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VOL. 42—NO. 10
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1962
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Colonel Pritchett
Killed in South
Carolina Collision
Col. Jesse Upshaw Pritchett, 49,
U. S. Air Force officer who main
tained a home in Southern Pines
while serving at Shaw Air Force
Base, Sumter, S. C., was killed
Tuesday night in a head-on auto
collision near the air base.
A funeral seryice, with Masonic
rites, will be conducted by the
Rev. Robert C. Mooney at the
Southern Pines Methodist Church
at 2:30 p.^m. Friday. Burial, with
military , honors, will take place
at Arlington National Cemetery
at 3 p. m. Monday.
Colonel Pritchett, who was an
administrative officer with the
837th Tactical Air Force Hospital
at Shaw AFB, was alone in his
car when it collided with an au
tomobile driven by Airman Har
old W. Henry, 29, who was re
ported injured, but not critically.
The local officer was returning to
the base from Southern Pines,
after a stop at Greenville, S. C.
With his wife, Mrs. Newel Huck-
aby Pritchett, and 15-year-old
daughter, Nona Beatrice, Colonel
Pritchett occupied the gate house
at Weymouth, off E. Vermont
Ave. Colonel and Mrs. Pritchett
had bought land off E. Connecti
cut Ave. Extension (Fort Bragg
road) and construction had start
ed on a new house they planned
to build there. Colonel Pritchett
was to have retired irr about six
months from military service and
the family expected to make their
permanent home here.
The Pritchetts returned to
Southern Pines last June after s
two-year tour of duty in Alaska,
having lived here about a year
before they went to Alaska, while
Colonel Pritchett was stationed at
Pope Air Force Base.
The family has been active in
the Southern Pines Methodist
Church and made hiany friends
in the community.
Colonel Pritchett was a native
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Pilot Wins Two
1st Place Awards
In Press Contest
First place awards for weekly
newspaper editorial pages and
advertising were made to The
Pilot last Thursday night, at the
opening session of the annual
Press Institute, in Chapel HilL
The awards — metal-on-wood
plaques and accompanying scrolls
for framing—^were presented by
Gov. Terry Sanford. Clyde Coun
cil, Pilot advertising manager, ac
cepted the advertising award and
Cad Benedict, associate editor, ac
cepted the award for editorial
pages.
Mrs. James Boyd, The Pilot’s
editor, was unable to be present
for the occasion.
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen
editor and publisher of The Sand
hill Citizen and president of the
North Carolina Press Association,
presided at the Thursday night
program, responding to the wel
come of William B. Aycock, chan
cellor of the University of North
Carolina. Governor Sanford was
Introduced by William Friday,
University president.
In the weekly division of the
newspaper contests, first, second
and third place awards were
made in five categories: advertis
ing, editorial pages, features, local
•pews coverage and news photog
raphy. Competing newspapers
were asked to submit, in each cat
egory, four newspapers of their
choosing, published during the
year October 1, 1960 to October 1.
-1961. Judging was done by out-
4)f-state journalism schools or
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RACE WINNER— Miss Mary Swan Sprague
(center) of Savannah, Ga., and Warrenton, Va.,
receives from Mrs. W. O. Moss, secretary of the
Moore County Hounds, the Enid Walsh trophy
for placing first in Saturday’s Point-to-Point
race conducted over a course of more than
eight miles in the “himting country” oH Youngs
Road. Miss Sprague’s Rapid Creek, the horse
shown here, was last year’s winner in the same
race, ridden by Gene Cunningham, thus giving
Miss Sprague two legs on the Enid Walsh
trophy, with a third win needed for permanent
possession. Mr. Cunningham also has two legs
on the trophy. Placing second Saturday was
Richard Webb of Southern Pines and in third
position was Miss Nona (“Mickey”) Pritchett
of Southern Phnes who aUso was the winner of
the Junior Division of the race. (See another
photo on page 5). Miss Sprague’s time was 25
minutes, 33 seconds. The shortest route around
the course—with the highest jumps and most
obstacles—measured 8.2 miles. Junior Division
riders take a longer but less difficult route.
(Humphrey photo)
Peach Growers Honor ‘Pioneers’ at
Meeting; Auman Reelected President
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Tlffi 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
January 18 43 26
January 19 34 29
January 20 45 29
January 21 49 27
January 22 71 31
January 23 60 54
.January 24 48 37
Eleven pioneers of the Sand
hills peach industry were honored
Tuesday night by members of the
North Carolina Mutual Peach
Growers Society at their annual
banquet, held in the handsome
new consolidated East Montgom
ery High School between Candor
and Biscoe.
The 10 men and one woman
were affectionately dubbed "teen
agers” because they grew peaches
in the “teen” years of this cen
tury—specifically the years 1910
to 1920 when the industry was
getting a shaky start. Thirty-four,
including three women who es
tablished and ran their own orch
ards, had been invited but only
11 could come and these were the
center of attention, presented
with flowers and gifts.
Only four or five are still ac
tive in the industry. Others have
gone into other lines of work, or
‘Indoor-Outdoor’
Pool Planned at
Pine Needles Cllab
Warren and Peggj' Kirk Bell,
owners of Pine Needles Lodges
and Country Club, have announc
ed plans for an indoor-outdoor
swimming pool which will be
open about the middle of Febru
ary.
Work has already begun on the
“Paddock Pool” which will be 25
feet by 50 feet in size and will
include a deck area plus a wind
break. Water in the pool will be
heated for the convenience of
guests during the golfing season.
Mr. Bell also said plans caU for
a roU-away roof by next fall.-
Adjoining the pool, located ad
jacent to the clubhouse, will be
a 20 by 70 foot recreation and
conference room. The building
housing the pool is so located that
existing lodges will overlook the
pool while the pool has a view
of the first tee and 18th green.
Bell said additional lodges, in
cluding eight bedrooms, will be
built on each end of the pool this
sumrner.
This marks the second major
project within a year at Pine
Needles. Last summer all greens
and tees were reconstructed with
all the tees now smooth as greens
and with putting cups on thh
tees. Split-rad fences add to the
beauty of the tees.
The addition of the pool, Mr.
Beil said, will aid in the promo
tion of a proposed summer golf
camp at Pine Needles for boys
and girls, aged 10 through 16.
retired. Two, Edwin Pate of Lau-
rinburg and J. Hawley Poole of
West End, became state senators.
One, George R. Ross of Jackson
Springs, served in the State De
partment of Agriculture and was
director of Conservation and De
velopment. Another, V. W. Burk-
head, is currently mayor of Can
dor.
Others present who/shared the
trials of those early years were
J. Claude Epting, Hamlet; C. D.
Matthews, Raleigh; Mrs. W. C.
Capel and W. D. Haywood, both
of Candor; Howard R. Harrison,
Eagle Springs, and H. N. Steed,
Candor.
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Liceni^ Loss Now
Told to Qjffioers
The Department of Motor Ve
hicles is supplying the sheriff’s
office and town police in Moord
County with lists of persons
whose driver’s licenses have been
revoked, to help in locating and
convicting illegal drivers.
Cpl. C. W. Moricle of the High
way Patrol district office in Siler
City said that the office there,
which is headed by Sgt. J. S.
Jones is notified weekly of li
censes that have been revoked
in the Moore, Lee and Chatham
County area.
These lists are being passed on
to'other law enforcement officers
in an attempt to prevent illegal
driving. Corporal Moricle said.
Louis Scheipers
Dies at 41; Rites
Held Wednesday
Funeral services were held at
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church Wednesday afternoon for
Louis E. Scheipers, Jr., 41, who
died Sunday at Pitt Memorial
Hospital, Greenville, after a short
illness-
Dr. Cheves K. Ligon, executive
secretary of Fayetteville Presby>-
tery and former pastor of the
local church, officiated, assisted
by the Rev. Richard Gammon,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Greenville. Burial was in
Mount Hope Cemetery.
A memorial service had been
conducted by the Rev. Mr. Gam
mon at the Greenville church
Monday.
Mr. Scheipers, a resident of
Southern Pines for many years,
was town manager here from
January, 1957, to June of last
year when he went to Greenville
as city manager, with his wife,
the former Eleanor Grover of
Southern Pines, and their five
children. He had recently resign
ed as manager at Greenville but
was remaining as consultant for
a few weeks when he was stricken
with his final illness which was
described as an ailment of the
pancreas, of a type that progres
ses rapidly to a fatal conclusion.
When Mr. Scheipers left Sou
thern Pines last year, the town
council passed a resolution of ap
preciation for his many valuable
services to the town. Present and
former town officials again prais
ed his work here, following his
death this week.
Coming to Southern Pines with
his family in 1934, he attended
Ipcali schools, graduated from'
Staunton Military Academy,
Staunton, Va., and studied for
three years at the University of
Nctfth Carolina before leaving .th§
University to do defense work at
Wilmington; He later went into
the armed forces, serving as an
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No Extension Allowed
For Property Listing
Supervisor
MUST REGISTER
DOGS BY FEB. 1
Dogs owned by persons liv
ing within the Southern Pines
town limits must be register
ed at the police station before
February 1, Police Chief Earl
S. Seawell pointed out today.
A new town ordinance re
quires the resistration of the
animals in January, with pay
ment of a $2 tax on females
and a $1 tcix on males and
spayed females. Dogs must
wear on a collar or harness
the town registration tag pro
vided at time of registration.
Opera Will Be
Presented Here
Saturday Night
Schooling Horse Show
Set Sunday Afternoon
Another in the series of infor
mal schooling horse shows is
scheduled for Sunday afternoon
at Mrs. Mgry Doyle’s Economy
Farm on Youngs Road. The show
begins promptly at 1:30 p. m.
There will be four horseman
ship classes for young people and
a minimum of three adult Green
Hunter classes.
RECEIVES PLAQUE— Joel Stutts, second
from left, receives from Judge W. Harry Ful-
lenwider, chairman of the selection committee,
tlie plaque designating him as outstanding
young man of 1961 in Southern Pines. At ex
treme right is Tom Ruggles, president of the
Jaycees and at far left is Gary Griffiths, chair-
man of the arrangements committee for the
Jaycee dinner and ceremony at the Hollywood
Hotel Friday night. Robert Chatman of the
Fayetteville Social Security office, guest speak
er, is shown second from right.
... . .. (Humphrey photo)
Sponsored by the Sandhills Mu
sic Association, the National
Opera Company will give a per
formance of Donizetti’s comic
opera, “Don Pasquale,” at Weaver
Auditorium, Saturday night. Cur-
tatin time is 8:30 p. m.
The National Opera Company
(formerly Grass Roots Opera)
sings all its performances in Eng
lish, a policy that has been fol
lowed for the more than 10 years
of playing to audiences in many
states. Headquarters of the com
pany is in Raleigh.
Outstanding young singers are
chosen for casts of the National
Opera Company, following audi
tions held at various music cen
ters over the nation. Singers are
selected on the basis of voice, mu
sicianship, stage appearance and
experience.
,Some singers remgm with the
company fdrieveral years. Maii^
of the company’s “graduates”
have gone on to other opera and
repertory companies in this coun
try and Europe, including the
Chicago Lyric, New York City
Opera, NBC Opera and others.
In Saturday night’s perform
ance, John Miller, bass-baritone
flpm Chattanooga, Tenn., will
play Don Pasquale, an elderly
gentleman whose attempts to find
a young bride lead to a fake wed
ding ceremony that lands him in
an amusing dilemma. Miller has
appeared in Broadway musicals
and on television.
Other members of the cast Sat
urday will be:
Eric Cedergren, baritone from
Chicago, who has the lyric role of
Dr. Malatesta. He ha# a back
ground in oratorio, opvTa and tel
evision. He is also production
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Of Taxes Sets
Jan. 31 Limit
Moore County residents must
list their real and personal pro
perty for county and town taxes
before February 1, Mrs. Estelle
Wicker, county accountant and
tax supervisor, reminded the
public today.
No extension of listing time
will be granted by the county
comjmassioners, she said, and a
penalty will be imposed on all
persons listing after January 31.
List takers are at work daily
in all townships of the county.
McNeill township in which Sou
thern Pines is located has two
listers. Mrs. Irene MuUinix, who
is Vass town clerk, is listing pro
perty located withhi the Southern
Pines town limits, at an office
in the Information Center build
ing, corner of S. E. Broad St. and
Pennsylvania Ave. Mas. D. J.
Blue of Route 3, Carthage, near
the Farm Life Community is
list taker for McNeill township
property outside Southern Pine^
For Sandhill township, which
includ^ Aberdeen, Pinebluff and
a portion of the Southern Pines
community on the south edge of
town, Mrs. Lee Buchan of Aber-
Harry Charles of
ftnebluH are the list takers.
T rear of the
J. D. Arey real estate and in-
surance bulling in Aberdeen.
Pineliurst is in Mjnei^ springs
^w^hip whose list taker is Mrs
p. A. Patterson of West End. She
p at the fire house in Pinehurst
^ay (Thursday) and will be
mere all day Saturday. On Fri-
of the county take their
property valuations for taxes
from the county, so only one
listing with the county list takers ■
is necessary. ^ ^
School Board to
Decide When Lost
Day Is Made Up
Stutts Chosen for Civic Service Award
Joel Q. Stutts, town employee
and dedicated worker for the local
Little League program, was the
recipient of the Southern Pines
Jaycees’ “Distinguished Service
Award” in a surprise presenta
tion at the annual Jaycee ban
quet and “Bosses Night” Friday,
in the Hollywood Hotel.
In presenting the handsome
plaque to Stutts as “Young Man
of the Year,” Judge W. H. Pullen-
wider, a member of the selection
committee, said of him, “He
wouldn’t take ‘ho’ for an answer.
He was so strong in his beliefs he
manage^ to infect others with his
beliefs until some- way or other it
managed to touch everyone else
in the community.”
Noting that the award was giv
en for outstanding service in the
year just past, Judge Fullenwider
comnaented on the Little League
highlight of 1961—the construc
tion of a ball park built to na
tional Little League specifica
tions. Of Stotts’ part in this, he
said, “Not content with getting
everybody else to work on the
project, this young man spent all
his own spare time on it. On Sun
days, vacations, in his off-hours,
in rain and all kinds of bad
weather, he was out there work
ing.”
The park, neafly Completed—
it will be ready for the' start of
the^ Little League season May 20
—is the climax of four years of
activity in the program for Stutts:
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APPRECIATION
A certificate of appreciation by
the Jaycees for news and editorial
coverage of Jaycee activities has
been presented to The Pilot. The
award was announced by Dr. J. E.
Currie; Jr., at last Friday niglit^s
“Bosses Night” dinner in the Hol
lywood Hotel, but no member of
The Pilot’s staff was able to be
present at that time ^o receive it.
Case of Second
Degree Murder in
Court Next Week
The regular criminal term of
Moore Superior Court will open
Monday at Carthage, immediately
following the civil term which is
being held this week. Judge Rob
ert M. Gambill is presiding over
both weeks.
Among cases calendared for
trial is that of Alex Everett of
Carthage, Route 3, on a second-
degree murder charge in the fatal
shooting last September of Henry
Boggs at Everett’s home. The case
was continued at the November
term following indictment by the
grand jury, and the 80-year-old
man remained free under $2,500
bond. Termed lj?y pffieerg “a her
mit,” he is said to have remained
at his isolated farm home near
the airport.
Two manslaughter cases are on
the calendar, that of Paul S. Wil-
liaffis i(K grand Jury action, and
that of Edward Stubbs for trial.
Both are Southern Pines Negroes.
Williams was' the drivefloj a car
■which -wreckerf Oh the US High
way bypass in Southern Pines De
cember 17, killing his nephew.
Stubbs was the driver of a car
■which smashed against a" tree on
the did Pinehurst Road January
15, 1961, costing the lives of* Flos
sie McCrimmon and Terry Sauh-
ders, both of Jackson Hamlet.
Stubbs and Albert Mclver of West
Southern Pines were injured. i
No decision has been made yet
on when the day of school lost
Friday, because of icy and freez
ing conditions, will be made up.
Supt. Luther A. Adams said this
week. I — - . . ....
The superintendent said that
he i« going to consult with the
board of education on the matter
at the board’s meeting next week.
He says he does not favor adding
the make-up day at the end of
the school year, because of the
already late date of the closing
of the local schools.
The three school days lost the
previous week because of snow
and sub-freezing weather are
tentatively to be made up by
elimination of a planned Spring
vacation, March 14, 15 and 16, Mr
Adams announced last week’. He
said that this plan was subject
to approval by the board of educa
tion.
■As the school schedule stands
now, the students are to receive
as holidays the Friday before
Easter, April 20, and the Monday
after Easter, April 23. It is possi
ble that one of these holidays will
be eliminated, to make up the
school day lost last Friday
Historical Assn.
To Hear Harding
Edmund Harding of Wasking-
Wu, N. C., immediate past presi-
,d^t of the N. C. Society for the
mservation of Antiquities and
msainan of the Historic Bath
Commission, will be guest speak
er at the year’s first meeting of
the Moore County Historical As
sociation, to be held at 8 p. m.
Tuesday, January 30, in the
municipal center.
'The meeting is open to the
public.
Mr. Harding, who is widely
known as a humorous speaker,
has been active in the restoration
of old Bath, in Eastern North
Carolina.
While in Southern Pines he will
be the guest of Mr. and Mrk
Ernest Ives at Paint HiU Farm.