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honoring the late L. R. Reynolds,
county commissioner chairman,
appears today on page 24.
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VOL.—45 No. 9
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
WILLIAM p. Saunders
Saunders Named
C & D Director
By New Governor
William P. Saunders of South
ern Pines who served as director
of the State Department of Con
servation and Development for
five years under Gov. Luther H.
Hodges, has been appointed act
ing C & D director by North Car
olina’s new Governor, Dan K.
Moore, and was sworn in Tues
day.
The local man, long active in
the Democratic party and in
Moore County civic work, is a
retired textile executive, the for
mer president of Robbins Mills
and the longtime mayor of Rob
bins before he moved to South
ern Pines more than 10 years
ago.
Mr. Saunders was assured by
Gov. Moore that the designation
“acting” director does not limit
his responsibihty-and powers. He
is reported to have told the Gov
ernor that he would serve only
Angus Mills Will
Take Over Former
Jones, Inc., Plant
The Jones, Inc., mop-yarn
manufacturing plant at Vass,
which closed down the latter
part of last year, has been pur
chased by Angus Mills, Inc.
Plans are under way for a
gradual extension of operations
into the new plant, it was learn
ed from Maxwell R. Forrest,
manager of Angus Mills, which
manufactures kitchen cottens in
another plant at Vass. Both
buildings will be used, practically
doubling physical facilities and
greatly increasing production po
tential, he said.
This will take several months.
The purchase completed last
week includes only the building,
without equipment. Machinery
must be installed and consider
able planning done for consolida
tion of operations in two plants,
about a mile apart.
It is anticipated that some pro
duction will be under way in the
former Jones plant by the end
of this year.
Announcement was made by
Paul Jones last November that
he would close the plant which
employed some 45 persons, to re
turn to his home state of Ken
tucky, where he has other busi
ness and industrial interests. He
said an agreement had been
reached whereby another indus-
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COLLEGE PROGRAM
Teachers To Be
Trained In Basie
Education Work
A basic education program for
adults will shortly be initiated by
Sandhills Community College.
The program will provide oppor
tunities for adults to improve
until a permanent appointment is their skills in the “three R’s” as
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Signs Taken From Pinehurst Locations
Police Chief J. Tf. Shepherd, left,
and Officer Hugh Strider, display
seven signs removed from loca
tions in and around the village of
Pinehurst on Christmas Eve. The
signs were later found seven
miles from town.
The Pinehurst police officers
believe this was the work of
teen-age mischief makers. The
vandalism has not ceased. Re
cently, a “Do Not Enter” sign on and other vandalism.
Highway 2 by Moore Memorial j “This sort of mischief takes po-
i Hospital was turned around so j licemen away from necessary
that the warning designation did law enforcement work and keeps
not show. Chief Shepherd was
notified and changed the sign
back to read properly.
The chief asked this week that
parents warn their youngsters of
the seriousness of removing signs
them busy elsewhere,” said Chief
Shepherd.
“Tampering with the sign at
the hospital could have led to
a serious accident,” he added.
(Hemmer photo)
Progress Made Toward
Letting Contracts For
Construction Of College
“Letters of intent” are being
mailed to low bidders on con
struction and certain equipment
of three buildings, constituting
the main plant of the Sandhills
Community College, while the
building committee and archi
tects work further on postpone
ment of certain items, to bring
the total down to a sum within
the limit of available funds.
J. E. Causey, building commit
tee chairman, told the board of
trustees, meeting Monday night,
that considerable work toward
3 Persons Hurt
Here In Mishaps;
AH Recovering
made.
A state senator in the 1963 ses
sion, Mr. Saunders recently serv
ed as chairman of two public ser-
.vice campaigns in Moore County
—^the drive to raise funds for
Moore Memorial Hospital’s new
wing and the $4 million county
bond issue for community college
and schools.
He is an elder in Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church
and a member of the Sandhills
Ki-wanis Club.
Two accidents involving horses
,, , • . and another with auto repair ma-
well as to acquire health, con-
Pharmacists Form
New Association
The first official meeting of the
Moore County Pharmaceutical
, Association was held at Horne’s
j| Restaurant, Aberdeen, Tuesday
evening.
' Joe Montesanti, Jr., of South
ern Pines, was elected president;
Bill Viall, Jr., Pinehurst, vice-
president; Larry Snider, South
ern Pines, treasurer; and Win
ston Burroughs, Southern Pines,
‘ secretary.
The Association with pharma
cist members from Aberdeen,
Carthage, Pinehurst, and South-
em Pines, was organized “to pro
mote the best pharmaceutical
service for the citizens of this
county and to encourage a closer
professional relationship among
all members of the medical pro
fession in this area,” said a
spokesman for the group.
Methodist Pastor
Heads Ministers
The Rev. A. L. Thompson, pas
tor of the Southern Pines Meth
odist Church, was elected presi
dent of the Moore County Minis
ters Association, at a luncheon
meeting in Doug Kelly’s Holiday
Inn Restaurant, Monday. He suc
ceeds the Rev. Lee Pridgen of
Pinebluff.
Other officers elected were:
the Rev. Paul Boone, pastor of
the Carthage Methodist Church,
vice president and program
chairman; the Rev. Frank Wil-
kerson, pastor of Manly Presby
terian Church, secretary; and the
Rev. T. W. Fuller, bishop of the
Church of God, treasurer.
The Association, an inter-racial
group, meets monthly for a 12:15
luncheon at Holiday Inn, on
Monday following each second
Sunday.
sumer and citizenship education.
Teachers for the program are
now being enlisted. A teacher
training institute will be held in
Weaver Auditorium at East
Southern Pines High School Jan
uary 18,19 and 20 from 6:30 to
10:30 each evening.
The Institute will be conduct
ed by specially trained super
visors under the direction of Dr.
Monroe Neff, director of general
here in the -past week. All are
recovering satisfactorily.
Mrs. Verdie Caddell, who lives,
and operates a riding stable, at
the north end of N. W. Broad St.,
had an extremely close call last
Saturday when a young stallion
she had bought recently struck
her, severing the temple artery.
By lucky chance, Mrs. Peggy
Kirk Bell was passing at the
adult education for the State De-1 time in her car. She happened to
partment of Community Col
leges.
College officials urge any col
lege graduate who is interested
in teaching but who has not yet
notified the college to do so im
mediately. A telephone call will
be satisfactory.
look towards the Caddell corral
and saw Mrs. Caddell staggering
toward the road, the blood pour
ing down her face. Mrs. Bell leapt
to her assistance, put her in her
car and rushed her to the town
office of Dr. Francis L. Owens.
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CHIEF ABC OFFICER REPORTS
104 Arrested, 97 Convicted In ABC
Cases; 12 Stills Captured, During 1964
Moore County ABC raids dur
ing 1964 resulted in a total of
12 stills captured and the seizure
of 96 gallons and one and a half
pints of non-taxpaid whiskey,
2,245 gallons of mash and two
gallons of taxpaid whiskey, ac
cording to the annual report of
C. A. McCallum of Carthage, chief
officer of the Moore County ABC
Law Enforcement Division.
Two cars and two pickup trucks
were also seized.
Arrests totaled 104 persons
charged with prohibition law
violations, of whom 97 were con
victed, two acquitted and four
are still awaiting trial. A nol
pros was taken in one case.
Fines totaled $2,796, court costs
$2,056.35, for a total of $4,852.35
paid into the courts. Active sen
tences totaled 11 years, four
months and four days.
The raids included not only
stills but places where whiskey,
taxpaid or non-taxpaid, was
illegally possessed or sold.
Assisting the two ABC officers,
McCallum and Edward Floyd, on
various occasions were members
of the Moore County sheriffs
department, local police and
federal agents.
The Moore ABC officers also
worked with others in neighbor
ing counties, and in the course
of their activities rolled up a
total of 40,022 miles driven in
enforcement of the State’s liquor
laws.
Officer Floyd attended the
three-day SBI Law Enforcement
school held at Southern Pines last
April.
RIDING EVENTS
ENTRIES HIGH
Numerous entries have
been received for the annual
Hunter Pace and the Point to
Point race for junior riders,
both to take place here Sat
urday afternoon, sponsored
by the Moore County
Hounds.
Events begin at 2 pm at
Buchan Field, behind Mile-
Away Farm off oldl No. I
highway, north, at Manly.
"There is no entry fee or
spectator charge. An infor
mal supper d^mce, with res
ervations to be made with
Mrs. W. O. Moss or Miss Page
Shamburger of Aberdeen,
will lake place at Pineholme,
Saturday night.
Following, on Sunday will
be a 1:30 pm horse show at
Goffolly Farm off Youngs
Road.
Reid A. Page & Co.
Moves Local Office
Reid A. Page & Co. has moved
its real estate and mortgage loan
office into the former Perkinson’s
Jewelers, Inc., location at 110 W.
Pennsylvania Ave., it is an
nounced by Reid A. Page. The
office was formerly in the same
Belvedere Hotel building, west
of the new location.
Perkinson’s, as previously an
nounced, has moved to 208 S. W.
Broad St., in the Southern Na
tional Bank Building.
TO DISMISS EARLY
East Southern Pines schools
will be dismissed at 2:30 pm—45
minutes ahead of the usual time
—on Wednesday, January 20, so
that teachers can attend a district
meeting at East Montgomery
High School that afternoon, re
maining for a dinner session,
Supt. J. W. Jenkins announced at
Monday night’s PTA meeting in
Weaver auditorium.
GRINNELL RETIRES.
PAGE BECOMES PRO
One ol this area's most re
markable golfing stories—
Roy GrinnelTs more than 51
years as a member of the
Professional Golfers Associa
tion—will appear in next
week's Pilot.
Sparking the publication
of the story is Mr. Grinnell's
retirement January 1 as
head pro at the Southern
Pines Country Club, where
he has served, except for the
years 1947-55, since 1937. He
startedl his professional ca
reer at the age of 15 in
Rhode Island, in 1913.
Andy Page, 32-year-old
Southern Pines native and
Mr. GrinnelTs assistant for
the past eight years, has been
named head pro at the local
club. At present, he has no
full-time assistant.
New Sales Room At
Hosiery Mills Opens
Aberdeen Hosiery Mills, loca
ted on the Pinehurst Highway
out of Aberdeen, has opened a
retail sales room carrying hos
iery and other clothing items for
men, women and boys, L. G. Fo-
gelman, superintendent, an
nounced this week.
A portion of the building was
remodeled to provide the new
facility. Details can be found in
an advertisement in today’s Pilot.
Home Blamed For
Delinquency, PTA
Hears From Chief
Lack of proper supervision and
training in the home was cited
by Police Chief Earl S. Seawell
as the primary cause of juvenile
delinquency, when he was guest
speaker at the January meeting
of the East Southern Pines Par
ent-Teacher Association, Monday
night.
“Of all the cases I have inves
tigated,” , the chief asserted,
“there is not one I haven’t traced
back to the home. If the children
in these cases had had proper su
pervision and training, they
would never have gotten into
trouble.”
Chief Seawell was introduced
by Mrs. Robert Leland, vice pres
ident presiding in the absence of
Mrs. J. S. Hiatt, Jr., president.
The chief began his talk with
an explanation of legal proce
dures in the arrest, detention,
trial and disposition of juvenile
(under 16) offenders, explaining
that children can be removed
from homes deemed unsuitable
for them and be placed in foster
homes, or they may be made a
ward of the court until they be
come 21.
He said he did not consider
that Southern Pines has an
alarming juvenile delinquency
problem but “we have our share.”
Vandalism was cited as the most
frequent offense.
Listing mistakes made by par
ents he noted: failure to control
a child’s movements—not know
ing where a child is and what
he’s doing at all times; lack of
proper supervision at parties and
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College Officers
Reelected; Plans
For Faculty Made
With a full year, plus one
month, of work behind them,
trustees of the Sandhills Com
munity College, meeting at the
college offices Monday night, re
elected their original officers.
They are: H. Clifton Blue of
Aberdeen, chairman; Dr. W. E.
Alexander of Robbins, vice-chair
man; J. C. Robbins of Aberdeen,
secretary, and N. L. Hodgkins of
Southern Pines, treasurer.
Staff Appointments
They started their new year
Monday by increasing the college
staff employed to a total of 12.
Approved were four new staffers,
as listed in another story in toda’y
Pilot.
Faculty Plans
The trustees approved plans for
this end had been done at a
meeting with the architects that
afternoon, and it had been de
termined the final sum could be
brought down from the low-bid
total of around $1,700,000 to an
amount below the $1,500,000 ceil
ing. The college has available $1
million from a Moore County
bond issue and $500,000 from a
State appropriation.
The “letters of intent” were re
quested by the low bidders to en
able them to alert their sup
pliers and get their drawings and
shopwork under way, pending the
letting of contracts as soon as
the architects (Hayes-Howell &
Associates of Southern Pines)
can give them a schedule or pri
orities on restoration of post
poned items.
Expected to receive contracts
are, for general construction, H.
R. Johnson Construction Co. of
Monroe, which bid $982,000 with
360 days required; plumbing.
Commercial Plumbing & Heat
ing,, Greensboro, $83,280; heat
ing, Crutchfield Heating Co„
Greensboro, $209,000; and elec
trical, Steele Electrical Co., Mon
roe, $121,900. These figures will
be lowered in the final contracts.
An elevator on which a low
bid of $9,585 was submitted by
Southern Elevator Company of
Greensboro, was one of the post
poned itefns, to be restored later,
as were also kitchen equipment,
air conditioning and carpeting.
About 50 bidders’ representa
tives were on hand for the bid
opening, held at the college of
fices last Thursday afternoon.
Bids opened included general
construction (Buildings 1 and 2,
selection of a basic faculty.
The list, approved by Dr. W. and Building 3, also the three to-
F. Banaghan, dean of instruction,
includes, for immediate employ
ment, a director of nursing, to
organize, supervise and teach a
nursing course in cooperation
with local hospitals; and for em
ploying as of July 1, instructors
in biology, chemistry, English,
foreign languages, mathematics,
physical education (to include
activities for both men and wo
men) plus a course in health edu
cation, physics and social studies,
for the “college parallel” pro
gram; several to work also as
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MERCHANTS TO MEET
The Southern Pines Merchants
Council will meet in the town
hall courtroom at 8 p.m. Monday,
January 18, to make plans for
the coming year. Chairman Dante
S. Montesanti urges all merchants
to be present.
Jaycees Set DSA
Banquet Jan. 26;
Observance Noted
Members of the Southern Pines
Junior Chamber of Commerce
are joining with Jaycees over the
State and nation in observance of
Jaycee Week, January 17-23, but
are deferring their annual Dis
tinguished Service Award ban
quet until Tuesday, January 26,
Fred A. Teeter, president of the
local group, said this week.
At the banquet, which will be
held' at Doug Kelly’s Holiday Inn
Restaurant at 8 p.m., an outstand
ing young man of the past year,
in Southern Pines, will be an
nounced, as chosen from nomi
nations made by the public, by
a committee of non-Jaycees who
are over the 35-year-old Jaycee
age limit.
Jaycee Week celebrates the
founding of the Junior Chamber
in 1915. There are now 531 chap
ters in the United States.
GUARD IN PARADE
Capt. Ralph Horner of the lo
cal National Guard company and
more than 30 members of the
unit marched in the inaugural
parade, on the occasion of the in
auguration of Gov. Dan K.
Moore, Friday of last week.
About 75 In Proctor-Silex Cutback
An approximate 10 per cent
cutback in the production force
at Proctor-Silex Corporation here
followed the Christmas holidays,
Edward Benkowski, plant man
ager, said this week.
The manager was queried by
The Pilot after rumors of a lay
off of some 200 workers had been
circulating in the community.
Actually, said the manager, about
75 persons were laid off.
The cutback was regretted,
said Mr. Benkowski, adding, “This
is our slow season, when lagging
for Christmas selling.”
The big industrial plant, manu
facturing steam and spray irons,
reached a high of some 750 work
ers last fall, in which all Christ
mas orders were filled. After
that, the orders dropped sharp
ly. The plant shut down for a
10-day vacation period at Christ
mas, following which “about 10
per cent” of the work force, said'
Mr. Benkowski, was released.
Demand is expected to start
picking up again in the spring,
mounting toward the next peak
demand follows peak production' in the fall, he said. Workers re
leased were in general those most
recently taken on, he noted, and
will be the first to be recalled,
if still available.
A new model steam and spray
iron,. .“Citation,” which releases
an extra spray at fingertip touch,
for hard-to-iron wrinkles, is un
der production and was a big
Christmas seller.
One was included in a Christ
mas gift made by the plant to
the Sisters of St. Joseph’s Hos
pital, containing one of each
model under regular manufacture
here.
gather), with several alternates,
also Structural (caissons, foot
ings, etc.), along-with the plumb
ing, heating, electrical and vari
ous equipment items.
Soil Testings
Chairman Causey received au
thorization from the trustees for
an additional fee to be paid the
architectural firm for a survey
of soil testings to be made on the
site, which could save as much
as $45,000 on the footings.
Pending the working out of
such details, the contracts are ex
pected to be awarded soon and
work to begin shortly thereafter
on the buildings. Building 1 to
include administration and other
offices, library and classrooms;
Building 2, science facilities,
classrooms and shop; and Build
ing 3, Student Center, physical
education and food service de-
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FIRE PROTECTION
Mid Town Group
To Investigate
Alternate Plan
Proposals for fire protection
in the area between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen took a new
turn Wednesday night, when a
group of about 100 persons meet
ing in the Aberdeen school audi
torium heard a suggestion that
the towns of Southern Pines and
Aberdeen furnish protection to
the area, through some coopera
tive arrangement.
Previously, the organizers of
the Mid Town Fire Protective
Association—a chartered corpor
ation whose president is Alton
Scott, owner of the Charlton
Court Motel—had been consider
ing only the establishment of a
special fire district, with its own
volunteers and fire-fighting
equipment and financed by a
special tax levied on property
owners in the district.
The new suggestion was made
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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.
January 7
57
26
January 8
67
40
January 9
. 72
55
January 10
60
46
January 11
. 46
31
January 12
53
24
January 13
57
27