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Two blind orphan girls from Vietnam re cently visited Southern Pines. Story and photo on Page 1, Sec tion 2. An old custom of welcoming in each new year by shooting and chant ing is described on Page 1, Sec tion 3. VOL.—47 NO. 8 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1967 TWENTY PAGES PRICE; 10 CENTS ' AIR FbRCE GUEST Aberdeen Writer First Woman To Ride RF-4 Miss Page Shamburger of Aberdeen, the only woman to fly into the eye of a hurricane on purpose, last Thursday be came the first woman to fly in the free world’s fastest-flying, highest flying plane. The plane is the Air Force’s RF-4 Phantom, which went to active duty only in 1965. Miss Shamburger climbed 4 FIRE DEATHS Elks Back Tund For Five’ Aiding r Boys’ Families Southern Pines Elks Lpdge ! No. 1692 is receiving contribu tions that the lodge will turn over to an already-started “Fund for Five” to help pai the huge hospital and medic * bills of five Hoke County fam ilies for treatment of burns sustained by five boys in a camping accident. Four of the boys, all 13, died —some of them after lengthy, hospitalization. The fifth, though hospitalized, was less severely burned. Dr. Boyd Starnes, chairman of the effort for the lodge, said that checks should be made to Elks Lodge No. 1692, with no tation on them that the dona tion is for the Fund for Five. Three Hoke County men are acting as general chair men for the fund and contri butions may also mailed di rectly to P.O. Box 299 at Rae- ford. All the famlijj^ live in the Ashley Heights|^mmuni- ty of Hoke, betweenAberdeen and McCain. Acting as community chair men for the Elks eifo>t, in ad dition to Dr. StarnfJ? here, are Mrs. A. N. Derouib ,in Pine- hurst and Russell "Smith in Carthage. The boys who succumbed are Clarkson Alien, Jack Criss- man, Harry Pickier and David Womble. The survivor of the tent fire in which the boys were burned is Harry Lee Thornberg, also 13. Other details of the fund ap peared in last week’s Pilot and The Pilot carried full stories about the tragedy after the fire took place. Many Expected At YDC Meeting Jerry Cole, president of the Moore County Young Demo cratic Club, said this week that tickets are on sale for the club’s dinner meeting to be held at the Carthage Hotel in Carthage on Thursday, Jan uary 12, at 7 pm. State Highway Chairman Joe Hunt of Raleigh will be the guest speaker and Cole said early indications are that the dining room would be full for the occasion. aboard the two-jet plane at Shaw Air Force Base near Sumter, S. C. at 1:30 pm, then rode on a one-hour, 32-minute practice photo-reconnaissance mission on a 288-mile course over-the Sumter area. She said the Air Force told her only in general terms how high and how fast the Phantom can go — 1,600 - plus” miles per hour and 60,000-“plus” feet up. But, she said, on this trip the pilot. Col. Lester Alum- baugh, held the craft down to speeds of about 600 miles per hour—specifically, one tenth of one per cent less than the speed of sound. She said the reason was that he wanted to avoid creating sonic booms at the relatively low altitudes they flew much of the time over farms. At about 700 feet above ground, the “boom” is very powerful. She said the craft also flew at high altitudes part of the time. The trigger-operated camera photographed, for ex amples, a power plant at Can ady, S. C., from about 700 feet. The Phantom is adaptable o work either as a fighter-bomb er or as a reconnaissance ship. For combat work, stripped of its recon equipment it can carry 16,000 pounds of missiles and bombs. For recon, it can defend itself also, but its equipment predominantly con sists of cameras and other de- viceSi For reconnaissance missions, the plane’s cameras include one infra-red type. This one can ‘isee” anything on the ground. It detects objects un- .-das-pAturaJ or artificial camou flage, for examples, from the heat the objects themselves radiate. A Phantom’s infra-red camera can-photograph a con voy of troop-carrying trucks travelling at night under a thick canopy of jungle growth. The heat from the motors gives the vehicles away. “What was the most interest ing part of the experience?” she was asked in an inter view here Monday for the Pi lot. “The most startling,” she said, “was all the stuff they put you in.” First she was put in a Mae West (lifesaving jacket in case she was dumped into deep water). Then came a parachute har ness. Then she was strapped in a plane, and with many straps. One was attached to a sur vival kit, one set was a regular aircraft seat belt, another set was a shoulder harness. Another pair of straps se cured her legs to the ejection seat. There were other straps. “It must be terrible for any body with claustrophobia,” she said. “No part of you is stick ing out. You wear gloves and a helmet.” The helmet even has a (transparent) visor that cov ers the eyes. The rider also (Continued on Page 6) SHARE TITLE — Sharing the Father and Son Golf Championship last week at the end of the 1966 Donald J. Ross Father and Son Tournament at Pinehurst were, left to right: James P. Trotter and son. Bo, 17, of Columbus, Ga., and Peter Pottle, 16, and his father, John Pottle, of Southern Pines and Linville. The trophy is the Father and Son Bowl. The two teams tied with a 69 each. (Hemmer photo) Reeves Heads Pinehurst Community Foundation; 1966 Activities Noted The Pinehurst Community Foundation’s fourth annual meeting was held last Wed nesday evening in the Village Chapel Hall. The following of ficers and trustees were elect ed for the coming year: John M. Reeves, chairman; Harry M. Taylor, president; Warner L. Atkins, Mrs. John E. Dixon, vice presidents; Wal ter D. Robins, treasurer; Thom as J. Connolly, assistant treas urer; W. Fay Neville, secre tary; and John R. Burr, assist- Dates For Blood Donation Noted Persons planning to give blood at the next bloodmobile visits to Moore County—and all persons who have signed pledge cards to give—are re minded by Col. John Dibb, county blood program chair man, that these visits will take place at Carthage on February 2 and at Southern Pines on February 3. There must be extensive blood donations, he pointed out, if the blood program which serves both hospitals in the county is to be saved. ant secretary. Trustees are: W. B. Fore man, Henry Justi, Jr., Mrs. A. J. Lacey, Erie G. Christian, Adm. Thomas C. Ragan and Richard S. Tufts. Mr. Taylor presided during the meeting. Accomplishments of the Foundation for the past year were discussed and ob jectives and projects establish ed for the coming year. For publication, Mr. Taylor summarized the events and accomplishments of the past year as follows: The Foundation has been in volved in providing financial and individual assistance in connection with the Recrea tion Associations of Pinehurst and Taylortown, scholarships for nurses, a nursery day school in Taylortown, the Sandhill Visiting Nurse Asso ciation, Given Memorial Li- (Continued on Page :6) NO PTA MEETING There will be no January meeting of the East Southern Pines Parent-Teacher Associ ation, it was announced this week by Mrs. Robert Leland, president. The group normally meets the second Monday night of each month. Club Formed To Support College Sports Program Sandhills Community Col lege will be host this month to the first meeting of the “Sandbur Club” established to support the college athletic programs, according to Dr. Raymond A. Stone, Sandhills president. No date was set for the proposed meeting. Membership in the club will include citizens of the Sand hills area and other parts of North Carolina who are inte rested in a well rounded sports program for Sandhills College students. Sandhills College teams have competed in inter collegiate athletics in golf, basketball, archery and tennis during the past year. Plans are underway, Dr. Stone said, for a Sandhills College baseball team and scheduled games with colleges throughout the state. The 1966-67 basketball sea son has pitted the Sandhills Spartans against cagers of Mount Olive College, South- wood College, Kings College, the University of South Car olina, Carolina Military Acad emy, Gaston and Southeastern Colleges. In the nine games so far played, the Sandhills Spartans have scored five wins. The Spartans_ will resume their schedule against South eastern College January 7 at Whiteville. The next home game, to be played in the Vass- Lakeview school at Vass, will be Tuesday, January 10, with Montreat Anderson College. Jim Reid, Sandhills College director of physical education, heads the department that of- (Continued on Page 6) WHITESELL BABY FIRST FOR 1967 Moore Counly's "New Year Baby" is Bradley Keilh Whitesell, born at 8:17 a.m., January L at Moore Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst. Weighing eight pounds, 12 and one-half ounces, he is the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Max Whitesell of the Eastwood commun ity. Mother and child were reported to be doing well. No baby was born on January 1 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Southern Pines. Sandhills Dads, Sons Compete In Tourney Sandhills teams competing in last week’s Donald J. Ross Son and Father Golf Cham pionship were: Clyde Mangum, Jr. and Clyde HI, Robert Fish er and son, Gifford, George Pottle and son, John, of South ern Pines; Robert S. Barrett and Bob, Jr., Clarence Edson and son. Cal, and Robert H. Barrett and son, Danny, in ad dition to John Pottle and son, Peter, the co-winners of the event. Four Pinehurst contestants in the 19th Annual Donald Ross Memorial Junior Golf Championship the previous day were Jeff Stewart, Bob Barrett, Jr., Cal Edson and Danny Barrett. !A Thieves Get Uninstalled Furnishings Moore County sheriff’s of ficers are hunting for the thieves who stole about $350 worth of new, crated furnish ings from a home under con struction in the Highland' Trails area on East Indiana Avenue Extension last week. Chief Deputy H. H. Grimm said a counter-top range, an oven and an exhaust-heat hood were stolen from the nearly completed home of W. D. Ezell of Southern Pines late December 7 or early Decem ber 28. He said the loss was discovered the morning of December 28 by the owner. How the thieves got into the house, the officer said, has not been learned. A thief or thieves stole $2 to $3 from a soft-drink vend ing machine and an Italian- made, white-handled pistol late December 28 or early De cember 29 at Quality Oil Co. of Eagle Springs after failing to crack the company’s office safe. Deputy Grimm said the at tempt to open the safe was abandoned after screws at the hinges were knocked off and the wouldbe cracksman could make no more progress. He said the thief or thieves got into the building through a door on the side where the loading ramp is situated. He said a glass pane was broken out of the door and the door (Continued on Page 6) 2 Men Charged With Stealing Graham Antiques Two young men face hear ings in Moore County Record er’s Court January 9 on charges of breaking into the old Graham home at Jackson Springs and stealing antiques. Chief Deputy Sheriff H. H. Grimm reported. He said some of the stolen articles were found at the res idences of the defendants— Jerry Garner, 22, of the Rob bins area and Franklin Ken nedy, 28, of Asheboro, former ly of the Robbins community. The officer said both were ar rested the afternoon of De cember 27 at their homes. Deputy Grimm said each is free under $500 bail on charges of breaking and entering and larceny. He said one of the two muz zleloading rifles reported stol en in the December 1 break- in was found in Kennedy’s apartment in Asheboro. Found in Garner’s home, the ■officer said, were these an tiques, reported stolen from the Graham home; a muzzle loading rifle, a .32 calibre rifle, a string harp, a set of sheep shears, a set of fire tongs, a muzzle-loading pistol and two rocking chairs. He said the Graham home is no longer occupied but still furnished. He said the thief or thieves got into the house by kicking open a back door and breaking the latch. He said the break-in was discovered by Hector Graham of Jackson Springs, a member of the family that owns the property. Deputy Grimm said members of the family were unable to determine yet what (Continued on Page 6) 150,000 Given To MM Hospital For Care Unit A gift of 50,000 to provide an intensive care unit for Moore Memorial Hospital in Pine hurst has been announced by hospital officials, according to Duncan McGoogan, adminis trator. Donors are Mr. and Mrs. V/alter G. Robms of New York City and Pinehurst. Mr. Rob ins, before his retirement, was a senior officer of the Bank ers ’Trust Company. They live on Midland Road. Location for the new unit, which is now in the planning stage, will be in the large wait ing area 'of Tufts Hall, on the new Clement Monroe Wing’s first floor. Mr. McGoogan said that a trip was made last week to Watts Hospital in Durham to inspect the intensive care unit there, and similar trips are planned to other institutions before final plans are com pleted for M'oore Memorial’s new unit. The Southern Pines firm of Hayes-Howell and As sociates, architects for the new wing which was completed about two years ago, is work ing on the project. The concept of intensive care units is evolving rapidly, Mr. McGoogan explained. Such units are becoming es tablished as an integral part of the care which both the lay and medical community ex pect from a hospital. Interest in such units, he said, stems from four interlocking factors: the shortage of registered nurses, particularly of skilled private-duty nurses: the rising cost of hospital care; the suc cess of the “recovery room” (this facility having grown during the years since World War II from an experimental status to a part of routine (Continued on Page 6) Judge Returns From Hospital Superior Court Judge John D. McConnell of Country Club Drive returned home Thurs day from North Carolina Me morial Hospital. He had been under treatment there since December 14 for injuries suf fered in a traffic accident De cember 12 three miles north of Ramseur. Judge McConnell was taken to the Chapel Hill hospital from Randolph Memorial Hos pital in Asheboro where he was first admitted following the two-car collision. Board Studying Aid For County Rescue Squads The Moore County commis- sroners Tuesday found money in the county Civil Defense fund tabbed for the county’s hard-pressed rescue squads. Commissioners’ chairman John M. Currie decided to ask the county Civil Defense di rector, Col. Alfred M. Koster, to request the board to give Historical Group To Meet On January 23 The Moore County Historical Association will meet at the Campbell House on E. Con necticut Ave. here, Monday, January 23, at 7:30 pm, H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, president, has announced. Blue said that a program is being prepared by a commit tee composed of John A. Mc- Phaul, Mrs. James Boyd and Mrs. Kate Ferguson. All interested persons are invited. DIMES MARCH IS LAUNCHED Moore County's annual March of Dimes campaign, to raise funds for the Na tional Foundation, is get ting started, to continue during the month of Jan uary, with J. Frank Mc- Caskill of Pinehurst as county drive chairman. Community chairmen are being appointed. A list of the chairmen, not yet complete, appears else where in today's Pilot. Once famed for extens ive work that has nearly eradicated the scourge of polio, the National Foun dation, is now engaged in a broad program of re- serach in the causes and alleviation of birth defects. The chairman has issued a request for continued support through the March of Dimes. Appeal letters will be sent out. Weekly Review Summarizes 1966 News Stories headlined week by week give highlights of Moore County’s history in 1966. Dates’ given betow are not necessarily those of the events but of the newspaper issue in which they appeared: JANUARY 6 — Commissioners discuss hiring county manager, OK capital outlay funds for High- falls School. . . Delegation of Negro leaders asks commis sioners to give them greater share in county government. . . Mexican youths depart after four-week holiday in Southern Pines. . . Sandhills Communi ty College trustees reelect of ficers. . . Mrs. Nannie Walden Foster of Taylortown dies at 105. 13—Quality Mills, Inc., of Mt. Airy announces decision to build new plant at Carthage . . . North M'oore Consolidated High school dedicated. . . Campbell Estate is handsome gift to Southern Pines. . . First highway fatality of year— Raymond Darrell Brown of Robbins, killed in accident near West End. 20—Superior Court Judge Robert M. Gambill hears school taxpayer suit. . . Com- misroners authorize night man on duty in sheriff’s office. . . Sam C. Harrison wins South ern Pines’ Jaycees Distinguish ed Service Award. . . W. J. (Bunch) Sheffield becomes act ing postmaster at Pinehurst; . . . 'Thieves again raid Louise Garnier’s Country Club Fash- ions on Midland Road. 27—Judge Gambill denies petition in school taxpayer suit . . . Site on 15-501 chosen for Area III consolidated school. . . Snow blankets Sandhills, in terrupts criminal term. . . Troop 223, Southern Pines, wins Storey Award. . . United Telephone Co. of Carolines announce expansion plans, j FEBRUARY 3—New snowfall in Sand hills with mercury 6 above zero. . . County records being microfilmed under State pro gram. . . Mike Atkins of Cam- bron, James E. Pai-ker, Jr., of Southern Pines wounded in Vietnam. . . Aberdeen goes dry, leak in water line found after hours’ search in snow. . . Arrest made in Mock robbery case, some of stolen silver re covered. . . Pood Stamp Plan approved fcr Moore. . . Ray mond E. Beasley, retired edu cator, 'of Vass Rt. 2, and John A Lang, Sr., retired US com missioner, of Carthage, pass. 10—National Peach Council, convening in Charlotte with Clyde Auman ■of West End as president, visits Moore Coun ty. . . Calvin McKenzie, 42, dies in house fire at Eastwood. Everett Horrell is Pinehurst Lions’ “Man of Year” . . . Sandhills Unit No 4, Moore County Rescue Squad, starts campaign to raise funds for building. . . Voit Gilm'ore files for reelection to State Senate. 17 — Sandhills Community College holds classes in newiy (Continued on Pg. 3, Sec. 2) Commissioners Add Two Banks As Depositories The Moore County commis sioners added two banks as depositories lor county funds Tuesday at their January meeting at the courthouse in Carthage. The action was taken in un animous vote of the four com missioners attending to adopt a resolution declaring four banks qualified as depositor ies. The additions are the Bank of Biscoe, which has a branch in Moore County at Robbins; and Southern Nation al Bank of North Carolina. Already depositories were The Citizens Bank and Trust Com pany of Southern Pines and Carolina Bank. The monthly meeting of the board of county commissioners originally was scheduled for Monday but was postponed a day because Monday was the New Year’s Day holiday. Commissioner C. Wiley Pur vis was absent because of the death of his son, Graham Pur vis of High Falls, on Monday. Attending the meeting were Board Chairman John M. Currie of Carthage and Com missioners Floyd Cole of West End, Robert Ewing of South ern Pines and W. Sidney Tay lor of Aberdeen. The commissioners took un der advisement a request for aid in establishing new facili ties for the Moore County Li brary. The request was made by the Moore County Friends of the Library. Sam Poole said feder al funds would pay 49 per cent of the construction costs. He said total cost of construc tion would be approximately $96,000; the cost of furnishings $15,000; and the site approxi mately $10,000. Mrs. Estelle Wicker, county (Continued on Page 6) Man, Woman Are Injured In Crash On NC 22 Two people were injured seriously about 5:20 pm Tues day in a two-car collision sev eral miles n'orth of Southern Pines on NC 22 near Littie River Farms about a mile south of US 15-501, the State Highway Patrol reported. Paul Priest, 29, and Mrs. Jeannette Gaines of Southern Pines were admitted to Moore Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Gaines’ condi tion was termed critical late this morning (Wednesday) by a h'ospital spokesman. Priest’s condition was described as not critical. He suffered a fracture of the left leg and right arm, the hospital report said. The nature of Mrs. Gaines’ injur ies was not available before Pilot press time. State Highway Patrolman W. J. Tomberlin said the vic tims were the only people in the autos. He said both cars were total losses. The woman was driving a 1965 or 1966 Oldsmobile, he said, and Priest was driving a Pontiac, believ ed a 1956 model. He said the impact knocked the motor and transmission 48 feet, and the Pontiac’s front was driven virtually to the windshield. The cause and other details of the accident were not de termined, he said, and his in vestigation was continuing. $250 to each of the four squads. The subject came up at the commissioners’ regular Jan uary meeting in the court house at Carthage. The Civil Defense organiza tion has a total of $1,979.19 in equipment allocations labelled for the rescue squads. Of this $1,000 in all is labelled for a flat cash grant for all four. The decision to ask Col. Kos ter about issuing the funds was made after W. D. (Bill) Stutts 'of Robbins told the com missioners that he didn’t know how long the volunteer, un paid squadmen could stand the increased work pace and ex pense brought on by their pro viding emergency ambulance services. Stutts is liaison of ficer for the county squads. Five of the county’s six fun eral homes dropped ambu lance service last October 31. W. K. Carpenter Jr. of Pine- bluff instituted a private serv ice to help fill the gap. The re.scue squads have been pro viding assistance, in addition to their regular rescue work. Stutts said the Robbins res cue squad alone has made 31 ambulance calls since early November at a cost in equip ment and fuel of $1,200. He said these calls had the men working a total of 153 hours. In between these calls, he said, were three calls for rescue services. The rescue squad volunteer, he said, does not have a lot of money. When an ambulance needs a new tire, he said, the rescue men have to dig into their own pockets to get it. ’The beneficiaries of R'ob- bins rescue squad ambulance service, he said, have not paid for the service, except in four instances, since he started in rescue work in 1958. Stutts said the people of the (Continued on Page 6) TO MRS. MOORE WWI VETS TO MEET The regular meeting of Bar racks 1443. Veterans of World War I, will be held Sunday, January 8, at 2:30 pm at the American Legion Hut, E. Maine Ave. Southern Pines. Local Man’s Letter Hits Liquor Laws A letter sent last week by a local man to Mrs. Dan K. Moore, wife of North Car- onlina’s Governor, has focused state-wide attention on North Carolina’s liquor law, parti cularly its threat to resort operations. Following an invitation over Mrs. Moore’s signature to join a week’s bus trip to Florida later this month, sponsored by the N. C. Travel Council “to help carry the North Carolina message outside the State,” Richard W. Davenport of Southern Pines replied that he couldn’t go along because he and others in the hospitality field have to stay home and" try to “do something construc tive concerning the ridiculous alcoholic beverage situation in this state.” As this situation stands now, the State Supreme Court, backed up by the U. S. Su preme Court, has ruled that liquor can be consumed no where but in the home of the purchaser and can be trans ported only from the ABC store to the home. Mr. Davenport received wide favorable reaction when copies of his letter were re leased to news media. Two television stations came here to interview him in his home on Inverness Road in Sandavis and his action was front-page or prominently displayed news in many papers. He was not available for comment this (Wednesday) morning, but an associate said he had received (Continued on Page 6) 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. Dec. 28 44 27 Dec. 29 59 33 Dec. 30 48 13 Dec. 31 43 33 Jan 1 48 36 Jan. 2 51 39 Jan. 3 49 43
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