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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1956
INS AND OUTS
Capt. and Mrs. Clyde B. Trent,
Jr., have returned home after an
mteresting vacation in Bermuda.
They went by train to Washing
ton, then flew to New York and
from there to Bermuda, where
they spent several days. They re
turned on the Queen of Bermuda
to New York, remaining there
for a week of sightseeing before
coming back to Southern Pines.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Morell
have returned to their Midland
Road home after spending the
summer, as is their custom, with
her sister in Peace Dale, R. I.
They report a pleasant vacation.
Mr. Morell did quite a lot of fish
ing, which he greatly enjoyed.
Mrs. Edith Gallaway of the
Vogue Beauty Shop will go to
Charlotte to attend the annual
Carolina Beauty and Harvest
Festival from Sunday through
Tuesday, Mrs. Margaret Nance,
hair stylist for the Vogue, recent
ly attended a Cosmetologists
Guild conference in Raleigh,
where she saw demonstrations
by Meth and Colesont of New
York.
Paul Butler was a patient at
Moore County Hospital several
days this week for examination.
A dislocated disk has been giving
him trouble, but it was decided
not to operate at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Menzel re
turned last week from a 12-day
trip. They visited his sister, Mrs.
H. E. Bonnell, in Caldwell, N. J.,
then went to Spring Lake and
picked up their son Jimmy, who
had worked there during the sum
mer, and the three went to Provi
dence, R. I., to visit Mr. and Mrs.
E. M. Mauro, Jr., and baby, Linda.
Mrs. Mauro is the former Janet
Menzel. Jimmy returned to
Southern Pines with his parents
and he has now entered the Uni
versity at Chapel Hill for his
sophomore year.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Myers of
Beaumont, Tex., have been visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ramsey for
the first time in 20 years.
Dr. and Mrs. William F. Hollis
ter and children, Freddy and Sal
ly, and his mother, Mrs. Anna
Hollister, spent five days last
week at Garden City. Dr. and
Mrs. Hollister left this morning
for Asheville to attend a meeting
of the North Carolina Surgical So
ciety.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fitanides and
son, Philip, have returned from
their summer home iA Ogunquit,
Maine, and Mr. Fitanides has re
opened his shoe repair shop.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Koether
sister of Mrs. David P. Currey,
left on Wednesday of last week
to return to her work in New
York City. She had been staying
with the Currey children, David
and Donna Leigh, whose mother
has been a patient at Walter
Reed Hospital in Washington, D.
C. for some time. David is now
staying with Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn
FoUey and Donna Leigh will be
with Col, and Mrs. .John Loisel
until Mrs. Currey returns from
the hospital
Capt. and Mrs. M. G. Stutz
came down from Virginia Beach
for a short visit and his mother,
Mrs. D. G. Stutz, returned home
with them.
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A Recent Photograph of Old Bethesda
Old Bethesda Plans Homecoming
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Mr. and Mrs. George McDon
ald spent last weekend with his
sister and brother-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Sellars, who' have
recently built and occupied a
new home in Hartsville, S. C.,
moving there from Ruby, S. C.
Mrs. Howard Burns of Lake
Wales, Fla., and son, Scotty
Burns, of Raleigh were in town
a day last week, seeing old
friends in this, their former
home town.
Mrs. G. W. Griffin and Mrs.
Bryce Griffin of Vass called on
Miss Mary Scott Newton Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Frances Flack and Miss
Thelma Locklear of Franthel
Beauty Shop will spend from
Sunday through Tuesday in
Charlotte attending the annual
Carolina Beauty and Harvest
Festival at the Hotel Charlotte.
A number of guest artists are
scheduled to be present to dem
onstrate the newest trends in va
rious phases of beauty culture.
Miss Bettie Jean Blackmon, a
freshman at Pfeiffer College,
Misenheimer, spent last weekend
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.,
I. L. Blackmon.
Mrs. J. E. Polston visited
friends in Mullins, S. C., Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. George Pottle
and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Alien
spent last weekend at Dunes Vil
lage, Myrtle Beach, S. C., where
they enjoyed golf and swimming.
Mrs. J. B. Cameron of Manly,
who has been visiting relatives
in Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa
for nearly two months, is expect
ed home tomorrow.
Larry Richardson, year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Eveleth Richard
son, is receiving treatment for
pneumonia at Moore County
Hospital.
Old Bethesda Church wiU hold
its annual Home Coming Sunday.
On this day, September 30, the
congregation, which normally
worships in the . Aberdeen
church, wiU move out to the old
building “at the head of the
Rockfish,” as the old histories
put it, to meet in the annual hos
pitality and worship celebration
for which the old church, first
organized in 1790, has long been
the gathering place. (
The morning service will get'
under way at 11:15. The sermon
will be delivered by the Rev. J.
McDowell Richards, president of
Columbia Theological Seminary
at Decatur, Georgia. There will!
be special music by the glee club I
of Flora Macdonald College. ' I
At the noon hour there will be!
the usual social hour as families
gather under the trees with their
picnic lunches.
> In the afternoon, at two
o’clock. Dr. Frontis Johnston, of
the department of history of
Davidson College, will deliver an
address on some phase of the his
tory of the Presbyterian College.
Chairman of the occasion is E.
T. McKeithen, Elder in Bethesda
Church. The Rev. Jack W. Ewart
is pastor.
The old church on the back
road between Aberdeen and
Southern Pines, is used only
rarely during the year. The pres
ent building is said to be the
third on the same site.
James Boyd, author of Drums.
Marching On and other novels,
in the introduction which he
wrote for the book, “Old Bethes
da,’’ by Bion Butler, wrote thus
of an early impression of the
I church.
I “There stood the church, a
great square box on sparse rock
piers. It was not much more than
the simplest possible way of pro
viding a place of worship for a
great number of people. But
there is a good deal to be said
for the simplest way of doing
anything. It still seems to me a
sounder building than most of
the more elegant churches that
now dot our more progressive
countryside. I tium from their
billious glass and imitation stone
to Btethesda’s tall, thin windows
and restful sides, silvered with
weather and almost forgotten
paint. Its large simplicity among
the oaks gave it a certain meagre
and unassuming dignity.”
that within the forseeable future
we can maintain the armed forces
we need without the draft.”
He went into a great deal of de
tail why this was so. The press
got a bit restive during this
stretch, doubtless knowing it all
beforehand.
The thing seemed a bit out of
balance to us. 'Whatever was said
now, his opponents would keep
right on saying the other. If the
remark had been a political stunt
to win votes, it had been stupid,
absolutely bound to boomerang.
It hardly semed as if Stevenson
could be that naive. On the other
hand, there was his silly byplay
mispronouncing the word “elite”.
Ridiculous of him and his advisers
to imagine that his intelligent
hearers would believe he didn’t
know how to pronounce the word,
while his unintelligent ones
wouldn’t know he had mispro
nounced it. It made him look
both silly and, for the first time,
tricky. Let’s hope it backfired so
hard that it taught him not to let
himself be talked into such mon
key-shines again.
Later we asked one of the
campaign people what, if any,
were the plans as regards com
ing to North Carolina, and got a
disappointing answer. It looks
unlikely, apparently, at the pres
ent time. This contemplated trip
by air is a rigorous one; no very
definite plans for the next jaunt
have been made, we take it, or
will be till they see how this trip
goes. But when Stevenson was
asked the question: “Do you con
sider that you are sure of the
vote of the Sbuthern states?” he
said: “Yes,” and then went op,
with a grin, “but I’m sure Of the
vote of a lot of other states, too,
you know!”
And that may explain one rea
son why Adlai may not get down
this way. It’s a reason that, to
our way of thinking, just shows
the high intelligence of the land
south of the Mason-Dixon line,
and the good judgment of the can
didate.
However, lest any should imag
ine Stevenson wont try to come,
we must add that he showed great
affection for his “North Carolina
home.”
He asked about the weather and
the crops and the folks. There
was a real yearning look in his
eye as he asked about the pros
pects for deer hunting this ^ear.
We couldn’t do more than say:
“You’d better come and see,” but
we said his friends were looking
for him and promised him the
warmest welcome yet from Moore
County.
be held Sunday from 2 until 4:30
p. m. The evening worship serv
ice is scheduled at 7:30 with the
Rev. Caudle leading the service.
ALL-DAY
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Three communities — Robbins,
West End and Lakeview—are
not formally participating in the
drive because they contribute
through the Community Chest. I
Frank Yandell, district Scout!
executive, said today that morej
than 750 adults in the Council
would work in the drive, in ef
forts to raise the needed funds.
“The budget this year is about I
eight per cent more than it was
last year,” he pointed out, adding
that the number of scouts taken
into the various troops has in
creased a far greater percentage.
Governor Hodges has told
Scout officials that he would ap
pear on a TV hookup Monday
morning at 10 o’clock with a
group of outstanding scouts from
all the state’s councils to help get
the canvass off to a good start.
will select a candidate fear a
beauty queen contest, which will
be held between halves.
The band and glee club will
also perform then and have been
putting together a special show
for the occasion.
The student selling the most
tickets for the game will receive
a record player, according to the
Rotary Club, and a cash award
will be presented the class sell
ing the most.
Southern Pines defeated Clay
ton last year for the Eastern
Championship in six-man foot
ball. This year they will be fav
ored again, thou^ several in
juries to the squad may cut down
the chances somewhat.
Rotary members have advised
early purchase of tickets.
CALENDAR OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS AT PINEHURST
October 1956 - May 1957 '
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Sept. 30—The Carolina Hotel informal opening.
Oct. 6—The Holly Inn opening.
Oct. 20—The Carolina Hotel formal opening.
Oct. 22-27—5th Annual North & South Invitation Seniors Golf
Championship.
Nov. 15—Mrs. John D. Chapman Memorial Mixed Foursomes—Coun
try Club.
Nov. 16-18—Southern Seniors Golf Association—9th Annual Cham
pionship.
Nov. 21—2nd Annual Tufts Memorial Golf Tournament—mixed four
somes.
Nov. 22—Annual Thanksgiving Hole-In-One Turkey Shoot—C. C.
Nov. 23—Harvest Square Dance—Carolina Hotel.
Nov. 25—Gymkhana and Pet Show—Carolina Hotel.
Dec. 24—^Annual Christmas Hole-In-One Turkey Shoot—C. C.
Dec. 24—Annual Christmas Party for Children—Carolina Hotel.
Dec. 27—9th Annual Donald J. Ross Memorial Jr. Golf Championship.
Dec. 30—20th Annual Informal Winter Horse Show—Carolina Hotel.
Dec. 31—Annual New Year’s Eve Ball—Country Club.i
Jan. 7-13—40th Annual Pinehurst Field Trials—Holly Inn headquar
ters.
Jan. 11-12—Mid-Southern Invitation Duplicate Bridge Tournament
Carolina Hotel.
Jan. 20 Informal Horse Show—Location to be announced.
Feb. 2-3—Mid-Winter Skeet Championships—Pinehurst Gun Club.
Feb. 3 & 17 Informal Horse Shows—Locations to be announced.
Feb. 12—Silver Foils Club Mixed Foursomes—Country Club.
Feb. 16—Tin Whistles Club’s 53rd Anniversary Flag Tournament
Country Club.
Feb. 19—Silver Foils Club Annual Team Match—Country Club.
Feb. 22—Washington’s Birthday Ball—Carolina Hotel.
Mar. 1-5—Pinehurst Country Club Seniors Four Ball Tournament.
Mar. 3 & 17 Informal Horse Shows—Locations to be announced.
Mar. 7—Tin Whistles Club Mixed Foursomes—Country Club.
Mar. 18—Annual Spring Fashion Show by Razook—Carolina Hotel.
Mar. 20-25—55th Annual North & South Invitation Golf Champion
ship for Women.
Mar. 24—Pinehurst Driving Club Harness Horse Race Matinees.
Mar. 26-28—Silver Foils Club Annual Championship Tournament
Country Club.
Mar. 30—Tin Whistles Club Annual Championship Tournament—C.C.
Mar. 31 Spring Training Horse Show—^Location to be announced.
April 7 & 21—Pinehurst Driving Club Harness Horse Race Matinees.
April 8 9th Annual Donald J. Ross Memorial Mixed Foursomes
Country Club.
April 10—Tin Whistles Club Seniors Tournament—Country Club.
April 17—John D. Chapman Memorial Mixed Foursomes—C. C.
April 22-26—5th Annual Lawn Bowling Tournament—Country Club.
April 22-27—57th North & South Invitation Amateur Golf Champion
ship.
April 27-28—Sandhills Skeet Championships—^Pinehurst Gun Club.
Vass Firemen Are
Hosts At Quarterly
District Meeting
The Vass Volunteer Fire De
partment was host to the Sand
hill Firemen’s Association at its
quarterly dinner meeting, held
Friday night in the Vass Com
munity House, with the Mayor
and Town Commissioners as spe
cial guests. Dinner was served by
the Vass Woman’s Club.
James Hudson, assistant chief
of the host department, presided
and Mayor A. G. Edwards, Jr., ex
tended a welcome to the visiting
firemen, to which Perry C. Cov
ington of Rockingham, head of the
association and Rockingham chief,
responded. The Rev. Thomas
Wolfe of the Vass Baptist Church
gave the invocation.
Chief Covington presided over
the business session and E. P.
Leatherbury of Hamlet, secretary-
treasurer, gave his reports. Chief
Harold Fowler of Southern Pines
reported on the State convention
held recently in Raleigh.
Parker L. Vickery, chief of the
Fort Bragg Fire Department, was
the principal speaker and John F.
Stitch, chief inspector at Fort
Bragg, gave a fire prevention
demonstration.
Represented in the attendance
of 80 were the departments at
Pembroke, Hamlet, Rockingham,
Pinebluff, Southern Pines, Star,
Candor, Vass, Ellerbe, Pinehurst
and West End.
STEVENSON
(Continued from Page 1)
on the draft were long and intri
cate. It seemed clear that he was
anxious that the press should
have a perfectly clear knowledge
of what he had and what he had
not said.
Of course, he had not called for
a speedy termination of the draft.
He had said that because of the
rapid changes taking place in arm
aments “we can now anticipate
. . . hopefully but responsibly . . .
ABERDEEN BAPTISTS
(Continued from page 1)
to more than 500.
The ground level of the educa
tional building provides space
for two adult departments, con
sisting of ten classes. Five class
rooms and an assembly room for
the young people’s department
are also in the building.
A recreation room and dining
area with a kitchen are located
under the sanctuary. Space for
utility equipment is also provi
ded.
On the main floor of the edu
cational building is the nursery
wing with four nursery depart
ments, reception room and kitch
en. Adjoining are two begin
ner departments.
The other wing of the main
level provides the church offices,
church parlor and pastor’s study.
On the top level of the educa
tional building provision has
been made for three depart
ments: intermediates and juniors
With assembly room and eight
class room each, and primary
grades with assetnbly and six
class rooms.
All new furnishings for the
educational building were provi
ded through funds from the es
tate of Mrs. Agnes Yates.
Brief History
The church was originally
founded in 1894 when a Presby
tery met at Aberdeen and talked
with a local group, which num
bered 18. J. L. Holland and W. R.
Hunter were elected deacons of
the newly founded church and
J. W. Fagan was named clerk-
treasurer.
Three days later the church
elected Mr. Holland, Mr. Fagan,
Mr. Hunter, and C. A. Adams as
trustees, and, in addition, named
them to the first building com
mittee.
There is nothing in the church
records to indicate the exact date
of completion of the present
church, but a notation indicates
that it was completed prior to
May, 1895.
In 1945 Dr. Medlin broached
the idea of setting up a perma
nent building fund. And from
that, a committee made up of
Dr. Medlin. O. Leon Seymour,
Curtis Lawhon, J. M. Taylor and
W. W. Norris, was appointed to
study and plan a broader church
program.
The Rev. Deese became pastor
in May, 1954, and the building
program was immediately put'in
motion. Dr. Medlin has served
continuously as building com
mittee chairman and Jack M.
Taylor as chairman of the fi
nance committee.
Open Houm
Open house at the church will
Earl Hubbard To
Be In Charge Of
C. Of C. Banquet
Earl Hubbard, assistant cashier
of the Citizens Bank and 'Trust
Company, has been appointed
general chairman of the annual I
Chamber of Commerce banquet,
it was announced this morning
by Mark J. King, president. i
No date for the banquet has
ben set.
King also said the following!
have been appointed: Mrs. Lou|
Culbreth, tickets and seating;
George Leonard, speaker and en-|
tertainment; Miss Catherine Mc
Donald, hostess; Johnnie Hall, |
arrangements and program; and'
Mrs. Gladys Graves, publicity i
and decorations.
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BIG EVENTS
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merce, pushing this phase of the
event, said today that all win
dow displays must be ready by
Tuesday for judging Wednesday.
Brizes will be awarded the win
ners. •
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