Getting
ready to start your power lawn-
mower for the growing season?
There’s good advice on Page 3,
Section 3.
A true
story of how an elderly couple
was helped by the Moore County
Red Cross appears on Page 6,
Section 2.
VOL.—46 No. 20
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
^OUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1966
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SUMMER SESSIONS
2 Golf Schools
To Be Conducted
A new Sandhills summer ac
tivity, a golf school for boys,
has been announced by both
Pinehurst, Inc. and Whispering
Pines Country Club.
Expected to bring boys here
from a wide area, the schools
—Pinehurst also calls its pro
ject a golf camp—will add to
the increasing recognition of
this section for summer, as
well as other-season, resort
OTHER RACES NOTED
Plans Progress
For Stoneybrook
Race Meet Here
Randy Rouse, current lead
er in point-to-point competi
tion of the Virginia-Maryland
racing circuit, will serve as
steward at the 19th annual
Stoneybrook Race Meet April
16.
Donald D. Kennedy, Stoney-
brook’s general chairman, an
nounced this week that Mr.
Rouse also is expected to en
ter horses in some events.
Last Saturday Mr. Rouse
lost his saddle but hung on
to finish second on Twin
Peaks in the Potomac Cup, a
three-mile steeplechase with
16 jumps held near Washing
ton, D. C.
One of Favorites
In the Sandhills Cup, steep
lechase feature of the Stoney
brook Meet, one of the favori
tes is bound to be Jane’s Bid,
owned by William L. Rochester
of Warrenton, Va., and train
ed by M. G. (Mickey) Walsh
Sr. of Southern Pines.
Jane’s Bid-won easily in the
Midland Fox Hounds Cup at
Atlanta, Ga., a 2)4-mile race
(Continued on Page 6)
Bricklayer Training
Course Set, Sanford
A new class for training
bricklayers will be started
Monday, April 4, at the Cen
tral Carolina Technical Insti
tute at Sanford, reports L.
Garland Scott, manager of the
Sanford office of the Employ
ment Security Commission.
The course in bricklaying
will be conducted under the
Manpower Development and
Training Act and will pay sub
sistence and travel allowances
to eligible persons, he said.
There are 20 openings for the
course. Anyone wishing to
secure training as a bricklay
er is urged to contact the Em
ployment Security Commis
sion, 219 Steele St., Sanford,
at once for full details.
functions.
The Pinehurst Camp, for
boys 12 to 18, will be conduc
ted in three sessions of nearly
three weeks each, running
from June 13 to August 12,
limited to 25 boys in each ses
sion. At Whispering Pines, the
age limits are 10 through 16,
and there will be three one-
week sessions, June 26 through
July 16.
At Pinehurst, the teaching
staff will be headed by Lionel
Calloway of the Pinehurst
Country Club, assisted by
Frank Polumbo. The camp will
be under the general direction
of Tom McGee, athletic and
physical education director of
the Camp Lejeune schools.
At Whispering Pines, the
club’s professionals, Avery
Beck and his son, Larry Beck,
with their assistants, will give
the instruction.
Living accomodations will
be furnished at Pinehurst in
the Radcliffe Cottage on the
grounds of the Holly Inn, the
Pinehurst hotel that remains
open for the summer, and
(Continued on Page 6)
CONTEMPT OF COURT
Judge Directs
$1,000 Payment
By Soap Firm
Judge H. Eugene Gordon of
the U. S. Middle District Court
has found the Pinehurst Soap
and Candle Co. in contempt of
court for violations of a judge
ment handed down last June
in a suit brought by the Car
olina Co., Inc. (Carolina Soap
and Candle Makers) of South
ern Pines.
In an order handed dov;n
last week, the judge directed
that the defendant pay the
plaintiff $1,000 by April 10,
as partial reimbursement for
its expenses incurred in the
contempt proceeding, also
costs of court; and to pay the
plaintiff also $10,000 unless
he meets certain conditions on
or before May 1. These condi
tions include submission of
affidavits and reports certify
ing full compliance.
The judge then ordered
that the defendants violate no
provisions of the June 2 judg
ment, and left the door open
for further contempt proceed
ings should they do so.
Specifically cited for con
tempt along with their com
pany were its officers Carl
McSwain and Arthur McSwain
of the Pinehurst Soap and
(Continued on Page 6)
HOWARD'S MILL, RANDLEMAN
Report Filed On Deep River Dams
A feasiblity report on the
Ibonstruction of the Randle-
man and Howard’s Mill dam
on Deep River has been filed
by the Wilmington District
Army Engineer with the
Atlanta division, is is reported
by Rep. Harold Cooley in
Washington.
He said no information on
the contents of the report
could be made public prior to
the review in Atlanta, but that
if action is favorable, he will
make every effort to have the
projects authorized this year.
That would require action
by the Senate and House Pub
lic Works Committees, he ex
plained, and noted that the
House committee is tentatively
scheduling hearings on public
works projects starting in
June.
The Howard’s Mill dam
would be in Moore County, a
short distance south of the
Randolph County line, but the
lake it would impound would
be largely in Randolph. The
Randleman dam would be
further north on Deep River
near the town of Randleman,
in Randolph County.
Both dams, along with the
larger New Hope Dam which
has already been authorized,
are part of a long-range Cape
Fear Basin flood control and
water conservation project.
ON 50-MILE RIDE—A group of partici
pants in last Friday’s annual 50-Mile Plea
sure Ride, sponsored by the Moore County
Hounds and the Town of Southern Pines,
leave the striking, big “A-frame” lodge of
the Moore County Wildlife Club near Ni
agara, after breaking their ride for lunch
there, along with others taking part. A
Junior Ride took place on Saturday. Both
groups followed a marked trail and horses
were carefully examined for condition, be
fore and after the rides. A picture of award
winners and other details are on another
page. (Humphrey photo)
AT CLUBS OVER BOTH CAROLINAS
Goll Event To Aid Camp Easter
An excellent response to
plans for Camp Easter Golf
Week, from throughout the
two Carolinas, is reported by
the committee working on the
fund-raising event for the
local camp serving handicapp
ed persons.
The camp is owned and
operated by the North Car
olina Society for Crippled
Children and Adults, now con
ducting its annual “Easter
Seal” fund campaign through
out the state.
During the special golf
week, persons participating at
any of some 250 clubs in the
two states, pay $1 that goes
to Camp Easter, for the privi
lege of pitting their scores,
using full regular handicaps,
against the score of the cham
pion in the fourth round of the
Easter Services
For Community
To Be Conducted
Four community Easter
weekend services, with con
gregations of other churches
invited and local guest minis
ters taking part on three of the
occasions, have been scheduled
at the First Baptist Church
here, the Rev. John Stone,
pastor, has announced.
Coming as guest preacher
(Continued on Page 6)
DR. DOUGHERTY
APPOINTED TO
TOWN COUNCIL
In a special meeting this
(Wednesday) morning, the
town council received the
resignation of Lee K.
Smithson, Southern Pines
industrial executive who
expects to go to Englind
soon for an extendedi busi
ness. stay, and appointed to
fill the vacancy Dr. R. J.
Dougherty, local physician,
who is resigning as a mem
ber of the Southern Pines
Board of Education to ac
cept the appointment.
The unexpired term runs
to May of next year.
The new councilman
was to be sworn in as soon
as his resignation from the
school 'board is. completed.
Present for this morn
ing's session were Mayor
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
and Councilm,an George H.
Leonard, Jr., and L. D. Mc
Donald. Mayor Pro Tern
Felton Capel and Mr.
Smithson did not attend.
Mr. McDonald was elect
ed town treasurer, a post
that Mr. Smithson had
held. The treasurer E.igns
all town checks.
OWNERS PLANNING HOMES, STABLES
Tracts Bought In *Horse Country^
Tracts of land purchased in
and around the “horse cou.n-
try,” out Youngs Road, indi
cate extensive new develop
ments in that increasingly
sought-after area of large
estates.
The transactions bring nev/
seasonal and permanent resi
dents to the Sandhills and con-
truction of a number of homes
and stables has begun or is.
planned.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Firestone from Bath, Ohio,
have purchased a tract of land
off Seven Stars Lane, from
Mile-Away Farms, Inc. The
Firestones, who have rented
the Waldrip house on Midland
Road in Pinehurst, are enthus
iastic riders and plan to make
Southern Pines their winter
home.
In line with these plans,
they have purchased land and
stabling from the W. A. Goffs
on Old Mail Road. In this real
estate transaction, the Goffs
retained ownership of their
house and surrounding acre
age, and the Firestones ac
quired the remainder of the
property. Plans are not yet
complete but it is expected
that the Firestones will con
struct a residence on this tract.
Along with the Goff transac
tion, they also acquired sever
al acres of land from Mile-
Away Farms, Inc., and on this
acreage will build an entrance
road to serve the new resid
ence.
The Firestone horses are
stabled at The Paddock, off
Bethesda Road, leased from Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. Moss who
own Mile-Away Farms. The
Mosses said that they are
particularly pleased to wel
come Mr. and Mrs. Firestone
to the hunting community
since both brings years of
participation in the sport and
much enthusiasm for the Sand
hills hunt country.
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., of
Greensboro and New York
City, has acquired from Mile-
Away Farms 65 acres on Seven
Stars Lane, adjoining Seven
(Continued on Page 6)
Moore Memorial
Directors Pledge
Desegregation
The board of directors of
of Moore Memorial Hospital
in Pinehurst at a meeting last
week, took action to assure
full compliance with Title VI
of the Civil Rights Act, ac
cording to a statement from
the board made public today.
The Board’s action followed
a compliance survey conduc
ted by representatives of the
Department of Health, Educa
tion, and 'Welfare three weeks
ago. The department’s repre
sentatives at that time found
the hospital to be in non-
compliance as regards assign
ment of patients to room ac
commodations.
The hospital directors adop
ted the following res'olution;
“Resolved — that effective
immediately, it is the policy of
Moore Memorial Hospital that
there is to be no separation,
discrimination, or any other
distinction on the basis of race,
color, or national origin in any
activity carried on in, by, or
for the hospital affecting the
care and treatment 'of patients. |
(Continued on Page 6) |
Famed Charlotte
Choral Society
Will Sing Here
Sponsored by the Southern
Pines Rotary Club, the Char
lotte Choral Society—a vocal
group of over 100 members,
widely famed for performances
as “The Singing Christmas
Tree”—will appear in Weaver
Auditorium here, Saturday,
April 16, at 8:30 pm.
Proceeds will be contribut
ed by the Rotary Club to Camp
Easter in the Pines, local faci
lity for handicapped persons,
to which the club contributed
a campers’ cabin last year.
John McPhaul is general
chairman for the concert, as
sisted by Arthur Rowe. All
club members are serving on
variouus committees in con
nection with the Choral Socie?
ty’s appearance, and tickets
can be obtained from any
member.
Further details will appear
in next week’s Pilot.
To Close 2 Negro
Plan Here Ready
Pinckney high and elemen
tary schools at Carthage and
Davis elementary school at
Westmoore will be closed with
the coming school year and
their pupils disseminated
among other schools of their
attendance areas, in order to
help the Moore County system
meet desegregation require
ments under the new “Federal
Guidelines for 1966-67.”
This decision of the Moore
County board of education
was announced, with full ex
planation of the reasons for
it, at a meeting of advisory
councils of the schools involv
ed, held Tuesday night at
Union Pines school.
Jere McKeithen, beard
chairman, leading the meeting,
was assisted from time to
time in answering questions
by the vice-chairman. Dr. R.
M. McMillan, and T. Roy
Phillips, member of the
board, also W. D. Sabiston,
board attorney.
They made plain the de
cision was a unanimous one,
made after long study and in
the certainty that, should the
step not be taken, federal ac
tion would follow with “Wash
ington telling us what to do
instead of letting us make an
orderly transition ourselves.”
Pinckney, with 691 students
in its elementary school, and
333 in its high school, is be
ing operated as an all-Negro
consolidated school with stud
ents from Areas I, II, and III.
Davis has 120 Negro students,
all in the elementary grades.
With the desegregation of
students and faculty of all
schools now ordered under the
(Continued on Page 6)
Masters Tournament at Au
gusta, Ga., on Saturday, April
9 or, if delayed by weather,
Sunday, April 10.
Golfers tying or bettering
the champion’s final round
score will be awarded scrolls
inscribed with name, club and
club professional, along with
the Masters champion’s score.
Camp Easter Golf Week has
impressive psonsorship. The
Week received its designation
by action of Gov. Dan Moore
and has the full backing of
the Carolinas Section of the
Professional Golfers Associa
tion of America, and of the Ca
rolinas Golf Association, the i
two-state amateur golfing
group of which Hale B. Van |
Hoy of Pinehurst is executive i Public hearings will be con-
secretary. I ducted by the town council on
Aycock is on Golf Week’s' proposed subdivision regula-
honorary committee whose i tions and also on a Thorough-
other members are Julius fare Plan for the Southern
Boros, famed Mid Pines Club Pines are, in the municipal
pro who twice won the Na- ^ building at 8 pm, Tuesday,
tional Open; Former Gov. April 5
Hearings On 2
Town Plans Set
Terry Sanford of Fayetteville
and Raleigh; and Richard S.
Tufts, cast president of the
U. S. G. A.
Van Hoy is chairman of the
active Golf Week Committee
and Jack Hegarty of Southern
Pines is general chairman.
Hegarty represents Friends
of Camp Easter, a group of
retired and semi-retired' Sand-
(Continued on Page 8)
Both the plans have been
prepared by Donald Bradley,
professional planner under
contract with the town,
through the state C & D De
partment.
The thoroughfare plan, a
long-range projection of traf
fic-handling needs in this area,
was done in consultation with
the State Highway Depart
ment.
First-time Candidates
Challenge Incumbents
PILOT DELAYED
A large paper and a day
lost in the changeover from
Thursday to Wednesday pub
lication has delayed the ap
pearance of today’s Pilot sev
eral hours beyond the usual
late afternoon appearance.
With the full new weekly
schedule in operation, it is
not expected that such a de
lay will occur again.
''J
MR. HUNSUCKER
Paul Hunsucker
Out To Unseat
Sheriff Kelly
Paul Hunsucker of Robbins
has filed as a candidate for
sheriff in the May 28 Demo
cratic primary and will at
tempt to unseat Sheriff W. B.
Kelly of near Carthage. He
has not previously been a can
didate for public office.
Sheriff Kelly expects to
seek renomination and elec
tion.
A graduate of Elise High
School at Robbins, Mr. Hun
sucker for a number of years
was a textile worker at Rob
bins. Now a salesman and unit
manager lor the Fuller Brush
Co. — a firm using the door-
(Continued on Page 6)
'Guidelines'
The ;"guidelines'' for
school desegregation is
sued by the U. S. Office
of Education, under Title
VI of the federal Civil
Rights Act of 1965, appear
on Page 1, Section 4,
of today's I Pilot, in the
form given to officials of
all three of Moore Coun
ty's school systems.
r\
' MR. PETHICK
Harry H. Pethick
Succumbs At 78;
Rites Set Friday
Harry Hathaway Pethick,
78, retired business executive
and a former town councilman
of Southern Pines, died Tues
day night at Moore’ MemoVial
Hospital following a stroke
suffered Sunday at his home.
In accordance with his re
quest, a mem'orial service will
be held at 4 prri Friday at his
church, the United Church of
Christ, with the pastor, the
Rev. Robert Roschy, officia
ting. Private burial will follow
in Mt. Hope Cemetery. ■
Born in Binghamton, N. Y.
he graduated in 1910 from
WesleyaA University, Middle-
(Continued on Page 6)
CLEAN-UP WEEK
This is Clean-Up Week,
as designated 'by the town
council. Owners of resi
dence ^nd business proper
ty are asked to pick up
trash, rake up yards and
parkways and in general
help put a sihining Spring
face on the community.
The annual Home and
Garden Tour on April 13
and the Stoneybrook Race
Meet on the 16 th will
bring hundreds of vistors
here.
Mrs. Henry C. Flory,
chairman of the Town's
Parks and Parkways Beau
tification Committee, said
the clean-up is not only
for benefit of visitors, but
for all residents.
"It's an important exam
ple of responsilbilily for
young people." she pointed
out.
The Southern Pines and
Pinehurst city school systems
are sending to parents of stu
dents this week their notices
of chool desegregation plans
under Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act Of 1964.
Supt. J. W. Jenkins of
Southern Pines and Supt.
Fred G. Lewis of Pinehurst
said that the information
forms sent out in the two
school systems are identical
except for the list of courses
and programs at the schools
within each system, included
so that all students can com
pare the offerings in deciding
which school in their system
to attend.
The plan in both systems, the
officials said, is essentially the
“freedom of choice” method
used last year, but—^following
the federal “guidelines” which
have considerably ' increased
the presure for desegregation
—the information is more de
tailed and the rulings are
tightened up in an obvious ef
fort to prevent evasive tactics
to slow down or halt the dese
gregation process.
Parents and students may
make their choice of achool,
returning this choice, indicated
on another form sent in the
letter to parents, any. time
from April 1 to April 30.
The superintendents said
the information sheets sent
out in Southern Pines and
and Pinehurst conform to all
federal specifications and, in
effect, pledge that the two
school systems will abide by
the amendments to Title VI.
These amendments are design
ed to speed up and increase
the' desegregation process.
The mailings in' Southern
Pines and Pinehurst consists
of a pink sheet listing 17 points
of information and regulation
in the desegregation plan; a
yellow sheet on which the
choice of school is to be made
and the sheet returned to the
school system office; and a
white sheet directed to par
ents, further informing them
of their privileges, rights and
duties under the desegregation
plan.
No formerly all-Negro school
in either the Southern Pines
or Pinehurst system is being
closed—such as the closing of
two such schools by the coun
ty school system, announced
this week.
Supt. Jenkins said that if a
(Continued on Page 6)
MRS, HOLLISTER
Mrs. Hollister
Files To Oppose
J. M. Pleasants
Entering her first race for
elective office is Mrs. Arthealia
Mitchell Hollister of Midland
Road, who filed at Carthage
on M'onday for the board of
county commissioners, sub
ject to nomination in the Dem
ocratic primary. May 28.
Her opponent in the primary,
unless others file also, is
James M. Pleasants of South
ern Pines, longtime member
'Of the board, who filed last
week. They will be candidates
from the new District 4 which
consists of McNeill Township,
but are subject to county-wide
voting.
(Continued on Page 6)
NQlitary Rites Held
For Staff Sgt. Smith
Funeral Services with full
military honors were held
Monday afternoon at Doubs
Chapel Methodist Church for
Staff Sgt. Hubert Ray Smith,
32, killed in action in Vietnam.
The Rev. J. David Jones,
pastor, officiated at the funer
al and burial was in the church
cemetery.
Sergeant Smith, born and
raised in the Thomas Cross
roads community near West
End, died in Vietnam Sunday,
March 20, as the result of hos
tile gunfire. An obituary ap
peared in last week’s Pilot.
BIG COURT-SURFACING PROJECT SET
Tennis Group Ends Invitational
Tournaments, Plans Other Events
The Sandhills Tennis associ
ation Monday night voted to
susnend its two annual invi
tational tournaments for this
year and to concentrate its
efforts on building up the
Days Scheduled For
Pre-School Climes
Days have been scheduled
in May for registration of
children who will enter the
first grade in schools of the
Southern Pines system later
this year, Supt. J. W. Jen
kins has announced. The days
are:
—Monday, May 2, for East
Southern Pines School.
—Thursday, May 12, for
West Southern Pines School.
Children should be brought
to the schools, accompanied
by parent of guardian. In ad-
dition to registration, an op
portunity will be offered for
a physical examination by a
member of the Moore County
Health Department staff.
It is suggested parents clip
the dates for a reminder. Fur
ther details will be announced
later, Mr. Jenkins said.
town courts and helping to
raise a new generation of
young tennis players.
Suspended are the Sandhills
Invitational and Junior Sand
hills Invitational, sanctioned
tournaments started by the
STA in 1948, and in recent
years held in cooperation with
the town summer recreation
department.
Both tournaments, held in
August, have drawn a phe
nomenal array of outstanding
players from all over North
Carolina and many other
states. The Sandhills Invitati-
(Continued on Page 6)
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.
March 24 62 29
March 25 57 28
March 26 59 29
March 27 57 34
March 28 53 33
March 29 57 26