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VOL. 40—NO. 35
EIGHTEEN PAGES
Death of L. T. Avery Shock to Area;
Funeral To Be Held Friday Momins
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1960
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Funeral services for Lenoir
Thomas (“Judge”) Avery, 70, who
died Tuesday, will be conducted
by the Rev. Martin CaldweU, rec
tor, at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church at 11 a.m. Friday. Burial
will follow in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Meredith
Jones of Raleigh and Dr. Charles
W. Tillett of Charlotte, nephews
of Mr. Avery; Settle Avery, a
cousin, of Washington, D. C.;
Capus Waynick of Raleigh, Carl
Jeffress of Greensboro, and Dr.
Robert M. McMillan of Southern
Pines.
Mr. Avery, a widely known and
affectionately regarded member
of the Sandhills community for
more than 35 years, died of a self-
inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday
afternoon in his home at the cor
ner of E. Indiana Ave. extension
and Pine Grove Road.
Coroner Ralph G. Steed said
that Mr. Avery died instantly
about 4 p.m. after he had placed
a 20-gauge shotgun against his
chest and depressed the trigger
with a yardstick, in an upstairs
Letters Protest
•Closing of Local
Telegraph Office
An estimated 15 or 20 letters
are being sent by Southern Pines
business and professional people
to the Federal Communications'
Commission protesting the pro
posed closing, of the Western
Union telegraph office in South
ern Pines.
Under the company’s proposal,
the office in the Jefferson Inn
would be closed as an office but
substituted services would be
available through the manage
ment of the Jefferson Inn from
8:30 a. m. to 8 p. m., Monday
through Friday, and from 9 a. m.
to 1 p. m. on Sunday.
A Western Union spokesman
told The Pilot several weeks ago
the office closing was planned
because revenue here was much
less than the expense of main
taining the office.
Arguments for maintaining the
office, as cited in letters to the
FCC, included increase in popula
tion, industrial growth and serv
ice to winter visitors.
“It would be a backward step
to close the office,” one business
man told The Pilot.
Letters protesting or supporting
discontinuance of the office may
be sent to the FCC at Washing
ton 25, D. C., on or before July
27.
room of his home. He left a note
for his wife, Mrs. Arnette Avery,
who had been away from home
and entered the house at about
the time the fatal shot was fired.
Contents of the note were not re
vealed.
Member of a distinguished
North Carolina family, Mr. Avery
was born at Morganton. His fathfer
was Associate Supreme Court
Justice Alphonso Calhoun Avery
and his mother was the former
Sallie Love Thomas of Waynes-
ville. '
His forebears had been prom
inent in North Carolina affairs
since Colonial days. His great
grandfather, Waitstill Avery, was
the last Attorney General under
the Crown and the first Attorney
General for the State of North
Carolina. Avery County was nam
ed for him.
Judge Alphonso Calhoun Avery
was the youngest of 12 brothers
and sisters who married into other
leading families of the State, so
that family connections are wide
and prominent.
The nickname, “Judge,” given
Mr. Avery in boyhood because
of his father’s position, was used
throughout his life and he was
rarely called by any other.
For 12 years after he came to
the Sandhills in 1922, Mr. Avery
was a buyer for the Export Leaf
Tobacco Co. and then took a simi
lar position with Liggett & Myers.
He helped organize the Aberdeen
Tobacco Board of Trade in 1937
and served as its first president,
In 1943, Mr. Avery became a
special agent fo» the Prudential
Life Insurance Compand and soon
moved to Southern Pines. His as
sociation with that company con
tinued until his death.
Mr. Avery )vas a 1910 graduate
of the University of North Caro
lina. He attended the 50th reunion
of his college class a few weeks
ago. He kept in touch with Uni
versity affairs and was a personal
friend of a number of the officials
and professors there.
A caller at the Avery home'
Wednesday was Dr. Frank Gra
ham, United Nations official and
former U. S. Senator and president
of the University of North Caro
lina. Dr. Graham came from Nags
Head to express his sympathy to
the family but had to return the
same day.
Mr. Avery was a member of
Emmanuel Episcopal Chufch, the
SandhiUs Kiwanis Club and the
Moore County Historical Associa
tion. His civic interest was strong.
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TAME ROBIN looks somewhat bedraggled in this photo as she
had just been splashing in a bird bath in the M. L. Howard yard
on Midland Road. Watching the bird are Mrs. Paul MacKinnon,
Mr. Howard’s daughter, and her son, Bobby. (Pilot photo)
‘Birdy’ Leads Easy Life with Family,
Travels with Them From Long Island
No robin ever had it so good.
“Birdy,” a young female robin,
not only is fed, watered and cared
for by a family that includes four
interested children, but this luck
iest of lucky birds has the free
dom of a house and the outdoor;
too.
If Birdy feels like soaring, she
can wing her way to the top of
the tallest tree around. If she
wants warmth or shelter, she is
welcomed into the house.
And that’s not all. At an early
age, she is an experienced travel-
In recent years, he put much time
into an effort to obtain an indus
trial training center for the Sand
hiUs, dra-wing the attention of
State officials to this area.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Arnette Hathaway of Hert
ford and Edenton; one daughter,
Arnette, now Mrs. Arthur h!
Hurd, of Yokohama, Japan; one
-^very, a graduate
of N. C. State College and engin
eer with the Queensborough Steel
Corp. at Wilmington; one grand
child, and one sister, Mrs. Charles
W. Tillett of Charlotte, a longtime
leader in Democratic affairs in
her city and the state.
■There is little doubt that Mr
Ave^ was one of the most belov
ed citizens of this town. He was a
friend to every man, woman, and
child, and he knew personally a
great many. His warm human in-
Pirates, Cards
Play Next Week
For Championship
The Pirates and Cardinals, win
ners in this week’s Southern
Pines Little League playoffs, go
into a two-out-of-three games
championship series Monday of
next week.
One game is scheduled for
Monday, and one for Wednesday,
with a third, if necessary, to be
played Friday. Game times had
not been set when the announce
ment was given to 'The Pilot this
morning.
Results of last week’s playoffs;
Monday—Cardinals 16, Dodgers
1; Pirates 10, Braves 3.
Wednesday—Pirates 13, Braves
10; Cardinals 7, Dodgers 3.
TWO GRASS FIRES
Local volunteer firemen were
called out to extinguish two small
er. And she made her first trip in
style.
Most robins, wanting to get
from Long Island, N. Y., to North
Carolina, have to fly and fh, and
fly. They have to beat 'thSir way
through storms and find safe
places to spend the nignt and
stop now and then to reiuel on
worms and caterpillars.
Not Birdy. She rode
way. Every few hours, as usual
while traveling or at home, Birdy
was carefully fed milk with an
eye-dropper, bread crumbs, corn
bread, cooked eggs or some other
tasty morsel.
At home on Long Island, her
family even maintained a supply
of angle worms for their pet—the
kind of worms most robins have
to just about break their backs
over, trying to tug them: out of
(Continued on page 5)
Charles Riddle
Arrives to Take
Post in Scouting
(Photo on Page 5)
Charles Riddle, new executive
of the Moore District, Boy Scouts
of America, arrived Monday to
take up his duties, fresh from the
Schiff Scout Reservation at Mend-
ham, N. J., where all professional
scouters are trained.
He was accompanied by Roy
McCollum, who a month ago be
came the field director for the
Occoneechee Council, with head
quarters at Raleigh.
J. B. Perkinson of Southern
Pines, Moore District chairman,
took the two new executives about
the county, tb meet committee
chairmen.
Tuesday night, at a meeting at
Leaverne’s Grill, Riddle was pre
sented to the district committee
in full. Also present was Joe
Woodall, his predecessor here,
who went to Dprham as Shawnee
District executive June 15.
Mr. Riddle graduated from
High \ Point College in June. He
was on the staff at Camp Durant
for eight summers, the last three
as waterfront director. This is his
first post as a professional scouter.
Asked why he chose this field
for his career, he said, “Scouting
has done so much for me, I felt
the best way I could make repay
ment was through full-time ser
vice as a professional.”
A native of Raleigh, where he
graduated from Needham Brough
ton High School, he grew up in
Scouting, progressipg from Cub
to Boy Scout to Explorer. He be
came an Eagle Scout, and also
won the For God and Country
award. He is a Vigil member of
the Order of the Arrow, and at
college waa president of Alpha
Phi Omega, national service fra
ternity of former Boy Scouts who
wish to retain their Scouting
ideals in college life and later.
As an Explorer he attended the
National' Boy Scout Jamboree in
f _ “®ll953’ and went to Philmont, the
national Scout ranch in New Mex
ico, two summers, serving
time as group leader.
At college Mr. Riddle majored
in history and political science,
with religious education as his
minor. He expects to be married
September 3 to Miss Carolyn
Gibbs of Greensboro who will re-
(Continued on page 5)
Worker Interviews Set
By Plant A t Pinebluff
The large modern plant of the
Watson Williams Manufacturing
Co., makers of wooden shuttles
for textile machinery, is expected
to be completed by August 1 on
US Highway 1, a half-mile south
of Pinebluff.
‘Buttonwood’ Sold
To Sutherlands
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. L. W. Miller
have sold their home, “Button-
wood,” to Mr. and Mrs. David
Sutherland of Winter Park, Fla.,
and have leased the home of Mrs.
Pearson Menoher in Knollwood.
General and Mrs. Miller moved
from Buttonwood last week. They
purchased the house, located out
of the city limits, on the corner of
Bethesda Road and E. Indiana
Ave. extension, four years ago
from William White.
Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland are
former residents of Southern
New. Principal
To Move Soon
, I Sunday—both in the 400 block of
terest always considerate and un- W. Delaware Ave. Damage
(Continued on Page 5) 1 slight from both fires.
grass fires one Saturday and one Pines who are returning, here to
live.
was
Steed Realty Co. was the agent
in the Buttonwood sale.
Glenn Leigh Cox, recently ap
pointed principal of East South
ern Pines High School, conferred
Tuesday with Jim Walser, former
principal of the school, and made
preparations to nfove his family
here this week.
Mr. Cox has rented one of the
Knollwood apartments, at 339
Crestview Road. His wife, the for
mer Doris Perry of Ehzabefh City,
and son. Jay, 10 months old, will
be Uving there after Saturday, al
though Mr. Cox will not finish
his summer school work at N. C.
State-College, Raleigh, until Aug
ust 5.
Mr. Cox’s work here starts of
ficially August 22, but he said this
week he wants to spend as much
time as possible in Southern Pines
before that date, meeting teachers
who live here and otherwise pre
paring for his duties at the school
Pinehurst Plans
Construction of
Swimming Pool
Plans for a swimming pool in
Pinehurst got the green light Fri
day from 43 residents who attend
ed a planning meeting in the com
munity house.
The pool, including a modern
installation, fencing, housing for
filter plant, tools, supplies and
chlorinating facilities, to cost
$250,000, will be financed by a
$100 fee to be paid by a limited
membership of 250. Membership
is available to families living
within the Pinehurst School dis
trict.
Dues of $15 a year, after joining,
will take care of maintenance and
operating costs and pay for a life
guard. Children taking part in
the Pinehurst Community Recre
ation Association program will be
given certain scheduled times for
supervised training.
At a directors’ meeting Tuesday
night at the school, officers of the
Community Recreation Associat
ion, Inc., of which the projected
“Community Swimming Associa
tion, Inc.” is an affiliate, made a
verbal agreement with Tom How
ell, president of Carolina Pools,
Inc. in Sanford, to go ahead with
plans, and a contract will be
drawn up and signed within the
next few weeks. The contractor,
w’ho is being given a year for
construction, is therefore allow
ing the Association a five per cent
discount.
H. W. Ehrhardt, Jr., is president
of the Recreation Association;
vice-president is- Leonard G.
Whitesell; secretary, Mrs. A. N.
Derouin; and treasurer, Harris!
Blake.
In view of the fact that appli
cations for membership, many ac
companied by checks, are being
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Interviews for prospective em
ployees in several categories will
be held at the plant Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, August
1, 2 and 3, according to informa
tion received this week from J.
Kimball Watson, vice-president of
the company at Millbury, Mass.
Watson says he plans to move
permanently to the Sandhills July
30, and wjll conduct employment
interviews from 8 a.m. to 12 noon,
and from 1 to 5 p.m. on each of
the three days except August 3,
when only the morning session
will be held.
'They will be looking for 30 to
40 production employees and sev
eral machinists, to start work be
tween August 22 and September
15; also, starting August 15, one
bookkeeper, one secretary and
secretary-payrool clerk. Produc
tion employees will include both
men and women.
Also from August 1 through'3,
interviews will be held for em
ployment of seven to 10 helpers
by W. J. Shannon Truckers, the
trucking and rigging firm which
will transport machinery and ma
terials from Millbury to Pinebluff.
About 40 truckloads of machin
ery and materials will be coming
in from August 1 through 19, and
the helpers will be needed to un
load them and set them up.
The plant is being built by the
Hartley Quattlebaum Construction
Co. of Florence, S. C., which also
contracted for the laying of the
water line being paid for by the
town and county. Work started
Monday on the laying of 6,500
feet of line, 4,000 feet from the
center of Pinebluff to the town
limits, and 2,500 feet from the
town limits to the plant. Pinebluff
citizens recently approved a $35,-
000 bond issue for the town's share
of the water line, and the county
commissioners are putting up $10,-
000 for the rest.
Butler Elected Director,
State Welfare Officials
Paul Butler of Southern Pines,
chairman of the Moore County
board of public welfare, wgs elect
ed a member of the board of di
rectors of the State Association of
Public Welfare Officials, at the
annual meeting of the association
in Raleigh Friday.
John P. Marquand, Winter Resident of
Sandhills, Succumbs in Massachusetts
GOING UP! — Dick Pollock,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Hoke
Pollock, has to tip his head way
back to see the top of this giant
sunflower in the garden of his
grandparents. Col. and Mrs. O. A.
Dickinson, on Valley Road. The
plant, about 11 feet high, is a “vol
unteer” from seed that fell off a
bird feeding shelter that can also
be seen in this picture. (Pilot
photo)
Editor Hails Party^s New Look at Democratic Convention
Mrs. James Boyd, editor of
The Pilot, who attended the
Democratic National Conven
tion in Los Angeles last week,
writes her impressions of the
convention for Pilot readers;
The first impression of the
Convention was one of mess: of
incredible tangle and confusion.
If you looked up you lost it, for
there up above was a vast blue
ceiling, with innumerable lights
shining through and, crossed un
der the ceiling, high up, was a
wide band of blue and red and
white bunting. The soft blue of
the ceiling was heightened by
soft blue lighting, creating, a love
ly effect of sky.
That was above. Down below,
the scramble lay spread out on
the circus-like arena floor and
you wondered how anything
could ever happen there in rea
sonable order or good sense.
The space was filled by the
chairs of delegations, each placed
like the spokes of a wheel ffW-
ning out from the speaker’s r(««
trum. That’s what I discovered
when after considerable search
ing I was able, finally, to locate
the rostrum.
Looming up a bit in front and a
bit on either side of it were the
gigantic platforms on which the
TV people were swarming, gestic
ulating, shouting., flashing lights
at each other, taking pictures, and
goodness knows what else. They
blocked a view of the speakers’
stand for many delegates as well
as spectators and, with their
of cables and machinery, always
moving, pointing first this way
then that, they were a roadblock
to the mind as well as to the
sight. You had to take them in, ac
cept them, and then forget them
before you could get yourself set
tled to the things that really mat
tered.
It has all been lavishly de
scribed by the papers and most
■people have seen a good deal on
7^1.^ but I suppose the enormous
size M the hall and the crowd, as
well j(s all the color and noise,
could hardly be taken in imless
there. It seemed to me
rt of combination of
consecration. For,
oise and excitement,
[e of the importance
to happen was
My seat was a wonderful one,
secured for me by Libby Smith’
formerly Libby Rudel of Pine
hurst, now National Committee-
woman from California. It was
over the press section and I
could look beyond it to the North
Carolina delegation. It was easy
to spot Governor Hodges with his
white carnation and silvery head,
sitting beside the State standard,’
and Voit Gilmore and John Mc
Connell and some of my other
friends. In the other direction I
had a fine view of the podium
and could see the folks behind it
and the speakers as they arrived.
I left my seat for one session and
went down in the press section.
That was fun in another way and
g [you could hear better but you
luldn’t see as well. They had
aU TV screens on the waU,
jh, and you could watch the
bntinued on Page 16)
The Sandhills lost its most
famed winter resident when John
P. Marquand, 66-year-old world-
renowned novelist, died in his
sleep at his Newburyport, Mass.,
home Saturday.
Mr. Marquand, who last year
bought the Pinehurst home he
had leased for the past several
winter seasons, was becoming an!
interested and enthusiastic mem
ber cf the Sandhills community.
Winner of the Pulitzer prize for
his “The Late George Apley” in
1937 and author of many other
novels of American manners, Mr.
Marquand found at Pinehurst
quiet and time for his writing, a
climate he liked and an oppor
tunity for his three favorite rec-
reati'^ns, golf, riding and bridge.
He was a member of the Tin
■'^istles, men’s golfing organiza
tion at the Pinehurst Country
Club, and of The Wolves, a men’s
card club.
The manuscript of his most re
cent book, a biography of Lord
Anthony Dexter, a Colonial resi
dent of Newburyport, was sent
to the publishers last spring, for
fall publication. The book was
completed in Pinehurst early this
year.
Mr. Marquand was becoming
actively interested in the cultural
and historical aspects of this area
and North Carolina. He had vis
ited the Alston House, a State
historic site maintained by the
Moore County Historical Associ
ation, and spoke last winter to
the N. C. Society for the Preser
vation of Antiquities at its annual
meeting in Raleigh.
He had visited Jugtown, seen
pottery made there and purchased
some, expressing interest in the
operation.
In an interview with a Pilot re-
ill*
MR. MARQUAND
porter, a few years ago, Mr. Mar
quand said that he thought the
rapidly changing South present
ed a challenging subject to a nov
elist, but that he did not feel he
was the person to write about it.
It was his belief, he said at that
time, that a novelist should write
about scenes and people he knows
well from long association.
He was married twice—in 1922
to Christina Sedgewick, and in
1937 to Adelaide Hooker, sister-
in-law of John D. Rockefeller IH.
Both marriages ended in divorce.
He left five children, John,
Jr., of New York City; Mrs. Rich
ard P. Welch, Jr. of Easton, Pa.;
Miss Blanche Ferry Marquand;
Timothy Fuller Marquand and
Elon Huntington Marquand—all
of Cambridge, Mass.
Elon was staying with his father
at the time of his death.