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Ji WELCOME, GOLFERS, TO THE SANDHILLS! WELCOME, GOLFERS, TO THE SANDHILLS! VOL. 42—NO. 43 Bond Voting Set By Council; ‘Shell Homes’ Discussed Meeting Tuesday night, the town council tentatively set Tues day, November 6, as date for local voting on four proposed munici pal bond issues, and formally an nexed to the town the property of six families on S. Ridge St. extension. A letter from the state Local Government Commission was read to the council, approving the town’s plans for the bond is sues. The election date, coinci ding with the general election, was tentatively set pending com pletion of negotiations with the bond attorneys in New York City. The proposed bond issues are: $280,000 for the sewer depart ment; $105,000 for the water de partment; $35,000 for a West Southern Pines swimming pool; and $25,000 for expansion and im provements at the Southern Pines Library, for a total of $445,000. Each issue would be voted on sep arately. Two of the S. Ridge Street property owners, Mrs. E. J. Austin and Garland McPherson, appear ed for the public hearing that preceded the annexation action. No opposition was offered, nor has any been received in letters to the town office, said Mrs. Mil dred McDonald, clerk to the coun cil. Mr. McPherson said that oth er property owners, who were out of town at the time the petition for annexation was sent to the council by tha six families, are known to want to come into town later. Officials present for the meet ing were Mayor Pro Tern J. D. Hobbs, presiding; Councilmen Felton Capel, and Morris Johnson; Town Manager F. F. Rainey Town Attorney J. D. Hobbs and (Continued on Page 8) TWENTY-FOUR PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1962 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE; 10 CENTS National Amateur Golf Tourney To^ Begin At Pinehurst Monday FOR GOOD LUCK— Early arrivals among the 200 contestants in next week’s National Amateur golf tournament at Pinehurst gather around the famous Havemeyer Trophy that will be held by the winner during the coming year, to admire it and touch it for good luck, outside the Country Club headquarters of the upcoming event. Left to right: Ed Justa of Rocky Mount; H. Dudley Wysong, Jr., of McKinney, Texas; Richard D. Davies of Pasadena, Calif., and Richard Crawford of El Dorado, Ark. (Hemmer photo) TO WATCH GOLF, BOOST JONAS CANDIDACY Eisenhower Will Visit Pinehurst Derby Sworn In As Bar Member Vance A. Derby of Southern Pines was sworn in as a new member of the North Carolina bar by Judge Hubert E. Olive of Lexington as Judge Olive opened the second week of Moore County Superior Court for the trial of civil cases, at Carthage Monday. The new lawyer, a June grad uate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, who passed his bar examination and was licensed last month, was pre sented for the oath-taking by W. Lamont Brown, Southern Pines town attorney and solicitor of the Moore County Recorder’s Court. Solicitor Brown praised Derby highly and Judge Olive gave him a gracious welcome to the bar of this State. Derby expects to practice general law in Southern Pines as soon as he finds a loca tion for an office. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, former President of the United States, will visit Pinehurst Sat urday of next week to see the finals of the National Amateur golf tournament and to boost the campaign of Rep. Charles R. Jonas of Lincolnton, Republican candidate for the House of Repre sentatives in the new eighth Fforth Carolina District. Jonas faces Democrat A. Paul Kitchin of Wadesboro, represen tative of the former eighth dis trict, in the November election, in the state’s hottest Congression al race. Jonas has represented the former 10th District for nearly 10 years. The new eighth district was created by the 1961 General As sembly, effective the first of this year, in a redistricting action re sulting from the loss of one North Carolina Congressional seat. The change threw Jonas’s Lincoln County into the new eighth. Political highlight of the Eisen hower visit will be a Saturday luncheon at the Carolina Hotel, in honor of the former President and Congressman Jonas. Both are expected to speak. Several hun dred persons from throughout the district and the state are expect ed. Plans call for Eisenhower and Jonas to watch a portion of the National Amateur finals in the afternoon. This will be the first time Eisenhower has visited North Carolina sinoe 1954 when he spoke at Charlotte’s Freedom Park. He is to fly to Pinehurst from an en gagement in Columbia, S. C. Rep. Jonas, on hearing last week that Gen. Eisenhower had accepted his invitation, comment ed, “I’m happy that he’s coming. We can show him a wonderful time and one of the finest golf courses in the world. “He will be well received and welcomed by the fine people in Students To Write News From- School The Pilot has chosen as its lo cal student correspondents for the coming school year Jeanne Blut- ler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Butler, and Hal Hassenfelt, son of Col. and Mrs. Harold E. Hassenfelt. Jeanne will handle news at the high school itself—activity of or ganizations and other items—and Hal will report Southern Pines High School sports events. Hal began his work several weeks ago and Jeanne’s first news column appears today. Both have the co operation of other students in preparing their reports. Hubbard Named New Chairman Merchants Council The Southern Pines Merchants Council met at the town court room on Monday night and elec ted a new board of directors to serve to January 1, 1963. The Glenn Newberry To Open Appliance Store This Week The new Southern Pines store of Glenn Newberry Company, Inc., of Fayetteville, will stage its grand opening Friday and Sat urday of this week, inviting the public to visit the store in its re- . J J! J- t • • J I i^ooiic xo visit tne store in its re f-“deled location which was for Bethesda Homecoming To Be Held Sept. 30 The annual Old Bethesda Church Homecoming will be held at the historic old church near Aberdeen Sunday, September 30, beginning at 11:15 a m. The Rev. E. L. Barber, former pastor of Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen, and now executive secretary of GranviUe Presbytery with offices in Ra leigh will be the homecoming preacher. The usual picnic din ner will follow. There will be no afternoon service. H. Clifton Blue and Jere N. McKeithen are co-chairmen for the event. nine members elected by the merchants and two ex-officio members, one named by the Jay- cees and the other by the South ern Pines Industrial Committee. Five members of the previous board were reelected. They are: Virgil P. Clark, E. Earl Hub bard, Mrs. Helen Johnson, Dante S. Montesanti and Tyler Overton. The four newly elected members are: A1 Levy, Jim Ritchie, Miss Katherine Wiley and C. L. Wor sham, Jr. The new ex-officio members will be named by the respective bodies at a future date. The previous board members retiring are: Garland Pierce, chairman: Mrs. Mary Charles Sisk, Merchants Appreciation 'Day chairman; Miss Jean Edson Membership chairman; and Dick Mattocks, secretary. Previous ex- officio members are: W. S. Thom- asson for the Industrial Commit tee and Bill Blue for the Jaycees. Officers of the new board were elected as follows: E. Earl Hub bard, chairman; Dante S. Mon tesanti, vice-chairman; Jim Ritchie, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Montesanti is working on a brochure to be printed within the next two weeks, which will list the major fall and early winter activities of Southern Pines, and has space for merchants’ adver tising. Those interested in plac ing an ad are urged to contact Mr. Montesanti by September 20. merly occupied by the United Telephone Company on S. W. Broad St. A large stock of the Westing- house electric appliances handled by the new business is on hand, reports “Tommy” Thomasson, manager, and more than a doz en of these, ranging from an elec trie range to a heating pad, will be given away in connection with the opening. Registration for the gifts will continue until they are given away at 8 p. m., Tuesday, (Continued on Page 8) Gavin Will Speak At Rally Saturday Robert L. Gavin of Sanford, State Republican chairman who was candidate for Governor in the 1960 election, will be guest speak er at a political rally in the Aber deen school auditorium Saturday night. The rally, set for 8 o’clock, will follow a free fried chicken dinner in the school cafeteria, starting at 6:30. The public is invited to both events. Republican , candidates for county offices in the November election will be introduced. Spon sors of the rally are the Sandhill Republican Women’s Club, the teen-age “TARS” and the Young Republicans. the lower counties of the Eighth District.” Among the old friends Gen. Eisenhower and Rep. Jonas ex pect to see at the tournament is Billy Joe Patton of Morganton, a former golf partner of Gen. Eisenhower’s, who is competing in the event. The new Eighth District is composed of Anson, Lee, Lin coln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond and Union Counties. This county (Moore) was in the old eighth district and remains a unit of the new eighth also. This is one of the first visits of the fall campaign announced by the former President. MARKETS TO TAKE 3-DAY HOLIDAY Moore County's two Middle Belt tobacco markets, at Aberdeen and Carthage, will join other markets of the Border. Eastern and Middle Belts in a three-day suspen sion of selling. Monday through Wednesday of next week. The sales holiday, attribu ted to a congestion at tobac co processing plants andi a re sulting drop in leaf prices on all markets, was unanimous ly voted Tuesday night by the sales committee of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association, meeting in Raleigh. Old Belt markets, closed this week because of a lack of sufficient buyers, are ex pected to open again on Mon day. The famous No. 2 golf course at'|’ the Pinehurst Country Club has been groomed to perfection for the outstanding event in its illus trious history: the 62nd National Amateur golf tournament next week. Closed for many weeks, the course was opened only this week for practice by early arrivals for next week’s competition. Some of the nation’s top amateur play ers already have marveled at the remodeled course’s challenges and the condition of its fairways and greens. Thousands of hours of work have gone into the preparations: narrowing of fairways to demand accuracy of long-ball hitting, new w'hite sand in traps and a pro gram of extensive fertilizing and watering that won out over a month-long drought to put the playing surface of the fairways and greens into a lushnes seldom seen at any time of the year. In some cases, fairway widths have been reduced to 40 or 50 yards from a former 60 to 70 .yards, at points about 250 yards out from the tees. The course carries a par 72 rating—36 out and 36 in, the first nine running to 3,446 yards and the second nine to 3,605. “We feel it now rates as an equal to any of the great courses of the world,” said Peter V. Tufts, Country Club manager and tour nament general chairman, “truly a thinking man’s course.” Here’s List Of Starting Times, Spectator Fees Tufts Book, Golf World’s Special Edition Published Two special publications have been issued in connection with the 1962 National Amateur golf tournament at Pinehurst next week: a book by Richard S. Tufts and a special edition of Golf World magazine which is pub lished at Pinehurst. “The Scottish Invasion” is a 121-page hard-cover book by Mr. Tufts, chairman of the board of Pinehurst, Inc. who in a preface writes that it is “an effort. . . to study the development of golf through the influences which the leaders in the game have exerted upon its growth and development in the United States and particu larly in Pinehurst.” It was prepared, the author says, “with the thought that those who attend he 1962 Naional Ama teur at Pinehurst will more fully enjoy the occasion if they come equipped with some information on the history and background of golf.” Numerous illustrations, some of them dating back into the 19th century and some showing early and modern Pinehurst players and scenes, are included. The text of the book is divided into carefully documented and infor mal presentations of “The Very (Continued on Page 8) Here is information on starting times, admission fees and park ing for persons who expect to watch some or all of the U. S. Na tional Amateur golf tournament at Pinehurst next week. Pinehurst will be on daylight saving time for purposes of the tournament—one hour ahead of the normal standard time. The one-round 18-hole matches to be played Monday and Tues day, as the tournament begins, will start at 7:30 daylight time (6:30 standard time in this area), to accommodate the large number of players involved. 'Two rounds of 18-hole matches will be played Wednesday, the first starting at 7:30 a. m. and the second at 12:30 p. m. Quarter finals 18-hole matches Thursday will begin at 9 a. m and 2 p. m. Semi-finals Friday and finals Saturday are 36-hole matches. Starting times each day are 9:30 a. m. and 2 p. m. for each of the two rounds to be played. Admission fees, as customary in the National Amateur, will be charged, beginning Friday and Saturday of this week when it will cost $2 per person per day to watch the entrants warming up in practice rounds. Next we.ek, the fee will be $2.50 ner person per day on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday; and $3.50 per person per .day on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, for the quarter-finals, s°mi-finak and finals, on the three days r^ spectively. t parking lot will be es tablished in the Marshall Park area, between the Village Chap el and the Country Club, with a daily fee of 50 cents. The main course entrance gate for spectators will be at the club. Bringing some 200 contestants and thousands of spectators to the Sandhills, the 62nd Amateur Championship of the U. S. Golf Association will be run off at Pinehurst next week. Play will begin Monday and finals are scheduled for Saturday, Septem ber 22. The event is the first National Amateur tourney staged at Pine hurst and the most important national golfing event there since the Ryder Cup matches in 1951. Extensive arrangements have been made for national and in ternational news coverage. Thou sands of visitors to the Sandhills are expected, with 5,000 or more propably watching the finals. If a North Carolina golfer—there are 11 who qualified—should reach the semi-finals or finals, the num ber of spectators would increase. The Amateur Championship consists entirely of match play. 'There are eight rounds, the first six at 18 holes and the semi-finals and finals at 36 holes. 'The winner receives a silver trophy and custody of the Ama teur Championship Cup for the ensuing year. This cup, the Havemeyer Trophy, i.s on display at the Pinehurst Country Club. The original cup was presented in 1894 by Theo dore A. Havemeyer, first president of the U. S. Golf Association. The original trophy was destroyed by fire in 1925 and the next year was replaced by the present tronhy given by Edwin S. Moore, USGA treasurer 1922-25. Names of all winners are engraved on the cup. Top entries in the tournament include: Richard D. Chapman, former Pinehurst resident who is registeredfrom Pinehurst for' this tournament. National Ama teur winner in 1940 and former winner also of the British, French, Canadian and other champion ships: Richard D. Davies of Pasadena, Calif., current British Amateur champion; Billy Joe Patton of Morganton 1954 and 1962 North and South winner; Charles Smith of Gastonia 1960 Sandhills Art League Suggested. With Goal Of Annual Show And Exhibit Here Formation of a Sandhills Art League, to promote and encour age interest in painting and sculpture, with an annual art ex hibit as a related project, has been proposed by Martin W. Niessner of Southern Pines. Mr. Niessner, in outlining his suggestion to The Pilot, said that he hopes he will have favorable reactions from artists in the Sandhills and adjoining areas. He forsees eventual participation and interest by artists and art patrons in a larger area and from over the state. Both professional and amateur artists could exhibit. He is asking that interested per sons communicate with him and give him their ideas on the pro posal. As outlined by Mr. Niessner, A Sandhills Art League would be organized and incorporated, with artist members, associate mem bers and patrons as well as offi cers and a board of directors. The show and exhibit itself (the first one to be held early next year, perhaps) would be sponsored by some civic club or organization which would prepare a catalog of the exhibit. The sponsoring or ganization would benefit from sale or advertising in the catalog, from sale of the catalogs and from admission charges to the exhibit. Artists would be permitted to place a price on exhibited works and the sponsoring organization would derive further income from a commission on all works sold as a result of the show. “Everything has a beginning,” Mr. Niessner said. “Many artists are reluctant to exhibit. Such an Art League as I propose could be of service to these people in bringing their work before the public. You would be surprised how many artists there are in this area and what good work some of them are doing. I think consider able latent art ability would he discovered.” Dr. Anderson Is Seriously Hurt In Car Collision Dr. George Anderson of South ern Pines was inj.ured early Mon day morning in an automobile ac cident in Robeson County and taken to Southeastern General Hospital at Lumberton, where his condition was rated not critical but serious and painful. He suffered a concussion and possible skull fracture, fractures of the arrn, leg and jaw and a dis located hip in a head-on collision about 7:30 a. m. on NC 20, be tween St. Pauls and Elizabeth town, about one mile east of St Pauls. The collision reportedly occur red when his car met another which had swerved into his lane in an attempt to pass another on coming vehicle. The other driver in the collision, a young woman also reportedly injured. Dr. Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Anderson of Aber deen, graduated in June, 1961 from the University of North Car- (Continued on Page 8) Teen Dems Will Gather Sept. 18 Moore County Teen-Dems, the recently formed organization of teenage Democrats, will hold its third meeting at the courthouse in Carthage, Tuesday, September 18 at 7:30 p. m. ’ Young people from the ages of 12 to 21 are invited to attend. Membership of the group has more than doubled since the first meeting, it was stated this week. Officers elected at the last meeting are: Ralph Hendren of Southern Pines, acting president; Jane Jackson, chairman pro tem pore and assistant to the presi dent; Tommy Blue, vice presi dent; Stephen Sisk, secretary; Tommy Phillips, treasurer; and Cathy Rainey, editor-reporter. North and South champ; Deane ‘Beman of Alexandria, 1960 Na tional Amateur champion; Charles R. Coe of Oklahoma City, Okla., 1949 and 1958 winner of the tournament; E. Harvie Ward of San Francisco, 1955 and 1956 winner; Bill Campbell of Huntin- ton, W. Va., three times a North and South winner; H. Dudley Wysong, Jr., of McKinney, Texas, runner-up to Champion Jack Nicklaus, who has since turned professional, in the National Ama teur last year. Further information about the tournament is found in other stories in today’s Pilot. Pinehurst Season Starting Early; Openings Listed All the Pinehurst Hotels are opening early this season to pro vide accomodations during the week of the National Amateur beginning here Monday. The largest, the Carolina Hotel, opened informally today (Thurs day) under the management of Daniel O. Delany, who has this summer been managing the Mar shall House, Pinehurst Incorpor ated’s summer operation at York Harbor, Me. The other Pinehurst-owned ho tel, the Holly Inn, operated suc cessfully all summer and this fall begins its second year-round op eration under the management of (Continued on Page 8) 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. Max Min. September 6 87 62 September 7 71 59 September 8 85 60 September 9 87 67 September 10 93 71 September 11 90 66 September 12 90 66
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