A family whose members work as a farm ing team is the subject of a feature story on Page 1, Sec. 2,. ^Glendon ^ndor ! nqrcand Laiwaqa ^ ^^aqlcOpqs ComcrOD pjl , , Lokwio^'Vass r ^!«rbc ILOT A local writer ran into some good fish ing during a trip to Georgia. Report, photo: Page 6, Sec. 3. 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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 (Continued on Page 7, Sec. 2) 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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 (Continued on Page 7, Sec. 3) 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 (Continued on Page 2) '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 (Continued on Page 2) 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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

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