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The 1967 Blue Knights varsity football squad is pictured on Page 3. A game report is on Page 5, Sec tion 4. rnoi-Wi CSliFiaie p<^ Cameron fpl , . ^^„«tak«v«»*Vass I £ll<rbc N ly i^nes ^A^erancn LOT The new edition of “Southern Pines Guidelines,” Sandhills informa tion booklet, is out. Page 2, Sec tion 4. VOL. 47 — No. 52 rWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1967 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS -♦■li W. G. Cox Killed In Car Crash William Gaines Cox, 35, of West End Route 1, a foreman at the Sandhill Furniture Di vision of the Stanley Com pany, at West End, was in stantly killed about 2:15 pm Saturday when his car struck another on the shoulder of the old Jackson Springs-Pinehurst road. State Trooper Tommy Clark attributed the accident to high speed, estimating Cox was traveling 70 or 80 miles an hour when he came around a curve headed toward Pine- hurst, some .3 of a mile out of Jackson Springs. Clark said a station wagon, driven by Mrs. Margaret Mor rison, 44, of Pinehurst, had just completed a turn off the highway into a private drive. Cox, apparently braking down hard, skidded 156 feet, went off the highway on the right, struck the Morrison car, knocked it 37 feet, then skid ded another 143 feet and over turned. Mrs. Morrison and her pas senger, Mrs. Dorothy Ritter, 50, of Jackson Springs suffered light injuries and received first aid treatment at Moore Memorial Ho'^pital. Both cars—Cox’s four-door 1965 Falcon and Mrs. Morrison’s 1965 Chevrolet sta tion wagon—were total losses, according to Clark. Moore County Coroner W. K. Carpenter ruled the death due to injuries resulting from accident, caused by high speed. A native of West End, Cox was married to the former Charlotte Hinson, daughter of (Continued on Page 2) iX- Commissioners Pledge All Possible Funds To College s <- ^ The Board of Moore County I Commissioners went on record I Monday in favor of appropria ting funds for support of Sandhills Community College next fiscal year. The motion put a $100,000 ceiling on such an appropria- Rescue Squad Unit 4 Displays New Headquarters tion. The county’s regular alloca tion amounts to 4% cents per $100 property evaluation, of the county tax rate which to tals $1.25. However, the com missioners have been adding extra appropriations above AT CARTHAGE When Aberdeen’s Unit 4 of the Moore County Rescue Squads held open house Sunday afternoon at its new headquarters building, the squad’s captain, E. L. (Sonny) Guion (right, in photo at left, above) welcomed many visitors, including A. B. Parker, Jr., (left) of Vass, a veteran rescue squad member and leader and now presi dent of the statewide N. C. Association of Rescue Squads. The photo at right shows squad members chatting with visitors and explaining equipment, much of it also new, in the new headquarters building. Equipment and clothing is visible in background of photo at left and, in the right pnoto, the items on the table at left include a dummy “patient” figure used in drills on various first aid and rescue procedures. The squad serves Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen, Pinebluff and adjoining areas and many visitors were present from all the communities, leaving co,ntributions in a current fund-raising campaign for additional modern equipment needed by the squad. Among contributions was the sum of $61 brought in by Mrs. Jennie Lou Lee of Addor. The money was raised in the Add or community and elsewhere by raffling off a pig. Among dignitaries attending the open house were State Sen. Voit Gilmore, and Moore County Rep. T. Clyde Auman. Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins of Southern Pines was among numerous town officials present. The building and much of the equipment were made possible by the public’s donations in a former fund-raising campaign. An Advisory Committee is headed by Judson C. (Pat) Jones of Southern Pines. Midget Football League Group Elects Officers The Southern Pines midget football program is continuing through the current season under new management. At a meeting last week attended by 12 men and one woman — Mrs. Betty Drink- ard — all parents of midget players, Jim Reid was elected president; Dr. David Bruton, vice president; Mrs. Drinkard, secretary; W. E. Samuels Jr., treasurer; and Leon Wylie, player agent. The meeting was held at Southern National Bank. An appeal was issued for do nations from all interested people to buy needed equip ment and pay off the $400 balance of the debt incurred last year when uniforms were purchased. A total of 81 boys, ages 9 through 12, are on the four teams playing this season. Two games will be played each next Saturday and November 18, and 25, and Comedy To Op en Premier Season Of Tlaymakers’ The Sandhills Playmakers, the newly organized communi ty theatre sponsored by Sand hills Community College, will open its premier season on November 16 and 17 with Oscar Wilde’s comedy, “The ! Importance of Being Ernest.” 'The male leads will be play ed by Tom Connolly, Pine hurst banker, and Craig Ren- wick of Charlotte. Connolly is experienced in amateur pro ductions and Renwick, a Sand hills College student, is mak ing his stage debut. Playing a leading feminine part will be Lucy Barefield, wife of William Barefield, a college instructor. She has had much experience in college and community productions. The two young ladies in the comedy will be played by Fay Annual Golf Carousel To Open November 15 Once again Bill Harvey and i Sezna and Pete Keough, both Reid Towler will return to the Sandhills to defend their title in the 14th Annual Southern Pines Jaycee Golf Carousel, slated for November 15 - 18. Harvey, of Greensboro, and Towler, of Raleigh, will be shooting for their sixth cham pionship. Last year, the duo defeated the team of Wally 'MISS N. C.' HERE Paratle, Talent Show Will Add Carousel Color The Annual Carousel Parade will open the local festivities planned for Thursday, Novem- Ewini" of Southern Rnes and;^®’' Southern Pines (Continued on Page 2) ‘Fantasticks’ Ticket Refunds Are Available The Carolina Playmakers of the University of North Car olina have announced that it will be impossible for them to return to Pinehurst for a pro duction of the musical, “The Fantasticks,” which was origi nally scheduled for Tuesday evening of last week. The performance was called at the last minute due to an December injury suffered by the leading 2, at Memorial Field. ' actor-dancer,. Michael Hardy. The game between teams of Mr. Hardy is expected to be boys 9 and 10 years old will incapacitated for a minimum start at 9:30 am each of those of four weeks by a broken an- dates, and the game between kle. teams of boys 11 and 12 will | follow. The players are practicing sponsor of the cancelled per- (Continued on Page 2) I (Continued on Page 2) Jaycees, sponsors of the three- day golf tournament starting that day. The parade will start at 4 pm (30 minutes earlier than previous years) followed by the Carousel Queen contest and talent show at 8 pm in Weaver Auditorium. A highlight of both events will be an appearance by Miss North Carolina, Sarah Eliza beth Stedman, 22-year-old, blue-eyed blond from Ashe- boro. The parade will start at Me morial Field and will proceed on Morganton Road to S.W. Broad St. It will go north on (Continued on Page 2) I William Watson, director of ■ the Sandhills Playmakers, CEREMONY MONDAY. PUBLIC INVITED 1st World Senior Amateur Team Golf Tournament Set Nov. 15-18 Forty-seven senior golfers from the four corners of the earth will be on hand next week at the Pinehurst Coun try Club for the first World Senior Amateur Team Golf Championship, to be played November 15-18. The event, sponsored by the World Amateur Golf Council, has drawn four-man teams from the following countries: Australia, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany, Great Brit ain, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Zambia and the United States. The international festivities for this first world event will get underway at 3:30 pm Mon day, when the national flags from each participating coun try will be raised at the Pine hurst Country Club with mu sic furnished by a Pope Air Force Base military band. The flag-raising ceremony is open to the public. The public may also follow the tourna ment, without charge. The teams will start arriv ing in Pinehurst Friday of this week, to study the site of the matches, the famed 7,100-yard, par-72, Number Two Course. The United States team, made up of four senior golfers, who have appeared in many cham pionships in the past four or five years, will begin their preliminary work-outs on Sun day. The select four, plus the non-playing team captain, are: David “Spec” Goldman, Dal las, Texas; Raymond Palmer, Lincoln Park, Mich.; George Beechler, Prineville, Ore.; Robert Kiersky, Winnetka, Ill.; and Ellis Knowles,- non-play ing captain, from New York City. Their credentials include: Goldman — co-medalist in the USGA Senior Amateur Cham pionship; 1966 winner of the Championship; Palmer — US (Continued on Page 2) New Job Mobile Schedule Noted (Photo,. Page 6, Section 2) The Job Mobile has placed 20 people in employment since it started operating in Moore County last October 16 under the Sandhills Community Ac tion Program. The vehicle, equipped with an office and telephone, is operated by Joseph W. Lem- ieux of Sanford, an employ ment interviewer of the North Carolina Employment Security Commission. The report on the Job Mo- (Continued on Page 2) of Wilmington, Del., 2 and 1 in the finals. This year’s tournament will be played at the Southern Pines Country Club and Whis pering Pines Country Club courses. Ed Fitchett, tournament chairman for the Jaycees, said that although the entries have been slow coming in, he still anticipates a full field of teams by tournament time. Hundreds of golfers, with both playing and non-playing wives, are expected. Qualifying will be held on Wednesday, November 15, and all teams must qualify on that day. Half the teams will qual ify on the Southern Pines course and the remainder at Whispering Pines. The quali fication course for each team will be determined by the tournament director, Harry Chatfield, upon arrival. Pairings and times for play on November 15 will be avail able at both clubs by 7 pm on November 13, Chatfield said. Medal play begins Thursday, November 16 and continues through Saturday, with tro phies and prizes awarded at Southern Pines CC after the final round. Pete Zaccagnini, Jr., Hart ford, Conn., and Norman Lutz (Continued on Page 2) Plans Told For County Clean-up On November 18 3 Buildings, 2 Businesses Lost In Fire An early-morning fire Wed nesday, a half-block from the courthouse in Carthage, com pletely destroyed three build ings containing two businesses, caused an estimated $150,000 to $200,000 damage, for a time threatened an entire business block and was still burning, though under control, late this morning. Carthage Fire Chief A. L. Barnes, who made the esti mate of loss, said the Model Laundry, occupying two build ings on Elm Street, and the H & H Auto Parts Co. in the old Post Office Building adjoin ing, were destroyed with all FatiflirlQl-tt equipment and stock. Origin xjdlUllUcllC f UV of the fire could not be deter mined, he said. Trucks and men of five oth er volunteer departments— Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Vass, Pinehurst and Pinebluff —arrived to assist the Carth- Ar'ea chairmen are busy this week lining up volunteer workers, individuals and club members, for Moore County’s I second Operation Clean-Up' scheduled to begin at 9 am ■ firemen at the height of on Saturday, Nov. 18th blaze, to keep the fire They received an assist this spreading to other build- week when the Moore County Board of Comrpissioners voted WILLIAM P. SAUNDERS Saunders Is State Senator Monday to issue a proclama tion calling on all local citi zens to support the project by active participation. Similiar (Continued on Page 2) SADA Awards Dinner Planned For Monday The 1967 annual awards banquet meeting of the Sand hills Area Development Asso ciation will be held Monday, starting at 7 pm, at Sarharcand Manor School for Girls at Eagle Springs. The winners of the five- county community improve ment contest of the past year will be announced and prizes will be presented. Commu nities in Moore, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery and Richmond counties compete in the annual contest. (See story elsewhere in to day’s Pilot announcing the winners of the Moore County contest.) ings on the block. Smoke damage was done to Flinchum’s department store, and also strongly endangered were Ginsburg’s department store and the Hurwitz Build ing on the corner opposite the courthouse, as the fiames tow ered high and leaped over roofs. The alarm was sounded about 3 am as a passing truck- driver saw the smoke and no tified police. Firemen found the interior of the buildings burning fiercely. Nothing could be saved. The roof fell in on both the buildings at 4:25 am, burying the heavy (Continued on Page 3) William P. Saunders, former state senator and former di rector of the Department of Conservation & Development, today announced his candi dacy for the State Senate, in the May, 1968, Democratic primary. The Southern Pines resident is. seeking one of the two seats from the 19th Senatorial Dis trict, comprising Davidson, Montgomery, Richmond, Moore and Scotland Counties. In announcing his candi dacy, Saunders said that he will be running for office on the long record he has estab lished in public service over a 30-year period. Saunders, retired president of Robbins Mills, Inc., has served as mayor of Robbins, member of the Moore County board of Education, member of the first State Stream Sanita- (Continued on Page 2) BY STATE ASSOCIATION Accreditation Given To College Sandhills Community Col lege has been granted full ac creditation by the North Car olina Association of Univer sities and Colleges, Dr. Ray mond A. Stone, president, has Loss Heavy In Restaurant Fire Coffman Covers Foreign Golf Ron Coffman, associate edi tor of Golf World magazine, last week flew to Honolulu to | cover the Hawaiian. Open, a PGA - sponsored invitational which ended Sunday at the Waialae Golf Club there. Coffman then flew to Mexico City for this week’s World Cup, an annual competition for pro pairs, being played at the Club de Mexico. Forty coun tries are represented. Far East players who competed in Hawaii acompanied the Sand hills man to Mexico. Golf World is published in Southern Pines. Coffman is a Whispering Pines resident. Mark and Betty Liddell, surveying the ruins of their restaurant “Ye Olde Steak House” after the Saturday- morning fire, said it had not only cleaned them out but left them with a . mountain of debts. Only $5,000 insurance was carried on the building, and they owe approximately $40,- 000 on the entire property, I they said. They also still owe ] payments on furnishings and' equipment, and current bills for supplies. The fire was one of two which woke the town as sirens screamed again and again, starting at about 1:30 am. That was for the Liddells’ restau rant and real estate office, Liddell Associates, in the one- story cinderblock building on a large lot on US 1 South. The next alarm, at 2 am, was for the Arthur Hale house at 445 NE Broad St. At both places. Southern Pines volunteer fire men found the flames too far advanced for anything much to be saved. The restaurant’s dining room was ravaged by the flames and adjoining rooms showed scorch and smoke damage, and the flames also burned through the roof of the building. Firemen had to re turn to the building about 4 am when fire broke out again under the roof, about an hour after they had left in the cer tainty all fire was dead., Some furnishings were sav ed, including filing cabinets (Continued on Page 2) * * *7' announced The action was based on the recommendation of a commit tee composed of Dr. Robert Holt, vice president and dean of East Carolina University; Dr. Braxton Harris, dean of Brevard College; and J. P. Freeman, secretary - treasurer of the association. The committee made a com prehensive survey of Sandhills College, which opened in 1965, earlier this year. ! Accreditation means author itative acceptance of educa tional programs, the library and other learning resources, the qualifications of the facul ty and staff, and the physical facilities including laborato ries, classrooms and instruc tional equipment. For the first two years of operation Sandhills College I (Continued on Page 2) this each year for the past two fiscal years. The college’s cur rent budget, for 1967-68, in cludes approximately $30,000 in a county appropriation ad ditional to the income from the 41/2 cent share of the tax rate. The “regular” appropri ation from the 4% cent rate amounts to approximately $50,000. The college had asked the county at the budget-planning meetings of last spring for a total $99,000 for the fiscal year 1967-68. The commissioners last Monday provided that the $100,000 ceiling would include the income from the 4 Vi cents per $100 “floor” allocated to the college for the county’s share of the school’s opera ting expenses. The action was taken at the commissioners’ regular meet ing for November, in the courthouse at Carthage. It was the board’s response to the request of the college administration and board of trustees for a countywide pub lic referendum on a proposal calling for an increase in the county’s share of the college’s operating cost to 12 cents per $100 property evaluation. The request was contained in a resolution adopted by the college board of trustees last October 19. It was presented to the county commissioners by H. Clifton Blue of Aber deen, chairman of the board of trustees, and Dr. Raymond A. Stone, president of the col lege. Blue asked for “reason able support.” The increase is needed, the college’s representatives told the commissioners, to meet the increased cost of maintenance. Blue pointed out that the follege now has an enrollment of more than 800 students, where only 400 were anticipa- (Continued on Page 2) Moore Library Bids Will Be Opened Nov. 30 Bids on the new Moore County Library building will be opened November 30 at 2:30 pm at Carthage, Sam Poole of Southern Pines, chairman of the county library board, told the county commis sioner's Monday at their monthly meeting in Carthage. John M. Currie, chairman of the board of county commis sioners, said all the commis sioners would attend the ses sion. The total cost of the project is $137,155, and the building itself will cost approximately $96,000 of it. The federal gov ernment is putting up 49 per cent of the total cost. The county commissioners have allocated a total $63,000 which is approximately $2,000 more than is believed neces sary. Of the, total $25,000 has been tabbed for the county’s 1968-69 budget. The total area of the build ing, by outside measurement, is approximately 7,000 square feet. Mrs. Eugenia Babylon, Sandhills Regional Library li brarian, appeared at the meet ing with Poole. WOMEN. SENIOR MEN WILL PLAY Front door and dining-room windows of Ye Olde Steak House as they looked after fire. (Pilot photo) Pinehurst Tennis Tourney Slated ■1 Ravages of Saturday fire shown in roof from in terior of restaurant dining area. (Pilot photo) North Carolina’s top women and senior men tennis players will be in Pinehurst November 9 through 12 for the Fourth I Annual Fall Invitational Ten- I nis Tournament. I The field will include Laura duPont, the No. 1-rated wom an player in the state; Mary Lou Jones, St. Mary’s College, Raleigh, ranked No. 3: and 4th ranked Nancy deGrum- 1 mond. Chapel Hill. I In the senior men’s division, I the list is headed by the top- rated doubles .team in the state. Bob Spurrier of Char lotte and Buck Archer of Shel by. Other North Carolina senior standouts who are en tered include Carlyle Lewis, Madison; John Allen Farfour, Goldsboro; and Frank Love, Mt. Holly. ■ Racket time Thursday, is 1:30 for the men’s and wom en’s singles on the six sand and clay courts at the Pine hurst Country Club. Doubles will get underway Friday at 1:30. All play will continue Sat urday, with finals on Sunday. 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 Nov. 1 75 ■ 48 Nov. 2 73 51 Nov. 3 74 45 Nov. 4 62 43 Nov. 5 51 30 Nov. 6 50 28 Nov. 7 49 22
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