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Progress on UN peacekeeping is possible, reports James Boyd from the United Nations. Page 3, Sec. 3. LOT Information about all nine candidates for the town council, with photos, ap^ pears on Page 3, this section. VOL.—47 NO. 2:4 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1967 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS "TISH" PR';USS (Hemmer photo) 2nd North-South Golf Title Won By Miss Preuss Phyllis (Tish) Preuss of Pompano Beach, Fla, collected her second Nor^^h and South Women’s Amateur Golf Cham pionship last Saturday at Pine- hur.s:. She did it by turning back Connie Day of Cleveland, Tenn., a Curtis Cup alternate, 1-up in the finals. Miss Preuss was 1964 champion and 1966 runnerup. Her victory last.Sat urday wound up her play in her 10th. straight North and South tournament. Miss Preuss made the finals after defeating fellow "Curtis Cup player Barbara Mclntire, 2 and 1, in Friday’s semifinals. In the same round, Miss Day overcame Mrs. Alice Dye, 4 and 3. Miss Mclntire, of Colorado Springs, Col., has won three North-South titles. Miss Preuss was never down in the fnals. She went 1-up with a birdie 3 and the third (Continued on Page 2) Men’s N-S Now In Third Round The third round of the 67th annual Men’s North and South Invitational Amateur Golf Tournament got under way this morning (Wednesday) at Pinehurst under intermittent rain and gray skies. It was doubtful at Pilot press time whether more than one of the two scheduled rounds would be played. The tournament produced major upsets in its first two rounds Monday and Tuesday. Jay Baumgardner Jr. of Bristol, Tenn., turned back defending chanpion Ward. Wettlaufer of Atlanta, Ga., a Walker Cup player, in Monday’s opening round. In the second round Tuesday Southpaw Glynn Perkins upset 1964 champion Dale Morley of High Point 1-up on the 20th hole with an 18-foot birdie putt. Baumgardner was eliminated in the second round, 3 and 1, by Moss Becroft of Newport (Continued on Page 2) Man Flees Town As Warrant To Search Prepared A man suspected of theft in Aberdeen fled Southern Pines in a truck he stole about 10 am Saturday while an officer was obtain’ng the warrant neces sary to hold him and search the station wagon he was driv ing. The vehicle subsequently I proved to be stolen — and its glove compartment revealed a : loaded .38 caliber pistol. The man had been reaching for the compartment on the pretext of getting identification papers Police Ch ef Earl Seawell had requested when Seawell stop ped him on a hunch, the chief related afterward. i Chief Seawell said that the man already had the compart ment partly opened, but slam- ed it shut and locked it again when the police chief grabbed his arm and said he had better open it himself. It was then, Chief Seawell said, that the suspect declared that he had no right to arrest him or search his vehicle with out warrants. The scene was the parking ; lot of the drive-in branch of The Citizens Bank and Trust (Continued on Page 2) SUPl^RINTENDENT Lewis Resigns At Pinehurst; i Paschal Named William R. Paschal, math teacher and head coach at the Pinehurst School, has been appointed acting superintend ent of the Pinehurst City Schools to. fill the vacancy created by last week’s resignation of Fred G. Lewis, reports J. W. Sheffield, Jr., chairman of the Pinehurst School Board. Mr. Paschal, a native of Bis- coe, holds a graduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taught at the Pinehurst School for seven years. Dur ing that time, he has coached a winning boys basketball team, which reached the state tournament three times. He is married to the forpaer Vida (Continued on Page 2) ■ liiiiii Boys Will Serve As Senate Pages Two Moore County boys will serve next week. May 1-5, as pages in the State Senate at Raleigh. They are Mike Griffin, son of Ml', and Mrs. Ray Gr’ffin of Vass, and Mike Tucker, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Reynold Tuck er of Southern Pines. Griffin, a senior at Union Pines High School, is president of the Junior Booster Club at the school, is a member of the golf team and last summer at tended Boys’ State a<^ Winston- Salem. He plans to go to Elon College this Fall. Tucker is a freshman at East Southern Pines H’gh School. He is a member of the Junior Varsity basketball team and the tennis team, is on the staff of the school newspaper and is a member of the Spanish Club. He serves as an acolyte at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. V- nsWF'r Hiiiiyttai STARTLING — Smoke and flames boil ing up from the roof of the Moore County courthouse at Carthage, when a wooden structure atop the building burned last Wednesday afternoon, far surpassed in SUCCEEDED BY HARRINGTON Pinehurst President Janies Tufts Resigns James W. Tufts, 64, has re signed. as president of Pine hurst, Inc. and James E. Har rington, Jr., of Pinehurst, formerly executive vice presi dent and secretary-treasurer, has been named to succeed him as chief executive officer. The announcement was made today, after the April meet ing of the board of directors on Monday. The resignation was “accepted with regret,’’ the announcement said. No reason for Mr. Tufts’s action was Reminder Is Issued On 'Measles Sundays' Dr. A. G. Siege, county health director, and Dr. H. David Bruton, local pediatric ian, this week reminded the public that free vaccinations against measles will be given at four locations on two Sun days in May. ■rhey are: at Carthage and Vass on Sunday, May 7; and at Southern Pines and West End on Sunday, May 14. De tails were anounced two weeks ago and will appear aga’n in next week’s Pilot. The two physicians were asked by the Moore County Medical Society to coordinate the “Measles Sundays” mass immunization campaign. DANIELS TO SPEAK AT COLLEGE SUNDAY Stevenson Portrait Event Slated Jonathan Daniels—noted au- , thor, editor and historian, of Raleigh—will be the speaker for a ceremony to be held Sunday (April 30) at Sandhills Community College. The occasion will mark the/ formal presentation of a large 1 portrait photograph ' of the late Adlai E. Stevenson to the college library by the Moore County Historical Association. H. Clifton Blue, president of the Association and chairman of the cpllege Board of Trus tees, will present the gift which will be accepted by Dr. Raymond A. Stone, president of the college. The public is invited to the program, to begin at 2:30 pm. Mrs. Ernest Ives, sister of Mr. Stevenson, will unveil the portrait. Mrs. Ives, prominent in the preservation of antiqui ties in North Carolina and the •„ v' j j 7' JONATHAN DANIELS nation, and her husband live at Paint Hill Farm near South ern Pines where Mr. Steven son had visited during his years as governor of Illinois, as Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and 1956 and as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Daniels, a longtime per sonal friend of the Stevenson family, began his writing ca reer as a cub reporter with the Raleigh News and Observer while a student at UNC-Chap- el Hill. In 1930 he became a staff writer for Fortune mag azine and that same year his first novel. Clash of Angels, was published. In the years since, he has written works of fiction and history’ including A Southern er Discovers the South, Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina, The Man of Inde pendence and many others. His book. They Will Be Heard, (Continued on Page 2) given. The former president is a grandson of James Walker Tufts, the man who founded Pinehurst in 1895, and has been associated with Pinehurst, Inc., in various capac’ties since 1926. Mr. Harrington, a Southern Pines native, joined Pinehurst, Inc., in 1952, and has held several posts with the corpor ation. In other actions, the board of directors elected Melvin R. Wicker secretary of the cor poration and Joseph B. Mc- Cutcheon, treasurer. Both are Pinehurst residents. Southern Bank Executives Here Promoted W. E. Samuels Jr., .vice president and cashier of the Southern Pines office of South ern National Bank, has been promoted to vice president and city execut’ve. He succeeds Bruce Williams, who is being promoted to city executive of the Lumberton office of Southern National. The announcement was made today by Hector MacLean of Laurinburg, president of South ern National Bank of North Carolina. Both will assume their new (Continued on Page 2) Pre-School Clinics Set At 2 Locations Pre-school clinics for chil dren who will enter the first grade of Southern Pines schools were announced today. Tomorrow, Thursday, April 27, is the date for West South ern Pines school. One week later, Thursday, May 4, the East Southern Pines clinic will be held. Both the clinics are schedul ed for 8:30 am, in the respect ive elementary school build ings. At East Southern Pines, however, children whose last names begin with the letters A through K are asked to come from 8:30 to 10 am and those with name letters L through Z, from 10 to 11:30. Parents should accompany chJdnen and are asked to bring birth certificates and immuni zation records, if possible. threatening appearance the amount of damage done. Several fire departments from over the county responded to the alarn^ing call: “The courthouse is on fire!” (Gary Womack photo) Fife Confined To Roof Area At Courthouse A late-afternoon fire de stroyed a small,' unused wooden observation booth on, the' roof of the Moore County Courthouse at Carthage and damaged parts of the tar-and- gravel roof and the ceiling of the attic below last Wednes day. Carthage Volunteer Fire De partment firemen had the blaze out about 25 minutes after the fire station received the alarm about 4:50 pm. Fire Chief Archie Barnes said. He said the damage amounted to close to $5,000, much of it from the water poured on the blaze. He was still investigating the specific cause this week. He said electrical wiring in the 10- by-lO-foot booth was a suspect. The Sheriff Department’s radio transmitter, also on the roof, was still functioning after the fire. Sheriff Wendell B. Kelly said, but a radio techni cian was called in later to check it for possible damage not evident but which might cause trouble eventually with the communications system. Firemen and equipment from Southern Pines, Pine- bluff and Aberdeen volunteer fire departments were dis patched to the county seat, W. O. Moss, owner of Mile-Away Farm at Southern Pines, drove the farm’s private fire truck to the courthouse when he heard the report the fire had broken out. Two men from the Ashe- boro Volunteer Fire Depart ment, who happened to be passing through Carthage, joined the local firemen. The Carthage firemen had the fire out by the time the help arrived but the rein forcements were welcome be cause of the danger that bits of burning debris blown from the roof by the wind might start fires elsewhere in the (Continued on Page 3, Sec. 2) Tennis Tourney Will Begin At Pinehurst The fourth annual Pinehurst Country Club Spring Tennis Tournament will begin to morrow (Thursday), to run through Sunday, at the club’s courts. Entered are outstanding men and women amateurs froin New England to Florida. The tournament includes a senior division for both men and women players^ Voters To Choose 5 Council Members In Election Tuesday Large numbers of the up to 2,000 registered voters of Southern Pines are expected to cast ballots next Tuesday in the 1967 biennial municipal election of councilmen and Re corder’s Court judge and so licitor. The polls at the town hall courtriom will open at 6:30 am and remain open until 6:30 pm, Mrs. Alma Jones, regis trar for the election, advised Tuesday. Eight men and one woman are bidding for the five seats on the town council. The terms are for two years. The candi dates include all the incum bents. The election for the court positions is a formality. Judge W. Harry Fullenwider and Solicitor Howard Brough ton are unopposed for re-elec- Town Council Recommends Appointments The Town Council Tuesday night at its last official meet ing of its current two-year term recommended appoint ments by the Board of Moore County Commissioners to the town Planning Board and Board of Zoning Adjustment. The councilmen rescheduled for the council’s next monthly meeting, scheduled for May 9, action on a request to permit the operating of manned sail boats on the town reservoir. The postponement was vot ed after Councilman George H. Leonard Jr. suggested that the present council table the matter till the next regular meeting so that the council elected for the next two years have a chance to “digest” the subject. The council seats are up for election next Tuesday. The successful candidates will be sworn into office the next day. In action on the planning board, the council recommend ed the appointments of Dr. Richard Ray to a 5-year term; and Richard B. Schnedl, to complete the unexpired por tion of the term of Bryan Poe. Poe’s term expires May 1 1970. Dr. Ray, dean of Sandhills Community College, who lives in Southern Pines would fill the vacancy created by the (Continued on Page 2) Special Board Meet Follows Courthouse Fire The damage caused to the roof of the Moore County Courthouse by last Wednes day’s fire was repaired Mon day by King Roofing Co. of Sanford after county commis sioners agreed on the arrange ments at a special meeting the day after the blaze. The cleanup of the debris had been done and temporary repairs made last Thursday also by county school system maintenance department work ers. The loss was covered by insurance. The county has a policy with United Insurance Agency of Carthage. An insur ance company appraiser after inspecting the damage agreed (Continued on Page 2) DAYLIGHT TIME STARTS SUNDAY Don't forget to set your clock ahead an hour before you go to bed S,aturday night. Daylight Saving Time starts at 2 am. Sunday. Railroads, of course, continue running on Stan dard Time—Eastern Stan dard in these parts. The North C.arolina General Assiembly last winter enacted a law put ting the state on Daylioht Saving Time during the spring, summer and part of the fall. I Clocks go back to Stan dard Time the l,ast Sun day in October. 2 Collections Of Blood Set For Next Week Residents of Moore County wTl have two chances next week to give a boost to the county blood program which has been placed “on probation” by the Red Cross until next November. (This means that -if blood do nated in county collections this year does not equal the amount,, of free Red Cross blood used in the county’s two hospiials, the program could be with drawn.) The bloodmobile visits next week are: At the Proctor-Silex plant here, for both employees and the general public, Wednesday, Maq 3, from 1 pm to 5:30 pm. At Sandhills Community College on the Pinehurst-Air- port road, open to any donor from throughout the county, Thursday, May 4, from 10 am to 3:30 pm. Col. John Dibb, county blood program chairman, has urged that persons who have pledged to replace blood used by hos pital patients make every at tempt to give blood at one of the two locations. The bloodmobile comes from, the Charlotte Red Cross center that supplies blood of all types to both hospitals in this area. SERVICE TO END The October - May seasonal service of Piedmont A'rlines to the Southern Pines - Pinehurst Airport will end after flights on Saturday, April 29, the company has announc ed. It will be resumed in the fall, officials said. AT MOORE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Womack To Be Personnel Director John B. Womack of Rock- i ingham will assume his duties as personnel director at Moore Memorial Hospital, Pinehurst, Monday, May 1, according to an announcement by Duncan; McGoogan, administrator. The position is a new one added to the hospital staff. | Mr. Womack has been of- ; fice manager and account ant for the past two years with J. Hubert Gibson, Ac countant, in Rockingham. Prior to that, he was associ ated with J. P. Stevens & Company for nine years, the last three as a personnel man ager. He is the son of the Rev. C. P. Womack, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Elizabeth City, and Mrs. Wo mack, and was graduated from high school in Roxboro and Croft’s Business College in Durham. He is a member of the North Carolina Society of Accountants. Mr. Womack went to Rock ingham 11 years ago, iollow- ing two years of military ser vice at Ft. Gordon, Ga., and since that time has been ac tive in civic affairs of the JOHN B. WOMACK community. He is a past pres ident of the pockingham Jay- cees. He is married to the former Miss Dorothy Brigman of Rockingham and they are pa rents of two young daughters, Debbie, 10, and Janet, five years old. Mrs. Womack has (Continued on Page 2) tion. Mrs. Jones said 249 new names were added to the regis tration books during the seven- day registration period, which ended last Friday. She said this was the largest new regis tration she has seen in the six years she has been serving as registrar for the local elec tions. Mrs. Jones said interest and enthusiasm over the com ing election appeared high among people who registered with her. Last Saturday was Chal lenge Day, but Mrs. Jones said, there were no challenges of the names on the books. Running for new terms on the council are incumbents Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins Jr., Maybr Pro Tern Felton J. Ca- pel. Dr. R. J. Dougherty, George H. Leonard Jr. and L. D. McDonald. The other candidates are C. A. McLaughlin, a former coun cilman; W. S. Johnson; Jerry D. Rhoades; and Mrs. Mar- quita King Daniels. (See biographical sketches of all the candidates on anoth er page of today’s Pilot.) The five candidates receiv ing the highest numbers of votes will be elected. The mayor for the next two years will be elected by the suc cessful candidates. The successful candidates will be sworn into office next Wednesday at 8:30 am in the Towi) Hall Municipal Court room. The tallying of the votes cast will start immediately Jones said. Serving at the count with Mrs. Jones will be Joseph Garzik and Mrs. Ger trude Stephenson, town elec tion judges; John Buchholz; and James Irvin. BuchViolz will call the ballots and Irvin will tally. YDC’s Set RaRy For Candidates Candidates for municipal of fices in all of Moore County’s towns, and the people who will vote jfor or against them in elections on Tuesday of next week, have been invited by the county’s three Young De mocrats Clubs to attend a rally at Aberdeen Lake, Satur day, April 29, starting at 6 pm, with hot dogs and soft drinks free to all. The host clubs are the Moore County YDC, (;he Sandhills YDC and the Adlai E. Steven son YDC at Sandhills Com munity College. Elvin Jackson of Carthage, Moore County Democratic chairman, will preside. All candidates are invited to speak briefly. Municipal elections in towns of the county are conducted on a non-partisan basis — that is, no candidate files, or is nomi nated, as Democrat or Repub lican. Other Towns To Have Municipal Elections Voting for municipal offici als wll take place Tuesday in other incorporated towns of Moore County, as well as in Southern Pines. They are: Aberdeen, Pine- bluff, Carthage, Robbins, Vass and Cameron. Of all the towns. Southern Pines is the only one with thb council-manager form of or ganization in which the five persons elected to the council then vote among themselves for mayor and mayor pro tern. The others elect separately a mayor and a board of corn- miss oners of from three to five members. Pinehurst has no elected town governing board, because is is not an incorporated muni cipality. 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. Max. Min. April 19 80 45 April 20 72 43 April 21 80 44 April 22 77 43 April 23 65 50 April 24 80 46 April 25 77 89
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