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r ’t- More Letters . . . On the question: “Is insect spray ing good or Sad?” appear on page 2, and now the cats are in the picture. VOL. 39—110. 37 Automation . . . Or the nexlj thing to it, is firmly entrenched in the poultry busi ness, and birds aire cheaper*be cause of it. Story on page S. TWELVE PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1957 TWELVE PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS AUGUST 14-16 DATES SET South’s Top-Seeded Tennis Player Enters Annual Sandhill Tournament Some of the leading players in North Carolina and the South will take part in the Sandhill In vitational tennis tournament, to be held here August 14 through 16. Malcolm Clark, tournament chairman, reported this week that among these will be Allen Morris, No. 1, singles player in the Southern states, who recent ly moved from Atlanta to Char lotte; also Sam Daniel of Leaks- ville and Del Sylvia of Raleigh, ranked No. 1 and No. 2 respect ively in North Carolina. The championship field in men’s singles will be wide open as Bill Umstaedter, winner for the past four years will probably not return to defend his title be cause of a tournament conflict in his home state of South Carolina. Daniel, a veteran tournament winner, was runner-up all four times. Sylvia, a former Southern Conference and Virginia State champion, has also .played here before. Mrs. Sara Walters of Charlotte is expected back to defend her 1956 title in women’s singles. Also returning will be Evelyn Cowan, 1955 Sandhill women’s singles winner, currently ranked No. 2 in the South, and Louise Fowler. Miss Cowan and Miss Fowler, both of Covington, Ga., are one of the most famous worn en’s doubles teams in the coun try, holding the No. 1 spot in the South for the past several years. Local participants will include Malcolm Clark, Harry Lee "Brown, Jr., Kenneth Tew and Mildred Gruebl, all of whom have at one time or another held the Moore County championship (Tew being the current holder). Clark is a former captain of the Oak Ridg Military Institute tennis team, and was runner-up last year in the U. S. Army- Europe tournament. Tew last year captained * the High Point college team. Clark and Miss Gruebl are playing this week at an open tournament in Charlotte. Among others who will play in the Sandhill are net stars from Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham, Goldsboro and other places about the State, many of whom have attended year after year since the tournament was found od in 1948. It has grown steadily in prom inence and, sanctioned for the past five years by the U. S Lawn Tennis association, has at tracted some of the foremost players in this section of the country. Its fame as a ‘‘good tournament.” offering good play and a good time has been spread far abroad. The tournament is sponsored by the Sandhill 'i'ennis associa- I'ion, of which Dr. Charles Phil lips is president. Entries are be ing received by Malcolm Clark and Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of the tournament committee, with deadline Monday, August 12. Little League To < Meet Deep River The Moore County Little League Ail-Stars will meet Deep River All Stars, of Randolph County, in the first of a series of elimination games for the state championship Tuesday at 5 p.m. on the Pinehurst field. Winner of the game will ad vance to the state finals at Eliza beth City, scheduled for August 13-15. Robbins, with a final record of 15 won, three lost, was the win ner of the Moore league. Other teams, and their standings, are: Pinehurst, 12-6; Aberdeen Red Devils, 11-7; Southern Pines, 11-7; Aberdeen Braves, 4-14; and Car thage, 1-17. Carthage had to forfeit f-our games toward the end of the sea son because it had used an ineli gible player during those games. Neighbors Help In Rescuing Woman Trapped In Fire Chance discovery of smoke coming from a window led neighr bors and Ralph Kaylor, chief of the fire department, to a dramatic rescue of a trapped woman Mon day afternoon, Mrs. Melvin Gardner, of 600 E. Ohio Avenue, was released from St. Joseph’s Hospital Tuesday morning after treatment for a badly gashed arm. She had ram med her hand into a window try ing to open it when she discover ed her bed was on fire. Mrs. William Wilson, a neigh bor, first saw the smoke curling from the Gardner house and was joined by Mrs. E. O. Brogden in attempts to open the window so that Mrs. Gardner could get out. Mrs. Wilson called the fire depart ment and, on a “quiet alarm,” Chief Kaylor went tb the house and pulled Mrs. Gardner through the window. Mrs. Brogden applied a toume- quet to the gash on Mrs. Gard ner’s arm until police, joined by Mrs. William H. Israel, employee of the Red Cross here, came along and took over. Chief Kaylor said it was his un derstanding Mrs. Gardner had fallen asleep with a lighted cig arette, which burned the mat tress. Other damage from the fire was held to a minimum. Offwial Opening Of Thruway Tomorrow Eagle Scout Award is presented to Kippy Da vid, son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas David of Pine- bluff, at a Court of Honor held in the Vass Com munity Building Monday night. Mrs. David is shown pinning the award on young Kippy’s al ready well-filled blouse while Mr. David looks PROBABLY FOR VASS CLASSROOMS on. At left is E. 0.‘Brogden, an Eagle Scout himself, who actually made the award. Kippy was among a group of scouts from several troopsi in the county who were honored at the Court of Honor, attended by a large crowd. (Pilot photo) G)mmissioeers Re-Examine .Bedget, Allocate $25,000 More For Schools Softball Playoffs To Begin Monday Between Top Four JT FOOTBALL PRACTICE Football practice at South ern Pines High School will open August 15, it was an nounced this morning by Irie Leonard, head coach. This season will be the first time the Blue Knights have fielded an 11-man team and a big interest is being shown at the school. A 10- game schedule has been drawn with the opener set for early in September. Leonard said equipment would be issued at the field house at Memorial Field at 9 a. m. on the opening prac tice dale. He urged all pros pective squad members to have physical examinations made prior to that lime, par ticularly those in the ninth through the twelfth grades. The junior high players will be invited to participate in sessions after regular school starts. The four top teams in the sum mer softball league here begin battlipg it out in the Shaugh- nessy playoffs Monday night, with games scheduled at 7:15 and 9:15. The finalists must win two of three games to advance. Finals, also on a best two of three basis, are scheduled for Friday and Monday. There will be no time limit or run limit during thel playoffs, ac cording to Irie Leonard, director of the summer recreation pro gram, and all games will be completed. Final standings in the league S “‘cXiSi" 1?: Friday At Fharst An additional appropriation of^ $25,000 has been made to the County Board of Education for capital outlay expenses for the next school year. It is expected the bulk of it,will be used to help construct classrooms at Vass- -Lakeview school. Four-fifths of the funds . were taken from the budget already al lotted toward future construction of an agricultural building. James Culbertson, chairman of the Board of Education, said after the appropriation was made at a special meeting of the county commissioners last week that “though it is not anywhere in the neighborhood of what we need, it still will help a little. We plan to start drawing up plans immedi ately for the construction of four classrooms at "Vass, and hope to have them ready for occupancy by the beginning of^ the 1958 school year.” The County Commissioners met with the Board of Education in a long session earlier last week. At that time there were strong ob jections expressed by the, school authorities to what they termed an inadequate appropriation for capital outlay ' expenses. The county had whittled down the school building requests by some $153,000 for the year, leaving $275,000 for all the building that had been planned. Actually, the school board contended, even the more than $450,000 that had been requested was not sufficient to do all the things that were necessary. Of the $300,000 now on hand more than half was allotted for construction of a gymnasium in Pinehurst and additional facilities at West Southern Pines schooL Parker Has Ckaege Of Mind; To Play In East"West Game Tony Parker, former star ath lete , at Southern Pines High School, has decided to play in the annual East-West High School all-star football game Friday night. He had at one time firmly made up his mind not to play. Parker, selected as an alter nate center on the East team, re ceived a call from the head coach late Tuesday night and was re quested to report immediately for practice drills. The East team, according to reports from Greensboro, site of the game, has been riddled with injuries. Parker left early Wednesday morning with Irie Leonard, foot ball coach here, and started prac tice sessions later that morning. Selected as the most valuable player on the 1956 squad, Parker was outstanding in each of his three years here. He has very little experience with the T-for- mation which will be used by the East, however, and is expected to see action mostly as a defen sive player. The game is scheduled for Fri day night in Greensboro. A large contingent from Southern Pines will make the trip. Winter Resident’s Efforts To Save Youth Are Futile Dill Bruton, Jr., of Biscoe, whose parents work for Dwight W. Winkleman, winter resident of Southern Pines, was drowned in Skaneateles Lake last week de spite rescue efforts of Mr. Winkel- man to save him. The lake is in New York State, where Mr. and Mrs. Winkelman maintain a summer home. The youth, who is 19, was flip ped into the water a short dis tance from the Winkelman dock when he apparently opened the throttle of a motorboat too far, investigating police said. Mr. Winkelman, nearby at the time, saw the boat churning in a circle and, realizing what had happened, leaped into his craft. He bumped the driverless boat into the dock and then leaped into the water grasping for the boy. Officers said Mr. Winkelman brought the youth to the surface once but, tired and out of breath lost his grip. He went down a second time and brought the boy to the surface. Artificial respira tion was adniinistered but was not successful. The parents, who are employed by the Winkelmans, were flown in Mr. Winkelman’s plsme to Southern Pines last week for burial services. Mr. Winkelman is the owner of Lake Lawn Farm near here and is a member of the Moore County Hounds. He operates one of the nation’s largest contracting busi nesses in New York State. Former Golf World Writer Scores Ace National Guard, Church of Wide Fellowship, Carolina Power and Light, and the VFW look like the top four contenders but the standings could be changed to night. The schedule: Monday, Aug. 5—(Semi-finals) 7:15 p. m., No. 2 team vs No. 3 team;9:15, No. 1 team vs No. 4 team. Tuesday, Aug. 6—7:15 p. m.. No. 1 team vs No. 4 team; 9:15 p. m.. No. 2 team vs. No. 3 team. A third game will be played Wtednesday, Aug. 7, if necessary and if only one game is sched uled, it will start at 7:30 p. m. Finals begin Friday, Aug. 9, v/ith a single game to be played between the winners of the semi finals. The other game is sched uled for Monday night, both to begin at 8 p. m. A third game, if necessary, is scheduled for Tuesday night. Jimmy Mann, formerly associ ate editor of (jolf World Maga zine, scored a hole-in-one on the sixth green of famed No. 2 course in Pinehurst last Friday. Using a two-iron, Mann lifted his ball to the green, 211 yards distant, watched it bounce twice || and then fall into the cup. It was the third hole-in-one he has made. The others were scored on the 18th hole at East Lake course in Atlantg, famous as the “Bobby Jones” course, and at GiUespie Park, Greensboro. His ace last Friday was the first reported this' summer in the Sandhills. He was playing in a threesome with Karl Andrews of Pinehurst and Jimmy Collins of Southern Pines. Jimmy, incidentally, is getting in a lot of golf lately. He is leav ing early in August to assume a new. position Ayith a real estate firm in Florida, REV. WALTER C. SMITH, REV. T. FANT STEELE, Jr. Dedication Speakers At Vass Dedication services for the new educational building of the Vass Methodist Church will be held Sunday, August 4, at 11 a.m. The Rev. Walter C. Smith, Jr., of Greenbelt, Md., who was pastor when the building was erected and put into use about two years ago, wiU preach the dedicatory sermon and ttie new pa.stor, the Rev. T. Fant Steele, Jr., will be in charge of the remainder of the service. The public is invited to attend and to bring baskets and remain for the picnic dinner and fellow ship hour which will follow. The new building has a fellow ship hall, kitchen, restrooms and storage closets on the first floor, and four classrooms on the sec ond, one of wfiich is large and used for an assembly room for the Youth Fellowship. Lockey To Cut Tape On $11/2 Million Job Official opening ceremonies for the new Southern Pines thru- way will be held tomorrow (Fri day) morning at 11 o’clock un- dfer the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen, former commissioner of the Eighth Highway Division and under whose administration the project was initiated, will cut the tape signalling that the road is officially open for traffic. The thruway, which will offi cially be designated as US High way 1, replaces May Street as the main artery of through North- South traffic in Southern Pines. It was built at a cost of approx imately one and one-half million dollars and is considered by highway engineers to be one of the finest stretches of road in the state. Stretching for 5.3 miles from its beginning point just north of Niagara to the place where it empties into old US 1 .at the southern limits of South ern Pines, the thruway is being hailed by many as the best thing that has happened to Southern Pines since the railroad came through. Special Invitation Many dignitaries, both from the state and county, have been invited to the tape-cutting cere monies, including Governor Hodges and Col William T. Joy ner, recently named chairman of the State Highway Commission. Both had to decline because of previous committments, how ever. Others invited include W. T. Babcock, Director of High ways; William Rogers, chief en gineer for the department; A. H. “Sandy” Graham, former chair man of the Highway Commis sion; Harold Makepeace of San ford, chief of the department’s secondary road program; T. B. Gunter, Jr., state bridge engin eer; W. R. Phelps, assistant land scape engineer; W. P. Saunders, director of the State Department of Conservation and Develop ment; T. G. Poindexter, chief engineer of the old Eighth Divi sion; T. C. Johnston, assistant to Poindexter; Fred Beck, resident engineer connected to the Aber- den office; Gordon Cameron, chairman of the Moore County Board of County Commissioners; James Pleasants, this township’s representative on the Board of County Commissioners; H. Clif ton Blue, Moore Representative to the General Assembly; Dr. E. M. Medlin, mayor of Aberdeen; •and members of the previous and present Town Council of South ern Pines. Louis Scheipers, Jr., town WISCONSIN CLOSED A barricade has been erect ed , in the center strip of the new US 1 th'mway at the in tersection of Wiscons.in Ave nue "for safety," town offi cials learned this morning. Louis Scheipers, Jr., town manager, said the town had not been notified officially of the action, which was taken by the. State, but the bair|i” cade went up Wednesday. The intersection has been the center of a controversy here since it was brought to light that a number of citizens objected to the crossing there, maintaining it was extremely dangerous. Othersi particular ly from West Southern Pines, have contended the intersec tion was not particularly dan gerous and would work a hardship on traffic moving between East and West Southern Pines. Several weeks ago :lthe Town Council adopted a res olution requesting State offi cials to study the intersection and,, based on their findings, make recommendations. Wil liam Rogers. Chief Engineer of the Highway Commission, visited the site recently, it was learned, and recommen.d- ed it be barricaded. Traffic can get onto the thru way at Wisconsin Avenue from either East or West Southern Pines, but cannot cross the entire strip. It is necessary to go fo either Pennsylvania Avenue or Mor- ganton Hoad to effect a cross ing. Farmers To Meet, Plan Agricultural Policies For 1958 Members of the Moore County Farm Bureau Federation will meet August 19 near Candor for one of a series of district meetings called by the Federation to dis cuss current agricultural problems and the course of organized agri culture for 1958. Groups from Moore, Lee, Mont gomery and Richmond Counties wiU meet at 9:30 a.m. at Blake’s Restaurant between Candor and Biscoe with officials, both from the county and the state, to map out the direction'that the Federa tion will take on agricultural pol icy at the state and national level. In addition, according to the di rector of the organization for the Federation, plans will be made for the annual membership drive, which gets underway in August. There are 13 such district meet ings being held throughout the state, beginning next week. In Moore County about 450 farm families are reported to be member of the Federation. T. Clyde Auman of West End is president of the organization. manager of Southern Pines, ha.s been in charge of making ar rangements. He said the program would be brief, with W. Lamont Brown, Town Attorney and Sol icitor of Recorder’s Court, in charge. The program will begin with an invocation, followed by the singing of America. Mayor Wal ter Blue will welcome all present and comment on the importance of the bridge to Southern Pines. Brown wiU introduce the spe cially invited guests. Following that the official tape cutting ceremony will be held. Prior to the ceremony, through the courtesy of Ben Wicks of the Aberdeen Coca-Cola Bottling Company, free soft drinks will be served to all present. Registration Set Tuesday At Saint Anthony’s Sehool The Sisters of Notre Dame deNamur, who staff Saint An thony s Catholic school here, will return to their posts Sunday af ternoon after completion of post graduate studies in Washington, D. C., and the annual retreat. Sister Catherine Bernard has been re-appointed as Superior of the convent, a position she has held several years. Father Francis McCaz-thy, pas tor of Saint Anthony Church, said that registration for the com ing, school year would, be held Tuesday. All children, from kin dergarten through elementary grades, who plan to attend the school are requested to register at the convent between 9 a.m. and 12. The convent is located on Connecticut Avenue. SUFFERS HEART ATTACK Word reached The Pilot today just before going to press, that Mrs. Frank Pottle of Southern Pines had suffered a severe heart attack. Mrs. Pottle, mother of George Pottle of the Hollywood, is in Nova Scotia, having flown there Tuesdayf of this week for a six weeks’ visit. An account of her recent trips is elsewhere in this issue.
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