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VOL. 43—NO. 20
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1963
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Body Of Bill Upchurch, Missing Since
February 9, Discovered In Deep River
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The waters of Deep River at
Highfalls, nearly back to normal
after being swollen with spring
rains, on Sunday gave up the
body of Bill Uipchurch, seven
Entire $445,000
Bond Total Sold
By Town Tuesday
A total of $445,000 in Town of
Southern Pines bonds was sold
by the Local Government Com
mission at Raleigh Tuesday to
the low-bidding brokers, Goodby
& Company and Bache & Com
pany, at an interest cost of 3.1904
per cent.
The interest rates offered by
four other bidders on the bonds
ranged from 3.2006 to 3.3464 per
cent.
The total includes four bond
issues: $280,000 for sewer and
sewage disposal plant work;
$105,000 for water system im
provements; $35,000 for a West
Southern Pines swimming pool;
and $25,000 for expansion and
equipment at the Southern Pines
Library.
The full amount of all the bond
issues, which were authorized
by a vote of the people last fall,
was sold, the mon.ey to be de
posited at interest in local bank‘d
until it must be paid out for
work done.
At its March meeting, the coun
cil decided to deposit the $105,000
from the water bond sale in the
Southern National Bank and the
other bond funds in the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company.
'Little Miss' Contest
Entry Blanks Available
Entry blanks for the Little
Miss Southern Pines contest for
pre-school girls are available at
the Town Information Center
and Tots’ Toggery, it was an
nounced this week by Gary Grif
fith and Fred Teeter, co-chair
men for the sponsoring Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
The contest will be held in
Weaver Auditorium at 7 p. m.,
Friday, May 3. Entries must be in
by April 27.
Proceeds will be used by the
Jaycees for civic projects.
weeks dead.
The 28-year-old HighfaUs man,
married and the father of a
young son, is beUeved to have
been thrown into the river when
his truck wrecked on Highfalls
bridge Saturday night, February
9.
The body was found by rescue
workers some 500 yards down
stream from the bridge, in a spot
which had been combed and re
combed repeatedly during the
long search, interrupted only by
snow and ioe in late February,
and the recent high water.
In a group watching from the
bridge as the volunteers resum
ed their operations Sunday after
noon were Upchurch’s young
wife, Phyllis, and his sister, Mil
dred. A cousin, Freddie Up
church, was in a group which
quickly reached the body after it
was first seen by- a volunteer in
a boat.
Some 40 or 50 feet away when
he shouted of his find was a line
of 15 men, Moore County Res
cue Squad members from Rob
bins and Carthage, with High
falls volunteer firemen, and oth
ers from the community. They
had been working their way
downstream from the bridge on
the south side of the wide, rocky
river, strung out in a line with
linked hands, wading in chest-
high water. Among them was
' Bill Stutts of Robbins, Rescue
Squad chief, who had organized
and headed the search, starting
immediately after the accident.
The body was floating on its
back, partially submerged,
caught on a rock, close to the
south bank of a wooded island
near “the falls,” an outcropping
of rock. Stutts gave his opinion
that it had been caught at the
bottom of the river until the
force of the highwater brought it
to .the surface.
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THE MITCHELLS—Honor Guests at Race Meet
PARKING SPACES SELLING FAST
‘Trooper of Year’ To Be at Stoneybrook
2 WOODS FIRES
BURNING IN AREA
Two woods fires were burn
ing ou<t of control as The
Pilot went to press this af
ternoon.
One was reported oft Lin
den Road, toward Jackson
Springs, in the Garren Hill
area, west of Pinehurst.
Another, burning from the
Fletcher Southern Plant,
jumped Aiken road, threat
ening the G. R. Horner home
and outbuildings on the
Longcope place.
Little information was im
mediately available, as all
Forest Service personnel
with assisting equipment and
men from town departments,
were engaged m fighting the
two blazes.
Fire danger in this area
was listed as acute this week
and all burning permits were
cancelled.
Staples Home At
Skyline Burned
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Staples at Skyline, where they
have operated a nursery for
many years, was badly damaged
by fire Friday afternoon, prob
ably as the result of a brush fire
which burned the area exten
sively.
Mrs. Staples, a partial invalid,
was alone in the house when she
saw grass around it afire. Trying
to phone for help, she found the
phone was dead. However, the
fire was quickly spotted from a
N. C. Forest Service tower at
Southern Pines, and. after inves
tigation by a smokechaser. Forest
Service trucks were quickly on
the scene. They were promptly
followed by W. O. Moss’s truck
from Manly and tank trucks from
tthe Vass, Southern Pines and
Cameron volunteer departments.
Forest Service firefighters car
ried Mrs. Staples outside the
house, which was ablaze, as was
a small outbuilding. Her husband
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Master Sergeant Gerald L.
Mitchell, the “'Trooper of the
Year” of the famed 82nd Air
borne Division, Fort Bragg, will
be the guest of honor for the
Stoneybrook Hunt Race Meeting
here April 13.
For both Sergeant Mitchell and
his attractive wife, Agnes, the barinf7ntryma“n’s“^E&dge“
Festivities of “Stoneybrook Day public
will culminate a year of honors
and recognition. They were spe
cial guests last summer at the
national convention of the 82nd
Airborne Association in Boston
and also honored at the annual
meeting of the National Airborne
Candidates File
For Town Council
Four more candidates filed for
the town council, in the May 7
election during the past week.
Added to the name of Coun
cilman Felton Capel, first to file,
were: incumbent Councilmen
Morris Johnson and Fred Pollard
and two new candidates, Donald
D. Kennedy and C. A. McLaugh
lin.
Filing time for candidates ends
at noon, Monday, April 15.
Mayor John S. Ruggles and
Mayor Pro Tern J. D. Hobbs have
stated they will not be candi
dates for reelection.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Spring holidays for students in
the Southern Pines schools begin
at the close of school tomorrow
(Friday), to run until opening of
school on Monday, April 15.
Classes are scheduled on Easter
Monday, to make up a day lost
last winter because of snow.
SEARS OPENING SET
Sears, Roebuck and Co. this
week informed customers in this
area that the company will open
its new Catalog Sales Store in
the new Daniels building on S.
W. Broad St., on April 25. Furth
er details will be announced.
Association in Washington, D. C.
in August.
Selected as the ’’best” of more
than 15,000 paratroopers last
May, Sergeant Mitchell has had
a distinguished military career
which includes combat in Korea
where he was awarded the Com-
a Re-
of Korea Unit Citation,
and numerous other citations in
cluding five bronze battle stars
on his campaign ribbon. Last
year he earned the Army Com-
The Moore County Historical
^ Association has set its next meet
Croujp WiU Hear
Applications For
2 Bank Branches
A hearing will be held by the
State Banking Commission in
Raleigh, April 24, to consider two
applications for bank branches in
Aberdeen—one by the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company of Sou
thern Pines and another by the
Carolina Bank of Pinehurst.
Announcements of the applica
tions were made this week by N.
L. Hodgkins, president of the
local bank, and L. B. Creath,
executive vice president of the
Carolina Bank.
Mr. Hodgkins stated that the
bank had been considering the
possibility of applying for an
Aberdeen branch for some years,
as Aberdeen has always been a
trading center for the area and
also serves several prosperous
farming communities. The recent
industrial growth and the desire
of many prominent Aberdeen
citizens for a second banking of
fice prompted the filing of an
application at this time, Mr.
Hodgkins said.
Construction of a branch offer
ing drive-in service is proposed
by the Carolina Bank.
This bank, organized at Pine
hurst in 1914, already has an
Aberdeen branch, established in
1933. It also operates branch of
fices at Carthage, Vass and West
End. 'The new branch is being
proposed, according to Mr.
Creath, to relieve congestion at
its downtown office in Aberdeen
and to provide modern drive-in
facilities with parking space. A
site several blocks out of the
business district has been tenta-
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Mental Health Clinic
Proposal Approved By
County Commisioners
The county commissioners,
meeting for their April session in
Carthage Monday, viewed with
favor a proposal that a Mental
Health Clinic be set up in the
county, calling for an appropria
tion of between $9,000 and $10,-
000 in the 1963-64 budget.
While the board could not
formally vote on an item to be
included in the 1963-64 budget,
they gave verbal assurance in
dividually that they favored the
clinic proposal and would budget
the needed sum, tentatively set
at $9,700.
Representatives of the Moore
County Mental Health Association
appeared before the commission
ers for the second successive
monthly meeting to ask that the
county pay about one-third of
History Assn. To
Hear Mrs. Coker
the then-division commander,
major Gen. Theodore J. Conway.
Sergeant Mitchell, the son of a
government engineer, is from
Kansas City and Mrs. Mitchell is
a native of Nashville. But now
“home” to them is a ranch-style
house they bought in Fayette
ville two years ago.
The Mitchells, their five
youngsters, Janice, 12; Gary, 11;
Debra, 7; Vickie, 4 and Cindy,
9 months old and the story of
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ing for 8 p. m., April 16, in the
town hall courtroom, with Mrs.
James L. Coker of Huntsville, S.
C., as speaker.
As Elizabeth Boatwright
Coker, she is a well known
writer and lecturer, author of
“Lady Rich,” set in Elizabethan
England, soon to be published.
Members of the association are
invited by Mrs. Ernest L. Ives to
a reception for Mrs. Coker at the
Shaw House, after the meeting.
Dates Named For
Complaints About
Tax Valuations
A schedule of meetings as
board of tax equalization and re
view for six Moore County town
ships was set up this week by
th.2 county commissioners.
Mrs. Estelle T. Wicker, tax su
pervisor, said that the board will
consider complaints about tax
valuations on property in Car
thage, Bensalem and Sheffield
Townships on Wednesday, April
17.
On Tuesday, April 30, the com
missioners will listen to com
plaints from residents of Mc
Neill, Sandhill and Mineral
Springs Townships.
Both sessions will begin at 9
a. m.
Southern Pines is in McNeill
Township, Aberdeen and Pine-
bluff in Sandhills and Pinehurst
in Mineral Springs.
Mrs. Wicker stressed that “any
reasonable complaint” should be
filed with her office before the
equalization and review meet
ings.
the cost of the clinic’s establish
ment and first year of operation.
The rest would come from, state
and federal funds.
They told the commissioners
that, if assurance were given that
the clinic would be set up, the
sum of $1,500 would be available
from the State to get the clinic
going at once.
'This would mean, they said,
the employment of a secretary
and a psychiatric social worker
(an application for this post has
been made by a qualified person,
it was stated) and a schedule of
visits by a psychiatrist and a
psychologist, each coming one
day per week.
The facilities of the Matheson
Memorial Center at St. Joseph of
the Pines Hospital have been of
fered to the clinic, without charge,
solving the problem of a place
which can be utilized immediate
ly-
Apearing for the Mental Health
Association were Dr. Charles Phil
lips, Duncan McGoogan, the Rev.
Carl Wallace, Lt. Col. and Mrs.
Leon Baker and Mrs. Donald
Scott.
The full board of commissioners
was present: Chairman L. R.
Reynolds, John M. Currie, Tom
Monroe, J. M. Pleasants and W.
S. Taylor.
GARDEN TOUR SCHEDULED WEDNESDAY
The annual Home and
Garden Tour sponsored by
the Southern Pines Garden
Club will take place here
Wednesday of next week,
April 10, from 9:30 a. m. to
5:30 p. m., with six local
homes or gardens to be open
to visitors.
Members of the club will
be on hand to guide visitors,
at the Shaw House where the
tour begins, and at each stop
along the route.
On the tour are these
houses and gardens: Home of
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm: Kemp
on Highland Road; Wey
mouth, home of Mrs. James
Boyd, off N. Ridge St.; home
of Dr. and Mrs. William F.
Hollister on Midland Road;
the Lee K. Smithson home,
KnoUwood; The Homewood
Gardens of Mr. and Mrs. D.
K. Bullens (gardens only)
Knoll^ood; and Seven Stars,
home of Mrs. Audfey K.
Kennedy, Youngs Road.
Hundreds of visitors axe
expected tlor the event.
Harness Horses
To Race, Sunday
Five Grand Circuit trotters and
a promising group of two-year-
old pacers will be seen in action
at the Pinehurst Race Track
Sunday when the Pinehurst Driv
ing and Training Club stages the
season’s second harness horse
matinee there, starting at 2:30
p.m.
A six-dash card and a special
event have been scheduled. Re
served parking space, general
admission, reserved seats and
grandstand seats are available.
Children under 12 are admitted
free.
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Hobbs Heads County Cancer Campaign
James D. Hobbs of Southern j dustrial Development Committee
Pines is serving as chairman of
Moore County’s 1963 Cancer Cru
sade being held during the month
of April. He accepted the post at
a dinner meeting of the County
Association last Wednesday night
at the Carthage Hotel. The Can
cer Crusade is a nation-wide
fund driv.9 conducted by the
American Cancer Society.
Mr. Hobbs, who came to this
area from Fayetteville about 30
years ago, has taken an active
part in civic affairs. He has serv
ed as president of the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club and of the Pine
hurst Lions Club, and as chair
man of the board of trustees and
secretary of the United Church of
Christ. He has worked in vari
ous drives for charitable activi
ties and served on the town’s In-
,
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and on the Resort Advertising
Committee. He is presently
mayor pro tern of Southern Pines.
Mr. Hobbs is president of the
Sandhills Insurance Agency in
Pinehurst, manager of the Occi
dental Life Insurance Company’s
Central North Carolina Division,
comprising 19 counties, and pres
ident of Hobbs Insurance Cor
poration here. He is married to
the former Margaret Gifford of
Southern Pines and they live at
190 Valley Road.
Cecil Beith of Southern Pines,
manager of A. & M. Karagheusi-
an, Inc. in Aberdeen and presi
dent of the Moore County Can
cer Society, presided at last
week’s meeting. He introduced
Talmadge Poole, field consultant
from Raleigh, who discussed the
current drive.
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Vaccination Of Dogs
For Rabies Going On
Clinics for vaccination of dogs
against rabies started in Moore
County Monday, to run through
Thursday, April 25. All dogs four
months old or older must be vac
cinated. A charge of $1.50 is
made at the clinics, less than the
cost when the vaccine is private
ly given.
The clinic list appears else
where in today’s paper. It was
not made available to The Pilot
for publication until after the
clinics had begun. However, res
idents of the county can take
their dogs to any of the clinics
listed.
$302,600 Asked By
Local Schools For
1963-64 Projects
Members of the Southern Pines
board of edi^cation and Schools
Supt. Luther A. Adams appeared
before the county commissioners
in Carthage Monday to enter a
request for a total of $302,600 in
school capital outlay funds for
the 1963-64 year, starting July 1.
N. L. Hodgkins, board chair
man, said the request covers:
$271,000 to complete the West
Southern Pines High School;
$30,000 to buy some 10 acres of
additional land to be used for
school purposes (location of the
tract was not revealed); and $1,-
600 for replacement of a steam
line at the East Southern Pines
school.
Mr. Adams said that the South
ern Pines schools are- growing at
the rate of two classrooms per
year and that, if no other new
pupils are added to the local sys
tem, the high school enrollment,
now 302, would jump to between
350 and 360 next year and 400
the following year.
Land to take care of this ex
pansion in the school system is
essential, Mr. Hodgkins said.
The (Commissioners took the
requests under advisement, to be
considered, along with requests
from the Moore County and the
Pinehurst systems, when they get
down to budget-making.
COACH MURRAY
SPEAKS TONIGHT
William D. Murray, head
coach at Duke University,
Durham, will be guest speak
er at the April meeting of
East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association tonight
(Thursday) at 8 p. m. in
Weaver Auditorium. Physical
fitness and the importance of
competitive athletics will be
his topic.
NEW RURAL TRUCK— The fifth fire truck
to go into rural, service in Moore County, sta
tioned at Vass, is shown here with seven of the
volunteer firemen. Left to right: J. Marvin
Blue, Buddy McRae, James Hudson (assistant
chief). Chief P. T. Smith, Jack Holder, Ed Boggs
and Pete Boggs. The tiuck answered four alarms
,n the Vass area before it v/as in service three
days.
(V. Nicholson photo)
CLEAN-UP URGED!
Town Manager F. F. Rain
ey today asked local resi
dents to clean up yards,
parkways and vacant lots, in
preparation for the annual
Home and Garden Tour that
will be held here Wednesday
of next week, bringing many
visitors to Southern Pines.
Southern Pines Garden
Club ci(ficials pointed out
this week that the club is
spending nearly $600 in re
planting business section
windowboxes and asked that
business owners make every
effort to keep the plantings
watered and properly cared
for.
WOMEN'S N & S
The 61st annual North & South
Invitation Golf Championship for
Women, at Pinehurst, will open
Monday, April 15, to run through
Friday, April 19.
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.
March 28 77 42
March 29 81 41
March 30 80 42
March 31 ... 79 42
April 1 79 48
April 2 84 52
April 3 87 56