VOL. 39-^NO. 19
Alston House Will
Of f icially Open
To Public April 6
Program Marks
Climax Of Big
Resloration Job
Final plans for the official open
ing of the restored House in the
Horseshoe April 6 have been made
by the Moore County Historical
Association, sponsors of the pro
ject.
The house will officially be
op>ened to the public at 3 p.m. on
that date and people from
throughout the state are expected
to be on hand.
Prominent guests who are ex
pected to attend and take part in
the opening include Dr. Christo
pher Crittendon, state archivist,
and James A. Stenhouse of Char
lotte, president of the North Caro
lina Society for the Preservation
of Antiquities and former chair
man of the Governor’s Commis
sion on Historic Sites. It was Mr.
Stenhouse who suggested the
House in the Horseshoe be restor
ed as a state historic site.
Also scheduled for the program
is a playlet to be presented by the
Deep River Home Demonstration
Club, which has many members
who are descendants of residents
of the countryside where the
house is located. Written by Mrs.
Jj J. Hume of Carthage, the play
will be presented by a cast dress
ed in period costumes.
Another feature of the program
will be the uiiveiling of a portrait,
of Governor Benjamin Williams,
who used the house for a retires
ment home. The portrait, just
completed after several weeks of
painstaking work by Benjamin
Fields of Fayetteville and New
York, will be hung over the man
tel in the parlor. Fields has done
considerable research on Gover
nor Williams and painted the por
trait from an original hanging in
the Hall of History in Raleigh and
from photographs of the original
which he discovered in Raleigh.
rf. Clifton Blue, Moore County’s
representative to the General As
sembly, and Superior Court W. A.
Leland McKeithen of Pinehurst
wiU also appear on the program.
Sheriff Charles McDonald, pres
ident of the association, will pre
side at the ceremonies.
J. Douglas David
Is New President
Of Tax Collectors
J. Douglas David of Pinebluff-,
Moore County tax collector,' was
elected president of the North
Carolina Tax Collectors Associa
tion at the association’s annual
conference in Chapel Hill last
week.
The association numbers
among its members 100 county
tax collectors and more than 400
from towns and cities throughout
the state. David has been a vice-
president for the past two years.
Active in politics, David is a
past president of the Moore
County Young Democrats Club,
and presently is Democratic pre
cinct chairman in Pinebluff. He
has been tax collector for the
past four years.
He is also neighborhood com
missioner for the Boy Scout
program. 1
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1957
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
DANCING BEACON, winner of last year’s
Sandhills Cup in the Stoneybrook Steeplechase
and a repeat winner, this year, wasn’t around to
see his owners, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Greenhalgh,
Jr., of Boyce, Va., receive the trophy from Mr.
and Mrs. Dwight Winkelman of Southern Pines,
the donors. The race, boosted this year to in
clude a $1,000 purse, firmly established Dancing
Beacon as a favorite to repeat his victory in this
year’s Camden Cup races Saturday. Pictured
here, left to right, are Mr. Winkelman, Mrs.
Greenhalgh, rider Mel Ferral, Mrs. Winkelman,
and Mr. Greenhalgh. (Humphrey photo)
Dancing Beacon Repeats Sandhills Cup Victory
Dancing Beacon, the favorite
from Virginia, fought off several
challenges Saturday afternoon to
turn in a repeat victory in the
running of the Sandhills Cup,
feature event of the Iffth annual
Stoneybrook Steeplechase.
Thus, the; nine-year-old bay
gelding owned by Mrs. G. P.
Greenhalgh, Jr., of Boyce, Va.,
became the favorite in the fea
ture Carolina Cup races at Cam
den this Saturday. Riding him
was Mel Ferral, the same jockey
that guided him to an upset win
over Erin’s Cottage and Repose
last year.
Dancing Beacon made the dis
tance in the very good time of
five minutes, two and two-fifths
seconds.
Of the eight starters in the
running for the Sandhills Cup,
donated by Mir. and Mrs. Dwight
Winkelman, Only six finished. El
Bravo, owned by Mrs. R. L. Par
rish of Brewster, Im. Y., went
down at the first jump. Mountain
Buck, a highly rated entry from
West Chester, Pa., who had been
trained here by Billy Frantz,
pulled up at the last hurdle.
Dancing Beacon and Jamaica
Boy, the midwestem champion
of 1956, fought it out neck and
neck most of the way, though
challenged several times by
Mountain Boy and Navy Talk.
After the final 13th fence.
Dancing Beacon was ahead by
three lengths; Ferral, apparently
sensing victory, let hfan out and
he finished four lengths in front
of Jamaica Boy.
The weather, bad for the past
three seasons, was better Satur
day, though for a while it looked
as though the early morning
chUl might not go away. But sev
eral thousand fans, rated as one
of the best crow(^s recently,
seemed to be immensely enjoying
themselves as the seven events
were run off.
One big thing missing was
Carlyle Cameron, rated as the
top steeplechase rider for many
years. He was not entered at aU.
The Walsh family, usually a
big winner in the meet, won only
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LADY LYRIC, a two year old, came through in good time to
give Mr. and Mrs. George Bishop, new residents of Southern
Pines, a victory in the annual Stoneybrook Steeplechase last Sat
urday. Lady Lyric won the two-year old trial race. Pictured
here are Mr. Bishop on right, an unidentified spectator, Mrs. Bish
op, and rider Scotty Schulhofer. (Humphrey photo)
Two Properties On Young’s Road
Change Hands; New Building Seen
Virgil Jordan,
Noted Economist,
Buys CherryHouse
One of the finest homes in
Southern Pines, known most re-
Vnit^d Appeal Set Sunday
The 1957 United Appeal for re
lief and reconstruction of overseas
areas will be observed in all
Southern Pines churches Sunday,
according to Dr. Wofford Tim
mons, president of the Moore
County Ministerial Association.
“’This is the great hour for shar
ing in our churches,” he said. “For
every one dollar contributed to
the United Appeed, twenty dollars
worth of necessities, including
food, clothing and medical sup
plies, will be shipped overseas to
those less fortunate than our
selves.”
Dr.; Timmons pointed out that
$11,500,000 will be needed in 1957
to sustain individual denomina
tional projects and joint programs
through the cooperative effort for
overseas aid. U. S. government
surplus fiX)ds are distributed' free
to himgw aU over the world with
the fuiK coUected in chtirches
paying only for transportation.
Major areas of need, he said, Eire
Korea, the Near East, India, Pak-1
istan, Japan, Greece, Hong Kong, |
Italy, France, Egypt, Germany
and Austria, as well as tl^ Hun
garian and Eastern Europe refu
gee areas.
Dr. Timmons, speaking for aU
cooperating churches, asked
church goers to bear in mind some
statistics before contributing: |
There are more than 30,000,000
refugees scattered from Korea to
Hong Kong to Italy and Germany.
More than half the people of |
the world go to bed every night |
undernourished if not actuaUy
hungry.
The average per capita annual
income of people in this country
last September was $1,847; more
than half the people elsewhere in
the world have incomes of less
than $100.
ReEtl estate activity continues
cut Young’s Road way with the
news this week of two more re
cent sales.
Mrs. Reid Healy, of Firleigh
Farm has sold her stable and 12
acres to Mr. and Mrs. George
Bishop of Winston-Salem, whUe
the land known as Scott’s Cor
ners, formerly the farm of Royal'Cherry house,
R. Scott, has been sold to Mr. and ^r. and
Mrs. A. W. Moss, of Mt. Kisco, dents of Pinehurst, it was an-
by the former owners, W. O. noppced this week.
Moss’s Moore County Company, i Jeiry Healy, of Bamum Realty
The Healy sale covers the and Insurance Company, handled
northeastern corner of the large the sale of the home, which bor-
estate which adjoins the Harold ders Connecticutt Avenue and
CoUins and Mrs. Audrey Ken- consists of some 9 acres,
nedy properties on the west and Dr. Jordan, a widely known
south, and the Notre Dame economist and author, is a native
and the
School land to the east.
■Pnth new nurchasers plan to
build within the near future. Mr. publications of the National In-
and Mrs. Bishop, who have both dustrial Conference Board, and
hunters and race-horses, will later as president and chancellor
renovate and probably add to the of the same organiation. He has
present stable and hope to start, also been an economist for Mc-
on plans for their house soon. I Graw-HiU Publications, chair-
The Mt. Kisco Mosses, whoseof tbe Industrial Advisory
new 23-acre estate borders , Coimcil of the WPA in New York
Young’s Road from the comer to City, a trustee of Rutgers Univer-
the Harry Vale property line, ^ ^ity where he took graduate
will be down over this weekend | studies, and as a consulting econ-
when they will lay plans for omist for other organiations.
their house, the stable to follow ■ He is the author of several
later. Mr. Moss is with the'New widely known books on econom-
York and Chicago firm of Stand
ard Rate and Data Company.
They have hunted here with the
Moore County Hoimds for sev
eral seasons.
ics, among thent “World Crisis
and American Business Manage
ment,” and “Mariifesto for the
Atomic Age,” which was pub-
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Campaign To Rid
County Of Obscene
;azines Started
County Board Of
Education Takes
Steps This Week
"Suggestive and vile publica
tions imperiUng the morals of
our youth” was the term given
various magazine racks by the
Moore County Board of Educa
tion this week.
The board, at the instigation of
Jere McKeithen of Aberdeen,
adopted a strong resolution to
ban the distribution and sale of
such literature, which was term
ed “salacious.”
The resolution, seconded by T.
Roy Phillips of Carthage, calls
for cooperative action by princi
pals of all schools in the coimty,
school committeemen, Parent-
Teacher Associations, local min
isters, and the'public at large.
^ Samples of some of the maga
zines which children may pur
chase at drug stores and news
stands were examined by the
board at its meeting.
‘■’Although we are taking the
lead in this fight on a coimty-
wide basis,” county school super
intendent H. Lee 'Thomas said,
“we are asking each community
to wage its own campaign. Con
ditions are worse in some com
munities than others.”
One member of the school
board said that most of the mag
azines are shipped to the county
by truck to avoid postal regula
tions.
Several weeks ago a Pilot re
porter was told by a merchant
who sells magazines that “far
more of that type magazine is
shipped back to the distributor
than ever goes on the display
racks. It’s becoming a big busi
ness with the distributors and
every week sees literally dozens
of new titles added to the list.”
The school board is sending
letters to various groups and in
dividuals in the county enlisting
their support
Gilmore Not To Seek
Council Re-election;
Race Wide Open
GARDEN TOUR
With the annual Homes and
Garden Tour, sponsored by
the Southern Pines Garden
Club, coming up next Wed
nesday, members of the club
asked this week that the route
of the tour be published so
that people who lived along
the way would have ample
time to spruce up their prop
erty for the visitors.
The tour begins at the
Shaw House at 10 am. Wed
nesday. From the Shaw
House it will move along May
Street to Massachusetts Ave
nue. turn right to Weymouth
Road, then over to Connecti
cut Avenue, down to Ridge
Street, then along Ridge to
the entrance to the home of
Mrs. James Boyd, the first
stop on the tour.
From there, the tour will
move back down Vermont
Avenue to May Street (US
Highway 1) out to Young's
Road, and eventuaUy to Sev
en Stars, the home of Mrs.
Audrey Kennedy. From there
the tour will go to the Harry
Vale Estate on Young's Road,
returning along Young's Road
and Vermont Avenue to Mid
land Road, and then to Pine
hurst.
In Pinehurst, the tour will
visit the gardens and home of
Mrs. C. Louis Meyer, the home
and garden of Mrs. J. C. Ber
trand, the WUliam J. Brew
ster Garden, and will finish
at Clarendon Gardens.
The gardens of each of the
stops are reported to be at the
peak of their spring beauty,
though it is doubtful at pres
ent that all the dogwoods will
be in bloom.
$3,000 QUOTA IN CXIUNTY
Annual Easter Seal Sale Drive Is
Underway; Roger Gibbs Is Cbairman
The annual Easter Seal sales
drive in Moore County is now
underway and will last through
Easter Sunday, April 21, it has
been annoimced by Roger Gibbs
of Southern Pines, county chair
man.
Gibbs said that letters contain
ing the seals had been sent to
residents throughout the county
and that returns should begin ar
riving shortly. He said the coun
ty goal this year had been plac
ed at $3,000.
The funds will be used to aid
;rippled children.
Chairmen in their respective
communities who will head the
;anvass are: Southern Pines, Bill
Johnson; Pinebluff, Mrs. J. D.
Mangum; Carthage, Mrs. Wilbur
Currie; Parkwood, Mrs. O. T.
Parks; Niagara, Mrs. Boh Dutton;
i7ass-Lakeview, Mrs. H. A. Mat
hews; Eagle Springs, Mrs. Roy
Williams; Aberdeen, Mrs. Ray W.
Bums; Cameron, Mrs. Vera Mc
Lean; HighfaUs, C. E. Powers;
Samarcand, Miss Sara Dunlap;
and Jackson Springs, Mrs. K. C.
Blake.
A new campaign featiu-e, the
“Lily Parade,” is being planned
for several of the communities,
according to Dave Drexel of
Southern Pines, publicity direct
or.
The quota of $3,000 is the same
as for several years past. 'The
funds are administered with the
cooperation of the welfare de
partment in aid to children with
handicaps of aU kinds. The
money provides operations or
therapy;, special appliances, or
individual training to enable the
handicapped child to establish a
more equal footing.
Mrs. Lou Culbreth of Southern'
Pines is serving as treasurer of
the drive.
of Glean, N. Y. He has served as
chief economist and editor of
No Candidates
File Yet; April
5 Is Deadline
Mayor Voit Gilmore announc
ed today that he would not be a
candidate for re-election in the
forthcoming municipal elections.
His announcement, coupled with
the rumor that at least two other
councihnen may not seek re-elec
tion, leaves the field wide open
for candidates.
Gilmore said his decision was
purely a personal one and that
he regretted having to make it,
but pressure of business and
family responsibilities had made
it imperative.
There are no tinnounced can
didates yet though a number of
candidates are expected to start
filing early next week. Deadline
is April 5. If more than 10 file,
a primary will be held April 22
with the top 10 going into a run
off set for May 7.
At least one present member
of the Council is almost sure to
nm, T. T. Morse. He has again
been endorsed by the West
Southern Pines Civic Club, the
same endorsement he received
prior to announcing in 1955.
Morse has made no public state
ment yet, however.
'The other three Councihnen,
Harry Pethick, Sam Richardson
and Walter Blue, said they were
turning the matter over in their
minds and would not know until
next week whether or not they
would seek reelection. Richard
son, who was appointed to the
Council to fill the xmexpired
term of Lloyd Clark early in the
present administration, is a
doubtful starter, as is Pethick.
The possibility of a woman
filing for the Council has been
coming up more often in street
conversations but no names have
been mentioned often enough to
make them likely candidates. It
is known, however, that several
have been approached and there
is a strong possibility that one or
more will file.
Here is the text of Gilmore’s
statement:
*T will not be a candidate
for re-election to Town
Cotincil this Spring. Duties
as mayor and mayor pro-tem
the last four years have
taken many hours from my
family and my business in
terests and itt fairness to
both I must give more time
to private life.
"I love our town and hope
and believe that the many
changes under city manager
government will prove to be
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COMMUNITY CHAIRMEN for the annual Moore County Eas
ter Seal Sale have been announced by Roger Gibbs, county chair
man. Pictured above are, top row, BiU Sledge, Pinehurst; Mrs.
Roy WUliams, Eagle Springs; Mrs. Alton Matthews, Vass-Lake-
view; and Mrs. Bob Dutton, Niagara. Bottom row. Bill Johnson,
Southern Pines; Mrs. J. D. Mangum, Pinebluff; Mrs. Wilbur Cur
rie, Carthage; and Mrs. O. T. Parks, Parkwood.
(Photos by Dave Drexel)
Eight Scouts Will
Get Eagle Badges
At Court Of Honor
Eight boys, all members of Ex
plorer Post 936 of Carthage, wiU
receive their Eagle Scout awards
at a Court of Honor ’Tuesday
night at 8 o’clock in the Carthage
Presbyterian Church.
The eight constitute the largest
single class ever to receive the
coveted honor at one ceremony in
the history of scouting in this
^unty, according to Frank Yan-
dell, district scout executive.
The class is composed of Mose
Boyette, Jr., Reid and Russell
Flinchum, Yates Williamson, Ted
Frye, Bobby Frye, Barney Barnes,
and R. L. Felton IH. Their post
is sponsored by the American Le
gion Post in Carthage. Frank
Bowen is advisor.
Several other advancements, in
cluding the presentation of the
National Camping Award to
'Troop 206, Pinebluff, will be
made, according to Frank McNeill,
district advancement chairman
who is in charge of the (Jourt of
Honor.