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RoHf>»<sA y/iGiv)don VOL. 41—NO. 1 EIGHTEEN PAGES ‘Neighbor Aid’ ® Funds Running Low at Hospital The Neighbor Aid Fund at Moore Memorial Hospital, which gives or loans money to patients who are otherwise unable to pay their hospital bills, is nearly ex hausted and a campaign will be- Q gin soon to raise it to an effective level, Robert S. Ewing of South ern Pines, chairman of the fund, said this week. Almost $10,000 was raised from voluntary subscriptions for the fund, about a year ago, the chair- iiian said. Nearly all of it has been used to aid over 100 individuals and families with hospital hill-; in the past year. Some of this IS being gradually paid back by “ persons who can make payments, Mr. Ewing said, but much more IS needed if the fund is to serve its purpose. Funds are allocated on a basis of need as determined by a com mittee of hospital directors. The money is used especially to help persons who are not receiving county welfare payments, but who are “medically indigent,” 9 tuat is, unable to meet medical expenses, above their normal liv ing costs. Mr. Ewing cited these typical cases in which Neighbor Aid Funds hai/e been used in the past year: 1. A 16-year-olQ girl, supported by her widowed mother who re ceives Social Security payments, had an operation for appendicitis. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1960 EIGHTEEN PAGES ■ PRICE; 10 CENTS CONGRATULATIONS — Southern Pines Golf Carousel champions—Bill Harvey of Greensboro and Reid Towler of Raleigh, standing at left—are congratulated for their Sunday vic tory at the Pine Needles Country Club by Tom Ruggles, tournament chairman, right, and Charles Marcurn, tournament director. (Humphrey photo) Harvey-Towler Team Wins Carousel H The mother receives some finan cial help from two grown sons, but was unable to pay the hospi tal bill. Neighbor Aid paid part of the bill and the mother is pay ing the balance in small monthly .installments^ 2. An 84'year-old Negro woman whose husband owns a small farm and had paid previous bills for his wife’s repeated hospitalization, but could not pay a $740 bill that 0 followed an operation. Neighbor Aid paid $375 and the husband jiianned to pay as much of the rest a.s he could after selling his to- pacco. 3. A 50-year-old man not regu larly employed, because of a war injury, who receives a small gov ernment pension and wihose wife works. Following an operation, bis hospital bill amounted to $144 ^ of which Neighbor Aid paid $88. The wife, with the help of her son, has cleared the account with periodic payments. 4. A 44-year-old Negro woman Wbo was admitted to the hospital yvith acute pneumonia. Her hus band is only partially employed because of ill health. Neighbor Aid paid $200 of a $254 bill. The family so far has been unable to rnake any further payments on the account. A Greensboro-Raleigh team won the men’s championship and a Southern Pines team won the mixed division, in finals of the Southern Pines Golf Carousel Sunday. The final round was played and trophies were awarded at the Pir^e Needles Country Club. The field comprised 107 two- player teams—from 12 states, Canada and the District of Colum bia, with a relatively small num ber of Tar Heels and very few local teams entered. Bill Harvey of Greensboro and Reid Towler of Raleigh won in the championship flight of the 10-flight men’s division. They defeated two University of North Carolina students, Raymond Floyd of Fayetteville and Peter Green of Franklin Hills, ■ Mich., 4 and 3. In the two-flight mixed divi sion, Hairy Chatfield and Mrs. Laura Lee Menoher, of Southern Pines, copped the prize and were medalists in the division with 38- 37-75. In the. championship final, they defeated Mr. and Mrs. JoJ^n J. Byrne of Wildwood, N. J., 4 and 3. Consolation winners in the mix ed division championship flight were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bassler of Toledo, Ohio A 10th flight of the men’s divi sion was composed of some men’s ajnd some mixed teams. Trophies were awarded winners and runners-up in all flights, in cluding trophies in consolation flights, after the Sunday finals The presentations were made by Tom Ruggles, tournament chair man for the sponsoring Jaycees, following congratulatory remarks by Dr. Joe Currie, Jaycee presi dent, who issued a warm invita tion to all participants to return next fall. A Thursday nighf party at the Southern Pines Country Club and a dance at the Armory Saturday night were highlights of what has come to be one of the most popu lar seasonal events in this part of the country. With two golf clubs participating instead of three as in former years, the entry list had to be limited, but even so this was the largest and most success- (Continued on Page 8) TOURNEY CHAffiMAN TELL THANKS Tom Rugglas, chairman for the Jaycees of the four-day Southern Pines Golf Carousel which ended here Sunday after playing host to some 200 golfers, had high praise this week for his associates in staging the tournament and predicted an outstanding future lor the annual event. Ruggles said that Charles Mar cum, of Whispering Pines, golf professional who was tournament director, “did a magnificent job.” He expressed appreciation for the services of Eddie Ervin, Jr., assistant chairman, and of other Jaycee chairm.en; Bill McAdams, dance; Wilbur Creed, entries; and Jerry Frazier, invitations. He praised the hard work of all the Jaycees on various aspects of the event. “We feel now that this tourna ment, which is being held this year for the seventh time, is made j—that its success is assured,” ‘Ruggles said. “And we feel we I have accomplished our purpose I of sponsoring an outstanding I event, with large numbers of peo- jple coming here, at a slack time of the Sandhills season. “There were around 200 visi tors here for the tournament,” Ruggles pointed out, “and they stayed in most of the hotels and motels of the area and ate their meals in local restaurants, for four days. If they all spent as lit tle as $50 per person, which is a Tow estimate, it would bring in $10,000 while they were here. In addition, the Jaycees spent over !f>3,000 in putting the Carousel on. Many of the Carousel players pa tronized local stores for other needs than food and lodging. You can see what all this m.eans to the community.” Youth Killed on NC 22 Saturday; Inquest Planned A Negro youth, William Curtis Martin, 19, of Route 2, Carthage, was killed when struck by a car on NC 22, about a quarter mile beyond the Southern Pines-Pine- hurst airport, shortly before mid night Saturday. State Highway Patrolman T. S. Clark identified the driver of the car as David Ronald Eaton, 20, of Route 2, Carthage. With Him was Billy Ray Hinesley, 19, same address. The car is owned by Billy Ray’s father, Ted Hines ley. They were driving toward Carthage. Eaton told the patrolman that he was meeting a car, dimmed his lights, then brightened them to see the dark figure just ahead, loo late to put on brakes. The im pact threw Martin 51 feet' along the shoulder. He was dead—^neck broken, skull fractured and one leg shattered—when the patrol man arrived some 20 minutes later. Clark brought to the Southern Pines jail for questioning a group of four Negro youths who were standing beside the road, eye witnesses to the tragedy. One of them, Henry Norris, 20, of Route 2, Carthage, he placed under ar rest for drunkenness. Railroad Merger Won’t Hurt Service to Area, Head oi Seaboard Says THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY As The Pilot went to press a day early on Wednesday afternoon. Southern Pines and Moore County were pre paring for a holiday on Thanksgiving day, Thursday. Banks, post offices and pub lic buildings, ABC stores, and most stores and offices were to be closed for the day, but were expected to reopen Fri day. School children throughout the county are having a long, er holiday, leaving Wednes day afternoon to return Mon day morning. Some other Negroes are believ ed to have left the scene before the patrolman got there. Those he interrogated told him they had all been in two cars, and a fight had started between Martin and Morris, whereupon they stopped and put them out to let them “fight it out.” In a few minutes they separated the pair, and Mar tin, they said, then told them he ‘didn't want nothing more to do with therr.'” and would walk home. He had started out along the highway just as the car came along. No charges have been made, pending a coroner’s inquest. 4th Division of 40 & 8 to Stage Promenade’ Here OPENING HUNT The traditional Thanksgiv ing opening hunt of the Moore County Hounds is be ing held today, (Thursday), with members meeting at Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Moss's Mile- away Farm for a drag hunt at 10 a. m. Mr. Moss is master, with Gene Cunningham, Beverly Gray and Mrs. Moss as whips. Morris Johnson will lead spectators in automobiles who wish to follow the hunt. Theatre in the Pines Preparing for First Production Dec. 1-3 Commissioners Authorize Plans F or Ag Building The Moore County Commission ers, in a special meeting last # week, authorized T. T. Hayes, Southern Pines architect, to pro ceed with drawing plans for the new proposed Moore County Ag riculture building to be located in Carthage. The proposed building is to be located on a site near the Carth age Presbyterian church across from the Moore County Health Center. It will house the county . agent and home agent offices, - ASC quarters, FHA and Negro home agent departments, as well as the Soil Conservation office. NEW POST OFFICE FOR PINEBLUFF Pinebluff will have a new post office nexf spring. March 1 is the tentative completion date for the new building. ^ Announcement of the new facility came from the office of the Postmaster General I Arthur E. Summerfield at Washington. The unit will be on the east side of the highway in the first block north of the pres ent post office. It will be built by a private owner and leased to the Government. Mrs. Ethel Edwards is post- % master at Pinebluff. Tickets went on sale this week in Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Aberdeen for the first production of Theatre in the Pines, the newly Organized Sandhills community theatre group. Moss Hart’s comedy, “Light Up the Sky” will be presented by the group—in which more than two dozen Sandhills people are working in various capacities— Thursday. Friday and Saturday, December 1, 2 and 3, in Weaver Auditorium. Theatre in the Pines brings this aiea its first fully organized the atrical group in more than a dec ade. The cast includes persons with experience in the theatre and others who have joined en thusiastically in six months of planning, research and organiza tional work. Tickets for the production are now on sale at Steed Realty, Courts and Company, Studio Book Shop and Mid Pines Club, in Southern Pines; Larry’s Men’s Shop in Pinehurst; and Bryan Drug Co. and Craig Walgreen Drug Co' in Aberdeen. The cast of “Light Up the Sky“ is going into its sixth week of re hearsals under the direction of Richard L. Castle of Fort Bragg, a. graduate of the Drama Depart ment of Northwestern University and experienced in several com munity theatres and in television and radio pioductions. Mrs. A. N. Derouin of Pinehurst is assistant director. Mrs. Karl Stuart is stage man ager, assisted by Mrs. J. Watt Smith Others in charge of various phases of the production are: Miss Garry Sutherland, lighting; Karl Stuart, scenery; Mrs. Hollie Sisk, sets and props; Mrs. Frank P. Smith, costumes; Mrs. A1 Brezin- ski, make-up; Mrs. John McPhaul, ushers; Dan Harvat, program. Also: John McPhaul, ticket sales; Max Rush, box office; Mrs. Anne Mischke, telephone; Mrs. Dan Harvat, secretary; and Mrs. C. Benedict, pu’olicity. All are of Southern Pines, ex cept Mrs. Sisk, of West End and Southern Pines, and Mrs. Mis chke, of Aberdeen. The Moore County Voiture of the 40 & 8 (La Societe des 40' Hommes et 8 Chevaux)—the American Legion’s fun and honor society—will be host here Satur day to the Fourth Division of the Grand Voiture of North Carolina for the Fall Promenade, accord ing to an announcement from Sam Hartsell of Carthage, grand chef de train of the division which includes Moore and a number of other central North Carolina counties. Frank Jones of Winston-Salem, grand chef de gare for North Car olina, and other grand officials, are expected here to take part in the day’s events. The Convening veterans, who use French railroad terminology lor all their offices and proce dures, will meet at 11 a. m. at Devil’s Creek Lodge (former Pine Valley Club) off Morganton Road, between Southern Pines and Pinehurst, for sandwiches and coffee. f A formal meeting for business and a “wreck,” or initiation of candidates for membership, will start at 1 p. m. in the National Guard Armory on Morganton Road. Local voiture officials warn the public that l^e candidates for membership, known as “poor goofs, ’ may be in town dressed strangely and be required to ask unusual questions of strangers, IS part of their initiation. Cour tesy treatment is asked for the candidates. The members will assemble again at Devil’s Creek Lodge for refreshments and recreation with a dinner dance for the voyageurs and their ladies to start there at 8 p.m. Lloyd L. Woolley of South ern Pines, grand chef de gare of (Continued on page 8) In a letter to Mayor Robert S. Ewing and the town council, John W. Smith, president of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, tells local officials that the Southern Pines area would not be hurt, but could rather expect to benefit, from the proposed merger of the Seaboard with the Atlantic Coast Line. The council, which had passed a resolution of approval of the merger, at its last meeting No vember 8 voted to rescind the ap proval, after a newspaper story was brought to the council’s at tention in which it was stated that most of the traffic betweeij Richmond, Va., and Savannah, Ga., would be routed on the Coast Line’s tracks. This state ment, Mr. Smith’s letter says, is not true. The vote to rescind approval of the merger was made subject to direct assurance from the railroad that service to Southern Pines would not be reduced. The resolution to rescind has not been forwarded to the rail road or to the Interstate Com merce Commission, Town Man ager Louis Scheipers, Jr., said to day. The letter will be considered by the council at its next meet ing. The text of Mr. Smith’s letter to the council follows: ■'I am writing you at the re quest of Mr. Warren T. White, our Assistant Vice President by Mr. J. D. Hobbs, a member of your City Council, to confirm in formation extended the citizens of the Southern Pines-Aberdeen community by Mr. White, who addressed members of the Kiwan- is Club and guests at the Caro lina Hotel on November 9. “Mr. White’s talk dealt with the merger of Seaboard and Coast Line, and was pointed specifically toward correcting certain errone ous impressions created by recent reports which fell short of giving a complete picture of just what is contemplated. I refer particularly to one statement to the effect that merger plans of Seaboard and Coast Line cpnteriiplate use of the Coast Line’s track as the prin cipal line between Richmond and Savannah. This statement seems to imply that the Seaboard main line through Hamlet will be rele gated to a secondary status and nothing of this sort is contempla ted. “This use of the Coast Line’s tracks between Richmond and Sa vannah, thence Seaboard tracks Savannah td Jacksonville, has ref erence only to- that freight traffic 1 originating or terminating Rich- |mon4 and north and terminating I or originating in the territory I south of Savannah, principally in Florida. The reason for this is so the more favorable grade line on (Continued on page 8) PTA Sponsors Magazine Sale The annual magazine subscrip tion drive sponsored by the East Southern Pines Parent-Teacher Association began Monday, to run through December 5, Mrs. Donald Denoff, chairman of the project, said this week. High School and Junior High School students are taking sub scription orders, she said, but the drive this year will be conducted independently of the school. PTA members, not teachers, will re ceive and process the subscription orders. The sale is one of the PTA’s major money-making projects. Proceeds go to help publish the school annual and for other school-aid projects. REHEARSAL SCENE — Eight of the 13 per sons in the cast of Moss Hart’s comedy, “Light Up the Sky,” to be presented by the Theatre in the Pines December 1-3, are pictured in this re hearsal scene. Left to right, they are: Mrs. Ced ric MiUspaugh, Mrs. WiUiam Frantz, Jr., Paul B. Boroughs, Jr., N. Archie MacLeod, Jr., Miss Bettye McCaskill, Dan Harvat, Mrs. Paul Bor oughs, Jr.,,and Tom Connolly. Miss McCaskill and Mr. Connolly are from Pinehurst; Mr. Mac Leod is from Carthage and the others are from Southern Pines. Members of the cast not pictur ed are: David Sedberry, George Morrison, Har ry McStravick, Robert E. Strouse and Mrs. Frank P. Smith, all of Southern Pines. (Humphrey photo) Bloodmobile To Be In Carthage Tuesday The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Carthage next Tuesday at the High School gymnasium be tween the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p. m., with a goal of 125 pints, "^is will be the second visit of the unit there this year. T. Roy Phillips is chairman of the pro gram. Electricity to Hospital Cut 45 Minutes Monday St. Joseph of the Pine^ Hospital was without light and power lor about 45 minutes Monday eve ning, when a transformer on the supply line burned out about 100 yards north of the hospital, caus ing a wire to fall to the ground and set the woods on fire. Southern Pines firemen arrived to extinguish the woods fire and also to supply power to part of the hospital building with emer gency generating equipment, while a Carolina Power and Light Crew repaired the line damage. The hospital felt no adverse ef fects from the incident other than inconvenience. Firemen were called out again about 1 p. m. Tuesday for a brush fire on Wisconsin Ave. CHRISTMAS VACATION Schools Supt. Luther A. Adams said today his office has been re ceiving calls asking about the dates of the Christmas vacation for the schools. He reminded the public that vacation will begin with the end of school on Friday, December 16. Classes will recon vene Thursday, December 29.