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A little Queen
of Southern Pines for the next
year was crowned last Friday
night. Photo and story on page 5.
Pinebluff has
a new post office, only one in the
nation by that exact name. See
story and photo, page 3.
VOL. 41—NO. 19
SIXTEEN PAGES
Governor Notes
Importance of
Woods Resources
Speaking at a forest manage
ment and wood utilization de
monstration on a portion of the
W. O. Moss woodlands, across
from the former Notre Dame
Academy property, out Youngs
Road, Gov. Terry Sanford said
Wednesday that his administra
tion is devoted to development
of all the resources of North Ca
rolina, including forest resources,
and that the aim of the' people of
the state should be “to produce
the most posible from what has
been given us by Natu re.”’.
The Governor, originally not
scheduled on the program, topped
a long list of political, business,
industrial and government-ser
vice luminaries, from in and out
of North Carolina, who took
part in the day’s activities which
were sponsored by the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad. Between 800
and 900 persons attended ithe de
monstration.
This state is not using half of
its forest development potential.
Governor Sanford said, ‘‘so we
can double our efforts.” He urged
FFA 4-H and Boy Scout groups
to plant pine seedlings and said
that these seedlings are immedia-
ely available, with only about a
week left in the planting season.
The Governor spoke shortly
after .lOon to an audience stand
ing or! '.itting in a grove of . pines,
from a platform on which were
seated L. Y. Ballentine, N. C.
commissioner of agriculture; Sea
board President John W. Smith
and Assistant Vice President
Warren T. White; Fred Claridge,
state forester; John Tower of
New York City, vice president of
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Putters Given
To Visitors as
ft* ^Keys to Town’
Two golf putters—given by the
Town of Southern Pines in place
of the traditional “key to the
city”—were presented by mayor
R. S. Ewing Tuesday night in con
nection with the forest manage
ment and wood utilization demon
stration sponsored here by the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Wed
nesday.
At a dutch-treat dinner in the
Southern Pines Country Club, at
tended by some 150 visiting in
dustrialists, Seaboard officials,
professional foresters, county and
town officials, local businessmen
and others, the putters were
given to John W. Smith, Sea
board president; and John Tower
of New York City, vice president
of the International Paper Co.
who was principal speaker at the
demonstration site a few miles
from town on Youngs Road Wed
nesday.
Presentation of the putters,
which are made by Roy Grinnell,
golf professional at the Southern
Pines Country Club and are en
graved to suit the occasion, makes
the recipients “honorary citizens
of Southern Pines.”
Mayor Ewing extended a wel
come to the group on behalf of
the town council.
Other local residents speaking
at thp dinner were Voit Gilmore,
mem'ber of the State Board of
Conservation and Development,
who presented prizes in an in
formal golf tournament conduct
ed among the visitors on Sand
hills courses Tuesday afternoon,
and Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
chairman of the Southern Pines
Industrial Committee and mem
ber of the county Industrial Com
mittee, who told how several in
dustries have moved to the Sou
thern Pines area in the past few
years and said that industrializa
tion has not proved to conflict
with the resort interests of the
area. He noted suitability of the
Sandhills for light manufacturing
or office or research facilities.
NEWS LEFT OUT
Production difficulties in
The Pilot's shop this week
have resulted in necessity to
reduce the size of today's paper
and therefore leave out con
siderable news that had been
prepared for publicalion< The
Pilot regrets these omissioiii
and w411 publish next week
any news that is still pertinent.
CUP FINISH—Nearing the finish line of the
featured Sandhills Cup race Saturday, Hunt
Ball, at right, holds his stretch lead over Silver
Breeze. In third and fourth positions are Valley
Hunt Ball
Victor in
Cup Race
Hunt Ball, a. nine-year-old
gray gelding, came from behind
with a powerful finish Saturday
to win the 21st running of the
Sandhills Cup, feature’race of the
Stoneybrook Hunt Race Meeting
that opened the 1961 steeplechase
season.
The race was one of eight, in
cluding a children’s race and nov
elty mule race, that entertained
a crowd estimated at over 9,000
persons, many of whom came
early to picnic and enjoy a pre-
race program that included a
demonstration of trotters and
pacers from Pinehurst training
stables, narrated by Octave Blake.
Hunt Ball, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. George T. Weymouth of Wil
mington, Del., and ridden by
their son, Eugene, did not gain
the lead pntil late in the grueling
test of two and a quarter miles
over timber. He finished a length
ahead of Silver Breeze, owned by
Mrs. Thomas Rankin of Lexing
ton, Ky., and ridden by Norman
Funk. Mrs. V. M. Duvall’s Valley
Hart, 1960 timber champion, with
J. Hruska riding, was third, a
length back of Silver Breeze. In
Fourth position at the finish was
H. M. Rhett Jr’s Ingo, with A.
Dufton in the saddle. Burraidh,
owned and ridden by Joseph
Mangione, came in fifth and last.
Neither of the two horses that
grabbed a fast early lead as the
race began Was able to finish.
Glendower, an eight-year-old
gelding owned by Mrs. A. H.
Hutchinson of California and rid-
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Hart and Ingo. Burraidh (not shown) ran last,
aftef Glendower fell when far in the lead, and
Grey Baby refused the first jump and left the
race. (Humphrey Photo)
PROUD PAIR—Nine-year-old Mike Adams rode his Smokey
to, victory in the children’s race at the Stoneybrook Hunt Race
Meeting Saturday—much to the pleasure of his father F. D.
(Dooley) Adams who was the nation’s leading steeplechase
rider several years ago and now trains horses at his Refugio
farm here. Father and son are shown alter the race.
(Humphrey Photo)
Appeal Made For
Stamps For Band
Speaking for the Band Boosters
Club, C. A. McLaughlin, presi
dent, today made an “urgent
appeal” to the public to turn in
any Gold Bond trading stamps
they hav« to help the club obtain
new uniforms for the East Sou
thern Pines High School band
and majorettes, through . an
arrangement the club has with
the trading stamp company.
The stamps should be given tc
Mrs. Walter Coffin, chairman ol
the project, or to Mrs. John
Stephenson, co-chairman.
Junior Builders
Cup to be Given
By Kiwanis Club
The Sandhills Kiwanis Club,
through the Chairman of the
Boys and Girls Committee, Dr.
C. C. McLean, has announced
that it will sponsor a Junior
Builder’s Cup similar to the
Builder’s Cup which the club al
ready sponsors.
Schools in the county will
nominate one student and will
submit a resume of the student’s
activities and accomplishments.
The Kiwanis Club will appoint
a committee for the Junior
Builder’s Cup award for the pur
pose of interviewing the students
and making the selection of the
best-qualified candidate.
It is planned that the award
be made during the intermission
of the Picquet Music Festival, to
be held this year on the evening
of April 14 this year at Weaver
Auditorium.
In order to be eligible for the
award by the Junior Builder’s
Cup Award Commitee of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club, a candi
date must have the following
qualifications:
(1) Student must be a senior,
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APRIL SAFETY DRIVE SET
Highway Patrol to Go All-Out Over
Week-end to Fight Traffic Dang ers
An all-out effort to cut the
week-end traffic toll in this
area will be staged by the State
Highway Patrol, Sgt. S. D. Jones
of Siler City, commander of the
Moore-Lee-Chatham district, said
this week.
The week-end effort, he said,
will launch a special highway
campaign in Mobre County, to
run through April, similar to a
program conducted in December.
Over the Easter week-end—6
p.m. Friday to midnight, Monday
—partrolmen will be out in full
force, using all electrical speed
checking equipment and conduct
ing both “saturation” and “line”
patrols, Sgt. Jones said, concen
trating the force of officers on one!
highway and then another. In a
line patrol, officers are .lining
out along a highway at distances
to nab traffic violators who
think they are ip the clear to
violate laws once they have met
or passed a patrolman.
Five persons have been killed
in Moore County in traffic acci
dents this year, Sgt. Jones noted.
In this area and in the state, he
pointed out, drunken driving has
caused the majority of the fatal
accidents that have taken place
this year.
. The N. C. State Moior Club has
estimated that 15 persons will
die in North Carolina traffic ac
cidents this week-end. Last year,
12 persons were killed and 335
injured in 594 accidents on. the
Easter week-end.
Little League to
Be Organized on
Two Saturdays
The Southern Pines Little
League baseball program will get
under way this Saturday at
Memorial Field, according to
Frank Buchan, commissioner of
the league.
In an effort to give every boy
a chance to make the Little
League, it is planned to have all
boys who played with the Dodg
ers, Cardinals, Pirates and Braves
teams last season, and who are
eligible to play this season, meet
with the coaches at the ball park
this Saturday at 1 p.m. This will
also afford the coaches a chance
to better balance the teams when
choosing players.
All boys who olaved on the
Tigers, Reds, Cubs and Yanks
and other boys who ar.s eligible
are asked not to conie this Sat
urday. Saturday, April 8, at 1
p.m. will be the time for them
to meet at the ball park.
Application blanks may be
filled out at these workouts and
will also be distributed at the
school next week.
Both leagues are expected to
total some 100 boys as was the
case last year.
Opening day activities are
planned for Saturday, May 20.
HARNESS RACING
A special Easter harness rac
ing matinee is scheduled at the
Pinehurst track for 2:30 p.m. A
seven-race card, with some of
the nation’s top trotters and pac
ers performing, has been planned
by the Pinehurst Driving and
Training Club. Reserved parking
spaces, grandstand box seats and
general admission tickets may be
obtained at the Carolina Phar
macy in Pinehurst, in advance of
the raoes.
' SCHOOL VACA-nON
Students in the Southern Pines
schools began their Easter vaca
tion at the close of school today.
They wil return to classes Wed
nesday morning, April 5.
Police Sergeant
Earl S. Seawell
Appointed Chief
Sgt. Earl Stanley Seawell of
the local police department has
been appointed chief of police,
elective Saturday, April 1, it was
announced today by Town Man
ager Louis Scheipers, Jr., who
made the promotion and appoint
ment.
The post has been vacant since
March 3 when Chief C. E. New
ton was fatally shot while at
tempting to serve a warrant.
Under the town charter, the
power of appointment is vested
in the manager.
Sgt. Seawell was chosen from
a list of about 15 applicants. As,
senior officer in the department,
he has been in charge since Chief'
Newton’s death.
A promotion within the de
partment to fill the vacant
sergeant’s post is expected before
Saturday, but had not been an
nounced by this morning.
Sgt. Seawell joined the de
partment May 1, 1956, and was
promoted to sergeant June 1,
1959. He received his police
training under Chief Newton and
attended FBI law enforcement
courses at Rockingham in 1957
and at Laurinburg in 1959. Last
year he attended a police school
conducted here with instructors
from the SBI and a pistol course
J. W. Causey Appointed
As Acting Postmaster
EASTER CLOSINGS
Town and county offices,
banks and some businesses, in
Southern Pines and the Sand
hills, will close on Monday,
April 3, for the Easter Monday
holiday.
Post offices, however, will re
main open as usual as Monday
will not be a federal holiday.
Moore County Recorder's
Court at Carthage will convene
Saturday of this week, instead
of Monday. The April meeting
of the county commissioners,
regularly held Monday, will be
on Tuesday.
Local Churches to
Have Holy Week,
Easter Services
Holy week and Easter services
of churches in Southern Pines in
clude:
First Baptist
Thursday—Candlelight service
in observance of the Lord’s Sup
per, 7:30 p.m. Easter cantata, “To
Calvary,” by Chancel Choir, with
soloists.
Sunday, 11 a.m.—Anthem “In
at the oficers’ range, under aril® chancel
J. W. Causey will be installed
as acting postmaster for South
ern Pines at the close of business
Friday, according to information
received from Eighth District
Rep. A. Paul Kitchin by the pre
cinct committee and by W. Lam
ent Brown, chairman of the
Moore County Democratic exec
utive committee.
A Post Office Department sup
ervisor is expected here to effect
the changeover by which Causey
will replace Max G. Rush, Rep
ublican, who has served as act
ing postmaster for the past three
years.
The change is incident to the
change in administrations in
Washington, under which new
Democratic acting postmasters
have already been installed at
Aberdeen, Carthage and Rob
bins.
Causey was recommended to
the Post Office Department fol
lowing unanimous recommenda
tion by the local precinct com
mittee and the county committee.
A new examination for perm
anent postmaster will be held
at a future date, open to all in
terested persons of either polit
ical party.
FBI instructor. He also attended,
along with Chief Newton, a
special school dealing with arson,
in Charlotte dast year.
The new-chief, who will be 34
years old in May, was born in
Richmond County, son of the
late A. W. Seawell and Mrs.
Lillian Seawell who now lives
in Colonial Heights, Aberdeen.
He attended Rohannen Elemen
tary school and Rockingham
High School and entered the
Navy in 1944, serving over five
years.
When he left the Navy, he
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choir. Sermon by the Rev. May
Inard Mangum, pa;stor, “He Is
Not Here.”
Sunday, 7:30 p.m.—Sermon,
“Joseph of Arimathaea.”
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Friday, 2-4 p.m. — Devotional
service, special music, Ralph
Hendren and Loraine Beith;
meditations by Mrs. A. L. Bur
ney, Mrs. R. P. Brown, Mrs. J. P.
Marley and Mrs. Walter Harper
Worshippers may arrive or leave
at half-hour intervals. Nursery
for small children.
Sunday—Dr. Cheves Ligon v/ill
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Sunrise Services
The Rev. Lee Pridgen, of Pine-
bluff, Baptist Associational mis^-
sionary, will give the Eastdir
meditation at a comunity Easter
sunrise service, to be held at
6:30 a.m. at Memorial Field.
William Me Adam will play
the trumpet call to worship and
TENNIS CLINIC
Sponsored by the Sandhills
Tennis Association, a tennis
clinic will be conducted Sat
urday. April 8. at the muni
cipal courts here, with Mrs.
Q. A. Shaw McKean of
Pinehurst and Ray Schilling
of Southern Pines as instruc
tors.
Sessions will be held from
10 a. m. to noon (primarily
for players through 8th grade
age-ah|d from 2 to 4 p.m.
(especially for high school
students.) — although players
of any age may attend either
session.
In case of rain, the clinic
will be held Saturday. April
22.
the opening sentences will I
spoken by a representative
Emmanuel Episcopal church.
Jack Deal, Lutheran, will speak
the invocation.
The Southern Pines Higl:
School Glee Club will sing two
anthems. Scripture will be read
by A. L. Burney, representing
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church. The pastor of First
Baptist church, the Rev. May
nard Mangum, will deliver the
prayer.
The Methodist minister, the
Rev. Robert Mooney will intro
duce Dr. Pridgen, principal
speaker, and the benediction will
be given by the R«v. Carl Wall
ace, pastor of the Church of Wide
Fellowship. '
In case of rain, the service will
be held at the Church of Wide
Fellowship.
Other Sunrise Services
Sunrise Services will also be
held at 6:30 a.m. Easter morning
dt Old Bethesda Cemetery in
Aberdeen, and at 'Whispering
Pines, Thagard’s Lake.
Registration of
1st Graders Set
Tuesday, April 18
Registration for all wo will
enter the first grade of the East
Soutliem Pines school in Septem
ber will take place at the ele
mentary school building Tuesday,
April 18, from 9 to 11:30 a. m.,
Supt. Luther A. Adams announc
ed today.
In order to ent4r school, a
child must attain the age of six
years on or before October 15,
Mr. Adams said. He pointed out
that parents’ should bring with
them for the April 18 registration
a birth certificate and also a
certificate from a physician in
dicating that the child has had
the proper immunization shots.
In order to facilitate the regi
stration, the superintendent asks
that children whose last names
begin with the letters A through
K be brought between 9 and 10
o’clock and that the L through Z
group come between 10 and 11:30.
This is for convenience only,
however, and any eligible child
will be registered during the
morning.
Filing Time to
Open Saturday
Filing time for candidates in
the Southern Pines municipal
election to take place in May
will open Saturday, April 1, to
run through noon, April 15.
Subject to the election will be
five seats on the town council
and judge and solicitor of the
town’s Recorder’s Court.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 5
Hundreds Expected For Garden Tour
(Other details in story, page 4)
Hundreds of visitors are ex
pected here Wednesday (April 5)
for the 13 th annual House and
Garden Tour sponsored by the
Southern Pines Garden Club.
Mrs. Robert S. Ewing is tour
chairman, assisted by a commit
tee of club members.
First round of the tour will be
gin at 9:30 a. m. from the Shaw
House at the corner of S. W.
Broad St. and Morganton Road.
Persons taking part can leave
from there throughout the day,
purchasing tickets there or at
any stop on the tour. The event
will end officially at 5:30 p. m.
Green arrows will mark the
route from Southern Pines to
ward Pinehurst and red arrows
will show the return route from
Pinehurst.
The seven places to be visited,
in their order on the tour, are:
“The TeiTaces,” home of Mr.
and Mrs. D. W. Winkleman, soon
to be vacated by the Winklemans
who have given it to the Episco
pal Diocese of North Carolina for
a retreat and conferenee center,
located at corner of E. Massach
usetts Ave. and Weymouth Road
in Weymouth Heights.
The William D. Campbell es
tate—house and grounds — on E.
Connecticut Ave.
The Bullens gardens at “Home-
wood,” estate of Mr. and Mrs.
D. K. Bullens off Midland Road
in Knollwood. Gardens only —
house is not on tour.
The Robert C. Fisher house on
Midland Road, between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst. '
“Holly Hill,” house and
grounds of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
J. Lacey, also on Midland Road,
between the traffic circle and
Pinehurst village.
The house of Gen. and Mrs.
George Hays, off Linden Road,
in Pinehurst.
The B. C. Vitt house on Linden
Road in Pinehurst, former resi
dence of the late Gen. George C.
Marshall and Mrs. Marshall.
The tour route in Southern
Pines will run from the Shaw
House north on May St. to Massa
chusetts Ave., east to the Winkle
man home, continuing east to
■Valley Road, north on 'Valley
Road to Connecticut Ave. and
west on Connectieut to the Camp
bell estate. Following that stop,
the route eontinues west cn
Conneeticut to N. E. Broad St.,
north to Vermont Ave. west
aeross the railroad tracks and
then north on S. W. Broad St. to
Midland Rd. This route will be
marked by green arrows.
Originally scheduled for April
12, the tour was moved up to
■^hie 5th because of the early
blooming season ’ of Sandhills
shrubs, trees and flowers.