DRIVE CAREFULLY
FOR A
SAFE VACATION
DRIVE CAREFULLY
FOR A
SAFE VACATION
Three Dead, Four Injured Is Grim Toll
Of Two Weekend Highway Accidents
Men Hurtle To
Catastrophe In
New-Model Cars
Two highway accidents last
Saturday and Sunday resulted in
three fatalities, more than doub
ling Moore’s fatality toll for the
year within a few hours, and sent
four people to hospitals with in
juries described as from critical to
serious. None were Moore Coun
ty residents.
In each accident only one car
was involved, going out of control
through high speed and reckles.s
driving, according to reports of
the investigating patrolmen. They
were,.as grim examples of wanton
death on the highways as can be
found on this county’s annals.
Both cars were high-powered
1952 models.
Saturday morning about 5
o’clock a car driven by Grady
Martin, 30, of Joanna, S. C., trav
eling north on US Highway 1
about five miles north of South
ern Pines, left the road first on
the right, then on the left, then
turned over six times. Road marks
measured from where the brakes
were first applied to the spot
where the demolished vehicle lay
on its side totaled 793 feet, said
Patrolman Richard Stroud, who
investigated with Patrolman C. G.
Wimberly. Thrown from the car,
his skull fractured and many
bones broken, was the occupant
of the front right-hand seat, Ed
ward Joshua Hill, 32-year-old
married man of Greer, S. C.
The accident was witnessed by
occupants of a car ahead, who
saw it all in their rearview mir
ror, turned around and drove
back to Southern Pines, where
they notified police and dispatch
ed an ambulance. Taken to Moore
County hospital were Martin, the
driver; Vestus Lee Wehunt, 21,
also of Joanna, and a young Navy
man, Charles Tillman, of Adele,
Ga., stationed at Boston, Mass.
Soldier Disappears
A fifth occupant of the car, a
soldier, whose name no one had
learned, disappeared after the ac
cident. The sailor and soldier,
hitch-hikers, and strangers to'each
other, were picked up at Aber
deen by the South Carolina party,
destination of which was reported
to be Richmond, Va. The soldier
supposedly hitch-hiked on rather
than remain to be held as a wit
ness.
Martin was placed under $3,000
bond for his appearance in re-
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WINNER
SYLVIA McLEOD
Local Graduate
Winner of SVA
Nurse Scholarship
A petite young miss of wit, in
telligence and sparkling person
ality has been selected for the
award of the Sandhills Veteran
association’s three-year nurse
training scholarship, offered to
high school seniors of the county
for the sixth successive year.
Sylvia McLeod, 1952 graduate
of Southern Pines High school,
was chosen by the selection board
from a group of applicants to re
ceive this honor. She is the first
scholarship winner from Southern
Pines, the seventh girl to receive
the award in the county. One year
the SVA had such good results
from its spring fund campaign it
awarded scholarships to two
young ladies.
Sylvia is the 18-year-old daugh
ter of Mrs. Gladys McLeod of 340
North West Broad street. She was
born in Southern Pines but at
tended Greensboro schools for the
first five grades, returning then
to complete her elementary and
high school education here.
At school, while Tnaintaining
good grades, she has made her
mark in a variety of activities,
notably the dramatic club and
glee club. She was vice-president
of the dramatic club in the year
just past, and has appeared in sev
eral high school productions. She
was also catcher on the softball
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Page Challenges
Brown To Runoff
In Solicitor Race
Robert N. Page III will seek a
second primary against W. La-
mont Brown for the post of coun
ty solicitor, in which he ran sec
ond by a 23-vote margin.
The date of the runoff will be
Saturday, June 28.
In a statement issued to The
PJlot, Page said he felt his calling
of a second primary to be justified
by the fact that, with 590 of the
613 deciding votes going to the
third man, neither of the leading
candidates received anywhere
’sr a majority; also, that a run
off, on the state level, has al
ready been announced and will be
held anyway.
In the first primary held May
31, Brown polled 1,990 votes while
Page had 1,697. The third candi
date, W. Harry Fullenwider, had
■'30. of which 332 were cast in
Southern Pines precinct.
As a second primary normally
attracts much less interest, with
far fewer votes, than the first,
there’s no way of telling how the
cat will jump. Moore voters will
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TWO DISTRICTS VETO SUPPLEMENT
Carthage and Robbins schools will have to rock along as they
are now, without any of several proposed improvements and cur
riculum enrichments, according to the will of the people as de
cisively expressed at the polls last Saturday,
In both school districts a proposed tax supplement was round
ly trounced, in Carthage by 417 to 250, and in Robbins by a three-
to-one vote—696 to 231.
The turnout at Robbins was considerably greater than for the
Democratic primary of May 31.
Local Fire Department Will Be Hosts
To Sandhills Association Wednesday
Recreation Program
Opens Here Monday
SUMMER DIRECTOR
“Those BiUboards” Will Be Replaced
By Neater Signs, Attractive Planting
The outsize and outmoded bill-'^’
boards at the north and south en
trances to Southern Pines wiU be
taken down and new ones,—small
er, neater and more appropriate
to the times—will be erected by
the Town.
The town board in regular ses
sion Wednesday evening heard
this as a report from the commit
tee on appropriations, which, with
power to act, had already cancel
ed the somewhat costly contract
which the town has had for many
years with an outdoor advertis
ing company, for the two big bill-
APPOINTED
Harry J. Menzel was ap
pointed by the town board
Wednesday night to a three-
year term on the Sdhool
board, succeeding Dr. G. G.
Herr, chainnan, who recently
resigned.
This was the only vacancy
to be filled on the board at
this time. ,
Mr. Menzel, a longtime res
ident of Sbuthern Pines, is
vice president of Biddle 8c
Company, Pinehurst real es
tate firmu apd secretary-treas
urer of Knollwood, Inc. He
has two dbildren. one in col
lege and one still in the local
Schools.
The board also made two
appointments to the municipal
readjustment board. These
were J. W. Dickerson, suc
ceeding N. L. Hodgkins, who
recently resigned after long
service, and Frank Welch,
succreeding George W. Case,
who has moved from town.
The appointments run to May
1953. the expiration of all cur
rent terms.
boards.
Recommendation of the com
mittee was that signs similar to
those used at Chapel Hill super
sede them.
H. L. Brown reported also for
the committee that the Southern
Pines Garden club, which has
long worked for the removal of
the big signs, had expressed ap
preciation of their action, and of
fered to make good on its propo
sition of two or three years back
to plant and beautify the sites
when new signs were put up.
Garden Club members will also
be consultants on the signs,
which may be like those of Chapel
Hill or a variation.
The recommendation was ac
cepted unanimously by the board,
of which four out of five mem
bers were present. Absent was L.
V. O’Callaghan. Mayor C. N. Page
presided.
The committee also brought a
message from the Garden Club
members—“What about other
ugly signs around town?’’-a some
what touchy matter, on which no
action was taken. The board de
cided, however, to give the sub
ject some study, to see what
could be done to improve the
town’s looks in this way while
being fair to all.
The committee also recom
mended that the city-owned lot
on South East Broad street, be
tween Cherry Motors and the
point on which the town sign is
located, be sold or leased to L. H.
Cherry, Jr., on condition that he
erect a masonry wall of some at
tractive-looking type, three and
a half feet high, on the boundary
line. This recommendation was
also adopted.
Good Peach Crop
Seen Ripening In
Moore Orchards
One of the finest peach crops
in years is in prospect for the
Sandhills, according to unofficial
info-rmation from the peach-grow
ing country around Wept "End
this week.
Early commercial varieties have
been shipping out in good quan
tities, with Mayflowers now go
ing north by the truckload and
trainload.
However, the golden crops are
still ahead—the wonderful “eat
ing peaches,” such as Jubilees,
due to come in about the last
week in June, and the Elbertas
and Georgia Belles, maturing
about July 1 to 15. This year’s
crop appears to be even better
than last year’s, which was rated
as “highly satisfactory” by grow
ers of these much-sought-after
varieties.
Two good crops in a row are
especially welcome in that, for
several previous years, crop fail
ures had been experienced on ac
count of spring freezes or drought.
This year weather conditions have
been perfect except for a hail
storm which occurred when some
of the best varieties were at a ten
der and extremely vulnerable
stage. Tiny nicks inflicted by the
hailstones are becoming big blem
ishes on some of the fruit. This,
however, is not expected to af
fect the total crop greatly.
"FINER CAROLINA"
The Soiithem Pines "Finer
Carolina" committee will
meet Monday at 8 p. m. at
the Southern Pines Country
club, according to announce
ment by John S. Riiggles,
chairman.
This will be a progress-and-
planning meeting for projects
which have been, or are to be,
instituted under the CP&L
"Finer Carolina" community
contost plan.
The committee consists of
heads of various community
organizations and enterprises,
or persons whom they have
delegated for the job. Those
unable to attend are asked
to be sure that a representa
tive takes their place at the
meeting.
Girl Scouts Will
Camp Next Week
At Watson’s Lake
Girl Scout day camp will be
held Monday through Friday at
Watson’s lakq, on the Old Pine
hurst road near Southern Pines,
which has been loaned for the
purpose through the interest and
generosity of John Warren Wat
son, owner.
Troop members and Brownies
of Southern Pines, Aberdeen and
West End, numbering approxi
mately 100 girls, will attend from
10 a. m. to 4 p. m. daily, taking
part in a wide range of camp ac
tivities under the supervision of
their leaders.
Swimming will be enjoyed, pic
nic or “cook-out” lunches will be
held Euid other activties will in
clude camp craft, handcrafts and
nature study. The units will do
their work separately, except for
some who plan to combine forces,
all uniting at the end of each day
for colors and a vesper service.
An interesting activity will be
batik dyeing, for which the Girl
Scouts will make their own dyes
from roots and plants. They will
also make some of their furnish
ings and equipment from nature’s
storehouse.
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The Sandhills Firemen’s associ
ation will hold its 26th annual
meeting at Southern Pines Wed
nesday, with the Southern Pines
Volunteer fire department acting
as hosts for the all-day affair.
The meeting will open with reg
istration at 9 a.m. and close with
a street dance on East Broad
street starting at 8 o’clock, accord
ing to announcement made by
George B. Little, chairman.
Between these hours the town
will be filled with visiting fire
men, taking part in a succession
of events.
The association now includes 45
volunteer departments of central
and southern North Carolina, with
two in South Carolina. Delega
tions from practically all of these
numbering some 400 men, are ex
pected to attend the meeting.
Speaking Program
Following registration at the
fire station from 9 to 10 a.m., the
firemen will convene at Weaver
auditorium for a business meet
ing, with speakers. Harold B.
Fowler, Southern Pines assistant
fire chief, is in charge of this
phase of the program. Speakers
will include Waldo Cheek, state
commissioner of insurance, who
will bring his audience up to date
on. phases of the insurance pro
gram relating to their work; Cur
tis Flanagan of Farmville, presi
dent of the N. C. Firemen’s asso
ciation, and Sherwood BrockweU,
state fire marshal.
Mayor C. N. Page will extend a
welcome, and response will be
made by John R. Lowry, Jr., chief
of the Pembroke fire department,
the only all-Indian fire depart
ment in the country.
A second business session, with
COACH LEONARD
Irie Leonard, who has just com
pleted his first school year as
principal and coach at Southern
Pines High school, will be the di
rector cf the 1952 summer recre-
Half-Time Next
Week, Full-Time
Starting June 23
Southern Pines’ summer recre
ation program wiU stajt on a
part-time basis Monday, and get
into full swing starting Monday,
June 23. It will continue for 10
weeks, until August 22, according
to announcement made this week
by the new director, Irie Leonard,
high school principal and coach.
Next week only the afternoon
program will be held, in deference
to daily vacation Bible schools be
ing conducted by some of the
churches. Afternoon sessions will
be from 2:30 to 4:30 Monday
through Friday of each week,
with baseball at the high school
field Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, and the ever-popular
swimming sessions Tuesday and
Thursday.
For the supervised swimming
which will take pl3ce at Aber-
ation Commission.
In a neighboring column
“Coach” Leonard makes his first
announcement cf dates and plans
for the summer program.
A native of Greensboro, and
graduate of Rankin High school
near that city, he graduated from
Guilford college in 1948 with
'hree majors, history, economics
and education, and won his M. A.
at the University of North Caro
lina in 1951. He was a three-let
ter athlete at both high school and
college, playing varsity football,
basketball and baseball.
After graduation from Guil
ford, along with work for his sec
ond degree he taught and coached
for three years at Walnut Cove.
His college education suffered
an interruption of three and a
half years during W|orld War 2,
during most of which he served as
a flight engineer on a B-29, with
election of officers, is scheduled to the 15th Air Force based in Italy
ation program, it was announced or the new Southern Pines
this week by the Municipal Recre- children will meet the rec-
be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at
Weaver auditorium.
Races. Trophies
After this comes the part of the
program the public always enjoys
most—the races. Teams from va
rious departments will pit their
skill and speed against each other
in both water and chemical races,
on Ashe street by the park, timed
by a stopwatch. First and second
place trophies will be given in
each event.
A demonstration of some new
firefighting equipment is also be
ing planned. The Carthage fire
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Rolling up a score of 50 missions.
Second Lieutenant Leonard won
the Distinguished Flying Cross,
and Air Medal with three Oak
Leaf clusters.
He is married to, the former
Miss Roxie Roberson of Graham.
The program he is undertaking
is now in its eighth summer,
greatly expanded since its small
beginnings in 1945 . under the
(now defunct) Council of Social
Agencies. This is its second sum
mer under the Municipal Recrea
tion Commission, which was or
ganized in the fall of 1950 after
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This cut was delayed one week but remains front page news.
Aijove are the 28 boys and girls who graduarted Tuesday night,
June 2, in finals held at Weaver auditorium. To all. The Pilot
extends congratulations.
First row, from left—Sylvia Moretta McLeod, Bertha Maude
Ramsey, '^Penelope Crocker Dana, ‘Barbara Guin, Barbara Page,
Betty Jean Caddell, ’"‘Damaris Anne Doser.
Second row—Barbara Joanne Peterson, Betty Pauline Dupree,
Martha Phyllis Hoskins, Katie Louise Barker, ‘Betty Jane Wor
sham, Erma Louise Dorn, ‘Doris Lee Bowles, Joan Wilson Besley.
Third row—Franklin Delano Johnson, Shirley Hewitt Warren,
Margaret Bailey, Richard LeRoy Mattocks, Roy Rockwood New
ton, Jr., Edgar Smith, Paul Williams, Shirley Ann Stuart, Suzann
Bums.
Fourth row—Charles Francis Baker, Charles Edwin Merrill,
‘Alexander Canaday McLeod, Peter Charles Rapatas.
‘Honor graduate, four years at SPHS.
“Honor graduate, two years at SPHS,
(Photo by Humphrey)
reation bus at the town park
promptly at 2:30 p. m.
Swimming lessons will be given,
at dates to be announced later, by
qualified instructors under the
Red Cross water safety program
in conjunction with the local rec
reation program.
In the meantime. Director
Leonard is sounding a call for a
qualified lifeguard for the local
lake. Applicants are asked to ap-
py personally to him or to Supt.
A. C. Dawson.
Pingpong and checkers will be
held every day at the high school
tennis and badminton will also be
played daily, on the town courts.
Parei^s and other interested
who are willing to help with the
program as volunteer assistants
are asked to phone Mr. Leonard
at 2-7482. There are many ways
in which assistants can be used.
The full-time program wilL--be
announced in next week’s paper.
It will include classes in football,
tennis, golf, sewing and cooking,
a Monday morning story hour for
the little ones, dancing for the
boys and girls every Friday night
at the school cafeteria, and a
brand-new feature—square danc
ing for the adults, every other
Wednesday night at the Southern
Pines Country club starting June
25.
The program wiU also be held,
as usual, in West SouthemPines,
where assistant director Hasty
will again be in charge. The
school will be headquarters for
the program, for which the same
dates will be effective as for the
one outlined above. No schedule
has been sent in and participants
are asked _to check at the school
to find out what is going on this
week.
New equipment has been sup-
olied—baseballs, softballs, tennis
balls, pingpong sets and other
items—for both programs, by the
Municipal Recreation Commission.
Court of Honor
Will Be Held
At Aberdeen Lake
A wonderful time is in prospect
for Boy Scouts of Hie Moore dis
trict at their June court of honor,
next Monday evening, according
to annoimcement made this week
by Lawrence M. Johnson of Aber
deen, advancement chairman.'
'This will be held on the public
beach at Aberdeen lake, and will
be the last court of honor until
fall. Swimming, with a lifeguard
on duty by special arrangement,
will start at 6 o’clock. At 7, there
will be a wiener roast—^free. At
8, the court of honor will be held,
with rank advancements and
merit badges awarded.
This will be an especially high
moment for James Edwards of
Aberdeen Troop 68, who will re
ceive the coveted Eagle badge. It
wiU be awarded in a special “cit
izenship ceremony,” with Mayor
Forrest M. Lockey of Aberdeen
making the presentation.
The event will end with the
sounding of taps at 8:30.
Scouts are asked to come in uni
form, bringing their swimming
trunks, said (Chairman Johnson.
The bath cabins will be used for
changing. A cordial invitation is
extended their parents to attend.