Mark Nov. 30
on your calendar to attend a
concert sponsored by Sandhills
Music Association. Details are
told on page 23.
Football
season ended Friday for the SP
SS Blue Knights v/ith a 32-6
win over Carthage. Ronald
McCrimmon reports, page 23.
VOL. 42—NO. 52
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1961
TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
PINEHURST CEREMONY— Fred Fields,
commander of the A. B. Sally Post, American
Legion, places a wreath at the Marshall Park
monument during the post’s observance of Ve
terans Day Saturday. Post members gathered
for a ceremony at the monument which was
erected several years ago in honor of the late
Gen. George C. Marshall who was a Pinehurst
winter resident for many years. The park op
posite the Village^ Chapel was named for General
Marshall when the monument was dedicated.
(Hemmer photo)
Jackson Heads
Sib District YDC;
Graham Elected
J. Elvin Jackson of Carthage,
recently elected president of the
Moore County Young Democrats,
was elected chairman of the 8th
District YDC at the State YDC
convention in Durham last week
end.
At the convention, which set
a record for attendance at State
YDC meetings, Jackson seconded
the nomination of W. E. (Dub)
Graham, Jr., Charlotte attorney
and 31-year-old Jackson Springs
native, who was the successful
contender for State Young Dem
ocratic Club president.
Jackson will head YDC activi
ties m the revised 8th District
which, as of January 1, 1962, will
include some of the present 10th
District’s counties including pop
ulous Mecklenburg in which
Charlotte, the state’s largest city,
is located.
Graham won over W. Ray
Lackey of Stoney Point in a tight
race.
Jackson said in his seconding
speech, “Before anybody will
beat W. E. Graham in anything,
they will have to beat Moore
County first, and that can’t h3
done.”
Other Eighth District officers
elected at Durham were Mrs. Poe
Caudill of Star, vice chairman;
and Joe Davis, Rockingham at
torney, secretary.
Attending the convention from
Moore County were Mr. Graham’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gra
ham of Jackson Springs; State
Rep. H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen;
Arthur Rowe, past Moore County
YDC president, of Aberdeen and
Southern Pines; T. Clyde Auman
and Leonard VonCanon of West
End; and Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Blue of Eagle Springs.
THANKSGIVING
A general holiday will be
observed in Southern Pines
and Moore County on
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
November 23.
County and municipal of
fices, banks, post offices and
most stores and offices will
be closed. There will be no
home delivery of mail by the
local post office and windows
will be closed, but incoming
and outgoing mail will be
processed as usuaL Town fa
cilities to close include the In-
ktormation Center and public
library.
Schools of the Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and Moore
County systems will close ^ll
the end of the school day
Wednesday, November 22,
and will reopen at the regular
time. Monday, November 27.
ABC stores in Southern
Pines and Pinehurst will be
closed Thanksgiving Day.
Next week's edition of The
Pilot will be published on
Wednesday. Correspondents
and advertisers are asked to
have their copy in a day
earlier than usual.
Union Service to
Be Held Nov. 22
The annual local 'Thanksgiving
service will be on Wednesday eve
ning, November 22, held this
year at the Southern Pings Meth
odist Church on Midland Road.
As in former years, this ser
vice is sponsored by Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church,
the First Baptist Church, the
United Church of Christ, Emman
uel Episcopal Church and the
Methodist Church.
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Wellman to Speak
To History Group
Manly Wade Wellman of Chap
el Hill, who is completing work
on the second volume of the
county’s history, will be the
speaker at the opening meeting
of the Moore County Historical
Association’s 1961-62 year, Tues
day night of next week.
The meeting will be held in
the council chamber and court
room of the town hall, starting at
8 p. m.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., presi
dent of the Association, said that
Mr. Wellman, a former resident
of Pinebluff and a well known
resident of Moore County, will
speak on the mechanics of get
ting the second volume of the his
tory together. Persons interested
in joining the Association and
visitors are welcome, he said.
In the business session, reports
will be made on the Shaw House
and Alston House projects, as
well as the county history.
The Rev. E. 'C. Scott, D. D., in
terim pastor at the Presbyterian
Church, will bring the Thanks
giving message on the subject.
“Giving Thanks—For What?”
Special music will be sung by the
choir of the host church.
The ,service will bggin at 8 p.
m. and the pastors of the spon
soring churches will each have a
part in it.
The offering will be sent to the
American Bible Society to aid in
the furtherance of its work.
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.
North-South Air
Service Begins
At Local Airport
The long-sought north-south
service to Southern Pines-Pine-
hurst Airport was begun by
Piedmont Airlines Tuesday, when
Flight 65 arrived from Raleigh-
Durham Airport at 7:54 p. m.
Wednesday morning, the
northbound service was launched
with departure of Flight 62 to
Raleigh-Durham and Norfolk,
Va., at 10:29 a. m.
The service will continue dur
ing the resort season, until May,
with possibility that it will be
made year-round, if traffic war-
Branch of Southern National Bank
Approved; Building Here Purchased
rants.
I
Dog Control Law
Adopted by Town,
Starts January 1
After some debate but with
unanimous agreement on the
need and purpose of the law, the
town council adopted an ordi
nance 'Tuesday night that makes
it unlawful to allow a dog to
run at large in Southern Pines
without a muzzle. Dogs may be
walked on leash by the owner,
a member of his family or any re
sponsible pisrson,
Mayor John S. Ruggles presi
ded at the town hall session with
all councilmen present—J. D.
Hobbs, Felton Capel, Morris
Johnson and Fred Pollard.
The ordinance was enacted in
response to a plea by school offi
cials at last month’s meeting who
said that dogs on the school
grounds were a menace to chil
dren, having bitten eight students
last year and two in the first few
weeks of school this year. 'The
council had also received com
plaints from elderly persons who
had been menaced by dogs on
the streets.
Prior to enactment of the ordi
nance, Town Attorney W. La
ment Brown explained that legis
lation could nOt be enacted to
ban or control dogs in only a cer
tain part of town, such as the
school grounds or downtown
streets. It must apply to the
whole town if enacted, he said.
The assumption is that the or
dinance will not be enforced
rigidly throughout the town but
will be used for the most part to
control dogs at locations about
which complaints have been
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November
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November
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November
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November
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November
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November
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Appeal Made For
Girl Scout Drive
Reporting on progress of the an
nual Girl Scout fund drive in
Southern Pines, Fred B. Pollard,
local chairman, said this week
that although the drive has been
successful, it is still short of the
goal of about $3,000.
Persons who have solicitation
letters are asked to return their
contributions as soon as possible.
Others wishing to contribute
should send donations to C. H,
Bowman at the Citizens Bank
and Trust Co.
Sherwood Brockwell, Jr^ of
Southern Pines, finance chairman
of the Central Carolina Girl
Scout Council, which includes
Moore County, asks that the drive
be concluded as quickly as pos
sible.
Mr. Pollard expressed apprecia
tion to the drive workers inclu
ding Mrs. Charles Phillips, in
charge of residential collections;
Mrs. William J. Donovan, who
has charge of records of contrib
utors; and Mrs. George H. Leon
ard, Jr.
Flying the north-south route, in
both directions, are Piedmont’s
F-27 turbo-prop planes. The
flight time to Raleigh-Durham
airport is 22 minutes.
Continuing the east-west serv
ice, with DC-3’s, as in the past.
Piedmont schedules Flight 355
west to Charlotte at 12:15 p. m.
daily and east to Fayetteville and
Wilmington at 6:40 p. m., with
Flight 354 daily.
Service by the F-27s of the
north-south route was authorized
last spring by federal authorities,
but was dependent on completion
of airport paving and other im
provements that have been made
this summer at the county-owned
Southern Pines-Pmehurst facili
ty. Although the_ new asphalt
runway was dedicated recently,
the F-27 service could not be
gin until further clearing of the
approaches, and installation of
lighting facilities, had been com
pleted.
The new north-south service
js authorized by the Federal
Aviation Agency’s “Use it or lose
it” policy—meaning that it must
average five passengers per day,
over several months, for it to be
continued.
Pinehurst Forum
To Begin Series
The Pinehurst Forum will in
augurate its 1961-62 season of hu
mor, drama, music and current
events programs on December 14
at the Pinehurst Country Club,
according to an announcement by
Capt, George F. Shearwood, pres
ident.
In a letter to prospective mem
bers, Captain Shearwood indi
cates that the Forum, now in its
22nd year, will present a series
of nine evenings of professional
entertainment between Decem
ber and April. All performances
will be preceded by a buffet din
ner at the Country Club.
'The Pinehurst Forum is a non
profit organization supported by
voluntary contributions and gov
erned by volunteer directors, of
ficers and committees. All oper
ating expenses are met by tbs
contributions of members who
alone make this community pro
ject possible.
Two Classes
Memberships fOr permanent
and winter residents of tbs Sand
hills area are in two classes: “pa
tron members,” made up of cou-
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117 TEAMS ENTER
Play Starts in
Golf Carousel
Despite a morning drizzle, local
Jaycees were jubilant today over
the outlook for the largest Sou
thern Pines Golf Carousel they
have sponsored here in the eight-
year history of the event.
Eddie Ervin, tournament chair
man, said that 117 teams of two
golfers have entered and are
playing qualifying rounds today
—the low handicap players at
Pine Needles Lodges and Coun
try Club and the higher handicap
players and mixed division, at
the Southern Pines Country Club.
Match play will begin tomorrow
and finals will be held on Sun
day.
All entrants will play both
courses during the tournament—
part of the attraction of the uni
que “package deal” that has
brought golfers here from 20
states, the District of Columbia
and Canada. Every New England
state except Maine is represented.
Social events include a welcome
party tonight and a dance, which
will be open to the pulilic, at
the National Guard Armory Sat
urday night.
Ervin said the Jaycees are es
pecially pleased with entries in
the mixed division—teams of men
and women players. There are
three complete divisions of mixed
players—24 teams of two.
There will be trophies for
champions and consolation win
ners in each flight, with winners
decided in all flights Sunday. Tro
phies will be awarded at the
Southern Pines Country Club at
5:S0 p.m. that day.
Quality of the entries is high,
Ervin said. Last year’s champions.
Bill Harvey of Greensboro and
Reid Towler of Raleigh, are back
to defend their title. A strong
contender this year is the team
of Ed Justa of Rocky Mount and
Peter Green, University ‘of North
Carolina student from Franklin
Hills, Mich.
Warren Bell, owner of Pine
Needles, is playing for the first
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HECTOR McLEAN
Officials Attend
Municipal Course
Town Manager F. F. (Bud)
Rainey and Mrs. Mildred Mc
Donald, town clerk, are attending
a series of 12 three-day sessions
comprising the Municipal Admin
istration Course at the Institute
of Government, Chapel Hill.
The course is being given on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
at intervals of two Weeks or
more, for a total of 12 weeks. The
local officials have attended two
sessions of the series, including
one given last week.
Mrs. McDonald, who is also
clerk of the Southern Pines Re
corder’s Court, attended a three-
day school for court'clerks at the
Institute of Government last sum-
H. Arnold Jackson
Gives $100,000 to
Hospital Campaign
Announcement was made this
week by the Board of Directors
of Moore Memorial Hospital,
Pinehurst, of a gift of $100,000 by
H. Arnold Jackson of Pinehurst,
in memory of his wife, the late
Katherine Harley Jackson.
The fund will be used to pro
vide a surgical nursing floor in
the new wing which is to be
started as soon as a forthcoming
fund drive is completed next
spring.
This gift follows up the contri
bution made by Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson, about five years ago for
tbe Emergency Service section in
memory of their two sons. The
present gift has given a tremen
dous boost to the hospital in its
endeavor to meet the drive’s ul
timate goal of $800,000.
The overall project, under the
direction of William P. Saunders
of Southern Pines, amounts to
$1,768,402 of which $800,000 must
be provided locally. Application
for the balance will be made to
the North Carolina Medical Care
Commission when local monies
are in hand. The hospital antici
pates applying for these match
ing funds by July, 1962.
The first phase of the hospital’s
overall development program is
to include a new wing to be loca
ted on the west side of the pres
ent building. It will include a
new surgical suite, central sup
ply, X-ray department, and two
nursing floors. Also included
will be a new electrical distribu
tion center, expansion of the
boiler plant and maintenance
shop, and provision for a new
telephone equipment room.
At completion of the first
phase, the hospital will have a
complement of 201 beds, which
will include 32 beds for Negroes
in a much better located section
of the hospital. The present Ne
gro section will be renovated for
other uses.
Application of the Southern
National Bank of Lumberton to
establish a branch in Southern
Pines was granted Monday by
th.3 Comptroller of the Currency
in Washington, D. C., according
to information from Hector Mc
Lean of Lumberton, the bank’s
president.
The new bank will be known
as the Southern National Bank
of Southern Pines and will pro
vide complete banking, facilities.
An option held on the Welch
building, corner of S. W. Broad
St. and New York Ave., as well
as the former VFW property ad
joining on New York Ave., has
been exercised and the Lumber-
ton bank will proceed immedi
ately to remodel the building for
location of the new bank there.
In addition, it was announced,
the bank is buying another lot,
between the former VFW proper
ty and the Hiram Westbrook resi
dence, from Judge J. Vance Rowe.
Renovation of the property, di
rected by Hayes, Howell and As
sociates, local architectural firm,
is expected to take about three
months.
'The application had been pend
ing since early in May. Prior to
the application, a survey of need
for the bank and support for it
was made by a local steering
committee headed by A. L. Bur
ney and having on it representa
tives from Southern Pines, Pine
hurst, Aberdeen, Pinebluff, Car
thage, Vass and Cameron.
Mr. McLean said this week
that he was “deeply indebted to
the people of Southern Pines and
Moore County for their enthusi
asm. We are looking forward to
serving this area with complete
banking facilities and pledge our
cooperation to promote the
growth and prosperity of the
area.”
Mr. Burney added his thanks
and appreciation to members of
the steering committee and oth
ers who had cooperated in efforts
to bring the new bank here.
The new bank, Mr. McLean
said, will have its own board of
directors and local loan commit
tee and employees. Southern Na
tional, he said, is a par bank and
puts the full resources of thp
home office, (which were listed in
May as $18 million) behind each
of its branches. The bank has
branches at Fayetteville, Laurin-
burg, Hamlet and Hope Mills.
Three thousand shares of
Southern National Bank stock,
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IN HEARING HELD AT GREENSBORO
Support Voiced for Suspended Patrolman
Expressions of confidence in J.
Frank Swaim, with pleas for his
reinstatement to continue service
in Moore County with the State
Highway Patrol, marked a three-
hour hearing, held Tuesday morn
ing at the Troop D Headquarters
building in Greensboro.
About 40 leading citizens from
Southern Pines, Aberdeen, Pine
bluff, Carthage, Robbins and
Vass were present, and s-sveral
testified in support of the officer,
a member of the Patrol since 1941
except for two and a’half years
when he worked in private indus
try. He also spent lour years in
the Navy in World War II.
The public hearing, requested
by Swaim following his suspen
sion October 18, was termed an
“administrative procedure,”
meaning no evidence was put on
or answers given by the Patrol.
The hearing was conducted by
Swaim’s counsel, W. D. Sabiston
of Carthage, before Capt. A. W.
Welch, troop commander, with
Lt. W. S. McKinney, troop execu
tive officer, present part of the
time.
The charges against Swaim
at least so far as they have been
made public, are vague, consist
ing of “dereliction of duty,”
“conduct unbecoming an officer,”
and “failing to carry out orders
in the manner prescribed.” No
specific incidents showing these
alleged offenses were cited by
the Patrol at the hearing which
was entirely concerned with pre
sentation of support for Swaim
who had requested the hearing to
allow his supporters to be heard.
Final decision was not made
Tuesday, piending transcription of
the record and its study by Patrol
authorities in Raleigh.
Swaim was stationed at Carth
age from 1946 to 1949, then, re
turning to the Patrol after work
ing at Asheboro, was at Robbins
from 1951 to 1957. Since then he
has been statioiied at Aberdeen,
while a resident at Pinebluff
with his wife, music teacher in
the Aberdeen school. ’They have
four children, aged four to 17.
Much of the hearing, centered
around what was termed the
“Rosy transaction,” a land deal
which the Patrol had spent some
time investigating as a possible
bribe, though it was not specified
in reasons for his being suspend
ed.
Problems
More and more, as the testi
mony was given, it appeared that
not only Swaim but the whole
Moore County unit of the Patrol
had been having problems since
its leadership changed in April,
1960. At that time, Sgt. J. S.
Jones and Cpl. Clay Moricle re
placed Sgt. Victor Aldredge and
Cpl. Jim McColman, who were
promoted and transferred.
Before the change, noted Moore
County Solicitor W. Lamont
Brown on the stand, “our unit
was of the finest, everything had
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Christmas Lights
Ordered as Many
Give For Project
A “perfect wonderful” re
sponse to the Jaycees’ appeal for
funds for downtown Christmas
lighting was reported this week
by Thomas Ruggles, president of
the organization and chairman of
the lighting drivp.
Mr. Ruggles said this week that
he has ordered 20 “English lan
tern post decorations,” each five
feet tall, to be mounted on a 30-
inch wide bracket on power poles,
and also 20 red and silver “scroll
decorations” with bell, to supple
ment the lanterns.
The decorations are expected
to arrive the weekend after
Thanksgiving and will be install
ed by the Jaycees, with expecta
tion that they can be lighted by
about December 1. Each of the
lantern decorations has an illum
inated dome and a glowing cello-
glass candle.
The Jaycee president said that
nearly $850 was on hand this
week from contributions he said
represented about 75 per cent
participation among the 170 mer
chants' and professional persons
to whom an appeal letter was
sent last week.
More lanterns can be ordered
this year, Mr. Ruggles said, if
further contribut'ions are forth
coming. He said a number of
these have been promised but ndt
yet turned in.
Contributions from other in
terested citizens of the commu
nity are welcome. All should be
sent to Christmas Lighting, P. O.
Box 145, Southern Pines.