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VOL. 39—NO. 17
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1959
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
COUNCIL TO RATIFY NEW LEGISLATION
A total of five mei> have filed
for town offices in the general
municipal elections scheduled
May 5.
Last Friday John S. Ruggles,
a real estate and insurance man
who has previous service on the
town’s governing board, paid his
$5 fee and thus became the first
candidate for the Town Council.
His filing was followed shortly
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Pinehurst Hotel
Guests Robbed Of
$19,500 In Jewels
Officers Believe !
Florida Ring May
Be Implicaied
Jewelry valued at $19,500 was
stolen from the room o^ a retired
Cleveland, Ohio, couple in the
Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst
Saturday evening.
Daniel O. Delany, hotel man
ager, said the missing jewels, all
diamond pieces, were only a por
tion of the gems in a trunk in the
room of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P.
Rankin.
Included among the missing
articles were three bracelets, two
rings and two pins. The most val
uable piece, Delany said, was a
pin containing a 60-carat dia
mond and worth about $6,000.
Mrs. Rankin discovered the
theft while dressing for dinner
Saturday evening. Police theor
ized that the thief entered the
room between 2 and 4 p. m. Sat
urday when the Rankins, regular
visitors to Pinehurst, were ab
sent.
There was no indication why
Mrs. Rankin kept her jewelry in
her room rather than the hotel
safe. Delany said the theft ap
peared to be a professional wOll-
cased job. Local police, the
Moore County sheriffs depart
ment and the State Bureau of
Investigation are working on the
case.
Police theorized that the theft
could have been the work of an
interstate ring, operating out of
Florida, which made a lightening
grab then carried the jewelry
north for disposal.
The fact that it was a well-
planned job was also given some
credence because officers dis-i ^he announcement was made
covered the key to Mrs. Rankin s ^ygg^gj.(jgy. jjy Pinehurst Re-
Three File For Council Seats, One
More For Judge Of Recorder’s Court
PEACH BLOSSOMS
Peach trees in the West
End-Candor-Ellerbe triangle,
popping out in blossoms be
cause ot the past f4w days of
sunshine and showers, could
give this area a "pink Eas
ter."
The first blossoms opened
over the past weekend and
more and miore are opening
daily. With continued good
weather, growers think, the
orchards should reach their
peak of bloom about Easter
weekend, just 10 days away.
Growers are keeping their
fingers crossed, however. U
the blossoms bloom early
there's always a chance of a
killing frost, a chance that
exists at least until mid
April.
Episcopal Bishop
Named Rector Of
Pinehurst Chapel
The Rt. Rev. Louis C. Melcher,
D. D., until recently Episcopal
Bishop of Central Brazil, has a?-
cepted a call to serve as minister
of ^he Village Chapel in Pine-
hurtt.
jewelry case in the trunk in the
pocket of her coat, which was
hanging, in a closet. ,
The Rankins have been guests
of the hotel since January. It is
their sixth winter at the hotel.
Officers said a jewelry robbery
at the Carolina March 20 last
year netted a fairly large haul.
There have been several others,
including one at the Holly Inn.
ligious Association
Bishop Melcher will take over
the pastorate May 1. It was form
erly held by the Rev. Adam Weir
Craig, who is nbw headmaster
of Mt. Herman Boys School in
Northfield, Mass.
The pulpit has been filled on
an interim basis by the Rev. Dr.
by that of Dante S. Montesanti,
proprietor of Dante’s Restaurant,
and George W. Tyner, who oper
ates a painting business.
Neither Montesanti or Tyner
has served previously in town
government.
D. E. Bailey’s filing for the
position of Recorder of the
Town’s Municipal Court hai been
followed by the filing of William
I. Barber, a justice of the peace
who also holds a position at the
Southland Hotel.
Town authorities, incidentally,
have asked the Pilot to explain
the procedure of electing the
Judge and Solicitor of the Re
corder’s Court. Even though
those two officials may come
from outside the corporate lim
its, but within the territorial jur
isdiction of the court, only those
qualified voters who live inside
the corporate limits may vote on
their candicacies.
The Council will meet Monday
morning at 8:30 to ratify recent
legislation which allows the
Judge and Solicitor to come from
outside the town. The legisla
tion, which passed both bodies of
the General Assembly last week,
also allows the Council to appoint
an assistant clerk and deputy
clerks of the Recorder’s Court,
and provides that any request for
a jury trial in the court will au
tomatically send that case to
Moore Superior Court.
Mrs. Spence To
Head League Of
Women Voters
At the League of Women
Voters’ annual meeting, held at
the home of Mrs. John Elmen-
dorf Tuesday morning, Mrs. W. O.
Spence was reelected president
for the coming year.
Other officers also re-elected
were Miss Lockie Parker, vice
president. Miss Irma Fish, treas
urer. Mrs. Fred Chappell was
elected secretary.
The meeting was conducted by
Mrs. E. O. Brogden who heads
Thomas S. Roy since the resigna- the program committee. Follow
tion of Dr. Craig.
•SUPER HIGH SCHOOLS' BEING TALKED
County School Board Gets Initial
Briefing On Future Building Needs
The Moore County Board of
Education this week was highly
commended for its “pay as you
go’’ plan for school building con
struction which, in the opinion
of a special educational survey
/ team, has given the county
schools that rank “very favor
ably’’ with the best in the state.
A special five-man team, head
ed by W. L. Latham, Director of
the School of Planning of the N.
C. Department of Public Instruc
tion, made the comment during a
meeting of the Board of Educa
tion in Carthage Monday night.
The team has been requested by
the Board to make a study of the
county school system and come
up with recommendations to Help
the Board with planning both
now and for the future, partic
ularly in reference to high
schools.
Members of the team, in addi
tion to Mr. Latham, are Leon S.
Thompson, an engineer with the
Department of Public Instruc
tion; James P. Sifford, superin
tendent of the Stanly County
Schools; Dr. W. A. Stumpf, mem
ber of the Department of Educa
te
Newspaper People
Are Garden Club
■;
Guests OnWeekend
Reporters from several of the
state’s larger newspapers wiU be
in / the Sandhills Saturday as
guests of the Southern Pines
Garden Club.
The reporters will get a pre
view of the homes and gardens
which will be on view in the
club’s annual tour and will also
be guests of the club at the
Stoneybrook Steeplechase.
tion at Duke University; and Dr.
J. L. Pierce, health and physical
education consultant to the De
partment of Public Instruction.
All but Dr. Pierce were at the
meeting.
Though therq were no definite
proposals made at the meetings—
the team said it would require
several more weeks for that—a
preliminary report was discussed
concerning the physical facilities
the county now has.
Mr. Sifford, comparing Moore
with Stanly County, said that
Moore was on the “finest finan
cial standing I’ve seen in its
school building program.” The
county has 14 schools: five white
high schools, two Negro schools
and five elementary schools.
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
have separate administration
units.
It was pointed out at the meet
ing that none of the county’s
high schools have as many as 300
students enrollpd. Mr. Latham
said that the State recommends
at least that many “in order for
the school authorities to do a
good job with the funds avail
able.”
He added that some studies in
dicate a minimum of 500 students
in high school are required for
doing the best job.
“In any consolidated high
school,” he said, “there should be
at least 500 students though we
recognize that there will 2ilways
be som.e small schools.”
His reference to consolidated
schools was one of many made
during the course of the meet
ing. Actually, the school board
has been investigating the pos
sibility for some time of con
structing consolidated schools
or, as the board prefers to say,
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ing the close of the business
meeting, Mrs. Brogden, who is
the wife of the solicitor of the
local recorder’s court, described
the series of bills that have been
presented to the legislature to
date. Action in regard to one in
particular was taken by the local
league in voting to go on record,
with the state league, in favoring
passage of the Bell bill for court
reform.
As a focal point for study
among local questions due to
come up for discussion during
the coming year the group chose
a survey of the schools of South
ern Pipes; as to financial struc
ture, curriculum, and administra
tion.
The hostess served coffee and
sandwiches before the meeting.
Raeford Native
Purchases Local
Funeral Home
The Southern Pines Funeral
Home on S. W. Broad Street un
derwent a change of ownership
this week and is now being oper
ated by J. D. McKeithan of Rae
ford. The firm will be known as
McKeithan Funeral Home.
The establishment has been
operated the past few months by
Frank Watson of Rockingham,
while still under the ownership
of Mrs. Lloyd T. Clark. It was
operated many years by the late
Lloyd Clark.
Mr. McKeithan was associated
with the McDiarmid Funeral
Home in Raeford for some 13
years prior to taking a position
with Taylor Chemical Company
in Aberdeen four years ago.
Since assuming ownership
earlier this month (he opened of
ficially Monday of this week),
Mr. McKeithan has directed a
large scale remodeling of the in
side of the building and plans a
complete remodeling of the out
side.
He said he would offer a com
plete funeral service and also
maintain a 24 hour ambulance
service.
Quarters Sought
For Visiting Glee
Club On March 30
Concert To Be .
Final Event For
Music Association
Accommodations- in private
homes for members of the Fur
man University Glee Club, on the
night of Monday, March 30, are
being sought by the Sandhills
Music Association.
The glee club, which is direct
ed by DuPre Rhame, will pre
sent a concert at Weaver Audi
torium, Southern Pines, that
night. The concert will be the
fourth and final event in the win
ter'series sponsored by the As
sociation, except for the annual
Young Musicians concert at the
Pinehurst Country Club on May
2.
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., presi
dent of the Music Association,
said this week that the Furman
group will consist of about 85
students and two faculty repre
sentatives. Early this week ac
commodations had been located
by the Association for about 50
of this number.
Persons able to provide sleep
ing quarters for one or more of
the visitors are asked to get in
touch with Leonard Muddimer or
Mr. Hodgkins.
The Furman group will be en
tertained by the Music Associa
tion at dinner in the Southland
Hotel, prior to the concert.
Special assistance in the mat
ter of housing has been request
ed through the Baptist churches
of Southern Pines and Aberdeen,
Mr. Hodgkins said.
The Glee Club, which comes
from Furman University at
Greenville, S. C., gave a conoert
at Southern Pines a few years
ago, sponsored by the First Bap
tist Church. It was well received
at that timiC.
Tickets for the March 30 con
cert are available at the Barnum
Realty and Insurance Co., South
ern Pines.
'stoneybrook Steeplechase Saturday
To Open Nation’s Hunt Race Season
Grand Chal Given
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STONEYBROOK STEEPLECHASE profits this year will be
divided equally between Moore Memorial and St. Joseph’s Hos
pitals. M. G. (Mickey) Walsh, at right, on whose track the steeple
chase will be held, and Carlyle Cameron, general manager, are
hoping the profits from the event will be as large, or larger, than
last year’s.
Annual Antiques Show Begins Next
Wednesday In Armory; Many Exhibits
Everything’s ready for a “re
peat” next Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of the highly suc
cessful Antique Show held by the
Moore County Historical associa
tion last year—except, said Mrs.
Ernest L. Ives, general chairman,
“We expect it will be a great deal
Two-Way Tie For
Medalist Honors
In N-S Tourney
Playing their qualifying rounds
together Barbara McIntyre of
Lake Park, Fla., and Doris Phil
lips of Belleville, Ill., went three
over par yesterday to share eo-
medalist honors with 77’s in the
North and South Women’s Golf
Tournament being played over
the No. 2 course at Pin-ehurst.
Both had scores of 42-35 against
par of 37-37 for the 5,900 yard
course.
Miss McIntyre and Miss Phil
lips were one stroke ahead of
Joanne Goodwin of Haverhill,
Mass., who turned in a pair of
39’s.
A score of 92 was the cutoff
point to gain a place in today’s
match play. Four women played
off for the last two positions in
the 32-player championship
flight. Mrs. Laura Lee Menoher
of Southern Pirtes was one of
them.
Six players posted 79’s in the
qualifying rounds: Marge Burns
of Greensboro; Mrs. Alice Dye
of Indianapolis; Mrs. Ann Casey
Johnstone, Mason City, Iowa;
Betty Kirby, Akron; Lanny
Cranston, San Marino, Calif.; and
Polly Riley, Fort Worth, Tex.
All alone at 81 was Carol Mann
of Flossmore, Ill. Bracketed at
32 were Pat Tiernan of Manhas-
set, N. Y., and Mrs. H-elen Sigel
Wilson of Philadelphia. Bunched
at 83 were defending champion
Mrs. Philip Cudone of West Cald
well, N. J., Mrs. George K. Con-
ant, Jr., Clayton, Mo., Mrs. Mau
rice Glick of Baltimore, and Tish
Preuss, Pompano Beach, Fla.
Landing a spot in the cham
pionship bracket with Mrs. Men
oher in the sudden death playoff
was Mrs. Holbrook Platt of Pine-
Hurst. Losefs were Mrs. Fran
Emerson of Dayton, O., and Shir
ley Woodley of Toronto.
First round matches got under
way this morning at 10:24 with
Miss McIntyre playing Kather
ine Helleur of Thornhill, Ont.,
who had an 84 qualifying score
and Miss Phillips playing Mrs.
Joseph A. Nesbitt of Greenwich,
Conn., who had an 85.
Red Cross Appeal
For Funds Lagging
A drive for funds and member
ship in the annual Red Cross
campaign in Moore County is
lagging and officials of the chap
ter are expressing considerable
alarm.
John F. Buchholz, chairman of
the drive, said this week that the
blood program which was initia
ted here in the past few weeks
could be in jeopardy unless more
funds are forthcoming.
“Our chapter,” he said, “and
our hospitals have accepted the
joint responsibility of the Ameri
can Red Cross program which
gives free blood to all our citizens
who join the program. It must
be supported by both blood and
money and unless the financial
contributions are increased, the
blood program cannot continue.”
The county’s goal is $13,684,
which Budhholz said was a “trif
ling sum”, when considered in
terms of the service the Red
Cross renders, but a sum which
will not be raised if too many
people continue their attitude of
“let Gedrge do it.”
Blue Knights Open
Baseball Schedule
Against West End
The Southern Pines Blue
Knights open their 1959 baseball
schedule against West End to
morrow (Friday) and Coach Irie
Leonard is still not of a defin
ite mind as to who he will start
at the pitching assignment.
Game time is 3:30 on the West
End field.
Be has a choice of three:
Bobby Watkins, Steve Smith or
Dickie Meinnis. If either Smith
or MeInnis gets the nod Wat
kins will probably start as catch
er, a position he held off and on
last year between pitching jobs.
If Watkins is the pitcher. How
ever, Joe Garzik will start be
hind the plate.
Leonard said other members
of the starting line-up in the in
field would be Ted Ward at first
base, Robert Woodruff at second,
Melva Hall at third, and Jimmy
Carter at shortstop.
Outfielders will be selected
from Bill Seymour, Jesse Willi
ford, Kenny Reid and Jack Mc
Donald.
The Knights play their first
home game against Sanford next
Tuesday. Time for that game is
3:30. Next Thursday they travel
to Carthage.
better this time.”
She added, “Last year was our
first effort in this field and we
learned a great deal. This year
we have been much more selec
tive in our exhibitors.” The list,
strictly invitational, includes
many of the same dealers who
exhibited last year, also some
new ones (from as far as Wash
ington, D. C.
They include some of the lead
ing names in the antique field,
who will bring collections of
their rarest and loveliest items
for show and for sale—a veri
table antique lover’s paradise, to
be held Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday at the National Guard
Armory in Southern Pines.
At last report nearly all spaces
had been taken and sufficient in
quiries were on hand to assure
that the Armory would be entire
ly filled. The huge room has been
divided into 26 exhibit spaces,
but some dealers are takirig two,
while others are sharing with
colleagues.
The show will be open from
10 a. m. to 9 p. m. daily, and re
freshments will be available for
those who like to stay and
browse for hours while mealtimes
come aOd go. At night, guards
will be posted over the exhibits,
which will contain many items
of rare yalue.
Antiques will be for sale, how
ever,,'to fit every pocketbook and
to suit the casual taste as well as
that of the confirmed hobbyist
and expert. .
Glassware, china and silver are
expected to predominate, with
chests, chairs and many large
furniture items. Pewter utensils,
old pictures and ornaments and
antique jewelry will be present in
extensive variety.
Those who just love to look, as
well as those wishing to buy, will
be welcomed at the show, which
has already in one short year pf
life as an annual event become a
leader in similar events in the
State. It is the only such Show
scheduled during the year in this
section of the Carolinas.
Mrs. Lawrence M. Johnson of
Aberdeen is assistant chairman
in charge of booths, with Mrs.
Edward Schneider of Southern
Pines in charge of food, while
Mrs. Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of
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H-J TOURNAMENT
A national ladies invita
tional golf toumeunent will
be held at Mid Pines Club
May 8-10 under the sponsor
ship of the national Howard
Johnson Motor Lodge and
Restaurants chain.
Top ranking professional
lady golfers will complete
for a total purse of $6,500.
A special golf clinic will
also be a part' of the tourna
ment, scheduled for Nhd
Pines the afternoon of May
7.
Names of those who plan
to enter were not available
today.
Edge In Running
For Sandhills Cup
■What looms as the most suc
cessful session since steeplechase
racing was introduced in the
Sandhills in 1935 will be held
Saturday afternoon at M. G.
(Mickey) Walsh’s Stoneybrook
Stables.
Never in the history of local
racing has the one-day meeting,
which opens the United Hunts
steeplechase racing season, at
tracted the quality and quantity
of entries which will go to the
post Saturday, sponsors believe.
Operating for the benefit of
the Moore Memorial and St. Jos
eph’s Hospital, Auxiliaries, this
'meeting of the Stoneybrook Hunt
Racing Association features the
19th running of the Sandhills
Cup. Contested over two and one-
quarter miles and 12 timber
fences, the race carries a $1(000
purse and has lured 10 entries,
including last year’s timber rac
ing champion.
Currently training here, under
Joseph L. Aitcheson, Sr., Grand
Chal, owned by Alfred H. Smith,
Upper Marlboro, Md., finished
second to Mrs. M. G. Walsh’s
Mummer’s Knot in last year’s
race. Following this he went on
to win the Carolina Cup at Cam
den, and six more timber tests to
emerge as the timber racing
champion of 1958. His several
victories and other performances
won him the United Hunts Rac
ing Association’s $1,000 timber
racing award.
Seeking a consecutive victory
,in the Sandhills Cup, Mrs. Walsh
has a quartet of nominees in Star
■Venture 2nd, Bin Junior, Barge
Toter and Secant. Although all
are untried over timber jumps.
Secant rates high consideration.
A half-brother to the famous
Nashua, the 10-year-old gelding
has won over hurdles and brush,
including last year’s running of
the Springdale Cup at Camden.
Aside from the Walsh hopefuls,
fcontention is promised the cham
pion by Robert M. Brewer’s Mary
March and William H. Turner,
Jr.’s Carolina Hills. The latter,
currently training at Camden,
won last year’s Spring Maiden
’Chase at Media, Pa., and a week
later captured the coveted Con
necticut Cup at Purchase, N. Y.
In both triumphs the gelding was
ridden by his th-en 16-year-old
owner of Unionville, Pa. Also
training in Camden and best of
the midwest timber-toppers last
year, Mary March won four races
under the training of C. V. B.
Cu.shman, Jr.
Others named for the Sand
hills Cup are: Fairview Farm’s
Allan Adale, Saxon Woods
Stable’s Navy Talk, and Ran
dolph D. Rouse’s Ranchild.
Preceding the 2:00 o’clock post
time for the first of six races the
gates to the race course, just off
US Highway 1 north of Southern
Pines, will open at noon to ac
commodate the many groups
planning picnics under the pines.
Early arrivals will be entertain
ed by various sports attractions
in the infield and music supplied
by the 82nd Airborne Division’s
band. Governor Luther H.
Hodges and Mrs. Hodges, along
with many state officials, will be
among the early arrivals.
Aside from the timber feature,
other races will be conducted
over the turf and hurdle courses
with a trial for two-years-olds on
the regular training track as a
fillip. The Yadkin, a maiden hur
dle test, has attracted a record-
breaking number of 21 nominees,
while The Stoneybrook, for ex
perienced hurdlers, closed with
16 entries. A field of 25 is eli
gible for the Silver Run, a six
furlong turf test. Should this
number of eligibles prevail on
Saturday, some of the races will
have to be split and run in divi
sions.
General admission may be ob
tained at the gates to the course,
with children under 12 admitted
free and soldiers in uniform ad
mitted for $1. A few remaining
parking spaces may be had by
contacting Donald D. Kennedy,
general committee chairman at
lOxford 2-2152.