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■iQ The SVA fund drive for nurse training scholar ships is going on,. Six students now in training aji'e pictured on page 12. j Committees for the Stoneybrook Hunt Race Meet to be held here Saturday, April 10, have been appointed. See story, page 6. VOL.—45 No. 18 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1965 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Tornado Causes Extensive Damage To Sandhill Furniture Plant At West End The Sandhill Furniture Com pany, of West End, one of Moore County’s largest industries, suf fered extensive damage last night when it was struck by a sudden tornado. i The whirling rush of wind, part of a widespread storni of high winds and heavy rain, hit the West End' wood-working plants at 7:30 p.m., lasting about a minute before it sped oh, leaving havoc in its wake. A nightwatchman spread the alarm and was almost iihmediate- ly joined by more thaii half the plot’s employees, who , left their homes to rush out into the driv ing rain and flying debris, spend- Democrats To Hear Morgan, Others At Supper Meeting Sen. Robert Morgan of Lilling- ton, president pro-tem of the North Carolina Senate, will be the guest speaker at a Democratic meeting and chicken stew sup per to be held at the Jackson Springs Community House, March 27. at 7 p.m. The event was announced by J. Elvin Jackson of Carthage and Vass, chairman of the Moore County Democratic Executive Committee. The progrsim will also include H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, past Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, State Senator Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines and T. Clyde Auman of West End, Moore County’s Re presentative in the General As sembly. “This is one in a series of quarterly meetings designed to give the public an opportunity to hear and talk with our elected officials. The West End Jack- son Springs Precinct' and' the Bensalem Precinct will act as hosts. There will be no charge for the supper,” said Mr. Jackson. Senator Gilmore and Senator Morgan represent the 18th Sena torial District, which includes Moore County, in the General Assembly. ing most of the rest of the night working to retrieve valuable items and save all that could be rescued from exposed stock and machinery. Leading in the work of salvage was the company’s president, Keith Williams, who left his home in Sanford and d'rove down on hearing the news. Also on the job was James Sutphin, of West End, vice president of the furni ture company. The strength of the windstorm wgs evident as toll was taken to day of the damage. W. B. Nugent, of the Col. George P. Hawes, Inc., Insurance Agency, Pinehurst, gave a picture of the fury of the tornado as follows: All four buildings of the plant were partially damaged; one roof was entirely blown off, exposing the stock which it contained to the full force of the rain, damage estimated at about 60 percent. The roof was blown off the con trol room, of the dry kilns, thus not only damaging the kilns but putting all controls of the plant out of use and severely hamper ing renewed production. Flying debris of every sort, in cluding jagged pieces of a metal roof, had cut great gashes in walls and broken most of the windows; timbers from the lum ber yard had been picked up like (Continued on Page 8) EARLY SUNDAY Capel Files For Council Election Only one candidate for town office had filed by this morning, following opening of filing time Monday. Councilman Felton Capel of West Southern Pines has listed himself as a candidate for re- election. Mling time will run to noon, April 15. To be elected May 4 are five town councilmen and a judge and solicitor of the local recorder’s court. A primary will be held April 26 if more than 10 candidates file for the council or more than two for either of the court offices. One-Car Wreck Takes Life Of T. A. Council Thomas Allen Council, 30, of Southern Pines, died early Sun day morning when his 1955 Ford wrecked on US Highway 1, about two miles south of Pinebluff. State Trooper F. R. Wicker said Council’s car went out of con trol, skidded back and forth and then left the highway, overturn ing several times and crashing in to a clump of trees. The driver was thrown out. He was dead on arrival at Moore Memorial Hospi tal. He was apparently travelling alone. Council, a native of Chatham County, was reared at Vass and later moved to Southern Pines. He had been employed by Poe’s Service Station and Red’s Esso Service, had driven a route truck for Carter’s Laundry and lately had been working for Dowd’s Nursery. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at New Home Baptist Church near Vass, con ducted by the Rev. W. G. Snider, pastor, with burial in the church cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the former Ellen Cashwell, and two children, Thomas Allen Council, Jr., and Cynthia, aU of the home; two brothers, John P. Council of Vass and Roger Lee Council of Southern Pines; and four sisters. Mrs. Chester Haney of Fitchburg, Maine; Mrs. Eunice Richardson of Sanford; Mrs. Floyd Norris of Carthage and Mrs. Raymond Ring ■of Carthage, Route 3. The wreck was Moore county’s third fatal accident and sixth highway fatality of the year. One recent accident took four lives. Large Golf-Residential Project Planned By F. Dan Farrell and Robert Trent Jones TOTAL LISTED AT $32,764,224 Farm Income Of County Increases Last Year By More Than $661,000 Moore, one of this State’s smaller counties, with soil prob lems of clay in the north and sand in the south, has consistent ly placed in the State’s top half- dozen counties in farm income during the past decade. Figures just totted up for 1964 show a total of $32,764,224 in farm income, a gain of $661,624 over the $31,102,600 of the year before. This was achieved de spite the loss of around $1,500,- 000 in the peach industry result ing from the freeze of last April. April. Diversification and flexibility are the answers revealed in a talk with Moore Extension Chairman Fleet D. Allen, plus a cooperative rural citizenry with leadership ready to accept new ways, also a cooperative board of commissioners. The commissioners, for ex ample, have for the past three years employed a forester as a second assistant farm agent and this is paying off well, Allen said. in view of the large forestry oper ations within the county and a continuing program of reforesta tion. For, despite her poor soil, Moore has many blessings to count, one of them being her forests. These run mostly to pine in the Sandhills section and to hardwoods in the “clay country.” Leon Harkins, a University of Georgia forestry graduate, is as sistant agent in charge of fores try, while Wayne Adams, with a master’s degree from N. C. State in rural sociology (another for ward step for the county commis sioners), concentrates mainly on the 4-H program. Both also do general farm agent work along with Allen, an N. C. State grad uate who was assistant agent here for five years before becom ing agent 12 years ago. New programs they are push ing for 1965 are pig farrowing houses, to supply an increasingly important pig feeder program; (Continued on Page 13) Council Schedules Meeting On Friday To Decide Zoning In a special meeting sched'uled for the town hall at 8 p.m. Fri day, the town council will resume a public hearing on a zoning mat ter that was not concluded at its regular meeting last week. To be decided is whether N.W. Broad St., from Vermont to Rhode Island Ave., to a depth of 200 feet, is to be changed from a residential to business classifica tion. The council will consider a re quest from Town Manager F. F. Rainey that funds budgeted for fire station work, not fully used, be transferred' to the Sanitation Department to be used to acquire new garbage collection equip ment. The council also expects to meet informally, not in public session, with several applicants for a franchise for a “cable-vision” central television antenna sys tem to serve Southern Pines. No decision on the matter is expect ed Friday. ROBERT TRENT JONES, famed golf course architect (second from left), played his first round over the Country Club of North Carolina course on Monday, though he is no stranger to the Sandhills and has previously played Pinehurst courses. As they finished the round, he is pictured with, left to right; F. Dan Farrell of Aberdeen who has announced that he and Mr. Jones are associated' in another big golf- residential project near the CCNC property; Buck Adams, pro at CCNC;. and John Pottle of Southern Pines. Mr. Jones praised the CCNC course which was designed by Ellis Maples of Whispering Pines. (Pilot photo) Site Problems Posed In Committee Report FORUM TONIGHT John Henry Faulk, humorist and folklorist, will appear on the Pinehurst Forum’s program in the Pinehurst Country Club to night (Thursday) at 8:45, follow ing the usual buffet supper for Forum members and their guests. ’The county commissioners are studying a report made to them Friday by the 21-member Com mittee on Education in relation to high school consolidation in Area III, and the choice of a site for the proposed consolidated school. The committee had been appointed by the commissioners 12 days previously to make rec ommendations on school facili ties in the southern part of Moore County. A. B. Hardee of Whispering Pines, chairman of the commit tee, presented its recommenda tions that Plan D of the recent educational survey be adopted as a long range plan, “making it possible” for Southern Pines and Pinehurst to join in “if they so desire,” and for a location to be chosen on US 15-501 on the northeast side of the Morganton Road intersection. Plan D would consolidate both city units within the county sys tem’s Area HI which, so far, in cludes only the Aberdeen and SEVERAL SPEAK AT SATURDAY DINNER Foreign Newsmen Enjoy Visit Here (Photos on pages 8 and 24) Local hosts waved goodbye Mond'ay morning to the most in teresting group of weekend visi tors the Sandhills had seen in many a day—11 foreign corres pondents from as many different lands, living now in Nbw York City and covering the United Nations for the press of: their native lands. — They also tvrite of American politics, and many in additipn do feature stories or analytical ar ticles on the American scene—or as much of it as they can see from their metropolitan vantage point. They found much that was new and exciting to them, they said, on a flying trip into North Car olina which culminated in their visit to Southern Pines. This presented some new pro blems in itself. “How is it possible to describe the complexity of this country in brief news dispatches?” THANKS TO ALL! John A. McPhaul, presi dent of the Southern Pines Rotary Club and Mrs. Rich ard Mitchell, vice president of the Junior Woman's Club, this week expressed their thanks to the community for the welcome and hospitality accorded 11 foreign newsmen and others with 'them, last weekend. Many persons, they noted, helped entertain the visitors in various ways. "We thank them all," said the of ficers of the two clubs serv ing as official hosts to the corTesi>ondents. was the perplexed query of Philip Ben, native of Israel accredited from Le Monde at Paris, France. “You are a most difficult country to explain in 1,000 words. 'What ever you say of America can be both right and wrong.” Wieslaw Gorzicki, of the Polish Press Agency, Poland, said he planned to write “a series of arti cles on North Carolina and South ern Pines, where we have found the hospitality very warm and human, confirming my opinion that there are far more interesting things to be found here than just 42nd and Broadway.” The tour was arranged' by State Senator Voit Gilmore through the American Association for World Press, utilizing contacts he had made when serving as director of the U. S. Travel Service. James (Continued on Page 24) Golfers Busy In Preparations To Open Store Here Signs of activity in the old building at 180 West Pennsyl vania Ave., across from The Pilot, sent a reporter over to see what was up. Sounds of a mighty hammering came from within where carpen ters were hard at work under the watchful eyes of the new occu pants, Mary Lena Faulk and Betty Jameson. The building, one of the oldest in Southern Pines, is in process of being purchased from the pre sent owner, reportedly Mrs. War ren Bell, (now out of town). The papers are expected to be signed within a day or two. Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson, who have been occupying the upper floor, will be moving shortly, it was said. Meantime, the prospective own ers are wotking hard to get things ready for' the shop they hope to open about the middle (Continued on Page 8) SEAGULLS IN AREA Charles Cole of the Storey Lumber Co., whose offices are between Southern Pines and Aberdeen, told The Pilot yester day that a flock of 30 or 40 sea gulls had settled down in the open grassy area between the Winn-Dixie Super Market and No. 1 highway and remained there some time. It is rare to find gulls in that number in this area which is around 100 miles from the nearest salt water. West End sch'ools. Although the city units to date had expressed no desire to yield their independence, Hardee said a site had been chosen, after eval uation of a total of six properties, that would offer inducement o Pinehurst to join Area III imme diately and to Southern Pines “eventually.” He recalled that instruction had been given the committee by the commissioners “to recom mend no plan which would ex clude such eventual consolida tion” and that the site presently owned by the county school sys tem on the Airport Road, pur chased last summer for the pro posed school, would probably never be acceptable to Southern Pines. Site Recommended The recommended site is an area of 50 acres which State Sen. Voit Gilmore offers to give from a tract which includes his tree farm with access now only from the Midland Road. The offer was conditioned on “Pinehurst, Inc., giving one-third as much and ac cess on 15-501.” The Gilmore land is only 800 feet in from the high way. Hardee noted that “we cannot give you metes and bounds nor any description of the property at this point,, as considerable ne gotiating remains to be done.” Should the offer meet with the commisioners’ favor, he offered the continued services of the committee in the negotiations. The property under considera tion lies entirely within the Southern Pines school district, and Hardee said the committee (Continued on Page 21) Merchants Elect Dante Montesanti Council Chairman Dante Montesanti was reelec ted chairman of the Southern Pines Merchants Council at the regular monthly meeting of the group in the municipal building Monday night. He will serve a six-months term. Garland Pierce, a former chair man of the group, was elected se cretary, replacing Mac Ausbon. The merchants decided to limit listings in a proposed business directory to business and profes sional firms and individuals who are members of the Merchants Council. Mr. Montesanti called to the attention of the business com munity here the program at the (Continued on Page 8) Work will begin soon on a mul ti-million dollar golf course-coun try club- residential project on a large tract of land within the Aberdeen - Pinehurst-Southern Pines triangle, it was revealed this week. Associated in ownership and development of a tract of about 600 acres are F. Dan Farrell of Aberdeen and Robert Trent Jones, world-renowned golf course architect, who was in the Sandhills Monday to work out details of the project with Mr. Farrell. The land is located west of the Country Club of North Carolina property, bordering it for some distance. It includes two lakes and several streams and offers other lake sites, said Mr. Far rell who talked with reporters after he played a round of golf with Mr. Jones and others at the Country Club of North Car olina on Monday. Further de tails were filled in later in the week. Suggested by Mr. Jones, Mon day, as an attractive name for the project was the French des ignation “Bois du Midi”—that is, “Southern Woods.” Plans call for having the club building and a golf course ready by October of this year and for three courses to be constructed over a five-year period. Other recreational facilities such as ten nis courts, swimming pool and fishing lakes are planned. Mr. Farrell said Monday that the development would be “high ly exclusive” and will not be a public course. He says he thinks there is a strong demand for pri vate golf courses where members can be certain, there would be no congestion. Mr. Farrell indicated he had been making tentative plans for the project for some time, but Monday was Mr. Jones’s first vis it to the property. Flying in from (Continued on Page 8) Power Cut Scheduled In Pinebluff Sunday So that “planned maintenance” work can be performed, electri city will be cut off in Pinebluff between 1:30 and 3:30 pm, Sun day, March 21, said Ward Hill, manager of the local Carolina Power & Light Co. office. The power cut affects Pinebluff only, he said. DEALERS TO SHOW WARES Over 1,000 Expected Next Week For Antiques Pair At The Local Armory An attendance of well over 1,000 visitors, based on previous years’ experience, is expected at the Eighth Annual Antiques Fair of the Moore County Historical Association, to be held Wednes day, Thursday and Friday of next week — March 24, 25, 26—at the National Guard Armory. People come to this outstand ing show from several states, and also include seasonal visitors in Southern Pines and Pinehurst. Ladies of the Sir Walter Cabi net—^wives of members of the General Assembly—will attend the Fair Thursday afternoon. This will be part of a day in the Sand- SPINAL MENINGITIS DIAGNOSED ‘Dramatic Recovery’ Made By Local Girl From Illness; To Be Home Soon Patricia Perham. 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Q. Perham of 360 E. Pennsyl vania Ave., is expected to come home Saturday from Moore Me morial Hospital, after making what Dr. Clifton Davenport, the attending physician, called “a dramatic recovery” from the spinal meningitis with which she became ill Wednesday night of last week. “Patty” will need a week or 10 days of convalescence at home. Dr. Davenport said, and can have visitors—^but he asked those who go to make their visits short so that she can regain her strength as quickly as possible. There is no longer any danger of conta gion, he said. All tests and physical exami nations made Wednesday showed i Patty’s condition “completely nor mal,” the physician told The Pilot. He said he had never seen such a speedy recovery from the disease. No other cases have been re ported, he noted, and said that because the “incubation period” of the disease is four or five days, none need be expected. Numerous persons in the com munity who had been near Patty in the few days before she be came ill took preventive medica tion — sulfa or penicillin—after her illness became known Thurs day. Students at East Southern Pines high school brought home mimeographed sheets on Thurs day, prepared at direction of Supt. J. W. Jenkins, advising parents to consult a physician if their children had been “within a few feet” of Patty on the pre- (Continued on Page 8) hills for the group, when they will be guests of the Sanford Chamber of Commerce, for a visit to Sanford in the morning, also at the Antiques Fair that after noon, with the Town of Southern Pines as hosts fpr luncheon at the Shaw House. Mrs. J. Shelton Wicker of San ford, president of the Sir Walter Cabinet, and Mrs. 'Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines will serve as local hostesses for the events. Twenty-six dealers from 11 states have taken up the display space at the Armory to its full capacity, showing many items treasured by antique lovers with some new specialties this year— French furniture. Shaker furni ture, Oriental rugs, old silver, in cluding flatware in time-honored obsolete patterns, and other rare objects. Antiques will be offered in wide variety, priced from $1 on up to $1,000 or more, to be en joyed' by those who only go to look as well as those who go to buy. A snack bar will be in contin uous operation, offering luncheon ((Continued on. Page 8) THE WEATHER -Maximum and minimum tern- 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. Malx. Min. March 11 56 28 March 12 ............. 59 27 March 13 62 28 March 14 63 35 March 15 64 35 March 16 69 37 March 17 53 46
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