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VOL.—46 NO. 44
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1966
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FROM ENTIRE 4TH DISTRICT
Democrats To Rally
At Aberdeen Oct. 1
Plans for a giant Fourth
District Rally, to be put
on by Moore Democrats Octo
ber 1 at Aberdeen Lake, were
revealed at a meeting ■of pre
cinct committeemen last Wed
nesday evening, to plan fall
activities.
Democrats from throughout
Cooley Speaks
As Democratic
Leaders Confer
Congressman Harold D.
Cooley won assurance of full
support in the fall election,
from Moore County Dem'oerat-
ic precinct committeemen at
their planning meeting held
last Wednesday night at San
ders Whispering Pines Res
taurant.
He sought their help in con
tinuance of his long service,
also their understanding of
his predicament, as he is forc
ed to campaign in the reap-
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the entire new, sprawling 4th
District are being invited and
hundreds of persons are ex
pected.
Sme 75 attended the meet
ing held at the Whispering
Pines Restaurant, where a
dutch buffet supper was serv
ed.
J. Elvin Jackson, Jr., Moore
Democratic chairman, said the
rally would be in the form of
a free chicken barbecue sup
per and speaking program.
Rep. Harold D. Cooley will be
a special guest and principal
speaker will be the Hon. Ern
est “Fritz” Hollings, former
governor of South Carolina.
There will be music and en
tertainment. Serving will start
at 6 pm.
Governor Hollings has ac
cepted the executive commit
tee’s bid, Jackson said, though
it meant interrupting his own
campaign for the US Senate
to come here.
Jackson said that at the Oc
tober 1 rally, all Moore Coun
ty Democratic candidates with
opposition will be recognized
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Ceremony Opens Fall College Term
A brief but impressive cere
mony was held on the steps of
the new Administration Build
ing of Sandhills Community
College Thursday morning of
last week, marking the open
ing of the College’s second
academic year.
First classes of the fall term
began in the handsome three-
building complex on the
campus on Airport Road
with more than seven hundred
students enrolled in the
courses offered in the daytime
curriculum. Students register
ed for evening classes begin
the fall term this week.
Dr. Raymond A. Stone, pres
ident of Sandhills, in address
ing the assemblage of stu
dents, members of the board of
trustees, faculty and staff of
the college and visiting dig
nitaries, said, “As we literally
stand upon the threshold of
this incredibly beautiful in
stitution let us likewise mount'
the threshhold of opportunity
which Sandhills Community
College makes possible.”
Giving a resume of the short
history of the college. Dr.
Stone noted that on the first
day of last October Sandhills
opened for its first academic
ELECTIONS SET
Harmony Reigns
As County YDC
Plans Meeting
Dock Smtih, president of the
Moore County Young Demo
cratic Club, announced this
week that the organization’s
annual meeting would be held
on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7:30
pm at the courthouse in Car
thage.
Officers for the coming year
will be elected and delegates
to the State YDC convention
to be held in Winston-Salem
on September 29, 30 and No
vember 1 will be named.
Sam Poole of S'outhern
Pines, who is running unop
posed for State YDC President
is expected to be endorsed.
Jerry Cole of West End,
Route 1, has announced his
candidacy for Moore County
YDC President to succeed
Smith who is now completing
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year in temporary classrooms
in 11 locations in the town of
Southern Pines. “Today” he
said, “is even more signifi
cant. We are gathered here at
the permanent home of Sand
hills Community College.”
Two Challenges
His closing remarks suggest
ed two challenges to every stu-
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OLD BETHESDA
HOMECOMING SET
J. Talbot Johnson of
Bethesd,a Presbyterian
Church in Aberdeen is
making plans for the Old
Bethesda homecoming
which will be held on
September 25, Mr. John
son isi chairman of the
committee for the annual
event at historic Old Beth
esda Church ne,ar Aber
deen.
Speaker for the occasion
will be Dr. J. A. Ross
MacKenzie, associate pro
fessor of Church History,
Union Theological Semin
ary, Richmond, Va,
The usual picnic dinner
is scheduled, following the
morning service which will
start at 11:15. The public is
invited.
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Tobacco Buyers Move "Down The Line" In
An Opening Day Sales Scene At Aberdeen
Tobacco Sells At County’s Markets
BY BILL LINDAU
“The farmers really had it
this summer,” Mrs. Myrtle
Davis said. It’s been the
DRIEST time.”
It was late last Thursday
morning. She was standing by
a basket of the family tobacco
on the floor of W. Fentress
Phillips’s Planters Warehouse
at Aberdeen.
Her husband, Schyler Davis
was following a federal gov
ernment grader who was writ
ing the price-support tags for
the Davise.s’ other baskets.
The tags usually decide how
much the tobacco producer
will get. The tobacco company
buyers usually pay a cent or
two per pound more than the
tag says the government will
pay for the leaf if the manu
facturers don’t want it.
Mrs. Davis looked at a tag
on one of the family’s baskets
and quietly expressed d'ismay.
It said “50 cents.” Then she
read “72 cents” on the basket
next to it. The Davises were
offering somewhat more than
800 pounds of the crop they
had raised this summer on
their farm at Star in Mont
gomery County.
The 50 - cent basket showed
the effects of the summer
drought. “We got the most
green tobacco we ever had,”
Mrs. Davis said. She didn’t
appear to be complaining,
merely describing an unfortun-
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BLOOD DONATED
In a blaodmobile collection
made at the Proctor-Silex
plant here yesterday, 52 pints
of blood were given, reports
the sponsoring Moore County
Red Cross Chapter office. Red
Cross blood is used in both
the county’s hospitals. The
bloodmobile is in Robbins to
day (Wednesday).
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As Sales Open In Warehouse (left, rear).
IN WEAVER AUDITORIUM
$7,500 Drive Starts
For Air-Conditioning
A Southern Pines Citizens
Committee composed ■of school
officials and numerous civic
leaders this week announced
a- community fund - raising
campaign for $7,500 to pay
half the estimated $15,000 cost
of installing air conditioning
equipment in Weaver Audi
torium.
Vass Lions Sponsor
Fish Fry Saturday
The Vass Lions Club is spon
soring a benefit fish fry at the
Vass Community House from
5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, of
this week. Ladies of the com
munity are providing cakes
and pies for dessert. Proceeds
from the supper ($1.25 adult
plate) will be used for repairs
to the building.
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The locally-raised funds
match an appropriation of $7,-
500 by the county commis
sioners whose duty it is to pro
vide capital outlay funds for
school structures. The audi
torium is owned by the South
ern Pines school system.
A mimeographed sheet list
ing all committee members
and explaining the need for
the project is being widely
circulated locally through
civic and fraternal organiza
tions and other interested per
sons who are making personal
solicitations in an attempt to
conclude the drive successful
ly before the end of Septem
ber. There will be no organ
ized mail campaign.
Checks should be made pay
able to East Southern Pines
School and mailed to Jack
Reid, Treasurer, Box 24,
Southern Pines. Contributions
are tax-deductible.
The explanatory sheet points
but that Weaver Auditorium is
the one building in Southern
Pines in which the schools.
Sandhills Community College,
civic organizations and other
groups can hold large meet
ings.
It is noted that the college’s
hall seats only 200 persons,
that the auditorium is used
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‘Sight-In’ For
Hunters Slated
A “sight-in” for all hunters
of the area will be held Satur
day and Sunday, from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m., by the Whispering
Pines Pistol and Rifle Club at
its rifle range, in the Whisper
ing Pines community north of
Southern Pines.
There will be no charge ex
cept for targets used, which
will be available at cost, 25
cents each, said Leo Vause,
club president.
Rifles and shotguns v/ill be
safety - checked and shooting
patterns determined, with
sights then corrected if found
necessary. Safety instructions
will be given if desired. Every
one is welcome.
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RIBBON-CUTTING — A ribbon-cutting
by Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., marked
the formal opening of the Manly plant of
the Mobile Products Division of Taylor
Mobile Hemes, Tuesday afternoon. From
left, Fred Taylor, Mayor Hodgkins, R. A.
McGilvary, Carl Baggett Jr. Town Ator-
ney W. Lament Brown introduced Taylor
to the audience and recognized civic and
government leaders. (Humphrey photo)
LEADERS ATTEND FORMAL CEREMONY
Mobile Products Plant Opened
Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins
Jr. performed the ceremonial
cutting of the ribbon at the en
trance to the new Mobile Pro
ducts Division of Taylor Mo
bile Homes, Inc., yesterday be
fore an audience of approxi
mately 70 business and civic
leaders and their guests.
The ceremony marked for
mal opening of the plant
which started producing mo
bile and special office and res
idential units in June. Approx
imately 50 people are employ
ed now, but 100 will be work
ing there by the end of 1966.
Fred Taylor of Vass, presi
dent of the company, told the
audience, “It will be our de
termination to have an organ
ization of people financially
and morally worthwhile” who
will be assets to the comuni-
ty-
Formal recognition was giv
en county and town officials
and other community leaders,
and present and former State
Department of Conservation
and development executives.
Mayor Hodgkins in his ad
dress credited Taylor with
helping to bring industry, be
sides the new plant, to the
Southern Pines area.
A tour ■of the plant followed
the ceremony.
Participating in the ribbon
cutting were Taylor; Carl E.
Baggett Jr. of Laurinburg, the
local plant’s general manager;
and R. A. McGilvary of Troy,
executive vice president of
Troy Lumber Co., parent or
ganization of the Taylor firm.
The Southern Pines plant
produces mobile homes and
classrooms and prefabricated
m'otel units and other portable
structures, like field offices on
construction jobs.
The company has plants al
so at Green Cove Springs,
near Jacksonville, Fla., and at
Troy.
Price averages were rang
ing around $66 per hundred
pounds early this week on the
Middle Belt fluecured tobacco
markets at Aberdeen and Car
thage.
At Carthage, producers
through Monday—the third
day of the 1966 sales season—
had received a $65.04 per hun
dred average for 896,376
pounds of untied tobacco; and
$68.94 for 9,112 pounds ■of tied
leaf.
The Aberdeen sales paid an
average of $66.07 for 996,684
pounds of untied tobacco the
first two days of the season.
Sales ■of untied leaf were not
held Monday. The Aberdeen
market in the first three days
of sales for tied leaf paid an
average $66.67 for 5,184
pounds.
The figures were reported
by the US Department of Ag
riculture Tobacco Market
News Service in Raleigh. The
official figures from this
source for Tuesday’s sales
were not available before the
Pilot’s press deadline.
The service reported the
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Police Shorten
Leash on Parking
Law Violations
The Police Department is
tightening enforcement of the
city parking rogulations, Police-
Chief Earl Seawell has advised
motorists.
The $1 fine of a parking
ticket should be paid within
24 hours. Every Monday, the
police chief said, the list of
tickets issued will be checked.
A notice bearing a deadline
will be sent to the people who
haven’t paid the fines.
LI the fine isn’t paid after
the deadline has passed, Chief
Seawell said, a warrant will
bo issued. This will mean the
offender will have to pay the
$1 fine and $10.50 in court
costs in Southern Pines Re
corder’s Court.
Among the violation for
which tickets are being is.sued
i I improper parking—vehicles
straddling the lines of diagon-
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$600,000 PROJECT SEEN
Water System Of
Town Inadequate^
Engineer Reports
The Southern Pines muni
cipal water supply system must
be increased, an engineer told
the town council last night.
The council authorized the
study of proposed engineering
contract and other documents
for engineering work.
An adequate expansion
would cost “in the neighbor
hood of $600,000, the engineer
—-Willis Barlow of L. E. Woot
en Son of Raleigh—told the
council in reply to a question
from Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins
Jr.
A federal program provides
loans and grants paying up to
half the costs for such projects
in municipalities like Southern
Pines, he said.
Barlow said the town is not
now in dire need but action
should be taken before its back
is to the wall. He said water
consumption rose to 1.85 mil
lion gallons for one day this
summer from 1.4 million gal
lons average daily in the fall
of 1963 and spring of 1964. He
said daily consumption this
year has been running from
1.5 million and over.
Barlow said the water .supply
capacity is 2 million per day—
which matches the need in the
type of prolonged dry spell
that occurs an average of once
per 20 years—but the town
plant cannot pump quite that
amount into its supply system.
He said the town should
start planning work now, be
cause it commonly takes two
to three years to get facilities
from the time the planning
starU.
The company’s recommenda
tions drawn from a town water
supply study:
—Develop more sources of
raw water. Little River below
its junction with Nicks Creek
has two possible locations.
—Increase pumping capaci-
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State Licensing Question Blocks
Letting Of Town Paving Contract
The letting of a contract last
night for Southern Pines re
surfacing and paving was de
layed by the issue of contrac
tor licensing.
The question was raised by
S. T. Sain, representing Lee
Paving Co. of Sanford after
the Town Council was inform
ed that Riley Paving Co. of
Carthage was low bidder.
Consequently, a motion to
650 SERVED
BY BOOSTERS
Six hundred and fifty
persons were served ,at last
Wednesday's chicken sup
per staged by the Blue
Knights Booster Club at
the Elks Club-Country
Club cookout area, for
benefit of the entire ath
letic program at East
Southern Pines schools.
It was the ''l,a)rgest turn
out ever" in the history c»E
the annual event, said Dr.
Boyd Starnes.
Moore Humane Society Organized;
Officers Elected, Plans Proposed
The new Humane Society of
Moore County Inc. will try to
contract with the county com
missioners to take charge of
the county dog pound and be
responsible for picking up
stray animals.
Raymond North of Pinehurst
desci'ibed the society’s plans
shortly after he was elected
president of the nonprofit cor
poration last Friday night at
a founders’ meeting in the li
brary of East Southern Pines
High School.
He told the audience af ap
proximately 75 people the so
ciety hopes to establish an
animal shelter, “the heart of
humane activities,” but it
should not duplicate work al
ready being done in the coun
ty.
If efforts to take over the
county pound fail, he said, the
society should appoint a sur
veillance committee to inspect
the shelter twice weekly.
He said the society would
explore the legal possibility of
its receiving the county’s dog
license fees, in connection with
the efforts to assume manage
ment of the county shelter. He
said the $7,000'in fees “could
operate a shelter second to
none in the United States.”
The society was organized to
eliminate cruelty to children
and other dependents, as well
as to all animals.
Miss Betty Dumaine of Pine
hurst, Thomas B. Caddell of
Carthage, and Felton J. Capel
and George H. Leonard of
Southern Pines were elected
vice presidents of the society;
C. H. Bowman of Southern
Pines, treasurer; and Mrs. Leon
H. Baker, secretary. Mrs. Bak
er also was named chairman
of the board of directors.
The officers were elected by
the directors after the direc
tors were elected by the mem-
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award the contract to Riley
was amended to provide that
legality and liability be check
ed before the contract is
awarded.
Sain told the council the
state board that licenses con
tractors says an unlicensed
contractor cannot bid on any
one contract of more than
$20,000. He said the Riley firm
doesn’t have a state board li
cense. In reply to a council
question. Sain said he was in
formed of this yesterday morn
ing by the state board execu
tive secretary when he asked
about the Riley firm specifical
ly.
In reply to another question.
Sain said every other firm of
the five which bid on the
street work was licensed and
made his list available to the
council.
Riley bid 36 cents per square
yard to do resurfacing one inch
thick; and 57 cents per square
yard to do the new paving an
inch and a half thick. Town
Manager F. F. Rainey said the
total new paving and the new
resurfacing would cover 60,000
square yards.
Rainey had reported Lee
Paving was second lowest bid-
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%7dta.
2 Klan Meetings In
Moore Co. Scheduled
Two Ku Klux Klan meetings
are scheduled in Moore Coun
ty this week, according to
handbills being circulated in
the area.
Both outdoor events, a Fri
day night meeting is set near
No. 1 highway, south of Aber
deen, and a Saturday night
meeting is slated at a location
near Highway 15-501, east of
Carthage.
The “imperial wizard” will
speak at the Carthage meet
ing, a handbill states.
KIRBY WATSON
Watson Named
Superintendent
Of Schools Here
Kirby Watson, who has serv
ed as principal of East South
ern Pines High School since
July 1, has been elected su
perintendent of the Southern
Pines school system, to succeed
J. W, Jenkins.
The recent action by the
board of education was an
nounced today by Dr. C. C.
McLean, board chairman.
The appointment will be
come effective about October
30 when Mr. Jenkins expects
to leave to assume his pre
viously announced post of
North Carolina supervisor of
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Board Upholds
Building Official
In Zoning Appeal
The Southern Pines Board
of Zoning Adjustment turned
down a local firm’s appeal for
an exception to the building
requirements under the new
zoning ordinance Monday
nigh;.
This was the effect of the
board’s action in upholding
the building inspector’s refusal
to issue a permit for remodel
ling the former Montesanti
residence on West Pennsyl
vania Avenue into offices. The
permit was sought by Pines
Associates, Inc.
The board declined to grant
a variance requested, though
spokesmen for the company
said the request regarding con
version of part of the building
to apartments was withdrawn
from the original application.
Li. Col. Frank M. Smith,
Pines Associates treasurer, told
the board, “We’d be unable to
change the structure of the
building except for minor
modifications. I don’t believe
masonry walls would help. The
expense would not justify the
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SHERIFF HOME
Sheriff W. B. Kelly, who
was admitted to Moore Memor
ial hospital September 3 with
a severe case of pneumonia, re
turned home this week and is
reported recovering nicely,
though it will be several days
before he will be back on the
job.
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.
Hi Lo
September 7 87 59
September 8 79 54
September 9 85 49
September 10 85 55
September 11 85 57
September 12 77 62
September 13 77 62