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is the date of the Stoneybrook
race meeting here. For a full
schedule of 1967 meetings, see
Page 2, Section 2.
VOL.—47 NO. 13
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1967
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Many Will Be Invited
To Organize C, of C.
Notices will be mailed out
this week to some 300 business
and professional firms in the
Southern Pines area, inviting
attendance at a meetinig
Thursday night, February 16,
to organize a Greater Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce.
The meeting, at which all in
terested persons will be wel-
$6,500 Is Goal
Of Heart Fund
In Moore County
Volunteer workers are try
ing to raise $6,500 in Moore
County in the 1967 Heart Fund
Campaign beind held through
February.
The money raised in the
annual nation-wide campaign
is used to finance research and
other tools in the efforts" to
eliminate heart disease, the
nation’s leading killer.
Volunteers will call on every
home in Moore County on
February 26—Heart Sunday—
in seeking contributions.
Sales of balloons also are be
ing held in the communities
on Saturdays.
The Heart Fund president
for Moore County is J. Doug
las David' of Pinebluff. E. O.
Brogden Jr. of Southern Pines,
is president-elect, and the
county is Joseph B. McCutch-
eon of Pinehurst.
The community campaign
chairmen are: Southern Pines
—Charles Bowman Jr.; Pine
hurst — Wallace W. O’Neal;
Carthage — Mrs. Ann Camp;
Aberdeen — Jim Reid; Vass
— Mrs. Howard Gschwind;
and the county rural areas —
the Rev. and Mrs. Kemper
Fitch. Chairmen for West End
and Robbins will be selected
also.
OPEN TO PUBLIC
Special Horse
Show Set Sun.,
Starland Farms
A special horse show, for
junior and adult riders, will
be held at Lloyd P. Tate’s
Starland Farms, off Midland
Road between Southern Pines
and Pinehurst, starting at
12:30 pm., Sunday, February
12.
The show is not one of the
continuing series sponsored by
the Mid South Horse Show
Association, but is being staged
by Mr. Tate in view of season
al interest in equestrian events
and visitors here in anticipa
tion of the annual Hunter
Trials of the Moore County
Hounds on Saturday, February
18.
Entries are not limited and
there is no entry or spectator
fee. The public is invited.
There will be seven junior
classes, four hunter classes on
the modified outside course
and classes for green and
open jumpers on the jumper
course.
A full afternoon of fine
horsemanship and entertain
ment is expected.
The next Mid South School
ing Show will be held Sun
day, February 19.
come, will be at 8 pm in the
Whispering Pines Restaurant
on No. 1 highway, north. It is
not a dinner meeting, but re
freshments will be served.
Plans for the organization
session were outlined Monday
night to about two dozen
members of the Merchants
Council, meeting for annual
election of officers and busi
ness session in the municipal
center courtroom.
Dante Montesanti, council
chairman, said that James
Melton of Greensboro, North
Carolina organizer for the US
Chamber of Commerce, is ex
pected at next week’s meet
ing, to advise on organizing
procedures and that Gleim
Webb, executive director of the
Wadesboro - Anson County
Chamber of Commerce, who
recently attended a prelimin
ary organization meeting of
about 40 resort and business
representatives here, is also
expected.
The invitation letters are be
ing sent out by E. Earl Hub
bard, local banker, who served
as acting chairman at the pre
liminary meeting when much
enthusiasm for the project
was expressed.
Mr. Montesanti told the
Merchants Council members
Monday night that:
—Fees paid by members of
the proposed Chamber would
be graduated in accordance
with the size of businesses.
—Amount of the fees would
depend on extent of the mem-
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Aberdeen Man
Loses Life In
Fire At Home
A body identified as that of
Leslie Cooley, 51, was found
early Monday in the embers
of his five-room cinderblock
home in the Berkley section
of Aberdeen.
The house was destroyed
and the body was burned be
yond recognition. Identifica
tion was made by Coroner W.
J. Carpenter Sr., after he con
ferred with neighbors and a
brother of the victim. They
said that Cooley, employed
out of town, was accustomed
to coming home weekends and
at other times. He was the
only person to use the house
since his mother. Mrs. Mary
Cooley, went some time ago
to visit relatives in Spring-
field, Mass.
The size of the victim, den
tures and other factors aided
in the identification.
The fire was discovered at
4:30 am by a neighbor, Lacey
Chambers. Aberdeen firemen
found the house ablaze and
nothing could be saved. The
body was discovered in the
ruins about 7 am. A heater
was suspected as the source of
the fire, but the cause could
not be determined postively.
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PROUD MOMENT — State Sen. Voit
Gilmore and Dennis Cameron of Vass,
president of the Adlai E. Stevenson Young
Democrats Club at Sandhills Community
College, display a photograph of the late
Ambassador Stevenson, at a meeting of the
club Monday night. Other officers of the
student club, shown here, are, left to right:
Carolyn Niles of Southern Pines, secretary;
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Betty Ann Key of Vass, 2nd vice president;
Tommy Blue of Eagle Springs, 1st vice
president; Judy Bailey of Vass, historian;
and Bill Goff of Southern Pines, treasurer.
The photo was the gift of Adlai E. Steven
son HI, Illinois state treasurer and son of
the two-time Democratic Presidential
candidate who was Ambassador to the
United Nations when he died in 1965.
(David Barnes photo)
SENATE CONFIRMATION PENDING
President Names Liddell
To Be Postmaster Here
President Johnson has nom
inated Mark C. Liddell for the
permanent appointment
ing the resignation of J. W.
Causey.
Liddell, a former Air Force
Southern Pines postmaster and major, moved here in 1962. His
his name has been sent to the
senate for confirmation, it was
announced at Washington,
Friday.
No information was avail
able as to when confirmation
can be expected.
W. Morris Johnson, who
has served as acting postmas-
.ter since March, 1964, also
sought the appointment. Both
the candidates took the re
quired Civil Service exam
inations about two years ago.
Johnson, a resident of
Southern Pines for the past
36 years, had resigned as
mayor of Southern Pines and
manager of the Southern Pines
Country Club to accept the
acting postmastership, follow-
PTA Will See
Fashion Show
A fashion show presented
by Home Economics Depart
ment students, under direc
tion of Miss Gay Whitlow,
their instructor, will be the
program feature when the
East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association meets at
8 pm, Monday, February 13,
in Weaver Auditorium.
Up to 50 girls, modeling
clothes made themselves in
connection with their Home
Ec work, will take part, said
Mrs. Robert Leland, PTA
president.
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Members Of Key Club
To Help Fund Drive
Members of the Key Club at
Southern Pines High School
will be collecting donations
for Moore County Rescue
Squad No. 4, at the Southern
Pines post office, from 8 am to
5 pm, Saturday, February 11.
The boys of the club are
making the collection as a
civic service project. The
group is sponsored by the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club.
The collection is part of a
continuing drive for funds to
make possible better housing
and equipment for the rescue
squad with headquarters at
Aberdeen and serving the
lower portion of Moore Coun
ty.
TO RETURN
Mrs. Eugenia R. Babylon,
director of the Sandhills Re
gional Library, is expected to
return from Vietnam March 1,
library officials have an
nounced. She is on a leave of
absence for library organiza
tion work in South Vietnam.
wife, Mrs. Betty Liddell, is a
Southern Pines native and
they are active in Liddell As
sociates, a realty firm, and in
Ye Old Steak House, a restau
rant, both 6n No. 1 highway
south.
Moore People
See Convening
Of Legislature
Moore County people inclu
ding former legislator H. Clif
ton Blue of Aberdeen were
among those who witnessed
the convening of the 1967 ses
sion of the General Assembly
in Raleigh this morning (Wed
nesday).
Blue, a state representative
from Moore for 18 years, was
speaker of the 1963 House.
Taking their seats with the
other legislators were State
Sen. Voit Gilmore of South
ern Pines and J. F. Allen of
Montgomery County, and
State Rep. T. Clyde Auman of
West End. Allen and Gilmore
are the Senate representa
tives of the five-county dis
trict that includes Moore. The
other counties in it are David
son, Montgomery, Richmond
and Scotland.
Gilmore was the first Moore
County legislator named to a
legislative committee chair
manship for the current ses
sion. He heads the Senate
Wildlife Committee.
$100 Contribution Made by Holiday Inn
APPEAL LETTERS GOING OUT
Rescue Squad Drive Nearing End
As a campaign to raise funds for Moore County Rescue
Squad No. 4 nears an end. Manager Charles Thomas of
the Holiday Inn at Southern Pines (left, above) presents
a check for $100 to John S. Ruggles, a Southern Pines
member of the advisory committee for the effort.
As the final phase of the current finance drive to
secure funds for the squad building at Aberdeen and
needed equipment, the Advisory Committee reported that
a mail campaign, “reaching every household' in the area
served by Unit Four,” would be conducted this week.
The squad provides emergency ambulance and other
services, free of charge, in the Southern Pines, Pinehurst,
West End, Aberdeen and Pinebluff areas.
February 15 Is
Plate Deadline
Midnight February 15 is the
last moment you can drive
your motor vehicle with the
1966 license plates on it.
After that mom.ent, vehicles
must bear the 1967 tags, Mrs.
N. A. McGill of Aberdeen,
branch agent for the State De
partment of Motor Vehicles,
reminded vehicle owners to
day.
License tags are being sold
at Farmers Supply Co., 104 E.
Main St., Aberdeen, with Mrs.
McGill in charge. The sales
hours are 9 am tc 5 pm Mon
days through Fridays and 9
am to noon Saturdays.
Elks Donate Funds
To 4 Rescue Squads
Southern Pines Elks Lodge
1692 has donated $200 to
Moore County’s four rescue
squads.
Checks for the $50 each
went to the squad units at
Aberdeen, Vass, Carthage and
Robbins.
Contributions were made to
all four units because of the
county-wide membership in
the lodge, a spokesman said.
Stevenson YDC
Club At College
Receives Photo
The Adlai E. Stevenson
Young Democrats Club of the
student body of Sandhills
Community College met Mon
day night at the college for
the dedication of the club to
those qualities inherent in the
name and life of the late Am
bassador Stevenson.^
Highlight of the' occasion
was the presentation to the
club of a fine photograph of
the inspiring leader, given by
his son, Adlai E. Stevenson
HI. The presentation was
made to Dennis' Cameron,
president of the club, by Jack
Barron of the Sandhills
Young Democrats Club, one of
the two adult YDC units in
Moore County.
Speaker to the gathering,
which included members of
the faculty and interested
Democrats, was State Senator
Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines.
He spoke first of the man
to whom the club is dedica
ted, and then went on to
touch on several of the state
problems which he considers
especially important. With the
legislature due to assemble
today, it was important, Mr.
Gilmore said, that voters
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Sandhills YDC Will
Meet Thursday Night
Regular meeting of the
Sandhills Young Democrats
Club will be held Thursday
at 7:30 pm at Ye Old Steak
House on US Highway 1,
south of Southern Pines. This
is not a supper meeting, said
Mrs. Carolyn Blue, president.
Plans will be made for the
club’s trip to Raleigh Monday
evening. The members will be
guests then of Sen. Voit Gil-
Civil Defense
Communications
Program Set
Plans for a coordinated com
munications system for use in
a natural or man-made disas
ter in Moore County were des
cribed Monday to the Board of
County Commissioners by Col.
Alfred M. Koster of Southern
Pines.
Col. Koster, a retired' com
mander of the Army’s First
Logistics Command, is county
Civil Defense director.
Col. Koster said, “The pro
ject now can proceed with
purchasing of equipment.”
He said the federal govern
ment has approved the project
and he planned to send invita
tions immediately for bids.
Col, Koster said that the bid
ders will be told that the coun
ty reserves the right to reject
bids.
Essentially, base stations
will be established in the
basement of the courthouse in
Carthage and in the Municipal
Center at Southern Pines. The
principal command station will
be in the courthouse.
The command station will
direct rescue, firefighting and
police work by radio to mo
bile radio units, fire trucks,
police cars and rescue squad
vehicles in emergency situa
tions — nuclear-fission bomb
ing attacks, dangerous forest
fires or any other disaster.
About half the cost is be
ing born by the federal go
vernment. The total cost speci
fically won’t be known till the
accepted bids are tabulated.
The rest of the cost will be
shared by the county and the
community which gets equip
ment.
He said the cost to the
county won’t be more than
$5,000, and probably will be
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Elks Honor Many
By 20-Year Pins
Celerating the 20th anniver
sary of the founding of the
Southern Pines Elks Lodge,
about 175 members gathered
at the Country Club Monday
for the annual Old Timers
Night. Col. Don Madigan was
chairman for the event.
Some 50 members were rec
ognized with 20-year pins—
not all charter members but
all members who joined during
the first year of the lodge.
Most are still active in the
community.
Receiving special recogni
tion were Joe Montesanti, the
oldest member, and his son,
Joe Montesanti, Jr., each of
whom are 20-year members—
the only such father-son com
bination in the lodge.
A banquet with entertain
ment was enjoyed. Tom Con
nolly, exalted ruler of the
lodge, gave the address of wel
come.
Scout Honor Court
Planned For Tonight
The winner of the annual
Storey .Award to the Boy
Scout troop judged the out
standing in the Sandhills Boy
Scout District will be an
nounced tonight (Wednesday)
more and Rep. Clyde Auman ; at a District Court of Honor
at the night session of the
General Assembly, Mrs. Blue
said.
at Weaver Auditorium.
The program starts at
pm. '
7:30
COMMISSIONERS HEAR REQUEST
Whispering Pines Residents Seek
Fire Protection, Additional Officer
Whispering Pines residents
asked the Moore County Com
missioners Monday for fire
protection for the area of their
community. Sandhills Com
munity College and the Pine-
hurst-Southerri Pines Airport.
They also asked for addition
al police protection., '
The request was presented
by George Adams, who was
accompanied by approximate
ly 12 other men. Among them
was Bill Shore, vice president
of the Whispering Pines Corp.
Adams said that the only
fire - department protection
available for the area is sup
plied on call by the volunteer
fire departments of Vass and
Carthage.
He said that the residents of
Whispering Pines themselves
would buy a fire truck if the
county will reimburse them
Pos tponement
Of School Board
Election Sought
The Board of Moore County
Commissioners adopted by a
3-1 majority Monday a reso
lution asking postponement
by legislative action of the
county board of education
election from next April to
the 1988 May primary and
November general election.
The resolution requested
the county’s legislative repre
sentatives to amend the 1965
Moore County school - board
act to provide that the election
be rescheduled.
Commissioner Robert Ewing
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RICHARD S. TUFTS
Tiifts Accorded
‘Distinguished
Citizen’Award
Richard S. Tufts, chairman
of the board of Pinehurst, Inc.,
has been accorded' the North
Carolina Distinguished Citizen
Award by Gov. Dan K. Moore,
recognizing his outstanding
career in the field of resort
operations.
He has been associated with
the activities of Pinehurst,
Inc., and particularly with its
long national prominence as a
golfing center, throughout his
lifetime.
The honor from the Gover
nor followed shortly upon
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subsequently. He also said that
A. B. Hardee, president of
Whispering Pines Corp., has
offered to provide housing and
firemen if county will give a
fire truck.
Adams also said' that the
community college has no fire
protection, and that he has
been told that the airport has
only manually operated fire
extinguishers.
In reference to police pro
tection; he said Leo Vause, a
special deputy, is the com
munity’s only fulltime police
man, paid by Whispering
Pines residents, and “he can’t
do it all.” He said late-night
police protection is needed.
Vause, he said, works from 4
pm up to about 1 am.
Commissioners said the sher
iff’s department late-night
cruiser would be assigned to
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Senator Asks
Board To Make
Wishes Known
state Sen .Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines told the Board
of Moore County Commis
sioners Monday his mission
at the meeting was to “estab
lish open pipelines between
me and the commissioners”
on areas of Moore County
concerns.
He said he wanted the com
missioners to make known
their wishes in resolutions,
such as the matter of the
school board elections district
and time of the election.
He also said this and the
matter of the proposed ABC
local-option liquor legislation
were important—but not the
only important subjects for
consideration by the 1967 Gen
eral Assembly, which con
vened today. '
For example, he said, there
is the Weymouth Woods Park
project: $50,000 has been ear
marked for an information
building, and $50,000 in feder
al funds is “in reach.”
He said there also were the
matters of authority for com
munities to issue revenue
borids, for construction of fa
cilities for new industries, for
example; a tax reform bill;
congressional district reappor
tionment, among other busi
ness.
On the matter of proposed
local - option referendums on
legalizing liquor by the drink,
he said, his mail in the past
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HOMES ON VIEW
Two Gold Medallion houses
will be open to the public for
inspection, Sunday afternoon,
February 12, from 2 to 5 pm,
in the Forest Hills subdivision,
off No. 1 highway, just north
of Aberdeen. Details appear on
Page 8, Section 3.
of Southern Pines, District 4
(McNeill Township) represen
tative on the commissioners’
board, cast the vote opposing
the resolution’s adoption. The
votes supporting the resolu
tion were Cast by Commis
sioners W. Sidney Taylor of
Aberdeen, C. W. Purvis of
Robbins and Board Chairman
John M. Currie of Carthage.
Commissioner Fred Cole was
absent from the session, the
commissioners’ regular meet
ing for February, because of
the death of a nephew. Cur
rie said he was voting on the
issue to break a theoretical tie.
Cole would have voted against
requesting the postponement
of the school board election
had he been present, Currie
said.
Early in the discussion pre
ceding the action, Currie said
Cole had told him that he
“wants to go on” with the
election as originally schedul
ed next April 4.
However, legislators cus
tomarily comply with, requests
of their boards of county com
missioners, Moore County’s
State Rep. T. Clyde Auman
of West End was quoted by
Taylor at the commissioners’
meeting as saying Auman
would support an amendment
postponing the election. Tay
lor said the state representa
tive told him he would do this
whether the commissioners
were unanimous in adopting a
postponement request, or
whether they were only 3-2 in
favor of the request.
Ewing, arguing against the
proposed resolution, said post
poning the right of the people
to vote on the school - board
membership is dangerous.
'Just before the resolution
was adopted, Ewing said, “I
feel no personal animosity.
But this board has made a
mistake in this resolution.”
Earlier in the discussion,
Ewing, a Republican, said his
opposition was not based on
party considerations. Taylor,
a Democrat, replied that his
feeling likewise was not bas
ed on partisan considerations.
Cole is the other Republican
member of the commission
ers’ board.
The motion to adopt was
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Hunt Telecast
Slated Feb. 26
Fox hunting in the South
ern Pines area will be the
subject of an ABC network
television program February
26, starting at 4 pm.
The hunt story will be the
subject for that day for the
hour - long ABC American
Sportsman series.
The ABC outlets in this
area include Channels 8, 5, 3
and 13.
Miss Page Shamburger of
Aberdeen, secretary of the
Moore County Hounds, said
Tuesday she was informed by
the TV show’s executives of
the date the show is scheduled.
Miss Shamburger assisted
the TV crew during the week
the hunts were being photo
graphed and sound-recorded
last November.
Moore Rescue Squads
Helped With Search
The four Moore County res
cue squads were among the
11 which searched this morn
ing (Wednesday) for Will In
gram, 76, of Rockingham,
found dead about 9:30 am to
day of causes not immediately
determined about two miles
from his home. He had been
missing since Monday.
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.
M,ax.
Min.
Feb.
1
73
41
Feb.
2.
70
44
Feb.
3
67
37
Feb.
4
54
25
Feb.
5
59
31
Feb.
6
. 61
35
Feb.
7
56
25