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THE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 19S6
PINEHURST NEWS
By MARY EVELYN de NISSOFF
Entertain
Mrs. Thomas V. Horner, Mrs. H.
S. Land and Mrs. John L. McKen
zie entertained jointly at the lat
ter’s home Sunday at a birthday
dinner for their mother, Mrs. A.
E. Teague of Fayetteville.
Mrs. B. U. Richardson and Mrs.
James D. Hobbs were co-hostesses
at a shower Monday evening at
the former’s home honoring, Mrs.
Robert Clark of West End.
Brief Mention
General and Mrs. George C.
Marshall returned today to Lis-
combe Lodge from their supamer
home at Leesburg, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Lydig Hoyt ar
rived at their home. Counter
Point, oh Midland Road Wednes
day after spending the summer at
'their place in Staatsburgh, N. Y.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. John R.
Sibley this week are Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin' Pfaelzer of Brookline,
Mass.
Miss Penelope Dana and her
roommate at the University of
North Carolina, Miss Hazel Her
ring, were the weekend guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dana.
Mrs. Thomas H. McGraw, Jr., is
due next week from Oakmont, Pa.,
to occupy her winter home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Livingston L. Bid
dle, II, return Sunday from a
week’s visit to Philadelphia and
New York City.
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Gilbert
are spending this weekend at
Charlottesville, Va., where he is
attending the annual meeting of
the Michie Company.
Mrs. Francis X. Anglim is again
at her cottage here after summer
ing in New York State.
Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers Clifton
arrived this week from New York
to occupy the Lloyd Smith cottage
which they have leased for the
season.
Mrs. J. E. Harrington, Jr., is
spending this week in New York
City.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hamor and
Mrs. Estelle Bradshaw spent Wed
nesday night in Greensboro where
they attended the Junior Play for
which Anne Hamor, a junior at
the Woman’s College, planned the
dance choreography.
Miss Katherine P. Sledge ac
companied Mrs. Miriam Rabb of
Raleigh to New York City for the
weekend.
HAS HAD VARIED ARMY CAREER
Ll Col. Sitterson Named Commanding
Officer Of Atomic Artillery Outfit
Lt. Col. John D. Sitterson, Jr., Washington. He attended the
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Mrs. Harry Hogg is in Engle
wood, N. J., for election day and
plans to return to Barberry Cot-
tageiimmediately thereafter.
Judge W. A. Leland McKeithen,
E. T. McKeithen, General W. W.
Hill of Southern Pines, and Judge
and Mrs. Malcolm Seawell of
Lumberton spent Saturday at Da
vidson College where they attend
ed the football game and other
Homecoming festivities.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Spelman are
due to arrive next week at their
cottage here after spending the
summer months in Fairfield,
Conn. With them will be their
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Noyes Spelman, and their
daughters, Anne and Katie, also
of Fairfield.
Octave Blake of Plainfield, N. J.
is once again at his home here for
a prolonged stay.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Blue, Jr.,
of Cockeysville, Md., are here for
ten days with a house party at the
home of Mr. Blue’s mother, Mrs.
Roland McKenzie.
Thomas Rudel of Roslyn, L. I.,
spent the weekend at Mrs. C. M.
Rudel’s home.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cherry of
Darien, Conn., are spending two
weeks at the S. D. Herron cottage.
Mrs. Cherry is Mrs. Herron’s
daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Herzog of
Netv York City spent last week-
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sitter
son of Southern Pines, has been
named commnading officer of
the 613th Field Artillery Bat
talion at Fort Bragg.
The 613th, armed with 280min
“atomic” guns, is scheduled to
move to Germany next March as
part of Operation Gyroscope, the
Army’s unit rotation plan.
Col. Sitterson, a native of High
Point, attended school here and
at North Carolina State College.
He left State and entered the
United States Military Academy,
graduating in 1942 as a second |
lieutenant in the Field Artillery.
He saw duty in World War 2
with the 78th Infantry Division
in Europe.
Following a tour of duty at the
Command and General Staff
School in Kansas, and an assign
ment with the Field Artillery
test section at Fort Bragg, he was
selected for attache duty m
Strategic Intelligence School
there and also served with Army
Intelligence in the Pentagon.
In 1948, Col. Sitterson was ap
pointed assistant military attache
at the American Embassy at New
Delhi, India. Perhaps the most
important assignment he has
held until his present one was
his appointment, in late 1949, as
the U. S. Army attache in Bur
ma, where the newly independ
ent nation was in the throes of a
civil war.
He returned to this country to
attend the advanced course at
the artillery school in the class of
1950-51 at Fort Sill. He was later
promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
and became executive officer
and chief of preparation and re
view of the artillery school’s de
partment of extension courses.
In June, 1952, he entered
Georgetown University’s gradu
ate school where he won a mas
ter’s degree in international re
lations. He was then assigned to
the office of the assistant chief
of staff of G-3, and also did a
tour in the office of the Secre
tary of Defense.
His assignment on the Army
General Staff immediately prior
to coming to Fort Bragg was in
International and Policy Plan
ning Division of the Office of
the Deputy Chief of Staff for
Military Operations.
“Col. Sitterson is married to
the- former Marie Hopkins of
Kingston, Pa., and Wasihngton.
They maintain their hOme at
Fort Bragg.
end at their home here.
Dr. and Mrs. J. C. P. Sihler of
Simcoe, Ontario, arrived Saturday
for a month’s stay at Mrs. James
How’s Shadowlawn apartment
which they have leased through
Biddle & Co.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Udell C.
Young this week were their
daughter, Mrs. J. J* Jansen, and
Mr. Jansen of Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Byron W. Whitman and
Mrs. George Buck of Reading, Pa.,
arrived Wednesday for a weekei^
visit to Mr. and Mrs. Isham C.
Sledge and Mrs. Whitman’s
daughter and son-m-law, Mr. and
Mrs. William C. Sledge. Mr.
Whitman will join his wife here
Friday.
The 1956 North Carolina cotton
crop is forecast at 365,000 bales
of 500 pounds gross weight, ac
cording to marketing specialist
with the North Carolina Crop
Reporting Service. A crop of this
size would be 14,000 bales, or 4.0
per cent, above the 351,000 bales
harvested last year and 92,000
bales less than the 10 year (1945-
54) average.
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