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VOL. 42—NO.
Harvey & Towler
Win Golf Carousel
For Second Year
With Bill Harvey of Greensboro
scoring two on all four par three
holes in the final round at South
ern Pines Country Club he and
Reid Towler of Raleigh success
fully defended their Southern
Pines Golf Carousel tournament
title Sunday against another state
team of Thomas Bumbarger-Rob-
ert Turnbull, of Hickory, by a
^core of 6 and 4.
The Harvey-Towler victory
kept intact the jinx over out-of-
state teams which have never
won a Carousel.
In the mixed division of the
better-ball tournament, one half
■of the defending team returned
to win again. Mrs. Laura Lee
Menoher of Southern Pines this
year teamed with B. C. Avery,
also of Southern Pines„ and easily
captured the crown. They defeat
ed Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Miller,
Rumford, R. I., 4 and 3 in the
finals at Pine Needles Lodges and
Country Club.
As expected the field of 88
men’s teams and 24 mixed teams
was the highest caliber ever for
the event sponsored by the South
ern Pines Jaycees. The qualifying
medal in the men’s division was
-won by Peter V. Tufts of Pine-
hurst and Clyde Mangum of
Southern Pines with 32-32-64. As
defenders, Harvey-Towler had an
•option and decided not to risk
their championship berth by turn
ing in a score. They made a wise
choice since' the 64 was a qualify
ing record and a playoff was nec
essary between two teams at 68
for a spot in the championship
(Continued on page 8)
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SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1961
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HOUNDS AND RIDERS— This scene from
a former year’s hunting is being repeated as
the opening meet of the Moore County Hounds
is held on Thanksgiving Day, traditional start
of the hunting season. The landscape is typical
of the partly-wooded, partly-cleared hunting
country near Southern Pines.
(Humphrey photo)
Thanksgiving Opening Meet of Moore
County Hounds Being Filmed For TV
According to long tradition, the [highly complimentary to this sec
opening meet of the Moore Coun- tion. The opening hunt is to be
Outlook Told For
Basketball Teams
In Coming Season
BY JOEL STUTTS
Based on veteran players re
turning this season, Cameron,
Southern Pines and Robbins boys
and HighfaUs, Robbins and Farm
Life girls appear to have the
strongest teams in the Moore
County High School Basketball
Conference with opening of the
1961-62 campaign only a few days
off. This, however, is not always
the most accurate basis for de
termining the eventual champions.
The Aberdeen boys and the Rob
bins girls were Tournament
Champions last season, but finish
ed the regular season in sixth
position.
ABERDEEN: The defending
Moore County Conference Cham
pion Aberdeen “Red Devils’’,
coached by Raeford Wells, face a
rebuilding situation as they lost
eight players via graduation,
most of whom were starters and
included All-County and All-
Tourney Pete Fields. Returning
for Coach Wells will be six feet
four inches All-Tourney Bobby
Alpert to lead this season’s team.
"The Aberdeen girls will miss
All-County and All-Tourney Joan
Miley and Pat Gatti but will ex
pect Frankie Swaim, Carol Wynn
and Alice Robbins to head the
new team.
CAMERON: The Cameron
“Fighting Scots,” coached by T.
K. Holm-3S, will field one of the
strongest teams in years. All-
County Bruce Phillips, one of the
leading Conference scorers last
season, will lead a veteran team
including Don Monroe, Robert
McLeod and Alfred Graham. Don
nie Bennett and Tommy Wallace
were the losses from last season.
James F. Womble, who fielded
a strong girls team last season
for Cameron will miss All-County
Mary Lovering and All-Tourney
Judy Lankford but will have
veteran players Ann Southern,
Bonnie Sercy, Carol Smith and
Edith Harris returning.
CARTHAGE: Jerry Kirtman’s
(Continued on page 13)
CORRECTION
A legal “Notice of Sale of
Land” appearing on page 11 of
last week’s Pilot, advertising a
sale of property of Lennox and
Mary F. Forsyth, to take place at
the courthouse door in Carthage,
Monday, December 1, appeared
by error. There \will be no such
sale and there is no default in the
indebtedness for which the notice
stated the sale would be made.
The Pilot regrets the error.
ty Hounds is being held again this
year on Thanksgiving Day.
Hounds will meet at 10 a. m. in
the big field back of Seven Stars
Farm (formerly Pickridge), the
new residence of Mrs. Audrey K.
Kennedy.
W. O. Moss, joint master with
Richard Webb of the pack, will be
hunting hounds as usual, assisted
by Mrs. Moss, first whip and
hunt secretary . Also whipping-in
will be Beverly Gray and Eu
gene Cunningham, the latter ex
pected down from Virginia for
the event.
The opening hunt will be a
drag. Breakfast will follow at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Webb
on Youngs Road.
Adding to tbs excitement of
the day will be a feature unex
pected and, it is generally felt.
Patrol Will Wage
Campaign Against
Drinking Drivers
(Editorial, page 2)
An all-out campaign against
drunken driving, waged with a
twin program of education and
law enforcement, was announced
this week by Sgt. J. S. Jones of
Siler City whp heads Highway
Patrol operations in Moore, Lee
and Chatham Counties.
Planned to run from now
through the end of the year, the
program will enlist the support
of civic, church and educational
groups, in an effort to reduce the
number of accidents caused by
drinking drivers.
More than half of the fatal traf
fic accidents that have killed 10
persons in Moore County so far
this year involved drivers who
had been drinking, Sgt. Jones
said. In a survey conducted else
where, the Patrol sergeant point
ed out, half of all .drivers in a
series of fatal accidents were
found to have alcohol in their
systems.
The program is being conduct
ed state-wide.
Moore County’s October traffic
accident summary, announced
(Continued on Page 8)
televised in color by NBC as part
of the company’s “News Special”
program to be centered around
events along Route 1, all the way
from Maine to Florida.
The program, to be released
March 29, will be an' hour-long
entertainment and will pick up
one or more scenes in most of the
states traversed by the East Coast
route: lobstering in Maine, racing
in Maryland, a scene on the Civil
War battlefields of Virginia, golf
in Augusta, and so on. The sport
of riding to hounds has been chos
en as the activity to be featured
in North Carolina with the Moore
County Hounds in the star role
and Southern Pines, home of the
noted pack, as the locale.
Figuring strongly in the deci
sion, it was said, was the photo
genic quality of the local sport:
the background of green pines
and hollies, golden broomstraw,
and the colorful pink coats and
tri-color hounds.
Last week saw the visit here of
two of NBC’s leading TV execu
tives: Rodney H. Clurman nad
Daniel D. Karasik. The network’s
officials were shown arouijid
(Continued on Page 8)
Mrs. T. P. Jerman
Of Pinehurst Dies
In Auto Accident
Mrs. T. Palmer Jerman, 54, who
had spent a large part of the year
at Pinehurst for several years,
was killed Tuesday in an automo
bile collision near Fredericks-
bu^, Va. .
Funeral services will be held at
Christ Episcopal Church, Raleigh,
at 2:30 p. m. Friday.
Her husband, formerly execu
tive vice president of the Guar
anty Trust Company of New
York City, was injured in the
wreck. His hurts were not believ
ed critical, and he was resting
well at Martha Washington Hos
pital in Fredericksburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerman were en
route to their residence in Short
Hills, N. J.
Word received here was that
the Jerman car and one driven by
Virginia State Trooper C. P. Lane
of King George, V^., collided
near the intersection of US High
way 301 and State Highway 206
in King George County.
Mr. Jerman said he was driving
and that his car went out of con
trol as he struck a dog in the
highway, throwing his machine
(Continued on Page 8)
Suspended Terms
Given Youth For
Speeding Offenses
Charles S. Jones, 19-year-old
youth, drew two 30-day jail sen
tences, suspended on payment of
$75 fine each and costs, in Moore
County Superior Court last week
on two counts of excessive speed,
both offenses occurring on the
same night.
The cases came up from the
Southern Pines Recorders Court
where Jones, indicted for speed
ing 90 miles per hour on one
count, 95 miles per hour on the
other, had asked for, jury trials.
In Superior Court he tendered
pleas , of guilty to speeding in ex
cess of 75, which the State ac
cepted, consolidating the cases
for trial. *
Both offenses occurred the
night of October 31, when accord
ing to testimony of Southern
Pines police officers, Jones had
first shot through town heading
south at more than 90 miles per
hour, then later had come back
through heading north at around
95. The police car, pursuing him
the first time, lost him near
Aberdeen but he had been rec
ognized and, before his second
offense a warrant had been tak
en out for him. Warrant in hand,
the officers pursued him on the
second trip, catching up with
him when traffic forced him to
a stop near Cameron.
State’s witnesses were Sgt. L.
D. Beck and Patrolman Charles
Wilson and H. A. Benner. Benner
said his finding was that the
youth had been emotionally up
set because of a falling-out with
his girl. Jones did not testify in
his own d-efense.
(Continued on Page 16)
Work W’ ill Proceed On
Camp For Handicapped
CILE TURNER
Folksong Artist,
Local Octet Will
Perform Nov. 30
Brogden Elected
By District Bar
E. O. Brogden, Jr., attorney
who lives in Southern Pines and
practices law in Carthage, was
elected president of the 20th Ju
dicial District Bar Association,
during a meeting of the Associa
tion at Rockingham Friday.
The attorney, who has been a
patient at Moore'Memprial Hospi
tal since last week, was unable to
attend the meeting. His condition
continues to improve, it wa-s re
ported today.
JUGTOWN ON RADIO
The Jugtown pottery in upper
Moore County will be the subject
of Ed Rankin’s “Profiles” radio
program at 6 p. m. Sunday.
P^99y Kirk Bell Chosen for Golf Honor
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.
Max Min
November 16 72 57
November 17 68 50
November 18 62 85
November 19 48 35
November 20 53 32
November 21 ,... 52 29
Mrs. Peggy Kirk Bell of Pine
Needles has been named Teach
ing Pro of the Year by the Ladies
Professional Golfers Association,
Betsy Rawls, LPGA president, has
announced.
In making the announcement.
Miss Rawls said, “Peggy has been
an outstanding amateur and pro
fessional golfer. In recent years
she has earned more prominence
as an extremely fine teacher as
she instructs guests at the Pine
Needles Lodges and Country
Club and the players when on
tour. We of the LPGA are de
lighted to bestow this coveted
honor to Peggy Kirk Bell.”
Mrs. Bell and her husband,
Warren, own and operate the
Pine Needles Lodges and Coun
try Club.
Although Mrs. Bell confines
her competition to a few tourna
ments each year she almost al
ways wins money. She firiished
sixth in the San Antonio open
last month just after a fine fin
ish in the LPGA championship the
week before at Las Vegas.
As an amateur Mrs. Bell won
the Titleholders championship in
Augusta, Ga., in 1949 and a week
later won the North and South at
Pinehurst. She also won the
Ohio State championship three
times, teamed with the late Babe
Zaharias to win the Hollywood,
Fla., four-ball in 1947 and was
twice a member of the successful
United States Curtis Cup team
which won over England at
Southport, England, in 1948 and
Mrs. Bell... With Framed Award
at Wllliamsville, N. Y., in 1950.
Just after the 1950 competition
Peggy turned pro.
Mr. and Mrs. Bell have owned
the Pine Needles course for eight
years. They have two daughters,
Bonnie and Peggy Ann.
Mrs. Bell is a member of the
A. G. Spalding & Bros, advisory
staff.
An exceptional “Night of
Song” featuring a visiting artist
and an octet of Sandhills singers
will comprise the second program
in the concert series of the Sand
hills Music Association, to be pre
sented at Weaver Auditorium,
Thursday, November 30, at 8:30
p. m.
The visitor will be Cile Turner
of Bedford County, Va., interna
tionally known singer of folk-
ballads and blues, now appearing
on a Charlotte TV program.
The Sandhills singers are head
ed by Dr. R. Bruce Warlick, and
include Norman Caudle, N. L.
Hodgkins, Jr., Bill Bowman, Dr.
Joe Currie, E. J. Austin and E.
H. Poole, former director of the
Aberden Glee Club, who is lend
ing a hand—and a voice—with
rehearsals. Two or three more
are expected to join the chorus,
which will assist the soloist in
several of her numbers and take
the stage “on their own” for at
least one group of familiar melo
dies.
Using piano, guitar or bongo
drunls, Mrs. Turner provides her
own accompaniment for the
songs she has spent a lifetime in
collecting from plantations,
mountains and many other
sources, old and new. Some of the
songs she has composed herself.
A perfectionist, she says it some
times requires “weeks, months
and even years” before she is sat
isfied with her performance.
Wife of a Lynchburg, Va., in
dustrialist, Lawson W. Turner,
(they have nine grandchildren),
Cile Turner is not a stranger in
the Sandhills. She presented a
program at the Pinehurst Forum
several years ago and sang at
Weymouth, home of Mrs. James
Boyd, at a party for Adlai Stev-
e'hson during his second Presi
dential campaign,
Mrs. Turner has given concerts
(Continued on page 8)
Meeting last Thursday in Win
ston-Salem, the board of directors
of the North Carolina Society for
Crippled Children and Adults
Easter Seal Society reaffirmed
its decision to move the head
quarters of the organization
from Chapel Hill to Southern
Pines and voted to proceed im
mediately with a fund - raising
progr^ that will finance the con
struction of a summer camp for
crippled children near this com
munity.
Attending the directors’ meet
ing were the two Southern Pines
members.Mrs . Graham Culbreth
and George Hodgkins who are
both officials of the Moore Coun
ty chapter of the organization.
According to decision of the
directors, financial contributions
irom each county chapter of the
Society will be asked, to raise a
total of about $50,000. Each chap
ter will be asked to send in its
quota no later than February 1.
The Moore County Society, Mr
Hodgkins said, will probably be
called on for between $1,500 and
$2,000.
Plans for the camp are now
not as elaborate as first envisaged,
Mr. Hodgkins reported, although
the State Society’s plan to esta
blish a permanent treatment cen
ter here for handicapped children
has not been abandoned.
(^onstruction plans now call for
building of simple cabins or per
manent foundations and floors
for tents, to house the children
who attend the Society’s camp
each summer. The program not
only provides therapy for the
children but gives them a normal,
bappy camping experience.
Work on enlarging the dam at
a lake site on the Society’s pro
perty is now nearing completion.
The camp site is located north
east of Southern Pines, off the
Southern Pines-Carthage road.
. Decision to move the executive
headquarters of the State Society
was made recently at another
meeting of the board of directors.
The headquarters building will be
located on a lot donated by W.
P. Davis, fronting on No. 1 High
way parkway, south of the Mid
land Road intersection and
opposite the Mid Pines Lake. A
new building will be constructed
there. The move will bring sev
eral families to Southern Pines.
Mrs. Ives Named
To Tercentenary
Group by Sanford
The appointment of Mrs. Ern
est L. Ives of Southern Pines to
the Carolina Charter Tercenten
ary Commission was announced
this week by Gov.'Terry Sanford.
The appointment, one of several
made of new members on the
commission, is for the biennium
1961-1963.
Purpose of the Commission is
to plan the observance of the
300th anniversary of the granting
of the Carolina Charter in 1663 by
King Charles II of England to the
eight Lords Proprietors.
The chairman of the commis
sion, Francis E. Winslow of Rocky
Mount, was one of several mem
bers who were reappointed.
Mrs. Ives, wife of a retired
diplomat and sister of Adlai E.
Stevenson, has long been identi
fied with historical interests in
this state. She is a former presi
dent of the N. C. Society for the
Preservation of Antiquities and
of the Moore County Historical
Association.
Christmas Seals
Goiag On Sale to
Aid Fight on TB
Sheets of 1961 Christmas seals
are being mailed out to residents
of Moore County, with a request
for contributions that will finance
the work of tbs Moore County
Tuberculosis Association during
the coming year.,
Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen,
county seal sales chairman, ex
plains in the letter that Christ
mas seals are the only source of
income for the TB Association’s
case-finding and educational pro
gram. Free chest x-rays are avail
able the year around at the health
center in Carthage, made possible
by the Association’s cooperation,,
“Tuberculosis has been corner
ed but not conquered in Moore
County,” is the heading on this
year’s appeal letter. Contribu
tions in any amount are welcome,
to be sent to the Association’s of-^
fice at Pinehurst. This year, as
for last year’s successful seal sale,
no community chairmen have
been appointed and it is asked
that all donations be sent direct
ly to the Pinehurst office. Checks
should be made payable to
“Christmas Seals.” The amount is
tax-deductible, the letter points
out.
Dr. J. S. Hiatt, Jr., of Southern
Pines, is president of the Moore
County Tuberculosis Association,
a citizen group that plans the As
sociation’s work in the county.
Mr. Lockey announced this
week that Sam Kelly of Carthag6
will again head the Negro divi
sion of the sale. Church and civic
groups throughout the county co
operate with the Negro division
program, annually contributing
more than $1,000 to the sale for
many years.