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Camp Easter - in - the - Rnes to
be built near Southern Pines
are detailed on page 10.
SOUTHERN PINES, N- C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1962
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
School Bus Safety
Study Meeting To
Be Held Nov. 30
HOUNDS GO OUT— Morning mist rises over the Sandhills
hunting country as hounds, iollow^ed by riders, race through a
field of stubble in a scene being repeated this (Thursday) morn
ing with the traditional Thanksgiving Day opening meet of the
Moore County Hounds, marking the start of regular fox and drag
hunting. Hounds are meeting at 10 o’clock this morning at Seven
Stars, residence of Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy. W. O. Moss is
huntsman of the pack and Joint Master with Richard Webb, of
Greenwich, Conn., and Southern Pines, who is here with his
family for the Thanksgiving v/eek-end. This landscape is typical
of the mixed open and wooded country over which the Moore
County Hounds hunt regularly during the winter season.
(Humphrey photo)
Outlook Told For
Basketball Teams
Of Moore Schools
BY JOEL STUTTS
Based on veteran players re
turning this season, the Pinehurst
boys and the Highfalls boys
should battle for top position in
the Moore County High School
Basketball Conference during the
coming season which opens with
full scale action December 1.
The Pinehurst boys, coached by
Rodger Paschal, who were run
ners-up for championship honors
last season, retain all of their first
string players v/ith the exception
of one. This, apparently makes
the Rebels favorites to capture
this season’s crown. Butch Hardy,
Marshall Lewis, Bobby Norton
and Marty McKenzie are the out
standing returnees from last sea
son’s fine team.
The Highfalls boys, coached by
C. E. Russell have their entire
last season’s squad returning.
This veteran team is led by
Larry Mashburn, a 6 ft., 1 in.
junior who was outstanding as
a sophomore last season. Ed
Shields and Jimmy Maness are
also expected to be top performers
again this season for the High
falls Blue Eagles. This team
finished in 6th position last sea
son.
Gene Bowen’s Elise Bearcats
could give Pinehurst and High
falls a close race in the conference
as they will have a fine team
also. Johnny Fre.^man. Billy Steed '
and Clifford Kennedy were out
standing last season and will be
around to perform for the Rob
bins school which has produced
some outstanding 1-A teams.
The Southern Pines Blue
Knights have a new coach in
Dan Kruger, who will face a re
building job as four of the five
top players from last season’s
championship team have graduat
ed. Veteran Johnny Bristow is
back. Coach Kruger will have
Hal Hassenfelt. Frances Warren
and Robert McCrimmon all of
whom have ability to make the
Blue Knights a v/inning team.
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Bloodmobile To
Visit Next Week
A bloodmobile from the Pied-
mont-Carolinas Red Cross Blood
Center at Charlotte will visit two
communities in Moore County
next week, so that volunteer
donors can give blood in the pro
gram that supplies both of the
hospitals in the county.
On Thursday, November 29, the
bloodrnobile will be at the West
End High School from 11 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
On Friday, November 30, it will
at the First Baptist Church in
Aberdeen, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Moore County is running behind
its quota in the blood program,
the local Red Cross chapter re
ports, urging all who are can to
give a pint of blood at one of the
two locations next week.
Work To Start On
Apartment House
Construction is expected to be
gin next week on an apartment
house to be -built by Sandhill
Homes, Inc., the company headed
by O. John Valentine of Whisper
ing Pines, at the southeast corner
of S. May St. and E. Massachu
setts Ave.
The structure, which will be
owned and operated by Mr. Va
lentine on a lot he has purchased,
will have four two-bedroom
apartment units. It will be of
brick construction in traditional
design. A building permit issued
by the Town lists a valuation of
$30,000.
Mr. Valentine is an experienced
builder who has moved to Whis
pering Pines from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Council. Officers
Of New Lutheran
Church Elected
Lamm’s Grove Wins Honor In County
A meeting was held in the
Courthouse in Carthage on Thurs
day night, November 15, to
recognize winners in the County
Farm Community Development
Contest and to elect officers and
directors for the Moore County
Development Association.
Lamm’s Grove won first prize
of $25, with Mrs. Allen Denny,
president, accepting the award.
Juniper won second prize, $15,
with Johnny Frye accepting; and
Westmoore won 3rd place, accep
ted by Dan Dunlap. The prize was
$10.
Seven Moore County communi
ties were included in the farm
community development contest
this year. The competition was
strong with excellent work done
in each community in the contest.
Prizes were given to the top
three-communities by Sandhills
Production Credit Association.
Gaither Edwards, manager, pre
sented the checks to the winning
communities.
Officers elected for next year
for the County Development As
sociation are: J. B. McLeod, presi
dent; S. R. Ransdell, Jr., vice-
president; and Mrs. Allen Denny,
secretary and treasurer.
The new board of directors for
1963 is: J. B. McLeod, S. R. Rans
dell, Jr., Mrs. Allen Denny, Ward
Hill, A1 Foley and Luke Marion.
Council members and officers
of the newly organized Our Sav
iour Lutheran Church have been
elected, completing the last step
necessary to put the church fully
into official operation. The church
was formally organized November
11.
The council was elected by the
congregation Sunday and council
members met Monday night to
name the officers.
Pastor Jack Deal automatically
becomes chairman and the other
officers elected are: Luther A.
Adams, vice-chairman; Richard
Winn, secretary; and Kenneth
Propst, treasurer.
Members of the council, who
will be installed at the church’s
11 a.m. service in the Civic Club
on Sunday, are: for 3-year
terms—Luther Adams, Robert
A series of regional workshops
aimed at improving safeguards for
students who ride school buses
will be conducted in five Pied
mont North Carolina towns next
week, according to the N. C. Traf
fic Safety Council.
One will be held Friday, Nov
ember 30, at East Southern Pines
High School, for representatives
from Moore, Lee, Hoke and Har
nett Counties.
The workshops, part of a state
wide series, are aimed at seeking
agreement between responsible
state agencies and local school ad
ministrative and supervisory per
sonnel on ways to combat a rising
accident rate in school bus acci
dents.
Agencies involved in the pre
sentations will include the Divi
sion of Transportation of the
State Board of Education, the De
partment of Motor Vehicles, the
State Highway Patrol, and the
N. C. Traffic Safety Council.
School personnel attending the
meetings will be superintendents,
principals, and transportation su
pervisors.
C. C. Brown, director of the Di
vision of Transportation, said the
rate of traffic accidents involving
school buses has increased 10 per
cent during the past five years.
'‘While we know that factors
beyond our control, such as in
creased highway traffic volumes,
influence the trend, the increase
is of considerable concern,”
Brown said.
School bus drivers, 90 per cent
of whom are students, are trained
by the Department of Motor Ve
hicles. The Highway Patrol is res
ponsible for assuring as safe
school bus routes as possible. And
the selection of drivers and the
supervision of drivers, as well as
passengers, is the responsibility of
local school officials.
Road Peril
Of Holiday
PointedOut
JUDGE McConnell
John D. McConnell
Being Appointed
Resident Judge
lerms—n,uiner Adams, Robert _
Howard and Melvin Johnson; for i Or, Lefler To Spoak To
2-year terms—Charles Herman,
Paul Sides and Richard Winn; and
for 1-year terms—Oscar Johnson,
Kenneth Propst and John Wil
liams.
Historical Association
Kiwanis Slates Ladies'
Night, Awarding Of Cup
The annual Ladies Night meet
ing of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club,
occasion for awarding of the club’s
Builders Cup for unselfish com
munity service, will be held Fri
day evening, November 30, at the
Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst.
The first meeting for the sea
son of the Moore County Histori
cal Association will be held TufiS-
day, November 27, at 8 p.m. in the
Council Room of the Southern
Pines town hall, president Norris
L. Hodgkins, Jr., announces.
Dr. Hugh Lefler of the Uni
versity of North Carolina will be
the speaker. A professor of his
tory at Chapel Hill, Dr. Lefler
will speak on the Carolina Char
ter Tercentenary to be observed
in North Carolina in 1963.
IN SADA CONTEST
2 Moore Rural
Communities
Win 3rd Prizes
An inspiring story of communi
ty cooperation was told Monday
night at the annual meeting and
Awards Night of the Sandhill
Area Development Association,
held at the Ellerbe school audi
torium with some 200 persons
present from the five member
counties—Moore, Lee, Hoke,
Montgomery and Richmond.
Mrs. D. W. Hurley of Mont
gomery made the awards to first,
second and third place winners,
with two “honorable mentions,”
among 27 communities which had
completed a year-long “Operation
Bootstrap” in the community de
velopment division.
Mrs. Hurley, serving her third
term as chairman of this division,
gave as its aim “the inspiration
of competitive community action
for better living.” Each communi
ty, organized as a club or council,
works for those improvements
which it considers it needs most.
In the interest of time, since
many visitors had come far and
could not stay late, the actual
urograms of the winning com
munities were not fully described.
Winners Listed
In two divisions, farm and non
farm, first prizes of $100 checks,
to be used in further community
improvement, were presented to
Mountain Creek and Cordova
communities, both of Richmond.
Second urizes of $75 each went
to Gnville Thickety Creek, Mont-
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John D. McConnell of South
ern Pines, who has served as a
■special Superior Court judge
since July, 1961, is being appoint
ed by Gov. Terry Sanford as res
ident judge of the 20th Judicial
District, to become effective Jan
uary 1.
The post will be vacated by
Judge F. Don Phillips of Rocking
ham who has announced his re-
■tirement December 31 for health
reasons.
The special judgeship now held
by Judge McConnell has a two-
year term, expiring in July of
next year. Judge Phillips’s term
as resident judge runs through
1968, but Judge McConnell must
run for election in 1964, if he is
to fill out the full term.
Governor Sanford announced
last Friday that he would appoint
the local man to the .judgeship
that has aroused considerable
speculation since Judge Phillips
announced his retirement a coun-
ple of \veeks ago. Congressman A.
Paul Kitchin of Wadesboro, who
was defeated November 6 by Re
publican Charles R. Jonas for the
8th District Congressional seat,
had been mentioned as a possible
candidate for the appointment.
1 A native of Davidson and a
graduate of Davidson College
and Duke Law school, Judge Mc
Connell has made Southern Pines
his home since 1947 while serv
ing as assistant United States At
torney in the Middle District
Court and as administrative as
sistant to the late Sen. J. Mel
ville Broughton and to Dr. Frank
B. Graham when he was a U. S.
(Continued on Page 8)
Southern Pines and this area
are enjoying a Thanksgiving hol
iday today (Thursday), with near
ly all public and private busi
nesses, offices and industries
closed.
The Pilot is being published
Wednesday, with many subscrib
ers not receiving their papers un
til Friday because of no post of
fice home deliveries on the
Thursday holiday.
A community Thanksgiving
church service that was to be
held at 8 p. m. Wednesday in
Emmanuel Episcopal Church was
the only local public observance
of the holiday. Schools are closed
until the regular opening time
on Monday morning.
Heavy holiday traffic is ex
pected on highways of the area
through Sunday night and the
State Highway Patrol urges all
motorists to drive with extra
care during this period.
Last year’s Thanksgiving week
end produced 27 North Carolina
Traffic deaths and injured 631 per-
in_ 977 accidents, points out the
N. C. State Motor Club, of Char
lotte, predicting 23 deaths this
year during the period of the of
ficial accident count—6 p. m.
Wednesday through midnight
Sunday.
BLUE HEADS DRIVE
Christmas Seals
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November 16
66
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November 17
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November 18
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November 19
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November 20
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TROPHIES AWARDED— Winners of the 9th
Annual Southern Pines Golf Carousel, Peter
Tufts of Pinehurst (right) and Clyde Mangum
of Southern Pines, (second from right), receive
their trophies from Bill Blue, president of the
sponsoring Jaycees at the Pine Needles Country
Club Sunday. At left are the runners-up, Will
Wiggs of Southern Pines and his partner 16-
year-old Larry Seward of Laurens, S. C., ’who
is the 1961 and 1962 South Carolina High School
golf champion, receiving their trophies from
Jim Tliomasson, tournament chairman for the
Jaycees. Tufts is manager of the Pinehurst
Country Club and Mangum is executive secre
tary of the Carolina Golf Association. Many
other trophies were awarded to winners and
runners-up in the successful tournament’s 12
flights. Play was over both the Southern Pines
CC and Pine Needles courses.
(Humphrey photo)
EVENT CALLED BEST IN 9 YEARS
Mangum^ Tufts Win Golf Carousel
An all-Sandhills team, Clyde
Mangum of Southern Pines and
Peter Tufts of Pinehurst, emerged
Sunday as champions of the most
successful Southern Pines Golf
Carousel in the nine years of the
unique tournament’s existence.
Trophies were awarded at the
Pine Needles Country Club to
winners and runners-up in 12
flights in the men’s division, four
in the mixed, also consolations in
all flights—64 silver trophies in
all.
The ceremonies climaxed four
Thursday, match play Friday
through Sunday—over the Pine
Needles and Southern Pines
Country Club courses—in perfect
fall weather.
Said Bill Blue, president of the
sponsoring Jaycees, “We believe
we have the Carousel established
as a highly successful event and
we are mighty proud of the way
it went off. Many of the teams
were ‘repeaters’ — people who
come for hundreds of miles, year
after year. They tell us they
wouldn’t miss it for worlds, as
- £ T i, lijias II xur wonas, as
days of play—qualifying roimds' they enjoy the golf, the courses.
the clubs, the hospitality—every
thing.
“We had set 120 teams as our
top limit, and this was filled two
weeks in advance. On the instis-
tence of several late entries, we
stretched to accommodate eight
more. This was the first year we
had to turn people away.
“The social events were a big
part of the enjoyment—the Thurs
day night cocktail party at the
Pine Needles, and the Saturday
tiight dance at the Armory. The
local people turned out fine for
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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.
Help Fight TB
I Sheets of 1962 Christmas seals
are being mailed out to residents
of Moore Copnty, with a request
for contributions that will finance
the work of the Moore County
' Tuberculosis Association during
'the coming year.
H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen,
this year’s county seal sale chair
man, explains in the letter accom
panying the seals that the sale is
“a practical means for you to help
your Tuberculosis Association re
alize objectives of its year-round
program.” These include free
chest x-rays to find unknown
cases of TB, free clothing for
needy patients, rehabilitation of
recovered patients, health educa
tion and, at the state and national
levels, medical research.
“Whatever your gift may be,
it is an investment in the protect
ion of our community’s health,”
the letter states.
Norman B. Caudle of Southern
Pines, who was elected earlier
this year to succeed Dr. J. S.
Hiatt, Jr., as president of the
Moore County 'Tuberculosis Asso
ciation, announced ths appoint
ment of Mr. Blue, who is Moore
County’s representative in the
in the General Assembly, as cam
paign chairman and pointed out
that the Moore County TB Associ
ation co-sponsored the county-
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IN SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION
Crockett Chosen Morehead Candidate
Moore County’s candidate in
competition for Morehead scholar
ships at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, is David
Crockett, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.
G. Crockett, Jr., of Lakeview, It
was announced this week by the
county committee making the
choice.
Chosen as alternates were
Ralph C. Hendren of Southern
Pines and Robert A. Lawhon of
Carthage.
Members of the Moore County
Morehead Scholarship Committee
are Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Graves
and Paul C. Butler, of Southern
Pines, and County Schools Supt.
Robert E. Lee of Carthage.
Other candidates praised by the
committee are Robert A. Vanore,
Robbins; William L. Wicker, Ab
erdeen; Stanley L. Haywood, Rob
bins; Richard L. Sutphin, West
End; James L. Ritchie, Southern
Pines; Leslie E. Scott, Aberdeen;
Edgar W. Shields, Jr., Highfalls;
and William H. Meinnis, Vass-
Lakeview.
Crockett faces district and state
DAVID CROCKETT
elimination interviews. Scholar
ship winners receive fuU expenses
at the University, renewable each
year for four years if a good re
cord is maintained.