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VOL.—43 No. 45
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
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LOSS WOULD BE 'CATASTROPHE'
Moore Leaders Launching Effort To
Save Failing County Blood Program
Sixty of some 200 Moore Coun^
ty community leaders who had
been invited met at Carthage
Thursday night of last week to
assess the county’s American Red
Cross blood program.
In the words of J. R. Hauser of
Southern Pines, program chair
man, the group was there “to de-
CONCERTS LISTED
Members Sought,
Tiekets On Sale
By Musie Group
About 1,000 membership and
season ticket applications were
mailed out in Moore County this
week for the Sandhills Music
Association, by Mr. and Mrs.
John A. McPhaul, membership
and ticket drive chairmen for the
1963-64 season.
First concert of the four regu
lar events scheduled will take
place Saturday, October 19
when a Spanish group, Jose Mo
lina and his “Bailes Espanoles,”
will perform at Weaver Auditor
ium.
Officers and committee chair
men of the Association are meet
ing tonight (Thursday) at the
home of Howard C. Broughton,
president, to make further plans
for the season.
Other events scheduled are:
Robert McDonald, pianist, on
January 30; The Ramblers Three,
folk singers, on February 13; and
the North Carolina Little Sym
phony—which returns here each
year under the auspices of the
Music Association—on March 13.
The cards going out to former
subscribers and many other per
sons this week, with return en
velopes and a letter from the
president and drive chairmen,
permit taking any of three class
es of memberships, from $2.50 to
$10 or more, and ordering re
served $12.50, unreserved $7.50,
or student season tickets covering
all four attractions.
Persons who do not receive
letters and who are interested in
the concerts or the Association’s
work can obtain lull information
and memberships or tickets at
(Continued on Page 8)
termine whether the people of
Moore County want to continue
the blood program and whether
or not they will support it.”
Mr. Hauser, who presided, out
lined the program (see separate
item on this page), explained how
it works and cited certain possi
ble reasons for its failure. He was
introduced by the Rev. Martin
Caldwell of Southern Pines, ARC
chapter chairman.
The Problem
The meeting was held against
this background;
—While residents of Moore
County used about 1,400 pints of
blood in the year ending last
June 30, donors from this county
gave 518 pints less than were us
ed, in periodic visits of the blood-
mobile from the Red Cross cen
ter at Charlotte.
A total of 588 pints of blood
must be collected in the five re
maining visits of the bloodmobile
this year, or Moore County, at di
rection of the Red Cross, must
end its participation in the pro
gram, because the Charlotte cen
ter can’t continue to provide an
nually to Moor.9 County hundreds
of more pints of blood than are
donated by Moore residents.
Conclusions
With numerous persons at the
meeting offering suggestions— in
cluding physicians, hospital per
sonnel, town officials, business
men, regular workers in the
, blood .program from several
Moore communities anr others,
there was general agreement on
these conclusions:
—There must be a permanent
sponsoring committee in each
town visited by the bloodmobile,
to try to provide the needed num
ber of donors at each visit. Named
by Mr. Hauser to organize such
committees in their towns and
start them working were: Norris
L. Hodgkins, Jr., Southern Pines;
Dr. Duwayne D. Gadd, Pinehurst;
Sonny Guion, Aberdeen; Luke
Marion, Carthage; Max Edwards,
Vass; Mrs. Pete Phillips, Cameron;
T. Clyde Auman, West End and
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BHIl
Rotary Club To Have
Ladies Night Program
Ladi«s Night will be observed
by the Southern Pines Rotary
Club with a dinner meeting and
program at the Southern Pines
Country Club, Friday, October 4,
at 7:30 p. m. Members will have
their wives, the “Rotary Anns,”
as guests.
J. R. Hauser and Dr. Walter
Sargeant, program committee
chairmen, have scheduled the
showing of a color film, “A Won
derful World,” that was made in
31 countries by camera crews
that traveled nearly 175,000
miles.
POWER INTERRUPTION
A power interruption, to permit
installation of heavier conductors
and another “feed” to the Wey
mouth Heights area will take
place Monday, September 30, for
two hours, starting at 1:30 p.m.,
on Indiana Ave., east of VaUey
Rd., on Hill Rd., and in Weymouth
Heights east of Highland Rd., it
was announced today by W. Ward
HiU, local Carolina Power &
Light Co. manager.
AYE!
"Too late to make the edi-
toiial page!" The words will
not do this time. If ever there
a time when an editorial was
called for, this is it.
This paper along with oth
ers all over the nation salutes
the Congress of these United
States for the resounding
AYE with which the vote on
the Test Ban Treaty was
carried. This victory for the
forces of hope must warm
the hearts and lift the spirits
of millions all over the world.
Some may call it a mere
twig in the beak of the Dove
of Peace, but the psychologi
cal effect is already visible
and spreading. One twig will
lead to more. After all, that
first bit of greenery was
pretty decisive in its message
of solid ground ahead.
NEXT VISITS
Next collections to be made
by the Red Cross bloodmobile
in Moore County will lake
place in Vass, Monday, Oclo-
tober 7, from noon to 5:30 p.
m., and in Robbins, Tuesday,
October 8, from 11 a. m- to
4:30 p. m. Exact place of both
collections will be announc
ed.
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TO BUILD COLLEGE, SCHOOLS
Saunders Leads Drive
For Two Bond Issues
state Senator W. P. Saunders
of Southern Pines accepted chair
manship of the countywide steer
ing committee for the bond issues
for community college and public
school construction, at a meeting
of officers of district steering
committees, held at the Carthage
school library Tuesday night.
Declaring himself "100 per cent
sold” on the two bond issues to-
STUDENTS—Well on their way toward quali
fying as licensed practical nurses are the six
Moore County students in a year-long course,
pictured at Moore Memorial Hospital with one
of their instructors, Mrs. Esther Burke (right),
registered nurse from Goldston. The students
are, left to right: Mrs. Newell H. Pritchett of
Southern Pines, Mrs. Toleta Graham and Mrs.
Cecilia Troutman, both of Pinebluff, Mrs. Mary
H. Small of West Southern Pines, Miss Betty
J. Persons of Cameron, and Mrs. Leslie Lucas
of West End. (Hemmer photo)
Sixth Graders To
See Air Base In
‘Kids’ Day’ Event
Sixth grade students from over
Moore County will be going to
Pope Air Force Base Saturday
for the “Kids’ Day” program
sponsored jointly over the nation
by the U. S. Air Force and Ki-
wanis International, the widely
known men’s service club organ
ization. The “open house” pro
gram at Pope will include air
craft and equipment displays and
various demonstrations.
Sponsor for Moore County
participation is the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club, with Charles M.
Hazlehurst of Southern Pines as
the chairman of the project.
Several Kiwanians will be on
hand at the East Southern
Pines School Saturday to trans
port the youngsters to Pope
AFB or ride with groups going
in school activity busses or oth
er vehicles.
Some groups will go directly
from their home schools in ac
tivity busses, chaperoned by one
or more teachers in their schools.
Mr. Hazlehurst said that East
Southern Pines students will
meet at the school grounds at 9
a. m., with plans to leave by 9:30.
Events at Pope will begin at 10
and continue to 1 p. m.
Sixth grade students anywhere
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What Is The Red Cross Blood Program?
What is the Red Cross blood program?
This is how J. R. Hauser of Southern Pines, chairman of
the program in Moore County, summed it up at a meeting of
county leaders in Carthage last Thursday night:
“The Blood Program is operated by the Moore County
Chapter, American Red Cross, for the people of Moore County,
in cooperation with a Red Cross center at Charlotte which
collects, stores and distributes blood of all types.
“Your Red Cross blood credit card entitles you and your
family to blood, when needed, at any hospital that is a mem
ber of the Red Cross program, including Duke and N. C.
Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill, as well as both the hospitals
in Moore County.
“Eash one who gives a pint of blood gets a ‘credit card’
for the donor and family which is good for six months.
“Anyone without a credit card is expected to get a re
placement donor for each pint of blood used. When replace
ment donors give, they also get a six-months credit card for
themselves 2md family.
“There is no charge for Red Cross blood. The hospitals
may make a charge of about $2.50 per pint for processing,
bottling and transportation.
“Blood is good as whole blood for 21 days. There is no
waste. After it is out-dated, the plasma is “fractionated” into
various serums and is available to patients in Moore County
free of charge.
“The bloodmobile, collecting blood from donors, makes 14
visits per year to the county—two to each of seven towns or
communities.”
Why Is The Blood Program Failing?
Why is the blood program failing?
'The single most important reason why the Moore County
blood program has been failing is the failure of “replacement
donors” to make good on their signed pledges to replace blood
used by their relatives or friends, chairman J. R. Hauser says.
Here are two shocking examples, as given by Mr. Hauser
at the Carthage meeting:
Sixty-two replacement donors in the Southern Pines area
were notified by mail by the Red, Cross office that the blood
mobile would be here on a certain day, giving them an op
portunity to make good on their pledges.
Only three appeared to give blood.
In Carthage, at the last visit of the bloodmobile there, 59
replacement donors were notified.
Only two appeared.
RE-EVALUATION OF
SCHOOLS PLANNED
A re-evaluaiion of the
Southern Pines schools "by a
team of experts" will start
soon, as authorized by the
local board of education,
members of the East South
ern pines Parent-'Teacher
Association were told Mon
day night by Supt. J. W. Jen
kins.
Object of the survey is "to
see what needs to be improv
ed" in the local school sys
tem. Mr. Jenkins said. It is
hard for officials and teach
ers to be strictly objective in
evaluating their own school
system, he noted in explain
ing why outside experts are
being called in.
Representatives of both the
Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools
and of the State Department
of Public Instruction will
lake part in the survey.
Practical Nurse
Training Course
Proving Valuable
A.year-long course for training
20 practical nurses, conducted by
the Lee County Industrial Educa
tion Center in cooperation with
Moore Memqrial Hospital at
Pinehurst, is proving its present
and potential worth to this area,
according to Mrs. John Mock of
Southern Pines, registered nurse
who is coordinator-instructor for
the course.
Voicing their agreement are W.
A. Martin, director of the Lee
Judge Hayes, Two
Former Pastors On
Bethesda Program
'The annual homecoming at Old
Bethesda Presbyterian Church
near Aberdeen will take place
Sunday with the traditional three-
part program—morning services,
a picnic dinner under the oak
trees on the church grounds, and
an afternoon speaking program.
J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen,
Homecoming Committee chair
man, has announced that the Rev.
Charles W. Worth of Whiteville,
a former pastor of Bethesda
Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen,
will be the morning preacher, Dr.
W. C. Neill, the present pastor,
will preside at the morning ser
vice. Also expected to have a
part in the service is the Rev. E.
L. Barber of Raleigh executive
secretary of Granville Presbytery,
a former pastor of both Bethesda
Church and Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church here, who
Center .which is a. state educa- plans to retire here to live later'
‘No Alternative’
For Schools Here
If Bonds Rejected
If Moore County voters fail to
approve the $3 million bond issue
lor construction needs in the
county’s three school systems,
the Southern Pines board of edu
cation “has no alternative means
to provide for our growing school
population,” Supt. J. W. Jenkins
told tbs East Southern Pines Par
ent-Teacher Association Monday
night.
An election on the $3 million
in school bonds—of which, on a
per capita basis, the Southern
Pines administrative unit would
get $554,700—will be held Octo
ber 29.
By the next PTA meeting on
October 14, the board of educa
tion will b.3 able to make public
some of its plans for using the
Southern Pines share of the bond
' issue funds, Mr. Jenkins said.
He noted that a study of the
facilities and needs of the
Southern Pines school system is
being made by the State Division
of School Planning to help the
local board of education use the
bond funds wisely in the event
the bond issue is approved.
The Southern Pines board of
education is on record as fav
oring approval of the bond issue,
he pointed out.
The local schools already are
“bulging at the seams” because
of increased enrollment, Mr. Jen
kins said.
tional facility offering technical
training in nunierous skills, and
Mrs. L. T. Burke of Goldston,
registered nurse who is the other
instructor for the course.
The 20 students—six from
Moore County and 14 from Lee—
began their studies last April, de
voting the first four months of
the course to classroom work at
the Center in Sanford, attending
classes five days per week.
After four months, the group
moved to Moore Memorial Hos
pital at Pinehurst where they
learn nursing procedure by serv
ing patients under supervision of
their instructors, becoming fa-
(Continued on Page 5)
Vocational Work In
Schools Investigated
In its planning for use of the
Southern Pines school district’s
share of the proposed $3 million
county school bond issue, the lo
cal board of education is studying
the matter of vocational educa
tion, Supt. J. W. Jenkins said at
Monday night’s meeting of the
East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association.
He said that consideration is
being given to “exploratory”
Junior High School vocational
courses that would help guide
students into vocational study to
which they would be best suited
in the high school years.
Bonsai Will Head
Girl Scout Drive
In Moore County
Moore County’s fund-raising
campaign for Girl Scouting will
begin Monday, to run through
October 14, with Willifun R.
Bonsai III of Southern Pines as
county chairman, it was announc
ed this week.
The county effort is part of the
fund drive of the new Pines of
Carolina Girl Scout Counqil which
administers the Girl Scout pro
gram in 19 counties, with head
quarters at Raleigh.
Community chairmen will be
announced next week.
Units throughout Moore County
are reorganizing under the new
council, using a new nation-wide
Girl Scout program that has ex
tended and modernized the rangd
and depth of Scouting activities.
Funds are urgently needed by
the Council, Mr. Bonsai said, to
finance the organization of addi
tional troops, to provide training
for volunteer leaders, to maintain
the year-round camping program
and to provide professional staff
assistance to volunteers and the
facilities of a council office for
local troops.
“The quality of the experience
that Girl Scouting can give girls
in the Moore County units de
pends in large part on adequate
funds,” the chairman said. “The
purpose of Girl Scouting, for 50
years, has been to help girls be
come happy, resourceful, creative
citizens willing and able to serve
others in their homes, their com
munities, their country and the
world.
“Today,” he explained, “it is
clearly understood that young
people should learn to work de
mocratically, with a minimum of
adult supervision, to prepare them
for full and active citizenship.
'This is what the Girl Scouts have
been doing for 50 years—and will
continue to do—if given adequate
local support.”
this year.
Federal Judge Johnson J.
Hayes of North 'Wilkesboro will
be the afternoon speaker. J. Tal
bot Johnson will preside at the
afternoon session.
The choir of St. Andrews Pres
byterian College at Laurinburg
will sing at both the morning and
afternoon gatherings.
Old Bethesda Church, outside
Aberdeen, is a pre-Civil War struc-
ure that is used only for special
occasions. The more modern
Bethesda Church, used regularly
by the congregation, is in Aber
deen.
The Bethesda Homecoming is
widely attended by many who
are not Bethesda members. For
mer members and friends of the
church often return from out of
this area.
tailing $4 million, on which
Moore citizens will vote October
29, Sen. Saunders pledged his ef
forts to assist all the members in
getting information to every
home.
The proposed bond issues are:
$1 million for the college and $3
million for school plants in all
three of the county’s administra
tive units—county system.
Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
Robert S. Ewing, who lives in
Southern Pines, and has business
interests in Carthage and Pine
hurst, was named vice-chairman.
Elected secretary was C. Edison
Powers of Carthage, assistant su
perintendent of county schools,
who supervised the survey which
helped win the allocation of a
State-supported community col
lege for Moore and prepared ma
terials to be used in the informa
tion campaign.
The three will head a group of
some 350 persons of the Moore
County system school districts
and Southern Pine and Pinehurst
representatives in the massive in
formation effort.
County Commissioner W. S.
Taylor of Aberdeen presided at
Tuesday’s meeting which was at
tended by every district steering
committee officer except one,
whose place was taken by her
husband.
Also present were, from South
ern Pines, Board of Education
Chairman N. L. Hodgkins and
Supt. James W. Jenkins, and,
from Pinehurst, Board Member
A. H. Garrison, Jr., and Supt.
Lewis Cannon. All declared
themselves 100 per cent in favor
of the project.
Detailed information on
Moore’s schools, emphasizing
their needs and the opportunity
represented by the bond issue,
was given by a visiting speaker,
J. E. Miller of Raleigh, assistant
State superintendent of public
instruction, while Mrs. John L.
Frye of Robbins, member of the
county board of education, de-
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N. L. HODGKINS. JR.
Hodgkins Slated
For Presidency
Of Young Bankers
Eight representatives of local
banks plan to attend the annual
convention of the Young Bankers
of North Carolina, at Durham
Sunday and Monday, during
which Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of
Southern Pines is scheduled to
advance by election from first
vice president to president of the
organization.
Also attending from the Citi
zens Bank and Trusk Company,
of which Mr. Hodgkins is execu
tive vice president, will be E.
Earl Hubbard, Samuel C. Harrison
and 'William P. Toney.
.r Rianning to attend from the
'Sbntherri National Bank here are
W, H. Gentry, Jr., vice president
• in. (iarge of the bank’s Southern
Pines office; W. E. Samuels, Jr.,
Dewey L. Ritter, Jr., and Jerry
H. Blue.
The convention will open with
(Continued on Page 8)
OSTROM IS CHAIRMAN
Special Library
Fund To Add To
Bond Issue Work
A campaign to raise a special
fund to complete financing of
new construction in the Town
Library opened this week under
the leadership of John Ostrom.
Mr. Ostrom, though living out
side of town, has always been
a staunch supporter of the Libra
ry and enters on his job with
energy and enthusiasm. Object
of the drive is to pick up the tab
for several items in the plans
which could not be covered by
the bond issue voted last spring
for this town improvement.
While the town’s $25,000, will
cover the enlargement of the
stock room, the major project,
and increased service facilities, it
fell short of completing those
items in the architect’s plans
which include; an extremely nec
essary renovation of the heating
system, which should result in
better and far more economical
service, creation of a children’s
room, and changes in the librari
an’s office space, also a “must.”
Added to these two items will
be the “Gallery.” This is an en
largement of the present small
room, which will also serve as
as a much-needed study area.
Outside the new gallery it is
planned to create a small court-
yard-garden.
Cost of the construction to be
covered by the special fund, is
not expected to exceed $7,000.
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 19 82 56
September 20 86 56
September 21 86 66
September 22 85 60
September 23 66 60
September 24 65 42
September 25 71 47