A bold
manpower experiment to help
both North Carolina and Wash
ington, D. C., is planned,. See
Page 2, Section 2.
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The state’s
gun control code could be im
proved, says the Southern Pines
police chief. See interview. Page
1, Section 2.
VOL. 48 — No. 31
TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1968
TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
AT HIGHWAY SAFETY CONFERENCE
Short License Losses,
Jail Terms Suggested
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Mandatory short jail sent
ences and' suspensions of dri
ver’s licenses for short terms,
establishment of a “civilian”
highway patrol to report vio
lations to law enforcement
officers and untangling the
confusion of advertising signs
and highway markings were
among the suggestions for cut
ting the rising highway acci
dent volume in North Carolina
Moore Sailor
Awarded Medal
For Heroism
A career Navy man from
Moore County has been award
ed the Silver Star, for gallan
try in action in Vietnam.
He is Petty Officer Thomas
B. Rogers, 36, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. P. Rogers of Carthage,
Route 2.
The medal, the nation’s third
highest decoration for heroism
in the face of the enemy, was
presented in ceremonies at the
Navy base at Norfolk, Va.,
recently.
Rogers received the medal
for “conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity in action” engaged
in river assault operations
against the enemy.
He served as boat captain of
an armored troop carried in
support of the US Second Bri
gade, Ninth Infantry Division.
He conducted transport oper
ations of Army troops into the
Cam Son Secret Zone during
which he was cited for “perse-
verence, devotion to duty and
courage under intense enemy
fire.”
Rogers is a graduate of Car
thage High School and entered
the service in June 1951.
last Thursday.
The suggestions were made
by court and law enforcement
officers of three counties at a
district meeting on highway
safety held at Whispering
Pines Restaurant. It was simi
lar to sessions scheduled for
each of the state’s 40 State
Highway Patrol districts in
efforts to find workable ideas
to make the state’s highways
safe.
The district meetings were
sat up On the proposal of Col.
Charles A. Speed!, State High
way Patrol commander, and
Ralph Howland, state motor
vehicles commissioner.
Police chiefs, a sheriff and
recorder’s court judges and
solicitors of Moore, Lee and
Chatham counties, which com
pose this area’s patrol district
participated in the discussions.
In charge was Sgt. J. S. Jones,
based at Siler City, officer
commanding the district’s pa
trol forces. Participating also
was Capt. W. S. McKinney, the
patrol’s Troop D, commander,
whose headquarters is in
Greensboro. Troop D’s juris
diction is composed of 13 cen
tral Piedmont counties, in
cluding Moore, Lee and Chat
ham, ranging from the Vir
ginia border to the South Car
olina border.
Among those' from Moore
County participating were
Southern Pines Police Chief
Earl S. Seawell, Southern
Pines Recorder’s Court Judge
(Continued on Page 8)
Mrs. Smith Ends
Over 40 Years’
Work With Pilot
Bessie Cameron Smith of
Vass, who had served The
Pilot for more than 40 years,
retired last week from active
work with the' newspaper.
Only the late Dan S. Ra’y,
mechanical superintendent
and business manager, had
similarly been associated with
every administration of The
Pilot since its founding at
Vass in November, 1920.
Mrs. Smith had worked with
its founder, the late Stacy
Brewer; Nelson C. Hyde, edi
tor and publisher during the
1930’s and still a local resi
dent; James Boyd who owned
the paper from 1940 until his
death in 1944; and Katharine
L. Boyd, who followed her
husband at The Pilot’s helm.
When Mr. Brewer’s local
correspondent left Vass in the
early 1920’s, Mrs. Smith began
recording the happenings of
the community — a work
which she continued with one
brief interruption until a few
years ago. After a short inter
val, she became Mr. Hyi .c ■-
Vass representative and, latei
courthouse reporter, wrii ing
(Continued on Page 2)
Richard Tufts
In N. C. Sports
Hall Of Fame
Richard S. Tufts of Pine-
hurst, a former president of
the United States Golf Asso
ciation, has been elected to the
North Carolina Sports Hall of
Fame.
Three other leading figures
in North Carolina sports have
been elected with him—Doug
las Clyde (Peahead) Walker of
Charlotte, former head football
coach at Wake Forest College,
Elon College and Atlantic
Christian College and of the
Montreal pro football team;
James Hoyt Wilhelm of Hunt-
(Continued on Page 2)
MISS SOUTHERN PINES — Miss South
ern Pines — Patricia Ray — is shown
downtown Monday morning with chaper
one, escort and well-wishers just before
entering a car for Charlotte where she is
trying for the crown of Miss North Caro
lina this week. With Miss Ray, from left
to right, are John Womack, a Southern
Pines Jaycee vice president who’ was chairi-
man of the Miss Southern Pines Pageant;
Miss Ray’s chaperone, Mrs. Annette Faulk
ner; Jaycee vice preseident Durward Grady;
Jaycee President George Little, who escort
ed Miss Ray and her chaperone to Char
lotte; Mrs. Mary Fitchett, a Jaycette; Mrs.
Sandra McCrimmon, who came by to wish
Miss Ray success; and John Corbett, Jay-
cees treasurer. Mrs. Faulkner is staying
with Miss Ray in Charlotte through the
week of the pageant. Little returned to
Southern Pines Moiiday. (Pilot photo)
$696,687 Town Budget Is
Adopted; Tax Rate $1.40
The Southern Pines Town
Council last Friday night adop
ted a municipal budget of
?G96,687 for the next fiscal
year and a tax rate of $1.40
per $100 property evaulation
— a 10-cent increase from the
present.
It was the first tax increase
in about 15 years and was
needed to help meet the in
creased and increasing costs
of municipal operations. Town
Manager F. F. Rainey told a
reporter in reply to a ques
tion. In the same period the
costs of equipment, materials
and labor have risen substan
tially.
He estimated the 10-cent in-
SO IS MISS ABERDEEN. JUDY BAILEY
Pat Ray Vying For Miss N.C. Title
BLOODMOBILE
CHANGE SET
The Bed Cross bloodmo-
bile visit scheduled for the
Fii!st Baptist Church in
Aberdeen on Thursday of
this week has been chang-
ed to the Gulistan Carpet
plant at Aberdeen, the
Moore County Red Cross
office states.
The hours will be the
same: 9 am to 2:30 pin.
The bloodmobile 'was also
at the Gulistan plant to
day (Wednesday), The
Thursday -visit is open to
any person who wants to
donate blood.
(Related story is in the
Women's Activities section
of today's Pilot)
Patricia Anne (Pat) Ray —
Miss Southern Pines — left for
Charlotte Monday morning to
start the intensive round of
activities which may bring her
the title of Miss North Caro
lina. The pageant is being held
in Ovens Auditorium. The
winner will be crowned late
Saturday night. About an
hour before, Judy Bailey —
Miss Aberdeen — left for the
same place with the same
goal in mind.
The two girls and the other
contestants for the crown are
competing in the first eve-nts
of the Miss North Carolina
Pageant tonight (Wednesday)
— some in swim suits, some in
(Continued on Page 2)
Federal Grant
Approved For
Water Pro jects
Southern Pines will get
$163,500 in federal funds to
help finance the planned im
provements to its water-dis
tribution system.
The town government re
cently was notified the appli
cation for the U. S. Housing
and Urban Development Ad
ministration grant had been
approved.
This will be added to the
$275,000 in bond-issue money
authorized by a heavy major
ity in last winter’s referendum.
Also authorized by majority
vote in the same referendum
was the issuing of $25,000 to
buy a new fire-fighting truck.
The water-system improve
ments were sought with fire
protection brimarly in mind.
Engineers of L. E. Wooten
and Son of Raleigh are draw
ing up specifications for the
improvements.
I Planned for construction,
' among other projects, are: an
elevated' 500,000-gallon water
storage tank; installation of a
total of 13,350 feet of 12-inch
...and eight-inch water lines and
cleaning the 12-inch main
from the water plant to Ben-
, (Continued on Page 2)
Golf-A-Rama Is
Proving Popular;
To End Saturday
The extent of participation
in the first days of the Arrow
Father’s Day Golf-A-Rama
points to a total cf more than
200 golfers who will have play
ed in the weeklong tournament
before it closes Saturday.
It is being held on the course
of the Foxfire Golf and Coun
try Club under sponsorship of
Patch’s Tog Shop in coopera
tion with The Arro-w Co. There
is no entry fee, but there is a
$5 greens fee. The Pilot erred
last week in stating there is
no greens fee eiiher.
Sixty golfers played last
Saturday, the opening day,
and 35 the next day, reported
Dick Kobleur of Patch’s, wha
was a major planner of the
tournament.
Miss Arrow, Miss Wanda
Minge, is due to arrive in
t (Continued on Page 2)
MISS ABERDEEN — Miss Aberdeen — Judy Bailey -r-
is shown here just before she left Monday morning with
chaperone and escorts for Charlotte, where she is compet
ing for the crown of Miss North Carolina this week. Left to
right, Wayne Blake of the Aberdeen Jaycees, Miss Bailey,
Mrs. Carol McKenzie, her chaperone, and John McKenzie,
Mrs. McKenzie’s husband and an Aberdeen Jaycee. Mc
Kenzie and Blake returned to Aberdeen Monday.
(Pilot photo)
KENNEDY DEATH
MOURNED HERE
The death of Sen. Rob
ert F. Kennedy of New
York, last Thursday morn
ing, from wounds inflicted
by an assassin in Los An
geles, Calif., early the pre
vious (Wednesday) morn
ing, was mourned in this
atrea, as throughout t*he
nation.
Prayers and other spe
cial recognition of the na
tional day cif mourning
asked by President Lyn
don Johnson were Cdinl-
ducted in churches of this
area and many persons
•followed the impressive
television presentation of
the senator's funeral
services in New York City
on Saturday, followed by
a funeral train trip to
Washington and the burial
in Arlington National
Cemetery that evening.
DRAWN UP HERE
ABERDEEN PLANT WORKERS BENEFIT
Stevens Announces Wage Increase
J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc.,
the nation’s second largest
textile firm, has announced a
general wage increase for all
hourly paid employees, to be
effective the week of July 14.
The increase will average 6
per cent, a spokesman said.
More than 40,000 employees
will benefit from this wage
increase.
Stevens’ headquarters for
the Gulistan Carpet Division
is located in Aberdeen, along
with carpet manufacturing
operations, the Division Ser
vice Center and a Research
and Engineering Center. Other
Wealherspoon Named
Advertising Manager
Charles Weatherspoon of
Southern Pines, who has work
ed for several months as a
mem.ber of The Pilot’s adver
tising department, has been
appointed advertising mana
ger, Mrs. James Boyd, editor
and publisher, ar.nounced to
day.
Mrs. Boyd also said that
Miss Julia McMillan, an Eng-
tilish major at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, is assisting in The Pilot’s
news and business depart
ments until August 1. The
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R.
M. McMillan, she will return
to the University in Septem
ber, to complete requirements
for graduation in January.
NOT SAME MAN
The Wayne Morris listed in
last Wednesday’s Pilot report
of the Southern Pines Record
er’s Court record for May 29
is not the Charles Wayne
Morris who lives in Niagara
The record listed the' defen
dant’s address erroneously as
Niagara. Police Chief Earl S.
Seawell said the defendant’s
correct address is Carthage.
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ON DISPLAY — Now on display until
June 20 at Lumberton is this prototype
model of a factory-built, three'-bedroom
home with over 1,000 square feet of livable
area. The house is pictured against a larger
building in the background, three windows
of which appear along the peak of the roof.
Requiring no conventional foundation, it
rests on 15 heavy-gauge metal posts and
footings. The apparent foundations at the
front corners of the house are partial mock-
ups of concrete blocks (right) and bricks
(left) to show how an enclosure of the
space under the house can be built of these
materials after the building is in place.
More details are in the accompanying story.
Gulistan plants are located in
Albany and Statesboro, Ga.,
and in Taylors, S. C.
This will be the sixth gen
eral wage increase granted by
Stevens in less than five years,
the company said. This pay in
crease is given in recognition
(Continued on Page 2)
Lee Moves Here
In CP&L Post
H. Glenn Lee, Carolina
Power & Light Co. district
manager, has moved his office
from Rockingham to Southern
Pines and occupies the quart
ers on N. E. Broad St. former
ly used by A. R. Tucker who
is now Central Division per
sonnel representative operat
ing from the CP&L division
offices. Lee is serving as both
district and local manager.
A veteran of over 40 years
with CP&L, Lee was Sanford
manager, a post which then
induced supervision o^f the
Southern Pines office, from
1948 to 1962 when he went to
Rockinghaim as manager of
the “Southern Pine's District”
which extends as far as Max-
ton and Wadesboro.
He and his wife are living
at the Mayfair Apartments.
Moore Co. Golf
Qualifying Play
Opens Jnne 17
The 1968 edition of the an
nual Moore County Golf Touri-
nament will open June 17
when two weeks of qualifying
play starts.
The site this year is the
course of Foxfire Golf and
Country Club, six miles west
of Pinehurst.
Match play will start July
1, with the first round run
ning through July 7. The se
cond round is scheduled for
July 8-14, and the finals July
15-21.
Prizes of silver will be
awarded winners in each
flight.
An entrant may play his
18 hole qualifying medal round
any day June 17 through June
30. After all the scores are in,
pairings will be made for the
match play.
The entry fee is $5 but cov
ers play through the tourna-
mentment.
The tournament is open to'
any amateur member of the
Moore County Golf As.socia
ion or any amateur member
af a country club in Moore
bounty. The tournament is
ponSored annually by the
Moore County Golf Associa-
ion. The tournament chair-
nan is Harry Davis of South
ern Pines.
The 1967 tournament at
tracted 178 entries.
2 SANDHILLS MEN ACTIVE IN NEW PROJECT
Low-Cost, Factory-Built House Shown
A project in which two
Sandhills residents have an
active part — production of
factory-built houses that are
said to sell for some $3,000
less than conventionally pro
duced counterparty was re
vealed Friday when one of
the homes was opened for
public inspection at Lumber-
ton.
The new venture, which was
three years in the making and State Planning Task Force,
is offered as an answer to Mr. Hodges cut a red rib-
the widespread problem of bon stretched across the front
private housing for low- and door of the trim, simple but
medium-income families, re- remarkably spacious and well
ceived the best wishes of Gov. finished “prototype model”
Dan K. Moore in a statement dwelling, after Mayor R. A.
read at a formal opening cere- Hedgpeth of Lumberton had
mony by Luther C. Hodges, ’ welcomed visitors from var-
housing and! urban affairs ious public and private agen-
specialist with the N. C. De- cies and businesses concerned
partment of Administration’s, (Continued on Page 2)
New Methodist
Pastor Assigned
The Rev. Herman S. Win-
berry, who has been assigned
as pastor of the Southern Pines
United Methodist Church, will
be moving here from Manteo
on Thursday with his wife and
two children.
He is replacing the Rev. A.
L. Thompson who is retiring.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Thomp
son are moving to a home they
have bought at 1040 N. Leak
St.
Details about the new and
retiring pastors will be report
ed next week.
Petition Urges
Stronger Laws
On Gun Control
A petition urging “new and
stronger legislation designed
to control the sale and posses
sion of firearms” has been
drawn up here and signatures
are being sought in this area.
The petition will be sent to
U. S. Senators Sam Ervin and
B. Everett Jordan and to
Fourth District Congressman
James Gardner. Interest in
such legislation increased here,
as elsewhere, following the
assassination of Sen. Robert F.
(Continued on Page 2)
crease would add approxi
mately $15,000 per year to
town income, based on a pro
perty evaluation of up to $16
million.
The budget adopted for fis
cal 1968-69 is $49,293.50 great
er than the 1967-68.
Rainey said approximately
80 per cent of the increase is
for pay raises for the town’s
fulltime employees. He said
the minimum wage for manual
laborers was raised to $1.60
per hour, from $1.25. The new
minimum matches the federal
minimum which became effec
tive last winter.
The pay raises generally
amounted to 5 to 6 per cent,
but, Rainey said, the raise for
each employee was based on
the individual’s merit and
length of service.
Pay raises averaging about
10 per cent for most town
employees were granted by
the council last year in the
1967-68 budget.
The pay increases also auto
matically increased the amount
the town provides toward the
Social Security and retirement
funds for employees.
Of the new tax rate, $1.34
is tabbed for the town govern
ment’s operating expenses and
the remainder for payment on
the principal and interest of
the town debt.
Councilman C. A. McLaugh
lin was unable to attend Fri
day night’s meeting, which
substituted for the regular
meeting for June normally
scheduled for yesterday (the
second Tuesday of the month).
Rainey said that the vote to
adopt the higher tax rate,
however, was unanimous
when it was taken at a special
budget - rhaking session which
Councilman McLaughlin at
tended.
The street department re
ceived the biggest budget in
crease compared with last
year’s figure: $130,794 for the
new fiscal year; the total for
1967-68 was $114,615.
' Cuts were given the bud
gets for town publicity and
the Southern Pines recorders
court. The budget for town
publicity for 1968-69 is $8,150,
compared with $10,107 for the
(Continued on Page 2)
Government Says County’s Schools
Must Be Fully Integrated By 1969
A team from the US Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare, visiting Moore county
last week, told the school ad
ministrators that both high and
elementary schools of Area III
must be “totally integrated”
by September, 1969.
They will send a written re
port later, said Supt. Robert
E. Lee. Plans already under
study — postponed pending
construction of Pinecrest High
School—will be completed
during the coming school year,
based on their report.
The three-man team split
up to follow separate routes in
visiting every school in Area
III, including Pinecrest, which
will be completed this Sep
tember and is scheduled to
open in September, 1969; Pine
hurst, Academy Heights, East
Southern Pines, West Southern
Pines, Aberdeen, Berkley and
West End High Schools, all of
which are to be consolidated in
Pinecrest; and the Pinehurst,
Academy Heights, West End,
Eagle Springs, Vineland, Berk
ley, East Southern Pines and
West Southern Pines elemen
tary schools.
Of these, the Academy
Heights, Berkley and West
Southern Pines high and ele
mentary schools, and the Vine-
land school, are still being
operated as all-Negro schools,
while the others remain pre
dominantly white with a scat
tering of “freedom of choice”
Negro students.
All traces of a dual school
system must be eliminated, the
(Continued on Page 2)
COACH WILLIAMS, JAMES MOORE DIRECTING
Town Recreation Program Starts;
Includes Several New Activities
Weight-lifting, night basket
ball league contests for cagers
of both sexes and all ages, and , . , , .
some other sports have been education class. He is
recently while giving a gym
nastics demonstration for a
West So'uthern Pines School
added to the town’s recreation
program for this summer.
Part of the summer program
got under way Tuesday with
games in the Southern Pines
Church Slow Pitch Softball
League at Memorial Field.
The east side program is be
ing directed by John Williams,
athletic director and head foot
ball and track coach for East
Southern Pines School.
A parallel program for the
west side is also getting under
way, with James Moore, as
sistant to Joe Wynn last year,
as director. Wynn was injured
still under treatment.
Dawson Gymnasium of East
Southern Pines School has
been added to the summer rec
reation facilities, and night
programs have been instituted.
Everyone interested in bas
ketball league pky has been
asked to meet at the gym at 7
pm Monday. The league will
be organized then.
Games will be played Mon
days and Wednesdays start
ing at 7 pm.
The weight-lifting periods
have bean set for Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays start-
(Continued on Page 2)
Breakdown Of Machine
Affeels Pilot Today
The breakdown on Monday
of The Pilot’s electronic ma
chine that makes plastic pho
to-engravings has greatly af
fected the quality of today’s
paper.
Some engravings had been
held from last week, but
numerous other pictures had
to be omitted and some en
gravings used today are of
poor quality due to malfunc
tions in a Bennettsville, S. C.,
machine (the nearest available
substitute) to which a Pilot
staff member took a necessary
minimum of photos to be en
graved, Monday night.
The defective part of The Pi
lot’s machine has been ordered
and should be in operation by
early next week.
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.
June 5 84 56
June 6 81 54
June 7 89 63
June 8 78 66
June 9 75 64
June 10 88 63
June 11 84 70