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VOL. 43—NO. 11
Council Awards
2 Contracts For
Bond Issue Work
Meeting in special session at
town hall last night, the council
awarded two contracts, one for
sewage treatrront plant additions
and one for sewerage system ex
tensions, both to be financed with
bond issue funds approved by the
voters last fall.
A contract for additions to the
sewag.3 treatment plant, to in
clude an additional sludge diges
ter, was awarded to Eastern Con
struction Co. of Greenville, low
bidder at $125,888.
A second and separate contract
for extensions to the sewerage
system was awarded to D. R. Al
len & Son of Fayetteville, low
bidder at $66,496.30.
Bids had been opened a week
ago and were tabulated by Paul
Van Camp, engineer for the town,
who appeared with his son,
Stephen, at last night’s meeting,
to present the tabulation of bids
and consult with the council
about the work to b.3 done.
It was made clear that a hitch
may arise in connection with the
contract awarding, because East
ern Construction Co., low bidder
on the plant additions, had also
bid $88,666 (third lowest bid) on
the sewer system extension work,
enclosing a letter reserving the
right not to take one contract un
less it were also awarded the oth
er.
Mr. Van Camp explained that
this is known as an “informal
bid,” not fully complying with
the request for bids as published
by the Town, but that it was not
rejected at the bid opening ba-
cause he thought it should be
brought to the attention of the
council.
As compared to Eastern’s $125,-
888 bid on the sewage treatment
plant work, the next lowest bid
on this job was $171,000' by Re
public Contracting Co. of Colum
bia. S. C. Other bids ran as high
as $184,000.
Members of the council were
unanimous in disapproving the
awarding of both bids to Eastern,
when that companv had actuallv
bid third lowest on one of the
contracts, although it was ex
ceptionally low on the other.
The motion to award the con
tracts. therefore, stipulated that,
if Eastern will not accept the
$125,888 sewage treatment plant
contract alone, this contract is to
bp awarded to Republic.
Councilmen agreed that this
would be the right decision, even
(hough the combination of Eastern
and Republic on the two contracts
would run more than $20,000 over
what Eastern’s cost would be if
Eastern got both contracts.
Bids on the sewerage system
extension work ran from Allen’s
low of $66,496.30 to a high of
$102,016.20.
Anv company taking either of
the jobs, it was pointed out, will
be under bond to perform the
services required.
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
PRESENTATION— The Rev. Martin Caldwell, right, receives
from Mayor Pro-Tern J. D. Hobbs the Distinguished Service
Award plaque, given by the local Junior Chamber of Commerce.
(Humphrey photo)
The Rev. Martin Caldwell Chosen For
Jaycee Distinguished Service Award
Pinehurst Woman
Found Not Guilty
Of Embezzlement
A jury that was-out only 10
minutes this morning found Mrs.
Mariam L. Dietenhofer of Pine
hurst not guilty of embezzlement,
in Moore County Superior Court
at Carthage.
Mrs. Dietenhofer and her
daughter, Paulette, were in the
courtroom when the verdict was
brought in. Trial of the case had
occupied the court most of Wed-
Moore Legislators Face Assembly;
Blue Slated For Speaker Of House
Walter E.
The Rev. Martin Caldwell, 34-
year-old rector of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, was given the
Distinguished Service Award of
the Southern Pines Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, at a dinner
meeting in the Hollywood Hotel
Friday night.
The award is made annually in
January to a resident of Southern
identity is kept secret, even from
the Jaycees themselves, until the
cres.^ntation is made.
Friday night’s dinner also was
an observance of “Bosses’ Night,”
when the young men of the or
ganization are hosts to their em
ployers. Many of these were pres
ent and were introduced.
In addition, the occasion mark-
Pines under the Jaycee limit age|ed local observance of National
of 36 and recognizes contributions
to community welfare, evidence
of leadership ability and person
al business or professional prog
ress, during the preceding year.
The winner is chosen, from nom
inations made by the public, by
a committee of leading citizens
beyond the Jaycee ago and his
Jaycee Week, January 20-26, dur
ing which national and state
achievements of the young men’s
organization are reviewed and
brought to public attention.
Speaker at the Hollywood din
ner was James C. Greene of Ra
leigh, an attorney who is found
er and president of the James C.
Greene Co., an insurance adjust
ing firm with an office here. He
related, from personal experi
ence, the fascination of the hob
by of investigating family back
grounds, telling his audience that
they would be amazed at the in-
Moore Memorial
Limits Visiting
Because of the prevalence of
Asian flu in nearby counties, vis- , teresting associations the mem- I
iting is being temporarily limited bers of even an average family
T' -sday, with Judge ,
Johnston, Jr. of Winston-Salem, |
presiding.
Mrs. Dietenhofer had been
charged by Miss Mary A. Mur- i
phy of Southern Pines with con
verting to her own use securities ■
valued at $3,922 which Miss Mur
phy had placed for sale with a
local brokerage firm, Dietenhofer |
& Hartfield, prior to the death of
Herbert J. Dietenhofer, the de
fendant’s husband, on December
20, 1959. The firm no longer exists.
The State, with Lawrence M. 1
Johnson of Aberdeen as special
prosecutor assisting District Sol
icitor M. G. Boyette of Carthage,
based its case on the fact that
Miss Murphy had placed the se
curities for sale with the Dieten
hofer firm and that, after her
husband’s death, Mrs. Dietenhof
er as administrator had closed out
the firm, but no reimbursement
had been made to Miss Murphy
for her securities.
The defense, handled by W. D.
Sabiston, Carthage attorney, nev
er denied that the securities were
placed with the firm for sale, that
they were sold and that the
money remained wih the firm.
However, the defense said, fol
lowing Mr. DietenhofePs death,
an account was set up for receipts
and disbursements of the firm’s
funds, with a special administra-
toi’. Claims were paid as far as
the funds would go, it was stated,
but all funds had been disbursed
before Miss Murphy pujt in her
claim. Mrs. Dietenhofer, as widow,
was not personally responsible for |
the firm’s funds, under the law, [
the defense said, and it was stated
that she had told Miss Murphy
there were not sufficient funds to
pay the clairri.
The jury found that there was
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SEN, W. P. SAUNDERS
REP. H. CLIFTON BLUE
Man Killed By Skid On Icy Highway;
6 Hurt In Another Wreck Saturday
Ice forming on the highways in
freezing rain Saturday morning
cost the life of a middle-aged
Negro man on Midland Road near
Pinehurst, Moore County’s third
highway fatality of 1963.
Moore Memorial Hospital with
serious injuries. He suffered com
pound fractures of the left leg.
State Trooper Robert R. Sam
uels said Headen told him they
had just passed a car when they
Whalen Irvine Cagle, 53, of the | hit the slick place. However,
Taylortown community near Samuels said, no other car was
Pinehurst, driving toward South- j there when he arrived, and if
orn Pines from Pinehurst, was! there was another car, apparent-
killed when his car hit an icy j iy it did not stop,
spot and skidded off the road to! U® found the accident was
crash against a tree in the center, caused by the road conditions,
parkway. | and no law violation was involv-
His passenger, Luther Carroll was demolished.
Alexander Headen, 28, also of j ^h® occupation of the dead man
Taylortown, was admitted to i^erer.
' Funeral services for Cagle were
Playhouse Reveals
Shows For Season
Attractions to be presented by
the Pinehurst Playhouse during
the 10-week season opening
February 19 were announced this
week by Donald Filippelli, pro
ducer, who is now in Pinehurst.
They are:
February 19-24, Sunday in New
York; February 26-March 3; The
Gazebo; March 5-10, Come Blow
Your Horn; March 12-17, Gigi;
March 19-24, Tunnel of Love.
Also; March 26-31, The Pleasure
of His Company; April 2-7, Every
body Loves Opal; April 9-14, Dial
M for Murder; April 16-21, The
Miracle Worker; and April 23-28,
Champagne Complex.
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.
at Moore Memorial Hospital, D
L. McGoogan, administrator, said
this week.
Until further notice, visiting
will be limited to members of the
patient’s immediate family, and
only one person may visit at a
time. Visiting hours will continue
to be from 2;30 p. m. to 4 p. m.
and from 7 p. m. to 8;30 p. m.
This is a precautionary measure
to safeguard the health of pa
tients, Mr. McGoogan said. All
citizens are asked to cooperate in
this endeavor to speed the recov
ery of patients and at the same
time prevent Moore County from
having a widespread problem,
with influenza.
“To be successful, this effort
will require the cooperation of
every person,” the administrator
pointed out.
State CD Group
To Visit Moore
Progress continues to be made
in setting up a master plan for
Civil Defense in Moore County.
Developments during the past
week included a visit by Col. A.
M. Koster, county CD director,
to the State Civil Defense offices
in Raleigh to arrange a visit by
State authorities to Moore County.
This has been tentatively set for
February 25, when it is expected
they will confer with local staff
leaders and view possible sites for
a headquarters location and fall
out shelters for the public.
The greatest immediate need,
according to Colorisl Koster, is to
locate a suitable building in Car
thage, where Civil Defense head
quarters might be set up. This
headquarters would be the nerve
conter of the county operation in
an emergency. The main commu
nications center will be located
at this site.
have had in the past. The hobby,
he said, enables a person “to see |
life as a fulfillment of which you
are a part.” j
Mr. Greene substituted as
speaker for W. W. Staton, prom-[
inent Sanford attorney who had
been expected but was unable to |
at'ond because of illness in his
lamily.
Gary Griffith and Jim ’Thomas-
son were in charge of the affair
for the Jaycees.
Mayor John Ruggles and May
or Pro-Tern J. D. Hobbs were
guests and the presentation of
the Distinguished Service plaque
and certificate to the Rev. Mr.
Caldwell, who has been rector of:
Emmanuel Church since April,
1956, was made by Mr. Hobbs. I
He cited especially the rector’s,
accomplishments as president of;
Moore County Red Cross Chapter,
■his work as executive secretary
of the Moore County Alcoholic
Education Committee, his serv-1
ice on the boards of directors of i
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HERE SHE COMES!
Tomorrow night the MER
RY WIDOW hits town!
The gay lady and her satel
lites of the National Opera
Company will lake the stage
at Weaver Auditorium Fri
day, (Feb. 1} with the curtain
scheduled to rise at 8:30.
This is the third concert in
the series sponsored by the
Sandihills Music Association.
Tickets are still on sale at
the Barnum Realty Office
and will be available at the
auditorium box office, as long
as they leist. The demand for
seats to view the revival of
the famous old Broadway
show has been great, reports
Mrs. John S. Ruggles and
Miss Glenda Martin, in charge
of ticket sales.
A special pre-concert buf
fet dinner is being served at
the Hollywood Hotel from
6:30. Tables should be reserv
ed.
ABERDEEN-PINEHURST
New Free Phone
Service To Start
Friday Morning
The new “extended area” tele
phone service that will permit
toll-free dialing both ways be
tween Aberdeen and Pinehurst
will begin at 12:01 a. m. Friday,
marking completion of the exten
sion of this service around the
Southern Pines - Pinehurst-Aber
deen triangle.
The project was carried out
jointly, at no increase in rates,
by United Telephone Company, of
Southern Pines, and the Sandhill
Telephone Company, of Aberdeen.
New directories are being dis
tributed this week throughout
the service areas of these two
firms and also the Pinebluff Tele
phone Company.
A spokesman for United said
that there are numerous number
changes in Pinehurst and also
some in Southern Pines and rec
ommended that the directory be
consulted by anyone placing a
call and that the full number as
given in the directory be used.
The complete number is essential
in inter-town dialing.
The public was requested oy
slips attached to the new di
rectories not to use them before
2:01 a. m. Friday.
held at the Baptist church in
Taylortown Wednesday afternoon.
He was highly regarded in the
entire Pinehurst community. He'before the Moore County Educo
Two members of the 1963 North
Carolina General Assembly who
live in Moore County will be
among the state’s lawmakers
going to Raleigh next week for
opening of the Assembly on Wed
nesday in the new Legislative
Building.
They are H. Clifton Blue of
Aberdeen, starting his ninth term
as Moore’s representative in the
House of Representatives and an
unopposed candidate for election
as Speaker of that body; and Wil
liam P. Saunders of Southern
Pines, retired industrialist and
former director of the State De-
oartment of Conservation and
Development, who is beginning
his first term as one of two sena
tors from the 12th District—
Moore, Harnett, Hoke and Mont
gomery Counties. The other sena
tor is Robert Morgan of Lillington
m Harnett. All are Democrats.
After his anticipated election as
Speaker on Wednesday, Rep. Blue
is expected to be sworn in by
Sunerior Court Judge John D.
McConnell of Southern Pines,
with numerous friends and as
sociates from Moore County on
hand to witness the occasion. The
Assembly is slated to convene at
noon, Wednesday.
Gov. Terry Sanford wiU deliver
his Biennial Message to the As
sembly at noon on Thursday of
next week, February 7, in a joint
session in the Hall of the House.
The Senate and House will con
vene separately that day at 11:30
a m and senators will then join
their House collegues for the ad
dress bv the Governor.
The Governor’s Budget Message
will h.T delivered at 10:30 a. m.
Friday, February 8.
Rep. Blue spoke twice before
■'foo'-e County groups this week,
outlining issufjs which he feels
will nredominate in the 1963 Gen
eral Assembly.
On Monday night he spoke
had been employed by several
Pinehurst firms and individuals,
in various capacities. His uphols-
ering and other work was well
regarded by all for whom he had
performed these services.
He is survived by his wife, one
daughter, two grandsons, three
Club at its regular monthly meet
ing held in the Cameron school
cafeteria. On Wednesday at noon
''o spoke before the Sandhills
Kiwanis club at its weekly lunch
eon meeting held at the Carolina
Hotel in Pinehurst.
Aftor discussing state issues at
sisters and three brothers, one of the Kdwanis meeting. Blue com-
whom is Hazel Cagle of Taylor-'
town, verger at the Village
Chapel, Pinehurst.
Six Injured
An accident described as a
r.early head-on collision about
1:45 a. m. Saturday, on US High
way 1 north, near Dunrovin, sent
six persons to the hospital, with
injuries believed not serious.
Willie Lee Haynesworth, 34-
year-old Southern Pines Negro,
driver of the northbound car, was
admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital.
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Dr. Anderson To Open
Dental Office Monday
After almost five months out
of his office recuperating from
multiple injuries received in an
automobile accident near St. Pauls
last September, Dr. George D.
Anderson, Jr., will reopen his
dental office on S. W. Broad St.
Monday.
Dr. Anderson had just returned
from a year’s duty with the armed
forces when his accident happen
ed last September.
ented briefly on thb Kiwanis’
theme for the meeting. “The Free
Enterprise System Within A De
mocracy.”
Blue told the group that:
“Our nation has grown strong
and great as a democracy through
the free enterprise system.
“There is a responsibility that
goes hand in hand with free en-
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Changes Made, Planned For Conn. Ave. Safety
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COUNTY BOARD MEETING
Moore County commissioners
will convene for their regular
monthly session at 10 a.m. Mon
day in the courthouse at Carthage.; early in December in which the
An investigation of traffic safe
ty conditions on E. Connecticut
Ave. Extension, from Southern
Pines to the Fort Bragg Reserva
tion line, has resulted in addition
or replacement of warning signs
and markers, as well as other ac
tions and recommendations.
Results of the investigation and
recommendations for action are
included in a report to T. G.
Johnston, Jr., division engineer at
the Aberdeen Highway office. A
copy of the report was furnished
to Town Manager F. F. Rainey.
The “reinvestigation” of safety
conditions on the road was rnade
after 14 traffic accidents had tak
en place along the two and one-
half miles between January 1,
1960, and October 31, 1962, in
volving two fatalities, 10 injuries
and over $16,000 in property dam
age.
The period studied did not in
clude a one-car fatal accident
driver and only occupant of a car
was killed when his vehicle
struck the same tree as that hit
by a car when two young men
were killed in October, 1960.
A recommendation to clear the
right of way of all shrubs, weeds,
trees, overhanging tree limbs and
other obstacles which reduce
sight on curves and grades and
which might hide private drive
ways or other intersections, was
included in the report.
Most noticeable of the changes
already made on the stretch of
road has been substitution of a
solid white edge line on the high
way, replacing a “skip” edge line,
for the entire distance and con
tinuing into the city limits to the
May St. intersection.
The report noted that there had
been enough warning devices
along the road “for the most or
dinary of drivers” but pointed out
that “it appears we must go be
yond the bounds of acceptable
usage and provide treatment of
extreme nature.”
In line with this finding, warn
ing signs have been increased in
size to 30 by 30 inches, with 24
by 24 “advisory safe speed mark
ers.” Curve delineation markers
with fluorescent stripes are being
used, replacing delineator “but
tons,” a number of which, the re
port noted, had been damaged by
vandalism, as had other safety
devices in the area.
Ten of the 14 accidents in the
period studied occurred within
one mile eastward from the town
limits, the report noted. Eleven of
the 14 accidents occurred in the
first six months of the years in
the period covered; 11 took place
on Saturday, Sunday or Monday
and; 10 in dusk or darkness hours.
Thirteen of the 14 involved
speeding, drinking or both.
The report suggested that con
sideration be given to some re
location of the alignment of the
highway and, if complete reloca
tion is impractical “then it may
be possible that some of the worst
curves may be straightened and
sight distances improved.”
“Total realignment” of the road
and “strictest enforcement” of
traffic laws are cited in the report
as the “true solution” of the E.
Connecticut Ave. Extension prob
lem, but the report said realign
ment seems to be eliminated by
right of way costs and the rela
tive lowness of the average traf
fic count which was listed as 750
daily near May St. and about 500
daily at the town limits.
In regard to more law enforce
ment, the report says that it is
doubtful whether Southern Pines
supports a police force suitable in
size for the constant attention
that the road should receive, “nor
can the Highway Patrol spare a
patrolman for the lengthy duty
involved.”
Tufts Named As
Non-Playing Head,
Walker Cup Team.
Richard S. Tufts, chairman of
the board of Pinehurst, Inc., was
named this week as non-playing
captain of the 1963 U. S. Walker
Cup team which will play Great
Britain’s best amateur golfers at
Turnberry, Scotland, May 24-25.
Numerous golfers who have
played in Sandhills tournaments,
including last September’s Na
tional Amateur at Pinehurst,
were named to the 10-man team
by the U. S. Golf Association. The
player roster:
Deane Beman of Arlington,
Va.; Charles Coe of Oklahoma
City; Richard Davies of Pebble
Beach, Calif.; Bob Gardner of Es
sex Falls, N. J., Downing Gray of
Pensacola, Fla.; Billy Joe Patton
of Morganton; Richard Sikes of
Springdale, Ark., Charles Smith
of Gastonia; and Dr. Edward Up-
degraff of Tucson, Ariz.
Alternates nanaed were: Wil
liam Hyndman, Huntingdon Val
ley, Pa., Homero Blancas, Jr., of
Houston, Texas; and Dudley Wy-
song of McKinney, Texas.
At the same USGA meeting in
New York, John M. Winters, Jr.,
of Tulsa, Okla., was reelected
president. Mr. Tufts is a past
president of the organization.
LISTING ENDS
The period for listing real and
personal property for taxes with
out penalty ends today, Mrs.
Estelle Wicker, county tax super
visor, reminds the public. No ex
tension period has been authorized
by the county commissioners.