f
14
An outstanding
race horse, owned and trained
in this area, is depicted in a
painting by a Sandhills artist.
Page 11.
RotrUxJ
<tCI«ndon
E.narbz
No. 1 Highway
faces increasing competition for
the tourist’s dollar, from other
north - south routes. See page
2.
pin
VOL.'—44 No. 14
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1964
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
M
WINNERS— In photo at left is Miss Morgill, chosen champion
at Saturday’s Hunter Trials, with J. W. Burress of Roanoke,
a., owner and rider, receiving the Stoneybrook Perpetual
Challenge Trophy from Mrs. James Cremins, the former Maureen
Walsh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Walsh, owners of Stoney
brook Stables and donors of the trophy. At right, W. O. Moss
joint master of the Moore County Hounds, presents to Mrs!
William A. Goff of Southern Pines the Field Hunter Challenge
Trophy, donated by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Walsh, for the hunter
shown—Private Spence, owned by Mr. Goff and hunted by Mrs.
Goff and their son, Gregory, during the current season. The
trophy annually goes to the best field hunter, in the opinion
of the Hunt Committee, going out regularly with the Moore
j 'AMERICANS-AT^HOME*
Town Joins With
New Program Of
Travel Service
A new nationwide “Ameri-
cans-At-Home Program” will
make visits in private homes pos
sible for more business and pleas
ure travelers from abroad than
ever before.
Southern Pines is one of 21
communities across the nation
participating in the program,
which was launched Friday at the
White House by Mrs. Lyndon B.
Johnson.
Mrs. Johnson entertained for
eign tourists in the family quar
ters of the White House with cof
fee, cookies and half-an-hour of
American hospitality.
As Mrs. Johnson initiated the
program designed to encourage
more Americans to open their
(Continued on Page 5)
County Hounds.
(Humphrey photos)
$5,000 Damage To
Building, Motorist
Hurt At Aberdeen
A Connecticut man was injur
ed, two automobiles were wreck
ed and an estimated $5,000 in
damage was done to the Aberdeen
Savings and Loan Association
building, now under construction,
as result of a traffic accident at
9:30 a.m. today.
Ed Richardson, assistant police
chief at Aberdeen, who investigat
ed, said this is what happened':
Grady B. Caddell of Carthage,
salesman for Newland Phillips
Motors of Southern Pines, going
south on No. 1 highway in Aber
deen, was making a left turn into
Knight St. off No. 1 when the
1959 Pontiac he was driving was
struck in the rear by a 1958
Pontiac also headed south and
driven by Edward F. Horton, 59,
of Rockville, Conn.
The Horton car continued across
(Continued on Page 5)
‘Miss Morgill’ Declared Champion At
Hunter Trials; Other Trophies Given
Winning the Non-Thoroughbred
Hunters class and placing second
in Open Hunters, Miss Morgill, a
grey mare owned and ridden by
69-year-old J. W. Burress of
Roanoke, Va., went on to win the
Championship Class in the 32nd
annual Hunter Trials of the
Moore County Hounds, at the
Scotts Corner course near here
Saturday.
Chosen as Reserve Champion
was Wig Mallory, Open Hunters
winner and placing second in the
Non-Thoroughbred Class, revers-
Folk Mujs’c Will
Be Heard Feb. 28
In Local Concert
Folk music — ranging in style
from haunting ballads and sea
chanteys to foot-stomping fiddle
and banjo tunes — will come to
the Sandhills next week when
“The Tripjacks,” a trio from New
England, entertain members of
the Sandhills Music Association.
The program, third in the an
nual series sponsored by the As
sociation, will be presented at
Weaver Auditorium on Friday
night, February 28, at 8:30 p.m.
It is open to those holding season
tickets, and tickets will also be
available from the Barnum
Agency and at the door immedi
ately before the start of the pro
gram.
The trio, all former teachers in
Lexington, Mass., sang together
(Continued on Page 8)
Camellias Will Be
On View At Library
An exhibit of camellias from
the estate of Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Morton on Youngs Road will be
on view in the Southern Pines
Library, Monday through Friday
of next week.
The flowers come from an ex
tensive and varied collection of
plants originally cultivated by
Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Vale, Jr.,
former owners of the property.
Their custom of exhibiting the
camellias in the library at this
time of the year has been contin
ued by Mr. and Mrs. Morton since
they bought the estate a few
years ago.
mg the positions of the champion,
owned by Mrs. F. L. Sears of
Pinehurst and Hamilton, Mass.,
and ridden by Edgar Mills.
Threatening weather, with
some rain falling near the end of
the day’s lunch break, failed to
cut a large attendance at the col
orful event that began, for the
first time this year, with junior
classes in the morning. The pro
gram had barely finished, in late
afternoon, when there was a vio
lent downpour of rain.
Horses and riders coming from
away joined local entries, to pro
vide keen competition in all class
es.
The Sandhills area fielded both
the winning and third-placing
hunt teams, in this always inter
esting class.
Judged best was the Moore
County Hounds team (Victor
Valiant, Blue Moon, Half Stitch)
with Joint MFH Richard Webb,
Miss Jane Clark and Beaver
Tate as riders.
Hanes Boren, Jan Graves and
Bill Bolick were the riders of the
second-placing Sedgefield Hunt
(Grensboro) team.
On the Youngs Road Hunt
Team, placing third (Mr. Sand
man, Detour, Ant Eater), the
riders were Mrs. Jean Tilt, Miss
(Continued on Page 8)
Resident Of Vass
Killed In Strange
Aeeident Friday
A freak accident at a Vass ser
vice station Friday night proved
fatal to Mrs. Louise Howell
Bridgers, 58, wife of the proprie
tor, L. E. Bridgers.
Mrs. Bridgers, helping out her
husband about 9 p.m. at his
Amoco station and store on US 1
in town, was putting gas into an
old Cadillac which had been left
by the driver with its motor run
ning. The gear was accidentally
knocked into reverse by a passen
ger remaining in the car, causing
it to jump backward. Mrs. Bridg
ers was knocked to the pavement
and her skull was fractured.
Members of the Vass Rescue
unit rushed her to St. Joseph’s
Hospital where she died about 2
a.m. Saturday.
The accidtent was investigated
By J. R. Grissom, Vass night
policeman, and Coroner W. K.
Carpenter, who ruled on Satur
day that it was unavoidable.
(Continued on Page 8)
Lan^ Named To Assist
Secretary of Air Force
11
JOHN A. LANG, JR.
Basketball Tourney Starts Friday
BY JOEL STUTTS
The 37th annual Moore County
High School Basketball Tourna
ment will get under way at the
Pinehurst gymnasium lYiday
with three games scheduled there
each evening on Friday, Saturday
and Monday of next week. Action
then moves to Robbins Tuesday,
remaining there Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday with the
boys and girls championship
games set there for Saturday of
next week.
The tournament—^which will
lose four teams after this season
due to the consolidation of Vass-
Lakeview, Cameron, Carthage and
Farm Life High Schools—is one
of the oldest, largest and most
colorful in the state. The tourna
ment eliminates 20 teams to
eventually determine the boys
and girls champions. Some 330
players participate, incluid'ng
eleven boys and eleven ' girls
teams from throughout the coun
ty.
There will be outstanding boy
and girl players in the tourney
(CJontinued on page 19)
Selection of John A. Lang, Jr.,
Carthage native, as administrative
assistant to Secretary of the Air
Force Eugene M. Zuckert was an
nounced Monday in Washington,
D. C.
Mr. Lang has been deputy for
Reserve and ROTC Affairs, to the
special assistant for Manpower,
Personnel and Reserve Forces,
Office of the Secretary of the Air
Force, since 1961. Joseph P. Hoch-
reiter will continue to serve as
the deputy administrative assist
ant to the Secretary.
Notable achievements during
Mr. Lang’s tenure as deputy for
Reserve and ROTC affairs were
the mobilization of Air National
Guardsmen and Air Force Re
servists during the Berlin and
Cuban crises, in which these or
ganizations received high praise
for their outstanding performance.
4. Before coming to the Penta
gon, Mr. Lang served in execu
tive positions with Congress
since 1947, as a Congressional ad
ministrative assistant and as a
committee staff consultant. His
service with Federal and State
organizations includes duty as
State Administrator of the Na
tional Youth Administration in
North Carolina; Assistant to the
Director of the CCC Camp Educa
tional Program, Washington, D.
C.; and president of the National
Student Government Federation,
New York City. He was head of
the English Department of
Georgia Military Academy for
(Continued on Page 8)
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
(Pairings are incomplete due to ties in standings. The results
of a coaches' meeting this (Thursday) afternoon to determine how
the tied teams would be scheduled came too late for press lime.)
FRIDAY, FEB. 21:
COMMITTEES. DONORS THANKED
Blood Collections This Week
Exceed Quotas In Two Towns
Blood collections at Carthage
on Monday and at Southern Pines
on Tuesday far exceeded their
quotas, drawing high praise for
committees and donors from J. R.
Hauser of Southern Pines, chair
man of the Moore County Blood
Program.
At Carthage 132 pints were giv
en and 174 at Southern Pines.
Quotas for each collection were
Dr. McLean Heads Red Cross Campaign
•Hi* n ri T\/r«T ^ C?
Dr. C. C. McLean of Southern
Pines has accepted appointment
as 196L Moore County Red Cross
Fund Drive chairman, it was an
nounced this week by the Rev.
Martin Caldwell, chapter chair
man.
The campaign will start March
1, with a quota of $13,303.
Dr. McLean, a native of West
End, graduated from high school
there and won his degree as
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at
Auburn University in Georgia in
1944.
He is vice-president of the Twin
Carolines Veterinary Medical As
sociation and past president of the
North Carolina Veterinary Medi
cal Association. He is chairman
of the Southern Pines Board of
Education, an active member of
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, an
elder in the Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church, and chair
man of the Committee on World
Missions of Fayetteville Presby
tery.
Dr. McLean is married to the
former Laura Dew of Lumber
Bridge and they have one daugh
ter, Martha.
Directors of the Moore County
DR. C. C. McLEAN
Chapter, American Red Cross,
will meet Friday at 6:30 p. m. at
the Holiday Inn. A dutch dinner
will be served and committee
chairmen will report on their
various activities.
100 pints.
New promotion committees
“did' a wonderful job in both
communities,” Mr. Hauser said,
also thanking the many donors at
each location. The Carthage group
is headed by Mayor Luke Marion.
The local committee, appointed
by Mayor W. Morris Johnson, has
David A. Drexel as chairman.
The two “mayor’s committees”
were named after Moore County
nearly lost the Red Cross blood
program, because of lack of don
ors, last year.
Next collections in Moore
County will be at Pinehurst Mon
day, April 27, and at Aberdeen,
Tuesday, April 28, Mr. Hauser
said.
The Red Cross Center at Char
lotte, which makes the bloodmo-
bile collections, supplies both hos
pitals in the county with blood of
all types. There is no charge, ex
cept for handling at the hospitals.
Rehearsals For
‘Brigadoon’ Set
First rehearsal for the Broad
way musical, “Brigadoon,” to be
presented here March 20 and 21
by a cast of adults and high school
students, has been called for
Tuesday of next week, at 7:30
p.m. in Weaver Auditorium. Re
hearsals will continue at the
same place and hour each Tues
day thereafter.
About 20 adults will play the
character roles and the East Sou
thern Pines High School Glee
Club will provide the chorus.
Tickets will go on sale about
March 1.
6:30 Aberdeen girls vs High Falls.
7:30 West End boys vs High Falls.
8:30 Southern Pines girls vs Farm Life or
Westmoore.
SATURDAY, FEB. 22: 6:30 Robbins boys vs Cameron or Farm Life
7:30 Robbins girls vs Cameron.
8:30 Carthage or Westmoore boys vs
Cameron or Ftirm Life.
MONDAY, FEB. 24 6:30 Pinehurst girls vs Aberdeen - High Falls
winner.
7:30 Pinehurst boys vs West End - High Falls
winner.
8:30 West End girls vs Southern Pines, West
moore or Farm Life.
RADIO STATION TO COVER TOURNAMENT
Radio station WEEB will carry interviews and results of all
tournament games every morning at 7:15 following each night’s
action.
Joel Stutts, conference publicist, and Tim Calcutt will be in
charge of the coverage. It is hoped that one of the tournament
games can be carried play by play as well as'games in the state
playoffs in which local teams 'will participate.
DR. STONE TO SPEAK
History, Tennis
Groups To Meet
Jointly Tuesday
Dr. Raymond A. Stone, presi
dent of the new Moore County
Community College to be built on
the Pinehurst-Airport Road, will
speak at a joint meeting of the
Moore County Historical Asso
ciation and the Sandhills Tennis
Association in town hall court
room, Tuesday, February 25, at
8 ». m.
The two organizations, which
found they had scheduled meet
ings for the same night, decided
to meet together, giving members
a welcome opportunity to meet
Dr. Stone who had been sched
uled as the Historical Association
speaker.
Presidents of the two groups
are Dr. Colin Spencer of Car
thage for the Historical group
and C. A. McLaughlin of South
ern Pines for the Tennis Associa
tion.
L. M. GOODWIN. JR
Goodwin Begins
Supervision Of
Nature Preserve
Lester McGee Goodwin, Jr., 22-
year - old January graduate in
Wildlife Biology at North Car
olina State, Raleigh, arrived here
this week to become park super
intendent of the Weymouth Woods
Nature Preserve, a new unit of
the State Parks system, just east
of Southern Pines.
His first task, he said, will be to
go over the 400 acres of the
Nature Preserve to make habitat
studies (relationship of animal
(Continued on Page 8)
BENEFIT DINNER MONDAY
Date of the annual dinner-dance
at the Dunes Club on Midland
Road, sponsored by the Moore
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, for
benefit of the hospital, has Iseen
changed to Monday, February 24.
Details on page 4.
BANKS TO CLOSE SATURDAY
Banks throughout this area will
be closed Saturday, February 22,
in observance of Washington’s
Birthday.
New Moose Home
To Be Dedicated
Here On Monday
The new home of Sk>uthern
Pines Lodge 1817, Loyal Order of
Moose, will be officially dedicated
Monday night, February 24, at
8 p.m.
The new building, of brick
and block construction, is located
on Clark St. which is reached
from the end of N. W. Broad St.,
past the Caddell Stables.
Jack Garty, governor of the
lodge, and Jack Barron, chair
man of the Building Committee,
said today that an Open House
event, when the public will be
invited to inspect the building,
has been deferred to a later date.
Grading and landscaping
around the new home have not
been completed, they said, and
continued wet weather has made
it inadvisable to have the public
open house at this time.
Plans for the Open House will
(Continued on Page 8)
%
%
THE WEATHER
Maximum and
minimum
tern-
peratures for each day of the past
week were recorded as follows at
the U. S. Weather Bureau obser-
vation station at
the W E
E B
studios on Midland Road.
Max
Min
February 13
54
25
February 14
57
36
February 15
47
28
February 16
52
35
February 17
54
23
February 18
56
30
February 19
53
40
WITH CANDIDATE — Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate
Richardson Preyer (second' from left) is flanked in this photo
by M. G. Boyette of Carthage (left), his Moore County campaign
manager, and Mrs. Pat Rainey of Southern Pines, chairman of
the women’s division of the Preyer county campaign. At right
is Vance A. Derby, of Southern Pines, who headed arrangements
for last Thursday’s appearance of the candidate in Carthage
(V. Nicholson photo)
where this photo was made.
Mrs. Preyer Will
Be Honor Guest
Here February 27
Mrs. Pat Rainey of Southern
Pines, women’s chairman on the
Moore County Preyer for Gover
nor Committee, said this week
that Democratic women through
out the county are assisting in
preparations for a luncheon hon
oring Mrs. Emily Preyer of
Greensboro, wife of the candidate
for Governor.
The luncheon — one of the
(Continued on Page 8)
Preyer Reveals
Program To Boost
Tourist Busiuess
Richardson Preyer, reaching
Moore County exactly midway of
his barnstorming tour of 100
counties, breezed into Carthage
last Thursday afternoon as fresh
and exuberant as if this were his
first, instead of 50th, stop.
The 46-year-old Greensboro
man, obviously enjoying his gu
bernatorial campaigning, appear
ed pleased at the turnout estima-
(Continued on Page 8)