Why is
the John Birch Society attacking
the author of a book opposing
comanunism? Editorial, page 2.
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PortM
A new
program to help assure proper
immunization of infants against
disease is going on. Page 9.
VOL.—45 No. 26
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1965
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
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AT CEREMONIES — Among principal partic
ipants in ceremonies at the town-owned local
Library, Saturday, are these library trustees
and others, pictured in the new Alfred B.
Yeomans Memorial Garden adjoining the li
brary’s art gallery. Left to right: Mrs. R. M.
McMillan, president of the Southern Pines
Garden Club which constructed and gave the
garden to the Town; Mrs. Voit Gilmore, chair
man of the club’s memorial garden committee;
Mrs. George Pottle, trustee; Miss Lockie Park-
Dedication
Conducted
At Library
“The most wonderful thing
about your Town Library is that
it includes not only a fine collec
tion of books but also a picture
gallery and garden.”
The speaker was the Hon. Ed
win Gill, treasurer of the State
of North Carolina and chief
speaker at the dedication of the
newly-opened additions to the
Southern Pines Library, Satur
day afternoon.
The program under the guidance
of W. Lament Brown, chairman
of the Library Board of Trustees,
opened with an invocation by the
Rev. John W. Peek, followed by
words of greeting from the chair
man to the more than 100 towns
people and guests assembled ini
the main room of the building.
Of special interest to many
were the remarks of Mrs. R. M.
McMillan, president of the South
ern Pines Garden Club, which
hq|j^ presented to the library the
uniquely attractive patio garden
er, trustee; Felton J. Capel, mayor pro tern
and trustee; W. Lament Brown, trustee chair
man, pointing out bronze Phoenix statuary (see
story); the Rev. John W. Peek who spoke the
invocation; Mrs. James Boyd, trustee; John F.
Faulk, chairman of the gallery committee; Ed
win Gill, state treasurer, who was guest speaker;
and Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., who ac
cepted the memorial garden' on behalf of the
(Humphrey photo)
PICQUET MUSIC FESTIVAL
John Francis Burns, Aberdeen, Wins
Junior Builder’s Cup; Chorus Sings
John Francis Burns of Aber
deen received the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club’s Junior Builder’s
Cup, presented during the pro
gram of the Kiwanis-sponsored
Picquet Music Festival at the
Aberdeen School auditorium, Fri
day night
“Johnny” Bums won the honor
among seven outstanding boys
and girls, nominees of their high
schools, all seniors standing high
academically and adjudged to
have made significant contribu
tions of service to school, church
and community.
Howard C. Broughton, Kiwanis
chairman for the award, also
presented certificates to the other
nominees—David Howard Jones
of Southern Pines, Janice C.
Fields of Pinehurst, Jane Ellen
Jackson of West End, Janice
Havner of Union Pines, Shirley
June Hare of Westmoore and
Martha Jane Williams of Rob
bins.
The nominations were made by
the school principals, and the
choice was based on the nomi
nees’ records and personal inter
views held by the Kiwanis com
mittee. Burns, president of his
senior class, has been Beta Club
president, served on the annual
and school newspaper staffs, in
the glee club and on the Student
Council, has letters in all varsity
athletics and is a member of the
Monogram Club, has been foot-
, I ball and basketball team captain
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to be called The Yeomans Gar
den after Alfred B. Yeomans,!
public-spirited citizen and lands-1 Kl,, a ' i
cape architect, promotor of mu
sic and the cultural activities of|
Southern Pines and special ad
viser to the local club.
In accepting the garden for the
town. Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins,
Jr., expressed “the gratitude of
everyone” for this adjunct to the
library and the community’s ap
preciation of “the hard work and
expert planning that went into
this most recent gift to the town
by this group.”
Musicpl Interlude
A delightful and appropriate
feature of the program—because A rknrkiTifxvitiTi-l- TTrk
of the late Mr. Yeomans’s great XO
love of music—was the interlude
of Haydn music presented by The
Recorders. The six players were;
Mrs. C. E. Cowan, Mrs. N. L.
Hodgkins, Jr., Richard Mitchell,
William Whitley, William A. Mc
Adams, and Dr. Robert Downing
of Fayetteville. Their instru
ments included two soprano, two" has been informed.
LYNN E. DAEKE
Daeke Receives
USAF Academy
Lynn Ellis Daeke, 18-year-old
East Southern Pines High School
senior, has received an appoint
ment to the US Air Force Acade
my at Colorado Springs, Colo., he
alto and two tenor recorders.
The address of the State Treas
urer followed, in which Mr. Gill
declared forthrightly his strong
conviction that a library “full of
great books is a bastion of free
dom.”
‘Tt seems to me,” said the
speaker, “that, as we dedicate
this library and all it stands for,
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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 Hoad.
Max Min
May 6 90 60
May 7 86 63
May 8 82 61
May 9 84 59
May 10 89 60
May li ,90 66
May 12 85 62
First notice of the honor came
last Wednesday in a telegram
from Rep. Charles R. Jonas, 8th
District Congressman to whom
Daeke had applied for an ap
pointment, last summer. Confir
mation of his appointment by
Rep. Jonas and acceptance by
the Academy came two days
later from the Academy which is
the Air Force equivalent of the
Army’s Wedt Point and the
Navy’s Annapolis.
Daeke will leave in late June
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Mary Lena Faulk
Store Schedules
Opening Saturday
Formal opening of a new shop
handling women’s casual and
country clothes and active sports
wear will take place Saturday
when the Mary Lena Faulk Store
starts operations at 160 W. Penn
sylvania Ave., across from The
Pilot office.
Miss Faulk and her associate.
Miss Betty Jameson, for several
weeks have been remodeling the
interior 'of the building which
Miss Faulk, proprietor of the
business, recently purchased
from Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bell.
Legislation Asked Permitting Vote On
Countywide School System, Special Tax
The county commissioners’ action Tuesday to break
the school consolidation deadlock with double-barreled
legislation climaxed two days in which they met for a
total of almost nine hours, determined to keep meeting
till they reached a solution.
They met for three and a half hours Monday with the
county’s legislators and representatives of all the school
boards involved and Pinehurst, Inc.
They met for two hours Tuesday morning with County
Attorney M. G. Boyette, and for nearly another three and
a half hours Tuesday afternoon with the county board
of education,
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At the close of the first day,
chairman John M. Currie com
mented, “It’s all those same old
stone walls,” but bit by bit the
walls began to give way.
Survey Provided Plan
The “master plan” of which
they never lost sight was that set
by a survey of Moore schools they
had sponsored last January,
which supported other surveys
made through the years in its
conclusions—that one administra
tive unit, instead of three would
best serve the county, both educa
tionally and taxwise, and that the
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
city units, and Aberdeen and West
End' of the Moore County system,
should consolidate their high
schools.
With the deadlock over the
site of the Area HI school at a
crisis stage, Aberdeen and West
End sorely in need of their school
and bond money voted toward
paying for it—while the two city
units held off—the commissioners
started last week tackling some
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The Moore County commissioners in special session
Tuesday afternoon took action toward holding a county
wide vote, probably in the fail, which if approved would
revamp the entire administration of the schools, place all
schools in a single administrative unit and permit the
levying of a countywide tax supplement to enrich the
program of all the schools.
They adopted a resolution, which was immediately dis
patched to Raleigh, requesting that Senators Voit Gilmore
and Robert Morgan and Rep. Clyde Auman sponsor legis
lation to empower the comjnissioners to call such an
election, in their discretion.
Worsham Buys
Bakery; Plamiing
Add Delicatessen
C. L. Worsham, Jr., has bought
The Bread Basket, formerly
Howard’s Bakery, from Mr. and
Mrs. I. D. Quillen, who have
owned and operated the business
for close to a year.
The owner of Worsham’s Gro
cery and Meat Market in Pine
hurst, which he bought in 1963
from James D. Hobbs, Mr. Wor
sham has started operating the
bake shop on N. W. Broad St. un
der its new name, Worsham’s
Bakery.
Managing the shop and in
charge of the baking, is John
Carver of Fayetteville. Assisting
him are Norma Berry and
Mrs. Margaret Phipps, both of
Southern Pines.
Plans of the new owner call for
a remodeling of the facilities and
the addition of a delicatessen
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174 Pints Blood
Given This Week
A total of 174 pints of blond
were collected at two stops this
week by a bloodmobile from the
Charlotte Red Cross Center that
supplies both hospitals in Moore
County.
John Dibb, acting Maore Coun
ty Red Cross Blood Program
Far-Reaching Aspects Of Civil Rights
School Rulings Told To Commissioners
The county commissioners ex
pressed their concern Tuesday to
J. W. Sheffield, chairman the
Pinehurst board of education, as
to whether or not $85,000 his
board is planning to spend on the
Academy Heights Negro School
would not be “money down the
drain.”
Latest school edicts based on
the Civil Rights law, they
thought, indicated that “within a
couple of years there won’t be
any more Negro schools.”
They expressed the fear that
money spent on new construction
on the Negro schools of today will
Operetta Will Be
Given Two Nights
The proposed legislation stipu
lates that the special supplemen
tary tax would not exceed 30
cents per $100 of property valua
tion.
The resolution, unanimously
adopted, spelled out a reorgani
zation from a five-member to a
seven-member board of educa
tion, with six members to be elec-
Last rehearsals were going on
this week for “Babes in Toy-) county board of ed-
land,” the annual operetta pro-'meeting with them on
duction of East Southern pines jproblems, concern-
junior High School, which will- mS ^^e latest Civil Rights edicts
be presented in Weaver Auditor
ium, Friday and Saturday nights,
at 8 pm.
The Victor Herbert musical, in
which all Junior High students
are taking part in acting, singing
or staging, is directed by Mrs.
Billigene Garner. The Junior
High Chorus and band will be
featured, along with the operet
ta’s large cast.
be to no purpose “unless you are
going to assign white pupils to
those schools.”
Sheffield said that until such,
changes are made “these children j ted from designated voting dis
tricts and one member at large.
The vote, if carried, would pool
all administration and county re
sources available for schools into
one unit, with one board, instead
of dividing them among three
units as at present—the county
system. Southern Pines and
Pinehurst.
The plan is similar to that re
cently adopted by vote of the
people in the Scotland County-
Laurinburg merger, which, the
commissioners learned from
County Attorney M. G. Boyette,
“has been tested all the way to
■Ijhe State Supreme Court and
found legal in all its aspects.”
Another Resolution
As a safety measure, in case
the referendum fails to carry,
and so as hot to hold up the
school program for another bi
ennium, the commissioners adop
ted another resolution in concur
rence with one adopted Saturday
by the county board of educa
tion, for legislation allowing the
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have to go somewhere.'
Bids were to be opened Wed
nesday for a six-classroom ad
dition at the Academy Heights
school, which would allow a re
arrangement of existing space in
both the elementary and high
school, to provide for library ex-
ipansion, a new science room typ
ing rooms, etc. He said the build
ing was old, conditions bad and
the improvements needed.
He asked that $85,000 in county
bonds already cashed, the funds
now placed on reserve, be set
aside to meet contracts expected
to be signed, either Wednesday
or within the ensuing 30 days.
The commissioners later ques-
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COUNCIL TO MEET
The new town council elected
May 4 will hold its first regular
meeting at the municipal build
ing Tuesday, May 18, at 8 pm.
Members of the council are: Nor
ris L. Hodgkins, Jr., mayor; Fel
ton J. Capel, mayor pro tern;
George H. Leonard, Jr., L. D.
McDonald and Lee K. Smithson.
PEACH BLIGHT
The Sandhills Experi
ment Station at Windblow
is attempting to find the
cause and cure of a blight
that has killed from 10 to 60
per cent of the trees in some
peach orchards in this area.
F. D. Allen, county exten
sion chairman, told the coun
ty commissioners last week
that damage to orchards has
been extensive, although va
ried (from orchard to or
chard. He said the disease
resembles "brown rot" and
said that weakening of trees
from the freeze that nearly
wiped out the 1964 crop may
be a factor.
Little League To Sell
Candy Here On Saturday
Southern Pines Little League
Baseball players will be selling
candy mints throughout the com
munity Saturday, in a one-day
drive to raise money to help meet
league expenses.
Persons not buying candy but
wishing to donate to this activity
for boys should make checks pay
able to “Southern Pines Little
League” and send them in care
of the local post office.
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A newly designed front entrance chairman, reported 73 pints do-
has also been provided.
Interior improvements include
new floors and lighting fixtures,
a wall panelled in cypress and
construction of fitting rooms.
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nated at Pinehurst on Monday
and 101 pints at Aberdeen, Tues
day.
The acting chairman thanked
all who gave blood or assis+ed at
the two collection points.
APPRECIATION
A spokesman for the Southern
Pines Volunteer Fire Department
this week asked The Pilot to ex
press the department’s apprecia
tion to all who attended cr
bought tickets to the successful
32nd Annual Fireman’s Ball, for
benefit of the department, held
May 1 at the National Guard Ar
mory.
Control Of Wind Erosion, Dust Storms
Object Of New Program In 5 Counties
BY F. D. ALLEN
County Extension Chairman
Action is being taken to con
trol wind erosion and' dust stonris
in the Sandhills area.
A meeting was held recently at
the Sandhills Research Station,
below Candor, of a, committee ap
pointed by the Sandhills Area
Development Association.
The committee consisted of the
county extension chairmen and
work unit conservationists with
the Soil Conservation Service in
the counties of Hoke, Lee, Mont
gomery, Moore and Richmond.
These people are: Hoke— WendeU
Young and F. O. Clark; Lee-
Tom Haislip and Bobby G. Brock;
Montgomery—Austin M. Garriss
and John U. Lilly; Moore— F. D.
Allen and W. K. Keller; and
Richmond— Wallace G. Flynt and
W. H. Abrams.
Don Morris, agricultural repre
sentative with the Carolina Power
and Light Company and presi
dent of the Sandhills Area De
velopment Association, met with
the committee.
The purpose of this meeting
was to study the problem and
make suggestions and plans for
coping with it. It was brought out
that dust storms are not only a
safety and health hazard but are
seriously affecting some of the
best crop land in the area.
Measures have been taken in
the past such as the planting of
trees for wind breaks, strip crop
ping, cover crops and other sod
planting. These practices have
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TALENTED — Here are the five Moore
County young people accented by the new N. C.
School of the Arts to open this fall. Left to
right: Janet Markham and Helen Heath Hanner,
TO ENTER NEW FACILITY IN SEPTEMBER
of West End; and Carolyn Jane McGoogan,
Anna Dell Smith and Frank Pearce Smith, Jr.,
all of Southern Pines. Details in accompanying
story. (Pilot photo)
5 From County Accepted By School Of Arts
Five Moore County young peo-i are:
pie are among the first 92 stu-| Southern Pines—Carolyn Jane
dents accepted for study this fall McGoogan, organ, daughter of
at the new North Carolina School
'Of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
Names of the 92 students were
announced today by Gov. Dan K.
Moore who said they were “se
lected primarily because of their
exceptional talent and potential
ability to become professional
performers in the fields of music,
dance and drama.”
Three 'of the Moore students
are from Southern Pines suid two
from West End. T.isted by com
munity, With the field of the arts
in which they -will study, they
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan L. McGoo
gan; Anna Dell Smith, dance, and
Frank Pearce (Buddy) Smithj Jr.,
dance, daughter and son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Pearce Smith.
West End—^Helen Heath Han
ner, dance, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Hanner; Janet Mark-,
ham, organ, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold T. Markham.
They will all enter the school
September.5.
The 92 students were chosen
from 241. who auditioned in
April. A second group of audi
tions will be held June 10-12 at
Winston-Salem.
Both Jane McGoogan and
Janet Markham are organ pupils
of William Stokes of Southern
Pines, organist at Brownson Me
morial Presbyterian Church.
Both are also longtime piano stu
dents. Jane has been studying or
gan for eight months and Janet
for a couple of years. Both are
high schobl sophomores, Jane in
Southern Pines and Janet at
West End.
: ’ Anna Dell Smith, a junior in
high school here and her brother,
“Buddy,’’ a sophom'ore, are both
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