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This is North Carolina Firemen’s Week, as proclaimed by Gov. Moore. Information and three photos are on Page 2, Section 3. LOT Remember when the Sandhills was being proposed as site for the United Nations headquarters? Details are recalled, Page 1 Section 2i. rWENTY-SIX PAGES FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL Area III Committees Tell Recommendations Flexible scheduling, and I some general recommendations team teaching, the best avail- [offered by study committees PRICE: 10 CENTS able audio-visual aids and other electronic equipment, art and music to be offered on all levels, greater depth of study in social sciences, a continual annual follow-up of drop-outs, broadening of sciences in col lege preparatory, general and vocational fields—these were PARADE, GAMES Little League Festivities Set Saturday Saturday will be the annual Little League Day in Southern Pines, with a parade, and opening games of the Little League and Minor League baseball teams for boys 8 to 12 years old. The East Southern Pines School Band will lead the 10 am. downtown parade in which the four Little League teams and four Minor League teams will march behind convertibles in which will be riding each teams “Queen”—a girl of the boys’ age group — and each team.’s adult coach. The opening game program at the Little League Park on, Morganton Road is scheduled for 5 pm, with games actually starting about 6 and 8 pm. The teams and their coaches are: Little League — Dodgers, Jack Barron; Braves, Lewis McNeill; Pirates, Willis Cal- cutt; and Cards, Leon Wylie. Minor League — Cubs, John Williams and Charles Rose; Reds, Bill Samuels; Tigers, Tommie Jessup; and Yankees, Joel Funderburk. Boys of greater ability and, generally speaking, the older (Continued on Page 2) Sports Banquet Slated May 17 Trophies will be presented May 17, to the outstanding athletes of East Southern Pines High School for 1966-67. The occasion is the second annual All Sports Banquet, scheduled for the National Guard Armory. A buffet din ner will start at 7 pm. The awards program will open at 7:45 pm. The principal speaker will be East Carolina College’s ath letic director and head football coach, Clarence Stasavich. The details of the dinner program were announced Tuesday by . East Southern Pines’s head football and base ball coach, Joe Smith. Stasavich will be introduced by Kirby Watson, Southern Pines city schools superinten dent. Dr. Bruce Warlick will (Continued on Page 2) JUNIOR SKEET Fisher Makes All-America A teen-age Sandhills resi dent, Gifford Fisher, has been chosen a member of the Junior Squad of the 1967 All-Ameri can Skeet Team, it was an nounced Saturday. Men’s, women’s and junior squads were selected by Jim my Robinson, skeet and trap shooting editor of Sports Afield magazine. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Fisher of Midland Road, Pinehurst, “Giff” Fisher has won numerous shooting trophies at the Pinehurst Gun Club and elsewhere. Observance Of WWI Anniversary Planned Plans for an observance of the 50th anniversary of the entry of the United States into World War I will be made Sunday at a meeting of Bar racks 1443, Veterans of World War I. The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 pm at the American Legion Hut on E. Maine Ave. Invited to attend are all veterans of World War I and their wives, and all widows of WWI veterans. for the new Pinecrest High school at the Area III meeting at Weaver Auditorium Mon day night. Many recommendations were specific, such as four years each of French and Spanish, a full-time health nurse, the addition of horticulture, forestry, livestock and poultry —;-also “cosmetology” for the girls—to the vocational pro gram, and the installation of the National Honor Society for student leadership. These and many more were embodied in reports of 19 citi zen committees v/hich have been at work since last Novem ber on studies of curriculum, .services and activities proposed for the Area HI consolidated school. They have had the help of State Department of Pub lic Instruction consultants, through the Regional Curri culum Project, toward effect ing an ideal organization 'of an ultra-modern consolidated school. So jam-packed were the re ports, presented by chairmen or other committee represen tatives, that they overflowed their allotted time and several other program items had to be skipped ,including the ques tion and-answer period and a “pictorial tour” of the new school. But the audience — which was small — listened with attention and apparently (Continued on Page 2) Young Drivers To Test Skill In ‘Road-E-O’ 1111 'S'rV'i.c'v., UC'wti 4i W M ' I'ffG Moore County teenagers will have an opportunity to demonstrate their all-round driving knowledge and ability in an “Auto Road-E-0” to de termine the county’s safest and most skillfull young drivers. The contest will be conduct ed Sunday, May 21, by the Southern Pines Jaycees and the Carthhge Jaycees, and is co-sponsored by Newland Phil lips Motors, Inc. Entry forms and further information about the Road-E-O can be obtained from Wayne Hicks of J. P. Stevens & Co. at Aberdeen; Charles Rose, Southern Pines City Schools; Newland Phil lips Motors, Inc.; or from the other high schools throughout the ’county. The high-scoring boy and girl drivers will win a $25 Series E Savings Bond and the right to compete against other local contest winners at the state Road-E-O finals in Asheboro, June 3-4. The boy and girl state charripions will represent North Carolina at the Nation al Auto Road-E-O at the Uni- "ersity of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mjch, July 30-August 3, .1967. At stake will be $14,- 000 in college scholarships, the use of six Mercury Cougars for one year, and the opportunity to tour the United. States as a Youth Safety Spokesman for Lincoln - Mercury Division of (Continued on Page 2) .■ ’’A*..** 4*..,; V * S* , ^ ^ f liiWiiiii* Measles Clinics Slated Here, At West End, Sunday Southern Pines and West End will be the locations for free measles immunizations next Sunday (May 14)—the second of three Sundays on which the clinics are being held in Moqre County. Urged by physicians to at tend the clinics are all chil dren over one year of age and adults who have never had measles. The places and times for the May 14 clinics are; At East Southern Pines School cafeteria, 1 to 3 pm. At West End School cafeteria. 4 to 5 pm. Sponsoring the county-wide immunization effort—which'is part of a national campaign to eradicate measles and its seri ous and sometimes fatal com plications—are the Moore County Public Health Depart ment and the Moore County Medical Society of which all (Continued on Page 2) Kirby Becomes ’Phone Company Vice President Chambers Member Drive Will Start Over A rea Monday Plans for the newly organ ized Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce’s first member ship drive were described last Thursday at the weekly meet ing of the chamber’s board of directors at Holiday Inn. Prepared lists of names and addresses of business and pro fessional firms throughout the area have been giver! to each AT PINECREST SITE — Grading oper ations continued this week for playing fields, parking areas and other portions of the extensive site for the Pinecrest High School/ buildings on which construction is expected to begin soon. Distance dwarfs the big earth-moving machines in the top' photo. In lower photo, another machine is shown at work, with outlines of the campus lake, now partially filled, in the background. The location is east of High way 15-501, between I Southern Pines and Pinehurst, but is not visible frorn the' high- (Pilot photos) NOT INCLUDING GYMNASIUM, AUDITORIUM School Bids Top $2 Million Bids were opened last Thurs day afternoon on four Pine crest (Area III) High School buildings. Moments later, the Moore County Board of Education was told that first tabulations showed that the school could be built for about $2,074,000 excluding equipment. This would be approximately $400,- 000 less than the total county and slate funds now on hand Or which will be available during the next two fiscal years. The bids were opened by Thomas Hayes of Hayes- BUILDING TO BE DEDICATED ‘Appreciation Day’ To Honor Past, Present School Officials, Friday Friday is Appreciation Day,, city Supts. P. J. Weaver, A. honoring the men who have | C. Dawson Jr., Luther Adams served as superintendents of and J. W. Jenkins and present the Southern Pines city schools. The new $180,000 West Southern Pines School audi torium will be dedicated in a 4 pm program to West Southern Pines Principal H. A. Wilson. A play dramatizing the high lights of the Southern Pines school system’s history will be presented by East Southern Pines students at 8 pm in Weaver Auditorium at East Southern Pines After the play ends, former NEAR SOUTHERN PINES Wrecks Claim 3 Lives Student Dies: 1-Car Mishap A girl student of Sandhills Community College wa^killed and two others injured when the sun roof model Volkswag en one of them was driving went out of control and over turned near the college Wed nesday night. All were 19 years old and freshmen in the college paral lel department. Barbara Ann Lindsay of Raeford was believed instantly killed when she was thrown from the car, apparently through the canvas covering of the sunroof top. Taken to Moore Memorial Hospital with injuries termed serious but not critical were Gloria Lorraine Murray of Siler City and Maude Vinton (“Vinnie”) Clark of Red Springs, Route 1. The girls had been rooming together at the (Continued on Page 2) 2 Men Killed, No. 1 Highway Two West Southern Pines men were killed Sunday after noon when the car in which they were riding overturned as it was entering US 1 bypass about two miles north, of Southern Pines, the State Highway Patrol reported. Both were thrown from the vehicle, the report said. The dead were Mack Stubbs, 51, of 910 W Illinois Ave., and James Kelly, 47, State Trooper R. R. Samuels reported. The officer said Stubbs’s 3-yar-old grandson, Timothy Lamont Stubbs, suffered bruises and abrasions in the accident. His condition was reported satis factory this week at Moore Memorial Hospital by a hospi tal spokesman. State Trooper R. R. Samuels said the car passed two other (Continued on Page 2) Sup;. Kirby Watson will oe introduced to make brief talks. Weaver is Greensboro city schools superintendent. Dav/- son is executive secretary of the North Carolina Education Association, Adams is Stanly County schools superintendent and Jenkins is director of the early chidlhood education (kindergarten) program for the State Department of Public Instruction. A reception in the East Southern Pines School cafe teria will follow. Members of the Moore Coun ty Board of Education and the county schools s,uperintendent, Robert E. Lee, have been in vited, in addition to city school and. other leaders. Watson pointed out Tuesday that the Southern Pines school system will merge July 1 with the county administrative unit. “Our Appreciation Day,” he said, “is an effort to say ‘thank you’ to all who have given time and inspiration to our schools over the years.” “As you can understand,’’ he (Continued on Page 2) Nelson Hyde Home From VA Hospiial Nelson C. Hyde returned Saturday from the Veterans Hospital at Fayetteville to his home at 265 Valley Road and is able to see friends there. The Pilot has been inforrned. The local man, who has been hospitalized for many months, in the Sandhills and at Fayet teville, is reported to be con siderably improved. A well known resident of this area for many years, Mr. Hyde is a former editor and publisher of The Pilot and has also edited The Outlook, for merly published at Pinehurst. Howell & Associates of South ern Pines, the school’s archi tect, before contractors’ repre sentatives and Moore County Board, of Education members and county school system of ficials in the county system's Materials Center near Carth age. It was Hayes who gave the preliminary tabula lion results later to the county board dur ing the board’s business meet ing which followed the bid ppenings. . The bidding was for the con tracts to erect the four build ings and supply and install their plumbing, heating and electricial equipment and the kitchen equipment for the lunchroom. The county school board agreed earlier this year that bids would not be asked on this occasion for construction of the planned gymnasium and auditorium. These . will be erected when more funds be come available. The time individual bidders said they would complete the work ranged, from 420 work days (the least time desig nated) to 540 work days. The working- time for completion ran over 450 days in only two construction bids. The working time count starts with the let- (Continued on Page 2) Town Tennis Try-Outs Set Again For Sunday Try-outs for > the Southern Pines team in the Eastern Car olina Tennis League are re scheduled for Sunday, May 14, on the town park courts at 2:30 pm. High wind last Sunday pre vented their being held at that time. There are no age limits for this team which plays Sunday matches during the summer. High school players are urged to try out. PTA Rescheduled For Monday, May 15 The May rheeting of the East Southern Pines Parent-Teach er Association — which was inadvertently announced for Monday night of this week, in conflict with the Area HI school meeting held in Weaver Auditorium — will take place Monday of next week. May 15, in the auditorium at 8 pm. An election of officers for the next school year will ’oe held. John Bigbee, president of United Telephone Company of the Carolinas, Inc. has an nounced that John W. Kirby has been named vice president cf the company. Mr. Kirby pre viously served as a vice presi- ednt of United Telephone Company of the Northwest, Hood River, Ore. He is a native of Charlotte, and is returning to North Car olina after an absence of 32 years. He received his engi neering degree from N. C. State University in 1935. Im mediately after graduation, he joined the Columbia Utilities Company, a predecessor of United of the Northwest. He worked his way up through various assignments, including plant, commercial and data processing. He is married to the former Lois L. Kent, a native of Ore gon, and they have one mar ried daughter. Mr. Kirby now resides temporarily at 980 N. Ridge St., and Mrs. Kirby will be joining him soon. The vice presidency of the company has been vacant since Mr. Bigbee’s promotion from that post to president about two months ago. United Telephone of the Carolinas, with headquarters in Southern Pines, serves por tions of North Carolina and South Carolina. Superior Court Term To Open Special Judge Walter E. Brock of Wadesboro will pre side over the regular civil term of Moore Superior Court, to open at Carthage Monday morning. Ten divorce cases are ca lendared for the first day, in cluding seven uncontested and three requiring trial by jury. Anothei\ contested divorce case is set for Tuesday. An number of motions in BANKS TO CLOSE ON SATURDAYS Banks in Southern Pines. Pinehurst, Aber • deen, Carthage and West End will discontinue Sat urday service, but extend their banking hours on other days, starting Mon day, May 15. Thci announcement was made by officials cf The Carolina Bank, The Citi zens Bank and Trust Com- » pany and Southern Na tional Bank. On Monday through Thursday, 'banking hours will be 3 to 1 ana 3 to 5. Ou Friday, the morning hours will b^i fhe same and the afternocn hours will bo extended to 6 pm. Panels To Tell Students About Various Careers Juniors in the high schools of Moore County have been invited to attend the annual Career Night program, sponsor ed by the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, Monday, May 15, start ing at 7 pm, at Sandhills Com munity College. Parents of the students are invited to attend. The program will again pre sent advice and information on a wide variety of profes sions and occupations—but a change has been made in its format this year. Eleven panels of persons fa miliar with various related oc cupations will discuss them un der the guidance of a modera tor for each panel. Previously, individuals have addressed poups of students interested in certain career areas. All panel discussions will be gin at 7, the club’s announce ment said. There will be a break for refreshments at 8:15 and the panels Will reconvene at 8:45. The panels will use designated rooms in the vari ous college buildings. (Continued on Page 2) director. Each board member will se lect several co-workers for a team. Each team will call on the firms on its list. The visits will start immed iately after a kickoff break fast next Monday, Reynold Tucker, chamber president, said in describing the cam paign plans. Most of the visits are plan ned for Monday. Each cham ber representative will carry decals, membership cards, copies of the chamber’s by laws, and other materials. The teams will work in Southern Pines, Whispering Pines, Aberdeen and Pine hurst. The workers also will an swer questions, outline cham ber programs for the year, re ceive suggestions for future programs and find out the willingness of new members to accept committee assign ments in chamber projects. The directors also were told that membership subscriptions received from their own firms totalled $4,400. The goal for the first year is $25,000. Tucker announced this week new selections for the cham ber board; Thomas Connolly of Pinehurst and William E. Samuels were named to fill vacancies created by the re signations of Bruce Williams and .John Sullivan; and Lyn wood N. Moon of Aberdeen, as the 21st member of the board. Williams has been transfer red to the Southern National Bank offices at Lumberton. Sullivan left the board be cause of an increase in his business responsibility. Chamber Backs Beverage Bill At their meeting last week, the directors of the Southern Pines Area Chamber of Com merce unanimously endorsed the proposal, now in the Gen eral Assembly, to permit a vote in three townships of Moore County on sale of liquor by the drink. Under the proposal, such sales would be permitted, under strict control, in Mc Neill, Sandhill and Mineral a Springs townships, if 15 per cent of the voters petition for an election and a majority votes for the plan. The full text of the Cham ber’s resolution appears else where in today’s Pilot. AT REGULAR MAY MEETING The Southern Pines Town Council Tuesday night set a public hearing for May 31 at 8 pm on a request to annex a section at the southern edge of town. The section is on the west side of US 1. It is also J. . , bounded by Murray Hill Road u®" J Pinehurst Road. It is about Town Council Sets Public Hearing On Annexation Request For May 31 1-.* _ • heard Monday, and 17 suits are set for trial Monday through Thursday. "385 feet deep west from US 1, except for a relatively small area about 325 feet deep ON MAY 12 AND MAY 26 College Events Slated Gill To Speak At Graduation Friday To Be Festival Day A Spring Festival—a day of field games and entertain ment—will be held Friday of this week. May 12, on the Sandhills Community College campus, the first such event for the college. Plans call for the “fun-activity” day to be come an annual event for stu dents and members of the fa culty and staff. The program will begin Fri day at 3 pm with all classes dismissed so that students may participate, college officials announced. There will be nu merous games including ping (Continued on Page 2) A formal commencement ceremony will be held at Sandhills Community College Friday, May 26, when 52 stu dents will be awarded Associ ate Degrees in Arts and As sociate Degrees in Applied Science. Persbns who this year have earned certificates at Sandhills College also will be recognized during the cere mony. Dr. Raymond A. Stone pres ident, has announced the grad uation exercises will be held at 8 pm in the fountain-cen tered courtyard. The public is (Continued on Page 2) on Murray Hill Road. The request was filed by Greene Realty Co., and Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Liddell, real tors, among others. A roadside cleanup campaign scheduled for May 27-28 in the Sandhills area under Sand hills Kiwanis Club sponsorship was endorsed by the council. The plans were described by George Paules for the Kiwanis Club. Also appearing in con nection with the campaign were George Little of the Southern Pines Junior Cham ber of Commerce and Charles Scott, Jaycee president, who also is chairman of the town Beautification Commission. The council in other action authorized Town Attorney W. Lamont Brown to draw up an ordinance permitting saidboat- ing On the town reservoir. The ordinance will incorporate re gulations governing the operat- (Continued on Page 2) 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. May 3 78 47 May 4 70 46 May 5 71 47 May 6 73 50 May 7 77 65 May 8 71 40 May 9 68 45
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