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Honors, Awards
Salute Student
Accomplishments
Dr. Herr Honored;
Three Checks Swell
School Bus Fund
Recognition of meritorious
achievement in a wide range of
activities went to members of the
senior class and other students of
Southern Pines High school at the
Awards and Honors Day exercises
Tuesday morning.
The school itself was also a
beneficiary in the gift-giving, as
three checks were presented to
taling $500 to help clear the debt
on the school activities bus. These
were $250 as the senior class gift,
$200 from the Southern Pines Ro
tary club and $50 from the Beta
club of the high school.
A surprised recipient of unique
honors was Dr. G. G. Herr, long
time chairman of the school board,
who is retiring at this time. He
was presented with a scroll ex
pressing appreciation of his long
service, signed by every student
in the high school; and a silver
tray, inscribed “To Our Ever Loy
al and Faithful Friend,” from the
faculty.
Barbara Guin, of the Class of
1952, was distinguished by being
the recipient of four awards, two
of them carrying cash scholar
ships totaling $150 toward her col
lege expenses. To Barbara went
the James S. Milliken, Jr., Memo
rial award for best all-round, with
$50 in cash; also the $100 scholar
ship given by the Beta club to a
deserving senior member.
The American Legion Citizen
ship medal, presented by W. E.
Cox, Jr., for the Sandhill post,
went to Penelope Crocker (Pete)
Dana, outgoing president of the
Student Council.
The Southern Pines School Ser
vice award, presented for the first
time this year, went to Franklin
Johnson, by vote of the Student
Council.
The Rotary Club Improvement
cup, presented by Rotary Presi
dent Herbert N. Cameron, was
awarded this year for the first
time to a whole group instead of
to an individual—the Southern
Pines school band.
The Lions Club band award was
another given this year for the
first time. Presented by Walter
Harper, president of the Southern
Pines Lions club, it went to
Charles Baker, chosen by vote of
his fellow band members as best
all-round member of their group.
Announcement was made at this
time by R. L. Chandler, Jr., of the
Sandhill Veterans association,
that Sylvia McLeod had been
awarded the SVA scholarship for
three years of nurse training—the
first Southern Pines girl to win
this coimtywide scholarship, now
six years old.
The Charlotte Erson music
plaque went to Alec McLeod. Dan-
forth Foundation awards for citi
zenship, leadership and character
were made to Alec McLeod and
Barbara Guin. Babe Ruth Sports
manship awards for sportsman
ship in athletics were presented
to Roy Newton and Barbara Guin.
Mrs. Virgil P. Clark awarded
prizes in the American Legion
Auxiliary poppy poster contest to
Norma Ruth Bowles, Alice Qam-
ble and Dick Mattocks, and in the
essay contest sponsored by >the
same organization, to Sylvia Mc
Leod, Margaret Bailey and Dama-
ris Doser.
Mrs. L. A. DesPland made the
presentation of prizes in the VFW
Auxiliary essay contest—Alec Mc
Leod, first prize, $5; Damaris Do
ser, second prize, $3, and Pete
Dana, third prize, $2.
Doris Lee Bowles received the
cup given by Perkinson Jewelry
store for highest scholarship, also
the Readers Digest subscription.
Supt. A. C. Dawson presented
perfect attendance awards, of
which there were a number in the
lower grades, only one in the sen
ior class. This went to Doris
Bowles, with the unique record of
perfect attendance all 12 years.
Awards for library service were
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SIXTEEN PAGES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
HODGES
Lieutenant Governor
(Subject to 2nd Primary)
UMSTEAD
Governor
DEANE
Congressman
Umstead Leads In County And State;
Deane Returned To Congress 4-To-l
A.
LEARN TO SWIM!
Young people and adults
wanting swimming lessons
this summer, beginners or ad
vanced. may register now at
the office of the Moore Coun
ty chapter. American Red
Cross, in Southern Pines,
where plans for the 1952 wa
ter safety program are going
full steam ahead.
Classes will be given by
qualified volunteer instructors
at several lakes in the county.
Beginners, intermediate,
swimmers and junior and
senior lifesaving courses are
planned, according to an
nouncement by Dr. J.C. Grier.
Jr., of Pinehurst, chapter
chairman of safety services.
All instruction is free.
This will bo the fifth an
nual such program offered
here under the Red Cross. In
terest and enrollments have
mounted each year, with large
numbers of certificates
awarded for completing the
courses.
Speedy Trial
Held Following
Freak Accident
A record for speedy law en
forcement was undoubtedly se
for Moore county, perhaps for the
State of North Carolina, Monday
when an i accident occurred near
Aberdeen about 4:30 p. m. and
within two hours the driver was
in court, had pled guilty and was
paying his fine.
Patrolman Stroud was in the
courtroom when he received the
accident call from Pinehurst, fol
lowing a call for a wrecker.
Reaching the site indicated, the
patrolman at first saw no car—^no
driver. He looked over the edge
of the embankment into the sand
pit and there he saw a car, far
below. His investigation revealed
one of the oddest accidents of re
cent record.
On the stand at Carthage the
patrolman told of tire marks
which had gone off the highway
“to the right, to the left, back to
the right, back to the left, to the
right again and over the embank
ment” for a total distance of 759
feet. The car had then plunged 171
feet down into the pit—930 feet
in all. Twice, he said, the car had
left the ground entirely and sail
ed through the air for 40 or 50
feet, once missing a light pole by
about six inches.
The driver, Henry Hezekiah
Byrd, 32, Negro, of Taylortown,
was unhurt. His 1948 Chevrolet
convertible, hoisted back to. the
road by the wrecker, didn’t have
a scratch on it and had sustained
no apparent damage. It left the
scene under its .own power.
Byrd’s father, about to make
’$150 bond, decided, “We might as
well go right on over to court and
save all this trouble.” B3Td pled
guilty to speeding and careless
and reckless driving, though he
said he thought he wasn’t going
over 35 to 40 miles per hour.
Judge Rowe sentenced him to 60
days suspended on payment of $50
fine and costs.
Hodges Gets Nod
In Moore For
Lieutenant-Governor
Voters V)f Moore county made
the same choices on the state
level as those of the rest of the
state in Saturday’s Democratic
primary, except in the vote for
Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Umstead won for governor in
Moore by 2,997 to 1,658—almost
two to one, considerably better
than his statewide margin. Unof
ficial returns at midweek show
ed that, with almost 500,000 votes
cast, Umstead had defeated Olive
by something over 30,000 votes for
the Democratic nomination.
Luther Hodges, former mill-
worker who became a leading tex
tile industrialist and' recently an
ECA administrator, defeated Roy
Rowe, his nearest competitor out
of four, in the lieutenant-gover
nor race, by 2,033 to 1,172 in the
county. In the state the vote was
less decisive, and on Thursday
Rowe was still mulling the ques
tion as to whether he would seek
a runoff.
Resident Judge Don Phillips, of
the 13th judicial district, which
includes Moore, won out here with
1,850 votes—more than t\yice
those of the runner-up. Judge
William H. Bobbitt. On the state
level Judge R. Hunt Parker was
high man in the six-way race,
and Judge Bobbitt, coming in sec
ond, has already stated he will ask
a runoff.
Waldo Cheek, incumbent Insur
ance Commissioner, won decisive
ly in the state over John M. Fred
erick—and even more decisively
in Moore, of which he is a native.
Cheek was born in Highfalls. In
addition, he has admittedly done
an excellent job in his first term
in office. His Moore vote was 3,
229 to 828.
No surprise to anyone was the
decisive vote accorded in Moore,
as in other counties of the district,
to their incumbent congressman.
With 2,928 votes. Rep. C. B. Deane
of Rockingham scored better than
four to one Giles Y. Newton of
Gibson.
SORRY—CUTS ARE DELAYED
The Pilot regrets that the cut of the graduating class,
which was to have graced this page, did not arrive in time
to be used this week. It is in the mail and we will use
it next week.
A wedding picture (Shea-Newhart) is also delayed,
through no fault of our own. The Pilot regrets this very
much.
Lions’ Softball
League Series
Opens This Week
The Moore County Lions Soft-
ball League, sponsored by Lions
clubs of the county, started its
summer series this week with a
doubleheader played Wednesday
night, and another on tap for to
night (Friday).
Doubleheaders will continue
each Wednesday and Friday night
through June and July, starting
promptly at 7:15 and 9 o’clock. A
playoff series will be played by
the top four teams in August, fin-
is.’iing with a championship game.
All games are being played on the
lighted Pinehurst field.
Teams have been made up from
Lions clubs in Southern Pines,
Pinehurst, West End, Pinebluff,
Carthage and the American Le
gion. Games played Wednesday
night were Southern Pines vs.
Pinehurst and Carthage vs. Pine-
bluff. Tonight’s games will be
Pinehurst vs. American Legion
and Southern Pines vs. Carthage.
Jimmy Gilbert of Pinehurst is
president of the League.
OFFICIAL RETURNS
For the full and official lab-
lation of votes for all pre
cincts in Moore county Satur
day, see Page 14.
About 4,700 votes were cast
—considerably fewer than the
more than 6,000 tallied in the
last countywide vote, last
September.
In Southern Pines, the total
vote was 896.
Moore County
Tennis Tourney
Gets Under Way
All four municipal courts are
being kept busy this week, as the
Fourth Annual Moore County
Closed Tennis tournament is in
full swing, with events scheduled
each night Wednesday through
Sunday.
Finals are expected to be held
under the lights Sunday evening.
Pairings for the singles were
drawn from about 30 entries, njoat
of whom, with a few additions, are
also playing in the men’s or wom
en’s doubles and mixed doubles
events. Entries were listed from
Southern Pines, Pinehurst and
Aberdeen, with a number of new
entries from the junior ranks.
Seeded No. 1 in the men’s sin
gles event is defending champion
Malcolm Clark. Since winning
the P. A. Wilson Memorial trophy
last year, Clark has achieved fur
ther distinction as No. 1 player on
the North Carolina Championship
junior college team, that of Oak
Ridge Military Institute.
Challengers for the Wilson tro
phy include Angelo Montesanti,
Jr., 1950 Moore County champion,
seeded No. 2; Harry Lee Brown,
Jr., 1949 champion, seeded No. 3;
Page Choate, seeded No. 4; Steve
Choate, Moore County junior
champion; Gene Poe, 1951 junior
champion; Norris Hodgkins, Jr.,
Gene Coghill, Kenneth Tew, Bob
by Barefield, Walter Harper,
Deryl Holliday, Frazer Smith,
Johnny Watkins, Ed King, Frank
de Costa, Joe Montesanti, Hugh
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BROWN
Moore Solicitor
(Subject to 2nd Primary)
BLUE '
Moore Representative
Tributes And Board Gift For Dr. Hen-
Feature Commencement; 28 Graduate
of
4-H Fat Stock
Show Thursday
The annual Moore County 4-H
Club Fat Stock show and sale will
be held Thursday, June 12, at the
stables across from Smothers
Brothers warehouse at Carthage.
Ten head of young Aberdeen
Angus and Hereford steers, weigh
ing 800 to 1,100 pounds, will be
sold, all raised by Moore 4-H boys
—and one girl. The show will
start at 10 a. m., the sale at 11. An
added feature will be a fitting and
showing demonstration by the 4-H
boys.
The Carolina Bank of Pinehurst,
Carthage and Vass is sponsor of
the project, in cooperation with
the , county farm office.
A good number of buyers, in
cluding individual buyers and
representatives of business firms
of the county, attended last year’s
show and sale and even more are
expected this year, said W. G.
Caldwell, assistant farm agent in
charge of 4-H work. Anyone in
terested is invited to attend,
whether in the market for beef
cattle or not. There is no admis
sion charge.
, Presenting their steers for judg
ing and sale will be the foUowing
club members: Ruth Oliver, Dar
rell Matthews, Billy Guin, J. K.
Matthews, Jr., Willard Blue, of
Eureka; BiUy Bailey, Lloyd Mc
Kenzie, Lonnie McKenzie, Car
thage; Charles Hardy, Cameron,
and Bruce Cameron, White Hin
Blue Renominated To State House;
Brown and Pa^e May Have Runoff
Phillips Retains
Seat On County
Edueation Board
Mocre county voters gave In
cumbent H. Clifton Blue a major-
A votes in his race against
C. A. (Tony) Huntley for the
House of Representatives in the
Democratic primary held last Sat
urday.
In the balloting for county sol
icitor, they favored W. Lament
Brown and Robert N. Page HI al
most equally. A sUm margin of 23
votes places on runner-up Page
the burden of deciding whether
or not to call a second primary—
a decision he had not made at
press-time this week.
_ W. Harry Fullenwider, leading
m his home precinct of Southern
Pines, showed weakness in the
county precincts and ran a poor
third.
For the Carthage Township seat
the board of education, incum
bent T. R. Phillips won by 486
votes to 289 garnered by his op-
ponent, J, L, McGraw,
In the State House race, offi
cial returns gave Blue 2,773 votes
to Huntley’s 1,887. Huntley was
East Carthage precinct
and (by a scant six votes) in Pine
hurst, whUe Blue took aU the rest.
Admittedly surprising even to
Blue—though, he said, most grat
ifying—^was the decisiveness of
his lead in Aberdeen, 554 to 273,
and also in Southern Pines, 505 to
351. Observers had predicted a
much closer race in both pre
cincts, with Southern Pines prob
ably giving Huntley the lead.
Late Returns Decide
“Tony” won congratulations,
however, on a good campaign,
which covered all precincts, and
the fine showing he made in his
first bid for party office. In 15
out of the 17 precincts he polled
a vote of some consequence, and
the race was neck and neck as
the early returns came in. Blue
pulled ahead in the shank of the
evening, but it was only when the
strong Aberdeen vote was report
ed, shortly before 11 oclock, that
the victory was in the bag.
At that time, a full hour before
the Southern Pines returns sealed
it up, Huntley came to the Sand
hill Citizen office at Aberdeen to
concede to Publisher Blue with a
congratulatory handshake and
smile.
Huntley later made a state
ment: “Though I didn’t get the
office, I count myself a winner,
not a loser. In my campaign I
learned to know the county as I
could never have done otherwise,
and made hundreds of friends
whom I value highly. I wouldn’t
take anything for the experience.”
The results showed Blue’s
strength to have mounted consis
tently during the six years since
he first ran for the office. In 1946
he won over his opponent by
about 600 votes; in 1948 he had
no opposition; in 1950, he had a
700-vote win over Robert N. Page
HI, and this time it was almost
900, with strength pretty evenly
scattered throughout the county.
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Dr. Clyde Erwin
Is Speaker At
Tuesday Program
Commencement exercises
Southern Pines High school, held
Tuesday night at Weaver audito
rium, were doubly distinguished
in that they brought additional
honors to Dr. G. G. Herr, retiring
school board chairman, and also
presented as the evening’s speakei
one of the states roremost educa
tors and friends of youth. Dr.
Clyde A. Erwin.
Dr. Herr introduced.Dr. Erwin,
his friend in the field of education
during all the 18 years the latter
has held the post of state superin
tendent of public instruction.
In turn. Dr. Erwin opened his
talk with a sincere tribute to Dr.
Herr, “my good friend and col
league in working for improve
ments in all the schools.”
Following Dr. Erwin’s talk, N.
L. Hodgkins presented to Dr. Herr
an inscribed silver tray, on be
half of the school board. “Three
things stand out in your 21 years
on the board, and 20 years as
chairman,” he 'said. “You have
been ever and always for anything
that would benefit the schools;
you have been interested in ob
taining the best teachers and ad
ministrators -possible—and that
has been very smart, for if you
have good teachers, you can have
a good school in a barn, but if you
haven’t good teachers, your school
will be poor in a palace; and you
have also always gone ahead in
the serene conviction that what
ever the board thought would
benefit the schools would have the
community’s support. That you
were right can be seen in our
school program and buildings to
day.”
The deep emotion of the retir
ing chairman was obvious as he
responded, “There aren’t any
words to express how deeply I
feel. I thank the school board, the
faculty and the children.”
Prefacing his commencement
address. Dr. Erwin said, “I am go
ing to speak to the young people.
The rest of you may listen in if
you wish!” In simple, natural
language, as one friend to anoth
er, he counseled them not to let
obstacles keep them from making
their best and strongest efforts;
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AN INJUNCTION
Dr. G. G. Herr,' retiring
after 20 years as school board
chairman, at the conunence-
nient exercises Tuesday
night, laid an injunction on
the townspeople.
"To parents, friends and al
umni," he spoke out strongly;
"Put your Shoulders to the
wheel—help the school board
get better (salaries for the ad
ministrators and teachers.
"Help get a higher supple
ment! «
"We are not paying as high
a supplement, relatively
speaking, as we were a few
years ago. Once we headed
the list in the state. Today 30
or 40 schools are paying high
er supplements than ours. We
must keep our program: pro
gressive. We cannot do it
without an increased supple
ment. That is your job now."
Local Horses
Win at Devon
Horses from Southern Pines
stables won top honors Saturday
at the Devon (Pa.) horse show, a
leading event of the eastern cir
cuit.
Friars Delight, owned by W. J.
Brewster, won the conformation
hunter championship with 32 1-2
points, while Vernon G. Cardy’s
Times Square was reserve cham
pion.
Winner of the young hunter
championship was Gor-vee, an
other entry from the Brewster
stables on Mile-Away Farm.
Bright Light, formerly owned
by Mrs. Audrey K. Kennedy and
trained by Miickey Walsh at
Stonybrook stables, won the Roll
ing Rock Farms challenge trophy
for ladies’ hunters. Friars Delight
was second in this event.
Bright Light was an entry this
year of the Waverly Farms, War-
renton, Va.
County TB Group Will Buy X-ray Aids;
N. L Hodgkins, Jr., Named President
Directors of the Moore Coimty
Tuberculosis association, meeting
at Pinehurst last Thursday night,
elected Norris L. Hodgkins, Jr., of
Southern Pines, president for
1952-53, and voted to purchase
much-needed X-ray attachments
for use at the Moore County
health center at Carthage.
Purchase of the attachments
will be in fulfilment of a promise
made to the people of Moore coun
ty at the time of the Christmas
Seal sale last December, accord
ing to W. Carl Scoggin, of Rob
bins, retiring president of the as
sociation.
Dr. J. W. Willcox, county health
officei:, said the equipment will be
of great help in diagnostic work
and progress checkups. At . pres
ent, patients must be transported
to the N. C. Sanatorium at Mc
Cain, or arrangements made to
have special equipment brought
to Carthage. Members of the San
atorium staff will cooperate w.ch
the directors in selecting and se
curing the appropriate attach
ments, which will cost several
hundred dollars.
Officers elected besides Presi
dent Hodgkins are: the Rev. J. R.
Funderburk, West Southern Pines,
first vice-president; Lawrence M.
Johnson, Aberdeen, second vice-
president; Mrs. Timothy Cleary,
Pinebluff, secretary; Dr. T. A
Cheatham, Pinehurst, treasurer,
and Roderick Innes, Pinehurst, as
sistant treasurer.
Dr. T. A. Cheatham presented
the annual treasurer’s report at
the meeting, which was held at
his home. He reported that great
demands are being made on the
treasury of the county association
for emergency care at private san-
atoriums. The directors expressed
their view that financial aid
should be sought from the county
commissioners for these cases,
since this is a community health
problem, and the main function
of the coimty association is ip the
prevention and detection of tuber
culosis, rather than in its care. X