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The Braves have won the Southern Pines Little League baseball season championship. Photo of winners page 19. ’ plorbc Peaches are ripening in Sandhills Orchards and a Peach Festival will be held at Biscoe July 13, See Page 20. VOL.—45 No. 34 TWENTY PAGES % t Sandhill Furniture Co. Of West End Sold To Big Stanley Firm, Virginia SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1965 TWENTY PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS An announcement this week frorn Thomas B. Stanley, Jr., president of the Stanley Furni ture Co. at Stanleytown, Va., confirmed what West End resi dents had been hearing for some time—the sale of the Sandhill Furniture Co. by members of the VonCanon family to the Virginia concern. The Sandhill Co., nationally known manufacturer of bedroom and dining-room furniture, and known as “the world’s largest manufacturer of beds,” has for many years been the economic center of West End’s existence. It employs about 300- people and has 180,000 square feet of floor Public Invited To Camp Easter Open House On Sunday All interested persons in Moore County are invited to an Open House at Camp Easter in the Pines, just north of Southern Pines, Sunday, July 11, from 2 to 4 pm, Mrs. Mark Liddell, coor dinator of the camp, said this week. Some 2,000 invitations to the event have been sent out over the state, she said, and several hundred persons are expected to come to view the facilities of the camp for handicapped persons that is owned by the North Caro lina Society for Crippled Chil dren and Adults. Refreshments will be served in the big new lodge at the camp. The more than 30 children at the camp for the second of three 10- day sessions will continue their activities during the afternoon. Hosts lor the occasion are the cjfficers and directors of the Moore County chapter of the So ciety, with their husbands and wives, of which Mark Liddell is president. Two of the members of the county board also hold mem bership on the state board, W. P. Davis and Mrs. Graham Cul- breth. Comprising the host group will be: Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Davis, Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Peck, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Samuels, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Mark Liddell, Dr. Vida McLeod, Mrs. Graham Culbreth and Sam uel C. Harrison. space. It will be operated as a divi sion of Stanley with no changes contemplated in the personnel or the manufacturing, marketing and distributing operations, ac cording to the announcement. Included in the transaction were two other corporations, with plants at Maxton and Gibson, manufacturing hardwood dimen sion stock. New officers of the firm have been named as follows: Thomas B. Stanley, Sr., who is a former governor of Virginia, chairman of the board and treasurer; Thomas B. Stanley, Jr., presi dent; John David Stanley, exec utive vice-president; H. N. Wright, vice-president and secre tary; II. Keith Williams, vice- president and plant manager; Eugene G. White, Jr., controller; W. J. Sutphin, assistant vice-pres ident; John R. Aaron, assistant secretary-treasurer, and Roy Swearingen, assistant secretary- treasurer. The Stanley expansion is the the latest of a series that started in 1957, when their Plant No. 2, with 300,000 feet of floor space, was built. Several additions have been made to the plant since the n. Most recent expansions em braced a new office building, completed in July, 1964, and a warehouse and shipping building completed in 1963. The company now has over 'one million square fleet of floor space, and the com bined operations are expected to raise its yearly volume to more than $35 million. ''' ' ^ use. ■i watermelon time— Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott of Haw River (center) and’ his daughter, Susan, 8, sample the watermelon at Saturday’s patriotic rally here, when Scott gave the main address. At left is Dr. Raymond A. Stone of Southern Pines, president of Sandhills Com munity College, who was master of ceremonies for the event at the Southern Pines Country SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 County-wide Vote On School System Merger, Tax Set ^ * Club - Elks Lodge picnic area. Mrs. Scott accompanied her husband to Southern Pines but Susan was the only one of their five children with them. The others are Mary and Meg, nine- year-old twins; Kerr Scott II, named for his grandfather, the late governor and senator, and Janet, two years old. (Humphrey photo) MRS. F. G. LOGUE Florida Accident Fatal For Local Resident, Sunday Mrs. Elizabeth Mulligan Logue of Inverness Road died Sunday morning of injuries received when the • Volkswagen station wagon in which she, her husband, Prank G. Logue, and four chil dren, were driving from Southern Pines to St. Petersburg, Fla., left the road and overturned in Starke, Fla. Seriously injured in the early Sunday morning accident was the couple’s daughter, Joann, 11, who was treated at Starke and then was taken by ambulance to a Baltimore, Md., hospital. The Logues have been residents of Southern Pines for close to two years. They moved here from Baltimore when Mr. Logue went to work as an executive with Proctor-Silex. They are members of St. Anthony’s Catho lic Church. Mrs. Logue was active in St. Anthony’s Women’s Club, the Parent-Teacher Association and the Girl Scouts. Survivors are her husband, four sons, Mark, 17, Jack, 14, Jim, eight, and Bryan, three; two daughters, Mary Beth, 20, and Joann, 11. and two brothers. Funeral services and burial took place today in Baltimore. 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 1 83 2 83 School Calendar For '65-'66 Again Listed The calendar of important dates of the 1965-’66 school year for the Southern Pines schools— including the dates 'of Christmas and Spring vacations—appears again on page 17. As printed last week, the cal endar contained a typographical error in the days named for the Thanksgiving holiday. The Pilot has received some queries about the listed dates of the Christmas holiday (“CMse Dec. 21—Re-open Dec. 29”). Supt. J. W. Jenkins confirmed this week these dates are correct. PLAYOFFS PLANNED Committees are working on plans for the Little League base ball area playoffs to be held here July 21-23, sponsored by the Merchants Council. Full details will be announced next week. Many Youngsters Here For Junior Tennis Tourney The N. C. State Junior Closed tournament, largest tennis meet ever held in the Sandhills, opened here Tuesday and is well under way, plagued by rain which disrupted early schedules and again held up play this (Thurs day) m'orning, as a result of Wed nesday night’s downpour. One division, the boys’ singles 12-and-under, had played its quarterfinals, with semifinals set for Friday and finals Saturday. All other finals are expected to be played Sunday, said Norris L, Hodgkins, Jr., tournament chair man. Both Southern Pines and Pinehurst courts will probably be used for the final events. The 12-and-under and 14-and- und'er boys’ singles opened the tournament Tuesday, with the boys’ 16-an-unders and 18-and- unders. and girls’ singles in all ! four divisions, getting under way Wednesday. Doubles in all eight divisions were booked to start Thursday. With entries limited to three events per player, 340 entries from 157 individual players—117 boys and 40 girls from all parts fContinued on Page 8) AT PATRIOTIC GATHERING HERE Lt. Gov. Scott Says Pioneer Spirit Still Lives In Actions Taken Today An old-fashioned patriotic In dependence Day rally, complete with speeches and watermelon for everybody, was held here Sat urday afternoon, featuring a visit by Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott. Sponsoring the event was the Pinedene Democratic Precinct Committee of which Woodrow McDonald is chairman. Other precinct officials, county office holders and visitors joined local people at the Southern Pines Country Club-Elks Lodge picnic area for the festivities. Presiding, Dr. Raymond A. Stone, president of Sandhills Community College, set the tone of the rally when he read sec tions from the Declaration of In dependence and the late Presi dent John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. Introduced by State Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines as a young man who is “already a great North Carolinian and one who is close to Moore County,” Lt. Gov. Scott said, “There is no other land like America. We must defend its principles and pro mote its welfare.” He praised the U. S. Congress and N. C. General Assembly, 2 Bound O ver On Murder Charge July July July July July July July 87 91 89 86 88 Min. 67 60 64 64 69 65 65 Statements of two teen-agers concerning two robberies com mitted June 28 near Pinehurst, and an attack with a hammer on an elderly woman which resulted in her death two days later, were presented under oath by Moore Chief Deputy H. H. Grimm at their preliminary hearing in Moore Recorder’s Court at Car thage, Saturday. John Thomas Ferguson, 18, and Alexander, alias Peewee, Ross, 17, both of the Jackson Hamlet community between Pinehurst and Aberdeen, pleaded not guilty to charges of armed robbery of the Lexie Smith store and service station on Linden Road, larceny of about $500 in cash and checks and the murder of Mrs. Smith. Judge J. Vance Rowe found probable cause on all charges and they were ordered held for grand jury action at the August term of Moore County Superior Court without privilege of bond. Through defense counsel, W. D. Sabiston of Carthage, they pleaded guilty to charges of breaking and entering the J. A. McKenzie residence, also on Lin den Road, and larceny of a small bank containing an estimated $10 in change. For this, they each received two years on the roads. They were to begin serving these terms immediately and will be brought back to Carthage for their trial in August, if indicted then by the grand jury, as ex pected. The defendants listened with apparent impassivity as Deputy Grimm, the only witness called, related the story of the investi gation which began with the finding of Mrs. Smith uncon scious in a pool of blood, her skull beaten in, in the general store she and her husband had (Continued on Page 8) calling these bodies “democracy at its best,” and said that the pioneering spirit of our forefath ers is still with us, but exempli fied in different ways. Carrying forward this spirit, he. said, were such actions of the recent General Assembly as au thorizing 600 hospital beds for retarded children, funds for school science labs and class rooms, free elementary text books and hot lunches for all pupils, reduction of class size in the 1st through 3rd grades, 100 additional highway patrolmen and other items of legislation. One of the nation’s great chal lenges, he said, is to see that traditional freedoms and institu tions—such as the two-party system and freedom of elections and the press—are defended. “We want our children and grandchildren to be able to hold their heads high, proud to be North Carolinians and Ameri can,” he concluded. The lieutenant governor was accompanied by his wife and teight-year-old da'ughter, Susan, one of the Scotts’ five children. Highlights of the program were presentations of locally produced gifts to the visitors — a Proctor- Silex iron to Mr. Scott and an orchid to his wife. (See accom panying photo). Introduced and speaking brief ly was Clyde Auman of West End, Moore County representa tive in the General Assembly. Pinedene Precinct Committee members comprised the arrange ments committee. All present and introduced they are, in addition to chairman McDonald, Mrs. Stanley Austin, Mrs. Henry Graves, John A. McPhaul, and (Continued on Page 8) The Moore County commission ers, in regular meeting at Carth age Tuesday (after Monday’s holiday) set Saturday, October 16, for the countywide school vote authorized by the recent General Assembly. The vote will be on two issues, the merger of the three school administrative units operating in the county into one, and a school tax supplement with ceiling of 30 cents per $100 valuation. The vote, if passed, would merge the city units of Southern Pines and Pinehurst with that of the Moore County system, to be administered in three “areas” by a reorganized and expanded seven-member board. State Senator Voit Gilmore, meeting briefly with the commis sioners, went over the bill, sec tion by section, as finally revised and' enacted into law. Also meet ing with them on their invitation were Jere McKeithen, chairman of the county board of education; Joe Lennon, chairman of the com bined Aberdeen-West End school committee; Kimes Blake, chair man of the West End school com mittee, and T. J. Baldwin, of the West End committee. J ohn Currie, commissioners’ chairman, presiding, said chair men of the Southern Pines and Pinehurst boards had been asked to attend but were out of town and had sent no one in their places. Concern was expressed' over misapprehensions which appear ed to be continuing in the lower part of the county that the city units’ tax supplements would be ‘spread out over the rest of the county” and that “the county doesn’t have enough funds to build the Area HI school and just wants to get the city units in to spend their school bond money.” Emphasis was placed on that section of the bill which states that tax supplement funds de rived from any area will be ex pended only within that area.” Such funds, as now, would be transmitted directly to the sepa rate school committees by the county auditor, to be expended by them as budgeted by them, and without passing through the hands of the county board. They will be used for enrichment and expansion of the state-paid pro grams. McKeithen noted that “we have $847,000 in county school bonds left for the Area III school, with $613,000 worth of state school bonds available as of July 1, and the expectation of capital outlay funds from the county in the next two years’ budgets. We could start building the Area HI high school tomorrow if we had to,” subject only, he said, to delays (Continued on Page 8) BUT OPERATING BUDGET RAISED $20,000 Marked For Comity Library Not Enough To Assure Federal Grant The county commissioners up to three years to budget their meeting at (Carthage Tuesday, ex- 69 per cent share ($75,077), thus pressed willingness to up the Moore County library’s operating budget nearly $4,000 to help in getting a $6,000 regional grant, but said they didn’t believe they could find the money for the county’s full share in financing a new building, at this time. W. S. Evans of Robbins, library board chairman, told' the com missioners it had been found the $20,000 budgeted toward the con struction would not be enough'to secure the necessary federal funds. In signing a “Letter of Intent” one month ago, the commission ers had hoped they could take BACK TO JAIL— John Thomas Ferguson, 18, (left) and Alexander (Peewee) Ross, 17, handcuffed together, decend the courthouse stairs on their way back to jail, after their preli minary hearing on murder, armed' robbery and larceny charges in Carthage, Saturday. In the rear is Hardy Barber, acting as assistant to Jailer Ed Cockman. (V. Nicholson photo) NEED IS GREAT Connolly Named Co-Chairman Of Blood Program Thomas J. Connolly of Pine hurst has been named county co- chairman of the Red Cross blood program, John Dibb of Southern Pines, county chairman, an nounced this week. Also, he said, Joseph Sime, manager of the Pinehurst Motor Lodge, between Southern Pines and Aberdeen, has been appoint ed Southern Pines chairman. Dibb said he is making about four talks per week to civic clubs, in the coming two weeks, asking support of the blood pro gram, prior to collections set at Carthage July 22 and at South ern Pines July 23. He said there is danger of los ing the program unless blood do nations increase. For the year ending June 30, he noted, M'oore County donations were short 369 pints of the amount used by this county’s hospital patients, with 1,528 pints used and 1,159 col lected. The local chairmen or either of the two county chairmen may be called for further information. Contract Awarded On' Work At Post Office George E. Jensen, Contractor, Inc., of Mobile, Ala., has been awarded the contract on pro posed repairs and improvements at the local post office, J. Elvin Jackson, chairman of the Moore C'ounty Democratic Executive Committee, announced this week. Amount of the successful bid, $61,665, was less than govern ment estimates on the project. W. Morns Johnson, local post master, said today he has not been notified when work would begin. securing $45,122 in federal funds to build a $116,000 library. This particular federal program, Evans said, will terminate this year. Chairman John M. Currie ex pressed' the commissioners’ re grets as they apparently closed the door on the construction at this time, though they said they would “keep looking” for funds, and give a definite answer later. “We know you can’t just throw up four walls and a roof and call it a library,” Currie said. “It has to be built to a special design for the purpose, and for the use and respect of all the citizens.” If they can’t do better at this time, the expectation was they would place the $20,000 on re serve for later use, or perhaps go ahead and buy the lot. The library board has an option on a site in d'owntown Carthage, pric ed at $10,000. On request of the board, the commissioners in their new bud get, tentatively adopted, had up ped the library’s operating bud get from $11,000 in former years to $16,438. This was to aid in qualifying for a $6,000 regional grant, dependant on a 50 cents per capita expenditure. With Montgomery County budgeting 55 cents per capita, Richmond (Continued on Page 8) PARADE. CONTESTS. DANCE HELD Lang Speaks, ‘Miss Aberdeen’ Chosen As Large Crowds Attend Program Celeste Green, brown-haired Aberdeen High School senior, was crowned “Miss Aberdeen Fourth of July” by “Miss North Carolina,” Penny Clark of San ford, as climax to an all-day In dependence Day celebration Monday at Aberdeen. ■Two of Celeste’s schoolmates, Gail Gschwind and Lea Caviness, were first and second runners-up, respectively, in the beauty con test, held at the scho’ol auditori um instead of an outdoor pavilion because of threats of rain. The auditorium was filled to capacity, with many standing. The rain held up for the sched uled fireworks on the town park and a street dance, fittingly winding up the community’s first annual “old-fashioned Fourth” which had featured a morning parade, a speech by a distinguished Moore County na tive son, “sky divers,” hambur gers and hot dogs, and feats and contests of all sorts, including swimming races, at the park and lake. Thousands of Sandhills resi dents turned out for the day, which started as a perfect Fourth with clear hot sunny weather, though dark clouds and a few showers came along later. The morning’s guest speaker, John A. Lang, Jr., Carthage na tive who is now administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, with office in the Pen tagon, told an attentive crowd that “we are applying in Viet Nam the lessons learned in and after World War II. We learned then that the burdens of national defense are never so heavy as the chains of slavery, and that if we (Continued on Page 5} The attack on the kindly and (Com Even next w week.’ Hill.- 1 ■ i
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