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‘Spray cans’ pose several hazards, warns Moore County’s health director. Details are given on Page 1, Section 3. /^Isndon ^ mcireond Cof^fio^ / V Cameron p)l , , Lakjvio^'Vass f ^llerbe LOT 27 students are studying for nursing degrees at Sandhills Community Col lege.. Story and photos, Page 3, Section 4. VOL.—47 NO. 17 TWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1967 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS IN TWO-YEAR PERIOD $50,000 To Be Tabbed For County Library The Moore County commis sioners Thursday agreed to provide a total of $50,000 over the next two years to help build a new county library building—^provided tha.t the County Library Board can get supplementary federal aid. The promised allocations will bring the total county Speaker Tells * Growing Value Of Libraries Speaking at a meeting of the Friends of the Moore County Library, in the court house at Carthage on Friday night, James D, Blount, Jr., Rockingham attorney, stressed the ever-growing importance of public libraries in the space age. Mr. Blount, former chairman of the Forth Carolina Library Trustees, and' present treasur er of both North Carolinians for Better. Libraries and of the Sandhills Regional Library, congratulated Moore County on the recent decision of the county commissioners to' ap propriate $50,000 for a new county library building in Carthage. But he challenged the Friends of the Library to continue to work to overcome public apathy and to arouse the interest and enthusiasm of the whole community in the Library. “The first free library in North Carolina was established by Thomas Bray in about 1700,” Mr. Blount stated, “and since then the importance of libraries has grown a thous and-fold. In our rapidly chang"- ing times the library more and more performs a necessary function of government and rrjust not become a step-child of govr rnment. Mr. Blount quoted an an thropologist, Margaret Mead, as saying that no one is going to die any more in the same world in which he is born. “Nowadays our strongest con stant is change,” he said. He cited medicine and law as professions in which change is continuous. “No one would think of going to a doctor or a lawyer who hadn’t cracked a book in 30 years. “The library is vitally necessary in keeping up with modern science and techno logy. Formal schooling no (Continued on Page 6) money labelled for the library to $63,000. The county has $13,000 left from previously allocated library funds. The motion on the county funds provides that $25,000 be encumbered in each of the next two county budgets for the library. The budgets af fected would be for fiscal 1967-68, and 1968-69. The action came during a special meeting of the board of county commissioners in the courthouse at Carthage. The federal government will pay about 49 per cent of the total $96,000 the building will cost, but the funds won’t be available after July 1 if the county’s 'matching funds aren’t assured, commissioners have been informed. A county-owned site across the road from the County Health Department building , (Continued on Page 6) i. M 'A < % B Fund Campaign Of Easter Seal Group To Start Appeal letters containing Easter seals will be mailed Wednesday of next week throughout Moore County, opening the annual fund cam paign of the Moore County Chapter of the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults (“Easter Seal So ciety”). Samuel C. Harrison of Southern Pines, president of the chapter and also county campaign chairman, said that there will be a meeting of countjc drive workers on Fri day of next week at Camp Easter in the Pines, the State Society’s summer camp for handicapped children and adults, near Southern Pines. “Lily Day” sales of Easter lily bangles will take place in town business areas, here and elsewhere, on Saturdays, March 18 and 25, with volun teer w'orkers receiving contri butions. Aided by the annual Easter Seal campaign are handicap ped children and adults throughout the county who receive year-around clinic treatment, braces and other equipment when needed and other help. Camp Easter in the Pines, a state-wide Society project, also benefits from the sale. iP® SEVEN-MILLION MARK—'i’he Proctor- Silcx Corp. plant at Southern Pines pro duced Tuesday morning the seven-millionth electric iron it has manufactured since it started operating in January 1963. All through the day employees were treated to refreshments. The company’s Lifelong products were given as prizes. Finished irons are shown here ready for packing for customers. Left to right. Southern Pines plant manager Lee Knorr, produc tion employee Mrs. Jewel Frye of Aber deen and plant public relations- director Richard Slackj Knorr said Tuesday the local plant’s production was 1,445,000 irons in 1964, the first full year of its opefation; 1,960,000 in 1965; and 2,370,000 in 1966. He said 1967 prospects “look great.” Many sales are coming in for the company’s Lifelong iron, which the local plant start ed producing Monday. (hlot photo) Committees Named For Annual Race Meet On Saturday, April 15 Plans are shaping up rapid ly for the top sports and social event of the Sandhills spring season—the Twentieth Annual Stoneybrook Race Meet here on Saturday, April 15, reports Donald D. Kennedy, chairman. The Steeplechase program annually brings thousands of one-day visitors to this area, as well as others who come for longer stays with friends or in hotels or motels. Guests of honor, this year, will be members of the North Carolina Congressional delega tion. So far, acceptances have been received from Congress men James Gardner and Nick Galifianakis. Due to prior com mitments, neither Senator Ervin nor Senator Jordan will be able to attend. Mr. Kennedy, serving for the eighth year as chairman of the race meet, is assisted by other members of the execu tive committee, Henry C. Flory, Mrs. Audrey K. Ken nedy, William H. Frantz, James W. Tufts, and Michael G. Walsh. The entertainment commit tee includes Mrs. Audrey Kennedy, Mrs. William Frantz, Mrs. N. A. Amstutz, Mrs. John W. Burress, Mrs. Henry Flory, Mrs. William B. Gray, Mrs. Donald Kennedy, Mrs. John McGovern, Mrs. Thomas E. Morton, Mrs. John C. Ostrom, Mrs. R. C. Urquhart, Mrs. Ed ward T. Taws, Jr., Mrs. James W. Tufts and Mrs. Michael G. Walsh. The committee on trophies for winners of the races is made up of Mrs. Donald Ken nedy, Miss Carlyn S. Harris, and Miss Evelyn Stevenson. Thomas E. Morton, Mrs. (Continued on Page 6) Public Invited To Hear Jenkins At YDC Meeting The public is invited to at tend a joint meeting of the Sandhills Young Democratic Club and the Adlai E. Steven son . YDC of Sandhills Com munity College, to be held at the college Thursday at 7:30 pm with Dr. Leo Jenkins, president of East Carolina College* as guest speaker. A former major in the US Marine Corps, Dr. Jenkins is a graduate of Rutgers, Colum bia and New York Universi ties, and has also attended Duke University and Har vard’s Institute for College Presidents, held in 1964. After serving as dean at ECC from 1947 to 1960, he became president of the stae-support- ed institution at Greenville and is currently spearheading a campaign to raise it to uni versity status—a controversial issue in the 1967 General As sembly. He will be introduced by Brayom Anderson, faculty 'ad visor of the college YDC and an East Carolina graduate. Episcopal Men To Meet Sunday Emmanuel Episcopal ChurCh here will be host on Sunday, March 12, to the 33rd annual convention of the Laymen’s Association of the Diocese of North Carolina. Announcement of the one- day meeting came from Tho mas M. Mullen of Charlotte, president of the diocesan or ganization. The Rt. Rev. Thomas A, Fraser, D.D., Bishop of North Carolina, will open the con vention at 11 am, Lt. Gen. A. D. Bruce, of Southern Pines, former commander of the 77th Division during World War II and former president of the University of Houston, will be the speaker after lunch. Dr. C. Robert VanderVoort (Continued from Page 6) CITIZENS ASKED CLEAN UP TOWN Meeting this week, the recently reorg,anized Southern Pines Beaulifi- ciation Commission, set Wednesday ol next week, March 15, as starting date for a town-wide clean-up drive. The commission, of which Charles Scott is chairman, is asking local residents to clean up their yards, vacant lots and business properly. Town forces will cooperate, it was stated. The unpaid commission is appointed by the Town Council. The group was formerly called the Parks and Parkw.ays Beautifica tion Committee. NEXT WEEK II lii THE NEW administration building of the Moore County school system, on US 15-501 three miles south of Carthage, brngs together offices and departments which have been scattered in four separate locations in and around Carthage. Behind the building, glimpsed at right, is the school garage and maintencince shop, built several years ago with which it shares a large parking a|rea and two driveways to the highway. A detailed description of the building and its facilities appeared in The Pilot two weeks ago and last week the county board of education was pictured during its first meeting in the new struc ture, (V. Nicholson photo) Civil Defense Night Course Is Scheduled Classes will start Monday at Sandhills Community College in a Civil Defense Adult Edu cation course, “Education For Living In The Nuclear Age.” The course is being sponsor ed by the Southern Pines Junior Chamber of Commerce, Bill Winborne, Jaycee project chairman, said this week in making the announcement. The classes will be held nightly, starting at 7 o’clock, through March 17.' Each will run two and a half hours. The course consists of basic civil defense programs. It is designed to give local citizens an understanding of the local, state and national actions be-' ing taken to' protect people against nuclear attdek or ma jor natural disasters, Win- borne said. Among other things, the course will teach the indivi dual and family actions that (Continued on Pgge 6) Work Seen Need For Passage Of School Program state' Sen. 'V'oit Gilmore told school board members and school officials Thursday that Gov. Dan-iK. Moore would not fight against United Forces For Education proposals but indicated it would take hard work to get the UFE program adopted. He spoke at one of the group sessions during the annual meeting of District 8, North Carolina School .Boards Asso ciation, at East Southern Pines High School. The session he led was on UFE programs and current school legislation. Sen. Gilmore, of Southern Pines, said that the governor has made his case and that he is saying, in effect, that it is up to the legislative support ers of the various groups— like UFE and mental health proponents—to work out the details of how much money was to go where. He said the governor, in ef fect, is telling the groups that it is up to them to find out where any extra money will come from. Gilmore said the governor has made his case as far as the budget for 1967-69 is con cerned and that Moore would not fight efforts to obtain in creases for the school program beyond his recommendations Sen. Gilmore'said, however, that “some backbones” in the legislature need to be (Continued on Pg. 6, Sec. 2) Humane Group Asks County To Transfer Pound The Humane Society of Moore County presented the 'Board of County Commission ers Monday with a proposal that the society take over operation of the county dog pound and receive part of the county’s annual dog license fee collections. The society’s president, Raymond E. North of Pine- hurst, presented petitions bearing 671 signatures of Moore County people support ing the proposal. Commissioner W. Sidney Taylor of Aberdeen, presiding over the regular March board meeting at Carthage in the abscnse of Chairman John M. Currie of Carthage, said the board would consider the' proposal carefully. “■You’re already doing an excellent job,” he told North, referring to the society’s exist ing system of collecting gtrays, treating the injured and find ing homes for rehabilitated animals. The commissioners deferred action because the full board was not present. The pressure of business prevented Currie from attending. It was one of his rare absences frorn a spec ial or a regular board meeting. In any case, the board would have said neither “yes” nor “no” on the proposal itself at that session. James R. 'Van- Camp of Carthage, counsel for the society, told the com missioners that the society wanted only a go-ahead from them to proceed with drawing up a proper contract between the society and the county for the board to study. With that approval, 'Van- Camp and County Attorney Solons Will Hear Sandhills Request For Liquor Vote The Board of Moore Coun ty Commissioners Monday adopted a resolution express ing favor for a law which would permit local-option ref erenda on legalizing sales of liquor by the drink in Sand hill, McNeill and Mineral Springs townships. Commissioner Robert Ewing of Southern Pines said the resolution, adopted by a 3-1 Inner Space’ Problems Shown Commissioners The Board of Moore County Commissioners on Monday adopted a resolution of inten tion to provide funds for con struction of the new Moore County Library. The action was taken at the board’s regular meeting for March at (^arthage, to satisfy a requirement to obtain feder al assistance for local library construction. The commissioners also agreed to have the necessary papers signed by a commis sion representative (Board Chatirman John M. Currie, who was unable to attend the Monday session). The move was made on the request of Sam H. Poole of Southern Pines, chairman of the Moore County Library vote, was designed to strength en the hand of the Sandhills delegation when it appears at next Tuesday’s public hearing before the General Assembly’s joint resolutions and griev ances committee. The area’s representatives have been allotted time for stating their case request ing the local option referen dum law. Southern Pines Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins Jr. and Town Attorney Lament Brown will appear with two other people to speak for the area’s general community in asking for the law. Brown said he and Mayor Hodgkins were making arrangements for the repre sentation at the hearing, on authorization of the Southern Pines Town Council. He said the two other representatives had not yet been determined. Brown said the group also will speak in favor of the bill already introduced which (Continued on Page 6) LOCAL SCHOOLS M. G. Boyette would draft the contract. : Nineteen directors and other (Continued on page 5) East Side PTA To Hear About Local College Attention will be on Sand hills Community College at the March meeting of the East Southern Pines Parent-Teach er Association, in 'Weaver Au ditorium, at 8 pm, Monday, March 13. S. G. Chappell, registrar at the college, will be the speak er, discussing the various courses and advantages which the local college offers to stu dents in this area. Mrs. Robert Leland, PTA president, urged that parents of students in the 7th through 12th grades, particularly high school parents, attend the meeting so that they will learn what the college has to offer their children. Mrs. Leland also noted that the PTA membership drive will be closed soon and asked that all parents turn in fees to make possible completion of PTA projects for the year. The fee is 50 cents per person. Payment may be made at the Monday- meeting. Board. The commissioners at a spe cial meeting last Thursday adopted a motion to encumber $25,000 per year in the next two budgets—for 1967-68 and 1968-69—to help pay the ap proximately $125,000 it is ex pected to cost to build and equip the building and prepare the site. Commissioner W. S. Taylor of Aberdeen pointed out that $13,000 additional county money was tabbed for the new library—the carryover from previous budget appropriations for library purposes. In reply to his question, Poole said the total $63,000 took care of the county’s share—and did'a little better. He said the county’s share was $61,710. He said addition of (Continued on Page 6) ‘Appreciation Day’ Planned An Appreciation Day recog nizing the people who have made outstanding contribu tions to the Southern Pines schools in the long history of the town’s independent system is being planned for the last week of the current academic year. This was announced last Friday by City Schools Supt. Kjrby Watson. The date and other details are yet to be worked out, but the plans are to invite present and former city board of edu cation members, principals and superintendents, among others. Student activities also will be presented. The program is being plan ned in cqnnection with the official ending of the city school system as an independ ent administrative unit July 1. On that date, the merger of the Southern Pines and Pine- hurst school administrative units with the county school system becomes effective. Work Starting On New Golf Course At Foxfire Project Near Pinehurst Clearing got under way this week for construction of the golf course at the new Foxfire Golf and Country Club near Pinehurst, and officers of the Foxfire Development Corp. said they hope the course will be ready for play by late fall. Deeds to the 979-acr4, prop erty, formerly known as Shamrock Farms, about five Insurance To Be Discussed The regular meeting of Barracks 1443 Veterans of World War I will be held Sunday, March 12, at 2:30 pm at the American Legion Hut, E. Maine Ave., Southern Pines. There will be a discussion of the VWWI Group Perman ent Life Insurance Plan now open for enrollment for all veterans and their wives un der the age of 87. The special enrollment period expires April 15. Post Commander F. M. Dwight points out that the plan provides the same bene fits for women as it does for men—and at even lower rates than the men pay. All WWI veterans, their wives and widows are invited and urged to attend, the com mander said. r LLEWELLYN ^81 Vt y mi. I MATTHEWS POLLOCK 3 From County Win Morehead Awards Both of Moore County’s two public school nominees for Morehead Awards at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—John Todd Llewellyn of Southern Pines and Larry Maxwell Matthews of Route 3, Carthage—have been granted the $7,000 scho larships for four years of study, it was announced Tues day. Also, said the announce ment by Norman A. Cocke of Charlotte, chairman of the board of trustees of the John Motley Morehead Foundation, Hoke Dickinson Pollock of Southern Pines, a student at Christ School in Arden, is a Morehead Award winner, from the private preparatory school division of the annual competi tion. Ninety-nine awards were made this year, granted to students chosen after county, district and state-wide elimi nation interviews, on the ba sis of outstanding merit as re flected in academic ability, character and leadership. Fi nancial need is not consider- All three of the Moore County youths receiving awards are seniors at their respective schools and will en ter the University in the fall. Llewellyn, at East Southern Pines High School, is the son of Mrs. Jean Llewellyn of Southern Pines, assistant di rector of the Sandhills Re gional Library, with head quarters at Rockingham. He moved here with his mother last summer and en tered school in September for his senior year. He had previ ously attended New Bruns wick High School at New Brunswick, N. J., for his soph omore and junior years and Tempe High School at Tempe, Ariz., his freshman year. His record at all three (Continued on Page 6) miles west of Pinehurst on the old Jackson Springs Road, were filed last Thursday at the office of the Moore Coun ty register of deeds. James C. Harper, Chapel Hill attorney, who filed the deeds, said the Manor House on the property will be ren ovated to serve as temporary clubhouse and pro shop as part of Phase 1 of the new club and residential develop ment. Officers of the Foxfire De velopment Corp. arrived Tues day to look over their holdings and witness the start of the golf course construction, to cover 400 acres. They are Edward M. Ken ney, golf coach at the Univer sity of North Carolina, presi dent; Jack Vernon and Charles Magowan, vice-presidents, and Harper, secretary - treasurer. Vernon is a member of a Chapel Hill realty firm and Magowan, of Southampton, N. Y., is a senior student at the University. - All are enthusi astic golfers. ■With them were Gene Hamm of Durham, golf course architect, and William Gen- (Continued on Page 6) THE WEATHER Maximum and minimun; 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 March 1 56 24 March 2 62 25 March 3 75 45 March 4 75 40 March 5 81 42 March 6 82 61 Mgrch 7 59 50
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