VOL. 40—NO. 9
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1960
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‘Young Man of Year’ Award Will Be
Made by Jaycees; Jordan to Speak
SEN. JOHN R. JORDAN, JR.
Savings and Loan
Assets Reported
At All-Time High
Assets of Southern Pines Sav
ings and Loan Association in
creased by a record $385,337.89,
or 47.597 per cent in 1959, reach
ing the all-time high figure of $1,-
194, 919.93 at year’s end, Lloyd L.
Woolley, president, reported to
day.
Mr. Woolley said in the insti
tution’s. annual report that de
spite intense competition for sav
ings and the tightest hom.3 credit
market in many years. Southern
Pines Savings and Loan Associ
ation made “important gams on
the thrift and home financing
fronts in 1959.”
He said that many individuals
and families continued and even
stepped up the savings programs
started to offset possible financial
ill-«ffects of the 1958 recession.
He added that this continued
high level of savings, coupled
with ever-increasing repayments
on loans previously , made, en
abled the Association to meet the
vastly increased demand for
home loans that occurred in the
community as the business cli
mate improved.
Following are the highlights of
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Marketing Gets
Attention from
Peach Growers
Meeting at the Carolina Hotel
in Pinehurst Tuesday, Tar Heel
peach growers were told that a
better marketing program was
one of their greatest needs.
The group voted to hold a ref
erendum this spring to determine
whether commercial growers are
willing to assess themselves a
small amount per tree for the
purpose of promoting and adver
tising their crop.
Ap assessment program was in
effect from 1956 through 1958.
But a proposed levy of 114 cents
per tree for 1959-61 failed by a
few votes to obtain the necessary
two-thirds majority in a referen
dum last year.
New Officers
H. Page McAulay of Candor
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The Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce will make
its Distinguished Service Award
Friday at a Hollywood Hotel
banquet beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The occasion will also mark
“Bosses’ Night” when the young
businessmen will entertain ‘ their
employers, and the nation-wide
observance of Jaycee Week, Janu
ary 17-23.
State Sen. John R. Jordan, Jr.,
Raleigh attorney, will be the ban
quet speaker.
The Distinguished Service
Award will be given to a young
man, 21 through 35 years of ajge,
whose identity is unknown even
to the Jaycees until the award is
made. It recognizes service to the
community and other achieve
ments during the year 1959.
Presentation wiU be made by
W. Lament Brown, chairman of
a committee of five local business
and professional men over the
Jaycee age limit of 35.
The winner will be known as
“Young Man of the Year” in Sou
thern Pines.
Also to be recognized at the
banquet with awards are Mr. and
Mrs. Wendell A. Wathen of Fair
way Drive, winner of the Jaycee-
sponsored Christmas home deco
rating and lighting contest, and
Mrs. J. N. Steed, proprietor of the
Steed Realty Co., winner of the
commercial division of. the deco
rating contest,
« Presentation of a handsome
plaque to the DSA winner will
mark the third annual conferring
of the award. Winner two years
ago was Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.
A year ago, the award went to
Curtis Everette who died last No
vember.
Thomas Ruggles, Jaycee secre
tary, is in charge of the program.
Paul Boroughs, Jr., is president
of the Jaycees.
Judges made their choice from
nominations which were solicited
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102 for S. Pines,
20 for Aberdeen
In Voters’ Poll
In the town’s survey of how
many persons livng in nearby
areas of the Aberdeen voting pre
cinct would like to vote in South
ern Pines and how many would
like to continue voting in
Aberdeen, replies received up to
this morning show 102 for voting
in Southern Pines and 20 for vot
ing in Aberdeen.
Louis Scheipers, Jr., town man
ager, urged that all households
receiving the cards return them
to town haU. About 190 cards
were sent out to households with
an estimated 400 p-ersons eligible
to vote.
The poll was requested by the
town council, after many persons
living in th§ Aberdeen voting-
precinct, which adjoins Southern
Pines on the south and even in
cludes some persons living in
Southern Pines, had requested
that the precinct line be changed
so that they could vote here.
The poll coincides with a study
of the overloaded condition of
Southern Pines precinct, with a
view to dividing it into two pre
cincts.
Persons living in the area in
volved, who did not receive cards
in the mail, can get them at town
hall.
THE WINNER — Miss Sandy Glyn, center, holds Victor Val
iant, the W. O. Moss horse she rode to first place in Saturday’s
point-to-point race sponsored by the Moore County Hounds, as
she receives the Enid Walsh ChaUenge Cup from Mrs. Harley
Walsh. Mrs. Walsh and her husband are donors of the trophy.
(Humphrey photo)
Miss Sandy Glyn Wins Point-to-Point
Race as Webb Finishes Back in Field
Carmen’ to Open
Season of Music
Assn, on Jan. 28
Grass Roots Opera
Company to Present
Opera in English
The concert season of the Sand
hills Music Association will open
Thursday night, January 28, with
a presentation of Bizet’s “Car
men” by the National Grass Roots
Opera Company.
The opening event, like three
others to follow in late winter and
spring, will take place in Weaver
Auditorium, at 8:30 p. m.
Individual concert and season
tickets are available at the Bar-
num Realty and Insurance -Com
pany and will be on sale at the
door. The Music Association is
currently conducting a campaign
for rqembership and season ticket
sales. Membership in the Associa
tion is county-wide, with a mem
bership and ticket chairman in
each town of the county.
Students in any school of the
county are admitted at a special
reduced fee for both individual
concert and season tickets.
The National Grass Roots
Opera Company, is now in its
11th year of bringing live opera
in English as enjoyable enter
tainment to the American public.
In their home state of North Car
olina and on their national tours
the young professional singers
bring this fine form of music
theatre to many towns and col
leges that are missed by the
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Month’s End Deadline
On Tax Matters Noted
Richard D. Webb of New York
Cify and Southern Pines lost his.
chance for permanent possession
of the Enid Walsh Challenge Cup
Saturday afternoon when ' he
finished far back in the field of
the Moore County Hounds’ point-
to point raos—an 8.3 miles run
that began and ended at Mr. and
Mirs. W. O. Moss’s Mile-Away
Farm.
Leading the field of 21 riders
at the finish was Miss Sandy
Glyn of Greens Farms, Conn.,
who is spending the hunt season
with Mr. and Mrs. Moss. Her time
was 34 minutes flat. h-
Mr. Webb, with two past wins,
has two legs on the perpetual
trophy presented by Mr. and Mrs.
H. E. Walsh of Southern Pines
and Como, Quebec.
Miss Carol Coffin of Southern
Pines duplicated her performance
of last year in winning the junior
trophy, for riders 16 years of age
and under, coming in sixth in the
entire field. She was seventh, and
first in the juniors, in 1959.
Second place among the senior
CHAIRMAN NAMED
Jr. Frank McCaskill of Pine
hurst, county chairman of the
March of Dimes campaign, said
this week that J. C. Hasty, mem
ber of the faculty at West South
ern Pines school, is serving as
March of Dimes chairman in West
Southern Pines.
riders went to Mrs. Pat VanCamp
of Southern Pines. Young Mickey
Walsh finished third, just ahead
of Mrs. Warner L. Atkins of Pine
hurst. i
A dozen youngsters rode in the
junior division, only one a boy.
The youngest rider was eleven.
All horses were reported ui fine
condition at the finish where the
judges were Dooley Adams, W. O.
Moss and Dr. J. I. Neal. Mr.
Adams also officiated as starter
and placer.
Other judges stationed at vari
ous points around the course
were:
Three Bridges on the Old Mail
Road—Mrs. Sarah Stillwell, Sav
annah, Ga. and S. C. Clyburn,
Camden, S. C.
Gatehouse at Notre Dame es
tate—Mr. and Mrs. Harley Walsh,
Southern Pines.
Lake at Notre Dame—Mrs. A.
Corbett Alexander, Pinehurst and
William J. Stratton, Southern
Pines.
“High House”— Mrs. Nancy
Sweet-Escott, Southern Pines and
Newton Mayo, Richmond, Va.
“Tremont Farm”—^Mrs. Newton
Mayo and Frank Adams, New
York City.
Laundry House at Notre Dame
—Mrs. Eleanor O’Neill, Skanea-
teles, N. Y. and Corbett Alexan
der.
“Paddock, Jr.”—Mrs. Frank
Adams and Mrs. Jane McNeal,
I Savannah, Ga. ,
Investigation of
Armed Robbery Is
Being Continued
Investigation continued today
in the armed robbery of the How
ard Johnson Motor Lodge which
took place about 10:50 p.m. Sun
day.
Early this afternoon, a spokes
man at the sheriff’s office in Car
thage said that there was at that
time nothing new to announce
about the investigation.
Mrs. Gfeorge Burns, desk clerk,
told Deputy Sheriff J. A. Law
rence that a young man carrying
a pistol and wearing gloyes and a
mask made from a black stocking
took a cash box containing $50 in
bills and silver.
In the course of the robbery,
[ the man slapped Mrs. Burns on
'the face and she hit him on the
head with a small metal contain
er she snatched up from the coun
ter behind which she was stand
ing.
The holdup took place in the
brightly-lighted, glassed-in of
fice of the lodge, beside the en
trance driveway, and only about
75 fest from busy US Highway
1, between Southern Pines and
Aberdeen. Guests that night were
mostly in«the back units, out of
sight of the lodge, and the How-
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TERRY SANFORD
Sanford Greeted
At Carthage on
Visit to County
Nearly 100 Moore County citi
zens, drawn by word-of-mouth
publicity, accorded a warm wel-
coir.s to Terry Sanford of Fay
etteville Wednesday afternoon
at the Carthage Legion Hut.
The meeting was part of the
100-county grass-roots tour un
dertaken by Sanford, whose
forth-coming caniiidacy for gov
ernor is the state’s worst-kept
secret.
Any lingering doubts were dis
pelled as he told the group, “We
have made the decision and there
will be no backing down.” He
said he would make a formal an
nouncement no later than Febru
ary 4, set up a headquarters no
later than February 10, then “the
campaign will be on and we will
be ready to go.”
He was presented by John D.
McConnell, attorney of Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, and brief
ly outlined his program to the
gathering which formed a cross-
section of the county, from the
Sandhills resorts to Carthage,
Cameron, Robbins and the rural
areas.
Public education will be his
“dominant theme,” he said, based
on “a sound economy of balanced
industrial and agricultural devel
opment.”
Moore County was always -a
Kerr Scott stronghold and Bob
Scott of Haw River, touring with
the Sanford party, received a
warm welcome on his own. Oth
ers in the group were Bert Ben
nett of Winston-Salem, who San
ford indicated would be his cam
paign', manager; Wilson Wood-
house of Currituck, in charge of
youth organization, and W. W.
Staton, Sanford attorney.
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AT CAMPOREE CEREMONY
Storey Cup Award Set for Saturday
Moore County Boy Scouts have
a big week-end coming up.
Scouts from troops over the
county will open their winter
camporee at the D. C. Blue hunt
ing preserve at Roseland Friday
afternoon, with a full slate of ac
tivities culminating Saturday
night in a campfire court of honor
and presentation of the Storey
Cup to the troop having the best-
all-around record in Scouting
during the past year.
The cup is given annually by
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines
^ memory of his step-father, the
late W. M. ' Storey of Winston-
Salem.
There will be an Eagle Scout
award and rank advancements
and merit badge awards at the
iOf,
court of honor, reports J. Douglas
David of Pinebluff, Moore district
advancement chairman.
Also to be presented are:
The District Chairman’s Cup
for the Explorer Post that had the
best program in 1959 and the Dis
trict Commissioner’s Cup to the
Cub Scout pack with the best
1959 record in the county.
While the full camporee is for
Scouts, Explorers and Cubs are
especially invited to attend the
court of honor.
Parents of all the boys, and the
public, are invited.
J. B. Perkinson of Southern
Pines is the Moore District
(County) Scouting chairman. Dr.
J. C. (Jrier, Jr., of Pinehurst is
the District Commissioner.
EAGLE SCOUT — Lin Dunn, 14-year-old
.member of Boy' Scout Troop 222, wears an Eagle
Scout badge presented to him immediately after
the morning service at the First Baptist Church
on Sunday. The church is sponsor of the troop.
At left are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Dunn of Southern Pines. Behind Lin is his
scoutmaster, Raymond Wilson. At right is J. E.
Sandlin of Southern Pines, past district Boy
Scout chairinan who presented the award.
(Humphrey photo)
Poe Heads Local
Firemen’s Relief
Fund Committee
Bryan Poe was elected chair
man of the local Firemen’s Relief
Fund Committee in a meeting of
the group held at the municipal
center this morning.
Mr. Poe replaces'the late Frank
Wilson as committee chairman.
In this morning’s election, Stan
ley Dunn was chosen secretary
and treasurer, replacing R. W.
Tate who has held the post for
many years.
Other members of the commit
tee are Frank Viall, Ralph Mills
and Town Manager Louis Schei
pers, Jr.
The committee, administers
funds used to give financial aid
in emergencies to volunteer fire
men and retired and “honorary”
firemen. •
The funds come from money
seht back to the town from the
office of State Insurance Com
missioner Charles Gold. Funds
originate from portions of fire in
surance premiums paid by resi
dents of the community.
Two of the committee members,
Mr. Scheipers and Mr. Mills, were
appointed by the town council;
two, Mr. Poe and Mr. Viall, are
named by the volunteer firemen;
and one, Mr. Dunn, by the state
insurance commissioner, Mr. Gold.
4- The end of January marks two
important deadlines for taxpay
ers, county and town officials
point out.
Both the county and towns
throughout the county, including
Southern Pines, will start to im
pose penalties on 1959 taxes paid
after January 31.
Through January, town and
county taxes for 1959 are payable
at par, with neither discount nor
penalty.
January 31 is also the deadline
for listing real and personal prop
erty for 1960 taxes, notes Mrs.
Estelle T. Wicker, fhe county tax
supervisor. The adtual deadline
is January 30, because January
31 falls on a Sunday.
List takers are at work daily
in all 10 townships of the county.
Property must be listed even if
there is no change in its value
from the previous year. Residents
of the county who own no real
estate must list automobiles (this
listing is later cross-checked with
the State Motor Vehicles Depart
ment) and other personal proper
ty.
Towns in the county taka their
property valuations for taxation
from the county’s lists.' Listing
for the county, therefore, auto
matically lists for the town.
There are two tax listers for
McNeill Township in which
Southern Pines is located. Mrs.
Irene Mullinix who lists only pro
perty of parsons living within
the city limits of Southern Pines,
is at the Information Center
building, corner of Pennsylvania
Ave. and S. E. Broad St. from 9
a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, except on
Thursdays and Saturdays when
she will be at the Vass town hall.
She is the Vass town clerk. Per
sons entering the building to list
property are asked to use the
Pennsylvania Ave. entrance.
Mrs. Don J. Blue of Carthage,
route, (between Vass and Carth
age) lists McNeill property out
side Southern Pines.
Mrs. Adelaide Schnell of Pine-
bluff, Sandhill Township list
taker, with whom many residents
of an area adjoining Southern
Pines on the south must list, is
at Carter’s Laundry in Aberdeen,
through January 30 from 9 a. m.
to 5 p. m. daily, except on Mon
day, Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons, when she will be at
the Pinebluff town hall.
Like Mrs. Mullinix at Vass,
Mrs. Schnell is town clerk of
Pinebluff and must be available
to townspeople for town services,
as well as for tax listing, at cer
tain times during the week.
List takers for the other town
ships of. the county, all of whom
have publicly posted their listing
places and hours in their commu
nities, are:
Carthage—Mrs. J. M. Lane of
Carthage; Bensalem, Mrs. Nina
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Camp Project to
Get $1,000 from
Easter Seal Sale
Officers of the Moore County
Easter Seal Society, meeting last
Thursday night, made basic plans
for the 1960 Easter Seal Campaign
and voted to pay $1,000 to the
Camp Development Committee
for use at the crippled children’s
camp to be built near Southern
Pines.
The meeting was held at the
Amerotron office building in Ab
erdeen with the Society’s presi
dent, Frank R.-Gramelsbach, pre
siding. Others present were Mrs.
Florence B. Baird of Aberdeen,
secretary; Mrs. Graham Culbreth
of Southern Pines, Service Com
mittee chairman; Dr. Emily Tufts
of Pinehurst, medical advisor; and
Mrs. S. R. Smith of Vass, publicity
director.
Reporting for the treasurer,
Mrs. Sherwood Brockwell, Jr., of
Southern Pines, who was unable
to attend, Mrs. Culbreth told the
group that $1,273.11 had been
spent during the past fiscal year
to help 89 persons, 59 of whom
were children. The services in
cluded: X-ray program, speech
disorders, wheelchair service, or
thopedic purchases and repairs to
same, clothing, drugs and physical
therapy.