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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963
Women's Activities
and Sandhills Social Events
MARY EVELYN de NISSOFF, Editor TELEPHONE OX 2-6512
United Church Pastor
To Direct Weekend
Vocations Retreat
■ The Rev. Carl Wallace, pastor
of the United Church of Christ,
will be director of a Church Vo
cations Retreat this weekend at
Elon College. Youth attending
froih Southern Pines are: Dawn
Lelandy Roberta Austin, and
Nancy Rowe,
Speaker for the 11 a. m. Sun
day rtiorning service at the Uni
ted Church will be the Rev. Wal-
stein Snyder,’ superintendent of
the Elpn -Children’s Home. Joseph
Sandlin will lead in the service.
Sunday evening at 6 p. m., the
youth will hear reports from the
Vocations Retreat.
Meetings this week at the
church include choir rehearsals
as scheduled Wednesday; gen
eral meeting of Women’s Fellow
ship Thursday.
The rear of the outdoor church
garden has been opened for a
play area. Sound reinforcement
for the church has been comple
ted and includes: reinforcement
for the sanctuary, eight individu
al earphone sets, permanent
broadcast connections and a
nursery speaker.
Members of Dogwood
Grove To Attend
State Convention
Dogwood Grove 253 of the Su
preme Forest Woodmen Circle
met Monday, April 8 with Miss
Mary Scott Newton serving as
president pro tern while presi
dent Stella Morrison served as
assistant attendant in practice to
fill her office at the forthcoming
state convention.
LAKELAWN FARM RING SCENE OF LAST
MID-SOUTH HORSE SHOW OF SEASON
In the final Mid-South School
ing Horse Show, held Sunday
after the Stoneybrobk Hunt Race
meet the day before, a note of
levity was introduced with a
special class lor those “Old
Enough to know Better.”
Winners in the show, held in
A letter from the National
President was read, advising the
Grove that it won second place
in the recent state accomplish
ment campaign and would re
ceive an award and a check for
$15 at the convention.
Plans are underway to hold a
party for the patients at the VA j
Hospital in Fayetteville, with
date to be set later.
The members voted to make a
substantial contribution toward
furnishing a room at the Wood
man Circle Home in Sherman,
Tex. This contribution will be
made at the convention.
A card party will be held at
the Crain residence on North
Ashe Street Saturday, April 27,
to raise money for the heart,
polio and cancer drives. Members
are asked to donate prizes for
the party, and to give them eith
er to Mrs. Sarah Lorenson or
Miss Pauline Crain as soon as
possible.
Attending the State convention
this weekend at the Queen Char
lotte Hotel are Mrs. Amelia Crain
and the Misses Stella Morrison,
Louise Crain and Mary Scott
Newton, and possibly others
from the Grove, who will be
going to Charlotte Saturday for
the meeting that night and Sun
day morning.
Miss Morrison was the lucky
prize winner for the month and
wiU be responsible for donating
the prize for the May meeting.
the D. W. Winkelmans’ Lakelawn
Farm Ring, were awarded prizes
in age groups rather than on in
dividual ability by judges Wil
liam O’Brien, Maj. George Fox
and Alec Forman.
In the class mentioned above.
Wo. 6 on the program, Mrs. Wil
liam Goff, wearing a hat adorn
ed with a large Easter egg, rode
her son Gregory’s small gray
pony. Dapple Do, to a first place
victory.
Winning a red ribbon for her
sidesaddle performance on her
horse. Spring Wave, was Mrs.
Gardiner Fiske. J. T. Overton
won a third on his Dueler and
prize for fourth place was won
by Mrs. Huntington McLane of
Millbrook, N. Y. who drove her
Shetland pony. Whistle.
Other winners, listed in order
in the various classes of the
show, were:
Maiden, 12 and Under—Kim
Gernold, Susan Gernold.
Walk, Trot, 14 and Under—
Ede Graves, Statesville; Greg
Goff, Johanna Smith, Mpllie Pot
tle.
Horsemanship, 14 to 18—Dottie
Brinn, Sanford; Barbara Ritchie;
Jan Graves, Statesville; Jane
Willett.
Junior Hunters Over Fences—
Jan Graves, Pat Crites, Raleigh;
Greg Goff, Dottie Brinn.
Junior Working ,Hunters—
Greg Goff, Pat Crites, Jan
Graves, Dottie Brinn.
Green Working Hunters—
Paper Doll, J. O. Bulkley, Green
wich, Conn.; Indiscretion, Mary
McCormick; Magic Dragon, Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Woolfe, Jr.;
Wendemeerladdie, White Oaks
Stable, Durham.
Green Conformation Hunters—
Paper Doll, Indispretion, Magic
Dragon, Please Mister, Mr. and
Mrs. Warner Atkins.
Open Working Hunters Under
Saddle—Pine Needles, Lakelawn
Farm; Please Mister; John Peel,
Pat Crites; Pompadoo, Greg
Goff.
Open Working Hunters—Ted
dy Bear, Mrs. Gardiner Fiske;
John Peel, Magic Dragon, Rajk-
umar, Barbara Ritchie.
New Members Join
BPO Drove At
Tuesday Meeting
The following new members
were initiated Tuesday evening
into the Southern Pines Drove 42
of the Benevolent and Patriotic
Order of Does: Mrs. Lola Briggs,
Mrs. Beatrice Arhart, Mrs. Mar
garet Covington, Mrs. Wilma
Reid and Mrs. Margaret VonCan-
on.
Reports of Drove activities
were given by committee chair
men, including a report on the
rummage sale by Mrs. Elsie
Thompson; the Steeplechase con
cession, by Mrs. Rena Matthews;
also tentative plans for fun night
by Mrs. Marquita Daniels, the
mother-daughter banquet sched
uled for May 1, and a chicken
fry to which the public is to be
invited, on May 11.
The next regular meeting of
the Drove will be on May 7, and
all members are urged to be
present.
Week’s Arrivals
At Hollywood
Hotel Are Noted
Arrivals this week at the Hol
lywood Hotel include: Arthur
Plosscowe, who came from Roch
ester, N. Y. for some golf; Miss
Mary Davidson and Mrs. George
Fox of Tompkins Cove, N. Y.;
Thomas Kittredge of Pinebluff;
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Reid of Mad
ison, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl P. Mathew-
son of Bristol, R. I.; Mr. and Mrs.
Hardie Scott of Edgemere, Pa.;
Misses Hope and Alice Baker of
Providence, R. I., Mrs. Curtis
Townsend of Milburn, N. J.
Mrs. George Brasted of Utica,
N. Y. and her daughter, Mrs.
Marion Reul, and grandsons,
Robert and George, came for the
holidays, and Mr. and Mrs. C.
H. Pegg of Chapel Hill spent the
weekend.
North State Bridge
Tourney Set April
19-21 In Wilson
The Wilson Bridge Association
and the Recreation Duplicate
Club is sponsoring the 25th an
nual North State Bridge Tourna
ment, April 19-21, at The Cherry
Hotel in Wilson.
Refreshments will be served
and trophies for permanent pos
session will be awarded winners
and runners-up in all events.
Interested bridge players are
invited.
Historic Tour To
Be This Weekend
In Wilmington
“Remembrance of things past”
is the order of tke day when the
third annual historical tour of
Wilmington’s houses opens Sat-
irrday, April 20, at 10:00 a. m.
Meeting at Thalian Hall, groups
will leave at five-minute inter
vals until 11:00.
The afternoon tour, which will
assemble at First Presbyterian
Church, starts at 2:00, with doors
open until 3:00. On Sunday after
noon, April 21, the tour will be
gin at Thalian Hall at 2:00.
Proceeds will be used to pre
serve historic buildings, and erect
markers designating old homes.
Sponsored by the Lower Cape
Fear Historical Society, and un
der direction of R. V. Asbury, Jr.,
the tours Will feature gracious
homes and public buildings da
ting from 1772-1860.
Coffee will be served at the
conclusion of the morning tour
at the Hathaway-Boney House
and tea will be served at the
last stop on the afternoon tour,
St. John’s Art Gallery, built in
1804 and the first building in the
state to be built expressly for the
purpose of housing the Masonic
Order.
Mrs. Hallman Is
Honored By Grade
Mothers Club Sunday
Mrs. Mary Hallman was hon
ored at a surprise party Sunday
evening at the West Southern
Pines School by the Grade Moth
ers Club.
. The honor guest was the club’s
first president and served a long
time. During her period of lead
ership, the club grew and created
a deeper and stronger interest
among the parents and citizens of
the community in regard to qual
ity education.
Mrs. Lelia Turner, president,
and other members, spoke of
Mrs. Hallman’s fine service and
a token of appreciation was giv
en her, on behalf of the club, by
Mrs. Alease France. The honoree
opened her gift, expressing her
thanks to the members and best
wishes for the continued success
of the organization.
Officers and committee chair
men, in addition to Mrs. Turner,
who presided are: Mrs. Alma
Monroe, vice president; Mrs. Mo-
zelle Williams, secretary, Mrs.
Lillie Finley, treasurer; Mrs.
Clara Bell, chairman of the pro
gram committee; Mrs. Sallie Wil
liams, chairman of the refresh
ment committee and Mrs. L. M.
Barksdale, club sponsor.
The hostesses, with Mrs. Clara
Bell as chairman, served sand
wiches, punch cakes, candies and
nuts.
Mrs. Koster Gives
Poetry Readings At
Ft. Bragg This Week
Mrs. Leon Hart Koster, publish
ed author of “Verses of the Ser
vice,” a book of poems on Army
life, written from her own obser
vations as an Army wife for 30
years, was the guest at Fort Bragg
of wives of Special Forces officers
Wednesday.
She read several humorous
selections from her book at the
brunch, held in the Hodge Room
of the Officers Club.
She is the wife of Retired
Colonel Alfred M. Koster and
the couple live at 510 East Mass
achusetts Avenue.
On Friday, Mrs. Koster will
give a poetry reading for 82nd
Airborne Officers wives at the
82nd Officers Club at Fort Bragg.
Participants In
Poppy Day Radio
Program Named
Mrs. Vernon P. Doughty
“chauffeured” members of the
American Legion Auxiliary to
the Veterans’ Hospital in Fay
etteville on Tuesday for a day of
volunteer duty. They were Mrs.
L. L. Woolley, Mrs. J. S. Mc-
Lauchlin, Mrs. David McCallum
and Mrs. Dan R. McNeill.
Those who will take part in
the radio Poppy Day program, to
be given Friday morning over
station WEEB at 10:30 are Miss
Gussie Cameron, local unit pres
ident; Miss Nannie Gilchrist, Mrs.
J. S. McLauchlin, Mrs. David Mc
Callum and Mrs. Dan McNeill of
Southern Pines, and Mrs. George
Hunt of the Pinehurst auxiliary.
Today, the annual poppy cam
paign honors veterans of all wars,
living and dead. With so many
veterans of such varied ages, the
poppy program is vital in rais
ing money to care for all needy
veterans and their families.
Poppy Day in Southern Pines
and Pinehurst is Saturday.
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MISS CATHRYN ROBERTSON POLLARD, whoso parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pollard of 205 Highland Road, announce her
engagement to Lt. Frank A. Neely, Jr. of Big Stone Gap, Va.
The prospective bride is presently teaching school in Hampton,
Va. Her fiance is assigned to Langley AFB in Hampton as a
navigator. The wedding will take place here on June 15.
AFTER 43 YEARS AWAY, TAR HEELS ARE
DRAWN TO SANDHILLS BY PINE LANDS
After spending over 40 years
in the mid-west, the west coast
and Canada, native Charlotteans
Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Harper
have returned to North Carolina
to live and have chosen Southern
Pines as their year-round home.
The Harpers recently purchas
ed the first home built on Halc
yon Drive by the Pines Realty
Company and are in the process
of settling in.
Mr. Harper, who is a brother-
in-law of A. Mangum Webb of
East Indiana Avenue, retired in
June, 1962, after 43 years with
the Goodyear Rubber Company.
For the past 10 years, he has
been in Toronto as vice president
charge of sales of the Good
in
year Tire and Rubber Company
of Canada, Ltd. Before that, he
held executive positions with the
company in Akron, Ohio, and in
Los Angeles, Calif. He has been
traveling since his retirement
until he and his wife moved here
April 1.
The couple decided to return
to this state to live, and after
many visits here, chose Southern
Pines mainly because they love
the pine woods, so abundant in
the section where they have
bought.
Although they are as yet only
partially moved in, they are
already entertaining house guests
—their son, Henry G. Harper,
Jr. and his family arrived yester
day—he is associated with South
ern California Edison.
Visitors during the past week
were Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Merritt,
en route from Florida to Toron
to, and Mr. Harper’s brother,
Robert J. Harper of New York
City is here now.
Mr. Harper, who is a Univer
sity of North Carolina graduate,
is a member of the Lambton Golf
and Country Club, the Toronto
Club and the Granite Club of
Toronto; the Portage Country
Club of Akron and the Charlotte
City Club.
In and Out of Town
Recent guests of the Chester
van Benschotehs in Whispering
Pines were their sons and guests,
John and Donald and Misses
Joan Robinson and Pauline
Brightwell, all of Virginia Beach,
Va., and their son, Lynn, and
Miss Ellen Gleaton, from Orange
burg, S. C. Also, Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur van Benschoten of Amen-
ia, N. Y. and Miss Bessie Gae-
deke and Mrs. Irene Duxbury,
both of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
A weekend guest of her moth
er, Mrs. C. L. Todd Baxter at
305 East New Hampshire Avenue
was Miss Alice Baxter, of Wash
ington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Longcope
were here from New York City
for the past weekend at their
place here, Charled Farm.
House guests this week of Mrs.
Jules Morrell are Mrs. Karl Lag-
erman of Verona, N. J.; Henry
Lind of Upper Montclair, N. J.
and Langdon Williams of East
Orange, N. J.
The Sherwood Brockwells and
their daughter, Sarah Anne,
ispent the weekend with his moth
er, Mrs. Robert Rainey, in Peters
burg, Va.
James Boyd of New York City
was the weekend guest of his
mother, Mrs. James Boyd, at
Weymouth.
Dickey Hoskins returned to N.
C. State College Wednesday
after spending the spring vaca
tion with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dwight Hoskins.
Looking Ahead
DAR MEETING
The Alfred Moore Chapter of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution will meet Saturday at
2:30 p. m. with Mrs. Jamie C.
Loy in Robbins. Co-hostesses-will
be Mrs. Ben Owens and Quinton
Smith.
May
Winners Listed For
Sandhill Duplicate
Bridge Club Meeting
On Tuesday evening at the
Southern Pines Country Club
there were six tables in play at
the regular weekly meeting of
the Sandhill Duplicate Bridge
Club.
Winners, North-South, were:
Mrs. Betsy Hitson and Mrs. W.
J. Burke, first; and a tie between
Mrs. J. J. Spring and partner. Dr.
E. W. Bush and Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Markham of West End.
East-West winners: Frank de
Costa and his brother-in-law Col.
George Woods, first; Miss Marga
ret Lavery and Mrs. O. A. Dick
inson, second.
RECUPERATING
Mrs. Edward T. Taws, Jr. is
making a good recovery at Moore
Memorial Hospital, where she un
derwent major surgery Tuesday.
3 Deadline For
Student Essay Contest
Told At UDC Meeting
The John Blue Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy met April 10 in the dining
room of the Howard Johnson
Restaurant with 19 members
present. Mrs. O. A. Speight, pres
ident, presided.
It was announced that the stu
dents who are preparing essays
for the contest sponsored by the
Chapter should have these com
pleted by May 3.
The Aberdeen High School
Glee Club, led by Mrs. W. C.
Neill, sang several Southern
songs.
Honor guests at the meeting,
both from Dunn, were Mrs. J.
Shepard Bryan, District director,
and Mrs. James A. Surles, Dis
trict secretary.
Hostesses for the social hour,
when ice cream and cookies were
served, were Mrs. A. L. Burney,
Mrs. Neill McKay, Mrs. C. S.
Patch, Mrs. R. P. Brown and
Mrs. J. S. McLauchlin.
Youth Session April
27 Will Highlight
Retreat Conference
On Saturday, April 27, young
people from many sections of the
state will meet in Southern
Pines during the Regional Retreat
Conference which will be held
at the Southland Hotel, with ses
sions at Saint Anthony’s School,
on April 26, 27, 28.
The Rev. John Campbell, S. J.,
of St. Louis, Mo., will be modera
tor of the panel in which high
school and college girls will take
part. Father Campbell has work
ed with teenagers for many years.
He is currently in charge of the
Sodality Movement in St. Louis.
The Most Rev. John J. Wright,
D.D., Bishop of Pittsburgh and
National Moderator of the Lay-
women’s and Laymen’s Retreat
Movements, will address the
youth during their session. Both
boys and girls are invited to at
tend.
Mary Ellen Sauser
And Roommate Spend
Easter Holiday Here
Mrs. Clare W. Sauser returned
home on Palm Sunday from
Washington, D. C. where she and
her five children and William
Wicker of Aberdeen went to see
Georgetown University’s Mask
and Bauble Society present an
original musical comedy, “Bona
parte.”
Mary Ellen Sauser, a sopho
more in the School of Foreign
Service, had one of the principal
parts in the musical.
Mary Ellen and her roommate,
Kathleen Finnegan, daughter of
Representative Finnegan (D) of
Illinois, spent the Easter holi
days with the former’s parents in
Knollwood. Both girls plan to
spend their junior years in
French universities, Mary at the
University of Tours and Kathleen
at the University of Marseille.
Colonel Sauser returned home
last week following a special
course at Medical Field Service
School, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
Presbyterial Church
Women Hold Board
Meeting in Carthage
Mrs. Myrton T. Stewart of Car
thage, president of the Women of
the Church of Fayetteville Pres
bytery, presided at the April 6
meeting of the executive board,
held at the Carthage Presbyteri
an Church.
Mrs. Charles T. Grier, presi
dent of the Carthage Church
Women, welcomed board mem
bers and guests. The Women of
the host church entertained at tea
following the business session at
Mrs. Griers’ home. Mrs. M. G.
Dalrymple played the piano dur
ing tea.
Among board members attend
ing were Mrs. R. P. Brown of
Southern Pines; Miss Treva Au-
man and Mrs. W. K. Fitch, Jr. of
West End; and Mrs. W. H. Currie
and Mrs. Ralph Gilmore of Car
thage.
BENEFIT PARTY
A benefit dessert card party
will be held tomorrow, Friday,
at 1:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs.
R. M. Cushman at 190 North Val
ley Road. Proceeds will go to the
sponsoring Civic Club.
Miss Beth Turner spent the
Weekend in Oxford where she
served as a bridesmaid in the
wedding of a former Meredith
College classmate. Miss Anita
Jones, who was married Easter
Sunday to Burley Adcock.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Anderson
of Kingston, R. I., are visiting her
sister, Mrs. Ernest Morell.
Mr. and Mrs. Denison K. Bul-
lens, Jr. and children, Sherron
and Scott, were guests during
the past week of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. K. Bullens, at their
Knollwood place, Homewood Gar
dens,
Visitors during the past week
with Mr. / and Mrs. Robert M.
Cushman at their North Valley
Road horpe were their two sons,
Robert M., Jr., his wife and their
two sons, of Rockingham, and
Everett and his wife, of Green
ville, S. C. Also visiting were the
Cushmans’ daughters; Sally,
a student at St. Andrews College,
and Mrs, Thomas Nickerson and
her two sons of New Castle, Pa.
Here for the Stoneybrook Race
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Jack
S. Younts on Bethesda Road
were Mr. apd Mrs. Harry Vap-r
derlinden of Hickory.
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Sontag
and their daughters, Joanne and
Cindy, have just returned from
a 10-day visit with his sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Kissel and their two sons
in North Hollywood, Calif.
Guests during the Easter holi
day of Mr. and Mrs. Neill S. Mc
Kay at their East Indiana Ave
nue home were their son, Wil
liam B., of Dallas, Tex. and Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon T. Daw of Hart
ford, Conn. Also visiting with
the McKays last week were Lyt-
tleton M. Baldwin, Gen. George
H. Casby, Jr., Joseph Helms and
Edwin Linthicum, Jr., all of
Hartford, who were guests at
The Carolina in Pinehurst.
LEARN MORE CLASS
Mrs. W. D. Matthews will be
hostess to the Learn More Bible
Class, meeting at her home, 440
Morganton Road, on Monday at
8 p. m.
New Heir-Rivak
BABY BOY GORDON
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon of
Cape Meddick, Maine are the
parents of a six pound boy, bom
April 7. The baby’s mother is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Munn of West End.
DAVID C. BASTIAN
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. McKenzie of
May Street received the news
Wednesday of the birth of a
grandchild, David Carlisle Basti-
an, who was born to Sgt. and
Mrs. C. T. Bastian at the Tripler
Hospital in Honolulu. The couple
lives on the Island of Wahiawa,
Hawaii. The infant weighed sev
en pounds, 14 ounces. His mother
is the former Donna McKenzie.
Paternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Bastien of Larch-
mont, N. Y.
JOHN
RUGGLES
about this question:
“People invariably have one
lawyer handle all their affairs
- one doctor and one dentist.
Why then do folks often have
their insurance with several
agents? Would a man be more
certain of complete insurance
protection with less overlap
ping and expense if one inde
pendent local agent handled
all his insurance?”
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