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today.
VOL. 43—NO. 13
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1963
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PAGES—Here are Moore County’s three General Assembly
pages, dressed as they are for work in the new State House.
Left to right: Tommy Dotson, Senate page; Charles McLaughlin,
Jr., House page; and Tommy Phillips, head page in the House.
(Pilot photo)
BUT THEY LIKE WORK IN RALEIGH
Weekends Are Study Times For Three
Moore Co. Pages In General Assembly
Unlike most teen-agers, for
whom the week-end is a time for
relaxation from studies, Moore
County’s three pages in the Gen
eral Assembly at Raleigh were
busy with their books last Satur
day and Sunday—but they found
time to meet with a Pilot reporter
for a chat about the jobs they be
gan last week.
Tommy Phillips 17, of Carth
age (head page for the House of
Representatives). Charles A. Mc
Laughlin, Jr., 15, of Southern
Pines (House page) and Tommy
Dotson, 15, of Carthage (Senate
page) are three of 34 boys and
girls engaged in an unusual occu
pation that becomes available
only every two years when the
General Assembly convenes.
Phillips and Dotson have had
previous ex"perience in the 1961
session, the former for about six
weeks, the latter for one week.
McLaughlin is a newcomer in the
job. All agree it’s an opportunity
they wouldn’t want to miss.
They attend their high school
classes on Monday, getting ad
vance assignments for the week
and leaving for Raleigh in time to
be on hand for the usual Monday
night session. Their work day on
Ti’.esday, Wednesday and Thurs
day runs from about 9 a. m. to 5
p. m., though they stay on the
job as long as the legislators need
them. On Friday, they usually are
able to get off about the middle
of the afternoon, in time to be
home for supper.
They all live at the YMCA in
Raleigh and eat in the cafeteria
there or in the luxurious new
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Hodgkins Elected
To School Office
At a meeting of some 200 cen
tral North Carolina school offi
cials here Monday. N. L. Hodg
kins, chairman of the Southern
Pines school board, was elected
vice president of District 8 of the
N. C. Association of School
Boards.
The superintendents, principals
and school board and committee
members met at the local school
for late afternoon and evening
sessions, having dinner in the
school cafeteria.
Mr. Hodgkins was among the
leaders of discussion groups tak
ing up specialized topics in school
administration.
Officials from eight county and
four city school units took part.
Entries High In
Hunter Trials To
Be Run Saturday
Entries from several hunts in
North Carolina and from Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts, Connecti
cut, Virginia and Ohio will join
Sandhills horses Saturday in the
31st annual Hunter Trials of the
Moore County Hounds, to be held
at Scotts Comer, out Youngs
Road, starting at 2 p.m. ,
Judges for the event were
named this week as Mrs. Henry
Hubr.sth of Darien, Conn., Mrs.
Margaret Winchell of Chester
Springs, Pa., and Delmar Twyman
of Montpelier Station, Va.
Interest in the annual event is
reported high and a fine field of
entries is assured, with trophies
to be awarded for individual per
formances and hunt teams.
Parking places for spectators
can be reserved through Mrs. W.
O. Moss, Southern Pines; Mrs.
Warner Atkins, Pinehurst; or Miss
Page Shamburger, Aberdeen.
Other weekend events include
a hunt ball Saturday night, for
which reservations must be made,
and a schooling show, in the win
ter series at the farm of Mr. and
Mrs. Warner Atkins, Youngs
Road, Sunday afternoon.
Comedy Will Open
Playhouse Feb. 19
The Pinehurst Playhouse will
open its 1963 season Tuesday of
next week with a fast-moving
comedy, “Sunday in New York,”
announces Donald Filippelli, pro
ducer, starting a 10-week series
of attractions to be seen each
week Tuesday through the fol
lowing Sunday.
The box office in the theatre at
Pinehurst will be open 10 a.m. to
10 p.m. Persons attending the
opening night’s performance are
invited to an after-theatre party
in the Holly Inn, to meet the cast.
Leading roles in “Sunday in
New York” will be played by
Holly Hill, a native of Lenoir,
and John Hollow, veteran of
Broadway and TV. Also in the
cast are Stephen O’Connor, Albert
Pickett, Margaret Braidwood who
is a talented comedienne, and
Bruce Hall, returning for his
second season with the Playhouse.
Missing Man Sought In Highfalls Area
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SEARCH SCENE—Here is the 680-feet-long
bridge over Deep River at Highfalls, with on
lookers watching as waters were probed for
the body of a man that may have been thrown
from the structure when his pickup truck was
wrecked on the bridge at a point about over
the island in the water below. As seen here,
the bridge railing was not broken. Small figures
are visible on the bridge at approximately the
impact point. (V. Nicholson photo)
Practical Nurse
Traiuiug Program
Scheduled lu Area
The Lee County Industrial
Education Center at Sanford this
week announced approval of a
practical nurse education pro
gram by the North Carolina De
partment of Public Instruction
and State Board of Nursing Edu
cation. A full-time, one-year pro
gram affiliated with Moore Me
morial Hospital, Pinehurst, the
course of study would prepare
qualified persons to become li-
cens-ed practical nurses.
Mrs. John G. Mock, registered
nurse whose home is on E. Con
necticut Ave. Extension has been
employed as coordinator-teacher
for this program. Mrs. Mock re
ceived her registered nursing
training from Mercy School of
Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pa. and is
a graduate with a Bachelor of
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HOMES TO BE SEEN
Two houses on Halcyon Drive
in Weymouth Heights, one a just-
completed four-bedroom home,
will be open to the public Satur
day and Sunday. Details on pages
6, 8 and 16.
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HONOR— Mrs. Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines, in back row, presents to Malcolm Lathan,
senior patrol leader, the Storey Cup for Pine-
bluff’s Boy Scout troop, recognizing general
SIX MOORE BOYS ATTAIN EAGLE RANK
excellence of the troop during 1962. At right,
Jimmy Smith, scoutmaster, holds a small re
plica of cup given him personally for leader
ship helping make possible the achievement.
(Humphrey photo)
Pinehluff Scouts Win Storey Cup Award
Pinebluff Troop 206, sponsored
by the Pinebluff Lions club, was
awarded the W. M. Storey Me
morial Cup at the March court of
honor of the Moore District, Boy
Scouts, held Monday night at the
Pinehurst school auditorium.
Also highlighting the court of
honor was presentation of six
Eagle rank awards.
The handsome silver Storey
trophy, awarded on points in year
long troop competition in various
phases of scouting activities, was
presented by Mrs. Voit Gilmore
of Southern Pines on behalf of her
husband, the donor. A small re
plica went as a permanent sou
venir to James L. Smith, Pinebluff
scoutmaster.
First runner-up was Troop 810
of Vass, sponsored by Vass
churches, with Clyde Smith as
scoutmaster, and second runner-
up, Troop 864 of Manly, sponsored
by the Manly Presbyterian
church, with Frank Wilson as
scoutmaster.
No announcement was made as
to whether the Storey Cup, esta
blished by Gilmore some years
ago as a memorial to his step
father, will be doubled or discon
tinued, with the division of the
Moore district into two new dis
tricts, effective last January 1.
This week’s court of honor was
the last to be held for the old
district, as in future District No.
8 of the Occoneechee Council,
comprising Southern Pines, Aber
deen, Pinebluff, Adder, Niagara,
Manly and McCain, and District
No. 18, comprising the rest of
Moore county, will operate inde
pendently. ^
Presiding Monday night was C.
C. Thompson of Pinebluff, ad
vancement chairman of the out
going district and new commis-
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Sandhills Will
Have Big Part
In Garden Show
Sandhills residents have a
prominent part .in the South
eastern Flower & Garden Show,
opening tomorrow at the Mer
chandise Mart in Charlotte, to
run through Tuesday of next
week.
Mrs. Karl Bridges of Midland
Road, co-owner and manager of
Carolina Orchids, is president of
the show advisory and executive
committee. Her company’s orchids
will be displayed.
Clarendon Gardens of Pine
hurst, owned by Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Howe, will have a rhodo
dendron and holly exhibit. H.
Stewart Ortloff of Huntington,
N. Y., who has acted as a con
sultant to Clarendon Gardens, is
one of the general designers of
the entire show’s floor plan.
Mrs. Sam Hutaff of Fayetteville;
daughter of Col. and Mrs. O. A.
Dickinson of Southern Pines, is
one of several design panelists
who will create flower arrange
ments at workshops to be held
four times daily, except Sunday.
The main feature garden, with
formal and informal settings, will
be the site for the workshops,
fashion shows and other features
of the Flower & Garden Show,
with seating available for 1,500
persons.
BILL WICKER of Aberdeen
Teen-Age Republican Club,
was unanimously elected
executive vice-president in
charge of finance of the North
Carolina T^en-Age Republi
cans (“TARS”) at their state
convention in the Robert E.
Lee Hotel in Winston-Salem,
Saturday. Phillip Kirk of
Salisbury, v/hose name was
placed in nomination by
Wicker, was elected TAR
president. A new constitution
was adopted by the conven
tion and plans for the 1964
elections were discussed.
JONAS TO SPEAK AT
DINNERSATURDAY
About 250 persons are ex
pected for Saturday night's
Republican Lincoln Day din
ner in the school cafeteria at
Carthage, with Congressman
Charles R. Jonas as featiured
speaker, to be introduced by
Robert Gavin of Sanford,
slate GOP chairman.
The dinner is set for 7, with
the Congressman's address at
8, said C. C. Thompson of
Pinebluff, Moore Republican
chairman.
Tickets can be obtained
from any member of the coun
ty executive committee.
Council Hears
Progress Report
On Bond Projects
A progre,=s report by Town
Manager F. F. Rainey on the
status of projects to be under
taken ' with bond issue funds au
thorized in last fall’s election, was
made to the town council Tuesday
night.
All the council members were
present for the short meeting on
which there were only two dock
eted items of business: Mayor
John S. Ruggles, Mayor Pro Tern
J. D. Hobbs and Councilmen Fel
ton Capel, Morris Johnson and
Fred Pollard.
On the bond funds, Rainey said:
1. Contracts were due to be
signed Wednesday with the Re
public Contracting (jo., of Colum
bia, S. C., ($171,000) for additions
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Truck Wrecked
On Long Bridge
At Deep River
Attention of the State has been
drawn for the past five days to
the village of Highfalls, in upper
Moore County, and the intensive
search that has been under way
for the body of Bill Upchurch, 28,
of Highfalls, believed lost in the
turbulent waters of Deep River.
The Moore County Rescue
Squad, with other rescue work
ers from a wide area, Highfalls
volunteer firemen, expert divers
from Fort Bragg and other help
ers have worked tirelessly in the
search which, though fruitless so
far, has been well organized and
thorough.
Bill Stutts of Robbins, chief of
the Moore Rescue Squad, said at
midweek, “We plan to keep on
working until we find the body,
or until we know for a certainty
it is not there.”
Upchurch was missing from his
1953 pickup truck after it wreck
ed at 8:30 p.m. Saturday nearly
midway of Highfalls bridge, a
high, narrorw concrete span ex
tending southward from the vil
lage on NC 22.
A series of crashes had been
heard as the truck apparently
struck the left-hand abutment,
then rolled and overturned some
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Chairmen Named
For Heart Drive
In Moore County
Mrs. Leon H. Baker, president
of the Moore County Heart
Council, announced today the
names of the committee chairmen
throughout the county who will
assist in conducting the forth
coming Heart Fund Campaign for
the North Carolina Heart Associ
ation.
C. H. Bowman of the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company has
been appointed treasurer of the
Fund for the county. Mr. Bowman
is also in charge of memorial
gifts.
Dr. R. J. Dougherty has been
appointed medical representative.
E. O. Brogden and John Barringer
are community chairmen for
Carthage and J. E. Sandlin and
Walter H. De Long for Aberdeen,
with Mrs. Jack Taylor acting as
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Blood Collection
Set Here Tuesday
With the Jaycees as local spon
sors, a bloodmobile from the
Charlotte Red Cross center will
be at St. Anjhony’s School audi
torium from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday to collect blood for the
county program.
The Jaycees are circulating
pledge cards and will provide
transportation to the collection
point to anyone calling 692-8571.
On Monday, the bloodmo
bile will be at the Carthage High
School from noon until 5:30 p.m.
Collections during visits of the
bloodmobile to Moore County
makes it possible for both hos
pitals in the county to obtain
blood of all types at any time
from the Charlotte center.
Ponzer To Head Moore Red Cross Drive
Mrs. Ives To Discuss
Work At Historic Bath
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, a member
of the state’s Historic Bath Com
mission, will talk on restoration
work at Bath, in eastern
North Carolina, and Miss Carolyn
Whitley of Beaufort will show
slides, at a meeting of the Moore
County Historical Association in
the town hall court room 'Tuesday,
February 19, at 8 p. m. The
public is invited.
AA ANNIVERSARY
The Aberdeen chapter of Alco
holics Anonymous will have open
house, with refreshments, at the
Aberdeen Community House Sun
day, February 17, at 3 p.m., in
recognition of the fourth anni
versary of the chapter’s founding.
There will be a visiting speaker.
The public is invited.
John L. Ponzer this week was
named chairman of the Moore
County Red Cross Fund Drive by
the Rev. R. Martin Caldwell,
chairfnan of the Moore County
Chapter. 'The month of March is
traditional as “Red Cross Month”
and the money-raising campaign
will be held then in Moore (jotui-
ty.
Plans for the fund campaign
will be completed tomorow eve
ning at a dinner meeting for
chairmen of the various commit
tees, to be held at The Terraces
on E. Massachusetts Ave.
Mr. Ponzer, Southern Pines res
ident who is division industrial
engineer of the Carolina Power
and Light Comoany. is well
known in North Carolina for his
support of state and community
projects and in 1962 received the
Kiwanis Distinguished Service
Award. He has served the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club as president,
treasurer and board member, and
also has served as lieutenant gov
ernor of the Carolines District of
Kiwanis. A member of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church of Southern
Pines, he has been a vestryman,
junior warden and president of
the Brotherhood of St. Andrew.
As a member of the Masonic
Lodge and the Elks be has con
tributed to their programs of
community development and has
JOHN L. PONZER
with
actively engaged in work
the Boy Scouts.
A graduate of the School of
Electrical Engineering of North
Carolina State College, Mr. Pon
zer has earned national as well as
local recognition in his profession.
He is a member of several nation
al committees and has been
chairman of the North Carolina
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Shaw House Will
Be Opened Friday
The Shaw House, located at in
tersection of S. W. Broad St. and
Morganton Road, will open to
morrow (Friday), to remain open
each day except Sunday, serving
luncheon and tea, from noon to
5:30 p. m., through the Spring
season.
The historic residence, oldest in
Southern Pines, is operated for
benefit of the Moore County His
torical Association by which it
was restored and furnished.
Features of interest at the prop
erty include the gardens and a
separate, hewn-log “weave house”
restored as a typical early Moore
County building.
Friday Is Deadline For
Auto Plates, Dog Tags
Midnight tomorrow (Friday)
will be the deadline for driving
without 1963 state and municipal
license plates and also for regi
stration of dogs owned by persons
living within the Southern Pines
city limits.
State tags are sold at the Farm
ers Supply Store, E. Main St.,
Aberdeen. Town licenses (cost $1)
can be obtained at the Informa
tion Center. Dogs should be re
gistered ($1 male, $2 female) and
the city license tag obtained at
the police station.
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
February 7 66 49
February 8 44 25
February 9 44 23
February 10 56 21
February 11 58 38
February 12 45 34
February 13 45 27