THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1960
THE PHOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page SEVENTEEN
Wildlife Refuge
Manager Describes
Game Practices
Two practices inaugurated with
in the past two or three years on
the Sandhills Wildlife Manage
ment Area have produced some
interesting results, highly bene
ficial to the area and the sports- , Rev. Alton Stevens, Vass
men using it, said Lyle R. Morgan, j Church of God minist.et-. Burial
management engineer of the Area,! in the Old Carthage ceme-
speaking Tuesday night to the ^®ry-
Rites Held for
Fred T. Tyson
Fr.3d Thomas Tyson, 59, died
Sunday at Moore Memorial
Hospital after several weeks’ ill
ness.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at the Vass
Methodist church, conducted by
He was a native of Moore
County, and an employee of
Jones, Inc. Surviving are his
wife, the former Minnie Swain
of Vass; two sons, Neill Thomas
and John Harold, both of Vass:
a stepson, Larry Bristow, and
stepdaughter, Mrs. Robert Ash
ley, both of Sanford.
PLANTING AT SCHOOL — Latest civic
landscaping project of the Southern Pines Gar
den Club was continuing a program of planting
at the West Southern Pines school. This photo
shows a portion of the new planting along the
east side of the elementary school building.
Other planting was done in the inner courtyard.
The work was done by Paul R. Staples, of old
Highway 1, north, under supervision of a Gar
den Club committee headed by Mrs. A. V. Ar
nold. Other members of the committee are Mrs.
D. K. BuUens, Mrs. Harold Collins, and Mrs.
Nolley Jackson. Trees and shrubs planted in
cluded cedars, ligustrum, japonica, juniper and
cherry laurel. (Pilot photo)
SOUTHERN PINES GARDEN CLUB PROJECTS
Town Beautification Program Continues
In looking over a record of past I Garden Tour;
achievement at a recent meeting,
the members of the Southern
Pines Garden Club listed' live
projects of outstanding worth. To
scan this list is to be impressed
by the imaginative and construc
tive accomplishments of this or
ganization, and also to be led on
to think of a few others, not list
ed, but quite as irrtportant.
,^lso to speculate on how much
—or how little—realization there
is in town of the extent of this
club’s generous service.
The club was formed by a small
group of women interested to
learn all they could about horti
culture, but with their principal
aim the beautification of South
ern Pines, as well as of their own
yards and gardens. How they
Populat, Profitable
The money for this town beau
tification has come almost en
tirely from the proceeds of the
Garden Club Tour. Taking place
in the spring when the town is
full of bloom, the tour has at
tracted on an average nearly 1,-
000 people each year; to drive to
the eight or ten places whose
owners have opened their houses
and gardens and to eat a picnic
lunch provided by the Historical
Association at the Shaw House,
to pay their fees that provide
money that buys the trees and
the bushes and the bulbs and the
fertilizer and the watering and
the labor to make Southern Pines
that much more beahtiful.
The Garden Tour is a real feat
have succeeded, to date, is illus- ; planning and organization and
cooperation between all and sun
dry. Even, or perhaps especially,
the long-suffering folks who so
generously throw open their
homes for the admiring visitors.
The tour committee is specially
appointed each year but there are
two other standing committees
well-worthy of mention. One is
the Projects Comm.ittee of which
Mrs. A. V. Arnold is chairman
this year. In her absence in Jap
an, Mrs. D. K. Bullens is taking
her place in planning, for what
ever new activities are to be un
dertaken.
Perhaps the most pleasurable
move by the Club in the past
year was undertaken by the Win-
dowbox Committee, headed by
Mrs. Eugene C. Stevens. This
committee thought up the in
triguing plan of decorating up the
town with window boxes. They
did a remarkable selling job in
convincing local merchants of the
value of the idea and before you
could say “windowbox,” there
was one in, well, not every win
dow or along every storefront on
Broad and nearby streets, but
certainly along an amazing num
ber of them. Boxes are furnished
by the stores but the Garden Club
plants them and continues to
give supervision when needed.
This project is an innovation that
strikes the imagination of many
visitors, to judge by the com
ment—^just one more in the list
of beautification projects the
club has put across.
Another project that should not
be overlooked is the lighting of
the big magnolia Christmas Tree
during the holidays, involving
considerable expense. This year
this tree and the floodlit Postof
fice holly and the facade of the
Library were the only town dec
orations.
As you think of the organiza
tions that are interested in their
home town, it is hard to think of
any that has contributed more
than this Garden Club.
The club was organized in 1948,
largely through the efforts of
Mrs. Ernest Ives 'with the encour
agement of Mrs. Charles Cannon
of Concord, then heading the
Society for the Preservation of
Antiquities and its many projects
for the restoration of colonial
gardens throughout the state.
Mrs. Paul P. McCain was tbs first
president. Now heading the local
organization are Mrs. N. L. Hodg
kins, president, Mrs. B. F. Kraf- i
fert, vice president and Mrs. C.
R. 'VanderVoort, secretary, Mrs.
Robert Ewing, treasurer, with
the maximum membership set at
twenty-five.
Surely this town is lucky that
it can boast this kind of organi
zation ■ with its chief aim the
beautification of the town. Lucky,
too, that this is a project that
looks to be—by Nature has to be
a non-stop affair.
—KLB
Moore County Wildlife Club.
■ He emphasized that both are
experimental in many aspects,
that some results are still uncer
tain and “there are many unan
swered questions.”
The first practice is that of the
“antlerless deer” hunts started
two years ago, which thin down
I the deer population by a prescrib
ed percentage and prevent over- |
grazing and deterioration or even ^ lVfr«
disappearance of the herd. ’ 01116, OO
The second is controlled burn
ing, now in its third year. For rea
sons as yet not entirely determin
ed, this burning under strictly ^
controlled conditions, of “blocks” j died Monday at Pinehurst Con
of land of about 10 to 300 acres,! valescent Home where she had
rehabilitates and spreads the food j been a patient for several years,
plants, mainly those which sup- -
port small game, improves the
forest areas and helps “seed” the
longleaf pines.
Morgan explained many of the
factors involved in maintaining a
“balance” of game, and expressed
the view that Moore County, par
ticularly its northwest section, has
the best small-game potential in
the State.
He was presented by Albert S.
Tufts, club president, who presid
ed over the monthly dinner meet
ing held at the Southland Hotel.
trated by the following list of
completed projects;
(1) Planting at the entrances to
town.
(2) Planting of the grounds
about both the East and West
Southern Pines schools.
(3) Beautification of the
grounds near the station with
planting and window boxes.
(4) Planting of window boxes
in front of stores.
(5) Planting around the new
Town Hall.
AU Very Fine
The public contemplates the
fine planting and beams happily
over the completed projects, but
sceptics — or gardeners — may
ask the crucial question: “It’s all
very well and fine, all this artis
tic planting,” they say, “it cer
tainly improves the town, but
what about maintenance? Who’s
going to do that?”
We can tell you who HAS done
that, to date; the same Garden
Club has. One of the most im
portant of the standing commit
tees is the Maintenance Commit
tee. This year in charge of Mrs.
L. T. Avery, as chairman, this
committee has done a power of
work. ’The past long, hot sum
mer was a pain in the neck for
gardeners and the committee hstd
its share of twinges. There is ac
tual pruning and slashing involv
ed, supervising, working with ex
pert nurserymen, such as Ernest
Morell, who has advised and
worked with the Garden Club
since the start.
Some of the planting, like that
around the town hall, will be
maintained by the town, but the
school projects and the station
pl6t, in particular, are cared for
by the Maintenance Committee.
This group also suggests and is
generally available for consulta
tion and help on other town beau
tification problems, from cleaning
up around the Library to keeping
a wary eye out when the tree-
pruners heave into sight along
the town streets. The club has a
representative on the town park
ways committee, also on the Als
ton House garden committee.
And then pops up the inevi
table question; what about
money? How does all this get
paid for? If, as seems likely, few
townspeople have given muth
thought to the maintenance job,
this other is something most peo
ple do know about.
Little Nine Beats
Team from Raleigh
O’Neil’s Little Nine semi-pro
basketball team defeated a Ra
leigh team 85-76 at a March of
Dimi-ss benefit basketball game in
the Pinehurst school gym Satur
day night.
Leading scorers for the winner
were Haithcock, 27; Wells, 20; O.
D. Wallace, 17; and Bob Antle, 11.
Haswell Lassiter and T. C. O’Neal
were best for Raleigh.
The Little Nine team will play
at Fayetteville Saturday night.
Manning Currie,
Pinehurst Native,
Dies in Virginia
Manning Davis Currie, former
ly of Pinehurst, died Sunday in
Memorial Hospital, Richmond,
Va., after a short illness.
Graveside services were held at
2 p.m. today at West End Ceme
tery, conducted by the Rev. R. L.
Prince of Pinehurst Community
Church.
Mr. Currie was a native of Pine
hurst and a graduate of Pinehurst
High School, who moved to Rich
mond several years ago. He was a
painter, . He never married. Sur
viving are his mother, Mrs. Ful
ler T. Currie of Charlotte; three
brothers, Reggie, of • Southern
Pines; John Raymond, of Norfolk,
Va., and Floyd, of New Orleans;
and three sisters, Mrs. Fred Utley
of Fayetteville and Mrs. Joe All-
red and Mrs. John Oglesby of
Charlotte.
It took the average industrial
worker 61 minutes to earn a dozen
eggs in 1925. In 1958 he could
work out a dozen eggs in 18 min
utes.
Dies at Pinehurst
Mrs. Abbie Brown Voitle, 88,
Funeral services will be held
Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Findlay,
Ohio. She was a resident of Pitts
burgh, Pa., who Spent her winters
at Hendersonville until she came
to Pinehurst some years ago.
Her only survivor is a grandson.
Dr. Robert B. Voitle of the facul
ty of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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a wacky comedy, was produced
by Grant’s own company. Gran-
art, for Universal-International
release.
Although Grant is one of that
rare group of stars who have
captured the adulation of two
full generations of movie fans,
only a slight—and most attractive
—graying at the temples signifies
that he is not really as young as
he looks. A superb physique, en
ergetic gait and youthful features
ssem to make a m.ockery of the
fact that “Operation Petticoat” is
his 58 th motion picture and
marks the beginning of his 28th
year as a screen favorite.
“For me,” says Cary, “the most
important factor in staying
youthful is to live a life of truth.
I never do anything I don’t want
to do. Lies, avoiding issues, post
poning the inevitable and plain
cheating actually do nothing but
cause worry. And it’s worry that
I really ages a person.”
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