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EASTER SEAL
Funds Work All Year
To Aid The Handicapped
VOL. 43—NO. 18
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963
Community College To
Be Discussed Tuesday
Public Invited
Attend Meeting
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
All Moore County citizens in
terested in education are invited
to attend a public meeting at the
courthouse in Carthage, at 7:30
p. m., Tuesday, March 26, to hear
a discussion of how this county
may be able to get a “communi-
REP. BLUE TO BE
HONORED SATURDAY
An informal dutch barbe
cue supper in the Carthage
High School Cciieteria Satur
day, sponsored by the Young
Democratic Club of Moore
County, with 200 or more
persons exrpected, will honor
Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aber
deen, Moore County's repre
sentative in the General As
sembly and current Speaker
of the House in that body.
The event will start at 7 p.
m.
Gov. Terry Sanford, Sec
retary of State Thad Eure
and John A. Lang of Wash
ington, D. C., U. S. deputy
for Reserve and ROTC af
fairs, with the cilfice of the
Secretary of the Air Force,
are expected, along with
numerous state and county
officials. Democratic leaders
and friends and acquaintan
ces of the representative who
is serving his ninth consec
utive term at Raleigh.
In recognition of the event,
the county commissioners
have designated Saturday as
"Clifii Blue Day" throughout
the county.
J. Elvin Jackson, county
YDC president, is scheduled
to preside, with W. Lamont
Brown, county Democratic
chairman, introducing Gov
ernor Sanford. Mr. Eure will
be master of ceremonies.
Pre-Schoolers To
Meet On March 28
Parents of children who will
enter the East Southern Pines
elementary school in September
are reminded that a pre-school
clinic for these children will be
held at the school on E. Mass
achusetts Ave., Thursday, March
28, starting at 9 a. m.
It was stressed by school offi
cials that a parent must accom
pany children to the clinic. They
will not be accepted there if
brought in by other children in
the family.
Children whose family names
begin with the letters A through
M are asked to come between 9
and 10 a. m., while others should
come between 10 and 11.
Permitted +o enter the first
grade are cnildren whose sixth
birthday falls on or before Octo
ber 15.
The clinic for. West Southern
Pines School has already been
held.
ty college”—a two-year school
for both academic and vocational
and industrial education.
Enabling legislation to provide
for state aid in setting up 16 such
institutions around the state is
now in the General Assembly and
is expected to be written into
law. Backers of such a college for
Moore County say that public in
terest shown by communities is
a major factor in determining
where the colleges will be loca
ted. They are therefore urging
attendance at the meeting, when
details of the project will be ex
plained. Continuing interest
would help locate a college in
Moore, they say.
Residents of the Southern
Pines-Pinehurst - Aberdeen
area are especially urged to
attend. While a site has not
been chosen, there is indica
tion that it might be in this
end of the county—with the
further possibility that the
college be constructed in con
junction with a proposed
consolidated high school, of
fering an exceptionally large
amd diversified curriculum,
through four years of high
school and two of college, as
well as adult night school fa
cilities.
The county board of education
is sponsoring the meeting Tues
day night. Presiding will be State
Sen. W. P. Saunders and Bep. H.
Clifton Blue, both of whom are
working for passage of the leg-
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Vass Residents
Vote For Bonds
Vass residents voted over
whelmingly Tuesday in favor of
a $16,000 municipal bond issue,
to supplement a $146,000 bond is
sue approved in March, 1962, for
construction of a water filter
plant.
Tuesday’s vote was 128 for, 28
against the second bond issup
made necessary because low bids
received for the filter plant had
proved higher than foreseen.
With available funds failing to
meet the bids by $32,000, the
town board worked with the low
bidders to whittle down the costs,
halving the gap.
No more bids will be asked and
contracts are to be awarded to
the following: plant construc
tion, Republic Contractors Cbrp.,
Columbia, S. C.; electrical, Mc
Carter Electric Co., Laurinburg,
and heating, Southern Pines
Plumbing and Heating Co.
Work is expected to start very
soon on the project, which will
provide a connection with nearby
Little River and a modern fil
ter plant to replace the wells
which have for some time been
inadequate for needs of the town.
TRAIL RIDE AWARDS— Winners in adult
and junior divisions of the Sandhills Trail
Rides, conducted Friday and Saturday, were
given their trophy and ribbons at an awards
supper at “Pineholme” Saturday night. Left
to right: Winthrop Pyemont, first in 50-Mile
FARM LIFE BANQUET
The annual banquet of alumni
of Farm Life School, Route 3
Carthage, will be held in the
school cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. Satur
day. An entertainment program
is planned after the dinner.
Trail Riders Get
Lost, Rained On,
But All Ends Well
The Sandhills Trail Rides, con
ducted Friday and Saturday un
der auspices of the Moore Coun
ty Hounds and sponsored by the
Town of Southern Pirke-s, hit
some snags in the form of a
painted-over sign that sent all
but, one of the riders on the
Wrong course the second day—
and also a downpour of rain on
Saturday, as contrasted with
clear, nippy weather on Friday.
Adult participants were to ride
a 25-mils course Friday and an
other 25 miles on Saturday, test
ing the endurance of their
mounts and their skill in timing
their progress along the course.
Juniors had a 20-mile ride on
Saturday.
The Saturday ride sign trouble
was traced to a directional sign
that had been painted over be
tween Friday and Saturday some
time, apparently when a gate
post on which it was fastened
had been painted by some one
not knowing the sign’s signifi
cance.
Result was that Miss Terry
Dufort of Montreal, Canada, was
the only rider to complete the
full course, as she had spotted
the sign for what it was. Other
riders took a different course
and cut some six miles from their
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Pleasure Ride (short course); Miss Terry Dufort,
overall first place and trophy for completing
entire course; Mayor Pro Tern J. D. Hobbs
who made the presentations; and Mary Virginia
Morton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Morton
of Youngs Road, first among Juniors.
(Humphrey photo)
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ly
Catholic Order Plans
New 100-Bed Hospital,
Change At St. Joseph’s
Proposed conversion of St. Jo
seph of the Pines Hospital here
to a facility for elderly persons
who need medical and nursing
care, and the construction of a
new, 100-bed general hospital
adjoining or near the present
Fletcher Plant
Damage By Fire
‘Not Serious’
The Fletcher Southern, Inc.
plant on the Carthage road was
back in full production Wednes
day “with no serious damage
done,” said Edward T. Taws, Jr.,
president, after a fire early Tues
day morning.
(Charles E. Baker, resident fire
man, said the fire—which filled
the plant with smoke and also
considerable water from the
automatic sprinkler system—was
confined to a room where
wooden textile machinery parts,
which had been treated with oil,
were stored.
The fire apparently originated,
from an unknown cause, in a
pile of these parts. Baker said.
A resident near the plant turned
in an alarm when a fire alarm
on the plant sounded, after the
sprinkler system was activated.
Mr. Taws asked The Pilot to
express his appreciation to the
Southern Pines volunteers for
their assistance with the fire.
were announced this
Schooling Show Slated
For Sunday Afternoon
Another in the series of Mid
South Schooling Horse Shows will
be held Sunday afternoon, start
ing at 1:30 p.m., in the ring at
Second Wind Farm on Youngs
Road. These shows feature sever-
M classes for junior riders. There
is no admission charge.
READY TO GO— Miss Jane Clark of Dover, Mass., who has
been hunting with the Moore County hounds this year, is shown
on Magna, the thoroughbred mare she rode to win second place
in the pleasure ride of the Sandhills event Saturday. Formerly
in the stable of Mrs. H. Gardiner Fiske, Magna was bred in the
Sandhills. At right are two of the local judges, Mrs. Susan Burke
and Newton Mayo. (Humphrey photo)
ANOTHER TEENAGER SENT TO ROADS
Judge Sets Strict Behavior Rules
For 2 Youths Who Damaged School
Local Girl To Attend National Scout Camp
Carolyn Elizabeth Niles, 16 -
year-old daughter of SFC and
Mrs. W. B. Niles of Southern
Pines, is one of two Central Car
olina Council Girl Scouts select
ed to participate this summer in
a national camping project. The
other is Susan Parker, 16, daugh
ter of Major and Mrs. C. A.
Parker of Erwin.
Carolyn will go to the state
of Washington for 17 days in one
of five camps which will be at
tended by a total of 628 Girl
Scouts from every state in the
nation. Susan Parker will attend
a California camp. Other camps
will be located in Maryland,
Michigan and Tennessee. The
national project is known as the
All-States Encampment.
Girls to attend were selected
for their excellent camping skills.
At the special camps this sum
mer, they will help study arid
test camping techniques expect
ed to be applied over the nation
to improve camping experiences
for thousands of Girl Scouts. On
their return, they will help troops
in their areas to go camping and
will aid in leader training.
A study has shoWn that Girl
CAROLYN NILES
Scouts, from Brownies to Seniors
want more opportunity for ex
perience in outdoor living.
Carolyn has been in Girl Scout
ing since 1954 when she joined
a Brownie troop in Tennessee.
The family has lived in Southern
Pines since 1958, when her father
was assigned to Fort Bragg with
the XVIII Airborne Corps. With
her parents and sister, Anne, she
had previously gone to Germany
where she became an Intermedi
ate, attended day camps and
took part in American and Ger
man Girl Scout activities.
Since living in Southern Pines,
Carolyn was chosen honor camp
er for three consecutive years at
Camp Gertrude Tufts near Pine-
hurst. She was an alternate to
the Girl Scout Roundup in 1962,
and went on a five-day hike and
back-packing trip to Grandfather
Mountain and the Boone area in
Western North Carolina.
Carolyn is a sophomore at East
Southern Pines High School. She
has played basketball for two
years, is an FHA officer and sings
in the Glee Club. She is a mem
ber of the Episcopal Young
Churchmen, sings in the choir
and is an assistant Sunday
School teacher at Emmanuel
Church. She is on the Senior
planning board of Central Caro
lina Girl Scout Council.
"Two local youths and one from
near Carthage pleaded guilty
yesterday in Southern Pines Re
corder’s Court to charges of
breaking and entering a school
building, causing damage. They
received stem lectures, along
with sentences, from Judge W.
Harry Fullenwider.
For Thomas E. Ormsby, 17, a
senior at East Southern Pines
High school, and Peter P. Blasko,
Jr., 18, a 1962 graduate, neither
of whom had been in the court
before, the judge continued pray
er for judgment on payment of
costs on certain conditions: they
Coffin, Quittner
Win Seniors Event
Playing on the No. 2 cham
pionship coxirse of the Pinehurst
Country Club Thursday of last
week, Bruce A. Coffin of Mar
blehead Neck, Mass., and Egon
F. Quittner of Jenkintown, Pa.,
won the club’s 1963 Seniors Four-
Ball golf tournament.
The champions, each 63 years
of age, defeated their opponents
4 and 3 in match play: E. Russell
Jones of Wilmington, Del., and
Harry S. Saxman of Latrobe,
Pa., each 64 years old.
Results of the match came too
late Thursday for publication in
last week’s Pilot.
Coffin is the American Seniors
champion. Quittner was, a co
winner of the Pinehurst Seniors
Four-Ball tournament two years
ago.
More than 100 golfers took
part in the tournament, playing
in flights of 16 pairs. Troiphies
were awarded winners and run
ners-up in each flight.
must make restitution for the
damage done, including break
ing the glass in two doors of the
gymnasium building, the money
to be paid out of their own earn
ings; they must remain home
from 8 p. m. till 7 a. m. during
the next two months; and, during
that period, they must not visit
any place where alcoholic bever
ages are sold, other than grocery
stores.
The case was heard in the
morning and the boys were di
rected to remain in the court
room during the rest of the ses
sion.
Floyd Criscoe, 19, of Carthage,
Route 2, a dropout last fall from
Carthage High School, drew a
straight 30 days on the roads, “in
accordance with an agreement we
made when he was here the last
time,” said Judge Fullenwider.
Criscoe has been before the local
court twice before.
Police Chief Earl Seawell, as
only witness for the State, said
the three had admitted breaking
in a door to the band room, up
stairs at the rear of the gym, last
Monday, and then breaking an
other door from the band room
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Symphony To Give
Concert Here On
Friday, March 29
On Friday, March 29, the
North Carolina Little Symphony
will visit Moore County.
As the last event in the concert
series of the Sandhills Music As
sociation, the state orchestra will
play that evening in Weaver
Auditorium of the Southern
Pines school. Curtain time is
scheduled for 8:30.
Reserved and other tickets are
now on sale at the Barnum Agen
cy, (Telephone: 695-7251). The
pre-concert buffet dinner will be
served at the Hollywood Hotel
from 6:30. Reservations are re
quested.
Moore Coimty this year has the
unusual honor of being the first
and also the last area to be vis
ited by the State Little Sym
phony. This year’s tour opened
with the two concerts for school
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THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum terh-
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.
March 14
76
47
March 15
57
38
March 16
54
41
March 17
71
46
March 18
83
45
March 19
78
41
March 20
71
52
Many Attending
Antiques Fair
The Antiques Fair at the Na
tional Guard armory, sponsored
by the Moore County Historical
Association, was drawing large
attendance this morning, having
opened with full attendance yes
terday.
The Fair will be open till 9
p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to
9 p.m. tomorrow (Friday).
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, general
chairman, said that numerous
out-of-town groups are coming to
the displays by 25 dealers from
nine states.
Among the groups coming this
week and also having lunch at
the Shaw House are: Mrs. Shel
ton Wicker, wife of Lee County’s
representative in the General As
sembly, and a group of 15 ladies
from the “Sir Walter Cabinet,”
an organization of legislators’
wives; Mrs. Guy Beaver of Con
cord; and Mrs. J. O. Talley, Jr.
Mrs. Heman Clark and others,
from Fayetteville.
structure
week.
Mother M. Vincentia, O. S. F.,
mother general of the Sisters of
the Third Order of St. Francis,
who spent a week at the local
hospital, revealed the plan Tues
day, before she returned on Wed
nesday to the order’s mother
house. Mount Alvemo Convent,
Maryville, Mo. St. Joseph’s is one
of five hospitals owned and oper
ated by the Order which pur
chased the local facility from the
Catholic Diocese of North Caro
lina in April, 1962.
First step in the proposed de
velopments, the mother general
said, will be an overall study of
existing facilities and future
needs, based on population
growth and other factors, A hos
pital consultant will be employed
to make recommendations on the
conversion of the present build
ing to a center for geraeology
and on the design and placement
of the new hospital. An architect
for the new building has not
been chosen, it was stated, but
conferences with architects are
being held and a choice will be
made soon.
The master plan that will be
developed is part of a two-year
or three-year program, the moth
er general said.
Preliminary estimates indicate
cost of the project may run as
high as $2 million, she said, not
ing that the Third Order of St.
Francis “will try to meet $500,000
of the proposed expenses.” The
rest would come from various
public and private sources of as
sistance.
The structure of the present
hospital—-whith was the Pine
Needles Hotel before it was
bought by the Diocese of North
Carolina in 1948—lends itself
well to use as a center for ger
aeology (the care of older per
sons), Mother General M. Vin
centia said.
The proposed new hospital
would include all the usual serv
ices—operating room, obstetrical
department, x-ray, laboratories,
out-patient service and others.
The Advisory Board of St. Jo
seph of the Pines—a lay group
of Sandhills area persons who
regularly confer with the owners
and operators on hospital policy
and procedures, met with the
mother general and Sister M.
Virginia, administrator of St.
Joseph’s, and with the medical
staff, Monday night, to discuss
the proposed plans.
"ro begin soon will be tuck
pointing of the masonry of the
existing building, a major main
tenance project.
The Third Order of St. Francis
is a Catholic nursing order with
about 150 members, owning and
operating these facilities:
The Mother House, Mount Al-
verno Convent, at Maryville, Mo.
St. Francis Hospital (100 beds)
at Maryville.
St. Anthony Hospital (600 beds)
at Oklahoma City, Okla., where
a school of nursing is conducted.
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (175
beds) at Hannibal, Mo.
St. Joseph of the Pines Hos
pital (80 beds), here.
Mother M. Vincentia has been
mother general of the order since
1955.
The order operated St. Jo
seph’s while it was owned by the
Diocese of North Carolina, but
did not take over ownership of
the hospital until April of last
year. Members of the Order com
prise the board of trustees, but
the Advisory Board provides a
link between operation of the
hospital and the commimity.
Knight Masques Wll
Give Plays Saturday
Three one-act plays will be
presented in Weaver Auditorium
at 8:15 p.m., Saturday, by the
Knight Masques, dramatic group
at East Southern Pines High
School. The public is invited.
The plays are “High Window,”
a melodrama; “Fog in the Valley.”
and “Three on a Bench,” a
comedy. Mrs. John McPhaul of
the school faculty is the director.
SPRING VACATION
Spring holidays for stu
dents in the Southern Pines
schools will extend Jrom the
close of school on Friday,
April 5, to the opening of
school on Monday. April 15,
Supl. Luther A. Adams, an
nounced this week.
The students will be asked
to return to school on April
15, Easter Monday, to make
up the one day of school lost
this winter because of snow.
Easter Monday had original
ly been included in the pro
posed vacation period.