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FIRST '66 VICTIM
ON SCHOOL CAMPUS — Following Sun
day’s dedication, visitors of all ages, as well
as students, looked over the 53-acre campus
and buildings of the new North Moore
School. Above, students follow a winding
walkway, with the auditorium-gymnasium
building in the background and a glimpse
of a breezeway to a classroom building at
right. (V. Nicholson photo)
CEREMONY DEDICATES NORTH MOORE HIGH
$1,375,000 School Serves 500
The relegation of yester
day’s small high schools to the
past via consolidation is like
discarding a 1940 car for trans
portation better suited to mod
ern interstate travel. Dr.
Amos Abrams, of Raleigh, told
an overflow crowd of over
1,000 at the dedication of
North Moore High school Sun
day afternoon. The school is
located between Robbins and
Highfalls.
Additional seats had to be
placed in the 900-seat auditor
ium to accommodate the
crowd, many of them seeing
for the first time the $1,375,000
plant in which last September
the Robbins, Westmoore and
Highfalls high schools were
merged in a student body of
500.
Dr. Abrams told the Moore
MAINTENANCE FUND PROVIDED
Campbell Estate Given To Town;
Committee Plans Uses By Public
Title to the local property
of Mr. and Mrs. William D.
Campbell of New York City
has been conveyed to the
Town of Southern Pines, it
was revealed at Tuesday
night’s town council meeting.
Comprising 14 acres bound
ed on two sides by E. Connect
icut Ave. and Weymouth
Road, the property includes a
large residence, guest cottage
arid, other outbuildings, a
building formerly used to
house a model railroad, swim
ming pool, tennis court, golf
practice hole and other facili
ties and equipment.
Negotiations involving the
gift of the property to the
Town by Mr. and Mrs. Camp
bell have been going on since
October when the Council
accepted the offer—with de
tails then to be worked out—
of the property “for the cul
tural and social enrichment of
the inhabitants of the commu
nity.’’
'The Council asked a com
mittee of which Councilman
Service Award
To Young Man
Set Next Week
The Distinguished Service
Award of the Southern Pines
Junior Chamber of Commerce
will be made to a local young
man (21-35) at the Jaycees’
annual DSA Banquet and
Bosses Night, to be held Tues
day of next week at Doug
Kelly’s Holiday Inn Restau
rant. The winner of this an
nual award is never announc
ed until the presentation is
made.
The winner is chosen by a
committee of older men in the
community on the basis of
community service and per
sonal achievement. Final day
for nominations by the public
was Monday of this week.
Employers of the approxi
mately 40 young men in the
club will be their guests lor
the “bosses’ night’’ feature of
the dinner. The Tuesday
events will be a feature of ob
servance of National Jaycee
week.
George H. Leonard, Jr., is
the-chairman, to develop plans
and ideas for the proper use
of the property in the interest
of the citizens of Southern
Pines and the surrounding
communities. Other members
of the committee are Town
Councilman Lee K. Smithson,
vice chairman; Mrs. Robert
McMillan, Mrs. Felton Capel,
J. T. Overton and Maxwell
(Continued on Page 6)
Blue Attends National
Cancer Drive Meeting
H. Clifton Blue 6f Aberdeen,
1966 State campaign chairman,
and other officials of the North
Carolina Division of the
American Cancer Society, left
Raleigh-Durham Airport this
(Thursday) morning for a two-
day national meeting to plan
for the Cancer Crusade in
April, at St. Louis, Mo.
The group expected to re
turn to North Carolina on Sat
urday.
Council Hears
Complaint About
Landfill Smoke
Michael Valen, a resident of
Murray Hill Road living with
in a mile south of the town’s
landfill waste disposal area, re
newed a long-standing com
plaint about smoke from burn
ing wastes at the landfill, at
Tuesday night’s town council
meeting.
He said the condition con
stitutes a threat to health and
enjoyment, at his home, and
warned that smoke from “fires
that burn all day and all
night” could hurt the reputa
tion of the entire community.
All the councilmen were
present for the regular January
session — Mayor Norris L.
Hodgkins, Jr., Mayor Pro Tern
Felton Capel, and Councilmen
George H. Leonard, Jr., L. D.
McDonald and Lee K. Smith-
son, along with Town Manager
F. F. Rainey, Town Attorney
W. Lament Brown and Town
Clerk, Mrs. Mildred McDonald.
Valen quoted N. C. Sen. Sam
Ervin on a federal program of
air polution abatement and
noted the Town might find it
cheaper to eliminate smoke
from the landfill voluntarily
now, than to do it under com
pulsion later.
The town is growing, he said,
(Continued on Page 6)
County citizens, “You have
seen an idea grow to reality,
through your efforts. You
overwhelmingly voted a bond
issue of millions of dollars, in
creased the curriculum by 85
per cent, expanded the num
ber of courses offered not only
in breadth but in depth. No
■other investment could pos
sibly offer richer dividends.”
Symbol of Progress
He added, “This building in
all its beauty is a tangible
symbol. It is built to house a
program, and the children and
teachers are the important
part. If education stands still,
the State stands still. If it goes
forward, we all go forward—
and we will never reach the
point where we can say, “we
are satisfied, we have done
enough.”
The principal speaker, who
is assistant executive director
of the North Carolina Educa
tion Association, arid editor of
its magazine “Education,” was
presented by C. Edison Pow
ers, assistant superintendent
of Moore County schools. Pre
siding was Supt. Robert E. Lee,
who has spearheaded the con
solidation program of which
North Moore is the second of
three planned units. Princi
pal C. E. Hackney extended a
welcome expressing apprecia
tion for the turnout.
Many Recognized
Jere McKeithen of Aber
deen, chairman of the Moore
County board of education, ci
ted highlights of the pro
gram’s history, presenting nu
merous individuals and groups
(Continued on Page 6)
One-Car Wreck
Takes Life Of
Robbins Youth
Raymond Darrell Brown, 19,
of Robbins, a senior at North
Moore High School, was killed
Saturday at 11:50 pm when
the car he was driving left
the road near Eagle Springs
and crashed against a tree.
A companion, Michael Man-
ess, 16, of Carthage, Route 1,
who was thrown from the car,
was hospitalized with injuries
not believed serious.
This was Mcore County’s
first auto fatality for 1966, and
was possibly caused by faulty
brakes, according to Trooper
Tommy S. Clark, investiga
ting.
Clark said Brown had just
turned from NC 211, seven
miles north of West End, into
NC 705 toward Robbins when
the car apparently went out
of control in the “Cedar Lane,”
swerving from side to side,
then hitting a tree about 200
feet from the intersection. This
.section of 705 is closely bor
dered with tall cedars, planted
(Continued on Page 6)
Quality Mills To Build Garment Plant
Employing 300 At Site Near Carthage
If
Schedules For
Tax List Takers
Are Announced
Listing of real and personal
property for taxes is contin
uing throughout Moore Coun
ty, with list takers at wnrk in
all 10 townships, to extend
through February 1.
Listing places are posted in
public places over the county
—but here is the schedule for
the list takers in this immedi
ate area;
McNeill Township (inside
the town of Southern Pines
•only)— Mrs. Carolyn Vaughn
at the municipal building
courtroom, 9 am to 5 pm each
day but Wednesday and Sat
urday. No listing on Wednes
days (court day). Saturdays:
9 am to noon.
McNeill Township (outside
Southern Pines only)—Mrs.
Don J. Blue of Route 3, Car
thage, will be at the Vass town
hall daily from now through
January 22, 9 am to 4:30 pm.
Sandhill Township (which
includes the Aberdeen and
Pinebluff areas as well as an
area extending to Southern
Pines, on the south, including
the Pinedene, Country Club
and a portion of Weymouth
(Continued on Page 6)
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HAPPY HANDSHAKE— At the meeting
in the Carthage Municipal Building Friday
to sign closing papers. Mayor L. L. Marion
shakes hands with Howard E. Woltz, Jr.,
vice-president of Quality Mills, Inc., which
will locate a new plant near the county
seat. From left, E. O. Brogden, Carthage
town attorney; town board member J. L.
McGraw, Jr., Mayor Marion, Vice-President
Woltz, Mayor Pro Tern O. D. Wallace, Jr.,
and town board member G. K. Suggs.
(V. Nicholson photo)
SHOW ON 23rd
Young Convicts
Escape, Give Up
Two young white convicts,
both 18 years old, who walked
off from a work crew in the
Roseland section Monday af
ternoon, were picked up late
that night by Aberdeen Police
man J. J. Ledbetter as they
hiked along NC 5 near the
J. P. Stevens plant.
C'old and hungry, the youths
offered no resistance to re
capture and were soon re
turned to their place of deten
tion, the State prison unit at
McCain.
An alarm had been broad
cast through the area follow
ing their escape, with the State
Highway Patrol and other ■of
ficers looking out for them.
Reminder Issued On
TB Seal Sale Gifts
Persons who have postponed
or forgotten their contribu
tions to the annual Christmas
Seal sale of the Moore Coun
ty Tuberculosis Association
were urged this week by Dr.
W. F. Hollister, sale chairman,
to send them in at once to the
Association at PO Box 70,
Pinehurst.
The campaign — which
makes possible free x-rays, pa
tient aid, health education and
TB research is short of its goal,
the chairman said.
Reminder letters are being
sent out to regular donors
who have not replied.
Hunter Pace
Day Scheduled
Here Jan. 22
First of the new year’s three
maj'or riding events sponsored
here by the Moore County
Hounds will be the Hunter
Pace day scheduled for Sat
urday, January 22, with horses
and ponies hunted regularly
this season eligible to compete.
In the Hunter Pace, riders
attempt to direct their mounts
over a predetermined course
as closely as they can to an
ideal “hunting time.” Full de
tails will appear in next
week’s Pilot.
On the following day, Sun
day, January 23, a Mid South
Schooling Show will be held
at Lake Lawn Farm, starting
at 1:30 pm-. There will be no
(Continued on Page 6)
PIANO-VIOLIN
DUO WILL PLAY
Sonatas by Brahms,
Beethoven and Faure will
be heard Saturday eve
ning in Weaver Auditori
um as Violinisit Giorgio
Ciompi and Pianist Loren
Withers appear in the
third concert of the Sand
hills Music Association's
series. The program will
begin at 8:30.
Both members of the
Duke University faculty,
the artists have had out
standing careers as teach
ers and performers. Their
appe.arances together have
been particularly well re
ceived.
Advance tickets can be
obtained at the Barnum
Realty and Insurance Co.
office and tickets will also
be on sale ;at the box of
fice Saturday night.
Republicans Set
Precinct Meets
Starting Friday
David A. Drexel of Southern
Pines, who was elected chair
man of the Moore County Re
publican Executive Committee,
succeeding Wallace O’Neal of
Pinehurst, announces precinct
meetings as follows, for the
purpose of electing precinct
officers and delegates to the
party’s county convention
which will be held in Carthage,
February 18;
Aberdeen (John Greer, chair
man)—Friday, January 14,
Horne’s Restaurant, 7 pm.
North Southern Pines (David
A. Drexel, acting chairman)—
Thursday, January 20, St. An
thony’s Catholic School audi
torium, 7:30 pm.
South Southern Pines (Steve
(Continued on Page 6)
School Suit
To Be Heard
Next Monday
Judge Robert M. Gambill of
North Wilkesboro will begin
his six-months assignment to
Moore County Superior Court
next week, presiding over the
regular term for civil cases
which will open Monday, Jan
uary 17.
The Southern Pines- Pine
hurst taxpayer suit on school
consolidation will be the only
case called ■on the opening day.
In the suit, J. D. Hobbs, of
Southern Pines and Dr. J. C.
Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst are
challenging the constitution
ality of the special act author
izing the countywide vote of
last October 2, in which con
solidation ■of Southern Pines
and Pinehurst city schools
with the Moore County Sys
tem was approved by the
voters.
The act also provided for
voting on a special supplemen
tary school tax which was re
jected in the October 2 voting.
The case was peremptorily
set as first on the January
calendar by Judge Allen H.
(Continued on Page 6)
JANUARY 25
VARIETY SHOW
HERE TONIGHT
Sponsored by ihe South
ern Pines Lions Club for
beneifit of Camp Easter in
the Pines and ihe Samar
kand (State School for
Girls) swimming pool
fund, a professional va
riety show featuring the
illusionist Ken Griffin and
many other acts will be
staged tonight (Thursd,ay)
in Weaver Auditorium at
8 o'clock.
Members of the club
recommend the show as
lively and fascinating en
tertainment for the entire
family. Tickets can be ob
tained at the door.
History Group
To Hear About
Rowan Museum
Members of the Moore
County Historical Association
and all persons of this area
interested in local history were
asked this week by H. Clifton
Blue, president of the group,
to mark Tuesday, January 25,<
on their calendars as the date
for an outstanding program
which has been arranged by
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives.
The guest speaker will be
Mrs. Gettys Guille. of Salis
bury, director of the Rowan
Museum, Inc., of that city,
who will show color slides of
the museum—itself an histor
ic house—-and of the “Old
Stone House” four miles from
Salisbury, built in 1766.
The Association will meet in
the former William D. Camp
bell house on E. Connecticut
Ave. which has now been for
mally taken over by the Town
of Southern Pines as a gift
from Mr. and Mrs. Campbell,
to be used for suitable com
munity purposes. Meeting
(Continued on Page 6)
A new industry near Carth
age, expected to start produc
tion in six months with some
300 employees and an annual
: payroll of more than $1 million,
was announced by Mayor L.
L. Marion of Carthage Satur
day morning at the Municipal
Building there.
The announcement that
Quality Mills, Inc., of Mt. Airy,
will build a garment manu
facturing facility was timed to
coincide with a similar an
nouncement made at Raleigh
by Governor Moore.
Attending the public meet
ing were many citizens of
town and county who had as
sisted in the months-long ne
gotiations. Representing Qual
ity Mills were President John
E. Woltz and his brother, Vice-
President Howard Woltz, Jr.
Amid mutual congratulations
and predictions of a bright
future ahead, the announce
ment climaxed a community-
action program sparked by
Mayor Marion and the Carth
age town board, assisted' by
numerous other agencies.
Just before the meeting,
deeds were filed to a 100-acre
tract purchased from the Law-
hon Estate, fronting on US 15-
501 just east of the town limits
and south of the Vass road
overhead bridge.
40,000 Square Feet
There, said President Woltz,
Quality Mills will build a mod
ern plant of 40,000 square feet,
to be completed by the end of
.June. While 300 persons, most
ly women, will be employed at
the start, “This may be only a
beginning,” said Woltz, who
noted that, while he could
make “no promises or commit-
(Continned on Page 6)
2 MEN HONORED
FOR EXTENSIVE PROGRAM AIDING DEPRIVED CHILDREN
County School System To Receive $390,864
Morehead Award
Nominees Faee
First Interview
Malcolm Harvey Lathan, Jr.,
of Pinebluff and Michael Clay
ton Lewis of Pinehurst—Moore
County’s two nominees for
Morehead Awards—will face
their first hurdle Saturday,
January 15, in state-wide com
petition for the valuable four-
year scholarships at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
The two high school seniors
—Lathan at Aberdeen and
Lewis at Pinehurst—will be
among 23 boys from 12 coun
ties to be interviewed by the
District HI Morehead Awards
Committee, at the Bladen
(Continued on Page 6)
First Unit Of
Scout Camp Is
Named ‘Reeves’
The first unit of five to be
constructed and developed at
the new, 2,000-acre Occonee-
chee Council Boy Scout camp
ing complex, between Carth
age and Eagle Springs, will be
named “Camp Reeves,” it was
revealed this week. Work is
now going on at the site.
'The name honors twHD resi
dents of the council area—
John M. Reeves of Pinehurst,
chairman of the board of
Reeves Brothers, Inc., textile
manufacturing firm with head
quarters in New York City;
and Charles M. Reeves, Jr., of
Sanford, president of the First
Provident Company of that
Lee County city. Their contri
butions and pledges “paved
the way for getting the first
unit in operation,” a Council
spokesman said.
Camp Reeves is expected to
be ready for use this summer
by Scouts from the 12 coun
ties of the council. Construc
tion of a large lake is includ
ed in the project.
Revealing of the “Reeves”
designation came with presen-
(Continued on Page 6)
The Moore County board of
education’s anti-poverty plan
has been accepted in its entire
ty as submitted arid a federal
grant of $390,864.73 has been
approved for projects in 12
sch^ools of the county system,
it is announced by Supt. Rob
ert E. Lee and Mrs. Beulah
McPherson, director of the
program.
While the projects develop
ed under two broad classifica
tions, reading improvement
and social studies enrichment,
were approved to start “imme
diately,” Mrs. McPherson said
they would probably not get
under way until January 21,
the mid-semester mark.
In the meantime the em
ployment of 80 additional peo
ple to implement the program
is under way. These include
18 more teachers with 30 aides
—teacher aides to assist ele
mentary teachers and clerical
aides to assist the high school
teachers—to relieve the teach
ing loads; three full-time li
brarians to keep libraries open
during the summer months;
a psychiatric social worker; a
supervisor of school food serv
ices, and an additional speech
therapist, to work with chil
dren in the four schools which
do not now have that service.
The schools of the county
system qualifying for aid un
der Title I of the Elementary
and Secondary Schools act,
passed by Congress in 1965, are
Berkley, Cameron, Carthage,
Davis, Eagle Springs, Farm
Life, Highfalls, Pinckney, Rob
bins Primary, Vass-Lakeview,
Vineland and Union Pines.
These are the schools which
have 33.6 per cent or more of
children from economically
and educationally deprived
families, as determined by ex
haustive research in which the
schools were aided by official
and unofficial, agencies. The
percentage was set by the to
tal number of such children—
2,411—in the county system.
The schools range upward
from 33.6 to 67 per cent,
though not listed here in that
order.
Schools not qualifying un
der the formula, but which
will gain some indirect bene
fits, are Aberdeen, West End,
Westmoore, Robbins Graded
School and North Moore High
school, which range downward
from 25.3 to 7.2 per cent (not
listed in that order).
Spending Time Limit
The allotted funds must all
be spent by August 31, with
any balanees unspent at that
time reverting to the federal
government. Consequently,
said Mrs. McPherson, the new
Personnel Council set up by
the board of education in De
cember is hard at work on
processing of applications, to
secure the necessary person
nel and get under way as soon
as possible.
Mrs. W. F. Banaghan of
Southern Pines has been em
ployed as psychiatric social
worker, to work with schools
and individual students who
have emotional problems.
Trained and experienced in
her field, she will visit each
school, where teachers and
principals will refer specific
problems for her handling.
Several applicants are being
interviewed for the , position
of food services supervisor, to
work with all lunchroom staffs
in planning, preparing and
serving nutritious meals. Some
schools will add breakfast to
their daily program.
Many applications are al
ready on hand for teaching
and clerical aides, probably
a sufficient number, Mrs. Mc
Pherson said, but the Council
needs to hear from more
(Continued on Page 6)
New Trooper At
Work In County
A new State trooper was
assigned to Moore County the
first of the year and is already
at work, bringing the county’s
State Highway Patrol contin
gent up to its full strength of
seven men.
He is William Jerry Tomber-
lin, 28, who has moved with
his wife and yeai'-and-a-half-
old son to a house near the
Reynolds Rest Home, three
miles south of Carthage.
Tomberlin, a recent gradu
ate of the Patrol School at
Chapel Hill, was a member of
the Monroe city police force
before deciding on a career
with the Patrol. He is now rid
ing with Trooper Tommy S.
Clark of Robbins for the usual
settling-in period, before get
ting his own car and perma
nent assignment to Carthage.
Moore Legislators
In Special Session
State Sen. Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines and Rep. Clyde
Auman of West End, House
member from Moore are in
Raleigh this week with the
special session of the N. C.
General Assembly which is
wrestling with reapportion
ment problems—Congressional,
state senatorial and state house
of representatives.
Senator Gilmore and Sen.
Robert Morgan of Lillington
represent the present 18th Dis
trict, composed of Moore, Har
nett, Hoke arid Randolph
Counties.
Under the Senate redistrict
ing plan enacted into law at
Raleigh Wednesday, Moore is
in a new two-senator dis
trict with Montgomery, Rich
mond, Davidson and Scotland
Counties.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum
temperatures for each day of
the past week were recorded
as follows at the U. S. Weather
Bureau observation station, at
WEEB, on Midland Road.
January 6, 7, 8, and 9 —
record not available.
Other days of past week:
Max. Min.
January 10 57 23
January 11 52 27
January 12 4^