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VOL. 41—NO. 14
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Man Killed, Another Critically Hurt in
Estimated IGO-Miles-PerrHour Wreck
Excessive speed was seen as
the cause of a on,a-car accident
near Eagle Springs Saturday in
which a 1955 Olds sedan was
violently snapped in two against
a , tree, and the two occupants
thrown out, one to his death.
Emmitt Edward Willard, 25,
of the Crossroads community of
Robbins, died soon after arrival
at Moore Memorial Hospital.
He was the fourth highway fa
tality in Moore County in 1961.
Aubrey Douglas Purvis, 30, of
Robbins was critically hurt, with
both legs broken, chest crushed
and other injuries. Three days
later, a hospital surgeon said
that, while under the circum
stances his condition could be
termed “satisfactory,” it contin
ued critical.
Both men were literally scalp-
BLUE KNIGHTS WIN
Tournament
Getting Hot
By JOEL STUTTS
Three semi-finals contests, in
file 34th annual Moore County
Basketball Tournament are sla
ted tonight (Thursday) at Carth
age.
Robbins boys will face Aber
deen in the first game at 6:30.
Pinehurst girls will play High-
falls at 7:30. And Southern Pines
boys will take on Carthage at
8:30 in the last contest.
The tournament moved to Car
thage last night, after opening
rounds played at Cameron Fru-
day, Saturday, Monday and
Tuesday. Finals will be played
Saturday night.
Scoring wins in the first round
were Vass-Lakeview, Cameron
and Robbins girls and Highfalls,
Vass-Lakeview and Aberdeen
boys. In the second round, the
winners were Pinehurst, Robbins
and Carthage girls, and Carth
age, Southern Pines, Robbins and
Aberdeen boys.
Southern Pines boys won their
berth in tonight’s semi-finals
with a 95-68 victory over High
falls last night.
In other games last night,
Highfalls girls edged out Vass-
Lakeview, 38-37, and Robbins
girls beat Carthage, 65-60.
Winning their 14th straight
contest last night, the Southern
Pines Blue Knights set up an
early lead over Highfalls and led
46-32 at the half. Four of the
Knights scored in double figures
—Williford 24, Bristow 19, Rose
18 and Marcum 17.
For Highfalls, the top scorers
were Mashburn 28, Shields 13,
Phillips 10 and Maness 9.
In the Highfalls - Vass-Lake-
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ed. More than 200 stitches were
taken in Purvis’s head and face.
. Investigating Patrolman T. S.
Clark estimated the car was trav
eling 100 miles per hour, or
more, toward Robbins about two
miles from Eagle Springs, when
it went out of control on a curve,
veered to the left and then to
the right, clipped off a power
pole and then cr ished into a
large tree in the yard of the J.
T. Brewer home.
The car broke in two, the back
end clinging to the tree while
the front end was flung 23 feet
farther on to smash into another
tree, hitting limbs some 10 to 12
feet off the groimd.
The two men were hurled for
ward some 30 feet, beyond the
second tree.
The car was out of control for
614 feet altogether, said Patrol
man Clark, noting that only the
trees it hit kept it from crash
ing into the living room of the
Brewer home, where a member
of the family sat watching tele
vision.
The two parts of the car were
removed by two different wreck
ers, each one hardly recogniz
able as what it was.
Patrolman Clark said after the
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Work Started on 2
Major Building Jobs
42-Unit Motel, | Telephone Co.
To Move Offiees
SMOKING RUINS of the “old polo barn” at
Pinehurst are being worked over by firemen
after the barn burned Tuesday morning. The
small building at left was saved. Fireman at
left center is dragging out smouldering hay and
feed left in the collapsed and gutted barn sec
tion shown in background. (Photo by R. ’White)
Fire Destroys Old Pinehurst Barn
Chairmen Named
For Easter Seal
Sale in County
Executive committee members
and community campaign chair
man for the Moore County chap
ter of the North Carolina Society
for Crippled Children and Adults
have been announced by Mrs.
William Wood of Pinebluff, coun
ty president.
The Society’s annual Easter
Seal campaign, with a goal of
$3,500 in Moore County, will take
place during the month before
Easter.
The executive committee mem
bers are: Mrs. Graham Culbreth
of Southern Pines, vice-president;
Mrs. William Allen of Southern
Pines, secretary; George Hodg
kins of Southern Pines, treasurer;
Mrs. Walter Davenport of Pine-
bluff, publicity director; and Dr.
Emily Tufts of Pinehurst and
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Fire swept through a barn
housing 40 valuable standard
bred horses at Pinehurst Tues
day morning. All the animals
were saved, though the barn, ex
cept for a small section, was de
stroyed in the blaze.
A spokesman for Pinehurst,
Inc., owner of the property, es
timated the loss at $20,000, fully
covered by insurance—though it
is doubtful that the 42-year-old
structure could be rebuilt for
that amount today.
Lost in the fine were hay, feed,
sulkies, “jog carts,” harness and
other “tack” belonging to several
stables whose trotters and pac
ers, in training at Pinehurst for
the winter season, were housed
in the barn.
The two-story structure was
known as the “old polo barn,” a
name derived from its having
been the barn for polo ponies
when that game was popular at
Pinehurst before World War II.
Origin of the fire was attribu
ted by firemen to an oil stove in
a closed tack room in the reeir of
the barn. An eye-witness said
that a man working with a horse
Board Okays Agriculture Building
The county commissioners,
meeting at Carthage yesterday,
made the unanimous decision to
proceed with the building of the
new Moore County Agricultural
Building.
They decided they would fin
ish the building completely, in
cluding the full ground floor de
signed to be used for the Library,
and would air-condition it all.
They still, however, could not
pick out low bids among those
which were recently opened, as
several alternatives remained in day in March.
regard to materials. W. Calvin
Howell, representing the archi
tectural firm of Hayes, Howell
& Associates in Southern Pines,
said it would take more work to
determine the * combination of
bids which would be low.
■In the absence of County-At
torney M. G. Boyette, the com
missioners left this to a confer
ence between him and the archi
tect, with the actual letting of
contracts to be made at their
regular meeting, the first Mon
in one section ol the barn smell
ed smoke, traced it to the tack
room and, on opening the door of
the room, found it full of smoke
and flame. There was a fire ex
tinguisher in another section of
the barn, this, man reported, but
it could not be brought to the
scene before the fire had broken
out of the tack room into the
main section of the barn.
Stock in the barn belonged to
A. L. Dixon, Joe Clohossey, E.
Gray and George Roundy. It was
also reported that the Morris
MacDonald Stable and Trainers
Earl Avery, Clyde Gigge qjnd
Franklin Safford had a few
horses stabled there.
The fire, breaking out between
8 and 9 a. m., found most of the
stable personnel on hand to help
get the horses out, as the wet and
rainy morning had postponed the
usual early workouts for the
animals.
Pinehurst volunteer firemen
responded to the alarm and per
formed valuable service in sav
ing nearby buildings. The per
sonnel of the stables joined the
firemen in fighting the blaze.
The fire caught quickly in the
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Steak House To
Be Constructed
Grading was begun during the
past week at the site of a new
motel and restaurant to be con
structed between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen on the east
side of No. 1 highway, near the
intersection of Highways 15-501-
211.
W. T. Huntley, Jr., said today
that he has leased six acres of
land there to W. B. Rice of Ra
leigh who will construct a 42-
unit motel and a “Steak House”
restaurant.
B. W. Carter of Clinton is the
contractor and Grover P. Snow
of Raleigh is the architect.
Six to eight months will be re
quired for completion of the
structures, Mr. Huntley said.
Included in the plan is a swim
ming pool 50 feet by 90 feet in
size.
The transaction includes all
the former Starview Drive-In
Theatre property. Mr. Huntley
said that he has sold the theatre
equipment to a buyer from this
area who plans to set up a thea
tre at a different location.
Rain slowed down work at the
site this week.
The property leased has a
frontage of 325 feet on No. 1 high
way, Mr. Huntley said, and runs
back to the old No. 1 highway
(Poplar St. Aberdeen, Extension)
where it has a frontage of 650
feet.
No name has yet been chosen
for the motel, Mr. Huntley said.
To Pa. Ave. Site
Work has begun at the site of
a new building for the commer
cial, accounting and general of
fices of the United Telephone
Company of the Carolinas, Inc.,
E. W. Smail of Southern Pines,
company president, said this
week..
The building, a one-story
structure with 6,300 square feet
of floor space, will be located on
the north-east corner of Pennsyl
vania Ave. and Leak St. The lot
is 192 by 192 feet in size.
The administrative and office
departments of tha company will
be in the new building, Mr.
Smail said. The “central offices”
—^the mechanical equipment cen
ter—of the company will remain
at its E. New Hampshire Ave.
location.
Th.3 new building will be ap
proximately 88 by 76 feet in size.
J. J. Croft of Asheboro is the ar
chitect and J. P. Pfeiffer pf
Rockingham is the contractor.
The company’s accounting,
commercial and general offices
are now located on S. E. Broad
St. Inadequate space there is the
reason for moving to the new
building, Mr. Smail said.
The United Telephone Com
pany of the Carolinas operates in
a number of communities of cen
tral North Carolina and in an
area of South Carolina. Offices
for the entire operation are in
Southern Pines and will be hous
ed in the new building.
In Moore County, United Tele
phone serves the entire county
except for independent telephone
companies serving the Aberdeen,
Pinebluff and West End areas.
MANY SPECTATORS VIEW COLORFUL EVENTS
Little Trip Wins 3rd Championship in Trials
‘Moon Is Blue’ to
Open Tonight
Presentation of “The Moon Is
Blue” tonight (Thursday) at 8:40
will open the 10-week season of
the Pinehurst Playhouse at the
former Carolina Theatre in Pine
hurst.
This production and others to
follow will run Thursday
through Sunday nights each
week. ’The production for next
week, March 2-5, is “Streetcar
Named Desire” by TennesS'-'e
Williams, to be followed the fol
lowing week by “All for Mary.”
Donald Filippelli is the pro
ducer. The Pinehurst Playhouse
will have the only professional
Broadway Equity Union com
pany in North Carolina this win
ter.
The Playhouse- has been exten
sively advertised and it is ex
pected that audifences will be
composed of persons from a wide
area in central North Carolina.
FORUM TONIGHT
A piano recital by Ivan Davis,
29-year-old winner of the first
Franz Liszt piano competition
last year, will be heard by mem
bers of the Pinehurst Forum and
their guests in the Pinehurst
Country Club tonight at 8:45. A
buffet supper at tho club will
precede the concert.
Lakelawn Farm’s grand old
hunter. Little Trip, added to his
laurels Saturday afternoon by
winning the championship—for
the third time—and also, for the
second consecutive year, the
Field Hunter Challenge Trophy,
at the 29th annual Hunter Trials
of the Moore County Hounds.
Over 1,000 spectators, obvious
ly enjoying themselves to the
full, attended the event held at
Scotts Corners, the traditional
trial grounds. Rain threatened
throughout the cloudy, windy
afternoon but held off till after
the final event when it was near
ly dark.
Past 10 years old. Little Trip
pawed the ground excitedly as
if he had never won before, as
his rider Ed Daniels received the
championship trophy from the
donor, Mrs. M. G. Walsh. The
white-socked chestnut gelding
from D- W. Winkelman’s stable
was the dean of hunters that day,
the others all ranging from four
to eight years old.
Winning second in two classes,
he was eligible with all first and
second place winners to compete
in the championship class, over
a special course led by a field-
master, Max Bonham, and was
adjudged the best. Reserve cham
pion was Starland Farms’ First
Attempt, ridden by Lloyd P.
Tate.
The Field Hunter Challenge
Trophy, instituted only last year,
goes to the horse which has hunt-
^ “fairly and regularly” with
the Moore County Hounds dur
ing the current year.
With a total of about 60 entries
in all classes, these were the best
and biggest Hunter Trials in the
history of the event. No spills
marred the day. Only blemish
was that Mrs. W. O. Moss, Hunt
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Heart Fund
Drive Opens
Dr. Emily Tufts, Pinehurst
physician who is heading the
fund campaign of the Moore
County Heart Council, said this
week that the drive is now open
in this county, but that she has
been so busy with a county-wide
measles epidemic that she hasn’t
been able to , get out appeal let
ters.
The Moore County organiza
tion is a unit of the North Caro
lina and American Heart Assoc
iations which conduct research
in the cause hnd alleviation of
heart and circulatory ailments.
Appeal letters are expected to
go out within the next two weeks.
Dr. Tufts said, but noted that
persons wishing to contribute
now can send checks to her or
to the treasurer, Roderick Innes,
at the Carolina Bank, Pinehurst.
Gov. Terry Sanford has desig
nated February as “Heart Month
in North Carolina,” urging citi
zens to give the campaign their
enthusiastic support and coopera
tion.
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TROPHY WINNERS — Little Trip of D. W. Winkelman’s
Lakelawn Farm, at left above, was chosen champion of the Hun
ter Trials held here Saturday and also was awarded, for the sec
ond successive year, the Field Hunter Trophy for the hunter who
has given the best and safest performance during the season’s
hunting. Mrs. H. E. Walsh, second from right, donor of the tro
phy, is presenting it here to Mrs. Ed Daniels who has ridden
.Little Trip during the season. At right is Ed Daniels, Lakelawn
Farm trainer, who rode Little Trip in the Hunter Trials. The
Savannah Hunt Team, winner of the Hunt Team class at the
Hunter Trials, is pictured at right. Left to right, Mrs. Warner
Atkins on her Colonel Crow, Gene Cunningham on Rapid Creek,
and Miss Mary Svyan Sprague on Blythewood. The latter two
horses are owned by Miss Sprague, of Savannah, Ga., who is
hunting with the Moore County Hounds this winter, stabling
her horses at Mrs. Mary Doyle’s Economy Farm. (Humphrey
photos)
Offices of Three
Local Firms Move
The Storey Lumber Co. and
Howard Johnson offices were
moved Monday from the second
floor 6f the Graves Building on
E. Pennsylvania Ave. to a new
office building constructed for
the companies behind the How
ard Johnson restaurant, between
Southern Pines and Aberdeen.
The Graves Insurance Co. then
moved from the first floor to
occupy the former Storey offices,
and the Courts and Co. broker
age office moved,,from the build
ing next door into the former
Graves Insurance offices.
The small building formerly
occupied by Courts and Co. is
now vacant, for sale by the own
er, Mrs. George W. Matheson.
Lionel Callaway, Golf
Pro, Now at Pinehurst
Lionel Callaway, brother of
Harold Callaway, head golf pro
fessional at the Pinehurst Coun
try Club, has been employed as
a pro at the 'club. He comes to
Pinehurst from Fort Lauderdale,
Fla.
Moore to Benefit
In Distribution ^
Of Surplus Food
Moore county will share in the
federal surplus foods program,
by decision of the county com
missioners in a special meeting
with county welfare authorities
at Carthage yesterday.
Authorizing the filing, of the
formal application, they left the
working out of distribution plans
to the welfare board and super
intendent, Mrs. W. B. Cols.
Mrs. Cole said there are many
Moore families on the welfare
rolls who will benefit greatly by
the program, which will not af
fect their regular subsistence
checks.
The’ program, endorsed by'
President Kennedy and made
possible by Congressional action,
will use food staples from gov
ernment warehouses.
North Carolina’s participation
was insured by an appropriation
of $60,000 by the General Assem
bly, and the county commission
ers told the welfare board they
would take care of local costs.
Commissioner W. S. Taylor re
ported that storage space had al
ready been offered by the Aber
deen & Rockfish Railroad, also
some refrigerated space had
been promised by a private firm
for butter.
50 Sandpipers
Play in Tourney
Fifty members of the Sand
pipers, men’s golfing organiza
tion at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club, turned out over the
weekend for the group’s first
tournament of the year, a score
less-handicap event.
First, second and third place
winners in the three classes
were:
Class A—Jack Carter, Carlos
Frye and Bill Purcell.
Class B—Joe Montesanti, Jr.,
Fred Pollard and Bud Rainey.
Class C—Gene McKenzie,
Dave Ginsburg and Bobby von-
Canon.