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VOL. 42—NO. 14
TWENTY PAGES
New Motor Court
’ Project Still in
Planning Stage
Work on a motel and golf
course project on No. 1 highway,
north of Southern Pines, will be
gin as soon as major details can
be worked out, a spokesman lor
the developers said this week.
William T. Shore of Southern
Pines who is associated in the pro
ject with A. B. Hardee of Whis
pering Pines and John Valentine
of Whispering Pines and Pitts
burg, Pa., said that the develop
ment is now "‘in the planning
stage.”
The developers are purchasin'
about 63 acres of land from Mrs.
Charles F. Eaton of Boston, Mass,
with a 2,500-foot frontage on No.
1 highway, on the west side of the
highway, running south from the
intersection of the road to Niag
ara, at the north end of the No 1
parkway. The tract is the former
Keating orchard property.
While the group plans a 150-
unit motel eventually, the first
stage in the project would call for
from 40 to 60 units. Shore said.
The golf course would be an 18-
hole layout with all par-3 holes,
shorter than a full-size golf
course, but considerably larger
than a so-called “pitch and putt’
course, he said.
The town council last week au
thorized Town Manager Bud
Rainey and Town Attorney W.
Lament Brown to confer with the
developers on terms covering
town water service to the propos
ed project. This is one of the
major details to be worked out,
Shore said.
The type of motor court that
would be built and whether it
will be a unit in a national chain
or an independent operation are
matters that have not yet been
decided. Shore said.
Hardee heads Sandhill Prop
erties, the firm developing Whis
pering Pines, a rapidly growing
residential and golf club project
north of Southern Pines. Hardee
and Shore and partners in H & S
Realty Co. which handles resales
and rentals at Whispering Pines.
Shore is also a sales representa
tive for Sandhill Properties.
Valentine, a builder, is presi
dent of Sandhill Homes, a con
struction corporation building
houses at Whispering Pines. He
is now living in Southern Pines
while his own home at Whisper
ing Pines is under construction.
He has other business interests in
the North.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1962
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THE CHAMPION—Pine Needles, winner
of the Thoroughbred Hunter, Open Hunter and
Championship classes, takes a fence neatly,
ridden by Ed Daniels, trainer at the Lakelawn
Farms of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Winkelman, dur
ing Saturday’s Hunter Trials near Southern
(Humphrey photo)
FORMER A & P LOCATION
Citizens Bank Buys Building, Will
Lease It To Soap and Candle Firm
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Purchase of the former A&P
building on W. Pennsylvania
Ave. by the Citizens Bank &
Trust Co. of Southern Pines and
its leasing by the new owners to
Carolina Soap and Candle Co.,
were announced today.
N. L. Hodgkins, Jr., executive
vice president of the bank, said
February 25 Is
‘Heart Sunday’
“Heart Sunday will be marked
February 25 in connection with
the drive of the Moore County
Heart Council, now going on, for
funds to aid in research in the
field of heart diseases.
Dr. R. J. Dougherty of South
ern Pines is president and fund
raising chairman of the council.
Mrs. G. W. Matheson of Southern
Pines is commiunity program
chairman.
A mail campaign is being con
ducted in Southern Pines and
Pinehurst.
February has been designated
as “Heart Month” in the nation
wide campaign.
that the building was bought from
the Woodland Realty Co. of
Greensboro, owner. It has been
vacant for many months and had
not had a tenant since the A&P
super market moved to its loca
tion On S. W. Broad St.
Jack Hicks, president of Caro
lina Soap and Candle Co., said
that the building will be used as
headquarters for the company’s
shipping and receiving depart
ment.
Work will start soon on exten
sive renovations that will be re
quired before the building can be
used, Hicks said.
Carolina Soap and Candle Co.,
makers of soap and candle prod
ucts for a nation-wide market,
has manufacturing operations in a
plant between Southern Pines
and Aberdeen and in the former
Mason Restaurant location on N
E. Broad St. The company has
grown steadily in the past sev
eral years.
" Lakelawn Farm’s
Pine Needles Is
Best in Trials
Pine Needles, owned by Mr.
and Mrs. D. W. Winkelman’s
Lakelawn Farms of Southern
Pines, was ridden by Ed Daniels
to victory in the Championship
class of the 30th annual Hunter
Trials of the Moore County
Hounds, held at Scotts Corner
Saturday afternoon.
The five-year-old-bay gelding,
son of the great hunter Battle-
wick, was awarded the Stoney-
brook Perpetual Trophy, present
ed by Mrs. Michael G. Walsh. He
had previously won first place,
with blue ribbons and trophies, in
both the Thoroughbred and Open
Hunter classes.
This was the sixth time in 10
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Fort Bragg Asks
Maneuver Rights
Over Large Area
Fort Bragg officials announced
this week a proposal to request
maneuver rights on approximate
ly 20,000 acres in Hoke, Scotland,
Moore and Cumberland counties.
In a meeting Tuesday afternoon
of property owners and represen
tatives from the four counties, Lt
Gen. Hamilton H. Howze, Fort
Bragg’s commanding general, pre
sented the proposal.
General Howze listed four ma
jor areas needed to increase the
training capability at Bragg to
meet its increased training re-
sponsibilites. These are; a “corri-
ior” connecting Bragg to Camp
Mackall, some areas to the north
and south of the corridor, a tacti
cal river crossing on Little River,
and a floating bridge crossing site
on the Cape Fear River north of
Fa.yetteville.
The general emphasized that
Bragg’s training responsibility h
been considerably increased in re
cent months, in three ways.
l. Fort Bragg’s STRAC units,
including the 82nd Airborne Divi-
(Continued on Page 8)
HOME FOR AGEING
CEREMONY SLATED
The Rl. Rev. Richard H.
Baker. D. D., bishop of the
Diocese of North Carolina
will break ground for the
Episcopal Home for the Age-
ing here Sunday. March 4, in
a ceremony starting at 3 p.
m.
The ceremony will fair*
place at the home site, a por-
lion of the Weymouth Es
tate off N. Ridge St., given to
Ihe Diocese by Mrs. James
Boyd who will be present for
the ceremony.
T. F. Southgate. Jr., of
Winston-Salem, chairman of
the fund-raising drive for
the home, will be the mai^
speaker. Laymen from
throughout the Diocese, con-
vening here that day. are ex
pected to be present.
Full details will appear
in next week's Pilot.
Many Merchants Join
To Form New Council
H. CLIFTON BLUE
Blue Appointed
State Chairman
For Seal Drive
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BOB MADIGAN
GERRIE MADIGAN
Brother, Sister Joining Peace Corps
A brother and sister have been Bob, a senior at Southern Pines
notified by the Peace Corps that High School, will join his sister
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Moore Hospital
Fund Campaign
Chairmen Named
Every dollar contributed to the
$450,000 Building Fund Cam
paign for the first phase of Moore
Memorial Hospital’s long-range
expansion program will put three
additional dollars to work in pro
viding an urgently needed new
surgical wing.
This three-for-one investment
was explained recently to the
hospital’s executive committee bv
William P. Saunders of Soullu'in'
Pines, campaign general chaii-
man. He pointed out that the . n- i
tire project will cost apoi'JM
mately $1,778,000. Upon appiovalj
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SPEAKS FIVE TIMES IN COUNTY
Announcement of the appoint
ment of H. Clifton Blue, Aber
deen newspaper editor and pub
lisher, as State Chairman of the
1962 Easter Seal Appeal, has been
made by Dr. John W. Baluss, Jr.,
oresident of the North Carolina
Society for Crippled Children &
Adults, Inc., the Easter Seal Or
ganization. .“hTis organization i.s
doing a great w(irk, rendering p
hum.anitarian service,” Blue said
in accepting the appointment,
and I am glad to be associated
with it in its noble endeavor.”
Elected State Representative
from Moore County jn 1946, Mr.
Blue has served continuously
since and is chairman of the
House Finance Committee. In ad
dition to being editor and pub
lisher of the “Sandhill Citizen.”
he writes a weekly column, “Tar
heel People and Issues,” which is
carried by 15 of the state’s week
ly newspapers. He has been a
(Continued on Page 8)
Better Schools Vital, Says Sanford
Governor Terry Sanford could
hardly have chosen a day of
greater drama for his tour of
Moore County schools, during
which he appealed for the stu
dents’ active participation in mak
ing his “quality education” pro
gram a success.
As Lt. Col. John Glenn in his
spaceship started his third history
making orbit on Tuesday, the
Governor cited the event as sig
naling an era of fantastic scien
tific advances.
At each of four schools where
he made his 15-minute talks to
audiences totaling some 5,000 stu-
dents and their teachers, he mark
ed the astronaut’s progress
through the sky and, at last, his
recovery from the sea.
Busiest Day
The Governor was enthusiastic,
speaking on the subject closest to
his heart to the young people his
program is designed to serve. The
day had been billed as his busiest
since inauguration. He came imo
Moore following a similar tour of
Chatham county, going on later
into Richmond, to speak at night,
addressing a dozen rallies in all.
In Moore, he spoke to numerous
high school students of three
school systems—Moore County,
Southern Pines and Pinehurst—
and also many elementary pupils
gathered together into four over
flow crowds. At Elise High school.
Rabbins, the first stop, the stu
dent body was joined by stu
dents of Highfalls, Westmoore and
also the Eagle Springs elementary
school. Next was Pinckney High
school in Carthage, where stu
dents of four Negro high schools
were gathered—Pinckney, Berk
ley (Aberdeen), West Southern
Pines and Academy Heights
(Pinehurst). At Carthage High
school were the students of that
school with those of Farm Life,
Cameron and Vass-Lakeview. At
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I Meeting Monday night in the
courtroom of town hall. 60 or
more local merchants and busi-
j ness people showed enthusiasm
for setting up a Merchants Coun
cil and authorized a temporary
steering committee to nominate
12 persons from whom nine will
be elected as a permanent board
of directors. Additional nomina
tions may be made from the floor.
This election will take place at
a second meeting set for Monday
February 26, also at the town
hall, at 7:30 p, m.
Though it was pointed out that
this time conflicts with a county
wide meeting at Carthage to dis
cuss possible formation of a credit
bureau for Moore County, the
group decided that it should pro
ceed with organization as soon as
possible, so that interest in the
new organization could be main
tained.
The 12 nominees will be select
ed from each of 12 categories of
businesses listed on an informa-
tion sheet that has been distribu
ted to merchants. There was an
apparently unanimous show of
hands by the group when the
chairman asked whether those
present want to form the new
Merchants Council.
Council is being organized
under sponsorship of the South-
Ti, ^"<^“str,ial Committee,
a group that works to bring new
cooperate
with existing industry.
Thomas Ruggles. president of
the Jaycees, offered the help of
CoiTcif^M^^'H" Merchants
»-ounciL Monday night.
|146^000WS^
Bond Vote Set
At Vass March 27
ejection on a proposed $146 -
000 water bond issue by the Town
Of Vass will be held MaShSl
w^ announced this week
wSid authorized.
Tnd I enlargement
and extension of the town’s water
system, including a filter pkS
Also announced this week was
approval by the Community Fa
cilities Administration in 'Wash
ington, D. C., of the Tovm of
Vass s application to sell its bonds
If approved by the peoplj to the
government agency.
This federal service is offered
to approved municipalities un
able or unwilling to sell bonds
to private investors. The seS
s generally described as a loan
to the community.
'The water supply situation at
vass has been described as des
perate for several years.
they have been accepted as can
didates for specific assignment
between now and June 1.
Bob and Gerrie Madigan, whose
parents are Col. and Mrs. Donald
L. Madigan of Southern Pines,
made application as a brother and
sister team. This is believed to
be the first such request made
with the Peace Corps.
Gerrie, a Sophomore at College-
Conservatory of Music of Cincin
nati, became interested in the
Peace Corps after meeting Sar
gent Shriver, its director. Gerrie
took her initial examination in
Cincinnati, while her brother
took his at the same time, in Fay
etteville, on November 27.
on June 1 for final training by the
Peace Coips.
Bob and Gerrie both indicated
a preference for service in the
Philippines. 'Their father served
in that theater as a colonel in
the Parachute Troops during
World War II and their paternal
grandfather served with the U. S.
Cavalry there during the Philip
pine Insurrection.
Their assignment wiU be for
two years, after which they in
tend to resume their formal edu
cation.
Gerrie, 19, and Bob, 18, have
been mistaken for twins and the
assignment in the Peace Corps
continues their many activities
together.
Cage Tourney I
Starts Friday 1
(Tournament Schedule, page 13)
By JOEL STUTTS
The 35th annual Moore County ,
High School Basketball Tourna
ment will tipoff at the Aberdeen
gym Friday at 6:30 p. m. Three
games are scheduled each evening
on Friday, Saturday and Mondaj, 1
at Aberdeen; and Tuesday, Wed- |
nesday and Thursday of next
week at Robbins, with the two
championship games set for Sat
urday night, March 3, also at Rob
bins.
The Pinehurst girls (18-2) and
Southern Pines boys (19-1) have
captured the regular season
championships which enabled
them to be top-seeded in the
tourney. This also gives South
ern Pines boys a berth in the state
class 1-A district play-offs sched-
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County May Get
Credit Bureau
Business people from through
out Moore County are invited to
attend a meeting at the court
house in Carthage, Monday, Feb
ruary 26, at 7:30 p. m., to discuss
possible formation of a credit bu
reau to serve merchants of the
entire county.
Mrs. Fentriss Money, secre
tary of the Association Credit Bu
reaus of North Carolina, will ex
plain credit bureau operations
Working on the project in
Moore are Henry Williams of
Robbins, Jim Ritchie of Southern
Pines, Landon 'Tyson of Aber
deen and Vass, and Earl Moore
and L. L. Marion in Carthage
GROUND-BREAKING—Gov. Terry San- aae-Vass road Thmo • •
ford (with shovel) tosses a spadeful of earth watch with interest. Left to
-which can ^ seen flying through the air- Taylor of Aberdeen. JoS^M C^ie oTcJtSge
?av to to *^°ke ground Tues- and James M. Pleasants of Southern Pines. ^
day for the Umon Pmes consolidated high
school across from Union Church on the Carto- (V. Nicholson photo)
FORUM TONIGHT
Cleveland Amory, social histor
ian, will be the speaker at to
night’s session of the Pinehurst
Forum, at the Pinehurst Country
Club, starting at 8:45. The pro
gram will be preceded by a buffet
supper at the club.
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
rtudios on Midland Road.
Max
February 15
55
35
February 16
52
33
February 17
60
30
February 18
59
30
February 19 ...
62
45
February 26
62
41
February 21
55
32