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<s Sponsors of the four Southern Pines Lit tle League baseball teams were honored in recent ceremonies. Front, Section 2. LOT Home appliances and farm machinery will be displayed at Carthage Friday and Saturday. Details, Page 6, Section 2. VOL.—47 NO. 32 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1967 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS AT MOORE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Mental Health Center, Other Facilities To He Constructed The N. C. Medical Care Commission last Friday ap proved construction at Moore Memorial Hospital of a men tal health center project which will provide 20 inpatient psy chiatric beds and a psychiatric out-patient clinic and day-care unit. Also included in the project is a new cafeteria and 200-seat dining room to re place the existing cafeteria and dining facilities. Duncan McGoogan, the hos pital’s administrator, announc- local share, $150,898. The new single-story struc ture, totalling approximately 17,800 square feet, will be connected to the existing hos pital near the dietary depart ment and will project towards the visitor’s parking lot. The four basic elements of the new construction will be an inpatient unit, outpatient clinic, day care 'unit, and cafe teria. The Sandhills Mental Health Center, presently occupying jpiimi _ IVells Will AberdeeWs Ease Water Shortage Crisis ed that the commission has ap-' quarters in the Pinehurst Med- proved a total project cost of ical Center Building across $542,968 to be financed as the street from the hospital, share, $342,- will move into the new outpa- 70, Sta.e share, $50,000; and (Continued on Page 2) TANKERS — Five tankmen of Company C, 252nd Ar mor, take a break aboard one of the Southern Pines-based company’s M48 tanks, during National Guard training at Fort Bragg. Left to right, Pfc. William F. Williams and Pfc. John W. Branch, Jr., Southern Pines; Sp. 4 Leroy West of Oneida, Tenn., one of the Army Reservists at tached to the company temporarily; Sp. 4 Herbert K. Brewer, Robbins; and Pfc. Dennis P. Hall, Cameron. The big gun is a 90 mm. The tank also is armed with 30 and 50 calibre machine guns. (Pilot photo) Company C Men Back Home From Training The officers and enlisted men of the Southern Pines- based North Carolina National Guard company are back home again after two weeks of in tensive training at Fort Bragg. The men of Company C, 252nd Armor, returned Sunday after participating in the series of 24-hour and 36-hour field problems on the reservation’s pine and sand back country Good Neighbor Council Thanks Its Ex-Chairman The Southern Pines Good Neighbor Council last night adopted a resolution thanking Dr. Julian Lake for his years of service as chairman of the council. The action was taken at the council’s organizational meet ing for the new year at the Municipal Center. Dr. Lake, pastor of Brown- son Memorial Presbyterian Church, was named chairman of the race-relations council when it was organized in June 1963. The appointment was made by Mayor Morris John son and approved by the Town (Continued on Page 2) Telephone Firm Host To Public United Telephone Company of the Carolinas, Inc., played host last Friday to many Moore County men, women and children in an “Open House’’ program at the com pany’s building at 385 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Miss Donna Bowman, 14, of Southern Pines was announc ed as the winner of the tele vision set awarded as a door prize. Hers was the second name drawn from the container— and it was drawn unseen by * her sister, Debbie, 10. The first name Debbie drew was that of a telephone company em ployee, and consequently was rejected, since company em ployees were ineligible. Fred Teeter, the company’s marketing supervisor, served as official host representing the company, at the open (Continued on Page 2) Girl Scout Camp Open For Visitors Friday Open house will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 pm Friday at Camp Gertrude Tufts near Pinehurst where 100 Girl Scouts, with 27 leaders and senior Scouts, are having a “day camp’’ this week. Persons interested in seeing the camp and the numerous camping, crafts and other ac tivities conducted there, are invited to visit at that time, said Mrs. Nancy Smith of Pine- bluff, camp director. with other units of the NC National Guard’s 30th Infan try Division. The 68 soldiers of Company C, under company commander 1st Lt. Fred McKenzie of Southern Pines, were reinforc ed by 35 Army Reserve troops from throughout .the South east and Missouri. Their field training ended with an Army Training . Test exercise that lasted from 9 am Thursday till about noon Fri day. In all, Lt. McKenzie told a Pilot reporter, they went through three problems each running 36 hours continuously; and three running 24 hours each. The exercises had the com pany working as a team with infantry units. Between problems the Guardsmen rested and cleaned equipment at their base camp, deep in the forests of the Rae- ford end of the reservation. In fact. Company C was far off the nearest main road, which is paved only with the sand that Mother Nature laid down originally, before some body pushed a bulldozer through a few times to link up with US 401 about two miles away. Consequently, the Guards men who were seen in South ern Pines every day could n’t have been from Com- (Continued on Page 2) Soldier Killed In Collision Of Car, Truck A car-truck collision Friday about 2:30 pm on NC 705, sev en miles north of Robbins, took the life of one Green Ber et non-com and seriously in jured another. They were members of the 3rd Special Forces Group of Fort Bragg taking part in Cherokee Trail XH, a Special Warfare anti - guerrilla exer cise, which had been under way in the area several days. Staff Sgt. Dennis Esworthy, 26, of Fayetteville was killed when the car he was driving slid out of Rural Paved Road 1412 through a stop sign onto the highway, directly in front of a northbound truck of the Carthage Fabrics Corp,, State Trooper W. M. Gay reported. His companion, SFC Billy Evans, 31, also of Fayetteville, (Continued on Page 2) Dawson Program- Slated July 14 A plaque will be unveiled and dedication program held, honoring Dr. Amos C. Dawson, Jr., former superintendent of Southern Pines schools, at the Southern Pines Rotary Club’s luncheon meeting of Friday, July 14. The plaque will be installed later in the East Southern Pines school gymnasium, which will be christened “Dawson Gymnasium” at the dedication program, said Schools Supt. Kirby Watson who is in charge of the pro gram. Details will be an nounced. Dr. Dawson, who served a total of 22 years, from 1937 to 1959, with the local schools, has for the past eight years been executive secretary of I the NCEA at Raleigh. Man Fatally Hurt When Hit By Car Friday Jim Leggett, 52, a Southern Pines town employee describ ed by Town Manager F. F. Rainey as “one of our best workers,” was injured fatally Friday at 11:14 pm when struck from the rear by a car as he was walking along th3 800 block of West Pennsylva nia Ave. He died in Moore Memorial Hospital about an hour aftci he was admitted. A companion, Mrs. Eunice Medlin, about 40, was knocked down by the car but suffered only bruises. Police said Willie Thomas Ray, 29, of 460 W. New Hamp shire Ave., driver of the car, was charged with manslaugh ter, also careless and reckless driving, and having no opera tor’s license. Murray Young,' 47, of 1190 W. Indiana Ave., the car’s owner who was a passenger in it at the time, was charged with aiding and abetting on all counts, police said. Preliminary hearings on the manslaughter count and trial on the misdemeanor counts were scheduled for Southern Pines Recorder’s Court today (Wednesday). There is no sidewalk on West Pennsylvania where the accident occurred and Leggett and Mrs. Medlin were walking on the extreme right edge of the area marked for car park ing, near L. D. Hancock’s Taxi stand and about 50 feet from Mrs. Medlin’s home at 818 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Police Sgt. Charles Wilson, who investigated with Patrol man J. F. Davis, said the car swerved to the right from the traffic lane and, after striking the two people, plunged for- y.’ard 279 feet, past a street intersection before stopping, dragging Leggett’s body part (Continued on Page 2) With one new well comple ted Tuesday and ready for testing, the Aberdeen town board in emergency session Tuesday night decided to have another one dug, starting to day, Wednesday. This is ex pected to tide the town over a water crisis and provide protection from a similar hap pening for some time to come. Temporary measures taken LIFE-LINE — The beginning (top) and end (below) of a 5,000-feet-long emergency fire hose water line set up last week to feed Southern Pines water into the depleted Aberdeen municipal water system are shown here. Loca tions of the hydrants a,re jecqgnizable from the Holiday Inn sign, above, and the Pinehurst Motor Lodge sign, be low, both on No. 1 highway, south. Photographer John Hemmer accompanied the Pinehurst Fire Department, one of several in the area donating hose for the line, to the scene of action and made these pictures, before water be gan to flow. Emergency Pipe Ready If Needed To Replace Hose Pipe seen piled along No. 1 highway between Southern Pines and Aberdeen may or may not be used to replace the fire hose emergence water line that now connects the South ern Pines and Aberdeen water systems in that area, Aberdeen officials said today. The pipe, borrowed from the US Army Engineers, was brought to the site from Fort Bragg by J. P. Stevens & Co. trucks, for use in case Aber deen’s new wells (one com pleted and another being drilled) don’t produce enough water soon enough. Officials said they hope the pipe will not be needed, but the hose, they explained, can’t hold up indefinitely and, in any case, must be returned to the several fire departments donating it for Aberdeen’s use. Aberdeen volunteer firemen again pumped water from Southern Pines through the hose for about three hours in the early morning hours today (Wednesday). School Bill Backing Is Recorded By 3-1 A 3-1 favorable majority vote of Moore County com missioners last Thursday adopted a motion supporting State Rep. T. Clyde Auman’s bill providing for a new sys tem of electing members of the county school board. The dissenting vote was cast by Commissioner Robert S. Ewing of Southern Pines. AT MOORE MEMORIAL — Three nurses from Vietnam, two men and a woman, are shown with Dr. W. F. Hollister of the Pine hurst Surgical Clinic, and Mrs. Bruce Gar rison, head recovery room nurse, at Moore Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst, as they ob serve post-surgical procedures. Left to right, they are: Miss Do Kim Cuong, Ngu yen Tan Son and Nguyen Hong Sinh. Three other Vietnamese nurses are studying at Sandhills Community College. During the last week in June, the three nurses pic tured will go to St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital here for further observation and training. (Hemmer photo) AT SANDHILLS COLLEGE, HOSPITALS Vietnamese Nurses Studying Here The Associate Degree Nurses , the U. S. State Department’s Education Program at Sand- Agency for International De hills Community College and the nursing departments at Moore Memorial Hospital, Pinehurst, and at St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital, South ern Pines, are giving special instruction to a group of South Vietnamese nurses dur ing the month of June. The velopment. Miss Anita Smith, chairman of the Sandhills College nurs ing education program, said that one man and two women are assigned to the college. Nguyen Khoq Phung, a graduate of the Hue Nursing School in South Vietnam was . , . VV UO visiting group is sponsored by, one of Miss Smith’s students while she served as the U. S. Public Health nursing advisor to the school in Hue. He later served as an instructor at the school and will return there to teach surgical nursing. Miss Nguyen Thi No and Miss Nguyen Thi Thu Lan are alsb assigned to the college. Zoning Okayed For New Area Of The County A new area of Moore Coun ty came under jurisdiction of the county zoning law last Thursday. The commissioners approv ed a County Planning Board proposal to add the area to the previously zoned section. The action was taken after a pub lic hearing in which no oppo sition was expressed. The hearing was held during a spe cial meeting of the commis sioners at the courthouse in Carthage. The meeting had been set to hold the hearing and for continuing work on the county budget for 1967-68. The addition to the zoned area runs from US 15-501 on (Continued on Page 2) Camp Easier Visitors; Check Before Arriving Visitors to Camp Easter in the Pines near Southern Pines, which opened its first two- week session Sunday, are wel come, but they should check in advance with Mrs. Mark Liddell, coordinator, or Lou Manning, director, it was an nounced this week. This applies to visitors to the camp for handicapped children, the campers or the counselors, Mrs. Liddell said today. The board of directors of the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults and the Camp Easter camp committee will meet at the camp Sunday, she said John Currie of Carthage, chairman of the board of county commissioners, ab stained, as customary for the chairman, from voting. Un less his vote is necessary to break a tie, the chairman does not vote. The motion adopted at last Thursday’s special meeting at Carthage was that State Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines and State Sen. Jeff Allen of Montgomery County be informed that the board of county commissioners support ed Auman’s bill and urge its passage by the Senate. The question was whether Auman’s bill proposed a sys tem different or essentially the same as the one the commis sioners expressed favor for at a meeting in May. Ewing said it was different except- for what he called the (Continued on Page 2) Stockholders Approve Merger Of Local Bank Stockholders of The Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Southern Pines at a special meeting Monday approved the proposed merger with First Union National Bank of Char lotte. Final certification of the merger will be subject to the approval of the US Comptrol ler of the Currency and is ex pected around August 1. Approximately 85 per cent of the stock of The Citizens Bank and Trust Company was represented at the meeting either in person or by proxy and all was voted in favor of the merger. A two-thirds ma jority vote for the merger was required. N. L. Hodgkins, Sr., chair man of the board and presi dent of The Citizens Bank and Trust Company, presided over the meeting. Officers of First Union Na- (Continued on Page 2) KILLED IN VIETNAM CONFLICT West Point Services Set Monday For 1st Lt. Charles L. Hemmingway Both are nursing instructors I The camp is owned by the (Continued on Page 2) I Society. Army First Lt. Charles L. Hemmingway, 24, was killed in action June 13 in South Vietnam, while on a patrol mission, according to informa tion received here last week by his wife from the Defense Department. Mrs. Hemmingway has been with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Siege of Canterbury Road, since shortly after her husband’s departure for Viet nam, January 14. Dr. Siege is the Moore County director of public health. Canterbury Road is in the Sandhurst de velopment, off E. Indiana Ave. extension. Lieutenant Hemmingway and his wife, the former Judith Ann Siege, were married last November 23 at Monterey, Calif., where he was attending the Army Language School prior to his assignment over seas, as an advisor to a Viet namese airborne division. Fol lowing. his departure she vis ited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hemmingway, at Dodge City, Kan., before coming to LT. HEMMINGWAY Southern Pines. June 14 88 74 A graduate of Dodge City June 15 86 63 High School, Lieutenant Hem June 16 87 61 mingway graduated in June, June 17 82 62 1965, from the US Military June 18 84 69 Academy at West Point, to June 19 86 62 (Continued on Page 2) June 20 81 63 last week, when the town’s water shortage was acute, in cluded use of a portable filtra tion plant borrowed from the State Department of Public Health, and pumping of water from the Southern Pines sys tem via nearly a mile of fire hose hastily laid between the two towns. A contract for $7,100 for a new well was let last Tuesday by the town, and Water Com missioner E. O. Freeman told the board that the well dig gers had said they could drill a test well Wednesday and probably have the second well in operation within another week. Each one, when it gets into full production, is expected to add 100,000 gallons per day to the normal production of some 400,000 from a spring-fed res ervoir with gravity line, and one open well which has been in longtime use. “We still can’t be sure this will be enough and must plan long-range measures to meet the needs of our growing town,” said Freeman, presi ding in the absence of Mayor J. M. Taylor, who is on an extended trip abroad. Meeting with the board were Charles Jones and Ed Powell, engineers with the firm of William F. Freeman Associates of High Point, wat er consultants for the town since 1948; also Daniel E. Mc Donald, chief of the water management division of the State Department of Water Resources at Raleigh. It was determined that the portable filtration plant, pumping some 6,000 gallons per hour from its truck at Aberdeen Lake, was not de signed for long-term use and would have to be return ed before too long to the State Department of Health. It is of a type long in use by the Army, for emergency use only, and the only one the State possesses. Also, said Freeman, “We can’t ask the firemen to con tinue to stay up nights to pump water through the hose. They are doing a wonderful job but they are volunteers, (Continued on Page 2) National Honor Is Presented To Marie Hurst Miss Marie Hurst of South ern Pines, who lost her legs just below the knees to blood poisoning 11 years ago, was presented a Golden Plate by the American Academy of Achievement last Saturday. It was her 20th birthday and she is a student nurse at Mercy Hospital in Charlotte. She is scheduled to join the staff of Camp Easter in the Pines near here, a camp for crippled children, June 30, working un der supervision of Mrs. Mark Liddell, a registered nurse. Miss Hurst is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Hurst of 360 E. New Jersey Ave. She was one of 50 Ameri cans awarded the Academy of Achievement honor and re ceived it in Dallas, Texas. The awards are made to Americans who are distin guished “as representatives of the many who excel in the great fields of endeavor.” Among the others who were honored were David Lawrence, founder and editor of US News and World Report; and Allen Drury, author of “Advise and Consent” THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum 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
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