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I Moore County’s jail should be replaced, said the Grand Jury, after an inspection last week. Page 2, Section 2. fRolrHwS GlcnJon ^ iic(reonol Caf^fiaqe / t- ^^Mlcopqk Cameron p)! , , Vife^5ndi.ak«vi»*Vass f Dierbe H L. J Faculty committees for varied purposes have been named at Sandhills Community College. Page 3, Section 2. VOL.—47 NO. 12 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES , SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1967 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS OFFICIALS CONFER IN WASHINGTON Year-Round Service Seen Remote At Local Airport m I SAM H. POOLE OF STATE YDC Poole Is Installed President The newly installed presi dent of North Carolina Young Democratic Clubs told an in stallation banquet audience Saturday night the return of young people to the Democra tic Party must be achieved through positive action and positive thinking. Sam H. Poole of Southern Pines addressed the more than 300 YDC members, senior De mocratic Party leaders and other guests at the Holiday Inn here. Mr. Poole, a 32- year-old attorney, ihaintains his law office at Aberdeen. He told the dinner audience that “our eyes must be fixed on the future.” He warned of the “temptation to glorify the past at the expense of the futui;e.” In speaking of'the re turn of youth to the party he was referring to .the Democra tic setbacks in last Novem ber’s state and local elections. The installation dinner was held during the state YDC’s mid-winter meeting. Poole and other state officers elected for 1967 were installed by Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott. Installed with him were Vince Lefler of Willard, vice president, Mrs. Betty Lewis of Chapel Hill, national commit- teewoman; Milton Kern of Greensboro, secretary; and Claude Sitton of Morganton, treasurer. The national committeeman is Lonnie Carey of Burlington, who has another year in office. US Rep. Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana advised the YDC members to keep the question- (Continued on Page 3) Year-round flight service in and out of the Pinehurst- I Southern Pines Airport before ; another few years is doubtful, airport, and communities’ rep resentatives have been told. But they hope to obtain ex- ' tensions of the present October \ 1-April 30 schedule into Sep- i tember and May to serve the ( area’s large convention busi ness in those months. The group representing the Pinehurst-Southern Pines area discussed airline service ex tension last week in Wash ington, D. C., with Charles S. Murphy, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Before then the group talked about the matter with executives of Piedmont Aviation, Inc., of Winston-Salem. Piedmont’s authority to run flights in and out of the area’s airport is ilmited currently to the October 1-April 30 period. Members of the group rep resenting the area in the talks with CAB and Piedmont were W. S. Taylor, chairman of the Moore County Airport Author ity; William P. Davis, a mem ber of the authority; Albert S. Tufts, vice chairman of the board of directors of Pine- hurst, Inc.; and Southern Pines Mayor Norris L. Hodg kins, Jr. MERCHANTS TO MEET MONDAY All business people of the Southern Pines com munity are Invited to at tend the annual meeting of the 'Southern Pines Merchants Council, to be held Monday, February 6, at 8 pm in the municip^ center. Officers and directors for 1967 will 'be elected, said Dante Montesanti, the 1966 chairman of the group. An outstanding matter of interest to come before the meeting will be tenta tive plans for organizing a Chamber of Commerce here. The Chamber pro posal was .announced last week. Several persons active in the Merchants Coun cil have taken part in the Chamber of Commerce planning. Listing For Tax To End Friday Township list takers will be at their regular stations, to list real and' personal property for county (and town) taxes, through 6 pm on Friday of this week, February 3. Thereafter, said Mrs. Estelle Wicker, county accountant and tax supervisor, in Carthage, a 10 per cent penalty will apply and property must be listed at the courthouse in Carthage. Schedules of list' takers are posted in public places or in quiries may be made at police stations or the county accoun tant’s office. Watson Named To Post With County Schools Kirby Watson, superinten dent of Southern Pines schools, has accepted the position of director of federal programs with the Moore County schools, effective July 1, when thp SouthernjPines, Pinehurst and Moore County systems will be merged, it was learned this week from Moore Supt. Rob ert E. Lee.. Three administrators with the city units will continue in their present positions during the year 1967-68, then, follow ing the consolidation of high schools in the new Area HI school to be opened in Sep tember 1968, will continue where they are as principals of elementary schools. These include Supt. Fred G. Lewis of Pinehurst schools; A. K. Perkins, principal of East Southern Pines High school, and H. A. Wilson, principal of West Southern Pines schools. Lee said the appointments followed conferences with the administrators as to their preferences, since all wished to remain in the county and if possible in the communities which they are now serving. Unoffical as yet, they will be made official by the Moore County board of education in the spring when approval is given on the full list of those (Continued on Page 8) AIDING BURNED BOYS' FAMILIES $3,321 Total Given In Tund For Five’ Drive In 2 Counties A total of $3,321.83 ad been donated to the “Fund for Five” when the collection for mally closed Tuesday. The fund was set up to aid the families of four boys who were fatally burned in a Hoke County camping accident last fall with hospital, medical and funeral expenses. Also to be aided is the family of a fifth boy who was burned but sur vived. Dr. Boyd Starnes of South ern Pines, chairman of the Moore County section of the drive on behalf of the South ern Pines Elks Lodge, quoted D. R. Huff, Jr., of Ashley Heights in Hoke County as to the grand total. Of that amount, $1,333.12 was contributed in Moore County, Dr. Starnes said. As sisting with the Elks-sponsor- ed Moore campaign were Mrs. A. N. Derouin of Pinehurst and Harry Davis, representing the Southern Pines Country Club. The Hoke County portion of the drive collected $1,088.76 and the United Fund in Hoke County gave $900. Dr. Starnes expressed ap preciation to all who had do nated or had helped the cam paign in any way. The boys who died were (Continued on Page 8) Cameron Supper To Benefit Fire Dept. A barbecue and fried chick en supper, to be served Satur day, February 4, in the Cam eron School Cafeteria, will benefit the Sponsoring Camer on Rural Fire Department, Inc. Serving will be from 5 to 8 pm. REASONS CITED Support Given Move To Build County Library The county’s recently ofgan- ized Friends of the Library group has voted to support the board of the Moore County Library in its appeal to the County Commissioners for a new library building in Car thage. At a meeting held on Satur day at the Carthage Hotel, Chairman Richard' Slack of the Friends group pointed out that at present, the federal govern ment is paying 49% of the cost of new library construc tion. He urged that applica tion for Federal assistance be made as soon as possible while funds allotted for the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30, are still available. In view of trends in Governrrlent spending, it is likely that funds for this purpose may be reduced after that date, he said. It was unanimously agreed that an efficient county li brary is an essential part of Moore County’s expanding ed ucational system, and that its cost would not be excessive. It would require from the County about $19,000 a year (Continued on Page 8) Mrs. Bessie Beck With Engraved Gift Tray IN CLERK OF COURT OFFICE « Mrs. Beck Recognized For 16-Year Service Former Carthage Youth, 17, Dies Of Gun Wound William Doyle (Bill) Miller Jr., 17, a native of Carthage, was found dead of a gunshot wound about 4:50 pm Monday at his home in Statesville. Iredell County Coroner Bill Baynard ruled the death a sui cide. Statesville Detective Lt. C. R. Lloyd said the elder Miller described the boy as being “very moody” and that he had suspended his driving privi leges Sunday for two weeks because the boy had “talked back” to Mrs. Miller the day before. Lt. Lloyd said the investi gation showed the youth shot himself above the top of the right ear with a .22 caliber single-shot rifle on the back porch of the Miller home, 134 Water Street. He said the youth’s grand mothers, Mrs. Curtis Muse and Mrs. S. R. Miller, found the body when they went to the porch on hearing the shot. The officer said one of the (Continued on Page 8) An informal Monday after noon party in the clerk of court’s office at the court house in Carthage,—complete with a gift, refreshments and spoken tributes—honored Mrs. Bessie Beck of Carthage Tor her service in the office since August, 1950. Mrs. Beck’s resignation from her present post of assistant clerk of court became effective today, February 1. Attending the event—a sur prise to Mrs. Beck who was lured out of the office while preparations were being made —were Clerk of Court Charles M. MacLeod, his office staff, other county officials and em ployees from throughout the courthouse and representatives of the press. Judge J. Vance Rowe ad journed Moore County Re corder’s Colurt, at which he was presiding, to attend the ceremony aMng with Solicitor W. Lamont Brown who with words of praise, presented to Mrs. Beck a silver tray, the gift of the staff of the clerk’s office. The tray is inscribed with her record of service—first as a deputy clerk then an assist ant and as clerk of court from the death of Clerk C. C. Ken nedy last May to Mr. Mac Leod’s assumption of the elec tive office last December 5. She continued as assistant clerk until her resignation to day. Mrs. Beck said that, with a house to keep and two teen age children, she felt she wanted to be home more. She said she had no present plans to take another position. She is the wife of Fred Beck, district engineer with ' the State Highway Division, sta tioned at Carthage. They have a son, Fred, Jr., a freshman at (Continued on Page 8) U.S.G.A. HONORS RICHARD S. TUFTS The Bob Jones Trophy, one of Ihe high awards in golf, went Saturday to • Richard S., Tufts, chair man of the board of Pinp- hurst, Inc. Receiving the award from the US Golf Associa tion at its annual meeting in New York City, was Peter V. Tufts, son of the honored man who could not be present. The award is given an nually for sportsmanship and outstanding contribu tions to the game of golf. The contributions of Rich- ,ard Tufts were cited in last week's presentation. In addition to lifelong promotion of golf at Pine hurst, Mr. Tufts has twice been president of the USGA and has served as chairman of most of its committees. 2 Bloodmobile Visits Slated Residents of Moore County are reminded by Col. John Dibb, chairman of the Red Cross blood program that serves both the county’s hos pitals, that two collections of blood are being made in Moore this week. Tl;ey are; at Carthage on Thursday, February 2, at the Rescue Squad building, from 12 noon to 5:30 pm; and at Southern Pines, Friday, Febr uary 3, at St. Anthony’s School auditorium, from 11 am to 4:30 pm. At least 250 pints must be collected at the two stops. Colonel Dibb said, to bring blood supply up to the amount already used by the hospitals. There’s an editorial about the blood program on page 2 and a detailed story about its pro blems was in last week’s Pilot. STOREY AWARD, COURT OF HONOR SCHEDULED Boy Scout Week To Be Marked Moore County area B'oy Scouts and supporters of Scouting will join the rest of the nation in the annual ob servance of Boy Scout Week starting next Monday. Boy Scout troops and Cub packs will have displays in the show windows of coopera ting businessmen during the week. In the Sandhills District, the Storey Award will be pre sented at a meeting the night of February 8 to the unit judg ed the district’s top troop of 1966. The award is presented annually in memory of the late W. M. Storey of Winston- Salem, stepfather of State Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines. That date is the 57th anni versary of the establishment of the Boy Scouts in the United States by Dan Beard and oth ers. The movement was origi nated in England five years before by Lord Baden-Powell. ’The meeting will be held at Weaver Auditorium at East Southern Pines School starting at 7:30 pm. A Sandhills Dis trict Court of Honor also will be held. Doug David of Pinebluff, district advancement chair man, will be in charge of the honor court program. The Sandhills District is composed of troops. Explorer posts and Cub packs in Aber deen, Southern Pines and Pinebluff, and the areas in be tween; and part of western Hoke County. The units have approximate ly 780 boys. The host for the February 8 meeting will be Troop 223 of Southern Pines. Dr. Bruce War lick is the troop’s scout master. The Sandhills District chair- main is W. E. Samuels Jr. of Southern Pines. The Yadkin Trails District covers the rest of Moore County’s Scout unit. The Scouts’ annual Blue and Gold banquets are being held throughout February, Samuels said. These also will be events during the Scout Week ob servance. Scout Sunday will be ob served at the churches on Feb ruary 12. Scouts will attend their churches in uniform. Bill To Permit Local-Area Liquor Voting Is Planned Legislation authorizing Moore County local areas to vote on whether certain establishments should be licensed tx) serve liquor by the drink probably will be introduced early in the 1967 General Assembly. State Rep. T. Clyde Auman of West End told the Board of Moore County Commissioners Monday at a Carthage meeting that such legislation should be prepared for introduction soon after the legislature convenes February 8. “We should have a bill ready soon as the legislature con- 3 CARS COLLIDE Lakeview Crash Leaves 3 Dead, 6 Others Hurt A three-car collision about 4:30 pm Saturday on US 1 at the Lakeview intersection took three lives and injured six other people. The dead were: John Leason Seawell, 19, of Carthage, Route 1, and John Woodson, 55, of Baltimore, Md., both apparent ly killed outright; and Elijah Woodson, 58, of Baltimore, John Woodson’s brother, who died at 6:20 am Tuesday at Moore Memorial Hospital. Injured were Paul Edward Brady, 24, of Carthage, Route 1, Kenneth Ray Davis, 18, and Elbert Lee Sheffield, 19, both of Robbins, all passengers in the Seawell car; Philip Wood- son, 59, and Rachel Woodson, 48, and Mrs. Elizabeth Heller, 58 of Baltimore, brother and sisters of the Woodsons, pas sengers in the Woodson car. Brady was reported in fair condition late this morning (Wednesday) in Moore Me morial Hospital by a hospital spokesman. His condition was termed critical when he was brought to the hospital after the accident. Sheffield, first treated at Moore Memorial, then transferred to Duke Hos pital at Durham, was reported in fair condition this morning by a Duke Hospital spokes man. At Moore Memorial, Davis and Mrs. Heller were reported in satisfactory condition. The conditions of Philip (Continued on Page 5) Man Hurt Again In Duplicate Of 1963 Wreck , J. D. Arey Jr., 52, of Aber deen was injured about 4 pm Thursday when his station wagon struck a tree near Old Bethesda Presbyterian Church —the same tree another car he was driving struck four years and 16 days before. However, a Moore Memorial Hospital spokesman said his condition was good. He was admitted to the hospital for treatment of his injuries. These included a fracture of the left leg — which was fractured in the first accident. The col lision January 10, 1963, in jured Arey far more seriously. The tree is an old red oak about three feet in diameter standing a few inches from the edge of the pavement of the road running by Old Bethesda Church. The tree is across the road from the church. Instead of cutting down the tree the road builders made a slight swerve in the pavement around it. A narrow rectangular warn ing sign of diagonal, broad black and white stripes stood a few inches from each side of the tree facing traffic coming from each direction, placed there after the 1963 accident. The sign or^^the east .side of the tree was broken off in the impact in Thursday’s crash. Several similar signs are (Continued on Page 8) LEGISLATORS TO GO TO RALEIGH The two state legislators from Moore County—Rep. T. Clyde Auman of West End and! Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines — axe getting ready to go to Raleigh for the opening session of the 1967 session of the General Assembly, Wednesday of next week, February 8. Each is beginning his second term in Raleigh. Auman is Moore Coun ty's single representative in the House and his dis trict is Moore County alone. Gilmore is one of iwo senators from the 19th District which includes Moore, Montgomery, Scot land, Richmond and Davidsont Counties. The 19th District's other senator, w9io is starting his first term, is J. F. "Jeff" Allen of Biscoe in Mont gomery County. Rep. Auman and Sen. Allen last week attended a special meeting of the Moore County commission ers, to discuss legislative matters — details in an accompanying story. Moore School Board Endorses UFE Program The Mo'ore County Board of Education Monday night en dorsed the United Forces for Education legislative program for 1967 and were told that the new Highfalls Elementary School building was planned for completion about mid- March. These matters came up dur ing the board’s January meet ing at N'orth Moore High School. The meeting followed a dinner at the school and a session of the Moore County unit of the North Carolina Ed ucation Association. Dr. R. M. McMillan of Southern Pines, board vice chairman, presided at the board meeting in the absence of Chairman Jere McKeithen Sr. of Aberdeen. John F. Faulk of Austin & Faulk, Architects, of Southern Pines gave the report on the progress of the new elemen tary school, illustrating his de scription with photo slides. He said the work was about two-thirds complete. The UFE legislative program (Continued on Page 8) venes,” he said. “But a lot of things have to be worked out,” he added, “be fore it (a bill) is presented.” “I’ll be for very strict con trol,” Auman also said. The legislator said he “would go along with McNeill, Sand hills and Mineral Springs” townships on authorization for liquor referendums. Later in the meeting, Carthage Mayor L. L. Marion Jr. said there were people who would like to see high-grade restaurants in Carthage permitted to^ serve drinks with ,(dinneij, too. (The liquor-by-the-drink pro ponents have in mind licens ing of top-quality guest ac comodations only. The public neighborhood bar has no place in the picture, they have said.) Currie said the commission ers would discuss among them selves the question of adopting a resolution on the matter. “As far as I’m concerned,” Auman said early in the dis cussion of the liquor problem, “I’m willing to let people make t he choice (in 'local- option referendums).” He said at that point alsd that he wouldn’t care tp see the coun ty commissioners become di rectly involved. Later, he said, local liquor bills face rough sledding in the General Assembly. Countywide bills or legisla tion affecting smaller areas rarely meet opposition in the General Assembly from legis lators outside the areas con cerned. But, Auman said, a legislator draws powerful op position when his local bill concerns liquor. State Sen. Jeff Allen of Montgomery County told the commissioners he would sup port local legislation intro duced by Moore County leg islators, just as they would support his local bills. Allen told the board that he was “not going to Raleigh to vote to make any town wet or dry.” “But,” he added, “I don’t (Continued on Pg. 7, Sec. 2) Commissioners Hear Plans For Water Survey A US Farmers Home Admini stration-financed study of Moore County’s water and sewerage systems and water resources will start in about two weeks, the board of coun ty commissioners was told last Thursday. This was reported at a spec ial meeting of the| commission ers at Carthage by Willard Hill, county FHA director. The commissioners were told by Charles Baker, represent ing the Charlotte engineering firm which will do the work, that the study will determine the present and future water (Continued on Page 8) FOR INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS Classes In Management Training To Begin Next Week At College Duke Graut Goes To Vass Church The Vass Methodist Church is among 45 rural Methodist churches in North Carolina benefiting by recent appropri- atrons from the Duke Endow ment. The Vass church has been granted $4,500 to help finance a $24,143 building for its Church School. The announcement was made this week from the Duke Endowment’s Charlotte head quarters. A total of $427,700 was appropriated for the 45 churches. Sandhills Community Col lege will offer a specialized program in supervisory and management training of value to industries and business es tablishments, according to Henry I. Rahn, director of technical - Vocational Educa tion. The classes will begin next week. The supervisory and man agement training program has been planned by college offi cials with the assistance of an advisory committee composed of leading industrialists and businessmen of the area, head ed by George E. Paules, vice president — manufacturing Gulistan Carpet Division of J. P. Stevens & Company. Serv ing with him are W. Houston Black, division personnel man ager, Carolina Power and Light Company; William J. Donovan, president, Trimble Products, Inc.; Atlee M. Knorr, plant manager, Proctor-Silex Corp.; E. W. Small, manager. United Telephone Company of the Carolines, all of Southern Pines. Also on the committee are James B. Midriff, plant manager. Quality Mills, Inc., Carthage; Edward Murray, personnel manager, Burlington Industries Inc., Raeford; Al bert Tufts of Pinehurst, Inc.; and H. W. Moss, plant mana ger, Spring Mills, Biscoe. The program will consist of three courses of 36 hours each, with one three-hour class each week conducted from 7 to 10 pm on the Sandhills College Campus. The three courses will run concurrently Monday through Wednesday each week. All classes will be held in Room 101 in the Mary Lu- man Meyer Building. The Course in Supervisory (Continued on Page 8) THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum temperatures for each day ol the past week were recorded as follows at the US Weather Bureau observation station, at WEEB, on Midland Road. Max. Min. Jan. 25 73 43 Jan. 26 73 46 Jan. 27 70 55 Jan. 28 56 28 Jan. 29 57 31 Jan. 30 53 31 Jan. 31 62 27
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