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McDonald Wins
Sheriff Race;
No 2nd Primary
County Goes For
Scott, Sou. Pines
For Sen. Lennon
Saturday was a hot day
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HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES. Class of 1954. Front row. from
left—Gladys Bowden Huntley. Della Maxann Kerr. Georgia WU-
hams. Shirley Mae Garner. Betty Jean Moore Wheeler. Clarene
Patricia Anne Dupree. Barbara Ann Hackney. ‘Geraldine Bethea,
harbara Louise Pearce.
Second row-^oseph Wesley Smith. Joseph Perkins Marley. Jr..
Margaret Bracey Bowers. Joan Cheatham. ‘Jane Sue Lorenson,
Robert Ripley Renegar. ‘Charles Harwood Bowman. Jr.. ‘Robert
McNeill. Jr.. James Vernon
Ernest Blakefield Speller. Jr.
Third row—Harold Alexander „„„„
Hatch. George Arthur Morrison. Paul'HewhV'wawen. D^n^S
Vm Benschoten. George Marshall Colton. William Clarke Davis
•ifRuggles. ‘James Alfred Barber. Jr..
Daiad ChMon Page. ‘Robert Bion Butler. James Parry Town-
shend. Leighton Caldwell HaU. Donald Lee Burney.
‘Honor graduates.
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Airforce Captain
To Join Ranks Of
Carthage Doctors
Carthage is to have a new doc-
I “Outstanding Class” of 1954 Receives
Diplomas, Hears Talk By Edwin Gill
(Photo by Humphrey)
WATER TESTED
Tests made of the water of
seven popular lakes indicate
all are safe for swimming,
sanitarily speaking . reports
Dr. J. C. Grier, Jr., first aid
and water safety , chairman of
the Moore County Red Cross
chapter.
Lakes tested were Aber
deen Lake. Crystal Lake at
Lakeview. the Southern Pines
town lake. Pinebluff town
lake. Pinehurst lake. Monroe's
Lake at West End and Grier's
Lake near Pinehurst.
Water samples were collect
ed from each of these by San
itarian E. Floyd Dunn, on re
quest of the Red Cross chap
ter. and tests for bacteriologi
cal content were made at the
state laboratories at Raleigh.
Marine Drowned
Thirty-one boys and girls, mem
bers of the Class of 1954, gradual-
tor in Cap-t. Wllliaa, F. Sicoi; ma'i. I Kni" hS So, 'S
wifh^the” lora? F “Education is a co’ntin-
for “Happiness and Success are
his higher education. He gradu
ated from Texas A. and M. with a
B.S. in 1948 and went on to the
study of medicine in the Univer
sity of Texas at Galveston, receiv
ing his M.D. in 1952. Previous to
his college years, however, he had
spent alm<Rt a year as a para
trooper in the Air Force, enlisting
at the age of 17.
His later Army medical training
included an internship at Fitzsim
mons Army Hospital in Denver
and specialized training at the
School of Aviation Medicine at
Randolph Air Force Base, San
Antonio.
Asked what influenced him to
decide to Settle in Moore County
Captain Nicol said; “I just like it.
It’s a nice place and the people are
so friendly.”
Captain Nicol spoke with
warmth of the encouragement giv
en him by local physicians and
also by the Carthage Jaypees, who
urged him to come there to prac
tice, where there was, they said, a
scarcity of doctors. Captain Nicol
said he was also influenced by the
excellence of the Moore County
Hospital’s facilities. I Now working in Burlington, she
Carthage’s new doctor’s office was due to be here Thursday night
will be located in a building now for her first match, with Deryl
being erected just off the main J Holliday.
street. first-round matches played
Captain Nicol is married and Wednesday afternoon and night,
has three children. He and his topseeded Harry Lee Brown,
wife, who comes from Douglas, brother of Audrey, beat Bobby
Ariz., and who has three years of Parker of Niagara, 6-2, 6-1; sec-
nurse trmning behind her, have | ond-seeded Ray Schilling beat Ed
Moore Tourney
Gets Under Way
On Local Courts
Sixteen men and a girl were en
tries in the men’s singles of the
Moore County Tennis Champion
ships, which, opened Wednesday
afternoon on the Southern Pines
municipal courts.
The girl is Audrey West Brown,
23-year-old winner of many cham
pionships, four-time holder of the
state women’s singles title and
fifth-ranked woman player in the
southeastern states.
The slender, brown-eyed South
ern Pines native is so far ahead of
the other local feminine tennis
talent—even though a lot of it is
pretty good—that the only way
she can enter the home town tour
nament is by playing in the men’s
events.
two different things. Happiness
has its own immortal standards of
truth, service and honor. There
are no short cuts to happiness, for
it dwells in the human heart.”
The speaker, for many years an
outstanding figure in law and
government in North Carolina,
traced the history of education in
this state, with special tribute to
Aycock, the “education governor,”
and O. Max Gardner, a governor
who “remained forever young, for
he was always open to new ideas
and new approaches.” Under the
leadership of these ond other great
governors, he said. North Caro
lina has reached the forefront of
southern states in education, and
It is my belief the best is yet to
be.”
Outstanding Class
John Howarth, school board
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Methodist Church
To Be Built Here;
Minister Arrives
Jimmy Barber
Wins Scholarship
To N, C. State
been living at 265 East Illinois
Avenue. His mother, Mrs. Jayme
Boyd, still lives in Little Rock, as
do his brother and sister. His
father’s people came from Vir
ginia.
King of Pinehurst 6-2, 6-1; third-
seeded Kenneth Tew beat Jimmy
I Prim 6-0, 6-1. Wayne Harrison,
I seeded No. 4, was to play his first
[ match with Harry Chaffin Thurs-
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Sarah Inman, Worst-Hit By Polio,
Graduates With Honors At Carthage
A pretty young girl with softly
curling brown hair and big blue
eyes received some special atten
tion at the Carthage High School
commencement exercises Tuesday
night.
In her cap and gown, she was
sitting in an odd-looking metal
chair. Marshals wheeled her down
the aisle, and two senior boys
lifted the chair up to the stage.
The diploma was laid gently in
her lap. Her smile was bright and
gay. From the applause that well
ed up, and resounded again and
again, she was the most popular
member of the graduating class.
That applause recognized more
than the love the boys and girls
had for 17-year-old Sarah Tnman,
of Hallison. It saluted also the
achievement represented by that
diploma—^the many hours study-
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James A. Barber, Jr., who grad
uated with honors at Southern
Pines High school Tuesday night,
received word Wednesday that he
had won a $2,000 scholarship to
State College—$500 a year for
four years. He plans to study en
gineering.
Jimmy was this year’s recipienti
of the James S. Milliken Memorial
Award, with $50 as “best all
round senior student.” He trans
ferred a year and a half ago from
Vass-Lakeview school, and since
then has made his mark as a
scholar, an athlete and all-round
fine boy at the local school. Prin
cipal Irie Leonard said.
At Vass-Lakeview he was pres
ident of fce Beta Club, and of the
junior class.
He is 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Barber of 169 East New Hamp
shire Avenue. His father is a civ
ilian employee at Fort Bragg and
his mother works at Hamel’s Res
taurant.
To win the scholarship, Jimmy
first received the endorsement of
the school authorities, then, with
others from schools all over the
county, went through a screening
by a selection committee of the
Moore County State Alumni As
sociation. Jimmy and a Robbins
boy passed the screening, and
went on through a district test,
then tests made of applicants, and
some 55 scholarships available,
the field was quickly narrowed
down.
No word has been received here
as to whether the lad from Rob- I
bins also passed. I
Southern Pines is soon to have
the first Methodist church in its
history. It already has its minis
ter.
The Rev. E. E. Whitley and
family moved here last week from
Burlington, where he has been
serving the Mt. Hermon charge.
While long-laid plans of the North
Carolina Conference’s Board of
Missions and Church Extension to
build a plant here are becoming
realized, he will organize the con-'
gregation it will serve.
Property has been purchased at
the corner of May Street and
Maine Avenue for a church and
educational building, also a home
has been bought for a parsonage
at 435 North Ashe. ’
The Rev. O. L. Hathaway, su
perintendent of the Fayetteville
district, visiting here this week re-
vealed that the plans call for im
mediate construction of an educa-
toinal plant facing on Maine Ave
nue. Sunday School classes will be
held there, also services until the
sanctuary can be built later, fac
ing on May.
Plans began some time ago
when a survey revealed that
many Methodists are living here,
with no church home, Mr. Hatha
way said. Some are attending
other churches, some none at all,
while still others are going to
Methodist churches some distance
away.
Southern Pines is believed to
be the only town of its size in
North Carolina, perhaps in the
South, without a Methodist
church.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitley with their
two sons, Gregory DeLong, aged
six, and Edgar Barrett, three, are
now in residence in the parsonage
The new minister is 33 years
old, a native of Wilmington. He
has servd the Pinetops charge in
addition to Mt. Hermon.
I Southern Pines—weatherwise and
j electionwise. Voters went to the
polls in broiling sunshine, to vote
j I in an election which had sudden
ly exploded into action after
weeks of apathy.
The Scott-Lennon fight for the
U. S. Senate nomination was the
biggest vote-puller on the state
11 Mcket. Race issue leaflets injected
by the Lennon fories two days be-
fcr the primary had caused vio
lent reactions throughout the
state. None were distributed in
I this vicinity, as local Lennon
leaders, along with some others in
the State were said to have turned
down their aid.
Whether or not the leaflets
played any part in it. Former Gov
ernor Kerr Scott—“the Squire of
Haw River”—won a resounding
victory in the State. He was also f.*, T?4'«T.r^
the winner in Moore coimty, while J-'CCp lVlV0r
Southern Pines went for Lennon
516 to 355.
Looming as great, or greater, in
importance to many local voters
was the sheriff race, and Southern
Pines came through for C. J. Mc
Donald, 600-230—which was just
the margin needed to assure a
clear victory in the three-man
race.
A total of 918 local votes was
cast, about 5,600 in the county.
Votes were canvassed Tuesday
by the county board n't elections.
For the official tabulation, show
ing returns in all precincts, see
Page 13.
Incumbents won in all four
county races, according to unof
ficial returns in Saturday’s pri
mary election in Moore county.
Sheriff C. J. McDonald success
fully cleared the threat of a sec
ond primary by winning 2,939
votes against challengers WendeU
B. Kelly, with 2,075, and R. G.
Fry, Jr., with 666. The race was a
hard-fought one, pulling in the
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Playj^round Equipped,
Dedicated As Project
Of “Finer Carolina”
First of Five
On FC Program
To Be Completed
The Southern Pines elementary
school, which formerly had no
playground equipment at all, is
now one of the best and best-
equipped school playgrounds ifl
the state.
This was the first project to be
completed—though not the first to
be begun—under Southern Pines’
“Finer Carolina” program. ,
The new playground, on a wid%
pine-shaded expanse at the back*
and to the east, ' of the school
building, was dedicated in a sim
ple ceremony Tuesday morning.
The student body was present en
masse. The boys and girls man
aged to restrain themselves, with
commendable dignity, during the
speaking; but as soon as the red
ribbon was cut, they took over.
They swarmed all over the
“jungle gym,” flew high in nine
swings, with their sturdy steel
chains; teetered on the six bright-
painted see-saws; coasted shouting
down the big shiny slide, and
went spinning like tops on the gay
little merry-go-round.
On the speaking program were
Voit Gilmore, chairman of the lo
cal “Finer Carolina” committee;
W. T. Huntley, project chairman,
and Supt. A. C. Dawson. All ex
pressed their appreciation for the
contributions from interested citi
zens which had made the comple
tion of the project possible, and
dedicated the playground to the
wholesome use and enjoyment of
Southern Pines’ schoolchildren.
The equipment cost a little less
than $1,000, most of which has al
ready been donated through a
quiet subscription campaign con
ducted over the past few weeks
by the committee.
It was purchased at a saving
through the school. The units are
some of the best obtainable, stur-
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In Fishing Trip
A 34-year -old Marine, veteran
of Pacific warfare in World War 2
and in Korea, met death by
drowning Saturday evening in the
sleepy backwaters of Deep River,
near the steel bridge on the Horse
shoe Bend.
Warrant Officer John Daniel
Hamilton of Camp Geiger, the am
phibious . base at Camp LeJeune,
was on a fishing trip with his
brother Sam, 41, of Guilford, when
the tragedy occurred, just about
dusk.
Residents of the Horseshoe com
munity and Carthage, fire de
partments of Carthage and South
ern Pines with rescue equipment
and Deputy Sheriff A. W. Lam
bert, :^r the sheriff’s department,
were on the scene soon after the
alarm had been given by Sam
Hamilton and his young son Ron
nie, 12, in shouted appeals to pass-
ersby.
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HONORS IN LATIN
Among year-end honors re
ceived by Southern Pines stu
dents were honorable men
tions for Thomas Vann and
John Chappell, received in
the statewide Latin examina
tion for seventh graders.
The information was receiv
ed by the school this week
from the University of North
Carolina, through whose ex
tension service the examina
tions are conducted each year.
While the full list was not
given, it is believed likely
Southern Pines was the only
school with two names on the
list.
Miss Polly Miller is
boys' Latin teacher.
"FOR US? GEE WHILLIKINS!" Top picture
—the kids feasted with their eyes on their won
derful new playground during the brief dedica
tion exercise Tuesday morning. At far left,
Supt. A. C. Dawson may be seen at the micro
phone. Soon, with "Finer Carolina" Chairman
Voit Gilmore and Project Chairman W. T. Hunt-
ley, he was to cut the symbolic red ribbon. Then
—see the bottom picture for part of what hap
pened. (Photos by Walter F. Harper)