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VOL. 41—NO. 48 EIGHTEEN PAGES. BUT MID-WEEK GAME NOT ELIMINATED Moore Athletic Officials Agree To Begin Basketball Games Earlier The Moore County Administra tive Athletic Committee, com- pos-sd of superintendents and principals met at the Elise High School last Thursday night and adopted an Athletic Handbook for all Moore County schools. To attain uniformity and administrative control of the athletic program, this group or ganized in October, 1959, and sel ected an Athletic Steering Com mittee. C. E. Hackney of Rob bins was elected chairman. With C. Wade Mobley, T. H. Linger- Piano Quartet to Open Concerts of 1961-1962 Season The first musical event of the season will take place a week from Sunday when the famed “Piano Quartet” comes to South ern Pines. The ensemble of four brilliant pianists will play at Weaver Au ditorium on Sunday evening, Oc tober 29, with curtain time at 8:30. This IS the opening program of the four concerts scheduled for the season in the regular series presented under the sponsorship of the Sandhills Music Associa tion. Tickets are for sale here at the Barnum Agency; in Pine- hurst by Wesley Viall at the Carolina Pharmacy and in Aber deen by Lee Buchan at Martin Motors. As in the past years, the Hol lywood Hotel is cooperating with the music group to 0(ffer a buf fet dinner before the concert, from 6:30 to 8. It is stated that reservations should be ma-do in advance. Commenting on the program for the coming concert, Leonard Muddimer, president of the Mu sic Association, said that he be lieved it was admirably suited to appeal to a wide range of tastes. “The music,” he said, “includes selections from the best in both classical and contemporary mod ern music. Critics have praised (Continued on page 8) feldt, Glenn Cox and Lewis Can non serving on the committee. The handbook consists of “The Sportsman’s Creed” and a code of ethics for the player, coach, of ficial and spectator. Other fea tures of the handbook include a section on each sport, with time of game, admission tournament, protests and make-up games cov ered. The group adopted the policy of starting all basketball games at 7 p. m. in order that students will get more sleep and rest. It was further agreed that each team in the county would play each other twice, eliminating the need to go a long distance to other counties for games. A request was made by one of the school principals for all of his school’s mid-week games to be played on Wednesday afternoon or eliminate the mid-week games entirely. After much discussion, the principals agreed to abide by the rule of the majority and not eliminate the mid-week games. However, the group instructed •the superintendents to appoint committee consisting of stu dents, parents, teachers and prin cipals to study the mid-week games and make recommenda tions. More emphasis is to be placed on intramural sports in the fu ture. A special committee of coaches will draw up plans for a County Track and Field Day for a Saturday, next spring. Mrs. Wood Again Heads Chapter of Easter Seal Group Mrs. William Wood of Pine- bluff has been reelected president of the Moore County chapter of the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults, it was announced this week. Other officers named are: Mrs. Graham Culbreth, vice president and service chairman; Mrs. Wil liam Allen, recording secretary; George Hodgkins, treasurer and Easter Seal campaign chairman; and Kenneth Cox, publicity chair man. Named to the board of directors are; Dr. H. A. Peck, Dr. William F. Hollister, Dr. Emily Tufts, Luther A. Adams and Frank R. Gramelsbach. Other board mem bers will be added. <Mr. Hodgkins and Mrs. Culbreth are members of the state bosird of directors of the Society and Mrs. Culbreth is on the state camp development committee which is making plans for con struction of a permanent facility for treatment of handicapped children, near Southern Pines. Work on enlarging the lake at the camp site will begin next week. Try-Outs for Play Set Sunday, Monday “The Late Christopher Bean” by Sidney Howard has been chosen for its next play by Thea- tre-in-the-Pines, the local ama teur theatre group that draws its m.embership from several com munities of Moore County. Try-outs for the play will be held at the Southern Pines town hall Sunday, October 22, from 3 to 5 p. m. and from 7 to 9 p. m., and also from 7 to 9 p. m. Mon day. Theatre-in-the-Pines presented two successful productions during the 1960-61 season here. Housing Reported Available Here in Lower Rent Range Numerous low-rental apart ments and houses are available in Southern Pines and this area, it was stated this week by an own- ^ er listing this type of accommo dations. A story in last week’s Pilot, stating that rental housing is in extremely short supply here, overlooked the existence of low- rental facilities, be said. Plenty •of places renting for $50 and $60 per month are available, it was stated. While this spokesman said that he had been fortunate in rent ing most of his units, he estima ted that between 50 and 100 lowf rental house or apartment facili ties are available here. He point ed out that because of lack of de mand, many rental units had been withdrawn during the past few years. Some of these are now becoming available,, he noted. Realtors handling medium- priced and higher bracket rental property reiterated this week that very little housing of this sort remained available in Southern Pines, attributing the shortage to demand from military personnel arriving at Fort Bragg in Reserve and National Guard units called up for Army duty. Many of the men being sent to Fort Bragg, they pointed out, are professional people willing and able to pay higher rentals and preferring to live in such a com munity as Southern Pines. An agent quoted a lieutenant who, when asked what rental he had in mind, said that he expect ed to pay up to $250 per month. Defeating Frank Ross of West Hartford, Conn., 2 and 1, this morning, J. Wolcott Brown of finals of the North and South Senior golf tournament at Pine- hurst, shooting for a repeat of his 1958 victory in the event. Facing Brown in his semi finals match tomorrow will be Dr. John Mercer of Fitchburg, Mass., who.turned in a 3 and 1 defeat of John Jacobs of Canton, Ohio, in this morning’s play. Semi-finalists in the lower bracket of the championship flight are Robert Bell of Worth ington, Ohio, who beat Walter Pease of Plainfield, N. J., 1-up, THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum tem peratures for each day of the past week were recorded as follows at the U. S. Weather Bureau obser vation station at the WEEB studios on Midland Road. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961 Mineral Deposits Of Moore County Being Surveyed Preliminary results of a state- conducted mineral survey of Moore County—the first such de tailed survey to be made of any county in North Carolina—were outlined to the county commis sioners at -a special meeting of the boafcT in Carthage Wednes day ^fternoon. Making the report were Dr. Jasper E. L. Stuckey, state geol ogist, and J. F. Conley, geologist working under Dr. Stuckey. Pres ent for the occasion along with the commissioners were two for mer directors of the State De partment of Conservation and Development, W. P. Saunders of Southern Pines and George Ross of Jackson Springs. The geolo gists were introduced by Mr. Ross and Mr. Saunders expressed appreciation for their work. The Moore project is the open er of an anticipated series of mineral surveys of all the coun ties of the state. Dr. Stuckey said. This county was chosen for a be ginning of the work because of the wide variety of its mineral formations and because of the in terest of the commissioners, the two former C & D directors and- others. Attending the meeting also (Continued on page 8) Scout Fund Drive Begins in Section East of Railroad With a goal of $2,500, the Boy Scout fund drive in an area east of the railroad tracks in South ern Pines began this week, under chairmanship of Ted Taws, with a large corps of volunteer work ers. The campaign on the west side of the railroad, but not including West Southern Pines, began last week with E. Earl Hubbard as chairman and a goal of $1,000. Both efforts are part of the an nual Occoneechee Council fupd drive in 12 counties of central North Carolina, to provide funds for expansion of Scouting activi ty, for camping programs, for professional Scout executives and other purposes. Similar campaigns are going on throughout Moore County, or will start before the end of the month. Working in the effort headed by Mr. Taws are: Shirley Woost er, Mrs. Leland Daniels, Mrs. Robert Leland, David Sedberry, Stanley Austin, Alwin Folley, W. R. Bonsai, James Fields, John Bigbee, Max Rush, James Pleas ants, F. F. (Bud) Rainey and E. J. Austin. Norris Hodgkins, Jr., is advance gifts chairman. EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS Highway Caution Plea Made by State Patrol RECORD-BREAKER—Medalist Egon Quittner of Rydal, Pa., uses Pinehurst Country Club putting green markers to illustrate his five-imder-par 67 in the qualifying round of the North and South Senior golf tournament Monday. The score, registered on the championship No. 2 course, gave Quittner the medal and set a record for qualifying scores in the 10-year-old event. The Pennsylvania golfer was eliminated from the championship flight Wednesday, losing 2 and 1 to Frank Ross of West Hartford, Conn. Quittner, whose age is 62, shot an eagle, four birdies and a bogey in his sizzling qualifying round. (Hemmer photo) NORTH 8e SOUTH SENIORS Bellf Ackerman, Mercer, Brown Win at Pinehurst today, and James Ackerman of Princeton, N. J., whose match this morning found him 2-up Seagirt, N. J., went into the semi- over Arthur Dezendorf of Wash- Max Min October 12 81 52 October 13 77 55 October 14 77 55 October 15 64 37 October 16 75 42 October 17 78 41 October 18 80 47 Public Invited to Airport Ceremony A celebration and dedication ceremony is planned for the new runway facilities added to the Pinehurst - Southern Pines-Aber- deen Airport, on Sunday, October 29, at 3 p. m. The runway to be dedicated is 4,500 feet in length and 150 feet wide and cost approximately $144,000. The work entailed the moving of 70,000 cubic yards of earth and the laying of 8,850 tons of asphalt. Piedmont Airlines will have four daily sei"vio3 flights, inclu ding service to Raleigh and Nor folk, in addition to the East-West flights previously offered, after the new runway facilities are opened. Included in this program are national speakers, military units from Pope Air Force Base, doz ens of private planes and Pied mont’s new F-27 Fairchild turbo jet plane that will begin commer cial use of the new runway. The public is invited to attend the dedication which will begin at 3 p. m. and will last for about an hour. Aircraft will be on display from 1 p. m. and guides will be available, according to J. E. Sandlin, acting chairman of the Moore County Airport Commit tee. Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, director of the United States Travel Service, is expect ed to be master of ceremonies. The principal speaker will be James T. Pyle, deputy adminis trator of the Federal Aviation Agency. Other town and county officials are expected to take part on the program. ington, D. C. The championship flight has been playing the No. 2 course at the Pinehurst Country Club un der cloudless skies this week. Finals are scheduled for Satur day. Brown, who won the North and South Senior title in 1958, is con sidered a strong contender for the 1961 championship. He has held on all week, while other former champs fell by the way- side, including Pease, the 1959 winner who was eliminated in today’s quarterfinals, and Tom Robbins of Pinehurst, defending champion who shot an 80 Mon day and failed to qualify. More than 300 senior golfers are in Pinehurst to play this 10th edition of the tournament, many accompanied by wives who will take part in the fourth annual Women’s North and South Senior tournament, starting Tuesday. 9th Death of Year on Moore Roads Listed A Rockingham youth was kill ed shortly before midnight Sat urday when, helping push a stall ed car on NC 211 a mile from West End, he was struck from be hind by another car. This was Moore’s ninth high way fatality of the year, accord ing to the State Highway Patrol. State Trooper E. G. Shomaker said Benjamin Tillman Ease, 19, was dead on arrival at Moore Memorial Hospital in Pinehurst of a fractured skull and other in juries. Three other youths, Eugene Forbis, Edward Wall and John Edward Smith, all of Rocking ham, were helping push Forbis’ car but managed to jump clear. The other car, driven by Spen cer Morton, 20, of West End, richocheted from the blow and overturned on the highway, throwing out its occupants, Mor ton and James Pack, 19, of West End. Both were hospitalized. Morton’s car was demolished. A third car was also involved, the trooper reported. Coming along behind Morton’s, an auto driven by Jerry Vest of West End hit the stalled Forbis car a glancing blow but no personal injury or damage resulted. Shomaker said Morton’s car apparently did not actually strike the Forbis car at all, as it swerved to the right to avoid it but could not avoid Ease, who was crushed between the left front of Morton’s car and the right rear of, the, stedled vehicle. Morton, interviewed, Wednes- , day at the hospital, told the of ficer he had been following the Rockingham car, had passed Vest’s car and got back into line when Forbis’ car, with the boys of Rock ingham at the rear, loomed up just ahead. His violent swerve took him all the way across the right-hand lane to the soft should er and he lost control getting back on the road. His car somer saulted once or twice down the highway, landing more than 300 feet beyond the tragedy site. The car driven by Forbis had run out of gas and some unidenti fied person had pushed it a short distance, leaving it and its occu- (Continued on Page 8) Sgt. J. S. Jones of the State Highway Patrol, who heads Pa trol operatiops in Moore, Lee and Chatham Counties, today appeal ed to motorists in this area to do everything in their power to help halt highway fatalities. The appeal was made against this background: Thirteen persons killed in head- on collisions alone in North Car olina last weekend. Three killed and nine injured in a head-on, two-car collision in neighboring Lee County. One young man killed—the ninth fatality of 1961 for Moore County—near West End last weekend (see separate story in today’s Pilot). “The head-on collisions that took 13 lives in the state last weekend were the result of two avoidable errors by motorists,” Sgt. Jones ^aid, “driving on the left-hand side of the highway and improper passing. Both er rors are avoidable and we are ap pealing to motorists to be care ful—to stay on their own side of the road and to pass another vehicle only at the proper place and speed.” With days getting shorter and highways frequently foggy in the mornings, accidents are much more likely to happen, Sgt. Jones pointed out. “Be careful!” was his warning to all drivers in this area. Brick Given for Ball Park Project Contribution of* 12,000 bricks for dugouts and a concession stand at the proposed official Lit tle League baseball park on Mor- ganton Road, given by the Sanford Brick and Tile Co. of Sanford, was announced today by the league’s board of directors. The announcement publicly ex pressed the gratitude of the directors and said that a letter of appreciation will be sent to company officials. Joel Stutts, chairman of the park committee, said *today that the gift of bricks, as well as other donations, will make possible completion of the park this year, with the exception of lights for night play. Funds will be sought soon for the lighting projects, he said. A dance is being planned to help with the fund-raising. At a meeting of the league’s board of directors Tuesday night, contracts for fence advertisements and construction plans, for the concession stand were approved. Nurses Aide Training Course Siaris Nov. 6 • Persons interested in taking a volunteer nurses aide training course, to be given on Mondays, starting November 6, are asked to get in touch with Sister Vir ginia or Sister Catherine at St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital. The course, which will run for 10 weeks, will be conducted in cooperation with the Red Cross program for care of the sick and injured. YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO MEET FRIDAY Young Democratic Club members of Moore County will gather at the courthouse in Carthage at 8 p.m.'Friday for their annual business meeting and to hear W. W. Staton of Sanford, Democratic national committeeman, make the main address of the eve ning. Arthur Rowe, Moore YDC president, urges that all members and other interest ed persons, especially young people, plan to attend. Officers will be elected and delegates neuned to the YDC state convention. A number of candidates for ^ state YDC offices are expect ed to be present at Carthage. FuUenwider Heads Industry Croup W. Harry FuUenwider was sentative of the town council on elected chairman of the newly appointed and expanded South ern Pines industrial Committee at the group’s first meeting in the conference room at the town hall Wednesday afternoon. The new chairman succeeds Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr. Ward Hill was elected secretary, succeeding Mr. FuUenwider. The committee, appointed by the mayor, seeks to bring suit able new industry to Southern Pines, to cooperate with existing industry and to sponsor projects of benefit to the local industrial and business community. Present at the meeting yester day were Mr. FuUenwider, Mr. Hodgkins, Alwin W. Folley, Mx. Hill, James D. Hobbs, the repre- the group: W. S. Thomasson who, with J. T. Overton, was named merchants’ representative on the committee; and J. Cecil Beith of the Industrial Advisory Conunit- tee appointed by Mayor John S. Ruggles at the October council meeting last month. Mr. Thomasson reported yes terday on plans for organization of the Merchants Council sug gested by Mayor Ruggles when he made the appointment of Mr. Thomasson and Mr. Overton. Other members of the Indus trial Advisory Committee are W. J. Donovan, chairman; Edward T. Taws, Jr., R. M. Cushman and W. P. Saunders. Mayor Ruggles is an ex-officio member of the full committee. County Fair Will Open Monday. Run Thru Next Week The annual Moore County Agricultural Fair will open Mon day of next week, at Carthage, to run through Saturday, spon sored by the Carthage Jaycees and featuring a variety of ex hibits, events and entertainment. Susan Woodall of Roanoke Rapids, “Miss North Carolina” of 1961, is expected to be on hand Wednesday night for the Moore County Beauty Pageant, in which “Miss Moore County High School” will be chosen. Also ex pected is Patsy McRee of South ern Pines, last year’s winner of the contest. Entries include girls representing high schools around he county. The Junior Cattle and Dairy Show, opening at 9 a. m. Tuesday, is another highlight of the week, when livestock grown by 4-H Club boys and girls will be dis played. A bicycle will be given away to some lucky child on Tuesday afternoon, when all white school children of the county will be ad mitted free, and again on Thurs day afternoon when Negro chil dren are admitted without charge. The O. C. Buck Shows will pro vide midway entertainment. There will be a fireworks display each night at 10 o’clock. E. H. Mills Heads Committee for Bond Proposals E. H. Mills, mayor of Pinebluff, heads the Moore County Citizens Committee to support the pro posed 10 state bond issues which will be voted on November 7. The 10 bond proposals total $61,665,000, largely to provide buildings and other facilities for growing state services. The 10 is sues are listed separately, so that votes can be cast for or against each one. No new registration is needed for those persons who are proper ly registered to vote in general elections, but registrars are open ing their books for new registra tions through Saturday, Novem ber 4. Brochures explaining all 10 of the bond issues may be obtained from Mr. Mills.
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