Applicants
for Morehead Awards at the
University of North Carolina
impressed a member of the se
lections Committee. Page 2, Sec
tion 2.
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mental health program is mov
ing ahead and the outlook for
progress is good, reports Colum
nist H. W. Kendall. Page 1, Sec
tion 3.
VOL.—47 NO. 20
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1967
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Board Told Dog Fees
Can’t Go To Society
The county has no authority Camp of Carthage, about Boy-
to turn over dog-license fees
to a private agency, the Board
of Moore County Commission
ers was informed Thursday at
a special meeting of the board
at Carthage.
This apparently answered
one portion of the proposal of
the Humane Society of Moore
County that it assume opera
tion of the county’s system.
The information was provi
ded at the commissioners’ re
quest by County Attorney M.
G. Boyette. Boyette reported
that nothing in the North Car
olina general statutes gives
county commissioners author
ization to turn over the pro
ceeds from the dog tag assess
ments to a private group.
However, the way to a con
tract between county and Hu
mane Society remains open to
the society’s other proposals.
John M. Currie, chairman of
the board of county commis
sioners, asked Boyette to get
in touch with the Humane So
ciety’s counsel, James Van
Americans Seen
Aiding Rural
VN Development
Isolated South Vietnamese
communities are emerging
slowly from a primitive, sub
sistence living, in the midst
of a war with the help of
American civilians and mili
tary advisors, an Army officer
told the Rotary Club last Fri
day.
■The picture of the war, the
life and the people of the Cen
tral Highlands province of
Kontum was described by Lt.
Col. Edward J. Vaughn of
Highland Trails at the club's
luncheon meeting at the Elks
Club.
Col. Vaughn served as a
military advisor 1964-65 in
Kontum, then returned to
Vietnam as a “temporary”
civilian with the State De
partment for another year.
He came back to the United
States recently, went back on
Army duty with a promotion
to his present rank. He is sta
tioned at Fort Bragg now
with the J. F. Kennedy Center
for Special Warfare and is on
temporary assignment at Fort
Eustis, Va., to work on a De
partment of the Army study.
He told the Rotary Club he
was proud of the US military
and civilian efforts in Viet
nam.
One of the civilians, he said,
is Eric Hughes of Whispering
Pines. Hughes is in charge of
the South Vietnam nation
wide refugee program for the
US Agency for Interior De
velopment.
Col. Vaughn presented this
picture of Kontum, which bor
ders Laos and Cambodia, and
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ette’s findings regarding the
license-fee proposal.
The Humane Society’s pro
posal, submitted last March 6
to the commissioners was that
the society take over opera
tion of the county dog pound
and a part of the county dog
license fees to help finance
the operation. The society also
has proposed that it assume
responsibility for collecting
and care of all stray animals.
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Variety Show
On April 7 To
Have Many Acts
The Variety Show to help
raise money for the Southern
Pines Midget Football League
will be held April 7 at Weaver
Auditorium, East Southern
Pines School, starting at 8
pm.
The admission charges are
$1 each for adults and 50
cents each for children.
The master of ceremonies is
Thomas Connolly of Pine-
hurst. The co-directors are
Mrs. Pat Starnes and David
Duke.
Sponsoring the show is the
Blue Knights Boosters Club,
and the general chairman is
Dr. Boyd Starnes, assisted by
Dan Kruger, BopHerg Club
president.
The parade of talent entered
will include singers, dancers,
instrumental music players,
choral groups, comic skits, a
magician and director of tal
ented dogs. Some of the per-
forrqers are amateurs, others
are former professionals.
Special entertainment will
be given by professional per-
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Gift Honoring Mr. Sibley
Endows Program At College
Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
p;'3sident of Sandhills Com
munity College, this week an
nounced that Mrs. John R. Sib
ley of Pinehurst and her
daughter, Mrs. Andrew Wolfe
of Brighton, N. Y, will endow
the instructional program of
the collage by creating the
John Russell Sibley Disting
uished Professorship in honor
•h-
of the late Mr. Sibley.
The professorship will grant
i$l,000 a year to a faculty
member for distinguished
teaching at Sandhills College,
Dr. Stone said.
Mr. Sibley during his life
time was keenly interested in
education and did much for
Harvard University, his alma
mater. A longtime resident of
I
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Johnson Out For Council;
Filing Deadline: Saturday
-J
DISCUSSING PLANS — Mrs. John R.
Sibley of Pinehurst, seated, and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Andrew Wolfe^ discuss with Dr.
Raymond A. Stone, president of Sandhills
Community College, plans for rewarding
fine teachers at the college by establish
ing the John Russell Sibley Distinguished
Professorship in memory of Mrs. Sibley’s
late husband. (Humphrey photo)
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Federal Help
Possibilities
To Be Explored
The Moore County commis
sioners may hire a profession
al planner to help the county
get all possible federal financ
ing available for its needed
public building programs.
The commissioners decided
at a special meeting at Car
thage Thursday to interview
an Asheville professional—
Ledford. Austin—as the jipssi,-j,
ble planner. The commission
ers did not commit themselves
to employing one, however.
The subject came up after
E. G. Gibbons of Atlanta, a
federal agency specialist, dis
cussed federal programs for
financing building construc
tion and other county and
community projects other than
those connected with schools.
He appeared on invitation at
I the meeting. Gibbons is on
I the regional staff of the US
Department of Housing and
Urban Development. His ap
pearance resulted from a re-
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PEACHES: THIRD
TO HALF CROP?
stale Rep. T. Clyde Au-
nvan of West End, a prom-
incent Sandhills peach
grower, told The Pilot
Tuesday that an inspec
tion of his orchards over
the past weekend indicates
that from one-third to
one-half of the potential
peach crop may have sur
vived the sub-freezing cold
that hit area orchards the
night of March 17-18.
He said he was antici
pating a "light but reason
ably iherchanlabld ' crdjiW’l
this year. But the legisla
tor emphasized that he
was making no sure pre
diction as to the percent
age of a full crop that will
be harvested.
Editorial And Book
Pages In Section 2
The editorial page and its
opposite book review and
church list page—which for
many years have been running
as page 2 and 3 of the first
section of The Pilot—are
changed this week to page 2
and 3 of the second section,
and will continue in that new
position each week.
Mechanical production sched
ules made the change advisa
ble and the editors trust that
readers will get used to find
ing the pages in their new po
sition.
ROBERT V. LAMB III
Lamb Selected
For Governor’s
School Session
\
Robert V. Lamb HI, a Junior
at East Southern Pines High
School, has been selected to
attend the 1967 summer ses
sion of The Governor’s School
of North Carolina, it was an
nounced through the school
this week .
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert V. Lamb, Jr., of South
ern Pines, he will study in
the field of Natural Sciences.
The Governor’s School, at
Winston-Salem, accepts North
Carolina young people of un
usual ability, for study in a
variety of academic fields.
The summer session opens
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Antiques Fair
Netted $1,700
Last week’s three-day 10th
annual Antiques Fair at the
National Guard Armory here
netted about $1,700 for the
sponsoring Moore County His
torical Association which will
use the proceeds for its Alston
House and Shaw House res
toration projects.
Mrs. Pat Rainey, executive
director of the show, .said that
the amount is more than last
year’s financial return, al
though attendance was off
somewhat this year—attribut- lets,
ed to the show dates just be
fore Easter.
Reason for the added in
come, she said, was the highly
successful “pre-view cham
pagne party” on the evening
preceding the show’s opening,
when guests paid $5 each for a
first look at the exhibits.
Dealers and visitors appear
ed pleased with the show,
especially with the pre-view
party, a new feature this year.
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives was
general chairman for the
show.
AT N. C. COURSES NEXT WEEK
Golfers To Benefit Camp Easier
Next week, April 3-9, will
be Camp Easter Golf Week
in North Carolina.
At country clubs through
out the state, golfers next
week can volunteer to pay $1
(or more) as a donation to
Camp Easter — the facility
for handicapped children and
adults, near Southern, Pines—
and then pit their scores
against the last round score
of the winner of the Masters
Tournament at the Augusta
National Golf Club on Sun
day, April 9.
If they “beat” the Masters
champion, using full regular
handicap, they’ll receive from
the Camp Easter Golf Week
committee a 10-inch by 14-
inch certificate to that effect,
(A copy of last year’s certifi
cate appears on page 8 of to
day’s Pilot).
John J. Hegarty of Southern
Pines is general chairman of
Camp Easter Golf Week, as a
member of the sponsoring
Friends of Camp Easter, a
group of retired or semi-re-
tired Sandhills men who un
dertake fund-raising for the
camp.
Camp Easter is owned and
operated by the North Car
olina Society for Crippled
Children and Adults, an affili
ate of the national society of
that name. The N. C. Society
and its Moore County Chap
ter have been conducting the
annual Easter Seal campaign
that benefits Camp Easter and
the numerous regular activi
ties of the Society on behalf
of handicapped persons.
Hegarty said that excellent
cooperation is being received
from the Carolines Golf As
sociation, an amateur group,
of which Hale Van Hoy of
Southern Pines is executive
secretary, and the Carolinas
Section of the Professional
Golfers Association of Amer
ica, of which Dugan Aycock is
president.
The chairman said that Van
Hoy has received replies, to
queries about Golf Week, from
some 80 country clubs over
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Man Bound Over
In Pinehurst
Pistol Slaying
Richard A1 Purryear, 21, was
bound over to Moore Superior
Court on a murder charge
Tuesday in the shooting
of Spencer Lee, 28, at
Pinehurst about 5:45 pm Fri
day.
Moore County Recorder’s
Court Judge J. Vance Rowe
took the action on finding
probable cause for the charge
after a preliminary hearing.
He set Purryear’s bail at $10,-
000.
Purryear pleaded not guil
ty. The court was told he ad
mitted shooting Lee but had
acted in self defense.
An “owlhead” pistol, report
ed by Pinehurst Police Chief
G. L. Wright to be “fully load
ed except for two spent bul-
and a hawkbill knife
he said was found near the
body of a man lying dead were
exhibits at a preliminary hear
ing held Tuesday morning in
Moore Recorder’s Court.
Lee ar d Purryear came
from Cumberland, Va., last
fall to work in the Pinehurst
resort hotels, Purryear for his
fourth season, Lee for his first.
The shooting occurred in the
rear of the service dormitory
at the Carolina Hotel, where
Purryear was employed as a
busboy. Lee was employed at
the Holly Inn. The argument
apparently was caused by
Lee’s jealousy of an 18-year-
old girl. Chief Wright said.
Lee had come to see the
girl, who, like Purryear, lived
in the dormitory, and was
standing with her behind the
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Area Chamber
Directors Hear
Campaign Plans
Plans for the campaign for
members of the newly organi
zed Southern Pines Area
Chamber of Commerce were
described to chamber directors
last Thursday by William
Thomasson at a luncheon
meeting at the Holiday Inn.
The plans include publicizing
of the business and associate
..types- of-Jnrmbership.. and . obr
taining of appropriate decals
and pocket membership cards,
applications and printed ma
terials.
President Reynold Tucker
reported that invitations had
b:en received and tentative
plans made for his appearance,
on behalf of the chamber, be
fore the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club March 29 and the South
ern Pines Rotary Club on
April 7 to present a progress
report on the organization of
the new chamber.
R. F. Hoke Pollock announc
ed that finalization of the per
manent organizational plans
was indicated for the next
mee ting of the directors, sche
duled for noon Thursday at
the Holiday Inn.
Six candidates, including all
the incumbents, had filed
through late this morning
(Wednesday) for the five seats
on the Town Council.
R. C. (Cliff) Johnson, 60-
year-old owner and operator
of the Belvedere Motor Hotel,
filed for the May 2 election
with Mrs. Mildred McDonald,
the town clerk, last Thursday.
Since last week also, only
the incumbents have filed for
the Southern Pines Recorder’s
Court positions also up for
election—Judge W. Harry
Fullenwider and Solicitor
Howard Broughton.
The filing deadline for the
council and court positions is
noon Saturday.
Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins,
Jr., and Councilman L. D;.
McDonald, Felton Capel, Dr.
R. J. Dougherty and George-town hall.
H. Leonard, Jr. are bidding
for new terms. Technically,
Dr. Dougherty is up for elec
tion, rather than re-election.
He was appointed to the coun
cil in April, 1966, to fill the
vacancy created by the resig
nation of Councilman Lee
Smithson. Smithson left for an
extended business stay in
England.
If more than 10 candidates
file for the five council seats,
or more than two for Record
ers’ Court judge or solicitor, a
primary will be held April 24.
The registration books will
be open 9 am to 5 pm daily at
the town hall starting April 14
for 7 days, except on April
15. The hours then will be
9 am to 9 pm. No registration
will be held Sunday in that
period. The voting place for
the municipal election is the
Choral Society Sets
Presentation Sunday
The public is invited to a
presentation of “The Last
Words of Christ” by the Sand
hill Choral Society, Sunday,
April 2, at 8 pm in the First
Missionary Baptist Church on
S. Gaines St., Southern Pines.
The church’s Ushers Board
is sponsoring the performance.
Key Club Will
Make Canvass
For Red Cross
Eilward W. DuRant, Jr., 1967-
American Red Cross fund
raising chairman for Moore
County, has announced that
members of the Key Club at
East Southern Pines High
School have volunteered their
services to the Red Cross and
will canvass the residential
areas of Southern Pines on
Saturday and Sunday, to help
the Moore County chapter at
tain its goal which has not
been reached.
The Key Club is sponsored
by the Sandhills Kiwanis
Club.
The boys who will work
with Lt. Col. Francis M.
Smith, a member of the Ki
wanis Club’s Key Club com
mittee, on this project are led
by Paul Grasberger, their
president. The other 18 mem
bers are: Curt Wallis, Steve
Hassenfelt, Billy Strickland,
Bob Eberwein, Buddy Mat
thews, Jack Goldsmith, John
ny Rowe, Melvin Johnson,
John Short, Bruce Yarrington,
Jock Pottle, Pete Buchan,
Charles Buchholz, Don Roth,
Gene Sessoms, David Howard,
Ricky McDonald and Steve
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IN VIETNAM WAR ACTION
Carthage Soldier Dies
Man, 102, Dies—Was
He County's Oldest?
Was Phillip A. Fisher of
Route 2, Carthage, who died
March 23 at age 102, Moore
County’s oldest resident?
An obituary appears on page
6, Section 3.
Mrs. A. Fleming Popham
of Pinehurst, whose 101st
birthday will be April 19, may
now be the county’s oldest
living person.
The Pilot would like to
have information that would
either deny or confirm this
supposition.
Sp. 4 Henry Robert Mat
thews, 21, of Carthage died
March 21 in Vietnam of
wounds suffered in action
when he was struck by frag
ments of a Viet Cong grenade,
the Army has informed his
mother, Mrs. Jessie Matthews
of Carthage.
Sp. 4 Matthews was serving
with Company C, Second Bat
talion, 24th Infantry Division
in the Pleiku section when he
was fatally wounded. He had
been' in the Army since Jan
uary 1966 and in Vietnam
seven months when he died.
He was a 1964 graduate of
Pinckney High School of Car
thage and was active in the
youth program of Red Hill
Baptist Church before enter
ing service.
He \Yas a native of the Cam
eron area.
His father was the late
Jethro Matthews Sr.
Surviving Sp. 4 Matthews
besides his mother are four
sisters, Mrs. Joan Pate and
Miss Bernice Matthews, both
of Washington, D. C., Mrs.
Yvonne Williams of Detroit,
Mich., and Miss Mildred Mat
thews of Carthage; a brother,
Jethro Matthews, Jr. of Hot
Springs, Ark.; and his grand-
Federal Grant
Assures Nature
Preserve Work
■ News of the tground-break-
ing which will soon take place
on the site of the administra
tion building planned for the
Weymouth Woods Sandhills
Nature Preserve came from
official headquarters in Ra
leigh this week. The funds
necessary for the construction
are no win hand and the way
ahead seems clear.
The announcement came
through the good offices of
Moore County’s representative
in the legislature. Rep. T.
Clyde Auman of West End.
Mr. Auman, with Senator Voit
Gilmore, has been instrumen
tal from the start in trying to
hurry the completion of the
facilities necessary for the to
tal activation of the nature
preserve located southeast of
Southern Pines, adjoining
Bethesda Road and E. Con
necticut Ave. extension.
Funds to the amount of $50,-
000 had been voted by the last
legislature. This sum proved
entirely inadequate, including
as the Park Commission’s
plans apparently did, the con
struction of a road, parking
space, grading, and the fur
nishings of the building. Even
tually, after many delays along
the line, a grant of $55,823
was secured from the US De
partment of the Interior’s
Board of Outdoor Recreation.
It is now expected that con
struction will start shortly. To
be located on a forested hill
side looking towards the
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Pinehurst, he was also inter
ested in the cultural develop
ment of the Sandhills area
and enjoyed his life here.
Mrs. Sibley and Mrs. Wolfe
have presented shares of com
mon stock which will provide
an annual income to recognize
and reward excellent teaching.
Dr. Stone explained that theii
gift provides another assur-*
ance of quality teaching at
Sandhills and enhances the
value of the educational op
portunities provided on the
campus.
In their presentation of the
gift to the college, Mrs. Sibley
and Mrs. Wolfe expressed de
light with the creation of a
community college here to
provide educational advant
ages for many young people
and adults. They also express
ed appreciation for the beau
tiful campus, handsome build
ings and modern facilities of
Sandhills, the announcement
from the college said.
To the two benefactors. Dr.
Stone said: “The establishment
of the John Russell Sibley
Distinguished Professorship is
a great step toward our goal
of recognizing outstanding
teaching with an award which
will help bring excellent in
structors to the faculty of
Sandhills College.
“The members of the board
of trustees and the college of
ficials are indeed grateful to
you both for your timely and
generous gift. I speak, too, for
the students at Sandhills who
will benefit from your support
of our educational program.”
According to Dr. Stone,
plans are underway for a
Sandhills Community College
Foundation with endowments
from philanthropic individuals
and organizations, to finance
instructional programs and
facilities such as the John
Russell Sibley Distinguished
Professorship.
John Ruggles At
N. C. Memorial
John S. Ruggles, Southern
Pines realtor and insurance
executive and former mayor,
was under treatment at N. C.
Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill late this (Wednesday)
morning.
Ruggles was taken to Me
morial Hospital on Tuesday
after becoming ill at home.
His wife accompanied him
there and remained with him.
Mental Health Assn.
Will Meet Thursday
The annual meeting of the
Moore County Mental Health
Association, with election of
officers and other business
scheduled, will be held at 8
pm Thursday (March 30) in
the Campbell House on E.
Connecticut Ave.
The public is invited, said
Mark J. King, Jr., president,
but voting will be limited to
contributing members of the
association.
TWO MILLION HOURS MARK REACHED
Gulistan Plant Sets Safety Record
SP. 4 H. R. MATTHEWS:
mothers, Mrs. Annie Morrison
and Mrs. Katie Ferguson, both
of Carthage.
The funeral services will be
held at Red Hill Baptist
Church and burial will be
with military rites with an
Army honor guard participat
ing. Other details of the ar
rangements are incomplete.
Fry & Prickett Funeral
Home of Carthage is in charge
of the arrangements.
Employee's at Stevens Gulis
tan Carpet at Aberdeen have
established a record of two
million working hours with
out a disabling accident.
The new record was reached
at approximately 3:30 p.m. on
March 20, and “the employees
intend to make another mil
lion hours without a lost-time
accident,” said a news an
nouncement from the big
Aberdeen carpet manufactur
ing plant.
The employees started on
November 10, 1965, and reach
ed the half-million mark on
March 8, 1966. They were re
warded with a hamburger and
Coke party.
The million-hour goal was
reached at 1:30 p.m. on June
28, 1966. It brought the plant
a visit from Frank Hornby of
New York City, insurance
manager for J. P. Stevens &
Co., Inc., to present an Award
of Merit from the National
Safety Council and Certificate
of Merit from Liberty Mutual
Insurance Company which in
sures Stevens employees.
The employees received a
Stevens towel set for setting
the million-mark. They are
anticipating another visit from
Hornby and associates to the
plant, and receipt of another
gift from J. P. Stevens & Co.,
Inc., in appreciation for the
new safety record they have
achieved, said the announce
ment.
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.
Mrx> Min.
March 22 60 36
March 23 69 28
March 24 68 35
March 25 ........ 82 40
March 26 84 42
March 27 72 38
March 28 75 39