WEAR A STAR
ON YOUR CAR
FOR SAFETY
WEAR A STAR
ON YOUR CAR
FOR SAFETY
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‘Operation Impact’
Effects Are Noted;
All Asked To Join
Stars Given Away
At USAFAGOS, VFW;
Now On 200 Cars
Eighty-five signatures were
placed this week on the .‘"Opera
tion Impact” plaque at the VFW
Home—which means 85 pledges
taken by motorists to observe the
speed laws from now through La
bor Day, and 85 stars given to
them to place on their wind
shields.
Added to the 115 given at the
USAF Air-Ground school, where
, a similar plaque is stationed for
signatures, this means 200 cars
of the community are now opera
ting under the pledge.
This is enough to make a no
ticeable difference already in
traffic conditions in and around
Southern Pines. Police Chief C.
E. Newton and State Highway
Patrolman C. G. Wimberly both
stated definitely this week, “We
see a great improvement.”
“Operation Impact” is being
sponsored by the Tactical Air
Command in all its instalaltions.
At USAFAGOS 100 per cent of
both the military and civilian per
sonnel signed voluntarily, and re
ceived their stars. Through coop
eration of the John Boyd post,
VFW, the movement is being
opened to all others in the com
munity.
Everyone Invited
Signatures of Mayor L. T. Clark
and Chief Newton led off the list,
when the plaque was stationed
at the VFW Home last Thursday
afternoon. Other town officials
have signed, many members of
the VFW and a wide range of
other citizens, including several
from West Southern Pines. Post
Commander Louis Scheipers em
phasized this week that the move
ment is for everybody, and “the
more who enroll, the better off
we will all be. If just one life is
saved, it is worth it.”
He has appointed Tom McKen
zie of Pinehurst chairman of the
project for the VFW. The plaque
is available at the Home from 4
p. m. to midnight every day
(from 2 p. m. Saturday). In the
afternoon it has a place of honor
on the porch, in the evening in
side the lobby. Everyone is invit
ed to sign—and this, he said,
means colored motorists as well as |
white.
Serious Meaning
“But,” he added “we don’t want
anyone to sign or receive a star
who doesn’t take it seriously. In
signing, you conscientiously
pledge your car to safe driving,
no matter who is at the wheel,
and no matter whether anyone
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SOUTHERN PINES “LITTLE LIONS.” Front
row, from left, Pat Hodgson, Larry McDonald,
Johnny Bowman, Roger Dutton.
Second row-^ohn Ormsby, Charles Weather-
spoon, Robert Woodruff, Jimmy Caldwell, Ted
Ward, Topper Parks.
Back row-^oe Garzik, Jr., Ike WoodeU, John
Van Benschoten, Dickie Mclnnis, Bobby Wat-
(Hemmer Photo)
Wife Empties Gun
At Guilty Pair;
Husband Is Slain
Southern Pines Team Beats Pinehurst
In First Two Little League Games
A young husband who didn’t
come home last Friday night, but
instead went to see “the other
woman,” died instantly in a rain
of bullets early the next morn
ing.
Gloria Lee Wrencher, 25, told
officers that she had shot her
lusband Herbert, 28, “till the
cartridges gave out.” Some of the
shot peppered the other woman,
Frances McLaughlin, about 30,
though she was not seriously hurt.
All are Negroes.
Gloria Lee told Deputy Sheriff
A. W. Lambert that she had walk
ed over to Frances’ house, near
her own home about two miles
northeast of Carthage, and found
the two in bed together. Her hus
band’s automatic rifle stood in
the corner. She fired five times
at short range.
Then, the deputy said, she ran
to the home of a white neighbor,
W. R. Sheffield, and asked him
to call a doctor. Instead, Sheffield
called Sheriff McDonald’s office.
Deputy Lambert answered the
call, notified the sheriff and the
coroner, and all went to Frances
(Continued on page 8)
(See Schedule on Page 5)
The Little League series started
off fine for the Southern Pines
“Little Lions,” who beat Pine
hurst 20-5 at Pinehurst Monday,
then Wednesday, in their first
home game, did the same thing
20-4.
Good crowds turned out for
both games and it looked as
though a new summer attraction
had gotten off to a splendid start.
Pre-game ceremonies were held
at both games, with the presenta
tion of the colors, the singing of
the Star Spangled Banner, and
the top town officials pitching the
first ball.
The local players put on a daz
zling show more seasoned dia
mond artists might well envy. In
the Monday game Ikey WoodeU,
the winning pitcher and outstand
ing batter, hit three home runs
Summer Program
On West Side
Gets Good Start
Speech Clinics At Carthage, Rohhins
WiUOpen Summer Courses Next Wee!
Speech clinics will be held
Monday from 8 to 11 a. m. at both
the Carthage High school and the
Robbins Elementary school for
boys and girls in need of speech
correction who want to take the
summer workshop course.
The course will begin at once
and continue for six weeks, at
Carthage or Robbins, wherever
the need’ is found to be greater,
or, if there is sufficient demand,
it will be held at both places.,
The course is financed by' the
Moore County chapter of the N.
C. Society for Crippled Children,
in cooperation with the county
welfare department, and no
charge is made to the students
or their parents.
All boys and girls suffering
from any sort of speech imped
iment, major or minor, are invit
ed to attend the clinic, where
tests will be given to see which
can be best helped in the summer
course. Mrs. D. D. Shields Cam
eron of Southern Pines will be
in charge of the clinic at Carth
age, Miss Blanche Monroe of West
End, at Robbins. Both have had
special training in the field of
speech improvement, and in in
dividual work with different types
of speech handicaps.
This will be the third summer
the chapter has sponsored the
workshop courses. Both of the
other times they have been held
at Southern Pines, as more stu
dents enroUed from the southern
than the northern part of the
county. A number also came from
the West End section.
There has been considerable in
terest shown, however, in the
northern section, and several pu
pils wishing badly to attend have
been unable to do so before be
cause of transportation problems.
For that reason, Mrs. Cameron
said, plans were laid to hold the
course this year in Carthage, Rob
bins or both.
Mrs. Cameron has been a work
shop instructor since inaugura
tion of the project. During the
regular school year she teaches
in the Vass-Lakeview Elemen
tary school. She is a graduate of
EiAerson college, Boston, Mass.,
where speech arts are emphasized,
and has taken considerable post
graduate work in this field.
Miss Blanche Monroe, a grad
uate of State college, Raleigh, has
taught primary age children for
more than 30 years, most of these
years as first grade teacher at
West End. She took^ refresher
work in phonics in preparation for
teaching the workshop course last
year.
While six weeks is not long
enough to cure major speech de
fects, much help can be rendered
in this time, and frequently mi
nor impediments can be elimina
ted, say tho-se in charge of the
course. In both previous summers,
10 to 30 children took the course.
Good attendance greeted the
opening of the recreation program
in West Southern Pines. The
school is serving again as head
quarters and J. C. Hasty is direct
or for the fourth successive year.
Eighty-one children and 27 adults
■the latter starting organization
of a baseball team—took part in
first-day activities.
Mr. Hasty has two assistants
this year. Miss C. Steele and Mrs.
Emma Stubbs. The daily program
of the three is as follows:
Mr. Hasty—softball, 10 a. m.;
music, 11 a. m.; croquet, 12 noon;
p. m., lunch; croquet, 2 p. m.;
baseball, 3-5 p. m.
Miss Steele—table tennis, 10
m.; basketball, 11 a. m.; lunch,
12 noon; table tennis, 1 p. m.;
croquet, 2 p. m.; lawn tennis 3-5
p. m.
Mrs. Stubbs—sewing, 2, p. m.;
crocheting, 3 p. m.; knitting, 4 p!
in.
Skating, horse shoe pitching,
croquet and checkers may be
played at any time. Special activ
ities include: Monday, Boy Scbut
meeting, 6:30 p. m., and outdoor
movies at 8; Wednesday, Boy
Scout activities, 5 p. m.; Thursday,
swimming, 2-4 p. m.
For swimming, the children
meet at the school and all walk
over to the new West Side lake.
Included in the Boy Scout pro
jects for the summer is a clean
up of the cemetery, which is al
ready under way.
A baseball game will be held at
Aberdeen at 2 p. m. today (Fri
day) and bn each Friday after
noon thereafter rotating among
West Southern Pines, Aberdeen
and Sanford. Teams have been
formed at all these towns under
the summer program.
as the bleachers roared. Also out
standing were John Van Benscho
ten, Bobby Watkins and Dickie
Mclnnis. However, the team play
was the thing and “I was well
satisfied with their game,” said
Coach Irie Leonard.
No Fluke
Wednesday’s game showed it
was no fluke. This time Van Ben
schoten was the outstanding play
er for Southern Pines. He and
Ted Ward pitched with Bobby
Watkins as catcher. For Pinehurst,
McKenzie pitched and Gilliland
caught.
A part of the opening-game fes
tivities was the drawing of home-
team names for a Big League
baseball. At Southern Pines Jim
my Caldwell’s was the lucky
number, drawn by Dr. David W.
Whitehead, president- elect of the
Southern Pines Lions club, which
is sponsoring the team along with
the recreation program.
Next Home Game
Monday’s game will also be a
home game for Southern Pines,
with the Robbins team as visitors.
Game time throughout the series
is 5:30.
Playing Carthage at Robbins
Monday, the Robbins team won
its opening game. Wednesday, the
return game was called on ac
count of rain, to be played at Car
thage Thursday, too late for re
sults to be announced in this is
sue.
The four tfeams form Moore
county’s first Little League. The
series will continue through July,
winding up with a Shaughnessy
tournament and a chance to play
in the district and state matches
and a final glorious World Series.
Official Uniforms
Some 45 boys entered the try-
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Former Local Lady
Victim Of Fiendish
Murderer-Rapist
Florida Tragedy
Shocks Friends
Of Elderly Nurse
A rape and murder of horrible
bestiality in Jacksonville, Fla.,
last Friday night has shocked and
saddened Southern Pines.
The victim was a little grey
haired lady 68 years old, a dili
gent and efficient trained nurse,
who lived here for 18 years before
moving to Florida in March 1952
to be near her three brothers.
The body of Miss Sara Cather
ine McLeod, strapped, (stabbed,
beaten and ravished,- was found
Saturday morning about 8 o’cjock
behind Jacksonville’s blood bank
building, near the Duval Medical
Center where she had been em
ployed.
Information from Jacksonville
four days later was that no clue
had been found, no trail opened
up, to lead police to her murder
er, though investigation was con
tinuing night nad day.
She had left the Medical Cen
ter when she went off duty at 11
p. m. Friday and started out, as
was her custom, to walk the four
blocks to the private home where
she roomed. She never reached
thS house.
Her landlady phoned the hospi
tal early Saturday morning and
a search for her started at once.
The body was found by Mrs.
Dorothy Smith, blood bank super
visor, as she came to work via
a short cut along a walkway be
hind the building. It lay in plain
view against a structure housing
No Trace of Clothing
No trace of her clothing was
found then, nor, has it been loca
ted since, except for a few pieces
of her white uniform torn up and
scattered on the ground.
She had suffered a crashing
(Continued on page 5)
Aberdeen Hosiery Mill
Will Close; Equipment
Sold, Workers Let Go
Blow Is Dealt
Without Warning;
64 On Payroll
Finis was written, without
warning, this week to one of
Moore county’s best and best-
liked industries, the Aberdeen
Hosiery Mill at Aberdeen.
R. W. Kleinspehn, superinten
dent, was notified Tuesday that
the owner corporation had sold
practically all of the equipment,
and it was to be moved at once to
a plant in South America. The
rest of the equipment was to be
placed on sale and the modern
plant, built in 1938 and newly
air-conditicned, put up for sale
or lease.
The word came from W. H.
Miller, secretary-treasurer of the
Aberdeen Hosiery Co., Inc., with
Many Kids Taking
Part In Town’s
Recreation Events
Goodrum Joins
County ABC Staff
Moore County ABC Officer O.
A. McCallum of Carthage this
week announced the addition of a
second assistant on his staff. Of
ficer Robert H. Goodrum, sta
tioned at Aberdeen.
Mr. Goodrum was sworn in
Tuesday. He comes to Moore
highly recommended from the
Mecklenburg County Rural Police,
where he has been employed
since December 1950. Before that
he was an Army MP for two
years.
He was recently married and
he and his wife have taken a
home on Summit avenue in Aber
deen. He is 24 years old.
This brings the county ABC law
enforcement staff up to its full
complement of three men, Offi
cers McCallum, Goodrum and
John K. Sharpe Of West End. The
staff has been short a man since
the resignation of H. V. Chandler,
Jr., a year ago. After serving a
short time with the Southern
Pines city police, Mr. Chandler
became a special investigator on
the State ABC staff.
(See Program on Page 4)
Excellent crowds turned out for
the opening days of the summer
recreation program, with good
attendance at every event, it was
learned from Director Irie Leon
ard.
The program opened Monday,
to continue through August 21,
with activities scheduled for boys
and girls in every age group.
About 40 youngsters showed up
at the town park to be taken to
Aberdeen lake for the first swim
ming party. These will be held
every Tuesday and Thursday,
with 2:30 the meeting time.
The sewing class attracted 20
girls, the stoiy hour about 15 of
the younger children. The first
cooking class is not scheduled un
til today (Friday) at the home
economics cottage. Both are at
10 a. m.
Baseball drew out a good crowd
Monday morning, and the Fox
Hole has been a hive of activity,
with ping pong, horse shoes,
checkers and other games con
stantly under way. Tennis contin
ues its popularity without let-up,
with all four courts occupied most
of the time.
A hard rain Tuesday night and
all Wednesday morning bade fair
to drown out much of the activity,
but as soon as the sun came out
things were humming again.
The first of the weekly series
of dances was slated to be held at
the Community Building Thurs
day evening from 8:15 till 10, with
the BPO Does providing chap-
headquarters in New York City,
who came to deliver the blow in
person. ,
Mr. Kleinspehn called the em
ployees together that same day
and told them the situation. They
learned that they would be re
leased as fast as the machines
could be dismantled, each receiv
ing vacation pay.
About 25 of the machines were
dismantled at once and work is
proceeding rapidly on the rest.
'Only the 66-gauge machines have
not been sold, and are still being
operated. The finishing depart
ment will continue at work until
all material op hand has been
processed, Mr. Kleinspehn said.
Hose will be sold through the re
tail outlet until the present mod
est supply is exhausted.
The plant had about 64 em
ployees on the payroll at the time
the news came, he said. The
shock administered to them
spread quickly through the Sand
hills. It was shared by Mr. Klein
spehn, who has been connected
with the plant since it opened in
1939, and has been superinten
dent for the past six years. Re
garding his own future plans he
had no word, being concerned
mainly with those of his employ
ees.
“Overproduction,” he guessed,
was the answer. Hosiery manu
facturing and selling has hit on
hard times during the past two
or three years. The Aberdeen
plant, however, has managed to
keep its head well above water.
It shut down only one time, for
one week, three years ago.
The 25-year-old corporation,
which /formerly owned several
plants in various places, has grad
ually diminished its holdings un
til the Aberdeen plant was the
last one left. Sales were made
through the New York office and
will continue, using hosiery put
out by other manufacturers.
The plant came to Aberdeen
largely through community ef
fort, with the Chamber of Com
merce taking the lead. The build
ing was put up by local interests
and later purchased by the hos
iery company. Community rela
tionships have remained excel
lent, and employees came from all
over the county.
Mr. Kleinspehn, a native of
Philadelphia, grew up in the
business. He has been connected
with hosiery concerns since 1916.
He and his wife are home owners
in Southern Pines, living at 160
East New York avenue.
erones.
“BATTER UP!” Richard Tufts, president of Pinehurst, Inc.,
pitches the first baU of the season, with Mayor L. T. Clark of
Southern Pines as catcher, at Pinehurst’s first home game Mon
day. Wednesday, at Southern Pines, the procedure was reversed,
with Mayor Clark on the mound, Albert Tufts catching.
(Hemmer Photo)
Big Celebration
Set For July 4
At County Seat
The annual Moore County
Fourth of July celebration will be
the biggest and best ever this
year, according to word from the
Carthage Jaycees, sponsors of the
annual event.
Eighth District Congressman C.
B. Deane has officially accepted
the invitation to be the main
speaker on the morning program
at the county seat, according to
word received this week.
An Army band from Fort Bragg
will give the opening concert, and
head the grand parade of floats
in the afternoon.
Several entries have already
been received for the beauty con
test, and the chairmen say they
expect to have beautiful girls
competing from all sections of
the county.
Additional attractions will in
clude the usual street contests and
races; the all-star baseball game
in the afternoon; a concert of old-
time stringed music in the audi
torium and, topping off the day,
a Grand Ball in the McConnell
warehouse. The winner of the
beauty contest will be crowned
as “Miss Moore County” at the
ball, for which Jimmie Perkins
and His Orchestra have been en
gaged.
Grand prize of the day will be
a brand new 1953 Plymouth car.
Boros And Doser
Make Same Score
In National Open
Julius Boros, Mid Pines pro and
National Open defending cham
pion, lost his crown at Oakmont,
Pa., last week to tough and tire
less little Ben Hogan.
As the nation watched, Hogan
scored a 283 in the four-day con
test over two of the most gruel
ing courses in the land. It was his
fourth time to win the Open. Six
strokes behind came Sam Snead,
coming in second, also for the
fourth time.
Boros, who as a comparative
unknown plugged ahead a year
ago to achieve the title, scored
an undistinguished 299. Though
he offered no alibis, those who
watched him knew his mind
wasn’t on that ball. Little Nicky,
his son, had been bitten by a
horse, suffering painful injury,
the day before. The 22-month-old
youngster is with his grandpa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cos
grove, Mid Pines proprietors, at
their summer place at Green Har
bor, Mass.
By a curious coincidence. Boros
and Clarence Doser, pro for the
last four years at the Pine Need
les Golf club just across the road
from the Mid Pines Club, made
identical scores. Doser, playing
out of the Scarsdale (N. Y.) Coun
try club, a well-known pro though
never in the “big time,” came
through also with a 299. This was
a popular figure. Jim Turnesa and
Bill Nary made it too. It brought
them each $200.