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4 A record in this year’s series of unusual, multiple longleaf pine cone clusters is pictured on Page 8 Section 3. VOL. 47 — NO. 42 LOT The big Everglades National Park in Florida faces threats from var ied sources. A report is on Page 2, Section 2. TWENTY-TWO PAGES ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Citizens, First Union Bank Merger Effective Merger of The Citizens Bank I of The Citizens Bank on N. and Trust Company of South- W. Broad St. and the branch the First Union' office on S. W. Broad become National Bank of North Car-j the Southern Pines offices oJ olina—for which plans were First Union, the third largest announced in April—becomes bank in North Carolina, with of this week, | home office in Charlotte. 0 ®™hcr 1. . I tVhen the announcement of that day, the main office merger plans was made in April, First Union had 97 offices in 45 communities throughout the State. N. L. Hodgkins, president of The Citizens Bank and Trust Company, and C. C. Cameron, chairman and president of First Union, jointly announced the merger date. Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., exe cutive vice president of The SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1967 PRICE: 10 CENTS Telephone Wire Thefts Probed By Deputies The Moore County sheriff’s department is investigating ui me the theft of thousands of dol- i Citizens Bank, will become. Over 10,000 Pupils Expected In New Consolidated System lars’ worth of insulated cop per cable, which has taken place over the past few weeks from the storage yard of the Union Telephone Co. of the Carolines, just north of the Southern Pines town limits at Manly. Discovery of the theft of four full reels of cable some time Sunday night climaxed the report that several smaller reels had disappeared, along with lengths of cable removed fContinued on Page 2) Parking Rules To Be Enforeed starting Friday of • this week, enforcement of parking regulations in the Southern Pines business section will be resumed, Police Chief Earl S. Seawell has announced. Because of lighter summer traffic, cars have not been mailed, nor tickets issued, during June, July and August. Most downtown parking spaces have a two-hour limit, but other times prevail in special zones. The fee for an ordinary parking law violation is $1, to be paid at the town office, not the police station. after merger, an executive vice president of First Union and chief executive officer of the Southern Pines offices. N. L. Hodgkins'will become chairman of First Union’s Southern Pines board of direc tors and an advisory member of First Union’s general board. No personnel changes will take place at the two local bank offices when the merger becomes effective Friday, bank officers point out. Customers of The Citizens Bank are being informed that they may use Citizens Bank checks or deposit forms now in their possession until they are depleted. On new checks (Continued on page 5) Moore County schoolchil dren, some 10,000 strong, will report Friday morning to their respective schools, including those formerly of the separate city units of Southern Pines and Pinehurst. Many will reach their schools for the half-day Pupil- Teacher Orientation session via the 110 buses of the school fleet. ■While the opening-day en rollment is usually disappoint ing, the total is expected to rise above the 10,029 enrolled in all schools last year. School hours will vary from district to district and princi pals have notified the parents MAKING ADDRESS — Dr. John M. Reynolds, chairman of the Community College Committee of the State Board of Education, smiles as he strikes a light note during his summer commencement address at Sandhills Community College here Fri day evening. H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen (center), chairman of the College’s board of trustees, and Dr. Raymond A. Stone, president, also took part in the ceremonies held in the large fountain-centered court- (Humphrey photo) SPEAKER CITES PIONEERS^ ACHIEVEMENTS Graduates Urged To ‘Contribute* Allen To Speak At Vass About Farming “Modern Changes in Agri culture’’ will be the topic of Fleet Allen, Moore County ex tension chairman, when he speaks at a meeting of the Vas's Clbmmunify Development Council, Monday, September 4, at 7:30 pm. All Vass residents, partic ularly farmers of the Vass area, are urged by the council’s officers to attend this meeting which will be held at the Vass fire station. John M. Reynolds, chairman of the Community College Committee of the State Board of Education, told the gradu ates of Sandhills Community College to preserve the beauty of their state and country, and to contribute to the develop ment of their community as did pioneers in North Caro lina. Citing the contributions of early settlers to the moun tain section near his home in Asheville, he encouraged the young men and women to achieve their goals with deter mination and loyalty to the ideals of the early-day lead ers. Mr. Reynolds was the com mencement speaker for the formal graduation' ek^^^S? held Friday evening on the Sandhills College campus when 41 young men and wom- were awarded Associate De grees in Liberal Arts and Ap plied Science, and diplomas in occupational education. A list (Continued on Page 2) M 4 —»— WINS HONOR — James Henry Turner of Southern Pines (center), honor graduate of the Electronics Service course at Sandhills Community College, is congratulated by H. Clifton Blue, trustee chairman, at last Friday’s sum mer commencement ceremonies. At right is Dr. Richard S. Ray, dean of instruction, who presented the candidates for diplomas. (Humphrey photo) Opening Details, Changes Listed For iSchools Here Schools of East and West Southern Pines wUl begin their first year, Friday, as units of the single, county wide Moore County school system. The first bell will ring at 8:25 am Friday at the Southern Pines schools, where a half- day session, Pupil-Teacher Orientation Day, will open the fall term. Classes will be dis missed at noon. Students will return for their first full day Tuesday. While first graders will continue to go home at noon for the first two weeks, the regular closing hour for all grades will be 3:15 pm. While some 1,800 are ex pected to enroll at first, total enrollment went to 2,030 dur ing the past school year and is expected to surpass that figure this year, said A. K. Perkins, principal. Mobile Classrooms Greatest growth last year was in the East Southern Pines elementary school, resulting in State allotment of five addi- "tional-t'eachers, and five mobile (Continued on Page 2) Blue Knights To Open 1967 FootbaU Season Friday Night At Red Springs East Southern Pines High School’s Blue Knights of 1967, now 30 strong, and fit with summer flab melted in three weeks of workouts, make their debut of the new football season Friday night against Red Springs High School at the Red Springs field. Head Coach John W. Wil liams and his aides are send- Drain Is Laid, Paving Set In Problem Area The Town of Southern Pines ! ing the players through prac tice right up to the eve of the game. A last, light practice is scheduled at Memorial Field Thursday night. Williams said Tuesday eve ning the boys “looked sharp’’ in their most recent sessions and the “best’’ in Tuesday earning tickets - Just like in a story your father or grandfather might have told, five Aberdeen boys earned their tickets to the Sells and Gray circus last Friday morning by working alongside the circus hands in setting up the tents and other equipment. Here they are teaming (one not visible), to rush a pole to the sagging canvas in the background. The eager boys who worked for their circus fun were Sammy Luck, Hugh Shepard, Rickie Monroe, Scott Ivey and Kenneth Lancas ter. The photo was snapped by Bobby Pearse, a member of the National Free Lance Photographers Association, who was on hand to record on film the setting-up activities of the circus which later played two shows at a site off old No. 1 highway, near Aberdeen. ’ PLENTY OF ACTS — BUT 2 RINGS. NOT a Here’s Full Report On That Circus From 14-Year-Old Who Saw It All (Editor's Note: The writer is a M-yiear-old rising freshman of East South ern Pines High School. He is the son of Pilot News Editor Bill Lindau and Pi lot book columnist Betsy Lindau of 250 N, Ashe St.) % BILL LINDAU. JR. Friday, August 25, was the big day of the Sells and Gray three-ring circus on old No. 1 highway. (Those hundreds who attended either of the two shows, afternoon or evening, may have found themselves misled by the adjective “three-ring,” for rather than having three rings, it had ac tually two rings.) The reader must also under stand that the show I write of morning’s offensive scrimmage that they had since the squad started workouts about three weeks ago. He said his offensive start ing lineup for the opener probably would look like this; has installed 50 feet o'f'24’-inch ' Strickland, quarterback; d:ain pipe and is having two ' T ™ Roschy and Gene Ses- blocks paved in an area whose 1®°™®’ Randy Arnold, residents this month reported Liddell and Billy Fountain, guards, brothers Conference Outlook; Page 7, Section 2 St. Anthony’s To Open Friday St. Anthony’s parochial school will open Friday morn ing of this week, September 1, with an expected enrollment of about 130 students in the first through 8th grades. Fath er John J. Harper, pastor of St. Anthony’s Parish, said to day. Sister Miriam Raymond,, the new principal at the school, was not available this morn ing for discussion of opening plans. The school will observe the Labor Day Holiday Monday. It will hold half day sessions on Friday and through next week. The faculty, in addi tion to the principal, is com posed of Sisters Catherine Thomas, Michael Marie, Hel ena Julie and Ann Bernard; and Mrs. Doris McCaubrey. AREA TO OBSERVE HOLIDAY MONDAY Labor Day, a slate andi national holiday, will be widely observed over this area, on Monday, Septem ber 4, with most public offices and private busi nesses closed for the day. Town and county offices, banks and the three county ABC stores at Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Car thage will be closed. Town and county public libraries will also close. Post offices will have no window service. In South ern Pines there will be no home mail delivery. Schools of the county sys tem, which open Friday, will observe the Labor Day holiday, with pupils re turning Tuesday, Septem ber 5, for their first full cay. At Carthage, the board of county commissioners will convene for its month ly session on Tuesday, as its regular “first Monday" meeting date falls on the holiday. A term of Moore County Superior Court (see separate story) will open in the courthouse on Tues day. The pilot office will be closed on Monday. "" ■ " of the schedules, said Supt. Robert E. Lee. Following the long Labor Day weekend, a full schedule will be main tained. Waiting to meet and greet them Friday will be some 450 teachers in 20 schools, who will give the first assignments in their new textbooks. Clafe- tefias will not operate until Tuesday. Teachers, Principals Meet New teachers and principals reported Tuesday for an all- day “get-acquainted” session which started with an hour- long nieeting at 8:30 am at the School Administration Build ing. The more than 70 persons then boarded school activity buses for a tour taking them to many places of interest—in cluding schools — throughout the county. During the tour supervisors, serving as guides, gave information of various facets of the schools. Gilmore Speaks “Lunch break” was at Sam- arcand Manor, the State cor rectional school for girls, near Eagle Springs where Supt. Robert E. Lee gave a welcome and Associate Supt. C. Edison Powers presided over the pro gram. Guest speaker at the luncheon served and prepared by Samarcand students was State Senator Voit Gilmore, who gave information on well - known and also little- known features of life in Moore county. Representing the Moore County Board of Education, luncheon hosts were Mrs. John L. Frye of Robbins and R. H. Upchurch of Highfalls. Among the guests was Rep. -Clyde _4uman of West End, (Continued on Page 2) County School Board Approves Contracts; To Study Fee Schedule The Moore County Board of Education Tuesday night approved contracts for nine more teachers for the new school year and decided to take a hard look at the schedule of fees charged school children. These were among the many items of business the five at tending members considered in a three-hour session that was the regular August meet ing of the board at county school system headquarters near Carthage. The approval of the new contracts left seven teaching posts to be filled in all, at North Moore High School, West End and West Southern Pines, with the new year opening Friday. The board also voted per- I mission to the Henry Vester Post 150, American Legion, of Carthage to use the band building of vacant Pinckney High School in Carthage for a post headquarters. The con dition was that the building would be vacated within 15 (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. August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 Road. Max. Mim. ... 75 68 ... 82 59 ... 90 68 ... 88 68 ... 86 70 82 60 83 62 '' A * ^ ^ J. ^ ^ ' is the evening show, which was held at 8 o’clock. Lining the entry were the side-show tent anid refresh ment booths. Now when you think of a sideshow, the first thing that pops into your mind is an exhibition of freaks right? Wrong! In this side- show are wild animals and a magician named Sebastian, who does two of the tricks he —x.-cciu uses in the main show. The make it big, the Sells wild animals include two In- j Gray circus had j ust dian elephants (don’t ask me ' ' their names), a Nubian lion of Africa, a Rhesus monkey of Asia, a spotted leopard of Asia, a black bear of Canada, “Congo,” the killer ape (al though more like an over grown chimpanzee). thoroughbred horses — one a pony, one full-grown—and a grayish-white dromedary (the one-humped breed of camel). 'The tent under which the main show was held was set off by red and blue stripes. The climate beneath it was hot. No circus without back ground music makes it big with its audiences. Therefore, to and that: background music. But rather than being played by a live band, the music was recorded. The tunes that were heard in cluded such familiars as: “Ti a severe drainage problem. Town Manager F. F. Rainey said this morning (Wednesday) that the drain pipe has been laid at the junction of Hale Street and New Jersey Avenue. He said the streets which will be paved as soon as the ground dries sufficiently are the block of Hale between Saylor and the U. S. 1 bypass, and New Jersey between Rhode Island and Delaware avenues. He said the paving contract has been let to Ferguson & Goff Paving Co. of Southern Pines. The work was to have been started last Monday, he said, but the condition of the (Continued on Page 2) John and Charles Buchholz, tackles; Bill Little or Tom Shore, fullback; Harry Jones, tailback; and Shore or Curtis Caldwell, wingback. The defense starters prob- (Continued on Page 2) Jaycee Auction Details Listed New Trooper Sent To Duty At Robbins state Trooper Oliver W. Hardy, a Rocky Mount native, has been assigned to duty at Robbins following graduation last Friday from the State Highway Patrol’s basic train ing school at the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill. He was one of 34 new troop ers who completed the recent 16-week course. Each was as signed to work for six weeks with a veteran trooner. iinna -d” T'.. i ® veteran trooper. On ‘‘ivrar:a^'^‘o ^ s^ccessful completion of this fT, “Man phase of training troopers are twn Arm,” “Tel- assigned to their individual two, (Continued on Page 3 Sec. 2) ^ cars and duties. The Southern I^ines Jaycees are going to hold their second annual fund-raising auction on Saturday, September 9, in the parking lot of the OK Bowl on S. W. Broad St. The auc tion will begin at 1 pm and continue until all items are sold, according to an an nouncement today. Martin Haywood of Rock ingham will be the auctioneer. The Jaycees are hoping that a large crowd of item-seekers will attend. In the event of rain, the auction will be postponed for one week. Anyone having items to do nate for the auction, except clothing, is requested to con tact Jim Whitlock at 692-8230 and items will be picked up. The Jaycees have several community service projects in the works and funds are badly needed to finance these pro jects, it was stated. V* ■V, SOMETHING NEW — Only a portion of the new Highfalls Elementary School ap- , pears in this photo, because a full view of the building was blocked by construction equipment and other materials at the site. However, the unusual design—which the architects say is geared to a child’s per spective—-is apparent. The $220,000 struc ture replaces one destroyed by fire two years ago. The building will be ready for opening of all the county’s schools on Friday. (y. Nicholson photo) DESIGN ADAPTED TO NEEDS OF CHILDREN HtQhfQ.lls School Has Unicitic FcQtuvcs The day the Highfalls school was to open two years ago, rnOst of it was a still-smoking pile of rubble, following a dis astrous, mysterious fire of the night before . This year, things are differ- ent—the 300 or more elemen tary students reporting Friday will enter a new building, one of the State s most modern and uniquely architectured. The arresting design of the one-story school, built bn the old site facing NC 22, features a dozen pyramidal roofs rising above long masonry walls. The exterior, of brick in soft tan and rosy hues, is seven feet four inches tall. The roofs, shingled in cinnamon brown^ one for each room, rise to a height of 14 feet. Seven of them, over six classrooms and the library, are capped with square cedar-banded structur es holding white translucent skylight-domes. Child's iPerspeciive The effect is of a series of small buildings some with their own entrances, with con tinuous brick wall. Doors painted red add to the cosy effect, exactly as intended, ac cording to John Faulk of the Southern Pines architectural firm of Austin-Faulk Associ ates. Besides the obvious ad vantages of a skylight and ven tilator for the separate rooms, with enhanced acoustics, the design holds the dimensions down to a young child’s per- (CoptinU' - tJggg
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