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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1956
THE PILOT—Soulhern Pines, North Carolina
In and Out of Town
The Homecoming football game
last Friday night between South
ern Pines and its neighboring riv
al—Aberdeen—^brought a large
number of college students home
for the weekend, and it was a
merry group of boys and girls
greeting all their school friends.
Fans are always assured of a tight
game when these two teams play,
and as usual a very large and en
thusiastic crowd was on hand at
the Aberdeen field.
Among those here for the week
end were David Page, Joe and Bill
Mar ley, Jimmy Menzel, David
Bailey, Dorothy Newton, June
Bristow, Betty Jo Britt, Bob Cline,
Bob Cushman and Kay Davis.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Linwood
Pleasants at their home in Knoll-
wood this past week-end were Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Greer, who came
down from Gastonia to visit
friends here for a couple of days.
The Greers, whose home was next
door to the Pleasants, were resi
dents of Southern Pines for a
number of years when he was
connected with Amerotron. He is
associated with Burlington Mills
now, with headquarters in Gas
tonia.
Also here for the weekend from
Gastonia were Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Croxton, who are well-
known former residents. Mr.
Croxton is now with Burlington
Mills.
Mrs. Claude C. Ostrom has re
turned to her home in Alexan
dria, Va., after a week’s visit
with her son and daughter-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Os
trom at The Corral.
Paul C. Butler is recuperating
at the Moore County Hospital
this week following surgery
there Monday morning.
Dr. and Mrs. John E. Elmen-
dorf, Jr., returned to their home
on Midland Road last week, after
passing the summer months at
Murray Bay, Canada.
Mr.' and Mrs. Clarence L. Von
Tacky have returned to their res
idence in Knollwood after spend
ing the summer at Titusville, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Ken
nedy arrived Monday to open
their home on Valley Road. They
have been at their camp in
Maine for several months.
Mrs. Dorsey G. Stutz has re
turned from Norfolk, Va., where
she visited her son and daugh
ter-in-law, Capt. and Mrs. Greer
Stutz. Mrs. Stutz’ daughter, Mrs.
Garland Pierce drove up last
Thursday and spent the week
end, accompanying her mother
home on Sunday.
College student, spent the week
end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Newton.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Marley and
son. Bill who was home for the
weekend from State College,
went to Charlotte on Saturday
to attend a birthday celebration
of Mrs. Marley’s mother, Mrs. J.
M. Howard of Concord. They
were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
George Howard, who gave a din
ner party for 20, honoring their
mother’s 70th anniversary.
Mrs. Cheves Ligon and daugh
ter, Margaret Ann were in Lan
caster, S. C. over the past week
end, guests of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. O. Taylor.
Mrs. Ernest Wilson of Manly
visited her sisters, Mrs. T. A. Ken
nedy in Mt. Vernon Springs and
Mrs. J. M. Pendergrass in Siler
City this week.
Miss Eileen Thwing, who has
been a patient at the Moore
County Hospital as the result of
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Blue Knights Squeak By Aberdeen On
Bad Pass From Center; Still Unbeaten
The Southern Pines Blue by a 15-yard penalty which put
Knights came close to having anthem 10 yards from paydirt,
perfect season marred last Friday | But after Tulloch scored
night when an inspired band of Gwynn Voss, the Red Devil cen
ter, apparently got his signals
crossed. Wben he centered the
ball to the player who was to
hold it for the placement kick,
there seemed to be complete sur
prise on the part of everyone on
the Aberdeen team.
Their chances for tying up the
game just sailed away.
Charles Watkins’ placement in
Aberdeen Red Devils clearly out
played them in the final three
quarters of/ the annual tilt that
attracted some 1,500 spectators.
But for a miscue on the count,
Aberdeen might have tied up the
game in the last quarter; as it
was, the Red Devil center got
crossed up, the ball. . . and the
game. . . sailed over the receiv
er’s head and the Blue Knights th^'^sT p;riorwas“Thrtwo-
came outontop of a 14-12 score.|p„i„t Southern
■ Pines needed.
SIX straight this year and the ^oach Irie Leonard said his
twenty-fourth in succession.' seemed a bit let down after
fo"th^tSr‘‘b:st’’rs“ix! ^ -ther stiff
to tne title nest in state six recently. He has cautioned
man competition, the Friday week against over-con-
night game completely erased ^^en they meet Pine-
The Knights aren’t likely to. hurst, which is smaller but has a
meet a better team this year than | lot more to gain by beating
an automobile accident earlier! Aberdeen, although the Pine- Southern Pines than any other
this month, is returning to her hurst and Maxton affairs coming | team on their schedule.
home on Indiana Avenue today, up are no pushovers Pmehi^st injuries on the
Lt. Col. and Mrs. J. D. Sitter- always rough And Ma^on has everyone
son, Jr., spent the weekend with ®. record similar to Southern expected to be in shape for the
his parents, enroute from Wiash- Pmes and manv people think
ington, D. C. to Ft. Bragg, where that if the Blue Knights are go-
Col. Sitterson has been assigned to lose at all, Maxton will be
Commander of the 613 Field Ar- knock them off.
tillery for the next few months. I the EViday night game, the
They will make their home at Pt'*® Knights got off to a fast
the post. I start. Roger Verhoeff, not quite
Mrs. J. D. Sitterson is leaving as outstanding defensively as he
tomorrow for Windsor to be with ^ had been the game before, scored
her mother, who is seriously ill. tii’st from 10 yards out, and was
Dr. W. C. Timmons will leave followed later by Tony Parker,
on Monday for New York City,
Ijwhere the editorial committee
of the Fellowship of Prayer wi^' „ .....
meet to prepare the National P®ss from Carrinton to ^ Harvey
Council Lenten booklet. Dr. Tim- WhU® In the second period, and
who made his TD from 15 yards
out.
Aberdeen’s scores came on a
mons was the author of the Fel
lowship of Prayer last season.
Mrs. Charles Loup and her
Friday tilt.
Band director Lynn Ledden
has promise’d another one of his
spectacular half-time shows, this
one a number that will feature
the entire team performing their
intricate maneuvers with flash
lights as the only light on the
field.
Game time
o’clock.
is, as usual, 8
In the practice of leaving cut
over forest lands in a condition
of high productivity, only South-
again in the fourth period when ern owners of more than 50,000
Tulloch bucked the right side of acres and managers of Federal
his line. The Red Devils were lands show results above the na-
daughter, Mrs. Georgp Burns h®lp®d in their last scoring effort tional averages
have moved into their new home
on Country Club Drive, and the
Rev. and Mrs. Hoke Coon and
family have moved into the
home on. South Ashe street they
vacated. This is now the Baptist
parsonage.
Mrs. Betty Cameron visited
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Garvin and
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Cameron in
Jacksonville, Fla. last week.
Mrs. J. B. Boyle returned last
Saturday from a ten days’ stay in
New York City and New .Canaan,
Conn., where she visited her
brother. Dr. Hugh B. Paul. Her
SAMUEL ALLEN
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Adam Weir Craig officiating,
Friday afternoon at two o’clock.
Interment will be in Warren.
(It has been requested by the
family that, in lieu of flowers,
contributions may be made by
those who so desire to the Heart
Fund, Mrs. R. M. McMillan,
chairman. Southern Pines.)
Business Leader
Mr. Allen was one of the
foremost in the roster of emi
nent businessmen who have
Opening Of Town’s
Newest Business
Set For Saturday
Harry W. Davis, operator of
the Piedmont Electric and
Plumbing Company in Carthage,
announced today the opening of
a new store in Southern Pines.
The formal opening will be
held Saturdav in the store’s new
quarters on North East Broad St.
in the building formerly occu
pied by Colonial Stores.
Davis, who has operated a
store in Carthage the past eight
years, is a graduate of Duke Uni
versity and is a former employee
of the Panama Canal Zone Com
mission. In the new business
here, he will specialize in appli
ances and plumbing supplies and
fixtures and will have three
service men.
sister. Miss Helen Paul of Pitts-1 Pinehurst their winter
burgh, returned with her and
Miss Dorothy Newton, Peace will remain for the season.
Longtime Aide To
Leonard Tufts
Died On Monday
Miss Ethel M. Gray, faithful
aide of the late Leonard Tufts of
Pinehurst for many years, died in
Moore County Hospital Monday
after a long illness. She was 72.
Miss Gray moved to Pinehurst
in 1918, where she became asso
ciated with Pinehurst, Inc. She
launched the plan for direct mail
advertising of the resort and re
mained in charge of that depart
ment until it was taken over by
James W. Tufts in 1932.
She then became the assistant
to Leonard Tufts in his great in-
tere st, Ayreshire cattle, for which
his Pinehurst herd became nation
ally famous.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon in the Com
munity Church with the Rev. Ros-
coe Prince officiating.
Surviving are a sister. Miss Ma-
bdl Gray of Northampton, Mass.,
and two nieces, Mrs. Henry Fell-
man of Malden, Mass., and Mrs.
John McKenzie of West Peabody,
Mass.
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Senior golfers from all over the
United States and Canada, among
them the nation’s finest, will cir-
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compete in the fifth annual North
and South Invitation Seniors Golf
Championship at the Pinehurst
Country Club.
The tournament opens with a
qualifying round Monday and
runs through next Saturday.
With a field limited to 320, the
entry list includes mqfet of the
country’s better-knowii golfers of
55 years of age and over.
With 375 players on the prefer
red roll of would-be participants
(names recorded on first come,
first serve basis), the total stand
by aggregate number upwards of
800.
Benjamin F. Kraffert, Jr., of Ti
tusville, Pa., and Southern Pines,
the 1955 champion, will not be on
hand to defend his crown.
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MOORE COUNTY'S LEADING
NEWS WEEKLY.
home. At the time of his death
he was honorary chairman of the
board of directors of Franklin
Balmar Corporation, chairman of
the board of the Air Preheater
Co., and the Lummis Co., and a
director of Combustion Engineer
ing, Inc. Locally he was a director
of Moore County Hospital, the
Pinehurst Religious Association
and the Pinehurst Fo'nim.
Bom in Warren, Pa., on Au
gust 24, 1870, Mr. Allen was the
son of Hon. Orren Cartright and
Maria Cook Allen. He attended
Warren public schools, Maryland
Military and Naval Academy
and Pennsvlvania State College.
Admitted to the Pennsylvania
Bar on August 24, 1891, (his
twenty-first birthday) Mr. Allen
practiced law until 1901, when
he entered the railway supply
business as vice president of
Franklin Railway Supply Com
pany* (now Franklin Balmar Cor
poration). In 1910, in association
with Joel S. Coffin; he organized
the American Arch Company
and served as chairman of the
board of that company until
until ill health forced him to re
tire a year later.
In 1916, Mr. Allen^ with Mr.
Coffin, purchased and reorgan
ized the Lima Locomotive!
Works, which is now Baldwin-
Lima-Hamilton Corporation. Mr.
Allen also served on the board of
trustees of Stevens Institute of
Technology from 1933 to 1935.
During World War I he was As
sistant Chief, Production Divi
sion of the U. S. Army Ordnance
Department.
Mr. Allen was keenly interest
ed in sport, especially in raising
and shooting over bird dogs. It
was this interest that first
brought him to the, Sandhills.
Coming here in the early Twen
ties, he joined with Harry Kirk-
over and others in promoting
quail shooting in this section.
Both men, firm friends, were
ranked as the foremost birddog
judges and breeders in the na
tion.
In 1929. Mr. Allen built his
house on Midland Road, with the
adjoining houses and kennels,
and from then on made Pine
hurst his home on vacations from
his many business interests and,
upon his retirement, his perma
nent winter abode. He was active
in promoting the yearly field
trials, was a frequent judge of
bird dogs at the National Dog
Show and others, all over the
country. He was one of the prime
movers in the establishment, at
Denton, N. C. of the outstanding
shooting club there.
While hunting was his first en
thusiasm, he took an interest in
all sport and was a member of
the Tin Whistles golfing organi-
D. A. McLaughlin,
Retired Banker
Of Vass, Passes
Daniel Alexander McLauchlin,
onetime chairman of the Moore
County Board of Commissioners
and retired banker, died Sunday
after a long period of declining
health. He was 86.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at Powell
Funeral Chapel in Southern
Pines with the Rev. C. A. Triv-
ette officiating. Burial was in the
family plot in Raeford Cemetery.
Mr. McLauchlin, a native of
Cumberland, later Hoke, County,
was of Scotch descent. He was
chairman of the Moore County
Board of Commissioners when
the court house was built. In 1928
he ran for the State Senate but
was defeated.
He was priminent in the build
ing of Vass in the 1920’s when
the town experienced its greatest
growth. Also active in political
and civic affairs of the communi-
i ty, he was a member of the Vass
Presbyterian Church and took a
great interest in religious activi
ties.
He was connected with the
Bank of Vass until it failed along
with thousands of others in 1933.
He had since been retired.
His wife, Mary Gillis, died in
1947. They had no children, but
several nieces and nephews sur
vive.
SANDHILL PHONE
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betiween Aberdeen and Pinebluff
sometime during 1957.
As part of its application, the
company asked the Commission to
grant it a certificate formally de
fining its operating rights.
Under the request for rate in
creases, charges would go up in
Aberdeen from a high of $3.75 for
business to a high of $6.25; and for
residential service from a high of
$2.25 to a high of $4.
Duke Professor To
Speak To Kiwanis
On UN Observance
Dr. Leon H. Ellis, professor of
political science at Duke Univer
sity, will be the speaker at the
next meeting (Wednesday) of the
Sandhills Kiwanis club.
Dr. Ellis will speak on the work
of the United fJations. The club,
joining hundreds of others
throughout the country, will ob
serve next week as United Na
tions Week.
Dr. Ellis is a native of Tennes
see. He holds degrees from the
University of Washington and
Stanford University in Law and
in China as a marketing assistant
for the Standard Oil Company,
and in China, Guatamala, Salvh-
Scout Funds Still
Short; Leaders To
Seek More Givers
Reports from the communities
in Moore District have not as
yielded a complete figure for the
recent Boy Scout annual fund
drive, held earlier this month.
Received thiough last week yyas
approximately $1,450 from South
ern, Pines, $825 from Carth^e,
$200 from Vass, $375 from Aber
deen, and $500 from Pinehiurst. All
fund committee reports are incom
plete, however, and it is hojed
that the final total will be two or
three times this figure.
“Vass and Carthage have ex
ceeded their 1956 contributioi^,”
said Gen. Pearson Menoher Ibf
Southern Pines, District Scout
Chairman, “but all other commun
ities are lagging.”
Robbins and West End are both
on the Community Chest plan,
and will make their contribution
to the fund later. Boy Scouts are
participating in the Community
Chest drives in both of these cbm-
munities.
Political Science. He has served
dor, Costa Rica, Switzerland knd
Hungary with the U. S. Depart
ment of State;
Lloyd C. Dahmen,
ProminentBuilder,
Dies In New York
1949. Later, in the year 1910,’zation and a president, in 1955-
with Mr. Coffin and Mr. George
L. Bourne, he organized the Lo
comotive Superheater Company,
now merged with Combustion
Engineering, Inc., serving as
chairman of the board from 1950
until 1953, continuing as chair
man of the executive committee
1956, of the Pinehurst Country
Club.
A deeply public-spirited citi
zen, Mr. Allen’s warm, cheerful
personality, his loyal friendli
ness and his unfailing kindness
and generosity made him greatly
beloved.
Lloyd C. Dahmen, 56, promi
nent New York businessman who
built several homes and apart
ment housps in Southern Pines
and formerly lived here, died in
Glean, N. Y. Sunday night of a
heart attack.
He had been undergoing a
checkup and his death came as a
surprise.
Private funeral services were
held Wednesday in Glean, with'
burial following in Mount View
Cemetery there.
At the time of his death Mr.
Dahmen was president of Viko
Furniture Corp.. Artline Corp.,
and of Franklin Daystrom Asso
ciates, Inc. He was also a direct
or of the T. Baumritter Co. of
New York and the Empire State
Association of Commerce.
In Southern Pines he built a
number of houses here and the
Ma3d(air Apartments, which he
recently sold.
He is survived by his widow,
Gladys, a daughter and three
sons.
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