Dedication
of a church project here includ
ed a tribute to the memory of a
remarkable Sandhills resident.
Page 1, Section 3.
■LOT
A letter
to the editor today praises the
service of a retiring Southern
Pines school teacher. See Page
2, Section 2.
VOL. 48 — No. 32
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1968
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
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289 CHILDREN INCLUDED
‘Head StarV To Open
At 4 County Centers
O
In Moore County, “Head
StaH” teachers and aides—
most of them experienced
from previous summers—will
begin work June 20, with
classes due to start Monday,
June 24, and continue through
August 7.
T. H. Lingerfeldt, principal
of Farm Life School, is serv
ing as director of the Moore
County Head Start for the
Dr. Ray Resigns
As see Dean To
Take State Post
Dr. Richard S. Ray, for the
past two years dean of instruc
tion at Sandhills Community
College, has resigned his posi
tion here to devote full time as
associate director of the Gov
ernor’s Commission on the
Study of Public Schools in
North Carolina, Appointed ti>
the Commission staff last fall.
Dr. Ray has served part-time
on the state-wide study, com
muting periodically from the
college to a Raleigh office.
In announcing Dr. Ray’s res
ignation, Dr. Raymond A.
Stone, president of the college,
commended his contributions
to the development of Sand
hills during his tenure as dean.
“He has been dedicated to
enlarging and improving c'''e
educational programs and ha^
been instrumental in adding
new courses to the curricu
lum,” Dr. Stone said, and add
ed “Dr. Ray cariies our best
(Continued on Page 2)
Mrs. Tucker To
Leave Pilot For
Post At Church
Mrs. A. Reynold Tucker of
Southern Pines, who has beer,
women’s editor of The Pilot
since October, 1966. has resign
ed to become program secre
tary of Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, effective July 15.
The announcement was
made by Mrs. James Boyd, edi
tor and publisher of The Pilot,
and the Rev. Martin Caldwell,
rector of Emmanuel Church.
No successor to Mrs. Tucker
at The Pilot has yet been ap
pointed, Mrs. Boyd said.
A native of Raleigh. Mrs.
Tucker has taught at Ravens
croft School there and was ac
tive in the educational pro
gram of Christ Church in Ra
leigh. She and Mr. Tucke
who is division permrnel rep-
(Continued on Page 2)
Page Shamburger's
New Book Reviewed
“Command the Horizon,” the
impressive, lavishly produce!
and carefully researched hi.s-
tory of av’ation, cl which Miss
Page Shamburger of Aberdeen
is co-author, is ’eviewed in
the “Some Looks at Books”
column on Page 3, Section 2, cf
today’s Pilot.
Miss Shamburger is a Sand
hills native who for many
years has been active as a pi
lot and aviation writer, as well
as in the activities of the
Moore County Hounds ana
other equestrian events in this
area.
“Command the Horizon” is
available now in local book
shops.
third season. The program,
with federal funds slightly
cut from last year’s level, will
serve 289 pre-schoo! children,
with 19 teachers and 19 aides,
at four school centers, Rob
bins, Carthage, East Southern
Pines and West End.
Class days will last from
8:30 am to 12:30 pm, with a
free mid-morning snack and
noon lunch provided. Medical
attention will be given all
children whose pre-school
clinic reports show they need
it. Also, Lingerfeldt said, a
state dentist is expected to
visit the county to check on
all the children’s teeth.
Sixteen school buses will
transport the children along
routes now being planned. Aci-
cording to a new federal quota
system, 90 per cent of the
children are from below the
economic poverty line as de
termined by local authorities,
with the other 10 per cent
from various ranges above it.
Head Start teachers and
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15-Cents Rise In County s
Tax Rate To $1.40 Slated
The Board of Moore County
Commissioners Monday after-
I noon set the county tax rate'
I for the new fiscal year (1968-
j69 at $1.40 per $100 property
evaluation—15 cents higher
than the existing rate—to pro
vide funds to enable Pinecrcs';
High School to be ready fo-:
j opening at the start of the 1969
school year.
The increase will assure
$325,000 the next fiscal year
for the construction of the
high school. Earlier this
month, spokesmen for the
Pinecrest Advisv.ry Council
told the commissioners at least
$300,000 is needed for eacn
school year of 1968-69 and
Paules Named To
State Committee
George E. Paules of South
ern Pines has been appointed
to the State Advisory Commit
tee for supervisory develop
ment training, it vvas announc
ed this week.
The appointment was made
1
STORY HOUR — The Southern Pines
Junior Woman’s Club annual Story Hour
series at the Southern Pines Public Library
attracted 35 youngsters Tuesday. Here are
some of them listening to Mrs. Shirley
Walsh (right). At left near her is Mrs. Nell
Green, who alternated with Mrs. Walsh in
reading the stories. The story hour is held
from 10:30 to 11:30 am Tuesdays through
the summer. The first cf this season was
held June 11. Local children four through
eight years old are invited to attend.
(Pilot photo)
SENT TO SENATORS, CONGRESSMAN
472 Sign Gun Control Petition
New and stronger legisla- and workers on the petition.
tion designed to control tne
sale and posses.'-ion of fire
arms” is urged in a petition
by Dr. I. E. Ready, director, 'mailed from Southern Pines
Department of Community Uhis week to N. C. Senators
Colleges, at Raleigh.
The primary purpose of this
committee is to assist the De •
partment of Community Col
leges in better serving training
needs of business and industry
across North Ca'olina, it was
stated.
Mr. Paules is v.ce presiden*
manufacturing, Gulistan Car
pet, Division of J. P. Stevens
& Co., with offices at the com
pany’s Aberdeen plant.
y
/a
Sam Ervin, Jr., end B. Ever
ett Jordan and to Fourth Dis
trict Congressman James
Gardner.
The petition bore 472 signa
tures of Southern Pines and
Pinehurst area residents, said
Stanley Cohen cf Southern
Pines who was one of the orig
inators of the project a week
ago and who solicited about
200 of the signatures in front
of the local post office on Sat
urday. Mrs. Widiam Laslett
was another of the originators
Cohen estimated that “seven
or eight of every 10 persons
asked to sign the petition” did
sign and said that with more
workers and a little more time,
he felt that 1,000 signatures
could have been obtained.
However, it was decided it was
more important to get the pe
tition in the hands of the Ug-
islators in Washington as
quickly as possible.
'' Cohen said he encountered
some misunderstanding of fire
arms control proposals among
persons not wanting to sign
the petition. Some people, he
said, thought new laws would
mean they couldn’t own a gun.
No such law is asked, he ex
plained.
Bill Autry Of
Durham Winner
In Golf-A-Rama
THE REV. H. S. WINBERRY
Pastor Assumes
Duties At Local
Methodist Churcli
Assigned by the North Caro
lina Conference, the Rev. Her
man S. Winberry has assum
ed the oastorate of the South
ern Pines United Methodis'
Church and he and his family
moved from Manteo last week
to the church’s parsonage on
Clematis Road, just off Mid
land Road.
The Rev. A. L. Thompson,
(Continued on Page 2)
Bill Autry of Durham is the
champion of the first Arrow
Father’s Day Golf - A - Rama
Golf Tournament, which ended
last Saturday after eight days
of play on the Foxfire Golf
and Country Club course
Cardinals Top
Little League
At Mid-Season
The first half of the South
ern Pines Little League’s cur
rent season was completed Fri
day night with the Cardinals
on top.
The team standing with the
numbers of games won listed
The runnerup i.^ Bill Wilson I „ ,
Cardinals 7-3; Dodgers 6-4;
Pirates 4-5; and Braves 2-7.
The second half started Mon-
C. of C. Urges
Uniform School
Tax Supplement
The Board of Directors of
the Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce, at its regular
monthly meeting last Thurs
day, adopted a resolution con
cerning the special school tax
rate and teacher supplements.
The resolution reads:
“WHEREAS, the various
school- systems Lave now -been
consolidated into the Moore
County school system, the spe
cial school tax rate charged
against the citizens of Pine
hurst, Southern Pines, Abe'--
deen and West End now cre
ates inequities in the tax
structure in Moore County and
“WHEREAS We find that
teachers’ total pay is being
distributed at. an unequal rate
and some teachers are being
paid supplements while in
other areas in the county
(Continued on Page 2)
IN SEPTEMBER
Dr. Lake Plans
To Accept Call
By S.C. Church
In a letter sent to members
of Brownson Memorial Pres
byterian Church here, Dr. Jul
ian Lake, who has been minis
ter of the church since Septem
ber, 1962, says that he has
decided to accept a call to be
come pastor of the Sharon
Presbyterian Church at Colum
bia, S. C.
“There is a strong feeling
on my part that God wants
me to do this as one last op
portunity of service before I
lay down my pastoral respon
sibilities,” the letter said, in
part.
Dr. Lake told The Pilot this
week that his pastorate here
is expected to end officially
August 30 and that he and his
wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Lake, will
move to Columbia in Septem
ber. He said they hope to keep
their home at 359 Valley Road.
In compliance with church
procedure, Dr. Lake said, a
congregational meeting has
been scheduled at Brownson
Memorial Church, after the'
morning worship service on
June 30, for the purpose of
concurring-with the pastor in
his request to Fayetteville
Presbytery that he be permit
ted to accept the call to Colum
bia,
The church at Columbia has
more than 1,200 members.
Dr. Lake came to Southern
Pines after serving as minis
ter at the First Presbyterian
Church of Winston-Salem.
During his residence here,
he served for four years as
chairman of the Southern
Pines Good Neighbor Council,
(Continuea on Page 2)
of Pinehurst.
Both shot 68s in their 18-
hole rounds on different days
of the tournament, and the
winner had to be decided by
a sudden-death score card
check. In this the score card
of each was scanned, starting
with the first ho’e. The player
coming up with a lower score
on a hole first v/as declared
winner.
A total of 240 men, women
and children played in the
tournament, reported Richard
Kobleur of Patch’s Tog Shop,
which sponsorea the tourna
ment in cooperation with The
Arrow Co.
The champion came out of
the All Pro Flight. The golfers
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in
Free Lessons In
Sailing Offered
To introduce young people
11 through 16 yeaT-, of age +0
sailing, the San thills Sailing
Club is offering free training
under qualified insituctors on
Monday, June 24, from. 8 am to
12 noon and fro'n 4 U. 8 pm.
This supervised sailing will
take place on the town reser
voir lake which is reached
from the Southern Pines-Car-
the flight, the top one in the thage road (Highway 22), rio'i
tournament, were not pros.,
however.
Kobleur said Wednesday
(Continued on Page 2)
BUT SOME IMPROVEMENT NOTED IN 2 YEARS
County Do^ Pound Conditions Remain
Below Proper Standards^ Report Says
The general level of the
operations at the Moore Coun
ty Dog Pound near Carthage
“is still below acceptable
standards, although as a result
of the continuing visitations of
the HUSOM committee there
has been some improvement
over conditions existing two
years ago,” the Board of Di
rectors of the Humane Society
of Moore County (HUSOM)
was told at a recent board
meeting.
The report described find
ings of 10 visits made to the
pound in the first five months
of this year by Mrs. Jean
Buchanan, chairman of HUS-
OM’S Dog Pound Surveillance
Committee, and other commit
tee members. Mrs. Buchanan
reported the others who had
made visits to the pound were
Mrs. F. W. Bellows, Miss
Langdon Bellows, Miss M. L.
Hubbard, Mrs. Alan Smith and
Mrs. Harry W. Norris.
Mrs. Buchanan’s report also
said sanitary conditions at the
dog pound “had varied from
clean to filthy. The water sup
ply was non-existent most of
the time and generally inade
quate.”
In other business, HUSOM
President Raymo.id North re
ported that the board of coun
ty commissioners and its ad
visory board of health have
taken no action to enable HUS
OM to assume, under contract,
responsibility for the operation
of the pound and the duties of
the dog warden.
North said 15 months have
elapsed since HUSOM propos
ed to absorb the dog pound at
a cost to the county “of less
than it pays for” the services.
HUSOM is operating a pro
gram of picking up stray ani
mals, having them rehabilita
ted at veterinary clinics at
HUSOM expense, then putting
them up for adoption. Anima’s
whose physical condition make
rehabilitation impossible are
put to death painlessly.
(Continued on Page 2)
far out of Southern Pines.
The announcement was
made by David A. Drexel, the
club’s chief instructor. He ask
ed that interested young peo
ple call 692-6691 and leave
name and phone number.
EAT SATURDAY TO
AID LIGHTS FUND!
Southern Pines Jaycees
will be serving hambur
gers or hotdogs; with slaw,
potato chips, soft drinks
and other "trimmings,"
from 10:30 am to 7 pm
Saturday of this: week,
June 22, with proceeds of
the event going to the Jay
cees' fund for installing
and financing Christmas
holiday season lights in lo
cal business areas.
The location of the
"cook-out" is Memorial
Field at S. Bennett St. and
Morganton Road. The
event will proceed regard
less of the weather, said
David P. Rhoads, project
chairman.
iV'
SGT. DONALD LUTZ
At Age 21 (1957)
Sgt. Lutz Dies
June 13 Of War
Wounds, Vietnam
Sgt. Donald Thomas Lutz,
32, of Southern Pines was
wounded fatally in action last
Thursday while serving with
the 101st Airborne Division in
Vietnam.
He was the husband of Mrs.
Dorothy Headen Lutz of 1117
W. Pennsylvania Ave., ah'd'the
only child of Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Lutz of 1088 W. New York
Ave. His father was a member
of the former Southern Pines
Board of Education, and is a
member of the city schools ad
visory council.
The Army’s message to Sgt.
Lutz’s wife said the soldier was
wounded by “hostile firearms”
while he was at the 101st divis
ion’s base camp. Camp Eagle,
at Phu Bay. He was serving
with the division’s Company
B, 801st Maintenance Brigade,
in the aviation branch, at the
time. His wife said she was
informed that he died shortly
after he was admitted to the
base hospital in critical con
dition.
S.gt. Lutz had been in Viet-
name since Dec. 2 after fly-
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1969-70 to open Pinecrest as
scheduled.
The action setting the tax
rate was taken in adoption
iby a unanimous favorable
vote from a motion made by
Commissioner W. S. Taylor of
Aberdeen and seconded by
Commissioner C. 'W. Purvis of
Robbins.
The motion also provided
that $325,000 in capital outlay
funds be granted with the com
missioners to designate what
the funds be used for; and that
the board of commissioners be
given assurance by the county
board of education that main
tenance of school buildings
will be given top priority. The
motion allocated an increa ;e
of $50,000 in capital expenses
over the current year’s capital-
expense budget for the school
system. This brings the 1968-69
capital expenses budget to
$627,755 in county money. Add
ed to this is $161,905 in state
and federal money and sale of
cars for a total current-expense
budget of $788,905. The county,
however, must appiopriate the
$161,905 in county money in
itially. The money is refunded
later by the state and federal
agencies. The total ofr sales of
cars is $4,500.
The current year’s total cur
rent-expense budget amounted
to $577,755 in county funds
plus $169,697 in state vocation-
funds, $3,252 in (federal) Na
tional Defense Education Act
money and $4,500 in sale of
cars for a grand total of $755,-
204. The 1968-69 grand total
includes $6,980 in NDEA funds
and $199,670 in state vocational
funds, besides the $4,500 in
sale of cars.
The action took place in the
courthouse at Carthage during
a seven-hour special meeting
Of the commissioners set to
continue work on establishing
a county budget for the new
fiscal year.
The adopting of the school
system budget and setting the
new tax rate constituted the
final major and most-time-con-
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SUMMER PROGRAM
HEMMER EXPECTED TO
HAVE MORE SURGER'i
■ John Hemmer of Pinehurst
was to go to the McPherson
Hospital in Durham today
(Wednesday) for probable eye
surgery on Thuisday. He re
cently underwent two eye
operations at Moore Memorial
Hospital and has been conval
escing at St. Jo'-eph Hospital
here. Mr. Hemmer was the of
ficial photographer at Pine
hurst for many years, and has
remained active in his profes
sion until recent weeks.
DIRECTORS — Lou Manning, camp director for Camp
Easter in the Pines here, and his wife, Marie, who is pro
gram director, are pictured at the camp as they prepared
for the opening of the 1968 season that began this week.
(Humphrey photo')
Camp Easter In The Pines
Open For Summer Season
After staff orientation and
other preparations last week.
Camp Easter in the Pines
here opened Sunday for the
first of four two-week camp
ing sessions for handicapped
persons from throughout North
Carolina.
At the camp this week and
next week are 36 adults, from
30 to 60 years of age, many
of them in wheel chairs, Mrs.
Mark C. Liddell, camp coor
dinator, reports.
Sessions to follow include
two for children and then a
final camping period for teen-
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Mannings Again Are Directors
Lou Manning, associated
with Camp Easter since 1965,
returns for a fourth summer
as the local camp’s director, as
sisted by his wife, Marie.
A graduate of Pembroke
State College with a BS degree
in Physical Education, Man
ning was associated with the
Southern Pines city recrea
tion program lor three years
and taught in the Moore Coun
ty School system during 1966-
67. He served during the past
school year as physical educa
tion instructor and head foot
ball, track and wrestling coach
(Continued on Page 2)
Employers For
Youths Needed
The summer Youth Emplov-
ment Program being conduct
ed by the Moore County Com
munity Action Program con
tinues to receive applications
for both job opportunities and
prospective employees. More
than one thousand applications
are being processed, it was an
nounced this week at Cart’n-
age.
Moore County young p?cple
have applied for jobs in vari
ous fields, including baby-sit
ting, gardening, sewing, sur
veying, brick-laying, construc
tion work, library work and
truck driving.
The main obstacle in this
program is finding prospective
employers, this week’s report
stressed. Prospective employ
ers are urged to call 947-5675
in Carthage if they can offer
jobs.
SERIES TO BEGIN SUNDAY
Town Invited To Discussions Of
Problems Involving Home, Family
The community is invited to
attend a Home .'ind Family
Living series to be conducted
by Dr. Julian Laxe, beginning
June 23, at Brownson Memo
rial Presbyterian Church of
which he is the minister.
Sessions will be held each
evening, Sunday tniough Wed
nesday, in the sanctuary.
Dr. Lake will address each
evening session and will de
velop such topics as social and
economic problems; child de
velopment and family rela
tions; mental healt.h; marriage
problems and others.
The first Sunday session,
beginning at 7:30 pm, will be
a general one featuring a farn-
ily sing and some special music
by the Vass Trio. Following a
coffee break at 8:30, there will
be a “talk-back” dialogue.
Part of Monday’s activities
in the series will be a men's
breakfast held at 7 am at the
Howard Johnson’s Golden
Door Room. The men will dis
cuss “What Is Your Rile in
the Family?”
At 7:30 pm on Monday the
second service will begin.
There will be another family
sing and a demonstration of
family devotions Following
the coffee break, there will be
another “talk-back” for the
parents of small children.
The third session on Tuesday
will begin also at 7:30 pm. The
special music feature of this
session will be a barbarshop
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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. Mim.
June 12 87 69
June 13 88 63
June 14 85 53
June 15 89 49
June 16 91 64
June 17 89 64
June 18 73 67