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VOL. 35—NO. 39
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1954
SIXTEEN PACJES
PRICE—TEN CENTS
AT BLOWING ROCK—Sandhills folks and friends of the
Sandhills gathered recently at Blowing Rock for the 31st annual
horse show staged there by Lloyd M. Tate, veteran local horse
man. The group includes spectators, officials, riders and others.
Left to right: Louis Scheipers, Sr., J. T. Overton, Dr. J. I. Neal,
Art Newman, Jack Goodwin, Mrs. J. T. Overton, Johnny Thig
pen, ringmaster of the show and a frequent visitor to the Sand
hills; Miss Jean Overton, Lloyd M. Tate, show manager for the
past 31 years; Bob Freils, Mrs. Lloyd M. Tate, unidenitfied man
partially visible in rear, WiUiam (Billy) Tate of Baltimore, Md.,
formerly of the Sandhills, Mrs. William Tate, Father Melton of
New York City who is thought to be the only priest who is a
licensed horse show judge, who judged the Blowing Rock show
and who recently bought the old Jonker place off Youngs Road
here; and Mrs. William Green of Charlotte, the former Mary Ann
(Photo by Emerson Humphrey)
Grand Jury Asks Conference On
Connty Home’s ‘Excessive Cost’
Offices In
Courthouse
Are Praised
In their report to Judge Francis
O. Clarkson, presiding at a term
of Superior Court in Carthage,
members of a new grand jury
chosen Monday said that the cost
to the county of operating the
county home is excessive, in view
of the number of inmates there.
and recommended that a member
of the county board of commis
sioners appear before the grand
jury at its regular session to dis
cuss thi^ problem. Condition of
the county home buildings was
termed “fair.”
The county home now has seven
inmates, the report pointed out.
For the fiscal year ending June
30, $12,500 was appropriated for
operation of the home.
A generally favorable report
was made on county buildings and
offices, with several offices in the
SERVICE AT 10 A. M. TODAY
Alfred B. Yeomans, Leader In
Community Life, Dies At 84
Drive Begins
For Emergency
Polio Relief
As the fourth poUo case for the
year in Moore Coimty was an
nounced, news was given out also
of this county’s participation in
the emergency polio drive, and
Paul C. Butler, chairman of the
county chapter of the National
Foundation, asked that contribu
tions be sent in before the end of
August.
The fourth young victim is Bob
by Britt, 15-year-old son of Mrs.
Susie Britt of near Carthage. Bob
by was taken first to Moore Coun
ty Hospital, then to N. C. Memo
rial hospital at Chapel Hill, last
Thursday.
Another victim, the 10-months
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Keith of Pinebluff, was brought
home Sunday from a Charlotte
hospital and is reported recover
ing nicely. All the others, severed
weeks or months old, are now at
home and doing nicely.
The other two cases listed by
the Moore County Health Depart
ment and the local National Foun
dation chapter are Carson A. Lem
ons, six years old, of Southern
Pines, and Larry Eugene Spencer
of Eagle Springs.
Diagnosis in the case of the
Spencer child was at first doubt
ful, and it was thought that he
might have a hip injury, but the
Health Department reported this
week that the diagnosis has been
confirmed as polio.
Two cases from Hoke County
were diagnosed in Moore County,
before being sent elsewhere for
treatment, but are not credited to
the Moore polio record. Only four
cases are listed by the Health De
partment and the National Foun
dation Chapter.
This is not an imusual number
of cases for the year, and there is
no need for alarm. Chairman But
ler said. Also, the county chapter
has financial reserves to take care
of its cases through the year, un
less an unusual situation develops.
Untisual Expenses
There are epidemics, however,
in other places, notably Texas and
California. With these and un
usual expenses of the gamma
globulin distribution, and the
great Salk vaccine tests which
may lead to victory over polio, the
National Foundation finds itself
without funds to take care of nor
mal expenses.
“In 1948, funds from other
places were poured into Moore
County,” Butler reminded. “They
did not stint—^we received more
than $85,000 in immediate aid for
polio victims. Now it is our turn
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Men of Church WiU
Have Supper Tuesday
The Men of the Church of
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian
Church will hold their monthly
supper meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m.
on the lawn of the Southern Pines
Country Club. All men of the
church are expected to attend.
SCOUTING EVENT
SLATED SATURDAY
A Court of Honor will be com
bined With the Boy Scout “Swim-
All and Cook Out,” Saturday at
Pinebluff Lake. Merit Badges
and awards will be presented by
J. D. Wimberley of Aberdeen and
Allan Brown of Robbins.
During the campfire ceremony,
which starts at 8 o’clock, campo-
ree ribbons will cilso be awarded.
District Advancement Chairman
Lawrence Johnson of Aberdeen
wUl be in charge.
The swimming, canoeing and
boating events will begin at 2 p.m.
Sunnyside First
To Get Reduced
Insurance Rate
The Sunnyside subdivision is
the first area outside the city to
be classified as eligible for “sixth
class suburban” fire insurance
rates by the North Carolina Fire
Insurance rating bureau. City
Mpager Tom E. Cunningham
said this week.
Because all residents of the sub
division have signed contracts
with the town for fire protection,
paying in advance 25 cents per
$100 of property valuation, resi
dents of the area can receive re
duced insurance rates, as compar
ed with unprotected suburban
property. Protected residential
property must also be within 1,000
feet of a hydrant to receive a re
duced rate.
Sunnyside is bounded on the
north by the corporate limits of
Southern Pines, on the east and
south by the Country Club golf
course and on the west by the
Seaboard Air Line railroad tracks.
Cunningham said that a large
percentage of the property in the
Weymouth, Midland Road and
Golfcrest suburban areas is cov
ered by contracts for fire protec
tion, but that none of these areas
is yet sufficiently signed up to
receive the Rating Bureau reclas
sification. *
Sixth class rates are higher than
those paid by residents within the
city limits, but property owners
in a fully protected suburban
area pay an average of about $2
per $1,000 valuation less for fire
insurance than those not in an
area where all residents have
signed fire protection contracts.
Ball Park Light Canvass To Continue;
Offers Of Free Labor Will Cut Costs
Checks And Pledges
Total Over $2,800;
More Is Expected
Club Nominates
Burney For Post
A. L. Burney of Southern Pines
was nominated by the Sandhills
Kiwanis Club for lieutenant gov
ernor of the Fourth Carolina dis
trict of Kiwanis International,
during the club’s regular luncheon
meeting, held at Aberdeen Wed
nesday.
A lieutenant governor of the
district will be elected at a district
meeting in September.
Cash raised in last week’s soli
citation, payment of some of the
pledges and checks arriving in the
mail brought the ball park lights
fund to $2,205 as of Wednesday
night, it was reported by W. B.
Holliday;' general chairman.
Pledges still outstanding total
$606, raising the total fund—on
hand and anticipated—to some
thing over $2,800.
Campaign leaders will continue
their canvass to reach persons
who were out of town or who, for
other reasons, could not be con
tacted last week. Also, more
checks may arrive from out-of-
town friends to whom letters were
sent early last week. It is ho^ed
the fund will soon reach $3,000,
the chairman said.
With this amount in view, a
plan can be recommended to the
Elks Club, the Rotary Club and
other organizations which have
offered their support, which may
mean the order for equipment can
be placed very soon. Latest fig
ure on equipment for football,
softball and baseball lighting is
around $6,500, if some planned
economies can be effected. j
Installation costs have been set
at $1,500 over and above the pur
chase price. However, said the
chairman, some offers of free la
bor have been made which will
scale this down a great deal. The
Carolina Power and Light Co. has
offered to donate labor which may
take care of most of this work.
Also, the National Guard has said
it will transport the poles from the
Play Begins In
First Round Of
Tennis Tourney
Tennis players from several
states converged on Southern
Pines Wednesday as first-round
matches in the sixth annual Sand
hill Invitational tournament got
under way on the mimicipal
courts.
The field of 46 players—32 men
and 14 women entered in singles
events—includes some of the top
players of the Carolines, also some
unknown quantities from distant
places which made the seeding
committee’s job a problem.
The group includes a delegation
of eight from Jacksonville and
other Florida cities, also several
players from Camden, S. C., and
some others who have never be
fore played‘on North Carolina
courts.
Finals are expected to be held
starting Saturday, continuing
through Sunday afternoon and
possibly Sunday evening. Antici
pating a large gallery to witness
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creosoting plant at Gulf without
cost.
“If we can get the equipment
paid for, I’m sure we can get it
up, and we’re trying hard to do
this in time for the opening of the
football season,” Chairman Holli
day said.
The solicitation has been con
ducted bY- a group of 41 men and
wdfnen under the leadership of G.
N. Page.
Hearing To Be
Held Saturday
On School Fund
Clerk of Court C. C. Kennedy
said Thursday that he had receiv
ed briefs from both the county
board of education and the county
commissioners, outlining the posi
tion of each board in the school
capital outlay fund controversy
and that he would preside at a
hearing, with both boards present,
at 10 a.m., Saturday, in the com
missioners room at the courthouse.
The clerk said he might render
his decision on the dispute then or
might defer it to Monday, August
23.
Because the board of educa
tion’s argument includes a con
tention that capital outlay funds
are unfairly divided between the
county school system and the
Southern Pines and Pinehurst city
school systems, all capital outlay
funds are frozen until the matter
is settled.
The dispute began when the
board of education rejected the
board of commissioners’ capital
outlay allotment of $269,000 in the
1954-55 budget, after having re
quested $422,471.73 as the mini
mum needed for school plant con
struction in the coming year.
At a joint meeting of the two
boards, the commissioners refused
to increase their appropriation and
the matter, went by law to the
clerk of court for arbitration. The
clerk’s decision can be appealed
to Superior Court by either party
in the controversy.
A memorial service for AKred^
B. Yeomans, 84, prominent South
ern Pines resident for the past 35
years, will be held at the Clark
Funeral Home at 10 a.m. today
(Friday).
Mr. Yeomans, who throughout
his residence here was a leader 4n
the cultural and civic life of the
community, died Tuesday at
Moore County Hospital where he
had been a patient for a few days.
He had been in poor health for
several years.
According to Mr. Yeomans’ ex
pressed wishes, his body was cre
mated at Duke Hospitsd, Durham,
Thursday, and his ashes were
placed in a wooden box to be
buried beside the remains of his
sister. Miss Mary Yeomans—who
died in May, 1943—at Mount Hope
cemetery.
’ Mr. Yeomans had requested
that no orthodox service for him
be held, also that no flowers be
sent. W. Ed Cox, Jr., of Southern
Pines, a lay reader at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, will read pas
sages from the Book of Isaiah, a
favorite portion of the Bible with
Mr. Yeomans.
Before and after the Bible read
ing, William Green, cellist, who
is a member of the Charlotte
Symphony Orchestra and who
was a music pupil of Mr. Yeomans
when the local man was associat
ed with the famous Jane Addams
in charitable work in Chicago,
lU., many years ago, and Mr.
Green’s wife, who is a pianist,
wiU play music known to have
been beloved by Mr. Yeomaiis.
Mr. and Mrs. Green frequently
visited Mr. Yeomans who was
himself a musician and had a
large library of recorded music.
Born in Orange, N. J., Mr. Yeo
mans was a son of the Rev. Al
fred Yeomans, a Presbyterian
minister, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Ramsey Yeomans. His mother
came to live with him and his sis
ter, Miss Mary Yeomans, in
Southern Pines until her death in
the late 1920’s.
A graduate of Princeton Uni
versity, Princeton, N. J., Mr. Yeo
mans had a wide range of inter
ests and worked professionally as
a landscape architect.
This interest first brought him
to Southern Pines about 1918 to
lay out roadways in theWeymouth
Heights development of the Boyd
family to whom he was related.
He remained a resident here al
most continually since that first
visit, building his home a few
years afterwards.
Self-taught as an architect of
buildings, he designed his own
home at 370 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
and a number of the most original
and handsome residences here in
cluding the homes of the late Mrs.
J. H. Andrews and John Y. Boyd,
the former home of the late Dr.
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MR. YEOMANS
Eleven Youths
Sentenced For
Varied Offenses
Eleven white youths ranging in
age from 16 to 22 pled guilty or
nolo contendere in Moore crimi
nal court this week in 15 cases of
breaking and entering, larceny,
and forgery. Ten of them receiv
ed road sentences, mostly for as
signment to the first offenders
camp. Sentence was deferred for
the 11th pending a recommenda
tion of the probation officer,
which was expected to be made
Wednesday afternoon.
Only two of the sentences were
suspended. In the other cases
Judge Francis O. Clarkson of
Charlotte, mild-mannered, soft-
spoken and taking voluminous
notes, turned a deaf ear to the
pleas of attorneys for leniency on
the grounds of their clients’ youth.
Judge Comments
“I have been impressed with the
rash of lawlessness in this section
in the past 12 months, mostly in
volving boys, many of them from
very good homes,” Judge Clark
son said. “What these boys need is
some discipline. We have too
many problerns facing our country
today to have the community ter
rorized in this fashion by lawless
youth, and we have to deal firmly
with them before we can hope to
solve the problems from outside.
“We can’t tmm our commimi-
ties over to young hoodliuns, or
we’ll be like Phenix City, Ala
bama—that’s the way it starts.”
Noting that he was not lacking
in sympathy for the parents, the
judge added, “I have a son of my
own, serving in Korea. Like aU
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Charlie Martindale Sentenced To Life Imprisonment
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Charlie Arter Martindale, 54, of
Robbins, was sentenced to life in
prison at hard labor, in Moore
County Superior Court at Car
thage Thursday morning."
Judge Francis O. Clarkson pro
nounced the sentence after Mar
tindale pled guilty to first degree
murder, eliminating a jury trial.
The frail little defendant, wear
ing glasses and a blue shirt whose
cuffs hid the bandaged wrist he
cut in a suicide attempt Wednes
day, listened,intently as testimony
was offered by two of the investi
gating officers. Deputy Sheriff A.
W. Lambert and Robbins Police
Chief Guy McNeill, and by Mrs.
Bertie Yow, a neighbor who call
ed the police alter Martindale told
her his wile had been shot.
Martindale cut his wrist with a
safety razor blade in his Moore
County jail cell at 1 p.m., one
hour before the trial was sched
uled to begin. An early report
that he had cut his throat was in
error, said Sheriff C. J. McDon
ald. The cut was “almost exactly
where he tried to do the same
thing before,” the sheriff said.
He revealed that Martindale had
attempted to commit suicide about
two weeks previously, injuring
himself, however, only slightly.
On the second attempt he did a
more thorough job, losing consid
erable blood. 'Two plxysicians
were summoned by jailer Glenn
Upchurch, and on their advice he
was taken to Moore County Hos
pital, where his condition was de
clared to be fair.
Martindale, a former textile
worker recently unemployed, was
indicted by the grand jury Mon
day for first degree murder. When
brought into court that afternoon
for arraignment, he was trem
bling so he had to be supported in
order to stand and face the judge.
W. D. Sabiston of Carthage was
appointed by the court to act as
defense coimsel.
At that time the defendant pled
not guilty to the July 18 rifle
slaying of his wife, Ethel.
court house specifically praised,
for being in “tip-top shape.”
A number of minor repairs and
alterations were recommended for
the county jail and the court
house. Condition of the jail at
Aberdeen was termed unsatisfac
tory.
The report was signed by Rod
erick M. Innes of Pinehurst, fore
man of the new grand jury whose
other members are: H. W. Ehr-
hardt, J. A. Ferguson, James A.
Booth, Q. L. Wallace, Z. B. Con
rad, J. A. Dennis, D. A. McDon
ald, Jr., Johnnie Stuart, A. J.
Crabtree, Lester Gamer, Isaac A.
Woodell, Carson Phillips, Carl
Oldham, O. H. Rawlinson, Norman
G. Purvis, Robert J. Hyman and
Edward A. Tucker.
Here is the full text of the re
port:
We, the Grand Jury selected at
August 16, 1954, term of Superior
Court, respectfully submit the
following report:
After examination of witness
and due consideration of their ex
amination, we found 21 true bills
of indictment. Of the true bills
found, one bill for murder was
presented by the Grand Jury in
open court.
Mr. H. Lee 'Thomas, Superin
tendent of the Coimty School Sys
tem, was called before the Grand
Jury to make a report on the
County Schools, submitted the
following:
That all recommendations list
ed in the Grand Jury Report of
January 21, 1954 have been com
pleted with the exception of one
or two items.
That all the buildings, furniture
and grounds in the County school
system are in good condition ex
cept for a drainage problem at the
Aberdeen school.
That the sewerage systems in
the Cameron, Pinckney and Rob-
bins-Elise SQhools were being im
proved.
New construction in school
plants in the following locations.
Cafeteria—Highfalls school. ^
Cafeteria—Farm Life school.
Auditorium—Cameron school.
That sufficient area be provid
ed in the school yards to allow
the school buses to park at a des
ignated loading zone independent
of private parking area, where it
will make it unnecessary for the
buses to park without backing up.
Recommendation: That the coop
eration of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission be ob
tained to assist in grading and
filling, for the loading and park
ing zones.
Fire insurance covering 100%
of valuation of school plants in
force.
Value of school property, build
ings and fixtures in Moore County
amounts to $3,790,000.
The Grand Jury selected groups
and made visits to County Prop
erty with reports and recommen
dations as follows:
County and Public Schools:
Since the schools are closed and it
was not possible to make a de
tailed inspection, none of the
schools were inspected.
County Home: Buildings in
fair condition. At present
there are seven inmates at
County Home. It is the opin
ion of the Grand Jury that
the cost to the County is ex
cessive for the operation of
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Grid Practice
To Start Monday
An invitation for all Southern
Pines High School boys to try out
for the 1954 Blue Knights football
squad was issued this week by
Head Coach Irie Leonard who said
that preliminary practice will be
gin Monday.
Interested boys, including those
who are entering high s'chool this
year, are asked to report to the
field on South Bennett St. at 9
a.m. ,
Equipment will be given out at
that time and the squad will work
out twice a day, except Saturday
and Sunday, until school opens
September 8.
W. A. Leonard again will assist
Irie Leonard with the coaching
duties. Returning lettermen are
Billy Cox, Johnny Watkins, James
Humphrey, Bobby CUne and Bill
Marley. A munber of other boys
who played last year but did not
win letters are expected to turn
out Monday.