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£ A look at the United Nations Security Council in action, as it ponders world-wide problems, is found in an article on page 2. A map on page 24 shows the “voting districts” and “school areas” that would be used if the county’s school systems are merged. VOL.—45 No. 33 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1965 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS OFFICIAL ACTION Extended Area Phone Service Plan Approved The North Carolina Utilities Commission has issued an order directing the Sandhill Telephone Company and the United Tele phone Company of the Carolinas, Inc. to provide extended area (toll free) service among and be tween certain or all of the ex changes in Moore County, in cooperation with the Central Telephone Company, North Caro lina Telephone Company, and Randolph Telephone Member ship Corporation. The proposed service will elim inate toll charges between tele phone customers served by the Aberdeen, Carthage, Pinebluff, Pinehurst, Robbins, Southern Pines, Vass and West End ex changes. Toll charges will also be eliminated between Carthage, Robbins, and the future High Falls exchange. Local service rates under the plan will be increased to offset the loss in toll revenue which will result, and to compensate the telephone companies for the additional investment in facili ties which will be required. The rate increases, which the utili ties Commission has ordered the telephone companies to place into effect when the service begins, vary, depending on the class of service and the exchange from which service is rendered. Present plans call for the pro vision of the service in Novem ber, 1966, said Robert C. Bishop, commercial superintendent of United Telephone Company of the Carolinas, Inc., which has its headquarters in Southern Pines. Second Driver Training Class To Start Monday The summer’s second driver training class for students at East Southern Pines High School will start Monday, July 5, at 9 am at East Southern Pines High School, Principal Glenn Cox an nounces. Most students have al ready received their assignment to this class. Any in doubt should consult the high school office. 2 Youths Charged With Murder, Robbery In Linden Road Case MANHUNT BEGINS— Deputies Grimm and Marley (at left), with men of neighborhood standing by, listen to walkie-talkie reports on progress of bloodhounds in nearby woods Mon day afternoon, at the Lexie Smith service station on Linden Road, near Pinehurst. (V. Nicholson photo) IN ANNUAL S.V.A. PROGRAM Scholarships For Nurse’s Training Awarded To 4 Moore County Girls Four Moore County girls were recipients of the Sandhills Veter ans Association Nursing Scholar ships this year, and will enter va rious schools in the fall to begin their formal training to become registered nurses. Those receiving the awards, which amount to $1,000 over a period of three years, were El len Lee Bushby of Southern Pines, who plans to attend Char lotte Memorial School of Nurs ing; Eva Jane Brower of Jackson iSpfihgs who plans to attend Winston-Salem State College; Doris Brady Garner of Robbins, who will take her training at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and Linda Fay Mc- Caskill of Robbins, who /ill train at Rowan Memorial Hospi tal in Salisbury. This brings to 39 the total of nursing scholarships awarded by the SVA since the inception of the program in 1947. Last year six scholarships were awarded, and these girls are now in school. ^Thanks Be To God . . "Hark to the chimes, come bow your head— Thanks be to God for daily bread!" The high, sweet voices of more than 30 children joining in this sung grace, before lunch one day last week, sounded in the big dining hall-assembly room at Camp Easter in the Pines, ringing with the universal joy of youth. Sitting down at the guest table, visitors for lunch looked at each other, their thoughts unspoken. “Thanks be to God. . the children had sung—these children who have so much less than most youngsters to be thankful for. The rule is to stand until the grace is sung—if you can stand, and several of them couldn’t, not then or any time. Others were braced by crutches. One little boy, who uses two three-legged “walkers,” lifted both his walking aids off the floor. Others stood by means of metal leg braces. Still others looked at that moment like any other child, but they wouldn’t have been there, at the State “Easter Seal” camp near Southern Pines, unless they had some serious handicap. A visitor thinks of the years of suffering, of “differentness” each of those children must have endured, “What a pit . . he starts to say, but can’t speak the word. Because these children—and all children like them every where—don’t deserve pity. They deserve recognition and affec tion; most of all, they deserve a chance to do what they can do, be what they can be: a chance to surpass themselves, to find themselves, to do more and be more than they have ever done or been before. That’s what they get at Camp Easter. The children who sang their grace last week and every day at camp are going home today—with what memories, what accomplishments none of us on the sidelines can ever know. On Sunday, another group of more than 30 will come in. They will learn the grace and sing it. Then two weeks later, there will be still another set of campers. They, too, will sing. By next year, donations already received, and more to come, it’s hoped', will make possible doubling the enrollment for each session. Lunch is over. It’s announced which cabin won the morning’s inspection: smiles, cheers and applause by the winners. The tables are empty. The husky, bouncy teenage boy and girl counselors (one for each three children) take over, with a wond erful gentle roughness. Away they all go—some alone, some assisted, some fast, some slow, some noisy, some silent—^looking forward to what comes next. Thanks be to God, a visitor thinks as he leaves, thanks be to God for Camp Easter. —C. B. Two others who started three years ago, Linda McNair and Ca rolyn Seawell, both of West End, will graduate this fall from High Point School of Nursing. Funds are raised through a public appeal by the veterans’ group, and all of the money col lected is applied to send as many girls to school as possible. Of the applicants, only four could re ceive scholarships; however, two alternates were selected in case (Continued on Page 8) SATURDAY RALLY FEATURES SCOTT A speech by Lt. Governor Robert Scott and free water melon are promised all who attend the Pinedene (South ern Pines) Democratic Pre cinct rally at 4 p.m. Saturday. The event will be held at the Southern Pines Country Club outdoor picnic pavilion, rain or shine. Everyone is in vited, whether or not a resi dent of the host precinct. Master of ceremonies for the afternoon will be Dr. Raymond Stone, said Pine dene Democratic precinct chairman, Woodrow McDon ald. Special invitations have gone to County officeholders and party officials. Lt. Governor Scott, now considered a major contender for the governorship in 1968, will be accompanied by his wife. He will be introduced by State Senator Voit Gil more of Southern Pines. Over 200 Young People Expected In Tennis Event About 250 young Tar Heel tennis players will converge on Southern Pines Tuesday, as the town plays host, lor the first time, to the North Carolina State Junior Closed tournament. The five-day tournament has been moved this year from its home site at the Greensboro Country Club, because of relo cation of the courts there and the Sandhills Tennis Association, cooperating with the town re creation department, accepted the invitation to sponsor it here. Pinehurst is a co-sponsor, as courts of the Pinehurst Country Club will be in full use along (Continued on Page 8) Two Moore Towns Slate Celebrations On Monday, July 5 Moore County will not lack holiday entertainment, when the July 4 Independence Day is observed Monday, July 5. At Aberdeen, scheduled events run from a 10:30 am parade to a 10 pm street dance. Highlights include an address by John A. Lang, Jr., Carthage native now administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, in. Washington, D. C., at Aberdeen Lake, at 11:30 am; and an ap pearance of Penny Clark of San ford, “Miss North Carolina,” to crown the winner of a “Miss Ab- (Continued on Page 8) A crime of robbery and vio-" lence near Pinehurst Monday af ternoon became one of murder early Wednesday with the death of Mrs. Lexie E. Smith, 69, from a brutal blow on the head. Mrs. Smith was found about 1:30 p.m. lying in a pool of blood in the business place she and her husband owned and' operated on Linden Road, about a mile from Pinehurst. From Moore Memorial Hospi tal, she was taken that same day to N. C. Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill, where she under went five and a half hours’ sur gery Monday night for a mas sive head wound and skull frac ture. She died at 1 a.m., Wednes day. Moore County officers started an intensive search for the rob ber after about an hour’s delay, occasioned by the fact that those who found Mrs. Smith thought ■♦■at first she had hurt herself in a fall. It was not until she had beep taken to the hospital that it was noticed that the cash regis ter was open and empty. It was determined that about $250 had been stolen, along with an equal or greater amount in checks, from the cash register and in a canvas zipperbag taken from a nearby filing cabinet. The Smiths’ home is directly behind the service station on (Continued on Page 8) HOSPITAL-DAIRY FIRM MIX-UP CITED Between-Towii Callers Should Dial All 7 Digits In Number, Patrons Told Failure of telephone users to tion unless the complete ssvei dial all s^ven digits of the listed I digit number is dialed. Town Recreation Events Scheduled Regular weekly schedules for East and West Southern Pines recreation programs will he found on page 7 of today’s Pilot. The regular schedules will be sus pended for the holiday on Mon day, July 5. In West Southern Pines, a pre holiday dance will be held from 7 to 9:30 pm at the school gym, Friday, July 2. The West Side Pony League team played at Sanford Wednes day evening and the Babe Ruth team is playing the Sanford Gi ants at 3 pm today (Thursday). The Little League team played at Aberdeen yesterday. WEST SIDE SWIMMING Joe Wynn, West Side recrea tion director, announces that re gistration and grouping for swimming instruction at the mu nicipal pool will begin Tuesday, July 6. Instruction will be from 10 am to noon, five days a week, for three weeks. Store Owner Here Robbed, Gut, Slu^^ed A masked bandit forced his way into the rear door of Hill’s Department store on N. E. Broad St. about 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, attacked the proprietor, Sammy Hill, 32, with a knife and a half brick, knocked him unconscious and cleaned the cash register of about $110, leaving only some small change, according to the police report. Hill was discovered, uncons cious and bleeding, a few min utes later by a customer, who ran out and called a policemen on the block. By the time Chief Earl Seawell arrived a few minutes later. Hill was coming to, while still groggy from a blow on the head. It was the second case of rob bery with violence within 24 hours in Moore County, follow ing Monday’s attack—whic.h proved to be fatal—on Mrs. L. E. Smith of Linden Road, near Pine hurst. (See adjoining story). Chief Seawell and local officers, investigating the assault on Hill, worked closely with all law en forcement agencies in the county. There was supposition the two cases might be linked. • Hill said he had been alone in the store when someone knocked on the rear door, which opens on an alley and is usually kept har- (Continued on Page 8) Two Negro youths, both of Jackson Hamlet near Pinehurst, have been placed in Moore Coun ty jail at Carthage, pending a preliminary hearing in Moore Recorders Court Saturday on murder and robbery charges. Sheriff W. B. Kelly said Alex ander “Peewee” Ross, 18, and John Thomas Ferguson, 19, are charged with participation in the robbery of the Lexie Smith store and service station and the J. A. McKenzie residence on Linden Road near Pinehurst Monday. They are also charged with an attack which proved fatal to Mrs. Smith. Both denied having anything to do with the attack on Sammy Hill and robbery of Hill’s De partment Store Tuesday at Southern Pines, but suspicion is strong against Ferguson on that score and investigation is contin uing, Kelly said. (Continued on Page 8) GOOD WORK! The work of law enforce ment officers in apprehend ing two youths who are charged with or suspected in the past week's two assault- robberies (one becoming a murder case when the vic tim died) h,as been highly praised by persons close to the case and by the general public. Chief Deputy Sheritf H. H. Grimm and Southern Pines Police Chief Earl S. Seawell, in cooperation with numerous other officers, headed the successtiul inves tigations. Learning Laboratory At College Offers New Education Hope To Adiilts Of Area There is new hope for the high school dropout, for the prospec tive college student who didn’t take the geometry his college requires for entrance, for the man who wants to take a technical course but lacks the background in mathematics. There is even hope for the frustrated housewife who has decided that while ironing and sweeping do wonders for her bi ceps, they hardly enlarge her mind. If you are an adult and want to further your education but have been unable to, you may find that there is new hope for you. The source of this hope is a directory number has caused many people in Southern Pines and Pinehurst to reach wrong telephone numbers, it was pointed out this week by United Tele phone Company of the Carolinas, Inc. The Pinehurst exchange code of 295 and the Southern Pines exchange code of 695 are identi cal with the exception of the first digit. People have developed the habit of dialing only five digits, but a call directed to Pinehurst from Southern Pines, or vice versa, will not reach its destina- Car Wash, Yard Work Rescheduled Saturday Due to last Saturday’s incle ment weather, members of the Senior High Fellowship of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church were unable to carry out their car washing and yard clean up program. The young people will be out, ready and waiting for customers from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. this Saturday, July 3, in the parking lot of the church. Persons inte rested are asked to call 692-6252. Proceeds will go towards equip ment for the Youth Center at the church. An example of the confusion which has resulted is the case of Montgomery Dairy of Southern Pines and Moore Memori:il Hos pital of Pinehurst. The Mont gomery Dairy number is 695-6861 and the Moore Memorial Hospital number is 295-6861. Southern Pines telephone users trying to reach the hospital in Pinehurst and dialing only five digits will reach the dairy company. Pine hurst telephone users dialing only five digits will reach the hospital instead of the dairy firm. A complicating factor in the case of these two numbers is that both are listed in both the South ern Pines and Pinehurst sections of the directory, although it is made clear in both sections in which town each is located. How ever many phone users are ap parently neglecting to notice the town as well as the number. According to Joe Kimball, Dis trict manager of the telephone company, the switching equip ment has no way of recognizing which of the two numbers a per son is trying to reach unless it is “told” by the telephone user. He is urging everyone to dial all seven digits listed in the direc tory when placing calls to num bers in his “free calling” area. new and excitingly different learning facility at Sandhills Community College. Its official name is the Fundamentals Learning Laboratory, but both students and staff more often re fer to it simply as “the learning lab.” Accessible The learning lab has many features that set it apart from an ordinary school and that make it accessible to the busy adult. One innovation is that a stu dent can begin a course at any time. He does not have to wait for a class to be organized or for a new semester to begin. Another is that he can attend on the days and at the hours that are most convenient to him. He does not have to rearrange his work schedule around rigid class times. There is no homework. In fact, the student is not allowed to take books home with him. And, often for the first time in his life, he progresses at his own rate instead of being pushed by people who learn faster than he does or held back by people who learn more slowly. "Programming" 'These departures from the ex- (Continued on Page 3) MR. MYERS MAYOR HODGKINS CHIEF SEAWELL NO FATALITIES IN 1964 Town Receives Traffic Safety Award TO RESUME COLUMN The Pilot regrets that it has been unable to run “The Bible Speaks,” the regular Sunday School lesson column that usually appears on page 3, during the past month. The lessons, sent for a month in advance, never reach ed The Pilot. However, a supply of lessons for the coming month has been received and the col umn will be resumed next week. The Town of Southern Pines was presented' the N. C. State Motor Club’s Traffic Safety Award for 1964 Monday for its record of having no motor-vehicle fatalities within the town limits during the year. The last traffic death prior to 1964 was recorded here on Octo ber 3, 1963, giving Southern Pines a string of 633 deathless days to date. At the award ceremony, a framed parchment certificate was presented to Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., and Chief of Police Earl S. Seawell by Wade H. Myers of Durham, district man ager, on behalf of “The South’s Largest Motor Club” and the National Automobile Association, its affiliate. “It is my pleasant duty to pre sent the Town of Southern Pines with this N. C. State Motor Club award for its fine achievement in traffic safety,” said Myers. “Southern Pines joined a select circle of only 18 North Carolina cities and towns with populations over 5,000 that went through 1964 with no traffic deaths. You have an excellent record of only two fatalities in the last three years. Keep it going.” Myers praised town officials, law enforcement officers and the citizens of Southern Pines for their cooperation in setting such a record. The certificate conferring the award cites the town for “excep tional achievement” for having “no traffic fatalities for more than one year.” SCHOOL CALENDAR A calendar of important dates in the 1965-66 school year, which school patrons may want to clip and save for future reference, appears on page 24 of today’s Pi lot. 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. June 24 80 63 June 25 73 67 June 26 73 59 June 27 84 58 June 28 88 59 June 29 91 68 June 30 82 67 'OiS
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