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TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1966
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
DISTRICT RALLY SCHEDULED TUESDAY
Cooley To Campaign All
Day Timrsday In County
A. H. ROWE
AT FT. BRAGG
Local Man
New Corps
Sgt, Major
Sgt. Maj. Albert H. Rowe of
Oak Drive, a paratrooper com
bat veteran of World War II,
has been designated XVIIIth
Airborne Corps sergeant
major, corps headquarters at
Fort Bragg announced last
week..
He was appointed by the
corps and the Fort Bragg com
mander, Lt. Gen. Bruce Palmer
Jr., to fill the vacancy created
by . Sgt. Maj. Darius D. Grogg.
Grogg has been commissioned
an Army Reserve captain and
assigned to active duty with
the 269th Aviation Battalion
Sgt. and Mrs. Rowe have
three children; John A., 17, of
the home; Benjamin, 23, of
Corpus Christi, Texas, and
Mrs. Nancy (Gary C.) Camer
on, 19, of Pinehurst.
Rowe was named to the
corps position after serving
since August 16, 1965, as ser
geant major of the 82nd Air
borne Division, his World War
II outfit. He made combat
jumps on D-Day in the inva
sion of Normandy and at Nij
megen, Holland.
He enlisted in the Army in
April, 1943, after three months
of basic combat and jump
training at Camp Wheeler,
near Macon, Ga. He was as
signed to the Third Battalion
of the 82nd’s 505th Parachute
Infantry Regiment then in a
staging area at Cooksland, Ire
land. He joined the unit’s head
quarters company 81 mm mor
tar section.
His novice parachutist badge
(Continued on Page 2, Sec. 2)
Rep. Harold D. Cooley,
Democratic Fourth District
Congressman who is cam
paigning to retain his long-
held seat in the November 8
election, will spend Thursday
in Mcore County and will tour
all areas of the county, accom
panied by J. Elvin Jackson of
Carthage, Democratic county
AT PINEHURST
North & South
Seniors Golf
Set Next Week
David ' Goldman, current
Western Seniors champion of
Dallas, Tex., will defend his
title in the 15th annual North
and South Invitational Seniors
Golf Championship, beginning
Monday at the Pinehurst Coun
try Club.
The six-day match play
event for men 55 and older
has a starting field of 368. The
first 18-hole qualifying round
will be Monday over courses
two, four and five.
Ninety-six players will qual
ify in the second qualifying
round Tuesday on the number
two course. The field will then
be divided into flights of 16.
Semi-finals in the first six
flights will be Friday with
finals scheduled for Saturday.
Finals in all other flights will
be played Friday.
Former North-South cham
pions who have entered the
tournament, in addition to
Goldman, are; Curtis Person
of Memphis, Tenn., 1965 low
amateur at the National Seni
ors championship in Las Veg
as, who teamed with Goldman
to win the Wo*ld Seniors
Four-Ball tournament at Pine
hurst last November; former
two-time North-South cham-
(Contihued on Page 6)
1,250 ENROLLED
Approximately 1,250 stu
dents are enrolled in all pro
grams at Sandhills Communi
ty College, it was reported
this week, of whom some 650
are students in regular college
level courses.
SCULPTURE SHOW
NOW AT GALLERY
On view at the Library
Gallery is an exhibit of
sculpture in wood and'
metal by Bob McDon,ald
of Charlotte.
Unusually appealing in
its variety and chairm is
this small collection of the
weekend work of this land
scape architect - sculptor.
A wood-carver, he uses a
chain-saw for his gro
tesque effects. The jungle
gods, kings, Kochinas he
has created out oi{ he.avy.
iround pieces of tree-
trunks. glower and grin
from the corner of the
Gallery and patio, while
the whole place is lit by
tho softly gleaming brassy
delicacy of his work in
metal—"Chimes," "City of
Spires" and candelabra
like designs.
The exhibit will be on
view until November 4.
chairman, and H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen, former speaker
of the N. C. House.
Rep. Cooley’s schedule in
cludes breakfast, lunch and
dinner stops in which the pub
lic is invited to join without
advance reservations, as well
as numerous, other opportuni
ties for residents of the area
to meet and talk . with him.
He is facing opposition from
Republican Jim Gardner of
Rocky Mount.
The day’s schedule follows:
7:30 am — Breakfast at
Horne’s Restaurant in Aber
deen. Cliff Blue will act as
breakfast chairman. Public is
invited.
9 am—Carpenter’s store in
Pinebluff.
9:30 am—Pinehurst Post Of
fice.
10:15 am—Blake’s store in
Jackson Springs.
10:45 am—Home Furniture
Co. in West End.
11:30 am — Eagle Springs
Fire Station.
12:30 pm—Lunch at the Car
thage Hotel. Charles McLeod
will act as lunch chairman.
Public is invited.
2:00 pm—John L. Frye
(Continued on Page .6)
Britt To Speak
At Vass Rally
For Democrats
state Rep. David M. Britt of
Fairmont will be the principal
speaker at a Democratic rally
to be held at the Vass-Lake-
view School Cafeteria in Vass,
Saturday, October 15, begin
ning at, 6 pm.
A free barbecue supper will
precede the program. County
and senatorial candidates are
being invited.
Rep. Britt is unopposed for
Speaker of the 1967 House and
has frequently been mention
ed as a possible candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
governor in 1968.
The meeting is sponsored by
the Vass-Lakeview precinct
committee. The public is in
vited.
Registration To
Begin Satnrday
Registration for voting in the
November 8 election will be
gin throughout Moore County
Saturday and will continue
through Saturday, October 29,
with registrars at polling places
on the three Saturdays.
Persons whose names are on
the general election books in
the precinct where they now
reside need not register, to be
eligible to vote.
Registrars may be reached
at their homes or places of
business on weekdays other
than the three Saturdays, dur
ing the registration period.
HONOR FOR ELK—George M. Thomp
son (front, right) is presented the card
for an honorary life membership in
Southern Pines Elks Lodge 1692 by Tom
Connolly, exalted ruler of the lodge. In
back, left to right, are: John Sullivan,
past exalted ruler and past district depu
ty; Harold Cuff, leading knight; and Rus
sell Smith, loyal knight. The honor was
accorded Mr. Thompson on the unanimous
vote of the more than 600 members of the
lodge whose jurisdiction includes Moore
County and extends into some others near
by. A retired telephone company execu
tive, Mr. Thompson was one of the organ
izers and a charter member of the lodge,
20 years ago, and, as esquire, was one of
its first officers. He was a chair officer
for two years and also served as chaplain.
He has been chairman for 10 years of the
Camp Committee which each summ.er
sends 25 to 30 worthy boys to the Elks
Camp near Hendersonville and served for
10 years on the committee for arranging
the annual Elks Christmas party for chil
dren of this area. (Humphrey photo)
Quality Mills Plant
Dedication Scheduled
Dedication ceremonies and
open house will be held Satur
day, October 15, at the new
Quality Mills garment plant
in Carthage, with proceedings
scheduled to begin at 10 am.
Following the program from
10 to 10:30 a ribbon cutting
will take place. Open house
will be observed until 3 pm,
with the public invited to tour
the plant and meet its person
nel.
Master of ceremonies for the
dedication program will be
Carthage Mayor L. L. Marion,
CLASSIC MONOPLANES' PUBLISHED
Aberdeen Flyer’s Second Book
On Sale; Four More *In Works*
Page Shamburger’s “Clas
sic Monoplanes” went on sale
the other day.
She had little time to cele
brate the occasion, however,
as she had to stay on her type
writer at her Aberdeen home
to work on four more books—
practically simultaneously —
and her day-to-day writing of
magazine stories about flying.
She al^o is keeping a bag
packed and a weather eye out
for any hurricane which might
bA headed for the United
Stares. She has Defense De
partment clearance to fly in a
Navy hurricane-hunting plane
next time a big blow shapes
up. Miss Shamburger took a
trip with the Air I’orce about
a year ago to gather story
material, flying with the crew
into the eye of Hurricane
Betsy off Puerto Rico. She was
the first woman to stand eye
ball to eyeball with a hurri
cane in that fashion.
Shortly after returning from
the Betsy visits, she was pre
sented with an award by the
Man Will Never Fly Memori
al Society. (She is a charter
and still-active member of this
tongue-in-cheek group.) She
won the award, a society
spokesman told her, for being
PAGE SHAMBURGER
a traitor to the society’s cause-
—by coming out of the hurri
cane alive.
“Classic Monoplanes,” a
slick-paper paperback, de
scribes the evoluation of the
monoplane to its present form.
The book is dedicated to
Miss Shamburger’s first flight
instructor Harold Bachnian,
still living in Southern Pines.
He was co-owner of the Sky
line Airport near here when
he started giving her flight
training in 1945. She took les
sons from him for two years.
Since then she has collected
these titles: Winner of the
Beechcraft class of the 1955
Women’s International Air
Race from Washington to
Havana; and winner of the
New England women’s race
about six years ago.
Two years ago President
Johnson appointed her to the
Women’s Advisory Committee
on Aviation for the Federal
Aviation Agency.
Bachman also contributed
several of the photos which
appear in “Classic Mono
planes,,” which was published
by Crown Publishers, New
York.
Charles Lindbergh’s “Spirit
of St. Louis” naturally gets
attention in Miss Shamburger’s
book, since “Spirit” is a mono
plane. At the same time the
book has Miss Shmaburger
making the first authorita
tive denial that “Spirit” was
the breed of plane it has al
ways been described as being.
The Lindbergh craft is not
a Ryan monoplane. Miss Sham-
(Continued on Page 6)
GOP To Have
Rocky Mount,
Aberdeen Meets
Moore County Republicans
will hold a dinner rally at 6:30
pm October 21 at the Aberdeen
school cafeteria.
Jim Gardner of Rocky
Mount, Republican nominee
for Democrat Harold D. Cool
ey’s Fourth District seat in the
US House of Representatives,
will be the principal after-din
ner speaker, David Drexel of
Southern Pines, county Repub
lican chairman, has announc
ed.
Gardner will tour the county
during the day before the din
ner.
On October 14, Gardner will
be honor guest at a Nash
County Day program in Rocky
Mount. An open-pit barbecue
dinner will be held behind the
Heritage Restaurant on US
301 in Rocky Mount after a
parade.
Republican leaders said
more than 7,000 people are ex
pected to turn out.
A chartered bus will leave
at 1 pm Friday from the Court
house' in Carthage to take
Moore County Republicans to
the rally in Rocky Mount.
Jr., who is also chairman of
the Moore County Industrial
Committee.
Remarks of welcome will be
given by James Midkiff, plant
manager of Quality Mills. He
will also recognize the com
pany’s personnel.
Mayor Marion will recog
nize guests and tell what
Quality Mills means to Car
thage.
Chairman of the County
Commissioners John M. Currie
will speak on the importance
of the new garment manufac
turing plant to all of Moore
County.
A representative from the
Department of Conservation
and Development will be on
hand to express the State’s in
terest in this new industry for
Moore County.
The future of Quality Mills
will be told by John Woltz,
president of the company
which has other plants at Mt.
Airy.
A recent announcement by
the company listed employees
at 168 and said that plans call
for adding 100 to 150 more be
fore the end of the year. The
plant, largely a sewing opera
tion, manufactures a variety
of men’s and children’s cloth
ing.
Soap Firm. Wins
$5,000 More By
Order Of Court
Carolina Company, Inc.
(Carolina Soap and Candle
Makers), of Southern Pines has
been awarded a total of $5,000,
ta be paid by the Pinehurst
Soap and Candle Co., in an
order handed down by Judge
Eugene Gordon of U. S. Middle
District Court at Rockingham.
The Carolina Company is a
local firm manufacturing soap,
candles and other products.
Pinehurst Soap and Candle Co.
is located on No. 1 highway
north, using, by former court
•order, a Pinehurst mail address,
and also manufacturing soap,
candles and other products.
Judge Gordon’s order speci
fies an award of $2,500 for
failure to comply with a
March 23 order of the court;
and another $2,500 for continu
ing , in violation of the court’s
order and judgment, since May
1 of this year. The Pinehurst
firm is also directed to pay
court costs.
Carolina Company was the
plaintiff and Pinehurst Soap
and Candle the defendant in
a June, 1965, federal court case
(Continued on Page 6)
ON OCTOBER 20
History Group
To Hear Fowler
Malcolm Fowler of Lilling-
ton, one •of North Carolina’s
leading historians and author
of the Harnett County History
published in 1955—“They
Passed This Way” — will be
guest speaker at a meeting of
the Moore County Historical
Association to be held at the
Campbell House in Southern
Pines on Thursday, October 20
at 7:30 pm.
H. Clifton Blue, president of
the association, said that he
was most happy to have Mr.
Fowler lead off the 1966-67
program season.
Directors of the group will
meet at 7 o’clock prior to the
general meeting at 7:30.
Opening Of Bakery Is
Delayed About A Week
Opening of the Mid-South
Bakery in its new location at
159 E. New Hampshire Ave.,
has been delayed from the re
cently announced date, Octo
ber 13, to about October 20, it
was stated this week by Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Carver who
said they regret this unavoid
able change in plans.
Mr. and Mrs. Carver former
ly operated a bakery of the
same name at a N. W. Broad
St. location. The new site is in
The Manor building, near the
fire station.
(The ad in Section 2, page 3,
was in an early press run).
Moore One Of 12 Counties Picked
For Trial Of New 4-H Program
Council Approves
Rezoning Of Area
To Resident-Farm
The Southern Pines Town
Council Tuesday night approv
ed an amendment to the mu
nicipal zoning ordinance
changing to residential-agricul
tural classification some land
adjacent to “horse country”
already zoned residential agri
cultural.
The action was taken on a
Planning Board recommenda
tion to rezone the affected
Fire Damages
WSP School
Gy
mnasium
A fire did about $1,700 dam
age to the gymnasium of West
Southern Pines School early
Tuesday, the Southern Pines
Volunteer Fire Department re
ported.
The blaze was extinguished
within 45 minutes after two
fulltime and 15 of the 19 vol
unteer firemen on the depart
ment rolls arrived at the. brick
and cinder block building on
South Carlisle Avenue.
H. A. Wilson, principal of
the school, said the damage
would not interfere with gym
nasium activities. He said
most of the damage was done
to lumber owned by Maple
Flooring Co. of Charlotte,
which was putting a new floor
on the gym.
Wilson said the blaze was
discovered by a teacher, E. T.
Clark. Clark saw the fire about
midnight from his home on
West New York Avenue. He
telephoned the^ principal, arid
the principal telephoned the
fire department.
The damage estimate was
made by Fire Chief Pete C.
Rapatas.
If the alarm had come in
five minutes later. Fireman
(Continued on Page 6)
County Contest
Judging Planned
The judging in the Moore
County Comrnunity Develop
ment Contest lor 1965-66 will
be held October 27, county
Assistant Farm Agent Wayne
Adams Jr. announced last
weekend.
The winners will be an
nounced at a dinner meeting
November 3 starting at 6:30
pm.
Three judges will study im
provements residents of the
five participating communities
have made in the past contest
year. Bill Bowers of Troy,
Montgomery County resources
development agent, and Bill
Landau, news editor of The
Pilot, have been named
judges. The third will be an
nounced later.
properties from their present
class of residential single
family.
The borders of the area af
fected run like this:
—From the corner of Shel
don Road and Shields Street
on Shields to Ridge Avenue.
—On Ridge Avenue to Bra
den Street.
—On Braden to Petty Street.
—On Petty to Yadkin Road.
—On Sheldon to Shields.
The Planning Board made
the recommendation last
month on the request of John
Dawson, who owns about five
acres in the affected area. The
board included properties
amounting to about five city
blocks in the area, in recom
mending the amendment.
Dawson bought the property
and established a horse stable
on it before the present zoning
ordinance was enacted last
May. Under the new ordi
nance, Dawson was not per
mitted to build an extension
to his stable or a fenced retain
ing track within his property
as he had planned, because his
property was in the residential
single family zone. Agricul
tural activities and facilities
are banned in that zone. The
residential agricultural zone
ordinance permits agricultur
al pursuits and, under stated
set-back limits, construction of
associated structures. How
ever, the ordinance also sets
area limits in the zone to
a minimum 200,000 square
feet—^abput five acres where
agricultural pursuits are plan
ned. For example, construction
would, moL be permitted on a
lot of only'one acre.
Dawson told the council that
roads separate all sides of his
property from other land so
(Continued on Page 6)
Moore County is •one of the
12 counties in the state which
have been selected for trying
out a new state 4-H program
called Operation Expansion.
Moore and Catawba coun
ties have been designated by
N. C. State Agricultural Ex
tension Service leaders in the
Southwestern District. Two
counties have been picked
from each of the Extejision
Service’s six districts.
Four members of the Exten
sion Service staff in Moore
were in Raleigh this week for
discussions of the new pro
gram with state leaders. The
Moore people are County Ex
tension Chairman F. D. Allen
Mrs. Amelia Capehart, Negro
home economics agent; Miss
Emma Jean Lawrence, assist
ant home economics agent; and
Wayne Adams Jr., assistant
farm agent.
The details of the new pro
gram were not available this
week.
Meanwhile, county Exten
sion assistant agents are work
ing to enroll at least 300 more
Moore boys and girls in new
clubs by the end of this year.
The goal is a total of at least
1,000 in 52 clubs with approxi
mately 700 members.
SHARON BEAL
Accident Takes
Life Of Young
Vass Resident
A 20-year-old girl was killed
early Friday when her 1966
Ford Mustang went out of
control and overturned a half
mile east of Vass, the State
Highway Patrol reported.
The victim was Miss Eliza
beth Sharon Beal of Vass, an
employee of John C. Muse
and Co. of Southern Pines.
Patrolman G. L. Cain re
ported the accident happened
on a curve of Lobelia Road,
the car caught fire in the
accident with Miss Beal still
in the vehicle. Another motor
ist, Dennis Foster of Vass, saw
(Continued on Page 6)
'Messiah' Rehearsals
Will Begin Sunday
Speaking for the Sandhills
Community Chorus, Mrs. John
A. McPhaul this week an
nounced that the chorus and
soloists will- again this year
present Handel’s sacred ora
torio, “Messiah,” in the Vil
lage Chapel in Pinehurst, at
4 pm Sunday, December 4.
Sunday afternoon rehear
sals, from 2 to 4 pm, will start
October 16, with all former
members of the chorus and all
interested persons wh'o would
like to join the chorus invited.
Fire Drills,
Parade Mark
Local Program
Fire drills, a school slogan
contest, poster displays and a
Friday parade mark the lo
cal observance of National
Fire Prevention Week this
week by the Southern Pines
Volunteer Fire Department.
Firemen J. F. Frye, in
charge of the arrangements for
the observance, reported this
week that the parade will
start at 4 pm at the town
park and be held on Broad
Street.
Junior fire marshals, vol
unteer firemen, high school
bands and town fire fighting
equipment are among the peo
ple and units wh'o will com
pose the parade.
The winners of the contest
to write the best slogan about
fire safety will be announced
either before or after the par
ade, Frye said. Merchants are
donating prizes for the stu
dents who place first, second
and third. The contest is for
students of the East and West
Southern Pines schools and
St. Anthony of Padua School
in the fifth through eighth
grades.
Also during the weeklong
observance, fire drills were
scheduled for the town public
schools and St. Anthony’s to
day and Thursday.
A movie, “In Case Of Fire,”
will be shown in the schools
Thursday.
Open House will be held at
the Fire Department on Thurs
day and Friday, from 8 am till
5 pm.
The junior fire marshal
program, for students in the
third and fourth grades, is
sponsored by Hobbs Insurance
Agency.
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.
Oct. 5 79 59
Oct. 6 68 54
Oct. 7 70 53
Oct. 8 77 39
Oct. 9 81 47
Oct. 10 84 58
Oct. 11 77 40