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VOL.—44 No. 6
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1963
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Top 1963 News Stories, Developments
In Area Business, Building Recalled
What were the “big stories” of
1963 in Moore County?
One reporter’s list gives first
place to the overwhelming bond
issue vote of November 5, secur
ing the community college and
INCLUDING MOORE
Big Dam Project
To Benefit Wide
Section Of State
Impressive benefits loom for
this central North Carolina area
as result fo final authorization by
Congress last week of the $25
million New Hope Dam project
in Chatham County, after years
of frustration and delays.
The huge concrete dam to be
built where New Hope Creek
joins the Haw River backing up
a 32,000-acre lake in Chatham,
Durham and Wake counties, will
be augmented eventually by other
dams bn Deep River at Randle-
man, in Chatham, and at Howards
Mill vin Moore County just this
side of the Montgomery County
line; The two sm^ler dams have
not'yet been formally authorized.
The project is part of an overall
water resource development plan
for the Cape Fear River basin.
The Haw River and Deep River,
which crosses northern Moore
County, join near Moncure to
form the Cape Fear which flows
—and often overflows—across
the southeastern part of the
State.
While flood control is the main
reason for harnessing this unruly
stream, a vast recreation business,
with benefits for all surrounding
counties, is envisioned as a direct
result. Sen. B. Everett Jordon last
week estimated benefits as $2%
improvement of schools, witlall
the events which led up > it
through many months; and ext,
the great “Pinebluff fire,” Mich
on April 4 swept over 25,000 cres
'of forest and field, destjying
several homes and threatewg to
destroy the village of Kni)luff.
Third is listed the death Bill
Upchurch in Deep River aHigh-
falls, and the search ofmany
weeks by rescue workers Jr the
body which was eventuallfound,
though many persons dotted it
was there at all.
Then might come the eablish-
ment of the Moore CountMental
Health Clinic; the lettinof con
tracts for a big expsion of
Moore Memorial Hospal; and
the dramatic effort of loodmo-
bile donors which save the Red
Cross blood programfor this
county.
Stories of various develop
ments, great and smalhU on the
cheerful side add upo what is
truly the “big sto:” of the
year—^progress on my fronts,
meaning better educion, better
business and bette living for
Moore County citizis. Here is
that story as one sporter has
summed it up:
Moore county’s fest develop
ment of 1963 was : the field of
education, when iiiecured allo
cation of the firstf the State's
new network of )mprehensive
community college then approv
ed a $4 million ond issue to
build the college ant and mod
ernize all school'with consoli
dation of nine county high
schools into thre
Proctor-Silex, manufacturing
steam and spra electric irons,
opened its new '00,000 plant at
Southern Pinesn January an
by year’s end ts at peak pro
duction as placed, with about
450 employees.
This was theJunty’s only new
million annually, with $1 million
per Tear in recreation Proceeds 7
for Chatham County alone. ' j f
Congress has made the sumiof
$280,000 available so work can go
forward hf orfee-w
The plan was envisioned by the
late Sen. W. Kerr Scott, who did
a great deal of work on it before
his death. His successor. Senator
Jordan, picked up where Scott
left off. The delays came through
the opposition of Rep. Harold
Cooley, who favored an alternate
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Nominations For
1963’s ‘Young Man
Of Year’ luvited
The public is4nvited to submit
noniinations for the annual Dis
tinguished Service award made
to the outstanding local “Young
Man of the Year” by the South
ern Pines Junior Chamber of
Commerce. Deadline for nomina
tions is January 15, 1964.
Jim Thomasson, Jaycee presi
dent, said that Don Walter and
Mack Ausbon head the conunit-
tee. 'They are canvassing church^
es, businesses, clubs and organi
zations for suggestions for nomi
nees. Although a nominee need
not be a Jaycee, he must be with
in the Jaycee age limit—35 or
less.
Nominations will be submitted
to a committee composed of five
local citizens who, by reason of
their age, are not eligible for the
award.
Nomination blanks are avail
able from any Jaycee. The award
goes to the young man who has
contributed most to the commu
nity during the past year, but ac
tivities of previous years are also
taken into consideration by the
committee who picks the winner.
The local award winner will be
entered in a State contest. 'The
State winner will enter the na-
sive real ests developments
took place in 6 Southern Pines
Pinehurst vicity. Work proceed
ed on the R^al Dornoch Golf
Village and ountry Club of
North Carols, with a distin
guished list rincorporators from
over the StS- An 18-hole golf
course has >een completed, a
dam erectecfor a large lake in
addition to he beautiful bigger
lake alreadpn the property and
many wiling roads built
through ti tract which has
been subdided into lots for the
members.
Other rS estate developments;
100 acres.Jurchased by C. A.
Pitts, Caidian contractor, for a
new golfcourse and driving
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We Wl5^ ^ou
Mlerr^ (El^rlstmas
ZX Mew ^ear
The Staff of The Pilot
Karagheusian Merger
With J. P. Stevens &
Co. Revealed Today
Chaidler Named
NewPresident Of
Moce Memorial
Ralp L. Chandler, Jr. of
Southffi Pines was elected pres
ident i the Moore Memorial Hos
pital.!' Pinehurst at a meeting of
the bird of directors held Tues
day ight at the hospital’s Nurses’
Horn
Heucceeds H. G. Poole of Car-
thag who headed the Board for
the ast three years. Also elected
■wet- Mrs. John E. Dixon, first
vic'president, John M. Currie
of .Carthage, second vice presi
de?, Mrs. Paul Dana of Pine-
aust, secretary, John F. Taylor,
trtsurer, and William C. Sledge,
Pjehurst, assistant secretary and
tiasurer.
ilected to the board of di-
r;tors for the new year were:
Its. Samuel G. Allen, Mrs. James
byd, Wilbur H. Currie, J. B.
.dwards, R. S. Ewing, W. Ward
all, N. L. Hodgkins, H. Arnold
ackson, Allan A. McDonald, Dr.
Young People On
Holiday Reminded
Of Driver Course
A driver education course de
signed especially for young peo
ple 16 through 18 years of age
who are home on vacation from
school or college wiU be given at
the National Guard Armory here
Monday and Tuesday of next
week, December 30 and 31, the
public was reminded today by
Worth McDonald of Carthage,
driver education representative
of the State Department of
Motor Vehicles.
The course will be held from
8:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. on each
of the two days. It is open to any
young person, of the ages listed,
who has not taken or does not
plan to take an official approv
ed driver education course in one
of the public schools of the area.
Completion of such a course is
mandatory before any one in the
16-18 age group can obtain a driv
er license, according to a new
State law. Persons taking the
course must enroll in advance
with a State driver license ex
aminer and must present a birth
certificate at that time.
The driver license examiner for
the lower Moore County ansa is
at the fire station in Aberdeen,
each Monday and 'Tuesday; at the
Information Center building in
Southern Pines, each Wednesday
and Thursday; and at the fire
station in Pinehurst, each Friday.
ARCHITECTS FOR
COLLEGE CHOSEN
The board of trustees of
the newly authorized Moore
County Community College,
meeting last Wednesday
night in Carthage, chose
Hayes-Howell and Associates
of Southern Pines as archi
tects for the $1 million pro
posed college plant.
The college will .be located
on land given by Mrs. C.
Louis Meyer, between Pine
hurst and the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst Airport.
Before making their deci
sion. the trustees interviewed
representatives of several ar
chitectural firms interested in
designing the buildings.
Jaycees Sponsoring
School Safety Boys
The Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce has taken
over sponsorship of the schoolboy
safety patrols at both the East
and West Southern Piniss Schools,
officials of the Jaycees have an
nounced.
Already authorized are expen
ditures of $125 for raincoats for
the West Side patrol and about
$50 for equipment needed by the
East Southern Pines boys.
Recognition of patrol members
by cookouts or other such event
is planned, the announcement
said.
Patrol members guard the safe
ty of children while crossing
streets near the schools, in co
operation with the police depart
ment.
Local Physician To Work In Algeria
Next Month With ‘Medico’ Aid Team
1. M. Medlin, E. H. Mills, J. Reece
tiOnal competition in which the Ijonroe, Eric Nelson, Mrs. Henry
10 outstanding young men of the Page, Jr., J. E. Parker, H. G.
nation are chosen. Poole, T. T. Prickett, L. R. Rey-
Nbmiation blanks sltould benolds, E. Marvin Ritter, William
mailed to: Southern Pines Jay-P. Saunders, Jack M. Taylor,
cees, attention, DSA Committee! C. L. Tyson and Earl Harbour.
CONFUSED?.Well, So Are We!
Here comes Thursday’Pilot on a Monday—a circum
stance that may be as conusing to readers as it is to us.
Point of the adyance? publication is that Christmas
falls on a Wednesday ancwe wanted to giye merchants
a chance to get out their Oristmas greetings to the public,
as well as to giye The Plot’s staff a three-day holiday.
We’ll all be back on ne job Friday, getting ready for
the next paper, to be pu?lislied Thursday, January 2.
So, Merry Christmas AND Happy New Year!
Dr. Clarence B. Foster, local
eye surgeon, will be the ophthal
mologist with a “Medico” team
in Algeria during the month of
Januaiy, 1964.
Medico is a non-profit organi
zation originally founded through
the efforts of Dr. Tom Dooley
who saw the great medical needs
in Southeast Asia during World
War II. Since then, teams of doc
tors from various medical cen
ters and hospitals throughout the
country have been sent by Medi
co to all parts of the world. They
have been active not only in ap
plying their skills directly to the
needy but in teaching native
physicians how to give better
care to the sick.
The surgical team for January
will be made up, other than Dr.
Foster, of various members of the
staff of Geisinger Memorial Hos
pital, Danville, Pa.
An ophthalmologist has usually
been one of the specialists select
ed to make up a team in these
various assignments. There is a
great need, in Algeria at the pres
ent time, for cataract surgery, ac
cording to the announcements of
Dr. Foster’s assignment. There
are many other conditions, need
ing attention also, chief of which
is trachoma with its accompany
ing distortion of the external vis
ual apparatus, the announcement
said.
Mrs; Foster will accompany her
husband as secretary and general
assistant in the hospital. ’They
were to leave Southern Pines this
M
DR. C. B, FOSTER
week.
Dr. Foster expects to resume
his practice here by February.
During January, Miss Sue Cagle
will be in the office to handle ap
pointments and to answer all cor
respondence.
MANY CHEER BASKETS
Members of John Boyd Post,
VFW, are preparing to deliver
nearly 100 Christmas Cheer food
baskets Tuesday afternoon to
needy families of the area, along
with toys and other gift items
to some of the families. Sunday
afternoon, the post home was vis
ited by many children for the
post’s annual Santa Claus party.
School Planning
Committee Tells
Aims, Purposes
Dr. Charles Phillips, chairman
of the Citizens Committee for
Long-Range School Planning, in
a statement issued this week, said
that committee men^bers have
“expressed shock and dismay” at
the way in which the Southern
Pines Board of Ekiucation con
ducted a poll of parents last
week.
The poll, using questionnaires
sent home by school children,
asked whether parents favored
an independent survey of the
school district to help with school
planning; and also asked whether
they favored joining the county
school system.
Results announced last week
by Supt. J. W. Jenkins showed
694 “No” answers to the school
planning survey question and 327
“Yes” answers, in replies return
ed through Thursday. The other
question—about joining the coim-
ty school system—showed 864
“No” answers and 116 “Yes.”
The poll of parents came the
day after the Citizens Committee
formally asked the Board of Edu
cation, of which Dr. C. C. McLean
is chairman, to authorize surveys
or consultations'—by agencies of
the State Department of Public
Instruction and by some inde
pendent agency—“to determine
whether East Southern Pines
High School can best serve the
community by remaining an inde
pendent school or by consolida
tion with other high schools in
the area.”
The statement issued this week
by Dr. Phillips, a local physician
who took the lead in organizing
the Citizens Committee, reveals
in detail what the Committee re
quested from the Board of Edu
cation.
Committee members were
shocked and dismayed, the state
ment said, because the Board of
Education asked parents to vote
on issues “about which all of us
have had little or no information
from the Southern Pines Board
of Education,” further pointing
out that the survey asked for by
the Committee “would have pro
duced all of the facts necessary
for the citizens to make an intelli
gent appraisal of what we now
have in the way of schools and
what would be necessary, if any
thing, on a long-range plan to
improve our schools.”
Dr. McLean said last week,
after the questionnaire results
had been tabulated, that the out
come did not necessarily mean
that the Board of Education
would abandon any consideration
of the survey request.
The full statement made by Dr.
Phillips on behalf of the Citizens
Committee, follows:
“In order that the public might
be intelligently informed con
cerning our schools, our long
range plans and the issues in
volved, the Citizens’ Committee
for Long Range School Planning
met with the Southern Pines
Board of Education on Monday
night, December 16th, 1963, and
made a request for survey or
consultation, as outlined below:
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The merger of A. & M. Kara
gheusian, Inc., one of the leading
carpet manufacturing companies
in the United States, with a plant
at Aberdeen, and J. P. Stevens &
Co., Inc., one of the nation’s larg
est and most diversified textile
DOUGALD kelly III
College Student
Killed In Wreck
East Of Cameron
A college student home for the
holidays was killed and two other
young men, with possibly a third,
were injured, when the car in
which they were riding went out
of control and overturned several
times Sunday at 3 p. m. on NC27,
one and one-half miles east of
Cameron. All were Negroes.
The car’s driver was ordered
held on a manslaughter charge.
State Trooper J. F. Cardwell
identified the dead youth as
Dougald Kelly III, of Carthage, a
student at North Carolina Col
lege, Durham, and two of the in
jured as "Vinson Cornelius, 22, and
Theodis Marks, 27, both. of the
Cameron community.
Cardwell said a third man,
Otho Harrington, Jr., of Camer
on had been riding with them,
but several hours after the acci
dent he had not been able to lo
cate Harrington and did not know
whether he was injured. All had
been removed when Cardwell ar
rived on the scene of the wreck
and he located C^ornelius, who he
said was the driver of the car, at
Lee Coutity Hospital, Sanford,
and Marks at St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal, Southern Pines, both report
ed seriously but not critically
hurt.
'The trooper said the car, trav
eling east at apparently exces
sive speed, somersaulted off the
road on the right, just past a
curve, and landed in a field. Cor
oner W. K. Carpenter ruled that
Kelly died of a broken neck, and
ordered Cornelius held for grand
jury action on a manslaughter
charge.
The 1963 Ford two-door con
vertible, which was demolished,
was owned by Joseph 'Williams of
Carthage, who had lent it to Cor
nelius to take his friends on a
holiday outing. They were on
their way to Cornelius’s home in
the coimtry east of Cameron
when the accident occurred.
companies, was announced today
(Monday).
In their joint announcement,
Robert T. Stevens, president of
J. P. Stevens and Charles A. Kara
gheusian, chairman of the board
of the Karagheusian firm, said
that an agreement has been
reached that Stevens stock would
be exchanged for Karagheusian
stock.
Upon completion of the ex
change, Mr. Stevens indicated,
the Karagheusian company would
be operated as a separate entity,
with Steele L. Winterer, current
Karagheusian president, continu
ing in that office.
J. Cecil Beith, plant manager of
the Aberdeen Karagheusian faci
lities, said that the Gulistan Car
pet trade name would be retained
under the new merger, with the
former Karagheusian Company
to be known as the Gulistan Car
pet Division of J. P. Stevens &
Co.
Karagheusian, a company found
ed in 1897, began operations in
Aberdeen in April, 1957. Since
then its employment has risen
from about 300 to over 500 persons
and the plant itself has been ex
panded by about one third, pro
viding a total of about 320,000
square feet of floor space.
Karagheusian operates other
plants at Albany and Statesboro,
both in Georgia, and at Freehold,
N. J. All are included in the
merger transaction.
All the company’s carpet pro
ducts bear the trade name “Guli
stan” and ar.2 sold nation-wide
through 3,500 retail outlets. The
carpets are of a wide variety,
ranging from mo(Jestly-priced to
the most luxurious custom quali
ties. Gulistan carpets are widely
used in the commercial field by
hotels, theatres and other public
accomodations.
Mr. Beith said that operations
in Aberdeen are expected to con
tinue without change following
the merger. The plant will re
main here, h.2 said.
J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., found
ed in 1813, is one of the most di
versified textile companies in the
United States. It operates 57
plants manufacturing and pro
cessing a broad range of cottons,
woolens and worsted goods, and
fabrics made from many fibres of
synthetic origin for nearly every
apparel use and in nearly every
price range. It employs 38,000 per
sons and its plants produce fab
rics in excess of 800,000,000 yards
per year.
Stevens has not heretofore been
engaged in the broadloom carpet
business.
Kiwanis Builder’s Cup Award Marks
Milestone In Career Of ‘Cliff’ Blue
The recent award of the Ki
wanis Builders Cup to Rep.
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen
marked another milestone in a
career in which Moore County
people have long taken pride.
It saluted particularly an
achievement which, of all the
long list, is the one which, so far,
is perhaps nearest and dearest to
the heart of “Cliff Blue himself—
his successful efforts with others
of his coimty to secure a compre
hensive community college for
Moore, efforts which will contin
ue in his membership on the
newly named board of trustees.
Appointed - by Governor Sanford
to an eight-year term, he was
then elected as chairman of the
board and will guide the new
college in its establishment and
operation.
On a wider front, it recognizes
his service as Moore’s representa
tive for nine terms—^first elected
in 1946, he is now dean of the
House in length of service—and
as Speaker of the House during
the 1963 term.
It is^ - another sign that his
“home folks” are behind him in
his undertakings in behalf of the
comity and State.
Known Everywhesre
There is small doubt in their
minds that his campaign for lieu
tenant governor, which is carry
ing him to all parts of the state
these days as he accepts invita-
ons to speak and preside at var
ious events, will be successful.
His acquaintance and popularity
all over'North Carolina have been
well evidenced, and he is known
by his first name—even his nick
name— everywhere across the
State.
In Moore he’s “Cliff” to every
one, and “cousin” to many, since
he’s descended from several lines
of pioneer Scots who settled the
area before the Revolution, and
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Contracts To Be Let
On New Ag Building
At their regular meeting in
January, the county commission
ers are expected to award con
tracts for the proposed new agri
culture building next to the coun
ty health center in Carthage.
The commissioners opened bids
in a special session last week but
deferredv awarding contracts until
the January meeting.
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.
December 19 39 14
December 20 37 19
December 21 37 12
December 22 36 17
December 23 35 18