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SOUTHERN PINES, N. CJ, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1964
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
New Fire Distriet Between Towns
To Be Discussed At Public Meeting
Pancakes
Saturday
Aid Scouts
A pancake breakfast will be
held Saturday at 8 am at Doug
Kelly’s restaurant, Holiday Inn,
for all Scouters and other volun
teers in the current Sandhills
District Boy Scout fund drive.
The workers will pay for their
own pancakes—all but one. Col.
George Garde, solicitation chair
man, has issued a challenge. He
said he’ll pay the bill for the
man who eats the most pancakes.
Everybody interested
Scouting and willing to donate
two hours of their time is asked
to bring a hearty appetite for
pancakes and for work to Holi
day Inn Saturday morning.
Filled with zest and pancakes,
the crowd will then disperse on
a two-hour collection mission,
expected to put the campaign
over the top.
With a budget of $9,985 for the
coming year, the district has un
dertaken one of the largest fi
nancial drives on the 1964-65
calendar, but every dollar is nec
essary if the Scouting program
is to grow and develop as it
should, according to J. Kimball
Watson, general chairman.
Watson was recognized for his
own work with the special gifts
committee at the “potluck sup
per” held at Aberdeen Monday
night, and recognition was also
accorded Ted Taws, Harold Col-
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A public meeting will be held
tonight (Thursd'ay) at 8 o’clock
at the Aberdeen school for dis
cussion of the proposed fire dis
trict between Southern Pines and
Aberdeen.
Sherman Pickert, state direc
tor of fire and rescue service,
will be present to explain meth
ods and benefits of the proposed
organization, and Ed Lanier,
State Commissioner of Insur
ance has been invited also.
Organization of such a district
will materially reduce fire in
surance costs for residents of
the fast-growing district, which
will extend from the southern
city-limits of Southern Pines to
the northern city limits of Aber
deen, and for three miles east
in and west from US Highway 1,
between the two towns.
On the east, it extends to the
Fort Bragg reservation, and on
the west, to part of Midland
Road.
All persons living in the dis
trict are asked to attend the
meeting.
A steering committee was re
cently selected at a meeting of
interested residents of the dis
trict, and met again Tuesday
night of this week with Pickert
at Christy’s Restaurant, where
where they had supper together.
Members of the committee are
Alton Scott, chairman; James
Weathenspoon, secretary; Ernest
Black, Mike Valen, Ralph Jones,
Joe Sims, Watson G. Scott, Jr.,
Wayne Adams and Sherwood
Brockwell, Jr., county fire mar
shal. All residents of the propos
ed district except Brockwell,
who lives in Southern Pines.
AFTER 40 YEARS, Lloyd Woolley’s smile
remains warm and infectious as ever. He had a
lot to smile about last Thursday, surrounded
by friends at his retirement dinner. Also smiling
on this happy occasion—Joe Steed, left, and
Houston Black, right, of the CP&L division
staff which Woolley left November 1.
Horse Thief Loose In Sandhills —
Blossom Back In Stall, Saddle Gone
Sometime during Monday night
or early Tuesday morning, she
was stolen from her stall in the
Caddell Stable.
She actually wasn’t missed un
til late the next morning, when
a phone call was received from
Mile-Away Farms. Blossom,
riderless and lost, had followed
the Moore County Hunt in from
Skyline, six miles north of town.
She was all lathered up, and had
obviously been ridden hard. Mrs.
Caddell, who by then had dis
covered the empty stall, gave her
a royal welcome home.
Also stolen, but not returned,
was a black western saddle and
bridle.
There’s a horse thief in the
Sandhills, but hold on there
pardner,—the posse isn’t form
ing yet.
But somebody might have
been strung up, had the horse
not escaped, or been released,
before she was actually missed.
The victim was Blossom, gen
tle and amiable 10-year-old
white mare owned by Mrs. Ver-
die Caddell, a favorite among
the children who ride at her
stables.
Blossom made a big hit Friday
night as the Blue Knight’s noble
steed in the championship game
parade. It might have been then
that someone gazed on her with
an acquisitive gleam in his eye.
Town Will Contract For Land Use
Survey And Analysis, With Maps
The Southern Pines town't-
council, in regular meeting Tues
day night, adtopted a resolution
to contract for a proposed land
planning survey, as recommend
ed by the N. C. Department of
Conservation and Development,
also by the Town Planning
Board.
The comprehensive survey, in
cluding base mapping, land use
survey and analysis, population
and economy study, land devel
opment plan, extra-territorial
zoning and subdivision regula
tions, will be made at a cost of
$10,200 plus $1,020 (10 per cent)
overhead, of which $6,800 will be
paid by federal funds.
The town’s share, $4,420, will
be paid under the proposal in
two equal instalments, half next
April, or within 30 days after
the survey begins in March, the
other half a year later.
Ralph Chandler, chairman of
the town planning board, pre
sented the board’s recommenda
tion to the council that the con
tract be undertaken, as it has;
been by Carthage, Robbins, San
ford, Wagram, Raeford and vari
ous other towns of this area. It
would be invaluable in the or
derly development of the town,
he said. He noted that it would
include a new and detailed land
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Landfill
Problems
Continue
The town, months behind in
burying its garbage at the sani
tary landfill—^which residents of
the area claim is sanitary no
longer—^has one more bid to con
sider in addition to the $5,250
previously reported.
Town Manager F. F. Rainey
told the council Tuesday night
he had received a bid of $4,249,
but that the town would be sup
posed to furnish the operators
large quantities of fill-in dirt. He
said he didn’t know of the town
had that much dirt to give, or
where they’d get it.
Also, Rainey decared, he did-
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SADA Awards Slated Monday Night;
Community, County Winner
The Juniper community near
Eastwood won first place in
county competition in the 1964
SADA community development
contest, and will compete for area
prizes at the annual SADA meet
ing at Sanford Monday night.
An excellent new community
house, built mostly with volun
teer labor—some 718 manhours in
all—and financed by local bene
fits involving practically every
one in the community clinched
the county award for Juniper, ac
cording to Leon Harkins, assistant
county Extension agent, who is
county community development
chairman.
Harkins said the recently com
pleted community house at Thom
as Crossroads is now in regular
use for all sorts of meetings and
projects, and has been used so
far by nine organizations.
The first-place award, with
cash prize of $25, went to Juni
per following the county judging,
which took place Friday, while
the second-place avvard, with
$15, went to Glendoh and the
third-place award, with $10, to
Westmoore. The second and third
awards were for general excel
lence of community development
programs through the year, Har
kins said.
Judging in the area contest, in
which first-place winners of
SADA member counties Moore,
Lee, Hoke, Montgomery and'
Richmond competed, took place
Monday. Results will be an
nounced and four cash prizes —
$125, $100, $75 and $50 — will be
awarded to the first through
fourth-place winners, with pla
ques.
The area competition will be
in three divisions, rural communi
ties, villages and towns. Moore
had entries only in the rural
communities division, who were
judged by Don Marsh of the
Sanford office of CP&L and Bob
Wesson, Montgomery County Ex
tension agent.
Mrs. Wilma Key of EUerbe is
area chairman of the community
development program, a major
and year-long activity of the
Sandhills Area Development as
sociation, which reaches its cli
max at the annual meeting.
Award of the prizes and plaques
will highlight the program.
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GIVEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY is dedicated, a beautiful new
addition to Pinehurst. Story on Page 22. (Photo by Hemmer)
Carousel Slated
Next Weekend,
With 128 Teams
A total of 128 teams has enter
ed the 11th annual Southern Pines
Golf Carousel, to be played on
the Southern Pines and Pine
Needles Country Club courses
Friday through Sunday of next
week, with qualifying rounds on
Thursday.
Entries are from as far north
as Canada and as far south as
Florida, according to Sam Har
rison, general chairman of the
Jaycee-sponsored event.
In the men’s division, 104 teams
are entered, with 24 in the mixed
division, reports Bill Toney, entry
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Woolley
Honored
At Banquet
L. L. Woolley, who retired No
vember 1 after 40 years’ service
with Carolina Power & Light
Co., was honored last Thursday
night with a CP&L dinner at
Doug Kelly’s restaurant, Holiday
Inn.
Friend's and fellow employees
of the Southern Pines district
and division were present to
honor Woolley, a real “old timer”
here, well known and loved
throughout the Sandhills.
Also attending the banquet
from CP&L headquarters at Ra
leigh, were Wtoolley’s “bosses,”
Paul Colby, head of the opera
ting and' engineering depart
ment, and Edgar Geddie, super
intendent of lines, also present
were their wives.Woolley retired
as line . inspector and construc
tion coordinator with the South
ern Pines division.
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Ground-Breaking Set
Nov. 25 For College
Governor Sanford
Telephone Co.
Files Suit Vs.
Ad Sales Agency
The United Telephone Co. of
the Carolines filed a petition
Wednesday in Moore superior
court, seeking a restraining ord
er against a Greensboro firm sel
ling advertising space on tele
phone directory covers.
Resident Judge John D. Mc
Connell signed a temporary order
against Universal Sales of Greens
boro, Inc., the defendant corpora
tion, restraining them from “so
liciting, selling or taking orders
for advertising space on any type
of telephone directory cover or
attachment.”
A hearing was set for Novem
ber 27 at Carthage on whether or
not the temporary restraining
order should be made permanent.
Universal Sales of Greensboro,
Inc., representatives have report
edly solicited merchants with the
object of selling ad space on di
rectory covers in Southern Pines
this week, and have also worked
in several other towns served by
United in this area.
Under a law tested in both the
federal and State courts, the
directory is regarded as the pro
perty of the telephone company
during its period of use, and
covers, binders, etc., may not be
attached.
Will Speak At
4 p.mu Event
Governor Terry Sanford will
be the principal speaker when
Sandhills Community College
formally breaks ground Wednes
day, November 25, to initiate
construction of the college.
The ceremonies will be held at
the site of the College on the
Pinehurst-Airport Road £rom
4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Widely known for his interest
in education. Governor Sanford
has supported and given impetus
to the Community College pro
gram.
“It is wonderful and appropri
ate that the Governor will ad
dress us at the formal ground
breaking for this institution, the
physical result of a program
which he both initiated and com
pleted in this one administra
tion.” said Dr. Raymond A.
Stone, president of the college,
first to be established under the
1963 Higher Education Act.
Dr. A. A. Vanore, of Robbins,
a trustee of the college and
chairman of the event, extends
an open invitation to the public
and has sent formal invitations
to both local and state dignitar
ies.
Trustee Chairman Cliff Blue
and Dallas Herring, chairman of
the State Board of Education,
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Carolina Bank, With Five Offices
In Moore, Observes 50th Birthday
Rahn Appointed
To Sandhills
College Staff
Henry Irwin Rahn has been
appointed to an administrative
position with Sandhills Commu
nity college as Director of Voca
tional-Technical Education. He
will begin his assignment with
the college Monday, December
14.
He comes to the newly created
post from Durham, where he
was Director of the Vocational-
Technical Program at the Dur
ham Industrial Education Cen
ter. Prior to this, he directed and
supervised vocational and tech
nical education in Leaksville. He
received his Bachelor St Science
degree in education from
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The Carolina Bank, which first
opened its doors for business as
the Bank of Pinehurst November
5, 1914, is celebrating its 50th
anniversary this month.
From its first office in Pine
hurst, the bank has expanded into
four other Moore County towns,
with offices in Aberdeen, Carth
age, Vass and West End. Total
personnel in all offices now num
bers 62.
Plans are now underway for
the renovation and enlargement
of the home office in Pinehurst
and there are comparatively new
buildings in each of the other
towns.
The original Bank of Pinehurst
was founded' by the late William
L. Hurd of Pittsburgh, for many
years a winter resident. It was
originally intended as a fireproof
and reasonably burglar-proof
building for the storage of valu
ables during the absence of the
winter residents. The idea grew
and rapidly developed into plans
for the organization of a bank.
Leonard Tufts of Pinehurst ap
proved the idea, although he was
not actively, ind'entified with the
enterprise except as a stockhold
er and depositor.
It was proposed to organize
with a capital of $10,000, and in
three days after the public an
nouncement of the plan, $8,000
had been sugscribed by Pinehurst
people. Meanwhile letters had
been written to many absent visi
tors. When the replies were re
ceived, to the surprise of the
promoters, over $33,000 had been
subscribed for the proposed $10,-
000 bank. To alleviate this “em
barrassment of riches,” it was de
cided' to limit to five the number
of shares allotted any one sub
scriber—that is, not over $500
worth of stock was sold to any
one interested. In this way, no
applicant was refused at least
some stock in the beginning
years, and the restrictions were
lightened later.
The corporate organization was
perfected with John R. McQueen,
president; W. L. Hurd, vice presi-
lent; A. S. Newcomb, secretary,
and I. C. Sledge, treasurer,
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^^Squirrel Stew Boys^^ Plan
Victory Dinner Sat. Night
The “Squirrel Stew Boys” are
sponsoring a Democratic Victory
dinner at Doug Kelly’s Restaur-
BADGE-WINNING SCOUTS HONORED at
Recognition Supper. The boys above, all from
Aberdeen Troop 68, have aU recently received
their Eagle badges or For God and Country
Awards, while one boy has earned both. They
are, from left, front row. Eagle Scouts Joseph
Robbins, Charles Craven and William Going;
back row. Tommy Cruce, Eagle; John Burns,
Victor Groce, For God and Country; Mickey
Melvin, Eagle, and Lindsay Neill, Eagle and
For God and Country, Not in photo, Mac Lathan,
Eagle. (Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
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ant. Holiday Inn, Saturday eve
ning, at which Dr. Bill James of
Hamlet will be the honored
guest.
This will be a strictly informal
occasion for both men and wo
men. A social hour will be held
from 6:30 to 7:30, then at 7:30
p.m. dinner will iDe served. It’s
dutch, at $2 per plate.
Information from the “Squirrel
Stew Boys” is that they aren’t
trying to get up the biggest crowd
in the world and are doing no
pressuring or advertising, but
they just want everybody who
admires the scrappy fight “Dr.
Bill” put up in the Eighth Dis
trict congressional race, and ap
preciates all he did for the party
ticket, to come on out and have
a good time with others who feel
the same way.
Party leaders and workers are
expected from several counties
of the district.
So that Doug will know about
how many to expect, those plan
ning to come are asked to see that
their names go in the pot not
later than Friday. They can let
any of the following know: La-
mont Brown, Southern Pines;
Cliff Blue, Aberdeen; Mrs. Lou
Frye, Robbins; Mrs. Carolyn
Blue, Eagle Springs; Monroe
Chappell, Vass; J. Elvin Jackson,
Carthage (Carolina Bank at Vass
in business hours); Doug David,
Pinebluff (tax collector’s office
at Carthage in business rours).