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nine, was recently put in play.Kentucky's Gov. Combs wants to have

a course at every state park . . . Saystourists stay longer if golf is handy . . ."World's Championship" TV golf matches,which are completed in one hour, includ-ing commercials, require 6 to 7 hours toshoot . . . Carrollton G&CC, Eldersburg,Md., hopes to have its 18 completed insummer ... George Conley of Fanwood,N. J., and Lex Lucas of Keyport, N. J"expect to open their Storm View GC 18in July ... Paul Falls succeeds Jack Twissas pro at Dedham (Mass.) CC ... Jackhas retired ... Talk about building Metro-politan (Boston) District Commissioncourse near Saugus, Mass ... Bill Slavikis the newly appointed pro-mgr, of Bid-well Park GC in Chico, Calif.

Sam Eig plans to build l8-hole courseadjoining his $15 million apartment build-ing and Motel Washingtonian nearGaithersburg, Md. . . . Mrs. "Dutch"Harrison who has visited a lot of golfclubs and who is a woman of excellentjudgment and taste, says Rio Pinar CCclubhouse at Orlando, Fla., is most attrac-tive small clubhouse she's ever seen . . .Robert Trent Jones designing 27 holes forQuail Hollow Club near Hartville, 0., onestate of H. B. Stewart, Jr. ... Quail Hol-

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low will be private club with membersmainly from Canton and Akron, O. . . .Schedule completion in August, 1961.

Don B. Campbell, supt. at Cherry Point(N. C.) Marine base course, is one of thoseversatile gentlemen you occasionally runinto . . . He runs a Hf hour disk jockeyshow every week, featuring traditionalDixieland jazz ... He's also planning aone-hour Sunday show for the future inwhich only symphonic music will beplayed . . . Years ago, Campbell was' atympanist with the Boston Pops orchestraand later played with the National Sym-phony Orchestra.

Jock Anderson, a golf pro in the Chicagoarea for more than 30 years, died of anapparent heart attack in his shop at Bon-nie Dundee GC, Feb. 19th ... He operat-ed the course with Anuta Harms ... Born71 years ago in Scotland, Jock migrated toValparaiso, Chile, in 1910 where he laidout a course and served as a pro . . . In1937 he took over operation of a course inNorthbrook, Ill., and 12 years later movedto Bonnie Dundee.

Fifty of 64 seats on the airliner that isgoing to take Chicago Dist. GA supportersto Augusta for the Masters were taken as 'r

A TRIO OF THE GRASS GROWING PRIESKORNSBrother George in the center is senior mem-ber of the clan. He is in charge of all main-tenance at Burroughs Farms Country ClubResort in Brighton, Michigan.Elmer, on the left, is Golf Professional atPine Lakes Country Club where Earl, on theright, does an outstanding job of growingfine turf.Not in the picture is Brother Bob at West-ern Golf & Country Club, and George's son,Jerry, who is assistant Professional at PineLakes.The entire Prieskorn clan are firm believersin MILORGANITE- using several carloadseach year in the greater Detroit area.

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of Feb. 28th ... Five years ago the NewJersey State GA sent one caddie to collegeon a four-year $2,000 scholarship ... To-day the association is helping 18 boysthrough Rutgers and expects to increasethis to 23 in the fall . . . 83 member clubsand individual benefactors make this pos-sible . . . New Jersey's State Open will beplayed at Knoll GC, Boonton, July 14-16... It will be the 40th renewal of the eventand $5,000 in prize money is being offered.

Don Pritsch is new pro at Mt. Tabor(No J.) CC 0 0 • He's a former captain ofthe Seton Hall golf team and has beenworking toward a head pro job since1951 0 0 0 He formerly was an assistant toFred Baker at Maplewood 0 0 0 Ray Fergu-son has gone from Ridgewood to EssexFalls, N. J., where he is assistant to StanMosel 0 0 0 New course planned for BelleMead, N. J. 0 0 0 It's to be called PikeBrook and will have 18 holes 0 0 0 Courseis expected to be ready in spring of 1961.

D. 1. Sewall, Mountain Lakes, N. ].,a retired course architect, died in mid-February at the age of 77 . . . He de-signed several courses in the East includingBraidburn in Madison, Blair Academycourse and Lake Mohawk, all in New Jer-sey . . . Years ago he wrote numerousarticles on turf for sports and agronomymagazines ... Mrs. Rose Z. Ghezzi, moth-er of Vic, well known pro who won thePGA Championship in 1941, died in Rum-son, N. j., in February at the age of 75.

Golf course Supts. Association's plan toprepare standard specifications for golfcourse construction might be one of thebest things that can happen for qualifiedgolf architects as well as course owners, ac-cording to some architects ... Not unusualnow for architects to be expected to buildfirst class courses on sites where first classmaintenance is impossible . . . There arewide variations in fees for designing andbuilding courses often due to great differ-ences in standards of construction, agreemany architects and supts.

Newspaper stories sometimes refer tonew courses as being built to "USGA orPGA specifications" . 0 0 There are no suchspecifications . 0 0 The reference is merelyan uninformed generality about design 0 0 0

"GCSA specifications," if the supts' organ-ization is able to prepare practical mini-mum specifications, ought to mean some-thing of value to golf 0 0 0 Supts. at GCSAHouston annual meeting said millions ofunnecessary annual maintenance expenseand futile efforts to get and keep courses

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in good condition are result of improperconstruction.

Salt Lake City commission approves by4 to 1 vote, over objection of mayor, J.Bracken Lee, to complete Mountain Dellmuny course . . . About 500 citizens at-tended one of biggest, liveliest sessionsever held in the commission's chambersto push for new course completion . . .Sale of Forest Dale, old muny course,was expected to pay for 18 at MountainDell and 9 at Rose Park ... Hack Miller,Salt Lake Desert News sports editor, com-menting on Mountain Dell case said, "Themayor will learn that no other departmentof city government is so exacting in itsbookkeeping and auditing as the city's golfcourses whose figures are matter of de-tailed public records."

Par 3 course building boom grows . . .Some of these popular nurseries are inpublic parks . . . Looks to us as thoughthe design of most of them has been espe-cially mindful of player's safety . . . De-sign and construction of these courses pre-sent problems of minimizing compactionfrom heavy traffic . . . Another feature ofgolf's building program are number ofcourses adjacent to airports - Sterling,Colo., Fairmount CC in Chatham County,N. J., Santa Maria, Calif., and Santa Bar-bara, Calif., are among the airport golfcourse municipal and private projects.

The course and motel and the courseand real estate development tieups are ac-counting for a large percentage of newcourse projects ... Some amazing examplesof what course construction, on land ab-solutely not worth a damn for almost anyother purpose, has done to establish attrac-tive residential character and high value ofadjacent property . . . Bad feature of thisis that the courses will be heavily bur-dened by taxes on values that the coursescreate. '

North Hills GC building two 18's to de-sign of Robert Trent Jones at Manhasset,N.Y., because high taxes forced it to sell itsproperty at Douglaston which will be va-cated by club at end of year ... Douglas-ton property sale financed North Hill's new$2% million plant . . . Cedarbrook CC(Philadelphia dist.) to build $1% millioncourse and clubhouse on 210 acres nearBlue Bell, Montgomery County, Pa., withmoney from sale of its 150-acre presentclub site where a $50 million apartment,hotel and shopping center will be built.. . . Sale was delayed by members' dis-agreement over ownership of club . . .

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Tommy Murphy, goes from asst. jobwith Jack Grout at Scioto ce, Columbus,0., to pro job at Lancaster (Pa.) CC suc-ceeding A. B. (Abe) Thorn who retiresafter 26 years there ... Murphy also hasbeen asst. to Willie Goggin, Elmer Voightand Herman Barron ... Murphy's teach-ing under Grout, especially in Junior pro-gram which had Jack Nicklaus as a pupil,was big factor in getting him the Lancasterjob ... Bus tours to courses in Texas andMexico following USGA Creen Sectionmeeting in New York and GeSA confer-ence in Houston gave 25 New Englandsupts. a broad view of golf maintenanceand a prolonged business study program.

Walnut trees at Modesto (Calif.) DrydenPark muny course were auctioned to furn-iture manufacturers ... New Orleans talk-ing about putting an Open tournament onLadies PGA program in fall ... The wo-men pros are steadily increasing their draw. . . Smart golf and smart grooming haveextended gallery interest and earning capa-city of the girls ... Winter of heavy snows,quick melting saw considerable play bysnowbird golfers at middle Atlantic and

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northeastern courses . . . Very little win-ter golf on midwestern courses ... Play-ers never have gone for it.

Judging by pro, advertising agency andTV station requests that Golfdom andGolfing have received for program mate-rial, the coming spring and summer willhave record number of TV shows featur-ing local pros . . . Some of these localshows will be out on the air just beforeor after the nationwide TV competitions. . . One of the healthy things about cur~rent golf boom is the many "do it your-self' courses in small towns ... For in-stance, the Fabens, Tex., club of which theFabens Independent says, "The course hasdeveloped from a sand and mesquite areato a fine recreation spot."

Kissing Camels GC to open 18 holesthis spring at Garden of Gods near Colo-rado Springs . . . Press Maxwell designedand built it for A. G. Hill of Dallas . . .It's surrounded by residential sites . . .One of the most beautiful course sites inthe U. S. and Maxwell has done a greatwork of golf art on it . . . This is one ofthose achievements that can be marred bya landscaping plan that doesn't look en-tirely natural.

New Britain, Conn., honors Stanley GCpro, Stan Pisk, as the city's "Sports Manof the Year." . . . Pisk, 17 years pro atStanley, was combat hero in World War II... Jack Emich of Baltimore CC new pres.,Maryland State GA ... At the Maryland

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