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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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.