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Pre-Mission
schools at nearby Fort Bragg
give unique, vital training for
Viet Nam service. Page 2, Sec. 3.
Foster
homes for children of welfare
families are urgently needed in
Moore County. Page 1, Sec. 2.
VOL.—46 NO. 47
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1966
rWENTY-SIX PAGES
PRICE; 10 CENTS
ALBEMARLE GROUP PLANNING
Ambulance Service
Proposed For Moore
Operators of a private am
bulance service want to take
up where the ambulance work
of five of Moore County’s six
funeral homes ends.
W. Sidney Taylor of Aber
deen told his fellow Moore
County commissioners at the
Court Needs
Not Definite,
Board Is Told
M'oore County will need at
least one more courtroom and
at least one magistrate’s office,
and perhaps two, by late 1968
under the state’s court-reform
act.
Otherwise, the picture is
hazy, the Board of County
Commissioners were told Mon
day at their October meeting
in Carthage. County Attorney
M. G. Boyette, who also is 13th
District solicitor, discussed
the situation.
The county will be under
jurisdiction of a district court
—and will need the extra fa
cilities for a magistrate—but
whether more facilities will be
needed for a district court is
not known now, Boyette said,
because the site of the district
court has not yet been chosen.
Commissioners asked Boy
ette about the needs because
they felt that it was time to
act, though Moore won’t be
affected by the law until De
cember 1968.
’The magistrate system re
places the present system of
justices of the peace. The dis
trict courts, which are be
tween the magistrate courts
and Superior Court in jurisdic*-
tion, are replacing the record
ers’ and similar courts across
the state under the system pre-
(Continued on Page 6)
board’s monthly meeting last
Monday that Sureway Ambu
lance Service of Albemarle is
the best bet.
He says James Poplin, a co
owner of the service, told Tay
lor and his county ambulance
committee that.Sureway wants
to base two ambulances and
three men at Aberdeen, and
one ambulance and two men
at Robbins.
Taylor quoted Poplin as say
ing, however, he did not be
lieve he could meet the Octo
ber 31 deadline set by the five
funeral homes, as the date
they will cut off ambulance
service.
McKeithan Funeral Home
of Southern Pines will con
tinue operating its service.
Taylor, chairman of the am
bulance cwmmittee appointed
by the board of county com
missioners to handle the prob
lem, said Sureway would re
quire no subsidy from the
county.
Taylor said Sureway would
make both emergency and
non - emergency ambulance
runs. He pointed out that the
Moore County Rescue units
also answer emergency ambu
lance calls.
Taylor said Poplin and his
(Continued on Page 6)
Coming Change Revealed In
Operation Of Sl Josephus
HONORED — Mrs. T. A. Cheatham in
spects advanced diagnostic equipment pre
sented to Moore Memorial Hospital by the
Moore County Tuberculosis Association,
in recognition of long and devoted service
Commissioners
Hear Complaint
About Tax Level
C. A. Pitts of Manly, who
succeeded last spring in get
ting the tax valuation of his
Knollwood Village apartments
scaled down by $50,000, sent
an attorney to Carthage Mon
day to complain to the county
commissioners that his tax
bill was higher than ever.
The lawyer, H. F. Seawell,
Jr., said Pitts felt that, since
few of the apartments were
rented and he had Southern
Pines town taxes and school
district taxes also to pay, the
valuation should be brought
down low enough so the apart
ments wouldn’t lose money.
In building the apartments
on his $100,000 property at the
intersection of the Midland
and PeeDee roads Pitts’ idea
was that the apartments
should be self-sustaining, the
attorney explained. With all
apartments rented, Seawell
said, income from them would
be $93,000 per year. With few
rented, the income wasn’t
enough to pay the costs. Pitts
feels this should receive con
sideration, and taxes brought
down more in line with in
come, Seawell said.
DeWitt Purvis of the tax
collector’s office explained that
after last spring’s tax valua
tion reduction was made it
was practically canceled when
county taxes went up 20 cents
on the dollar. However, he
said the valuation had been
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John M. Bigbee
Hospitalized
At Chicago, Ill.
John M. Bigbee of South
ern Pines, vice president of
United Telephone Company
of the Carolines, is a patient
at Passayant Hospital, Chica
go, Ill., to which he was tak
en when he became ill Mon
day night during a dinner that
was one of the events of a
convention of telephone com
pany executives.
According to information
reaching Southern Pines, he
suffered three heart attacks
that night.
The Pilot this (Wednesday)
morning talked with his wife,
Mrs. Vesta Bigbee by tele
phone in Chicago (she was
with him at the convention)
and learned that he had a good
night last night and is feeling
better today. He is in an in
tensive care section of the hos
pital, she said, and asked,
therefore that flowers not be
sent to him as they may not
be delivered to this section.
Mrs. Bigbee has informed
(Continued on Page 6)
Oct. 13 Visit
To Moore Slated
By Rep. Cooley
Rep. Harold D. Cooley, bid
ding strongly for reelection
from the reapportioned
Fourth, plans to shake 1,000
hands in Moore in a full day
of campaigning in the county
Thursday of next week.
He will be accompanied on
his tour of the county by some
leading local Democrats, who
invite the public in general to
have breakfast, lunch or sup
per with the Congressman—on
a dutch basis.
The day will start at 7:30
am with breakfast at Horne’s
Restaurant in Aberdeen,
whence Cooley will hit the
campaign trail, morning tour,
taking him to Pinebluff, Pine-
hurst, Jackson Springs, West
(Continued on Page 6)
Shootings Near Here
Kill Man, Hurt Wife
A 51-year-old man shot
himself to death after wound
ing his wife about 4 pm Fri
day at his store on the Car
thage road about a quarter of a
mile north of Southern Pines,
Moore County authorities re
ported.
Killed by a .22 caliber pis-
Plannii^ Body "*
Asks Warehouse
Zoning Change
The Southern Pines Plan
ning Board recommended at a
meeting last Thursday in the
Municipal Center that the
Town Council amend the zon
ing ordinance to designate an
area inside the town limits for
operations of wholesale busi
nesses.
A public hearing on the rec
ommendation was scheduled
for October 25 at 8 pm by the
Town Council at a special
meeting Monday morning.
The adoption of the motion
to recommend the amendment
followed discussion of a re
quest by Louis Garty Produce
Co. that its property at 570
South Ashe Street be rezoned
to permit construction of an
addition to its present busi
ness building.
The company’s business,
John Garty told the board, is
“99.9 per cent wholesale.” It is
in a Central Business Zone. The
provisions permit continued
operations of wholesalers al
ready in business at the time
the ordinance was enacted last
May but do not permit expan
sion or new wholesale busi
nesses there.
The proposed amendment to
the zoning ordinance would
designate the area bounded by
South May, South Ashe, and
South West Broad streets and
Illinois Avenue for sites of
wholesale businesses.
Wholesalers can do business
in the Highway Commercial
Zone but all but a block of
this lies within the town lim
its. The rest is in a one-mile
out-of-town area under the 'or-
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told bullet wound in the heart
was Ralph C. Cox of 425 S.
Ashe St.
His wife, Mrs. Erleen Cox,
was admitted to M'oore Me
morial Hospital for treatment
of a .32 caliber revolver bullet
wound in the face. Her condi
tion was termed satisfactory
yesterday by a hospital
I spokesman. _
Deputy Sheriff J. A. Law
rence and Moore County Cor
oner W. K. Carpenter, Sr., said
their investigation produced
this information about the
shooting and the incidents
shortly before:
Mrs. Cox signed a warrant
Thursday through the Sher
iff’s Department charging her
husband with drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. He was
freed from County Jail after
posting $300 bail for appear
ance for trial last Monday in
Moore County Recorder’s
Court.
Cox was at his produce store
when his wife and her sister
and brother-in-law, Mr. and
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to the association by her and her late
husband. Others pictured are, left to right.
Dr. C. R. Monroe, Duncan L. McGoogan
(hospital administrator), Dr. E. W. Sipple
and Dr. Will Staub.
(Humphrey photo)
Equipment Gift
Recognizes TB
Work Of Couple
In a simple service last
Wednesday evening at Moore
Memorial Hospital, the Moore
County Tuberculosis Associa
tion presented an Image Am-
plifer to the hospital, honor
ing the late Dr. Thaddeus A.
Cheatham and his wife, Anna
F. Cheatham of Pinehurst. A
plaque, with the inscription
“Given in memory of Dr.
Thaddeus A. Cheatham and in
grateful appreciation of his
wife Anna F. Cheatham, for
their founding and devoted
service to the Moore County
Tuberculosis Association,” will
be placed in the x-ray room.
The Image Amplifer or In-
tensifier is used in fluoroscopy,
but much more detail is pro
duced on the fluoroscopic
screen, and the radiation to
the radiologist and patient is
■one-quarter to one-half that
produced by a usual fluoro-
scope. The unit is helpful in
examining older patients and
children, as a room may be
moderately lighted instead of
in darkness as with a regular
(Continued on page 5)
Reverend Mother M. Vin-; contract with Most Reverend
centia, OSF, Mother General of j Bishop Vincent S. Waters of
the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Raleigh, ownership and con
trol of the hospital and its
properties will be returned to
the Sisters of St. Francis of
Mt. Alverno Convent, Mary
ville, Mo.—whose Sisters have
operated St. Joseph of the
Pines Hospital here since July Bishop Waters.
1, 1948—announced this week
that in accordance with their
Southern Pines
Lawyer Is New
YDC President
Sam Poole, 32, a Southern
Pines attorney, is the new
president of the North Caro
lina Young Democratic Clubs.
He was elected by acclama
tion, without opposition, last
Saturday at ’Winston-Salem
during the state YDC conven
tion.
Vince Lefler, a 28-year-old
Pender County dairy farmer,
was elected first vice presi
dent over Franz Whitmire of
Western Carolina College.
Poole returned to his native
Moore County from High Point
two years ago. He had been
practicing law in High Point
for two years following his
graduation from the University
of North Carolina Law School.
In other action at Saturday’s
YDC convention, Mrs. Betty
Lewis of Winston-Salem was
named national committee-
woman; Milton Kern of
Greensboro, secretary; and
Claude Sitton of Burke Coun
ty, treasurer, all by acclama
tion.
Don Wilson of UNC at Chap
el Hill was elected president
of the YDC’s College Federa
tion.
The YDC delegates adopted
resolutions favoring lowering
the voting age in the state to
18, from 21; non-voting mem
bership on county committees
of the senior Democratic party
for county Teen-Dems presi
dents; commendation of Gov.
Dan K. Moore for inviting
President Johnson to the state;
commendation of the governor
(Continued on Page 6)
In a companion announce
ment, Bishop Waters confirm-
Gardner To Speak
At Rally Of GOP
Jim Gardner, Republi
can challenger o: Democra
tic Rep. Harold Cooley for
the new Fourth District's
Congressional seat, in the
November 8 election, will
be the principal speaker
at the fin,al campaign
rally of Moore County Re
publicans Thursday, Octo
ber 21.
David A. Drexel, GOP
county chairman, said that
a fried chicken .and fish
supper in the Aberdeen
school cafeteria, at 6:30
pm. will precede the
speaking program in the
school auditorium.
Gardner will be in
Moore County all day pre
ceding the evening pro
gram, Drexel said. Fur
ther details will be
nourced.
an-
CONGRESSMAN MILLS, OTHERS SPEAK AT RALLY
Rep. Cooley’s Record Praised
Open House At
Schools Set By
PTA On Monday
An open house in East South,
ern Pines scho'ols, with teach
ers in classrooms to welcome
and talk with parents of their
pupils, has been scheduled as
the October meeting of the
East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association, Monday,
October 10, at 8 pm.
Mrs. Robert Leland, PTA
president, said that there will
be no general meeting in
Weaver Auditorium and that
parents may go directly to the
classroom buildings.
A membership drive, with
a goal of 800 members, is be
ginning this week, with Mrs.
A. F. Grove as chairman. En
velopes will be sent home by
students.
Mrs. Leland this week urged
all parents to contribute to
the fund being raised to share
with the county the cost 'of air-
conditioning Weaver Auditori
um. This project has the full
backing of PTA ■officials, she
pointed out. Contributions or
pledges should be sent to Jack
Reid of Southern Pines.
(Continued on Page 6)
'
The rain poured down but
the Democrats poured in, some
700 strong, their spirits un
dampened, for the Fourth Dis
trict Rally hosted Saturday
night at Aberdeen by the
Moore County party.
They came from all seven
counties of the district, by car
caravan and chartered bus, to
welcome (Congressman Harold
D. Cooley, campaigning for re-
election, and his close friend
and colleague. Congressman
Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, as
guest speaker.
The rain, starting early in
the afternoon, had cut down
the estimated crowd by half or
more. It forced the rally into
the Aberdeen school gym
from the nearby recreation
park and Aberdeen Lake.
The visiting congressmen
head two of the most power
ful committees 'of the House—
Cooley the Agriculture Com
mittee, Mills the Ways and
Means Committee, each re
sponsible for legislation of na
tion-wide and -worldwide im
pact.
Mills, terming Cooley “my
beloved friend,” praised his
long record of service, in sup
porting his bid to be returned
to the House, and declared that
“possibly there is no other
member responsible for so
many pieces of legislation af
fecting the well-being of mil
lions of people.” He added,
“Harold Cooley has been uni
que in handling his career in
Congress, and has won the re
spect of the Congress to a de
gree almost unequalled, never
excelled.”
The crowd broke into ap
plause when he said, “There is
not a chairman in that Con
gress more proficient at his
job.”
Mills cited Cooley’s support
of REA (“he turned on the
(Continued on Page 6)
ALLEN
PERKINS
REPLACING WATSON
Mid-South Bakery To
Be Reopened Oct. 13
The Mid-South Bakery, for
merly operated by Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Carver on N. W.
Broad St., will open Thursday,
October 13, in a new location
at 159 E. New Hampshire Ave.,
it was announced this week.
The new tocation is in The
Manor building, near the fire
station.
“We hope to serve our old
friends and patrons in South
ern Pines and vicinity,” the
Carvers said in their announce
ment.
Perkins Named
Principal Of
Local School
Allen Kimrey Perkins, prin
cipal of the Broadway School
in Lee County for the past 17
years, has been elected as
principal of East Southern
Pines High School, acording
to an announcement by Dr. C.
C. McLean, chairman of the
Southern Pines school board.
The Broadway principal will
succeed Kirby Watson, who
at an earlier date was named
as superintendent of Southern
Pines City Schools, replacing
J. W. Jenkins, who will join
the State Department staff as
head of a newly formed Pre
School Program. The three-
way move is to take place no
later than November 1.
Mr. Perkins is a native of
Goldsboro, where he was grad-
(Continued on Page 6)
$1,000 ‘In Sight’
In Air-Condition
Project Drive
Approximately $1,000 of the
$7,500 fund-raising goal to help
finance air-conditioning of
East Southern Pines Schools’
Weaver Auditorium is “in
ill sight,” members 'of the fund-
’ 1 raising committee reported
' % Monday.
I The total reported includes
j cash on hand and pledges. The
cash in hand totalled $655,
Jack Reid, the treasurer for
the air - conditioning project
committee reported at the
committee meeting.
Members discussed plans for
following up initial contacts
of prospective donors and for
making new contacts in efforts
to -vC^rap up the campaign suc
cessfully this week.
The Board of Moore County
Commissioners has promised
$7,500 in county funds if
Southern Pines people raise an
equal anrount to pay the $15,-
000 estimated cost of the air-
conditioning work.
Project leaders say that air-
conditioning the auditorium
will attract more convention
business to the Southern Pines
area during the periods of hot
weather, since convention del
egates prefer a community
with a comfortable auditorium
for meetings.
The committee members
have been canvassing business
and industry in the Southern
Pines area for the past three
weeks in their efforts to raise
money.
People wanting to contrib-
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JOHN S. SHALLCROSS
GOP Candidate
For Senate In
Connty Friday
John S. Shallcross of Smith-
field, Republican candidate for
the U. S. Senatorial seat oc
cupied by B. Everett Jordan
of Saxapahaw was campaign
ing in Moore County Friday.
Mr. Shallcross began his
day by viisting businesses in
the Aberdeen area. He attend
ed a coffee in the home of
Mrs. Hayden Sears at Whis
pering Pines and toured the
extensive resort facilities
there.
He was present at a luncheon
given in his honor at the Coun
try Club of North Carolina
and spent the afternoon in at
tending the convention of
North Carolina Realtors which
was being held at the Caro
lina Hotel in Pinehurst.
Mr. Shallcross is most con
cerned over “the expanding
role of the federal government
in the independent sector.”
He says, “Those who believe
that the people no longer know
how to do the most good with
their money will soon find
that their money is no good.”
He stated that his opponent
Senator Jordan, is “helping to
strengthen the gross society, by
buying your votes with the
taxes you must send to Wash
ington.”
Mr. Shallcross wound up has
day with some visits in South
ern Pines.
ed that the Sisters of St. Fran
cis are withdrawing from the
operation of Sc. Joseph of the
Pines, and that its operation
will be taken over by the Sis
ters of Providence of Holyoke,
Mass., who already have a
small hospital operation at
Murphy, in the Diocese of Ra
leigh, also operating several
large hospitals in New Eng
land.
Reverend Mother Vincentia
stated that the transfer, ex
pected to take place not later
than January 1, 1967, will be
accomplished without in any
way interfering with the con
tinuity of the hospital opera-
trons, and with uninterrupted
care of patients now in, or
hereafter admitted to St. Jo
seph of the Pines.
She expressed deep appre
ciation to all citizens of South
ern Pines and the surrounding
area for the support given to
the hospital during the past 18
years.
The hospital occupies the
building which was formerly
the Pine Needles resort hotel.
Following purchase by Bishop
Waters, it was turned over to
the Sisters of St. Francis for
operation. Later, under a con
tract with the Bishop, the Sis
ters assumed full administra
tive and fiscal control, and did
considerable remodeling of the
building to adapt it to modern
hospital uses. It has also been
substantially equipped. It is
fully accredited by the Ameri
can Hospital Association,
American College of Surgeons
and other accrediting agencies.
In his statement, Bishop
Waters expressed appreciation
to the Sisters of St. Francis for
their excellent services, and
regret for the necessity of the
(Continued on Page 6)
Lions To Stage
Blind-Aid Drive
The annual White Cane
Drive of the Southern Pines
Lions Club will be conducted
Saturday, October 8, on behalf
of local and state-wide Lions
projects in aid to the blind and
sight conservation.
Ed Willis, project chairman,
said that Girl Scouts will be
taking contributions from the
public at several locations in
the business section.
Also, he said. Lions Club
members will have “traffic
blocks” on N. Broad St. and
S. Broad St., where passing
motorists may slow down and
give to the collection. No cars
will be forced to stop, he ex
plained.
The Lions Club here and
others over the state cooperate
with the N. C. Association lor
the Blind in an extensive pro
gram of research ,eye exami
nations, glaucoma clinics, hos-
gram of research, eye exami-
tion and numerous other ser
vices to the blind and in the
prevention of blindness.
EXTRA CARE BY DRIVERS URGED
Official Tests On No. 1 Highway
Show Water Makes Road Slippery
WWI Veterans Set
Meeting Here Sunday
■Veterans of World War I
will meet Sunday, October 9,
at 2:30 pm at the American
Legion Hut on E. Maine Ave.
The ladies will serve light re
freshments.
All WWI veterans are urged
to come and bring their wives.
Widows of WW I veterans will
be welcome, said an announce
ment of the meeting.
That slippery - when-wet
stretch of highway between
Southern Pines and Aberdeen
was given a rigorous testing
by State technicians Monday
afternoon, and the unofficial
results of the skid tests ap
plied were: yes, it really is
slippery!
But no more so, in the ex
pressed opinion of T. C. John
ston, Eighth Highway Division
engineer, than on other newly
surfaced highways before the
oxidation process has had a
chance to take effect (a matter
of months, perhaps a year 'or
so).
Official findings are expect
ed to be made known soon by
C. W. Lee, State Highway Com
mission engineer. Making the
tests were employees from the
engineering lab at Raleigh.
Tests were made at two
places, one on the northbound
lane of US 1 near Aberdeen
Park, the other in front of the
Montgomery Dairy plant about
midway between the two
towns. First making skid tests
on dry pavement, the test car
then made them on pavement
wet down by a tank truck of
the Eighth Division forces.
Travelling at 40 miles an hour,
the test car made three runs
at each place, braking down
sharply. Measurements were
taken 'of the skids.
The skids on wet pavement
averaged about twice as far
as those on dry.
Observers—including John
ston — said the water, when
lightly applied, caused the car
to skid about twice as far as
on dry pavement, as the
nroisture caused oil and grease
on the road surface to float
and spread.
As the water ran more free
ly, the skid wasn’t as long, for
it carried the greasy elements
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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.
Sept. 28 78 66
Sept. 29 82 66
Sept. 30 84 52
Oct. 1 78 53
Oct. 2 67 39
Oct. 3 70 59
Oct. 4 82 72