VOL. 38—NO. 35
TWELVE PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1958
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HIGHWAY COMMISSION MUM
Strong Bid For Access Road To New
Atomic Plant Made By County Croup
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Army Authorities
Announce Series
Of Sonic ‘Booms’
Residents of the Fayetteville-
Fort Bragg- Southern Pines area
have been alerted to a series of
“sonic booms” which may be
heard here during the next two
weeks.
The 82nd Airborne Division’s
1st Airborne Battle Group, 504th
Infantry, in cooperation with the
Air Force, will present a giant
combined arms demonstration
July 30 for ROTC cadets under
going summer training at Fort
Bragg.
Fourteen F-lOO jets from the
306th Tactical Fighter Squadron,
31st Fighter-Bomber Wing at
Turner AFB, will fly siq)er-sonic
missions July 30 and on four re
hearsal dates.
The “booms” will be heard
July 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30, be
tween 9:30 and 9:45 a. m. The
jets will be in this area between
9:20 and 10 a. m. each of the days,
flying their mission out of Shaw
AFB, S. C.
The Air Force said the boom
will likely be the strongest some
where near Southern Pines, but
that remoteness of Bragg’s Ob
servation Post No. 12 would pre
clude damage in any area.
W. G. Robertson
Succeeds Larson
In Telephone Job
Walter G. Robertson of War
saw Vai, has been elected Gen
eral Manager of the United Tele
phone Company of the Carolinas,
Inc., succeeding the late Vern E.
Larson.
Moore County’s case for a
bridge and connecting highway to
the site of an atomic reactor plant
at Blewett Falls has been present
ed to the State Highway Commis
sion. \ ^
In a letter to Voit Gilmore,
chairman of the special committee
of the Moore County Industrial
Development Committee which
was to look into the matter, Mel
ville Broughton, chairman of the
State Highway Commission, said
only that local recommendations
would be considered along with
others.
Moore County’s case was based
primarily on its nearness to the
project, the fact that a route
through the county would provide
a direct link between the reactor
plant and the Research Triangle
near Chapel HiU, Raleigh and
Durham, and already established
residential, recreational and social
facilities in the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst area.
Broughton said the Highway
Commission was generally famil
iar with the potential involved in
the construction of the reactor
plant. “We are expecting to hear
further from officials of this pro
ject concerning more detailed
plans and highway needs,” he
wrote Gilmore.
Gilmore noted that the county
committee had a keen interest in
the construction of a bridge and
connecting highway and added
that the construction of the reac
tor plant would be an enormous
asset to aU people of the state
“and particularly to those of
Moore and adjoining counties.”
There has been some agitation
to have a highway access to the
site off US Highway 70 between
Rockingham and Wadesboro, and
it is understood that forces are at
work to have the proposed high
way located in other areas.
Here are the principal points
the committee brought out:
1. Such a route through Moore
County would provide a direct
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WINNING SMILE was displayed by Keith Stoneman, right, af
ter he defeated top seeded Beansie Fi^ampton, center, for the jun
ior boys championship of the annual Sandhills Junior Tennis
Tournament. At left is Jim Causey of Davidson, only boy from
North Carolina who made the finals. He was runner-up in the
boys singles division.
SOME MATCHES POSTPONED
South Carolinians Take Majority
Of Trophies In Sandhills Tourney
Two seeded players were upset
in both final matches of the an
nual Sandhills Junior tennis tour
nament concluded here Sunday
and number two seeds walked
away with the championships in
both instances.
Keith Stoneman of Greenville,
S. C., topped Beansie Frampton of
Charleston in a marathon three
hour struggle, 7-5, 1-6, 9-7, to take
the junior crown.
In the boys division, with age
link between the Reactor Plant of 13 to 15, J^es Ledbet-
and the Research Triangle.
2. Moore County provides ideal
He has been a vice president of sites, with ample water and oth
the Tidewater Telephone Com
pany with headquarters in War
saw since 1947.
At the same time he was nam
ed General Manager of United
Telephone, Robertson was elect
ed a director, vice president, and
treasurer of the firm.
Robertson graduated from Vir
ginia Military Institute in 1922
with a degree in electrical engin
eering. He went into the tele
phone business in Virginia in
1939.
Durng World War 2 Robertson
was on leave of absence from
1943 to 1946 serving in the Ord
nance Department of the U. S.
Army. While on duty in the Eu
ropean Theatre, he was public
works and utilities officer hav
ing charge of electric utilities
operatons in Cherbourg, Paris,
and Berlin.
Prior to entering the operating
telephone field, Robertson was
employed by the State Corpora
tion Commission of Virginia
from 1933 to 1939 as valuation
engineer—utilities. Fromi 1928 to
1933 he was district manager of
the Atlanta, Georgia, and Gary,
Indiana offices of the Pacific
Electric Manufacturing Com
pany. He was purchasing engin
eer in the electric section of Elec
tric Bond & Share Co. from 1925
to 1928 and from ’922 to 1925 he
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er resources, for research and in
dustrial satellites that would be
attracted by the Reactor Plant.
3. Moore County, particularly
with the resort areas of Pine-
hurst and Southern Pines, offers
exceptionally attractive residen
tial possibilities to the Reactor
Plant personnel.
4. The calibre of executive and
scientist associated with the Re
actor project will be particularly
attracted to, the nationally-fa-
mous recreation and social facil
ities of the Mid-South Resort.
5. Moore County also would be
on a direct line between the Re
actor Plant and Chapel Hill
where the new electronic com
puting machine, so important to
the Reactor Plant, will be loca
ted.
6. Satellite plants needing half-
life isotopes could conveniently
locate in Moore County and still
be within a 25-mile radius of the
Reactor Plant.
7. Moore County has a substan-
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ter of Belton, S. C., defeated Jim
Causey of Davidson 6-4, 2-6, 7-5.
In the junior girls division Julia
Blake of Belton retained her
crown by defeating Joanne Coop- er date.
er of Charlotte 6-3, 7-5. Gay Wil
liams of Charlotte won the girls
division by a straight set, 6-3, 6-4
victory over Sally O’Rourke, also
of Charlotte.
A cloudburst Sunday afternoon
forced the junior boys and boys
doubles finals to be postponed
until the older boys can meet in
Columbia this week and the
younger boys play their match in
Belton later in the summer.
An exhibition between Malcolm
Clark and Bill Quillan of Fort
Bragg which had been slated for
Friday night was also rained out.
There is some possibility the
exhibition will be played at a lat-
SOFTBALL LEAGUE
RESULTS
Games Thursday, July 17 —
' Church of Wide Fellowship 11,
National Guard 3; Little Nine 17,
Moose Lodge 3.
Games Tuesday, July 22 — Lit
tle Nine 9, Carolina Power &
Light 3; National Guard 23, VFW
3.
STANDINGS
Won Lost
National Guard 7 2
Church.of Wide Fel. 6 3
Little Nine 5 4
Moose Lodge 4 4
CP&L 4 5
VFW 0 8
SCHEDULED GAMES
Thursday (tonight)—CP&L vs.
VFW; Church of Wide Fellowship
vs. Moose. Tuesday, July 29 —
Moose Lodge vs. National Gueird;
VFW vs. Little Nine. Shaughnes-
sy playoffs begin next Thursday,
July 31.
Publication Of
New Paper For
Robbins Planned
A new weekly newspaper, the
Robbins Record, will begin publi
cation in Robbins next Thursday,
according to H. Clifton Blue of
Aberdeen, who is publisher and
sole owner.
Blue said this morning that the
paper would be printed in Aber
deen for the time being with a tt -i , x -i ,
Thursday afternoon publication
date. The size, he added, would
Sheriff McDonald
Has Comfortable
Day At Hospital
Sheriff C. J. McDonald was re
ported as having had a comfor
table day at Moore Memorial Hos
pital this morning where he is re
covering from a heart attack suf
fered two weeks ago.
Hospital attendants said he was
still unable to receive visitors,
however.
Deputy Sheriff A. F. Dees of
Aberdeen, who has also been hos
pitalized with a heart ailment, was
released severEil days ago and is
now recuperating at his home. He
is expected to be out at least two
more weeks.
THANKS, ANYHOW
Under a Southern Pines
dateline Monday morning,
the Raleigh News and Ob
server carried a story that
Eva Marie Saint and her hus
band, television director Jef
frey Hayden, were receiving
congratulations on the birth
of a daughter.
Big excitement in the Pilot
office.
Calls to both St. Joseph's
Hospital and Moore Mbmo-
rial were made and, follow-
diligent search of all records
of mlatemity wards, it was
discovered the story was in
error.. . at least so far as the
dateline was concerned.
Lady probably had a baby,
little doubt about it if the
News and Observer says so.
But she didn't have it
here.
Finals In County
Golf Tournament
Set This Weekend
Woodard, Dawson,
Maples And Gray
Are Top Finalisls
Bill Woodward, A. C. Dawson,
Harold Maples and Tom Gray
won second round matches in
the annual Moore County Golf
Tournament last weekend.
Maples, by virtue of his 8 and 7
victory over Tom Shockley, took
on some aspects of a dark horse
candidate to wrest the cham
pionship from Woodward.
Other scores in the cham
pionship flight were as follows:
Woodward defeated Wallace
Simpson 1 up. Gray wasn’t jn
too much trouble as he knocked
off H. Crissman 4 and 2, and
Dawson defeated Harry Chat-
field 2 and 1.
Finals are due to be played in
all flights this weekend, probably
on Sunday, though the final
match in the championship flight
won’t be played until next week.
Sunday Dawson will meet
Maples while Woodward takes on
Gray.
Scores in the other flights:
First flight—Carlos Fry de
feated Pete Tufts 4 and 3, Ed
Comer defeated Bill Wilson 1 up,
O. T. Parks defeated Louis Hon
eycutt, 5 and 3, and Jack Carter
defeated Will Wiggs 2 and 1.
Later, Fry defeated Comer 3 and
2, and Parks beat Carter 4 and
3. Fry and Parks will meet for the
championship of the flight.
Secotld flight—J. Johnson de
feated C. S. Lassiter 4 and 3,
Harry Davis topped Bob Page by
the same margin. Their finals
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New Clubhouse Will Be
Built At Pine Needles
Work To Begin
Six Teenagers To
Be Tried For
Window Breaking
Six teenagers, five of them
from Southern Pines, are due for
a hearing before a Justice of the
Peace this afternoon (Thursday)
on charges of breaking windows.
in the elementary school on East
Massachusetts Avenue Tuesday
night.
Chief C. E. Newton said a num
ber of windows in the back of the
building had been broken but did
not elaborate on other possible
damages.
He said this morning also that
$30 was stolen from the Colonial
Store Sunday night after thieves
broke the lock on the back door.
The money was taken from the
cash register and from a box con^
taining petty cash.
Police are also investigating an
attempted break-in of Mack’s 5
and 10 last night. Nothing was
reported missing from the estab
lishment, entrance to which was
apparently made by breaking two
glasses in the back door.
No arrests have been made in
either the Colonial Store break-in
or the attempted break-in last
night.
E. T. McKeithen Honored At Hospital
E. T. McKeithen of Aberdeen
has been selected by his fellow
employees as “Employee of the
Month” at Moore Memorial Hos
pital, in recognition of his long
and faithful service to the hospital
of nearly 27 years, also his friend
ly spirit and courteous ways
which have won everyone’s love.
Mr. McKeithen came to the hos-*
pjjal as chief administrator Octo
ber 1, 1931, when the institution,
then known as Moore County
L
be the same as his Sandhill Citi
zen.
Ralph Steed of Robbins, county
coroner, will be the news editor
and manager. No other employees
have been put on the staff at the
present time.
Five towns in Moore County
now have papers: Southern Pines,
Pinehurst, Carthage, Aberdeen,
and Robbins. The number consti
tutes a record in the state for the
number of weeklies in a county.
Only Wake County, which has two
dailies, has as many.
Blue is also president and pub
lisher of the Montgomery Herald
in Troy.
old. He retired from this post Oc
tober 1, 1952, but was not allow
ed'to retire entirely, as the hospi
tal continued to avail itself of his
experience and services as con
sultant and head of the purchas
ing department.
Since he joined the staff the
hospital, has grown from 33 to 143
beds, more than 400 per cent,
mostly during his administration.
Mr. McKeithen has recently
said that his chief satisfaction in
hospital work came through help
ing the unfortunate and distress
ed, as a good hospital must do
daily for so many persons.
During his years in hospital ad-
E. T. MqKEITHEN
standing in his profession, and
was elected president of the Vir-
ginia-Carolina Hospital Associa
tion in 1948.
He has been active in civic af-
ministration he achieved high I fairs, is a charter member of the
j Sandhills Kiwanis Club and serv-
' ed as one of its early presidents,
I in 1926. He has had the pleasure
of seeing two sons follow him in
I Kiwanis, and one, the late Supe-
j rior Court Judge Leland McKeith
en, also served as president.
He has been active in the Moore
County Historical Association
since its organization in 1946, and
his intimate knowledge of the his-
jtory of the Sandhills section has
I been useful to this group in many
ways, principally in the important
! project of gathering and publish-
I ing the history of Moore County’s
first 100 years. For the comple
tion of this work, for which Mr.
, McKeithen performed much of
the preliminary labor, the Associ
ation won a State award,
i He was also chairman of the
historical markers committee
which was instrumental in having
several important markers placed
about the county.
A lifelong Presbyterian and
member of Bethesda Church in
Aberdeen, he is a deacon and has
been for many years a ruling eld
er. A descendant of Scottish pio
neers, he has lived in Aberdeen
aU his life.
A. C. DAWSON
Library Trustees
Select Dawson As
Board President
Dr. A. C. Dawson was elected
president of the Board of' Trus
tees of the Southern Pines Li
brary at the Board’s first meeting
held last Friday afternoon. The
library was recently taken over
by the town as a public facility.
He held the same job when the
library was operated by the
Southern Pines Library Associ
ation'.
Other officers named last Fri
day were Miss Lockie Parker,
secretary, and D. E. Bailey, a
member of the Town Council,
treasurer. Mr. Bailey is also
treasurer of the town. All the of
ficers will serve two year terms.
Name'd to various standing
committees, each with one year
terms, were the following:
Building and Grounds—Mrs. L.
(T. Avery, Mrs. R. E. Rhodes,
Harry Vale, Jr., Mrs. Voit Gil
more, and Clyde Couricil.
Books—^Miss Lockie Parker,
Mrs. J. Reid Healy, Mrs. Charles
Phillips, Miss Birdilia Bair, and
Mrs. J. H. Towne.
Fine Arts—^Mrs. James Boyd,
Mrs. C. A. Smith, Don Moore,
Mrs. Emmanuel Sontag, and Mrs.
Wallace Irwin.
Special Projects — W. L.
Brown, George Leonard, John
Ostrom, and Thomas Darst.
The Hoard of Trustees voted to
require a new registration of all
users during September, except
children under 18 years of age,
and an indexing fee Of 50 cents
ner person will be charged to
local residents who register in the
future. For out-of-town resi
dents, the indexing fee will 'be
two dollars.
Highway Officials
List Improvements
Planned In County
The State Highway Commis
sion has approved and set up
funds for work on eight roads in
Moore County.
'rtie work involves retreating
23 miles with Drag Seal and 4.6
miles with Sand Seal on the fol
lowing roads: from US 15-501 at
V/hite Hill, north 1.6 miles to the
Lee County line; from Carthage
city limits, north 9.5 miles to
Glendon (Carthage - Glendpn
Road); from Robbins, northeast
5.7 miles to NC 22-Robbins-High-
falls Road; from NC 705 north
west of Robbins, northeast 3 ”
miles to road junction; from
Robbins-Spies Road north 1.3
miles to road junction; from US
15-501 south of Aberdeen, west
1.6 miles to Seaboard Air Line
Railroad Tracks; from Roseland,
west 3.5 miles to Deep Creek; and
from county road at a point 1.1
miles southwest of Roseland,
south 1.1 miles to end of pave
ment.
It is anticipated that work on
these roads will be comnleted on
or before October 1, 1958, at an
estimated cost of $36,619.93.
Once funds have been set up
for similar projects, the money
is encumbered until su^h time as
the work is completed.
Next Week; Lake
Is Part of Plan
Construction of a new club
house at Pine Needles Country
Club will get underway next
week, Warren Bell, manager, told
The Pilot at noon today.
Cost of the structure, which will
be made of brick and- wood in the
same general design as four lodges
constructed there last summer,
was not disclosed.
The hew clubhouse will be lo
cated between the lodges and
what is now number two tee. Bell
said a two acre lake and a new
putting green and practice tee
would also be built at the same
time, to be located in front of the
clubhouse;
With an area of approximately
11,000 square feet, the building
will house men’s and women’s
locker rooms, golf shop, dining
room and kitchen, three offices,
storage facilities, and will have
four luxury rooms for guests.
Capacity of the club for guests
when the building is completed,
which Bell estimated would be in
late October or early November,
will be 56 people. The lodges
were built last summer and prov
ed tremendously popular with
golfing parties during the winter
and spring season.
'The building will be supplied
with a heating and air condition
ing system and two large patios
52 by 10 feet. Guests, BeU said,
will be able to lounge on the pa
tios and watch players coming in
and going out on the course.
The dining room will seat 120
people comfortably, he added, and
will be an additional asset for pro
posals to bring conventions to
Pine Needles.
Entrance to the club when the
clubhouse is finished will be from
Midland Road.
W. I. Merck and Sons of Spar
tanburg, S. C., contractors for the
four lodges last summer, have
been retained as general contrac
tors for the new building. Bell
said.
This year marks the beginning
of the sixth season that Bell and
his wife, the former Peggy Kirk,
nationally known golf profession
al, have owned and operated Pine
Needles.
Mrs. John L. Frye
Re-Elected Leader
Young Democrats
Mrs. John L. Frye of Robbins
was re-elected president of the
Moore County chapter of Young
Democrats at a meeting held in
Carthage last night. She defeat
ed E. O. Brogden of Southern
Pines, the only other nominee for
the post.
Other officers elected for the
year are Dewitt Purvis of Car
thage, re-elected first vice presi
dent; Diane David of Pinebluff,
re-elected second vice president;
Fay Neville of Pinehurst, third
vice president; S. R. Ransdell, Jr.,
of Aberdeen, secretary; and Don
nie McCaskill of Pinehurst, treas
urer.
A crowd described as “fair” at
tended the meeting to hear two
candidates for president of the
state organization speak. The two.
Art Vann of Durham and Louis
Allen of Burlington, spoke briefly
about their candidacies and re
minded the delegates to the meet
ing of the November general elec
tions and the importance of pre
paring for it.
Mrs. Frye said no particular
plans for the organization were in
the making at present but an
nouncements of several programs
will be made soon.
Announcement was made at the
meeting of the August 9 water
melon cutting for the three retir
ing county officials this year:
Sheriff C. J. McDonald, Mrs. Bes
sie Griffin, Register of Deeds, and
Gordon Cameron, chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners.
The watermelon cutting will be
held in Carthage.
It was also announced that a
rally of aU Democrats in the coun
ty had been moved up from Oc
tober 18 to October 25 at which
time Attorney General Malcolm
Seawell will be the principal
speaker. That meeting, too, will
be held in Carthage.