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SHOPPING DAYS
TILL CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING DAYS
TILL CHRISTMAS
VOL.—45 No. 5
THIRTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C-, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1964
THIRTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
PATROLMAN SLAIN LAST AUGUST
2 Moore County Men Sentenced To
Life Imprisonment In Murder Case
Two Sandhills men were sen
tenced to life imprisonment Sat
urday afternoon at Raeford, after
being convicted of first degree
murder in the brutal beating and
pistol slaying of a state trooper
near Raeford last August 31.
Willie Junior Smith, .35, and
Rudy Clegg Bruton, 22, both Ne-
HAS LOCAL KIN
R. y. Jager, Jr.,
Former Resident,
Killed, Viet Nam.
Funeral services were held at
Stockton, Calif., Tuesday, with
burial in the National Cemetery
at San Francisco, for Roland V.
Jager, Jr., a young man who
spent some of his growing-up
years in Southern Pines and who
was killed recently in Viet Nam
while serving with the U. S.
Army.
Roland V. Jager, Jr., was the
eldest of the five sons of Lt. Col.
and Mrs. Roland V. Jager of
Stockton. The family had moved
to that community from Germany
to which they went after their
residence in Southern Pines.
Mrs. Jager, mother of the young
man who was killed, is the young
est daughter of the late Police
Chief and Mrs. C. E. Newton of
Southern Pines. Local relatives
are John Scott Newton, an uncle
of Roland V. Jager, Jr., and Miss
Mary Scott Newton, a great aunt,
also a great uncle, Roy Newton.
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Jager were
in Chicago, attending the funeral
of Colonel Jager’s brother, when
they were informed that their
son had been killed.
Roland V. Jager, Jr., attended
St. Anthony’s School during the
family’s period of residence here,
Hvhile his father was at Fort
Bragg and overseas. He was a
Pilot salesbpy during part of their
residence.
The family lived on Sheldon
Road. Mrs. Jager was active in
Cub Scout work and served for
a time as den mother.
The Jagers had lived in South
ern Pines in earlier years during
various periods of Colonel Jager’s
military service.
groes who lived near Pinehurst,
received the mandatory life terms
from Judge George M. Fountain
after a jury from Bladen county
had recommended mercy in their
verdicts.
Bruton’s defense counsel, H. F.
Seawell, Jr., of Carthage, gave
notice of appeal for his client.
No appeal was made or expected
in Smith’s case. His lawyer was
Phillip Diehl of Raeford.
Both attorneys were court-ap
pointed, on personal selection by
the defendants. Another Moore
County attorney, L. M. Johnson,
had been chosen by one of the
two other men arrested in the
murder, but was not called since
these two were not indicted. The
two men, Albert Reaves, 48, and
his brother-in-law Will Allen, 60,
like Smith and Bruton residents
of the Taylortown community,
served as witnesses for the State.
Several Moore County troopers
and other officers were involved
in the trial, as they took part in
an intensive search following the
murder which resulted in the ar
rests made at the men’s homes.
The body of Trooper W. H.
Herbin, 34, was found in a rain-
soaked cornfield off US Highway
401, between Raeford and Fay
etteville. His skull was fractur-
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Fire Protection
Group Chartered
A charter has been filed at Car
thage for a non-profit corpora
tion, the Mid-Town Fire Protec
tion Association, Inc., which was
recently organized to set up a
fire-fighting unit in the area be
tween Southern Pines and Aber
deen.
Directors are named as Alton
Scott, Watson C. Scott, Jr., and
James Weatherspoon, all of
Southern Pines, and H. Clifton
Blue and Mrs. Ernest Green, of
Aberdeen.
Incorporators are Alton Scott,
D. P. Black, Lawrence McCrim-
mon and James D. Weatherspoon.
Alton Scott, who is president
of the association, is named as the
initial registered agent. He is
owner and operator of the Charl
ton Motor Court.
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KEPT HIS PROMISE— When Former Vice
President Richard M. Nixon of New York City
(at right, above) visited Pinehurst in October
as a political campaigner for the Republican
national ticket and for Robert L. Gavin of
Sanford (next to him in photo) and Rep. Charles
R. Jonas, Mr. Nixon said he’d be back to play
golf — and this week he kept his promise,
flying into Pinehurst Sunday morning for two
days on the famed courses there. His com
panions on the trip were two Readers Digest
executives—Albert Cole of Greenwich, Conn.
(left), editor, and Hobart Lewis of Katonah,
N. Y., publisher. Mr. Gavin, who golfs frequent
ly in the Sandhills, was defeated in his bid for
Governor, but Rep. Jonas retained his 8th Dis
trict seat in Congress. The group is shown here
leaving the first tee of the No. 1 course at the
Pinehurst Country Club. Mr. Nixon — who
shoots in the 86-88 range and has a 14 handicap
— praised the Pinehurst courses. A TV inter
view with Mr. Nixon at Pinehurst was seen
Tuesday on NBC's “Today” show.
(Hemmer photo)
Churches Plan Services,
Christmas-Time Events
Church services and associated
events of the Christmas season
are taking place throughout this
area, some already completed
and others scheduled from now
through Christmas Day.
Here is a summary of happen
ings in Southern Pines churches
during this period:
Brownson Memorial Presbyte
rian Church, Dr. Julian Lake,
pastor:
Friday, December 18—Organ
ist William J. N. Stokes will pre
sent a recital, 12 noon to 12:30
pm.
Sunday, December 20—All
choirs will participate in a serv
ice of lessons and carols and the
Joy Gift offering will be taken,
at 7:30 pm.
Christmas Eve, Thursday, De
cember 24—^Mr. Stokes will pre
sent another half-hour recital
from noon to 12:30 pm; also 9:30
10 pm. At 10 pm. Dr. Lake will
officiate at a communion service.
United Church of Christ, the
Bev. Carl Wallace, pasior:
Sunday, December 20—The
church’s three choirs will sing
special music of the season at the
11 am worship service. At 5:30,
youth fellowships will package
and deliver food for the needy
and fruit baskets for shut-ins.
Monday, December 21—The
Junior Fellowship will go out
carol singing.
Tuesday, December 22—The
Church School will give their
Christmas program, “The True
Meaning of Christmas,” at 7:30
pm. This will be followed by a
social hour in fellowship hall.
Our Saviour Lutheran Church,
Pastor Jack Deal:
Christmas Eve, Thursday, De
cember 24—The young people of
the church will present a Christ
mas pageant, with music, at 7:30
pm in the church’s fellowship
hall.
First Baptist Church, the Rev.
John Stone, pastor:
Sunday, December 20—The
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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.
Max. Min.
December 10 50 33
December 11 .; 64 34
December 12 66 44
Deceniber 13 59 43
December 14 52 42
December 15 48 24
December 16 55 23
Many Writing To
Santa’s Mailbox’
Santa’s representative in the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
Durward Grady, said this week
that numerous letters had been
deposited in “Santa’s mailbox” in
front of the Southern Pines Post
Office.
Grady said that youngsters can
be assured that their letters will
reach Santa in time for Christmas
by including their complete re
turn address. Five cents postage
must be affixed to each letter.
Santa’s Mailbox is being spon
sored by the Jaycees who are
helping Santa find out what
every boy and girl has his heart
set on for Christmas.
The mailbox will remain in
front of the post office until
Christmas Day.
Fundamentals Of
Learning Will Be
Taught In Courses
Sandhills Community College
will open a Ftmdamentals Learn
ing Laboratory at the college’s
present location on N. W. Broad
Streeet, in early January, Presi
dent Raymond A. Stone has an
nounced. The Laboratory will be
operated by the college’s teach
ing counselor and supervised by
the director of adult education,
D. L. Furches.
A Fundamentals Learning Lab
oratory offers opportunities for
adults to complete their high
school education, to prepare to
enter specialized programs, and
also simply to take subjects they
have always wanted to study. The
Laboratory will add to the basic
education program also to be of
fered by the college, as announc
ed last week. Generally, the basic
education program is elementary
in difficulty, while the Learning
Laboratory will use programmed
learning materials and teaching
machines to provide high school
level work for adults.
In this program a student may
meet the requirements for high
school graduation; he may pre
pare for a trade or technical
course; or he may train himself
within his own field for promo
tion and additional pay raise. He
may improve his reading skills
and reading comprehension; or
just use the Learning Laboratory
facilities for his own personal
learning enjoyment. The partici
pant may study any course b®
wants. Dr. Stone said.
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ELKS SPONSORING
2 SANTA PARTIES
The two annual Christinas
parties sponsored by Southern
Pines Elks Lodge 1692 for
the community's children
nine years of age or younger
will take place this weekend.
Santa Claus, with a gift for
each child, will be at the
West Southern Pines School
gymnasium, Saturday, from
2 to 5 p.m.; and, on Sunday,
also from 2 to 5, he will be
at the ballroom of the South
ern Pines Country Club.
All childiren within the age
limits and their parents are
invited.
County Offices, Other
Holiday Closings Noted
The courthouse and all coun
ty offices will start their Christ
mas holiday Thursday, Decem
ber 24, at noon, reopening Mon
day morning, December 28.
Some local stores will close both
Friday (Christmas Day) and
Saturday of next week, but the
three major food supermarkets in
this area will close Friday only
and will be open Saturday.
A full schedule of holiday
closings will appear in next
week’s Pilot which will be pub
lished one day early, on Wednes
day.
'PUBLIC SPEAKING'
The Pilot’s letters to the editor
column, “The Public Speaking,”
was crowded off the editorial
page today and will be found on
page 30.
Perkinson’s To
Change Location
Perkinson’s Jewelers, Inc., will
move its store, after Christmas,
from 110 W. Pennsylvania Ave.
to 208 S. W. Broad St., a location
formerly occupied by Dr. J. S.
Hiatt, Jr.’s offices, in the South
ern National Bank Building.
R. S. Trud'ell, manager of Per
kinson’s, said that the store would
reopen in its new location on
January 2. It will be closed for
business in the last days of De
cember.
The new quarters are being re
modeled and renovated for the
store and additional space will
allow expansion of the business
to include more displays and new
lines of merchandise, Mr. Trudell
said.
Perkinson’s is owned' and oper
ated by M. Z. Perkinson of High
Point.
APPOINTED—Albert Lutz
of West Southern Pines was
named by the town council
to replace P. I. York, who
resigned, on the Southern
Pines Board of Education, as
reported in detail in last
week’s Pilot. The other mem
bers of the five-member
board are: Dr. C. C. McLean,
chairman; N. L. Hodgkins,
Mrs. Walter Harper and Dr.
R. M. McMillan.
(Pilot photo)
List-Takers For
Taxes Approved
By Commissioners
List-takers with whom resi
dents of Moore County must list
their real and personal property
for taxes, during January, have
been approved by the county
commissioners.
Mrs. Estelle Wicker, county
accountant, said they will prob
ably not start work until Mon
day, January 4, since January 1
comes on Friday.
The list-takers, including a few
new ones as well as some who
have served for many years, will
attend a school of instruction Fri
day at Mrs. Wicker’s office in the
courthouse at Carthage.
Listed by the townships they
will serve, they are:
Carthage, Mrs. Alice J. Lane;
Bensalem, Leon Cook; Sheffield,
Mrs. Exie Bowman; Ritters, Mrs.
Inez Poe; Deep River, James
Campbell; Little River, D. Leon
Keith; Greenwood, Mrs. Maxine
Maples.
McNeill (outside Southern'
Pines), Mrs. Don J. Blue; Mc
Neill (Southern Pines), Mrs. L.
M. Daniels, Jr.; Sandhill, Mrs.
Thelma M. Bayliff; Pinebluff
(also in Sandhill Township),
Mrs. J. Douglas David; Mineral
Springs, Mrs. Mary CJiristian.
5 Youn^ Men Hurt, 2
Seriously, When Auto
Leaves Road On Curve
The crash of a car leaving the
road on a curve, on East Con
necticut Avenue Extension early
Wednesday morning, resulted in
injuries to five servicemen. Two
were seriously hurt.
The accident occurred at 3:45
am just in front of the residence
of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Leon H.
Baker. Mrs. Baker called town
police who summoned ambu
lances and a State Highway pa
trolman, since the wreck occur-
RESEARCH STATION
161 Acr es Added
In Moore County
For Peach Study
A tract of Moore County land
will be added to that just over
the Montgomery County line to
enlarge considerably the Sand
hills Peach Research Station, ac
cording to a Department of Agri
culture announcement last week.
The announcement said that
161 acres have been acquired by
the State from the J. Hawley
Poole property near Jackson
Springs, to bring the total acre
age at the Research Station to
508. Cost of the land was listed
at $16,000.
This will permit a wider range
of experimentation in the grow
ing of peaches and other fruits
and the study of the local soils
and their capabilities. Experi
ments in recent years have in
cluded apples and grapes as well
as peaches.
Clarence Black is supervisor
of the Research Station.
The. ,_annquncement was made
at Raleigh by Dr. R. L. Lovvom,
director of the State Agricultural
Experiment Station. Details of the
expansion were explained by
Cecil Thomas, head of the Re
search Station Division of the
State Department of Agricultuure.
red just outside the town limits.
State Trooper Max Redding
said the car, headed toward Fort
Bragg, had ricocheted from one
side of the curving road to the
other, at a place which has been
the scene of other accidents. The
curves are marked with reflector
posts and warning signs.
The car knocked over one pine
tree and crashed against a larger
one, which brought it to a stop
in a demolished condition.
Two of the soldiers, Richard
Lee and Richard Daggett, both 20
years old, were retained at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in condition re
garded serious or critical, while
Garland England, 20, and Win
ston Joseph Sparks and Ronald
Bowman, each 19, were removed
later to Womack General Hos
pital, Fort Bragg. All are mem
bers of the 82nd Maintenance
Battalion.
Trooper Redding saiid that
Bowman, the driver, has been
cited to Aberdeen Recorder’s
Court, January 8, charged with
careless and reckless driving.
The accident took place at a
spot where two one-car wrecks
occurred within 10 minutes on
Halloween night, 1962, one of the
crashes knocking over a gatepost
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County, State, South
Vote For Crop Quotas
Moore County farmers joined
others throughout the State and
South Tuesday in voting for to
bacco and cotton quotas, and also
for assessments on tobacco and
peanuts.
In Moore County the vote was:
For Tobacco quotas 1,653,
against. 7.0, challenged 39.
For cotton quotas 489, against
11.
For Tobacco Associates Assess
ment plan 1,597, against 87, chal
lenged 4.
For peanut assessment 3;
against 1 and challenged 1.
Families Hope For Help
As Christmas Approaches
Pilot To Publish On
Wednesday Next Week
So that subscribers can get their
papers before Christmas, The
Pilot will publish one day early
next week, on Wednesday, De
cember 23. The Pilot office will be
closed the next day, Thursday,
as well as on Friday, Christmas
Day.
Advertisers and correspondents
are asked to get their copy for
next week’s paper in one full
day ahead of their usual schedule,
to assure that it will be publish
ed next week. The deadline for
classified advertising will be
10:30 a.m., Wednesday.
Christmas is the time when
you hear about The Needy.
Sometimes it seems as if the
special time of the year really
made no difference: if you’re
needy then you’re needy; it’s just
as bad a fix at any time. But at
Christmas-time it does seem
worse. Especially if there are
children. And, with the needy
there almost always are children.
At Christmas, then, you hear
about them, from the Welfare or
the VFW, through their Christ
mas Cheer baskets project, or the
word just leaks out that so-and-
so down the road, is going to
have a tough time making any
Christmas for the children, with
her Ben in the hospital and Jim
my, the oldest, not able to bring
in very much from his after
school job, and everybody need
ing shoes or socks or a sweater,
at least—AND food. Yes, the
word gets around at Christmas
time and generally someone calls
the right organization, or opens
the old pocketbook a bit wider,
and something is done about it.
The list from the Department
of Public Welfare has the names
of several “cases,” (identifiable
by their letters). This newspa
per passes them on to Whom It
May Concern. A call to the de
partment in Carthage, (947-2436
Mrs. McCallum or Mrs. Cole),
will give you names and ad-
BETA CLUB SHOW
A variety show to raise funds
for a scholarship given each year
to a Southern Pines High School
senior will be sponsored' by the
school’s Beta Club, to be present
ed at 8 p.m. Saturday in Weaver
Auditorium. Tickets may be
purchased from any Beta Club
member or at the door.
addresses of the families.
FAMILY A
The father in this family was
hurt in an accident last Septem
ber and hasn’t been able to work
since. Because he was injured
while off duty, he could not col
lect compensation from the em
ployer, a county town. Neither
has he been able to get any in
surance payments: this latter be
cause of slow processing of medi
cal records of his case. There are
six children. The step-mother is
working but has to stay home
some to help with the home. This
case is on the town’s Christmas
list, (not Southern Pines) but
they need much more than a
Christmas basket. The Welfare is
applying for Aid To Dependent
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SCHOOL VACATION
Southern Pines schools will
close for Christmas vacation at
the end of classes, Tuesday, De
cember 22, to reopen again Mon
day, January 4. The same sched
ule will be followed by the Pine
hurst schools.
DONATIONS ASKED
FOR CHEER FUND
Members of John Boyd
Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will be collecting Sat
urday in the business section
for their Christmas Cheer
program—the local distribu
tion of 80 or more food bas
kets to the needy next week,
as part of the county-wide
effort sponsored by the Wel
fare Department.
Cash donations, to be used
in buying food for the bas
kets, are urgently needed,
said Hubert Cameron, post
commander and Christmas
Cheer chairman. Checks
should be made to: "VFW
Christmas Cheer Fund" and
mailed to the VFW post here.
Jaycees, Poliee
Collect Clothing,
Toys For Needy
Fred Teeter, president of the
Southern Pines Junior Chamber
of Commerce, said this week that
the Jaycees and the Southern
Pines Police Department are co
operating in gathering and dis
tributing toys and clothing to the
needy this Christmas.
Toys will be refurbished by
the Jaycees and' the police de
partment, and everything collect
ed will be given to underprivi-
ledged children and families in
Southern Pines and the surround
ing area.
Persons wishing to contribute
toys and clothing are asked to
contact any Jaycee or bring the
items by the police department.
Closing date for contributions will
be next Wednesday, December
23.
John Boyd Post, VFW, which
coordinates ‘iChristmas Cheeij”
giving to the needy in the South
ern Pines area, is including only
food items in its program this
year, so there will be no dupli
cation of giving if toys and cloth
ing are dointed through the Jay-
, cees.