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2 Receive Sentences
For Manslaughter; 3
Tried In 'Pot' Case
Two defendants, indicted for issued a?ainst a friend of his,
murder in separate cases, Titus Douglas, and that when
pleaded guilty last week in he pounded on her door that
Moore superior court in Car
thage to involuntary man
slaughter, which the State ac
cepted. They drew prison sen
tences Friday.
Mrs. Irene Brown Fairley,
49, was sentenced by Judge
Thomas W. Seay, Jr., of Salis
bury, presiding, to serve not
less than three nor more than
five years in the Women’s Di
vision of State Prison for the
rifle slaying of Roger John
son, 55, an Aberdeen town
employee, at her home in the
Berkley section, September 13.
Mrs. Fairley said Johnson
night and tried to get in, she
feared for her life and shot
him through a window. She
said she did not mean to kill
him, and fired at his feet
Struck in the thigh, he fell
and bled to death in her yard.
Clyde Currie, 26, drew nine
to 10 years for the fatal stab
bing of his first cousin Leroy
Wooten, during a fight at
Taylortown, near Pinehurst,
August 26. There was testi
mony that both men had been
drinking.
Gets 5 to 7 Years
Howard C. Sheffield of Car-
ROBBINS, RT. 2
had assaulted and threatened thage was sentenced to five
her in an effort to get her to' seven years on conviction,
take up a warrant she had following a jury trial, of as
sault with intent to commit
rape on his 16-year-old daugh
ter. Earlier in the court term,
Sheffield had drawn 18 to 24
months for assault with dead
ly weapon (by pointing a
pistol) on a neighbor, Gurney
Martin, from whom the girl
had sought protection. Testi-
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Fatal Shooting
Of Boy, 9, Is
Ruled Accident
Funeral services for James
Ray Stewart, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Palmer
Stewart, Jr., of Robbins,
Route 2, were helu Saturday
afternoon at Swan Station
Baptist Church in Lee Coun
ty. Sunday would have been
his tenth birthday.
He was killed Thursday
afternoon in a shooting inci
dent, ruled accidental by
Moore County Coroner W. K.
Carpenter, which occurred in
a field near his home.
The coroner said the child,
with two brothers, David, 12,
and Steve, 11, were target
shooting with a bolt-action .22
rifle shortly after they had
arrived home from school.
After shooting holes in a tin
can and a plastic bottle, the
boys decided to “chunk rocks”
at their target. One of the
brothers put the gun down and
as he did so, it went off. The
bullet pierced James Ray’s
face at the nosetip and pene
trated the brain, killing him
instantly, the coroner report
ed.
A sister, Teresa, was in the
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DONALD GRANT
Highland Scot
To Be Speaker
Here Nov. 27
Donald Grant, a Highland
Scot who is an honors gradu
ate of Edinburgh University
and a traveller all his life,
will be the guest speaker at
Moore County Historical So
ciety meeting, Wednesday,
November 27 at 7:30 p.m., an
nounces Lawrence M. Johnson
of Aberdeen, program chair
man.
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives who has
recently returned to the fami
ly’s Paint Hill Farm between
Southern Pines and Aberdeen,
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C. Montesanti
Killed When Hit
By Car In N. J.
Constantino F. Montesanti,
57, a native of Southern
Pines and a brother of four
local residents, died about 4
am today (Wednesday) at Me-
tuchen, N. J., of injuries re
ceived when he was struck by
a car there about midnight
last night.
The information came to
family members here this
morning from his wife at Me-
tuchen where he had made
his home for the past 15 years.
Details were not available
this morning and funeral ar
rangements were not known
here, although funeral and
burial will be in New Jersey.
According to information
received here, Mr. Montesanti
was struck by a car in the
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W. O. Moss, Joint MFH, Moore County Hounds, In Action-Packed
Scene From A Former Season's Hunting Here (Humphrey Photo)
First Hunt: Thanksgiving Day
The traditional opening meet
of the Moore County Hounds
will again take place next
week On Thanksgiving Day —
Thursday, November 28.
The joint masters, William
O. Moss and Richard D. Webb,
have announced that drag
hounds will meet at 10 am on
the Young Farm, out Youngs
Road, opposite the T. E. Mor
ton place.
The meet will be planned
so that as much of the hunt
as possible can be observed by
spectators who always enjoy
turning out on opening day.
Mrs. “Ginny” Moss, wife of
the joint master and MCH
secretary, said this week that
record-breaking interest and
participation are expected dur
ing the coming season.
The usual schedule of Tues
day and Thursday morning
meets for fox hounds will be
followed and fox or drag
hounds will meet Saturday
rriornings at the discretion of
the masters.
Persons invited to hunt are
asked to check with the secre
tary as to whether the size of
the field will permit guests—
a new regulation this year.
Also, Mrs. Moss said, juniors
are welcome but will be re
quired to ride with a designa
ted field master.
IN ABERDEEN THURSDAY. FRIDAY
Blood Program Donors Needed
Blood donors are urgently
needed at two collections to
be made this week in Aber
deen, reports Col. John Dibb,
chairman of the Moore Coun
ty Red Cross Blood Program
through which blood of all
types is supplied free of
charge to both the hospitals
in this county.
A bloodmobile from the
Red Cross center in Charlotte,
which serves the hospitals,
will be at the Gulistan plant
Thursday, and at the First
Baptist Church from 9 am to
2:30 pm on Friday.
Persons from anywhere in
the county may give blood at
either of the collections.
Colonel Dibb said last week
that blood donations were
running some 166 pints short
of the amount used by the
hospitals during July, August
and September, the first three
months of the program’s ac-
from noon to 5:30 pm on counting year.
School Study Group Organizing
The executive committee of
a citizens’ group which will
study uses of the elementary
schools of Area HI (Southern
Pines, Pinehurst, Aberdeen
and West End) following con
solidation of seven high schools
next September, last week
drafted a letter to go to some
200 Area III residents pro
posed by their school advisory
councils, from which the group
will be formed and divided in
to subcommittees to study
various aspects.
The first general meeting
was set for Tuesday, Decem
ber 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Pine-j
crest. I
I
Presiding was Micajah R.
Wyatt of Pinehurst, chairman.
Others attending were J. Mil-
ton Sledge, West Southern
Pines, vice-chairman; Mrs.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., South
ern Pines, secretary, and Mrs.
L. M. Johnson, Aberdeen. Un
able to attend was the fifth
member, Allen McDonald of
West End.
Present to provide informa
tion were Moore Supt. Robert
E. Lee and Pinecrest princi
pal J. R. Brendell.
Among subjects to be studi
ed, with recommendations to
be made by January 7, are the
organizational structure of the
feeder elementary schools and
uses of the physical plants in
relation to it; necessary reno
vation of buildings, and funds
available, or to become avail
able; the “middle school” con
cept as opposed to the junior
high school; problems of full
integration and the prevailing
guidelines under which feder
al approval must be gained;
possible revision of attendance
areas to make the best use of
classroom space; and other re
lated matters.
Lang Will Brief
New AF Leaders
In Washington
John A. Lang, Jr., 58, a Car
thage native who has had a
long career in federal govern
ment administrative posts,
was in the news spotlight
this week as the man who will
greet and brief the Nixon ad
ministration’s new secretary
of the Air Force and other
high-ranking Air Force per
sonnel when they move into
the Pentagon in Washington.
An Air Force Reserve ma
jor general, Lang is now ad
ministrative assistant to Ah'
Force Secretary Harold Brown
who has named him “continu
ity man” to take the incom
ing officials on a tour of major
Air Force commands and
otherwise brief them on their
duties.
Later, he will assume di
rection Of the staff of 500
working under civilian lead
ership in the department.
Lang maintains his ties
with Moore County and North
Carolina and visits and speaks
here occasionally, He was a
speaker in Aberdeen at the
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WED.. NOV. 217
NOV. 17-23 OBSERVANCE
Children Invited To New County
Library For ‘Book Week’ Events
November 17-23 is Chil
dren’s Book Week, marked for
the 49th year by public librar
ies and school libraries across
America.
Children’s Book Week 1968
has as its theme, “Go Places
with Books!”
All pre-school children in
Jaycee Turkey Shoot
Slated Here Friday
The annual Thanksgiving
“turkey shoot” sponsored by
the Southern Pines Jaycees
will take place Friday of this
week, starting at noon and
running through the after
noon.
The location will be the
Little League ball park on
Morganton Road, opposite the
National Guard Armory.
Proceeds of the event will
be used by the Jaycees for
civic projects.
Thanksgiving
Service Slated
The Annual Southern Pines
Community Thanksgiving Ser
vice will be held Wednesday,
November 27, at 8 pm at The
United Church of Christ whjch
is located at the corner of
North Bennett St. and W. New
Hampshire Ave.
The Rev. Phillip Deese, pas
tor of Our Saviour Lutheran
Moore’ County are invited to church, will preach on the
go to the new Moore County I subject, “The Substantial
Library at Carthage for a Thanksgiving.” Other minist-
special Book Week celebra-1 gj-s participating in the Service
New Court Will Open
In Moore December 3
The new district court, sup
planting the three recorder’s
courts which have been ope
rating in Moore County, will
open at Carthage Tuesday
morning, December 3, and
continue with daily sessions
that week, and into the next
if necessary, to dispose of all
pending cases.
This information came this
week to Charles McLeod,
clerk of court, from F. Fetzer
Mills of Wadesboro, who will
be chief district judge.
Mills, along with A. A.
Webb and Walter M. Lam-
pley of Rockingham and Ed
ward E. Crutchfield of Albe
marle, will be sworn in as
judges of the 20th Judicial
District, Monday, December 2,
by Judge F. Don Phillips at
Rockingham. Which judge will
preside at Carthage for the
opening session has not yet
been announced.
Moore is one of 61 counties
in 19 judicial districts in which
the district court division of
the' North Carolina General
Court of Justice will be esta
blished on that date, following
22 in which it took over on
the first Monday in December,
1966. The remaining 17 coun
ties are expected to come un
der the system on the same
date of 1970, which will mean
the uniform lower court sys
tem will be operating from
Murphy to Manteo.
The two upper levels have
been in effect since January,
1967 — the appellate, com
posed of the State Supreme
Court and the new Court of
Appeals, and the superior
courts, which continue largely
unchanged but with some
changes ahead
To Change Patterns
Hailed widely as bringing
the administration of Justice
out of the “horse and buggy”
era — especially in the lower
courts, which have become a
patchwork through the years
—the new system will change
some familiar patterns.
Penalties for specific of
fenses, the court costs and re
cord-keeping will be uniform
in all district courts, which
will have jurisdiction as be
fore over misdemeanor cases,
also civil cases up to $5,000.
Juries will be provided for
civil, but not criminal, trials.
Basic court costs will be $15,
of which $2 will go to the
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ON DECEMBER 2, the office of Charles McLeod, clerk of
Moore County Superior Court, will become part of the Gen
eral Court of Justice of North Carolina, making Mr. McLeod
clerk of all trial courts in the county, their fiscal and record
keeping agent. Next week. The Pilot will have a detailed re
port on how his office will operate and what the changes will
mean to him and his staff. On Page 4, Section 3, of today's
Pilot, there’s a story on physical changes the new court sys
tem has brought to the clerk’s office, as well as other altera
tions and renovations throughout the courthouse in Carthage.
3 Recorder's Courts
To Cease Operations
The Southern Pines and
Aberdeen Recorder’s Courts
are winding up their affairs
this week, and Moore County
Recorder’s Court at Carthage
will do the same next week,
before going out of business
effective Monday, December
2.
On that date, the new dis
trict court system of the North
Carolina General Court of
Justice will be established in
Moore and 60 other counties
in 19 judicial districts. Moore
is a part of the 20th district,
which also includes Anson,
OLD NAME WITH NEW MEANING
Magistrates To Replace JP's
The justice of the peace is are about eight “JP’s” now
on his way out. As of Mon
day, December 2, when the
district court system becomes
operational here, he will ex
ist no more in Moore County.
His place, or places—there
tion, Friday, November 22, at
10 am. There will be songs
and stories.
School children in the first
through fifth grades are in
vited to go to the County
Library at 4 pm Friday, for
the showing of twp films
about horses, borrowed from
the State Library. Miss
Pamela Carnes, youth services
Librarian, will tell a story
about a horse “and maybe an
other story about another way
of travelling,” an announce
ment says.
On display this week are
“some of the Moore County
Library’s prettiest picture
books,” old favorites and
others.
Available also are lists of
picture books, children’s fic
tion, and children’s non-fiction
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are: Martin Caldwell, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church;
John Stone, pastor of First
Baptist Church; James Dellert,
pastor of Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church; and
John Harrison, pastor of The
United Church of Christ.
The offering taken at this
service will be sent to the
American Bible Society, to be
used to increase distribution
of Bibles everywhere.
GIORGIO CIOMPI
Violinist
LOREN WITHERS
Pianist
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 25
Concert By Duo Set
The Sandhills Music As- Prix du Conservatoire in
Shareholders
Of SNB Vote
Reorganizatiou
Shareholders of Southern
National Bank of North Car
olina have approved a propos
al to reorganize as a one-bank
holding company to be known
as Southern National Corpora
tion.
The approval took place' at
a special shareholders’ meet
ing On November 12 at the
bank’s headquarters in Lum-
berton. Before the reorganiza
tion can become effective, it
must be approved by the In
ternal Revenue Service and
the U. S. Comptroller of the
Currency.
Southern National has an
office in Southern Pines and
numerous sharholders through
out Moore County.
Southern National Bank
would become a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Southern
National Corporation through
reorganization as a holding
company. Present shareholders
will become shareholders in
the Southern National Corpor
ation through a one for one
stock exchange. Southern Na
tional Corporation will own
j all of Southern National
Bank’s stock except the direc
tors’ qualifying shares.
Hector MacLean of Lum-
berton, president of the bank,
said the proposal to reorganize
“would give Southern National
the necessary flexibility to re
spond to our customers’ chang
ing financial requirements.”
in the county—will be taken
by the magistrate, an old
name which has now been re
vived with new meaning.
The new magistrate will be
an officer of the district court,
with State-paid salary rang
ing from $1,200 per year for
part-time work, to $6,000 per
year, fulltime, depending on
the business he is expected to
do, and the time it will take.
He will be available, at
times to be designated, by the
Chief District Judge, in an
office, with hearing room,
provided by the county at the
county seat, or by a munici
pality where an additional
seat of court may be held. In
Moore, that means Carthage
and Southern Pines.
The General Assembly set
four magistrates as the mini-
num for Moore County, five
as the maximum, and the new
system will start off with
four, all on full-time duty. As
reported by The Pilot Novem
ber 6, these have been ap
pointed and announced as fol-
ows by Chief District Judge
F. Fetzer Mills: R. G. Fry,
Jr., and G. K. Suggs, who
will share an office now be
ing prepared in the court
house basement; J. B. Ed-
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Union, Richmond and Stan
ly-
Actually, the new system
will not start functioning
here until Tuesday, Decem
ber 3, after the four district
judges are sworn in Decem
ber 2 by Emergency Judge F.
Don Phillips at Rockingham.
In the meantime, because of
next week’s Thanksgiving
holiday, the Southern Pines
Recorder’s Court held its final
session today (Wednesday).
An effort had been made to
set this aside as a “clean-up”
lay but a number of new
cases had to be heard and
Judge W. H. Fullenwider and
Solicitor H. C. Broughton put
in a full day of work.
At Aberdeen, Judge J. G.
Farrell and Solicitor Robert
N. Page HI have two or three
new cases scheduled for their
Friday morning session but
plan to devote most of the
session to cleaning up.
In Moore Recorder’s
Court at Carthage, Judge J.
Vance Rowe and Solicitor W.
Lament Brown—who held a
special clean-up session No
vember 7—plan to work next
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Lowder Named
As Prosecutor
Of New Courts
Carroll R. Lowder, 36, of
Wingate, now serving as judge
of Union County Recorder’s
Court, has been appointed
prosecutor for the new 20th
District court by Resident
Superior Court Judge John D.
McConnell of Southern Pines.
He will take office Decem
ber 2, when the State court
will be established in the dis
trict composed of Moore, An
son, Union, Richmond and
Stanly counties. His present
Union County judgeship will
terminate at that time.
He will be sworn in for a
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DIRECTORS ELECT OFFICERS
$146.50 COLLECTED
The Halloween collection
made by young people from
church groups in Southern
Pines, for the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
amounted to $146.50, reports
the Rev. Herman Winbeery,
pastor of the Southern Pines
United Methodist Churcl
sociation will present as its
second concert in this season’s
series. The Ciompi - Withers
Duo from Duke University, to
be7 held on Monday, Novem
ber 25, at Weaver Auditorium
at 8:30 pm, featuring Ciorgio
Ciompi, violinist, and Loren
Withers, pianist.
Giorgio Ciompi joined the
Duke University music facul
ty in 1964 as visiting artist vio
linist. He was born in Flor
ence, Italy, and received the
Paris, studying under Bouch-
erit. He later did advanced
work under George Enesco
and Dir an Alexanian. He
taught at the Conservatorio
Benedetto Marcello in Venice
under its director, Malipiero.
Before coming to the United
States in 1948, for a concert
tour and Carnegie Hall debut,
Mr. Ciompi concertized in
Europe.
He joined the NBC orches-
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Humane Society Plans To Renew
County Animal Control Proposal
PTA Show, 'Wedding'
To Be Given Nov. 26
A variety show and “wom
anless wedding” to be staged
by the East Southern Pines
Parent - Teacher Association,
for benefit of school pro
jects, will take place in
Weaver Auditorium, Tuesday,
November 26, at 8 pm.
At the November PTA
meeting Monday night, W. La-
mont Brown, local attorney
and solicitor of Moore County
Recorder’s Court, spoke on
teenage drinking. A question
and answer period followed.
(Editorial, Page 2, Section 2)
The Board of Directors of
the Humane Society of Moore
'”ouniv, at a meeting in the
Campbell House last week,
elected the following officers
for the year ending September
30, 1969: chairman of the
Board, Miss Betty Dumaine;
president, Raymond E. North;
vice-presidents, Mrs. James
Buchanan, Mrs. Colin Smith
and Mrs. Robert D. W. Vroom;
secretary-treasurer, William B.
Crews, Jr.; and general coun
sel, James R. Van Camp.
The board also discussed at
length the status of its pro
posal to the county commissi
oners to assume under com
pensatory contract the entire
responsibility for animal con
trol work.
Mr. North stated that the
proposal was first made to the
commissioners in March, 1967,
but there has not yet been
any final action taken.
An act of the General As
sembly, Mr. North pointed out,
specifically grants power to
the commissioners to enter in
to a contract with “HUSOM.”
Since the work of the County
dog warden has not been ef
fectively performed, he said,
the board believes the delay on
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THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimun
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.
November 13 61 29
November 14 62 24
November 15 69 35
November 16 72 48
November 17 74 54
November 18 67 58
November 19 66 37