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VOL. 39—NO. 50
‘Neighbor Aid’
^ Campaign Begun
To Help Hospital
Moore Memorial To
Mark 30th Year Of
Service To County
Moore County residents are be-
ing invited to help Moore Memor-
9 ial Hospital mark its 30th birth
day November 25.
It was on November 25, 1929,
that the doors of the then Moore
County Hospital were opened to
receive patients. There are few
families in the area who have not
benefited by the services of the
institution since that date. Babies
born those first years are now
business and professional men
, and women of the community.
Another generation is occupying
the cradles in the Maternity ward
—or already started on their three
Rs in school.
It’s a neighborhood institution,
serving one and all, rich and poor.
Thus, the directors hit upon the
slogan, “Neighbor Aid,” for the
anniversary campaign for funds
to assist the underprivileged need
ing hospitalization.
Ewing Is Chairman
The campaign is countywide.
Its chairman, Robert S. Ewing of
Southern Pines, has appointed
community chairmen in every
township. And in a letter sent out
to many citizens of the county,
addressed “Hi, Neighbor,” he out
lines the aims and purposes of
the “birthday party”:
“Do you want to help the fam
ily next to you and at the same
^ time help yourself? Here’s how
to do it. ,
“In Moore County, our Memo
rial Hospital in Pinehurst takes
care of a great many people who
are ur^able to provide for them
selves financially. In spite of ev
erything the hospital tries to do
to make both ends meet, it still
does around $70,000 dollars worth
of free medical care each year.
. Rinng Costs
9 “Free? No sirree! Those who
«.an pay help pay for those who
cannot, for this outlay is figured
into the overall cost of running
the hospital. Each year the hospi
tal directors are faced with ris
ing costs.
“But there is a way in which
we can help keep down this over
all cost of hospital cme, not only
for those who can pay but for
^ those ‘medically indigent’ that
human decency demands be taken
care of.
“With aid from a fund, these
patients can be certified for help
through the Duke Endowment,
the Kate B. Reynolds Foundation,
and the North Carolina Medical
Care Commission. By - showing
that some money was available to
assist them in their need, addi
tional money would be forthcom-
X ing from these organizations, and
the load would be lightened aU
around.
Willingness I
“First, however, we must show
our willingness to help our neigh
bor. And, that is why we are ap-
peeiling to you to contribute to
our ‘Neighbor Aid.’
“This is only solicited in Moore
County and is to be used only for
Moore County residents. Not one
J' penny goes for administration
costs. It all goes to prime those
pumps that will help control our
hospital bills, and first and fore
most help our Moore County nei
ghbors who need it most.
“Won’t you please send in your
‘Neighbor Aid’ today, in cash or
checks made out to Moore Memo
rial Hospital. This is one tax de
duction that goes to work for you
^ right away, regardless of what
future hospitalization require
ments you might have. Our quota
is 100 per cent participation —
Don’t let yourselves down.”
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1959
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE; 10 CENTS
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PRIZE WINNERS—Tom Ruggles, left, of the
Rotary Club is giving prizes for costumes to
children at the club’s Halloween Carnival at
Memorial Field Saturday night. Left to right:
first prize, Joan Sandlin, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Sandlin, dressed in a birthday party
theme, with cake on head and balloons and
party favors on her dress; second prize, Joanne
Sontag, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Sontag,'in
Japanese costume and make-up; and the third
prize winners, Johnny (left) and Debbie Fergu
son, children of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Ferguson
who were complete as (no offense intended)
little devils, right down to the small pitchforks
each was carrying. Hundreds of children enjoyed
the carnival, receiving free refreshments and
prizes, aU provided by the Rotary Club.
(Humphrey Photo)
Dr. Starnes To Head ‘Sandpipers’ Negotiations For
Children’s Camp
Site Being Made
Officers and a board pf gover
nors for the newly reorganized
Sandpipers were elected Wednes
day night as about 40 interested
golfers met at the Southern Pines
Country Club.
Dr. Boyd Starnes was elected
president; Jack Carter, vice-presi
dent and Davis Worsham, secre
tary-treasurer.
Named to two-year terms on
the board of governors were Har
ry Chatfield and Jack Reid, and
for one-year terms, Francis
Rainey, Joe Steed and Will Wiggs.
At a rrieeting set for Wednesday
night of next week at the club,
committees will be appointed and
the constitution and by-laws of
the organization will be re-vamp
ed to enable all charter members
to become honorary members.
Dr. Starnes said today.
‘All golfers in this area are in
vited to become members. Inte
rested persons should get in
touch with Davis Worsham.
Tournament and entertainment
committees are expected to start
activities soon after January 1.
Founded in 1927 to promote
golf and social events at the Sou
thern Pines Country Club, the
Sandpipers was active until 1951.
COUNCIL TO MEET
Regular meeting of the South
ern Pines town council will be
held at town hall Tuesday, No
vember 10, at 8 p. m. The dock
et for the meeting will be drawn
up later this week.
CORRECTION
In the Dossenbach’s advertis-
ment on page 15 of today’s Pilot,
the word “Sanford,” indicating
the location of the store, was in-
adverteniiy omitted when that
section of the paper was print
ed.
First Hunt Meet
Scheduled For
Thanksgiving Day
First news of coming events in
hunting and riding circles comes
with th.9 announcement of the
opening meet of the Moore
County Hounds.
'The date is set, as usual, for
Thanksgiving Day, November 26.
Draghounds will go out from the
kennels that day at 10 a. m^
The card, signed by the joint
masters, W. O. Moss and Earl S.
Hoy, and Virginia Moss, secre
tary, states that, following the
opening meet, the regular sched
ule of himts during the season
will be: Foxhunting Tuesday and
Thursday morning. Hounds wall
go out on Saturdays, too, but
whether after fox or drag will be
left to the decision of the masters
when the time mrives, depending
on weather and circumstances.
To date, hounds have been
conditioned by roadwork, it is re
ported, with the start of early
morning cubbing postponed un
til the weather clears and settles.
Mrs. Moss Judging
At New York Show
Mrs. W. O. Moss, of Mileaway
Farm, left Sunday ^evening for
New York where' she- will jndge
at the national horse show at
Madison Square . Garden, New
York City.
The local horsewoman, who is
the wife of the master of the
Moor« County Hounds and acts
as first whip in the hunting field,
is one of three judges to handle
all three hunter divisions: green,
conformation, and working. Shar
ing the difficult job—probably
the most exacting ol any of the
judging at the show—wiU be D.
Lanahan and Dan Shay.
Mrs. Moss, better knowm as
“Ginny” in the Sandhills, has
frequently judged in shows in
the East but this is the first thnp
she has been invited to judge at
the Garden.
Robertsons Plan
Tb Bring Son Back
To U. S. Soon
Friends and business associates
of Walter ' G. Robertson have
heard from him at Gibralter that
he and Mrs. Robertson hope to
bring their son, Walter G. Robert
son, Jr., 29, to the United States,
for treatment at a polio rehabili
tation center.
The local man, who is vice-
president and general manager
of the United Telephone Com
pany of the Carolinas, had been
expected home about November
1, while Mrs. Robertson remained
overseas. However, friends of the
Robertsons told The Pilot this
week, the Southernn Pines resi
dents decided to come home with
their sOn, about November 15,
when it was learned that he could
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UNICEF Given
More Than $200
More than $200 has been col
lected here for the United Na
tions Children’s Fund, Mrs. J.
S. Hiatt, Jr., chairman of the
“Trickjor Treat for UNICEF” ef
fort, said today.
The chairman for the town
wide collection made by children
on Halloween was appointed by
the Commission on Missions of
the Southern Pines Methodist
Church.
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Included in the total are sev
eral checks, in addition to the
amount collected by the large
group of children who took part.
Mrs. Hiatt thanked all who had
given or helped with the collec-
■tion.
UNICEF funds are used to buy
medicine and food for sick and
hungry children in many nations
of the world.
The chairman said that anyone
still wishing to make a donation
could do so, as she will not send
the money, to UNICEF imtil Mon
day.
Negotiations for a 70-acre site
near Southern Pines, to be used
as a camp for crippled children,
are now going on.
Mrs. Graham Culbreth of
Southern Pines, head of a local
steering committee that has been
working with officials of the
North Carolina Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults in seek
ing a site in this area, confirmed
this week an annouhcement
about the site made last weok at
the Society’s meeting at Burling
ton.
She said the site is near South
ern Pines but that local and State
officials of the Society are pledg
ed not to reveal its location until
all negotiations for its acquisition
are completed.
Several smaller sites were in
spected by Society officials in and
around Southern Pines several
weeks ago. 'The larger tract was
inspected alter officials had been
informed that the camp project
would need up to 100 acres to be
properly set up.
State Society officials have vis
ited Southern Pines several times
lately in connection with the pro
ject, Mrs. Culbreth said.
Brother Of Local
Resident Killed
In Virginia Crash
The brother of Mrs. L. W. Mill
er of Southern Pines was one of
26 persons who were killed in
the crash of a Piedmont Airlines
plane near Charlottesville, Va.,
Friday night.
Mrs. Miller’s brother was J. S.
Carter, superintendent of the
American Cyanamid Plant at
Piney River, near Lynchburg, Va.
He was en route to Lynchburg
when the plane hit a mountain,
killing all but one of the persons
aboard.
■ Mrs. Miller is the wife of
Brig. Gen. L. 'W. Miller, retired
Army officer. Their home is at
the corner of Indiana Ave. exten
sion and Bethesda Road.
General and Mrs. Miller went
to Virginia as soon as they were
notified that Mr. Carter was
missing. The wreckage of the
plane was not found until Sun
day.
Friends of General and Mrs.
Miller here were able to supply
few details about Mr. Carter
whom several local residents had
met when he had visited in
Southern Pines. He was married,
but details about his survivors
were lacking here.
It was not known here wben
General and Mrs. Miller would
return.
Entries In Golf
Carousel Point
To Record Field
Entries in the Southern Pines
Golf Carousel November 19-22,
are pushing the 100-mark, Tom
Ruggles, entry chairman for the
Jaycee-sponsored event, said to
day.
This puts response well ahead
of what it was at a comparable
period last year, he said, assur
ing the largest field yet to play in
a Carousel tournament.
About 20 of the nearly 100 en
tries are local golfers, he said.
Entries are coming in well for the
mixed division of both men and
women players, which is new this
year.
Dick Chapman of Pinehurst and
Art Ruffin of Wilson, 1958 champ
ions, will be on hand to defend
their title. Also entered are last
year’s medalists. Bill Woodward
of Robbins and Carlos Frye of
Carthage, the leading challengers
from the local delegation.
The unique tournament makes
possible play on all three of the
Southern Pines courses—^Mid
Pines, Pine Needles and the
Southern Pines Country Club.
A feature of the long golfing
weekend, announced today, will
be an exhibition on Friday, No
vember 20, by two outstanding
women professionals, Peggy Kirk
BeU of the Pine Neeidles Country
Club and Mary Lena Faulk of
Thomasville, Ga.
Announced today by Dick Mat
tocks, entertainment chairman,
is a dance at the National Guard
armory Saturday night, Novem
ber 21, at which Ed 'Turbeville
and his band, from Myrtle Beach,
S. C., will play. The dance will
be open to the public. Tickets are
obtainable from and Jaycee, from
Ticket Chairman George Morrison
at the Broad Street Pharmacy or
at the JBamum Real Estate and
Insurance Co.
Trophies will be displayed un
til the end of the tournament in
the window of the Barnum com
pany.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., is
general chairman for the Carou
sel.
St. Anthony PTA
To Meet Nov. 16
St. Anthony’s School Parent-
Teacher Associatiofi will hear a
talk on drug research at the reg
ular m.€eting of the association
in the school auditorium Monday,
November 16, at 8 p. m.
The speaker will be Fred Haw
kins of Smith, Kline and French
Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pa.
'The charter of Boy Scout Troop
873, which is sponsored by St.
Anthony’s Church, will be pre
sented at the meeting by Joseph
Sandlin, Moore District chairman,
in a formal ceremony conducted
by Troop 68, of Aberdeen.
Refreshme/nts will' be served.
The public is invited.
Advertisinj* Committee
Asks Additional Funds
Chairman Says
POST OFFICE. BANK
TO CLOSE NOV. 11
The post office will follow its
holiday schedule of closed win
dows and no home delivery on
Veterans Day, Wednesday, No
vember 11. The Citizens Bank
and Trust Co. will be closed for
the day. These are the only clos
ings for Veterans Day about
which The Pilot has'been notified.
Admiral Baker
Resigns As CD
Head In Moore
Appearing before the county
commissioners at their regular
monthly meeting in Carthage
Monday, Rear Admiral Fehx
Baker said that for reasons of
health, he would be unable to
continue as Moore County’s Civil
Defense director.
Admiral Baker, retired Navy
officer who lives on the old Lea
vitt’s Lake property between
Pinehurst and Carthage, said that
he felt he is unable to get around
enough to do the job properly.
The commissioners were unani
mous in voicing their regret at his
resignation and in praising his
work. They directed that a formal
resolution to that effect be drawn
up by County Attorney M. G.
Boyette, to be sent to Admiral
Baker and to the county’s news
papers for publication.
Commissioner James M. Pleas
ants of Southern Pines was in
formally designated to make in
quiries among retired military
men in the Sandhills as a first
step in finding a new county CD
director. Board members urged
Admiral Baker to remain in an
advisory capacity. He said he
would be pleased to do so and
also would plan to work closely
with his successor, in turning
over the job to whomever that
might be.
Admiral Baker said that he was
not revealing any secret in point-
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PTA Will Elect
V ice-Pr esident
Election of a first vice-president
to fill the vacancy caused by res
ignation of Mrs. R. L. Chandler,
Jr., will be a major item of busi
ness when the East Southern
Pines Parent-Teacher Associa
tion holds its regular meeting
Monday, November 9.
The Association meets in Weav
er Auditorium at 8 p.m.
The program speaker will be
Dr. R. M. McMillan Of Southern
Pines, on a medical topic of in
terest to parents.
Presidents of student organi
zations in the high school will
describe the purposes and activi
ties of each group.
Rotary District Governor To Speak
The Rotary Club of Southern
Pines tomorrow (Friday) will be
host to J. Spurgeon Edwards,
governor of the 769th district of
Rotary International, who is
making his annual official visit
to each of the 34 clubs in the dis
trict. He will address the local club
and confer with the president. Dr.
Philip Green, secretary L. D. Mc
Donald and committee chairmen
on Rotmy administration and
service activities.
Mr. Edwards is former Super
intendent of Montgomery Coun
ty Schools, and is a member and
past president of the Rotary Club
of Troy. He was elected as a dis
trict governor of Rotary Inter
national for the 1959-60 fiscal
year at Rotary’s 50'th annual con
tention in New York City, U. S.
A. last June. He is one of 261 dis
trict governors supervising the
activities of more than 10,200 Ro
tary Clubs which have a mem
bership of nearly 500,000 business
and professional executives in 113
countries throughout the world.
Wherever Rotary clubs are lo
cated, President Green said in
discussing the governor’s visit,
their activities are similar to
those of the Rotary Club of
Southern Pines because they are
J. S. EDWARDS
based on the same general objec
tives—developing better under
standing and fellowship among
business and professional men,
promoting community - better
ment undertakings, raising the
standards of business and profes
sions, and fostering the advance
ment of good will, understanding
and peace among all the people
of the world.
Progress Made
In Past Year
A drive for funds to help fi
nance activities of the Town Ad
vertising Advisory Committee be
gan this week.
George Pottle, chairman, said
that the committee is encouraged
with progress in the past year
and urged cooperation in sub
scribing funds to continue the
work and make it even more ef
fective.
Other members of the commit
tee, appointed by the town coun
cil, are ^rs. Warren Bell, Ward
Hill, Jimmy Hobbs, Morris John
son and George H. Leonard, Jr.
The campaign is for funds to
supplement a $5,000 appropria
tion by the Town for the 1959-60
fiscal year. The Town’s appropri
ation was doubled this year from
the $2,500 for the committee in
the previous year’s budget.
The Information Center in the
town-owned former Milliken
building at the corner of Penn
sylvania Ave. and N. E. Broad
St., has been operating for the
past year. Mrs. Don Traylor is ad
ministrative secretary at the
Center, answering innquiries
about Southern Pines and the
Sandhills from persons over the
nation and even from foreign
countries. Information has been
given personally to many visitors
at the Center during the past
year.
Reviewing other activities of
the committee, Mr. Pottle noted:
Placing large landscaped signs
at the northern and southern en
trances to town, depicting some
of the attractions of this area.
Helping finance events that
promote Southern Pines—^the
Stoneybrook Steeplechase meet
ing and the tournaments sponsor
ed by the Sandhills Tennis Asso
ciation.
Printing a decorative “guest
map” of Southern Pines and
nearby area, designed by Miss
Beth Turner.
The maps are sent to persons
making inquiries about Southern
Pines as a place to live; they are
given to visitors to the Informa
tion Center; and they are obtain
able by local residents ' for 10
cents each. They are suitable for
framing and are being used by
one or two places for place mats.
Mr. Pottle also noted that ad
vertising for Southern Pines was
placed in newspapers in various
northern cities. Response from
this advertising was good, he said.
A. L. Burney, Son
Open Real Estate,
Building Business
A. L. Burney and his son, Don
ald, of Southern Pines, will open
a new firm on Monday, Burney
Realty and Building Co., with of
fices in the Mackenzie Building
on W. New Hampshire Ave.
The company has completed
and has for sale two ranch-type
homes and expects to build more.
In addition to real estate sales
and rentals, the company will
handle industrial steel buildings.
Queen swimming pools, U. S.
Steel chain link fences, utility
farm buildings, mietal carports
and grain bins.
A. L. Burney is well known
throughout Moore County in
business, civic and church af
fairs. He Owned and operated the
Burney Hardware Co. in Aber
deen for more than 30 years and
also had a branch store in South
ern Pines during the 1920’s. He
is an acti.ve member of the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club and was its
president in 1945, and is an elder
in Brownson Memorial Presby
terian Church.
Donald Burney is a 1954 grad
uate of Southern Pines High
School. He attended Guilford Col
lege and Richmond Professional
Institute and served two years
wtih the U. S. Army in Europe.
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