VOL. 36—NO. 17
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SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. MARCH 18. 1955
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> HORSES AND RIDERS who are expected to
take part in Saturday’s Stoneybrook races are,
left to right: Repose, winner of the Carolina
Cup at Camden last year, ridden by Charles
Harr; Erin’s Cottage, winner of two timber
races at Fair Hill, Md., last fall, ridden by Joan
Warrior Gay Favoriie for Sandhills Cup
Walsh; and Warrior Gay, winner of the Deep
River Hunt Cup at Richmond, Va., last year and
second place horse in the Sandhills Cup at the
1954 Stoneybrook meeting, ridden by Carlyle
Cameron. Repose and Erin’s Cottage are owned
by Mrs. M. G. Walsh. Warrior Gay is owned by
Charles Stitzer. (Photo by Humphrey)
Many Help Family
Hit By Tragedies;
House Being Built
Materials Donated,
Labor Offered For
Home Construction
Tuesday was a happy day for
Mrs. Purvis Thomas of Vass, for
on that day cement blocks werej
placed on the location fcr her
new home, to replace the one de
stroyed by fire the night of Feb
ruary 12'. The blocks were pro
cured from the Hoke Concrete
Works, who, according to Edgar
Oldham, brother-in-law of Mrs.
Thomas who is helping her with
arrangements for building, allow
ed a generous discount.
Offers of help are coming in
from many sources and indica
tions are that much of the work
will be done by volunteer labor.
Mr. Blue of the East Coast Con
struction Company of Southern
Pines, engaged at the time in con
structing a pond for ’Thurlow
Evans near the Thomas farm,
cleared off the place for the
building, and Wib McLeod of
Carthage erected a service pole
on the site to make electric pow-
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Stoneybrook Races Set Saturday
Income Tax Help
Available; April
15 Is Deadline
It’s getting that time of year
again—tax time—but a month
later than heretofore.
Both Fedaral and State Income
taxes, as well as the State Intan
gibles tax, are due this year April
15.
Earl E. Hubbard, Internal Rev
enue representative whose office
is in the basement of the post of
fice, with entrance on the New
York Ave. side, will be in his of
fice today (Friday) from 8:30 a.'
m. to 5:15 p. m., to assist taxpay
ers in filling out returns or pro
vide other Federal income tax in
formation.
April 1 through April 15, Mr^
Hubbard will be at his office each
day except Sunday, but has
scheduled Fridays only in South
ern Pines during March. How
ever, he said this week that there
is a possibility he can schedule
more time here later this month.
If so, an announcement will be
made in The Pilot as soon as pos
sible.
Slate Tax Assistance
Ralph Monger, Jr., of Sanford,
deputy collector for the North
Carolina Department of Revenue
in this area, has announced that
a representative of the Depart
ment will be at the Carolina
Pharmacy in Pinehurst, from 9
a. m. until 2:30 p. m. Wednesday,
March 23, to help with State In
come and Intangibles tax returns.
A representative visited the
Broad Street Pharmacy in South^
ern Pines Wednesday of this
week.
Information and assistance are
also available from Mr. Monger’s
office in Sanford.
The Eighth Annual Stoney-'^'
brook Steeplechase and race
meeting, to be held on Michael
G. Walsh’s Stoneybrook track
starting at 2 p. mi. Saturday, will
attract national attention as the
official opener of the 1955 rac
ing season in the United States.
Crowds bettering last year’s 8,-
000 are’expected to visit Southern
Pines for the seven-r'hce card to
be reeled off on the improved
and built-up track, now absolute
ly level throughout the course.
The entire track is visible from
the wide parking area which
faces the judges’ stand.
The program will be highlight
ed by the Sandhills Cup as fea
ture event. A grueling contest
over two and a quarter miles with
a sequence of stiff jumps, the
feature has attracted a full field,
including five of the country’s
leading timber-toppers.
Warrior Gay Is Favorite
The favorite to win is Charles
Stitzer’s Warrior Gay, to be rid
den by native-born jockey Carl
yle Cameron, who has four
straight wins already and is hard
after the fifth. The 13-year-old
Irish import ran a fine second
last year, was third in the Caro
lina Cup at Camden and won
the Deep Run Hunt Cup at Rich
mond. Va., besides finishing in
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PTA MEETING
SET MARCH 31
Regular monthly meeting
of the Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association has been
postponed fromi March 24 to
March 31, it was announced
this week.
Reason for the deferment
is that many members of the
faculty c»f Southern Pines
schools will be attending the
71st annual estate convention
of the North Carolina Educa
tion Association at Asheville.
March 24-26.
Mrs. Hodges To Be Guest of Honor At
Benefit Event; Pinehurst Program Set
Events of cultural and histor
ic interest—with special refer
ence to Moore County’s Alston
House restoration—will take
place next week in Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, sponsored
by the Moore County Historical
Association, of which Mrs. Ernest
L. lyes is president.
While they will highlight the
resort season, now in full swing,
they will hold far more than the
usual interest for Moore County
and North Carolina residents.
Mrs. Luther H. Hodges, wife of
the Governor, will be guest of
honor at the first event, a musi-
cale and tea to be held Wednes
day, March 23, at 3:30 p. m. at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew
M. Jamison, Jr., the former
Fownes home in Knollwood.
With Mrs. Hedges will be Mrs
Harry McMullan, wife of the
State’s Attorney General, and
Mrs. William Rodman, Jr., wife
of the State Senator and president
of the Sir Walter Cabinet of leg
islators’ wives.
The musicale will present Betty
Vaden Williams, of Raleigh, in
a program of songs of long ago,
with harp accompaniment. Miss
Williams, an accomplished and
charming entertainer, uses an old-
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Construction of
Modern Office
Building Starts
Roland R. MacKenzie of Pine
hurst and Cockeysville, Md., who
bought the former police station
lot on New Hampshire Ave., from
the Town of Southern Pines late
last year, has begun construction
of a modem office building on the
site.
G. H. Leonard, Jr., of Resort
Realty and Development Co., ren
tal agents for the building, said
that completion is expected by
August 1 at the latest. Ed Causey
of Lakeview is the contractor.
The one-story concrete block
structure faces 42 feet on New
Hampshire Ave. and runs back
100 feet. Plans caU for a frqnt
facade of extra-large brick, bay
windows in the Williamsburg Co
lonial style and double glass en
trance doors.
Thirteen offices, several of
which can be occupied as suites,
will open on a central corridor.
There will be utility and rest
rooms and a side entrance on an
alley to the west.
A central air conditioning and
heating system, so new that it is
not yet on the niarket, wUl be in
stalled, said Mr. Leonard. One
suite of offices is being specially
built for Resort Realty and Devel
opment Co., and the 'Thpmas Darst
and Co. securities firm, which
now have joint offices in the Hart
Building on Broad St. Resort
Realty is taking applications for
space in the new structure.
EASTER SEAL SALE
WILL BEGIN SOON
With Miss Blanche Monroe
of West End as chairman,
Moore ■ County’s Easter Seal
sale to aid handicapped chil
dren is expected to get sl;art-
ed next week. The county
quota is $2,000. Community
chairmen throug)iout the
county are being appointed,
and will mail out seals. The
drive runs until Easter—
April 10.
Local MenHonored
For Half Century
As Active Masons
Two members of Southern
Pines Masonic Lodge 484 were
honored for 50 years as active
Masons and two as 25-year mem
bers, during the annual banquet
of the lodge at the Pinehurst
Country Club Saturday night.
James Bernard Gifford and
Herbert Smith Knowles are the
50-year Masons, while James E.
Besley and Norman E. Day re
ceived 25-year recognition. i
Masons and their wives attend
ed. Mrs. Edwin L. Finch, newly
elected Worthy Matron of Mag
nolia Chapter, Order of the East
ern Star, responded to the ad
dress of welcome by the Rev. C.
K. Ligon.
Guest speaker was William J.
Bundy of Greenville, a 33rd-De
gree Mason and Past Grand Mas
ter of the Grand Lodge of North
Carolina. A Superior Court solici
tor, he has been endorsed for
judge in one of the newly crea
ted judicial districts. His amusing
address was enthusiastically re
ceived.
Mrs. Eleanor Caldwell of Mag
nolia Chapter, O. E. S., played
interlude piano selections. Special
musical entertainment was pro
vided by a quartet from Albe
marle, under direction of J. S.
Burris.
CAP PLANS DANCE
The Pinehurst-Southern Pines
Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol
is planning a dance to be held
April 30 at the Southern Pines
Country Club. The music will be
furnished by Buster Doyle and the
Aristocrats. This dance is being
put on to obtain needed equip
ment for the Squadron. Further
details will be announced.
Chicken Fry Wednesday Lannehes
Assistance Fnnd For Hnrst Child
Local Groups
Cooperating
With Project
Southern Pines civic, fraternal
and veterans’ organizations will
join with five church groups
Wednesday of next week in spon
soring a chicken fry at the Coun
try Club to help defray the heavy
medical expenses of a seven-year-
old local girl who is undergoing
protracted treatment for a rare
blood disease at Memorial Hospi
tal, Chapel Hill.
Expected to draw hundreds of
persons, the supper •will be serv
ed between 5:30 and 7:30 p. m. at
the outdoor barbecue Ifacilities
of the Elks Club on the Country
Club grounds.
Marie Hurst, who has been at
the hospital since January 8 and
is expected to remain there for
many more weeks, is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert D.
Hurst, 360 E. New Jersey Ave.
Other children in the fdmily are
her twin sister, Barbara Jean
and three brothers: Al, four and
a half years old who wears a leg
brace as a result of polio when
he was a baby; Jerry, three; and
Richard (Rickie) seven months.
The community-wide project is
the co-ordinated culmination of
many spontaneous wishes to help
the Hurst family with the stag
gering cost of Marie’s long hos-
pilalization. John Buchholz is
general chairman for the event.
Organizations and their chairmen
taking part include: Elks Lodge,
Larry Ryder: Lions Club, Walter
Harper; Catholic Laymen’s As-
soqiation and St. Anthony’s Altar
Guild, Mrs. Michael Duyk; Does,
Mrs. W. A. ’VVathen; VFW, Fran
cis Shea; Rotary, Johnnie A. Hall;
VFW Auxiliary, Miss Pauline
Crain; Kiwanis, John Ponzer—
together with representatives of
five local church groups.
Band Marches Today
To focus attention on the bene
fit supper, the school band will
march through the business sec
tion this (Friday) afternoon leav
ing the school at 2 p. m. Auto
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HURST ’TWINS—The twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
D. Hurst, Marie and Barbara Jean, are pictured here at an Elks
Club Christmas party in December, 1950, when they were three
and a half years old. A community-wide fund has been started
for Marie, who is undergoing long hospitalization for a rare blood
disease. Barbara Jean is a second grade student at Southern
Pines school. The twins are so much alike that even their par
ents hesitate to say which is which in this picture.
(Photo by Humphrey)
Club’s Golden Anniversary Banquet
To Honor School Teams, Rotary Anns
Joining with Rotary Clubs
throughout the world in marking
50 years of the service group’s ex
istence, the Southern Pines club
will combine its Rotary Interna
tional Golden Anniversary ban
quet with a traditional ladies’
night for Rotary Anns and recog-
Stratton Show
Going Up Today
An exhibition of paintings by
Patricia Stratton, Southern Pines
artist, will be hung today (Friday)
in the Library Art Gallery, to last
about two weeks.
Noted for her portraiture and
for her paintings of horses, Mrs.
Stratton is the former Patricia
Herring. A winter visitor here as
a child, she is now a permanent
resident. She is the wife of Will
J. Stratton, proprietor of Stratton
TV Sales and Service on No. 1’
Highway, north. They live at Ni
agara. She has been painting for
more than 15 years.
The Stratton exhibit follows a
show by Duncan Stewart of the
Art Department of State College,
Raleigh.
Jacob Lateiner Plays Tonight
nition of the boys’ and girls’ bas
ketball squads of Southern Pines
High School, with their coaches
and the school cheer leaders.
Presidents of the club, from the
late June Phillips, 1939-’40, to
Johnnie A. Hall, president who
will retire this year, also will be
honored.
The big event takes place to
night (Friday) at the Southern
Pines Country Club, starting at 7
o’clock. E. J. Austin is the Gold
en Anniversary Chairman and J.
B. Perkinson heads the banquet
committee whose other members
are the Rev. C. V. Coveil, Mr.
Austin, the Rev. W. C. Timmons
and James Hartshome.
Leon Gibson of Fayetteville,
past president of that city’s Ro
tary Club, and past disj;rict gov
ernor, who is noted for his inter
est in high school activities, will
be the banquet speaker, to be in
troduced by Mr. Perkinson who is
president-elect of the Southern
Pines club.
The VFW basketball trophy will
be presented by C. S. Patch, Jr.
Danf ing from 9 to midnight will
follow the banquet program.
LADY ASTOR LEAVES
Nancy, Viscountess Astor, a vis
itor in the Sandhills for two
weeks, left Wednesday morning
for Greenwood near Charlottes
ville, Va., where she is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson.
She is expected to go frbm there
to New York City and to sail for
England in a few weeks. In Pine
hurst, she stayed at the Manor Ho
tel, coming to the SandhiUs
through her friendship with Mrs.
Ernest L. Ives of Southern Pines.
Pianist Jacob Lateiner will play
selections from the work of Bach,
Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Cho
pin and Prokofieff in an appear
ance tonight (Friday) in Weaver
Auditorium, at 8:30 o’clock, un
der auspices of the Sandhills Mu
sic Association.
In 1948, when Lateiner was only
20, he gave his first New York
recital, but had already establish
ed an international reputation.
Immediately following his grad
uation from Curtis Institute in
1947, a record audience of 14,000
at Tanglewood gave Mr. Lateiner
a standing ovation for his per
formance of Beethoven’s Emperor
Concerto with the Boston Sym
phony under Koussevitzky.
Mr. Lateiner’s concert career
continued with appearances in the
United States, Canada, Mexico,
and Cuba until 1950. The next
three years he spent in the United
States Army as piano soloist with
the Army Field band, making
tours in America and Europe.
Tonight’s program will include
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MR. LATEINER
Bach’s Toccata (Predule and
Fugue) from Partita No. 6 in E
Minor; Beethoven’s Sonata No. 21
in C Major, Opus 53 (“Waldstein”),
Three Impromptus, Opus 90, by
Franz Schubert, four Chopin se
lections and Toccata, Opus 11, by
Prokofieff.
Lamb Heads Navy
Reserve Company
A Naval Reserve Composite
Company for this area is being
recommended for activation early
in April as a result of a meeting
of interested persons with Navy
Lt. R. B. Deadmond here last Fri
day night.
LCDR Robert V. Lamb of South
ern Pines was elected commander
of the unit. Twenty-two persons
attended the meeting, of which 15
were immediately eligible for
membership in the Composite
Company. The others must have
records transferred to the Sixth
Naval District.
GARDEN TOUR
Wednesday, April 6, has been
set as the date of the 1955 Homes
and Gardens Tour, sponsored an
nually by the Southern Pines
Garden Club, it was announced
this week by Mrs. W. D. Camp
bell, president. The grounds and
gardens of seven beautiful homes
will be opened to visitors on that
day. Four of the homes will also
be open, as will the Shaw House,
with its gardens and log cabin
filled with antiques.
Pilot Story Will
Be F eatured In
Telecast Tonight
“The Case of the Twilight
World” is the title given to the
NBC television drama, based on
Pilot stories by Valerie Nicholson,
that is scheduled for tonight (Fri
day) at 9 o’clock, on “The Big
Story” program.
The time was incorrectly an
nounced last week. The correct
time of the telecast, which can be
seen in this area from WTDV,
Durham (Channel 11), is 9 p. m.
Making the program of special
interest is not only the Moore
County background for the story
about a man whose isolation as a
typhoid carrier was ended by a
successful operation at Moore
County Hospital, but also a num
ber of scenes photographed in
Southern Pines and elsewhere in
this area. The scenes, to be used
as introductory material and also
in the drama itself, were made
here last week by George E. Gore,
NBC cameraman.
Mrs. Nicholson, who wrote a
series of stories about a typhoid
carrier living in Upper Moore
County, when she was a staff
member of The Pilot, received
the Pall Mall $500 award when
the typhoid carrier story was pre
sented as a radio drama last Sep-
'tember. The .televfision show
sponsored by Simoniz, brings her
another $100 award.
The Big Story is a Bernard J.
Prockter production. ’The script
was adapted from the Pilot stor
ies by Alvin Boretz. Television
actress Peg HiUias will portray
Mrs. Nicholson.
FLYING CLUB. PLANNED
Aviation enthusiasts were to
hold a meeting ’Thursday at 7:30
p. m., at the Rockingham-Ham-
let Airport, to form a flying club
serving the Sandhills area. All
pilots, former pilots and persons
interested in flying were invited
to attend.