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Walter B. Smith,
Local Resident,
Killed, Wife Hurt
Lt. Col. Walter Bennett Smith,
68, of 490 S. May St. was killed
and his wife, Mrs. Katherine
Smith, 62, was injured in a head-
on automobile collision near Mer
idian, Miss., Friday. The Smiths
had been residents of Southern
Pines for about the past tWo
years, coming here from Con
necticut.
A 22-year-old Natchitoches, La.,
man was the driver of the other
car in the,crash. He was hospi
talized but was reported in good
condition.
Mrs. Smith, at first thought to
be critically injured—^with re
ported lacerations of face and
body, internal injuries and pos
sible fracture of one leg—was
said to be recovering satisfactori
ly, early this week. A direct re
port on her condition was receiv
ed here by R. F. Hoke Pollock,
attorney, from her brother-in-
law, H. G. Kenagy of Bryan,
Texas. The Smiths were returning
from a visit with Mrs. Emily
Kenagy, Mrs. Smith’s sister, and
Mr. Kenagy, when the accident
took place.
According to the report reach
ing Southern Pines, Mrs. Smith
will be a patient at Anderson’s
Infirmary, Meridian, for about
the next 30 days. Whether or not
she plans to return to Southern
Pines after her recovery was not
known here.
Colonel Smtih’s body was to be
cremated and services were to be
held at the family burial plot,
Guilford, Conn. The Smiths had
no children. Colonel Smith’s
brother, R. A. Smith, lives at
Scituate, Mass.
Born at New Haven^- Conn..
November 21, 1893, Colonel Smith
was employed for many years by
the Connecticut Department of
Agriculture, before his retireme^’
and move to Southern Pines. He
was a veteran of Army service in
both World Wars I and II, but was
not a career Army officer.
In Southern Pines, Colonel and
Mrs. Smith attended the United
Church of Christ. He was a mem
ber of the local Elks Lodge.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1962
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Advisory Council
Of St. Joseph’s
Installs Officers
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy was
installed as chairman of the Ad
visory Council of St. Joseph of the
Pines Hospital at a dinner meet
ing in the hospital Monday night.
Mrs. Kennedy was reelected to
the post in December. Other of
ficers, newly elected at that time
and installed Monday, are Joe
Montesanti, Jr., vice chairman,
and Harry H. Pethick, secretary.
KIWANIS OFFICERS— Officers of the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club for 1962 were installed at
last week’s luncheon vTeeting of , the club at the
Pine Needles Club. Front row, left to right:
Lincoln Faulk of Dunn, lieutenant governor of
the Kiwanis Carolines District, who was the
installing officer; Dr. C. Robert VanderVoort,
immediate past president; Dr. R. Bruce Warlick,
president; and Lawrence McN. Johnson, vice-
president. In the back row, left to right, are
the directors: William C. Sledge, Luther A.
Adams, J. E. Sandlin, Dr. W. Harrell Johnson,
Ralph Chandler, Jr., and L. Boyd Creath. John
L. Ponzer, club secretarj- and treasurer, was
not present when the photo was made.
Changes in Dog
Law Not Planned;
Policy Explained
No changes are contemplated in
the town’s new dog control law.
Mayor John S. Ruggles said to
day. He said that comments to
him on the law have been over
whelmingly in its favor.
The law, which requires reg
istration of all local dogs at the
police station and forbids a dog
to run at large unless muzzled,
has raised objections to some of
its provisions from some dog own
ers and editorially from this
newspaper.
An interpretation of jcey phras
ing in the law makes it more leni
ent than it seems to be, the may
or said. 'The ordinance defines
“at large’’ as “off the premises of
the owner and not under control
of the owner or a member of his
immediate family or some respon
sible person either by leash, cord,
chain or otherwise.” The mayor
said that “otherwise” is being in
terpreted by local officials as per
mitting a dog to run free in com
pany of owner or a responsible
person, if the dog will obey when
called. A person could, therefore,
exercise an obedient dog in town
without having the dog constant
ly on leash.
On the matter of muzzles,
which have been called inhumane
by some dog owners. Mayor Rug
gles pointed out that the law does
not require any dog owner to
muzzle his dog. He said he doubt
ed if many dogs would be muz
New members of the council
attending this week s meeting
were Mrs. George W. Matheson,
Charles Paul and W. Harry Ful-
lenwider. Other members of the
council, who had served previous
ly, are Mrs. Frank Cosgrove,
David Drexel and Lee Smithson.
Mr. Paul was named chairman
of a public relations committee
whose members he will appoint.
Father Francis M. Smith, pastor
of St. Anthony’s Church, com
mended the council for its work
during the past year. Sister Vir
ginia, administrator of the hos
pital was present for the event j
given by the Sisters for ■”
Gouncil members.
either to confine dogs or exercise
them under control.
A policy planning session has
been held to discuss the law, the
mayor said. Attending were, in
addition to the mayor. Town Man
ager F. F, (Bud) Rainey, Town
Attorney W. Lament Brown, Po
lice Chief Earl Seawell, Hardy
Barber, county dog warden; and
Dr. C. C. McLean, veterinarian
who is adviser to the county
pound which would be used to
confine dogs picked up here. The
mayor said a satisfactory policy
the I of cooperation with the county
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Peach Men to
Fete Pioneers
The annual meeting of the
North Carolina Peach Growers’
Society will be held at the Sand
hill Peach Research Station near
Jackson Springs on January 23
from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m.
The annual banquet will be at
East Montgomery High School
between Candor and Biscoe at
6:30 p. m. The pioneer peach
growers of the 1910-1920 years
are to be honored at the banquet
L. Y. Ballentine, state commis
sioner of agriculture will be the
featured speaker.
Boys Choir to Perform Here Friday
Sponsored by the Southern
Pines Rotary Club, the Char
lotte Boys Choir will present
■one of its tuneful and lively
-variety shows at Weaver
Auditorium Friday night
(January 12). The perforin-
ance—featuring the 80-mem
ber choir of boys nine to 12
years old and various smaller
groups of the boys in special
dramatic numbers—will be
gin at 8 p.m.
Tickets can be obtained
from Rotary Club members or
-at the box office Friday night.
Organized in 1947, the choir
is a project of the Charlotte
-Rotary Club. The boys are
chosen competitively from
various public and private
Charlotte schools Although
noted for spontaneous per
formances, the group main
tains excellent discipline. The
boys practice twice weekly
and, periodically, go on tour,
up or down the East coast
states, in two air-conditioned
busses.
James P. McMillan is man
ager of the organization and
Charles C. Starnes, a Char
lotte public school music
teacher, is director.
Rotarians report that
tickets for the show are
selling well.
Jaycees to Make
Service Award
The outstanding young man of
1961 in Southern Pines will be
revealed at the annual “Bosses’
Night” dinner of the Southern
Pines Junior Chamber of Com
merce, to be held in the Holly
wood Hotel, Friday evening, Jan
uary 19.
The event will highlight local
observance of National Jaycee
Week, November 21-26, marking
the founding of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce in 1920, said
Thomas Ruggles, local Jaycee
president.
Robert Chatman of the Social
Security office at Fayetteville will
be the featured speaker.
“Bosses” of the young mem
bers of the organization will be
guests of their employees or as
sociates at the bmquet.
The outstanding young man,
who will receiye the Distinguished
Service Award, is being chosen
by a committee of non-Jaycees
from nominations made by the
public. Candidates for the honor
must be aged 21 through 35 and
are judged on their efforts in
community work and their own
business or professional progress
during the year.
I March of Dimes
Begins Campaign;
Officers Named
Moore county community chair
men have again undertaken the
National Foundation’s January
drive, with expanded humanitari
an objectives and increased em
phasis on research.
They are spurred on by the
fact that last year’s drive failed
of its full quota, for the first time
since its inception as the March
of Dimes 24 years ago. This be
came the annual fund-raising ven
ture of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis—-now the
National Foundation, fighting
polio, birth defects and arthritis.
Moore County is aiming this
year for the same quota, $7,560,
which has been set every year,
according to J. Frank McCaskill
of Pinehurst, campaign chairman.
This has been unofficially set as
the goal, since the Fpundation,
with changed objectives has
changed this policy also. No spe
cific quotas are being accorded,
said McCaskill—“We need all we
can get. Though the fight against
polio has been nearly won, the
other two projects remain very
difficult and challenging. Re
search is under way, but a great
deal will be needed and that is
very costly.”
At a kickoff dinner and meet
ing Friday night at the Carthage
Hotel all the chapter officers
were reelected by acclamation:
Paul C. Butler, Southern Pines,
chairman; H. Clifton Blue, Aber
deen, first vice-chairman; Paul
C. Greene, Eureka community,
second vice-chairman; Mrs. J. A.
Phillips, Cameron, secretary, and
C. H. Bowman, Southern Pines,
treasurer.
All chapter directors were also
reelected—the community chair
men: Dr. J. W. Willcox, public
(Continued on Page 5)
Council Asking
State, Railroad
Install Signals
A resolution asking the Sea
board Air Line Railroad and the
State Highway Commission to
cooperate in installation of train
warning signals at the intersec
tion of New York Avenue and
the Seaboard tracks was adopted
by the town council Tuesday
night.
Copies were ordered sent to J
Elsie Webb of Rockingham, divi
sion highway commissioper, and
James Smith, president of th'
Seaboard.
The resolution points out that
Broad Street on both sides of the
Seaboard tracks is controlled by
the State Highway system and
that business development in the
area has increased pedestrian
and vehicular traffic at the inter
section where there are no warn
ing lights or bells for trains.
All council members were pres
ent: Mayor John S. RUggles, and
Councilmen Morris Johnson, Fel
ton Capel, J. D. Hobbs and Fred
Pollard, along with Town Man
ager F. F. (Bud) Rainey, Attor
ney W. Lament Brown and Mrs.
Mildred McDonald, clerk. The
only visitors, as at many recent
meetings, were a group from West
Southern Pines.
Mayor Ruggles named Coun
cilman Hobbs, Attorney Brown
and Town Manager Rainey as a
committee to investigate and re
port on the request of E. H. Mills
of Pinebluff that Swan Pond and
an adjoining, area, off Midland
Road, be returned to him from
the town by quitclaim deed, ac
cording to an agreement he had
made with the town, when hr
gave the area to the town about
10 years ago.
The. area was given at that time
for the town to use for recreation
purposes, with the stipulation tha-
if it were not used for that pur
pose, it could revert to the donor
when he wished to claim it.
For a few years after the gift
was made, the town set up picnic
tables and other recreation facili
ties near the pond and opened it
to public ■ swimming. The swim
ming, however, was discontinued
when a check showed the water
was unfit for this purpose as
storm sewers drain into the area.
Since then it has not been gen
erally used for public recreation
purposes.
The council voted to increase
the charge for eight-inch sewer
extensions from $2 to $2.50 per
foot, on information from Man
ager Rainey that costs of build
ing sewer lines have gone up. Al-
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Snow, Cold Lambaste
Area; More Expected
8 Degrees Was
Low Last Night;
15, Noon Today
The Sandhills is sharing in the
nation’s knock-down, drag-out
fight with winter—the tempera
ture dipping to a frigid eight de
grees above zero here early this
morning, following more than
three inches of snow that fell
over the area Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning. The temper
ature at noon today was 15.
Continued cold is expected, ac
cording to the latest forecasts,
with possibly more snow over the
weekend.
Schools throughout Moore
County were closed yesterday and
today, including the Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and county sys
tems and the Catholic St. An
thony’s and Our Lady of Victory
schools here.
No announcement had been
made at The Pilot’s presstime as
to whether schools will be open
tomorrow.
Official depth of snowfall re
corded at the Weather Bureau
station at the WEEB radio studios
on Midland Road was 3.5 inches.
Falling on unfrozen ground, some
of it melted during Wednesday
and highways and streets were
for the most part clear by the
end of the day. Today tempera
tures are below freezing and the
skies cloudy. Patches of ice from
the remains of yesterday’s snow
fall made driving and walking
hazardous at some locations. How
ever, no serious accidents attri
butable to the snow had been re
ported today.
MR. GENTRY
Hartshorne Heads
GOP in Precinct
At a well attended meeting*!'
the high school Tuesday night.
Southern Pines precinct Republi
cans elected James Hartshorne
chairman and Mrs. Marvin Wick
er vice chairman, also electing
a delegation to attend the county
GOP convention later in the year.
James E. Harrington, Jr., of
Pinehurst, chairman of the Moore
County Republican executive
committee, met with the local
group to discuss plans of the pre
cinct and county organizations.
RETIRES AFTER 40 YEARS WITH COMPANY
L. D. McDonald Honored for A & P Career
L. D. McDonald, who retired
January 1 as manager of the
Southern Pines A & P store after
25 years in that position and 40
years with the company, was
honored Tuesday night with a
recognition dinner at the Mid
Pines Club.
Attending the stag affair and
paying tribute to “Mr. Mac,” one
of the veterem merchants of the
Southern Pines business com
munity, were officials of the
Charlotte Unit of A & P and 14
store managers in the territory
headed by J. L. Creed.
A plaque displaying a gold-
plated lock and key was present
ed to Mr. McDonald by the store
managers.
Personnel of the local A & P
store had honored Mr. McDonald
with a farewell party at Wedge
Inn in December.
(Continued on page 8)
MR. McDonald
Harvey McDuffie Now
Local Store Manager
Harvey T. McDuffie, who has
replaced L. D. McDonald as man
ager of the Southern Pines A & P
Super Market on S. W. Broad St.,
has been with A & P for the past
20 years, and was in Sanford for
seven years before coming here.
A native of Hamlet, he attend
ed Hamlet High School and is
married to the former Peggy
Baggette of Laurinburg. They
have two sons. Tommy, 13, and
Jimi, 19 months old, and a daugh
ter, Lynn, 9. They are living at
235 Hill Road. ,
W. H. Gentry, Jr.
To Head New Bank
Operation Here
William H. Gentry, Jr., former
ly officer in charge of public re
lations for the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, Va., has been
elected vice president in charge
of the Southern Pines office of
t’ne Southern National Bank, Hec
tor McLean of Lumberton, presi
dent of Southern Nationa'l, an
nounced today.
Mr. Gentry, who has been in
banking since 1942, with the ex
ception of two years in the Air
Force, will open a temporary
Southern National Bank office
here, pending completion of re
modeling. .of the former ■ Welch
building which the bank has
bought, at the corner of New
York Ave. and S. W. Broad St.
The bank expects to open its new
Southern Pines office there in
March.
“Southern National Bank is for
tunate in obtaining a man of Mr.
Gentry’s ' qualifications to head
the bank’s Southern Pines oper
ation,” Mr. McLean said. “We
have known Mr. Gentry for a
number of years and have com
plete confidence in his ability.’’
A native of Albemarle County,
Va., Mr. Gentry is married to the
former Frances Hutchinson of
Franklin County, Va. They have
a six-year-old son, Mark Hunter
Gentry. They are Episcopalians
and active in church work. Mr.
and Mrs. Gentry have purchased
a new home on Inverness Road in
the Sandavis development.
After finishing school at Salem,
Va., Mr. Gentry entered banking
with the Bank of Virginia at
Roanoke. He served in the Air
Force, 1944-46, returning to the
Bank of Virginia and, in Decem
ber, 1948, became assistant cashier
of the Richlands National Bank,
Richlands, Va. In 1950, he accept
ed a similar position with the
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Lighting Contest
Winners Chosen
The Bamum Realty and In
surance Co., in the business divis
ion, and the Glenn Ramsey home,
345 Crestview Road, in the resi
dential division, were announced
this week as winners in the an
nual Christmas lighting contest
sponsored by the Southern Pines
Jaycees. A $15 check will go
.from the Jaycees to each of the
winners, said Dick Mattocks,
chairman of the project.
Honorable mention went to the
Scott Insurance and Realty win
dow, in the business division, and
to the Dale Cox home at 480
Crestview Road in Residential.
Mr. Mattocks expressed appre
ciation for the widespread inte
rest in Christmas lighting and said
that many fine decorations in
both categories were observed by
the judging committee.
MOVING OFFICES
Dr. P. J. Chester will move his
offices next week from the Welch
building, which was purchased by
the Southern National Bank of
Mr. McDuffie is a former mem- Lumberton, to the former offices
ber of the Jaycees at Sanford.
The McDuffies are members of
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church.
of the late Dr. Herr at the corner
of N. E. Broad St. and Pennsyl
vania Ave.
117. Convicted
In ABC Liquor
Cases in 1961
Making his annual report on
operations of the Enforcement Di
vision of the Moore County Alco
holic Beverage Control Board,
C. A. McCallum of Carthage,
chief enforcement officer, said
this week that 117 convictions on
liquor law violations were ob
tained in the county’s coiurts as
a result of operations of the Di
vision in 1961.
During 1961, the reports states,
ABC officers made 112 arrests,
captured nine Stills, destroyed
1,070 gallons of mash, sized 169
gallons of non-taxpaid whiskey
and 69 pints of taxpaid whiskey
and confiscated three automo
biles.
In addition, the report says,
eight persons were awaiting trial
at the end of 1961, two were ac
quitted of charges during the year
and two cases were nol-prossed.
Fines collected by the courts in
ABC liquor cases amounted to
$5,664. Sentences given to defen
dants totaled 12 years and six
months.
The ABC enforcement officers,
in addition to Mr. McCallum, are
F. Edward Floyd of Aberdeen
and June A. Cockman of Robbins.
The three officers- travelled a
total of; 68,392 miles in 1961, in
the enforcement of the’ liquor
laws and assisting other law en
forcement agencies in Moore and
other counties.
BAPTIST MEETINGS
POSTPONED FOR WEEK
The regular monthly business
meeting and fellowship supper at
The First Baptist Church sched
uled for this evening (Thursday)
at 7 o’clock has been cancelled
as has the meeting of the Broth
erhood scheduled for 6 o’clock.
Both of these meetings will be
held at the regularly scheduled
times next Thursday evening,
January 18.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem-
oeratures 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
January
4
66
32
January
5
60
33
January
6
67
50
January
7
56
34
January
8
.52
38
January
9
52
23
January
10
27
23