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VOL. 48 — No. 37
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1968
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
FROM $10 MILLION ESTATE
Mrs. Kennedy's Will
Makes Bequests Here
Individuals and institutions information received today by
of this area benefit extensive- telephone from a Massachu-
ly under terms of the will of setts correspondent.
Moore Post Offices To Go
f On New Schedule July 27
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy,
prominent Sandhills resident
who died here May 18.
The will was allowed for
probate in Norfolk Probate
Court at Dedham, Mass.,
Tuesday, and its outstanding
provisions were published in
The Boston Herald this (Wed
nesday) morning, according to
Moore Tobacco
Tests Plots On
Producers’ Tour
Tobacco test plots in Moore,
Montgomery and Richmond
counties will be visited Friday
by tobacco growers in a tour
conducted by the North Caro
lina State University Agricul
tural Extension Service.
The visits in Moore County
starting at 9 am will be at the
farms of Carl Whitaker on
State Road 1868; E. M. Holly-
field, State Road 1830; J. C.
Stanley Jr., State Road 1663;
Bill Lee, Eastwood; James
Patterson, State Road 1122,
Jackson Springs; and Walter
McKenzie, Jackson Springs.
The producers will leave at
8 am from the Richmond
County Courthouse at Rock
ingham to start the tour.
Mrs. Kennedy maintained a
residence at Brookline, Mass.,
as well as her estate on
Youngs Road here. For near
ly 30 years she was a leading
figure in the civic, sports and
social life of the Sandhills and
an outstanding benefactor of
public and private causes.
The Boston Herald’s report
said that the bulk of her $10
million estate goes to the
Frederick J. Kennedy Me
morial Foundation which was
established in memory of her
father who founded the Ken
nedy clothing stores which
operate over the New England
states.
Outright bequests amount
to $2 million. The Herald said.
Those of particular interest
here include:
—$500,000 to the Penick
Memorial Home, Southern
Pines.
—$500,000 to St. Joseph of
the Pines Hospital here.
—$125,000 to Dr. Francis L.
Owens, physician whose home
is at Pinehurst and offices
here.
—$20,000 to Emmanuel
Episcopal Church here.
—$25,000 to Henigan L.
Kerns of Southern Pines “for
devoted service.”
—$2,500 to each employee
with service of over two years
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SOME DISSATISFACTION INDICATED
Community Survey Says Majority
Replying Approve Local Services
Most of the people answer
ing Jaycees questionnaires ex
pressed satisfaction with
Southern Pines community
services and facilities.
The majority of the replies
said public transportation was
insufficient. And some of the
majorities looking kindly on
other community services
were thin.
Jaycees working on the
project, incidentally, found
that the average age of the
person replying was 51 and
that one of every six replying
was retired.
The results of the tabula
tions of the replies were re
ported by Jaycee President
George Little at the regular
meeting of the Southern Pines
Town Council for July. He
said that approximately 30
per cent of the 1,000 question
naires mailed last winter to
town residents were returned
paa-tia'lly or completely lan-
swered.
He gave a copy of the re
sults, with the questions, to
each councilman.
Forty-eight per cent of
those replying to the specific
question rated local fire pro
tection “good” and 38 per cent
“average.” Six per cent rated
it “poor” and eight per cent
did not answer the question.
Police protection was rated
good by 60 per cent and aver
age by 30 per cent. Five per
cent rated it poor and the rest
did not answer the question.
Seventy-eight per cent, the
tabulation shows, feel that
their respective neighborhoods
receive adequate police pro
tection, 10 par cent do not and
the rest did not answer.
Local electric service was
rated good by 78 per cent and
adequate by 17 per cent. Three
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Services at' polst offices win-
^ dows will be curtailed in Moore
-kV County starting Saturday but
^ otherwise the recently issued
Post Office Department order
will have little effect in the
county.
The Southern Pines Post
Office will continue Saturday
town deliveries of mail but
will eliminate the Saturday
general delivery window ser
vice at the postal building. Act
ing Postmaster Woodrow Mc
Donald advised. No change
will be made in window ser
vice Mondays through Fridays,
he said.
The schedule for Saturdays
at Southern Pines will be iden-
PEAK OF SEASON — Two Sandhills
girls and a visitor from Virginia believe
in getting their peaches fresh—right from
the orchard, in this case the Edgar Graham
farm near Jackson Springs. Left to right,
Laura Auman of West End, Becky Burns
of Aberdeen and Christie Bowen of Char
lottesville, Va., a Southern Pines visitor.
Freestone varieties of peaches, considered
the best for eating raw, are now at their
peak, including the Loring variety shown
here. Others will be ripening over the next
two weeks, obtainable at orchards in the
West End - Biscoe - Candor area, at numer
ous roadside stands throughout the Sand
hills and in food stores.
(V. Nicholson photo)
Bypass Zone
Hearing Will
Be Thnrsday
A public hearing on a rec
ommendation that part of the
US 1 bypass be rezoned to
permit construction of a Sher
aton Motor Inn will be held
Thursday, starting at 8 pm,
by the town council in the
Municipal Center. |
The recommendation of the
Planning Board is that a 12-
acre tract on the west side of
the bypass north of Morganton
Road be rezoned to Commu
nity Shopping from the pres
ent Residential Single Fam
ily. The property is owned by
Karl Andrews of Pinehurst.
Five acres of the tract would
provide the site for the pro
posed 120-unit motel.
Andrews wants the rest of
the tract rezoned also for pos
sible future business develop
ment.
GOP Committee To
Meet Here Thursday
The Moore County Republi
can Executive Committee, of
which Paul Helms of Robbins
is chairman, has scheduled a union County, he graduated
DR. R. C. ?:iLLOUGH
Veterinarian
With Hospital
Here Licensed
Dr. Richard C. Killough,
who on June 1 joined the staff
of Sandhill Veterinary Hospi
tal on Midland Road, was one
of several new graduates in
veterinary medicine who were
licensed last week by the
State.
A native of Indian Trail in
meeting at the Southland HO'
tel here, Thursday July 25, at
8 pm, primarily for discussion
of precinct organization.
All interested persons,
whether or not committee
members, are invited to at
tend, said W. H. Bowen of
Southern Pines, who announc
ed the meeting locally.
from Indian Trail High School,
took his pre-veterinary cours
es at N. C. State University
and graduated in May from
Oklahoma State University
with the DVM degree.
Dr. Killough interned last
summer at Sandhill Veterin
ary Hospital, working with
Dr. C. C. McLean and Dr. J.
E. Currie, Jr., owners, and de
cided to return here to make
his permanent home. He and
his wife, the former Kay
Kindley of Indian Trail, are
making their home at 460 Mid
land Road. They are Presby
terians.
He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. P. Killough of Indian
Trail, and is 25 years old.
' Bumper Crop
j Of Peaches
Now At Best
starting last week and con
tinuing into August, it’s “free
stone peach” time in the Sand
hills peach-growing area, with
one variety after another of
fine eating peaches coming
in.
People are driving in from
over North Carolina, as well
as other states, to load up at
the orchards in the “peach
triangle” of Moore, Montgom
ery and Richmond Counties.
The triangle, roughly, has its
“points” at West End, Candor
and Ellerbe.
The Lorings and Halehav-
ens were at their peak last
Week, Georgia Belles are com
ing in this week, and about
August 1 will come the favor
ed Redskins and luscious, old-
time Elbertas, along with sev
eral newer varieties—all good
for canning and freezing as
well as eating now.
So bounteous is the crop—
the best in 21 years—that the
US government has extended
its support system to prevent
a price collapse, and last week
began buying shipments for
hospitals and other federal in
stitutions. Because of summer
vacations, they do not go on
the school lunch program but
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Commissioners,
School Board
Meet Cancelled
The joint meeting of the
Board of Moore County Com
missioners and the Moore
County Board of Education
scheduled for Thursday after
noon at Carthage has been
cancelled and no new date set
as yet.
Some members of the
school board found they could
not attend the Thursday meet
ing. Some commissioners will
be out of town next week.
The purpose of the planned
meeting is to bring the com
missioners up to date on the
statuses of the federal aid pro
grams in the county school
system.
The commissioners want to
know what would be expected
of the county should federal
aid for specific programs be
discontinued.
PONY LEAGUE SCORES
The Southern Pines Pony
League baseball team won
both home games the past
week, whipping Carthage 5-3
Thursday and Pinehurst 11-4
Tuesday, bringing its season’s
record to date to 6 wins and
5 losses.
BENEFIT SALE
SET SATURDAY
An auc'tion sale fo bene-
fil the community deve
lopment fund of the
Soutbsrn Pines Jaycees is
scheduled for 1 pm Satur
day (July 27) at Newland
Phillips Motors on S. W.
Broad St., the public was
reminded todsiy.
Harold Eckersley, chair
man for the profject, said
that a wide variety of
hcusshold furnishings and
other items have been do
nated for auctioning off.
Persons having articles
to give can still have them
picked up by calling 692-
8474 (before 5 pm) or 692-
2031 (after 6 pm).
M. G. (Doc) McRae is
scheduled to be the auc
tioneer.
Gardner Rally Set
For Sat., August 3
Moore and Montgohiery
County Republicans are team
ing to stage a rally for Con
gressman Jim Gardner, GQP
gubernatorial candidate, at the
Arthur Williams lake, be
tween Eagle Springs and Can
dor, Saturday, August 3, be
tween 1 and 4 pm. Details are
in an ad on the front page of
Section 3 and more informa
tion will appear in The Pilot
next week.
tical at the post offices at Aber
deen, Pinebluff, Pinehurst and
Niagara, postmasters have an
nounced.
At Carthage, Postmaster
Gilbert Bailey said Saturday
window service will be re
duced to two hours in the
morning, probably from 9 to
11. Only general delivery mail
will be issued at the windows,
he said, and there will be no
sales of money orders or
stamps.
Gilbert said no change is
being made in the system of
Saturday deliveries on the
star-route and the three rural
routes under the Carthage Post
Office. No town deliveries are
made in Carthage now. Town
residents get their mail in
boxes at the post office.
Mail will be put up in post
office boxes as usual.
At Southern Pines, Mc
Donald said mail will be work
ed and put up in the boxes
as usual on Saturdays.
The order to curtail, how
ever, has suspended plans to
extend local mail service to
some adjacent areas of South
ern Pines, such as Sandhurst
and Bethesda Road, McDonald
said.
At Vass, Postmaster Mack
Callahan said window service
will be 8 am to 10 am Satur
days, effective this Saturday,
and general-delivery mail ser
vice only will be offered. He
said, however, that Saturday
deliveries would continue as
usual. Vass Post Office does
not give local door to door
delivery service but does
maintain a star route.
REPLACES CREATH
AT COLLEGE — Having completed the
tests they took last week to determine the
general educational level of each student,
these New Careers enrollees were at Sand
hills Community College Friday awaiting
the evaluation of the test results. On Mon
day they began a full-time program of
work-training with the New Careers pro
gram which is affiliated with the college.
(Pilot photo)
WHAT COMMUNITY ACTION IS DOING—4
• Hope Offered By ‘New Careers*
(Last report in a series)
By JULIA McMillan
Next week 28 more people
will be added to the work
force of the four-county area
served by the Sandhills Com
munity Action Program, Inc.
Men and women of Moore,
Lee, Hoke and Montgomery
Counties, who have previously
been unemployed or under
employed, will begin training
and working in fields in
which they will be better able
to serve their society.
The means by which all this
will be done is a new program
sponsored by SCAP called
New Careers. Through New
Careers these men and women
will be trained—not for tem
porary jobs and not in a hur
ried six-weeks period, but for
career jobs during a training
period lasting for two years.
New Careers is designed to
provide “meaningful employ
ment for unemployed or un
deremployed people in the sub
professions and in human ser
vices.” Specifically, New Ca
reers trainees will work a.nd
learn as juvenile rehabilita
tion aides, policemen, teach
ers, aides, and psychiatric aides.
Training will take place at
Sandhills Community College,
and job work will be at Mor
rison Training School near
Hoffman or at Leonard Train
ing School at McCain for juve-
nille rehabilitation aides; at
Biscoe, Star, Mt. Gilead and
Robbins for the four police
trainees; at one of the area's
hospitals for the psychiatric
aides, in anticipation of the
completion of the Mental
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Youths Available
For Farm Work
■With tobacco marketing
near at hand and peaches
reaching their peak, farmers
in Moore County are taking
advantage of the Youth Em
ployment Program. The Moore
Community Action Program,
which sponsors the youth em
ployment service, has been
placing young people in farm
and other jobs this summer.
Farmers who are interested
in full-time or part-time work
ers should call the Moore
County CAP office in Carth
age at 947-5755. Persons need
ing other types ow workers are
also invited to call.
27th Moore Golf
Tourney Is In
Final Rounds
The 27th annual Moore
County Golf Tournament is in
the final rounds this week
with golfers playing for the
championship and the titles in
12 other flights at Foxfire Golf
and Country Club’s course six
miles west of Pinehurst.
Sunday is the last day golf
ers can play their matches.
Matched for the title round
in the championship flight are
Billy Wilson Jr. of Pinehurst
and Charles Russell of Vass.
Playing for the consolation
prize are Dick Schnedl of
Southern Pines and Bill Wood
ward of Robbins.
The pairings for the finals
in the other flights are:
First — Dean Hundley
Southern Pines, vs Charles
Rose, Southern Pines. Consola
tion: Floyd Brown, Sanford
vs. Harry Chatfield, Southern
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'Country Store' Is
Farmer Day Feature
A “country store” selling
food items, antiques and other
articles will be a new feature
of the annual Farmers Day at
Robbins, Saturday, August 3,
it was announced this week.
The usual parade of mount
ed riders, old vehicles and a
horse show sponsored by the
Jaycees in the afternoon are
on the program.
Commissions from sale of
items in the “store” will be
used for town beautification.
Miss McMillan Will
Conclude Pilot Work
Miss Julia McMillan of
Southern Pines will conclude
her work as summer assistant
at The Pilot on Friday and
that night will leave for
Miami, Fla., to spend a few
days with friends before fly
ing to Bermuda for a two-
weeks visit.
Later in August she will
return to Southern Pines be
fore resuming her studies as
a senior at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in September. She expects to
complete her requirements for
a degree in January.
Miss McMillan has assisted
in both editorial and business
departments at the Pilot dur
ing the past eight weeks. She
is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
R. M. McMillan.
CHAMPION — Debra Rhodes, 17, right, of North Wilk-
esboro, receives the championship flight winner’s trophy
after last weekend’s Second Annual Twin-State Junior
Girls Golf Championship at the Pinehurst Country Club.
Making the presentation is Paula Dawkins of Fayetteville,
Twin-State Association president, who lost a sudden-death
playoff for runner-up honors to Marianna Kraycirik of
Burlington. Miss Dawkins was the Class A winner in the
tournament’s Chip and Putt contest.
(Hall Studio photo)
Debra Rhodes Wins Second Junior
Girls Golf Tourney At Pinehurst
Defending Champion Debra
Rhodes of North 'Wilkesboro
came on strong with a second
effort on the back nine of the
Pinehurst Country Club’s No.
2 course to again win the
Twin-State Junior Girls Golf
Championship, last weekend.
The 17-year-old four-handi-
capper had her troubles putt
ing together good scores on the
first round of the two-day
tournament and carded a 13-
over-par 87. The second round
started out as a repeat per
formance with seven bogeys
and only two pars on the front
nine. She made the turn with
a seven-over-par 44—which
Lee Will Head
Fall Campaign
Of United Fund
Robert E. Lee of Carthage
has been selected as chairman
of the fall campaign of the
United Fund of Moore County,
Inc.
Lee, who is superintendent
of Moore County schools, was
elected by the Fund executive
committee to succeed L. Boyd
Creath as chairman. Creath,
formerly of Pinehurst, has
been transferred to Sanford
as president of the Carolina
Bank.
United Fund President John
A. Corbett of Southern Pines
announced the change in cam
paign chairmen at a meeting
of the organization’s directors
in Southern Pines, when the
admissions and budget com
mittee headed by Roy Swarin-
gen of Sandhills Furniture re
viewed the applications and
proposed budgets of 10 local
agencies.
Corbett said that the United
Fund is expected to have at
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was four strokes off the pace.
On the tenth hole. Miss
Rhodes combined all the mis
takes she had made on the
previous 27 holes and scored
a soaring, double-bogey seven.
Following the tournament,
she said; “I was really upset
over that seven on the tenth,
but I guess I needed it to clear
away that slump I was in.”
She finished the back side
with a four-over-par 41 and
cinched her second straight
title with a 172 total, four
strokes better than a second-
place tie between Marinna
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A 'WINNER — Joann Wed
lock, 15, of Pinehurst, Third
Flight winner, was the only
Sandhills entry receiving a
trophy in the Second Annual
Twin State Junior Girls
Golf Championship played
last weekend at the Pine
hurst Country Club. She is
the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Keith Wedlock.
(Hall Studio photo)
Chicken Fry
Is Successful
The fried-chicken supper for
the benefit of the Southern
Pines Little League held last
Wednesday night at the Elks
Club appears to be good for
nearly $400 net after expens
es, collections on ticket sales
indicate.
This was reported today
(Wednesday) by Tommy Jes
sup, league treasurer. He said
that more than $700 had been
collected on ticket sales so far.
Martin Parrish, league presi
dent, said today that approxi
mately 800 people attended
the supper and “we’re in the
black.”
Jessup said payment on the
building of the ball park can
be completed this summer
with money left over to help
pay the expenses of the 1969
season.
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.
July 17
93
68
July 18
90
68
July 19
89
67
July 20
89
66
July 21
90
62
July 22
88
66
July 23
90
66