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A course for adult drivers will be given soon at Sandhills Community College. Details, Page 2, Sec. 3. fRotrtriNS ^london Candor t ncy;concl barfliaqc ^^Mlcopos. Cameron PI I , toVwi^’Vass * ^llcrbc n Pin LOT A new book written and illustrated by Glen Rounds of Southern Pines is reviewed on Page 3, Sec. 2. VOL.—47 NO. 28 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1967 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE; 10 CENTS HUNDREDS TO GET DIPLOMAS Graduation Events Set At Schools Of County Hundreds of . graduating day with a Sports Assembly, seniors will be receiving di- j for awarding athletic letters plomas soon at the nine high and continued today (Wednes- schools in Moore County. day) with the annual Awards Wm Following is an outline of events scheduled during the commencement period at each of the schools: EAST SOUTHERN PINES Events at East Southern Pines High School began Tues- CP&L Finishes Major Service Expansion Work Carolina Power & Light Company has completed a major service expansion pro gram in the Southern Pines area. The program included the construction of a 15,000 KVA substation just off the U. S. Highway 1 by-pass and the installation of a 110,000-volt tap line extending from Carth age to Southern Pines Location of the substation is about 100 yards off the by pass, on the northwest side, a short distance east of the Smithson, Inc., plant which is on the opposite side of the highway. The new tap line will feed high voltage into the Southern Pines substation from one of CP&L’s main transmission lines near Carthage. A. R. Tucker. CP&L’s local manager in Southern Pines, Continued on Page 5) Cerebral Palsy Drive Set For- This Weekend United Cerebral Palsy’s gen eral chairman, Mrs. Roy Kelly, of Kelly Personnel Service, an nounced Tuesday that on Fri day and Saturday, volunteers will call on every household and business in Moore County tc collect funds for UCP’s 1967 campaign. Mrs. Bertha Short of South ern Pines is campaign coordi nator for the fund drive and Mrs. Vivien McKenzie of Pine- hurst is treasurer. Southern Pines Mayor N'orris L. Hodgkins Jr. has proclaim ed the two days United Cere- (Continued on Page 2) Day. Announcement of the many awards came too late for The Pilot’s news deadline and the winners will be listed in The Pilot next week. The baccalaureate service will take place in Weaver Auditorium, Sunday, June 4, at 8:15 pm, with the Rev. A. L. Thompson, pastor of the Southern Pines Methodist Church, delivering the sermon. Other local ministers taking part in the program will be , the Rev. Phillip Deese, Dr. ' Julian Lake and the Rev. | Robert Roschy. | Graduation exetreijses, also I in Weaver Auditorium at 8:15 pm, will be held the following evening, Monday, June 5. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Jack R. Noffsinger of Winston- Salem. Details of the programs, with honor graduates, mar shals, names of graduating seniors and other information will appear in next week’s Pilot. WEST SOUTHERN PINES A class of 26 — 14 boys and 12 girls — will graduate at West Southern Pines High School where events are on a different schedule. The events of the commence ment period, with the public invited to all, are as follows, reports Principal H. A. Wilson. —Baccalaureate service at 4 pm, Sunday, May 28, in the new H. A. Wilson Auditorium, with the Rev. J. T. McMillan, pastor of St. James AME Church in Winston-Salem, de livering the sermon, and with (Continued on Page 2) Kiwanis ^Mess CalV To Send ^Army^Into Attack Saturday Against Moore Roads ’ Litter A small army of adults and youngsters will launch a war on many fronts against litter Saturday throughout Moore County. H-hour is 8 am. The clean-up campaign,, sponsored by the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, will be support ed by trucks, a communica tions system, and first - aid units, in the form of rescue, aPo is advised to wear bright- squad men and vehicles stand-' colored clothing, clearly visi- ing by to act if accidents occur, j ble to approaching motorists. The targets are every road- Each student in school side. The campaign aims to; grades below the sixth plan- clean them first and then ning tb work must be accom- keep them clean. Each volunteer has been asked to bring: two large paper panied by a parent, unless a member of a supervised Scout unit or similar organization. LOOK AGAIN! — Yes, that’s North Ca rolina’s Gov. Dan K. Moore, second from left, wielding a broom to set the pace for the Sandhills Kiwanis Club’s county-wide “Operation Clean-Up” on Saturday of this week. Both the Governor and Mayor Nor ris L. Hodgkins, Jr., second from right, have issued proclamations urging “extra effort” in public and private clean-up work during May. At left is George E. Paules, Kiwanis chairman for the county event and at right is Henry G. Harper, publicity chairman. On the tree is a county map showing areas by which “Operation Clean- Up” is organized. Governor Moore was in the Sandhills to attend, with Mrs. Moore, the North Carolina Symphony Ball at the Country Club of North Carolina, Satur day night. (Bob Ewing photo) TO COMPLETE AREA III HIGH SCHOOL School Building Money Sought LARRY MATTHEWS WINS CUP AWARD Larry Matthews, a senior at Union Pines High School and the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Matthews ^ of Route 3, Carthage, has been ,awaxded the Sand hills Kiwanis Club's Jun ior Builder's Cup for 1967. A photo of Matthews and other cup nominees and a report on the Ki- wanis-sponsored Picquet Music FestivaL held last Friday night alopg with the cup awarding, appear elsewhere in today's Pilot. The Board of Moore County Commissioners was asked la?t Thursday at Carthage to set a countywide referendum on a proposed near $2 million bond issue to provide extra money termed needed to build a “complete” PteecresT (Area HI) High School. The school site is two miles west of Southern Pines, off US 15-501. Commissioners took the re quest under advisement. Com missioners Chairman John M. Currie of Carthage said they would let the county board of ejiucation know in 10 days what the decision was. The commissioners were told by school board Chairman Jere McKeithen Sr. of Aber deen that the $2,051,094 funds on hand were sufficient to build an operational schobl:-!:- that is, the four basic build ings, but without a gymnasium and auditorium, and other fa cilities. “We could have a school program with the four build ings,” McKeithen said in re ply to a question from Com- misssioner Robert S. Ewing of Mrs. Kennedy Honored For Service To Red Cross Over Past 25 Years Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy of Southern Pines and Brookline, Mass., since 1942 the volunteer executive director of the Moore County Chapter, American ^4 Red Cross, was honored for her 25 years of service to the chapter and other civic pro jects, at a dinner Thursday evening at the Holiday Inn Restaurant. The Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, and chairman of the I Moore County Red Cross, pre- j sided at the program. Paul Moore, regional man ager of the Southeastern Area, American National Red Cross from Atlanta, Ga. cited Mrs. Kennedy for her many years of service to the organization and presented her with a cer tificate of appreciation signed by the chairman of the Ameri can National Red Cross, E. Ro land Harriman, and a sterling silver pin, symbol of the 25 years of volunteer service. Tom Noell, national repre- entative of the Red Cross of fice in Charlotte, presented a certificate for distinguished achievement to the Moore (Continued on Page 2) VFW TROPHY WINNERS — Winners of sports trophies donated by the James Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to outstanding athletes of East Southern Pines High School are shown here with VFW post representative Harry Chatfield a few minutes after last Wednesday night’s annual All Sports Banquet ended. From AT ANNUAL SPORTS BANQUET left to right are Jerry Wilson, winner of the trophy awarded to the Most Valuable Boy Basketball Player; Cathy McPherson, Most Valuable Girl Basketball Player; Chatfield; and iHkrry Jones, Most Valuable Football Player. Wilson also won the Jay- cees’ trophy awarded to the Most Outstand ing Athlete in All Sports. (Humphrey photo) SchooVs Top Athletes Honored Four-letterman Jerry Wilson was awarded the trophy of Most Outstanding Athlete of East Southern Pines High School last Wednesday night. He also was named Most Valuable" Boy Basketball Play er. The presentations of trophies to Wilson and other students named outstanding in their sports were made during the annual All Sports Banquet of the school at the National Guard Armory. Clarence Stasavich, athletic director and head football coach of East Carolina College, was the principal speaker. Several hundred students, their families and other guests v/it- nessed the program, along with members and officers of the sponsoring Blue Knights Club, the organization of adults that boosts East Southern Pinas athletics. Dan Kruger is presi dent. Stasavich in a special mes sage to the trophy winners told the athletes that the younger children look up to them, that they influence the younger ones, and consequently must be good examples to them. Wilson is a varsity perform er in football, basketball, base ball and track. The Most Out standing Athlete trophy was donated by the Junior Cham ber of Commerce and present ed by Charles Scott, Jaycee president. The winners of the other trophies and the donors: In football:' Harry Jones, a junior fullback. Most Valuable (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 3) Golfers Arrive For Elks Event Golfers from 17 states are arriving here, many accom panied by their wives, to play in the sixth annual Elks Na tional Amateur Golf tourna ment, sponsored by local Elks Lodge 1692, using the South ern Pines, Mid Pines and Whispering Pines club courses. The record field for the event numbers over 370. Play will begin tomorrow (Thurs day) and extend through Sat urday. Social events will in clude a welcoming party Thursday and a dance Satur day night. Dozens of silver trophies will be presented to winners and placers in the champion ship, first and 22 .other flights. Southern Pines. He said it would take “roughly” a total of $3,788,000 to do the entire job as originally planned (to include gym, auditorium and other facilities). Bids on the four were open ed the previous week. Mc Keithen told the commissioners contracts must be let by June 4, or the school board must pass up the bids. He called (Continued on Page 7 Sec. 3) Commissioners Given School Budget Requests The Board of Moore County Commissioners was asked last Thursday to budget $435,257.56 in capital outlay funds and $577,770 in current expenses for the county school system for 1967-68. The proposed budget' was turned over to the commis- Chamber Drive Passes $14,000 Mark This Week Membership fees collected by or pledged to the new Southern Pipes Area Chamber of Commerce have topped $14,- 000, Garland A. Pierce, secre tary and treasurer, reported today. The amount includes more than $4,000 collected in the past week. The campaign, shooting for a goal of $25,000 to cover operations in the year beginning June 1, began Mon day of last week. Memberships are being solicited in the Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen and Whispering Pines areas. A. Reynold Tucker, Chamber t)resident, said that the direc tors will meet at noon Thurs day for a luncheon session at Holiday Inn Restaurant, *0 check on progress and plan the continuation of the drive. Names of charter members —firms and individuals—ap pear in ari "adveftiseihent plac ed by the Chamber elsewhere in today’s Pilot. The list in cludes those paying member ship fees through Tuesday. Pierce said that the list in cludes about 95 of some 250 potential business member ships in the area. He noted also that about 25 per cent of the businesses have provided about 50 per cent of the $25,- (Continued on Page 2) THE GOVERNOR CONGRATULATES Gov. Dan K. Moore, vis iting in the Sandhills over the past weekend, issued the following statement about the Sandhills Ki wanis Club's cle,an-up. "I congratulate the peo ple of Moore County for their outstanding and ag gressive plans for OPER ATION CLEAN-UP, Sat urday, May 27. "I hope every citizen will do his or her part in helping to beautiify Moore County." The statement was made public by Henry G. Harper of Southern Pines, publicity chairman for the county-wide clean-up ef fort. . sacks, a burlap fcag, or a peach; Sixth-graders and older can basket; and a sandwich. Each report to the rally points by themselves. Each volunteer is asked to report to the rally point and area chairman nearest the volunteer’s home. The rally points and area chairmen for the communities indicated are: Aberdeen — Aberdeen Lake; Bud Goins. Carthage — New Farmer’s Warehouse at Hillcrest; the Rev. Paul Boone. Pinebluff — Town Hall; J. Douglas David. Pinehurst — school athletic field; William J. Wilson. Southern Pines — Town & Country Cinema parking lot, on US 1, south; Charles E. Scott. West Southern Pines — Lodge Hall, 295 Gaines St.; James E. Pugh. West End — Main Street; Roy Swaringen. (Continued on Page 2) ‘Oklahoma’ To Be Presented The popular Rogers and Hammerstein musical, “Okla homa!”, will be . staged Friday and Saturday nights at Weaver Auditorium of East Southern sioners by Jere McKeithen Sr., I Pines School by East South chairman of the Moore Coun+y Board of Education, during the commissioners’ budget- figuring session at the court house in Carthage. Capital-outlay money is spent for building construc tion, additions and major re pairs, and buying new equip ment, such as 'school buses, for examples. Current - expense funds are used for keeping up the property and paying sal aries, for examples. A total of $10,000 of the pro posed capital-outlay budget is listed as National Defense Act (federal) money. Of the capital outlay re quests $350,000 would heln fi- (Continued on Page 7) MRS. RUGGLES DIES The person of longest resi dence in Southern Pines—Mrs. Sarah Ruggles, 91, who came here as a child in 1885—has succumbed. An obituary ap pears elsewhere in today’s Pi lot. Sanford Man Is Appointed To Local Bank Post William M. Johnstone, 33, assistant vice president of Southern National Bank in Sanford, has been promoted to assistant vice president and cashier of the Southern Pines office of Southern National. The announcement was made this week by Hector MacLean, president of South ern National Bank of N. C. Johnstone has assumed his duties here. Johnstone was named to the position vacated by W. E. Samuels Jr. last month when Samuels was promoted to vice president and city executive of Southern National here. Sam uels succeeded Bruch Williams, who was promoted to city ex ecutive of Southern National’s Lumberton office. Johnstone has been employ ed by Southern National since September 1965 as assistant vice president and named as- ((ilontinued on Page 2) ern Pines junior high school students in casts totalling more than 100. The curtain will go up each night at 8:15. All the junior high is ap- (Continued on Page 2) BUILDINGS OPEN, ART WORK ON VIEW Public Invited To Friday Evening Commencement Events At College The commencement cete- mony to be hqld at 8 pm Fri- 'day on the Sandhills Commu nity College campus is open to the public and is expected to attract hundreds of interest ed persons, according to Ed ward DuRant, Jr., of the col lege staff. The buildings, classrooms, laboratories and the library will be open to visitors, and there will be an exhibit of paintings by Sandhills College art students on view in the art room of the Mary Luman Meyer Building. The graduation exercises will be held in the fountain- centered courtyard that cen ters the three-building com plex, Mr. DuRant said, but if the weather is inclement the ceremony will take place in the Student Lounge. The program will include an address by Edwin Gill, state treasurer, a welcome by Dr. Raymond A. Stone, college president, and the award ing of Associate Degrees to 52 Sandhills College stu dents. H. Clifton Blue, chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Richard S. Ray, dean of in- ‘struction, will participate. Two members of the graduating class, a young man and a young woman, will be named as the recipients of the C. Fos ter Brown, Jr., Awards, sel ected for their scholarship, character and contributions to Sandhills College. Following the formal com mencement program, the stu- (Continued oh Page 2) AT MEMORIAL FIELD 200 Youngsters Vie In Track Meet Approximately 200 boys and girls from 10 schools in Pied mont and Eastern North Caro lina ran, jumped, or hurled in last Saturday’s second annual Invitational Junior Track and Field Day of the Southern Pinefe Junior Chamber of Com merce at Memorial Field. The program got off to—lit erally—a running start aftoi it was officially opened. South ern Pines Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins Jr., Mayor Pro Tern Felton J. Capel and Town Councilman C. A. McLaugh lin and State Sen. Voit Gil more of Southern Pines pai - ticipated in the welcoming pr' >- gram with the Jaycees Jim Thomasson in charge. Assist ant Coach Charles Rose of East Southern Pines High School di rected the meet, held in hot, humid weather under partly (Continued on Page 1, Sec. 4) Library Staying Open 6 Days, 9 AM to 5 PM Although Town offices are closing on Saturdays, the town-owned Southern Pines Library is remaining open six days per week, Monday through Saturday, from 9 am to 5 pm. Mrs. S. H. Lambourne, li brarian, also announced this week that the library will not close on Wednesday after noons in June, July and Au gust, as in the past, and that it is no longer closed for a lunch hour. RECORD BUSTER — East Southern Pines High’s Tom my Richardson crosses the finish line in winning the 100-yard dash of the Senior Division in last Saturday’s Invitational Junior Track and Field Day. He covered the distance • in 9.8 seconds, a tenth of a second better than the official state scho lastic record. (His time won’t go into the official books, however, as a new state record, because of the for mal rules governing record making.) Other pictures of the program are elsewhere in today’s Pilot. 813 Immunized In Moore County Measles Clinics A total of 271 persons—136 at Robbins and 135 at West End—^were immunized against measles Sunday afternoon. This brought to 813 the to-‘ tal number immunized in three successive “Measles Sundays” in Moore County, said Dr. A. L. Siege, county public healtn director. Immunization sessions had previously been held May 7 at Carthage and Vass, and May 14 at Southern Pines. Use of the mass “injector gun,” a hew quick-and-easy method which forces a spray through the skin, made it possible to handle large numbers in a comparatively short time. While most of those vaccina ted were pre-school children, older children and also some adults lined up for the shots. Injections will continue to be given those requesting them at the Moore County Health Center, where there is no charge, and are also being given by private physicians, said Dr. Siege, adding, “While we consider that we had an excellent turnout, we hope everyone else who hasn’t had ‘red measles’ will seek immu nization.” Dr. Sie^e and Dr. H. David Bruton, Southern Pines pedia trician, composing the project committee for the Moore Coun ty Medical Society, were on duty on all three occasions, (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 17 76 45 May 18 78 45 May 19 85 50 May 20 84 63 May 21 70 56 May 22 88 49 May 23 56 4P
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