THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, JULY i9, 1956
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DON C. JENSEN
Don C. Jensen
Dies Following
Heart Attaek
Don C. Jensen, 62, died sudden
ly this morning in Moore County
Hospital after being stricken with
a heart attack a few hours esirlier
at his home.
Funeral services wiU be held at
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church Friday at 2 p.m. with the
Rev. Cheves K. Ligon, pastor, of
ficiating. Members of the South
ern Pines Rotary Club, of which
Mr. Jensen was a member and
past president, will serve as active
and honorary pall bearers. Inter
ment will follow in the family
plot at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Mr. Jensen, a native of Penn
sylvania, mov«l to Southern Pines
as a young man and established a
dry-cleaning plan^ which he was
operating at the time of his death.
He was also a member of
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church.
In 1935 he married the former
Ethel McDonald of Aberdeen, who
survives. A daughter, Lorraine,
of the home, also survives.
Little League
All-Star Team
Selected Friday
Five members of the Southern,
Pines Little League baseball
team have been named to the
Moore County AUlStars, it was
announced following a meeting
of the selection committee here
last Friday night.
The five—^Kenny Little, Harold
Williford, Topper Parks, Roger
Dutton and Eddie McKenzie—
will be on the team that will play
in initial elimination rounds for
the state championship.
Other members of the team are
Roger Ballard, Carter Burwell,
Andy Green and Albert Snead,
Pinehurst, Dan Cameron, Dan
WjUiams imd Paul Williams,
Robbins; and Jackie Phillips, and
Don Pascual, Carthage.
Alternates selected were Gar
land Simpson, Bobby Martin and
John Frye, Carthage, and Allison
Monroe and William Steed, Rob
bins.
First eMmination rounds in this
area for the state championship,
which will be played in Wilming
ton August 14-16, will be played
at Pinehurst August 3-4.
Fighting for the right to repre
sent this area at Wilmington will
be three teams—Aberdeen, the
Moore County All-Stars, and a
team from Stanley County.
Making the county all star sel
ections were Coaches Dutton of
Southern Pines, Babyak of Pine
hurst, McDonald of Carthage, and
Williams of Robbins.
New Assignments
Are Announced At
Air-Ground School
Two officers and four airmen
have been assigned to the USAF
Air (jtound Operations School
here recently.
Major Charles D. Easley has
been assigned as sin instructor in
“C” Committee. He was assigned
here from Shaw AFB, S. C., where
he was a group operations officer.
Major Easley, an officer since
March, 1939, has served in Eng
land, Africa, Italy, Newfoundl2md
and Korea, and has been decorat
ed with the Air Medal.
Major Easley, his wife, the for
mer Charlotte Weaver, and three
children, James, 11, Jeffrey, 7, and
Cynthia, 4, Jire residing at The
Oaks, Magnolia Rd., Pinehurst.
Captain Henry E. Simpson, Jr.,
has been assign^ as personnel of
ficer of the 4425th School Squad
ron. He was assigned here from
Donaldson Air Force Base in
South Carolina.
He has held general company
grade assignments since his com
mission in February, 1945, and has
served in Italy, Alaska, and Ko
rea, and has been decorated with
the Air Medal with two oak leaf
clusters.
Captain Simpson and his wife,
the former Patricia Ann Shriner,
are residing at 355 May St.
Airman l]c Aubrey H. Brewer
was assigned as a supply special
ist. He enlisted in October, 1946,
and since has served in Japan,
Korea and Germany.
Airman Brewer and hfs wife,
the former Serda Anna Standke,
Berlin, Germany, are residing at
Henry’s Trailer Court.
Airman l|c Paul H. McCoy was
assigned to the transportation sec
tion of the school after transfer
ring here from Langley AFB, Va.
He has served in Japan, Korea,
and England, and has been decor
ated with Khe Korean Service
Medal with three bronze stars.
Airman McCoy, his wife, the
former Sarah Louise Daily of Ath
ens, Ohio, and two children, Da
vid, 28 months, and Judith Ann,
eight months, are living at Pine-
crest Manor.
Airman Ijc James B. Morris is
assigned to the billeting section as
a clerk. He enlisted in the Air
Force in December, 1951, and
since served 19 months in Korea.
He was stationed at Langley AFB,
Va. before coming here.
Airman Morris and his wife, the
former Mary Joan Gunter, Buck-
roe Beach, Va., have a son, James
Arthur, six months.
Airman 2|c David H. Burke was
assigned here as a clerk in the bil
leting section. He was transfer
red from Langley AFB, Va. He
and his wife, the former Nina
Page, are residing at 130 W. Conn.
Ave.
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FUND RAISING for the Consolidated Presbyterian College was
the general talk at an informal meeting held at the Southern
Pines Country Club last Friday night. Meeting here with local
officials to discuss fund raising in the smaller churches of the
Fayetteville Presb5dery, and in other areas in the state, were
George McMillan, left, chairman of the Fayetteville Presbytery,
and Halbert Jones, of Laurinburg, trustees of the Consolidated
College. Voit Gilmore, chairman of the committee conducting
the fund raising campaign, reported more than $1,833,000 has
been pledged by 396 of the 534 churches in the North Carolina
Synod. Others pictured are Gen. R. B. Hill, Harold Collins and
A. L. Burney, local hosts for the meeting. (Pilot Photo)
With The Armed Forces
Army Specialist Third Class
James E. Headen, 24, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William! I. Headen,
(Pinehurst, recently participated
in a field training exercise with
the 11th Airborne Division in
Germany.
Specialist Headen is an assist
ant gunner in Battery C of the
division’s 89th Field Artillery
Battalion.
He entered the Army in MarA,
1954, and arrived overseas in
March of this year from an as
signment at Fort Chaffee. Ark.
Sgt. Paul H. Warren, son of Mrs.
Emma Warren, 255 Morganton
Rd., Southern Pines, recently was
graduated from the 11th Airborne
Division Jumpmaster school in
Germany.
Sergeant Warren, a member of
Company I of the division’s 188th
Regiment, entered the Army in
July 1954 and completed basic
training at Fort Jackson, S. C.
He was graduated from South
ern Pines High School in 1954.
Army Pvt. James C. Doss, Jr.,
18, whose parents live on Route 3,
Carthage, is scheduled to depart
from Seattle tjiis month for the
Arctic to take part in “Project 572-
West.’’
The project will carry supplies
and equipment to distant early
warning (DEW) radar stations in
the northern regions of Alaska
and Canada. Because of ice and
weather conditions, the DEW
bases can be re-supplied only dur
ing the short Arctic summer.
Private Doss is a stevedore in
the 571st Transportation com-
General, Foreign
Officers Taking
USAFAGOS Course
Major General Homer O. Eaton
Jr., United States Army, Captain
Theodorou Diogenis, Greek Navy,
and Captain Antonio A. Silva-
Gilberto, Brazilian Army, are at
tending the indoctrination course
at the USAF Air Ground Opera
tions School here this week.
General Eaton is the Com
manding General of the 40th Ar
mored Division, California Na
tional Guard. He was ordered to
active duty recently and has at
tended the special weapons and
guided missile orientation course
at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Upon completion of the one
week course here General Eaton
will be returning to his home in
Los Angeles.
Captain Diogenis is the Chief
of Staff of the Greek Navy. He
was commissioned in 1930 and
served on a destroyer during
World War 2. After the war he
was in command of a destroyer.
pany. The unit is expected to re
turn to its home station at Fort
Eustis, Va., in October.
A farmer in civilian life, he en
tered the Army in October, 1955,
and completed basic training at
Fort Jackson, S. C.
Army Capt. Harry P. Ball, son
of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert W.
Bathurst, Southern Pines, is help
ing train ROTC cadets at Fort
Hood, Tex., this summer.
Captain Ball is regularly assign
ed as assistant professor of mili
tary science and tactics in the
ROTC program of West Texas
State College. He is a 1947 grad
uate of the U. S. Military Acad
emy at West Point. Among his
awards. Captain Ball holds the
Bronze Star Medal and the Com
bat Infantryman Badge.
His wife, Helen, lives in Can
yon, Texas.
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SANFORD, N. C.
Officers Report
Two Gas Service
Stations Entered
Members of the Moore County
sheriff’s department are investi
gating two break-ins reported
near Southern Pines early this
week.
Monday night, the officers said,
someone broke into Mac’s Esso
station on US 1 just south of the
corporate limits and stole four
tires.
Another break-in was reported
Tuesday pight in the same vicin
ity. Several coin-operated ma
chines were pried open at John
Lane’s Gulf station and an unde
termined amount of money was
taken.
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Locations For
Blood Testing
Stations Listed
Several stations have been set
up for a voluntary, selective
blood testing prograrni in Moore
County which begins tomorrow
(Friday).
The program, planned in^ coop
eration with the State Board of
Health, will last through July 28,
according to Dr. J. W. Willcox,
county health officer.
Tomorrow (Friday), beginning
at 1 p. m. the blood testing sta
tions will operate at three places
in Southern Pines—the railroad
station, 412 Gaines Street, and
near the A&P store on Pennsyl
vania Ave. Another station will
be operated in Carthage on court
house square.
Saturday the same stations will
be open, beginning at 10 a. m.,
and will remain open until 6 p.
m. In addition, there will be a
station in Aberdeen located near
Food Lane supermarket.
The serological tests, designed
to detect venereal disease, are
part of a survey being conducted
in various counties of the state
and nation in order to locate
cases which have not found their
way to routine control.
State health department tech
nicians, in town this week, em
phasized the tests were volun
tary and were free.
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torists in good hinnor. They usually leave
here wearing a smile of solid satisfaction.
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both ways!
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