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FROM THE PILOT!
VOL. 42—NO.
Town’s Churches
Schedule Holiday
Events, Services
Services and special events at
local churches have been an
nounced as follows from today
through Christmas;
Brownson Memorial Presbyter
ian Church, Dr. E. C. Scott, in
terim pastor:
A living nativity scene on the
church lawn will be presented
from 7 to 8 p.m. nightly, tonight
(Thursday) through Christmas
Eve.
Friday, December 22—Sunday
School Christmas party at 7 p.m.
in the Fellowship, Hall. Santa ar
rives at 7:30. Toys for children at
the North Carolina Hospital, Mc
Cain, will be collected.
Sunday, December 24—Dr. Ho
ward H. Thompson, associate
minister of the First Presbyterian
Church, Raleigh, will be guest
minister at the 11 a.m. service.
The Candlelight Service will be
held at 6 p.m., with youth groups
of the church in charge. -
The United Church of Christ
(Church of Wide Fellowship), the
Bev, Carl Wallace, pastor:
Tonight, Thursday, December
21—Caroling by the youth, of the
church, starting at 7:30 p.m.,
followed by a party at the home
of Dickey Hoskins.
Friday, December 22—Church
School (Christmas program, with
drama, music and treats, 7:30 p.
m.
Sunday, December 24—Theme
of the minister’s sermon at the
11 a.m. service will be “The Gift
of a Saviour.” Special Christmas
music by the Youth Choir, direct
ed by William McAdams.
Our Saviour Lutheran Church:
Sunday, December 24—Children
and young people will present a
pageant of the Nativity in scrip
ture and song, 6 p.m. at the Civic
Club building.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
the Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector:
Saturday, December 23—Pen
ance, 6 p.m.
Sunday, December 24—Holy
Communion, 8 a. m.; Church
School, 9:45 a.m. Bible Class, 10
a.m.; Morning Prayer, 11 a.m.;
carol service for children, 4 p.m.;
Eucharist, 11 p. m., the Rev.
John Peyton Conger of St. Ber
nard’s School, Gladstone, N. J.,
Christmas Day, December 25—
Holy Eucharist, 11 a.m.
First Baptist Church, the Rev.
Maynard Mangum. pastor:
Sunday, December 24—Sunday
School, 9:45 a.m.; Church Service,
11 a.m.; Training Union, 6:15 p.
m.; Service of Carols and Candles,
7:30 p.m.
St. Anthony's Catholic Church,
the Rev. Francis M. Smith, pastor:
Sunday, December 24—Confess
ions, 4:30-5:30 and 7:30-8:30 p. m.;
Procession and carols, 11:30 p.m.;
Midnight Mass, 12.
Sunday, December 25—Masses
at 8, 9:15 and 10:30 a.m.
Southern Pines Methodist
Church, the Rev. Robert C. Moon
ey, pastor:
Sunday, December 24—Sunday
School, 9:45 a. m.; Church Serv
ice, 11 a. m,: Candlelight Service,
6 p. m.
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1961
TWENTY-SIX PAGES
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CENTER OF ATTENTION—Who cares about
anything else when Santa Claus comes to town?
Dozens of local children attending the Southern
Pines Elks Lodge’s annual Christmas party at
the Country Club Sunday afternoon answered
that question in a heart-warming manner. A
photo taken at the Elks Christmas party in
West Southern Pipes appears elsewhere in to
day’s Pilot. (Humphrey photo)
Christmas Cheer
Basket Program
To Benefit Many
The county-wide Christmas
Cheer program carried on in co
operation with the Moore County
Welfare Department will be pro
viding food baskets, and in some
cases other gifts also, to more
than 300 Moore County families
and individuals whose need has
been certified by the department.
In some communities, baskets are
provided to a few families whose
need at Christmas is recognized
but who are not on the Welfare
list.
Mrs. Walter B. Cole of Carth
age, county director of public
welfare, said this week that a
quick check of the lists showed
approximately 315 families sla
ted to receive baskets. The pro-^
gram operates in 14 communities,
extending out in most cases to in
clude rural residents in each area.
Local Donations Needed
Harry Chatfield, chairman of
SANTA TO GREET
KIDDIES SUNDAY
Santa, who visited two
children's parties sponsored
by the Elks Lodge last Sun
day afternoon (see photos
elsewhere in today*s Pilot),
will return this coming Sun
day. from 2 to 5 p. m., at the
Veterans cif 'Foreign Wars
post home on N. W. Broad St.
As usual at this annual
event, there's a blanket invi
tation to the town's kiddies,
with candy for all. as long as
it holds out.
The post is not offering
rides on a town fire truck or
ponies this year. The ponies
are not available and lack of
insurance covering the fire
truck rides led to cancellation
of this feature.
The programi will be broad
cast over Radio Station
WEEB.
Registration
Of Dogs Slated
Dog owners living in Southern
Pines must register their animals
at the police station during Jan
uary, Town Manager F. F. (Bud)
Rainey announced this week.
In the registration, owners must
give their name and address, and
name and description of dog. Town
tax tags will be given owners.
Owners must pay a $1 tax on
males or spayed females and a
$2 tax on females, at the time of
registration.
The ordinance which authorizes
the registration prohibits dogs to
run at large without a muzzle.
’The full text of the ordinance ap
pears on page 19. ^
News —Good News!
Good News is a Christmas af
fair. The angels- brought Good
News, tidings of great joy, and in
the old carol that starts “Good
Christian men, rejoice” comes the
refrain: "News, News! Jesus
Christ is born today!”
Many years later when the
carol was first sung in Old Eng
land the town criers would go
around the streets, in the little
towns and big ones, ringing their
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
December 14 51 26
December 15 56 36
December 16 51 33
December 17 50 35
December 18 72 46
December 19 53 45
December 20 54 35
bells and crying: “News! News!”,
as they called the glad tiding of
Christmas to all men.
News is a Christmassy affair,
and young children and babies
are Christmassy affairs. Some
times they go together, these two,
and that’s the case with the first
piece of news to head this col
umn.
This reporter, on a prowl
around town to see what was in
the air, dropped in on Lou and
Graham Culbreth. “Tell us some
news,” this reporter said.
“Haven’t you got any good news
for the Christmas issue?”
And Lou came across, just as
you’d expect.
“Yes,” she said, “We’ve got
some fine news. The Moore Coun
ty Easter Seal Sales committee
has given two wheel-chairs for
the use of crippled children and
adults. One has been given to the
Reynolds Rest Home, and the
other tp the Physical Therapy De
partment of Moore Memorial Hos-
(Continued on Page 8)
the local program for the spon
soring John Boyd Post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, said that pOi.t
members expect to deliver about
75 baskets Saturday afternoon.
He renewed his appeal for cash
contributions to enable the post
to buy basic food items for the
baskets, in addition to the canned
goods that are being placed in do
nation barrels in grocery stores.
Checks should be made to “VFW
Christmas Cheer Fund” and sent
to Mr. Chatfield at Box 272,
Southern Pines.
Each, basket, the chairman said,
will contain a chicken, 10 pounds
each of flour, corn meal and po
tatoes, two pounds of sugar, a
pound of coffee, a package of
(Continued on Page 8)
OTHERS ALSO HONORED
Mrs. Boyd Is
Winner of ^61
Builders Cup
By C. BENEDICT
Mrs. James Boyd, editor of The
Pilot, became the 28th recipient
of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club’s
Builders Cup Friday night at the
annual Ladies Night banquet and
program of the club in the Caro
lina Hotel, Pinehurst. The presen
tation was made by Voit Gilmore
of Southern Pines, last year’s,
winner of the cup, who is now di
rector of the United States Travel
Service.
Presentation of the cup, given
by the club for cohimunity serv
ice “without thought of personal
gain” over a period of years, cli
maxed a program that included
two other awards—the Past
President’s Tray to Nelson C.
Hyde of Pinehurst, who headed
the club in 1932, and the Presi
dent’s Tray to Dr. C. Robert Van-
derVoort of Southern Pines, the
club’s president during the past
year. R. F. Hoke Pollock present
ed the trays.
Robert S. Ewing of Southern
(Continued on page 8)
Holiday Closing
Times Vary Among
Offices, Stores
With Christmas falling on
Monday of next week, holiday
closings will vary in Southern
Pines and over the county.
All banks in the county will-
be closed Monday and Tuesday.
Post offices will be on holiday
schedule Monday, with windows
closed.
The local post office will be
closed Christmas Day, but special
delivery items and perishables
will be delivered. Postmaster J.
W. Causey said that he would
open a window at the post office
from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, to allow
persons to pick up packages.
Town .offices will be closed
Monday as will the Information
Center. The library will be closed
Saturday through Tuesday.
Some stores and offices ap
parently intend to take both
Monday and Tuesday as holidays,
but most food stores will be open
Tuesday.
County offices at Carthage will
have a long holiday, closing at
end of business Friday and re
opening Wednesday morning of
next week.
The Southern Pines ABC store
will be closed Monday and Wed
nesday of next week and be open
Tuesday. The Pinehurst store will
close Monday and Tuesday andi
be open Wednesday.
Commissioners
Discuss Plans
For New Highway
Moore and Chatham County
commissioners, meeting jointly in
Pittsboro Friday, decided to seek
a hearing with W. F. Babcock,
state highway director, on a pro
posed new road from Carthage to
Goldston.
The combined boards made a
“gentleman’s agreement” to ask
former State Senator Wilbur H.
Currie of Carthage to talk to
Babcock and arrange a hearing.
Earl J. Dark, chairman of the
Chatham commissioners, asked
M. G. Boyette, Moore County at
torney, to speak with Currie
about getting a meeting of com
missioners and other county offi
cials with Babcock and Highway
Commissioners W. E. Horner of
Sanford and Elsie Webb of Rock
ingham.
Those present seemed to think
a hearing would iron out the prob
lems of money and routes.
Two Routes
Two routes have been proposed.
The original, an eastern route,
uses Secondary Road 1006 from
Carthage northward for about 10
miles to near the junction of S. R.
1626, then via a new road to be
constructed from that point for
about 6.9 miles to near Carbonton
and then via S. R. 2306 from Car
bonton to Goldston.
This new route will cost an es
timated $335,600. More than a.
third of the cost is for a new
bridge over Deep River. The
bridge cost is $120,000. Other
costs are $103,500 for base and
.surfacing at $15,000 per mile,
$61,200 for drainage at $)j,000
per mile, $9,500 for clearing and
grubbing at $200 per acre and
$41,400 for grading at 40 cents
per cubic yard.
The alternate route, which was
adopted in December, 1960, by the
Planning Board and the State
Highway Commission, is a west
ern route. It, too, follows S. R.
1006 north from Carthage, beyond
Glendon to a point near the Chat-
(Continued on page 8)
2 Face Manslaughter
Counts Alter Accidents
Mrs. Welsh, 76,
IN TOWN
72 Traffic
Arrests Made
This Month
Seventy-two persons have been
arrested for traffic law violations
in Southern Pines this month. Po
lice Chief Earl S. Seawell said
this morning, appealing to the
public to “slow down and obey
the law.”
The statement was made
against a background of six per
sons killed in traffic accidents
within the Southern Pines town
limits in the past three months.
Chief Seawell pointed out that in
only one of the accidents was the
driver or person responsible for
the death a resident of Southern
Pines.
Police are doing everything in
their power to control speeding
and other traffic violations in
town, the chief said. More respect
for the law by the public is
what’s needed most, he added.
A majority of the traffic arrests
were for speeding, he said, but
many were for failing to yield
right of way or failing to stop at
stop signs or lights.
ELKS TOURNEY
GOES NATIONAL
The Elks golf tournament
here is going national this
year. Dr. Boyd Starnes of the
sponsoring local lodge said
today.
Invitations to enter will go
out soon to Elks lodges over
the nation, with expectation
that there may be up to 250
players here tot the 54-hole,
medal play event. May 17-20.
A successful tournament
this year attracted Elks, inclu
ding some outstanding goM-
ers, from the two Carolinas
and Virginia.
Details will be announced.
Dr. Starnes said. *
Troopers Planning
All-Out Drive on
Road Violations
state troopers, in this area and
over the state, will be out in force
during the long Christmas week
end, in an all-out attempt to re
duce highway deaths, injuries and
accidents.
During the four-day Christmas
weekend last year, the Motor Ve
hicles Department is reminding
drivers, 25 persons were killed
and 473 injured in North Caro
lina traffic accidents. Over the
four-day New Year weekend, 16
more persons were killed and 294
injured.
Already underway and extend
ing through the holiday season
is ■ a state-wide Highway Patrol
campaign against drinking be
fore driving, even in moderate
amounts which are said to cut
drivers’ judgment and reflexes to
such an extent as to make them
dangerous to themselves and
others on the road.
Also being conducted is an auto
equipment checking program in
which cars are being stopped and
lights, horn, brakes and other
equipment checked.
Troopers over the state will
hand out 250,000 red and white
Christmas messages on a card the
size of a large business envelope.
(Continued on Page 8)
■
i'i
Dies in Crash;
Boy, 16, Killed
Drivers in two fatal automobile
accidents of the past week—in
which the fifth and sixth traffic
fatalities for Southern Pines in
three months were recorded— are
being charged with manslaughter.
Police Chief Earl S. Seawell said
today.
The persons killed were:
Mrs. Irene Wolf Welsh, 76, a
passenger in a car driven by her
sister. Miss Marguerite Wolf, 71,
when the Wolf car was struck
by an automobile driven by Billy
Jackson Dark, 35, of Pittsboro,
at the intersection of May St. and
Massachusetts Ave., Tuesday af
ternoon.
Walter Franklin McNeill, 16-
year-old Negro boy, a passenger
in a car driven by his uncle, Paul
S. Williams, 29, which overturned,
throwing both out, at 12:35 a.m.
Saturday on the No. 1 highway
parkway.
Chief Seawell said that Dark,
who was not injured, made $2,500
bond for an appearance in South
ern Pines Recorder’s Court next
Wednesday on! charges of caus
ing an accident resulting in death,
that is, manslaughter. If he waives
hearing or probable cause is
found in the local court, the case
would go to Moore County Super
ior Court at Carthage.
Williams, a patient at St. Jose
ph’s Hospital, with injuries re
ceived ih the wreck, will be
charged with careless and reck
less driving and manslaughter.
Chief Seawell said. Sgt. L. D.
Beck, who investigated the park
way accident, estimated the speed
of the Williams car at 70 miles per
hour. Chief Seawell said Williams
asserted that he was traveling at
a legal speed and left the highway
in attempting to avoid two cars,
one parked off the road and one
on the road. The accident report
states that the car traveled 321
feet out of control.
Miss Wolf was injured in the
May St. accident and is a patient
at St. Joseph Hospital. She and
her sister lived together at 460
S. W. Broad St.
Miss WoK was reported to have
fractured ribs and other injuries.
Williams suffered shoulder and
collarbone injuries.
Funeral Services
A Rosary service will be held
at 7:30 p.m. today for Mrs. Welsh
at the Powell Funeral Home and
requiem mass will be offered at
9 a.m. Friday at St. Anthony’s
Catholic Church, with the Rev.
Francis M. Smith, pastor, offici
ating. Graveside services will be
held Saturday afternoon at Cal
vary Cemetery, Altoona, Pa., the
city where Mrs. Welsh formerly
lived.
Surviving are three daughters,
Mrs. John Gates of Pittsburgh,
Pa., Mrs. Robert Ansman of Val
ley Stream, N. Y., and Mrs. Frank
Kepler of Detroit, Mich.,* six
grandchildren; her sister. Miss
Wolf, and a brother, Richard V/'olf
(Continued on page 8)
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AWARD WINNERS—Mrs. James Boyd holds
the Builders Cup of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club,
presented to her Friday night, flanked by Nelson
C. Hyde of Pinehurst, left, holding the past
president’s tray given to him and Dr. C. Robert
VanderVoort, with the president’^ tray which
he received. (Hemmer photo)
Public Can Make
Nominations For
Award by Jaycees
The Southern Pines Junior
Chamber of Commerce is inviting
nominations from the public for
a “Young Man of the Year” who
will be honored by the organiza
tion for his community accom
plishments in business, civic serv
ice or other fields during 1961.
Paul B. Boroughs, Jr., chair
man of the Jaycee committee in
charge of the project, said that
the winner of the award will be
announced at a dinner in the Hol
lywood Hotel, Friday night, Jan
uary 19.
A committee of citizens over
the Jaycee-limit age of 36 will
study the nominations and select
the winner. The award dinner is
the high point of the annual na
tion-wide Jaycee Week.
Nominations for the award
should be sent to Mr. Boroughs
who will turn them over to the
selection committee.