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VOL. 49 -r- No. 19
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1969
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Voting On School Tax
Not Required; Hazards
Seen If It's Rejected
Title I federal funds can be
lost to the Schools by more
than one route. The best-
known way is by racial dis
crimination in the schools; an
other is by a decrease in local
financial support, the county
commissioners learned last
Tharsday afternoon in a joint
mjeeting with the county
bowd of education.
•The meeting had been re
quested by the education
bc^r4 “for exchange of ideas
anej information” on school
problems, and, since the
county’s statutory responsi-
bifity for the schools is to fur-
nfeh: funds for their elected
board's operation of them, fis
cal, problems were the main
ones discussed.
All the five commissioners
were present, with Chairman
John M. Currie presiding.
Six of the eight education
board members were present,
headed by Mrs. John L. Frye,
chairman. Unable to attend
were Wade Owen and Dr, H.
D. Bruton. Also present with
the school people were Supt.
Robert E. Lee, Associate Supt.
C. E. Powers and Assistant
Supt. Gene A. Riddle, who is
in charge of building, mainte
nance and transportation.
In discussion of the propos
ed supplemental school tax, to
iron out inequities within the
county and make Moore com
petitive in the field of teach
er procurement, it was
brought out that a county
wide vote would constitute a
gamble, with potential loss far
greater than possible gain.
If such a vote—apparently
favored by the commissioners
—were to pass, it would mean
the addition of approximately
$90,000 from Areas I and II
to the $207,000 currently be
ing collected in Area III,
where four former school dis-
(Continued on Page 6)
Chamber Operating Service For
Visitors; Other Projects Noted
An accomodations clearing
house, a cost-of-living index
study, arid development of an
outline for a financial state
ment on Moore County school
expenditures were among de
velopments reported by com
mittees last Thursday at a
meeting of the board of di
rectors of the Sandhills Cham
ber of Comriaerce.
President James E. Harring
ton, Jr. presided -at the meet
ing.
Chairman Dan Delaney of
the Tourist and Convention
Compiittee said that the cham
ber wbul^ be operating an ac-
coirimbdations clearing house
through May and each year
hereafter during the spring
mbriths. The purpose of the
clearing house is to help vis
itors to the area find hotel
and motel accommodations.
The Sandhills area will be
included in a cost-of-living in
dex now being developed for
small cities, Dick Mattocks,
chairman of the Retail Com
mittee, reported. The direc
tors also approved a request
by the committee for includ
ing Moore County under the
State’s Close Out Sale Law,
and the committee was asked
to notify Rep. T. Clyde Auman,
the county commissioners and
the various municipalities of
the recommendation. Mattocks
also said that a program of
consumer education is plan-
(Continued on Page 6)
Antiques Fair
Starts 3-Day
Showing Here
Clear skies and good crowds
marked the opening today of
the 12th Annual Antiques Fair
of the Moore County Historical
Society, to continue through
:.hur.:day and Friday, at the
National Guard Armory here.
From 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
daily, 20 leading dealers from
■several states who have leased
all the available spaces, will
be showing and selling their
wares.
A display of “Creative
Needlework,” comprising items
old and new, on loan from
Sandhills homes, is a special
feature of the Fair this year.
A lecture in keeping with it,
on “Historic Needlework of
Pennsylvania,” will be given
at 3:30 p.m. Thursday by Mrs.
Margaret Berwind Schiffer of
West Chester, Pa., noted anti
que collector and an authority
in that field, concerning which
(Continued on Page 6)
Village Of Whispering Pines Is Chartered;
Council Named, Pending Election On May 6
Jugtown Given
Grant Of $2,500
A grant of $2,500 has been
made to Jugtown Pottery in
Moore County by the North
Carolina Arts Council.
The grant was announced
Wednesday by Sam Ragan,
chairman of the Council, fol
lowing approval at a meet
ing in Raleigh last Saturday.
Funds received under the
grant will be used by Mrs.
Nancy Sweezy, the new direc
tor of Jugtown, to develop and
revive the pottery art in the
area.
Mrs. Sweezy in her appli
cation for a special Arts Coun
cil grant stated that she wish
ed to initiate an apprentice
program as one of the steps
in reviving the pottery indus
try in the region. Among her
other plans are to build two
new kilns and to reorganize
the clay processing system at
Jugtown.
The North Carolina Arts
(Continued on Page 6)
ii
PRESENTATION -- Both the new charter of the Vil
lage of Whispering Pines and a copy of the General As
sembly bill authorizing its incorporation were presented
to Whispering Pines leaders by State Sen. W. P. Saun
ders (front, at right) and Moore County Rep. T. Clyde
Auman (back, at right) in Raleigh on Friday. Others
shown, left to right, are: Lt. Gen. Carson A. Roberts, Rear
Admiral Wilson Leverton, William H. Toussaint, A. B.
Hardee and Dr. Robert E. Carey.
(Pilot photo by Duane Paris)
Candidates For
Council Now 12;
Primary Assured
College Appoints Moore, Watts I West End Plant
To Replace Chappell, Covington
Dr. Raymond A. Stone,,
c ii. .president of Sandhills Com-
Can^dates for the Sout ^rn College has announced
Pines Town Council rose to 12 important personnel ap-
durmg the past week, f suring i^tments which will become
a priinary election on April 28 ! effective this summer,
to reduce the number to 10
Acting Postmaster McDonald Out
Lawrence McCrimmon was
named officer in charge of
the Southern Pines postoffice
following the sudden disc
harge last Friday of Acting
Postmaster Woodrow McDon
ald.
The axe of the new Nixon
administration fell on McDon
ald with only three days’ no
tice that his appointment
would be terminated effective
with the close of business on
Friday.
McDonald was checked out
of office by Postal Inspector
Martin of Fayetteville around
1 am Saturday and McCrim
mon was checked in. Notice of
the transfer of service to Mc
Crimmon came in a letter
from the regional offices of
the Post Office Department in
Atlanta.
(McDonald, a Democrat, said
he wasn’t surprised by what
haippened, only that it hap
pened with such short notice.
He said that when the party
in power changed, he knew
what to expect and that “act
ing postmasters” would be the
first to go.
Similar notices to “acting
postmasters” are being sent
out all over the country, even
though President Nixon has
said that postmasterships will
be taken out of polities. There
are two other Democratic act
ing postmasters in Moore
County — Robert Farrell of
Aberdeen and J. W. Sheffield
of Eastwood who is acting
postmaster at Pinehurst.
Who will become postmaster
at Southern Pines depends
upon a number of factors.
Congress will have to pass
legislation to set up the new
system proposed by the Nix
on administration. Under this
plan, postal inspectors them
selves take charge, or all post-
offices with as many as three
employees would come under
a reviewing board. The em
ployees could go' before the
reviewing board and a post
master could be selected from
their number. If none were
eligible, new examinations
(Continued on Page 6)
for the ' May 6 voting when
five council members will be
named.
The five will then elect a
mayor from among their num
ber on May 7.
Mayor Pro Tern Felton J;
Cape], the council’s only Negro
member who told his fellow
councilmen at a meeting last
week that he would seek re-
election, made it official by
paying his filing fee.
Also filing since last Wed
nesday were;
—Howard C. Broughton, at
torney who has served as so
licitor of the now defunct
Southern Pines Recorder’s i
Court.
—James Hartshorne, a real
tor.
—A. Reynold Tucker, Jr., a
Carolina Power & Light Co.
executive.
Candidates whose filing has
been previously reported in
The Pilot are;
L. C. McDonald and C. A.
(Continued on Page 6)
John D. Moore will become
the director of student person
nel upon the retirement of S.
G. GHappeir and Eugene A.
Watts will assume the respon
sibilities of business manager,
replacing William E. Coving
ton.
Mr. Moore joined the staff
uf the office of student per
sonnel last fall as a guidance
counselor. A native of Wilson,
he holds a Bacheor’s degree in
English from UNC-Chapel
Hill, where he also studied law
for a year, and the Master of
Education degree from N. C.
State University, Raleigh. He ’
, J A, 5- i and plant manager, has an
has served as the coordinator, ^ ,
nounced.
N. MOORE SENIOR
Miss Southern Pines Pageant Set Saturday
Eight young women will
compete here .Saturday night
for the “Miss Southern Pines”
title and a chance to take part
in the “Miss North Carolina
Pageant at Charlotte in June.
In charge of the Southern
Pines Jaycees, with Jim Reid
and Bob Faulic as co-chair
men, the Pageant will begin
with a downtown parade at
9:30 am, when the public will
get a preview of the contest
ants, along with three visiting
beauties who are expected to
take part also in the evening
events in Weaver Auditorium.
The visitors will be Miss
North Carolina, Elisa Annette
Johnson of New Bern; the
North Carolina Blueberry
Queen, Carol Ann Bass of Sa-
lemburg; and, a newly an
nounced addition to the Pag
eant, Elizabeth Bynum Hall of
Roseboro, recently chosen as
Miss N. C. Peach Queen at
Hamlet.
The parade will start at the
town hall-park block and cir
cle the business section to fin-
HORSE SHOW SUNDAY
Another in the series of
schooling shows conducted by
the Mid-South Horse Show
Association is scheduled for
12:30 pm Sunday at Joseph
M. Bryan Jr-’s Sandy Lane
Farm, off Youngs Road, open
to the public with no admission
charge.
ish at Memorial Field, S. Ben
nett St. and Morganton Road.
On hand throughout the day
and evening will be Patricia
Ray of Carthage, who was
chosen Miss Southern Pines
a year ago. She will crown
the new title holder at the
conclusion of the pro.gram’s
events. I of testing.
The evening program—dur- | The contestants-—all ot
ing which contestants will ^ whom have been pictured in
compete in talent, bathing i The Pilot in photo features,
suit and “interview and for- j with short biographies, over
mal” categories—will begin at several weeks—are;
8 pm. Judging will be 50 per
cent on talent and 25 per cent
on each of the other two areas
—Sandra Leigh Davis of
(Continued on Page 6)
A'*
ON THE FENCE — Seven of the eight
contestants in the Miss Southern Pines
Pageant to take place here Saturday are
pictured at the Country Club of North Ca
rolina where they attended a luncheon in
their honor last Saturday. (Details in story
on another page). Left to right: Sandra
Davis, Sandy Greene, Zaida Lynch, Susan
wi
Reaves. Pat Sheffield, Cindy Simons and
Tina Wertenbaker. Not present for the oc
casion was Player McPhaul who was away
at school in Virginia. Photo features and
biographical sketchs of all the Pageant
entries have been appearing in The Pilot
for several weeks, concluding today.
(Donald L. Whitesell photo)
Robbins Youth
Dies In 1-Car
Wreck Tuesday
Will Have Open
House April 13
p' A new town — or to be
more accurate, a village —
|| was born in Moore County
last week.
•I Whispering Pines, .North
i Carolina’s newest municipali
ty, is unique in many ways
besides being the first in State
history to be incorporated as
a “Village.” For one thing, the
chief officer is a President
rather than a mayor, and the
village’s entire history is
quite unique in itself.
Legislation creating the new
Village of Whispering Pines
passed the General Assembly
in Raleigh last Friday and a
short while later the charter
was presented.
Officials lost no time in set
ting up the machinery of
government. The village coun
cil was sworn in at a cere
mony in front of the Whisper
ing Pines administration
building at 9:30 a.m. on Mon
day. The oath of office was
administered by Clerk of
Court Charles McLeod.
The new council is compos
ed of Dr. Robert Carey, Rear
Admiral Wilson Leverton,
William Toussaint, Lt. Gen.
Carson Roberts and Artis Har
dee. The council elected Mrs.
Juanita Dawson as village
clerk.
Immediately following the
installation the council met
and elected Dr. Carey as
President, Admiral Leverton
as President pro tern, and Wil
liam Toussaint as Village
treasurer. The council retain
ed W. Lamont Brown, South
ern pines attorney, as counsel,
and designated Leo Vause as
acting police chief, with Sam
Prim as police officer. South
ern National Bank was named
as the official depository of
Village funds, and the council
was formed into a committee
Sandhill Furniture Com
pany, Division of Stanley Fur
niture Company, West E*d,
will hold open house for the
public on Sunday afternoon, a whole for the designing
April 13 from 2 to 5 p.m., Guy I
A. Walters, Jr., vice president
(Continued on Page 6)
of federal school programs in
Lumberton and with the De
partment of Public Instruc
tion in Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore and
their children, John Jr., Debra
and Mary Kathryn, live on S.
Valley Road.
Mr. Watts, a retired Army
colonel, is a native of Lake
City, S. C., and earned a
Bachelor of Science degree at
the Citadel in Charleston. He
holds the Master’s degree in
business education from Tex
as Christian University and
i before joining the faculty of
Village People
Nominate 9 For
Council Voting
Nine persons were nomina
ted for the Village Council of
Whispering Pines at the first
village caucus at the Farm
Life School Monday night.
Those nominated were Mrs.
Adelaide Carey, Thomas O.
on the Highfalls Road, plung
ed down a 10-foot embank
ment on the right and crashed
against a tree.
This was Moore County’s
third highway fatality of the
year.
State Trooper O. E. Hardy
said there were no indications
of excessive speed, but that
Lassiter, who was alone in
his cld-model Pontiac, was
apparently eating an ice cream
cone and driving with one
hand.
Coroner W. K. Carpenter,
ruling the death accidental,
said Lassiter died instantly of
massive head and body injur
ies.
He had remained in Rob
bins at his grandmother’s
home to finish school when
his parents moved to Pitts-
(Continued on Page 6)
Pamela, Roger, John, Mari
anne, Kathy and Elizabeth,
four of them at their home on
Artillery Road.
Mr. Chappell, who was one
of the first appointees to the
staff of Sandhills when it was
first established in 1964, has
worked for five years on the
Legion Post Has
Special Events
The Sandhill Furniture
plant in West End has been
greatly enlarged and modern
ized since it became a divis
ion of Stanley Furniture Com
pany a few years ago.
The thriving plant now em
ploys around 470 people, spe
cializing in bedroom suites
and odd beds.
Refreshments will be serv
ed and a door prize given.
“We appreciate the cooper
ation of the people of the area
during our expansion program j
and want to extend to ' the [ f ^
Colonel
- „ibetore loining trie faculty oi r-aithpr EHwarris
Robert E. Lassiter, Jr 18, Sandhills College three years [ public in general an mvita- Hardee O
of Robbins, a senior at North | taught business courses lyisit ns rm Annl 13. > • ’ —
Moore High school, was kil-ig^ American University in
led Tuesday about 4:45 P-m- Washington, D. C.
when his car went out of con- j^r. and Mrs. Watts have
trol two' miles from Robbins'
tion to visit us on April 13,”
said Mr. Walters.
Dr. Bruton To Attend
'Task Force' Meetings
Dr. H. David Bruton of
Southern Pines, a member of
the Moore County Board of
Education, said he plans to
attend this weekend’s Raleigh
meeting Of the 100-member
“task force for education” that
development and progress of | will help to implement public
trie I’ollege. For 44 years, he school improvement proposals
has been recognized as one of of the Governor’s Commission,
the leaders in the field of ed- | The physician is one of nine
ucation in North Carolina, “task force” members from
serving as a teacher and ad- District 4, composed of 10 cen-
(Continued on Page 6) I tral and southeastern counties.
William E. Covington, Howard
King and Richard Gazley.
Five Council members will
be elected for two year terms
on May 6. Most of those nom
inated Monday night paid
their $5 filing fee to the clerk,
Mrs. Juanita Dawson.
Any other qualified resi
dent may file for the Council
up to noon on April 5.
Dr. Robert E. Carey, presi
dent of the Council, presided
at the caucus. It was announc
ed that four members of the
present temporary Council
did not wish to be nominated
(Continued on Page 6)
THE
PILOT LIGHT
LOCAL BILLS—April 11
has been set by the General
Assembly as the cutoff date
for the introduction of local
bills. Anyone interested in
such legislation bearing on
city or county matters should
keep that date in mind and
get in touch with the town
councils or county commission
ers as soon as posible.
If legislation giving more
decision - making powers to
Sandhill Post, American
Legion, marked the 50th an
niversary of the Legion’s
foui^ding Saturday by planting
a “freedom tree” at the post’s
hut on Maine Ave.; hearing a .'local authorities gets through
banquet addres,s by Gen. A.‘this session this could.be the
D. Bruce; presenting Gold last time when the General
Star membership to Mrs. Shir- ■ Assembly is deluged with lo-
ley Edwards, whose husband cal bills,
was killed in Vietnam, and
her two daughters; and recog
nizing Miss Barbara McEwin,
oratorical contest district win
ner.
Details and photos of the
events, crowded out of today’s
CALDWELL — Chancellor
John Caldwell of North Caro
lina State University is get
ting plaudits all across the
State for his convocation ad
dress on student unrest and
paper for . lack of space, will ' disruptions recently,
appear in next week’s Pilot. 1 As Senator Ralph Scott put
it, “What he said boiled down
to this: If anyo.ne is to be ‘run
off it will not be John Cald
well.”
A&P-ECKEB.D—One of the
talked about business mergers
is the purchase of the Eckerd
Drugs of Charlotte, the largest
drug chain in the Carolinas,
by the A&P food chain.
Boards of the two compan
ies will meet in June to give
approval to the purchase of
Eckerd by A&P.' Reported
price is $80 million in stock.
RUTH—Eighth District Rep.
Earl Ruth of Salisbury may
have paid off his big 1968
election campaign debt by
now. At any rate, he was one
of only two freshman congress
men to get money from the
(Continued on Page 6)
'Suggeslion Box' Is
Installed By Jaycees
A “suggestion box” has been
installed by the Jaycees near
the sign they set up urging
local residents to vote in the
May 6 town election, off Pen
nsylvania Ave., between the
railroad and S. W. Broad St.
Citizens are asked to place
in the box notations of town
problems that election candi
dates should be concerned
with. The Jaycees will discuss
the problems at meetings and
help to bring them out for
general discussion and the can
didates’ attention.
THE\i:irEATHER
Maximum and minimuTTi
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.
March 12 52 21
March 13 62 27
March 14 58 24
March 15 59 30
March 16 64 32
March 17 71 29
March 18 52 45