# FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1955
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
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Women’s Activities
and Sandhills Social Events
BESSIE CAMERON SMITH, Editor TELEPHONE 2-6512
Miss Newton Attends
Woodmen Circle Meeting
At Roanoke Rapids
Miss Mary Scott Newton, presi
dent of Dogwood Grove No. 253
of the Supreme Forest Woodmen
Circle, and of the South Eastern
District, drove to Rocky Mount
last Friday, where she was joined
by Mrs. Ethel Donaldson, state
manager and national committee-
woman, and together they attend
ed a special Grove meeting at Ro
anoke Rapids on Saturday even
ing. Miss Newton returned home
Sunday evening.
MOORE COUNTY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
HEARS FINE REPORTS, ELECTS OFFICERS
Workers program', gave an equal
ly fine report: 3,351 hours of w-ork
Three Hostesses
Honor Mrs. Gilbert
Honoring Mrs. James Gilbert of
Pinehurst, Mrs. Eugene McKen
zie, Mrs. Tom Connelly and Mrs.
Herbert Dietenhofer were joint
hostesses at a stork shower at the
home of Mrs. McKenzie Monday
night. The guest of honor was
presented a corsage made of a ba
by rattle and pins.
The group, 28 in number, play
ed bingo and solved a jumbled
word contest. Shower gifts were
arranged on a table decorated
with a floral arrangement. They
included many lovely gifts, for
which Mrs. Gilbert expressed
warm thanks.
Cake, punch, mints and nuts
were served.
Legion Auxiliary Has
Civil Defense Program
The American Legion Ajuxiliary
met last week at the Legion Hut
with the president, Mrs. J. D.
Hensley, presiding over the busi
ness session. Mrs. L. A. Des
Pland presented a program on
“Civil Defense,” and gave a re
port of the recent 12th district
conference at Laurel HiU, which
she and Mrs. Veta Gorman attend
ed.
Thistle Club Elects
Officers At Final
Meeting Of Season
The Thistle Club held a lunch
eon meeting Wednesday at the
home of Mrs. C. L. Worsham and
this was the final meeting of the
season. ^High scorers were Mrs. J.
S. Proctor, Mrs. J. G. de Berry,
Mrs. E. Weaver, Miss Mildred
Hatfield, Mrs. W. A. Carpenter,
Mrs. J. A. Lowdermilk, and Mrs.
Lee Worsham.
The following new officers were
elected for next year: president,
Mrs. J. D. Sitterson; vice-presi
dent, Mrs. Paul Ward; treasurer,
Mrs. R. E. Strouse; secretary, Mrs.
T. B. Short.
Mrs. deBerry, the retiring presi
dent, was presented a beautiful
azalea plant by the club.
The Moore County Hospital
Auxiliary, at its final meeting of
the year held Tuesday morning
at the Nurses Home, heard an
nual reports that justified the
feeling that a big job had been
well done. Mrs. Lawrence John
son, the president, conducted the
meeting, and Mrs. Craig White,
secretary, read the minutes.
Mrs. H. A. Peck, treasurer, re
ported that the hospital had been
sent a check in the amount of
$3,300, which completed payment
of the Auxiliary’s pledge of $5,000'
for the proposed building pro
gram. This was a majotr accom
plishment considering, the very
short period since the pledge was
made, and it was made possible
by receipts from the Auxiliary-
sponsored Ball, the annual dinner
at the Dunes, and the Razook
Fashion Show.
Mrs. Mumford Horr of Pine
hurst, chairman of the Volunteer
given to tiie hospital during the
past year by 42 volunteer work
ers. This was separate and apart
from, the work done in the can
teen. Mrs. William Huntley
chairman of canteen volunteers,
reported m-o-re than 1,500 hours
of service. Mrs. Voit Gilmore
canteen finance chairman, gave
the financial report.
Mrs. A. P. Thompson, chairman
of the nominating committee, pre
sented the following officers who
will serve during the coming
year: president. Mrs. Lawrence
Johnson; 1st vice president, Mrs.
Voit Gilmore; 2nd vice president,
Mrs. J. W. Tufts; recording sec
retary, Mrs. W. G. Brown; treas
urer, Mrs. H. A. Peck; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. J. F. Reming
ton.
The Auxiliary welcomes new
miembers and additional volunteer
workers.
OFFICERS’ WIVES CLUB HAS MAY DAY AS
THEME OF LUNCHEON MEETING AT INN
The USAFAGOS Officers’, Kan.
Wives Club held a luncheon, bus
iness meeting with election of of
ficers, and a program this week at
the Highland Pines Inn.
Luncheon hostesses were Mrs.
W. J. Ryan and Mrs. H. A. Smith.
They carried out the May Day
theme. On the punch table was a
tall candle which served as a
Maypole, with pastel ribbons be
ing twined by miniature dolls. In
dividual tables held smaller dec
orations of the same kind.
Mrs. George Elvey introduced
the following guests: Mrs. A. K.
Stebbins, III, of Loring AFB in
Maine, Mrs. George Walton of
Haddonfield, N. J., Mrs. T. J.
Lamb of Moody AFB in Georgia, nist, and she played four
and Mrs. J.'P. Rice of Fort Riley, tional numbers.
Mrs. H. L. Price presided over
the business session, during which
the following officers were elect
ed: president, Mrs. L. A. Silver-
n£dl; 1st vice president, Mrs. T. M.
Nicholson; 2nd vice president,
Mrs. W. J. Ryan; recording secre
tary, Mrs. Henry Jones; corres
ponding secretary, Mrs. Matthew
Toia; treasurer, Mrs. Erskine
Crew. 1
A delightful musical program
was presented by Major Newkirk,
tenor, and Mrs. Newkirk, pianist,
who recently came to Southern
Pines from Fort Benning, Ga. Ma
jor Newkirk sang six selections,
with Mrs. Newkirk as accompa-
addi-
In and Out of Town
Mrs. Z. V. Tolar has returned Col. and Mrs. Maxwell Waide
to her home in Charlotte after Smith of 495 South Ridge Street
Mrs. Overton Attends
Sororit/ Mothers Tea
Mrs. J. T. Overton was in Col
umbia, S. C., last Thursday to at
tend a tea for mothers of the DeL
ta Delta Delta sorority members
at the University of South Caro
lina, where her daughter Jeanne
is a senior.
Special Showing
At Theodota’s
Theodota’s gift shop is holding
its annual showing of china, sil
ver and crystal today (Friday/
and tomorow. This event always
attracts women visitors from va
rious places.
LOOKING
AHEAD
EASTERN STAR
Magnolia Chapter 26, OES,'will
meet at 8 o’clock tonight (Friday)
in the Masonic Hall.
RUMMAGE SALE
Circles of the Church of Wid,e
Fellowship will hold a rummage
sale today (Friday) and Saturday,
all day, at the O’Callaghan build
ing on East Connecticut Avenue.
LEGION AUXILIARY
The American Legion Auxiliarj
will hold an important meet)
with election of officers, at the
Legion Hut at 8 p. m. next Tues
day.
BIBLE CLASS
The Learn More Bible Class
will meet at 8 p. m. Monday at
the home of Mrs. Morris Arnold
on Page Street.
Mrs. Jack Richardson and chil
dren, Jaan and Charles, of Balti
more, Md., are spending a week
here as guests of M)rs. Richard
son’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
G. Council.
visiting her son Z. V. Tolar, Jr.,
and family on South May Street
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Ottmann of
Winsted, Conn., visited Senator
and Mrs. J. H. Caulfield at their
Knollwood apartment recently
The Ottmans were on their return
trip from Palm Beach, Fla.
Miss Nannie Gilchrist of Troy
spent the weekend with her sis
ter, Mrs. J. S. McLauchlin, and
Mr. McLauchlin at Wayside Inn.
Mrs. Jack Bechdolt, writer and
illustrator who is known profes-
siq^ally as Decie Merwin, was the
weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Lochamy McLean. Mrs. Bechdolt
returned to New York Monday
night after a year’s ^tay in South
ern Pines, where she has madii
many friends.
Chief Warrant Officer A. A
Lunceford, whose wife and daugh
ter Judy have resided at 29C
North May Street for the past
three years, will arrive in South
ern Pines May 16 from Kdrea,
where he has been serving since
February of last year. This news
was received Tuesday by Mrs
Lunceford. After his 30 day leave
here, the family will transfer to
Otis AFB in Massachusetts. Judy
is in the sixth grade of the South
ern Pines School.
Col. George V. Lane, who with
his family resided in Southern
Pines for a while and since lead
ing here has completed a tour of
duty in Korea, was a weekend
guest of Mr. and Mrs. James
Springer. He flew a jet plane to
Charlotte from Wright-Patterson
APB in Dayton, Ohio, where he
is presently stationed, and the
Springers drove him back to
Charlotte Sunday. The family
sent regards to friends here. ’The
Lanes have another child since
leaving here, a junior Sheila. Mrs.
Lane was active in the USAF
AGOS Officers’ Wives Club while
in Southern Pines.
Mrs. A. K. Stebbins, III, and
sons, Stephen and Gregory, of
Loring AFB, Maine, are visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Colin
G. Osborne. Major Stebbins plans
to join them soon for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. King, -Jr.,
were thrilled to have a telephone
call a few nights ago from Iheir
son, Mark, IH, from Hawaii. He
was getting along fine, his only
complaint being that he had not
been receiving his mail from
home.
Miss Mary Wintyen returned
Tuesday from Bamesville, Va.,
where she spent several days as
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Robinson, former Southern Pines
residents.
Mrs. J. A. Smith spent last
weekend in Raleigh visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Robert Davenport,
and family .
had as their guest for several days
Mrs. H. A. ICnorr of Pine Bluff,
Ark. Mrs. Knorr, national DAR
genealogist, had been attending
the National Congress of the
Daughters of the American Revo
lution in Washington, and stopped
here on her way to Atlanta, Ga.
Lt. and Mrs. John S. Ruggles,
Jr., and daughter, Stephanie, ar
rived Wednesday from Fort
Campbell, Ky., to visit his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ruggles. Lieu
tenant Ruggles is on 20-day leave
before a new assignment.
Dr. Boyd Starnes will be in
Winston-Salem today (Friday)
and Saturday, attending the North
Carolina Chiropractic Convention
at the Robert E. Lee Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Younts spent
last week on a combination busi
ness and pleasure trip to Texas
and Mexico. They flew to San
Antonio, where Mr. Younts spoke
to the Texas Daytime Broadcast
ers Association, then went to Mex
ico City and Acapulco for a few
days of sightseeing.
Recreation Plans
Announced; Lake
Will Be Readied
A 10-week summer town recre
ation program will open Monday,
June 13 and close Friday, August
19, Recreation Director Irie Leon
ard announced this week.
The newly organized recreation
department—now a regular de
partment of the town— plans to
fix up the town lake off Midland
Road and have it ready for swim
ming by the last week in May,
Leonard said.
Already under way are: the Lit
tle League baseball program, co
sponsored by the Lions Club; and
the Pony League program, co
sponsored by the VFW.
An adult softball program is
planned and a meeting wiU be
held,' time and place to be an
nounced next week, for all adults
interested in this activity. •
Detailed schedule for the entire
program will be published when
ready, the director said.
Eligible for Little League base
ball are boys who will not be 12
before August 1. Interested boys
are invited to join practice ses
sions at Memorial field from 9
a.m. to noon, Saturdays.
Boys whose 12th birthday falls
on or after August 1 are eligible
for Pony Leogue ball. They prac
tice on Saturday afternoons.
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WEARING NEW HATS—Members of the
Blue Knights Athletic Club, a local organization
that promotes high school athletics, are shown
as they gathered Monday night at the school
cafeteria for a covered dish supper—sporting
the blue and white hats that are their badges of
membership and are to be worn at all athletic
contests of high school teams.
Front row, left to right: Mrs. Ike Woodell,
Mrs. Dirk Verhoeff, Gene Blackwelder, Garland
Pierce, A. C. Dawson, E. J. Austin, secretary;
Mrs. L. T. Clark, Jim Perkinson.
Second row, Mrs. Jimmy Hobbs, C. N. Page,
Harry W. Chatfield, Jr., Mrs. Harry W. Chat-
field, Jr., Mrs. Gamer Williams, W. B. Holliday,
L. T. Clark.
Third row: Mrs. Garland Pierce, Mrs. Irie
Leonard, Mrs. J. B. Perkinson, Mrs. W. P. Davis,
Mrs. C. S. Patch, Jr., Mrs. John Cline, John
Cline, C. S. Patch, Jr. (Photo by Humphrey)
Death Strikes Moore County Family
Twice Within A Few Hours Last Week
Tragedy struck twice within a'^
few hours at a Moore County
family last week when Mrs. A. F|
McKenzie, 73, of Route 1, West
End, (Eastwood), was fatally
stricken at her home Thursday
morning soon after learning o4
the death of her son, Charles
Franklin McKenzie, 38, who diea
earlier that morning in a Phila
delphia, Pa., hospital.
She is survived by three sons,
Curtis of Pinehurst, Archie ol
West End, and Coolidge of Manly;
six daughters, Mrs. W. E. Black,
Mrs. Frank Cox, Mrs. John C.
Frye, Mrs. David Vest, Mrs. Arch
ie Farmer, all of West End, ano
Mrs. C. J. Long of the home and
Southern Pines; 33 grandchildren
and 28 great-grandchildren.
Double funeral services were
held Sunday at 2 p. m. at Culdet,
Presbyterian Church. Burial
in the church cemetery. The Rev
Thomas Young and the Rev. H
gan Yancey officiated.
Mr. McKenzie, a salesman, v
a Navy veteran of World War I
Mrs. Long, the former Bertie
McKenzie, is a waitress at Holli
day’s Restaurant, Southern Pines,
League Council
To Meet Here
Next Wednesday
The North Carolina Council of
the 'League of Women Voters
meets here next week in annual
convention with headquarters at
The council is made up of the
presidents and one delegate from
each local league unit. Also at-
I tending the meeting will be offi
cers and members of the board of
directors of the state league,
the Southland Hotel. Wednesday
and Thursday-are the dates.
From 50 to 75 are expected to
attend the luncheon on May 11.
Besides out-of-town delegates
many members of the local league
Young Musicians
To Play May 14
The sixth annual Young Musi
cians Concert, sponsored by the
Sandhills Music Association, will
be presented at the Pinehurst
Country Club Saturday, May 14,
at 8:30 p. m.
Dr. William F. Hollister will be
master of ceremonies for a pro
gram of piano and vocal selec
tions, with one trumpet number^
by 17 outstanding students ot
public school and private music
teachers in Moore County.
The program will be given in
detail in next week’s Pilot.
will attend the lunch and also
the workshop sessions scheduled
for Wednesday, the latter starting
at 10 a.m. and lasting through the
day.
Members of the board of direc
tors will stay over for a meeting
of the board on Thursday before
returning to their respective
homes.
Workshop meetings, open to the
local league, will include discus
sions on unit training, voter serv
ice, leader’s training, the state
program and league membership
problems.
Mrs. Alwin FoUey is in charge
of reservations for the affair and
Mrs. Berenice Harrington, owner
and manager of the Southlamd, is
planning for use of the dining
room. as a-meeting room prior to
the luncheon itself.
A Conservative estimate is that
North Carolina producers would
have to increase their flocks by
2,507,500 hens to supply enough
eggs to meet the state’s consumer
demands.
Insurance Women
To Meet 3 Days
At Mid Pines Club
The North Carolina Associatiofi
of Insurance Women, an organiza
tion with state-wide membership,
opens a three-day meeting at the
Mid Pines Club here today (Fri
day).
Mrs. Chester York of States
ville, State president, will pre
side at the business sessions. Con
vention chairmen are Miss Gwen
dolyn Jones and Mrs. Ind Steagall
of Charlotte, both past State pres
idents.
Mrs. John Ruggles and Miss
Geneva Hall, of the John S. Rug
gles insurance firm, are local
members of the Association.
The meeting will open with
registration at 3 p. m. today, fol
lowed by an executive board
meeting at 4 p. m. and dinner at
7^p. m..
The convention’s opening busi
ness session will be held at 8:30
p. m.
The second session will begin
at 10 a. m., Saturday when re
ports will be heard from State of
ficers and standing committee
chairmen and new officers will
be elected.
Bknquet Speaker
Speaker for the formal ban
quet Saturday will be Eugene A.
Toale, manager of the New York
office of Security-Connecticut In
surance Companies, former di
rector of education of the Nation
al Association of Insurance
Agents. The new officers will be
installed by S. G. Otstot, execu
tive secretary of the N. C. Associ
ation of Insurance Agents.
The banquet will be followed
by a reception with Charlotte As
sociation of Insurance Women as
hostesses. Charles F. Gold, State
Commissioner of Insurance, and
Stanford Webb of Asheville, pres
ident of the N. C. Association of
Insurance Agents, will be special
guests.
The new executive board will
have a breakfast at 9 a. m. Sun
day.
In the area stretching from
Swansboro, on Bogue Sound,
south to the state line, anglers en
joy a range of catches from small
scrappers to large billfish.
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