•iJ
Margaret Truman
won an ovation for her perfor
mance n “Time of the Cuckoo” at
the Pinehurst Playhouse on
opening night of the play that
runs through Sunday. Review on
page 8.
Uiqhfal
Some of the
top trotting horses in the nation
are in training at Pinehurst.
There’ll be racing there again at
2:30 p.m. Sunday, with plenty
of room for spectators at the
track off the Aberdeen highway.
VOL. 42—NO. 21
Basic Contract
For Union Pines
School Awarded
The Moore County board of ed
ucation, meeting at Carthage
Tuesday afternoon and into the
night, let the contract for basic
construction of the Union Pines
consolidated high school to L. P.
Cox Company of Sanford.
The school will be built near
Union Church on the Carthage-
Vass road, to serve the present
Carthage, Cameron, Vass-Lake-
yiew and Farm Life Districts.
While the Cox Co.’s bid of $155,-
200 was not the lowest for the
base bid, or “Bid A,” it was the
lowest, the board explained, tak
en in conjunction with other bids
submitted on necessary later con
struction. The base bid in effect
covers only the “shelling in” of
the classroom and cafeteria areas.
The meeting started with the
opening of bids under supervision
of T. 'T. Hgyes and W. C. Howell
of Hayes-Howell & Associates,
architects of Southern Pines. Six
firms'submitted bids on four dif
ferent phases Of the general con
tract, With four alternate propo
sitions, After bids were opened,
it took several hours for the board
to figure out the best combina
tion of the four, and just who in
fact was low bidder.
It was the same with the heat
ing, plunabing and electrical con
tracts, and the meeting ended
close to midnight with these still
unlet.
The board expresed itself
pleased at the number of bids
and the prices, which they said
were better than had been antici
pated.
With some idea of how far they
can go on the new school, the
board put in several hours work
ing on its estimated budget for
1962-63.
Garden Club Tour
Attracts Visitors
More than 400 people braved
the bad weather Wednesday to
come to Southern Pines for the
annual Garden Club Tour Though
rain rained and thunder thunder
ed ominously, these stalwarts
made the rounds of this four
teenth tour of the Southern
Pines Garden Club, missing nary
a bloom.
Included in the tour were seven
homes in Pinehurst and Southern
Pines, each one staffed with host
esses for the guidance and infor
mation of the visitors. These lat
ter came from all over the state.
Among towns represented were
Baleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro,
Winston-Salem, Durham, Wilson,
Rocky Mount, Wilmington, with
doubtless many others not iden
tified. There were even people
from South Carolina.
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windows. Vice President E. Earl Hubbard (back,
left) will be in charge of the new bank office.
At back, right, is Billy G. McKenzie, sissistant
vice president. In front, left to right, are Mrs.
Joyce B. Stutts and Mrs. Betty Guffey, tellers;
and Mrs. Ruth McRae, receptionist and install
ment loan bookkeeper. (Turner photo)
CEREMONY. RECEPTION SET FOR MONDAY
AT NEW BANK OFFICE— Tlie two officers
and three staff members who will operate the
new South Broad Street Drive-In Office of the
Citizens Bank and Trust Company are pictured
here with a corner of the new building in the
background, showing the special light-colored
brick used and one of the floor-to-ceiling side
Citizens Bank Branch To Open
Formal opening of the newly
constructed South Broad Street
Drive-In Office of the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company of
Southern Pines will take place
from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, begin
ning with a ribbon-cutting cere
mony at the building, comer of
S. W. Broad St. and Wisconsin
Ave.
The public is invited to attend
the ceremony and to visit the
new bank facility during the
open house hours.
Bank directors, officers and
staff members, with their wives,
will be on hand to greet visitors.
Refreshments will be served and
there will be souvenir gifts for aU
persons attending. At 9 p. m., a
console television set will be giv
en away. Mystery consolation
prizes have also been annoimced.
At the opening ceremony, the
Rev. Martin Caldwell, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church will
speak the invocation. Bank Pres
ident N. L. Hodgkins, who has
headed the Citizens Bank for
more than 20 years, and Mayor
John S. Ruggles will speak brief
ly and the mayor will cut the rib
bon. Town and county officials
and officers who will be at the
new bank branch will be recog-
ANYBODY SEE IT?
Clyde Council, Pilot advertis
ing manager, says that at 1:18 a.
m. Tuesday, he saw a large, very
bright, blue-white light move
swiftly and noiselessly from north
to south across the sky over
Southern Pines, with a vapor
trail becoming visible in the
moonlight when the light was in
the southern sector of the sky.
Anyone who saw the mysterious
light is asked to call or write The
Pilot.
Lily Sale to Be
Held Saturday
The annual Easter Lily Sale for
the benefit of the Moore County
Society for Crippled Children and
Adults will be conducted in most
towns of the Coimty on Saturday,
April 14.
Mrs. Harold Peck, chairman of
Southern Pines, will be in charge
of the sale in Southern Pines.
Mrs. William Wood, Moore
county chairman, announced that
at the half-way mark in the sale
of Easter Seals, $1,247 had been
contributed. She urges those who
have not yet donated to do so
at once in order that the 1962
goal of $3,500 may be reached.
Soldier Pleads Guilty to Charges
A 22-year-old soldier, Olie W.
Olson, from Pittsbiugh, Pa., but
recently living at West End,
pleaded guilty in Moore County
Recorder’s Court Monday to four
felony charges of check forgery.
With additional charges of obtain
ing money or goods under false
pretense, and counterfeiting.
Probable cause was found
against Olson, designated also as
"alias William Joseph Holden,”
and bond was set at $1,500 for his
appearance at the April 30 term
of criminal court.
He did not make bond but this
made no difference, as Sanford
police were waiting to take him
to Lee County for hearing on sim
ilar charges there.
Also a detainer was placed on
him by military authorities un
der which, when civilian courts
have had their day, Olson will be
returned to Fort Bragg where he
is currently classified as “a de
serter.”
The stocky curly-haired sol
dier, who married a West End girl
March 11, did not speak in court
other than to tender his guilty
plea. Deputy Sheriff J. A. Law
rence summarized the case
against him. Which was that he
had deposited a check for $525
Monday, April 2, in the Southern
National Bank of Southern Pines,
bearing the imprinted name and
forged signature of “Michael K.
Carney,” made payable to and
endorsed by “William Joseph
Holden,” and had proceeded to
draw numerous checks against
the fraudulent account in both
Southern Pines and Aberdeen.
Lawrence presented in evi
dence a pile of checkbooks, de
posit slips taken from banks of
the area, a couple of forged
checks and also a sandbag weapon
made of a woollen sock, which he
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BANK ITEMS ALSO
ON OTHER PAGES
other news and feature
items on the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company of South
ern Pines and its South Broad
Street Drive-In Office which
will open Monday will be
found on pages 18 and 20. as
well as on other pages of to
day's Pilot.
nized. -
The opening ceremony will be
broadcast over Radio Station
WEEB. Invitations to attend have
been sent to ibank officials in the
Sandhills and to many bankers
and friends throughout the state.
A feature of the opening
will be an exhibit of ancient and
modern coins, loaned to the bank
from the large collection of the
Clhase Manhattan Bank in New
York City.
The South Broad Street Drive-
In Office, which will offer com
plete banking service and a
drive-in window to serve custom
ers in automobiles, located on the
south side of the building, will
open for regular business at 9
a. m. Tuesday.
The bank’s main office, on N.
W. Broad St., will continue as
bookkeeping headquarters for the
entire operation, but the bank’s
installment .loan department will
be moved to the South Broad
Street Office.
For the general convenience of
the public and especially to serve
installment loan customers, the
new office will be open from 9
a. m. to 5 p. m., Monday through
Friday. Hours on Saturday will
be from 9 a. m. to noon.
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Filing Time For
Offices Will End
At Noon, Friday
Filing time for candidates in
the May 26 primaries will end at
noon, lYiday.
Only three primary contests, all
Democratic, were evident from a
listing of candidates' who had
filed, through Tuesday, with Sam
C. Riddle, chairman of the Moore
Coimty Board of Elections' at Car
thage. There are a three-way race
for the coroner nomination and
two contested posts on the board
of education.
Republicans will conduct no
primary unless there are GOP
contests for the same office. It
appears unlikely that the Repub
lican party can offer even a full
ticket for the various coxmty of
fices, to oppose Democratic nom
inees in November.
’The Democratic primary races,
as of Tuesday, were:
W. K. Carpenter, J. W. Cran
ford and E. R. Kerns for coroner.
T. Roy Phillips, incumbent, ver
sus H. Lee Thomas in District 1,
for board of education; and J. A.
Culbertson, incumbent, versus
Mrs. John L. Frye, for board of
education in District 2.
Registrars, Places To
Vote Named In County
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PINEHURST GOLF
Major golf events of the
Sandhills spring season are
upcoming, with the 60th
North & South Invitation
Golf Championship for Wonv-
en opening at Pinehurst
Monday to run through Fri
day, to be followed the next
week by the 62nd North 8c
South Invitation Amateur
Golf Championship for men.
opening Monday, April 23.
and running tlwnigh Satur
day, April 28.
FILM ON RETARDED
A film bn retarded children will
be shown on WRAL-TV Channel
5, Raleigh, at 10 p. m. Friday, it
is pointed out by the Moore-Hoke
Association for Retarded Chil
dren. Association officers urge
the public to watch the film, to,
obtain a better understanding of
the problems and work in this
field, in this area.
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HOSPITAL TRANSFER— Bishop Vincent J.
Waters of the Catholic Diocese of North Car
olina, left, hands hospital records and corpora
tion seal to Mother M. Vincentia of MaryviUe,
Mo., mother general of the ’Third Order of St.
Francis, symbolizing transfer of St. Joseph of
TRANSFERRED FROM DIOCESE TO ORDER
the Pines Hospital ownership from the Diocese
to the Order. Watching are Sister M. Virginia,
administrator of St. Joseph’s, and John S. Rug
gles, member of the hospital’s board of trustees
and mayor of Southern Pines.
(Hemmer photo)
Ownership of St. Joseph’s Hospital Changes
With the signing of a deed and
the transfer of a corporation seal,
on ’Tuesday, St. Joseph of the
Pines Hospital here became the
property of the Third Order of
St. Francis, given to the Order
by its former owner, the Catholic
Diocese of North Carolina.
The transfer, said Bishop Vin
cent S. Waters of Rsdeigh, mark
ed the “coming of age” of the
hospital, when after years of
struggle it has attained maturity,
and can now stand on its own
feet as a community rather than
diocesan institution.
Said Mother M. Vincentia,
Mother General of the Order, here
from Maryville, Mo., to accept
the gift, “This is a proud moment
for our Order and we hope to
continue the progress made
through the untiring efforts of
Bishop Waters and many others
over a period of nearly 14 years.”
’The hospital of 80-bed capaci
ty now becomes one of five own
ed by the Order and operated by
its Sisters. 'The others are St.
Francis’s Hospital of 100 beds at
Maryville, site of Mount Alverno
Convent, Mother House of the
Order; St. Anthony’s Hospital, 600
beds, in Oklahoma City, Okla;
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 174 beds,
at Hannibal, Mo., and St. Mary’s
Hospital, 100 beds, at Nebraska
City, Neb.
The Order operates a Schoo:j of
Nursing at St. Anthony’s, from,
which since 1908 some 1,200 young
women have graduated as nurses.
These include the Sisters who
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JOHN R. HAUSER
ARC Blood Chairman
Blood Collection
At Robbins, Vass
Set April 16-17
The bloodmobile will visit
Moore County for two days next
week, according to John R.
(“Jack”) Hauser of Southern
Pines, new blood bank chairman
for the Moore County Chapter of
the American Red Cross. It will be
at the Elise High School in Rob
bins on Monday, April 16, from
12 noon until 5:30 p. m., and at
the Vass-Lakeview High School
on Tuesday, April 17, from 11 a.
m. until 4:30 p. m.
“It is neosssary to get at least
125 pints of blood each place for
Moore County to maintain its
quota in the Piedmont Blood Pro
gram,” Mr. Hauser said.
All citizens over 21 years of
age, regardless of whether they
live in one of the communities to
be visited by the bloodmobile, are
urged to go to one of the locations
and give a pint of blood.
A native Of Yadkin County, Mr.
Hauser has spent most of his adult
life outside the state, since his
graduation from N. C. State Col
lege in 1918 with a Bachelor of
Electrical Eengineer degree.
He served in World W''ar I, and
then becEune associated with the
Westinghouse Electric Company
at Pittsburgh, Pa., as an appli-
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Picquet Festival
For Glee Clubs
Scheduled Friday
The annual Picquet Music Fes
tival featuring glee clubs from
Moore County schools will be held
Friday, in Aberdeen High School
auditorium, at 8 p. m. ’There will
be no admission charge.
This event is sponsored annual
ly by the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
and was named in honor of the
late Charles Picquet of Southern
Pines who was interested in mu
sic among the glee clubs of the
county’s schools and who was a
founder of the festival.
During the intermission of to
morrow night’s music festival the
Junior Builder’s Cup, also spon
sored by the Kiwanis Club, will
be presented to some outstanding
Moore County high school senior.
The festival, which now fea
tures singing rather than compe
tition, is under the direction of
Dr. Arnold Hoffman of Raleigh,
stat.3 supervisor of music who re-
heamed with the students thisl
morning in Southern Pines.
Chairman of the event is E. H.
Poole of Aberdeen.
Auto Need Washing?
Call The Explorers!
Explorers of Post 889, Southern
Pines, plan to wash and vacuum
cars Saturday, to raise funds for
post activities.
Teen-age members of the post
will go to homes of persons re
questing a c&r-wash, bringing
tiieir own hoses, soap and tow
els. Owners must fumirii water
and a place for washing.
' For the' washing service, call
Billy McKeithen, 2-6262; Phil Mc-
Ree, 2-3492; or Linn Dunn, 2-
8631.
With four new precincts carved
out of the old Southern Pines and
Aberdeen precincts, which had
grown to imwieldy proportions,
two new sets of registrsurs and
judges will be bn duty at new
polling places when the county
wide registration opens Saturday,
April 21.
Ordinarily the books would be
opened Saturday, April 28, allow
ing three successive Saturdays for
registration of new voters and
for registration changes before
the May 26 primary.
However, since several changes
in precinct lines have been made
throughout the county by the
board of elections, with many
boundaries formerly in doubt
now clearly defined, an entire
new registration has been called
for and the books will be open
on four successive Saturdays, ac
cording to Sam C. Riddle, chair
man of the elections board.
The elimination of the small
Spies precinct in upper Moore
and the creation of four precincts
out of two in the lower part of
the county, brings the total to 19
instead of 18 precincts.
The board of elections, meeting
Saturday, appointed registrars
and judges for.each precinct, post
ing the list Monday at the court
house. Most were reappointments,
but a numbsr of changes were
noted.
Each registrar will be given a
full description of his or her pre
cinct lines, so anyone in doubt
as to which precinct is his prop
er one should ask the nearest reg
istrar, said Chairman Riddle.
Boundary lines were also de
fined in a public notice recently
published in the county papers,
and voters are asked to clip these
and keep them for future refer
ence. 'The notice appeared in the
March 29 edition of The Pilot.
In the new North Southern
Pines Precinct, Mrs. Grace Kay-
lor is registrar, continuing in the
capacity in which s^he served the
old Southern Pines precinct for
many years, with the same polling
place—the fire station. Democrat
ic judge is Mrs. Trudy Stephen
son, and Republican judge is
David A. Drexel.
In the new South Southern
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Bill Blue Named
Jaycee President
James W. (Bill) Blue was elect
ed president of the Southern
Pines Junior Chamber of Com-
mercis last week, to succeed
Thomas Ruggles, and wlU be in
stalled, with other officers, April
24.
Also elected by the Jaycees
Were Jerry Frazier, first vice pres
ident; Jerry Daeke, second vice
president; Gary Griffith, treas
urer, and Bob McDonald, secre
tary.
Elected to the organization’s new,
three-man board of directors were
Milton Kay lor. Bob Bishop and
Jim Thomasson.
As retiring president, tmder
regulation of the local Jaycees,
Mr. Ruggles goes automatically
to the office of state director.
An outstanding installation
program, with visiting Jaycee of
ficials, is being planned.
NEWS LEFT OUT
Although today’s Pilot runs to
a whopping 26 pages, the size of
the paper had be cut and a num
ber of news items and pictures
had to be left out, because of
production difficulties today. The
Pilot regrets the omissions and
will try to catch up on all news
stiU pertinent next week.
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.
April 5
'April 6
Max. Min.
66 33
67 49
April 7
73 58
April 8
' 74 54
April 9
81 53
April 10
72 48
April 11
64 56