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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1962
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CUP WINNER— The Junior Builder’s Cup,
given by the Sandhills Kiwanis Club annually
to an outstanding senior in a Moore County high
school, v/as won this year by Annette Thompson
of West End High School, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Thompson of Jackson Springs,
shown receiving the award from Chris Sham-
burger of Southern Pines, a member of the
club. In the background are some of the students
who sang during the same program at Aberdeen
school Friday night in the annual Picquet Music
Festival for school glee clubs, also sponsored
by the Kiwanis Club.
TO RUN MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
Hyndman to Defend Title in North &
South Golf Tournament at Pinehurst
The 62nd renewal of the North
and South Invitation Amateur
Golf Championship will be held
at Pinehurst April 23-28, Monday
through Saturday. Presenting the
best in men’s amateur golf, the
event is one of the oldest consec
utive tourneys in the country.
Getting underway at the Pine
hurst Country Club on Monday
the field is limited to 125 players
and this year’s star-studded en
tries will mark the strongest to
date.
An eighteen-hole qualifying
round over the exacting 6,900
yards of the par 72 Championship
Number Two Course will deter
mine the 64 places for match play
beginning Tuesday. Two rounds
Wednesday will be followed by
single rounds Thursday and Fri
day and 36-hole finals Saturday.
Last year’s North and South
champion, William Hyndman III
of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., will
defend his title. Past champions
entered again include 1961 run-
nerup and winner in ‘58, Richard
D. Chapman of Palm Beach, Fla.;
three-time winner William C.
Campbell of Huntington, W. Va.
(1957, ‘53 and ‘50); 1954 titlehold-
er Billy Joe Patton of Morganton;
1951 winner Hobart Manley, Jr.
of Savannah, Ga.; Mai Galletta of
Old Westbury, N. Y., who took the
title in 1944; and Frank Strafaci
GOLF FINALISTS
Miss Clifford Ann Creed of
Alexandria, La., will meet
Mrs. Charles Wilson of Glad-
wyn. Pa., at 10:15 a. m. Fri
day in finals of the 60th
North & South Invitation
Golf Championship for Wom
en, at the Pinehurst Country
Club,
In semifinals matches play
ed this morning. Miss Creed
defeated Miss Marge Burns
of Greensboro, 5 and 3, and
Mrs. Wilson beat Mrs. John
Dyson of Sugerloaf, Pa., 4
and 3.
of Miami, Fla., champion in 1938
and ‘39.
Newcomers to the tourney in
clude the National Amateur
Champion, Deane R. Beman of
Arlington, Va., and Congressman
Jack Westland of Washington.
The advance entries include 52
of last year’s qualifiers, in addi
tion to champion Hyndman and
runner-up Chapman, semi-final
ists Charlie Smith and Cobby
Ware, Augusta, Ga., and quarter-
finalists Bill Harvey, Greensboro;
Dale Morey, Morganton; and
George Rowbotham, Villanova,
Pa.
McCaskill Named Manager of Kennedy
Campaign For Congress in Moore Co.
J. Frank McCaskill of Pinehurst
was named this week by John P.
Kennedy of Charlotte as Moore
County manager of the Kennedy
campaign for the Democratic no
mination for Congressman from
the 8th District.
Kennedy, a representative in
the General Assembly from Meck
lenburg County, is opposing in
cumbent A. Paul Kitchin of
Wadesboro for the nomination.
In announcing McCaskill’s ap
pointment, he said: “I am delight
ed at having Frank’s leadership
in the Moore County campaign.
He is taking this post because he
agrees that the Eighth District
needs a positive and creative ap
proach to government. I know
that with his direction, we will
fight a spirited and successful
campaign.”
McCaskill had already begun
this week to set up an organiza
tion throughout the county. A
number of assistants and commit
tees, to help with the Kennedy
campaign, will be announced
later.
A native of Biscoe, who grew
up in Jackson Springs and Pine
hurst, along with his well known
and politically active brother, J.
Hubert McCaskill, Frank McCas
kill is chairman of the Pinehurst
Precinct Committee, manager of
the Pinehurst Laundry, a member
of the volunteer fire department
and a past president of the Pine
hurst Lions Club. Active in poli-
ilil
Lutherans Buy
Tract For Church,
Also Parsonage
Today the United Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of North Caro
lina announced the purchase of
approximately six and a half acres
of land adjacent to the Fairway
Motel on U. S. 1 as a future site
for Our Saviour Lutheran Church
Mission of Southern Pines. The
land was purchased from Sand
hill Estates, Inc. for $24,000.
The S.ynod also announced the
purchase of the Dale residence on
East New York Ave. directly
across from the Southern Pines
High School, as a paursonage for
Pastor and Mrs. Jack Deal and
family. Mr. Deal will move here
on May 16 to become the first full
time Lutheran Minister and Mis
sion Developer for this area. The
purchase price for the Dale res
idence was $11,500. Extensive al
terations and additions to the
parsonage will begin shortly. Two
additional room.s and one full
bath will be added. One room
will be used as a church office
until permanent facilities are
available.
It is expected that construction
of a church and classrooms will
begin within the next two years.
Construction is exp>ected to be by
units with the first unit being
classroom area.
Our Saviour Lutheran Church
is presently conducting Sunday
School and Church services each
Sunday in the Civic Club build
ing on Ashe Street. Dr. L. E.
Blackwelder, former superinten
dent of the Lutheran Lowpnan
Home for the Aging, is serving
as supply minister for the local
congregation.
J. FRANK McCASKILL
tics and a Democrat all his life
(he recalls that he first voted for
A1 Smith in 1928), McCaskiU is
a member of the Pinehurst Com
munity Church, has been county
campaign chairman for the March
of Dimes and has been active in
other charitable drives and in
Boy Scout work. He is married
to the former Myrtrice Wicker
and they have two daughters.
Kennedy named a Lee County
campaign chairman also during
the past week—Jimmy Love, 29-
year-old attorney, of Sanford.
Many Visit New
Local Bank Branch
An estimated 4,000 persons vis
ited the South Broad Street Of
fice of the Citizens Bank and
Trust Company of Southern
Pines, as the bank staged the for
mal opening of the new bank
branch Monday from 4 to 9 p. m.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., said
that about 3,500 persons register
ed at the building—a modern
structure of 3,000 square feet—
and that at least 500 more are
estimated to have attended the
opening program or dropped in
for a look later in the evening.
A. E. Rhinehart, manager of
the local stock brokerage office
of Eastman, Dillon and Co., was
the winner of the console televi
sion set given away in connection
with the opening.
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TROTTING TIME TRIALS
The Pinehurst Driving and
Training Club will conduct an
official record meeting (time
trials for horses) over the Pine
hurst mile track at 10 a. m. Tues
day, April 24, it was announced
this week. In a news item on
page 12, the date of the trials is
incorrectly given, although it apK
pears correctly in an official no
tice on page 13.
Wimberly Files,
Withdraws; Few
Races in Primary
A race for sheriff was in pros
pect for th.3 May Democratic pri
mary in Moore County, shortly
before the noon filing deadline
Friday, when C. G. Wimberly of
Aberdeen filed against incumbent
W. B. Kelly, but Wimberly with
drew as a candidate this week,
‘‘in the interest of party harmo
ny.”
A former State Highway Pa
trolman, Wimberly resigned four
years ago to run for sheriff and
was defeated by Kelly in a nm-
off. He has recently been working
as water plant operator for the
Town of Aberdeen. Sheriff Kelly
is a former State Highway Patrol
corporal.
The end of filing time Friday
produced only three Democratic
races: T. Roy Phillips of Carth
age, of the county board of edu
cation is opposed in District 1 by
H. Lee Thomas of Carthage, for
mer county superintendent of
schools, while J. A. Culbertson,
Robbins, who is serving as chair
man, faces Mrs. John L. Frye of
Robbins in District 2. There is a
three-way race for coroner, with
candidates W. K. Carpenter, Sr.,
of Pinebluff, E. R. Kerns of Car
thage and J. W. Cranford of Rob
bins all seeking the office.
For all the other offices at is
sue, incumbents are unopposed.
There is one incumbent Republi
can, Oscar W. Bailey, Mineral
Springs township constable.
Constable L. F. Woods of
Greenwood township seeks re-
election, while in McNeill town-
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166 Pints Blood
Given In 2 Days "
An American Red Cross blood-
mobile from the ARC blood cen
ter at Charlotte collected 100
pints at Robbins Monday and 66
pints at Vass Tuesday, it was re
ported by the local Red Cross
office. A quota of 125 pints had
been set at each of the two stops.
Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy, ex
ecutive director, said that the
next visit of a bloodmobile to
Moore County would be a one-day
stop at Pinehurst on May 28. De
tails will be announced.
Both of the hospitals in Moore
County obtain needed blood of
all types from the Charlotte cen
ter.
New Registration of Moore Voters
Starts In AH Precincts Satnrday
M50 000
4- Moore County’s new registra
tion of all voters will start Satur
day, to run through Satoday,
May 12, with registrars at polling
places each Saturday in all of
the 19 precincts of the county.
All persons expecting to vote
in the May 26 primaries must
■register before the end of Satur
day, May 12. Registrars have
books open at their, homes or
places of business on days other
than Saturdays.
Local voters are reminded that
the dividing line betwen the new
North Southern Pines and
South Southern Pines precincts
runs east on Pennsylvania Ave.,
from West Southern Pines to May
St., north on May to Connecticut
Ave. and then east on Connecticut
to the Fort Bragg line.
Polling place for North South
ern Pines precinct is the fire
station and for South Southern
Pines the town hall.
Polling place for the newly
formed Pinedene precinct, just
south of Southern Pines and run
ning about as far south as West
brook’s Market, is Jackson Motors
on old No. 1 highway.
GOING UP!— H. G. Poole of Carthage, left, chairman of the
board of directors of Moore Memorial Hospital, and Dr. Clement
R. Monroe, senior surgeon practicing there and one of the found
ers of the institution 30 years ago, examine progress of the
hospitals $450,000 fund to build a new wing of the building.
■. Since this photo was made Tuesday, the ‘‘mercury’' has climbed
above the $320,000 mark.
Brother, Sister Will
Not Join Peace Corps
Gerrie and Bob Madigan, who
had expected to enter the Peace
Corps as a unique sister and
brother team, have withdrawn
their names from the ^ist of
Peace Corps volunteers. Bob
Madigan said this week. They are
the daughter and son of Col. and
Mrs. Don Madigan of Southern
Pines. Gerrie is a sophomore at
College-Conservatory of Music,
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Bob is a
senior at Southern Pines High
School.
Merchants Council to
Have Meeting Monday
The Southern Pines Merchants
Council will have a general mem
bership meeting at 7:30 p.m. Mon
day in the court room at town
hall. All interested persons are
invited to attend.
MONDAY CLOSINGS
Schools, banks and most
private businesses and offices
will close for a holiday Mon
day. But U. S. post offices, for
which Easter Monday is not
a holiday, will not close.
Town and county offices
and the local and Moore
County libraries will be clos
ed.
The local schools, schedi-
uled earlier in the year to
have a longer holiday, are
putting in a full week,
through Friday, to make up a
day lost because of )»d
weather, but will be closed
Easier Monday. Schools will
open at the regular time
Tuesday morning.
ABC stores in Southern
Pines and Pinehurst will
close Monday.
SADA Group to
Tour Upper Part
Of Moore County
Moore County wiU be host to
the Sandhills Area Development
Association in quarterly session
next Wednesday, sponsoring a
tour of several points of interest
in upper Moore during the after
noon, followed by a supper meet
ing at Westmoore school.
This will be the first member
ship meeting since SADA be
come a five-county body, with the
addition of Hoke to the charter
participants, Moore, Lee, Mont
gomery and Richmond. Neal Cad-
ieu of Richmond is president,
heading the organizational struc
ture with members from all five
counties.
Each county is expected to pro
vide at least 50 men and women
interested in the development
program, for a crowd of 250 or
more taking part in Wednesday’s
tour. Co-chairmen ara Moore
Farm Agent F. D. Allen and
Home Economics Agent Miss
Flora McDonald.
They will meet at the courthouse
at 2 p. m. to form a caravan,
first heading north to visit the
Alston House—the ‘‘House in the
Horseshoe”— on Deep River at
2:30 p.m. They will be guests of the
Moore County Historical associa
tion in visiting the historic home
stead, scene of guerrilla warfare
during Revolutionary days which
left bullet holes still visible in its
walls, and later the retirement
home of Governor Benjamin
Williams.
At 3:15 p.m., they will visit the
nearby Babcock Farms beef cat
tle operation, a model of its kind.
They wlil see the fine breeder
herd of registered Angus in their
ladino clover and orchard-grass
(Clontinued on Page 16)
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.
April 12 '
17
54
April 13
62
51
April 14
63
32
April 15
63
41
April 16
57
26
April 17
62
26
April 18
69
30
Hospital Drive
Extended; 71%
Of Goal Reached
The $450,000 Moore Memorial
Hospital Building Fund Drive has
raised $321,232 to date, slightly
more than 71% of the objective.
At an All-Division Report
Meeting held last evening, (Gen
eral Chairman William P. Saun
ders announced extension of the
campaign to Tuesday, May 1, to
give every volunteer salesman
time enough to see his prospects.
‘‘While the results to date are
most encouraging,” Mr. Saimders
said, ‘‘we are quite concerned that
committee members active in the
campaign have not seen all their
prospects. Many people have stop
ped me all through the county
asking me when volimteers are
going to ask for their help. I
want to urge every community
chairman and volunteer salesman
in the campaign to call upon his
(prospects now so that everyone
in Moore County may take part
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Town’s Churches
List Services on
Easter Week-End
Church services in the remain
ing days of Holy Week and on
Easter Sunday have been an
nounced as follows by the church
es in Southern Pines, in addition
to a community sunrise service
on Sunday, details of which are
given in a separate story:
United Church of Christ, the
Rev. Call Wallace, pastor—^Vigil
of Maundy Thursday > begins at ■
8 tonight with reception of mem
bers, baptism. Holy' Communion
and extinguishing of lights. The
combined choirs will sing special
Easter music at the 11 a. m. wor
ship service Sunday.
Southern Pines Methodist
Church, the Rev. Robert C. Moon
ey, Jr., pastor—Maundy Thm-s-
day service of Holy Communion
at 8 tonight. Mrs. Dewey Mims
will sing “The Holy City.” Easter
Sunday services will be Sunday
School at 9:45 and worship serv
ice at 11 a. m.
Browtnson Memorial Presbyte
rian Church—Good Friday service
from 2-4 p. m. A guest minister.
Dr. George E. Staples, will con
duct the 11 a. m. worship service
and preach the sermon on Easter
Day.
First Baptist Church, the Rev.
Maynard Mangum, pastor—the 11
a. m. worship service on Easter
will be conducted by Dr. William
C. Strickland, who is in charge
of revival services being held in
the church this week.
The evenirig service at the First
Baptist Church on Sunday will
feature the singing of Easter
music by the congregation and
the church choirs, to be followed
by a discussion, under the leader-
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WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHARGE
Easter Sunrise Serviee Scheduled
Young people from local
churches having groups associated
with the Youth Federation, with
some church young people from
Pinehurst, will have charge of a
community Easter sunrise service
to be held at Memorial Field on
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JOHN CHAPPELL
To Speak at Service
S. Bennett St. at 6 a.m. Sunday.
The public is invited.
Speaker for the service will be
John Chappell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Chappell, who is a min
isterial student at Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary,
Wake Forest. Representatives of
all participating youth groups will
have parts in the service.
An anthem will be sung by the
Southern Pines High School Glee
Club, directed by William_ Mc
Adams. Ralph Hendren, high
school junior, will sing the call
to worship. Miss Ciathie Sand-
strm will be accmpanist.
In case of rain, the service will
be held at the United Church of
Christ (Church of Wide Fellow
ship).
Other Sunrise Services
Other community sunrise ser
vices scheduled for Easter morn
ing over the county include:
At Old Bethesda Cemetery near
Aberdeen, 6:30 a.m.
At the Vass Methodist Church,
6 a.m.
At the West End Methodist
Church, 6 a.m.
In Cross Hill Cemetery, Carth
age, at 6 a.m. (Methodist Church
in case of rain).