RoWf'i Uiqh To IGIc Jnas' VOL. 40—NO. 13 EIGHTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Entries Piling Up ^ In Hunter Trials Set for Saturday First Class Called For 2 p.m. at Course Near Southern Pines The Moore County Hunter Trials will be held Saturday. That is the big excitement this week, with entries piling up as this newspaper goes to press. The place is the same: the roll ing stretch ot country between Scott’s Corners and the properties of General A. V. Arnold and Harry Vale, just off Young’s Road. Judges are Mr. and Mrs. George C. Clement, of Ligonier, Penn., i0i and John Cakebread, of Union- ville, Ontario. Dennis Crotty of Pinehurst will be the announcer. The first class is called for 2 p.m.: First Season Hunters. There' will be no opening parade of hounds. With a good many youngstej* anxious to take part, an ea^y course has been mapped out for them. Otherwise the trial course /a is much the same, including a variety of terrain and fences. Horses will leave the hilltop in pairs, one behind the other, change places at the halfway mark and finish coming up the hill, this time, over the same low fence in front of the spectators. Most spectacular event is ex pected to be the class,for hunt teams. More entries are coming in for this class than ever before, with twelve listed to date. How ever, of these twelve entries one is from the Sedgefield Hunt and a late report from that section was the wail: “Snow! We may not be able to make it as we can’t get out to exercise the horses.” Even without Sedgefield the ^ showing should be godd with well-matched horses and riders in fuU hunting regalia. Several , local teams are entered, from Camden, Tryon, Charlotte, Savannah and Virginia. A new feature at the Trials this year will be the presentation of the Field Hunter Trophy, made by the donors, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Walsh. The award goes, without further competition, to the hunter which has given the moSt com petent, safe, and, from all stand- points, most satisfactory perfor mance with the local pack during the past season. Judges comprise a small committee of regular fol lowers who have been in a posi tion to make this difficult deci sion. The Trials end with the award to the Champion Hunter, with all (Continued on page 8) ii® Wi Mm fv' W ^ W ill / ' v/r. / Worst Ice Storm in Memory Hits Sandhills, Causing Heavy Damage *■ Trees, Branches TREACHEROUS BEAUTY — There’ was beauty in the sleet and ice storm that hit the Sandhills last weekend, especially after the sun came out on Sunday, but it masked thousands of dollars worth of damage to public utilities and private property. Out of sight, at the right, in this view looking north on Weymouth Rogd from Orchard Road, is the Charles P. Cole property where more than a dozen pine trees were snapped off, one of them striking a corner of the house. Photo shows ice-laden wires and longleaf pine branches bent down with heavy coatings. Damage was heaviest in the Weymouth Heights area. (Pilot photo) ‘Best Possible’ Service Pledged By Airlines Head Lutheran Service Set Here Sunday A Lutheran church service will be conducted Sunday, Februsu-y 21, at 7:30 p. m., in the Civic Club building, by the Reverend Lester O. Roof, Jr., pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Sanford. Persons of Lutherain back ground 'and all other interested persons in this area are invited to attend. Tom Davis of Winston-Salem, also teams *president of Piedmont Airlines— the company furnishing air serv ice to the Pinehurst-Southern Pines airport—told a joint Ki- wanis-Rotary meeting at Mid Pines Club Wednesday that he feels confident the Civil Aeronau tics Board will grant Piedmont’s application for a north-south route that would serve the air port here. However, he anticipates that a final decision will not be made on this and other Piedmont route extension requests within, eight to 10 months and he qualified his prediction by saying he can’t def initely forecast the decision. The Piedmont president made it clear that the north-sputh route, scheduling of more flights here and all-year operation (Piedmont now discontinues its service here in the summer) depend on more business from this area and also on improvement of facilities at the airport. The air line has had less busi ness at Pinehurst-Southern Pines airport since adding two flights in January than it had previous ly, he revealed, but said that the flights would be retained and that a seasonal increase in busi ness is expected soon. As to airport improvement, (Continued on page 8) CLOSING MONDAY The post office and the Ctizens Bank and Trust Co. will close Monday in observance of Wash ington’s Birthday, a national hol iday, but other activities in town are expected to go on as usual. 'The post office will have its holi day schedule—^windows closed and no home delivery but mail will be processed as usual at the office. CAMELLIA SHOW A display of more than 50 varieties of Camellias grown by Harry M. Vale, Jr., of Youngs Road, will be bn view at the Sou thern Pines Library Friday and Saturday. Friday Operetta ‘Sell-Out’Noted The operetta, “White Gypsy,” to be presented' by the East Southern Pines Junior High School Friday night in Weaver Auditorium at 8:15 p. m., is a ‘ sell-out,” The Pilot was inform ed today. No' more tickets are available. Miss Charla Marcum will be the pianist for the presentation in which about 170 Junior High School students will take part, on the stage or in various other capacities. Hospital Changes Policy on Blood Given to Patients Failure to provide an adequate number of donors during the scheduled visits of the Red Cross Bloodmobile has brought about changes in the manner for ap proving transfusions at • Moore Memorial Hospital, according to Thomas R. Howerton, administra tor. Mr. Howerton stated this week that the change was adopted at the request of the Moore County Chapter of the American Red Cross, in an effort to increase the number of blood donations at each visit of the bloodmobile from the Red Cross Blood Bank at Charlotte. Effective immediately, a hospi tal patient can receive a transfu sion only after a Red Cross Credit Card—which has been issued to some member of the. immediate household of the patient ' and dated within the past six months .— has been presented to the hos pital (laboratory. If a credit card is not available from a member of the immediEite household of the patient, the patient or members of his family are responsible for having a pledge card signed by someone, agreeing to donate blood on the next visit of the bloodmobile, for each pint of blood required by the patient on a one-for-one basis. Provision has , been made to supply blood for a patient in an emergency on the signed request of the attending physician. Such r^uests win only be honored in real emergency situations and must be signed by the attending physician. A regularly scheduled opera tion of an elective nature does not qualify as an emergency and it has been strongly urged that sur geons do not schedule their oper ations until credit cards or pledge cards have been presented in an adequate number to take care of the blood requirements for the patient. When blood is issued under the (Ck)ntinued on page 5) 1*1 PUBLIC INVITED TO ARMORY DRILL ON SUNDAY National Guard Preparing for Test Alert Moore County’s National Guard porter learned: SOKOLOFF COMPOSITION ON PROGRAM Little Symphony Plays Here Feb. 25 With Violinist, Soprano as Soloists A composition by a young mu sician with Sandhills associations will be played for its first per formance Thursday evening, Feb-1 ruary 25, when the Little Sym phony of the North Carolina Sym- : phony Orchestra comes to Weav- | er Auditorium in Southern Pines. I ' The concert, to begin at 8:30 > p.m., is the second attraction in j L a series of four being presented j f' under the auspices of the Sand-, | hiUs Music Association. Tickets are available at Barnum Realty ^ ; and Insurance Co., Southern''' Pines, or from Music Association |, chairmen in communities through- j out the county. ,1 The music to have its initial orchestral performance is “Canti cle for String Orchestra” by Noel Sokoloff of Princeton, N. j. Mr. Sokoloff has visited the Sandhills with his wife, the former Nancy i ! (Conitinued on Page 5)^ I' NOEL SOKOLOFF company, with headquarters at the armory on Morganton Road here, faces one of its stiffest tests in the coming week—a week in which the Guard is in the spot light all over the nation, with Washington’s Birthday on Mon day designated as “Muster Day” to acquaint the public with the organization’s vital role in this, country’s life. The test will be “Operation Hornets’ Nest” in which the Guard company will be called out in a surprise alert which will in volve assembling at the armory, drawing equipment and being- dispatched for various simulated military duties in this area. Even the company commander, Capt. James E. Harrington, Jr., of Pinehurst, does not know when the alert will come. He has cau tioned the public in the Sandhills not to be alarmed if, day or night, there is a sudden bustle of mili tary activity hereabouts. Public Invited Meanwhile, plans for one of the company’s all-day Sunday drills are gbing forward for this com- i ing Simday, February 21i Cap tain Harrington invites the pub lic to come to the armory that day to see the men and equipment and to become better acquainted with aft organization that would jbe of inestimable value to the 'public in case of a military emer gency or national disaster—and an organization also whose annu al payroll in Moore County is the equivalent of a small industry and is therefore an important factor in the county’s economy. Recently, a Pilot reporter at tended a Sunday drill of the local National Guard company and saw and was told in detail about its 'operations. Here’s what this re- Full Time Job Master Sergeant Ralph Martin lives in Southern Pines, and works full time at the armory. His title during the week is Unit AST—^Administrative and Supply Technician. This imposing title covers a multitude of activities— maintenance of all unit records, including a thick folc(er of records on each of the 70 or more mem bers of the unit, filing and up dating of a four-shelf bookcase lull of Army Regulations and manuals, supply records covering hundreds of items ranging from (Continued on page A) BRIG. GEN. L. W. MILLER General Miller to Head 1960 Moore Red Cross Drive Brig. Gen. Lehman W. Miller wiE be chairman of the Moore County Red Cross Fund Campaign for 1960, it was announced today. The campaign wiU be conducted during the month of March. General Miller, familiarly known as “Duke,” graduated from the United States MiUtary Academy at West Point in the class of 1915. He retired ftom ac tive duty in 1946, and moved from Westminster, Md., to Southern Pines in 1956. While in Westmin ster, he was chairman of Red Cross Disaster Preparedness and Relief Committee. He is married to the former Dorothy Carter of Virginia, and they have two daughters, one of whom, Susan, is a ninth grade student in the local school. General Miller has had ap in teresting military career, totaEng 31 years of service in the Corps of Engineers. Among his several assignments were those of U. S. District Engineer at Jacksonville, Florida, Panama, Canal Zone, and*”*^”’ REVIEWING PLANS — With the local National Guard Arm ory on Morganton Road in the background. Battalion staff of ficers review plans and training with local company officers. Left to right: Capt. James E. Harrington, Jr., Pinehurst, com pany commander; Major Paul Dickson, Raeford, battaEon plans and training officer; 1st Lt. John W. Jones, Raeford, of the bat talion staff; and 1st Lt. Ralph E. Horner, Pinehurst, company executive officer. The military organization of the local National Guard company, and the part it plays in larger units, is explain ed in an accompanying article. Other photos on page “A” and. 16. (PUot photo) New Orleans. He was Chief of the U. S. MiEtary Mission to Brazil from 1940 to 1942. Just prior to his retirement he was executive assistant to the Foreign Liqmda- tion Commissioner in Washington. After retirement he served under the State Department as Foreign Liquidation Commissioner for Eastern South America. During World War II, he com manded Engineer Training Cen ters at Fort Bragg and Fort Sut ton, in North Carolina. General Miller is organizing his committees and teams for the Fund Campaign and from time to time wiE announce the names of his sub-chairmen. Tear Down Wires Over Large Area Southern Pines and a large area of Moore County to the west and south were still feeling the effects today of the 20th century’s worst sleet, ice and wind storm in this section. The storm hit this area Saturday. Damage to electric power and telephone lines, with consequent disruption of service, was called the worst to be caused by ice and wind in the memory of company officials. Sam Richardson, a resi dent of Southern Pines for more than 50 years, says the storm is the worst of its sort in his recol lection, in terms of general prop erty damage. Neither the Carolina Power & Light Co. nor the United Tele phone Company of the Carolinas could yet tally up today the cost of the storm to their companies, nor could they say yet exactly how many homes or persons had felt the effects of utility disrup tions. Carolina Power and Light Company estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 customers were without electricEy at the peak of the storm trouble. As if to let the town know that Nature still packed a waEop, a sycamore branch broken during the storm but remaining caught in a tree fell on electric wires on E. Pennsylvania Ave. about 6:45 a. m. today and knocked out all the power in Southern Pines for 14 minutes. Again, at 1:25 p.m., just before The Pilot went to press, there was a power interruption aJttecting the whole town for about 10 minutes, caused by a broken tre« limb faE- ing across a main circuit wire near the Hollywood Hotel. CP&L of ficials said that tree crews are patroEing the whole storm area today,' trying to find and remove such limbs that might give trou ble. The danger was increased by strong winds that arose this after- Democrats Endorse Riddle, Causey for Elections Board The Moore County Democratic Executive committee, meeting at the courthouse in Carthage, late Monday afternoon, endorsed Sam C. Riddle of Carthage and J. 'W. Causey of Southern Pines as members of the county board of elections. J. Hubert McCaskill of Pinehurst was endorsed as alter nate. Mr. Riddle is longtime chairman of the elections board and Mr. Causey a member. Mr. McCas kill has served on the board in the past. The committee also agreed on a pre-primary rally in the form of a dinner to be held in AprE or May, to which,county and state candidates for office will be in vited. A committee will be named. Miss Bess McCaskill, vice-presi dent, presided, as 'W'. Lament Brown, chairman and solicitor of Moore Recorder’s Court, was de tained by a long court-session. County board of election mem- bers-T-two Democrats and one Re publican—are appoin'tqd by the State board of elections, ^ter be ing endorsed by county Demo cratic and Republican executive committees. But utility repair crews, work ing night and day, had done a marvelous job of restoring elec- trie and telephone service—an opinion voiced by officials of the companies, who are in a posiEon to judge the achievements, and by the general public who for the most part bore their hardships of darkness and failing heat with understanding an4^ good humor Saturday night. Most of the damage to utility lines occurred Saturday wben ice-loaded tree limbs—especially the heavy limbs- of longleaf pines, broke off in gusts of wind that swept the area and fell on wires already also enclosed in a thick coating, of ioa. Longleaf pine trees breaking up or tipping over and coming up by the roots caused most of the damage in private yards. Heavy damage took place at Mt. Hope Cemetery where there is a heavy concentration of pines. (Continued on page 5) CALL TOWN HALL FOR TRASH PICK-XJP Now that town trash col lection crews have picked up debris in the streets, follow ing the weekend ice storm, trash collection is on the reg ular system of caEing the town office to request col lection. Louis Scheipers, Jr., town manager, emphasized that crews are not automaticaUy picking up everybody's piles of branches and rakings, but that a work order must be is sued. He asked that property owners wail to call until their yards have been cleared and all trash pEed on the parkways, so that two visits to the same location wEl not be necessary. The manager thanked the public for its cooperation in the days after the storm and assured property owners that their pick-up requests would be handled as quickly as pos sible.