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Annual Sandhills
Junior Net Meet
Set For Next Week
Record Field Is
Forecast; Entries
May Reach 75
The 11th annual Sandhills Jun-
9 ior Invitational tournament (sanc
tioned by the Southern Lawn
Tennis association) will be held
on the local courts next Wednes
day through Sunday.
From the viewpoint of one
week in advance it looks as though
it will be a whopping success.
If all the youngsters come who
have sent for entry blanks, or who
have phoned or written inquiries,
^ or indicated at other recent tour
naments that they are coming to
the Sandhill, there could be about
100 of them here, including the
leading young players of the two
Carolinas.
Malcolm Clark, tournament di
rector, this week was scaling,
down this figure slightly in his
mind—^to about 75, which would
in any event make it the largest
junior tournament in the game’s
^ history in the state.
Only about 30 entries had ar
rived by Wednesday—but that’s a
stupendous number for a week
ahead. They will arrive in a tor
rent over the weekend. Monday
night is deadline.
Many requests for entry blanks
have come in from South Carolina
towns, and some have been re
turned from Columbia, Belton,
_ Rock Hill and Greenville, mean-
^ ing the tournament will be a real
two-state affair.
About half of the players who
were here for the Jaycee Junior
tournament indicated they would
return. Among these will cer
tainly be Jim Hart of Winston-
Salem, defending champion, and
Charlie Shaffer of Chapel Hill,
who won the Jaycee event and
subsequently, last weekend at
„ Raleigh, the State Closed Junior
^ tournament. Shaffer would prob
ably rate top seeding over the de
fender .
William Poore, of Belton, S. C.,
last year’s winner of boys’ singles,
will return to defend. Also from
Belton will come for the first time
James Ledbetter III. Both boys
are highly ranked, with Ledbetter
the higher.
Julia Blake, also of Belton, will
^ defend her title in junior girls’
singles. Last year Julia won the
girls’ singles also but has now out
grown this bracket. This will' be
the only event left without a de
fender.
Julia’s sister Ann, an equally
outstanding junior player, will
take part in the Sandhill for the
first time.
Arrangements have been made
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SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1958
FOURTEEN PAGES
PRICE 10 CENTS
CELEBRATING his 50th anniversary in the
drug business. Dr. Albert Bretsch was honored
by colleagues and friends at a surprise dinner
Tuesday night at Jack’s Grill. He is pictured
here receiving a mortar and pestle, engraved
with his name and dates of his service, from Joe
FROM 30 DAYS TO 30 YEARS
Montesanti, Jr., while other locad druggists and
doctors look on. Left to right. Dr. R. M. McMil
lan, Thomas Cole of Sandhills Drug Store, Dr.
Bretsch, Dr. Vida McLeod, J. T. Overton, Gra
ham Culbreth, and Joe Montesanti, Jr.
(Pilot photo)
Dr, Albert Bretsch Honored By His
Colleagues After 50 Years’ Service
New Publication
Circulated By
WSP Civic Club
The initial issue of “The
Voice,” a publication of the West
Southern Pines Civic Club, was
distributed this week.
The publication, a single mim
eographed sheet, is to be publish
ed monthly, its editors say, and
contains valuable information
lor residents of West Southern
Pines along lines of their civic
duties and responsibilities.
-“It will not attempt to direct
their thinking but will try to
ftir up their minds so that they
(Jwill become more alert to their
opportunities to become better
citizens to make a better com
munity,” the editor said.
Officers of the Civic Club are
Felton J. Capel, president; Wal
ter Gore, first vice president;
Mrs. Sally Lawhom, second vice
president; Prentiss York, secre
tary; Thaddeus W. Gay, assistant,
secretary; and Jesse Graham^
treasurer.
The Civic Club meets regular
ly the third Monday night eadi
month at 8 o’clock in the base
ment of the First Missionary
Baptist Church.
Capel said this week: “All cit
izens are urged to attend these
meetings. Matters of civic inter
est such as voting, beautification
of premises, conununity conduct,
.^d all other questions that will
^elp us become better citizens to
make a better community, will
be discussed from time to time
Dr. Albert Bretsch, who this
year is quietly celebrating his
50th anniversary as a practicing
registered druggist, got the sur
prise of his life Tuesday night.
He was lured to Jack’s Grill
where about 30 people—^past and
present associates, former em
ployers and employees, and just
plain friends—gathered to pay
him tribute.
And a real tribute it was!
Letters and telegrams poured
in from' all sections of the State,
some frqm friends he had not
heard from in many years, oth
ers from people he had attended
school with, and still others from
State officials who wanted to
wish him well.
But the biggest tribute was
paid by the people who attended
the dinner.
Many of them spoke of their re
lations with “Doc” over the
years, recalling experiences they
had shared and the friendly re
lationships that had existed be
tween them and the man who has
served Sandhills patients longer
than anyone else.
The “dean of Sandhills drug
gists” he was called by one per
son. “One of the State’s outstand
ing druggists” was another’s des
cription. Still another paid him
the compliment of saying:
“We’ve had our differences and
Red Cross Cancels
Plans For Blood
Bank Program
Brig. Geh. L. "W. Miller, of
Southern Pines, chairman of the
Moore County (Chapter, American
Red Cross, announced yesterday
that the $2,500 quota for the blood
program had not been met in the
county. As a result, he said, the
chapter wiU not become a mem
ber of the Regional Blood Bank
at Charlotte.
“It is the opinion of the chap
ter officers that membership in
this blood program offer^ a
splendid opportunity,” General
Miller said. “We accept the de
cision of our citizens, but wish to
re-affirm our willingness to spon
sor this program at any time the
money and blood may be made
available. Also we wish to thank
those who contributed so liberally
in an effort to provide the neces
sary funds.
“During the past few weeks a
number of contributions were
made specifically marked for the
blood program. Your Red Cross
chapter has attempted to segre
gate such funds and we stand
ready to return any money so
contributed upon request made to
our headquarters at 244 S. W.
Broad Street, Southern Pines, or
telephone OXford 2-8571,” the an
nouncement read.
we’ve had our agreements but in
both cases they’ve been of the
highest type.”
Dr. Bretsch came to the Sand
hills 30 years ago as a substitute
“for 30 days,” as he recalls it.
He’s been here since,, w’prking ih
all three drugstores in Southern
Pines. He tried to retire a couple
of years ago but the drug stores
wouldn’t allow it. They’ve all had
him substituting at one time or
another.
His present employers, Mr. and
Mrs. Graham Culbreth of
Southern Pines Pharmacy, ar
ranged the dinner. They had tried
it twice before but both times
“Doc” Bretch got sick and it had
to be called off.
This time though, he was
beaming. “Don’t know what these
people are up to,” he said, “but it
surely is nice.”
Dr. Bretsch is a native of Ra
leigh. His first job in the drug
business was with the King
Drug Company. Later he worked
at many drugstores in that area,
arriving in Southern Pines in
1925 as a substitute in one of
the stores for one month. He has
been at it Since.'
During the past war he was a
partner in Broad Street Phar
macy.
Among the tributes received
and read to Dr. Bretsch at the
dinner was one from W. D.
Welch, Jr., of Washington^ pres
ident of the North Carolina
Pharmaceutical Association; one
from H. C. McAllister secretary
of the North Carolina Board of
Pharmacy; from Miss Alice
Noble, librarian and archivist of
the School of Pharmacy at the
University of North Carolina; and
a resolution adopted by the
Southern Pines Town Council,
which, incidentally, was in ses
sion at the time of the dinner.
Dr. R. M. McMillan, who is Dr.
Bretsch’s physician as well as a
(Continued on page 5)
WHATITWAS...
Here's an interesting side
light to the July 4 weekend.
A State Highway Patrol
man, on duty near the traf
fic circle between SOufiiem
Pines and Pinehurst, arrest
ed a motorist for driving
while imder the influence of
some intoxicant. A search
of his car produced a hand-
aoma leather case , which,
when opened, revedckl an
interesting assortment of
things: 'little silver drinking
cups, a can opener, a pack
age of face tissue, and, hard
ly in keeping with the
"snazzy" leather case, a bot
tle of com whiskey.
It was the store-bought va
riety. though, which caused
the patrolman to lower some
what his raised eyebrows.
"Thought it was one of
those tourists at first," a
courthouse employee said,
"until he admitted he was
from Ramseur."
Dawson, Crissman
Low Qualifiers In
County Golf Meet
Two Negroes Are
Victims Of Auto
Crash Saturday
County's 4lh And
5ih Of Year,
SHP Records Show
Herman Barrett, 30-year-old
Negro of near Cameron, and Buck
Newby, 28, whose home is in the
same area, bec2une Moore Coun
ty’s fourth and fifth highway fa
talities of the year when the car
in which they were riding ran off
a country road and crashed into a
tree. .
Barrett died shortly after being
admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital
early Saturday morning. Newby
died Tuesday after being on the
critical list at the hospital since
being admitted.
According to a report of the
State Highway Patrol the acci
dent, which occurred about 6:30
Saturtay morning, was the only
one in the county over the long
July 4 weekend in which injuries
were incurred.
Cpl. Jim McColman said anoth
er accident occurred near Jackson
Hamlet Saturday night and con
siderable damage was done to two
automobiles but there were no in
juries.
Officers have been uhable to
determine who was driving the
car in which the two were killed.
But in reconstructing the events
that led to the fatal crash, it was
determined that the car ran off
the road on the left hand side,
swerved back to the right hand
side and then hit a free. The im
pact was so hard, the Patrol noted,
that the motor was knocked from
the car and landed about 30 feet
away.
The accident occurred on the
road between Yass and Cameron.
•V
County Designated
As Support Area
By Civil Defense
Mozur Lace Plant
Deal Falls Through
SOFTBALL RESULTS
JULY 3 GAMES
Church of 'Wide Fellowship 8,
Little Nine 13; National Guard 23,
Moose Lodge 1.
JULY 9 GAMES
VFW 5, Moose Lodge 19; Na
tional Guard 11, Little Nine 4.
STANDINGS
Won Losl
National Guard 4 1
CP&L 4 5
Church of Wide Fel. 4
Moose Lodge 3
Little Nine 3
VFW 0
COMING GAMES
Thursday (July 10)-r-VFW
Church of Wide Fellowship, CP
&L vs. National Guard; Tuesday,
July 15—^National Guard vs. Little
Nine, Moose vs. CP&L; Thimsday,
July 17—-Church'of 'Wide Fellow
ship vs. National Guard, Moose
vs. Little Nine.
vs.
With a record of 79 entries, larg
est in its history, the Moore Coun
ty Golf Tournament got under
way this past weekend on the
Southern Pines Country Club
course.
Harry Davis, who is running
the tournament, said that only
five entries had been received for
a junior division of the tourna
ment, not enough to make up one
flight. The division will be held
open through this week, however,
to give any other youngsters who
desire it the opportunity to play.
Tied for low qualifying honors
in the tournament were A. C.
Dawson, of Southern Pines and H.
Crissman of Aberdeen, who had
76’s. Swond best qualifying
round was shot by Wallace Simp
son of Pinehurst, who had a 77.
Defending champion Bill Wood
ard of Southern Pines had an 80.
First round losers in the cham
pionship flight will make up the
first flight. And Yifst round
matches are scheduled for com
pletion by Sunday.
Final rounds in the tournament
are scheduled to be played prior
to July 27 except for the cham
pionship flight, which should be
finished in the week following.
Pairings for the championship
flight in the County tournament
are: Bill Woodward vs. Carlos
Fry; Wallace Simpson vs. Pete
Tufts; H. Crissman vs. Ed Comer;
Tom Gray vs. Bill Wilson; Amos
Dawson vs. Louis Honeycutt; O.
T. Parks vs. Harry Chatfield;
Harold Maples vs. Will Wiggs, and
Jack Carter vs. Tom Shockley.
Second flight: C. S. Lassiter vs.
E. M. Medlin; Ken Schroeder vs.
J. Johnson; F. McCaskill vs. Har
ry Davis, and Bob Page vs. W.
Thrower,
Third flight: Chan Page vs. Bob
(Continued on page 8)
Moore County, according to
thinking of Civilian Defense offi
cials, will not be a “target area”
in case of war, but will be relied
on heavily as a “support area.”
Admiral Felix Baker, USN, re
tired, who heads CD in Moore
Coimty, appeared before the
Board of County Commissioners
Monday with a Col. Smith of
Fort Bragg, who is on the staff
of the State Director of Civil De
fense, to outline the county’s re
sponsibilities in the event of at^-
tack.
“Under the state plan,” Ad
miral Baker said, Moore County
will be designated to receive 20,-
000 evacuees from Cumberland
and Guilford Counties. Possibly
FayetteviRe, Greensboro, High
Point and Fort Bragg will be
destroyed by an atomic or hydro
gen bomb and these people will
be with you for an extended
time. You may not have enough
food, medicine, clothing or hous-
(Ck>ntinu^ on page 5)
St. Joseph’s Is
Winner Of Award
At Hospital Meet
St. Joseph of the Pines Hospi
tal here has been named winner
of the Healy Award by the Cath
olic Hospital Association for
“making the most notable im
provements the past year in pa
tient care and accreditation.”
The award was made at the as
sociation’s 43rd annual conven
tion just completed in Atlantic
Ctiy. Sister M. 'Virginia, O. S. F.,
administrator of St. Joseph’s ac
cepted the award, a monstrance
for the hospital chapel, from
Msgr. Thornton, past president
of the Association. It commemo
rates Msgr. John J. Healy of Lit
tle Rock, Ark., a past president
of the association.
Attending the five-day con
vention were religious and lay
delegates from' some 1,200 Cath
olic hospitals in this country,
Canada, and abroad. Theme of
the meeting was “The Hospital
Apostolate in a Changing Era.”
Rev. Mother M. Vincentia, Su
perior General of the Franciscan
Sisters Mt. Alverno Convent,
Maryville, Missouri, returned to
Southern Pines with Sister Vir
ginia for a week’s visit at the
hospital.
Reimbursement
Of Pledg es To
Be Started Soon
It’s official now.
There will be no lace plant con
structed near here.
Word of the definite end to ne
gotiations between Charles Mozur,
president of the firm which pro
posed to operate the plant, and
various construction firms in the
state was relayed here by Mozur’s
lawyers yesterday morning.
W. Harry Fullenwider, who is a
member of the Southern Pines
Development Corporation and its
legal counsel, said today that he
had been informed a letter from
Mozur’s lawyers was in the mail
and would arrive here probably
tomorrow.
Wildlife Club Is
SeekingPermanent
Spot For Meetings
Acquisition of a small tract of
land as a permanent home for
the Moore County Wildlife Club
is the immediate goal of its mem
bers.
Meeting in Jackson Springs
Tuesday night the club was told
by President Albert Tufts that
five or six acres suitable for fu
ture construction of a pond or
lake would do much towards
making the club’s activities more
attractive to prospective mem
bers. “We need to be centrally
located,” he added, “so that our
members will have better attend
ance.”
Actually, the meeting followed
an informal discussion last week
at Tufts’ home in Pinehurst to
which several members had been
invited for preliminary thinking
on the matter. It was decided at
that time that land should be
purchased outright, preferably in
the vicinity of the airport, a cen
tral location to club membership.
Admiral Felix Baker was nam
ed chairman of a committee to
look into the matter.
Tufts did not announce a plan
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AND IT'LL COME NEXT WEEK!
Her One Desire? To Scratch
I
. C>ne day next week young Faye
Ewing of Southern Pines will be
able to do sometWng she’s had
her heart set on for almost eight
months: she’s going to scratch
herself, bu* good.
Faye, readers will rettnember, is
the 12-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Ewing of Valley
Road. She entered the Hospital
for Special Surgery in New York
last November for a fairly rare
type treatment to help straighten
her spine, crooked because she
had contracted polio when she
was just five years old.
The treatment consisted of,
among other things, the placing of
a heavy cast from her head to her
toes, covering her body except for
her arms.
No wonder she wants to scratch!
“I haven’t had a bath, except
for arms, legs and face, since I
got into this thing,” she said yes
terday," “and I’ve been itching
since. Hot weather hasn’t help
ed.”
She and her parents left this
morning bound for New York by
way of Norfolk and Wilmington,
Delaware. An advance request
from Mrs. Ewing to officials of
the Little Creek-Kiptopeke Ferry
(Company- brought forth permis
sion to take a place anywhere on
the ferry, something those who
have traveled on the ferry will
realize is important. They will be
able to park their car on deck in
stead of being crowded into the
middle of the boat where it’s un
bearably hot.
They plan to spend the week
end with relatives in Wilmington
and at Lewes, Deleware. From
there, they will travel to New
York Monday for a week’s stay at
the hospital.
Faye will have the cast remov
ed and a new one, which will
leave hqr head and legs free, in
stalled. 'That ohe will remain on
until November and then another
phase of treatment will begin: a
“walking” cast, one in which she
will be free to move about at
times.
Next February, the whole busi
ness will come off and Faye, if the
treatment has been successful, will
stand up absolutely straight for
the first time in seven years.
She’s quite happy about that.
But right now, she’s almost de
lirious about the possibilities of
that first scratch.
The letter, he said, outlined
Mozur’s reasons for being unable
to,secure what he thought was a
satisfactory contract from con
struction people and also thanks
local people for the cooperation
exhibited in trying to secure the
plant.
Robert S. Ewing, president of
the local development corpora
tion, said yesterday that the end
to negotiations was a distinct blow
to the Sandhills.
“We of the committee are ex
tremely sorry that this thing has
not worked out,” he said. “We
have made every effort we knew
how, consistent with the original
terhis as outlined to subscribers,
i« trying to get the plant located
here. We have made other ef
forts, some of which were not
within our purview, to get the
plant.
“It has been difficult to tell the
people everything that went on
during the negotiations and we
have realized that all along. Some
things, however, were kept out of
the press because of their deli
cate nature. We were, frankly,
apprehensive lest we make a
move that would" jeopardize the
negotiations.
“We have seen a wonderful
spirit developed among our citi
zens. People in this area want in
dustry to help round out the econ
omy and I don’t believe we’ll stop
now. This is a blow to us all. But
it isn’t the end of the world and I
assure you that every member of
the committee stands ready to
work even harder when we get
another opportunity to have some
thing good locate here.
“Again, I want to extend my
thanks to every person who sub
scribed to the fund and to those
who helped with the negotiations
while they were underway.”
The real reason behind the fail
ure of Mozur and contractors to
get together lay in the faet that
contractors were unwilling to go
along with the terms that vhad
been laid down. Bids that were
higher—in some cases consider
ably—were another reason.
It is expected that as soon as
the letter from Mozur’s lawyers
arrives here the committee will
meet and begin the job of return
ing funds to the almost 200 indi
vidual and business firms who had
invested.
The funds amount to $180,000.
Sheriff McDonald
Suffers Second
Heart Attack
Sheriff C. J. McDonald, who
suffered a slight heart attack
about three weeks ago, was back
in Moore Memorial Hospital this
week with another one, reported
ly more serious than the first.
Associates said today, however,
that they had been informed he
was progressing satisfactorily and
might be released from the hos
pital in a few days.
He was stricken Thtorsday
night at his home near Carthage.
YARD WORK
The Senior Class of Southern
Pines High School is sponsoring
a summer yard working pro
gram. Proceeds go to the Robert
Lee House Chapel. For estimates
and service call 0X2-3284,
0X5-7443, or 0X2-7711.