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i A knowledge ■of Nature can be a valuable antidote for the ills that afflict 20th Century man. First of a series, page 14. Little League baseball champions for the fifth straight year are the Cardinals who beat the Dodgers 9-1 Tues day. Details on page 19. VOL. 43—No. 34 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963 TWENTY PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Legislators Of County Report On ^^«sembly Session Senator W. P. Saunders and Rep. H. Clifton Blue gave a re view of legislation enacted by the 1963 General Assembly at the meeting of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club held at the Holiday Inn Wednesday, July 3. Senator Saunders explain ed the local bills which were enacted affecting Moore County and also called attention to the bill which he sponsored provi ding for an appropriation for a research study on ghats. The SADA had requested the appro priation and study for the gnat project. He also told of the ap propriation to provide custodial care of the Sandhill Nature Pre serve which Mrs. James Boyd recently gave the State consisting of some 400 acres of land near Southern Pines. Local legislation enacted, ex plained by Senator Saunders was as follows: A bill to authorize the county constables appointed for Pine- hurst to designate yield and stop signs on the Pinehurst streets. A bill to authorize the county commissioners to fix the salaries of county officials within certain limitations. A bill providing for the presen tation to the Tax Supervisor of Moore County of deeds and oth er instruments prior to registra tion in the register of deeds office. Rep. Blue discussed majpr state-wide issues before the Gen eral Assembly. He term.sd the bill on Higher Education, providing for a system of comprehensive (Continued on Page 8) Local Securities Office Included In Merger Plans Hornblower & Weeks, member of the New York Stock Exchange operating 30 offices from coast to coast, and Southeastern Securi ties Corporation of Charlotte, which has a branch offic.s in Southern Pines, have reached an agreement to consolidate their operations, it has been announced. The agreement, which is sub ject +0 approval of the New York StocK Exchange, foresees the acquisition of Southeastern Se curities by Hornblower & Weeks. Southeastern with headquarters in Charlotte, also has branch offices in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Spartanburg, S. C., with rep resentatives in High Point and New Bern. John A. McPhaul, manager of the local Southeastern branch in the Graves Building on E. Penn sylvania Ave., will remain as manager at the same location after the consolidation which is expected before September 1. The announcement came from Arthur R. Newcombe, manager of .the Charlotte office of Horn blower & Weeks. The firm’s headquarters office is in New York Citly. Mr. Newcombe will become manager of the combined operation in Charlotte. Hornblower & Weeks is a mem ber of all principal exchanges and underwrites a broad line of se curities, both corporate and pau- nicipal. HOSPITAL WORK STARTS — This was the scene at Moore Memorial Hospital as workers of the C. P. Street Construction Co. of Char lotte, prime contractor, were tearing down the former medical records room at the point where the big new surgical wing of the hospital will join the west end of the existing building. (Hemmer photo) Senior Division Added To Local Tennis Tourneys A senior division, for players 45 and up, will be a new feature i of the Sandhills Invitational tournament this year, said Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., tournament chairman of the Sandhills Tennis Association. Invitation to the junior tourna ment, to be held August 1 through 4, and the adult tourna ment, August 8 through 11, have been mailed out and plans were discussed at a meeting of the tournament committee at Hodg kins’ home Monday night. This will be the 15th annual re newal of both championships, which started as a combined week-long event in August, 1949, and were later separated into two weekend tournaments, both sanctioned by the Southern Lawn Tennis Association. Co sponsored for the past several years by the town recreation de partment, they will again this year have as tournament director John Williams, director of the summer recreation program. Ap plication blanks for entry into the tournaments may be secured from him. Addition of the senior division to the adult tournament was (Continued on Page 8) Recreation Tennis Tournament Postponed A tennis tournament for young people in four age divisions which had been set for this week has been postponed to the week of July 22, reports C. A. McLaugh lin, president of the Sandhills Tennis Association, co-sponsor of the event with the municipal re creation department. Poor condition of the courts was given as reason, also the ex pectation that the later date for the tournament will increase in terest by young people in the following week’s Sandhills Junior Invitational tourney. Local Officials Attend Conference On Race Matters; Progress Here Reported St Mayor W. Morris Johnson and Dr. Julian Lake, clergyman who is chairman of the Southern Pines Good Neighbor Council, attended last Friday’s Greensboro confer ence on racial matters, called for municipal officials to meet with Gov. Terry Sanford. The Good Neighbor Council, with five white and five Negro members, was formed here recent ly to improve white-Negro com munication, consider racial prob lems and help guide the commu nity peacefully in the current civil rights crisis. At Tuesday night’s town coun- ciT meeting, both Dr. Lake, who appeared to report on the Good Neighbor Council’s work, and Mayor Johnson said that the Greensboro conference had been a rewarding and valuable experi ence. The conference stressed the importance of responsible action on the community level in meet ing racial problems. Dr. Lake noted that Southern Pines appears to be one of the few small towns in the state with a fully organized bi-racial group. Numerous actions have been tak en here that other communities are just beginning to think about, he said, such as appointment of Negro*es on town committees and commissions—a local practice for several years. Dr. Lake said that, since the first meeting of the Good Neigh bor Council in June, progress has been made here and that “people of the business community are cooperative.” The Good Neighbor Council, which meets monthly, will have its second formal session next Monday at 8 p. m. in the town hall. A. L. BURNEY Burney Appointed To Welfare Board For 3-Year Term A. L. Burney, prominent South ern Pines civic and church leader has been appointed by the State Board of Public Welfare to mem bership on the Moore County Board of Public Welfare accord ing to an annnoimcement made this week by Eugene Brown, act ing director of the State Board. The appointment is for a three- year term, starting July 1. Mr. Burney succeeds Paul C. Butler of Southern Pines who was not eligible for re-appoint- ment as the law permits a person to serve only two three-year terms in succession. Mr. Butler has completed his second three- year term, serving as chairman of the board. Mr. Burney who lives in South ern Pines, for many years lived in Aberdeen where he operated th.9 Burney Hardware Company before retiring several years ago. During World War II he served as a member of the county draft board. He served as a member Of the State Board of Correction and Training under the administra tion of Governor R. Gregg Cherry in the 1940’s. He is also a former member of the Moore County Board of Public Welfare. He was a leader in the move ment to establish a branch of the Southern National'Bank in South ern Pines and is chairman of the (Continued on Page 8) Would Anybody like Some Canadian Coins? Is any Pilot reader—perhaps someone planning a trip to Can ada-willing to exchange two or three dollars’ worth of United States money for equivalent value in Canadian coins that have been dropped into the self-service rack at The Pilot office or given to street sales boys? Maybe somebody would like the coins for a collection or for souvenirs. Included are nickles, dimes, a quarter and a half dol lar. Inquire at The Pilot’s busi ness office. Youth Arrested In Beating Case; Stories Conflict An investigation is under way of the brutal beating of Colon Cooke, of near Aberdeen, on NC 5 near the gravel-pit road last Tuesday night. A Robbins youth, Larry Allred, 19, has been placed under arrest, it was learned from Chief Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm. Conflicting stories surround the occurrence and one or two more arrests ma^r be made, Grimm said. Cooke, a house painter who lives off NC 5 between Aberdeen and Pinehurst, is in Moore Me morial Hospital with painful and serious injuries of the head, face and hand. His eyes were bruised, his lip split, his teeth loosened, his jaw fractured and his hand bruised and swollen. Allred has been placed under $500 bond for a hearing in Moore County Recorder’s Court July 22, when it is expected that Cooke will be able to leave the hospital. Cooke said he was driving home Tuesday of last week about 9 p. m. with his wife and two young sons after visiting rela tives near the Hoke County line when, he told officers, a man (Continued on Page 8) Lar^e Tract Near Pinehurst Given By Mrs. Meyer lor Proposed College Mrs. C. Louis Meyer of Lake Forest, Ill., who owns a winter home and a large tract of land between Pinehurst and the South ern Pines-Pinehurst Airport, has given about 100 acres of this land as a site for a proposed two-year community college. First public announcement of the gift was made Monday by Moore County board of education. The board is acting as a steering committee in efforts to obtain au thorization for (Such a college from the State board of educa tion. The tract, valued at about $40,- 000 according to a recent apprais al is located about two miles froin the Pinehurst traffic cir- Jere McKeithen, chairman of the cle on the right of the airport IN RALEIGH HEARING TODAY Officials Queried On Project Appearing in Raleigh this morning before a committee of the State Board of Education on behalf of a two-year community college for Moore County, school officials, legislators, commission ers and other interested persons from Moore were told that the committee “looks with favor on the application’” smd would be given an answer after the full State Board meets August 15. The Moore delegation number ed 26. John Reynolds of Asheville, chairman of the board’s committee on Locating Community Colleges, presided at the meeting in the Education Building. Present in addition to other members of this committee, were Dallas Herring, State Board chairman, other board members and several of- ficals from the State Department of Public Instruction, a Pilot re presentative at the meeting re ported at noon today. Present from Moore were Supt. R. E. Lee of the county school system; Jere McKeithen, chair man of the county board of edu cation and other members of the board; Sen. W. P. Saunders and House Speaker H. Clifton Blue; members of the board of county commissioners; N. L. Hodgkins, Southern Pines board of education chairman and Chairman L. B. Creath of the Pinehurst education board; and other persons especi ally interested in the college pro ject. Members of the committee posed numerous searching ques tions for the school and govern ing officials from Moore, aimed principally at establishing the county’s financial ability to han dle the college project. These questions were answered convinc ingly by officials. The Pilot’s re presentative reported. J. V. Healy, 66, Well Known Area Resident, Dies Jeremiah Vincent Healy, 66, well-known Sandhills resident for more than 40 years, died early Sunday afternoon at Moore Me morial Hospital. Requiem Meiss was held at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church at 10 a. m. Tuesday, conducted by the Rev. Francis M. Smith who had conducted the Rosary Service the previous evening. Pallbearers were Joe Montesanti, Jr., George H. Leonard, Jr. Lt. Col. F. M. Smith, W. Harry Fullenwider, James Boyd of New York City and C. H. Bowman. Burial was in Mt. Hope Ceme tery; the casket was covered with an American flag in honor of his military service in World War I. Mr. Healy had entered the hos pital Sunday, June 30, suffering from the effects of a fall in the surf at Cherry Grove Beach, S. (Continued on Page 8) VOLUNTEER FIREMEN here spent their July 4 holiday painting white trim and doors at the fire station on New Hamp shire Ave., and freshening up the red lettering on the wall. Window shutters were removed and are also being painted. Up the ladder at left is Don Hurst and at foot of ladder is Elmer (Pete) Renegar. The boy is Mr. Hurst’s son, Albert. Wink Chatfield st^ds in front of doors at left. With hand on right ladder is Ed Baker, resident fireman at the station, and Mrs. Evelyn Baker, his wife, is on the ladder. Behind Mr. Baker, on the short ladder, are the Bakers’ son. Hap, and Ernest Black, the town’s other full-time professional fireman. Working but not pictured were Jim Ritchie and George Wentland. The group had a fish fry, prepared by wives of the volunteers, at the end of the day’s work. (Pilot photo) Parents Urged To Keep Children From. Fog Machine At their July meeting Tuesday night, members of the town coun cil asked parents to keep children off the streets when the town’s insecticide spraying machine is operating, as a protection to chil dren who might be struck by mo torists or by the machine itself while they are running or riding bicycles in the dense fog created by the procedure. Town Manager F. F. Rainey, in reply to a question, said he had no funds budgeted to put a third man on the machine—in addition to driver and operator—^who could watch for children and warn them away while the ma chine is operating. He said, how ever, that he would work out some method to assure the safety of children. Councilmen stressed the res ponsibility of parents, in discus sing the hazards of the machine’s (Continued on Page 8) Teen-Ager Wins Medal In County Golf Tournament A 14-year-old golfer, Mike Cheek of the Whispering Pines community north of Southern Pines was medalist, with a one- over-par 73, as the qualifying round was completed Sunday in the annual Moore County Golf Tournament. Runner-up for the medal was Joe Montesanti, Jr. of Southern Pines, with 74. Cheek is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne Cheek. With the largest field in the history of the tournament—128— first round play is now going on, to he completed by July 14. There is a championship flight of 16 and seven other flights of 16 players each. A score of 79 or better was required to enter the championship flight. Pairings in the championship flight were listed as: Mike Cheek and Joe Carter, R. Moreland and Bill Woodward, Bill Wilson and Joel Hufford, Charles Rose and Watt Smith, Joe Montesanti, Jr. and Tip Eddy, Paul Williamson and C. E. Rus sell, Eddie McKenzie and Tony McKenzie, and Marty McKenzie and Joel Hafeli. The tournament is staged by. the newly organized Moore Coun ty Golf Association of which Peter V. Tufts of Pinehurst is president. It is an individual match play event, with prizes to be given to winner, rumier-up and consolation winner in each flight. road, as one goes from Pinehurst to the airport. The tract is large enough, Mc Keithen said, so that it could also be used as site for a proposed Aberdeen-West End consolidated high school. Mrs. Meyer knows that it is being considered for the school as well as for the college, he said. At a Monday luncheon meet ing of the 12:12 Club—Aberdeen civic group—attended by school officials and Moore County’s two state legislators, Sen. W. P. Saun ders and House Speaker H. Clif ton Blue, McKeithen read a let ter, revealing the. gifts, from Mrs. Meyer’s son-in-law, C. Foster Brown of Chicago. McKeithen said that the fact that Mrs. Meyer is interested would, he thought, be influential in the county’s presentation of its application for a community col lege before the State board of education in Raleigh today. Presiding at the meeting was Joe Lennon, program chairman for the club and a member of the Aberdeen District school commit tee. Present also were T. Roy Phillips of Carthage, county board of education member, R. E. Lee, county schools superintendent; C. E. Powers, assistant su perintendent; Lee Buchan, chair man of the Aberdeen school com- mitte-s; and representatives of the press, in addition to regular club members. All the officials expressed their pleasure and gratitude for the gift. A formal letter of gratitude would be sent to Mrs. Meyer, it was stated. McKeithen pointed out that the board of education is only act ing as a steering committee for the college project. Once it is authorized, ji 12 member board of trustees would be appointed— four named by the board of coun ty commissioners, four by the county board of education and four by Gov. Terry Sanford. Mrs. Meyer, with her husband who died in 1953, bought their property near Pinehurst in 1946 and became active in the sports, civic and religious life of the community. With numerous charitable interests, they were especially interested in children and hospitals here and elsewhere. In 1955, Mrs. Meyer gave $55,000, in memory of her husband, to in sure the building and equipping of the children’s wing of Moore Memorial Hospital. A construction engineer, Mr. Meyer founded and at the time of his death was board chairman of the Ceco Steel Products Corp., one of the nation’s greatest build ing firms. ‘Peach Queen’ To Be Named Tonight Annette Thompson of Jackson Springs, will be Moore county’s candidate for “Miss North Caro lina Sandhills Peach Queen” to night, while Lavonne Comer of Seagrove Route 2, a member of the Dover Church 4-H club, will represent Moore in a peach-pie baking contest. The occasion will be the third annual Sandhills Peach Festival to be held at the East Montgom ery High School, between Can dor and Biscoe, co-sponsored by the North Carolina Peach Grow ers Society and the Sandhills Area Development Association. Participating will be the five SADA member counties, Moore, Lee, Hoke, Montgomery and Richmond, also Anson, a sixth peach-growing county. The Festival marks the height of the Sandhills peach season. It is open to the public. 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 July 3 94 69 July 4 82 56 July 5 88 59 July 6 92 57 July 7 83 66 July 8 89 68 July 9 75 65 July iO 75 65
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