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15 His proposal for a Fall Festival is being well received, says Sen. Voit Gilmore. See letter to editor, page 2. Corijhacje , ^^EjMkopqs. Cameron pil plwbe ILOT This is the “Special Week on Aging” and there are some 3,200 persons in this county 65 or over. Page 9. VOL.—45 No. 25 TWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1965 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS AT ABERDEEN School Groups To Sing; Youth Award Slated The Sandhills Kiwanis Club’s annual Picquet Festival is sche duled for Friday night, in the Aberdeen High School Auditor ium at 8:15 p.m. Kiwanians, with their wives and families invited, will have supper at 6:30 p.m. in the Aber deen school cafeteria, preceding the program. Named in honor of Charles W. Picquet of Southern Pines, for mer Kiwanian and promoter of music and the arts in the Sand hills, the Festival is an outgrowth of the former glee club contest that the Kiwanis Club sponsor ed between high schools in the county. The contest was originat ed by Mr. Picquet. This year, a combined glee club made up of voices from the Aberdeen, Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Union Pines and West End schools will be under the direc tion of James Hall, director of iserforming arts for the Char- intte-Mecklenburg schools, with responsibility for music, drama and dance in the secondary schools. The program will present a varied fare of religious chorales and modern songs from Broad way shows, as well as medleys from the early 1900’s. In addition to the whole glee club, there will be renditions by the Aberdeen Keynotes and the Pinehurst Pinettes, small vocal groups. During the intermission. The Kiwanis Junior Builder’s Cup will be presented to one of seven nominees from Moore County High schools. Chosen last week, the five girls and two boys have been tapped to represent their schools as follows: David Howard (Continued on Page 8) ft -1' ■m SWORN IN— Clyde Council, justice of the peace, swears in the newly elected town council Wednesday morning. Taking the oath of office, with one hand on Bible and other raised, are, left to right: Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., later reelected mayor in voting by the council; Felton J. Capel, elected mayor pro tern; George H. Leonard, Jr.; Lee K. Smithson, elected town treasurer; and L. D. McDonald. On the wall is the portrait of the late Police Chief C. E. (Ed) Newton. (Humphrey photo) CAPEL CHOSEN AS MAYOR PRO TEM Deaton Gets Term In Wife’s Death; Other Court News Virgil Pearl Deaton, 54, former talc mine worker of Robbins, drew three to five years for man slaughter Friday in Moore Su perior Court in the shotgun death of his wife, Emily, January 31. Deaton, charged with first-de gree murder, had pleaded not guilty. Then, when all the evi dence had been presented before a jury, he changed his plea to guilty of manslaughter. This was accepted by the State. Deaton claimed the shooting was accidental. He said his wife “came at him with a knife” dur ing a family argument, that he reached into the rafters to get his shotgun and that she dropped the knife and grabbed the gun, pulling back his hand so that the hammer-lock was released. Standing with him to hear the sentence were the 10 children of the couple, of whom only the three youngest, aged four, six and 11 were living at home. The others are all married. Nancy, the 11-year-old, served briefly as witness. She said the three children had been asleep in the room when the shot was fired, awakening them. Their mother, collapsing on a bed, ask ed Nancy to bring her a drink of (Continued on Page 24) 2 Incumbents, 3 New Candidates Elected; Hodgkins Named Mayor In a closely contested munici pal election, Southern Pines voters chose two incumbents and three new town councilmen, Tuesday. With more than 1,025 persons voting. Mayor Norris L. Hodg kins, Jr., and Felton J. C^el, held their council seats, While the third incumbent on the bal lot, C. A. McLaughlin, was not among the winners. The adjoin ing tabulation tells the full elec tion story. Two of the members of the for mer council were not candidates. Harry H. Pethick did not file and Fred Pollard moved to South Carolina recently. The two ticket leaders, Hodg kins and Capel, were elected mayor and mayor pro tem, re spectively, after the new coun cil was sworn in and went into its first session Wednesday morning. The town treasurer post, also filled by electron by other coun cil members went to Lee K. Smithson, a newcomer to elec tive office here, who ran third in Tuesday’s balloting. The treas urer’s chief duty is signing tov/n checks. Elected judge of Southern Pines Recorder’s Court, unoppos ed, was W. Harry Fullenwider, the incumbent. Howard C. Broughton, the court’s prosecu ting attorney, was also reelected. Commissioners Want Power To '^Dissolve’ School Systems Of Southern Pines And Pinehurst At their meeting in Carthage, Monday, the county commission ers voted to ask Moore County legislators in the General Assem bly “to design a bill to empower the county commissioners to dis solve the Special Administrative School Units of Pinehurst and- or Southern Pines, at their dis cretion by resolution.” The action, on which the four members of the board at the meeting voted unanimously, was the biggest gun yet fired in the months-old effort to decide what to do, and how to do it, about high school consolidation in the lower part of Moore County. It brought immediate, strong opposition from officials of the Southern Pines and Pinehurst separate school units. (Story in adjoining column). The action was taken on mo tion of Commissioner W. S. Tay lor, seconded by Commissioner SHOCK. SURPRISE EXPRESSED Local, Pinehurst School Boards React Strongly To Commissioners’ Proposal WEYMOUTH WOODS BILL INTRODUCED A special bill W2ts intro duced in the Stale Legisla ture this morning by Moore County Rep. T. Clyde Auman, of West End. representing an appropriation of $64,000 for the construction of an Inter pretive Center at lh« Wey mouth Woods Sandhills Na ture Preserve. The ^appropriation requested would cover funds for road construction, landscaping, and other necessary adjuncts. The Preserve in question is the 420 acre tract acquired by the state two years ago and is located along East Connecticut Avenue Exten sion. SAY 'GO' TO NEW BUILDING Commissioners Look With Favor On County Library’s Chief Need Moore County needs a new ing the two chairs of the librari- public library; Moore County needs a new bookmobile. Moore County must find the money to pay for both these needs; and find it soon. Why? Because: Under state (standards a county library is supposed to come up to certain specifications, and the Moore County Library doesn’t. Here are a few of the main failures; According to state spe cifications based on population, Moore County should have 40,000 books in its library: it now has 8,000. Why? Partly because there isn’t room for more. A good many of the 8,000 are stacked in piles on the floor. The Moore County library shnuld have room for 48 chairs for the people who use the li brary: It now has twelve, count- OFFICIAL RESULTS IN TOWN ELECTION (In order of votes received) FOR TOWN COUNCIL ELECTED N. L. Hodgkins, Jr. 752 Felton J. Capel 616 Lee K. Smithson 530 George H. Leonard, Jr. .... 515 L. D. McDonald 469 ALSO RAN H. W. Chatfield. Jr. 442 C, A. McLaughlin 425 Charles J. Mumford 237 Robert W. Howaird 174 John Dibb 141 FOR JUDGE W. H. Fullenwider 702 (Unopposed) FOR PROSECUTING ATT'Y familiarize themselves with town work in progress and other matters. In a special meeting of the old council Wednesday morning, held to certify the vote of the previous day. Mayor Hodgkins praised the work of the three members not returning—Mr. Mc Laughlin, Mr. Pethick and Mr. Pollard—and thanked the entire council for its services of the past two years. (Other election news, page 8) Howard C. Broughton (Unopposed) 662 Tag Day Will Be Skipped This Year For the first time since 1935, when it was started, there will be no Maternal Welfare Tag Day in Moore County on this Mother’s Day weekend. It is hoped and believed that this will be the case for only this year, with the countywide fund drive expected to take place again next Mother’s Day. For this year, however, the Moore Memorial Auxiliary will “pick up the tag.” A report embodying the change was given at the annual meeting of the auxiliary, Wednesday, by Mrs. James Boyd, co-chairman with Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson, of Aberdeen, of the committee, which includes Mrs. A. P. Thomp son and Mrs. Hugh Carter of (Continued on Page 8) Quick and strong reaction by Southern Pines and Pinenurst school officials followed the county commissioners’ Monday decision to ask for legislation en abling them to “dissolve” the special Southern Pines and Pine hurst Administrative school units. The following statement was issued by the Pinehurst School Board, of which J. W. (Bunch) Sheffield of the Eastwood com munity is chairman; “The Pinehurst School Board strongly opposes any type of leg islation to dissolve the special administrative units of the Pine- unopposed. The new council met only to organize. The next regular meet ing of the group will be Tuesday, May 18, at 8 pm, postponed one week from the regular “second Tuesday” meeting day, in order fichnYil to give the new officials time to A-lfgUf U Five Named To John Parrish is designated chairman of the five-member iocal Public Housing Authori ty appointed by Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., and other members of the group are an nounced as the Rev. Martin Caldwell. T. R. Goins. E. Earl Hubbard and Lt. Col. Frank M. Smith. The appointments were an nounced by the mayor at Wednesday morning's special meeting of the town council, to certify the vote of Tues day's election, before the new council had been sworn in. Mr. Parrish said that a meeting of the new group— which will have charge of a proposed public housing pro gram here—^would be called soon. He asked the support of the people of the commun- ity. The appointments were authorized by the town coun cil recently. The mayor also has the authority to designate the chairman. hurst and-or Southern Pines Schools. “The Pinehurst School Board unanimously decided to oppose such action by every method and means at its disposal.” To this, Mr. Sheffield added, “The Pinehurst School Board and the entire community were sur (Continued on Page 8) GIRL SCOUT CAMP Girl Scouts from over Moore County had a weekend Campo- ree at Camp Easter in the Pines, using the facilities of that “Eas ter Seal” camp for crippled chil dren near Southern Pines. De tails will appear in next week’s Pilot. GILL TO SPEAK AT SATURDAY CEREMONY Library Improvements Will Be Dedicated Coach Trentini To Leave For Post In Football League Tony Trentini, head football coach and athletic director at East Southern Pines High School, announced tKis week that h^ has resigned, effective at the end of the school year, to accept a posi ti'on with a newly formed pro fessional football organization. He said he would become line coach and director of player per sonnel, but that announcement of the location and name of the team which is in a new league, would have to come from the or ganization itself later. Southern Pines Schools Supt. J. W. Jenkins said that the res ignation of Mr. Trentini has been accepted with regret. “He has done an outstanding job during this past school year in Southern Pines,” Mr. Jenkins said. Mr. Trentini came here last year after having coached at Wake Forest High School and Wake Forest College. He has served as boys’ guidance counselor in the high school, in addition to his athletic program duties. “I regret very much leaving (Continued on Page 8) W. Lynn Martin. Present and voting were Board Chairman John M. Currie and Commission er C. Wiley Purvis. James M. Pleasants, the fifth member of the board was, and remains, a patient at Moore Memorial Hospital. The commissioners voted after Southern Pines and Pinehurst school officials, who had been conferring with them, had left the meeting. Representatives of the press, under the impression that the meeting was being ad journed, had left the meeting also at that time, which was nearly 6 pm. An extract from the minutes, covering the action taken, was telephoned and also sent to the press later, at direction of Chair man Currie. Because the press was not pres ent, there is no report of what discussion preceded the drsistic action taken by the commission ers, nor of what their reasoning was in making the move. Possibly influential on their thinking was the offer of Pine hurst, Inc., made in a letter to Chairman Currie and discussed by the board earlier in the day, (Continued on Page 8) TOOK HIS PISTOL an and her assistant. (And both of them frequently vacate their chairs for the folks who want to sit and read.) Moore County should be able to keep its library open at the lunch hours and one or two nights a week and Saturday after noons for the people who can only come at such times; but it can’t. Because there is no money to pay for an extra person to staff those times. These are a few of the points made in Librarian Hollis Haney’s report to the Board of County Commissioners at their meeting Monday morning. The main sub ject of the report and discussion which followed, (however, was centered around the Regional Area plan, in which Moore County is lined up with Mont- (Continued on Page 24) A ceremony of dedication of the new additions to the South ern Pines Library building will be held this coming Saturday, May 8, at the Library. The time set is 3 pm. The public is invited to join in the occasion, and special invita tions have been sent out by the board of trustees to a list of guests from among State library personnel and those locally asso ciated with the history, past and present, of the town library. In charge of proceedings will be W. Lamont Brown, town at torney and chairman of the Li brary Board. The program will be climaxed by an address by the Hon. Edwin Gill, of Laurinburg, Treasurer of North Carolina. A feature of the occasion will be the dedication of the Alfred Yeomans Garden. This patio gar den, opening off the new gallery, is the creation of the Southern Pines Garden Club and is being presented by the club in memory (Continued on Page 8) (Humphrey photo) Looking from Garden Gallery into New Alfred Yeomans Garden at the Library Collections Of Blood Scheduled Two of the regular blood col lections that make possible free blood of all types in both hospi tals in Moore County will be held next week—in Pinehurst on Monday and in Aberdeen on Tuesday. John Dibb of Southern Pines, acting county chairman for the Red Cross blood program, said that a bloodmobile from the Charlotte collection center will be at the high school gym in Pinehurst from 12 noon to 5:30 pm, Monday; and at the First Baptist Church, Aberdeen, from 10 am to 3:30 pm on Tuesday. Dr. D. D. Gadd is program chairman in Pinehurst and Sonny Guion is head of the Aberdeen committee. There is a pressing need for blood, Mr. Dibb said, and persons knowing their blood is one of the (Continued on Page 8) Students To Give ‘Babes In Toy land’ To be presented in Weaver Au ditorium, Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15, as this year’s East Southern Pines High School operetta will be “Babes in Toy- land” with music by Victor Her bert. The production, in which all Junior High students will take part in some capacity, is under direction of Mrs. Billiegene Gar ner, featuring the Junior High Chorus and band. There will be a small admis sion charge. Arrested Man Eludes Officer Barney Comer, 23, of Vass, Route ■ 2, arrested Wednesday night at Vass on a felony charge, later escaped with the pistol of the arresting officer and was still being sought Thursday at noon. He had taken the pistol at gun point earlier Wednesday night, after tricking the officer into let ting him visit his home. The manhunt, which ensued, after Night Policeman James R. Grissom of Vass slogged several miles on foot to get help, center ed mostly in the Fort Bragg- Fayetteville area, then moved to Sanford early Thursday morn ing. Comer reportedly ran from the back door of a Sanford home, still carrying Grissom’s official pistol, as Sanford police came in at the front about dawn. Arrested for the alleged rape of his 14-year-old sister-in-law. Comer repeatedly told Grissom during a wild midnight ride in the Lobelia section and Cumber land County that he was going away, and would kill himself. Comer is described as small— about 140 to 145 pounds and five feet, six inches in height. IT'S OPEN That's the big news. Act ually. it has never been closed. But. during the winter months, few customers came and there were no fresh gar den things to eat or flowers to look at and pretty-up your house. Now. on Saturday morn ings. beginning at 7:30 down in that almost-underground hideaway on North West Broad Street, just beyond the Sunrise Theatre, the big tables around the walls are piled high with garden pro duce. Prices, and moderate ones, are chalked up on the blackboard and there are many willing hands to help you and welcome smiles from old friends of the Home De monstration Clubs of Moore County. Yes indeed and don't forget: THE CURB MARKET IS OPEN. 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 April 29 65 44 April 30 77 44 May 1 87 49 May 2 89 50 May 3 90 52 May 4 91 53 May 5 90 59
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