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VOL. 41—NO. 31
Efforts to Save
Battleship Told;
This County Helps
The state-wide campaign to
save the battleship North Caro
lina and bring it to Wilmington
as a permanent attraction and
war memorial was outlined for
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club Wed
nesday by Orville Campbell of
Chapel Hill, vice-chairman of the
commission in charge of the bat
tleship project. Mr. Campbell is
publisher of the Chapel Hill
Weekly.
The speaker was introduced by
Jack S. Younts, a member of the
commission. The club was having
its regular luncheon meeting at
the Jefferson Inn.
Financial goal of the campaign
is $250,000, Mr. Campbell said,
noting that it will cost $50^000 to
move the ship from Bayonne, N.
J., where it is “in mothballs,”
$85,000 to prepare the place to
berth the ship at Wilmington,
and $115,000 to paint th.3 ship and
get it ready for exhibition.
It would take five men work
ing a year to paint the ship, Mr.
Campbell said, requiring 40,000
gallons of paint for the outside
and the deck. The North Carolina
is 738 feet long (“the length of
two and a half football fields”)
and, when in operation, had a
complement of 2,500 men. Built
in 1939, the North Carolina had
a distinguished World War II
record, winning 13 battle stars
and becoming known as the
“showboat of the battleships.”
Mr. Campbell said that the
commission, which is headed by
Hugh Morton of Wilmington, ex
pects th.3 North Carolina to be
come “an asset to the state” and
a popular tourist attraction for
Tar Heels and persons from out
of the state.
He said that the battleship
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, 45 years
of telephone company service are
recalled by Mrs. J, D. Hensley.
Feature, page 11.
TWENTY PAGES
CHICKEN FRY TO
BENEFIT FUND
Plans are being made lo
serve 2,000 persons Wednes
day of next week, June 28.
when an outdoor chicken fry
at the Country Club will be
sponsored by John Boyd .
Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, for benefit cif the state
wide fund to save the Battle
ship North Carolina. Col. Don
Madigan, county chairman
for the battleship fund, is
also chairman for the Wed
nesday event.
VFW and Auxiliary mem
bers will be selling tickets
around town Saturday and
they will be available at the
Country Club Wednesday,
when half-chickens with
trimmings will be served
from 4 p. m. on. One thous
and chickens are being pur
chased, allowing an excep
tionally low price for the
meal.
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Rotary Officers
To Be Installed;
Helms to Speak
The annual ladies night ban
quet and installation of officers
of the Southern Pines Rdtary
Club will be held at the Jeffer
son Inn, Thursday, Jun.3 29, at
7:15 p. m., it was announced this
week by E. Earl Hubbard, presi
dent.
To be installed to succeed Mr.
Hubbard in the presidency of the
club for the coming year is Rob
ert M. Leland.
Mrs. Carl Wallace will be in
stalled to succeed Mrs. Garland
Pierce as president of the Rotary
Anns, the organization of wives
of Rotarians.
Jesse Helms of Raleigh, tele
vision news commentator, will
be the guest speaker. Dr. Carl
Tyner of Leaksville, Rotary dis
trict governor-elect, will be pres
ent.
Other Rotary officers and di
rectors to be installed are the
Rev. Carl Wallace, vice-president;
Marvin R. Cornell, secretary; L.
D. McDonald, treasurer; and Mr.
Hubbard, E. J. Austin, Hollie
Sisk and Joseph I. Scott, direc
tors.
NEW NAME— The Rev. Carl Wallace, pastor, points out the
new name of his church here, on completion of a new church
sign this week. (Humphrey photo)
Church Name Change Becomes Official
Seldom does a Church change
its name, but that’s what has
happ.aned to the former Church
of Wide Fellowship (Congrega
tional Christian) of Southern
Pines, located at the corner of
Bennett St. and New Hampshire
Ave.
Officially, it’s now The United
Church of Christ (Church of Wide
Fellowship).
A new sign has been painted
outside the church, completed
this week, and new stationery
has been printed.
Here is the background and the
story of the change, as .explained
by the pastor, the Rev. Carl Wal
lace:
The Church of Wide Fellow
ship-was organized in 1895 by
Congregationalists and until 1927
was known as the First Congre
gational Church. The building of
a new sanctuary at that time and
the fact that the church was
largely assuming a community
responsibility, before the' advent
of several other denominations
in Southern Pines, led to the
title, “The Church of Wide Fel
lowship.”
In 1931, the Congregational de
nomination merged with the
Christian Church and the local
denominational affiliation was
changed to Congregational Chris
tian. However, this did not
change the local “Wide Fellow
ship” title.
Now, after several years of
planning, the Congregational
Christian denomination has merg
ed with the Evangelical & Re
formed Church to form The
United Church of Christ, with two
million members and over 8,000
churches. The Church of Wide
Fellowship voted at the Annual
Meeting in January, 1961, to be
come a part of this new m.erged
denomination and on May 17,
1961, voted to change the local
title.
The United Church of Christ is
the largest merger of unlike
bodies in the history of Protes
tantism and promises to lead in
an ecumenical movernent that
may include several other de
nominations, Mr. Wallace said.
Mr. Wallace will be a repre
sentative to the General Synod
of The United Church of Christ
at Philadelphia, Pa., June 29-
July 7. At this meeting, the con
stitution of the new, merged de
nomination will be officially de
clared in force.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1961
Gilmore Expected
Get New Federal ^
Post Next Week
Final congressional action on
the bill creating a new federal
Office of International Travel
(the agency has also been listed
in news dispatches as the United
States Travel Service) was taken
in Washington yesterday, when
the Senate approved a compro
mise bill by voice vote.
Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines
is expected to be nominated by
President Kennedy as director of
the new agency that will have
world-wide offices to promote
travel to the United States. The
nomination must be confirmed by
the Senate. The President is ex
pected to sign the bill and make
the Gilmore nomination next
week.
Mr. Gilmore, m-ember of the
N. C. Board of Conservation and
Development and a former
j mayor of Southern Pines, was in
New York today. He is expected
here Saturday.
The local man’s wife, Mrs.
'Kathy Gilmore, said today that
’she had no further information
on what the schedule of action
would be in Washington. She said
that, after the appointment, the
Gilmores have no plans to move
away from Southern Pines. Pre
sumably, Mr. Gilmore would do
much traveling as director of the
new agency.
I The bill creates a new division
in the Commerce Department |
which is headed by former N. C.
Governor Luther H. Hodges as
Secretary.
According to a news story in
this morning’s Raleigh News and
Observer, the Gilmore post will
pay $19,000 per year. Expendi
ture of $3' million is authorized
the first year, this story said, and
$4.7 per year thereafter.
Senate supporters of the new
program were quoted yesterday
as calling it a “marvelous begin
ning.” They said it recognizes
that “travel is a .two-way street.”
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey urg
ed states to tie in with the new
travel service, to expand the
program nation-wide.
iPRICE TEN CENTS
Office of State Easter
Seal Group May Move
To Southern Pines Site
DR. C, C. McLEAN
Dr. McLean Heads
State Society of
Veterinarians
Dr. C. C. McLean of Midland
Road, partner with Dr. J. I. Neal
in operation of -the Sandhill Vet
erinary Hospital, is being eleva
ted to the presidency of the
North Carolina Veterinary Med
ical Association which is con
vening this week at Morehead
City. He has been president-elect
of the state-wide organization.
His wife, Mrs. Laura McLean,
and their daughter, Martha, are
with him at Morehead City. They
are expected to return Friday.
The convention opened Monday.
Dr. McLean has been active on
various committees of the associ
ation. He is a member of the
Southern Pines city board of ed
ucation and is active in civic and
church work in the community.
Dr. Neal is a past president of
the association. Dr. J. E. Currie,
Jr., who is associated with the
Sandhill Veterinary Hospital, at
tended a meeting of the South
Carolina State Veterinary Med
ical Association at Columbia, Fri
day and Saturday of last week.
The Sandhill Veterinary Hos
pital is located off Midland Road,
between Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst.
Smith Named President of Realtors
AUTO FIRE
Volunteer firemen responded
Tuesday afternoon to a call from
Wisconsin Ave. in West Southern
Pines. Fire in an automobile
there had been extinguished by
the time firemen arrived.
Lt. Col. Francis M. Smith, own
er of The Pines Realty Co. has
been named president of the
Southern Pines Board of Realtors
for the coming year, succeeding
George M. Leonard, Jr., of Re
sort Realty Co. The board m.et
at the Barnum Realty and Insur
ance Co. offices.
Other new officers, elected
I with Colonel Smith at a meeting
held Monday, are Mrs. Julia
Steed of Stqed Realty Co., vice
president, and Joseph I. Scott of
Scott Realty, secretary-treasurer.
In addition to electing officers,
the board heard a report from Mr.
Scott on a meeting of the board
of directors of the North Caro
lina Association of Realtors,
which he attended in Chapel Hill
last Wednesday.
The board of directors of the
North Carolina Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults, meet
ing here with Howard Johnson’s
Restaurant and Motor Lodge as
its base of operations Saturday,
viewed a site in Southern Pines
which has been offered the. or
ganization for its State headquar
ters and took under advisement
the proposal for such a move.
Headquarters of the Society—
whose work on behalf of handi
capped persons in financed by the
To^n Officials to
Attend Course in
Municipal Work
Town and city governing offi
cials from all corners of the state
will gather at Chapel Hill’s Jo
seph Palmer Knapp Building be
ginning Sunday for ' three days
of discussions on how to govern
their municipalities at the Insti
tute of Government’s 1961 School
for Mayors and Councilmen.
Mayor John S. Ruggles said to
day that he and Councilman Mor
ris Johnson plan to go to Chapel
Hill Sunday, to attend the school
and that Councilman Felton Cap-
•el expects to join them on Mon
day. Other members of the coun
cil may go, he said, noting that
he had not yet learned the plans
of R. S. Ewing and J. D. Hobbs.
Following in the wake of re
cent municipal elections in most
North Carolina communities, the
1961 edition of the school will of
fer for the benefit of new and old
officials alike: (1) a review of
their most important powers and
duties, (2) an analysis of basic
municipal procedures such as the
preparation of the annual budget,
(3) discussions of the major func
tions and problem areas of city
government, and (4) a key to ref
erences, agencies and individuals
who can be of assistance to local
government officials in solving
their individual problems.
One of the highlights of the
three-day session will be the
Councilmen’s Clinic on the after
noon of June 27, open to all may
ors and councilmen for questions
concerning any aspect of city gov
ernment. Providing the answers
will be staff members of the In
stitute of Government and the
North Carolina League of Mu
nicipalities, and other state and
local officials.
annual Easter Seal sale through
out the state—is now at Chapel
Hill. The executive board of the
Society will meet June 30 to
take up the proposed moving of
the headquarters to Southern
Pines, along with other recom
mendations made to the board
Saturday.
Location of the proposed head
quarters building site was not
revealed, pending ad^ion by the
executive board.
The Society’s Camp Develop
ment Committee, the planning
body for the Easter Seal Camp
for handicapped children to be
built at a site north of Southern
Pines, approved all plans for the
camp as presented by the archi
tect, E. J. Austin of Southern
Pines, and made a recommenda
tion for their approval to the
Society’s state board. Mrs. Gra
ham Culbreth of Southern Pines
is a member of the Camp Develop
ment committee and met with the
group Saturday. She said that
planning now looks toward the
facility to be a year-around opera
tion and that the name “Center”
will probably be used for it,
rather than “Camp.”
Local Little League Baseball Program Booming
Elks Pool Guards to
Give Swimming Lessons
Gary Mattocks, chief life guard
at the new Elks swimming pool
at the Country Club, and Joe Mc
Donald, assistant' life guard, plan
a series of switnming and life
saving classes to start Monday at
the pool, to continue Monday
through Friday, at 9 a. m. for
several weeks. Classes, each to
last three weeks, will begin Mon
day with instruction for begin
ners, then going to instruction
for advanced beginners, interme
diate swimmers and junior life
savers.
Th.e instruction will be given
only to persons of families hold
ing Elks or Country Club mem
bership, who have also paid the
special pool fees. There will be
an extra fee for the instruction.
The two life guards and Jen-e
(Tink) Bowen, who has charge
of the gate at the pool, are pictur
ed on page 6.
Any community activity that
claims the interest of 106 boys—
and through them the interest of
hundreds of members of their
families—deserves more than
passing notice.
The Southern Pines Little Lea
gue is such an activity. The boys
and adults connected with the
program want the public to know
more about what they are doing.
They also like to have people
watch the games at Memorial
Field, played each Monday and
Friday, two games each night,
the first starting at 6:30 p. m.
And the program, while support
ed in part by the Town through
its summer recreation program, is
dependent on contributions from
businesses and individuals to
meet its full cost.
Most Little League programs
over the nation do not offer as
much opportunity for wide par
ticipation by boys as does the
Southern Pines organization.
And it’s this, policy of giving
every boy who wants to play a
chance to take part against com
petition at his own level of abil
ity that gives the adults associ
ated with the program here most
satisfaction in what they are do
ing.
Eight Teams
The 106 boys in the Little Lea
gue are divided into eight teams—
four in the “Little League” and
four in the “Minor League”
which plays the part of “farm
teams” from which boys move up
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LITTLE LEAGUERS ALL— Success of the
Southern Pines Little League baseball program
depends on a combination of men and boys, as
symbolized in this picture. Left to right; Eugene
Sessoms, coach of the Pirates, with Ronnie
Bradley, player for the Pirates, kneeling; Joel
Stutts, coach for the Cardinals, and John Mc
Laughlin, Cardinal player, kneeling; C. L.
Dutton who coached local Little League teams
when Southern Pines had a single team in the
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county league; Frank Buchan, Little League
commissioner; Shirley 'Wooster, coach of the
Braves, with Johnny Rowe of that team, kneel
ing; and James E. Pate, coach of the Dodgers,
with Robin Grover, Dodger player, kneeling.
All four of the players shown here are in their
third, year of organized baseball—two years
with Little League and one year with the
Midget League in 1959.
(Humphrey photo)
J. Preston Wrenn of Charlotte,
chairman of the Camp Develop
ment Committee, was here for
the planning sessions.
Mrs. Culbreth said that the
purchase of the camp or center
site has been completed and that
funds have been granted by the
board to ekpand the lake there
and put it in the condition needed
for operation as a crippled child
ren’s center.
A similar camp for Negro child
ren is conducted by the Society
near Swannsboro.
Margaret L. Moore and Bemie
Passer, physical therapists with
the State Society, met with the
camp committee.
Members of the State Board
meeting here included Dr. Edgar
T. Thompson of Duke University,
Durham, state president; W. D.
■Whittaker, Elon G. Borton, Eg
bert N. Peeler, Felix S. Barker
of the State Department of Ed
ucation at Raleigh, C. C. Mulhol-
land of Durham, State Senator
Robert B. Morgan of LiUington,
the Society’s legal advisor, Mrs.
George Caffey of Tryon and Dr.
John W. Bayliss who is a mem
ber of the Camp Development
Committee, and Mr. Wrenn.
Albin Pikutis, executive secre
tary, of Chapel Hill, attended. He
is in charge of the state office
that would be moved to Southern
Pines if the plan is approved by
the Society’s board of directors.
County Plans
‘ Mrs. Culbreth, who is vice
president and service chairman
of the Moore County Society for
Crippled Children and Adults
(Easter Seal Society) said that
the executive board met last
Thursday night at the home of
Mrs. William' Wood of Pinebluff,
president. Attending were Dr.
Harold Peck, who, with Dr. Emily
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Woman Seriously
Hurt When Car
Overturns Here
Mrs. Emily Hearne, 54, of Car
thage, Rt. 3, was seriously hurt
Wednesday about 7:35 a. m. when
her car skidded on a dirt road in
the rain, hit a fence and over
turned.
The accident happened at Mrs.
Magruder Dent’s pasture lot at
the .end of Fairway Drive in Ken
wood, a short distance outside the
city limits. Mrs. Hearne, wife of
Reece Blaire Hearne, Jr., was
taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital. At
the hospital today, she was re
ported in “satisfactory” condi
tion, though with her pelvis frac
tured in three places.
Her 1953 four-door Chevrolet
was “a total loss,” said Patrolman
R. R. Samuels, who investigated.
The windshield was entirely
broken out but he had not been
able to determine whether or not
she had been thrown through it.
Because of Mrs. Hearne’s condi
tion, he said, he had been unable
to question her as to how the ac
cident happened.