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vug Uigh toll! A photo of the old Moore County house given to the State for historical purposes appears on Page 2, Section 3. GItndon Spnqreand ^ ^^aqteopqs. Cameron p)l l.ok«viey’Vass r ^llerbe Jad& A former Miss America visited Pinehurst last week to take part in a con vention program. Photo on Page 6, Section 3. VOL.—47 NO. 11 TWENTY-TWO PAGES SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1967 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE: 10 CENTS STATE SPOKESMAN REPORTS Donation Described To Historical Group The story of the donation of day’s Pilot.) an old house by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sawyer of the state John B. Von Canon of West organization said he came upon End to the State Department the house 10 miles west of of Archives and History was Carthage while on a trip to told Monday night at a meet- Moore to study the Alston ing of the Moore County His- House at the Horse Shoe for torical Association at the improvements and for work Campbell House. i on the caretaker’s residence. (A photo of the house and Later in Raleigh, he said, he another report on the donation immediately thought of it is publish d elsewhere in to- Avhen the man in charge of restoring the President James 1 V-. * Steps Taken In Organizing Local Chamber Of Commerce Steps were taken toward told 'of its policies, methods of formation of a Chamber of operation, costs and accom- Commerce here, at a dinner plishments in cooperative ef- meeting held Monday night at | fort for better business and Pilot Given 3 Awards In 1966 Press Contests K. Polk House at Pineville told him he needed interior panelling. Sawyer said he and Mrs. Bob Jordan, wife of a state archives departmc nt colleague, both went to Moore County to inspect the Von Canon The Pilot shared in awards ^ presented at last week’s 42nd ^mediate y fell in love with annual Newspaper Institute of Particularly for its panel- the North Carolina Press As- installation in a his- sociation in Chapel Hill, win-! ^^e planned ' the Pine Needles Country Club, attended by albout 40 I persons representing a cross- j section of local business inte»’- ests. j Glenn Webb, executive di- : rector of the Wadesboro-Anson ' efits result for all.” Chamber of Commerce at ' Noting that conditions in his Wadesboro, as guest speaker own area differed in many re community relations. Webb said, “It takes col lective action to analyze and solve the problems facing the business community, and through collective effort, ben- ' .loss' SET FOR FEBRUARY 2 AND 3 Blood Collections Next Week To Be Important In Saving Prograi spects from those of this resort community, he commented, “You have so much to sell here—‘liveability,’ your won derful recreational facilities, and your educational and economic development, which I think are great. “Southern Pines has a na tional image, which should be promi'oted in the finest ways.” E. Earl Hubbard, presiding as acting chairman, asked for expressions of opinion from the floor a^^^^he need for a ChaMli^^^BMiatlimerce, ^ tusi ning first, second and' third place awards in various cate gories of competition in the Weekly Division of the 1966 contests. The awards, based on en tries submitted from work in the year from October, 1965 to October, 1966, were present ed by Gov. Dan K. Moore last Thursday night, but no re presentative of the newspaper was able to be present to re ceive them in person at that time. The awards are: —A first place award to Mrs. James Boyd, publisher and managing editor, in the “Best Column” category (new to the contests this year) for three entries of her “Grains of Sand” column which appears regularly in The Pilot. —A second ,j)lace award to the newspaper (not personal) in the “Best News Coverage” category. —A third place award to C. Benedict, associate editor, in the “Best Editorials” category for an editorial published last July, “First Lesson In Labor Relations.” On Friday of last week, Mrs. Boyd and Mr. Benedict attend ed other sessions of the Insti tute in Chapel Hill and collect ed the awards — a wood- mounted brass plaque for the first place winner and inscrib ed certificates for the second (Continued on Page 6) State Museum of History. Con sequently, the panelling is labelled for both the Polk house and the museum. The museum will occupy three floors of the new $3 million State Archives and History De partment building being erect ed in Raleigh. The depart ment will start moving in in the spring of 1968, Sawyer said. Sawyer said he and John McPhaul of Southern Pines, (Continued on Page 6) FOR 1967 Dr. Warlick Heads Bank’s Local Board Dr. R. Bruce Warlick was elected t'o the chairmanship of the Southern Pines Board of Managers of the Southern Na tional Bank, at its monthly meeting Thursday. He succeeds J. E. Causey who served in 1966. W. Lament Brown was elected 1967 vice chairman. Dr. Warlick has been active in community and church acti vities since moving to the Sandhills in 1946 after grad uating from the School of Den tistry of the Medical College of Virginia. He has served as (Continued from Page 6) John Williams (center) with DSA plaque and Jaycees' President Jerry Hard- ister (left) and DSA banquet chairman Barry Torrence. (V. Nicholson photo) FOR SERVICE TO COMMUNITY Coach Williams Wins JC Award John W. Williams, 35-year- old East Southern Pines High School track and junior varsi ty football coach and physical education and health teacher, was announced last Friday night as 1966 S'outhern Pines Young Man of the Year. He was selected for the Southern Pines Junior Cham ber of Commerce Distinguish ed Service Award principally for his contributions to the young people of the commu- nity- In his leisure time, Williams has organized midget football and basketball'leagues^ and is. an active church worker. He has served as a Sunday School teacher and a member of the council of the Lutheran Church. The winner of the annual award was announced at the Southern Pines Jaycees’ year ly Distinguished Awards Ban quet at the Holiday Inn. It also was a Bosses’ Night program. Jaycees’ guests were their working-day employers and other executives. Approximate ly 200 people attended. TTie guest speaker was Mi- cou F. Brown of Raleigh, pres ident of Occidental Life Insur- DERBY BUYS FORMER LOCATION Pines Realty, Optician Firm Now In Building Of N ew Development In a long-planned business- section change, marking the first move in an extensive de velopment on the 200-block of W. Pennsylvania Ave., the Pines Realty, Development and Insurance Co. and the South ern Pines Opticians have mov ed from their adjoining loca tions in the 100-block of W. iPennsylvania tp the new build ing of Pines Associates, Inc., at 230 W. Pennsylvania. South ern Pines Opticians is owned and operated by Ralph M. All- red. Lt. Col. Frank M. Smi’h, who heads Pines Realty and is treasurer of Pines Associates, has sold the former location of Pines Realty and Southern Pines Opticians, at 115-117 W. Pennsylvania to Vance A. Der by, local attorney. Mr. Derby, who has bought the entire building, plans ex tensive exterior and interior remodeling, and will convert the whole ground floor to his law offices, moving there, on completion of the work. from his present offices on the second floor at 133 NW Broad St. The Rowe & Rowe law offices will remain as sec ond floor tenants in the Penn sylvania Ave. building, Mr. Derby said. At the 230 W. Pennsylvania location. Pines Realty and Southern Pines Opticians oc cupy the two front, street-level office suites. There is another street-level single office, off the inside hall, which has been rented by Edmunde W. Buck minster of Pinehurst; and there is an unoccupied office suite across the rear of the new building, on this floor. On the lower level, with ac cess from side and rear of the building, there are three large (Continued on Page 6) ‘Die Fledermaus’ To Be Presented Friday Evening “Die Fledermaus” will be performed here by a talented troupe of young singing artists of the National Opera Com pany, formerly the Grass Roots Opera. They will present Johann Strauss’s carefree, light-heart ed . masterpiece on Friday, January 27, starting at 8:30 pm, in Weaver Auditorium. The entire production will be sung in English. The presentation is one of the winter series sponsored by the Sandhills' Music Associa tion. Tickets are available at Barnum Realty & Insurance Insurance Co. and will be on sale at the box office. The familiar airs, “The (Continued on Page 6) West Side Civic Club Will Meet The West Southern Pines Civic Club will meet Thurs day (January 26) at 8 pm, in the Masonic Hall on Gaines St. Club officials called the meeting “very important” and asked wide attendance. New members of the club are invited and all citizens are urged to attend' its meetings. Rep. Jacobs To Address YDC Banquet The principal speaker for the state Young Democratic Clubs’ installation banquet here Saturday night will be a member of the congressional committee investigating New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell’s activities. He is US Rep. Andrew Jacobs of Indiana, who is ser ving his second term in the House. The YDC dinner is schedul ed for the Holiday Inn starting at 7 pm. President-elect Sam H. Poole of Southern Pines and the other incoming state officers will be installed by Lt. Gov. Robert Scott. The officers in addition to Poole are Vince Lefler of Willard, vice presi dent; Mrs. Betty Lewis of Chapel Hill, national commit tee woman; Milton Kern of Greensboro, secretary; Claude Sitton of Morganton, treasurer; and Don Wilson of the Uni versity of North Carolina, president of the College YDC Federation. State Democratic Chairman 1. T. Valentine also will parti cipate in the program. Entertainment for the wo men visitors has been arrang ed for Saturday afternoon. A reception will be held at 5:30 pm at Holia'ay Inn. ance Co. of North Carolina. Brown is a former president of the North Carolina Junior Chamber and is treasurer of the Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts. Brown told a series of anec dotes and closed his speech with a serious inspirational message. He said the “non- enforceable obligations of cit- enship” constitute the chal lenge in today’s era of afflu ence. For one of his examples of volunteering to assume “non- enforceable obligations” he pointed to Southern Pines Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr. Hodgkins is a winner of a pre vious local Jaycees’ Distin guished Service Award and appeared at the banquet as a “boss” guest of Jaycees. Hodg kins was seated at the speak ers’ and officials’ thble. Brown said nobody was forcing Hodgkins to serve his community as mayor. Brown also pointed to the grim news that appears daily in the newspapers — news about America’s crime and violence. However, he pointed to the bright side of American life—the silence of America as it goes about its business quiet. We’ve got a large, si lent group in the United States,” he pointed out. For examples of the bright side. Brown said church and Sunday school attendance in the US is at an alltime high; and that more contributions are being made to education (Continued on Page 6) Jimmy K. Burns Joins Masonic Temple Shop James Clayton owner of the Masonic Temple Barber Shop, located on N. W. Broad St., has announced that Jimmy K. Burns of Robbins will become associated with the shop, be ginning February 2. Mr. Burns is married to the former Carolyn Brown of Robbins. She is employed at the Pinehurst Surgical Clinic in Pinehurst. Two blood collections play-' ing an important part in de termining whether the Moore County Blood Program is saved this year will take place next week. Col. John Dibb, county chairman of the pro gram, said this week. A bloodmobile from the Red Cross center at Charlotte will made these visits: In Carthage on Thurs day, February 2, at the Rescue Squad 'building from 12 noon to 5:30 pm. In Southern Pines on Fridaly, February 3, at St. Anthony's! School audi torium. from 11 am to 4:30 pm. The Charlotte center sup plies both hospitals in Moore County with blood of all types. The blood is furnished to patients free, except for a small handling charge, on con dition that relatives or friends pledge to donate an equal Gulistan Chief Notes Progress; Awards Given Steele L. 'Winterer, presi dent of the Gulistan Carpet Division, J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., delivered his annual mes sage on company operations to an assembly of all employees of the company’s Aberdeen plant last Wednesday. Winterer reported on the progress made by the Division during 1966 as well as the plans and hopes for 1967. He stated that Gulistan produced a substantial increase in carpet yardage in the past year and was hopeful of a further gain in 1967. He was particularly compli mentary about the measurable improvement of quality of production in the past year. He continued, “our only way to grow is through good pro ducts, top quality and out standing service.” He thanked the employees for their “wonderful, intelli gent support that has moved our company up to the front ranks” and said that “Stevens- Gulistan is a proud label and you are the craftsmen who back up that label.” Following Winterer’s ad dress, George E. Paules, vice president - manufacturing, presented annual Distinguish ed Service Awards to the out standing employee and super- (Continued on Page 5, Sec. 3) amount of blood at visit of a bloodmobile fr^ center to Moore Coun; Colonel Dibb this minded the public Moore County pro fall, was put on status” by the Red cause collections ty had consistent! equal the amount (Continued on 1 Weather Showl Contrast: Froi Icy To ‘Sprinj The Southern Pinesi caped serious weath of last Thursday’s id for several traffic] and a loss of half school. But icy Thursd| freezing Friday by a climb in that brought co]( seasonably tfir'oug'h this w^ Power and ices were ur; weeks for Unite4 the Carolf olina Povi trict offic day. Indill was causej on ice, pole. “We wefi^ reported Joe trict manage’' phone compaij sentiment wa* other words Tucker, Southe,' (Continued TournamentJ City Bowlin/ The Southei Bowling As: ment will I 11 - 12 at here, it wa^ week. There wij on Februaa pm. Doubt be held c 1 pm to All enj uary 31, | LOSS Wi 10th Am HighlandT Young People To Conduct Service ! On Sunday, January 29, the worship service at Our Saviour | Lutheran Church will be con- I ducted by young people of the congregation. Six young men will serve as liturgists and conduct the minister’s parts of the service. The choir will be composed of young people of the congrega tion; and two will serve as ushers and one as acolyte. Conducting the liturgy will be James Baldwin, Melvin Johnson, David Baldwin, Dar rell Howard, David Howard and Steadman Meares. Pastor Deese will be re sponsible for the sermon and benediction. I'Hk Dr. Hollister Honored By Colleagues For 20 Years As Surgeon Here Dr. William F. Hollister of Midland Road (seated at center of table, behind flowers in photo above) was honored last week with a dinner at the Country Club of North Carolina, in recognition of “20 years of continuous surgical service to the Sandhills community.” Hosts for the event were Dr. R. M. McMillan, of Southern Pines, (seated at Dr. Hollister’s right) and Dr. J. S. Hiatt, Jr., of Mid land Road, (at Dr. Hollis ter’s left). At each side and behind are members of the medi cal staffs of Moore Me morial Hospital at Pine hurst and St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital here, and also a number of distin guished guests. Most of the physicians in Moore County attended. The guests included: Dr. Deryl Hart who was Dr. Hollister’s professor of surgery at Duke Medical School and later president of Duke University in Durham; Dr. Ivan Brown, a professor of surgery at Duke University Medical Center; Dr. William Sing leton, also a professor of surgery there; Dr. Ray mond Postlethwaite, chief of the Surgical Service at the Veterans Hospital in Durham; and Dr. Will Sealy, head of the depart ment of cardio-vascular surgery at Duke Medical Center. Dr. Hollister is one of the founders of the Pine hurst Surgical Clinic and continues as one of the clinic’s active surgeons. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sur geons and has been ac corded numerous other honors and offices in the medical and surgical fields. He opened his practice in the Sandhills 20 years ago, after serving overseas as an Army medical of ficer in World War 11. Friday of last week, 20, was the 10th anniv of the destruction of the land Pines Inn here by lire- one of the community’s most spectacular conflagrations.' 'With the exception' of one small wing and some outbuild-! ings, the big frame structure, built of heart pine lumber, burned to the ground. The early Sunday morning fire, discovered at 3 am, de stroyed the resort hotel built and opened in 1912 and occu pied at the time of its burning by , the USAF Air Ground Operations School, a military installation which had brought more than 30 families to live in Southern Pines. Administered by the Air Force, the school instructed classes of officers from all branches of the armed forces, and from foreign nations, each class of about 100 men turn ing over weekly. The E. Massachusetts Ave. knoll where the imposing white Highland Pines Inn do minated the lanscape for 45 years, was cut up into lots and sold for residential de velopment, after the fire. The home of Mayor Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., for instance, is fff shorne^ shornc resident occupying ttrs in the Mr. and Mrs.' most of their pe^ sions in the fire af shorne claims to the only casualty of tl he cut a foot on glass hi from an elevator door ^ (Continued on Page THE WEATHER Maximum and minimun: temperatures for each day of the past week were recorded as follows at the US Weather Bureau observation station, ai WEEB, on Midland Road. Max Min. Max. Min. Jan. 18 53 29 Jan. 19 27 24 Jan. 20 39 20 Jan. 21 54 23 Jan. 22 73 36 Jan. 23 73 68 Jan 24 77 45
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