VOL. 40—NO. 39
SIXTEEN PAGES
Grand Jury Says
Coroner Failed to
File All Reports
The report of the grand jury at
this week’s term of Moore County
Superior Court in Carthage rec
ommended that proper reports be
filed with the clerk of the Super
ior Court by Coroner Ralph G.
Steed of Robbins and also that a
coroner’s jury be empaneled im
mediately when the coroner sees
any indication of foul play.
■The report, signed by David
Ginsburg of Carthage, foreman,
was completed late Wednesday.
The section of the report deal
ing with the coroner reads:
“The Coroner’s Report: Approx
imately 14 inquests have been
made, of which two have been
filed with the Clerk of the Super
ior Court. The Grand Jury con
tacted Coroner Ralph Steed for
the balance of the inquests and
he sent his file and now there are
nine coroner reports on file in the
clerk’s office with four transcripts
of coroner’s inquests, and the
coroner made approximately 175
investigations of death in the past
three years and no reports filed
in the clerk’s office. However, the
coroner did file short reports with
the Auditor’s office when ptesent-
ing his bills.
“We recommend that in the fu-
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McAllister Gets
Prison Term for
4-Year-Old Crime
A jury verdict of “guilty as
charged” and prison sentence of
15 years handed a dark, wiry,
moustached Negro defendant cli
maxed a case on which Moore
■County officers had worked four
years, in Moore Superior Court
Monday.
Though their work has ended,
actually the case may not have.
The defendsmt, M. B. McAllister,
alias Emory McAllister, 26, of
Vass, conducting his own defense,
gave notice of appeal to the State
Supreme Court and Judge Wil
liam J.s Bundy, presiding, set the
largest appearance bond ever re
corded in this court—$30,000. Mc
Allister has the statutory 30 days
to perfect jiis appeal.
The prison sentence was the
maximum for the crime, assault
with intent to commit rape. On
August 18, 1956, Nora Anderson,
respected elderly Negro woman
of Vass, wept to a hospital as the
result of a brutal beating she said
was inflicted by McAllister. She
told Vass police the youth had
come to her home in her hus
band’s absence and beat her up-
mercifully, threatening to kill her,
in his attempt to ravish her.
Searching for him, Moore Coun
ty officers found that McAllister,
a young Nqvy veteran who had
been staying with ,his grandmo
ther at Vafes, had disappeared.
Their search went on fruitlessly
for nearly three years. Then, in
the summer of 1959, they learned
he was in prison in New York. A
new warrant was prepared and
the case went before the grand
jury, resulting in a true bill, at
the August term a year ago.
A detainer was placed on him,
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' — Season and playoff champ-
ions of the local adult softball leagqe are the
Galloping Ghosts, shown here after their final
victory. Front row, left to right, Cranford Gar
ner; Joel Stutts, manager; Carl Sarvis, bat boy;
Lewis McNeill and Jimmy Carter. Second row,
same order: Robert Causey, Walter McCrimmon,
Odell Caddell, Bob Antle, John Mallow, Willis
Calcutt and Woody Woodruff. (Charles Rose
photo)
Attack Defendant Given 50 Years
Nathaniel Terry, Negro, 22, of
West End drew 50 years in prison
Wednesday in Moore Superior
Court for his entry into a West
End home the night of last May
14, and his pursuit of and attack
on the young white wife and
mother who was alone there.
Mrs. Betty Conrad, 21, testified
nervously but with composure
up to the point where she said
she felt one of her children was
endangered by the man. At that
point she broke down and sobbed
wildly for several minutes, then
pointed ner finger at the defen
dant, who was listening impas-'
sively, and cried out, “I said I
Football Drills
Start This Week;
25 Boys Report
By CHARLES ROSE
The Southern Pines High
School pre-season foptball prac
tice opened Monday morning at
the high school. Twenty-five can
didates, including 10 lettermen,
received their equipment issue
and met with the new coaches.
Head Coach Bill Megginson and
his assistant, John Williams, Jr.,
announced that the linemen will
practice from 7:30 to 9 a. m. and
4 to 5:30 p. m. The backfield is
scheduled to practice from 9 to
10:30 a. m. and 5:30 to 7 p. m.
They have not set a date for the
first combination practice, but
this is expected some time next
week.
Megginson explained that the
furst few days would be devoted
to conditioning and the funda
mentals—Monday, blocking dum
mies; Tuesday, learning plays;
and Wednesday, passing patterns.
The Blue Knights open the sea
son Friday, September 9, when
they will travel to Laurinburg.
Game time is S p. m.
would kill you and I will, I will!”
Judge William J. Bundy, presi
ding, and the whole courtroom
waited quietly during her out
burst, and Solicitor M. G. Boyette
told her, “Take your time, take
your time.” Afterward she re
gained control with an effort.
She told of the Negro’s walk
ing through her unlocked front
door into the living room where
she sat alone after putting her
two little girls to bed. As he ap
proached her she jumped up and
ran out the back door, and he fol
lowed in full pursuit. Trying to
reach the home of her mother-in-
law, Mrs. Woodrow Conrad, next
door, she stumbled and fell, and
the man fell on her, fumbling at
her blouse. Her mother-in-law
appeared in response to her
screams and the man, she said,
jumped up and ran.
At that point, her two-year-old
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Mills Says He’s
Not Manager for
Drewry Troutman
Mayor E. H. Mills of Pinebluff,
who says he is a Democrat, this
week called a “misunderstanding”
his announced position as Pine-
bluff manager for the C2impaign
for election to the county board
of education of Drewry Troutman
of Addor, Republican.
Two weeks ago, Coolidge
Thompson of Pinebluff, county
campaign manager for Troutman,
named Mills as Troutman’s Pine
bluff manager. Billy McKenzie
was announced as Pinehurst man
ager.
“The first I, knew of any man
agership was when I read it in the
papers,” Mills said.
Troutman is opposing Jere Mc-
Keithen, Democratic incumbent,
for the board of education seat
from District 5, in the November
election.
Ghosts Winners
In Town Softball
Playoff Series
By CHARLES ROSE
The Galloping Ghosts, coached
by Joel Stutts, came from behind
twice Monday night to defeat the
Southern Pines Lions Club 17-9
in the second of the three game
playoffs for the Southern Pines
Adult Softball championship. The
Ghosts collected 19 hits, rtiost in
the later innings, to defeat tough
Lion pitcher Delamar Mann. The
game was played under extreme
ly wet Conditions which forced
outfielders for both teams to take
precautions in judging fly balls
in the deep outfield.
The Ghosts came from behind
in the fifth inning by sending 10
men to the plays, collecting five
runs on seven hits an dtwo er
rors. Bob Antle had a perfect
night at the plate for the Ghosts,
going three for three followed by
C. Gamer and W. Calcutt with
three for five. Pitcher Calcutt
collected two doubles and a home
run to help his own cause.
J. Stutts, Odell Caddell and
Robert Causey had two hits for
the winners. Walter McCrimmon,
regular season hitting sensation
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Murder Warrant
Served on Hardy
In Boggs Death
J. D. Hardy, 2B-year-old local
man, has been served with a war
rant in Moore Cdunty jail at Car
thage charging him with the mur
der of Mrs. Evelyn Boggs, 41, on
or about June 6. He will have a
preliminary hearing in Moore Re
corder's Court Monday.
Hardy has been held in jail
since Saturday, July 30, the day,
Mrs. Boggs’ decomposed body was
found in an abandoned dwelling
on the old Manly Road. Having
come to Southern Pines from near
Bluefield, W. Va., several years
ago, he had been working here as
a plumber’s helper.
Officers picked him up for
questioning on the strength of let
ters and papers found in the
house—mainly a note purported
ly written by Mrs. Boggs while
she was dying, accusing Hardy of
shooting her and saying, “He has
left me here to die.”
X-rays of the body, judged to
have been dead from six to eight
weeks, showed a pistol bullet lo
cated in the chest. However, the
examining pathologist could not
at first locate the bullet. After
burial July 31, the body was ex
humed last Thursday and the bul
let recovered. What other findings
were made, if any, were not
made public. Coroner Ralph G.
Steed’s ruling in the case, handed
down this week, was simply that
"death resulted from a hemor
rhage caused by a pistol wound.”
Hardy admitted to officers hav
ing been involved with the wom-
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Local Schools Opening
On Friday,September 2
Sheriff Reveals
Note’s Full Text
Sheriff W. B. Kelly this week
released the full text of Mrs. Eve
lyn Boggs’ handwritten note, the
purported declaration in which
she accused J. D. Hardy as her
murderer.
It had been withheld before, as
had been the narne of the accused
man, pending full investigation of
the case, and the making of an
arrest.
Scrawled in pencil on a sheet
of ruled paper, it said:
“To Whom it may Concern, J.
D. Hardy pulled the trigger that
killed me left me for dead but
had strenght (sic) enough to write
this is the truth Punish him I am
JOHN D. McConnell
McConnell Named
State Secretary,
Democratic Party
John D. McConnell of Southern
Pines, an attorney with a long
record of service in the Demo
cratic party, was appointed State
secretary of the party on Wednes
day.
The appointment came from
Bert L. Bennett, Jr., recently
elected chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee.
Under party regulations, the
chairman is permitted to appoint
a secretary. Other officers of the
committee are elected.
Mr. McConnell succeeds Steve,
Nimocks of Fayetteville.
In this year’s Democratic pri
mary campaign, Mr. McConnell
was co-manager, with Mrs. John
L. Frye of Robbins, of the Moore
County campaign of Terry San
ford, of Fayetteville, winner ol
the gubernatorial nomination.
An attorney, with office in
Pinehurst, Mr. McConnell was
elected last year as solicitor of
Southern Pines Recorder’s Court
and serves'in that capacity at the
Wednesday morning sessions.
He and his wife, the former
Margaret Correll of Winston-
Salem, live on Country Club
Drive. They have four children
-John D., Jr., a junior at the
University of North Carolina
The Southern Pines schools will
open for the 1960-61 school year
according to the following sched
ule, it has been announced by
Supt. Luther A. Adams:
Thursday, September 1—Teach
er orientation day (conferences
with principal and superinten
dent, English workshop, etc.)
Friday, September 2—Teacher-
pupil orientation day. All stu
dents, grades 1-12, will report to
classes and remain until 12:30 p.
m. The cafeterias- will nqt oper
ate and all students will be dis
missed at 12:30 p. m. This day
will be devoted to schedule mak
ing, homework assignments, class
adjustments, receive textbooks
and other matters.
Monday, September 5, Labor
Day—School will not open.
Tuesday, September 6—^First
full day of the 180-day schedule.
Cafeterias will begin operation.
First grade students must be six
years old on or before October 16.
To enter the second grade from
a private school, students must be
seven years old on or before De
cember 1.
All students are expected to re
port on teacher-pupil orientation
day, September 2, Mr. Adams
stressed.
For the first two school weeks
the first grades will be dismissed
at 12 noon. Thereafter, the first
grades will be dismissed at 2:15
p. m. Grades 2, 3 and 4 will be
dismissed at 2:30 p. mi. Grades 5-
12 will be dismissed at 3 p. m.
each day.
The schedule as given applies
to the schools of both East and
West Southern Pines.
dying, so everybody would know. Bob, student at the Baylor School!
Evelyn. j (Continued on page 8)
SANDHILL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
Malcolm Clark Wins Singles, Doubles Titles
Everybody’s Watching Satellite: Here’s When to Look
?ar skips nvpr fVip Sanr^Viille . . . ...
Clear skies over the Sandhills
the past two nights have enabled
many persons to view the pas
sage of the Echo I balloon satel
lite.
A number of persons have call
Standard):
Thursday—7:50 p. m. 39 degrees
above the horizon, traveling south
to northeast; 9:50 p. m., 60 de
grees, north to northeast.,
Friday—12:04 a. m. 42 degrees.
.4AV«.A.i.A XXX. lAI U-CglCTra,
ed The Pilot and repbrted seeing north to northeast; 2:10 a. m., 59
the balloon. David Drexel said he j degrees, north to southeast; 4:18
plans to make observations of it i ni., 49 degrees, south to south-
this week-end in connection with jeast; 7:27 p. m., 35 degrees, south
a Boy Scout training session. |to northeast; 9:36 p. m., 62 de-
Sightings were reported Wed-!®’^®^®’ north to northeast; 11:42
nesday night at three different; P- degrees, north to north-
times—8:12 and 10:21 p. m. and
12:26 a. In. | Saturday—1:47 a. m., 55 de-
Four-Day Schedule grees, north to southeast; 3:56 a.
Morehead Planetarium at degrees, south to southeast;
. Chapel Hill has released a four- ' 'm. 31 degrees south to
^ day time table for sighting the degrees,
satellite over the Caroling. northeast; 11:20 p. m.,
A V T J- X degrees, north to northeast,
♦ow' said the j Sunday—1:25 a. mi, 53 degrees,
north to southeast; 3:33 a. m,, 58
^ i; south to southeast,
ger on che IBM Corp, in Raleigh. Jenzano pointed out that the
IBM makes the computation
through its space computation
center in Washington.
table times are when the satellite
will have reached its stated ele
vation above the horizon. The sat
iable (all times Eastern ellite will begin rising above the
horizon six to eight minutes ear
lier than the times contained in
the table.
Jenzano says that Echo watch
ers could take an established
timetable for one day, subtract 20
minutes from each time to get the
time for the next day’s pass.
The planetarium manager
calculates that if the satellite
passes Over high in the sky at
places with low horizons. Echo
should be visible for up to 17
miinutes. In places where Echo
passes low over a high hori?on, it
should still be in view for 5 to
7 minutes.
Jenzano advises watchers to go
out about 15 minutes before the
time Echo is expected to pass
over. This is to give watchers
time to get used to the dark and
to look over the sky.
When Echo appears, it will look
like one of the brighter stars, but
it may not appear to be moving
right away. Watchers will have to
compare it with nearby bright
stars for a few seconds.
Malcolm Clark finally made it,
and the local tennis world is bust
ing with pride.
In a brilliant finals event Sun
day afternoon in which he beat
Charlie Shaffer, Jr., of Chapel
Hill 6-2, 6-4, Clark became the
first Southern Pines player ever
to win the men’s singles cham
pionship in the Sandhill Invita
tional. The huge silver punchbowl
donated by Allan T. Preyer, pre
sented to the winner by Mayor
Robert S. Ewing after the match.
stays home this time.
The 27-year-old Army vet
eran and Carolina graduate stu
dent is also the only product of
the local courts to win a major
trophy in the 12-year history of
the tournament, except for Au
drey West Brown, who left tennis
for marriage several years ago.
For three straight years Bill
Umstaedter of Abbeville, S. C.,
held the crown, then, for three
straight years, till this year, Sam
Daniel of Leaksville. In 1958, on
Clark’s return from Army service.
he battled his way to finals
against Daniel and lost.
He won numerous other tro
phies, starting with the Eastern
Carolina junior singles about 10
years ago. He’s held the Eastern
Carolina men’s singles title four
or five times, many doubles
championships and runner-up
trophies, and was a finalist in the
U. S. Army in Europe tournament
in 1957. He is an outstanding
member of the Carolina tennis
team. But the Sandhill proved
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TROPHIES AWARDED — As the Sandhills
Invitational tennis tournament ended. Mayor R,
S. Ewing "(third from right) awarded trophies
to winners. At the mayor’s right is John Mc
Millan, tournament director who also played in
the event. Winners, left to right: Miss Louise
Fowler and Miss Joanne Cooper, women’s
doubles (Miss Cooper also was women’s singles
and mixed doubles runner-up); Malcolm Clark,
men’s singles and men’s doubles winner; and
Charlie Shaffer, men’s doubles winner and
men’s singles runner-up. Mrs. Raymonde Jones,
not pictured, was the women’s singles winner.
(Humphrey photo)
Moore Tobacco
Markets to Open
Tuesday, Sept. 6
A committee of Middle Belt to
bacco warehousemen, meeting in
Durham.' Tuesday morning, set
Tuesday, September 6 as the date
for opening of sales on the 10
.Middle Belt markets.
Both the tobacco markets in
Moore County—at Aberdeen and
Carthage—are among the 10 in
the Middle Belt.
Fred Royster, of Henderson,
manager of the Bright Belt Ware
house Assn., said the decision by
the committee was unanimous.
He said the committee felt the
crop would be ready for market
ing by September 1.
“However, out of consideration
for the buying companies and the
personnel of the grading service,
the date was set for Tuesday’
September 6,” he added. ’ •
The date maintains the same
spread as last year between the
Eastern and Middle openings.
The Eastern Belt opens August
23.
The 10 Middle Belt markets
opened August 31 last year and
operated for 55 sales days Pro
ducer sales for the season
amounted to 122,899,000 pounds
averaging $57.17 per hundred
pounds. The 1958 average was
$57.86 for a slightly larger vol
ume.
Setting of the Middle Belt
opening would leave only the Old
B^t starting date unannounced.
The first belt to open, the South
Carolina-Border North Carolina
Belt, began sales last Thursday.
Benefit Supper
Set Wednesday
Aid to the blind and sight con
servation are included in civic and
welf^e projects to benefit from
a chicken supper to be served by
me Southern Pines Lions Club
Wednesday, August 24.
The supper will be served at
the outdoor barbecue area of thfe
Southern Pines Country Club
from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Persons wanting free home de
livery of suppers should get in
touch with any member of the
club, said the president, Joe Mar-
ley. Suppers may also be picked
up by persons who want to take
them home.
Walter Harper wiU be in charge
of food preparation.