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VOL. 41—NO. 2
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1960
TWENTY PAGES
Fred Taylor Elected SADA President,
Ward Hill Secretary, at Troy Meeting
Moore Communilies
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Receive Awards for
Developmenl Work
The Sandhills Area Develop
ment associatioii closed its first
official year and enthusiastically
undertook tlie second at the an
nual meeting held Tuesday night
in the auditorium of the Troy
High School.
New officers, one from each of
the four participating counties,
were elected by acclamation. The
new president, Fred M. Taylor,
prominent lumberman of Troy,
was unable to be present. First
Football Banquet
Set Friday Night;
Tucker to Speak
George Tucker, head coach of
the Elon College football team,
will be the speaker at th^ annual
football testimonial banquet for
East Southern Pines High School
players and cheer leaders, spon
sored by Southern Pines Elks, at
the Southern Pines Country Club
at 7;30 p.m. Friday.
Trophies given annually will be
presented to players not announc
ed until the presentations—the
Most Valuable Player award,
from the John Boyd Post, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, and the
Most Improved Player award,
from the Elks.
Head Coach Billy Megginson
and Assistant John Williams, Jr.,
will be recognized.
Gene Blackwelder, ih charge of
the event for the Elks, said that
persons who would like to attend
the banquet can get tickets from
him at Tate Hardware and Elec
tric Co.
Mr. Tucker has just ended a
successful first season of coaching Moore County s annual Boy
at Elon where his backfield coach Scout Recognition Dinner will be
and assistant is Gary Mattocks of oeld in tne National Guard arm-
vice-president is Neal Cadieu,
newspaper editor and publisher,
of Rockingham; second vice-presi
dent, M. W. Harris, Jr., banker, of
Sanford, and secretary-treasurel,
W. Ward Hill, manager of the
Southern Pines office of the Car
olina Pov/er & Light Co.
In reports of area chairmen of
the four divisions—agriculture,
industry, community develop
ment, travel and recreation—that
of H. W. Dozier of Troy, commu
nity development chairman, was
a major highlight. It consisted of
announcement of the winners in
the year-long community devel
opment contest with the presenta
tion of checks as prizes.
Fifteen communities had been
organized for the contest, said
Chairman Dozier, who took over
last spring when Reuben DuBose
of Troy moved out of the area
Winning communities from each
county v/ere divided into farm
and non-farm groups, with four
in the former, three in the latter
(Montgomery county has no en
trant in this group). Dozier pre
sented checks to representatives
of the following communities:
, Farm — first, Mr. Pleasant
(Richmond county), $100; second,
Onville-Thicketty Creek (Mont-
pmery), $75, third. Pocket (Lee),
?i50; fourth, Lamms Grove
(Moore), $25.
Non-farm — first, Cordova
(Richmond), $100; second. North-
view (Lee), $75; third, Glendon
(Moore), $50.
Area judges visited the four
counties to select the local win-
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800 Expected at
‘Pot Luck’ Scout
Dinner Tonight
SCOUTS HELP NEEDY — These Boy Scouts of Troop 223,
sponsored by the Men’s Class of Brownson Memorial Presbyter
ian Church, helped distribute food boxes to 10 needy families
before Thanksgiving last week. Pictured, left to right, are; Tom
my Perry, Jeff Donovan, Billy Bodine, Charles Phillips and Rob
bie Robbins. The food was collected in donation boxes placed at
the A & P and Colonial stores and in a house-to-house collection
by Sgt. J. F. Adams, Scoutmaster, and boys of the troop. To share
their appreciation for,the generosity of all who helped the pro
ject, the Scouts of Troop 223 are making Saturday of this week
“Courtesy Day’’ when they will be downtown looking for oppor
tunities to help people. (Pilot photo)
‘Light Up the Sky’ Op ens Tonight
High way Patrol
Launches Drive to
Cut Traffic Toll
Moore County highway patrol
men will join in a state-wide ef
fort to cut December’s normally
high traffic accident toll.
As North Carolina traffic deaths
for 1960 reached 1,057 on Mon
day, as compared to 1,056 to the
same date last year, .the Highway
Patrol was planning a “special
emphasis program” designed to
try to keep this year’s toll under
last year’s by a variety of en
forcement procedures.
The program was announced by
Col. D. T. Lambert, patrol com
mander and Major C. Raymond
Williams, director of the Enforce
ment Division.
Cooperating in this area will be
the top patrol officers for the
Moore-Lee-Chatham district, Sgt.
J. S. Jones and Cpl. C. W. Moricle,
of Siler City, and the five patrol
men stationed in Moore County,
Pfc. E. G. Shomaker of Southern
Pines, Pfc J. F. Swaim of Pine-
bluff, Pfc. R. R. Samuels of Ab
erdeen, Pfc. T. S. Clark of R.ob-
bins and Pfc. H. A. Hight, Jr., of
Carthage.
Pfc. Hight, in informing The
Pilot of the program, cited these
figures to show the menace of
traffic accidents in December:
A total of 124 traffic accidents
deaths in the state in December,
1959—greatest number for any
one month since 1955.
Thirteen persons killed on
Christmas Day, 1959.
A total of 39 persons killed in
the five-day period, December 24
through 28, last year.
Home for A^in;g Plans
Announced HereToday
TO TAKE OFFICE
County officials elected No
vember 8 will be sworn in for
their terms at the courthouse
in Carthage Monday morning.
After the oath-taking, the
county commissioners will
convene ifor their regular De
cember meeting. They are L.
R. Reynolds, Tom Monroe,
John M. Currie, J. M. Plecis-
ants and W. S. Taylor.
Also to be sworn in are
Judge J. Vance Rowe and So
licitor W. Lamiont Brown, of
Moore County Recorder's
Court, and members of the
county board of education:
James Culbertson, T. Roy
Phillips, Jere McKeithen, R.
H. Upchurch and W. H. Mat
thews.
Charles McLeod will be
sworn in as county surveyor.
(Photo on page 8)
Southern Pines.
Mr. Tucker came to Elon after
serving as line coach at East
Carolina College and Davidson
College, two years of coaching at
Wingate Junior College and a
year as coach at Lancaster, S. C.
High School. He is a 1954 grad
uate of East Carolina College.
Reeves Re-Named
To Ports Position
Governor-elect Terry Sanford
said at Fayetteville Monday that
he plans to reappoint John M.
Reeves of Pinehurst, chairman of
the State Ports authority.
Mr. Reeves a retired business
executive, is a native of Surry
County. He has lived at Pinehurst
several years, since his retire
ment.
Mr. Sanford said Mr. Reeves
has done an outstanding job in
furnishing leadership for the
Ports Authority. He said that both
Mr. Reeves, .and D. Leon Williams,
director of the Authority, who
also will be reappointed, had
^ agreed to continue their service.
Mr. Reeves has been active in
civic and community work in the
Sandhills and at his former places
of residence in New York and
New Jersey.
ory here tonight (Thursday, Dec.
1) at 6:30 o’clock with the Rev.
Tom Haggai of High Point as the
principal speaker, announces J. B.
Perkinson, chairman of the Moore
District.
Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst,
will serve as master of cere
monies, with W. Lament Brown
slated to introduce the speaker.
New officers for the coming
year will be inducted by John
Shutt, Occoneechee Council Ex
ecutive. They are: John McPhaul
of Southern Pines, district chair
man; and J. B. Perkinson, South
ern Pines; J. Douglas David, Pine-
bluff; and Richard Self, Robbins,
vice chairmen.
Harold Trentman, of Raleigh,
president of the Occidental Life
Insurance Company, will present j
the awards to the outstanding cub
master, scout master, explorer ad
visor and den mother.
Mr. Perkinson Will make a
progress report on the past year’s
Scouting activities in Moore
County.
About 800 persons are expected
for the “pot luck” dinner. Adult
leaders and parents of Scouts at
tending will bring their own food
to be eaten at tables set up in the
The 13-member cast of the
Theatre in the Pine’s first produc
tion, Moss Hart’s comedy, “Light
Up the Sky,” staged their dress
reheaisal Monday night, prepar
ing for Thursday night’s opening
of a three-night run of the play in
Weaver Auditorium.
Following six weeks of rehears
als under the direction of Richard
L. Castle of Fort Bragg, “Light
Up the Sky” will be seen Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday nights
of this week, with curtain time
at 8:15 p. m. Tickets are on sale at
First Aid Kits To
Be Sold Saturday
Boy Scouts ot local troop No.
1 will sell first aid kits Saturday
in front of the post office to raise
funds for needed camping gear.
The kits, made by a well known
national manufacturer, will range
I in price from $1.50 to $15 and will
Pines has welcomed volunteer as- j sell at the current price in retail
received en'husiastically by a
Small invited audience of friends
of the company and the press.
The community theatre group’s
presentation climaxes six months
of planning and organization.
Built around a nucleus of several
persons with considerable experi
ence in the theatre. Theatre in the
sistance from many other persons
in the Sandhills.
The cast, which is composed of
residents of Southern Pines, Pine
hurst, Aberdeen and Carthage, in
cludes Mrs. Cedric Millspaugh,
Mrs. William Frantz, Jr., Mr. and
Steed Realty, Courts and Co., [Mrs. Paul B. Boroughs, Jr., N.
Studio Book Shop and Mid Pines ' Archie McLeod, Jr., Miss Bettye
Club, all in Southern Pines; McCaskill, Dan Harvat, Tom Con-
Larry’s Men’s Shop, Pinehurst; nolly, David Sedberry, George
and Bryan Drug Co. and Craig Morrison, Harry McStravick, Rob-
Drug Co. in Aberdeen. ert E. Strouse and Mrs. Frank P.
Monday night’s rehearsal was Smith.
stores, with the troop retaining
the normal retail profit.
David Sedberry, scoutmaster of
the troop, said that it has been
estimated that 80 per cent of
American homes lack proper first
aid supplies. The “Be Prepared
for Accidents” campaign Satur
day will afford an opportunity for
householders to make a selection
from a variety of first aid kits, he
said.
Troop No. 1 is sponsored by
Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Local Young Man,
Seriously Hurt in
Wreck, Improving
John Van Benschoten, local
young man who is a third year
student at Elon College, was re
ported out of danger last night at
N. C. Memorial Hospital, Chapel
Hill, where he is undergoing
treatment for serious injuries re
ceived in a traffic accident near
Graham about 8 p. m. Sunday.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Van Benschoten who
have a farm near Niagara. His
hrnthpr T.vnn whn liiroc at iQent of the directors. It was an
Library-Conference Room Given to St. Joseph’s
armory.
An award will be made for the
best-decorated table.
VOIT GILMORE IN ANTARCTICA
‘From Civilization to the Ice Age’
Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines who visited the Arctic
and Antarctic in 1958, is en-
route to the South Pole as an
observer with the Navy's
M-Operation Deep Freeze. He
has written this trip report
especially for The Pilot.
By VOIT GILMORE
McMurdo Sound, Antarctica,
November 19—^With 50 amazing
personalities, I’ve just completed
the world’s most amazing airline
run.
It’s the Christchurch-McMurdo
shuttle, the 2,100-mile air bridge
'oetween civilization and the ice
age. There is no "alternate air
port” on this run—once we passed
USS Wilhoite, the half-way picket
ship, we were committed to land
% at McMurdo, come blizzard.
white-out or fair skies. We made
it. But we rolled to a stop be
side a $2 million Constellation
loaded With valuable scientific
gear, which crashed two weeks
ago and is a total loss.
Our polar camp is atop Ross
Island and overlooks the 30-foot-
thick ice of Ross Sea on which
bulldozers have scraped a runway
for wheeled aircraft. Lighter
planes on skis shuttle supplies
from here to the U. S. scientific
stations—South Pole, Byrd and
Hallett. (Little America, imperil
ed by cracking glacier ice, is
abandoned.)
For a week men and supplies
have been piling up at Christ
church. Bad weather and broken
communications halted flights.
Now the logjam is broken and 10
monster Globemasters out of
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A library and conference room
has been donated to St. Joseph of
the Pines Hospital by Mrs. George
Matheson of Southern Pines in
memory of her husband, the late
Dr. George Matheson, it was an
nounced today by the hospital
I management.
Using part of the lobby space,
the room was ’ouilt and new
equipm.ent was added through the
generosity of Mrs. Matheson, the
announcement said.
Included in the gift is a large
portrait of Dr. Matheson, painted
by Mrs. Matheson’s fathefr. It
hangs in the library portion of the
room.
The announcement noted that
Mrs. Matheson first became inter
ested in St. Joseph’s when her
husband was a patient there and
often spoke highly of the hospital.
The room has been equipped
with medical books, encyclopedias
and magazines.
Other improvements made by i
the hospital over the course of
several months were listed, inclu
ding a new laboratory, record
room for doctors, waiting room
for x-ray and laboratory patients,
two treatment rooms, snack bar
and linen room.
A new drug room is being Iiuilt
and several rooms are being
painted and redecorated. The ro
tunda on the main floor has been
redecorated with furniture and
plants. A new generator, for
emergency electric power, is
ready to be installed.
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brother,, Lynn, who lives at home
and is employed at the Style Mart
itore, saw John last night and
talked with him.
Also injured in the accident was
Chuck Ward, son of Major and
Mrs. Paul S. Ward, 145 Valley
Road. He was treated and releas
ed. at Memorial Hospital, Chapel
Hill, having facial lacerations
that required 43 stitches and dam
age to his teeth.
Van Benschoten suffered a con
cussion and head lacerations, a
broken collar bone and lacera
tions and bruises of his knees. He
did not regain consciousness after
the accident until Monday after
noon.
The accident took place near
Graham on Route 87, when a car
entered the highway , at a cross
roads without stopping at a stop
sign and the automobile driven
’oy Van Benschoten, with Ward as
passenger, struck the other car.
As reported by Lynn Van Ben
schoten, after he talked with his
brother, the impact threw both
of the young men forward and
sideways and to the left. Van Ben
schoten was thrown from the ve
hicle. He told his brother he did
not remember anything after he
saw lights suddenly appear in
front of the car he was driving.
Ward apparently struck the wind
shield and rear view mirror, caus
ing the severe facial lacerations.
He went on to Elon College, after
receiving treatm.ent in Chapel
Hill.
Lynn Van Benschoten said he
did not have the names of the per
sons in the other automobile but
that he had been told the driver,
who received only scratches, had
been charged with going through
a stop sign and also with opera
ting a motor vehicle without a
valid operator’s license. A passen
ger in the other car suffered facial
cuts and abrasions.
The local young men had left
Southern Pines about 6:30 p. m.
to return to Elon. College after a
weekend at their homes. Both are
graduates of Southern Pines High
School.
Lynn Van Benschoten said that
his family was notified of the ac
cident at 11:15 p. m. Sunday and
that he and his father went im
mediately to Chapel Hill.
Campaign for
$350,000 To
Be Contlucted
Final plans for construction and
operation of the Episcopal Home
for the Aging, located in Southern
Pines, were announced today at
a meeting of the Home’s directors
with the clergy of the Diocese of
North Carolina. The meeting was
held at Emmanuel Church here
this morning and was concluded
with a luncheon at the Mid Pines
Club.
Ketchum, Inc., a professional
fund raising organization, has
been retained by the Home and
will begin a campaign for a mini
mum of $350,000 immedately after
Christmas. It is estimated that the
initial capital outlay for the first
unit of construction will come to
over half a million dollars. St.
Peter’s Episcopal Church Foun
dation in Charlotte has given $50,-
000 for the construction of an in
firmary and has set aside other
funds for equipping it.
Asbury Associates, architects,
of Charlotte, have been engaged
and are already at work designing
the buildings. The first unit will
care for about 50 residents. The
eventual capacity of the Home
will be about 150. There will be
both single rooms and apartipents.
The Rt. Rev. Richard H. Baker,
D. D., Bishop of North Carolina,
presided at the meeting and in
troduced H. T. Cosby, who is pres-
nounced that Norman A. Cocke,
letired president of the Duke
Power Company and chairman of
the board of Trustees of Duke
Unversity, will be chairman of
the fund drive. Mr. Cocke also ad
dressed the group at luncheon.
Three Southern Pines residents
are included on the executive
committee of the Home. They are
Norris L. Hodgkins, Mrs. R. E.
Rhodes, and Mrs. Lloyd P. Tate.
The Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector
of Emmanuel Church, is vice-
president.
'The Home will be located on a
14-acre trhet which faces on North
Kdige Street between Maine and
Rhode Island Avenues. It is ex
pected that ground will be broken
within three months.
IN NEW ROOM
Here is a view of the library and confer
ence room given to St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital by Mrs.
George Matheson of Southern Pines in memory of her late hus
band. The room was constructed by partitioning off a portion of
the lobby area of the hospital. The portrait of Dr. Matheson that
was also given can be seen at the far end of the room. Included
in the project were renovation of furniture, binding of medical
journals, and additional books, furnishings and plants, as well as
the construction work. (Humphrey photo)
ATTEND DEDICATION
James M. Pleasants of Southern
Pines, representing the Moore
County board of commissioners,
and Harry H. Pethick, represent
ing the Southern Pines town
council, attended ceremonies at
Chapel Hill Wednesday in con
nection v/ith dedication of the
Joseph Palm.er Knapp building at
the Institute of Government.
Convention Will
Bring 500 Here
In May of 1961
The annual convention of the
North Carolina Optimist Clubs is
expected to bring some 500 per
sons to Southern Pines May Il
ls, 1961, it was announced this
week through the town’s Adver
tising Committee which, with
Town Manager Louis Scheipers,
Jr., has been making arranger
ments for the convention.
The gathering will be probably
the largest convention ever held
here, Mr. Scheipers said. Head
quarters will be at the Hollywood
Hotel but the visitors are expect-.
ed to be housed in various other
local hotels and motels.
The group will include North
Carolina members of Optimist
Clubs—a men’s civic club organi
zation—and their wives.
Tentative plans for the program
include an oratorical contest for
high school students in Weaver
Auditorium, a street dance to
which the public would be in
vited and a banquet and dance at
the National Guard armory.
Mr. Scheipers said that arrange
ments which are being made by
the Optimist Clubs to have the
banquet catered make possible
holding the convention in South
ern Pines. A bottleneck in having
a large covention here, he said
rias been facilities to serve a ban
quet to a group of 500 or more
persons.
Welcome signs for local busi
ness establishments to display
will be provided by the Advertis
ing Committee.