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I* <{GI<n(ion Studei;? from the ages of 18 to 65 i using the “learning laborator at Sandhills College. See Page Sec. 3 ^^qicond Cor^fiaqa ^ , ^^Mleopqs. Cameron plj Lok«vi»*Vass r 1 Ja4soo^p|n;fcl*cl-/N'daara/ plerbe Pm ^nes' acen ILOT Citizens of Southern Pines are urged to take part in an Area III school curriculum study. See Page 1, Sec. 2. VOL.—46 NO. 49 TWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1966 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE; 10 CENTS MISHAP TERMED UNAVOIDi LE Boy Injured Faulty In Traffic Accicknt A three-year-old boy was injured fatally about 4:30 pm Saturday when he moved into the path of an auto on North Saylor Street near the West New Jersey Avenue intersec tion, Southern Pines police said. The child, John Cameron Blue of 440 W. New Jersey Aberdeen Man Killed In Crash Near Raeford An Aberdeen taxi driver was injured fatally Sunday morn ing just west of Raeford when his cab and a private auto col lided, State Highway Patrol man E. W. Coen reported. The officer said the victim was Lacy Cleveland Patter son, 52, of Aberdeen. He said the car, driven by Sherman Elgin Angus of Fort Bragg, crossed the center line of US 401 and struck Patter son’s taxi headon. Eugene Reddric and James F. Murchison, both of Aber deen, riding in Patterson’s car, were treated at Cape Fear Hospital in Fayetteville for in juries suffered in the collision. The officer said Angus and his passenger, John Flaws, both Fort Bragg soldiers, were treated at Womack Hospital at Fort Bragg. Armed Forces Induction Set.. For Moore Men Thirty young men from Moore County, some of them husbands, will be inducted October 27 at Raleigh, Mrs. Doris B. Davis, chairman of the county Selective Service Board, said last weekend. She said 37 others will re port October 21 for their arm ed forces physical examina tions to determine fitness for active service. They will re turn home after being ex amined. Mrs. Davis said the county board—Local Board No. 64— seeks oldest single men first in efforts to fill monthly quo tas. Young married men are picked to fill quotas when the number of available eligible bachelors is insufficient, she said. Childless married men who have been called range about (Continued on Page 6) Ave., died in lore Memorial Hospital about minutes after he was admitte A doctor at tributed his detj to a skull fracture. A Moore Coity coroner’s jury decided Moiay night in an inquest that le accident was unavoidable. Larry Wilson Iwsome, 24, of 1041 N. Leak Sttestified at the coroner’s inque the child appeared suddenly-, front of his auto as he wa driving north on Saylor .reet be tween 20 and 25 des per hour. He said he immedv.ely ap plied his brakes, stoifed, and got out of the auto, hen he saw the child under thcar, he said, and asked one^f the many people who we con verging on the scene > tele phone for an ambulani and the police. Newsome said he hat just driven over the crest of ;low hill from a dip when he sa the top of the child’s head jusbe- fore his car struck the boj Police Chief Earl Seahll testified he found skid mars of the car’s tires 15 feet to \e point where the child ws struck and 10 feet beyond, fe said the accident happen^ several feet north of the nort side of the intersection. Chief Seawell said the chih was six feet “into” the road when the accident occurred. ii Cooley Tours Moore County; Gardner Visit Slated Friday PI *1 FORMAL OPENING — John Woltz (second from right), Quality Mills presi dent, cuts the ribbon at the company’s Car thage plant. The other men are (from the lelt) Robiil Whitlield, SUIe Depaiimcnt ot Conservation and Development; Carthage Mayor L. L. Marion Jr.; and Carthage plant manager James Midkiff. (Moore County News photo) PRESIDENT SEES BRIGHT FUTURE Quality Mills Plant Dedicated Approximately 100 people, including More County govern ment and civic leaders, saw John Woltz of Mount Airy ■The'dirg7amlhe“okcerused symbolically open the new at the inquest showed the boy Quality Mills plant near Car- was in the roadway six feet thage Saturday morning. Woltz, president of Quality Mills Co., ceremonially cut the red ribbon spanning the main entrance of the one-story building on US 15-501. The ceremony was held after west of the sidewalk curb. Newsome testified, “It hap pened so fast. Just all of a sudden I saw the child in front (Continued on Page 6) REGISTRATION CONTINUING Registration for voting in the November 8 elec tion will continue through Saturday, October 29, with registrars at polling places Saturday of this week and next week. Required to register, in order to vote, are new voters, persons moving into the state or county or persons not registered in the precinct where they now reside. Southern Pines voters are cautioned that regis tration for a municipal election does not qualify for voting in a general election. Local polling places are the fire station, municipal building and Jackson Mo tors in the Pinedene com munity just south of town. EVENT FOR OLDSTERS ALSO SCHEDULED 4 Of 6 Former Champions To Play In Women’s N. & S. Seniors Golf "OR COLLEGE Mrs. McLeod Is H^ead Of Nurse Course Board Te Advisory Committee for the Associate Degree Nurses Eduiition Program of Sand hills Community College met last /eek in the Conference Room of the Administration Buildig on the campus. Mrs. K. A. McLeod, director of nursinj Moore Memorial Hos pital, linehurst, was elected chairmsi of the group, reports Dr. Raynond A. Stone, presi dent of he College. The Advisory Committee members are all specialists in the field if medicine, nursing, education,and hospital admin istration. They include D. L. McGoogan, administrator of Moore Meporial Hospital; J. S. Lennon, administrator of the N. C. Saiitorium, McCain; Sister Mary Clara, director of nursing ser\ice, St. Joseph of the Pines hospital. Southern Pines; and Mrs. Betty Wilson, Hamlet, president of District 12, N. C. Nurses Association Also Dr. A A. Vanore, Rob bins; Dr. Edward M. Sipple, Dr. F. L. Owens, and Dr. Ro bert Siege, all of Southern Pines; Dr. H. Morris Caddell, (Continued on Page 6) Four out of six former cham pions are returning for the 9th annual Women’s N'orth and South Invitation Seniors Championship, a 72-hole stroke play golf tournament to be held October 25-27, at the Pinehurst Country Club. Only Miss Maureen Orcutt, who took the title in 1960, ’61 and ’62 and inaugural winner, Mrs. Harrison Flippin, will be miss ing. Practice rounds will be held Monday, October 24, with the first round of championship play teeing off early Tuesday morning. Eighteen holes will be played daily, with finals on Thursday. Defending champion Mrs. Reinerf M. Totgerson of Forest Hills, N. Y., is expected to meet strong competition from 1959 titleist Mrs. Charles F. Barth olomew of Brookline, Mass., winner of the 1963 US Wom en’s Seniors title; ■ 1964 winner Mrs. John S. Haskell of Titus ville, Pa., who took the title in her first N-S Senior tourney; and Canadian senior golfer Miss Ada McKenzie of Rich mond Hill, Ont, a former Can adian Amateur champion who captured the N-S Senior crown in 1963. Other strong contenders are Mrs. G. Blair Gordon of Mon treal; Mrs. Paul H. Streit, Chevy Chase, Md.; Mrs. Rob ert M. Monsted, New Orleans, La.; Miss Betty Abernathy, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. George Brady of Greenwich, Conn.; (Continued on Page 6) IN HEALTH DEPT. Miss Mary Swett Retires; Robbins Resident Named Miss Mary Swett of South ern Pines has retired as pub lic health nurse with the Moore County Health Depart ment, after serving in that position for more than 20 years. Mrs. Mary Dawkins Brown of Robbins, formerly a nurse at Moore Memorial Hospital, has been appointed to the va cant public health nurse post, said Dr. A. G. Siege, director of the health department, with headquarters at Carthage. Mrs. Brown has had two weeks of special training with the Cumberland County Health Department, in connec tion with her new work, and will continue with in-service training. Dr. Siege said. A certificate of appreciation for her long and faithful serv ice has been given to Miss Swett by the Moore County Board of Health. Her co-work ers in the department have presented her with a Paul Re vere silver bowl. Tournament Played Despite Rain Some players made their rounds this morning at the Pinehurst Country Club, de spite the rain, in the 15th an nual North and South Invita tional Seniors Golf Champion ships. Today’s results were un available for publication before the Pilot’s press deadline. Curtis Person of Memphis, Tenn., and Richard H. Guelich Jr. of Buffalo, N. Y., shared the medal honors going into today’s play. Each fired 143— one under par—in the 36-hole qualifying rounds of Monday and Tuesday. Person was medalist in the US Golf Association Seniors Tournament this year and was runnerup last year. He shot 71 and 72 in the qualifying rounds at Pinehurst. Guelich, reigning Trans- Mississippi seniors champion, had 70 and 73. Runnerup by a stroke was David (Spec) Goldman of Dal las, Texas, international and Western seniors chamnion, with 74-70. Knox Young of Pittsburgh, (Continued on Page 6) Rhoades, Hodge Operating Firm A & R Investments, Inc., of which Jerry Rhoades of South ern Pines is president, has opened! a subsidiary firm Hodge Carpet Co., in the Rhoades Building on S. W. Broad St. Active himself in the busi ness, he is operating in associ-1 Pilot, ation with Cornell Hodge, who is in charge of service. The location was formerly occupied by Jamar Carpets, Inc. Mrs. Rena Matthews, wife of J. H. Matthews of Southern Pines, and Mr. Rhoades’s wife, Kay, are in charge of sales of carpet and draperies and offer interior decorating services. CHAPEL RECITALS he told the audience of men, women and children at the program dedicating the plant: — Quality Mills’ future in Carthage is “very bright.’’ — The parent management was confident that a $1 mil lion increase in the payroll in the Quality chain would come next year. — The company will need more than 1,000 more employ ees by 1970. — A new sewing plant is planned for 1968 and a new distribution center for next year. (The locations were not disclosed.) — More than 1,000 people are on the payrolls of the two plants in Mount Airy and the Carthage plant. — The company has grown 875 per cent in operations in the past 10 years and is oper ating 31.5 per cent ahead of the same period last year. The gains, he said, are in people and profits. “I see no reasun why the pace won’t continue,” Woltz said. In relations with its em ployees, the management tries to apply the principle: treat them the way you would want to be treated. The application has been made to the pay schedule, vacation allowances and the profit - sharing pro gram, which was established in 1953, Woltz said. “We want to dedicate this plant today to this philosophy,” he said in ending the dedica tion address just before he walked to the plant door to cut the ribbon. Other speakers included Mayor L. L. Marion Jr. of Car thage; John M. Currie, chair man of the board of county (Continued on Page 5, Sec. 4) Republican Jim Gardner of Rocky Mount returns to Moore County Friday in his campaign for the Fourth District seat in Congress. A 6:30 pm public dinner ral ly at Aberdeen School cafe teria will round out his day. With key figures in his drive for Democrat Harold D. Cooley’s seat, Gardner will at tend a reception at 1:30 pm at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard M. Dorian on Maples Road, Southern Pines. He also will be honor guest at a reception at 5:30 pm at L. C. Burwell’s home in Pine hurst before going to the Aber deen dinner. The schedule was announced yesterday by David Drexel of Southern Pines, county Repub lican chairman. Drexel reported that approx imately 20 Moore County peo ple rode a chartered bus last Saturday to the Nash County Day program for Gardner in Rocky Mount. He said the bus, which was in a motorcade, also went through Cooley’s home town, Nashville. “We didn’t see a single Cool ey sticker in Nashville” Drex el said. The Moore County people were among the more than 9,- 000 who the Gardner public relations office said attended the Nash County Day activi ties in Rocky Mount, including the chicken and pork barbecue supper. Drexel said Gardner on Oc tober 31 will tour each of Mob're Cburity’s- precincts with the GOP candidates for county end the tour near Robbins at offices. The cavalcade will end the tour near Robbins at a supper. Ernest McKenzie, Re publican chairman for Bensa- lem Precinct, is in charge of the arrangements for the din- Britt Speaks At Vass Rally. Page 2, Sec. 4. ner. First of a series of six organ recitals at the Village Chapel in Pinehurst, by Theodore Keller, organist and director of music there, will be given Sun day at 4 pm, open to the pub lic. The event is also the first of 14 concerts of sacred music scheduled for the winter and spring seasons. Details appear in an item elsewhere in today’s FOWLER TO SPEAK Malcolm Fowler of Lilling- ton, Harnett County historian, will speak at a meeting of the Moore County Historical As sociation in the Campbell House on E. Connecticut Aye., Thursday, October 20, at 7:30 pm. All interested persons are invited. PACE QUICKENS A little less than three weeks before Moore Coun ty voters go to the polls on November 8, the pace of politics is quickening. Congressman Harold Cooley, campaigning to re tain his Fourth District seat against the challenge of Republican Jim Gard ner, had his big day in Moore Iasi Thursday. Gardner's turn comes Fri- d,ay of this week, com:- plete with tour, supper and rally. Drawing top interest in the county races is Repub lican Bob Ewing's chal lenge to Dr. Russell Tate, Democratic nominee for the McNeill Township county commissioner's post. Dr. Tate unseated in cumbent Jim Pleasants in the primary. Other county races pit Democratic incumbent Lynn Martin of Eagle Springs against the GOP's Floyd Cole of West End, for commissioner, while Coolidge Thompson of Pinebluff, Republican, is running against Rep. Clyde Auman of West End for the county's seat in the State House of Repre sentatives. Neighborhood Youth Corps In Area Approved The Sandhills Community Action Program, Inc. announce- that the Neighborhood Youth Corps project has been approved. The program began Monday. This project will entitle 100 persons between the ages of '"^^s 16 and 21 from low-income families in Hoke, Lee, Mont gomery and Moore Counties to work part time at the rate of $1.25 per hour. The enrol- lees will be working in public, non-profit agencies in the SCAP area. Additionally, each enrollee will benefit by the work train ing that he or she will receive while enrolled in the NYC program. Bob Kelly, Jr., SCAP Neigh borhood Youth Corps director said, “The project represents a combined budget of $73,110 and a Federal share of $65,600. Eighty-three per cent of these funds will be salaries that will be paid to working NYC en- rollees in the SCAP area.” The central administrative office of SCAP is in Carthage and interested persons can ob tain further information there. New Sandhills YDC Organized; Officers Named A long-standing factional dispute among Moore County’s Young Democrats resulted in open action last Thursday night when 50 persons met at the municipal building here and organized the Sandhills Young Democratic Club. A spokesman for the new club said most of the group had been members or former mem bers of the Moore County YDC, an organization active in the county for some 30 years. Membership in the new club was listed as 97 by Tuesday and a “newsletter” issued this week said it has been affili ated with the State YDC. Elected president of the new club at the Thursday meeting Mrs. Carolyn Blue of (Continued on Page 6) Blue Named To Slate Cancer Society Post H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, editor and publisher of the Sandhill Citizen and former longtime legislator and Speak er of the N. C. House, was elected first vice president of the North Carolina Division of the American Cancer Society, at the Division’s annual meet ing in Winston-Salem, held Saturday and Sunday. State Sen. Irwin Belk of Charlotte was named presi dent. SHOWS, EXHIBITS ON SCHEDULE County Fair To Open On Monday The 1966 edition of the an nual Moore County Agricultur al Fair will open at 6 p.m. Monday at the fairgrounds on US 15-501 just north of Car thage. It will continue through Saturday . The fair is sponsored by the Carthage Jaycees. Tuesday, however, has been designated as the Grand Open ing Day. All children will be admitted free from noon, when the gates will be opened, until 6 p.m. Approximately $2,000 in premiums will be awarded ex hibitors in competitive shows and displays whose entries are judged best in their classes. The principal events during the week include: —The Moore County Junior Dairy Cattle Show, starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday. —The crowning of the Queen of the Fair Wednesday night by the reigning Miss North Carolina after the countywide high school beauty contest earlier in the day. Girls representing each of the county’s high schools will compete for the queen title. Junior dairy show prizes will be awarded to the animals judged best in each of the breed classes — Ayrshire, Jersey, Guernsey and Holstein. Ribbons and other prizes will be awarded for outstanding en tries in exhibits of field crops, livestock and the traditional homemaking arts. Entries of 4-H club. Future Farmers of America and Future Home-1 Jaycees. makers of America members will be judged in competition, separate from those of adults. A fireworks display will be held every night of the fair, starting at 10 o’clock. The midway rides and other attractions will be provided by the O. C. Buck Shows. The fair’s gates open at 3 p.m. Wednesday — Fun Day; at noon Thursday — School Day; at 3 p.m. Friday — Agri cultural Day; and noon Satur day — Moore County Day. On Wednesday, all school children will be admitted free until 6 p.m. Tony Byrd is chairman of the fair, and Earl Barbour is president of the sponsoring Open House Set For Sunday At Speedway Preliminary events of the second annual American 500 stock car racing program of October 30 start next Sunday with an open house at the North Carolina Motor Speed way just off US 1 about 18 miles southwest of Southern Pines. Fans have been invited by the management to tour the facilitites and drive around the race track on Sunday. The track will be closed to fans Monday for inspection. On the following three days, the track will be open to driv ers for practice during the mornings. Time trials are scheduled for the afternoons of October 26, 27, 28 and 29. A 25-mile consolation race will be held October 29, start ing at 3:30 p.m., to determine the drivers in the 14 positions after position 30. The American 500 is sche duled to start at noon Sunday. Fans can watch the practice runs next Tuesday free of charge. An admission charge will be made the subsequent dayj. (For other details, see the advertisement elsewhere in today’s Pilot.) U. S. Rep. Harold D. Cooley of Nashville took a day off from wprk last Thursday but spent it in a fast-paced tour of Moore County in efforts to keep his work for two more years. The schedule took the Fourth District Democratic congressman and his party from a breakfast session at Horne’s at Aberdeen virtually full circle for handshaking and talks around the county to a night dinner meeting at the Holiday Inn at Southern Pines. At a luncheon at the Carth age Hotel, he told approxi mately 100 county officials, office workers and other lis teners that the pressures of his work in Washington didn’t al- ' low him to campaign 24. hours a day as his opponent (Re publican James (jardner) was doing. “What happens to Harold Cooley,” Cooley said, “is not important. But,” he said, “what happens to his positioni—as a veteran of 22 years with high seniority in Congress and as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee — is.” He said that if he goes, that goes too. He was referring o one result of electing his Re publican opponent, who would be a freshman with no powers that go with seniority in the House. Cooley also said a bill he introduced last January would provide to the underfed two- thirds of the world the techni cal knowledge and tools o help it feed itself. At the same time, he said it would provide American food for the hungry and maintain sound produc tion practices at home. Cooley in the house 22 years, said he never believed Ameri can farm production shoud be cut back when Americas ffiends overseas were going hungry. Of Viet Nam, Cooley said there was no way the US could retire with honor except by coming to an agreement and “we are trying to bring” the enemy to the conference table to end the war. Cooley said that no nation will have faith in US power if the US withdraws from Viet Nam without a peace agree ment. At Southern Pines Friday night, Cooley said his op ponent “has demonstrated his contempt fo rthe opinions of the people of the Fourth Dis trict by refusing to clarify his position on the Viet Nam war.” Cooley quoted Gardner as saying Gardner had no inten tion of responding to Cooley’s charges made the previous Monday. Cooley said he had said at that time that Gard ner’s criticism of American policy in Viet Nam was irre sponsible. Of Gardner’s refusal to re ply, Cooley asked his Thurs day dinner audience: “Is that what the people deserve from a candidate for the United States Congress on a matter (Continued on Page 6) Vance-Ay cock Tickets Ready Tickets for the annual Vance- Aycock dinner in Asheville Oc tober 29—major Democratic fund-raising and fellowship event—are on sale at $25 each, with T. Roy Phillips of Carth age as chairman of sales in Moore County, reports J. Elvin Jackson, Moore Democratic chairman. This county has a quota of 25 tickets, he said. Congressman L. H. Fountain will be the principal speaker. Events of the day run from registration at 10 am through the dinner at 7 pm to a dance at 10, centered in the George Vanderbilt Hotel. INSPECTION Owners of cars with license tags ending in the figure ‘0’ are reminded by the State Motor Vehicles Department that their cars must be safety- checked at an approved loca tion before the end of October, or be held in violation of the inspection law. 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. 12 76 41 Oct. 13 79 41 Oct. 14 80 51 Oct. 15 81 55 Oct. 16 81 64 Oct. 17 80 52 Oct. 18 75 45