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Uiqh foil GMJon Candoe’ !cand Cofffiacie (•Vass m ^nes' Pm VOL. 40—NO. 15 SIXTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Pre-Race Features Scheduled for 13th Annual Stoneybrook Meeting March 26 PARKWAY ZONING HEARING TUESDAY Public hecuring will be held al the town council's regular meeting Tuesday, March 8, at 8 p.m., in the town hall, on a proposal to zone for business both sides of the No. 1 high way parkway from Vermont Ave. to Midland Road. The council last month ac cepted a recommendation of the Planning Board that a change be made there, to a depth of 550 feet, from the Residential I zone to a new Business III zone. The proposed zone would permit construction of hotels, motels, service stations, office buildings, retail stores and other types of businesses. Although the council has "accepted" the recommenda tion of the Planning Board and has advertised for the ' public hearing, the council can reject the proposal. Public opinion on the pro posal appears to be divided and a lively session of the council is anticipated. (Editorial—page 2) Sponsors Needed For 4 New Little League Ball Teams Sponsors are needed for four of five proposed Little League base ball teams to play in a league here this year under the Town summer recreation program. F. F. (Bud) Rainey, commis sioner of the league, said that when a business or civic club sponsors a team, it buys uniforms only for the boys. All equipment will be provided by the Town. One team is already being sponsored by the Lions Club. Tins team played last year in a county Little League organization. The proposed five teams—allowing many more boys to take part— would play among themselves through the regular season, but an all-star team would enter the usual Little League playoffs. Working with Rainey on plans for the league and planning to take on some of the coaching duties are Joel Stutts, Frank Buchan and James Pate. ' The 13th Annual Stoneybrook Hunt Meeting will be held this year on Saturday, March 26, at 2 p.m. There will be seven races on the program. For the first time, trotters and pacers from the Pinehurst train ing tracks will be on exhibition during the pre-race events at the Stoneybrook track owned by Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Walsh, near Southern Pines. Retired generals and flag of ficers of North Carolina and their wives will be guests of honor of the races and there will be a mili tary ceremony at 1:.40 p.m. Welcomed back this year wili be the 82nd Airborne Division Band with its precision drill team which entertaine^l the crowd at last year’s races. Reservations for parking spaces can be obtained by writing or telephoning Donald D. Kennedy of Southern Pines, chairman for the event who has an office in tbe MacKenzie Building on New Hampshire Ave. The Moore County Hounds will meet at 10 a.m. on the day of the races at Richard D. Webb’s Tops’l Farm on Young’s Road. A gymkhana will be held at the D. W. Winkelman’s Lakelawn Farm on Sunday, March 27, at 1:30 p.m. The Stoneybrook Meet opens the American sanctioned steeple chase season. The featured race here is the Sandhills Cup, about two and a quarter miles over tim ber, with a purse of $1,000. Judge Approves Jugtown Contract Judge F. Donald Phillips of Rockingham has signed an order of C. C. Kennedy, Moore County clerk of court, approving the con tract of John Mare of Southern Pines with Mrs. Juliana Busbee, founder of the Jugtown. pottery in upper Moore. The contract set up a corpora tion, Jacques and Juliana Bus- bee’s Jugtown, Inc., with Mrs. Busbee as president and Mr. Mare as vice-president, and general manager. Mr. Mare assumes fin ancial liability and pays Mrs. Busbee $2,400 per year, for life. The contract also provides that she can continue to live in her home at Jugtown and that after her death it will be preserved as a memorial to her husband, the late Jacques Busbee. Mr. Mare posted bond of $2.- 500, as directed by the court, to guarantee performance of the contract. The new company is now pro ducing hand-turned pottery at Jugtown. FIREMAN'S BALL The annual Fireman’s Ball sponsored by the Southern Pines volunteer fire department will be held Friday night, 9 to 1, at the National Guard Armory, with music by Rudy Loman’s eight- piece orchestra. As usual, the af fair will be for couples only. DANCE POSTPONED The dance at the Southern Pines Moose Lodge, for members and guests, ofginally scheduled for Friday night, March 4, will be held Saturday night, March 5, it was annpunced . today, bscausie' of the conflicts with other eiients. Blood Collection At 2 Moore Towns Slated Next Week As the Moore County Red Cross Chapter opened, its 1960 member ship campaign Tuesday, to run through the month of March, Red Cross officials this week explain ed the importance of the blood collection program that is carried on in cooperation with tbd Red Cross blood center in Charlotte. This center supplies blood to both of the hospitals in Moore County. Bloodmobile stops will be made at two towns in Moore County next week, it was pointed out—in Robbins, at the school gymnasi um on Tuesday, March 8, from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m., and at Carth age on Wednesday, March 9, also at the school gymnasium and dur ing the same hours. “Any citizen anywhere in Moore County may go to the bloodmobile at either of these lo cations and give a pint of blood to help bolster the Moore County quota in the Piedmont Carolinas blood program,’’ the Red Cross announcement said. PFC. EDWARD G. SHOMAKER Shomaker Named ‘Trooper of Year’ for 3-County District by Fellow Officers Patrolman E. G, Shomaker, 38 —quiet-voiced, modest of demea nor and of deceptively “light weight’’ physique—has been chosen by his fellow troopers as “Trooper of the Year” in District 4 of Troop C, State Highway Pa trol. The District is composed of Moore, Lee and Chatham coun ties. Voting was made on a point basis, covering all attributes of a good patrolman—on the highway. School Choir to Appear at Church On Friday evening, March 18, the Choir of St. Peter’s School in Peekskill, New York, will sing evensong and a concert of sacred music at Emmanuel Church in Southern Pines. The nationally known organi zation is making its annual spring tour and the Sandhills is included for the first time in the choir’s long history. It is directed by the Rev. Frank C. Leeming, S. T. - D., and is composed of 35 young men from 14 states. Their program will include NO WAUGH LECTURE Plainchant, Hylton-Stewart, Eur- The Pinehurst Forum appear- gess, Palestrina and Bach, and ance of Alec Waugh, British au thor, at the Pinehurst Country Club tonight (Thursday) has been cancelled, it was announced Wednesday, because of wdather conditions. music from Missa Angelica. Be cause their program is included in the regular schedule of Len ten services of Emmanuel Church, there will be no tickets or admis sion charge. Dr. Moore to Speak to Kiwanis Club Dr. Ansley Cunningham Moore, president of Consolidated Presby terian College now under con struction at Laurinburg, will be guest speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, Wednesday, March 9. The club will meet at the Jef ferson Inn at 12:15 p.m. Voit Gil more is program chairman. Dr. Moore’s topic was not announced. Dp. Moore, who came to the new college after serving more than 12 years as pastor of the 6th United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., was born in At lanta, Ga. He graduated from Emory University and Columbia Theological Seminary at Decatur, Ga., and did graduate work at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Union Theological Semin ary, Richmond, Va., and Union Seminary in New York. He holds an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Southwestern Col lege, Memphis, Tenn. Dr. Moore has had pastorates in Georgia and Florida and served a year as an exchange rriinister to Europe. He was a delegate to the World Alliance of Reformed •Churches at Geneva, Switzerland, and attended the organizational meeting of the World Council of in court and in the community. Runner-up was Patrolman W. A. Riggsbee of Sanford, who was also runner-up last year when Pa trolman R. R. Samuels of Aber deen was the winner. The top nominees and their runners-up of Troop C’s six dis tricts will be honored at a banquet to be held at Greensboro Monday night, March 28, at which the troop’s “Trooper of the Year” will be named. Fellow law enforcement officers of the State Highway Patrol and local police say “a better choice couldn’t have been made”. than Patrolman Shomaker. “Service to the public is his ideal,” one of them said, “and he. is fine to work with.” A physical education major in college, the 150-pound trooper has won prominence throughout the State as a weight-lifter, and has taken part in many tournaments in the lightweight division. He helped organize a “Health and Strength” club for Moore County law enforcement officers for which a clubroom was outfit ted in the basement of the South ern Pines police station. The of ficers meet there from time to time for physical education and exercises, including weight-lift ing, under his instruction. He has (Continued on page 8) // DR. ANSLEY C. MOORE Churches at Amsterdam, Holland in 1948. He was a member of the board ‘Scandals’ to Be Presented Next Week at Pinehurst The fourth annual edition of the musical and dancing revue —the Scandals of the Sandhills —to be presented at the Pinehurst Auditorium March 9 through 11, moved into high gear this week. Lee Doyle, professional stage director from New York City be gan rehearsals two weeks ago with a cast of sixty-five. With new imported costumes and spec- ' ially selected music, the show this I year holds every promise of sur- ' passing the hit success of the past. ^ Tickets may be conveniently obtained at the hotel desks, drug stores and shops in Pinehurst, Southern Pines, West End, Aber deen and Carthage. General admission tickets go on sale at the box office on the evening'of the show. The advance sale to patrons and patronesses has been substantial. The Scandals promises enter tainment and comedy but it also has a serious purpose. All of the net proceeds are devoted to the youth welfare program of the Community Recreation Associa tion which operates modern ath- of trustees of Agnes Scott College letic and playground facilities for and Columbia Theological Sem- • boys and girls in the Pinehurst (Continued on page 8) area. Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain Shnt Schools, Make Travel Difficult Mrs. S, R. Smith Injured in Fall; Two Cars Collide Only one serious personal in jury accident and one minor Auto mobile collision were reported in Southern Pines as result of yes terday’s snow and sleet storm. Mrs. S. R. Smith, woman’s page editor of The Pilot, fell on the slippery street at the Southern Pines Pharmacy corner (New Hampshire and N. W. Broad) and broke her right hip, shortly after noon Wednesday. Mrs. Smith was to undergo sur gery this morning at Moore Me morial Hospital. After she fell, she was examined by a physician at the scene and was taken im mediately to the hospitaL Local police said the only traf fic accident during the storm was a collision at the intersection of Connecticut Ave. and N. W. Broad St. at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday. Po lice said a car driven by H A. Morgan of Midland Road, going south on Broad St. strqck an Aus- tin-Healey roadster driven by DuPont Murphy of Highland Lodge, a young man who has just moved here from Atlanta, Ga. No charges were preferred. Both cars were traveling slowly. Damage to the Morgan car was •reported as negligible and to the Murphy car as $200. Troop C headquarters of the State Highway patrol, the district in which Moore County is includ ed, reported last night that there had been no serious accidents in its territory during the storm; Purchasers of Cottages to Opeu New Restauraut Mr. and Mrs. Frank de Costa have sold their Southern Pines Cottages on US Highway 1 South to Mr. and Mrs. James M. Nolan, formerly of New York City, who will reopen them soon as South ern Pines Cottages and Restau rant. The transaction includes the main building in a wooded set ting, with seven guest cottages, situated near the junction of old and new US 1. Remodeling and renovation have been under way, with in stallation of an attractive dining room and all-steel kitchen in the main building, which will contain also the office and dwelling apart ment of the Nolans. Mr. and Mrs. de Costa have moved nearby into another house on the property, of which they have retained a considerable por tion. The Southern Pines Cottages is the oldest motel facility in the Sandhills. It was established about (Continued on page 8) Hartshorues Buy Highlaud Lodge Mr. and Mrs. James Hartshorne have bought Highland Lodge, the apartment-hotel at the corner of May St. and E. Vermont Ave. from N. L. Hodgkins and S. R. Jellison, it was announced today. Mrs. Estelle Andrews, former manager, has moved to Greens boro, to live with a sister, and Mr. and Mrs. Hartshorn.a, who have been living at Highland Lodge, will take over manage ment of the property. Mr. Hartshorne will continue his association with Resort Realty Co. The property includes a large vacant lot adjoining the apart ment building. The new owners plan to convert the five remaining hotel rooms into apartments. Other rooms in the building have previously been remodeled into apartments. Va rious improvements are planned, to be don.9 during the summer. Mr. Hartshorne was resident manager of the Highland Pines Inn under ownership of the Stit- zer Hotel Co., for several years, before the hotel burned a few years ago. » ADDISON HEWLETT Hewlett, Senate Candidate, Will Be Here Friday Addison Hewlett, Speaker of the N. C. House of Representa tives and candidate for the United States Senate will bring his cam paign to Moore County Friday, March 4, for a half day tour of sections of the county. Speaker Hewlett is scheduled to arrive in Robbins about 2:30 Friday afternoon, visit there for an hour and proceed to Highfalls, Parkwood and Glendon and on to Cameron, Southern Pines, then to Aberdeen where he will make a non-partisan address before the Aberdeen Lions club. Fdllowing the meeting of the Lions Club there will be a “cof fee hour” at the Howard John son’s Restaurant from 8:30 to 10 p. m-, to which the public and particularly the ladies are in vited. Girl Scout Week To Be Observed By Local Troops Girl Scout Week will be observ ed Sunday, March 6, through Saturday, March 12. Saturday, March 12, will be the Girl Scout’s 48th birthday. It marks the date in 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low called to gether 12 girls to form the first Girl Scout troop in Savannah, Ga. Troops in Moore County are as sociated with the Central Caro lina Girl Scout Council which con sists of Moore, Lee, Chatham and Harnett Counties. Throughout the Council, girls will go to church services on Sun day in uniform, with their lead ers. In Southern Pines, at the First Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. Monday, there will be a Court of Awards, to recognize rank ad vancements and other achieve ments of members of local troops. Neighborhood chairmen and troop leaders will meet Wednes day morning at 10 a.m. at the Church of Wide Fellowship. A film, “Adventuring in Arts,” will be shown at the Baptist church in Aberdeen Tuesday eve ning and will be shown at other towns in the council. Throughout the council there will be various birthday celebra tions, displays and other recog nitions of the special week. * Utilities Not Badly Affected In Local Area Having socked the Sandhills with the worst ice storm in mem ory a little over two weeks ago. Nature threw another hard punch Wednesday, dumping about six inches of snoW; followed by sleet and freezing rain, on an area that had hardly recovered from the former storm. Surprisingly little damage was done by Wednesday’s storm, but transportation was difficult with out chains, resulting in much per sonal inconvenience. Electric power and telephone services underwent no general interruptions, though trees and wires this morning, after a night of freezing rain on top of snow, were loaded with nearly as much ice as in last month’s storm. Min imum breakage was attributed to lack of the strong wind that tore off branches and dragged down wires in the former storm. Schools of the Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Moore County sys tems closed early Wednesday and it was announced by officials of all three systems that there will be no school Friday. All systems are expected to be in operation Monday, barring further snow and ice. The snow began to fall at 10:15 Wednesday morning and had piled up to six inches or more by 4 p.m. Then it turned to sleet and freez ing rain, which fell throughout the night. Snow plows were out on both town streets and state highways as soon as the snow be gan to deepen. Today, main high ways were clear and streets with much traffic were clear except for icy patches. Ward Hill, manager of the local Carolina Power & Light Co. of fice, said that there were several trouble calls last night for CP&L repair crews but that power had not been generally interrupted in Southern Pines. Raeford, he said, was the sec tion hit hardest in this area. Pow er had been on and off there 15 times or more in the past 24 hours, he said today, as a result of ice loading lines and causing tree limbs to fall on wires. Joe R. Kimball, district manager of United Telephone (jo., said to day that there has been no great damage to telephone facilities, but that there could be considerable damage if wihd would rise before ice melts off the trees. Company trucks and cars have been taking operators to and from work, as many could not use their own cars. Extra-heavy use of telephones by patrons yesterday and today frequently has overloaded equip ment, he said, resulting in tele phones appeairing to be dead tem porarily. Many persons who get no dial tone when they lift a phone will find that it returns when the excessive load is remov ed from the central equipment. One personal injury in a fall and one minor traffic accident in town are reported in another story in today’s Pilot. Many persons recalled that the record-breaking snow storm of 1927, when 26 inches fell on Sou thern Pines, took place on March 2—exactly 33 years earlier than yesterday’s snowfall. Hospital Notes Busiest Month February was the busiest month in the history of Moore Memorial Hospital, 'Thomas R. Hovyerton, administrator, said today, with an average of 126.8 patients per day. The previous high average was 124.2 per day, in January 1959. The record-breaking number of patients was largely attributable to influenza, Mr. Howerton said, noting also that many persons'" had postponed surgery scheduled in February because of the prev alence of flu. He therefore antici pates that March will also be a busy month. John L. Currie Wins Scholarship John L. Currie, son of State Sen. and Mrs. Wilbur H. Currie of Carthage—a student at Christ School, Arden, was chosefi as a recipient of a Morehead four-year scholarship at the University of North Carolina, when final selec tions in the competition were made at Chapel Hill Tuesday. Robert Woodruff of Southern Pines, who reached the finals, was not chosen for a scholarship but, as a finalist, is favorably eligible for other scholarships. GAME FRIDAY NIGHT O’Neil’s semi-pro Little Nine basketball team will play the Ar kansas Travelers all-girls profes sional team at the high school gym here Friday night at 8 o’clock, (Details and photo on page 14).
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