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VOL.—44 No. 21
TWENTY PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964
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^Smashing Gail/ Top Money Winner, Depicted
The outstanding mare, Sniash-
ing Gail, owned by Mrs. Magru-
der Dent of Southern Pines and
foaled at Mr. and Mrs. Dent’s
Pine Cone Farm here in 1959, is
portrayed in this new painting
by Patricia Herring Stratton, lo
cal artist.
In a racing career that included
five major victories in 1961 and
1962, Smashing Gail has earned
over $700,000—more money than
any living filly.
The painting, which will be
hung in the Museum of Racing at
Saratoga, N. Y., in August, shows
Smashing Gail and Jockey R. Us-
sery returning to the winner’s
circle alter winning the Colum
biana Handicap at Hialeah, in
Florida, in 1962. Nick Combest
was her trainer.
Other wins listed for the fleet
mare include; the Irish Racing
and Breeding Purse at Belmont,
in 1961; the Fall Highweight
U961) and the Correction (1962),
both at Aquaduct; and the Col
onial at Garden State, in New
Jersey, in 1962.
The artist smd her husband,
William J. Stratton, who have
been associated for many years
with equestrian activities in the
Sandhills, live at Cattistock in
the Niagara community, just
north of Southern Pines. (Turner
photo)
House^ Garden Tour Wednesday Will
Draw Many To View Sandhills Homes
Seven homes in the Southern
Pines and Pinehurst area, with
adjoining gardens and landscap
ing, are on the 16th annual
House and Garden Tour, spon
sored by the Southern Pines
Garden Club, Wednesday, April
CLEAN-UP ASKED
THROUGHOUT TOWN
In preparation for the peak
of the Spring resort season
and for the annual House
and Garden Tour, which will
bring hundreds of visitors to
Southern Pines Wednesday of
next week. Mayor Norris L.
Hodgkins, Jr., asks that prop
erty owners throughout the
town make a special eiffort to
clean up their yards and va
cant lots.
Town Manager F. F. Rainey
said that until Wednesday,
municipal trucks will pick up
aU yard rakings and trash
without the required request
to the town office. However,
he said that it will help town
crews in their rush clean-up
task if such request calls are
made as usual. Trash must
be piled on parkways near
the street he noted.
Display Set For Coin
Club Meeling April 16
Several coin dealers with dis
plays of rare coins are expected
to be on hand at a meeting of the
Sandhills Coin Club in the town
hall court room Thursday of next
week, April 16, at 7:30 p.m.
C. A. McLaughlin of Southern
Pines, club president, invites vis
itors and persons interested in
becoming new members and urges
all members of the club to attend.
Suggestions will be received, he
said, for proposed club by-laws,
and other business will be taken
up.
Davis Appointed To
Airport Committee
William P. Davis, of Southern
Pines was appointed by the coun
ty commissioners Monday to the
county airport committee, to fill
the vacancy left by resignation
of J. E. Sandlin, former chairman
of the group, who has moved to
Lumberton.
Commissioner W. S. Taylor of
Aberdeen has been serving as act
ing chairman, pending the filling
of the vacancy and election of
a new chairman for the commit
tee.
16.
Also featured this year, as al
ways on the tour, are the gardens
at Homewood, residence of Mr.
and Mrs. D. K. Bullens in Knoll-
wood, and the Shaw House, at
the intersection of S. W. Broad
St. and Morganton Road, the re
stored raid-19th century farm
house that is maintained by the
Moore County Historical Associ
ation.
Tour hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. Most of the hundreds of
Sandhills residents and visitors
expected to make the tour will
start from the Shaw House, fol
lowing a map which will be dis
tributed, from stop to stop, all
numbered. However, it is possi
ble to join the tour at any of the
steps, at each of which hostesses
from the Garden Club will be
present.
Co-chairmen for the tour are
Mrs. James Milliken and Mrs.
Bullens. Mrs. R. M. McMillan is
president of the sponsoring Sou
thern Pines Garden Club. Mem-
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PTA To See Film
On Delinquency
The responsibility of parents
and students in facing the prob
lem of juvenile delinquency is
the subject of a film, “Double
Guilt,” that will be shown at the
April meeting of the East South
ern Pines Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation, in Weaver Auditorium at
8 p. m. Monday.
The same film will be shown
again Sunday at 6 p. m., to mem
bers of the Youth Federation—
a joint meeting of young people’s
groups from local churches—at
the First Baptist Church.
Mrs. J. S. Hiatt. Jr., PTA pres
ident, issued a special invitation
to attend the Monday meeting to
parents of children who will en
ter school in the fall.
BLUE ENDORSED
The candidacy of State Rep. H.
Clifton Blue of Aberdeen for
Lieutenant Governor in the May
30 Democratic primary was unan
imously endorsed Monday by the
five members of the board of
county commissioners, meeting in
Carthage.
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School Need Here
Set At $730,000
For Construction
Total capital outlay school
needs in the Southern Pines Dis
trict amount to $730,000, district
officials told the county commis
sioners at Carthage Monday, in
making their annual request for
capital outlay funds for the 1964-
65 fiscal year starting July 1.
Dr. C. C. McLean, local board
of education chairman, told the
commissioners that $554,700 in
funds from the county bond issue
approved last fall are available
toward meeting these needs, leav
ing $175,300 to be met from coun
ty funds.
“Capital outlay” covers new
construction and major remodel
ing projects.
Appearing with the chairman
were N. L. Hodgkins, board mem
ber and former chairman, and
Supt. James W. Jenkins.
West Southern Pines needs
were listed as totalling $290,000,
including: $118,000 for science
and home ec labs, industrial arts
shop and equipment; $112,000 for
auditorium, and music and band
rooms, with furniture; $50,000 for
elementary classrooms; and
$10,000 for removing the old
West Southern Pines school build
ing.
East Southern Pines needs total
$440,000, including $300,000 for a
16-classroom elementary building,
with assembly room, cafeteria
and other facilities; $40,000 for
the proposed purchase of the
nine-acre former Southworth es
tate adjoining the school property
and fronting on Orchard and
Weymouth Roads; and $100,000
for remodeling the high school
physics-chemistry lab, expansion
of library. Junior High science
lab and a vocational education
buildipg.
In the same session, the com
missioners conferred with the
Southern Pines school officials
and with L. B. Creath, chairman
of the Pinehurst District board of
education, on plans for selling the
county’s $4 million school and col
lege construction bond issue.
They advised a tentative plan
of selling, at first, only half of
the $4 million bond issue and then
to sell in the faU rather than at
once, with a more favorable in
terest rate likely then. Meanwhile
it was pointed out, the county can
borrow on bond-anticipation
notes.
VOIT GILMORE
Gilmore Seeks
Nomination For
State Senator
Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines, long active in the business,
civic and political life of the
county and state, has resigned as
director of the United States
Travel Service in Washington and
has filed as a candidate for the
State Senate in the May 30 De
mocratic Primary.
The local man, president of
Storey Lumber Co. here, former
mayor and' former member of
the N. C. Board of Conservation
and Development, is seeking
nomination as Democratic candi
date for one of the two State
Senate seats in the new 18th
District consisting of Moore,
Hoke, Randolph, Harnett and Lee
Counties.
Two other candidates are in
the primary race so. far, with
filing time slated to close April
17. They are John R. Ingram,
Ashebofo attorney, from Ran
dolph County, who has filed; and
incumbent Sen. Robert C. Mor
gan of Lillington in Harnett
County, who has stated his in-
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WEATHER OUTLOOK GOOD
Horses, Entertainment
Promise Gala Day At
Stoneybrook Saturday
Aside from offering the most
lucrative day of steeplechase
racing in its history, the Stoney
brook Hunt Racing Association
will provide a full afternoon of
entertainment this Saturday.
Starting at noon on the local
Stoneybrook course, pre-race
festivities will get under way
with a band concert.
While early-birds picnic on the
grounds overlooking the track at
M. G. Walsh’s Stoneybrook Farm,
local youngsters will compete in
an obstacle race aboard ponies.
At 1:15, trotters and pacers will
be exhibited on the race track
with Octave Blake, a noted
standard-bred authority describ
ing the action. Official opening
ceremonies will follow with gu-
Candidates File
For County Posts
In May Primary
Candidates have filed or plan
to file for nomination to all but
one of the county offices coming
up in the May 30 Democratic pri
mary.
Without a candidate this week
was the p6st of county surveyor,
now held by Paul S. Ward of
Southern Pines.
The five incumbent county
commissioners paid their filing
fees Monday.
The five—L. R. Reynolds of
Highfalls, chairman; John M.
Currie of Carthage, J. M. Pleas
ants of Southern Pines, T. R.
Monroe of Robbins and W. S.
Taylor of Aberdeen — went
through the formalities at the
close of their regular meeting.
All members of the county
board of education filed last
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JULIUS BOROS
AVERY BECK
Boros Wins Golf Event; Beck Honored
Pro golfers associated with
Sandhills clubs earned top hon
ors for their participation in the
Greater Greensboro Open golf
championship at the Sedgeficid
Country Club last week.
Julius Boros who plays out of
the Mid Pines Club here walked
off with $7,000 first money Sun
day in a sudden death playoff
with Doug Sanders, for the Great
er Greensboro championship.
Avery Beck, pro at Whispering
Pines Country Club near here,
was recognized as No. 1 non-tour
ing “home pro” of the Carolinas.
He shot a winning total of 289,
for a $412.50 share in the tour
nament’s $45,000 purse.
Larry Beck, Avery’s son and
his assistant at Whispering Pines,
also finished in the money, taking
‘Sandhills Queen’
To Be Chosen At
Pinehurst Dance
The annual Pinehurst Volun
teer Firemen’s benefit dance will
be held Friday night at the Pine
hurst Country Club, featuring the
choice and crowning of “Queen
of the Sandhills.”
The dance will begin at 9 p. m.
Miss Betty Sue Garner of Rob
bins, last year’s queen, will be
present to crown her successor,
who will be chosen from among
the following candidates, listed
with sponsors and alternates, if
any:
Charlotte Ann Crockett, Vass-
Lakeview High School (the cur
rent Miss Moore County High
School); Diane Lewis Williams,
West End High School, alternate
Joyce Anne Blue; Lola Ellen Bar
ber, Carthage High School, alter
nate Sylvia Annette Brewington;
Randy Lyn Medford, East
Souther Pines High School, alter
nate, Suzanne Hill.
Also: Jennifer Ann Owens,
Pinehurst High School, alternate,
Nancy Lee Gadd; Penelope Myr-
trice McCaskill, Pinehurst Lions
Club; alternate, Betsy Jane Grier;
Trudy Frances Brown, West-
moore High School, alternate,
Brenda Ann Davis; Shirley Cath-
rine Albert, Pinehurst Legion
$67.50 with a 292.
Avery Beck was pro at Kinston Post; Janice Lee Cagle, Elise
for 11 years before coming to High School, Robbins, alternate.
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bernatorial hopefuls Robert
Gavin and I. Beverly Lake re
ceiving honors. Two other candi
dates for Governor, Dan K.
Moore and Richardson Preyer,
are unable to attend because of
previous commitments.
Invited to attend, by H. Clifton
Blue, Moore County’s representa
tive and Speaker of the House in
the General Assembly, is the
entire membership of that
body, along with Gov. and Mrs.
Terry Sanford, who are expected,
and members of the “Council of
State,” the top state officials in
Raleigh. Mr. Blue is a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
for Lieutenant Governor.
Several thousand spectators
are expected, using reserved
parking spaces or the unlimited
general admission facilities.
The first sanctioned race is set
for 2 p.m., with the 24th edition
of the Sandhills Cup and the
Stoneybrook Open Hurdle Race
sharing the spotlight later in the
diversified progreim. Both races
carry a purse value of $2,000
this year and they have lured
the leaders of racing’s timber and
hurdle divisions.
The Sandhills Cup, contested
over a 3-mile timber course,
closed with 10 nominees. Fore
most are Flying Cottage, winner
of the Cup in 1962 and timber
racing champion of that year, and
Blue Parrott, last year’s cham
pion timber-topper and winner
of the United Hunts Racing As
sociation’s $1,000 timber division
award.
Also in the lineup are Flint
Fire, a surprise winner of the
recent Carolina Cup at Camden,
S. C., and Some Way, the Victor
of last Saturday’s North Car
olina Hunt Cup at Tryon.
The one-day charity race meet
ing is open to the public with
general admission gate located
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CABIN—Shown under construction at Camp Easter in the
Pines near here is one of the cabins that will house handicapped
children who will use the camp. Four such cabins are being
built in time for use this summer, each accomodating eight
children. Three camping sessions will enable a total of 96
children to enjoy the facility this summer. More cabins are
planned for use the following summer, as financing permits.
Rotary Club Donating Cabin To Camp
Whispering Pines.
Boros, winner of the National
Open and other top tourneys last
year when he was third highest
money winner on the pro circuit,
was active pro at the Mid Pines
in the early 1950’s. His first wife,
who died when their son Jay was
born in 1951, was Anne (But
tons) Cosgrove, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Cosgrove who
own andt operate Mid Pines.
Joyce Ann Hooker.
Joe Harper and The Esquires
will play for the dance, featuring
Honey Lucas as vocalist.
As in former years, the judging
wiU be done by Pinehurst hotel
guests. The judges, all staying at
the. Pine Crest Inn, are Henry
Davenport of New Bedford,
Mass.; Paddy McQuillen of Gir
ard, Pa.; and Harold Cook of Erie,
Pa.
The Southern Pines Rotary
Club is planning to donate ap
proximately $2,000 to Camp
Easter in the Pines, to be used to
build one cabin which will ac
commodate eight campers and
two counselors, it has been an
nounced.
Camp Easter in the Pines, to
serve children from over the
state, is a project of the North
Carolina Society for Crippled
Children and Adults which is now
conducting its annual Easter
Seals fund drive.
The funds will be presented to
the camp in increments through
out the coming year as they be
come available. The cabin itself
is to be completed in time for the
1965 season.
Jack Hauser and Walter Sar-
geant are co-chairmen of the
com.mittee which is in charge of
the project.
According to the co-chairmen,
the Rotary Club has been search
ing for some time for an addition
al project which would be in
keeping with the overall pur
poses of Rotary.
“Support of Camp Easter in
the Pines is the type of project
we have been looking for,” they
said. “We hope that this is just
the beginning of a long and mu
tually beneficial association be
tween the camp and the Southern
Pines Rotary Club.”
HOOTENANNY TO
AID SEAL FUND
The Aberdeen School Sat
urday night. April 11. will be
the scene of . a Moore County
home talent musical hoote
nanny sponsored by the coun
ty chapter of the N. C. Socie
ty for Crippled Children and
Adults, starting at 7:30 p. m.
with Ed Causey as master of
ceremonies.
The tri-Tones. Pete Mash-
burn, Bobbie Matthews, the
Ewing Girls and many others
are scheduled to perform.
Proceeds will go to the
Easter Seal Fundi for 1964,
helping people with crippling
diseases, and also to help to
build a cottage at the new
Camp Easter in the Pines.
The admission charge will
be 50 cents with tickets on
sale at the door.
Cotton Acreage
Opened To Peach
Disaster Areas
Peach growers in Moore, Mont
gomery and Richmond Counties,
whose crop was wiped out in a
late- March freeze, are being giv
en a special opportunity to ac
quire additional cotton acreage
allotaents to bolster their farm
income this year.
Rep. Charles R. Jonas, 8th Dis
trict Congressman who toured
the peach disaster area recently
with James E. Harrington, Jr.,
8th District Republican chair
man, wired The Pilot from Wash
ington Monday that U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture officials had
informed him that the period to
apply for cotton acreage, which
had expired in March, is being
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Morgan Family
Reported Safe
Through letters reaching
friends in Southern Pines, The
Pilot has learned that Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Morgan and their five
children—former local residents
who have lived near Anchorage,
Alaska, since the fall of 1962—are
all safe and well, though damage
Was sustained in their home,
largely to furnishings. They had
not been heard from when The
Pilot reported last week on for
mer Sandhills residents in the
Anchorage area.
The Morgans lived on E. In
diana Ave. extension for several
years, when Mr. Morgan was em
ployed at Fort Bragg as an equip
ment specialist.
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.
April 2 72
April 3 70
April 4 56
April 5 43
April 6 55
April 7 70
April 8 75
Min.
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