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4!% Pictures from the local National Guard Company’s summer training at Fort Bragg are on Page 2, Sec. 3. rRoHriwV iGIcndon ;^ndor , . tllwbe loqc "'M LOT A cartoon by a Fort Bragg soldier-artist long familiar with the Sandhills appears on Page 6, Section 3. VOL.—47 NO. 33 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1967 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS HAS BEEN GRADUAL PROCESS School Systems Merger Takes Effect Thursday One era will end and anoth er begin for the schools of Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Moore County July 1, the date on which the consolidation of three administrative units into one becomes legally effective. There will be nothing to mark the transition, which has actually been a gradual pro cess, going on for many months and due to continue MICHAEL L. JOHNSON Youth Killed In Road Crash Near Eastwood A 16-year-old Southern Pines boy was killed about V pm Monday when the 1966 Volkswagen he was driving went out of control and over turned several times on rural, unpaved SR 1209 a mile and a half northeast of Eastwood, State Highway Patrolman G. L. Cain reported. The officer said the victim was Michael Lewis Johnson of Bethesda Road, the only child of Mrs. Margaret Brooks John son, widow of a disabled World War II veteran. The boy who had suffered head injuries, was pronounced dead on arrival at Moore Me morial Hospital. The officer said the youth fell from the car as it was overturning. He said Johnson had re ceived his driver’s license only a month and a day be fore the accident. The victim's 16th birthday was last May 8. Patrolman Cain said the automobile was traveling north at the time of the acci dent when the driver lost con trol of the vehicle. Johnson was riding alone, the officer said. Young Johnson was driving (Continued on Page 2) for some time in the future. This has been a complicated process, in which the three boards and the administrators have cooperated. In much of their financing, in school bus handling and in some other im portant facets, the three ad ministrative units had been, in effect, part of the same sys tem for years. Deeds of conveyance trans ferring all property, real, per sonal and mixed, of the city units to the county system— executed by their board chair men and secretaries (admin istrators)—were delivered this week by their attorneys to Moore County Supt. Robert E. Lee. No official ceremony of transfer was held. As staff and teacher con tracts terminated toward the end of the school year, the new ones were signed by the coun ty superintendent and approv ed by the county board. Em ployment of the lunchroom and janitorial workers became the county’s, rather than the local board’s responsibility. Practically everyone was re hired on recommendation of the Southern Pines and Pine hurst boards and superinten dents. Last Wednesday, Kirby Watson, Southern Pines super intendent since last fall, start ed on his new job as director of federal programs for the county system. While working at Carthage with Mrs. Beulah (Continued on Page 2) County School Board Acts On Several Matters A request of Southern Na tional Bank to become a de pository for county school funds was approved, a resolu tion regarding Southern Pines’s Memorial Field was adopted, and the county com missioners’ adoption of the current school areas tax rates for 1967 - 68 was rec ommended at a meeting of the Moore County Board of Edu cation. The motion on Southern National as a depository for county school current-expense and capital outlay funds was adopted by a 4-0 vote. Board Chairman Jere McKeithen Sr. of Aberdeen and board mem ber Fred Fields of Pinehurst (Continued on Page 2) /V i FIRST SAILBOATS ON TOWN LAKE — Overcast skies did not dapen the sailors’ spirits on a recent “trial run” on the town reservoir, where sailboating has now been authorized by a town ordinance. Above, David Drexel brings his boat in for a land ing at the newly installed dock, while far out on the lake, Carlton Neissner and George Drexel skim along in the breeze. The sport, to be enjoyed under strict regu lations of the State Department of Health and a local sailboat committee with super visory responsibility, will add a new di mension to ourdoor life in the Sandhills. The committee, of which David Drexel is acting chairman, will have a luncheon meet ing at Whispering Pines Restaurant on Monday, to elect officers and organize for the Fall season. Spring sailing ends on the lake July 1. Copies of the official regulations may be obtained from Mr. Drexel or Mrs. George H. Leonard, Jr. (V. Nicholson photo) RESCUE SQUAD. BLOOD DONORS PRAISED ^uick Action, Surgery Save Life Of Boy Mangled By Farm Machine LITTLE LEAGUE ‘Mothers’ Night’ Set On Friday; Dinner Slated Two outstanding events of the Little League baseball season were announced this week by Dr. Boyd Starnes, league publicity chairman. Friday evening of this week, June 30, will be “Mother’s Night” at the Little League park on Morganton Road, with special ceremonies honoring players’ mothers to be con ducted at 6 pm, before the first game of two to be played. On Wednesday, July 12, at the Southern Pines Country Club-Elks Club cookout area, the Little League’s main an nual fund-raising event will take place, a fried chiken dinner, open to the public, with dinners available to eat on the spot or to take home. (Continued on Page 2) Gilmore Will Speak To Sandhills Kiwanis state Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines will speak to the Sandhills Kiwanis Club on legislative matters, at a din ner meeting to be held at Sandhills Community College, Wednesday, July 5, at 7 pm. Gilmore, a member of the club, is serving his second term as a state senator. The dinner meeting will re place the club’s usual Wed nesday luncheon session, said Col. A. M. Koster, Kiwanis publicity chairman. While surgical skill saved the life of a critically injured nine-year-old boy of the Rob bins area last Wednesday night, the surgeon gave credit to Rescue Squad members and volunteer blood donors. Tuesday, Theodore Ritter, Jr. known as “Ronnie,” was off the critical list, and though still in serious condition, would recover, barring com plications, his doctor said. He is the only son of his parents. APPEAL MADE 2 Collections Of Blood Set Blood collections in the con tinuing Moore County pro gram will be conducted Wed nesday, July 12, in Carthage (Rescue Squad building, noon to 5:30 pm) and in Southern Pines on Thursday, July 13 (town hall courtroom, 11 am to 4:30 pm), it is announced by Col. John Dibb of Southern Pines, chairman of the Red Cross program. Pointing out that the blood program is ending its fiscal year June 30 with donations for the year failing by 175 pints to equal the amount of Red Cross blood used for Moore County patients during the past year, the chairman urged that residents of the county, especially persons who have pledged to replace blood used for friends or relatives, plan to attend one of the two upcoming collections. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Ritter. Persons familiar with the circumstances described as fol lows the accident which took place at the Ritter farm in the (Smyrna Church community: Ronnie was riding a tractor with his mother in the early evening while she spread fer tilizer from a chicken house over a garden plot. The manure spreader emp tied, she put it out of gear and started back to the farmyard where her husband was ready ing another load. Ronnie climbed back into the empty spreader. Something started the gears, the sharp spikes started turning, also a drjli spiralling from side to side. The machinery grasped hold of Ronnie and dragged him through it. His head and chest made it through all right but the spikes piarced his abdomen (Continued on Page 2) Group Approves Design For New County Library Plans for the proposed new Moore County Library build ing at Carthage were approv ed last week- by the Library’s Building Committee it h as been announced by Alan Mc Donald, chairman. The build ing, designed by the Southern Pines architectural firm of Austin and Faulk, will be constructed of brick with red wood trim. The site selected is on the corner of Sanders and Dowd Sts_. in Carthage, one block from the Courthouse. The fa cade on Sanders St. will be 108 feet long and will permit possible future expansion. The present plans provide 6,600 feet of floor space with an interior arrangement of maximum comfort and effi ciency, the announcement said. The main section of the building will include stacks (Continued on Page 2) 2 Freed On Manslaughter Counts Union Homecoming Set Sunday, July 9 The annual homecoming of Union Presbyterian Church, between Carthage and 'Vass, will be held Sunday, July 9, it has been announced, with a worship service at 11:15 am followed by a picnic dinner on the church grounds. The Rev. B. E. Dotson of Carthage will be the guest preacher. All former members and friends of the church are invited. Two men charged in the traffic death June 16 of Jim Leggett, 52, on West Pennsyl vania Avenue were freed of counts involving manslaugh ter but sentenced to three months in jail each on opera tor’s license offenses last Wed nesday. Judge W. Harry Fullenwi- der found no probable cause after preliminary hearings in Southern Pines Recorder’s Court for a charge of man slaughter against Willie Thom as Ray, identified as the driv er of the car that struck Leg gett; and for aiding and abet ting in manslaughter against Murray L. Young, identified as the owner of the car. Police said Young was rid ing with Ray at the time the car struck Leggett and his companion, Mrs. Eunice Med- (Continued on Page 2) $2,355,985 County Budget Gets Tentative Approval A 19*7-68 tentative budget j ly $337,000 more than the cur- of $2,355,985 was adopted last rent fiscal year’s budget and Thursday by the Board of Moore County Commissioners for operating Moore County’s governmental business. The tax rate, under the motion adopted, would remain at the present $1.25 per $100 proper ty evaluation. reflects principally, planned salary increases generally of | 10 per cent for county employ ees; the fusion of the three school administrative units into the single county school system; and the construction of Pinecrest (Area III) High This would be approximate- i School. Aberdeen Sees Relief Ahead In Emergency New developments point to relief for Aberdeen from its water emergency but a town official said Tuesday “we’re not out of the woods yet.” Frank A. McNeill of the town board said one of two new wells being establisheu was due to be checked today (Wednesday). The town hoped to hook it into the water sys tem this week. The other well, now being drilled, is expected to start supplying the system in about two weeks. It is even better than the other, McNeill said. Water consumption by the Gulistan Carpet Division plant of J. P. Stevens & Co. will be reduced to its 1966 level with recirculation equipment sched uled to be installed in the near future. The equipment is scheduled to start working in six weeks. The problem in Aberdeen has been water cannot be sup plied fast enough to meet con sumption demands. And Gul istan consumption has increas ed substantially in the past year. The water from the town reservoir runs into the system by gravity. The problem has been it hasn’t been getting to the pumping station fast enough. Plans for a proposed booster pump to speed the flow of water to consumers were ex pected to be presented to (Continued on Page 2) Closings For Holiday Vary In Sandhills Business, industry and most public services will observe the Independence Day holiday, Tuesday, July 4, throughout the Sandhills. And some busi ness and industrial employees will have longer vacations. Post offices will be on holi day schedule everywhere Tuesday, with the local post office having no home deliver ies but processing incoming and outgoing mail. Lobby windows will be closed all day. All banks of the area will close on Tuesday, as well as ABC stores in Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Carthage. County administrative of fices and public library will be closed for Tuesday only. Most stores and professional (Continued on Page 2) AT ABERDEEN ‘Freedom Bells’ To Ring July 4 In Aberdeen the Woman’s Club is sponsoring the ringing of “Freedom Bells” on Tues day, July 4, for five minutes, at 10:30 am, which will signal the beginning of the Indepen dence Day parade headed by a color guard and a military band from Shaw Air Force Base. All churches and other or ganizations and individuals are asked to participate and for five minutes “let the bells ring loud and clear.” On the committee promoting the “Freedom Bells” in Aber deen are Mrs. J. Vance Rowe, Mrs. D. P. Troutman and Mrs. A. W. Porter. Holiday Changes Pilot Deadlines Because The Pilot will be closed for a holiday on Tues day, July 4, its news and ad vertising deadlines for the Wednesday, July 5, paper will be moved up 24 hours. ^ No classified advertising will be accepted after 3 pm, Monday, July 3. The display advertising deadline will be 5:30 pm Monday. The same time — 5:30 pm, Monday will be the deadline also for routine news and pho tos for Wednesday’s paper, although deaths, births and news items of exceptional in terest will be taken Wednes day morning, before 10:30 am. News correspondents in other communities are asked to send their columns to reach The Pilot not later than Mon day morning. Also during the special meeting at Carthage, the com missioners’ board by a 2-1 favorable majority vote gave the green light to movement of General Assembly legisla tion authorizing allocation of county funds to the Humane Society of Moore County for the society’s proposed opera tion of the county’s animal control program. The humane society’s coun sel, James VanCamp of Car thage, pointed out, however, that the legislation would not obligate the commissioners to enter into a contract with the society—it simply would per mit the commissioners to ne gotiate a contract and allocate public funds if the commis sioners decided they wanted to. County Attorney M. G. Boy ette pointed out that the draft of the proposed legisla tion contained no police pow ers for the humane society. But VanCamp and Mrs. Leon Baker of Southern Pines, society secretary, said this was satisfactory to the society. VanCamp said such authority was deliberately deleted from an original draft because it made the legislation’s consci- tutionality questionable. The county board of health at a meeting the night of June 20, the humane society repre sentatives and the commis sioners were told, had adopted a resolution requesting the commissioners to make no change in the present county dog-control program. However, the action of the commissioners in calling on the legislators representing the county to seek passage of the biU does not conflict with this request since the bill would provide simply the au thority for the commissioners to enter into a contract with the society. The vote against the motion on the legislation was cast by Commissioner C. W. Purvis of Robtins. Purvis has said in previous discussions that he is against the adoption of stray dogs. He indicated he believed the policy impractical as a sol ution to the problem of prop erty-damaging strays. "The humane society puts stray dogs and cats rehabili tated at society expense by county veterinarians up for adoption and keeps check on (Continued on Page 2) TO MARK INDEPENDENCE DAY Carthage Plans Parade, Horse Show The 4th Annual Parade through Carthage and Horse Show will mark the largest July 4 Celebration in the Moore County Saddle Club’s history, officials of the club announced this week. The parade will begin at 10 am. Everyone who has a mule, donkey, burro or horse is invited to participate. There is no charge for entering. VISITING SPEAKERS, ENTERTAINMENT, BEAUTY PAGEANT ON PROGRAM 14-Hour Celebration Of 4th Set At Aberdeen SUE AGEE PEGGY McDIARMID IN BEAUTY PAGEANT — Among the numerous young women from this area who will take part in the beauty pageant at Aberdeen’s July Fourth Celebration next Tues day are these two Sandhills Community College co-eds who were elected by students to represent the college in the event. Another Sandhills College student, Judy Bailey, is also entered in the pageant, representing The Carolina Bank in Vass, her home community. (SCC News Bureau photos) With U. S. Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., as the principal speaker, Aberdeen is gearing up for its third annual July Fourth celebration next Tues day, according to H. Clifton Blue, general chairman of the celebration committee. Thousands of persons are ex pected for a program that will extend over some 14 hours. Also on the program will be Congressman Jim Gardner, and Major Gen. John A. Lang, Jr., Moore County native and ad ministrative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force in Washington. The program will start at 10:30 a.m., with a parade led by the 527th U.S. Air Force Band from Shaw AFB, S. C. Program participants and municipal, county and state officials will be in the parade along with floats, horses, “horseless carriages” and many other entries. The parade will begin at Bethesda Presbyter ian Church in Aberdeen and end at Aberdeen Lake where the formal program and other events take place throughout ,4^ m'i SEN. SAM J. ERVIN. JR. the day. There will be a military plane salute at 11:45 a.m., fol lowed by Fort Bragg “sky- divers” at 12 noon. Parachute jumps are also set for 1:55 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. The first revue of the Beau ty Pageant contestants will be mg. The Horse Show will begin at 11 on the Carthage School Grounds. Admission will be $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. The entry fee for the Horse Show will be $1 per horse per class with a trophy and four ribbons given in each class. Ray Stout will be the judge and Edward Shepley will be the ringmaster. Timing for the race events will be by an elec tric timer. Three prizes will be given away during the show and a food booth will be provided on the grounds. In case of rain, both the parade and horse show will be held Saturday, July 10, at the same places and hours. Several events have been added because of public inter est, the announcement said: the open three gaited english pleasure class for both saddle and hunt seat riders; an open pleasure walking horse class, a five-gaited class and a bar rel crawl. A class without at least four entries will be cancelled and the Horse Show Committee re- i serves the right to cancel, (Continued on Page 2) REP. JAMES GARDNER at 2:30 p.m., in the grove be tween No. 1 highway and the lake. There will be horse events throughout the afternoon at the high school athletic field, expected to attract a large crowd. In the lake area during the afternoon there will be: sack JOHN A. LANG races, three - legged races, climbing the greasy pole, a pie-eating contest, a crack er eating and whistling contest (for the ladies), water barrel fights between fire de partments, water contests, and also pony, horse and wagon rides. (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. Hi Lo Max. Min. June 21 89 63 June 22 83 65 June 23 92 63 June 24 94 64 June 25 95 67 June 26 76 61 June 27 74 65
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