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The UN is tackling the major problem of Peacekeeping with renewed vigor, reports James Boyd from New York. Page 3, Section 3. ugtj Uiqhfall ^ndof jr / ncircanol Glendon laqe Jadi Wed Cameron p) Vass ^llcrbe Pm&luTf LOT A local institution that has “soi;nething for everybody” is the Thrift Shop of Emmanuel Church. Read about it, Page 1, Section 2. VOL.—46 NO. 27 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1966 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS FATHER JOHN J. HARPEiH Baccalaure.ate Preacher FRED H. WEAVER Graduation Speaker Commencement Events Announced Bu School Commencement events of East Southern Pines High School have been announced by Supt. J. W. Jenkins and Principal Glenn Cox. ditorium, by Father John J. Harper, pastor of St. An thony’s Catholic Church here. To follow on Monday, May 30, will be the annual Awards Contracts Let For 4th College j! Campus Building The Board of Trustees of Sandhills Community College has awarded contracting .^mounting to a total of $94,535 to North Carolina firms for the construction of a new : building on the campus. • ! Dr. Raymond Stone, presi- ' dent, announced the awards following a meeting of the trustees Monday evening. The new building to be add ed to the three-building com plex now on the campus will | provide classrooms and shops i for the automotive courses of fered in the curriculum of the vocational-technical education program and shop space for building and campus mainte nance. J. H. Edmonds of Cameron submitted the low bid of $70,- 566 for general construction. The plumbing contract for $5,- 075 went to Carroll and Gift, (Continued on Page 6) Sfo' Charles McLeod Is Chosen Candidate For Courfs Clerk The baccalaurate sermon | Day events, in the auditorium. will be preached Sunday, May 29, at 8:15 pm in Weaver Au- 'HIGHLY GIFTED' 3 Students In Local Schools Receive Honor Three Southern Pines High School students have been selected to attend the Gover nor’s School, June 20 to August 5, in Winston-Salem, Supt, J. W. Jenkins anounced this week. The school is for hign- ly gifted North Carolina high school students. The students and parents are: Carolyn McRae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. McRae, 785 East Massachusetts Ave. Bill Blue, son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Blue, 440 W. New Jersey Ave. Hosea Brower, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Carl Brower, 1165 W. Wisconsin Ave. The purpose of the school, as outlined by the North Car- (Continued on Page C) Sports Banquet Slated May 27 An All Sports Banquet has been scheduled by East South ern Pines High School for Friday, May 27, at Sanders Whispering Pines Restaurant. The buffet dinner will begin at 7 prn. Awards will be made by various civic and sports or ganizations and commercial firms to members of the school’s football, basketball, baseball, track, golf and ten nis squads. Guest speaker will be “Hot Rod” Hundley, former three- year All-American basketball player at West Virginia Uni versity. Dr. R. B. Warlick will be master of ceremonies. Full de tails will appear in next week’s Pilot. Parents of the athletes and all interested persons are in vited to attend. There will be a dinner fee for visitors. at 10 am. Graduation exercises will be conducted Friday, June 3, at 8:15 pm, also in Weaver Audi torium, with Fred H. Weaver of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill deliv ering the comrriencement ad dress. Further details of all events will be published later. Farther Harper was pastor of Catholic parishes at Clin ton and Kannapolis before coming to Southern Pines a few years ago and had previ ously held assistant pastorates at Whiteville, Waynesville, Greensboro and Jacksonville. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Vincent S. Waters for the Diocese of Raleigh, in May,- 1947.’ ’ ‘ ' ’ (Continued on Page 6) 'X" Merkel Resigns Inspeetor Post Jon Merkel, town building inspector since last October, has resigned, Town Manager F. F. Rainey said this week. The resignation was effective Friday. No replacement has yet been appointed, said Mr. Rainey, adding, “It’s a very important position and we want to get the right man.” Mr. Merkel told The Pilot he is going back into private business but has no plans to announce at this time. He was a building contractor in Flori- day, Michigan and Ohio before taking the post here. He and his wife, Marilyn, and daughter, Cindy, plan to cohtihue to” liVS' in" Southern Pines. VOLUNTEER GULISTAN GROUP V70RKS ALL DAY 60 Men Huild Camp Easter Hall Field Sixty men who are members of the J. P. Stevens Manage ment Club of the Gulistan Carpet Division of J. P. Stev ens & Co. at Aberdeen worked all day Saturday at Camp Easter in the Pines, construct ing a base’oall diamond. Part of the time they worked in the rain. All materials and labor were donated. The whole job was com pleted in one day, reported Mrs. Mark Liddell, camp co ordinator, including cleaning, plowing, leveling and seed ing the entire area, as well as constructing a wood and wire backstop and doing other work. The accompanying photo shows a portion of the men who helped. The group inclu ded top executives of the Gul istan Division, who asked that their names not be singled out but appear only at random in a list of all who helped. The men brought their food and “cooks” and had “dinner on the grounds.” Officers of the club had in- (Continued on Page 6) FROM NEARLY 20 STATES 350 Entered In Elks Golf Here This Week Hold everything! The “sea son” isn’t over yet! A thunder ing herd of Elks—hundreds of them — are in town this week. The growing popularity of the National Elks Amateur held annually at this time of Annual Kiwanis Events For Young People Held Friday Music Festival Draws Interest BY VALERIE NICHOLSON The Picquet Music Festival, presented Friday night at Un ion Pines High School, repre sented a break from recent years in that it offered two choral groups selected from the membership of Moore County High School glee clubs, instead of the full clubs combined in one huge choir. While the drama and volume of the former singing groups of 100 to 200 voices was miss ed, the gain in musicianship, subtlety and clarity more than made up for it. The 38-voice mixed choir . (Continued on Page 6) Lathan Chosen For Youth Cup Malcolm Harvey Lathan, Jr., of Pinehurst, a senior at Aber deen High school, was award ed the Junior Builders Cup of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club Friday night. The presentation was made by Sam H. Poole of Southern Pines, Kiwanis chairman qf the project, at intermission of the Picquet Music Festival of high school choral groups, held at Union Pines High School. Young Lathan was chosen from among outstanding seniors from six high schools of the county, on the basis of scholastic standing, contribu- (Continued on Page 6) Police Dept. At Full Strength; Barnes Employed The employment of George Barnes, 32, as patrolman has brought the Southern Pines police department back up to its full strength of 10 men, it is announced by Town Mana ger F. F. Rainey and Chief Earl S. Seawell. Barnes, an experienced po liceman, who served five years with the Stantonsburg depart ment, fills the vacancy left since February 1 by the resig nation of Emory Little, who went to other employment in Connecticut. A native of Wilson and vet eran of Army service Barnes attended the National Police Academy at Washington, D. C., (Continued on Page 6) the year at Southern Pines CC and Mid Pines Club is re flected in the record entry of 350 players. The entry list was to be held to 320 and this number has been reached in the past but by deadlines May 8 the field had been filled and 30 more players had made application before the shut off time. Sponsoring Elks Lodge 1692 decided to accept the entries making the dead line. Another 40 entries sub mitted too late were rejected, leading Elks to think about holding the event over three courses in the future. They come from nearly 20 states and, although dominat ed by Mid-South Elks, the field is slowly losing its sec tional flavor and chances for an “outsider” to win the title are increasing. Only Tar Heel golfers have packed the cham- (Continued on Page 6) A.B.C. CASES SET TUESDAY Fifteen persons charged with various violations of the State alcoholic bev erage laws are scheduled to appear for trial before Judge J. Vance Rowe in a special term of Moore County Recorder's Court at Carthage, Tuesday, May 24, at 9:30 am. The defend,ants are own ers, managers or employ ees of six Sandhills clubs and hotels raided by Alco holic Beverage Control of ficers in late April. The trials were postponed from May 3, for the Stale to prepare its cases. Charles M. McLeod, 47-year- cld native of Carthage, who has lived and worked in Car thage most of his life, on Sat urday was the Moore County ^' Democratic Executive Commit- " lc( >- I ' ijority choice for the B candidate for clerk of superior ™ court, replacing the late C. C. I , Kennedy on the party ticket. I Without any primary oppo- ' sition on May 28 or Republi- „ can opposition in November, he will take office automati- II cally for the four-year term, the first Monday in December. The selection, made in a closed session of the commit tee following the county con vention at the courthouse, cli maxed a week of campaigning by and for aspirants for the- office. At least a dozen per sons were reportedly “inter ested” in the post, and of these, five had hit the cam paign trail. Four Nomir.ated Only four were nominated in the committee meeting. Mc Leod led the first ballot. A runoff was necessary and this time he was a runaway win ner, with Mrs. Bessie M. Beck, longtime assistant clerk, now acting clerk, second and J. D. David, county tax collector, third. A small crowd which had waited out the hour-long meeting showered crongratu- lations 'on McLeod, and it was plain to be seen he was a fav orite with Carthaginians, most of whom had known him ail his life. They also made it clear they felt he would be a highly ef ficient clerk, well able to mas ter the complexities 'of the of fice and head the transition to (Continued on Page 6) CHARLES M. McLEOD Moore Democrats Endorse Blue For State CliLairman Public Invited To Meet Candidate Tate A“meet-the-candidate” party for Dr. Russell Tate of Vass will be held Tuesday, from 5:30-7:30 pm, at Sanders Whis pering Pines Restaurant. Dr. Tate is a candidate for county commissioner from Dis trict 4 in the May 28 Demo cratic primary. The public is invited. Sparked by interest in the race for the clerk of court nomination, 'one of the largest subject to the May 28 primary, ing included candidates al ready on the ticket, running crowds in years turned out for the biennial Moore County Democratic convention Satur day afternoon. Some 250 Democrats attend- AT LEAST 8 HOMES IN AREA Man Held For Bold Break-Ins A young man identified as Phil Roberts, aged 25, of Jack sonville, Fla., and (Columbia, S. C., is being held in Moore County jail at Carthage on suspicion of entering at least the bold housebreaking mara thon has been recovered, ac cording to Chief Moore Depu ty H. H. Grimm. Warrants will be prepared as owners, some of whom are Exposure Conviction To Draw Active Term j In connection with trial of a youth charged with indecent exposure while riding in an j automobile (popularly known i as “mooning”), in Southern | Pines Recorder’s Court last week, Judge W. Harry Ful- j lenwider served public notice that persons convicted of any such offenses in the future will receive active jail sen tences in his court. Noting that exposure of the buttocks in a moving car seems to have become some thing of a fad among certain young people, the judge said he wants it stopped and that convictions in further cases will not result in suspended sentences. .‘jK: eight homes in this area and away and not expected back robbing some of them. j till the weekend, identify their A quantity of household 1 possessions, Grimm said. Pre goods, silverware, jewelry and' liminary hearing has been other items believed stolen in tentatively set for Monday in , Moore County Recorders . Court at Carthage. The officer said he could set I no estimate on the value of Ill JVEoOrC Comity until he has talked Creech Active (Continued on Page 6) Gilmore Slates ‘Campaign Train’ Trip Saturday A “campaign train” through Moore and Montgomery coun ties on Saturday, May 21, was announced today by State Senator Voit Gilmore. Using a high-wheel passen ger car in his campaign for renomination in the May 28 Democratic primary, Gilmore will travel from Robbins to Mount Gilead along the Nor folk-Southern Railroad’s main line. “This rail tour is part of my program to visit all the voters of the big 19th District,” Gil more said. The District’s 200,- 000 people reside in Davidson, (Continued on Page 6) and a nuipber of county offi cials, all duly recognized by Chairman J. Elvin Jackson, Jr., presiding. Precinct chair men or vice-chairmen gave their reports on the precinct elections. H. Clifton Blue of Abei'- deen, former Speaker 'of the House, as keynote speaker, detailed the proud history of the party in State and county, the progressiveness and integ rity of the government provi ded, and foresaw continued leadership in the field of pub lic service. He noted the Moore admin istration is continuing the progress of the Sanford ad- (Continued on Page 6) IN PINEHURST POST Mrs. Karl A. Bridges of Southern Pines has been ap pointed manager of the Pine- nurst Greenhouses, succeding Lloyd Smith who is retiring from this position. Details are in a story on Page 1, Section 4. STARNES RECITAL Pupils of the Pat Starnes School of Dance will present a recital in Weaver Auditori um at 8 pm Saturday. The program is open to the public and there is no admission charge. Photos and further de tails appear on Page 1, Section 4. ,w' ,5 caSSir fot Congress^^r'Tlm HIGH HONOR FOR ARCHITECT May 28 Democratic primary, is campaigning strongly in Mc'ore County. Moore is in the new Fourth The highest honor awarded Congregational District in ^ American Institute of which Creech is attempting to | , a t a s , unseat veteran Congressman ^ Architects (AIA) has been ac- Hay es Designated Fellow Of AIA NEW BUILDING—Here is the new vet erinary hospital of Dr. Michael G. Walsh, Jr., on Youngs Road, near Southern Pines. The reception room is at left. The main portion of the building contains examining room, laboratory, x-ray darkroom and ac comodations for 23 small animals. Outside runs for animals are not visible here. Near by is a 17-stal] barn for large animals. (Humphrey photo) Veterinary Hospital Will Open Dr. Michael G. Walsh, Jr., who has practiced veterinary medicine in the Sandhills since 1963, will open a new animal hospital on Youngs Road near Southern Pines, Saturday. The new structure is located on the north side of Youngs Road, east of Stoneybrook Stables. It is of brick and block con struction and is fully air-con ditioned, heated and cooled by two heat pumps. The reception room has an interior brick finish, with exposed ceiling beams. Examining, laboratory and x-ray facilities are in cluded in the building, as well as runs and accommodations for dogs and cats. Since opening his practice in this area. Dr. Walsh has been engaged mainly in work ing with large animals, al though he has had previous experience in general veteri nary practice. A 17-stall barn near the new hospital will be used, as in the past, for horses being treated. His home is also located on the same (Continued on Page 6) Harold Cooley. Creech and two aides were in Southern Pines and other Tuesday. Forrest Lockey of Moore County communities Tuesday. Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen, former State high way commissioner, accompan ied the candidate for a portion of his visits. Friday of this week will be another Moore County day on the Creech schedule. An nounced communities to be visited are Carthage, Vass, Lakeview, Pinehurst, West End and Eagle Springs. LITTLE LEAGUE EVENTS Scenes from events of last Saturday’s “Little League Day” here appear on another page. The four Little League and four Minor League teams have now begun their regular season play. The public is in vited to all games, at the offi cial Little League park on Morganton Road, opposite the armory. corded Thomas T. Hayes, Jr., of Southern Pines, it was re vealed this week by the North Carolina Chapter of the na tion-wide professional organ ization. Mr. Hayes, a partner wtih W. Calvin Howell in Hayes- Howell and Associates, a local firm, has been designated a Fellow of The American Insti tute 'of Architects for Design, the announcement said. Two other architects in North Carolina were similar ly honored. Leslie N. Boney, Jr., of Wilmington, and James C. Hemphill, Jr., of Charlotte. Less than four per cent of the the registered architects in the United States have been nam ed Fellows of the AIA. Certificates and medals for those who have been advanced to Fellowships will be present ed at the annual national AIA dinner to be held in Denver, Colo., July 1. A native of Sanford, Mr. Hayes is a 1951 graduate of THOMAS T. HAYES, JR. the School of Design of N. C. State University. He has prac ticed his profession here since 1952, independently and in two partnerships. 'The present Hayes-Howell firm was formed in 1960 and has won numerous (Continued on Page 6) Demo Officers All Reelected; Gilmore Backed In addition to electing Charles M. McLeod as the party’s candidate for clerk of Superior Court, the Moore County Democratic Executive Committee, in biennial ses sion Saturday afternoon, re turned J. Elvin Jackson, Jr., of Carthage to the chairman ship. It also gave unanimous en dorsement to Voit Gilmore for (Continued on Page 6) Candidates Invited To Meet Democrats Democrats over Moore Co'jnty are reminded of a “Meet the Candidates” meeting to be sponsored by the Moore County Young Democrats Club, in the courthouse at Carthage, Saturday, May 21, at 7:30 pm. Candidates lor nomination in the Democratic Primary to be held Saturday, May 28, have been invited. These in clude Congressional and State Senatorial candidates in the districts that include Moore County, the announcement said. Dock Smith of Robbins is Moore YDC president. THE WEATHER Maximum and minimun: 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. May 11 71 32 May 12 77 53 May 13 78 58 May 14 72 60 May 15 78 49 May 16 83 55 May 17 82 54
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