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VOL.—46 No. 15
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1966
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS'
FOOD STAMP PLAN EXPLAINED
Board Sets Tax Vote,
Hearing On Zoning
The Moore County commis
sioners in special session Tues
day afternoon adopted two re
solutions, one setting up the
mechanics for the Area I
:^chool tax supplement vote
Saturday, April 23; and the
other ordering advertising of a
AT ABERDEEN
Youth Killed
When Struck By
Truck And Car
A youth was killed Wednes
day about 9:30 p.m. on US
Highway 1 just south of the
Aberdeen town limits when
he was struck first by a pick
up truck, then by a car.
John Thomas McNeill, 18,
walked first into the path of
the northbound truck driven
by Thomas Marshall Watts,
33, pf Walnut Grove, Route 3,
and was tossed into the south
bound lane, directly in front
pf a car. The car, described
only as a white sedan, carried
him some 350 feet, then, when
he fell off onto the highway,
drove on without stopping.
The hit-run car is being sought
by Aberdeen police.
Moore County Coroner W.
K, Carpenter, assisting police
in the investigation, said the
body of the young Negro was
badly mangled by the double
impact. The investigation is
continuing and Carpenter says
he will hold an inquest. The
time ■ had not been set, this
morning.
Watts, who is staying at
Aberdeen while doing dam-
buildirtg in the vicinity, stop
ped his truck immediately
after the accident. Another
trhekdriver just ahead of him
told Carpenter he barely
avoided hitting McNeill him
self, as the youth was “wob
bling all over the road” in the
rain..
FOR BLEACHERS
Baseball Game,
Supper In May
To Raise Fund
A unique baseball game and
a chicken supper, to take place
here on Saturday, May 7, will
attempt to raise $1,000 for ad
ditional spectator bleachers at
Memorial Field.
Preliminary announcement
of the events, to be sponsored
by Southern Pine.s Elks Lodge
1692, was made this week by
Dr. Boyd Starnes. He and Len
nox (Slim) Forsyth are co-
chairmen for the project.
Invited to play on one base
ball team, in the 8 pm game
following the supper at the
Southern Pines Country Club-
Elks Club c'ookout area, will
be former players with the
Peach Belt League that was
active in this area a number
of years ago. Opposing them
will be the East Southern
Pines High School baseball
team, coaching staff and other
teachers at the school.
A special feature attraction
will be several former major
league baseball players who
are being invited. Several such
players live in North and
South Carolina. They may also
take part in the game, along
with the Peach Belt veterans.
If $1,000 is raised, it will
buy two sections of bleachers
seating 240 persons, of a mo
bile type that can be moved
around the field for different
sports. Dr. Starnes said. The
need for additional seating
there has long been recog
nized.
public hearing on county
zoning to be held Tuesday
March 22, at 2 p.m.
They also hearr a detailed
explanation of the operation
of the Food Stamp Plan, which
will start in Moore County
April 1.
The Area I vote resolution
presented by Board of Educa
tion Attorney W. D. Sabiston
and Supt. Robert E. Lee, de
signated polling places as the
Carthage school. Farm Life
school, Cameron school, Vass
town hall and Lobelia (Comm
unity House; named registrars
and pollholders and provided
for the new registration, to be
held by the registrars contin
uously from March 23 through
Saturday, April 9, with books
to be kept open at the polling
places on Saturdays, March 26
and April 2 and 9 Challenge
Day will be Saturday, April
16.
Area I — so designated for
school administrative purposes
—includes the former Carth
age, Vass-Lakeview, Cameron
and Farm Life school districts.
Only residents of the Area can
vote.
Public Hearing
Leonard Tufts, county plan
ning board chairman, and Don
Bradley, C&D planner, stated
their master ordinance cover
ing countywide zoning in gen
eral and the Sandhills Com
munity College area in parti
cular was ready for public
hearings and, if then approved
(Continued on Page 7)
OFFICIALS FILE
AS CANDIDATES
Three incumbent Moore
County officials this week
filed fo run in the Demo
cratic primary in May.
They are: Sheriff W. B.
Kelly; Mrs. Audrey Mc-
Caskill, register of deeds;
and W. K. Carpenter,
county coroner.
It is expected that
Moore Rep. T. Clyde Au-
man of West End will file
soon for the State House
of Representatives post he
now holds, also in the De
mocratic primary.
Speaking Class Will
Start Here Tonight
A course in Public Speaking
offered by the Adult Educa
tion Division of Sandhill Com
munity College will begin to
night (Thursday) at 7:30 pm
in Room 103 of East Southern
Pines High School, to continue
each Tuesday and Thursday
evening, through April 5.
D. L. Furches, head of the
Adult Education program, said
that the course was announced
incorrectly last week as to
begin February 23, not Feb
ruary 24.
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TOP HORSE — Rosalie, of Starland Stables, owned and
ridden by L. P. Tate, right, won the championship in Satur
day’s Hunter Trials here. In this photo, Tate is receiving
from Ed Daniels the trophy for Rosalie’s first place in the
Open Hunters Class, the win that qualified her to com
pete for the championship. (Humphrey photo)
FIELD HUNTER — Miss Betty Dumaine of Pinehurst
is shown at Saturday’s Hunter Trials with her Huntsman,
winner of the Field Hunter Challenge Trophy given an
nually to the best field hunter “having been fairly and
regularly hunted with the Moore County Hounds during
the current year.” Miss Dumaine’s Blue Fox won the same
honor in 1962. (Humphrey photo)
Races Set For
Sat., April 16
At Stoneybrook
The annual Stoneybrook
Steeplechase, one of the lead
ing sports events of the
Sandhills spring season and
the biggest crowd-getter of
them all, will be held here
Saturday, April 16, it was an
nounced this week.
Donald D. Kennedy, chair
man of the race committee,
points out that the date falls
one week after the Easter
weekend.
Stoneybrook, he said, is
Mystery, 1965 Champ, Is Second
Rosalie W ins Hunter
Trials Championship
Competing with other first
and second place winners in
the various classes of the 34th
annual Hunter Trials, at the
Scotts Corners course Satur
day, Rosalie, ridden by owner
L. P. Tate of Starland Stables,
won the championship, re
ceiving the Stoneybrook Per
petual Trophy. The Trials,
attracting a record entry list
this year, are sponsored by the
local hunt, the Moore County
Hounds.
Reserve champion (runner-
fifth this year on the list of up) was Mystery, the brown
hunt meetings sanctioned by | mare that was the 1965 cham
the National Steeplechase and
Hunt Association. The local
event is held at the Stoney
brook Farm of Mr. and Mrs.
M. G. Walsh.
The schedule opens with a
new meeting, the Atlanta Hunt
Race Meeting, at Atlanta, Ga.,
March 19, followed by the
Block House at Tryon March
26, the Carolina Cup Races at
Camden April 2, the Deep Run
at Richmond, Va., April 9 and
then Stoneybrook.
These first five races are
being designated the “Dixie
Circuit,” Kennedy said. The
spring schedule runs on
through 11 more meetings,
closing at Purchase, N. Y.
May 28. All the above dates
are Saturdays
pion, owned by Mrs. Eldridge
Johnson of Edgemont, Pa.
Rosalie had previously plac
ed first in the Open Hunters
Class and Mystery had won
Class 6 — Non-Thoroughbred
Hunters.
Three classes for junior rid
ers were run off in the morn
ing. The nine-class afternoon
program, including the color
ful Hunt Team display, ran
the program almost into dark
ness before the champion was
chosen.
Placing first in the hunt
team event, featuring three
riders taking the course to
gether, was the Fox Valley
team composed or Sandhills
riders—Mary Virginia Morton,
William P. Gilbert and Tom
my Sneeden.
Miss Betty Dumaine of Pine
hurst, who regularly rides
with the Moore County
Hounds, saw her Huntsman
get the second Field Hunter
(Continued on Page 8)
AT SOUTHERN PINES LIBRARY
Public Invited To Film Showing,
Town Planning Exhibits, Sunday
(Editori.al, page 2)
Because a master plan for
any town or city must have
citizen participation, and resi
dents of the community must
be informed regarding the ob
jectives of the plan, an exhi
bition of niaps, photographs
Reg;ioiial Meeting
Scheduled Here
One of 11 regional meetings
of the North Carolina League
of Municipalities will be held
in Southern Pines on March
15, it was announced this week
from the league’s headquarters
in Raleigh.
Mayors, governing board
members, managers and clerks
from several North Carolina
counties are expected to at
tend.
At the meeting, the officials
will consider revenue pro
blems of cities and towns and
certain federal aid program;
affecting municipalities.
and models is on view at the
local library all this month
and special events are taking
place this week and on Sun
day, February 27.
The public is invited to at
tend a Sunday afternon exhi
bit and program at the library,
starting at 5 pm.
The small gallery at the li
brary is showing a display of
early photographs of the town,
from various collections.
The garden gallery has an
exhibit of various phases of
the town’s long range land
project. This work was done
by Donald Bradley, town plan
ning consultant to Southern
Pines.
The local architectural firms
of Haye.s-Howell and Austin
& Faulk are presenting the
American Institute of Archi
tects’ color and sound film,
“No Time for Ugliness” which
(Continued on Page 8)
Merchants Vote
Same Officers;
Members Sought
(Edilorial, page 2)
All officers and directors of
the Southern Pines Merchants
Council were reelected Mon
day night in a meeting of 19
membem of the group at the
municipal building.
They are: Dante Monte-
santi, chairman; W. S. Th'om-
asson, vice chairman and Gar
land Pierce, secretary. The di
rectors are David Sutherland,
J. T. Overton, Larry Snyder,
Mrs. Katherine Muddimer and
E .Earl Hubbard.
The merchants authorized
appointment of a commit
tee to work with the Jaycees
on more participation by busi
nesses in the Golf Carousel
parade to be staged in No
vember in connection with
that event sponsored by the
Jaycees.
Chairman Montesanti said
he had mailed out 220 mem
bership invitations to busi-
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COMPLETED PROJECT —• The new
divided highway constructed by the State
at the entrance to the Country Club of
North Carolina and its large associated
Royal Dornoch Golf Village residential
development is shown here, looking to
ward Southern Pines, as if driving from
Pinehurst. Car in right background is
emerging from the Country Club’s en
trance road. The improvement project ex
tends somewhat around the curve in left
background, where a culvert was built for
one of the streams that feeds Watson’s
Lake on the development’s property.
(V. Nicholson photo)
Highway Project Causes Stir-up
A highway construction pro-1 way Commission in 1964, with
ject completed last year on the $35,000 cost coming out of
the “old Pinehurst Road,” pro
viding an elaborate entrance
to the Country Club of North
Carolina, caused a stir-up in
several State papers this week.
The project, comprising
dual-laning at that point, with
extensive drainage, median is
land and directional signs, was
authorized by the State High-
Moore county’s secondary
roads allocation.
Chairman John M. Currie
of the county commissioners,
and Commissioner W. S. Tay
lor, representing District 5,
when queried by a local re
porter said they could recall
no petition or discussion of
such a project, but made plain
they wished no controversy
with the State Highway Com-
mis.sion or the Country Club
of North Carolina.
At State Highway Depart
ment offices, it was revealed
Wednesday that the project
was part of an overall plan
of improvements programmed
for 1964-65, authorized May
19, 1964, and signed by the
(Continued on Page 7)
Drexel Reelected As
Republican Chairman
Meeting at the municipal
building in Carthage last week,
Moore County Republicans re
elected David A. Drexel of
Southern Pines as county
chairman and also named
other officers.
Relected were Miss June
Melvin of Aberdeen, vice
chairman, and Mrs. Merla
Gaines of Route 2, Carthage,
treasurer. Billy G. McKenzie
of Pinehurst is the newly
elceted secretary.
Delegates to district and
state conventions were chosen.
TO ATTEND DINNER
Moore County’s full quota
of 14 ticket holders ($50 each)
is expected to attend the Jef
ferson-Jackson Day Democra
tic fund-raising dinner in
Raleigh’s municipal auditor
ium Saturday night. Moore
Democratic Chairman J. Elvin
Jackson of Carthage will lead
the county’s delegation.
Education Board
Approves Purchase
Of School Tracts
The Moore County board of I tectural contract for the new
education Monday night de- $180,000 Highfalls elementary
cided unanimously to proceed I school to Austin & Faulk of
with the acquisition of proper-1 Southern Pines; approved a
ty fronting on US 15-501 as a j resolution to be adopted by the
site for the Area III consoli- county commissioners setting
dated high school.
The property lies north of
the highway, between Morgan-
ton road intersection and the
Pinehurst traffic circle.
They also awarded the archi-
School Advisory
Councils’ Work
Called Important
“Advisory council” members
of the Moore County schools,
who were formerly the “dis
trict committees”, at a supper
meeting at the Carthage Hotel
Monday night heard an ex
planation of this and other
recent changes in the schools.
Everett Miller, assistant
state superintendent of
schools, as guest speaker, char
ted the legislative background
and answered questions con
cerning the changes.
Jere McKeithen of Aber
deen, chairman of the Moore
County board of education,
explained duties and respon
sibilities of the advisory coun
cils and other matters touch
ing on their jobs.
The meeting, sponsored by
the board, in effect activated
the changeover from the old
pattern of district committees
to the new, following action
taken by the board in regular
(Continued on Page 8)
up machinery for the Area I
tax supplement election of
April 23; and approved a
number of teacher contracts
for the “anti-poverty” pro
gram and regular replace
ments.
Acquisition of the Area III
school site, partly through
purchase and partly through
gift, was recommended a
month ago by the Area’s ad
visory council, but has been
held up pending negotiations
for a 12-acre tract containing
a home, near the center of the
site.
The proposed consolidated
high school would serve the
former Southern Pines, Pine
hurst, Aberdeen and West
End school districts.
Price Accepted
Supt. Robert E. Lee report
ed that the tract owner, Mrs.
Charles Arnette, had agreed
to accept the board’s price of
$35,000 for this land and the
board authorized him to take
up the 30-day option at once.
Acceptance of the offer of
Pinehurst, Inc., to sell some 45
to 55 acres at $1,500 per acre,
and that of state Sen. Voit
Gilmore of Southern Pines to
donate about 55 more adjoin
ing acres, will be made as
soon as a survey now under
way is completed.
The transaction will give
the board title to lands known
as the Williams Tract and the
(Continued on Page 8)
DONORS, 'WORKERS THANKED
Some Industry, Other Groups Not
Cooperating, Blood Chairman Says
Commending most of Moore
County’s industries for cooper
ation with the Moore County
Blood Program, Col. John Dibb
of Southern Pines, program
chairman, said this week that
civic and church organizations,
as well as county and munici
pal employees “did a miser
able job” in recent blood col
lections.
He was quick, however, to
praise the efforts of donors
who did turn out for collections
and the volunteer workers at
the bloodmobile stops.
Recent collections were
made in Southern Pines and
Carthage, but Colonel Dibb
said his statements apply to
cooperation given the blood
program throughout the county
in recent months.
The program, which is opei’-
ated by the Moore County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross, supplies blood to both
hospitals in the county, at no
cost to patients except for a
small handling charge.
What Is Askedi
The Red Cross asks only that
donors give as much blood, at
periodic stops of a bloodmobile
from the Charlotte center, as
that used in hospitals by resi
dents of the county. Blood
donations have lagged, for
sometime, behind the amount
used—so much so that at one
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Bob Gapes (left) and Gus Johnson
(Pilot photo)
95 HOLES IN THREE DAYS
Canadian Students Hitch
Way Here To Play Golf
Two students at the Uni
versity of Western Ontario in
Canada—golf enthuiasts who
decided their 10-day mid-term
break was the time to visit the
golf-famed North Carolina
Sandhills—hitch-hiked all the
way to get here Saturday,
clubs and all; played 95 holes
of golf in three days; and, on
Wednesday, hit the road to
thumb their way back north
again.
Bob Gapes, 21, and Gus
Johnson, 18, both of Burling
ton, Ontario (which is on Lake
Ontario, about 60 miles from
Buffalo, N. Y.), said they liked
it here so much they’d never
leave. . . if they hadn’t run out
of money and if they didn’t
have to get back to their
studies by Monday: two big
“ifs.”
The young men covered
the more than 850 miles of
their trip from Canada in
(Continued on Page 8)
Manning Named
To Positions
At Camp Easter
Louis E. Manning, who was
athletic and waterfront di
rector at Camp Easter in the
°ines last summer, will be
associate camp director and
program director, it was an
nounced this week by Mrs.
Mark Liddell of Southern
Pines, camp director and co
ordinator.
The camp, owned by the
North Carolina Society for
Crippled Children and Adults,
affords camping experience to
both handicapped children
and adults during several
.summer sessions. It is located
a short distance north of
Southern Pines.
Manning, , who is head coach
(Continued on Page 8)
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum
temperatures for each day of
the past week were recorded
as follows at the US Weather
Bureau observation station, at
WEEB, on Midland Road.
Max Min.
February 17 53 44
February 18 45 34
February 19 59 35
February 20 49 33
February 21 49 25
February 22 48 28
February 23 41 28