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VOL. 43—NO. 16
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963
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Two Youths Jailed
As One Goes Free
In Dowdy Murder
As a result of two signed con
fessions and new corroborative
evidence, two youths are behind
bars and the man, who was be
hind them is now free.
Eli Williams, Jr., who was
charged with the murder of Willie
R. Dowdy, February 22, and held
for trial when probable cause
was found, was released from his
Carthage jail cell Wednesday fol
lowing the arrests of Herbert
Ewing, 18, of 154 South Stephens
Street, where the crime took
place, and Charles William Gib
son, (“Bobby”), 17, youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gibson
of West Pennsylvania Ave. Ext.
Ewing’s confession implicated
Gibson and triggered the latter’s
confession. Ewing had a police
record of assault and larceny and
also is wanted in New Jersey as
a material witness in a man
slaughter case involving circum
stances similar to those in the
Dowdy crime.
In his sworn statement made to
Southern Pines Police Chief Earl
Seawell and read in court Ewing
stated that during the carousing
that took place in the Ewing
home the night of February 22,
in which various members of the
Ewing family, Gibson and also
Williams were involved, he and
Gibson beat Dowdy, dragged him
out into the yard, and left him
lying on the ground. When found
the next morning the body show
ed marked signs of a beating,
bruises about the head and a
broken rib, and had been frozen
stiff during the bitter cold of the
night. The coroner’s verdict was:
death by exposure, with a beating
and drinking as contributory
causes.
Gibson’s story corroborated
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Commissioners Asked For Funds
To Help Set Up Mental Health Clinic
The Moore County Commis
sioners, meeting in regular ses
sion at Carthage Monday, were
asked to budget about $10,000 in
the next fiscal year to pay half
the estimated annual cost of a
mental health clinic to serve the
entire county.
Spokesmen for the Moore Coun
ty Mental Health Association—co
ordinating agency in making
plans for the clinic project—told
the board that their proposal
assumes the current General As
sembly will pass legislation mak
ing state funds available for such
a purpose.
The commissioners took the
proposal under advisement, to be
considered when they make up
the budget for the 1963-64 fiscal
year starting July 1. They seemed
impressed by the presentation
which stressed the acute need for
mental health counseling and di
agnostic facilities as important
aids to the courts, welfare, law
enforcement, domestic relations.
Crockett Wins Morehead Scholarship
DISCUSSING ROADS and other matters with
the county commissioners Monday at Carthage
were a number of guests. Left to right, seated.
State Senators Garland Garriss of Troy and W.
P. Saunders of Southern Pines; Rep. H. Clifton
Blue, Speaker of the House; 8th Division High
way Commissioner Elsie Webb of Rockingham;
Fred Beck of Carthage, district highway engi
neer; and commissioners T. R. Monroe and W.
S. Taylor. Standing, same order, are Commis
sioner J. M. Pleasants, J. M. Currie and Chair
man L. R. Reynolds. Division Engineer T. C.
Johnston, Jr., of Southern Pines is hidden be
tween Beck and Monroe. The commissioners
went over proposed secondary road work with
Webb and the highway engineers and will meet
again with them to choose roads for paving,
when amount of funds available is known. The
commissioners endorsed a proposal for a $200
million state road bond issue and the return
of highway funds, now diverted to the Motor
Vehicles Bureau and the State Prisons Depart
ment, to the State General Fund for secondary
road use. (V. Nicholson photo)
Don’t Follow Fire
Truck Too Closely
Fire Chief Joe Garzik and Po
lice Chief Earl Seawell this week
warned motorists that it’s against
the law to follow a fire truck
within a block’s distance and also
that motorists must pull to the
side of the street and stop when
fire trucks are approaching.
Chief Garzik said people who
follow'ihe fire truck or obstruct
its progress have been creating
diiiicult and dangerous situations
for the firemen, especially at
night.
The local volunteers responded
to two alarms in the past week—
a fire in baled pine straw near
St. Joseph’s Hospital on Sunday
and a call from a house where
curtains caught fire, on Hale St.
in West Southern Pines, at 9 p.m.
Monday. There was no extensive
damage at either location.
AD CORRECTION
In an A & P Super Market ad
vertisement appearing on page
11, an error in copy furnished to
The Pilot lists five pounds of beef
for $8.75. The item should read:
25 pounds of beef for $8.75.
IN WASHINGTON. D. C.
Missing Man Seen
Alive, Couple In
Carthage Reports
Speculation on the fate of Bill
Upchurch, young Highfalls man
whose truck was found wrecked
on the Deep River bridge there
February 9, increased this week
after a Carthage couple told the
Moore County sheriff’s depart
ment they believe they saw Up
church alive after the time of
the wreck, on the night it took
place.
’The supposition that Upchurch
survived the accident gained
credibility also this week, after
a futile, all-out search of Deep
River on Sunday—by hundreds
of rescue workers and others. As
in numerous previous searches,
no trace of his body was found.
Chief Deputy H. H. Grimm of
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Pinehurst To Be On
Radio 'Profile' Sunday
Ridiard S. Tufts, chsiriusn of
the board of Pinehurst, Tnc., will
JUNIOR HIGH TO
PRESENT OPERETTA
The annual operetta pre
sented by East Southern
Pines Junior High School (7th
and 8th grades) will be seen
in Weaver Auditorium Fri
day and Saturday nights of
this week — a two-act adap
tation of "The Magic Flute"
from the story by Schikaned-
er and Gisecke and the music
of Mozart.
Performances will be at 8
p.m. each night, with a
separate cast for each, to per
mit wider participation by
students.
The dialogue was adapted
by the 8th Grade Language
Arts Class. All students in
both grades have some pari
in the production, on stage
or behind the scenes.
Advance tickets are on sale
by Junior High students. Sell
out performances are expect
ed.
Seniors Golf To
Peacock Chosen
As Nominee For
Naval Academy
Congressman Charles R. Jonas
has announced the selection of
Jonathan Earl Peacock of Aber
deen as a nominee for appoint
ment to the U. S. Naval Academy
at Annapolis Md.
The son of Major (U.S. Army,
retired) and Mrs. Donald F. Pea
cock, Jonathan is now attending
Georgia Southern College in
Statesboro, Ga. He graduated in
1962 from Georgia Military
Academy.
In the competitive system used
by Congressman Jonas, several
students are selected to compete
for each Army, Navy or Air Force
Academy vacancy that is allotted
to the Eighth Congressional Dis
trict. The nominees compete with
each other for the vacancy and
selection of the student is made
by the academy, based on the
examination scores.
David Godwin Crockett, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. (irockett,
Jr., of Lakeview, has been award
ed a Morehead Scholarship to the
University of North Carolina, it
was announced Tuesday.
The announcement and the pre
sentation of the awards was made
personally by John Motley More
head, chairman of the John Mot
ley Morehead Foundation and
founder of the scholarship fund.
Crockett is a student at Vass-
Lakeview High School, Vass. He
is one of 53 boys to receive the
valued scholarships this year. The
all-expense scholarships are
worth $5,100 to North Carolina
residents for four years of study.
Crockett’s school and commun
ity activities include serving on
the school paper staff, as presi
dent of the sophomore, junior and
senior classes, marshal, president
of the Beta Club, Future Farmers’
Club, Glee Club, Youth Fitness
Conference, eagle scout, president
of Sunday School and church fel
lowship group, varsity basketball
and baseball, and participating in
the program for gifted children
at Western Carolina College. He
will study science or literature in
college.
The Morehead Scholarships
were first awarded in 1951. They
i^'***^ s
DAVID G. CROCKETT
are awarded on the basis of out
standing merit reflected in aca
demic ability and attainment,
character, leadership, ambition,
unselfish service and physical
vigor, without consideration of
need.
The 53 new.grants bring to 418
the total number of Morehead
Scholarships awarded in the past
12 years.
alcoholic rehabilitation and other
fields of activity.
All the commissioners were
present for the session: Chairman
L. R. Reynolds and board mem
bers John M. Currie, Tom Mon
roe, James M. Pleasants and W. S.
Taylor.
Dr. Charles Phillips of South
ern Pines, physician who is chair
man of the Moore County Mental
Health Association’s clinic com
mittee, made the main presenta
tion, explaining that the clinic
would have a full-time psychi
atric social worker and secretary
and would be visited by a psy
chiatrist and by a psychologist,
each one day per week. A charge
would be made to patients able to
pay, adjusted to ability to pay,
and charity work would also be
carried on in cooperation with the
the welfare department, he said.
Dr. Phillips said that Mrs. Leon
Baker of Southern Pines, who
heads the Matheson Memorial
Foundation, would make the
Matheson Memorial Clinic build
ing near St. Joseph’s Hospital
available for the Mental Health
Clinic, rent-free.
The commissioners were each
handed a bound group of docu
ments dealing with the clinic
plan: resolutions in support of the
clinic by the Moore County Med
ical Society, the County Minister
ial Association and the Mental
Health Association, along with
various pertinent background ma
terial from state and federal
agencies.
While the group was presenting
its proposal, Lawrence Johnson,
Aberdeen attorney, joined the
meeting to say that the Moore
County Bar Association, at a noon
meeting Mondgy, had added its
endorsement of the clinic.
All speakers on behalf of the
clinic stressed the great need for
it as observed in their personjil
experience in the county. In ad-
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be interviewed at 6:15 p.m. Sun
day on the “Profile” program of
Radio Station WPTF, Raleigh.
Bob Farrington of the WPTF
staff was in the Sandhills Wednes
day to record the 15-minute inter
view which will trace the history
of Pinehurst from its founding
nearly 70 years ago.
The program is one in the sta
tion’s series which recognizes in
dustrial firms and other organiza
tions. Several in this area have
been “Profile” subjects.
Lang Promoted To Brigadier General
First round of match play, in
flights of 16 pairs, is scheduled
for Saturday in the Pinehurst
Country Club’s Seniors Four-Ball
Invitation golf' tournament. The
event will run through Wednes
day of next week when the
finals will take place.
The more than 100 senior golf
ers, including Sandhills residents
and many visitors, will play on
the No. 2 championship course.
Trophies will be awarded for
the best qualifying score and to
winners and runners-up in each
flight.
An 18-hole qualifying round is
set for Friday. There will be no
tournament play on Sunday.
District Playoffs
To Start, Aberdeen
Two Moore County teams, Pine
hurst and Robbins, will take
part in the District 4 Class A
basketball playoffs and tourna
ment starting FYiday night in the
Aberdeen gym.
Robbins plays its first game at
8:30 p.m. l^iday against EUerbe,
at Aberdeen.
Pinehurst doesn’t play until the
playoffs move to Red Springs
next week. First game for the
Pinehurst team then is at 7 p.m.
Thursday, in the district tourna
ment.
Racing Starts At
Pinehurst Sunday
Spring harness racing will be
gin at the Pinehurst track Sun
day, with a six-dash card starting
at 2:00 p.m., under auspices of
the Pinehurst Driving & Training
Club.
Trotters and pacers training at
Pinehurst for racing on the na
tion’s top tracks later this year
will be seen in action Sunday and
on the two other dates schedul
ed—April 7 and April 21.
Accomodations at the track in
clude reserved parking spaces,
general admission, reserved seats
and grandstand seats. Children
under 12 are admitted free. Ad
vance tickets are on sale at the
Carolina Pharmacy and the Car
olina Hotel, in Pinehurst.
COUNCIL TO MEET
The Southern Pines Town
Council will have its regxilar
meeting in the municipaF center
at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 12. Rep
resentatives of the Merchants
Council are expected to appear
before the council to discuss the
future of the local business orga
nization.
John A. Lang, Jr., of Carthage,
was among six Air Force Reserve
officers confirmed last week by
the U.S. Senate in the rank of
brigadier general Air Force Re
serve. President Kennedy recent
ly forwarded the nominations of
these reserve officers to the Sen
ate.
Gen. Lang has a mobilization
assignment as deputy commander.
Air Force ROTC Headquarters,
Air University, Maxwell Air
Force Bass. In civilian life,
he serves as deputy for Reserve
and ROTC Affairs, Office of the
Secretary of the Air Force in
Washington.
Previous to coming to the Pen
tagon in 1961, Lang was a Con
gressional administrative assis
tant on Capitol Hill for 15 years.
He served as secretary to 8th
District Congressman Charles B.
Deane, of Rockingham, from 1947
to 1957.
A graduate of the University of
North Carolina, Gen. Lang head
ed the National Youth Adminis
tration in North Carolina as the
state administrator in Raleigh
from 1938 to 1942. He volunteered
MOORE COUNTY BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Pinehurst BoySy Vass-Lakeview Girls Win
BRIG. GEN, JOHN A. LANG/JR.
teened as a private in World War
II and rose to the rank of major
at the time of his separation from
active duty at Fort Bragg in 1945.
Gen. Lang is married to the for
mer Catherine Gibson, of Gibson,
and they have four children.
BY JOEL STUTTS
An overflow crowd estimated
at over 2,000 basketball fans
witnessed the exciting champion
ship games climaxing play at
Carthage Monday night in the
36th annual Moore County High
School Basketball Tournament.
These games featured Pine-
hurst’s boys sweeping to their
29th consecutive 1962-63 victory
while picking up the coveted
tourney crown. And the Vass-
Lakeview girls who demonstrated
remarkable poise while downing
No. 5-seeded Robbins, defending
champs, No. 1 seeded West End
and No. 2 seeded Farm Life, for
their first championship in 33
years.
The Pinehurst Rebels, coached
by Roger Paschal, continued to
demonstrate their tremendous
playing ability in the tournament
as they were never closely con
tested. They defeated No. 2 seed
ed Robbins by a 62-44 count in
the championship game, with
Bobby Norton capturing individ
ual scoring honors with 22 points.
Marshall Lewis followed with 15
and Bill McDonald collected 14.
Clifford Kennedy with 15 and
Johnny Freeman with 13 paced
TROPHIES GIVEN
TO MOORE TEAMS
Trophies presented at the
close of the Moore County
High School Basketball Tour
nament, in Carthage Monday
night, were:
Tournament Champions —
Boys, Pinehurst; Girls, Vass-
Lakeview.
Tournament Runners-Up —
Boys, Robbins; Girls, Farm-
Life.
Sportsmanship — Boys,
Robbins; Girls, Vass-Lake-
view and Cameron (tie).
Regular Season Champ
ions — Boys, Pinehurst; Girls,
West End.
the Elise team from Robbins.
The Rebels held a commanding
33-11 half-time lead. They were
awarded the Regular Season 'and
Tournament Champion Trophies
at the conclusion of play Monday.
The Rebel quint will now enter
the district I-A playoffs schedul
ed for Red Springs next week.
Robbins will play at Aberdeen
Friday in an elimination tourney
to determine the other entry at
Red Springs.
If either of these teams wins
the District tournament at Red
Springs, it will enter the State
Championship Tournament at
Durham.
The Vass-Lakeview girls used
determination, confidence and
ability to win a well deserved
Moore County tournament cham
pionship by defeating a strong
Farm Life team which ended in
second position during regular
season play.
The Vass-Lakeview Blazers,
coached by David Page, former
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Workshop, PTA Program On Child
Mental Health To Be Held Monday
The mental health of children—
and what teachers, parents, phy
sicians, welfare workers and oth
ers can do about it—will be the
subject of a “mental health work
shop,” to which all school pers
onnel of the county have been in
vited, to be held at Southern
Pines High School Monday after
noon.
The same subject will form the
program topic for the March
meeting of the East Southern
Pines Parent-Teacher Association
at 8 p.m. Monday in Weaver Au
ditorium.
Registration for the afternoon
program will be from 3:30 to 4;
a symposium on various aspects
of children’s mental health will
take place from 4 to 5, and furth
er discussion will continue from
5 to 6.
Taking part in the symposium
and also appearing as guest speak
ers at the PTA meeting that
night will be Dr. Hardwick Harsh-
man, director of special educa
tion at the University of North
Carolina, and James Paul, staff
member of the Wright School,
Durham.
Others to take part in the after
noon symposium are:
The Rev. Carl Wallace of
Southern Pines, moderator; Mrs.
Walter B. Cole of Carthage, coun
ty director of public welfare; Dr.
R. M. McMillan of Southern
Pines; and Ralph Foushee of the
local school facility.
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 28 58 27
March 1 59 37
March 2 61 43
March 3 64 27
March 4 72 34
March 5 71 61
March 6 68 56
FOR ACTION IN SOUTH VIETNAM
Air Medal Awarded Sergeant Draper
Air Force Staff Sergeant Rich
ard T. Draper, who lives here
with his family while stationed
at Pope Air Force Blase with the
f
S-SGT. RICHARD T. DRAPER
464th Troop Carrier Wing, was
one of 14 men receiving the Air
Medal during a wing-review at
the base Saturday.
The decorations were awcirded
for action supporting U. S. milita
ry assistance programs in South
Vietnam during the last half of
1962.
Col. Arthur P. Hurr, wing vice
commander, made the presenta
tions. He said it was the largest
single group to receive the Air
Medal since World War II.
Sergeant Draper, a native of
Elyria, Ohio, and a veteran of the
Korean conflict, was assigned to
Pope AFB and came to Southern
Pines to live, four years ago. His
wife, Mrs. Perry Draper, remain
ed here while he was in South
Vietnam.
The Drapers live in a cottage
at the Fairway Motor Court. A
nephew, Robbie Bartlett, five
years old, lives with them.
Mrs. Draper and Robbie attend
ed the wing review at which the
awards were presented.