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EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Point-To-Point
Race To Be Held
Here Saturday
Webb, Riding This
Year, Has Two Legs
On The Walsh Cup
Saturday at two o’clock will s&c
the start of the first horserace of
the season—horserace in the ama
teur sense. The event, a point-to-
point, is sponsored by the Moore
County Hounds, and will start
and finish at Mile-Away Farm,
the home of the joint master, W.
O. Moss.
Entries must be qualified hunt
ers and the field will follow a
course of eight or nine milds over
.Ql rolling fields and woodland—
much the sane as that followed
in similar events in the past. The
start and finish, in the big field
back of the stable (now p'-med
the ‘‘Buchan” field) is so arrang
ed as to afford a fine view to the
large audience that generally
gathers for these sporting affairs.
From there, the course will
run more or less south-east to the
second “point,” near the three
^ bridges at the mail road, then to
the Notre Dame gatehouse, con
tinuing in a large circle through
the fields near the High House,
residence of General and Mrs. A.
V. Arnold; across the woodland
to the lake and on to the old
Olive place, now Tremont Farms.
Here there will be another oppor
tunity, for a “view” by the car-
borne. A line back across Young’s
♦ Rbad and on into the Mile—away
tract again will bring the riders
back to the fii>ish.
Judges are stationed at each
“point” to pass on the condition
of the entries and hand each one
a chip which must be turned in at
the finish to register that each
one stayed the course.
With Richard Webb, who has
two legs on the cup, among the
^ iiders, competition is exp-ected
^ to be doubly keen. The cup is
the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Haley
Walsh of Southern Pines and
Como, Quebec. Mr. Webb’s time
in last year’s race w£is 48-32.
As a wind-up to the big day, a
supper-dance will be staged at
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Survey Looks To
Lutheran Service
In Moore Area
A survey is currently underway
to determine the number of Luth
erans, former Lutherans, or other
persons interested in establishing
a Lutheran Church service in the
, Moore County area, it was an-
9 nounced today by Pastor Lester
Roof, pastor of the Trinity Luth
eran Church, Sanford.
Pastor Roof stated that the re
sults of the survey will help to
determine the beginning of Luth
eran services in this area.
Anyone interested in attending
the initial planning meeting of
this group is asked to write or
telephone Pastor Roof at Sanford;
^ Luther A. Adams, Southern Pines;
^ or Raeford Wells, Aberdeen.
Pastor Roof stated that the first
meeting of the planning group
will be held on Thursday, January
28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Civic Club,
Southern Pines.
Classes In Home
Nursing To Begin
On February 23
Classes in home nursing and
care of the injured and sick will
begin Tuesday, February 23, to
continue on Tuesdays and Fridays
through March 15, it was an
nounced today by Mrs. Audrey
K. Kennedy, executive secretary
of the Moore County Red Cross
% Chapter.
Mrs. Kennedy said that the
course will consist of seven two-
hour classes, at St. Joseph of the
Pines Hosptal. There will be no
charge.
Persons who wish to enroll in
the course are asked to call the
Red Cross office, OXford 2-8571.
Sponsored by the Red Cross,
the course will be taught by qual-
ified persons who have not yet
been chosen.
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Ben Owen Examines Jugiown Stamp
TO BE RESCHEDULED
Jugtown Hearing Not Held
Close-up View
Local Bank Sets
Deposits Record;
Officers Elected
The reporting of an increase in
deposits, putting them above $5,-
000,000 for the first time, and the
showing of a satisfactory and
liquid condition for the bank,
were highlights of the annual
meeting of the stockholders of
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company, held Tuesday afternoon.
Deposits of the bank have
shown a gradual and steady
growth during the year and at the
year end, exceeded $5,000,000 for
the first time on any statement
date, it was reported. The impor
tance of savings deposits to the
institution has been growing dur
ing the last several years, and
savings accounts and time certifi
cates of deposit together now ac
count for 37 per cent of total de
posits, it was revealed.
The annual report of the presi
dent, N. L. Hodgkins, to the
stockholders showed that loans
also have increased during the
year to $2,336,000 and are 45 per
cent of deposits.
United States Treasury and U.
S. Agency bonds owned are of
short maturity, none of them ma
turing later than 1964. They are
carried on the books of the bank
at within a fraction of 1 per cent
of present market prices.
Mr. Hodgkins paid tribute to
the effective work, during the
year of the directors, officers and
staff of the bank. He said that
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NO CONTRACTS YET
Bids on construction of the
West End branch of the Carolina
Bank were opened Thursday of
last week, but no contracts had
yet been awarded today (Thurs
day), accordng to infosynation
from the office of Thomas T.
Hayes, Jr., and Associates, local
architectural firm ' that designed
the proposed building.
A claim and delivery hearing,
in wliich P. H. Wilson, Carthage
attorney and guardian of Mrs.
Juliana Busbee, seeks possession
of a stamp or seal that was for
merly used to identify products
of the Jugtown pottery in upper
Moore County, was not held
Tuesday morning, but will be re
scheduled.
Ben Owen, former Jugtown
potter, who now has the stamp,
and Mr. Wilson were present, at
the office of Charles M. McLeod,
justice of the peace, in Carthage,
but Mr. Owen’s attorney, HL F.
Seawell, Jr., was out of town.
Participants had received ad
vance notice that Mr. Seawell
would not be there.
Mr. McLeod continued the
hearing to a date that will be
set in a conference of the attor
neys.
Mr. Owen had with him the
[Controversial stamp, a round
brass instrument with a wooden
handle, with which the words
“Jugtown Ware” were stamped
on pieces produced at the pottery
established and operated for
many years by the late Jacques
Bushes and his wife, Mrs. Juli
ana Busbee.
Mr. Owen who now operates
his own pottery at his home on
Route 705, about six miles north
of Robbins, near Westmoore
School, was a Jugtown potter for
35 years. The stamp he has is
smoothed and worn by much use.
Jugtown is now the property of
a corporation, Jacques and Juli
ana Busbee’s Jugtown, Inc., form
ed by Mrs. Busbee and John Mare
of Southern Pines. Mrs. Busbee
has since then been legally de
clared incompetent and the guar-
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Teen-agers Get
Prison Term For
Highway Antics
Young Soldiers To
Face Larceny Trial
In Cumberland Co.
Two teen-age soldiers from
Fort Bragg were each sentenced
to two months on the roads, in
Southern Pines Recorder’s Court
Wednesday morning, for behav
ior on the Fort Bragg road that
terrified two women motorists be
tween 1 and 2 a. m. Monday.
Investigation by Southern
Pines police, on complaint of the
women, proved that the car in
which toe two youths were riding
had been stolen in Fayetteville
about midnight the same night.
The pair now faces trial in Cum
berland Superior Court on an
auto larceny charge.
Sentenced by Judge W. Harry
Fullenwider Wednesday were
Douglas L. Van Lue, 17, driver of
the stolen car, who was charged
with having no operator’s license
and with careless and reckless
driving that endangered persons
and property; and Robert T. Fer
ris, 19, charged with aiding and
abetting Van Lue.'
Local Police Sergeant Earl Sea-
Well said that about 1:30 a. m.
Monday Mrs. lola Scott and her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Sylvia
Scott of Candor, stopped at the
corner of New Hampshire Ave.
and N. W. Broad St., where the
police car was parked, occupied
by Sergeant Seawell and Officer
Charles Wilson. Mrs. lola Scott
was driving the 1957 Plymouth
in which the two women were
riding.
They told toe local officers tha^,
for nearly the entire way acro^
the Fort Bragg reservation, on
the road to Southern Rines, two
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Cerebral Palsy
Drive Going On
The United Cerebral Palsy “53
Minute March” opened in South
ern Pines Tuesday to run through
tomorrow (Friday).
Dr. Charles Phillips and Luther
A. Adams are heading the local
effort in the nation-wide fund
drive taking place this week.
Mrs. Betty Craven is in charge
of the “women’s march”—a
house-to-house canvass in res-
dential areas.
Tom Ruggles and E. C. Stevens
are collecting in the business sec
tion.
The ‘'‘53 Minute” campaign
theme denotes that for the nation
as a whole, a child with cerebral
palsy is born every 53 minutes.
More than 600^000 men, women
and children are now affected.
The disease is a lifetime afflic
tion for which there is no known
cure. The United Cerebral Palsy
Associations, Inc., with which the
local drive is affiliated, has a
goal of $11 million in the current
campaign, to expand its research
‘and rehabilitation programs.
Trimble Executive
Now Living Here
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard C. Ochs
arrived in Southern Pines Sat
urday from Rochester, N. Y., their
former home, and are living at
the Ormsby apartments, 490 E.
Indiana Ave.
Mr. Ochs is purchasing agent
with Trimble Products, Inc.,
whose new plant here will pro
duce baby furniture and chil
dren’s recreation equipment. He
had a similar position with the
Trimble operation at Rochester.
He and his wife, Mrs. Dorothy
E. Ochs, will attend St. Anthony’s
Catholic Church in Southern
Pines.
HORSE SHOW SUNDAY
First informal horse show of
the year will take place Sunday
afternoon at Mrs. Mary Doyle’s
Economy Farm” on Youngs
Road, near Southern Pines. The
show is open to the public.
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ADDISON HEWLETT. JR.
Hewlett Urges
Citizen Interest
In Government
Problems of North Carolina in
education, road work, industrial
expansion and citizens’ interest in
government were discussed be
fore the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
Wednesday by Addison Hewlett,
Jr., of Wilmington, who is con
sidered an unannounced candidate
for Governor in the Democratic
primary in May.
The club, was meeting for its
regular luncheon session, at the
Hollywood Hotel here. Ralph
Chandler, Jr., newly installed
president, presided.
The Wilmington attorney, who
has bean a member of the General
Assmbly since 1951 and was
Speaker of the House in the 1959
session, was introduced by W. La
ment Brown, Kiwanian and chair
man of the Moore County Demo
cratic Executive Committee.
Mr. Hewlett, who has been
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Group Meets To
Make Camp Plans
Basic work on the crippled
children’s camp to be built near
Southern Pines was discussed
here Friday by the camp commit
tee and E. J. Austin of Southern
Pines, the architect.
Committee members attending
were J. Preston Wrenn of Char
lotte, chairman; Albin Pikutis,
executive secretary of the North
Carolina Socity for Crippled Chil
dren and Adults, CJhapel Hill;
Bernie Passer, physiotherapist
associated with the Society,
Chapel Hill; Dr. John ..Baluss,
Fayetteville orthopedic surgeon;
and Mrs. Graham Culbreth of
Southern Pines.
The group visited the camp site,
a half mile out of town, north of
Knollwood, and discussed loca
tion and type of buildings.
Mrs. Eveline E. Jacobs of Chi
cago, professional consultant for
the national Society, who came
her to see the site, was “most
impressed” with it, Mrs. Culbreth
said.
Committee Proposes
Alternate No. 1 Route
Pennsylvania
TEW ELECTED AS
NEW FIRE CHIEF
Meeting last Thursday night,
local volunteer firemen elected
James Albert Tew chief of the
department. He succeeds Harold
B. Fowler who has served for the
past eight years.
Other officers elected are: A. D.
Hurst, assistant chief; Yates Poe,
company captain; Fred Hall, Jr.,
truck captain; and F. H. Kay lor
who was reelected secretary and
treasurer, a post he has held for
20 years.
R. W. Tate, secretary of the fire
men’s relief fund, made his an
nual report.
Under State law, a fire chief
is appointed by the town council,
but it is customary here for the
volunteers to elect a chief who
is then approved by toe counefl.
The council, at its meeting this
week, had not been informed of
the election, but is expected to
consider toe appointment at its
February meeting.
Fowler Praised
By Couneil For
Fire Dept. Work
Harold B. Fowler, retiring chief
of the Southern Pines volunteer
fire department, made his report
for 1959 to the town council Tues
day night and was thanked and
congratulated by the council,
through Mayor Pro Tern Jimmy
Hobbs, for the “fine job” he and
the department have done in the
past year and during his eight
years as chief.
In an election by the volunteers
last week, James Albert Tew
was named chief for 1960.
Highlights of the report:
Estimated property loss in 1959
was $18,050, as compared with
about $27,000 in 1958.
There were 47 alarms, inclu
ding: 25 brush, trash or grass
fires, 13 in dwellings, five in gar
ages, two in night clubs or res
taurants, five vehicular (auto,
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Ave., May St.
Use Favored
The town Advertising Commit
tee’s proposal for an alternate No.
1 highway route through town
was placed before the council
Tuesday night, but the council—
with two of its five members not
present—took no action on it.
Commitjtee members present
ing the proposal were Ward Hill
and George H. Leonard, Jr.
Mr. Leonard said that after ses
sions of committee members and
consultation with State Highway
representatives, the committee is
recommending these routes:
Northbound: entering from the
No. 1 highway parkway on Penn
sylvania Ave., east on Pennsyl
vania to May and north on May
(old No. 1 highway) to the inter
section with new No. 1, north of
Manly.
Southbound: the reverse of the
northbound route.
The committee also is request
ing that the town establish four
short-time (12 or 15 minute)
parking spaces on Pennsylvania
near East Broad, to allow visit
ors to park and visit the Infor
mation Center more easily. The
committee recommends two such
spaces on each side of the street
through which both northbound
and southbound Alternate No. 1
traffic would be passing.
One advantage of the route, it
was pointed out is that it does not
pass any local school. Chief aim
of the route, Mr. Leonard said,
is to get visitors to the Informa
tion Center at the corner of S. E.
Broad and Pennsylvania.
In order to get an Alternate
No. 1 designation, the council
must make a recommendation to
the State Highway Commission.
Once officially designated), the
route will be placed on oil com
pany road maps. It is not expect
ed to carry any great volume of
traffic, but would afford a mark
ed route for the leisurely travel
er wanting to see toe town, shop,
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‘Miracle Home’ Turned Over To Family
“I prayed a bit last night for
fair weather today, and it’s the
most beautiful day of my life,”
said Charlie Thompson, 51, as he
was carried on a stretcher into
his new “miracle” home at Put
nam Wednesday morning.
Ten days before, the land on
which it stood was a bare lot.
Since the foundation was laid De
cember 31, a neat white five-room
cottage had arisen, with wiring
and plumbing, space heater, mod
ern bath and kitchen, numerous
pieces of furniture, Venetian
blinds and draperies, a chest full
of new linens and a large stock of
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FAMILY MOVES — Chetrlie Thompson is car
ried on stretcher into new home, built by friends
and neighbors. At his head may be glimpsed
his wife holding their three-year-old daughter
Tinka. Charlie, Jr., nine, and Becky, seven,
were at school when the family moved. At right.
some of the crowd on hand to put finishing
touches on the home and greet toe Thompsons.
At left, their married children—^Mr. and Mrs.
Stoney Thompson of Raeford, Mrs. Pat Carlyle
and Mrs. Shirley Caviness of the Putnam com
munity. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
food, including many home-can
ned items.
The home was vastly different
from the tumbldown granary, on
a rundown farm, on a dead-end
road, where the Thompsons had
been living since November.
Thompson, an electrician, w£is
stricken with a criticad disease
the week before Thanksgiving.
The old granary, where his wife
and three young children slept in
what had been a comcrib, be
came the refuge of the desitute
family. It was a home Santa Claus
would have a hard time finding.
A news story by Charlie Man
ning, Troy reporter, in the Greens
boro Daily News called attention
to the family’s plight.
Then came the “miracle”—or a
series of them. First, food, toys
and money arrived from all over
toe State to brighten the family’s
Christmas.
Then, the day after Christmas,
Jim Pollok, president of the Rob
bins Merchants association, call
ed the directors together in spec
ial meeting. Without a cent in
the treasury, they decided to
sponsor a home-building project.
Businesses, organizations and
individuals in Robbins and other
Moore communities, adjoining
counties and other parts of the
State made spontaneous response.
Money, materials, services and
labor were generously contribut
ed without solicitation.
It could be called the “miracle
of Robbins,” for Robbins mer
chants, churches and citizens took
the lead in getting the job quick
ly and well done.
About 50 persons were on hand
as the Thompson family moved in
Monday. The Rev. H. R. Helms,
pastor of the Robbins Pilgrim
Church, asked a blessing on the
new house.
WATCH FOUND
Mrs. Stanley Lamboume, li
brarian, has a wrist watch drop
ped on the floor of the library
Monday. The owner may claim it
at the library.