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VOL. 43—NO. 22
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
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'NO CHANGES CONTEMPLATED'
Cushman Optimistic On Sale
Of Amerotron Company Plants
PRESENTATION— Mrs. D W. Winkelman, right, presents the
Sandhills Cup to Mrs. Joseph Mangione (over the head of the
Mangiones’ little daughter), for the victory of Burraidh, pictured
draped with Ihe winner’s flowers. Mr. Mangione is at left and
Tommy Walsh, the rider, holds the saddle. The cup is donated
annually by Mr. and Mrs. Winkelman in the featured event of
the Stoneybrook Hunt Race Meeting. (Humphrey photo)
T. WALSH RIDES 4 FIRSTS
Burraidh Cup Wiuner
Tommy Walsh, 21, who works
with his uncle, famed trainer M.
G. (Mickey) Walsh at Stoney
brook Stables here, dominated
the Stoneybrook Hunt Race
Meeting by riding lour winners
Saturday.
In the Sandhills Cup, feature
timber race with $2,000 purse,
and the co-featured Stoneybrook
Open Hurdle, with $1,500, the
blonde, blue-eyed young Irish
man pulled up from behind on
the last lap to win by wide mar
gins as the crowd roared. He rode
the winner also in each of the
two divisions of the Yadkin hur
dle race.
Burraidh, eight-year-old bay
gelding owned by Joseph Man
gione of Lexington, Ky., who
Tuesday’s announcement of the
purchase of the Arherotron Com
pany for $45 million by the Deer-
ing-Milliken Textile Corporation
was greeted optimistically by
Robert M. Cushman of Southern
Pines, executive vice president of
Amerotron, with offices at the
company’s central headquarters
in Aberdeen.
"We are very happy about
joining the Deering-Milliken or-
j ganization,” Cushman said. “All
j of our people, have been notified
I and no changes are contempla
ted.”
How the sale of Amerotron’s
seven textile manufacturing
plants and other facilities will
affect its operations in Moore
County was the thought upper
most in the minds of residents of
this area on seeing the announce
ment in Wednesday morning’s
daily papers.
Directly involved hereabouts
are the company’s office head
quarters and a big warehouse, at
Aberdeen, and its Robbins man
ufacturing plant.
Other Amerotron plants are lo
cated at Red Springs, and, in
South Carolina, at Barnwell,
Honeapath, Williamston and Bel
ton.
Blood Collections
Slated Next Week
Blood will be collected in two
Sandhills towns next week for
the American Red. Cross center
at Charlotte—source of supply
for blood of all types used by
both the hospitals in Moore
County.
A bloodmobile will be at the
Pinehurst High School from 11
a. m. to 4:30 p. m. Monday and
at the First Baptist Church in
Aberdeen, from 8 a. m. to 1:30
p. m. on Tuesday.
J. R. Hauser, blood program
chairman for the Moore ARC
chapter, said that this county has
failed to meet its quota of blood
for the Charlotte center this year.
He urged that donors volunteer
for the two visits in this area
next week.
Other visits scheduled to Moore
County, in a stepped-up program
attempting to fill the county’s
quota, are: at Elise High School
gym in Robbins, April 30;. and at
the Vass-Lakeview High School
gym, in Vass, May 1.
won the North Carolina Hunt
Cup at Tryon the week before,
was Walsh’s victorious mount in
the 23rd running of the Sandhills
Cup, winning in 6:14. Since this
was the first time the race, pre
viously two and a half miles, had
been run at three miles, the time
stands as a record without com
parison to other years.
Burraidh, winning six times in
his last six starts, had been fav
ored since withdrawal of the 1962
winner, J. Elan Van Urk’s Fly
ing Cottage, two days before the
meeting because of a reciuring
leg injury.
Rider Thrown
It finished as a four-horse
race, as Mrs. S. D. Zantsinger’s
Blair Jay was scratched, and
Mrs. M. G. Walsh’s Poms Faith
dumped his rider, R. Shattuck,
on the first jump. Neither horse
nor rider was injured.
happy,” Clushman said Wednes
day, “is that Amerotron is now
joining up with a firm that has
its roots deep in the textile busi
ness and has shown by its past
action that it believes in this in
dustry arid its future.
“More than this,” he continued,
“Deering-Milliken has the finest
textile research organization
anywhere in the world and we
believe that this is one of the
finest guarantees for the future
that any industrial company can
have.”
Amerotron is the textile divi
sion of Textron, Inc., of Provi
dence, R. I., a corporation with
widely diversified industrial pro
duction. With the sale of the
Amerotron Company, it is now
out of textiles.
Deering-Milliken has textile
plants throughout the South and
East. Its South Carolina operation
is centered at Spartanburg.
Roger Milliken, president of
the purchasing company, said of
Amerotron: “Ws are very enthu
siastic about this business which
has been operated so successfully
under the leadership of its pres
ident, Ed Luke (Edmund G.
Luke of Ridgewood, N. J.), and
which has such a highly efficient
Carolina Soap, Candle Main Plant
Destroyed by Early-Morning Fire
“The reason that we are manufacturing operation.”
Pitts Purchases O’Neil’s Midland Rd.
Property; Mahoney Buys ‘Cloverleaf’
C. A. Pitts was high bidder at
$100,000 on Tom O’Neil’s Midland
Road property in a public auction
sale conducted at the Wedge Inn
on the property Wednesday
night. At the same sale, O’Neil’s
Cloverleaf Apartments building
in Pinehurst was sold to Freder
ick J. Mahoney of West Newton,
Mass., for $26,000.
Pitts is a Canadian business
man and lay evangelist who has
a large home on old No. 1 high
way, north, at Manly. Mr. Ma
honey, a regular seasonal visitor
to the Sandhills, is a 50 per cent
stockholder in the corporation
owning the former Patch Depart-
Leading during the first two 1 ment Store building here.
laps was Uncle Monk, owned by
Randolph D. Rouse of Arlington,
Va., with Bob McDonald, anoth
er local jockey, aboard. Challeng
ed first by Calvin Houghland’s
Tomba B., then by George Web
ster’s Proud Edgo, who eventual
ly forged ahead just as Burraidh
started his strong surge. Uncle
Monk wound up last. Second
was Proud Edgo, ridden by K.
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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.
The O’Neil Midland Road prop
erty consists of the Wedge Inn
restaurant, the adjoining Little
Nine golf course and driving
range, a 60-acre tract and a four-
acre tract. The land includes the
lots at the intersection of Mid
land and Pee Dee Roads. The
property was annexed within the
town limits several months ago.
Buyers have 90 days to close
the sales, pending searching of
titles and other routine opera
tions.
Max
April 11
69
46
April 12
73
42
April 13
71
39
April 14
62
38
April 15
61
41
April 16
73
34
April 17
85
53
IN AREA BURNED BY BIG FIRE
Remains Of Long-Missing Man Found
The mystery of the disappear
ance of Prentice Williams, 56-
year-old mentally retarded Ne
gro, last seen when he attended
church services near his home at
Jackson Hamlet last May 27, was
solved last week as a direct re
sult of the big woods fire of April
4.
Workers re-planting pine seed
lings in an isolated area belong
ing to the Weyerhaueser timber
interests late Thursday afternoon
found a fragmented skeleton with
skull intact in a partly burn.ed-
over spot, along with a pair of
pants, a belt and portions of a
pair of shoes.
■ They were found at a site west
of NC 5 between Aberdeen and
Pinehurst, about three miles
from Jackson Hamlet and two
miles from tbs nearest house, in
what before the fire had been
dense forest.
Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence,
who had headed the intensive
search for Williams which went
on lor several weeks, turned the
items over to a hospital pathol
ogist, who examined them for
signs of foul play. None
found, but in view of the cir
cumstances, Lawrence said this
did not preclude such a possibil
ity.
The garments were identified
by Sara Gibson, Williams’ sister,
with whom he lived, also by sev
eral friends and neighbors as
those he had been wearing when,
dressed in his best, he attended
church on that May morning 10
and a half months ago. The shoe
tips were said to show signs of
wear pecurlarly his own.
A childlike man who could not
speak plainly, he had never been
known to stray far from home. A
severe electrical storm on that
Sunday increased the apprehen
sion for his safety.
New Paint Store
Will Open Monday
Th.3 Sherwin-Williams Paint
Company Branch Store in the
new Daniels Building at 695 S.
W. Broad St., will open for busi
ness Monday, April 22, it was an
nounced this week by Raymond
Hannah, manager.
The store, which will do both
a wholesale and retail business,
features a full line of Sherwin-
Williams paints and associated
products.
A formal grand opening for the
new local business will be an
nounced.
Pitts said today he hopes to
close the sale in about 30 days.
He said he had no specific plans
to announce for the property at
this time, exeept that he would
keep the Little Nine golf course
and range in operation “for a
while.” He jdid not say what dis
position he would make of the
Wedge Inn building and noted
that “some sort of development”
would be planned for the Mid-
land-Pee Dee corner tract. He is
the owner of a large tract
north of, but not adjoining. Mid
land Road, near the town water
supply lake, for which tentative
plans for a club-golf course-res
idential project have been an
nounced.
Mahoney said today that the
Cloverleaf Apartments, which
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REGISTRATION
OPENS FRIDAY
Registration of now roters
for the town prinvary and
election will start tomorrow
(Friday), to run through Fri
day of next week. April 26.
Mrs. Ahna Jones, registrar,
will haye the books open in
the town hall courtroom foom
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. andi on Sat
urday from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Monday through Friday of
next week, the books will
be open at the same location.
9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Only persons who have not
previously voted in a town
election need register at this
time. It is stressed by the
registrar that a separate set
of books is maintained by
the town for municipal elec
tions. Persons qualified to
vote in county and state elec
tions. in one of the South
ern Pines precincts, are not
thereby qualified for the
town election.
RUINS— Here’s a view of what was left Saturday of the
Carolina Soap and Candle Makers’ main plant, between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen, after it was destroyed by an early-morning
fire. (Photo courtesy of Richmond County Journal)
EMPLOYEES' EFFORTS PRAISED .
Firm Makes Fast Post-Fire Comeback
Jack Hicks, head of the Car
olina Soap and Candle Makers,
whose plant on the Aberdeen
road was burned out early Sat
urday, this week had high praise
for employees whose hard work
made it possible for the firm to
resume production Tuesday.
The drop from normal volume
of manufacturing is rapidly be
ing overcome, Hicks said, noting
that only four of the 100 em
ployees of the company were laid
off. And of the four, he stated,
two asked for time off and the
two others are being given work
at home that will make possible
an income equalling their regu
lar wages. The 100 employees in
clude 15 salesmen mostly living
Primary Assured
By Filing Of 11
In Council Race
The filing of 11 candidates for
the Southern Pin.es town council,
in the May 7 election, assures
that a primary will be held Mon
day, April 29, to eliminate one of
the 11.
Then, in the May 7 voting, cit
izens will choose five from the
10 on the ballot, to serve on the
council for the next two years.
’The five new councilmen vote to
elect a mayor.
Also up for voting in the May 7
election are the posts of judge
and prosecuting attoimey (solici
tor) of the local recorder’s court.
There will be no primary in these
elections, as Judge W. Harry Ful-
lenwider and Solicitor Howard
Broughton, incumbents, are un
opposed.
Present members of the coun
cil who filed before the noon,
Monday, deadline are Felton Cap-
el, Morris Johnson and Fred Pol
lard. 'The other candidates are L.
M. Daniels, Jr., Norris L. Hodg
kins, Jr., Donald D. Kennedy, C.
A. McLaughlin, Dante Montesanti,
Harry H. Pethick (a former mem
ber of the council). Dr. Charles
Phillips and William S. Thomas-
son.
Information about all the can
didates will be published in next
week’s Pilot.
Mayor John S. Ruggles and
Mayor Pro Tem J. D. Hobbs did
not file for reelection.
75 Persons Arrested In ABC Raids
elsewhere than in the Sandhills.
Good luck played a part in the
dramatic story of how this local
business made a fabulous three-
day comeback from what would
seem to be a disastrous loss of
its main plant by fire.
’The luck was this,;, the strategic
equipment fOr soap - making,
chief activity carried on at the
burned plant, was in a part of
the burning building from which
it could be removed—and it was
saved. It was immediately set up
in the building made available
to the company by Leland Dan
iels, Jr., on Morgan ton road, op
posite Memorial Field.
But luck alone did not put the
company back in business.
With all raw materials lost in
the fire, orders were sent out at
once to suppliers who, respond
ing quickly, shipped in material
by air, with more to follow by
(Continued on Page 8)
Citizens Bank Branch
Marks 1st Anniversary
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company, celebrating this week
the first anniversary of the open
ing of its Southwest Broad Street
Branch, is inviting the public to
visit the branch and receive a
souvenior gift.
Bank officers at the branch,
which offers full banking services,
are E. Earl Hubbard, vice presi
dent; Billy McKenzie, assistant
vice president; and William P.
Toney who recently joined the
bank as assistant cashier.
Other personnel at the branch
are Mrs. Frances Frazier, Mrs.
Betty Guffey, Mrs. Ruth McRae
and Mrs. Rivan Shepherd.
SPELLING CHAMPION
Rocky Underwood, eighth grade
student of Carthage elementary
school, won the Moore County
spelling bee over Radio Station
WEEB and will represent Moore
county in the statewide contest
at Winston-Salem May 18.
A fire of mysterious origin, dis
covered shortly before 5 a. m.
Saturday, consumed most of the
manufacturing plant of the Caro
lina Soap and Candle Makers on
US Highway 1 between South
ern Pines and Aberdeen,
Enough equipment was saved
for the company to resume man
ufacturing at once. Temporarily
housed in a storage building own
ed by L. M. Daniels on Mdrgan-
ton Road, it was back iri produc
tion Tuesday morning—^without
the showroom, however, where
visitors watched soap and can
dles made in the old-fashioned
manner for gift-packing, a tour
ist attraction for several years.
Jack Hicks, owner of the
company, estimating the losses
at $100,000 in round figures pend
ing completion of an inventory,
said he was looking for one and
maybe two other temporary
manufacturing sites. Later, he
said, he plans to erect a new
building on the highway to bring
all the manufactiuring operations
together. Site for the new struc
ture had not been chosen this
week. Hicks said it might or might
not be the location of the destroy
ed plant.
The burned building was own
ed by C. A. Huntley of Raleigh
and was reportedly covered by
insurance. Hicks said his losses
were only partially covered.
The fire, starting in a Iqg-cab-
in used as a storage annex on
the north side of the one-story
brick structure, was first sight
ed by a truck driver, who alert
ed the nearby Pinehurst Motor
Lodge to phone in the alarm.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen
volunteer fire departments, re
sponding promptly, found the
building already two-thirds in
flames, though they were able
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Students To Sing
Friday Evening
The annual Picquet Music Fes
tival of high school choral groups
will be held Friday at 8 p. m. at
the Aberdeen school auditorium,
with Dr. Melvin Good, of the
public school music department
of the Department of Public In
struction at Raleigh, directinig
the combined group of some 200
voices.
Glee clubs of Aberdeen, South
ern Pines, Pinehurst, Carthage,
Robbins, Highfalls and Vass-
Lakeview high schools will imite
in a varied program, including
sacred music, show tunes and
several novelty songs.
A quartet from Southern Pines,
Joe Hiatt, Jr., Bobby Hiatt, Ralph
Hendren and Jim Ritchie, with
Diane Fields accompanying, will
sing two numbers.
The public is welcomed to th'e
event, which is sponsored by the
Sandhills Kiwanis club. There is
no admission charge. The event,
then held as a competition, was
established by the late Charles
W. Picquet of Southern Pines.
AID AVAILABLE TO LANDOWNERS
Don’t Sell Burned Timber Too Soon!
A special term of Moore Coun-
'"’as ty Recorder’s Court at Carthage
will be held Tuesday for the trial
of 75 defendants arrested in a
series of ABC raids held during
the Easter weekend.
A few more arrests may be
made before that time, said C. A.
McCallum, chief Moore County
Alcoholic Beverage Control law
enforcement officer, to add to the
number, already a record, charg
ed with prohibition law viola
tions.
Only a half-dozen white per
sons were arrested in the raids
made in all parts of the county
Thursday and Friday nights, Sat
urday and Easter Monday. The
defendants, charged with one to
six violations, made bonds rang-
ing from $50 to $300. In nearly
all cases, McCallum said, the ac
tion was taken following com
plaints which had been made.
Undercover work by agents furn
ished by the SBI started as long
ago as last December.
Assisting ABC Officers McCal
lum and Ed Floyd in the raids
were SBI Agent Gary Griffith,
federal investigators from the
Alcohol Tax Unit office at Rock
ingham, Deputy Sheriffs R. A.
Edwards, June Cockman and I.
D. Marley, Constable L. F. Woods
of Greenwood township and the
police departments of Aberdeen,
Southern Pines, Carthage and
Vass.
The officers raided the
Moose Club just outside South-
•ern Pines, Pugh’s Grill in West
Southern Pines, where beer was
reportedly sold after hours and
on Sundays, and various homes,
stores and service stations in
town and rural areas.
Both taxpaid and non-taxpaid
whiskey were seized, mostly in
small quantities, also beer. At
Watson Blue’s store and service
station near Cameron, said Mc
Callum, not only were 24 and a
half gallons of homemade wine
found in the house, but around
1,200 gallons in 55-gallon barrels
stored in the barn. Blue was
charged with unlawful possession
of wine for sale.
At the Moose Club, where
whiskey in both sealed and
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Owners of timberlands burned
over in wood fires of April 4
should be in no great hurry to
clear off the areas or sell the
trees, acording to word from the
Moore County farm office and
visiting forestry specialists.
Thousands of acres of timberland
were burned over that day and
night, with the largest fires the
one between West End and Pine-
bluff and in the Lake Bay area
east of Southern Pines.
It cannot be told how badly
damaged most of the trees are
until they have had a chance to
nut out new growth, within 30
to 50 days, said Fred Whitfield,
forestry specialist with the N. C.
State Extension Service, who
looked over the area extensively
Tuesday.
Also, he said, owners should
not sell at bargain rates under
the impression that burned trees
are damaged for paper, pole and
pulpwood uses. The wood should
bring “fair prices,” just about on
a par with wood that has not been
burned.
Whitfield surveyed the area
with Bennie M. Fulcher, assistant
county farm agent in charge of
forestry. He will be back in about
a week, and perhaps several more
times. Landowners wishing to
consult him about their burned
timber should call the farm office,
and it is likely that an appoint
ment can be arranged, Fulcher
said. Also, F. D. Allen, farm agent,
and Fulcher are both available
for consultation at any time.
They were concerned at finding
that some wood buyers have
flocked to the area to pick up
timber at “fire sale” prices, which
could mean great losses to the
owners which can most likely be
avoided.
Help in reforestation is also
available. The Moore County
ASCS office has requested an ad
ditional allocation of federal
funds for seedling re-setting, with
no top limit for any one farm.
With payment at $12 per acre,
the limit is usually $250 for any
one farm.
Another resource, Allen re
minded, is the FHA loan at 3
per cent for reforestation, for a
40-year term, with the first pay
ment to be made when the first
cutting for pulpwood is sold—
sometimes as long as 15 years.