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Formal openings of two Town Center business places, with gifts and special events, are set this week. See Page 4, Sec. 3 for full details. Plan to give blood for hospital patients at next collections: Pinehurst, May 16, and Aberdeen, May 17. Your help may save a life! VOL.—46 NO. 25 rWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1966 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS '•*5 C. C. Kennedy, County Court Clerk, Succumbs At 61; Rites Held Today C. Carlton Kennedy, 61, of Carthage, clerk of Moore County Superior Court since 1950, died Monday at St. Jos eph’s Hospital after a short illness. The courthouse in Carthage was closed for the funeral hour this (Wednesday) after noon, when services were held at his church, the Carthage Methodist, followed by burial in Cross Hill Cemetery at Car thage. Officiating were the pastor, the Rev. Paul Boone, assisted by the Rev. Melvin William,son of Summer Hill Baptist Church and H.F. Sea- well, Jr., Carthage attorney and lay preacher. Mr. Kennedy had a serious illness about 15 months ago, from which he had apparent ly entirely recovered, though complaining occasionally of not feeling well. Despite some pain, he was on the job in the courtroom every day during last week’s criminal term. Stricken Saturday afternoon, he was rushed to the hospital where his condition rapidly became critical. Though he had lived in Ab erdeen, Pinehurst and South ern Pines, also in New York City as a banker, the “court house square” was his natural C. CARLTON KENNEDY habitat. As a boy he had help ed build the courthouse where later he held office unopposed for nearly 16 years. His father owned and 'operated the Carth age Hotel on the square for 20 years, and his mother still lives there. He had filed for renomina tion for his fifth term as clerk and was again without opposi- (Continued on Page 6) OFFICE TO OPEN THURSDAY Mrs. Beck Appointed Acting Clerk Mrs. Bessie M. Beck, assis tant clerk of Moore County Superior Court, was appointed Tuesday as acting clerk, to fill out the unexpired term of the late C. Carlton Kennedy. She was sworn in at the courthouse this (Wednesday) afternoon, by Judge J. Vance Rowe. The office, closed since Monday afternoon, will be re opened for service Thursday morning. The appointment was made by Resident Judge John D. McConnell of Southern Pines, Committee Will Pick Candidate For Clerk Post The choice of a candidate to replace the late C. Carlton Kennedy, clerk of Moore Su perior Court, on the Demo cratic ballot is expected to be made by the County Democra tic Executive Committee at the biennial county conven tion Saturday, May 14, J. Elvin Jackson, Moore Democratic chairman, .said since there is no contest for the office, no candidate’s name will appear on the May 28 pri mary balMt and it is not nec essary to select a replacement for ballot printing purposes at this time. There is no clerk of court race in prospect for Novem ber, either, but the full list of candidates will be 'offered by both parties, including those Unopposed as well as opposed. 3 Courses Set For Summer In Driver Training Three sessions of the requir ed driver education course for students wishing to be licensed before they are 18 will be of fered this summer at East Southern Pines High School. The courses will begin June 6, June 27, and July 25, and will require approximately three weeks to complete. The course includes 30 hours of classroom instruction and six hours of driving under su pervision. Boys and girls who will be 16 before December 1, 1968, are eligible to take the course. Priority in choice of sessions will be based on age. Young people who live in the Southern Pines school dis trict but do not attend the public schools should contact David Page or Ralph Fou.shee if they want to take the course. who came home immediately Monday on receipt of the death message at Greensboro, where he is holding court. He re turned to Greensboro after se curing Mrs. Beck’s acceptance. “I am sure that with Mrs. Beck in charge, the high stan dards of the clerk’s office will continue to be maintained',” Judge McConnell said. “She is throughly conversant with all its routines and competent (Continued on Page 6) Court, County Board Adjourn After Death M'oore County Recorders Court at Carthage adjourned Monday in respect to the mem ory of C. Carlton Kennedy, clerk of court, when word of his death was received in mid afternoon. Motion for the memori al adjournment was made by H. F. Seawell, senior member of the Moore County Bar pres ent, and a lifelong friend of the deceased. With concurrence of W. Lamont Brown, solicitor, the motion was granted by Judge J. Vance Rowe. Also adjourning, on news of Mr. Kennedy’s death, was the board of county commissioners who first authorized the draw ing up of a memorial resolu tion, the text of which has not yet been released. Ross Found Innocent In Smith Death Alexander (Pee Wee) Ross, 18, of Jackson Hamlet, was ac- .quitted Friday in Moore Su perior Court of ifirst-degree murder in the June, 1965, slaying of Mrs. Lexie Smith of Pinehurst. John Thomas Ferguson, also 18, who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder charge last August and received a life sentence, was a key wit ness in th'“ oei^nsp. Judge Robert M. Gambiii, charging the jury, in the trial at Carthage, said that since the murder was commiifed in the course of a robbery no de- c^^e other than first wa.s pos sible under the statute. If the verdict was guilty, they could recommend life imprisonment as alternative to death. Aid ing and abetting, should il be established, would be con sidered as equal to actual mur der. Ross, taking the stand' in his defense, convinced the jury that, though he accompanied Ferguson on the jaunt which ended in robbery and murder, had not known Ferguson’s in tentions, did not enter either of the two places that were rob bed and had no knowledge of what went on inside either of them. Ferguson, brought from (Continued on Page 6) Wi Braeburn Hall Is Sold To Greenes; Shop Announced Braeburn Hall Motor Lodge, has been sold to interests iden tified with the James C. -Greene family of Raleigh. The principal future use of the property, located on Highway 1, South, will be as an art and antiques shop known as Sara Greene Antiques, said an an nouncement from Mr. Greene. An Open House is set for 1 pm, Sunday, May 8. Collectors and dealers are expected from many locations in the Caro- linas and the public is invited. The property was sold by Reid A. Page who bought it several years ago from Mrs. Ar thur W. Atherton who, with (Continued on Page 6) N & S FINALISTS—Winner Ward Wett- laufer of Atlanta, Ga., left, and the man he beat Saturday in the 66th men’^ North and South Amateur golf tournament at Pine hurst—Marion Heck of Fort Meyers, Fla., and Columbiana, Ohio, hold their trophies. Wettlaufer, a former Walker Cup player, won 4 and 2 in the 36-hole title match. He reached the finals by defeating Dr. Ed Up- graff of Tucson, Ariz., 1-up. Heck won his finals berth when he beat Gary Cowan of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, former Cana dian Amateur champion, 2 and 1. A field of 12'8 began match play in the Sandhills golf classic Monday of last week. (Hemmer photo) ABC Trials Postponed To Court Session On May 24 VISITING SCHOOLS Mrs. Dan K. Moore, wife of North Carolina’s governor, to day visited the Leonard Train ing School at McCain, where she had lunch and addressed a student assembly, and the Morrison Training School at Hoffman where she toured the the school plant and talked with counselors. Both are state correctional institutions for Negro boys. The special session of Moore Recorder’s Court set for Tues day of this week, for trial of 15 persons arrested in recent ABC raids, has been postponed for three weeks, to Tuesday, May 24. W. Lamont Brown of South ern Pines, county solicitor, said he had requested the post ponement as he had not had time to study the warrants or investigate circumstances of the arrests. Judge J. Vance Rowe granted the delay. The defendants are under bond for trial on various counts of prohibition law vio lation, following raids made by State and county ABC per sonnel and county officers on six Sandhills clubs Friday night, April 22. The charges involve alleged over-the-bar sales of taxpaid whiskey, whiskey by the bottle and also beer in two places un licensed to sell it. Places raided were the Mid Pines Club, Pine Needles Country Club and VFW Post Home, all in Southern Pines; and the Southern Pines Elks Lodge, Dunes Club and Whis pering Pines Country Club, near Southern Pines, but out of the town limits, PTA To See Fashion Show, Have Election The East Southern Pines Parent - Teacher Association will meet May 16 when the Home Economics department under the direction of Miss Gay Whitlow will present a fashion show. There will also be an election of officers. The meeting will be at 8 pm in Weaver Auditorium. KEY TO SENTIMENT—Dr. E. W. Bush, right, was the high bidder on the first item offered' for auction at the Hollywood Hotel Saturday—the key to the front door. Above, he receives his purchase from John Pottle, co-own er of the gracious hostelry soon to be torn down after 53 years as a landmark in Southern Pines life. Bid in at $20, the key has a sentimental value far higher. Dr. Bush said. He saw the hotel built, has been a close friend of the Pot tle family which owned it for three generations and was on the committee which chose its name in 1913. Since the 1930’s, Dr. Bush’s home has been on the same block, ad joining the Hollywood property. The auction of furnish ings and fixtures drew a large crowd', and, with Clem Long, Auctioneers, of Dayton, Ohio, at the helm moved on at a rapid clip, with some 500 items disposed of in six and a half hours. A garden apartment and town house development will be built by the Pottle brothers on the site. (V. Nicholson photo) Western Union Office Moved To Graves Bnilding The West Union branch off ice has been moved from the Jefferson Inn, its location of the past several years, to the Graves Building at 115 East Pennsylvania Ave., with Mrs. Barbara Strother Whitaker as manager. New hours were announced this week by Mrs. Whitaker as follows: weekdays, 7 am to 7 pm; Sundays, 1 to 4 pm. Mrs. Whitaker is manager also of the Telephone Answer ing Service, which she started last October and which she has m'oved from E. New Hamp shire Ave., in order to com bine the two operations. They have been successfully com bined in a number of other places, according to informa tion from Western Union. Miss Sara Peacock of Sanford has been employed to assist in maintaining the 12-hour-a- (Continued on Page 6) Banks To Be Closed On Tuesday, May 10 All banks in M'oore County will be closed Tuesday, May 10, in observance of Confeder ate Memorial Day. No other closings on that day—a state but not a feder al holiday—have been an nounced. 'The post office and all town and county offices will be open as usual. McPhaul Now On Staff Of First Securities Here Effective May 1, John A. (Jack) McPhaul of Southern Pines joined The First Securi ties Corporation, 135 W. New Ham.pshire Ave. as a register ed representative and perman ent addition to the staff, it was announced today by Charles F. Jones of Durham, head of First Securities and A. E. Rhinehart, manager of the Southern Pines office of the brokerage firm. First Securities recently took over Eastman Dillon Union Securities & Co. at the same address. Mr. McPhaul has been in the brokerage business since 1951, beginning with Courts (Continued on Page 6) Local Precinct Meetings Listed Local' Democratic precinct chairmen are urging a good turnout at the biennial pre cinct meetings, to be held Sat urday here as over Moore County and throughout the State Times and regular places of local precinct meetings, with the chairmen, are listed below: North Southern Pines, E. O. Brogden, 2 pm, firehouse; South Southern Pines, Bryan (Continued on Page 6) Public Hearing On Zoning Law Slated Friday A public hearing on a pro posed new comprehensive Southern Pines zoning ord inance that covers both the in-town area and the mile wide perimeter belt • in which the town has zoning author ity, will be held in the mu nicipal building at 7:30 pm Friday, May 6. The ordinance, with some changes ’ from the original, was approved by the Planning Board and is being passed along to the council which can adopt it, witn or without further changes. The ordinance was prepar ed by Donald Bradley of Sou thern Pines, professional plan ner who is working oh var ious aspects of town planning here, through a contract with the State Department of Con servation and Development. It sets up 12 different zoning categories in which land use and, in some cases, construc- (Continued on Page 6) No Clue Found To Girl, 15, Missing Since Last Week Despite the investigation of several possible leads, no trace has been found of Barbara Jean Nixon, 15, "West South ern Pines girl who disappear ed Wednesday night of last week, April 27, Police Chief Earl S. Seawell said this morning. A 10th grade student at West Southern Pines High School, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Nixon of 1028 W. New Hampshire Ave. Her mother is employed as an aide at Moore Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst. The family has lived in Southern HERE ON SATURDAY Big Leaguers, Others To Meet In Benefit Game All signs point to enthusias tic public response to the all- day program to be staged here Saturday by Southern Pines Elks Lodge 1692 in connection with the lodge’s fund-raising campaign for additional spec tator bleachers at Memorial Field. On the public program are a chicken supper at the Coun try Club cook-'out area (4 to 7 pm and dinners also served to be taken out) and an exhibi tion baseball game at Memor ial Field, 8 pm, with several visiting former Major League players teaming with former Peach Belt leaguers to take on East Southern Pines High School’s ' baseball squad and faculty members. Goal of this East Southern Pines School bleacher fund is (Continued qn Page 6) FELL OR JUMPED FROM MOVING CAR Trooper Exonerated In Death Of Arrested Man, Roy F. McNeill, 27 state Highway Patrolman F. R. Wicker, stationed in Southern Pines, was exoner ated by a coroner’s jury Sat urday night in the death of a man who fell or jumped from the patrol car after having been arrested for drunken driving, last Friday. The jury’s verdict was that Roy Franklin McNeill, 27, of Vass had come to his death by his own hand, due to his care lessness in opening the car door. At the inquest, held in the Southern Pines council cham ber with Coroner W. K. Car penter presiding, Wicker said he had arrested McNeill on the Union Church Road, about one mile from Vass, and help ed him from his pickup truck into the unmarked patrol car. On the way to the Southern Pines police station, Wicker said, McNeill argued vigorous ly against being taken there, trying to persuade the trooper to let him go or to lessen the charges. About a half-mile be low Lakeview, the trooper said, McNeill suddenly re marked, “I’m getting out of here,” turned quickly and opened the car door. On hearing the door handle crack. Wicker said he looked, to see his passenger lunge out. (Continued on Page 6) NO 'TAG DAY' WILL BE HELD "No tag day" for Ihe ma ternal welfare program that is now .administered by the Moore Memorial Hospital Auxiliary is be ing held this year, it was announced this week. The program aided 20 mothers during the past year, the announcement said, making .available the free maternity bed at Moore Memorial. Contributions to the continuing maternal wel fare program are wel come, it was stated, and may be sent to the Auxil iary, in care of the hospi tal. marked for this spe cial use. Harrison Hurt In Car Mishap Bob Harrison, purchasing agent of St. Joseph’s Hospital, who makes his home at the hospital here, suffered injuries when he lost control of his car near Pinehurst Saturday night. The injuries proved not serious and he was back at work Mon day morning. Harrison said he dozed off at the wheel on NC 5, near the NC 211 intersection, woke to find himself on the wrong side 'of the road and was thrown around when he braked down suddenly. Locking the car, he caught a ride to the hospital with some passersby. Officers, finding the blood ied car later, ascertaining its owner, and, finding he had a bad cut on the face and a puncture wound in the chest, thought he might have been the victim 'of an attack. Har rison said he wasn’t sure how he got the wounds, as the in cident “happened very fast” but believes he bumped against chromework and was struck by objects in the car. WITH HAYES-HOWELL & ASSOCIATES Montague Heads New Engineering Section Of Architectural Firm Thomas T. Hayes, Jr., and W. Calvin Howell, partners in the Southern Pines architec tural firm of Hayes-Howell & Associates, have announced the association of Bobby L. Montague with their firm, as head of a new engineering section. The firm will now be come a combination architect ural-engineering office with consulting engineering services available to other architectur al firms or individuals. Formerly with the Central Division office of Carolina Power & Light Co., here, as a heating and cooling special ist, Mr. Montague began his work with the architectural firm on Monday. A registered professional engineer and a member 'of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Condi tioning Engineers, Mr. Monta gue has a wide background in the mechanical and electrical fields. He graduated second in his class at North Carolin-i State University where he earned his degree in Heating Pines about four years. The girl’s disappearance has been broadcast state-wide on the Highway Patrol radio net work and has been reported to the State Bureau of Investiga-- tion for publication in the SBI’s weekly bulletin for law enforcement personnel. Chief Seawell said that Barbara Jean was listed as missing by her parents, be tween 10 and 11 pm last Wed nesday. She had left home earlier that day, while wearing pink Bermuda shorts, a dark blue flowered blouse, white sweater and sneakers. Barbara Jean is five feet, four inches' tall and weighs 135 pounds. Her nickname is “Bunny.” About 9 pm, the investiga tion ascertained, she had gone to the Carolina Hotel at Pine hurst and had talked to Pearl- BARBARA JEAN NIXON ie Mae _Brown Carter who is employed at the hotel. Re ported wet from rain that was falling that night, the girl had borrowed a light blue flower ed dress from her friend. . . That is the last time she was seen, so far as the investiga tion has been able to- deter mine, Chief Seawell ^aid.. Anyone who has seen her or knows where she is or' might be is asked to get in touch with the Southern Pines Po lice Department or with her parents. ... ON WEST SIDE Children Will Register May 12 Children who will enter the first grade at the We.st South ern Pines School later this year will be registered in the first grade rooms at the school Thursday, May 12, starting at 8:30 am, H. A. Wilson princi pal, announces. Parents 'or responsible close relatives are asked to accom- many the children to the school. Birth certificates and records of disease innoculations should be presented. County Health Department personnel will be on hand to make physical ex aminations. First grade classes will not attend school that day, to make room for the registra tion. BOBBY L. MONTAGUE and Air Conditioning. As a cadet officer, he was a member of the Scabbard and Blade na tional honorary military soc iety. (Continued on Page 6) LITTLE LEAGUE DAY Festivities opening the lo cal Little League baseball sea son have been scheduled for Saturday, May 14, with a downtown parade at 10 am, a party for mothers in the after noon at the home of Mrs. Cal vin Howell and the first games starting at 7 pm. Full details will be announced next week. Little League players will be gin a candy sale around town on Saturday of this week to help finance league expenses. 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. M,ax Min. April 27 83 59 April 28 59 52 April 29 66 51 April 30 74 57 May 1 85 62 May 2 59 5" May 3 75 4?
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