5 4^ \ Pineliurst’s new swimming pool was opened with a beauty contest and other festivities Saturday. Story and photo, page 13. A local man had a reunion this week with other veterans of aviation ser vice in- World War I. Details on page 18. VOL. 41—NO. 32 TWENTY PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY,, JUNE 29, 1961 TWENTY PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS Trimble Not to Be Sold EWING RESIGNS TRIMBLE POST Robert S. Ewing, vice pres ident in charge of sales for Trimble Products. Inc., has announced his resignation, effective July 1. The local man, a member of the town council and for mer mayor, said that he will devote all of his lime and in terest to "the development and progress of The Moore County News and The Pine- hurst Outlook." He is pub lisher of both the weekly newspapers and vice presi dent of the Moore County News Publishing Co. Mr. Ewing has been with Trimble since October, 1959. Area to Observe July 4; Closing Plans Announced Southern Pines and other Moore County communities will have a general holiday Tuesday of next week, July 4, with some business and other establish ments planning to close two days, Monday and Tuesday. The local post office will be on holiday schedule Tuesday, with windows closed and no home de-, livery but mails received and dis patched as usual. The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. and other banks of the coun ty will be closed Tuesday, as will ABC stores in Southern Pines and Pinehurst and the court house at Carthage. Southern Pines town offides will be closed two days, Monday and Tuesday. Most local offices and business es will be closed on the 4th, with some planning to take a two-day holiday, Monday; and Tuesday. The Pilot office wiU be closed Tuesday. For this reason, the deadline on receiving photos for publication next week will be moved up to 5:30 p. m. Monday. Correspondents are asked to have their copy in by Monday if pos sible, and advertisers are asked to have copy in as early as pos sible next week. Negotiations for the sale of T,rimble Products, Inc., of South ern Pines, to Strolee, Inc., of Los Angeles, have been terminated, according to William J. Donovan, president of Trimble. Inability to reach mutually sat isfactory financial terms was cited as the reason for the break- off of negotiations. It had been announced two weeks ago that the boards of di rectors of the two companies had approved aU of the basic details of the the proposed transaction. However, the purchase of the local firm by the California company had not been announced as a completed deal. ' Revelation of termination of negotiations came after Mr. Don ovan’s return from a conference with Strolee officials. First public news of the pro posed purchas.e came when Mr. Donovan outlined the plans to members of the Southern Pines Industrial Committee, of which he is a member, two weeks ago. Both companies manufacture metai and plastic products— largely non-competitive—for the care and recreation of infants and children. Trimble Products, Inc., which moved here from Rochester, N. Y., in 1959, is this community’s largest industry. The company bmploys about 150 persons at periods of peak production. OPEN HOUSE A new “Medallion Home” here will be open to the public this week-end. See details on pages 18 and 19. Recreation Schedule Schedules for the municipal recreatton program have been an nounced as follows by Bill Meg- ginson, director: EAST SOUTHERN PINES Swimming 9-10:30 a. m., Monday, Wed nesday and Friday. Leave from Memorial Field for Aberdeen Lake at 9 a. m. No fee charged. Swimming instruction Monday and Friday. “Swim-all,” Wednes day. Tennis Instruction at the municipal courts Tu-esday and Thursday, 9- 10:30 a. m. Playgrounds Monday through Frid^ay, 9 a. m. to noon, 2 to 5 p. m. For ages 6 through 10 at town hall park. For ages 11 and over, at Memorial Field. Night Games Monday, 6:30, Little League. Tuesday, 7:30, Adult softball. Wednesday, 5:00,'Girls’ softball. Thursday, 7:30, Adult softball. Friday, 6:30, Little League: Saturday, 2 p. m.. Midget Lea gue. WEST SOUTHERN PINES J. C. Hasty, Director Daily, Monday through Friday Activities at school, 10 a, m. to 4 p. m. (sports, music, games, handicrafts; story hour 11 a. m. to noon) Baseball, softball, tennis, after 4 p. m. at park, corner Iowa Ave. and Stephens St. Highway Patrol to Be out in Force On 4-Day Holiday Members of the State Highway Patrol stationed in Moore County will join other patrolmen throughout the state in an all-out attempt to prevent traffic acci dents over the long July 4 week end. The state will count its high way holiday fatality and acci dent toll from 6 p. m. Friday through midnight Tuesday, a period of 102 hours. Sgt. J. S. Jones of Siler City, who is in charge of Highway Pa trol operations in Moore, Lee and Chatham Counties, said that pa trolmen in this area “will be out in full force” during the holiday period. Traffic — composed largely of vacationers bound home or to re sort areas—is expected to reach a peak Friday night and remain heavy during the holiday period, Sgt. Jones said. Traffic is ex pected to be very heavy on the afternoon and night of July 4. Southbound traffic in this area is expected to be particularly heavy on Highways 1 and 15 and also on 211, the route that much traffic from the Piedmont area follows to bsach resorts in North and South Carolina, Sgt. Jones noted. Jaycees Plan Project Southern Pines Jaycees will again conduct a highway safety project from 2 to 5 p. m. July 4, on No. 1 highway, north, just north of the parkway entrance. Bill Blue is chairman of the pro ject, in which the Jaycettes, wives of the Jaycees, will also take part. The Jaycees will not stop traf fic, but will have cold soft drinks and State traffic safety pam phlets available for motorists who do stop. Cpl. Moricle of the State Highway Patrol district office at Siler City will be present. The N. C. State Motor Club of Charlotte predicts that at least 21 persons will die in traffic acci dents on North Carolina highways during the four-day Fourth of July weekend. North Carolina’s July Fourth traffic toll for last year’s three- (Continued on page 8) DESTRUCTION— Practically nothing remained of a flourish ing field of tobacco in the Bensalem community in western Moore County after hail on Monday ripped the leaves from the plants and pounded them into the ground, even destroying the stems. Leon Boone, owner of the field which was not insured against hail, is at left in background, surveying the devastation, with J. Shelton Thomas, a neighbor. Randall Boone, six years old, is examining remains of the tobacco he helped to plant. (V. Nicholson photo) HUGE HAILSTONES FALL Storm Destroys Crops Thousands of dollars’ damage | fist,” and that a tobacco barn in which he took shelter during the storm “shook all over.” His to bacco, three weeks from barning, was beaten to rags. J. Shelton Thomas, manager of the Carolina Lace Plant, Inc., at Robbins, who raises com and livestock up the road from Boone, came home soon after the storm (Continued on Page 8) Film on Communism To Be Seen Friday “Communism on the map,” a film depicting the spread of Com munism throughout the world will be shown free of charge at th.3 VFW post home on N. W. Broad St., at 8 p. m. Friday. The public is invited. The showing, which will last about an hour, is sponsored by the local VFW and American Le gion posts and their Auxiliaries to tobacco, wheat and corn crops was done Monday by huge hail stones which pelted down on the Bensalem area, then skipped over to several farms between Carth age and Glendon. The 15-minute storm, occurring about noon, cut a two-mile swath on the Bensalem road, battering out windows, damaging roofs and denting cars and trucks with its fury. The storm was one of several which hop-skipped about the State that day, striking out of dense black clouds. An earlier re port that a tornado had hit High- falls caused an investigation by the State Highway Patrol, but proved to be unfounded. Two hours later, the hail storm broke with unprecedented fury just a few miles away. At Leon Boone’s home on the Bensalem Road, five windows— all those on the west side of his farmhouse—were torn out sash and all, holes were knocked in his roof and the asbestos siding of his home was pockmarked all over the west side. In rain con tinuing intermittently during the day, neighbors gathered at Boone’s house to patch the holes with tin so the family would have some protection. Boone said the hailstones rang ed from golfball-size on up, with “plenty of them as big as my 66-Room Holiday Inn Motel, With Restaurant, Will Be Constructed Construction is expected to be gin soon on a 66-room Holiday Inn motel, with adjacent restau rant seating more than 100 per sons, and a swimming pool, at the site of the present Southern Pines Restaurant and cottages, on No. 1 highway, south. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Simpson of Sanford, owners of the property and proprietors of the restaurant and cottages now located there, said that an agreement has been reached that a Holiday Inn fran chise will be signed soon, cover ing the motel and restaurant that they will build. Cost of the entire project, they said, will be “very close to a half million dollars.” The Simpsons will build the new facilities to plans drawn by Grover P. Snow, Raleigh archi tect. Wynn Construction Co. of Richmond, Va., will be the con tractors, with much of the work to be offered to local sub-con- tractors'on a competitive basis. A Holiday Inn franchise means that the Simpsons will have the Peach Festival Set for July 19 At Rockingham. The Sandhill Area Develop ment Association and the North Carolina Mutual Peach Growers’ Society will sponsor a Peach Fes tival in Rockingham on Wednes day evening, July 19. A feature will be the selection and crown ing of a Peach Queen from the seven-county area of Moore, Hoke, Montgomery, Anson, Lee, Richmond and Scotland. John Faison and Miss Ruth Temple, Richmond County farm and home agents, are planning the festivities. Serving on the Peach Queen committee are the following or- chardists: Patt Harman, Jr., of Jackson Springs, John Bost of Eagle Springs, Bert Stutts of Pinehurst, Perry Gallimore of Candor, and Don Huffman of LilesviUe. The Peach Queen will be crowned by Mrs. Perry Gillimore. New Emergency Rooms Given to Local Hospital A larger emergency section has been completed at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The new installation, donated by Mrs. George Mathe- son of Southern Pines, consists of three examining rooms, two drug rooms and a large adjoining hallway and waiting room. The hospital’s maintenance and construction staff, under Bob Harrison, did all the structural work. Specialized work was let to various contractors. Dr. Francis L. Owens, chief of staff at St. Joseph’s, said of the new emergency section, “I’m de lighted with it. It is 100 per cent more efficient and equips us now to handle just about any major disaster or accident.” The added room and the close ness of the waiting room, he ex plained, make easier the handling of multiple-injury accidents. Most accidents result in injuries to more than one person, he pointed out. The three examining rooms are ceramic-tiled, for eye appeal and (Continued on Page 16) Pledg es Asked to Help Build Seal Society Building George Hodgkins of Southern Pines, who was recently elected to the board of directors of the North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children and Adults, said to day that pledges are being receiv ed by the Moore County chapter of the Society toward a fund that would help bring the state head quarters of the Society to South ern Pines. The board of directors of the Society, whose headquarters is now in Chapel Hill, has twice been here in the past tv/o weeks to look at the site which has been offered by a local property own er. Location of the site and the donor have not been revealed, pending action by the Society’s executive committee which is to meet Friday to make a decision on the offer. Purpose of the fund for which pledges are being taken, locally, Mr. Hodgkins said, is to offer ad ditional inducement for the So ciety to move its headquarters here by making up as much as possible of the difference be tween what the Society could sell its present building in Chapel Hill for, and what it would cost to (Continued on page 8) Final Appeal for Battleship Fund Made by Younts With the July 1 campaign dead line two days away, Moore County has met about 80 per cent of its $2,500 quota in the $250,000 state wide drive for funds to save the battleship North Carolina. Jack S. Younts, a member of the State battleship commission, today urged that all Moore resi dents expecting to contribute to the fund send in their gifts at once. Checks should be made out to “U.S.S. North Carolina Bat tleship Fund” and can be sent to Col. Don Madigan, local chairman, or directly to the Battleship Com mission in care of the Governor’s Office at Raleigh where they will be credited to Moore County. Persons who contribute $10C or more will receive commissions as admirals in the North Carolina Navy. Contributions of $5 or more entitle donors to free admission tickets to board the battleship at the permanent location to which it will be brought in Wilmington. Gifts to the U.S.S. North Car olina Fund are tax deductible, by rulings of federal and North Car olina revenue officials. TRIAL SET IN SEPTEMBER Innes Arrested for Embezzlement Roderick M. Innes, 49,, former cashier of the Carolina Bank at Pinehurst, whose resignation was announced by the bank in May, was arrested Tuesday on embez zlement charges, by an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion. The warrant charged him spe cifically with making false en tries and embezzling or misap plying $2,000 from the account of customer of the bank during March of this year and converting the money to his own use, these being violations of the Federal Reserve Act. He waived hearing before U. S. Commissioner J. A. Lang at Car thage and was released under $2,- 000 bond for trial at the Septem ber 11 term of Middle District court at Rockingham. Innes, a native of Scotland and longtime civic leader in the Sand hills, had been associated with the bank since 1949 until his res ignation May 5. He, Is a former U. S. Army officer, is married and has two children. He had been employed by the Carolina Bank before entering military service in World War II. After leaving the Army, he worked for a time with the Sand hill Furniture Go. at'West End, returning to the bank in 1949. Budget Estimate For County Sets 35-Cfent Tax Hike Total requirements of over a million and a half dollars—highest amount in the history of Moore County—are listed in a budget estimate 'for the 1961-62 fiscal year, as approved by the county commissioners: The proposed budget for county operations from July 1 through June 30, 1962, sets a tax rate of $1.70 per $100 of property valua tion, an increase of 35 cents over the rate that has been in effect for the past decade or more. All of the increase is going for school purposes—33% cents of it specifically into the school capi tal outlay budget for construction or major remodeling of school buildings. And of this amount, the largest slice is slated for construction of the first of the county system’s two proposed consolidated high schools, to be located in the Union Church area and slated to serve the present Carthage, Cameron, ■Vass - Lakeview and Farm Life districts. Exact amount of the total bud get requirements, for schools and all other purposes, is $1,520,- 020. This will be derived, the budget estimates, from $7'73,500 to be obtained by real and per sonal property taxes and $746,520 to come from other than tax funds. The chief souce of funds other than taxes is profit from ABC liquor stores in Southern Pines and Pinehurst. Money budgeted for schools (ca pital outlay, current expense and debt service) totals $865,342. For all other county departments (and debt service), the amount budget ed is $654,6'78. The budget is based on a coun ty-wide property valuation of $52 million. Details of the budget estimate appear in a tabluation on another page of today’s Pilot. The com plete budget, with full details, is ’ currently open to public inspec tion in the office of the register of deeds in the courthouse at Carthage, pending final adoption by the commissioners, as required by law. use of the Holiday Inn name which is now borne by nearly 200 motels and restaurants in 37 states. The franchise also means that the new facilities must meet certain construction and other specifications of the Holiday Inn firm whose headquarters is at Memphis, Tenn. Completion is expected in six to seven months, perhaps sooner, Mr. Simpson said. “I am ready now to take reservations for January 15,” he stated. First step in the project will be to move or raze all buildings on the site. These inolude the present restaurant building, which was the home of Mr. and Jlrs. Frank deCosta," former owners, which will be torn down, and the razing or moving of the seven cottages scattered over the nine- acre property. Many of the pine trees which virtually cover the site will have to be cut down but, Mr. Simpson said, as many as possible will be saved. Surveying is expected to start next week on what trees will have to come down. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have owned the property since Jan uary, 1960, and have operated the restaurant since March of that year, continuing to live in San ford where Mr. Simpson has been with the Roberts Company, mach inery manufacturers, for eight years. For the past year he has- been quality control manager and had previously be^ chief in spector. He is a veteran of Navy service in 'World War II and later. Mrs. Simpson has been active manager of the restaurant, com muting daily from Sanford. Mr. Simpson is a native of Lee County. His wife is the former Jeanne Krug of Union, N. J. They have five daughters, aged 12 to two years. They expect to move to Southern Pines and will themselves be active managers of the new business. ^ Brick, aluminum and glass will be the chief construction materi als for the new buildings which will be completely fireproof, Mr. Simpson said. The only wood used will be in the interior room trim. Exposed beams will support a pre-stressed concrete roof lined with insulating material. There will be a variety of room accommodations, including “stu- (Continued on Page 8) Moore Co. Golf Tourney Begins Qualifying rounds for the an nual Moore County Golf Tourna ment began this week at the Southern Pines Country Club, to run through July 9. Heavy rains over the tough, 35-36 par 71 course prevented qualifying early in the week. Peter Tufts of Pinehurst is the defending champion and is ex pected to be on hand for the tour nament. He is exempt from qual ifying. Last year the tournament was held at Pinehurst. Dr. Boyd Starnes was the medalist with a par 71 over the number one course. Following qualification, the low 16 scorers will make up the championship flight. The remain der will be bracketed in other :[lights. The first round will be from July 10 to 16; second July 17 to 23; and the championship or finals in each flight will be play ed July 24 through 30. An entry fee of $3 will cover expenses. USGA rules will be in effect. Harry Davis of Carthage is chairman of this year’s tourna ment. Trophies will be given in each flight. All-Star Game of Little League to ; Be Played July 4 The Southern Pines Little Lea gue All-Stars who were selected at a meeting of the coaches and commissioner last night, will play an all-star team from Sanford on July 4. The contest which is ex pected to be broadcast over IVEEB and also a Sanford station will begin at 3 p. m. at Memorial Field here. An all-star team from the Minor League’s Cubs and Tigers will play a similar team selected from the Reds and Yanks follow ing the Southern Pines-Sanford contest. In regular Little League play Friday, the Pirates will meet the Dodgers at 6:30 and the Braves will take on the Cardinals at 8. A report of the past week’s Lit tle League games, the team stand ings and individual batting aver ages appear elsewhere in today’s Pilot. Teains Have Sponsors Civic clubs, businesses and in dividuals are demonstrating their interest in the local Little League and Minor League program by sponsoring the eight teams in the two leagues. The Elks Club which feted all 100 players and coaches last sea son, is now sponsoring the Yanks. The Moose Lodge has recently taken over sponsorship of the Reds. Other teams and sponsors are: the Tigers, sponsored by the Lions Club; the Pirates, spon sored by the Mid Pines Club; the Cardinals, sponsored by the Pine Needles Country Club; The Braves, sponsored by Trimble Products Inc.; the Dodgers, spon sored by D. A. (June) Blue, Jr.; and The Cubs sponsored by Den ton Realty Corp.

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