Tornadoes
pose a threat to North Carolina.
Do you know what to do if you
meet one? See Page 6, Section 3.
LOT
Want a
free train ride? Ever see a whole
business block built indoors? See
Page 1, Section 3, if interested.
VOL.—46 No. 16
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
, SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1966
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE; 10 CENTi
Vietnam Combat Takes Lives Of
* Three Men From Sandhills Area
Fields
Smith
staff Sgt. Marshall Ray
Smith, 30, son of Master Ser
geant and Mrs. Joe L. Smith,
530 E. Delaware Ave., was
killed in combat action in Vi
etnam February 23, his par
ents were informed by a War
Department telegram arriving
here last Friday morning.
Sergeant Smith, a member
of the 12th Cavalry, 1st Air
Cavalry Division, suffered a
fatal wound on the right side
■of his head “when struck by
hostile automatic weapons
fire,” the message said.
The sergeant’s wife and
their four young children live
near Los Angeles, Calif., and
she had been separately in
formed of her husband’s death.
Funeral and burial will be at
Westminster, California on a
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Airman First Class Peter
Whitman Fields, 22, of Aber
deen, was killed by a sniper’s
bullet while walking on the
street of a Vietnam town Sun-
;day afternoon, according to
a War Department message
reaching his brother, Franklin
Fields of Aberdeen, on Mon
day.
The body will be sent back
to the Sandhills for a military
funeral, with burial in Arabia
Cemetery in Hoke County,
but dates of the body’s arrival
and of the services were not
known today.
Airman Fields, who grew
up in the Aberdeen communi
ty and was a 1961 graduate of
Aberdeen High School, enlist
ed in the Air Force in 1962.
He had spent several months
in Formosa, and had returned
to the United States before he
was assigned to Vietnam only
about two month ago.
He was the son of the late
Douglas and Joella Jones
Fields of the Aberdeen com-
(Continued on Page 6)
Marosites
The third Vietnam casualty
for the Sandhills within a
week was Specialist First Class
Bruce Marosites, 28, of West
End, Route 1.
Word came Wednesday
night to his wife, Mrs. Louise
Spangler Marosites, that her
husband had been killed in ac
tion that same day.
A native of Michigan, he
had been stationed at Fort
Bragg, was discharged there,
worked there three years as a
civilian employee, then reen
listed and continued to serve
on the post till he was recently
shipped out.
He was a member of Our
Saviour Lutheran Church in
Southern Pines.
Surviving, besides his wife,
are two young sons, Bret
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One-Car Wreck
Takes Life Of
€* E. Williams
Charles Edward Williams,
! 1 of Cameron. Route 1 was
killed Saturday afternoon
'\hcii his car went off a rural
na''md roa'i near Cameron and
, overturned twice in a plowed .
I "ield.
I Stp+e Trooper R. R. Samuels :
Maid Williams, traveling alone,]
I vas eastbound on a road con-
Kdmg Highway 27 with US
I’ when he lost control on a
I ■■■urve. The car was demolish- I
' od. I
Coroner W. K. Carpenter, |
ruled the death accidental, and
ittributed it to high speed.
I Funeral services were held
’on lay afternoon at Bethle-
K m Baptist Church, conduct-
I (1 by the Rev. Ernest Poston,
with burial in the church
cemetery.
Williams had come from
New Jersey about a month be-
“ore to stay with his step
father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Caddell, at their
home on Cameron, Route 1.
Surviving in addition to the
parents are a wife, the former
Eleanor Smitz; a son, Charles,
Jr.; six half-sisters, Mrs. Coy
Brooks and Misses Carolyn,
Linda, Glenda and Kathy Cad
dell, all of Cameron, Route 1,
and Mrs. Worley Moore of
Robbins; and two half-broth
ers, Joseph C. Caddell of San
ford and Larry Frank Caddell
of Cameron, Route 1.
3 Young Children, 2 Adults Burn To
Death In Night Blaze On West Side
FIRE BLACKENED RUINS — Behind
tree, at left, may be glimpsed the small
back porch from which a door opened into
the two-room apartment where five persons
died. Mrs. Helen Murphy is shown stand
ing at front of house, where her bedroom
was located in another apartment, and re
mains of front porch over which she and
her husband escaped. At right, tumbled
icebox shows where her kitchen was. Also
in photo, are her dog “Butch” and neigh
bor’s dog “Ginger,” whose howling, she
said, woke them just in time.
(V. Nicholson photo)
AS TUFTED CARPET MAKING EXPANDS
Gulistan’s Yarn Producing Work
Will Be Gradually Discontinued
Announcement was made
this week by G. E. Paules, vice
president of manufacturing,
Gulistan Carpet Division of J.
P. Stevens & Co., Inc., that “in
order to prepare for future ex
pansion of tufted carpet manu
facturing at the Aberdeen
Plant, the company finds it
necessary to discontinue its
Aberdeen yarn - producing
will be gradually curtailed
operations.” Yarn production
over the next few months, he
said.
J. Cecil Beith, Aberdeen
manager, stated that he was
confident a large number of
the personnel affected would
be re-assigned over a period of
time to other vacancies with
in the plant. Those who can
not be absorbed immediately,
he said, will be called back as
vacancies occur elsewhere in
the plant.
A. R. Laubscher,
Vass, Retires;
Grissom Named
A. R. Laubscher, who served
the town of Vass in various
capacities for 37 years—most
recently as chief of police—
retired last week on his 65th
birthday.
He was honored with a res
olution of appreciation adopt
ed by the town board and a
community reception. Details
of both appear in another
story elsewhere in today’s
Pilot.
Appointed by the board to
succeed him as chief is James
R. Grissom who had been
night policeman at Vass.
Fi’ank Hewett was named to
the night’s officer’s position.
Mr. Paules stated that the
tremendous growth in the use
of carpet throughout the coun
try has necessitated an acceler
ated program by Gulistan to
prepare for substantially in
creasing the carpet shipments
out of Aberdeen over the next
five years.
A program involving re
arrangement of carpet produc
tion equipment into the area
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Program To Feature
Fletcher Southern
Fletcher Southern, Inc., tex
tile machinery parts manufac
turer, on the Carthage road,
will be the subject of Bob Far
rington’s “Profile series”
broadcast on Radio Station
WPTF, Raleigh, at 6:15 pm,
Sunday.
The 15-minute program is
■one of a long series covering
the work of North Carolina in
dustries. Other plants in this
area have appeared on the
series previously.
Edward T. Taws, Jr. of
Southern Pines is president of
Fletcher Southern.
MRS. WEBB
Mrs. Ilene Webb
On Advertising
Staff Of ‘Pilof
Mrs. Ilene Webb has joined
the advertising staff of The
Pilot and has moved here from
Reidsville, with a son, Bruce,
13. They are living at 260 N.
May St.
Another son. Tony, 16, is re
maining at Reidsville to com
plete this school year there
and will join his mother here.
A native of Reidsville, Mrs.
Webb was assistant to the ad-
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ON TV SHOW
Mrs. Mark Liddell of South
ern Pines will appear on the
Peggy Mann television show,
Friday, March 4, at 1 pm, in
an interview dealing with
Camp Easter in the Pines
here, of which she is coordi
nator and director for the 1966
season of camping for handi
capped persons. Mrs. Liddell
taped the program in Raleigh
this (Thursday) morning.
School Make-up
Days Announced
Meeting Wednesday night,
the Southern Pines board of
education decided that the
four school days lost to bad
weather this winter would be
made up by taking three days
from the spring vacation and
adding one day at the end of
the school year.
This means, said Supt. J. W.
Jenkins this morning, that the
vacation will run April 7-11,
inclusive, and that the last
day of school will be Thurs
day, June 2.
The changes apply to both
East and West (Southern
Pines school.
Graduation day for West
Side seniors will be June 2,
Mr. Jenkins said, and June 3
in East Southern Pines.
Council Winds
Up ‘30-Day Job’
After 19 Years
Clyde Council finally wound
' up his 30-day job with The
! Pilot, for which he went to
' work as advertising manager
in 1947, continuing in that
post for 19 years.
It was the second 30-day job
which lasted a bit longer than
that. He first came to South
ern Pines in 1924, transferred
by the CP&L, to spend one
month “helping out”—a job
that lasted 14 years. Later,
when offered the position at
The Pilot, he said no, “but
I’ll be glad to help out for 30
days till you get someone.”
During the past year or so,
he has been working part-
tim.e, as he is also a JP and
keeps regular hours in the
afternoon at the police sta
tion. Now he has taken on
the job of night radio dis-
(Continued on Page 8)
Board Approves
Plans For Nurse
Training Course
The North Carolina State
Board of Nursing has granted
provisional accreditation to
the Department of Nursing,
Sandhills Community College,
to operate an Associate De
gree Nursing Program begin
ning with the fall term. Such
accreditation is the procedure
necessary for every new
school of nursing to be estab
lished in the state, the only
type of accreditation given a
beginning nursing program.
In making the announce
ment of the approval of the
(Continued on Page 8)
Mrs. Rounds On
Regional Library
Staff, Part-Time
Mrs. Glen Rounds of South
ern Pines has accepted a part-
time position as assistant di
rector of the Sandhill Regional
Library and began work this
week, reports D. W. Hurley of
Biscoe, chairman of the board
of trustees.
Mrs. Rounds, a University of
North Carolina graduate in
Library Science, will work
with Director Mrs. Eugenia R.
Babylon throughout the re
gion of Moore, Montgomery
and Richmond Counties. She
was children’s librarian for
several years in the New York
Public Library and has work
ed in the libraries of Moore
County. She organized the
new Given Memorial Library
in Pinehurst recently.
In her new post, she plans
to first concentrate on the
study and build-up of the
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Mrs. Koster In
Public Relations
Post At College
Mrs. Alfred M. Koster of
Southern Pines has joined the
staff of Sandhills Community
College to write press releases
and publicity. Dr. Raymond A.
Stone, president, has announc
ed.
Mrs. Koster holds BA and
MA degrees in psychology and
English from the University of
South Dakota and began her
career in journalism while in
high school. She has held edi
torial positions on publications
in Indianapolis, New York and
other cities and has done fea
ture work for the Washington
Evening Star, the Richmond
Times Dispatch, the Philadel
phia Enquirer, the Louisville
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Land Bought For
Trash Disposal
A deed was filed Wednesday
at Carthage conveying 91.51
acres of the Chapin Orchard
properties in Sandhill township
from Lujher Cagle to Moore
County, to be used for sani
tary garbage disposal facili
ties. Stamps in the deed in
dicated a sale price of $14,000.
The county commissioners
several months ago authoriz
ed E. Floyd Dunn, county san
itarian, to seek out land in the
lower part of the county, suit
able for such a purpose.
This will be Moore’s first
county-owned garbage dispos-
CIVIL TERM OF
COURT TO OPEN
The regular civil term
of Moore County Superior
Court will open Monday
with Special Judge H. L.
Riddle, Jr., presiding.
Nine divorce cases, an
annulment proceeding and
motions in sever.al pendj-
ing suits are on the first
d,ay's calendar, along with
4 cases listed for trial. Six
or seven cases each are
also listed for Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
CAGE TOURNEY
TRACK MEET SCORES
The Southern Pines High
School track team came in
second yesterday, with 72
points, in a three-school meet
held here. Topping the scoring
was Carolina Military Acade
my of Maxt'on, 87 points. Com
ing in third was Charlotte
Catholic High of Charlotte, 37.
A feature on the local track
team, along with the season
schedule of meets, appears on
page 7.
AS NEWS CORRESPONDENT
Senator Gilmore In South Vietnam
state Senator Voit Gilmore
of Southern Pines is in South
Vietnam on a two-week trip
to inspect military opera
tions and visit fighting areas.
Gilmore, a Naval reservist,
is accredited as a correspon
dent for several NC daily and
weekly newspapers. Upon his
return in March his reports
will be published.
He is engaged in missions
with the US Army in the Cu
Chi area 20 miles northwest
of Saigon, scene of heavy Viet
Cong engagemetns during the
past week.
Gilmore is scheduled to fly
with Air Force strike missions
north of Da Nang and to ac
company forward air bom
bardment control planes.
This week Gilmore flew
with actor Robert Mitchum to
the aircraft carrier Kitty
Hawk for a two-day inspection
of naval surface and air mili
tary operations. Mitchum is
visiting troops as part of the
USO entertainment program.
Girls’ Team Of
Pinehurst, West
End Boys Win
Moore County teams copped
both boys’ and girls’ cham
pionship trophies in the Sand
hills Conference Class A bas
ketball tournament that wound
up at Pinehurst, Monday night.
Pinehurst girls upset Eller-
be’s lassies who had racked up
51 straight wins against con
ference opponents, to take the
girls’ trophy with a 29-20 win.
Lynn Dunlop sunk 12 points
for Pinehurst and Helen Wil
son 10 for Ellerbe, to lead the
scoring.
West End boys won their
29th straight game to defeat
Pinehurst’s boys, 38-27. Top
scorers were Pete Garner, 18,
for West End, and Kemper
Fitch, 10, for Pinehurst.
Roger Paschal coaches the
Pinehurst teams.
District Tournament
West End and Pinehurst
Town Agency,
Businesses In
Various Moves
Related changes in person
nel and locations, involving a
town agency and various bus
inesses, are taking place this
week.
The Town’s Information
Center has moved from the
town-owned building at the
corner of E. Pennsylvania
Ave. and S. E. Broad St. to
the residence on the town-
owned former Campbell estate
on E. Connecticut Ave. The
location is marked by a sign
across the street.
Now in charge of the In
formation Center is Col. A.
M. Koster who continues as
Moore County Civil Defense
director, moving the C. D.
office, also formerly in the
Information Center building,
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Five persons, including three
young children died Sunday in
a pre-dawn blaze which de
stroyed a small frame house
in West Southern Pines. Two
other persons barely escaped
with their lives. It was the
worst home fire disa.ster in
Moore County history.
The dead, all in a two-room
back apartment at 560% South
Gaines St., were Charles
Wells, 33, an employee of the
Sandhills Furniture Co. at
West End; his young children
Charles Andre, aged three,
Jean Marie, four, and Andrea
Renee, six; and a woman vis
itor, Iva Lee Funderburke,
39, of 640 South Mechanic St.
The children’s mother, Mrs.
Jean Wells, separated from
her husband and living about
four blocks away at 342 South
j Gaines St., told police their
father came about 6 pm Sat
urday to take them to spend
the night with him, as he fre
quently did.
Occupying the front apart
ment of two rooms in the
Gaines St. House, which sat at
the back of a lot behind other
homes facing the street, were
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Murphy.
What Happened
According to the investiga
tion conducted by Sgt. L. D.
Beck of the local police. Fire
Chief Pete Rapatas and Coro
ner W. K. Carpenter, with Po
lice Chief Earl S. Seawell, Mrs.
Helen Murphy awakened
about 4 am, smelt smoke and
saw flames all over the wall.
She woke her husband and,
grabbing some clothes and the
television set, they ran out
just as the room collapsed be
hind them. The investigating
officers reconstructed what
happened as follows:
Murphy ran to the back-
porch entrance of Wells’s
apartment, shouting a warning
^'or everyone to clear out. He
opened the door to find that
room also filled with smoke
and flame. He said Wells an
swered him two or three times,
saying, “I’m coming.”
Thinking they had come out
behind him, Murphy ran with
his wife toward the street call
ing for help and wakening the
neighbors. At a nearby
house he called the fire
department and within a
few minutes the truck was
there, with firemen fighting
the blaze which by then en-
(Continued on Page 6)
3 Men Arrested, Others Sought In
Many Robberies Here & Elsewhere
al ground, with others planned
later to serve people in differ- j boys now advance to the Dis-
ent parts of the county. (Continued on Page 7)
COUNTY HEALTH DIRECTOR
Dr. Siege Now Full-Time In Post
Dr. Alfred G. Siege, who is
retiring as a colonel with over
20 years of service in the
Army Medical Corps, on Tues
day began full-time work as
Moore County health director.
With offices in the Health
Center at Carthage, Dr. Siege
will supervise the county
health department’s medical
clinics; school, occupational
maternal and child health
programs; preventive medi
cine; environmental health
work with water supplies and
disposal systems; and other
public health activities.
Dr. Siege and his wife, the
former Sara Jean Charlton of
Fort Lee, N. J. have a home in
Sandhurst, off E. Indiana Ave.
extension. Three of their five
children are at home and two
are away at college. The fam
ily attends St. Antliony’s Cath
olic Church.
Born in New York City, Dr.
Siege has called Stratford,
Conn., home, for most of his
life. He received his MD de
gree at New York Medical
College and trained at Duke
University School of Medicine,
Durham, and the Walter Reed
Institute of Research. He was
resident in Public Health with
Three men have been arrest
ed, others are being sought
and numerous warrants are
being issued in connection
with a series qf robberies—
several of them in Moore
County—during the past five
and a half months.
The robberies, including
many of quality clothing
stores all over North Carolina,
ran from $3,000 up to $30,000
in amounts and the total may
soar above $250,000. Several
in other states may be tied in
also.
Winding Trail
The winding trail which led
to the breaking of the case
this week began in Moore
County in January, following
two robberies of Louise Gar-
nier’s Country Club Fashions
(one of them unsuccessful);
one of the pro shop of the
Country Club of North Caro
lina; and one of the Men’s
Room apparel store in South
ern Pines.
The trail led Chief Deputy
Sheriff H. H. Grimm and SBI
Agent Gary Griffith along
hundreds of miles, to a half-
dozen different cities, causing
them many sleepless nights
and involving along the way
Dolice denartments of Lum-
berton, Wilmington, Greens
boro, Durham, Raleigh and
Richmond, Va., also the sher
iff’s office in Brunswick
County, other SBI agents and
also the FBI.
Grimm, to whom other of-
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DR. ALFRED G. SIEGE
the State Department of Public
Health, Berkley, Calif.
A member of Phi Beta Kap
pa, he is a member of the
American Medical Association,
a diplomate of the National
Board of Medical Examiners,
a fellow of the American Pub
lic Health Association and is
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College To Play
Cliadbourn Team
A “first” and a “last” will
be featured when the Sand
hills Community College bas
ketball team, coached by Jim
Reid, plays Southeastern Com
munity College of Chadbourn
in the East Southern Pines
High School gym at 8 pm
Saturday.
The contest will be the first
athletic meeting of two com
prehensive community col
leges, in North Carolina.
And it will be the last home
game of the season for Sand
hills.
There will be a 50 cents ad
mission charge for everybody.
Coach Reid said.
BY JAYCEES
Paper Pick-Up
Set For Sunday
Those Jaycees are at it
again! Collecting paper, that
is.
Starting Sunday afternoon
at 1:30, and continuing till 5,
they’ll be touring the town
and nearby areas—from Pee
Dee Road to Bethesda Road
and from Knollwood to Holi
day Inn—picking up bundles
they’re asking people to put at
the curbside.
The paper will be sold to
help finance Jaycees com
munity service projects.
There’s only one rule: all
paper must be tied in bundles,
please, says Hal Reaves, Jr.,
chairman for the project.
Otherwise, it’s too hard to
handle and blows out of the
truck.
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 24 39 33
February 25 53 33
February 26 53 30
February 27 47 28
February 28 63 38
March 1 62 45
March 2 69 30