friday
morning from horse trainers and
owners, the firemen who fought
it and aU who knew about what
had happened the night before.
As of this morning, results of
PTA Will Have
Panel Discussion
A panel discussion on school
problems and related subjects
will take place at the J anuary
meeting of the East Southern
Pines Parent-Teacher Association,
to be held in Weaver Auditorium
at 8 p. m. Monday.
Mrs. Albert Grove, president,
said that the Rev. Carl Wallace
will be moderator for the panel
which will include four high
school students and a member of
the faculty.
Rites Held For Former Local Resident
Fatally Shot At Greensboro Saturday
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Lighting Contest
Winners Listed
Winners of the business and
residential Christmas lighting and
decoration contests sponsored by
the Southern Pines Junior Cham
ber of Commerce were announc
ed today by J. W. (Bill) Blue,
Jaycee president:
Business—^first, Steed Realty
Co.; second, Barnum Realty and
Insurance Co.
Residential—first, Glenh Rarh-
sey home on Crestview Road;
second, home of the Rev. May
nard Mangum on S. Ashe St.
Cash prizes of $10 and $5 for
first and second places were giv
en in each category.
Funeral services for Mrs. Edith
Belle Martin, 43, Moore County
native and former Southern Pines
resident who was fatally shot in
her home at Greensboro Saturday
afternoon, were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Vass Baptist
Church. The Rev. J. D. Hales, pas
tor, officiated. Burial followed at
Johnson Grove Cemetery near
Vass.
The Vass service followed fun
eral rites held Monday morning
at the Bessemer Presbyterian
Church, Greensboro.
Clem William Martin, 58, es
tranged husband of Mrs. Martin,
is being held at Greensboro in
connection with the case. A mem
ber of the family told The Pilot
that the shooting took place in
tbs presence of their 15-year-old
daughter, Shirley Anne, who,
with another daughter, Brenda,
eight years old, lived with their
mother.
A native of the Vass communi
ty, Mrs. Martin was the daughter
of Mrs. W. F. Evans, a resident of
Rout.3 3, Carthage, near Vass.
Before leaving Southern Pines
more than 15 years ago, Mrs. Mar
tin was the wife of L. C. (Nutt)
Hall, from whom she was divorc
ed and who now makes his home
in Red Springs. They lived a
number of years here. Their son,
Leighton C. Hall, now a resident
of Norfolk, Va., who was born in
Southern Pines, was here for the
funeral services and remained un
til late yesterday.
Mrs. Martin was employed by
the Bates Nitewear Company of
Greensboro.
Martin was arrested later Sat
urday afternoon at his home after
witn<esses saw his car leave Mrs.
Martin’s house immediately after
the shooting. The couple had sep
arate residences at Greensboro.
the investigation had not been an
nounced.
Everyone around the track with
whom a reporter talked Friday
morning had the same reply: “I
just can’t understand it.”
John Edmimds and Skip Lewis,
trainers of the horses that died,
and Volunteer Fireman Peter
Tufts of Pinehurst all related the
same facts, expressing the same
amazed disbelief:
A watchman who makes the
rounds of all the Pinehurst track
stables, punching a time clock in
each one, at least once per hour
in each, reported that he had
been in the stable at 12:30 a. m.
12:30 a. m. and found nothing
and had found nothing amiss.
'Trainer Edmunds himself drove
by the stable at 12:30 and saw no
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Tax Listing In
Moore Continues
Listing of real and personal
property for taxes is continuing
throughout Moore County, with
completion required before the
end of January if penalties are
not to be invoked.
Local taxpayers are listing at
the Information Center building
with Mrs. Irene Mullinix of Vass,
who is there each day from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m., except 'Thursdays and
Saturdays. On Thursdays she is
at the Vass town office all day
and on Saturdays she is there
from 9 a.m. to noon.
A complete new listing of per
sonal property is being taken,
with all property owners asked
to place valuations on their hold
ings, item by item, in the various
categories stipulated on the listing
sheet.
Thompson Named
GOP Chairman;
Others Elected
Calvin Coolidge Thompson of
Pinebluff was elected chairman
of the Moore County Republican
Executive Committee Tuesday
night in a special meeting of the
committee at Carthage.
The meeting had been called by
the retiring chairman, James E.
Harrington, Jr., of Pinehurst, who
resigned for business and person
al reasons.
Other officers elected by the
committee are: Mrs. Benjiamin R.
Marley of Robbins, vice chair
man, replacing Mrs. Katherine
McColl of Southern Pines, who al
so resigned, saying that she had
held the office long enough and
would like to turn it over to some
one else; and James Hartshorne
of Southern Pines, secretary—the
post formerly held by Mr. Thomp
son.
Mrs. Arthur Gaines jf Cameron
remains as treasurer of the com
mittee.
2-Stage Plan For
1-Story Farmers
Building Okayed
Hayes-Howell and Associates,
local architects, have been auth
orized by the county commission
ers to prepare for contractors’ bids
revised plans for a one-story
agriculture building on a new
site near the health center in
Carthage.
The action was taken Monday
when the commissioners, at their
regular January meeting, auth
orized a committee of farmers to
ask the architects for the revised
plans which had already been dis
cussed tentatively by committee
members with W. Calvin Howell
of the local firm.
The proposed new agriculture
building project, S. R. Ransdell,
Jr., committee chairman, told the
commissioners Monday, abandons
the two-story structure formerly
planned on a sloping site that
presented foundation problems be
cause of soft ground, and uses the
interior layout of the two floors
in a one-story plan that would
be built in two stages. The second
stage, that would also contain the
Moore County Library, would be
added as an L-addition to the
first building to contain all
agricultural agency facilities ex
cept an office for the Negro home
agent and an auditorium for farm
ers’ meetings. These would be in
the L’-additionr along with the
library, according to the tentative
plan.
Ransdell, appearing with other
members of the committee, said
that preliminary architects’ est-
mates showed the first stage, to
include air conditioning and
architect’s fee, could be built for
from $75,000 to $80,000. It was
estimated that changing the plans
to suit the one-story structure
would cost from $2,500 to $3.000,,
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Aberdeen shortly after 9 a. m.
today (Thursday).
Pfc. Tommy Clark of the State
Highway Patrol, who investigated,
said that Mr. Arey’s injuries were
listed for him as a broken leg,
broken ankle on the other leg, a
broken bone in or around the jaw,
severe lacerations and an eye in
jury that required removal of the
eye. At 1 p.m. Mr. Arey was re
ported still in the operating room
at Moore Memorial Hospital, to
which he was taken by ambu
lance.
The trooper said he had not
been able to talk to any of the
attending physicians but that it
appeared to him that Mr. Arey
was critically injured.
The Aberdeen man was driving
alone on Bethesda Road in a 1959
station wagon, headed toward
Aberdeen, when the vehicle left
the road and struck a large tree
across the road from the church.
Trooper Clark said. There was
nothing to indicate what had hap
pened to cause the accident, he
noted.
Trooper Clark said that some
body called the PoweU Funeral
Home ambulance in Southern
Pines but that when the ambu
lance arrived, there was no one
on the scene but the injured man.
Mr. Arey was helpless and imable
to talk, he said.
Mr. Arey’s mother, Mrs. J. D.
Arey, Sr., lives in Southern Pines.
LICENSE EXAMINER
The public was reminded today
that the State driver’s license ex
aminer’s office has been moved
to the Information Center build
ing and is open Wednesdays and
Thursdays, from 8:30 a. m. to 5
p. m.
Point-To-Point
Place Announced
The Point-to-Point races spon
sored by the Moore County
Hounds and scheduled for Satur
day, January 19, will start at
Buchan Field, behind Mileaway
Farms, off the old No. 1 highway
at Manly, it was announced this
week.
The races, for the first time, will
feature a Hunter’s Pace, over a
six-mile course, as well as an
Open Point-to-Point race and a
Junior Race, the latter two to
be run in full view of spectators.
The program will start at 2
p.m. There are no entry or spec
tator fees.
by county commissioners
Resolution Reaffirms Support For
‘Original’ Carthage-Pittsboro Road
The Moore County commission-1 be on the “alternate” road if it is
ers in regular session Monday, re- built.
affirmed their support of the pro
jected Carthage-Pittsboro road as
planned in 1956.
They said they would ask the
county attorney to draw up a
resolution to that effect which
they could adopt, making it for
mal and official.
In so doing, they rejected the
appeal of Mrs. Richard Dowd, of
Glendon, that they throw their
support to a so-called "alternate
route.”
Mrs. Dowd presented a typed,
unsigned appeal which she said
represented the sentiment of the
village of Glendon, which would
DOGS HERE MUST
REREGISTERED
Dogs six months or more
in age and owned by persons
living within the town limits
of Southern Pines must be
registered during January at
the police station. Town Man
ager F. F. Rainey pointed out
today.
A town license tag will be
issued for each dog roister
ed, on payment of a $1 fee
for males and spayed females,
a $2 fee for females.
Garzik Elected Fire Chief, Other
Officers Of Local Volunteers Named
Joe Garzik is the new chief of
the Southern Pines Volunteer
Fire Department, elected last
Thursday night by members of
the department, meeting at the
fire station. The group elects of
ficers at the January meeting
each year.
Harold Fowler, a past chief,
was named assistant chief, with
Pete Rapatas as company cap
tain, Floyd Frye as secretary-
treasurer, and Roland Norton,
truck captain. Named directors
of the Relief Fund Committee
were Joe O’Callaghan for two
years, and Fred Hall, Jr. for one
year.
Chief Garzik succeeds Frank H.
Kaylor, who has served as chief
for the past two terms, and who
was present to state he was not
a candidate for reelection.
Kaylor also resigned from the
department, which he has served
for 30 years, while leaving with
the membership the words, “If
you ever need me, call on me—
I stand ready to help.” Kaylor,
“resident fireman” at the station
for 23 years, resigned on reaching
age 65 in December.
There wasn’t much for the fire
men to say—they had said it all
at a dinner held for Kaylor before
Christmas, at which they gave
him a lounging chair and express
ed their gratitude for the services
he has rendered over the years.
Present, in addition to the new
resident fireman Charles E. Bak
er, and Ernest Black, the other
full-time department member,
were 18 of the 20 volunteer fire
men constituting the department’s
full strength, and F. F. Rainey,
town manager.
However, said the commission
ers, this road, which would m
general follow existing roads in
Moore, with only a half-mile of
new construction in this county,
would not do for the upper part
of the county anything like what
the first road would do.
The original route, which was
on the drawing board when For
rest Lockey’s term as State High
way Commissioner ended, await
ing—so the Moore County com
missioners thought—only an ap
propriation from funds already on
hand, was the product Of much
thought and work on the part of
Moore County leaders, with the
development of the upper part of
the county and the poultry-rais
ing industry in mind.
It would call for new road con
struction from about the end of
the present Carthage bypass (NC
15-501) nearly to the House in the
Horseshoe in Deep River town
ship, and for a new bridge to be
built over Deep River. It would
open up a considerable area in
the county now inaccessible ex
cept for a few sandclay roads.
The “alternate route” was de-
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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.
January 3
48
19
January 4
49
20
January 5
47
25
January 6
55
31
January 7
52
28
January 8
53
28
Januarj' 9
57
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