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HEARINGS HELD ON PLANNING PROJECTS
Dr. Dougherty Sworn In
As Town Council Member
The Southern Pines town with offices at both Vass and
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council in special session
Tuesday night welcomed a
new councilman, and conduc
ted a public hearing on two
phases of its comprehensive
community planning project.
Dr. R. J. Dougherty was
sworn in to complete the un
expired term of Lee K, Smith-
son; resigned. A native of
Hinton, Okla., and graduate of
the University of Oklahoma
j School of Medicine, he moved
1 here first in 1952, left within j
I three months for a four-year j
toiii of duty with the Army, |
and since 1956 has been in j
general medical practice here 1
IN VIETNAM—Sgt. Norman G. Dean III (right) of
Southern Pines, in Vietnam with the Army’s Special For
ces, is shown in this photo made in February with Sgt.
James Hughes, his best friend, whose death in combat in
March Sgt. Dean immediately avenged, though wounded
himself, in a burst of action that is expected to win him
the Silver Star.
Sgt. Norman Dean Is
Cited For Gallantry
A member of the Army Spe
cial Forces, who trained at
Fort Bragg and whose family
lives here, has been recom
mended to receive the Silver
Star, In Vietnam.
The Silver Star is the
Army’s third highest combat
DR. EUGENE OWENS
PUBLIC INVITED
Dr. Owens To
Preach At Four
Easter Services
Ministers of three other
local churches will take part
in three of the four Easter Re
vival services scheduled at the
First Baptist Church, Friday
through Sunday, with Dr. Eu
gene Owens of Wake Forest,
an outstanding preacher and
teacher of preachers, deliver
ing the sermons. Congregations
of all Southern Pines churches
and the general public are in
vited, said the Rev. John
Stone, pastor of the host
church.
The three evening services,
all at 7:30, and the guest min
isters who will read the Scrip
ture lesson and lead in prayer,
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decoration and is always given
for “gallantry in action.’’
Sgt. Norman G. Dean III,
who has been in the Army
nearly three years and in Viet
nam since last September, told
what happened in a letter to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man G. Dean, Jr. who live just
out of Southern Pines on the
Carthage road. He said that
when his best friend, Sgt.
James Hughes, was killed by
a Viet Cong sniper, he in turn
shot the sniper and attacked
and wiped out a machine gun
bunker with grenades, killing
two more of the enemy,
j . Just before the heroic action
(“seems like I got mad,” he
wrote his parents). Dean him
self was wounded. A bullet
' striking his carbine filled his
face and arm with wood .splint
ers and he thought he had lost
an eye, there was so much
I blood in it.
As related in the sergeant’s
letter, he and two other Army
men were the only Americans
! fighting along with a company
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Southern Pines.
The council had expected to
take action at the meeting on
recommendations of the Plan
ning Board in regard to the
proposed extraterritorial zon
ing ordinance, but Mayor
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., pre
siding, reported that no re
commendations had yet been
received. The Planning Board,
after meeting that afternoon,
had scheduled another meet
ing for Friday and it was ex
pected that recommendations
would be ready for consider
ation and public hearing some
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IN CAROLINAS
Camp Easter
Benefits From
Golf Dollars
Golfers over North and
South Carolina this week are
paying $1 each time they play,
with all the money going to
Camp Easter in the Pines
here, for its building and
equipment campaign.
Backed by both the profes
sional and amateur golfing
groups (PGA & CGA), “Camp
Easter Golf Week”—as desig
nated by Gov. Dan K. Moore—
appeared to be a rousing suc
cess.
All golfers donating to the
project are eligible for a re
ward—a special scroll to be
given them if their scores—
after full regular handicap is
subtracted'—equal or better
that of the winner of this
week’s Masters Tournament
at Augusta, Ga.
About 250 golf clubs in the
two states are cooperating in
the project which is sponsored
by the Friends of Camp Eas
ter, a group of Sandhills men
who set out several months
ago to raise funds for the
camp that serves North Caro
lina’s handicapped children
and adults. The camp is owned
and operated by the N. C. So
ciety for Crippled Children
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RACE STICKERS
BEING MAILED
Windshielci stickers for
persons who have made
parking space reserva
tions for the Stoneybrook
Race Meet on Saturday,
April 16, will be mailed
out this week, the race
committee office told The
Pilot today.
Donald D. Kennedy,
committee chairman, said
that parking spaces; are
still available. The race
office is in the town-
owned Campbell house
(information center) on E.
Connecticut Ave., Tele
phone 692-6873.
More news of prepara
tions for Stoneybrook ap
pears elsewhere in today's
Pilot.
Coffman of ‘Golf
World’ Is Winner
Ron Coffman, associate di-
tor of Golf World magazine,
published here, won the Bob
Harlow trophy Monday when
he carded a '76 in the annual
golf tournament of the Golf
Writers Association of Amer
ica, at the Dunes Golf and
Beach Club, Myrtle Beach,
S. C.
Coffman, 29, a resident of
Whispering Pines, fittingly
copped the trophy as the foun
der of Golf World (Bob Har
low) was being posthumously
honored at Augusta, Ga. (sto
ry below). The late Mr. Har
low founded the writers’
tournament.
A native of Bloomington,
Ill.. Coffman has been with
Golf World since June of last
year.
Services Set On
Good Friday, At
Easter Sunrise
In addition to a series of
community preaching services
at the First Baptist Church
over the Ea;ter weekend, as
noted in a story above, several
other community services, to
which the public is invited,
will be held in Southern Pines
and the Sandhills.
The annual Good Friday
service, from noon to 3 on Fri
day of this week, will be held
at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, with ministers of all
six local Protestant churches
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9 FILING DEADLINE
The filing deadline for can
didates for county offices is
April 15. Sam C. Riddle of
Carthage, chairman of the
county board of elections, was
out of town this week, attend
ing a meeting of elections of
ficials, and news of new fil
ings in the past week, if any,
could not be obtained.
Harlow Wins Posthumous Award
From National Golf Writers Group
W. E. Watson,
‘Sandpipers’
Given Awards
The Sandpipers, student
dramatic club of Sandhills
Community College, won an
award for “distinguished” pro
duction at the North Carolina
State Drama Festival held in
Chapel Hill last Friday. The
Betty Smith award was pre
sented to the playwright, Wil
liam E. Watson, English in
structor on the faculty of the
college.
Sixty North Carolina colleg
es and high schools participat
ed in the festival. Eight of the
drama groups received awards
for “distinguished” productions
and five were rated “excell
ent.”
Entitled “Prologue,” IVlr.
Watson’s one-act play is an
allegory symbolically relating
“time since the beginning,”
and the setting is the interior
of a theater. The three charac
ters, “Stage Director,” “A
Boy” and “A Girl” were por-
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3,000 - Acre Timber Loss Estimated
In Moore County After W^oods Fires
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Soldiers and Civilians Fight Fire South of Aberdeen
GARDEN TOUR
SET WEDNESDAY
Hundreds of visitors,
along with many Sand
hills residents., are expec
ted to make the rounds of
notably attractive homes
and gardens in the
Southern Pines area,
when the annual tour
sponsored by the South
ern Pines Garden Club is
held on Wednesday of
next week, April 13.
Full details, includiing a
list of the places, to be vis
ited, appear on Page 1,
Section 2, along with two
photos typical of the pla
ces to be seen. Proceeds
of the tour are being used
by the club for town
beautification projects.
The memory of Robert E
Harlow, founder 'of Golf World
magazine, who died in 1954
after a distinguished career in
sports writing and publishing,
was honored at Augusta, Ga.,
yesterday by presentation to
his widow, Mrs. Lillian Har
low, of the 1965 William D.
Richardson Trophy, awarded
annually, for 'outstanding con
tribution to golf, by the Golf
Writers Association of Amer
ica.
It was the first posthumous
awarding of the trophy. Mrs.
Harlow continues as publisher
'Of the weekly golf magazine
which she and her husband
worked together in launching
at Pinehurst in 1947 when he
was also publisher of the Pine
hurst Outlook, a lively weekly
newspaper he edited for sev
eral years.
Golf World, which has a
growing, world-wide circula
tion, recently moved its office.s
and printing plant from Pine
hurst to Southern Pines.
The presentation to Mrs.
Harlow was made by Lincoln
A. Werden of The New York
Times, chairman of the golf
writers national board, during
the writers’ 21st national meet
ing in the tournament building
of the Augusta National Coun-
Student Draft Test
Applications Ready
Applications that college
students or high school seni
ors expecting to go to college
must file to take the Selective
Service College Qualification
test are available at Moore
County’s Local Board No. 64
office in Carthage, Bill Dal-
rymple of Carthage, board
chairman, has announced.
The test will be used to help
determine the draft status of
all college students—whether
they will retain or receive the
“Class II-S” student draft ex
emption.
Examinations will be given
at 37 locations in North Caro
lina on May 14, May 21 and
June 3. Applications to take the
test must be mailed to the test
ing agency in Chicago not later
than April 23, it was stated.
Man, 77, Dies,
Niece Is Hurt
In Truck Wreck
An elderly man who had
been known as a careful, even
over-cautious driver, disre
garded caution Sunday after
noon to speed in his pickup
truck, which went out of con
trol and overturned, hurling
the driver to his death.
State Trooper R.R. Samuels
said that Richard William
Wall, 77, Negro, of Eagle
Springs Route 1, was killed in
the accident on NC 211 two
miles north of the NC 705 in
tersection.
Judy Smith, 23, niece of the
dead man, was also thrown
from the truck and seriously
injured.
In view of Wall’s reputation as
a “slow” driver. Coroner W.K.
Carpenter 'ordered an autopsy
to see if a heart attack could
have caused the wreck and
fatality. No heart ailment was
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Board Will Review
Tax Matters Tuesday
The Moore County commis
sioners, required under a new
law to sit on Monday, April 4,
as a board of equalization and
review, did' so briefly Monday,
then adjourned to reconvene
at 10 am Tuesday, April 12.
At that time anyone with
county tax matters to be pre
sented for possible adjustment
or revision is asked to come
before the board and make his
presentation.
A county advertisement ap
pearing in today’s Pilot in
correctly lists only the April
4 date.
GOLF CLINIC SET
Of interest to both men and
women golfers will be the
golf clinic and demonstration
to be held by 14 outstanding
women professional golfers in
the courtyard' adjoining the
the Mary Lena Faulk building
on W. Pennsylvania Ave. at
4 pm Shturday. Details are in
a news item and ad, elsewnere
in today’s Pilot.
AREA I SCHOOL
VOTE CANCELLED
The Area 1 special
school lax election, which
had been set for April 23,
will not be heldi.
By resolution presented
Monday to the county
commissioners:, the Moore
County board of educa
tion asked that its petition
for the election be with
drawn and the voting date
cancelled.
Jere McKeithen, board
chairman, told the com
missioners that the board
had deemed it best to
postpone the election for
at least another year.
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Radio Network
Equipment F or
Moore Approvetl
The Moore County commis
sioners, in regular session
Monday, made several advance
commitments of funds from
the 1966-67 budget, so that
plans now under way can gc
forward and several pressing
matters be attended to. Pay
ment will in no instance be
made before July 1.
On a presentation by Col. A.
M. Koster of Southern Pines,
county director of civil de
fense, they approved the pur
chase and installation of a
countywide radio network, co
ordinating existing communi
cations systems for more ef
fective use in man-made or na
tional disasters.
Tied in together as needed
would be radio communica
tions of the Sheriff’s office,
town police departments,
State Highway Patrol, N. C.
Forest Service, rescue squad
units, power and telephone
trucks and the entire system
of fire protection now opera
ting in Moore, including the
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JACK S. YOUNTS
Younts Named
To NAB Board
Jack S. Younts of Southern
Pines took office last week as
a member of the board of di
rectors of the National Associ
ation of Broadcasters as the
NAB ended its 44th annual
convention at the Conrad Hil
ton Hotel in Chicago. He was
present for the installation
which took place just before
Mr. Younts and his wife, who
accompanied him to the con
vention, left to return to
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BLOSSOM SHOW OPENS ANNUAL DRAMA
Peaches: Problems and Progress
THE LATE BOB HARLOW
(Hemmer photo)
try Club.
There were 10 candidates for
whom 450 national ballots
were cast. The late Mr. Har
low received 166 votes.
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By VALERIE NICHOLSON
During the past two weeks,
hundreds of visitors drove into
the Sandhills to witness one
of North Carolina’s most allur
ing springtime sights—the
peach orchards in full bloorri.
In splashes of delicate pink,
they rim the ridges and color
the hillsides of farms in the
“peach triangle,” an area
roughly bounded by Candor
in Montgomery County, Eller-
be in Richmond and West End
in Moore. These are the main-
peach-growing counties, with
some good-sized orchards also
in Anson and Scotland, and
one or two each in Lee and
Hoke.
The orchards, however,
aren’t so easy to find any more.
There are fewer of them, and
their “drift” over the years, as
new places must be sought to
plant them, has taken many
off the main high-ways into
more remote areas.
Against Odds
The Sandhills peach indus
try today represents the cour
age and persistence of fewer
than 100 growers, working
valiantly against odds to pre
serve, improve and expand
their crop.
One of the hazards, against
which their fingers are cross
ed tightly just now, is a mid-
April freeze. When the tem
perature dropped below freez
ing a half-dozen successive
nights in late March, it didn’t
matter very much—the blos
soms needed thinning out any
how and the new young peach
es hadn’t started to form. But
one the petals have started
falling and just after they are
gone, the new peach is on the
way, and is vulnerable.
Four times in the past 25
years, a mid-April freeze has
killed all, or nearly all, the
crop, and no one yet has been
able to find a thing to do about
it.
Your true peach grower is a
gambler. He’s also a good
neighbor—cooperation am'ong
growers is a legend. He’s ad-
EASTER CLOSINGS
Banks of the area, county
offices in Carthage, town of
fices here and many business
es will be closed for a holi
day on April 11—Easter Mon
day.
The day is not a holiday for
post offices and all will con-
iuct business as usual.
Schools here let out for
spring vacation at the end of
classes today (Wednesday) and
the students will go back
Tuesday morning, April 12.
On a tinder-dry weekend in
which hundreds of forest fires
sprang up all over North and
South Carolina, M'oore County
was one of this State’s hottest
spots.
Starting last Thursday and
continuing through Tue,;day
about a dozen separate fires
blazed up from end to end of
the county, racing before high
fitful winds, sometimes “tree
topping” through the forests
and destroying seven homes
and a small church, along
with eight or 10 tobacco barns
and numerous farm outbuild
ings.
N.C. Forest Service crews
worked as long as 48 hours
without rest or sleep, aided by
all the county’s fire depart
ments, rescue squads, hund
reds of soldiers from Fort
Bragg, the State Highway Pa
trol and other officers, and
volunteers, raising the num
ber of firefighters into the
thousands.
Unofficial acreage count in
Moore, computed by a spotter
plane pilot Tuesday, was close
to 3,000 acres of timber loss.
The largest fire, in the Pine-
bluff-Aberdeen area, ran over
2,600 acres in an erratic
course, a quarter-mile to a
half-mile wide, from near
Pinebluff, skirting the edge of
Aberdeen and along NC 211
nearly to the Hoke County
line.
Starting Friday about 2 pm
near the old Pinebluff lake
site, it raced into the area be
tween US 15-501 (Laurinburg
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Fire Peril In
Woods Continues
If rain doesn’t fall in the
next few days, it is likely that
Easter weekend will be as bad
for forest fires in this area as
last weekend was, said Dis
trict Forester James A. Pip
pin of Rockingham, Tuesday.
, Scattered showers Sunday
night, amounting in some pla
ces to only a few drops, pro
vided only temporary relief
and the woods are still highly
inflammable, he said.
Despite the fact the State
Forest Service has ended the
suspension of burning permits.
Pippin urged extreme caution
on the part of everyone.
Red Cross Wanls To
Know Property Loss
Persons suffering serious
loss of dwelling, buildings or
personal property in last
weekend’s woods fires were
urged today to come to the
Moore County chapter Red
Cross office on S. W. Broad
St. here, on Friday of this
week, to report their losses,
so that it can be determined
whether disaster aid may be
forthcoming.
Chapter officials issued' a
statement of thanks this week
to all volunteers who helped
in any way in connection with
the fires. Coffee, milk and
sandwiches were distributed
by the Red Cross to firefight
ers, Friday afternoon and
night.
Mobile Homes Company Expects To
Employ 125 At New Plant In Manly
Plans for construction and
operation at Manly, of a plant
broducing mobile homes,
classrooms and other mobile
structures have been an
nounced by Fred L. Taylor of
Vass who has long been prom
inent in lumber and other
businesses in this area.
Located at the intersection
of Old No. 1 highway and Rt. 2,
west of the Seaboard rail-
"oad tracks, the plant will uti-
bze a building already parti
ally constructed at the site
and will add others for ap
proximately 35,000 square feet
of floor space. Cost was esti-
COOLEY TO VISIT
As The Pilot went to press
today, word came from 4th
District Congressman Harold
Cooley that he will visit
Moore County Wednesday of
next week, April 13, stopping
at the courthouse in Carthage
10 am to noon; at the town
hall here, 2 to 4 pm; and in
the recorder’s court room at
Aberdeen, from 4:30 to 6:30
pm. Moore County Democrats
will vote on the 4th District
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mated at $125,000.
The plant is expected to
employ 125 and have an an
nual payroll of $800,000 and
an annual volume of business
estimated at $4,800,000, the
announcement said. Prod'uc-
tion is slated to start in Au
gust.
Mr. Taylor owns and oper
ates the Troy Lumber Com
pany and Taylor Mobile
Homes, a subsidiary of the
lumber firm, also at Troy.
The building at Manly is be
ing built by Sandhill Lumber
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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 30 70 34
March 31 59 40
April 1 84 33
April 2 61 44
April 3 73 33
April 4 67 55
April 5 59 29