Leadership has won awards foa: two local high school students and one of them has also won a state-wide honor. See photo on page 5. Gov. Sanford is calling on the entire popula tion of North Carolina in an all-out effort to cut the state’s disgraceful traffic toll. Page 2. VOL. 42—NO. 12 EIGHTEEN PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1962 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS STATE TROOPERS—Sgt. J. S. Jones, right, of Siler City, who heads Highway Patrol opera tions in Moore, Lee and Chatham Counties, is pictured with three state troopers recently assigned to Moore. Left to right: Pfc. W. R. Austin who has been on duty in the county since December 15 and is living at Pinehurst, Pfc. F. Ray Wicker and Pfc. Jack F. Cardwell. Both Wicker and Cardwell went on duty February 1 and planned to live in Southern. Pines, with their families joining them here. Other Moore County troopers are Pfc. R. R. Samuels of Southern Pines, Pfc. Henry H. Hight, Jr., of Carthage and Pfc. Tommy Clark of Rob bins. Sergeant Jones was introducing the new troopers around Southern Pines when this photo was made on W. Pennsylvania Ave. (Pilot photo) Hunter Trials to be Held February 17 The 30th annual Hunter Trials of the Moore County Hounds will be held over the course at Scotts Corner near Southern Pines on February 17. The judges for the event will be Mrs. Frances Newbill Rowe of Manokin, Va., ahid Theodore Pugh of West Town, Pa. Both are well- known as hunting horse owners, exhibitors and judges. The classes will start at 2 p. m. with First Season Hunters as the first class, open to horses not hunted priof to this season. The Dorsey Scarboro Killed Sunday in Pinehurst Wreck Dorsey Scarboro, 28, of West Southern Pines was fatally injur ed Sunday about 11:30 a. m. at Pinehurst, when a car carrying several Negro employees of the Pinehurst race track went out of control and overturned on High way 211. The accident took place east of the railroad imderpass, op posite the Pinehurst Warehouse. Scarboro, who suffered multi ple head wounds, was taken first to Moore Memorial Hospital, then to North Carolina Memorial Hos pital at Chapel Hill, but was dead on arrival. In serious condition at Moore Memorial is Joe Louis McDonald. 25, also of West Southern Pines, identified by State Trooper R. R. Samuels as owner and driver of the car. Harrison Malloy of Pinehurst was given first aid and released, while two other passengers es caped unhurt. These were Em mett Cole of Addor and Kermit Wilson of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; who stays at the track. The group had been to a Tay- lortown restaurant to eat and were on their way back to the track when the accident occurred less than a half-mile from the entrance. Samuels said the car went off the right-hand side where it was out of control for more than 400 feet, striking first one tree, then another; and over turning, throwing its occupants out. second class is for thoroughbred hunters registered with the Amer ican Jockey Club. Class three is for children’s hunters and the fourth class is for non-thorough bred hunters. The fifth class is the exciting open hunter class which is open to all horses entered in ond" of the other classes. This is the class challenging horse and rider to jump one fence, then go down into a road, over a fence out of the road and over a ditch in quick succession. The last event is the always popular hunt team class. In teams of three, in hunting attire, these riders and horses provide the cli max of the afternoon. Championship of the Hunter Trials is decided by the judges, as all first and second place winners of the previous classes are shown over a course and led by a field master, chosen by the judges. All outside entries are welcome, providing the horses have hunted with a recognized hunt during the current season. To reach the Hunter Trial THE WEATHER Maximum and minimum tem peratures for each day of the past week were recorded as follows at the U. S. Weather Bureau obs,er- vation station at the WEEB studios on Midland Road. Max Min February 1 61 27 February 2 59 30 February 3 61 34 February 4 75 39 February 5 69 49 February 6 65 37 February 7 - 44 ' 18 Heart Council Starts Campaign The Moore County Heart Coun cil, of which Dr. R. J. Dougherty of Southern Pines is president and fund-raising chairman, is launch ing its February (“Heart Month’’) campaign throughout the county. Officials of the council met last night with James Logan of Chap el Hill, executive director of the N. C. Heart Association, to plan the drive for funds to help make possible continued research in the field of heart diseases. A mail campaign is planned in Southern Pines and Pinehurst. Special fund-raising events will be held and personal solicitations will be made elsewhere in the county on Heart Sunday, Febru ary 25. Boys to Register For Little League All boys who will become nine years of age before August 1 and will pot become 13 before that date and who wish to participate in the Southern Pines Little Lea gue baseball program this sum mer, will have to register by March 15 to be eligible, it was announced today by Frank Buch an, player agent for the Little League. Application for registration may be obtained from Don Moore, principal of the elementary school. Birth certificates of each boy must accompany the registration when turned in to Mr. Moore. This procedure is in accordance with regulations of the National Little League. course at Scotts Corner, heading north on May Street in Southern Pines, turn right at Delaware Avenue and follow the arrows out Youngs Road. A few reserved parking spaces are still available by calling Mrs. W. O. Moss, Southern Pines, Oxford 2-7252 or Mrs.- - Warner -At!eit»,- Pinehurst, Cypress 4-3841. They can give information on the formal hunt ball and dinner which follows the trials at the Moore County club. General admission is available at the gate of the Hunter Trials. SUCCESSFUL A visit of the Redi Cross bloodmobile from the Char lotte collection center was termed successful Monday, after 124 pints of blood were donated, against a quota of 125 pints. Thomas Rugqles, chairman ctf the bloodmobile project for the sponsoring Jaycees, said that 142 persons present ed themselves as donors, of whom 18 were rejected for various reasons, m^ing pos sible an actual collection of 124 pints • At Carthage on Tuesday, the bloodmobile collected 93 pints. Boy Scout Week Being Observed; Parade Saturday Scouting units of the Moore Dis trict are joining in observance of National Boy Scout Week, Feb ruary 7-13. Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Explorers from throughout tne District — which includes all of Moore County and the McCain | area in Hoke County—will take, part in a district-wide parade to begin at 9:30 a. m. in Southern Pines, on Saturday, February 10. All Scouting units with 75 per cent of their registered members in uniform will have a picture made of the unit after the parade. Moore District has 81 Scouting units, with a membership of some 1,500 boys. Scout Sunday, one of the fea tures of National Boy Scout Week, will be observed in many churches over the District on Sunday, Feb ruary 11. Scouts will attend church services in uniform, some in a body as troops, others attend ing the churches in which they or their families have member ship. Adults and young people in terested in Scouting are asked to note the new “Scout-O-Rama” feature elsewhere in today’s Pi lot, for further news of Scouting activities. Armistead Maupin, Occonee- (Continued on page 8) Formal Orj^anization of Merchants Council Scheduled for February 19 DR. BENJAMIN SWALIN Conductor JOHN THURMAN Guest Soloist THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. NEXT WEEK N. C. Little Symphony to Play Storey Cup to Be Presented The Storey Cup, for general ex cellence in a Scouting program during 1961, will be presented to a Moore District Boy Scout troop, at a court of honor to be held Monday, Februaiy. 12, at 8 p. m, in the Pinehurst school auditor ium. Awards for Club Scoutirtg, health and safety and other achievements will also be (Pre sented. The Storey award is presented annually by Voit Gilmore of Southern Pines, in memory of his step-father, W. A. Storey, of Win ston-Salem, to the Moore District Boy Scout troop that has compil ed the highest number of points for a variety of Scouting activi ties. Other individual awards for ad vancement and merit badges will be made to Scouts at the court oi honor. , t. TO RECEIVE AWARD Tommy Blue of Boy Scout Troop 851, Eagle Springs, will be given the God and Country award at the 11 a. m. service in Bensalem Presbyterian Church Sunday. The honor is one of Scouting’s highest awards for boys. The North Carolina Little Sy.m- phony, under the direction o<’ Dr. Benjamin Swalin, will make three appearances in the Sand hills next week. Under the auspices of the Sand hills Music Association, the oi- chestra will present a children’s concert on Thursday, February 15, at 1:30 p. m. in the West Southern Pines School gymna sium and a program for adults the same evening at 8:30 in Weaver Auditorium, featuring the brilRant young violoncellist, John Thurman. On Friday, February 16, at 10:30 a.m. in the Aberdeen School auditorium, the orchestra will present another nrogram for school children. Children will come from schools throughout the county for both the child ren’s concerts. Tickets for the evening per formance may be obtained at Bar- num Realty & Insurance Co., Southern Pines; Martin Motor Co., Aberdeen; and Carolina Pharma- COMING FROM LAURINBURG Samuels Assigned to New Bank Here Effective March 1, William E. Samuels, Jr., will b^ome assis tant vice president and manager of installment loans at the new Southern Pines office of the Southern National Bank, it is an nounced by Hector MacLean of Lumberton, Southern National president. Mr. Samuels has been, with the bank’s. Laurinburg office since 1959, first as assistant loan man ager and, since January of last year, as assistant vice president and assistant manager of install ment loans. He will move to Southern Pines from Laurinburg about March 1, with his wife, the former Patricia LeGrand of Hamlet, and their three children—sons, Eddie, 7, and Jay, 4, and a daughter, Pa tricia, four months old. The fami ly has taken a house on E. Massa chusetts Ave. Assignment of Mr. Samuels to Southern Pines is the second per sonnel announcement to be made by Mr. MacLean in regard to the new bank. William H. Gentry, Jr., came here from Richmond, Va., recently, to become vice president in charge of the Southern Pines office. He has opened an office in the former Welch building on S. W. Broad St., which the bank is now remodeling for its local fa cilities. In his new assignment, Mr. Samuels will be in charge of W. E. SAMUELS. JR. Southern National’s installment lending operations here. A native of Hamlet, Mr. Sam uels is a 1953 graduate of Cataw ba College. Before his employ ment by Southern National, he was district scout executive with the Cape Fear Council, Boy Scouts of America^, serving Scotland and Hoke Counties, with office in Laurinburg. He is active in the Presbyterian church, in Boy Scout work and (Continued on Page 8) Curtis Quartet to Play Sunday for Music Association A special concert for mem bers of the Sandhills Music Asso ciation will be held this Sunday, February 11, at Weymouth, home of Mrs. James Boyd, it was an nounced by the association last week. Cards have bent sent to all members and a ‘'full house” is expected. The evening’s attraction will be the Curtis Quartet appearing here for the third time under the aus pices of the association. The noted string quartet, found ed in 1927, includes three of the original players: Max Aronoff viola, Jascha Brodsky, violin, and Orlando Cole, cello. Each is a former student and faculty mem ber of the Curtis Institute in Phil adelphia, and now heads his par ticular string faculty at the New School of Music. This is the school, also founded in 1942 by Mr. Aron off and his colleagues, dedicated to “helping musicians earn a liv ing through their profession, in the belief that music can be not only a rewarding culture but a way of life.” The fourth mem ber of the ,present quartet is Mehli Mehta, second violin and assistant training director of the school’s Professional Training Or chestra. Curtain time for Sunday’s re cital will be 8:30 p. m. cy, Pinehurst. Tickets will also be available at the door prior to the performance. The N. C. Little Symphony is currently in the midst of its annual tour of the State. Later m the season the ensemble will be join ed by some 40 additicnbl musi cians to form the full North Car olina Symphony Orchestra which will continue its tour of the larg er cities of the State until late May. Thurman Soloist Mr. Thurman will be heard at the evening performance in the Haydn “Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in D-Major,” a mel odious yet strenuous work which taxes the technical capacities of the soloist to the utmost. Mr. Thurman, who is hailed as one of the bright new talents on the recent musical horizon, will be featured as guest soloist. He was born 18 years ago in New York, the son of Beverly and Eli zabeth Farrar Thurman, formerly of Chapel Hill. John’s grand father, Professor Emeritus Pres ton Cooke Farrar, of the Univer sity of North Carolina, still main tains a residence in the Univer sity town. Young Thurman was one of the Pablo Casals Festival Scholarship winners in 1957. He currently holds a summer music scholar ship at the University of Indiana. At the age of five, his talent was (Continued on Page 8) ^ Local merchants are being in vited to meet at the town hall courtroom Monday, February 19, rt 7:30 p. m., for the formal or ganization of a Southern Pines Merchants Council. The Council is proposed as a means of building business vol ume, improving service to custo mers and keeping in town trade that is now, merchants believe, going elsewhere. Preliminary organization of the council began last fall when, at the suggestion of Mayor John S. Kuggles, a group of merchants met with the Southern Pines In dustrial Committee of which Judge W. Harry Ftrllenwider had then been named chairman. The mayor said then that retail busi ness, as well as industry, has an important part to play in devel opment of the community and that a merchants group, operat ing in coperation with the Indus trial Committee, could prove val uable to the town. W. S. Thomasson was appoint ed by the Industrial Committee as temporary chairman of the Council, with Stanley Austin as secretary. Named to the tempor ary steering committee were Gene Blackwelder, E. Earl Hub bard, Joe Kimball, A1 Levy, Jim Ritchie and J. H. Carter, Jr. Mr. Thomasson said this week that it was thought best to get through the holiday season and into the new year, before moves were made toward permanent or ganization. Information sheets about the project were being distributed to local merchants and professional people this week. A nine-member board of direc tors, to be chosen from a variety of categories of lobal business, is proposed for the new organiza tion. The suggestions and interest of all local merchants are solic ited. MEET WITH COUNCIL Carpenter Seeking Coroner Nomination the Democratic nomination for county comer in the^ May pri mary. The office is now held by Ralph G. Steed of Robbins, a Democrat. Mr. Carpenter, a resident of Pinebluff for many years, has long been active in politics but has not previously sought county office. He owns and operates a garage and service station in Pinebluff. GOVERNOR TO SPEAK IN MOORE Gov. Terry Sanford, in an efiforf to build increcisedj sup port of higher standards in education, will bring his mes sage directly to the people of Moore County on February 20. The Moore County visit will begin at Robbins at 1 p. m. at Elise High gymnasium. The governor will then drive to Carthage for a rally at 2 p. m, and he will speak in Aber deen at 4 p. m. The- governor is appearing at the invitation of the Moore County Citizens Committee for Better Schools of which Dr. A. A. Vanore of Robbins is chairman. Jaycees Pledge Cooperation in Improving Town Representatives of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, with President Thomas Ruggles presid ing, met with members of the town council Tuesday night at town hall, to express their inter- st in the future development of f uthern Pines and to pledge their cooperation with the Merchants Council to be formally organized February 19. Only two of the council mem bers were able to be present. Mayor John S. Ruggles and Coun cilman Felton Capel. Councilman Fred Pollard was out of town. Councilman Morris Johnson is convalescing after a stay in the hospital and Councilman J. D. Hobbs had a previous engage ment. Attending also were F. F. (Bud) Rainey, town manager, and Mrs. Mildred McDonald, town clerk. While the session with the coun cil had not been planned as a discussion of the proposed Mer chants Council or how the Jaycees might aid this plan to improve the local business section, it was soon apparent that the Jaycees, in their desire to help the town, (Continued on Page 8) TO BENEFIT PTA PROJECTS The East Southern Pines Par ent-Teacher Association’s main fund-raising event of the year, a variety show with many adult performers, will be staged at Weaver Auditorium Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p. m. W. K. Carpenter, Sr. of Pine- L include vocal so- bluff has filed as a candiate for and ensembles, dancing. Variety Show Slated Friday, Saturday skits by various groups, a magic act and other attractions. Admission is 50 cents per per son, adult or child. Tickets have been on sale through grade moth ers for classrooms in the school or may be obtained at Denton Realty Co., on N. E. Broad St. or at the door before the perform ances. Members of committees and others at work in presenting the event are: General Planning Committee— Irving Barry, Mrs. Fred Chappell, Mrs. Boyd Starnes, Mrs. John McPhaul, Bill McAdams and Mrs. Albert Grove, PTA presi dent. Ticket Committee—Mrs. Don ald Denoff and Mrs. Raymond Cameron. Scenery—Don Moore. Sound—Ralph Foushee. Music—Mr. Barry, Mrs. Mc Phaul, Mrs. Norris Hodgkins, Jr., and Mr. McAdams. Anna Dell Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prank P. Smith of Fairway Drive, is helping Mrs. Starnes with instruction of danc- (Continued on Page 8)

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