VOL. 36—NO. 10
SIXTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 28, 1955
SIXTEEN PAGES
Carthage Troop
Wins Storey Cup
For Scout Work
Local Scoutmaster,
Aberdeen Boy Given
'Gold Palm' Awards
The annual Storey Cup award
for 1954 was presented to Troop
936 cf Carthage in a Boy Scout
court of honor held Monday at
the Pinehurst Community
Church. Voit Gilmore gave the
W. M. Storey Memorial Trophy
tO' Frank Bowen, Scoutmaster of
Troop 936, in behalf of the 42
members. Awarding of the Cup
is based on the “'Ten-Test of
Scouting” for the past year, and
denotes the most outstanding
trcop in Moore District.
Other special awards went to
Parks Garrison, of Troop 68,
Aberdeen, and to Jerry Laude,
Scoutmaster of Troop 224, South
ern Pines. These were “Eagle
Gold Palm” awards, awarded on a
merit basis.
Star Scout advancements were
given to Woodrow Lucas of Pine-
bluff, Robert Woodruff, Ikey
Woodell and Tcny Simmons of
Troop 224, Southern Pines, and
Guy Eanes and Henry Smith of
Troop 936, Carthage. “Life Scout”
badges were awarded Bobby
Crissman and John W. McKinney
also of Troop 936. “First Class”
went to Richard Byrd and Harry
Howie of Pinebluff and Jimmy
Parks of Southern Pines.
The following received Second
Class advancements: Reid Trog-
dan, Dennis Foster, Billy Blake,
Charles Fowler, Joe Edwards
George Griffin and Leon Keith,
Of Troop 810, Vass; Bobby Tufts
of Troop 7, Pinehurst; Phillip
M'-^'iers. , Sterling Carrington
jmmie Conrad and Freddie Pick
ier, of Troop 206, Pinebluff;
Leonard Sanders of Troop 68
Aberdeen, and Ronald Ganis and
Joe Garzik of Southern Pines;
and also' to the following mem
bers of-the Carthage troop: Don
PRICE—TEN CENTS
CLINGING SNOW—Snow that fell Sundhy
afternoon and night stuck to everything it
touched, creating a wonderland of beauty for
persons arising Monday morning. At right,
above, big cedar trees on Ashe St., between New
York and Massachusetts Ave., droop with masses
of snow on each limb. At left, each cluster of
Couple Injured
During Snow In
Road Collision
With the exception of a few
minor bumps and skids, only one
accident was reported as a result
of last Sunday evening’s fast-fall
ing snow.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ritter of
Bennett street. Southern Pines,
both received slight concussions,
and Mrs. Ritter was cut about the
head, when the car in which they
were riding was in collision on
US Highway 1, between Southern
Pines and Aberdeen. Both were
taken to Moore County Hospital,
and were expected to be discharg
ed about the middle of the week.
The Ritters were passengers in
a car driven by Martin Casper
Ferguson, of Southern Pines,
which, according to the State
Highway Patrol report, was head
ed south at the height of the
snowfall at about 7:30 p.m. At
tempting to turn to the right, it
pine needles bears its freight of snow and twigs
of shrubs in the background are outlined in
white, off New York Ave., north of May St. The
snow soon melted on streets and highways and
was gone from the trees by Monday night.
(Pilot Staff Photos)
Democrats Slate Raleigh Dinner
- The headquarters of the 1955
Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner of
North Carolina’s Democratic par
ty has been opened at Raleigh for
the organization of the annual
get-together of party members at
7:30 p.m., February 5.
W. Lament Brown, Moore Coun
ty Democratic chairman, said that
this county has been allotted six
tickets. Democrats going to Ral
eigh from Moore wiU be listed in
The Pilot next week.
The funds raised by the dinner,
from the 100 counties of North
Carolina, will be used for the sup
port of the Democratic Party. The
contribution quotas assigned to
the county Democratic executive
committee chairmen are based on
several factors, and proportionate
dinner reservations are made
available to the county chairmen
on that basis, according to William
B. Harrison of Rocky Mount, din
ner chairman.
The dinner attendance is limit
ed to 650 persons..
The speaker for the 1955 Jeffer
son-Jackson Dinner is Clinton P.
Anderson, Secretary of Agricul
ture under the last national Dem
ocratic administration and pres
ently U. S. Senator from New
Mexico. His message at the din
ner is expected to be highly sig
nificant to the people, and to the
economy of North Carolina, Har
rison said.
Funds Approved To Move USAF
Air-Ground School To Keesler
Exact Date
Can’t Now Be
Anticipated
w n 11 A T- struck by a car coming along
.Whitaker, Wayne Caddell, Archie behind, driven by John Joseph
Felicky of Raleigh, a soldier. The
k'IcLeod, WIilbur Phillips, Bobby
K elly, Charles Brown, Lamar
q Chester, James Kirby, James
p lanes and Edward Chappell.
1 Recipients of merit badges, in
a ddition to the above, were Mau-
r .ice Pickier and Tommy Bryant,
Pinebluff; Willis Williams, Roy
Harris and Marvin Melton of Rob
bins; Fred Schnell and Fred Ty
ner (Explorer apprenticeships,
Pinebluff, Tony Simons,
f Bill Seymour, Gerard
Laude, John Van Benschoten,
Clelan May, Jimmy Caldwell
George Little, and Russell Simons
of Southern Pines; and the fol-
^ lowing Carthage Scouts: Bobby
Frye, Henry Smith, Tom Handy.
Russell Flinchum, Guy Eanes
Tom McCaskill, Tommie and John
Currie, Don McCallum, Douglas
Handy Woodrow Eldridge, Billy
Barrett, Ai’chie Kelly and Watson
Dalrymple.
Local Troop Second
In competition for the Storey
Cup, Southern Pines Troop 224
placed second and Pinebluff
Troop 206 placed third. J. Douglas
David of Pinebluff was chairman
of the Storey Cup Committee.
, Other committee members were
Lewis S. Cannon of Pinehurst and
Aubrey Johnson of Aberdeen.
The cup is given annually by
Mr. Gilmore in memory Of his
step-father, the late W. M. Storey
prominent Winston-Salem busi
nessman who was interested in
youth and was a benefactor of
Scouting and other youth activ
ities.
Ferguson car, struck on the left
rear section, was knocked across
a ditch and whirled completely
around in the snow. The driver
and several children who were in
the car were not hurt.
The accident occurred on a
downgrade. No arrest was made,
said the investigating patrolman,
attributing the mishap entirely to
weather conditions.
SPHS Band Will
Play Saturday;
New Club Formed
The Southern Pines High
School band will have a unique
assignment Saturday morning
when they will be at the railroad
station to give “an old-fashioned
Southern greeting” to some 50
top executives and other Officials
of the Esso Standard Oil Co., ar
riving from the North on a special
train at 8 a. m., on their way to
a convention at Pinehurst.
The band was also in the news
this week in connection with for
mation of a “Band Boosters Club”
of parents of band members, with
a meeting of 14 mothers and three
fathers of band members Monday
night at the high school.
The Saturday morning greeting
for the arriving oil company men
was requested by officials of the
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Pilot Wins Top Press Award
Winning first place for feature
coverage in the weekly division
of the annual journalism contests
sponsored by the North Carolina
Press Association, The Pilot shar
ed in more than 50 awards pre
sented to newspapers, editors and
reporters of the Statb at Durham
last Friday night.
Presentation was by Gov. Luth
er H. Hodges who, with Mrs.
Hodges, attended the 22nd annual
dinner given for N. C. Press Asso
ciation by Duke University.
The Pilot’s award was based on
feature articles and news features
in several editions published dur
ing 1954 and sent last fall for
judging by the journalism depart
ment of an out-of-state univer
sity. Awards in the weekly field
are made to newspapers and not
to individual members of their
staffs, as 'with dailies.
Attending the Duke dinner and
orevious events at the annual
Newspaper Institute held in
Chapel Hill earlier Friday were
Mrs. James Boyd, editor, and Cad
Benedict, news editor, of TTie
Pilot. Dan S. Ray, Pilot business
manager, and Clyde Council, ad
vertising manager, were at
Chapel Hill for the Friday lunch
eon meeting of the Press Associa
tion and other events.
Blue Speaks
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Law Enforcement
Officers Set Up
New Association
Organization of the Moore
County Law Enforcement Offi
cers Association , got under way
Wednesday night at a meeting of
court officials and officers of the
varicus branches of law enforce
ment in the. county held at the
American Legion Hut near Car
thage.
Sheriff C. J. McDonald was
unanimously elected president of
the new organization. Other offi
cers chosen unanimously are:
Chief C. E. Newton of Southern
Pines, vice-president; Coroner
Ralph G. Steed, of Robbins, secre
tary, and Assistant Chief Bob
Yates, of Robbins, treasurer.
Committee Named
Appointed by the president to
serve as a committee on organi
zational procedures constitution
and bylaws were Solicitor W. La-
mont Brown, Southern Pines;
State Highway Patrol Cpl. M. S.
Parvin, Carthage, and Yates,
They will prepare a report with
recommendations within 30 days.
Serving as chairman until the
group could elect officers was
Yates, who came to Robbins from
Richmond county last September
as assistant chief. He explained
the purposes and benefits of such
an association and called on vari
ous persons present for comments
and suggestions.
Responding informally to this
request, with speeches of encour
agement and support, were Judge
Allen H. Gwyn, who came as a
special guest, following the ad
journment of that day’s superior
court session; District Solicitor M.
G. Boyette, County Solicitor W.
Lament Brown, Sheriff McDon-
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March of Dimes
Nears End With
Funds Still Short
With the March of Dimes dead
line January 31, one more county
community this week achieved its
quota, and from three larger ones
with quotas of $1,000 or over came
word that they were “about two-
thirds of the way along.”
Paul Butler, county chap
ter chairman and also loccd
drive chairman in Southern
Pines, said this week that
Mrs. Virginia Saunders is
heading the March of Dimes
in West Southern Pnies. All
persons there wishing to do
nate are asked to get in touch
with Mrs. Saunders who, said
Mr. Butler, "did an excellent
job" last year.
Jackson Springs has reached its
$100 quota, reported Mrs. Kimes
Blake, chairman, adding that she
expects additional collections to
boost her final report higher. This
is the second Moore community to
go over the top. Farm Life was
the first.
Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Car
thage are all hovering around the
$700 mark. Their chairmen, re
porting separately, aU said “the
going is slow” but they are confi
dent the quota wiU be made.
Suspended Term
Given Mitchell In
Old Murder Case
Lonnie Mitchell, Niagara Ne
gro who was defendant in the
only murder case on the docket of
the current criminal term of Moore
Superior Court at Carthage, pled
nolo contendere to manslaughter
Tuesday and was sentenced to
two years on the roads, which
were then suspended.
He pleaded self-defense, in that
he shot his neighbor, Onnie Davis,
as Davis was chasing him with a
drawn sword.
John Dowdy, also a neighbor,
who had been with Mitchell and
Davis at a nearby store—^but who
departed their company hastily
when the sword-chase began
testified to hearing the shot, and
finding the body of Davis lying in
the moonlight beside the sword.
Where the sword came from, or
why Davis used it as a threat, if
not actually a weapon, has been
a mystery since the violent death
occurred in the fall of 1953.
Judge Allen H. Gwyn, assessing
costs against Mitchell, suspended
the road ^enteqce for five years
on condition he be of good be
havior, work regularly, support
his family and Otherwise “be a
good citizen.” In his judgment he
noted that it appeared the defen
dant “had no previous record of
heinous offenses; that he acted in
self-defense (possibly imperfect
ly); that upon trial by jury the
po'ssibilities are that an acquittal
wculd be had; that the deceased
made an unprovoked attack upon
him, and that the court is of the
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1954 CAR TAGS
EXPIRE MONDAY
The line will be forming
this weekend at the office of
the Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce. Monday, it will
reach its longest length. If
you’re smart, or lucky, or
both, and already have your
1955 auto tags, you needn’t
read any further—you won’t
be there.
A lot of people will, though
—there always are, says Miss
Alice Baxter, Chamber secre
tary.
“We’ll do our vest to serve
everyone as rapidly as pos
sible,” Miss Baxter said this
week. “We’re selling licenses
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day
—and this week, that includes
Saturday too. But there are
going to be some people on
the end of the line who are
going to be mighty disap
pointed.”
Monday will be the last day
motorists can drive legally on
a 1954 plate.
Hospital Drive
Active In Area;
Ball February 8
at
Warning Given On
Breaking Street
Lights Near Inn
Somebody has been breaking
the pedestal street light globes on
Massachusetts Ave., in front of
the Highland Pines Inn, James
Hartshorne, resident manager of
the property said this week. He
said he wrote a letter to Mayor
L. T. Clark Wednesday, informing
him of the situation.
The street lights at this location
are owned by the Stitzer Hotel
Co., which leases the Highland
Pines Inn to the USAF Air-
Ground Operations School, said
Mr. Hartshorne. Each replace
ment of a globe costs $8.
The manager said that some of
the lights were broken around
Halloween but that the vandalism
has continued at intervals, with
breakage occurring both this week
and last week.
The incidents have been report
ed to the police, he said, and he is
receiving the cooperation of Chief
C. E. Newton. Investigation is
continuing and persons found re
sponsible for the past or future
breakage will be prosecuted.
Donald D. Kennedy of Southern
Pines who is heading the Moore
County Hospital building fund
drive in the Southern Pines area,
said this week that “people are re
sponding wonderfully.”
I Assisting in the solicitation of
hospital giving are sub-chairmen
of districts into which the South
ern Pines area has been divided.
They include: Maj. Gen. Julian F
Barnes, Mrs. Katherine N. McColl
Miss Laura Kelsey, Mrs. Reid
Healy, W. P. Saunders and Gar
land McPherson.
Pointing out that there is a
greater proportion of admittances
to Moore County Hospital from
Southern Pines than from any
other community in the county.
Mr. Kennedy said that the scale,
of giving from this area should be
proportionately greater.
The chairman has been speak
ing to civic clubs in connection
with the drive and said he and
other members of the committee
Air Force Headquarters
Washington, D. C., has given
“final approval” of necessary
funds to re-establish the USAF
Air-Ground Operations School at
Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.
Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Jenkins,
commandant of the school which
is now quartered in the Highland
Pines Inn here, told The Pilot
Thursday that this information
had been received Wednesday
from Tactical Air Command head
quarters at Langley Field, Va.
The exact date on which the
move to Keesler would begin can
not be anticipated with accuracy
at present. General Jenkins said.
The Air Force lease of the High
land Pines Inn from the Stitzer
Hotel Co. runs out June 30 of this
year.
Considerable renovation of ex
isting facilities at Keesler must
be accomplished to adapt them to
the requirements of the school, it
was stated.
. It is quite possible that the
school will stay out the duration
of its lease here, General Jenkins
said, but the move “might come
earlier or later.” Under the Air
Force lease, a 60-day notice is re
quired on the part of the Air
Force prior to the school’s depar
ture.
The proposed move was an
nounced several months ago, but
it remained indefinite pending ap
proval of funds for the Keesler
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SVA To Start
Campaign For
Nurse Project
The ninth annual nurse scholar
ship campaign of the Sandhills
Veterans Association will begin
next week when letters will be
sent to residents throughout the
county asking for funds that will
provide a full three-year nurse’s
training course for one or more
qualified Moore County high
schocl graduates.
The SVA—composed of some
two dozen World Wor 2 veterans-
are seeing residents of the com-1 is a non-profit corporation whose
chief project is the annual nurse
scholarship. One br two such
scholarships have been awarded
each year since the project began
in 1947.
In announcing the campaign
this week, SVA Chairman Watson
munity as fast as possible. Inter
ested persons are asked to get
in touch with him at telephone
2-7215, which is not listed in the
directory, or to see any member
of the area committee.
Directors Meet
Game To Benefit
March of Dimes
The Pinehurst Lions Club’s bas
ketball team was to play the
Southern Pines “town team” in
the local gym Thursday at 8 p.m.
Saturday night at 8, the Lions
will play host to the Robbins
Lions Club team, to raise money
for the March of Dimes, in the
Pinehurst High School gym.
There will be no admission
charge to the Saturday night game
at Pinehurst but spectators wiU
be given a chance to contribute to
the March of Dimes campaign.
At a meeting of hospital direct- G. Scott, Jr., of Southern Pines,
ors Tuesday afternoon, prelimin
ary plans for an addition and al
terations at the hospital were
shown and progress of the drive
was discussed.
The hospital is seeking more
than $100,600—which will then
make some $200,000 in state and
federal funds available. The cam
paign began with a $50,000 gift
from Mr. and Mrs. H. Arnold
Jackson of Pinehurst, for con
struction of a new emergency de
partment. More than $25,000 has
been given or pledged since the
Jackson gift.
Charity Ball
said that Richard Greer of Aber
deen has been designated drive
chairman for 1954.
Community chairmen for areas
of the county are: Southern Pines,
Ralph Chandler, Jr.; Pinehurst
Thomas R. Howerton; Aberdeen-
Pinebluff, Jere McKeithen; Car
thage, Voit Gilmore; Robbins,
Bert Premo; Vass-Lakeview and
Cameron, Max Forrest; West End,
Eagle Springs and Jackson
Springs, Mr. Scott.
A panel of doctors, nurses, edu
cators and hospital authorities
chooses a scholarship winner—or
two, if contributions warrant a
Mrs. Jackson has accepted the second choice—from applicants in
CLUB AIDS FUND—A $500 donation from the Pinehurst
Lions Club this week sweHed the building fund of Moore County
Hospital. Dr. John C. Grier, Jr., of Pinehurst, on behalf of the
club, is handing the check to Jack M. Taylor of Aberdeen, hospi
tal president. At left is C. E. Swaringen and at right, J. J. Haff-
ler, both'members of the club’s health committee.
(Photo by Heftnmer Shop)
honorary chairmanship of the
charity ball to be given by the
hospital auxiliary at the Pine
hurst Country Club Tuesday
night, February 8, it was an
nounced this week by Mrs. James
W. Tufts of Pinehurst and Mrs.
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3-Way Tie Features
Tin V^isiles Event
In the Tin Whistles Club tour
nament at Pinehurst Wednesday,
a medal play, best ball of all four
partners event, the winning four
some was the Earl of Carrick,
Donald D. Cooke, Benjamin F.
Kraffert, Jr. and Wallace W.
Simpson 30-30-60-2-58. There wqre
three ties for second place: Gor
don H. Clark, E. G. B. Riley, John
von SchlegeU, and C. L. von
Tacky, 30-33-63-2-61; Robinson
Cook, Daniel O. Delany, Frederick
A. Landis and Captain George F.
Shearwood, 31-32-63-2-61; and E.
S. Blodgett, Kenneth C. Kennedy,
Richard D. Chapman and General
Albert L. Sneed 30-33-63-2-61.
the 1954 graduating classes of
high schools in the county.
Educo Club Maps
County Tourney
Coach Lewis Alexander of Car
thage High School, chairman of
the Moore County athletic com
mittee, announced at an Educo
Club meeting Monday night at
Farm Life High School that the
Moore County basketball coaches
wiU meet February 15, in Car
thage at 4 p.m. to draw up pair
ings lor the annual Moore County
Basketball Tournament.
The classic will be held in the
new Robbins High School gym
nasium February 18, 19 and 21-26
with 11 schools in the county par
ticipating.
All basketball coaches are urg
ed to be present at this meeting
and to get team information lor
the tournament program to Coach
Rex Gordon, of Robbins, as soon
as possible.