Eagle Scout rank
was attained by a 13-year-old
local boy Monday night at a
court of honor in which other
boys received promotions. Story
and photo on page 8.
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VOL. 41—NO. 3
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1960
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
FOOTBALL AWARDS — Here are award
winners and other key figures at last Friday
night’s annual football testimonial banquet giv
en by Southern Pines Elks at the Country Club
for the East Southern Pines High School foot
ball squad, cheer leaders and their guests. Left
to right, George Tucker, head football coach at
Elon College, visiting speaker; Southern Pines
Head Coach Billy Megginson; Max Rush, exalt
ed ruler of the Elks Lodge, presenting the Most
Improved Player trophy, given by the Elks, to
Wally Wallace (plaid coat) of the,Southern
Pines squad; Joe Garzik, Sr., representing John
Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, donor, of
the Most Valuable Player trophy, shaking hands
with his son, Joe Garzik, Jr., 1960 winner of the
award (the trophy itself had failed to arrive in
time for the dinner, so the handshake took the
place of a presentation); and John Williams, Jr.,
assistant Southern Pines football coach. More
than 50 persons, including football squad mem-
betrs and their dates attended the banquet.
Miniature gold footballs were presented by the
Elks to all squad members. Mr. Rush presided
during the program. Coach Megginson reviewed
the football season here and Coach Tucker spoke
on a variety of football topics. The Southern
Pines team gave each of the local coaches $10
shopping credit certificates. Supt. Luther A. Ad
ams spoke briefly on the local football program.
(Humphrey photo)
% DIRECTORS MEET. H. G. POOLE ELECTED PRESIDENT
Gift From Mrs. S. G. Allen, in Memory of Husband, Will Be
Used for New Surgical Suite at Moore Memorial Hospital
Announcement was made Tues
day night at the annual meeting
of the board of directors of Moore
Memorial Hospital of a donation,
by Mrs. Emily Myers Allen, of
Pinehurst, which will provide a
complete new surgical suite. The
gilt is being made by Mrs. Allen
as a memorial to her late husband,
Samuel G. Allen.
The directors met at the hospi
tal for dinner in the dining room,
followed by the meeting.
The fund will provide the hos
pital’s greatest need; enlarged
operating rooms with complete
modern equipment. Despite the
growth of the institution from 33-
bed to its present 143-bed capaci
ty, with the addition of three
wings dur ing its 31-year history,
the operating room dates back to
the original building. The original
delivery room and nursery—
which were moved to new quar
ters, in the 1950 addition—were
converted to operating rooms in
1951, to enlarge the original space
alloted to surgery.
Increased hospital activity and
addition of new equipment used
in surger;- have seriously cramped
Wildlife Club’s
Proposed Lodge
To Honor Starnes
Ed Starnes, prime mover in or
ganizing the Moore County Wild
life Club 14 years ago, and a guid
ing spirit since that time, was
honored with a special program
at the December meeting Thurs
day night, climaxed with the for
mation ot a foundation named for
him.
At the supper meeting held at
the Dixie Inn at Vass, Dr. George
lieinitsh, club president, read the
tentative charter of the William
' Edward Starnes Foundation, with
the purpose of acquiring a site
and construction of a lodge.
(Continued on page 8)
Pollock Elected
President Moore
Bar Association
R. F. Hoke Pollock of Southern
Pines was elected president of
the Moore County Bar Association
at the group’s annual business and
dinner meeting at the Hollywood
Hotel Tuesday night.
Other officers elected were W.
Lamont Brown, Southern Pines,
vice-president; and Arthur Rowe,
Aberdeen, re-elected secretary
and treasurer.
Judge J. Vance Rowe of Aber
deen is the outgoing president.
Speaker at the meeting
James McMillan of Charlotte
native of Robeson County
president of the North Carolina
Bar Association.
He spoke to the attorneys on
court reform, plans for the State
Bar Association’s new headquar
ters building in Raleigh and oth
er plans and activities of the As
sociation.
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2 Families Burned
Out in Fires Here
Early Wednesday
Two disastrous home fires, with
heavy property damage but no
injuries or loss of life, hit West
Southern Pines Wednesday morn
ing.
At 5:15 a.m., volunteer firemen
were called to the Roosevelt Hoc-
aday house on S. Gaines St. and
were able to prevent complete
destruction of the building, but
the house was badly gutted and
burned out and most of the furn
ishings were lost.
Again, at 8:30 a.m., the call was
from the home of Mrs. Fonnie
Mae Campbell on W, Wisconsin
Ave. This house was burned to
the ground and the family lost
everything.
There are children in bdth fam
ilies.
The Hocaday family is living
temporarily at the home of the
Rev. J. D. Ray on Hardin St.
The Campbell family has rent
ed a house on Saylqr St.
Both the Red Cross office here
and the Welfare office in Carth
age said today that no requests
for assistance to the families' had
been made to these agencies.
Friends and neighbors said,
however, they thought the fam
ilies would welcome private con
tributions.
MOORE BURNING
PERMITS STOPPED
District Forester J. A. Pip
pin of Rockingham said to
day that at the direction of
the State Forester in Raleigh,
all burning permits in Moore
County have been cancelled
and none will be issued until
further notice.
Forest fire hazard because
of dry conditions was given
as reason for the order.
the present operating rooms. More
space is needed in the surgical
suite for storage, clean-up, doc
tors’ and nurses’ locker rooms and
sterilizing.
Much careful planning must
precede actual construction of the
new facilities.
Mrs. Allen succeeded her hus
band on the board of directors fol
lowing his death in October, 1956,
and has been a devoted and active
member since that time.
Amount of the gift was not an
nounced, but it is obvious from
the extent of the work to be done
that it runs to many thousands
of dollars
In addition to receiving this
good news, the Board received
annual reports from committee
chairmen for the fiscal year
which ended September 3, and a
report from the hospital’s auditor,
S. Preston Douglas of Lumberton.
The past year’s operation was re-
(Continued on page 8)
GILMORE RETURNS
Voit Gilmore returned last
night from his trip to Antarctica
as an observer with Operation
Deep Freeze, the U. S. Navy’s sup
port program of scientific studies
in the Antarctic. A report of some
of Mr. Gilmore’s experiences on
the trip appeared in last week’s
Pilot.
Commissioners
Rename Reynolds
Board Chairman
County officials elected Novem
ber 8, all Democrats, were sworn
in by Clerk of Court C. C. Ken
nedy at the courthouse in Carth
age Monday. The county commis
sioners, among those, sworn in,
then organized their board, re
electing L. R. Reynolds chairman
and John M. Currie vice chair
man.
Other members of the board
sworn in were T. R. Monroe of
Robbins, James M. Plea.sants of
Southern Pines and W. S. Taylor
o’ Aberdeen.
Members of the board of educa
tion, coming in separately during
the day to take their oaths, com
prised the first such board elected
directly, under legislation adopt
ed by the 1959 General Assembly.
Previously, they had been nom
inated in the Democratic primary
in May and were appointed by the
General Assembly in the spring
of the following year.
The members of the board of
education are James A. Culbert
son of Robbins, who has been the
chairm.an, T. Roy Phillips of Car
thage, Howard Matthews of the
Eureka community; Jere Mc-
Keithen of Aberdeen and Roland
Upchurch of Highfalls.
Also sworn in were Judge J.
Vance Rowe and Solicitor W. La
mont Brown, of Moore County
Recorder’s Court, and Charles
McLeod of Caithage who was
elected county surveyor but who
resigned as scon as he was sworn
in, as told in another story on this
page.
After they were sworn in, the
commissioners did not go to their
meeting room, where their clerk,
Mrs. Audrey McCaskill, register
of deeds. Agricultural Agent Fleet
(Continued on page 8)
Blue Appointed
Moore Surveyor
C. H. Blue of Southern Pines
was appointed county surveyor by
the county commissioners at Car
thage Monday.
Charles MacLeod of Carthage,
Democrat, had been elected to the
office November 8. He was sworn
in Monday morning and then sub
mitted his resignation in writing
to the commissioners.
Mr. Blue has been the county
surveyor but did not file for the
office before last May’s primsary.
County’s Christmas Cheer Proj^raiu
Starts; V^FW Heads Local Program
HELP SEAL SALE — These members of the Future Home
makers of America class at Pinehurst High School seem to be en
joying their task as they place Christmas seals in envelopes to
be mailed out in the I960 seal sale of the Moore County Tuber
culosis Association. In the photo are, clockwise from left bottom:
Sandra Wicker, Claire Wiseman, Geraldine Baldwin, Miss Ethel
Burns, FHA advisor at the school, Linda Black, Paulette Frye
and Patsy Hunt. They were working at the home of Mrs. Ger
trude Wiseman, secretary of the TB Association. Thomas R. How
erton of Southern Pines, county seal sale chairman, reported
this week that the sale is progressing well. He said th^t reminder
nbtices are being sent out to those who have not yet contributed
and urged everyone to buy the seals that make possible a pro
gram of tuberculosis case-finding, patient rehabilitation, health
education and research, in Moore County, North Carolina and
the nation. (Hemmer photo)
Truck Terminal to Belvedere Hotel
Christmas Holidays for
Courlhouse Offices Set
Christmas holidays for county
officials and employees, when of
fices in the courthouse will be
closed, will run from noon, Friday,
December 23. to Tuesday morning,
December 27. The county commis
sioners authorized the holidays
at their meeting in Carthage,
Monday. The commissioners will
hold their January meeting on
Tuesday, January 3, as the first
Monday falls on January 2, a holi
day because New Year’s Day is on
Sunday.
Be Constructed
At Aberdeen Site
The Standard Trucking Com
pany with headquarters in Char
lotte this week announced that
it would build a trucking term
inal near Aberdeen on the Aber-
deen-Pinehurst highway- west of
the Karagheusian plant and op
posite the Parker gas tanks.
Announcement was made by
Torrence E. Hemby, Jr., president
of the company.
Plans call for completion with
in 90 days after work on th4 pro
ject starts, which will be within
30 days, Hemby said.
Tom B. Carr, vice president
and sales manager of the company,
said - that it would provide em
ployment for from 25 to 35 per
sons, most of whom are employed
by the company at the present
time. The yearly payroll will be
more than $100,000.
Carr said that the terminal op
eration would serve an area with
in 50 miles of Aberdeen on a
daily basis and will give this area
next day service into South Caro
lina, Charlotte, Greensboro and
Raleigh areas. Aside from ship
ments handled direct by Standard
to points in North and South
Carolina, the company inter
changes with 45 connecting car
riers, five freight forwarders and
(Continued on page 8)
Leased for Year to
Mr. & Mrs. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Walker of
Troy have leased the Belvedere
Hotel on Peiinsylvania Ave. from
Mr. and Mrs. J. Addison Smith of
Greensboro, the owners, and will
actively operate the hotel. The
one-year lease was effective yes
terday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker and their
eight-year-old daughter, Jar
Anne, will occupy an apartment
at the hotel.
Harry Pappa? of Greensboro,
who has held the lease since Sep
tember 1, 1959, has returned to
Greensboro where he operates the
Greensboro Hotel.
Mr. Smith, who with Mrs.
Smith, was here Wednesday as
the Walkers took over manage
ment of the hotel, said that exten
sive alterations and repairs are
being made to put the hotel in
first-class condition.
Also in Southern Pines Wed
nesday were J. Paul Wallace of
Troy, brother of Mrs. Walker, and
Montgomery County representa
tive in the General Assembly for
the past four terms and previous
ly a state senator for one term;
and their mother, Mrs. J. R. Wal
lace of Troy.
(Continued on Page 8)
Mrs. Walter B. Cole, Moore
County superintendent of public
welfare, this week announced
community chairmen for the
Christmas Cheer program carried
on annually throughout the couri-
ty.
The Welfare Department sup
plies lists of genuinely needy fam
ilies, where there are children list
ing them by age and sex, so that
the various chairmen, working as
individuals or with organizations
which they represent, will be able
to provide, in addition to food
supplies, suitable toys and gifts to
make Christmas a happy day for
the less fortunate. Through coor
dinated giving, Mrs. Cole feels
that duplications and omissions
are less likely to occur.
The chairmen are: Aberdeen, M.
B. Pleasants; Carthage, Kin
Suggs; Pinehurst, Mrs. James
Tufts; Jackson Springs, H. C. Car
ter, Ruritan Club; West End, the
Rev. George C. Houck, Lions
Club; Pinebluff and Addor, C. C.
Thompson, Lions Club; Vass, W.
E. Gladstone, Lions Club; Cam
eron, Mrs. Frank Loving, Wom
an’s Club; Southern Pines, John
Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign
W'ars; Glendon, Mrs. Richard
Dowd; Eagle Springs, Lynn Mar
tin, Ruritan Club; Parkwood and
Putnam, Mrs. O. T. Parks; Rob
bins, the Rev. H. R. Helms, Min
isterial Association.
In Southern Pines this week, A.
O. Monroe, Jr., chairman of the
VFW’s annual Christmas basket
project, appealed for public sup
port 4)y contributions of food, and
toys, as well as cash always need
ed to purcnase supplementary
food for the baskets. Fred Hall,
Jr., is the post commander.
Last year, members of the post
packed and delivered 75 baskets
to homes of needy persons in the
Southern Pines area. Many of the
baskets go to needy aged persons
as well as to families with chil
dren.
Containers into which grocery
(Continued on page 8)
SCOUTING OFFICERS INSTALLED AT DINNER ’ Buildcr’s Clip
DavidlDrexelf J. E. Sandlin Given High Awards I To Be Awarded
By Kiwanis Club
Photos of new officers cind
award winners, page 9.
Outstanding progress reports,
honors and awards—including
two Silver Beavers—and installa
tion of new officers highlighted
the annual Boy Scout Recogni
tion Dinner of the Moore district
held at the Armory Thursday
night of last week.
Some 800 men and women.
Scouts and Scouters, jammed the
banquet hall at colorfully decora
ted tables on which lavish “pot-
Iqck” suppers had been spread.
Continuation of the past few
years’ steady progress was seen
in the report of retiring chairman
J. B. Perkinson, that 1,200 boys
are now participating in the pro
gram, up from 1,051 last year.
Registered Scouters number 450,
up from about 400. New units
showed a net gain of 10, for a to
tal of 68—19 Cub packs, 30 Boy
Scout troops and 19 Explorer
posts. The figures last year were
17, 24, 17.
Mr. Perkinson received a spe-
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JOHN A. McPHAUL
1961 Districl Chairman
cial award fiom the Council for
meritorious service during the
past year.
John Shutt, of Raleigh, Council
executive, installed the 1961 of
ficers: chairman, John McPhaul
of Southern Pines; first, second
and third vice-chairmen, Richard
Self of Robbins, J. Douglas David
of Pinebluff and J. B. Perkinson
of Southern Pines; commissioner.
Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst,
who was returned to the office he
has held for several years.
The Silver Beaver, highest
Council award for distinguished
volunteer service, went to David
Drexel and Joe E. Sandlin, both
of Southern Pines.
W. Lamont Brown, chairman of
|.he special awards committee,
presented the coveted award to
Drexel, a young man who, in only
about five years of dedicated
Scouting, h.as achieved national,
eminence. After imaginative and
effective service as leadership
training chairman and camping
chairman on the district level, and
active troop leadership at Phil-
mont, the national Boy Scout
(Continued on page 9) i
The Sandhills Kiwanis Club’s
Builder’s Cup will be awarded
Friday night at the Carolina
Hotel, Pinehurst, to some Moore
County citizen for “unselfish per
sonal service without hope of per
sonal gain.”
The recipient is always a care
fully guarded secret before the
annual awarding ceremony.
The meeting, which is also the
club’s Ladies Night, with enter
tainment, door prizes and other
festivities, will begin at 7:15 p.m.
The award has been made since
1927, when the late John R. Mc
Queen was the first recipient.
There have been a few years
when there has been no award.
Recent recipients include; Mrs.
T. A. Cheatham, 1959; John S.
Ruggles, 1958; John F. Taylor,
1957; the late Sheriff C. J. Mc
Donald, 1956; and Richard S.
Tufts, 1955.
The cup is for a citizen’s com
munity service over a period of
years, not simply in the year pre
ceding the award.
Christmas Lights
Go On; Jaycees
Sponsor Contests
Twenty-seven cedar Christmas
trees have been placed and light
ed along both sides of Broad St.
by volunteer workers from the
Junior Chamber of Commerce ov
er the past two weeks. The lights
were turned on for the first time
Monday night. Norris Hodgkins,
Jr., is chairman for the project.
The Jaycees also announced
this week that the club again will
sponsor Christmas house lighting
and business window decoration
contests. J. P. Marley, Jr., is
chairman of this project.
The big magnolia tree at the
corner of N. W. Broad St. and
Pennsylvania Ave., decorated
with lights each year by the Sou
thern Pines Garden Club, was"
turned on within the past week.
Mr. Hodgkins said that a cam
paign for funds to pay for the tree
lighting project has brought in
about $300 toward a goal of $500
needed. He asked merchants who.
have not responded to send in
contributions. He said the Jaycees
have received a number of favor
able comments on the new light
ing method.
In each division of the home
and business lighting contest, win
ner will receive an $8 check and
runner-up $5, Mr. Marley said.
Originality, colorfulness and
theme will be the main points of
interest judged in each contest.
Judges will be chosen from out
side the Jaycees.
Th contests run until midnight,
December 24.
ATTEND RALEIGH DINNER
State Rep. H. Clifton Blue of
Aberdeen and John D. McConnell
of Southern Pines, State Demo
cratic Committee secretary, at
tended the “Appreciation Night”
dinner for Gov. Luther H. Hodges
in Raleigh Tuesday. Voit Gilmore
of Southern Pines, a member of
the State Board of Conservation
and Development, who was en-
route home from Antarctica Tues
day, was unable to attend the din
ner but a message from him was
read at the assembly of hundreds
of persons present to honor the
Governor.