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VOL. 48 — No. 10
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1968
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
DR. RAYMOND A. STONE
Dr, Stone
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State Post
Dr. Raymond A. Stone, pres
ident of Sandhills Community
College here, told The Pilot
this morning that he has call
ed a news conference for 10
am tomorrow (Thursday) at
the Hotel Sir Walter in Ra
leigh, to announce his candi
dacy for State Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
He plans to seek the Demo
cratic nomination for the elec
tive office in the May primary
this year, and, if nominated,
tn en+'^r th" November elec
tion. Dr. Charles F. Carroll,
who has held the post since
1952, recently announced his
retirement after completing
his present term at the end of
this year.
Dr. Stone said he would be
pleased to have as many of his
Moore County friends as pos
sible attend the announcement
news conference in Raleigh to
morrow.
He was working today on
his formal statement and it
was not yet ready for release
before The Pilot went to press
this (Wednesday) afternoon.
Dr. Stone is the first presi-
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Caunders First
Democrat To File
For State Senate
William P. (Bill) Saunders
of Southern Pines became the
first Democrat to file for the
State Senate in the 19th dis
trict as he paid his fee last
week at the Moore County
Courthouse in Carthage.
Saunders is running for one
of the two Senate seats in the
senatorial district composed
of Davidson, Montgomery,
Moore, Richmond and Scot
land counties. He filed for seat
number one in the district as
he paid the $18 fee.
He had announced several
weeks ago that he would be a
candidate.
He gave as one reason for
the early filing, “I want to
have plenty of time to see as
many voters in the district as
I can. This is a big district
with a lot of people and I
would like personally to see
all of them.”
Saunders said he also looks
forward to a vigorous cam
paign, both in the primary and
general election. “This is a
crucial time and the people
expect every candidate to
make himself known about
the issues and how he stands.
I intend to do just that with
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COMMITTEE SET
County-Wide
United Fund
To Be Formed
In a meeting attended by
about 50 persons, at Holiday
Inn here Tuesday night, there
was unanimous agreement to
proceed with organization of
a county-wide United Fund.
A steering committee of 12
was named to carry out this
plan.
Such an organization would
coordinate and consolidate an
estimated 20 to 25 charitable
fund campaigns operating in
the area, with an expected
four of five drives not partici
pating because of organization
regulations or other reasons.
Present to answer questions
about United Fund operations
was Dean Brady of Raleigh,
representing Carolinas United
of Charlotte, an organization
working with such funds in
the two Carolinas.
W. H. Gentry, Jr., president
of the Sandhills Area Cham-
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/ce, Sleet Storm Causes Fast Damage In Sandhills Area;
Lack Of Heat, Light Forces Hundreds To Evacuate Homes
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FRIDAY NIGHT
Pancake Benefit
Supper Slated
The Interact Club at East
Southern Pines High School
will put on a pancake supper
open to the public (“all yo” j
can eat,” for $1), from 5 to 7
pm, Friday, January 19, in the
school cafeteria.
The supper will precede the
school’s basketball games with
East Montgomery High School,
in the nearby gym.
Interact is a boys’ student
group sponsored by the South
ern Pines Rotary Club and the
school. Proceeds of the supper
will be used to help support
an orphan child in a friendly
foreign nation, in line with a
Rotary International program.
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Open Meet Set
To Talk No. 1
Highway Saf ety
The program at the 12:12
Club meeting in Aberdeen for
Monday, January 22, will be
on Highway 1 safety, between
Aberdeen and Southern Pines.
Cliff Blue of Aberdeen has
announced that James O.
Litchford, State Highway traf
fic engineer, Robert J. Dodge,
area traffic engineer, and Roy
Williams, local Division traffic
engineer, will be present to
discuss the subject with inter
ested citizens at 12:12 p.m.
There will be the usual
“dutch luncheon at Horne’s,
All interested in the matter
are invited to attend, particu
larly the people who have
business establishments on the
highway.
GERALD F. JACKSON
Jackson Named
Assistant V-P
At Local Bank
The election of Gerald F.
Jackson as an assistant vice
president of Southern National
Bank at Southern Pines has
been announced by Hector
MacLean, Southern National’s
president, from the bank’s
headquarters in Lumberton.
Mr.. Jackson, 34 years old,
joined Southern National Bank
as a management trainee in
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Looking south on S. E. Broad St. To'wn hall to left; railroad, right
Emergency
Shelter Aids
Storm Victims
More than 100 men, women
and children forced out of
their homes by the cutting off
of heat through power failures
during last week’s storm found
refuge and hot food from
Thursday night through Sat
urday night at Moore County
Chapter American Red Cross
establishments.
John Buchholz of Southern
Pines, the chapter’s disaster
committee chairman who also
is commander of the John
Boyd Post of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, arranged for
setting up the shelter and
feeding station first at the
VFW home on Broad Street
Thursday night.
He said Tuesday there was
no way of telling how many
volunteers helped with the
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Local Soldier Saves
Vietnam Boy's Life
SP-4 Charlie White has been
honored in Vietnam, where he
is serving with the US Army,
for saving a Vietnamese boy
by killing a snake threatening
the boy’s life. The snake was
nine feet, five inches long.
The incident was reported to
The Pilot by members of
White’s family here. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. D.
White, 468 S. Henley St., and
attended West Southern Pines
High School. He entered the
Army in New York City in
1966.
The exact nature of the hon
or conferred on White was not
reported to The Pilot.
PINEHURST HIT
HARD BY STORM
storm damage and per
sonal hardships were ex
tensive in Pinehurst, as
well as in Southern Pines
and ether parts of Moore
County. A photo from
Pinehurst and a detailed
report on what happened
there are on ‘'The Pine
hurst Page” in today's
P.lot.
New Civil
Defense Unit
Aided Area
The new government-aided
Moore County Civil Defense
communications system went
into initial operation in time
to help the area in last week’s
storm.
A. M. Koster of Southern'
Pines, county CD director,
said the auxiliary generator
powering the new communica
tions base in the basement of
the Municipal Center kept the
Police Departmenft radio
equipment operating and the
lights on in that area of the
town hall after power failed
because of the storm.
He said William Gantt of
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AWARD POSTPONED
The annual Bosses’ Night
Banquet of the Southern Pines
Jaycees, at which the Disting
uished Service Award was to
have been made to a local
young man, was cancelled be
cause of the ice storm. Satur
day, and had not yet been re
scheduled, a spokesman for
the organization said this
week.
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Three Drown
In Moore Co.
Traffic Mishaps
Three people lost their lives
this week in motor vehicle ac
cidents on ice left by last
v/eek’s storms.
A Montgomery County
woman—Mrs. Lorene Hamil
ton Stutts, 32, of Candor,
Route 2, drowned about 2:45
pm Tuesday when her pickup
truck skidded off a bridge
near Samarcand into Drown
ing Creek on the county line.
She was en route to her job in
Aberdeen at the time.
A Moore County dairy farm
er and his 14-year-old son
drowned about 10 am Mon
day when the farm tractor
they were riding skidded off
the edge of a pond dam anc
plunged into about 3 Vz tee*
of water in the pond.
The victims were John
Harold Purvis, 41, and Eddie
Harold Purvis, Moore County
Coroner W. K. Carpenter Sr.
reported.
The coroner said the acci
dent happened on the Purvis
farm about six miles north of
Robbins off N. C. 22.
He said both victims were
pinned under the tractor in
the water. The elder Purvis,
he said, managed to get hi'
head above the water and cal
led for help, but apparently
weakened from the intense
cold and slipped under again
The coroner said Purvis’s
wife, Cora Hussey Purvis, and
Purvis’s brother, Gilbert Pur
vis of Robbins, Route 1, who
lives nearby, ran to the pond
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Anybody Find
Lineman’s Tools?
Somewhere along or near E
Massachusetts Ave., between
May St. and the east end of
the street’s extension, outside
the town limits, a set of elec
trical lineman’s tools, and the
belt in which they are carried
was lost during the ice storm
emergency.
A. R. Tucker, CP&L local
manager, said the tools were
laid down at one time in the
hectic work to restore power
and could not be located later,
bv the South Carolina lineman
who lost them.
Anybody who finds the tools
or knows what might have be
come of them is asked to call
692-2012 or 692-2052.
STORM PHOTOS on
this page and on other
pages of today's Pilot are
by Emerson Humphrey,
Southern Pines photog
rapher, unless otherwise
indicated.
' Living was virtually back
to normal today (Wednesday)
for Moore County people after
the painful, uphill climb from
the effects of last week’s ice
I storms.
I The effects of the storms
took at least three lives this
week in traffic accicents on
still-icy pavements. One home
in Southern Pines was gutted
by fire Friday during the
storm — the home of Hubert
Watson at 255 Valley Road—
while the family was out.
Southern Pines Volunteer Fire
Department estimated the loss
at $15,006. The fire apparently
was caused by a short circuit
in wiring and struck, ironical
ly, after power had been re
stored to the home, one of
hundreds left without heat and
light intermittently since last
Wednesday.
Elsewhere, there were many
traffic accidents on the icy
streets and roads but few
serious injuries. However,
many pedestrians were injur
ed in falls on ice. Fifty-six
people were treated at Moore
Memorial Hospital between the
night of January 9 and yester
day afternoon. Twenty were
injured last Wednesday, after
the fresh ice storm struck.
Apparently none of the injur
ies were serious. They includ
ed fractures to arms and
wrists.
The county’s schools, closed
since early Wednesday after
noon reopened this morning.
Sandhills Community College’s
classes started again Monday.
Meanwhile, telephone and
power services were back vir
tually to normal today, except
in scattered cases.
Above - freezing tempera
tures earljt in the week permit
ted Carolina Power and Light
Co. and United Telephone Co.
crews to speed their work of
restoring the last of the strick
en customers to normal.
A. Reynold Tucker, Southern
Pines district manager for
CP&L, said the “cleanup” was
under way Tuesday and the
vast majority of the approxi
mately 9,500 Moore County
customers were receiving nor
mal service by then.
DVring the storms of Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday,
approximately 50 per cent of
the customers —- homes and
businesses — were without
power at one time or another
for several hours, he said.
Fred Teeter, speaking for
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Police Provided
Rides For More
Than 100 People
At least 31 accidents — all
minor—happened in Southern
Pines last week because of the
ice storms, Police Chief Earl
Seawell reported. He said they
produced no serious injuries.
He said six occurred in 20
minutes the night of January
9,. and the rest from later that
night through Sunday night.
With traffic at a standstill or
safe crawl, police kept busy
much of the time transporting
stranded people from their
heatless homes to motels, to
friends’ homes and to essential
jobs, he said.
Seawell said police cruisers
transported more than 100
people on such missions.
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Icy wires down on N. E. Broad St. Two
poles fell in next block. (Dove photo)
Disaster Relief Sought For Moore;
Leaders Confer On Storm Damages
Federal financial help in
paying for public and private
property damages caused by
the storms of last week in
Moore County is being sought.
Moore County state and
local government and business
leaders at a meeting Sunday
drew up plans to apply for
disaster status for the storm-
damaged areas.
State Sen. Voit Gilmore of
Southern Pines talked by
telephone with Gov. Dan K.
Moore during the meeting
about the proposal.
The result was that A. M.
Koster of Southern Pines,
county Civil Defense Director,
and others went to work Mon
day gathering rough estimates
from businesses and public
agencies of damages to pro
perty.
The information will be
turned over to the state Civil
Defense office. The state
agency is compiling data for
areas throughout the state to
give to Gov. Moore, who, in
turn, will present it to Presi
dent Johnson. The President
will turn it over to the proper
agency for action.
It was Sen. Gilmore who
initiated the emergency ac
tions leading to the move.
He invited key people in
public agencies and private
businesses and organizations
working directly on different
fronts of the storm emergency
to meet in the Municipal Cen-
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MANY PERSONS GAVE HELP
Hospitals Weather Storm Safely
Patients at Moore Memorial urn kept hot coffee on hand.
and St. Joseph of the Pines
hospitals felt few effects of the
storms of last week, because of
the.extra efforts of employees
and many volunteers.
St. Joseph’s even opened its
fourth-floor wing to provide
temporary rooms for 14 people
driven from their homes by
the loss of heat from power
failures.
iSister Mary Patricius, St.
Joseph’s administrator, said
cots were put on the fourth
floor.
The heat and lights were off
temporarily, she said, and the
auxiliary generator failed, but
cooking is done on a gas-fuel
ed stove, so the patients miss
ed no meals. She said a steam
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Cheer Up! Springes Coming!
Shoots from Spring bulbs pushing up through ice and
sleet promise better times to come. Their vigorous with
standing of the past weelf’s buffeting by weather symbo
lizes the way people of tf .is area met the storm emergen
cy. (Pilot photo)
The loss of power brought
some inconvenience in that
travel to the floors had to be
done by foot up the stairs,
since the elevators were not
operating.
Telephone service was off
from midnight Wednesday un
til 9 am Thursday.
The telephone lines went
dead about midnight Wednes
day but service was restored
at 9 am Thursday. Power was
off from 7 pm to 10 pm Wed
nesday and from midnight till
9 am Thursday.
Approximately 80 people
were taken care of in the hos
pital during the period.
Members of the staff, Sister
Patricius said, worked over
time and in many capacities
during the emergencies, and
many people served as volun
teers to help the hospital.
She expressed the gratitude
of the hospital “to all the peo
ple who came to assist the sis
ters in the emergency.”
■Sister Patricius said she re
ceived letters from home in
Massachusetts during that
period. At the time, her home
community was experiencing
bitter cold weather.
The letters said she was “so
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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.
January 10 27 13
January 11 not available
January 12 not available
January 13 43 22
January 14 31 27
January 15 39 14
January 16 46 18