Page FOUR THE PILOT—Southern Pines* North Carolina THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1962 Women’s Activities and Sandhills Social Events MARY EVELYN de NISSOFF, Editor TELEPHONE OX 2-6512 Miss Mason to Wed Pvt. White in April Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Alicia In gram Mason, daughter of Mrs. Alice Ingram Mason of Southern Pines and J. K. Mason, Jr., of Sanford, to Pvt. Harvey Rhodes White, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. White, Sr. of Pinebluff. Miss Mason graduated from the Southern Pines High School and attended Campbell College and Southeastern College of Cosme tology and is now employed at the Style-o-rama Beauty Salon. Pvt. White is a graduate of the Aberdeen High School and at tended Western Carolina and Wingate Colleges. He is now sta tioned at Fort Jackson. S. C . An April wedding is planned. MANY ENTERTAINING FRIENDS, HERE FOR THE GALA STONEYBROOK RACE WEEKEND Louise Crain Given Surprise Party at VFW Auxiliary Meeting VFW Auxiliary President Miss Louise Crain presided at a meet ing on Wednesday, March 14. The members vqted to partici pate in the drive to have the flag displayed in every home in Moore County on Memorial Day. It was announced that a Dis trict meeting for the election of officers, will be held in Laurin- burg, April 15, with Elois Kelley, Department senior vice president, as guest. After the meeting, the Auxil iary had a surprise birthday party for Louise Crain and presented her with an orchid corsage and a gift. Refreshments were in the green and white traditional for St. Patrick’s Day. Winners Named in Bridge Parties Here And in Pinehurst Players taking top honors at Tuesday evening’s Sandhill Du plicate Bridge Club party were, first; Mrs. Roy Grinnell and Mrs. Jean Edson; second, Mrs. M. W. Hitson and Mrs. C. D. May; and third, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mark ham of West End and Dr. E. W. Bush and Fred Brindley. Carolina Parly Local winners were prominent in the weekly duplicate party Friday evening at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst. First place winners, North-South position, were Mr. and Mrs. Frank deCosta; second. Miss Margaret Lavery of Pinehurst and a Pine Crest Inn guest. Jack Dillon of Baltimore; third, Mrs. C. J. Fetner and Mrs. B. N. Dickinson, both of Ham let; and fourth, Mrs. Lester Hol lander of Pittsburgh and Mrs. William H. Brown, a Carolina guest from Swarthmore, Pa. Mrs. J. J. Spring and Mrs. Jean Edson teamed to take first place, East-West; second, Mrs. C. H. Bowman and Mrs. M. W. Hitson; third, Carolina guests Mrs. W. O. Smith of Cutchoque, N. Y. and Miss Doris Markley of Mason City, La.; and fourth, Mrs. C. J. Burnett, a Holly Inn visitor from Plymouth Meeting, Pa. and Caro lina guest Mrs. Harold D. Schlef- fer of New York City. Legion Auxiliary Selects Girls to Attend Girls State The Pinehurst American Legion Auxiliary met March 14 at the Legion Hut with Mrs. George Hunt presiding. Mrs. Ralph Homer and Mrs. Paul Monroe were asked to serve on the nominating committee as April is election month for offi cers. Two girls were selected for sponsorship by the Auxiliary to attend Girls State in Jrme. With a record-breaking crowd of 10,000 spectators expected at the 15th annual Stoneybrook Hunt Race Meeting Saturday, the order of the day is—come early! The gates of Stoneybrook Farm will open at 12 noon. This thoroughbred training center, owned by famed horseman Mich ael Gerard “Mickey” Walsh, will provide a genuine old-fashioned sporting atmosphere in which to relax and enjoy picnic lunches. Pre-race events—the Children’s Race, the Mule Race, an exhibi tion of trotters and pacers from the Pinehurst Race Track winter training quarters, and a concert by the 82nd Airborne Division band—will precede the seven races carded. Proceeds from the Stoneybrook will, as usual, be divided between the two Sandhills hospitals, Moore Memorial and St. Joseph’s. Those responsible for coordina ting the arrangements for this, the South’s opening steeplechase meet for 1962, give generously of their time to whip the endless de tails involved into the smoothly- executed, brilliant show tradi tionally expected of the Stoney brook. Executive committee chairman Donald D. Kennedy is aided by Henry Flory, James W. Tufts, Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy, Mickey Walsh, who is general manager, and the latter’s assistant, James Hartshorne. Mrs. Audrey Kennedy heads up the entertainment committee, members of which are Mrs. W. O. Moss, Mrs. John C. Ostrom, Miss Gay Tgte and Mrs. Donald Kennedy. On Mrs. Harold E. Hassenfelt’s publicity committee are Miss Page Shamburger, Mrs. Miriam Rabb and Chris Wood, Jr. Mrs. A. M. Koster, who left to jioin her husband. Army Colonel Koster, also worked on this committee prior to her departure. On the trophy committee are Miss Gay Tate and Mrs. Mary Doyle and in chgrge of special ar rangements, assisting Chairman William H. Gentry, Jr., are W. O. Moss and D. W. Winkelman. Party for Members Besides the innumerable pri vate, informal parties which just naturally burgeon from the meet ing of friends at the race course, there will be an invitation party with cocktails and buffet, at the Southern Pines Country Club Saturday evening for members of the Stoneybrook Association, numbering some 300 persons from all over the country. Honor Guests Honor guests from Fort Bragg who will attendi the Race Meet are Lt. Gen. and Mrs. Hamilton Howze, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. T. J. Conroy, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Ed ward J. McGrew, Jr. and Col. and Mrs. Richard Grondona. Visitors From Stale Among the many visitors from all over the state planning to be here for the Stoneybrook are the Starke Dillards, the Bo Carters and the Bill Borens, all members of the Sedgefield Hunt. Dorothy and Bill Burns from Durham and the Rev. Spot Dil lard of Smithfield are expected to be here and will lunch with the Claude Reamses, who are enter taining for other out-of-towners also. The Stanley Winbornes will be here from Sanford and Suzanne and Russell Hall, Jr., will be among those from Greensboro on hand. By the Busload Several chartered buses will bring interested spectators to the grounds to enjoy the festive event; approximately 15 couples, including Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stevenson, III, are coming by bus from Winston-Salem. The She didn’t say ‘yes’ until he mentioned one of those Bamum Realty & Insurance Co. HOMES. OX 5-7251, Night OX 2-6792. REALTORS. special activities director of Fort Bragg has arranged to send a busload of soldiers from the Post and a group from the Baptist Sun day School in Candor will also be here. Entertaining House Guests Numerous Sandhills residents are entertaining house guests for this Race Meet weekend. Among these are Mrs. Edgar Adlai Ewing, who will have her daugh ter and son-in-law, the John D Richardsons and children, Robin and Walker, here from Berry ville, Va. The Richard Earles Eire coming down from New Canaan, Conn, and will have visitors with them at their home here. Visiting the Donald Kennedys are the Hon. and Mrs. Charles P. Jonas of Lincolnton; Dr. and Mrs. David M. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. James P. Selvage of New York City. Old friends of Mr. and Mrs. Washington Reed (she was Ruth Cameron, a former resident here) will welcome them back for the weekend. The Reeds live in War renton, Va. and will have with them their daughter, Lucy, a stu dent at UNC. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph L. Speight will be here from New York City to visit his mother, Mrs. O. A. Speight. The Henry Florys are expect ing the Frank Littlefields from Syracuse, N. Y. Here with Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Shamburger in Knollwood will be Mr. and Mrs. Quenton Greg ory of Weldon and the C. A. Hunt*- leys, formerly of Aberdeen, who now live in Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Brown of Katonah, N. Y. arrived Tues day to be with Mrs. James Boyd at Weymouth. Also with her is Mrs. Carl A. Lohmann of New Haven, Conn., a sister of E. D. Andrews. With the Allan T. Preyers on Bethesda Road are Mr. and Mrs. William Bryan of New Bern. Former residents Mr. and Mrs. J. Graves Vann and Rosemary, of Sparta, will be with Dr. and Mrs. W. Harrell Johnson, who are also entertaining Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Umphlett of Wilson. Graves, III is visiting the Cad Benedicts and son, Chris. Visiting the George H. Leon ards and their son, Tim, here for -spring holidays from Christ School, Arden, are the latter’s I'roommate, Allan Trueluck, his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Trueluck, and her daughter, Sarah Ann, of Asheville. Dr. and Mrs. T. N. Lide and daughter, Nancy, are coming from Winston-Salem to visit the John Ponzers. Charles W. Stitzer, who heads the racing committee, and his daughter, Susan, both of Atlantic City, N. J. and New York, are visitihg the John C. Ostroms. In and Out of Town Mrs. Paul Mengel of Chapel Hill spent Wednesday here with her sisten and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Allan T. Preyer. Mrs. Menge came down for the openmg day of the Antique Fair. Misses Katherine Noel and Margaret Lee Walker, of Four- Oaks; Mrs. Rex Gardner of Smithfield; Mrs. J. A. White, and Mrs. Robert Cameron, of Jones boro, visited Mrs. Alice Bass at St. Joseph’s Hospital Sunday. Mrs. Bass returned to her home on Niagara Road Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Bowden and children, Cindy, Steve and Bruce, have returned to Mont gomery, Ala. after a two-week stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Besley. Pfc. Philip Lee Tinsley has left for Okinavya for a lO-mOnthsT tour of duty. His wife is presently residing with her parents, Mr. MISS GAY CLINCH TATE A SEPTEMBER WEDDING IS PLANNED BY MISS TATE AND HASKELL DUNCAN Mrs. Henry Clinch Tate, of Blue Hill, Maine and New York, formerly of i Fairfield, Conn., an nounces the engagment of her daughter. Miss Gay Clinch' Tate of Southern Pines, to Haskell Arthur Duncan, son of Monroe Duncan and the late Mrs. Duncan of Laurinburg. Miss Tate, the daughter of the late Henry Clinch Tate, is a grad uate of Dana Hall School, WeL lesley. Mass, and attended Briar- cliff College, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. She was introduced to society at the Bachelor’s Cotillion, Balti more, Md. Mr. Duncan is a graduate of Catawba College, Salisbury, and did graduate work at Southeastern Seminary, at Wake Forest. Plans are being made for September wedding. SATURDAY PREVIEW OF HOME & GARDEN TOUR SLATED FOR N. C. PRESS WOMEN North Carolina Press Women from Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte and Fayet teville, will again this season be guests of the Southern Pines Garden Club at a preview Satur day morning of the annual Home and Garden Tour, set for April 11. Mrs. Clarence L. von Tacky is Garden Club chairman. Mrs. N. L, Hodgkins will en tertain the Press Women at a buffet luncheon at her home, 305 North May Street, at noon, after which the newspaper girls will adjourn to the Stoneybrook Track to watch the Steeplechase. Tour chairman is Mrs. James S. Milliken, and her comimittee Fr. Smith to Speak To United Church’s Youth Fellowship On Sunday at' the United Church of Christ, the Rev. Carl Wallace will discuss “Brother’s Keeper, and the Inevitable Mis sion Concern,” at the 11 a. m worship service. The Youth Fellowship will meet at 6 p. m. Sunday with Father Francis Smith, pastor of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, as guest speaker. The Church Membership Train ing Class will begin at 10:30 a. m. Saturday, March 24. The Junior Choir rehearsal and the Prayer Group meet at 7 p. m. Wednesday, the Senior Choir at 8. Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. John C. Ostrom, Mrs. C. Robert Vander- Voort, Mrs. B. F. Kraffert, Jr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ewing. Houses to be seen on the pre view Saturday, and on the tour proper, are the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Voit Gilmore, Mrs. Van Buren Ilsley, Mr. and Mrs. W D. Campbell in Southern Pines Mr. and Mrs. John Read Burr, Mrs. O. V. Russell and Mrs. C Louis Meyer in Pinehurst, and the Homewood Gardens of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Bullens in Knoll wood. The April 11 tour begins at Shaw House and tickets are on sale at each home being shown Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5:30 includes Mrs. Denison K. Bullens, I p.m. JOURNALIST LEONE KOSTER JOINS ARMY OFFICER HUSBAND FOR TOUR IN FRANCE Royal Ambassadors Visit Town Creek Indian Mound Sunday The Royal Ambassadors, a miss ionary organization for boys in the First Baptist Church, Sunday made a trip to the Town Creek Indian Mount at Mt. Gilead. The boys are studying American In dians this month. RA s making the trip were Clarlton and Ricky Deaton, Brad Rush, Raoul Trudell, Bill Darden Boyd Trent, Tim Surratt, Richard Boroughs, George ChappeU, Brian Rogers, Jkni and Randy Arnold and Stanley Whitley. Driving them were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Deaton, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Rush and Raoul Trudell. The group enjoyed a picnic lunch and after a tour of the points of interest at the historical monument, the boys played softball game. 44 Species Seen on Bird Club Field Trip Around Airport The Southern Pines Bird Club held its first meeting of the sea son last Friday with an interest ing field trip to the Airport to see the horned larks nesting there again. Members afterward circled around the region, making a list of 44 species seen during the morning including some water fowl—^ring-necked ducks, lesser scaup and coot. Anyone interested in joining the group each Friday at 9:30 a. m. may call at headquarters, 160 South Bennett Street. If the weather is bad, meetings are held indoors. Leone Hart Koster is taking a leave of, absence from her “Par ade and Review” page, which she has been contributing weekly to the Fayetteville! Observer, and de parts today to join her husband. Col. Alfred M. Koster for a “final fling” in Europe. Colonel Koster, who is deputy commander of the First Logistical Command stationed at Poitiers, France, will retire in late sum mer after 30 years of U. S. Army service. After a weekend visit in Gro ton, Conn, with her son, Navy Lieutenant A. M. Koster, IV, and his wife, and with her other son. Midshipman Edward H. Koster of the U. S. Naval Academy, Mrs. Koster leaves Sunday for New York and will sail Wednesday aboard the Queen Elizabeth. She will be met in Southamp ton by her husband and the cou- I pie will visit a cousin of his. Dr. A. H. Koster, whom they have never met, in London. Then on to Paris to spend the balance of Colonel Koster’s short leave be fore he returns to his station at Poitiers. Though admitting that it was a wrench to leave the retirement ® home, and the garden, at 510 East Massachusetts Avenue into which she moved last fall, Mrs. Koster was thrilled at the prospect of be ing. with her husband in France, where she has never been, on his last tour of duty. 'Tm totin’ my typewriter along always do,” said Mrs. Koster, whose book of poems written the people around here are so nice and interesting, it’s a pleas ure to work with them.” As one of her last assignments before leaving, Mrs. Koster in' terviewed Mother General Vin^ centia, head of the Third Order of St. Francis, who was here last week from the Mother Home in Msuyville, Mo. for a visit to St Joseph’s Hospital. Her feature article on Mother Vincentia, whom Mrs. Koster found “dO' lightful,” appeared in last Thurs day’s Fayetteville Observer. and Mrs. George H. Leonard, Jr.. Mrs. Roger Derby arrived Wed nesday from New York for visits with Mrs. John E. Elmendorf, Jr. and Mrs. Van Buren Ilsley. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ostrom at The Corral for two months are her daughter, Mrs. John Owseichik and daughters, Karen and Lisa, of Lafayette, Calif. Arriving Monday for a week with the Ostroms is Walter van Durand, noted photographer from Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs. E. Winslow Ware of Chest nut Hill, M21SS. and her two grand sons, Edward and Hemy of Rich mond, Va. are guests this week of Mrs. Ware’s sister, Mrs. E. C. Stevens on Highland Road. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Wea- therspoon have as guests at their Youngs Road home this week Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sengle and son. Matt, of Cresco, Pa. Guests Registering This Week at the Hollywood Hotel Mrs. George C. Marshall en tertained guests for dinner Thurs day at the Hollywood Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Delavan of Auburn, N. Y. who are spend ing some time at the Hollywood, have as their guests Mrs. Arthur Stewart of Upper Montclair, N. J., and Mrs. Helen Davey, also from Upper Montclair. Others at the Hollywood in clude Mr. and Mrs. Earle Gwynne of Charleston, W. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. James O. Watts and MisS Virginia Watts of Narragansett, R. I.; Mr. and Mrs. F. W. R. An gus of Montreal, Canada; Mrs. Pearl H. Thompson and her son Theodore H. Thompson of Bridge- hampton, L. I.; George deRis of Englewood, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Messinge pf East Provi dence, R. I.; Mr. and Mrs. James loon, thltko loIttacM to send i »«<1 family »< West Allenhurst, N. articles from Europe to the Fay etteville Observer during her absence. She has also promised to as sist with the publicity for the Stoneybrook Steeplechase again next year, to help with the Red Cross Drive and with varisus oth er charitable organizations. ‘Wherever we have lived,” said Mrs. Koster, “my husband and I have always been active in community and civic work—and Mrs. Phillip DeYoe is visiting in Winston-Salem and will return next week. Bridge Winners Table winners at Tuesday’s reg ular meeting of the Hollywood Bridge Club were, at bridge, Mrs. H. W. Aljen, Mrs. Arthur Daven port, Mrs. J. I. Neal, Mrs. Ernest Poate and Mrs. G. R. Cheatham. Mrs. Warren Edwards and Mrs. T. C. Ringold won at bolivia. NEW WHITEY and the COLT-KILLER GLEN ROUNDS Studio Bookshop 105 E. 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