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VOL.—46 NO. 45
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1966
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
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Deaf Mute Killed
In Train-Car Crash
Wife, Child
Seriously Hurt
A deaf mute couple with
their young child were thrown
from their car when it was
struck by a train at a lumber
yard crossing at Vass Tuesday
at 5:40 p.m., and the husband
was killed.
James B. Bailey, 25, of 950
Reeves Resigns
Ports Position,
Richards Named
Ed N. Richards of Raleigh
and Pinehurst is the new chair
man of the State Ports Au
thority, succeeding John Mer
cer Reeves of Pinehurst.
Richards, Authority vice
chairman, was named to the
chairmanship Monday at the
organization’s annual meeting
at Washington, N. C., shortly
after Reeves resigned at the
session. Henry Lee Weathers
of Shelby was named vice
chairman.
Reeves had served nine
years as Ports Authority chair
man in the period when the
Wilmington and Morehead City
facilities developed into lead
ing Atlantic Coast ports. He
was first appointed by Gov.
Luther H. Hodges, then reap
pointed by Gov. Terry Sanford.
In tendering his resignation
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North Lee street, Rockingham,
was instantly kiled when tos
sed 40 feet as the car spun
completely around, according
to Mo'ore County Coroner
W. K. Carpenter.
His wife, Melba Beshear
Dailey, 21, and their two-year-
old son Barry were taken to
Moore Memorial hospital in
the Vass Rescue Squad ambu
lance, and were reported ser
iously hurt.
Their drivers’ license iden
tified both Mr. and Mrs. Dailey
as deaf mutes. Their 1956 Buick
was loaded with needlepacks
which he was apparently sel
ling. The packs were stamped
with a message, “I am selling
needlepacks to support my
family, 50c. Each sale will be
greatly appreciated. Thank
you. May (3od bless you.”
Dailey was driving east
from US Highway 1 through
the property of the Futrell
Brothers Lumber Co. by a
private road generally used
only by workers, or townspeo
ple taking a short cut. The
road crosses the railroad main
line to dead-end at Cameron
Street. The crossing is marked
only by a cross-arm warning
sign. The car, struck on the
front end by the engine of
southbound passenger train
No. 3, running about five min
utes late, whirled about and
was tossed against the post
holding the warning sign.
Engineer E. G. Dawkins of
Hamlet said the car drove on
to the track without stopping,
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Traditional Homecoming Event
Set For Old Bethesda Church
AT FARMERS WAREHOUSE near Car
thage, open for its first season, four-year-
old twins Deborah Sue and Donna Kay
Thomas await tobacco sale with their
father, Willie Thomas, left, and grandfather
Eddie Thomas, of Carthage Route 3. They
live in sight of the warehouse at the Hill-
crest intersection, south of Carthage, and!
their farm lies all around it. The twins play
ed around it while it was being built but
are now a bit bewildered by what is going
on inside. The big new warehouse, tliird
for the county seat and sixth in Moore
(three others being located at Aberdeen) is
owned by Bill Carter of Carthage and is
being operated by Carter and his son. Bill,
Ji'- Photo by V. Nicholson)
The annual homecoming
for historic Old Bethesda
Church near Aberdeen will be
held Sunday.
Dr. John Anderson Ross
MacKenzie, a native of Edin
burg, Scotland, now associate
professor of church history.
Union Theological Seminary,
Richmond, Va., will be the
homecoming speaker at the
morning service beginning at
11:15 o’clock.
Following the homecoming
service the traditional picnic
dinner will be spread on the
long table beneath the shade
trees in the grove.
In front of Old Bethesda
Church is the church cemetery.
The frame church building
predates the Civil War.
The church is used only on
homecomings and other rare
occasions.
Dr. W. C. Neill is pastor of
Bethesda Church in Aberdeen
which maintains the old
church and grounds. The Beth
esda Cemetery is operated by
trustees from the three Aber
deen churches—Baptist, Meth
odist and Presbyterian—plus a
member named by the town
board to represent the com
munity at large.
J. Talbot Johnson, a ruling
elder in Bethesda Church is
serving as homecoming chair
man.
Old Bethesda Church was
organized in 1790 by Orange
Presbytery, but became a
charter member of Fayette
ville Presbytery when it was
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Two Local Officers Graduated
From Fayetteville Police School
Two Southern Pines police
men graduated last Friday
night from the Southeastern
Law Enforcement Academy at
Fayetteville.
Officers George Barnes and
William Leonard McNeill were
among the 30 officers from
Eastern North Carolina who
received their diplomas in the
commencement exercises.
Southern Pines Police Chief
Earl S. Seawell, a director of
the academy, attended the
graduation. He had driven to
Fayetteville for the ceremon
ies, .and dinner after attending
the statewide Law and Order
meeting in Raleigh earlier
Friday.
Barnes and McNeill took a
four-week course in advanced
police work at the academy.
They commuted to Fayette
ville for their classes also serv
ed six hours daily on duty with
the Police Department here.
The Fayetteville course cov
ered the most recently develop
ed techniques in investigations
of felonies, in incJentification
work and in other activities in
police work.
The instructors at the acad
emy are State Bureau of In
vestigation agents and teachers
in the State Department of
Community Colleges.
The police school is conduct
ed by the SBI and Fayetteville
Technical Institute.
Walter Anderson, SBI direc
tor, made the principal speech
at the graduation.
r:
Wm
Capel Honored
As Subject Of
N&O Feature
Felton J. Capel, Southern
Pines councilman and mayor
pro tern, was the News & Ob
server’s “Tar Heel of the
Week” Sunday — the subject
of a biographical article in this
popular series ■on prbrhiriehf
citizens, which has been run
ning in the Raleigh paper for
some 15 years.
Choice as a subject is an
honor, as it recognizes distin
guished achievement and serv
ice—and in Capel’s case, it was
a “first” for the series. He is
the first Negro to be so honor
ed.
The very excellent story was
written by Jim Stingley, head
of the News and Observer’s
Fayetteville bureau, and with
a bow to him as author, is re
printed on Page 3 Section 4,
Compressing much infor
mation into the confines of a
news story, a few errors
were made, and, for
the record, are due for cor
rection here. Capel’s election
to the council in 1958 had
nothing to do with his busi
ness success, as is implied—he
did not go with his present
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William L. McNeill (Left), George Barnes
Harney Leaving,
Poole Will Join
Johnson Firm
John M. Harney, a partner
in the Aberdeen law firm of
Johnson, Johnson and Harney
for the past two years, is giv
ing up the practice of law in
the Sandhills effective October
1, to enter the textile industry
at Belmont.
At the same time the South
ern Pines law partnership of
Derby and Poole will be dis
solved, with Samuel H. Poole
joining J. Talbot Johnson and'
his son L. M. Johnson in a new
firm at Aberdeen, to be named
Johnson, Johnson and Poole.
Harney, a native of Edenton,
received a B. S. degree in
textile engineering at N. C.
State before entering the Uni
versity of North Carolina
School of Law, where he secur
ed his law degree in 1961. In
February 1962 he became an
associate in the firm of John
son and Johnson, and on Octo
ber 1, 1964, became a partner.
He and his wife, the former
Alice Lineberger of Belmont,
who have been making their
home in Pinehurst, will move
to Belmont, where he will be
associated with Linford Mills.
Poole, the son of Former
State Senator J. Hawley Poole
and the late Mrs. Poole, of
West End, received his law
degree in 1962 at the Univers
ity of North Carolina School
of Law, then joined the High
Point firm of Schoch and
Schoch. In 1964 he returned
to Moore county and joined
Vance A. Derby, also a UNC
graduate, in the practice of
law. Poole and his wife “Doo-
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Proctor-Silex Workers
Vote On Union Tuesday
Employees of the Southern
Pines plant of Proctor-Silex
Oorp. will vote September 27
whether they want the Inter
national Union of Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers,
AFL-CIO, to represent them
in collective bargaining with
the. plant management;
A notice of the election,
scheduled by the National La
bor Relations Board, was re
ceived here last week.
The voting will be held at
the building next to Bibey’s
Grocery at Manly from 6 am
to 7 pni. The NLRB will con
duct the election.
Eligible to vote are all the
plant’s production and mainte
nance employees, including in-
;spectors, shipping and receiv
ing clerks, truck drivers, ma
terial handlers and leadmen.
Excluded from casting ballots
are office clerical and profes
sional employes, guards and
supervisors.
The NLRB notice says this
is a rerun of the election held
August 25,1964. The vote was
332 to 182 against union rep
resentation but the NLRB last
June set aside the results and
ordered the new election.
The NLRB said its action
was based on findings that the
company and the Southern
had engaged in unfair labor
practices before the election.
The Southern Pines plant
manufactures electric irons.
Merchants Council Tax Group
Appointed To Receive Queries
A three-member Merchants
Council committee was ap
pointed Monday night to work
with the municipal three-
member tax committee on
complaints against the town’s
business privilege tax.
The action was taken at a
council meeting at the Mu
nicipal Center after S'ome mer
chants told town representa
tives inequities were in the
tax structure.
Appointed to the merchants’
committee by Council Presi
dent Dante Montesanti were
J. R. Hill, Eldon L. Thompson
and William Thomasson.
Thomasson accepted the chair
manship on the invitation of
Montesanti.
The town committee is com
posed uf Councilman L. H.
McDonald, Town Attorney W.
Lament Brown and Town
Manager F. F. Rainey.
Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins,
Jr. suggested the formation
of a Merchants Council com
mittee after Council members
had questioned him and Mc
Donald during the meeting
about aspects of the town tax.
Hill, for example, contended
that an independent grocer
should not pay the same tax
—$25—on its meat department
as a large, chain supermarket
does because the indepen-
ddnt’s business volume is sub
stantially less.
The mayor suggested this is
one of the points the town and
merchants’ , taxi committee
should discuss..
The mayor said that when
the tax notices were mailed
out for collection of the assess
ments the reaction of business
men was “not , 100% favor
able.”
He said he came to Monday
night’s meeting to see what
the complaints were and look
for thoughts and suggestions
about the workings of the tax
in practice.
The notices of the establish
ment of the merchants’ com
mittee will be mailed to the
council’s 82 members. It will
advise that anyone with sug
gestions about the tax get in
touch with the committee.
In other business, Monte
santi reported:
—100 letters were mailed
Monday seeking opinons about
forming a Sandhills Chamber
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Jaycee Regional Meeting Here
This Weekend; Stone Is Speaker
Nearly $700,000 In Federal
Funds Seen For Moore Schools
Federal funds approved for
the Moore County schools this
year under Title I of the
Elementary and Secondary
Schools Act total $312,692,
bringing to nearly $600,000 the
federal funds in all categories
available to the county system
for 1966-67, and probably more
than $700,000 for the three
school units.
With some $87,000 expected
for the Southern Pines schools,
and unofficial assurance given
that Pinehurst will also re
ceive federal fund's (though
official confirmation has not
been received), it appears like
ly that federal funds for all
units will reach $700,000 or
ove:.
Title I grants this year are
running generally about 20 per
cent smaller than last, be
Area HI Meeting At
Pinehurst Monday PM
Organization meeting of the
Regional Curriculum Project
in Moore county, to initiate
citizen studies as a basis for
the Area HI high school con
solidation, will be held at 7:30
pm Monday at the Pinehurst
school auditorium, with every
one interested in the schools
invited.
Sponsored by the Area III
advisory council, it will pre
sent as speakers Dr. Wayne
Teague, of the education de
partment of Auburn Univer
sity at Emory, Ga., chief Pro
ject consultant; Dr. Foster
Watkins of the central staff
at Atlanta, Ga.; and Mrs. Mary
Evans of Raleigh, North Caro
lina state coordinator of the
Project.
Joe S. Lennon of Aberdeen,
I chairman of the Area III coun
cil, will preside at the meet
ing, at which it is anticipated
a Citizens Council will be or
ganized and officers elected, to
effect reorganization for the
consolidation to take place
next July 1.
roi
The new officers, a chair
man, vice-chairman and re
cording secretary, will be as
signed a special consultant
from the State Department of
Public Instruction to work
with them during the reorgan
ization period of a year or
more.
Consultants will also be as
signed to a series of sub
committees, to be set up to
study all phases of the consol-
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Local Group Studies
Nova School, Florida
Dr. Raymond A. Stone, presi
dent of the Sandhills Commun
ity College, will be the guest
speaker at the banquet of the
East Central Region, Junior
Chamber of Commerce, to be
held Saturday night at the
Whispering Pines Restaurant.
The banquet will be a high
light of the three-day meeting
expected to bring some 250
Jaycees and their wives from
33 clubs in a four-district area,
according to Ed Fitchett, chair
man for the event for the host
club of Southern Pines.
Members of the state execu
tive committee, headed by
Irvin Aldridge of Yanceyville,
state president, will convene
for an all-day session Friday
at Whispering Pines.
Saturday morning, members
and their wives will be arriv
ing from all over the Region.
Arrangements have been made
at various local courses for
those desiring to play golf.
A workshop will be held dur
ing the afternoon, with a tour
arranged for the ladies.
At the banquet that night.
Southern Pines Mayor Norris
L. Hodgkins, Jr., will present
Dr. Stone as speaker, Both are
former jaycees. Sunday morn
ing will be marked by the
President’s Breakfast, to be
held at the Holiday Inn Res
taurant, and a business session
at 10 a.m. The meeting will
end at 1 p.m.
Reservations for those at
tending have been made at
motels throughout the Sand
hills area.
A local and Moore County
group is visiting Fort Lauder
dale, Fla., this week to se£ the
Nova School, considered a na
tional showcase of modern ed
ucational ideas in action.
They are studying the school
in all its aspects, from the ar
chitectural to the conceptual,
for possible application or
adaptation in making the new
Area HI school one of the best
in the land.
The Area HI school of the
Moore County system will con
solidate high schools of South
ern Pines, Pinehurst, Aber
deen and West End, with open
ing planned for September
1968.
Making the Florida trip are
Mrs. Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
of Southern Pines; Mrs. M. R.
Wyatt of Pinehurst; Supt.
Robert E. Lee and Assistant
Supt. C. Edison Powers of the
Moore County schools; Earl D.
Raynor of Carthage, high
school coordinator of the
Moore County system; Rev.
W. F. Carlson of Aberdeen, a
member of the Area HI advis
ory council, and Richard B.
Schnedl of the Hayes-Howell
Associates architectural firm
of Southern Pines.
Mrs. Hodgkins, a former
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
teacher, is the wife of this
community’s mayor. Mrs.
Wyatt is the wife of a mem
ber of the Sandhills Commu
nity College faculty.
Accompanying them are
Mrs. Mary Evans, state coor
dinator of Title V of the Ele
mentary and Secondary
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cause of cuts made by Con
gress in the education program,
and in addition must be spread
over the full year instead of
the last half of the year as in
1965-66.
Last year’s federal grant
under Title I to the county
schools was $390,964.73. This
year also, said Mrs. Beulah Mc
Pherson, director of federal
programs in the county system,
three more schools have quali
fied to receive the funds. This
year, only Aberdeen and Eagle
Springs schools fail to benefit
except in a few unitwide pro
grams they will finance. These
two schools do not have the
required percentage of disad
vantaged children.
In addition to the Title I
funds, the county schools have
already received $100,222 for
in-service workshops, most of
it used for the 10-day work
shop and training period pre
ceding the opening of the
schools. This brought all the
teachers to the county nearly
two weeks early, with princi
pals and supervisors putting in
extra planning time — about
350 persons being paid addi
tional salary for the time thus
spent.
Of the Title I grant, .$211,940
is for salaries of additional
personnel, the rest for instruc
tional materials free lunches,
etc. The free lunch fund! has
been cut far below last year’s.
No equipment is being paid for
from the fund this year, but,
Mrs. McPherson said, equip
ment was purchased last year
which can be used this year
and oninto the future
Salaries being paid from the
fund include eight teachers,
32 teacher aides, four librar
ians; a budget director, school
nurse, speech therapist, high
school coodlnator, audio-visual
technician and food service
supervisor.
Other federal funds for the
county schools include about
$40,000 in NDEA funds, an
.amount which varies each
year, and $133,774, the federal
share in salaries of vocational
instructors, who are also paid
by the State and county.
An undetermined sum will
also be received under Title
II, distributed by the State
toward purchase of library
books on a $l-per-child basis
(though not necessarily limit
ed to this amount).
In Southern Pines, Supt. J.
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Town Council Calls For Rebidding
On Paving And Resurfacing Jobs
Th0 SmitVlPm Pinoc 'T’rwxr-n i _ _i • • .
“Mountain Men”
New Book By
Glen Rounds
Glen Rounds, Southern
Pines, artist, illustrator and
author, has a new book to his
credit this week—“Mountain
Men,” just off the Holiday
House presses.
While Rounds has written
and illustrated many books,
and illustrated some written
by others—more than 20 in all
—“Mountain Men” is one in
which he has brought to light,
edited, excerpted and illustrat
ed two books first published
some 120 years ago—eye-wit
ness accounts of the early days
of the opening of the We.st.
“Mountain Men,” based on
writings of George Frederick
Ruxton, a young Englishman
who hunted and fought with
fur trappers in the Rockies in
the 1840’s, is a companion book
to Rounds’ “Trail Drive.”
published last year. This was
based on another old work,
“Life of a Cowboy,” a true
narrative of cowboy life of
long ago.
These are books for adults,
as destinguished from, many
of Round's’ other works class
ified as juveniles, though they
have stood up through the
years as fine reading matter
for all ages of people interest
ed in the life and legends,
people and animals of the
Wes;.
“Mountain Men” is enliven
ed throughout by sketches on
the wide bottom margins of
nearly every page, all bearing
the inimitable Rounds touch—
life, action, atmosphere quick
ly caught in a few skillful
lines. Indians, trappers, horses,
buffalo are shown in the many
phases of their daily life.
The Southern Pines Town
Council will review new bids
September 27 at 8 pm on two
separate contracts for resur
facing and paving a total of
approximately 60,000 square
yards of streets. The meeting
will be held at the municipal
center.
The decision to call for re-
bidding and reject all five
bids on a single contract for
all the work considered at the
council’s monthly meeting of
September 13 was made in a
formal special meeting last
Monday morning.
The council also provided
that costs of laboratory test
ing of paving materials and of
engineering work be included
in the bids. The council de
cided to employ a disinterest
ed engineering firm to handle
the materials testing; to pos
sibly design paving materials;
and to oversee contractors’
work as the town’s representa
tive.
Rates of several firms will
be studied before a selection
of such a supervising engineer
is made. Town Manager F. F.
Rainey said after the meeting.
William Campbell, chief Tech
nician for the i'ayetteville of
fice of FroehUng and Robin
son of Richmond, Va., describ
ed his company’s operations
and general fee schedule for
the council.
The change in the plans was
caused by the raising at the
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Planning Board Approves Zoning
Change Requests; Council To Act
The Southern Pines Town
Council will act on two pro
posed changes in zoning reg
ulations at separate meetings
in the Municipal Center.
The councilmen will consid
er at a special session Septem
ber 27 at 8 pm a request to
permit professional offices in
a home scheduled for con
struction on Midland Road.
The other action is sched
uled for the council’s monthly
meeting Oct. 11 at 8 pm on a
proposal to rezone a total of
about 20 acres on Shelton
Road opposite Stoneybrook
Race Track from the classifica
tion of residential one-family
dwellings to, Residential Agri
cultural. A public hearing will
be held at the session.
The Planning Board ap
proved both requests from pe
titioners at a meeting last Fri
day. Dr. C. H. Frey, an osteo
path, made the request for the
change to permit him to have
offices in the new home he is
building. It is in an area clas
sified Residential Agricultur
al last spring. The Planning
Board was told that the area
was classified R-1, (one fam
ily dwellings) when he bought
the property last March. Pro
fessional offices were allowed
under the old R-1 classifica
tion. The board approved the
request by a vote of four in
favor, one against and one ab
stention from balloting.
The request to change Shel-
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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.
Hi Lo
Sept. 14 78 62
Sept. 15 81 57
Sept. 16 68 54
Sept. 17 74 46
Sept. 18 77 51
Sept. 19 : 80 58
Sept, 20 81 61