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V Changes have been made in procedures for electing farm “community committeemen.” Details on Page 1, Section 3. 3ugK 'tGIcndon ^^oqteSpqs. Cameron Lak<vi9/*Va&5 f Ellwbe p LOT New school principals serving in the consolidated Moore County sys tem are listed on Page 2, Sec tion 3. VOL. 47 — NO. 43 TWENTY-TWO PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1967 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS LIBRARY GRANT OKAYED Commissioners Vote To Buy Building Site The Board of Moore County Commissioners at their regular September meeting in Carth age Tuesday voted to buy for $20,000 the Williamson proper ty across the street from the county jail as a site for the new county library and a Neighborhood Facilities Build ing. The commissioners took an HERE, SATURDAY 8th District Republicans Will Convene Republicans of the new 10- county 8th Congressional Dis trict created by the 1967 Gen eral Assembly will gather Sat urday at the Whispering Pines Motor Lodge and Restaurant, on No. 1 highway, north, for a special district convention scheduled to open at 3:30 pm. The convention was called by Jim Holshouser of Boone, State GOP chairman, who said that district organization can’t wait to the normal February convention time, as there is a “golden opportunity” to elect a Congressman from the new 8th. Robert S. Ewing of Southern (Continued on Page 2) Lions To Launch Blind-Aid Drive The Southern Pines Lions Club will launch its annual White Cane Drive for funds to aid the work of the N. C. As sociation for the Blind, on Monday, September 11. Leonard DeBoise, chairman, and several local committee members, will meet with other clubs’ representatives in Fay etteville, the previous day, to plan the campaign which is a major project of all Lions Clubs in the state. Local projects include “road blocks” on Broad St., to re ceive contributions from mo torists and fund collections in the business area by Girl Scouts on a Saturday morning to be designated. Contributions help finance numerous services in sight conservation and aid to the blind. option on the property at a meeting early this summer pending federal approval of a grant to aid the library’s con struction. A grant of $67,255 since has been approved by the federal government, and the county has provided for its share, the balance of a total cost of approximately $125,000, over the next two fiscal years. The county also has applied for federal aid for construction of the neighborhood facilities building through the U. S. Housing and Urban Develop ment Administration. The county would provide approx imately one-third of the ap proximately $105,000 cost. The commissioners have al located the county’s share (Continued on Page 2) \/ F V/ Adams Named To Post In Senior Citizen Council George N. Adams of Whis pering Pines has been appoint ed coordinator for Moore County of the Sandhills Senior Citizen Council, Tom Caddell, Moore County coordinator of the Sandhills Community Ac tion Program, Inc., has an nounced. “SCAP” is the four - county agency, with headquarters at Carthage, administering the federal anti-poverty program. The Senior Citizen program is designed ■ “to reinstate the elderly into the main stream of community life through health, educational, recrea tional, social and cultural ser vices and activities.” Latest statistics show some 3,300 persons residing in Moore County are 65 or over and the greater proportion of these people are retired, Mr. Caddell said. The primary duties of Mr. Adams will be the formation of Golden Age or Senior Citi zen Clubs. These community clubs will be concerned with the problems of the aged which include health, housing, recreation, education, employ ment, and participation in community activities. It is planned to establish activity and information cen ters in several communities of the county. These community centers will be supervised by (Continued on Page 2) VFW BARBECUE — John Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Southern Pines, went in for food service on a grand scale on Labor Day, with 500 pounds of barbecued beef (some of it shown on the outdoor grill here) as the feature of the benefit dinner. Other menu items were: 250 pounds of potatoes, 200 pounds of slaw, 80 pounds of tomatoes, 15 gallons of barbe cue sauce and 120 pounds of baked beans. Preparations began on Saturday for the all-day Monday event. With the post home on N. W. Broad St., in the background, the men shown are, left to right: Chuck Hunt who designed and built the brick barbecue pit especially for the occasion; Ernie Klab- batz, Mack Lucas, Johnny Albert; Chuck McLachlan, head chef for the feast, who is consultant executive chef (U. S. Third Army) at the Main Post NCO Club, Fort Bragg, formerly chef at the Holly Inn, Mid Pines Club and Country Club of North Carolina, in the Sandhills; and John Buch- holz, VFW post commander, who was caught by the camera as he sampled the bill of fare. Entertainment was provided by the “Pinedene Symphony.” Mrs. Jack Younts was the winner of a color televis ion set given away in connection with the event. Proceeds of the fund-raising dinner will go to VFW projects. (Humphrey photo) WHIP RED SPRINGS, 26-0 Grid Debut Is Happy For Knights ON THURSDAY Members, Others Invited To Visit Chamber Offices Business people of the Southern Pines - Pinehurst- Aberdeen - Whispering Pines communities which will be served by the new Southern Pines Area Chamber of Com merce are invited to visit the Chamber’s office tomorrow (Thursday). Mrs. Leonard Muddimer, lo cal merchant and Chamber di rector who is chairman for the informal reception, said that visitors are invited from 10:30 am to 1 pm and again, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm, at the office, corner of S. E. Broad St. and E. Pennsylvania Ave. here. Many business people have received special invitations, but all interested persons are welcome, she said. The reception will give resi dents of the area an oppor tunity to meet Floyd M. Sayre, Jr., who became executive vice president of the new Chamber on August 28, and Mrs. Susan Niewald,, secretary in the Chamber office. Members of the Chamber’s board of directors also will be on hand during the day to greet visitors, with plans call ing for at least two of the di rectors to be there, in shifts, during the reception hours. The new Chamber offices— former location of the South ern Pines Information Center —are being furnished and re decorated but all work will not be completed before the (Continued on Page 2) Veteran Circus Man Explains Why Performance Here Lacked 1 Ring J. S. Ramsey, a circus man since 1904 and a Southern Pines resident since 1907, ex plained in a letter to the editor of the Pilot this week why the Sells and Gray circus had two rings, instead of the three as advertised, in its appear ance near here recently. He is business manager of Sells and Gray. The two-ring arrangement was pointed out by the Pilot’s guest reviewer. Bill Lindau Jr. a 14-year-old East Southern Pines High School freshman, in the course of his discussion of the performances. (The show he generally found in teresting.) Ramsey also in his letter dis cussed aerialist Aeriletta, to whom Bill Lindau Jr. aiso re ferred. Ramsey’s discussion and ex planation follow: Circus tents are round with one center pole to hold it up. (Continued on Page 2) The East Southern Pines High School Blue Knights opened their 1967 football sea son Friday night with a 26-0 victory over Red Springs at the Red Springs field. The Knights play their first Central Tarheel Conference game of the new season next Friday night in a meeting with Rohanen at Rockingham. It will be the season’s opener for Rohanen. lAlsu-see story elsewhere on Moore County football). The Knights sprang Harry Jones, 170-pound senior tail back, loose for three of the touchdowns and Quarterback Billy Strickland for the other. W. So. Pines Drops Football: Funds Problem Never again will West Southern Pines High School field a football team. Principal H. A. Wilson and Coach Joe Winn said last weekend that an insufficiency of funds has cancelled this year’s football season. Next year. West Southern Pines will be one of the seven high schools which will be part of the new Pinecrest High School, expected to be completed in time for the start of the 1968- 69 school year. Wilson said that basketball gate receipts, supporters of all West Southern Pines sports, (Continued on Page 2) Supper Will Benefit Sports The entire athletic program of East Southern Pines schools will benefit from proceeds of a fried chicken supper to be sponsored by the Blue Knights Boosters Club, Wed nesday of next week, Septem ber 13, from 5 to 8 pm, at the Southern Pines Country club- Elks Club cookout area. Dr. Boyd Starnes, publicity chairman, said that tickets are obtainable at several local stores or will be available at the supper site. Slaw, baked beans, , rolls and soft drinks will also be on the menu. The price will be $1.25 for adults and 75 cents for children. Take-out plates will be (Continued on Page 2) Track Star Tommy Richard son, a senior playing his first high school football game, set up Jopgs’s fourth-period touch down with a 24-yard dash through the middle after fak ing a punt, going to the Red Springs four-yard line before being stopped. During the game also Rich ardson punted four times and averaged 40 yards per kick. Thirty-five ij rated good in any league. Fullback Bill Little, a 190- pound junior letterman, boot ed the two extra points from placement after the first two touchdowns but his tries were off after the last two. He averaged 42 yards per kick on his four kickoffs. Little was named Blue Knights’ Defensive Player of the Week and Jones, Offensive Player of the Week by their teammates for their perfor mances in the contest. The Knights scored a touch down in the second and third (Continued on Page 2) LOCAL SCHOOLS Will Train Boys To Teach Sailing Boys aged 17 or older are in vited to train as sailing in structors for the local program that will begin on the town reservoir lake in October. David A. Drexel said that, starting Saturday of this week, he will give an inten sive, eight-hour course, over several Saturdays, both in doors and on the water. Not more than six boys will be accepted. To “graduate” they must attend all sessions. A certificate of successful completion will be issued. There is no charge for the in struction. Boys who work later as in structors will be paid, Drexel said. Interested boys are asked to call him at 692-6691, after 6 pm, before Saturday of this week. BANK MERGER — Smiles were the or der of the day as this group of bank ex ecutives met in Raleigh last week, taking note of the merger of The Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Southern Pines in to the statewide system of First Union Na tional Bank of North Carolina with home office at Charlotte. The merger became ef fective at the close of business last Thurs day. In front are C. C. Cameron, left, chairman and president of First Union, and Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of Southern Pines, chief executive officer of the two Southern Pines offices of First Union, who was formerly executive vice president of The Citizens Bank and Trust Company. In the background are five First Union city executives — Ted Sumner of Greensboro, Don Lineberger of Brevard, Charles Bowling of Chapel Hill, Bill Hohl- man of Winston-Salem and Graeme Keith of Charlotte. First Union has 97 offices in 49 North Carolina cities and towns and total assets of $702 million. The group shown here met at Cameron-Brown Mortgage Company in Raleigh, which is owned by First Union and is the largest such company in the Southeast. New Sandhills Credit Bureau Is Opened Here A new local business, the Sandhills Credit Bureau, has opened an office at 113 N. E. Broad Street, to serve the Sandhills area. Owner and operator of the new credit bureau is Virginia T. Cameron, wife of Raymond P. Cameron, a lifetime resi dent of Southern Pines and co owner of Cameron Oil Com- (Continued on Page 2) 1,844 Students Eriroll 1st Day; More Expected A total of 1,844 students of ficially started the new aca demic year in the East and West Southern Pines high and elementary schools, and more came Tuesday for the first time after the Labor Day week end. The first-day enrollment. Principal A. K. Perkins of East Southern Pines reported, total led 874 in the elementary grades and 434 in the high school. He said first-day at tendance was higher even than last year’s attendance 10 days alter schools opened. Last year at that time, when enrollment was “settled” for the fall classes, 861 students were attending the elemen tary classes and 407 were in high school. In West Southern Pines, Principal H. A. Wilson said (Continued on Page 2) Two Moore County Tobacco Markets To Open Thursday The 1967 Moore County flue- cured tobacco crop will start moving to the manufacturers at 9 am Thursday when sales start for the new market sea son at the 10 centers of the North Carolina Middle Belt. The three warehouses each at Aberdeen and Carthage, the BLOODMOBILE TO VISIT ABERDEEN Two collections will be made in Aberdeen next week by a bloodmobile from the Red Cross center in Charlotte that regular ly supplies both hospitals in Moore County. They are: on Wednes day, September 13, at the Gulistan Carpet plant, for blood donations by em ployees; andi on Thursday, September 14, at the First Baptist Church, from 9 am to 2:30 pm. Donors are asked to note the earlier- than-usual hours. Moore County's blood program' is on "probation" and could be withdrawn after November, if blood donations do not equal the amount used by countiy residents in hospitals, points out Col. John Dibb. program chairman. He urged county-wide giving at the Thursday visit in Aberdeen. OES Thanks All Who Aided Circus Project Magnolia Chapter No. 56,, Order of the Eastern Star, this week thanked alt who con tributed or bought tickets to the circus performances spon sored by the organization here on August 25. “With your help,” the state ment said, “it was a success and the funds derived will be used excliisively for charitable purposes, to help the needy, those who are sick or aged and can ho longer help themselves. “We offer our sincere thanks and rhay God bless you,” the statement concluded. Moore County markets on the belt were reported filled near ly to capacity late this morn ing (Wednesday) with nearly 2 million pounds of leaf from Moore and neighboring coun ties weighed, graded and ready for the auctioneer’s chant. The market supervisor at Aberdeen this season is Hugh Hardee, of Aberdeen, whe fills the vacancy created by the death during the past year of the veteran I. A. Barnes. Supervising the Carthage mar ket sales is Kent Harbour of Cameron. The sales are limited to a maximum of approximately 400,000 pounds per day per market. The baskets of tobac co are limited to 200 pounds maximum each. The belt’s markets will have sales Thursday and Friday this opening week but starting next week until further notice the sales week will run four days only—Monday through Thurs day, officials have announced. North Carolina’s production of Type 11 tobacco (the Mid dle and Old Belt type) has been estimated at 300.2 mil lion pounds, about 24 million higher than in 1966. Earlier this summer, how ever, Moore County produc tion lost considerable pound- (Continued on Page 2) Benefit Auction Slated Saturday Civic service projects of the Southern Pines Jaycees will benefit when a wide variety of donated household furnish ings and other items go on the block in the local group’s an nual fund-raising auction, to be held at 1 pm, Saturday, September 9, in the parking lot of the OK Bowl on SW Broad St. Persons who want to donate items for the sale should call Jim Whitlock at 692-8230, not later than Friday, and the do nations will be picked up. If it rains, the auction will be postponed one week. Registration For Adult Education Courses At College Set Sept. 7,8 A new two-day registration period for fall-term adult edu cation courses at Sandhills Community College, designed to simplify enrollment, is scheduled Thursday and Fri day of this week, September 7 and 8. Registration will be from 1 to 4 pm and from 6 to 9 pm in Room 116 of the Mary Hu man Myer Building. The col lege is located on the Pine- hurst-Airport road. D. 1j. Furches, adult educa tion director, said that even persons whose names are on waiting lists for courses must register this week. Textbooks will be available and fees for courses which have a tuition fee should be paid at the time of registra tion, he said. Several of tne courses have more than one class, sched uled for different hours, so (Continued on Page 2) 6 Elected To SCAP Cominittee Tom Caddell, Moore County coordinator for the Sandhills Community Action Program, Inc., this week announced members of the Moore County Community Action Committee as the result of the county wide election held Friday. The new members, by area, are: West End-Jackson Springs- Eagle Springs — Mrs. Paul Cole (Jackson Springs). Cameron-Vass-Lakeview — Mary Kate Jenkins (Cameron). Carthage — M. M. Belle (Carthage). Aberdeen - Pinebluff - Addor — Myrtle Woodard (Aber deen). Robbins-Westmoore — Essie Hussey (Robbins). Southern Pines - Pinehurst — James R. Small ( Southern Pines). The total vote cast for all candidates was 380, Caddell said. ...J IN DEMAND — Harold Dunn, David Phillips and Law rence Pritchard, who received diplomas in automotive ed ucation at the recent Sandhills Community College grad uation ceremonies, were pictured in the college’s well equipped automotive building as they completed their studies. Graduates of the course are in demand for good paying jobs, college officials say. A new class will open September 25. (SCC News Bureau photo) SANDHILLS COLLEGE REPORTS Automotive Course Grads Given Many Work Offers “Every graduate of the au tomotive education program at Sandhills Community Col lege has had not just one op portunity for a good paying position, but has had several job offers,” reported Henry I. Rahn, director of Occupational Education, at a recent meeting of instructors in technical-vo cational programs at the col lege here. According to a survey made by the Employment Security Commission of North Caro lina on the employment out look for selected occupations in the state through 1970, there will be a need for al most five thousand additional auto-truck mechanics and ma chinists by the spring of 1970. Occupations surveyed in the mechanical and machinery re pair category rank third in the number of skilled workers ex pected to be added by that date. Charting the needs of the state, Moore is one of 15 counties in what is termed Area 5 which will need more (Continued on Page 2) Wildlife Club Will Host Lee Co. Group The Moore County Wildlife Club will be host to members of the Lee County Wildlife Club, with a picnic supper meeting at the club’s lodge, Tuesday of next week, Sep tember 12. Bob Simpson, field director of the N. C. Wildlife Federa tion will be the speaker and the Boy Scout Order of the Arrow honor group will pro vide entertainment. Mrs. Cornelia Vann, club secretary, announced the meeting. The lodge, with lake and recreation area, is located out from Niagara, north of Southern Pines. THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum ' temperatures for each day ol the past week were recorded as follows at the US Weathei , Bureau observation station, at) WEEB, on Midland Road. Max. Mim. August 30 83 59 1 August 31 86 60 ;l Seotember 1 79 59 4 September 2 74 48 1 September 3 . ... 75 46 1 September 4 71 48 1 September 5 83 56 i
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