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iMI Recipes for using dewberries, now plen tiful and being picked on many farms in the Sandhills, appear on page 23. A local resident, John M. Howarth, has retired after 35 years with Carolina Power & Light Co. Story, photo, page 5. VOL.—45 No. 30 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES. N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 10, 1965 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS COUNCIL ENDORSES 'PHONE PLAN Record Budget Retains $1.30 Rate; New Garbage Collection Method Set A balanced 1965-’66 budget, with revenue and expenditures set at $382,327—a record high for the town—was approved by the town council in regular session Tuesday night. The totals run $43,666 above the totals estima ted for the past year. In the new budget, which gues into effect July 1, the tax rate remains at $1.30 per $100 of property valuation—made pos- Town Recreation Getting Started Here Next Week The Southern Pines summer recreation program gets started next week, with a variety of ac' tivities for youngsters, teen-ag ers and adults, in East and West Southern Pines. Events start Tuesday on the East Side and Monday on the West Side. Ben Utley, teacher and coach at Aberdeen High School, who is a resident of Southern Pines, heads the East Side program, as sisted by Becky Shaw of South em Pines, East Carolina College student, whn will be in charge of park block activities for young er children; and by Bill Daugh try, UNC student, and Ricky Johnson, Southern Pines High School student. A native of Kinston, Utley is a UNC graduate. He and his wife (Continued on Page 8) sible, said Town Manager F. F. Rainey, by an anticipated surplus of about $40,000 for the fiscal year now nearing its end. The budget includes a pay in crease for all town employees, funning from 5 to 10 per cent and averaging 7 per cent. , Also provided for are an in crease in funds for street im provements and a contingency fund of $13,000 in the water de partment. The full council was present for the meeting: Mayor Norris L, Hodgkins, Jr., Mayor Pro Tern Felton Capel, and Councilmen George H. Leonard, Jr., L. D. McDonald and Lee K. Smithson. The council took action on an other item covered in part in the new budget. They approved purchase of equipment for the “load-all” or “garbage train” collection system that was demonstrated here last year, to replace the worn out “load packers” now in use. Specifically, they authorized a contract to buy a demonstrator model, of the “mother truck” with one set of trailers (to be drawn by jeep-type vehicles yet to be purchased) for $17,534.94, with a $9,164.94 payment to be made now out of the current budget and $8,370 to be paid from the new budget in July. Still to be bought, as provided for in the new budget, are an other set of three collection trail ers ($1,843.70 for three, including freight) and two tow vehicles (Continued on Page 8) STAFF APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED Camp Easter Prepares For Opening Mrs. Mark Liddell, coordinator, this week announced plans for summer sessions and a list of staff personnel for Camp Easter in the Pines, the camp for the handicapped owned and oper ated by the North Carolina So ciety for Crippled Children and Adults, near Southern Pines. Orientation training for the staff will be conducted at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Monday through Friday of next week, and the first of three camp sessions will open June 20 to run to July 1. The second session will be July 4-15, the third July 18-29, and a fourth session, for young adults (16 to 35) will be held August 1-12. The first three sessions are for handicapped children, seven to 17 years of age. Some 200 handicapped persons are expected to take part in the 1965 camping experience, Mrs. Liddell said. All those in supervisory posi tions have had experience in camping and have worked with the handicapped, Mrs. Liddell said. As previously announced. Dr. Jose Infante, assisted by his wife, Mrs. Carmen Infante, will be di rector of the camp. The camp nurse will be Miss Hilda Rakes of Raleigh, a grad uate of Watts Hospital School of Nursing in Durham, who has had much camp experience. The di etician will be Mrs. Vivian Wil son, dietician for the East South ern Pines school cafeteria. The program director will be Miss Edwina Hubert of the Uni versity of North Carolina, Chap el Hill. Lou Manning of Pinehurst, who headed the Southern Pines municipal recreation program last year, will be in charge of athletics and waterfront activi ties. The camp counselors will be: Dee Matthews, Donna Traylor and Janis Campbell of Southern Pines; Carol Lee Morse of Whis pering Pines; Jolene Riddle of (Continued on Page 8) 300 Expected At Sandhills Firemen’s Association Convention In Pinebluff The Pinebluff Volunteer Fire Department will be host, Wed nesday of next week, tq the an nual convention of the Sandhills Firemen’s Association, and is planning an eventful program from the 1 pm business meeting, through a dance that night. All events will be held at the Fire House or Pinebluff Lake, and in case of rain all will be at the Fire House, said Fire Chief W. K. Carpenter, Jr., general chairman. Some 300 are expected to at tend from the association’s mem bership of 47 volunteer fire de partments throughout central North Carolina. Many will bring girls as beauty contest entrants. Events will include, following the business meeting, an hour- long tour of the Sandhills by bus; 3 pm, water races, and 4 pm water fights; 5 pm, parade of equipment and beauty contest ants from the Fire House to Fine- bluff Lake; 5:30 pm, beauty con test; 6 pm, presentation of tro phies to winners and runners-up Scout Troop Offering Free Bike Reflectors Boy Scout Troop 873, as a part of its “safety project,” will have its members at St. Anthony’s School on Saturday, June 12, be tween 10 am and 12 noon, to at tach safety reflectors to bicycles. Boys and girls who do not have these reflectors on their bikes are urged to go to St. Anthony’s to have one attached, free. CLASS OF 1965— East Southun Pines, High School seniors will receive their diplomas to night (Thursday) in Weaver Auditorium, dur ing commencement exercises to start at 8:15 p.m. Left to right, they are: Front row — Jean Barry Edwards, Sheila Diane Whitesell, Barbara Jean Hurst, Nancy Clara Tate, Karen DeAnna Wright, Rebecca Lanier Austin, Barbara Ann Jones, Mary Agnes Rawlinson. Second row— Linda Joyce Williford, Nancy Ruth O’Callaghan, Linda Dale Blake, Patricia Ruth Larson, Marie Elizabeth Hurst, Margaret Marie Yonts, Linda Jeanne Allred, Susan Anne Huntley, Stephanie Sarah Pollock. Third row— Jeanne Gilmore Forsyth, Donna Carol Wellman, Ellen Lee Bushby, Linda Elaine Currie, Nancy Carol Cameron, Carolyn Eliza beth Niles, Sarah D. Matthews, Donna Vaughn Traylor, Sherilyn Blue Campbell. Fourth row— Mollie Seymour Wilson, Janet Martha Phillips, Kathleen Pleasants Rainey, William Leland Moiiis, James Edward Mallow, Carlton Thomas Niessner, James Gavet Baldwin III, Jerry Newlyn Phillips. Fifth row— Melvin Hollaman Gardner, Jr., David Howard Jones, Ralph Douglas Jones, James Earl Pitts, Harold McLeod Fowler, Jay Larry Bradley, Charles Allen McLaughlin, Jr., Lynn Ellis Daeke. Sixth row— Thomas Gene Harmon, James Edward Pate, Jr., Warren Douglas Hannah, Emmet Theodore Stephenson, Charles Marvin Michael, Jr. Seventh row— Gary Wayne West, John Robert Hiatt, James Ronald Irvin, Garland McPherson II, Christopher Beattie Pottle, Harold Edward Hassenfelt, Jr., Jerry Lee Hall, William Martin Doyle, James Alexander Cameron. Graduating seniors not present when the photo was made are: Robert R. Brill, Janice Campbell, Cynthia Burke Cheek and Steven Southhall Grant. (Humphrey photo) AFTER CONFERENCES Revisions In County School Bill Include Board Naming Method The Moore County commission ers devoted a considerable por tion of their regular meeting day at Carthage Monday to working out revisions in their bill for a countywide school consolidation vote, now pending in the General Assembly. The revisions included: a change in the method of electing the board of education for the proposed consolidated school sys tem (details below); a lengthen ing in time and other changes relative to the take-over of the TOM WICKER TO DELIVER ADDRESS 60 Will Graduate Here Tonight (Awards Day report—page 23) Sixty members of the Class of 1965 at East Southern Pines High School will receive their diplomas in commencement exercises start ing at 8:15 o’clock tonight (Thurs day), in Weaver Auditorium. All members of the class are pictured or named above. Dr. C. C. McLean, chairman of the Southern Pines board of edu cation, will present the diplomas and the seniors will be introduc ed by Glenn L. Cox, high school principal. Delivering the commencement address will be Tom Wicker, chief of the Washington Bureau of The New York Times, a native of Hamlet and a former resident West Side Seniors Receive Diplomas; Speaker Urges Strive For Excellence in beauty and other contests; 6:30 pm, barbecue chicken supper; 7:30 pm, dancing beside the lake. All Moore County departments are expected to be represented, some probably entering beauty contestants, though the Pinebluff department is not, their host duties taking precedence. Carpenter is being assisted in the chairmanship by Joe Adams, assistant chief, who will succeed him July 1 as chief, by town board appointment. Carpenter has resigned because of the press of other duties, though he says he will continue to cooperate fully as a regular member. The convention will be the final big accomplishment of his five years’ service which has included the (Continued on Page 8) (Class photo on page 8: Awards report on page IQ) “A Mountain to Climb” was the topic of the 36th annual com mencement address delivered by Miss Thelma Lorraine Cumbo in the West Southern Pines School Auditorium Wednesday night. Miss Cumbo is guidance consul- Homecoming Set At Union Church Friends and former members are invited to join members of Union Presbyterian Church, be tween Vass and Carthage, for the icjiurch’s annual homecoming, Sunday, July 11. The Rev. Jack Roberts, son of a former pastor of the church, the Rev. John K. Roberts, will be the speaker at the morning wor ship service which will begin at 11:15. A picnic lunch, for which those attending are invited to bring baskets, will follow on the church grounds. Field Day Planned At Peach Station Tuesday, June 15 A peach field day at the Sand hills Research Station near Jack- son Springs has been scheduled for Tuesday, June 15. Starting time for the three- hour program is 1:30 pm, accord ing to Mel Kolbe, extension hor- ticulturalist at NC State Univer sity at Raleigh. Kolbe says many peach re search projects are underway at the station and visitors will have an opportunity to see them and hear them discussed. The event is open to all interested persons. Of special interest will be the chance to see a proposed new peach variety. The proposed va riety is reported to be very at tractive, of high quality and with resistance to bacterial spot. Other peach research to be viewed includes studies on nutri tion, pruning, irrigation, nema tode and disease control, root- stock test, chemical weed control, variety testing and breeding for high quality bacterial resistant varieties. Research with apples, musca dine grapes, brambles, strawber ries and new crops is also under way at the station. tant with the State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh. She was introduced by H. A. Wilson,. principal of the school. Twenty-four seniors (pictured and named on page 8) received their diplomas from Albert Lutz of West Southern Pines, member of the local board of education. Speaking briefly were Dr. C. C. McLgan, board of education chairman, and J. W. Jenkins, superintendent of Southern Pines schools. The High School Glee Club sang three selections and a girls’ ensemble also sang, in addition to instrumental music. On Sunday afternoon, the graduates had taken part in their baccalaureate service, with the Rev. Julius T. Douglas, of Greens boro delivering the sermon. “You live in a glorious, per plexing, and challenging world where you have to adapt to new situations, search for new truths, gain technical knowledge, and depth of judgment,” said Miss Cumbo to the graduating class. She noted that this world re quires one to have education be yond the high school level. Every one is not capable of being a professional person, but everyone can obtain more education and' there is a need for skilled mech anics and machine operators, she pointed out. She urged the graduating class (Continued on Page 8) ROSE IMPROVING Eddie Rose, 31, Aberdeen night police officer, who was seriously injured in a collision that killed William Lester, 20, of Southern Pines, last week, is reported to be improving, though still in a serious condition, at Moore Memorial Hospital. here. He will be introduced by J. W. Jenkins, superintendent of schools. The invocation will be deliver ed by Dr. Julian Lake, pastor of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church and the benediction by Father John Harper, pastor of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church. The High School Band, directed by William McAdams, will open and close the program with “Pomp and Circumstance” and will play two other selections. Delivering the valedictory will be ChEu-les Allen McLaughlin who will figure also on the program when the Morehead Scholarship he has won at the University of North Carcd|na is formally . pre sented to hifh by Rby > AmistrbAg of Chapel Hill, executive secre tary of the John Wlotley Mofe- head Foundation. The salutatory will be spoken by Nancy Clara Tate. Dr. R. M. McMillan, member of the local board of education, will make other recognitions. On Sunday evening, the seniors heard' a commencement sermon by Pastor Jack Deal of Our Saviour Lutheran Church. The school glee club sang two selections and the pianist for the processional and recessional was Geraldine Gilmore. Other local ministers having parts in the service were the Rev. John Stone of the First Baptist Church; the Rev. Robert W. Roschy of the United Church (Continued on Page 8) Bloodmobile At West End Friday The Red Cross blood center at Charlotte, which supplies both hospitals in Moore County, will have a bloodmobile at the school gymnasium in West End, Friday, June 11, from noon to 5:30 p.m. The collection of blood there will be the only one in Moore County this week. John Dibb of Southern Pines, Moore County Red Cross Blood Program chairman, urges coop eration in donating blood by resi dents of the West End area, pointing out that service to the hospitals is made possible only by adequate donations of blood from all parts of the county. Bill Would Allow School Board To Swap Land Tract Legislation which the county commissioners on Monday asked Sen. Voit Gilmore to introduce in the General Assembly would authorize the county board of education to swap its 49-acre tract on the Pinehurst-Airport road, acre for acre, for another farther toward the airport and across the road, adjoining the Sandhills Community College campus. The first tract had been pur chased for $27,000 last fall, then discarded, as the site for the pro posed Area III consolidated high school. The second tract can be used as a school site or an addition to the college campus, or can be dis posed of otherwise as easily as the first The exchange, approved by the commissioners, was made possible by Mrs. C. Louis Meyer, who donated land for the college and who owns adjoining proper ty on both sides of the road. Dr. Raymond A. Stone, presi dent ■of the college, sat in with the commissioners to show a map of the campus and surrounding area, and also approved the transaction as one which might prove advantageous for the col lege. The legislative authority is be ing asked as a short-cut in dis posing of the unwanted property, which otherwise would be sub ject to statutory red tape requir ing an auction sale. Southern Pines and Pinehurst districts; a change in wording to insure that the proposed vote would be permissive, not manda tory; and removal of the stipula tion that the new Area HI high school would have to be located in the present Pinehurst school district. Senator Voit Gilmore joined them for part of their discussion, then carried their instructions with him to Raleigh for another conference with the Attorney General and more work on the bill. Sen. Gilmore had conferred at length 'over the weekend with representatives of the board of county commissioners and offi cials of the Southern Pines, Pine hurst and Moore County school administrative units whose con solidation into one system is one of the issues on which the people of the county would vote if an election were called under the proposed biU. (Also to be voted on would be a county-wide sup plementary school tax not to ex ceed 30 cents per $100 of proper ty valuation). The major change approved Monday was in the proposed re organization of the county board of education, to be upped, if the vote carries, from its present five to seven members. In a former version, there would have been two each from Areas I and II, and three from the more densely populated Area III, which in- (Continued on Page 8) THIRD READING Moor* County's school bill, as amended, passed its sec ond reading in the Seneite at Raleigh Tuesday and was ex pected to have its third reading in the Senate today (Thursday). Prior to the latest amend ments, the bm passed the House on Tuesday, after ap proval Friday by the House Committee on Educ^ttion 'without a dissenting vote. Once through the Senate, the fully amended bill would go back to the House ifor con currence and w^s expected to be written into law by the end of the week. Sen. Gilmore Reviews Steps In Moore School Legislation (The following statement, re leased Tuesday by State Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, reviews major steps in devising ;the Moore County sch'ool con solidation bill, now in the Gener al Assembly, and explains chang es made in it during the past Week.—Editor) By SEN. VOIT GILMORE House Bill 1065, introduced on June 1 by Representative Clyde Auman, is entitled, “An act to provide for an election 'on the is sue of merging the Southern Pines, Pinehurst, and Moore County school administrative units, to authorize the levy of a tax for current operating ex penses of the merged unit, and to establish a new county board of education pursuant to said election.” This bill was referred to the House Education Committee and a public hearing was held by the Joint Senate and House Educa tion Committee oh June 2, this hearing having been announced in newspapers the previous week. At. the public hearing the Chairman of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners, Hon. John Currie, affirmed that the Board of Commissioners had by a special resolution last month re quested the introduction of legis lation to authorize the commis sioners at their discretion ,to call a county-wide vote ■on the ques tion'ofi merger of the Moote Coun ty, the. Pinehurst and the South ern Pines school administrations into-_a single county-wide admin istrative unit. (Following a pub lic. meeting in (Ilarthage with pro ponents of a one-county school systerq' on May 24 and again fol lowing a public meeting in Soutbem Pines with proponents 'Of t;wo school systems on May 29, the commissioners reaffirmed their May resolution calling for legislative authorization for them to call a county-wide mer ger vote.) On the morning of June 4 the House Education Committee met and approved H. B. 1065 and the same morning reported the bill favorably to the House; where upon the bill, because it involved a vote on a possible new school tax, was referred automatically to the House Finance Committee for review. 'The afternoon of June 4 Sen ator Morgan, Representative Au man and I convened a meeting of Assistant Attorney General Ralph Moody, State B'oard of Ed ucation Attorney Everette Miller, Pinehurst School Board Attor neys Willis Smith, and Henry A. Mitchell, Jr., Southern Pines School Board Attorney Hoke Pollock and Moore County School Board Chairman Jere Mc- Keithen (who was nominated by the County Commissioners as their representative). Our ob jective as to follow through on the public hearing of June 2 by seeking the cooperation of the attorneys of the interested par ties in revision of the language of H. B. 1065 to the end that it would be as fair as possible to ((Continued on Page 8) 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. ^n. June 3 87 66 June 4 85 65 June 5 80 50 June 6 87 56 June 7 90 68 June 8 86 70 June 9 81 6fl
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