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<|Glsndon A large moth collection, the work of many years by a local man, has been given to the Smithsonian. Details on Page 6, Section 2. Carl 5pqs. Cameron VfaASjid l.alnvio/’Vass f ll«rb« Jaclri LOT 10,000 litter bags for motor vehicles have been distributed through school children in Moore Coun ty. Details, Page 2, Section 3. VOL. 48 — No. 5 rWENTY-SIX PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1967 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS RAIL MUSEUM Public Is Asked Aid In Project William C. Darden of South ern Pines is serving as chair man of a project to collect and eventually display, in a man ner not yet determined, ma terials relating to the history of railroading in this area. He accepted the post at a meeting of a small group of interested persons in the muni cipal center courtroom last Friday afternoon, when the group agreed that the first step in the project is to enlist the public’s help in determining what materials are available. Since the meeting, Mr. Dar den told The Pilot this week, arrangements have been made for persons having documents, books, maps, photographs or other materials relating to railroading—or to develop ments in which railroading played a part — to loan them to the committee by leaving them at the Southern Pines Library where they will be filed in marked envelopes, pending further action by the local group. Three persons who had done preliminary work on the pro ject, including some discuss ions with Seaboard Coast Line Railroad officials who offered advice and cooperation, were at last week’s meeting—^State Sen. Voit Gilmore, Mr. Darden and Floyd Sayre, executive secretary of the Southern Pines (Continued on Page 2) YDC Group To Meet, Aberdeen Place of the previously an nounced meeting, for election of 1968 officers, of the Sand hills Young Democratic Club has been changed from the Southern Pines town hall to the Aberdeen town hall, a spokesman for the club said this week. The meeting is set for 8 pm, Thursday, December 14. The slate of officers to be proposed by a nominating committee follows: president, Mrs. Carolyn Blue; 1st vice president. Jack Barron: 2nd vice president, Mrs. Mildred Carpenter; 3rd vice president, Mrs. Anthea Tate; secretary. Mrs. Barbara Harris; and treasurer, Frank McNeill. The committee’s nomina tions for directors are: Mrs. Sara Hodgkins, Mrs. Hilma Swaim, Russell Powell, Wood- row McDonald, Mrs. Betty Liddell and Felton Capel. iW IMi ■ TRIP BEGINS — The 500 Christmas cards which Miss Pat Darden, left, and Mrs. Carolyn Hicks, mailed this week to servicemen in Vietnam begin their jour ney of cheer to the other side of the world, at the Southern Pines post office, as Postmaster Morris Johnson smiles his approval. The gold-paper carton in which the cards were packed is on the counter and each of the young ladies holds hand fuls of the greetings. (V. Nicholson photo) NO CHARGES Youth On Road Killed When ' Struck By Car I Willie Martin Garner, 19, of i Eagle Springs, Rt. 1, was kill- j ed at 2:30 am Sunday when I struck by a car as he lay on I the eastbound lane of NC 27, 1.4 miles east of Robbins Crossroads. Darrell Leon Williams, 22, also of Eagle Springs, Route 1, told State Trooper Tommy Clark he did not see the body until seconds before he hit it and too late to avoid doing so. He said he did not realize it was a man until he stopped and went back to look, finding Garner dead of head and body injuries. His statement was corroborated by two passen gers in his car, Jerry Williams and Billy Arthur Burns. Following the State High way Patrol investigation. Cor oner W. K. Carpenter ruled that Garner died through un avoidable accident. Clark said no charges would be prefer- (Continued on Page 2) 50 PERSONS HELP 2 WHO WORKED ON PROJECT 500 Cards Sent To Vietnam Servicemen Five hundred messengers of goodwill, support and encour agement for U. S. soldiers in South Vietnam are winging their way to the zone, in the form of Christmas cards sign ed, sealed and stamped by two pretty young ladies, Miss Pat Darden and Mrs. Carolyn Hicks, of Southern Pines. While the two girls thought it up, it became a project of the entire Research Depart ment of the Gulistan Carpet Division of J. P. Stevens & Co. at Aberdeen, where they work, Carolyn as secretary, Pat as a chemistry laboratory assis tant. Members of the department, numbering 50 employees in all gave Christmas cards and also cash for postage, as did some (Continued on Page 2) Pinebluff Power Culs Rescheduled Sunday Last Sunday’s heavy rain prevented the maintenance work planned for that day by the Carolina Power & Light Co. in the Pinebluff area. The same work, with the same power cut-off schedule, is scheduled for next Sunday, December 17, A. R. Tucker, local CP&L manager, reports. Electricity will be off from 1:30 to 3:30 pm, on the east side of No. 1 highway, in Pinebluff, and along a rural line to Addor. Also, for five minutes at both beginning and end of the two-hour period, the power will be cut off along No. 1 highway, between Aber deen anid Pinebluff, and in all of Pinebluff itself. ENTRIES ASKED Decorations To Be Judged Here Judging will take place next week in the Christmas decorations contest sponsored by the Southern Pines Jay- cees who will give $15 and $10 first and second prizes in both residential and commer cial divisions. The prizes will be awarded after Christmas. Formal entries are being asked this year in both divi sions of the contest, and few had been received, early this week. Persons wishing to enter should call Charles Ben nett at 692-7158 or Kester Woody at 692-8444. Good or unusual decorations which do not win a prize will receive public mention, the Jaycees point out. Union Pines Chorus Concert Set Monday The Union Pines High School Chorus, directed by Mrs. Jane Caviness Modlin, will present a Christmas con cert of traditional, secular and sacred music, Monday, Decem ber 18, in the school’s auditori um. There are 55 male and fe male voices in the chorus. A feature of the perform ance will be the sacred canta ta, “Noel, Noel” by Noble Cain, a portion of which will be accompanied by the school band. Piano accompanists for the chorus will be Mrs. Isabel Thomas, Miss Pat Barr and Miss Martha Phillips. The public is invited. There is no admission charge. Here's Yule Shopping Tip From The Police Here’s a Christmas shopping tip from Police Chief Earl Seawell: Keep cars locked and pack ages in car trunks. He said packages in cars should be kept out of sight. Chief Seawell also advised home owners to keep their houses locked. Every Christmas season; he said, brings complaints to the Police Department of thefts of gifts from homes. Field Trials All-Age Trophy Won By Vaga Vaga, 10-year-old male pointer owned and handled by Dr. W. H. McCall of Asheville, retired the Haberdasher Tro phy last weekend by scoring his fourth win of the Amateur All-Age in the 12th annual Carolina Amateur Field Trials. It was Dr. McCall who es tablished the trophy naming it in honor of the Habendasher line of bird dogs, which have been competing in the trials since 1956. Three wins were required for permanent possession. Vaga scored one before the trophy was established. Vaga is a son of the great champion Haberdasher and a brother o fthe national cham pion Home Again Mike. Vaga’s 3-year-old daughter, Vaga’s Queen, also owned by Dr. McCall, placed third in the All-Age competition last week end. Delivery Storny Dan, a 4-year-old male pointer owned and handled by Joe Lassiter of Raleigh, placed second. The program was held in the Sandhills Management Area (Continued on Page 2) GOP EYES 8ih DISTRICT SEAT Two-party Race Appears Certain Eighth Congressional Dis trict Republicans are virtually certain to nominate a candi date for the district post in the U. S. House of Representatives at their convention February 17 at 2 pm in Troy. The con vention is set for the Mont gomery County Courthouse. This was indicated last Fri day night at Albemarle at a meeting of the district Re publican Committee. Three men presented them selves as possible candidates for the new district’s seat—Dr. Earl Ruth, director of athletics at Catawba College, Salisbury; Cabarrus County State Rep. James E. Johnson of Concord; and Rowan County Court Sol icitor Robert Vance Sommers of Salisbury. So far. Democratic State Sen. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines is unopposed in his own party for the nomination to the Eighth District seat. He :has paid his filing fee. No other Democrat has so much as announced for the job. Sen. Gilmore announced at the close of the 1967 General As sembly session last July and has been campaigning stead ily- David Drexel of Southern Pines, Moore County Republi can Executive Committee chairman, said Tuesday Gil more would be hard to beat. Still, he said, many Republi cans are “eager to go against Ihim.” Drexel attended the Fri day night meeting. Another Moore Republican, County Commissioner Robert S. Ewing, also participated in the discussion and did a consider able amount of questioning. Drexel said “nothing was decided at the meeting.” The district’s Republican leaders, he said, were given the oppor tunity to have a look at the prospective candidates. He said no candidate was endorsed by the committee. Asked about his own choice for the candidacy, he said he takes the “fellow who comes down the pike from the party” anid gave no indication who he favors personally, if he does have a preference at this (Continued on Page 2) THIS WEEKEND Elks Parties For Kids Set The Southern Pines Elks Loidge will conduct its annual Christmas parties for the chil dren of the community this weekend with Santa Claus on hand and a gift of goodies for all, reports W. F. Harper, chairman for the project. There will be two parties, each from 2 to 5 pm— at the West Southern Pines school, Saturday, December 16; and at the Elks Lodge (Southern Pines Country Club) Sunday, December 17. Invited are children under 10 years old and their par ents. These will be the only two town-wide Christmas parties this year. John Boyd Post, VFW, will not have a Santa party for children, a spokes man for the post told The Pilot. Council Votes Call Election On $300,000 Bond Issue The Southern Pines Town Council at its regular monthly meeting in the Municipal Cen ter Tuesday night decided to hold a public referendum on a proposal to issue $300,000 worth of bonds to finance im proving the town water sys tem and purchasing a new town fire truck. No date was set pending further prepara tions. Approximately $25,000 would be for buying the truck. I The voting will be done on two separate proposals — to issue bonds for purchase of the truck; and issue the rest of the bonds to finance the im provements to the water sys tem. The council at its November meeting had approved putting the machinery in motion to ward possible holding of a referendum. Town Manager F. F. Rainey told the council that the bonds of approximately $300,000 could be issued without the necessity of raising the town tax rate to help pay them off. IN HOSPITAL Town Councilman L. D. McDonald is in St. Joseph Hospital here and is expe,cted to remain a week to 10 days for further rest and recupera tion, following surgery he un derwent recently at Duke Hospital, Durham. Jaycees Collect Toys For Needy This year the Southern Pines Jaycees will again col lect and distribute toys to children of needy families in the Southern Pines area. This program will be conducted in cooperation with the VFW post which will give food boxes to needy families, a spokesman for the Jaycees said. Anyone having toys to do nate is asked to deliver them to Bob Howard’s insurance agency at 244 N. W. Broad St. If you would like for the toys to be picked up, please call Jerry Frazier at 692-2884 or 281-3111, said the announce ment. “Help us make this Christ mas a special one for the needy children in the Southern Pines area,” is the plea made by the Jaycees. APPEAL RENEWED FOR CHEER FUND Hubert Cameron, chair man of ihe Christmas Cheer program conducted by the VFW post in the Southern Pines area, this week renewed his appeal for cash contributions that will help provide a plenti ful supply of items for the many food boxes to be dis tributed to needy persons just before Christmas. Checks should be made to "VFW Christmas Cheer Fund" and mailed to him at 515 E. Indiana Ave. The VFW program is part of a county-wide effort carried! out in cooperation with the Moore public welfare depaortment. Guns, TV Set, Cash Taken From Home Thursday Guns, a television set and cash valued at a total of ap proximately $1,200 were stolen Thursday from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Phipps Jr. while they were away, an officer reported. State Bureau of Investiga tion Agent Gary R. Griffith, aiding the Moore County Sheriff’s Department in the in vestigation, said two shotguns, two rifles and a color-tele vision set and an unspecified amount of cash were taken from the house, which is in Highland Trails. The officer said the thief or thieves entered the house through an unlocked window. He said Phipps was in Ra leigh for an armed forces in duction examination and Mrs. Phipps was at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Margaret W. Phipps here, when the theft occurred. Phipps learned of the loss when he returned home about 6:30 pm Thursday, Griffith said. iifMHiii. Party Will Fete Former Campers Handicapped children and adults who have attended camping sessions at Camp Easter in the Pines here have been invited to return for the camp’s annual Christmas par ty sponsored by the local Jay cees and the Moore County Easter Seal Society. The party will take place in the camp’s lodge from 1 to 3 pm Saturday, said Mrs. Mark Liddell, camp coordinator. The guests will come from various areas of the state. Santa Claus will be present, there will be gifts and refresh ments for all and musical en tertainment will be furnished by the Pinedene Symphony, W. H. GENTRY, JR. President 1968 Officers Of Chamber Are Named At Meet William H. Gentry Jr. of Southern Pines was elected president of the Southern Pines Area Chamber of Commerce at the chamber’s Board of Di rectors December meeting last Thursday at Holiday Inn. Gentry is president of Bar- num Realty and Insurance Co. Also elected were Dr. R. J. Dougherty, Southern Pines, president - elect; William T. Shore, Whispering Pines, sec retary and Thomas Connolly, Pinehurst, treasurer. These of ficers and A. Reynold Tucker, Jr., immediate past president, make up the Executive Com mittee. Their terms begin on Jan uary 1. Gentry has been extremely active in local civic affairs since he came to the Sandhills area in January 1962. He is president of the Men of Em manuel at Emmanuel Episco- (Continued on Page 2) m I## 97 Pints Of Blood Donated At West End In Moore County’s last Red Cross blood collection of 1967, at Wqgt End on Monday, 97 pints were donated, the local Red Cross office reports. There were 30 first-time donors and 50 persons giving to replace blood used by rela tives or friends, the report said. The Red Cross supplies blood to both the county’s hospitals, without charge. Mr. Beilh (left) Presents Check To Mayor Taylor Gulistan Gives $1,500 To Group For Aberdeen Recreation Project A gift of $1,500 from the Gulistan Carpet Division, J. P. Stevens and Co., Inc., in Aberdeen has been presented to the Aberdeen Playground Association for recreational facilities. J. Cecil Beith, manager of the Stevens Gulistan Carpet plant at Aberdeen, presented the check to Mayor Jack M. Taylor, member of the Plan ning Committee for the Aber deen Playground Association. Plans call for expanding the present town park and recrea tional area below the Aber deen Lake dam and creek. Tennis courts and other instal lations also have been discus sed. Plant Manager Beith stated, “We are pleased to lend our company’s support to this worthwhile undertaking by the citizens and businesses of the Aberdeen area. It certainly (Continued on Page 2) Driver Education Is Slated In 3 Schools Driver Education classes will begin January 2, 1968 at Fast Southern Pines High School, West Southern Pines High School and Academy Heights High School, Pine hurst, the county schools of fice announces. Persons under 18 years of age and not attending the schools listed should contact the principals of these schools, if they desire to take this course, the announcement said. RECORD MAIL Southern Pines can chalk up a new record this week. Postmaster Morris John son told The Pilot that Monday's record of mail was an all-time high. More letters, cards, pack ages, magazines, etc. pass ed through the hands of the Southern Pines postal sta^f than ever before. The improvements in the water system were needed, the council was told at its No vember meeting, primarily to improve fire defenses in the business district. ’The improve ments were recommended in a report submitted to the coun cil of a study made by L. E. Wooten & Son Engineering Co. of Raleigh. Rainey ssid Tuesday night the improvements would, among other things, boost the water pressure for firefighting. Erection of a 500,000-gallon capacity elevated water stor age tank, recommended by the Wooten company, would cost approximately $100,000. The bond issue also would pay for enlarging the town’s water-dis tribution system, and approxi mately $28,000 would be used for repairing concrete instal lations. Rainey said the U. S. De partment of Housing and Ur ban Development may pro vide grants paying up to 40 to 50 per cent of the costs of the water-system improve ments. He said the project is part of a long-range town water planning program that dates back about 10 'years. Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins Jr. in dischssing the town’s financial situation in regard to the bond-issue proposal, said the town’s bonded indebt edness currently is at a “re latively modest” level — $600,- 000 to $700,000. The council was told at its November meeting that the engineering report of the water- systems study recom mended a second booster pumping station as a standby, to realize the use of the full Rapacity of Mill Creek; deve lopment of a new water source, (Continued on Page 2) SCHOOL VACATION Students in the Moore County school system, which includes all schools in the county, will start their Christmas vacation after classes on Wednesday, December 20, returning at the usual times on Tuesday, Jan uary 2. 2 Churches To Join Again In Music Service The adult choirs of Brown- son Memorial Presbyterian Church and the First Baptist Church will repeat, at the Presbyterian church, Sunday evening, December 17, a pro gram of Christmas music that won high praise from listeners after it was presented at the Baptist church last Sunday. The previously announced time of the program has been changed. It is now scheduled to begin at 7:30 pm. The Rev. John Stone, pastor of the First Baptist Church, told The Pilot this week that the program was “the most in spiring service of Christmas music that I have ever heard.” He pointed out that rain and fog prevented many persons from attending the first pre sentation and invited the pub lic to the repetition of the pro gram Sunday night. TOWN COUNCIL TOLD Housing Work Delayed Slowness of federal officials in Atlanta and an architect’s error in designation of a new street’s right-of-way have de layed the seeking of bids for construction of Southern Pines’ first low-rent public housing, according to a report made by E. Earl Hubbard, chairman of the Public Hous ing Authority, to the town council in regular meeting Tuesday night. He said it appeared that it would be January or February now before bids can be sought though in late summer the Authority had reported it ex pected to be ready to advertise for bids in October. He said it had been a slow business gaining approval of the U. S. Housing and Urban Development 'office in Atlanta, Ga., on various steps taken along the way. The Authority had gone ahead and had the v/ater and sewer lines laid without waiting for approval of the plans, he said, “which still hasn’t come.” The architect’s error, in des ignating a 60-foot right-of- way for a street included in the west-side, portion of the project, instead of the 80-foot right-of-way required, had ne cessitated some re-mapping, and this poi'tion will have to be re-approved by USHUD. Mayor Pro Tern Felton Ca pel, critical of the delays— though praising the work of the Authority—in view of what he termed the “desperate need of our people,” called at tention to the recent fire in West Southern Pines which killed two children—the sec ond such fire in a year and a half. A total of seven died in the two fires in old, small frame houses. “Somebody gets burned to death in an effort to get warm (Continued on Page 2) 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. December 6 64 29 December 7 69 43 December 8 64 48 December 9 55 51 December 10 45 40 December 11 45 40 December 12 63 44
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