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) r. PAGE TEN THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1955 I ■ Speeding Up To 115 Miles Per Hour Charged In Recorders Court Monday Five Young Men Get Heavy Penalties As Judge Lectures All Highway 1 from below Southern Speeding cases in which defen dants were charged with driving as fast as 115 miles per hour held the shocked attention of Moore County Recorders Court in its Monday session. The largest num ber of the fastest drivers anyone could remember to have been haled before the bar in any one term appeared in court. ' All five drivers—four of them from ^17 to 21 years old—were convicted, and penalties were heavy. Two were charged with speeding 100 miles an hour, three with 80 or in excess of 80. In one case, the speed was said to have reached 115 miles an hour, an other 105. Each driver lost his license for 12 months or more In the first case, that of Clar ence Garland Kirkman, 28, of Greensboro, Route 10, charged with speeding 100 and careless and reckless driving. Judge J. Vance Rowe conunented he would like to send him straight to jail, repeating his oft-expressed comment that all high-speed drivers should have to spend some time behind bars. Kirkman did. Sentenced to six months on the roads, suspended on payment of a $300 fine and costs, by the close of the day he had been un able to pay out. All four others paid and were released. Placed under 60 days’ suspend ed sentences.were Elbert Watson Taylor, Jr., 17, Vass, for speeding 80, and careless and reckless driv ing; Raymond Douglas Waddell, 18, and Archie Leon Phillips, Jr., 21, both of Raeford, charged with speeding in excess of 80 as one followed the other down US Pines into Hoke county. In the case of Cecil Kenneth Wicker, 20, of Sanford Route 1, charged with speeding 100 miles per hour and reckless driving causing an accident, his speed at times reached well over 100 miles per hour, and actually caused two accidents, according to testimony of Constable Woods of Cameron. Woods said he followed the car from the railroad crossing in Cameron along the road through the White Hill section, onto the Sanfcrd-Glendon .road, a dirt road on which his own car over turned, and Wicker, dashing out ol signt beyond a curve, was also wrecxed. Wicker, unhurt, came back along the road to help the injur ed constable out of his car and assist him in righting the over turned vehicle. The young driver, whose speed the constable said at one point reached 115 miles an hour, de nied he had been traveling more than 80, also that he had offered to plead guilty, as Woods said, if he wouldn’t be charged with more than 100. He also denied the constable’s testimony that he had failed to stop at the railroad crossing and the White Hill inter section. A young brother of Wicker, who was with him in the car, said the speedometer was faulty and “over 40 or 45 miles an hour, you couldn’t tell anything.” How ever, he said, the car couldn t have been going more than 80 “as anybody can tell the difference between 80 and more than 100.” Under Solicitor Lamont Brown’s cross examinatiO'n, however, he admitted he had never to his knowledge traveled at the higher speed, and the wild ride through White HiU was his first time to hit 80. The question of why Cecil Wicker had had an Oldsmobile engine put in a Ford, a common practice of high-speed drivers, also^'entered the discussion, along with why he had had the engine heads shaved. This was some thing new to him. Judge Rowe said, inquiring closely into the whys and wherefores. It causes greater compression, the Solici tor explained. Only for a quicker takeoff, responded Defense Coun sel H. F. Seawell. To Seawell’s plea for mercy for the youth, because of good char acter attested by reputable citi zens, Solicitor Brown argued that Wicker was an example of the yc.ung “hot rodders” who had been terrorizing the Cmneron section, and that the officers were working hard to brea]^ them up. A high-speed car in the hands of such a driver, he said, was the equivalent of “a loaded pistol fired at d^ndom into a crowd.” Wicker’s six-months’ sentence was suspended for two years as he paid $375 and costs, with med ical and x-ray bills for Constable Woods to be paid out of the fine. Woods said that damage to his car, amounting to $791.98, had been paid for by insurance. Most of the other highway safety law infractions. Among exceptions were two es capees from the Carthage prison camp, Howard Stubbs of Hamlet and Roy Franklin Lewis of Lex ington, with Stubbs drawing six months more to be served con currently with his two present long terms, Lewis 60 days at ex piration of time now being serv ed. Another exception was the case of Boss Riddick, well-known Aberdeen Negro, indicted by a Mr. Cook of Aberdeen for steal ing collards from his collard patch. Cook said his collards had been disappearing fast, and that when he saw a figure in the patch harvesting a bagful Sunday morning, he waited until the per son departed, followed him down the road and discovered it was Poss. Riddick protested that a friend. Speck Hockaday, had in formed him the patch was owner less and advised him to “get his while he could.” Judge Rowe, himself an Aberdeen citizen, commented that Poss ‘'“should have known better than f;o be lieve Speck,” and gave him 60 days, suspended on payment of costs. Other cases on Monday’s dock et: Hurley DeGraffenreid, Carth age, assault with deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, six months on the roads; Hobart $17.50 and costs; Mrs. Mabel Linck, Mechanicsburg, Pa., speed ing 65, $10 and costs; Paul Perry, Sanford, speeding 70, $20 and costs; Joe Allen Collier, Carth age, driving while drunk (second offense), six months or $200 and costs, license revoked as provided by law, gave notice of appeal, bond set at $300; Odis "Verbal, Aberdeen, and Clarence McCrim^ mon, Pinehurst, gambling, two months on roads suspended for two years'on payment of costs. not to play dice or other games of chance on premises of any golf course in Moore county during the two years; Brooks M. Moore, Chesterfiel’d, S. C., driving while drunk, $100 and'^osts. (Continued on Page 11) I* •! y" At B & S DEPARTMENT STORE, Sanford Be sure and come to the Christmas Parade Friday, Dec. 2nd. 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