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> * I The editor of a neighboring county’s weekly offers advice today on how to influence newspaper people. Read it on page 2. fU A mother of three children, from Raeford, is the first graduate of Sandhills Community College. Story, photo, page 8. VOL.—45 No. 27 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1965 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS I”* DR. AND MRS. JOSE INFANTE REPLACING TONY TRENTINI Dr. Iiifante, Member Of Local School Faculty, To Be Cainp Easter Director Dr. Jose Infante, Spanish in structor at East Southern Pines High School, has been nanied di rector of Camp Easter in the Pines for the 1965 season, it is announced by Mrs. Mark Liddell, Town To Receive Award For Safety The North Carolina State Motor Club’s Traffic Safety Award for 1964 will be presented to 18 North Carolina cities and towns, including Southern Pines, for their fatality-free records last year, Thomas B. Watkins, presi dent of the motor club and the National Automobile Association, has announced. The awards are presented an nually by the N. C. State Motor Club and the National Automo bile Association for “outstanding achievement in traffic safety im provement,” and are made in two population categories—over 10,- 000 and 5,000 to 10,000. The local award was made in the latter group. camp coordinator. He will be assisted by his wife, Mrs. Carmen Infante, and the couple will live at the camp, Mrs. Liddell said. The camp, a facility of the North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children and Adults, is lo cated beyond the Kenwood de velopment, north of Southern Pines, and is expected to provide camping experience for about 200 handicapped youngsters this sum mer. Dr. Infante’s appointment fol lowed the recent resignation of Tony Trentini as East Southern Pines High School director of athletics, to join a pro football league as a coach and personnel director. Mr. Trentini, also to be assisted by his wife, had ex pected to be the Camp Easter di rector this summer but his new football post made that impos sible. Df. aifid Mi's. Irifahte are na tives of Cuba and lived there un til 1959, although Dr. Infante had gone to school in the United States, graduating from the Per- kiomen School in Pennsylvania (Continued on Page 8) 24 Volunteers Will Train Here For VISTA Work Twenty-four VISTA (Volun teers in Service To America) volunteers will arrive here Mon day for training which will pre pare them for one year assign ments in the migrant labor camps of New Jersey and North Caro lina. 'The six week training program for the domestic peace corpsmen will be conducted by the North Carolina Fund training depart ment, using temporary facilities of Sandhills Community College in Southern Pines. Bernard J. Goodstein, director of Northside Boys Club in Chica go, will serve as training coor dinator. While here, the group will be staying at the Southland Hotel. D. L. Furches, director of gen eral adult education for the col lege, said that the North Caro- hna Fund staff and visiting ex perts in the migrant field would be the instructors and that the college has been asked to supply only instructional space. T^e former Mary Rowe shop, at the rear of the One 76 N. W. Broad St. building wttiere the college offices are located, is be ing converted to the college li brary, Mr. Furches said, and a portion of this space will be used for class work. Basement space under this area will be used for showing films which will play a large part in the instructional procedure. The college official said there will be eight days of classroom (Continued on Page 8) IP P' r% Local education Board Protests Proposal For Consolidation Election building. The council also reappointed Dr. C. C. McLean, board of edu cation chairman whose term also will expire June 1. Both appoint ments are for four-year terms. (Continued on Page 8) COUNCIL MAKES OTHER APPOINTMENTS Hodgkins Will Retire From Education Board; Dr. Dougherty Succeeds Him Dr. Raymond J. Dougherty was appointed by the town coun- cO to the Southern Pines Board of Education Tuesday night to fill the vacancy on the board that will occur June 1 when the term of veteran board member N. L. Hodgkins expires. Mr. Hodgkins preferred not to be a candidate for reappointment, his son. Mayor Norris L. Hodg kins, explained to the council be fore nominations for the post were asked. The retiring board member has served for nearly 30 years. He is a member of the board of trus tees of Sandhills Community College, a factor in influencing his decision, his s-on said. Mr. Hodgkins will be honored with a reception, to which the public is invited, on Wednesday, June 2, from 4 to 6 pm at the municipal Young Musicians To Play Saturday Outstanding pupils of music teachers of this area will be pre sented in recital Saturday, May 22, when the 16th annual Young Musicians Concert will take place at 8 p.m. in the Pinehurst High Sthool auditorium. Sponsored by the Sandhills Music Association, the concert win be open to the public. There wUl be no admission charge. All of the young people to be presented are pianists except one who will play the guitar and a violinist who will play with (Continued on Page 8) MANGUM NAMED CLUB MANAGER Clyde C. Mangum, Jr., ex ecutive secretary since 1953 ctf the CHroIin;aS Golf Associa tion, has resigned, effective June 1, to become manager of the Pinehurst Country Club, announces Richard S. Tufts, secretary of the CGA, and board chairman of Pine hurst, Inc. Mr. Mangum, who is the seventh executive secretary of the organiration since it was founded in 1909, will succeed Peter V. Tufts as manager of the club. Mr. Mangum and his wife, who have two sons, live in Southern Pines. Peter Tufts will take on additional duties with Pine hurst, Inc., said Albert Tufts, president of the corporation. No replacement has been named for the CGA post. AT COLLEGE SITE— The sito where Sandhills Community College buildings are under construction was chosen for presen tation by Mrs. C. Louis Meyer of a gift of $30,000 to the college. Receiving the check is H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, chairman of the board of trustees, as Dr. Raymond Stone, college presi dent, looks on. Also present for the event was Trustee Robert S. Ewing of Southern Pines. Big concrete pillars of one of the buildings can be seen behind Mr. Blue and Dr. Stone. (Humphrey photo) $30,000 Gift Made To College By Mrs. Meyer A gift of $30,000 to Sandhills Community College from Mrs. Mary Luman Meyer has been an nounced. This is the second major dona tion to the ■ College from Mrs. Meyer. Earlier, she donated the 180-acre site on which buildings are now being constructed. ’The college will open in Sep tember. Mrs. Meyer is chairman of the Elks Golf Draws 296 If residents of Southern Pines and environs thing the “season” is over, take a look around this week—it’s a bee-hive again, the result of the fifth annual National Elks Amateur goU championship, sponsored by Southern Pines Elks Lodge 1692. The 54 - hole event, begun modestly and now a huge tourney, this year has attracted a record field of 296 players from 15 states —California to Florida. Of the total, 42 are members of the host lodge. The even runs today (Thursday) through Saturday, a change from past formats when the tourney ended Sunday. The extra day allows contestants travel time. Larry Dempsey of Greensboro is the defending champion, and because of numerical superiority, the title has never left the state. Art Ruffin of Wilson is a two- time winner and runnerup last year, and Dale Morey, High Point, captured one crown. Play is over Southern Pines Country Club and Mid Pines Club courses. The latter remains open past its season to accommodate the Elks, for which chairman Bob (Continued on Page 8) Public Invited To Free Square Dance Saturday A “spring frolic” square dance, ■with band music, will be spon sored by the Southern Pines Jaycees, Saturday night, May 22, at the A & P Supermarket park ing lot. Admission to the dance is free and the public is invited. How ever, as a fund-raising project for their civic work, the Jay cees are selling tickets to a pre dance 'event when a television set will 'be given away at 8 pm. APPRECIATION— Dr. Clarence Foster, center, and E. R. (Buck) Graham of Aberdeen, right, hold a Certificate of Ap preciation presented to Dr. Foster by Mr. Graham who is an international counselor of Lions International. At left is Bill Johnson, president of the local Lions Club. (Pilot photo) LOCAL PHYSICIAN. WIFE HONORED Dr. Foster’s‘Medico’Work Recognized At Southern Pines Lions Club Meeting Dr. Clarence Foster, local, where he worked, was honored ophthalmologist who served with a “Medico” unit in Algeria -doing eye surgery and instruct ing physicians and medical per sonnel there—in January, 1964, was given a Certificate of Ap preciation at a dinner meeting of the Southern Pines Lions Club in Doug Kelly’s Holiday Inn Restaurant, Friday night. His wife, Mrs. Lucy Foster, who accompanied him to Algeria and assisted at the hospital along with him at the dinner. Dr. Foster had not known of the award prior to the event, The framed certificate reads, in part: “In grateful recognition of outstanding and, meritorious service to MEDICO, a service of CARE, in the advancement of worldwide medical assistance, in Algeria, in January, 1964.” The Certificate came from Medico itself and was presented (Continued on Page 8) Housing Authority Members Sworn In The five members of the South ern Pines Public Housing Author ity recently appointed by Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., were sworn in Tuesday afternoon at the town hall conference room, with members of the town council attending. ’They are: John C. Parrish, chairman; the Rev. Martin Cald well, T. R. Goins, E. Earl Hub- hard and Lt. Col. Frank M. Smith. Mr. Parrish said that the Au thority cannot proceed with action leading to the construction of low-rental housing units here until it receives its charter of in corporation. R. F. Hoke Pollock, who has been named attorney for the Authority, is making application for the charter and it is expected to come through in a few days, Mr. Parrish said. board of directors of the Ceco Steel Corporation and president of the Ceco Foundation. She and her late husband, C. Louis Meyer, also made substantial do nations to Moore Memorial Hos pital at Pinehurst. Her country estate, where she has been a sea sonal resident for many years, is off the Pinehurst-Airport road, not far from the college site. In accepting the Meyer gift for the college, H. Clifton Blue, chairman of the board of trustees, expressed appreciation to Mrs. Meyer and her family for their deep interest in and liberal sup port of the College. Dr. Raymond A Stone, presi dent, announced plans to begin an endowment fund for the sup port of teaching at the college. The Meyer gift will be used, in part, to initiate this effort. KIDNAPING, ASSAULT Comer To Face Superior Court Trial In August Probable cause was found against Barney Comer, 23, of Vass, Route 2, Saturday in Moore Coimty Recorders Court at Car thage, on charges of kidnaping an officer, assault with deadly wea pon (a shotgun) and larceny of the officer’s car, pistol and hand cuffs. Bond was set at $1,500 for his appearance at the August criminal term of Superior Court. The bond was made light, con sidering the array of felony charges, on the plea of Defense Counsel W. W. Staton of Sanford, who told the court his client was to be turned over to Cumberland County officers for hearing on a charge of rape, and he hoped the bond would be such that, if he allowed bond in the Cumberland' County case, he would have some hope of getting out of jail before the trial. The court gave signs also of being favorably influenced by the fact that Comer, who had overwhelm ed an officer following arrest on the rape charge and escaped his custody, had voluntarily surrend ered himself after five days’ liber ty. He had abandoned the car without damaging it and had' (Continued on page 17) In a letter to State Sen. Voit Gilmore and Moore Rep. T. Clyde Auman, the Southern Pines Board of Education has protested against proposed school legislation asked for the county commissioners and the Moore County board of edu cation. The commissioners have asked the legislators to introduce a bill that would give them power to call a county-wide election on forming a single county unit for administration of schools and provide for a special tax not to exceed 30 cents per $100 of pro- 31 Ask Transfers From Schools Of West Side Here A total of 31 school transfer re quests, for the coming year, all from West Southern Pines stud ents asking to attend East South ern Pines schools, was received by the Southern Pines board of education prior to Saturday’s deadline. Supt. J. W. Jenkins said 24 of the requests are for the elemen tary grades and seven for the high school and' that there is at least one request for each grade ex cept the 12th (senior year in high school). At Pinehurst At Pinehurst today, Supt. Lewis Cannon said that the board of education is meeting tonight to consider requests for transfer from the Taylortown schools to the Pinehurst schools. He said the number of requests cannot be determined accurately until after the meeting, as there have been some changes asked by requesting parents since the deadline and also, he said, ap parently some misunderstanding on the part of some school patrons. He said the total number of transfer requests will be an nounced as soon as it is accurate ly known. f Local Girl Scouts To Have Court Of Awards Parents of local Girl Scouts and all interested persons are in vited to attend a Court of Awards at 4 pm Sunday, in Weaver Auditorium. Rank advancements and awards for Scouting work will be given a large number of girls during the ceremonies, said Mrs. John F. Buchholz, troop organ izer. W. E. COVINGTON, JR. Business Manager, Faculty Members Named By College Faculty additions to the staff of Sandhills Community College continue to be made in anticipa tion of the college’s opening on September 30. The appointments of the busi ness manager and six faculty members were announced today by Dr.. Raymond A. Stone, college president: William E. Covington, Jr., business manager. Culver, Indiana; John P. Newcomer, physics, Knoxville, Tenn.; James G. Reid, physical education, Boone; Donald W. Whelan, biolo gy, Gainesville, Fla.; Murray M. Andrew, mathematics, Siler City; William C. Barefield, engineering Technology, Southern Pines; and Charles H. Bowman, Jr., Southern Pines native, now at Chesapeake, Va., social sciences. Kie business manager will be- (Continued on Page 8) BOOSTERS TO MEET The Blue Knights Booster Club of the East Southern Pines High School will meet at the school Wednesday, May 26, at 8 pm. 'The treasurer’s report wiU be made and nomination of new officers for the coming year will be discussed. perty valuation. 'They have also asked, if such a vote should be held and not carry, for legislation permitting the county board of education to build and operate a school in the Pinehurst School district. If all units are not merged by a vote, the Pinehurst site would be for a West End - Aberdeen consolidated high school of the county system. The full text of the local board of education’s letter to the legis lators follows: “At a called Special Meeting of the Southern Pines City Board of Education held on the 13th day of May, 1965, the Resolution of the Moore CJounty Board of Ed ucation adopted at its meeting held on May 8, 1965, which re spectfully requested you to in troduce legislation that would empower it to acquire land and to build and operate a school in the Pinehurst Administrative Unit, and the Resolutions of the Board of Commissioners of Moore County, adopted at its meeting held on May 11, 1965, which requested you to introduce (Continued on Page 8) Sandhills Host Today To Senators The Town of Southern Pines and Pinehurst, Inc., are playing host today to about 150 visitors— members of the State Senate, many with their wives, Senate staff members and other officials. Arriving by bus this afternoon at Mile-Away Farm, the horse training establishment of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Moss and headquarters and kennels of the Moore County Hounds, the group was to be greeted by some 25 Southern Pines and Pinehurst couples who planned to take them on tours of the Sandhills, including the “horse country,” residential areas and other landmarks. Some of the visitors planned to play golf. The group was to reunite at the Pinehurst Country Club for an outdoor social hour and enter tainment period and then have a buffet supper in the club. The busses will start back to Raleigh about 9 p.m. The Town’s Advertising Com mittee is in charge of the local participation, while Bill Sledge is host for Pinehurst, Inc. Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, a member of the Advertising Com mittee, helped make arrange ments. Press aftd radio representatives were expected with the group and a live broadcast by WRAL radio was planned. Purpose of the shindig is to introduce the senators to the at tractions of the Sandhills as one of the major resort areas of a state that is deeply involved in encouraging tourism and develop ment of recreation facilities. Memorial Ceremony To Be Held At Cemetery John Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary, along with Sandhill American Legion Post and Auxiliary will conduct a memorial ceremony Sunday afternoon. May 30, in Mount Hope Cemetery, with Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts taking part in decorating the graves of veterans of military service. An “Avenue of Flags” will be featured. Anyone wishing to loan a flag for this purpose is asked to see or call Don Jones, chair man, or Miss Louise Crain as soon as possible. The size of flag to be used is that used on caskets for funeral services, the chair man said. 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 May 13 83 55 May 14 81 54 May 15 82 52 May 16 86 57 May 17 82 65 May 18 88 61 May 19 87 61
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