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Pine Needles Sold
For $406,000 To
Catholic Bishop
Use Of Building As
Hospital Confirmed
Golf Course Will
Remain In Use
The sale of the Pine Needles
Hotel and golf course to the Most
Reverend Vincent S. Waters,
Bishop of the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Raleigh, was consum
mated here Friday morning.
Gathered in the office of John
D. McConnell with the purchaser
were his counsel Francis J. Hea-
zel of Asheville and Mr. McCon
nell, associate attorney in the
negotiations, and Mr. and Mrs.
George T. Dunlap, Jr., represent
ing the former owners, the Pa
tuxent Development Company,
of which Mr. Dunlap is president
and his wife secretary. With
them was the company’s attor
ney, J. Talbot Johnson of Aber
deen. Dr. Francis Owens of Pine-
hurst, was also present.
In announcing the purchase.
Bishop Waters stated that the
property would be turned over
to the Sisters of the Third Order
of Saint Francis whose Mother
House is in Maryville, Missouri,
for use as a general hospital and
sanitarium. He also stated that
it is his desire and intention to
have all of the property purchas
ed by him, maintained in the fu
ture up to the high standard that
has heretofore been established
for the property and that every
reasonable effort will be made to
continue to keep the Pine Needles
Golf Course available for use by
visitors to and residents of the
Sandhill Section. Title to the
property he said, would be held
by a corporation, probably to be
known as “St. Joseph of the
Pines.”
Purchased with the hotel plant
and 531.75 acres of adjacent
grounds were practically all the
equipment and furnishings, with
the purchase price given in the
mortgage recorded Tuesday as
$406,000. Down payments of $10,-
000 and $46,000 were to be fol
lowed by further payments at
stated intervals, the whole
amount to be paid off wthin 10
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FOR YOUTH
Local Golfers Are League Officers
Young people of the town
will meet at 10 a. m, Monday
at the Community building
ito inaugurate itheir recreal
tion program for the sum
mer, under the direction of
A. C. Dawson.
Plenty of fun and whole
some activity is waiting for
all in the two daSy periods,
beginning at 10 a. mu and
2:30 p. m, Monday through
Friday of each week, and our
word to every boy and girl is
—belter be in on it from the
beginning. BasebalL swim
ming, tennis and dther sports
are being arranged, and the
more who lake part the mer
rier.
In fact, this is one pro
gram in which everyone in
the community can join in, in
one way or another. Word
from the citizens' committee,
which is seeking funds for
the program, is that less than
one-third of the $2,250 need
ed has been contributed so
far. Those who have not been
solicited may do their part
by mailing their contribution
’ to the Coimcil of Social
Agencies, sponsoring agency,
or giving it to June Phillips,
council treasurer. E. C.
Stevens, citizens' committee
chsurman, or any committee
;nhmber.
Grinnell, Birch
Lease Golf Course
At Pine Needles
Will Open Sunday
For Year-Round Use
(Photo by Humphrey)
Mote than 200 golfers of the Six-club Sandhills League, holding
their individual championship play and closing banquet of the season
at the 'Highland Country club, Fayetteville, last Wednesday, elected
the three Southern Pines men above to the league’s top offices for
1948-49—Harold A. Collins, left, president; John Underwood, center,
vice president; Will Wiggs, right, secretary-treasurer.
The season ended with the Lumberton team in first place. South
ern Pines and Fayetteville tied for second, Laurinburg third, Rich
mond County fourth and Wadesboro fifth. In the individual matches
Juhan Hutaff, of Fayetteville, had low gross, and a playoff between
Milton Teague and Harold Goode, both of Lumberton, resolved a
tie for low net in Teague’s favor.
Parker Faces Grand Jury Indictment
On Charges Of $114,000 Tax Evasion
Miss Eifort Heads
County Drive To
Aid War Victims
Mrs. H. W. Doub of Aberdeen,
district chairman of the Crusade
for Children, has named Miss Lu
cille Eifort of West End as coun
ty chairman of the drive to rai^e
$2,868 for the relief of war suf
ferers, which will be launched
with a radio program over sta
tion WEEB next Wednesday at
4:30 p. m., arranged by Mrs. S. L,
Windham. Mrs. J. B. Edwards of
Aberdeen is radio chairman, and
Mrs. S. R. Smith of Vass, chair
man cf publicity.
Quotas for the various towns
have been set, and a number of
■ local chairmen appointed, with
several places yet to be filled.
The incomplete list follows:
Southern Pines, $500, sponsor
ed by the Elks club, A. B. Pat
terson; Aberdeen, $375, Mrs. W.
L. Batchelor; Carthage, $350, Mrs.
Walter B. Cole; Robbins, $350,
Mrs. Lucy J. Kennedy; West End,
$250, Miss Treva Auman; Vass,
$175, Mrs. N. N. McLean; Camer
on, $125, ,Mrs. Ernest Badgett;
Pinehurst, $350; Pinebluff, $100;
pagle Sppngs, $75;’ Lakeview,
$50; Roseland, $35; Eureka, $35;
Spies, $35; Glendon, $35; Manly,
$25; High Falls, $50; Jackson
Springs, $35; Niagara, $35.
In towns where there are no
women’s clubs, other organiza
tions will be asked to head the
drive, and the chairman hopes
to have her organization com
plete before the opening day of
the campaign.
Twenty-five dollars will feed
a starving child for a year and
it is hoped that many individuals
and organizations will realize the
acute need and come to the aid
of the innocent victims of war’s
blight by providing a year’s sup
port.
Good news for golfers of this
section and other places will be
that of the reopening of the Pine
Needles golf course and club
house Sunday as a year-round
operation, with the well-known
pros Roy Grinnell and Russ Birch
in charge.
They have leased the facilities
from Bishop Vincent S. Waters
of Raleigh, who last week pur
chased the Pine Needles hotel for
conversion to a Catholic hospital
Birch will be in charge during the
summer months, while Grinnell
is serving as pro at the Seacon
net Country club. Little Comp
ton, R. I., his summer post for the
past 34 years. In the fall they
will operate the Pine Needles
course as partners, and Grinnell
Summer Officers;
Plans Are Made
will also have charge, as usual,
co™rai;fS."r Teen Agers Elect
The Pine Needles course will
be open to all golfers on a mem
bership fee or daily-fee basis,
with charges in line with those
of other courses of the section,
Birch said. The soda fountain is
also being opened Sunday, with
Bob McLeod as assistant in
charge of this department. Plans
for use of the kitchen and ball
room, which are also in the club
house, are being postponed until
the fall.
The course is now being shap
ed up for use and, after having
been closed for several weeks
may not be in top form next
week, but wiU soon be up to its
old standards of one of the finest
of the section, said Birch this
week. A Donald Ross course cov
ering 67 acres, it is well and
widely known, and a favorite
among golfers of many states and
anada.
Grinnell and Birch were assoc
iated for a number of years at
the Pinehurst Country club and
also at the Southern Pines Coun
try club, until last year when
Birch went into the accounting
and bookkeeping business. He is
now returning to his first love,
and this week invited all his old
friends of golfdom to “come on
over.”
Sunday, the opening day, said
Birch, greens fees are “on the
house.”
Ceremonies to be held at 5
p. m. Mondjay, broadcast over
WEEB beginning at 5:15, will
mark a special observance of
Flag day by the Southern Pines
Elks lodge. ,
.(Vll lodge members and their
wives are invited to the cere
mony, to be held on the front
lawn of the clubhouse on South
May street, and the general pub
lic is asked to “listen in” to the
program on the air,' according to
John E. Cline, chairman of the
observance.
He is being assisted by Ted
Barrow, Jr., Julian Tadlock and
Jack Johnson in the preparation
of the program, in which a num
ber of the local Elks will take
part, including the officers head
ed by A. B. Patterson, exalted
ruler. A brief devotion, history
of the flag, patriotic songs and
talks will, be heard.
The event will be followed by
an outdoor chicken fry at which
the Elks will be guests of the
BPO Does.
Eagle Springs Winery
Owner Faces Trial
A grand jury indictment of a
Moore County manufacturer this
week set in motion the machinery
of the law for trial of a tax eva
sion case of outstanding propor
tions.
Josephus D. Parker, owner and
operator of Parkqf’^ Winery ,at
Eagle Springs^ was indicted at
Greensboro for alleged income
tax evasion of $114,639.49 for the
years 1943, 1944 and 1945.
Parker, owner of 1,721 acres
11 Victims, One
Death Is County
Polio Tally N ow
Willcox Urges
Caulion, Asks
DDT Spray Campaign
Two more Moore County chil
dren, believed to be polio vic
tims, have been taken to out-of
county hospitals in the past week,
according to announcement by
Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health
officer.
They are Sarah Preslar, 13,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus
E. Preslar, of Robbins, whose
seven-year-old son, Marcus, Jun
ior, died last Sunday of the dread
disease; and Janice Strider Ken-
riedy, six-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kennedy
of the Westmoore School section.
Sarah, whose illness had not
been definitely diagnosed as
polio ’early this week, was taken
ill last Thursday night and was
rushed to the Gastonia Orthope
dic hospital. Janice was stricken
Friday at the home of her grand
parents in Carthage, and is at
Rex hospital, Raleigh.
This brings the county’s total
of polio cases in the past few
weeks to a possible 11, about one-
tenth of the entire incidence in
ihe state.
Dr. Willcox this week request
ed that parents not only exercise
all possible care regarding the
well-being and protection of their
children, but join in a concerted
effort to stamp out insect pests
with ;QDT.
While is it not known definite
ly how the polio virus is carried,
it is felt that the stamping out
of the fly, the mosquito and the
Cockroach as far ds possible is
bound to help. The DDT-spray-
ing campaign is being sponsored
by the U. S. Public Health Serv
ice, the state and county boards
of health, the Moore County
Southern Pines Speeial Election On
School Bond Issue To Be Held Tuesdav
IN MEMORIAM
near Eagle Springs, and manufac- ^ 4.1. 1 ^
turer of several well known of the National Infantili
brands of wine, had a net income Foundation and other
of $238,608.32 for the three-year community organiza-
period in question, according to
EXHIBmON GAME
The Southern Pines team in
the Peach Belt League will meet
the Safie Mills team of Rocking
ham in an exhibition game Sun
day at 3:30 p. m. at the High
School Memorial park here.
The Teen Age club of Southern
Pines met Wednesday night and
elected officers for the coming
three months. Re-elected were
Windham Clark and Nelia John
son as president and secretary-
treasurer, while Tom Mattocks
was elected to the vice-presidency
in place of Fred Arnette.
The meeting, which was held
at the Community building, was
presided over by Windham Clark.
Previous to the election of offi
cers a discussion took place re
garding the continuation of the
Teen Age radio program, which
has been taking place over WSTS
on Saturday afternoons. With
some dissatisfaction expressed
over recent broadcasts, a more
definite setup was advised and
the president ' appointed Carol
Sue Humphrey chairman of a
committee to have charge of this
activity.
Richard Kaylor was named
chairman of the dance committee,
to get up a dance for this Satur
day night, to be held at the Com
munity building from 9 to 12.
Nelia Johnson reported that the
High School clubhouse could not
be decorated and made available
for use until the pool tables have
been disposed of by ithe school.
However, she said that the coca-
cola machine had been purchased
and installed there.
It was decided to continue the
the indictment brought by the
jury which met following the
convening of the Middle District
Court criminal term Monday.
The true bill states that in the
three years Parker paid $47,293.53
victory and income taxes, where
as the government alleges that he
actually owed approximately
$161,933.02.
First count of the indictment,
filed for 1943, alleged that Park
er filed returns for $20,660.78 net
income and filed taxes due as
668.92, whereas his net inqome
for the year was $33,747.02 and
he owed to the government an
income and victory tax of $14,-
647.13.
On the second count, the indict
ment claimed that the defendant
Parker stated his net income for
1944 was $47,482.24, upon which
he filed tax of $25,336.68. The
government claims that his in
come was $158,110.63, and he
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Await Van Camp
Survey Of Park
The June meeting of the town
board, scheduled to have been
held (Wednesday night of .this
week, was postponed, according
to Howard F. Burns, town clerk,
as no matters were pressing and
the Millen Park survey has not
yet been completed.
The survey is being made by
Paul Van Camp, consulting en
gineer, for a report on the practi
cality of restoring the park, and
an estimate of costs.
A report on the park situation,
to have been made by Hoke Pol
lock at the Chamber of Com-
mercd meeting Tuesday, was also
postponed pending the outcome
of the survey.
Several local organizations are
interested in the park, Pollock
told the directors, and have ten
tative plans toward aiding in its
beautification if it is restored by
the town.
Interest has been expressed by
the Sandhills Veterans associa
tion, the Bird club, the Garden
club, the troop committee of Boy
regular Wednesday night meet-1 Scout troop 73 and others, as
ings at the Community building,' well as many private citizens
with the hour unchanged: ’7:15. and visitors.
tions.
Plans for a Bible school at Car
thage Baptist church have been
canceled in view of the increas
ing number of polio cases.
While 110 cases had been re
ported in the state up to June 4,
an announcement from the state
department of health was to the
effect that “no definite trend in
the outbreak of the disease has
yet ,been detected.” Healtl;i offi
cials said it is still too early to
determine whether the state is to
be confronted with a major polio
epidemic such as occurred in 1935
and 1944. They said that a trend
should be apparent by the middle
or end of this month, if there is to
be one.
Guilford county, with 18 cases
reported up to June 4, was the
only one out of 22 reporting
which h^d more cases than
Moore. The disease outbreak con
tinues to be centered in the mid
dle Piedmont area, state health
officials said.
The High School Memorial
park is the new name of the
recreation center hitherto
. called the school athletic
field, the town field, the
town park and almost any
thing else that came to mind.
The new name, recently
chosen by the Southern
Pines school board, honors
all young men of the com
munity who lost their lives
in the war. according to Dr.
G. G. Herr, board chairman.
It also retains identification
of the high school as owner.
However, he said, the field
will continue to be available
for general town and public
use at all times, except when
they interfere with school ac
tivities.
Decision to change the
name was made following re
cent community gifts for the
improvement of the field, in
cluding dugouts constructed
and installed by the local
VFW post and bleachers giv
en by the town teain.
I
County Election
On School Bonds
Encounters Delay
Southern Pines And
Pinehurst j^ust Pass
Separate Resolutions
Beer And Wine
Referendum At
Vass July 2
Vass voters will hold a referen
dum July 2 on the sale of beer
and wine, the first such referen
dum to be held within the coun
ty, with the strong likelihood that
the legal sale of beer and wine
will be banned within the city
limits.
Though no new registration is
required, registration books were
opened last Saturday and will be
open June 12 and 19, to give
those who have become of voting
age since the last registration, or
who for other reasons are not
on the books, a chance to have
their names recorded.
The issue will be decided by a
simple majority vote.
The referendum follows pre
sentation of a petition to the
town’s governing board. W. Alex
Smith is said to have been the
leader in the movement to circu
late the petition, with a number
of workers out securing names.
They are reported to have had no
difficulty in getting more than
the required 15 per cent of the
voters to sign.
The countywide $975,000 bond
issue for general school improve
ments, for which a special elec
tion had been scheduled for July-
6, has met with some snags which
will necessitate a delay of sev
eral weeks.
Information from Reed, Hoyt
and Washburn, New York bond
attorneys, received last week
was to, the effect that the bond
order should have preceded the
election order; and -Slso that,
since the county has two admin
istrative unit's outside the coun
ty school system, separate resolu
tions stating their needs will have
to be passed by these, units,
Southern Pines and Pinehurst, in
addition to the resolution of the
county board of education.
Passing of a resolution by the
commissioners incorporating the
stated needs of all three must
precede the bond order, setting
the date of the hearing and bond
issue; after which the election
may be ordered and advertised,
and registration dates set.
Information concerning the
due legal procedure was passed
on to the commissioners at their
regular meeting Monday "by U.
L. Spence, attorney, who had
been in communication with the
New York legal firm which must
certify the bond issue.
Present at the meeting was a
delegation from the Southern
Pines school board, with a re
quest that the $150,000 already
pledged toward construction of
a gymnasium, auditorium and
cafeteria be upped to the $200,000
allotted in the proposed bond is-
$45,000 Sought For
New School Buildings
Will Supplement
County Funds
Tuesday is the day of South
ern Pines’ special election on the
$45,000 school improvement bond
issue, and some 500 voters who
put their names on the books dur
ing the registration period are
expected to turn out in full force.
They will need to, unless they
want to be counted as voting
“no,” as this is a vote against
the registration. So far, sentiment
as sounded out by The Pilot has
been unanimously for the bond
issue.
The election, however, may not
be recorded as unanimous. Sev
eral who found out after they
registered that they would not
be in town Tuesday have been in
to see if they could “unregister,”
said Tom G. Wicker, registrar.
So far he has been unable to
find any legal way this could
be done.
The proposed bond issue, if ap
proved by the voters will be used
to supplement $150,000 pledged
by the county commissioners for
the building of a cafeteria, gym
nasium and auditorium for the
school. The additional funds will
insure the following of plans
drawn up for two units, one a
gymnasiunq, the other contain
ing both auditorium and cafeter
ia.
Without the supplement, all
would have to be put in the same
gymnasium combined. This has
been tried here for the past 25
years (until the auditorium-gym
nasium’s ceiling fell in last June)
and the school authorities and
general citizenry are “agin it.”
The bond issue will add ap
proximately six cents per $100
valuation to taxes of Southern
Pines district residents, it is es
timated.
Tomorrow (Saturday) is “chal
lenge day” for the election, as
provided by law. Polls will be
open Tuesday at the Community
building from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30
p. m.
little enthusiasm on the part of
the commissioners. In fact, they
made no reply.
Whether or not the Southern
Pines and Pinehurst units will
keep their minimum requests to
the $200,000 and $50,000,, respec
tively, allotted in the projected
$975,000 is now up to them, Mr.
Spence said in answer to a query.
A change in the allotments al
ready made will mean further
delay, as new forms will have to
be drawn up. However, he said,
the boards of the two units have
equal standing with the county
board of education, and tjieir re
quests must be accepted by the
commissioners if a bond issue is
lo be held.
The commissioners set the date
of June 21 for their next meeting,
at which time it is anticipated
that the resolutions of the South
ern Pines and Pinehurst school
. boards will have been passed,
sue—a request which met with and will be presented.
Former Albright Manager Out For
Scott, Says Many Veterans Follow
Moore’ County supporters of
Mayne Albright, who ran a los
ing third in the gubernatorial
campaign, have in the main
shifted their allegiance to W.
Kerr Scott, was the expressed
opinion this week of Joe Garzik,
of Southern Pines, who served
as Albright’s county manager.
He himself, declaring he would
work for Scott, was surprised to
see himself listed in the News
and Observer as “county co
manager” for Scott, but doesn’t
mind the tag, he said. “If co
manager means talking him up
and doing all I can to get him
elected, that’s right,” said Joe,
World War 2 veteran and mana
ger of the Shaw Paint and Wall
paper company here. “Others I
have talked to who were for Al
bright have switched over to
Scott, and that includes a good
many veterans.”
However, supporters of Charles
H. Johnson also feel that their
candidate is assured of a consid
erable number of the Albright
votes in the second primary of
June 26. Mayne Albright himself,
after keeping both surviving
contenders on the anxious seat
for three or four days, announc
ed officially his decision to keep
“hands off”, in the coming fight,
except, for casting his own per
sonal vote.
A letter received by Garzik
this week from Albright asked
his official report on expendi
tures, as required by law, and
thanked him for his help in the
campaign.
It also asked an analysis of
what happened in Moore county,
not only in regard to the loss of
the Albright campaign but a gen
eral view of what part money
and organization played at the
polls.