VOL. 40—NO. 23
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1960
TWENTY PAGES
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Elks to Sponsor
» New Annual Golf
Tournament Here
The first annual Southern
Pines Invitational Aniateur Elks
Golf Tournament will be held at
the Southern Pines Country Club
Saturday and Sunday, May 21
and 22, it was announced today
by Dr. Boyd Starnes and Joe
» Steed, co-chairmen for the event.
^ Entries in the 36-hole, medal
play tournament will be limited
to 136, Dr. Starnes said. More
than 60 entries have already been
received.
Invitations to enter were sent
by the sponsoring Southern Pines
Elks Lodge No. 1692 to Elks in
North and South Carolina and
Virginia. The invitations went to
Country Clubs, to be passed on to
• Elks among their membership.
Though the invitations went only
to clubs in the three states, any
Elk in good standing may enter.
Entry fee is $10.
Among outstanding entries so
far are Dale Morey, Walker Cup
player from Morganton; Dave
Smith of Gastonia, if his sched
ule will permit; and Bill Wood
ward of Robbins, who has won the
Moore County title several times.
The qualifying 18 holes of med
al play will be run off Saturday,
May 21. That night, tournament
players and lady guests will be
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Lions Will Sell
Products of Blind
^ The Southern Pines Lions Club
will conduct a Blind Products sale
starting Monday night. May 2,
and continuing through Friday
night, May 6, Club President Joe
Carter announced today.
The purpose of the sale will be
twofold. One purpose, Mr. Carter
explained, is to raise money for
support of the activities of the
local club in aiding the blind and
^ conserving eyesight in the Sou-
* them Pines area. The other pur
pose will be to make available to
the public products manufactured
by men and women who are blind
or visually handicapped. This
benefits the blind worker by mak
ing him self-supporting rather
than having to rely on the public
welfare institutions for his sus
tenance.
Among the items to be sold will
be brooms, door mats, dish towels
and ironing board covers. All of
these products have been made at
the Industries for the Blind plant
in Greensboro.
Aid to the blind and visually
handicapped is the principal pro
ject of the Lions Clubs in North
Carolina and other clubs usually
hold similar sales each year. Most
of the clubs in the state sell the
products made by the blind and
'S visually handicapped in Greens
boro or by workshops of the blind
at other localities in the state.
All of the products to be sold
are first-grade merchandise and
meet government specifications
for such products, Mr. Carter said.
The local sale will be under the
leadership of Lions Charles Cole,
Elwood Blake and Bill Johnson.
All members of the club will par-
ticipate in the house-to-house
canvass.
Citizens Bank to
Pay Checks at Par
Starting May 1
N. L. Hodgkins, president of
the Citizens Bank and Trust
Company, announce<r today that
the bank will pay at par all
checks drawn on it, effective May
1. This means that Southern Pines
will have the only par bank in
Moore County, he said.
This step recognizes the growth
and progress made by the terri
tory served by the bank, and an
ticipates the continuance of good
business in the area, Mr. Hodg
kins stated in the announcement.
Par versus non-par Banking has
been a live issue in North Caro
lina. coming up for debate in each
session of the legislature, es
pecially in recent years. The larg
er banks in the state, generally,
speaking, are par, and those in the
f t smaller communities non-par.
'» *,..L L? ,' * Action taken by the directors of
bank at their meeting yester-
day culminated a study of the ma-
^ made over the last several
months. As a result of the study,
the management and directors be-
.1^ lieve that the decision to operate
on a par basis is a progressive
step for the bank and its custom
ers and one which, by encourag
ing the free flow of banking
funds, will be of benefit both to
the depositors of the bank and. to
trade and industry in the area.'
No change in the present serv
ice charge schedule will be made
to recover the loss of income
from the exchange charge, it was
stated.
“It is hoped by the bank that, as
has been the experience of other
banks that have gone from non
par to par, deposits will grow suf
ficiently within a reasonable time
to offset any temporary loss of
income,” Mr. Hodgkins said.
“Par” means the exact face
value of a check.
The local bank, like many other
banks which are “non-par,” has
I been deducting from certain
T I ~ ——— checks drawn on it a “remittance
Superior Court Term to Open Monday
This fee is either absorbed by
an intervening bank or is collect
ed from the payee.
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Registration to Begin
Satnrdav for Primaries
TO PREACH SUNDAY—Dr.
Ansley C. Moore, president of the
Consolidated Presbyterian Col
lege, Laurinburg, will preach at
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church Sund^, in the absence of
he pastor. Dr. C. K. Ligon, who
will be attending the Presbyteri
an General Assembly at Jackson
ville, Fla. Dr. Moore’s sermon
subject will be, “The Man Bear
ing the Cross.”
Registration for voting in the
Democratic and Republican pri
maries on May 28 will open Sat*
uiday in the 18 voting precincts
of Moore County. Registrars will
be at polling places on Saturdays
April 30, May 7, and May 14.
Mrs. Grace Kay lor. Southern
Pines precinct registrar, will have
books open at the fire station on
New York Ave. on the three Sat
urdays of the registration period.
.She may Ipe reached also at her
home in the fire station on other
days.
Persons who wish to vote in the
Republican primary—a procedure
that has not been customary in
CONTEST WINNERS — Miss Emmaday Collins of Southern
Pines, left, was crowned “Miss Lion 1960” at Weaver Auditorium
Saturday night and Miss Brenda Richardson of West End, right,
won the $25 savings bond first prize in a youth talent show for
her recitation, “Mary at the Tomb.” Miss Collins competed with
nine other Moore County girls in the beauty contest. Karen Mc
Kenzie was the 0|ther entry from Southern Pines. Beauty and
talent contestants from Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Pinehurst,
Pinebluff and West End competed in the show which was spon
sored by the Lions Clubs of the five towns. Other talent winners
were Miss Bettye Louize McCaskill, vocalist, of Pinehurst, $10
second prize; Betsy Grier, pianist, $5 third prize; and a vocal
trio, Geraldine Baldwin and Delores and Barbara Cole, $5 fourth
prize. All are from Pinehurst. (Humphrey photo)
VAMPER CASE ON CALENDAR
Saturday’s Day
Of Tennis Clinic
Elementary and high school
students interested in tennis are
reminded of clinics to be held
Saturday at the municipal courts
vi!' on the park block.
From 10 a. m. to noon, there
will be instruction for the young
er players and for the high school
group from 2 to 4 p. m.
Instructors in the clinic, which
is sponsored by the Sandhills
Tennis Association, will be Mal
colm Clark of Southern Pines and
the University of North Carolina,
and Mrs. Q. A. Shaw McKean of
Pinehurst.
Piedmont Service
Will End Saturday
The seasonal service of Pied
mont Airlines at Pinehurst-
Southem Pines Airport will end
Saturday, April 30, it was an
nounced by the company this
week. Service will be resumed at
the airport on October 1.
A one-week term of Moore
County Superior Court, for the
trial of criminal cases, will open
Monday at the courthouse in Car
thage, with Judge Frank M. Arm
strong of Troy on the bench.
More than 60 defendants axe
slated for trial, some with several
charges against them, crowding
the docket to the point that it may
Ipe necessary to schedule a special
session later in the year to clear
the docket.
Many of the cases are drunken
driving xmd speeding appeals from
the lower courts of the county.
Among the cases of greatest lo
cal interest is the trial for man
slaughter of Roosevelt Vamper,
22-year-old Southern Pines Negro
who was the driver of a car that
struck and killed Martin Fergu-
Old Village Inn
Building Leased
By Moose Lodge
The Southern Pines Moose
Lodge has leased for its home the
former Village Inn building on
old No. 1 highway, south, and
plans to hold its first meeting
there next Wednesday night. W.
L. Brown of Monroe is the own
er of the property.
Jack Barron of Southern Pines,
who was installed as governor
of the lodge at a meeting Wednes
day night at the home of James
S. Blue on W. Maine Ave., said
that both Brown and the
lodge plan to make improvements
at the new home site.
He said the old cabins nearby
would be removed, the grounds
would be ^cleaned up and the in
terior of the building would be
renovated.
Other officers installed last
night were: C. O. Boyette, junior
governor; James C. Morris, sec
retary; W. M. Arrington, Jr., pre
ate; James S. Blue, treasurer;
Art Danley, first year trustee; G.
L. Bowles, second year trustee;
and P. Emerson Humphrey, third
year trustee.
F. J. GoneUa of Sanford, dis
trict president of the North Caro
lina Moose Association, was the
installation officer, assisted by
Ed Lamb, governor of Rocking
ham Lodge 1838.
son, 49, on N. May St., March 6.
This case is calendared for Mon
day.
Also facing trial, on appeal from
a conviction in Southern Pines
Recorder’s Court, is John Robin
son of Youngs Road, who loaned
Vamper the car that killed Fergu
son. Vamper testified in the Re
corder’s Court trial that Robinson
knew that he (Vxunper) had no
operator’s license and had been
drinking when the car was bor-
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GARDENS OPEN
Homewood Gardens, the
^tate a! Mr. and Mrs. D. K.
BuUens off Midland Road in
Knollwood, wDl be open to
the public on and after Fri
day, Mr. Bullens said this
week. Visitors are asked to
park outside.
Public Invited
To Programs of
Mental Institute
Several local groups are coop
erating in sponsoring the Mental
Health Institute to be held here
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
Dr. Charles Phillips, president of
the Moore County Mental Health
Associates, said this week.
Sessions will be held at 8 p. m.
each of the three evenings, in the
courtroom of the town hall. There
will be no admission charge.
Importance of the community
approach to mental health prob
lems cannot be overemphasized.
Dr. Phillips pointed out, but such
an approach is effective only as
people become interested and in
formed.
Three vital facets of mental
health will be explored by emi-
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Episcopal Home
Given $50,000
The St. Peter’s Hospital Foun
dation of Charlotte on Tuesday
announced a grant of $50,000 to
the movement for an Episcopal
Home for the Ageing at Southern
Pines.
W'alter N. Hobbs, Foundation
chairman, said the grant will be
part of an effort to raise $350,000
to establish the home.
“A request will be made May
10 at the Diocese of North Caro
lina convention in Tarboro for
permission to hold the fund cam
paign,” said Mr. Hobbs.
Mrs. James Boyd of Southern
Pines has given 131^ acres of the
Weymouth estate for the home.
The .1956 Diocesan convention
authorized the late Bishop Edwin
Penick to name a committee to
study establishment of a home
for the ageing.
Plans call for 26,000 square feet
of space to accommodate 40 per
sons, said Hobbs.
BUSINESS MEETING
The annual business meeting of
the Moore County Mental Health
association will be held at the
Southern Pines town hall at 7:45
p.m. Tuesday, immediately pre
ceding the third program of the
Mental Health Institute. New of
ficers will be elected and install
ed. All friends of the association
are asked to attend, Dr. Phillips
said.
GRADUATE OF SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL OF VIENNA
Miss Langerman Trains Horse in Old Art of Dressage
Miss Yolanda Langerman—the
, first woman allowed to ride in the
.Imperial Riding Hall of the Span
ish Riding School of Vienna, Aus
tria, and one of the few women
graduates of the famous, 225-year-
old school—is at Southern Pines,
training her own thoroughbred
for exhibition work in the formal
art of dressage.
Born in England of American
parents, educated in Switzerland
and a graduate of Smith College,
Northampton, Mass., Miss Lang
erman has been riding, since the
age of three. Her father, Karl
Langerman, died when she was
five. Her mother, Mrs. Helen
Langerman, has been here with
her for the past three months.
They have an apartment at Co
lonial Inn on New York Ave.
In the school at Vienna, which
she attended six days a week for
14 months in 1955»and 1956, Miss
Langerman rode Lippizaners—the
white stallions which have been
bred for many years specifically
for the Spanish Riding School.
At the school, students of dress
age ride for two or three hours
each day and spend the rest of
the time watching. Instructors us
ually enter as boys and devote
their lives to the amazingly exact
ing and formal training proced
ures for which minutely detailed
regulations as to every position
of both horse and rider have been
laid down.
Miss Langerman became the
first woman to ride in the Imper
ial Riding Hall because at the
time she became a student, the
school had just moved back to
Vienna from a location about 200
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Season Champs in
Riding Rewarded
Young people who have been
accumulating points in horse
shows during the past season re
ceived awards for point totals
after the Mid-South Horse Show
held Sunday before a large crowd
of spectators at the Carolina Ho
tel Ring in Pinehurst.
Following are the champions
and reserve champions in each
class;
Beginners—^Nancy Newlind of
Sanford and Jinx Snow of Fort
Bragg.
Intermediates A—Jem Graves of
Statesville and John O’Neil of
Southern Pines.
Intermediates B—Ida Lou
Bradford of Southern Pines and
Frances Winborne of , Sanford.
Advanced—Carol Coffin of
Southern Pines and Peth Win-
bome of Sanford. (The same two
girls won in this class last yexn,
but with positions reversed.)
Francis Dwight of Southern
Pines was awarded a trophy as
“best sport of the year.”
For rnost advancement during
the year, a trophy was presented
to Nancy O’Callaghan of Southern
Pines.
'this county—will be required to
register as Republicans unless
they are already registered as
such on the general elections
books. Formerly Republican can
didates for county and state of
fices have been chosen by the
convention method.
No new registration is required
for persons who are registered
on the general elections books as
a member of the party of their
choice and who have not-moved
since their previous Registration.
Persons in doubt about their
status as voters are advised to
check with precinct registrars.
' Voters in Southern Pinfes and
other municipalities are reminded
that registration for a town elec
tion does not qualify a person
to vote in the primaries and gen
eral election in November.
Following are elections officials
for the 18 voting precincts of
Moore County. For each precinct,
the registrar is listed first, the
Democratic judge of elections sec
ond and the Republican judge
third:
Southern Pines—Mrs. Grace
Kay lor, Mrs. Gertrude W. Steph
enson, Lloyd Prime.
Aberdeen—Mrs. Margaret W.
Dunn, Mrs. John Sloan', Miss June
Greer.
Pinehurst—J. Ellis Fields, Jr.,
ElUs Fields, Sr., Willard R. Dun
lop.
Pinebluff—Mrs. Madge P. Dav
id, Mrs. W. K. Carpenter, Jr., Mrs.
Margaret Lausten.
Vass—Mrs. B. F. Griffin, Mrs.
J. D. Matthews, M. L. Patterson.
West End—Elmer Blue of Jack-
son Springs, W. E. Jackson and
M. H. Tucker, both of West End.
Eureka—Mrs. D. J. Blue, Hugh
M. McLeod, H. C. Gamer, aU of.
Route 3, Carthage.
East Carthage—S. E. Battley,
Mrs. W. G. Brown, M. C. Marion.
West Carthage—D. Gilbert
Frye, W. B. Finison, Hoyle Sulli
van.
Little' River—E. B. Blue, C. H.
Marks, A. R. Reynolds, all of
Route 2, Vass.
Cameron—John M. Baker, Mrs.
June Tally, Carl Doby, all of
Route 1, Camerpn.
Robbins—Mrs. Bessie H. Brooks,
Mrs. L. B. Bowman, Mrs. C. S.
Lewis.
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Democratic Precinct
Meeting Set May 7
Joe C. Thomas, chairman of the
Southern Pines Democratic pre
cinct committee, has announced
the biennial precinct meeting for
Saturday, May 7, at 2:30 p. m., in
the Southern Pines Library.
The chairman urges all Demo
crats to plan to attend.
FORMS REQUIRED
Parents of children who are to
enter the East Southern Pines
elementary school in September,
v.'ho did not attend the pre-school
clinic held at the school today,
are asked by Supt. Luther A.
Adams to call at his office with
in the next week to pick up and'
fill out the forms the school must
have for its records.
Window Box Flowers Destroyed
“TWO-TRACKING” — one of the exacting movements of
dressage,- an ancient method of schooling and training horses—is
demonstrated by-Miss Yolanda Langerman and her Due de Fer,
a six-year-old thoroughbred. Note how the horse’s left front leg
and right rear leg are reaching both forward and sideways with
precision, in a gait that sends him along two “tracks” — both
ahead and to the side. Two-tracking is one of the basic move
ments of the method. The concentration required by dressage
of both horse and rider is apparent. (Pilot photo)
At least one-third of the gerani
um plants placed by the Southern
Pines Garden Club in business
section window boxes were brok
en or removed by unknown per
sons within 48 hours after they
were planted, Mrs. Norris Hodg
kins, president of the club, re
ports.
Shortly before the recent Gar
den Tour, the club spent $240 for
purchasing and planting gerani
ums, pansies and marigolds in the
boxes. There were some reports
that flowers other than the ger-
imiums had been picked or brok
en off.
The apparent vandalism was
revealed Monday at a meeting of
the club in a letter from Mrs. Roy
Kelly of the Kelly Landscape
Service which had supervised the
planting for the club. Mrs. A. V.
Arnold, the club’s i projects chair
man, made the report.
The destructive acts occurred
before the annual House and Gar
den Tour sponsored by the club.
One of the reasons for the new
plantings, it was pointed out, was
to make the town appesu as at
tractive as possible while the
hundreds of Garden Tour visitors
were here.
Not a single geranium was left
:in the railroad station boxes on
the Broad St. side of the station,
Mrs. Hodgkins said. 'The height
these boxes above the street indi
cates that the destruction there
was not caused by children.
Geraniums are relatively ex
pensive and last only one year,
Mrs. Hodgkins said, but the club
had decided to use them in cer
tain window boxes because of
their beauty and because their
previous use had drawn wide
spread approval. She said that,
because of the recent vandalism,
they would probably not be used
again.
Under the window box pro
gram instituted by the club, the
club provides the boxes and
plants them initially, but leaves
further maintenance to the mer
chants. However, in certain
boxes, the club this year decided
to supplement the merchants’
maintenance with additional
planting.