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VOL.—43 No. 51
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1963
Collections Of
Blood Next Week
Can Save Program
Two of the three blood collec
tions that will determine whether
Moore County will keep or lose
its Red Cross blood program will
be held next week.
A .bloodmobile from the
Charlotte distributing center
will be at the high school
gym in Pinehurst from< noon
to 6 p.m. on ‘Thursday, No
vember 14.
The next day, Friday, No
vember IS, the bloodimobile
will be at the Aberdeen Bap
tist Church from: 8 a-m. to
2 p.m.
A third and final visit for this
year will be made to the West
End High School, on Wednesday,
November 27, from noon to 6 p.m.
John R. Hauser, chairman of
the Moore County Blood Pro
gram, said this week that letters
have been sent to 304 persons
who have signed “replacement
pledges” and have not made good
on the pledges in previous col
lections in the county.
These pledges are signed by
friends and relatives of hospital
patients to assure replacement of
blood from the Red Cross center
used by the patients, the blood to
be given at the donor’s conven
ience when the bloodmobile visits
this county.
Failure of persons who have
pledged to make good on their
pledges is the single most im
portant reason the blood program
in this county is failing, Mr.
Hauser said.
He recalled that the program in
the year ending June 30 supplied
1,397 pints of blood to Moore
County residents, but that only
879 pints were donated from this
county—leaving the county 518
pints short of its quota. The Red
Cross says it must discontinue
the blood service to Moore Coun
ty unless donations equal the
blood used.
As the situation stands now,
the program will be lost unless
434 pints are given in the two
visits next week and the final
visit on November 27, the chair
man stated.
Mr. Hauser pointed out that
donors from anywhere in the
county may give at the Pine
hurst and Aberdeen collections
and urged all persons interested
in saving the blood program to
give at one of tbs next three
visit.
TJnder the program, blood of
all types is supplied free, except
for a small service charge, to pa
tients in the two hospitals in this
county or to Moore County resi
dents in hospitals elsewhere that
cooperate with the Red Cross
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PRICE; 10 CENTS
Voters Give Strong
School, Community
12 Members Of
College Board
To Be Named
TROPHIES DISPLAYED— Four of the Jay-
cees on the Golf Carousel committee help dis
play some of the trophies for the big event
starting next Thursday. Left to right, Durwood
Grady; Sam Harrison, entry chairman; Fred'
Teeter, general chairman; and Jerry Blue.
STARTING THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14
250 Expected in 10th Golf Carousel
Marking its 10th anniversary as
an annual local sports event, the
Southern Pines Golf Carousel,
sponsored by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, will open Thurs
day of next week with an entry
list of about 250 players.
Qualifying rounds will be played
Thursday, said Fred Teeter, gen
eral chairman for the Jaycees, and
match play will begin on Friday,
to run through Sunday, with all
entries using both the Pine Nee
dles and Southern Pines Country
Club courses.
Play will be in flights of eight
teams, with the exception of the
championship flight of 16 teams.
The many trophies to be present
ed will be awarded at the South
ern Pines Country Club at 5 p.
m., Sunday, November 17.
Carousel golfers play in teams
of two, in a men’s division and
a smaller mixed division for
teams of men and women play
ers. There is no women’s divi
sion.
Teeter said the entry list is
nearly filled, but that some local 1 the public, ~
and the Mid West, with many
entries from throughout the East
and Southeast.
Two social events will be high
lights of the tournament—a party
for all contestants at the Pine
Needles Lodges and Country
Club, Thursday evening, Novem
ber 14, and a dance at the Nation
al Guard Armory Saturday night,
November 16. As in previous
years, this dance will be open to
players could be accommodated.
He said golfers, many of them
former Carousel players, are en
tered from as far away as Canada
Bazaar on Tuesday [Driver Education
OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULED
AT 2 MEDALLION HOMES
Two new homes that have been
awarded the Gold Medallion des
ignation by the Carolina Power
& Light Co. will be open to the
public from 2 to 6 p. m. Satur
day and Sunday. Both are located
on W. Rhode Island Ave. and
were built by Sandhill Homes,
Inc. They feature tha all-electric
heating and other electrical spe
cifications required for the Gold
Medallion title.
To Benefit Club’s
Building Project
The Moore County Wildlife
Club will sponsor a bazaar Tues
day, November 12, from 7 to 10
p. m. at the Village Chapel Hall
at Pinehurst, featuring fun and
entertainment along with the sals
of handmade articles, homemade
foods, “white elephants, Christ
mas decorations, bird feeders,
bird houses and other items.
Refreshments will be sold, and
exceptional door prizes will be
awarded. Admission will be by
ticket only, which may be pur
chased in advance from club
members or at the door Tuesday
night. The members will also
have to pay admission, even those
working in the bazaar, as it will
be a special benefit event, the
first to be held by the club, for
the building fund of a clubhouse
to be constructed near Niagara.
Mrs. Albert Tufts of Pinehurst,
chairman, outlined the plans at
Tuesday night’s monthly supper
meeting of the club, held at the
Whispering Pines Restaurant
with a record 115 members and
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Course For 16-18
Group Scheduled
Worth McDonald of Carthage,
driver education representative
of the Department of Motor Ve
hicles, announced this week that
driver education courses, sponsor
ed by the vehicles agency, have
been scheduled for this area.
'Traffic safety education was
made mandatory by an act of the
1963 General Assembly for all 16-
18-year-old youths wanting a
driver’s license, McDonald ex
plained.
The first course will begin
Tuesday, November 12, at the
National Guard Armory here, 4
to 6 p. m., continuing for four
weeks, two hours each Tuesday
-for a total of eight hours of in
struction.
The new courses are being of
fered in compliance with the law
and will be available in all 100
counties. They are designed to
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2 SHOOTINGS WITHIN 24 HOURS
Husbands Held In Deaths Of Wives
Two Negro women, mothers of
young children, are dead in two
separate shooting cases under in
vestigation in Moore Cqunty
this week. The husband of one of
them was also shot, but not fatal
ly-
In both cases, officers said, it is
^indicated the husband fired the
fatal shot, although one of them
claimed it was accidental.
Both are now being held on
murder charges for grand jury
action at next week’s term of
Moore County Superior Court.
The shootings took place in the
homes of the couples, the first
on West Pennsylvania Avenue
here, shortly before midnight
Sunday, the second about 9:30
p. m. Monday in the Summer Hill
community, two and a half miles
southeast of Carthage.
In Southern Pines, Mrs. Ruth
Bennett was killed by a .38 au
tomatic admittedly fired by her
husband—accidentally, he told
local police.
The husband, Samuel Marfrett
Bennett, known as Marfrett, was
alsr shot. He was taken to Moore
Memorial Hospital with a bullet
wound entirely through his up
per body, which, however did not
pierce any vital organ. On Wed
nesday morning, he was released
from the hospital and placed in
Southern Pines jail, later being
transferred to the county jail at
Carthage.
A hearing for him is scheduled
Saturday in a special term of
Moore County Recorder’s Court
at Carthage.
Police Chief Earl S. SeaweU
quoted Bennett as saying his wife
was shot accidentally while he
was explaining to her how to
operate the safety catch on the
pistol, and that he didn’t realize
until later that he had been shot
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East Side PTA To
Meet Monday Night
The November meeting of the
East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association will be held
in the multi-purpose room of the
high school at 8 p. m. Monday,
Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, Jr., president, has
announced.
The program will focus on the
Junior High School—7th and 8th
grades—but all members are urg
ed to. attend.
Persons attending are advised
to park on the New York Avenue
side of the building to afford con
venient access to the multi-pur
pose room in the east end of the
north wing.
Dance tickets can be obtained
from any Jaycee or at the Hobbs
insurance office, Patch’s Tog
Shop or the Style Mart store.
The Carousel is the Jaycees’
main fund-raising endeavor, with
proceeds going to their park play
ground equipment fund and other
civic work. It brings a large num
ber of golfers, many with wives
who may or may not play in the
Carousel themselves, to the Sand
hills area for the season’s first
large local resort event.
The next step in the establish
ment of the Moore County Com
munity College will be appoint
ment of a 12-member board of
trustees.
Four are to be appointed by
the county commissioners, four
by the three boards of education
(Moore County, Southern Pines
and Pinehurst) and four by Gov
ernor Sanford.
'Already considerable interest
is stirring in regard to member
ship on the board, with indica
tions from some citizens that they
would like to be trustees, or sug
gestions for possible choices.
The State Board of Education
is holding its regular meeting to
day (Thursday) at Raleigh, re
ceiving news of the successful
passage of the Moore County
bond issues. The board is expect
ed to hand down instructions as
to the next immediate procedures.
The college charter will be is
sued to the trustees when the
board is formed, and from then
on running the college will be
their job. They will select a col
lege president, employ an ar
chitect and move ahead with
plans for the building.
The State Board of Education
has evidenced much interest in
the Moore County project from
the beginning. It was one of the
first two allocated last September
after passage of the enabling
legislation, and the first to hold
its bond issue election. Rocking
ham, the other county to which
allocation was made, has not yet
voted on its bonds. r
VETERANS DAY
CLOSING NOTED
No extensive observance of
Veterans Day, Monday, No
vember 11, appears likely in
this area.
Banks will be closed for
the day. Post offices will be
on holiday schedule, with
windows closed and no home
delivery in Southern Pines.
The Moore County court
house at Carthage will be
closed Monday and a term of
Superior Court there next
week will open Tuesday.
Southern Pines town offic
es! and the Information Cen
ter will close. ABC stores in
Southern Pines and Pine
hurst will be closed Monday.
Most private businesses
and offices, here and over the
area, including The Pilot, do
not plan to close.
Approval To
College Bonds
t Propositions
Endorsed In
All Precincts
HOMECOMING SERVICE
Numerous former members and
friends of Our Saviour Lutheran
Church are expected to join the
congregation for a “homecoming
service” in the Civic Club at 11
a. m. Sunday, to be followed by
dinner in the club building at
12:45, Pastor Jack Deal said this
week.
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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
rtudios on Midland Road.
Max NKn
November 1
69
49
November 2
55
38
November 3
58
35
November 4
63
28
November 5
65
43
November 6
61
56
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Now It’s ‘Whispering Pines, N. C.’
Whispering Pines, the expand
ing resort and recreation commu
nity a few miles north of South
ern Pines, marked an important
event Friday—the beginning of
post office service that entitles it
to the separate address, “Whis
pering Pines, N. C.”
Postmaster Gilbert Bailey of
Carthage, shown in photo above,
was on hand to supervise the
start of operations in the commu
nity’s Administration Building,
near, the Country Club, where
post office facilities, offering reg
ular postal services, have been
set up. The new installation is de
signated officially as a rural sta
tion of the Carthage post office.
Shown with Mr. Bailey are the
two Whispering Pines employees
who have been named postal
clerks working under supervision
of A. B'. Hardee who received the
government appointment as clerk
in charge. They are Mrs. San
dra Bullock, holding a new
white mailbag put in use
Friday, and Miss Sarah Bam-
bauer. The group is standing by
the door of the Administration
Building, headquarters of the sev
eral Whispering Pines enterprises,
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Schools, Library
Plan Children’s
Book Week Events
National Children’s Book Week,
November 10-16, will be observed
here with a book exhibit in the
East and West Southern Pines
schools and by the addition of
100 new children’s books to the
collection at the Southern Pines
Library.
The school exhibit—to which
teachers, parents, pupils and all
linterested persons are invited—
will be seen in the elementary li
brary at East Southern Pines
school on Monday. On Tuesday it
will be in the school library in
West Southern Pines.
The exhibit contains books of
interest to students in all grades
but is primarily for those in
grades one through eight, said
Miss Lurline Commander, East
Southern Pines school librarian.
At the town library, Mrs. Stan
ly Lambourne, librarian, said that
the 100 new volumes include
books and subjects appealing to
all ages of children and young
people.
Children not now using the li
brary regularly are invited to be
come members and take advan
tage of the large and varied col
lection of old and news books for
youngsters, she said.
National Children’s Book
Week is designated each year by
The Children’s Book Council to
stimulate the interest of young
Voters in all 19 Moor.e County
precincts approved all three
propositions in the county’s $4
million bond election Tuesday,
for an unexpectedly high major
ity in favor of the education pro
jects.
The best vote was for the com-
,pr.shensive community college—
nearly seven to one, county-wide.
The unofficial count on the
three issues was: $1 million for
construction of the college plant,
4913 to 710; $3 million for public
school construction and improve
ment of existing facilities, 4793 to
824; authorization of an estimated
$36,000 annual maintenance fund
for the college, 4554 to 1009.
Voting in most precincts was
light in the early part of the day
but incnsased until poll-closing
time, when the total of more than
5,600 had voted—more than half
of the county’s approximately 10,-
500 registration.
County and school district lead
ers expressed jubilation over re
sults. While victory by a wide
margin had been confidently pre
dicted, fears had been felt for
possible “unseen opposition.” It
never materialized.
The election followed an in
tensive information campaign in
all districts of the county during
the past two months.
At the November meeting of
the board of county commission
ers in Carthage Monday, board
members informally expressed
their appreciation to W. P. Saun
ders, chairman, and Robert S.
Ewing, vice-chairman, of the
county steering committee on be
half of the bond issues, for their
work in leading the campaign for
approval of the bonds. Both are
residents of Southern Pines.
This was the first county bond
issue vote for a comprehensive
community college since the Gen
eral Assembly last May approv
ed the establishment of five of
them as nucleus of a statewide
network. Moore County’s college
is one of two allocated by the
State Board of Education last
September, on condition the
counties finance the construction
of the plants.
Dr. I. E. Ready, director of the
State Department of Conununity
Colleges, referring to Moore’s as
“our pilot project,” told a crowd
of carnpaign workers at Carthage
last week, “The eyes of North
Carolina will be upon you.”
Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aber
deen, Speaker of the House, urg
ed his fellow citizens to “Speak
with a loud voice which will be
heard from Murphy to Manteo.”
Results of the voting indicated his
people in reading good books. The
motto lor the week this year is, | plea was heeded throughout the
“Three Cheers for Books!” (Continued on Page 8)
AN EDITORIAL
That Resounding *Aye^
As late returns Tuesday night showed that the vote for the
education bond issue was going through, Moore County people
rejoiced. That roar of “AYE” which had fairly shaken the walls
and popped the roof of the crowded Carthage courthouse last
spring, resounding in reply to the question, “All in favor . . .,
had borne fruit.
This news comes as no surprise to most people. There has never
been a bond issue for educational purposes proposed in the
county that has not passed and passed easily. The population of
the county is largely descended from Scottish stock and it’s a
truism that, though Scots are careful with their money, when it
comes to supporting education for their children they go all out.
In itself, surely, that’s being careful with your money: shrewd,
wise, far-seeing. After all what is more worthwhile from a
money standpoint, if from no other, than education for your
children? And of course the Scots were helped in this fine
effort by the descendants of Yankees, Germans, French, shrewed,
far-seeing people, too.
In voting to spend money for schools and, above all, for the
cornmuhity college, Moore County has shown courage and wisdom
and a fine heartening faith in itself. A people who will so con
fidently pledge their future stability and prosperity is a people
that can be relied on to go far and go in the right direction.
In a time of uncertainty, in a nation shakep by the weight of
vast responsibility, in a world confused and threatened by war
and even ultimate annihilation, it is good to feel this surging
faith in the future, symbolized by, and indeed embodying the
very nature of “education for our children.”
The Pilot congratulates the people of Moore County and, to
those who worked so well and so hard to awaken and inform
the voters of the issue at stake, this newspaper offers special
thanks.