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Vol.—43 No. 39
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1963
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SUPERIOR COURT
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Probation Plans
Being Made For
Orphan Boy, 16
Presiding this week at Carth
age, Superior Court Judge John
D. McConnell of Southern Pines,
with Solicitor M. G. Boyette of
Carthage prosecuting, has made
good progress through more than
50 criminal cases on a long dock
et. It was Judge McConnell’s first
time on the bench in Moore since
his January appointment as pre
siding judge of his home district.
Coming before the court Mon
day, charged with forgery of sev
eral $10 checks given to Carthage
merchants, 16-year-old James
Boggs—who has been in the coun
ty jail at Carthage since May—
posed a thorny problem for the
court.
Son of parents who had each
been murdered in recent years, in
separate cases, the boy had been
sent to a state training shool at
age 12, and later was assigned to
the care of relatives whom he left Tn
last spring. He told investigating
officers, he had been living in the
woods and said he had forged the
checks to buy food. The training
school has refused to take him
back, because of his previous be
havior there.
Appearing without coimsel
Monday, Boggs pleaded guilty to
two counts of forgery. Solicitor
Boyette suggested that probation
be considered and sentence was
not immediately pronounced,
while Probation Officer Cecil
Shoaf conferred with the boy and
otherwise tried to arrange pro
bation terms that would provide
him a home and, if possible per-
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Local Hospital
Commended For
Fallout Shelter
In a ceremony conducted at
St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital
Friday afternoon a certificate of
commendation from the Office of
Civil Defense of the Department
of Defense was awarded to the
hospital.
Signed by Stewart L. Pittman,
assistant secretary of defense, and
Col. Alfred M. Koster. Moore
County Civil Defense Director,
the certificate reads:
“For outstanding community
leadership and cooperation in Na
tional Civil Defense bv providing
fallout shelter facilities for the
public, thereby increasing the
capacity of our country to survive
and recover in the event of at
tack.”
The framed certificate was
turned over to Sister Virginia,
hospital administrator, by Mayor
W. Morris Johnson, in the pres
ence of hospital officials and staff
and members of the Advisory
Council.
Persons present in addition to
those pictured included Town
Manager F. F. Rainey and Col
onel Koster. Refreshments were
served by the Sisters after the
presentation in the hospital
dining room.
The shelter facilities to which
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TROPHY WINNERS— Among the trophy
winners in last week’s Sandhills Invitational
Tennis Tournament are the players shown here
with Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., tournament chair
man, left, and John Williams, tournament di
rector, right. The players, left to right, are:
Trucker Killed,
On No. 1 Highway
Moore county’s seventh fatal
highway accident of the year and
the first in over four months oc
curred Saturday morning on U.
S. Highway 1, north.
Joseph W. Edwards, 31, of May-
odan, truck driver for Blythe Mo
tor Lines of Sanford, Fla., v/as
killed. He was described on his
driver’s license as six feet 10 in
ches tall, weighing 350 pounds.
Edwards was asleep in a com
partment back of the driver’s
s.eat of a big tractor-trailer, with
James Ganus, 49, also of Mayo-
dan, at the wheel, when, north
bound, it failed to make the curve
at the parkway junction near
Skyline and went straight across
the traffic island and overturned
on the east shoulder.
Edwards was thrown from the
compartment through the right
windshield onto the ground. The
corner of the cab fell on him,
partly burying him in the sand.
Ambulance attendants removed
him with difficulty, having to dig
out the earth beneath him to get
him free. He was dead on arrival
at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Ganus was taken to the hospi
tal with injuries reported not
serious, said Trooper Willis Aus
tin,, who investigated.
Austin said he would charge
Ganus with exceeding safe speed
resulting in death, or manslaugh
ter.
The trailer was loaded with
frozen citrus juices, shrimp and
other produce, destined for drops
at Durham and at Buffalo, N. Y.
Another truck was sent to pick
up the load. It was about five
hours before the overturned ve
hicle could be moved.
PRINCIPALS TO MEET
Principals of schools in the
Moore (bounty system will meet
at Carthage Tuesday to plan for
opening of the county schools on
Wednesday, August 28, and for
the operation of the schools dur
ing the coming year, Supt. R. E.
Lee has announced.
Pierce Now With Proctor-Silex Plant
Garland Pierce on Monday be
came personnel director for the
local electric iron manufacturing
plant of Proctor-Silex Corpora
tion. I
He succeeds Joe Fowler of
Mount Airy who had the local
personnel post, in addition to
other duties with the company,
and who has been named mana
ger of the Mount Airy Proctor-
Silex plant. Mr. Fowler had con
tinued to make his home in
Mount Airy while spending con
siderable time here.
Mr. Pierce resigned as control
ler and personnel director at the
Trimble Products, Inc., plant here |
to take the position with Proc
tor-Silex. He had been with |
Trimble since 1958.
A longtime resident of South
ern Pines, Mr. Pierce was post
master here from 1946 to 1955
and was associated with Profes
sional Management, a financial
advisory service for physicians,
1955-58.
In former years, he had been
manager of the Highland Pines
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GARLAND A. PIERCE
Inn, local resort hotel that was
later destroyed by fire, and has
long been active in the civic and
business life of the community.
He is a member of the Southern
Pines Rotary Club.
JOSEPH E. SANDLIN
Sandlin To Take
Position With
Lumberton Bank
Joseph E. Sandlin of Southern
Pines has been appointed execu
tive vice president and adminis
trative officer of the Southern
National Bank and will assume
this position at the bank’s head
quarters in Lumberton within the
next few weeks, it was announc
ed yesterday by Hector MacLean
of Lumberton, president of the
bank.
A certified public accountant,
Mr. Sandlin has resigned as con
troller of Amerotron Company
but is remaining to wind up his
work at the Amerotron offices in
Aberdeen. Amerotron is a divi
sion of Deering-Milliken, large
textile firm.
In his new position, Mr. Sand
lin will handle the administrative
affairs of the bank and will main
tain an office in Lumberton.
Plans to move there with his
family are incomplete blit even
tually this move will be made,
the announcement said.
Since February, 1962, Mr.
Sandlin has been a member of
the board of directors of the
Southern Pines branch of the
Southern National Bank. In Jan
uary of this year, he was named
to the bank’s central board of di
rectors in Lumberton and since
that time has served as a member
of the board’s examining commit
tee.
A native of Franklin, Va., he
is a graduate of the College of
William and Mary at Williams
burg, Va. Before becoming asso
ciated with Amerotron and its
predecessor companies, he was
affiliated with Arthur Anderson
and Company, accountants and
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William Poore, men’s singles; Mrs. Alicia Smyth,
women’s singles; Miss Betty Brown, partner
with Mrs. Smyth in winning women s doubles;
Ed Hudgins, runner-up in men’s singles; and
Paul Caldwell who paired with Hudgins to win
the men’s doubles. (Humphrey photo)
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New Champions
Win Crowns In
Sandhills Tennis
The emergence of two new
singles stars and the addition of
a highly successful senior division
(45 and up) made the 15th annual
Sandhills Invitational Tennis
Tournament outstanding.
The tournament was played
Thursday through Sunday on the
local courts and, for the senior
division, at the Pinehurst Coun
try Club Saturday and Sunday
mornings. All finals were held
Sunday afternoon at Southern
Pines, drawing an excellent gal
lery.
"The two new stars were Wil
liam Poore of Belton, S. C. and
Mrs. Alicia Smyth, Ecuadorian
national champion, winners in
men’s and women’s singles.
Winning the senior singles and
sharing championship honors in
senior mens’ and mixed doubles,
for a clean sweep of every event
he entered, was Sam Daniel of
Columbia, S. C., veteran of many
Carolina tournaments and a long
time favorite in the Sandhills.
These matches and others pro
vided some of the finest tennis
ever seen here. Though its 50 en
tries, including a half-dozen for
doubles only, were fewer than in
some previous years, the tourna
ment offered high quality and
first-rate spectator sport all the
way.
Poore, 19-year-old No. 1 player
on the tennis team at The Citadel,
where he will be a junior this
year, won the boys’ singles cham
pionship here four years ago. He
IS assisting Buck Archer in ten
nis instruction this summer at
the Shelby Covmtry Club. Seeded
No. 3, he upset Archer, the No. 2
seed, in semifinals, then defeated
the top seed, Ed Hudgins of
Greensboro, 4-6, 6-3, 9-7, in a
finals match magnificently fought
on both sides. Losing the first set,
then capturing the second, Poore
came up from behind in the third
when the score was 4-1 against
him. Breaking Hudgins’ masterly
serve, he manager to retain con-
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Church League Stars,
Ghosts Playing Tonight
There will be a softball game
tonight (Thursday) between the
Church League all-stars and the
Ghosts team to climax the local
Church league season. The con
test will begin at 8 p.m.
The Ghosts team is the South-
ren Pines representative in the
Tobacco State League and is cur
rently one-half game out of first
place. Laurinburg is holding the
league lead. 'The Ghosts were
local league champion for four
consecutive years.
Bud Rainey and Jack Barron
are the All-Star managers and
Joel Stutts is manager of the
Ghosts.
Methodist Church
Team Wins Season,
Tournament Titles
The Methodist Church com
pleted a clean sweep of the
Church Slow Pitch Softball Lea
gue regular season and tourna
ment titles Wednesday night with
a thrilling 5-4 decision over the
Lutheran Church team. The
Methodists thus concluded the
season by defeating the team that
handed them their only loss of
the season’s second half.
The exciting game proved a
fitting climax to the tournament’s
first two nights which featured
some of the best play displayed
during the entire summer. Mon
day night’s quarterfinal games
saw the Catholics defeat the Bap
tists, 14-8, and the Presbyterians
defeat the United Church of
Christ, 12-8. The Methodists
drew a bye as champions of the
season’s second half, and the
Lutherans advanced by forfeit
over the Episcopalians.
The first of the two semifinal
games Tuesday night pitted the
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Town Recreation
Program Ending;
Many Take Part
The municipal summer recrea
tion program which has been ac
tive daily, Monday through Fri
day, since June 17, with a varie
ty of activities in East and West
Southern Pines, is ending today.
At the park block, where 176
children registered to take part
in tlie activities for boys and girls
six to 12 years of age. Miss San
dra Fitzgibbon, supervisor, is
staging a farewell party with soft
drinks and 'other refreshments
this afternoon. Attendance at the
park recreation sessions has run
from 50 to 100 daily, she said.
Games and sports there have been
varied by excursions to Aber
deen Lake for swimming and
four trips to the new roller skat
ing rink on Highway 15-501.
Included in the recreation pro
gram have been Pony League and
Babe Ruth League baseball for
older boys and the Church League
softball series for adults.
Joe Wynn has directed a simi
lar program, with something to
entertain all ages of youngsters,
and also adults, in West Southern
Pines.
At the school gym there this
afternoon, prizes were awarded
to winners in various types of
recreation program competition
and watermelon and soft drinks
were enjoyed by the youngsters.
John Williams, high school
coach, has been over-all recrea
tion director.
Poultry Growers
From 5 Counties
To Hear Experts
Poutry growers from five coun
ties, including Moore, will meet
at the Carthage High School Fri
day, August 23, at 10:30 a. m. to
hear two poultry marketing ex
perts, F. D. Allen, county exten
sion chairman, announced this
week.
The speakers scheduled to ap
pear are: Ben Brinkman of At
lanta, Ga., whose topic will be
“Cause and Control of Poultry
Condemnations;” and Paul Mor
gan of Guilford College, president
of the Southeastern Poultry Asso
ciation, who will speak on “Prob
lems in the Poultry Industry.” His
talk will include a discussion of
the Common Market and its effect
on U. S. broiler sales.
A free chicken barbecue lunch
will be served, Mr. Allen said. He
urged poultry growers, feed deal
ers and all interested persons to
attend.
Agreement Reached On
School Bond Proposals
Kllembers of the committee ap
pointed by the county commis
sioners to study bond issue needs
for building the recently author
ized community college and the
long-range capital outlay (con
struction) needs of the county’s
three school administrative units,
reached an agreement last Thurs-
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ROBERT M. CUSHMAN
Cushman Named
President Of
Amerotron Co.
Robert M. Cushman of South
ern Pines, .executive vice presi
dent of Amerotron Company, in
charge of manufacturing, with
offices in Aberdeen, has been
named president of the company,
it was announced this week.
On August 20, Mr. Cushman
will succeed Edmon C. Luke who
on that date completes 42 years
in the textile industry. Mr. Luke
will continue in an advisory ca
pacity.
Amerotron Company is a divi
sion of Deering-Milliken, Inc.,
large textile firm which bought
Amerotron—formerly the textile
division of Textron, Inc. several
months ago.
Mr. Cushman has been in
charge of manufacturinig for
Amerotron since May, 1955. Be
fore the Amerotron Company was
formed through the consolidation
of American Woolen Co., Textron
Incorporated and Robbins Mills,
Cushman was elected executive
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day night.
In a meeting held at Southern
Pines with County Commission
er W. S. Taylor presiding as
chairman, the committee listed
six points of agreement, whieh,
however, must remain tentative
until ratified by all three boards
of education and the county com
missioners.
Two have already ratified it.
Pinehurst school representatives
at the meeting said their board
had already considered and ap
proved the plan. The Southern
Pines board gave its aproval in a
called meeting Monday night of
this week.
The county board of education
could not be called to meeting
this week because of the illness of
its chairman. However, it is ex
pected to meet early next week
to approve the plan.
'The county commissioners have
said they stand ready to meet
with the committee as soon as
they have an official recommen
dation. On their approval, it will
be handed over to County Attor
ney M. G. Boyette to draw up
the bond issue petition, to be
followed by a county-wide bond
election in the fall, with separate
voting on the college and the
school proposals.
The points of agreement—and,
noted Chairman Taylor, there are
non,2 of disagreement—cover the
entire area of negotiation. They
are:
1. Total amount of the bond
issue should be $4 million.
2. Of this amount, $1 million
should be earmarked for the com
munity college plant.
3. The $3 million balance should
he divided among the three
school administrative units for
capital outlay uses.
4. Division of the funds should
be made on'a per capita (per pu
pil) basis, employing school po-
ulation figures and percentages
from Raleigh, showing average
daily attendance during the
school year 1962-63. The amounts
for each unit would be as follows:
Moore County schools (73.19 per
cent), $2,195,700; Southern Pines
(18.49 per cent), $554,700; Pine
hurst (8.32 per cent), $249,600.
5. The bond issue vote should
be held some time in October. This
would mean early letting of addi
tional contracts on partially-built
units (Union Pines and West
Southern Pines) for completion in
time for use during the 1963-64
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AT PINEHURST AUG. 23-25
3rd N. C. Amateur Championship Of
Carolina Golf Association Scheduled
NEW UNIFORM — Dan
Thomas, Southern Pines High
School senior who turned
out this week for pre-school
football practice called by
Coach Bill Megginson, dis
plays one of the Blue Knights’
new uniforms. Starting to
day, four practice sessions are
being held daily, two for
backs, ends and centers and
two for linemen. (Humphrey
photo)
Some of the state’s top golfers
have entered the 3rd Annual
North Carolina Amateur Champ
ionship of the Carolina Golf As
sociation, to be played over the
No. 2 course of Pinehurst Country
Club August 23-25, Clyde C. Man-
gum, Jr., of Southern Pines,
executive secretary of the associa
tion, said this week.
As of Monday, 130 of the 160
200 Entered For
Kiwanis Golf At
Whispering Pines
A full field of 200 players, in
cluding some outstanding golfers
from around the state, is expected
at Whispering Pines Country
Club for the two-day first annual
Invitational Golf Tournament
for Kiwanis Charities opening
Saturday.
The 36-hole event will be play-
in 10 flights with prizes, silver
and golf merchandise valued at
$1,500 going to winners.
The program includes a social
hour and dance at the newly com
pleted restaurant adjacent to the
Whispering Pines Motor Lodge
on No. 1 highway, north.
Clyde Mangum, Jr., of South
ern Pines is an outstanding Sand
hills entry. Others include Jack
Norman, Winston-Salem, State
Seniors champion; Larry Parker,
Charlotte city champion for two
years; Roscoe Baker, Kinston; and
Clarence Alexander, Ken Cooper
and Bill Deane, all of Raleigh.
The tournament is sponsored
by the Sir Walter Kiwanis Club
of Raleigh.
limit to entries in the field had
been received. Others have come
in since then. Eligible to play are
amateur golfers who are mem
bers in good standing of a club
which is a member of the Carolina
Golf Association. No entries will
be accepted after noon on August
20.
The 7,051-yard No. 2 “cham
pionship” course at Pinehurst has
a par of 72.
Mangum listed the following
as some of the outstanding con
tenders this year:
Defending Champion Ken
Folkes of Concord, who won with
a record 272 at Tanglewood Golf
Club, Winston-Salem last year.
(12 under par) and also won the
Carolina Golf Association Ama
teur Championship in July at
Mimosa Hills GC, Morganton, with
players from both North and
South Carolina taking part.
Billy Joe Patton, Morganton, a
top favorite because of his back-
to-back North & South victories
in 1962-63 over the No. 2 Course.
Charles B. Smith, Gastonia, who
won the North & South in 1960
and in 1962, Carolina Open, CGA
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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.
Max.
Min.
August 8
92
68
August 9
96
69
August 10
89
68
August 11
88
62
August 12
94
64
August 13
96
73
August 14
86
69