Congratulations
to the
Class of 1950
Congratulations
to the
Class of 1950
VOL. 31—NO. 28
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JUNE 2. 1950
16 PAGES THIS WEEK
Pleasants Wins Commissioner Race;
McDonald, Blue Returned To Office
Clerk, Register
Contests May End
In Second Primaries
MAKES ADDRESS
Towns Protest
Suspension Of
Piedmont Service
TEN CENTS
Sheriff's Race
Draws Biggest Vole
On County Ticket
Five county contests added tO’
the interest of Saturday’s primary
(rote in Moore, and, like the state
senatorial race, ended with the
oossibility of a second primary.
This week, however, neither
Hubert McCaskill, second to Carl-
ion Kennedy in the clerk of court
race, nor D. A. McDonald, Jr., |
runner-up to Bessie J. Griffin for
register of deeds, would say
whether he intended to exercise
lis right of challenge.
Beautiful weather attended the
jrimary vote, doing its share to
jring out the voters in numbers
which shattered* precedent in
Hoore as all over the state.
i Most popular county race was
hat for sheriff, which attracted
t total of 5,340 votes and put in-
jumbent C. J. McDonald at the
;op of the county ticket with 3,230
rotes. For a time, navy veteran
r. W. “Bunch” Sheffield threat-
;ned Sheriff McDonald’s major-
ty, capturing lour precincts and
•unning close behind in others,
iUt soon the strength of the man
|vho has held the office for 22
fespected years asserted itself for
I commanding lead. Sheffield
iaded the race with 1,840 votes,
yhile C. H. Bennett trailed far
behind with 270.
I The clerk of court contest, with
ive in the race, drew 5,285 votes.
:arlton Kennedy, with 2,329, and
lubert McCaskill with 1804 dom-
aated the field. Trailing were
Lalph Steed, 564; Alex Fields, Jr.,
36, and Dan Carter, 152.
Third largest contest was that
3r General Assembly representa-
ive. Political prophets had fore-
ist a nip and tuck battle between
:. Clifton Blue, whom the county
as already sent to Raleigh for
(VO terms, and Robert N. Page,
Air Services
Considered Vital To
Area's Development
Clary Thompson, Cameron na
tive, now living in Washington, D.
C., as special consultant to the
Undersecretary of the Army, re
turned to Moore county as com
mencement speaker Tuesday night
at the Vass-Lakeview school. Mr.
Thompson, a Navy veteran, serv
ed in Washington first under Ken
neth Royall, then Gordon Gray.
He is the author of a two-volume
pictorial history of the Infantry.
Early Newspapers
Of Community Are
Macauley Gift
rd, attorney and World War
eteran. Aberdeen, home town of
oth men, was pretty well divided
dth Blue winning by only a 26-
oint margin. The county total,
owever, gave him a far stronger
;ad, with victory in 15 out of 17
recincts. Votes numbered 5,217,
dth 2,959 for Blue, 2,258 for
age.
Seeking the one contested seat
n the county commission, new-
3mer Jim Pleasants was a deci-
ve winner, to give Southern
ines its Hirst county commission-
in more than 30 years. Of 5,-
27 votes cast he won 3,147 with
980 going to longtime incum-
ent T. L. Blue. Aberdeen also
oted strongly for Pleasants.
He was the winner in 11 out of
precincts, indicating a county-
dde rather than sectional ap-
kval^is^ngmigatmg^
The tkiuof LJUl't race, drawing
087 votes, saw the only woman
mdidate a good distance out in
ont. Bessie J. Griffin, of Lake-
iew and Vass, was accorded 2,-
i4 votes, to 1,882 for her nearest
)mpetitor, D. A. iVfcDonald, Jr.,
: Carthage. Also-rans were W.
Finison, with 654, and R. E.
ennett, 317.
This week the James Boyd col
lection of the Southern Pines Li
brary received a valued addition
of local historical interest, in the
form of copies of most of the files
of the early newspapers of this
town.
The gift of Charles Macauley,
a for?Tier member of the Pilot
staff, the Collection includes, be
sides the newspaper files, four
teen annotated boxes of clippings,
relating to the history of the town
and region. The items are alpha
betically arranged, with complete
card index for the use of students.
Several books of value are inclu
ded, as well as soil survey and
other pamphlets for this area.
Commenting on the gift, Mrs.
Dorothy Avery, Moore County li
brarian, wgs enthusiastic in her
praise. “There is no doubt,” she
said, “of the value of such a col
lection. It is a splendid thing to
have in our library.”
Mrs. Boyd expressed herself,
also, as delighted with the ‘addi
tion to the North Carolina room.
“We are deeply grateful to Mr.
Macauley,” she said, “for this
wonderful gift, which took him
so many years of hard and skill
ful work to assemble.”
There are fifteen newspapers in
the collection, including the Pine
Knot, The Free Press, The Tour
ist, The Yankee Settler, and many
others, down to the present day
of The Pilot.
The boxes of clippings contain
much material also of value to re
search workers on the history of
Southern Pines. Every phase of
the town’s development is cover-
d, v/ith many special pamphlets
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Mayers of Southern Pines, Car
thage and Aberdeen and local
civic and business leaders are pro
testing the Civil Aeronautics
Board’s authorization granted last
Friday to Piedmont Airlines, Inc.,
to suspend their service here dur
ing the next five months.
A news story on the suspension
came as a surprise to the com
munities, though Francis Harris,
Piedmont representative here,
said notices were sent 'out to all
Sandhills mayors two or three
weeks ago.
With business interests closely
concerned in the continuation of
airmail, parcel post, freight and
express — considered perhaps
more important at this time than
the passenger service — action
was started at once by Harry Ful-
lenwider, president of the South
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce,
and L. T. Clark, president of the
Sandhill Merchants association.
The aid of Congressman C. B.
Deane and of John McConnell, ad
ministrative assistant to Senator
Graham, have been enlisted for
a “stay of execution” until local
views can be aired.
Leaders here are requesting
that all others interested write
or telegraph the chairman of the
CAB at Washington, D. C.
Mayor Arch Barnes of Carth
age joined in the protest on ac
count of actual and potential busi
ness interest. Though Carthage
is not on the airmail route, it is
understood that possibilities of
the mail, freight, and express
services are rated as important to
that community.
Piedmont’s view is that during
the summer keeping an office
open at Resort airport here is a
losing proposition. They are add
ing Myrtle Beach and Morehea(i
City for sjummer service, and wish
to drop the Pinehurst-Southern
Pines stop as “winter resort” busi
ness.
Howev.er, leaders in the towns
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More Patrolmen
Will Be Assigned
To US Highway 1
Welcome To Elks^ Convention
Banners flying on Broad street,
on hotels and the Elks clubhouse
will give welcome today to sev
eral hundred representatives of
Elks lodges all over the state, and
their wives, here for the annual
convention of the N. C. Elks asso
ciation today (Friday) and Satur
day.
The Southland hotel is conven
tion headquarters. All space has
been reserved also at the Jeffer
son Inn and Belvedere and it is
anUcipated that the smaller inns
and some of the tourist homes and
motor courts will be called into
service.
Business sessions will be held
at the Pine Needles club this
morning and afternoon and Sat
urday morning, with a ritualistic
contest for representatives of all
lodges who wish to take part,
starting Friday.
A picnic luncheon will be held
for the delegates and their
wives today in the pine grove
of the Elks clubhouse. Tonight,
the annual banquet will be
given at the Pine Needles club
house at 7:30, followed by a
ball at 9.
Speaker at tonight’s banquet
will be Howard Davis, of Wil
liamsport, Pa., a trustee of the
grand lodge. A highlight of the
banquet will be the announcement
of the scolarship winners in the
Elks’ statewide high school com
petition. The winners will be
present to receive their awards
in person.
Open house will be held at the
Elks clubhouse throughout the
convention. A continuous golf
tournament will be under way
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, for
the Eks only, to ■ be played
whenever they can fit it into their
busy schedules.
Ford Roberts of Hickory, pres
ident of the state association, and
his official staff were expected
Thursday night, to confer in ad
vance on arrangements with M.
C. MicRae, exalted ruler of the
Southern Pines lodge and official
host, and with members of the
convention committee.
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SPEAKERS
Graham High Man, May Face Runoff;
Deane Wins In Moore, 8th District
GUARDSMEN'S BALL
Summer dancing and ro
mancing twill gain a good start
Wednesday evening with the
First Annual National Guard
ball, to be given at the South
ern Pines Country club by the
130th AAA AW Bn (SP) of
Moore county.
Fifty Guardsmen and their
ladies, with their friends of
the general public, will dance
to the music of Bill Lowder
and his Fayette Orchestra
"from 9 till—
Members of the local bat
tery are selling tickets to the
event, for the benefit of the
battery fund. A good crowd
representing many county
communities is expected at
the dance, first social event to
be sponsored by the eight-
months-old organization.
‘ Record Vote Turns
Out In Moore And
All Over State
Boyette Reelected
District Solicitor
Wildlife Wardens Wade Little River
To Snare Rich Haul of Illegal Traps
I Moore County Game Protector
foodrow McDonald and Oscar
hadwick, of the N. C. Wildlife
fervice Patrol, had a long, wet
at successful journey Tuesday.
They spent the whole day slow-
^ navigating in a rowboat along
) mifes of Little River from
haggards lake to Lakeview. Oc
isionally they had to get out of
le boat and wade in the water,
ailing their craft through the
g-choked stream.
But at the end of the day tney
ad a rich haul of 16 homemade
3h traps, of all shapes and sizes,
hich had been hidden under the
aters attached by wires to trees
a the bank—a strictly illegal
aeration.
Some of the traps had just been
ished” when the Wildlife men
ime along, and were empty, or
jarly so. Others were filled with
■im, with some jack and ‘"cats,”
also assorted terrapins and one
dfead moccasin snake. The fish,
which had been funneled into the
interiors of the traps fashioned of
chicken wire, and were swimming
helplessly around and around in
side, were restored to the free
dom of the waters.
It was the first such raid to
be made in MIoore county . this
year, said Patrolman Chadwick,
who hails from Fayetteville and
assists game protectors of 14 coun
ties in enforcing the laws. A num
ber of raids have been made in
other counties and others will be
made from time to time, in a con
certed drive throughout the state
to put an end to illegal fishing.
No arrests were made in con
nection with Tuesday’s raid. The
traps, including several large ones
with wooden frames, and others
of the “basket” type, were confis
cated.
Law enforcement will be dou
bled on US Highway 1, with addi
tional State Highway Patrolmen
assigned to the area, in an effort
to reduce the toll of accidents
along the highway in Moore coun
ty, said Capt. W. B. Lentz of
Greensboro visiting the area Tues
day.
Captain Lentz, commander of
Troop C of the patrol, with Sgt.
Wendell Kelly of Carthage, made
an intensive survey of the high
way from the Lee county line to
below Aberdeen.
While accidents have occurred
all along the way, the part from
near Lakeview to a short distance
north of Vass was given special
study, as eight lives have been
lost there in wrecks in the past
three months. ''
Captain Lentz’ verdict; “There
appears to be no structural defect
in the road. It is my belief the
drivers are responsible.”
This was the gist of his report
made to Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., of
Pinehurst, chairman of safety ser
vices of the Moore county chap
ter, American Red Cross, who had
requested that a survey be made.
Additional patrolmep, for rigorous
law enforcement, may be the
answer, he said. “It we can catch
the speeders and careless drivers
before the accidents happen, we’ll
have gone a long way toward so
lution of the problem.” He em-^
phasized he meant no reflection
on Moore county’s State Highway
Patrol personnel, but “they can’t
be but one place at a time.”
Dr. Grier said that Captain
Lentz had also offered coopera
tion in the safety campaign in
county schools and among bus
drivers of Moore county, starting
next fall. The Red Cross accident
prevention campaign will be spon
sored by the Educo club in all the
schools.
M. G. Boyette, of Carthage,
won the Democratic nomination
for his second term as solicitor of
the 12th judicial district in Sat
urday’s primary, over Joe Cox of
Laurinburg.
Boyette’s home county, which
he served as Solicitor and as
General Assembly representative
before appointment to his pres
ent post in 1946, gave him a
thumping vote of 4,390 to 739 for
his opponent. He won in all six
counties of the district except
Scotland, home county of Cox.
Totals were: Boyette 17,156,
Cox 13,753.
In two state contests in the
Democratic primary (in addition
to the senatorial), Moore follow
ed the lead of the rest of the state;
in giving majorities to the in
cumbents. For Asociate Supreme
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Voters went to the polls in rec-
drd-breaking numbers Saturday
in Moore county as elsewhere in
the state, to nominate their junior
U. S. Senator and the holders of
vario'us other public offices in the
Democratic primary.
The Eighth district was one of
six in the state in which a con
gressional contest shared the spot
light with that for senator. In
botn cases, the primary ended
hard-fought contests in which the
challengers attempted, with in
creasingly merciless attacks, to
oust the incumbents—^without
success-
'The senatorial race outbid even
the traditionally popular sheriffs’
contests for votes. In Moore, the
precedent-shattering total of
votes was 5,374, Raleigh attorney
Willis Smith, second in the state
and eligible to challenge lor a sec
ond primary, was first with 2,548
votes; incumbent Frank P. Gra
ham, former president of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, receiv
ed 2,281; former U. S. Senator Bob
Reynolds 514 and Pinetown pig
raiser Olla Ray Boyd 31.
Smith took nine of the 17 Moore
County precincts, including
Southern Pines. He had not indi
cated by midweek whether or not
he would claim his right of a sec
ond primary in the state. With ap
proximately 600,000 votes cast he
won 242,000 to Graham’s 295,000.
How the 54,000 votes garnered by
Reynolds and 6,000 by Boyd
Would go, was anybody’s guess.
Congressional Race
In the Eighth District congres
sional race, fought out along
somewhat the same lines as that
between Graham and Smith,
Moore gave the incumbent C. B.
Deane, Rockingham attorney,
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REV. L. F. TUTTLE
senior
commence-
42 Will Graduate At
High School Finals;
Events Start Sunday
Community Supper
In New Cafeteria
Tuesday Evening
Events marking the completion
of high school education lor 42
Southern Pines boys and girls will
get under way Sunday evening
with the baccalaureate service, to
be held at the Church of Wide
Fellowship at 8:15 o’clock.
Other events will be at the
school auditorium. They will in
clude the senior play, Monday at
8:15 p.m.; the Honors and Awards
program, Tuesday at 11:15 a.m.;
and the commeiicement exercises,
Tuesday evening at 8:15, preceded
by a supper in the new basement
cafeteria at 6 o’clock.
Alumni, patrons, faculty, stu
dents and all other friends are in
vited to attend the supper, at
which the newly furnished cafe
teria will be displayed for the first
time.
Later the alumni will don caps
and gowns and join the
processional for the
ment exercises.
Baccalaureate Speaker
The baccalaureate speaker Sun
day evening will be the Rev. Lee
F. Tuttle, of the First Methodist
church, Charlotte. His sermon
theme will be “Land of Hope and
Glory.” The glee club will sing.
The commencement speaker
will be James M. Slay, assistant
dean of Trinity college, Duke uni
versity. The band will play. Mrs.
L. D. McDonald will be accompa
nist for both events. In accord
with local tradition, all the local
ministers will take part in the
programs. Dr. William C. Holland,
Dr. T. E. Davis and Dr. R. L.
House for the baccalaureate serv
ice, the Rev. C. V. Coveil and
Father Herbert F. Harkins for the
commencement.
Marshals chosen from the jun
ior class on the basis of scholar
ship will serve at both the Sun
day and Tuesday night events.
These are Deirdre Dundas, chief
marshal; Carol Sue Humphrey,
Hazeline Hunsucker, Dorothy
Swisher, Doris Bowden, Doris
Bowles, Betty Jane Worsham,
Barbara Guin, Sieger Herr, Toni
Richards, Ann Pearson.
Honor Graduates
Seven honor graduates are list
ed for the class of 1950. These
are headed by John Austin Beas
ley, Jr., first honor graduate, and
Reginald Stanley Hamel, second
honor graduate. Others are Edna
Lucille Bailey, Ernestine Claire
Calloway, Rosemary Dundas, Ma
ry Grace McDonald and Winifred
Nicholson.
The commencement exercises
for the class of 1950 are dedicated
this year to Miss Pauline Miller,
class sponsor.
The public is cordially invited
to attend all the events, said Supt.
P. J. Weaver.
JAMES M. SLAY
Rural Folk Speak
Their Minds About
Telephone Service
Boy Scouts Train For Jamboree
i- \
A determined group of men and
women, representing vast stretch
es of Moore county rural areas
with no telephone service, spoke
out strongly for such service at a
meeting near Carthage Monday
afternoon, attended by represent
atives of the four telephone com
panies which serve the county and
a member of the State Utilities
Commission.
Some of the people have tele
phones now but want better serv
ice, and said so in no uncertain
terms.
Though representatives of the
Central, Aberdeen and Pinebluff
telephone companies were pres
ent, it was the Central Carolina
company which bore the brunt, as
the largest and the only one which
a can expand in the areas in ques
tion. The others are hemmed in
either by Central Carolina Tele
phone company territory or coun
ty lines.
The meeting, one of many held
over the years, gave some prom
ise of results. John E. Cline, vice
president and general rhanager of
the Central Carolina company,
which serves 28 communities in
North and South Carolina, told
the group he would talk business
with any community which would
produce a reasonable number of
sure subscribers, willing to make
a considerable advance payment
on future telephone service. A
meeting was arranged with resi
dents of Cameron, and also with
those of the Highfalls-Glendon
area. A working arrangement
with the Highfalls-Glendon peo
ple, in fact, came near to being
made in an informal meeting held
under a tree outdoors with George
Beer, Wine Vote
Set August 26
A ccuntywide beer and wine
referendum was set for Saturday,
August 26, by action of the Moore
County board of elections meet
ing at Carthage Tuesday morning.
Registration dates will be Sat
urdays July 29, August 5 and 12,
with August 21 as Challenge day.
This will not be a new registra
tion. General election books
will be used.
The referendum was granted on
the basis of a petition of 2,010
names first presented by the Al
lied Church League December 31,
1948, which was qualified as rep
resenting 15 per cent of the reg
istered votprs who voted for gov
ernor in the last general election.
An amendment to Moore coun
ty’s referendum law, which was
„ ™ * 4. 4. T c passed by the 1949 General As-
E. Thempson, assistant to John sembly, upped this requirement
aine ,before the Monday meeting from 15 to 25 per cent. However,
Members of Southern Pines troops 73 and 224 who will attend the
National Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa., June 26-July 4. Pictured
while on a training camp-out in preparation for the Jamboree, held
at Pinehurst last week end, they are, (from left) kneeling, Charles
Covell, Jimmy Menzel, Edgar Smith; standing, Kenneth McCrimmon,
David Bailey, Joe Horner, George Morrison. (Photo by Humphrey)
broke up. Afterwards Thompson
reported, “I’m pretty sure we’ve
worked out something there.”
Survey Made
The meeting, held at the newly
built hut of the Joseph G. Henson
post, American Legion, was the
climax of several months of activ
ity on the part of the rural people,
assisted by County Farm Agent
E. H. Garrison, Jr., to survey their
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the number of signatures on the
petition more than fulfils this re
quirement if all are valid, as they.
have been judged to be. A total of
4,447 Moore County residents
voted for governor in November,
1948.
Through another amendment
passed in 1949, the vote will be
decided by a simple majority, in
stead of by a majority against the
registration.