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THURSDAY, AI^RIL 25, 1963
THE PILPT'-rSouthern Pines. North Carolina
Page THREE
n Candidates For Town Council Will Be On Primary Election Ballot Monday
Appearing alphabeiically on this page are photos
and short pronles of the 11 candidates for the Sou
thern Pines Tbwn Council, who will be on the ballot
in the town primary election, Monday, April 29.
Voters will be asked at that time to vote for five of
the 11, with the single low man to be eliminated.
Ten candidates will then appear on the ballot for
the regular election Tuesday, May 7. Not appearing
on the primary ballot or on this page, because they
are unopposed, are the candidates for judge and
prosecuting attorney of the local recorder's court—
Judge W. Harry Fullenwider and Howard G.
Broughton. Further details of the primary appear in
a story on the front page.
I merits of town funds. He formerly
served on the Town Advertising
Committee. ,
A resident of Southern Pines
for more than 30 years, Mr. John
son has been active in civic and
political affairs. For the past 12
years, has has been manager of
the Eks Club and the Southern
Pines Country Club where the
Elks Club is located.
He had previously owned and
operated his own grocery store,
Johnson’s Finest in Foods, and
nad been associated with Dorn’s
Market and the A & P store in
former years.
Mr. Johnson is a past president
of the Southern Pines Rotary Club
and Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
A native of Georgia, he is a
graduate of the Talboton, Ga.,
High School. For many years, in
Southern Pines, he has been as
sociated with the Moore County
Hounds in various promotional
and assistance capacities.
The councilman’s wife is the
former Louise Scheipers of Sou
thern Pines. They live at 240 E.
Massachusetts Ave.
Club, a group supporting athletic
activity at the school. He is cur
rently president of the Sandhills
Tennis Association.
The candidate’s wife is the for
mer Violet Carter of Georgetown,
S. C., and they have two sons,
Charles Allen, Jr., and Johnny,
both students in East Southern
Pines High School. The family
attends the First Baptist Church
where Mrs. McLaughlin is a Sun
day School teacher. They live at
610 S. May St.
Felton J. Capel
Completing his second two-
year term as a member of the
town council, Felton J. Capel an
nounced his candidacy for reelec-
ticn after he was endorsed for
the post by the West Southern
Pines Civic Club.
A native of Ellerbe, he has liv
ed in Southern Pines for the past
12 years. For the past four and a
half years, he has been with the
Century Metalcraft Company,
manufacturers of stainless st^l
cooking ware, and has been dis
trict manager for the past two
years, during which his district
has expanded to include Virginia
and Washington, D. C., setting
new sales records lor the com
pany, bringing the local man
numerous awards.
'The candidate is a trustee and
member of the Usher Board of
the first Missionary Baptist
Church and a former Sunday
School teacher there. He is a
former president of the West
Southern Pines Civic Club.
A veteran of Army service as a
Field Artillery sergeant in Ger
many, Mr. Capel is a past com
mander of the Alexander , Gra
ham Post of the Veterans of For
eign Wars. Following his military
service, he attended Hampton
Institute, Hampton, Va.
His wife, Mrs. Jean Capel, is x-
ray technician at St. Joseph of the
Pines Hospital. 'They have two
sons, Felton and Jeffrey. The
Capels live at 1009 W. New
Hampshire Ave.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.
Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., is a
native of Southern Pines, having
graduated from Southern Pines
High School in 1943. He gradu
ated from Duke University in
1947.
He has been employed by ’The
Citizens Bank and 'Trust Com
pany of Southern Pines since 1949
and is presently executive vice
president. In 1958 he completed
the course at the Stonier Gradu
ate School of Banking in Rutgers.
He is presently serving as first
vice president of the Young
Bankers Division of the North
Carolina Bankers Association.
Mr. Hodgkins has been active
in local civic and community af
fairs. He is a member of the
Sandhills Kiwanis Club and is
currently serving as treasurer.
He is a member of Brownson Me
morial Presbyterian Church and
has served on the board of dea
cons. He also holds membership
in the Southern Pines Elks Lodge.
He is active as a director and
has served as president of the
Moore County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation, the Moore County His
torical Association, the Sandhills
Music Association, and the Sand
hills Tennis Association. He was
a charter member and past pres
ident of the Southern Pines Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce and in
1958 received the Jaycees’ Dis
tinguished Service Award given
annually to an outstanding young
men of the community.
Although he has never run for
office previously, he has served
on the Southern Pines Industrial
Crimmittee for a number of years
and is a former chairman. He is
'also a member of the Moore
I County Industrial Committee.
I Mr. Hodgkins’s wife, the for
mer Sara Wilson, is a public
school music teacher in the local
' schools. They have one daugh
ter, Caroline, and live at 275
Valley Road.
times spent away, since 1939. He
was an insurance company’s dis
trict manager in Durham, 1939-
41. He took a degree in hospital
administration at Duke Univer
sity in 1941 and was on the busi
ness staff of Duke Hospital for
the next three years. In 1944, he
was called back to become secre
tary of the Standard Vacuum Oil
Co., in New York City until 1952.
Mr. Pethick has been a mem
ber of the advisory Council of St.
Joseph of the Pines Hospital
since 1960. He was a director of
Moore Memorial Hospital 1955-56.
He has been chairman of the Red
Cross drive here and chairman
of the building fund, trustee and
treasurer of the United Church
of Christ, formerly Church of
Wide Fellowship, for various
periods, 1952-63. He was on the
local Boy Scout committee two
years.
He is a life governor of the
Royal Masonic Hospital, London,
England, a life member of sever
al clubs in Hong Kong and was
a trustee of Wesleyan University,
1951-56. He is listed in the 30th
edition of “Who’s Who In Amer
ica.”
Donald D. Kennedy
A resident of Southern Pines
for the past nine years, Donald
Davidson Kennedy is active in
the business, civic and sports life
of the community. He has not pre
viously been a candidate for local
elective office.
Before moving to Southern
Pines, his time was spent partly
in business pursuits and partly as
an educator in the United States
and Brazil.
As volunteer chaiMnan of the
Stoneybrook Hunt Race Meeting
for several years, he has been in
fluential in the increasing success
of this major sports event of the
Sandhills. He is part-owner of the
OK Bowl, local bowling alleys,
and has other business interests
in Haiti.
Mr. Kennedy was Southern
Pines Chairman of a Moore Me
morial Hospital, fund drive, to
match federal funds for hospital
expansion, in 1954. He was co-
chairman, n^yith Dr. R. M. Mc
Millan, of the Endowment Com
mittee’dn't'955, in the effort to
bring the Presbyterian College to
Southern Pines; was chairman of
the first Red Cross blood pro
gram: and headed the Moore
County Red Cross membership
and fund campaign in 1957.
A 1923 graduate of Princeton
University, Mr. Kennedy lives at
140 N. Valley Rd. His wife is the
former Juliet Vale of Southern
Pines.
Danie S. Montesanli
A resident of Southern Pines
for nearly all of his life, Dante
S. Montesanti has twice before
been a candidate for the town
council, in 1959 and 1961. He has
had an interest in local govern
ment for many years and was
nominated for the board of town
commissioners here in the 1930’s.
Since 1947, Mr. Montesanti has
owned and actively managed
Dante’s Restaurant on S. W..
Broad St. For about 20 years he
was in the dry cleaning business
with his lather, the late Angelo
Montesanti, who moved here
from Boston, Mass., with his wife
and family in 1912, becoming one
of the town’s well known and re
spected citizens, raising a family
of seven children.
Dante Montesanti studied at the
National University Law School
in Washington, D. C., but did not
complete the course, and is a
graduate of the Cleaning Insti
tute at Silver Springs, Md. In
1939, he was chi.3f inspector of
dry cleaning plants for the State
of North Carolina.
He is a member of St. An
thony’s Catholic Church and is a
charter member of the Elks
Club. He is active in the North
Carolina Restaurant Association.
He heads the committee that rais-
>sd and administers a fund in
honor of the late Police Chief C.
E. Newton.
Mr. Montesanti’s wife is the
former Frances Occhipinti of Bos
ton. They have three children:
Adrian who is in her second year
of nurse’s training at Mercy Hos
pital, Charlotte, and Dante, Jr.,
and Melanie, who are in school
here. The Montesantis live at 345
Country Club Drive.
Mr. Pethick was first married
to the former Faye Abraham who
died in 1959. Their two daughters
are Mary Grace (Mrs. Roger Rob
inson) and Sylvia (Mrs. Lucius
F. Maltby). A son. Ensign Richard
B. Pethick, was lost at sea dur
ing World War II.
In March, 1961, Mr. Pethick
was married to Mrs. Helen Sey-
bolt Skeel. They live at 510 E
Indiana Ave.
Elks Lodge and the Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Association.
His hobbies are flying, golf, mus
ic and “ham” radio.
He served his medical intern
ship at Cook County Hospital,
Chicago, Ill., and his residency
in general surgery and urology,
at Northwestern, Illinois and
uoyola cooperating with the
Veterans Administration Hospi
tal, Hines, Ill., 1950-54, following
service as a U. S. Navy flight
surgeon, 1947-50. He is a mem
ber of Alpha Kappa Kappa, Al
pha Epsilon Delta and Phi Beta
Kappa honorary societies.
Dr. Phillips is a member of the
American College of Surgeons,
the North Carolina Surgical As
sociation, the American Medical
Association and other profession
al groups. He is certified as a
specialist in surgeiy by the
American Board of Surgery and
has been appointed an attending
surgeon at Moore Memorial Hos
pital where he served as chief of
staff in 1961-62. He has served
as clinical assistant professor of
Anatomy in the School of Medi
cine at the University of North
Carolina.
Dr. Phillips and his wife, the
former Carol Huebner, have six
children: Janet, 16; Charles, 14;
Nancy, 11; Elizabeth, 8; Mary, 6;
and Joan, 4. They live at 525 E.
Massachusetts Ave.
His current candidacy is his
first for public elective office.
a major in the U. S. Army retir
ed reserves.
Mr. Pollard is chairman of the
finance committee of the South
ern Pines Methodist Church,
served three years as church
treasurer and is a former presi
dent of its Men’s Club. He is a
member of the Elks and the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club and serves on
a Boy Scout troop committee. He
was county chairman of the
American Cancer Society’s fund
drive in 1962 and has taken part
in other charitable fund-raising
campaigns.
Mr. Pollard’s wife is the for
mer Sara Lee Peters of Salem,
Va. They have two daughters,
both graduates of East Southern
Pines High School. Cathr3m, a
graduate of the University of
North Carolina, teaches school at
Hampton, Va.; Susan,is junior
at Greensboro College. The Pol
lards live at 205 Highland Road.
Leland M. Daniels, Jr.
Leland M. Daniels, Jr., who is
a native of Southern Pines is a
licensed general contractor who
maintains his business here,
working throughout this area.
Much of his work in the past few
years has been at Fort Bragg on
government construction projects.
He has just built and leased to
three tenants a new business
building on S. W. Broad St., op
posite the A & P Super Market.
Mr. Daniels has been a candi
date for the council once before—
in the 1957 election.
A graduate of Southern Pines
High School, he is a member of
the Church of Wide Fellowship
and the local Elks Lodge. He is a
veteran of Army service in World
War II.
Mr. Daniels and his wife, the
former Marquita King of Packa-
nack, N. J., live at 240 N. Ridge
St. Thev have two daughters,
Karen, 10, and Lynn, 18 months
old.
Dr. Charles A. S. Phillips
Born at Bonlee in Chatham
County in 1922, Dr. Charles A.
Speas Phillips, who is associated
with the Pinehurst Surgical Clin
ic, lived here as a boy and is a
1938 graduate of Southern Pines
High School. He received a de
gree in Physics at the University
of North Carolina in 1942 and his
M. D. degree from Northwestern
University Medical School in
1947. He has practiced in this
area since 1954.
Dr. Phillips is active in num
erous local and state organiza
tions. He is a member and dea
con of Brownson Memorial Pres
byterian Church, a past presi
dent of the Moore County Mental
Health Association, president of
the Sandhills Music Association,
a past vice chairman of the
Moore County Red Cross Chai>
ter, a member of the state board
of directors, American Cancer
Society and N. C. Mental Health
Association, a member .'of the
Fred B. Pollard
Fred B. Pollard, seeking reel
ection, has be>3n a member of the
town council since August, 1961,
when he was unanimously named
by the other council members to
fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of Robert S. Ewing.
Mr. Pollard had been a council
candidate in the May 1961, elec
tion.
He has lived in Southern Pines
since January, 1956, when he
moved here from Anderson, S. C.,
and is with the Yam Procure
ment Department of the former
Air-erotron Company, the textile
firm which was recently sold to
the Deering-Milliken Corporation.
His office is at the former Amer-
otron headquarters building in
Aberdeen.
A native of Greenville, S. C.,
he has a B. S. degree in textile
engineering from Clemson Col
lege and has been in the textile
business for many years. Before
joining Amerotron, he was with
the Tennessee Eastman Company,
as a department supervisor and in
textile yarn sales. He served four
years in the Army Ordnance De
partment in World War II and is
William S. Thomasson
William S. Thomasson is pro
prietor of Thomasson Furniture
Company, 670 S. W. Broad St.,
a business that he has owned
and operated in Southern Pines
since 1956, although he first came
to live in this community in 1949.
A native of Great Falls, S. C.,
Mr. Thomasson moved to San
ford after his discharge from mil
itary service in World War II.
He worked at that time as air
conditioning engineer with Caro
lina Sales Corporation, moving
to Southern Pines in 1949 to be
in the center of the territory he
served in this business.
Resigning from Carolina Sales
in 1954, he went to Sanford to
open a furniture store but return
ed after two years to open a fur
niture store here on N. E. Broad
St., moving the store several
years later to a new building on
S. W. Broad St.
Mr. Thomasson is a Baptist,
Elk, Lion and Mason. He is a
member of the Southern Pines
Recreation Committee and the
Southern Pines Industrial Com
mittee, both of whose members
are appointed by the town coun
cil. He is a member of the Moore
County draft board.
Mr. Thomasson’s wife is the
former Lois Peake, also from
Great Falls, S. C. They have two
sons, Jim, who is associated with
the family business and Dick who
is a junior at William and Mary
College, majoring in accounting.
The Thomassons live at 805 N.
Saylor St., in the Knollwood
Apartments area of Southern
Pines.
W. Morris Johnson
Elected to the town council in
1961, on his first try for public
office, W. Morris Johnson is com
pleting his first term.
In addition to his regular
council duties, he has been named
as the council representative on
the Southern Pines Library board
of trustees and as town treasurer,
signing ail checks for disburse-
C. A. McLaughlin
C. A. McLaughlin has been in
business in Southern Pines for
the past 13 years, as owner and
manager of the Style-Mart Store
at the corner of Pennsylvania
Ave. and S. W. Broad St.
A native of Red Springs, he is
a graduate of Wake Forest Col
lege, with a B. S. degree, and
was a school teacher and coach
before entering business.
He is an officer in the Elks
Lodge and has been- particularly
interested in school and recrea
tion activities. He is vice-presi
dent of the Band Boosters Club,
' |an organization of parents of
! school band members and friends
j of the band, and is a charter
' member of the Blue Knights
Harry H. Pethick
Harry H. Pethick has served
two terms on the town council
to which he now seeks reelection
—1955-57 and 1959-61.
Born at Binghamton, N. Y., in
1888, Mr. Pethick is a graduate
of Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Conn., and did graduate
study at Pennsylvania State Col
lege and the University of Penn
sylvania.
He was principal of the Dam
ascus, Pa., High School, 1910-1912
and then, for 25 years, held vari
ous marketing and managerial
positions with the Standard Oil
Company of New York,Socony-
Vacuum Oil Co. and Standard
Oil Co., in China, French
Indo-China and Hong Kong,
holding also during some of those
years diplomatic, posts for the
United States and other nations.
He has been associated with
Southern Pines, with various
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