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Senate, Sheriff Races
Lead Primary Interest
Democrats To
Go To Polls
Sat., May 29
Democrats of Moore County will
go to the polls Saturday to help
nominate a candidate for U. S.
Senator, state, treasurer, state
commissioner of insurance and
member of Congress from the
eighth district and to choose nomi
nees in only four county races.
Polling places will be open
from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., says
Sam C. Riddle, chairman of th
Moore County board of elecx^ons.
Only Democrats registered in the
precinct where they now reside
can vote.
Claiming top interest on the
ballot for State officers and Con
gressman is the U. S. Senate race
in which the leading candidates
are Senator Alton A. Lennon, in
cumbent, Wilmington attorney ap
pointed to the office by Gov. Wil
liam B. Ufnstead to fill out the
unexpired term of the late Willis
Smith; and former Governor Kerr
Scott. Generally conceded to be
third strongest of seven candi
dates who filed for the primary
is Alvin Wingfield, Jr., of Char
lotte, formerly district manager
for a typewriter company. Others
on the ballot are W. M. Bostick,
Henry L. Sprinkle, A. E. Turner
and Olla Ray Boyd.
Of most local interest in a three-
way race for the sheriff’s nomina
tion with R. G. Fry, Jr., and Wen
dell B. Kelly, both of Carthage,
challenging Sheriff C. J. McDon
ald who has held the office for
over 25 years.
In the register of deeds race, C.
L. Worsham of Southern Pines,
businessman who is a newcomer
to politics, is seeking the post
now held by Mrs. Bessie J. Grif
fin who was elected to the office
in 1950.
There is one race for a coun
ty commissioner’s seat. John M.
Currie of Carthage, present board
member from District 1, has op
position from Benjamin David
Sineath of the'Hillcrest commun
ity, 30-year-old World War 2 vet
eran. Candidates for co'unty
commissioner file from dach of
five districts but voting on them
is county-wide in the primary.
One seat on the county board
of education is involved in a con
test this year, with W. Howard
Matthews of Clay Rdad Farms,
newly appointed member of the
board, opposed by E. E. (Blue)
Monroe of Cameron.
Board of education members,
like the commissioners, file from
districts, but are subject to coun
ty-wide voting.
In the primary, members of the
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MONDAY PLANS
No general holiday will be
taken by Southern Pines mer
chants Monday, May 31, a
legal holiday since Memorial
Day falls on Sunday, May 30,
but the Citizens Bank and
Trust Co., and others banks in
this area will be closed. 'The
local post office will give
window service only between
10 and 11 a. m. and there will
be no city delivery of mail.
Distribution of mail to boxes
will go on as usual.
Fire Chief Asks
Youths, Adults
Not Chase Truck
A strong appeal to teen-agers
and adults not to chase the fire
trucks when an alarm is, sounded
and not to block streets near the
firehouse or elsewhere along the
route of the trucks was made this
week by Fire Chi'ef Harold Fow
ler, who said:
“I think everyone in our fair
town who has given any thought
to the matter will agree that we
have a good Fire Department.
“Firemen, paid or volunteer,
are no different from ordinary hu
man beings. They have a job to
do when the siren blows the same
as any other workman has when
the time to go to work arrives.
Like any good workman, a good
fireman likes to do a good job
too.
“The difference between a vol
unteer fireman and . most other
workmen is the time element in
volved and especially the fact that
it is more or less of a hobby with
him to fight fire. However the
thrill of being a fire fighter does
not come with' the dogding of
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Women Voters
Sponsor Meeting
For Candidates
In the first such event ever held
in 'this area, sponsored by the
Southern Pines League of Women
Voters, candidates for office in the
Democratic primary appeared last
Friday to express their opiniohs
and answer questions.
While all the candidates, even
some, of those with opposition, did
not attend the meeting and while
attendanec did not fill the ball
room of the Southern Pines Coun
try Club, the forum was lively
and interesting and was rated a
success by the sponsors as an in
itial effort.
Mrs. C. A. Smith, League presi
dent who presided, described the
meeting as “an example of dem
ocracy in action,” and introduced
Mrs. Graham Culbreth, chairman
of the League committee in
charge, who told the audience that
the League is not so much inter
ested in how people vote as that
they do vote. She thanked the
candidates for coming.
Performing as moderator and
keeping the meeting moving
smoothly, quickly and in good
spirits was W. D. Sabiston, Car
thage attorney, who introduced
the candidates and later read to
them written questions sent up
from the audience.
In the order in which they were
introduced, the pandidates presdnt
were:
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Annexation Increases
Town Area 50 Per Cent
Valuable
GERALDINE BETHEA
Valedictorian
COMMENCEMENT EVENTS SCHEDULED
CHARLES H. BOWMAN, JR.
Saluiatorian
31 Will Receive Diplomas June 1
Dr. OlerL Mr.jQill
Speakers; Play To
Be Given Monday
Thirty-one members of the
Class of 1954 at Southern Pines
High School will receive diplomas
in graduation exercises in Weaver
Auditorium Tuesday at 8:15 p. m.
Students to graduate are: James
Allred Barber, Jr., Geraldine
Bethea, Margaret Bracey Bowers,
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Charles Harwood Bowman, Jr., | Louise Pearce, Robert Ripley Ren-
Donald Lee Burney, Robert Bionjegar, Thomas Ruggles, Josepjh
Butler, Joan Cheatham, George Wesley Smith, Robert Ernest
Blakefie^d Speller, Jr., James
Parry Townshend, Donald Van
Benschoten, Paul Hewitt Warren,
Marshall Colton, William Clarke
Davis, Clarene Patricia Anne Du
pree, Shirley Mae Garner, Bar
bara Ann Hackney, Leighton
Caldwell Hall, James Vernon
Hatch, Gladys Bowden Huntley,
Della Maxaim Kerr, Jane Sue
Lorenson, Joseph Perkins Marley,
Jr., Harold Alexander McNeill,
Jr., George Arthur Morrison,
i David Charon Page, Barbara
Members of Air
Patrol Practice
Rescue Mission
Earl Edwards To
Be Here Tonight
Earl Edwards, head football
coach at N. C. State College in Ra
leigh, will be the principal speak
er tonight (Friday) when N. C.
State alumni of Moore Coimty
and their wives meet at the
Southern Pines Country Club.
'The meeting will start at 7 p.
m. with an O'utdoor chjcken din
ner. Others who are not NCSC
alumni but who are interested in
football are welcome to attend.
Tickets may be secured from
Graves Vann or John Ponzer.
Formerly line coach at Michigan
State College, Edwards was given
a three-year contract as head
coach at State last January.
Several members of the recent
ly organized Pinehurst-Southern
Pines squadron of the Civil Air
Patrol participated ' in a Search
and Rescue Civil Air Patrol (SAR
CAP) at Burlington last weekend.
Taking part were Jimmy Law-
son of Southern Pines and Fred
Wilson, Tom Connely, Bert Clay
ton, Carl Bradshaw, Estelle Brad
shaw and Jimmy Hobbs, all of
Pinehurst.
Searching for missing aircraft
is one- of the chie f functions of the
Civil Air Patrol. 'The North Caro
lina CAP Wing recently aided the
search for a missing jet reported
lost in South Carolina.
Supervised by the Air Force,
the SARCAP at Burlington made
125 out of a possible 150 points,
according to a scoring system used
in these events.
The local squadron will meet
at 8 p. m. Wednesday night of
next week at the Pinehurst-
Southern Pines airport. Lt. Carl
Bradshaw will speak on naviga
tion and dead reckoning. At a
meeting Monday night of this
week, Lt. J. Vance Rowe, Jr., gave
the orientation lecture.
Regular meeting time of the
squadron is each Tuesday at 8
p. m. at the airport. Interested
persons are invited to attend all
I meetings.
Knights, Regional
Champs, Playing
Game Here Today
Perquimans High of Hertford
scored four times in the sixth to
come from behind and edge
Southern Pines, 4-2, in the opening
game of the Eastern Class A high
school championship series at
Hertford Tuesday night.
Second game of the series will
be played in Southern Pines to
day (Friday) on Memorial Field
at 3:30 p. m.
If the Southern Pines Blue
Knights win today, necessitating
a third game, it too will be played
here—at 2 p. m. tomorrow (Satur
day).
A victory by Southern Pines in
both the home contests would give
them the Eastern Class A title,
sending them into a series with
the Western winners for the State
Betty Jean Moore Wheeler and
Georgia Williams.
The high school band will play
the processional and recessional
and two other selections during
the graduation exercises.
Gill To Speak
Edwin Gill of Raleigh, State
Treasurer, will deliver the com-
mencemnt address. He will be
presented by John M. Howarth,
chairman of the Southern Pines
school board.
N. L.‘ Hodgkins, schofli board
member, will present the diplo
mas. Invocation will be given by
the Rev. C. V. Covell, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, and
Father Peter M. Denges of St. An
thony’s Catholic Church will pro
nounce the benediction.
Geraldine Bethea is first honor
graduate, or valedictorian, and
Charles Bowman is second honor
graduate, cr salutatorian.
Honor graduates—^those who
have a general average 6f 90 or
above each year in high school—
are, lor lour years: Jane Sue Lor
enson and David ,Page, in addition
to the first and second honor
graduates.
James Barber is an honor grad
uate with one and a half years in
Southern Pines High School and
Robert Butler and Robert Speller
are honor graduates with three
A RECORD?
Is Southern Pines the onljP
community in the nation with
two 18-hole golf courses with
in its city limits? So far as
was known here this week, it
is.
With the annexation of
Knollwood area to the town
by action of the council Tues
day night, both the Pine-
Needles and Mid Pines
courses are brought whoUy
within the city limits, as are
the Pine Needles clubhouse
and the Mid Pines Club.
Southern Pines Country
Club is not in the town lim
its.
Property
Taken In
Southern Pines grew up in a
hurry Tuesday night.
It only took a few minutes for
the council to vote unanimously
to make the Knollwood area a
part of Southern Pines, as peti
tioned by residents, but the ac
tion followed weeks of planning
and advertising the proposal and’
a public hearing that lasted about
an hour before the council voted.
“This,” said Councilman Voit
Gilmore after the vote, “is an his
toric moment in the life of our
town.” ' '
The land taken in adds an area
which is about 50 per cent of the
Scheduled Sunday s°“<^hern pines, roughiy\
Memorial Service
championship.
Righthander Paul Matthews years in the local school,
pitched the win and gave up six j Marshals, chosen I on the basis
hits. He struck out 14. Lefty David of scholarship, are: Norma Bowles,
DRIVE TOPS QUOTA
With donations of $707.50,
Southern Pines has exceeded its
$700 quota in the 1954 campaign
of the American Cancer Society,
Mrs. J. S. Milliken, local chairman,
said this week. She thanked all
contributors.
Leading Senatorial Candidates
KERR SCOTT
SEN. ALTON A LENNON
A slowly moving race between the two leading contenders for
the Senatorial nomination in Saturday’s primary has picked up
considerably in interest during the past week. State-wide, the
Lennon campaign has featured attacks on Scott’s character anil
his conduct while in office as governor, while the Scott forces
have stressed their candidate’s efforts in North Carolina in sup
port of better roads, schools, hospitals and rural electrification..
Page pitched a four-hitter in a los
ing effort, and was hurt by five
errors, four of them in Perqui
mans’ big sixth frame. Page whif
fed 13.
Matthews also provided his
mates with what proved to be the
winning margin. He blasted a 350-
foot triple into left centerfield to
score the winning runs.
Johnny Watkins scored South-
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Safety Program
Gets Good Start
Of tiers at the USAF Air Ground
School have been speaking this
week in Sandhills communities
on behalf of “Operation Impact,”
the traffic safety program that has
been reopened this year after a
successful trial in Southern Pines
last summer.
Major Jack Steinberg addressed
students at Aberdeen High Sphool
and Major J. F. McCarthy spoke
to the Pinehurst Lions Club. A re
port from the Air Ground School
says the program is going over
very well in all Sandhill towns.
The VFW is the co-sponsoring
agency in Southern Pines.
Purpose of the program is to
make people safety conscious
when they sign a safe driving
pledge and receive a windshield
sticker.
A plaque constructed by the
Training Aids section at USAFA-
GOS is being presented to all co
operating groups.
The current program will run
through July 10, a period covering
the dangerous Memorial Day and
July 4 weekends.
chief; Dorothy Newton, Patti
Wcodell, Kay Davis, Claude
Reams, Bobby CUne, Bill Marley,
Barbara Williams, Thomas Vann,
Ray Daeke and John Chappell.
The commencement exercises
of the Class of 1954 are dedicated
to the loving memory of Dr. G. G.
Herr who served devotedly for 20
years as a member of the school
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At Local Cemetery
A united vesper memorial ser
vice will be held Sunday at 4:30
p. m. at Mount Hope Cemetery,
honoring the dead of all wars on
Memorial Day.
The service is planned under
the auspices of Sandhills Post,
American Legion, of which Lyle
McDonald is commander; John
Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, T. R. McKenzie, command
er; the USAF Air Ground Opera
tions School, Brig. Gen. William
M. Gross, commEmdant; auxili
aries of the Legion and VFW and
Boy and Girl Scout troops of
Southern Pines. Shields Cameron
is general chairman.
Extensive preparations have
been made for the service. All
graves of war veterans in the
cemetery have been located and
marked. Flowers will be placed on
all the graves by Girl Scouts or
auxiliary members and flags will
be placed on the graves by Boy
Scouts or veterans.
Donations of flowers for the
graves will be received at the
American Legion hall on Maine
avenue until 2 p. m. Sunday.
Commanders and leaders of all
organizations are asked to have
their contingents at the cemetery
by 4 p. m.
Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher of
Southern Pines will give the
main address.
The Rev. Fr. Peter Denges of
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
will give the invocation and me
morial tributes will be paid by the
commanders of the two local vet
erans organizations.
The Rev. (Lt. Cmdr.) Cheves K:
Ligon, Legion chaplain, will lead
the devotional memorial service,
assisted by the Rev. W. C. Tim
mons, pastor of the Church of
Wide Fellowship. The Rev. C. V.
Coveil, rector of Emmanuel Epis
copal Church, will pronounce the
benediction.
A Boy Scout honor guard will
stand at each grave during the
ceremonies.
The public in invited.
Commencement Speakers
bounded as follows; clockwise;
north along Pee Dee road from
the Pennsylvania avenue intersec
tion in West Southern Pines, to
the “Y” intersection of Pee Dee
Road and Central Drive with the
road from Carthage, then east
along the Pine Needles golf
course, south and east again near
Manly, leaving out a big tract of
some 200 undeveloped acres be
longing to the Sandhills Lumber
Co. at Manly, over to the .Yadkin
road (the “short cut” road from
No. 1 highway to Midland Road)
and back to join the present city
limits.
The annexation adds:
An estimated 300-400 in popula
tion, which probably brings the
population of Southern Pines
(4,135 in 1950) to nearly 6,000, con
sidering growth of the town since
the last census.
Property valued at between
$700,000 and $800,000.
St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital.
Two 18-hole golf courses—^Mid
Pines and Pine Needles.
The Carolina Orchid Growers
greenhouses.
Many handsome residences and,
as was noted at the meeting Tues
day night, many residents who
will become valuable citizens of
the community.-
Present at the meeting were
Gen. Julian F. Barnes, chairman
of the Knollwood Sanitary Dis
trict, a legal governing entity that
will now be dissolved; Kenneth
Kennedy, Knollwood resident who
has taken part in negotiations
leading to the annexation, and
Harry Menzel of Southern Pines,
tax collector for the Sanitary Dis
trict, who has played a prominent
part in planning and working out
the annexation procedures.
After the vote. Mayor L. T.
Clark said: “We love and admire
the people of Knollwood and we
frankly had no intention of tak
ing in Knollwood or any other
section to make money from it. I
believe that annexation wiU be to
the advantage of the people in
Khollwood and the people of
Southern Pines.
“We look forward to having-
some of the people of Knollwood
help us in the government of
Southern Pines. I nor any member
of the council do not want to take
in any section outside the city
limits unless it is an advantage
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DR. F. H. OLERT
EDWIN GILL
Dr. Frederick H. Olert, pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church, Richmond, Va., will deliver the commencement sermon
to the Southern Pines High School Class of 1954 at the Church
of Wide Fellowship Sunday evening. He is a nationally known
church leader. Edwin Gill, North Carolina state treasurer, is a
native of Laurinburg, and a former U. S. Collector of Internal
Revenue. He will deliver the commencement address next Tues
day evening.
Nephew Of Local
Residents Killed
In Navy Tragedy
Orlo Hamlin Kane, 24, Navy
lieutenant junior grade who was
a nephew of Mrs. Howard Butler
and Mrs. A1 Wells, of Southern
Pines, was killed in the violent
explosion and fire on the Aircraft
Carrier Bennington 75 miles off
the New England coast Wednes
day.
The young man had visited in
Southern Pines periodically since
he was a child. His wife, the for
mer Virginia Lee Brasse of Alex
andria, Va., and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Evan O’Neill Kane of
Kane, Pa., visited here two weeks
ago.
Lieutenant Kane was a gradu
ate of Mercersburg Academy and
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
Some 90 Navy personnel were
killed in the tragedy and more
than 200 were injured.