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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, W^AY 11, 1961
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$5,000 Pledged
By Town to Aid
Work at Airport
At a special meeting last week,
the town council authorized ap
propriation of $5,000 from funds
other than those derived from
ad valorem taxes to help make
possible the long-planned run
way-lengthening and improve
ment project at Southern Pines-
Pinehurst Airport. J. E. Sandlin
of the county’s Airport Committee
appeared to ask for the funds.
An eqlial amount has been
pledged by Pinehurst, Inc., after
the county commissioners, in
their meeting last week, agreed
to appropriate $10,000 for airport
work if Southern Pines and
Pinehurst would each put in
$5,000.
Necessity for the extra funds
became apparent when bids on
the airport project were opened
in the presence of the commiss
ioners last week.
Low bid on the project, enter
ed ’jy the Hanover Co. of Wil
mington was $123,696.96. Al
though this W2is more than $35,000
under the high bid among the
five bids received, it was stiU
more than $20,000 over the
engineers’ estimate of $99,000 for
the job.
Cost of the project is to be
shared half and half by the county
and the federal government. En
gineering and land costs, with
some allowance for contingencies,
bring the extra money needed
now to about $40,000, with half
to come from the federal govern
ment, if approved.
With $20,000 more in sight from
the coiinty. Southern Pines and
Pinehurst, it seems likely that
the federal share will be forth
coming.
COLLECTION DRIVE TO BE HELD MAY 20
Does Give $200 to Newton Memorial Fund
Season Tickets to
Be Sold Saturday
By Little League
Uniformed Southern Pines Lit
tle League and Minor League
baseball players will be canvass
ing Southern Pines Saturday, col
lecting one-dollar donations to
help the league pay for uniforms
and accident insurance. Each
donor will receive a season ticket
to games to be played May 20
through July 17, at Memorial
Field, and a booster pin. The
season schedule is printed on
the back of each ticket.
One hundred boys are taking
part in the local Little League
and Minor League program,
organized into eight squads, four
in each league. Frank Buchan is
the league commissioner.
Players w'ho will take part in
the distribution of tickets are
asked to meet with the coaches,
in uniform, at 9 a. m. Saturday,
at the town park playground,
' near the town hall.
Games Set Saturday
Four pre-season games of two
or three innings each are schedul
ed for Saturday at Memorial
Field, starting at 6 p. m., with all
Little League and Minor League
teams taking part. Season tickets
Dante Montesanti, chairman of the Newton
Memorial Fund committee, receives from Mrs.
Rena Matthews of Grove 42, B. P. O. Does,
a check for $200 as a donation to the fund being
raised in memory of Police Chief C. E. Newton
who was fatally shot in line of duty March 3.
Others in the photo, left to right, are Mrs. Elsie
Thompson, president of the Does; Mrs. Mildred
McDonald and Mrs. Kay Page, members of the
Does’ committee.
The donation helped bring the fund to its
present total of about $1,200, with several other
special donations expected and an outlook for
many contributions from the public on Satur
day, May 20, when Boy Scouts and members
of the Does will collect donations in the busi
ness section. The collection had been set for
Saturday of this week but was postponed be
cause of other drives being carried on this
Saturday.
The fund committee is still undecided as to
what form the memorial project will take, Mr.
Montesanti said this week. Scholarships for
high school seniors, an educational loan fund
and provision of playground equipment—all
equally divided between East and West South
ern Pines—have been under consideration by
the committee.
Contributions to the fund may be sent to
Mr. Montesanti or to the town office.
(Pilot photo)
Annexation, Zoning Hearings Set
The town council Tuesday night
voted to advertise public hear
ings at its regular meeting June
13 on annexing to the town about
57
Tom O’Neil, adjoining Midland
Road and Pee Dee Road, west of
the city limits.
The annexation was requested
by the owner. Proposed division
of the property for zoning has
been recommended after study
by the Planning Board—and the
council also set for the same
meeting a public hearing on the
zoning recommendations.
The Planning Board has rec
ommended zoning a tract of
about 20 acres, including Mr.
O’Neil’s Wedge Inn restaurant
and Little Nine golf course, as
Residence III, the same zone in
which the Mid Pines Club and
Pine Needles golf course and
and booster pins wiU also be
available to the public at that
time.
“Little League Day,’’ marking
official opening of the season,
will be observed Saturday May
20, with a morning parade and
first season games set for 6:30
and 8:30 that evening. Details wiU
appear in The Pilot next week. 4-
acres of property owned by Country Club are placed. The
zone permits operation of res
taurants, and recreation facilities
and multiple unit dwellings, in
addition to private residences.
Recommended for the other
37.3 acres of the O’Neil tract, in
cluding the property at the cor
ner of Midland and Pee Dee
Roads, running west to the Little
Nine golf course boundary, is a
Business I zone which permits
business establishments with no
offensive effects such as noise or
odor and requires a 10-foot set
back from the street, with off-
street parking space ample for
clerks and customers. This tract
runs 1,200 feet south from Mid
land Road, along the golf course
boundary.
The annexation hearing, action
was taken subject to an under
standing with Mr. O’Neil that if
the property were annexed prior
to July 1, start of the fiscal year,
a pro-rated share of the town
tax on it would be paid by the
owner.
In the zoning matter, all prop
erty owners within 100 feet of
the O’Neil property will be noti
fied of the hearing and given
an opportunity to make objec
tions. If more than 20 per cent
of adjoining property owners ob
ject, a zoning proposal can only
be approved by a four-fifths vote
of the five-member council.
Rainey Will Be
Acting Manager
Francis F. (Bud) Rainey, Sou
thern Pines tax collector, was ap
pointed acting town manager, as
of June 1, by the town council
Monday night.
The action came when Council
man Robert S. Ewing pointed out
that before the next regular meet
ing of the council June 13, Louis
Scheipers, Jr., who has resigned
as town manager as of June 1, to
become city manager at Green
ville, will have left his position
here.
On motion of Mr. Ewing, Mr.
Rainey, a retired Army major,
was named to the acting manag
er’s post, pending the appoint
ment of a regular manager by
the council.
1961 Little League Schedule
Saturday. May 20
Braves vs Cards 6:30
Dodgers vs Pirates 8:00
Friday, May 26
Dodgers vs Braves 6:30
Cards vs Pirates 8:00
Monday, May 29
Pirates vs Braves (5:30)
Cards vs Dodgers (7:00)
Friday, June 2
Pirates vs Dodgers 6:30
Braves vs Cards 8:00
Monday, June 5
Cards vs Pirates ' 6:30
Dodgers vs Braves 8:00
Friday. June 9
Dodgers vs Cards 6:30
Pirates vs Braves 8:00
June 12 ■ June 16
Make-up Games
Monday. June 19
Braves vs Cards 6:30
Dodgers vs Pirates 8:00
Friday, June 23 .
Dodgers vs Braves 6:30
Cards vs Pirates 8:00
Monday, June 26
Pirates vs Braves : 6:30
Cards vs Dodgers 8:00
Friday, June 30
Pirates vs Dodgers 6:30
Braves vs Cards 8:00
Tuesday, July 4
ALL-STAR GAMES-
6:30 - 8:00
Friday, July 7
Cards vs Pirates 6:30
Dodgers vs Braves 8:00
Monday. July 10
Dodgers vs Cards 6:30
Pirates vs Braves 8:00
July 14 - July 17
Make-up Gcimes
MINOR LEAGUE TEAMS Play each Saturday Afternoon.
By CHARLES ROSE
John Williams of the school
faculty has announced that the
first Junior High Track Meet will
be held Saturday at Memorial
Field from 9 until 11 a. m. with
field and running events.
Represented will be all of the
three eighth and three seventh
grades in the Girls and Boys di-
Town Manager Louis Schei-fy'®^°^"’H events for the
r<= .Tr and 10 for the girls.
pers, Jr., suggested to the coun
cil that the zoning hearing be
held first, at the June 13 meeting,
but no action be taken, until
after the annexation hearing is
held.
This, the manager said, would
prevent the property’s being an
nexed before the owner is sure
that the zoning classifications he
is requesting are approved.
Another Hearing Tuesday
Another zoning hearing, on re
zoning an area of West Southern
Pines adjoining the No. 1 highway
parkway, to make possible an
outdoor theatre there, is set for
8 p. m. in the town hall court
room, Tuesday, May 16.
AA MEETING PLACE
An Alcoholics Anonymous
group here is meeting each Mon
day at 8 p. m., in the guild room
of Emmanuel Episcopal Church
on Massachusetts Ave.
Case Nol Pressed
‘For Benefit of
All Concerned’
A charge of assault on a female
with intent to commit rape was
nol prossed with leave by Judge
W. Harry FuUenwider in South
ern Pines Recorder’s Court yes
terday.
Defendant in the case was
Larry Brown, 24, resident of the
Taylortown community near
Pinehurst. The warrant that
brought him into court had been
signed Monday by Dallas F. Clay,
on information and belief, charg
ing Brown with assault on (Clay’s
wife at their home on Midland
Road, near Pinehurst.
Brown has been making regular
collections of garbage from the
Clay home, along with other
homes outside the Pinehurst
limits. The alleged incident was
said to have taken place when he
stopped at the Clay home to
collect his fee for picking up the
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Norris Hodgkins,
Dr. McLean Named
To School Board ,
Several appointments, including
two local board of education
members, were made by the
town council at its regular May
meeting Tuesday night.
Leading the list were Norris L.
Hodgkins and Dr. C. C. McLean,
named to the Southern Pines
city board of education, Mr.
Hodgkins has been a member of
the board for many years. Dr.
McLean was appointed earlier
this year to fill the imexpired
term of the late Harry Menzel.
Each will serve a four-year term,
starting June 1, on the five-mem
ber board.
Mr. Hodgkins is currently chair
man of the board whose other
members, in addition to Dr. Mc
Lean, are Mrs. Walter Harper,
J. E. Sandlin and P. I. York.
Terms of members expire on a
staggered schedule, with only
those of Mr. Hodgkins and Dr.
McLean coming up this year.
Other appointments to local
boards made by the council Tues
day were:
Walter Gore, reappointed to a
five-year term on the Planning
Board, the group that considers
Lumberton Bank Asks
Establish Branch B[ere
Hector MacLean, president of
the Southern National Bank, with
home office in Lumberton, an
nounced Monday that his bank
had, this week, applied to the
Controller of Currency for per
mission to open a branch bank in
Southern Pines.
The new bank would be called
the' Southern National Bank of
Southern Pines and would add a
fourth to Southern National’s
chain of branches, which now
includes banks in Fayetteville,
Hamlet, and Laurinburg, in addi-
Maternal Welfare
Tag Day Slated in
County Saturday
As Mother’s Day comes round
once more. Southern Pines will
again be greeted by the sight of
the little tags, printed in green
with the baby’s picture, being
sold down town.
The Saturday before Mother’s
Day marks annually the day
when members of the Maternal
major changes in town zoning and I Welfare Committee raise the
makes recommendations to the funds for the support of this
council.
Mrs. A. L. Folley and C. A.
McLaughlin, reappointed to three-
year terms on the Board of Zon
ing Adjustment, the group that
considers complaints, protests and
proposed minor changes, in zon
ing matters.
H. M. Patterson and L. H. Mc
Neill to one-year terms as alter
nate members of the Board of
Zoining Adjustment. Alternates
are invited to attend all meetings
of the five-member board and can
vote if one or two regular mem
bers are not present.
Letters notifying the appointees
of their renominations and ex
pressing appreciation for their
services will be sent, as is custo
mary, Mr. Scheipers said, after
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work for needy mothers and
babies. This year their numbers
will be swelled by members of
the Moore Memorial Hospital
Auxiliary, the woman’s organi
zation that, since last year, is.
joining in sponsoring the support
of the free bed al Moore Memori
al Hospital.
Established in 1935 as a pion
eer effort, the county commit
tee’s original aim was to reduce
the critically high death rate
among county mothers, to train
midwives and to work closely
with the pre-natal clinics estab
lished at that time as part of the
public health program of the
county. 'The effort was brilliant
ly successful, thanks largely to
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Hoke County to Mark Golden Jubilee
Hoke County will celebrate the
Scheduled each evening at 8:15,
Monday through Friday, is a
historical pageant “Hoke’s Herit
age” at Armory Park with a cast
of 250 Hoke County citizens. A
spectacular fireworks display will
follow the pageant each night.
Guided tours of historical land
marks, a beard judging contest
and a Jubilee Belle fashion show
and tea are other features of the
five-day celebration.
This morning a group of about
100 Hoke men, women and child
ren, dressed in costumes of 50
years ago, journeyed to Aberden
and boarded there a special Aber
deen & Rockfish Railroad train
which transported them to Fayet-
50th anniversary of its founding
with a Golden Jubilee to be
staged at Raeford May 14 through
19.
The jam-packed schedule of
events begins Sunday, May 14th,
with special observances in all
churches and a county-wide wor
ship service in Armory Park at
8:15 p.m.
Gov. Terry Sanford will review
the parade featuring bands, floats
and Army marching units Mon
day afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30.
He will speak at the 7 p.m.
opening ceremonies in Armory
Park and will crown the Jubilee j teviPe, co publicize and promote
Queen. ’ the Golden Jubilee.
Junior High Track Meet Slated Saturday
The different events, time
scheduled and persons participa
ting are:
Standing Broad Jump —10:15,
Ann Poe, M. O’Neal, Linda Blue,
Linda Williamson, Anna Smith,
M. Long, Janie Gehweiler, J.
Phillips, Joyce Williford, L.
George, D. Wellman, B. Austin,
K. Wright, Kathy Rainey and
Donna Traylor.
Running Broad Jump—10:25—
D. Pottle, Lin Daugherty, Linda
Blue, L. Williamson, Anna Smith,
M. Long, B. Austin, K. Wright,
F. Dutton, Pat Moore, D. Traylor,
K. Rainey, Glenda Maneks, J.
Baldwin, and Sheila Whitesell.
High Jump — 10:40—^Brenda
Thomas, J. Soloman, M. Hassen-
felt, T. Hicks; Janie Gehweiler,
J. Phillips, Joyce Williford, J.
Phillips, L. George, D. Wellman.
SoftbaU Throw-^9:30 — Judy
McCaskill, A. Pope, M. O’Neal, D.
Hicks, T. Hicks, Lin Daugherty,
Judy Millspaugh, L. Williamson,
L. Blue, A. Smith, S. Scheipers,
Mary White, Sandra Short, Susan
Huntley, J. Gehweiler, P. Mich
aels, Binky Rawlinson, S. Pol-
JUMPIN’ GAL—Junior High
School track enthusiast Janet
Phillips is taking . off like an as
tronaut as she clears a hurdle in
practice for Saturday’s meet at
Memorial Field—a new athletic
event for the community in
which dozens of seventh and
eighth grade boy:^ and girls are
taking bart. (Charles Rose photo)
lock, J. Phillips, L. Guffey, F.
Dutton, L. Haney, B. Thomas, Pat
Moore, Virginia Meares, J. Sol
oman, P. Daugherty, E. Bushby,
Dee Matthews, P. Davis, E. Cur
rie and B. Jones.
Softball Hit—9:45-jr. McCas
kill, D. Hicks, Lin Daugherty, T.
Hicks, C. Coppedge, P. Snipes,
L. Jansen, Barbara Grove, D. Fer
guson, S. Huntley, D. Michaels,
B. Rawlinson, Jeanne Allred, J.
Campbell, N. Tate, C. Nilesj F.
Dutton, L. Guffey, P. Moore, B.
Thomas, J. Soloman and D. Mat
thews.
440 Yard Relay—10—Delinda
Michaels, S. Huntley, J. Phillips,
K. Wright, J. McCaskill, A. Poe,
F. Dutton, M. O’Neal, T. Hicks,
Ann Smith, S. Short, Patsy
Snipes, L. Blue, D. Hicks, Judy
j Millspaugh, M. Hassenfelt, K.
Gilmore, Janet FuUenwider, Faye
Dutton, J. Soloman, Donna
Barnes, P. Daugherty, P. Moore,
E. Bushby, D. Matthews, J. Bald
win, E. Currie, and P. Davis.
Sack Rqce—11—E. Bushby,
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tion to Lumberton.
Mr. MacLean described the pro
posed operation here as “definite
ly locaL”
“The Southern Pines branch,”
he said, “will have its own board
of directors and local loan com
mittee and employees.”
The bank president said he had
been encouraged to establish a
branch bank here following sev
eral special visits to the area,
which he has known and enjoyed
for many years. Next step in the
proceedings, he said, would be a
visit shortly from a federal bank
examiner to pass on the disirabili-
ty and feasibility, through in
quiries made locally, of establish
ing the local branch. An answer
within a few weeks may be
expected, Mr. MacLean said.
In anticipation of a favorable
rebly from the banking authori
ties, Southern National has taken
an option on the Welch Building,
on the corner of South Broad
Street and New York Avenue.
The option includes the former
VFW building, and Mr. MacLean
said the lot offers ample room
for a drive-in window and off-
street parking. It is anticipated
that considerable remodelling of
the former store will be in order
and there has already been a
conference with the architectural
firm of Hayest-Howell and Associ
ates, who will have charge of the
work. The hope is to complete
the building by Labor Day.
“We believe the location is
exosllent.” Mr. MacLean com
mented, “and will aUow us to
give the community good ser
vice.”
Mr. MacLean described South
ern National as “a par bank,”
and said that the fuU resources
of the home office are, of course,
behind each branch. Those re
sources stand today at $18,000,000,
he said. The local branch will
offer complete banking services:
trust department, estate manage
ment, safety boxes, installment
loan department etc. Southern
National, he said, has made a
specialty of farm and timber
management in its other locations
and will feature such service in
this area.
Fashion Sliow to
Be Seen by PTA;
Supper on May 17
A fashion show by members of
Miss Loree Keen’s home eco
nomics classes will be given at
the May meeting of the East
Southern Pines Parenlt-lTeacher
Association, to be held in Weaver
Auditorium at 8 p. m. Monday.
The show will follow installa
tion . of officers for 1961-62. Re
freshments will be served in the
cafeteria after the meeting which
will be the last for the current
school year.
BENEFIT CHICKEN FRY SET
AT COUNTRY CLUB MAY 17
Tickets are on sale for an out
door, family chicken supper to ha
sponsored by the PTA at the
Southern Pines Country Club
from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m .Wednes
day, May 17. Open to the public,
the supper is one of the PTA’s
major fimd-raising projects to
help finance assistance given to
the school in various ways.
Mrs H. L. Tate is general chair
man and Mrs. Donald Denoff is
ticket chairman. Mrs. Albert
Grove, PTA president-elect, is
assisting.
Persons expecting to attend are
urged to get tickets as soon as
possible so that food preparation
can be planned. Tickets will be
available at the PTA meeting
Monday night.
COUNTY-WIDE MEET
The Junior High School track
meet here on Saturday will be
followed by a county-wide track
meet for high scfiool students, td
be held Wednesday, May 17, at
Memorial Field at 3:30 p. m. The
public is invited to view both
events.
Tom Wicker's Novel
Reviewed in Column
“The Judgment,” new novel by
Tom Wicker, native of Hamlet
who was secretary of the Cham
ber of Commerce here in the late
1940’s, is reviewed in today’s
“Some Looks at Books” column
on page 3. Mr. Wicker, who is a
member of the Washington Bu
reau of the New York Times, has
worked on several North Caro
lina newspapers including the
Sandhill Citizen at Aberdeen.