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Ir^ Moore Copftity’s “Mother of the Year” has been chosen by the Home Demonstra tion Clubs. See story and photo on page 12. News from the General Assembly can be found in State Sen. Voit Gil more’s “Raleigh Report” column. Turn to page 10. VOL.—45 No. 16 TWENTY-TWO PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1965 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS 5 OTHERS HOSPITALIZED Four Killed In Collision Near Pinehurst Sunday (Photos on page 8) A head-on collision of two cars near Pinehurst resulted in the deaths of four persons, while five others were hospitalized with serious injuries, shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday. It was Moore coun ty’s worst highway accident in many years. Killed outright were three members of a Robesofi County family, while Harry Conrad, 18, of West End, driver of the other car, died at St; Joseph’s Hospital some seven hours later. Conrad was alone in his car, dtiving from West End to Pine hurst, while eight persons were in the other car—Mrs. Irene Dial Jacobs, 44, of St. Pauls, Route 1, her son William Melton Jacobs, Red Cross Starts 1965 Fund Drive; Volunteers Meet The Moore County Chapter of the American Red Cross this month joins some 3,000 other chapters in the U. S. in the 1965 ARC fund campaign. Each year this campaign supplies the finan cial support needed for humani tarian missions of the Red Cross in this country and in 104 other nations and for work of local chapters. W. Houston Black of Southern Pines, chairman of the 1965 fund campaign of the Moore County Chapter, was the main speaker at a kick-off luncheon for the volunteers who will serve in Southern Pines, which was held at the Holiday Inn last Friday. Stressing the slogan of “Jojn Up, Join In,” E. Earl Hubbard, treasurer of the local chapter, re^ ported on the importance of the Red Cross volunteer services in this area, citing the hundreds of pints of blood supplied the two hospitals in Moore County, the scores of children who are taught to swim each summer in the Water Safety program and the financial assistance and per sonal guidance given to military families here. He also stressed the fact that the Red Cross spent more than $18,000 in relief and rehabilitation in this area follow ing the disastrous forest fire in April, 1963. Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy, vol unteer executive secretary of the Moore County Chapter, also (Continued on Page 8) 20, the driver, and her grand daughter Judy Carol Upchurch, aged two, who were all killed; and other members of the Jacobs family, Bruce, 17, Vinson, 16, Clinton, 14, Hilton, 18, and Harold, 10. Headed toward West End from Pinehurst, they were driving to Greensboro, home of Judy Carol’s parents, to take the child home after a visit with her grand parents, when the collision oc curred' in Conrad’s left - hand lane, on a straight stretch be tween curves on NC 211, ju^t west of the Taylortown inter section. The impact smashed the front ends of both cars into a fore shortened tangle of steel. Just one person, Mrs.; Jacobs, was thrown out. Ambulance attend ants and rescue workers had a hard time removing the dead and unconscious victims from the (Continued on Page 7) Girl Scouts Plan Program March 7 For Rededication The Girl Scouts will commemo rate Girl Scout Week, March 7-13, with a rededication program on Sunday, March 7 at 4 pm at the Aberdeen High School Auditori um “for all Moore County Girl Scouts to rededicate themselves to the ideals of Girl Scouting,”it was announced this week. A rehearsal for the pro gram will be held in Weaver Auditorium, Southern Pines, at 10 am Saturday. Leaders and Girl Scouts are asked to note that this is a cb,ange of rehearsal place. It had been planned for Aberdeen but a conflict of auditorium use Salurd;ay morning made the change necessary. This ceremony will be taking place everywhere Sunday at the same time. Parents and friends are urged to attend “not only to support Girl Scouting, but their children, who through the Girl Scout program are learning to be good citizens.” There will be a parade of uni forms showing how the Girl Scouts have kept pace with the times, and the changes that have taken place in the Girl Scout uni form from March 12, 1912, when (Continued on Page 8) THE CHAMPS— Saturday night’s 72-41 de feat of Aberdeen, winning for them the Moore County Basketball Tournament and ending their third undefeated season, brought this jubilant demonstration from the Pinehurst High School boys. Left to right, hoisting Coach Roger Paschal on their shoulders: Kemper Fitch, Don Vest, Ronnie Currie, Austin Bryant, Steve Homer, Tony Yearby, Johnny William son, Wiley Barrett, Bobby Hunt, Bobby Bed- dingfield, Hubert Michaels and Mike Lunday. (Hemmer photo) Committee Selected To Implement School Survey, Choose Site Taking action on the profess ional survey recently submitted to them on school facilities in the southern part of Moore Coun ty, the county commissioners on Monday appointed a committee to implement the survey findings and come back with recommen dations on Friday, March 12. The board met Monday with out its chairman, John M. Currie of Carthage, who was out of town. Vice Chairman J. M. Pleas ants of Southern Pines presided; BOARD APPROVES Pinehurst Basketball Teams Sweep Moore Tournament; Local Girls, High Falls Boys Cited For Sportsmanship EVENING CONCERT HERE AT 8;30 Little Symphony Will Play Friday The North Carolina Little Symphony, conducted by Dr. Benjamin Swalin, will give two concerts in the Sandhills Friday. At 10 am, the orchestra will play for more than 1,000 children from schools over the county, in the Aberdeen school auditorium. Some 7,000 -other students not at tending will hear the concert by radio at their schools. At 8:30 pm, in Weaver Audi torium, the orchestra will present another program at which Gior gio Ciompi, “visiting artist” with the Duke University music facul ty, will be guest violin soloist. Both appearances are spon sored by the Sandhills Music As- s-ociation in its current concert series. Tickets for the evening performance may be obtained at the door by those not holding Full details of the By BOBBY SPENCER Sports Publicity Director The regular season champion Pinehurst basketball teams con tinued their mastery over the Moore County Conference by winning last week’s annual coun ty basketball tournament Satur day night, the boys beating Aber deen, 72-41; and the girls defeat ing Union Pines, 31-27. All is not ^over, however, for the Pinehurst and Aberdeen boys, as both , teams will be repre senting Moore County in the up coming district playoff. Aberdeen will play March 5 at Robbins in the District Preliminaries. If they win there, they will enter the District event at Pinehurst start- REGARDLESS OF RACE OR COLOR* Assignment Plan Adopted For County Schools Permits Attendance Choice A “Plan of Assignment for Pu- ents will be distributed later this pils” that would permit any child,! month, listing the available regardless of race, to attend the choices of schools within each parents’ school of his parents’ choice, within his normal attendance area, has been submitted to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington by the Moore County Board of Edu cation. This board operates all schools in the county except those in the separate Southern Pines and Pinehurst “city” systems. If approved, the plan would go into effect with the 1965-66 school year. It was submitted to show compliance with the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. Final decisions on children’s applications, the plan says, will be made by the Board of Educa tion, “subject to the availability of physical facilities, with no decision being based on race, col- season tickets. .. —. —. . - . . „ program appeared in last week’s i or or national origin. 1 Forms to be filled out by par- BOUGHT FROM BRITT BY BLAKE. PRIEST. GREENE Pinehurst Business Sold, Name Changed Change of ownership and name of one of the oldest retail busi ness establishments in Moore County was announced this week. Haynes Britt of Southern Pines, who has owned and oper ated the Pinehurst Warehouses, Inc., at Pinehurst since 1940 and has been associated with the business since 1929, said that he has sold the firm to Harris D. Blake of Pinehurst, Irvin L. Priest of Carthage and William B. Greene of Robbins. Mr. Blake, who is president of the new company, said that the name of the business has been changed to Pinehurst Hardware & Supply Co., Inc. Mr. Priest is vice president and Mr. Greene is vice president and secretary. Started in 1916 Originally set up by the late John R. McQueen in 1916, as a supply warehouse for Pinehurst, Inc., with which Mr. McQueen was then associated, the business went through several reorganiza' tions over the years. It prospered in the 1920’s, suffered as did most businesses during the depression HARRIS D. BLAKE New President of the 1930’s and has become a thriving business again since World War H. The company—selling building supplies, hardware, feed, seed and fertilizers—is located in the large brick buildings on the edge of Pinehurst near the Norfolk & district (attendance area). Dis trict lines are not being chang ed. the report notes. The form provides a place to be checked if parents are satis fied with the school their child is attending and a place to list another choice of school, if par ents are not satisfied. Jere N. McKeithen of Aber deen, chairman of the county board of education, gave copies of the plan to the county com missioners at their meeting in Carthage, Monday, saying the plan had been discussed with the State Board of Education and with representatives of the federal Department of Health Education and Welfare. “It has been completed and (Continued on Page 8) Superior Court To Start Monday Judge Edward B. Clark of Eliza bethtown will preside over the regular civil term of Moore County Superior Court, to be held at Carthage, starting Monday. Eight uncontested divorces are calendared for the first day, along with motions in pending suits and three cases for trial. Nine other cases are set for trial through Thursday. The regular session of Moore recorders court will be held Saturday instead of Monday. ing March 10. Pinehurst is al ready assured of a District berth. (Details in another story today.) The sportsmanship awards this year went to the Southern Pines girls and the. High Falls boys. This award is voted by the play ers and coaches of the teams and is an honored one. All. the teams emd coaches and fans are to be commended on the excellent sportsmanship shown during the season and the tourna ment. The Pinehurst and Union Pines girls should be given some kind of special award for the three thrilling games they gave the fans in the tournament this year. Sat urday night was almost a replay (Continued on Page 7) HAYNES BRITT Former President Southern Railroad underpass bridge. It leases the buildings from Pinehurst, Inc. Mr. Britt, one of the county’s leading businessmen, was born in Lumberton and began his busi ness career managing a big (Continued on page 19) PTA To View Science Exhibits By Students Exhibits prepared by East Southern Pines students in the 7th through 12th grades, for the school’s Science Fair, will be viewed by persons attending the March meeting of the school’s Parent-Teacher Association, in Weaver Auditorium, Monday. The meeting will begin at 8 pm. 'The business meeting will be held in the auditorium and the exhibits will be seen later in the cafeteria in the auditorium base- I ment. 50-Mile Ride To Use Facilities In Wildlife Area Sandhills riders are pleased with a new feature planned this year for the annual Trail Rides sponsored by the Town of South ern Pines and conducted under the auspices of the Moore Coun ty Hounds. The rides will take place Fri day and Saturday of next week, March 12 and 13, with numerous visitors expected to join local adult and junior (under 21) ri ders. Some visitors are already here in training for the event which will be confined to a 50- mile distance this year. The new feature, said Miss Page Shamburger of the Moore County Hounds, is that permis sion has been obtained from the State to use portions of the Sand hills Wildlife Management Area near Hoffman, off No. 1 highway, south of Moore County. The adult riders will start at Mile-Away Farm Friday and make the ride to the stables and (Continued on Page 8) 4 Zoning Bills To Be Submitted To Legislature The board of county commis sioners on Monday approved four proposed bills dealing with zoning which Moore County leg islators will be asked to intro duce in the General Assembly. Briefly, they are: 1. To remove Moore County’s name from a list of 17 counties now exempted from a state-wide enabling act that permits muni cipalities to make zoning regula tions up to one mile out from their city limits. If approved, towns in Moore would have that power. 2. To remove Moore County’s name from the list of 13 counties now execpted from a state-wide enabling act that permits coun ties to enact zoning .regulations. If approved, Moore County would be able to make zoning regula tions for areas outside towns and not otherwise controlled by town zoning. 3. To permit Southern Pines only to zone out from its city lim its more than one mile, in an area to be described in the bill. In some directions this area would run out two miles or more —as, for instance, to take in Sandhills Community College and nearly all of the airport property. Toward Aberdeen, it 1 (Continued on Page 8) and other board' members were present: W. S. Taylor of Aber deen, Lynn Martin of Eagle Springs and Wiley Purvis of Route 1, Robbins. The survey, made by Educa tional Research Services, Inc., of White Plains, N. Y., recommend ed as the “best solution” that one consolidated central high school be built for the southern part of the county and that the separate Southern Pines and Pinehurst school systems join with the Aberdeen and West End districts of the county school system in all becoming a part of the county system. The committee was named Monday after the commissioners had' discussed the survey with members of the County Board of Education. Present were Jere N. McKeithen, of Aberdeen, board chairman; T. Roy Phillips of Carthage, Mrs. John L. Frye of Robbins and W. Howard Mat thews of Route 3, Carthage. Named to the committee were: A. B. Hardee, Whispering Pines, chairman; Albert Tufts, Pinlehurst, ■\^ice.-chairman; Rob ert S. Ewing, Southern Pines, secretary. State Senator Voit Gilmore and Rep. Clyde Auman; L. B. Creath, chairman, Pinehurst board of education; Dr. R. M. Mc Millan of Southern Pines boeird of (Continued on Page 8) School Board Here Wants To Continue Independent Unit After a meeting held last night, the Southern Pines board of edu cation, of which Dr. C. C. Mc Lean is chairman, today issued a statement saying, in part, that the opinion of the board has not been changed as a result of the survey which the county com missioners had made of school facilities in the southern part of the county. “It is still believed,” the state ment said, “that the best interest of the Southern Pines students will be served by continuation of the present Southern Pines schools as an independent unit.” The statement told of plans to expand the local schools in both East and West Southern Pines and also said the board “shall comply readily with the Civil Rights Act” and will receive ap plications of transfer of students within the system. The survey had recommended that all school systems in the county be merged into the coun ty system. The full statement will appear next week. GALLERY SHOW Barns, anyone? The Library Gallery is fill ed with barns. There are New England barns, Moore County buns, barns with silos, just plain barns; barns painted in all foiir seasons of the year, in snow, with flow ering dogwoods and autumn coloring. These ten barns, and the three fine flower paintings, are the work of Marion de Costa, Mrs. Frank L. de Costa, who lives down off Highway 1. The Pilot wiil carry a re view of the current show in next week's issue. Meantime the Gallery committee says: "Don't miss this charming show by a fine artist." C. A. MCLAUGHLIN. JR. SPHS Senior One Of 67 Receiving Morehead Awards Charles Allan McLaughlin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mc Laughlin of 610 South May St., has been presented a Morehead Award to study at the University of North Carolina, it was an nounced' Tuesday. The annoiincenient and the presentation of • awards were made by Hugh G. Chatham of El kin, a member of the board of trustees of the John Motley Morehead Foundation. McLaughlin is a senior at East Southern Pines High School. He is one of 67 boys to'receive the valuable awards which are each worth $5,800 to North Caro lina residents for four years of study. McLaughlin’s school activities include being president of the Student Council, associate editor of the yearbook, homeroom offi cer, chief marshal, state finalist in the American Legion oratori cal contest, and varsity basket ball, baseball and tennis teams, i (Continued on Page .8) Speed To Discuss Safety Proposals Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., Town Manager F. F. Rainey, Po lice Chief Earl Seawell, presi dents of local civic clubs and oth er interested persons have been invited to attend the luncheon meeting of the Southern Pines Rotary Club tomorrow (Friday) to hear the guest speaker. Major Charles Speed, director of the highway safety division of the N. C. Department of Motor Ve hicles. The club will meet in the Southern Pines Country Club at 12:15 pm. Major Speed will discuss pro posed highway safety legislation, said Col. John Dibb of Southern Pines, the club’s program chair man for this month. 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, February 25 61 41 February 26 44 23 February 27 63 19 February 28 73 37 March 1 73 37 March 2 45 42 March 3 60 40
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