THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1960
Good Season Seen Ahead
— ” "though advance reservations do
not figure as heavily in their op
erations as at the strictly resort
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Mrs. Cosgrove described the
business outlook as very good and
said that. Mid Pines has many res
ervations which extend into next
spring.
Pine Needles
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bell,
opening their eighth season as
owners and operators of the Pine
Needles Lodges and Country
Club, Saturday, October 1, antici
pate “the best year we have ever
had.”
Reservations are well booked in
advance, Mr. Bell said. “We are
. practically sold out for spring al
ready.”
In the coming weeks. Pine
Needles is expecting numerous
small conventions and customer
entertainment groups.
A complete new lodge, built in
the same Swiss motif that char
acterizes the architecture of the
liostelries.
W. I. Barbour, assistant man
ager at the Southland, queried
in the absence of Mrs. Berenice
Harrington, owner and operator,
said that the season seems to be
starting earlier than usual this
year and that the outlook is good.
The Jefferson Iim, operated by
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Holtzclaw, is
expecting a good season. Mr.
Holtzclaw said this week that the
air-conditioned dining room,
known as the Plantation Room,
has been enlarged by removal of
a partition.
Mrs. Blanchette Capelle, for
merly with the Pine Valley Club,
IS in charge of the dining room.
Harry Pappas, manager of the
Belvedere Hotel, said that he’s
been told that resort business is
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Pine Needle_s layout-newest of ifhnnpfnl for
any of the Southern Pines resort
facilities—has been constructed
during the summer, with five
bedrooms, bathrooms and a cen
tral meeting room—a type of
structure that is popular with
business and small convention
groups. The new lodge is known
as “The 19th Hole” and brings the
housing capacity of the lodges to
80.
Mr. and Mrs. Bell will again be
in charge of the operation of Pine
Needles. (Mrs.) Peggy Kirk Bell,
a golf professional, will be teach
ing, along with returning staff
members—Lee Kosten, teaching
pro; Loch Lowman, head shop
pro; and Buck Hagy, assistant
shop pro.
New at Pine Needles this year
are Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Rob
bins who have been operating the
“Chuck Wagon” restaurant and
motel at Blowing Rock. Mr. Rob
bins will be assistant to Mr. Bell
and Mrs. Robbins will be in the
office.
The Pine Needles buildings
were repainted this summer on
the exterior with the orange color
used oh all the structures.
The golf course was described
by Mr. Bell as “in,about as fine a
shape as it has ever been.” Some
tees were improved on the course
over the summer, following ex
tensive improvements made on
the course in the past few years.
Hollywood Hotel
The Hollywood Hotel, which
overlooks the town park, One
block from the business section,
and is the largest “in-town” hotel
in Southern Pines, has set an Oc
tober 17 opening, reports George
Pottle, owner and manager.
The Hollywood’s season will be
gin with a convention of North
Carolina members of the Ameri
can War Mothers, at which the
Albemarle chapter of the organi
zation will be host. The conven
tion was set in.Southern Pines be
cause a facility large enough at
Albemarle was lacking.
This will be followed soon by
the convention of the North Car
olina State Grange, a gathering
so large that it is expected to
flow over to some of the other
local hotels with the Hollywood
as headquarters. This convention
will be held October 23-26.
Mr. Pottle said that the dining
room and the kitchen at the Hol
lywood have been repainted and
a new gas-fired boiler installed,
during the summer, plus the
“usual fixing up.”
Longtime personnel are return
ing to the Hollywood: Mrs. Dora
Hughes and Mrs. Jean Goe in the
office, and Henry Sutton, the chef
who has been with the Hollywood
for the past 25 seasons.
Noting that “the summer season
has been a little off everywhere
and business is generally down a
little,” Mr. Pottle was not unre
strained in his optimism for the
coming resort season, but said
that he felt it would be good on
the whole.
Southern Pines CC
An extensive program, of im
provements, on the golf course
and around the clubhouse, recent
ly reported in detail in a Pilot
news story—^was noted by Roy
Grinnell, professional at the club.
The 18-hole course, now open,
has been remodeled and length
ened, having been closed most of
the summer for the work. An ad
ditional nine holes, opened dur
ing the summer, are in reserve
and form part of a further long-
range plan of the club.
On the No. 1 course, new tees
were constructed and the greens
were completely worked over,
some recontoured and all were
planted with the Tifton 328 spe
cial Bermuda grass. A snack shed
was built at the 10th green.
Surroundings of the club were
improved and a carport for stor
age of electric golf carts was con
structed.
Inside the clubhouse, there is
a sitting room with new furniture
and drapes and the ladies’ locker
room was re-decorated.
Mr. Grinnell is assisted at the
club by Andy Page.
Downtown Hotels
Southern Pines’s three business
section hotels, which are open
the year around but also do con
siderable resort business with golf
cwid horse people and soine perma
nent seasonal residents, are look
ing forward to a good year, al-
year, but that he is hopeful for
a good season ahead.
Like most of the other hotel
and motel managers in this area,
his fondest hope is that the Sand
hills is spared a snowfall such as
that which hurt the spring season
last March.
The motel colony at the south
ern end of town is in agreement
about the coming season. “It has
started well,” they say, “reserva
tions are being made in advance
and, to date, appear to be more
numerous than last year. It looks
hke a good season.”
Optimism is guarded but firm,
as witness the improvements and
general refurbishing going on.
New units have been added, up-
to-date touches given to the old;
there is a fine smell of paint and
polish in the air.
Fairway Court
At Fairway Motor Court—a
Quality Court motel—George C.
Davis, owner, and Mrs. Davis
have done a' major job of con
struction connecting up two of
their main units. The work is still
in progress though almost finish
ed, and will add two new rooms,
besides contributing greatly to the
appearance and convenience of
the place.
The Davises and their five chil
dren took over Fairway in March
of 1958 and they have made it
look like a family place: big beds
of bright zinnias, flowering shrubs
and, somehow, a homey feeUng
to the neat symmetrical buildings
themselves. Mrs. Glenna Casey,
who manages the office, adds her
good taste and friendly ways to
the outfit.
All at Fairway report reserva
tions good for this fall and way
into the spring. They say last
year’s people are planning to
come back. Even those who had
the bad luck to be here during
the Big Snow are undeterred by
that experience; perhaps because
their Fairway hosts took pains to
help them get rooms further
south, where the sun was shining
at that time. Anyway, whether
out of sheer gratitude and friend
ship or jus^ because they like this
area so well, most of them have
made their plans to return.
Fairway’s capacity is 60 guests
—not counting rollaways and
cribs, sometimes put to good use.
Braeburn Hall
Further down the road stands
Braebiirn Hall, secluded behind
its screen of fine pines and cam
ellias and dogwoods. Mrs. Dorothy
Atherton’s motel is her home and
has all the charm of an attractive
southern house. As a result, her
guests come, over and over again,
and often stay for some time.
Especially pleasing to Mrs. Ath
erton is the fact that quite a few
of her people have come to South
ern Pines to live and have bought
homes here. They start coming to
her for vacations: a week or two
of golf or riding; then she he2irs
them say: “Another year or two
and it’ll be time to retire. We
think we’ll come right back here.
Mrs. Atherton is another who
has a feeling in her bones that
this season of 1960-’61 is going to
be a good one. “It’s starting early,
with people coming and more
making reservations. And such
nice people. . . !
That’s one thing all the motel
owners almost always say: “Our
people are so nice!”
Howard JohnsonTs
It seems to be the same story
everywhere in the motel s'ociety.
At Howard Johnson’s, Mrs. Fran
ces Peed, who is in charge of man
agement, is beaming over the re
turn of so many of their former
guests.
“It really makes me happy,”
she says, “when they write and
say ‘we’re coming back!’ And they
are all such nice people.”
This local member of the fam
ous H. J. chain can take care of
some 100 guests in its 50 emits.
The low harmoniously-designed
buildings look nicer than ever
this year with the increaised
growth of the fine planting that
sets them off so welL It’s no won
der that, as Mrs. Peed says, they
are running ahead of last year in
guests “on hand” right now and
more writing for rooms during the
coming months. Many stay fqr
long periods.
The restaurant has been tun
ning full blast, too, with so many
local folks giving it their steady
patronage. All in all, at H. J. the
word is: “doing fine, thank you!”
Southern Pines Restaurant
and Cottages
A newcomer to the section be
low town is the Southern Pines
Restaurant with its surrounding
cottages buried in luxuriant pines.
Long the property of the Frank
DaCostas, the place is well-known
locally and is already beginning
to attract the homefolks for lunch
and dinner as well as the motor
ing public. It is planned to start
a regular businessmen’s luncheon
in the near future.
Charlion Court
This will be the Alton Scotts’
tenth year in their big Charlton
Court motel on the east side of
the Route 1 corner.
To those who recall its modest
beginnings, the place is hardly
recognizable. There are now 40
well-built and most attractive
units, with 14 deluxe jobs added
last year. Besides these, the motel
includes 11 apartments of one to
three rooms with kitchenette, and
the Scotts have a house on the
road that runs across west to Rt.
15. It has four rooms and house
keeping facilities and is already
booked solid for the coming sea
son. “People love to live up there,"
Mrs. Scott says, “far from all
noise among the pines.”
Mrs. Scott says the past sum
mer has been the best summer
season they have ever had. They
keep the whole establishment
open all summer as well as winter
and last summer every bed was
taken three to four nights a week.
Like the others in the motel
and hotel business, the Scotts re
joice greatly at the number of
“repeaters” they get. They have
had people coming again this year
for whom this will be their tenth
seasonal visit to Charlton Court.
(And it’s been going only 9 years
so far so you could hardly have
more satisfied guests!)
The Scotts divide up the job.
Mrs. Scott struggling with the de
tails of management and her hus
band having a high old time with
all the outside: building new
units, fixing up his waterworks
at the back—one pool, two lakes ^
—and now devising a new irriga
tion system for all his lawns and
fine shrubbery. It works like a
perpetual-motion affair, starting
with water‘from the well, cooling
the air-conditioner and ending up
with fish in the lowest lake.
“Arid how’s the outlook for this
season?”
The answer comes back: “It
looks fine to us.”
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SEAT BELTS
When in use at the time of ac
cident, seat' belts are associated
with reductions fh injury risk in
the moderate through fatal grades
up to 60 per cent. Testimony in
hearings before the Subcommit
tee on Traffic Safetjj of the House
of Representatives on April 30,
1957, on the use of seat belts, gen
erally coincided with the position
taken by the Automotive Crash
Injury Research spokesmen on
the efficiency of seat belts.
JUDGE'S ORDER
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load workers.
Kennedy told the judge Monday
that he had not been examined
or questioned by any doctor since
he had been in jail.
Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health
officer, told The Pilot this week
that he was not familiar with the
Kennedy case. He said Kennedy’s
name “doesn’t register with me”
and said that he doesn’t recall
being asked to see Kennedy.
Dr. Willcox said that sometimes
he is notified to see prisoners by
the clerk of court’s office and
sometimes by the sheriff’s office.
Whose responsibility the notifica
tion was in the Kennedy case and
whether a physician was called or
not was not determined this week.
Apparently, sometimes Dr.
Willcox is called to examine pris
oners and sometimes a private
physician in Carthage.
The Kennedy case recalled the
recent jail death at Carthage in
which a private physician was
called when a prisoner apparently
died and refused to go to the jail,
recommending that Coroner
Ralph Steed, who is not a physi
cian, be summoned. No physician
ever saw the prisoner and he was
pronounced dead of natural
causes by the coroner.
FALL SPORTS
With the fabulous offshore and
surf fishing of autumn beginning,'
the North Carolina coast has more
ocean fishing piers than ever be
fore — a total of 28, all 'open
through October. Five contests—
one all-coast and the others reg
ional — continue. Hunting began
September 1, when the marsh hen
season opened to run through No
vember 9. • The first half of the
split season on dove shooting is
September lO-October 15.
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,SM0KEY BEAR'S
W6ATHER HINTS
WITCHWEED — When this parasite hit North Carolina’s com
crop, scientists needed immediate information on how to bring
it under control. Thanks to Nickels for Know-How funds con
tributed by Tar Heel farmers a scientist could be assigned to the
job. Witchweed hasn’t been completely controlled. But federal
and state scientists feel they are making progress. Money con
tributed to State College through the Nickels for Know-How
program has permitted scientists to work on many problems in
addition to witchweed. Farmers contribute the money by assess
ing themselves a nickel for each ton of feed and fertilizer pur
chased. Users of feed and fertilizer will vote on September 30 on
whether to continue this program.
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