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TODAY'S PRESS RUN 3.900 \ I ••ir LOT TODAY'S PRESS RUN 3.900 VOL.—47 NO. 21 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Planner Hired To Help County Get U. S. Funds TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS A professional planning firm of Asheville will do the job of gathering the material and fil ing the application for federal aid to build a Moore County- public services building. The Board of County Com missioners adopted a motion Monday to contract with the firm, Barbour-Cooper & As- Commissioners Name Russell An Inspector Leonard Russell of Aber deen, a hardware business operator with experience as an electrician, was named a Moore County electrical in spector Monday effective May 1 by the Board of County Commissioners. S. J. Bradshaw of Carthage, the lone county inspector for the past 13 years, continues on the job ,however, until fur ther notice. Board Chairman John M. Currie of Carthage explained to reporters after the commissioners acted at their regular April meeting. The effect is the county has two inspectors. The action on Russell’s ap plication stemmed from com plaints about the inspection operations over the past years which commissioners said they had been receiving from contractors and home-owners. At Monday’s meeting, com missioners individually said Bradshaw has been doing a good job; and two electrical contractors and Carthage Fire Chief and former Mayor Arch ie 'Barnes told the board that Bradshaw is strict but fair and abides by the electrical regu- (Continued on Page 2) sociates. The job will cost $750 for preparation of the first part of the application and $250 for the second, a letter from the firm to the commissioners said. In previous weeks, the com missioners had been discuss ing the possibilities of engag ing a professional planner to explore ways that the county could obtain federal aid for county projects. Commissioners and county agencies’ representatives told a Barbour-Cooper representa tive last Thursday about the county’s plans and some of its anticipated needs. The com pany representative — Led ford Austin—told the commis sioners and agencies’ people the possibilities for federal aid and what would be requir ed to get it. He also told them generally what information about the county his company would need to prepare appli cations. The company letter, read Monday at the commissioners’ (Continued on Page 2) HAZARD NOW HIGH Auman Describes Possible School Board Districts DATE NOT SET School’s Band To Be On TV The East Southern Pines School Band, under the direc tion of E. C. Rodgers, has ac cepted an invitation to appear on the WRAL television pro gram, “Concert in Brass.’’ This program features high school bands located in North Car olina and surrounding areas. The local band will pretape the program in Raleigh on April 8. One of the highlights of the program will be a ren dition . of a concert selection, “A Hymn Festival” which is arranged by Hawley Ades. The television station will notify the school officials as to when the program will be televised in this area. Moore County State Rep. T. Clyde Auman asked the coun ty commissioners Monday for suggestions for mapping the county school board elections by school districts. The legisla tor spoke at the commission ers’ monthly meeting in Car thage. County Attorney M. G. Boy ette will draw up a bill for introduction this session in the General Assembly by Auman. Auman said either a nine- member or a seven-member school board would be advis able. The nine-member board would consist of one member each from Southern Pines; Aberdeen; Pinehurst - West End - Eagle Springs; Robbins; Highfalls-Westmoore; Carth- age-Cameron; and Vass-Lake- view-Farm Life and two members at large. A seven-member board would consist of one each from Southern Pines; Aber deen; Pinehurst-West Endr Eagle Springs; Robbins-West- moore; Carthage - Highfalls; and Cameron-Vass-Lakeview- Farm Life; and one at large. The present school board composition of seven members is based on the county com missioners’ districts existing, when the present school actwas passed by the 1965 (Continued on Page 2) * y§ Eiilrance to "Homewood" Where Five-Acre Gardens Will Be Seen (Estate of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Bullens in Southern Pines) HUNDREDS OF VISITORS EXPECTED House, Garden Tour Scheduled Next Week of the tour for many years, are again in cluded. All seven places to be visited, with brief descriptions, are listed on another page of this section of The Pilot. Persons making the tour may get tickets at all seven locations, but it is suggested that they begin their rounds at the Camp bell House. Proceeds of the event (there is a $2 fee) are used by the Garden Club for public beautification projects such as the recent re-landscaping and planting of azaleas along the Seaboard Railroad tracks, off E and W. Broad St. (Humphrey photo)’ Hundreds of visitors are expected to join Sandhills residents for the Southern Pines Garden Club’s 19th annual House and Garden Tour, Wednesday of next week, April 12. Members of the club will serve as host esses and guides at the beginning point of the tour—the town-owned Campbell House on E. Connecticut Ave.—and at the six other houses or gardens to be visited. The Knollwood area of Southern Pines, with four stops, and Youngs Road, with two, claim the entire attention of the tour this year, with several places not hereto fore shown on the schedule. The Bullens gardens in Knollwood, an annual feature IN VIETNAM — A Vietnamese civilian (in white shirt) helps HN Robert Dean, Navy hospital corpsman from Southern Pines, carry a patient to a Marine medical eva cuation helicopter. Marines and Navy corpsmen cooperate with Vietnamese authorities in evacuating sick and wounded villagers to a hospital in Da Nang. LOCAL BROTHERS SEE ACTION One Dean Back With Silver Star, Another In Vietnam Rescue Unit One son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Dean, Jr. of the Carthage road, near Southern Pines, returned from Viet nam with a Silver Star, the Army’s third highest combat decoration, for gallantry in action. And another son re mains . there, as a Navy hos pital corpsman, holding a hazardous assignment with Marine medical evacuation helicopters. Norman G. Dean III is the decoration winner (he also has the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart) and Robert (Bobby) Dean has the unusual Navy assignment. The Pilot of just a year ago —April 6, 1966 — told of the combat action in which Sgt. Norman Dean, a member of (Continued on Page 2) Brendell Chosen To Head Mental Health Group J. R. Brendell, Jr., of Aber deen was elected president of the Moore County Mental Health Association Thursday n^ht, with J. Frank McCas- kill of Pinehurst as vice-presi dent, Mrs. John McPhaul of Southern Pines as secretary and Tom Averitt of Aberdeen as treasurer. Brendell is principal of Ab erdeen schools and will be principal of Pinecrest High school, ne\v consolidated school to be built for Area III. Also elected were the fol lowing directors; Mrs. William J, Donovan, Dr. Charles Phil lips, the Rev. R. W. Roschy, Dr. Harvey D. Horne and Voit Gilmore, all of Southern Pines; T. Clyde Auman of West End; the Rev. Paul Boone of Carthage; Mrs. Kate Ferguson of Cameron, and Mrs. Lawrence M. Johnson of Aberdec n. Jaycees Assisling To be added to the board (Continued on Page 2) Campbell House Offieers Eleeted Incumbent officers of the outgoing Campbell House, Inc. board were elected to the same positions on the perma nent board of directors Tues day afternoon at an organiza tion meeting of board mem bers. They are G. H. Leonard, Jr., president; Miss Betty Dumaine. first vice president; and Tom Morton, Mrs. Peggy Kirk Bell, Mrs. Jean Capel, Mrs. Dorothy McMillan, Mrs. Kitty Ostrom, and F. F. Rainey, vice presid ents; A. M. Koster, secretary; W. Lamont Brown, assistant secretary; D. K. Bullens, trea surer; and Mrs. Janice McCon- (Continued on Page 2) Village Chapel Music Event Is Cancelled A “Festval of Easter Music” at the Village Chapel in Pine hurst, with choirs from Sand hills churches taking part, which had been scheduled for Sunday, April 9, will not be held, Chapel officials have an nounced. The last of a series of Sun day afternoon musical events at the Chapel will take place at 4 pm, April 16. when Theo dore H. Keller, organist and minister of music at 'the Chapel, will present an organ recital. LITTLE LEAGUE TRY-OUTS SET Try-outs for local Little League and Minor League ibaseball teams, for boys 9 through 12 years of age, will be held at the league park on Morganton Road, four Satur day mornings, it was announc ed this week by Dr. Boyd Starnes who is handling pub licity for the Southern Pines Little League Association. The try-out days are April 8, 15, 22 and 29, with boys asked to report at 9 am. “Little League Day,” with a parade and opening games, has been set for May 13. Again this year, there will be four Little League teams and four Minor League teams. Further details will be an nounced. Varied Talents To Be Presented In Benefit Show Numerous amateur and pro fessional entertainers are all set to present one of the most talented variety shows ever staged in Southern Pines, Fri day night of this week. Dr. Boyd Starnes, general chair man for the event, reports. Sponsored by the Blue Knights Boosters Club, for benefit of the highly, popular annual Midget Football pro gram for younger boys here, the show will begin at 8 pm in Weaver Auditorium. Singing, dancing, instru mental music, a magician with (Continued on Page 2) governor writes This Is Camp Easter Golf Week In N. C. This is Camp Easter Golf Week, during which numerous golfers on courses around North Carolina are paying $1 to pit their scores against the score that the winner of the Masters’ Tournament at Augusta, Ga., will shoot in the final round on Sunday. Participating golfers use regular handicaps in figuring their score. If they “beat” the master’s winner, they’ll re ceive a special certificate to that effect from the Friends of Camp Easter, the group of re tired Sandhills men iwho are raising funds for the camp. This summer camp for han dicapped children and adults, located near Southern Pines, is owned and operated by the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults. The Society is now winding up its annual Easter Seal fund campaign, in Moore County (Continued on Page 2) 500-Acre Fire, Hard To Fight, Burns 2 Days Flames swept an estimated 500 acres Sunday and Monday in the heart of the “Big Woods,” a thick, roadless for est, south of De^p River in the northeast corner of Moore County. The forest of mixed hard wood and pine stretches south from the road to Governor Williams’ tomb, about a half mile from the historic “House in the Horseshoe.” Both Gov ernor’s Creek and Crawley Creek, flowing northward, tra verse the area. The fire, sighted shortly be fore noon Sunday, was one of several which Moore Forest Ranger Travis A. Wicker said were reported during the weekend. Hot sunny weather reaching a high of 90 degrees Sunday, with rising winds, built up a general high-hazard condition. On Monday, burn ing permits were cancelled all over the State and extreme caution was urged until rain falls. Most of the fires were quickly suppressed, few spreading over more than three or four acres. In the “Big Woods,” however, with no way to get equipment in immediately, it was different. N. C. Forest Service work ers and 50 men from the Car thage prison camp fought the fire all Sunday afternoon and night, and well into Monday morning, hiking more than a mile and relaying water from Governor’s Creek and Crawley Creek in five-gallon pumps carried On their backs. They used rakes, brush and •everything they could carry in their hands to beat out the flames, which mostly spread along the ground in thick un derbrush, rather than in the trqetops. About 11 am Monday, with (Continued on Page 2) Five Incumbents^ Four Challengers File For Council Eight men and a woman are running for Southern Pines’ five council seats. They were all who filed be fore last Saturday’s deadline at noon for the May 2 election with Mrs. Mildred McDonald, town clerk. They are the five incumbent councilmen, including Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins Jr.; and U ■’ j: the four challengers—forme(; Councilman C. A. McLaugh lin; Mrs. Leland Daniels, Jr., W. S. Johnson; and Jerry B. Rhoades. One candidate withdrew be fore the deadline. He was R. C. (Cliff) Johnson. The passing of the deadline left Recorder’s Court Judge W. Harry Fullenwider and the court’s solicitor, Howard Broughton, unopposed for re- election. The incumbent councilmen are Mayor Pro Tern Felton Capel, Dr. R. J. Dougherty George H. Leonard, Jr. and L. D. McDonald, in addition to Mayor Hodgkins. Registration for the elec tion will start April 14 at the town hall and continue for seven days except Sunday, April 16. The hours will be 9 am to 5 pm daily except April 15 when they will be 9 Sm to 9 pm. April 22 has been designated as challenge day. World War 1 Velerans Slate Sunday Meeting The local chapter of the Veterans of World War I will hold its regular monthly meet ing Sunday, April 9, at 2:30 pm at the American Legon Hut, East Maine Ave., South ern Pines. All veterans of World War I, their wives and widows are cordially invited to attend. Fraud Attempts Bring Warning To The Elderly A woman pretending to represent the Moore County Welfare Department has been fraudulently trying to collect Medicare payments from per sons 65 years of age or over, in this county^ reports Mrs. Walter B. Cole of Carthage, director of the county welfare department. | Mrs. Cole asks any elderly person approached with such a proposal to notify the wel fare department or the sher- riff’s department, giving a description of the woman. Both offices are in Carthage, listed under “Moore County” in the telephone directory. No money should be given to any such person, Mrs. Cole stressed. Welfare case work ers carry identification cards and are glad to show the cards to anybody questioning their identity, she said. 1ST. LT. McKENZIE Fred McKenzie Now Commands Guard Company First Lt. Fred L. McKenzie of Southern Pines is serving as commander of Company C, Second Battalion, 252nd Ar mor of the North Carolina National Guard. The company headquarters is at the National Guard Armory here. Lt. McKenzie enlisted in the National Guard November 17, 1951, as a private. He served with the 82nd Airborne Divis ion at Fort Bragg when he went on active Army duty in 1955, and rejoined the Nation al Guard as a sergeant in 1957 when he returned from active service. He became, an officer in 1960 when he graduated from the Army Officer Candidate Schoq! at Fort Banning, Ga., and was commissioned a sec ond lieutenant. Lt. McKenzie was appointed a training officer platoon leader on returning to the local Guard company and held that position until he be came company commander on the retirement of Capt. Ralph L. Horner of Pinehurst. In business life, Lt. McKen zie is a local agent for Metro politan Life Insurance Com pany. He is a member of Culdee Presbyterian Church, the Southern Pines Volunteer Fire Department and the Elks (Continued on Page 2) AT STONEYBROOK Christopher To Announce Races Announcer for the Twen tieth Annual Stoneybrook Hunt Races on April 15 will be Don Christopher, sports editor of WBT radio in Charlotte, Donald Kennedy, race meet committee chairman, an nounced this week. Christopher was born and raised in Williamston, and worked for WIAM before go ing into the Marines in 1957. After completing his active service, he entered the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his degree in 1964. While in college, he work ed part-time at WDNC in Dur ham and WPTF in Raleigh, and joined WPTF full-time upon his graduation. He joined WBT in Novem ber 1964, and has contributed to the growth of sports broad casting at WBT. He is the play-by-play , announcer for Davidson basketball and spends the rest of his time do ing guest interviews with leading sports figures. Christopher is married and has one child. John Ruggles Remains Under Intensive Care John S. Ruggles, prominent local businessman, remains un der intensive care at N. C. Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, following brain surgery last week. His wife, Mrs. Hilda Rug gles, is at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill and with her are the local man’s brother, Ed, and his wife, of Raleigh. NO APRIL PTA There will be np meeting of the East Southern Pines Parent-Teacher Association in April, Mrs. Robert Leland, president, reminded members this week. The next meeting will be on Monday, May 8, in Weaver Auditorium at 8 pm. TO BENEFIT SANDHILLS COLLEGE PROGRAM SVA Opens Nurse Training Drive The Sandhills Veterans As sociation this week kicked off its annual drive for funds to provide education for nurses. Dr. Ed Sipple, president of the organization, has announced. Since 1946, the organization of World War II veterans has been instrumental in raising funds which have provided 39 Moore County girls with schol arships to attend nursing schools, and then to return to this county to practice. Last year, for the first time, all of the money raised was turned over to Sandhills Com munity College to provide scholarships for needy nurse training students, and to sup plement teacher salaries in the nurse training program. Funds raised in this year’s campaign will be used for these same purposes. Dr. Sip ple said. The local college has a full complement of students in its first nurse training class, and is looking forward to another full enrollment in the new class to be started in September. This year’s freshmen will then be entering their second and final year, prior to taking the State examination for becoming registered nurses. In addition to classroom in struction at the college, stu dents are learning the practi cal side of nursing at Moore Memorial and St. Joseph’s Hospitals and will also exper ience long-term patient care in the North Carolina Sana torium at McCain, a state hos pital for respiratory diseases. , The goal of the SVA is to see to it that every student who wants to become a nurse, and qualifies, may attend the college. Finances shall not be a barrier, says an attractive bro chure now being sent out with appeal letters. It contains pic tures of the nursing students at work in’ the college and at Moore Memorial Hospital, where the initial phase of the “lab” work is being carried out. Some 29 students, now in their first year at the college, represent an interesting cross- section of the communities served by Sandhills, and in clude a grandmother and one male student. Average age for (Continued on Page 2) FOR 25th ANNIVERSARY REUNION Corregidor Veteran Is Returning To Old Philippine Battle Croiuid + A one XT i T>_A_ _ . . Everett A. Horrell of 885 N. Ashe St. is returning to the Philippines this month but this time in a much happier, more comfortable manner than he left. When he left it was on a Japanese ship taking American prisoners of war from the is lands to prison camp in Japan. He and his wife are flying from New York by jet airliner to Manila for a reunion of American and Filipino veter ans of Bataan and Corregidor. The occasion is the 25th anni versaries of the surrender of American and Filipino troops to the invading Japanese forc es on the Bataan peninsula and Corregidor, the rocky island in Manila Bay. , They went to New York to day (Wednesday) by plane from Fayetteville. They will return home April 20. Horrell is Pinehurst village general office manager. His wife has been working for United Telephone Co. of the Carolinas here for the past 10 years. American Defenders Horrell, now 45, is a member of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, the or ganization of the veterans of those 1942 campaigns. The those 1942 campaigns. The Filipino veterans have their Filipino Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor. The two or ganizations are holding a joint two-week reunion. The only other veteran of those early American defeats living in Moore County wants to attend the reunion but his work won’t give him the time. He is S. E. (Tommy) Thomas, now resident ranger of the new Occoneechee Boy Scout (Continued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Maximum and minimunj 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. March 29 75 56 March 30 68 57 March 31 70 34 April 1 77 41 April 2 85 41 April 3 89 55 April 4 81 47
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