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Pinehurst
news will be found today on a
special new page that will ap
pear regularly in The Pilot. See
page 17.
Voters
have a big responsibility in next
Tuesday’s state bond election.
The Pilot comments in editorial,
page 2.
VOL. 41—NO. 50
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1961
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
State Bond
Vote Slated
OnTuesday
the proposed
issues, with
each, are sum-
explained on
(All 10 of
slate bond
amounts of
marized and
page 22).
North Carolina voters will go
to the polls Tuesday to vote for
or against 10 proposed state bond
issues, totalling to $.61,665,000.
Polling places will open at 6:30
a. m. and close at 6:30 p. m. The
Southern Pines precinct polling
place is the fire station on New
Hampshire Ave. At Pinehurst,
voting will be in the civic build
ing, next to the fire station.
The ballot lists each issue sep
arately, so that a "For” or
“Against” vote is possible for
each one.
The proposed bond issues, if ap
proved, will finance “capital im
provements,” that is, buildings
and other construction in a varie
ty of state fields of service.
More than half of the entire
amount of the boAd issues is ac
counted for by proposed construc
tion and expansion at higher edu
cational institutions operated by
the state. Other bonds are pro
posed for work on capitol area
buildings in Raleigh, State cor
rectional schools, community col
leges, an Archives and History
and State Library building. State
ports, mental institutions, local
hospital construction, natural re
sources and conservation and de
velopment facilities and agricul
tural research stations.
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Compact Police
Car Now in Use
Town Manager F. F. (Bud)
Rainey and Police Chie(f Earl
Seawell expressed satisfaction
with what Rainey frankly describ
ed as an experiment: use of a
compact car for police work.
“It’s an economy move,” said
the manager. “We’re getting near
ly three times the gas milage with
the new Falcon that we got with
the 1961 Ford which had a heavy-
duty motor and other special
equipment.”
Other cities are putting on
compact cars for police work,
Rainey said, noting that he had
checked the experience of several
other police departments before-
buying the new compact.
The town’s 1957 Chevrolet
“Public Safety” car was traded
for the Falcon and the former
1961 police car was retained for
general use of town officials and
as an auxiliary police car for
emergency use.
Chief Seawell said he is pleased
with performance of the smaller
car, so far.
Thousands Gather For
Ceremonies At Airport
In ceremonies conducted under iDurhgm Airport, can begin soon
cloudless skies in shirtsleeve “ ' '
weather, with more than 2,000
persons attending, , new runway
facilities at the county-owned
Southern Pines-Pinehurst Airport
were dedicated Sunday.
Completion of the runway—4,-
500 feet long, 150 feet wide and
costing, with related facilities
$144,000—makes possible use of
the airport by Piedmont Airlines’
F-27 turbo-jet planes. This, in
turn, means that long-sought
northi-south service to Raleigh-
FROM THE AIR— This aerial view, taken during Sunday’s
dedication cei’emonies at Southern Pines-Pinehurst Airport on
the Carthage road, indicates the size of the new runway—4,500
feet long and 150 feet wide. The large airplane at the end of
the strip leading in from the runway is one of Piedmont Air
lines’ new F-27s which will soon serve the airport on north-
south flights. Many of the visiting planes and some of the hun
dreds of automobiles parked by persons who attended the
ceremonies and aviation displays can be seen in the photo. The
speakers’ stand was located directly in front of the F-27. The
airport terminal building, with Piedmont’s offices, is at lower
center, with hangars and shops at right. In making the runway,
71,000 cubic yards of sand and gravel were moved and 8,000 tons
of asphalt were used. (Humphrey photo)
GOLF TOURNEY SET NOVEMBER 16-19
Record Crowd Expected For Carousel
With only 15 berths remaining
to be filled in the eighth annual
Golf Carousel, the sponsoring
Southern Pines Jaycees are an
ticipating a record crowd for the
tournament here November 16-19.
Play is over the courses at Pine
Needles and Southern Pines
Country Club.
A full schedule of golfing and
sdcial activities will highlight
MINIMUM SPEED SET
A minimum speed of 45 miles
per hoU‘ the No. 1 highway
parkway through Southern Pines
is indicated by new signs that
Behavior Good
On Halloween
there was very little marking on
windows or littering in the busi
ness section.
Police had three calls Halloween
night: a complaint from North
May St. said that youngsters there
were using vile and vulgar
language; another from E. Maine
Ave. reported an. expcmsive new
screen door demolished (nobody
home at the time of the action);
and another complaint came from
E. Connecticut Ave., that a picket
fence had been tom down.
Police said after investigation
Ithat it appeared children and
young people circulating in the
areas of the complaints were from
out of town.
Police credited the Rotary
Club’s downtown party and street
dance with greatly helping to
climate mischief and vandalism.
I’ve never seen a group enjoy
themselves so much in such an
orderly way,” said Chief Earl
Carousel week for contestants
who will be here from at least 12
states and Canada and people
from t|ie Sandhills are invited to
join in the celebration at an in
formal dance Saturday night,
November 18.
Eddie Ervin, Jr., chairman of
the tournament, has announced
that Wally Hinkamp’s orchestra
from Fayetteville will provide
music for the dance which will be
held at the National Guard Arm
ory.
“There has been some misun
derstanding by the public on past
Carousel dances,” Ervin said.
Little vandalism was reported 4 “The dance is not strictly for par-
to local police on Halloween and ticipants in our tournament but
have gone up. Maximum speed
remains 60 miles per hour for j Seawell, referring to the party
cars and 50 for trucks. ^ and dance.
Horse Events Scheduled For Season
Check off on the calendar these
dates: January 20, February 17,
and March 16-17.
For all taking part in the horse
and hound. activities of the Sand
hills—as well as for many others
these dates will be important for
they mark the three outstanding
events of the ej^tra-curricular ac
tivities of the Moore County
Hounds.
The first date, January 20, will
see the running of the annual
‘■'old fashioned point to point.”
This race is for qualified hunters
who have, as the announcement
has it, “never raced between
flags”: in other words, real hunt
ers and not pseudo-race horses.
There is always a big field for
this event which attracts both old
and young.
Next on February 17, comes
the regular Hunter Trials listed
“for qualified hunters who have
finished the minimum of six hunts
during the current season.” With
several standing trophies for dif
ferent classes, there is always i
keen rivalry among the entries
and anticipation to see who will
come out on top each year. Last
year’s champion hunter award
went to Dwight S. Winkelman’s
Little Trip, the fine chestnut who
has been the winner on several
previous occasions.
Last in the series of sporting
events in the horse world will be
the 50 mile trail ride, March 16-
•17. This interesting test was start
ed here back in the thirties by W.
J. Stratton, then head of Stoney-
brook Stables, and was revived
last year, only with the distance
decreased from the original 100
miles-in-three-days, to the lesser
distance in two. A large field
turned out last year.
The three events are under the
management of the staff of the
Moore County Hounds, of which
W. O. Moss is master and hunts
man, with Mrs. Moss acting as
first whip and secretary. Joint
master of the well-known pack,
this year, is Richard D. Webb, of
Young’s Road.
is open to all on a couples-only
basis.” George Hodgkins, chair
man of the dance committee, has
&2t the price at $3 per couple.
Ervin sai3 the tournament field
undoubtedly will be the strongest
ever. Defending champions Bill
Harvey of Greensboro and Reid
Towler of Raleigh will return.
Peter Green of the University of
North Carolina, who with Ray
mond Floyd of Fayetteville, was
runner-up last year, is teamed
with Ed Justa of Rocky Mount
Floyd has turned pro.
Two strong teams entered this
week: Bob Galloway of Winston-
Salem, with George Reams of
Southern Pines; and a Southern
Pines entry of Harry Chatfield
and Will Wiggs. Galloway and
Justa combined to win the 1959
title.
Classes Set in Care
Of Sick and Injured
Classes in “Care of the Sick and
Injured,” a Red Cross course,
will begin Wednesday, November
8, at St. Joseph of the Pines Hos
pital, to continue each Wednes
day and Friday from 2 to 4 p. m.
through seven sessions.
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy, exec
utive secretary of the Moore
County Red Cross Chapter, said
that persons completing the
course will receive a pin and cer
tificate. Interested persons arp
asked to call the Red Cross office,
0X2-8571, as soon as possible.
FARM BUREAU TO
RALLY SATURDAY
The annual Moore County
Farm Bureau supper and
rally will be held at the Car
thage High Schbol cafeteria
Saturday, Noveij|^r 4,, be
ginning at 6:30 pt m.
B. C. Mangiun. president of
the State/Farm Bureau, will
be the guest speaker.
Officers for the coming year
will be elected and resolu
tions of policy adopted.
S. H. Ransdell, Jr„ of
Route 1, Aberdeen, is the in-
cubbent president, and J, D.
Shields of Carthage is secre
tary.
Smithson Buys
Knollwood Lots
A block of 12 residential lots
bordering on Crest Road in Knoll
wood, has been purchased by Lee
K. Smithson.
Mr. Smithson i^ president of
Smithson of Southern Pines, Inc,
a fabric quilting concern with
plants in North Carolina and
elsewhere.
The Smithsons and their five
children have been residents of
Knollwood for several years.
Two Arrested for
Causing Fire That
Burned Big Bridge
A $60,000 highway bridge was
virtually destroyed Thursday
afternoon of last week in one of
several fires springing up in the
wake of two Moore County
youths on a firecracker-tossing
spree.
'The Aberdeen, • Pinebluff and
Laurinburg volunteer fire depart
ments worked from about 2 p, m.
until nightfall to quell the flames
roaring through the wooden un
derstructure of the 244-foot-long
Lumber River bridge on US 15-
501, 12 miles south of Aberdeen.
The river at that point forms
the boundary between Scotland
county and a corner of Hoke, with
Moore a short distance farther
north.
Lester McCaskill, 21, of Pine-
bluff, and Scott Robson, 19, of
Southern Pines, were apprehend
ed soon after they reported to
their work on the night shift of
the Karagheusian plant at Aber
deen, while the bridge was still
burning.
They admitted having purchas
ed “cherrybombs”—round red
Top Piedmont
Officials Here
Top executives of Piedmont
Airlines were here for the air
port dedication ceremonies and
preceding luncheon at the Caro
lina Hotel, Pinehurst, on Sunday,
flying from Winston-Salem in a
sleek, speedy F-27, turbo-jet air
liner.
They were: Tom Davis, presi
dent; Gordon Brown and H. K.
Saunders,, vice-presidents; W. G.
McGee, general sales manager;
and Don Edmondson of Charlotte,
district sales ''manager.
Mr. Davis and Mr. Saunders
piloted the plane which was
lightly loaded with fuel to assure
a satisfactory landing on the new
runway whose end approaches
had not yet been fully cleared.
Completion of this work (and in
stallation of lighting) is holding
up the start of regular F-27 ser
vice on the north-south route to
Raleigh-Durham airport, for a
week or two.
James T. Pyle, deputy PA A ad
ministrator, arrived by FAA
plane at the airport Sunday but
was forced to circle and delay
landing while a smaller plane
which had broken its landing
gear was dragged off the runway.
Bloodmobile to
Visit Pinehurst
A bloodmobile collection unit
from the Red Cross blood center
at Charlotte will be at ths gym
nasium of the Pinehurst school,
Tuesday, November 14, from 11a.
m. to 4:30 p. m., it was announc
ed this week.
Quota for the visit is 125 pints.
Blood collected at visits of the
bloodmobile to Moore County
makes it pssible for both hospi
tals in the county to obtain blood
of all types at short notice from
the Charlotte cener. Moore Coun
ty is lagging in its blood-giving.
The purchase was announced harqi.'
by the George P. Hawes agency They did not know they had
of Pinehurst. (Continued on page 8)
the Red Cross announcement said,
golfball-sized firecracker devices asking donors to plan to meet the
at McColl, S. C., and tossing bloodmobile at Pinehurst
them out along the way home.
They said they were "just having
fun” and “hadn’t meant any
BLUE KNIGHTS WIN
The Southern Pines High School
Blue Knights beat the Aberdeen
Red Devils 2-0 Saturday night.
Story, page 8. Photo, page 18.
Public Invited to View New Telephone Building Friday;
Nation’s First Electronic Branch Exchange to Be Seen
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum
tern-
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.
Max.
Min.
October 26
... 72
48
October 27
... 64
33
October 28
... 70
29
October 29
... 78
42
October 30
... 84
48
October 31
... 86
57
‘November 1
.... 85
59
The new general office building
of United Telephone Company of
the Carolinas, Inc., at 385 W.
Pennsylvania Ave., will be opened
to the public Friday, between 4
and 8 p.m.
Visitors will be conducted
throughout the structure, which
has 6,300 feet of floor space. Re
freshments will be served.
On view in the commerical
office will be the first electronic
private branch exchange to go
into operation in the United
States. The equipment is fully
described in an accompanying
separate story on this page.
This private branch exchange
serves all offices and departments
in the building, affording a pre
view of equipment suitable for
installation by office buildings,
industries and other companies
using a “PBX” or private branch
exchange system.
'The building houses the account
ing, auditing and engineering de
partments, supervising the com
pany’s operations at 13 telephone
exchanges in North Carolina and
eight in South Carolina, serving
more than 27,500 customers. Also
in the building is the local com
mercial office.
Executives with offices in the
building are E. W. Smail, presi
dent; John Bigbee, chief engineer;
Robert C. Bishop, commerical
supervisor; George Thompson,
plant superintendent; Robert E.
Strouse, auditor; William Slack,
equipment supervisor; and Joe
Kimball, Southern Pines district
manager.
A ^FirsP for Southern Pines!
The first commercial electronic
private branch exchange switch
board has gone into operation at
the telephone company’s new
general office building in South
ern Pines, E. W. Smail, president
of the United Telephone Com
pany of the Carolinas, Inc. an
nounced today. The installation
is the first of its sort in the
United States and probably also
in the world.
The new equipment Will be on
display at the Telephone Com
pany’s open house which is being
held at the new building, 385
West -Pennsylvania Ave., Friday,
November 3, from 4 to 8 p. m.
“This Stromb'erg-Carlson elec
tronic telephone system,” Mr.
Smail explained, “was designed
and built by General Dynamics
Telecommunication of Rochester,
New York. 'The system, given the
trade name of DYNALOGiC, op
erates many times faster than
conventional electromechanical
systems now in general use and
has the ability to give subscribers
services which prior to this time
have been difficult to provide.”
Mr. Smail went on to list som.2
of the features which have been
incorporated into the new elec
tronic system.
DYNApOGiC electronic switch
ing makes possible the transfer
of an incoming call from one line
(Continued on Page 6)
As symbol of the improved
service to come, an F-27 flown in
Sunday morning by Piedmont
executives stood before the bunt
ing-draped speakers’ platform.
Lear the high tail of the plane
after the speaking and remarks,’
the symbolic opening of the new
runway took place when Buck
McKenzie, airport manager, pilot
ing his small plane, with J. E.
Sandlin of Southern Pines, act
ing chairman of the county’s Air
port Committee, as passenger, cut
with the plane’s whirling propel
ler, as he taxied toward the run
way, a long blue ribbon held at
either end by his daughter,
Becky, and Nancy Rowe, both
garbed in majorette costumes
Mr. McKenzie took off, circled
tne field and landed, concluding
an afternoon that recognized in
the words of Voit Gilmore ’ of
Southern Pines, master of cere
monies, “this area’s most import
ant transportation achievement in
our generation.”
The airport work was financed
by county funds, budgeted over
two years and matched 100 per
cent by federal funds. When it ap
peared, earlier this year, that this
amount would not be fully ade
quate, the Town of Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, Inc each
appropriated $5,000, and "Aber
deen $4,000, to make possible the
works,completion. The Hanover
Company of Wilmington was the
contractor, setting up an asphalt
mixing plant near the site of
work. A total of 8,000 tons of as
phalt went into the runway Mr.
Sandlin told the audience at the
airport Sunday.
The new improvements climax
a 37-year airport history, said
Mr. Gilmore. The former South
ern Pines mayjor, now director of
the United States Travel Service,
a new federal agency, recalled
that airport facilities had been
constructed with WPA funds in
the 1930’s, that the site had been
an Air Force training field in
World War II and that Piedmont
had started its service soon after
the war.
Piedmont service has been sea
sonal, October to May, but if
traffic warrants, the company
plans to make the service—inclu
ding the new north-south flight
to Raleigh-Durham—year-around
as soon as possible..
On the platform were Bishop
Louis Melcher of Pinehurst, who
spoke the invocation; Mayor John
S. Ruggles of Southern Pines;
James T. Pyle, deputy adminis
trator of the Federal Aviation
(Continued on Page 5)
Budget Approved
For Advertising
A town advertising budget to
talling $7,500 was approved by
the Advertising Committee, meet
ing at town hall last Friday after
noon. George Pottle, chairman
presided.
’The budget includes operation
of the Information Center with a
full-time secretary. Its main
Items are: publicity and adver
tising, $4,000 (this includes $2,500
for newspaper and magazine
advertising and the balance in
funds to help promote several
local sports events, also including
$200 for Christmas lighting) ■
services, $2,150; utilities, $520;
insurance, $90; printing and
stationery, $310; and supplies and
materials, $430.
The Town appropriates $5,000
for the resort and advertising
work and the balance is obtained
by donations from hotels, motels
and other businesses.
ORGAN DEMONSTRATION
AT STORE CANCELLED
A demonstration of the Lowrey
Organ, at the Colonial Store
Friday and Saturday, as adver
tised on page 12 of today’s Pilot,
will not be held because of sudden
illness in the family of Harry R.
Lenhoff of Lenhoff Music Co.,
Rockingham, who was to have
given the demonstration. Notice
of the cancellation was not re
ceived by The Pilot until after
the advertisement had been print
ed in an early press run this
week. Mr. Lenhoff’s appearance
will be rescheduled at a later
date.