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A local
Boy Scout received the high
Eagle award here Monday night.
Story and photo, page 12.
Why did
VOL. 42—NO. 52
the Democrats lose the 8th
District Congressional election?
What now? Editorial, page 2.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1962
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Kaylor Resigns
From Town Post;
Koster Heads CD
Mrs. Poltle Replaces
Mrs. Rounds On Local
Library Trustee Board
Two appointments to town
posts, the resignation of a long
time town employee, authoriza
tion of a Christmas bonus and a
discussion of traffic safety near
the East Southern Pines schools
occupied the town council during
a brisk and busy on.a-hour session
at the municipal center Tuesday
night.
The appointments were:
1. Col. Alfred M. Koster, re
tired Army officer, to replace
Town Manager F. F. Rainey as
Southern Pines Civil Defense di
rector. Colonel Koster, recently
appointed Moore County CD di
rector, will also administer the
local program, working from
a county CD office being supplied
by the town free of charge in the
Information Center building at
the corner of S. E. Broad St. and
Pennsylvania Ave.
2. Mrs. George Pottle to fill the
unexpired term of Mrs. Glen
Rounds on the Library board of
trustees. A letter of resignation
from Mrs. Rounds, who was nam
ed to the board earlier this year,
was read by the manager and was
accepted, with regret, by the
council.
Kaylor Resigns
Another letter of resignation
was read also: that of Frank Kay
lor, chief of the local volunteer
fire department and resident fire
man at the station on New Hamp
shire Ave. where he and his wife,
Mrs. Grace Kaylor, make their
home. Mr. Kaylor receives fire
alarm calls there, operates the
siren and looks after the depart
ment’s equipment.
In the letter, Mr. Kaylor set his
date of resignation as December
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Booklet On Civil
Defense Available
At Local Office
A booklet furnishing facts the
public should know about a nu
clear bomb attack and what the
individual can do to protect him
self and his family is available
at the recently opened Moore
County Civil Defense office in
Southern Pines, Col. Alfred M.
Koster, county and local CD direc
tor, announced this week.
The booklet, which also de
scribes the national defense pro
gram, is titled “Fallout Protec
tion; What to Know and Do
about Nuclear Attacks.”
The office is located in the
Town Information Center Build
ing, with entrance at 110 E. Penn
sylvania Ave. It is open Monday
through Friday, from 9 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
Colonel Koster, a recently re
tired Army officer whose home is
in Southern Pines, is now con
ducting the county program large
ly from this office which is the
administrative center for the pro
gram.
The Operations Center of Moore
County Civil Delense will be lo
cated in the basement of the
courthouse at Carthage. CD op
erations would be directed from
there in case of an emergency.
Colonel Koster said, noting that
he expects to spend part of his
time there during normal CD op
erations, after the courthouse
center is set up.
Lutheran Church Organized Here Sunday With 92 Members
This historic scene—it’s not often that a new church is
organized—shows members of Our Saviour Lutheran Church,
with guests, after a special service held at the Civic Club Sunday.
A total of 92 persons—men, women and children—were officially
received into membership of the church which has grown in
the past two years from a group of about 20. Clergymen shown
here, in white robes, who took part in the service, are Dr. F. L.
Conrad of Salisbury, president of the North Carolina Synod of
the Lutheran Church (in back, at right) and the Rev. Jack D.
Deal (top, at left) who has been called as the church’s pastor.
Dr. Conrad preached and officiated at the organizing service. A
dinner was served at the Civic Club, where the congregation is
meeting pending construction of their own building off No. 1
highway, just south of Southern Pines. (Humphrey photo)
Reid Page Buys
Braebum Hall,
Plans Expansion
R>eid A. Page of Southern Pines
has purchased Braeburn Hall on
No. 1 highway, south, from Mrs.
Arthur Atherton, it was announ
ced this week.
Mr. Page, who heads Reid A.
Page and Company, a realty and
mortgage loan firm operating
both in this area and at Colorado
Springs, Colo., said that he will
take over the well known trans
ient guest house and motel estab
lishment on January 1. A resident
manager will operate it for him,
he said, noting also that he plans
to expand the facilities.
Mrs. Atherton has owned and
operated Braeburn Hall for more
than 12 years. She and her late
husband built the large two-story
main structure in 1949, six months
prior to his death.
The property includes three and
a half acres of land. The main
building contains, in addition to
owner’s living quarters, 13 pri
vate rooms, each with bath. Four
separate motel units, some with
housekeeping facilities, are loca
ted nearby. Furnishings are in
cluded in the sale. There is a
swimming pool between the main
building and the highway.
Mr. Page has started construc
tion of a modern masonry and
glass building, with about 450
square feet of floor space, on the
northeast corner of the property,
to be used for his real estate of
fice. He now has offioa space in
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COUNTY AGENTS
OFFICE MOVED
The Moore County Agri
cultural agent's office has
been moved to the third floor
on the south endtof the court
house in Carthage. This is the
space formerly occupied by
the ASCS office.
F. D. Allen, county exten
sion chairman, said that the
new location gives an office
to each of the agricultural
workers, increasing the effi
ciency of the department andi
also making possible better
services to the public.
Opening Hunt Slated
On Thanksgiving Day
With Thanksgiving Day comes
the Opening Meet of the Moore
County Hounds, bringing the of
ficial start of fox ana drag hunt
ing in the Sandhills by this pack.
Hounds wiU meet, according to
W. O. Moss, huntsman of the pack
and Joint Master with Richard
Webb, at ten o’clock Thursday
(Thanksgiving Day) morning. The
meet will be held on the grounds
of Seven Stars, residence of Mrs.
Audrey K. Kennedy (the former
Harold Collins home); this is the
first large entrance-way to the
right of Young’s Road.
First whip, as always, is Mrs.
Moss—Ginny, to so many.
Among others who will be
taking turns filling the positions
of second and third whips is Mrs.
Susan Fuller Burke, who comes
back to Moore County this year
after a long absence. Mrs. Burke,
a leading horse-woman, who has
ridden many show winners, was
a prize pupil, as a small girl, of
Mrs. Moss and started hunting
with the local pack back in the
Thirties.
Back on her whip’s job again
here, this year, will be Mrs. Ray
mond Wolfe, Jr., the former
Sandy Glynn: also Ed Daniels,
manager of Dwight W. Winkle-
man’s Lakelawn Farms Stable,
Eddie Kearns, now in charge at
the Goff Farm; W. Beverly Gray,
stable manager fur Mrs. Mary
Doyle’s Economy Farm; and sev
eral others not yet arrived for
the season.
Word from Huntsman—M.F.H.
Moss is: “Hounds are in fine shape
and ready to go. Anybody who
doubts that ought to have seen
them run that big red fox we
viewed last Tuesday.”
UNC Glee Club To Sing Tuesday In
First Coneert Of Musie Association
SCHOOLS HAVE 4-DAY VACATION
General Holiday Set Next Thursday;
Pilot Will Be Published Wednesday
A general holiday will be ob
served throughout this area on
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday of
next week, with banks, post of
fices, town and county offices,
ABC stores and most private
stores and offices closing.
A holiday for local school chil
dren will begin at the end of
classes Wednesday and extend to
Monday morning, Supt. Luther A.
Adams said today.
The Pilot will be published on
Wednesday of next week, so that
staff members can have a holi
day on Thursday, the regular
publication date. Advertisers and
correspondents are asked to have
their copy in a day earlier than
usual.
'The State Highway patrol
cautions motorists about the
hazards of crowded holiday high
ways. 'The N. C. State Motor
Club predicts 23 North Carolina
highway fatalities from 6 p.m.
Wednesday through midnight
Sunday, November 25, the 102-
hour period for the official traffic
death count.
The first concert of the Sand
hills Music Association series
takes place next Tuesday, No
vember 20, and, by the looks of
things, bids fair to get this sea
son’s series off to a rousing start.
The North Carolina Univer
sity Glee Club will take the stage,
with curtain time set, be it noted,
for eight o’clock, (8 p. m.) in
Weaver Auditorium.
The chorus of sixty-some mem
bers is under the direction of Dr.
Joel Carter, and will include, this
year, one undergraduate lady-
R. H. Mullis To
Join McPherson
In New Company
Roscoe H. Mullis, Southern
Pines resident, was notified this
week that he had been granted
his certificate to practice in North
Carolina as a certified public ac
countant.
Mr. Mullis is a graduate of the
University of Georgia and suc
cessfully passed the examinations
as a CPA in Georgia in November,
1961. He has been granted a North
Carolina certificate after estab
lishing his residence here for a
period of one year.
During the past year, Mr.
Mullis, who is Moore County’s
second CPA in public practice,
has been associated with Garland
McPherson, C.P.A., who has main
tained his office in Southern
Pines for the past 17 years.
Mr. Mullis will continue in
his present position until Januai-y
1, 1963, at which time he will
become a partner with Mr. Mc
Pherson. After that, the firm will
be known as Garland McPherson
and Company, Certified Public
Accountants.
Mr. Mullis is married and lives
at 230 Crestview Road with his
wife and young son.
member. Miss Rosalind Boyette,
of Thelma.
A program sure to please all
tastes has been selected for the
Sandhills event. Th.a full chorus
will sing folk music, including
rollicking sea chanties, toe
tripping calypso melodies, and
several spirituals, of which one
will be an arrangement of the old
song, “Norah.”
‘This is true folk music,” the
director states and those who
have heard the Charleston Folk-
singers sing it in the old Dock
Theatre (or Mrs. E. T. McKeith-
en sing it right here) will fer
vently agree. “Norah,” of course,
stands for “Noah,” Gullah-style.
The Glee Club’s serenaders will
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Blind-Made Items
Go On Sale Here
A wide variety of useful house
hold items, toys and other things
—all made by blind persons in
their homes—^went on display this
morning in the vacant shop in the
old Carolina Theatre building,
where they may be purchased by
th.3 public. Many are suitable for
Christmas gifts.
The show and sale which run
through Saturday are sponsored
by the Southern Pines Lions Club,
with wives of club members as
sisting, as part of the club’s con
tinuing project of sight conserva
tion and aid to the blind.
Joe Carter is chairman of the
club’s Committee for the Blind.
Miss Irene Beaudin, state super
visor of home industries for the
blind, arranged the local exhibit.
'The Home Industries Division of
the State Commission for the
Blind makes it possible for many
blind persons to produce salable
items and help support them
selves in spite of their handicap.
6 CHURCHES SET
UNION SERVICE
A Union Thanksgiving Ser
vice with six local churches
parlicipating. will be conduct
ed at Emmanuel Episcopal
Church Wednesday, Novem
ber 21. at 8 p.m. The Rev.
Jack Deal of the newly orga
nized Our Saviour Lutheran
Church will be the preacher.
Churches taking part will
be First Baptist, Emmanuel
Episcopal. Our Saviour Luth
eran, Southern Pines Meth
odist, Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian and United
Church of Christ.
The public is invited.
Funeral Conducted For
Y^oun^ Cousins Killed
By Hij^hway Accident
About four miles and four
hours separated two one-car ac
cidents of early Tuesday morning,
one of which caused the death of
two young cousins, the other in
juring a brother of one of the
victims. All were from Cameron,
Route 1.
Both were one-car wrecks, al
most identical, on U.S. Highway
1, north, and in each case the
investigating officers said there
was evidence of high speed. Both
cars were demolished.
James Thomas (Jimmy) Lane,
15, was believed instantly killed,
and Franklin Odell Medlin, 21,
fatally injured when they were
thrown from the car in which
they were riding, about 4:40 a.m.
Award For Help
To Handicapped
MR. HARRISON
S. C. Harrison
Elected To Post
At Citizens Bank
Samuel C. Harrison of Chapel
Hill has been elected an assistant
vice president of The Citizens
Bank and Trust Copipany of
Southern Pines and will assume
his duties with the bank on De
cember 3, it was announced this
week by N. L. Hodgkins, presi
dent.
Mr. Harrison will have respon
sibilities in loans and operations
at the main office of the bank,
Mr. Hodgkins added. He will be
moving here from Richmond Va.,
where he has been associated with
The First and Merchants National
Bank for the past five months.
Prior to that he had been with
The Bank of Chapel Hill for near
ly five years and was elected as
sistant cashier in 1960.
Mr. Harrison is a native of
Chapel Hill and graduated from
the University of North Caro
lina in 1954. He is single and will
be living in the apartment adjoin
ing the Barnes residence in
Knollwood.
In making the announcement,
Mb'. Hodgkins said, “Increases in
all phases of our business have
made it necessary for us to add to
our official staff this year. We are
extremely pleased to find a ca
pable and experienced man to fill
this position.”
Golf Carousel
Starting Today
With 128 Teams
The 9th annual Southern Pines
Golf Carousel, sponsored by the
Jaycees, listed a total of 128
teams, 96 in the men’s division
and 32 in the mixed division, as
qualifying began this morning,
with players teeing off at seven-
minute intervals on both the Sou
thern Pines CC and Pine Needles
CC courses.
Sixteen teams will be in the
'’hampionship flight this year.
Winner and consolation trophies
in all flights will be presented at
5 p.m. Sunday at Pine Needles.
Match play begins Friday and
continues through Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kosten of
Pine Needles are tournament
directors.
Bill Harvey of Greensboro and
Reid Tolar of Raleigh, last year’s
champs in the men’s division, are
defending their title.
Players have registered from a
dozen states, including Connecti
cut, Florida and Michigan. About
20 per cent are from the Car-
olinas.
Social events include a pre
dinner party tonight at the Sou
thern Pines CC and a dance Sat
urday night at the National Guard
Armory, The dance is open to
the public.
Mrs. Culbreth Gets
Mrs. Graham Culbreth of Sou
thern Pines received an award
for Distinguished Service to the
Handicapped last Friday night
during the annual convention of
the North Carolina Society for
Crippled Children and Adults, in
the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh.
The award, several of which
were made to persons over the
state, recognized many years of
services to the handicapped
through the Easter Seal program
and, in the case of Mrs. Culbreth,
also particularly recognized her
work on behalf of Camp Easter in
the Pines, the camp for crippled
children to be constructed by the
Society near Southern Pines.
Attending the convention from
Moore County were Mrs. Cul-
beth, who is a director of the
State Society and Moore County
service chairman; William P.
Davis, also a State director, Mrs.
Davis and two children; Dr. H. A.
Peck, member of the State and
County Societies’ Medical Board,
and Mrs. Peck; and Mrs. William
Wood of Pinebluff, retiring presi
dent of the county organization.
Patrol Checking
Improper Mufflers
state Highway Patrolmen in
Moore County are cracking down
on improper auto mufflers. Sev
eral of the troopers said here this
week that there seems to be an
unusual number of them these
days.
A drive against the fancy,
noisy mufflers a year or so ago
was effective in diminishing them
almost to the vanishing point. But
they are easy to get, easy to in
stall and appear to exercise great
fascination for young drivers.
at Skyline a few miles north of
Southern Pines. State Trooper R.
R. Samuels said the car, traveling
north, went off on the right and
overturned two or three times in
a field. Lane’s body was found
some 50 feet away, while Medlin
was 18 feet from the car. He was
taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital,
where he died at 5:45 p.m. with
out regaining consciousness.
Already in the hospital, where
he had been admitted about 1:30
a.m. Tuesday, was Samuel Rich
ardson Medlin. 34, brother of
Franklin. Vass Night Officer J. R.
Grissom said his car went off on
the right near the northern city
limits of the town of Vass, and
traveled along the shoulder, over
turning several times, for a total
distance of 498 feet. Medlin was
taken to the hospital in the am
bulance of Moore County Rescue
Squad No. 2, of Vass. He was
found to be painfully but not
seriously hurt. He has been
charged with careless and reck
less driving, causing accident and
personal injury, for trial in
Moore recorders court November
26.
Franklin Medlin was married,
and worked as a well, digger.
There was no identification either
on Medlin or young Lane and
their identities were established
by the State Highway Patrol
through the car registration,
which was in the name of Med-
lin’s mother, Mrs. Frances Lane
Medlin of Cameron, Route 1.
Lane was a student at Cameron
High School.
Double funeral services were
conducted this (Thursday) after
noon, at Piney Woods Christian
Church by the Rev. Bruce Chris
topher, the Rev. W. D. Hudson
and the Rev. O. L. Norment. Bur
ial was in the church cemetery.
James Lane is survived by his
mother, Mi^. Gertrude Medlin
Crisp; one brother, Stephen J.
Lane of the home; four sisters,
Mrs. Joan Hennings and Mrs. Dar-
lena Marion, both of Route 2,
Cameron; Mrs. Doris Fore and
Mrs. Peggie Lusby, both of Route
1, Cameron; his grandmother,
Mrs. K. M. Medlin of Route 1,
Cameron; and one half sister, Ter
ry Lee Crisp of the home.
Franklin Medlin is survived by
his wife, the former Linda Smith;
his parents, Curtis and Frances
Medlin of Route 2, Cameron;
three brothers, Curtis Ray, Jen
nings Charles and James Anthony
Medlin, all of Route 1, Cameron;
four sisters, Mrs. Carlton Hardy
of Asheville, Mrs. Barney Comer
of Route 2, Vass, Mrs. Thomas
Cox of Cameron, Route 1, and
Judy Medlin of the home, and his
grandmother, Mrs. K. M. Medlin.
Chest X-Ray Unit
Now In Carthage
Moore County’s chest x-ray
survey, which began November
1 at Vass and has continued with
visits of a N. C. State Board of
Health mobile unit to nearly aU
towns of the county, is conclud
ing with a stop in Carthage to
day, Friday and Saturday, from
10 a. m. to 4 p. m. each day.
An x-ray is recommended for
every person who is 15 years old
or older and who has not had an
x-ray in the past year, to reveal
unknown cases of tuberculosis or
other chest adnormalities. No un
dressing is required.
The county health department
and the Moore County Tubercu
losis Association are cooperating
in bringing the survey unit to
Moore County.
Anyone, from any part of the
county, can visit the unit in Car
thage.
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
November 9 63 50
November 8 65 35
November 10 61 41
November 11 68 45
November 12 67 40
November 13 57 38
November 14 57 33