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S. B. RICHARDSON
Sam Richardson,
Long Prominent
Here, Succumbs
Funeral services for Samuel
Bond Richardson, 85, a former
mayor of Southern Pines who
was prominent in the town’s
development for more than
half a century, were held Sun
day afternoon at the First
Baptist Church.
Mr. Richardson, who held
the respect and affection of
several generations of local
residents, died Monday at
Moore Memorial Hospital after
a short illness.
Officiating was the pastor,
the Rev. John D. Stone, assist
ed by the Rev. R. W. Roschy
of the United Church of Christ.
Burial was in Mt. Hope Ceme
tery.
Pallbearers were W. T. Hunt-
ley, Jr., Harold' B. Fowler, W.
L. Baker, W. S. Thomasson
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AT FORMER SHAMROCK FARM
$2 Million-Plus Resort
Proposed Near Pinehurst
A long-term option has been lictel, Gclf Course
taken on a tract of approx i- ; Present plans revealed by
mately 1,000 acres near Pine- ' Harper cal] far consiruction of
hurst by three Chapel Hill
men, one of whom this week
revealed their plans i'or a re
sort development there that
would cost over $2 million if
plans materialize.
The tract is “Shamrock
Farm,” one of Moore County’s
best known orchard, vineyard
and farming estates, formerly
owned by Roland MacKenzie
of Pinehurst and Cockeysville,
Md. MacKenzie sold it last
year to three Sanford men,
Richard R. Barkley, Fitzgerald
S. Hudson and J. Harvey
Wicker.
James C. Harper, Chapel
Hill attorney, named his as
sociates in the new venture as
Jack E. Verno.n of a Chapel Hill
brokerage firm bearing his
name, and Charles Magowan,
vice-president of a new real
estate corporation, who is orig
inally from New York.
Poole May Run For
State YDC President
Local attorney Sam H.
Poole is considering running
for state president of the
Young Democratic Clubs.
“Many people have urged
me to run in the past few
days,” he said, “but I have
not made up my mind yet.”
Poole has been active in
YDC work, both in High
Point and in Moore County
for several years.
He is expected to announce
his decision soon.
TO SET UP LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Officer Of U. S. Humane Society
To Meet With Group Here Friday
Baker
Mrs. Leon H.
this week that Burton M.
Parks, vice-president of The
Humane Society of the United
States, with headquarters in
Washington, D. C. will be
present at the first meeting of
a committee to form a humane
society here, which will be
held at “Duncraig Manor,”
Mrs. Baker’s home on East
Connecticut Ave. Extension,
Friday evening, July 22, at 8
pm.
This committee came into
being as the result of a resolu
tion adopted at an open meet
ing held at the Campbell
House on June 28. More than
50 interested citizens gathered
then to support and learn
about the plan to form an ani
mal protective society in this
area.
Working with Mrs. Baker on
said the committee will be Miss
Betty Dumaine of Pinehurst,
Raymond E. North of Pine
hurst, Mrs. Walter C. Mac-
Neille, Pinebluff, and the fol
lowing from Southern Pines:
Mayor Pro Tern Felton Capel,
Col. Leon H. Baker, George H.
Leonard, Jr., and Col. A. M.
Koster.
Since the organization of a
humane society requires a
great deal of preparation and
careful study and planning,
Mrs. Baker said this commit
tee will work as a preliminary
study-action group. It will for
mulate recommendations, in
terpret the needs of the com
munities involved, study the
legal problems and assemble
federal, state and county laws
involved in the endeavor.
The committee will act as a
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a resort hotel and champion
ship golf course, with second
golf course to be started after
completion of the first; also
a country club and several
hundred residential lots.
Heart of the property is a
16-acre lake, entirely circled
(Continued on Page 6)
177 Pints Given
In Collections
By Bloodmobile
In spite of the 100-degree
heat last week, the Red Cross
bloodmobile visits to Carthage
and Southern Pines turned out
to be successful, though not
fully meeting the quotas, ac
cording to Col. John Dibb,
county blood program chair
man.
One hundred seventy-seven
pints were collected — 68 in
Carthage and 109 in Southern
Pines.
Both Moore Memorial and
St. Joseph’s Hospitals are sup-
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Student Rooms
Will Be Needed
S. G. Chapel, director of
student affairs at SC college,
reports that an expected in
crease in the number of stud
ents this fall means an in
creased demand for student
housing. Numerous students
will need rooms or small apart
ments, Mr. Chappell said, be
cause their homes are too far
distant for them to commute to
daily classes.
Officials of the college are
asking people who have rooms
or apartments suitable to
rent to either boys or girls to
file the information in the
student personnel office on the
campus. Information on the
rooms, bathroom facilities,
possible kitchen privileges, and
■other details, including rent,
may be ph'oned to the office,
695-1571, Mr. Chapel said.
Requests lor information on
housing are being received
daily from students who will
enter the college in Septem
ber.
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GOBBLE GOBBLE! — Eleven thousand
turkeys spend the first 10 weeks of their
lives in this building on the Gozzi turkey
farm near Pinebluff. The 300 x 40-foot
building has fenced areas on either side,
one of which is shown here. An identical
building is being constructed nearby.
10
doubling the present capacity. After
weeks here, the birds are transferred to a
nearby “range”, a large open but fenced
area where they remain until marketed at
18 to 24 weeks of age. Note the series of
big automatic feeders from right toward
center background of picture.
(Pilot photo)
FACILITIES WILL BE EXPANDED
Hu||e Turkey Project Starting
Twenty-five thousand broad
breasted white turkeys—and
there’s more to come, say Mr.
and Mrs. William Gozzi of
Southern Pines.
The Gozzis, residents of the
Sandhills for the past year,
have been professional turkey
breeders for 28 years, with
home base in Guilford, Conn.
But they are moving to the
Sandhills, have already built
one 11,000-capacity house
(with another started) and a
“range” near Pinebluff, and
are looking now for a place to
build a hatchery.
The Gozzis are among per
haps 15 “basic breeders” of
turkeys in the nation, and
among the most experienced
and best-known. They bred
the first true broad-breasted
white turkey—and “Gozzi
HAM SUPPER JULY 30
The local VFW Auxiliary
will sponsor a ham supper
from 5 to 8 pm Saturday, July
30, at the VFW Post home on
N. W. Broad St., to benefit
their civic activities. Tickets
are available from any Auxil
iary member.
TO AID IN MAKING CHANGES
County School System Is One Of
Four In New Federal Help Plan
The Moore County school
system is one of four selected
in North Carolina to receive
the benefits of a new program,
for strengthening its educa
tional procedures and for solu
tion of problems, with utmost
participation of the State
Board of Education.
Federally funded for three
years, with option of two
more, it will provide full use
of educational consultants and
specialists on projects selected
by the local systems, at n'o cost
to the county or schools.
Other administrative units
chosen for the program, “Reg
ional Curriculum Project,” are
the Greensboro and Asheboro
city schools and Ashe County
system.
Dr. Foster Watkins, research
assistant on the central staff
of the project office at Atlanta,
Lack Of Care, Cleaning Seen At Dog Pound
Persons engaged in form
ing an animal rescue society,
accompanied by a Pilot report
er, visited the Moore County
Dog Pound near Carthage last
Thursday to investigate
charges of inhumane and un
sanitary conditions.
At least 35 dogs were found
confined in an undersized, un
kempt pound, half of which
is a small building and the
other half a fenced concrete
area divided into three “runs,”
about 10 feet long and from
three to perhaps seven feet
wide.
The impression was one of
neglect and squalor. All ani
mals were confined together:
large and small, the healthy
and some apparently diseased,
including several puppies.
There was no evidence of
any food, and such water as
was available, poured into
large pans, was yellow with
contamination. Smaller ani
mals could not reach even
this.
It was impossible to see in
side the dark building, but the
floors of the runs, supposedly
cleaned daily, were covered
with excrement, some recent,
but much of it dried and
hardened on the floor.
A trough is at the far end
of the runs into which waste
material is supposed to be
washed and carried out of the
enclosures. But it was filled
with sand and trash, and
hardly effective when used.
Like the pound itself, the
surrounding area appears
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Ga., visited the Moore County
education offices last week to
explain its purposes and po
tential for the schools. With
the full name “Facilitating
Desirable Change in the Edu
cational Program for Children
and Youth,” it will identify
and define roles of instruction
al and curriculum leadership
in State Departments of Edu
cation, and, through study and
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SHOOTING CASE
Whites,” as they are known,
are served 'on Thanksgiving
dinner tables throughout the
country.
'Perfect' Here
They will be the only basic
turkey breeders located in this
area.
“The weather and sandy soil
are perfect,” says Bill Gozzi.
“It’s the fastest growing tur
key country I know of.”
Mr. Gozzi, (whose Connect
icut license plate reads
TURK), was elected vice pres
ident ■of the North Carolina
Leaders Pledge To
Back Consolidation
Of School Systems
Several Southern Pines and
Pinehurst leaders visited the
Moore County board 'of educa
tion, in regular session at Car
thage Tuesday night, to assure
the board of their support in
the forthcoming countywide
consolidation of schools—now
that the Supreme Court has
spoken, and the long contro
versy has ended.
Said L. B. Creat'd of Pine
hurst, “It’s time now to bury
BY DRAFT BOARD
Some Married’
Men In Moore
May Be Called
The Moore County draft
board is running low on
eligible unmarried men.
Officials at the selective
service office in Carthage
noted this week that the Au
gust quota calls for 22 men
from Moore County, “and it
doesn’t look like we have that
many single eligible men.”
If there are not enough sin
gle men available, the board
will draft the oldest eligible
men who are married but have
no children. To be “eligible”
means that a man is classified
lA and has passed the physi
cal examination.
The Moore board has no
plans for drafting college stu
dents at this time, and officials
noted that no instructions bad
been received concerning
Turkey Growers Association although a clerks meet-
at its last meeting. i is planned soon in Fay-
“We grow to sell for meat, ; where the policy con
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CROWDED — This photo shows crowding of animals
at the Moore County Dog Pound' on the Southern Pines-
Carthage road. The dogs are apparently confined together,
regardless of health condition, in three small fenced “runs”
adjoining the small shelter house in background. The Pilot
found both outdoor and indoor facilities badly in need of
cleaning. Hose in foreground is for washing down the runs,
but drainage is inadequate and visitors to the pound on
successive days found that cleaning was not done regularly
or frequently enough. (Pilot photo)
The Pilot talked Friday with
Dr. Alfred G. Siege, county
health director, for whose de
partment the dog warden
works.
Dr. Siege noted that he had
been contacted by persons
forming a humane socie
ty, and said he had subse
quently visited the dog pound.
“The county sanitation of
ficer checks the pound period
ically to insure its cleanliness
he noted.
But he said that on visiting
the pound that day, he had
made certain recommendations
to Dog Warden Hardy Barber
on improving the situation
there. ,
“I have recommended that
the pound be thoroughly clean
ed, the area around it mowed,
and' the walls and screens
washed,” he indicated. “I also
suggested that the walls be
coated with a disinfectant to
help control the fly situation.
They are swarming all over
the place,” he said.
“I’d like to see the place
painted and the fences clean
ed, too,” he said. “I also asked
Mr. Barber to provide some
smaller watering pans for the
small pups,” Dr. Siege conclud
ed.
A representative of The
Pilot visited the pound after
talking with Dr. Siege. The
largest of the high - growing
weeds had been cut, and the
floors of the runs had been
recently cleaned.
Flies and insects still swarm
ed all around, and it appeared
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Evidence Lack
Gets Release
For D. Garner
Douglas Garner, 41, was re
leased Tuesday from Moore
County Jail at Carthage, where
he had been held for a week
without bond, in connection
with the fatal shooting of Ellis
Garner, 42 (no relation) near
Southern Pines.
Moore County Coroner W.
K. Carpenter, who had order
ed him held', also ordered the
release, stating there was in
sufficient evidence on which
to base a charge for a hearing.
Though investigation de
veloped no other suspects, it
also produced no evidence
other than circumstantial, the
coroner said.
He made the ruling official
Tuesday: that Ellis Garner
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too, although breeding is our
biggest concern,” Mrs. Gozzi
noted. She is secretary-treas
urer of the family corporation.
The life of a bird sold for
meat is 18-24 weeks. It will
be kept for about 10 weeks in
side, and then will live in a
large fenced “range” until
marketed.
Most of the Gozzi birds are
grown for breeding, however,
and he will choose 25,000 of
his best birds for egg-laying
this year.
To get these he will pick
from two or three hundred
thousand birds on his and as
sociated farms.
These turkeys will lay 60-80
eggs each in a four-to-five
month period, and then will be
marketed for meat, Mr. Gozzi
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cerning college students may
be discussed.
INSPECTION DEADLINE
Does your North Carolina li
cense plate end in “7”? If so,
the deadline for inspection of
your automobile is July 31—
don’t forget.
the hatchet, get busy with the
plowshares and on with the
job of building a good school
for Area III”
Creath, who emphasized that
he came as “a private citizen,”
served as chairman of the
Pinehurst board of education
during much of the controver
sy settled by the high court
decision of July 6. It ended
the long resistance of the
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
city units against the merger
which, now validated, will
take place July 1, 1967.
Creath added cordially, “I
thought we were right and I
still reserve the right to dis
agree with you in future. But
the matter is settled now, you
gentlemen have a hard job be
fore you and I believe we all
want to help in any way we
can.”
From Southern Pines came Dr.
C. C. McLean, board of educa
tion chairman; Mayor Norris
L. Hodgkins, Jr., and N. L.
Hodgkins, his father, who re
tired a year ago after many
years’ devoted service as
school board member and
chairman.
The senior Hodgkins, speak
ing first, noted that “while we
may have had differences of
opinion, that is water over the
dam and the thing to do now
is get together and make the
Area III school the best school
in North Carolina.” Area III
will combine the high schools
of the Southern Pines and Pine
hurst city units and the Aber
deen and 'West End units of
the county system.
All schools of the county
will be under administration
'Of the single county board, as
sisted by Advisory Coun
cils in each of three school
areas.
Hodgkins spoke of the “tre
mendous enthusiasm and mon
etary support” S'outhern Pines,
and also Pinehurst, have al
ways accorded their schools
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Elks Lodge Plans
To Give Chapel
Southern Pines Elks Lodge
1692 has announced tentative
plans for a series of benefit
suppprs to raise funds for an
outdoor, rustic chapel struc
ture at Camp Easter in the
Pines, to be built in 1967.
The suppers would start in
September and no definite
design has yet been drawn
for the proposed facility at the
local camp for handicapped
children and adults.
Tom Connolly, Elks exalted
ruler, and Mrs. Mark Liddell,
camp director, said the entire
project is in a preliminary
planning stage.
TO PLAYOFFS — Leaving at noon Tuesday, Southern
Pines Little League All-Stars, off to compete in the east
ern divisional championships at Greenville wave from one
of the station wagons which carried the team. Accompany
ing the boys were Coach Jack Barron, Manager Jim
Reid and Martin Parrish, president of the League.
(Pilot photo)
Little League All-Stars Play Today
Southern Pines Little Lea- Greenville Tar Heels in the
gue All-Stars left for Green- first play-'off game this CWed-
ville Tuesday to participate in jnesday) morning.
the divisional play-offs. Fif
teen local youngsters chosen
from four teams left from the
National Guard Armory in
station wagons jammed with
playing equipment, 'luggage,
fried chicken and last minute
advice from moms.
The team was to spend the
night in an East Carolina Col
lege dormitory and play the
The winner of that game
will go on to play in the semi
finals Thursday afternoon.
Should Southern Pines win
twice—the team would play in
a finals game to decide the
eastern champions, Friday.
Southern Pines is the m'ost
western area of North Caro
lina represented among the
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WIDER USE OF SYSTEM PREDICTED
County Manager Plan Considered
RIPE AND READY
Coming now from orch
ards of the Sandhills are
luscious peaches like these,
displayed at the annual
Peach Festival which drew
a crowd to Ellerbe Thurs
day night. The new “Peach
Queen,” chosen then, is
pictured on page 7, sec
tion 3.
BY RALPH HENDREN
Moore County Commission
ers have been considering for
some time the feasibility of
employing a county manager.
At a board meeting last Jan
uary all commissioners spoke
favorably 'of the idea, noting
the fast growth of the county
and the increasingly complex
j'ob of running it.
Commissioner J. M. Pleas
ants of Southern Pines sug
gested hiring a manager, and
Chairman John M. Currie of
Carthage agreed, “'We’re not
wealthy but I think we can
support a county manager and
that it will pay off.”
Moore is “big business” now,
he said, and the board agreed
with Mr. Currie that “it takes
more time than a man can
spare from making a living to
serve conscientiously as a
county commissioner.”
Several North Carolina
counties have moved to the
county-manager form of gov-
erment, and more are headed
in that direction according to
a study made by the Natronal
Association of Counties Re
search Foundation.
In 1955 six N. C. counties
were operating under the
commissioner-manager form.
By 1964 that number had
grown to 15 and now 17 of
the state’s 100 counties have
full-time managers.
With only 34 of 3,043 coun
ties in the nation operating
under this system, North Car
olina is far ahead of its near
est rival, 'Virginia, which has
four counties with a manager,
according to the report.
Authority for counties to
adopt the manager form was
first granted by a 1927 Gener
al Assembly statute. The law
provided that any county
governing body may appoint
a manager who “shall be re
sponsible for the administra
tion of all departments of the
county government which the
board has authority to con
trol.”
The act also provided that
the board could confer upon
its chairman the duties and
powers of a manager instead
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