Education
“is the chief function of the
State,” says Dr. Raymond A.
Stone. Full statement, Page 3.
■LOT
Advice
on what to do about trees and
shrubs damaged by the recent
ice storm appears on Page 7.
VOL. 48 — No. 11
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY 24, 1968
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE; 10 CENTS
HORTICULTURE
Grants Aid
NetvCourse
At College
Sandhills Community Col
lege has received grants and
gifts totaling $70,960 for the
development of a two-year
program of academic work and
field training in ornamental
horticulture which will begin
with the 1968 fall term.
Dr. Raymond A. Stone,
president of the college, an
nounced details of the grants
and plans for the new depart
ment Friday and at the same
time named Frederick W. Gar
rett of Norfolk, Va., as direc
tor of the horticulture , pro
gram.
According to Dr. Stone, the
funds given to the College in
clude $30,000 from the Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation;
$10,000 from the Mary Rey
nolds Babcock Foundation; a
three-year grant of $29,960
from the Anna and John
Hanes Foundation and $1,000
from a friend of Sandhills Col
lege who prefers to remain
anonymous.
“We are very appreciative
of these generous grants,” Dr.
Stone said, “and have pledged
to the donors our very best ef
forts to make this program to
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Savings & Loan
Meeting Slated
The annual meeting of
stockholders of the Southern
Pines Savings & Loan Associa
tion will be held in the mu
nicipal center courtroom, Fri
day, Jan. 26, at 7:30 pm, it
was announced this week.
Directors will be elected and
other business will be consid
ered, the announcement said.
The association’s annual
statement of condition appears
elsewhere in today’s Pilot.
AT CEREMONY — A symbolic first
shovelful of earth, at the site of the new
Moore County Library in Carthage is turn
ed by Commissioner Chairman John M.
Currie, while looking on, from left, while
waiting their turn are John Faulk, archi
tect; Dr. A. G. Siege, county health direc
tor and member of Friends of the Library;
Commissioners Robert S. Ewing and W. S.
Taylor; and, at right, same order. Com
missioner C. W. Purvis; Carthage Mayor
L. L. Marion, Jr.; Mrs. Jean Llewellyn,
assistant director of the Sandhills Region
al Library; and Mrs. Doris Stewart of the
Moore County Library staff.
(V. Nicholson photo)
IN NEW 8th DISTRICT
Dr. Ruth Of Salisbury To Seek
COP Congressional Nomination
Dr. Earl B. Ruth, dean of
students at Catawba College,
Salisbury, announced Tuesday
that he is seeking the Republi
can nomination for the Eighth
District seat in Congress. The
district includes Moore Coun
ty.
His announcement came at a
press conference on the Ca
tawba College campus. A bar
becue luncheon preceded the
announcement. Both events
were attended by enthusiastic
supporters from throughout
the Eighth District.
Dr. Ruth said he is enter
ing the race because “I feel I
can ably represent the people
in the Eighth District in the
United States House of Rep
resentatives. The people are
interested in our country re-
S turning to established princi
ples of freedom of opportuni-
i ty, self-reliance, fiscal respon-
' sibility, and protection from
crime.”
The Catawba College dean
has been active in community,
civic and church organizations
during the past 22 years he
has lived in Salisbury. He was
born in Spencer in 1916 and
moved to Salisbury as a coach
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SIDNEY G. CHAiPPELL
Chappell Serves
As Interim Head
Of College Here
Sidney G. Chappell, the di
rector of student personnel at
Sandhills Community College,
this week assumed duties as
the interim president of the
college during the leave of
absence of Dr. Raymond A.
Stone who has become a can
didate for State Superintend
ent of Public Instruction.
The Board of Trustees of
Moore GOP To
Convene Friday
A Moore County Republican
convention will be held Fri
day at the Carthage Municipal
Center, starting at 7:30 pm.
Officers of the county GOP
executive committee will be
elected and delegates to the
Republican district and state
conventions will be chosen.
David Drexel of Southern
Pines is county executive
committee chairman.
DR. EARL B. RUTH
NO. 1 HIGHWAY
Lower Speed
Limit, Median
Strip Planned
State Highway Commission
traffic engineers expect to
make two recommendations to
the commission, in the interests
of safety on Highway 1 be
tween Southern Pines" and
Aberdeen, a group of Sand
hills resiaents learned Mon
day.
The informal “12:12 Club,”
which meets at Horne’s Res
taurant in Aberdeen for lunch
each Monday, arranged the
discussion, with H. Clifton Blue
of Aberdeen presiding and a
large group of interested per
sons, including Southern Pines
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John Albert Rowe, 18, a
1967 honor graduate of East
o i,-ii u j j Tj Southern Pines High school,
Sanahills headed by H. Clifton
Au j „ j has been nominated for ap-
Blue, Aberdeen, announced tt o -at-v
’ -A i j, A/i- /-lu pointment to the U. S. Mili-
tary Acacemy at West Point
Local Young Man Nominated For
Appointment To Military Academy
pell last week. Dr. Stone’s
leave of absence extends until
June 1.
Mr. Chappell joined the staff
of Sandhills College in July,
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Building Course's
Regislration Set
Registration for the home
planning and building course
to be given at Sandhills Com
munity College, in coopera
tion with the Moore County
Agricultural Extension staff,
will take place in Room 106
of the Mary Luman Meyer
Building at the college, Wed
nesday, January 31, at 7 pm.
Weekly evening classes will
start February 7 and end
April 24, an announcement
from the college said. Details
may be obtained from the Of
fice of Adult Education at
the college.
by Rep. James C. Gardner.
His appointment, subject to
’inal admission examinations
including a physical to be
taken in February at Fort
Bragg, is due to begin July 1.
The son of Sgt. Major and
Mrs. Albert H. Rowe of Oak
Drive, Kenwood, he is a stud
ent this year at Frederick
Military Academy, Ports
mouth, Va. His father is serv
ing with the 101st Airborne
Division in Vietnam, where he
was transferred last October
from Fort Bragg for a one-
year tour of duty.
Young Rowe took a Civil
Service examination last
July at Raleigh, at which
time Rep. Gardner announced
he would appoint the boys
scoring the highest.
On graduation at East South
ern Pines last June, he was
awarded the faculty medal for
best all-round student. At
oer ^
ne- ^
>
JOHN ALBERT ROWE
Frederick he Is an honor cadet,
maintaining a minimum B
average. In high school, he
played varsity football, basket
ball and baseball and at Fred-
Ground Broken
For New Moore
County Library
Ground-breaking for the
new Moore County Library,
postponed from January 11 be
cause of the severe ice storms,
took place Friday morning on
the construction site at Car
thage, with Commissioner
Chairman John M. Currie
turning the first earth.
It was a symbolic shovelful,
as grading and leveling had
already begun Monday, Jan
uary 8, before sleet and ice
had caused suspension of the
work for five days.
Attending Friday’s brief
ceremony in cold, bright sun
shine was a small but enthus
iastic crowd of about 30 peo
ple, to whom the earthturning
was the promise of a long
time dream becoming reality.
They included the full' board
of county commissioners, oth
er county officials. Rep. Clyde
Auman, representatives of the
Moore County and Sandhills
Regional Library boards and
staffs and of the Friends of
the Library, the architects.
Mayor Luke L. Marion, Jr., of
Carthage and other interested
persons.
Absent was the man who had
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Youths Given
Suspensions
In Area Thefts
Three youths accused of fel
ony thefts from parked cars
and a rural store were sen
tenced Monday in Moore Su
perior Court to terms of 7 to
10 years in prison but the sen
tences were suspended and
they were placed on five
years’ probation. The terms
were imposed after they
pleaided guilty.
Among probationary condi
tions set by Judge John D.
McConnell for Ricky Hare, 19,
of Maple Shade, N. J., Claude
A. Fitch, 18, of Burlington and
Billy Wayne Warden, 19, of
Kernersville, were that they
.nake restitution to the owners
of the stolen goods, the
amount to be determined by
;he probation officer; that the
:osts of restitution and of court
be paid over such period and
in amounts such as the proba
tion officer might direct; and
that their drivers’ licenses be
suspended for 12 months.
The youths at the time of
the thefts were Sandhills
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ARC Commiltee Has
Praise For Buchholz
Members of the Executive
Committee cf the Moore
County Chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross, meeting Friday,
voted unanimously to express
publicly their appreciation
for the work of John F. Buch
holz, chapter disaster chair
man, during the recent ice
storm crisis.
Details of emergency shel
ters and other work done by
Town Of Vass
Wins ^Cleanest
Cities’ Award
Vass has been given a North
Carolina Cleanest Cities Award
for 1967.
I Vass was named last week
the winner of the category for
towns of 5,000 and under in
population.
■The annual contest is span
's or ed by the North Carolina
Association of Launderers and
Cleaners, Inc. The association
president is J. Frank McCas-
kill of Pinehurst
I The other winners for 1967
were Waynesville, in the
mountains, for towns of popu
lation 5,000 to 10,000; Ashe
ville population of 25,000 to
75,000; Durham, 75,000 to
100,000; and Winston-Salem,
over 100,000.
The awards were presented
in Raleigh Tuesday by Gov.
Dan K. Moore.
Pilot Wins
Press Awards
The Pilot has won two sec
ond-place awards in the
weekly division of the North
Carolina Press Association
1967 contests.
One went to Mrs. James
Boyd, editor and publisher, for
her “Grains of Sand” column
and the other to the Advertis
ing Department for three sel
ected advertisments that were
submitted to the judges.
Gov. Dan K. Moore present
ed the awards, in the form of
inscribed certificates, at a din
ner at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, last
Thursday evening—one of the
events of the annual Mid-Win
ter Press Institute of the as
sociation.
Attending the dinner and
various other events of the
three-day meeting were Mrs.
Boyd and Cad Benedict, asso
ciate editor of The Pilot.
Mrs. Boyd accepted the col-
umin award from the Gover
nor and Mr. Benedict accepted
the advertising award in the
absence of Mrs. S. R. Smith of
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Ice Storm Damage Estimate
Runs More Than $650,000
STORM CASUALTIES — This pile behind Cornell’s
Mobile Radio & TV Service in Southern Pines consists of
approximately 50 TV antennas broken in the Southern
Pines area alone by the effects of the ice storms of the
week of January 7. They originally cost the owners $50
to $70 each. Regarding the pile is Wallace Gardner, a
Cornell’s employee and East Southern Pines High School
senior, (Pilot photo)
COUNCIL ACTS ON TREE DAMAGE
$7,500 Appropriated For Clean-Up
The damages caused by the
ice storms of the week of Jan
uary 7 to trees and shrubs in
Southern Pines will cost the
town of Southern Pines in the
neighborhood of $7,000, in re
pairs and cleanup.
The town council at a spe
cial meeting late Thursday af
ternoon in the Municipal Cen
ter adopted a motion to ap
propriate a total of $7,500 to
erick made the football team the chairman were reported in
(Continued on Page 2) Jlast week’s Pilot.
W. DURWARD P. GRADY
Bank Promotes
Grady To Local
Trust Officer
William Durward P. Grady,
assistant cashier at First
Union National Bank in the
Southern Pines office, was
promoted to trust officer by
First Union’s central board of
directors at its recent regular
monthly meeting in Charlotte.
Mr. Grady was educated at
Atlantic Christian College. A
native of Wilson, he is married
to the former Elaine Tate and
they have one child. The fam
ily lives on Yadkin Road.
The bank officer is presi
dent of the Sandburr Club of
the Sandhills Community Col
lege, an organization formed
to support the college athletic
program. He is a director of
the Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce and a
past treasurer of the Moore
County Heart Fund.
SAVE BOXES
Residents of this area can
help Camp Easter in the Pines,
the summer camping facility
for handicapped children and
adults, by saving the round
cardboard boxes in which yel
low corn meal is packaged.
The boxes are needed for the
crafts program at the camp.
Persons having such boxes
should notify Mrs. Mark Lid
dell, camp coordinator.
Warning Issued
On Tree Work
Property owners were
warned this week by the
Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce that they should be
careful in employing persons
to work on trees destroyed or
damaged in the recent ice
storm. Tree workers from out
of this area and even from out
of the state are soliciting work
here.
Floyd Sayre, chamber exec
utive, said that qualifications
of tree “experts” should be
checked, that references
should be asked for and should
indicate at least two years of
experience in the work, that
estimates of cost should be
obtained and that the workers
should be properly insured by
their own organizations.
Broken limbs should not
melely be removed, it was
pointed out, but the “wound”
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pay for the job of pruning
damaged trees and cleaning
up the debris.
Of the total $1,000 will go
to cleaning up Mount Hope
Cemetery. *
The rest is labelled for gen
eral cleanup of town property
and picking up piles of debris
put out by private property
owners. This included use of
a chipper to grind up the
limbs and other fallen foliage
for transportation to dumping
sites.
The council adopted a mo
tion to accept the bid of As-
plundh Tree Expert Co. of
Charlotte for the General job.
Asplundh bid to do the work
for $17.81 per hour and pro
vide the equipment necessary,
including truck, chipper and
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JAYCEE WEEK
IS OBSERVED
The Southern Pines
Jaycees are joining oth
er members of this young
men's organization, over
the state and nation, in
observing Jaycee Week,
January 21-28.
A photo of Mayor Nor
ris L. Hodgkins, Jr., sign
ing a local proclamation
of the week, and a full-
page sponsored advertise
ment indicating the pur
poses of the Jaycees and
some of their activities,
appear elsewhere in to-j
day's Pilot.
Acting Postmaster Johnson, Former
Mayor, Dies Saturday; Rites Today
Funeral services for William
Morris Johnson, 57, acting
Southern Pines postmaster
and former mayor, were held
today (Wednesday) at the
United Church ol Christ, con
ducted by the Rev. Richard
Hopkins, chaplain of N. C.
Sanatorium at McCain. Burial
was in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
Dwight Hoskins, assistant post
master, and others of the post
office staff, George Wentland,
Larry Coe, Sherrill Rush,
Harry Klabbatz and Bill Hall.
Honorary pallbearers were
all other post office employees
and members of Southern
Pines Elks Lodge No. 1692.
Complaining of not feeling
well, and suffering shortness
of breath Saturday morning
while at work, Mr. Johnson
was taken to St. Joseph hos
pital where, later that day,
he suffered a fatal heart at
tack.
He was sworn in as acting
postmaster March 31, 1964,
having resigned as mayor to
accept the office. Elected to
the town council in 1961 and
again in 1963, following his
1
W. MORRIS JOHNSON
The ice storms of the week
of January 7 caused damage
“roughly estimated” at $658,500
to private and public property
and utilities in Moore County.
The rough estimates were
compiled to turn over to Gov.
Dan K. Moore’s oflice and the
U. S. Civil Defense Agency as
an initial step in applying for
disaster status and subsequent
federal financial assistance for
the county. (However, federal
grants are made to cover the
expenses of restoring public-
owned services only.)
The damages to public pro
perty in mu.ncipalities of the
county are estimated at $84,-
000 and to private property
$271,000.
'The power and telephone
companies have estimated
damages totaling $303,500.
United Telephone Co.’s es
timates of the cost of repairing
and of restoring services total
$40,000 to $50,000.
Carolina Power & Light Co.
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SNOW CLOSES 5
MOORE SCHOOLS
Snow falling in northern
Moore County this (Wednes
day) morning cut school class
es off after the first hour and
a half. Students were dismiss
ed at North Moore High
School and at Highfalls, Rob
bins, Westmoore and Eagle
Springs because bus routes
were becoming treacherous.
The snow line extended to
about five miles south of Rob
bins. No other schools were af
fected.
No snow had fallen in South
ern pines by noon, but skies
were overcast and the temper
ature stood near freezing, in
tensified by gusty winds. The
general prediction for the area
was possible snow, but clear
ing, and much colder, tonight
and tomorrow.
Lots Of Fuel
Here In Storm,
But Unusable
The conditions left by the
ice storms that struck during
the week of January 7 inclu
ded some painfully ironical
situations.
For warmth during the long
sub-freezing days and nights
there was plenty of fuel of all
kinds.
But for many it was worth
less.
The damage to power lines
meant oil-heating furnaces
couldn’t work, because they
are operated by electricity.
Streets and yards were cov
ered with kindling of all sizes
and even grades of quality,
and free for the taking.
But many people couldn’t
use it to heat their heatless
homes: they either had no
fireplaces, or didn’t have saws
or axes to cut up the big limbs
that burn long.
Hundreds of Carolina Pow
er and Light Co. people work
ed hundreds of hours on dan
gerous “hot” lines and high,
ice-slick poles to restore pow
er, time and again.
But only one person was in
jured, A Reynold Tucker,
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Permission Needed
For Burning Brush
Property owners in Southern
Pines who want to burn the
brush and broken limbs left
in their yards by the ice storms
of the week of January 7 must
obtain permission from the
Fire Department before they
may set fires.
The department will issue
permits if it decides that
weather or other conditions
are not likely to send brush
fires out of control.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum
emperatures for each day of
he past week were recorded
as follows at the US Weather
Bureau observation station, at
second election he was chosen
Max.
Min.
as mayor by the council.
Jan.
17
52
19
During his first term he
Jan.
18
56
18
served as town treasurer and
Jan.
19
63
23
also was the council’s repre
Jan.
20
62
32
sentative on the Southern
Jan.
21
65
28
Pines Library Board. Previous-
Jan.
22
68
29
(Continued on Page 2)
Jan.
23
64
34