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NEW ENTRANCE— This aerial view shows
the new driveways and entrance (center) to St.
Joseph’s Hospital. The former entrance was
at extreme left of building as seen here. The
access road at right is also new, leading in
from the Southern Pines-Carthage highway.
A new parking lot is out of the picture, toward
the right. (Hemmer photo)
WORK DONE DURING 1964 DESCRIBED
Many Changes Made At St. Josephus
The major renovating and up
dating program that has been
going on at St. Joseph of the
Pines Hospital here for the past
two years made notable pro
gress during 1964, reports Sister
M. Virginia, the hospital’s ad
ministrator.
During the past year, the hos
pital has completely remodeled
and renovated two floors, adding
this work on the third and first
floors to similar work done on
the second floor ih 1963. Two
large fire escape towers have
been built—one at each end of
the building. A new entrance on
the south side, with adjoining
driveways and a new parking
lot east of the hospital, have been
contructed and mercury lights
have been installed in the public
area of the hospital grounds.
Cost of the program has run
around $230,000 in the past year,
it was reported, bringing to about
$300,000 the amount spent on
improvements at the hospital in
the past two yearj.^
In addition, it v^^'announced,
work began recently on a separ-
A
ate project not being financed by
hospital funds: the conversion of
the former circular entrance lob
by to a chapel, given by Mrs.
Leon Baker of Southern Pines in
memory of her late husband. Dr.
George W. Mafheson.
Because of the influx of pati-
(Continued on Page 15)
Merchants Group
Plans Business
Directory Here
A total of about 220 businesses
in the immediate Southern Pines
area has been compiled for a
business directory to be prepared
by the Southern Pines Merchants
Council, Dante S. Montesanti, the
council’s chairman said Monday
night at a meeting of the group
in the municipal center court
room.
All will be asked to join the
Council, he said, noting that
“then we can tell better what
kind of support we are going to
receive.’’
The group of about a dozen
business people at the meeting
Monday voted to ask a $10 organ-:
ization fee from members and
new members who will join, to!
pay for necessary expenses in the
next six months. With money in
the treasury, the Council will be!
able to give immediate support
to any project that is undertaken,
the chairman noted.
Mr. Montesanti, urging mer
chants and other business people
to join the local group, said that
the Merchants Council’s goal is
to advance the business and com
munity life of the town, to help
each other and thereby help all, to
make Southern Pines more ap
pealing to visitors and to serve
as a liaison group between busi
ness people and the town council.
Stanley Austin, local business
man who is a member of the
Town Advertising Committee,
the group that administers a re
sort advertising and promotion
program and operates the Infor
mation Center, suggested that
the Merchants Council work
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Great Future For Peaches Si
Growers Frged Plant More Trees
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Col. Dibb Named
By Mayor To Head
Blood Drive Here
Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.
this week announced the ap
pointment of Col. John Dibb as
chairman of the Mayor’s Com
mittee of the Southern Pines Red
Cross Blood Program.
The committee recruits donors
and otherwise promotes the
blood collection program in the
Southern Pines area, especially
at the periodic visits here by a
bloodmobile from the Red Cross
center in Charlotte. This center
supplies both hospitals in Moore
County with blood of all types,
for which only a small handling
charge is made
The committee was formed in
late 1963, along with similar com
mittees in other Moore County
towns visited regularly by the
bloodmobile, when it appeared
that the county was likely to lose
its blood program because dona
tions were lagging far behind the
amounts used by the county’s
hospital patients.
The next Southern Pines visit
of the bloodmobile is scheduled
for February 16, following a col-
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Southern National
Promotes
Tommie L. Jessup of VassI has
been promoted to assistant cash
ier at the Southern Pines otffice
of the Southern National Bank
of North Carolina. The promotion
was authorized by the board of
directors’ meeting at Lumberton
last week and was announced by
Hector MacLean of Lumberton,
president.
Formerly assistant manager of
the bank’s Time Payment De
partment here, Mr. Jessup has
been with Southern National
since his graduation last year
from St. Andrews Presbyterian
College, Laurinburg. He had
been employed at the bank dur
ing the summers of 1962 and
1963, before his graduation.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
G. Jessup of Vass.
VETERAN GOLFER— Roy GrinneU, retiring after 51 and a
half years as a pro, shows his successor, Andy Page, a rare club
from his collection—a driver carved from a single piece of wood,
once owned' by Harry W. Richmond, president of the first Con
tinental Congress nearly 200 years ago. Setting is the pro shop
at the Southern Pines Country Club. (V. Nicholson photo)
GRINNELL RECALLS LONG CAREER
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FOR MOREHEAD AWARD
Local Student
Chosen Finalist
In Competition
Charles Allan McLaughlin, Jr.
senior at East Southern Pines
High School and son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. McLaughlin, 610 S.
May St., is one of six nominees
chosen from North Carolina’s! Tti
. District IH as finalists in compe- nUieU 111
tition for 1965 Morehead Awards
to study at the University of
North Carolina, reports Roy
Armstrong, executive secretary
of the John Motley Morehead
Foundation.
Other District HI finalists were
chosen from Whiteville, Pollocks-
ville, Fayetteville aud Wilming
ton (two). Two alternates are
from Fayetteville and Chad-
bourn. Lanny C- Parker, senior
at Aberdeen High School and son
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COIN CLUB TO MEET
The Sandhills Coin Club will
meet tonight (Thursday) at 7:30
at the Southern Pines municipal
courtroom. There will be a pro
gram, door prizes and other items
of interest to coin collectors.’’
“Come and bring a friend,” was
the invitation issued by the club
today.
Meningitis VicRm In
Upper Moore Recovering
Wilma Wicker, a seventh grade
student at Highfalls school and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
Wicker of Route 1, Carthage, is
reported by the Moore County
Health Department to be recov
ering well from menigococcal
meningitis.
According to a teacher at the
school, all teachers and many of
the students were treated with
preventive drugs to avoid spread
of the contagious disease.
The Health Department an
nouncement said there is no rea
son for alarm.
WEATHER STOPS
HUNTER EVENTS
Saturday's snow and sub
freezing temperatures pre
vented the Hunter Pace and
Point to Point equestrian
events scheduled for that af
ternoon and officials of the-
sponsoring Moore County
Hounds said they would not
be rescheduled.
However, the schooling
show set for last Sunday at
Goff oily Farm, off Youngs
Road, which was also snowed
out, will be held there Sun
day, January 24, at 1:30 pm.
Retired Pro Stays Busy
By VALERIE NICHOLSON
■Roy Grinnell, Southern Pines
Country Club golf pro who re
tired January 1, was still around
last week, completing the inven
tory and winding things up be
fore turning the job over to Andy
Page.
One of the best-known men in
the business, Mr. Grinnell be
came in 1914 the youngest person
ever admitted to membership in
the Professional Golfers Asso-
Pastors To Switch
Pulpits On Sunday
In connection with the nation
wide Week of Prayer for Chris
tian Unity, two local churches
will exchange pastors fo-r the 11
am service Sunday morning, Jan
uary 24.
The Rev. A. L. Thompson, pas
tor of the Southern Pines Metho
dist Church, and the Rev. Mar
tin Caldwell, rector of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, will be the
clergymen making the switch.
Six U. S. denominations are in
volved in a mass pulpit exchange
over' the nation, on Sunday.
ciation, and now at 66 has served
51 and a half active years. This
may be a record, though he’s not
sure, but very few persons have
won the 50-year award of honor
ary life membership accorded
him last year.
He’s not retiring far. Ten years
ago, he built his home overlook
ing the golf course, and he’ll be
playing his favorite game every
day, for fun.
Well, nearly every day. Some
days, he’ll be catching up on
house and yard work that’s
piled up these past busy years.
Already since January 1, he’s
built a long-planned retaining
wall.
It isn’t age or debility causing
his retirement. Clear-eyed, well-
weathered, hearty and hale, with
a crinkling grin famous all up
and down the eastern seaboard,
he’s a living testimonial to the
youth-giving prbperties of golf.
It’s the paperwork that’s got
him down—“Being a pro isn’t
what it used to be. All this book
keeping, record-keeping and
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♦ A full day of information and
fellowship for Sandhills p each
growers was provided Tuesday
at the annual institute, meeting
and banquet of the North Car
olina Peach Society.
Morning and afternoon busi
ness sessions at the Sandhills
Peach Experiment Station at
Winblow featured panel discus
sions by state researchers and
specialists on latest developments
in production and' marketing of
peaches.
A luncheon session at Jackson
■Springs Community House and
evening banquet at the Candor
Elementary School cafeteria fea
tured. eminent speakers. About
75 peach growers attended the
sessions, with wives and other
i guests joining them for the han-
■ quet.
President Reelectedi
I Elections returned to office
Carl Allred of Candor as presi-
ident, Don Huffman of Lilesville
! as vice-president and Floyd Hay
wood of Candor as secretary-
treasurer, all of whom were re
elected. Directors elected to the
board to replace three whose
terms were expiring were Carl
Allred and H. Page McAuley of
Candor and Carl Gallimore of
Ellerbe.
James Graham, North Carolina
Commissioner of Agriculture,
banquet speaker, assured the
growers of the continued support
of their industry by the NCDA,
and specified' the many services
available to them on request. He
urged greater use of the state in
spection service in maintaining
their high standards.
Graham foresaw a great future
for the Sandhills Peach industry,
as he said production methods
are constantly improving, and
marketing outlets have increased.
Auman Praised
He ^aid tribute to Clyde Au
man of West End, a founder and
past president of the peach socie
ty, who will be installed as presi
dent of the National Peach
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THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
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
January 14
January 15
January 16
January 17
January 18
January 19
January 20
Midland Road.
Max.
Min.
54
29
32
26
28
27
35
20
41
13
40
12
57
23
Death Of Widely
Known Local Man
William Irvin (Shorty) Bar
bour, 62, longtime desk clerk at
the Southland Hotel, was found
dead of a pistol wound, in his
room at the hotel Monday morn
ing. Moore County Coroner W. K.
Carpenter of Pinebluff ruled the
death a suicide.
The coroner said Mr. Barbour
had been in failing health, re
portedly not feeling well that
morning, and when Mrs. W. E.
Harrington, proprietor of the ho
tel, asked if she could get some
breakfast for him, he told her no,
adding that he would “see her in
heaven.” He retired to his room,
and when she looked in on him
about an hour later to see how
he was feeling, she found him
dead, the coroner said.
A .38 revolver was on a table
beside the bed. The coroner said
Mr. Barbour had apparently sat
on the bed, fired the shot, laid
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Harney Becomes
Partner In Firm
J. Talbot Johnson and Law
rence McN. Johnson, Aberdeen
attorneys, have announced that
their associate, John M. Harney,
has been made a partner in their
law firm which now bears the
name, Johnson, Johnson and Har
ney. The firm’s offices are loca-
, ted off No. 1 highway, north of
!the State Highway Commission’s
division offices, at Aberdeen.
Mr. Harney, a University of
North Carolina Law School grad
uate, has been associated with
Johnson & Johnson since Feb
ruary, 1962. He was married last
April to Alice Lineberger of Bel
mont. Their home is at Pine-
hurst.
6 - 8 Inches Weekend Snow Blankets Area
It was a great weekend for youngsters when
snow started falling Saturday and built up
during that night to a blanket of six to eight
inches over this area by Sunday morning.
Closing of all schools over the county on Mon
day added to their pleasure. Shown above,
sledding near the town park, are, left to right,
Pat Trentini, 6; David Harrison, 10; and Tony
Trentini, Jr., 13. Pat and Tony are the sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Trentini and David’s parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Miller Harrison. There’s
another snow picture on page 4.
Sub-freezing cold accompanied the snow and
continued tlmough Tuesday, with considerable
snow remaining today in shady spots around
town. Schools reopened Tuesday, but at Aber
deen the students were sent home when the
heating system failed. Town and State Highway
crews did a good job of clearing streets and
highways.
No serious accidents were reported, but one
driver was hospitalized after his pickup truck
skidded off the road, near the Fletcher Southern
plant and crashed into an unoccupied building.
Snow and cold apparently were crucial factors
in the death of a motorist whose car became
stuck Sunday night bn a rural road near Eagle
Springs. (See other stories in today’s Pilot).
DEADLINE NEARS
IN TAX LISTING
Listing of real and person
al property for county and!
town taxes—which must b®
completed before the end of
January to avoid a penalty—
is continuing throughout
Moore County.
A complete list of the tax
listers' schedules for the re
mainder of the month ap
pears on page 3.
Mrs. L. M. Daniels. Jr., the
McNeill Township lister for
property within the Town of
Southern Pines only, is at the
town hall courtroom daily,
except Wednesday and Sat
urday.
MR. CAMERON
Herbert Cameron,
Long Prominent In
Sandhills, Dies
Herbert N. Cameron, 75, a
leading businessman and long
time beloved resident of this
community, died Saturday at a
Raleigh hospital after several
months of failing health.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at the United
Church of Christ, conducted by
the Rev. A. L. Thompson, pastor
of the Southern Pines Methodist
Church. Burial was in Mt. Hope
Cemetery beside his wife, who
died December 11. The United
Church of Christ, in which Mr.
Cameron was a deacon and for
mer trustee, is at present without
a regular pastor.
A descendant of Scottish pion
eers who settled near the present
village of Cameron in pre-Rev-
olutionary days, he was chieftain
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FORUM TONIGHT
Sulie Harand, nationally fa
mous singing actress, will per
form tonight (Thursday) for the
Pinehurst Forum, at the Pine-
hurst Country Club. The 8:45
program will follow a buffet sup
per at 7. The program is open to
Forum members, their house-
guests and guests at Pinehurst
hotels.