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VOL. 43—NO. 15
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1963
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County Tourney
Resumes Tonight
At Carthage Gym
By JOEL STUTTS
After an interruption of two
nights because of snow, play in
the 36th annual Moore County
High School basketball tourna
ment resumes tonight (Thursday)
at the Carthage gym.
Southern Pines boys play their
first contest of the tourney in
tonight’s opener, against Aber
deen at 6:30.
The tournament opened here
Friday, with games continuing
Saturday and Monday nights at
the local gym.
Capacity crowds, exciting action
and increasing interest marked
the first three days of tournament
play at Southern Pines. Favored
teams, based on how they finish
ed in final season standings, came
through with wins with the ex
ception of the Farm Life boys’
victory over Westmoore in the
first round action.
The remaining tournament
schedule:
Thursday Feb. 28:
6:30 Southern Pines vs Aber
deen (boys).
7:30 Farm Life vs High Falls
(girls)
8:30 Robbins vs Farm Life
(boys) .
Friday, March 1:
6:30 Vass-Lakeview vs Robbins
(girls).
7:30 Carthage vs High Falls
(boys).
8:30 Carthage vs Farm Life -
High Falls winner (semi-finals
girls).
Saturday March 2
6:30 Robbins-Farm Life winner
vs Southern Pines-Aberdeen win
ner (semi-finals—boys).
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West Side School Unit Near Completion
“Unit A” of the West Southern
Pines High School—the low build
ing in the foreground of this photo
—is nearing completion on the
school campus off W. New York
Ave. In the background at left is
the present crowded, outmoded
and condemned two-story high
school building. Grading around
the new building has not been
completed.
Contained in Unit A will be four
classrooms, language laboratory
area, two business rooms, projects
room, custodial room, book stor
age room and toilet facilities. To
tal cost is $110,000.
Funds for Unit A were appro
priated by the Moore County
commissioners in 1961 and 1962
from school capital outlay funds.
Construction of Unit B and C is
expected to begin this summer.
Red Cross Opens
County-Wide Fund
Drive This Week
The Moore County Chapter of
the American Red Cross tomor
row (Friday) joins in a nation
wide campaign for members and
funds.
In proclaiming March as “Red
Cross Month” President Kennedy
states “For one hundred years
the Red Cross has been a sym
bol of hope and help to those in
need. Wherever war or disease or
disaster have struck, the Red
Cross has been there to ease the
burden of human suffering.”
The Moore County Chapter,
chartered in 1915, has always
been geared to assume reponsi-
bility locally and in the state and
nation, according to Mrs. Audrey
Kennedy, volunteer executive di
rector of the chapter since the
attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The records of the Moore County
Chapter reveal that since then
the Volunteer Services have aid
ed more than 4,000 servicemen
and their families in this county.
Several thousand more persons
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Fulton Lewis III
To Speak Saturday
At Auditorium
Fulton Lewis III of Washing
ton, D. C., will speak at Weaver
Auditorium at 8 p.m. Saturday,
sponsored by the Thomas Jeffer
son Chapter of Young American
for Freedom. The public is invi
ted.
Young Americans for Freedom
is a conservative youth group of
which Lewis is national field di
rector. The Thomas Jefferson
chapter is headed by Bill Wicker,
Aberdeen High School student.
Son of the radio commentator,
Fulton Lewis, Jr., Lewis has lec
tured at many colleges and has
made nation-wide television and
radio appearances.
As research director for the
House Committee on Un-Ameri
can Activities, he saw student de
monstrations during the commit
tee’s San Francisco hearings in
1960 and later was narrator for
the widely shown film, “Oper
ation Abolition,” based on those
demonstrations.
Personal invitations to Lewis’s
talk, sent to many residents of
the area, state that he will discuss
“the differences between the phi
losophy of conservatism and li
beralism.”
Adults whose names appear on
these invitations are: Mr. and
Mrs. David A. Drexel, Gen. and
Mrs. Ira T. Wyche, James E. Har
rington, Jr., Dr. E. M. Medlin, Mr.
and Mrs. William R. Bonsai, III,
Mrs. Donald Parson, Wallace W.
O’Neal, Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. Robert S. Ewing, Mr.
and Mrs. Reid A. Page, Mr. and
Mrs. John R. Sibley, John J.
Greer, Mrs. Franz H. Krebs and
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. ’Thompson.
Dr. McLeod Reopening
Office Here Friday
Dr. Vida C. McLeod, local
physician, is reopening her office
at 155 E. New Hampshire Ave.,
tomorrow (Friday).
The office has been closed since
July of last year while Dr. Mc
Leod was convalescing from
surgery.
RUBINOFF TO APPEAR
“Rubinoff and His Violin,”
nationally known concert attrac
tion, will apear in Southern Pines
on April 3 in a benefit perfor
mance for the Southern Pines
Rotary Club’s scholarship fund,
the Rev. Carl Wallace, club presi
dent, said this week. Details will
be announced.
HOLIDAY INN
TO OPEN SOON
The new Holiday Inn and
Byron Nelson Restauranl.
just south of town on No. 1
highway, are expected to
open soon, it was announced'
this week by Charles J.
Thomas, manager of the Inn,
andi Jack Gilmore, restaurant
manager. A formal grand op
ening will be held later.
The 67-unit Holiday Inn
and Ihe large restaurant will
employ a staff of more than
40 persons, all hired locally,
with some already at work.
D. G. Castro of Aberdeen is
head chef at the restaurant.
Mrs. Peppi Leland will be
hostess there. C. S. Patch, Jr.,
will be night auditor at Holi
day Inn.
The entire property was
purchased!, while stiU uncom
pleted, from the contractor,
E. L. Wynn of Richmond, Va.,
by Byron Nelson 8c Asso
ciates of Petersburg, Va.
Mr. Nelson has spent con
siderable time here recently,
actively supervising comple
tion work.
following allocation of capital out
lay funds for fiscal 1963.
In Unit B and C will be class
rooms, vocational and shop areas,
science laboratories, library, mul
tipurpose room, guidance office
and administrative office for the
principal. ,
Hayes-Howell and Associates of
Southern Pines are architects for
the project. (Pilot photo)
Williams Held
For Grand Jury
In Dowdy Death
ATTACKS DOG, LUNGES AT DOOR
Fox Killed In Town Found Not Rabid
A grey fox that attacked the
family dog at the W. Lament
Brown residence on E. Indiana
Ave. Sunday afternoon, and was
later shot and killed by Police
Chief Earl Seawell, was not rab
id, a check of the head in state
laboratories at Raleigh showed
Monday.
Mysteriously, the fox did not
leave the Brown yard after it
was separated from the dog, a
beagle .named “Ford.” It lunged
against the front door when the
door was opened slightly by Mr.
Brown, but remained in front of
the house until the arrival of
Chief Seawell and Patrolman A.
J. Benner.
The animal had been observed
earlier Sunday afternoon on Old
Field Road near the R. S. Ewing
residence and had allowed one
of the Ewing children. Kit, to ap
proach close to it, before it ran
away in a southern direction. A
chase by children and dogs of
the neighborhood failed to track
it down.
“Ford” was treated at the
■Sandhill Veterinary Hospital.
The fox’s head was rushed to
Raleigh by Hardy Barber of near
Carthage, county dog warden.
The dog was attacked on the
stoop directly outside the Brown’s
front door and the fox was
shaken loose with difficulty by
Mr. Brown by maneuvering the
door to get part of the dog in
side. The fox had clamped its
jaws on the beagle’s nose.
Sandhills Trail
Rides Scheduled
For March 14-16
The annual Sandhills Trail
Rides, divided this year into
three divisions, have been an
nounced for March 14, 15 and 16,
sponsored by the Town of South
ern Pines and conducted under
auspices of the Moore County
Hounds.
Entry applications have been
sent to horse owners over a wide
area, to be returned to the Town
Information Center, where com
plete information and applica
tions can be obtained.
The three divisions are:
Division A— A 100-mile en
durance ride extending over the
three days, 40 miles on each of
the first two days and 20 miles
on the last.
Division B— A 50-mile pleasure
ride, 15 miles on each of the first
two days and 20 miles on the last.
Division C— A junior event
for riders under 21, 20 miles on
the last day (Saturday).
A sterling silver trophy and
three ribbins will be presented in
each of the three divisions.
Further details will be
nounced next week.
Eli Williams, Jr., 27, Scotland
County Negro who has recently
been living in West Southern
Pines, has been charged with the
murder of Willie R. Dowdy, 47.
of West Southern Pines some
time -early Friday morning.
Though Williams, known locally
as “Joe Lewis,” denied any in
volvement in Dowdy’s death,
probable cause was found against
him on the murder charge in a
preliminary hearing in municipal
recorder’s court Wednesday. He
is being held without bond for
grand jury action at the May Su
perior Court term.
The murder charge was made
following intensive investigation
by local police after the battered
and frozen body of Dowdy, a dis
abled World War 2 veteran, was
found in the yard of the Rich Ew
ing home, 154 South Stephens St.,
about 7 a.m. Friday.
Injuries on the body Of the
dead man included a severe con
tusion behind the left ear, bruised
body and bruised and scraped
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Girl Scout Group
Votes For Merger
Into New Council
The Central Carolina Girl Scout
Council, in a meeting held Mon
day night in the Fellowship Hall
of the First Presbyterian Church
at Sanford, voted to become a
part of the proposed 19-county
Carolina Pines Council.
Mrs. George H. Leonard Jr., of
Southern Pines, first vice presi
dent of the council, presided over
the meeting due to the illness of
Mrs. J. M. Caddell of Sanford,
council president. The invocation
was given by Sherwood Brockwell
Jr., of Southern Pines.
Under the proposal the Bright
Leaf, Central Carolina, Cumber
land County and five “lone coun
ty” councils would be merged into
one council.
During the meeting the propos
ed merger was discussed at
length. It was explained that un
der the proposed program there
will be opportunities for more
types of camping, better use of
volunteer services, less duplica
tion in sending out materials and
no duplication in executives’ sal
aries, according to proponents of
the move. One central office will
be established and then camps can
purchase wholesale supplies, it
was stated.
A film strip was presented
which further interpreted the
movement which is a part of a
nationwide trend to offer Scouting
to more girls, save funds and
have a better quality program.
Following the discussion Mrs.
Jones Harrington, of Sanford, de
velopment chairman for the coun
cil, presented the motion and the
proposed merger received a ma
jority vote.
The other councils involved are
holding similar meetings to vote
on the proposed merger.
Counties affected are Lee,
Moore, Chatham, Harnett, Per
son, Granville, Vance, Warren,
Orange, Franklin Durham, Wake
Johnson, Bladen, Robeson and
Scotland.
Area Residents Receive
County Tax Valuations
Residents of McNeill Township,
which includes Southern Pines,
have been receiving new 1963 tax
valuations on their real property,
from the office of Mrs. Estelle
Wicker, county auditor and tax
supervisor, during the past week.
Mrs. Wicker said today that
notices of 1963 tax valuations
have been sent to property owners
throughout the county, with the
PAID EXECUTIVE?
Merchants Plan
To Investigate
Reorganization
Meeting at the municipal center
Monday night, members of the
Southern Pines Merchants Coun
cil unanimously decided to call
a meeting with local industrial
and business leaders, to discuss
possibility of reorganizing the
group as a council or chamber of
commerce with an executive sec
retary.
E. Earl Hubbard, chairman of
the council, said there was gen
eral agreement—on the basis of
the council’s record in the past
year—that goals of the council
cannot be accomplished with vol
unteer leadership alone.
With support by industry, he
said, it is thought that a budget
large enough to permit employ
ment of a professional executive
could be set up.
Representatives of the Merch
ants Council expect to discuss its
future with the town coimcil at
the next town coxmcil meeting
March 12.
About two dozen persons at
tended the Monday meeting.
J. D. Arey, Jr., Home;
Condilion Improving
J. D. Arey, Jr., Aberdeen in
surance agent and realtor, went
home Simday from Moore Mem
orial Hospital W’here he had been
a patient since he was seriously
injured in an auto accident early
in January. Mr. Arey lost an eye
as result of the accident and suf
fered extensive other injuries. A
leg must remain in a cast for sev
eral more weeks, but, a member
of the family said today, he is
“showing steady improvement.”
Plans Announced
For Antiques Fair
A full quota of dealers is assur
ed for the annual Antiques Fair
to be held at the National Guard
Armory, March 20, 21, and 22, it
was reported last week at a meet
ing of the Moore County Histori
cal Association, the sponsoring
organization.
Mrs. Alice Bodine, in charge of
the fair project, said that all
available spaces at the armory
are taken by antiques dealers
from several eastern and south
ern states. The exhibits will be
open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. each
day. A food committee again will
sell refreshments.
The Antiques Fair, a success
ful event for several years, is the
chief fund-raising project of the
Historical Association.
Postcard notices about the
event, to mail to interested per
sons, can be obtained from Mrs.
Bodine.
Bright Sun Clears
3 Inches Of Snow
Snow that started falling late
Tuesday afternoon blanketed this
area with about three inches by
Wednesday morning when the
temperature dropped to a low of
nine degrees above zero.
All three school systems in
Moore County were closed Wed;
nesday but reopened this morning
after a bright sun all day yester
day cleared snow and ice from
most roads and streets. About an
inch of snow was left on the
ground in protected places.
Ice forming under the snow
made driving hazardous early
Wednesday but only shaded spots
on less-used streets remained icy
by last night. Town workers
spread sand on slippery places on
town streets early Wednesday.
Town crews started clearing
streets Tuesday night and most
streets were cleared of snow by
noon Wednesday.
Despite the exceptionally cold
weather this winter, this was the
first snow of the season.
exception of Sandhills Township
(which includes Aberdeen and
Pinebluff) and Mineral Springs
Township: (Pinehurst and West
End).
Sandhills Township valuations
should reach property owners
early next week, she said. Miner
al Springs notices'are expected to
go out within the following week.
The valuation appearing on the
notice received by property own
ers is 60 per cent of the “appraised
current market value” placed on
the property by professional ap
praisers during the county-wide
re-appraisal conducted over the
past two years.
Mrs. Wicker said that many pro
perty owners do not seem to
realize that the tax rate, which
has been $1.75 per $100 of proper
ty valuation, will be lowered for
the 1963 tax year. The county
commissioners have not yet set
this rate, but there is assurance
from the tax supervisor that it
will be drastically reduced below
the past level, since property valu
ations, at the 60 per cent of mar
ket value rate, run considerably
higher than the former valuations.
The tax valuation notices being
received by property owners
state that “any reasonable com
plaint” must be filed with the
tax supervisor by March 15, for
presentation to a board of equali
zation and review.
Mrs. Wicker said that property
owners making a complaint are
first given an opportunity to look
over the detailed record of each
appraisal which is filed on a
large card in her office and to
talk with a representative of the
appraisers. If not satisfied, the
property owner can then carry
his complaint to the commission
ers sitting as board of equaliza
tion and review.
She said that not over 50 pro
perty owners, of the thousands
who have been notified of valua
tions so far, have asked for a
formal review of their valuations,
although many others have made
inquiries about their appraisals.
If description or ownership of
property on notices is incorrect,
the tax office should be notified
at once, the tax supervisor said.
RICHMOND COUNTY BILL PROPOSED
Will Moore Try To Quit District?
an-
UPCHURCH STILL MISSING
No further information about
Bill Upchurch of Highfalls, miss
ing since his truck was wrecked
on the Deep River bridge at High
falls February 9, has been obtain
ed, according to the county
sheriff’s department at Carthage.
Bad weather has prevented furth
er search for his body in and
along the river which has already
been combed for miles on the
supposition that Upchurch may
have been thrown into the river
at the time of the wreck.
Ears were pricked up in Moore
County today at the news that a
bill transferring Richmond County
out of the Eighth District and
into the Seventh had been pro
posed by a Senate Committee in
Raleigh, with this town’s Senator
W. P. Saunders making the mo
tion.
The Eighth District, which in
cludes Moore County, was gerry
mandered before the last election
to include populous Mecklenburg
County and the big city of Char
lotte, a move favored by few in
Moore who have not hesitated to
point to the Democratic losses in
the past election to justify their
judgment.
As this county’s J. Hawley
Poole said at the time: “The re
arranged Eighth District was sup
posed to be the whale that would
swallow Jonas, but instead Jonas
swallowed the whale.” Mr. Poole,
from West End, represented the
county in the legislature for
several terms.
Opinion among Democratic po
about this move made by Rich
mond, with a view to following
suit.
W. Lament Brown, chairman of
the Moore County Democratic
Committee, was in Raleigh yester
day and talked with Representa
tive H. Clifton Blue, Senator
Saunders, and others.
“They are certainly considering
this,” Mr. Brown reported, “and
there seems to be a good deal of
support for such a move on the
part of Moore.” But the county
man cautioned that the situation
needed careful handling. “Moore
County was pushed into this
Eighth District largely against our
will and it turned out the way
many thought it would. Now we
want to be sure, before we make
a move, that it is the right one,”
Mr. Brown said.
Southern Pines’s Mayor John
Ruggles expressed himself as
favoring such a move. While
agreeing with Mr. Brown’s opin
ion that the matter should get
careful thought, he said he felt
Credit School
To Be Conducted
March 11 & 12
Bankers, merchants, credit
managers and others in Southern
Pines, Aberdeen, Pinehurst, Car-
thag.e, Robbins, Vass, Cameron,
West End and Pinebluff will be
given an opportunity to partici
pate in a short course in Consum
er Credit to be held here March
11 and 12, according to an an
nouncement by C. Gilmer Parrish
of the Credit Bureau of Moore
County which has offices here.
Conducting the school will be
Sterling S. Speake, instructor in
consumer credit and collections,
of the International Consumer
Credit Association, St. Louis, Mo.
Approved credit and collection
procedures used by bankers, re
tailers and medical people will be
described and discussed.
Topics to be discussed in the
course include: problems affect
ing credit, credit applications,
credit interviews, investigating
and evaluating the applicant, ac
cepting and rejecting the appli
cant, credit policies, credit sales
promotion, collections and other
procedures. Classes will be held
from 7 to 10 o’clock each evening
at the Southern Pin.es mvmicipal
building.
An I. C. C. A. certificate will be
awarded all persons passing the
optional examination. A small en-
size and of similar interests.
“In this present Eighth District,”
Mayor Ruggles said, “we’re being
swamped by Mecklenburg —
there’s no doubt of that.”
Most enthusiastic is Forrest
Lockey, of Aberdeen, head of the
Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad,
who managed the late unsuccess
ful campaign of Paul Kitchin. Mr.
Lockey says he has felt all along uyuuncn n.
that Moore should get out of the rollment fee is the only cost to
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Eighth District if possible. The
county would fare far better, he
believes, to be linked with others
of the same type.
“Charlotte people are fine,” he
said, “I haven’t a thing against
them, but they’re big city people.
They can’t have much concern for
the interests of rural and recrea
tional areas.
“I would certainly like us to be
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litical leaders in "the county seems j certain that Moore would do
to be rather unanimous that ! better to be in a District with
CIVIL COURT TERM
The regular term of Moore
County Superior Court for trial
of civil cases will open at Carth
age, Monday, March 11, with
Judge Walter E. Johnson, Jr. of
to De rainer unanimuus meib i utritci tu uc m « -
Moore ought to begin thinking other counties more nearly its Winston-Salem presiding
the enrollee. Further information
may be obtained by calling the
Credit Bureau of Moore County.
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 21
62
39
February 22
34
13
February 23
44
14
February 24
52
28
February 25
57
26
February 26
45
13
February 27
36
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