We welcome
to the Sandhills members of
Alcoholics Anonymous conven
ing here this weekend. Editorial,
page 2.
VOL.—43 No. 44
uestions
about the upcoming college and
school bond elections are an
swered in a special feature on
page 2.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1963
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
Site At Pinehurst Recommended For
Proposed New Mental Health Clinic
The board of directors of the
Moore County Mental Health
Clinic voted Monday to recom
mend that a new clinic building,
to be built with state and federal
funds, be located in Pinehurst,
rather than in Southern Pines.
State authorities supervising
location and operation of such
clinics are expected to follow the
board’s recommendation.
Present Monday were Dr.
Charles Phillips, chairman, and
board members Col. L. H. Baker,
the Rev. Martin Caldwell and
J. M. Pleasants, with Dr. J. W.
Psychologist To
Serve Clinic In
Bi-Weekly Visits
A clinical psychologist. Dr.
John Schopler, of the psycholo
gy department of the University
of North Carolina was added this
week on a part-time basis to the
staff of the Moore County Mental
Health Clinic.
He will be there every other
Wednesday, commuting from
Chapel Hill, to do testing, also
therapy in cases in his field, and
to serve as consultant for various
local agencies so they may use
clinic’s services to best advan
tage. His next visit here will be
October 2.
Announcement of Dr. Schop-
ler’s employment was made by
Dr. Charles Phillips, chairman of
the clinic’s board of directors.
Open to the public since July
1, the clinic has registered 59
patients, many now in continuing
treatment, while more referrals
and direct cases are coming in.
Dr. Harvey Horne of Southern
Pines, psychiatrist, sees patients
on Mondays, with Mrs. Mark
King, Jr., administrative director
and psychiatric social worker,
doing consultation and screening
work every day (Monday through
Friday).
The visit of the clinical psy
chologist, Dr. Schopler, every
other Wednesday is a temporary
arrangement, since this is as often
as Dr. Schopler can come now.
Expansion of both the psychiatric
and psychologic services, with
perhaps a separation of adult and
children’s work, is anticipated as
the clink grows.
Dr. Schopler, who is 33 and a
native of Rochester, N. Y., grad
uated from th.9 University of Ro
chester, took his master’s degree
in psychology at the University
of New Mexico and his doctorate
at the University of Colorado. He
came to the University of North
Carolina in 1957, first to the psy
chiatric department of the School
of Medicine, from which he
moved over to the academic side
in 1960. He is presently an assis
tant professor in the field of so
cial psychology.
Willcox absent.
The half-acre Pinehurst site is
behind the office of Dr. J. C.
Grier, Jr., opposite Moore Mem
orial Hospital, and will be reach
ed by a new road to be opened by
Pinehurst, Inc., at the side of Dr.
Grier’s property.
The hospital obtained the land
offered for the clinic by trading
hospital-owned land elsewhere
for the clinic site, with Pinehurst,
Inc., a hospital director said.
The site will be deeded by the
hospital to the county, as it is re
quired that such publk clinics be
built on county-owned land.
The site offered by Moore Me
morial Hospital was chosen over
the one offered by St., Joseph
of the Pines Hospital here by a
3-to-l vote of the directors, with
one director, who was absent,
having indkated his preference
for the Pinehurst site. Dr. Phil
lips said the final decision repre
sented a concensus, as the county
commissioners had expressed the
same preference in a letter, and
a majority of doctors of the coun
ty, queried in an informal poll,
had also done so.
Reasons given were that Moore
Memorial is a larger medical
center, with more doctors prac-
tking there, also that Pinehurst is
nearer the center of the county,
a fact rated by Dr. Phillips as
important in view of long-range
plans to extend the clinic’s ser
vices to neighboring counties.
The clinic will have no con
nection with Moore Memorial
Hospital other than proximity, he
said, but will be operated entirely
by its board of directors. Such
proximity to a general hospital is
required by State and federal
authorities, and each is useful in
many ways to the other, it was
explained.
Many requests coming in for
service to out-of-county patients
cannot now be granted. Dr. Phil-
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DOG WARNING
Police Chief Earl S. Seawell
said today that numerous
complaints have been made
to his department about dogs
running at large, particularly
in the area of the schools.
He said that officers will
start picking up and impound
ing dogs, under a municipal
ordinance, if the situation
does not improve. There is
considerable expense to a
dog's owner in reclaiming the
animctl.
He urged parents to pre
vent dogs from following
children to school.
OPEN HOUSE SET AT NEW
HOME HERE THIS WEEKEND
BOOKS PRESENTED— A set of the newly published Girl
Scout handbooks was presented to the town-owned Southern
Pines Library Friday when more than 100 of the books were
sold to Moore County Girl Scouts from a supply brought here
from Raleigh. Left to right Mrs. Charles Phillips who as neigh
borhood chairman heads the Girl Scout program here and in
Vass; Mayor W. Morris Johnson, Mrs. Marguerite Klein, field
representative with the Pines of Carolina Council; and Mrs.
Stanley Lambourne, local librarian. Mrs. Phillips said today
that Girls Scout meetings will begin next week, with notice
of places and times to be posted on school bulletin boards.
(Humphrey photo)
POWER INTERRUPTION
An electric power interruption
at 2 p.m., Wednesday, September
25, to last for 15 or 20 minutes,
has been announced by Carolina
Power & Light Co., in Pinehurst
only. The power cut will be
necessary for transformer work
at the West End sub-station.
Parking Times To
Be Checked; New
20 mph Zone Set
On October 1, police will start
marking cars and enforcing timed
parking in designated portions of
the business section, Chief Earl
S. Seawell announced today. Cars
have not been msirked for several
weeks this summer.
In other traffic law matters,
the chief pointed out that a 20
miles per hour, business section
speed limit is being enforced on
S. W. Broad St. from Massa
chusetts Ave. south to the Mor-
ganton Road comer traffic light;
also that a 35 miles per hour
residence area speed limit is be
ing enformed on the entire length
of Bennett St.
Chief Seawell said there have
been complaints of persons run
ning through the stoplight newly
installed at the intersection of
May St. and New York Ave.,
near the school, where there was
formerly a blinker light. He urg
ed alertness by drivers at this
school comer.
This blinker light is now in
stalled at the intersection of W.
Pennsylvania Ave. and Bennett
St., indicating a stop for Bennett
St. drivers and caution for those
on Pennsylvania.
TO WISCONSIN
Max Rush, Southern Pines
branch manager of Montgomery
Dairies of 'Troy, will leave Sun
day for a week or two of study
at the Milk Industry Foundation
School, at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Public Can Attend
‘Open Meetings’
At AA Convention
The 16th annual convention of
North Carolina Alcoholics Anon
ymous, for which the Southern
Pines AA group is host, assisted
by 15 other groups throughout
the area, will bring an expected
thousand persons to the Sandhills
this weekend.
“Open meetings,” which the
public may attend, will be held
Friday at 8 p. m., Saturday at
10:30 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. and
Sunday at 10 a. m.
Headquarters will be the Caro
lina Hotel at Pinehurst, with vis
itors also using other accommo-
idations in the Sandhills. A pro
gram of “open meetings,” with
nationally known speakers, and
a variety of social events have
been planned for the thre-s-day
convention.
Business meetings will be at a
minimum since AA has no ortho
dox organization pattern. No of
ficers wiU be elected, no commit
tee or project reports made.
There will be a band concert and
floorshow Saturday night, given
by the Central Prison Band of
Raleigh, by permission of the
prison authorities. AA has a suc
cessful program operating in
Central Prison and in connection
with a rehabilitation program
over the state.
According to the designation
by which AA’s are known, gen
eral chairman of the convention
is “Joe P.,” of Aberdeen.
No Protests Made
As Hearing About
Bond Issues Held
Only a few persons appeared,
and non.s to protest or ask ques
tions, at the public hearing held
Monday afternoon by the coun
ty commissioners on the $4 mil
lion bond issue for the commu
nity college plant and public
school construction.
They formally adopted the
bond order and resolution setting
the date of Tuesday, October 29,
for the county-wide vote, along
with the advertising orders,
wording of the ballots and other
details required by law.
The ballots will present two
issues, one for $1 million to build
the proposed Moore County Com
munity College, the other for $3
million for long-range school
construction, to be divided pro
portionately among the three
school units, Moore County,
Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
The small group present inclu
ded T. Roy Phillips of Carthage,
vice-chairman, and Mrs. John L.
Frye of Robbins, member, of the
Moore Board of education, along
with Supt. Robert E. Lee; Joe S.
Lennon of Aberdeen, chairman of
the Aberdeen-West End consoli
dated school committee; and—re
ceiving a warm welcome—J. D.
Arey, Jr., chairman of the Aber
deen school board, making his
longest trip from home on re
cuperation after many months in
bed. Arey, victim of a near-fatal
automobile accident last Decern- ]
ber, was still using one crutch
but said, “This was one event I
had to attend.”
District Committees To
Support Bond Projects;
Meeting Of Officials Set
BLOOD PROGRAM
DISCUSSION SET
Leaders from numerous
fields of action in Moore
County are meeting tonight
(Thursday) in the Carthage
High School cafeteria, at 8
p.m., to discuss the failure of
the Red Cross blood program
to meet its collection quotas
over the county.
The program supplies both
hospitals of the county with
blood of all types from the
Red Cross center at Charlotte.
J. R. Hauser, county chair
man, said he hopes that the
group meeting tonight can
work out ways to stimulate
public interest so that the
program will not be lost. The
Red Cross will close it down,
he said, if collections do not
more nearly balance use.
All interested persons are
invited.
Thrift Shop Will
Open Septemher 26
The Thrift Shop operated by
the women of Emmanuel Episco
pal Church, in the 100 block of
W, Pennsylvania Ave., will be
open to receive donations of cloth
ing or other items from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m., Monday through Wednes
day of next week.
The shop will open for business
on Thursday of next week, Sep
tember 26, to be open until
further notice each Thursday and
Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30
p m. and 1 to 5 p.m.
Persons who cannot bring do
nations to the shop and want
them picked up are asked to call
Mrs. John Ponzer, OX 5-3542 or
Mrs. David Drexel, OX 2-6691.
The public is invited to inspect
a new “Gold Medallion” home
built by the Pines Realty and
Insurance Co. in its wooded
Halcyon Drive development off
E. Indiana Ave. extension. The
open house hours are 2 to 6 pm. AS PART OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC EFFORT
on both Saturday and Sunday. —
The four-bedroom dwelling with
white painted brick exterior is in
French Provincial style, with the
many electric services featured
for the Gold Medallion designa
tion by Carolina Power & Light
Co.
Public Warned of Danger
On Bragg Firing Ranges
All persons living on or around
Ft. Bragg are warned to stay off
all firing ranges unless on official
business.
The ranges are in daily use and
a hazard exists due to small arms
firing and unexploded ammuni
tion.
Walter J. Kelly Active In Boosting Exports
50 To Serve On Association Board
Education of the public and
encouragement of the afflicted
were listed as the main goals of
the Moor.2 County Mental Health
Association at a meeting held
Friday night to begin the asso
ciation’s new year.
David Drexel of Southern
Pines, the incoming president,
told those attending the meeting
at the Matheson Memorial Center
that he plans to recruit at least
50 of the county’s outstanding
citizens to serve on the Board of
the association for the coming
year.
“These people,” he said, “will
represent every phase of life in
Moore County and we hope that
through them we can move
ahead in our goal of educating
the public to the new concept of
mental health, which is to treat
problems, not hide them.”
He announced the appointment
of several committee chairmen,
including the following: Profes
sional Advisory Committee, Dr.
Ray Dougherty, Dr. Charles Phil
lips, Dr. Emily Tufts, and Dr.
Malcolm Kemp; Retarded and
Mentally Ill Children, Mrs. Leon
Baker; Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Aging, Luke Marion;
Publicity, Vance A. Derby; Vol
unteer Services, Education, and
Speaker’s Bureau, chairman not
selected as of this date.
Drexel announced that statis
tics compiled recently by the
State Hospitals Board of Control
indicated that 109 P'Sople from
Moore County were sent to state
mental hospitals for some sort
of treatment during the past year.
Many lof these same people
could have been treated in the
county, he said, if the mental
health clinic, now active, had
been in operation.
Moore County is one of nine
places in the State with a mental
health clinic, geared to accom
modate a population of some
50,000.
Members attending saw a
movie at the conclusion of the
program through the courtesy of
the staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
When President Kenrtedy on
Tuesday told the White House
conference on export expansion
that a 10 per cent increas.e in U.
S. exports could wipe out the U.
S. “balance of payments” deficit,
it was front page news across the
nation the next morning—but it
wasn’t news at the Walter J. Kel
ly home on Riding Lane, off In
diana Ave.
Mr. Kelly—retired here after
a long career with a firm that has
helped sell U. S. products in the
Far East for many years—is a
member of the North Carolina
Regional Export Council and,
since Jnauary, by appointment of
Governor Sanford, has been spe
cial consultant on export trade
for the N. C. Department of Con
servation and Development.
The local resident, one of the
key men in one of the Regional
Export Councils that have been
set up in 38 states of the nation
to promote export of American
goods, has been traveling over
North Carolina, calling on manu
facturers, big and small, with a
message that can spark the Pres
ident’s program to success: U. S.
industry and agriculture, by ex
porting, can not only help avert
a national economic crisis—^but
they can tap a new source of
profits.
Another front page headline
Bids To Be Asked
On Agricultural
I Building Project
On motion of J. M. Currie, sec-
I onded by W. S. Taylor, the coun
ty commissioners authorized
Hayes-Howell Associates, archi
tects, of Southern Pines to draw
up the necessary specifications
for the county Agricultural Build
ing, so that bids can be secured
and contracts let “as soon as pos
sible.”
The action was taken at a spe
cial meeting of the board in Car
thage Monday, following action
on the upcoming $4 million bond
election.
Present was a delegation from
the Moore County Farm Bureau,
bringing their revised plan for a
building which, they said,’ could
be constructed with the long-held
reserve fund, on the same lot
and to the west of the Moore
County Health Center.
The Agricultural. Building h'^-
been a long-desired project of the
Farm Bureau and the commis
sioners for about seven years, but
hopes had been held that the re
serve fund, standing now at $67,-
469, could be augmented so the
building could include the county
library also.
Failing year after year to find
funds to add to the reserve, the
commissioners at one time adver
tised for bids but let the project
drop when the total ran too
high, then last fall submitted a
$175,000 bond issue vote to the
people. It was defeated.
Later, the Farm Bureau com
mittee greatly simplified their,
plan to a one-story building on
concrete slab foundation, and ex
pressed their willingness to have
it on the Health Center lot so the
site already purchased could be
sold. It is a new version of this
plan—^minus library—which the
commissioners have now finally
proved.
rPTA Program For
(Monday Scheduled
A talk by Supt. J. W. Jenkins,
introduction of teachers and an
nformal reception giving parents
,n opportunity to meet all teach-
are on the program for the
t meeting of the East Southern
Pines Parent-Teachers Associa
tion.
, The meeting will be held in
Weaver Auditorium at 8 p.m.,
Monday, September 23, Mrs. J. S.
Hiatt, Jr., president reminded the
public today.
FAR EAST HANDS— Walter J. Kelly of Southern Pines
(center), retired executive of a firm representing U. S. business
in the Far East, is flanked at his home here by two visiting
brothers who hold important posts in the company’s operation,
Paul H. Bordwell, Jr. (left), of Singapore and John H. Bordwell
of Hong Kong. Mr. Kelly is a volunteer worker in the national
effort to increase American exports, as outlined by President
Kennedy this week.
had personal significance in the
Kelly home on Monday. Head
lines that morning announced the
formal creation of the world’s
newest nation, Maylasia, joining
Malaya with the former British
colonies of Singapore, Sarawak
and North Borneo.
Visiting in the Kelly home that
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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.
September 12
90
62
September 13
84
67
September 14
58
52
September 15
60
63
September 16
72
56
September 17
82
55
September 18
...... 81
55
Members of the nine district
school committees of the Moore
County system are unanimous in
their support of the county’s com
munity college and public school
construction program, in behalf
of which two bond issues total
ling $4 million will be voted on
in the county Tuesday, October
29.
This was the report this week
of Supt. Robert E. Lee and C.
Edison Powers, assistant super
intendent, who during the past
two or three weeks have visit
ed each district committee. Supt.
Lee said he found “no voice of
disagreement” anywhere, only an
attitude of enthusiasm and wish
to help.
They have initiated their help
by setting up steering committees
in each district, members of
which will carry information to
each home. ’This week, Lee and
Powers, together or separately,
■are meeting with each of the
steering committees to distribute
this information in pamphlet
form, prepared !by the Moore
County board of education.
Meetings have been held, offi
cers elected and plans formula
ted by the steering committees in
the following districts so far:
Friday night, Westmoore; Satur
day, Farm Life; Monday, Aber
deen and Robbins; Tuesday, Car
thage and Highfalls.
Wednesday night, meetings
were scheduled at West End and
Cameron, and at Vass-Lakeview
tonight (Thursday).
Chairmen elect^ at the earlier
meetings are: Jimmy Garner,
Westmoore; the Rev. Melvin Wil
liamson, Farm Life; J. C. Rob
bins, Aberdeen; Bill Stutts, Rob
bins; O. D. Wallace, Carthage,
and Harold fhirvis, Highfalls.
Carthage Meeting
All the committee officers, the
county board of education and
county commissioners, with Sen
ator W. P. Saunders and Rep. H.
Clifton Blue, will meet Tuesday
at 7:30 p. m. at the Carthage high
school library with Dr. J. E. Mil
ler, assistant State superinten
dent of public instruction, pres
ent as a special guest to speak on
the educational pictures and op
portunities in North Carolina to
day. Questions will be asked and
answered in regard to Moore
county’s particular situation, and
anyone interested will be wel-
com.ed, said Supt. Lee.
All this comprises part of the
personal-contact informational
campaign organized by the coun
ty board of education and adopt
ed at a special meeting in Au
gust, in anticipation of the coun
ty commissioners’ official approv
al of the bond petition.
The campaign, said Supt. Lee,
has been set up to see that no
voter or taxpayer is left unin
formed on the issues which he
will be asked to decide in the
countywide vote.
It will be handled in the South
ern Pines and Pinehurst sepsurate
adminiistrative districts by their
own boards of education, who
will make their own plans. These
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Restaurants, Motels,
Hotels Serve Negroes
The Southern Pines Good
Neighbor Council—a 10-member,
bi-racial group that is investigat
ing and working to alleviate
Negro grievances here—reported
after its regular monthly meeting
Monday that in recent weeks
Negroes were accomodated with
out incident in several local res
taurants, hotels and motels and
that there is evidence of increased
employment of Negroes.
The report was made by Mrs.
Sally Lawhorn, publicity chair
man for the council. All members
were present Monday except Dr.
Julian Lake, the chairman.
Rescue Squad Invites
New Members In Area
The Moore County Rescue
Squad No 4, with headquarters
in Aberdeen, would like to have
members join from Southern
Pines and Pinehurst.
All other towns in the county
are represented in the member
ship which includes also units
at Robbins and Vass.
Interested persons should call
Larry Wingate, WI 4-15()2, Aber
deen.