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«> Jug Uiqh Pall! Many Jobs are open to graduates of techni cal courses at Sandhills College here. See Page 1, Section 3. fRolrUKi GIgncion tfmqreond ^ ^^aqlgOpqs. Comcron p\ Jack! LalKvi^'Vass /Niagara/ ll«rb» LOT The South’s “grand immortal self” is often hidden, says Tom Wicker in a speech on Page 1, Section 2. VOL.—46 NO. 37 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1966 TWENTY PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS W. Ward Hill Funeral To Be Held Thursday Funeral services will be held in Brownson Memorial Pres byterian Church at 4 pm Thursday for W. Ward Hill, 55, prominent local resident for the past 14 years, who took his own life Tuesday. Dr. Julian Lake, pastor of the church, will officiate. Buri al will be in Mt. Hope Ceme tery. Mr. Hill, manager of the lo cal district office of the Caro lina Power & Light Co., died near his home of a pistol wound in the head. Coroner W. K. Carpenter said the wound was self-inflicted, with a .45- calibre automatic pistol, which was found nearby. The body was found about noon by his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Hill and a neighbor, lying amid trees about 100 feet from their home on Grove Drive, Knollwond. She had gone, out about 10 am, returned to find her husband gone and enlisted the neighbor’s aid in looking for him. He had been dead about an hour, the coroner es timated. No suicide note was found but his billfold and other con tents of his pockets had been left inside the house. Mr. Hill had been on leave of absence from his position for several months for health reasons, but expected soon to return to his work with CP&L. He had been with the com pany 30 years, except for four years’, service with the US Air Force during World War 2, in which he was a B-17 bomber pilot in the European theatre. A native of Amherst, Va., he attended the University of Vir- (Continued on Page 6) |w«n <c 'to. 4*. ^ ■ Poole Endorsed By County YDC The executive committee of the Moore County Young De mocrats Club unanimously en dorsed local attorney Sam Poole for state president of the YDC Tuesday night. Poole, who is well-known in YDC circles throughout the state, is considering running for the top position. “I have received encourage ment from Democrats through out North Carolina,” he said today, “and especially appreci ate the support of the YDC in Moore County.” Poole, recently named head of the regional library board, is the son of former State Senator J. Hawley Poole of West End. ELKS MAINTAINING FIELD—Southern Pines Elks Lodge 1692 has assumed respon sibility for helping maintain the condition of Memorial Field used by East Southern Pines schools for football, baseball and oth er athletic events. Shown as first work was done at the field this week are Ted Robin son, Southern Pines Country Club golf course superintendent, on the tractor, and left to right: Dr. Boyd Starnes, Elks Lodge publicity chairman; J. H. Smith, head foot ball coach for Southern Pines High School; Tom Connolly, Elks exalted ruler; Bill Gantt, chairman of the SPCC Greens Com mittee; and Schools Supt. J. W. Jenkins. Work planned for the field includes “spik ing,” fertilizing, killing weeds and other turf improvement measures. The Elks Lodge already is engaged in a similar maintenance program for the Little League baseball park on Morganton Road. Southern Pines Coun try Club equipment and personnel are available because the club is owned and operated by Elks Home of Southern Pines, Ipc., a corporation separate from but affi liated with the Elks Lodge. (Humphrey photo) Western Golf Starts Today, Ends Saturday Top amateur golfers from across the State and nation teed off this (Wednesday) morning on the perfectly groomed No. 2 course at the Pinehurst Country Club in the 64th Western Amateur Golf Championship. The tournament, in which Bob Smith of Pasadena, Calif., is defending his 1965 title, will run through Sunday. Played for the first time in North Carolina, the Western also marks the first mid-sum mer scheduling in the Sand hills of a major golf event, emphasizing the continuing trend to all-year resort opera tions here. The starting field numbered 129, after two outstanding en tries dropped out yesterday— Dr. Ed Updegraff of Tucson, Ariz., and Bill Hyndman of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., both well known figures on Pine hurst courses. Semi-finals and finals will (Continued on Page 6) : r SULLIVAN'S TO OPEN THURSDAY Sullivan's Footgear, Inc. of Southern Pines, one of North Carolina's most modern shoe stores, will celebrate its grand! open ing tomorrow. The store, featured in an article in last week's Pilot, is located on N. W, Broad St., opposite the railway station, in the remodeled Southern Pines Pharmacy building. Specialists from leading shoe companies, will be on hand to assist with special fitting problems, say brothers Charles and Max Sullivan, owners, and sev eral pairs of shoes will be given away. . - .V ■ IN NATIONAL EVENT—Giff Fisher, 14-year-old skeet shooter, was the only person to break 100x100 in the first day of the Mid Summer Skeet Shoot at the Pinehurst Gun Club recently. He is shown here with the latest of his many trophies. Giff, who has been shooting less than a year, is state champion in the junior class in all gauges, and has been called “one of the three outstanding junior skeet shooters in the nation.” He is participating this week in the National Skeet Championships in Rochester, N. Y., with his father, also a shooting enthusiast. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Fisher of Midland Road. (Hemmer photo) Farmers Day Set Saturday At Robbins The 11th annual Farmers Day in Robbins will be held Saturday, and 10,000 people are expected to attend, with more than 300 entries in the famed wagon parade. Curtis Hussey, wagonmas- ter who started, the event with a three-wagon parade, will be on hand again to lead the par ade. He will man his 1906-model covered wagon pulled by Reube and Dolly, 1,700-pound Belgian horses. A horse show will follow the parade -at 1 pm, held at the .elementary school ball field. Thirty classes will be offer ed with trophies and ribbons for winners of each, class. The show is the third annual event sponsored by the Robbins Res cue Squad and Robbins Jay- cees. Republican Congressional candidate Jim Gardner is ex pected to attend. Accidental Shot By Father Takes Life Of Infant A tragic event Saturday eve ning at Pinehurst took the life bf a five-and-a-half-months- old baby who was accidentally shot in the head by her father. Angela Joy Polston, only child of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Polston, died at North Caro lina Memorial Hospital, Cha pel Hill, about 8:30 p.m., two hours after the incident in their trailer home. Coroner W. K. Carpenter ruled the death an accident. Carpenter, who assisted Of ficer W. E. Miller of the Pine hurst police in the investiga tion, said the child was on the lap of her mother, Jackie Joy Polston, 17, on the couch in the trailer’s living room as her 19-year-old father, sitting on the floor .nearby, cleaned his .22-calibre target pistol. His task completed, Polston rose (Continued on Page 6) West Side Man Held For Grand Jury In Death B'obby (Buddy) Jones, 29, of Vass, was killed about mid night Saturday by a shotgun blast in a small grocery store in West Southern Pines, and the storekeeper, Sylvester Dixon, 47, was jailed on an open charge of murder. The case was to come up in Southern Pines Recorder’s Court at 3:30 this afternoon, too late for The Pilot’s news deadline. Police Chief Earl Seawell said Jones died instantly, pari of his head shot away, from the blast fired at close range from a 12-gauge shotgun own- (Continued on Page 6) Rain Helped, But Crops Still Dry, Declares Allen The 1/2-inch of rain that fell on most of Moore County Sat urday helped crops consider ably according to Fleet Allen, head of the Agriculture De partment, but things are still “pretty dry.” “Approximately 75 percent of the county’s tobacco crops have been irrigated through out the dry spell,” he noted, “but the other 25 per cent is in rather bad shape.” Corn is hurt worst, accord ing to the agricultural expert. “It’s just burned up. From a normal 20 tons per acre, it is down to 5 tons,” he said. “Dairymen, who utilize most of the corn, are seeking dis aster relief,” Allen said. “Peaches aren’t hurt too bad and there seems to be a bump er crop of tomatoes,” he noted. “But gardens for the most part are dried up.” Mrs. Jean Hubbard of the home economics department noted that little canning and freezing was being done in the county this year due to the damage to gardens. Controversial $25,000 Item In School Budget Restored The Moore County commis sioners’ regular July meeting bogged down for more than an hour Monday afternoon over a $25 thousand item in the school budget. The point of controversy was the commissioners action, in a special session Thursday, of earmarking $25 thousand of the school capital outlay for an auditorium at Highfalls school. This was done before the budget was formally adopted. According to Jere McKeith- en, school board chairman, this money was scheduled to Welfare, Health Reports Heard By Moore Board Reports from the welfare and health department di rectors were heard by county commissioners in their meet ing Monday at the courthouse in Carthage, in addition to other important matters re ported elsewhere in today’s Pilot. All commissioners were present: Chairman John Cur rie of Carthage, J. M. Pleas ants of Southern Pines, W. S. Taylor of Aberdeen, Lynn Martin of Eagle Springs and Wiley Purvis of Highfalls. Mrs. Walter B. Cole, direc tor of the Welfare Department, reported that the department had received an unexpected $5,196 from the state. She suggested that this money be used toward renova- (Continued on Page 6) Zoning Of Area Bordering Fort Bragg Approved County commissioners gave their unanimous approval Thursday to zoning plans for the so-called “East Southern Pines” area. Chairman of the Planning Board Leonard Tufts had sought early approval of the measure, as outlined in previ ous meetings. A formal public hearing was required before the . zoning could be legally adopted, even though residents of the area approved and sought the meas ure to control land usage. No one appeared to oppose the move at the hearing, and commissioners gave their ap proval in a scant 20 minutes. The area zoned is generally cast of Southern Pines and northeast of Aberdeen, be tween the Aberdeen-Raeford road and the Lake Bay road, and extends to the Hoke Coun ty-Fort Bragg line. It is zoned into three cat (Continued on Page 5) . COMMISSIONERS NAME STUDY COMMITTEE Who’ll Give Ambulance Service? Who will provide Moore County residents with ambu lance service after October 31? That is the question commis sioners, town mayors and fu neral home officials faced Monday afternoon in Carthage at the meeting 'of the county commissioners. Some measures will have to be taken to provide the im portant service when five of the six county funeral homes cease to offer it at the end of October, as announced three weeks ago. W. Harry Fullenwider, Southern Pines attorney rep resenting the funeral directors, explained to the commission ers and mayors why the serv ice would no longer be offer ed, and what steps might be taken to provide it. “There simply aren’t enough calls to justify ambulance service by the funeral homes,” he said. “This is being rec ognized throughout the state, and neighboring counties are in the same predicament.” Cadillac ambulances cost about $15,000 each, and at tendants must be kept on stand-by 24 hours daily. The passage of the new wage and hour law affecting ambulance drivers compounds the ex pense. Fullenwider noted that sev eral alternatives were open to the county. “Other counties have employed hospital-opera ted services, private ambu lance companies subsidized by the county; county operated services; rescue squad, police or fire department facilities; or sheriff’s office ambulances,” he explained. He noted that Union Coun ty has hospital operated ambu lances, while Wake and Meck lenburg counties employ pri vate companies. It appeared to most present that the most feasible solu tion for Moore County \yould be a combination of a rescue squad system handling emer gency cases, and perhaps two hospital-operated ambulances for carrying patients long dis tances, as suggested by Com missioner W. S. Taylor. At present there are four county rescue squad units, and these would be further supple mented by county funds if they took over ambulance service. They are operated by (Continued on Page 5) J LIBRARY LEADERS—Sam H. Poole of Southern Pines, newly elected chairman of the Sandhills Regional Library board, is pictured with (left) Mrs. Jean W. Llewellyn, new assistant director of the regional system, and (center) Mrs. Eugenia R. Babylon, director. Mrs. Babylon and Mrs. Llew ellyn, who both live in Southern Pines, will divide their time among the three member counties, Moore, Montgom ery and Richmond. The above photo was made in the Moore County library at Carthage Monday, as Mrs. Llew ellyn started on her new job. (V. Nicholson photo) SANDHILLS REGIONAL SYSTEM Poole Elected Library Chairman New Assistant Director Appointed Sam H. Poole, Southern Pines attorney, was elected chairman of the Sandhills Re gional Library board at the annual meeting of the trustees, held last Thursday afternoon at the Rockingham-Richmond library at Rockingham. Poole, a graduate of the University of North Carolina and UNC law school, has prac ticed here in the firm of Derby & Poole for the last two years. He was appointed in May by the county commissioners to the board of Moore County Li brary, and was thereupon named by that board as its chairman and also its repre sentative on the regional board, which governs the re gional system embracing the Moore, Rockingham-Richmond and Montgomery Libraries. Also elected Thursday were D. W. Hurley of Biscoe, im mediate past chairman, who became vice-chairman; James Blount of Rockingham, reelec ted treasurer, and Mrs. Ver non Hogan of Norman, secre tary. The board accepted the re signation of Mrs. Glen Rounds of Southern Pines, who served as assistant director until June 1, when she left for health rea. sons, and employed as her successor Mrs. Jean W. Llew- (Continued on Page 6) pay for rent on mobile class room units, buy additional school buses, and help pay for the new administration building. “We would like to have an auditorium at Highfalls as much as anyone,” he said. “But we feel classrooms and buses come first.” The entire school board and Superintendent Robert Lee were present to protest the action of the commissioners. Commissioner Wiley Purvis noted that “Those people in Highfalls expect an auditor ium; it was in the plans.” But Commissioner W. Sid Taylor, agreeing with the school board, said, “It was my understanding that you want ed the $25 thousand moved. If you don’t, I’m all for put ting it back. “What I can’t understand is why there wasn’t enough money to build the school completely. You told the architect how much we had to spend, and he apparently ■overshot the mark by over 25 per cent,” Taylor said. “We’re certainly unhappy about that, too,” McKeithen agreed, “But if we started all (Continued on Page 6) $2 Million-Plus Budget Adopted Moore County’s 1966-67 budget was formally adopted by county commissioners in a special se?- sion Thursday at the courthouse in Carthage. The two-million-dollar - plus budget, prepared for some time, has been open for public inspec tion for the last 20 days at the courthouse as required by law. No one appeared at the hear ing to object to its adoption, and only one change was madte. The commissioners earmark ed $25 thousand of the school funds to build an auditorium at the new Highfalls school. This action was rescinded in their regular meeting Mon day after protests from the school board, and an addition- (Continued on Page 6) Clean-Up At Dog Pound Reported; Warden Directed To Do Good Job County Commissioners took note of recent criticism of the Moore County Dog Pound in their regular July meeting Monday, and admonished Dog Warden Hardy Barber to “clean up, paint up and an swer calls promptly.” Barber, who was present to make his monthly report, told the commissioners that the pound was overcrowded at the time of the criticism and that as a result it couldn’t be clean ed. “It just couldn’t be helped i DR. WILLIAM M. CLARKE DR. H. DAVID BRUTON AT TOWN CENTER ON MONDAY that time,” he said. John Currie, chairman of the county commissioners, told Barber that the board expect ed him to d'o a good job. “We don’t like to hear criticism,” he said. “I must impress upon you that this job must be done right; answer your calls and keep a close check on stray dogs.” Dr. Alfred G. Siege, Health Department director, under whose jurisdiction the dog pound is placed, was also pres ent, and noted that improve ments had begun on the pound. “The pound has been clean ed, as well as the area around it,” he said. “The grass has been mowed and the weeds cut.” He also noted that the walls, screens and fences would be washed immediately, that a (Continued on Page 6) Pediatricians Will Open Practice Dr. H. David Bruton and Dr. William M. Clarke, pediatri cians, will open offices in the Town Center on S. W. Broad St., Monday. The physicians, who will limit their practice to the pediatric age group (birth through adolescence), will operate as equal partners. Dr. Bruton, 31, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl D. Bruton of Candor. He attended UNC under graduate school, Chapel Hill and graduated from the UNC School of Medicine in 1961. In terning at North Carolina Me morial Hospital at Chapel Hill, he received the outstanding in tern award in 1962. He completed pediatric resi dency at Johns Hopkins Hos pital in Baltimore, Md., and spent two years in the US Air Force at Maxwell AFB, Mont gomery, Ala., as chief of the pediatric service. Dr. Bruton is married to the (Continued on Page 6) Recreation Program Movie Slated Friday Another movie at Sunrise Theater is scheduled for the Friday session of the town recreation program. “Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN,” will be the featured film, to- be shown at 9 am. Cost children should assemble in the park at 8:30 am. A swimming session at Aberdeen lake will follow the film at 1 pm. 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. July 27 93 65 July 28 97 71 July 29 99 72 July 30 80 65 July 31 83 57 August 1 85 56 August 2 90 61
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