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NEWSPAKm GET THiNUl: DOME, /NATIONAL fNEWSPAPER fOCT. 8-14. 1967 ^ For PEOPLE ^ COMMUNITIES -f ADVERTISERS Uigh Poll! fRotrUiM GlgnJon Comcron pjl , , LoCivio/'Vass j Perbc P‘n LOT i/£wmimi QET WINOXt —--'"'^Tnewspaper (WEEK /OCT. 8-M. r967 -VFw PEOPLE AKCOMMIMITIES 4 ADVERTISEKS VOL. 47 — No. 48 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1967 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS msaM 'ITiriftllWITillllilllil s iProPflDwiy WiWjKW "I Schedule Announced For New Mobile Job Office _i M®*; : Jut' MEMORIAL FUND — Mrs. Watson G. Scott, Jr., of Southern Pines and Dr. Ray mond Stone (seated), president of Sand hills Community College, discuss gifts to a scholarship fund made by Quality Oil DORMITORIES, ATHLETICS, FEES Trustees, State Group Talk College Problems Trustees of the Sandhills Community College met with the Community College Com mittee of the State Board of Education in Raleigh, Wednes day night of last week. Purpose of the meeting, re quested by the Sandhills Com munity College Trustees, was to review the program of the college and discuss future planning, said H. Clifton Blue RECORD CITED Admiral Ragan Heads Humane Drive Society The Humane Society of Moore County launched its membership-contributors cam paign Tuesday, under the chairmanship of Admiral Thomas C. Ragan at a lunch eon in the Campbell House here. A Committee-of-Twenty-One met then for the initial brief ing in the county-wide solici tation of financial support for the humanitarian organization as it enters its second year of operation. Wallace W. O’Neal of Pine- hurst and Tom Morton of Southern Pines are in charge of special- task forces in their areas. Mrs. Margo Lee accept ed assignment of another task force and Miss Betty Dumaine will head up a fourth group. Remaining committee mem bers were given sections of an additional list of 3,500 county residents whose support will (Continued on Page 2) of Aberdeen, trustee board chairman. Trustees making the trip were Mr. Blue, Dr. W. E. Alex ander, J. C. Robbins, N. L. Hodgkins, J. E. Causey, Paul Dickson, Robert S. Ewing, Ralph Monger, Jr., L. L. Mari on, Jr., Dr. F. L. Owens and Dr. A. A. Vanore. Dr. Raymond Stone, college president, and Edward W. Du rant and Carl A. Lang of the college’s administrative staff, accompanied the group. John Reynolds, chairman of the Community College Com mittee of the State Board of Education, presided at the meeting. Mr. Blue reviewed the work of the Commission on Educa tion Beyond the High School and told briefly of Sandhills Community College activities (Continued on Page 2) Company and by Mrs. Scott, in memory of her late husband. Standing are Bert Ben nett of Winston-Salem (left) and J. Kirk Glenn, Jr., of Southern Pines, both repre senting the oil company. (Humphrey photo) Gifts Establish Scholarship In Honor Of Scott Dr. Raymond A. Stone, pres ident of Sandhills Community College, has announced two gifts to establish the Watson G. Scott Nursing Scholarship to aid deserving students in the two-year Associate Degree Nursing Education Program at the college. The Quality Oil Company of West End originated the scholarship fund with a check for $500 which was presented to Dr. Stone by Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, president of Quality Oil Company, and by J. Kirk Glenn, Jr., of South ern Pines, who succeeded Mr. Scott as .manager of Quality’s West End facility, following Mr. Scott’s death on August 3 at the age of 47. The West End distributor ship is one of seven subsidi aries of Quality Oil Company, (Continued on Page 2) ON SATURDAY Fabric Sale To Benefit HUSOM The Humane Society of Moore County will receive the entire proceeds of a sale of fabric samples and remnants, to be conducted from 10 am to 3 pm, Saturday, October 14, at the studio of Miss Frances Pleasants, interior decorator, in the Village Court Building, Pinehurst. The benefit event will make available a wide variety of patterns and textures, in first- quality material. Members and friends of the Society were reminded by its officers this week also of an other fund-raising event for the society next month—an art exhibit and auction of original paintings and -other art works to be conducted Tuesday, November 7, in the Village Chapel Hall, at Pine hurst. Details wil be announc ed. Upcoming on the Society’s calendar, as well, is its annual meeting at 8 pm, Thursday, October 26, in the Campbell House here. Carpetland, New Business Will Open Satnrday Carpetland, a partnership retail carpet sales business, will have its grand opening at 9 am Saturday, on W. New Hampshire Ave., at the rear of the 176 N. W. Broad St. Building. The location was formerly /Occupied by the libnary of Sandhills Community Col lege and, years ago, by Patch’s Tog Shop. ’There will be door prizes for the opening and a grand prize will be given away at 9 pm Saturday. Partners in the operation are Chester D. Kendrick of Pinehurst and James L. San ders of Fayetteville. They will operate the business them selves until a local manager is trained. It will be the third Carpet- land store. One is located in Fayetteville and another in Dunn. Mr. Sanders, who has had over six years of experience in the carpet business, said that the Carpetland stores have direct factory contacts. A variety of carpets will be displayed and installation ser vice will be available. Mr. Kendrick’s home in Pinehurst is “The Castle,” a well known residence in the community. One of its former owners was Fred Taylor of Vass. A schedule has been an nounced by the Sandhills Community Action Program office in Carthage for the unique employment service “job mobile” that will operate over Moore County. Joe Lemeuly will be the employment counselor travel ing with the mobile office, the announcement said. Job infor mation. will be provided, job applicants will be interviewed and preliminary screening for various occupations will be done. The schedule lists communi ty visits (at the town hall or municipal center in each place) on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day and Friday. On Wednes day of next week and subse quent Wednesdays, the job mobile will visit industrial plants around the county to determine industry’s needs and otherwise cooperate in as sistance to employers. The schedule: Monday—Cameron, 10 am to 12 noon; Aberdeen, 1:30 to 2:30 pm; Pinebluff 3 to 4 pm. Tuesday—Cartilage, 10 am to 12 noon; Robbins, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. Thursday — Southern Pines, 10 am to 12 noon; Pinehurst, 1:30 pm to 3:30. Friday—West End—10 am to 12 noon. There may be minor chang es in this schedule in the fu ture, the announcement said, but it is expected to remain approximately the same each week. The experimental project, operating only in Moore County, in North Carolina, is conducted jointly by the Em ployment Security Commis sion and the SCAP office in Carthage. Town Council Sets Public Hearing On Zoning Changes The Southern Pines Town Council Tuesday night set for October 30 at 8 pm a public hearing on a proposed amende ment to the zoning ordinance which would establish a new district — Suburban Commer cial. The hearing also was set to consider an affiliated pro-1 posal—to amend the zoning map and on two other propos ed changes in the zoning ordi nance. The session will be held in the Municipal Center court room. The action was taken during the council’s regular meeting for October at the Municipal Center. All the members of the council attended. Mayor Lynchburg Man Is Killed In Traffic Crash Four young Lynchburg, Va., men, leaving for home after playing golf at Whispering Pines Sunday afternoon, were in an accident less than a mile from the course, and one of them was killed. East Side PTA To Meet Monday Night A reception for new teach ers,^ giving parents an oppor tunity to meet them, will be a feature of the October meet ing of the East Southern Pines Parent-Teacher Association, to be held in Weaver Auditorium, Monday, October 16, at 8 pm, it was announced this week. 827 Eiirolled At Sandhills A total of 827 students from 39 counties are enrolled at Sandhills Community College for the fall term, Mrs. Ann McCutcheon, registrar, report ed this week. She said that more than a third of this number is from Moore and adjacent counties. The count includes the stud ents in the college^transfer and the technical-vocational education programs. The fall term enrollment in the Adult Education Program at Sandhills to date is five hundred and thirty-eight stu dents. During the 1967 - 68 school year more than 4,000 adults are expected to register in the varied courses of con tinuing education. Trooper J. F. Tomberlin) identified the victim as Larry Wayne Page, 27, a passenger in the car driven by his friend and next-door neighbor, Au brey Leon Crist, 29. Others in the car were John Evans, 32, and Robert Gentry, 27. Tomberlin said Crist ran a stop sign at Matthews Store, where two rural paved roads intersect. Going north on the Niagara Rdad, Crist’s car was struck in the left side by one driven by Joseph W. Wortham, 21, heading toward Vass on the Carthage-Vass Road, the officer reported. Wortham, a Special Forces soldier station- (Continued on Page 2) Aberdeen Youth Dies In Wreck At Burlington The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at First Baptist Church of Aberdeen, for John D. Anderson, 19, a student at Elon College who was killed in an automobile accident Friday night at Bur- Mail Is Charged With Property Damage, Assault A Fayetteville man damaged veterinary clinic property and a 1967 Cadillac and allegedly attacked two men who were strangers to him late Saturday at Vass, Police Chief James R. Grissom of Vass reported. Chief Grissom said the al leged attacker was subdued by relatives of the two intend ed victims and turned over to Grissom and Moore County Deputy Sheriff J. J. Ledbetter of Southern Pines. The Vass chief identified the prisoner as Garfield C. Beck, about 32, of 708 Orchard Drive, Fayetteville. Chief Grissom said Beck suffered head lacerations dur ing the incident but he had not determined whether Beck was injured by his own exer tions or while being subdued. He said Beck after being treated at Moore Memorial (Continued on Page 2) The Rev. Gwenn E. McCor mick, pasfor, officiated at the services. Burial was in Old Bethesda cemetery. Young Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Anderson of Aberdeen, was a passenger in a car containing four stud ents, which was in collision with another car containing two students, in a residential area pf Burlington at 11:28 pm Friday. Police reported James L. Warner, 20, of Glenolden, Pa., driver of the compact car in which Anderson was riding, lost control of the car, which turned sideways and struck the other car broadside. Anderson was pronounced dead on arri val at Memorial Hospital, Bur lington. Alamance County Cor oner Herbert Lowe said he died of head injuries. Five others were treated at the hospital for apparently minor injuries. Police said Warner was (Continued oh Page 2) OPENING THE STORE — Miss North Carolina—Sara Elizabeth Stedman of Asheboro — ceremonially cuts the ribbon formally opening the new Macks Store at Town & Country Shopping Center, US 1 south, Tuesday mofning. Flanking her are O. T. Sloan (left) of Sanford, president of Macks Stores, Inc., and Richard Platt, manager of the new store. (Pilot photo) AT FORMAL OPENING Thousands Visit Macks NEW GOLF CLUB Quail Ridge Tourney Set For Weekend A national invitational tour nament of two 18-hole rounds will be held this weekend at the new Quail Ridge Golf Club on U. S. 1 near the junction of U. S. 15-501 six miles south of Sanford. Club Pro Odell Massey said Wednesday 100 entries includ ing top U. S. amateurs, from coast to coast, have entered for the medal-play event which starts Saturday. The tee-off in the first round is scheduled for 9 am Saturday. 'The second (Continued on Page 2) HALL SUCCEEDS HIM IN OFFICIAL POST Hemmer Resigns As Pinehurst Photographer John G. Hemmer of Pine hurst, who has been official photographer for Pinehurst, Inc., during the past 42 years, has resigned and has been succeeded in the post by Geof frey Hall, a young man whom he has trained during the past year. The announcement was made this week by the Pinehurst Press Bureau and Mr. ,Hem mer. Mr. Hall is setting up his own studio and darkroom facilities in the old Carolina Theatre building in Pinehurst, to begin operations there on Thursday. Mr. Hemmer will continue to conduct his private photography business of long standing in the studio building near his home, both located just behind the theatre build ing. He said he will do special assignments and all types of private photographic work. The new Pinehurst photo grapher who will handle News Bureau assignments in all phases of resort operations, working with Bob Howard, News Bureau director, is a Macks Stores, Inc.’s, new business baby was born for mally Tuesday morning and its first day of life was a popular success. Men, women and children by the thousands streamed through the three double doors at Town & Country Shopping Center on US 1 just south of Southern Pines, from the time Miss North Carolina ceremoni ously cut the ribbon about 10:30 am officially opening the Phillips Named Toyota Dealer Newland Phillips Motors, Inc., 795 S. W. Broad St., has been appointed a dealer for the Japanese - made Toyota automobiles, it was announced this week by Newland W. Phillips of Southern Pines, owner and operator of the agency. He said that the new dealer ship covers five counties, in cluding Moore, and will be handled by his company in ad dition to the other lines of U. S. and imported automobiles it now sells. It will be the middle of November before models of the new 1968 Toyotas can be shown here, Mr. Phillips said. The Toyota Motor Company has dealers and service cen ters, in 78 countries of the world, including 650 dealers in the United States and (Continued on Page 2) GEOFFREY HALL native of Michigan who at tended Alma College at Alma in that state and graduated from Winonna Professional Photographers School, Winon- (Continued on Page 2) JOHN G. HEMMER Cast For Play Is Announced William E. Watson, director of the Sandhills Playmakers, the new community theater group sponsored by Sandhills Community College, has an nounced the cast for the play “The Importance of Being Ernest” which will be pre sented next month. Tryouts for the roles were held recently and the first re hearsal was held October 4. Thomas Connolly, of Pine hurst, will portray the role of John; Craig Renwick of Char lotte will play Algernon; and Larry Owen of Biscoe will be the Reverend Canon Chasuble. The feminine characters will he Mrs. Lucy Barefield as Lady Bracknell; Inza Aber nathy will portray Miss Prism; and Faye Ewing will play the part of Cecily.. All are from Southern Pines. Lou Royse of Whispering Pines will portray the role of Gwendolyn. The cast includes both stu dents and interested older per sons from the Sandhills com munity. store, until the weary, foot sore Macks executives, sales girls and checkers said “good night” to the last persons leaving shortly after 8 pm. The “charter” patrons came, and looked, and bought ait the_ counters, the special-sales stands, the racks and shelves of men’s, boys’, women’s and children’s clothing, toys, home furnishings, confectionery and in the rest of the store’s 25 de partments on its 12,000 square feet of sales space. Specialty people who serve the entire Macks chain were on hand for the occasion— women’s ready to wear buyer Mrs. Tophia Medlin of San ford, wig stylists Mrs. Iris Meirtin and Mrs. Gaynell Gib bons, and others. Also at the new store for the occa sion was Mrs. Daisy Kelly, now of Sanford, who has serv ed at most of the Macks stores in the years she has been with the firm since it started 44 years ago. She has been assist ant manager of the 40-year- old Southern Pines Store, manager of the 39-year-old Aberdeen store and the store at Carthage, during her career. Greetihg the visitors were the company’s president, O. T. (Continued on Page 2) Norris L. Hodgkins Jr. presid ed. The other proposed changes would: —Delete the word “coin operated” from the list of per mitted uses in one zone. This change would permit opera tion of a new dry-cleaning plant being established on Bennett Street near Morgan- ton Road. —Amend the ordinance to include in Residence Multiple the area bounded by May and Ridges Streets, Manly Avenue and the town limit. The new Suburban Commer. cial zone would be the area just south of the town limits from Howard Johnson’s through the Jones Skating rink property on the west side to a depth of 500 feet; and on the east side from the point of U.S. 15-501 and U. S. 1 through the Simpson’s Nursery property to a depth of 300 feet. The uses permitted in the new zone would include: —Any residential structures housing one or more families and all other uses permitted in the Residential Single and Residential Multiple districts. —Agencies such as real es tate, insurance, advertising and others rendering speciali zed services. —Public buildings. —Offices rendering profes sional services — law, medical, dental, pharmacy, engineering, among others. —Public and private general- educational institutions, and music and dancing and similar schools. —Financial institutions. —Civic, fraternal and chari table organizations. —Dry-cleaning and laundry establishments. —Bowling lances, skating (Continued on Page 2) KNIGHTS WIN East Southern Pines High School's Homecom ing last Friday night -was a success. The Blue Knights came from behind and whipped West Montgomery 20-7 at Memorial Field. Details are on Page 7 Anti-Litter Action Planned By Local Group The Southern Pines Beauti fication Commission is asking the town’s three garden clubs to help eliminate littering by reporting violations members see. State Highway Commission Chairman Joseph Hunt advis ed the town commission by letter that reports of violations should be sent to the local po lice. The police would identi fy the owner of the car, inform him the violation had been seen involving his vehicle and the anti-litter laws could be cited to him. The contents of the letter, written in reply to a commis sion question, were reported to members of the beautifica tion commission at its October 3 meeting. The members were advised that all reports of litter viola tions should be made in writ ing and bear the name and ad dress of the sender. Commission Secretary E. A. Regan was instructed to write to the local garden clubs ask ing that their members cooper ate and ask their friends to cooperate. Miss Betty Dumaine of Pine hurst told the beautification commission that a similar (Continued on Page 2) 14 SCHOOL GROUPS INVOLVED Countywide PTA Council Proposed PTA presidents and princi- ' pals of 14 Moore (Bounty- schools met last Tuesday night at the School Administration Building near Carthage to dis- I cus' formation of a countywide I PTA Council. Assisting with I the meeting were Supt. Robert I E. Lee and Associate Supt. C. E. Powers. I Such a council, designed to i disseminate information, coord inate activities and strengthen the organization throughout the county, would be composed of the president, principal and one elected representative of each memebr PTA. Since only half the PTA’s now operating in Moore are organized along State guide lines, ways were studied of bringing them all into con formity, with appropriate by laws, a necessity before or ganization of the Council can proceed. A committee of three of the presidents — Buck Johnson, Carthage; Mrs. Juanita Au- man, Aberdeen-Pinebluff and Charles Pope, Vass-Lakeview —was selected to investigate the State regulations and re port on them at a luncheon meeting to be held at the Carthage school cafeteria at 12 noon, November 7. 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 Oct. 4 85 55 Oct. 5 86 57 Oct. 6 86 55 Oct. 7 64 54 Oct. 8 68 54 Oct. 9 79 57 Oct. 10 79 63
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