From golf
to riding is the remarkable story
of a top woman athlete living
here; Story, photp, page 5.
An exchange
teacher from El Salvador was
welcomed at East Southern
Pines school last week. Page 4.
VOL.—44 No. 10
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1964
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE; 10 CENTS
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DAN K. MOORE
Candidate Will
Speak To Kiwanis
Judge Dan K. Moore of Canton,
who was the first candidate to
announce for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination in the
May primary; Will be guest speak
er at the regillar luncheon meet
ing of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club
Wednesday of next week, Janu
ary 29.
The meeting will take place at
the Holiday Inn Restaurant here,
starting at 12:15 p.m. Chief Dep
uty Sheriff H. H. Grimm of Car
thage was recently announced as
Judge Moore’s campaign manager
in this county.
'SHALL THIS PASS?'
Special Program.
Set For Meeting
Of History Assn.
“Shall This Pass?” a special
program by the Highland Players
of the Division of Music, Art and
Drama at St. Andrews Presbyter
ian College, Laurinburg, will be
presented for the Moore County
Historical Association Tuesday,
January 28, at 8 p.m. in the Meet
ing House at the Mid Pines
Club.
Colin Spencer of Carthage, as
sociation president, invites friends
of the Association and all inte
rested persons to attend.
The program, presented pre
viously with much success at the
December meeting of the North
Carolina Society for the Preser
vation of Antiquities, in Raleigh,
tells the story of the old Temper
ance Hall near Wagram, a unique
building that was recently restor
ed, in the remarkable rural com
munity that has produced numer
ous outstanding leaders in the
ministry, education, journalism
and other professions.
Dramatic readings, the poetry
of John Charles McNeill (North
Carolina’s poet laureate, who was
a native of the same community)
and songs of the 19th century are
combined in the program to
form an unusual and charming
presentation, say persons who
have seen the performance.
Peach Growers To
Hear Variety Of
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Speakers Jan. 28
Fhoblems and Potentials of the
Sandhills peach industry will be
discussed at the annual meeting
of the North Carolina Peach
Growers Society on Tuesday, Jan.
28.
The prospects for exporting
peaches, for example, wUl be dis
cussed by Roy Ferree, Clemson
College extension horticulturist.
He also will tell about new ad
vances in peach production in
South Carolina.
A 90 year old retired Navy cap-
lain and amateur peach grower,
R. W. McNeely of Columbia, S.
C., will discuss “Peaches”—The
Queen of Fruits.” He will be as
sisted by W. H. Rhodes, director
of the Clemson College Sandhill
Experiment Station, and Bob
Bailey, farm agent in Richmond
County, S. C.
Specialists from North Caro
lina State will speak on a wide
range of topics, including varie
ties, nematodes soil problems
and deep placement of fertilizers,
chemical weed control, and pro
cessing.
A tour of experimental work
will be conducted by Clarence
Black, in charge of the Sandhills
Research Station at Windblow.
Registration begins at the re
search station at 8:30 a. m. Lunch
will be served in the Jackson
Springs Community Building. The
annual banquet will be held at
Candor Elementary School at 6:30
p. m., with State 4-H Club leader
Carlton Blalock as speaker.
Scout District
Chairmen Named
Appointment of Sandhill Boy
Scout District committee chair
men for 1964 was announced this
week by Edward T. Taws, Jr., of
Southern Pines, district chairman.
They are: Douglas David, activ
ities; Arthur Rovje, camping;
Mark Liddell, organization and
extension; J. Kimball Watson,
finance; Harvey Scherr, leader
ship training; C. Coolidge 'Thomp
son, advancement; and Dr. Lou
Daniels, health and safety.
David and Thompson are from
Pinebluff; Rowe is from Aber
deen; and the others are from
Southern Pines.
Ralph Dodge of McCain is com
missioner.
Mr. Taws said the first meeting
of the chairmen would be held
January 30.
Sandhill District includes the
southern end of Moore County
and a portion of Hoke County, in
cluding the McCain area.
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WINNERS— Four trophy winners in Satur
day’s Point-to-Point Events are pictured with
their awards presented by W. H. Gentry, Jr.,
center, master of ceremonies, at the Pineholme
supper-dance that followed the afternoon pro-
Favorable Report
Expected On Loan
Firm’s Proposal
A favorable report from the
Federal Home Loan Bank on ap
plication of the First Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association of San
ford to establish a branch office
in Southern Pines is expected
within 60 to 90 days, the Asso
ciation stated last week in its re
port to members on 1963 opera
tions.
Public hearings were held on
the application, in Washington,
D. ,C., on three days in December,
the report said, noting that “the
application was filed to better
serve the $1,700,000 in loans now
held within the proposed service
area.”
Signed by W. M. Womble, ex
ecutive vice president of the As
sociation, the report says that as
of December 31, total assets of
First Federal and Loan Associa
tion stood at $12,831,688.93, a gain
of $1,327,494.79 over assets held
one year prior to that date.
A record total dividend of
$394,957.23 was paid to members
during 1963, the report says, and
the dividend rate was increased
during the year from 4 to 4%
per cent per annum. Total home
mortgage volume in 1963 increas-
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Officers Elected
By Citizens Bank;
Toney Is Promoted
The promotion of William P.
Toney from assistant cashier to
assistant vice president of The
Citizens Bank & Trust Co. of
Southern Pines was announced
this week by N. L. Hodgkins,
president.
Toney came with the bank on
April 1, 1963, and has served as
a loan officer at the bank’s South
Broad Street Branch since that
time.
Other officers were re-elected
to their present positions at the
organizational meeting of the
board of directors held last Fri
day. These officers are: N. L.
Hodgkins, president; Norris L.
Hodgkins, Jr., executive vice
president; E. Earl Hubbard, vice
president; C. H. Bowman, vice
president and cashier; and Sani-
uel C. Harrison, assistant vice,
president.
BAND BOOSTERS TO MEET
The Band Boosters Club will
meet in Room 107 of East South
ern Pines High School, Monday,
January 27, at 8 p. m. The club
is composed of adults interested
in the school band. New members
are welcome.
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'SNIPE'S DELIVERY JIM' WINS
(Hemmer photo)
Nation^s Top Shooting Dog
(Another photo, page A)
“Snipe’s Delivery Jim,” a liver
and white pointer owned by W.
S. Richardson of Richmond, Va.,
won last week’s National Ama
teur Shooting Dog Champion
ship, competing with 38 of the
country’s finest in his class.
Staged over courses on the
Wildlife Management Area near
Hoffman, the 13th rvuming of the
national event brought sportsmen
from a wide area to the Sandhills.
“Jim” was handled by Verle
Farrow of Fairfax, Va., who re
ceived the winner’s silver bowl
trophy from Harry Townsend of
New Haven, Cohn., president of
the National Amateur Shooting
Dog Association.
The win here was the second
recent national honor for “Jim.”
In December, he was declared Na
tional Open Shooting Dog, so that
he now holds the two top cham
pionships of the U. S. A.
So thoroughly did “Jim” dom
inate the field in the Sandhills
event that no other placings were
announced by the judges, James
W. Tufts of Pinehurst and Dr. C.
E. Stokely of San Antonio, Texas.
GOP Convention
Slated Saturday
Moore County Republicans
are reminded by C. Coolidge
Thompson of Pineblii^f, exec
utive committee chairman,
that the GOP County Con
vention will be held at 2 p. m.
Saturday, January 25, in the
courthouse at Carthage.
Officers will be elected and
delegates to District and
State conventions neuned.
Precinct meetings will also
be held in connection with
the convention, he said.
W. H. Gentry, Jr.
Resigns Position
With Local Bank
William H. Gentry, Jr., senior
vice president of the Southern
National Bank of North Carolina
in charge of the bank’s branch
here, has resigned, J. E. Sandlin,
Jr., of Lumberton, executive vice
president of the bank, ^said this
week. The bank’s headquarters
office is at Lumberton.
Mr. Gentry said that his resig
nation was submitted Wednesday,
January 15, with termination of
his duties set for January 31.
Until that date, he is on a con
sulting basis. He said that bank
officers and directors had been
fully informed of his personal
reasons for resignation.
Mr. Sandlin said that Dewey
Ritter, cashier and vice-president
at the Southern Pines office,
has been named acting branch
manager pending the appointment
of a successor to Mr. Gentry.
“Mr. Gentry resigned on his
own initiative,” said Mr. Sandlin
who is a former local resident
and Amerotron Company execu
tive. “The parting was amiable,
we were sorry to see him go
and we think he did a good job
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gram. At right is the top-ranking Hunter Pace
team, Mrs. M2U'jorie Jackson and Harry Nich
olas. Junior Point-to-Point trophy holders at
left are Rusty Greene, who came in second, and
Terry Lassen, the winner.
(Humphrey photo)
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Hunter Pace Pair
Make Near-Perfect
Time To Win Event
Sunny skies and a temperature
in the upper fifties helped make
Saturday’s fifth annual Point-to-
Point Day, sponsored by the
Moore County Hounds, a pleasant
mid-winter occasion for riders
and spectators, at Mr. and Mrs.
W. O. Moss’s Mile-Away Farm,
just out of Southern Pines.
Fourteen pairs were timed out
in the Hunter Pace event at 2-
minute intervals. The timers and
College Ofiered Free
Offices; Trustees On
Study Trip In Florida
This week’s developments in
planning lor Moore County’s com
prehensive community college, to
be built on the road from Pine-
Soap & Candle Co.
Leases Location
On S. W. Broad St.
Carolina Soap and Candle
Company has leased space in the
S. W. Broad St. building owned
by John C. Parrish and will con
solidate its sales and sales serv
ices operations there February 1,
Jack Hicks, president, said this
week.
The location is now being va
cated by the Glenn Newberry Co.
of Fayetteville which has been
operating a Westinghouse appli
ance store there. A liquidation
sale of the Newberry stock is
going on at the store. The loca
tion was previously occupied by
the United Telephone Company
offices.
Moving to the location from of
fices on S. Bennett St., Mr. Hicks
said, will be Carolina Soap and
Candle’s printing, art and adver
tising departments. The Bennett
Street office will be closed. Sales
offices will move from the former
A & P store building on W. Penn
sylvania Ave., he said, although
a small office operation will re
main at that building along with
stock and shipping facilities
which will, be expanded to oc
cupy space now used by the sales
department.
The company’s accounting of
fice will remain in the Hobbs
Building on N. W. Broad St. Its
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hurst to the airport, include:
1. Expectation that two rooms
on the second floor of One 76 N.
W. Broad St. (former Patch build
ing) will be occupied by the col
lege offices on February 1, with
Dr. Raymond A. Stone, recently
named president of the' college,
coming here from Raleigh. Gar
land McPherson of Southern
Pines, an, officer of the corpora
tion owning the building, said
that the two rooms are being
given to the colle|e free of charge
With an Understanding that furth
er space will be available 6n a
rental basis, if and when needed.
2. A trip to Florida by Robert
S. Ewing of the board of trustees,
with T. T. Hayes, Jr., of Hayes-
Howell and Associates,, local
architectural firm chosen to de
sign the buildings, to inspect com
munity college structures in
Florida, a state that has establish
ed several of the two-year in
stitutions. They were to be joined
in Florida this week by another
college trustee. Dr. Charles High-
smith of Troy, and by Dr. Stone.
3. An informal meeting of the
trustees in Aberdeen Monday
night to confer with Dr. Johnson,
a community college official from
California where there have also
been outstanding developments
in the type of college planned
here. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Pyle,
from Florida, have both been in
North Carolina to meet with State
Board of Education officials, in
connection with the planning of
North Carolina’s extensive pro
posed community college pro
gram.
Mr. Ewing and Mr. Hayes were
accompanied by their wives on
the trip to Florida.
Mai&y To Attend
judges, Mrs. Mary Doyle, Dave
Kelly and Dr. C. C. McLean, kept ^ i Y cti
Benefit Basketball
Contest Postponed
Because of a conflict with the
Cape Fear Conference Awards
Supper, the Moore County North-
South Teachers basketball game
scheduled for January 30 has
been postponed to Thursday, Feb
ruary 6, at 7 p. m. in the Aber
deen school gym.
The contest, pitting teams of
teachers from the two sections of
the county, will be played for
benefit of the March of Dimes
fund campaign.
C. F. Buffkin and K L. Guion
of Aberdeen are co-chairmen of
ticket sales.
the horses on schedule going out,
giving spectators a constant
stream of contestants in sight
from the first pair’s departure at
2:15 until team No. 14 left at 2:41.
Beyond Buchan Field, the
teams remained in sight behind
the implement building, then into
Poplar Pasture and back near the
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C. A. Paul Heads
Hospital In ’64
At a meeting of the Advisory
Council of St. Joseph of the
Pines Hospital on Monday,
Charles A. Paul was elected pres
ident of the hospital for the com
ing year, J. R. Hauser was elected
vice president and Harry H.
Pethick was reelected secretary.
All are from Southern Pines.
Sister Virginia, administrator,
presented plans for completion of
interior renovations at the hospi
tal and the council discussed its
goals for 1964.
An estimated 60 to 75 Moore
Coiinty suporters of Judge Ilich-
ardson Preyer for the Democra
tic gubernatorial nomination are
expected to go to Greensboro
Saturday for the War Memorial
Auditorium “fund-raising festi
val” that will officially open the
candidate’s 100-county campaign.
The attendance estimate was
made by a Preyer supporter who
has been close to preliminary
planning for his campaign in
Moore County. No county man
ager for Preyer has yet been an
nounced.
With an attendance of over
3,000 expected, the $10 “admis
sion donation” affair will begin
at 11:30 a.m. and run to 2:30 p.m.
There will be free hot dogs and
other refreshments and enter
tainment by George Gobel, and
a bevy of TV stars from around
the state.
Moore County supporters are
using private cars for the trip to
Greensboro. There will be no bus
or organized caravan running
from Moore.
MUSIC ASSOCIATION CONCERT
MacDonald, Pianist, To Play Jan. 30
Criminal Cases Slated
In Next Week's Court
Criminal cases will be heMd in
next week’s term of Moore Coun
ty Superior Court at Carthage,
with Judge Frank M. Armstrong
of Troy presiding.
A report on civil cases heard
during, this week’s term will ap
pear in. next week’s Pilot.
Robert MacDonald, a native
South Carolinian who has earned
an international reputation as a
concert pianist for State Depart
ment tours, will appear in a re
cital at Weaver Auditorium next
Thursday night, January 30, at
8:30.
'The program is the second in
the Sandhill Music Association’s
annual series, and is open to the
public. Tickets for those not hold
ing season memberships may be
purchased either at the Barnum
Agency in Southern Pines or at
the door on the night of the pro
gram.
Mr. MacDonald’s program next
Thursday will include works by
Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and the
American composers Edward
MacDowell and Aaron Copland.
A product of Vienna’s famed
Academy of Music and the Polish
virtuoso Vladyslav Kedra, Robert
MacDonald was already a veter
an of State Department tours in
six European countries when he
retiu-ned to first engagements in
the United States. But prior to
international study and concertiz-
ing, he had accomplished his
“homework” with a Bachelor of
Music from the University of
ROBERT MacDONALD
North Carolina under Dr. Jan
Schinhan and a Masters in Piano
from Indiana University. There
followed a tour of duty as Air
Force officer before he topped off
his studies in Vienna.
One of the “firsts” in Pianist
MacDonald’s varied career was
a concert tour for the U. S. Infor
mation Service throughout Scan
dinavia, where he became the
only American pianist to perform
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Work Continues
On Mackall Plan
Charles M. Hazlehurst of South
ern Pines, chairman of the In
dustrial Development committee
of the Sandhills Area Develop
ment Association, conferred in
Raleigh this week with officials
of the Department of Conserva
tion and Development, and oth
ers, in connection with the effort
to obtain Camp Mackall from the
Army and convert it to industry
sites.
Mr. Hazlehurst said that he had
obtained information on industry
and labor in the five county area
fcooperating in the Mackall effort,
from Hugh M. Carter, director of
the Bureau of Employment
Security Research.
Material obtained will help in
preparation of a brochure on the
Mackall project, the local man
said. He is having a large map
prepared for reproduction, to help
in presenting the Camp Mackall
plan.
Gavel Gift Honors
The Late Dr. Neal
The late Dr. J. I. Neal, founder
and longtime operator of the
Sandhills Veterinary Hospital off
Midland Road, was honored at
the annual North Carolina Veter
inary Conference at N. C. State,
Raleigh, yesterday.
Dr. C. C. McLean, partner in
operation of the hospital, who
was associated with Dr. Neal for
many years, presented a gavel
.(and gavel island, inscribed in
memory of Dr. Neal, to the North
Carolina Veterinary Medical As
sociation.
Dr. and Mrs. McLean were at
the Raleigh meeting yesterday,
returning last night. Today
(Thursday) Dr. J. E. Currie, Jr.,
of Southern Pines, present part
ner with Dr. McLean in operating
the animal hospital, is attending
other sessions of the conference.
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 Midlaiid Road.
Max.
Min.
January
16
47
20
January
37
41
34
January
18
50
29
January
39
50
34
January
20
57
50
January
21
63
34
January
22
69
55