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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961
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W inter Hits Sandhills,
Area’s Schools Closed
Sleet and freezing rain contin
ued to fall today on top of a light
blanket of snow that covered the
Sandhills last night. Sub-freezing
temperatures prevailed.
Travel conditions were so bad
this morning that the Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and Moore Coun
ty school systems called off sch aol
for the day.
Traffic was light in town and
on the highways, and no serious
accidents had been reported in
the area up to noon today.
Service stations and garages
did a brisk business in tire chains.
as no immediate relief in the icy
conditions was apparent.
The snow and sleet climaxed a
week of temperatures in which
the low reading for each day nev
er rose above freezing.
Record ' temperature of the
week and of the winter so far
was nine degrees above zero early
Sunday morning, according to of
ficial Weather Bureau records
maintained at the Radio Station
WEEB studios on Midland Road.
A low of 16 was registered for
both this morning and yesterday
morning. Monday’s low was 20
and last Saturday’s 19.
Mickey Walsh Is Leading Hunt Racing
Tk ainer of 1960; T. Walsh Top Rider
Michael G. (Mickey)
owner of Stoneybrook
here, was the nation’s leading
hurdle and steeplechase trainer,
in terms of money won by horses
he saddled, according to figures
released this week b> the United
Hunts Racing Association. Walsh-
traihed mounts won $129,977 last
year.
Also, Tommy Walsh, 20-year-
old nephew of the leading train
er, was rated by the Association
as the top rider of the sport, boot
ing home 31 winners of the 138
he accepted during the year. The
figure includes 29 victories over
obstacles and two on the flat at
hunt race meetings..
Running second to Mickey
Walsh in money won by winners
trained v;as D. M. (Mike) Smith-
wick, with $101,609. Horses
trained by Smithwick won more
races than those trained by Walsh,
but their earnings were not so
high.
A Walsh-owned horse helped
to boost the total in' one of the
greatest races of the circuit in
1960. Mrs. M. G. Walsh’s Sky’s
Rhythm won the $10,000 L. E.
Stoddard, Jr., event at Belmont
Park, defeating the highly favor
ed Our Jeep. This stake is run on
a one and seven-eights mile hur
dle course and is exclusively for
three-year-olds.
At the same Belmont Park
meeting, the local trainer saddled
Nautilus, from the farm of Mrs.
Lawrence W. Knapp, Jr., aj Ligo-
Walsh, nier, Pa., to win the $15,000 added
Stables | New York Turf Writers Cup over
hurdles.
Nautilus, a four-year-old, won
'five races in a row during the
1960 season and has been called
“the ’chaser to watch in 1961.”
y/alsh-trained horses raced at
nearly all of the hunt meetings
and at all of the major courses
where hurdle and steeplechase
racing is fostered. Earnings on
the flat of many winners he sad
dled are not included in the $129,-
97^ figure.
A Smithwick also was second
to Tommy Walsh in the races-won
category. A. P. (Paddy) Smith
wick had 21 triumphs over jumps
and five on the flat at hunt race
meetings for a total of 26.
Benguala, of Mrs. Marion du-
Pont Scott’s Montpelier Stables,
earned $71,$65 in 1960 to become
steeplechase champion money
winner; and that stable was tops
in its class, with $101,419 in win
nings by horses racing under its
colors last year. Benguala Was the
Temple Gwathmey Handicap
winner at Belmont Park.
HONORED — W. P. Saunders, right, receives from Forrest
Lockey of Aberdeen, chairman of a welcome-home committee,
an engraved silver bowl recognizing Mr. Saunders’s “outstanding
and unselfish” service as director of the N. C. Department of
Conservation and Development from December 15, 1955, to Jan
uary 9 of this year. In the background are Mr. Saunders’s daugh
ter, Mrs. Ralph Barnhardt, of Raeford, and her ll-year-old daugh
ter, Elizabeth. (Hemmer photo)
225 ATTEND DINNER
Girl Seoul Event Set;
Cookie Sale to Start
The annual dinner meeting,
with installation of officers and
recognition of service of adult
leaders, of the Central Carolina
Girl Scout Council—covering
troops in Moore, Lee, Chatham
and Harnett Counties—will be
held Monday evening at the First
Baptist Church in Sanford. The
annual Girl Scout cookie sale, to
provide better .camping oppor
tunities, will begin throughout the
council Monday.
HEMMER HONORED
John C. Hemmer of Pine-
hursl, well known photogra
pher, last night was named
"Lion of the Year'' and pre
sented the annual Achieve-
fnent Award of the Pinehurst
Lions Club, at a ladies night
dinner at the Pinehurst Coun
try Club,
Mr. Hemmer, honored by
the award for community ser
vice, is a charter member of
the club.
Cerebral Palsy
Drive Still on;
Over $900 Given
A little over $900 toward a goal
of $1,500 in the Moore County
United Cerebral Palsy drive was
reported this week by Mrs. Paul
B. Boroughs, Jr., of Southern
Pines, county chairman for the
community campaigns. Reports
have not been received from sev
eral of the communities, she said.
Expressing her thanks to the
more than 50 persons who help
ed with the campaign in South
ern Pines, Mrs. Boroughs said
that some areas of the town had
not been covered in the house-
to-house canvass and that anyone
wishing to contribute can send
a check made out to United Cere
bral Palsy to hel at 160 E. Massa
chusetts Ave. I
Cerebral palsy funds go to aid
victims of this affliction, which
is caused by brain damage, and
to research in its cause and alle
viation.
W. P. Saunders Receives
Big Welcome By Friends
At a welcome-home surprise ■ the General Assembly, presided,
dinner in the Mid Pines Club; praising Mr. Saunder’s “magnif-
Monday night, some 225 persons
from all sections of Moore Coun
ty and Hoke County gathered to
welcome William P. Saunders
back to permanent residence after
more than five years as director
of the N. C. Department of Con
servation and Development in
Raleigh.
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
Moore County representative in
Theatre in the Pines
Group Meets Tonight
Persons interested in any phase
of theatrical work are invited to
meet tonight (Thursday) in the
courtroom of the town hall at 8
p. m. when, the steering committee
of The Theatre in the Pines will
announce the name Of the amateur
drama group’s next production
to be presented in March. •
FORMERLY OF CHARLOTTE
Lockermans Open New Optical Shop
Podiatry Group
To Convene Here
From Five States
Members of the podiatry-chir
opody profession from the five
states of the Eighth zone of the
American Podiatry Association
will gather here this weekend for
the Fifth Mid-Winter Scientifir
Conclave of the North Carolina
Podiatry Society.
Featured speaker will be Dr.
John T. Sharp, professor of podo
pediatrics at Temple University
College of Chiropody for the past
20 years. '
Dr. Calvin E. Eruce of Fayette
ville is the convention chairman.
Dr. D. W. Mann of Southern Pines
is an active member of the Socie
ty.
icent record” as the C & D direc
tor and crediting that record as
“enabling North Carolina to have
a member in President Kennedy’s
cabinet”—referring to the ap
pointment of former Gov. Luther
H. Hodges as Secretary of Com
merce.
The state’s industrial develop
ment progranVone of the feathers
in the cap of the Hodges admin
istration, was administered by
the C & D Department which was
headed by Mr. Saunders.
In his words of welcome to Mr.
Saunders, who has a home here,
Mr. Blue said, “We have no
thought to welcome him back to
a life of retirement. We’ll grant
him some fishing and golfing
time, but will still look to him to
help solve our daily problems and
our problems of the ‘New Fron
tier’.”
Mr. Saunders, escorted to the
Mid Pines Club by Forrest Lock
ey of Aberdeen, a longtime friend
and a former member of the State
Highway Commision, on another
pretext, seemed genuinely sur
prised at the event.
“Nobody said a word,” he not
ed with amazement, later.
Leading citizens of various
areas of Moore County, who rose
to pay tribute to Mr. Saunders in
informal talks, as called on by
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Alleged ‘Monkey
Burglar’ To Be
Tried Next Week
A 19-year-old' ex-convict, ac
cused of being Aberdeen’s
“monkey burglar” of last sum
mer and fall, faces trial at next
week’s tei’m of Superior Court on
10 counts of breaking and enter
ing and • larceny at Aberdeen
stores.
Of 24 warrants for-which bills
will- go before the Grand Jury,
10 are against Eddie Lee Harri
son of Addor, allegedly respon
sible for the forays which plagued
Aberdeen police over a period of
weeks.
Police Chief A. F. Dees said
riarriscin—whom he scaled a wall
to catch in the act, the night of
November 22—admitted to at
least 16 such crimes. But, said
the Chief, “we thought 10 war
rants were enough.’’
Harrison allegedly scaled walls,
clambered over rooftops and
broke skylights and windows to
entef the stores, where he hunted
for cash. Failing to find any, he
would take nothing, or pick up
small objects, which are easily
carried off. Seven of these were
transistor radios, stolen in three
separate entries into the Brown’s
Auto Supply Store. None of the
stolen merchandise was recover
ed.
Harrison is also charged with
breaking into Burney Hardware
three times, Aberdeen Hardware
twice and McCrummen’s Drug
Store and McLean Furniture
Store one time each. The warrants
cover acts of the nights of Aug
ust 23, August 28, September 8,
September 17, November 1 and
November 22.
Harrison had previously served
a prison term for breaking and
entering, for which he was ap
prehended by Dees who was at
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North-South Service
At Airport Assured;
Will Start March 24
BLOOD CAN BE
GIVEN MONDAY
(More information in
editoried, page 2)
A quota of 245 pints has
been set for a blood collection
to be made here Monday,
(January 30) by a bloodmo-
bile from the Red Cross -cen
ter at Charlotte.
The collection will lake
place at St. Anthony's School
from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., said
John F. Buchholz, chairman
of the Moore County Red
Cross blood program and al
so co-chmrman. with D. A.
(June) Blue. Jr., of the Mon
day collection.
Mr. Buchholz appealed for
public cooperation, pointing
out that blood given in var
ious communities of Moore
County makes it possible for
the county's two hospitals to
get blood of any type prompt
ly from the Charlotte center.
A total of 1,250 pints of
blood per year has been
pledged from the county to
meet the needs of both hos- ^
pitals. he said, but actual col
lections run far behind the-
pledges. «
Games Scheduled
So Students Can
Get Home Earlier
(Editorial, page 2)
Basketball games to be played
by the East Southern Pines High
School teams Friday night and on
Friday night of next week will
begin at 7 p.m., rather than 7:30,
Glenn Cox, high school principal,
said this week.
The advance in game time is
an experiment, the principal said,
to see if the earlier schedule will
get students home earlier after
the games. He said there had been
complaints from parents that stu
dents returned too late after the
double-header night games.
The boys’ and girls’ games this
Friday night are with teams from
Farm Life school and those next'
week are with Robbins.
The games Tuesday night of
next week will be played away,
so that the local school cannot
regulate the starting time.
“The 7 p.m. starting time should
get students home a half hour
earlier,” Mr. Cox said.
Robert MacDonald
To Play Saturday
In Piano Concert
Compositions of Mozart, Ravel,
Beethovep, Chopin and Mous-,
sorgsky will be played by Rob
ert MacDonald, concert pianist, in
a recital at Weaver Auditorium
Saturday night.
Starting at 8 p.m., the recital
is sponsored by the Southern
Pines Rotary Club, with proceeds
to go to the club’s civic service
projects.
The Southern Pines audience
will have a preview of a recital
to be given by Mr. MacDonald
on February 2 ^ the Carnegie Re
cital Hall in New York City. He
conies to Southern Pines after
several years of successful tours
in Europe—where he studied jand
played professionally—and in the
United States. \
The Southern Pines concert
was arranged by a personal friend
of Mr. MacDonald, John McPhaul,
who is a member of the Roiary
Club here. In information sent to
Mr. McPhaul by Mr. MacDonald
the pianist points out that Rotary
is very active in the arts field, a
'fact recognized internationally.
The outstanding concert pianist
of Vienna, where Mr. MacDonald
lived for some time, is Paul
Badura-Skoda who, he said, is an
active member of the Rotary Club
there. Mr. MacDonald also recall
ed that a friend of his was study
ing opera production in Vienna
on a Rotary scholarship. \
The pianist is the son of Mr
and Mrs. K. MacLaurin MacDon
ald of Dillon County, S. C., and
a brother of Donald MacDonald pf
Charlotte who is known in this
state as a newspaperman and
head of the Clan Donald. The
family is widely known and con
nected in central and Eastern
North Carolina and Saturday
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Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Lockerman
have opened an optical shop,
Lockerman Dispensing Optician,
at 117 W. Pennsylvania Ave. in
the Pines Realty Building. The
services offered, beside the filling
of prescriptions and repairs to
frames, include all types of visual
aids, contact lenses, and special
children’s frames and equipment
for infants.
Mr. Lockerman attended the
public schools of Unadilla, Ga.,
and received his training in op-
ticianry at the American Optical
Co. in Macon, Ga. He subsequent
ly worked as a dispensing opti
cian in Richmond, Va., and in
Lumberton. Since 1947 he has
owned and conducted his own
firm in Charlotte.
Mrs. Lockerman is the former
Benita Bass of Milledgeville, Ga.
She is a graduate of the Georgia
State College for Women and
Peabody College in Nashville,
Tenn. She taught in the city
schools of Charlotte for eight
years and since 1956 has assisted
Mr. Lockerman in the practice
of optical dispensing.
Mr. Lockerman was certified by
the Guild of Prescription Opti
cians of America in 1953 and is
a member of the North Carolina
Opticians’ Society.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Lockerman
hold certifications from the
Vaughn Contact Lens Company
of Raleigh.
The LockermanS are living at
875 N. Leak St.
A long-sought air service that
will link the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst Airport to Raleigh-
Durham Airport, to begin March
24, was authorized this week
when the Civil Aeronautics Board
announced at Washington, D. C.,
that it had awarded to Piedmont
Airlines a route formeitly flown
by Capital Airlines between Nor
folk, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn.
The local airport, now served
by Piedmont with east-west
flights only (to Fayetteville and
Charlotte), had not been served
by Capital, but the authorization
to add Southern Pines-Pinehurst
to the route was made by the
CAB as result of strorig requests
for such service from this area,
I with the cooperation of Piedmont
Airlines. Voit Gilmore, Southern
Pines businessman and member
of the N. C. Board of Conservation
and Development, testified for
need of the north-south service
at a CAB hearing in Washington
about a year ago.
Qualified
The new authorization is qual
ified to this extent:
1. For Southern Pines-Pine-
hurst, the service will remain sea
sonal—October 1 to- April 30—
although this is subject to revision
if traffic warrants year-around
service.
2. The entire route is authoriz
ed under the CAB’s new “use it
or lose it” rule, by which com
munities on the route must pro
vide an average, of five passengers
pdr day during an 18-month per
iod or lose the service.
Under the ruling, Piedmont is
authorized to make three round-
trip flights daily over the new
route.
Mr. Gilmore said he had talked
to Tom Davis df Winston-Salem,
president of Piedmont, after the
ruling, and that Mr. Davis said
that at least two such flights
could be assured to Southern
Pines-Pinehurst.
Connection
Mr. Davis also said that the
schedules would be set up so that
a late afternoon flight north out
of Pinehurst-Southern Pines
would provide a fast, head-on
connection with an Eastern Air
lines flight to New York City,
permitting visitors in the Sand
hills to put in nearly a full day
of recreation here and still be in
New York the same night.
Mr. Gilmore said that Mr. Davis
expressed no concern about the
Sandhills not being able to pro
vide the required volume of traf-
fic.
The route runs Norfolk to Eliz
abeth City (temporarily suspend
ed) to Rocky Mount, to Raleigh-;
Durham, splitting there and run
ning to Southern Pines-Pinehurst
to Charlotte or to Greensboro,
Winston-Salem and to Charlotte
—then to Hickory, Asheville and
Knoxville.
Farm Life First Over
Quota in Dimes March
Farm Life community, with a
quota of $50, reported $78 collect
ed this week in the Moore County
March of Dimes, first community
in the county to top its quota, said
Frank McCaskill, Moore drive
chairman. Paul C. Butler, local
chairman, reports about half of
the $1,750 quota in. Mr. McCas
kill asks that all chairmen report
if possible by February 1.
NO EXTENSION EXPECTED
YOUNG MAN OF THE YEAR — David A.
Drexel, second from right, holds the Disting
uished Service Award of the Southern Pines
Junior Chamber of Commerce given annually
to a “Young Man of the Year” who has been
outstanding in community service during the
previous year. Others in the photo, left to right:
Dr. J. C. Currie, Jr., president of the Jaycees;
W. Lament Brown, who made the presentation.
chairman of a committee of older citizens who
made the selection from nominations by the
public; and George Morrison who was in charge
of arrangements for the “Bosses’ Night” dinner
at which the award was made, last week. Mr.
Drexel was honored for his service to Boy
Scouting, St. Joseph’s Hospital and St. An
thony’s Catholic Church and for other aspects of
community service. (Humphrey photo)
Tuesday To Be Tax-Listing Deadline
Tue.sday, January 31, will be
the final day for .property owners
to list real and personal property
for 1961 county and town taxes,
without incurring a penalty.
No extension of the listing
period will be granted, said Mrs.
Estelle Wicker of Carthage, coun
ty tax supervisor. „
All real estate and personal
property, including automobiles,
must be listed. Listing with the
county automatically lists the
property for taxes by towns which
use the same valuations.
In McNeill Township, persons
living in Southern Pines should
list with Mrs. Irene Mullinix at
the Information Center. She will
be there from 9 a. m. to 5 p. ha.,
except on Saturday when she will
be at the Vass town hall. If nec
essary, Southern Pines persons
can list with her there.
Persons living outside town
limits in McNeill Township
should list with Mrs. D. J. Blue
of Route 3, Carthage.
The list takers in Sandhills
Township are Mrs. Adelaide
Schnell of Pinebluff and Mrs. Lee
Buchan of Aberdeen who are in
an office back of the Arey real es
tate and insurance company in
Aberdeen, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.
m.
Names and addresses of list tak-
res in other townships of the
county are posted in public places
or may be obtained from the tax
i supervisor’s office in Carthage.