A model of Camp Easter in the Pines, with lake and buildings, is at South ern National Bank, Page 28. VOL. ? 44 No. 49 20 persons have been recognized for giving one gallon or more of blood in the Red Cross program. Page 13. TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1964 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICF: 10 CENTS MANY absentees Registrars Will Be At 19 Voting Places Saturday Registration for voting in the county, state and national elec tions on Tuesday, November 3, will end at the close of the day Saturday, October 24, in Moore County's 19 precinct polling places. Registrars will be at the poll ing places all day Saturday and' may be reached at their homes or places of business prior to that aay. S C. Riddle of Carthage, chair man of the Moore County Board of Elections, said that new regi strations have been above nor mal, with a heavy demand for absentee ballots which are, he pointed out, subject to new regu lations voted into law by last year's General Assembly. Mr. Riddle said Wednesday that the board of elections at that time had 218 applications for absentee ballots from voters in thp armed forces and 58 from civilian voters. The new regulations don't ap ply to the military absentee voters, the chairman said, and they can get ballots easily by sending in a form obtainable at their posts. There are three new tvpes of civilian absentee ballots: The 'A ballot, for persons who will be out of the county on election day. (Deadline for re ceiving applications is 6 pm Wed nesday of next week). The "B" ballot for persons suf fering from "protracted" illness, who know now they won't be able to get out to vote. The deadline is the same as for the "A" ballots; a doctor's certificate must be obtained: and there are other tight regulations. The "C" ballot is for persons with unexpected illness and may be applied for until 10 a.m. Monday, November 2 (the day before the voting) when the board of elections holds its last session before election day. The entire board must pass on nil civilian absentee ballots. Mr. Riddle noted. No new registration is requir- 1 ( d for persons on the county's I hooks in the precinct where they (Continued on page 11) ROTARY SPONSORS HALLOWEEN PARTY The Southern Pines Ha tary Club will holr' its an nual Halloween party for the town's children on Saturday evening, October 31, in front of the main Citizens Bank building on N. W. Broad St. Ray Hannah is general chairman of the event, and has committees at work on the plans i(or the party. As in previous yearn there will be ? parade, prizes, game booths, refreshments, special contests and music. Further details will be an nounce nexi wevk. BmZWZrU'WBi 'W CLINIC SCENE ? Some of the more than 1,000 persons tested for glaucoma symptoms at a free eye clinic here here last week are shown in this scene at the armory, illustrating one of * i 823a -r'ir M338S the steps ? rending eye charts ? in the test. Vol unteer workers point to letters read by the standing persons, as others wait their turn. (Hemmer photo) Over 1,000 Get Free Eye Checks At Lions Clinic A total of 1,086 persons receiv ed free examinations at the Glau coma Detection Clinic conducted | Thursday of last week at the Na- j tional Guard Armory here. Glaucoma is an eye affliction i that can cause blindness, but can j be arrested if discovered in time, i Of this group, reported Dewey j L. Ritter, Jr., of Southern Pines, I chairman of Zone 5 of the spon- | soring Lion- Clubs, 76 referrals] were made for further testing or , treatment. Coincident with the eye exam , inations, 174 persons made vol untary "eye wills," giving their eyes, after death, for medics I use. Lions Clubs of Zone 5 are j those at Southern Pines, Pine- j hurst, Aberdeen, Pinebiuff and j West End. The clinic wns one of a ! (lolling Observes Store Reopening Ceremonies conducted this morning at Collins Department | Store in Aberdeen marked re- , opening of the store, after com- ' pletion of an extensive expans- j ion, remodeling and redecorating program. The efcanfios increased the sell ing space of the store about 40 per cent. This morning's ceremony also marked beginning of an "ex pansion reopening" sale, to run through Saturday. C. L. Tyson, store manager, who ' is a patient at Moore Memorial Hospital, was unable to attend today's event. He is expected to be at the hospital through next ?.veek, before returning to his home at Vass further convalesc ence Merchants Oppose Parking Meiers, Suggest 01 [-Street Area Downtown A small group of local busi nessmen met Monday nii;ht at the monthly meeting of the Southern Pines Merchants' Coun cil. The small group was in con trast to a large turnout last month. Chairman Dante Montesanli called for reports from commit tee chairmen, the fir.-.t being J. T. Overton who reported on the Broad Street parking problem. At last month's meeting the group had decided that enforce ment of the parking limits would help keep employees out of perking spaces which would be used by shoppers. Overton re ported that his committee had consulted with merchants from several other towns about their parking situation and sought to resolve a question in many mer chants' minds the possibilitv of installing parking meters. Overton and his committee concluded that parking meters were not the answer, based on replies received from towns where neters were installed. The parking committee recom mended that provisions be made for a downtown off-street park ing area. Overton mentioned that one businessman had offered a vacant lot which the town might use for employee parking. It was the general conclusion at last month's meeting that if employees of the downtow n busi nesses could park in an area oth er than that of the main hip ping area, the problem would bo greatly improved, at least for the time being Karl Hubbard moved thai. Over ton lake his committee's recom mendations before the town council at its next meeting in No vember. The motion was endors ed by the merchants. Bill Thomasson, chairman of the committee to look into bufi ness closings for holidays and funerals of town officials, report ed that in the future hin commit- | tee composed of Jean Edson and | June Blue would recommend when it was desirable for the business community as a whole to close for such an occasion. The recommendation from the Mer- ? chants' Council will be passed on to the individual businesses by ] the Information Center. Larry Snider reported that the ' Junior Chamber of Commerce had collected $1,115 from 74 mer chants which is to be u?ed in de fraying the costs of permanent ' Christmas lighting lixtuves for I Broad Street. The amount col- ' lected during the recent drive 1 will go toward the purchase of 1 the lights over a three-year peri od. ( Other topics dUeuued general- ] (Continued on Page 8) JOEL STUTTS Stutts Appointed Recreation Head For Laurinburg Joel Q. Stutts, superintendent of water distribution and of the sewage treatment plant, for the Town of Southern Pines, has been appointed city recreation di rector at Laurinburg. Employed by the Town of Southern Pines for the past 13 years. Stutts was chosen for the position by the Laurinburg city council. His duties will begin there November !. As recreation director, he will be in charge of baseball, basket ball, football and Softball pro grams, in addition to arts and crafts and the recreation pro gram at the Laurinburg Commu nity Center. The position is a ' full-time job. When the town council was in formed last week of Stutt^'s res- . ignation, the council directed J that a resolution of appreciation for hi- loyal service be prepared, (Continued on Page 8) lewis McNeill , McNeill Succeeds Slutls In Utility Posts With Town \ Lewis McNeill has ben named , 3y Town Manager F. F. Kainey 1 to succeed Joel Stutts. Novem ber I, as superintendent of water < distribution and superintendent ( of the sewage treatment plant. ( Stutts has resigned to become ( :ity recreation director at Laurin- < burg. McNeill has been his as- ( (Continued on Page 8) ( Man Returned To Mental Hospital After Cliureh Fire A 44-year-old white man with a record of arson ha> been re turned to a state hospital follow ing the burning of the Haw Branch Christian Church (Negro) in Deep River Township Friday, October 9, according to Moore County Sheriff W. B. Kelly. The sheriff said the deed was "the work of a sick mind and there was nothing racial in it." A series of fires in the same gen eral area last spring, which re sulted in the committal of the ar sonist, included that of Friend ship Baptist Church (white) which was burned to the ground. A couple of vacant dwellings were also destroyed by fire, and some attempts at starting woods fire were made. The patient was releacd last July to return to his home for a probationary period. Following the burning of the Haw Bracnh Church he was interrogate! and his actions investigated. While he did not admit the arson, the sheriff said, "we are satisfied that he was the one responsible." The old frame church, built in 1906 close to the Lee County line, was completely destroyed in the early afternoon fire which was discovered by a mail route car rier. The Highfalls volunteer rur al fire department was called but was unable to get there in time. Said Sheriff Kelly, "In that rural community, the white and Negro citizens get along together as well as you could wish. This has been true for years and years. The only time there is trouble is when someone comes in from outside and stirs it up." MEETING SET Group Proposes Fire District Between Towns Preliminary steps toward es ablishing a fire district which would have its own fire-fighting equipment. in the area between Southern Pines and Aberdeen, vere taken at a meeting held last veek. Residents of the area say it is vithout adequate fire protection ind is growing at an increasing ?ate. The district would include erritory between the two towns | ind extending three miles in >ach direction east and west, rom No. 1 highway. Last Friday, a steering com nittee met at the Charlton Motel vith Sherman Plckert ;tate director of fire and rescue ;ervice. to discuss the proposal. Members of the committee are: Uton Scott, chairman; James (Continued on Page 8) Maximum and minimum tern >eratures for each day of the past veek were reeorJcc as follows at he U.S Weather Bureau obser vation station at the W E E B tudios oil Midland Road. THE WEATHER October 15 October 16 October 17 Dctober 18 October 19 Dctober 20 October 21 Ma* Min 57 54 64 57 70 56 84 50 74 53 58 52 65 32 COUNTY- WIDE PRE-ELECTION RALLIES Democrats To Hear Ervin Saturday; GOP To Host Gavin , Jonas Oct . 28 Moore County Republicans will'* stage their major pre-election rally at the Aberdeen school cafeteria, Wednesday of next week, October 28, and ? with over 1,000 tickets sold to the chicken dinner-speechmaking af fair ? are predicting the largest GOP gathering ever held in the county. The two leading figures in the state's Republican party ? Guber natorial candidate Robert L. Gavin of Sanford and Congress ional candidate Charles R. Jonas of Lincolnton ? are expected, along with the party's complete Moore County ticket. Dinner will open the program at 6 p. m. Rep. Jonas will meet the press at 6:30. A combo will play until the 8 p.m. start of the rally and, at 8:30, proceedings will be interrupted to give away a 21-inch color TV set as a door prize, reports Wallace W. O'Neal of Pinehurst, county GOP chair man. John Greer of Aberdeen is in charge of the planning commit tee. Coolidge Thompson of Pine bluff is in charge of the dinner and the Sandhill Republican Wo men will serve the dinner under direction of Mrs W. R. Bonsai, III, of Southern Pines. James E. Harrington, Jr., of Pinehurst, 8th District Chairman, will be the master of ceremonies. O'Neal stated that all friends of Robert Gavin, Congressman Jonas and the local candidates are invited, regardless of party affiliation. I R. S. Ewing of Southern Pines, j candidate for the State House of Representatives will introduce the local candidates: Dr. Charles Phillips. Southern Pines and (Continued on Page 8) Mr. & Mrs. Quillen Now Operating Bakery Here 1 Mr. and Mrs. Irven D. Quillen have leased the business former ly known as the Mid South Bak ery and are now operating it un der the name of Tne Bread Bas ket. They have undertaken some remodeling and ir.j.n:.. ;i a full line of bakery items. Hours of operation will be Monday through Saturday from 7 am to 6 pm. Until the first of j November. The Bread Baske! will be closed Wednesday after 2'iOOiiS. Mrs. Quillen is the former Theresa Montesanti of Southern Pines. HOMECOMING GAME FRIDAY The Blue Knighis football team of Southern Pines High j School will face the Vikings j of Union Pines in the annual j Homecoming game, at Me- | morial Field here at 8 pm, Friday. Union Pines is the coun ty system's new consolidated high school, located between Carthage and Vass. Numerous fesiivities, in eluding the choice of a Home coming Queen, parade, dance and other events are planned for Friday and Saturday. Many school alumni are ex pected back for the game. Candidates for Queer; a^e pictured elsewhere in The Pilot today and other details are noted in the Southern Pines school news column. The Blue Knights defeated Rowland 33-12, Monday night at Rowland, for their sixth consecutive victory. The game had been post poned from last Friday night, because of rain. [ Council, Planning Board To Consider Landfill Problems , There will be a joint meeting of the Town Council and Planning Board Wednesday, October 28, at 8 p.m. in the Town Hall. Meeting with the group will be Victor Denton, director, central area office, division of commun ity planning, Department of Con servation and Development, Raleigh. To be discussed at the meeting will be the sanitary landfill waste disposal area and the possible awarding of a temporary contract for burying refuse that has ac cumulated at the landfill, bring ing complaints about smoke and odor from residents of the Mur ray Hill Road area. Planned also is discussion of a possible ordin ance that would limit use of the landfill bv out-of-town persons or set a fee for such use. Tin? council will continue dis cussion of the school traffic safe ty and parking situation, at the same meeting. ? Democrats from throughout i Moore County are expected to j turn out in force Saturday night of this week, October 24, to whoop it up for their entire slate of candidates in the Novem ber 3 election. Place of the supper and rally where U. S. Senator Sam J Ervin, Jr., of Morganton will be welcomed as the principal speak er, is the new Union Pines con solidated school, between Carth age and Vass. The Senator, a noted orator in the old style and famous for his humorous anecdotes, is expected to help bring out party members for the largest gathering of the pre-election campaign. Supper will begin at 6 p.m. and the program will follow at 7. Tickets are available from pre cinct chairmen: from County Chairman J. Elvin Jackson of Carthage, cashier of the Carolina Bank at Vass; or from the De mocratic campaign headquarters on the courthouse square in Car thage. Prominent on the program will be Dr. William D. (Bill) James of Hamlet, who is challenging 8th District Congressman Charles R. Jonas of Lincolnton in his bid for reelection. Dr. James is cam paigning hard over the district as the "for" candidate? for aid to education, the space program, price supports and increased med ical facilities in the district, among other items. He said this week that he had put 15,000 miles on his car and has spoken to over 200 formal or informal groups since the campaign began. H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen. Speaker of the House in the 1963 N. C. General Assembly, is ex pected, as is Voit Gilmore ux. Southern Pines, State Senate nominee from the four-county (Continued on Page 8) Reservations Asked For Scouting Dinner Nov. 9 Individuals and groups plan ning to attend the annual Pot luck Dinner of Sandhills District Boy Scout-, to be held in the Aberdeen school cafeteria No vember 9, are asked to make res ervations as soon as possible with Mrs. Mark Liddell or Mrs. J. Kimball Watson, both of South ern Pines. All parents of Hoy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers are in vited. Details of the event will be announced. AT f'INEHURST ? Four players in the North & South Seniors Invitational golf tournament going on at Pinehurst pose for a photo between rounds. Left to right: Howard Creel of Col orado Springs, Colo., the medalist with 71, on Monday; Charles H. Stewart of Mississippi City, Miss.; William D. Taylor of Westmount, P. Q., Canada, who in the first round defeated Knox M. Young of Pittsburgh, the 1964 West ern Pennsylvania Seniors champion, 1-up; and Richard S. Tufts, one of the founders of the N&S Seniors and chairman of the board of Pinehurst, Inc. (Hemmcr photo) T Medalist, Defending Champion Play In North-South Tourney At Pinehurst; Medalist Howard Creel of Col orado Springs, Colo., and defend- 1 ing champion James McAlvin of 1 Lake Forest, 111., scored first 1 round victories yesterday (Wed nesday) and set up a second round showdown in the North- ' South Seniors Ir.vitatio.ial golf championship at Pinehurst ' Creel, a left-hander and the 1961 and 1962 World Seniors : Champion, edged Robert R. 1 Bell, a former champion from i Worthington, Ohio, 2 and 1. Mc- ' Alvin disposed of Dr. W. R. Atkins of Louisville, Ky., 5 and 1 4 Creel and McAlvin faced each other in today's second round nver the No. 2 course at Pinehurst Country Club. Results came too late for the Pilot's news deadline. Two other former champions won first round matches Wed nesday. Col. William K. Lanrnan :>f Glenvie'v. ill., defeated F. A. Prather. Ft. Myers, Fla. 4 and 3, arid J. Wolcott Brown of Seagirt, N\ J., eliminated P. J. mIcDo nough of Pittsburgh, Pa., also by I and 3. Creel shot a one-under-par 71 to win the medal, Monday Run (Continucd on Page 8) Senior Women, Oldsters In Tourneys Next Week Following conclusion of thr 13th North-South Seniors golf tournament for men at Pinehurst Saturday, the 7th annual North and South Seniors Invitational for Women will open Tuesday of next week, after practice rounds on Monday. Miss Ada McKenrie. Canadian golfer, is expected to defend her title. Opening Monday, also at Pine hurst, and running through Sat urday (no play on Thursday) will be a new event ? the first tourna ment of the Three Score and Ten Club, for inen golfers ov/er 70, to play in four age classes running up to 85 and over.
