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WELCOME, LITTLE LEAGUE VISITORS HERE. JULY 21-23 WELCOME. LITTLE LEAGUE VISITORS HERE. JULY 21-23 VOL.—45 No. 35 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1965 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Blood Collections Set At Carthage, Here, Next Week (Editorial—^page2j) Moore County’s Red Cross blood program—which supplies blood of all types to patients in both of the county’s hospitals— will launch a drive to overcome a 369-pint deficit, when two col lections are made in the county next week by a bloodmobile from the Red Cross center at Charlotte. The collections will be: Thursday, July 22—At the Carthage school glymnasiutn, from noon to 5.:30 pm. Friday. July 23—At St. Anthony's Catholic School auditorium^ Southern Pines, ^from 11 am to 4:30 pm. John Dibb of Southern Pines, co-chairman with Thomas Con- noUy for the county program, ap peared before the Southern Pines town council Tuesday night to report the 369-pint deficit at the dose of the year ending June 30 and to urge cooperation in blood-giving by town employees and by all residents of the com munity. While 1,528 pints were used by the county’s medical patients during the year, only 1,159 were donated, he pointed out, noting that the deficit was made up by blood given by persons in other counties and distributed through the Charlotte center. He said the program is in danger of folding up, if the deficit is not made up and if quotas are not met in col lections over the county through out the coming year. “We are hoping for and ask ing the full cooperation of every one,” he said. With the chairman and intro duced to the council was Joseph Sime of the Pinehurst Motor Lodge, between Southern Pines and Aberdeen, who is acting chairman for Southern Pines blood collections. GIFT—Ralph T. Mills is pictured this week at his home with a rod, reel, tackle box and other fishing equipment—the gift of fellow town employees—formally presented to him by Town Manager F. F. Rainey at the town council meeting Tuesday night. Presented to him also, at that time, by Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., was a resolution of tribute and appreciation, by the town council, for his long service as superintendent of water purification and also as building and electrical inspector, posts from which he retired July 1. The full text of the council’s res olution appears on page 17. (Pilot photo) SUCCEEDED BY DALLAS MONROE ills Retires After 36 Years As Head Of Southern Pines Water Purification MR. SMITH Joseph H. Smith Appointed Coach At Local School Joseph H. Smith, who has taught and coached at two Vir ginia high schools since receiving his master’s degree at East Caro lina College in 1958, has been employed as a teacher and as head football coach at East Southern Pines High School, Supt. James W. Jenkins an nounced this week. He succeeds Tony Trentini who resigned earlier this year to become a coach with a new pro fessional football team at Phila delphia, Pa. With his wife, the former Bar bara Hughes of Fayetteville, and their two children, Mr. Smith will move to Southern Pines August 1, to begin his duties. The schools with which he has been associated are Churchland High School, Chesapeake, Va., and (Continued on Page 8) There’s no place like a water plant for seeing the signs of a town’s growth and health—and for keeping it both growing and healthy. That’s what Ralph T. Mills did for Southern Pines for 36 years, until he hit that 65-year mile stone in June and retired July 1 as superintendent of \yater puri fication. Dallas Monroe, an ex perienced worker at the plant, has succeeded him in the post. Now Mills is worrying about 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. July 8 84 66 July 9 87 66 July 10 87 66 July 11 82 69 July 12 80 67 July 13 86 68 July 14 89 68 Board Approves Special Services For Schools Here Plans for three new “special service” courses—instruction to be given in addition to the regu lar curriculum—^have been adopt ed for Southern Pines schools by the board of education, Supt. J. W. Jenkins announced today. The new programs are art ed ucation, speech therapy and one “special education” class for ed- ucable mentally retarded chil dren. Also, Mr. Jenkins said, the board is considering a plan for vocational courses for East and West Southern Pines High School students who do not plan to go to college. If developed, the plan would include architectural drawing, planning and purchas ing materials, masonry and car pentry. Mrs. Barbara Blackwelder West, graduate of East Southern Pines High School and of the East Carolina College Art School, has been employed as art in structor for East and West Southern Pines schools and also for the Pinehurst and Academy Heights schools, for the coming school year, in the first through eighth grades. An outstanding student in college she is the (Continued on Page 8) what he’s going to do without the job that absorbed him night and day for so long. His hobbies of fishing and gardening will be a big help, and, he said this week, “I surely appreciate that fine rod and reel, and' the tackle box with all the fancy lures and things, the town employees gave me—but what am I going to do in the winter?” He had worries from the min ute he assumed the double post of water superintendent and town chemist back in 1929. Southern Pines had a terrible problem. Along with a few other towns in the State, it was a vic tim of “red water,” which ran rusty from the faucet, stained the wash and ate the insides out of metal pipes and water heaters. The challenge appealed to Mills, then 29, who had done la boratory work in four years at the purification plant at Thom- asville. He liked the Sandhills, the town and the up-to-date plant with 1,000,000-gallQn-a-day capacity—so he took the job. (Continued on Page 8) MANY HOME SITES Formal Opening Of Wedgwood To Start On Friday The new 100-acre Wedgwood residential development, on the Southern Pines- Carthage road, a mile north of the airport, will have its formal opening tomor row (Friday), offering nearly 150 wooded and open home sites. The owners and developers are Leo M. Hammer, Walter V. Rob ert and Wade Lassiter, all of Asheboro. This week, they in vited the public to inspect the property. Refreshments will be available and salesmen will be at the sub-division “most all of the time for the next several (Continued on Page 8) Council Adopts Law To Disp ose Of Junked Autos Meeting in regular session Tuesday night, the town council adopted an ordinance on getting rid of abandoned automobiles, moved toward closing the town's landfill disposal area to out-of- town users who do not pay fees, took action in implementing the town’s new “extraterritorial” zoning powers and conducted other business. All the members were present: Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., Mayor Pro Tern Felton J. Capel, and Councilman George H. Leon ard, Jr., L. D. McDonald and Lee K. Smithson, along with Town Manager F. F. Rainey, Town At torney W. Lament Brown and Town Clerk Mrs. Mildred Mc Donald. The abandoned auto ordinance, drawn up after complaints were made at the June meeting on the large number of such cars on streets, parkways and piivate property, draws on authority of new 1965 state enabling legisla tion and sets up a procedure to remove, store and sell such cars, when 'on public property, after due notice to owners, if they can be found; and also to carry out this procedure with cars on pri vate property if such junked ve hicles are deemed a health or safety hazard. The full text of the ordinance appears on page 21 of today’s Pilot. An 'ordinance closing the land fill area to “outside” users, ex cept those who have paid a fee and secured a permit, went into (Continued on Page 8) Dr. Stone Named To White House Education Study Dr. Raymond A. Stone, presi dent of Sandhills Community College has been named by President Johnson to serve as a member of the White House Con ference on Education, to be held in Washington, July 20-21. The purpose of the conference is to examine critical issues in education on which the nation should focus its attention. Dr. Stone will participate in discus sion groups as these issues are examined. Principal addesses will be de livered by Francis Keppel, U. S. C'ommissioner of Education, and by Vice-President Hubert Hum phrey. Terry Sanford, former governor of North Carolina, is chairman of a panel discussion on planning for diversity in edu cation. The conference, which will bring together about 650 leaders in education, business, labor, and government, will conclude with a reception at the White House. John W. Gardner, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is conference chairman. Stevenson Death Shocks Area; Visits To Sandhills Recalled Southern Pines, the Sandhills and Moore County were shocked and grieved Wednesday when news arrived that Adlai E. Stevenson, a man with North Carolina an cestry and with many friends and acquaintances in this area, had died' suddenly in London, England. The U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations had been a visi tor to the Sandhills on numerous occasions since he first came here more than 30 years ago. Over the years, he had met hundreds of the county’s people, many of whom recalled this week his unfailing courtesy, liveliness, wit and warm humani ty. His immediate link to Southern Pines was his sister and brother- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ives, whose hilltop, log cabin home. Paint Hill Farm—south of South ern Pines and northeast of Aber deen—was always his headquar ters in the Sandhills. Death cut short this week the hopes of many of the area’s resi dents that, in the future, the 1952 and 1956 Democratic Presi dential candidate and former governor of Illinois might be able to return here in his later years for extended and well-earned rest and relaxation. Mr. Stevenson always appeared to enjoy his visits here immense ly. Beset by invitations to soci alize and speak and play golf and go hunting, he often accep ted and captured the admiration and affections of the county’s people in all walks of life, as much tramping through the woods as in the swankiest of the area’s living rooms. His longest visits of the past two decades came in late March and early April of 1954 and in October, 1960, when he stopped here on a campaign tour in be half of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket and was interviewed by Walter Cronkite for the “Presi dential Countdown” TV program that discussed the candidates, at Paint Hill Farm. Many local residents recalled that the United Nations delegate, Mrs. Marietta Tree, who was with Mr. Stevenson on the street | in London when his fatal col lapse took place, was among the many party workers and cam paigners who were with Mr. Stevenson here, on that October, w ,, , AT AIRPORT—The numerous visits of Adlai E. Steven son to the Sandhills were recalled this week by local people, after his sudden death in London. Here is a typical arrival scene at Southern Pines-Pinehurst Airport, as he left a plane with his sister Mrs. Ernest L. Ives of Southern Pines. The photo is thought to date from 1956. (V. Nicholson photo) Blue Knights Boosters To Meet Friday Night President John Mallow of the Blue Knights Boosters Club of East Southern Pines High School this week asked all mem bers of the club and all persons interested in joining to meet the school at 8 pm Friday for the organization’s first business meeting of the 1965-66 year. The club is composed of adults interested in the school’s athletic program. * LITTLE LEAGUE EVENT TO DRAW MANY HERE Baseball Playoffs Starting July 21 Little League baseball area playoffs will bring five visiting teams of boys, with accompany ing officials and many of their parents, to Southern Pines next week. The event is sponsored by the Southern Pines Merchants Council, to liven up the mid summer resort off-season. To play in games at the offi cial Little League park on Morganton Road, opposite the National Guard Armory, will be “all-star” teams from Warsaw, Tarboro and Robersonville and two from Greenville leagues, one the “Tarheel” and the other the “North State.” Completing the roster for the playoffs—from which the winner will go into district competition, fighting for a chance at the State and Na tional championships—will be the Southern Pines All-Stars, chosen from the four Little League teams here. Expected are some 70 visiting players, 10 coaches and managers and five umpires. An undeter mined number of parents will be here for the games; many are expected. There is no charge for specta tors at any game but the hat will be passed to collect $75 in ex penses needed to send the tour nament winner, whichever team that may be, to a neutral field for the district tournament. Play off games must be played in a regulation Little League park such as the one in Southern Pines. Playoff Schedule First game will be at 2 pm, Wednesday, July 21, Roberson ville vs. Greenville “North State.” At 4 pm that day. South ern Pines is scheduled to face the Greenville Tar Heel team. Warsaw and Tarboro draw byes in this first Wednesday round of the tournament. On Thursday the winner of the first game noted above will play Warsaw at 2 pm; and at 4, the second Wednesday game’s win ner will play Tarboro. The two Thursday winners will meet for the big playoff finals contest at 4 pm Friday, (Continued on Page 8) Tributes Paid By Mayor Hodgkins, Governor Moore Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of Southern Pines and Gov. Dan K. Moore issued statements of tribute, following the death of Adlai E. Stevenson. Both statements included ex pressions of sympathy to his sis ter, Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, a winter resident here. Mayor Hodgkins said: “The tragic loss of Adlai Stevenson will be felt all over the world'. “We in Southern Pines feel es pecially grieved because of the close ties he and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, have here. “As mayor of Southern Pines, I have conveyed to Mrs. Ives and the family deepest sympathy on Mr. Stevenson’s untimely death.” Gov. Moore ordered State flags flown at half-staff when Ambassador Stevenson’s death became known in Raleigh. The Governor said, in part: “The nation and the world have today lost one of their great est citizens. Adlai Stevenson was a man of many talents and he utilized them all to the fullest. “Adlai Stevenson has calmly and deliberately defended the principles of democracy in the United Nations, while exposing the designs of communism in Viet Nam, in Cuba and in other trouble spots around the world. His voice in the United Nations has been the voice of freedom; his hopes, the hopes of mankind in this troubled world. “All North Carolina mourns his loss in this time of his greatest service. His death is a loss to all North Carolinians. We sympa thize with his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives of Southern Pines, and our prayers are with her in this time of bereavement.” 1960 visit. The public feature of that vis it was a rally in the East South ern Pines High School gym, at tended by a host of state and county party leaders, along with a capacity crowd of local and area people. The largest crowd ever to greet Mr. Stevenson in Moore County, however, was between 2,000 and 3,000 persons who jammed the big Carthage school gym March 26, 1954, midway between his two presidential candidacies when he was the top leader in the Democratic party. He shook hands with every body that night, standing in the balcony 'of the building and later addressed the crowd, saying he was deeply touched by his welcome. Mr. Stevenson was here 10 days for that visit and included riding, hunting and golf in his relaxation activity. His 1954 visit created a flurry of excitement when a kidney stone attack forced him to leave Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church during a Sunday service and, later that day, he had to leave a private supper party, to be accompanied to Duke Hospi tal, Durham, by Dr. R. M. Mc Millan, returning to Southern Pines, much improved, however, in a couple of days. The sympatlfy of this area went out this week to Mrs. Ives who had always been close to her brother and authored a book about him, “My Brother, Adlai.” Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, known widely by her universally used nickname, “Buffie,” has won a solid place of her own in the affections of Moore County people, because of her keen in terest in the county’s history and progress and her long, hard work on behalf of all restoration and other projects of the Moore Coun ty Historical Association. This (Continued on Page 8) Tragic News For United Nations By JAMES BOYD United Nations Correspondent (Special to The Pilot) United Nations, N. Y., June 14 ... At 2:30 today, the blue flag of the United Nations was lowered to half mast to honor the sad news that one of its most distinguished champions. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, had suddenly died in London while per forming his duties. Secretary General U Thant sent a message to the President of the United States in which he said, “I was shocked and grieved to hear of the sud'den and tragic death of Ambassador Stevenson. As representative of the United States of Arnerica, he earned the respect, admiration and affection of all his col leagues at the United Nations for his extraordinary human qual- ties.” In little groups all through the UN building, the same expres sion of loss and grief was voiced by the delegates and members of the UN staff. It was as if a warm and close personal friend had died. Ambassador Stevenson had’ long since become not just a diplomat from the most powerful and influential coun try in the world but a human being to whom each and every person could feel close in his own way. Ambassador B. M. Chakravarty of India seemed to speak for all concerned when he said, “We shared with him faith in the United Nations and in the ultimate goal of a universal society. He was not only a great figure in UN circles; his was a name admired' through the world. We in the UN will be poorer be cause of his absence.” And out in the streets in the busy city of New York, the news was quickly passed. People hardly believed what they heard. A taxi driver put it well, “He was under too much pressure. A man of his age should begin to take it easy.” But for those of us who knew Adlai Stevenson personally, he was never a man to take it easy, especially when the peace of the world was threatened as it is threatened today. America should be thankful that he was working right to the end in his efforts to strengthen the UN and its mand'ate for peace. He had just seen the British foreign secretary, Michael Stewart, in London, and there is no doubt that the item under discussion was the war in Vietnam, as it was a few days before when Am bassador Steven.son conferred with U Thant in Geneva. He died in harness, trying as best he could to find a solution to the Vietnam war which is a threat to the United Nations and to peace. The attack on the kindly and (Coir even nexi vwcekl - ^Jdeiiartment , at' -Chapel Hill. The tractor a' 43 f. 1-1 ! I i I 7
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