A new
column of news from the Juni
per community is starting in
The Pilot today. Page 5, Sec. 3.
baseball is being played this
year at Red Springs. A visitor
tells about it, Page 5, Section 2.
VOL. 49 — No. 33
TWENTY-NINE PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1969
TWENTY-NINE PAGES
Portion of Public Housing Area near National Guard Armory
Longleaf Courts Public Housing
Meeting Need Of Area Families
By MABJORIE HAGAN
You walk into the, master
bedroom of the Keith Collins’
new brick house at 854 Mech
anic Street and see a new
modern bedroom suite, with a
scarlet and white patterned
tufted bedspread and match
ing scarlet curtains.
The four other spotless bed
rooms are also attractively
decorated. There are plenty
of closets and two bathrooms.
The kitchen is panelled and
the appliances are new.
It was never like this before
the first of May for Ware
houseman Keith Collins and
his wife and eight children.
Burned out in their rented
house in Pinehurst, they liv'
ed in a small trailer. They
were among the first of 70
families moving into the
“Longleaf Courts” west of
Southern Pines Housing Pro
ject.
The project—only now get
ting its landscaping comple
ted—^is full, and Executive Di
rector Russell Hubbard was
overwhelmed with applica
tions.
The entire project, which
includes an office building for
the Southern Pines Housing
Aberdeen Expects 'Biggest Ever'
All-Day Celebration On July 4
The Aberdeen July Fourth
Celebration Committee of more
than 50 members has lined up
a crowded day of activities for
its fifth annual event on Fri
day of next week.
With State Attorney Gener
al Robert Morgan and Major
General John A. Lang, admini
strative assistant to the Secre
tary of the Air Force in Wash
ington, as the guest speakers
at the noon hour, thousands of
Carthage Parade,
Horse Show Set
To Mark July 4
The Moore County Saddle
Club is planning for its sixth
annual July Fourth Parade
and Horse Show in Carthage,
Johnny Smith, president of the
club, has announced.
The parade will start at 10:30
a.m. on July 4 at the Saddle
Club’s arena and go up Saun
ders Street by the Post Office,
through the Carthage business
area and back to arena. Show
time will be 1 p.m.
Anyone with a horse, pony,
donkey, mule, wagon, buggy,
or cart is invited to participate.
A western horse show, with
25 or more exciting and color
ful events, is planned. Includ
ed are western pleasure class
es, pony pleasure, racking race,
barrel race, pole bending,
drink race, sack race, keyhole
race, egg and spoon, thread
the needle, rescue race, pony
express, model horse, potato
race and English pleasure.
A trophy and ribbons will
be presented to winners of
each class.
The Carthage Firemen and
Carthage Rescue Squad will
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Red Cross Planning
Free Swim Classes
people are expected to attend
the festivities which will ge1
underway with a parade start
ing at 10:30 a.m., led by the
Shaw Air Force Base Band and
conluding with a street dance
that night.
Skydivers from Fort Bragg
are expected to be “hitting the
silk” at intervals throughout
the day with military planes
performing fly-over salutes.
At 2:20 in the afternoon just
■before the first revue of the
beauty pageant contestants.
Congressman Earl B. Ruth of
the 8th District will make
brief remarks.
There will be all kinds of
activities in the afternoon in
cluding climbing the greasy
pole for the money on top,
sack races, three-legged races,
pie eating contests, water bar
rel fights between the fire de
partments, and an Order of
the Arrow Indian Dance.
Another feature for the
afternoon will be a “Cubmo-
bile Derby” sponsored by the
Cub Scouts of Moore County.
The boys have built their own
engine-less cars for participa
tion in the races.
The beauty pageant to
crown “Miss Fourth of July”
will take place in the Aber
deen High School auditorium
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Authority, was built by the
Authority with a federal loan
of some $1,200,000, to be, paid
back by income from housing
rentals.
The Authority began acquir
ing land for the project—lo
cated on the west side of ihe
U. S. No. 1 by-pass near the
Armory—in May of 1967. In
March, 1968, the contract was
let to Fred C. Gardner Com- I
pany of Kinston. The architect.
was Billy Griffin of Golds- ’
boro. I
Earl Hubbard, now mayor
of Southern Pines, was chair
man of the local-Housing Au-1
thority that set up the project. '
Other members were Col.
Frank Smith, vice chairman;
and the Rev. R. Martin Cald
well, Harold Tate and T. R.
Goins. I
At present. Col. ' Smith is .
Mrs. Troutmsn
Killed In Road
Accident Today
Mrs. Grace Greenwood
Troutman, 86, of Aberdeen,
was instantly killed and her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dwight
P. Troutman, 67, seriously in
jured in a freak accident at
9:45 am, today on US 15-501
at the Morganton Road junc
tion.
The top of the car driven
by Mrs. Dwight P. Troutman
was crushed down on the two
women by ' a 22,000-pound
bulldozer thrown from an
overturning dump truck
emerging from Morganton
Road. The impact brought the
southbound car to a stop in
a demolished condition.
Mrs. Grace Troutman was
dead on arriyal at Moore Me
morial Hospital, and her
daughter-in-law, who is also
from Aberdeen, was immedi
ately placed in intensive care.
She was listed in critical con
dition, with multiple, injuries,
this afternoon.
There was no collision be
tween the. car and the truck
according to State Trooper C.
A. Todd, investigating.
After crushing the Trout
man automobile, the bulldozer
struck the asphalt pavement,
leaving deep scars, and went
over the embankment west of
the highway. By the middle
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PRICE: 10 CENTS
Conimissioners Authorize
luvestigation Department
Under Grimm's Direction
chairman and Goins, who be
came ill, has been replaced by
Zebulon Gordon, the current
vice chairman.
Under an agreement with
the federal government, the
Town of Southern Pines is re
moving a slum dwelling for
lach new unit built by the
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H.^7ciark
Be Honored As
Peach Pioneer
The name of Henry Rollin
Clark, late resident of Aber
deen, who established a peach
orchard there well before the
turn of the century, will be
presented Thursday for nomi
nation to the State Department
of Agriculture Hall of Fame
as “the father of the Sandhill.'
peach growing industry.”
The occasion will be a meet
ing and luncheon of the Nortl
Carolina Peach Growers Socie
ty, which is sponsoring thf
presentation, at the Sandhill;
Peach Experiment Station a
Windblow, just over the Mont
gomery County line nea;
Samarcand.
Honor guests will be th(
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Horses To Race
Here Sunday In
Hew Free Event
All interested’ watch era^"
owners, riders and horses have
been cordially invited to ’ the
Quarter Horse Racing at Star-
land Farm on Midland Road
next Sunday afternoon ( June
29) at 3 pm.
The invitation is issued by a
group of local people who
have organized the Sandhills
Division of the North Carolina
Horse Racing Association
sfter attending the races be
ing put on at Winston-Salem
th’s summer, the first . few
near Tanglewood Park and
the more recent ones at the,
Dixie Classic Fairgrounds.
At a meeting last Wednes
day night (June 18) the local
group had a chance to meet
officials of the state associa-
ion. including President Bill
Deitzel of High Point and
Richard Muse of Winston-
Salem.
Local people attending the
Wednesday evening meeting
at Pineholme on Youngs Road
included Dooley Adams, who
has been active in organizing
the Sandhills Division, W. O.
Moss, MFH, the Moore Coun-
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THE
PILOT LIQHT
are
Free swimming classes
being scheduled by the Moore
County Red Cross Chapter.
There, will be classes for
beginners, advanced begin
ners, intermediate and ad
vanced swimmers, as well as
courses in junior life, saving
and senior life saving.
All interested should regis
ter for classes at the chapter
office, 244 S. W. Broad St., or
by calling 692-8571.
GOVEP.NOiR — A couple of
press pundits wrote last week
that Governor Scott had suf
fered his first defeat when he
agreed to the substitute tax
bill calling for a two-cent cig
arette tax and one'-cent soft
drink tax.
It’s difficult to understand
that interpretation, for it was
clearly a victory for the. Gov
ernor.
The Governor had called for
new and expanded programs
in State service, programs
that required more, money
than current revenue esti
mates would provide—some
thing like $100 million more,
in fact. True enough, his pro
posed tax package had inclu
ded a five-cent cigarette tax
and no levy on bottled drinks.
But his first goal was the ad
ditional revenue, and not the
tax package.
The fact that he was able
to bring dissident groups to
gether to accept a cigarette
tax of any kind was definitely
a triumph.
LEGISLATURE— The 1969
session of the General Assem
bly will set a record for lon
gevity. When they went be
yond June 13 a new record,
topping the 128 days of the
1967 session, was set. As it
looks now, a record of pos
sibly 145 days may be estab
lished.
Sooner or later, the General
Assembly will come around
to annual sessions. Rapid
change and shifting econom
ics, clouding the revenue pic
ture, will undoubtedly make
it necessary for the Legisla
ture to meet more often than
every two years.
Some moves in that .direc
tion were made this time. It
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%dustries Set
Vacation Times;
Others To Close
More than 2.000 emnloyes in
Moore County industries will
'o an vacation for from one to
wo weeks beginning after
vork on Friday, June 27.
The manufacturing firms
’’osing for two weeks, until
’’uly 14,-for employe vacations
nclude J. P. Stevens’ Gulis-
an Carpet Division plant in
Aberdeen, Proctor-Silex com-
tany of Southern Pines, Flet-
-■her-Southern of Southern
^ines and Pinebluff Products
Company.
The Sandhills Furniture
Company of West End will
ilose for one week, beginning
after June 27.
All plant operations will be
shut down for a vacation
aeriod.
Other plants in the county
ire expected to close for either
me or two weeks for employe
/acations. This is a pattern
hat was established several
/ears ago by some of the larg-
ir textile firms and has been
adopted by other manufactur
ing plants around the State.
In Southern Pines all busi-
less places plan to be closed
on July 4, and many retail
firms plan to close for two
lays, on both the Fourth and
luly 5.
In some cases, service plants
will close for a week the first
week of July.
MR. RUGGLES
John S. Ruggles
Succumbs At 67:
Rites Held Today
John Sumner Ruggles, 67, a
former mayor and outstand
ing civic leader of Southern
Pines, who in 10 years’ service
on the State Hospitals Board
of Control did much to put
this State in the, vanguard in
the fields of mental health
and alcoholic rehabilitation,
died Sunday at Moore Me
morial Hospital, where he
had been a patient about
three weeks.
Funeral services were to be
held this (Wednesday) after
noon at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, with the Rev. Martin
Caldwell, rector, and the Rev.
R. W. McKewin, assistant rec
tor, officiating, and burial in
Mount Hope Cemetery.
Pallbearers were to be Vance
A. Derby, Norris L. Hodgkins,
Jr., Bryan Poe, Harry Fullen-
wider, Arnix France and E.
Earl Hubbard.
Mr. Ruggles had a long re-
:ord of public service.
He was elected to the town’s
goyerning-, 6bdy in t\yp .differ
ent go-^ernAental area'^,.^ ih'
1949 to the town board of
commissioners, then after the
change to the council-manager
form, in 1959 and 1961 to the
town council, serving as may
or during the 1961 term.
He, resigned from the town
board in 1949, only a few
weeks after his election, to
accept the appointment of
Governor Kerr Scott to the
State Hospitals Board , of Con
trol, which at that time
governed all the State’s men
tal hospitals and related pro
grams.
He had fought to secure
passage of legislation intro
duced by Rep. H. Clifton Blue,
with other sponsors, in the
1949 General Assembly to es
tablish a state alcoholic re
habilitation program. As a
member of the State Board,
he was named by Chairman
John W. Umstead as chairman
of the alcoholic rehabilitation
committee, and he seized the
■opportunity to implement the
legislation in a manner to make,
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The Moore County commis
sioners, at a special meeting
Monday afternoon, voted to
establish an independent De
partment of Criminal Investi-
mtion, with Herman H.
Grimm as director.
Grimm, who was tired last
week as chief deputy sheriff
by Sheriff W. B. Kelly, will
begin his new duties on Ju.ly
The new department of in
vestigation and identification,
authorized by a recent act of
the Legislature, will be direct
ly under the jurisdiction of the
board of county commissioners.
Funds for operation of the
department were shifted from
the sheriff’s budget, and will
include salaries for Grimm and
an assistant, plus travel allow
ances and other expenses.
I The department will be set
( up in the basement of the
courthouse. Grimm was autn-
orized to employ his own as
sistant.
At the Monday meeting,
only Commissioner C. W.
Purvis voted against a separ-1
ate department. He said that
he felt criminal investigation
should remain in the sheriff’s
office. After the motion was
approved, however, Purvis
voted with the others to trans
fer the funds from the sheriff’s
budget, and made the mo
tion to re-hire Grimm.
Grimm said he regretted the
manner in which the change Grimm’s support but was op
had come about but apprecia
ted “the confidence the com
missioners have shown in me,
and the support of my friends.”
He said he saw the new de
partment as “a real challenge.”
He said he would do his best
to see it work out, as “I have
long believed such a depart
ment would be good for law
enforcement in the county.”
The special legislative act,
requested by the county com
missioners and introduced by
Rep. T. Clyde Auman, had had
posed by Sheriff Kelly. Aided
by many friends, who saw in
it a wealcening of his authori
ty, the sheriff had fought its
passage. After it was passed,
he had asked for Grimm’s re
signation.
The commissioners said
Monday they had not meant to
implement the act so soon,
and perhaps never, but “the
sheriff forced our hand.”
Chairman John M. Currie
said a decision had to be made,
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Town Council Here To Consider
Proposed Budget Of $730,000
A proposed budget of ap
proximately $730,000 for the
next year will be, considered
at a special meeting of the
So'uthern Pines Town Council
Thursday night at 8 o’clock.
The 1969-70 proposed bud
get represents a $43,000 in
crease over the $687,000 budget
for the past year.
Dr. C. C. McLean
Is ‘Veterinarian
Of Year’ In N. C.
The North Carolina Veteri
nary Medical Association hon
ored Dr. C. C. McLean of
Southern Pines with its “Ve
terinarian of the Year” award,
at the association’s annual
meeting in Charlotte, Tuesday
night.
Dr. McLean is a partner with
Dr. J. E. Currie, Jr., in owner
ship and operation of the Sand
hill Veterinary Hospital on
Midland Road.
A native of Moore County,
Dr. McLean has been associ
ated with the local animal his-
pital for many years, starting
work there with the late Dr.
J. I. Neal. The veterinarian
lives nearby on Midland Road
with his wife, the former
Laura Dew, and their daugh
ter, Martha. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McLean
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No increase in taxes is ex
pected, however, as an addi
tion to anticipated revenue is
forecast from an increase, in
property valuation within the
limits of Southern Pines of
approximately $500,000., An
increase in State funds is also
expected for the coming year.
The proposed budget, which
the new Town Council will
consider, will include general
salary increases for two em
ployes, with such pay raises
expected to consume most of
the budget increase.
The only other item on the
agenda for the special meet
ing tomorrow night is consid
eration to several requests for
beer and wine permits. All of
these are expected to be rou
tine, however, as they already
have been approved by the
State ABC Board.
see Granted $32,144
In Work-Study Funds
Sandhills Community Col
lege here is among 91 North
Carolina colleges receiving
Work-Study grants from the
federal Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, it was
announced this week.
Sandhills received an alloca
tion of $32,144, to benefit an
estimated 63 students. The fed
eral funds supplement private
donations in the work-study
program. The money pays stu
dents who need financial aid
for a variety of work perform
ed at the college.
Um A&P T® Open Tuesday At Shopping Center
Moore County’s fourth A&P _ Norge Upright Home Freezer . given
store will open Tuesday, July at each of the stores on
1, at 8:30 a.m. at the Sand- j August 2.
hills Shopping Center on U. j Other prizes will include a
S. No. 1 south of Southern $25 cash prize to be given
fines. I away each Friday and Satur-
The new store and the other day at each store during the
A&P On South West Broad five weeks,
street will offer prizes for five j An Emerson po^rtable TV
weeks following the. opening, set will be given each Satur-
winding up with the presenta- day at each store, and a
tion of a Grand Prize of a Kodak R-4 camera will be
from each store, each
Endowment Fund
For Library Is
Considered Here
[ Establishment of an endow
ment fund to provide a private
supplement to a librarian’s
salary and for the purchase of
more books is being considered
by the board of trustees of the
Southern Pines Library.
W. Lament Brown, chairman
of the board, said that such
funds will be necessary if the
library is to obtain a certified
librarian. The existing budget
ed salary is too low to attract
a professional librarian.
A certified librarian is ess
ential, he said, for Southern
Pines to qualify for state and
federal funds now available
for libraries.
Several persons have been
interviewed for the position
made vacant recently by the
resignation of Mrs. Kathleen
Lambourne. The latest pros
pect approved by the board
turned down the offer on Tues
day because of the low salary
offered.
Brown said that arrange
ments must also be made for
the library to be open at night.
It is also planned for the
Southern Pines Library to join
the regional library service at
an early date.
Changes in the library bud
get are being made, with the
Town Council alloting funds
on a lump basis to be paid
quarterly instead of on an
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Friday, except July 4, and
each Saturday for five weeks.
Customers may register for!
prizes daily, and many speci
als will be, offered at the new '
storG }
Manager of the new store is ' Commiss^JT'haf tt
Richard Leroy Guin, formerly STarines two inV";
assistant manager of an A&P Parolina fn’ t i °
■ - - Carolina, in July and August
Hearings Set On
I ‘Comet’ Proposal
store in Laurinburg.
( Continued on page 6
PW
into the proposed discontinu
ance of Seaboard Coast Line
III Trains 33 and 34 (The Silver
' Comet).
. ^ The hearings in North Caro
lina will be at Raleigh in the
II Federal court room at 9:30 am
On July 31, and in the Union
I County Public Library at
i Monroe at 9:30 am on Aug. 1.
Other hearings will be in
1 Richmond, Va., and Green
wood, S. C.
j George A. Goodwyn, assist-
11 ant attorney general for North
I, Carolina, will represent the
( Continued on page 6 )
Familiar Design Fealured In County's 4th A & P Supermarket
THE WFATFFP
Maximum and minimum
I temperatures for each day of
the past week were recorded
as follows at the US Weather
Bureau observation station at
WEEB on Midland Road.
I Max. Min.
JUNE 18 90 64
JUNE 19 90 73
JUNE 20 90 64
JUNE 21 91 62
JUNE 22 93 69
JUNE 23 90 69
JUNE 24 95 69
Rainfall — June 22 through
June 24 — 1.33 inches.