VOL.—44 No. 9
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1964
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N.C., County, Town
Reject Proposal To
Change Legislature
The State, Moore County and
precincts in the Town of South
ern Pines, in exceptionally light
voting Tuesday, rejected the
“Little Faderal” plan to reor
ganize the General Assembly and
approved another amendnient giv
ing husbands and wives equal
rights in each other’s property.
Moore County, in rejecting Lit
tle Federal—which would have
decreased membership in the
House from 120 to 100 and in
creased the Senate from 50 to 70
members—ran counter to the
trend in this area. All other coun
ties adjoining Moore, except Ran
dolph, voted for the proposed
change.
The county vote on the two
amendments was:
Little Federal: For, 850, against,
1,623.
Rights: For, 1,824; against, 606.
Town precincts voted as fol
lows:
North Southern Pines
Little Federal: For, 59; against,
173.
Rights: For, 177; against, 54.
South Southern Pines
Little Federal: For 28; against,
134.
Rights: For, 134; against, 28.
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Area Development Group Starting
Work To Get Mackall For Industry
iV'
The Sandhills Area Develop
ment Association executive board,
meeting at Holiday Inn Restau
rant here Tuesday night, voted to
undertake obtaining the release of
the Camp Mackall property from
(he Army and development of
the area into industrial sites.
The move came after a report
from Industrial Development Di
vision Chairman Charles M.
Hazlehurst of Southern Pines, a
retired Seaboard Railway indus
trial development, engineer. The
project will be under the direction .
COUNTY VOTING
BY PRECINCTS
Here is Moore County’s vote,
by precincts,- on the “Little Fed
eral” constitutional amendment,
Tuesday:
is
THREE CANDIDATES— The three announc
ed Democratic candidates for Governor attend
ed Saturday’s YDC installation banquet here.
From right to left, they are: L. Richardson
Preyer, Dan K. Moore and I. Beverly Lake
With them are, at left, Mrs. Carolyn Blue of
of his division in SADA.
Hazlehurst brought out that the
Sandhills Area Development
Association is a chartered, non
profit group which includes Rich-
moii-d. Moore, and Hoke counties,
each of which touches the Camp
Mackall property. Scotland Coun
ty, not a member of SADA, has
expressed interest in the project
and will be included in the com
mittee to be named by Hazle
hurst to do the work.
It was pointed' out that con
siderable support for the project
Education Board Authorizes Survey,
Rejects Request By County Schools
Eagle Springs, Moore YDC president and Dis
trict vice president; and J. Elvin Jackson of
Carthage, immediate past county YDC president
and State-wide YDC organizer. Jackson was
recognized Saturday as one of the 10 top North
Carolina Young Democrats of last year.
(V. Nicholson photo)
PRECINCT
FOR
AGAINST
Aberdeen
101
189
Bensalem
26
109
Cameron
98
37
East Carthage
62
96
West Carthage
99
142
Deep River
17
31
Eureka
22
35
High Falls
23
20
Little River
23
3
Pinebluff
31
76
Pinedene
30
67
Pinehurst
46
151
Ritters
24
46
Robbins
42
129
N. Sou. Pines
59
173
S. Sou. Pines
28
134
Vass
37
45
West End
69
68
Westmoore
13
72
Total
850
1623
Dr. Willcox Leaves Public Health Post;
Change In System Of Clinics Planned
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The resignation of Dr. J, Will
cox of Southern Pines, who has
been Moore County health direc
tor for the past 20 years, was
announced this week by the
county bosLTd of health.
A spokesman for the board said
that the resignation came because
of disabling-ipjuries, pr,, Willcox
received in a traffic accident on
November 15 of last year and
that the resignation was accept
ed “with much regret” by the
board.
Efforts to obtain a physician as
full-time health director have be
gun, it was stated. Until such ap
pointment is made, the board an
nounced, public health clinics
held regularly in Southern Pines,
Pinehurst, Aberdeen and Robbins
will be closed, as of January 3l,
and all clinical services will be
Grimm To Manage
Moore’s Campaign
Herman H. Grimm of Carthage,
chief deputy in the office of
Sheriff W. B. Kelly, is managing
the Moore County campaign of
Judge Dan K. Moore of Canton,
Democratic gubernatorial candi
date in the May primary.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made by Judge Moore
at the YDC installation banquet
here Saturday night. He intro
duced Grimm as his county man
ager at that time. The chief dep
uty is a veteran of many years of
law enforcement work.
was recommended by Dr. Bruce
Jones, assistant director of the
Local Health Division of the
State Board of Health, who had
been asked to attend the County
Board of Health meeting. He said
that most county health depart
ments in the State conduct cen
trally located clinics, making
available x-ray and some labora
tory services and allowing more
efficient use of personnel.
At the Board of Health meeting,
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National Amateur
Dog Event Starts
(Details in feature, page 12)
This area is host to the 13th
and all clinical services ^ running of the National Amateur
consolidated at the county Health Championship,
Center m Carthage. opening today over courses of the
A schedule of clinic times there -wiirUifp Management
and other details will be announc
ed soon, the board said.
The change in clinic procedure
TOWN DOGS MUST
BE REGISTERED
All dogs, six months of age
and over, which are owned
by persons living within the
town limits, must be regis
tered at the police station,
and a fee must be paid on
them before the end of Jan
uary, the public is reminded
by Town Manager F. F. Rain-
®y'
The town dog registration
is required in addition to the
listing of dogs on the county
tax books this month, the
manager pointed out.
Sandhills Wildlife Management
Area near Hoffman.
Winning the National Amateur
is a great honor for dog and own
er. To qualify, a dog must have
won a place in an amateur stake
recognized by the Amateur Field
Trial Club of America.
Judges are Dr. C. E. Stokely of
San Antonio, Texas, and James
W. Tufts of Pinehurst. Both are
well known sportsmen, noted,for
their ability as judges.
Sportsmen and dogs from over
the United States are coming to
try their skill.
Owners and handlers will stay
at the Village Motel in Rocking
ham, while headquarters for the
judges and field trials officials
will be the Holly Inn in Pine
hurst.
Young Democrats
Rally In Force
At State Meeting
The Moore County YDC hosted
the first big statewide political
event since the campaign year
got going, last Saturday after
noon, here.
The occasion was the annual
Installation Banquet of the North
Carolina Young Democratic
Clubs, which started with regis
trations at 1 p. m. at the Holiday
Inn, headquarters for the event,
continued through a meeting of
the new executive committee and
another meeting of the county
club presidents, added jollity with
a late afternoon reception for
the new YDC officers and cul
minated in a standing-room-only
banquet which jammed the Na
tional Guard Armory.
With J. Elvin Jackson of Car
thage and Vass, outgoing state
YDC organizer, as general chair
man, and Mrs. Carolyn Blue of
Eagle Springs, Moore County
Club president, assisting, the
county membership staffed com-
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The Southern Pines board of
education has voted to ask a group
from George Reabody College,
Nashville, Tenn., to make a sur
vey of the local schools, to de
termine what type of develop
ment for the schools would be ad
visable in the future, Dr. C. C.
McLean, boaird chairman, said
this week.
Such a survey had been re
quested last month by the Citi
zens Committee for Long-Range
School Planning, a group head
ed by Dr. Charles Phillips.
Dr. McLean said the board
hopes the survey will provide an
answer to the question asked by
the Citizens Committee; whether
it will be best for the Southern
Pines schools to remain indepen
dent or to join with the county
system in a high school consoli
dation program.
“We are just as anxious as the
committee to get an objective
opinion,” he said.
Supt. J. W. Jenkins said today
he has written to the Nashville
college—an institution with a
high reputation in the field of
teacher training—^to find out
when the survey could be
CIVIL TERM OF
COURT TO OPEN
The regular January one-
week term of Superior Court
i?or trial of civil cases will
open at Carthage Monday
morning, with cases calen
dared through Wednesday.
Judge Frank M. Armstrong
of Troy is scheduled to pre
side.
Court is scheduled to open
at 10 a.m. Monday and at
9:30 a.m. on other days.
made, the approximate cost, how
long it will take and other infor
mation. He said he has not yet
received a reply to this letter.
Request Turned Down
In another recent action, the
local board of education refused
to grant a request from the Moore
County board of education that
the board be given permission to
locate a consolidated Aberdeen-
West End high school within the
boundaries of the Southern Pines
School District. Dr. McLean said
no reason was given for the de
cision, in a letter to the county
board, but stressed that the re
quest was denied “at the present
time.”
“With the knowledge that we
now have,” Dr. McLean told the
Pilot, “we felt that we could not
grant the request.”
has developed, and that the next
step will be the development of
a brochure stating the reasons
why it is felt the property would
be more valuable to the area for
industry than it is now as a part-
time training ground for Fort
Bragg.
In a recent meeting at Rocking
ham with area leaders Congress
man Charles R. Jonas pledged his
support for the project.
The Camp Mackall property,
used extensively during World.
War H to train paratroopers, has
a 5,000-ft, concrete runway for
aircraft, and a water system.
There are some buildings still
standing although little mainten
ance has been kept.
Hazlehurst brought out that a
recent study showed 8,500 recruit-
able workers in the SADA area.
“It will require a great deal
of work, but the objectives are
certainly worthwhile,” he said.
Tuesday night’s meeting was
presided over by Rep. Neill Mc-
Fayden of Hoke County, SADA
vice president, due to the death
of president Calvin Liles’ mother.
Progress reports on the other
SADA Divisions were heard from
Clyde Auman of Moore County,
Agriculture; Mrs. Edwin Key,
Richmond County, Community
Development; and R. S. Stone,
Hoke County, Travel and Recrea
tion.
Thompson Stays
In Competition
For Scholarship
Moore County’s candidate for
a Morehead Award at the Univer
sity of North Carolina—Tommy
Thompson of Pinebluff—was one
of six chosen for further consid
eration, out of 26 applying, by the
District Selection Committee
meeting at Elizabethtown to in
terview the candidates, Saturday.
Thompson, a senior at Aber
deen High School and son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Thompson of Pine-
bluff, was notified of the commit
tee’s decision this week, by Roy
Armstrong, executive secretary of
the John Motley Morehead Foun
dation, which gives the awards
that provide full scholarships at
the University.
Thompson and other District
choices from over the state will
go before the Central Selection
Committee at Chapel Hill on Feb
ruary 28, as part of the procedure
for final selections of th^ More
head scholars to enter the Uni
versity in the fall.
Convention Set
By Connty GOP
Moore County Republicans will
hold their county convention at
the courthouse in Carthage at 2
p. m., Saturday, January 25, it
was announced this week by C.
Coolidge Thompson of Pinebluff,
executive committee chairman.
County officers will be elect
ed, also delegates to district and
state conventions. The state gath
ering will be held at Greens-
I boro late in February, with Sena-
lior Barry Goldwater as featured
speaker.
Precinct meetings will be con
ducted at the Carthage conven
tion, Mr. Thompson said.
Teachers To Play In
Benefit Cage Contest
Tickets are going on sale this
week for the Moore County
North-South Teachers All-Star
Basketball game to be held Thurs
day, January 30, at the Aberdeen
High School Gym, for benefit of
the March of Dimes.
Teachers from the Moore Coun
ty, Southern Pines and Pinehurst
schools will participate. Coaches
will be: from the North, Cecil E.
Hackney, principal of Elise High
S’chool in Robbins, and, from the
South, John R. Brendell, prin
cipal of Aberdeen High School.
Co-chairmen of ticket sales will
be C. F. Biuflkin and E. L. Guion
of Aberdeen.
Negro AA Group
For Area Formed
A group of Negro men and
women met Thursday night of
last week in the West Southern
Pines High School to complete
their plans for a new group of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
This is the first Negro-spon
sored group oFAA’s in the Sand
hills, though there are several
large Negro-sponsored organiza
tions in other parts of the state.
Those present represented West
Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Jack-
son Hamlet and other communi
ties.
Guests included civic and re
ligious leaders and representa
tives of each of the older AA
groups in this area.
Interested persons are invited
to attend future meetings which
will be held at Horton’s Funeral
Chapel in West Southern Pines
every Thursday at 8 p. m.
Point-to Point Events Saturday Will
Be Followed By Horse Show on Sunday
For equestrian enthusiasts, a
big weekend is in store, with the
annual Point-to-Point races
scheduled for Saturday and the
third of the season’s Mid-South
Horse Shows following on Sun
day.
'There is already a good entry
in the Hunter’s Pace and Junior
Point-to-Point events, according
to officials of the sponsoring
Moore County Hounds. No entry
or spectator fees are charged.
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.
January 9
50
38
January 10
52
34
January 11
46
17
January 12
38
29
January 13
33
22
January 14
33
12
January 15
40
9
Events begin at 2 p. m. in Buch
an’s Field, back of Mile-Away
Farm at Manly on Old Highway
No. 1, North.
The Junior Point-to-Point can
be seen throughout by spectators.
Riders and mounts in the Hunt
er’s Pace will be in view going
out and returning at the end' of
the course.
An awards supper will follow,
Saturday night, with an orchestra
playing for dancing, at 7:30 p.
m. at Pineholme, the clubhouse
off Youngs Road. For further in
formation on the supper-dance,
those interested should call eith
er Mrs. W. O. Moss in Southern
Pines, or Miss Page Shamburger
in Aberdeen.
Sunday’s Mid-South Horse
Show begins at 1:30 p. m. at the
D. W. Winkelmans’ Lakelawn
Farms ring.
Judges for the four horseman-
ehip classes, two green classes
and the hunter class, will be Mrs.
Richard Hendrick of Philadelphia
and Richard Atkinson of Malvern,
Pa.
Exchange Teacher
Begins Work Here
IVIrs. Maria Zoila Henriquez de
Rauda, 23-year-old teacher from
El Salvador, arrived in Southern
Pines Friday and began her work
in the East Southern Pines schools
this week.
Coming to the United States
through a teacher exchange pro
gram administered by the federal
government, she was assigned to
Southern Pines through the State
Board of Education. She is work
ing in both elementary and high
schools, teach,ing social studies
and Spanish.
A reception was given by the
faculty for Mrs. de Rauda at the
school this (Thursday) afternoon.
DRAWING SHOWS SUPERMARKET OF TYPE PLANNED FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER
Contract Let For First Shopping Center Unit
PTA Won’t Meet
During January
There will be no January meet
ing of the East Southern Pines
Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs.
J. S. Hiatt, Jr., president, an
nounced this week.
Scheduled for Monday night,
the meeting was cancelled be
cause of snow and ios. It will not
be rescheduled in January.
Next meeting of the group will
be Monday, February 10, if the
regular “second Monday” sched
ule is followed.
Town and Country Shopping
Center has announced plans for
the construction of a Winn-Dixie
Supermarket as the first phase
of its shopping center project be
tween Southern Pines and Aber
deen. Work on the $150,000 stuc-
ture is to begin within two weeks,
with scheduled completion in ap
proximately six months.
The center is located just south
of Howard Johnson’s Restaurant
between Aberdfeen and Southern
Pines on U.S. 1-15-501. Owner
and developer of the shopping
center is W. M. Storey Lumber
Company, of which Voit Gilmore
is president.
The supermarket will have 14,-
000 square feet of shopping and
storage space and will have 50,-
000 square feet of parking area
to accommodate 150 cars. It will
have access from US 1-15-501
and from Magnolia Drive, which
is between Howard Johnson’s
Restaurant and the Esso service
station. The management of
Winn-Dixie states that their sup
ermarket will be one of the
largest in the Sandhills and will
offer the most modern grocery
facilities to the public.
The shopping center, when
completed, will permit parking of
1200 cars.
In making the announcement,
A. L. Folley, vice president of
Storey, said, “We are extremely
happy to be associated with Winn-
Dixie, and we expect to add addi
tional stores and services to our
project soon. Our objective is to
develop this centrally-located, 22-
acre tract into a most attractive
and complete shopping center to
serve the rapidly-growing Sand
hills section. We intend to supple
ment shopping facilities in this
area, not duplicate them, and
thereby keep thousands of shop
ping dollars now spent outside of
the Sandhills area within the
section.”
Winn-Dixie, one of the top 10
food chains in the country, had
its beginning in 1925 in Miami,
Fla. William “Papa” Davis and
his four sons, J. E., A. D., Tine
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Si. Andrews Group To
Give Program Jan. 28
Members of the Music and Art
Departments of St. Andrews Pres
byterian College, Laurinburg, will
present a program “Shall This
Pass?” at the meeting of the
Moore County Historical Associa
tion, to be held Tuesday, January
28, at 8 p. m. in the convention
hall of the Mid Pines Club.