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VOL. 41—NO. 36
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961
SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE TEN CENTS
Sandhills Junior
Tennis Tourney
Starts August 3
Entries are coming in “far
ahead of last year” for the two
tennis tournaments to be played
at the municipal courts here next
month, George H. Leonard, Jr.,
president of the Sandhills Tennis
Association, said today.
The Association is sponsoring
both the events—the Junior Invi
tational, August 3-6, and the
Senior Invitational, August 10-
13. The weekend dates, with finals
usually played on Sunday, make
the tournaments available for a
larger audience of spectators.
There is no admission charge.
“Please urge all members of
the Tennis Association and citi
zens of the Sandhills to attend
these tournaments, as there is a
great field of top players this
year,” Mr. Leonard said. “It will
pep up the players if they have a
good group of spectators. You
will be guaranteed some very fine
tennis.”
Several families have offered
to house one or more of the
junior players, Mr. Leonard, said,
but more rooms are needed. Lo
cations close enough to the courts
so that the boys and girls can
walk there are preferred. Anyone
interested in taking one or more
of the juniors is asked to get in
touch with Mrs. George H. Leon
ard, Jr., Oxford 5-6721, or Mrs.
Charles Phillips, OXford 2-3602.
Trophies for the Junior tourna
ment will be on display this week
and next week in the window of
Barnum Realty and Insurance
Co. The senior trophies will be
displayed there during the fol
lowing week.
The courts are expected to be
in top condition for the tourna
ments. Mr. Leonard praised the
work of Claude Blue in caring
for the courts.
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A PEACHY PARTY— Peach Queen Jean
Brower, at left, hands ^ Governor Sanford a
peach half, while on the right Mrs. Sanford
tenders the other half to daughter Betsy. In
rear. Agriculture Commissioner “Stag” Bsd-
FROM SANDHILLS PEACHES
lentine, left, and T. C. Auman of West End,
of the N. C. Mutual Peach Growers Society.
Background is composed of baskets of Sand
hills peaches piled at side entrance of the
Governor’s Mansion. (Photo by V. Nicholson)
Orphans Eat Ice Cream
Sandhills peaches starred at an It was the first time most of them
McGk>ogan Taking
Hospital Post;
Will Live Here
Duncan L. McGoogan, recently
appointed new administrator of
Moore Memorial Hospital in
Pinehurst, will assume his duties
there next Tuesday, August 1.
Mr. McGoogan comes from Char
lotte where he has been assistant
administrator of Charlotte Mem
orial Hospital for several years.
Thomas R. Howerton will wind
up his duties at the institution on
July 31 and will report to Wilson,
where he has been appointed ad
ministrator of the new 250-bed
Wilsbn Memorial Hospital, now in
the planning stage.’
Mr. Howerton and Mr. McGoo
gan will meet with the Medical
Care Commission's staff, along
with representatives from the
architectural firms, to review
proposed plans for Moore Mem
orial Hospital’s long range devel
opment. This meeting will be
held in the Commission’s office
in Raleigh next Wednesday morn
ing.
John F. T./lor, chairman of the
Building Committee, said this
week that the committee would
announce within a short time the
complete “master plan” for the
development and expansion of
the hospital during the next few
years. The master plan accom
plishments will be divided into
different stages, and an immedi
ate project will be developed out
of the total plan as soon as pos
sible.
The hospital’s building pro
gram has been given a tremen
dous boost within the past year
by gifts from Mrs. Samuel G. AL
len of Pinehurst for a new oper-
'ating room suite, and from the
Irene Heinz LaPorte Given Foun
dation for a new X-Ray depart
ment.
The McGoogan family plans to
live in Southern Pines at 480 East
Massachusetts Avenue in the
home now occupied by the How
ertons, which has been sold to
Mr. and Mrs. McGoogan. Mr.
Howerton’s family will remain in
Southern Pines through the
month of August and will move
to Wilson on August 29. Mr. Mc-
Googan’s family will move from
Charlotte on September 1.
event at the Governor’s Mansion
at Raleigh Wednesday afternoon.
Some 140 children of the Meth
odist Home took over the wide
tree-shaded lawn at a party at
which Governor Terry Sanford
and his wife (also their children,
Betsy and Terry, Jr.) were gra
cious hosts.
Climax of the occasion was the
serving of an estimated 15 gal
lons of peach ice cream which tho
youngsters made thmSelves, turn
ing the cranks of old-time freez-
had seen real homemade ice
cream.
The “mix” for the cream was
made by the Mansion kitchen
staff of 10 bushels of Sandhills
peaches provided in advance by
the N. C. Mutual Peach Growers
Society.
A few dozen additional half
bushel baskets of the luscious
fruit were carried to Raleigh as
a gift by a Sandhills delegation
attending the party—T. C. Au
man of West End, president of
ers borrowed for the occasion and the peach society; and county
licking the dashers with relish. | (Continued on page 5)
Town to Lease Land to Little League
In a special meeting at noon to
day, the town council adopted
a resolution authorizing lease of
a tract of town-owned land on
Morganton Road to the Southern
Pines Little League for the con
struction of an official Little
League baseball park.
To be leased is a tract 400 feet
square, opposite the National
Guard Armory, bordering Mor
ganton Road on the north and
the road to the fire tower on the
west. The total tract owned by
the town at this poiiit runs about
1,000 feet between Mount Hope
Cemetery and the fire tower
road, allowing ample space for
future expansion of the cemetery
or other town needs in the area,
it was pointed out.
Dr. W. F. Hollister, chairman
of the board of directors of the
Southern Pines Little League,
>r
JOHN CHAPPELL of Sou
thern Pines, student at Sou
theastern Theological Semi
nary, will be guest speaker
at the regular worship service
Sunday at the United Church
of Christ (Church of Wide
Fellowship). Walter Daeke
will be the service leader.
The theological student, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chapell,
240 N. Ridge St., is a 1961
graduate of Wake Forest
College. He graduated from
Southern Pines High School
in 1957.
told the council that it is the in
tention of the board to construct
a Little League park built to of
ficial, nation-wide Little League
specifications—one of the require
ments to make local teams eligible
for state and national play-offs.
In the tract there would be room
for a practice field and spectator
parking. As few trees as possible
will be cut. Dr. Hollister said.
Work in leveling the field is ex
pected to start soon.
The lease would be binding
only for the term of office of the
present council which ends in
May, 1963, Town Attorney W.
Lamont Brown said, but council-
men agreed that there is little
doubt such- a lease would be re
newed by succeeding councils.
Attending the meeting wer-^
Mayor John S. Ruggles, CounciL
men Felton Capel, Morris John
son and James Hobbs; Town
Manager Bud Rainey, Mr. Brown
and Mrs. Mildred McDonald,
Council clerk. Coucilman R.
S. Ewing was not present but
was quoted by Mayor Ruggles as
having stated his approval of the
plan.
of “The Terraces,” the Episcopal
conference center which will
open here early in September,
have been prepared and distribu
ted throughout the Dioces.e of
North Carolina.
The center is the former
Dwight W. Winkelman home at
the cornei- of E. Massachusetts
Ave. and Weymouth Rd. The
large two-story house was given
to the Diocese by Mr. and Mrs.
Winkelman last year.
First conference at The Ter
races will be a four-day meeting
of the examining chaplains of the,
Diocese with young men prepar
ing to enter the ministry.
Rooms and meals will be provi
ded persons taking part in’con
ferences. Mrs. Harry J. Menzel
of Southern Pines, will be host
ess, but will continue to live in
her own home.
Conferences and training ses
sions for small groups of church
people, both clergy and laity, will
make use of the center’s facili
ties. The Diocese of North Caro
lina includes a wide area in the
central and Piedmont part of the
state, extending west as far as
Charlotte.
Plans call for The Terraces to
be open each year from Labor Day
to June 1. It will be available for
summer use also, but groups using
it then must provide their own
kitchen and maintenance help,
the brochure states.
Local members of the center’s
board of directors are the Rev.
Martin Caldwell, rector of Em
manuel Church here, who is
chairman of the board, and Mrs.
E. Nolley Jackson.
Classes Planned
For Handicapped;
Register Monday
Pre-registration will be held
Monday at three places in Moore
County for special classes planned
for mentally handicapped child
ren, it was announced today by
Mrs. Donald R. Scott of Southei-n
Pines, president of the Moore and
Hoke Counties Association for
Retarded Children.
Places of registration are:
Weaver Auditorium at the East
Southern Pines school; Pinehurst
school auditorium and Carthage
High School auditorium.
The pre-registration will serve
as a survey of the need for and
interest in the proposed classes.
If enough students register, Mrs.
Scott said, free classes will be
held at local schools over the
county.
The classes are authorized by
a bill passed by the 1961 General
Assembly, the law becoming ef
fective July 1 and providing for
instruction of educable mentally
handicapped children throughout
the state. The bill was sponsored
by the North Carolina State As
sociation for Retarded Children
with which the Moore and Hoke
Counties Association is affiliated.
Interested persons are asked to
inform parents of handicapped
children of the pre-registration on
Monday, in case these parents
may not have learned of the new
program. Parents needing tran
sportation to one of the pre-re-
Electrical Storm Sets
House Fire, Hits Trees
Brochure Tells
Operations of
Episcopal Center
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Brochures describing operations gistration places are asked to call summer meeting of the Asso-
H. CLIFTON BLUE
Bine Elected to
Head Press Group
In Coming Year
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
editor and publisher of The Sand
hill Citiz-sn, was elected president
of the North Carolina Press Asso^
ciation during last weekend’s an-
the office of their superintendent
of schools. There are three su
perintendents’ offices in the coun
ty—at Southern Pines, Pinehurst
and Carthage.
Plans for the pre-registration
and other business were discussed
at a meeting of the boanl of
directors of the Moore and Hoke
(Continued on Page 8)
ciation in Charlotte.
For the past year Mr. Blue,
who is Moore County’s represen
tative in the General Assembly
at Raleigh, has been president of
the Associated Weeklies group
that is affiliated with the Press
association. He presided at a
meeting of this group in Char
lotte. He h^s been editor and
publisher of the Citizen, a week
ly newspaper, for more than 25
years.
Before attending the Press As-
(Continued on page 5)
\
HEADS DRIVE — Harry
McStravick of Southern Pines
has been named chairman
for this fall’s Moore County
Boy Scout Fund drive and
will set up an organization of
community chairmen |hrough-
out the county. He is general
sales manager for Trimble
Products, Inc., is! a member
of St. Anthony’s Church and
is active in the Elks Lodge.
He is now finance chairman
for the Moore District Scout
organization.
(Humphrey photo)
Patch’s Tog Shop
Moving to Former
Book Store Site
Patch’s Tog Shop will move
from its New Hampshire Ave. lo
cation to the former Hayes Book
Shop site on N. W. Broad St.,
Charles S. Patch, proprietor of
the business, said yesterday. The
move is expected to be completed
early next week.
The Broad Street location,
where the book shop owned by
John S. Zelie, Jr., of Pinehurst,
went put of business this Spring,
is owned by Col. Wallace W. • „ .
Simpson of Pinehurst from whom | ° them, the largest
Patch’s Tog Shop is leasing the Property, is nearly a
A severe electrical storm that
centered its fury in the Wey
mouth Heights area late yester
day afternoon set one destructive
residential fire and struck a num
ber of trees.
The studio-apartment of Col.
and Mrs. O. A. Dickinson, at Val-
j ley and Old Field Roads, was set
I on fire during the height of the
storm. It was unoccupied and
the blaze was not discovered un
til the storm had passed. A neigh
bor saw smoke and called the fire
department.
Fire Chief Frank Kaylor said
that lightning running in on a
television aerial was the appar
ent cause of the fire. A television
set in the apartment was com
pletely burned out and the blaze
appeared to have spread from that
area to other parts of the build
ing.
The studio-apartment is in a
building separate from the main
DickinsOn residence and was for
merly a garage. It had been com
pletely remodeled and contained
several well-furnished rooms, a
small modern kitchen, a piano
used by Mrs. Dickinson and her
music pupils and a number of
personal items highly valued by
Col. and Mrs. Dickinson.
The building was gutted, with
fire breaking through the roof in
■several places. The piano and a
few items of furniture were re
moved before much damage was
done to them. However, practical
ly everything else in the building
was destroyed or badly damaged
by fire, smoke and water.
Col. and Mrs. Dickinson and
several guests were in the main
house during the storm. The tele
vision aerial is atop the main
house but one lead-in wire runs
to the apartment building which
is some 20 or 30 feet from the
larger residence, at its nearest
point. The fire was brought under
control by local volunteers before
any threat to the main house de
veloped, however.
Colonel Dickinson is a retired
Army officer.
The living room of the studio-
apartment was paneled in pine
and the rafters and studs were of
old heart pine, causing heavy
smoke to blanket the area. A
breeze from the south-east sent
smoke seven blocks and more in
to the business section, drawing
the attention of many persons to
the fire. A considerable crowd
had gathered before the firemen
had completed their work.
On the other side of Valley
Road, less than a block away, two
large pines near the street in the
yard of Councilman and Mrs. R.
S. Ewing were struck by light-
TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
Town to ^Affiliate^ With City in Spain
The town of Palos de la Fron-
tera in Spain has accepted the
invitation of Southern Pines to
become affiliated with this com
munity through the program of
Operation Town Affiliations,
Inc., an organization with head
quarters in New York, which was
formed to promote “international
people-to-people understaj^ding.”
Acceptance came in a letter to
Mayor John S. Ruggles from the
mayor of the Spanish town, Man
uel Maresca. In the letter, which
was translated locally by (Teorge
Davis, the mayor wrote: “. . .We
see with much pleasure and ac
cept with much delight this pro
posal of friendship with our
brother town. Southern Pines,
which you lead and direct with
dignity. . .”
The town of Palos de la Fron-
tera, which is on the Southern
Atlantic coast of Spain, near
Cadiz, was chosen because it is,
like Southern Pines, a resort
community, also because it is the
port from which Columbus sailed ; Mrs. Murray Clark for the Junior
on his voyage of discovery in i Woman’s Club; Mrs. Avery Evans
1492. The fact that Spanish is for the Civic Club; Town Manager
taught in the local schools also
was influential in the choice, as
exchanges of letters by students
is an important part of the Town
Affiliations program.
The program was initiated here
almost a year ago, largely through
the interest of Frank Warner of
Southern Pines who is a member
of the board of directors of Town
Affiliations, Inc., and chairman
of its New Neighbors Committee.
At a meeting held last August.
John McPhaul, representing the
Rotary Club, and Miss Annie
Margaret Brewer, faculty PTA
representative, were named co-
chairmen of the local Town Af
filiations group. Mrs. Charles
Phillips, PTA parent representa
tive, was elected secretary and
treasurer.
Named to the board of direct
ors, in addition to these officers,
were Mr. Warner; W. Lamon't
Brown for the Kiwanis Club;
Louis Scheipers, Jr., who has
now been replaced by the new
manager, Bud Rainey; Luther A.
Adams, superintendent of schools;
R. S. Ewing, who was then
mayor, and C. Benedict, Pilot
associate editor. The election of
John S. Ruggles as mayor places
him now in the position of receiv
ing communications from the
mayor of the Spanish town.
Civic and church organizations
were invited to name representa
tives to the local committee.
The invitation to affiliate with
Southern Pines was sent early
last fall and the Spanish mayor’s
first reply of acceptance, was
written last November. For some
reason not known locally, the
letter was held until a few weeks
ago in the American consulate at
Seville, Spain. Apparently no one
there had forwarded it to South
ern Pines, as requested by the
mayor of Palos de la Frontera.
space.
Mr. Patch said he has operated
the Tog Shop, a men’s clothing
and sporting goods business, since
May 1, 1922, when it was opened
in the location now occupied by
Southern Pines Pharmacy at the
northwest corner of New Hamp
shire Ave. and N. W. Broad St. In
1925, the shop was moved to the
location it is now vacating, in the
rear of the Patch building at the
southwest corner of New Hamp
shire and Broad. The shop has an
entrance to the street on New
Hampshire Ave. and adjoins
Patch’s Department Store inside
the building.
Painting and installation of
new lighting fixtures are being
done by Colonel Simpson at the
new location..
Patch’s Department Store is re
maining in the Patch Building,
Mr. Patch said. He said he had
nothing to announce about the
future of the department store at
this time.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of the
past week were recorded as fol
lows by the U. S. Weather Bu
reau observation station at the
WEEB radio studios on Midland
Road:
Max
Min.
July 20
91
69
July 21
90
72
July 22
93
71
July 23
92
68
July 24
94
72
July 25
94
72
July 26
94
71
yard in diameter at the base.
Other residents of the neighbor
hood said that lightning struck
repeatedly in the area. Several
said electricity entered their
homes on power or telephone
wites.
Board Abandons
Bond Proposal
The county commissioners
meeting in special session last
Thursday, voted to set the county
tax rate at $1.70 per $100 of prop
erty valuation as they had tenta
tively voted in June.
They also decided not to call
the $175,000 bond election to
provide funds with which to
complete a proposed new agri
culture and library building. The
feeling of the commissioners ap
peared to be that such a bond
issue would not pass and that it
would not be advisable to im
pose upon the citizens and tax
payers the expense of a special
election at this time.
The County has in reserve
about $99,000 for use in the con
struction of an agricultural build
ing. The cost of the proposed
building was orginally ^timated
at $230,000. It is now figured that
the proposed building would run
considerably higher. It was pro
posed that the ground floor be
used for the Moore County Lib
rary and that the building be so
located that the library part and
the agricultural part both have
ground floor entrances.