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Vass is extending a warm welcome to a physician who is opening an office there. See Page 6, Sec tion 2. rRoIrtfiMV iGI«ndon ^ndor / Smqreond carmaqc / j ^^OTl«opqi Cameron pjl , , WtA^nd Lakivi^’Vass r tnerbe Plans for the 3rd annual Pro-Am Golf Tournament at Whispering Pines have been announced. See Page 7. VOL. 47 — NO. 47 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1967 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS "SAr-> 4-H HONOR MEMBERS — From left, Bessie Cheek, Florence Ellen McCaskill and Thomas Meinnis are shown Saturday night shortly after they were announced as the winners of the Moore County 4-H Key Awards for the past year. The Key Award is the highest county 4-H hon or. It is based on a 4-H’er’s performance and record in 4-H work over a long period. Miss Cheek is a member of the Longleaf 4-H Club of Robbins and Miss McCaskill and Me innis are members of the Farmers Club of West End. Announced as the other winner was Gail Carter of the Rose Ridge Club, Jackson Springs. The awards were pre sented during the annual county 4-H Achievement pro gram at the courthouse in Carthage. Miss McCaskill also won first place, and the trophy that goes with it, for her exhibit in the annual county 4-H Fair also held Saturday at the courthouse. Jacqueline Burton of the Longleaf club placed second and also was awarded a trophy. (Pilot photo) Pinecrest High School Opening Set For 1969 The opening of Pinecrest High School will be delayed one year, from September, 1968, to 1969, by decision of the Moore County board of ed ucation made in special ses sion at Carthage Tuesday night. The action followed a rec ommendation of the Pinecrest school advisory council, which at a meeting this week studied the needs which must be met. Dr. Owens Is Named Trustee Dr. F. L. Owens of Pine- hurst was appointed Tuesday night by the Moore County board of education to the board of trustees of Sandhills Community College, to fill out the unexpired term of John F. Taylor of Pinehurst, ending June 30, 1973. Mr. Taylor, appointed in 1965 to an eight-year term, re portedly resigned for health reasons. Dr. Owens, a physician with offices in Southern Pines, is a member of the Pinecrest High School advisory coun cil. There is no legal conflict in the two posts and board of education members said they hoped he would continue on the Pinecrest Council. The county board of educa tion is empowered to appoint four of the college’s 12-mem ber trustee board. and the financial resources available to meet them, before the large consolidated school can be properly opened. The first three buildings of the school, expected to enroll some 1,500 students of South ern Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen and West End, and surround ing areas, are under construc tion on a site on US 15-501 near Southern Pines, with three more to be added when funds are available, bringing the total cost to more than $3 million. Tipping the scales for post ponement was Supt. Robert E. Lee’s report that orders must be placed this week at latest for science and language .lab Thieves Get $2,000 Worth Of Merchandise Thieves took approximately $2,000 worth of men’s wear and other items from Patch’s Tog Shop at 150 N W Broad St. late Friday. The police investigation was continuing today (Wednes day) . Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ko- bleur, manager and president of the sportswear firm respec tively, gave the following ac count of the break-in and the items missing. The thieves forced through a wooden back door leading to the store’s basement stor age and sales rooms, then broke open an inside wooden door to get into the basement sales, room. Then they selected goods from the store’s stock, though the display-window lights fac ing Broad Street and the back door lights were burning. They tried on clothing. One wore a pair of shoes around the store, while he and his companions were helping themselves, then removed them, put them back in a box—the wrong one—and re placed them on a shelf, but took another pair of shoes that suited him better. The pair of shoes he re placed was marked off as loss for sale in view of their signs of wear. Among the goods stolen were: two dozen sport shirts; eight pairs of shoes, sizes 81/2 to 11; 15 pairs of trousers; 26 sets of cuff links; 18 knit shirts, sizes medium and large; a wool shirt; nine sports coats; 91 pairs of socks; 10 wallets; 21 alligator-hide belts; 17 sweaters; a wool shirt; two dozen boxer-style shorts; eight packages of T-shirts contain ing three shirts each, small (Continued on Page 2) Hi I>^i PAST AND PRESENT — Present county commissioners are shown standing, with their guests, commissioners of former years, occupying the official seats of the new meeting-room at the courthouse in Carth age. From left, seated, with years of their service indicated are: T. R. Monroe, Rob bins (1952-62); G. C. Shaw, formerly of Highfalls, now from Alamance County Unique Mobile Job Office To Operate Over Moore County A mobile job office is sched uled to begin operations in Moore County October 16, the first project of its type in North Carolina. In a joint announcement to day by the Employment Se curity Commission of Sanford and the Sandhills Community Action Program of Carthage, it was stated that a State em- (1920-24, 1926-28, 1930-32); Wilbur H. Cur rie, Carthage (chairman 1930-42); W. J. Dunlap, Robbins (1940-46, 1950-52) and W. L. Martin, Eagle Springs (1964-66). Standing is the full membership of the present board: C. W. Purvis, Floyd Cole, Chairman John M. Currie (behind his bro ther) , Robert S. Ewing and W. S. Taylor. (V. Nicholson photo) FORMER BOARD MEMBERS PARTICIPATE Commissioners’ Room Dedicated Club’s ‘College Night’ To Help County Students : - ; Sandhills Community Col- equipment, library furnishings , lege will be the location for the and other items necessary to I “College Night’’ sponsored by the school program, if they ’ ” ~ - - LIONS PROJECT Sale Of Light Bulbs To Start The Southern Pines Lions Club will start a house-to- heuse sale of light bulbs, Tues day night of next week, for benefit of the club’s aid to the blind and work for sight con servation. Ray Wicker, club president, said that members will be sell ing “Project-Paks” of bulbs for $2 each. Each package con tains four 100-watt bulbs, two 75’s and two 60’s. Most members of the club will be out selling bulbs to friends and neighbors, he said. All proceeds will go to service projects of the club. are to be delivered and install” ed by next September. He said there is not nearly enough money on hand to pay for them nor prospect of any more except for anticipated federal funds, before the 1968- 69 budget; and that, while fed eral funds have been tenta tively approved for some of the major items, these have not actually been funded and may not be for weeks or months. The whole transition from seven small high schools to one large one—including hir ing special personnel to han dle some of the equipment, which may or may not be there—should be getting under (Continued on Page 2) the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, to be held Thursday, October 5, from 7 to 9 pm. The club each year has this event for benefit of junior and senior students of high schools in Moore County and their parents, to help them plan for further education after grad uation. The program will feature 40 representatives of universities and colleges in North Caro lina, who will explain admis sion policies and give other in formation. Edward W. DuRant, Jr., of the Sandhills College staff has arranged the program. The evening will conclude, he said, with a social hour for The remodelled meeting room of the Board of Moore County Commissioners was dedicated formally Monday with present and former Moore commissioners and oth er officials and guests partici pating in the program in the courthouse at Carthage. One of the visitors was G. C. Shaw, who was on the three- member board that authorized the . building of the' present courthouse, erected in 1922. Besides his 1920-22 term, he subsequently served 1926-28 and 1930-32 as a county com- missionei;. Shaw, age 82, is living on Graharh, Route 1, now, near his daughter, Mrs.. Pat Bailey, a housewife, and . mother who , also works as a Burlington ra dio news reporter and free lance newspaper . writer. Shaw’s home was at Highfalls when he was a commissioner. For his daughter, born and reared there, the return to Car thage was a homecoming vis it with childhood acquaint ances. Mrs. Bailey attended the meeting with her father. The prayer of dedication was offered by the Rev. B. E. Dotson, pastor of Carthage Presbyterian Church. On behalf of the 'Woodmen of the World Camp of Rob bins, Bill Stutts of Robbins presented the board of com missioners with two American flags, one for display in the meeting room behind the five upholstered leather chairs and long conference table; and the other for outdoor ceremonies County Deposits Divided Among 4 Moore Banks A plan for depositing county funds in the four Moore Coun ty banks was approved Mon day by the Board of county commissioners at the board’s regular meeting for October in the courthouse at Carthage. The approving vote was 3-1 with Commissioner C. W. Purvis of Robbins dissenting. Board Chairman John M. Cur rie abstained, as customary for the chairman except when his vote is necessary to break a tie: Purvis and representatives of the Robbins Branch of the Bank of Biscoe had expressed the feeling that the plan of distribution was disproportion ate as far as the Robbins bank was concerned. The motion adopted by the (Continued on Page 2) ‘■‘THERE’S MY NAME,” said G. C. Shaw, a member of the Moore County board of commissioners when the court house at Carthage was built in 1922-23, pointing to his name on the darkened, old bronze plaque on the wall of the entrance corridor. Others on the then-three-man commission were H. P. McPherson, chairman, and D. A. McLauchlin. Also named on the plaque are E. C. Mathe- son, clerk to the board, and Robert J. Burns, county at torney. Mr. Shaw was in Carthage Monday to attend a new meeting room dedication ceremony in the court- CV. Nicholson photo) Senior Citizen Activities Planned everyone in the Student I and other programs. The com- Lounge. | (Continued on Page 2) 14 WW I Veterans To Meet Sunday The regular meeting of Bar racks 1443, Veterans of World War I, will be held Sunday, October 8, at 2:30 pm at the Arnerican Legion Hut, E. Maine Ave., Southern Pines. Plans for the coming year will be discussed. All Veterans of World War I and their wives and the widows of vet erans are invited, said a spokesman fop the organiza tion. Recreation Stressed In Local Proposals A Senior Citizens Club serv ing the Southern Pines and Pinehurst areas is being or ganized and will have its head quarters in the town-owned Campbell House on E. Con necticut Ave., R. H. Babb, tem porary chairman of the group, has announced. Invited to join the club, with membership details yet to be worked out, will be persons 60 years of age or older. An ex tensive recreation program, centering at the Campbell House property, is planned and other events for club members, such as trips to places of interest, may be or ganized. Mr. Babb said that the club will have a headquarters room (Continued on Page 2) Need For Services Over County Told A county-wide need for vol unteer assistance to older peo ple was noted this week by George N. Adams of Whisper ing Pines, Moore County co ordinator for the Sandhills (Continued on Page 2) ' ALL URGED GIVE 2 Collections Of Blood Slated Here Next Week Two blood collections will be made in this area next week; and Col. John Dibb, chairman of the Red Cross sponsored Moore County blood program, urged people from I throughout the county to re spond to the appeal. The collections are: At the Proctor-Silex plant here. Tuesday, Octoi- ber 10. 1 to 5:30 pm; and at Sandhills Community College, Wednesday, Oclo- ber 11, from 10 am to 3:30 pm. The Charlotte center to which blood collected in Moore County is sent serves both hospitals in this county with blood of all types, free of charge. Col. Dibb particularly urg ed all persons who have pledg ed to donate blood, to replace blood used for relatives or friends in hospitals, to honor their pledges at one of the two collections next week. ployment counselor will oper ate the unique employment service experiment under aus pices of the two agencies. A vehicle to be used as a mobile office will make regu larly scheduled visits in com munities over Moore County as an extension of the employ ment service from the San ford Employment Security Commission office. The mobile office will be a “walk-in van” equipped with office furniture and operated by an Employment Counselor from the Sanford office. The vehicle will be inscribed with the name “Job Mobile” and carry the addresses of the Em ployment Securtiy Office and the SCAP office. Operating from the vehicle, the counselor will work with industry over the county and will provide job information, interviews and preliminary screening for job applicants. Location and schedules for the unit will be announced. With the exception of unem- (Continued on Page 2) NO DECISION Dr. Stone Is ‘Considering’ Run For Post Dr. Raymond A. Stone, pres ident of Sandhills Community College, said today that he is “giving consideration” to be coming a candidate for state superintendent of public in struction, in the May, 1968, Democratic Primary, but that he is not going to run unless full interest and support are manifested and he feels he has a good chance of winning the nomination. The elective office is now held by br. Charles Carroll, also a Democrat. Dr. Stone said that he has been urged to file for the post, but that “at the present time I’m not convinced that I ought to run.” He said he is happy as Sand hills College president and thinks that there is important work to do here, as the college grows and develops. However, he noted, “I do feel that there is need for a new type of leadership in ed ucation at the state level.” He stressed that he has made no decision. STATE CONVENTION SET NEXT WEEK Moore County YDC Dinner Slated Friday; Morgan Featured Speaker The New Macks Store in Town & Country Shopping Center CEREMONY IS PLANNED New Macks Store Opening Oct. 10 a Son “next'^Say'^morn^ i I ing and thus will th« ceremonies formally dent of Macks Stores, Inc.; Mfeks Store in Town and Macks Store in Town and Country Shopping Center on US 1 between Southern Pines and Aberdeen enter the busi ness world. Miss North Carolina—Sarah Elizabeth Stedman of Ashe- boro — will be at the store all through the day thereafter, 10 am. Participating with Miss North Carolina will be the chief executives of Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Pinebluff and Pinehurst; 'Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, president of W. M. Storey Corp., which built and owns the store build ing and the shopping center; of the Macks Store, in Southern Pines; William Richard Platt, Sr., manager of the new store; and J. C. Dbdson, Macks dis trict supervisor. The store will be open from 10 am through 8 pm during the first week, Tuesday (■Continued on Page 2) Girl Scout Fund Appeal Is Made The annual appeal for the Pines of Carolina Girl Scout Council fund drive is now go ing on in this area, John J. Hagerty of Southern- Pines, Moore County chairman, an nounced this week. Moore County is included in the area served by the Coun cil whose headquarters is at Raleigh. An appeal letter sent out by John A. McPhaul, Southern Moore County. The others are Pines chairman, stresses the The Sandhills Club, a recent outstanding work done by vol- j offshoot of the long-standing unteer leaders in the Southern 1 Moore YDC, and the Adlai E. Pines, Pinehurst and Aber- Stevenson • Club, a student deen areas and urges support [ group at Sandhills Community The annual convention of ^ the Moore County Young | Democratic Club will be held | at a dinner meeting Friday, October 6 at 7 pm, at the Car thage Hotel in Carthage, ac cording to an announcement by Jerry Cole, president. State Senator Robert Mor gan of Lillington will be the guest speaker. Cole announc- ed Officers for the coming year will be elected and plans made to attend the State YDC con- , vention in Greensboro, Octo- i ber 12-14. I Cole said that the dinner I would be free to club mem bers advising him beforehand that they would be in attend ance. The Moore County Young Democratic Club is one of three YDC organizations in Tobacco Markets In New Holiday Sales were resumed Mon day on the Middle Belt’s 10 to bacco markets after last week’s three-day marketing holiday. But the markets again clos ed for the rest of this week after sales Tuesday, because of overcrowded conditions on warehouse floors and in re drying plants, the Federal- State Market News Service re ported. Sales of untied tobacco Mon day at the Moore County mar kets were: Aberdeen—311,066 pounds, which brought $192, 308 gross, an average price of $61.98; and Carthage—297,023 pounds sold for $172,967, an average of $58.23. Tied-tobacco sales Monday at Aberdeen totalled 230 pounds sold for $163, an ave rage of $70.87. No tied tobac co was sold at Carthage. The figures for Monday brought the season’s sales of all tobacco at the markets to: Aberdeen—4,661,510 pounds sold for $2,875,141, an average $61.68, for untied tobacco (Continued on Page 2) of the drive, to show apprecia tion of their, efforts. Vivian W. Green of Aber deen is a co-chairman for the appeal. College. Sam Poole of Southern Pines, state president of the North Carolina Young Demo cratic Clubs, will preside at SEN. (ROBERT MORGAN the Greensboro convention, with delegates expected to at tend from all three YDC Clubs in Moore County. Democratic Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland will be the featured speaker at the Friday night banquet next week. The convention will foe held at the King’s Inn in Greensboro. 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. Max. Min. Sept. 27 82 56 Sept. 28 86 65 Sept. 29 79 53 Sept. 30 66 36 Oct. 1 78 38 Oct. 2 - 79 50 Oct. 3 84 48
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