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The founder of the Auxiliary of the Medical Society of North Carolina is well known here. Page 7, Section 2. Uiqhtall! rRotrUini GIsndian Candor / ®mqreand catmaqe ^ ^Eflaloopqs. Cameron Pjl , , Lokivio^'Vass f hues plerbe p,n^io^ LOT Two groups at Vass have been honored for beautification and clean-up work. Details and a photo, Pg. 6. VOL.—47 NO. 29 rWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1967 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS PRESENTING AWARDS — Mrs. C. Eos- Mrs. Brown in rnemory of her late bus ter Brown, Jr., of Winnetka, Ill., and Dr. band. Mrs. Brown is a daughter of Mrs. Raymond A. Stone, president of Sandhills C. Louis Meyer of near Pinehurst, whose Community College, are at the podium as benefactions to the college have been ex^ Mrs. Brown cites two graduating students- tensive. The awards presentation was in- Miss Brenda Robson of Southern Pines, eluded in last Friday evening’s commence- right, and Wayne Williams of Eagle ment ceremonies at the college on the Pine- Springs, left—as winners ($500 each) of hurst-Airport road. (Humphrey photo) the C. Foster Brown, Jr., Awards given by EDWIN GILL SPEAKS, STUDENTS RECOGNIZED 49 Given Degrees At College Boy, 9, Dies When Struck By Automobile A 9-year-old Southern Pines boy, visitnig in West End, crossed NC 211 to buy an ice cream bar and some bubble gum at a service station. While I trying to re-cross the highway I to the home of an aunt, he j was struck by a car and killed. I The accident occurred Sat- [ urday. I Rickey Darel Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton G. Thom as, was taken to Moore Me morial Hospital at Pinehurst in the fire department’s ambu lance but was dead on arrival of head injuries and a broken neck. State Trooper W. M. Gay said the driver of the car, Mrs. Frances Blackman Allen, 26, told him she did not see the child till he was directly in front of her car, too late to avoid hitting him. William Muse of West End, driving east on 211, told the trooper he saw the boy run almost to the center line, then, on seeing Muse’s car, start (Continued on Page 2) Contracts To Erect 3 Buildings For Pinecres tApp roved ON JUNE 9 Two Sandhills Community College students, selected for character, scholarship and con tribution to the college, re ceived awards of $500 each;, and five students were named as honor graduates at the com mencement ceremonies Friday evening on the Sandhills Col lege campus. Twenty-nine students were awarded Associate in Arts De grees and 20 students Associ ate Degrees in Applied Science in the exercises held in the landscaped, fountain-centered courtyard before an audience of several hundred people. A list of the candidaes for the degrees was published in the Pilot last week. The two recipients of the C. Foster Brown, Jr., Awards were Brenda Robson, daugh-' ter of Mrs. Susan Robson of Southern Pines, and Wayne Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams of Eagle Springs. Mrs. C. Foster Brown, Jr., of Winetka, Ill., who gave the awards in memory of her late husband, presented checks to the students. She cited Miss Robson, a gradaute of East Southern Pines High School, for her artistic talents, as the writer and illustrator of a monthly newsletter, and for her participation in many ex tracurricular activities. Williams was cited for his (Continued on Page 2) 'LEARNING LAB' TO STAY OPEN College Sets 2 Summer Sessions Sandhills Community College wiir have .two summer school sessions, according to Dr. R. S. Ray, dean of instruction— the first beginning June 5 and closing July 14, and the second from July 17 through August 25. The curriculum of college credit courses will include classes in English, mathema tics, biology and chemistfy. French, Spanish, business, European and American his tory, economics, psychology, art and physical education. Also, developmental studies courses in reading improve ment, pre-college math and developmental English will be offered for high school grad uates preparing to enter col lege level work next fall. The Sandhills College learn ing laboratory, with more than 50 courses of programmed studies, will be open from 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, each week during the (Continued on Page 2) FRIDAY GRADUATIONS To receive their diplomas in commencement exercises, Fri day, June 2 at 8 pm, are sen iors at these high schools in Moore County' Aberdeen, Berkley, Union /Pines, North Moore and West End. Pine hurst and Academy Heights gradu'ationis are noted else where, in today’s Pilot. GWENNELLE CLARK LYNDA CURRY (Idenliccll academic averages made both valedictorian) AT WEST SIDE SCHOOL Finals Slated Friday Shriners Add Equipment For Fish Fry Here Moore County Shrine Club members are busily engaged in preparations for their 2nd Annual Fish Fry to be held on Friday, June 9. In anticipa. tion of a large attendance, the club has added additional equipment to speed and facili. tate service. The event will be held at Memorial Field here, rain or shine, and servings will be continuous from 11 am to 9 pm. Price per ticket is $1. and servings will include filet of flounder, hush puppies, french fries, cole slaw and either coffee or a cold drink. There will be eating arrangements at the Field or orders to take-out will be prepared. All proceeds will be sent to (Continued on Page 2) OFF TO WORK — Bobby Horner, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Horner of Pinehurst, decorates a Pinehurst, Inc., truck with a pertinent statement of intention as last Saturday’s county-wide “Operation Clean-Up” began. The sign reads, “We’re picking up somebody else’s trash be cause we care about our county.” Bill Wilson, village man ager, was in charge of the work in the Pinehurst area. More clean-up pictures are on Page 5, Section 4. (Hemmer photo) Hundreds Of Volunteers Clean Moore’s Roadsides A small army of volunteers spread out over the entire countryside of Moore County last Saturday in Operation than Clean-Up to rid the roadsides 6 Students Win Prizes In Essay, Poster Contests (The three prize-win ning essays appear else where in today's Pilot). Over 600 high school stu dents competed in poster and essay contests sponsored by the Garden Club of the Sand hills, reports Kirby Watkins, Southern Pines superinten dent of schools. Working in cooperation with the Southern Pines town beau tification committee and Gov ernor Moore’s “Month of May” (Continued on Page 2) of beer cans, bottles and every form of litter. The clean-up cleared more 100 tons of trash from the county’s roadsides, cam paign leaders estimated Mon day. George E. Paules of South ern Pines, chairman of the county-wide Operation Clean- Up (Committee reported that all of those participating in this all day exercise have ad judged this effort to have been a resounding success. Starting at 8 am, 87 trucks and drivers, 250 boys and girls and nbout 75 adults formed teams and moved out into as signed areas from rally points in Pinebluff, Aberdeen, East j Southern Pines, West South- ' ern Pines, Vass, Whispering Pines, Pinehurst, Taylortown, (Continued on Page 2) Three buildings will be built initially for Pinecrest (Area III) High School at the site off US 15-501 two miles west of Southern Pines. The letting of contracts with in the $1,751,094.15 now avail able was approved late Thurs day afternoon by the Moore County Board of Education. Actually, the low bids, after deletions were made to bring the contracts within the avail- I able funds total $1,651,931, Cal vin Howell of Hayes-Howell & Associates, the architect firm for the school, said Tuesday. He said it was hoped that the construction would start Thursday on the site off US 15-501 about two miles west of Southern Pines. Contractors expect to have the buildings ready in time for the start of the 1968-69 school year. Provisions also were made with the contractors for res toration of deletions by July 15 at the same prices quoted in the original bids. Which de letions will be restored will depend on how much money the board of county commis sioners provides in the fiscal 1967-68 budget for the Pine- crest construcion. The deletions were, for ex amples, walkways, entrance gates, and flag poles, Howell said. The low bids including the deleted items totaled $1,- 816,474. The contracts were let to these firms, with their bids in dicated: general construction —Robert H. Pinnix Inc. of Gastonia, $1,259,557; plumb ing—Lorch Plumbing & Heat ing Co. of Albemarle, $85,252; heating—T. R. Driscoll Sheet Metal Works of Lumberton, $129,462; and electrical—Steele Electric Co. of Monroe, $177,- 660. The three-building plant will allow the conducting of a complete program of instru.c- tion except for physical educa tion, music and health courses, C. Edison Powers, assistant superintendent of county schools, said Monday. The buildings and what (Continued on Page 2) Chamber Fees Reach $16,300 Total IT'LL BE 'DAWSON GYMNASIUM' SOON A ceremorty at a date to be set in June will name the East Southern Pines school gym "Dawson Gym nasium" in honor of Dr. Amos C. Dawson, Jr., of Raleigh, who served the local school system as teacher, coach, principal and superintendent from 1937 to 1959, Dr. C. C. McLean, board of educa tion chairman, has an nounced. A bronze plaque, like the one naming Weaver Auditorium, in honor of former Supt. Philip J. Weaver, now at Greens boro, will be placed in the gym. Dr. McLean saidl. The two buildings, standing side by side, were built together and opened in the fall cif 1950. Dr. Dawson, now execu tive secretary of the North Carolina Education Asso ciation, will come here for the ceremony, the an nouncement said. Fine Dewberry Crop Siariing To Market Moore County’s dewberry crop—with increased acreage and exceptional quality this year—is starting to market this week, reports F. D. Allen, county extension chairman. Growers in the Vass-Cameron- Carthage area, in the eastern part of the county, are putting the berries on sale at numer ous roadside stands. They will be reaching Sandhills stores this week and next week. The Vass Agricultural Prod ucts freezing plant at Vass will again be in operation this sea son. Annual fee collections and pledges in the current fund drive of-the recently organized Southern Pines Area Chamber of Commerce have reached $16,300, Garland A. Pierce, secretary-treasurer, reported today. The amount includes some $2,30Q , collected in the past week toward the $25,000 bud get goal set for the year start, ing June 1. ' The Chamber also has on hand $899.31 in donations — largely composed of a fund turned over b,y the Southern ) Pines Merchants Council, an I organization that is being j absorbed by the Chamber. The directors will meet Thursday to evaluate the pro gram, Pierce said, and con sider moving to employ an executive director. The names of charter mem bers will be published in an advertisement in next week’s Pilot, Pierce said, and firms and individuals who want to appear on that list should give their memberships to him no later than Monday afternoon of next week. r7/; The 38th annual Commence ment of West Southern Pines School will be held Friday, starting at 8 pm, in the new H. A. Wilson Auditorium, dedicated only three weeks be fore to the school’s principal. Gwennelle Belinda Clark and Lynda Darnell Curry are the valedictorians for the graduating class. The depar- t'ure from the traditional prac. tice of naming one valedictor. NEED IS GREAT Bloodmobile To Visit Aberdeen A bloodmobile from the Piedmont Carolines Red Cross Blood Center in Charlotte will make collections at the First Baptist Church in Aberdeen, Thursday, June 8, from noon to 5:30 pm. Col. John Dibb of Southern Pines, county blood prorgam chairman, re minded the public today. ^ The Aberdeen visit must produce 214 pints to bring Moore County collections up to usage in the county’s two hospitals since the program’s accounting . year ■ began last July, the chairman said. He urged generous giving at the Aberdeen collection and asked that all who have pledg. ed to replace blood make good on their commitments. ian and one salutatorian was made because both girls had equal academic records which were the best in the senioi class. Fourteen boys and 12 girls are scheduled to receive their diplomas. The presentations will be made by Albert Lut/. a member of the Southei n Pines Board of Education. The commencement address v/ill be made by Dr. Frank B Weaver, educational consul'- ant to the State Department or Community Colleges. He is* a former state supervisor of ele mentary schools and a former public school teacher and prin cipal. He has been in his pres ent post since April 1 of this (Continued on Page 2) LYNDA JANE BUCHAN Salutatorian t CAROLYN JEAN McRAE Valedictorian AT EAST SOUTHERN PINES Graduation Set Monday m I McCaskill Heading Precinci Committee Pinehurst Precinct Demo crats met Wednesday night of last week and elected J. Frank McCaskill precinct commit tee chairman, to fill the unex pired term of George Veno who died recently. A former precinct chair man, McCaskill resigned from the committee to run for coun ty commissioner in 1964. Other members of the committee are: Mrs. Melba J. Wilson, vice chairman; Archie McDon ald, secretary; D. H. Whitesell, Jr., and Fred Fields. TROPHIES DISPLAYED — This spectacular array of more than 120 silver trophies at the Southern Pines coun try Club Saturday afternoon, awaits golfers winning them in the 6th Annual Elks National Invitational Golf Tourna ment. The' trophies, including top awards on small table at right, were presented later that day. The men, left to right, are: Bob Strouse, a former Elks Golf Tournament chairman for several years and past exalted ruler of the local sponsoring Elks Lodge 1692, who returned here from his present home at Mansfield, Ohio, to play in this year’s event; Bill Gantt, the 1967 tournament committee chair man; and Harold Cuff, the lodge’s present exalted ruler. At right, Mrs. R. S. Trudell puts finishing touches on the trophy display. (Humphrey photo) 366 FROM 19 STATES PLAY IN TOURNAMENT HERE Fletcher’s 219 Wins Elks National Golf Since its inception in 1962, the Elks National Invitational Amateur sponsored by the Southern Pines Lodge 1692 has been a Carolinas-domi- nated golf e'vent. A turning point came last weekend when \’irginia’s Arman Fletcher led a “revolt” by out-of-state competitors. The tall computer specialist from Roanoke won the cham pionship and 16 other players from out-of-state won flight championships, Saturday. The grand total was 17 of 24 flights won by non-Carolinas Elks. Fletcher was a profile in courage in victory, unbe knownst to anyone in the field of 366. For the past 14 years he has been treated for a severe leg burn, 1967 being no excep tion. What with rain and his injury, Fletcher played exact ly nine holes in preparation for his second attempt for the national title. He scored 74-72-73—219, six over par on Southern Pines CC and Mid Pines Club lay outs to win by a whopping eight shots from “Avis” Joe Petrock of Ormond Beach, Fla. Roly-poly Joe has been No. 2 for six successive years. Fletcher cranked-out a first- nine 34 in the final round, “then I struggled around, get. (Continued on Page 2) East Southern Pines High School’s Class of 1967 will hear the Commencement Ser mon Sunday and graduate Monday, in Weaver Auditori um. Each program starts at 8:15 pm. The honor graduates are Carolyn Jean McRae, who has been named valedictorian; Lynda Jane Buchan, saluta torian; and Geraldine Gilmore, Steven Coleman Kelly, Sharon Patricia Cornett, John Todd Llewellyn, Peter Brown Mar co, Patricia Leonore Shevlin, Louise McCarroll Sibley, Nan cy Karen Blake, Claresia Ann Jones, Vesta Faye Bigbee, Eleanor Jane Harris and Kay Frances Becker. In the service Sunday, the. Rev. A. L. Thompson, pastor of Southern Pines Methodist Church, will preach the ser mon to the graduating seniors and their guests. He will be introduced by the Rev. John Stone, pastor of First Baptist Church of South- (Continued on Page 2) DRS. MORRIS AND ANDERSON Dentist Arrives. Another To Leave Dr. Walter S. Morris, Jr., v/ho has been on the faculty of the Dental School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the past year, tomorrow (Thursday) will take over the practice of Dr. George Anderson and his offices at 645 S. W. Broad St., the two dentists announced this week. Dr. Anderson will leave within the next week for Chapel Hill where he will specialize in the study of orthodontics at the UNC Den tal School. He said he expects to return to this area to practice that dental specialty, early in 1969. Dr. Anderson’s family will join him in Chapel Hill about the middle of the summer. With his wife, the former Carolyn Davis of Burlington and their 10-months-old son, Walter S. Morris III, Dr. Mor- (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 24 70 49 May 25 75 43 May 26 85 55 May 27 92 53 May 28 94 63 May 29 78 64 '
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