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Beauty for all seasons of the year is as sured by new landscaping at Sandhills Community College. Page 2, Section 3. m Uighfoii! GlanJon n^and CaftfioM ^^aqleSpqL Coir poi. Cameron pll toktvi^'Vass • ^llerbe LOT Anew book by Glen Rounds, local ar tist and writer, has been pub lished. A review appears on Page 8, this section. VOL. 47 — NO. 45 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1967 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS fj IN SOUTHERN PINES — Dr. Neville Pereyo, his wife, and Mrs. Pereyo’s mother, Mrs. Idalia Zequeira, are shown here last Friday in the home Dr. Pereyo rented on North Bennett Street. On the mantel are a reproduction of the Army Commendation Medal citation the doctor was award ed for his volunteer medical services to civilians in the Dominican Republic; and an ornamental ash tray made of a polished bit of shell casing adorned with parachute wings and 82nd Airborne Division insignia. Dr. Pereyo, a captain, is receiving his discharge from the Army this week. (Pilot photo) EAGLE SPRINGS* Petition Asks ‘EAS’ Service By Phone Firm The Ruritan Club of Eagle Springs is currently circula- , ti.ig a petition to the Central ■ Telephone Company to make ; application to the North Caro- jlina Utilities Commission for I extended area service (“EAS”). Telephone subscribers in the comparatively small area of Moore County served by the Central Telephone Company in the Eagle Springs commu nity do not have direct dial connection with other parts of Moore County. Extended area service, that is, toll-free calling, now pre vails over most of Moore County, provided cooperative ly through several telephone companies. The petition states that the requested change is needed to give subsribers advantages enjoyed elsewhere in Moore. It would provide ready access to Carthage, the county seat, with its law enforcement and other essential services such (Continued on Page 2) Mv V '■ Ij, , : CTa—. I HELPED NATIVES — A civilian is treated by Capt. Ne ville Pereyo aided by one of his eight 82nd Airborne Di vision medics at Capt. Pereyo’s clinic near Santo Domin go during the Dominican Republic crisis. IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Dr. Pereyo’s Medical Clinic Aided 20,000 Capt. Neville Pereyo, now settling down in Southern Pines and ending his Army service, had no chance to start his professional medical ca reer after finishing his intern ship. The Army called. But in less than a year of his two- year tour of duty, he found as much work, and need for it, as he could handle. He examined about 20,000 men, women and children at the clinic he established in the Dominican Republic from No vember 24, 1965, to June 24, 1966. He and the eight 82nd Airborne Division medical corpsmen under him treated those they could, took others to hospitals and sanitariums. Language, at least was no problem in his work with the patients. The 28-year-old doc tor has been speaking Span ish as well as English since NEW — The scene’s the same, but the sign is new. The familiar, tree-shaded courtyard on N. W. Broad St. is still there, but the bank fronting on it is now, as this new sign indicates, an office of First Union Na tional Bank of North Caro lina with which the Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Southern Pines, long a landmark at this location, merged on August 31. The bank’s former name cut in to stone actoss the front of the building is not so easily changed. (Pilot photo) almost infancy. He was born and reared in San Juan, Puer to Rico. “The humanitarian deeds and medical services of Cap tain Pereyo have greatly en hanced health and sanitation conditions in the Dominican Republic,” says part of the Ci tation for the Army Commen dation Medal awarded him. In his clinic in the military compound approximately five miles from Santo Domingo, the nation’s capital, he saw 25 to 30 cases of glandular tuber culosis among the native men, women and children who were examined, treated or referred to hospitals, free of charge. Another common native di sease is caused by the tra choma virus, whose origin is unknown. Dr. Pereyo said last Friday in an interview. “It is a common cause of blindness” among the Dominican Repub lic’s people, he said. Others he found were infec tions produced by fungi, para sitic vegetable organisms. Common also were absces ses and ailments produced by malnutrition. He pulled troublesome teeth (Continued on Page 3) Officers Probe Jewelry Theft At Pinehurst Jewelry valued at approxi mately $18,000 to $19,000 was stolen Sunday night from a room at the Holly Inn in Pine hurst, Pinehurst Police Chief G. L. Wright said. He said the jewelry was owned by Mrs. Quincy Gill- more, who has been a resident of the hotel for the past four years. The officer said the jewelry was taken between 7:30 and 9:30 pm while Mrs. Gillmore was out. The thief or thieves. Chief Wright said, got into the room by unlocking the door. Eight to 10 pieces of jewelry were stolen, he said, including several old pieces bearing di amonds and pearls. He said the investigation was being conducted by him, Moore County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy H. H. Grimm and State Bureau of Investigation Agent Gary Griffith. PRE\7iEW — The hounds of the Moore County Hounds are going “roading” this week in preparation for the coming 1967- 68 fox-hunting season. Miss Wiffi Smith, second whip of the Moore County Hounds, is shown here at Mile-Away Farm with the bitch pack last Friday, conducting a “pre- view” roading lor the Pilot photographer. Roading returns the hounds to the good muscle tone needed for the hunts. The handlers v/alk with the hounds in the first periods, gradually stepping up the pace of the workouts; then they work on horse back with them. (Pilot photo) Sandhills College Fall Term Starts; 800A re Expected Befhesda’s Homecoming Plans Told I The Rev. Leighton B. Me- I Keithen, Jr., native of Cam eron, now pastor of Highland Presbyterian Church of F'\-’ etteville, will deliver the Homecoming Day sermon at the annual service at Old Bethesda Church near Aber- j deen Sunday, September 24 The traditional picnic din- I ner will be spread on the i tables in the grove at the noon j hour, following the worship | service at 11:15 am, said J. Talbot Johnson, longtime Homecoming Day chairman. The historic church, begin nings of which go .back to the early days of this area and the country, is opened once a year for the observance on the last Sunday in September, which brings together not only mem bers of the congregation, past and present, and members of their families from far and near, but many other friends from throughout the area. Serving with Chairman Johnson on the general com mittee are Dr. W. C. Neill, pastor. Miss Martha McLeod, B. W. Wicks, Sr., and Frank (Continued on Page 2) i t f A * Sandhills Community Col lege students will register for the fall term Monday, Septem ber 25, and begin their studies the following day. An orientation program be ginning today (Wednesday) and extending through Friday emphasizes the learning re sources available and how to study effectively, said S. G. Chappell, director of student more, and Dr. Raymond A. Stone, president of the college, were to speak and the main address was to be given by Charles R. Holloman, the as sociate director of the state Department of Community Colleges. The rest of the orientation program will be presented on the campus, Mr. Chappell said, and will enable the personnel. Students can en- students to become acquainted roll through Friday, prior to the formal registration on Monday. The total enrollment of freshmen and sophomore stu dents at the two-year college here, is expected to be 800 for the fall term, Mr. Chap pell said. More than a third i of this number will be re turning to the Sandhills cam pus for their second year. The opening session, held this morning in the Town and , Country Cinema between I Southern Pines and Aberdeen, was expected to attract ap- ^ proximately 500 new students. H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, chairman of the board of trustees. State Sen. Voit Gil- SOME FOR THE ROAD — Miss Wiffi Smith tosses mor sels to hounds at Mile-Away Farm after a brief outing. They are members of the Moore County Hounds pack. Field workouts for the coming fox-hunting season are un der way this week for the hounds. (Pilot photo) County’s Schools Will Be Closed Friday, September 29, For Meeting All the public schools in Moore County’s single, con solidated system will be clos ed Friday, September 29, as administrators and teachers join some 2,000 educators at China Grove for the 45th Central District Convention of the Noth Carolina Education Association. Gilmore Attends Sandburg Service state Sen. Voit Gilmore of ' Southern Pines attended the national memorial service for poet and author Carl Sandburg in Washington on Sunday, as official representative of the State of North Carolina, by appointment of Governor Dan K. Moore. President Johnson spoke briefly and other notables paid their tributes at the hour-long service, held on the steps of the lighted Lincoln Memorial beside the Potomac River at 6 pm. Folksongs and spirituals were sung and poet Archibald MacLeish read four Sandburg poems. Sandburg, native of Illinois and descendant of Swedish im migrants, died in July at his home at Flat Rock in the North Carolina mountains at the age of 89. 'BONES' McKinney to be speaker Free Sandburr Club Banquet Set Tuesday, Boosting SCC Athletics The new season for the sports program at Sandhills Community College will open with a free banquet at ’7:30 pm, Tuesday evening, Septem ber 26, at the Whispering Pines Restaurant on No. 1 highway, north. The dinner will be provided by friends of the college inter ested in the development of its athletic teams, to boost membership in the Sandburr Club which is open to all per- sons for an annual fee of $10 or more, according to W. Dur- ward Grady, president of the club. All membership dues go to the support of the Sandhills College sports program. H. A. “Bones” McKinney, one of North Carolina’s most noted basketball players and coaches, will be the main speaker following the dinner. Others who will speak briefly will be Sandhills president Dr. Raymond A. Stone, James Reid Jr., director of physical education, and Winston “Twig” Wiggins, newly named coach of the Spartans, the Sandhills College basketball team which has a schedule of 23 games for the upcoming season. The college fielded basket ball and golf teams last year. With the completion of the new physical education field on the Sandhills campus this fall. Sandhills will add track, tennis, baseball and soccer to the athletic program. The Sandburr Club, organ ized last spring with Grady as its first president, has a roster of officers which includes Lt. Col. James M. Atkins, Whis pering Pines, vice president; Miss Inza Abernathy, Southern Pines, secretary; and W. E, (Continued on Page 2) FATHER CRONAN Chaplain ^Named For St. Joseph Hospital Work The Rev. Edward P. Cronan, S. S., has been appointed chaplain at St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital here, replacing Father Walter Mack who has a new assignment, it was an nounced this week by Sr. Mary Patricius, superior at the hospital. The appointment was made by The Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters, Bishop of Raleigh. Father Cronan, a native of Ohio, has done hospital, edu cational and parish work since 1935. He has served in a num ber of varied assignments in Washington, D. C., in Mexico and in the States of Maryland, New Jersey, Washington, Cal ifornia and Ohio. His experience includes more than six years as a Navy- Marine Corps chaplain, over seas and in the United States, during World War II and the Korean conflict. In World War H, he was in the Pacific thea- (Continued on Page 2) Coroner Nabs Soldier In Alleged Theft Moore County Coroner W. K. Carpenter Sr., 68, appre hended at pistol point early I Sunday a 23-year-old soldier he said he caught stealing from a soft-drink box at Pine- bluff. Then he turned the soldier over to Coy Warf, who then made his first arrest as Pine- bluff’s new police chief. Warf had been sworn into office only, last Friday. The coroner identified the soldier as PFC. Norman A. Charron of Rhode Island, ser ving with Third Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg. Carpen ter said Charron will be tried Friday in Aberdeen Recorder’s Court on charges of breaking into the soft-drink box and larceny of money from it. Charron was freed after post ing $200 bail for his appear ance in court Friday. The coroner said that after he apprehended the soldier the prisoner turned over to him $2.15 he had allegedly taken from the box. The alleged theft occurred in front of Red & White Su permarket, operated by Car penter’s son Virgil Carpenter. Coroner Carpenter said a burglar alarm connected to his bedroom had been installed after thieves had broken into the box several times before. He said the alarm awoke him about 12:30 am, and he immediately grabbed his pistol and ran to the supermarket. He said he saw the soldier closing the box lid, as he arrived. He held the gun on the soldier and ordered him to surrender, the coroner said. KID'S DAY The Sandhills Kiwanis Club this week reminded sixth grade youngsters and their parents that full plans for Kids’ Day on Saturday, Sep tember 30, will be announced in The Pilot September 27. The observance is sponsored in this area by the club and Pope Air Force Base. Kirkman Now Broker With Hartshorne Co. Ira Kirkman is now associ ated with Hartshorne Realty Co. as a real estate broker, it was announced this week by James Hartshorne, owner of the local business. Mr. Kirkman, a former busi ness executive, has lived in Southern Pines almost two years. He and his wife have a new home on Country Club Drive. The Central District includes Moore and seven other coun ties in the central portion of the State. China Grove is near Kannapolis in Rowan County. During the General Session, Dr. A. C. Dawson, NCEA exe cutive secretary, and former Southern Pines superintendent, will pi eside over a panel which will discuss sanctions, legis lation, progress toward merger with the NCTA, and other as sociation activities. The day-long meeting fea tures as a highlight of the General Session “The Triad of Education,” an address by Dr. Tom Haggai of High Point. Others appearing on the pro gram are Dr. Charles F. Car- roll, state superintendent of Public Instruction, Raleigh; and Miss Helen Wells, NCEA president, Asheville. In addition to the main pro gram scheduled for South Rowan High School, the five NCEA district divisions will hold sessions. The divisions are: Classroom Teachers, Di rectors of Instruction, Princi pals, Retired Teachers, and Superintendents. There will be a meeting to organize a new division for the system of com munity colleges. The 23 departments hold morning business and instruc tion meetings. Officers for the following year will be elected by both the divisions and the departments. with members of the faculty and staff, meet their class mates, and to learn the facili ties of the college. The library, classrooms and laboratories, bookstore, cafe teria, lounge, physical educa tion field and other facilities will be explained to the new students. The Student Govern ment Association, extra-jeur- ricular activities, student clubs, and the sports program are to be included in the briefing sessions. A highlight of the three-day orientation will be a reception for the students to be held in the student lounge Thursday evening, fcepiemner Zl wltn Dr. and Mrs. Stone as hosts. MRS. HASTINGS. MR. REID 2 College Faculty Members Given Awards For Teaching Two members of the facul ty of Sandhills Community College have received recog nition as outstanding instruc tors and have been named the recipients of special awards presented by friends of Sand hills College. The awards pro vide additional income as com pensation for superior teach ing and notable contributions to the college. The awards were announced by Dr. Raymond A. Stone, col lege president, at the first meeting of a four-day faculty orientation program. Mrs. Jeanne Hastings, in structor in art, has been se- SAT.. SEPT. 30 Club To Serve Meals 10 Hours Local Jaycees today an nounced plans for a 10-hour “cook-out” on Saturday, Sep tember 30, to raise funds for the installation of Christmas lights in the Southern Pines business section. Members of the young men’s club will prepare and serve hamburgers, hot dogs, cole slaw, potato chips and “all the trimmings” from 11 am to 9 pm at Memorial Field, rain or shine. The cost will be $1 per person. A telephone will be install ed for take-out service. Orders can be placed by calling 692- 7000. Tickets can be purchased in advance from any Jaycee or at the field on September 30. lected for the John R. Sibley Professorship. The award was established by Mrs. John R. Sibley of Pinehurst, and her daughter, Mrs. Andrew Wolfe, as a memorial to the late Mr. Sibley. James C. Reid, Jr., director of physical education at the college, has been named reci pient of the C. Foster Brown, Jr. Professorship established by Mrs. Brown of Winnetka, Ill. and Pinehurst, in memory of het husband who was in fluential in the selection of the campus site for Sandhills. The site was given to the col lege by Mrs. Brown’s mother, Mrs. C. Louis Meyer of Pine hurst and Lake Forest, Ill. Mrs. Hastings teaches oil painting, sculpture, mixed me dia, design and other courses at Sandhills. “Her talents and enthusiasm inspire her students,” Dr. Stone said, “and she well de serves this recognition of her abilities.” Jim Reid heads the Depart ment of Physical Education. He has guided the develop ment of the department and established a varied and ex tensive sports program. “His teaching, his coaching, (Continued on Page 2) AT TOWN COURTS ON PARK BLOCK New Night Tennis Lights Installed Tennis players are finding less difference now between night and day at the town park courts. The job of replacing the lighting system for the three courts nearest Ashe Street tripled the illumination. The lighting overlaps that of the eight lamps on the courts nearest Broad Street, also. Town Manager F. F. Rainey said yesterday new fixtures and new type 1,500 bulbs boosted the power, though the old bulbs also were 1,500 watts each. Bushby Electric Co. of Southern Pines did the work at a cost to the town of $1,200. Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins Jr. said the money was pro vided in the town budget for 1967-68. Eighteen new bulbs — six per court — were installed. The Southern Pines Tennis Association and the town shared the costs approximately evenly when the park’s courts, then clay, were hard-surfaced with asphalt and a special green topping. The work was completed about a year ago, and the bill came to approxi- One of the sets of new Lights at town park tennis courts (Pilot photo) mately $8,000. The association’s available funds were spent on this project. Jury Commission Takes Its Oath The Moore County Jury Commission was sworn in at Carthage, Monday, in the of fice of Charles McLeod, clerk of Superior Court, with Mrs. Rachel Comer, assistant clerk, administering the oath. Sworn in were Earl McDon ald of Carthage, Dr. Richard S. Ray of Southern Pines and John A. Smith of Vass, Route 2; also Mrs. Phyllis M. Johns ton as deputy clerk, assigned to assist the commission in its work. They will hold their first meeting at 2 p.m., Thursday, September 28, at the clerk’s office, to get started on the preparation of a comprehen sive jury list from which the first drawing will be made in December for the January term of Superior Court for trial of criminal cases. The commission is required under a new North Carolina law. THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum ’emperatures for each day of the past week were recorded ^s follows at the US Weather Bureau observation station, at WEEB, on Midland Road. Max. Min, Sept. 13 71 52 Sept. 14 76 49 Sept. 15 79 48 Sept. 16 86 56 Sept. 17 75 67 Sept. 18 83 65 Sept. 19 89 59
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