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More news of private school and college graduates appears on page 14. Old Barbecue Church in Harnett County has an interesting history. Page 9. VOL. 43—No. 30 EIGHTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Dr. Dawson Speaks To Class Of ’63; Plaque Presented To John S. Ruggles It was one of the hottest nights Imaginable—the program was long, long, long—yet as each graduate walked across the stage at Weaver Auditorium last Thurs day evening to receive the prized diploma from the hands of Chair man N. L. Hodgkins of the Board of Education, it is a fair guess that heat and time and everything faded before young dignity, Hope personified. Thirty-six seniors of the class Five Get Diplomas At St. Anthony’s; Awards Presented Margaret Dougherty received the General Excellence Medal and Diane Black the Rebecca Smith Memorial Religion Award, at the Awards Day program of the 8th grade graduating class of St. Anthony’s parochial school Fri day. No mathematics or English medals were given this year, as these were incorporated into the General Excellence medal, said Sister Catherine Leonard, princi pal. The Rebecca Smith Memorial award for the Catholic student excelling in religion studies was established last year by Father Francis M. Smith, pastor, in me mory of his mother. Father Smith gave the com mencement address and awarded diplomas Sunday at exercises held in St. Anthony’s Church, marking the graduation of five 8th grade students. They were Margaret Dougherty, Diane Black, Carole Drexel, Mary Ann Cuff and Thad Jones. The convent will be closed this weekend as the Sisters of Notre Dame who operate it and teach the classes leave for their summer assignments. Four will do grad uate work. Sister Catherine Leonard at Villanova University near Philadelphia and Sisters Bar bara Anne, Anne St. Joseph and David Marie at Trinity College, Washington, D. C., while Sister Helen Philip will teach in sum mer school at Queens Village, L. I., N. Y. 3 Bottles Of Whiskey Stolen Thru Window Somebody broke a window pane in the back of the Pinehurst store of the Moore County Alco holic Beverage Control Board last night, reached in and extracted three bottles of whiskey. L. J. Hinson, ABC board man ager, said that was the extent of the loss. No entry was made into the store. The broken window and loss were discovered this morning. 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 6 89 65 7 92 62 8 88 64 9 93 66 98 70 94 72 June June June June June 10 June 11 June 12 of 1963 passed across the stage and with each one went the con gratulations and good wishes of the large audience of townspeople assembled to do honor to Youth, Taking Over. The ceremony of graduation exercises last week ran true to the usual form: the school band played with a will, a local min ister, the Rev. Carl Wallace, pastor of the United Church of Christ, spoke the invocation. The BOcurd of Education played its parts in the persons of Mr. Hodgkins and the vice-chairman, J. E. Sandlin, who greeted the graduates. There were two short speeches—^in many minds the highlights of the evening from the two top honor graduates—Jean Dianne Fields and Joseph S. Hiatt, III. There were brief remarks by the super intendent and the principal of the High School, Luther A. Adams and Glenn L. Cox; there was more music, Purcell’s “Trumpet Voluntary.” And then there was the speaker of the eve ning, Dr. A. C. Dawson, Jr., now executive secretary of North Car olina Education Association and former Southern Pines school su perintendent. It was a case of a former su perintendent being introduced by a presently-to-be former super intendent. Mr. Adams, whose last year here this is, introduced his colleague to an audience which gave him a warm welcome. Mr. Dawson’s speech followed to a certain extent the pattern of many commencement speeches. H.3 addressed his remarks chiefly to the audience, telling of his present work, of its problems and how he cherished memories of his (Continued on Page 8) GIVEN TO BOARD READY FOR TRIP— Pictured as they were about to leave for Raleigh Tuesday morning to help promote sale of Sandhills peaches are Mary Alice Stutts and Barbara Stutts of Pinehurst; Nancy Smith and Laura Auman of West End; Deana Mclnnis, Becky McRae and Elizabeth McRae of Ellerbe; Joyce Lambeth and Katheryn Richardson of Jackson Springs; Lynne Hurley, BEST CROP IN YEARS REPORTED Linda Diggs, Beverly Allen and Marie Marks of Lilesville; Nancy Hurley of Biscoe; Janice Hay wood, Cheryl Meacham, Janice Furr, Lynda Allred and Chichie Harman of Candor, and Marie Thompson and Dorothy Jean Hubbard of Mt. Gilead. The Sandhills area girls were photo graphed at the West End home of T. C. Auman. (V. Nicholson photo) Assembly Samples Sandhills Peaches 86 Local Girl Scout Leaders Elected To Council Posts At the first meeting of adult leaders in the newly formed Pines of Carolina Girl Scout Council, held at the YWCA in Raleigh, Mrs. Alfred Derouin of Pinehurst was elected second vice president of the council. The new organization includes 19 eastern and central North Car olina counties, including those which were, like Moore, in the Central Carolina Council. Mrs. David S. Coltrane of Ral eigh was elected Pines of Carolina Council president. Mrs. J. M. Cad- dell of Sanford is third vice pres ident. Other officers are: Mrs. W. Z. Betts, Raleigh, orrespond- ing secretary; Mrs. H. R. Boozer, Raleigh, recording secretary; and Wasson Baird, Durham, treasu rer. Mrs. W. R. Bonsai III, of South ern Pines, is one of a group of members at large elected to serve with the officers. Elected to a two-year term on the nominating committee was Mrs. W. P. Davis of Southern Pines. Speaker for the organizational meeting was Mrs. Robert R. Cok er of Hartsville, S. C., whose topic was “Aims of Girl Scouting.” She emphasized the importance of good leaders to help develop Girl Scouts who would later make good homemakers and citizens. The new council becomes effec tive July 1. M. C. Boyette Heads Bar Association M. G. Boyette of Carthage, So licitor of the 20th Judicial District, has been elected president of the Moore County Bar Association. He succeeds W. Lament Brown of Southern Pines. Other officers named to lead the Bar during the next year are W. Harry FuUenwider of South ern Pines, vice-president; Dock G. Smith, Jr., of Robbins, secre tary; and Brown, William D. Sabiston, Jr., of Carthage, and Lawrence McN. Johnson of Aber deen, members of the Executive Committee. Meeting at the Holiday Inn Monday, the Bar confined the pro gram to the selection of its new leaders and to a discussion of legislation now before the Gener al Assembly which deals with the recent Supreme Court decis ion requiring that all indigent prisoners be provided with counsel when they are charged with serious crimes. The Bar en dorsed such legislation, as have many associations throughout the State. The members also heard a re port from J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen that a memorial slab covering the grave of Alfred Moore, for whom this county is named and who served on the United States Supreme Coiut, would soon be officially dedicated. Funds for the slab have been nrovided by the Bar and by mem bers of the DAR Chapter in this county, of which Mrs. M. G. Boyette of Carthage is president In order to help keep the docket clear for civil cases, the members also voted to study the new Federal rules of initial pre-trial conferences and adopt portions of the rules which will assist in the trial of cases here. Moore County, it was noted, wag a lead er in the State in adopting the rules for pre-trial calendaring, a system generally accredited for the quick disposition of cases. Twenty-one pretty girls from the Sandhills peach-growing counties gave the State’s law makers at Raleigh a welcome “peach-break” Tuesday morning as they served fresh peaches and peach ice cream to the members of the Senate and the House. It was the annual “peach ice cream party” hosted by the N. C. Peach Growers Society, to re mind legislators and the public that peaches are ripening in Sandhills orchards. It also publicizes one of. North Carolina’s most progressive in dustries which this year will pro duce an estimated 1,400,000 bush els of fruit. The girls, wearing summer dresses and sashes publicizing Sandhills peaches, were gathered together and started on their Campsite Project At Juniper Lake Is Incorporated Incorporation papers were is sued last week, and filed Mon day at the clerk of court’s office at Carthage for “Golftown Asso ciates, Inc.,” a proposed campsite for tents and trailers on a 15-acre tract on Juniper Lake, north of Pinehurst. Incorporators and directors, all of Pinehurst, are John Calvin Grier, M. D., and Alice D. Grier, of Midland Road, and Thomas R. McKenzie and Vivien R. McKen zie of McCaskill Road. Dr. Grier is named as the initial register ed agent. One of the incorporators said they are not ready to give details. The tract, bordering US 15 - 501, north of the Pinehurst traffic cir cle, includes about half of Juniper Lake. The articles of incorporation authorize the signatories to “en gage in the business of building, developing and operating a camp site for campers using tents and trailers, and to rent to said camp ers camping sites, including water, electricity and sanitary fa cilities, and to sell to said camp ers all types of camping supplies, including but not limited to, food, soft drinks, bread, ice, all types of fuel, camping equipment, fish ing equipment and all other items for which, from time to time, a demand may arise.” way by a committee headed by Bert Stutts of Pinehurst, appoint ed by T. C. Auman of West End, who is in his third term as presi dent of the peach growers’ group. Accompanying the girls to Ra leigh were former State Sen. J. Hawley Poole of West End, prom inent peach grower and member of the State Board of Agricul ture, and Clarence Black, man ager of the Sandhills Experiment Station in Montgomery County. They served 10 bushels of peaches along with 10 gallons of peach ice cream. Th.3 peaches served were Dixie Reds. Those and the Cardinals, which has similar characteristics, are in full production at this time. Greeting the delegation and MANSLAUGHTER CHARGED TO YOW A hearing has been set for June 23 at Troy for Jack Yow. 22-year-old Southern Pines resident, on a charge of manslaughter. The charge followed the death of Frankie Phipps, 14. local boy who was fatally in- jiuxed when an autombljile driven by Yow was wrecked near Candor early Saturday, May 25. A warrant charging man slaughter was served! on Yow here Monday by South ern Pines police, to whom it has been sent ifrom the office of Montgomery County Sher iff Sam Smitherman of Troy. The investigating patrol man said that the car driv en by Yow—owned and loan ed to him by Milton Kaylor of Southern Pines—left the road on a curve and over turned at least five times. Horner Promoted To Guard Captain Ralph L. Homer of Pinehurst, who was recently named corn- commander of the National Guard company with headquarters here, has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain, it was an nounced this week. Captain Horner and members of the Guard company, a medium tank unit, are now at Fort Stewart, Ga., taking part in two weeks of annual field training. Bobby Auman In U. S. Peace Corps Bobby Auman, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Auman of West End, left today for Las Cruces, N. M., where he will have a three months’ training course before assignment in the U. S. Peace Corps. He expects to be assigned to Guatemala. He is Moore county’s first en try into the Peace Corps, for which he was accepted about two years ago and granted a delay in order to complete his course at Dayidson College. He came home from Davidson last week, one summer term short of getting his degree. He will return to college lor a diploma later. A graduate of West End High school, he grew up on a farm, where he worked with his lather, well-known farmer and peach grower. He left college for one year in order to help on the farm and peach orchards and gain experience he may use in Guat emala. He is interested in writing and won a statewide journalism contest while a high school stu dent. Brochure Tells Why Moore Needs College welcoming them to the floor of the House was Moore Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, Speak er of the House. Many of the peaches are be ing shipped out to northern mar kets but plenty are on sale at the orchards throughout the “peach growing triangle,” so called be cause most are in the three-cor nered area with West End, Can dor and Ellerbe as its tips. This year’s crop of early varie ties is somewhat short of normal, •according to President Auman, but the later varieties are ripen ing in quantity and a full crop is expected. Quality of all varie ties is reported excellent. At Ra leigh on Tuesday, Mr. Poole call ed the 1963 crop the best in many years. W. E. Jackson, Jr. West End Native, In Federal Post William E. Jackson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jackson Of West End, on Friday began work in the International Division of the Bureau of the Budget in the Executive Office Building, Wash ington, D. C. His initial assignment will be overseeing the military assistance programs of the United States in such countries as South Viet Nam and Laos. The Bureau of the Budget is the primary agency as sisting the President in preparing and co-ordinating his overall pro gram in the domestic and interna tional fields. A major function of the Bureau is to control the ex penditures of the executive de partments and to initiate savings wherever possible. Extensive study and prepara tion has qualified Mr. Jackson for this position. A graduate of West End High School, he receiv ed an A. B. degree in 1957 from Davidson College, where he ma jored in economics and political science and was a letterman on the track and cross country teams. At Davidson, he was a member of the International Re lations Club and served on the Elections Board. He then went to the University of North Carolina, where he held a departmental as- sistantship in the Graduate School of Political Science and received his A. M. degree in 1959. While at UNC, he was a mem- (Continued on Page 8) Brochures outlining Moore County’s qualifications as site for one of the proposed comprehen sive community colleges recently authorized by the General As sembly were presented to the State Board of Education in Raleigh Wednesday. Supt. R. E. Lee of the Moore County board of education de livered the booklets to Dr. I. E. Ready, director of curriculum studies for the State board. Copies will be distributed to all board Town’s Program Of Recreation To Start On Monday The town’s summer recreation program in East and Wtest South ern Pines will begin Monday, June 17, to run through August 15. John Williams, high school coach, is director of the program which is planned and supervised by the town’s Recreation Com mittee, a group appointed by the town council. J. R. Wynn of the West South ern Pines School faculty is su pervisor in that area. The plans include entertain ment for children of all ages and also for some adults. Activities will be sponsored Monday through Friday each week for nine weeks. Assisting Williams in East Southern Pines will be Lou Man ning and Dick Seymour, both of whom worked with the program last year. Manning is a swimming and water safety expert. Miss Sandra Fitzgibbon will be in charge of activities on the town park block and will con duct a swimming program for younger children. A rising senior at East Carolina College, she is a qualified Red Cross Water Safety instructor, with a senior life saving certificate. She was life guard and swimming instruc tor at the Pinehurst swimming pool in 1961 and worked part- time as life guard at the Elks pool here last summer. In West Southern Pines, Miss Cora Steele will be in charge of outdoor games for younger chil dren, the story hour, indoor games, and girls’ and women’s softball. She will also work with Wynn on the basketball and volleyball pro gram. Mrs. H. A. Wilson is in charge of arts and crafts. Curtis Jones will have charge of the Little League baseball in West Southern Pines and will work with Wynn in Pony League baseball for older boys and the men’s baseball program. Wynn will have charge of tennis. Card Must Be Signed Director Williams stressed that parents of each child taking part in the recreational program must sign a card relieving the town of responsibility in case of injury. These cards will be available (Continued on Page 8) members. The brochure included results of two and a half months of in vestigation and planning by coun ty school officials including a de tailed survey of need for the college in Moore and portions of eight other counties—the terri tory it would be built to serve. It is the first such complete study to be presented to the State board of education by a county seeking to be allotted one of the colleges. Friday, July 11, has been set by the State board for a presenta tion and explanation of Moore County’s college application, by Supt. Lee to the full State Board of Education. Temporary Water Line Installed, Lake To Station Army engineers this week in stalled 3,500 feet of six-inch, tem porary water pipe from the muni cipal lake to the pumping station, to increase the flow of water needed for a full supply in hot weather. Town Manager F. F. Rainey told The Pilot today. The 14-inch pipe from the lake to the pumping station has been losing efficiency for some time, as silt and corrosion built up in it. Construction of another simi lar line, parellel to it, allowing the old pipe to be closed off and cleaned out, is one of the primary projects being financed by the water bonds voted here last fall. Rainey said today that materials for this project have been order ed and work is due to begin on it soon. ‘ The manager stressed that there is no water shortage and that the six-inch line, feeding 500 gallons per minute from the lake to the station, together with the old line, is furnishing ample water for the town’s needs. Southern Pines has enough raw water to serve a city three times its size, he said. Council To Meet; Zone Hearing Set The regular June meeting of the town council will be held Tuesday of next week, June 18, in the town hall courtroom, post poned from the usual “second Tuesday” meeting time. Councilmen will gather in spe cial session at 9 a. m. Saturday for a public hearing on a pro posal to re-zone a lot on the south side of New York Ave., between S. W. Broad and Bennett Sts., from residential to business des ignation. SLIGHT DAMAGE Local volunteer firemen were called this morning to the Alex R. Chisholm home on Aiken Road where a small fire in a closet was easily extinguished. Damage was reported slight. ‘Miss Carthage’ Contest Set Saturday Blood Collection Set For West End Monday A bloodmobile from the Red Cross center at Charlotte—^from which both hospitals in Moore County draw supplies of blood will make a one-day visit to re ceive blood donations, on Mon day, June 17, at West End. Hours are from 12 noon to 5:30, at the school cafeteria. The next visit of the Bloodmo bile to Moore County will be in July. The second annual Miss Carth age Pageant will be held Saturday night, June 15, in the Carthage High School auditorium starting at 8, under the sponsorship of the sponsorship of the Carthage Junior Chamber of Commerce. The winner will be entitled to compete in the Miss North Caro lina Pageant next month in Greensboro. In addition she will receive a trophy and cash award of $200. First runner-up will receive $50 and a trophy. Second runner-up will receive $25 and a trophy. A “Miss Congeniality” will be select ed by the girls, with the winner receiving a trophy. All contestants will be presented an official “Miss America” charm bracelet with “Miss Carthage Pageant of 1963” engraved on it. Eight girls have entered the pageant. Listed with their talent choice, they are: Sarah Louise Bambauer, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bambau er, Carthage, recitation; Judy Lee Brinkley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brinkley, Whispering Pines, song and dance; Molly Dotson, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. B. E. Dotson, Carthage, song and dance, Marjorie Carlanne Fou- shee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Foushee, Sanford, sewing and modeling. Betty Sue Gamer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neuby Garner, Rob bins, vocal; Mary Grace Owen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Owen, Route 2, Seagrove, dra matic skit, Phyllis Ann Powers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Powers, Route 2, Bennett, danc ing; Frances Jayne Sharpe, daugh ter of Mrs. Mae Sharpe, Green wood, comedy. Serving as master of ceremonies will be a weU - known TV per sonality, Lee Kinard, of WFMY- TV, Greensboro. On hand to crown her successor will be Miss Bettye McCaskill of Pinehurst, last year’s pageant winner. Miss McCaskill will en tertain during intermission. Last year she was one of the 10 final ists in the Miss North Carolina pageant and won high praise for her talent ability. All seats are reserved with tickets selling at a reduced price in advance of Saturday night.