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CHARLES R. JONAS
Rep. Jonas Will
Be Honored With
Dinner March 14
Congressman Charles R. Jonas
will be honored on Saturday,
March 14, at the Southern Pines
High School at 7 p. m.
Wallace W. O’Neal of Pine-
hurst, county Republican chair
man, announced a dinner will be
held at $2 per person “to show
appreciation to Mr. Jonas for the
excellent job he is doing in Wash
ington.” l^is is not a fund raising
dinner, O’Neal noted.
He stated that every citizen
in Moore County is invited to at
tend and to hear Mr. Jonas ex
plain what is going on in domestic
and foreign affairs. Regardless of
party affiliation, the citizens of
Moore County are invited, O’Neal
stressed.
He also urged civic and history
students to come and hear their
Congressman.
Coolidge Thompson of Pinebluff
is in charge of the arrangements
and tickets can be purchased
from John Greer, Aberdeen: Mrs.
W. R. Viall, Jr., Pinehurst; James
Hartshorne, Harry Pethick, Mrs.
Robert Heyl, of Southern Pines;
R. G. Wallace and Mrs.
Marie Gaines, of Carthage; Mrs.
B. M. Marley, James Callicutt
and Eugene Maness, Robbins, and
Ernest McKenzie, Bensalem.
Moore County delegates to the
Republican Convention in
Greensboro over the weekend
were headed by James Harring-
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The annual Trail Rides conduc
ted here under auspices of the
Moore County Hounds and spon
sored by the Town of Southern
Pines are scheduled for Thursday
through Saturday of next week,
March 12-14.
Again featured are three divi
sions: A—a 100-mile ride, spread
over the three days; B—a 50-mile
ride, also over three days; and
C—the Junior Ride, 20 miles on
Saturday morning.
All rides will begin at Mile-
Away Farm and follow marked
trails over the Sandhills.
Eligible for the Junior Division
are young people who have not
reached their 21st birthday by
March 10.
Entry applications are avail
able at the Information Center,
also full information on all events.
The town wiU provide box
lunches for senior riders on
Thursday and Friday, at desig
nated stopping places, and on
Saturday, for Junior riders only.
An awards supper will be held
Saturday night at Pineholme on
Youngs Road, when trophies and
ribbons in each division will be
presented. Reservations for the
supper, by persons other than
riders, may be made by calling
Mrs. W. O. Moss, Southern Pines
or Miss Page Shamburger, Aber
deen.
On Sunday, March 14, there
will be another in the series of
Mid-South Horse Shows, at the
Goffolly Farm ring, beginning at
1:30 p.m., featuring the usual
classes and also a special “Old
Enough to Know Better” Class.
TO COMPETE AGAIN
TO STATE MEETING
The Moore County chapter of
the North Carolina Mental Health
Association will send a delega
tion of 12 officers and directors
to the annual meeting of the
State group, it was announced
this week by David Drexel, pres
ident. The state meeting is being
held at the Robert E. Lee Hotel
in Winston-Salem on Friday and
Saturday of this week.
McLaughlin Wins
Twice In Legion
Speaking Contest
Charles Allan McLaughlin, Jr.,
Southern Pines High School stu
dent, won District and Division
events in the 17th Annual Na
tional High School Oratorical
Contest, sponsored by the Amer
ican Legion, during the past
week, and will compete in the
State Finals at Clayton on March
17.
Sponsored by the Legion over
the nation, the contest advances
through the State Finals to a na
tional contest of Regional win
ners, in which college scholarships
valued at from $4,000 (first prize)
to $500 are given.
In the State Finals, the winner
will receive a $500 scholarship,
with a $100 U. S. Savings Bond
going to the runner-up.
All contestants speak on topics
relating to the U. S. Constitution,
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Oral Polio Vaccine To
Be Given Connty-Wide
In 3 Snnday Sessions
GAVIN TO RUN— Robert L. Gavin of San
ford, second from left, who last week announced
that he would seek the Republican nomination
for Governor, receives a welcome and congratu
lations from Wallace W. O’Neal of Pinehurst,
right, Moore County GOP chairman, following
a weekend round of golf by Gavin at the Pine
hurst Country Club where he plays frequently.
Playing with the candidate were Howard J.
Stewart of Pinehurst, left, and John Von
Canon of Sanford. Gavin, who polled 45 per
cent of the vote as Republican candidate in the
1960 race for Governor against Democrat Terry
Sanford, is widely known in Moore County.
His wife is the former Grace Blue of Carthage.
(Hemmer photo)
Big Still Raided
In Brooder House;
One Man Arrested
One of the largest distillery op
erations to be found in this area
in years was destroyed last Fri
day afternoon following an ABC
raid on an abandoned chicken
brooder house, overlooking busy
US 15-501 near Carthage.
The mass-production, multiple-
unit outfit, which included five
complete stills and a sixth, partly
built, with total capacity of 3,030
gallons, was in one end of the
long cinderblock building in a
setting of broomsedge and scrag-
gly pines. Within sight of a small
farmhouse, presently unoccupied,
it was on property belonging to
the Andrew Lawhom estate, but
Moore County ABC Law Enforce
ment Chief C. A. McCallum said
the Lawhorn heirs and adminis
trators had no knowledge of or
connection with the still.
No one was in the brooder
house when the raiding party
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T. Roy Phillips Of Carthage Elected
Chairman, United Forces for Education
T. Roy Phillips, Carthage auto
mobile dealer and member of the
Moore County Board of Education
fror the past 16 and a half years,
became chairman of the United
Forces for Education at a meeting
of this statewide executive group
in Raleigh last Thursday.
His election was announced by
Robert Scott of Haw River, UFE
chairman since 1959, who resign
ed to further his campaign for
lieutenant governor.
Mr. Phillips, a director of the
North Carolina State School
Board Association, has represent
ed this body in the UFE since No
vember 1, when meetings began
looking toward development of
the new UFE legislative program.
The completed program, recently
presented to the State Board of
Education, was released at ’Thurs
day’s meeting. His biggest job as
chairman, he said this week, will
be to “sell it to the General As
sembly” next spring.
The United Forces for Educa
tion was established in 1940 as an
effective voice of the people in
public education, and coordinator
of activities in regard to school
legislation. The member groups,
each of which elects two repre
sentatives to the UFE, are the
N. C. Congress of Parents and
Teachers, N. C. Division of Amer
ican Association of University
Women, N. C. Education Associa
tion, N. C. Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs, N. C. State Grange,
Girl Scout Week
To Begin Sunday;
Events Scheduled
Girl Scouts in uniform will at
tend churches in several Moore
County communities Sunday, for
this will be Girl Scout Sunday,
signaling the start of Girl Scout
Week and observance of the pro
gram’s 52nd birthday.
The area’s Girl Scouts and
Brownie Scouts will join with
three and a half million girls and
adults over the free world in sup
port of this year’s theme, “Girl
Scouting—A Promise In Action.”
In Southern Pines, eight troops
will attend seven churches Sun
day, as follows: Troop 621
(junior). First Baptist; Troop 628
(cadet), Brownson Memorial Pres
byterian; Troop 685 (Brownies),
Emmanuel Episcopal; Troop 690
(Brownies), St. Anthony’s Cath-
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TOWN ON TV
A ifilm crew from WGHP-
TV, Channel 8, High Point
television station, will be in
the Southern Pines area
Tuesday Ifo film scenes that
will he shown by that station
Friday morning of next week,
March 13, on the Jimmy
Johnson Variety show, from
8:30 to 9:30 a.m., it was re
ported this morning by the
Town Information Center.
OPENS SATURDAY
Garden Exhibits
Of Sandhills In
Charlotte Show
With many persons from this
area expected to attend, the
Southeastern Flower and Garden
Show, opening in Charlotte Sat
urday, to run through Sunday,
March 15, has special significance
for the Sandhills.
The president of the huge
undertaking that will fill the
Charlotte Merchandise Mart at
2500 E. Independence Blvd. is
Mrs. Karl Bridges of Southern
Pines, who with 'her husband
owns and operates Carolina
Orchids, a commercial orchid
growing establishment here. The
local firm will have a non-com
petitive exhibit as one of the 16
professionally designed gardens
in the show.
Also exhibiting will be Claren
don Gardens Nursery of Pinehurst
which is designing and installing
the Rhododendron Garden. Nu
merous other plants, in addition
to rhododendrons, will be in this
exhibit.
The Flower and Garden Show
has many other features includ
ing: 18 furnished and decorated
room exhibits, a fashion show
each evening at 8 o’clock, a cafe
for eating and relaxing, exhibits
of flower arrangements, garden
educational information and com
mercial gardening items of all
sorts on display.
The show will be open from 1
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. each day.
BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Pinehurst Boys, Girls
Of Vass-Lakeview Win
MR. PHILLIPS
N. C. State School Boards Asso
ciation and—a new member ad
mitted only last Thursday—^the
N. C. Teachers Association.
Mr. Phillips is a former school
teacher and principal who enter
ed business in 1946.
In 1947 he ran for the Moore
County School Board, was elected
and has been reelected for each
two-year term since. He served
as vice-chairman for a number of
years, though he has now resign
ed this office in view of his other
educational activities.
BY JOEL STUTTS
Nearly 3,000 fans were on hand
to witness the 1963 .defending
champion Vass-Lakeview girls—
a gallant, never-give-up team—
come from fourth position in the
final conference standings to take
the 37th annual Moore County
High School girls basketball
tournament championship by edg
ing Carthage 33-32 in two over
time periods Saturday night in
Robbins.
Coach David Page’s girls who
upset No. 1 Pinehurst in the semi
finals also by a one-point mar
gin on a last-second foul shot by
Sandra Von Metzger, repeated
last year’s performance when
when they came from sixth place
in regular season play to take
home the top girls’ award.
The exciting championship con
test Saturday featured the Jones
sisters, Joyce and Jean, of Vass-
Lakeview, who saw their 20-14
half time lead vanish as Carolyn
Stutts, the conference’s leading
scorer, along with Judy Myrick,
back to tie the game 31-31 at the
end of regular time.
A pressure foul shot with
seconds remaining in the first
overtime period by Joyce Jones
and Sandra von Metzger missed,
throwing the game into a second
overtime with the Vass-Lakeview
girls finally pulling it out by a
single point in one of the most
exciting tournament games ever
played in the conference.
So tense was the excitement
that Vass-Lakeview scored' once
in the wrong basket, for Carth
age, in the third quarter.
Pinehurst Boys Win
The defending boys tourney
champion, Pinehurst, demonstrat
ed the shooting accuracy and
team poise which carried them
through 23 consecutive victories
in the conference this season, in
cluding this their most important
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Little Symphony
To Give Concerts
Here Next Week
Dr. Benjamin Swalin and the
North Carolina Little Symphony,
long favorites of Sandhill music
audiences, will present three con
certs in this area on Thursday
and Friday, March 12 and 13.
There will be two programs
designed specifically for school
children and an evening program
in Weaver Auditorium.
The children’s programs will
be held in the West Southern
Pines school gymnasium at 1:30
p.m. on March 12, and in the
Aberdeen School auditorium at
10:30 a.m. on March 13.
The program in Weaver Audi
torium, which chmaxes the an
nual series presented by the
Sandhills Music Association, will
be given on Friday night, March
13, at 8:30. The evening program
is open to the public.
Tickets may be secured either
at the door or at the Bamum
Agency in Southern Pines at any
time prior to the program.
The children’s concerts are
presented in cooperation with the
public schools and are free to
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Polio may be knocked out for
good and all in Moore County
with the Sabin oral vaccine—the
“vaccine on a sugar lump”—
which will be administered to the
entire population in a mass immu
nization project. Three successive
Sunday afternoons, March 22,
ABC Stores To
Be Open Longer,
Starting Monday
The Moore County Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board has au
thorized changes in sales hours
at the Southern Pines and Pine
hurst ABC stores, effective Mon
day, March 9, resulting in a total
of three more selling hours each
day.
L. J. Hinson of Pinehurst,
manager, said the new hours will
be:
At Southern Pines—10 a. m. to
9 p. m.
At Pinehurst—9 a. m. to 7 p. m.
As compared to present hours,
the Southern Pines store will re
main open two hours longer and
the Pinehurst store will open one
hour earlier.
Hinson said the board’s action
was taken after a request for ex
tension of hours had been made
by the Southern Pines town coun
cil. Also, he noted, ABC stores in
nearby counties remain open un
til 9 p. m. More convenient serv
ice to tourists and resort patrons
was a major reason for the
change.
March 29, and April 5, have been
set for carrying out this important
health project.
The county commissioners in
regular session Monday enthusi
astically undertook sponsorship of
the project, lining up Moore with
a dozen other Central North Ceu-
olina counties in a wide cooper
ative action.
They accepted the plans as out
lined by Dr. Emily Tufts of Pine
hurst, president of the Moore
County Medical Society; Dr.
Clement Monroe of Pinehurst,
acting county health officer, and
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
Pines and Carthage, who will
head the non-medical phases.
Dr. Tufts said the project had
the full backing of the Medical
Society, which, however, could
not itself undertake a project of
such magnitude. Ewing also said
it was too big for any single or
ganization but with the commis
sioners as sponsors, many other
groups would cooperate to put it
across.
He said arrangements had been
made for immunization stations
to be set up on the three Sunday
afternoons at Robbins, Carthage,
Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aber
deen and Vass-Lakeview schools,
superintendents and principals of
which had agreed to make the
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Supper Will Honor New
Manly Pastor March 11
There will be a family night
supper at the Manly Presbyterian
Church recreation building at 6:30
p. m. Wednesday, March 11. All
members and friends are invited
to attend and “bring well-filled
baskets.” The event will welcome
the Rev. and Mrs. Frank Wilkin
son. Mr. Wilkinson has accepted
the call to the Manly Presbyterian
church and he and his wife will
be moving into the manse this
Saturday.
DEATH SCENE— Violence of the Midland Road one-car
wreck that killed the dkiver of this automobile is depicted here,
with the pine tree—knocked crooked by force of the impact—
creased into vehicle’s top and front end of car, at right, wrapped
around the tree. Round object at right is air cleaner on top of
motor, visible after hood was knocked off. The car was tilted
against tree as though overturning when it struck.
(Humphrey photo)
IN MIDLAND ROAD CRASH
Greensboro Man Instantly Killed
A Greensboro salesman staying
here was killed Monday at 9:25
p.m. when his car went out of
control in light drizzling rain on
the Midland Road.
Trooper J. F. Cardwell indenti-
fied the dead man as Jack R.
Coble, 37, of 1220 Jefferson Road,
Greensboro, an employee of the
Olney Paint & Wallpaper Co.
Cardwell said Coble’s car went
off the road on the left, struck
a pine tree in the parkway sepa
rating the two lanes, bounced' off
and spun about, wrapping itseK
almost entirely around another
pine. A physician living nearby
was on the scene practically at
once and pronounced the driver
dead.
The accident occurred less than
a mile from the Southern Pines
town limits,' on the double road
from Pinehurst to Southern Pines.
Coble’s 1964 Chevrolet four-door
hardtop, in which he was carrying
many wallpaper samples, was de
molished.
This was Moore County’s fifth
highway fatality of 1964.
Coble, a married man with
three sons all living at home, had
arrived in Southern Pines earlier
Monday evening and had checked
in at the Charlton Motel where
he had been a regular visitor dur
ing his sales trips, for the past
six or seven years, according to
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Scott who
own and operate the motel.
They described Coble as a
steady, settled man. Mrs. Scott
said she thought he must have
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ARC Drive Opens;
Directors Told
Of Year’s Work
The Moore County Chapter of
the American fled Cross this
week joins in the annual national
campaign for members and funds.
Dr. C. C. McLean heads the coun
ty drive this year assisted by a
staff of volunteers in the various
communities and towns. Deputy
fund chairman is L. D. McDon
ald.
Dr. McLean and his staff were
invited as special guests to the
dinner meeting of the directors of
the Moore County Chapter held
Friday of last week at the Holi
day Inn.
ilie Rev. Martin Caldwell, pres
ident of the Moore County Chap
ter, presided at the brief business
session that followed the dinner,
and stressed the fact that the vol
unteer services of the Red Cross
here have accomplished important
missions in the past year and
greatly expanded the program
each year since the local chapter
was chartered in 1915.
Mrs. Audrey Kennedy, volun
teer executive director of the
Moore County Red Cross since the
attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941,
stated that the money provided
by the disaster fund of the Amer
ican National Red Cross for re
habilitation of areas devastated
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Purvis, Democrat,
To Run For House
Wiley Purvis of Robbins Star
Route announced this week that
he would file soon as a candidate
for the State House of Represen
tatives from Moore County, in the
May 30 Democratic primary.
He is the first candidate to an
nounce for any county office.
As a candidate for the House,
Purvis seeks the seat held for 18
years by H. Clifton Blue of Aber
deen who took himself out of the
running this year by announcing
for Lieutenant Goveror.
Purvis has sought elective of
fice once before when he ran un
successfully for register of deeds
about 25 years ago. He has long
been active in Democratic Party
work.
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.
Mkx. Min.
February 27 42 36
February 28 40 29
February 29 49 33
March 1 55 29
March 2 65 43
March 3 75 52
March 4 71 52