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VOL.—44 No. 23
Candidate Preyer
To Visit Around
County Saturday
Richardson Preyer of Greens
boro, Democratic gubernatorial
candidate in the May 30 primary,
will tour Moore County Saturday,
starting with an 11 a. m. appear
ance and short talk at the town
hall here, introduced by Mayor
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.
The day’s activity will end
with his appearing as guest
speaker at a 7 p. m. dinner in
Doug Kelly’s Holiday Inn Restau
rant, during a district Rotary
convention.
Preyer is expected to ramble
around the business section here,
shaking hands after he appears
at the town hall. He will be pres
ent for opening of his local head
quarters (see separate story) on
S. W. Broad St. at noon and will
have lunch in Southern Pines,
His afternoon schedule is:
1:15—Cameron town hall
2—Courthouse at Carthage.
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GroundbreakinjS Rites
To Launch Program Of
Building By Lutherans
The congregation of Our Sav
iour Lutheran Church here will
launch a building program when
ground is broken Sunday after
noon for its first phase, at the
church’s property on No. 1 High
way Parkway, south.
At the church’s tract, which
is just north of the Fairway Mo
tel, a groundbreaking service
will be held at 3 p.m. The pub
lic is invited.
OPENING SATURDAY
Trailer To Be
Headquarters
For Preyer Here
A local Preyer-for-Governor
headquarters will open here Sat
urday, with the candidate him
self expected for the occasion.
Richardson Preyer, Democratic
candidate for the nomination,
who will spend most of the day in
Moore County Saturday (details
in another story), is expected to
be on hand about noon for open-
nig of the campaign headquarters
in a house trailer on S. W. Broad
St., between the Red Cross office
and Colonial Furniture Go.
Plans call for having the head
quarters open daily from then
until the May 30 primary, staff
ed by volunteer workers, said
Nolley Jackson and Mrs. Pat
Rainey, local members of the
Moore County Preyer committee.
Brochures, bumper stickers, but
tons and other campaign material
will be available, they said, in
viting the public to visit the trail
er at any time.
Opening Of Winn-Dixie Supermarket Set Tuesday
The new Winn-Dixie Super
market at the Town and Country
Shopping Center, between Sou
thern Pines and Aberdeen, will
have its grand opening Tuesday
of next week, April 28. A view
of the new building, from the
front, is shown above.
Completed ahead of schedule
as the first business unit in the
new shopping center development
near Howard Johnson’s Restau
rant and Motor Lodge, the $150,-
000 supermarket has 14,000 square
feet of shopping and storage
space. The paved' parking lot will
accomodate 150 cars.
The supermarket is reached
from Magnolia Drive which in
tersects with Highway 1-15-501
at Howard Johnson’s.
Manager of the big new facil-
—a unit in one of the top 10
food chains in the nation—is
Two Face Murder
Count Next Week
Murder, breaking and entering
and larceny, with two armed rob
beries, three felonious assaults,
two manslaughter charges arising
from auto accidents and two
counts of possession of narcotics
(against one defendant) make up
most of the warrant docket for
next week’s term of Moore Coun
ty Superior Court, for trial of
criminal cases, at Carthage.
Judge John R. McLaughlin of
Statesville will preside, paying
his first offical visit to Moore
county, with Solicitor M. G,
Boyette prosecuting.
The murder case was added to
the calendar Wednesday when
Bobby McNair, 28, and Abraham
Mincer, 22, charged with murder
in the fatal shooting of Shelly
Griffin here last week, waived
hearing in the local Recorder’s
Court and were bound over to
Carthage.
Around 25 cases await the
opening of court and' grand jury
action, with around 65 on the
trial docket.
Harold C. Cole who came here
from Greensboro. Assistant man
ager is John Currie, formerly of
Rockingham.
Sherrill Lee comes here from
Florence, S. C., as produce man
ager and Horace Roberts, manag
er of the meat department, has
arrived from Salisbury.
The managers and department
heads all are experienced food
store personnel who have been
working with Winn-Dixie at other
locations.
A large number of company
personnel, merchandising specia
lists and display experts are
working hard at the supermarket
this week to ready it for the
grand opening. Much of the huge
stock of thousands of separate
items is already in place. Num
erous specials and other features
are planned for the opening.
DR. BILLY GRAHAM TO DELIVER TRIBUTE
Kennedy Library Campaign in State to
Include May 17 Program, Chapel Hill
John A. McPhaul of Southern jlast week with other North Car
Pines, who has been appointed
by Governor Terry Sanford as
chairman of Moore County’s par
ticipation in the fund-raising
drive for the proposed John Fitz
gerald Kennedy Library in
Massachusetts, met in Chapel Hill
John C. Ray On
Pilot Staff After
Service In USAF
greeted by Mrs. John
MacDougald as she arrived this week to become one of the
first guests at the Penick Memorial Home here. Miss Cook, a
resident of Southern Pines recently, is a former longtime
resident of Pinebluff and is a member of Emmanuel Church
here. Mrs. MacDougald and her husband are administrators
o the home. (Humphrey photo)
Joining the staff of The Pilot
this week was John C. Ray, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan S. Ray of
Southern Pines. Mr. Ray has
been with the United States Air
Force for the past four years,
serving as public information of
ficer.
Mr. Ray and his family return
ed last week from an overseas
tour of duty with the Air Force
which took them to Izmir, Tur
key, and Bitburg, Germany. Prior
to the overseas assignment they
were stationed at Mission and
Laredo, Texas, and Myrtle Beach,
S. C.
A 1956 graduate of Southern
Pines High School, Mr. Ray at
tended the University of North
Carolina, at Chapel HiU, finishing
in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in English literature.
While there he was a member of
the student legislature, the stu
dent council and the Air Force
Reserve Officer Training Corps
of which he was commander dur
ing his senior year. During his
student days he was a member of
the Chi Psi fraternity and the Or
der of the Old Well.
Mr. Ray’s wife, the former Har
riet Walton of Scarborough, New
York, attended Wheaton College
in Norton, Mass., and the Univer
sity of North Carolina where she
graduated in 1961. She is a mem
ber of Kappa Delta sorority and
the Junior League. The Rays
have two daughters, Paige, 2V?,
and Laura, 2 months old.
olina county campaign chairmen.
The group discussed various
details of the drive and the sub
sequent program of tribute to the
late President who was assassina
ted last November.
Governor Sanford announced
recently that North Carolina’s
tribute to President Kennedy will
be delivered by Dr. Billy Graham
as a part of a special memorial
program in Kenan Stadium on
the campus of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill at
3 p. m. on Sunday, May 17.
The Governor appointed Hugh
Morton of Wilmington and
Grandfather Mountain as chair
man of the fund-raising drive for
the Library and G. Andrew Jones
of Raleigh, state budget officer,
as treasurer.
Tickets Numbered
Each person who contributes
$10 to the Kennedy Library Drive
I in North Carolina is entitled to a
ticket to the May 17 program in
Kenan Stadium.
The check covering North Car
olina’s contribution to the John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Library will
be presented during the May 17
program, which will be held in
Kenan Stadium, rain or shine.
The State committee on Ar
rangements appointed by Gover
nor Sanford includes distinguish-
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Collections Of
Blood Set At 4
Moore Locations
Collections in the continuing
Red Cross program which sup
plies free blood of all types to
both hospitals in the county have
been scheduled as follows, it is
announced by Jack R. Hauser,
Moore County chairman for the
program:
At Robbins, Monday, April 27
-^12 noon to 5:30 p.m. in the
high school gym.
At Vass, 'Tuesday, April 28—
11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the high
school gym.
At Pinehurst, Monday, May 4
—12 noon to 5:30 p.m. in the high
school gym.
At Aberdeen, Tuesday, May 5
—8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the First
Baptist Church.
Praising the fine record of
blood donations under the reor
ganized Moore County program
that began last fall, Mr. Hauser
urged generous giving so that
the program can be maintained
in the county.
Five Democrats
Seek Nomination
For Two Senators
Vive candidates—one from
each of the five counties of the
18th Senatorial District—are
seeking the Democratic nomina
tion for the district’s two seats in
the State Senate, subject to the
May 30 primary.
B. Harry Register, Jr., of San
ford was added Friday to the four
previously announced—Voit Gil
more of Southern Pines, John R.
Ingram of Asheboro, Charles A.
Hostetler of Raeford and Robert
B. Morgan of Lillington.
Counties in the new district—
in which all candidates must now
file at large—are Moore, Lee,
Hoke, Randolph and Harnett.
Three of the candidates, Hos
tetler, Ingram and Morgan, are
lawyers. Gilmore, owner of lum
ber, motel and restaurant busi
nesses, has served for nearly
three years as U. S. Travel Serv
ice director, a post from which he
recently resigned.
Morgan has served in the State
Senate for three terms under the
old rotation system in the former
four-county district.
He and Sen. W. P. Saunders of
Southern Pines currently repre
sent this district which is com
posed of the same counties, ex
cept Lee. Saunders did not file
for renomination.
Hostetler was campaigning in
Moore County Tuesday, spending
part of the time visiting around
Southern Pines.
Taking part will be: Dr. George
R. Whittecar of Salisbury, presi
dent of the North Carolina Sy
nod of the Lutheran Church in
America, who will be guest
speaker; the Rev. David F. John
son of Chicago, regional super
intendent for the Board of Amer
ican Missions of the Lutheran
Church; the Rev. Jack Deal,
pastor of the local church; Mel
vin O. Johnson, chairman of the
Building Committee; Mayor Nor
ris L. Hodgkins, Jr., and T. T.
Hayes, Jr., of Hayes-Howell and
Associates, architects of the pro
posed buildings.
The first phase of the pro
gram calls for construction of a
chapel, education building, court
yard, driveway, parking lot and
other facilities. The main sanct
uary of the church will be the
major item in Phase 2 of the pro
ject.
The congregation of Our Sax-
iour Church was formally or-
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Precinct Meets
Set Saturday By
Moore Democrats
Saturday will be the day for
the biennial Democratic precinct
meetings in county and State,
when party members at the
grassroots have an opportunity to
elect their officers and committee
members for <the coming two ,
years.
The Democratic County con-
vention will be held Saturday,
May 9, at the courthouse in Car
thage. On May 19 and 20, the
State convention will be held in
Raleigh.
Several precinct chairmen have
announced their meetings. Per
sons whose precincts are not list
ed should get in touch with their
chairmen to find out when and
where their meeting will take
place.
Meetings announced this week
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First Guests Received At New Penick
Home; Dedication To Be September 12
The first 10 cuests havA mavArl 1 in
Student Play To Be
Presented Saturday
“Hobgoblin House,” a mystery
play, will be presented in Weaver
Auditorium at 8:15 p.m. Saturday
by the Knight Masques, student
dramatic group at Southern
Pines High School.
Mrs. John McPhaul is advisor
for the group.
The first 10 guests have moved
into the Penick Memorial Home
here, and more are expected to be
in residence by the weekend, H.
T. Cosby of Charlotte, president
of the Episcopal Home for the
Ageing, has announced.
The home, located off N. Ridge
St., at the E. Rhode Island Ave.
intersection, is named in honor of
the late Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Pen
ick, bishop of the Episcopal Dio
cese of North Carolina. With a
capacity of 40 guests, the home
will be formally dedicated on
September 12.
Each guest has a private room
and tiled bath, with individual
room air conditioning controls.
There is ample closet and storage
space with each unit. Guests may
bring some of their own furniture
for their rooms if they wish.
The home was decorated by
Carl Barnes, A.I.D. of Winston-
Salem. The lounge has a cathe
dral ceiling with long, vertical
windows and a fireplace with a
taU chimney to heighten the ef-
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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
studios on Midland Road.
Mrs. Dent’s Colt,
Winner of Gotham,
To Run In Derby
Local boy makes good—and
does it again next week, we hope.
On the strength of his fine re
cord on the track this year, cul
minating in victory, against tough
competition, in the gruelling
Gotham last week, Mrs. McGrud-
er Dent ha^ entered her three-
year-old colt, Mr. Moonlight, to
take a shot at the Triple Crown,
the three great races that start
with the Kentucky Derby on
May 2.
Mr. Moonlight came to the
Sandhills and the Dent farm, off
the Carthage Road north of here,
when he was just a weanling.
Mrs. Dent had picked him up at
the fall breed sales in Kentucky.
“He was raised on Costal Ber
muda,” his owner says, admitting
with a twinkle that a few other
ingredients formed part of his
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Max.
Min.
April 16
73
39
April 17
82
59
April 18
87
54
April 19
88
60
April 20
90
60
April 21
88
60
April 22
86
52
NEW OFFICER— William
Leonard McNeill, 35, now on
duty as a patrolman with
the Southern Pines Police De
partment, is the second Negro
officer to be employed by the
town. He is sharing service
in West Southern Pines with
E m r y Little. A native
of Scotland County, McNeill
had been employed since
1959 at the Union Carbide
battery plant in Asheboro and
previously had worked at the
North Carolina Sanatorium,
McCain. His wife and two
sons—Leon, 9, and Johnny,
7—are living at McCain, but
the family plans to move
here as soon as possible.
(Pilot photo)
Clarendon Gardens Now
At Peak Of Blooming
Clarendon Gardens, out Lin
den Road from Pinehurst, are at
their peak of Spring beauty now,
report Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Howe, the owners, with a wide
variety of azaleas in bloom and
rhododendrons starting to flow
er.
There was little freeze damage
at the gardens this year, they
said, and the azalea display is
particularly beautiful. The gar
dens are open to the public.
BAND TO RALEIGH
The Southern Pines High
School Band has been invited to
record a “Concert in Brass” pro
gram at WRAL-TV, Raleigh, Sat
urday morning, April 25, at 9:30
a.m., to be broadcast at a later
date. Details of this and other
band activity appear in the Sou
thern Pines High School news
column elsewhere in today’s
Pilot.
JOINT CONCERT— Dr. Arnold Hoffman of Raleigh, State
supervisor of music, is pictured (left) as he directed more than
200 young people—a portion of whom are shown here—from
six school glee clubs at Aberdeen last Friday night. He later
said the entire group “performed on the A-level” and called
the concert “an extremely exciting and most enjoyable ex
perience.” (Humphrey photo)
School Glee Clubs Sing In Festival;
2 Girls Tie For Junior Builders Cup
Once more, as he has for sever- Seven girls and two boys, en-
al years. Dr. Arnold E. Hoffman, ‘ '
state supervisor of music, per
formed his magic trick of crea
ting a fine chorus out of a group
of glee clubs from Moore Coun
ty schools. And doing it in only
one long day of rehearsal.
This year six clubs took part
in the concert that was held in
the Aberdeen Auditorium last
Friday evening. Present and sing
ing lustily in the giant chorus
were the high school clubs of
Aberdeen, Southern Pines, Cam
eron, Pinehurst, Vass-Lakeview
and West End. Massed on the big
stage of the auditorium, the sight
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tered as the “most outstanding
students” of nine high schools of
the county, were honored Friday
night at the Aberdeen school au
ditorium, and two of them shared
the award of the Junior Sandhills
Builders Cup.
Gayle Stutts, senior at Elise
High School, Robbins, and Ann
Crockett, senior at Vass-Lake
view High School, became the
first two students to tie in the
Sandhills Kiwank Club’s annual
competition.
Richard T. Mitchell of Southern
Pines, Kiwanis chairman for the
project, said the committee found
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