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PAGE EIGHT THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina THURSDAY. MAY 3. 1956 Local Minister Taking 4 Months Leave pf Absence The Rev. C. K. Ligon, pastor of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church, has been granted a four- months leave of absence that be7 gan Tuesday. This week, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Ligon are at Myrtle Beach, S. C. From May 7 to May 21, the minister will be giving full time to studying for his final examina tion for a Th.D. degree. The ex amination will be given at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., May 21, and the degree will be awarded during the commence ment program on the following day. From May 24 to June 10, the Rev. Mr. Ligon will be on active duty with the Navy in which he holds a reserve commission. His service will be rendered at Jack sonville, Fla. From June 15 to September 1, the minister, his wife and their two children will be on an ex tended vacation. The Rev. L. B. McKeithen, a na tive of Cameron who is assistant executive secretary of Fayetteville Presbytery, will conduct services at Brownson Memorial Church for the next two Sundays. During the summer, John Gar rison, ministerial student at Union TheologicEil 'Seminary, will work at the church. The Sunday serv ices wiR be in charge of a session committee headed by Gen. Robert B. Hill. Retired Offieer Buys ‘Buttonwood’ Brig. Gen. and Mrs. L. W. Mil ler of Westminster, Md., will take possession of “Buttonwood,” a 12-room house on a 2.1 acres lot at the corner of Indiana Ave., and Bethesda Road, it was announced today by Mrs. Julia Steed of Re sort Realty and Development Co. who handled the sale of the prop erty. General Miller, a retired Army officer, and his wife are the pur chasers from William L. White and Mrs. Kelsey, the former Mrs. White. The sale of the charming col onial house is the most recent step in the development of this val uable property. Originally owned by L. E. Grover, the rich soil of this .tract was the orchard. of Georgia Belles which made Grov er Bros, peaches outstanding dur ing the big “peach days” here abouts. ' I The comer tract, of consider able acreage, was sold by the Grovers to the Reinecke Com pany, builders and developers, who built the house. Designed on strictly colonial Hines, reminis cent of the houses around Cam den, S. C., the interior contained much fine old panelling and wide-boarded -pine floors. Biiltonwood was purchased by Mrs. Alice Burt Hunt, who gave the place its name, from- the big sycamores that surround it. Here Mxs. Himt, sister of the author, Struthers Burt, lived for many years. As the frequent meeting- place for the local Red Cross, which Mrs. Hunt headed during some of the war years, and a so cial center for many, the Hunt home played a leading part m community life. General Eisen hower was one of ipany distin guished guests to be entertained there. During the ownership of Mr. and Mrs. White, the house under went some transformation in the establishment of a studio for the fashioning of tile tables and ^all- plaques, the handiwork of the owners. DANIEL. WEBSTER STRAIGHT BOURBON ' WHISKEY 1 86 PROOF ; PINT Bottled By J. A. DOUGHERTY’S SONS, Inc. Distillers Philadelphia, Pa^ Annual Meeting of Moore Red Cross Will Be Held At Courthouse May 11 The annual meeting of the Hawley Poole and T. Roy Phil lips, has announced the following slate for the ensuing year: chair man, Garland McPherson, South ern Pines; vice-chairman, Gen. R. B. Hill, Southern Pines, Mrs. John L. Frye, Robbins, and Gordon Clark, Southern Pines; secretary. Miss Grace Tillman, Carthage; and tr^surer, E. Earl Hubbard, Southern Pines. Directors who are nominated (to serve three year terms) are: W. H. McNeill, Jr., Aberdeen; Mrs. John Beasley, Carthage; Earl Martin, Eagle Springs; Mrs. W. M. Thomp son, Jackson Springs; Miss Blanche Monroe, West End; and J. C. Phillips, Westmoore. The following directors will continue to serve for terms expir ing in 1957 and 1958: Mrs. J. E. Causey, Lakeview; Mrs. Walter Alpert, Pinebluff; Dr. Emily Tufts, Pinehurst; the Rev. C. J. Andrews, Robbins; D. A. Blue, Jr., Southern Pines; and John Paul Jones, Vass. Moore County Chapter of the Red Cross will be held at the court house in Carthage Friday, May 11, at 8 p.m., according to an an nouncement made today by the chapter chairman. Garland Mc Pherson of Southern Pines. 'The speaker for the occasion will be Taylor M. Simpson of High-Point who has recently been nominated to serve a three-year term on the board of governors of the American National Red Cross. Mr. Simpson’s nomination will be voted on at the annual meeting of the national organization in May. At the present time he is a mem ber of the Southeastern Advisory Committee and has served in many other volunteer capacities bn the state, area and national lev els. A nominating committee for the Moore County Chapter, composed of Dr. E. M. Medlin, chairman, J. AFTERNOON SCIENCE LESSON Sequel To Hose Mystery Enacted By Philip Fitanides And Ed Cox Philip Fitanides, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fitani des, 144 W. Pennsylvania Av., and Ed Cox, local man whose interest in psychic phenomena and other strange occurrences is well known, enacted a sequel Saturday to last year’s disappearing garden hose stbries from California. It all started when Philip, ex perimenting with a hose . in his back yard, managed to get it about eight feet into the earth by directing the stream of a nozzle downward and pushing it down as the hose ate its way into the ground. At 3 p. m., the hose was stuck tight and Philip inquired at the Thrift Shop next door if anyone knew how he could get it out. ' Mr. Cox, who happened to be on hand when the inquiry was made, proved equal to the situa tion which, he says, immediately attracted his interest. “I hastened home to get some special equipment,” Mr. Cox later related, “and was back on the scene shortly with my own hose to try to get to the bottom of the mystery.” The rescuer soon became the victim. Working with his hose to see what had happened to Phil ip’s, Mr. Cox pushed it into the ground about 10 feet to find that it, too, was stuck fast. The local man, whose experi ments in extra-sensory percep tion have led him to respect scientific methods, was not to be outdone and saw in the dilemma an opportunity for further test ing. V , Holes some two feet deep were dug around the hoses and water poured in to attempt to loosen the hoses. Then bathroom scales were rigged up with a special platform, to measure, after necessary math ematical calculations, the pulling force that would be required to get the hoses out of the ground. Then Mr. Cox pulled. He pulled and pulled some more and, gradually, the hoses were withdrawn. The results? A pulling force of 188 pounds was required to get the Cox hose started upward, the record shows. The Fitanides hose, after about 10 minutes of effort on the part of the puller, took 180 pounds of pulling force, it was noted. Puller Cox’s final comment: “With that Saturday afternoon’s lesson in science, we arrived at what is very much likely to be the explanation of not only this would-be enigma, but those of last July as well—however in explicable and spell-binding newspaper stories of last sum mer’s California events may have sounded.” Auto Dealers To Convene Sunday Some 1,000 automobile dealers, their wives and guests will be in Pinehurst this weekend for the 21st annual convention of the North Carolina Automobile Deal ers Association to open May 6 and continue through May 8. Senators Joseph C. O’Ma honey (D-Wyo.), chairman of a Senate subcom.mittee on Anti trust and Monopoly, and North Carolina’s Sam J. Ervin, Jr., lead a group of outstanding speakers including Frederick J. Bell, ex ecutive vice president of the Na tional Automobile Dealers As sociation ip Washington, Ivan L. Wiles, executive vice president of General Motors, well known dealers fro^ other states and rep resentatives of business, industry and government. Official activities will get un derway Sunday afternoon with a board of directors meeting. Spe cial dinners are scheduled by the Old Timers Club, whose members have been in the automotive business more than 20 years and by the Young Executives Group. Eiealer meetings by franchises and an Administrative Guidance Council featuring representatives of government agencies are also on the agenda. A golf tournament will be played Saturday and Sunday and ■special events scheduled ^or wives include bridge and bingo tourna ments and a “Silver Dollar Hour” quiz show. The convention will close Tues day night with the annual ban quet and dance. ; NCADA officers include:Charles G. Conn, Jr., Raleigh, president; John M. Tiller, Durham, vice president; E. D. Craig, Gastonia secretary; Troy Smith, Liberty, treasurer; Allan Mims,- Rocky Mount, NADA director; and Mrs. Bessie B. Ballentine, Raleigh, ex ecutive secretary. Four Southern Pines Negroes Are Convicted, Sentenced For Larceny Workers In Presbyterian Campaign For College Funds Schedule Rallies The Synod of North Carolina"^ Christian Higher Education Cam paign for $3,500,000 officially gets under way today when simulta neous rallies for workers in the campaign will be held in most of the 634 Presbyterian churches of the Synod. The campaign will continue through the month of May, and the goal will be to solicit every one of the 135,000 Presbyterians in the Synod. From ten to twelve thousand workers will be engag ed in contacting all persons io be solicited. Of the $3,500,000 being sought, $3,000,000 is to go to the Consol idated Presbyterian College, to be located at Laurinburg. Heading the campaign for the Synod is Voit Gilmore, Mayor of Southern Pines and a deacon in Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church. During the past three weeks he has visited many communities of the state, as well as seven of the nine Presbytery meetings, in the interest of higher education, by means of air transportation. He has flown in a chartered plane, christened “The College Cruiser”. Mrs. A. Williams Is Dead In Utica Mrs. Aras Williams of Pine- hurst died at her home in Utica, N. Y., Sunday night. The former Eugenia Barnard, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Eugenia Barnard, also of Utica. In the Sandhills, Mrs. Williams played an active part in the or ganization and support of the Pinehurst Forum, acting as its secretary foi\many years, until ill ness forced her withdrawal. From her home on Midland Road, the affairs r)f the Pinehurst enterprise were conducted with devotion and expediency, winning her a firm place in the respect of the com munity. Mrs. Williams was active in many civic affairs in Utica, and a president of the Music Club. A tea room operated for the benefit of the Allied servicemen in World War 1 was one of her successful enterprise^. Survivors include Mrs. Joseph S. Porter, New Haven, Clonn., four grandchildren and 13 great-grand children. Her only daughter, Mrs. Edward Norris, died in 1940. Places which have been visited include Raleigh,, Charlotte, Win ston-Salem, Mooresville, North Wilkesboro, Rocky Moimt, Greenville, Kinston, Wilson, New Bern, Dunn, Wilmington, and Leggets. Sunday, May 6, has been desig nated as Christian Higher Educa tion Sunday in the Synod of North Carolina, and aH ministers have been requested to preach on the subject of Christian Higher Education. Following the morn ing service workers 'ivill begin solicitation of all members of the churches. Every Sunday during May speakers will appear before departments of the Sunday Schools and Bible Classes, stress ing Christian Higher Education, especially the Presbyterian pro gram. School Cafeterias Menus For Week May 7-11 SOUTHERN PINES Monday—Steamed weiner, mus tard, catsup, whipped potatoes, sauerkraut, roll, butter, cookie, milk. Tuesday—Sliced luncheon meat, mustard, catsup, buttered lima beans, cabbage, carrot and raisin salad, sandwich bread, butter, chocolate pudding, milk. Wednesday — Peanut butter sandwich, vegetable soup, saltines. butter, cake square, milk. Thursday—Baked ham, sweet potato pudding, string beans, bis cuit, butter, fruited- gelatin, milk. Friday — Deviled egg half, cheese stick, French fried pota toes, garden peas, cole |Slaw, white bread, butter, milk. WEST SOUTHERN PINES Monday—Luncheon meat, mac aroni with cheese, greens, bread, butter, milk, potato pudding. Tuesday—Sliced ham, candied weet potatoes, greens, bread, but ter, milk, spice cake. Wednesday — Limas, toasted cheese sandwiches, cole slaw, greens, milk, potato pie. Thursday — Hamburger, rice, buttered peas, bread, butter, milk, peanut butter cookies. Friday—Fish patties, spaghetti with cheese sauce, steamed cab bage, bread, butter, milk, rice pudding. Four Negroes of Southern Pines, charged with breaking and entering, larceny, and receiving, received long prison sentences in Moore Superior Court Tuesday af ternoon. 'The four, all of whom had been previously convicted in Recorder’s Court on lesser offenses that grew out of a long series of breaking and entering several business es tablishments in Southern Pines, were Curtis Parks, Mack Lee Stubbs, Cleveland Parker and Willie Wright. Stubbs, Parks and Wright re ceived sentences of from three to 10 years in Central Prison on two counts of breaking and entering, larceny and receiving, wMle Park er received from one to five years. They were arrested by Southern Pines officers several weeks ago after intensive investigation of breaking reported at Pine Needles Country Club and a cafe in West Southern Pines. During the current term of Su perior Court, which began Mon day with Judge Frank Armstrong of Troy presiding, several other defendants have received prison sentences. Cornell Beclsf, charged with driving drunk and driving on the wrong side of the road, was given a six-months prison sentence, which Judge Armstrong suspend ed for two yearsi on condition he pay a $150 fine and costs. Beck’s lawyer appealed the sentence. In the case of Vernon LeGrande Morgan, charged with speeding in excess of 80 miles per hour, the state allowed the ' defendant to plead guilty of speeding 70 miles per hour. Morgan was convicted and received 60 days on the roads, suspended on payment of a $75 fine and costs. In a companion case, Charles Newell Hancock, who owned the automobile, and who had been charged with allowing Morgan to drive, received the same sentence. Carl B. Brady, charged with driving drunk, careless and reck less driving and violation of the prohibition laws, received a flat 90 day road sentence. The same sentence was given to John R. Barber, Jr., also charged with driving dnmk. Other charges against Barber were speeding in a truck and having in his possession a bottle of whiskey with the seal broken. Floyd Edward Cockman, charg ed with the second offense of driv ing drunk, pled not guilty to the charge, but did plead guilty to driving after his license had been revoked. He received 90 days for driving after his license had been revoked and six months on the drunk driving charge, but sen tence being suspended for three years on payment of a $200 fine and costs. Charlie Gray Allen, a tenant farmer of near Aberdeen was con victed on a charge of incest. Al len, who is 66, was charged by Aberdeen officers with commit ting incest against his 17-year-old daughter. After testimony from his daughter and the introduction of evidence showing he had sign ed a statement admitting the charge to Aberdeen officers short ly after he was arrested, AUen, on advice of his lawyer, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. Judge Armstrong sentenced him to from 10 to 15 years in Central prison. John R. Nunalee, Jr., pled not guilty on charges of bastardy and failure to support his illegitimate child. After the evidence was in, he changed his plea. Judge Armstrong sentenced him to six months in prison, suspend ed for five years on conditions he pay for future support of the child and also pay $194.50 to the hospital for medical expenses of the child’s mother. He was also required to pay the costs. The last case to be heard Wed nesday afternoon was that of John Woltz Nichols, charged with a va riety of offenses arising from a wild chase by county officers March 28. C. A. McCallum, county ABC enforcement officer, said he and Deputy Sheriff Lambert saw Nichols on that day, on the road between Carthage and Sanford at Whitehill. / Nichols, they said, was speeding and they gave chase. Following a fast chase that took place mostly in Lee County, Nichols finalh drew his car to a stop behind e house on a dirt road. McCallum said Nichols jumped out of the car and carried a large 'jack containing a case of non-tax paid whiskey to a thicket about 50 yards away. They arrested him and charged him with speeding, careless and reckless driving, unlawful posses sion of the whiskey, and refusing to stop after they sounded their siren. After court resumed this morn ing (Thursday) Judge Armstrong heard additional evidence. Nichols was convicted and re ceived eight months on the illegal possession charge and an 18 months sentence on the other charges, the sentence to be sus pended on conditions made by the court. GAS (Continued from Page 1) Both companies, however, must prove they need and will be able to distribute certain stated amounts of natural gas before the FPC will approve allocations to cover their requirements. Both will draw from the Transconti nental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, which is asking the FPC for au thority to expand its facilities and to increase its gas allocations. It is important for each com munity which wants natural gas to intervene with the FPC so that it will be in a position to be con sidered when the gas allotments are determined. Southern Pines has prepared a statement of its interest in gas, to be presented before the FPC, but does not in this statement indicate any preference as to the two com peting companies that might serve this area. CLINTON SERCY (Continued from page 1) a farmer who lived with Sercy, told him that he had ben driving behind Sercy and witnessed the accident. According to statements made by Pack to Slhomaker, Pack and Sercy had been drinking earlier and he. Pack, had asked Sercy not to drive the truck. He and Sercy had been together the night before, he said, and had been stuck in a ditch. The next morning the two went to get the truck and were drinking again, he told Shomaker. Sercy suffered severe head in juries and lacerations of the leg. He was taken to Moore County Hospital by R. G. Frye, Carthage ambulance driver, where he died about 4 p. m. Wednesday after- DALY (Continued from Page 1) wood each testified at the trial they had heard, through a closed door, Mrs. Nicholson make the threat. Mrs. Nicholson, local newspaper correspondent and free lance writer, called this and other statements made about her by Daly “a complete lie” and Judge J. Vance Rowe found Daly guilty on the libel count. Miss Hallman’s family lives at Goldsboro and Mrs. Underwood’s family at Belmont. Miss Hallman is a former resident of Aberdeen. She has lived in Southern Pines about two years and Mrs. Under wood had been here about a year. If the defendants cannot be found for service of summonses, service can be mad^ by publica tion. If the defendants in such an action do not file aii answer or face trial, a judgment can be ob tained, lasting 10 years, against any property they might own in this state. TRIO (Continued from page 1) to get 10 per cent of the loot. On vigorous questioning by Solicitor M. G. Boyette, Wbschke refused to change his story al though he was confronted with a statement he signed a few hours after the robbery in which ■le had made no mention of any ‘inside” help. Wuschke, whose .regnant wife was in the court room', said that the robbery was originally scheduled for either January 16 or 23, but had to be cancelled because Black wasn’t in the store that morning and a policeman was standing nearby. Solicitor Boyette read a part of Wuschke’s statement in which the soldier had said the only rea son it hadn’t taken place in Jan uary was because it had been raining heavily on the planned date. On further questioning by Sol icitor Boyette, Wuschke admitted telling several more lies at the time, but insisted he was telling the truth on the stand. His change in story came, he said, because he had been “stabbed in the back.” He explained to Judge Frank M. Armstrong, who was presiding, that the so-called “stabbing” was his way of refer ring to the fact that Black had testified the robbers had used guns when, actually, they had not. J. A. Lowdermilk, special agent of the State Bureau of In vestigation, testified that postal authorities had intercepted a package containing two guns shortly after the robbery. (And Leli later testified that he had shipped the guns to a friend, along with about $3,800 of the stolen money so that Army au thorities would not find either in the soldier’s possession.) Leli, who comes fromi a family of 10 brothers and sisters, said in his testimony that he and Wuschke were cooks together in their unit at Fort Bragg. He said that Wuschke had approached him about robbing the store back in 1955 and that it seemed like an “easy way to make a little money.” Yasso ,a truck driver, told sub stantially the same story as Leli, both backing up Wuschke’s tes timony that young Black had a part in the robbery. Called back to the stand Black denied any part in the' conspir acy. He said that Wuschke had been in the store several times and had jokingly mentioned rob bing the store. So far as he knew. Black said, that was about the same thing that happened a few days prior to the robbery which Wuschke had referred to as Black’s okay of the plan. The robbery, the first ever to occur at the store since it started operating more than 20 years ago, took place shortly after 10 o’clock March 12 when Black was near, the front of the Carolina Bank in Pipehurst with week-end re ceipts of the store. At the trial Tuesday it was brought out that Black was the one who had originally given of ficers the necessary information that led to the quick apprehen sion of Wuschke at his parents- in-law’s home near West End. Yasso and Leli were arrested later the same day by Fort Bragg authorities. BIN(K> PARTY St. Anthony’s Guild has an nounced a bing party to be held at the auditorium' ’Thursday, May 17, at 8 p. m. for benefit of the guild. SALE SUCCESSFUL The rummage sale held last week at the Page Motor Co. build ing as a Civic Club benefit is re ported as very successful and the club members are very grateful to all who contributed to its suc cess. CAMPOREE (Continued from page 1) der will be dressed in authentic Indian costumes. Sunday morning the scouts will attend sunrise services at the lake at which time all scouts and ex plorers holding the Sod and Coun try Award will be recognized. The Chaplains Corps at Fort Bragg will be in charge, and will con duct Protestant, Catholic and Jew ish services. Parents of scouts are invited to attend the Saturday night cere monies. • , For the information of visitors, families and, friends, the timp schedule of the camporee has been announced as follows: Friday afternoon: Check-in 8 p. m.—Campfires, by districts Saturday 8-10 a. m.—Other Districts check-in 10 a. m.—82nd Airborne dem onstration of all general weapons, all vehicles, and commxmication equipment. 12 Noon—Lunch 2 P'. m.—Special demonstration of pontoon foot-bridge and ve hicle raft construction, by the 82nd. 4 p. m.—Cooking demonstra tion by Scout Units. 5:30—Supper ' 6 p. m.—Judging for overall unit-scores in the Camporee 8 p. m.—Campfire. Tap-out ceremony by the Order of the Arrow, and a special performance by the 82nd Airborne Band. 10:30 p. m.—Taps Sunday 7 a. m.—Sunrise services for all major faiths 7:45 a. m.—Breakfast, followed by completion of the judging by troop leaders and District com mittee members 9:30 a. m.—Break camp 10:00 a. m.—^Presentation of awards, and check-out Special invitation to the public has been extended for the Satur day night campfire ceremonies and band concert. General Meno- her said. Mrs. Paul Butler of Southern Pines and sister, Mrs. Jere Mc Keithen of Aberdeen, took their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max H. Folley of Aberdeen, on a trip to Marion, S. C., Monday, where they enjoyed visiting Mrs. Fol- ley’s family. The economical farmer will ireserye grass silage for his live stock. COUNTRY Gentleman DISTILLED LONDON DRY GIN 90 PROOF Distilled from 100% Grain $081, w, *Z r,.M Bottled By J. A. DOUGHERTY’S SONS, Inc., Distillers Philadelphia, Pa. 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