Communities
with a special charm must be
careful to preserve it. Editorial
on page 2.
Pinehurst
pages are separated in today’s
Pilot—one on page 9, another
on page 16.
VOL. 43—NO. 12
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1963
SIXTEEN PAGES
Pinehurst Youth, Home For Weekend
Visit, Killed When Auto Hits Tree
A 17-year-old student, home at
Pinehurst from his prep school
for the weekend, was killed early
Sunday morning when his car
skidded off the road in near-
freezing rain and smashed into
a tree.
Chester L. (Skeeter) Stevens
died in the wreckage of the 1962
station wagon he was driving on
•tJ NC 5, some 300 feet west of the
Linden Road intersection in Pine
hurst. The car went off on the
left of a slight curve with such
force the front end wrapped en
tirely around a large holly tree.
Pinehurst police and a wrecker
crew had considerable difficulty
^loosening the car and extricating
the body.
Coroner W. K. Carpenter said
(jf his injuries were multiple but
those causing death were com
pound fractures of the head and
neck. He said there were indica
tions of speed which, while prob
ably not excessive under normal
conditions, was greater than was
safis under those which prevailed
at the time.
Young Stevens, a fourth-year
student at Fishburne Military
Academy in Waynesboro, Va.,
4# was born at Jamaica, L. I., N. Y.
As a young child he moved with
his family to Pinehurst, his mdth-
PRICE: 10 CENTS
CHESTER L. STEVENS
of the home; his paternal grand
parents, the Rev. and Mrs. C. D.
Stevens of Lexington, Ky., and
his maternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. M. Lewis of Pine
hurst.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at the Pine
hurst Community church, con
ducted by the pastor, the Rev. R.
, , " .. uy uie pasiur, me nev. Jtt.
ers home community His father,, l. Prince, followed by burial in
S. T. Stevens, formerly of Louis- Mt. Hope cemetery,
ville, Ky., died in 1955. Surviving
are his mother, Mrs. Irene Lewis
Stevens, one sister, Ann, and two
brothers, Shelby and Jeffrey, all
PTA To Meet In
3 Groups Monday
Parents and faculty members
of the East Southern Pines Par
ent-Teacher Association will meet
in three groups at 8 p.m. Monday,
going directly to their meeting
places, Mrs. Albert Grove, PTA
president, said today. There will
be no business session.
Parents and teachers of ele
mentary school children will meet
with Miss Violet Lester, super
visor, in Weaver Auditorium.
The Junior High group will
meet with Don Moore, elementary
principal, in ' the multipurpose
room (north wing of high school).
High school parents and faculty
will meet with Principal Glenn
Cox in the student lounge, also in
the north wing.
Division of the meeting into the
three groups wiU afford better
opportunities for discussion of
school programs at each level,
Mrs. Grove said.
Active pallbearers at the fun
eral were John E. Barry, III,
Gary Cameron, James Dieten-
hofer and Marty McKenzie, of
Pinehurst; and Andy Scott and
Johnny Wade of Southern Pines.
Four classmates from Fish
burne Academy, in uniform, were
honorary pallbearers.
EASTER SEALS
The board of directors of the
Moore County Chapter of the
N. C. Society for Crippled Child
ren and Adults met this week
and set March 1 as the opening
date for the chapter’s annual
fund-raising Easter Seal sale. De
tails will be announced.
Mystery Of Auto
Near Pond Probed
The State Highway Patrol, SBI
and State License and Theft Bu
reau are investigating the mys
tery of a 1963 Buick hardtop that
somebody apparently tried to
run into Powell’s Pond Saturday
night or early Sunday.
State Troper Roger Davis, no
tified about the car at 7:30 a. m.
Sunday, said he found it jammed
in a culvert at the pond’s edge,
in gear and with a stick propped
to hold the accelerator down.
Somebody had evidently turned
it loose, expecting it to end up
in the water.
Bearing Virginia license plates,
the blue and white car had no
personal belongings in it. Its right
side had been damaged in a pre
vious collision. Its last run smash
ed in the front end. The car was
taken to May’s Body Shop.
Investigation, including check
ing out the Virginia license, is
continuing.
Powell’s Pond is off the Beth-
da road, at the intersection of
Saunders Boxdev^d, between
Southern Pines and Aberdeen.
Storey Cup, Other
Bov Scout Awards
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Scheduled Monday
The last county-wide Moore
District Court of Honor for the
Boy Scouts will be held at Pine
hurst in the High School Auditori
um on Monday, February 11, at
8 p. m.
The event gains added impor
tance from falling in National
Boy Scout Week, an observance
that begins today, to run through
next Wednesday, directing atten
tion to local Scouting activities in
communities over the nation.
The former Moore District,
which included all of Moore
County, has been divided into
two districts, because of the
growth of Moore District’s Scout
enrollment.
An unusually large attendance
is anticipated, due to several an
nual awards to be presented: The
Storey Cup award. Commission
ers Cup for Cubbing, Explorers
Award, attendance award and six
Eagle Scout ranks.
A special award is to be given
to all scouts who received the
Eagle rank in 1962.
The Storey Cup is presented an
nually by Voit Gilmore of South
ern Pines, in memory of his step
father, the late W. M. Storey of
Winston-Salem, to the Moore
County Scout troop compiling the
best all-around record of activi
ties during the previous year, ac
cording to a stipulated point sys
tem.
National Boy Scout Week finds
Moore District with 23 Explorer
Posts, 42 Scout Troops and 25
Cub Packs—a total of 1,705
youngsters and 640 adults taking
part in the program. "Strengthen
America—Be Prepared—Bte Fit”
is the slogan for this year’s Boy
Scout Week.
Charter Filed^ Members Named,
Large Club-Residential Project
HUNTER TRIALS
SET FEBRUARY 16
The annual Hunlei Trials
sponsored by the Moore
County Hounds have been
scheduled for the Scotls Cor
ner course, out Youngs Road,
Saturday. February 16, start
ing at 2 p.m.
Parking places for specta
tors can be reserved through
Mrs, W. O. Moss. Southern
Pines; Mrs. Warner Atkins,
^ Pinehurst; or Miss Page
Shanniburger, Aberdeen.
A hunt ball is scheduled
for the night of the trials, for
which reservations must be
made.
A schooling horse show
in the winter series for young
people and adults will be
held the following day, Sun
day afternoon, February 17.
in the ring at Second Wind
Farm of Mr. and Mrs. War
ner Atkins, on Youngs Road.
Over $1 Million
Cost Estimated
For Facilities
The whine of saws and roar of
bulldozers are heard daily on the
former Watson’s Lake property
near Southern Pines, starting
work that will transform this
long-untouched woodland area
into what promises to be an un
usually handsome country club
and residential development.
Concentrated in a 300-acre area
that includes the 60-acre lake.
The Country Club of North Caro
lina project, estimated to cost
over a million dollars, includes
these striking features:
A club house of 30,000 square
feet in area, to be located on high
ground southwest of the main
body of the lake.
An 18-hoLe golf course with
a unique layout completely sur
rounding the lake, using the lake
itself on some sporty holes that
will permit driving over a wide
area of water as an option for
players.
Other country club facilities to
include tennis courts; riding
stables, barns and rings, hiinter
trial course and riding trails;
swimming pool; and boathouse
and pavilion.
A new 14-acre lake, for beauti
fication and additional lake-front
lot property, to be constructed
south of the intersection of High
way 15-501 and Morganton Road,
the road from the National Guard
Armory in Southern Pines.
SAUNDERS TAKES SENATE SEAT
Blue Elected Speaker Of House
starting his ninth term as
representative from Moore Coun
ty in the General Assembly, H.
Clifton Blue of Aberdeen was
•elected and sworn in at Raleigh
Wednesday as Speaker of the
House of Representatives. Supe
rior Court Judge John D. Mc
Connell of Southern Pines admin
istered the oath.
On the Senate side of the new
Legislative Building, William P.
Saunders of Southern Pines took
his oath of office for his first term
as senator from the four-county
12th District, along with the dis
trict’s other senator, Robert Mor
gan of Harnett County.
Rep. Blue’s swearing-in was
witnessed by a packed House
chamber that included a delega
tion of some 150 persons from
Moore County. Present were the
new Speaker’s wife, Mrs. Gayla
Blue, his four children,' one of two
grandchildren, and his mother,
brother and a sister-in-law. Moore
County people were accorded the
privilege of entering the floor
of the House.
Dr. W. C. Neill, the legislator’s
pastor at Bethesda Presbyterian
Church, Aberdeen, gave the invo
cation. Rep. Blue spoke impres
sively after his swearing-in, re
ceiving an ovation.
Both Sen. Saunders and Rep.
Blue were honored after the cer
emonies with a luncheon at the
College Inn, attended on a dutch
basis by numerous Moore Coun
ty people, with Gov. and Mrs.
Terry Sanford and Ed Clark, an
aide to the Governor, as special
THREE FROM MOORE
SERVING AS PAGES
With opening of the Gen
eral Assembly in Raleigh
yesterday, three Moore Co.
boys began their service as
pages there.
Tommy Phillips, son of
Mr. and Mrs. T. Roy Phillips
of Carthage, is chief House
page for the session, hav
ing served six weeks as a
page in 1961.
Charles A. McLaughlin,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
McLaughlin of Southern
Pines, is starling his first
term of service in the House.
Tommy Dotson, son of the
Rev. and Mrsl B. E. Dotson d,
Carthage, is steurting his first
term as a page in the Senate.
guests.
With W. Lamont Brown of
Southern Pines as master of cere
monies, the informal luncheon
program included presentation of
engraved pen and pencil sets to
Sen. Saunders and Rep. Blue, by
Forrest Lockey of Aberdeen, on
behalf of Moore County constitu
ents. Both the legislators and the
Governor spoke briefly.
Everybody agreed it was a
great day for Moore County.
Both, Sen. Saunders and Rep.
Blue have been prominent in
Democratic Party affairs for
many years, though the senator
is serving in his first partisan
elective office. A retired textile
executive, he was for many years
mayor of Robbins, moving later
to Southern Pines. He was direct
or of the Department of Conser
vation and Development in the
administration of Gov. Luther
Hodges.
Rep. Blue, editor and publisher
of the Sandhill Citizen at Aber
deen, was assured months ago of
his election as Speaker, following
a hard-driving campaign for the
nomination. But the title was not
official until House members
voted Wednesday.
Roads Circle Lake
Winding roads,- as weil as the
golf course, will circle the exist
ing lake and serve other areas of
the golf course on high ground
southwest of the lake. The roads
will link 283 two-acre lots, many
with, lake frontages and many
more adjoining golf course fair
ways.
Plans call for development of
additional lots on a large area of
available land, if needed.
Royal Dornoch Golf Village,
Inc., purchaser of the entire tract
of more than 1,100 acres—^having
sold to The Country Club of
North Carolina the tract of 300
acres now under development—is
giving the Country Club an op
tion to purchase an additional 150
acres adjoining the present golf
course, for construction of a sec
ond 18-hole course, if needed.
Town Wafer
To serve the development,
Royal Dornoch will build an 8-
inch water line from the South
ern Pines mxmicipal supply, as
approved by the town council,
plus a six-inch line within the
Royal Dornoch boundaries.
Royal Dornoch also will build
roads no less than 18 feet paved
width to the Club boundeuies. As
soon as practical, the water line
will be dedicated to the Town of
Southern Pines and the roads to
the State. The water line will be
extended from the city limits to
the property at the expense of
Royal Durnoch and the Country
Club.
For the next five years, resi
dential lots will be offered for
sale only to members of the club
or to persons approved by the
club membership committee. At
the end of five years, according to
material prepared for a brochme
to be printed and distributed, the
lots may be sold to others, at the
discretion of Royal Dornoch.
Reslriclions
Restrictive covenants on all lots
sold, now or in the future, include
a minimum of 2,000 square feet
for each residence, exclusive of
garages, porches and patios; archi
tectural control by a committee
■appointed by the club; and proper
building set-backs on lots adjoin
ing the golf course. The lake will
be restricted to motor boats of any
kind, except those with electric
motors. The club will maintain
the lake and all members will
have lake privileges.
Club memberships will be by
invitation only, such invitations
to be originated by the charter
m.embers in each locality. Club
members need not be purchasers
of lots in the residential develop
ment.
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ON THE MOVE—Loads of logs like these are rolling daily
to two saw mills on The Country Club of North Carolina’s pro
perty in the Royal Dornoch Golf Village tract, between Southern
Pines and Pinehurst. Thousands of feet of timber are being cut
to make room for roads and golf course fairways, under super
vision of a consulting forester. (Pilot photo)
Top Men In Several Fields Active In
Designing, Snpervising Work At Site
Top men in their fields have
been chosen by Royal Dornoch
Golf Village, Inc., and The Coun
try Club of North Carolina for
general and detailed planning, de
Forest Management for 17 years
at Duke University. He is land
manager for the Research Tri
angle Park and is a member of
the Governor’s Advisory Commit
signing and supervision of work tee on Forestry. He
on facilities at the new golf-resi- j numerous top offices
dential
project on the former
Watson property, between South
ern Pines and Pinehurst.
Williard Byrd of Atlanta, Ga.,
land planning expert, is respon
sible for the general design of the
entire development—placing of
golf course, roads, buildings, lots
and other facilities, as described
in another story.
Working closely with him and
responsible for specific design of
the golf course and its construc
tion hole by hole, is EUis Maples,
Sandhills native who has made
a name for himself as golf archi
tect and who is now living at
Whispering Pines, north of
Southern Pines, where he also de
signed the golf course.
Active on the property five days
per week and living in the resi
dence on the north shore of the
lake is William Maughan of Dur
ham, consulting forester, who is
here, to remain about two months
more, as general coordinator and
supervisor of work and to oversee
timber operations—cutting on
road rights of way, on the golf
course and on other locations. He
returns to his home in Durham
on weekends.
A graduate of the University
of Minnesota and holding a mas
ter’s degree in forestry frtftn Yale,
Mr. Maughan was professor of
has held
in profes
sional forestry organizations. Last
year he was named "Forest Con
servationist” by the N. C. Wild
life Federation, receiving the
“Governor’s Award.”
John A. Edwards of Raleigh,
prominent engineer, is supervis
ing engineering work for the pro
ject, in which two or three four-
man crews have been busy for
many weeks making topographi
cal and boundary surveys and
doing engineering work for roads,
utilities, golf course and other
phases of the operation.
An architect for the club house
has not yet been chosen.
Two sawmills are running on
the Royal Dornoch property, both
operate by Williams Brothers of
Eagle Springs.
Street and golf course fairway
clearing is being done by Mont
gomery Brothers of Germantown,
with Charles Montgomery in
charge.
T. A. Loving Co. of Goldsboro,
with Paul Tucker and BiU Fox in
charge, has the contract for street
paving and construction of water
lines.
Mr. and Mrs. John McCrimmon
who for some years have occupied
the gate house on Morganton
Road, as caretakers for the prop
erty, are continuing their associa
tion with it under the new own
irship.
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CENTER OF SITE— The former Watson’s Lake, a glimpse of
which is seen here, will be the hub around whose wooded shores
and adjoining areas will be built The Country Club of North
Carolina’s golf course, club house and other facilities, as well
as private residences. (Piiot photo)
Plans For
Revealed
3 Sandhills
Residents In
Group Of 41
The names of 41 men promi
nent in business, industry, bank
ing, government, the law and oth
er professions appear on the char
ter of The Country Club of North
Carolina, Inc. filed Tuesday in
the office of the Secretary of
State at Raleigh.
The filing made public for the
first time the names of the men
behind one of the largest real es
tate transactions and one of the
most elaborate golf-residential de
velopments in the annals of this
area.
The Country Club of North
Carolina will in the heart of a
tract of more than 1,100 acres
bought in December by Royal
Dornoch Golf Village, Inc., for
about $515,000 and located within
the Southern Pines-Pinehurst-
Aberdeen triangle. The purchase
included 896 acres in the late
John Warren Watson’s estate and
approximately 257 acres in six
other tracts. The Country Club
has a Pinehurst mail address.
The 60-acre “Watson’s Lake”
on the tract was included in the
sale and is the focal point around
which will bs built a million-dol-
lar-plus country club and 18-hole
golf course development, includ
ing streets linking 283 large resi
dential lots.
All the original incorporators
are purchasing lots which were re
cently assigned them individual
ly in a drawing at Greensboro, at
which a U. S. District Court judge
presided. Other lots will be sold
under strict regulative conditions.
Names of some of the incorpor
ators had been rtunored in this
area and it was generally known
that th.3 list included some of the
State’s most prominent men.
However the names have not
been made public locally until to
day.
■Two of the incorporators, Voit
Gilmore of Southern Pines and
Lawrence Johnson of Aberdeen,
are Sandhills residents. Another,
D. W. Winkelman, is a winter
resident here.
Listed by community of resi
dence, with indication of their
principal business or professional
positions, the incorporators (char
ter members) are:
Raleigh
James Poyner, attorney; Trent
Ragland, Jr., president, Superior
Stone Company; Karl Hudson,
Jr., treasurer and general mana
ger, Hudson-Belk Company;
Gregory Poole, president,
Gregory-Poole Equipment Com
pany; C. C. Cameron, president,
Cameron-Brown Company; John
A. Williams, Jr., Richard A. Ur-
quhart, Jr., and Thomas P. Fick-
lin, certified public accoimtants.
Greensboro
Hargrove Bowles, Jr., chair
man of the Bbmd of Con
servation and Development, who
has varied business interests; C.
M. Vanstory, chairman of the
board, N. C. National Bank; Rich
ardson Preyer, United States Dis
trict Judge, Middle District of
North Carolina; Thornton Brooks,
partner, Brooks, McLendon, Hold-
•srness & Brim, Attorneys; Wil
liam C. Boren, III, president, Po
mona Terra Cotta Company; Gris
wold Smith, chairman. First
Southern Company and chairman,
Kavanaugh-Smith Company.
Durham
Frank Kenan, president, Kenan
Oil Company; William H. Ruffin,
president, Erwin Mills; Kenneth
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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.
Max Min
January 31 48 42
February 1 , 31 29
February 2 40 29
February 3 47 28
February 4 39 21
February 5 51 30
February 6 52 45