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VOL.—46 No. 13
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOjQTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1966
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
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A rea I Petitions For
Voting On School Tax
The Moore County commis- too soon after the countywide
sioners in special session Mon
day received the Area I peti
tion for a special school tax
vote with mixed emotions—
favoring the vote 100 per cent
but dubious as to whether the
timing is right.
Commissioner Wiley Purvis
said he thought the proposed
date of Saturday, April 16,
3 OTHERS ESCAPE
C. C. McKenzie
Loses Life In
Eastwood Fire
Calvin Coolidge McKenzie,
42, died Saturday night in a
fire which completely destroy
ed the residence of Mrs. Ann
Black Martin, near Eastwood.
McKenzie, who was employed
by Dowd’s Nursery on the Air
port Road, was a roomer in
the home.
The two-story frame home,
next to the Everett Black
place, was owned by Everett
Black, brother of Mrs. Martin.
McKenzie was the brother of
Mrs. Everett Black.
Mrs. Martin, 57, her daughter
Phyllis, 24, and another room
er, Vernon Short, 44, bare-
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school tax vote, which lost last
October 2, and that “you don’t
vote on taxes every few
months—it ought to be stretch
ed out longer.” If the vote lost
in Area I, he pointed out, it
would be a long time before
it could be tried again, and all
the members agreed it would
be “tragic” for it to fail.
Duties Noted
However, they were advised
by County Attorney M. G.
Boyette that, once the petition
is properly presented, they
were obligated under the law
to hold the election and that
their sole duties were to set
the date, as requested, and
name registrars and polling
places.
Asking that a resolution be
prepared setting up all the
election mechanics, for con
sideration at their February 15
special meeting, the board
withheld approval of the date,
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Committee To
Head Red Cross
Drive In Mareh
The Moore County Chapter
of the American Red Cross
will join with thousands of
other chapters of the Ameri
can National Red Cross in the
1966 Fund Campaign, the
drive held each March to se
cure members, new volunteer
workers and financial support
for the manifold services pro
vided by the local, national
and international Red Cross.
The Moore County campaign
this year will be headed by a
Special Fund Committee which
includes John F. Buchholz,
chairman of the chapter; Mrs.
Audrey K. Kennedy, volunteer
executive director; and the
other officers of the Moore
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Morrison Named
To School Post
Archie Morrison, Jr., has been
named attendance counselor
for the Moore County school
system by the Board of Edu
cation.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Morrison of Pinehurst,
he is a graduate of Berkley
High School at Aberdeen and
recently graduated from
North Carolina College in
Durham. His majors were so
ciology and business.
Gurney Brady, former at
tendance counselor, is the new
materials coordinator for the
county school system.
Since an attendance coun
selor was added to the school
staff in 1961, Moore County
Schools have had one of the
better student attendance
records in the state, officials
note.
“Under Mr. Morrison’s lead
ership, we can be confident
that the record can be further
strengthened” said R. E. Lee,
superintendent.
Sheriff’s Dept.
Now Operating
Radio At Night
Duncan McCallum of Carth
age has been employed as the
first night-shift radio dispatch
er in the Moore County sherif
f’s department, staffing com
munications from 5 p.m. till 1
a.m. nightly in Sheriff W. B.
Kelly’s office in the courthouse
at Carthage.
Citizens outside of town
police jurisdictions, needing an
officer’s help, may call the of
fice number — Carthage 947-
2931.
MCallum is in constant con
tact with the “prowl car”
driven by Deputy Ed Cockman,
and can reach other officers
as needed by radio or tele
phone.
He started work Wednesday
night of last week, following a
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r
HORSE SHOW SUNDAY
Postponed three times be
cause of weather conditions,
the Mid South Schooling
Horse Show, with no entry
or spectator fees, is planned
now for Sunday, February 13,
1:30 pm, at Goff oily Farm,
Youngs Road. The show is one
in a series held from the fall
through spring.
MReapportionment Of County
Election Districts Proposed
Peach People From Over Nation Pose By Bus On Tour Of Area
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Town Gift Putter
President Auman Speaks At Luncheon
HILLIARD H. WOLFE
Wolfe Named To
Executive Post
Ill Company Here
Hilliard H. Wolfe has been
named vice president, market
ing, of Carolina Soap and Can-
dlemakers, it was announced
today by Jack Hicks, president.
He will direct all sales, adver
tising, and merchandising ac
tivities of the company and
will make his headquarters in
Southern Pines, assuming his
duties Wednesday of next
week.
The company, leader in its
field, manufacturers a unique
and extensive line of scented
soaps, candles, and toiletries
—sold in exclusive gift shops
and department stores
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SCENES FROM VISIT — Officers and
directors of the National Peach Council, in
top group, were among the 150 persons
visiting the Sandhills Sunday on a bus
tour from their Charlotte convention head
quarters. The smiling lady in lowdr.Jeft
photo is Lora Stone, manager of the Coun
cil, head of a St. Louis, Mo., public relations
firm and in private life the wife of Dr.
Walter Graul, an orthopedic surgeon. She
holds a golf putter, traditional “keys to
the city” substitute in Southern Pines, given
her by Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr. At
lower right, T. Clyde Auman of West End,
Peach Council president, addresses a lunch
eon gathering at Sanders Whispering Pines
Restaurant. Seated, left to right, are others
having parts on the program: the Rev.
George Cheyney, pastor of West End Pres-
Hospilality Of
Sandhills Given
To Peach Group
Hospitality of the Sandhills
was extended Sunday to some
150 members of the National
Peach Council, many bringing
their wives, who came in three
chartered buses and a half-
dozen private cars from Char
lotte, where their annual con
vention was getting under
way.
Clyde Auman of West End,
peach grower and Moore
County representative in the
General Assembly, is the out
going president of the Nation
al Peach Council and arrang
ed for the large delegation to
visit the Southern Pines-Pine-
hurst area.
The group, included leaders
in the peach-growing industry
from 21 states and Canada, all
interested in glimpsing the
area in which the North Caro
lina peach industry is centered.
In the group were their top
officers and members of the
executive committee, which
met at Charlotte Saturday
night, and the vanguard of an
attendance expected to reach
into the hundreds, arriving for
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byterian Church; Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
Sandhills Community College president;
John M. Currie of Carthage, county com
missioners chairman; and Mayor Hodgkins.
In top photo are; kneeling, left to right,
Jerrold Watson of Monetta, S. C.; George
P. Whaley of Ontario, Can.; Ernest P. Christ
of Rutgers, N. J., and Paul Larsen, Lansing,
Mich.; and, standing, same order. Jack
Brandt, Reedley, Calif., Mrs. Clyde Auman;
President Auman; Lora Stone holding gift
putter; Dr. R. L. Lovering, director of
research, N. C. State University; George
Nicholson of Leawood, Kansas, first vice-
president and president-elect, and Wally
Heuser of Michigan, immediate past presi
dent and chairman of the executive com
mittee. (V. Nicholson photos)
With five voting districts of
wide population range, Moore
county faces a reapportionment
problem to be settled sooner
or later, and Robert S. Ewing
of Southern Pines proposed to
the county commissioners at
Carthage, Monday, that it
ought to be sooner.
He suggested that they un
dertake a study toward possi- County citizen in asking for
ble action in time for the May
primary election.
Ewing—Carthage newspaper
publisher, former Southern
Pines mayor and a Republican
leader—who usually covers the
commissioners’ meetings as a
reporter, said he was “putting
on another hat” as plain Moore
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS CITED
County School Bond Money Can
Be Reallocated To Merged Unit
County school bonds voted
for construction uses within
separate districts or adminis
trative units may be realloca
ted for a consolidated high
school serving these units un
der changed conditions, Coun-
Attorney M. G. Boyette in
formed the county commissi
oners Monday.
The question had been rais
ed by the Southern Pines and
Pinehurst boards of educa
tion in regard to bonds author
ized by the countywide vote
of November, 1963. In view of
the consolidation vote of Oc
tober, 1965, and the need of
the bond's for the Area HI con
solidated school, the commissi
oners had asked Boyette for a
legal opinion.
Court Opinions Cited
He cited two opinions of the
State Supreme Court in re-
SAFETY PROGRAM
Rare Blood Flown Here By Young
Woman To Meet Emergency Need
A slender young woman in
a small 2-seater fast plane was
an angel of mercy Thursday
afternoon bf last week, flying
a fast mission to meet a med
ical emergency.
Mrs. James Nesbitt of Wax-
haw arrived from Charlotte at
1:45 p.m. in her Cessna 150,
bringing six "pints of rare B-
Rh-negative blood desperately
needed by a Moore County
patient. A messenger from
Moore Memorial Hospital at
Pinehurst met her at the
Southern Pines-Pinehurst air
port and rushed the blood to
the hospital about three miles
away, where a 76-year-old man
vas reported hemorraging
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148 PINTS GIVEN
A total of 148 pints of blood
was donated at two collections
in Moore County this week—
53 in Carthage on Monday and
95 in Southern Pines on Tues
day, it was reported today by
the Moore County Red (5ross
office. The collections were
made by a bl'oodmobile from
the Red Cross collection cen
ter in Charlotte.
Inspection Of
Vehicles Will
Start Feb. 16
The statewide “Vehicle Safe
ty Inspection Program,” traf
fic accident toll in North Car
olina, will get underway on
February 16, the first day on
which all vehicles registered
in North Carolina must display
their 1966 license plates.
The program, authorized by
the 1965 General Assembly, is
intended to rid the highways
of unsafe vehicles. Defective
safety equipment has been
shown to be a frequent cause
of traffic accidents.
Stations licensed to conduct
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Dance Set Saturday
At Campbell Center
First use of the former W.
D. Campbell residence on E.
Connecticut Ave. for a recrea
tion event involving the pub
lic will take place Saturday
evening, February 12, when a
“teen dance” will take place
there, with music furnished
by The Druids, a local student
orchestra.
IVe large home and its 14-
acre grounds were recently
given to the Town, to be used
for cultural and recreation
purposes, by Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Campbell of New York
City.
SYMPHONY ALSO TO PLAY SATURDAY
Concert For Children Set Friday
Tomorrow (Friday) will see
the big orange buses rolling
into the grounds of the Aber
deen School, as the children
gather from all over the coun
try to attend the concert of
the North Carolina Little
Symphony, playing here un
der the sponsorship of the
Sandhills Music Association.
The concert starts at 1 pm.
The evening concert will be
held the following night, Sat
urday, in Weaver Auditorium
at 8:30. The youngsters’
concert is free; tickets for
Saturday’s adult concert are
on sale now at the Barnum
Agency or may be bought at
the box office that evening.
The programs for both con
certs are varied, including
some of the great classics of
the world of music—Haydn,
Mozart, Handel, Verdi—inclu
ding also some of of the Rus
sian composers’ brilliantly ex
citing compositions and num
bers from more recent contem
poraries.
Because of the numbers of
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Saunders Chairman
For Dinner Tickets
J. Elvis Jackson of Carth
age, Moore County Demo
cratic chairman, .said this week
he has named W. P. Saunders
of Southern Pines as county
ticket chairman for the Jeffer
son-Jackson dinner at Raleigh,
February 26.
The county has a quota of
14 tickets for the fund-raising
event, Jackson said. They sell
at $50 each.
%
GAME TONIGHT
The basketball game be
tween Sandhills Community
College and Gaston College,
which had been announced for
Wednesday night, will be
played tonight (Thursday) at
the Aberdeen school gym,
starting at 8 pm.
EXISTING UNIT — This unit of four
cabins and a bath-house (not visible be
tween the two cabins at left) will be dupli
cated in another location at Camp Easter
in the Pines if sufficient funds are received
by April 1. Construction of two new cabins
and the bath-house is assured by funds on
hand and is to start this week.
(Pilot photo)
Camp Easter Expansion Starting
cent nearly identical cases, one
of which was quoted in a third
case later. This was handed
down in Waldrop vs. Hodges,
quoted later in Gore vs. Co
lumbus County: “The funds
may be diverted to the pro
posed purposes only in the
event the Board of Commis
sioners finds in good faith that
conditions have so changed
since the bonds were author-
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$55,119 SCHOOL
GRANT APPROVED
A feder.al grant of $55,-
119.87, under Title I of the
Elementary and Secon
dary Education Act cif
1965, has been approved
for the Southern Pines
school system, Supt. J. W.
Jenkins said today.
To operate with H. L,
Wilson, West Southern
Pines school principal, as
administrator, the pro-
gr.am to provide extra
educational advantages
will begin next week with
employment of a remedial
reading specialist and four
teacher aides.
In June a full-time
"summer re,adiness" pro
gram will begin with all
pre-school children in the
system eligible to take
part. At that time, three
additional teachers, four
teacher aides and a sum
mer librarian will be em
ployed, Mr. Jenkins said.
Applic,ations for work
with the various phases of
the program should be
made directly to Mr. Wil
son, it was stated.
time at the regular meeting,
and was doing so in good faith,
on a nonpartisan basis.
He cited figures demon
strating the extreme imbalance
of the present voting districts,
each of which is represented
by one commissioner, though
voting is countywide. He gave
official U. S. census figures for
1960 showing a range from a
low of 2,426 in District 3 to
a high of 10,895 in District 5.
Other figures are: District
I, 6,846; District 2, 6,983, Dis
trict 4, 9,583.
One of 49 Counties
Because of its district system
of representation, Moore is one
of 49 North, Carolina counties
rated vulnerable to court ac
tion on a “one man, one vote”
basis.
Legislation sponsored by the
N. C. Association of County
Commissioners, to which the
Moore board subscribed, and
which was enacted at the Jan
uary special session of the
General Assembly, provides
that such counties may either
reapportion themselves or al
low condidates to run at large.
Under the act, new district
set up by reapportionmeni
must be contiguous and may
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Council Tables
Zoning Request,
^iter Protests
After a public hearing held
as part of its regular meeting
Tuesday night, the town coun
cil tabled a proposed amend
ment to the zoning ordinance,
under which a small tract or
Clark St. would have beei
changed from Business II to”
business I classification.
Effect of the amendment
would have been to permit on
premises sale of beer at The
-Donkey’s Jaw, a dancing-en
tertainment center located in
the former Moose Club build
ing which is owned by Leland
M. Daniels, Jr., who petitioned
the zoning change on behalf of
the club’s operators, John L.
McKenzie, Jr., of Pinehurst and
James L. Johnson of Aberdeen.
It would take a two-thirds
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BENEFIT DANCING
David Heading
Heart Campaign
J. Douglas David of Pine-
bluff is heading the fund drive
of the Moore County chapter
of the North Carolina Heart
Association, it was announced
this week.
Mr. David, who is Moore
County tax collector, with of
fice in the courthouse at Car
thage, is also president of the
chapter.
The drive extends through
out the month of February.
Local chairmen have not been
announced.
Benefit Dancing
First fund-raising event of
the campaign was announced
this week. Mr. and Mrs. James
Douglas, who operate the 5
O’clock Club on S. W. Broad
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Page Features
Local Jaycees
Attention of readers is cal
led to a page advertisement in
today’s Pilot, featuring the
Southern Pines Jaycees, with
nearly all members of this ac
tive community service club
pictured.
Sponsored by the employers
of the young men (or by their
own firms, if self-employed),
the page sets forth the goals
and ideals of the group which
is a unit of the North Carolina
national and international Jay-
cee organization. Officers are
listed and the group’s local
projects summarized.
This special local tribute to
the Southern Pines Ja.ycees
follows closely on observance
of National Jaycee Week when
members entertained their
“bosses” at a dinner that fea-
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15 COMING FROM CANADA
3 Stops In Sandhills Included
On Tour Of Golf Professionals
Construction will begin this
week on a new cabin-bath-
house unit at Camp Easter in
the Pines, North Carolina’s
Easter Seal Camp for handi
capped children and adults,
near Southern Pines. The an
nouncement was made by L.
H. Mount, of Durham, presi
dent of the North Carolina
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults, which owns and
operates the camp.
Scheduled for completion
by the beginning of the 1966
Camping season in June, the
unit will consist of two cab
ins and a bathhouse, and, if
funds are available, an addi
tional two cabins will be add
ed to the unit this year. The
new group of buildings will be
the second of such units, the
first having been constructed
in 1964. A large lodge—hous
ing dining and recreational
facilities and first aid room—
was built last year.
Each cabin accommodates
eight campers and two coun
selors, all using the unit’s
central bath-house facilities.
“The generous support of
our camp building program by
people all over North Caro-
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Fifteen Canadian golf pro
fessionals next week will tour
5 North Carolina golf courses
including three in the Sand
hills in an “Operation Get Ac
quainted” designed to intro
duce the Canadians to winter
golf in the Tar Heel State.
The February 13-19 tour will
be sponsored by the N. C. De
partment of Conservation and
Development’s Travel and
Promotion Division in coopera
tion with the resort areas in
volved. The group will play
courses at the Cape Fear
Country Club in Wilmington,
Oak Island near Southport, the
Mid-Pines Club here and Whis
pering Pines Country Club
nearby, and the Pinehurst
Country Club at Pinehurst.
“We have some great golf
courses in North Carolina suit
able for year around play,”
said Bill Hensley, director of
the Travel and Promotion Di
vision. “By showing these faci-
business to our state.”
Hensley said that many
Canadians take winter golf
vacations in the South but us
ually by-pass North Carolina
in search of warmer climates.
“We are missing a good chance
to boost our state if we don’t
let people know what we have
lities to golfers unable to play
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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.
Max.
Min.
February
3
43
20
February
4
39
23
February
5
36
19
February
6
46
16
February
7
60
27
February
8
59
27 t
February
9
60
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