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TOWN ON TELEVISION— Scenes from Southern Pines and
area will be shown tomorrow (Friday) morning, from 8:30 to
9:30, on the Billy Johnson Variety Show from WGHP-TV,
Channel 8, High Point. Mayor W. Morris Johnson and Town
Manager F. F. Rainey will be on hand in the studio to aid in
narrating the show. In town for filming of scenes on Tuesday
were Billy Johnson, the show’s master of ceremonies, pictured
here on the steps of the Information Center, between Mr. Rainey
and Mrs. Raymond Cameron, administrative secretary at the
Center. At left is Dick Sargent, producer-director of the show,
with camera. Also here Tu^day was Leo Derrick, the station’s
promotion manager. (Pilot photo)
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Jonas To Speak
At Dinner Here
Saturday Night
Moore County Republicans are
preparing to be host Saturday
night to 8th District Rep. Charles
R. Jonas of Lincolnton who will
be honored with a dinner in the
East Southern Pines School cafe
teria, starting at 7 p. m.
Wallace W. O’Neal of Pine-
hurst, county GOP chairman, in
vites all interested persons, re
gardless of party affiliation, to at
tend.
C. Coolidge Thomapson of Pine-
bluff is in charge of arrange
ments. Tickets are being sold by
numerous persons over the coun
ty, including James Hartshome,
Harry Pethick and Mrs. Robert
Heyl, Southern Pines; Mrs. W. R.
Viall, Jr., Pinehurst; and John
Greer, Aberdeen.
Congressman Jonas, who won
the 8th District seat in 1962, de
feating Democrat A. Paul Kitch-
in of Wadesboro, will speak after
the dinner. He is a candidate for
reelection in November, chosen
at the party’s District convention
in Monroe recently.
'EASTER LILY' SALE
To benefit the current fund
drive of the Moor© County
Chapter of the North Carolina
Society for Crippled Chil
dren and Adults ("Easter Seal
Sale"), small Easter lily re
productions will be sold by
Girl Scouts Saturday morning
at four locations in the busi
ness area.
The girls will be alt the post
office, in the 100 block of N.
W. Broad Si. and at the A &
P and Colonial Super Mar
kets.
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.
March 5 72 60
March 6 65 30
March 7 71 34
March 8 73 44
March 9 81 60
March 10 68 29
March 11 65 29
Good Neighbor
Council Reports
Local Progress
“Most of the industries have
agreed; all except two small res
taurants are opening their doors;
in the field of recreation our
committee has had similar suc
cess, with one notable victory and
one dismal defeat.”
■Ihis, in a nutshell, was the sub
stance of a detailed report given
by Dr. Julian Lake, chairman of
the Good Neighbor Council, to the
Town Council at its meeting
Tuesday night. Present were sev
eral members of the bi-racial
group appointed last year to work
for good local racial relations,
and the entire Town Council.
Dr. Lake described the early
days of the Council and told of
the feeling of some dismay at the
heavy responsibility felt at the
start by every member. “You
could compare it,” he said, “to
how Daniel felt entering the lions’
den.”
He said how fortunate he felt
it was that this community had
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School Tax Allows
9 More Teachers
Among reports made to the
Town Council at their meeting
Tuesday night was one by School
Superintendent James W. Jen
kins who came before the board
in response to a request made at
a previous meeting by Council
man C. A. McLaughlin regarding
matters pertaining to the special
school supplementary tax paid by
taxpayers of the Southern Pines
school district.
Mr. Jenkins described first the
two sources from which school
funds come, the State and the
local tax, and went on to con
centrate on the latter. Pointing
but how valuable an aid it is,
he said that the local tax brings
in from $70,000 to $71,000. Most
of this is used, he said, to add a
supplement of $300 to all teacher
salaries and also to pay the en
tire salaries of nine teachers.
Most of the latter, he said, are in
the vocational field.
(Jne teacher, the football coach,
gets an additional bonus, making
his supplement $600 instead of
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Young Man Dies
Of Injuries In
Saturday Wreck
Wesley McKenzie, 18, of West
End, Rt. 1, died Tuesday night
in N. C. Memorial Hospital at
Chapel Hill of injuries sustained
in a one-car accident at West
End Saturday night.
Moore County Coroner W. K.
Carpenter Wednesday ordered
the car’s owner and driver, Larry
Martin, 21, of West End, Route
1, held on manslaughter charges.
Martin and Jerry Frye, 17, of
Pinehurst are patients at Moore
Memorial Hospital, their condi
tions regarded as serious.
Young McKenzie was taken to
N. C. Memorial early Sunday
morning, in critical condition.
He was a first cousin of Lymon
Faircloth, Jr., 22, of the Murdocks-
ville community, who was killed
with another youth of that neigh
borhood, Johnny Hussey, in a
motorcycle accident February 22.
Mothers of the two are sisters.
The automobile accident hap
pened at 11:40 p.m. on the edge
of West End, on NC 73, when
Martin’s speeding car overturned
in full view of a pursuing patrol
man.
Trooper J. F. Cardwell said he
had observed the car earlier, on
another road, being driven in a
careless manner, and when he
found it at the stoplight inter
section, heading toward East-
wood, pulled up beside it and
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Officials Voice
Optimism About
Karagheusian
An optimistic picture of the Ab
erdeen operation of A & M Kar
agheusian, Inc., carpet manufac
turers, under its new ownership
by J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., a
large, diversified textile firm, was
revealed Tuesday night by top
executives of the two organiza
tions.
Robert T. Stevens, president
and chief executive officer of
Stevens, and Steele Winterer, who
is continuing as president of the
now wholly-owned Karagheusian
subsidiary of Stevens, told of
changes planned at Aberdeen and
voiced confidence in progress
there. Both the executives are
from New York City.
The occasion was a gathering of
about 40 community leaders,
along with several executives of
both the companies, at Doug Kel
ly’s Holiday Inn Restaurant.
Purpose of the meeting, said
Cecil Beith of Southern Pines,
Karagheusian plant manager at
Aberdeen, was to express appreci
ation for the cooperation Karag
heusian has received during its
seven years in the Sandhills.
“Our policy has always been to
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Area’s Pottery
Under Study By
Experts In Field
Interest in the pottery of
Moore County has brought to this
area many distinguished experts
and students in this field of cer
amics. Latest to be drawn thither
for such a reason are Joan and
Malcolm Watkins of Washington,
D. C., who visited recently at
the home of Ben Owen of Jug-
town Pottery fame on Route 705
near Seagrove.
Dr. Watkins is curator of the
Division of Cultural History at
the Smithsonian Institute. His
wife, Joan, is a potter in her own
right, having had her own kiln in
San Francisco, and taught pot
tery-making at the San Francisco
Institute of Fine Arts and, later,
at Alfred University in New
York.
Dr. and Mrs. Watkins have been
commissioned by the Smithsonian
to make a study of pottery-mak
ing in this part of North Carolina,
primarily from a historical stand
point. Though the details of the
local craft—kinds of clay, kinds
of glazes, shapes and uses—^will
be studied, a major objlective is to
trace family histories.
Pots and Pans
'This is in line with the work
of the department which Dr. Wat
kins heads, which specializes in
the historical background—going
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$133,500 FIRE DESTROYS HIGH SCHOOL
Emergency Construction To Put Carthage
Students Back In Classrooms By Monday
Ground Broken For Buildings At Camp Easter In Pines
Ground was broken Friday for
construction of new buildings at
Camp Easter in the Pines, with
expectation that the facility will
be ready to serve a total of
96 handicapped children during
the coming summer.
The camp site on which a re
modeled dwelling and renovated
barracks building are already
located—to serve as camp offices,
director’s quarters and dining
hall—is located northeast of
Southern Pines, off the Carthage
road.
A group of State and county
officials of the North Carolina
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults, Inc., met at the site
Friday to watch a bulldozer go
to work in preparing the site for
bath-house groups.
Plans call for construction now
of a four-cabin group, linked to
a bath - house, accommodating 8
children in each cabin. Three
camp sessions during the summer
thus will make possible serving
96 during the entire program this
year.
Pictured here looking over site
and construction plans are some
of the persons attending the
Friday groundbreaking.
Left to right, they are: Jim
Thomasson, president of the local
Jaycees who plan to assume cost
of one of the cabins; Mrs. Gra
ham Culbreth, county Easter Seal
Society vice chairman and ser
vice chairman and member of
the State board of directors; Sam
Harrison, county secretary and
first of three projected cabin-1 drive chairman for the annual
lund-raising Easter Seal sale now
going on; Clarence E. Whitfield
of Durham, president of the State
Society; W. P. Davis, member
of the State board of directors
and chairman of the camp con
struction committee; Robert Las
siter of Chapel Hill, executive
director of the State Society; and
E. J. Austin of Austin & Faulk,
architects for buildings at the
camp.
Others on hand for the ground
breaking included Mark; Liddell,
fund drive chairman; Dr. H. A.
Peck, medical advisor to the
county chapter; Mayor Morris
Johnson, W. E. Samuels, Jr.,
county chapter treasurer; Her
bert L. Hawley of Chapel Hill,
associate executive director; and
Bob Paxton, resident caretaker
at the construction site.
PLANS CHANGED
Trail Rides Set
Saturday Only;
Show On Sunday
The annual Sandhills Trail
Rides, scheduled to begin today
and run through Saturday, have
been limited to 20-mile rides, for
both senior and junior riders, on
Saturday only, because of a horse
illness that has cropped up in
nearly all Sandhills stables.
Called “the cough,” the sickness
has about run its course in the
area, according to officials of the
Moore County Hounds, under
whose auspices, with additional
sponsorship by the Town of
Southern Pines, the rides are con
ducted.
However, it was stated, horses
who have had the sickness are
not in condition for the 100-mile
and 50-mile rides that were to
have begun today (Thursday).
Also owners outside the Sandhills
have hesitated to bring their ani
mals into this area because of
the contagious affliction.
The revised schedule calls for
both senior and junior (under 21)
riders to leave Mile-Away Farm
on 20-mile rides over a marked
course Saturday morning. The
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SCHOOL VACATION
STARTS MARCH 24
Spring vacation for schools
of the Southern Pines Dis
trict will begin at the close cif
classes on Tuesday, March
24, to extend to opening at
the regular time on Tuesday,
March 31, Supt. J. W. Jenkins
announced at Monday night's
East Southern Pines PTA
meeting.
The vacation is two days
shorter than originally plan
ned, the superintendent said,
noting that two days lost this
winter became of snow and
ice will be made up before
the vacation begins.
'• The vacation period in
cludes Easter Day which falls
on Sunday. March 29.
STARTS MARCH 22
T. CLYDE AUMAN
Auman Announces
House Candidacy
T. Clyde Auman, West End
peach grower who has long been
prominent in agricultural, civic
and political affairs, this week
announced his candidaacy for
Moore County’s seat in the State
House of Representatives, in the
May 30 Democratic primary.
Auman’s was the second an
nouncement for the House. Last
week Wiley Purvis, of Robbins
Star Route, said that he would
be a candidate.
H. Clifton Blue, who has held
the House post for the past 18
years, is not seeking reelection,
as he is a candidate for Lieuten
ant Governor in the primary.
In his annoimcement, Auman
said: “I am a native of Moore
County, a life-long Democrat and
bom of a family whose roots have
long been founded in the county
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'BRIGADOON* CAST BUSY
Rehearsals continued this week
for the production of the Broad
way musical, “Brigadoon,” which
will be presented jointly by East
Southern Pines high school stu
dents and a group of adults of
the community, at Weaver Audi
torium, Friday and Saturday
nights, March 20 and 21.
2 Clinics Added
To Program For
Polio Vaccine
Two clinics were added this
week to the locations where the
first “sugar lump” administration
of Sabin oral polio vaccine will
be given to Moore County resi
dents, county-wide, on Sunday
afternoon, March 22. They are at
West End and Eagle Springs.
Previously announced plans call
for vaccine clinics to be held in
school cafeterias at Southern
Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen, Vass-
Lakeview, Carthage and Robbins.
The three administrations of
the vaccine—a liquid dropped un
der medical supervision on a
lump of sugar—will take place
one month apart, not one week
apart as stated in last week’s
Pilot.
The dates are: March 22, April
19 and May 17.
Town To Hire
Second Officer
For West Side
The Town Council at the regu
lar meeting Tuesday night voted
to add another policeman to the
local staff.
The move was taken following
the request made by Town Man
ager Rainey, who described the
excellent service now being ren
dered in West Southern Pines by
Officer Emry Little.
Said Mr. Rainey, “Little is jdoing
a wonderful job over there but
he needs help. As it is now he
rides around all night alone in
his police car and this is not a
good thing. Besides, the excellent
work being done by this one man
shows how necessary this service
is.”
Mr. Rainey said that the salary
for the rest of this year could be
carried by the town and would
then be budgeted for next year,
The vote was unanimous.
About 250 Carthage students
whose classrooms were destroyed
by a spectacular $133,500 fire
Wednesday night are expected to
be back at their desks in emer
gency accommodations Monday,
County Schools Supt. R. E. Lee
said this morning.
Following an all-night meeting
of the county board of education
and the Carthage school commit
tee, work began at 7 o’clock this
morning on conversion of the
gymnasium on the school campus
to 10 classrooms. Home economics
classes will be held in the exist
ing agriculture building.
Occupying rooms in the 41-
year-old high school building that
was consumed by flames between
8 and 10 p. m. Wednesday had
been the entire high school stu
dent body and three elementary
grades, Mr. Lee said.
As it happens, the entire high
school was slated to move next
fall to the new consolidated Union
Pines School between Carthage
and Vass.
No further construction at the
site will be needed to accommo
date the entire elementary school,
alter the high school moves, the
superintendent said.
A building about 50 feet from
the school that burned—joined
to it by a covered walkway and
containing library, science lab
and two classrooms—was saved
by efforts of Carthage firemen,
assisted by men and equipment
responding to emergency calls,
from Southern Pines, Pinehurst,
Aberdeen and Vass.
By turning this saved building
over to elementary school use,
the entire elementary school can
be accommodated next fall, Mr.
Lee said.
School officials reckoned the
loss at $122,500 for the building
and $11,000 for contents. 'The en
tire amount was fuUy covered by
insurance, it was stated.
Guards were posted at the fire
scene today to keep curiosity
seekers away from the still-stand
ing walls of the burned-out brick
structure. Mr. Lee said that plans
call for pulling down the walls
tomorrow (Friday) as a safety
measure.
The fire originated in a second-
floor home economics room, it
was reported, and was discovered
by a group of high school seniors
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Young Pianist To
Perform Friday At
Symphony Concert
The North Carolina Little Sym
phony, under the direction of Dr.
Benjiamin Swalin, will present its
annual concert for adults in
Weaver Auditorium Friday night,
March 13 at 8:30, sponsored by
the Sandhills Music Association
as the last event in its 1963-64
concert series.
Two children’s concerts are also
on the Little Symphony’s agenda
for the area. One was given at
1:30 p.m. today (Thursday) in the
West Southern Pines School gym
nasium. The second is scheduled
at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Aber
deen School auditorium.
Sandhills music lovers have an
especially rewarding experience
in store for them Friday night.
The first portion of the evening
program will include “Sheep may
Safely Graze” by Bach, Haydn’s
Symphony No. 55 (Schoolmaster),
Fantasia on Greensleeves by
Vaughan Williams, and The
Round of the Goblins by Bazzini.
Other orchestral selections on
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Walton Named Principal
Of Union Pines School
William C. Walton, principal of
West Davidson High School at
Linwood, in Davidson County, has
been named principal of Union
Pines consolidated high school,
due to open next September, ac
cording to information from the
office of Supt. Robert E. Lee at
Carthage.
Walton is now accepting appli
cations for teacher posts at the
new school which is located be
tween Carthage and Vass.