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W| T>M>H(f<>i^pnnwpjy ina,i)^i It^^'^nirwi'iiipiy 'S!,- f ■ PfM» I.Hj»|l ,11 t m!lHi.,,,fi. HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY ^NEW YEAR! VOL. 40—NO. 6 FOURTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES,^N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1959 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS PROPERTY SALES OF INTEREST Cosgroves Acquire Keating Residence; Richards Buys Former Crocker Estate E. N. Richards of Raleigh, who* is known here as the builder and former owner of the Knollwood Apartments, is purchasing the 1,- 800-acre former Charles T. Crock er estate, off Linden Road near Pinehurst, he told The Pilot this week. Mr. Richards is buying the large property, which includes several residences and farm and timber land, from a group of lum bermen who acquired the prop erty some two and a half years ago after the death of Mrs. Crocker. Mr. Crocker, a Fitch burg, Mass., sportsman who spent a large part of the year in the Sandhills for many years, had died several years previously. Mr. Richards said that he ex pected the purchase to be closed next week and that he is already starting work on improvements and remodeling of the main res idence on the property. He does The Keating home on Midland Road has been bought by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cosgrove, owners of the Mid Pines Club. In thus extending their Knoll wood holdings, the Cosgroves do not think of this as adding to their commercial establishment. ‘•This is to be ‘home’,” said M s. Cosgrove. She added that they hope to move in in about two weeks. Fronting the Mid Pines golf course on the East, the bouse is one of the oldest and considered one of the most attractive in the Knollwood section. The high-ceil- inged sunny living-room looks out on the course and will bring the new owners a pleasant view of the landscaped surroundings. Redecoration is under way, with several rooms to be panelled and the kitchen modernized. Adding greatly to the satisfac not plan to make this house his, tion of the purchase, according to ’ the new owners, is the fact that the first man to live in the house was an old friend. It was built by the Diocese of Boston, headed by Bishop Anderson. Said Mrs. Cosgrove: “The Bish op was the pastor of the church in Dorchester, (Mass.) where I was brought up. My fam.ily were m.embers of his congregation and I was baptized and confirmed and married by Bishop Anderson. It is Such a happy coincidence that I am going to be living in his house.” Sold by its first occupant to the E. C. Keating family, the house was the Keating home for many , years, until Mrs. Keating moved to the Carolina Hotel where she now resides, following the death of Mr. Keating, permanent home at this time, he said, but intends to visit there as often as possible. Mr. Richards has extenive real estate interests in Raleigh, Greensboro, Norfolk, Va., Jack sonville and Winston-Salem. He maintains offices in all of these communities except Winston-Sa lem. Mr. Richards said that his plans for the estate are to fix up the house, clean up the place, put in a lake, and do minor farming. (Continued on page 8) '■'j Qi Cerem-ony Marks Gen. Marshall’s Birthday Today . . .•*' , JT- A ceremony honoring the late General of the Arnpy George Cat lett Marshall was held this morn ing at the inscribed granite monument in the park named for him at Pinehurst. Tbs ceremony recognized today (December 31) as General Mar shall’s birthday. The former United States chief of staff. Sec retary of State and Secretary of Defense would have been 79 to day. He died at Walter Reed Hos pital in Washington October 16. Brig. Gen. Gines Periz, repre senting Gen. Robert F. Sink, com manding general of the XVIII Airborne Corps and of Fort Bragg, placed a wreath on the monument. General Sink was un able to attend. George Hunt, commander of A. B. Sally, Jr., Post 350, American Legion, of Pinehurst, placed a second wreath. The post organ ized and sponsored the ceremony. A number of retired generals living in the Sandhills were pres ent. The Marshall Monum.ent in the park was erected and dedica ted some months before General MarshaH’s death, in recognition of his close association with Pine hurst where he and Mrs. Marshall maintained a cottage, Liscombe Lodge, which they had purchased in 1945, spending as much time as possible there in subsequent years. Window Of Sleed ReaUy Co. On Broad St. Choir boys and girls stand before organ pipes ip the Steed Realty decoration, flanked by vases of chrysanthemums and holly. Above and at the side of the organ are cedar boughs support ing little golden angels. An open Bible is on a stand at left. The window was spotlighted at night and recorded organ music was played sc,'tly in the background. (Pilot photo) Holiday Lighting Winners Listed Tax Listing To Start; Local Schedules Given Boy Dies After Head Injury In Fall From Bike Moore county’s only fatality of the Christmas week-end was Robert Lee Michael, 14, of near Pinehurst, who fell from his bicy cle Christmas evening and suf fered a concussion of the brain. The accident was investigated by Coroner Ralph G. Steed and Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence. It was not listed as a traffic 'fa tality. The coroner ruled the death was accidental. He said an autop sy showed the concussion was caused by the boy’s head striking something hard, rather than be ing struck. Lawrence said Michael left his home about two miles from Pine hurst, on the Beulah Hill road, to pedal into Pinehurst. Passing through Taylortown, he struck a (Continued on page 8) Mrs. Culbreth Named To Group Planning Camp Mrs. Graham Culbreth of Southern Pines has accepted ap pointment to the Camp Develop ment Committee of the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults, it was an nounced this week. The appointment was made by Dr. Edgar T. Thompson, presi dent, who said that the commit tee is charged with determining and recommending the nature and placement of the buildings and other facilities at the site re cently purchased by the Society near Southern Pines. The committee will work with the chairman, J. Preston Wrenn of Charlotte, and the architect, E. J. Austin of Southern Pines. Mrs. Culbreth heads the service committee of the Moore County Easter Seal Society and played a prominent part in bringing the proposed camp to the Sandhills. The camp will be attended by children with various physical handicaps and replaces, with add ed facilities, a camp formerly operated by the Society in West- (Continued on page 8) The Wendell A. Wathen home on Fairway DriVe in Knollwood and the' Steed Realty Co. on N. E. Broad St. have been chosen win ners in the Christmas Lighting contest sponsored by the South ern Pines Jaycees. Dr. J. E. Currie, Jr., chairman of the project, said that awards will be made to the winners at the annual Awards and Bosses’ Night banquet of the Jaycees on January 22. Mrs. J. N. Steed is proprietor of the realty company. In the residential lighting con test, the runner-up was the Glenn Ramsey home, 345 Crestview Rd., and honorable mention was given to the residences of: R. M. Cush man, 190 N. Valley Rd.; the Rev. Maynard Mangum, 260 S. Ashe St.; Harry K. Smyth, 115 High land'Rd.; Mrs. Fred McBride, 265 Weymouth Rd.; and Lloyd Prime, 210 Valley Rd. Runner-up in the commercial lighting contest was the Jeffer son Inn, 150 W. New Ham:pshire Ave., with honorable mention go ing to Barnum Realty Co., 124 N. W. Broad St. and Scott Realty Co., 118 N. W. Broad St. The judges were Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Burney and Col. and Mrs. G. M. Nevius. The Wendell A. Wathen Home Giant red ribbons across the front of the white-painted Wathen house made it appear like a huge Christmas package. Spotlight ing the house at night increased the effect. A wreath and other decorations dressed up the colonial doorway. (Pilot photo) Broughton To Open Law Office Here t- Howard C. Broughton of South em Pines, who for nearly a year and a half has been associated with the Johnson and Johnson law firm at Aberdeen, will open his own office for the general practice of law here on Friday. The office is in the Hart building, over the Broad Street Pharmacy, with entrance at 110 N. W. Broad St. . Following his graduation from the University of North Carolina Law School in June, 1958, Mr. Broughton became associated with Johnson and Johnson in August of that year and, the fol lowing month, was married to Miss Penelope Dana, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dana of Pine hurst. They live at 480 E. Con necticut Ave. Mrs. Broughton for several years has been a teacher in the Southern Pines elementary school. Since living in the Sandhills, and 4 Mr. Broughton has been active in the civic and religious life of the,community. He is a member of the Southern Pines Jaycees HOWARD C. BROUGHTON is a vice-president of the Moore County Young Democrats Club. He was county chairman of the 1958 Christmas seal ,sal9 of (Continued on page 8) Nominations For Young Man Of Year’ Invited Local Jaycees this week invit ed the public to make nomina tions for the Southern Pines “Young Man of the Year” to whom they will present their dis tinguished service award at a ban quet in the Hollywood Hotel on January 22. The banquet will also be known as “Bosses’ Night” when members of the organization will invite their employers for the program that is the highlight of national Jaycee Week, January 17-23. Tom Ruggles, chairman of the award program, said that nomi nation forms had been distribut ed to a number of business and professional men but that nomi nations by the public are wel come. A group of judges who are be yond the Jaycee age limit of 35 will choose the recipient of the distinguished service award for leadership and service to the com munity during 1959. Nominees must be within the Jaycee age limits of 21 through 35 years of age, but need not be Jaycees. Judges will base their decisions 50 per cent on contribution to the general community wel fare during the year; 25 per cent on evidence of leadership ability; and 25 per cent on evidence of personal or business progress. Nomination forms can be ob tained from Mr. Ruggles at Bar num Realty and Insurance Co. Forms must be returned by Jan- (Continued on page 8) License Plates To Go On Sale North Carolina motor vehicle license plates will go on sale Sat urday m.orning at the Wristern Auto Associate Store, 230 N. W. Broad St. The license office at the store will be open until noon on Satur days arid from 8:30 a. m, to 4 p. m. on other days, except Sunday. New 1960 tags must be placed on all motor vehicles in th.s state be fore February 15. Town license tags, costing $1 each, will be sold this year at the Information Center, at the cor ner of Pennsylvania Ave. and S. E. Broad St. The hours there are 9 a. m. to noon on Saturdays and 9 a. m. to noon and 1 to 4 p. m. on other days, except Sunday. All persons living within the Southern Pines town limits must purchase and display a town tag. JAN. 1 CLOSINGS Town offices, fhe post of fice, the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. and some stores will be closed tomorrow (Fri day) for New Year's Day. The courthouse at Carth age will close Il'iday. but wiU be open Saturday morn ing as usual, as will town offices here. The post office will folllow its holiday schedule of no home delivery and windows closed, but mail wiU be pro cessed in the post office. The Pilot's business office and editorial department •will be closed on Friday. SCHOOLS TO OPEN Schools of the Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Moore County sys tems and St. Anthony’s and Our Lady of Victory schools here will reopen after (Christmas vacation Monday, January 4 at the usual hours. Mrs. Edna Taylor To Be Delegate Mrs. Edna B. Taylor of Pine hurst, an outstanding civic, re ligious, and educational leader, has been named as one of the delegates to represent North Car olina at the 1960 White House Conference fir Children and Youth, to be held in Washington, D. C., in March and April. Mrs. Taylor, who retired in 1959 after teaching 42 years in the public schools of North Caro lina, has made many outstanding contributions to the welfare of underprivileged children. She is a member of the executive com mittee of the State Federation of Negro Women’s Clubs and the ad visory board of the N. C. State Board of Correction and Train ing. Sandpipers Set Sunday Tourney The newly reorganized Sand pipers golfing organization at the Southern Pines Country Club will stage its first tournament Sunday, with about 65 players expected to take part. Dr. Boyd Starnes, president of the group, said that the board of directors decided Wednesday night to hold a tournament on the first Sunday of each month, to b? followed by a dinner meeting on the second following Wednesday. Although the Sandpipers’ for mal membership campaign closes today, new members will be wel comed before and after Sunday’s tournament, he said. Listing of real and personal property for county and town taxes will start throughout the county Saturday. Mrs. Estelle T. Wicker, county tax supervisor, said that property must be listed in January and that a 10 per cent penalty would be charged against persons fail ing to list. Failing to list is a misdemeanor, with penalties pro vided by law. Mrs. Irene Mullinix, who lives at Vass and is the Vass town clerk, is the McNeills Township list taker for property within the town limits of Southern Pines only. Mrs. Don J. Blue of Carth age, Route 3, is the list taker for McNeills Township property out side of Southern Pines. Mrs. Mullinix has announced that starting Monday, she will be in the former MiUiken building, now the Town Information Cen ter, through January 30 from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except on Thurs days and Saturdays, when she will be at the Vass town hall. Persons listing property should enter the building through the Pennsylvania Ave. entrance. 'The Information Center entrance is on Broad St. Mrs. Adelaide Schnell of Pine- bluff is the Sandhills Township list taker. For the convenience of Southern Pines area persons with property in Sandhills township, she will be in the Information Center building all day on Tues day, January 12 and until noon on Wednesday, January 13. Each Monday, Wednesday and Satur day afternoon she will be at the Pinebluff town hall. Mrs. Schnell will be at the Ad- dor post office Tuesday, January 5; at Myrtle’s Place in Jackson Hamlet Thursday, January 7; and at Patterson’s Store in Rose- land Saturday, January 9. She will be at Carter’s Laundry in Aberdeen January 15 through 30. Piedmont Adding 2 More Flights Effective January 5, Piedmont Airlines which serves the South- •ern Pines-Pinehurst Airport, will restore westbound Flight 305— which was eliminated earlier this year—and will add another east- bound flight, it was announced this week. A company spokesman said that the new schedule gives the airport twq flights in each direc tion each day, for a total of four flights. With the addition of the new flights, departure time of (former flights also will change. The new schedule of departure i times, in full, follows: Flight 355, westbound, 11:40 a. m. Flight 305, westbound, 5:21 p. m. Flight 300, eastbound, 2:47 p. m. Flight 354, eastbound, 5.52 p. m. WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES A TOWN? Top Local News Stories Of 1959 Recalled What is it that makes •a com munity more than just a lot of houses with families in them? Everybody likes to think his community is different, special. Is it, really? People going -through Southern Pines on the train look out the windows and say: ‘‘This is that green town; that pretty town.” We’ve heard them say it. And probably they look up the streets as the train moves slowly through and wonder about the people who live here. Maybe some of them think they’d like to live here, and maybe now and th-en, some of them do come back and settle in one of those houses on a street bordered with pines and syca mores and flowering dogwood trees. There hav-s been many reasons, of course, behind the decisions that brought us all here to live, starting from way back when, to the early settlers, the two hills of the town sheltered a sweet sunny valley with a stream meander ing through the fertile bottom land. Some of their descendants are still here, folks who, over the years, with their ups and downs, have resisted the lure of grass that may have looked greeney in a northern or a city pasture, to keep their roots deep in the soil of this particular spot. A look at what life is like here —such as the following brief sur vey of the news of 1959-— doesn’t tell the story. Not really. Other places can boast of progress, of new industry, of new fine people coming to live, new buildings go ing up; and other places have their full share of the rows, ac cidents, the crime, the mysteries, the tragedies that haunt all hu man existence. Other places, too —although perhaps we like to think that in this field Southern Pines is slightly unique—have their share of ■"eharacters” fantas tic, outlandish, troublesome, be guiling, with a saving slice of clowns and near-lunatics. In oth er towns the main body of the people are just like us: good, bad and indifferent, saints and sin ners. And still do we feel we are just a little different? Well. . . The following brief account of the past year, drawn from the items that made Pilot headlines, tells a story but not THE story. The story that is the real woof and web of the make-up and Ife of Southern Pines is perhaps a matter of feelings more than it is of facts. And, although newspa pers are not supposed to concern themselves too much with feel ings, we venture to suggest that in the feelings that make up this town’s being there is a good deal of that certain thing that is sup posed to make the world go round. So here is a part, just a part, of 1959. As 1960 beckons Over our shoulders—and that “our” in cludes all the people who work on this newspaper—we say: “Happy New Year, Southern Pines!” Dedication of the newly com pleted municipal center in Jan uary opened the year 1959 with what Mayor W. E. Blue called “a new milestone in the civic prog ress of the community.” State Treasurer Edwin Gill was here for a dedication speech. In February came news that continued to provide headlines throughout 1959: decision of the Trimble company, manufacturers of baby furniture and play equip ment, to locate a manufacturing plant here. The story progresses through letting of a contract and (Continued on page 8)
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