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VOL. 43—NO. 26
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1963
TWENTY PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
HERE NEXT WEEK
Over 200 Enter
Elks National
Golf Tourney
More than 200 entries from 16
states are expected here next
week to play in the second an
nual National Amateur Elks In
vitational Golf Tournament, May
23-26.
The 54-hole medal play event
will use both the Southern Pines
Country Club and Mid Pines Club
courses, With contestants eiltema-
ting in the, course they play. All
golfers taking part will be mem
bers of Elks Lodges from the
wide area to which invitations
were sent.
The local sponsor is Southern
Pines Lodge No. 1692, with Bob
Strouse and Dr. Boyd Starnes as
tournament chairmen. The lodge’s
headquarters is at the Southern
Pines Country Club which will
also be tournament headquarters.
Pete Mitchell is the tournament
director.
'The two courses wiU be open
Thursday for a free practice
round by all contestants. Friday
and Saturday will be qualifying
days. All flights wilt have 18
holes of medal play on Simday
(May 26).
The many silver trophies for
winners and three runners-up in
all flights will be presented at
6 p. m. Sunday at the Southern
Pines Country Club. The cham
pionship flight will consist of the
16 low players and other flights
will be composed of 16 each.
Social Events
Social events include a 6 p. m.
party for contestants on Iliurs-
day and a Saturday night dance
free to all contestants and their
guests. Numerous contestants are
bringing their wives, the tourna-
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MISS COLE WINS
KIWANIS AWARD
The Junior Builder's Cup—
given annually by the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club to a
Moore County high school
senior for home, school,
church and community leadi-
ership—was presented yes
terday to Miss Clare Cole of
West End school, at the
club's luncheon meeting in
the Pinehurst Country Club.
She was chosen from nine
contestants, all of whom
were guests at the meeting,
chosen by their school prin-
dpals. Club President Law
rence Johnson of Aberdeen
made the presentation.
Resurfacing Work On
No. 1 Highway Begins
Resurfacing operations by state
forces will cause a detour along
a portion of No. 1 highway from
the north end of the local by
pass to Cameron. One-way traf
fic will be maintained for a dis
tance of 10.1 miles, and traffic
delay time is estimated at 15
minutes.
Work on the project was to be
gin this week and will terminate
around June 14, according to
the Highway Commission.
PLAY BALL!— Mayor W. Morris Johnson
(left-center, with glasses) throws out the ball to
open the 1963 Little League baseball season here
Saturday, as league officials and coaches watch.
Note ball at left top of photo. In games played
Saturday, the Cardinals and Braves tied 7-7
and the Dodgers beat the Pirates 7-2. In a play
off of the tie Monday, the Cardinals edged the
Braves 8-7. A complete schedule of remaining
Little League games appears elsewhere in to
day’s Pilot. In Minor League play Saturday,
the Yanks swamped the Cubs 16-2 and the
Tigers blanked the Reds, 14-0. In Wednesday
games, the Tigers defeated the Cubs 8-1 and
the Reds beat the Yanks 8-3.
(Humphrey photo)
South Central’s
New Air Service
To Start May 29
South Central Air Lines, Inc.,
using six-passender, twin-engine
Aztec B airplanes, will start its
scheduled service to Southern
Pines-Pinehurst Airport on Wed
nesday, May 29, The Pilot was
informed this week by John H.
Wright, vice president.
The company’s headquarters is
at Smith Reynolds Airport, Win
ston-Salem, with New York of
fices at 310 Madison Ave.
Two South Central flights will
serve the local airport daily.
Flight 402, leaving Charlotte at
1:03 p. m. arrives here at 1:32,
leaving here at 1:42 for Sanford
(1:48), Raleigh-Durham Airport,
(2:11), Wilson, Roanoke Rapids,
Emporia, Va. and Norfolk, Va.,
where the arrival time is 5 p. m.
Flight 403 arrives at Southern
Pines at 8:18 a. m., having left
Norfolk, Va., at 7 a. m. Its stops
en route from Norfolk to South
ern Pines include Emporia, Va.,
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BUS STATION MOVES
Queen City Trailways announ
ced this week that its local sta
tion has been moved to Bor
oughs Gulf Service on S. W.
Broad St., near the Morganton
Road stoplight intersection. The
station was formerly at Cliffs
Garage, corner of N. W. Broad
St. and Vermont Ave.
SCOUT CAMPOBEE
Boy Scouts of the Sandhills
District (the “lower Moore’’ por
tion of the former Moore County
District) will take part in a
“Camporee” at McCain, from
Friday afternoon to Sunday
morning. A campfire ceremony
will be held Saturday night.
1952 AND 1955 VICTORIES RECALLED
Boros Wins Colonial At Fort Worth
Golfer Julius Boros, playing as
professional from the Mid Pines
dub here though he has made
.lis home in Florida for several
years, shot a 72-hole 279 total,
to win the $12,000 first money in
the Colonial National Invitation
al Golf Tournament at Fort
Worth Sunday. Gary Player was
in second place with 283, winning
$6,000, Jack Nicklaus placed
third, taking $3,500.
Boros had won the Colonial
tournament in 1960, his last tour
nament victory until Sunday.
Boros came to Mid Pines in
1949, the year he turned pro and
married Anne (Buttons) Cos
grove, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Cosgrove, Mid Pines man
agers who now own and operate
the club. His wife died when
their son Jay, was bom in 1951.
In 1955, he was married at Aiken,
S. C., to Miss Armen C. Boyle
of Miami, Fla. He has not been
directly active at Mid Pines since
his second marriage.
In 1952, Boros was top money
winner among the pros, winning
both the National Open and the
“World” tournament at Chicago.
He won the “World” event again
in 1955, with $50,000 first money
and a contract for 55 exhibition
matches at $1,000 each.
After the 1952 victories, this
this area raised $5,000 by public
subscription for a Julius Boros
“Testimonial Tournament” here
with a banquet and presentation
of a pair of silver wine coolers to
the golfer in recognition of his
achievements. 'The tornament was
won by Sammy Snead.
Boros was at one time co-own-
er—^with Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Cosgrove and
Miss Jean Cosgrove, of the Pine
Needles Country Club golf course,
now owned and operated by Mr.
and Mrs. Bell. However, he was
not associated there as a profes
sional.
His brother, Ernie, is active pro
at Mid Pines.
HOME NAMED FOR Hiffh School Group
BISHOP PENICK ^
To Give ‘Mikado’
Friday, Saturday
Delegates to the 147th an
nual convention of the Epis
copal Diocese of North Caro
lina, meeting at Charlotte
this week, voted to name the
Episcopal home for the aging
here "The Bishop Edwin A.
Penick Memorial Home," in
honor of the late bishop of
the diocese.
The Rt. Rev. Richard A.
Baker, bishop of the diocese,
announced that a gift ctf
$200,000 to the home has'been
made by Wilbur Jones ci
High Point and Winter Hav
en, Fla.
'The home is now under
construction on a site east of
N. Ridge St.
An item elsewhere in to
day's Pilot lists members of
Emmanuel Parish who at
tended the convention.
Civil Court Term
To Open Monday
A regular one-week term Of
Moore County Superior Court for
trial of civil cases will open at
Carthage Monday, with cases set
for trial on the first four days.
Judge Walter E. Brock will pre
side.
Five uncontested divorces are
calendared for Monday: James
William Furr vs. Helen Jean
Rowell Furr; George-Anna Blair
Verbal vs. Otes Verbal; Cather
ine Everette Arey vs. Robert
Fred Arey; Herman Edward Pat
terson vs. Linda Ruth O. Patter
son; and Sidney Alton McNeiU
vs. Louise Bruce McNeill.
Also calendared for Monday
are a default and inquiry case
and motions in two pending civil
suits, also the following for trial:
Joe E. Nall and wife Mamie Nall
vs. Wade Oldham, Howard Shef-
fisld and Martha J. W. Tillman
Aberdeen Supply Co., Inc, vs.
L. B. Hinson (appeal of judge-1 i
ment No. 4118, dated April 17,11
1961, for account); N. M. Me-11
Donald at als vs. T. B. Pigg et 1
als (boundary dispute).
Tuesday: C. H. Ritter, trading
,as Carolina Poultry Plant vs. |
C. A. Kennedy et als trading as |
Williamson’s Market; Leroy Lee I
vs. C. A. Kennedy et als (Wil- |
liamson’s Market); M. M. Way
and Margaret M. Way t/a Way
Company vs. C. A. Kennedy et
als (Williamson’s Market); Thom
as & Howard Co., Inc., vs. C. A.
Kennedy & Elizabeth Kennedy;
John M. Lambert et als vs. James
Reeid6 Lemohds (suit to perfect
lien); David Wade Barrett vs.
Lacy Everett (personal injury and
damage growing out of auto ac
cident); Jennette G. Pitts vs.
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Performances of “The Mikado,”
operetta by Gilbert and SulUvan,
are scheduled for Weaver Audi
torium Friday and Saturday
nights (May 17 and 18), with a
cast of East Southern Pines High
School students. Curtain time each
night will be 8 p.m.
Members of the cast include:
Jim Ritchie as the Mikado of
Japan; Bob Hiatt as Nanki-Poo,
his son disguised as a minstrel
and in love with Yum - Yum;
Ralph Hendren as Ko-Ko, the lord
high executioner; Joe Hiatt as
Pooh-Bah, “lord high everything
else;” Melvin Gardner as Pish-
Tush, a noble lord.
Also: Lorraine Beith, Dianne
Fields and Glenda Maness as
Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-
Bo, three sisters who are wards
of Ko-Ko; Judy Harris as Katisha,
an elderly lady in love with
Nanki-Poo; and a chorus of no
bles and girls.
Tickets may be purchased at
the door. Proceeds will go to the
school’s band and music program.
BANK CLOSINGS
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Company and the Southern Na
tional Bank, both of Southern
Pines, annoimced today that they
will be closed Monday, May 20,
in observance , of Mecklenburg
Independence Day, a state holi
day. These two banks will remain
open on Thursday, May 30, Me
morial Day. The Carolina Bank,
with offices in Pinehurst, Aber
deen, Vass, Carthage and West
End, will reverse this schedule,
remaining open on May 20 and
closing on May 30.
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MENTAL HEALTH MEE-nNG
’The Moore County Mental
Health Association will meet at
8 p. m., "ikiesday. May 21, in the
Matheson Memorial Center near
St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital.
All interested persons are invited.
CARTHAGE CHIEF— Allan
J. Benner, who completed
his service as patrolman with
the local police department
yesterday, today assumed his
duties as chief of police in
Carthage, his home communi
ty. Police Chief Earl Seawell
of Southern Pines said today
he has several applications
for the vacancy created by
Benner’s resignation and ex
pects to fill the post by early
next week.
(Humphrey photo)
Council Names 4
To Town Boards;
Zoning Discussed
Meeting Tuesday for their first
regular session since the May 7
election, members of the new
town council filled vacancies on
three boards, called for a hearing
on certain zoning matters and in
spected and heard a report on
the monthly financial condition
sheet drawn up by Manager F.
F. Rainey.
All the members were present—
Mayor W. Morris Johnson, Mayor
Pro Tern Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr.
Town Treasurer Felton J. Capel
and Councilmen Fred Pollard
and C. A. McLaughlin. Hodgkins
and McLaughlin are the newly
elected members, starting their
first terms.
Former Mayor John S. Ruggles
was an interested spectator in
the audience.
P. I. York of West Southern
Pines, whose term on the South
ern Pines board of education ex
pired May 1, was reappointed
for a four-year term. Councilman
Capel said other members of the
board had praised York’s service
and that he is willing to serve
again.
Cecil Beith was renamed to his
post on the Planning Board, for
a five-year term. Other members
of the board, which investigates
and makes recommendations on
proposed zoning changes, are
Ralph Chandler, chairman; Mrs.
Katherine McColl, Bryan Poe and
Walter Gore.
Appointed to the Zoning Board
of Adjustment, a body that arbi
trates disputes about zoning that
remain unsettled by the Planning
Board, were Mrs. Edna Blalock
of West Southern Pines, who has
been a member of the board, and
William T. Huntley, filling a
vacancy caused by the moving
of Thomas Ruggles to Florida.
A third vacancy on the board
remains to be filled and will be
taken up at the June meeting.
C. A. McLaughlin, now a mem
ber of the council, v/as formerly
a member of this board but must
resign because of his council
position.
Zoning Hearing
The council called an informal
hearing on zoning of areas an
nexed to the town over a period
of several months, to be held at
the next regular meeting, Tues-
dav, June 11.
The areas include: the Holiday
Inn-Carl Andrews property on
No. 1 highway, south; residential
lots on E. Indiana Ave., Wey
mouth Heights; and areas on both
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Survey Shows Demand
For Proposed College
A survey of high schools with
in commuting distance of the
proposed Moore County com
munity college, conducted during
the past several weeks by the
county board of education, shows
an ample potential of student
material. County Schools Supt.
Robert E. Lee said this week.
The State Board of Education
has said that " such a college
should serve a minimum of 400
students, this figure to be reached
Veterans Planning
Memorial Service
Members of Sandhill Post No.
134, American Legion, met Tues
day night to plan a Memorial
Day Service at Mt. Hope Ceme
tery on Sunday, June 2, at 5 p.m.
The Veterans Of Foreign Wars,
John Boyd Post, of Southern
Pines, also will participate •with
a National Guard firing squad.
Boy and Girl Scout troops, and
several local ministers.
In charge of arrangements are
Dan R. McNeill, commnader of
the Legion post, and Hubert
Cameron, senior vice commander
of the VFW.
Election, Fashion
Show Set For PTA
Election of officers for the
1963-64 school year and a fashion
show by Miss Loree Keen’s Home
Economics students are on the
program for the final meeting of
the East Southern Pines Parent-
Teacher Association.
The meeting is set for Tuesday,
May 21, at 8 p.m. in Weaver Audi
torium.
Mrs. Albert Grove, president,
asks that as many parents as
possible be present. A slate of
nominees will be brought in by
the executive committee but
other nominations may be made
from the floor.
RESCUE SQUAD MEETING
Any one interested in joining a
new Sandhills Unit No. 4 of the
Moore County Rescue Squad,
which was organized last night
with Raeford Wells of Aberdeen
as captain, is invited to attend a
meeting of the group to be held
at Home’s Restaurant, Aberdeen,
at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 22.
GROUP WILL STUDY
LONG-RANGE NEEDS
Meeting jointely at Car
thage yesterday to survey
future Moore County school
construction needs, with a
view to planning a proposed
bond issue for schools and
community college, the coun
ty's three boards of educa
tion and the commissioners
named a committee to study
the needs.
On the,group are the chair
men of the three school
boards involved: Jere Mc-
Keithen of Aberdeen, county
board of education; N. L.
Hodgkins a! Southern Pines*
and L. B. Creath of Pine
hurst, with W. S. Taylor of
Aberdeen representing the
commissioners.
Also named to sit in with
the group was H. A. Brogden
of the John C. Muse, Certi
fied Public Accountants,
firm, auditors for the county.
ABC Sales Decline
By $47,580; Healy
Reelected to Board
Sales for the year ending
March 31 in Moore Coimty’s two
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board stores decreased by $47,-
580.80, as compared with sales of
the previous year, it was report
ed this week.
L. J. Hinson, manager for the
board, reported yesterday to a
combined meeting of the board of
county commissioners, county
board of education and board of
health at Carthage, that total
sales for that year were $1,437,-
898.35 and that $145,000 in prof
its were turned over to the coun
ty treasurer.
The three boards met jointly,
as required by law, to fill an ex
piring term on the ABC board.
Jerry V. Healy of Southern Pines
was reelected to the post. Other
board members are James W.
Tufts of Pinehurst, chairman,
and C. M. Patterson of Carthage.
Following is Mr. Hinson’s full
report:
“The total sales for the past
twelve months amoimted to $1,-
437,898.35. From this amount of
sales we have paid to the State
Department of Revenue $170,-
820.23 in taxes and to the Federal
government approximately $725,-
000 in taxes.
“The decrease in sales of $47,-
580.80 from the corresponding
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UNION HOMECOMING
The annual homecoming at
Union Presbyterian Church be
tween Vass and Carthage, has
been set for Sunday, July 7. The
service will begin at 11:15 a. m.,
to be followed by a picnic lunch
on the grounds.
within its first five years.
That Moore and its neighboring
counties should be able to pro-
fide at least this number was re
vealed decisively last 'Thursday
night, when a census committee
meeting at the education offices
tabulated the questipnaires
distributed in 49 high schools,
filled out by the students and
signed, with further comments,
by the parents.
Returning 7,105 questionnaires
out of 12,000 distribtuted, 3,366
students of grades nine through
12 answered yes, “while 2,068
were “uncertain” and only 753
said “no” to the question, “If a
community college offering the
first two years of college work
and technical and other vocational
courses were established in your
area, would you enroll?”
In grades nine and 10, those
which could logically be expected
to enroll during the first two
years of operation of a college
opening in the fall of 1965, there
were 1,068 answering “yes," 684
“uncertain,” 215 “no.”
Of their parents, 1,415 stated
they were interested in further
ing their own education, and 409
of these said they would like to
enroll in order to finish high
school.
Adult education classes would
be an important feature of the
college, to be set up as the de
mand was felt and faculty sche
dules permitted.
These and many other interest
ing data are being gleaned from
the questionnaires, for inclusion
in a comprehensive survey to be
submitted to the State Board of
Education, a major step in the
Moore County effort to secure
allocation of the college.
Until last week, the county
board of education forged ahead
on speculatjon,,as the comprehen
sive higher education biU was still
pending in the General Assembly.
Last Friday, the legislation pro
viding lor the establishment of
five such colleges was passed.
Conferring frequently with the
State Board of Education, secur
ing its approval on each step,
Moore is the first county to move
positively toward the goal, and
is setting a pattern for competing
counties.
Starting with an enthusiastic
and overflowing public meeting
last March 26, it (1) requested al
location of the college, (2) secur
ed authorization to make the re
quired survey and (3) is busy
making it. TTie survey of high
schools, with figures showing
potential students, is a primary
essential.
The State Board has set 30 miles
as the farthest desirable commut
ing radius, which brings 46 high
schools within range of the ap
proximate Moore County site.
However, according to C. Edison
Powers, guidance director with
the Moore County schools, who
is heading the survey, three more
schools just on or over the 30-
mile line were included, on re-
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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
May 9 92 52
May 10 92 65
May 11 89 63
May 12 70 52
May 13 61 50
May 14 81 56
May 15 87 56
23,000 ACRES WOODLAND BURNED
Commissioners Praise Fire Fighters
A formal resolution by the
county commissioners, praising
firs departments, rescue squads
and others who fought the “Big
Fire” of April 4 in southwestern
Moore Coimty was made public-
this week. The board authorized
the resolution at its regular meet
ing last week. It reads:
“RESOLVED: That the board
of commissioners of Moore Coun
ty hereby commend and express
sincere appreciation to aU the
fire departments, rescue squads
and others who participated in
fighting and controlling the dis
astrous fire which destroyed so
much valuable property on April
4, 1963, in the area of Pinebluff,
Moore County, North Carolina.
“This fire would have spread
over a much larger area and
much additional property would,
undoubtedly, have been consum
ed without the valiant and effec
tive efforts of so many good cit
izens who materially aided in
limiting the scope of and bring
ing this fire xmder control.”
Visiting the conunissioners’
meeting last week, J. A. Pippin,
district forester, of Rockingham,
told the board that the exact
acreage count of woodland burn
ed over by the fire was 23,000.
He also estimated total damages
it has caused at $50 million, but
emphasized the figure as an es
timate.