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The Blue Knights
of SPHS lost their bid for the
state basketball championship,
but have a great record. Page 8.
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Moore Memorial
Hospital’s fund drive to build
a new wing is progressing. See
page 17 for a report and photo.
VOL. 42—NO. 19
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1962
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Builder Arrested for Fraud Fails to
Appear When Case Is Called in Court
Donald S. Denoff, local real
estate developer and building
contractor, failed to answer when
called on a fraud charge Monday
in Moore County Recorder’s
Court at Carthage. Under $750
bond for his appearance, he has
not been found and is presumed
to have left Moore County, said
the sheriff’s department.
He has numerous creditors,
according to reports reaching The
Pilot from several sources, for
amounts running into many
thousands of dollars.
Denoff is president of the Den
ton Realty Co., a corporation
which was chartered in July,
1958, had built some 30 to 40
SCHEDULES GIVEN
Air Service Use
Increases But Not
Meeting ‘Average’
Use of Piedmont Airlines serv
ice at Southern Pines-Pinehurst
Airport, granted by the Civil
A.eronautics Board on a “Use It
or Lose It” basis, has been
throughout the winter failing to
reach the required average of
five passengers per day, but has
been rising lately and is expected,
to exceed the required average
over the next few weeks.
Thrpugh the first 22 days of
this month, there were 106 South
ern Pines-Pinehurst passengers,
report C. E. Donahoo, station
manager, and E. G. Cooke, agent,
at the airport. This comes to 4.86
passengers per day—close to the
required average.
Piedmont' service to Southern
Pines-Pinehurst, however, re
mains seasonal. It will end the
last of April, to resume again in
October.
’The committee named by the
county commissioners to admin
ister airport affairs (the county
owns the airport) has been urg
ing widest possible use of the
Piedmont service. Some weeks
ago, a letter went out to key
Sandhills people from J. E. Sand
lin of Southern Pines, acting
chairman of the committee, sta
ting that “commercial flights in
our area are our most valuable
asset in attracting tourists and
industry and thereby improving
our standard of living.”
' The letter pointed out the Use
It or Lose It basis of the Piedmont
service and urged, “Let’s do what
we can to insure that Piedmont
will be able to continue seiwing
us.”
Two weeks ago. Piedmont’s re
placement of DC3’s with pressur
ized, air conditioned Martin 404
planes was effective, applying to
two of the schedules at the local
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Baseball Dropped
At SPHS for ’62
Baseball has been dropped
from the 1962 spring athletic pro
gram of Southern Pines High
School, Coach John Williams has
announced. He said that in two
weeks, only seven boys, all fresh
men except one, had responded
to a call for baseball candidates.
All of last year’s team graduated
in 1961.
Next year and in following
years, interest in baseball is ex
pected to increase, because of
former Pony League and Little
League players entering high
school.
Mr. Williams said that a varied
intramural athletic program for
boys and girls is planned for the
spring term with competition in
track, tennis, golf, volleyball, bad
minton, table tennis and other
sports.
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 W E E B
studios on Midland Road.
Max. Min.
March 22 59 45
March 23 61 44
March 24 69 34
March 25 68 40
March 26 45 41
March 27 68 32
March 28 70 33
homes in the area and was doing
an estimated $300,000 annual
business.
He was arrested Friday for
fraud and false pretense in con
nection with a check for $750 al
legedly paid to the Southern Pines
Plumbing & Heating Co., for
subcontract work on the Meth
odist parsonage which the firm
was building. On the strength of
the check, according to the war
rant, he secured a release from
the plumbing and heating firm.
The check was known to be valid
at that time, but the next day
Denoff closed out his bank ac
count, rendering the check inval
id, said an investigating officer.
Arrested Friday at his home in
the Golfcrest area on South Val
ley Road, Denoff was placed in
the Moore County jail from
which he was released that night
on a $750 bond posted by Harold
A. Collins of Southern Pines. Un
less Denoff is found and tried at
Carthage, the bond will be for
feited.
In court at Carthage Monday,
Judge J. Vance Rowe ordered a
capias issued for Denoff, with sci
fa on the bondsman, returnable
Monday of next week.
While waiting in the sheriffs
office, Denoff was served with a
claim and delivery proceeding by
which the Citizens Bank & Trust
Co. attached a car they had fi
nanced for him.
When arrested, he was in pro
cess of having all his furniture
moved to the Sandhilb Bonded
Warehouse. He told Deputy Sher
iff J. A. Lawrence he had just
sold his home, and planned to
stay for a while with his wife’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. ^ank Gar-
lin on Hill Road, while looking
for another home, the deputy
said.
However, when he failed to
show up for trial Monday, it ap
peared that he had left town, with
his wife and two young sons.
E. Earl Hubbard, chairman of
the board of trustees of ■ the
Southern Pines Methodist
Church, said that should Denoff
not return and straighten out his
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OVER THEY GO!—Flying Cottage (No. 6),
winner of the featured SandhiUs Cup in Satur
day’s Stoneybrook himt race meeting, shows his
great form, with front legs outstretched, as he
clears the timber, neck and neck with second-
placing Jamaica Boy (No. 4). Joe Aitcheson, Jr.,
is Flying Cottage’s rider. J. Shepherd is riding
Jamaica Boy. (Humphrey photo)
FIRST IN SANDHILLS CUP AT STONEYBROOK
Flying Cottage Wins Top Race
FINE RESPONSE
Dr. Boyd Starnes, co-chair
man for the first annual Na
tional Amateur Elks Invita
tional Golf Tournament, to
be played here May 17-20.
said this week the tourna
ment committee is getting a
fine response to invitations
sent to Elks lodges over the
nation.
With more than six weeks
to go before the event. 75
entries have been received
from 12 states, he said, and
requests for entry blanks
have been received from 25
states.
If more than 150 entries are
received, play will be sched
uled on both the Southern
Pines Country Club and the
Pine Needles courses. A top
limit of 300 entries has been
set.
Flying Cottage, a big bay geld
ing that appears to be destined
for a great career as a steeple
chaser. charged home eight
lengths head of Jamaica Boy to
win the Sandhills Cup, featured
race at the 15th annual meeting
of the Stoneybrook Himt Racing
Association, here Saturday.
Bred in Ireland and trained
there as a Grand National entry.
Flying Cottage was brought to
the United States by his owner J.
Blan Van Urk of UnionviUe, Pa.,
who was on hand Saturday to see
him register his third top win of
the past six months. Last fall he
copped the Byers trophy at RoU-
ing Rock in Pennsylvania and the
Chronicle Cu,p at Middleburg, Va.
Trained by Wl Burley Cocks
and ridden Saturday by Joe L.
Aitcheson, Jr., of Laurel, Md.,
last year’s leading steeplechase
rider with 37 wins to his credit.
Flying Cottage was in the lead
all the way, as he galloped the
two and a quarter miles without
seeming to extend him&slf, sail
ing over the 12 timber fences in
high style.
Jamaica Boy, ridden by J.
Shepherd and owned by Burford
Danner, came in second five
lengths ahead of Mrs. Lawrence
W. Knapp, Jr.’s Fiery Fox, rid
den by Tommy Walsh, fonnerly
the nation’s leading rider and
nephew of Mr. and Mrs. M. G.
(Mickey) Walsh on whose Stoney
brook Farm the track is located.
Kingdon Gould, Jr’s Perkey Miss,
ridden by R. Gould, ran fourth.
The other two entries. Smoke,
Jr., and Mythmaker, fell during
the race. Both horses and jockeys
W. Turner and R. Zimmerman
were not seriously injured.
Mr. Van Urk, who was here as
a placing judge for the races as
well as to see Flying Cottage run,
said that Trainer Cocks has “done
a sensational job” with Flying
Cottage. The horse, said Mr. Van
Urk, was for a long period ex
tremely nervous, refused to eat
and appeared to be \mfit for com
petition. Cocks, he said, has
brought Flying Cottage to his
present excellent condition.
“He’ll either be one of the
greatest steeplechase horses that
ever ran or he’ll gq^ to pieces
again,” said Mr. Van Urk after
the race—and I don’t think that’s
going to happksn.”
Mr. Van Urk, a 1905 graduate of
Princeton, where he was inter
collegiate heavyweight boxing
champion, is a longtime visitor to
the Sandhills and has ridden for
many years with the Moore Coun
ty Hounds. He is an authority on
sporting subjects, and has writ
ten extensively in this^ field.
The co-featured Stoneybrook
Open Hurdle Race, which like the
Sandhills Cup carried a $1,500
purse, was for the spectators
perhaps the most ekeiting contest
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Dignitaries Present at Stoneybrook;
Children’s, Mule Races Draw Interest
A warm, sunny day, a crowd
estimated from eight to ten
thousand persons, music by the
82nd Airborne Division band, in
teresting pre-race events and the
presence of military and civilian
dignitaries topped off the racing
program at the Stoneybrook
course here Saturday.
Seated side by side in the re
viewing stand in the center oval
were Democratic Congressman A.
Paul Kitchin of the 8th District
and Republican Congressman
Charles R. Jonas of the 10th Dis
trict, who may turn up as oppon
ents in a race for Congress in the
new 8th District, if Kitchin wins
the nomination in May. Jonas
has been nominated in a district
GOP convention. With them Were
their wives. Military dignitaries
present were Lt. Gen. and Mrs.
Hamilton H. Howze and Major
Gen. and Mrs. T. J. Conroy, all of
Fort Bragg. The congressmen
opened the day’s program in a
military ceremony.
Attending in a private party
nnd enjoying a picnic before the
races was Rep. Kitriiin’s oppo
nent in the May Democratic pri
mary, State Rep. John P. Kenne
dy of Charlotte, with his wife,
Mrs. Barbara Kennedy, , and her
mother. Lady Whitby, widow of
the late Sir Lionel vhiitby, for
mer vice-chancellor of Cambridge
University in England. Sir Lionel
Whitby was a physician who was
the discoverer of one of the early
sulfa drugs. Mr. Kennedy met his
wife while a student at Cam
bridge.
A demonstration of trotters
pacers in training at Pinehurst,
with narration by Octave Blake,
a leading harness horse owner,
was a feature of the pre-race pro
gram.
Proceeds of the race meeting
are divided -between Moore Mem
orial and St. Joseph of the Pines
Hospitals.
Childiren's Race
'The always popular children’s
race was run in two heats—a plan
scheduled in. view of some 15 ep-
tries in the event.
As it turned out, however, only
seven appeared with mounts-pre
pared to race, four racing in one
heat and thr^ in another. If the
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CITIZENS ASKED
CLEAN UP TOWN
Town Manager F. F, (Bud)
Rainey, speaking for the
town council, this week asked
local residents to clean up
yards, parkways and vacant
lots, in the customary "Clean-
Up Week" held at tlus time
of the year, to prepare for
the annual House and Gar
den Tour of the Southern
Pines Garden Club which
will take place April 11. Huh-
.dreds of visitors are expect
ed that day.
Town trucks will pick up
yard) rakings and other trash
throughout the community all
next week, if the material is
piled on parkways, without
the pick-up call to town hall
that is normally necessary.
Town officials and offi
cers of the Garden Club urg
ed that all residents clean up
their premises in both resi
dential and business areas.
Youth, 19, Waives
Hearing on Charge
Of Manslaughter
Gerald Wayne Lambert, 19, of
Aberdeen, who police say was the
driver in a one-car wreck that
killed two other young men on
Midland Road in November, wai
ved preliminary hearing in last
week’s session of Recorder’s
Court. The case was transferred
by Judge Harry W. Fullenwider
to Moore County Superior Court
at Carthage for grand jury action
at the May term.
Lambert is charged with man
slaughter, driving under the in
fluence of alcohol or a narcotic
drug, careless ahd reckless driv
ing and having no proof of fi-'
nancial responsibility.
He was not represented by
counsel at last week’s hearing.
In the accident on Midland
Road, the automobile which Lam
bert is alleged to have been driv
ing, left the westbound lane of
the dual highway, in a 35-miles
-per-hour zone, and struck a large
tree in the center section between
the lanes.
Ronald C. Benton, 19, and Rob
ert S. Wicker, 20, were killed in
the crash and Lambert was so
seriously injured that he was hos
pitalized for several weeks.
Building Will
Be Dedicated
A dedication of the Southern
Pines High School building, in
cluding the new Junior High
School wing, will take place Sun
day afternoon, April 29, from 3
to 5 p. m. it was announced this
week by Supt. Luther A. Adams.
Mrs. Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.,
of the local school faculty, who
made the announcement for Mr.
Adams, said that the occasion
would also be a “homecoming”
for Southern Pines High School
alumni, with all alumni invited
to attend.
There will be a speaker in
Weaver Auditorium, followed by
an open house tour of the entire
.High School and Jiuiior High
building. The speaker will be an
nounced.
The building was built in three
“phases” over several years. ’The
final Phase C, running parallel
to New York Ave., was completed
last summer. Phase B runs par-
.allel to May St. and Phase A
along Massachusetts Ave.
Local Precinct Split,
Pinedene One Created
New County
Registration
To Be Held
In connection with the creation
of two new Moore County pre
cincts and the elimination of
another, the county board of elec
tions has ordered a new registra
tion of Moore voters before the
May primaries. All persons who
expect to vote in the primaries
must register during the desig
nated period.
Books for the new registration
will open at polling places on
Saturday, April 21, and will close
at sundown, Saturday, May 12,
said Sam C. Riddle of Carthage,
chairman of the board of elec
tions.
The books will be open at poll
ing places on Saturdays April 21,
April 28, May 5 and May 12. ’This
is one more Saturday than the
three usually allowed for registra
tion, he pointed out.
Registrars will be available at
their homes or places of business
on other days.
All persons now on the books
as well as new voters must regis
ter, Mr. Riddle emphasized.
Polling places, as well as full
descriptions of the boundaries of
the new and old precincts in the
cqunty, will be found in a legal
advertisement elsewhere in to
day’s Pilot.
Dr. Scott Leaves
Brownson Church
Dr. E. C. Scott, who has served
as interim minister of Brownsori
Memorial Presbyterian Church
for the past six months, has re
turned to his home in Atlanta,
Ga., after conducting his last ser
vice at the local church Sunday.
Dr. C. K. Ligon Of Southern
Pines, former pastor of ^e church
who is now executive secretary
of Fayetteville Presbytery,
headquarters in Fayetteville, will
conduct a communion service at
the church Sunday April 1.
Guest ministers who will occu
py the pulpit of the church on
other Sundays in April will be
announced
COURSE OPENING
Whispering Pines Country
Club will open the first nine
holes of a projected 36-hole
golf layout with a cerenwny
at 10 a. nu Saturday.
Avery Beck, profesrional at
the club, said that the course
is in excellent condition. The
public is invited.
The Country Club and
golf course is in Whispering
Pines, a modem residential
development with two lakes,
a few miles north of South
ern Pines.
Longleaf Pine Sent to Danville, Va.
Man as Memorial to His Missing Son
A longleaf pine tree from the
Sandhills will be planted at Dan
ville, Va., as a memorial to a
young man who is reported miss
ing and presumed dead on a flight
over the Pacific.
The tree was sent Tuesday after
being packed under supervision
of a local nursery, to D. H.
Broome of Danville who sent the
following letter, dated March 22,
addressed to the Chamber of Com
merce and received here by the
Information Center last week:
Gentlemen:
“A few years ago my son and
I visited in your lovely town and
he immediately fell in love with
those long needle pines that add
so much to your area.
“My son enlisted in the Army
last fall. In his last letter, before
shipping out for the Philippines,
he asked me to get one for our
back yard so he could enjoy it
when he returned in ei^teen
months. I tried our local nurser
ies and they do not have them.
“My son, - Pvt. Joseph F.
Broome, was one of the 107 who
were reported missing last 'Thurs
day on . the FlyingTigcr charter
ed plana between Guam and the
Philippines.
“I am I determined to fulfiU his
request. Even though he may
never see it, it can be a memorial
to him. He loved growing things
so very much.
“Will you please furnish the
address of someone from whom
1 can obtain a good-sized long
needle pine right away for imme
diate planting?”
In the minds of town officials
who learned of the letter there
was immediate agreement that
a tree should be sent to Mr.
Broome in the name of the town.
Accordingly, with the tree,
went this letter from Mrs. Ray
mond P. Cameron, administrative
secretary of the Information Cen
ter:
“The Town of Southern Pines
sends to you our deepest sympa
thy on the loss of your son. Pvt.
Joseph F. Broome.
“We are shipping to you this
day, March 27, 1962, one small
pine tree, to be planted as a
memorial to your son, firom the
Town of Southern Pines, North
Carolina.”
In a county-wide official desig
nation of precinct boundaries the
Moore County board of elections
has split the former Southern
Pines Precinct into two precincts
and has created a new Pinedene
Precinct that includes the Golf-
crest, Country Club and Pine
dene communities south of town.
Spies precinct in upper Moore
has been eliminated by action
of the board and its voters divided
between the Westrooore and Rob
bins precincts, most of them going
to Westmoore.
Members of the board of elec
tions are Sam C. Riddle of Car
thage, chairman; J. Hubert Mc-
Caskill of Pinehurst and Coy
Lewis, Sr., of Robbins. Riddle and
McCaskill are Democrats and
Lewis is a Republican. All three
were recently reappointed to
their posts.
All precinct lines throughout
the county have been specifically
designated, clearing up in many
locations doubt as to where the
former precinct line really was.
Chairman Riddle said the board
had tried to follow natural divis
ions, relying heavily on a State
Highway map with all roads de
signated by number and thus
instantly and positively indentifi-
able.
In no case, he said, does a pre
cinct line cross over a township
line. He said that while the pre
cinct mapping project has been
under study for many years, he
had queried three state’s attorney
generals and had been advised
by them all that precinct lines
and township lines should not
cross. In some elections there are
township candidates for constable
or justice of the peace, to be
voted on by residents' of that
township only.
Southern Pines <
Division of the Southern Pines
precinct, which had far above the
normal number of registered vo
ters for one precinct, has long
been urged by town officials, local
elections officials and others.
’The action of the board of elec
tions creates a North Southern
Pines and a South Southern Pines
precinct. The dividing line, rough
ly described, runs through West
Southern Pines on Pennsylvania
Ave., continuing through East
Southern Pines on Pennsylvania
to May St., turning north on
May to Connecticut and out Con
necticut to the Hoke County line.
In Southern Pines therefore, vo
ters living north of this line would
be in the new North Southern
Pines precinct and those living
South of it, in South Southern
Pines.
Pinedene
The newly created Pinedene
precinct is created from territory
fomnierly in the Aberdeen precinct
which had extended into the
Southern Pines community so
that persons living on the South
ern ^ge of Southern Pines had
to go to Aberdeen to vote.
Mr. Riddle said that Aberdeen
precinct, with 2,119 voters on the
books, was also becoming too big
and that the board felt that, with
growth in both Aberdeen and
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More Tryouts For
Little League Set
The Southern Pines Little Lea
gue baseball tryouts will contin
ue Saturday. All 10-year-olds are
asked to report to the new park
on Morganton Road at 9 a.m. and
all 9-year-olds are asked to re
port at 2 p.m.
Any boy who is eligible to play
Little League baseball and has
not signed an application blank
may do so at the Park Saturday
during these tryout periods. No
boy will be eligible unless he is
properly registered.
All outstanding applications
must be turned in at the park by
Saturday afternoon, it was em
phasized.
FIREMAN'S BALL
The 29th annual Fireman’s
Ball, for benefit of the Southern
Pines Volunteer Fire Department,
will be held Saturday night at
the National Guard Armory on
Morganton Road, with Troy Rich
ardson and the Moonliters provi
ding the music for dancing from
9 to 1. Couples only will be admit
ted. Tickets are on sale by vol
unteer firemen.