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VOL. 40—NO. 13
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960
EIGHTEEN PAGES
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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
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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,
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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
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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 !
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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
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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.
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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.