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VOL. 41—NO. 49
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
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Young Democrats
Elect Officers,
Hear Speakers
The Moore County Young Dem
ocratic club went all out Friday
night in support of a native son
for state YDC president.
In a resolution unanimously
adopted at the annual meeting
held at the courthouse, the club
endorsed the candidacy of W. E.
“Dub” Graham, native of Jack-
son Springs, now a rising young
lawyer of Charlotte.
Bidding for the homefolks’ sup
port in the .election to be held at
the state YDC convention next
month in Durham, Graham was
accorded an ovation. This was
the second time the Moore club
had endorsed him. Two years ago
he . considered making the raoe,
but later decided against it.
Two other candidates for state
office made their pitches at the
Moore meeting, but, though they
received interested attention, in
the interest of the committal to
Graham the club declined to make
any further endorsements. Deci
sion between the two, Charlie
Hodson of Chapel Hill and A1
House of Roanoke Rapids, oppo
nents in the national committee
man race, wiU be made at the pre
election caucus at Durham. A
strong Moore delegation is in
process of formation.
As is customary, all Moore YDC
members in good standing who
attend the state m.set will be offi
cial delegates. A resolution was
adopted to this effect.
Arthur Rowe, young Aberdeen
attorney with office in Southern
Pines, conducted the m-seting.
(Continued on page 9)
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AT HOME SITE— This large sign on the
Weymouth Estate tract given for the proposed
Episcopal, Home for the Ageing tells its own
story. Gathered at the site to emphasize the
sign’s message are, left to right: N. L. Hodgkins,
treasurer of the Home’s board of directors; the
Rev. Martin Caldwell, first vice president of
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the Home and rector uf Emmanuel Church
here; Mayor John S. Ruggles, a member of Em
manuel Church who has been long active in
its work; and, at right, Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
MacDougall, administrators for the home.
(Humphrey photo)
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Students Gather
Here For College,
Career Guidance
Seniors of all high schools in
Moore county attended a full
program of conferences at the
Southern Pines High school Wed
nesday to enable them to make a
wise choice of higher education
and-or of a career.
The occasion was the annual
Vocational Guidance and Colleg.s
Career Day sponsored by the
Sandhills Kiwanis club, in coop
eration with the Moore County,
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
school systems.
J. D. Hobbs was Kiwanis chair
man for the event, assisted by C.
E. Pow.ers, vocational guidance
director for Moore schools, and
Supt. Luther Adams of Southern
Pines schools.
Chairman Hobbs presided at
the opening assembly, in which
Supt. Adams, Moore Schools
Supt. Robert E. Lee, Kiwanis
President C. R. VanderVoort and
Director Powers also took part.
Dr. Cheves Ligon, executive sec
retary of the Fayetteville Pres
bytery, offered an invocation.
The seniors then attended the
college conference of their choice,
meeting with representatives of
various universities, colleges,
business and industrial schools in
(Continued from Page 17)
Mrs. Flippin Takes Lead in Women’s
Senior Golf Tournament at Pinehurst
Competition was continuing to
day in the 36-hole, two-day m.edal
play North and South Senior
Women’s golf tournament, being
conducted over the No. 1 and 3
coufses at the Pinehurst Country
Club. Contestants play 18 holes
on each of the courses;
The fourth annual edition of
the event had total entries of 230
as it began yesterday, including
the 1960 title holder, Miss Mau
reen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J,
former three times winner of the
North and South Women’s ama
teur tournament at Pinehurst.
Tha Pinehurst event will be
concluded today, but final results
were not obtainable before The
Pilot’s press time.
In yesterday’s play, Mrs. Har
rison F. Flippin of Douglassville,
Pa., scored 36-39-75 on the No. 1
NO TREASURE!
A large, heavily rusted
steel safe, uncovered this
morning several feet under
ground by workmen digging a
hole for a new oil tank back
Cl! the Broaid Street Phar
macy, proved to hold nothing
but trash and charred wood.
Lifted from the hole by the
May wrecker and taken to C.
,D. May's auto shop and open
ed, the safe did not justify
the excitement of a crowd
that gathered when it was
unearthed and speculated
about what it might contain.
From the condition of the
safe, Joe MontesantL Jr.,
proprietor of the Broad Street
Pharmacy, and others conclu
ded that it must have been
buried long ago after it had
been dcunaged in a fire.
course to lead the field. Only
players to break 80 were Miss
Orcutt and Mrs. John Pennington
of Buffalo, N.' Y., each with 79.
Low net leaders of the field at
69 were Mrs. Flippin and Mrs.
S. H. Kuhn, Class D entry from
Bronxville, N. Y. Mrs. Morrison
B. Orr of Piqua, O. was low in
Class B with 71; while Miss Julia
M. Ball of Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. and
Mrs. Casper B. Ughetta of Scars-
dale, N. Y. led Class C at 72 and
Mrs. William F. Morton of Win
chester, Mass, and Miss Margaret
Sullivan of Hamilton, Ont. were
low in E with 72.
The field of senior women golf
ers taking part includes the
champion and runner-up in the
U. S. Women’s Seniors tourna
ment—Mrs. Theodore W. Hawes
of Summit, N. J, and Mrs. Edwin
H. Vare, Jr., of Merion, Pa. Mrs.
Vare is the former Glenna Col
lett, who won the women’s Na
tional and North and South ania-
teur championships each six
times. She was the runner-up in
the women’s senior tournament
at Pinehurst two years ago.
Two former North and South
champions are back for a second
go at the title, Mrs. Flippin, the
tournament’s first victor and
five-tim.3s U. S. Seniors winner,
and Mrs. Charles F. Bartholomew
of Brookline, Mass., the 1959
(Continued on page 8)
"Plans Made For
Construction of
Episcopal Home
Ground will be broken in late
January or early February, 1962,
for the Episcopal Home for the
Ageing here, it was estimated by
Walter Hobbs of Charlotte, chair
man of the building committee,
this week.
The building committee will
meet next week to give its final
approval to plans being drawn by
Louis Asbury, architect of sever
al other homes for the ageing in
North Carolina, including a Meth
odist home in Asheville and the
large addition to the Methodist
home in Charlotte.
Mr. Asbury expects to have the
final plans completed by the
first of the year, and he estimates
that the ground-breaking can take
place a month later. Actual con
struction, he believes, will tak.2
about 10 months. The home
(Continued on Page 8)
PLAY TRY-OUTS
Try-outs for the next produc
tion of Theatre in the Pines, lo
cal amateur threatre group, will
be conducted at the town hall
from 3 to 5 p. m. Sunday. Persons
from throughout Moore County
are invited to take part.
Concert Sunday
Evening to Open
Musical Season
The big easel is once more on
view out in front of the Bank and
the Barnum Agency in Southern
Pines, notifying folks that tickets
are on sale inside. Tickets are
also being sold in Pinehurst at
th^ Carolina Pharmacy and at
the Martin Motor Company in
Aberdeen.
Tickets for what?
Tickets, as the poster proclaims,
for the first concert of the series
sponsored by the Sandhills Music
Association, in this case the fa
mous FIRST PIANO QUARTET.
This group of brilliant artists
with their four pianos—eight
hands on four keyboards playing
together as one instrument—will
appear Sunday night at Weaver
Auditorium at 8:30, in a program
to suit every taste in piano music,
from Bach to Gershwin.
Sunday’s concert heads a list
of four, with the probability that
two special concerts will also be
held for members of the Associa
tion only. The regular series in
cludes, besides the famous piano
quartet to be heard this Sunday,
the appearance here of ’Cile
(Continued on page 8)
Dedication of Airport
Facilities Set Sunday
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Chairmen Named
For Bond Voting
Miyor E. H. Mills of Pinebluff,
chairman of the Moore County
Citizens Committee for the state
wide $61,665,000 bond issues elec
tion November 7, this week re
leased the names of the communi
ty chairmen supporting the
bonds. They are;
Aberdeen, Forrest Lockey.
Southern Pines, Mayor John S.
Ruggles.
Carthage, R. E. Lee, Supt. of
Moore County Schools.
Pinehurst, J. Frank McCaskill.
West End and Jackson Springs,
T. Clyde Auman.
Pinebluff, Walter Davenport.
Robbins and Westmoore, Henry
Williams.
Highfalls, Mrs. Mildred Frie-
sen.
Eagle Springs, Lynn Martin.
Vass-Lakeview, Jack Morgan.
Cameron, Albert Cole.
Saturday is the final day for
registration to vote in the elec
tion. No new registration is need
ed by persons properly register
ed to vote in general elections.
JAMES T, PYLE
‘Open House^ Slated at Telephone Building
The public is invited to the for- roof and is heated and cooled
mal opening of the new United
Telephone Company of the Caro-
linas general office building at
385 W. Pennsylvania Ave., to take
place Friday, November 3, from
4 to 8 p. m.
Refreshments will be servied
and visitors will be conducted
throughout the large modern
building that has 6,300 square
feet of floor space and houses the
executive, engineering and ac
'counting offices for the company’s
operations in 21 telephone ex
changes in North and South Car
olina.
With John James Croft, Jr., of
Asheboro as architect and the J.
P. Pheifer Construction Co. of
Rockingham as contractor, the
building has outside walls of
brick and interior walls ef con
crete block. Much of the interior
wall space is finished with birch
panelling.
The building has a built-up flat
electrically by four heat pump
units. An unusual and striking
construction feature is the light
ed ceilings throughout the build
ing. The ceilings are formed of
corrugated translucent plastic,
above which many fluorescent
lamps are hung. The lamps them
selves are not visible but a glow
of bright light is thrown into
every portion of each room.
Facilities in the building in
clude private offices for E. W
Smail, president of the company;
John Bigbe.9, chief engineer;
Robert C. Bishop, commercial su
pervisor; George Thompson, plant
superintendent; Robert E.
Strouse, auditor; William Slack,
equipment supervisor; and Joe
Kimball, Southern Pines district
manager.
The commercial offic-s, for ser
vice 1;o local customers, is direct
ly in front of the entrance door
and Mr. Kimball’s office is at the
New Corporation
Formed by Patch
Building Owners
Charter for a new corporation
that will own the former Patch
building at 176 N. W. Broad St.
was to go to the Secretary of
State at Raleigh today and is ex
pected to be perfected by the first
of next weqk.
The corporation, taking. its
name from the building’s street
address, will be “176 N. W. Broad
St., Inc.” The officers are Fred
erick J. Mahony of Boston, Mass,
president; Dr. J. P. Chester of
Southern Pines, vice president;
and Garland McPherson of South
ern Pines, secretary and treasur
er.
Mr. Mahony’s bid of $37,500,
made October 12 in a sale at the
courthouse door in Carthage, was
confirmed Monday after the re
quired 10-day waiting period.
The building, which had housed
the Patch Department Store from
1909 until September of this year,
was sold to satisfy indebtedness
of Patch’s to the Southern Pines
Savings and Loan Association and
other creditors.
Mr. McPherson said today that
there are no plans for the build-
A formal dedication ceremony
and aviation display on Sunday
will mark the opening of new
facilities at the Southern Pines-
Pinehurst airport, and the expan
sion of Piedmont Airlines’ sea
sonal service to provide the long-
coveted north-south air link.
James T. Pyle, deputy FAA ad
ministrator', of Waishington, D.
C., will be the guest speaker at
the ceremony starting at 3 p. m.,
dedicating the new runway 4,500
feet long and 150 feet wide—a
$144,000 construction project.
Voit Gilmore of Southern .
Pines, director of the U. S. Trav
el Service, just back from Berlin,
j will be master of ceremonies, sal
uting the event toward which he
has long worked with other pub-
■ lie-spirited Sandhills citizens.
Officials to Speak
Tom Davis, Piedmont Airlines
president, of Winston-Salem, will
also be on the program which
will in addition feature greetings
from ropresentatives of the Moore
County commissioners, the Moore
County Airport Commission and
Moore County Industrial Devel
opment Committee, sponsors of
the program.
Buck McKenzie, airport mana
ger, in his plane will cut the rib
bon opening the new runway.
The public is invited, not only
to the ceremony but to the dis
play of new airplane models and
parachute jumps which will fea
ture the occasion. Static displays
by Piper, Aero-Commander and
Cessna, also by the U. S. Air
Force at Pope AFB, will be on
show from 1 p. m., and there will
be parachute drops by military
skydivers. *
Boy Scouts will operate a con
cession stand, and assist in park-
(Continued on page 8)
Thomasson Heads
Merchants Group
W. S. Thomasson has been
elected chairman of a proposed
Merchants Council to work in
cooperation and be a part of the
expanded Southern Pines Indus
trial Committee.
Members of the committee, the
Industrial Advisory Committee
are prepared to remodel
building to suit a tenant.
ing yet. He said that the owners merchants met at the town
the W. Harry Fullenwider,
committee chairman, presiding,
Monday night.
Mr. Thomasson named the mer
chants and businessmen present
at Monday’s meeting as members
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tern- of a temporary steering commit-
peratures for each day of the past' feo. They are E. Earl Hubbard,
week were recorded as follows at Gone Blackwelder, Joe Carter,
the U. S. Weather Bureau obser- 'lo® I^ioaball, Jim Ritchie, A1 Levy
vation station at the WEEB i Stanley Austin.
right of the entrance.
Other facilities in the building
include: a large conference room,
with stove and refrigerator for
coffee-break service; file room;
secretaries’ area; engineering de
partment with maps, drawing
boards, blue-print machine and
other equipment; accounting de
partment which includes plant
accounting and a large room for
revenue accounting where thous
ands of telephone bills are pre
pared; and a machine room, ad
joining the revenue accounting
department, with billing and ad
dressing machines.
United Telephone Company of
the Carolinas serves 27,581 tele
phones through 13 exchanges in
North Carolina and eight ex
changes in South Carolina. The
Southern Pines general offices
perform accounting, engineering,
auditing and other services for all
of these exchanges.
studios on Midland Road.
Max
October 19 ,79
October 20 _ 69
October 21 .55
October 22 . 71
October 23 . . 75
October 24 75
October 25 . 79
Mr. Fullenwider stressed that
the reason for bringing merchants
Min into the group was to improve
47 the Southern Pines business com-
43 munity. There will be no dues
37 I or assessments, he stressed, but
50 merchants will be urged to work
45 cooperatively for the betterment
40 of business and service to the
48 public in Southern Pines.
ROTARY CARNIVAL, UNICEF COLLECTION
Halloween Events Scheduled
NEW QUEEN— Joan Grover, Southern Pines High School
senior (center), was crowned 1961 Homecoming Queen at the
football game with Rohanen High School of Rockingham, Friday
night. The new queen is pictured with Patsy McRee, the 1960
queen who crowned her successor, and Eddie McKenzie, football
player escort of Miss Grover. A story on the game appears
elsewhere in today’s Pilot. At Carthage, Wednesday night, Joan
was named second runner-up in the “Miss Moore County High
School” contest at the county fair. Miss McRee, who was also
last year’s “Miss Moore County High School,” crowned the
winner at Carthage Wednesday. (Humphrey photo)
Children and young people of
the community are invited by the
Southern Pines Rotary Club to
take part in its annual Halloween
Carnival, to be held Tuesday,
starting at 6:30 p.m., on N. W.
Broad St., between Pennsylvania
and New Hampshire Aves.
With Harry Chatfield as gener
al chairman, many members of
the club will be assisting with
the activities which include the
costume parade, with prizes, from
7 to 8 o’clock; special events,
from 8 to 8:45; and (un at enter
tainment booths opening at 8:45.
A street dance is planned, with
the Bob Bass orchestra, following
the regular carnival, from 9:30
to 11 o’clock, primarily for teen
agers.
Penny collections at booths will
be given to the UNICEF (United
Children’s Fund) campaign.
The carnival has been held for
several years at Memorial Field,
but was changed to the business
section this year to make it more
accessible and to give more pro
tection from possible inclement
weather.
With Walter H. Daeke as gener
al chairman, four local churches
will take part on Halloween
(Tuesday of next week) in a
collection of funds for UNICEF—
the United Nations Children’s
Fund.
Children from the churches and
other children who wish to join
the groups will go from door to
door betweem 5:30 and 7 p.m.
Tuesday, to make the collection.
Funds go for food and medical
treatment for needy children in
many foreign nations.
The project is part of a nation
wide program that has been in
creasingly supported for several
years.
The local churches and chair
men in each are; Brownson Me
morial Presbyterian, Dr. Bruce
Warlick; Southern Pines Metho
dist, Mrs. Harry Herendeen; First
Baptist, Mrs. Charles W. Kay,
Mrs. Harold B. Fowler and Mrs.
W. Calvin Howell; and United
Church of Christ, Royster P. Gas-
kill and Mr. Daeke.