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The story of how a former local girl grad uated from high school despite a disabling injury is told on Page 8, Section 2. Jug Uiqht Candor iqrcond > uthei IGlgndon haqe Cameron p) ^llerbe Vass Anes Pir#lu{i The memoi of the Rev. W. H. Brown of Jacl son Springs was honored Si day at the West End MethodJ Church. Front page, Section ^ VOL.—47 NO. 30 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES V LT. DAT SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1967 I—^ r— TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE: 10 WARRANT OFFICER SIMPSON 1 ^ 2 Helicopter Pilots Die In Vietnam War Action Action in '^ietnam took the and plans were made for fun- 4 SURPRISED — Robert E. Lee, superintendent of Moore County schools, tells a reporter, Monday, of his surprise at receiving honorable mention for the state-wide Terry San ford educational award, and displays the citation, bearing the former Governor’s picture, presented to him Saturday, at Greensboro. He will also receive a metal plaque. (V. Nicholson photo) HONORABLE MENTION FOR AWARD Supt. Lee Given Honor Moore County Schools Supt. the North Carolina Education lives of twc> helicopter pilots from or associated with the Cameron area, during the past week. I Mrs. Borinie Scerci Day and her ' two ypung children left for California on receipt of word thaU her husband, 1st Lt. Peter pay, had been killed in action iMay 27 in Vietnam. Lieutenanjt Day died when the helicopter’ he was piloting was hit by enemy fire while mak ing a la)nding approach, ac cording /to information from the ArmV. He waP a native of Califor nia ,whetre his parents live, ^ eral and burial services there. Mrs. Day was born and rais ed on Cameron, Route 1, where her mother still lives. Her father was killed in an automobile accident several years ago. Warrant Officer James Ron ald (Jimmy) Simpson, 25, also a helicopter pilot, was killed Friday. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Simpson of Sanford, Route 1, in Lee County, near the Moore County line, and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lankford who live on (Continued on Page 2) ■I I Sandhills Liquor-By-Drink Election Bill Won’t Be Pushed, Auman Says Tentative Approva\ Of 1967-68 Budgei Given By Council Robert E. Lee was given hon orable mention last Wednes day night for the 1966-67 Ter ry Sanford Award for “crea tivity and innovation in teach ing and (school) administra tion.” It is one of the two such honors awarded each year by Moore School Board Bill Is Introduced A bill which would establish a new system of electing mem bers of the Moore County Board of Education in a non partisan basis was introduced ty Tuesday in the State House of \ staff. Association and North Caro lina Teachers Association. The winner of the top award was Mrs. Grace Hager An drews, an Asheville junior high school teacher. She re ceived a check for $400, and Lee, $100. Each also received certificates. The presentations were m.ade at the second annual Sanford Award banquet at the Voyager Inn in Greensboro. Lee said the next day the announcement came as a com plete surprise to him. “I didn’t even know they nominated me,” he said, back 'at work in his office in nthe county school system.’s Materials Center. “They” are principals, teach ers and members of the coun schools’ administrative Representatives by Moore County State Rep. T. Clyde Auman. The seven members are cur rently elected in an election year from districts correspond ing to the county commission ers’ districts existing in 1965. (Since then the commission ers’ districts have been alter ed.) Auman’s bill would change the school board election dis trict lines. The bill also would increase the board from seven to eight members. One member from each of seven districts would be chosen in a countywide vote and one member-at-large would be elected. Under the bill’s nrovisions, (Continued on Page 2) Rep. Gardner To Visit Moore Co. Saturday Fourth District Congress man Jim Gardner has an nounced that he will hold office hours in Montgomery and Moore Counties Saturday, June 10. The Moore County visit will take place from 2 to 5 pm, at the Carolina Bank building (second floor) in Pinehurst. Lee also said that he re. ceived credit, as administra tor, lor the innovations made in the school system during his years in office. “The prin- (Continued on Page 2) Brogden Elected Bar’s President E. O. Brogden, Jr., local at torney, was named president, succeeding H. F. Seawell, Jr., of Carthage, when the Moore County Bar Association met for annual election of officers at Howard Johnson’s Monday night. Other officers elected are W. Fay Neville of Pinehurst, vice president; and James R. VanCamp of Carthage, secre tary-treasurer. Named to the executive committee were W. Lament Brown of Southern Pines and Lawrence McN. Johnson and Robert N. Page HI, both of Aberdeen. The terms of the new officers become effective July 1. In addition to electing of ficers, the attorneys discussed new developments in the Law. VASS CHILD AMONG THOSE HELPED Shriners’ Benefit Fish Fry Will Feed Public For 10 Hours Friday The Sandhills area liquor bill is dead as far as the 1967 General Assembly in concern ed. Moore County State Rep- T. Clyde Auman said Satuitday he has decided not to push'for passage of his legislation. \ It v.'ould authorize local-optidin referendums in the resort area townships of McNeill, Sand hill and Mineral Springs ort i w hether certain establishments - should be licensed to sell' liquor hf' the drink. Auman said his decision to not push it was made after be discussed the situation with Moore County residents. It also was made partly on the stand expressed by House Speaker David Britt against the Sandhills measure. Britt was quoted by Raleigh reporter as saying he had told Auman last week that “I am very much opposed to the bill and will do all I can to keep it from passing.” Meanwhile, Mecklenburg State Sen. Herman Moore said Saturday he was still optimis tic about the chance of pass age of his bill to authorize holding similar elections in (Continued on Page 2) FOR FALL TERM Bicycle Riders Warned By Chief Police Chief Earl Seawell this week warned children and their parents that there is a town ordinance against riding bicycles on sidewalks, follow ing complaints made to the police about this practice. The names and addresses of young offenders will be taken by the police, the chief said. Their parents will be notified and they will be taken before the clerk of superior court at Carthage, who is the county’s juvenile judge. Chief Seawell also pointed out that bicycle riders must obey all traffic regulations. A copy of the bicycle law is available at the police station. Students Need Living Quarters S. G. Chappell, director of student personnel at Sandhills Community College, has an nounced the need for furnish ed rooms and apartments by students enrolling for the fall term. As there are no dormitory facilities on the Sandhills campus, some students from ® other communities need living accommodations in the area. The College keeps a listing of available rooms and apart ments, the year around. A substantial increase in enroll ment is expected for the fall term. Mr. Chappell said persons having fufnished apartments or rooms should write or phone the College with information on size, location, bathroom fa cilities and possible, kitchen privileges. Also a preherence should be noted for women or men students. The phone number of the Sandhills College personnel of fice is 692-6185, Extension 12. i wm A proposed Southern Pines town budget of $647,363.50, which would include pay rais es for town employees, won tentative approval last Wed nesday night on first reading from the Town Council by a 3-1 favorable vote. The present tax rate would not be changed. The second and final read ing will be held June 30 at a IT’S DEWBERRY TIME in the Sandhills. These three children, visiting J. B. McLeod’s “Dewberry Orchard” on Carthage, Route 2, started out to help pick—and wound up eating instead. They are Marty Cooper (at left) and Martha Cameron, both three years old, and Martha’s brother Thomas, aged five. The tasty berries are being sold by 26 growers at their farms, mostly in the Carth- age-Cameron area, and at numerous roadside stands on NC 27 and US 1. The three-week season will reach its peak this weekend. Marty is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Cooper and Martha and Thomas are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Cameron, all of Carthage, Route 2. (V. Nicholson photo) VETERANS TO MEET Regular meeting of Veter ans of World War 1 will be held Sunday, June 11, at 2:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hut, East Maine Ave. All Veterans of World War 1 and their wives and the wi dows of veterans are invited, said the announcement. Group photos of the Classes of 1967 at both local high schools are on page 3. W. So. Pines OVER 200 PINTS OF BLOOD SOUGHT A goal of at least 214 pints has been set by Moore County Blood Pro gram officials for the final collection of the pro. gram's year which ends June 30, at the First Bap tist Church in Aberdeen, tomorrow (Thursday), from noon to 5:30 pm. That is the amount that must be donated tc bring collections for the year up to usage in the county's two hospitals, said Col. John Dibb, chairman, A bloodimobile from the Red Cross Blood Center at Charlotte will make the collection, with Aberdeen Jaycees and other volun teers assisting. Graduates 26; Weaver Speaks West Southern Pines High School’s 26 graduates of 1967 received their diplomas Fri day night in the traditional Commencement exercises at the school’s H. A. Wilson Au ditorium. Dr. Frank B. Weaver, edu cational consultant of the State Department of Com munity Colleges, told the grad uation audience: “Seniors who graduate this time find themselves gradua ting at a perilous and progres sive time.” During this century, he pre dicted, man will travel to the moon and Mars for an indef inite stay. “Living on one continent, working on another, and com muting to each daily will be commonplace,” Dr. Weaver said. He told the seniors that they must further their high school education to meet the chal lenge of this progressive era. He advised them to enroll in technical or other vocational programs if they cannot at tend four-year colleges. “Then,” he told them, “get (Continued on Page 2) Speaker Asserts Confidence In Seniors Of ’67 Speaking to the Class of 1967 of East Southern Pines High School, in Weaver Auditorium Monday night. Dr. Jack R. Noffsinger told the graduating seniors that members of their generation are “healthy cells m a sick body.” He had previ ously referred to the “eternal and infernal sickness of man kind that keeps us in war and that we hope and pray will end.” The visiting speaker is pas tor of Knollwood Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. He was introduced by Supt. W. Kirby Watson. Dr. Noffsinger elaborated on his belief in the judgment of current high school graduates: “Never has there been a gen eration as aware of what’s go- (Continued on Page 2) liii ■ The public will be able to get a complete fish dinner for a dollar, any time during a 10-hour period at Memorial go to the Shriners’ Hospital for Crinpled Children at Greenville, S. C. Club officials said this week Field here, Friday of this that it’s hoped the event will week, June 9. Serving will ex_' draw a crowd even larger than tend from 11 am to 9 pm, rain or shine. Tickets can be obtained in advance from any member of the sponsoring Moore County Shrine Club or they may be purchased at the field. Orders v/ill be put up to take out. Memorial Field is the South ern Pines schools’ athletic field, at the intersection of S. Bennett St. and Morganton Road. It is across Bennett St. from the west end of the A&P Supermarket parking lot. Club mernbers will do the cooking and serving, increas ing the proceeds which will the hundreds of persons serv ed at the first such benefit fish fry, a year ago. They have added equipment to speed the cooking and serving and tents will be available in case of rain. This week’s report on plans for the fish fry said that the Shriners are happy that their application for admittance of a Vass youngster at the Green ville hospital has been accept ed. This will be the second child from the area served by the Moore County Shrine Club to have been accepted and (Continued on Page 2) ini Hi ^ . Club’s Work For School Praised As a special feature of the East Southern Pines High School graduation exercises Monday night, Mrs. Walter Harper of the local board of education expressed to Mrs. Voit Gilmore, president of the Southern Pines Garden Club, the board’s appreciation for the club’s work over many years in landscaping and beau tifying school grounds in both East and West Southern Pines. Mrs. Harper told Mrs. Gil more, who was called to the stage of Weaver Auditorium, that a metal plaque indicating this appreciation had been or dered but had not arrived. She said the plaque would be permanently installed on the school grounds “where the club decides it should be placed.” City Recreation Programs To Start June 15 Bill Scott and Joe Wynn are directing the East and West Southern Pines municipal re creation programs respectively this summer. They also were directors of the programs last summer. The programs in both areas will start officially June 15, except for the tennis program starting Monday at the munici pal park tennis courts. Meanwhile, Town Manager F. F. Rainey announced Tues day that the West Southern Pines swimming pool will be opened Saturday morning for the new season. Scott said softball for women is being added to the East Side program this summer. He called a meeting of all organi. zations and people interested in women’s softball for Friday at 7 pm at Memorial Field. He said the softball program would be for girls and women of any age and that he plan ned to form a league of teams for competition with in the town. Scott said his general assis tants appointed to date are (Continued on Page 2) Miss Jernigan Joins Court Clerk's Staff Miss Elizabeth Jernigan, a rising sophomore at Sandhills Community College, has join ed the staff of Charles Mc Leod, clerk of Moore County Superior Court in Carthage, as clerical assistant for the summer months. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jernigan of Car thage and a 1965 graduate of Union Pines High school . OPEN HOUSE SET BY 'PHONE FIRM United Telephone Com pany of the Carolinas is inviting the public to at tend an open house at its West Pennsylvania Ave. building, Friday, June 16. from 3:30 to 8:30 pm. This week's announce ment said that a television set will be given away at 8 pm as a door prize. The entire building, including the new wing containing complicated "extended area service" equipment, will be open for inspection. Full details will be given in next week's Pilot. council meeting starting at am. Councilman C. A. McLaughf lin cast the dissenting votJ saying he approved the pr^ posed budget in general bq‘ didn’t agree with some of th items in it. Councilman L. McDonald was absent fronil the meeting. The membersl present were Mayor Norris! L. Hodgkins, Jr., Mayor Pro Tern Felton J. Capel and Dr. j R. J. Dougherty, besides Mc Laughlin. Councilm'an McLaughlinI told a reporter the next day^ in reply to a question that the items he disagreed with were the amounts of some of the proposed pay raises. He said he felt some were not justified. Increases in revenues from the existing tax structure arei expected to help make up fori the approximately $35,000 in-l cre'ase over the current fiscal! year’s budget. The proposed budget pro vides for a general 10 per cent raise for town employees; with some exceptions; and an increase of 10 cents per hour \ in the pay of hourly paid em ployees, except for some, which will be 5 cents, Carl Parnell of Ernst & Ernst, an accounting firm, told the councilmen in presenting the proposed budget. Town Manager F. F. Rainey told a reporter last weekend that the town has 68 fulltime employes and the budget pro posal would add approximate ly $33,000 to the payroll. The total, he said, would be $294,- 312. The raises would also cover the 25 volunteer firemen; the people employed in the summer recreation program; and other part-time workers. It would not include the may. or and town councilmen or the Recorder’s Court judge and solicitor. The provisions would boost the starting salaries of full time firemen and policemen to $350 per month, from the present $325. Earlier Wednesday night (Continued on Page 8) Chamber Fees Now At $18,200 Membership fees paid or contracted in the new South ern Pines Area Chamber of Commerce total $18,200 today, reports Garland A. Pierce, secretary-treasurer. In its organization campaign, the Chamber, of which A. R. Tucker, Jr., is president, is seeking $25,000 for its first annual operating budget. The total in fees rose from $16,300 a week ago. The directors will gather for a luncheon meeting at Holiday Inn at noon, Tti||day of next week, to continuajJiyn organi zation plans. Pierce said it’s run another lis members in an in next week’s (Ji No list is being publishe week. -to Watson Returns To College Faci 8 New Instructors Are Appointed Dr. Raymond A. Stone, pres ident of Sandhills Community College, has announced the appointment of eight new in structors to the faculty and tival. In Nurse Education Three of the new instructors will teach in the Associate De gree Nurse Education Pro- the return of one teacher who gram. They are Sister Mary of “WITH THE FRINGE ON TOP . . .” — Not a surrey, as in the well-known song, but a sports car, driven in Pinehurst by Mrs. Ann Ewing of Southern Pines. The scene is in the heart of the village, with the former Carolina Theatre building in the background. The umbrella, held by a specially installed socket, is primarily to protect the car’s seat from hot sunlight or light showers, but sometimes remains in place for short runs. Mrs. Ewing, wife of County Commissioner Robert S. Ewing, operates their Village Printers, Inc. busi ness in Pinehlyrst where the car is parked for most of eicl|? day. (Hemmer photo) Holiday Inn Is Adding 54 Units A 54-unit addition to Holi day Inn on No. 1 Highway, south, is under construction, with completion expected by September 1, Charles J. Thom as, innkeeper, said this week. Work has begun on the se cond floor of the two-story structure which adjoins exis ting units on the west end. The addition will give Holiday Inn a total of 120 rooms, Mr. Thom as said. The work is being done by the Holiday Inn Construction Co. of Memphis, Tehn. for the past year has been on sabbatical leave for graduate study at UNC-Chapel Hill. William E. Watson, instruc tor in speech and drama re turned to the campus, begin ning with the summer session which opened Monday. Wat son, who taught at Sandhills during the ’65-’66 term, has been studying at Chapel Hill as the recipient of a Schubert Theater Scholarship for ad vanced study in the theater. A native of Sanford, he holds degrees in English and drama from Campbell College and Elon College and a Mas ter’s in Education from Duke. He founded the Sandpipers, dramatic club at Sandhills College, which in the spring of 1966 woji^p honors for the June 1 June 2 June 3 June 4 e-3j^play I Juno Victory, Mrs. Jean L. Newton, and Miss Edna E. Johnson. Sister Mary of Victory, of Providence Mother House, Holyoke, Mass., has a Bache lor of Science degree in Nurs ing and a Master’s degree in Nursing, both earned at Bos- (Continued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Maximum and minimun; temperatures for each day ol the past week were recorded as follows at the US Weather Bureau observation station, at WEEB, on Midland Road. Max. Min. May 31 60 54 59 51 66 50 78 55
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