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School Bus Driver
Fined, Brake Gets
Accident Blame
Eighth District Congressional Fight
Waxes Warm; Deane Given Slight Edge
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Water Bond Vote
Wins In Carthage
By Big Majority
Don Jones, New VFW Commander,
First Came Here On Vacation Journey
A brake rod with a break part
ly old, partly new, was Exhibit A
in the trial of a Carthage school
bus driver, James Blue Fields, at
recorders court April 11, in con
nection with an accident involvr
ing his bus.
The bus had been checked at
the county garage only a short
while before the accident prelim
inary to inspection by the State
Highway Patrol, it was testified
by the driver, James Blue Fields.
Bringing it back to school after
the check-up, with, fortunately,
only one passenger—another high
School boy—on the bus, he tried
to stop as he neared the Carthage
stoplight. He said the brake
would not work, and the bus cat
apulted into the rear of a car
waiting at the light.
An estimated $350 damage was
done to the car, driven by Ryan
B. Albert.
W. T. Carroll, garage superin
tendent, verified that Fields had
left the garage with the bus baout
10 minutes earlier but said that
t^e check-up had showed nothing
wrong with the brake.
Police Chief Bunn Cameron
testified concerning the accident
Both Fields and his companion
Said the brakes were apf)lied “in
plenty of time” to stop. Highway
Patrolman Harris showed the
broken rod and testified that in
his opinion, it caused the accident.
Finding young Fields guilty of
driving with improper brakes, and
colliding with another car caus-:
ing the accident. Judge J. Vance
Rowe continued prayer for judg
ment taxing him with costs, he
noted also: “The brake showed
the rod prartially broken, about
two-thirds of the area being a
fresh break.
The court feels the county or
state should pay damage to Al
bert’s car.”
No liability is assumed in such
case by either county or state, it
was learned by The Pilot later
from H. Lee Thomas, county su
perintendent of schools.
"Old Eighth" Has
Long Tradition of
Hairbreadth Wins
(A Washington Dispatch)
Reports reaching Washington
indicate another heated, and close.
Congressional race is in the mak
ing in the Eighth District, where
Rep. C. B. Deane of Rockingham
is defending himself against an
other challenge by William E.
(Bill) Horner, Sanford publisher
and legislator.
Washington observers, on the
basis of the theory that an incum
bent already has one strike on his
opponent and on the basis of Hor
ner’s pre-announcement admis
sion he expected to fight an uphill
fight against Deane, think that the
Rockingham second-termer has an
edge on the Sanford publisher.
But, they add hastily, it isn’t
much of an edge. In support of
that they cite the record of the
Eighth District for producing the
State’s closest Congressional races
over a period of many years.
One ardent Deane supporter re
called that Deane, 'after being
hosed out by a handful of votes
twice by the late Rep. W. O. Bur-
gin, nosed out Horner for the seat
by less than 400 votes in their last
race.
This time, he added cheerfully,
“We’re going to beat Horner bad
—we’ll double our margin over
him.” In most districts, a 700-plus
votes margin would be regarded
as close, but not, he said, in the
Eighth. “If, we beat him 1,000
votes, we’ll consider that a land
slide.”
Horner friends, on the other
hand, say that if after four years
in Congress, Deane has gained no
more strength than to be able to
expect a margin of less than 1,000
votes, “he can be beat.” But they,
too, say it will be close.
Deane was in the district during
the Easter recess of the House,
beating the bushes for voters, and
he was being helped by John A.
Lang, Jr., of Carthage, his secre
tary, who deserted his desk
in Washington to do a little cam
paigning for the boss.
Blit Horner is covering the dis
trict too. He spent last week
building fences in the lower and
middle parts of the district, and
speaking engagements this week
are taking him, accompanied by a
hill-b^lly band, to Fair Grove and
the Pilot school areas of Davidson
county Monday, to- Ronda in
Wilkes county Wednesday, Millers
Creek school in Wilkes Thursday
and back to Davidson county, to
^rlanger, Friday.
The highlight of his week’s ac
tivities came Tuesday night with
a speech oyer the first radio net
work ever set up in the Eighth
District. Ten radio stations at San
ford, Southern Pines, Laurinburg,
Monroe, Rockingham, Lexington,
rhomasville. North Wilkesboro
and Wadesboro, carried the po
litical address.
Services Held Friday
For Retired Minister
Funeral services for the Rev. J.
C. Thompson, 73, were held Friday
afternoon at the Pine Hill Baptist
church, near Aberdeen, of which
he was a retired pastor. Burial
was in the Ashley Heights ceme
tery.
The Rev. Mr. Thompson, native
of Montgomery county, died Wed
nesday at his home near Aber
deen. Survivors include his wife,
the . former. Miss Frances Long,
and the following children: Mrs.
C. T. Crouch of Aberdeen, Mrs.
Willie Odom and Mrs. M. W. Jack-
son, of Maxton. and Cephus
Thompson of Fayetteville; also
three stepchildren, Mrs. Henry J.
Hunsucker of Aberdeen, Mrs. M.
C. Strother of Albemarle and J. T.
Parnell of Fayetteville; 26 grand
children and 18 great grandchil
dren.
By Charles McLeod
Although the trend in North
Carolina local elections has been
to vote dry, the citizens of Carth
age went to the polls April H and
voted overwhelmingly wet—for
water, that is.
In a special $135,000 water bond
election, the vote was 304 for and
only 34 against.
Mayor Archie L. Barnes had
predicted 302 votes for the issue.
He attributed the victory to the
progressiveness of the towft and
its citizens. Water scarcity is an
old subject and a sore one, with
residents of the Moore County
seat.
Every summer that has been
extremely hot and dry, orders
have gone out to cease lawn
watering, car washing and not to
be so pernickety about personal
cleanliness. In addition to the in
conveniences, there were those
jibes from other towns and the
matter became acutely serious in
1947, the town was forced to make
arrangements with Southern
Pines municipality for the pur
chase of water. As there are no
pipe connections between the
towns, the H20 had to be hauled
by tank trucks. Since that time,
the rains have come, but so have
new residents, and a big new in
dustry is opening this summer.
The town authorities called in
Barber Keels and associates of
Columbia, S. C., for a survey as to
how the water supply could be
increased. Their survey showed
an ample supply could be obtain
ed from Little River a few miles
from town.
Water is now derived from
springs and a water shed. The
bond money will go for a pipe line
to Little River and a new filtering
plant. New York’s shortage is
more serious, but Carthage had
hers first. Also, shexjntends to
correct it first. Yep Carthaginians
are going to have water and drink
it, too.
Donald A. Jones, recently chos- | quet and celebration April 9, 1949,
en commander of the John Boyd, at which Gen. George C. Marshall
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avenue, which the post carried
through in November, 1948.
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Debt Is Cleared
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