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VOL.—44 No. 48
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1964
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
SAM J. ERVIN. JR.
Sen. Ervin To Be
Principal Speaker
At Oct. 24 Rally
U. S. Sen. Sam J. Ervin. Jr.,
will be the principal speaker at a
Moore County Democratic rally
to be held at the new Union
Pines consolidated high school,
between Carthage and Vass, on
Saturday, October 24.
Supper will begin at 6 pm with
the program to follow at 7.
Also on the program will be
Moore County’s H. Clifton Blue,
Speaker of the North Carolina
House of Representatives; Dr.
Bill James of Hamlet, candidate
for Congress from the 8th Con
gressional District; and other dis
tinguished guests.
Tickets to this rally are $2
each and can be obtained from
precinct chairmen or vice-chair
men; from Democrat headquar
ters in Carthage; or from J. El-
vin Jackson, chairman of the
Moore County Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, at P. O. Box
372, Carthage.
'WHAT'S WRONG NOW?'
Scott, Blue Get
Ovations At YDC
Carthage Meeting
MoJ/e County Democrats,
young and old, turned out last
Thursday night, in the court
house at Carthage, to welcome
Robert W. (Bob) Scott of Haw
River and to show him they
didn’t hold it against him that he
had defeated their own Rep. H.
Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, for
the party’s nomination for lieu
tenant governor.
It was Scott’s first public ap
pearance in Moore County since
his appointment as chairman of
Rural Americans for Johnson, a
national organisation working
for the Johnson-Humphrey ticket
in the current Presidential cam
paign.
The soirit of unity was appar
ent both from Blue, who intro
duced the son of his old friend,
the late Gov. and Sen. W. Kerr
Scott, and also from Bob Scott,
who paid a ringing tribute to
Blue.
Speaking at a special meetin'^
of the Moore County Young
Democrats Club. kicking off
their fall campaign activity pro
gram, Scott praised Blue for the
high type of campaign which he
conducted last soring, which left
no bitter wounds among Demo
crats; and also recalled that Blue
as a former State YDC president
had influenced the tough election
of 1948.
“I recall when Harry Truman
was campaigning for president,
and a lot of folks didn’t give him
a chance,” Scott said, “but the
day after the election, we found
that North Carolina had given
her votes to the man from Miss
ouri. One reason was the strong
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Speaker States
Reasons For Not
Merging Schools
The case for leaving Southern
Pines High Schools independent
—not merging, as proposed by
the board of education with Pine-
hurst or any other schools—was
presented at Monday night’s
meeting of the East Southern
Pines Parent-Teacher Association.
The speaker was W. Houston
Black, a former (five years) high
school teacher and now a parent
with children in school here. He
said he had not heard this point
of view discussed publicly in a
positive way.
Scheduled for the same meet
ing, but unable to attend and
now expected at the next meet
ing. November 9, was Jere Mc-
Keithen of Aberdeen, chairman
of the county board of education,
who was to have discussed an un
officially proposed merger of
the Southern Pines District high
schools with Aberdeen and West
End schools of the county system.
Four members of the local
board of education were present:
Dr. C. C. McLean, chairman; N.
L. Hodgkins, former chairman;
Dr. R. M. McMillan and Mrs.
Walter Harper.
Dr. McLean explained and ad
vocated support of the $100 mil
lion state bond election for school
construction, to be voted on by
the people November 3.
Pointing out that “we have out
grown our school,” Dr. McMillan
said that three general courses of
action are open:
1. Build a new elementary
school building and other facili
ties at the present site, keeping
all facilities here and remaining
an independent unit.
2. Merge with the county sys
tem, joining with Aberdeen and
West End districts in construc
tion of a new high school.
3. A Southern Pines-Pinehurst
merger, to create a new indepen
dent administrative unit, with
construction of a new joint high
school.
Proposition No. 1, he said,
would be discussed by Mr. Black.
Black said he sees “nothing
basically wrong” with the South
ern Pines Schools as now set up
and feels they have had, do have
and will continue to have a
“sound administrative program.”
He cited what he called “plus
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HELLO, EVERYBODY!— Former Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon, left, on raised platform,
and the two Republican candidates he visited
the Sandhills to boost and praise, wave to a
welcoming crowd at Southern Pines-Pinehurst
Airport Saturday. At his left are Congressman
Charles R. Jonas of Lincolnton, candidate for
relection, and Robert L. Gavin of Sanford,
candidate for Governor. At left, under Mr.
Nixon’s raised arm, is Wallace W. O’Neal of
Pinehurst, Moore County Republican chairman.
At right, beneath Mr. Gavin’s arm is Claude
Teague, State Senate candidate from Richmond
County. (Hemmer photo)
BOOSTS JONAS, GAVIN CANDIDACIES
Nixon Lambastes Democratic Record
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each d'ay 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.
October
8
Max
67
October
9
75
October
10
62
October
11
62
October
12
70
October
13
77
October
14
69
RALLY TONIGHT
Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aber
deen and Rep. H. Pat Taylor of
Anson County will be the speak
ers at a Democratic rally sched
uled tonight (Thursday) at 7:30
pm in the Elise school cafeteria
at Robbins.
Campaigning across the nation i
for Barry Goldwater and other j
Republican candidates in the
November 3 elections, former
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
flew into the Sandhills for an
action-filled four hours, Satur
day.
They were the brightest, livliest
hours Republicans of this area
had experienced since Former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
arrived at the same airport on a
similar mission, two years ago.
There was this difference: after
his hard-hitting partisan address
to 400 persons at a $15 per plate
fund-raising luncheon in the
Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst,
Nixon took off for another speak
ing engagement in Tennessess—
carrying a putter incribed “To
Dick Nixon from Pinehurst
Friends,” but promising not to
use it “until we have won this
election.” Eisenhower, two years
PROUD GIRL
Freda Fields, teenage daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fields of
Pinehurst, became perhaps the
proudest and happies person at
the airport Saturday when For
mer Vice President Nixon signed
her autograph book—just below
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s signa
ture which she had obtained at
the same airport when the for
mer President arrived under
similar circumstances two years
ago. The two signatures appear
together, with no others on that
"ave
ago, had rolled out in a golf cart
to watch the finals of the Nation
al Amaetur Tournament and give
more local people a chance to get
a look at him.
But the Sandhills impressed
Mr. Nixon. He said he wanted to
come back to play golf (he’d
never been here before), com
mented on the beauty of the day
(it was cool and sunny in the
best tradition of local Fall wea
ther) and appeared altogether
pleased with his short stay here.
Sharing the spotlight with the
former Vice-President and 1960
GOP Presidential candidate were
8th District Congressman Charles
R. Jonas of Lincolnton, who is
seeking reelection, and Robert L.
Gavin of Sanford, Republican
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PTA Committee Makes
Recommendations For
School Traffic Safety
Meeting in Weaver Auditori
um Monday night, the East
Southern Pines Parent-Teacher
Association gave its endorsement
to a series of recommendations
brought in by a PTA committee
Jones Company
To Leave Vass;
Another Coming
Jones, Inc., of Vass, manufac
turers of mop yams, this commu
nity’s largest industry, has sold
its building and will move out
by the end of the year.
But, said Paul Jones, president
and manager, a new industrial
firm will open in the building,
employing as many or more peo-
nle than are now employed
there.
Jones said he was not at liber
ty to reveal the identity of the
new owner, except that it was a
well-known and well-established
concern and “our relations with
this community have been so
fine, we would not leave without
securing a good replacement.”
In a notice given to his em-
"loyees, numbering about 45, and
in a letter to the town board of
'commissioners, Jones said the
Jones, Inc, business will be clos
ed and he will return to his home
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REASON FOR COMPLAINTS— Here’s what persons appear
ing before the town council this week were complaining about:
garbage and trash piled higher than an automobile, remaining
unburied and frequently burning and smouldering, at the town’s
“sanitary landfill” disposal area. Smoke is drifting upward’ at
left-center of this picture which shows only a portion of the
accumulated waste. (Pilot photo)
SPOKESMEN, PETITION COMPLAIN OF SMOKE, ODOR
Council To Clean Up, Control Landfill Area
Following bitter complaints
about smoke and offensive odor
coming from the Town’s landfill
waste disposal area off Morgan-
ton Road, opposite the armory,
the to'wn council meeting Tues
day night, took actions designed
for both immediate and long-
range elimination of the problem.
Present to hear complaints
from residents of the Murray
Hill Road area, living about a
half-mile south of the landfill,
was the entire council: Mayor
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., Mayor
Pro Tern Fred Pollard and
Councilmen Felton Capel, C. A.
McLaughlin and Harry Pethick.
After a session that was fea
tured by a sometimes heated ex
change of remarks between
Michael Valen of Murray Hill
Road and Town Manager F. F.
Rainey, the council directed the
manager to determine the cost of
renting heavy equipment—drag-
•line or bulldozer—temporarily*,
in the near future, to bury a
large quantity of garbage and
trash that has accumulated in the
area; and also to have ready, for
a special meeting, to be held
within 10 days, recommendations
for a regulatory ordinance that
would control operation of the
landfill so that the town can
look after it properly with avail
able funds and prevent an accu
mulation of trash from piling up
again.
Information for drawing up
an ordinance will be obtained
from towns and cities that
have such laws and by consulting
with the League of Municipali
ties.
With Valen, who had request-
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Coin Show Slated
At Local Armory
Saturday, Sunday
The first big show of the Sand
hills Coin Club will be held Sat
urday and Sunday at the Nation
al Guard Armory and is expected
+0 draw collectors, antiquarians
and other hobbyists from all over
the State.
General admission is free and
everyone’s invited to see the va
ried displays of coins and related
nntiaues, put on by both amateur
collectors and professional deal
ers. Several famous special col
lections and some extremely rare
coins will be shown.
Dealers from North and South
Carolina, Virginia and Maryland
have taken 41 tables, the full
canacity of the Armory, and
will be available for consulta
tions and question-answering as
well as for exhibiting their
wares. Hours will be from 10 am
to 10 pm Saturday, and from 12
noon to 6 nm Sunday Door prizes
will be given on both days.
W. T. Huntley is general chair
man of the show, nlanned as an
annual affair of the Coin Club,
which draws its membership
from a half-dozen Central Caro
lina counties. C. A. McLaughlin,
also of Southern Pines, is presi
dent of the club.
Merchants Council To
Convene Monday Night
There will be a meeting of
the Southern Pines Merchants
Council Monday, October 19, at
8 p.m. in the council room of the
Southern Pines Municipal Build
ing.
All merchants and interested
persons are invited.
named last month to study pupil-
traffic safety in the area of the
East Southern Pines schools.
Then, Tuesday night, the com
mittee’s chairman, Mrs. A. L. Fol-
ley, and Dr. C. C. McLean, chair
man of the board of education,
presented the program to the
town council which took under
study those items in it which
asked for changes of parking or
dinances and other actions by
the Town.
Serving on the committee with
Mrs. Folley and helping to make
the detailed and exhaustive
study of traffic conditions
around the school, morning and
afternoon, were: Mrs. William
Scarboroush. Mrs W. Harrell
Johnson, Mrs. Watson Scott and
John Ponzer.
After its investigation, said
Mrs. Folley who made the com
mittee’s report and recommenda
tions, all the members recognized
danger to students in the “irreg
ular traffic habits” shown by
parents and other motorists on
Massachusetts and New York
Aves., on Ridge St. and on more
distant connecting streets.
Factors contributing to the con
gestion, Mrs. Folley reported, are
a total 1,163 students in the East
Southern Pines schools, inclu
ding 806 in the elementary
school; and about 50 cars parked
by teachers and about 25 cars by
students.
Observations by the commit
tee, she said, include: Ten cars
narked on adjoining streets be
fore 3 pm on a certain day in
creased to 28, 15 minutes later. A
total of 107 cars was observed in
the school area in 25 minutes.
Congestion is doubled onrainy
days. First and second grade stu
dents use cross walks but older
students rush into streets be
tween and around parked cars.
Schoolboy Patrol students (age
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JOHN D. SULLIVAN of
Southern Pines has been se
lected chairman of a biparti
san campaign committee of
Moore County Citizens for
Gavin. Sullivan, vice-presi
dent of Fletcher Southern
Inc. has lived here with his
family for six years. He is a
past exalted ruler of the
Elks Lodge and a deacon at
the United Church of Christ.
Other members of his com-
mitte will be announced.
(Pilot photo)
Traffic Mishaps Claim 2 Lives
BIKE HITS TRUCK
ALEX R. SALMON, JR.
Lee Co. Wreck
Fatal To Rt. 2,
Carthage, Boy, 16
Alex R. Salmon Jr., 16, of Car
thage, Route 2, died Monday at
8:30 am at Chapel Hill Memorial
Hospital as the result of injuries
sustained in an automobile wreck
at 5:10 p.m. Slunday on the Center
Church Road in Lee County.
Salmon was first taken to Lee
County Hospital but after exam
ination he was immediately
transferred.
He was a sophomore at the
new Union Pines consolidated
school.
J. D. Howie, 18, also of Rt. 2,
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Rites Held Today
For 4-Year-Old
Accident Victim
Funeral services were held this
(Thursday) afternoon for Johnny
Alton Phillips, four-year-old boy
who was killed ’Tuesday on High
way 15-501, four miles south of
Aberdeen, in a bicycle-truck ac
cident.
The Rev. H. L. Summerford'
and the Rev. Bennie Maness of
ficiated in the Ashley Heights
Baptist Church. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
The boy was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alton Vernon Phillips whose
home is near the accident scene.
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